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Jilonggou, Xizang: Paradise Valley in the hinterland of Himalayas.

  The preference for Geelong stems from the unique visual experience in the hinterland of the Himalayas, which declares a natural landscape far beyond the daily experience of ordinary people with the green and vitality of the gorge. It subverts our inherent vast and flat sensory experience of Xizang and the plateau with obvious vertical steps and lush vision such as snow peaks, alpine shrubs, forests, villages and pastoral areas.

  Originated from its lung-rich historical blood and religious humanities. Geelong, hidden in the hinterland of the Himalayas, was once the most important section of the Downey Ancient Road, the main post road leading from the Tang Dynasty to Tianzhu, from which Wang Xuance made several missions. Lotus peanuts, Princess Chizun, Adixia and others all entered Tibet from Geelong, which opened a magnificent and splendid road to Buddha. Milarepa was also born here. Therefore, it can be said that Tibetan Buddhism in Xizang started from Geelong.

Dancing prayer flags

  As the "three virtues in the lower part", the Gongtang dynasty, which originated from its magnificent and splendid old country civilization, once stood tall in the vast world of western Tibet, just like the Guge dynasty in the upper part of Ali since the post-Tubo era. In addition, Gurkhas invaded Xizang three times in Qing Dynasty, and Geelong was the main battlefield. "The history of more than a thousand years is rolling around here, and many major events in Tibetan history have taken place here, and its political and religious historical figures will meet here. The glory of its historical sites and the fall of its fate are surprising and lamented. "

  Qingshan Bulao Jilonggou

  The natural beauty of the back garden of Mount Everest

  Leaving the national highway, when leaving the 318 highway, the car drove west to the road of Geelong, and the sunset in the west cast a heavy shadow on the brand-new asphalt-paved plateau highway, with the texture of bronze metal. The grass with white spikes was outlined by the sun. When you stop, you can feel your own figure, stretched into a dry and slender shape like a trunk by the sun, and thrown straight into the undulating horizon in the distance. Although it was the end of April and the beginning of May, at an altitude of 4,600 meters, the wind was still a little chilly, scattered hay was pulled by the wind, and fine dust formed wavy lines on the ground. Pei Kucuo appears on the Yuan Ye in front of the field of vision, and its blue water body is very obvious in the main color of the yellow ground, like a leaf, floating from top to bottom in the suspension between heaven and earth. Not surprisingly, she is exactly the same as I imagined. Like a girl I met in my dream, she has a familiar posture, hair, face, eyebrows and even the same clothes and makeup, which gently covers your eyes staring at her.

  In the Xiaomala Mountain Valley to the north of Pekucuo, the asphalt road leads to Kongtangla Mountain Pass in the right hand direction, which is also an ancient road that passed through the mountains from Tang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. On the left hand side is the dirt road leading to Mala Pass, which was built with the help of PLA troops after the democratic reform in Xizang. It is this road that ended the history of no roads in Jilong County. Now, the brand-new road leading to Geelong has been changed from Kongtangla Mountain. Geelong said that the ancestors were still powerful, and the ancient road they took was still beyond our modern people in the end.

Beautiful lake

  It is already on both sides of the driveway in the early summer, and the snow is still several meters deep. The thick "snow wall" reveals some ferocious and biting chill, which is surprising and frightening. This is a "masterpiece" left by a continuous blizzard in the spring of 2012. For this reason, the traffic between Geelong County and the outside world was interrupted for 42 days. At the beginning of the blizzard, Sun Lijun, the current county party secretary, and Zaduo, the county magistrate, were directing disaster relief. Then, except for some areas of Jilong Town in the south, foreign materials can barely be imported, and foreign materials such as vegetables in the northern part of Jilong County can’t be replenished at all. The cadres in the county survived most of the spring by storing potatoes and yak meat.

  For Geelong, it is a common thing to close the mountain due to snowstorm. Now the government and people have made emergency measures and plans, but this situation is still like making a small footnote to "the last secret land of Xizang". Below the Kongtangla Pass, on the steep hillside, the winding highway turns and turns through many bays, and then extends to the foot of the mountain, leading to Zongga Basin surrounded by mountains. Zongga Town, the county seat, is located on the basin, and the distant snow peaks stand tall and stand upright, reaching into the sky, and the snow-capped mountains such as Qiangla, Qiaogula, Riwu Bamba and Peiku Gangri are arranged in turn. These snow-capped mountains divide Geelong County into snow-capped mountains with narrow south and wide south and high north from the natural landscape.

  Looking down from the Kongtangla Pass, the Jilong Valley in the mountains is like a fuzzy shadow line, wrinkling and winding in the mountain. The altitude here is not particularly prominent. However, without this mountain and the Mala Mountain to make up for the gap between a series of main peaks in the middle Himalayas, the northern and southern sides of the Himalayas are likely to be completely connected. It can also be regarded as the starting point of the northern part of Jilonggou, which I have long admired. One mountain connects the northern and southern sides of the Himalayas. To the south, it is a subtropical climate zone created by the warm and humid airflow in the Indian Ocean, and to the north, it is the alpine world of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

  It should be said that Geelong, which is located in the middle part of the Himalayas, has this special landform and natural geographical feature, which is precisely due to the strong geological tectonic activities in this area. The intense crustal movement "Himalayan Movement" which broke out about 30 million years ago made the Qinghai-Tibet region complete the transition from sea to land, and then opened the prelude to the majestic plateau uplift.

Investigation of "Beixi" explosion: Who is hiding what?

  The picture shows an aerial photograph released by the Danish Ministry of Defence on September 27th, 2022, showing a leak in the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline.

  (Xinhua News Agency)

  Recently, the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline has once again attracted the attention of the international community. A few days ago, the public prosecutor in charge of investigating the incident in the Swedish Procuratorate said that although the possibility of an explosion by an independent organization is not ruled out in theory, the current investigation results show that the explosion is most likely to be directly or indirectly involved by state actors.

  In September 2022, the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline that transported natural gas from Russia to Europe via the Baltic Sea exploded, and all parties generally believed that this incident was "deliberate destruction". Who is the culprit? More than half a year has passed, and the truth is still confusing.

  What is even more intriguing is the attitude of the United States and Europe in investigating the incident. Washington post recently quoted a European diplomat as saying, "Don’t talk about ‘ Beixi ’ " Now it has become an unwritten rule when NATO and EU policymakers meet. Why do American and European political circles and western mainstream media avoid talking about "Beixi"? What is the truth? Will the explosion of "Beixi" natural gas pipeline really become a secret that can’t be said or solved under the heavy cloud of doubt?

  What are the questions about the incident?

  At the end of September, 2022, there were four leakage points in the parts of the "Beixi No.1" and "Nord Stream 2" pipelines located in the waters near Sweden and Denmark. At that time, the Swedish survey station detected two strong underwater explosions in the sea area where the pipeline leaked, and all parties generally believed that the pipeline was deliberately damaged. A few days after the incident, Denmark, Sweden and Germany began independent investigations, and no clear conclusion has been reached so far. During this period, around the key issue of "who is behind the scenes", all parties speculated and broke the news.

  In February this year, Seymour Hirsch, a senior American investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote that the "Beixi" pipeline was secretly destroyed by US intelligence agencies and US military personnel. In this regard, the US government denied it. On March 7, the US media reported that a pro-Ukrainian group had created the explosion with US government officials as the source. Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov immediately denied that Uzbekistan had anything to do with the explosion. Russian President Vladimir Putin once said that the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline was a terrorist attack at the national level.

  Wang Zhen, a researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview with this reporter that from the comprehensive information of all parties, there are two judgments that are relatively positive at present: First, the bombing of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline was a man-made destruction; Second, the destruction may be supported by transnational official background, and general organizations do not have such strong attack means and tactical coordination ability.

  "Specifically, the current ‘ Beixi ’ There are three main questions about the explosion of natural gas pipeline: First, the biggest question is who is the direct perpetrator. After the incident, the United States, Europe, Ukraine and Russia blamed each other, but they did not produce conclusive evidence; Secondly, the attitude of western countries towards this incident is intriguing. This incident involved an attack on important civilian infrastructure, which had a great impact and was of a bad nature. However, Western countries and the media remained almost silent, not only selectively ignoring Seymour Hirsch’s report, but also taking a negative or even opposing attitude towards Russia’s call for the establishment of an international commission of inquiry. Third, Germany, Denmark and other European countries launched an investigation into the incident. Why is the progress slow? Is it because of the difficulty in investigation and evidence collection, the lack of clues, or the results of the investigation are too sensitive to be announced under great external pressure? " Wang Zhen said.

  Seymour Hirsch once again pointed his finger at the United States when interviewed by the German media a few days ago. He said that the United States wanted to blackmail Russia by blowing up the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline. In a heavy report of more than 5,000 words published in February, he described in detail the whole process of planning by the US national security department, personally ordering by US President Biden, implementing by the US Navy and cooperating with the Norwegian military, and finally blowing up the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline.

  Karina Zhao, director of the Russian and European Institute of the International Strategy Institute of the Central Party School (National School of Administration), told this reporter that the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline is an important artery related to European energy security, involving the energy interests of almost all EU countries. After the destruction of such an important infrastructure, in addition to the unexpected calm reaction of relevant European countries and the abnormal attitude of refusing to conduct a joint investigation with Russia, what role the United States played in this incident is also an important question.

  "As we all know, the United States has been opposed to ‘ Beixi ’ Natural gas pipelines, trying to interfere and prevent pipeline construction through sanctions and other means, do not want too close energy cooperation between Russia and Europe. Objectively speaking, the United States is indeed this time ‘ Beixi ’ Strategic beneficiary of natural gas pipeline explosion. " Karina Zhao said.

  Why do the United States and Europe dodge?

  The truth of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline explosion is confusing, as is the evasive attitude of political circles in the United States and Europe and most mainstream western media in investigating the incident.

  Washington post recently reported that although the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline aroused many people’s curiosity and speculation, some western officials were in no hurry to find out who blew up the pipeline. In the absence of specific clues, embarrassing silence prevailed. The newspaper quoted a European diplomat as saying that it was like a body at a family gathering. Everyone could see a body lying there, but they were pretending that everything was normal. "It’s better not to know (the truth)."

  Juan gonzalez, founder of the All-American Hispanic Journalists Association, pointed out that the American media and Congress paid little attention to the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline. "The media didn’t seem to be interested at all and didn’t want to know what happened there, and no one in the US Congress asked questions about it."

  Why do American and European political circles and most western mainstream media avoid talking about "Beixi"?

  "First of all, the investigation of this matter has not yet reached the final result, and the relevant discussion inevitably involves various ‘ Conspiracy theory ’ This will inevitably affect the unity and trust within Europe and NATO. Secondly, after the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, ‘ Support Ukraine and oppose Russia ’ Has become a kind of western countries ‘ Political correctness ’ , related to this ‘ Beixi ’ Natural gas pipelines are also highly politicized. In this context, for ‘ Beixi ’ The discussion of the natural gas pipeline explosion is likely to be accused of having illusions about Russia, and politicians may not be willing to take such risks. " Wang Zhen pointed out that for European countries that rely on Russian energy, they are victims of the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline, and the situation is actually very embarrassing. They have to endure the domestic inflationary pressure caused by "expired gas" without showing their nostalgia for Russian energy, and they are quite passive in terms of energy independence and strategic autonomy.

  Karina Zhao believes that behind the evasive attitude of the United States and Europe is the concern of both sides about their so-called "overall situation". "In Europe’s view, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict led to the destruction of the European security pattern established after World War II, and Europe’s own geopolitical security was directly threatened. At present, the most important thing is to restore the security pattern in Europe, which cannot be separated from the military support of the United States. The United States hopes that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine will completely weaken Russia’s military challenge to the United States. To achieve this goal, it also needs the cooperation of Europe. Both the United States and Europe realize that ‘ Beixi ’ It is a topic that can easily intensify the differences between the two sides. If the investigation goes on, it is likely to damage the unity of the transatlantic alliance. Therefore, the United States and Europe very tacitly choose to ‘ Overall situation ’ I don’t want to touch it now ‘ Beixi ’ This highly controversial topic is likely to aggravate the conflict between the United States and Europe, so as not to affect their most important strategic security. "

  As Washington post said, Western officials would rather not know who the culprit is than find their allies responsible for the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline.

  Can the mystery of "Beixi" be solved?

  After the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline, the voices of the international community calling for an objective, fair and professional investigation have come and gone. A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China recently said that it has been more than half a year since the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline. Finding out the truth as soon as possible and publishing the investigation results are related to the global transnational infrastructure security, as well as the international rule of law and justice.

  Hungarian Foreign Minister Jardot West also said earlier that the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline was the first attack on an important infrastructure in Europe and should be regarded as a terrorist attack. Hungary supports a comprehensive, in-depth, systematic and detailed investigation of the incident, so that the international community can know the truth.

  When will the truth of the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline surface? Or, is it possible for the world to know the truth?

  Wang Zhen believes that there are three possibilities for the investigation results of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline explosion: "First, the relevant countries will announce the truth after completing the investigation, and the facts will be revealed to the world, which is the most anticipated result of the international community; Second, after completing the investigation, the relevant countries sealed up the results in the name of confidentiality and national security, and refused to publish the truth to avoid negative impact on the relevant countries and parties; Third, some countries publish false information in the name of investigation to confuse people and obstruct the international community from conducting objective investigations. Judging from the current situation that some countries refuse to conduct international joint investigations, the second situation is more likely, that is, the relevant countries refuse to publish the truth or selectively publish the investigation results in various names. "

  No matter what the truth is, the serious negative impact of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline explosion on the global geopolitical pattern and energy security has emerged and will deepen day by day.

  Finland’s Helsinki Times pointed out that the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline caused huge environmental and social consequences, and many European countries, including Germany, suffered huge losses in industry, and European energy prices soared.

  "The truth of some major events may never be known to the world, but it will inevitably affect or change the trajectory of historical development. ‘ Beixi ’ The explosion of natural gas pipelines will undoubtedly have a major geopolitical impact. " Karina Zhao analyzed that on the one hand, the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline was destroyed, which basically cut off the energy cooperation link between Russia and Europe objectively, making Europe even want to maintain or resume energy cooperation with Russia, but it has become very difficult in physical conditions; On the other hand, at present, there are still many people in European political circles and public opinion circles who accept the American statement that Russia may have destroyed the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline, which further aggravated the antagonism between Russia and Europe.

  Wang Zhen pointed out that in the short term, the explosion of the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline forced some European countries to reduce their energy dependence on Russia, and created opportunities for American energy to enter the European market better and faster after the "shale gas revolution"; In the long run, the incident further highlights NATO’s strategic value in dealing with the so-called "Russian threat", breaks the illusion of reconciliation and cooperation between Russia and Europe in the future, and blocks Europe’s step towards greater strategic autonomy.

In the first quarter, cross-border capital flows were stable, and the two-way opening of capital projects and foreign exchange markets was steadily promoted.

  Topic:In the first quarter of this year, China’s cross-border capital flows remained stable, and supply and demand in the domestic foreign exchange market were independently balanced. At present, the impact of Sino-US trade friction on China’s balance of payments is generally controllable. In this context, the foreign exchange bureau will continue to promote trade and investment facilitation, steadily and orderly promote the two-way opening of capital projects and foreign exchange markets, and at the same time focus on preventing and defusing financial risks, improve the management framework of cross-border capital flows, and safeguard national economic and financial security.

  "Overall, in the first quarter of this year, China’s cross-border capital flows remained stable, and supply and demand in the domestic foreign exchange market were independently balanced." On April 19th, at the press conference of the State Council Office, Wang Chunying, director and spokesperson of the Balance of Payments Department of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, said that in the first quarter of this year, the global economy continued to recover steadily, and the volatility of the international financial market increased. China’s economic operation has maintained a steady and positive trend, the transformation and upgrading have been further promoted, and the quality and efficiency have been continuously improved. The exchange rate of RMB against the US dollar fluctuated in both directions and remained basically stable, and the exchange rate expectation was reasonably divided.

  Two-way flow of cross-border funds

  The situation is more stable.

  With the normalization of monetary policies in major economies and the intensification of international financial market volatility, cross-border capital flows have attracted much attention in recent years. For the situation in the first quarter, Wang Chunying refined it into one sentence: the two-way flow of cross-border funds is more stable, and the pattern of independent balance between foreign exchange supply and demand is further consolidated.

  According to the data released by the foreign exchange bureau, in the first quarter, the foreign-related income, expenditure, settlement and sale of foreign exchange of market entities showed steady growth. Foreign-related income of banks on behalf of customers increased by 25% year-on-year, foreign-related expenditure increased by 19%, foreign exchange settlement by banks increased by 16%, and foreign exchange sales increased by 9%, indicating that foreign-related economic activities of China’s market players have been promoted in an orderly manner and steadily.

  It is worth noting that foreign exchange trading has not fluctuated greatly. In the first quarter, the RMB exchange rate showed a two-way fluctuation trend driven by market forces. In the first three months of this year, the central parity of the RMB against the US dollar appreciated by 3.9%, mainly reflected in the appreciation of 3.2% in January, and the two-way small fluctuations have become more obvious since February.

  At the same time, the settlement and sale of foreign exchange by enterprises and individuals and the foreign exchange trading of market institutions such as banks are self-balanced. On the one hand, from the point of view of the settlement and sale of foreign exchange by enterprises and individuals, the balance is good, which has continued the trend of alternating small surplus and deficit for more than half a year. From January to March this year, the bank’s settlement and sale of foreign exchange on behalf of customers was a surplus of $2.3 billion, a deficit of $1.6 billion and $2.6 billion respectively; On the other hand, in the foreign exchange market, the foreign exchange supply and demand caused by forward and option transactions, as well as the foreign exchange trading of some overseas institutions participating in the inter-bank foreign exchange market, are other major foreign exchange supply and demand factors, which form a balanced relationship with the difference between the settlement and sale of foreign exchange by enterprises and individuals and realize the independent clearing of the market. Individual purchases of foreign exchange declined slightly month by month, and the cumulative purchases of foreign exchange in the first quarter decreased by 1% year-on-year.

  "We believe that the overall balance and smooth operation of China’s cross-border capital flows will not change." Wang Chunying emphasized that China’s cross-border funds will still maintain a two-way flow and overall balance this year. Internationally, the momentum of global economic recovery has not changed, and the process of monetary policy normalization in major economies still meets market expectations. Of course, external unstable factors continue to exist, and the volatility of the international financial market has increased recently, but the stable factors still dominate. Domestically, the supporting factors of policies and economic fundamentals are more stable. The economy started well, and from the perspective of financial risk prevention and control, very strict arrangements have been made, including promoting the reform of financial supervision system, which have laid a solid foundation for the stable, sustained and healthy development of financial markets.

  Trade friction on China

  The influence of balance of payments is controllable

  Under the background of Sino-US trade friction, all parties are also concerned about whether China will consider strengthening the management of cross-border capital flows or taking other measures to deal with it. "From the current point of view, the impact of Sino-US trade friction on China’s balance of payments is generally controllable." Wang Chunying said that the SAFE also made an in-depth analysis on the possible impact of cross-border capital flows in China.

  At present, China’s current account balance is more balanced and will remain within a reasonable range. In recent years, China’s current account revenue and expenditure have been in a reasonable range of basic balance, and the ratio of current account surplus to GDP in 2017 was 1.3%. In the future, under the influence of internal and external economic and policy environment, the current account revenue and expenditure may be more balanced.

  "In the short term, it is not ruled out that there will be fluctuations in individual quarters, but in the medium and long term, the current account revenue and expenditure will be a stable and orderly development process." Wang Chunying said that the new pattern of China’s opening to the outside world will continue to be promoted in an orderly manner, and the two-way opening of financial markets will be conducive to the balanced flow of cross-border capital. In addition, trade protectionism is not favored by the international market, and the sustained recovery of the euro zone, Japanese and other economies will restrain the sharp strengthening of the US dollar exchange rate, which will also help stabilize China’s cross-border capital flows. Therefore, the two-way flow and overall balance of cross-border funds in China will not change much.

  "Of course, we will continue to pay attention to the progress of Sino-US trade friction, objectively evaluate and judge in time." Wang Chunying emphasized that in fact, we believe that the most fundamental way to adapt to or respond to external shocks or changes in the external environment is still to do our own thing and maintain the stable and healthy development of the domestic economy.

  To this end, on the one hand, the SAFE will continue to promote trade and investment facilitation, focus on promoting trade and investment facilitation, deepen the reform of foreign exchange management, steadily and orderly promote the two-way opening of capital account and foreign exchange market, and serve the new pattern of comprehensive opening up of the country and the development of the real economy. On the other hand, we should focus on preventing and resolving financial risks, improve the management framework of cross-border capital flows, prevent cross-border capital flows risks, ensure the safety, flow, preservation and appreciation of foreign exchange reserves, and safeguard national economic and financial security.

  Steady and orderly progress

  Capital account convertibility

  "We will steadily and orderly promote capital account convertibility and promote the two-way opening of financial markets. In this regard, we will continue to promote the opening of domestic stock and bond markets, improve bond links, study Huluntong, and support the interconnection mechanism of Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong stock markets." Wang Chunying emphasized.

  Recently, at the 2018 annual meeting of Boao Forum for Asia, Yi Gang, governor of the People’s Bank of China, announced the specific measures and timetable for further expanding the opening up of the financial industry, and made it clear that the opening up of the financial industry will cooperate with the reform of the exchange rate formation mechanism and the process of capital account convertibility to advance together.

  Since the end of 2017, Shanghai and Shenzhen have launched a new round of QDLP (Qualified Domestic Limited Partner) and QDIE (Qualified Domestic Investment Enterprise) related work, and the market response has been positive. Wang Chunying introduced that recently, according to the pilot demand and foreign exchange situation in Shanghai and Shenzhen, the foreign exchange bureau plans to increase the total amount of these two places. In the next step, we will steadily support the opening of the financial market according to the pilot and balance of payments, and further improve the foreign exchange management systems such as QFII, RQFII and QDII, actively support domestic enterprises with the ability and conditions to carry out real and compliant foreign investment, optimize financial services and business environment, and promote the steady growth of foreign investment in China.

  Next, China will steadily promote capital account convertibility, deepen the reform of the formation mechanism of RMB exchange rate marketization, establish and improve a more open and competitive foreign exchange market, and further enhance the freedom and convenience of cross-border trade and investment. At the same time, strengthen the supervision capacity building of the foreign exchange market, strengthen infrastructure construction, strengthen the operational capacity building of foreign exchange reserves, actively support the "Belt and Road" and international capacity cooperation, and ensure the safety, flow, preservation and appreciation of foreign exchange reserves. (Economic Daily China Economic Net reporter Chen Guojing)

Hu Jintao: The fundamental reason for all the achievements and progress in reform and opening up is to open up the road to Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Topic: The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China

Hu Jintao: The fundamental reason for all the achievements and progress in reform and opening up is to open up the road to Socialism with Chinese characteristics.


   





    On October 15th, The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was grandly opened in the Great Hall of the People. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Tao photo


    Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 15th, when talking about the great historical process of reform and opening up, Comrade Hu Jintao pointed out that facts have eloquently proved that reform and opening up is the key choice to determine the fate of contemporary China and the only way to develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Only socialism can save China, and only reform and opening up can develop China, socialism and Marxism.


    Hu Jintao said that we are about to celebrate the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up. In 1978, our party held the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee with great historical significance, which opened a new historical period of reform and opening up. Since then, the people of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and China have written a new magnificent epic of the Chinese nation’s self-improvement and indomitable endeavor with indomitable enterprising spirit and magnificent innovative practice. The outlook of the people of China, the outlook of socialist China and the outlook of the Communist Party of China (CPC) have undergone historic changes.


    Hu Jintao pointed out that reform and opening up is a new great revolution led by the Party under the new era conditions, with the aim of liberating and developing social productive forces, realizing national modernization, enriching the people of China and rejuvenating the great Chinese nation. It is to promote the self-improvement and development of China’s socialist system, give socialism new vitality, and build and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics; It is to strengthen and improve the Party’s construction in leading the development and progress of contemporary China, to maintain and develop the Party’s advanced nature, and to ensure that the Party is always at the forefront of the times. Hu Jintao emphasized that we should always remember that the great cause of reform and opening up was based on the valuable experience gained by the first generation of central collective leadership of the Party with Comrade Mao Zedong at the core, which led the whole Party and people of all nationalities to establish a new China, made great achievements in socialist revolution and construction, and painstakingly explored the laws of socialist construction. The victory of the new-democratic revolution and the establishment of the basic socialist system have laid a fundamental political premise and institutional foundation for all the development and progress of contemporary China.


    We should always remember that the great cause of reform and opening up was initiated by the second generation of central collective leadership of the Party with Comrade Deng Xiaoping at the core, led by the whole Party and people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. In the face of the crisis caused by the "Cultural Revolution" for ten years, the second generation of the central collective leadership of the Party persisted in emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, scientifically evaluated Comrade Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong Thought with great political and theoretical courage, completely denied the wrong theory and practice of "taking class struggle as the key link", made a historic decision to shift the work center of the Party and the state to economic construction and implement reform and opening up, and established the basic line for the primary stage of socialism. Blow the clarion call of the times to go our own way and build Socialism with Chinese characteristics, establish Deng Xiaoping Theory, and guide the whole party and people of all ethnic groups to stride forward on the great journey of reform and opening up.


    We should always remember that the great cause of reform and opening-up was inherited, developed and successfully pushed into the 21st century by the third generation of central collective leadership of the Party with Comrade Jiang Zemin at the core. From the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee to the Sixteenth National Congress, the third generation of the central leading collective of the Party, which was appointed at a critical historical juncture, held high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory, persisted in reform and opening up, kept pace with the times, relied on the party and people to defend Socialism with Chinese characteristics, create a new socialist market economy system, create a new situation of all-round opening up, promote the new great project of party building, establish Theory of Three Represents, and continue to lead the ship of reform and opening up in the right direction.


    Hu Jintao said: since the 16th National Congress, guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, we have followed the development and changes at home and abroad, seized the important period of strategic opportunities, carried forward the spirit of seeking truth from facts, pioneering and enterprising, persisted in theoretical innovation and practical innovation, made great efforts to promote scientific development, promote social harmony, improve the socialist market economic system, and unswervingly pushed forward the great cause of reform and opening up in the practice of building a well-off society in an all-round way. The most striking feature of the new period is reform and opening up, the most remarkable achievement in the new period is rapid development, and the most prominent symbol in the new period is to keep pace with the times. Socialism and Marxism are full of vitality on the land of China, bringing more benefits to the people and enabling the Chinese nation to catch up with the trend of the times and usher in a bright future of great rejuvenation.


    Hu Jintao pointed out that reform and opening up, as a new great revolution, cannot be smooth sailing, nor can it be accomplished overnight. The most fundamental thing is that reform and opening up conforms to the party’s heart and people’s hearts and conforms to the trend of the times. The direction and road are completely correct, and the achievements and achievements cannot be denied. There is no way out for pause and retrogression.


    Hu Jintao said that in the historical process of reform and opening-up, our Party has combined upholding the basic principles of Marxism with promoting the sinicization of Marxism, adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles with persisting in reform and opening-up, respecting the people’s initiative with strengthening and improving the Party’s leadership, adhering to the basic socialist system with developing the market economy, and promoting the reform of the economic foundation with the reform of the superstructure. Combining the development of social productive forces with the improvement of the civilization quality of the whole nation, improving efficiency with the promotion of social equity, adhering to independence with participation in economic globalization, promoting reform and development with maintaining social stability, and promoting the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics with the new great project of party building, we have gained valuable experience in getting rid of poverty, accelerating modernization and consolidating and developing socialism in a developing country with a population of over one billion. Hu Jintao emphasized that the fundamental reason for all the achievements and progress we have made since the reform and opening up can be summed up as follows: opening up the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and forming the system of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theory. To hold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, the most fundamental thing is to adhere to this road and this theoretical system.


    Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, Socialism with Chinese characteristics Road is based on the basic national conditions, centering on economic construction, adhering to the Four Cardinal Principles, persisting in reform and opening up, liberating and developing social productive forces, consolidating and improving the socialist system, building a socialist market economy, socialist democratic politics, advanced socialist culture and a harmonious socialist society, and building a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious socialist modern country. The reason why Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s road is completely correct and can lead China’s development and progress lies in that we not only adhere to the basic principles of scientific socialism, but also endow it with distinctive China characteristics according to China’s reality and the characteristics of the times. In contemporary China, adhering to the Socialism with Chinese characteristics Road means truly adhering to socialism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system is a scientific theoretical system including Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development. This theoretical system has adhered to and developed Marxism–Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, condensed the wisdom and painstaking efforts of several generations of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people to lead the people in their unremitting exploration and practice, and is the latest achievement of China Marxism, the party’s most valuable political and spiritual wealth, and the common ideological basis for the United struggle of people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system is a constantly developing and open theoretical system. In contemporary China, adhering to Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s theoretical system means truly adhering to Marxism.


Editor: Wang Yuxi

Hong Kong police rally to protest against 7 police sentenced chief executive candidate Ye Liushu-yi came to cheer.

According to Hong Kong media reports on the evening of 22nd, the Hong Kong Police Officers’ Association and the Hong Kong Police Inspectors’ Association held a special congress at the Mong Kok Police Recreation Club in the evening to discuss the incident that seven police officers who beat social worker Zeng Jianchao were convicted and imprisoned for two years, as well as the support and follow-up arrangements for seven people. A large number of active and retired police officers and their families were present in the evening.

In mid-October 2014, the Hong Kong media released a video of the police allegedly beating Zeng Jianchao, a member of the Citizens Party, when they dispersed the Occupy Central demonstrators. The case was announced on February 14, and the defendant was found guilty of all crimes. Three days after remand, on the morning of 17th, the court announced that all seven defendants were sentenced to two years without probation. In addition, the defendant Chen Shaodan was also convicted of ordinary assault and sentenced to one month, to be executed concurrently.

Hong Kong police rally to protest against 7 policemen being sentenced

According to the Hong Kong Eastern Network, more than 38,000 people attended the peak of the conference, including off-duty and retired police officers. Legislative Councillors Ge Peifan, Liang Meifen and He Junyao also showed up. The participants shouted the slogan of "fighting for justice and returning to the rule of law", hoping to raise money to help the families of the seven policemen, and demanded legislation to protect public officials and make the crime of insulting public officials.

The candidate for the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mrs Regina Ip, was present as an observer. She said that the morale of the police force was damaged, so she came to the scene to cheer up, and that she and the New Democracy Party were willing to donate money to the families of seven sentenced police officers.

Chief Executive Candidate Mrs Regina Ip.

Participants in the rally included active police officers, retired police officers and their families, etc. Earlier, the Police Officers’ Association called for police officers to enter the venue at 5 pm, and more and more people participated in the rally. By 6: 30, the nearby road was forced to explode, and cars could not enter. The police officers who maintained order at the scene called on their comrades to stand back on the road from time to time. Some participants spontaneously maintained order and asked everyone to take out their appointment cards in advance. Some participants shouted slogans, referring to "making history depends on everyone" and "working hard for everyone".

The conference was originally scheduled to start at 7 pm, but due to too many participants, a large number of people were still unable to enter the venue, and it is expected that it may not be able to start at 7: 30.

Chen Zuguang, chairman of the Hong Kong Police Officers’ Association, said at the meeting that the seven policemen were in a good mental state in prison and had expressed their willingness to appeal the case. They were worried about the financial burden of their families and the impact of the current situation on the appeal. The association immediately applied to the Commissioner of Police for internal fund-raising, and the application was approved on Monday (20th). It began to accept donations from colleagues yesterday (21st) in the hope of providing support to the seven police officers in the shortest possible time. Tan Huizhu, president of the founding association, also promised to organize a platform to receive public support.

Chen Zuguang went on to point out that the purpose of the gathering tonight is to regain dignity, not to be insulted unreasonably, to demand legislation to protect the dignity of law enforcers, and to write to the Chief Executive, to demand legislation to protect all public officials, to commit the crime of insulting public officials, and not to be insulted by words or actions when performing their duties.

Guo Baicong, chairman of the Hong Kong Police Inspector Association, said that he was saddened by the imprisonment of the seven policemen. On behalf of the superintendent, he fully supported the internal fund-raising activities; Li Zhan ‘an, Chairman of the Police Inspectors Association, and representatives of the Overseas Inspectors Association also spoke on the stage.

When the participants entered the venue, a woman holding a card with the words "Seven police officers divided their positions, her heart ached and her heart was bleeding" was so emotional that she once cried. After the disturbance, she found that she was not a police officer or a police officer’s family and was driven out. She was booed at the scene.

Guangming Daily: Why is it so important to seek truth from facts?

  synopsis

  Seeking truth from facts is a basic clue that runs through all the practices and theories of our party. A history of China’s revolution, construction and reform is a history of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China people and the Chinese nation seeking truth from facts to understand China, transform China, build China and develop China.

  Seeking truth from facts is the cornerstone of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people’s world outlook and methodology. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with great political courage and responsibility, the CPC Central Committee, with the supreme leader as the core, has permeated all aspects and links of governing the country and accumulated new valuable experience in practice, and the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from being rich to being strong.

  ● To implement the Party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts, we must always adhere to the core position of the Party’s leadership and strengthen theoretical armed forces and institutional guarantees. We must resolutely safeguard the core position of the CPC Central Committee and the whole Party, the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, and do a good job of arming the whole Party with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era from a strategic perspective.

  General Secretary of the Supreme Leader profoundly pointed out: "Seeking truth from facts is the fundamental viewpoint of Marxism, the fundamental requirement for the Communist Party of China (CPC) people to understand and transform the world, and the basic thinking method, working method and leadership method of our party." He stressed that to persist in seeking truth from facts, "we must thoroughly understand the original appearance of things", "we must clearly understand and correctly grasp the basic national condition that China is still in the primary stage of socialism for a long time", "we must persist in upholding the truth and correcting mistakes for the benefit of the people" and "we must constantly promote theoretical innovation based on practice". These important expositions have further enriched and developed the Party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts. Based on the new era of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, a new historical orientation of China’s development, we should contact the historical process of Marxism in China, the historical process of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s founding 97 years ago, the historical process of reform and opening up 40 years ago, and what the party and the country are doing. We should thoroughly study and understand the important exposition of the Supreme Leader General Secretary from the combination of theory and practice, and improve our consciousness of implementing the party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts.

   In the final analysis, the ideological line is a philosophical issue.

  What kind of ideological line we adhere to is what kind of philosophy we adhere to. In the early days of the founding of the Party, our Party highly unified Marxist philosophy with the Party’s ideological line politically and theoretically, and established the guiding position of the ideological line of seeking truth from facts in the whole Party.

  In 1941, Comrade Mao Zedong made a classic exposition on seeking truth from facts in "Transforming Our Learning". He said: "‘ Practical things ’ Is everything that exists objectively, ‘ Yes ’ Is the internal connection of objective things, that is, regularity, ‘ Seek ’ It is for us to study. " Our party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts was formed in the long-term struggle against subjectivism with dogmatism as its main feature. In the spring of 1930, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote Anti-bookishness, which discussed the importance of integrating theory with practice, and clearly put forward the ideological line for the first time in the history of the Party. The Zunyi Meeting held on the way to the Long March began to establish the leading position of the correct Marxist line with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative in the CPC Central Committee. During the Yan ‘an period, in order to improve the ideological level of the whole party, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote brilliant works such as Strategic Issues of China Revolutionary War, Practice Theory, Contradiction Theory and Protracted War. Focusing on the practical problems of China Revolution, he deeply exposed the ideological and cognitive roots of dogmatism and empiricism by using Marxist philosophical principles, positions, viewpoints and methods, which set a brilliant example for the whole party to integrate theory with practice and greatly unified, improved and armed it.

  After the founding of New China, our party became the ruling party, and Comrade Mao Zedong paid more attention to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts. In 1959, when talking about the inheritance and development of Marxist theory, Comrade Mao Zedong said in "Talking about Reading the Textbook of Political Economy in the Soviet Union": "The books of these ancestors of Marx must be read. Their basic principles must be observed, which is the first. However, communist party in any country and the ideological circle in any country must create new theories, write new works and produce their own theorists to serve the current politics. It is impossible to rely solely on the ancestors. " In 1963, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote in "Where Does the Right Thought of Man Come from? It is pointed out in the book: "A correct understanding often needs to be repeated from material to spirit, from spirit to material, that is, from practice to understanding, and from realizing practice." Comrade Mao Zedong’s profound exposition of seeking truth from facts from the height of the relationship between theory and practice and from the height of Marxist epistemology is of long-term guiding significance and is the philosophical and ideological line for our party to correctly understand and transform the objective world.

  Facts have proved that it is precisely because of adhering to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts that our party creatively solved a series of major problems in building a Marxist political party under the special social and historical conditions of China; Creatively solved a series of major problems in creating a people’s armed force under the absolute leadership of the party; Creatively solved a series of major problems of the United front that United the overwhelming majority of the whole nation; Creatively put forward and implemented a series of correct strategic strategies, and solved a series of extremely complicated problems in the process of China revolution in time; Creatively completed the transformation from the new democratic revolution to the socialist revolution, and successfully realized the deepest and greatest social change in the history of China; Creative accumulation of important experience in socialist construction in China, a big eastern country with a very backward level of social productive forces, has created a fundamental premise for the successful development of the cause of our party and people and laid a solid theoretical and practical foundation for the Chinese nation to catch up with the development trend of the times.

   Seeking truth from facts is an important experience in the 40 years of reform and opening up

  Comrade Deng Xiaoping profoundly pointed out: "Seeking truth from facts is the essence of Marxism. We should advocate this, not laptop. The success of our reform and opening up depends not on books, but on practice and seeking truth from facts. " It can be said that seeking truth from facts is an important experience for the success of reform and opening up.

  In December 1978, Comrade Deng Xiaoping delivered an important speech entitled "Emancipating the Mind, Seeking Truth from Facts, Uniting and Looking Forward" at the Central Working Conference to prepare for the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, which profoundly expounded the dialectical relationship between emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts. He pointed out: "Emancipate your mind, use your head, seek truth from facts, unite and look forward, first of all, emancipate your mind." "In the past, all our victories in the revolution were achieved by seeking truth from facts; Now, if we want to realize the four modernizations, we must also rely on seeking truth from facts. " Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s speech actually became the theme report of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party.

  Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, it is under the banner of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts that our party has decisively shifted the focus of the whole party’s work to socialist modernization, made a major decision to implement reform and opening up, and achieved a great turning point with far-reaching significance in the party’s history; Only by systematically summarizing the historical experience since the founding of New China has the correct direction been set for the development of the party and the country. Only by grasping the basic question of "what is socialism and how to build it" can we successfully embark on the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics; Only then did we correctly understand that China is in the primary stage of socialism and its fundamental task for a long time, and formulated the basic line of persisting in taking economic construction as the center, adhering to the four cardinal principles, and persisting in reform and opening up; Wait a minute.

  The CPC Central Committee with Comrade Jiang Zemin as the core and Comrade Hu Jintao as the general secretary further enriched and developed the Party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts. Comrade Jiang Zemin emphasized that adhering to the Party’s ideological line, emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times are the decisive factors for our Party to persist in its advanced nature and enhance its creativity. Keeping pace with the times means that all the theories and work of the party should reflect the times, grasp the regularity and be creative. Whether this can be done all the time determines the future and destiny of the party and the country. Comrade Hu Jintao emphasized that seeking truth and being pragmatic is the consistent scientific spirit of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, the core content of our party’s ideological line, the party’s fine tradition and the political character that communist party people should possess.

  It can be said that the great victory of 40 years of reform and opening up is the great victory of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts. It is precisely because we have always firmly grasped the ideological line of seeking truth from facts that our party has combined the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China’s reform and opening up, continuously deepened our understanding of communist party’s laws of governance, socialist construction and the development of human society, creatively answered and solved a series of major theoretical and practical problems, and provided creative theoretical guidance for adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics, which enabled China to catch up with the times and realize the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up to becoming rich.

   Adhere to and implement the party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts more consciously

  Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with great political courage and responsibility, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has penetrated into all aspects and links of governing the country and accumulated new valuable experience in practice.

  Always adhere to the comprehensive and strict administration of the party and comprehensively strengthen the party’s leadership. Strictly abide by the party’s political discipline and rules, severely rectify formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance, resolutely oppose privilege, adhere to anti-corruption, no restricted area, full coverage and zero tolerance, and constantly highlight the role of the patrol sword. The party’s political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, work style construction, discipline construction and system construction have opened up a new situation, and political awareness, overall awareness, core awareness and conformity awareness have been continuously enhanced, and Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s road is confident.

  Always adhere to the people-centered, Do not forget your initiative mind, keep in mind the mission. Practice the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, implement the party’s mass line in all activities of governing the country, take the people’s longing for a better life as the goal, and rely on the people to create great historical achievements. Always put people’s interests in the supreme position, so that the fruits of reform and development can benefit all people more fairly, constantly promote social fairness and justice, form effective social governance and good social order, and make people’s sense of acquisition, happiness and security more substantial, more secure and more sustainable.

  Always observe and solve problems strategically. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee has promoted the overall layout of the "five in one" and the "four comprehensive" strategic layout in a coordinated manner, and solved the major, outstanding and urgent problems facing the party and the country. At the same time, our party has always insisted on coordinating the two overall situations at home and abroad, unifying the promotion of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with the promotion of building a community of human destiny, not only based on doing a good job in China first, but also actively contributing to the cause of human progress.

  Practice has proved that the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has always adhered to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, further integrated the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of the new era, United and led the people to carry out great struggles, build great projects, advance great undertakings, realize great dreams, and promote the all-round and groundbreaking historical achievements of the party and the state, resulting in profound and fundamental historical changes. The Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from being rich to being strong.

  By reviewing and summarizing the historical process of Marxism in China, the historical process of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the past 97 years and the historical process of reform and opening up in the past 40 years, we can get many profound lessons by connecting with what the party and the country are doing:

  First, seeking truth from facts is a basic clue that runs through all the practices and theories of our party. A history of China’s revolution, construction and reform, a history of Marxism in China, in the final analysis, is a history of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China people and the Chinese nation seeking truth from facts about China, transforming China, building China and developing China. When we adhere to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, the party’s cause will develop smoothly and advance triumphantly, and when we deviate from the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, the party’s cause will suffer setbacks.

  Second, seeking truth from facts is the cornerstone of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people’s world outlook and methodology. In the new era, it is very important for us to achieve a great leap forward and adhere to the party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts. Only by consciously adhering to and applying the ideological line of seeking truth from facts can we more consciously understand and grasp the profound changes in the world, national conditions and party conditions, and insist on proceeding from the reality of the primary stage of socialism; Only in this way can we correctly handle the relationship between reform, development and stability, the relationship between the overall situation at home and the overall situation at home and abroad, and strive to achieve the strategic arrangement and deployment set by the 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China; Only in this way can we more effectively resolve various risk challenges, actively solve various major problems on the road ahead, and always maintain strategic sobriety and strategic initiative; Only by constantly advancing the great social revolution can we deepen the self-revolution, improve the Party’s ruling ability and leadership level, uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and uphold and develop Marxism.

  Third, adhering to the party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts is intrinsically linked and unified with adhering to the party’s fundamental working line of the mass line. The mass line is the lifeline and fundamental working line of our party, and it is an important heirloom for our party to maintain its youthful vitality and combat effectiveness forever. Regardless of the past, present and future, we must persist in doing everything for the masses, relying on the masses, coming from the masses and going to the masses, and implementing the mass line in all activities of governing the country.

  Fourth, to implement the Party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts, we must always adhere to the core position of the Party’s leadership, and strengthen theoretical arms and institutional guarantees. The party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts can be unswervingly implemented, thanks to the core role of the party’s leadership and the fact that our party has always firmly grasped the fundamentals of theoretical construction and theoretical armed forces. We must resolutely safeguard the core position of the CPC Central Committee and the whole Party, the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, and do a good job of arming the whole Party with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era from a strategic perspective. Seeking truth from facts, as the ideological line of our party, has never been the individual behavior of a few people, which must be realized through the power of the system. In the new era, in order to provide institutional guarantee for implementing the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, we should focus on the construction of democratic centralism and the rule of law. Democratic centralism is the fundamental organizational system and leadership system of the party and the country, and comprehensively administering the country according to law is an important part of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout. On the basis of adhering to democratic centralism and comprehensively promoting the rule of law, we should more consciously adhere to and implement the party’s ideological line of seeking truth from facts, and strive with perseverance and confidence to realize the strategic arrangements and deployment set by the party’s 19th National Congress. (Written by Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center of Shanghai Supreme Leader New Era: Li Hongfeng)

  Guangming Daily (11th edition, September 28th, 2018)

Full of industrial wind! Shougang’s old factory building turned into such a winter Olympics training hall.

CCTV News:This time, the International Olympic Committee has set the venue of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics summary meeting at the headquarters of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee in Shougang Park, which is of very special significance. On August 26th last year, when IOC President Bach came to Beijing to inspect the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics, he spoke highly of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee’s headquarters in Shougang, an old factory that had stopped production, and expressed his admiration on many occasions. It can be said that Shougang, a former steel city, has an indissoluble bond with the Beijing Olympics.

Shougang’s former clean coal workshop has been transformed into a training base.

Once the clean coal workshop of Shougang, it will soon become the training base for the national curling team, short track speed skating team, figure skating team and ice hockey team.

Xu Yan, head of Shougang Group’s Winter Olympics Stadium Reconstruction Project: We used the original old frame structure as the supporting system, and then this was based on industry, our industrial characteristics, and combined with the current standards of international sports events, to build such a modern stadium with industrial heritage style and international training competition standards.

Internal scene of training base

At present, the curling hall is already undergoing indoor fine decoration and will be completed by the end of June at the earliest. Short track speed skating, figure skating and ice hockey training halls will also be completed and put into use this year.

Walking in Shougang’s old factory, you can feel the winter Olympics here everywhere. These four 70-meter-high cooling towers will be transformed into a single-board platform competition venue, and the cooling towers will also be preserved as a unique stadium landscape.

Four 70-meter-high cooling towers will be transformed into competition venues for single-board platform.

Four 70-meter-high cooling towers will be transformed into competition venues for single-board platform.

Xu Yan, head of Shougang Group’s Winter Olympic Stadium Reconstruction Project: Our ski jumping platform is the world’s first permanently reserved venue after the Olympic Games. We will be the official venue for providing training and competition for the national team in the later period, and then we will open this venue to the general public to provide a very good place for sports and leisure.

 In Beijing’s new general regulations, the description of the new Shougang is "the demonstration zone of green transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the innovative highland of high-end industries in the west of Beijing, and the creative base of post-industrial culture and sports", and it is necessary to strengthen the protection and utilization of industrial remains, focus on building the northern area of Shougang’s old industrial zone, and build a national sports industry demonstration zone. The goal and path of building a new landmark of urban rejuvenation in the new Shougang area are becoming increasingly clear.

Gui Lin, deputy director of the Master Planning Department of the Planning and Development Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee: Mr. Bach has visited this site and thought it was a brilliant stroke in the history of the Olympic Movement. Then I hope that more Olympic venues can be combined with urban development so well, which can really promote regional revival and development.

Focus on the provincial two conferences: there will be these changes in the regulation of local property market in 2018.

  BEIJING, Beijing, January 26th (Reporter Zhong Qing) In 2018, two provincial and local conferences are being held intensively. As of January 25th, the government work reports issued by many provinces have focused on the regulation of the property market, and both rent and purchase have become high-frequency words. At the same time, the idea of classified regulation has gradually deepened. Hot cities tend to "stabilize housing prices" and the policy orientation of "destocking" in third-and fourth-tier cities has become clearer.

  On January 25th, the first meeting of the 13th People’s Congress of Shanxi Province opened in Taiyuan. China News Service reporter Wu Junjie photo

  Living and living in various types of guaranteed housing for the market.

  Since the Central Economic Work Conference in 2016 put forward that "houses are for living, not for speculation", ensuring residents to "live and live" has become an important part of deploying the real estate market in various places for two consecutive years, and the supply of various types of affordable housing has obviously accelerated.

  According to the statistics of Zhongxin. com reporters, as of January 25th, more than 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, including Anhui, Xinjiang, Shanghai, Jiangxi, Beijing, Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Gansu, Xizang, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Shanxi, Yunnan, Guangxi, Hebei and Shaanxi, have held provincial-level local conferences.

  In his government work report, Chen Jining, acting mayor of Beijing, pointed out that all the security policies for tenants to live stably and enjoy public services should be implemented, and efforts should be made to promote the construction of 2.9 million square meters of shared property housing and 6 million square meters of commercial housing, raise 50,000 sets of various types of affordable housing, and complete the renovation of 23,600 shanty towns.

  Looking back on 2017, Beijing has promoted various types of guaranteed housing such as self-sustaining rental housing, shared property housing, special public rental housing and collective rental housing, and the supply of such housing will accelerate and increase in the future.

  Coincidentally, this year, Shanghai will newly supply 493,000 sets of various types of affordable housing; Anhui newly started 281,800 sets of affordable housing projects, and basically completed 237,500 sets; Henan said that it will basically build 340,000 sets of various types of affordable housing; Among the 12 livelihood projects to be done well in Hunan this year, the renovation of urban shanty towns is expected to reach 277,600 sets; Zhejiang will start construction of 292,000 shed-converted resettlement houses and complete 195,000 sets; Hebei started construction of 230,000 new houses this year.

  "From the perspective of the construction planning of affordable housing in various places, there may be a wave of construction climax this year, and public rental housing and shed-to-resettlement housing will be actively promoted, especially in the third-and fourth-tier cities, which will enhance the overall construction scale of affordable housing." Yan Yuejin, research director of the think tank center of Yiju Research Institute, told the reporter of Zhongxin.com that the construction of rental housing will be the highlight of the subsequent construction of affordable housing, and the housing supply system of "four products" consisting of commercial housing, affordable housing, shared property housing and rental housing will be more perfect.

  Paying attention to both rent and purchase to ensure the rights and interests of tenants

  In 2017, the Central Economic Work Conference proposed to speed up the establishment of a housing system with multi-agent supply, multi-channel guarantee and rent-and-purchase. Develop the housing leasing market, especially long-term leasing, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of leasing stakeholders.

  For this reason, "rent and purchase simultaneously" has become a high-frequency word in recent provincial conferences.

  Ying Yong, mayor of Shanghai, said: speed up the cultivation and development of the housing rental market, and steadily and orderly promote the clean-up and rectification of commercial office projects; Beijing proposes to develop the housing rental market, especially long-term rental, and promote the construction of rental housing with collective construction land; Anhui, on the other hand, focuses on the security of rental housing, requiring the implementation of both physical distribution of public rental housing and rental subsidies; Henan proposed to support Zhengzhou to carry out the pilot project of cultivating and developing the housing rental market and strengthen the security of public rental housing.

  "It is expected that during the National People’s Congress in March, discussions on various supporting policies for rental housing will be the focus of public opinion." Zhang Dawei, chief analyst of Zhongyuan Real Estate, said.

  According to the statistics of the Central Plains Real Estate Research Center, up to now, more than 10 cities such as Beijing, Foshan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Zhuhai have started the accelerated supply mode of leased land, and the accumulated leased land area nationwide has exceeded 6 million square meters. According to the average single set of 60 square meters, it can directly provide more than 100,000 sets of houses, mainly concentrated in first-and second-tier hot cities.

  In Zhang Dawei’s view, to develop the rental market, we should not only "add" the supply, but also "subtract" the rental housing resistance. First of all, it should directly affect the supply of housing and supply leased land with 70-year property rights; At the same time, increase the rights and interests of the lessee and stabilize the lease relationship. Stabilizing the rental market can avoid the ups and downs of the real estate market and reduce the irrational demand for housing.

  Data Map: Citizens waiting in line outside the house registration and certification hall in Chaoyang District, Beijing to get their numbers ready for transfer procedures. Photo by Han Haidan

  Hot cities, property market regulation is not relaxed, and third-and fourth-tier cities continue to go to inventory.

  Stepping into 2018, the pace of property market regulation in various places has not stopped. According to the incomplete statistics of Zhongxin. com reporters, in less than a month, Xiamen, Chengdu, Hefei, Lanzhou and other places have successively issued property market regulation measures; Eleven cities, such as Nanjing, Wuhan, Tianjin and Qingdao, have adjusted their settlement relaxation and talent introduction strategies.

  In response to the regulation of the property market, the Central Economic Work Conference stated that it is necessary to distinguish the central and local powers and implement differentiated regulation.

  Judging from the two provincial conferences that have been held, the idea of differentiated regulation has been put to the ground, and the first-and second-tier hotspot cities tend to "control housing prices", and the policy orientation of "destocking" in third-and fourth-tier cities has become clearer.

  As hot cities in the real estate market, both Beijing and Shanghai have indicated that they should strengthen the regulation of the real estate market.

  Chen Jining said that it is necessary to strictly implement various real estate control policies and measures, strengthen market monitoring and policy reserves, and promote the smooth operation of the real estate market; Zhang Guoqing, the acting mayor of Tianjin, stressed stabilizing housing prices, reasonably guiding market expectations and buying houses. At the same time, he strengthened housing credit management, strictly restricted the use of credit funds to invest in speculative buying houses, prevented excessive concentration of credit funds in the real estate sector, and effectively prevented financial risks caused by the real estate bubble.

  At the same time, the task of "destocking" continues to advance in some places. Gansu said that it is necessary to keep the cycle of commercial housing decontamination in a reasonable range; Qinghai proposed to do a good job in the key task of "reducing subsidies", vigorously eliminate ineffective supply, vigorously optimize housing supply, and vigorously reduce enterprise costs; Tianjin requires continuous in-depth destocking, revitalizing 3 million square meters of vacant buildings and 1,500 mu of inefficient idle land in demonstration industrial parks.

  According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, at the end of December 2017, the area of commercial housing for sale nationwide was 589.23 million square meters, down 15.3% from the end of last year, and the inventory level of commercial housing continued to decline.

  "Overall, ‘ De-stocking ’ It is nearing the end. " Liu Xiangdong, deputy director of the Economic Research Department of China International Economic Exchange Center, believes that with the in-depth regulation, the inventory of the property market in third-and fourth-tier cities has declined; In first-and second-tier cities, due to measures such as restricting purchases and loans, inventories will gradually be replenished.

  Zhang Dawei believes that cities that still need to "destock" will basically relax their household registration policies, attract talents to settle down, and increase the attractiveness of cities; The other is to attract farmers into the city by improving the value of farmers’ homestead. (End)

Exhibition Preview | Time and Memory —— Cai Chao Art Literature Exhibition

host unit

China cultural art development promotion association

China National Painting Academy

Chinese Artists Association

Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism

Jiangxi Federation of Literary and Art Circles

organizer

Jiangxi Provincial Art Museum

Jiangxi imperial art academy

Jiangxi artists association

Exhibition time

January 18th, 2024 — — February 25th.

Exhibition location

South Hall and North Hall (No.1 and No.2) on the first floor of Jiangxi Provincial Art Museum

Academic hosting

Feng Zhiguo

Master planning

Lei Chen ma kai Zhu

Exhibition director

He kaiyuan

The curator

Zhang Linjie, Cheng Simin and Xiong Wei

Visual design

Raole Wang Wenbin

Curator assistant

Fan Xin

Document arrangement

Xu Xiaodi Wan Xueyao Xu Zijun

Administrative overall planning

Wei Jiangping Peng Jing

Publicity and promotion

Xie Kanru Xiao Nian Li Qi translation

Public education

Tu Xuefei Cheng Yanping

Collection management

Zhu Heng Quqing

Wenchuang development

Zhang Haili, Tang Bo

Exhibition support

Zhou Yuliang Xia Hong

Look like a rainbow and stay in the middle.

— — Preface to Cai Chao’s Works Exhibition

  Mr. Cai Chao is a senior artist whom I respect very much. In a sense, he not only represents the creative height of Jiangxi Chinese painting, but also represents the academic level and artistic character of contemporary China figure painting. As a legend, he is a vivid and vivid history of contemporary art in Jiangxi. As an artist, he has made outstanding contributions to the national popularity of Jiangxi fine arts with his personal efforts. For a long time, the name "Cai Chao" was almost synonymous with Jiangxi fine arts. With pioneering courage, he pushed the theme construction and schema language of China’s figure painting creation to a new level; As a teacher, he trained a batch of outstanding students for Jiangxi. He cares about the growth of young artists, and makes great efforts to push Jiangxi fine arts to a higher level in his spare efforts of rewarding and teaching by example. This is the most important reason why Cai Chao is respected.

  Si Kongtu’s "Twenty-four Poems" says: "Walking is as empty as a spirit, walking is like a rainbow, the Wuxia Chihiro, walking in the clouds and connecting with the wind, drinking the truth and being strong, and keeping the element in the middle." It may also be very appropriate to sum up the overall style of Cai Chao’s art with "Jin Jian". Although Cai Chao’s artistic creation in different periods has different pursuits and features, the aesthetic characteristics with "strength and health" as the core have never changed. Whether it is the early Rural Survey (1972) and Chen Yi Mountain (1979), or the mid-term Builders (1984), Hoisting (1994) and Iron Arm (1999), and the recent Belt and Road series, they are created from revolutionary historical paintings. This kind of "strength" is not only the aesthetic ideal of the individual artist, but also reflects the spirit and weather of an era. Cai Chao is ill-fated. With extraordinary talent and amazing efforts, he not only wrote the tenacious history of personal struggle, but also wrote a brilliant chapter of Jiangxi fine arts. Sima Qian once said: "There are 300 Poems, which are also made by the furious sages at the bottom. This person has a sense of stagnation and can’t understand it.Therefore, it is also true to describe the past and think about the newcomers, and the so-called "to ease their anger and think about empty words to see themselves". Cai Chao was mistaken by a quack in his childhood, leaving him with a lifelong disability. What we see in his rainbow-like picture is not his anger and lyrical demeanor. A poet should beware of prosperity and Cai Chao’s artistic life truly responded to the great tradition of "perseverance and self-knowledge" since Qu Yuan and Sima Qian.

  In my understanding, Cai Chao’s works of art have at least the following two outstanding meanings:

  Inheriting and expanding the traditional realism. As a figure painter with excellent modeling ability, Cai Chao always insists on going deep into real life. With keen observation and understanding, and rich life experience, he constantly refines creative motifs from life and explores artistic interests that ordinary people are not easily aware of. Therefore, the characters in Cai Chao’s works always have fresh life and breath. They are not empty "people", but real "people" who are firmly connected with the atmosphere and breathe with the times. He has created a brand-new image of the people who belong to the land of Jiangxi Province, which is Cai Chao’s most important contribution to Jiangxi’s realistic painting creation. At the same time, Cai Chao not only inherited the fine tradition of figure painting in China since Xu Beihong and Jiang Zhaohe, but also set up a refreshing painting paradigm in the field of industrial themes with the courage and courage of "keeping pen and ink with the times" — — This is an unprecedented great breakthrough.

  Innovation and development of traditional Chinese painting pen and ink program. Cai Chao is a typical representative of self-taught painting in China. Although he has never entered a professional art college, he has formed a broad academic vision of "learning from many teachers" through hard self-study. Cai Chao not only laid a solid modeling foundation through diligent sketch training in his youth, but also systematically mastered the technical vocabulary of Chinese painting creation through the advice of Huang Qiuyuan, Fang Zengxian and other famous artists in the North and South. As a figure painter, Cai Chao is good at landscapes, flowers and birds. He has never confined himself to a certain sect or genre, but is good at extracting rich nutrition from various art categories. He not only created the modern industrial theme fashion of figure painting in China, but also provided a mature case with great reference significance for exploring the modernity of Chinese painting creation in the new era, and formed his own pen and ink language system in the process. He creatively developed the "ink-breaking method" to a new height and applied it to the creation of figures, landscapes and flowers and birds. Since the end of last century, its distinctive "Cai Family Style" has been known and praised by China painting circles. In fact, the breakthrough of the traditional pen and ink formula is a crucial core indicator to measure the artistic status of a China painter, and Mr. Cai Chao has undoubtedly made outstanding contributions to it.

  Today, the exhibition of Cai Chao’s works is about to open in Jiangxi Provincial Art Museum. As a junior who has received his selfless care and support for a long time, I always feel grateful and revered from the bottom of my heart when I look back on my contacts with my husband. I am very excited to hear that there will be many precious comic book manuscripts on display in this exhibition. We will take this opportunity to get a glimpse of Mr. Cai Chao’s artistic exploration, understand the internal relationship between creative conception and composition, and further understand the rich content and logical clues contained in history, present and real life.

  This year will be Mr. Cai Chao’s eightieth birthday. I would like to take this exhibition to pay tribute to this legendary artist of Jiangxi fine arts! I wish Mr. Wang 800 years old, and his art will last forever!

— — Feng Zhiguo

(Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of China Academy of Fine Arts)

Rural survey 102cmX137cm 1970

The builder 215cmX205cm 1984.

The pillar 185cmX170cm 1993

Hoisting 211cmX175cm 1994

"Unity is strength" 171cmX201cm 1995

Silent Autumn Night 212cmX153cm 1999

The Star of Ancient Greece comic draft 18cmX18cm 1982

Sketch of Top Pillar Creation 18cmX15cm

Fang Zhimin comic book draft 16cmX24cm

"Chen Yi in Jiangxi and Guangdong" comic book draft 18cmX23cm

Sketch of construction site

Sketch 19cmX13cm

"Sketch of Cai Chao" Zhong Zengya 27cmX20cm

Do your duty, do your duty, cooperate with each other, and pay close attention to implementation-do a good job in flood control, flood control and disaster relief from beginning to end with caution

  Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the Communist Party of China, held a meeting on August 17th to study and deploy flood control, flood relief and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. The meeting pointed out that "seven downs and eight rises" is a critical period for flood control. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the supreme leader as the core, party committees and governments at all levels have strengthened organizational leadership and strictly implemented their responsibilities. The National Defense General and relevant departments and units have performed their duties and worked together. The national comprehensive fire rescue team has rushed ahead, the People’s Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force have rushed to help, the central enterprises and social forces have bravely shouldered heavy burdens, and the broad masses of the people have worked together to build a flood control and disaster relief and protect their homes.

  At present, China is still in the main flood season, and disasters such as heavy rain, floods and typhoons are still high in many parts of the country, and there are still risks of floods in some river basins. The meeting stressed that all relevant regions, departments and units should always tighten the string of flood control and disaster relief, always put the safety of people’s lives and property first, and do a good job in flood control, flood control and disaster relief with a sense of responsibility of "always worrying".

  Based on the first year, it is more significant to prevent floods and disasters. The National Defense General and all relevant departments and units resolutely implement the spirit of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Conference, perform their duties with due diligence, make concerted efforts and pay close attention to implementation, earnestly do a good job in flood control, flood relief and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, and ensure high-quality development with high-level safety.

  Make every effort to speed up post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, and effectively guarantee the safety of people’s lives and property.

  Measure, take photos and check … Early in the morning, in Qiu Zhuangzi Village, Dongyangzhuang Township, Bazhou City, Langfang City, Hebei Province, Zhao Ke, a surveyor, was busy surveying and registering. Langfang started the post-disaster reconstruction work and comprehensively explored the housing safety situation.

  "In the past few days, we are going to replant fast-growing vegetables with no harvest plots, so we should pay close attention to the light disaster ‘ One spray and three defenses ’ 。” Zhao Xiaobo, a big grain grower in Yongnian District, Handan City, Hebei Province, said. Yongnian District Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau instructed the affected people to remove stagnant water as soon as possible, plow and scatter soil moisture, and minimize losses.

  The flood receded, roads were rushed through, villages resumed communication, and farmland was repaired, and the production and living order in the affected areas was accelerating.

  To implement the spirit of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Conference, all relevant departments and units have always been tight-fisted, never slackened, made comprehensive arrangements, highlighted key points, made overall plans, continued to do a good job in flood control and flood relief, and made every effort to speed up post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.

  — — Post-disaster reconstruction was carried out in an orderly manner.

  Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission proposed to work out a high-quality master plan for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, effectively implement consistency and overall planning throughout the reconstruction work, and solidly complete the post-disaster recovery and reconstruction tasks in urban and rural residents’ housing, public service facilities, major infrastructure and other fields.

  The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council organized central enterprises to participate in emergency rescue and disaster relief in severely affected areas, and has invested 420,000 person-times and 140,000 sub-equipment vehicles. Next, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council will further fully mobilize the strength of central enterprises to do a good job in flood control, emergency rescue and disaster relief, recovery and reconstruction.

  — — Emergency allocation of disaster relief funds.

  3.83 billion yuan for agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation, 3.83 billion yuan for water conservancy and disaster relief, 1 billion yuan for flood storage and detention areas, and 240 million yuan for highway emergency access … … Since entering the critical period of flood control, the Ministry of Finance, together with the Emergency Management Department, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Transport and other supporting places, has done a good job in emergency rescue and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.

  Since the flood season, the central government has issued a total of 9.684 billion yuan of flood control and disaster relief funds, which strongly supports the emergency rescue in disaster areas, the assistance of the affected people, the recovery of agricultural production, the repair of water conservancy facilities damaged by floods, and the rushing of roads damaged by floods.

  — — Optimization and simplification of claims procedure.

  In Fangshan District and Mentougou District in Beijing, the insurance institutions set up a "claim service station at home" to answer questions for car owners on the spot. In shangzhi city and wuchang city, Heilongjiang Province, insurance institutions carried out unmanned aerial vehicle flight and ground survey, and opened a green quick compensation channel for affected farmers.

  In view of various property losses such as houses, vehicles and crops, how to settle claims has attracted much attention. The State Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau recently issued the Notice on Strengthening Insurance Prepayment and Doing a Good Job in Flood Control and Disaster Relief Insurance Claims, proposing the use of scientific and technological survey methods such as drones in agricultural insurance, the implementation of mutual recognition mechanism for survey and loss determination in auto insurance, and the implementation of "one enterprise, one policy" service measures in enterprise property insurance. According to the data of Tianjin Supervision Bureau of the State Financial Supervision Administration, as of August 18th, property insurance companies in Tianjin had received 9,110 insurance reports with an estimated loss of 279 million yuan.

  Adhere to the bottom line thinking and do everything possible to minimize losses.

  Unify thoughts and actions with the spirit of the important instructions of the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader and the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, and escort the affected people to rebuild their homes. We must adhere to the people first, life first, and bottom line thinking.

  How to ensure grain production?

  "Flooded corn should be supplemented with quick-acting fertilizer as soon as possible." In the past few days, Chen Wencai, an agronomist of the Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Yongqing County, Hebei Province, has been stuck in the field to guide the villagers.

  The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently issued the "Notice on Grasping the Recovery of Production after Floods and Winning the Annual Grain and Agricultural Harvest", requiring all localities to take unconventional measures, implement ten measures to restore production after agricultural disasters and stabilize the production of grain and important agricultural products, and resolutely win the tough battle of fighting disasters and winning grain and agricultural harvest.

  Liu Lihua, deputy director of the Planting Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that it is a major event in the current work of agriculture, rural areas and farmers to do a good job in agricultural disaster relief and resume production, and agricultural and rural departments at all levels should constantly grasp the field management. Up to now, governments at all levels in the disaster areas have invested a total of 540 million yuan to implement 26.38 million mu of post-disaster field management measures such as spraying foliar fertilizer and preventing and controlling pests and diseases. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs’ agricultural dispatch on August 18 showed that the growth of autumn grain in most parts of the country is generally normal except for the local flood-stricken areas in northeast China.

  How to prevent the population in poverty-stricken areas from returning to poverty?

  Effectively run the monitoring and assistance mechanism to prevent poverty, do everything possible to increase the income of people affected by poverty, and accurately arrange and use financial convergence to promote rural revitalization subsidy funds & HELIP; … The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (National Rural Revitalization Bureau) will give a tilt to the allocation of subsidies for rural revitalization in 2024, and resolutely hold the bottom line of not returning to poverty on a large scale.

  How can the affected people and business entities tide over the difficulties?

  The People’s Bank of China has decided to increase the amount of small loans for supporting agriculture in six provinces of Beijing, Hebei, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Fujian and Chongqing by 35 billion yuan, and continue to support the disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction of financial services in these severely affected areas.

  The National Defense General Office, the Emergency Management Department and the State Grain and Material Reserve Bureau jointly allocated woven bags with a total value of 87.64 million yuan and other central emergency rescue and relief materials to support places. Next, we will guide local governments to refine their work plans, strengthen housing safety appraisal, epidemic prevention and disinfection, and organize the transfer of people to return in an orderly manner. Increase support for the repair and reconstruction of damaged houses, provide timely assistance in winter and spring, and ensure a warm winter.

  Based on the long-term, further enhance China’s disaster prevention, mitigation and relief capabilities.

  The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee meeting held on August 17th emphasized that it is necessary to make careful investigation and summary, pay close attention to the shortcomings and strong and weak items, and further enhance China’s disaster prevention, mitigation and relief capabilities.

  Flood control and disaster relief is an encounter and a protracted war. Relevant departments and units conscientiously implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, make overall plans for the present and the long term, and make systematic plans and scientific policies.

  Further strengthen the linkage between meteorological early warning and disaster prediction. The China Meteorological Bureau held a party meeting on August 18th, proposing to do a good job of point-to-point accurate forecasting and rolling update, strengthen the warning prompting and directivity, and strive for more early warning.

  Further strengthen the emergency headquarters system at all levels. The National Defense Department and the Emergency Management Department put forward the idea of combining far and near, making overall plans, actively planning and promoting a number of projects that lay a solid foundation and benefit the long term, filling shortcomings, strong and weak items and plugging loopholes, consolidating the engineering foundation for flood and drought disaster prevention and response, and improving facilities and systems such as dispatching command, consultation and judgment, and business support.

  Further improve the river basin flood control engineering system. The relevant person in charge of the Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention Department of the Ministry of Water Resources said that the next step is to focus on long-term stability, focusing on key aspects such as the function of forecasting and early warning rehearsal plan, the construction of river basin flood control engineering system, the construction of digital twin river basins, and the rule of law management of flood control system and mechanism, and strive to improve the flood prevention capability of river basins.

  To get through flood control, disaster relief, recovery and reconstruction, we must also coordinate as a whole and adhere to the system concept.

  Make overall plans for flood control and drought relief. Since June, there have been staged meteorological droughts in Southwest China, Southeast Inner Mongolia and Northwest China. The National Defense General and the Emergency Management Department have increased their support for drought-resistant funds, technologies, materials and equipment in arid areas, and tried every means to increase drought-resistant water sources. The Ministry of Water Resources has made fine allocation, and dispatched working groups and expert groups to Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia provinces to guide and help local governments to do a good job in drought resistance and water supply.

  Coordinate flood control and disaster relief with economic and social development. On the one hand, we will focus on the restoration and reconstruction of damaged houses, and on the restoration and reconstruction of key public facilities, and advance simultaneously. The housing and construction departments acted quickly to ensure that the affected people could go home or move into their new homes before winter, and spend the winter safely and warmly. Fangshan Branch of Beijing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Commission, together with the Municipal Planning Institute, gathered experts and backbone forces in the industry to study and deploy the site selection and planning evaluation of post-disaster resettlement in Fangshan District. While accelerating the restoration of damaged communication facilities, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has strengthened the application of new equipment and new technologies, strengthened the equipment such as drones and all-terrain vehicles, and improved the emergency communication support capability.

  At present, China is still in the main flood season, and flood control and disaster relief cannot be relaxed at all. Thoroughly implement the spirit of the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary and the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, and do all the work carefully from beginning to end, we will certainly win a comprehensive victory in flood control, flood relief and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.

  (Reporter Wang Hao, Qiu Chaoyu, Chang Qin, Virginia Lieu)