Summary: A commemoration meeting for the 160th anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birth was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. Xi praised Sun as a great national hero, patriot, and forerunner of China's democratic revolution, and called on all Chinese sons and daughters to unite and carry forward his unfulfilled wishes for national rejuvenation. He emphasized that Chinese Communists are the most steadfast supporters and inheritors of Sun's revolutionary cause, and that commemorating him means learning from his spirit to advance the cause of building a strong country. Xi also stressed the need to oppose "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and work for the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and the complete reunification of the motherland. The conference was attended by senior officials including Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi, along with about 3,000 others.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired the State Council's 22nd special study session on improving the multi-tiered social security system, emphasizing the need to implement Xi Jinping's instructions and deepen reform. Zheng Gongcheng, a professor at Renmin University, gave an explanation, with Vice Premiers He Lifeng and Liu Guozhong and State Councilor Shen Yiqin making exchange speeches. Li noted China has built the world's largest social security system but faces new demands from population changes, technological progress, and employment diversification. He stressed balancing effort with capability, government leadership with social coordination, and basic guarantees with diversified supply. Li also called for expanding enterprise annuity coverage, boosting personal pension attractiveness, supporting commercial health insurance, advancing long-term care insurance, and enhancing fund sustainability and legal support.
Summary: Han Zheng, Special Representative of President Xi Jinping and Vice President of the People's Republic of China, attended the Antalya Leaders' Summit of COP31 to the UNFCCC in Türkiye from November 8 to 12 and delivered a national statement. In his statement, he put forward four suggestions on climate action, including following the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, accelerating the green transition, enhancing climate resilience, and deepening international cooperation. During the conference, Han Zheng met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who praised China as an important pillar of multilateralism and noted that China's concrete actions in addressing climate change exceed its commitments. Han Zheng also attended a High-Level Forum on South-South Cooperation and a high-level event on the Early Warnings for All initiative, emphasizing solidarity among Global South countries and support for early warning systems. He met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who reaffirmed Türkiye's adherence to the one-China principle, and co-chaired the China-Türkiye Green Development Business Forum with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz.
Summary: At a ceremony marking the 160th anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birth, a Chinese leader hailed him as a great national hero, patriot, and forerunner of China's democratic revolution, urging all Chinese to carry forward his spirit in advancing Chinese modernization and national rejuvenation. The leader detailed Sun's lifelong contributions, including the Revolution of 1911 and his later cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party, and stressed that Chinese Communists are the most steadfast supporters and inheritors of his revolutionary cause. On the Taiwan issue, the leader reaffirmed adherence to peaceful reunification and One Country, Two Systems, vowing no space for "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and insisting that complete reunification must and will be achieved. The speech also called for upholding the united front, promoting common values of all humanity, and building a community with a shared future for mankind. The leader concluded by urging all Chinese at home and abroad to unite and turn Sun Yat-sen's dream of revitalizing China into reality.
Summary: The article reports on the strengthening of Party leadership and Party building in China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs), citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis that upholding Party leadership is the "root" and "soul" of SOEs. It details how central enterprises have integrated Party committees' pre-discussion and gatekeeping roles into corporate governance, with examples such as COMAC's C919 aircraft development and COSCO Shipping's decision-making procedures. The piece highlights efforts to optimize cadre selection and talent training, including Sinopec's "Hundred Sails, Thousand Ships" plan and CETC's cultivation of Party member backbone personnel. It also covers the expansion of primary-level Party organizations, anti-corruption measures such as dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups, and the role of Party building in driving enterprise vitality and serving national strategies. The article concludes that SOEs will continue to lead high-quality development with high-quality Party building on the new journey.
Summary: Abbas, an Egyptian Chinese-language tour guide, visited Xiong'an New Area and was impressed by its driverless buses, smart homes, and robot baristas, calling it the "City of the Future." He experienced smart library services and chatted with residents at the Yi'an Neighborhood Center, who praised the area's convenience, smooth traffic, and green parks. Abbas noted the "two-way commitment" between residents and the city, and drew parallels between Xiong'an and Egypt's new capital, citing similar planning and technology. He plans to share his experiences in Egypt to promote Sino-Egyptian cultural exchange and Belt and Road cooperation. Asked to name his trip, he replied, "From dream to reality."
Summary: Chinese agricultural experts in Zimbabwe's Jindi Village have helped solve water shortages by drilling wells, installing solar-powered pumps, and laying irrigation systems, raising corn yields from about 1 ton to an average of 5 tons per hectare. The expert team, led by Zhao Ke, also guided villagers in developing diverse industries such as vegetables, poultry, and mushrooms, and helped establish a cooperative that distributed a dividend of 72 US dollars per member last year. Villager Shepherd noted that his income sources have diversified, allowing him to afford school fees for his two daughters, while villager George Chimene built a chicken-manure biogas digester under expert guidance. The cooperative formed an agricultural machinery service team equipped with small and medium-sized machinery, including hand-held corn planters and shellers that require no fuel or electricity. Zimbabwe's Minister of Lands and Rural Development Vangelis Haritatos said the demonstration village is a vivid testament to the friendship and practical cooperation between the two countries, injecting new momentum into sustainable local agricultural development.
Summary: The Exhibition Hall of Evidence of the Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Army of Aggression against China released new criminal evidence, including "Personal Status Report" archives of the former Hailar Detachment and oral testimony from former medical orderly Tanizaki, which corroborate each other to expose Unit 731's germ warfare as a systematic state crime. The archives reveal that the Japanese military recruited personnel under the guise of regular infantry units and that 145 of 156 detachment members were detained by the Soviet side after the war, supplementing evidence on postwar accountability. The testimony confirms the Hailar Detachment's code name and its collusion with other units in poison gas experiments and burying shells in China. The article notes that the United States exchanged immunity for Shiro Ishii and other war criminals for experimental data, leaving Japan's germ warfare crimes unaddressed at the Tokyo Trials. It criticizes Japanese authorities for evasion and denial, warns against militarism resurgence, and asserts that any attempt to deny or whitewash aggression history will meet resolute international opposition.
Summary: Han Zheng, Special Representative of President Xi Jinping and Vice President of the People's Republic of China, attended the Antalya Leaders' Summit of COP31 to the UNFCCC in Türkiye from November 8 to 12 and delivered a national statement. In his statement, he put forward four suggestions on climate action, including following the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, accelerating the green transition, enhancing climate resilience, and deepening international cooperation. During the conference, Han Zheng met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who praised China as an important pillar of multilateralism and noted that China's concrete actions in addressing climate change exceed its commitments. Han Zheng also attended a High-Level Forum on South-South Cooperation and a high-level event on the Early Warnings for All initiative, emphasizing solidarity among Global South countries and support for early warning systems. He met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who reaffirmed Türkiye's adherence to the one-China principle, and co-chaired the China-Türkiye Green Development Business Forum with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz.
Summary: He Lifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, met with Martin L. Flanagan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Invesco Ltd. of the United States, at the Great Hall of the People on November 12. He stated that China's economy is currently gaining new momentum and improving its structure, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality, and that the period of the 15th Five-Year Plan is an important stage for building a financial powerhouse. China is deepening high-quality development of finance and expanding high-level opening up of the financial sector in accordance with the "15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Financial Powerhouse." He welcomed enterprises from all countries, including Invesco, to continue deepening investment and cooperation in China to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. Flanagan said he is optimistic about the prospects of China's economic development and is willing to continue to deepen his presence in the Chinese market and expand practical cooperation.
Summary: Juan Carlos Capuñay, former Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat and former Peruvian Ambassador to China, said in an exclusive interview that China's proposal of the theme "Building an Asia-Pacific Community for Shared Development" and its advancement of work across the three priority areas of "openness, innovation, and cooperation" fit the current needs of Asia-Pacific development. He stated that China's commitment to expanding high-standard opening up and practicing true multilateralism has provided extremely precious certainty for the stable growth of the Asia-Pacific economy. Capuñay emphasized that only open trade, fair competition, and mutually beneficial cooperation can lead the region toward lasting prosperity, and that China's efforts in trade digitalization and other areas will open up broader space for Asia-Pacific economic growth. He also praised China's leading role in promoting an upgraded APEC Connectivity Blueprint and highlighted high-quality Belt and Road cooperation as an important practice in promoting regional connectivity, citing Peru-China infrastructure cooperation as an example. Capuñay expressed confidence that with China as host, all economies will deepen partnerships and contribute to lasting prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.
Summary: The article, written by the Chinese Ambassador to Singapore, reflects on China-Singapore cooperation within the APEC framework, marking China's formal joining of APEC in 1991 and the APEC Secretariat's inauguration in Singapore in 1993. It highlights openness as the foundation of bilateral cooperation, citing examples like the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park and the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, and emphasizes innovation in areas such as the digital economy and green transition. The piece underscores cooperation as key to building an Asia-Pacific community, with expectations for the 2026 APEC gathering in Shenzhen. It concludes that China's modernization and super-large market add certainty to the region, benefiting partners like Singapore.
Summary: The 2026 China-U.S. Party-to-Party Dialogue was held in Beijing on November 12, with participants from U.S. political parties, strategic circles, and business communities, alongside Chinese departments, local governments, think tanks, universities, and NGOs. The two sides exchanged views candidly and constructively on the theme of "Exploring the Right Way for China and the United States to Get Along in the New Era amid a Changing Asia-Pacific and World." Liu Haixing, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, said in a keynote speech that a stable, healthy, and sustainably developing China-U.S. relationship serves both peoples and is vital for Asia-Pacific and global peace and prosperity. He urged both countries to uphold mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation to consolidate a constructive and strategically stable bilateral relationship. U.S. representatives said the relationship is at an important juncture, calling for strengthened dialogue, expanded mutually beneficial cooperation, and stable expectations for the Asia-Pacific and the world.
Summary: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson announced on November 12 that, as agreed by both China and the ROK, ROK Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul will visit China from November 13 to 14.
Summary: The 2026 China-ROK Youth Dialogue on Sustainable Development and the China-ROK Youth SDGs Weifang Week were recently held in Weifang City, Shandong Province, under the theme of "youth without boundaries, jointly creating the future." The event was reported by People's Daily correspondent Chen Shangwen.
Summary: Central Publicity Team members delivered presentations on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Inner Mongolia, Hubei, and Yunnan on November 12. Wang Yi, Shi Taifeng, Tian Peiyan, Zhang Ji, and Zhang Fuhai each gave systematic explanations centered on General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and the Plenary Session's *Decision*, emphasizing the need to deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments and resolutely achieve the Two Upholds. They stressed that the great achievements in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party are attributable to the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core and to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The speakers urged treating study and implementation of the Plenary Session spirit as a major political task, promoting high-quality development through high-quality Party building, and welcoming the 21st CPC National Congress with practical actions. Several speakers also conducted grassroots exchanges with Party members, cadres, and the masses in local areas following their presentations.
Summary: The article, a People's Forum commentary tied to the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, argues that the Party's ability to receive "immediate and widespread response" from the people stems from public trust built through full and rigorous self-governance. It cites examples like desertification control and the "Ten-Thousand Enterprises Assisting Ten-Thousand Villages" initiative to illustrate how Party calls mobilize hundreds of millions in collective action. The piece asserts that trusted leadership translates into drive, enabling achievements such as the world's fastest greenery growth and rising innovation capacity. It concludes that this confidence rests on the flesh-and-blood bond between the Party and the people, which must be safeguarded through unremitting self-governance. The commentary quotes General Secretary Xi Jinping: "To run China's affairs well, the key lies in the Party, and the key lies in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party."
Summary: A ceremony to pay respects at the clothing and hat tomb of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, marking the 160th anniversary of his birth, was held on the 12th at the Biyun Temple in Fragrant Hills, Beijing. The first ceremony was presided over by Zheng Jianbang, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, with attendees observing three minutes of silence and presenting flower baskets before Dr. Sun Yat-sen's portrait. A second ceremony followed, in which representatives from Taiwan presented flower baskets and paid tribute. The article recounts that Dr. Sun Yat-sen passed away in Beijing in 1925, and his clothing and hat were sealed within the Diamond Throne Pagoda after his remains were moved to Nanjing in 1929. He Baoxiang, Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee and Executive Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, along with other officials and representatives, attended the ceremony.
Summary: China Post issued a souvenir sheet of commemorative stamps on November 12 to mark the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The sheet features an oil painting portrait of Dr. Sun, accompanied by his inscription "The world is for all," and is printed with high-precision six-color offset printing, gold foil stamping, and surface enhancement techniques. The stamps will be sold at designated postal outlets nationwide and through various online platforms, including the philatelic online hall and China Post mobile client. Digital content will also be released via the "China Philately Stamp Encyclopedia" WeChat mini-program.
Summary: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government held a commemorative ceremony marking the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park, where people from all walks of life jointly paid tribute to his immortal contributions. John Lee, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said in his address that Dr. Sun Yat-sen took revolution as his own responsibility, and that the best way to commemorate him is to learn from and carry forward his great aspiration to revitalize China and his lofty spirit of loving the motherland. The honor guard presented flower baskets to the bronze statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with John Lee straightening the ribbons and bowing, followed by youth groups and representatives of primary and secondary schools presenting flowers. Zhou Ji, Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Dong Jingwei, Director of the Office for Safeguarding National Security; Cui Jianchun, Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Tan Zhiwei, Deputy Commander of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison; and other principal officials and representatives attended the ceremony.
Summary: Taiwan held multiple commemorative events on November 12 to mark the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with groups including the Kuomintang, the New Party, and the Taipei City Guangdong Fraternal Association gathering at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall to pay respects to his bronze statue. A Taipei citizen, Mr. Li, said Dr. Sun devoted his life to national unification and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, urging people on both sides of the strait to commemorate and follow his spirit. At the Cross-Strait Peace Initiative Conference, Kao Yung-kuang, former dean of the College of Social Sciences at National Chengchi University, noted that Dr. Sun visited Taiwan three times and promoted the establishment of the Tongmenghui's Taiwan branch, attracting young Taiwanese to join the revolution. The Renjian·Taichung Cultural Exchange Center held a lecture titled "Revitalize China, Salute the Great Man!", where keynote speaker Lin Guanghui, founding president of the Taiwan Association of Families of Anti-Japanese Martyrs, discussed Dr. Sun's original aspiration to revitalize China and the contemporary value of his spirit.
Summary: The "Starting from Macao — Photo Exhibition Commemorating the 160th Anniversary of the Birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen," hosted by the Macao SAR Government, opened on November 12, displaying over a hundred precious historical materials in remembrance of his contributions. Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai said in his address that Macao was an important starting point for Dr. Sun Yat-sen's journey, a cradle for planning the republic, and a spiritual home, with SAR departments and associations organizing commemorative activities to promote the tradition of "loving the motherland and loving Macao" and participation in One Country, Two Systems. The exhibition, divided into five chapters, runs until November 27 at the Macao Cultural Centre.
Summary: The State Council has announced a series of personnel appointments and removals. Rong Hailou was appointed Deputy Director of the State Taxation Administration, Zhao Shitang was appointed Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration, and Chen Fuli was appointed Director of the China National Intellectual Property Administration. Wang Daoshu was removed from the post of Deputy Director of the State Taxation Administration, and Li Wenzhang was removed from the post of Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration.
Summary: The "A Strong Nation Has Me" 2026 Capital Universities Freshman Education Thematic Grand Ideological and Political Course commenced November 12 at Tsinghua University, hosted by the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Education, Science and Technology, and Talent Work Leading Group. Responsible comrades from the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the China Association for Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attended with over 1,300 students. The course used "science and technology + art" forms, including situational dramas, dance, and poetry choruses, to present China's science and technology journey and guide students toward serving the country through science and technology. Students like Zulalai of the Central Academy of Drama and Zhao Zixi of China University of Geosciences (Beijing) expressed inspiration to tell China's story and deepen professional studies for the science and technology long march. A Beijing Municipal Party Committee Education Working Committee official stated Beijing will continue using the "Four Centers" grand ideological and political course achievements to enrich education carriers and guide students to contribute to building a strong nation.
Summary: The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security launched the third batch of 131 employment service activities under its "Career Guidance for the Future — 2026 National City Joint Recruitment Autumn Special Session for College Graduates," including 87 special job fairs targeting key industries such as biomedicine, new energy, automobiles, finance, retail, and robotics, along with cross-regional job fairs, livestreamed job-bringing activities, and policy briefings. College graduates and employers can access details and participate via the China National Talent Network's main venue page.
Summary: Visitors were photographed admiring the views and taking photos at Zhongshan Park in Beijing on November 11, as early winter retained autumn charm in the capital. The photo was taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Luo Xiaoguang.
Summary: In a People's Daily commentator link-up, Zhou Shanshan and Zhao Zhong discuss how AI is reshaping skilled talent, arguing that skills are evolving from an extension of the "hand" to an extension of the "brain." Zhao Zhong asserts that technological progress and the cultivation of skilled talent are not contradictory, as AI creates new production scenarios and opportunities. He emphasizes that workers share in AI dividends through education and skills, forming a complementary relationship with technology, while also calling for improved wage mechanisms and collective bargaining to raise the labor share. The dialogue references Xi Jinping's call to accelerate building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone. It concludes that as machines grow smarter, human judgment and lifelong learning become more precious, aiming to realize "intelligence for good" through institutional design.
Summary: The article reflects on the Nansliang revolutionary legacy in Gansu Province, emphasizing that serving the people's well-being remains the eternal anchor for the Communist Party. It recounts how the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Revolutionary Base Area survived by staying close to the masses, citing Edgar Snow's conclusion that popular support came from seeking benefits for the poor. The piece highlights modern exemplars like Qiu Jun, Ma Yinping, and Liu Xiaobing, who carried forward this tradition through poverty alleviation and rural development. It also discusses Qingyang's digital economy growth, including its role in the "East Data, West Computing" project and the creation of "Qingyang computing engineers" jobs. The article concludes by invoking Xi Jinping's remarks on maintaining flesh-and-blood ties with the people to ensure the Party's cause succeeds on the new Long March.
Summary: The author, a cadre from Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, seconded to Yajiang County in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, recounts efforts to spark scientific curiosity among plateau youth, beginning with a Tibetan boy's questions about West Lake. They built smart classrooms with VR labs and invited Zhejiang entrepreneurs and Westlake University doctoral students to bring science-popularization activities to local schools. The author also hosted the 2026 Garzê Prefecture Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and arranged internships at Zhejiang enterprises, while Yajiang youth later visited Westlake University research centers. The piece emphasizes nurturing seeds of science through sustained support and east-west collaboration to empower ethnic regions.
Summary: The article reports that China's total aquatic product output reached 53.897 million tons in the first three quarters of this year, with mariculture output at 20.297 million tons, maintaining rapid growth. It highlights how ecological aquaculture enables the ocean to raise fish while sequestering carbon, and technological upgrades bring deep-sea quality fish to ordinary consumers. The piece concludes with a poem by Zhu Yanwen celebrating the "blue granary" and the abundance of shellfish, fish, and shrimp.
Summary: The article criticizes an American company for requiring data center partners to provide at least 51% of services to non-Chinese enterprises, framing such actions as technological blockade and market monopoly under the guise of "national security." It contrasts this with China's promotion of open source and openness, highlighted at the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, where "open source, openness, joint construction, and shared benefit" was the central theme. The commentary argues that China's open-source approach, exemplified by DeepSeek's full open-sourcing of its DeepInfer framework, lowers application thresholds and fosters a collaborative innovation ecosystem. It asserts that China's stance transcends the old logic of "building small yards with high walls" and supports a community with a shared future for mankind. The piece concludes that true leadership means welcoming all parties to jointly build and share technological progress.
Summary: The article discusses China's fiscal and tax policy adjustments, including the reduction of export tax rebate rates for new energy vehicles from 13 percent to 9 percent starting April 1, 2027, to guide enterprises toward technology, quality, and service-based competition. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping on the importance of a sound fiscal and tax system for optimizing resource allocation and promoting social fairness. The piece highlights policy flexibility, such as supporting rural charging infrastructure and Shanghai's "one-stop online government services," while emphasizing the need to balance efficiency and fairness in resource allocation. It references the State Council's March proposal to regulate local fiscal subsidy policies to maintain fair market competition and advance the unified national market. The article stresses precise timing, degree, and effectiveness in policy implementation, using examples like the Value-Added Tax Law transition and new energy pricing reforms.
Summary: The article is a call for submissions to several columns, including "Everyone's Discussion," "Warm News, Hot Commentary," "China's Path, China's Dream," and "Letters." It requests that contributors avoid submitting the same manuscript to multiple outlets. The submission email is provided as rmrbpl@peopledaily.cn, with a note to indicate the column name.
Summary: This article outlines the necessity and implementation of improving the Party and state supervision system to advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It emphasizes that the system must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building and the Decision adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee. Key objectives include strengthening political supervision, prioritizing intra-Party supervision, and integrating various forms of oversight, such as People's Congress, judicial, and mass supervision. The text calls for enhancing supervision over "top leaders" and ensuring that power is strictly managed through institutions and regulations. Ultimately, the goal is to consolidate the Party's long-term governing position and modernize the national governance system and governance capacity.
Summary: The NPC Standing Committee's law enforcement inspection team on the Tourism Law held its second plenary meeting on November 12 to study and discuss the draft of the law enforcement inspection report, with Vice Chairpersons Xiao Jie, Peng Qinghua, and Zhang Qingwei attending. Zhang Qingwei pointed out that the inspection had been solid and effective and achieved phased results. He stressed the need to deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on tourism work and use the inspection to further implement the Tourism Law in service of building a strong tourism country. He also called for seriously studying and absorbing opinions from all sides, doing high-quality work in revising the Tourism Law, and promptly improving relevant laws, regulations, systems, and policies. Finally, he urged solid work in the NPC Standing Committee's hearing and deliberation of the inspection report and follow-up supervision to resolve difficulties in law implementation and promote high-quality development of the tourism industry on the track of the rule of law.
Summary: The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the "Regulations on the Evaluation of Skilled Talent (Draft for Comments)" to address problems such as evaluation institutions being a mixture of good and bad elements, certificates varying in quality, and illegal extraction of subsidies. Experts noted the draft fills a legislative gap by clarifying legal liability for illegal evaluation activities and prohibiting unregistered evaluations or forged certificates. The draft also establishes a coordinated supervision mechanism involving multiple departments to combat cross-domain illegal activities like false advertising and online certificate sales. A key highlight is incorporating all skilled talent evaluation activities into a unified occupational standard system, allowing industry and enterprise norms to be elevated to national standards. The legislation aims to provide solid legal safeguards for building a talent-strong nation by balancing delegation of authority and supervision.
Summary: The finals of the Second National Fitness Games for All were held from November 10 to 12 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, hosted by the General Administration of Sport of China and the All-China Sports Federation. The Games adopted a three-tier competition system and a "5+N+X" event structure, with table tennis, swimming, rouli ball, paddleboarding, and pickleball as the five designated finals events. In the 17 team events, Shandong Province won 5 gold medals, Beijing Municipality and Guangdong Province each won 4, and Hebei, Henan, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces each won 1. On November 12, multiple fitness demonstration and exchange activities were held in Qingdao, bringing varied fitness services to the people.
Summary: The article reports on the strengthening of Party leadership and Party building in China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs), citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis that upholding Party leadership is the "root" and "soul" of SOEs. It details how central enterprises have integrated Party committees' pre-discussion and gatekeeping roles into corporate governance, with examples such as COMAC's C919 aircraft development and COSCO Shipping's decision-making procedures. The piece highlights efforts to optimize cadre selection and talent training, including Sinopec's "Hundred Sails, Thousand Ships" plan and CETC's cultivation of Party member backbone personnel. It also covers the expansion of primary-level Party organizations, anti-corruption measures such as dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups, and the role of Party building in driving enterprise vitality and serving national strategies. The article concludes that SOEs will continue to lead high-quality development with high-quality Party building on the new journey.
Summary: The National Development and Reform Commission announced that, effective from 24:00 on November 12, domestic gasoline and diesel prices will be reduced by 645 yuan and 625 yuan per ton, respectively, following a decline in international crude oil prices since the last adjustment on October 29. The commission directed PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC, and other crude oil processing enterprises to ensure stable market supply and strictly implement national price policies. Local authorities were urged to intensify market supervision, investigate violations of price policies, and maintain market order, with consumers encouraged to report price violations via the 12315 platform.
Summary: The article describes how Hami City in Xinjiang uses the legacy of Zuo Zongtang, a Qing-era official, to foster a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation among all ethnic groups. Docent Dilinigar Aniwar leads visitors through the Zuogong Cultural Garden, telling stories of Zuo's 162-day stay in Hami, where he dug canals, cultivated fields, and planted willows, with over 2,000 "Zuo Gong willows" still standing today. The garden has received over 500,000 visits, and since 2024, Hami has integrated "Zuo Gong Willow" ideological and political study activities into its education system, reaching 60 percent coverage across schools. The article highlights the Fenghuangtai Historical and Cultural Park, opened last June, and notes that representatives from Fuzhou, Tianjin, and several Xinjiang cities gathered there to plant "Willows of One Heart" from cuttings of century-old trees. Hao Changli, director of the Hami Zuo Zongtang Culture Study and Research Hall, emphasized that coordination between cities has replaced independent efforts, with newly planted willows exceeding 10,000 over three years.
Summary: The article announces the publication of *The History of China's Xinjiang Region*, an academic work that comprehensively answers historical questions about Xinjiang and elaborates on the Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang in the new era. The seven-chapter work divides Xinjiang's history into periods, from the pre-Qin era through the present, framing each as an integral chapter of Chinese history and emphasizing themes of territorial unity, ethnic cohesion, and cultural continuity. It devotes a full chapter to the Party's governance strategy since the 18th National Congress, highlighting the "Eight Adherences" and principles such as governing Xinjiang according to law and stabilizing it through unity. The work argues that Xinjiang has been inseparable from China since ancient times, that its ethnic groups are family members of the Chinese nation, and that its cultures are components of Chinese culture, while rejecting any notion of an "East Turkestan state." The author, a Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher, concludes that national unity, a strong state, and Communist Party leadership are fundamental guarantees for Xinjiang's stability.
Summary: The State Administration for Market Regulation issued the "Provisions on Administrative Penalty Discretion in Market Regulation," dividing penalty discretion into five tiers and specifying application circumstances for each. Regarding the "no penalty for first offense" system, the head of the Legal Affairs Department stated that it must simultaneously satisfy the three statutory elements of "first-time violation," "minor harmful consequences," and "timely correction," which are absolutely indispensable. The provisions define a first-time violation as an illegal act of that nature committed within two years, or five years where citizens' lives, health, or financial security are involved with harmful consequences. Minor harmful consequences are determined through factors such as a relatively light degree of harm, a relatively small scope of harm, and consequences easy to eliminate, while timely correction may be deemed if the party corrects before discovery or an order to correct. The provisions refine discretionary factors to guide law enforcement in comprehensive discretion and prevent penalties based on a single circumstance.
Summary: The article highlights Yiwu, Zhejiang, as the world's largest small commodities wholesale market, developed through a "prospering the city through commerce" strategy. It reports that the market sees about 300,000 daily visitors, over 80,000 shops, and a supply network reaching 233 countries and regions, with 38,000 foreign merchants permanently based there. The piece details the opening of the Yiwu Global Digital Trade Center in October 2025, which uses digital applications like AI design, and notes that "second-generation" business entities account for 52% of its commercial units. It also describes Yiwu's "four-port linkage" logistics network, including the "Yixin'ou" China-Europe freight train and sea-rail intermodal connections with Ningbo Zhoushan Port. The article concludes by stating Yiwu aims to bring import and export volume onto the trillion-yuan level by 2030.
Summary: The article reports on the 38th episode of Xinhua's "China Economic Roundtable," which discussed agricultural development in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, featuring Zhao Changbao, Zhu Huasheng, Wang Dongqing, and Hu Aiguo. It highlights China's autumn grain harvest resilience despite disasters, with over 90 percent harvested and annual output expected to remain above 1.4 trillion jin for three consecutive years. The piece emphasizes the growing role of science, technology, and intelligent agricultural machinery in boosting yields, citing Heilongjiang's high mechanization rate and China YTO's innovations. It also covers rural industrial integration and village-level deliberation mechanisms as drivers of rural revitalization and farmers' well-being. The article concludes by affirming the commitment to accelerating agricultural modernization and comprehensive rural revitalization on the new journey.
Summary: Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group is advancing a circular economy centered on "water, materials, steam, and electricity," with its subsidiary Longfengtang recovering 778,100 cubic meters of biogas in 2025 to produce over 3,400 tons of steam annually and cut carbon emissions by more than 7,000 tons. The group has completed a 34.5-megawatt distributed photovoltaic project, whose annual generation covers nearly 14 percent of its electricity use, combined with AI energy-saving technology for self-generated clean energy and intelligent dispatch. It is the first "Zero-Waste Group" pilot in Jiangsu's pharmaceutical industry, owning nine national-level green factories and utilizing over 2,300 tons of solid waste from 2024 to 2025. Through an AI large-model-based energy cloud platform, four factories saved more than 2 million kilowatt-hours annually and reduced emissions by over 1,200 tons via intelligent refrigeration control. As a chain-leader, the group has extended green practices to upstream and downstream links, building over 80 standardized Chinese herbal medicine planting bases nationwide and collecting more than 60 waste-recycling suggestions in the first half of this year.
Summary: Huadian Xinjiang Power Generation Co., Ltd. has since 2016 led development with Party building, coordinating energy supply security and green low-carbon transformation to support Xinjiang's role as a national energy resource strategic support base. Its 120 grassroots Party branches and over 2,800 Party members have implemented 314 projects led by Party organization secretaries, overcoming challenges such as saline-alkali marshland corrosion and setting a record for the shortest construction period for a domestic coal-fired unit. As of June 2026, installed capacity exceeded 43 million kilowatts, with new energy accounting for 61.1%, and flexibility retrofits on 41 coal-fired units made it the regional company with the most retrofitted units and greatest peak-shaving capacity in China. The company has invested 509 million yuan in assistance funds in Xinjiang, built "Huadian Golden Sun" village-level distributed photovoltaic projects in 123 villages, and supported education and characteristic industries, helping China Huadian Group earn the highest "Excellent" rating in central government units' designated assistance performance assessments for 7 consecutive years. Looking ahead, it will continue to lead high-quality development with high-quality Party building and contribute to building a modern socialist Xinjiang.
Summary: Guangdong, as a major economic, manufacturing, and services province, is striving to build a modern industrial system with stronger international competitiveness by promoting the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services, following General Secretary Xi Jinping's guidance that Chinese modernization cannot shift from the real to the virtual economy. The province has consolidated its industrial foundation through advanced manufacturing, with the added value of advanced manufacturing accounting for 56.2 percent of industries above designated size in 2025, while modern services, including producer services, have driven the system toward new, excellent, intelligent, and green development. Guangdong's practices include strengthening policy coordination through institutional innovation, advancing high-level opening up to expand global market space, promoting regional linkage within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and strengthening platform support through industrial internet and innovation platforms. The article concludes with insights for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, emphasizing the need to improve policy support systems, integrate into the global value chain, act on local resource endowments, and create more efficient industrial ecosystems.
Summary: President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the High-level Dialogue on the Fifth Anniversary of the Global Development Initiative, emphasizing China's willingness to work with all parties to implement the initiative and build a community with a shared future for mankind. The article stresses the urgency of advancing global development as the North-South gap widens, ahead of the UN's post-2030 agenda process launching in September 2027. It calls for cultivating common development, promoting the modernization of all countries, deepening inclusive benefits of scientific and technological innovation, and improving global development governance. The piece highlights China's mobilization of over US$23 billion and more than 2,000 projects across 120 countries, as well as its role in adopting a UN Human Rights Council resolution on development's contribution to human rights. The author is a specially invited researcher at the Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy Research Center.
Summary: The article compiles remarks from various officials and executives at the Belt and Road Initiative Media Cooperation Forum, emphasizing deepened cooperation between China and Central Asian countries, including institutional building, trade growth, and media exchanges. Samadi Shaoxin highlighted the establishment of 14 ministerial-level platforms and the upcoming third China–Central Asia Summit, while Yang Hongliang discussed Xifeng liquor's brand globalization. Zhang Yanjun outlined Dongfeng Motor's "Sky Sail" strategy to invest 50 billion yuan in overseas markets, and Yu Meng detailed vivo's mobile imaging technology for journalists. Other contributors, including Yili's Zhang Yipeng and Industrial Bank's Lü Jiajin, stressed corporate social responsibility, financial connectivity, and green finance under the Belt and Road Initiative. Khalid Al-Orabi and Ruslan Kenjayev underscored the media's role in telling cooperation stories and combating misinformation, while Qin Jing reported on Trip.com's inbound tourism growth.
Summary: This article compiles remarks from Chinese officials and business representatives at the Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum, focusing on local efforts to advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. Officials from Mudanjiang, Binzhou, Ya'an, and Xindu highlight achievements in trade, industrial parks, logistics corridors, and tourism, emphasizing integration into the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor and the Silk Road. A Moldovan official discusses cooperation under the initiative, including planned Chinese investment in solar power to address Moldova's energy dependence. Corporate leaders from Zhongyuan Environmental Protection and SKSHU Paint describe their international expansion, technological innovation, and participation in overseas projects. Other speakers from Fujian Province and the Xiamen Free Trade Zone outline initiatives to strengthen port logistics, sea-rail intermodal transport, and the "Silk Road Maritime" brand.
Summary: The article follows a new-energy heavy truck on a 700-kilometer route from Chengdu to Xi'an, examining the feasibility of long-haul electric freight. It highlights collaboration among vehicle manufacturer Sany Heavy Truck, logistics firm Shu'an Green Energy, and cargo organizer Yonglu Anzhuo to coordinate vehicles, energy replenishment, and cargo sources. The report details battery-swapping and charging infrastructure challenges, noting that the industry ratio of charging to swapping is about 7:3 and that expressway service area facilities remain insufficient. It also addresses concerns about freight rate competition, used-truck residual value, and the potential for autonomous driving integration in new-energy trucks. The article concludes that technological progress, expanding energy networks, and evolving operation models will drive broader market adoption of new-energy heavy trucks.
Summary: The article discusses the challenges and solutions for scaling up new energy heavy-duty trucks in China, following a May policy plan aiming for them to account for 18 percent of expressway freight volume by 2030. It highlights that while passenger vehicle electrification has advanced rapidly, heavy-duty trucks face unique issues in technical adaptation, cost control, and operational support. Key measures proposed include filling gaps in charging and swapping infrastructure, reducing operating costs to build market confidence, improving driver training and technical services, and ensuring reasonable returns across the industrial chain. The piece emphasizes that government planning guidance and market-driven optimization must work together to convert industrial advantages into development advantages.
Summary: The Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law was adopted at the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress on November 6, 2026, and promulgated by President Xi Jinping, effective as of the date of promulgation. The law defines cross-border corruption to include bribery of foreign public officials, bribery of domestic officials by overseas entities, and duty-related crimes committed overseas by domestic actors, and establishes a working mechanism led by the National Commission of Supervision. It provides for international cooperation in the pursuit of fugitives and recovery of stolen assets, while asserting China's right to take countermeasures and blocking measures against foreign states that use anti-corruption as a pretext to contain or suppress China. The law imposes integrity and compliance obligations on enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations, including due diligence on third parties and financial transparency, with corresponding legal liabilities for violations.
Summary: The 25th session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee approved China's first specialized foreign-related anti-corruption law, the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, on November 6. Officials from the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the National Supervisory Commission, and the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee introduced the law's background, legislative principles, and main contents. The law aims to fill a gap in specialized legislation, improve China's foreign-related anti-corruption legal system, and advance cross-border corruption governance through legal thinking and legal means. It establishes an anti-cross-border corruption working mechanism, strengthens case handling and international cooperation, and elevates enterprise integrity and compliance from a policy requirement to a legal obligation in a special chapter. The law also improves the legal "toolbox" for handling foreign-related cases, addressing difficulties in discovery, evidence collection, asset recovery, and conviction.
Summary: The All-China Federation of Trade Unions has determined the 200 craftsman academies to be given key support for construction in 2026, following the national "15th Five-Year Plan" and targeting key traditional, emerging, and future industries. Of these academies, 71% are built relying on enterprises, 24.5% on vocational colleges, and 4.5% are self-built by trade unions, cultivating 492 distinctive job types with manufacturing accounting for 55%. Over 68,000 offline courses and more than 10,000 online skill courses have been offered, training more than 1.5 million person-times of workers since the beginning of this year. The teaching staff includes nearly 38,600 model workers and craftsmen. This effort builds on the October 2024 Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of the Craftsman Academy System (2024–2026), which proposed key support for 500 craftsman academies by 2026.
Summary: China announced countermeasures on October 12 against Paraguayan and Belizean officials, including freezing their property in China and barring them from entering mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao, marking the first punitive measures against ministerial-level officials of Taiwan's so-called "diplomatic allies." The move signals that the mainland firmly grasps the initiative in combating "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, responding to recent statements by Paraguayan and Belizean leaders and Lai Ching-te's "Double Ten" speech. It warns Taiwan's remaining diplomatic allies that the one-China principle is a red line that China will not tolerate being crossed, and deters pro-Taiwan politicians from underestimating China's resolve to safeguard national sovereignty. The article also advises Paraguay and Belize that tying themselves to "Taiwan independence" forces holds no future, citing China's economic advantages as their major trade partner.
Summary: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning, responding to a question at a regular press conference on November 12, the 78th anniversary of the Tokyo Trial judgment, stated that history must not be forgotten and justice must not be challenged. She said the Tokyo Trial, based on irrefutable evidence, determined that Japanese militarism had launched wars of aggression and meted out due punishment to 25 Class-A war criminals. Mao Ning noted that right-wing forces in Japan have denied or glorified the crimes of aggression, and that the Japanese government has increased military spending, developed offensive capabilities, and accelerated its "remilitarization" process, seriously challenging the legal baseline established by the Tokyo Trial. She called on the international community to jointly resist attempts to reverse the verdict on history of aggression and revive militarism. Mao Ning added that China is willing to work with all peace-loving countries and peoples to safeguard historical truth, uphold the postwar international order, and defend international fairness and justice.
Summary: Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said the closure of the "Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Papua New Guinea" was an independent diplomatic decision made after carefully considered deliberation, consistent with the one-China principle and PNG's national interests. The PNG government announced the closure on July 15, and Marape responded that PNG is an independent sovereign state whose foreign policy is determined by its own national interests. He added that since establishing diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in 1976, PNG has firmly adhered to the one-China principle, describing it as a national position maintained for 50 years across successive governments.
Summary: The 42nd Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, themed "Where the Global Energy System Comes Together," attracted 2,260 companies from over 170 countries, with Chinese firms showcasing technologies in AI, digitalization, and low-carbon solutions. Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, warned that Strait of Hormuz shipping disruptions exposed global energy supply chain fragility and called for expanded strategic reserves and AI-enhanced operational efficiency. China-UAE energy cooperation is expanding from oil and gas trade into engineering, technical services, and joint R&D, exemplified by Zhenhua Oil's technology center agreement with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Local employment and talent cultivation, including training programs by Sinopec, COSL, and CNPC, have become key components of bilateral cooperation. Chinese Ambassador Zeng Jixin stated that China-UAE integration of AI with the energy industry holds broad prospects for advancing the Belt and Road Initiative, global energy security, and the green transition.
Summary: According to a Wall Street Journal report, U.S. Vice President Vance is considering face-to-face talks with Iran's Supreme National Security Council secretary, Rezaei, to push for an end to the war in Iran, and President Trump is open to this. The report, citing U.S. and Middle Eastern officials, said Trump has authorized Vance to restart negotiations with Iran, and that Vance sent a letter to Rezaei in October proposing talks.
Summary: The Fourth Workers' Games of Chongqing Municipality Table Tennis League and the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle Workers' Invitational Tournament Finals opened on October 15 at the Jiangnan Sports Center, with 18 workers' representative teams competing. The Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions has organized the event to professional standards, including electronic scoring, professional referees, and live streaming across eight platforms, as part of its "Chinese Dream · Beauty of Labor" cultural and sporting brand. The federation has also held calligraphy, painting and photography exhibitions and built a digital cultural and sporting zone on the "Yu Gong Niang Jia Ren" application, covering more than one million workers. The Sichuan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions selected the top two winning teams from the 2025 Workers' Games to compete against the league's champion and runner-up, reflecting extensive coordination between Sichuan and Chongqing trade unions. In 2025, the Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions organized over 100 workers' cultural and sporting activities within Chongqing and the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, covering 11.22 million workers with total online views exceeding 42 million.
Summary: At the Baidu World 2026 conference in Beijing, themed "Next Act: Intelligent Organization," Baidu proposed that "the next act of artificial intelligence is the intelligent organization" and introduced the "Three Principles of Organizational Evolution." Founder Robin Li stated that AI brings organizational change, requiring enterprises to redesign organizations around AI and let intelligent agents and digital employees enter business operations. Baidu released the large-model trading platform Token Exchange, the preview version of ERNIE 5.5 Flash, and upgrades to intelligent agents including Baidu Dazi, Kuku, Baidu Yijing, and Baidu Famou, alongside the Tianchi 1024-card supernode and Kunlun Chip roadmap. The company reported that its internal daily active intelligent agent count grew from 5,000 to 37,000 over the past year, and Apollo Go has launched fully driverless commercial operations in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Baidu emphasized that making good use of AI hinges on organizational evolution, with the goal of building "intelligent organizations" as the "new factory" of the AI era.
Summary: The article discusses how AI is transforming China's software industry, prompting a strategic response through the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "AI + Software" Special Action Implementation Plan. It highlights that while AI lowers programming thresholds, industry knowledge and professional experience are becoming more valuable, with China's manufacturing system providing a competitive edge. The piece emphasizes that AI cannot replace scientists' and engineers' thinking, and that quality, reliability, and core technology research remain essential. It calls for deep cooperation between software enterprises and industry users, stronger open-source communities, and rigorous code review to ensure safety. Ultimately, it argues that by leveraging its industrial scale and application scenarios, China's software industry can win in the new technological revolution.
Summary: The article reports on Genos, the world's first hundred-billion-parameter human genome foundation model, jointly developed by Zhejiang Laboratory and BGI Life Sciences Research Institute, and released in October 2025. The joint R&D team of about 130 members, with an average age of 30, aims to use AI to interpret genetic variations and seek new clues for disease diagnosis and drug target discovery. Liu Shiping, field chief scientist at BGI, noted that scientists still have many gaps in understanding the human genome, while young researchers Liu Junchen and Deng Kaiwen, both born in 1995, described their motivations and interdisciplinary collaboration. The team overcame communication hurdles between computer science and life sciences, and used diverse genome data to train the model, which aggregates 636 "telomere-to-telomere" level human genomes. The team continues to pursue new scientific questions, with Deng Kaiwen researching spatial relationships in DNA and Liu Junchen focusing on the model's "memory," while also developing the OneGenome model to integrate genome sequences with biomedical knowledge.
Summary: The article argues that scientific and technological innovation is essential for China to build a solid "great nation's cotton granary" and advance from a major cotton-producing country to a strong cotton power. It highlights China's status as the world's largest cotton producer since 1983, with yields 2.8 times the global average, while noting a remaining gap in high-quality cotton supply for the textile industry's high-end upgrade. The piece details innovations in variety breeding, cultivation transformation, and digital-intelligence systems, including the release of China's first cotton-knowledge large language model, "Mianxin 1.0." It also mentions international cooperation, such as the inauguration of the China–Uzbekistan Cotton Science and Technology Innovation Demonstration Base, as part of Belt and Road collaboration. The author is the director of the Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Summary: CPIC, as a senior cooperative partner and designated insurance service provider for the ninth CIIE, has served the expo for nine consecutive years, with insured amounts rising from 35 billion yuan at the first edition to over 1.25 trillion yuan at the ninth. At this year's expo, CPIC provided comprehensive insurance protection covering venue property, participating entities, and the "4+4" related parties, while also hosting events on serving Shanghai's "Five Centers" construction, releasing technology finance and cross-border insurance solutions. CPIC held a carbon neutrality themed event, purchasing approximately 43,500 tons of forestry carbon tickets to offset the expo's emissions and facilitating carbon sink trading and donation ceremonies. The company also released white papers on elderly care health management and medical accompaniment services, alongside the nation's first comprehensive cross-domain insurance solution for foreign nationals entering China. CPIC views serving the CIIE as a practical scenario for implementing the goal of "accelerating the building of a strong financial nation" and writing the "five major articles" of finance.
Summary: The article marks 120 years of Chongqing's electric power industry, tracing its development from the first electric light in 1906 through the War of Resistance, Third Front construction, and reform era. It highlights key milestones, including the completion of the 220-kilovolt Liangting Substation in 1972 and the recent ultra-high-voltage projects completed in 2024 and 2025. The piece emphasizes how the industry has supported Chongqing's transformation into a megacity and its role in building the city into an energy resource allocation hub for "West-to-East Power Transmission." The State Grid Chongqing Municipal Electric Power Company is cited as the data source, and the article outlines future plans for key projects during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Summary: Li Xuejian, a veteran actor and Communist Party member, reflects on his career of embodying heroic model figures such as Jiao Yulu, Yang Shanzhou, and Gan Zuchang, aiming to make audiences remember the characters and forget the actor. He recounts his rigorous preparation for roles, including extreme weight loss for "Jiao Yulu" and detailed practice for "Water Margin," which drew both acclaim and viewer backlash. Li Xuejian also discusses his skepticism about Yang Shanzhou's selflessness, which was dispelled upon witnessing the forest he planted, and his role in "Roaring Across the Horizon," filmed after NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia. He cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's 2014 call to "offer the people the finest spiritual nourishment" as his guiding principle. At 72, Li Xuejian insists he cannot stop acting, vowing to continue portraying living people of the era.
Summary: The article announces the publication of *A Clear Mirror Through the Ages: A Series on Ancient Chinese Culture of Integrity*, a five-volume series compiled to support the construction of a culture of integrity in the new era and the cultivation of Party members' and cadres' Party spirit. The series, rooted in China's excellent traditional culture, covers the intellectual origins, institutional evolution, exemplary figures, family precepts, and aphorisms of ancient integrity culture across five volumes. It traces the historical development of "integrity" from thought to institution through various dynasties, drawing on classical texts and figures to analyze institutional logic and cultural psychology. The compilation is framed as upholding "the Two Integrations," especially the "Second Integration," using traditional culture as an intellectual resource for the new era. The author, deputy editor-in-chief of China Literature and History Press, presents the series as offering historical wisdom on integrity, governance, and personal cultivation for modern readers.
Summary: The article reviews Li Donghua's children's novel *Return to the Cretaceous*, which blends paleontological knowledge with literary imagination to make Chinese dinosaurs—such as Microraptor and Yutyrannus—vivid characters in a Cretaceous adventure. It highlights the book's life education themes, including the "Mei Long's Dream" sequence, where a dinosaur buried in volcanic ash uses dreams to return and guard its eggs, conveying that life persists through evolution. The story is set in Chaoyang, western Liaoning, linking the dinosaur world to the Hongshan culture and the Niuheliang Goddess Temple, offering a literary response to the origins of Chinese civilization. The review concludes that the novel plants seeds of scientific inquiry and roots of national cultural identity, showing Chinese dinosaurs' unique place in global paleontological research.
Summary: The author, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and researcher at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explains his motivation for writing the popular science book *The Science of Drinking Water*. He was prompted by a 2023 lecture where audiences of all ages raised many questions about drinking water safety, and by the circulation of false claims in society. The book traces the history of drinking water from ancient civilizations to modern engineering, emphasizing that safe tap water relies on sophisticated systems and institutions. It aims to address common public concerns, such as choosing water types and household purifiers, using rigorous scientific logic to dispel misconceptions. The afterword also notes that the book introduces the team's first-prize achievements in the 2023 National Science and Technology Progress Award, highlighting China's scientific progress in the drinking water field.
Summary: This article reviews Yang Liguang's new biography of Academician Du Xiangwan, which depicts his life of serving the nation through scientific research. The book highlights Du's several "changes of course," beginning with his shift from astronomy to nuclear physics to support national needs, and later his moves into high-power lasers, energy, and climate research. The biography explores what sustained Du's repeated fresh starts, citing his tireless learning and the influence of his revolutionary family and scientific mentors. It also presents Du as an ordinary human being, recounting personal experiences and family stories. The author praises the work for balancing professionalism and accessibility while unfolding a panoramic portrait of a generation of scientists.
■ All Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad should unite more closely, carry forward Dr. Sun Yat-sen's unfulfilled wishes, work together with one heart and one mind to accomplish the great cause of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and continuously turn the great dream that the people of all ethnic groups in our country have been striving earnestly for (孜孜以求, zi zi yi qiu - "zealously, zealously, seek") since modern times into a beautiful reality.
■ Dr. Sun Yat-sen was a great national hero, a great patriot, and a great forerunner of China's democratic revolution. He struggled his entire life to transform China, made outstanding contributions to the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, and is sincerely admired by all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad.
■ Chinese Communists are the most steadfast supporters, the most loyal cooperators, and the most faithful inheritors of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause. Over the past 100-plus years, our Party has led the people in achieving great accomplishments in the new-democratic revolution, the socialist revolution and construction, reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, writing the most magnificent epic in the several-thousand-year history of the Chinese nation. All of this can fully comfort Dr. Sun Yat-sen's spirit in heaven.
■ Over the past 100-plus years, Dr. Sun Yat-sen's call to "revitalize China" has inspired generation after generation of Chinese people and has continuously been endowed with new contemporary significance and connotations. Today, the best way for us to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen is to learn from, inherit, and carry forward his precious spirit, and continuously advance the great cause of building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation.
(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) The conference commemorating the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen was solemnly held on the morning of the 12th at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the country, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech, emphasizing that all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad should unite more closely, carry forward Dr. Sun Yat-sen's unfulfilled wishes, work together with one heart and one mind to accomplish the great cause of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and continuously turn the great dream that the people of all ethnic groups in our country have been striving earnestly for since modern times into a beautiful reality.
Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the conference.
The atmosphere in the Great Hall of the People's main auditorium was solemn and warm. Above the rostrum hung the banner reading "Conference Commemorating the 160th Anniversary of the Birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen." At the center of the backdrop was a portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, below which was the inscription "1866-2026," with ten red flags arrayed on both sides.
At 10 a.m., the conference began. All present rose and sang the national anthem.
Amid warm applause, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. He stated that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was a great national hero, a great patriot, and a great forerunner of China's democratic revolution. He struggled his entire life to transform China, made outstanding contributions to the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, and is sincerely admired by all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Chinese Communists are the most steadfast supporters, the most loyal cooperators, and the most faithful inheritors of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause. Over the past 100-plus years, our Party has led the people in achieving great accomplishments in the new-democratic revolution, the socialist revolution and construction, reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, writing the most magnificent epic in the several-thousand-year history of the Chinese nation. All of this can fully comfort Dr. Sun Yat-sen's spirit in heaven.
Xi Jinping emphasized that over the past 100-plus years, Dr. Sun Yat-sen's call to "revitalize China" has inspired generation after generation of Chinese people and has continuously been endowed with new contemporary significance and connotations. Today, the best way for us to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen is to learn from, inherit, and carry forward his precious spirit, and continuously advance the great cause of building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Dr. Sun Yat-sen loved the country and worked to save it throughout his life. For us to learn from, inherit, and carry forward his precious spirit, we must hold high the spirit of patriotism and strive to achieve the country's prosperity and strength. On the new journey, we must uphold the unity of patriotism with love for the Party and love for socialism, uphold the Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, inspire all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad to continuously deepen their patriotic feelings and sharpen their ambition to strengthen the country, and work together to build our great motherland into an even better place.
Xi Jinping emphasized that Dr. Sun Yat-sen cared deeply for the people throughout his life. For us to learn from, inherit, and carry forward his precious spirit, we must always uphold the people-centered philosophy and serve the people wholeheartedly. On the new journey, we must bear in mind that the country is the people and the people are the country, take the people's stance, grasp the people's aspirations, respect the people's creativity, and pool the people's wisdom, develop whole-process people's democracy, safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, and promote solid progress in the well-rounded development of the individual and common prosperity for all the people.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Dr. Sun Yat-sen pursued truth throughout his life. For us to learn from, inherit, and carry forward his precious spirit, we must uphold the Two Integrations and continuously advance theoretical innovation on the basis of practice. On the new journey, we must be bold in theoretical exploration and innovation, scientifically answer the questions posed by China, by the world, by the people, and by the times, keep pace with the times in enriching and developing the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era, and continuously write new chapters in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times.
Xi Jinping emphasized that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was unyielding throughout his life. For us to learn from, inherit, and carry forward his precious spirit, we must be brave in overcoming difficulties and open up new horizons for our cause through tenacious struggle. On the new journey, we must coordinate both domestic and international situations, balance development and security, carry forward the spirit of struggle, enhance our ability to struggle, be prepared at all times to withstand major tests of high winds and rough waters or even raging storms, do our utmost to overcome various risks and challenges on the road ahead, and continuously win new victories in the great struggle of the new era.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Dr. Sun Yat-sen advocated unity throughout his life. For us to learn from, inherit, and carry forward his precious spirit, we must uphold the united front and continuously consolidate and develop the great unity of all Chinese sons and daughters. On the new journey, we must unite all forces that can be united, mobilize all positive factors that can be mobilized, promote harmony in relations between political parties, between ethnic groups, between religions, between social strata, and between compatriots at home and abroad, consolidate and develop the broadest possible patriotic united front, and pool the mighty strength for advancing Chinese modernization.
Xi Jinping emphasized that Dr. Sun Yat-sen had the whole world in view throughout his life. For us to learn from, inherit, and carry forward his precious spirit, we must vigorously promote the common values of all humanity and actively work to build a community with a shared future for mankind. On the new journey, we must always pay attention to the future and destiny of humanity with a global vision, correctly understand and handle our relations with the outside world from the perspective of the general trend of human development, the overall pattern of world changes, and the great history of China's development, actively promote the implementation of the four major global initiatives, and make China's contribution to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Dr. Sun Yat-sen always firmly safeguarded national unity and ethnic solidarity and resolutely opposed all words and deeds that split the country and the nation. His strong desire and firm will for the reunification of the motherland have always inspired, educated, and encouraged all Chinese sons and daughters. Resolving the Taiwan question and achieving the complete reunification of the motherland is an unswerving historical task of the Communist Party of China, a common aspiration of all Chinese sons and daughters, and an inevitable requirement for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad should join hands to jointly oppose the separatist forces of "Taiwan independence" and work together for the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and the complete reunification of the motherland. (Full text of the speech on page 2)
Wang Huning, while presiding over the conference, stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech deeply recalled Dr. Sun Yat-sen's immortal contributions to national independence, social progress, and the happiness of the people, reviewed and summarized the great achievements created by Chinese Communists in carrying forward Dr. Sun Yat-sen's unfulfilled wishes and uniting and leading the people of all ethnic groups across the country in unremitting struggle, put forward clear requirements for learning from, inheriting, and carrying forward Dr. Sun Yat-sen's precious spirit and inspiring all Chinese sons and daughters to unite and strive for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization, and called on compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad to work together for the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and the complete reunification of the motherland. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech is highly political, ideological, and instructive. We must study and understand it deeply, implement it thoroughly, unite more closely around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and form a powerful joint force of all Chinese sons and daughters thinking in one direction and exerting efforts in one place to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and members of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee in Beijing, vice chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee, state councilors, the president of the Supreme People's Court, the procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and vice chairpersons of the CPPCC National Committee attended the conference.
Principal leading officials of central Party and state organs, military organs, and mass organizations and of Beijing Municipality, leaders of the central committees of various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and representatives of non-Party personages, members of the NPC Standing Committee and some NPC deputies in Beijing, members of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee and some CPPCC members in Beijing, representatives of ethnic and religious groups and relevant social organizations, some foreign diplomatic envoys to China, representatives of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's relatives, representatives of relevant personages from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, overseas guests, representatives of the masses from all walks of life in the capital, and representatives of officers and soldiers of troops stationed in Beijing, totaling about 3,000 people, attended the conference.
Before the commemorative conference, Xi Jinping and others cordially met with representatives of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's relatives and overseas guests.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 12) On November 12, the State Council conducted its 22nd special study session on the theme of "improving the multi-tiered social security system and further weaving and tightening the social security safety net." Premier Li Qiang of the State Council emphasized while presiding over the study that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on social security work and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, further deepen reform of the social security system, improve the multi-tiered social security system that covers all people, coordinates urban and rural areas, is fair and unified, safe and standardized, and sustainable, and ensure that the fruits of modernization are shared by all people more extensively and fairly.
Zheng Gongcheng, professor at Renmin University of China, gave an explanation. Vice Premiers He Lifeng and Liu Guozhong of the State Council and State Councilor Shen Yiqin made exchange speeches.
After listening to the explanation and exchange speeches, Li Qiang pointed out that China has basically built the world's largest and most functionally complete social security system. The current economic and social development situation presents many new characteristics, and changes in population structure, technological progress, and diversification of employment methods have put forward new and higher requirements for the construction of the social security system. It is necessary to fully understand the important role of social security in the overall development situation, adapt to the new situation, solve new problems, and promote high-quality and sustainable development of the social security undertaking.
Li Qiang pointed out that it is necessary to adhere to basing ourselves on national conditions and develop a social security system with Chinese characteristics. We must grasp well the relationship between doing one's utmost within one's power (尽力而为, jin li er wei - "exhaust effort, then act") and acting according to one's capability (量力而行, liang li er xing - "measure strength, then act"), take social security as an important focal point for benefiting the people's livelihood and promoting development, and steadily raise the level of social security along with economic development. We must grasp well the relationship between government leadership and social coordination, rationally divide the responsibilities of units, individuals, government, and society, and form a long-term mechanism of shared responsibility and mutual assistance. We must grasp well the relationship between guaranteeing basics and diversified supply, and on the basis of guaranteeing basics and holding the bottom line, strive to enrich diversified supply to better meet the people's multi-tiered and diversified needs.
Li Qiang emphasized that it is necessary to highlight priorities, strengthen coordination, and continuously optimize and improve the social security system. Accelerate filling the shortcomings of the social security system, expand the coverage of enterprise annuities, increase the attractiveness of the personal pension system, support the growth and expansion of commercial health insurance, and steadily and orderly advance the construction of the long-term care insurance system. Improve the social security system for flexible employment personnel, gradually raise the participation rate, and strengthen the protection of rights and interests of personnel in new forms of employment. Promote greater fairness in the social security system, steadily raise the level of old-age security for urban and rural residents, give full play to the function of unemployment insurance, improve the tiered and classified social assistance system, and improve the social welfare system. Enhance the long-term sustainability of social security funds, improve and implement the national unified pooling system for employee pension insurance, advance provincial-level unified pooling of basic medical insurance, and strengthen safety supervision and preservation and appreciation of social security funds. It is necessary to adapt to changes in the situation, promptly revise and improve laws and regulations related to social security, and further consolidate the legal support.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Antalya, Türkiye, November 12) (Reporters Fu Yunwei, He Mengshu) From November 8 to 12 local time, Han Zheng, Special Representative of President Xi Jinping and Vice President of the People's Republic of China, traveled to Türkiye to attend the Antalya Leaders' Summit of the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and delivered a national statement.
Han Zheng stated that President Xi Jinping has pointed out that addressing climate change is a common cause for all of humanity. At present, the adverse impacts of global climate change are manifesting at an accelerating pace. Facing the new situation, I wish to put forward four suggestions. First, anchor the common goal and strengthen collective action. We should follow the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, comprehensively and effectively implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, and pool strength for global climate governance. Second, accelerate the green transition and advance low-carbon development. We should promote the free flow of quality green technologies and products and push forward the transformation and upgrading of economic and industrial structures. Third, prevent climate disasters and enhance climate resilience. We should attach equal importance to mitigation and adaptation, strengthen cooperation in disaster prevention and reduction, monitoring and early warning, and disaster rescue and relief, and improve climate adaptation capacity. Fourth, uphold openness and inclusiveness and deepen international cooperation. We should strengthen support and assistance to developing countries and jointly build a clean and beautiful world.
During the conference, Han Zheng met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Han Zheng conveyed President Xi Jinping's warm greetings and stated that China attaches great importance to the issue of climate change. Last year, President Xi Jinping announced China's 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution targets and explicitly stated the commitment to "strive to do even better." China focuses on target-setting and action implementation, emphasizing being true to one's word and following through with actions (言必信、行必果, yan bi xin, xing bi guo - "speech must be trustworthy, action must be resolute"), providing valuable stability and certainty for global climate governance. Guterres asked Han Zheng to convey his sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping and stated that China is an important pillar of multilateralism and a key supporter of the United Nations. China's concrete actions in addressing climate change exceed its commitments and have made substantial contributions to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions. The United Nations looks forward to further close cooperation with China to better address the challenges of climate change.
Han Zheng attended and delivered remarks at the High-Level Forum on South-South Cooperation on Climate Change Response, hosted by the Chinese side at the "China Pavilion" of the UN Climate Change Conference. Han Zheng stated that the countries of the Global South share a common destiny, and only through solidarity and cooperation can green development be achieved. We should work together to promote green development, enhance climate resilience, and strengthen capacity-building. China will continue to uphold the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind, deepen South-South cooperation on climate, and jointly write a new chapter in the sustainable development of the Global South.
At the invitation of Guterres, Han Zheng attended and delivered remarks at the high-level event on the United Nations Early Warnings for All initiative. Han Zheng stated that China firmly supports the Early Warnings for All initiative and calls on all countries to unite and cooperate, act together, weave a dense early warning network, deepen the empowerment of science and technology, and strengthen capacity-building. China will continue to support and participate in actions related to the initiative, work with all countries to jointly address climate challenges, enhance climate resilience, and safeguard the safety of the people.
During his stay in Antalya, Han Zheng met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Han Zheng conveyed President Xi Jinping's warm greetings and good wishes and stated that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Türkiye relations have developed soundly and steadily. China is willing to work with the Turkish side to advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, deepen practical cooperation in various fields, and continuously push forward the China-Türkiye strategic cooperative relationship. Erdoğan asked Han Zheng to convey his sincere greetings and good wishes to President Xi Jinping and stated that the Turkish side attaches great importance to developing Türkiye-China relations, firmly adheres to the one-China principle, is willing to advance the implementation of the consensus reached by the two heads of state, maintain close exchanges and cooperation with the Chinese side, and bring Türkiye-China relations to a new level.
In Istanbul, Han Zheng also co-chaired the China-Türkiye Green Development Business Forum with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, engaging in friendly and in-depth exchanges. The two sides agreed to strengthen the alignment of development strategies between China and Türkiye and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual benefit, win-win").
Return to TopBy: 习近平
Comrades and friends,
Today, we gather here in solemn assembly to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, to recall the immortal contributions he made to national independence, social progress, and the well-being of the people, to learn from, carry forward, and develop his precious spirit, and to inspire all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation at home and abroad to unite and strive for the comprehensive advancement of national development and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen was a great national hero, a great patriot, and a great forerunner of China's democratic revolution. In the era of his birth, our country was suffering from the brutal aggression of Western powers and the corrupt rule of feudal autocracy, and the Chinese nation was plunged into the deep misery of internal turmoil and external threats. Faced with a shattered land and a precarious situation, the heroic Chinese people never yielded. Countless people of lofty ideals rose up to resist and painstakingly searched for a path to save the country and the people. Dr. Sun Yat-sen was an outstanding representative among them.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen "devoted himself to the national revolution for forty years," giving his all to the task and devoting himself heart and soul to the cause, struggling his entire life to transform China and making outstanding contributions to the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. He raised high the banner of opposing feudal autocratic rule, put forward the Three People's Principles political program of nationalism, democracy, and the people's livelihood, and was the first to sound the rousing call to "revitalize China." He widely disseminated revolutionary ideas, launched successive armed uprisings, and promoted the formation of the revolutionary tide. The Revolution of 1911 he led overthrew the monarchical autocratic system that had ruled China for thousands of years, opened the sluice gates of China's progressive currents, established the first republic in Asia, profoundly promoted China's social transformation, and explored a path for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Influenced by the October Revolution and Marxism-Leninism, and with the help of the Chinese Communist Party, he developed the old Three People's Principles into the new Three People's Principles, implemented the three major policies of allying with Russia, allying with the Communist Party, and assisting the peasants and workers, reorganized the Chinese Nationalist Party, promoted the victory of the Northern Expedition, and pushed forward the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's outstanding contributions are forever recorded in the annals of history. He enjoys high prestige in the hearts of the Chinese people and is sincerely admired by all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation at home and abroad. Today, the Chinese people are high-spirited and full of vigor in advancing Chinese modernization, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. At this moment, as we review Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary career and recall his magnificent achievements, our hearts are filled with even deeper feelings of reverence.
Comrades and friends!
Chinese Communists are the most steadfast supporters, the most loyal cooperators, and the most faithful inheritors of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause. Over the past 100-plus years, our Party has led the people in achieving great accomplishments in the new democratic revolution, the socialist revolution and construction, reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, writing the most magnificent epic in the several-thousand-year history of the Chinese nation. Many of the ideas Dr. Sun Yat-sen conceived for China's future construction — the series of grand blueprints depicted in The International Development of China for building railways, constructing highways, developing communications, harnessing water resources, digging canals, building ports, and establishing factories and mines — have not only long since become reality but have become even richer and more expansive than he conceived and depicted. Now, our great motherland stands tall and firm in the East of the world, its economic aggregate firmly ranks second in the world, the people's lives have achieved a comprehensive moderate prosperity, and the Chinese nation has welcomed the great leap from standing up and growing prosperous to becoming strong, continuously making new contributions to the development and progress of human society. All of this can fully comfort Dr. Sun Yat-sen's spirit.
Comrades and friends!
Over the past 100-plus years, Dr. Sun Yat-sen's call to "revitalize China" has inspired generation after generation of Chinese people and has continuously been endowed with new contemporary significance and connotations. Today, the best way for us to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen is to learn from, carry forward, and develop his precious spirit and continuously advance the great cause of national development and rejuvenation.
— Dr. Sun Yat-sen loved the country and worked to save it throughout his life. To learn from, carry forward, and develop his precious spirit, we must hold high the spirit of patriotism and strive to achieve the prosperity and strength of the motherland. Dr. Sun Yat-sen harbored a strong patriotic passion, resolved to "devote his life to repaying his country," believing that "the greatest thing in life" is "to know how to love one's country," that "the power of development, if held in our own hands, means survival; if held in the hands of others, means extinction," and that "saving China is entirely our own responsibility." It was precisely because he was determined to shoulder such responsibility, in order to "support the great edifice about to collapse" and to make China "the richest and strongest country in the world" and "the most peaceful and happy country in the world," that he struggled unremittingly throughout his life.
On the new journey, we must uphold the unity of love for the country, love for the Party, and love for socialism, uphold the Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, firmly maintain confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, inspire all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation at home and abroad to continuously deepen their patriotic sentiments and sharpen their aspirations to strengthen the country, victoriously advance Chinese modernization, and jointly build the great motherland into an even better place.
— Dr. Sun Yat-sen cared deeply for the people throughout his life. To learn from, carry forward, and develop his precious spirit, we must always uphold the supremacy of the people and serve the people wholeheartedly. Dr. Sun Yat-sen had deep feelings for the people, believing that "the foundation of the state lies in the people," vowing to "seek the well-being of the people's livelihood," and firmly believing that revolution "is to remove the people's sorrows." He pointed out: "What the people cannot do, we must do for them; what rights the people do not have, we must fight for them." He emphasized that "the Three People's Principles are established for the people," advocated "equalization of land rights" and "regulation of capital," and strove to realize "the enjoyment by all of equal economic happiness, without the affliction of inequality." For the Chinese people to become "the happiest people in the world," he toiled and rushed about throughout his life.
On the new journey, we must bear in mind that the country is the people and the people are the country, take a firm people's stand, grasp the people's aspirations, respect the people's creativity, and pool the people's wisdom, develop whole-process people's democracy, safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, ensure that the fruits of modernization benefit all the people more and more fairly, and make solid progress in promoting the well-rounded development of the individual and common prosperity for all the people.
— Dr. Sun Yat-sen pursued truth throughout his life. To learn from, carry forward, and develop his precious spirit, we must uphold the Two Integrations and continuously advance theoretical innovation on the basis of practice. From a young age, Dr. Sun Yat-sen had the ambition to "ponder the mysteries of heaven and earth," and he continuously studied broadly advanced knowledge and beneficial intellectual achievements, "keeping pace with the trends of the world and meeting the needs of the people." After joining the revolution, he clearly recognized that "to achieve the success of the revolution, one must rely on changes in thought," actively sought truth from revolutionary practice, and strove to perfect his revolutionary ideas and strategies for struggle. To promote the "true solution of China's problems," he explored with hardship and persistence throughout his life.
On the new journey, we must uphold the integration of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, be courageous in theoretical exploration and innovation, scientifically answer the questions of China, the questions of the world, the questions of the people, and the questions of the times, keep pace with the times in enriching and developing the thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and continuously write new chapters in the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism.
— Dr. Sun Yat-sen was undaunted by many setbacks throughout his life. To learn from, carry forward, and develop his precious spirit, we must be courageous in overcoming difficulties and rely on tenacious struggle to open up new horizons for the development of our cause. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary career suffered repeated setbacks and hardships, but he always adhered to the principle that "where my will is directed, I charge ahead without hesitation; the more setbacks I encounter, the more determined I become, continuing to make persistent efforts," and with the resolute firmness that "the hardships of adversity cannot bend him," he resolutely struggled against all forces that moved against the tide of the times, unshaken by external threats, internal divisions, or temporary failures, demonstrating a firm revolutionary will and dauntless heroic spirit. Even on his deathbed, he never forgot "peace, struggle, and saving China," truly achieving the ideal of never ceasing to struggle as long as life continues.
On the new journey, we must coordinate the domestic and international situations, balance development and security, carry forward the spirit of struggle, enhance our ability to struggle, fear no difficulty, yield to no enemy, be ready at all times to withstand major tests of high winds and rough waves, or even violent storms, do our utmost to overcome all risks and challenges on the road ahead, and continuously win new victories in the great struggle of the new era.
— Dr. Sun Yat-sen advocated unity throughout his life. To learn from, carry forward, and develop his precious spirit, we must uphold the united front and continuously consolidate and develop the great unity of all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation. In promoting the revolution, Dr. Sun Yat-sen always emphasized that "the revolutionary cause is initiated by the people and accomplished by the people." He was committed to "arousing the masses," traveling far and wide, breaking through numerous obstructions, and using every opportunity to propagate revolutionary ideas to the domestic masses and overseas Chinese, attracting more people to support the revolutionary cause, and broadly uniting all forces to "take the same step, place the nation's century-long plan first, and strive with all our might." His united front policy, together with the Three People's Principles political program and the spirit of arduous struggle, was praised by Comrade Mao Zedong as "the most central, most essential, and greatest legacy left to us."
On the new journey, we must always uphold great unity and great solidarity, unite all forces that can be united, mobilize all positive factors that can be mobilized, promote harmony in relations between political parties, between ethnic groups, between religions, between social strata, and between compatriots at home and abroad, consolidate and develop the broadest possible patriotic united front, and gather the mighty force to advance Chinese modernization.
— Dr. Sun Yat-sen had the world in his heart throughout his life. To learn from, carry forward, and develop his precious spirit, we must vigorously promote the common values of all humanity and actively promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. Dr. Sun Yat-sen viewed the relationship between China and the world with a broad vision, placing China's revolution within the context of the entire era while also examining China's development in the currents of the world. He emphasized that if China became strong and prosperous, it "must also bear a great responsibility toward the world"; he predicted that once the great goal of reforming China was accomplished, "all of humanity will also be able to share a brighter prospect." He regarded "the world for all" as "the goal of human evolution" and "the hope of mankind," advocated the adoption of an "open policy," emphasized mutual learning among civilizations, but never "followed the old path of Western civilization."
On the new journey, we must always pay attention to the future and destiny of humanity with a global vision, correctly understand and handle our relations with the outside world from the perspective of the great trends of human development, the great pattern of world change, and the great history of China's development, promote the common values of all humanity of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom, actively promote the implementation of the four major global initiatives, and make China's contribution to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Comrades and friends!
Dr. Sun Yat-sen always firmly safeguarded national unity and ethnic solidarity and resolutely opposed all words and deeds that split the country and the nation. He emphasized that "China is a unified country," cried out that "'unity' is the hope of all Chinese citizens," and stated that "I will use all my influence to strive for the unity of the country." His strong desire and firm will for the reunification of the motherland have always enlightened, educated, and inspired all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation.
In the long river of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, the belief that the territory cannot be divided, the country cannot be thrown into chaos, the nation cannot be scattered, and the civilization cannot be severed has always been a common conviction engraved in the bones of all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation. Resolving the Taiwan issue and achieving the complete reunification of the motherland is an unswerving historical task of the Chinese Communist Party, a common aspiration of all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, and an inevitable requirement for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are all Chinese, members of one family connected by blood, with blood thicker than water. When members of a family get along, as long as they speak to each other in good faith and consult more on matters, there is no contradiction or difference that cannot be resolved. Over the years, we have upheld the concept of "the two sides of the Strait are one family," continuously deepened cross-Strait exchanges and integration, and enhanced the well-being of compatriots on both sides of the Strait. Looking to the future, we adhere to the policy of "peaceful reunification and One Country, Two Systems," and on the basis of upholding the one-China principle and the 1992 Consensus, we are willing to conduct dialogue and consultation with people of insight from all walks of life in Taiwan on cross-Strait relations and national reunification. We will certainly fully consider the actual situation in Taiwan and fully take into account the interests and feelings of our Taiwanese compatriots, but we will never leave any space for "Taiwan independence" separatist activities in any form.
The future of Taiwan lies in national reunification, and the interests and well-being of our Taiwanese compatriots are tied to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Compatriots on both sides of the Strait and all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation at home and abroad must join hands to jointly oppose the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and jointly work for the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and the complete reunification of the motherland. The tide of history cannot be stopped. The complete reunification of the motherland must be achieved and will certainly be achieved!
Comrades and friends!
Comprehensively advancing national development and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization is the new Long March of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people, and it is also the only way to realize Dr. Sun Yat-sen's ideal of "revitalizing China." I call upon all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation at home and abroad to unite even more closely, carry forward Dr. Sun Yat-sen's unfulfilled will, work together with one heart and mind to accomplish the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and continuously turn the great dream that the people of all ethnic groups of our country have been seeking with tireless diligence since modern times into a beautiful reality!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 12)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 洋 曹 磊 何昭宇
The latest "report card" of central enterprises was released recently: as of the end of August this year, the total assets of central enterprises reached 99.3 trillion yuan, and by the end of this year they are expected to step up to a new level.
The key to making state-owned enterprises stronger, better, and larger lies in upholding the Party's leadership.
In October 2016, at the National Conference on Party Building in State-Owned Enterprises, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Upholding the Party's leadership and strengthening Party building are the glorious tradition of China's state-owned enterprises, the 'root' and 'soul' of state-owned enterprises, and the unique advantage of China's state-owned enterprises."
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed: "Strengthen the Party's leadership over state-owned enterprises and state-owned financial enterprises, strengthen the substantive gatekeeping role of Party committees (Party groups) in the pre-discussion and research of major operational and management matters, improve corporate governance, and enhance the quality and effectiveness of Party building work."
The vast majority of state-owned enterprises firmly uphold the Two Establishments (两个确立), resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, unswervingly uphold the Party's leadership, continuously strengthen Party building, and continuously transform the Party's political and organizational advantages into developmental advantages, further demonstrating the role of state-owned enterprises as the "pillar" of the socialist economy with Chinese characteristics.
The Party's leadership has become stronger and more effective
Leaving Xiong'an Station and driving west, one sees along the way the headquarters buildings of China Satellite Network Group, Sinochem Holdings, and China Huaneng Group. The landmark relocation projects have played a driving role; since 2023, central enterprises have established more than 400 branches and subsidiaries of various types in Xiong'an New Area, Hebei.
A project of millennial significance, a major matter of the state. In March this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Xiong'an New Area for inspection and emphasized that "state-owned enterprises must serve the national development strategy."
Taking the Party's banner as our banner, taking the Party's direction as our direction, taking the Party's will as our will. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Upholding the Party's leadership over state-owned enterprises is a major political principle" and "making state-owned enterprises the most trustworthy force of reliance for the Party and the state, and an important force for resolutely implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee."
State-owned enterprises focus on the duties and missions entrusted to them by the Party Central Committee, continuously enhancing their political judgment, political comprehension, and political execution.
In May 2014, during his inspection of COMAC, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "if we want to build a strong country, we must develop the equipment manufacturing industry and build the large aircraft."
The Party Committee of COMAC formulated the "Implementation Measures for Thoroughly Implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Instructions and Directives," and since 2015, has carried out a "Thematic Study Month" activity every May. "Developing large aircraft is a long-term and arduous undertaking. The fundamental way to uphold the correct direction and unite the strength of those engaged in the work is to study, study, and study again, learning out faith and learning out consensus," said Zeng Yongming, head of the Party-Masses Work Department of COMAC.
The first C919 plateau variant completed its maiden flight successfully at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, and the C919 passenger aircraft delivered to Air China operated its first international commercial flight from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar... Since the beginning of this year, COMAC has reported one success after another, and the General Secretary's earnest entrustments have inspired the "large aircraft people" to continuously achieve new breakthroughs.
Over the past decade or more, the vast majority of state-owned enterprises have placed the Party's political construction first, unremittingly used the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls, strictly implemented the "First Agenda" system and the system of reporting and requesting instructions on major matters, and worked with genuine effort to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives.
Unify the strengthening of the Party's leadership with the improvement of corporate governance, and build a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics.
In the past, in major operational decisions, the role of Party organizations in some state-owned enterprises was not fully brought into play. In recent years, a series of measures have been intensively introduced: amending the Company Law, formulating the "Opinions on Improving the Modern Enterprise System with Chinese Characteristics," etc.; the board of directors system of state-owned enterprises has been basically established, and wholly state-owned and state-controlled companies have abolished their supervisory boards...
In 2016, COSCO Shipping wrote the requirements of Party building into its articles of association, clarified the legal status of Party organizations in corporate governance, and refined and improved the decision-making procedures for "Three Major and One Large" matters. In major decisions such as green shipping and global supply chain layout, the Group's Party Group conducts pre-discussion and gatekeeping, taking serving the Belt and Road Initiative and the strategy of building a maritime power as the orientation benchmark.
Beijing issued work guidelines for Party branches of state-owned enterprises to participate in decision-making on major issues; Zhejiang promoted "two-way entry and cross-appointment" to build a closed-loop chain of responsibility; Jiangsu achieved centralized management of Party building work in state-owned financial enterprises, effectively preventing financial risks; Guangdong, centering on major tasks such as the construction of the Greater Bay Area and building a strong manufacturing province, a strong science and technology province, and a strong maritime province, guided provincial state-owned enterprises to ensure the implementation of strategies, municipal state-owned enterprises to serve urban development, and district-level state-owned enterprises to solidify industrial platforms.
Today, the vast majority of state-owned enterprises integrate the Party's leadership into all aspects of corporate governance, striving to build themselves into the most trustworthy force of reliance for the Party and the state.
Cadres and talents are more responsible and enterprising
Flipping through the "2026 Training Plan of the Cadre Education and Training Center of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (Party School of the CPC Central Committee, SASAC Branch)," there are more than 100 training sessions throughout the year.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Leading personnel of state-owned enterprises must be loyal to the Party, courageous in innovation, skilled in enterprise management, effective in revitalizing the enterprise, and honest and upright."
The vast majority of state-owned enterprises thoroughly implement the Party's organizational line for the new era, adhere to the Party's management of cadres and the Party's management of talents, optimize the work of selection, education, management, and use, and encourage cadres and talents to take responsibility and act with determination.
The structure and functions of leading bodies have been continuously optimized. Lü Qi, deputy director of the Exploration and Development Research Institute of Sinopec Shengli Oilfield, was selected by the organization two years ago to participate in the "Hundred Sails, Thousand Ships" plan, serving as deputy manager of the Shale Gas Project Department of the Southwest Oil and Gas Branch.
The Southwest Oil and Gas Branch has built the first deep shale gas field in China, accumulating a complete set of mature, implementable technical systems and lean management experience. "The organization sent me here hoping that I would learn technology, increase my abilities, and make up for the shortcomings in Shengli Oilfield's Jiyang shale oil development," said Lü Qi.
In recent years, Sinopec has continuously deepened the "Three Hundred, Three Thousand" and "Hundred Sails, Thousand Ships" practical training plans, guiding cadres to exchange and temper themselves across units, fields, specialties, and positions, continuously enhancing their political capabilities and professional qualities.
Leading personnel of state-owned enterprises are the Party's governing backbone in the economic field. According to the deployment of the Party Central Committee, relevant departments have adopted a series of policies and measures: issuing the "Provisions on the Management of Leading Personnel of Central Enterprises," etc.; doing solid and deep political quality assessment, optimizing the functional structure of leading bodies; organizing research on outstanding young cadres, and strengthening tempering in demanding positions and key positions; continuously carrying out comprehensive assessment and evaluation, and promptly adjusting leading personnel who are politically unqualified, not in working condition, or whose abilities and qualities are unsuitable...
The institutional chain is interlinked, and selection, education, management, and use are promoted as an integrated whole. Today, a group of composite cadres skilled in Party governance and enterprise management have taken up leadership positions, and a group of outstanding young cadres with outstanding ideological and political qualities, achievements, and abilities have been added to leading bodies.
The innovative vitality of the talent team has been continuously stimulated.
At the Industrial Basic Research Institute of CETC, silicon carbide wafers of different specifications such as 6-inch and 8-inch are displayed in dazzling array. Fu Xingzhong is the person in charge of the silicon carbide project at the institute. Through the cultivation of the Party branch, he formally joined the Party in 2025. "My sense of mission and responsibility is stronger, and I more proactively align scientific research planning with national strategic needs," said Fu Xingzhong.
"We insist on cultivating backbone personnel into Party members, cultivating Party members into backbone personnel, and sending Party member backbone personnel to important positions, giving play to their vanguard and exemplary role in major national projects and tackling 'bottleneck' technologies," said Wang Lei, director of the Party Building Work Department of CETC.
Gansu Jinchuan Group has formulated differentiated selection standards and evaluation systems for the job requirements of different levels and different professional fields, and in 2025 included 74 young employees in the reserve talent pool.
In recent years, various localities, departments, and the vast majority of state-owned enterprises have deeply implemented the strategy of strengthening enterprises with talents, organically combining the "strictness" of organizational allocation with the "flexibility" of market selection, so that outstanding talents can "come forth," "be used flexibly," "grow quickly," and "be retained."
Today, science and technology talent training projects are being deeply implemented, large-scale special training for emerging industries and future industries talents and vocational skills training are being held one after another, and talent training, evaluation, mobility, and incentive mechanisms are being continuously improved, with a large number of leading scientific and technological talents and "great country craftsmen" emerging in competition.
The organizational system is more rigorous and complete
In Hami, Xinjiang, the camera focuses on China Coal Dananhu No. 7 Coal Mine: at a depth of 250 to 300 meters underground, inside the 11703 fully mechanized mining face, Meng Weile, Party branch secretary of the No. 2 Fully Mechanized Mining Team, and his colleagues bend down and squeeze into the gaps between hydraulic supports to repair equipment. The crisp sounds of wrenches colliding with metal rise and fall one after another, ensuring the stable supply of "Xinjiang electricity transmitted to other regions."
Looking across the countless workshops, teams, business outlets, and engineering projects of state-owned enterprises, wherever Party members are rooted, Party organization construction follows in sync.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "For full and rigorous self-governance of the Party to be implemented and take root in state-owned enterprises, we must start strictly from the basic organizations, basic teams, and basic systems."
In 2019, the CPC Central Committee promulgated the "Regulations on the Work of Primary-Level Party Organizations in State-Owned Enterprises of the Communist Party of China (Trial)." Carrying out a three-year action to improve the quality of primary-level Party organization construction in central financial units, carrying out special actions for primary-level Party organization construction in central enterprises for five consecutive years, and strengthening Party member education and management in an all-round way... The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and others have actively promoted state-owned enterprises to adapt to changes in property rights relations, organizational structures, and business models, standardize and optimize the establishment of Party organizations, and continuously improve the standardization and normalization level of Party organizations.
Vigorously strengthening primary-level organizations to make the fighting fortresses more solid.
The Agricultural Bank of China has 45,000 primary-level Party organizations and 260,000 Party members on the job. In recent years, the Party Committee of the Agricultural Bank of China has firmly established a clear orientation of vigorously strengthening primary-level organizations, formulated work guidelines for primary-level Party building, carried out hierarchical assessment of Party organization secretaries' Party building work through reporting and evaluation, done solid work on contact points for primary-level Party building and branch work, and promoted the sinking of responsibility, guidance, and strength.
China Mobile currently has more than 180,000 Party members and more than 10,000 Party organizations, distributed across business units, R&D institutions, production units, and frontline outlets across the country. How to coordinate education and management? Logging into China Mobile's "Xinghuo Party Building" system, one can initiate organizational relationship transfers with one click and check in online at red education bases... Lu Xiaoshan, deputy director of the Party Building Work Department of China Mobile, introduced: "In the past, understanding the dynamics of primary-level Party building mainly relied on reporting level by level. Now, one can click through the three levels of provincial, municipal, and county layers in sequence, and the completion rate of the 'Three Meetings and One Lesson' of primary-level Party organizations is clear at a glance."
Over the past decade or more, state-owned enterprises have basically achieved the establishment of Party organizations wherever they should be established and regular re-election on schedule, organizational life has become more standardized, and primary-level Party organizations have made comprehensive progress and become comprehensively strong.
Consolidating responsibility to make Party governance and Party self-governance more effective.
"In the early years, doing Party building work well or poorly made no difference. Now responsibilities are clear, assessment has caught up, and Party building is carried out with greater consciousness," said Peng Yi, Party branch secretary of the Distribution Network Department of Shenzhen Futian Power Supply Bureau of China Southern Power Grid. In 2025, this Party branch strictly implemented the "Three Meetings and One Lesson," gave full play to its role as a fighting fortress, shouldered the task of ensuring power supply for major venues, and received a "Good" rating in the Party building assessment, while Peng Yi also received an excellent rating in his personal annual assessment.
In recent years, China Southern Power Grid has built a list of Party building responsibility systems for all employees, clarifying the responsibilities of various subjects including Party group (Party committee) secretaries, members of Party group (Party committee) leading bodies, Party branch secretaries, Party branch committee members, and ordinary Party members, solving the problem of "who does Party building, what to do, and how to do it."
For full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, we must grasp the "ox nose" of the responsibility system.
The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee has guided state-owned enterprises to carry out reporting and evaluation assessments for 12 consecutive years, the Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council has carried out assessment of Party building responsibility systems in central enterprises for 9 consecutive years, and the vast majority of state-owned enterprises have generally refined responsibility lists, effectively consolidating the responsibility of Party organizations at all levels for Party governance and improving the quality of Party building work. Many Party organization secretaries of state-owned enterprises have said, "Party building is no longer an optional soft indicator but a hard requirement," "Party building is carried out with greater confidence and justification," and "Party building work has great potential."
A clean and upright atmosphere is more abundant and full
The Party and the people entrust state-owned assets to the management and operation of enterprise leading personnel, which is great trust, and there is no room for abusing power for personal gain or harming public interests for private benefit.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must improve systems, strengthen supervision, resolutely punish corruption, and be persistent and unremitting (锲而不舍, qie er bu she - "not, stop, not, stop") in rectifying the Four Malfeasances (四风), and strive to create a clean and upright political atmosphere (风清气正, feng qing qi zheng - "wind, clear, air, upright")."
Since the beginning of the new era, full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has continued to develop in depth, guiding the vast number of Party members and cadres of state-owned enterprises to be strict with themselves, strictly fulfill their responsibilities, and strictly manage their jurisdictions, living up to the trust and heavy entrustment of the Party and the people.
Promoting the "Three Noes" (no deterrence, no cages, no desire) as an integrated whole to eradicate the soil and conditions for corruption to breed.
On the smart supervision platform of Sinograin Tangshan Direct Depot, randomly clicking on the monitoring screen of a grain depot, the soybeans in the warehouse are clearly visible. "The platform's visual monitoring is online 24 hours a day, keeping track of the purchase dynamics, inventory status, and safety status of each depot at any time," said Li Jiangpei, Party branch secretary and general manager of Sinograin Tangshan Direct Depot Co., Ltd. Today, in the Sinograin Group, more than a thousand direct grain depots and sub-depots have achieved "technical prevention and technical control," and the penetration of anti-corruption efforts has been continuously enhanced.
"Dare not to be corrupt" is the premise, "cannot be corrupt" is the key, and "do not want to be corrupt" is the foundation. Strengthening the management and supervision of the "key minority" of enterprises, especially the "top leaders," strengthening the management and supervision of key links in the exercise of power, carrying out special rectification of the "revolving door" between government and business, "escape-style resignation," and illegal business operations; the "Implementation Measures for Accountability for Losses Caused by Violations in Business Operations and Investment of Central Enterprises" and the "Provisions on Integrity and Self-Discipline of Leading Personnel of State-Owned Enterprises" have been issued one after another, putting power in the cage of institutions; discipline education and work style construction have been normalized and made long-term, promoting the vast number of cadres and employees to strictly implement the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation (八项规定) of the CPC Central Committee; the Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council has built and made good use of the Integrity and Discipline Education Hall for State-Owned Assets and Central Enterprises, carrying out integrity education with full coverage of central enterprises, with special emphasis on key groups such as "top leaders," young cadres, newly promoted cadres, and cadres in key positions.
Improving the supervision system to ensure that power always operates on the correct track.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Party Central Committee has carried out three rounds of full-coverage inspections of central financial enterprises and central enterprises. The Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and the Party committees of various regions have carried out full-coverage inspections and tours of state-owned enterprises as required. The vast majority of state-owned enterprises have carried out internal inspections, self-examination and self-correction, and rectification and remediation.
Inspection supervision wields the "sharp sword," and dispatched supervision blows the "advance whistle." Some time ago, the China Datang Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group was officially renamed the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission stationed at China Datang. After the reform, the dispatched discipline inspection and supervision group, on the one hand, withdrew from deliberative and coordinating bodies unrelated to its supervisory duties, and on the other hand, focused on the construction of new energy large bases and major projects during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, keeping a close eye on key links such as safety production, ecological and environmental protection, and bidding and procurement, regularly following up and dispatching the progress of project implementation, with clearer responsibilities and stronger supervision.
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee clearly proposed promoting the comprehensive dispatch of discipline inspection and supervision groups to central enterprises. At present, the work of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission in comprehensively dispatching discipline inspection and supervision groups to central enterprises has been successfully completed, and the dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups of central enterprises have all fully performed their duties, with further increased efforts to rectify work styles, enforce discipline, and combat corruption, continuously purifying the political ecology, and making the clean and upright atmosphere more abundant and vigorous.
Enterprise development is more full of vitality
This summer, Chengdu, Sichuan experienced high temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius. Fan Jinzhu, deputy captain of the Chengdu High-tech Lianxin Bridge Party Member Service Team of State Grid Sichuan Electric Power, led his team members, holding infrared thermometers and load detectors, shuttling between heavily loaded transformers to ensure the safety of residents' electricity use.
"The service team has veteran members with more than 10 years of Party membership, as well as young people who have just started working. Everyone is working together with one heart and mind (齐心协力, qi xin xie li - "together, heart, cooperate, strength"), doing their utmost to serve the masses," said Fan Jinzhu.
Strong Party building leads to thriving undertakings. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Central enterprises must fully understand the duties and missions they bear, better serve the overall work of the Party and the state, serve the high-quality development of the economy and society, and serve the guarantee and improvement of people's livelihoods."
Over the past decade or more, Party building in state-owned enterprises has deepened and become more solid, the leading role of Party committees (Party groups) in setting the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation has been fully brought into play, and the vast number of Party members have provided strong guarantees for promoting high-quality development in demanding positions and on the front lines of urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks.
Making good use of the heirloom of ideological and political work to enhance cohesion.
China State Construction Engineering Corporation currently has more than 300,000 employees, about 92% of whom are distributed in primary-level units at the fourth level and below. With projects spread across many locations and long management chains, how to maintain the stability of the workforce?
Old Zhang had been working on construction sites for years and once felt that "there was no future." Bai Jing, Party branch secretary of the Beijing Dajiaoting Project of the Third Construction Company of the Second Bureau of China State Construction, learned through heart-to-heart talks that there were many workers like Old Zhang. The Party branch proactively contacted relevant departments and organized skills training. Old Zhang obtained his welder's certificate, and not only did his salary double, but he also trained apprentices.
"The essence of Party building work is doing the work of people. Now, the stability rate of workers in core trades on the project remains above 92%, and the project is advancing in an orderly manner," said Bai Jing.
Over the past decade or more, the vast majority of state-owned enterprises have taken the deep integration of Party building work with business operations as the starting point, activating organizational cohesion, talent support, cultural centripetal force, and brand influence, and guiding cadres and employees to think with one mind and work with one strength.
Boosting the spirit of entrepreneurship and dedication to stimulate combat effectiveness.
Walking into the superconducting electric maglev test line of CRRC Changchun, the engineering prototype of the 600 km/h superconducting electric high-speed maglev train is steadily parked at one end of the track. "There was no prior development experience to draw on for the onboard superconducting magnet. Party member backbone personnel took the lead on major topics and completed a series of highly difficult research tasks," said Zhu Yan, Party committee secretary and director of the National Rail Transit Vehicle Engineering Research Center of CRRC Changchun.
In July 2025, the prototype debugging entered a critical stage—the assembly of the full-size onboard high-temperature superconducting magnet. "The assembly area was narrow, requiring one to hold a high-temperature welding torch for fine operation while connecting cryogenic components at minus 200 degrees Celsius. It was truly experiencing both extreme heat and extreme cold simultaneously (冰火两重天, bing huo liang chong tian - "ice, fire, two, heavy, heaven")," recalled Hu Hao, senior engineer at the Maglev Research Institute of CRRC Changchun.
"Let me do it!" At the critical moment, Party member backbone personnel stepped up. Everyone took turns operating the assembly, calibrating parameters, and investigating hidden dangers, working continuously for more than 20 hours to achieve a one-time successful test of the superconducting magnet.
Wherever the enterprise develops, Party building follows, and the fighting fortress role of primary-level Party organizations is manifested there.
China Railway consciously carries forward the railway's red genes, continuously improves political capabilities, and builds a high-quality leading personnel team capable of shouldering the heavy tasks of the era, with China's high-speed rail becoming a bright "national business card"; China General Nuclear Power Group explores the integration of Party building work into scientific and technological innovation, project construction, and production and operation, transforming organizational advantages into development momentum...
Forging the soul and strengthening the bones, tempering into steel. The development history of state-owned enterprises is a history of upholding the Party's leadership and strengthening Party building. On the new journey, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the vast majority of state-owned enterprises will deeply study and implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, persevering in a course of action (持之以恒, chi zhi yi heng - "hold, that, with, constant") in promoting full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, leading high-quality development with high-quality Party building, and will surely continue to achieve new breakthroughs in accelerating the building of world-class enterprises, contributing greater strength to advancing Chinese modernization.
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Rolling down the car window, Abbas raised his phone and snapped photo after photo of a bus outside.
"This bus actually has no driver!" Abbas marveled at the driverless bus before him.
"In the past I was always the one talking; today I have been the one listening." In Egypt, Abbas works as a Chinese-language tour guide, frequently engaging with the ancient civilization along the banks of the Nile. A week ago, Abbas came to the futuristic Xiong'an New Area in Hebei, his role now that of a tourist, "This kind of experience is very special."
Abbas still remembers that when he first heard the name "City of the Future" for Xiong'an, he was filled with curiosity. After coming here to experience driverless buses, smart homes, and robot baristas, Abbas has gained a brand-new understanding of it.
In one smart home, a smart refrigerator can identify the food inside it and can also indicate how long it has been stored, which gave Abbas an intuitive sense of the convenience that artificial intelligence brings to people's lives; stepping into the Xiong'an Library, he was drawn to the smart borrowing and returning equipment — searching for books and handling borrowing and return procedures is fast and convenient, and readers can also borrow books through their mobile phones and enjoy book delivery services.
"Today, I have seen the 'City of the Future.' The technology and convenience here have left a deep impression on me," Abbas said with emotion.
Abbas enjoys interacting with people.
At the Yi'an Neighborhood Center, he chatted with residents dining nearby while eating. One resident who had come to Xiong'an from Shanghai a year and a half ago said, "It takes only 3 minutes for my child to get to school," "Traffic is smooth with no congestion," and "There are also many green parks; it is very livable."
Listening to people's sharing, Abbas nodded frequently: "Because of you, Xiong'an will be better."
"Because of Xiong'an, we will be better," the resident responded with a smile.
This simple "two-way commitment" moved Abbas considerably. In his eyes, Xiong'an's sense of the future comes not only from advanced technology, but also from the smiles on residents' faces, the convenience of daily life, and the comfort of coexistence between people and nature.
"Making everyone's life more convenient and more pleasant — this is a very great thing, and it is also what I have seen today," Abbas exclaimed.
The Xiong'an New Area, growing and rising steadily, is the concentrated carrier for relieving Beijing of functions non-essential to its role as the capital. Far away, over ten thousand miles away in Egypt, a modern new capital is also emerging suddenly from the ground (拔地而起, ba di er qi - "pull, ground, up, rise") from the desert.
"As soon as I arrived here, images of Egypt's new capital began to appear in my mind. It feels very similar — also very quiet, also very smart. We have already started down this path." Speaking of Egypt's new city, he was very proud. The similar planning concepts, technological applications, and public services between Xiong'an and Egypt's new capital, just like the exchanges and cooperation between the two countries, have many points in common.
In the past, learning Chinese changed Abbas's life. Now, as a participant in Sino-Egyptian cultural exchange, he introduces Egypt to Chinese tourists through his work as a tour guide, and he also sees broader development opportunities in the joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Abbas has new plans again.
"After I go back, I will share what I have seen and heard with everyone," Abbas said. Whether it is showing photos, giving lectures, or organizing exchange activities, he wants to let more Egyptians know about this "City of the Future" in China.
Before the end of the trip, someone asked him, if he were to give a name to this trip to Xiong'an, what would he call it?
Abbas thought for a moment and gave an answer: "From dream to reality."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 戴楷然
Setting out northward from Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, after a drive of more than an hour, our reporters arrived in the Shamva area of Mashonaland Central Province. Beside a rural road, a stone tablet reading "China-Zimbabwe Agricultural Cooperation Demonstration Village" was especially conspicuous. This was Jindi Village — the second agricultural cooperation demonstration village established in Zimbabwe by the Chinese senior agricultural expert team assisting Zimbabwe. Since 2024, Chinese experts have helped local farmers improve production capacity and raise living standards through measures such as building agricultural infrastructure, conducting agricultural training, and promoting improved crop varieties.
Solving the Water Shortage Problem Boosting Grain Production
At noon, a queue formed at the newly built water collection point in Jindi Village. Villager Albert turned on the tap, and clear running water flowed through the pipe into a bucket. Several women chatted about the corn harvest as they drew water. Not far away, a row of solar panels glistened.
"In the past, we had to go to the river every day to fetch water, and the round trip was a long way. Now we have water as soon as we turn on the tap, and it is much more convenient for farming and raising chickens," Albert said to reporters with a smile.
Jindi Village currently has 85 households and more than 600 villagers. Hampered by a weak agricultural foundation and low grain production capacity, the villagers have long lived in straitened circumstances. "After research, we found that the primary problem constraining the development of Jindi Village is water," Zhao Ke, head of the fourth phase of the Chinese senior agricultural expert team assisting Zimbabwe, told reporters. The expert team successively selected sites in the village to drill wells, installed solar-powered water pumps, and laid water delivery pipelines, completing an irrigation system with a daily water supply capacity of 55,000 liters. This not only met the drinking water needs of all people and livestock in the village, but also brought running water to the doorsteps of some farm households and to the fields.
Jindi Village villager Guan Zu spoke of the changes in the village over the past year: in the past, once the dry season arrived, everyone's greatest worry was the lack of water, and much land had to be left fallow. Now that irrigation is guaranteed, crop harvests are getting better and better. In the past, corn yield per hectare was only about 1 ton; now it has risen to an average of 5 tons, and the village is not only being able to provide for one's own needs (自给自足, zi ge zi zu - "self, provide, self, suffice"), but also has surplus grain to sell.
With a stable water source, drip irrigation facilities have also been laid into the village's vegetable plots. In the fields, reporters saw black drip irrigation pipes neatly laid along the ridges, with fine streams of water slowly seeping into the soil, and newly transplanted carrot seedlings growing vigorously. Guan Zu said that in the past, it was simply impossible to grow vegetables in the dry season; now, relying on the drip irrigation system, the fields can be stably supplied with water even in the low-rainfall season, creating conditions for developing vegetable cultivation.
Cultivating Diverse Industries Broadening Income-Generating Channels
Walking into the newly built seedling greenhouse, several villagers gathered around Chinese agricultural expert Zhou Shiwei, bending down to examine the growth of pepper seedlings. "There must be enough spacing between the seedlings for them to grow stronger," Zhou Shiwei said as he guided the villagers in transplanting, weeding, and managing water and fertilizer.
"When can these peppers be transplanted?" "How long should the intervals between watering be in the dry season?" ... Zhou Shiwei answered the villagers' questions one by one. Learning scientific planting methods from Chinese experts has now become part of the daily routine of Jindi Village's villagers.
The expert team went to the home of villager Shepherd to inspect vegetable growth and poultry raising. In a newly built chicken coop on one side of the yard, more than 40 native chickens paced back and forth; on the other side, onions and carrots in the vegetable plot were growing well.
"In the past, my family mainly grew corn, and our income came from a single source. Now I raise chickens and also grow vegetables, and I can afford the school fees for my two daughters. Life is much more comfortable than before," Shepherd said, a smile spreading across his face as he spoke of these changes.
Not far from Shepherd's home, the household of villager George Chimene presented a different scene. Chimene carefully lifted the plastic film over the mushroom shed, revealing clusters of mushrooms growing neatly on cultivation sticks made from corn cobs. "These mushrooms taste very good and are very popular in the market," Chimene said. Under his lead, eight households in Jindi Village have begun trying their hand at mushroom cultivation.
Under the guidance of Chinese experts, Chimene has also built a chicken-manure biogas digester, using the biogas for cooking and the slurry as fertilizer to irrigate his vegetable garden. "Now I am the first person in the village to use gas. For this, we even built a new kitchen!" Chimene said.
Zhao Ke told reporters that in Jindi Village, the expert team has not only helped villagers raise grain output, but also guided them in developing diverse industries such as vegetables, poultry, and mushrooms, enabling more and more families to increase their income through multiple channels. Philimoni Mukova, an agricultural official of the Shamva area of Mashonaland Central Province, remarked with emotion that the help of the Chinese experts has "made villagers' incomes more diverse and continuously improved their lives."
Establishing an Agricultural Cooperative Pooling Strength for Development
At the suggestion of the expert team, Jindi Village set up a cooperative, and Guan Zu is the head of the Jindi Village Agricultural Production Cooperative. "In the past, everyone farmed their own land, and no one thought about cooperating to make money," Guan Zu recalled. When the cooperative was first established, many people took a wait-and-see attitude. The cooperative led its first batch of members in developing industries such as vegetable cultivation and poultry raising, allowing everyone to see tangible returns.
As batches of mature chickens were sold and truckloads of vegetables were shipped to market, the cooperative achieved a surplus of revenue over expenditure, and last year distributed a dividend of 72 US dollars to each member. More and more villagers took the initiative to apply to join the cooperative. At present, the cooperative has 34 members and has also established several management groups for planting, breeding, and water supply. Everyone discusses production plans together, maintains public facilities, and retains a development fund for expanding reproduction. "Recently we bought another 600 chicks, and I estimate that the cooperative's dividend will rise considerably again this year," Guan Zu said. "By working together, we can make the industry bigger."
Relying on the strength of the cooperative, Jindi Village formed an agricultural machinery service team. Ma Dengrong, the agricultural machinery expert of the fourth phase of the Chinese senior agricultural expert team assisting Zimbabwe, explained that in light of local characteristics, the expert team equipped the service team with small and medium-sized agricultural machinery such as tractors and seeders, among which the hand-held corn planter and corn sheller can greatly improve efficiency and require neither fuel nor electricity, making them very suitable for local use. The expert team trained villagers in machine operation, routine maintenance, and simple repair techniques to ensure that the equipment can operate stably over the long term.
"Now we have learned to use agricultural machinery. Efficiency is higher, and the work is easier," said Shepherd, a backbone member of the service team. He said that now the service team carries out sowing, tillage, and other operations in a unified manner, the level of mechanization in Jindi Village has risen markedly, and grain losses have also decreased. More and more young people are willing to learn agricultural techniques and participate in village construction.
"From one well to a plot of grain fields, from one chicken coop to an agricultural cooperative, from a few machines to a local agricultural machinery service team — we not only want to help villagers increase output and income, but also hope to leave behind the concept and capacity for development, sow the hope of development in Africa's countryside, and truly benefit the local people with the fruits of cooperation," Zhao Ke said.
Vangelis Haritatos, Minister of Lands and Rural Development of Zimbabwe, said that Zimbabwe-China cooperation has always been rooted in mutual respect and is committed to achieving common prosperity and sustainable development. The demonstration village is a vivid testament (生动见证, sheng dong jian zheng - "vivid, witness") to the friendship and practical cooperation between the two countries, injecting new momentum into the sustainable development of local agriculture.
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Any attempt to deny or whitewash the history of aggression is doomed to meet with resolute opposition from the international community and cannot succeed.
Recently, the Exhibition Hall of Evidence of the Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Army of Aggression against China released two newly compiled collections of criminal evidence: the "Personal Status Report" archives of the former Unit 731 Hailar Detachment, and the oral testimony of former detachment medical orderly Tanizaki and others. The archives and the oral testimony corroborate each other, further exposing the criminal details of Unit 731's germ warfare and adding detachment-level empirical evidence that Japan's germ warfare against China during its invasion was a systematic state crime.
The "Personal Status Report" released this time is a personal military service record form filled out after the war by military personnel who returned to Japan as private individuals, recording the basic information, enlistment trajectories, and postwar whereabouts of 156 detachment members. The archives systematically reveal the covert operations of Unit 731's recruitment: the Japanese military recruited personnel under the guise of regular infantry units such as the Manchuria 97th, 177th, and 201st Units, and after three months of professional training at Unit 731 headquarters, they were assigned to the Hailar Detachment, with the 97th Unit alone supplying 48 people. Using the name of conventional units to carry out germ warfare in reality exposes the Japanese military's scheme to deliberately conceal the criminal nature of its operations, and also confirms the fact that multiple Japanese military forces were deeply involved in the implementation of germ warfare.
The archives also disclose the trajectory of postwar accountability for those involved: of the 156 detachment members, 145 were detained by the Soviet side after the war, and 4 of them were tried in Khabarovsk between April and September 1950. This discovery supplements the historical trajectory of the Soviet Union's continued pursuit of accountability for Japanese germ warfare criminals after the 1949 Khabarovsk trials, providing new historical evidence for deepening research on the Khabarovsk trials. Echoing the archival records, Tanizaki's 70-minute oral testimony reconstructs the division of functions within the Hailar Detachment in carrying out germ warfare, revealing the complete criminal chain from capturing wild rats, raising and breeding them, to transporting them to Unit 731 headquarters, clearly presenting the operational mode of the Hailar Detachment as an execution organ of germ warfare. The testimony also clearly confirms that the Hailar Detachment's external code name was "Manchuria Unit 543," and that it colluded with Unit 731, Unit 100, and Unit 516 to conduct large-scale human poison gas experiments within Chinese territory. Before Japan's defeat, it buried large numbers of poison gas shells in China, providing important oral evidence for the investigation of the issue of chemical weapons abandoned by Japan in China.
In recent years, as the archives of Unit 731 headquarters and its various detachments have been successively organized and made public, the Unit 731 crime sites, archival historical materials, and the oral testimony of former Japanese military members have corroborated and confirmed one another. The heinous crimes of Japan's germ warfare during its invasion of China have long been supported by unshakeable and irrefutable evidence (铁证如山, tie zheng ru shan - "iron, evidence, like, mountain"), yet they have still not won the Japanese government's due acknowledgment and reflection. After the war, the United States exchanged immunity for Shiro Ishii and other major Unit 731 war criminals in return for germ warfare experimental data, resulting in Japan's germ warfare crimes not receiving thorough judicial settlement at the Tokyo Trials. Thereafter, a large number of important Unit 731 members entered Japan's political, medical, and business circles, and their related criminal responsibility has long remained unthoroughly pursued.
For a long time, the Japanese authorities have adopted an attitude of evasion, obfuscation, and even denial toward the history of Unit 731's crimes against humanity. Taku Yamazoe, a Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Councillors, once presented criminal evidence materials in the Diet, but was fobbed off by Japan's Defense Minister on the grounds that "its authenticity cannot be determined," making the intent to deny the history of aggression glaringly obvious or manifest (昭然若揭, zhao ran ruo jie - "clear, obvious, as if, revealed"). The release of the new criminal evidence materials of the Hailar Detachment this time is a powerful counterattack against historical nihilism. To this day, the Japanese government has still not formally apologized or compensated for the germ warfare crimes, and progress on the excavation and disposal of chemical weapons abandoned by Japan in China has also been slow. What is even more worthy of the international community's vigilance is that the current Japanese government continues to regress in its historical understanding: it not only deliberately downplays the crimes of aggression, but also continuously breaks through the constraints of the pacifist constitution and accelerates the pace of military buildup and arms expansion.
History has long proven that glossing over and evading the history of aggression is often the beginning of repeating the same mistakes or following a disastrous path (重蹈覆辙, chong dao fu che - "repeat, step on, overturned, track"). China has consistently advocated taking history as a mirror and developing Sino-Japanese relations with an eye to the future, but the premise is that the Japanese side must face up to and reflect on the history of aggression. The international community should bear in mind the painful lessons of the World Anti-Fascist War, remain vigilant against the resurgence of Japanese militarism, jointly defend the postwar international order, and safeguard the hard-won peace and stability. Any attempt to deny or whitewash the history of aggression is doomed to meet with resolute opposition from the international community and cannot succeed.
(The authors are respectively the deputy curator and a researcher of the Exhibition Hall of Evidence of the Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Army of Aggression against China)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Antalya, Türkiye, November 12) (Reporters Fu Yunwei, He Mengshu) From November 8 to 12 local time, Han Zheng, Special Representative of President Xi Jinping and Vice President of the People's Republic of China, traveled to Türkiye to attend the Antalya Leaders' Summit of the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and delivered a national statement.
Han Zheng stated that President Xi Jinping has pointed out that addressing climate change is a common cause for all of humanity. At present, the adverse impacts of global climate change are manifesting at an accelerating pace. Facing the new situation, I wish to put forward four suggestions. First, anchor the common goal and strengthen collective action. We should follow the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, comprehensively and effectively implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, and pool strength for global climate governance. Second, accelerate the green transition and advance low-carbon development. We should promote the free flow of quality green technologies and products and push forward the transformation and upgrading of economic and industrial structures. Third, prevent climate disasters and enhance climate resilience. We should attach equal importance to mitigation and adaptation, strengthen cooperation in disaster prevention and reduction, monitoring and early warning, and disaster rescue and relief, and improve climate adaptation capacity. Fourth, uphold openness and inclusiveness and deepen international cooperation. We should strengthen support and assistance to developing countries and jointly build a clean and beautiful world.
During the conference, Han Zheng met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Han Zheng conveyed President Xi Jinping's warm greetings and stated that China attaches great importance to the issue of climate change. Last year, President Xi Jinping announced China's 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution targets and explicitly stated the commitment to "strive to do even better." China focuses on target-setting and action implementation, emphasizing being true to one's word and following through with actions (言必信、行必果, yan bi xin, xing bi guo - "speech must be trustworthy, action must be resolute"), providing valuable stability and certainty for global climate governance. Guterres asked Han Zheng to convey his sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping and stated that China is an important pillar of multilateralism and a key supporter of the United Nations. China's concrete actions in addressing climate change exceed its commitments and have made substantial contributions to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions. The United Nations looks forward to further close cooperation with China to better address the challenges of climate change.
Han Zheng attended and delivered remarks at the High-Level Forum on South-South Cooperation on Climate Change Response, hosted by the Chinese side at the "China Pavilion" of the UN Climate Change Conference. Han Zheng stated that the countries of the Global South share a common destiny, and only through solidarity and cooperation can green development be achieved. We should work together to promote green development, enhance climate resilience, and strengthen capacity-building. China will continue to uphold the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind, deepen South-South cooperation on climate, and jointly write a new chapter in the sustainable development of the Global South.
At the invitation of Guterres, Han Zheng attended and delivered remarks at the high-level event on the United Nations Early Warnings for All initiative. Han Zheng stated that China firmly supports the Early Warnings for All initiative and calls on all countries to unite and cooperate, act together, weave a dense early warning network, deepen the empowerment of science and technology, and strengthen capacity-building. China will continue to support and participate in actions related to the initiative, work with all countries to jointly address climate challenges, enhance climate resilience, and safeguard the safety of the people.
During his stay in Antalya, Han Zheng met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Han Zheng conveyed President Xi Jinping's warm greetings and good wishes and stated that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Türkiye relations have developed soundly and steadily. China is willing to work with the Turkish side to advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, deepen practical cooperation in various fields, and continuously push forward the China-Türkiye strategic cooperative relationship. Erdoğan asked Han Zheng to convey his sincere greetings and good wishes to President Xi Jinping and stated that the Turkish side attaches great importance to developing Türkiye-China relations, firmly adheres to the one-China principle, is willing to advance the implementation of the consensus reached by the two heads of state, maintain close exchanges and cooperation with the Chinese side, and bring Türkiye-China relations to a new level.
In Istanbul, Han Zheng also co-chaired the China-Türkiye Green Development Business Forum with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, engaging in friendly and in-depth exchanges. The two sides agreed to strengthen the alignment of development strategies between China and Türkiye and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual benefit, win-win").
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 12) He Lifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, said on the 12th at the Great Hall of the People, when meeting with Martin L. Flanagan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Invesco Ltd. of the United States, that China's economy is currently gaining new momentum and improving its structure, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality. The period of the 15th Five-Year Plan is an important stage for building a financial powerhouse. China is, in accordance with the "15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Financial Powerhouse," deepening high-quality development of finance and expanding high-level opening up of the financial sector. Enterprises from all countries, including Invesco, are welcome to continue deepening investment and cooperation in China, so as to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual benefit, win-win").
Flanagan said he is optimistic about the prospects of China's economic development and is willing to continue to deepen his presence in the Chinese market and expand practical cooperation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈一鸣
"The Asia-Pacific region today needs to uphold openness and cooperation more than at any other time." Juan Carlos Capuñay, former Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat and former Peruvian Ambassador to China, said in a recent exclusive interview with our reporter that China's proposal of the theme "Building an Asia-Pacific Community for Shared Development" and its advancement of work across the three priority areas of "openness, innovation, and cooperation" fit the current needs of Asia-Pacific development and inject new momentum into regional cooperation.
"China's commitment to expanding high-standard opening up and practicing true multilateralism has provided extremely precious (弥足珍贵, mi zu zhen gui - "extremely, very, precious") certainty for the stable growth of the Asia-Pacific economy," Capuñay said. China has always been an important force in promoting Asia-Pacific cooperation and a firm advocate of an open world economy. During the APEC "China Year," the Chinese side hosted a series of meetings in areas such as trade and investment, the digital economy, and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, building platforms for in-depth exchange among economies. "China not only values the outcomes of the meetings, but also places emphasis on promoting the formation of long-term cooperation mechanisms — this is precisely where APEC's most precious value lies."
"The prospects for Asia-Pacific cooperation depend on whether all members can rally a shared will for openness and cooperation," Capuñay said. "Only open trade, fair competition, and mutually beneficial cooperation can lead the region toward lasting prosperity." The APEC economies are currently actively exploring pathways for building a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, which will help reduce institutional transaction costs, strengthen the resilience of production and supply chains, and further raise the level of regional economic integration. "China's continued efforts to advance trade digitalization, trade in services, and cooperation on environmental goods will create more favorable conditions for the liberalization and facilitation of regional trade and investment, and open up broader space for Asia-Pacific economic growth."
Capuñay said that China's leading role in promoting the formulation of an upgraded version of the APEC Connectivity Blueprint comes at the right time (恰逢其时, qia feng qi shi - "just, meet, its, time"), and that the commitment to deeply integrating green development, digital innovation, and intelligent transformation into physical connectivity, institutional connectivity, and people-to-people connectivity is of great significance. "High-quality Belt and Road cooperation is an important practice in promoting regional connectivity," Capuñay said. Taking Peru as an example, Peru and China have in recent years continued to deepen infrastructure cooperation, significantly improving logistics and transport efficiency, strengthening Peru's ties with the Asia-Pacific region and especially the Asian market, and also providing strong support for Latin American countries to integrate into Asia-Pacific production and supply chains.
Capuñay believes that deepening cooperation in the digital field will effectively narrow the digital divide and promote the sharing of innovation outcomes. "China is at the forefront of the world in digital infrastructure construction, digital industry development, and the application of artificial intelligence. We look forward to China continuing to play a leading role in promoting the alignment of digital standards, technological cooperation, and talent cultivation, so that more economies can share in the opportunities of digital development and innovation outcomes can better empower industrial development."
In 1991, Capuñay visited Shenzhen in Guangdong for the first time, and the city's vigorous development left a deep impression on him. "Over the past decades, China has continuously improved the construction of opening-up platforms such as special economic zones and industrial parks, using institutional innovation, industrial agglomeration, and open cooperation to drive coordinated regional development to keep reaching a new level (迈上新台阶, mai shang xin tai jie - "step, up, new, terrace"). These experiences are worth learning from for developing countries including Peru."
"APEC is not only an important platform for Asia-Pacific economic cooperation, but also a key mechanism for building consensus and promoting development," Capuñay said. He expressed confidence that with China as host driving the process, all economies will further deepen their partnerships, work together to build an Asia-Pacific community, and make new contributions to promoting lasting prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and stable growth of the world economy.
Return to TopBy: 曹忠明
At the junction of the National University of Singapore and Singapore Science Park, a seven-story building stands against the hillside, its clear glass curtain wall nestled among lush greenery. This is the seat of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat, which provides liaison and coordination for hundreds of meetings each year and supports the effective operation of more than a hundred regional cooperation projects.
In 1991, China formally joined APEC. In January 1993, the APEC Secretariat was officially inaugurated in Singapore. As a founding member of APEC, Singapore is a practitioner of open regionalism and a natural partner for China in advancing mutually beneficial cooperation under the Asia-Pacific framework. The more than 30 years of journey China and Singapore have traveled hand in hand is precisely like a clear mirror, reflecting the footprints of the Asia-Pacific region's persistent pursuit of openness, connectivity, and mutual benefit.
With openness as the foundation, deepen China-Singapore mutual benefit and win-win cooperation. Openness is the innate and natural (与生俱来, yu sheng ju lai - "with, be born, arrive, come") gene of China-Singapore cooperation, and also the keyword of APEC's more than 30 years of making steady progress to achieve long-term success (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady, reach, far"). From the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park, whose foundations were laid more than 30 years ago, to today's Chinese autonomous driving companies testing and refining their technologies in Singapore, and Singapore's biomedical institutions establishing R&D centers in the China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City, China and Singapore have always used openness to break down barriers to the flow of factors of production, continuously relaxing market access in trade, investment, and services, enabling deep alignment between China's vast market and Singapore's internationalization advantages, and laying a solid foundation for long-term cooperation between the two sides. These two-way endeavors contain no calculations of a zero-sum game (零和博弈, ling he bo yi - "zero, sum, gambling, game"), only the complementarity of each person displaying their own strengths (各展所长, ge zhan suo chang - "each, display, one's, strength"), constituting a vivid chapter of open cooperation under the APEC framework.
With innovation as the key, lead Asia-Pacific coordinated development. Innovation is the driving force behind the continuous upgrading of China-Singapore cooperation and the core code for the Asia-Pacific economy to break through growth bottlenecks. Trade facilitation, supply chain resilience, and green low-carbon transition are not only high-frequency words in bilateral exchanges between the two countries, but also important cooperation directions that both sides jointly promote on multilateral platforms such as APEC. The New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, nurtured by the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity, has become an important link connecting western China with ASEAN and even the world. Relying on series of activities such as APEC Digital Week, China and Singapore jointly promote the co-construction of standards in frontier fields such as the digital economy and the open-source innovation ecosystem. The China-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City has transformed from a saline-alkali wasteland into a green, livable new city, sharing its low-carbon development experience with more Asia-Pacific partners. These future-oriented innovative practices have transcended bilateral significance and are spreading their branches and leaves across the broader Asia-Pacific region.
With cooperation as the sail, advance the building of an Asia-Pacific community. Cooperation is the unchanging background of the China-Singapore all-round, high-quality, forward-looking partnership and the fundamental source of vitality of the APEC mechanism.Building an Asia-Pacific community requires more "adhesives" like China-Singapore cooperation. At the 2026 Shenzhen gathering, all parties expect more tangible and perceptible cooperation dividends. As the host, China is adding certainty to the Asia-Pacific with its own new development. The continuous advancement of Chinese modernization is injecting new momentum into Asia-Pacific cooperation. China's super-large market provides vast space for products from all countries, its continuously upgrading innovation industry ecosystem builds a platform for regional collaborative innovation, and its mature green transition practices contribute feasible pathways for the Asia-Pacific to achieve the "dual carbon" goals. The two-way cooperation between China and APEC members such as Singapore enables this certainty to benefit more people. The prosperity of the Asia-Pacific has never come from a solo performance in one corner, but from a chorus interwoven with openness and innovation.
From the secretariat office building in the "Garden City" to the APEC gathering venue by Shenzhen Bay, the open arteries spanning mountains and seas have long connected the entire Asia-Pacific closely. The more than 30 years of cooperation experience between China and Singapore tells us: as long as all countries consistently uphold extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, advance hand in hand, and always follow the path of openness, connectivity, and mutual benefit, the vision of an Asia-Pacific community will surely be transformed from consensus into reality. This hot land of the Asia-Pacific will continue to radiate vigorous vitality and contribute an inexhaustible stream of valuable strength to the common prosperity of the world.
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Singapore)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporters Zhang Zhiwen, Bai Ziwei) On November 12, the 2026 China-U.S. Party-to-Party Dialogue was held in Beijing. Representatives from U.S. political parties, strategic circles, and business communities, as well as from relevant Chinese departments, local governments, think tanks, universities, and non-governmental organizations, participated. The two sides conducted candid, in-depth, and constructive exchanges around the theme of "Exploring the Right Way for China and the United States to Get Along in the New Era amid a Changing Asia-Pacific and World."
Liu Haixing, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, stated in his keynote speech that a stable, healthy, and sustainably developing China-U.S. relationship not only serves the interests of the peoples of both countries but is also an important guarantee for peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific and the world. China and the United States should uphold the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation, jointly explore the right way for two major countries to get along in the new era, and work together to consolidate the foundation of a constructive and strategically stable China-U.S. relationship.
The U.S. representatives stated that the current U.S.-China relationship is at an important juncture. The two sides should strengthen dialogue and exchanges, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, and promote the long-term, stable, and positive development of U.S.-China relations, injecting stable expectations and development momentum into the Asia-Pacific and the world.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Cui Qi) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson announced on November 12: As agreed by both China and the ROK, ROK Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul will visit China from November 13 to 14.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Chen Shangwen) The 2026 China-ROK Youth Dialogue on Sustainable Development and the China-ROK Youth SDGs Weifang Week were recently held in Weifang City, Shandong Province, under the theme of "youth without boundaries (青春无界, qing chun wu jie - "youth, no, boundary"), jointly creating the future."
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 12) Central Publicity Team member, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi on November 12 delivered a presentation on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Responsible comrades and representatives of Party members and cadres from the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the China International Development Cooperation Agency, and the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries attended.
Centering on the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the Decision reviewed and adopted at the Plenary Session, and in light of the actual work of diplomacy, Wang Yi delivered an in-depth presentation and systematic explanation of the spirit of the Plenary Session, covering such aspects as deeply understanding and grasping the great significance of the Plenary Session, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and put forward requirements for the study, publicity, and implementation work on the diplomatic and foreign affairs front.
Wang Yi emphasized that the great achievements in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era are attributable, in the final analysis, to the helm-holding and navigation of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and to the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The diplomatic and foreign affairs front must regard the study, publicity, and implementation of the spirit of the Plenary Session as a major political task, thoroughly study and deeply comprehend Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, consciously unify thoughts and actions with the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the spirit of the Plenary Session, promote high-quality development of diplomatic work with high-quality Party building, always remain in the first echelon in upholding the Two Establishments (两个确立) and practicing the Two Upholds (两个维护), and continuously open up new prospects for major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics.
After the report session, Wang Yi exchanged views with representatives of grassroots Party members and cadres, encouraging all comrades on the diplomatic and foreign affairs front to give full play to the exemplary and leading role of central Party and state organs, firmly uphold ideals and convictions, forge unwavering loyalty to the Party, deeply cultivate feelings for the people, and make new and greater contributions to the great cause of building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation.
(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Zhang Yang) Central Publicity Team member, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee Shi Taifeng on the 12th delivered a presentation on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
Closely centering on studying and implementing the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the Plenary Session and the Decision of the Plenary Session, Shi Taifeng gave a systematic explanation and in-depth interpretation, covering such aspects as deeply understanding and grasping the great significance of the Plenary Session, deeply understanding and grasping the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, and deeply understanding and grasping the importance, urgency, overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures of unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Shi Taifeng stated that since the 18th CPC National Congress, it is precisely because the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has acted with profound foresight (深谋远虑, shen mou yuan lu - "deep, think, far, consider"), confronted problems head-on, and turned the tide in a crisis (力挽狂澜, li wan kuang lan - "exert, pull, wild, waves"), unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, that there is today such an unprecedentedly united, strong, and powerful Party, and such a favorable situation for the development of the cause of the Party and the state. The organizational departments are important functional departments for managing and governing the Party; they must deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, conscientiously implement the deployments of the Fifth Plenary Session, do a good job in such work as theoretical arming, selecting the worthy and appointing the capable (选贤任能, xuan xian ren neng - "select, worthy, appoint, capable"), strengthening the foundation and consolidating the basis (强基固本, qiang ji gu ben - "strengthen, foundation, solidify, root"), and cultivating and gathering talent with higher standards and more concrete measures, unswervingly advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, build the Party better and stronger, provide a strong guarantee for comprehensively building a great modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese modernization, and welcome the successful convening of the 21st CPC National Congress with practical actions.
In-service Party members and cadres of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, representatives of retired veteran comrades, and others attended the meeting.
(People's Daily, Hohhot, November 12) (Reporter Zhang Cheng) The Central Publicity Team report meeting on studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held on November 12 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Tian Peiyan, member of the Central Publicity Team and former Deputy Director of the Central Policy Research Office, delivered the publicity report.
At the report meeting, centering on studying and implementing the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the Plenary Session and the Decision adopted at the Plenary Session, Tian Peiyan gave a comprehensive presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the Plenary Session, covering such aspects as deeply understanding the great significance of the Plenary Session, thoroughly studying and comprehending the spirit of the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the Plenary Session, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures of unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
In his presentation, Tian Peiyan stated that the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era are historic and pioneering, and their impact is all-encompassing and deep-reaching; the fundamental reason lies in the helm-holding and navigation of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. In accordance with the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, the study and implementation of the spirit of the Plenary Session must be treated as a major political task, placed on important agendas, and carefully organized and implemented.
On the afternoon of the 12th, Tian Peiyan went to Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, going deep into villages and communities to engage in face-to-face exchanges with grassroots Party members, cadres, and the masses on studying and implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session.
(People's Daily, Wuhan, November 12) (Reporter Qiang Yuwen) The Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee delivered a presentation in Hubei Province on November 12. Zhang Ji, member of the Central Publicity Team, member of the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and deputy-ministerial-level inspection commissioner of the Central Inspection Groups, delivered the publicity report.
At the report meeting, closely centering on studying and implementing the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the Decision adopted at the Plenary Session, Zhang Ji introduced the basic situation of the Plenary Session, the drafting process and main features of the Decision, and gave a systematic presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the Plenary Session, focusing in particular on such aspects as deeply understanding the great significance of the Plenary Session, thoroughly studying and comprehending the spirit of the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the Plenary Session, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures of unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
In his presentation, Zhang Ji stated that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was a very important meeting held at a critical juncture in basically realizing socialist modernization. In accordance with the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, the study and implementation of the spirit of the Plenary Session must be treated as a major political task, placed on important agendas, and carefully organized and implemented, focusing on the major deployments, important tasks, and key work of the Decision, implementing them in light of actual conditions, and unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
On the afternoon of the 12th, Zhang Ji went to Qiliping Town, Hong'an County, Huanggang City, Hubei Province, to deliver a presentation, engaging in interactive exchanges with grassroots Party members, cadres, and the masses on studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. The atmosphere at the scene was warm.
(People's Daily, Kunming, November 12) (Reporter Zhang Chi) The Central Publicity Team report meeting on studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held on November 12 in Kunming, Yunnan Province. Zhang Fuhai, member of the Central Publicity Team, Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Deputy Director of the National Commission of Supervision, delivered the publicity report.
At the report meeting, closely adhering to the publicity theme and centering on studying and implementing the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the Plenary Session and the Decision adopted at the Plenary Session, Zhang Fuhai gave a systematic presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the Plenary Session, covering such aspects as deeply grasping the great significance of unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, deeply grasping the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, deeply grasping the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures of unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and deeply grasping the scientific connotation and practical requirements of the path of fighting corruption with Chinese characteristics.
In his presentation, Zhang Fuhai stated that thoroughly studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee is a major political task for the entire Party for the current period and a period to come. The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the study, publicity, and implementation of the spirit of the Plenary Session. It is necessary to deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, and, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, place this on important agendas, carefully organize and implement it, continuously deepen and solidify it, and welcome the successful convening of the 21st CPC National Congress with new progress and new achievements in unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
On the afternoon of the 12th, Zhang Fuhai also went to the organs of the Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, where he engaged in interactive exchanges with representatives of Party members and cadres on studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
Return to TopBy: 崔 妍
The convening of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has sparked heated discussion in the international community. Through the window of the plenary session, many people have gained a deeper understanding of "why the Communist Party of China can do it."
A foreign expert commented: "Persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is crucial to enhancing public trust, improving the efficiency of public institutions, and ensuring that work always remains focused on national development and the well-being of the people."
Observing "a single tree" can make things clearer.
Weaving a "green scarf" in the Taklamakan Desert, painting a "golden sand, blue sea, green oasis" along the "bend-shaped bend" of the Yellow River... From the steadfast dedication of generations of desertification fighters to the concerted efforts of nationwide voluntary tree planting, hundreds of millions of people have turned barren wastelands green with their own hands and made forest seas yield gold. Today, China has become the country with the fastest and largest increase in greenery in the world, and the green foundation of Chinese modernization has become even more vibrant.
The practice of planting and protecting greenery becoming a widespread and positive trend (蔚然成风, wei ran cheng feng - "soaring, become, wind") is precisely a vivid microcosm of our Party receiving immediate and widespread response (一呼百应, yi hu bai ying - "one, call, hundred, respond").
"Promoting common prosperity for farmers and rural residents." During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, 235,100 private enterprises took action, with the "Ten-Thousand Enterprises Assisting Ten-Thousand Villages" initiative pooling 1.23 trillion yuan in industrial investment, benefiting 161,900 villages.
"Conveying truth, goodness, and beauty; spreading positive energy." At popular scenic spots, competition venues, and on streets and alleys, whether young or elderly, over 240 million "volunteer reds" have brightened the social fabric, jointly supporting development toward the upward and the good.
Receiving immediate and widespread response is the unique narrative of the Party leading the people in undertaking endeavors, and it is also a moving chapter that demonstrates the Party's powerful social appeal.
Why can our Party always receive immediate and widespread response?
"Being able to mobilize" is because "being trusted." From the battle against poverty to the blue-sky defense campaign, every "call" has hit precisely what the masses yearn for; from "charging to the front" in disaster relief to "leading by doing" in promoting development, every "call" has won the following of the masses.
Since the new era began, full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has been solidly advanced, the Party's good image has been established, its good reputation has been built, and fine conduct has become the most solid cornerstone of trust.
"Being trusted" therefore means "full of drive." Anti-corruption efforts have kept a close eye on the "dinner table" and the "wheels," economic data have been strictly "squeezed dry of water," and grassroots burden reduction has meant "lightening the carriage and strengthening the horse"... By turning the blade inward to maintain advancedness and purity, and by tempering conduct to enhance action and guidance, one commitment after another to people's livelihoods has taken root and borne fruit, and one expectation after another of the people has been turned into reality.
When officials have upright conduct and the people feel at ease, trust in the Party and government accumulates steadily over a long period of time (日积月累, ri ji yue lei - "sun, accumulate, moon, pile up") and grows ever deeper, giving rise to the tacit understanding of sharing the same goals and convictions (同心同德, tong xin tong de - "same, heart, same, virtue") and moving in the same direction within the "immediate and widespread response."
This trust and tacit understanding, when translated into the practice of undertaking endeavors, becomes the strength to accomplish things.
Why has greenery increased the fastest and the most? With "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" as a consensus, many "tree cutters" have become "tree protectors," and central ecological and environmental protection inspections have been carried out continuously... Ideological guidance, institutions with teeth, and the efforts of the masses have jointly created a green miracle and added development advantages.
Why has innovation capacity risen the fastest? By resolutely breaking down the deep-seated and difficult-to-eliminate problems (顽瘴痼疾, wan zhang gu ji - "stubborn, miasma, chronic, disease") in the scientific research ecosystem, by "breaking the four onlys" and "establishing new standards" to stimulate the enthusiasm of talent, fully unleashing the potential of all parties, and prompting innovation and creation to emerge continuously.
In the final analysis, the confidence to accomplish things lies in always maintaining the flesh-and-blood bond between the Party and the people. By persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, planting roots deeper, and pooling together the drive of hundreds of millions of people, there is no hurdle that cannot be crossed and no task that cannot be accomplished.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "To run China's affairs well, the key lies in the Party, and the key lies in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party."
Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era removes accumulated ills, rectifies conduct, and gathers the hearts of the people. But rallying the people's hearts is not a matter of solving a problem once and for all without further effort (一劳永逸, yi lao yong yi - "one, toil, forever, ease"); the flesh-and-blood bond between the Party and the people needs to be safeguarded through unremitting efforts and reinforced through sustained, long-term effort. This makes it easier to understand why "full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the road."
Always standing with the people, thinking with the people, and working with the people, letting the Party's banner fly high on every front — wherever the banner points, there we strive with all our might.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Tang Jianhui) A ceremony to pay respects at the clothing and hat tomb of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, marking the 160th anniversary of his birth, was held on the 12th at the Biyun Temple in Fragrant Hills, Beijing.
At 11:30 a.m., the first ceremony of paying respects was presided over by Zheng Jianbang, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. All attendees stood in solemn silence for three minutes before the portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Representatives from the General Office of the CPPCC National Committee, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, the People's Government of Beijing Municipality, as well as relatives of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, overseas Chinese, and international friends, presented flower baskets to the portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in turn and bowed three times before it. Subsequently, the second ceremony of paying respects was held, in which representatives from Taiwan presented flower baskets to the portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, all stood in silent tribute for three minutes, and bowed three times before the portrait.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen passed away in Beijing on March 12, 1925, and his coffin was once placed in the Biyun Temple in Fragrant Hills. After his remains were moved for burial to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing in 1929, the clothing and hat of Dr. Sun Yat-sen that had been replaced during the transfer of the remains were placed back into the original nanmu coffin in which he had been enshrined, and sealed within the Diamond Throne Pagoda behind the present Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.
He Baoxiang, Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee and Executive Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, along with responsible comrades from the General Office of the CPPCC National Committee, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, and the People's Government of Beijing Municipality, as well as representatives of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's relatives and overseas guests, attended the ceremony of paying respects.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Han Xin) On November 12, China Post issued one souvenir sheet of the commemorative stamps marking the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
The souvenir sheet is created in oil painting style, with thick, realistic brushwork and delicate, vivid portrayal of the figure. Above the decorative border of the sheet is Dr. Sun Yat-sen's personal inscription "The world is for all," written in a plain yet powerful hand, complementing each other to enhance one another (相得益彰, xiang de yi zhang - "mutually, benefit, increase, shine") with the oil painting portrait. The stamps are printed using high-precision six-color offset printing, supplemented by gold foil stamping and surface enhancement techniques, with an overall steady color tone, saturated colors, and a prominent theme.
This set of stamps will be sold at designated postal outlets nationwide, the philatelic online hall, the China Post mobile client, the China Post Micro Post Office philately WeChat mall, and the China Post Mall WeChat mini-program. The "China Philately Stamp Encyclopedia" WeChat mini-program will also release digital content.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Hong Kong, November 12) (Reporter Feng Xuezhi) On the morning of November 12, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government held a commemorative ceremony marking the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park, where people from all walks of life jointly paid tribute to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's immortal contributions to national independence, social progress, and the well-being of the people.
John Lee, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said in his address that throughout his life, Dr. Sun Yat-sen took revolution as his own responsibility (以革命为己任, yi ge ming wei ji ren - "take, revolution, as, self, responsibility"), resolved to save the country and the people, left behind great historical achievements, and also left behind a spiritual force that transcends the ages. Hong Kong was the place where his revolutionary ideas originated and an important base for the planning of uprisings in later years. The best way to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen is to learn from and carry forward his great aspiration to revitalize China and his lofty spirit of loving the motherland.
To the sound of military music, the honor guard presented flower baskets to the bronze statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. John Lee stepped forward to straighten the ribbons on the baskets and bowed. Youth groups and representatives of primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong presented flowers in turn, and all attendees bowed three times to the bronze statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in tribute.
Zhou Ji, Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Dong Jingwei, Director of the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Cui Jianchun, Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Tan Zhiwei, Deputy Commander of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison; principal officials of the SAR Government; members of the Executive Council; members of the Legislative Council; deputies of the National People's Congress from Hong Kong; members of the CPPCC National Committee from Hong Kong; and representatives of youth and students, among other figures from all walks of life, attended the commemorative ceremony.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Taipei, November 12) (Reporters Zhou Wenqi, Li Hanfang) November 12 marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Various sectors in Taiwan held multiple commemorative events to express their reverence and remembrance for Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
On the morning of that day, the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall on Ren'ai Road in Taipei City saw a noticeably larger flow of visitors than usual, with people from all walks of life coming to pay tribute to Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
Groups including the Kuomintang, the New Party, and the Taipei City Guangdong Fraternal Association, numbering over a hundred people, gathered at the Sun Yat-sen Stele Forest in the memorial hall grounds, paying respects to the bronze statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in turn.
Mr. Li, a Taipei citizen attending the commemorative event, said: "Dr. Sun devoted his entire life to national unification and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. People on both sides of the strait should all commemorate him and continue to follow his spirit."
"Commemorating Dr. Sun Yat-sen today feels especially meaningful," said Ms. Wu, a citizen of New Taipei City. Having learned about Dr. Sun Yat-sen's deeds from books and documentaries, she greatly admires his ideals and convictions, and his thought remains highly relevant today and is worthy of continued study.
At the Cross-Strait Peace Initiative Conference held that day, Kao Yung-kuang, former dean of the College of Social Sciences at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, stated that Dr. Sun Yat-sen visited Taiwan three times and also promoted the establishment of the Taiwan branch of the Tongmenghui, bringing the revolutionary spark to Taiwan and attracting many young Taiwanese to travel to the mainland to join the revolution.
On the afternoon of that day, the Renjian·Taichung Cultural Exchange Center held a lecture under the theme "Revitalize China, Salute the Great Man!", attracting many citizens who came to learn in detail about Dr. Sun Yat-sen's original aspiration and long-cherished desire (初心夙愿, chuxin suyuan - "initial heart, long-held wish") to revitalize China and the contemporary value of the Sun Yat-sen spirit.
The keynote speaker was Lin Guanghui, founding president of the Taiwan Association of Families of Anti-Japanese Martyrs. Starting from Taiwan's anti-colonial movement, he delved deeply into the experience of Lin Zumi, a Taiwanese worthy of the past who followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen in joining the revolution, hoping that contemporary Taiwanese youth will not forget history.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Macao, November 12) (Reporter Fu Zimei) The "Starting from Macao — Photo Exhibition Commemorating the 160th Anniversary of the Birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen," hosted by the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, opened on November 12, displaying over a hundred precious historical materials, historical photographs, written documents, videos, and audio recordings, in remembrance of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's immortal contributions to national independence, social progress, and the well-being of the people.
Sam Hou Fai, Chief Executive of the Macao SAR, said in his address that Dr. Sun Yat-sen devoted his entire life to taking revolution as one's lifelong mission (以革命为己任, yi ge ming wei ji ren - "take, revolution, as, self, responsibility"), resolving to save the nation and its people. Macao was an important starting point for his journey to the world, the first stop in helping the world and saving the people (济世救民, ji shi jiu min - "help, world, save, people"), the cradle where he planned the republic, and moreover a haven where he sought seeking refuge in times of danger (临危避险, lin wei bi xian - "face, danger, avoid, risk"), and a spiritual home carrying his family affections. Multiple departments of the SAR government, together with several associations and institutions, are organizing a series of commemorative activities including photo exhibitions and symposiums, enabling all sectors of Macao to understand Dr. Sun Yat-sen's life story and great contributions from multiple perspectives, to deeply appreciate the important significance of the nation's prosperity and stability for Macao's development, to carry forward the fine tradition of "loving the motherland and loving Macao," and to actively participate in national development and the practice of One Country, Two Systems in Macao.
The exhibition is located at the Art Space of the Macao Cultural Centre, divided into five chapters — Setting Sail, Practicing Medicine, Striving, Seeking, and Echoes — and runs until November 27.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 12) The State Council appoints and removes state personnel.
Rong Hailou is appointed Deputy Director of the State Taxation Administration; Zhao Shitang is appointed Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration; Chen Fuli is appointed Director of the China National Intellectual Property Administration.
Wang Daoshu is removed from the post of Deputy Director of the State Taxation Administration; Li Wenzhang is removed from the post of Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Pan Junqiang) The "A Strong Nation Has Me" 2026 Capital Universities Freshman Education Thematic Grand Ideological and Political Course, hosted by the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Education, Science and Technology, and Talent Work Leading Group, commenced on November 12 at the New Tsinghua Hall of Tsinghua University. Responsible comrades from the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the China Association for Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attended the course together with more than 1,300 students.
This course broke the boundaries of the traditional classroom, adopting the expressive form of "science and technology + art," and through diverse stage vehicles such as situational dramas, dance, and poetry choruses, presented in a panoramic manner the magnificent journey of China's science and technology endeavors, aiming to guide young students to establish the lofty aspiration of serving the country through science and technology, and to actively devote themselves to building a strong education nation, a strong science and technology nation, and a strong talent nation.
The course opened with the short film "Roll Call," recording the determination of contemporary youth to report to the motherland with loyalty, confidence, and resilience. The situational drama "Seeds" comprehensively employed situational performance, artificial intelligence digital reconstruction, and other methods to evoke resonance across time and space, allowing the ideal seed of serving the country through science and technology to take root and flourish (生根发芽, sheng gen fa ya - "grow roots, bud and sprout") in the hearts of young people in the new era; the situational drama "Malan Flowers Bloom" took Deng Jiaxian, a "founding father of the two bombs," as its prototype, warmly eulogizing the lofty character of selfless dedication of the older generation of scientific researchers; the situational drama "Stars" employed artistic language to showcase the mission and responsibility of scientific researchers in continuing the struggle and advancing China's high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology.
Zulalai, a student at the Central Academy of Drama, said: "This course will inspire me to tell China's story well on the stage, and to be a literary and artistic worker with faith, with feeling, and with responsibility." Zhao Zixi, a student at China University of Geosciences (Beijing), said: "The scenes of scientific research predecessors overcoming great difficulties and challenges (攻坚克难, gong jian ke nan - "attack hard, overcome difficulty") made me feel a heavy sense of responsibility. I will deepen my professional studies, work diligently and pragmatically, and walk well the long march of science and technology for our generation."
On the day of the event, a thematic exhibition on the "Four Centers" grand ideological and political course was also set up. In recent years, Beijing has, based on its functional positioning as the national political center, cultural center, international exchange center, and science and technology innovation center, continuously deepened the construction of the grand ideological and political course, and strived to transform the vivid practices of the land of Beijing into living classrooms for fostering virtue and nurturing people.
A relevant responsible comrade from the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Education Working Committee stated that Beijing will take the implementation of the new era project of fostering virtue through education as the main line, continue to make good use of the achievements in the construction of the "Four Centers" grand ideological and political course, continuously enrich the carriers of ideological and political education and expand educational scenarios, guide the vast number of students to deeply cultivate feelings of family and country, resolve to achieve self-reliance and self-strengthening, and contribute strength to the great cause of building a strong nation and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Li Linwei) The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's "Career Guidance for the Future — 2026 National City Joint Recruitment Autumn Special Session for College Graduates" has launched its third batch of 131 employment service activities, including 87 online and offline special (campus) job fairs targeting key industries such as biomedicine, new energy, automobiles, finance, retail, and robotics, 3 cross-regional itinerant job fairs, 32 livestreamed job-bringing activities, and 9 policy briefing and employment guidance activities, making every effort to provide precise and diversified employment service support for college graduates.
College graduates and employers can log on to the main venue page of the "2026 National City Joint Recruitment Autumn Special Session for College Graduates" on the China National Talent Network to inquire about specific information and participate in the relevant employment service activities.
Return to TopIn early winter, Beijing still retains its autumn charm, drawing people outdoors to enjoy the splendid scenery. The photo shows visitors admiring the views and taking photos at Zhongshan Park in Beijing on November 11.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Luo Xiaoguang
Return to TopDialogue participants:
Zhou Shanshan, People's Daily commentator
Zhao Zhong, Dean of the School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China
Zhou Shanshan: Amid the AI (artificial intelligence) wave, the profile of skilled talent is being reshaped. How should "skills" and "craftsmanship" be redefined in the new era?
Zhao Zhong: Skills are an important productive endowment of workers, a key point at which they embed themselves in the production process and coordinate with production tools. Mechanization, electrification, and automation gave rise to the industrial revolution, establishing machine-based mass production and standardized assembly lines. In this context, skilled operation of standardized equipment became the core skill of workers, and "hands-on ability" became the distinctive label of skilled talent.
Technological progress drives the continuous upgrading of production tools, giving rise to new modes of production and new economic forms. The combination of workers and tools is increasingly flexible rather than standardized, and the use of many tools has long since extended beyond the boundaries of the factory. The abilities of judgment, management, coordination, and cooperation are becoming increasingly important, and the connotation of labor skills is constantly being enriched: one must not only master intelligent tools, but also respond to complex scenarios and flexible production. And the foundation of these abilities lies both in experience and in professional theory and knowledge. Skills are moving from an extension of the "hand" to an extension of the "brain."
Zhou Shanshan: General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed: "Accelerate the building of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the real economy, and provide strong support for advancing Chinese modernization." Advanced manufacturing has introduced intelligent equipment on a large scale, and the discussion over "whether AI will replace skilled positions" has accordingly heated up. On the one hand, AI is replacing old technical trades; on the other hand, there is encouragement to cultivate skilled talent. Are the two contradictory, and will they create a new waste of human resources?
Zhao Zhong: The two are not contradictory. Technological progress both renders some skills obsolete and gives rise to new skills. As technology advances, the role of workers on the production line becomes more diversified, and positions in management, services, R&D, and other areas are continuously increasing. Looking at the broader impact, technological progress has also brought new production, consumption, and service scenarios, and its ultimate impact on skills depends on the depth of market implementation of new application scenarios.
Specifically with regard to manufacturing, to extend the industrial chain, develop producer services, and expand the consumer market through the supply of new products, one must leverage the industrialization of AI to expand development space, which provides new soil for the growth of skilled talent and opens up new space. The building of a skilled talent workforce and the development of skills in the new era lie in the new possibilities and new opportunities brought by technological progress — this is also an inevitable requirement or logical consequence (应有之义, ying you zhi yi - "should, have, of, meaning") of cultivating skilled talent in advanced manufacturing.
Zhou Shanshan: With the rapid iteration of AI, compounded by the misallocation of resources in the labor market, some enterprises are accelerating the "replacement of workers by machines," putting pressure on the employment and social security systems. How should the distribution mechanism for the dividends of AI technology be established, so as to better reflect the requirement of "investing in people"?
Zhao Zhong: How to reasonably distribute the technological dividends of AI is a very important question. The most fundamental channel for workers to share in technological dividends is through the improvement of education and skills, forming a complementary and symbiotic relationship with artificial intelligence technology, thereby raising labor productivity. At the same time, it is necessary to improve and perfect the wage formation mechanism in the AI era, and through means such as building harmonious labor relations and collective bargaining, strengthen the bargaining power of the labor factor, raising the labor share and the rate of return on skills. It is also necessary to establish a mechanism for sharing the returns on digital assets. AI development relies on public data, personal data, and digital public infrastructure; one may explore using part of the returns on data factors for labor compensation, as an important source of funding for building the skilled talent workforce.
Zhou Shanshan: Every redefinition of skills is a reaffirmation of the value of people. In the future, skills will no longer be the proficiency of repetitive operations, but will point more toward the judgment to master intelligent tools, the adaptability to handle complex scenarios, and the creativity to collaborate with machines. The smarter the machine, the more precious human judgment becomes; the more technology iterates, the more lifelong learning becomes a rigid demand. Only by enabling every worker to find their own irreplaceability in the AI era, and by ensuring that technological dividends benefit ordinary workers through institutional design, can we both supply a steady stream of talent for the development of the AI era and bridge the digital divide, truly realizing "intelligence for good."
Return to TopBy: 王锦涛
No matter how many "milestones" we pass, we must always remain true to our original aspiration and win over the people through concrete actions.
"Liyuan Fortress established political power, the Long March found its foothold. Heroic stories number in the thousands, the Nansliang spirit is passed down from generation to generation..." In Nansliang Town, Huachi County, Qingyang City, Gansu Province, a distinctive "Nansliang storytelling performance" pulled the audience into the historical scene.
Reflecting on the past in the light of the present (抚今追昔, fu jin zhui xi - "touch today, trace past"), the red banner of Nansliang set up a waymarker for the Red Army on the Long March. In that dark and gloomy time (风雨如晦, feng yu ru hui - "wind, rain, like, dark"), how did the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Revolutionary Base Area, where Nansliang is located, keep its red flag from falling?
It relied on "facing the masses" and "never being separated from the masses for a single moment," relied on "planting one's buttocks firmly on the side of the common people." Edgar Snow concluded: because the Communist Party sought benefits for the poor and suffering people, the common people sincere and heartfelt (真心实意, zhen xin shi yi - "true, heart, real, intention") supported the Communist Party.
Today, stepping into the Nansliang Revolutionary Memorial Hall, history profoundly reveals to us that benefiting the people is the eternal foothold.
This foothold lies in an unwavering original aspiration.
What is the original aspiration? It is being unable to bear seeing fellow villagers impoverished, unable to bear seeing the masses suffer. In those days in Nansliang, "one saw public servants but no officials" — distributing land, abolishing exorbitant taxes, opening markets, establishing Lenin Primary Schools — every matter was close to the people's hearts.
Inheriting the red flame, carrying forward the glorious tradition. Today, "facing the masses" remains the motto of the vast number of cadres in the old revolutionary base areas.
"Role Model of the Times" Qiu Jun rooted himself on the front line of poverty alleviation, and in the final moments of his life was still concerned about the village's wealth-creating industries; National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter Ma Yinping "planted" herself in the land, exploring and introducing new crop varieties, driving an average per-mu corn yield increase of more than 300 yuan across the village; Liu Xiaobing, a national advanced individual in the battle against poverty, took the lead in hard work, transforming a poor mountain gully into a model village... Keeping the people's warmth and cold in mind, shouldering the responsibility of serving the people, one can deliver achievements for the people and deliver achievements through solid work.
This foothold lies in solid work and responsibility.
Born for the people, thriving because of the people, Chinese Communists have always kept the masses in their hearts. Back then, the older generation of Communists took root in the red groves, single-mindedly seeking benefits and liberation for the people, and only thus achieved the historic contribution of the Shaanxi-Gansu Revolutionary Base Area as "two points, one survival."
Red political power is established for the people, and the work style of solid action has been passed down through generations (一脉相承, yi mai xiang cheng - "one, vein, mutual, inherit"). During the period of the battle against poverty, many villages in Nansliang were "locked" in the mountains, and roads were the people's long-standing hope. What the people hope for is what we must do. Today, one after another township roads and "Four-Good Rural Roads" have been paved across the ridges and ravines, linking red culture, local customs, and distinctive industries. Private cars and taxis can enter even the most remote villages at any time. The Wuhua Expressway under construction will also connect Nansliang with the old revolutionary base areas of Zhidan County and Wuqi County in Shaanxi, helping the red land deeply integrate into the unified national market.
Development for the people, development relying on the people, and development achievements shared by the people — in the final analysis, this means making the people's sense of gain more substantial, their sense of happiness more sustainable, and their sense of security more assured.
This foothold lies in the trend of development.
Perceiving the trend, seizing the initiative. At present, large models are accelerating their iteration, intelligent agents are being deployed in applications, and computing power construction is being rolled out across the board. Relying on its endowments of cool climate, stable geology, and abundant green electricity, Qingyang laid out the digital economy in advance and became one of the eight national hub nodes of the "East Data, West Computing" project.
Today, Qingyang has built a benchmark cluster among the eight national hub nodes with the fastest computing power growth, the largest increment, the highest proportion of intelligent computing, and the fullest consumption, undertaking one-quarter of the nation's intelligent computing demand, with token services extended to multiple continents, achieving a chain leap from "selling racks" to "selling computing power" and then to "selling tokens," with a batch of labor service brands represented by "Qingyang computing engineers" cumulatively driving employment for 550,000 people.
The long wind turns into green electricity, data heads to the "cloud." Seeing the trend clearly, understanding one's advantages thoroughly, acting in accordance with the trend (顺势而为, shun shi er wei - "follow, trend, and, act") and seizing the momentum to rise, one can transform resource endowments into development advantages.
At the conference commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's Long March, General Secretary Xi Jinping said with deep feeling: "As long as we are deeply rooted in the people and always maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the masses, the Party's cause will be always successful in everything one does (无往而不胜, wu wang er bu sheng - "no, go, and, not, victory")."
Benefiting the people is the eternal foothold. On the new Long March, no matter how many "milestones" we pass, we must always remain true to our original aspiration and win over the people through concrete actions.
(The author is a reporter for this newspaper's Gansu Branch.)
Return to TopBy: 王禹舜
At that time, following the team sent to aid Tibet, I traveled from Shangcheng District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, to Yajiang County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, where I was paired with a third-grade Tibetan boy. At our first meeting, he timidly called me "uncle"; by the second, he had opened up completely.
"Just how big is West Lake?" I answered with hand gestures, saying it takes three to four hours to walk around it.
"Then what's at the bottom of the lake?"
"Up on the plateau you can see the stars — are there just as many stars in Hangzhou?"
As question after question kept pouring out, his eyes grew brighter and brighter. This was a plateau child's curiosity about "the other side of the mountains," and it also held a seed of science that could grow into a towering tree.
How do we ignite young people's imagination and desire to explore? A seed of science need not be profoundly deep knowledge, but rather a moment that makes him feel "I, too, can ask questions and reach out to touch things." What I can do is, together with more fellow travelers, bring such moments before them.
Make the soil fertile. Schools do not lack intelligent children; what they lack is the hardware conditions to respond to curiosity. We set about building smart classrooms in three primary and secondary schools in the county, bringing smart blackboards, VR (virtual reality) laboratories, and virtual-human interactive teaching systems into plateau campuses. On the day the VR equipment was installed, some children put on the goggles and instinctively reached out to "touch" what was before them; after taking them off, they froze for a few seconds, then lined up to try again. That expression of "so this is how the world can be seen" was more persuasive than any mobilization. The first step in "nurturing seedlings" is to first prepare the soil well, then sow the seeds in.
Let the light shine in, let quality science-popularization resources cross mountains and seas, and only then can the seeds break through the soil. We once invited representatives of Zhejiang entrepreneurs and a science-popularization team of doctoral students from Westlake University to come to Yajiang, moving stories of struggle and growth, stories behind products, and scientific instruments one by one into classrooms or onto sports grounds. When the children saw the moon's craters clearly for the first time through telescopes, cheers rose and fell in succession (此起彼伏, ci qi bi fu - "this, rise; that, fall"); when they saw their "appearance ten years from now" before a smart camera, the Tibetan youths laughed for a long time… The sprouting of the seed of science is not only when they remember a certain formula; it can also be when they discover that scientists, like themselves, set out from one curious question after another.
For a seed to grow into a tree, sustained nourishment is indispensable. What we did was not only material assistance, but also empowerment along the path of growth. We hosted the 2026 Garzê Prefecture Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and simultaneously carried out training for local youth on the fundamentals of AI creation and tool awareness; outstanding trainees were recommended for internships and employment at relevant Zhejiang enterprises. If the seed of science blooms only once, it may still be scattered by the wind; by plugging it into the regional development pattern of east-west collaboration, the power of scientific and technological innovation can be continuously released.
In August this year, Yajiang youth visited the Deep-Sea Technology Research Center and the Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Instrumentation Technology at Westlake University. Standing before instruments they had previously only seen in the news, no one asked "how big is West Lake"; what they asked was "how long will this experiment take" and "can I do this too in the future." Empowering ethnic regions through science and technology lies not in what is given at one stroke, but in enabling the children here to move from "looking up" to "asking questions," and then from "asking questions" to "pursuing."
When more young people's curiosity is taken seriously, when the light of science illuminates not just one class period or one activity, but their imagination of their own future, then the Chinese nation as one big family working together to realize the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation gains richer details and a broader horizon. From the shores of West Lake to the banks of the Yalong River, I hope to do my best to be the one who encourages questions and responds to follow-ups, so that more seeds of science can take root and sprout (生根发芽, sheng gen fa ya - "birth, root; grow, bud") in the hearts of plateau youth.
(The author is a cadre from Shangcheng District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, seconded to Yajiang County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province; this article is selected and compiled from an email submission)
Return to TopData released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs show that in the first three quarters of this year, the country's total aquatic product output reached 53.897 million tons, of which mariculture output was 20.297 million tons, continuing to maintain rapid growth. Ecological aquaculture allows the ocean to both raise fish and sequester carbon; technological upgrades bring deep-sea quality fish to the tables of ordinary people... Behind the steady increase in output, the new engine of the "blue granary" is accelerating its start-up.
This is precisely:
The blue sea nurtures a granary,
Shellfish thrive and fish and shrimp grow strong.
Farming and herding follow their proper methods,
One bite fills the mouth with fragrance.
Zhu Yanwen
Return to TopBy: 程振伟
Recently, an American company was exposed for requiring some data center partners to provide at least 51% of their services to non-Chinese enterprises. Similar phenomena are not isolated cases — all are acts of technological blockade and market monopoly carried out under the name of "national security." When the development of artificial intelligence is artificially split apart, where does the road lie?
China's answer is resolute: open source and openness. At the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit held earlier this month, "open source, openness, joint construction, and shared benefit" became the strongest voice. Among the 20 winning achievements of the Leading Science and Technology Awards, many benefited from open source technology; the "Light of the Internet" Expo made open source technology "visible, tangible, playable, and purchasable"... From beneficiary to co-builder, China is repaying the world with open source and shared benefit.
Why choose open source and openness? This is a new path blazed independently. China's development achievements have already proven that only through open source can we better build an innovation ecosystem and form a synergy of innovation; only by letting technology flow like water and letting code converge into a "shared river" can we usher in sustainable prosperity. China's promotion of open source and openness in the field of artificial intelligence, allowing latecomers to join and get on board, is a major country's responsibility oriented toward the future.
It must be recognized that today's open source is far more than "sharing code" — it is rapidly transforming into a brand-new form of open collaboration across models, computing power, infrastructure, and data. Not long ago, DeepSeek announced the full open-sourcing of its internal inference framework DeepInfer, committed to making artificial intelligence fairer, more transparent, and more trustworthy. Open source large models, with low cost and high efficiency, significantly lower the threshold for application, turning technological inclusivity from a slogan into reality. This reflects that China's open source is moving from providing temporary relief instead of long-term solutions (授人以鱼, shou ren yi yu - "give person, with, fish") toward "building a fishery," from sharing achievements toward jointly building an ecosystem.
This Wuzhen Summit made clear its stance: firmly uphold open source at the technological level and practice the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. Transcending the old logic of "building small yards with high walls," "grading people into three classes and nine ranks," and "distinguishing close from distant," open source and openness enable more countries to share the fruits of technological civilization in the intelligent era.
True leadership means welcoming all parties to board the fast train and jointly build and share. Open source and openness are our proposition and our practice, and they will also drive humanity to move hand in hand toward common prosperity.
(Excerpted from the "People's Commentary" WeChat public account)
Return to TopBy: 孟繁哲
Not long ago, the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued an announcement, clarifying that starting from April 1, 2027, the export tax rebate rate for value-added tax on new energy vehicles will be lowered from 13 percent to 9 percent. This adjustment helps guide enterprises to rely more on technology, quality, and service to expand overseas markets, further consolidating the new competitive advantages of China's automobile industry.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "A sound fiscal and tax system is the institutional guarantee for optimizing resource allocation, maintaining market unity, promoting social fairness, and achieving long-term stability and peace (长治久安, chang zhi jiu an - "long, lasting; long, lasting; peace, security") for the country." Only by transforming national strategic requirements into concrete tax system arrangements and revenue and expenditure directions, both responding to current contradictions and cultivating long-term development capacity, can the effectiveness of macroeconomic governance be improved.
The focus of policy changes with the times. For example, after the purchase subsidy for new energy vehicles was phased out at the end of 2022, the industry's development still faced constraints such as insufficient supporting facilities. Policies were introduced to address the inconvenience of charging in rural areas, with reward funds arranged specifically to support pilot work on shoring up shortcomings in county-level charging and swapping facilities, supporting the improvement of networks and the enhancement of operational services. Policy tools are showing flexibility and moderation in policy (有进有退, you jin you tui - "have, advance; have, retreat"), with certain emphases; the basis should be changes in real contradictions, and the goal lies in strengthening the enduring driving force for development.
Following problems to adjust institutional arrangements is a common path for the continuous deepening of reforms in various fields. Shanghai has deepened its "one-stop online government services" (一网通办, yi wang tong ban - "one, net; all, through, handle"), promoting the integrated handling of multiple matters and reducing situations such as repeated submissions and running around to multiple offices; Zhejiang's integrated reform of residence permits featuring "mutual recognition and conversion, one certificate connecting all services" has been fully implemented, making it more convenient for mobile populations in the region to enjoy supporting services such as children's schooling and medical insurance. The continuous advancement of reform is reflected in the constant response to new problems. Only by taking the bottlenecks exposed in practice as the focus of institutional improvement can space for development be continuously opened up.
The more complete the policies, the better resource allocation can balance efficiency and fairness. Basic research achievements benefit all — who bears the main investment? Fiscal support for major science and technology infrastructure projects such as the Hefei Advanced Light Source provides experimental platforms for research in multiple fields. Water resource consumption increases social costs — how are costs shared? Various localities are implementing the policy of exempting recycled water from the water resource tax, effectively incentivizing enterprises to use water in an environmentally friendly manner. Only by coordinating the interests of all parties, responding to social concerns, and timely introducing targeted public policies can all positive factors be fully mobilized, promoting the continuous surge of innovation vitality and allowing all parties to share the dividends of development.
The State Council executive meeting held in March this year proposed "regulating local fiscal subsidy policies." This is of great significance for maintaining a fair competition market order and deeply advancing the construction of the unified national market. Promoting a better combination of an effective market and a well-functioning government — the "visible hand" must both manage those things the market cannot manage or cannot manage well, and avoid improper intervention — only then can the endogenous driving force for development and innovation vitality be continuously enhanced.
For policy adjustments to achieve their expected effects, the "timing," "degree," and "effectiveness" must be grasped accurately. This tax rebate adjustment was announced several months in advance, leaving time for enterprises to arrange orders and calculate costs. Previously, to smoothly transition between the old and new tax systems, the Value-Added Tax Law left a one-year preparation period from passage to implementation, facilitating relevant departments in improving supporting regulations and ensuring smooth collection and management transitions, and also helping taxpayers adapt and prepare during the transition period.
To implement reforms with the spirit of hammering nails, one must be proactive and, moreover, solid and steady. Such a methodology runs through many reform practices. In the market-oriented reform of new energy on-grid electricity pricing, the mechanism prices of existing projects are properly connected with current policies, while the mechanism prices of incremental projects are determined through market-based competitive bidding; the gradual delay of the statutory retirement age adheres to small-step adjustments and flexible implementation, preserving eligible autonomous choice space for workers. Assessing the situation and trends to act accordingly (审时度势, shen shi du shi - "examine, time; observe, trend"), adapting measures to suit the current circumstances (因时制宜, yin shi zhi yi - "according to, time; formulate, appropriate"), doing one's utmost within one's capability (尽力而为, jin li er wei - "exhaust, strength; and, act"), and acting according to one's capacity (量力而行, liang li er xing - "measure, strength; and, act") — only by responding to the interest concerns of different actors and creating conditions for the implementation of reforms can various reforms be promoted to develop and flourish step by step (渐次开花, jian ci kai hua - "gradually, order; bloom, flower") and achieve solid and tangible results.
An adjustment of a few percentage points connects to the business decisions of countless enterprises. Only when fiscal and tax policies are improved according to circumstances and implemented with precision can they further align with the strategic orientation of national development and stimulate the endogenous driving force of market entities. With more efficient resource allocation and more vibrant innovation and creation, high-quality development will have more solid support.
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Return to TopBy: 李鸿忠
General Secretary Xi Jinping has profoundly pointed out that supervision is an intrinsic element of governance and occupies an important position in Party management and Party discipline, and in national governance and administration; the Party and state supervision system is an important institutional guarantee for the Party, under conditions of long-term governance, to achieve self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement. The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persisting in Continuously Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision"), adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, summarizes the valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, and proposes that "to persist in continuously advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, it is necessary to further improve the Party and state supervision system," deploying a series of important tasks, which is of great significance for consolidating the Party's long-term governing position, realizing the Party's mission and tasks, and fully giving play to the unique advantages of "the governance of the Communist Party of China" and "the governance of China."
I. Improving the Party and State Supervision System Is an Important Component of the Great Achievements of Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party in the New Era
Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, with tremendous political courage and a strong sense of responsibility, has unswervingly and resolutely advanced full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, opened up a new realm of self-revolution for a century-old major Party, promoted historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the state, and the Party and the people have won the historical initiative of strengthening the Party and strengthening the country. In this great process, the Party Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping, based on improving the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, have upheld and improved the Party and state supervision system, achieved a series of important theoretical achievements, practical achievements, and institutional achievements, and provided important guarantees for the development of the cause of the Party and the state.
Improving the Party and state supervision system is an important part of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building scientifically answers the major questions of the era of what kind of long-term governing Marxist party to build and how to build a long-term governing Marxist party, and is the chapter on Party building in Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. General Secretary Xi Jinping has insisted on coordinating planning and improving the Party and state supervision system from an overall and strategic height, put forward a series of new concepts, new judgments, and new requirements, and pointed out that the Party must manage the Party and govern the Party strictly, and that both "management" and "governance" include supervision;enhancing the Party's ability to purify itself fundamentally relies on strengthening the Party's self-supervision and mass supervision; it is necessary to do a good job in the top-level design of the supervision system, both strengthening the Party's self-supervision and strengthening supervision over the state apparatus; the general requirement for improving the Party and state supervision system is unified leadership of the Party, full coverage, authority and efficiency, and the focus is on enhancing the seriousness, synergy, and effectiveness of supervision. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that the Party's governing position determines that intra-Party supervision is the most basic and primary among the various forms of supervision of the Party and the state; state supervision is the most direct and most effective supervision over public power; inspection tours are a strategic institutional arrangement for intra-Party supervision; and supervision by dispatched agencies is an important part of the Party and state supervision system. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions have clarified the positioning and framework of the Party and state supervision system, pointed out the direction, goals, and key tasks for improvement, are closely connected with the Party's political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, work style construction, discipline construction, institutional construction, and the fight against corruption, are organically integrated into the scientific connotation of the Fourteen Commitments (十四个坚持) of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, and provide guidance and compliance for improving the Party and state supervision system.
Improving the Party and state supervision system is an important achievement of opening up a new realm of self-revolution for a century-old major Party. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, our Party has insisted on taking intra-Party supervision as the leading factor, promoted the connection and coordination of various types of supervision, established and improved an intra-Party supervision system with unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, comprehensive supervision by Party committees (Party groups), special supervision by discipline inspection organs, functional supervision by Party work departments, daily supervision by Party grassroots organizations, and democratic supervision by Party members, established a supervision network with upper and lower linkage of inspection tours and patrols, and fully given play to the role of inspection supervision as a sharp sword and the role of dispatched supervision as a probe. We have continuously deepened the reform of the Party's discipline inspection system and the state supervision system, established national and local supervisory committees, which work in the same office as discipline inspection committees at the same level, and achieved full coverage of intra-Party supervision and full coverage of supervision over public officials. We have advanced the reform of the audit and statistics supervision systems, established the Central Audit Committee, with General Secretary Xi Jinping personally serving as committee director, leading and promoting audit supervision to effectively serve and guarantee the overall work of the Party and the state; clearly incorporated statistics supervision into the Party and state supervision system, and strictly prevented and investigated statistics falsification. We have strengthened the National People's Congress's supervision over the implementation of the Constitution and laws, supervision over the review of budgets and final accounts, and supervision over the management of state-owned assets and government debt management. We have strengthened and improved the democratic supervision work of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and given play to the advantages of socialist consultative democracy. Our Party has consciously accepted mass supervision, strengthened public opinion supervision, smoothed the channels for letters and visits and reports, and promptly responded to people's concerns. The continuous improvement of the Party and state supervision system in the new era is a vivid manifestation of the Party's finding the two answers to the historical cycle of the rise and fall of governance and chaos: "letting the people supervise the government" and "self-revolution."
Improving the Party and state supervision system is an important starting point for the Party to vigorously practice the rule of law and govern the Party according to regulations. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has insisted on governing the Party by institutions and according to regulations, placed the strengthening of the construction of the system of intra-Party regulations and rules in a prominent position, and formed a relatively complete system of intra-Party regulations and rules. In terms of the regulations and systems for intra-Party supervision, the regulations on intra-Party supervision adopted at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Party in 2016 are the top-level design for strengthening intra-Party supervision in the new era and the basic regulations for intra-Party supervision; the Party Central Committee revised the regulations on inspection work three times in 2015, 2017, and 2024, which is of great significance for upholding and strengthening the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over inspection work and advancing the high-quality development of inspection work; a series of regulations and systems have been issued concerning the supervision and discipline enforcement work of discipline inspection organs, the handling of reports and accusations by discipline inspection and supervision organs, and the strengthening of supervision and assessment over the "key minority" of Party member leading cadres. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized upholding the organic unity of law-based governance and governing the Party according to regulations, and required efforts to form a pattern in which national laws and regulations and intra-Party regulations and rules complement each other, promote each other, and guarantee each other. The National People's Congress and its Standing Committee have conscientiously implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, amended the Constitution, formulated the Supervision Law, and provided legal guarantees for the reform of the state supervision system; amended the Supervision Law of the Standing Committees of People's Congresses at Various Levels, the Audit Law, the Statistics Law, and other laws. The State Council issued the regulations on administrative law enforcement supervision, becoming the first administrative regulation on administrative law enforcement supervision since the founding of New China. Through the connection, coordination, and joint efforts of intra-Party regulations and national laws and regulations, the Party and state supervision systems have become more mature and finalized, and institutional advantages have been better transformed into governance effectiveness.
II. Rich Experience Has Been Accumulated in Improving the Party and State Supervision System in the New Era
Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, our Party has constructed a system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and set up the "four beams and eight pillars" of the Party and state supervision system. The achievements have not come easily, and the experience is extremely precious and worthy of long-term adherence and continuous development.
Adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is the fundamental compliance and action guide for deeply advancing the new great project of Party building in the new era. Only by deeply studying and understanding the essence and essentials of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, enhancing political, ideological, theoretical, and emotional identification with the Two Establishments (两个确立), and completely, accurately, and comprehensively grasping the highest principles, value pursuits, work layout, scientific methods, and safeguard measures of Party building in the new era, can we effectively improve political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, advance the improvement and development of the Party and state supervision system with scientific thinking methods and working methods, and continuously demonstrate the power of truth with practical results.
Adhere to strengthening political supervision. Political supervision is a powerful measure to urge the whole Party to uphold the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. Only by insisting on taking the Two Upholds (两个维护) as the fundamental task of strengthening political supervision in the new era, resolutely eliminating all political hidden dangers that damage the authority of the Party Central Committee and centralized, unified leadership, continuously advancing the concretization, precision, and normalization of political supervision, focusing on discovering and correcting political deviations, strengthening supervision and inspection of the implementation of the Party's theories, lines, principles, policies, and major decisions and deployments, and running political supervision through all aspects and the entire process of the Party's leadership of economic and social development, can the whole Party consciously and closely unite around the Party Central Committee, align with the Party Central Committee at all times, and implement the Party's theories, lines, principles, and policies.
Adhere to taking intra-Party supervision as the leading factor. Intra-Party supervision is the source of life for forever maintaining the health of the Party's body. Only by continuously enhancing the consciousness of cutting into the lesions of one's own body, making active supervision and voluntary acceptance of supervision a conscious action of the whole Party, insisting on strengthening the primary responsibility and supervision responsibility of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and combining and integrating comprehensive supervision by Party committees (Party groups), special supervision by discipline inspection organs, functional supervision by Party work departments, daily supervision by Party grassroots organizations, and democratic supervision by Party members, can we effectively solve the world-class problem of self-supervision and ensure that the Party never changes its nature, never changes its color, and never changes its flavor.
Adhere to combining self-supervision with people's supervision. Self-supervision and people's supervision are organically unified and complement each other. Only by insisting on consciously accepting people's supervision, effectively connecting intra-Party supervision with supervision by state organs, democratic supervision, judicial supervision, mass supervision, and public opinion supervision, supporting the People's Congress, the government, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the supervisory committees, courts, and procuratorates in performing their supervision functions according to law and their charters, and giving play to the "outpost" role of mass supervision and public opinion supervision, can we form a comprehensive, long-term, and normalized supervision synergy, and achieve a benign interaction and mutual enhancement of self-discipline and heteronomy, complementing each other and bringing out the best in each other.
Adhere to putting power in the cage of institutions. Adhering to governing the Party by institutions and according to regulations means relying on institutions to manage power, manage affairs, and manage people. Only by insisting on taking the Party Constitution as the fundamental basis, taking democratic centralism as the core, building a high-quality system of intra-Party regulations and rules, continuously promoting Party members and cadres to exercise power impartially and with integrity and to work and start businesses through a sound intra-Party supervision guarantee of regulations and systems, insisting on the coordinated advancement and integrated construction of law-based governance and governing the Party according to regulations, paying attention to the connection and coordination of intra-Party regulations with national laws and regulations, and strengthening the restriction and supervision over the operation of power, can we build an institutional normative system for self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement, and provide institutional guarantees for persisting in continuously advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Adhere to strengthening supervision over "top leaders" and leading groups. Supervision over "top leaders" is the top priority of intra-Party supervision. For "top leaders" at all levels, top-down supervision is the most effective. Only by strengthening supervision by higher-level Party organizations, doing solid and detailed work on same-level supervision, managing and using the "key minority" well through effective supervision, promoting "top leaders" and leading groups at all levels to set an example by one's own actions, consciously accept supervision, make good use of the weapon of criticism and self-criticism, and enhance the consciousness of active supervision and mutual supervision, can we fully give play to the exemplary and leading role of Party member leading cadres and ensure the comprehensive implementation of intra-Party supervision responsibilities.
III. Comprehensively Implement the Decisions and Deployments for Further Improving the Party and State Supervision System
Improving the supervision system with unified leadership of the Party, full coverage, authority and efficiency is an important symbol of realizing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. The "Decision" has made systematic deployments and put forward clear requirements for further improving the Party and state supervision system, and it is necessary to conscientiously do a good job in implementation.
First, uphold and strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and advance the concretization, precision, and normalization of political supervision. Ideologically, it is necessary to unremittingly strengthen the arming of the Party's innovative theories, accurately grasp the Party Central Committee's target positioning and deployment requirements for the reform and development of the region, department, and field in question, and ensure unified thinking and consistent direction. Politically, it is necessary to uphold the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, strictly enforce political discipline and political rules, absolutely not allow the "seven have-ones," and ensure consistency in words and deeds and the implementation of orders and prohibitions. Take the implementation of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments as the focus of supervision, promptly discover and solve problems of ineffective implementation and deformation and deviation, and prevent and rectify "low-level red" and "high-level black."
Second, do solid work on comprehensive supervision by Party committees (Party groups), and strengthen leadership over various types of supervision subjects. Party committees (Party groups) should play a leading role and coordinate the integration of various types of supervision forces, the fit of procedures, and the integration of work. Implement the institutional provisions on strengthening supervision over "top leaders" and leading groups. Implement the system of "top leaders" reporting on their management and supervision of lower-level "top leaders" in special reports during their duty reports. Implement the system of Party committees (Party groups) conducting supervision talks with "top leaders" of lower-level Party organizations. Improve the institutional mechanisms for same-level supervision; members of leading groups should fulfill the political responsibility of maintaining democratic centralism, strengthen mutual supervision, frankly raise problems found with "top leaders," and report important problems found to higher-level Party organizations. Implement the responsibility of Party branches for directly educating, managing, and supervising Party members. Revise the regulations on intra-Party supervision, improve the working mechanism with intra-Party supervision as the leading factor and the connection and coordination of various types of supervision, strengthen the equality of power and responsibility and the principle that dereliction of duty must be questioned, and promote the correct use of power.
Third, improve the dual leadership system for discipline inspection and supervision work, do solid work on making supervision and inspection and the investigation of corruption cases mainly led by higher-level discipline inspection commissions and supervisory committees, pay attention to force coordination and optimization, and strengthen the overall planning and connection of discipline supervision, supervision by supervisory committees, dispatched supervision, and inspection supervision. Discipline inspection commissions at all levels (dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups) should fulfill their supervision responsibilities; lower-level discipline inspection commissions (dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups) should report to higher-level discipline inspection commissions (dispatching organs) at least once every six months on the performance of duties and exercise of power by members of Party committee (Party group) leading groups, especially "top leaders," and on their own performance of supervision responsibilities.
Fourth, make good use of county, township, and village supervision resources and forces, improve the grassroots supervision system, improve mechanisms such as upgraded-level supervision and cross supervision, smooth channels for mass supervision, and promote the organic connection of grassroots supervision and grassroots governance. It is necessary to deepen the reform of the grassroots supervision system and mechanisms, combine discipline inspection and supervision with grassroots inspection tours, coordinate them with supervision from all aspects, use scientific and technological means to strengthen supervision, and solve the problem of supervision in "acquaintance societies." Regularly rectify unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses.
Fifth, promote the deep integration and efficient linkage of intra-Party supervision with People's Congress supervision, democratic supervision, administrative supervision, judicial supervision, audit supervision, financial and accounting supervision, statistics supervision, mass supervision, and public opinion supervision, and form a supervision synergy. Fully give play to the important role of People's Congress supervision in the Party and state supervision system; People's Congresses and their standing committees at all levels should shoulder the supervision responsibilities conferred by the Constitution and laws, ensure that various state organs exercise power according to law, and ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of the people are safeguarded and realized. Administrative organs, supervisory organs, judicial organs, and procuratorial organs at all levels should consciously accept People's Congress supervision, earnestly fulfill their respective supervision responsibilities, and use institutions to control power. Give play to the advantages of consultative supervision, enhance the effectiveness of democratic supervision, and promote the implementation and effectiveness of the Party and the state's major decisions and deployments. Discipline inspection commissions and supervisory committees should take the initiative in connecting various types of supervision, do solid work on full coverage of supervision, and enhance the effectiveness of supervision.
Sixth, strengthen the restriction and supervision over the operation of power. Strengthen the review of the compliance and legality of major decisions, and improve the supervision mechanism for major decisions, important personnel appointments and removals, major project arrangements, and the use of large amounts of funds. Run the implementation and supervision of institutions through the entire process of Party organizations and Party members and cadres performing their duties, and through all aspects of regional governance, departmental governance, industry governance, grassroots governance, and unit governance, ensuring that institutions always remain effective and authoritative and are effective everywhere.
Seventh, comprehensively implement the Party's work policy on inspection tours, implement the regulations on inspection work, make good use of methods such as regular inspection tours, special inspection tours, mobile inspection tours, and upgraded-level inspection tours, innovate inspection methods, increase the intensity of inspection "look-backs," strengthen the rectification and application of results of inspection tours, deepen the upper and lower linkage of inspection tours and patrols, improve the quality and effectiveness of inspections of villages, and give play to the role of inspection as a sharp sword of comprehensive supervision.
We must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, deeply understand the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, enhance the Four Consciousnesses (四个意识), strengthen the Four Confidences (四个自信), and achieve the Two Upholds, further improve the Party and state supervision system, and make new contributions to improving the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and ensuring that the Party always becomes the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Peng Bo) The NPC Standing Committee's law enforcement inspection team on the Tourism Law held its second plenary meeting on the 12th to study and discuss the draft of the law enforcement inspection report. Vice Chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee Xiao Jie, Peng Qinghua, and Zhang Qingwei attended the meeting.
After hearing relevant reports and opinions and suggestions, Zhang Qingwei pointed out that this law enforcement inspection has been solid and effective (扎实有力, zha shi you li - "solid, firm; strong, powerful") and has achieved phased results. It is necessary to deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on tourism work, take the law enforcement inspection as an opportunity to further implement and enforce the Tourism Law, and better serve and advance the building of a strong tourism country. It is necessary to seriously study and absorb opinions and suggestions from all sides, do high-quality work in revising the Tourism Law, promptly formulate and improve relevant laws, regulations, systems, and policies, and continuously raise the level of rule-of-law in tourism work. It is necessary to do solid work in the NPC Standing Committee's hearing and deliberation of the law enforcement inspection report and subsequent follow-up supervision, effectively resolve difficulties and problems in the implementation of the law, and promote the high-quality development of the tourism industry on the track of the rule of law.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邱超奕
Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the "Regulations on the Evaluation of Skilled Talent (Draft for Comments)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Draft for Comments"), which makes comprehensive provisions on institutional rules such as evaluation standards, institutional management, examination administration, certificate management, and coordinated supervision, and regulates skilled talent evaluation activities across the full scope and full process.
What practical problems does this Draft for Comments aim to address? What role will it play for skilled talent and their evaluation work? Several industry experts provided their interpretations.
"Carrying out skilled talent evaluation is an important measure for China's human resources development, and plays an important foundational, supportive, and safeguarding role in advancing the building of a talent-strong country." Cheng Xiezhong, professor at the Law School of China University of Political Science and Law, stated that at present, there remains a gap between the scale and quality of China's high-skilled talent and the needs of industrial transformation and upgrading. Through unified national legislation, establishing evaluation standards and regulating evaluation conduct will help build a first-class industrial technical worker workforce, resolve the structural contradiction between the supply and demand of skilled talent, and serve the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure.
Cheng Xiezhong noted that in recent years, China's occupational categories have become richer and more diverse, and the delegation of evaluation authority has effectively stimulated market vitality, with the skilled talent workforce increasingly or steadily (日趋, ri qu - "day, go") growing; however, in practice, problems have also emerged such as evaluation institutions being a mixture of good and bad elements (良莠不齐, liang you bu qi - "good, bad, not equal"), evaluation certificates varying in quality or level (参差, can ci - "uneven, varied"), and illegal extraction of subsidies. The Draft for Comments clarifies the legal liability of skilled talent evaluation institutions for illegal evaluation activities, filling the legislative gap in the institutional development of skilled talent evaluation.
Li Fucheng, professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, stated that illegal training often confuses training certificates with vocational qualification certificates, vocational skill level certificates, and special vocational ability certificates in enrollment publicity, uses misleading labels and expressions such as "authoritative certificate" and "official certification," claims to have specific connections with industry competent authorities, and turns talent evaluation into a "business scheme."
In response, the Draft for Comments clarifies that no unit or individual may, without filing for the record, conduct evaluation activities or issue certificates under the name of vocational qualification evaluation, vocational skill level certification, or special vocational ability assessment. No unit or individual may forge, alter, or trade vocational qualification certificates, vocational skill level certificates, or special vocational ability certificates.
Chen Yujie, researcher at the Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security Sciences, stated that the Draft for Comments clarifies that human resources and social security departments, together with cyberspace administration, public security, market regulation, and other departments, will establish a coordinated supervision mechanism, which helps to carry out joint crackdowns on cross-domain illegal activities involving false advertising and online certificate sales, effectively responding to the reality that skilled talent evaluation activities involve a wide scope and a long supervision chain, and resolving the dilemma of "a single department cannot manage everything or manage it well."
Fan Wei, researcher at the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science, believes that a major highlight of this Draft for Comments is that, guided by the occupational standard system, it incorporates all types of skilled talent evaluation activities across the full scope and regulates them by category.
"The Draft for Comments supports industry associations, chambers of commerce, learned societies, enterprises, and schools (including technical schools) in actively participating in the development and research of national occupational standards, and allows mature industry evaluation norms and enterprise evaluation norms to be elevated to national occupational standards. This is conducive to ensuring that the content of standards aligns with the reality of industrial development, keeps pace with industrial iteration and changes in job requirements, and effectively resolves the problem of the occupational standard system being disconnected from industrial development," Fan Wei said.
At the same time, the Draft for Comments reflects in multiple places the important significance of skilled talent evaluation for the development of the modern industrial system. "Through national legislation, better balancing the delegation of authority and supervision in skilled talent evaluation, connecting talent cultivation with talent utilization, and linking skill levels with treatment improvement will provide solid legal safeguards for the building of a talent-strong country," Cheng Xiezhong said.
(Xue Ziyi participated in the writing and reporting)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Qingdao, November 12) (Reporters Wang Liang, Wang Zhe) The finals of the Second National Fitness Games for All were held from the 10th to the 12th in Qingdao, Shandong Province. This edition of the Games was hosted by the General Administration of Sport of China and the All-China Sports Federation, and was launched in April. The event established a three-tier competition system consisting of provincial-level qualifying competitions, regional preliminaries, and national finals, and was divided into seven competition zones. Adopting a "5+N+X" event structure, table tennis, swimming, rouli ball, paddleboarding, and pickleball were the five designated events for the finals, while each competition zone, based on regional cultural characteristics and the foundation of mass sports participation, set up self-selected events and special experience events.
In the competition among the 17 team events held in the finals, Shandong Province won 5 gold medals, Beijing Municipality and Guangdong Province each won 4 gold medals, and Hebei Province, Henan Province, Zhejiang Province, and Fujian Province each won 1 gold medal. On the 12th, multiple fitness demonstration and exchange activities were simultaneously carried out in Qingdao, bringing rich and varied (丰富多彩, feng fu duo cai - "abundant, full, many, colorful") fitness services to the doorsteps of the people.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 洋 曹 磊 何昭宇
The latest "report card" of central enterprises was released recently: as of the end of August this year, the total assets of central enterprises reached 99.3 trillion yuan, and by the end of this year they are expected to step up to a new level.
The key to making state-owned enterprises stronger, better, and larger lies in upholding the Party's leadership.
In October 2016, at the National Conference on Party Building in State-Owned Enterprises, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Upholding the Party's leadership and strengthening Party building are the glorious tradition of China's state-owned enterprises, the 'root' and 'soul' of state-owned enterprises, and the unique advantage of China's state-owned enterprises."
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed: "Strengthen the Party's leadership over state-owned enterprises and state-owned financial enterprises, strengthen the substantive gatekeeping role of Party committees (Party groups) in the pre-discussion and research of major operational and management matters, improve corporate governance, and enhance the quality and effectiveness of Party building work."
The vast majority of state-owned enterprises firmly uphold the Two Establishments (两个确立), resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, unswervingly uphold the Party's leadership, continuously strengthen Party building, and continuously transform the Party's political and organizational advantages into developmental advantages, further demonstrating the role of state-owned enterprises as the "pillar" of the socialist economy with Chinese characteristics.
The Party's leadership has become stronger and more effective
Leaving Xiong'an Station and driving west, one sees along the way the headquarters buildings of China Satellite Network Group, Sinochem Holdings, and China Huaneng Group. The landmark relocation projects have played a driving role; since 2023, central enterprises have established more than 400 branches and subsidiaries of various types in Xiong'an New Area, Hebei.
A project of millennial significance, a major matter of the state. In March this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Xiong'an New Area for inspection and emphasized that "state-owned enterprises must serve the national development strategy."
Taking the Party's banner as our banner, taking the Party's direction as our direction, taking the Party's will as our will. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Upholding the Party's leadership over state-owned enterprises is a major political principle" and "making state-owned enterprises the most trustworthy force of reliance for the Party and the state, and an important force for resolutely implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee."
State-owned enterprises focus on the duties and missions entrusted to them by the Party Central Committee, continuously enhancing their political judgment, political comprehension, and political execution.
In May 2014, during his inspection of COMAC, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "if we want to build a strong country, we must develop the equipment manufacturing industry and build the large aircraft."
The Party Committee of COMAC formulated the "Implementation Measures for Thoroughly Implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Instructions and Directives," and since 2015, has carried out a "Thematic Study Month" activity every May. "Developing large aircraft is a long-term and arduous undertaking. The fundamental way to uphold the correct direction and unite the strength of those engaged in the work is to study, study, and study again, learning out faith and learning out consensus," said Zeng Yongming, head of the Party-Masses Work Department of COMAC.
The first C919 plateau variant completed its maiden flight successfully at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, and the C919 passenger aircraft delivered to Air China operated its first international commercial flight from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar... Since the beginning of this year, COMAC has reported one success after another, and the General Secretary's earnest entrustments have inspired the "large aircraft people" to continuously achieve new breakthroughs.
Over the past decade or more, the vast majority of state-owned enterprises have placed the Party's political construction first, unremittingly used the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls, strictly implemented the "First Agenda" system and the system of reporting and requesting instructions on major matters, and worked with genuine effort to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives.
Unify the strengthening of the Party's leadership with the improvement of corporate governance, and build a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics.
In the past, in major operational decisions, the role of Party organizations in some state-owned enterprises was not fully brought into play. In recent years, a series of measures have been intensively introduced: amending the Company Law, formulating the "Opinions on Improving the Modern Enterprise System with Chinese Characteristics," etc.; the board of directors system of state-owned enterprises has been basically established, and wholly state-owned and state-controlled companies have abolished their supervisory boards...
In 2016, COSCO Shipping wrote the requirements of Party building into its articles of association, clarified the legal status of Party organizations in corporate governance, and refined and improved the decision-making procedures for "Three Major and One Large" matters. In major decisions such as green shipping and global supply chain layout, the Group's Party Group conducts pre-discussion and gatekeeping, taking serving the Belt and Road Initiative and the strategy of building a maritime power as the orientation benchmark.
Beijing issued work guidelines for Party branches of state-owned enterprises to participate in decision-making on major issues; Zhejiang promoted "two-way entry and cross-appointment" to build a closed-loop chain of responsibility; Jiangsu achieved centralized management of Party building work in state-owned financial enterprises, effectively preventing financial risks; Guangdong, centering on major tasks such as the construction of the Greater Bay Area and building a strong manufacturing province, a strong science and technology province, and a strong maritime province, guided provincial state-owned enterprises to ensure the implementation of strategies, municipal state-owned enterprises to serve urban development, and district-level state-owned enterprises to solidify industrial platforms.
Today, the vast majority of state-owned enterprises integrate the Party's leadership into all aspects of corporate governance, striving to build themselves into the most trustworthy force of reliance for the Party and the state.
Cadres and talents are more responsible and enterprising
Flipping through the "2026 Training Plan of the Cadre Education and Training Center of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (Party School of the CPC Central Committee, SASAC Branch)," there are more than 100 training sessions throughout the year.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Leading personnel of state-owned enterprises must be loyal to the Party, courageous in innovation, skilled in enterprise management, effective in revitalizing the enterprise, and honest and upright."
The vast majority of state-owned enterprises thoroughly implement the Party's organizational line for the new era, adhere to the Party's management of cadres and the Party's management of talents, optimize the work of selection, education, management, and use, and encourage cadres and talents to take responsibility and act with determination.
The structure and functions of leading bodies have been continuously optimized. Lü Qi, deputy director of the Exploration and Development Research Institute of Sinopec Shengli Oilfield, was selected by the organization two years ago to participate in the "Hundred Sails, Thousand Ships" plan, serving as deputy manager of the Shale Gas Project Department of the Southwest Oil and Gas Branch.
The Southwest Oil and Gas Branch has built the first deep shale gas field in China, accumulating a complete set of mature, implementable technical systems and lean management experience. "The organization sent me here hoping that I would learn technology, increase my abilities, and make up for the shortcomings in Shengli Oilfield's Jiyang shale oil development," said Lü Qi.
In recent years, Sinopec has continuously deepened the "Three Hundred, Three Thousand" and "Hundred Sails, Thousand Ships" practical training plans, guiding cadres to exchange and temper themselves across units, fields, specialties, and positions, continuously enhancing their political capabilities and professional qualities.
Leading personnel of state-owned enterprises are the Party's governing backbone in the economic field. According to the deployment of the Party Central Committee, relevant departments have adopted a series of policies and measures: issuing the "Provisions on the Management of Leading Personnel of Central Enterprises," etc.; doing solid and deep political quality assessment, optimizing the functional structure of leading bodies; organizing research on outstanding young cadres, and strengthening tempering in demanding positions and key positions; continuously carrying out comprehensive assessment and evaluation, and promptly adjusting leading personnel who are politically unqualified, not in working condition, or whose abilities and qualities are unsuitable...
The institutional chain is interlinked, and selection, education, management, and use are promoted as an integrated whole. Today, a group of composite cadres skilled in Party governance and enterprise management have taken up leadership positions, and a group of outstanding young cadres with outstanding ideological and political qualities, achievements, and abilities have been added to leading bodies.
The innovative vitality of the talent team has been continuously stimulated.
At the Industrial Basic Research Institute of CETC, silicon carbide wafers of different specifications such as 6-inch and 8-inch are displayed in dazzling array. Fu Xingzhong is the person in charge of the silicon carbide project at the institute. Through the cultivation of the Party branch, he formally joined the Party in 2025. "My sense of mission and responsibility is stronger, and I more proactively align scientific research planning with national strategic needs," said Fu Xingzhong.
"We insist on cultivating backbone personnel into Party members, cultivating Party members into backbone personnel, and sending Party member backbone personnel to important positions, giving play to their vanguard and exemplary role in major national projects and tackling 'bottleneck' technologies," said Wang Lei, director of the Party Building Work Department of CETC.
Gansu Jinchuan Group has formulated differentiated selection standards and evaluation systems for the job requirements of different levels and different professional fields, and in 2025 included 74 young employees in the reserve talent pool.
In recent years, various localities, departments, and the vast majority of state-owned enterprises have deeply implemented the strategy of strengthening enterprises with talents, organically combining the "strictness" of organizational allocation with the "flexibility" of market selection, so that outstanding talents can "come forth," "be used flexibly," "grow quickly," and "be retained."
Today, science and technology talent training projects are being deeply implemented, large-scale special training for emerging industries and future industries talents and vocational skills training are being held one after another, and talent training, evaluation, mobility, and incentive mechanisms are being continuously improved, with a large number of leading scientific and technological talents and "great country craftsmen" emerging in competition.
The organizational system is more rigorous and complete
In Hami, Xinjiang, the camera focuses on China Coal Dananhu No. 7 Coal Mine: at a depth of 250 to 300 meters underground, inside the 11703 fully mechanized mining face, Meng Weile, Party branch secretary of the No. 2 Fully Mechanized Mining Team, and his colleagues bend down and squeeze into the gaps between hydraulic supports to repair equipment. The crisp sounds of wrenches colliding with metal rise and fall one after another, ensuring the stable supply of "Xinjiang electricity transmitted to other regions."
Looking across the countless workshops, teams, business outlets, and engineering projects of state-owned enterprises, wherever Party members are rooted, Party organization construction follows in sync.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "For full and rigorous self-governance of the Party to be implemented and take root in state-owned enterprises, we must start strictly from the basic organizations, basic teams, and basic systems."
In 2019, the CPC Central Committee promulgated the "Regulations on the Work of Primary-Level Party Organizations in State-Owned Enterprises of the Communist Party of China (Trial)." Carrying out a three-year action to improve the quality of primary-level Party organization construction in central financial units, carrying out special actions for primary-level Party organization construction in central enterprises for five consecutive years, and strengthening Party member education and management in an all-round way... The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and others have actively promoted state-owned enterprises to adapt to changes in property rights relations, organizational structures, and business models, standardize and optimize the establishment of Party organizations, and continuously improve the standardization and normalization level of Party organizations.
Vigorously strengthening primary-level organizations to make the fighting fortresses more solid.
The Agricultural Bank of China has 45,000 primary-level Party organizations and 260,000 Party members on the job. In recent years, the Party Committee of the Agricultural Bank of China has firmly established a clear orientation of vigorously strengthening primary-level organizations, formulated work guidelines for primary-level Party building, carried out hierarchical assessment of Party organization secretaries' Party building work through reporting and evaluation, done solid work on contact points for primary-level Party building and branch work, and promoted the sinking of responsibility, guidance, and strength.
China Mobile currently has more than 180,000 Party members and more than 10,000 Party organizations, distributed across business units, R&D institutions, production units, and frontline outlets across the country. How to coordinate education and management? Logging into China Mobile's "Xinghuo Party Building" system, one can initiate organizational relationship transfers with one click and check in online at red education bases... Lu Xiaoshan, deputy director of the Party Building Work Department of China Mobile, introduced: "In the past, understanding the dynamics of primary-level Party building mainly relied on reporting level by level. Now, one can click through the three levels of provincial, municipal, and county layers in sequence, and the completion rate of the 'Three Meetings and One Lesson' of primary-level Party organizations is clear at a glance."
Over the past decade or more, state-owned enterprises have basically achieved the establishment of Party organizations wherever they should be established and regular re-election on schedule, organizational life has become more standardized, and primary-level Party organizations have made comprehensive progress and become comprehensively strong.
Consolidating responsibility to make Party governance and Party self-governance more effective.
"In the early years, doing Party building work well or poorly made no difference. Now responsibilities are clear, assessment has caught up, and Party building is carried out with greater consciousness," said Peng Yi, Party branch secretary of the Distribution Network Department of Shenzhen Futian Power Supply Bureau of China Southern Power Grid. In 2025, this Party branch strictly implemented the "Three Meetings and One Lesson," gave full play to its role as a fighting fortress, shouldered the task of ensuring power supply for major venues, and received a "Good" rating in the Party building assessment, while Peng Yi also received an excellent rating in his personal annual assessment.
In recent years, China Southern Power Grid has built a list of Party building responsibility systems for all employees, clarifying the responsibilities of various subjects including Party group (Party committee) secretaries, members of Party group (Party committee) leading bodies, Party branch secretaries, Party branch committee members, and ordinary Party members, solving the problem of "who does Party building, what to do, and how to do it."
For full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, we must grasp the "ox nose" of the responsibility system.
The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee has guided state-owned enterprises to carry out reporting and evaluation assessments for 12 consecutive years, the Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council has carried out assessment of Party building responsibility systems in central enterprises for 9 consecutive years, and the vast majority of state-owned enterprises have generally refined responsibility lists, effectively consolidating the responsibility of Party organizations at all levels for Party governance and improving the quality of Party building work. Many Party organization secretaries of state-owned enterprises have said, "Party building is no longer an optional soft indicator but a hard requirement," "Party building is carried out with greater confidence and justification," and "Party building work has great potential."
A clean and upright atmosphere is more abundant and full
The Party and the people entrust state-owned assets to the management and operation of enterprise leading personnel, which is great trust, and there is no room for abusing power for personal gain or harming public interests for private benefit.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must improve systems, strengthen supervision, resolutely punish corruption, and be persistent and unremitting (锲而不舍, qie er bu she - "not, stop, not, stop") in rectifying the Four Malfeasances (四风), and strive to create a clean and upright political atmosphere (风清气正, feng qing qi zheng - "wind, clear, air, upright")."
Since the beginning of the new era, full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has continued to develop in depth, guiding the vast number of Party members and cadres of state-owned enterprises to be strict with themselves, strictly fulfill their responsibilities, and strictly manage their jurisdictions, living up to the trust and heavy entrustment of the Party and the people.
Promoting the "Three Noes" (no deterrence, no cages, no desire) as an integrated whole to eradicate the soil and conditions for corruption to breed.
On the smart supervision platform of Sinograin Tangshan Direct Depot, randomly clicking on the monitoring screen of a grain depot, the soybeans in the warehouse are clearly visible. "The platform's visual monitoring is online 24 hours a day, keeping track of the purchase dynamics, inventory status, and safety status of each depot at any time," said Li Jiangpei, Party branch secretary and general manager of Sinograin Tangshan Direct Depot Co., Ltd. Today, in the Sinograin Group, more than a thousand direct grain depots and sub-depots have achieved "technical prevention and technical control," and the penetration of anti-corruption efforts has been continuously enhanced.
"Dare not to be corrupt" is the premise, "cannot be corrupt" is the key, and "do not want to be corrupt" is the foundation. Strengthening the management and supervision of the "key minority" of enterprises, especially the "top leaders," strengthening the management and supervision of key links in the exercise of power, carrying out special rectification of the "revolving door" between government and business, "escape-style resignation," and illegal business operations; the "Implementation Measures for Accountability for Losses Caused by Violations in Business Operations and Investment of Central Enterprises" and the "Provisions on Integrity and Self-Discipline of Leading Personnel of State-Owned Enterprises" have been issued one after another, putting power in the cage of institutions; discipline education and work style construction have been normalized and made long-term, promoting the vast number of cadres and employees to strictly implement the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation (八项规定) of the CPC Central Committee; the Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council has built and made good use of the Integrity and Discipline Education Hall for State-Owned Assets and Central Enterprises, carrying out integrity education with full coverage of central enterprises, with special emphasis on key groups such as "top leaders," young cadres, newly promoted cadres, and cadres in key positions.
Improving the supervision system to ensure that power always operates on the correct track.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Party Central Committee has carried out three rounds of full-coverage inspections of central financial enterprises and central enterprises. The Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and the Party committees of various regions have carried out full-coverage inspections and tours of state-owned enterprises as required. The vast majority of state-owned enterprises have carried out internal inspections, self-examination and self-correction, and rectification and remediation.
Inspection supervision wields the "sharp sword," and dispatched supervision blows the "advance whistle." Some time ago, the China Datang Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group was officially renamed the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission stationed at China Datang. After the reform, the dispatched discipline inspection and supervision group, on the one hand, withdrew from deliberative and coordinating bodies unrelated to its supervisory duties, and on the other hand, focused on the construction of new energy large bases and major projects during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, keeping a close eye on key links such as safety production, ecological and environmental protection, and bidding and procurement, regularly following up and dispatching the progress of project implementation, with clearer responsibilities and stronger supervision.
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee clearly proposed promoting the comprehensive dispatch of discipline inspection and supervision groups to central enterprises. At present, the work of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission in comprehensively dispatching discipline inspection and supervision groups to central enterprises has been successfully completed, and the dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups of central enterprises have all fully performed their duties, with further increased efforts to rectify work styles, enforce discipline, and combat corruption, continuously purifying the political ecology, and making the clean and upright atmosphere more abundant and vigorous.
Enterprise development is more full of vitality
This summer, Chengdu, Sichuan experienced high temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius. Fan Jinzhu, deputy captain of the Chengdu High-tech Lianxin Bridge Party Member Service Team of State Grid Sichuan Electric Power, led his team members, holding infrared thermometers and load detectors, shuttling between heavily loaded transformers to ensure the safety of residents' electricity use.
"The service team has veteran members with more than 10 years of Party membership, as well as young people who have just started working. Everyone is working together with one heart and mind (齐心协力, qi xin xie li - "together, heart, cooperate, strength"), doing their utmost to serve the masses," said Fan Jinzhu.
Strong Party building leads to thriving undertakings. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Central enterprises must fully understand the duties and missions they bear, better serve the overall work of the Party and the state, serve the high-quality development of the economy and society, and serve the guarantee and improvement of people's livelihoods."
Over the past decade or more, Party building in state-owned enterprises has deepened and become more solid, the leading role of Party committees (Party groups) in setting the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation has been fully brought into play, and the vast number of Party members have provided strong guarantees for promoting high-quality development in demanding positions and on the front lines of urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks.
Making good use of the heirloom of ideological and political work to enhance cohesion.
China State Construction Engineering Corporation currently has more than 300,000 employees, about 92% of whom are distributed in primary-level units at the fourth level and below. With projects spread across many locations and long management chains, how to maintain the stability of the workforce?
Old Zhang had been working on construction sites for years and once felt that "there was no future." Bai Jing, Party branch secretary of the Beijing Dajiaoting Project of the Third Construction Company of the Second Bureau of China State Construction, learned through heart-to-heart talks that there were many workers like Old Zhang. The Party branch proactively contacted relevant departments and organized skills training. Old Zhang obtained his welder's certificate, and not only did his salary double, but he also trained apprentices.
"The essence of Party building work is doing the work of people. Now, the stability rate of workers in core trades on the project remains above 92%, and the project is advancing in an orderly manner," said Bai Jing.
Over the past decade or more, the vast majority of state-owned enterprises have taken the deep integration of Party building work with business operations as the starting point, activating organizational cohesion, talent support, cultural centripetal force, and brand influence, and guiding cadres and employees to think with one mind and work with one strength.
Boosting the spirit of entrepreneurship and dedication to stimulate combat effectiveness.
Walking into the superconducting electric maglev test line of CRRC Changchun, the engineering prototype of the 600 km/h superconducting electric high-speed maglev train is steadily parked at one end of the track. "There was no prior development experience to draw on for the onboard superconducting magnet. Party member backbone personnel took the lead on major topics and completed a series of highly difficult research tasks," said Zhu Yan, Party committee secretary and director of the National Rail Transit Vehicle Engineering Research Center of CRRC Changchun.
In July 2025, the prototype debugging entered a critical stage—the assembly of the full-size onboard high-temperature superconducting magnet. "The assembly area was narrow, requiring one to hold a high-temperature welding torch for fine operation while connecting cryogenic components at minus 200 degrees Celsius. It was truly experiencing both extreme heat and extreme cold simultaneously (冰火两重天, bing huo liang chong tian - "ice, fire, two, heavy, heaven")," recalled Hu Hao, senior engineer at the Maglev Research Institute of CRRC Changchun.
"Let me do it!" At the critical moment, Party member backbone personnel stepped up. Everyone took turns operating the assembly, calibrating parameters, and investigating hidden dangers, working continuously for more than 20 hours to achieve a one-time successful test of the superconducting magnet.
Wherever the enterprise develops, Party building follows, and the fighting fortress role of primary-level Party organizations is manifested there.
China Railway consciously carries forward the railway's red genes, continuously improves political capabilities, and builds a high-quality leading personnel team capable of shouldering the heavy tasks of the era, with China's high-speed rail becoming a bright "national business card"; China General Nuclear Power Group explores the integration of Party building work into scientific and technological innovation, project construction, and production and operation, transforming organizational advantages into development momentum...
Forging the soul and strengthening the bones, tempering into steel. The development history of state-owned enterprises is a history of upholding the Party's leadership and strengthening Party building. On the new journey, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the vast majority of state-owned enterprises will deeply study and implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, persevering in a course of action (持之以恒, chi zhi yi heng - "hold, that, with, constant") in promoting full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, leading high-quality development with high-quality Party building, and will surely continue to achieve new breakthroughs in accelerating the building of world-class enterprises, contributing greater strength to advancing Chinese modernization.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang) The reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission: Since the adjustment of domestic refined oil product prices on October 29, international crude oil prices have fluctuated and declined, and the average price over the 10 working days prior to this price adjustment was lower than the average price over the 10 working days prior to the previous price adjustment. In accordance with changes in international market oil prices, effective from 24:00 on November 12, domestic gasoline and diesel (standard product) prices will be reduced by 645 yuan and 625 yuan per ton, respectively.
The National Development and Reform Commission stated that PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC, and other crude oil processing enterprises must organize the production and transportation of refined oil products well, ensure stable market supply, and strictly implement national price policies. Relevant local departments must intensify market supervision and inspection efforts, strictly investigate and punish acts of failing to implement national price policies, and maintain normal market order. Consumers may report price violations through the 12315 platform.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贺 勇 李亚楠
In Hami City, Xinjiang, in early winter, inside the Zuogong Cultural Garden beside the Hami River, old trees stretch their gnarled branches, now clad in dark green attire. Beneath the trees, visitors follow docent Dilinigar Aniwar to learn about Zuo Zongtang's story and feel his devotion to family and country.
"More than 140 years ago, during the 162 days Zuo Zongtang stationed his headquarters in Hami, he led soldiers and civilians of all ethnic groups to dig irrigation canals, cultivate fields, plant mulberry trees and willows. Today Hami retains more than 2,000 Zuo Gong willows, including more than 200 ancient willows over a century old — the largest and best-preserved original Zuo Gong willow community in the country," Dilinigar said.
Walking into the exhibition hall of the Zuogong Cultural Garden, Dilinigar tells the same story here every day, but she feels each narration is different. "After hearing the story of 'carrying the coffin into battle,' one child looked up at his mother and said, 'I want to defend the country'; another student, after viewing the route map of Zuo Zongtang's recovery of Xinjiang, said tearfully to a classmate, 'The motherland's territory must not yield even an inch.'" Dilinigar said that visitors of all ethnic groups, in the process of listening to the stories, continuously strengthen their high identification with the motherland, the Chinese nation, and Chinese culture.
Since the Zuogong Cultural Garden opened, it has received more than 500,000 visits from people of all ethnic groups for guided tours by appointment. Wang Haopeng, deputy director of the Hami Zuo Zongtang Culture Study and Research Hall, said that since 2024, Hami has carried out "Zuo Gong Willow" ideological and political study activities within the education system, gradually achieving full coverage across the city's primary and secondary schools and vocational colleges, with coverage currently reaching 60 percent.
History is integrated into the lives of people of all ethnic groups. Not far from the Zuogong Cultural Garden stands Fenghuangtai. In 1880, Zuo Zongtang pitched his main camp on this natural high earthen slope; today it is the Zuo Zongtang Fenghuangtai Historical and Cultural Park, opened last June. The 27-meter-tall Tower of Heaven and Earth's Righteousness stands on the former site of Dayingmen Village, its openwork tower body carved with 16 characters: "Devotion to family and country, farming and study as the foundation, practical application of knowledge to serve society, incorruptible and serving the people." At the base of the tower is a regularly operating cultural and creative market, recreating the bustling atmosphere of the "Great Caravan Camp" of those days. In the evening, residents take walks here, and children play among the relief sculptures of the "Garden of Songs of Family and Country."
"Zuo Gong's heroic spirit soars to the clouds, his lofty ambitions that reach the clouds are unyielding..." During recess at Hami's Zuo Zongtang Primary School, nursery rhymes accompany finger exercises echoing across the campus. Zuo Gong's deeds have been integrated into the school's daily teaching: first- and second-graders can perform the situational drama "The Tale of the Zuo Gong Willows," third- and fourth-graders begin serving as "Red Scarf docents," and fifth- and sixth-graders regularly go to the Zuogong Cultural Garden for study tours.
In April this year, representatives from Fuzhou, Fujian; Tianjin; and Yili, Hotan, Kashgar, Urumqi, and Hami in Xinjiang gathered at Fenghuangtai Park, pouring soil each had brought into the "Mountain and River Cauldron," and jointly planted new willows cultivated from cuttings of century-old Zuo Gong willow mother plants — those saplings are called "Willows of One Heart." Hao Changli, director of the Hami Zuo Zongtang Culture Study and Research Hall, said: "Before, we worked on our own; now we coordinate with other cities to do it together, and the moment they hear about it, they are very supportive."
With willow planting carried out for three consecutive years, newly planted willows and cultivated saplings now exceed 10,000. A single willow tree links cities thousands of miles apart; a single name gathers people of different ethnic groups under the same shade. In Hami, forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation is not a slogan hanging on a wall — it is the first piece of history a docent tells every day, the words a child blurts out after hearing a story, the silent understanding when soil from seven cities is poured into one cauldron.
"Newly planted willows stretch three thousand li, drawing the spring breeze through the Jade Gate Pass." In the past, Zuo Zongtang journeyed westward, planting mulberry trees and willows, bringing lasting benefits to future generations (泽被后人, ze bei hou ren - "benefit, moisten, after, people"). Today, people look at these objects and think of the man, revering the national hero's devotion to family and country. By the Hami River, more than 2,000 Zuo Gong willows are still putting out new branches, and people of all ethnic groups are continuing to plant those new branches into the soil.
Return to TopBy: 邢广程
Recently, The History of China's Xinjiang Region was published. This is an academic work of high political positioning, great academic value, and numerous innovations, which answers the historical questions of China's Xinjiang region in a relatively complete and scientific manner.
It scientifically delineates the developmental thread of Xinjiang's regional history and fully elaborates the historic achievements of the Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang in the new era.
This work consists of seven chapters. The first four chapters summarize the long historical process from the pre-Qin period to the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang, defining the period from the pre-Qin to the Qin and Han dynasties as "Unification of All Under Heaven: Xinjiang Has Been an Inseparable Part of Our Country Since Ancient Times"; defining the period from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties as "All Within the Four Seas Turn Their Hearts to One: The Xinjiang Scene Amid the Flourishing Age of the Chinese Nation"; defining the period from the Liao, Song, Western Xia, and Jin to the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties as "One Chinese Family: Xinjiang in the Consolidation and Development of the Unified Multi-Ethnic State"; and defining the period from 1912 to 1949 as "Marching Toward the Light: Xinjiang Joins the Torrent of the New Democratic Revolution." These four chapters are grand in scope, and the phrases "the peoples of the five directions share the realm together," "the four seas unite as one family," "the six directions unite in one, and the realm prospers," and "a great event that opened up heaven and earth" reveal that the history of the Xinjiang region is an indispensable and splendid chapter of Chinese history. The latter three chapters of this work present the new historical visage of Xinjiang since the founding of New China, defining the period from 1949 to 1978 as "A Changed World: The Fiery Years of Xinjiang's Socialist Revolution and Construction"; defining the period from 1978 to 2012 as "Catching Up with the Times: Xinjiang Steps onto the Broad Road of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"; and defining the period since 2012 as "Racing Toward Rejuvenation: Building a Beautiful Xinjiang in the Process of Chinese Modernization." These three chapters are profound in conception, and the phrases "from all directions, joyful music plays, including Yutian," "the east wind arrives, and the eyes are filled with spring," and "boundless scenery is new all at once" depict the unprecedented and radical changes (翻天覆地, fān tiān fù dì - "turn, heaven; overturn, earth") and historic transformations that Xinjiang has undergone since the founding of New China, especially since entering the new era.
This work devotes an entire chapter to describing the formation and development process of the Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang in the new era and the brilliant achievements it has attained. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has coordinated the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and changes unseen in a century, examined and planned Xinjiang work from a strategic perspective, put forward the overall goal of social stability and long-term stability and peace, and, with the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity as a guarantee, put forward the "Eight Adherences" and the principles of governing Xinjiang according to law, stabilizing Xinjiang through unity, nourishing Xinjiang through culture, enriching Xinjiang through prosperity, and building Xinjiang over the long term. It has made strategic deployments for the fundamental, foundational, and long-term work concerning Xinjiang's long-term stability and peace, thereby forming the Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang in the new era. The Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang in the new era is the guiding principle and soul of doing Xinjiang work well in the new era. The Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang in the new era has opened up a new situation in governing Xinjiang, Xinjiang work has achieved major results, and all of Xinjiang's undertakings have achieved historic accomplishments and undergone historic changes, with the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang striding forward on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
It places the history of the Xinjiang region within the overall process of Chinese history and sorts out the general thread of Xinjiang's historical development.
This work emphasizes that the history of the Xinjiang region is an indispensable and splendid chapter of Chinese history. All ethnic groups of our country jointly opened up the vast territory of the motherland, jointly created the unified multi-ethnic state, jointly wrote the brilliant history of China, jointly created the splendid Chinese culture, and jointly cultivated the great national spirit.
This work examines the historical facts of the Xinjiang region at different periods within different stages of our country's history, examines the historical connections between Xinjiang's various ethnic groups and the Chinese nation, and examines the historical integration of the cultures of Xinjiang's various ethnic groups with Chinese culture, thereby enabling readers to accurately grasp the overall trend, historical mainline, and direction of progress of Xinjiang's regional history within the course of Chinese history. Unity of territory, unity of the ethnic family, and continuity of civilization are the clear and resilient historical mainlines.
This work fully proves the fact that "Xinjiang is an inseparable part of our country." In 60 BC, the Han Dynasty unified the Western Regions and established the Protectorate of the Western Regions, pioneering the precedent of effective jurisdiction and governance over the Xinjiang region by the central government. Throughout Chinese history, successive central dynasties in the Central Plains were sometimes strong and sometimes weak, their relations with the Western Regions were sometimes close and sometimes distant, and the central government's control over the Xinjiang region was sometimes tight and sometimes loose, but every dynasty regarded the Western Regions as an inseparable part of the national territory and exercised jurisdiction over the Xinjiang region.
This work emphasizes that a history of China's Xinjiang region fully proves that "the various ethnic groups of Xinjiang are family members connected by blood to the Chinese nation." This work uses a large amount of archaeological material and historical documents to prove that Xinjiang has been a multi-ethnic region since ancient times. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, large numbers of people from different ethnic groups have entered and left the Xinjiang region in every historical period, and they were all joint pioneers of Xinjiang. The mainstream of ethnic relations in the Xinjiang region has always been unity, cohesion, and joint endeavor. In their long-term interactions, the various ethnic groups of Xinjiang have worked together with one heart and mind (勠力同心, lù lì tóng xīn - "exert, strength; together, heart"), resisted foreign aggression, opposed ethnic separatism, and safeguarded national unity, profoundly and vividly demonstrating the community concept of sharing both joys and sorrows (休戚与共, xiū qī yǔ gòng - "joy, sorrow; with, share"), sharing both glory and disgrace (荣辱与共, róng rǔ yǔ gòng - "glory, disgrace; with, share"), sharing both life and death (生死与共, shēng sǐ yǔ gòng - "life, death; with, share"), and sharing a common destiny (命运与共, mìng yùn yǔ gòng - "fate, destiny; with, share").
A history of China's Xinjiang region fully proves that "the cultures of the various ethnic groups of Xinjiang are component parts of Chinese culture." From the very beginning, the cultures of Xinjiang's various ethnic groups bore the imprint of the pluralistic unity of Chinese culture. Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions and the establishment of the Protectorate of the Western Regions by the Western Han Dynasty promoted the integration of the cultures of Xinjiang's various ethnic groups with Central Plains culture. This work uses a large amount of historical material to prove that, within the embrace of Chinese civilization, Xinjiang has always had multiple religions coexisting, and that harmonious coexistence, integration, and mutual accommodation have been the mainstream of religious relations in Xinjiang, thereby reaching the important conclusion that "promoting harmony in religious relations is the historical experience of Xinjiang's stability and prosperity." Therefore, Chinese culture has always been the emotional support, spiritual home, and spiritual homeland of the various ethnic groups of Xinjiang, and strengthening identification with Chinese culture is the soul of the flourishing and development of the cultures of Xinjiang's various ethnic groups.
It explains the historical issues of the Xinjiang region with the consolidation of a sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main thread.
This work holds that the Qin and Han period was an important stage of deep collision and integration between the agrarian culture of the Central Plains and the nomadic culture of the north. The Xiongnu were an ancient nomadic people of northern China. The alternating war and peace between the Han and the Xiongnu was, in essence, a conflict and game between different modes of economic production in our country's history, by no means an opposition between different ethnic groups. This work regards the Han-Xiongnu rivalry as an important stage of internal integration in the historical evolution of the Chinese nation, which objectively promoted integration and coexistence among different ethnic groups. This work also clearly states that the local order established by the Xiongnu in the Western Regions laid the foundation for the Western Han Dynasty's completion of territorial unification. The above viewpoints are innovative.
In its second chapter, this work systematically recounts the historical process of the rise and fall of the Turks, holding that the Turks were a nomadic tribe that rose on the grasslands of northern China in the mid-6th century and established the Turkic Khaganate in 552. The Turkic Khaganate was a nomadic regime jointly established by multiple tribes. Both the Eastern and Western Turkic Khaganates maintained a subordinate relationship with the Sui and Tang dynasties. In 744, the Tang Dynasty, in alliance with the Uyghurs, Karluks, and others, pacified the Later Turkic Khaganate. As an ancient nomadic people of our country, the Turks disintegrated in the mid-to-late 8th century with the demise of the khaganate, and the Turks withdrew from the stage of history in our country. During their westward migration to Central and Western Asia, the remaining masses merged with local tribes, forming multiple new peoples, which are fundamentally different from the ancient Turkic people. This work unequivocally points out that our country has never called Xinjiang "East Turkestan" in its history, and there has never been any so-called "East Turkestan state." The fact that the Xinjiang region has always been a component part of our country is beyond doubt.
This work summarizes the history of China and the history of the Xinjiang region over thousands of years and reaches an incontrovertible basic conclusion: the unity of the motherland is the primary prerequisite for Xinjiang's stability and tranquility; a strong state is the solid foundation for Xinjiang's stable development; and the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the fundamental guarantee for Xinjiang's long-term stability and peace.
The publication of this work comes at exactly the right time. It will surely promote the study of the history of China's Xinjiang region to a new level and has important practical significance and major academic value for further promoting the consolidation of a sense of community for the Chinese nation in Xinjiang.
(The author is a member of the Academic Division and first-class researcher of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and chief expert of the China Western Regions Research Center.)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Lin Lili) The State Administration for Market Regulation recently issued the "Provisions on Administrative Penalty Discretion in Market Regulation," making systematic provisions in the form of departmental rules for regulating the discretionary power of administrative penalties in market regulation. The provisions divide administrative penalty discretion into five tiers: no penalty, mitigated penalty, lighter penalty, ordinary penalty, and heavier penalty, and make specific provisions on the circumstances for the application of each tier.
Regarding the "no penalty for first offense" system, which has drawn relatively high public attention, the head of the Legal Affairs Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation introduced that the "no penalty for first offense" stipulated in the Administrative Penalty Law must simultaneously satisfy the three statutory elements of "first-time violation," "minor harmful consequences," and "timely correction," and the three elements are absolutely indispensable (缺一不可, que yi bu ke - "lack one, not can"). "First-time violation" alone cannot serve as the basis for imposing no penalty.
The provisions clarify the definition of "first-time violation." A first-time violation refers to the party committing an illegal act of that nature for the first time within two years; where it involves the safety of citizens' lives and health or financial security and there are harmful consequences, the above-mentioned period is five years. At the same time, the provisions clarify the method for calculating the period and the criteria for identifying illegal acts of the same nature. Minor harmful consequences may be determined through comprehensive consideration of the following factors, such as a relatively light degree of harm, a relatively small scope of harm, and harmful consequences that are easy to eliminate. Where the party proactively corrects the violation before the market regulation department discovers the illegal act or orders correction, it may be deemed timely correction.
The provisions refine the various factors that should be considered in administrative penalty discretion, providing clear guidance for law enforcement personnel in implementing comprehensive discretion and preventing penalties from being imposed based solely on a single circumstance.
Return to TopNot relying on the sea, not bordering the border, Yiwu, located in the central Zhejiang inland, following the development strategy of "prospering the city through commerce," has developed from "exchanging chicken feathers for sugar" to today's "world supermarket" connecting commerce globally, continuously writing the prosperous chapter of "small commodities, big market."
Both passengers and goods are flourishing — small commodities converge into a big market
Relying on its super-large domestic market and complete industrial chain, Yiwu has consolidated its foundation as a trade hub. Professional market sectors such as the Yiwu International Trade City, the Yiwu Global Digital Trade Center, and the Yiwu International Production Materials Market are organized by industry into designated trading zones, where similar commodities are concentrated for business, and sample viewing, price comparison, and order placement can be completed in one stop. After multiple rounds of iterative development, the Yiwu small commodities market now sees an average daily foot traffic of about 300,000 people, with over 80,000 physical shops driving employment for 32 million people, and a supply network radiating to 233 countries and regions, achieving full-category coverage, rapid customization, and on-demand assembly of goods, making it the world's largest small commodities wholesale market.
The market's popularity comes from normalized, institutionalized global investment attraction. From January to October this year, Yiwu held 63 trade promotion and customer attraction events, recruiting 1.055 million global buyers. The 32nd China Yiwu International Commodities Fair held in late October attracted 2,770 enterprises to exhibit, with over 193,600 professional buyers on site, of whom 14,700 were overseas buyers, a year-on-year increase of 23.37%. Beyond the fair, more than 38,000 foreign merchants are permanently based in Yiwu, and over 680,000 overseas merchants conduct cross-border trade on a regular basis, making Yiwu an important window for foreign merchants to deepen their presence in the Chinese market and link to global trade.
Using small commodity circulation as its vehicle, Yiwu adheres to the "shop in front, factory in back" model, transmitting market demand back to the manufacturing and production links, advancing industrial upgrading according to the hierarchical architecture of "basic transformation — lightweight transformation — smart factory — future factory," and achieving an overall leap in the industrial system through the dual-wheel drive of advanced manufacturing and modern services. In the first three quarters of this year, the added value of industries above designated size in Yiwu increased by 10.3% year-on-year.
Advancing toward the new — new brands and new business forms emerge one after another
In October 2025, Yiwu's sixth-generation market — the Yiwu Global Digital Trade Center — opened, with digitalization as a key driving force, deploying the "World Yiwu" commerce large model and implementing 25 digital applications including AI design and AI visual creation, with cumulative visits exceeding 1 billion, achieving deep integration of traditional commerce and the digital economy. The digital market Yiwu Commodity City Chinagoods platform has built a full-chain, full-scenario, digital-intelligent integrated service ecosystem for international trade, with cumulative registered buyers exceeding 6.08 million and serving 60,000 business households. A modern trade hub of "buy globally, sell globally, and empower globally with intelligence" has taken shape.
The vigorous development of digital trade provides a broad stage for new forces. Among the more than 5,200 commercial units in the Yiwu Global Digital Trade Center, "second-generation merchants," "second-generation entrepreneurs," and "new-generation" business entities account for 52%, and merchants capable of independently designing and operating IP account for 70%. The IP Service Center has built an integrated overseas expansion chain of "overseas IP licensing + Chinese manufacturing + cross-border e-commerce," making "Made in Yiwu" no longer just a synonym for "world factory," but also a new starting point for world brands.
The "Brand Going Global" initiative has further promoted the leap of "Made in Yiwu" from product export to brand export. Since 2023, Yiwu has relied on overseas sub-markets, overseas warehouses, overseas stations, overseas showrooms, and overseas exhibitions to build a service network covering the globe, having deployed 105 brand going global projects in 40 countries and regions, displaying and selling more than 1 million types of products overseas, driving Yiwu's market annual export value to reach over 18.1 billion yuan.
Openness and integration — internal and external channels continue to expand
With an open mindset, Yiwu has turned an inland small city into a frontier of openness. The land port, sea port, air port, and information port operate in "four-port linkage," weaving a three-dimensional logistics network connecting the world. On land, the "Yixin'ou" China-Europe freight train has become a stable land trade link spanning the Eurasian continent; at sea, Yiwu deeply connects with Ningbo Zhoushan Port, achieving "one declaration, one inspection, one release," and in 2025 this sea-rail intermodal channel's cumulative business volume exceeded 1 million TEUs; air routes and digital channels are advancing in tandem, with an average of 26,000 parcels sent from Yiwu to the world every minute.
Relying on the new round of comprehensive reform of international trade, Yiwu has implemented the "inspect first, then load" model, achieving parallel operations of inspection and container loading, increasing export efficiency by 30%, which has been included by the General Administration of Customs in the national list of reform pilot experiences for replication and promotion in pilot free trade zones. As of 2025, Yiwu has successively undertaken 111 national-level innovation pilot tasks and 216 provincial-level pilot tasks, including comprehensive reform of international trade, reform of the domestic circulation system, and construction of pilot free trade zones, creating a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized.
Goods are renewed year after year, and businesses continue generation after generation. In this vibrant big market of Yiwu, countless business entities are each person doing their best according to their ability (各尽其能, ge jin qi neng - "each, exhaust, their, ability") and each person displaying their particular expertise (各展所长, ge zhan suo chang - "each, display, their, strength"), converging into a vigorous force driving high-quality development, striving to bring import and export volume onto the trillion-yuan level by 2030.
Data source: Yiwu Media Convergence Center
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Farming is the foundation of the state; agriculture is the great pillar of the nation.
In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, doing a good job in agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农) work is of vital importance. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that "the modernization of agriculture and rural areas bears on the overall situation and quality of Chinese modernization" and that "rural revitalization and the development of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers must continue to serve as the foundation of Chinese modernization."
Recently, Xinhua News Agency reporters visited Jiangxi, Hubei, Henan, Heilongjiang, and other places, going from the front lines of agricultural production in the fields to the workshops and warehouses of agricultural product processing, to experience the vitality of the vast fields and the atmosphere of beautiful and harmonious villages.
On November 12, Xinhua News Agency launched the 38th episode of the "China Economic Roundtable" large-scale all-media interview program, inviting Zhao Changbao, Director of the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Zhu Huasheng, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Heilongjiang Province; Wang Dongqing, Deputy Chief Engineer of First Tractor Company Limited; and Hu Aiguo, Party Branch Secretary of Dongjiao Village, Zaoyang City, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, to discuss, in light of new changes and new trends at the grassroots level, the new vision for the development of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan.
Fighting Disasters to Reap a Bountiful Harvest — Holding Firm to the Basic Foundation of Food Security
In the harvest season, across the vast fields, the joy of harvest is interwoven with the bustle of autumn-winter planting, unfolding into steaming, vibrant scenes—
In Jifu Village, Fengjiang Town, Jishui County, Jiangxi, harvesters are rushing to bring in the rice. On land just vacated, tillers immediately move in to prepare the soil and open furrows for winter rapeseed. "In recent years, the county has helped improve the irrigation and drainage facilities in the fields, and field management has kept pace. My late-season rice yielded 1,200 jin per mu this year," said Liu Song, a local large-scale grain grower.
On the Northeast plains a thousand miles away, corn, rice, and soybeans have all been harvested. In many places such as Aihui District, Heihe City, Heilongjiang, after the crops are harvested, high-horsepower tractors equipped with plows simultaneously carry out full straw incorporation and burial returning operations. The deeply plowed and loosened black soil will better retain water and preserve moisture, building up soil fertility for next spring's sowing.
Food security is "the most important concern of the nation," and the bountiful harvest in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan has not come easily.
"Looking at the country as a whole, this year's autumn grain production has withstood the test of disasters. The overall situation is relatively good, and the foundation for a good harvest is fairly solid," said Zhao Changbao.
In the view of the guests participating in the roundtable, this year's autumn harvest in China has shown some distinctive characteristics:
Disaster prevention and reduction work has become more proactive—
Zhao Changbao said that in the face of complex and changeable weather conditions, the agriculture and rural affairs departments have placed greater emphasis on doing work before disasters occur. This year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs organized and carried out a campaign to strengthen field management, fight disasters, and secure the autumn grain harvest over 100 days, and strengthened consultation and assessment with the meteorological, water resources, emergency management, and other departments, promptly guiding localities to implement disaster resistance and reduction measures.
The role of science and technology in increasing production has become more prominent—
In recent years, China has continuously promoted large-scale increases in the per-unit yield of grain and oil crops, promoted the integrated application of good farmland, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods, and advanced technical models such as rational dense planting, precision sowing, one-spray-multiple-promotion, and integrated water and fertilizer management have been gradually popularized, providing strong support for raising grain per-unit yield and enhancing production stability capacity.
"Heilongjiang's grain output has remained above 160 billion jin for two consecutive years, and this year it is expected to set a new historical high again," said Zhu Huasheng. The province has cumulatively built 125 million mu of high-standard farmland; has bred a number of breakthrough new varieties such as high-oil, high-yield soybeans, dense-planting, machine-harvestable corn, and good-taste rice, with basically full coverage of improved varieties for major crops; has focused on supporting the development of large, high-end, and intelligent agricultural machinery, with the comprehensive mechanization rate for crop cultivation, planting, and harvesting reaching 99.34%; has systematically promoted large-ridge dense planting and integrated water and fertilizer management technologies; and has organized 88,000 new-type agricultural business entities across the province to drive smallholder farmers to participate in large-scale per-unit yield increases.
Hu Aiguo introduced that Dongjiao Village is located in the hilly land of northern Hubei, and is the "driest point" on the "drought pocket." Over the years, through digging ponds and reservoirs and repairing embankments and dikes, and developing water-saving agriculture, grain output has increased year after year. This year, the high-quality rice varieties planted in the village can yield more than 1,500 jin per mu.
The safeguarding role of mechanization and socialized services has become more evident—
The autumn harvest requires not only racing against time and keeping up with the schedule, but also reducing losses as much as possible. For example, Inner Mongolia's grain sowing area has remained stable at over 100 million mu, and the region has cumulatively invested more than 19,000 sets of various agricultural machinery and implements, with 1,710 machinery operation entities carrying out socialized services. "Our agricultural production is transforming from merely emphasizing yield increases in the fields to placing equal emphasis on increasing production, reducing losses, and improving quality," said Zhao Changbao.
"Agricultural mechanization is the key link that connects people, machinery, land, and services," said Wang Dongqing. China YTO is committed to providing the market with complete sets of agricultural machinery and equipment and full-process mechanization solutions, supporting agricultural socialized service organizations to extend from single operations to full-process services of plowing, sowing, management, and harvesting, driving comprehensive services such as agricultural materials, agricultural technology, and finance, and working with all parties to make the industrial foundation solid.
According to the latest agricultural situation dispatch from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of now, more than 90 percent of the national autumn grain has been harvested, and a good harvest is a foregone conclusion. Together with summer grain and early rice, the annual grain output is expected to remain above 1.4 trillion jin for three consecutive years.
Strong Support from Science and Innovation — Activating New Quality Productive Forces in Agriculture
Agricultural mechanization is an important vehicle for activating new quality productive forces in agriculture and an important marker of advancing the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.
During spring sowing, auto-navigation-assisted tractors pulling high-performance seeders shuttle back and forth across ten-thousand-mu fields; during summer management, large-payload crop protection drones spray pesticides evenly; during autumn harvest, rows of combine harvesters work in concentrated, contiguous operations…
The widespread application of intelligent agricultural machinery on the black soil has deeply impressed Zhu Huasheng. "The key to agricultural modernization is the modernization of agricultural science and technology, especially the advancement of agricultural mechanization," said Zhu Huasheng. Currently, Heilongjiang is vigorously implementing the "artificial intelligence + agriculture" initiative, promoting the leap of traditional agricultural machinery toward high-end, intelligent machinery, and accelerating the construction of a pilot zone for the research and development, manufacturing, promotion, and application of large, high-horsepower, high-end intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment.
At the 2026 China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition held in Tianjin in October this year, China YTO released an intelligent tractor onboard operating agent, which guides the operator through operations and provides operating parameter suggestions through the agent, equivalent to equipping each tractor with an all-around driving assistant.
"Domestic intelligent agricultural machinery makes sowing faster and more accurate, and the Dongfanghong tractor is precisely the 'main force' among them," said Wang Dongqing. From the production of New China's first tractor in 1958 to the successive mass production of power-shift, continuously variable transmission, and hybrid models today, China YTO is continuously tackling key challenges to enhance both the "appearance" and "capability" of domestic agricultural machinery.
China YTO's enterprising exploration is a vivid microcosm of the breakthroughs in agricultural science and technology innovation in recent years. In the current era of booming digital technology, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and other technologies are deeply integrating with agriculture, accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.
"In the past, when we farmed, to a large extent we 'looked at the sky, looked at the land, and looked at experience'; now we are beginning to 'look at data, look at algorithms, and look at screens,'" said Zhao Changbao. At present, the rural Internet penetration rate has risen to 69.5 percent, and the informatization rate of agricultural production is growing by an average of about 2 percentage points per year.
In the fields, equipment, varieties, agronomic practices, and digital technologies are working in concert, and science and technology have become a genuine source of confidence for the harvest, escorting the accelerated advancement of agricultural and rural modernization.
"The development of Dongjiao Village cannot be separated from the rooted participation of young people," said Hu Aiguo. As migrant workers return to their hometowns to start businesses, in recent years the village has organized young people with education, technical skills, and sharp minds, training them through professional programs into new-type professional farmers, allowing them to display their talents and realize their potential in the vast arena of the countryside.
Returning college students use new technologies and new equipment such as intelligent agricultural machinery, Internet of Things monitoring, and integrated water and fertilizer management to develop modern agriculture, becoming leaders in increasing income and getting rich; large-scale grain growers establish farmers' professional cooperatives, plant organic rapeseed on a large scale, serve the high-end market, and drive a group of young people to participate in production-marketing coordination and brand management…
More and more rural talents are growing up, using the power of science and technology to promote the quality and efficiency of rural industries, and injecting new momentum into comprehensive rural revitalization with new quality productive forces in agriculture.
Integration to Promote Development — Painting a New Picture of Rural Happiness
Industrial revitalization is the top priority of rural revitalization.
In Honghu City, Hubei Province, a single lotus root has grown into an industry that enriches the people; in Dajian Village, Yuzhou City, Henan Province, sweet potatoes go from the field into deep-processing workshops, processed into hot and sour noodles, vermicelli sheets, and other products, which sell out in live-streaming rooms… In recent years, localities have developed distinctive industries in light of local conditions, injecting more vitality into rural development.
Zhu Huasheng said that relying on its natural endowments and resource advantages, Heilongjiang has created the "Black Soil Premium Products" provincial-level high-quality agricultural brand, promoted the deep integration of customized agriculture with cultural tourism, creativity, services, and other sectors, driven the overall leap of high-quality agricultural products from "growing well" to "selling well," and also driven farmers to increase income and get rich.
The development of Dongjiao Village is likewise a footnote to the fact that the lives of farmers are becoming more promising. Hu Aiguo said that many years ago the village was still a stretch of yellow earth hills. To find a way to increase income, village cadres organized party members, villagers, and experts to discuss improving varieties, gradually creating a pattern of a thousand mu of high-quality fertile farmland, a thousand mu of ecological peach orchards, and a thousand mu of aquaculture water surfaces, forming a four-season product system of "appreciating peach blossoms in spring, picking imperial peaches in summer, viewing rice waves in autumn, and tasting river delicacies in winter." The village has also vigorously developed rural leisure tourism.
The countryside is the spatial carrier of agricultural production. Village environments are clean and tidy, and villagers' deliberation mechanisms are continuously improved… One practical matter of people's livelihood after another has continuously enhanced farmers' sense of gain and happiness, painting a happy picture of livable, workable, and beautiful and harmonious villages.
"In the implementation and operation of the mass deliberation mechanism, our village also took a detour—when cadres arranged things, the masses looked on coldly," Hu Aiguo frankly admitted. After discussion, the village moved the deliberation meetings to courtyards and fields, collected agenda items from the demands of the masses, insisted on deliberating and reaching decisions, and reported the results at meetings. After the masses saw that their suggestions were effective, they participated more actively in deliberation. As the results of deliberation were implemented one by one, a new atmosphere of mutual assistance among neighbors has grown increasingly strong.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization. Wang Dongqing said that in the future, China YTO will seize the new opportunities of industrial digitalization and intelligent transformation to better help agriculture increase efficiency, farmers increase income, and rural areas increase vitality.
Seizing new opportunities and advancing together hand in hand. On the new journey, hundreds of millions of people are working hard and striving unremittingly, solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization, allowing the fields of hope to continuously radiate new vitality, and striving toward a better future for the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 12)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尹晓宇
A huge biogas boiler operates in a fully enclosed state; the boiler's fuel comes from biogas generated by sewage treatment, and the steam produced by the boiler flows back through pipelines to the production line...
This is the production base of Jiangsu Longfengtang Traditional Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group. "In 2025, Longfengtang cumulatively recovered and utilized 778,100 cubic meters of biogas, producing more than 3,400 tons of steam annually and reducing carbon emissions by more than 7,000 tons," said the person in charge of the company's biogas recycling project. In addition to economic benefits, this system can also effectively reduce methane gas emissions.
"Ecological benefits are not only related to economic benefits, but also to social development," said the relevant person in charge of safety and environmental protection at Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group.
Centering on the four dimensions of "water, materials, steam, and electricity," Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group is vigorously developing the circular economy. The entire group has completed the construction of a 34.5-megawatt distributed photovoltaic project, with the annual power generation of the photovoltaic project accounting for nearly 14 percent of the enterprise's total electricity consumption. Combined with AI (artificial intelligence) energy-saving technology, it has achieved generating and using one's own energy (自发自用, zi fa zi yong - "self, emit; self, use") from clean energy and intelligent dispatch.
Today, Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group has become the first "Zero-Waste Group" pilot construction enterprise in Jiangsu Province's pharmaceutical industry, cumulatively comprehensively utilizing more than 2,300 tons of solid waste from 2024 to 2025. The group owns nine national-level green factories, and the factories of Jiangsu Zilong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Sichuan Hairong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. have been awarded the municipal-level near-zero-carbon factory title.
"Relying on AI large models, we have built an energy cloud intelligent control platform," introduced the relevant person in charge of safety and environmental protection at Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group. The workshop temperature is intelligently controlled by refrigeration units, which can automatically adjust the temperature according to changes in weather and production load. From 2024 to 2025, four factories under Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group saved more than 2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually and reduced carbon emissions by more than 1,200 tons through the refrigeration unit cloud intelligent control system.
As a chain-leader enterprise, Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group has extended its practice of the green development concept from the factory to upstream and downstream links.
At the standardized organic Astragalus planting base in Guyang, Inner Mongolia, strict testing of environmental indicators such as soil, air, and water was conducted at the time of site selection; only when the tests met the standards could organic Astragalus be planted. In addition to Guyang, Inner Mongolia, Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group has also built more than 80 standardized Chinese herbal medicine planting bases across the country, promoting standardized planting standards to farmers and practicing the ecological concept of green planting.
Within Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group, "golden ideas" from frontline positions are being translated into emission reduction results. In the first half of this year, the enterprise collected and promoted more than 60 suggestions on waste recycling and utilization.
Not only is participation encouraged, but there is also institutional support. Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group has formulated relevant work plans, planning the implementation path for the circular economy and carbon emission reduction; issued a circular economy evaluation system, setting up a total of 10 indicators in 4 categories, namely resource consumption, resource recycling and utilization, resource circular economy, and full participation, to scientifically evaluate the development level of the factory's circular economy through quantitative data. In addition, the enterprise has simultaneously incorporated the carbon management organizational structure and carbon emission reduction into regulatory priorities, forming a closed-loop management system.
Return to TopSince 2016, Huadian Xinjiang Power Generation Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huadian Xinjiang Company") has adhered to leading development with Party building, making the strengthening of Party building brand development a key link in the company's deepening of reform. Huadian Xinjiang Company, based on Xinjiang's efforts to build itself into a national energy resource strategic support base, has coordinated energy supply security and green low-carbon transformation, helping to convert Xinjiang's energy resource advantages into economic advantages and development advantages. Over the past 10 years, Huadian Xinjiang Company has taken the initiative in key areas such as energy supply security, green development, and scientific and technological innovation, firmly shouldering the duties and mission of a central energy enterprise.
Building battle fortresses on the front line, integrating and empowering to unleash development momentum
Huadian Xinjiang Company's 120 grassroots Party branches and more than 2,800 Party members have actively devoted themselves to key work such as energy supply security, green development, and improving quality and efficiency, innovatively carrying out the Party member "Three Studies, Three Displays, Three Comparisons" campaign to strive to be pioneers, establishing 2,249 Party member commando teams, responsibility zones, and vanguard teams, and implementing 314 projects led by Party organization secretaries. In the Xinjiang Huadian Bazhou Hybrid Energy Storage + 1 Million Kilowatt Wind Power Integrated Project, facing saline-alkali marshland where chloride ion content is several times that of seawater, Party members took the lead in tackling anti-corrosion technology, using the "high sulfate-resistant concrete + silane impregnation anti-corrosion coating" technical solution to overcome the wind turbine foundation challenge, allowing 100-meter wind turbines to take root on saline-alkali land. At the Xinjiang Huadian Tianshan North Foothills Gobi Energy Base, Party member commando teams took root in the uninhabited area, tackling challenges item by item from equipment selection to technical demonstration, driving the base's first coal-fired power unit to be completed and put into operation in just 23 months, setting the record for the shortest construction period for similar domestic units. Installed capacity has achieved a historic leap: Huadian Xinjiang Company has developed and constructed key energy projects including the first, second, and third batches of national large-scale wind and solar power bases and the supporting power sources for the "Xinjiang Power Transmission to Chongqing" project. As of June 2026, installed capacity has exceeded 43 million kilowatts, with new energy installed capacity accounting for 61.1%. To significantly enhance the system's peak-shaving capacity and consolidate the role of coal power as a bottom-line safeguard, Huadian Xinjiang Company has completed flexibility retrofits on 41 coal-fired power units, with the number of retrofitted units accounting for nearly 50% of the autonomous region's total, making it the regional company with the most retrofitted coal-fired units, the largest investment, and the greatest peak-shaving capacity in China. Fully serving energy supply security, 49 units have generated to their full capacity during key periods such as peak winter demand and major holidays, and 18 heating supply enterprises have made every effort to protect 2.52 million households across 21 counties and cities in 10 prefectures and cities.
Fostering a sense of community for the Chinese nation, promoting interaction, communication, and integration among people of all ethnic groups
Huadian Xinjiang Company undertakes China Huadian Group's designated assistance tasks for Atushi City and Wuqia County in the Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture, as well as counterpart support for Kashgar City and village-based assistance for 7 villages in southern Xinjiang. Huadian Xinjiang Company adheres to the principle of "what localities need, what the enterprise can provide," leveraging its professional strengths to serve the high-quality development of southern Xinjiang with greater effort. It has innovatively carried out the "Four Four Three" series of activities to foster a sense of community for the Chinese nation, cumulatively investing 509 million yuan in assistance funds in Xinjiang, dispatching 176 assistance cadres, driving 149,000 person-times of employment, and adding 4,102 new jobs. Leveraging its own advantages and based on local resource endowments, it has built "Huadian Golden Sun" village-level distributed photovoltaic projects in 123 villages, helping to solve the clean and low-cost energy use problems in rural areas of Atushi City, Wuqia County, and Habahe County. It has deeply carried out cultural enrichment of Xinjiang, building a total of 23 aided schools and health centers to improve local teaching and medical conditions. In August 2026, Huadian No. 1 Middle School in Kashgar City was put into use, establishing an education assistance framework covering preschool, primary school, and junior high school stages. It has innovatively carried out joint talent cultivation, deepening cooperation with universities such as Xinjiang University and Kashgar University, opening "Huadian Classes" and establishing "Huadian Scholarships" to cultivate professional talents for the locality who "can go down, can stay, and can be put to good use." In light of local conditions, it has supported the development of characteristic industries such as forestry, fruit, and animal husbandry, building distinctive brands such as "Congling Animal Husbandry" and "Haidekun," with consumption assistance exceeding 150 million yuan. Huadian Xinjiang has helped China Huadian Group be rated "Excellent," the highest rating, in the central government units' designated assistance work performance assessment for 7 consecutive years, with 2 assisted villages respectively receiving the national "One Village, One Product" demonstration village and rural governance demonstration village designations.
Looking to the future, Huadian Xinjiang Company will continue to fulfill the mission and responsibility of state-owned enterprises in the new era, leading high-quality development with high-quality Party building, and contributing Huadian's strength to building a modern socialist Xinjiang.
Data source: Huadian Xinjiang Power Generation Co., Ltd.
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The course of modernization in countries around the world shows that without industrial modernization, there can be no national modernization. The modern industrial system, as the material and technological foundation of Chinese modernization, is an industrial system or industrial complex composed of various modern industries, in which all industries support one another, integrate and advance together, and jointly form the basic skeleton of the national economy. General Secretary Xi Jinping has issued important instructions on developing advanced manufacturing, stressing the need to "accelerate the building of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the real economy, and provide strong support for advancing Chinese modernization." During an inspection tour in Guangdong, he pointed out that "Chinese modernization cannot follow the path of shifting from the real to the virtual economy; it must accelerate the building of a modern industrial system supported by the real economy," and required Guangdong to "always adhere to building the province on manufacturing, pay greater attention to developing the real economy, accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading, advance the upgrading of the industrial base and the modernization of the industrial chain, develop strategic emerging industries, and build a modern industrial system with stronger international competitiveness," providing fundamental guidance and action direction for Guangdong to anchor the foundation of the province and the basis of its strength. Guangdong, as a major economic province, a major manufacturing province, and a major services province, adheres to taking the real economy as the foundation and manufacturing as the mainstay, takes promoting the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services as the key lever, consolidates the industrial base through manufacturing strength, and enhances the position of the value chain through service empowerment, striving to write the Guangdong chapter of Chinese modernization.
Guangdong's practice under the scientific guidance of promoting the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services
The real economy is the foundation of a country's economy and the source of its wealth. Without a solid material and technological foundation, it is impossible to build a great modern socialist country in all respects. China is a large country and must develop the real economy, continuously advance industrial modernization, and raise the level of manufacturing. Advanced manufacturing is a key part of the real economy. Promoting the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services is an important path that follows the trend of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, enhances the core competitiveness of manufacturing, and builds a modern industrial system, and can consolidate the material and technological foundation for building a modern socialist country in all respects.
In the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping made an in-depth exposition on "building a modern industrial system" and proposed "promoting the deep integration of modern services with advanced manufacturing and modern agriculture." In 2023, the first year of fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, his first local inspection tour was to Guangdong, where he required the province to "continue to take the lead nationally in comprehensively deepening reform, expanding high-standard opening up, enhancing the capacity for self-reliance and strength in science and technology, building a modern industrial system, and promoting coordinated development between urban and rural areas and among regions, centering on the primary task of high-quality development and the strategic task of building the new development pattern, and to take the lead in advancing Chinese modernization." These important expositions provide scientific guidance for Guangdong to promote the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services. In 2025, Guangdong's economic aggregate reached 14.58 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country for 37 consecutive years, highlighting its position in the national economic landscape. Promoting the coordinated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services at a higher level across more factors of production and in broader fields is not only Guangdong's political responsibility to serve the national strategy, but also an inherent requirement for consolidating its own industrial foundation, activating development momentum, and shaping competitive advantages, as well as the top priority in building a modern industrial system with stronger international competitiveness.
Consolidating the foundation of the modern industrial system through the high-quality development of advanced manufacturing. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Advanced manufacturing is a key part of the real economy, and economic development must never shift from the real to the virtual economy at any time." Judging from the laws of world industrialization and the practice of competition among major powers, maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing is the key to developing and strengthening the real economy and continuously improving the quality and efficiency of development. Maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing is not merely a matter of holding the bottom line of scale; more importantly, it requires forging the backbone of advanced manufacturing within the modern industrial system through structural optimization of manufacturing, achieving innovation from the technological domain to the mode of production organization, and pushing industries toward the mid-to-high end. Since the reform and opening up, Guangdong's manufacturing industry, starting from "processing with supplied materials, assembling with supplied parts, compensation trade, and cooperative production," has undergone multiple rounds of transformation and upgrading through relocating low-end industries to make room for high-end ones (腾笼换鸟, teng long huan niao - "empty the cage, change the bird"), and has formed an advanced manufacturing system with complete categories, well-developed supporting facilities, and complete chains, possessing strong international competitiveness. Since the new era, Guangdong has strengthened scientific and technological research, promoted digital and intelligent transformation and green transition, introduced and cultivated chain-leading enterprises and specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, focused on forging the steel and iron bones of advanced manufacturing, and explored solutions to the industrial transformation challenges in the global industrialization process through original practice. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the number of industrial enterprises above designated size in Guangdong increased by more than 40 percent compared with five years earlier, and a cumulative total of 8 national advanced manufacturing clusters were cultivated. In 2025, the added value of advanced manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing accounted for 56.2 percent and 34.7 percent of the added value of industries above designated size in Guangdong respectively, with the industrial structure continuing to advance toward the high end.
Promoting the modern industrial system to advance toward the new, the excellent, the intelligent, and the green through the high-quality development of modern services. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Deeply implement the action to expand capacity and improve quality of the service industry, promote the extension of producer services toward specialization and the high end of the value chain, and promote the high-quality, diversified, and convenient development of consumer services." The service industry is an important component of the modern industrial system. Modern services are characterized by high technology content, high growth potential, and strong permeability, and are an important force for promoting high-quality development. In particular, producer services, as an important link connecting technological progress with the real economy, provide support for manufacturing technological research, quality improvement, and product upgrading, and their development level directly affects the process of manufacturing transformation toward high-end, intelligent, and green development. In recent years, Guangdong has attached great importance to developing modern services with producer services as the mainstay, promoting the extension of producer services toward specialization and the high end of the value chain, promoting the high-quality, diversified, and convenient development of consumer services, and using the excellence of services to enhance the strength of manufacturing. In 2025, Guangdong's service industry added value reached 8.5 trillion yuan, accounting for 58.3 percent of the province's total economic output, of which the added value of modern services accounted for 64.9 percent of the service industry's added value; producer services developed at an accelerated pace, with finance, information, and other industries leading the country; consumer services improved in quality and efficiency, with many new models such as the "doorstep economy," fresh food e-commerce, and short-video e-commerce continuously emerging, and the supply level of family services, health and elderly care, and education and training continuously improving; and the added value of culture and related industries remained firmly in first place nationally.
Promoting the symbiosis and deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern services. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The high-quality development of manufacturing should be placed in a more prominent position, effective measures should be taken to promote the deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern services, and unswervingly build a manufacturing power." Examining the history of industrial development, the relationship between manufacturing and services has evolved from early vertical division of labor and relative independence toward horizontal coordination and deep embedding. This process has given rise to many sub-sectors, with industrial chain links embedding into and integrating across each other. In the digital era, producer services empower advanced manufacturing in all aspects, and the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy drives the two-way expansion of manufacturing servitization and service industry manufacturing, causing the industrial system to continuously iterate and upgrade. As a major manufacturing province and a major services province, Guangdong has followed the trend, using the strong cross-boundary penetration of digital technology to promote the symbiosis and deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern services, driving manufacturing capacity and service efficiency to grow by multiples and exponents, promoting the rapid extension of industrial development toward both ends of the "smile curve," and forming a practical model that moves from "single-point breakthroughs" by leading backbone enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises to the overall "chain-type transformation" of the industrial chain and supply chain. As of the end of 2025, Guangdong ranked first in the country in the scale of the digital economy, the output of industrial robots, and the output of service robots, with the servitization of manufacturing accelerating and new forms of service-oriented manufacturing continuously emerging.
Guangdong's experience and practices formed through piloting and pioneering
Guangdong has piloted and pioneered in promoting the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services, forming a series of experience and practices, and blazing a new path and opening a new situation for national high-quality development.
Strengthening policy coordination and stimulating the vitality of industrial development through institutional innovation. Building a modern industrial system with stronger international competitiveness cannot be separated from the joint cultivation and driving of the government's "visible hand" and the market's "invisible hand," and one important aspect lies in using policy supply to break down institutional barriers, stabilize market expectations, and release development potential. Guangdong has incorporated the promotion of the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services and the building of a modern industrial system with stronger international competitiveness into overall planning, holding the province-wide high-quality development conference for four consecutive years, with the conference themes progressing from "creating a new Guangdong," to "mutual promotion and dual strengthening of industry and technology," to "building a modern industrial system," and then to "coordinated development of manufacturing and services," forming a consistent and progressively deepening policy mainline. It has issued documents such as the "Opinions of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Guangdong Province on High-Quality Construction of a Manufacturing Strong Province," the "Regulations of Guangdong Province on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Manufacturing," the "Several Measures on Promoting the Deep Integrated Development of Manufacturing and Producer Services," the "2026 Action Plan of Guangdong Province on Promoting the Coordinated and Integrated Development of Manufacturing and Services," and the "Implementation Plan of Guangdong Province on Promoting the Expansion of Capacity and Improvement of Quality of the Service Industry," and has incorporated "promoting the deep integrated development of manufacturing and producer services" into the outline of Guangdong's 15th Five-Year Plan. Centering on key links of the innovation chain, it has deeply implemented major science and technology projects such as "Guangdong Strong Chip" and the "Brilliant Action," launched financial products such as "Yue Quality Loan" and "Spark Loan," leveraged the guiding role of government investment funds such as the Guangdong Province Strategic Emerging Industry Investment Guidance Fund, promoted the "order-based" talent team building model in which enterprises place orders on demand and colleges and universities conduct targeted training, and promoted the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain. Focusing on reducing institutional transaction costs and optimizing the business environment, it has carried out pilot reforms of the subscribed capital declaration and registration system, achieved "one-day completion" of enterprise establishment and "zero-barrier" cross-regional migration, innovatively launched "credit + supervision" classified and graded management, and issued the country's first provincial-level local standard for classified management of enterprise credit risk. These institutional innovations have stimulated the vitality of Guangdong's modern industrial system construction.
Advancing high-level opening up and expanding the space for industrial development with a global vision. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "For Guangdong to create new advantages and achieve new breakthroughs, it must vigorously promote the spirit of reform and opening up and the spirit of the special economic zones, and promote high-quality development through comprehensively deepening reform and expanding opening up." Industrial development cannot be separated from the broad stage of the global market. Guangdong has continuously expanded high-level opening up, and the vitality of industrial development has continued to increase. In the pilot free trade zones, it has taken the lead in implementing a negative list for cross-border trade in services, explored mechanisms for facilitating cross-border data flows, and innovatively implemented the "one declaration, two reports" service for Guangdong-Macao cargo; Guangdong and Hong Kong customs have jointly promoted the implementation of the "automobile export express line" project; and Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao have jointly implemented the Greater Bay Area standard for cold chain logistics, creating a freer and more convenient environment for resource allocation for industrial development. It has piloted professional title evaluation for Hong Kong and Macao engineering professionals; as of the end of May this year, a total of 619 Hong Kong and Macao professionals in 10 pilot specialties including civil construction, highways, and communications engineering had obtained mainland professional titles; and Hengqin has facilitated cross-border capital flows through multi-functional free trade accounts, enhancing Guangdong's ability to efficiently allocate resources globally. It has supported the transformation of traditional wholesale trade enterprises into supply chain management service providers, promoted the integrated development of traditional wholesale with new trade formats such as cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouses, and market procurement, further broadened domestic and foreign trade circulation channels, and helped manufacturing connect with the global market; it has promoted a number of high-end manufacturing enterprises to shift from exporting single factors to exporting overall solutions integrating core technology, intelligent operation and maintenance, and technical training, promoted the deep extension from "products going global" to "services going global," and enabled more Guangdong manufacturing and Guangdong services to embed into high-end links of the global value chain. These measures have expanded the space for the development of Guangdong's modern industrial system.
Promoting regional linkage and enhancing the level of industrial development through division of labor and cooperation. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "All regions should identify their position and comparative advantages in the domestic major circulation and the domestic and international dual circulation" and "prevent regions from building their own small circulation, remove regional barriers, and truly form the unified national market." Guided by the strategic positioning that General Secretary Xi Jinping has given to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Guangdong has promoted all cities to actively integrate into the industrial division of labor and cooperation pattern of the Greater Bay Area. In terms of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao coordination, with the completion and opening to traffic of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the Nansha Bridge, the Foshan-Dongguan intercity railway, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, and the Huangmaohai Cross-Sea Passage, the radiation capacity of the Greater Bay Area connecting internally and externally has achieved a leap, providing solid support for cross-regional industrial coordination. It has better leveraged the pilot and demonstration role of major cooperation platforms such as Hengqin, Qianhai, Nansha, and Hetao, precisely gathered high-end and scarce talents from home and abroad, and promoted the interactive connection between Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao scientific and technological innovation and the advanced manufacturing system through models such as jointly building Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratories and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint scientific and technological research. It has actively leveraged the effect of the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" innovation cluster, promoted at a high level the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center, and led innovation-driven development and industrial coordination in the Greater Bay Area; this cluster has risen to first place among global innovation clusters. It has promoted the construction of cross-city industrial platforms such as the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Economic Cooperation Zone and the Shenzhen-Jiangmen Economic Cooperation Zone, jointly compiled spatial plans and industrial plans, strengthened policy alignment, further optimized the layout of new-generation information technology, new energy, new materials, intelligent robots, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, integrated circuits, the low-altitude economy, biomanufacturing, and artificial intelligence industries on both sides of the Pearl River Estuary, and enhanced the overall competitiveness of the industries of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. At the same time, it has mobilized the strength of the whole province to implement the "Hundreds, Thousands, and Tens of Thousands Project," cultivated and strengthened county-level industries with distinctive advantages, enhanced the comprehensive strength of the county economy, and achieved important phased progress in promoting coordinated development between urban and rural areas and among regions. It has established and improved a new type of assistance and cooperation mechanism combining provincial-level vertical support and inter-city horizontal assistance, laid out and built a number of municipal-level industrial transfer cooperation parks, promoted the further deepening of industrial division of labor and cooperation, and enhanced the development level of Guangdong's modern industrial system.
Strengthening platform support and consolidating the modern industrial foundation through innovation empowerment. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "To integrate scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, it is necessary to build platforms, improve systems and mechanisms, strengthen the principal position of enterprises in innovation, and enable the seamless connection between the innovation chain and the industrial chain." Guangdong has taken industrial platform and ecosystem construction as the key entry point for accelerating the building of a modern industrial system with stronger international competitiveness and promoting the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services. As one of the provinces with the densest concentration of industrial internet platform resources in the country, Guangdong has promoted the formation of an industrial internet platform matrix with national-level platforms taking the lead, industry-specific platforms standing out, and regional platforms linked together, among which some leading platforms have formed a complete functional system of "data-driven, resource-coordinated, scenario-applied, and ecosystem-empowered," capable of providing manufacturing enterprises with full-process services from equipment connection, data governance, and intelligent decision-making to industrial chain coordination. Supported by industrial internet platforms, the new energy vehicle sector relies on them to connect the entire chain of R&D, production, after-sales, charging, and battery recycling, achieving flexible production of multiple models on mixed lines, full-process quality traceability, and remote intelligent operation and maintenance; in the home appliance manufacturing sector, platform empowerment helps enterprises quickly respond to market demand and carry out value-added services such as customized production, remote fault diagnosis, and home appliance recycling and reuse. In addition, it has built achievement transformation and public service platforms, laid out pilot-scale testing platforms, concept verification centers, and engineering research centers, launched a "use first, transfer later" service platform to reduce enterprise application costs and trial-and-error risks; and service platforms such as the comprehensive service base for Chinese enterprises "going global," the Guangdong enterprise going global comprehensive service port, and the Guangdong Province Foreign-Related Legal Promotion Center integrate overseas legal, logistics, financial, and other resources, driving professional services and manufacturing to "go global" together.
Useful insights from Guangdong's promotion of the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Building a modern industrial system and achieving an overall leap in the industrial system is an important strategic task for the 15th Five-Year Plan period." The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan has made important arrangements for "building a modern industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy." Promoting the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services and building a modern industrial system with stronger international competitiveness is a key move to embrace the wave of technology and win the initiative for the future. Guangdong, with the responsibility of a major economic province, has continued to explore in building a modern industrial system with stronger international competitiveness, providing a practical model for the whole country to draw on.
Improving the policy support system. Promoting the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services is a systematic project that requires overall planning and multi-party coordination. Guangdong's practice shows that building a policy system that connects the upper and lower levels and is mutually supporting can effectively break down barriers to industrial development, transform institutional advantages into governance effectiveness, and provide stable expectations and lasting support for building a modern industrial system with stronger international competitiveness. To promote the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary, on the basis of maintaining policy continuity and stability, to carry out targeted policy innovation, research and introduce a systematic "policy package," and, relying on coordinated policy efforts and integrated use of tools, to centrally sort out, classify, summarize, and optimize and improve the key measures scattered across various policy documents. It is necessary to improve the factor guarantee system, better guide the agglomeration of capital, technology, talent, and other factors, provide targeted empowerment to links such as scientific and technological innovation foundation strengthening, industrial cluster development, application scenario innovation, regional coordination and cooperation, and cultivation of high-quality enterprises, and promote the organic connection between manufacturing transformation and upgrading policies and service industry capacity expansion and quality improvement policies.
Integrating into the global value chain system. Opening up is a distinctive hallmark of Chinese modernization. Relying on the advantage of China's super-large market, enhancing the capacity for opening up in expanding international cooperation can expand broad space for economic development. Guangdong's practice shows that high-level opening up not only expands broad international market space for the development of advanced manufacturing, but also, through international competition and alignment with rules, forces producer services to extend toward specialization and the high end of the value chain, forming a sound path of promoting manufacturing-services integration through opening up, enhancing industrial levels through integration, and seeking global win-win through cooperation. To promote the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to further deepen the reform of the institutional mechanisms for promoting foreign investment, implement the catalog of industries encouraged for foreign investment, guide more foreign investment into advanced manufacturing, modern services, and other fields, actively participate in strengthening, supplementing, and extending the chains of key advantageous industries, continue to build the "Invest in China" brand, and inject new momentum into the development of new quality productive forces. It is necessary to support qualified enterprises in accelerating their international layout, guide manufacturing enterprises to join forces with producer service enterprises to go global together, and jointly build overseas R&D centers, distribution centers, and after-sales service systems; support private enterprises going global in leveraging cooperation resources of state-owned enterprises and listed companies, create a chain-based model of going global, expand service exports, guide enterprises to enhance their international competitiveness, and gain a firm foothold in the global industrial chain.
Based on the resource endowments of the local region and department. All regions should combine their actual conditions, act in light of local conditions, and strengthen advantages and address shortcomings (扬长补短, yang chang bu duan - "raise the strengths, supplement the weaknesses") in order to find a path of high-quality development suited to their own actual conditions. Guangdong has implemented the "chain chief system" across the province, sorted out 20 key industrial chains, with provincial leaders serving as chain chiefs leading research teams, accurately grasping the technical routes, industrial chain layout, and actual application scenarios of new energy, artificial intelligence, and other fields, and drawing and dynamically updating industrial chain maps. To promote the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to accurately assess global technological trends, industrial laws, and scenario demands, sort out key industrial chains, implement "open competition for the best candidate" for concentrated research on bottleneck links in the industrial chain, guide the transformation and upgrading of traditional advantageous industries, and promote the growth and expansion of strategic emerging industries. On the basis of industrial research and demonstration, it is necessary to strengthen advantages and address shortcomings, highlight characteristics, scientifically determine development priorities based on locational features, resource endowments, and industrial foundations, strengthen coordinated efforts, and transform existing resources into strong momentum for promoting development.
Creating a more efficient industrial ecosystem. Platforms and carriers play an important role in pooling resources, connecting entities, and reducing transaction costs, and are important infrastructure for developing new quality productive forces and cultivating a modern industrial system. Guangdong's practice shows that integrating resources and coordinating efforts with platform thinking can better leverage the leading and driving role of platforms and promote high-quality industrial development. To promote the deep integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern services during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to make good use of multi-level and systematic industrial internet platforms, expand the breadth and depth of platform applications, vigorously develop digital and intelligent software and hardware products and solutions for key industries and key scenarios, and support the transformation of industries toward high-end, intelligent, and green development. It is necessary to build more and higher-level innovation platforms and carriers, leverage the driving effect of high-energy innovation platforms and industry innovation centers, and provide support for producing more and better results. It is necessary to solidly advance the construction of service carriers and provide enterprises with all-round, full-cycle systematic support. From the aspects of factor supply, talent guarantee, financial support, and platform support, it is necessary to continuously optimize the industrial ecological environment and provide important guarantees for high-quality development.
(Drafted by: Gu Naihua)
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Not long ago, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the High-level Dialogue on the Fifth Anniversary of the Global Development Initiative, pointing out: "As the largest developing country and a member of the Global South, China is willing to work with all parties, uphold the people-centered development philosophy, jointly promote the Global Development Initiative to be implemented in depth and with tangible results, transform the beautiful vision of the Sustainable Development Goals into a real and accessible picture, and make new and greater contributions to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind." Since the Global Development Initiative was put forward more than five years ago, it has yielded fruitful results. At present, changes unseen in a century are accelerating, development issues remain prominent, and the development gap between the North and the South continues to widen. Advancing the global development cause, improving global development governance, and thereby building a global community of development has become all the more important and urgent. The United Nations will launch the process of formulating the post-2030 global development agenda in September 2027. We must thoroughly study and implement the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important speeches and instructions, further promote the alignment of the Global Development Initiative with the UN development agenda, continuously advance the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and inject more certainty and positive energy into a world fraught with change and turbulence.
Cultivate the concept of common development. President Xi Jinping emphasized: "World prosperity and stability cannot be built on the basis of the poor becoming poorer and the rich becoming richer; only the common development of all countries is true development." In today's world, countries are an organic whole that is interdependent and sharing weal and woe (休戚与共, xiu qi yu gong - "joy, sorrow, and, with, together"). Faced with a severe development deficit, common development has become the only way for mankind to jointly resist risks and share prosperity. To continuously advance the Global Development Initiative in depth and with tangible results, the international community needs to understand the issue of common development from the height of the general trend of history and build consensus on common development. First, it is necessary to push all parties to pay more attention to development issues, grasp development as the master key to solving all problems, strengthen systematic and institutional arrangements for development topics, and place development at the center of the international agenda. Second, it is necessary to promote greater attention to and advocacy of the right to development at the international level. In July 2025, the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council adopted by consensus the resolution "The Contribution of Development to the Enjoyment of All Human Rights," proposed by China, marking that the concept of promoting human rights through development is becoming a broad consensus of the international community. In the future, more results of development cooperation should be used to bring the shared right to development deep into people's hearts. Finally, it is necessary to continue to advocate "leaving no country and no one behind," oppose treating development issues with zero-sum thinking, promote the building of a global development partnership that is united, equal, balanced, and inclusive in global development cooperation, lead global governance to effectively respond to the urgent expectations of Global South countries, and blaze a new path of international development cooperation featuring equality, mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation.
Promote the modernization of all countries in the world. President Xi Jinping emphasized: "Chinese modernization is a modernization that follows the path of peaceful development, benefiting not only the Chinese people but also promoting the modernization of all countries in the world." The proposal of the Global Development Initiative shows that what China pursues is not minding only one's own interests (独善其身, du shan qi shen - "alone, perfect, its, body") in modernization, but rather, together with all countries, realizing a world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity. Over the past five years, the Global Development Initiative has mobilized more than US$23 billion in funds, implemented more than 2,000 projects, taking root and flourishing (落地生根, luo di sheng gen - "land, ground, grow, root") in more than 120 countries with results, trained more than 200,000 talents for developing countries, and made important contributions to advancing the process of world modernization. To advance the Global Development Initiative in depth and with tangible results, it is necessary to help Global South countries solve development difficulties and jointly march toward modernization. Continue to share China's development dividends, let the fruits of Chinese modernization benefit the people of all countries more and more fairly, and inject strong momentum into global development. Continuously summarize and share China's development and governance experience, provide reference for developing countries in advancing modernization, and help them enhance their capacity for independent development. Comprehensively align with the UN's global development agenda, leverage China's advantages, focus on addressing urgent survival and development issues such as poverty reduction and food security, solve bottleneck problems such as development financing, strengthen cooperation on digital and green economic transformation, and provide assistance for countries at different stages of development to move toward modernization.
Deepen the inclusive benefits of scientific and technological innovation. At present, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs. The development space of new fields such as the digital economy and green economy continues to expand, and frontier technologies empower traditional industrial sectors, providing new momentum for the common development of all countries. The continuous advancement of the Global Development Initiative in depth and with tangible results cannot be separated from adhering to innovation-driven development and promoting technology to empower global development. First, promote more resources for international development cooperation to be invested in innovation tracks such as the digital economy and green transformation, and make up for the shortcomings of innovation infrastructure in developing countries. Build the "Digital South" brand of the global development project library, make good use of the "Special Fund for Digital Capacity Building," and continuously promote bridging the digital and intelligent divide. Share mature green technologies with Global South countries to help them rapidly increase the share of clean energy. Second, promote the equal participation of all countries in the global innovation network and use scientific and technological progress to help narrow the North-South gap. Build global collaboration platforms in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, hydrogen energy, 6G communications, and embodied intelligence, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological cooperation achievements, and create more industrial opportunities and economic growth points. Promote the opening of international big science programs to Global South countries. Third, participate in global science and technology governance, deeply practice the International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Initiative and the Global AI Governance Initiative, so that scientific and technological innovation achievements can better benefit the people of all countries, help countries achieve leapfrog development in the wave of innovation, and lay a solid foundation for building a global community of development.
Improve global development governance. Advocate the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, commit to promoting an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, strengthen policy coordination and alignment on the basis of respecting the differences of all countries, seek more convergence points of interests, resolve differences through consultation, and seek win-win outcomes through cooperation. Promote the linkage and coordination of the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative" with the United Nations and its subsidiary organizations, APEC, the G20, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and other global and regional cooperation mechanisms, and gather broad forces supporting global development cooperation. Give full play to the role of the Global Development Promotion Center as a platform, rely on special funds, project libraries, and other means to ensure the implementation of projects under the framework of the Global Development Initiative. With professional think tanks such as the China International Development Knowledge Center and the Global South Research Center as intellectual support, establish a global development knowledge network, deepen joint research and knowledge sharing around development cooperation fields of key concern to Global South countries such as poverty reduction, food security, industrialization, digital economy, and connectivity, continuously release the Global Development Report, promote the exchanging and learning from each other (交流互鉴, jiao liu hu jian - "exchange, mutual, learn from") of development experience, and gather the wisdom and strength for jointly promoting development.
(The author is a specially invited researcher at the Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy Research Center)
Return to TopDeepening Institutional Building, Telling the Story of Cooperation Well
Samadi Shaoxin, Deputy Secretary-General of the Secretariat of the China–Central Asia Mechanism
In recent years, cooperation between China and Central Asian countries in various fields has continued to deepen and be consolidated. Among these, institutional building has played an important role. At present, 14 ministerial-level cooperation platforms have been established under the China–Central Asia Mechanism, and the China–Central Asia Poverty Reduction Cooperation Center, the Education Exchange and Cooperation Center, the Desertification Prevention and Control Cooperation Center, and the Trade Facilitation Cooperation Platform have also been put into operation one after another. Projects such as the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway are advancing steadily, and the level of connectivity continues to improve. In 2025, the trade volume between China and the five Central Asian countries exceeded US$100 billion for the first time, and the share of mechanical and electrical products and high-tech products in trade has been continuously increasing. At the same time, people-to-people cooperation in areas such as youth study programs, language teaching, and friendship-city exchanges has continued to deepen.
The media are both recorders and participants in cooperation. In recent years, interactions between the media of China and Central Asian countries have continued to increase, and cooperation and exchanges have grown day by day. The Secretariat of the China–Central Asia Mechanism is willing to strengthen information sharing with the media of various countries, carry out activities such as joint interviews and mutual visits by young journalists, and conduct training on fact-checking, digital literacy, and the compliant use of artificial intelligence. Next year, the third China–Central Asia Summit will be hosted by China, and we look forward to the media of all countries telling the story of cooperation between China and Central Asian countries in a more specific, more accurate, and more heartwarming way.
(Compiled by Wang Xuchen, reporter of this newspaper)
Conveying Cultural Charm, Advancing Brand Globalization
Yang Hongliang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Shaanxi Xifeng Distillery Group Co., Ltd.
Xifeng liquor originated at the starting point of the ancient Silk Road. From the ritual vessels of the "Qin drink" of the Zhou Dynasty and the eulogies of literati in the Tang and Song dynasties, to being named one of the "Four Famous Liquors" at the first liquor appraisal conference of New China, as a national brand rooted in Shaanxi, Xifeng liquor upholds the philosophy of "using liquor as a medium and culture as a bridge," promoting mutual understanding and connectivity between Chinese and foreign civilizations in the process of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative.
Using liquor as a medium to connect people's hearts and build a bridge for cultural exchange. Xifeng liquor actively participates in international exchange activities, appearing at international events on multiple occasions to convey the charm of Eastern culture embodied in Chinese baijiu.
Consolidating the foundation of quality with standards and building trust in the international brand. Relying on its digital intelligent brewing plant, Xifeng liquor has established a whole-chain quality control system covering raw grain cultivation, daqu brewing, storage and blending, and export traceability, holding the bottom line of quality.
Expanding cooperation space with openness and steadily advancing brand globalization. At present, Xifeng liquor's sales network covers more than 30 countries and regions, with distribution channels established in markets such as North America, Europe, Japan, and South Korea, and its products entering overseas duty-free shops, supermarkets, and food and beverage outlets.
Following the footsteps of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, Xifeng liquor will continue to promote the spread of the Fengxiang brewing technique and the brand story to the world, make good use of baijiu as a cultural window, tell the warm and profound story of China, and promote mutual learning among civilizations and the integration of commerce and trade.
(Compiled by Fang Yuan, reporter of this newspaper)
Setting Sail for Overseas Markets, Forging Excellent Quality
Zhang Yanjun, Deputy General Manager of Dongfeng Yipai Automobile Technology Company
At present, Dongfeng Motor has built a complete brand matrix overseas with a clear hierarchy: Dongfeng is deeply rooted in the mainstream market, Voyah focuses on high-end smart new energy vehicles, and Mengshi leads the luxury intelligent off-road segment.
In September, Dongfeng released its "Sky Sail" globalization strategy, planning to invest a total of 50 billion yuan in overseas markets by 2030, launch more than 50 products, and achieve annual sales of 1.5 million vehicles. Dongfeng has formulated a "125 Global Business Layout": one core foundation, with China as the home base serving as the global hub for intelligent manufacturing and exports; two strategic highlands, with the passenger vehicle business focusing on the European and American markets and accelerating localized deep cultivation; and five fulcrums, allocating resources precisely according to market characteristics in Southeast Asia, North and Central Asia, the Middle East, North and Central Africa, and Australia and New Zealand.
Driven by technology, Dongfeng develops high-quality, globalized products, achieving a shift from "adaptive exports" to "global synchronous original intelligent manufacturing." At the same time, Dongfeng works with partners to build a global platform for technology and resource sharing, engaging in deep cooperation in marketing, manufacturing, technology, supply chain, and other areas.
Several of Dongfeng's main models under Yipai Technology have entered more than 60 countries and regions. In the future, it will create more global models, accelerate the building of localized R&D, manufacturing, and service teams, and deeply integrate into overseas markets.
(Compiled by Xing Can, reporter of China City News)
Traveling Light to the Scene, Spreading Harmony to the Four Seas
Yu Meng, Vice President of vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. and Vice President of Imaging
Enabling recorders to focus on the scene and making good stories easy to convey is the value of a company's deep cultivation of mobile imaging technology.
vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. (vivo), relying on its "self-developed + co-developed" dual-engine BlueImage imaging system, from the self-developed imaging chip VS1 to jointly defining optical standards with ZEISS, integrates cinematic-grade main cameras with professional-grade stabilization, enabling smartphones to complete the full multimedia workflow of text, images, video, and live streaming, putting professional shooting into the pocket.
One smartphone is a mobile news workstation, and small equipment can also handle big scenes. As a strategic imaging technology partner of People's Daily, vivo is bringing China's lightweight capabilities to a broader stage. From the construction sites of infrastructure projects in countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative to the heartwarming moments of people-to-people connectivity between China and foreign countries, vivo hopes that journalists can use convenient tools to capture moments that must not be missed, at the first moment and on the first scene.
When enterprises go global, it is not about "passing through" but about "putting down roots." vivo adheres to its globalization strategy, establishing factories with local partners in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, and other countries. In the future, vivo will open up services such as dual-5G aggregated live streaming and professional Log video to global media partners, enabling smart and convenient devices to carry professional and reliable reporting and tell the story of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative well.
(Compiled by Zhan Qianhui, reporter of National Humanities History)
Expanding Dairy Cooperation, Strengthening Exchange and Mutual Learning
Zhang Yipeng, Vice President of Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd.
Since the Belt and Road Initiative Media Cooperation Forum was held more than 10 years ago, the circle of friends has continued to expand and the bonds of cooperation have continued to deepen.
Yili actively takes root in the markets of various countries where it operates. In New Zealand, some ranchers were worried about long-term interests, so we offered a 10-year cooperation agreement, responding to them with commitment. In Thailand, Yili has won the Thai Food and Drug Administration Quality Award for seven consecutive years. In Indonesia, Yili localizes its supply chain as much as possible, with more than 90 percent of employees at its production base being local people.
Over the years, more than 400 overseas media outlets and online influencers have visited Yili's bases at home and abroad. It is these authentic records that make the image of "Chinese enterprises as both builders and partners" tangible and credible. In the process of internationalization, Yili actively fulfills its corporate social responsibility, respects different cultures, and actively participates in local community development, biodiversity conservation, and other work.
Yili is willing to continue opening the doors of its global pastures and factories, welcoming media from all countries for joint interviews and multilingual dissemination, promoting cultural integration through exchange and mutual learning, and jointly gathering the harmony of the Silk Road. One road connects the world, and one cup of milk benefits the health of the globe. Yili is willing to work together closely with media from all countries, tell the Silk Road story well, and pool consensus and strength for the high-quality joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative.
(Compiled by Nie Yinghao, reporter of Securities Times)
Sharing the Fruits of the Silk Road, Jointly Promoting Media Cooperation
Khalid Al-Orabi, Executive Editor-in-Chief and Director of International Affairs of Muscat Media Group, Oman
After the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed in 2013, China joined hands with many countries around the world to establish cooperation mechanisms, advance cooperation projects, promote joint construction, and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
Today, these fruits are benefiting the people of all countries: in Oman, the planned investment in the China–Oman (Duqm) Industrial Park project has reached US$10 billion; in Egypt, China plays a huge role in the construction and investment of Egypt's Suez Canal Corridor development plan; in Africa, Latin America, and other parts of the world, similar successful examples are too many to count.
I have observed that the functions of Chinese media are no longer limited to traditional news gathering and reporting. Chinese media have become an important force in the implementation of national initiatives, enhancing friendly relations, building bridges of cooperation, and establishing partnerships. People's Daily is a very good example. The Belt and Road Initiative Media Cooperation Forum, initiated by People's Daily, has been held for 10 sessions, actively promoting dialogue and cooperation between Chinese and foreign media.
I believe that the media of all countries in the world shoulder an important mission and should actively assist the Belt and Road Initiative in building communication bridges between countries and regions. Media professionals should effectively use new media technologies and social platforms to improve the quality of reporting and tell the story of cooperation well.
(Compiled by Zhang Wenhao, reporter of this newspaper)
Introducing Financial Vitality, Nourishing the Blossoms of the Silk Road
Lü Jiajin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Industrial Bank Co., Ltd.
Industrial Bank places international operations at a strategic height and has gradually built a cross-border financial system that integrates domestic and overseas operations, online and offline channels, local and foreign currencies, onshore and offshore business, and commercial and investment banking under the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan. At present, Industrial Bank has a Hong Kong branch and a London representative office overseas, with more than 1,000 overseas correspondent banks in more than 100 countries and regions, capable of handling settlement in more than 190 currencies, paving the way for cooperation through financial connectivity.
Putting "connectivity" first. Industrial Bank supports the construction of the Tanzania Central Line Standard Gauge Railway, the Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka, and other projects, ensuring the smooth flow of goods and the convenience of travel.
Using "intelligence" as wings. Relying on tools such as cross-border financing, global treasury, and exchange rate hedging, Industrial Bank accompanies a group of internet companies, intelligent vehicle companies, biopharmaceutical companies, and cross-border e-commerce companies in going global.
Using "green" as the foundation. Industrial Bank's green finance balance has exceeded 2 trillion yuan, and it was among the first to sign the "Green Investment Principles for the Belt and Road."
Deepening regional cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, cooperation in the financial industry is an inherent or necessary part. Industrial Bank looks forward to working with overseas peers to jointly tackle challenges in connecting the capital markets of various countries, jointly exploring digital currencies, and learning from each other in digital and intelligent transformation and development, making greater contributions to regional cooperation.
(Compiled by Shi Qingchuan, reporter of China Economic Weekly)
Crossing Mountains, Seas, and Stars, Heading for a Better Future
Wang Zixiong, Member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Chongqing High-tech Zone, Western Science City
The joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative has opened a channel to the world for the Chongqing High-tech Zone of Western Science City; the development of the Chongqing High-tech Zone has also provided innovative supply and open strength for the joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Strengthening science and technology for the benefit of the people. The rapid detection kit for potato seed tuber viruses developed by the Germplasm Creation Big Science Center produces results in 5 minutes and has been promoted to more than 10 countries including Kazakhstan. The digital slice scanning system and nuclear medicine technology of Jinfeng Laboratory are radiating outward through cooperation networks.
Strengthening intelligent manufacturing going global. Moore Water Treatment's pure water equipment is exported to more than 30 countries and is a supporting supplier for the United Nations water systems. Mingzhu Electromechanical's screw pump solves the difficult problem of conveying complex media in oil fields, and its high-pressure mixed transport equipment is sold to Central Asia and the Middle East.
Strengthening educational cooperation. The Western (Chongqing) Science City International Cooperation Pilot Zone for High-Skill Talent has carried out more than 20 cooperation projects with 13 countries. Chongqing University, together with scientific research forces from various countries, is jointly developing a reliability assessment platform for high-proportion renewable energy power systems in Egypt.
Strengthening corridor empowerment. The China-Europe Railway Express (Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe) reaches Duisburg, Germany, directly in 13 to 15 days, saving more than half the time compared to sea transport. The Chongqing Xiyong–ASEAN cross-border special line has improved timeliness by 30 percent and reduced logistics costs by 20 percent.
(Compiled by Xing Can, reporter of China City News)
Adhering to Innovation-Driven Development, Integrating Traditional Culture
Lin Yuting, President and Co-founder of the Brand of Guyu Biotechnology Group Co., Ltd.
As a young brand, Guyu has always been exploring how to tell the story of a Chinese brand's growth to the world with technological innovation and cultural confidence.
Technological self-reliance is the support for brand growth. We are deeply engaged in basic research on skin types, building a full-stack self-developed system, and promoting the self-development and self-production of core raw materials and products. At the same time, we cooperate with universities and research institutions to promote the transformation of scientific research achievements into industrial applications.
Cultural confidence is the foundation of brand development. We focus on traditional Chinese botanical extracts such as licorice and ginseng in our core raw materials, conducting research with modern technology; in product design, we draw inspiration from traditional artifacts such as the Southern Song Dynasty official kilns, integrating traditional culture with contemporary aesthetics and social responsibility.
Openness and self-improvement expand the space for brand development. In April 2026, Guyu's "Qingwen" participated for the first time as a raw material supplier in the international raw materials exhibition held in Paris, France, where its three core raw materials — Aurora Licorice, rare ginsenoside CK, and cell secretin HME — attracted the attention of buyers from Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, and the brand's influence continues to grow.
Guyu will strive to integrate into the magnificent chapter of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, writing the unique growth story of a Chinese brand along this road of cooperation, road of prosperity, and road of civilization.
(Compiled by Wang Xuchen, reporter of this newspaper)
Smoothing the Journey of Inbound Travel, Experiencing the Charm of China
Qin Jing, Vice President of Trip.com Group
Among the various forms of people-to-people exchange, tourism has a high frequency and a low threshold, and everyone can participate. At the same time, every transaction also lands on hotels, travel agencies, tour guides, and shops.
From January to June this year, Trip.com served 15 million inbound tourists, with inbound travel orders growing by 95 percent. On Trip.com's overseas version, more than 8,000 scenic spots are open to the international market, with 63,000 new ticket types added for foreign tourists; multilingual ticket machines cover more than 280 scenic spots and support 23 languages; the platform supports 44 currencies and 65 payment methods. Over the past four years, Trip.com has helped approximately 4.85 million foreign tourists purchase high-speed rail tickets, and has set up inbound travel service counters at airports in multiple cities, handling approximately 66,000 consultations in total.
In the first half of this year, we invited nearly 2,000 tourism practitioners from 67 countries and regions to Guilin, Guangxi. Many of them came to Guilin for the first time and said they had not expected China to have so many delicious foods and fun places. Trip.com launched a free half-day tour in 2024, upgraded it in 2025 to cover a broader range of inbound tourists, and it is now available in multiple cities across China. We will continue to expand the influence of domestic tourism destinations, make Chinese tourism products more visible in foreign markets, and let overseas tourists experience the real charm of China.
(Compiled by Fang Yuan, reporter of this newspaper)
Strengthening Professional Collaboration, Enhancing Mutual Understanding
Ruslan Kenjayev, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of People's Word Newspaper of Uzbekistan
In 2014, I participated in the first Silk Road Economic Belt Media Cooperation Forum. Over the past 12 years, the Belt and Road Initiative Media Cooperation Forum has gradually developed into an important international platform for professional dialogue, and the Belt and Road News Network has brought together many media member units.
The international community needs to understand what changes cooperation projects such as infrastructure, industrial enterprises, and energy facilities have brought to local areas, and whether they have increased employment and facilitated trade and travel. An important responsibility of the media is to transform the fruits of cooperation into true and specific stories. At present, the continuous increase in false information content poses a challenge to the authenticity of news. Strengthening professional collaboration among international media helps improve information verification capabilities and jointly explore ways and means of responsibly using new technologies such as artificial intelligence.
For Central Asian countries, deepening cooperation in the media field and the continuous development of relations with China reinforce each other. Media of all countries can continuously exchange news works and media resources; further carry out joint interviews and tell the story of "one project" and "one story"; strengthen the sharing of expert resources in the fields of economy, energy, transportation, digital technology, agriculture, and education; and carry out joint training on fact-checking, image and video verification, and identifying AI-generated content. The media should, with honest and professional reporting, contribute to enhancing mutual understanding among the people of all countries and pooling consensus.
(Compiled by Wang Xuchen, reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopOpening a "fast lane" for opening-up and cooperation toward the north
Zhang Tao, member of the Standing Committee of the Mudanjiang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China in Heilongjiang Province and head of the Publicity Department
Mudanjiang City in Heilongjiang Province has four national first-class ports. As an important strategic pivot of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor under the Belt and Road Initiative, it is advancing opening-up and cooperation in an all-round way.
We are deepening industrial collaboration and making every effort to build a production base for export commodities to Russia and a distribution base for commercial logistics for opening-up toward the north. In March 2025, the city was approved to build one of the first batch of national-level border-area industrial collaboration parks, enjoying policy support such as a reduced corporate income tax rate of 15 percent for key industries. In the first three quarters of this year, exports of automobiles and high-tech products grew by 153 percent and 91.9 percent year on year respectively, and during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the total import and export volume grew at an average annual rate of 10.1 percent. In September this year, the first container special train from Mudanjiang to Moscow, Russia, was launched, opening a "fast lane" for Mudanjiang's opening-up and cooperation toward the north.
We are making good use of the China-Russia mutual visa exemption policy, improving the level of facilitation, launching cross-border tourist buses and special trains, and introducing quality routes for cross-border self-driving tours, study tours, wellness tourism, and sightseeing. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the total number of tourist trips and total tourism revenue grew at average annual rates of 41 percent and 50.6 percent respectively, and in the first three quarters of this year, the number of inbound and outbound passengers increased by 34.9 percent year on year.
(Compiled by Fang Yuan, reporter of People's Daily)
Building an important opening-up gateway of the Yellow River Delta facing the Silk Road
Leng Xingbang, member of the Standing Committee of the Binzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China in Shandong Province and head of the Publicity Department
Binzhou City in Shandong Province is located in the north of Shandong, at the confluence of rivers and the sea, possessing the dual locational advantages of both a coastal area and an area along the Yellow River. Over the years, Binzhou has become deeply integrated into the high-quality joint development of the Belt and Road Initiative. Binzhou has 37 of the country's 41 major industrial categories, forming six advantageous industries each with a scale of over 100 billion yuan.
Opening-up is the lifeline of urban development. Binzhou has deeply implemented the "Binzhou Enterprises Going Global" initiative, cultivating 1,579 foreign trade filing enterprises and 68 multinational enterprises, with economic and trade exchanges covering 203 countries and regions. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the total import and export volume with countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative grew from 56.2 billion yuan in 2021 to 100.5 billion yuan in 2025, with high-end aluminum profiles, new textile materials, fine chemicals, and other "quality products of Binzhou" selling well in overseas markets.
The operational efficiency of Binzhou Port as a first-class open port continues to be unleashed, the "Binzhou-Xinjiang-Europe" and "Binzhou-Europe" freight trains operate steadily, and TIR (International Road Transport) operates on a regular basis; overseas warehouse layout covers 17 countries and regions, and eight foreign-related service centers have been innovatively established. Binzhou will continue to participate in the high-quality joint development of the Belt and Road Initiative and make every effort to build itself into an important opening-up gateway of the Yellow River Delta facing the Silk Road.
(Compiled by Shi Qingchuan, reporter of China Economic Weekly)
Connecting to the major logistics corridor and deepening cultural exchanges with countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative
Dai Siguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Ya'an Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China in Sichuan Province and deputy mayor
Ya'an City in Sichuan Province is a "striver" in the construction of the western region. Possessing unique and exceptional advantages (得天独厚, de tian du hou - "obtain, heaven, uniquely, thick"), Ya'an is located at the western gateway of the Chengdu-Chongqing region opening up toward the west, serving as a hub connecting the Sichuan-Tibet major corridor, and has built 2 railways, 7 expressways, and 15 national and provincial trunk roads. With excellent ecological endowments, Ya'an's forest coverage rate reaches 69.42 percent, with a city of mountains and waters half covered in green. With industries accumulating strength and momentum, in 2025, the growth rate of the added value of core industries of the digital economy in Ya'an ranked first in Sichuan Province.
Ya'an is an "action taker" in east-west collaboration. In terms of connectivity, the Ya'an base of the Chengdu China-Europe Railway Express assembly center was officially established, and Ya'an was formally connected to the international railway logistics major corridor. In terms of coordination, it fully undertakes data storage and computing power dispatch business from Chengdu-Chongqing and Tibet, jointly building a green computing power foundation for the western region. In terms of culture, using tea as a medium and pandas as friends, it continues to deepen cultural exchanges with countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative. At the same time, it optimizes the business environment and took the lead in Sichuan Province in launching the "run at most once" reform.
This forum has built a valuable platform for building consensus and regional cooperation. Ya'an is willing to take this forum as a new starting point to share opening-up opportunities with all parties, seek common cooperation and development, and jointly create a better future.
(Compiled by Xing Can, reporter of China City News)
Cultivating economic growth through hub flows
Wei Ke, secretary of the Xindu District Committee of the Communist Party of China in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Xindu District of Chengdu City in Sichuan Province cultivates economic growth through hub flows. Xindu is the northern gateway of Chengdu, possessing the largest highway logistics port in Chengdu, adjacent to the Chengdu International Railway Port, and has built a comprehensive transportation system of "7 expressways, 4 expressways, and 10 rail lines." The industrial agglomeration effect has subsequently emerged, bringing together 30 major industrial categories and over 2,000 industrial enterprises, covering aerospace, rail transit, biomedicine, food and beverage, and other industries. Consumption vitality continues to be unleashed, with Tianfu Boiling Town attracting over 6 million tourists annually.
Xindu, which integrates into the circle and gathers momentum, promotes regional common prosperity through coordinated development. It is making every effort to play the "twin cities" well, jointly building a coordinated development demonstration zone with Jiulongpo District of Chongqing, with 49-ton hydrogen energy heavy trucks running through the "Chengdu-Chongqing Hydrogen Corridor"; together with Guanghan City of Deyang, it has created Sichuan's first cross-city oil and gas industry ecosystem.
Xindu, which is open and integrated, aggregates global resources through two-way connectivity. It adheres to high-quality "bringing in," attracting nearly 100 enterprises from 18 countries to invest in Xindu; it adheres to high-quality "going global," building comprehensive foreign trade service platforms in the Middle East and Central Asia, and promoting "Made in Xindu" products and technologies to enter more than 40 countries and regions.
(Compiled by Zhan Xihui, reporter of National Humanities History)
Carrying out cooperation within the framework of the initiative to achieve one's own development
Alexandru Tanas, director general of the "InfoTag" news agency of Moldova
The Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum brings together journalists from different countries in China. Moldova is seeking models of international cooperation to achieve development, and the Belt and Road Initiative for joint development provides a cooperation solution for this.
Under this initiative, Moldova is a potential beneficiary of economic, technological, and cultural partnerships. China is an active participant in globalization, not only in the economic field but also in the technological and energy fields. For Moldova, this injects new meaning into the word "cooperation." What China offers is not just trade exchanges, but also technological exchanges, the flow of academics and professionals, industrial investment, and infrastructure modernization.
Moldova's electricity self-sufficiency rate is only 30 percent, with the remaining gap entirely imported from neighboring countries. China has already planned to build multiple solar power stations in Moldova and assist in developing energy storage capacity, which will promote the modernization of Moldova's energy infrastructure and the diversification of energy sources. I believe Moldova can make good use of its own advantages and carry out cooperation within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative for joint development to achieve its own development.
(Compiled by Nie Yinghao, reporter of Securities Times)
Responding to the initiative and promoting advanced environmental protection technologies
Liang Weigang, secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of the board of Zhongyuan Environmental Protection Co., Ltd.
As a national high-tech enterprise, a state-controlled listed company, and a national "Double Hundred Enterprise" in state-owned enterprise reform, Zhongyuan Environmental Protection focuses on major national strategies, building an industrial layout covering sewage and sludge treatment, reclaimed water utilization, ecological governance, and clean energy, with integrated full-chain service capabilities of investment, research and development, equipment manufacturing, construction, and operation, treating more than 900 million tons of sewage annually.
Building "three centers" to create a benchmark for green water services. Facing the green transformation, Zhongyuan Environmental Protection has innovatively built "three centers" for resources, energy, and carbon sinks, opening up the industrial chain for the resource utilization of sewage and sludge, developing green scenarios such as "water services + photovoltaics + energy storage" and "reclaimed water + clean energy + industrial utilization," and promoting the upgrading of sewage treatment plants from energy-consuming pollution control to new-type urban environmental protection hubs.
Zhongyuan Environmental Protection joins hands with academicians, experts, universities, and research institutes at home and abroad to build high-energy innovation platforms such as a national postdoctoral research workstation, and has developed achievements such as ultra-low emission activated coke process sewage treatment and sludge pyrolysis gasification. The enterprise actively responds to the Belt and Road Initiative for joint development, continuously building an international environmental protection brand and jointly drawing a blueprint for a better future.
(Compiled by Zhang Wenhao, reporter of People's Daily)
Making ancient civilization move from "being viewable" to "being touchable"
Yang Zanjun, member of the Party Working Committee and deputy director of the Management Committee of Qujialing Management Area, Jingmen City, Hubei Province
Possessing remains of prehistoric farming civilization dating back five thousand years, the Qujialing Management Area of Jingmen City in Hubei Province adheres to innovation-led development and continuously expands new space for regional industrial development.
Making ancient civilization move from "being viewable" to "being touchable." The Qujialing National Archaeological Site Park allows visitors to walk into the fields to touch rice ears, make painted pottery by hand, and closely view eggshell painted pottery with a body thickness of only 0.2 millimeters; 5G+VR (virtual reality) cloud exhibitions and "cultural relic blind box" cultural and creative products bring heavy history out of display cases and closer to the public.
Making the food industry move from "being grown" to "being manufactured." Relying on the "two institutes and one center" and based on frontier disciplines such as fermentation engineering, Qujialing uses synthetic biology and artificial intelligence technology to precisely manufacture functional proteins and dietary nutritional supplements.
Making the low-altitude economy move from "being built" to "being flown." It has planned 5 trunk drone logistics routes within the park, 10 provincial branch routes, and 30 terminal routes, and with an integrated investment-construction-operation model, it is promoting the transformation of the low-altitude economy industrial park into real industrial scenarios. The fertile soil of five thousand years of farming civilization is sprouting new branches of the era.
(Compiled by Zhan Xihui, reporter of National Humanities History)
Innovation is the confidence for enterprises to go global
Lin Dede, senior vice president of SKSHU Paint Co., Ltd.
Innovation is the confidence for enterprises to go global. SKSHU has more than 1,000 R&D personnel, participated in completing the key technology and application project for surface protection materials for a new generation of spacecraft, and won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award; it has laid out 16 modern green production bases globally.
At present, the company's business covers more than 30 countries and regions, and it is shifting from "selling products" to "building systems" and from "going out" to "staying and taking root." In terms of livelihood projects, it has participated in the construction of social housing in the Maldives and the national stadium in Cambodia; in terms of production capacity taking root, in 2025 it put a production center into operation in Ghana, and has successively laid out production centers in Angola, Saudi Arabia, and other countries, promoting the localization of products, technology, and supply chains; in terms of technology adaptation, it promotes radiation-cooling exterior walls and highly weather-resistant stone-like coatings in the Middle East, and provides industrial anti-corrosion solutions for the Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea and other projects.
In the future, the company will simultaneously promote the localization of products, supply chains, organization, and services, serve as a participant, builder, and contributor to the high-quality joint development of the Belt and Road Initiative, and strive to grow into a Chinese green building materials partner trusted by global customers.
(Compiled by Zhan Xihui, reporter of National Humanities History)
Promoting the landing and transformation of advanced international technologies in Fujian
Chen Liang, deputy director general of the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Fujian Province
Since the establishment of the BRICS Innovation Base, we have held more than 60 multilateral industrial exchange activities, released more than 100 quality cooperation cases, established the "Golden Egret" excellence scholarship, and promoted local enterprises to build factories in BRICS countries or spread technology.
The road of international industrial cooperation is broadening. We promote advantageous industries to participate in international collaboration and have cultivated a number of cooperation projects landing in BRICS countries and partner countries. We adhere to the two-way efforts of "bringing in" and "going global," introducing overseas advanced manufacturing technology, high-end equipment, and innovation achievements for landing and transformation; supporting enterprises to lay out overseas R&D centers and absorb international frontier technologies to empower local industries.
We promote advantageous industries such as new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, and textiles, footwear, and apparel to go global, achieving coordinated co-construction of industrial chains, standards, and services; support leading enterprises to lay out global R&D, production, and sales networks and connect with international development needs.
In the future, we will also promote the extension of the province's opening-up from commodity trade to industrial collaboration, scientific and technological innovation cooperation, joint standard building, and talent exchange; improve cross-border service mechanisms, deepen supporting collaboration between domestic and foreign investment, and promote the landing and transformation of advanced international technologies in Fujian.
(Compiled by Shi Qingchuan, reporter of China Economic Weekly)
Effectively playing the role of a comprehensive experimental platform for reform and opening-up
Chen Guoqiang, deputy director of the Management Committee of Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone
In recent years, the Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone has effectively played the role of a comprehensive experimental platform for reform and opening-up. In terms of high-level opening-up, we have achieved considerable results: issuing the country's first maritime safety transport guideline for containerized lithium battery energy storage systems; promoting the inclusion of chemical-grade barite powder in the International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code; and issuing special arbitration rules for the Maritime Silk Road.
In consolidating and expanding the functions of important nodes and important channels of the domestic and international dual circulation, Xiamen Port's container ship port stay time and berth stay time both rank among the best globally; it has opened China-Europe freight trains featuring sea-rail intermodal transport with seamless connection between the Maritime Silk Road and the overland Silk Road; and it has promoted the approval of the country's first global bonded maintenance project for non-self-produced medical devices.
At a new starting point, the Xiamen Free Trade Zone will strengthen its function as a source of reform and innovation, strive to expand the authorization of reform tasks in light of local conditions, and develop new quality productive forces; expand high-level opening-up and work intensively on actively shaping international economic and trade rules; at the same time, deeply serve major national strategies, build an opening-up channel of "seaport + airport + China-Europe freight trains," and strive to produce more replicable and scalable institutional innovation achievements.
(Compiled by Nie Yinghao, reporter of Securities Times)
Laying out key overseas logistics nodes and extending service networks
Zhu Yongjin, member of the Party Committee and deputy general manager of Fujian Provincial Port Group
Fujian Provincial Port Group fully leverages its locational advantages, actively integrates into the global industrial chain and supply chain, explores new paths for opening-up, and has created a number of port and shipping practice achievements highlighting Fujian characteristics.
Deeply cultivating the "Silk Road Maritime" brand building. At present, the "Silk Road Maritime" alliance has 393 members, with 160 named routes reaching 153 ports in 50 countries and regions. We are laying out key overseas logistics nodes and continuously extending the international service network of Fujian ports.
Continuously strengthening the sea-rail intermodal transport system. We promote the seamless connection between inland ports and seaports and implement the "one document, one container to the end" intermodal transport model for goods. We are accelerating the transformation from a traditional terminal operator to a full-process logistics service provider, customizing exclusive logistics solutions around Fujian's advantageous industries such as new energy.
In the next step, the group will, based on its main responsibilities and main business, contribute to high-level opening-up from four aspects. First, improve quality and strengthen the "Silk Road Maritime" platform, and increase the density and expand international routes. Second, weave a denser multimodal transport network and deepen sea-rail intermodal transport. Third, deepen international practical cooperation and cultivate and strengthen new business forms such as cross-border e-commerce and cold chain logistics. Fourth, accelerate the construction of smart ports and green ports and continuously improve port clearance efficiency.
(Compiled by Zhang Wenhao, reporter of People's Daily)
Exploring an opening-up path with distinctive local characteristics
Chen Dengfeng, deputy secretary of the Fuqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China in Fujian Province and mayor
In recent years, Fuqing City in Fujian Province, relying on its unique advantages, has walked out an opening-up path with distinctive local characteristics, mainly involving practical exploration in four aspects.
First, deepen reform to enhance the driving force of opening-up. Focusing on breakthroughs in areas such as park development and factor guarantee, we have successively secured multiple reform pilot projects such as urban-rural integrated development, laying a solid institutional foundation for high-level opening-up.
Second, strengthen platforms to improve the level of opening-up. We continue to promote the standardized construction of parks, and the Fuqing Rongqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone was rated as a typical case of promoting new industrialization in industrial parks in 2024. At the same time, relying on the deep-water port advantages of Jiangyin Port, we have built a contiguous container terminal.
Third, tap advantages to stimulate the potential of opening-up. Relying on the resources of overseas Chinese from Indonesia, we promote the construction and development of the China-Indonesia "Two Countries, Twin Parks," continuously deepen economic and trade cooperation, achieve the country's first import of Indonesian fresh coconuts and frozen durian, and continuously consolidate the foundation for cross-border industrial cooperation.
Fourth, optimize services to polish the name card of opening-up. We deepen the reform of "efficiently handling one thing," innovate the "benefiting enterprises" agency service mechanism for enterprise-related approval, and compress the overall processing time by 63 percent.
(Compiled by Xing Can, reporter of China City News)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙 超
Introduction
Tapping on the left, peering at the right, before setting off, Xu Ping'an carefully inspected the new-energy heavy truck of the Sany brand in front of him from top to bottom. He is 50 years old this year and works for Sichuan Shu'an Green Energy Logistics Co., Ltd. He has previously driven container transport trucks and extra-long trailers, but driving a new-energy heavy truck on a long haul is his first time.
"All set, let's go." After the inspection, Xu Ping'an invited the reporter to board the vehicle. Not long ago, on one day, at 8 p.m., a new-energy heavy truck with license plate "Chuan H09837D" departed from Shangda Logistics Park in Chengdu, Sichuan, heading north along the Beijing-Kunming Expressway toward Xi'an, Shaanxi, more than 700 kilometers away.
Logistics is the "meridians and collaterals" of the real economy. Highway freight undertakes the transport of more than 70 percent of the nation's production and livelihood materials, and among it, heavy trucks are the main vehicle type for long-haul freight. In recent years, the energy structure of China's heavy trucks has been transforming from "diesel-dominated" to "diversified coexistence, with new energy on the rise." In the first half of this year, cumulative sales of new-energy heavy trucks in China reached approximately 140,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 78.6 percent, and application scenarios are also expanding from port collection and distribution and coal trunk routes to urban logistics and inter-provincial freight.
In May this year, the Ministry of Transport, the National Development and Reform Commission, and other departments issued the "Implementation Plan for Promoting the Large-Scale Application of New-Energy Heavy Trucks," proposing that "by 2030, the penetration rate of new-energy heavy trucks will reach 40 percent, with the number of vehicles in use exceeding 1.6 million and accounting for about 20 percent."
From short-distance transfer to long-haul trunk routes, how can new-energy heavy trucks run farther and farther? The reporter accompanied a truck to conduct research.
Transport
Only when vehicles, energy replenishment, and cargo sources are coordinated on three fronts can the route "run smoothly"
The cab floor is about 1.5 meters above the ground. Xu Ping'an moved nimbly and boarded with ease. He adjusted the seat with air-suspension damping and began to size up this "new partner."
This pure-electric heavy truck tractor is towing a 16.5-meter-long trailer behind it, with a fully loaded total weight of more than 40 tons. The vehicle was purchased by Sichuan Shu'an Green Energy Logistics Co., Ltd., and the general merchandise, food, and other goods loaded on it were organized by Sichuan Yonglu Anzhuo Logistics Co., Ltd.
As night fell, the Shangda Logistics Park was brightly lit (灯火通明, deng huo tong ming - "lamp, fire, all, bright"), with workers shuttling back and forth carrying goods. "The park has always been this busy; there is rarely a quiet moment." Pointing at the goods piled like a mountain on the loading and unloading platform, He Xianyong, head of Yonglu Anzhuo Logistics Company, said the company mainly does less-than-truckload freight, which means gathering scattered goods from different customers and filling up a truck before dispatching it.
Patting the window behind the cab, Xu Ping'an signaled to the reporter: "The battery is right outside here." Outside the window, the battery with a rated energy of 600 kilowatt-hours weighs about 4.4 tons, hugging the vehicle body like a large schoolbag. Xu Ping'an cares a lot about weight. "If the truck carries 4 tons of battery, doesn't it have to carry 4 tons less cargo?"
"Not entirely." He Xianyong explained that freight transport must account for both weight and volume, and less-than-truckload freight emphasizes "matching heavy and light loads": first use heavy goods as the base, then load in goods that are large in volume but light in weight, making the fullest possible use of both space and load capacity. "Although the battery increases the vehicle weight, as long as the goods are properly matched, the impact on transport efficiency can be reduced."
An even bigger calculation is in freight costs — a diesel heavy truck with similar cargo capacity costs an average of three to four yuan per kilometer in fuel; this new-energy heavy truck costs an average of about one yuan per kilometer in electricity. Xu Ping'an quickly worked out the result: "Calculated on the basis of one truck running 200,000 to 300,000 kilometers a year, just the energy costs alone save several hundred thousand yuan every year."
"For fellow truck drivers, a heavy truck is a means of production. Beyond technology, the whole-life-cycle cost is an important indicator." Chen Dong, deputy general manager of Hunan Sany Heavy Truck Technology Co., Ltd., introduced that in logistics transport scenarios with high annual operating mileage, compared with fuel heavy trucks, the energy costs saved by new-energy heavy trucks are enough to cover the 200,000 to 300,000 yuan price difference in purchase, giving them an obvious advantage in whole-life-cycle cost.
"The country has more than 8 million heavy trucks in use, and new-energy models account for only about 5 percent, leaving enormous room for replacement. We judge that the market will see explosive growth." Chen Dong told the reporter that at the end of 2021, Sany Heavy Truck turned to new energy. "Having recognized the new trend, we completely stopped making fuel heavy trucks."
The determination was great, but the challenges were not small. Chen Dong recalled that in the first two and a half years of the transformation, the industrial chain was not yet complete, and not many people dared to buy. Sany Heavy Truck's annual sales fell all the way from a peak of 6 billion yuan when selling fuel trucks to just over 1 billion yuan. In the second half of 2024, as China's new-energy industrial chain and innovation chain continued to mature, production and sales of Sany Heavy Truck's new-energy models turned a corner.
Before following the truck, the reporter visited the Sany Intelligent Connected Heavy Truck Industrial Park in Changsha, Hunan. Pointing at a new-energy heavy truck that had just come off the production line, He Qi, dean of the Sany Heavy Truck Technology Research Institute, introduced: "The battery of this truck has a rated energy of 423 kilowatt-hours, and its weight has dropped from 3.7 tons in the early period to 3 tons. It can be placed either on the chassis or hung behind the front of the vehicle."
Battery weight is becoming lighter and lighter, while capacity is becoming larger and larger. He Qi said: "With the popularization of high-density batteries and high-performance fast-charging technology, new-energy heavy trucks, which in the early years could only be used in specific scenarios such as ports and parks, now have more application scenarios."
The reporter observed that next to the steering wheel of a fuel heavy truck there is a lever used to control the hydraulic retarder to assist in slowing the vehicle. On a new-energy heavy truck, the lever is still there, but it has become an energy-recovery intensity adjustment lever — when the vehicle decelerates, the motor can convert part of the kinetic energy into electrical energy for recovery and reuse.
Technological progress has enhanced product competitiveness, but for logistics companies to actually put them to use, the hurdle of energy replenishment must still be crossed.
Chen Dong introduced that when first carrying out market promotion in Chengdu, Sany Heavy Truck visited dozens of logistics companies, and the answer they mostly got was "there's no way." Compared with fuel heavy trucks, new-energy heavy trucks have shorter range and lower energy-replenishment efficiency, which left many companies with concerns: if the truck breaks down on the road and delivery is delayed, who bears the loss?
Shu'an Green Energy, however, saw an opportunity. "Green and low-carbon is the trend, and the cost advantage is right there." Liu Zejun, head of the company, decided to give it a try.
So the three parties joined hands to link up vehicles, energy replenishment, and cargo sources: Shu'an Green Energy funded the purchase of the vehicles; Sany Heavy Truck built the battery-swapping facilities to solve the energy-replenishment problem; and Yonglu Anzhuo was responsible for organizing cargo sources.
Route selection also required careful consideration. Chengdu is located at a key transportation junction in the southwest, with highways extending in all directions (四通八达, si tong ba da - "four, connect, eight, reach"), but the northbound route was more feasible: on the Sichuan-Shaanxi transport trunk line from Chengdu to Xi'an, goods such as medicinal herbs and seedlings move back and forth frequently, and there are cargo sources in both the northbound and southbound directions, which can reduce empty running. Guangyuan City in Sichuan along the route is an important hub where vehicles traveling from all directions (南来北往, nan lai bei wang - "south, come, north, go") change tractors and trailers, making it suitable as an energy-replenishment node.
In May this year, this new-energy heavy truck transport route began trial operation. After several months of adjustment, vehicle dispatch, cargo organization, and energy-replenishment arrangements were gradually straightened out. By September, a demonstration route composed of more than 20 new-energy heavy trucks, running in both directions daily, had been established.
At 8 p.m., Xu Ping'an started the vehicle and drove out of the logistics park. "In the past, I had to shout to be heard in the cab." After driving for more than half an hour, Xu Ping'an said with satisfaction: "The gear shifts are smooth, there's plenty of power on slopes, and there's assisted driving, so people don't get as tired. There's no diesel smell, and the noise is less too."
Energy Replenishment
Intensify efforts to build heavy-truck charging and battery-swapping stations, so that long hauls can "run through"
In the small hours, the scenery outside the window shifted from the vast openness of the Sichuan plain to the layered ridges and peaks of the mountains of northern Sichuan — Guangyuan had arrived.
Looking through the window, not far from the expressway exit, a blue Sany heavy-truck battery-swapping station was lit up. As the vehicle approached, the system sensed it automatically, and a voice prompt came through: "No swappable battery available."
Upon asking the staff, we learned that just 10 minutes before our arrival, a new-energy heavy truck had swapped away the last fully charged battery, and the remaining five batteries in the station were all being charged. Fortunately, more than 20 minutes later, the green indicator light of the swapping station lit up — there was now a fully charged battery in the station available for swapping.
Driving into the designated position, Xu Ping'an followed the voice prompts, shut down the high-voltage system, and turned off the engine to wait. Above his head, the mechanical arm of the gantry crane moved slowly, stopped above the vehicle's battery, extended its gripper, steadily lifted the battery weighing more than 4 tons, sent it into the charging compartment, and then loaded a fully charged battery back onto the vehicle. The whole process took less than 5 minutes. "Battery swapping is fast; it would be even better if there were a few more batteries," Xu Ping'an said candidly.
"A single battery-swapping station requires an investment of over ten million yuan, and it is very difficult to roll them out widely relying on the company's own investment alone." Chen Dong said that at present, the ratio of charging to battery swapping across the industry is about 7:3, and among the new-energy heavy trucks the company has sold, about 90 percent rely mainly on charging. "For cross-city and cross-province trunk transport, a widely distributed third-party fast-charging network is still indispensable."
This trip covered more than 700 kilometers, and for this new-energy heavy truck with a full-charge range of about 400 kilometers, replenishing energy twice was the most reliable option: swapping batteries in Guangyuan, about 300 kilometers from Chengdu, and then charging in Yangxian County, Hanzhong, Shaanxi, about 230 kilometers from Guangyuan. "The Regulations on the Implementation of the Road Traffic Safety Law stipulate that a driver must rest for at least 20 minutes after four consecutive hours of driving. With this arrangement, 'driver rest' and 'vehicle energy replenishment' are matched," Xu Ping'an said.
Setting out from Guangyuan, about 3 hours later, Yangxian County arrived. Near the expressway exit, dedicated fast-charging piles for new-energy heavy trucks built by a third-party operator were arranged in a straight line (一字排开, yi zi pai kai - "one, character, line, spread out"). When we arrived, three heavy trucks were already charging.
"Two charging guns charge one vehicle at the same time; your truck can be fully charged in two hours," said the charging station staff. The reporter got out to check and found that one of the charging guns had malfunctioned, with the voltage and current shown on the screen clearly deviating from the normal fast-charging range, and the estimated remaining charging time displayed as more than 4 hours. The reporter quickly reminded Xu Ping'an to move the vehicle and switch piles. Fortunately, not much time was lost.
"Good thing you looked carefully." Xu Ping'an said that the dense array of current and voltage data on the screen was somewhat hard for him to understand. "In the past, when driving a fuel truck, I could fix some minor problems myself. Now that I drive a new-energy vehicle, the engine and the water temperature gauge are gone. If the vehicle has a problem, I can only call for help."
In Chen Dong's view, "Now that the trucks have been replaced with new-energy heavy trucks, the drivers' skills must also be upgraded accordingly. Understanding charging data and handling sudden faults are lessons that fellow truck drivers need to make up."
After charging was complete, Xu Ping'an woke from a short nap, took a look at the bill, and laughed: "Charged 578 kilowatt-hours, and it only cost 508 yuan."
On the "Sany Electric Truck" WeChat mini-program, there is a real-time updated charging "price map," with one kilowatt-hour costing 1.5 yuan at peak times and only 60 to 70 cents at off-peak times. "The mini-program brings together all the stations where the company's new-energy heavy trucks have charged. Where there are empty spots and when electricity prices are low is clear at a single glance (一目了然, yi mu le ran - "one, eye, finish, understand")." Chen Dong said, "Freight transport now operates on thin margins, so being able to charge at cheap and convenient stations is competitiveness itself."
Entering the Qinling Mountains, the terrain became undulating. First there were dozens of kilometers of continuous climbing, and after crossing the highest point, there were again dozens of kilometers of continuous descent. As the vehicle approached the highest point, the instrument panel showed only a little over 60 kilometers of remaining range, yet the distance to Xi'an was still more than 100 kilometers. Xu Ping'an shouted out in alarm: "What's going on?!"
The reporter quickly called He Qi. He Qi reassured him, "Don't worry, take a look again after the vehicle goes downhill." He further explained: when the vehicle climbs for a long time, the motor continuously outputs high power, and electricity consumption accelerates, so the system estimates the remaining range as greatly reduced. After entering the long descent, the motor's drive power will drop to zero, and the vehicle will use the downhill kinetic energy to generate electricity, and the recovered electrical energy will make the remaining range quickly rebound.
Sure enough, after the vehicle began to descend, the displayed range recovered to more than 200 kilometers, and the battery level even increased slightly.
"Road conditions affect electricity consumption and also affect the system's estimation of remaining range." He Qi said that in response to such situations, the company will strengthen training for drivers and freight companies at the time of vehicle delivery, and will make specific reminders in light of the characteristics of long climbs and long descents on mountain roads.
In addition, although there are already several thousand new-energy heavy truck charging stations nationwide, most are concentrated in closed scenarios such as ports and parks, and heavy-truck charging facilities at expressway service areas are still insufficient. Xu Ping'an knows this from personal experience: "One battery swap, one charge, and getting off the expressway twice and back on again — all of that is time cost."
The "Implementation Plan for Promoting the Large-Scale Application of New-Energy Heavy Trucks" proposes building zero-carbon road transport corridors along the key sections of the national expressway network's "5 radials, 4 longitudinal, and 5 transverse" routes, and supporting and guiding the construction of about 3,000 heavy-truck charging and battery-swapping stations. The Beijing-Kunming Expressway taken on this trip has been included in the key sections. In Hunan, the province's first pair of heavy-truck charging stations and battery-swapping stations at expressway service areas were put into operation at the end of last year and in May this year respectively. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Hunan also plans to build 48 new-energy heavy-truck charging and battery-swapping stations at 24 pairs of service areas, and the energy-replenishment "network" is being woven ever denser.
Operation
Only by avoiding "involution" and focusing on the long term can the industry "run steadily"
At 1:20 p.m. the next day, after more than 17 hours, we arrived in Xi'an. This long haul directly confirmed the feasibility of new-energy heavy truck trunk transport.
Chen Dong introduced that when Sany's new-energy heavy trucks first started out, the best-selling model was equipped with a battery with a rated energy of 282 kilowatt-hours, capable of traveling only about 130 kilometers, mainly used for short-distance transfer in relatively closed environments such as ports and mines; as technology advanced, models with batteries rated at 425 kilowatt-hours reached a full-charge range of about 300 kilometers and began to take on short- and medium-distance transport of sand, gravel, steel, and other goods; now, models with batteries rated at 600 kilowatt-hours or more can run 400 to 500 kilometers on a single charge, and application scenarios have further expanded to express delivery, fast freight, and cross-province transport. Looking across the country, logistics companies such as SF Express and JD.com have also applied new-energy heavy trucks on a large scale.
Beyond the upgrade in transport capacity, logistics organization models are also iterating. Liu Zejun recalled that in the old days, drivers crowded into the logistics park's information hall, staring at the cargo information on the blackboard and inquiring around for cargo owners. Now they can take orders with their phones, and cargo sources, freight rates, and vehicle information are becoming increasingly transparent.
More critically, electrification keeps vehicles online in real time, and the speed, location, battery level, and energy consumption of each truck, whether the driver is driving fatigued, when it charges, and how much it costs to charge, can all be grasped in real time in the back office. "In the past, managing trucks meant setting up WeChat groups and communicating one by one. Now, sitting in the office, I can see the status of dozens of trucks at a glance and dispatch the fleet with ease." Liu Zejun said that at present, the demonstration effect of the company's Sichuan-Shaanxi route is continuously expanding, routes in the northwest region are also being extended, and many peers have already come to inspect. "We will take root in Sichuan, radiate to the northwest, explore new models of new-energy heavy truck operation, and help regional logistics achieve low-carbon upgrading, cost reduction, and efficiency improvement."
As efficiency has improved, new problems have emerged. Many drivers worry that as freight rates become increasingly transparent and new-energy heavy trucks have a cost advantage, will freight charges be pushed down? "For drivers, will the income in hand decrease?" This is what Xu Ping'an worries about most.
He Xianyong said candidly that at present, some new-energy heavy truck transport companies compete for cargo sources with relatively low freight rates, and fuel heavy trucks are forced to follow suit, which has an impact on the transport service market.
"Blindly 'competing on price' is bound to affect service quality, and in the end it is the cargo owners who suffer, affecting the sound development of the entire industry." Chen Dong believes that the industry must not fall into low-price competition, and the cost advantage brought by new-energy heavy trucks should be converted into actual benefits for multiple parties, including truck manufacturers, drivers, and cargo owners.
In addition to freight rates, the residual value of used trucks is also a real issue that cannot be avoided. The reporter asked Xu Ping'an whether, if he were to work independently, he would buy a new-energy heavy truck. He thought for a moment and said, "The only question is whether it will still be worth anything when I sell it."
"The first batch of new-energy heavy trucks in the industry is still in operation, and a mature used-truck appraisal system has not yet been established." Chen Dong said that as the number of new-energy heavy trucks in use increases and the first batch of vehicles gradually enters the replacement cycle, how to scientifically assess battery degradation, vehicle performance, and used-truck residual value, and establish a transparent and reasonable trading mechanism so that drivers dare to buy, dare to use, and dare to replace, are problems the industry needs to solve.
An even more distant future is also accelerating toward us.
In He Qi's view, electrification and driverless driving have a natural compatibility. Fuel heavy trucks have complex mechanical structures, and autonomous driving systems require considerable retrofitting and calibration; new-energy heavy trucks, by contrast, can achieve electronic control from the underlying architecture and possess the software and hardware foundation for the implementation of autonomous driving. "Sany Heavy Truck is actively laying out intelligent driving, having already assembled an intelligent driving team of more than 500 people, and is working to build a 'vehicle-road-cloud' collaborative system," He Qi said.
Policy support and industrial accumulation are also driving autonomous driving to move faster toward practical application.
Take Changsha as an example. In October 2025, the "Implementation Plan of Hunan Province for Implementing the State Council's 'Artificial Intelligence+' Action" was issued, proposing to "actively advance the construction of Changsha's national 'vehicle-road-cloud integration' pilot city." At present, Changsha has platforms such as the National Intelligent Connected Vehicle (Changsha) Testing Zone and the National-Level Vehicle Networking Pilot Zone, and the intelligent connected vehicle industry is accelerating its agglomeration, giving rise to companies such as CiDi Intelligent Driving Technology Co., Ltd.
"Our company's driverless mining trucks have cumulative sales of more than 1,900 units, operating on a regular basis in nearly 40 mines around the world, and revenue in the first half of this year grew 97 percent year on year," said Ma Wei, co-founder and vice chairman of CiDi Intelligent Driving.
Unloading, sorting, consolidating cargo... In the early evening, Xu Ping'an's truck was loaded full of return cargo again. "The first trip ran through smoothly, so the second trip will certainly go even more smoothly." Xu Ping'an turned around, climbed into the cab, started the vehicle, and set off again.
"As vehicle performance continues to improve, the energy-replenishment network is gradually perfected, and operation models are continuously explored, new-energy heavy trucks will drive toward an even broader market," Chen Dong said with an outlook.
Return to TopBy: 孙 超
In May of this year, the Ministry of Transport and other departments issued the "Implementation Plan for Promoting the Large-Scale Application of New Energy Heavy-Duty Trucks," which proposes that by 2030, new energy heavy-duty trucks will account for 18 percent of freight volume on expressways. New energy heavy-duty trucks moving from factory zones and mines onto main logistics routes reflect the development trend of China's new energy vehicles toward higher quality and greater sophistication, and also demonstrate the comprehensive advancement of the green and low-carbon transformation of China's transportation sector.
In recent years, China's production and sales of new energy vehicles have consistently ranked first (稳居首位, wen ju shou wei - "stable, reside, first, position") in the world, and the electrification of passenger vehicles has developed rapidly. However, new energy heavy-duty trucks have large load capacities and high operational requirements, so the electrification path of passenger vehicles cannot be directly copied. In particular, when expanding into trunk-line transportation scenarios, they face new challenges in technical adaptation, cost control, and operational support.
How can these problems be solved?
Fill the gaps in charging and swapping infrastructure. No matter how strong the range of a new energy heavy-duty truck is, if suitable charging and swapping facilities cannot be found, the transportation radius will be difficult to expand. Only when the charging and swapping network matches transportation routes can new energy heavy-duty trucks run on trunk lines and travel more steadily and farther. Logistics hubs, expressway service areas, and the like should become the focus of charging and swapping facility deployment.
Reduce operating costs. Purchase costs, energy expenses, maintenance and repair, and the residual value of used vehicles all jointly influence the choices of transportation operators. How battery degradation is assessed, how the residual value of used vehicles is determined, and whether the full life-cycle cost can form a stable advantage all bear on whether users are willing to switch from diesel heavy-duty trucks to new energy heavy-duty trucks. Only by calculating the cost account clearly and dispelling concerns about returns can market confidence be established.
Improve people's capabilities. Veteran drivers who have driven fuel vehicles for decades need to relearn when faced with new electronic control systems and charging and swapping operations. Technological progress cannot stop at improving vehicle performance; it must also be realized in whether drivers can operate skillfully and whether transportation enterprises can operate efficiently. Only when training and technical services keep pace can the technological advantages of vehicles be converted into operational benefits.
Share the fruits of industrial chain development. New energy heavy-duty trucks involve multiple links, including vehicle manufacturing, transportation operations, and charging and swapping services. If any link lacks reasonable returns, the coordinated development of the industrial chain may be affected. Converting the efficiency gains brought by technological progress into benefits for all parties, giving enterprises the incentive to invest and practitioners stable expectations, will enable new energy heavy-duty trucks to form a sustainable development model.
The farther new energy heavy-duty trucks travel, the more they expand not only transportation scenarios but also the space for green and low-carbon development. To promote the large-scale application of new energy heavy-duty trucks across multiple scenarios, the government should strengthen planning guidance, improve standards and regulations, and scientifically deploy the charging and swapping network, while the market should base itself on reality, optimize operational models, reasonably control costs, and explore cooperation mechanisms. Only when the government plays its due role and the market functions effectively can industrial advantages be better converted into development advantages.
Return to TopOrder of the President of the People's Republic of China
No. 89
The Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law of the People's Republic of China was adopted at the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on November 6, 2026, and is hereby promulgated, effective as of the date of promulgation.
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
November 6, 2026
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Mechanisms and Responsibilities
Chapter III Case Handling and International Cooperation
Chapter IV Integrity and Compliance
Chapter V Legal Liability
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution for the purposes of preventing and punishing cross-border corruption, deepening international cooperation against corruption, safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and promoting the building of a fair and reasonable global governance system against corruption.
Article 2 For the purposes of this Law, cross-border corruption refers to the following conduct:
(1) Conduct by domestic citizens, domestic enterprises, other organizations, and their branches and subsidiaries in bribing foreign public officials or officials of international public organizations, or conduct by overseas persons, overseas enterprises, other organizations, and their branches and subsidiaries within the territory of China in bribing foreign public officials or officials of international public organizations;
(2) Conduct by overseas persons, overseas enterprises, other organizations, and their branches and subsidiaries in bribing domestic public officials and their specific related persons, or state organs, state-owned enterprises, public institutions, and people's organizations, as well as related conduct of accepting bribes;
(3) Conduct by domestic citizens, domestic enterprises, other organizations, and their branches and subsidiaries implemented overseas that constitutes, in addition to the conduct specified in the preceding two items, duty-related violations or duty-related crimes such as embezzlement or bribery, abuse of power, dereliction of duty or negligence (玩忽职守, wan hu zhi shou - "play with neglect, fulfill duty"), power rent-seeking, interest transfer, engaging in malpractice for personal gain (徇私舞弊, xun si wu bi - "follow private interests, act with fraud"), and waste of state assets;
(4) Other corrupt conduct of a similar nature to the conduct specified in the preceding three items, where all or part of the conduct is implemented overseas and all or part of the results occur within the territory of China;
(5) Conduct by persons suspected of corruption in fleeing overseas or transferring corrupt assets across borders.
Article 3 The work against cross-border corruption adheres to the Party's leadership, adheres to the holistic approach to national security, adheres to no restricted zones, full coverage, and zero tolerance in the fight against corruption, adheres to treating both symptoms and root causes simultaneously (标本兼治, biao ben jian zhi - "mark the symptoms, treat the root") and systematic governance, advances in an integrated manner the goal of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, and adheres to active participation in global anti-corruption governance.
Article 4 The People's Republic of China adheres to respect for sovereignty, equality and mutual benefit, fairness and justice, and punishing evil and promoting good (惩恶扬善, chen e yang shan - "punish evil, promote good"), advocates giving play to the main channel role of the United Nations Convention against Corruption in international anti-corruption cooperation, practices multilateralism, honors its commitments to cooperate in combating corruption, prevents and punishes the cross-border movement of corrupt persons and corrupt assets, opposes providing safe haven for corrupt persons and corrupt assets on any pretext, and pragmatically and efficiently carries out international cooperation such as the pursuit of fugitives and recovery of stolen assets and asset return.
Article 5 The work against cross-border corruption shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the Constitution and laws, comply with statutory procedures, respect and protect human rights, equally protect the lawful rights and interests of all types of business entities, maintain normal cross-border business order, and foster a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized first-class business environment.
Article 6 Where a foreign state, in violation of international law and basic norms of international relations, uses anti-corruption as a pretext or improperly applies its own relevant laws extraterritorially to contain or suppress China, or takes improper measures such as discriminatory restrictions against Chinese citizens, enterprises, and other organizations, thereby endangering China's sovereignty, security, and development interests, China has the right to take corresponding measures such as countermeasures and blocking measures in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on Countering Foreign Sanctions and other laws, regulations, and relevant state provisions.
Chapter II Mechanisms and Responsibilities
Article 7 The state establishes a working mechanism against cross-border corruption to organize, coordinate, and guide the work against cross-border corruption and perform the following duties:
(1) Comprehensively study and assess the overall situation of cross-border corruption, research and formulate relevant policies, and formulate and issue guidelines against cross-border corruption;
(2) Coordinate the formulation of relevant systems against cross-border corruption;
(3) Coordinate law enforcement and judicial work against cross-border corruption;
(4) Guide relevant departments and localities in carrying out work against cross-border corruption;
(5) Urge relevant competent departments and others to improve integrity and compliance management systems, and guide the identification, assessment, early warning, and response and handling of cross-border corruption risks;
(6) Study and resolve other major issues in the work against cross-border corruption.
Article 8 The national working mechanism against cross-border corruption is led by the National Commission of Supervision, with the State Council's departments and agencies for foreign affairs, public security, judicial administration, finance, commerce, anti-money laundering administration, audit, state-owned assets supervision and administration, financial regulation, securities regulation, and cyberspace administration, as well as other relevant organs, strengthening work coordination and information sharing in accordance with their respective responsibilities and task divisions, and jointly carrying out the work against cross-border corruption.
The institution of the National Commission of Supervision that specifically performs the duties against cross-border corruption is responsible for the day-to-day work of the working mechanism, organizes and coordinates the investigation and handling of major cross-border corruption cases in accordance with the law, and carries out international cooperation against cross-border corruption together with relevant organs.
The supervisory commissions of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government take the lead in being responsible for the work against cross-border corruption within their respective administrative regions. Provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government may, as needed for their work, establish local working mechanisms against cross-border corruption.
Supervisory institutions and supervisory commissioners stationed or dispatched by supervisory commissions at all levels carry out relevant work against cross-border corruption in accordance with the law, based on the authorization of the dispatching organ and in accordance with the scope of management authority.
Article 9 Supervisory organs, public security organs, procuratorial organs, and judicial organs perform the functions of state supervision, investigation, prosecution, and adjudication in accordance with the law in the work against cross-border corruption. Where problems in the work against cross-border corruption of relevant competent departments are discovered in the course of handling cases, they may put forward opinions and suggestions in writing to promote strengthened governance and improved systems. The relevant competent departments shall handle them promptly and provide written feedback.
Article 10 Departments and agencies for commerce, state-owned assets supervision and administration, market regulation, and financial regulation shall, together with supervisory organs and public security organs, establish and improve long-term mechanisms against cross-border corruption in their industries, conduct monitoring, analysis, and risk early warning of cross-border corruption in relevant industries and fields, and strengthen supervision and management of industries and fields prone to cross-border corruption.
Relevant industry associations, chambers of commerce, and others shall, in accordance with laws, regulations, and their articles of association, play a coordinating and self-regulatory role, guide their members in strengthening integrity and compliance building, provide their members with services such as relevant information consultation and rights protection, and promote lawful cross-border business operations in their industries.
Article 11 The organs and units that appoint and remove public officials shall, in accordance with the scope of management authority, strengthen education, management, and supervision of public officials, and prevent and handle cross-border corruption by public officials in accordance with the law.
Article 12 Supervisory organs shall, together with relevant organs, strengthen supervision and rectification of public officials who, in violation of regulations, obtain foreign nationality or obtain permanent residence status, long-term residence permits abroad (outside the territory), improve the reporting system for public officials' deposits and investments abroad, and establish and improve early warning mechanisms, blocking mechanisms, and accountability mechanisms to prevent persons suspected of corruption from fleeing overseas and transferring corrupt assets across borders.
Article 13 The anti-money laundering administrative department and other departments and agencies legally responsible for anti-money laundering supervision and administration shall, in accordance with the law, guide financial institutions and specific non-financial institutions in strengthening monitoring of cross-border funds.
Where the anti-money laundering administrative department of the State Council or its dispatched institutions at or above the level of a city divided into districts discovers suspicious transaction activities suspected of cross-border corruption, it may conduct investigations in accordance with the law and promptly transfer leads on cross-border corruption problems and relevant evidentiary materials to supervisory organs and public security organs.
Where information on cash and bearer negotiable instruments carried by persons entering or leaving the country, notified by customs to the anti-money laundering administrative department in accordance with the law, is suspected of cross-border corruption crimes or violations, the anti-money laundering administrative department shall promptly transfer the relevant leads on problems and relevant evidentiary materials to supervisory organs and public security organs.
Article 14 Where departments for audit, finance, taxation, and financial regulation, in the course of conducting supervision and inspection of relevant organizations and individuals in accordance with the law, discover that fund inflows and outflows and asset transfers are suspected of cross-border corruption crimes or violations, they shall promptly transfer the relevant leads on problems and relevant evidentiary materials to supervisory organs and public security organs.
Article 15 Relevant organs shall, in the work against cross-border corruption, lawfully use information-based means such as big data and artificial intelligence, integrate various sources of supervision information, strengthen comprehensive analysis and assessment, promote timely early warning of risks and precise identification of problems, and promptly collect and fix evidence.
Relevant organs and their staff members have a legal obligation of confidentiality with respect to state secrets, work secrets, commercial secrets, personal privacy, and personal information learned of in the course of the work against cross-border corruption.
Article 16 Relevant organs shall organize and carry out publicity and education against cross-border corruption through means such as rule-of-law publicity and education and explaining the law through cases, to enhance the awareness and capacity of the whole society against cross-border corruption.
Units for news, radio, television, culture, and internet information services shall carry out targeted publicity and education against cross-border corruption for the public.
The state encourages and supports qualified institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutions, and others in conducting research on cross-border corruption and strengthening the education and training of professional personnel.
Chapter III Case Handling and International Cooperation
Article 17 Supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs have the right, in the course of handling cross-border corruption cases, to learn about the circumstances from relevant organizations and individuals and to collect and obtain evidence in accordance with the law. Relevant organizations and individuals shall actively cooperate and truthfully provide relevant evidentiary materials.
Supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs may, in the course of handling major cross-border corruption cases, require foreign enterprises, other organizations, and individuals to cooperate in accordance with the principle of reciprocity.
Article 18 Supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs may, to prevent persons suspected of corruption from fleeing overseas, decide to take measures to restrict exit in accordance with the conditions and procedures prescribed by law, to be executed by immigration administration agencies in accordance with the law. Where measures to restrict exit are no longer necessary, they shall be lifted promptly.
Article 19 Supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs may, as needed for the work against cross-border corruption and in accordance with relevant state provisions, request inspection agencies such as customs and immigration administration to provide facilitation of customs clearance for relevant persons. The relevant inspection agencies shall provide assistance in accordance with the law.
Article 20 Supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs shall, in accordance with China's laws, international treaties and agreements concluded or acceded to by China, or in accordance with the principles of equality and mutual benefit and consultation and consensus, carry out law enforcement and judicial cooperation and judicial assistance with relevant overseas institutions, including the pursuit of fugitives and recovery of stolen assets, joint investigations, investigation and evidence collection, and information exchange, to jointly prevent and punish cross-border corruption.
Article 21 Supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs handling cross-border corruption cases may, in accordance with the law, request relevant overseas institutions to provide the following judicial assistance:
(1) Locating and identifying relevant persons;
(2) Inquiring into and verifying information on case-related property and financial accounts;
(3) Obtaining and providing testimony or statements of relevant persons;
(4) Obtaining and providing relevant documents, records, electronic data, and articles;
(5) Obtaining and providing expert opinions;
(6) Conducting inspections or examinations;
(7) Searching persons, articles, residences, and other relevant premises;
(8) Arranging for witnesses to testify or assist in investigations;
(9) Sealing, seizing, and freezing case-related property;
(10) Confiscating and returning illegal gains and other case-related property;
(11) Serving legal documents;
(12) Other matters of judicial assistance.
Article 22 Evidentiary materials obtained by supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs through channels such as law enforcement and judicial cooperation and judicial assistance may, upon review and satisfaction of statutory requirements, be used as evidence, except where they are not to be used as evidence in accordance with international treaties, agreements, or commitments.
Article 23 Where supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs, in the course of handling cross-border corruption cases, discover that the person under investigation or the criminal suspect has fled overseas, they may carry out cooperation in the pursuit of fugitives with relevant overseas institutions through means such as extradition, transfer of sentenced persons, repatriation, and overseas prosecution, and lawfully pursue and bring them to justice.
Article 24 Supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs may, with respect to cross-border corrupt assets, lawfully carry out the recovery of stolen assets through procedures such as law enforcement and judicial cooperation, judicial assistance, and confiscation of illegal gains, as well as measures such as ordering restitution and accepting voluntary surrender.
Supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs may, in accordance with China's laws, international treaties and agreements concluded or acceded to by China, or in accordance with the principles of equality and mutual benefit and consultation and consensus, carry out cooperation with relevant overseas institutions on asset return and sharing.
Article 25 Relevant organs shall, in accordance with China's laws, international treaties and agreements concluded or acceded to by China, or in accordance with the principles of equality and mutual benefit and consultation and consensus, handle requests from relevant overseas institutions for law enforcement and judicial cooperation and judicial assistance against cross-border corruption.
Unless consented to by China's relevant organs, overseas institutions, organizations, and individuals shall not, on their own or through others, conduct law enforcement activities such as anti-cross-border-corruption investigations within the territory of China, and institutions, organizations, and individuals within the territory of China shall not provide evidentiary materials, data information, or other relevant assistance to overseas institutions, organizations, and individuals. Where the provisions of China's laws are violated, corresponding measures such as blocking measures shall be taken in accordance with relevant state provisions, and legal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.
Article 26 With respect to cross-border corruption cases in which China is currently conducting investigation, investigation by procuratorial organs, prosecution, or adjudication, in which effective judgments have already been rendered, in which criminal proceedings have been terminated, in which the statute of limitations for prosecution has expired, or in which other circumstances exist where judicial assistance may lawfully be refused, relevant organs may refuse to provide assistance to relevant overseas institutions.
Article 27 Relevant organs shall strengthen international information exchange and experience sharing on anti-corruption with relevant overseas institutions, and directly provide or support international organizations in providing anti-corruption technical assistance and training to relevant countries and regions, to assist them in improving their capacity to prevent and combat corruption.
Article 28 Any organization or individual has the right to report cross-border corruption, and relevant organs shall handle reports promptly in accordance with the law, maintain confidentiality for whistleblowers, and give rewards and protection to whistleblowers who provide effective information in accordance with regulations.
Chapter IV Integrity and Compliance
Article 29 Enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall comply with China's laws, regulations, regulatory requirements, and relevant international treaties and agreements, comply with business ethics, professional ethics, industry standards, and codes of conduct, carry out business operations with integrity and in compliance, and urge and guide their overseas branches and subsidiaries to comply with the relevant legal provisions of the country or region where they are located.
For the purposes of this Law, enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations refer to domestic enterprises that have established branches, subsidiaries, or conducted investment activities overseas, as well as branches and subsidiaries established within the territory of China by overseas enterprises.
Article 30 Enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall establish and improve integrity and compliance management systems, improve integrity and compliance operating mechanisms, promptly investigate and handle violations, and integrate integrity and compliance management throughout the entire process of decision-making, execution, and supervision of cross-border business operations.
Domestic enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall, based on factors such as enterprise size, business scope, and risk prevention and control, reasonably establish integrity and compliance management departments or personnel, may formulate separate integrity and compliance management systems for their cross-border business departments and overseas branches and subsidiaries, dispatch integrity and compliance commissioners to overseas institutions in light of actual circumstances, and formulate guidelines and checklists for the performance of duties by integrity and compliance commissioners.
Article 31 Enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall conduct integrity risk identification and assessment for cross-border business operations, improve internal reporting mechanisms, promptly issue early warnings and properly handle integrity risks discovered, and take targeted monitoring and improvement measures. Where problems suspected of cross-border corruption are discovered, they shall report to supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs in accordance with the law.
State-owned enterprises shall strengthen integrity risk prevention and control for their key overseas positions, major funds, and major projects, take measures such as directly dispatching overseas chief financial officers, rotating personnel stationed abroad, and conflict-of-interest avoidance in accordance with relevant regulations, and strengthen supervision and management of their employees, funds, and projects overseas.
Article 32 Enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall establish and improve financial and accounting systems in accordance with the law, ensure that accounting vouchers, accounting books, financial accounting reports, and other accounting materials for cross-border business operations are truthful and complete, and shall not use financial and accounting means to commit, conceal, or cover up cross-border corruption.
Domestic enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall strengthen financial management of their cross-border business departments and overseas branches and subsidiaries, standardize accounting, strengthen internal audit, and promote the improvement of integrity and compliance management and operation levels.
Article 33 Enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall conduct due diligence on third-party institutions or individuals they engage, supervise and manage them, establish and improve relevant integrity risk prevention mechanisms, and require third-party institutions or individuals representing the enterprise to strictly comply with the enterprise's integrity and compliance code of conduct. The use of third-party institutions or individuals to commit cross-border corruption is prohibited.
Domestic enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall require their overseas branches and subsidiaries to implement the enterprise's supervision and management systems for third-party institutions or individuals.
Article 34 Enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall strengthen integrity education for their employees and promote employees' awareness of integrity in their work.
Domestic enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall advocate and promote the building of enterprise integrity culture, conduct integrity and compliance training for employees of their cross-border business departments and overseas branches and subsidiaries, and enable them to understand and comply with the enterprise's integrity and compliance management systems and risk prevention and control requirements.
Chapter V Legal Liability
Article 35 Where enterprises, other organizations, or individuals commit cross-border corruption that constitutes a crime as prescribed in the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.
Article 36 Where enterprises, other organizations, or individuals commit cross-border corruption that violates administrative management order and administrative penalties should be imposed, the relevant competent departments shall impose administrative penalties in accordance with the law, and shall impose administrative penalties in accordance with the law on the directly responsible persons in charge and other directly responsible persons of the enterprise or other organization.
After supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs conclude the handling of cross-border corruption cases, where administrative penalties should be imposed on the person under investigation or the criminal suspect, the case shall be transferred to the relevant competent department in accordance with the law.
Article 37 Where public officials commit cross-border corruption, the supervisory organ or the organ or unit that appoints and removes them shall impose sanctions in accordance with the law.
Where enterprises or other organizations commit cross-border corruption, sanctions shall be imposed in accordance with the law on public officials among the responsible leaders and directly responsible persons.
Article 38 Where enterprises, other organizations, or individuals commit cross-border corruption that causes property losses or other damage, they shall bear civil liability in accordance with the law.
Article 39 Where enterprises, other organizations, or individuals are penalized for violating the provisions of this Law, the matter shall be recorded in their credit records in accordance with relevant state provisions; where laws and administrative regulations contain prohibitive or restrictive provisions on their engagement in relevant businesses and professions, those provisions shall apply.
Article 40 Where enterprises, other organizations, or individuals commit cross-border corruption, their illegal and criminal gains and the fruits and proceeds thereof shall be confiscated, recovered, or ordered to be restituted in accordance with the law.
Article 41 Where cross-border corruption is committed jointly, penalties and sanctions shall be imposed separately on each actor according to the role played in the joint violation or joint crime and the legal liability to be borne.
Those who instigate or assist others in committing cross-border corruption shall be penalized and sanctioned according to the conduct they instigated or assisted.
Article 42 Where enterprises, other organizations, or individuals that commit cross-border corruption fall under any of the following circumstances, heavier administrative penalties or sanctions shall be imposed:
(1) Having committed cross-border corruption on multiple occasions;
(2) Committing cross-border corruption again after having been held legally liable for cross-border corruption;
(3) Refusing to surrender or restitute illegal gains;
(4) Having caused serious harmful consequences to national interests or public interests through cross-border corruption;
(5) Taking retaliatory action against accusers, whistleblowers, witnesses, or others;
(6) Other circumstances in which laws and regulations provide for heavier administrative penalties or sanctions.
Article 43 Where enterprises, other organizations, or individuals that commit cross-border corruption fall under any of the following circumstances, administrative penalties or sanctions may be mitigated or reduced:
(1) Voluntarily surrendering and truthfully confessing;
(2) Actively cooperating with investigations and voluntarily providing relevant materials;
(3) Voluntarily taking remedial measures, actively returning stolen assets, and effectively reducing or avoiding losses;
(4) Reporting or exposing cross-border corruption by others, which is verified to be true;
(5) Other circumstances in which laws and regulations provide for mitigation or reduction of administrative penalties or sanctions.
Article 44 Where relevant organizations or individuals, in violation of the provisions of this Law, refuse to provide evidentiary materials, conceal, forge, or destroy evidence, or refuse or obstruct cross-border corruption investigations, the unit to which they belong, the competent department, the higher-level organ, the supervisory organ, or the public security organ shall order them to make corrections. Where the conduct constitutes a violation of public security administration, public security administrative penalties shall be imposed in accordance with the law; where the conduct constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.
Article 45 Where enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations fail to perform the integrity and compliance obligations prescribed by this Law, the relevant competent departments shall order them to make corrections within a specified period; where they refuse to make corrections, the competent departments may order suspension of relevant business, suspension for rectification, or revocation of relevant business licenses. Where the above conduct simultaneously violates other laws and regulations, legal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.
Article 46 Where staff members of supervisory organs, public security organs, and other relevant organs abuse their power, commit dereliction of duty or negligence, engage in malpractice for personal gain, or violate regulations by disclosing state secrets, work secrets, commercial secrets, personal privacy, or personal information in the work against cross-border corruption, sanctions shall be imposed in accordance with the law. Where the conduct constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Article 47 This Law shall take effect as of the date of promulgation.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 6)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李林蔚
On November 6, the 25th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress deliberated and approved the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law of the People's Republic of China. This is China's first specialized foreign-related anti-corruption law, and it is of great significance for improving China's foreign-related anti-corruption legal system and advancing cross-border corruption governance through legal thinking and legal means.
Recently, officials in charge of relevant departments of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission and the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee introduced the relevant situation regarding the background and significance of formulating this law, the principles followed in the legislative work, and the main contents of the law.
Filling the gap in specialized legislation on anti-cross-border corruption and improving the foreign-related anti-corruption legal system
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made comprehensive arrangements for continuing with perseverance (持之以恒, chizhi yihang - "hold on, with persistence") in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and the Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Continuing with Perseverance in Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party emphasized improving anti-corruption laws and regulations.
"Formulating the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, establishing and improving the national anti-cross-border corruption working mechanism under the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, building the 'four beams and eight pillars' of the anti-cross-border corruption system, promoting the organic integration of supervisory investigation, criminal justice, administrative law enforcement, integrity and compliance, and international cooperation, and integrating the three aspects of not daring to commit corruption, not being able to commit corruption, and not wanting to commit corruption into a specialized foreign-related anti-corruption law that combines punishment, prevention, and countermeasures — this is of great significance for filling the gap in China's specialized legislation on anti-cross-border corruption, improving China's foreign-related anti-corruption legal system, and advancing anti-cross-border corruption work through legal thinking and legal means," said a person in charge of the State Law Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee.
"This is also an urgent need to strengthen China's clear-cut stance on anti-corruption and safeguard China's national security and development interests." The person in charge said that formulating the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, declaring China's basic stance, concepts, and principles on anti-cross-border corruption, and clarifying corresponding measures such as foreign countermeasures and blocking measures in the anti-corruption field are conducive to safeguarding China's national sovereignty, security, and development interests, consolidating international consensus on anti-corruption, and contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global anti-corruption governance.
At present, China has signed Belt and Road Initiative cooperation documents with more than 150 countries and more than 30 international organizations, is a major trading partner of more than 160 countries and regions, has ranked first in the world in total goods trade for nine consecutive years, and has more than 50,000 overseas enterprises. "Formulating the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, clarifying the integrity and compliance obligations of enterprises engaged in cross-border operations, continuously improving the integrity and compliance system, and strengthening the regulatory responsibilities of relevant competent departments are conducive to guiding enterprises going global to operate in accordance with the law, in compliance, and with integrity, building 'integrity' into a core competitiveness, establishing a new type of cordial and clean unified government-business relationship, and creating a fair and just international business environment," said the person in charge.
The current situation of the anti-corruption struggle remains severe and complex, with corrupt means becoming hidden, mutated, renovated, and upgraded. The person in charge said: "Formulating the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, elevating the experience, practices, and practical achievements of China's anti-cross-border corruption work since the 18th CPC National Congress, especially since the 20th CPC National Congress, into national law, is conducive to enriching the legal measures and means for anti-cross-border corruption, solving prominent problems such as the difficulty of discovering cross-border corruption, the difficulty of obtaining evidence, the difficulty of recovering stolen assets, and the difficulty of convicting, and providing strong legal guarantees for investigating and handling cross-border corruption cases."
Adhering to political guidance, highlighting Chinese characteristics, and establishing an anti-cross-border corruption working mechanism
"In the process of drafting the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, we have always adhered to political guidance, resolutely implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, enabled the Party's propositions to be transformed into national will through legal procedures, and consciously carried out legislative work under the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. At the same time, highlighting Chinese characteristics, we have promptly elevated the good experiences and good practices in cross-border corruption governance, fugitive repatriation and stolen asset recovery, and participation in formulating international anti-corruption rules into law, formulating a specialized anti-cross-border corruption law that both reflects Chinese characteristics and can gain broad recognition from the international community," introduced the persons in charge of the Regulations Office and the International Cooperation Bureau of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.
The Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law consists of 6 chapters and 47 articles, mainly including five aspects: clarifying the principles, scope, and propositions of China's anti-cross-border corruption work; clarifying the anti-cross-border corruption working mechanism and responsibilities; strengthening case handling and international cooperation; clarifying the integrity and compliance obligations of enterprises; and clarifying legal liability.
"The law clarifies the principles of anti-cross-border corruption work and declares and emphasizes China's international propositions in the anti-corruption field," said the persons in charge of the Regulations Office and the International Cooperation Bureau of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission. "At the same time, it stipulates that the state shall establish an anti-cross-border corruption working mechanism, its member units, and tasks, and makes provisions on key anti-cross-border corruption work such as promoting reform and governance through case handling, long-term industry mechanisms, education and supervision of public officials, rectification of illegally obtained overseas status, anti-money laundering supervision, coordinated supervision of cross-border funds, information technology application, and publicity and education."
In terms of strengthening case handling and international cooperation, the law makes provisions on the obligations of relevant organizations and individuals to cooperate with case-handling authorities in investigations, and on measures such as preventing persons involved in cases from fleeing abroad and carrying out anti-corruption fugitive repatriation and stolen asset recovery.
In terms of clarifying the integrity and compliance obligations of enterprises, the law stipulates that enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall comply with China's laws and regulations, regulatory provisions, and relevant international treaties, agreements, and other requirements, and shall abide by business ethics, professional ethics, industry standards, and codes of conduct. At the same time, it stipulates that enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall formulate integrity and compliance management systems, improve integrity and compliance operating mechanisms, promptly investigate and handle violations, and strengthen integrity risk prevention and control.
A special chapter stipulating the "integrity and compliance" system, improving the legal "toolbox" for handling foreign-related cases
The Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law stipulates the "integrity and compliance" system in a special chapter. This is the first time China has elevated enterprise integrity and compliance from a policy requirement to a legal obligation through legislation, embedding preventive measures for integrity and compliance into the legal system.
"The law stipulates that enterprises engaged in cross-border business operations shall establish and improve integrity and compliance management systems, improve integrity and compliance operating mechanisms, guide enterprises to carry out integrity and compliance construction, and promote enterprises to establish an integrity and compliance system that is both based on China's actual conditions and in line with international standards," said the persons in charge of the Regulations Office and the International Cooperation Bureau of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.
The Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law improves the legal "toolbox" for handling foreign-related cases from seven aspects. "First, establishing a case leads transfer mechanism. Second, establishing a reporting reward and protection system, smoothing reporting channels, broadening case leads sources, and solving the problem of 'difficulty in discovery.' Third, improving provisions on fugitive repatriation, fugitive prevention, and stolen asset recovery. Fourth, improving case-handling facilitation measures to increase the efficiency of handling cross-border corruption cases. Fifth, stipulating the obligation of relevant enterprises, organizations, and individuals to cooperate with investigations, providing legal guarantees for investigation and evidence collection in handling cross-border corruption cases, and solving the problem of 'difficulty in obtaining evidence.' Sixth, improving the international cooperation system for anti-cross-border corruption, clarifying the scope of requests for judicial assistance that China may make to overseas institutions in accordance with the International Criminal Judicial Assistance Law and multilateral law enforcement and judicial assistance arrangements, and regulating matters concerning China's provision of law enforcement and judicial cooperation and judicial assistance to foreign parties. Seventh, clarifying the validity of evidence obtained overseas in handling cross-border corruption cases and solving the problem of 'difficulty in convicting,'" said the persons in charge of the Regulations Office and the International Cooperation Bureau of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Yi Shuran) To deepen the reform of the industrial workforce building and enhance the technical and skill levels of the broad ranks of workers, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions has recently determined the 200 craftsman academies to be given key support for construction in 2026.
The 2026 support-for-construction work closely follows the deployment of the national "15th Five-Year Plan," mainly targeting key traditional industries, emerging industries, and future industries, with emphasis on the effectiveness of training and the results of workers' skill improvement. Of the 200 craftsman academies, those built relying on enterprises, vocational colleges (including technician colleges), and those self-built by trade unions account for 71%, 24.5%, and 4.5% respectively. A total of 492 distinctive job types have been cultivated, mainly distributed in information transmission, software and information technology services, electric power, and other industries, of which manufacturing accounts for 55%. More than 68,000 offline courses have been offered and more than 10,000 online skill courses released; since the beginning of this year, more than 1.5 million person-times of workers have been trained. Among the full-time and part-time teaching staff of the craftsman academies, model workers and craftsmen and the like number nearly 38,600.
In October 2024, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions issued the Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of the Craftsman Academy System (2024–2026), proposing that by 2026, a craftsman academy system covering the whole country, serving the worker masses, with distinctive trade union characteristics, outstanding technical and skill training capacity, and notable results in cultivating craftsman talent be basically completed, with key support for the construction of 500 craftsman academies.
Return to TopBy: 陆达心
On October 12, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China announced countermeasures against Paraguay's then-Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Villate, and Belize's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Education, Culture, Science and Technology, Fonseca, including freezing their various types of property in China, prohibiting Chinese organizations and individuals from conducting transactions and cooperation with them, and barring them from entering mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao. This is the first time the Chinese government has imposed punitive measures on ministerial-level officials of the so-called "diplomatic allies" of the Taiwan authorities. How should one objectively and comprehensively interpret the signals conveyed by China's move?
First, it signals to the other side of the Taiwan Strait: the mainland firmly grasps the initiative in combating "Taiwan independence" separatist forces.
Resolving the Taiwan question and achieving complete national reunification is the common aspiration of all Chinese people. Every Chinese person unconditionally supports any action by the Chinese government to combat "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and counter external forces' interference in the Taiwan question. In September, Paraguay's then-President Peña stated in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly that Paraguay does "not remain neutral" on the Taiwan question, openly clamoring for support for Taiwan's "participation" in the United Nations. Belize's Prime Minister Briceño also made similar remarks. From late September to early October, the head of the foreign affairs department of the Taiwan region made a clandestine visit to Belize and Guatemala. Whether it is instigating so-called "diplomatic ally" dignitaries to make grand claims or boasting to impress others (张目说项, zhang mu shuo xiang - "stretch, eye; speak, item"), or the "clandestine visits" to relevant countries, the essence is nothing more than the Taiwan authorities' tricks to expand their so-called "international presence" and boast of "diplomatic achievements" to the island, which cannot change the historical and legal fact that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, nor can it change the historical trend that China will ultimately be reunified and must be reunified. On October 10, Lai Ching-te's "Double Ten" speech continued the "Taiwan independence" narrative. China's announcement of countermeasures on October 12 is clearly meeting force with force or responding in kind (针锋相对, zhen feng xiang dui - "needle, tip; opposite, face") to strike at the arrogance of "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and curb the momentum of the Taiwan authorities' "relying on external forces to seek independence." Some experts have pointed out that China still holds many cards, and when to play them and which cards to play is a sword constantly hanging over the heads of "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and overseas forces that advocate for "Taiwan independence."
Second, it warns Taiwan's so-called "diplomatic allies": China's bottom line and red line must not be crossed.
There is only one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and the government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing the whole of China. This is the one-China principle recognized by all 183 countries in the world. A series of international legal documents, including the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, and UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, have firmly locked in Taiwan's status. Taiwan has never been a "country." The official legal opinion of the United Nations confirms that Taiwan is a province of China. The one-China principle is a basic norm of international relations and a universal consensus of the international community. The Taiwan question is China's internal affair and brooks no external interference. Twelve countries, including Paraguay and Belize, still maintain so-called "diplomatic relations" with a province of China, grossly interfering in China's internal affairs and infringing on China's sovereignty, which undoubtedly violates China's Constitution and laws and violates international law. China's lawful punitive measures against personnel who stubbornly support "Taiwan independence" separatist forces once again clearly demonstrate to the international community that the Taiwan question is the core of China's core interests, and the one-China principle is a red line that China will not tolerate being crossed.
Third, it deters pro-Taiwan politicians: do not underestimate China's resolve and will to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the highest concentration of Taiwan's so-called "diplomatic allies," including seven countries: Paraguay, Belize, Guatemala, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. China's first countermeasures against dignitaries of Taiwan's so-called "diplomatic allies" carry landmark significance.
China has clearly stated that the countermeasures are intended to make an example of someone to deter others from similar misconduct (以儆效尤, yi jing xiao you - "use, warn; example, commit error"). For personnel who stubbornly support "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, China will take all necessary punitive measures. This conveys a clear and unequivocal signal: those politicians who stubbornly adhere to a pro-Taiwan stance and do not accept the one-China principle, whether or not they hold important positions, must carefully weigh the cost of harming China's core interests.
Fourth, it advises Paraguay and Belize: tying themselves to "Taiwan independence" forces holds no future whatsoever.
China has never established diplomatic relations with Paraguay, but in recent years China has steadily become Paraguay's largest source of imports. According to Paraguayan statistics, in 2025 Paraguay's imports from mainland China amounted to US$6.123 billion, accounting for 34.55% of Paraguay's total imports. In contrast, Paraguay's imports from the Taiwan region were only US$64 million, a gap of nearly 100 times, completely incomparable or beyond comparison (无法相提并论, wu fa xiang ti bing lun - "no, way; together, lift, discuss"). Mainland Chinese products have obvious advantages in Paraguay's consumer electronics and some industrial consumer goods markets.
China and Belize once had a brief diplomatic relationship of more than two years. In 1987, during the tenure of the United Democratic Party in Belize, China and Belize established diplomatic relations. In 1989, after the People's United Party came to power, Belize and Taiwan "established diplomatic relations," and China and Belize severed diplomatic ties. In 2025, the annual bilateral trade volume between mainland China and Belize reached over US$200 million, while that between Belize and the Taiwan region was only about US$8 million. Belize imports large quantities of mechanical and electrical products, chemicals, and vehicle parts from mainland China.
Over the years, although the Taiwan authorities have vigorously used "dollar diplomacy" to court Belizean and Paraguayan dignitaries, many people in Belize and Paraguay still support the restoration or establishment of diplomatic relations with China, especially those insightful individuals who have visited mainland China or have cooperation with China. They value China's influence as the world's second-largest economy and clearly see that maintaining relations with Taiwan holds no future.
The spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised the Taiwan authorities' dwindling number of so-called "diplomatic allies" not to be repeatedly manipulated and exploited by "Taiwan independence" separatist forces. Tying themselves to "Taiwan independence" forces holds no future whatsoever; they will only miss development opportunities and become isolated from the international community. The wheel of the times rolls forward, and history will ultimately render a fair judgment. We sincerely hope that politicians of the relevant countries will realize their mistakes and return to the right path (迷途知返, mi tu zhi fan - "lost, path; know, return") and make fundamental changes or reform a policy (改弦更张, gai xian geng zhang - "change, string; replace, tension"), making the correct decision that truly serves the interests of their countries and peoples at an early date.
(The author is an observer of international affairs)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 12) (Reporter Cui Qi) November 12, 2026 marks the 78th anniversary of the judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the Tokyo Trial). Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning, responding to a question on this at the regular press conference that day, stated that history must not be forgotten, and justice must not be challenged. The international community should jointly resist all attempts to reverse the verdict on history of aggression and revive militarism — acting contrary to reason or progress (倒行逆施, dao xing ni shi - "reverse, conduct, against, practice").
Mao Ning said that 78 years ago today, after two and a half years of proceedings, the Tokyo Trial, based on overwhelming irrefutable evidence and rigorous legal reasoning, determined that Japanese militarism had launched wars of aggression and seriously violated international law, meting out due punishment to 25 Class-A war criminals. The crimes of Japanese militarism were made known to the whole world (昭告天下, zhao gao tian xia - "clearly, announce, heaven and earth") and firmly nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
"The Tokyo Trial is an important component of the postwar international order. Acknowledging and accepting the Tokyo Trial was the precondition for postwar Japan's return to the international community," Mao Ning stated. Over the years, right-wing forces in Japan have disregarded the historical conclusion of the Tokyo Trial, gone to great lengths to deny or even glorify the crimes of aggression, and propagated erroneous views of history, which is deplorable. What warrants vigilance is that in recent years, the Japanese government, which is unwilling to make a clean break with Japanese militarism, has substantially increased military spending, developed offensive capabilities, pushed for the revision of the "three security documents," plotted to abandon the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," and continuously accelerated its "remilitarization" process. These moves will seriously challenge the legal baseline established by the Tokyo Trial and seriously threaten regional peace and stability.
"History must not be forgotten, and justice must not be challenged. The international community should jointly resist all attempts to reverse the verdict on history of aggression and revive militarism — acting contrary to reason or progress." Mao Ning said that China is willing to work with all peace-loving countries and peoples in the world to firmly safeguard historical truth, uphold the postwar international order, and defend international fairness and justice.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Melbourne, November 12) (Reporters Xu Haijing, Xiong Wenyuan) Port Moresby news: According to a report by Papua New Guinea's The Post-Courier on the 12th, PNG Prime Minister James Marape recently said that PNG's closure of the "Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Papua New Guinea" was an independent diplomatic decision made after carefully considered (慎重考虑, shen zhong kao lü - "careful, serious, consider") deliberation, consistent with the one-China principle that PNG has long upheld and with PNG's national interests.
The PNG government announced on July 15 the closure of the "Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Papua New Guinea." The Post-Courier reported that Marape said in response, "PNG is an independent sovereign state, and its foreign policy is determined by its own national interests." Marape also said that since establishing diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in 1976, PNG has always firmly adhered to the one-China principle. "This is not a new policy introduced by the current government, but a national position that has continued for 50 years, which has remained unchanged through successive governments and different political leaders."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王旭琛 焦 翔
The 42nd Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference was recently held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. With the theme "Where the Global Energy System Comes Together," the exhibition featured specialized zones on artificial intelligence, digitalization, low-carbon and chemicals, and maritime and logistics, attracting 2,260 companies from more than 170 countries and regions worldwide. Energy security, supply chain resilience, artificial intelligence applications, and green transition became the focus of attention for all participants. Multiple Chinese companies appeared at the exhibition, and China-UAE energy cooperation continues to expand into new areas and deepen.
The Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference is one of the world's largest and most influential oil and gas energy professional expositions and an important platform for international energy sector matchmaking, technical exchange, and business negotiation. Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the UAE and Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, said at the opening ceremony that disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz had exposed the fragility of the global energy supply chain, and that energy security depends not only on production capacity but also on the ability to deliver energy safely to markets. He called for expanding strategic reserves, improving transportation and logistics infrastructure, and leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance the operational efficiency and risk-prediction capabilities of energy systems.
At the exhibition site, the application of digital, intelligent, and low-carbon technologies in scenarios such as oil and gas exploration and development, production management, and storage, transportation, and logistics became a highlight of the displays, with multiple Chinese companies showcasing related technologies and engineering practices. CNPC's Tarim green development sand table model presented projects including photovoltaics, carbon capture, utilization and storage, and a desert "zero-carbon" highway; CNOOC showcased the construction of the intelligent Misan oilfield in Iraq, connecting production, drilling, and safety management information through a digital platform. Multiple Chinese private enterprises also brought technologies and equipment such as intelligent drilling rigs, electric-drive fracturing, and digital twins, demonstrating new directions for Chinese energy equipment and service companies' participation in international cooperation.
In recent years, Middle Eastern countries have continued to increase investment in energy infrastructure and advance industrial diversification. Energy cooperation between China and Middle Eastern countries has gradually extended from oil and gas trade to engineering construction, technical services, and joint research and development. During the exhibition, Zhenhua Oil signed a technology center cooperation agreement with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to promote technology research and development and the commercialization of results. Lian Mingxiang, Chief Representative of Sinopec's Middle East Representative Office, said in an interview with People's Daily reporters that the Middle East region's demand for Chinese energy technology, equipment, and engineering services continues to grow.
Local employment and talent cultivation have become important components of China-UAE energy cooperation. Chinese companies such as Sinopec, COSL, and CNPC are helping local youth improve their professional skills through cooperation with local universities and by organizing employees and students to receive training in China, and are also participating in ecological protection and community development. Industry insiders said that as the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative continues to align with the development strategies of Middle Eastern countries, energy cooperation between China and Middle Eastern countries is steadily extending to the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and is expected to inject momentum into enhancing energy supply chain resilience and promoting sustainable economic development in the region.
Zeng Jixin, Chinese Ambassador to the UAE, said at the opening ceremony of the exhibition that China-UAE cooperation in integrating new technologies such as artificial intelligence with the energy industry has broad prospects and will make new contributions to the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, safeguarding global energy security, and advancing the green transition.
(Jalal Al-Faili of People's Daily Middle East Center Branch participated in the reporting)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Washington, November 11) According to a report by the U.S. Wall Street Journal on the 11th, U.S. Vice President Vance is considering holding face-to-face talks with the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Rezaei, in order to push for an end to the war in Iran. U.S. President Trump is open to this.
The report, citing U.S. and Middle Eastern officials, said that Trump has recently told senior aides and relevant parties that he is open to Vance restarting negotiations with Iran and has authorized him to carry out the negotiation work. The report said that Vance is gradually becoming the chief U.S. representative in negotiations with Iran, and that he sent a letter to Rezaei in October proposing talks.
Return to TopOn October 15, the "Chinese Dream · Beauty of Labor" Fourth Workers' Games of Chongqing Municipality Table Tennis League and the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle Workers' Invitational Tournament Finals opened at the Jiangnan Sports Center in Chongqing. Eighteen workers' representative teams marched in with team flags held high, entering in succession like a string of fish (鱼贯入场, yu guan ru chang - "fish, array, enter, field"); at the tables, white balls flew back and forth in rapid spins, with scores jumping in real time on electronic scoreboards; in the rest area, the aroma of coffee and pastries intermingled, while in the adjacent post-match recovery zone, professionals helped athletes stretch and relax... A beautiful picture vividly presenting the "beauty of labor" and the "beauty of sport" was unfolding gradually (徐徐铺展, xu xu pu zhan - "slowly, slowly, spread, unfold").
A workers' sporting event was run to the standard of a professional competition, and moreover delivered the warmth of trade union work. In recent years, the Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions has closely adhered to the theme of "Chinese Dream · Beauty of Labor," bringing one match after another, one performance after another to the side of workers and into the hearts of workers, composing a cultural and sporting ode that belongs to working people.
A Small Table Revealing the True Quality (见真章, jian zhen zhang - "see, true, chapter")
Though the table is small, the effort behind the competition is solid and real. Since the league began in July, it has sparked a wave of enthusiasm across the city. The four regional qualifiers were successively held at the Jiangnan Sports Center in Chongqing, Fuling District, Bishan District, Wanzhou District, and other venues, with 47 workers' representative teams and nearly 500 workers competing with their paddles. Sixteen workers' representative teams from the federations of trade unions of all districts and counties (autonomous counties) in the city and from municipal-level industrial unions, together with 2 representative teams selected by the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, advanced to the finals.
The heat of competition was visible on the court; the effort behind it was visible off the court. To ensure the orderly conduct of the event, the Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions deeply implemented the work requirement of "delivering culture and benefiting workers," threading humanistic care through the entire course of the competition, and striving to build a workers' sports gala that is warm, ceremonial, well-supported, and empowered by technology: professional competition flooring was laid at the venue, all tables were connected to electronic scoring systems, with scores entered in real time, displayed simultaneously on large screens, and aggregated in the cloud; professional referees served as chief umpires to unify the judging standards across the entire event. In addition, during the competition, domestic vertical media outlets covering table tennis provided full live streaming, opening up 8 online communication platforms, so that workers outside the venue could also "watch the matches from the cloud" through their screens.
Running every event with care and serving the broad masses of workers well is the vivid practice of the Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions in deepening the cultural and sporting undertakings for workers and rallying the strength for endeavor. The opening ceremony of the "Chinese Dream · Beauty of Labor" Fourth Workers' Games of Chongqing Municipality and the Ninth Set of Broadcast Gymnastics and Tai Chi Competition, held in May this year, attracted 47 delegations and more than 1,300 workers to participate, with 14 media platforms broadcasting simultaneously and online viewership reaching 1.23 million.
A String of Fine Performances Nourishes the Heart
A single table displays the spirit and vitality of the mountain city's workers; cultural and sporting activities across the city put into practice the commitment to serving workers' better lives. The Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions continues to advance the implementation of cultural and sporting activities, constantly burnishing the "Chinese Dream · Beauty of Labor" brand, and bringing companionship to the side of workers through one cultural and sporting activity after another.
The Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions has successively held a batch of down-to-earth and warm cultural and sporting activities, including "delivering culture to the grassroots," workers' "cultural light cavalry" grassroots touring performances, and public welfare art classes at the cultural palace, setting up stages in workshops and work teams, sending competitions to the front lines of districts and counties, and bringing cultural and sporting services out of the venues and close to workers. On April 30, it held the "Chinese Dream · Beauty of Labor" Chongqing Workers' Calligraphy, Painting and Photography Exhibition, with 400 selected works displayed for one month. The works captured moving moments of welding sparks in workshops, urban construction, and frontline dedication, paying tribute to ordinary laborers through brush, ink, light and shadow, with more than 210,000 offline visits.
Offline activities are vivid and colorful (有声有色, you sheng you se - "have, sound, have, color"), while online services accompany workers with warmth. Relying on the "Yu Gong Niang Jia Ren" (Chongqing Workers' Family) application of Digital Chongqing, the Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions has built a dedicated zone for workers' digital cultural and sporting activities, moving activities onto the cloud. To date, more than 10,000 organizations have settled into the workers' digital cultural and sporting activity zone, covering more than one million workers. Today, online activities have become an important vehicle for rallying workers, enlivening the atmosphere, and promoting workers' physical and mental health.
Sichuan and Chongqing on the Same Stage, One Family
The contest at either end of the table is also a vivid epitome of the coordinated linkage between Sichuan and Chongqing. After the finals concluded, an exchange and friendly competition between Sichuan and Chongqing workers immediately kicked off. The Sichuan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions selected the top two winning teams from the 2025 Workers' Games to come and compete on the same stage with the champion and runner-up of this league, making friends through the ball and forging bonds through competition.
In recent years, the trade unions of Sichuan and Chongqing have engaged in extensive coordination, jointly holding workers' fitness runs, table tennis competitions, and other sporting events on multiple occasions, and mutually inviting each other to participate in mass activities such as workers' mid-shift exercises and calligraphy, painting and photography exhibitions, allowing cultural and sporting resources to circulate and be shared across the mountains and rivers of Bashu, while continuously rallying strength for the joint construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle. In 2025, the Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions organized more than 100 workers' cultural and sporting activities throughout the year within Chongqing and the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, covering 11.22 million workers and the masses, with total online views across the entire network exceeding 42 million.
From the competition venue to the exhibition hall, from offline to the cloud, from the mountain city to Bashu, the Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions has written the theme of "Chinese Dream · Beauty of Labor" into the daily lives of workers through one splendid activity after another and one warm service after another. In the next step, the Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions will continue to burnish the workers' cultural and sporting brand, guiding workers to strengthen their bodies through sport and nourish their minds through culture, and to devote themselves with an even more spirited posture to the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle and the new modernized Chongqing.
Data source: Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions
Return to TopOn November 12, Baidu World 2026, themed "Next Act: Intelligent Organization," was held in Beijing. At the conference, Baidu put forward the judgment that "the next act of artificial intelligence is the intelligent organization" and, for the first time, proposed the "Three Principles of Organizational Evolution." Baidu calls the AI-native organizational system formed through the application of AI technology an "intelligent organization," likening it to a "new factory" using "new electric power," and regards it as an important carrier of productive forces in the AI era.
During the conference, Baidu concentrated on releasing multiple achievements around the four-layer architecture of "chip, cloud, model, and application": it officially launched the large-model trading platform Token Exchange (词元所), released the preview version of ERNIE 5.5 Flash and two ERNIE application models; the four intelligent agents Baidu Dazi, Kuku, Baidu Yijing, and Baidu Famou received upgrades; Baidu Intelligent Cloud released the Tianchi 1024-card supernode, Kunlun Chip announced a new product roadmap, and Apollo Go accelerated its globalized operations.
Making good and full use of artificial intelligence hinges on organizational evolution
In 2016, the Baidu World Conference, themed "AI is the new electricity," made the judgment that "the next act of the internet is artificial intelligence." From 2016 to 2026, "artificial intelligence is the new electric power" has been validated in more and more fields. Over the past decade, Baidu's artificial intelligence technology has formed an independent technology stack, and the four-layer architecture of "chip, cloud, model, and application" has gradually taken shape.
Over the past year, when Baidu exchanged views with enterprises in industries such as finance, manufacturing, and energy, it often found that Token spending and corporate revenue and profits did not grow in tandem. Why has the application of AI technology not produced the expected economic benefits? Baidu believes that making good and full use of the "new electric power" — replacing a "new motor" is only the starting point; the key lies in redesigning a "new factory."
In response, Baidu founder Robin Li stated that AI brings not only technological change but also organizational change. Enterprises must let intelligent agents and digital employees truly enter business operations, redesign organizations around AI, and drive organizational evolution.
Upholding the "Three Principles" to build an "Intelligent Organization"
How can organizations evolve around AI? Baidu proposed the "Three Principles of Organizational Evolution."
The first principle is "break down job boundaries and unleash organizational vitality." Traditional organizations are centered on positions, emphasizing person-post matching; organizations in the AI era will shift to being task-centered. The organization of the future is a network of tasks; positions will be integrated into two categories: Builders, responsible for creating new things, and Sellers, responsible for communication and connection between people and building trust.
The second principle is "precipitate tacit knowledge and build organizational intelligence." The practical experience each employee accumulates is an important asset of the enterprise. But only by making employees' tacit knowledge explicit, completing its precipitation on the enterprise's platform, and forming a situation of continuous accumulation, on-demand access, and availability to everyone, can true organizational intelligence be formed.
The third principle is "design closed-loop processes and drive organizational evolution." Baidu proposed a formula for continuous organizational evolution: measurable + Looping = continuous evolution. With objective measurement standards, employees and AI can continuously iterate around tasks in a loop, measuring after each round of operation, and then optimizing based on the results. On this basis, enterprises can become "intelligent organizations" operating with a high degree of automation; organizations can become systems that continuously learn and evolve.
Baidu has already applied this set of concepts to itself. At the 2025 Baidu World Conference, Baidu proposed internalizing AI capabilities to build an AI-native organization. Over the past year, Baidu's internal daily active intelligent agent count has grown from an average of 5,000 per day to 37,000, an increase of more than sixfold; the number of effective tasks completed by intelligent agents each week has grown from 84,000 to more than 1 million; Baidu has built 4,300 Workspaces and accumulated more than 20,000 organizational Skills. In this way, one employee's experience is integrated into the capability of the entire organization.
Token Exchange makes large-model trading open and transparent
The pace of model iteration is continuously accelerating. In the first nine months of this year, more than one new model was released every day, and call demand has consequently risen. A batch of Token relay stations have emerged as the time is ripe (应运而生, ying yun er sheng - "follow, luck, arise"), yet they do not take responsibility for the authenticity and effectiveness of models, or the stability of services and response speed. The more models there are, the harder it is for enterprises to choose.
To solve this problem, Baidu officially launched the large-model trading platform Token Exchange, focusing on building an exchange for large models. By aggregating good models and model providers, it enables enterprises and even individuals to conveniently find, purchase, and use trustworthy model Tokens.
Token Exchange focuses on two major capabilities: "authenticity verification" and "credit assessment." Through related technologies such as model fingerprint comparison, capability testing, and performance and availability testing, it conducts resource verification, while also adopting measures such as regular spot checks and dial tests, and real-time monitoring of calls across the entire chain, to establish credit ratings for model providers and provide customers with neutral, trustworthy, open, and transparent model trading services. At present, more than 100 supply resources have joined Token Exchange, with daily Token calls exceeding 700 billion.
At the model level, Baidu officially released the preview version of ERNIE 5.5 Flash. This model has a total parameter scale of 280B, activating only 14B per computation, and performs outstandingly in programming, 3D modeling, knowledge work, and content creation. At the application model level, the ERNIE Lightning deep-thinking model and the ERNIE Yijing micro-expression large model were officially released, simultaneously launched on the Baidu Intelligent Cloud Qianfan platform, opening API (Application Programming Interface) services to enterprise customers and partners.
Promoting intelligent agents to serve all walks of life (千行百业, qian hang bai ye - "thousand, industry, hundred, profession")
At present, Baidu Dazi has been upgraded into a unified entry point connecting all of Baidu's professional intelligent agents, fully opening the Harness engine and intelligent agent APIs. It has been deployed at enterprises such as China Southern Power Grid, and according to statistics from an AI insight database, it became the fastest-growing general-purpose intelligent agent in the past quarter. Kuku, jointly launched by Baidu Wenku and Baidu Netdisk, along with its overseas version KOOKU, has achieved roots in the local market while serving the globe, backed by massive professional content, Chinese and English literature, and expert resources, with data, architecture, and models evolving in coordination.
The digital human intelligent agent Baidu Yijing launched "Short Animation Studio," covering a one-stop creation chain from creativity, script, and storyboard to finished film. Creators can use Baidu Yijing to complete the localization adaptation of plot, characters, and scenes for already-validated works with one click, helping short animation series go global.
Baidu Famou has been upgraded to version 3.0, targeting complex tasks such as production operations, business strategy, and industrial R&D, continuously self-evolving and taking responsibility for the ultimate business indicators of industrial tasks. At present, Baidu Famou already has industrial customers from 25 major industrial categories.
Consolidating the computing power foundation and accelerating globalized operations
At this conference, Baidu Intelligent Cloud released the Tianchi 1024-card supernode. At the infrastructure level, Baidu Intelligent Cloud will support multiple types of domestic chips, open the supernode architecture, and open-source the reinforcement learning framework. At present, the Kunlun Chip M100 has been launched on schedule, and the M300 will be introduced next year. Among them, the M100 focuses on high cost-performance; the M300, as the flagship product, has achieved a comprehensive leap in capabilities across multiple dimensions including computing power, storage, and interconnection. Robin Li stated that the Kunlun Chip is the result of more than a decade of sustained investment by Baidu, and its commercial value is gaining increasingly broad recognition.
In autonomous driving, Apollo Go has been deployed in 28 cities at home and abroad, with autonomous driving mileage exceeding 350 million kilometers, of which fully driverless mileage exceeds 240 million kilometers, and has launched fully driverless commercial operations in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Apollo Go has also joined hands with the Shenzhou Car Rental team, committed to innovating car rental services and creating new car rental models.
Baidu believes that by perceiving change, rapidly experimenting, continuously learning, and scaling replication, "intelligent organizations" will embrace more opportunities in asset-light operations, building new "moats," and creating and discovering new markets. In building "intelligent organizations," Baidu is willing to work with partners from all sectors to re-understand, redesign, and recreate organizations, jointly building the "new factory" of the AI era.
Data source: Baidu
Return to TopBy: 成 蹊
In September this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "AI + Software" Special Action Implementation Plan (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Plan"), proposing measures such as optimizing the chain of intelligent programming tools and accelerating the intelligent upgrading of software products, so as to accelerate the integration and application of artificial intelligence technology in the software and information technology service industry.
The rapid development of AI (artificial intelligence) technology is profoundly changing the production methods, product forms, and service models of software, and it has also posed a new question to the software industry: when AI becomes increasingly capable of writing code and the threshold for programming continues to lower, what can the software industry rely on to win competition?
In the past, turning an idea into a software product required going through multiple processes such as requirements analysis, program writing, testing, and modification, consuming a great deal of manpower and time. Today, if you tell AI your requirements, it can generate code, spot errors, and even coordinate the completion of some development tasks. According to media reports, a software development enterprise in Chongqing has three AI agents respectively undertaking the work of product manager, project manager, and technical manager, with engineers becoming "supervisors" responsible for scheduling and quality control. In the code-writing segment, the coverage rate of AI tools has risen substantially, and some enterprises have even achieved full coverage across all employees.
In terms of product form, software in the past mostly executed instructions passively, whereas now some agent-based software can understand intent and autonomously complete tasks; the service model has shifted from delivering a program with fixed functions to continuously providing intelligent applications. Data show that China's enterprise-level AI agent market reached 21.2 billion yuan in 2025, is expected to grow to 44.9 billion yuan in 2026, and is projected to exceed 332 billion yuan by 2029, with an annual compound growth rate as high as 107%. The Implementation Plan makes arrangements in areas such as advancing the transformation of software production, accelerating the intelligent upgrading of software products, and cultivating new business forms of agent-based software, precisely in response to this series of new changes and new challenges.
While artificial intelligence technology lowers the threshold for software production, it also makes the value of industry knowledge and professional experience increasingly prominent. Artificial intelligence can help developers write programs more quickly, but the skill of understanding industries and requirements cannot be developed in a very short period of time (一朝一夕, yi chao yi xi - "one morning, one evening").
Take production scheduling software in the manufacturing sector as an example: how different processes are linked, under what circumstances equipment needs to be shut down, and how to balance delivery schedules with energy consumption all require a deep understanding of production scenarios. In the first eight months of this year, China's software business revenue reached 10.28 trillion yuan; China's manufacturing value added has ranked first in the world for 16 consecutive years. The vast software application market provides abundant demand for new software, while the complete manufacturing system has accumulated a large amount of production data, engineering methods, and industry knowledge. The Implementation Plan proposes supporting qualified industrial enterprises in cooperating with software enterprises to encapsulate knowledge such as industrial experience and process parameters into reusable model libraries and industrial components, and to develop intelligent industrial software for the industry. By leveraging artificial intelligence technology to integrate professional experience into algorithms and software products, so that software truly understands production processes and adapts to complex operating conditions, the advantages of China's real economy are expected to be further transformed into advantages for the software industry.
Seizing new opportunities likewise requires new technologies and genuine skills to reinforce each other.
Software development has accelerated, but the requirements for quality and reliability will not be lowered. Whether a piece of AI-generated code, when placed into a complex project, can operate stably over a long period, can cope with abnormal situations, and can safeguard data security all need to withstand repeated verification.
It should be clearly recognized that "AI + Software" has not changed the underlying logic of software development. Physical principles and mathematical methods remain issues that developers need to continue to study in depth; the core of solving specific engineering problems requires long-term research accumulation; and extremely high precision requirements call for unconventional code design as well as validation across massive industrial scenarios. Artificial intelligence can empower software development, but it cannot replace the thinking of scientists and engineers.
It is necessary both to make good use of artificial intelligence and accelerate the pace of intelligent software upgrading, and to continue to strengthen research on core algorithms, foundational architectures, and other technologies. Software enterprises should be encouraged to cooperate deeply with industry users, so that products are repeatedly refined in real scenarios; the construction of open-source communities should be strengthened to promote technology sharing and collaborative innovation. Particular attention should be paid to quality and safety, with code review and risk detection running through the entire development process.
Reviewing the historical trajectory of the software industry, from personal computers to the mobile internet, every technological transformation has given rise to new products and new enterprises, and has also rewritten the competitive landscape of the industry. Today, artificial intelligence has once again opened a new door. By transforming the enormous industrial scale into solid technological strength and converting rich application scenarios into software products, China's software industry is expected to win greater room for development in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李君强
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that young talent are the vital force in basic research, and that many major achievements have been made by young people.
In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, China's basic research achievements are emerging in abundance. Behind this lies the innovation and enterprising spirit of the vast ranks of young talent, striving to reach new heights (勇攀高峰, yong pan gao feng - "brave, climb, peak"), contributing youthful strength to advancing Chinese modernization.
How can young talent take on major roles and lead in the front line of basic research? How can conditions be created for them to fully display their talents? Starting today, the Science and Technology section launches the series of reports "Taking on Major Roles, Leading the Way — We Have Confidence," conducting in-depth discussions from different angles.
— Editor
From identifying the causes of rare diseases to screening potential drug targets for tumors, AI is opening new windows for life science research.
In October 2025, Genos, the world's first hundred-billion-parameter human genome foundation model, jointly developed by Zhejiang Laboratory and BGI Life Sciences Research Institute, was officially released. Over the past year, the team has carried out cooperation with nearly 40 hospitals, universities, and other institutions, attempting to use AI to interpret genetic variations and seek new clues for disease diagnosis research and drug target discovery.
Behind this frontier exploration is a young scientific research team. The joint R&D team has about 130 members, with an average age of only 30. Coming from different professional backgrounds such as computer science and life sciences, they are attempting to enable AI to learn from massive genomic data and find the codes of life that humanity has not yet recognized.
Exploring the Unknown Within Billions of Base Pairs
The human genome contains billions of base pairs, recording human genetic information. In 2003, the Human Genome Project announced its completion, and scientists for the first time possessed a high-quality reference sequence of the human genome. Since then, with continuous technological progress, massive genomic data has accumulated at an accelerating pace. However, how to understand the genetic information in genome sequences remains a major challenge facing life science research.
Liu Shiping, field chief scientist at BGI Life Sciences Research Institute, stated that to date, scientists still have many gaps in their understanding of the human genome. For example, if a certain position in the genome changes, will it affect physical health? How do different genes influence one another? These mysteries have yet to be discovered. "Currently, there are only slightly more than 20,000 known protein-coding genes. Even for these known genes, their specific functions and their relationships with diseases are far from being thoroughly studied," Liu Shiping said.
The rapid development of AI has brought new ideas: since AI models can learn language rules from massive amounts of text, can they learn from large quantities of genome sequences, allowing raw scientific data to enter foundation models directly and helping scientists find connections that were difficult to discover in the past?
At that time, Zhejiang Laboratory was exploring ways to bring scientific data into foundation models, with life sciences being one of its key areas; BGI Life Sciences Research Institute had accumulated data and experience in genome research. The two sides reached an immediate agreement (一拍即合, yi pai ji he - "one, clap, immediately, join"). Liu Shiping recalled that after their first meeting, which lasted about one hour of exchange, they decided to form a joint research team to train a foundation model that could tackle the "hard bone" of the human genome and search for scientific clues related to disease and health.
Liu Junchen, born in 1995, a young research backbone at the Life Sciences Computing Research Center of Zhejiang Laboratory, was one of the earliest team members to join. In 2023, after completing his doctoral degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, he entered Zhejiang Laboratory to work. Liu Junchen, who was originally unfamiliar with biology, held the most simple aspiration when participating in the Genos project: "After learning about many rare disease cases related to genes, I thought that if I could use my knowledge in computer science to help solve biological problems, it might be possible to spare some families from suffering," Liu Junchen said.
Deng Kaiwen, a young research backbone at BGI Life Sciences Research Institute who has been working side by side (并肩作战, bing jian zuo zhan - "side, shoulder, fight, battle") with Liu Junchen, was also born in 1995. During his school years, he experienced the years of rapid development of large language models. Seeing the continuous progress of AI's ability to process human language, he pondered: since human genome sequences and natural language are both one-dimensional information, could AI also learn to "interpret" human genome sequences? "At that time in the laboratory, I paid very close attention to this matter," Deng Kaiwen said. As foreign teams successively launched related explorations, he increasingly wanted to try it himself, but limited by computing resources, it was difficult to organize large-scale foundation model training.
After graduating in July 2025, Deng Kaiwen entered BGI Life Sciences Research Institute to work. Having heard that the Genos project was being carried out at Zhejiang Laboratory, he, less than a week into his new job, hurried to Hangzhou, Zhejiang, to participate in the development of the initial model. "I had always wanted to try training a genome foundation model myself and see what effect it could have," Deng Kaiwen said.
Liu Junchen brought AI technology into life sciences; Deng Kaiwen brought biological questions in search of new methods. In this way, a group of young researchers from different fields such as computer science and life sciences came together before the same research topic, attempting to enable AI to understand humanity's massive genetic sequence information.
Bringing the "Languages" of Two Disciplines into Alignment
The first challenge of the joint research was how to communicate using the languages of different disciplines.
Liu Junchen still remembers a discussion about "sequence length." Facing the same term, colleagues with computer science backgrounds were referring to the "token" length processed by the model, while colleagues with life sciences backgrounds were thinking of the base length of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). Only after the discussion did everyone realize that they had not been talking about the same thing at all.
Similar "minor episodes" were not uncommon in this interdisciplinary team. Computer researchers were familiar with models and algorithms but needed to learn the laws of life in the genome; life sciences researchers understood the functions and roles of genes but needed to learn how to train large models. In the first month of the joint research, young people from different specialties sat together to make up for basic knowledge, with Ma Jing, deputy director of the Life Sciences Computing Research Center of Zhejiang Laboratory, responsible for leading the team in evaluating the effectiveness of different approaches.
Having passed the communication hurdle, greater scientific challenges came arriving in quick succession (接踵而来, jie feng er lai - "follow, heel, come, arrive"). Previously, some genome models mainly trained on reference genomes, and the limited reference data made it difficult to fully represent genetic differences among different populations. To enable AI to truly understand the human genome, it needed to be exposed to more diverse genetic information.
Just as the team was pondering data sources, the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium released a batch of high-quality genome data covering different regions and populations. "This was a very critical juncture. This batch of open scientific data strengthened the team's confidence in its research direction, taking human genetic diversity as an important consideration, enabling the model to learn genome information from different individuals and providing a more reliable foundation for studying the association between genetic variation and disease," Ma Jing recalled.
With data in hand, how to train the model better remained a challenge. Human genome sequences appear to consist of only four letters representing bases, but the internal relationships are extremely complex. A single base change may have an important impact on life activities, and two sequences far apart may jointly influence the expression of a certain gene. How to enable the model to analyze longer sequences without missing subtle changes became a difficult problem in the R&D process.
At that time, Deng Kaiwen participated in model evaluation work, comparing the performance of different versions of the model in specific scientific research tasks from a biological perspective. The team found that training data covering more individual genomes was more conducive to improving the model's performance in identifying human-related variations, providing a basis for the team to subsequently expand the data scale.
At Zhejiang Laboratory, scientific discussions like this could happen at any time. At 9 a.m., ten team members gathered around a whiteboard to discuss the optimization path for the new version of the genome foundation model. After several rounds of exchange, a solution was found for the program problem that had emerged the previous night.
"Problems can be discussed face to face at any time, which is very convenient," Liu Junchen said. He and Deng Kaiwen work in the same office, and young people from different professional backgrounds are gradually learning to think about problems from each other's perspectives.
This close cooperation also benefits from innovation in the organization of scientific research. Chen Gaoxiang, deputy director of the Life Sciences Computing Research Center of Zhejiang Laboratory, introduced that the laboratory's "seed class" mechanism allows personnel from external institutions and the laboratory to work together in a centralized location, achieving "zero-distance" communication in physical space, with problems discussed at any time and tackled jointly.
After several months of intensive joint research, the team successfully overcame the above difficulties. The Genos model, for the first time, aggregated 636 "telomere-to-telomere" level human genomes from around the world as training data, more comprehensively representing human genetic diversity; at the same time, through a mixture-of-experts architecture, it achieved precise modeling of million-base ultra-long context sequences and single bases, akin to reading a magnificent and monumental literary work (鸿篇巨著, hong pian ju zhu - "grand, chapter, huge, work"), being able to remember details without missing a single word while also comprehending the grand narrative of the whole.
Starting from the Model, Continuing to Pursue New Scientific Questions
After the initial version of Genos was released, the team still devoted most of its energy to model upgrades. Liu Shiping frankly stated that the current model's understanding of the human genome is not yet deep enough, and there is still a long way to go before discovering more credible laws of life. Deng Kaiwen and Liu Junchen now each lead research on one module in the new model, and their work happens to correspond to two types of difficult problems in the genome.
Deng Kaiwen is pondering "spatial relationships." For example, on a computer screen, DNA appears as a string of bases arranged in sequence, but in human cells, DNA exists in a complex three-dimensional structure. Two regions far apart in the sequence may be close to each other in space and jointly influence the activity of a certain gene. How can the model identify these complex connections from one-dimensional sequences? He is attempting to adjust the model's attention mechanism so that the model can learn the connections between distant regions.
Liu Junchen, on the other hand, focuses his research on the model's "memory." Existing models cannot yet process a person's complete genome at once. He hopes to first select the most representative information so that the model, when analyzing local DNA sequences, can also make judgments in combination with the individual's overall genetic characteristics.
The work of the two often intersects. Whether a new research idea can be realized computationally and whether it has biological significance are questions they need to find answers to together.
AI entering basic research has changed the traditional scientific research paradigm, and how to find truly worthwhile scientific questions among numerous ideas has become a new test. "AI has lowered the threshold for us to try new ideas, but which idea can truly promote scientific discovery requires cultivating this kind of 'aesthetic' judgment," Deng Kaiwen said.
Liu Junchen has deep feelings about this. AI has made the pace of scientific research faster and faster, with new papers and new achievements emerging constantly. He sometimes worries that if his new ideas are not realized quickly, they might be implemented first by other teams. But he also constantly reminds himself not to lose the rigor that scientific research should have. "We must use AI to improve efficiency, but we must not, for the sake of convenience, create loopholes in the research content," Liu Junchen said.
Ma Jing introduced that currently, the team has further developed the OneGenome model, integrating genome sequences with biomedical knowledge so that more people can conveniently use AI to conduct life science research.
From proposing ideas and training models to pursuing new scientific questions, the young people on the team deeply integrate AI with basic research, continuously expanding their scientific research horizons. Among the billions of base pairs of the human genome, there is still too much unknown. They continue to persist in exploration, using AI to read out more raw information and bringing scientific research one step closer to the mysteries of life.
Return to TopBy: 高 雷
In the golden autumn season, China's cotton has entered its harvest period. Cotton is not only a core raw material for the textile industry, but also an important source of oilseeds and protein feed. Building a solid "great nation's cotton granary" concerns the livelihoods and employment of cotton farmers, and is also closely connected or interrelated (息息相关, xi xi xiang guan - "breath, breath, related") with the security and stability of the industrial and supply chains.
Since 1983, China has remained the world's largest cotton-producing country. According to statistics released by the International Cotton Advisory Committee in September 2026, in the 2025/2026 season, China's cotton yield per unit area reached as high as 2,487.6 kilograms per hectare, while the global average yield was 895.8 kilograms per hectare — China's cotton yield per unit area is 2.8 times the global average. With less than one-tenth of the world's cotton acreage, we produce more than one-quarter of the world's cotton.
With output rising, quality must also keep pace. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the share of high-quality raw cotton in China's major cotton-producing areas rose from 18.1 percent in 2016 to 58.2 percent in 2024. At present, high-end spinning and precision weaving impose increasingly stringent requirements on fiber length, strength, consistency, and other traits. China is the world's largest exporter of textiles and garments, yet compared with the demand of the textile industry's upgrade toward high-end and brand-oriented development, there remains a gap in the supply of high-quality cotton. Achieving an effective supply of high-quality cotton is an urgent need for meeting the textile industry's upward development, and is moreover the only path for China to advance from a major cotton-producing country to a strong cotton power.
Scientific and technological innovation is an important pillar for answering this question of the times. In recent years, national agricultural research forces have coordinated their efforts to tackle key problems, firmly grasping the "seed chip," making good use of "superior cultivation methods," and installing a "digital-intelligence brain," building a full-chain scientific and technological support system spanning from germplasm innovation to cultivation transformation, and from intelligent production to molecular design.
In terms of variety innovation, researchers have used gene-editing technology to achieve precise improvement of single traits such as fiber length and strength, and breeding methods are transforming from "hybrid selection" to "genome-based precise design." During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, a total of 576 cotton varieties were approved for initial release nationwide, an increase of 35.5 percent over the 13th Five-Year Plan period, of which 144 were high-quality varieties. The genetic quality of China's cotton varieties has entered the era of "double three-zero," namely fiber length reaching 30–34 millimeters and breaking tenacity reaching 30–32 centinewtons per tex, with a batch of high-quality varieties providing solid germplasm support for the production of premium cotton.
In terms of cultivation transformation, cultivation models such as "dense planting, dwarfing, early maturity, and film mulching" are deeply integrated with oasis ecological conditions, with wide-film coverage, narrow-row dense planting, whole-process chemical regulation, and appropriately early sowing providing technical support for early maturity, high yield, and high quality. At present, the nationwide mechanized harvesting rate of cotton fields exceeds 90 percent, and a single family farm can manage 10,000 mu of cotton fields — something that was difficult to imagine in the past.
In terms of the digital-intelligence brain, in August this year, China's first cotton-knowledge large language model, "Mianxin 1.0," was officially released, connecting both the research and production ends and becoming an intelligent assistant for science-based cotton cultivation. The integrated space-air-ground monitoring system for cotton fields and the artificial intelligence decision-making system have greatly reduced water, fertilizer, and labor inputs, supporting the large-scale production model of "one person managing 1,000 mu of cotton fields." These achievements are the crystallization of working together with collective intelligence to tackle key problems (集智攻关, ji zhi gong guan - "collect, wisdom, attack, difficult task") by dozens of national research institutions and universities, including the Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Huazhong Agricultural University.
International scientific and technological cooperation is a major trend. Riding the momentum of high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, China's cotton science and technology has further advanced into the vast lands of Central Asia, with complete sets of technologies such as high-quality cotton seeds, water-saving cultivation, and intelligent harvesting having been implemented and promoted locally (落地推广, luo di tu guang - "land, ground, spread, promote") in multiple Central Asian countries. In September this year, the China–Uzbekistan Cotton Science and Technology Innovation Demonstration Base was officially inaugurated, establishing a platform for regular cross-border scientific research collaboration, technology demonstration, and talent cultivation.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes enhancing the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality and efficiency. Standing at a new starting point, only by continuously strengthening scientific and technological innovation can we steadily consolidate the security foundation of the cotton industry and contribute to building a strong agricultural nation.
(The author is the director of the Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; compiled from an interview by People's Daily reporter Yu Sinan)
Return to TopAs a senior cooperative partner and designated insurance service provider for the ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE), China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "CPIC") has now entered its ninth year of serving the CIIE, connecting the world through financial and insurance services and fully supporting the CIIE's goal of "getting better and better with each edition." During the ninth CIIE, CPIC set up a smart service experience zone in the Technology and Equipment Exhibition Area, focusing on the theme of "Insurance Safeguards Technological Progress, Smart Services Enhance Quality of Life," presenting a three-dimensional display of CPIC's mission commitment and innovative practices in "practicing insurance for the people."
From 35 billion yuan in insured amount at the first edition to over 1.25 trillion yuan at the ninth edition, from a single insurance policy to a new model of comprehensive financial and insurance services for international expositions, from venue protection to exhibition hall appearances, forum releases, insurance product debuts, and wellness and elderly care services — what CPIC has submitted at the CIIE is not merely an insurance protection list, but a deep practice by a financial insurance enterprise in serving national strategies, empowering the real economy, and safeguarding a better life.
Continuing without interruption for nine years (九年不辍, jiu nian bu chuo - "nine, years, not, stop"): From 35 billion yuan to over 1.25 trillion yuan, protection growing ever stronger
Continuing without interruption for nine years, CPIC's insurance protection for the CIIE has been continuously strengthened, with service solutions undergoing sustained iteration. At the ninth CIIE, CPIC provided comprehensive, full-process insurance protection for the expo through a one-stop integrated insurance protection solution covering property, life, and health insurance, along with integrated risk management services.
In terms of venue protection, CPIC Property & Casualty Insurance served as the lead underwriter for a package of insurance policies for the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) for the 2026 operating period, covering seven insurance categories — property all risks insurance, machinery breakdown insurance, business interruption insurance (under property insurance), business interruption insurance (under machinery breakdown insurance), public liability insurance, employer liability insurance, and occupational liability insurance — with a total insured amount exceeding 22.1 billion yuan.
In terms of protection for participating entities, CPIC's protection solution comprehensively covers the "4+4" related entities of the CIIE — the four related parties of organizer, exhibitor, purchaser, and supply chain service provider, as well as the four extended parties of bonded display projects, cross-border e-commerce, other exhibitions, and the 365 online platform that revolve around the spillover effects of the CIIE — bringing service protection closer to customer needs. For global exhibitors, logistics providers, and service providers, CPIC's custom-made (量身定制, liang shen ding zhi - "measure, body, tailor, make") one-stop "CIIE Protection" insurance products and services have been continued and optimized at this year's expo.
With insured amounts repeatedly setting new records and the scope of protection continuously expanding, behind this lies CPIC's sustained contribution to the CIIE's goal of "getting better and better with each edition," as well as a microcosm of the financial insurance service model for international expositions maturing from exploration to establishment.
Synergy for Innovation: Deep Participation in the CIIE, Serving Shanghai's Development of the "Five Centers"
CPIC is not only a dedicated service provider for the CIIE, but also a deeply engaged participant.
On November 6, the joint action launch conference for Shanghai municipal state-owned financial enterprises serving the construction of the "Five Centers" was held at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). This event was initiated and hosted by CPIC, with the joint participation of Shanghai financial state-owned enterprises including SPD Bank, Guotai Haitong, Bank of Shanghai, Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank, China Insurance Investment Corporation, Orient Securities, and Shanghai Trust. The "Shanghai Municipal State-Owned Financial Enterprises Action Initiative for Serving the Construction of the 'Five Centers'" released at the event
comprised a total of 18 action initiatives, and, in light of each enterprise's core business characteristics and resource advantages, formulated implementable, distinctive, and innovative work measures.
Technology insurance is the industrial landing point of this set of actions. On the day of the event, CPIC, SPD Bank, and Guotai Haitong respectively released their latest solutions for precisely supporting technological innovation and industrial development. The solutions of the three enterprises comprehensively demonstrated how insurance, banking, and securities firms, in vigorously developing technology finance, are actively promoting the transformation of financial service supply from mid-to-late-stage support toward earlier intervention, and from single-point connectivity toward ecosystem building, which will inject stronger financial momentum into enhancing the source-innovation function of the Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) International Science and Technology Innovation Center.
Long-term capital is another important pillar of support. On November 8, the CPIC Client Festival · Asset-Side Special Session, themed "Gathering Momentum for Innovation, Empowering with Intelligence — A New Model for High-Quality Development of Insurance Asset Management," was held, where multiple experts from financial institutions and industry circles conducted in-depth discussions focused on the theme of insurance funds serving new quality productive forces. At the event, the "CPIC Asset AI Collaboration Platform" was launched, using AI as the engine, knowledge as the foundation, and systems as the carrier, to promote the deep coupling of professional capabilities with digital technology, assist institutions in transitioning toward a new organizational model of "expert-AI collaboration," and build a solid digital and intelligent foundation for insurance funds to conduct long-term investment and serve new quality productive forces.
CPIC has long been rooted in Shanghai as its "main battlefield," pooling national advantageous resources around key areas and enhancing the operational capabilities of its local institutions. Over the past three years, CPIC's premium income in the Shanghai region has achieved a compound annual growth rate of over 20 percent; it has settled into the Shanghai International Reinsurance Registration and Trading Center, with total transaction volume ranking among the forefront of the direct insurance industry; and it has established a shipping insurance center in the Lingang New Area, with its shipping insurance market share ranking among the industry's forefront... At the same time, CPIC is also using long-term capital to accompany the growth of technology enterprises. As of the end of June 2026, its technology investment scale reached 164.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 37 percent. Going forward, it will further deepen the linkage of "equity, debt, bond, insurance, and investment" to provide full-cycle, relay-style financial services for major projects and key enterprises.
Green Expo: Presenting the Expo's Carbon Neutrality Achievements and Green Finance Innovation Practices
On November 5, the "Zero-Carbon CIIE & Green Expo" carbon neutrality themed event conducted by CPIC Property & Casualty Insurance was held at the CPIC exhibition hall at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai).
At the event, the Anhui Provincial Forestry Bureau and CPIC Property & Casualty Insurance held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony, and the China International Import Expo Bureau, the Chizhou Municipal People's Government, and CPIC jointly completed a carbon sink trading and donation ceremony.
At this year's CIIE, CPIC purchased approximately 43,500 tons of forestry carbon tickets for use in offsetting the expo's carbon emissions. This cooperation, driven by the CIIE's carbon neutrality needs, effectively connects high-quality local forestry carbon sink resources with a national-level open platform, promoting the market-based application of local forestry carbon tickets in national-level major events, and creating conditions for subsequent large-scale trading and absorption.
Achieving the "dual carbon" goals requires broad participation from the whole society and the joint practice of green and low-carbon lifestyles. From carbon neutrality at the expo level to green behavior guidance at the public level, the radius of participation in the "Green Expo" has further expanded. Since the fourth CIIE in 2021, CPIC Property & Casualty Insurance has jointly carried out carbon neutrality projects with the China International Import Expo Bureau, continuously supporting the "Zero-Carbon CIIE & Green Expo." During this year's expo, visiting attendees only need to scan a QR code to calculate their travel carbon footprint during the expo period, voluntarily participate in personal carbon emission offsetting, and receive an exclusive carbon neutrality certificate.
During this year's CIIE, CPIC also set up multiple plastic recycling devices within the venue to facilitate visiting attendees' participation in plastic sorting and recycling. The recovered waste plastic will be processed into environmentally friendly recycled products, which are planned to be gifted to guests of the tenth CIIE, allowing the green achievements of this year's expo to be continued and showcased.
Quality Wellness and Elderly Care: From Innovative Service Content and Models to Full-Cycle Companionship
On November 7, the launch and results release conference for health management standards and medical accompaniment service norms for elderly care communities in the insurance industry, hosted by CPIC Life Insurance, was held. Themed "Gathering the Momentum of New Quality Productive Forces & Creating First-Class Service Standards," the conference leveraged the CIIE's high-level opening-up platform, brought together forces from industry, academia, research, and medicine, and jointly explored new paradigms for quality wellness and elderly care.
At the conference, CPIC Life Insurance, together with relevant institutions, released the "White Paper on Health Management Services for Elderly Care Communities in the Insurance Industry" and the "White Paper on the Integrated Development of Medical Accompaniment Services and Health Insurance," putting forward optimization recommendations for service supply based on different medical and health needs.
During this year's CIIE, CPIC Life Insurance released the nation's first comprehensive cross-domain insurance solution for foreign nationals entering China, based on the differentiated needs of foreign personnel, covering multiple scenarios including accidental medical care and sudden acute illness medical care, and providing multilingual services and cross-border coordination. On November 9, CPIC Property & Casualty Insurance officially launched the CPIC · Zhenxiang Worry-Free (Cross-Border Edition) cross-border medical insurance, achieving "one policy, dual-region protection," further improving medical insurance services for personnel of import and export enterprises, and supporting the development of international trade and international economic and cultural exchanges.
At present, CPIC's comprehensive wellness and elderly care ecosystem has taken shape, with wellness and elderly care services advancing from "comprehensive" to "specialized," building a full-lifecycle service system for customers covering "prevention — diagnosis — treatment — rehabilitation — care," which, together with multiple business formats including elderly care communities, home-based elderly care, and professional rehabilitation, forms a full-chain elderly care and health solution.
As a "full-attendance participant" of the CIIE, CPIC regards serving the CIIE as an important practical scenario for implementing the goal of "accelerating the building of a strong financial nation" and writing the "five major articles" of finance, continuously leveraging its professional advantages and bridging role in insurance and finance, and joining hands with all sectors of society with more professional protection, a more synergistic ecosystem, higher-quality services, and a more open vision to contribute to polishing the "CIIE" brand.
Data source: China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co., Ltd.
Return to TopOverlooking Yuzhou from above, the lights of ten thousand households shine like a dense array of stars. Since 1906, when the first electric light illuminated the deep darkness of night on the Yuzhong Peninsula, the electric power industry of Chongqing, the mountain city, has traversed 120 years of eventful years. From saving the nation through industry to guarding the great rear area of the War of Resistance, from consolidating the foundation of the Third Front construction in the Southwest to building Chongqing into an energy resource allocation hub, across the long span of time, the development of Chongqing's electric power industry has always resonated in harmony with the development of the nation.
Over 120 years, Chongqing's electric power industry has overcome great difficulties and obstacles (披荆斩棘, pi jing zhan ji - "tear through thorns, hack through brambles"), achieving leapfrog development; the mountain city of Chongqing has rapidly risen amid its mountains and waters into a megacity. The electric power industry has participated in Chongqing's economic and social development in an all-round, deep-level manner, witnessing the city's development process of being reborn through blood and fire, rising upward, and flourishing and prosperous (欣欣向荣, xin xin xiang rong - "flourishing, prosperous").
Saving the Nation Through Industry: Laying the Foundation of Chongqing's Modern Electric Power Industrial System
Chongqing, embraced by two rivers and nestled among mountains and waters, is a famous cultural city with a history of more than 3,000 years. Since ancient times, boat transport and commerce have flourished. In 1891, Chongqing was formally opened as a treaty port, modern industry and commerce began to sprout, creating a demand for electric power, and the modern electric power industry emerged as the need arises (应运而生, ying yun er sheng - "rise according to circumstances").
In the late Qing Dynasty, in Chongqing, a group of patriotic entrepreneurs strove for self-strengthening, propping up the foundation of Chongqing's modern electric power industry through arduous entrepreneurship. Liu Peigao, a pioneer of Chongqing's electric power industry, with the strong assistance of a group of patriotic entrepreneurs over seven years, installed Chongqing's first 100-kilowatt DC generating unit at Taipingmen on the Yuzhong Peninsula in 1906.
On November 25, 1906, the 100-kilowatt DC generating unit was formally started for the first time, and the first electric light was lit in the ancient city of Yuzhou. In 1908, Chongqing's first private electric power company — the Zhuchuan Electric Light Company — was established, and two 200-kilowatt steam DC generating units were built and began generating electricity the following year, supplying power to Chongqing's prosperous urban areas.
In 1929, Chongqing promoted the construction of the Daxigou Power Plant, which was completed and put into operation on July 20, 1934. In 1936, the Chongqing Electric Power Company Limited completed its preparatory establishment.
Glory Forged in Blood and Fire: Guarding the Electric Power Lifeline of the Great Rear Area of the War of Resistance
Arriving at Chaotianmen Dock, one sees the vast river waters flowing mightily eastward, telling the epic of struggle of this unyielding city. During the War of Resistance, the forebears of the electric power industry saved the nation in times of crisis, guarding Chongqing's electric power lifeline with their flesh and blood.
In 1937, when the full-scale War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, the forebears of Chongqing's electric power industry launched a battle to defend the power supply, adopting methods of dispersal and concealment, relying on mountains and entering caves, to transfer and protect electric power equipment, and organizing a force of a thousand people to rush-repair electric power facilities. They broke the Daxigou Power Plant into smaller parts (化整为零, hua zheng wei ling - "turn a whole into parts"), retaining the 4,500-kilowatt unit as the No. 1 Power Plant of the Chongqing Electric Power Company Limited, while the remaining units were separately relocated to cave shelters at Danzishi and E'gongyan on the city outskirts, where the new No. 2 and No. 3 Power Plants were built to sustain wartime power supply.
In 1937, aspiring young people from the Chongqing Electric Power Company Limited, the Huaxi Xingye Electric Power Department, and other sectors of society initiated the establishment of the Nuhou (Roar) Drama Society, carrying out anti-Japanese theatrical performances and the anti-Japanese national salvation movement. On October 1 of the same year, the Nuhou Drama Society's anti-Japanese war drama Defending Lugou Bridge was first publicly performed at the Guotai Theater in Chongqing, causing a sensation. During the War of Resistance, the Nuhou Drama Society fought on the front line of the cultural and artistic circles' anti-Japanese national salvation movement, running about and shouting, sounding the cultural clarion call amid the flames of war.
Having passed through the flames of war, the Daxigou Power Plant and the Danzishi Power Plant were preserved intact, and the main body of the E'gongyan Power Plant remained in good condition, leaving a precious legacy for Chongqing's electric power industry in the new China.
Overcoming Difficulties: Consolidating the Electric Power Cornerstone of Third Front Construction in the Southwest
After the liberation of Chongqing, the Chongqing District Electric Power Administration Bureau of the Southwest Military and Political Committee was established to carry out the reconstruction of electric power equipment. In 1951, the Electric Power Administration Bureau of the Southwest Ministry of Industry (abbreviated as the "Southwest Electric Power Administration Bureau") was established, and the Chongqing District Electric Power Administration Bureau was renamed the Chongqing Electric Power Bureau, under the leadership of the Southwest Electric Power Administration Bureau. Chongqing's electric power workers took up the baton passed by their forebears and continued to strive on a land awaiting reconstruction.
During the First Five-Year Plan period, Chongqing successively built the Chongqing Power Plant, then the largest thermal power plant in the Southwest; the Changshou Longxi River Cascade Hydropower Station, then the largest hydropower plant in the Southwest; Chongqing's first 110-kilovolt transmission line; and its first 110-kilovolt substation, the Panxi Substation, laying a solid energy foundation for local economic and social development.
In the 1960s, the state launched the Third Front construction in the Southwest. As the core city of the Southwest Third Front construction, Chongqing saw large numbers of military and civilian enterprises relocated inland or newly established there, and the demand for electricity surged sharply. Electric power builders bravely shouldered the heavy responsibility of the era, and with a sense of mission to build a strategic rear base, they pushed the electric power cause forward through the waves.
During the Southwest Third Front construction, Units 13 and 14 of the East Plant of the Chongqing Power Plant were completed and put into operation in 1967 and 1969 respectively, completing all construction of the East Plant project, bringing the total installed capacity of the entire Chongqing Power Plant to 296,000 kilowatts. The 220-kilovolt Liangting Substation, nestled deep in Geleshan, bears the engraved memory of the struggle of Southwest Third Front construction.
This substation, located inside an air-raid shelter in the Geleshan mountain in Shapingba, is both Chongqing's first 220-kilovolt substation and the longest-running, longest-operating air-raid shelter substation still in service in China to this day. To match the industrial electricity demand of Third Front construction, the state planned and built the 220-kilovolt Doyu (from Sichuan Douba to Chongqing) transmission project, with the 220-kilovolt Liangting Substation built as supporting infrastructure. Following the construction requirements of "relying on mountains, dispersal, and concealment," the site was chosen inside an air-raid shelter.
The builders overcame great difficulties and obstacles, tackling hard problems, to lay a solid foundation of support for the development of Chongqing's electric power industry. In May 1972, the 220-kilovolt Liangting Substation was formally put into operation. The substation hidden in the mountain cave shouldered the heavy burden of the era and was called "the lifeline of Chongqing's power supply." In October 2024, this old station, weathered by the passage of time, was included in the sixth batch of the National Industrial Heritage List.
After more than 10 years of arduous entrepreneurship, in 1976, Chongqing's electric power installed capacity reached 606,900 kilowatts, an increase of 35.8 percent over the 1960s; annual power generation reached 2.725 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 64.3 percent over 1965, satisfactorily meeting the needs of Southwest Third Front construction.
From Southwest Third Front construction to reform and opening up, Chongqing's power grid continued to improve, and the foundation of the mountain city's power grid was gradually consolidated. Power sources such as the Jiangbei Gas Turbine Power Plant, the Luohuang Power Plant, and the Kaixian Baihe Power Plant were successively established; in 1995, the first 500-kilovolt transmission line of the Sichuan-Chongqing power grid, a key national project — the 500-kilovolt Ziyu Line — was completed and put into operation, and Chongqing's power grid advanced toward higher voltage levels.
Advancing Steadfastly: Building Chongqing into an Energy Resource Allocation Hub
In 1997, Chongqing became a municipality directly under the central government, ushering in new development opportunities. In June of the same year, the Chongqing Municipal Electric Power Company was formally established.
The Western Development Strategy and major projects such as the Three Gorges Project and the "West-to-East Power Transmission" brought major development opportunities to Chongqing. Centering on the needs of economic and social development, the State Grid Chongqing Municipal Electric Power Company transformed its development model and made every effort to serve the city's rise and takeoff.
The construction of the central corridor of the national interconnected grid's "West-to-East Power Transmission" was accelerated. In 2000, Chongqing's power grid's first 500-kilovolt substation — the Chenjiaqiao Substation — was completed and put into operation, becoming an important hub for transmitting Sichuan's electricity outward. In May 2002, the 500-kilovolt Wanlong Line of Chongqing's power grid was formally interconnected with the Central China power grid, and Chongqing's power grid also became one of the important corridors of the West-to-East Power Transmission artery.
Subsequently, the construction of the 500-kilovolt "artery" proceeded underway with great vigor (如火如荼, ru huo ru tu - "like fire, like spreading weeds"). In November 2007, the Longsheng 500-kilovolt Substation was completed and put into operation, and Chongqing's 500-kilovolt "sun" (ri)-shaped ring grid was completed three years ahead of schedule. In November 2009, the 500-kilovolt Longquan No. 2 Line was put into operation, and the backbone grid of Chongqing's 500-kilovolt "sun"-shaped double-ring grid was completed.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the construction of Chongqing's power grid has been making rapid progress (快马扬鞭, kuai ma yang bian - "whip the fast horse"). In 2013 and 2015, the 220-kilovolt Hechuan Dashi Smart Substation and the 500-kilovolt Yuping Smart Substation were successively built, and Chongqing opened the era of smart substation construction. In 2017, the third Sichuan-Chongqing transmission channel was put into operation, improving the power transmission capacity of the Sichuan-Chongqing cross-section, and Chongqing's 500-kilovolt grid framework was upgraded to a "two horizontal, three vertical" pattern.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Chongqing is advancing courageously toward comprehensively building a modern new Chongqing of socialism, and the development of Chongqing's power grid has also entered a critical stage of upgrading and transformation.
The city's booming economic development has raised new demands for "bringing external electricity into Chongqing." Ultra-high-voltage transmission has become one of the optimal paths for meeting the electricity demand of economic and social development. Chongqing's electric power workers went to Sichuan, to Shaanxi, into Gansu, and into Xinjiang, exploring the path of ultra-high-voltage development.
In December 2024, the Sichuan-Chongqing 1000-kilovolt ultra-high-voltage AC project was completed and put into operation; in June 2025, the Hami-Chongqing ±800-kilovolt ultra-high-voltage DC transmission project was put into production and began transmitting power, and Chongqing's power grid entered a new stage of ultra-high-voltage development with AC-DC hybrid interconnection, injecting abundant momentum into the city's long-term development. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the installed electric power capacity within Chongqing increased by more than 15 million kilowatts, with a total scale exceeding 42 million kilowatts.
Today, Chongqing has built one pumped-storage hydropower station with a capacity of 1.2 million kilowatts; 12 grid-side energy storage projects have been completed and put into operation, adding 1.4 million kilowatts of regulation capacity. The total installed capacity of Chongqing's wind power and photovoltaic power generation has exceeded 10 million kilowatts, and the energy structure is accelerating its transformation toward clean and low-carbon development.
Striving forward in the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the State Grid Chongqing Municipal Electric Power Company will accelerate the construction of key projects such as the Sichuan-Chongqing ultra-high-voltage AC reinforcement project and the Chongqing-Guizhou back-to-back interconnection project, focus on building Chongqing into an energy resource allocation hub for "West-to-East Power Transmission," continuously improve the level of power supply security, and serve the overall national energy security situation.
Data source: State Grid Chongqing Municipal Electric Power Company
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"The heroic sacrifice awakened a great awakening..." In the slightly hoarse AI (artificial intelligence) voice-over, the kerosene lamp illuminated the weathered face of the old cook. When he heard of the decision of the Zunyi Conference, within a few seconds, the expression on his face turned excited, then joyful; he strode with measured steps, as if he had returned to his prime... Recently, Li Xuejian's wordless performance in this segment of the televised literary and artistic gala "Ode to the Long March" has been widely circulated online, with many people saying they watched it "with tears in their eyes."
Song Dacheng, Jiao Yulu, Feng Shi, Song Jiang, Yang Shanzhou, Li Peiji, Gan Zuchang, Ji Chang... Over the years, Li Xuejian has exchanged heart for heart, making friends with audiences through one role after another, leaving behind numerous unforgettable (过目难忘, guò mù nán wàng - "pass the eyes, difficult to forget") images on screen. In particular, his portrayals of heroic model figures such as Jiao Yulu, Yang Shanzhou, and Gan Zuchang accurately grasped the spiritual world of these characters, convincingly bringing to life the courage and perseverance of Communists who "seek hardship for themselves," and these roles have been fixed in the gallery of the era's literature and art as statues of outstanding and noble character (风骨卓然, fēng gǔ zhuó rán - "wind, bone, outstanding").
Li Xuejian clearly remembers that on March 8, 1975, he formally joined the Communist Party of China and happily sent a telegram to his family. "My parents were even more excited than I was. They telegraphed back three words: 'Work hard.' In those simple three words, how much affection, how much love, how much expectation there was!" After being admitted to the Air Force Political Department Drama Troupe in 1977, Li Xuejian had only one thought: to go on stage and act. "As long as a role is placed in my hands, I must do my utmost to perform it well." For half a century, Li Xuejian has used the sincerity of a Communist and the cultivation of a people's actor to practice the most plain yet weighty admonition and entrustment: "work hard."
A Theater Fanatic Who "Shows Off" for His Roles
In 1990, Li Xuejian's representative work "Jiao Yulu" arrived. At that time, "Aspirations" was airing nationwide to great popularity, and Li Xuejian still looked like Song Dacheng — short hair, short stature, fair and plump. In Lankao, Jiao Yulu's widow, Xu Junya, glanced at him and asked the director: Is Xiao Li suitable to play Jiao Yulu? After asking, she went off to make dumplings for everyone. Li Xuejian wanted to back out and told the director to quickly replace him so as not to delay the filming. The director thought it over for a day and replied to him: "An actor needs only thirty percent physical resemblance; seventy percent spiritual resemblance is what matters most. If you're short, I'll find a way; if you're fat, you'll have to solve that yourself."
If the person isn't right, the performance can't get going. With only about twenty days left before filming began, Li Xuejian stopped eating meals entirely, drinking only cabbage soup; whenever everyone sat down to eat, he would slip away. When hunger became truly unbearable, he would buy ten cents' worth of melon seeds and slowly nibble them off in a corner. He ate little and didn't sleep either, staying up through the nights. In a little over half a month, he had slimmed down. Once filming started, Xu Junya came to visit the set again, and afterward had her youngest daughter bring Li Xuejian a scarf, saying: This is what Jiao Yulu used. She also sent a message to the director: This child has gotten so thin; you can't let him keep losing weight. At the very beginning of the film is the scene of the common people seeing off Secretary Jiao at his funeral. That "portrait of the deceased" was taken at a small photo studio in the county town late in the filming — by then Li Xuejian had grown so thin that he looked very much like him.
This film won Li Xuejian both the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards. After taking the stage, he said two sentences: The hardship and exhaustion were all borne by a good man, Jiao Yulu; the fame and fortune were all gained by a foolish lad, Li Xuejian.
Throughout the making of the TV series "Water Margin," Li Xuejian put great effort into understanding and expressing the character.
The critic Jin Shengtan once said: "In a book, writing 107 characters is easiest; writing Song Jiang is the hardest." Song Jiang is the leader of the 108 heroes of Liangshan — dark-skinned, fat, and short, unprepossessing in appearance; he is at once chivalrous and righteous, and loyal and filial; he both resists corrupt officials and remains loyal to the imperial court. In that era, he was destined to be a tragic figure. From "secretly releasing Chao Gai" to "aiding Yan Poxi," Song Jiang's fate changes step by step, until he is forced up to Liangshan.
To perform the scene "Writing the Rebel Poem at Xunyang Tower" well, Li Xuejian repeatedly practiced with a brush dipped in water on a blackboard, writing, wiping it dry, and writing again, seeking the feeling of writing on a wall and also pondering the composition and layout of calligraphy. He practiced this way for half a month. When the actual filming came, Li Xuejian delayed picking up the brush. He immersed himself in the role of Song Jiang, drank a little wine, and alone faced the wall, building up his emotions; when his feelings reached their peak, he wielded the brush with bold strokes, done in one continuous motion (一气呵成, yī qì hè chéng - "one breath, complete")... This scene was completed in a single take.
In the series, when Song Jiang accepts the amnesty, he is so agitated that his eyes fill with tears and his lips tremble violently; when granted an audience with the emperor of the Great Song, he kneels at the very front, and as he kneels, his buttocks stick up high, prostrating himself on the ground — this posture of showing extreme respect or total submission (五体投地, wǔ tǐ tóu dì - "five limbs, touch ground") made countless viewers gnash their teeth in hatred. Li Xuejian's interpretation of Song Jiang presented the actions and mentality of the capitulationist faction with depth and vividness.
In early 1998, as soon as "Water Margin" aired, it became a ratings sensation, with viewership once reaching as high as 44 percent. Many viewers wished the story would stop at the moment when the heroes gathered at Liangshan and took their seats in rank; they could not accept the ending. Some viewers were so furious that they smashed their television sets. A fellow townsman from Shandong sent Li Xuejian a message: "Don't you dare come back to your hometown — if you come back, you'll get a beating!"
Life Is Like a Play, and a Play Is Like Life
After "Aspirations" and "Jiao Yulu" became popular, letters from viewers piled up by the day. One letter, Li Xuejian has kept in his pocket all along. It was sent by a guard soldier, who reminded Li Xuejian to stay calm and low-key: "Since you've eaten the eggs laid by the hen, why must you also look at the hen that laid them?" "Lasting charm lies in maintaining a certain distance." At the end, he wrote: "Forgive me for pouring a basin of cold water on you at the moment of your greatest triumph."
That basin of "cold water" was well poured, and those heartfelt words are also quite thought-provoking. From then on, Li Xuejian has had one pursuit in acting: to make the audience remember the character and forget him, the actor.
To make "Yang Shanzhou," Li Xuejian listened to reports on Yang Shanzhou's deeds and also looked up materials online. He frankly admitted that he was skeptical of this figure: In today's world, can there really be such a selfless person? When he went to Yunnan and saw for himself, Li Xuejian blushed at the question mark in his heart. "The old man persisted for more than 20 years in planting over 50,000 mu of mountain forest, a lush green expanse stretching beyond the horizon. They say it's worth 370 million yuan — I think that's an underestimate. This forest shook me; it's not fake." A local folk rhyme circulated among the people goes: "There's a little stonemason in our hometown, who after retiring from office doesn't enjoy his blessings. He planted trees for twenty years, clothing the barren hills in green. Benefiting descendants for a thousand generations, never forgetting to serve the people. Living to old age, working to old age, refusing to be a rich man! What does he choose to be? A Communist."
Li Xuejian savored these folk rhymes, imagining Yang Shanzhou from the outside in, then stringing together the small details like pearls; he felt his heart racing, and the character gradually took on solid form in his mind. Before filming began, Li Xuejian silently recited to himself: The artistic effect I want is not moving the audience — it is a shock to the soul!
At the awards ceremony of the 14th Huabiao Awards, Li Xuejian won for "Yang Shanzhou." Wearing his Party member badge as he walked onto the stage, he said: "This award is not given to me personally; it carries the film community's boundless love for and deep remembrance of Old Man Yang Shanzhou. So next year, in this season, when I go to Yunnan to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new Yang Shanzhou Exhibition Hall, I won't go empty-handed." Li Xuejian paused, raised the trophy in his hand, and said, "I'll have a gift."
Li Xuejian still remembers that in 1965, when the school organized a screening of newsreels, he saw for the first time the footage of China's successful atomic bomb explosion. At the time he was still a teenager. "Back then I didn't understand much else, but I did have a hero complex. I knew our backbone had straightened up, knew those were national heroes — awesome!" In 1998, when the film "Roaring Across the Horizon" was greenlit, Li Xuejian agreed at once to play Commander Feng Shi after merely hearing the director tell the story.
On May 8, 1999, while the crew was filming in Xinjiang, NATO brazenly bombed our embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Li Xuejian realized that "Roaring Across the Horizon" was not an ordinary film — it had to capture the backbone of us Chinese people. The "oath-taking rally" was a major scene. In this segment, Li Xuejian's control of performance rhythm and proportion was especially precise: without exaggerated physical movements, through details such as words ringing out with force, a slightly trembling voice, a firm gaze full of expectation, and a clenched fist, he expressed thoroughly and vividly (淋漓尽致, lín lí jìn zhì - "dripping, reaching the limit") the character's sense of mission and power to move people — not only igniting the fighting spirit of the soldiers on site, but also conveying the power of faith in forging the nation's shield in that era, contributing the film's crowning moment.
Li Xuejian clearly remembers General Secretary Xi Jinping's words at the 2014 Forum on Literature and Art Work: "Offer the people the finest spiritual nourishment." Over the years, Li Xuejian has used this sentence as a yardstick, holding to two principles: first, be willing to put in painstaking effort and settle down to polish one's roles; second, be able to lower oneself, keep the audience and the people in one's heart, and steadily walk the path of upholding virtue and pursuing art.
"I'm 72 years old now. My ears can't hear, and my speech is no longer fluent. Some people advise me to rest, but I can't stop. As long as I can still stand in front of the camera, I still want to act — to play the living people of this era and continue to make good friends with the audience through my roles." That is what Li Xuejian says.
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As we study and implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party in depth, we hope that the publication of A Clear Mirror Through the Ages: A Series on Ancient Chinese Culture of Integrity will provide a reading choice for strengthening the construction of a culture of integrity in the new era and for cultivating the Party spirit of Party members and cadres.
Rooted in the fertile soil of China's excellent traditional culture, the series sorts through the intellectual origins, institutional evolution, exemplary figures, transmitted family precepts, and aphorisms and admonitions of ancient culture of integrity, compiled into five volumes: The Source of Integrity, Institutions and Regulations, A Bright Mirror, Family Precepts, and Aphorisms. The Source of Integrity traces origins and explores fundamentals, elucidating the traditional governance principle that "integrity is the foundation of governance"; Institutions and Regulations studies the past to understand the present (稽古察今, ji gu cha jin - "investigate antiquity, observe present"), sorting through a series of integrity-related institutions of ancient times, including official selection, supervision, assessment, punishing corruption, and rectifying conduct; A Bright Mirror tells the stories of upright officials and incorruptible functionaries who were law-abiding and dedicated to public service (奉公守法, feng gong shou fa - "serve the public, obey the law") and diligent in governance and caring for the people; Family Precepts focuses on classic family precepts and rules from successive dynasties; Aphorisms explores the life wisdom of ancient scholar-officials in maintaining integrity in private and in minute details (慎独慎微, shen du shen wei - "be cautious when alone, be cautious in small matters"), self-discipline and moral self-cultivation (克己修身, ke ji xiu shen - "restrain self, cultivate character"), and acting with impartiality and integrity (秉公持正, bing gong chi zheng - "hold public, maintain righteousness"). Each of the five volumes has its own focus while supporting one another, presenting readers with the rich composition of ancient Chinese culture of integrity.
In the vast river of five thousand years of Chinese civilization, "integrity" has always been a proposition bearing on the rise and fall of the state and the survival of political power. Shuowen Jiezi explains: "Lian (integrity) means narrow." Originally referring to the side edge of a hall, it was later extended to mean having edges and corners, and a character of uprightness. The image of edges and corners is extremely vivid. Only with edges and corners can one draw a clear line between public and private; only with edges and corners can one say "no" before temptation; only with edges and corners can one stand tall between heaven and earth. Returning to the source always brings us new reflection. Strengthening the construction of a culture of integrity in the new era requires upholding the Two Integrations (两个结合), especially the "Second Integration," taking China's excellent traditional culture as an important intellectual resource. The compilation of this series is intended to carry forward this living stream of ancient culture of integrity, allowing it to continue playing its irrigating role on the new journey of the new era.
Flipping through the series, readers will traverse the Qin and Han dynasties to see how "integrity" moved from thought to institution, will feel the "inheritance of moral bearing" from the Wei and Jin to the Sui and Tang dynasties, delve into the "deepening of rationality" of the Song and Yuan dynasties, examine the "maturity and predicament" of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and ponder the internal tensions of traditional wisdom and the inevitability of modern transformation. We will also interpret the earliest official admonitions in the Book of Documents, the meticulous design of the "Six Integrities" in the Rites of Zhou, the powerful warning that rouses people to awareness (振聋发聩, zhen long fa kui - "awaken the deaf, startle the muddled") of the "Four Pillars of the State" in the Guanzi, the eternal debate over righteousness and benefit in the Analects, the earnest exhortations to grassroots officials in the Qin bamboo-slip text The Way of Being an Official, and numerous classic family precepts and aphorisms. This book not only presents ideas but also tells of the figures who carried those ideas; it does not stop at telling stories of clean governance but further analyzes the institutional logic and cultural psychology behind the stories.
"How can the channel be so clear?" This "clarity" is the lucidity of the individual mind, the purity of the political ecosystem, and moreover the uprightness of the spirit of civilization. This living water from the source flows from the depths of history, carrying not only admonitions about integrity but also explorations and wisdom on finding a way to live and establish one's purpose (安身立命, an shen li ming - "settle body, establish life") and governing the country and ensuring national stability (治国安邦, zhi guo an bang - "govern country, stabilize nation"), allowing us to gain a measure of steadiness and clarity from the depths of history amid the rapid pace of modern life.
(The author is deputy editor-in-chief of China Literature and History Press)
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Dinosaurs are the first wonder in many children's childhoods. In China, this wonder has a deep foundation—the number of dinosaur species currently discovered in China ranks first in the world. But for a long time, the dinosaur stories familiar to Chinese children have mostly come from the film Jurassic Park or imported popular science books. How to transform this weighty natural heritage into literary nourishment that enriches children's spiritual world—Li Donghua's novel Return to the Cretaceous (《重返白垩纪》) makes an attempt at this.
What is most impressive about this novel is the way scientific spirit and literary imagination complement each other perfectly (相得益彰, xiang de yi zhang - "mutually, benefit, increase, shine"). In children's literature, the blending together seamlessly (水乳交融, shui ru jiao rong - "water, milk, blend, melt") of knowledge and entertainment is not an easy thing. Popular science knowledge is like crystals with sharp edges and corners; to make them melt and flow like a stream into the bloodstream of a story requires considerable patience and talent. Return to the Cretaceous gives paleontological knowledge flesh and bone. The dinosaurs in the novel—from Microraptor, Sinornithosaurus, and Yutyrannus, to Zhuchengtyrannus, Kileskus, and Chaoyangopterus—are not silhouettes hanging in the background, but characters with breath and personality. Microraptor is both guide and companion; Ikechosaurus is both ferry and rescuer; at critical moments, Sinoceratops steps forward to engage in close combat (短兵相接, duan bing xiang jie - "short, weapon, mutually, touch") with Yutyrannus... completing the transmission of knowledge amid soul-stirring and breathtaking (惊心动魄, jing xin dong po - "startle, heart, move, soul") adventures.
The warmth of the entire book lies even more in the life education hidden beneath the shell of fantasy. The design of the "Mei Long's Dream" shows considerable ingenuity. Mei Long, buried by volcanic ash in its sleep over 100 million years ago, uses dreams as a passageway, allowing the fossils in the geological corridor to "return" to the Cretaceous again and again, back to that dusk before the volcanic eruption. Microraptor returns repeatedly, only to watch over the dinosaur eggs it guards hatch into baby dinosaurs before the disaster strikes. It knows the ending cannot be changed, yet it refuses to stop. Before the vast universe, individual life is utterly tiny, yet it is precisely that attachment to home, that guardianship of kinship, and that persistence in letting life continue that bestow solemnity upon tiny life. When the protagonist stands by the Daling River, watching the flocks of birds dancing and soaring, and comes to understand that dinosaurs may not have disappeared but merely changed their form to fly in the sky, the work completes a profound philosophical elevation. The end of life is never a farewell, but a merging into the never-ceasing river of evolution in another form. From the writing of an individual fate to the contemplation of a species' fate, from a momentary insight extended into lasting reflection, a book written for children thereby gains an intellectual weight that transcends age.
This work is also a literary response to the exploration of the origins of Chinese civilization. The story's setting is anchored in Chaoyang, western Liaoning, which both harbors world-famous paleontological fossils and is the homeland of the Hongshan culture. From the dinosaur world of the Cretaceous, to the Niuheliang Goddess Temple of more than 5,000 years ago, to the birds soaring over the Daling River today, the author uses a study-tour journey to take children through a passage across time. Such a structure is thought-provoking and worth pondering (耐人寻味, nai ren xun wei - "endure, person, seek, taste"); only by understanding the life memories of this land over hundreds of millions of years can one understand our cultural genes.
Return to the Cretaceous carries profound reflections on life, on home, and on the transmission of civilization through a dinosaur adventure full of childlike delight. It lets children know that Chinese dinosaurs occupy a unique place in the world's paleontological research. Such a charming adventure story quietly plants the seeds of scientific inquiry and also sinks the roots of national cultural identity.
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Ten years ago, I first conceived the idea of writing a popular science book on drinking water, yet I hesitated to put pen to paper for a long time. Water is supremely sacred, closely related (息息相关, xi xi xiang guan - "breath, breath, connect, relate") to everyone's health; every drop of water is a natural gift that nourishes life and fosters vitality. I feared that my writing ability might fall short and fail this weighty subject.
What prompted me to make up my mind was a popular science lecture in 2023. At that time, the theme I shared was "What You Should Know About Drinking Water." Among the audience were lively primary school students and elderly people having white hair and looking very old (白发苍苍, bai fa cang cang - "white, hair, old age, old age"). Listeners of different ages and occupations raised many questions about drinking water: How should households select and maintain water purifiers? Can water left overnight be drunk? Does water stored in a car for a long time undergo changes in quality? Can tap water be drunk directly? ... I was astonished that people had so many confusions about this small daily matter of drinking water, and I also genuinely felt the public's concern for drinking water safety. Coupled with the circulation of various false claims in society, I finally summoned the courage to create this small book.
Having water to drink is humanity's eternal pursuit. Along the Yellow River, the Nile, and the Tigris-Euphrates, ancient peoples were living near water sources (逐水而居, zhu shui er ju - "chase, water, and, reside"), and watercourses were the lifelines of civilization. To obtain clean water sources, the ancient Romans built long aqueducts spanning mountain ravines, creating a marvel of ancient water supply engineering; in the arid lands of Xinjiang, China, karez wells, like the veins of the earth, channel snowmelt from the mountains to nourish oases, embodying the survival wisdom of adapting to nature.
Water safety is bound up with civilization and health. During the 1854 cholera outbreak in London, England, epidemiologist Snow marked patients' residences on a map and was horrified to discover that the outbreak had spread around a public pump well. This sounded an alarm for humanity: water can also become a medium for disease transmission. Crisis gave birth to wisdom; disinfection technologies and water purification processes emerged one after another, safe water supply gradually became a reality, and humanity's pursuit of drinking water safety has never ceased. The history of drinking water development is precisely a condensed history of the evolution of human civilization.
Supplying good water is the silent welfare of modern society. Drinking water is precious; it does not "come by itself." The reassuring water that flows from a lightly turned tap is supported behind the scenes by a vast and sophisticated system of modern engineering and management. From source to tap, every drop of water passes through numerous checkpoints, embodying the wisdom accumulated through a century of exploration. I have tried to use plain language to systematically tell the story behind "tap water does not come by itself," showing how technology and institutions jointly safeguard drinking water safety.
Drinking good water is a topic of common public concern. What kind of water is suitable for long-term drinking? How should one scientifically choose purified water, mineral water, or boiled water? Does repeatedly boiled water cause cancer? Can alkaline water cure illness? Is scale harmful? Is it necessary to install a household water purifier? ... These questions that the ancients never needed to ponder often leave modern people not knowing what to do or how to act (无所适从, wu suo shi cong - "not, have, place, follow"). This book attempts to use rigorous scientific logic to systematically sort out such drinking water knowledge closely related to daily life, helping readers dispel misconceptions and drink water rationally.
I am committed to writing a popular science book that is "interesting." Text and images echo each other, with words and illustrations complementing each other to enhance brilliance (相得益彰, xiang de yi zhang - "mutual, obtain, increase, brilliance"); the "Knowledge Points" and "Extended Reading" sections highlight key content and help readers broaden their reading horizons. The book also briefly introduces the related achievements for which our team won the first prize of the 2023 National Science and Technology Progress Award, helping readers understand the scientific and technological progress in China's drinking water field.
Dear reader friends, may every drink of water bring you peace of mind, because you understand.
(The author is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a researcher at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This piece is the afterword to the book The Science of Drinking Water, abridged for this edition, with the title added by the editors.)
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Academician Du Xiangwan (杜祥琬) long engaged in nuclear physics research and participated in the development of the "two bombs, one satellite" program, later shifting to the fields of high-power lasers, energy, and climate, making tremendous contributions to the development of the nation's scientific enterprise. Yang Liguang's new work Devoting Oneself to the Nation, Repaying the Splendid Years: A Biography of Du Xiangwan, with its rich historical materials and delicate brushwork, depicts Du Xiangwan's tortuous life experience of serving the country through scientific research.
What is most moving in the book is the story of Du Xiangwan submitting to the needs of the nation and changing the course of his life several times. These several "changes of course" also form the narrative thread of the biography. Du Xiangwan writes in the preface: "When I was in high school, I wanted to study astronomy, but in accordance with the needs of the nation, I switched to studying nuclear physics." In 1959, he went to study at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, which specialized in training nuclear technology personnel, and after returning to China, he lived in obscurity, entering the Theory Department of the Ninth Academy of the Second Ministry of Machine Building to devote himself to nuclear weapons research and development. This was the first and most important change of course — a young man handing over his personal aspirations to the needs of the nation.
The subsequent changes of course were those of an accomplished scientist who, time and again, voluntarily returned himself to zero. In the 1980s, Du Xiangwan, approaching fifty, bid farewell to the familiar field of nuclear physics and plunged headlong into the unfamiliar field of high-power lasers. He started learning from scratch, working with great diligence and dedication (勤勤恳恳, qin qin ken ken - "diligent, earnest, hardworking") and doing things in a steady and practical manner (扎扎实实, zha zha shi shi - "solid, down-to-earth, steady"), during which time he personally wrote the first strategic report on laser development, propelling China's new high-power laser technology into the world's advanced ranks. At the age of sixty, he once again turned toward energy and climate, presiding over research on China's medium- and long-term energy development strategy; at seventy, he traveled far to the United Nations Climate Change Conference; and at eighty, in the capacity of an advisor, he promoted the implementation of the "rural energy revolution." From cutting-edge national defense to the national economy and people's livelihood, and to global climate governance, three changes of course, superimposed upon the trajectory of New China's scientific and technological ascent; three changes of course, yet the life direction of serving the nation's needs never changed — this is deeply moving.
The biography does not stop at telling stories, but continuously asks: what sustains these repeated fresh starts? The author cites the words of a friend who worked alongside Du Xiangwan for many years, painting a "portrait" of the spirit of devoting oneself to the nation, and the first item is "working with tireless enthusiasm (孜孜不倦, zi zi bu juan - "diligent, tireless, unremitting") in the spirit of learning." Riding together on a high-speed train, upon seeing a book about future science, his "eyes lit up"; he asked for it and read it on the spot, and by the time the train arrived in Shanghai, the book was finished, with a small pile of note slips accumulated beside him. Treating learning as a faith — this is the answer at the level of method; the deeper answer lies in his origins. Du Xiangwan came from a revolutionary family and a scholarly household; his father was an underground Party member of the older generation who planted the two characters "family and country" (家国) in the hearts of his children. In the process of growing up and developing his talents, Du Xiangwan also personally received the teaching through both words and personal example (言传身教, yan chuan shen jiao - "words, transmit; body, teach") of scientific giants such as Wang Ganchang, Wang Daheng, and Chen Nengkuan, experiencing and inheriting the predecessors' conviction of "laying the foundation stone of national defense, serving as the backbone of the nation," ensuring that knowledge and action are consistent (知行合一, zhi xing he yi - "knowledge, action, combine as one"), and devoting himself to the nation without regret.
The author does not write Du Xiangwan as a perfect person, but rather brings out the warmth of an ordinary human being. The book recounts Du Xiangwan's childhood experiences growing up amid the flames of the War of Resistance, writes of his spiritual quest as a young student, writes of his guilt at being unable to repay his mother, and also tells of the rich experiences of his father Du Mengmo, his wife Mao Jianqin, and others.
Yang Liguang previously wrote a biography of Zhu Guangya, a founding meritorious figure of the "two bombs, one satellite" program, and is well versed in the historical materials of a generation of scientists. The new work also draws on a large amount of primary material such as the subject's own accounts and family members' recollections, while balancing professionalism and accessibility, using plain language to explain specialized knowledge such as nuclear physics and high-power lasers in a way that ordinary readers can also follow. This book is not merely a personal biography of Du Xiangwan; through the narration of his interactions and experiences, it also unfolds a panoramic painting of a constellation of scientists. There are many figures, with varying amounts of ink devoted to each, yet every one is vividly described and appearing lifelike (呼之欲出, hu zhi yu chu - "call, desire, want to come out"), allowing readers to see the spiritual thread of passing on a tradition or spirit from generation to generation (薪火相传, xin huo xiang chuan - "firewood, torch, mutually pass") among generations of scientific researchers, as well as the feelings and sentiments with which they repay the nation through their deeds.
(The author is an associate professor at the School of History and Culture, Northeast Normal University)
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