Pursuing Common Prosperity

Capital Week

Issue 67， 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping， also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee， urged efforts to promote common prosperity in the pursuit of high-quality development and coordinate work on forestalling major financial risks when presiding over the 10th meeting of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs on August 17. He emphasized that realizing common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism， and it is also an important feature of modernization in the Chinese way.

Currently， the principal contradiction facing Chinese society has become the one between peoples ever-growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. Promoting common prosperity is to solve the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development. The modernization which China pursues is defined by common prosperity.

The prerequisite for common prosperity is high-quality development. It is about “making the cake bigger and better” so that all Chinese can share the benefits of development.

The 30th Anniversary of China-ASEAN Dialogue Relations

World Affairs

Issue 16， 2021

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of ChinaASEAN Dialogue Relations. Over the past 30 years， China-ASEAN relations have come a long way， moving through the first decade of establishing good-neighborliness and mutual trust， and two extraordinary decades of strategic partnership.

China-ASEAN relations have undergone a new round of test after the COVID-19 outbreak. The two sides conducted close cooperation in pandemic prevention and control and the reopening of the economy. The cooperation has provided solid evidence that Southeast Asia is the region with which China has fostered the closest diplomatic relations and conducted the most effective cooperation among its neighboring countries.

On June 7， 2021， Co-Chairs Statement on the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers Meeting in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Dialogue Relations was released， reviewing the milestones and achievements of ASEAN-China Dialogue Relations over the course of three decades. The two sides also reaffirmed their commitment to further enhancing cooperation.

Promoting Digital Agriculture

Outlook Weekly

Issue 36， 2021

In an agricultural demonstration area in Heilongjiang Province， irrigation devices were intermittently watering a rice paddy. There were sensors faintly visible， but no working staff in sight. According to Sui Xiyou， deputy manager of the demonstration area， the water sensors in the paddy can automatically monitor the watering process and transmit data to a smart control system， which adjusts the amount of watering based on the crops growing needs.

In recent years， domestically developed technologies， such as BeiDou Navigation Satellite System and 5G， have been applied in agricultural production， circulation of agricultural products， and services for the agricultural sector. Technology has changed agriculture from inside.

At a time of great changes unseen in a century， food security has become a major focus. In the 14th Five-Year Plan （2021-2025）， China pledged to enhance its comprehensive capacity of grain production to ensure food security. The digital transformation of agriculture will be a strategic measure to achieve the goal of food security.

Robust Growth of New-Energy Vehicle Industry in a Southern City

Peoples Weekly

Issue 15， 2021

In 2009 and 2010， Chinas State Council issued several documents and made the new-energy vehicle （NEV） industry a strategic emerging industry. It vowed support to the sector to make breakthroughs in core technologies of batteries， drive motors， and electronic control， promote the commercialization and mass production of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and battery electric vehicles， and expand the network of charging stations.

Liuzhou， located in the north of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region， established a leading group for NEV promotion to optimize the industrys ecosystem. Local government has issued several supporting policies. In terms of financial support， it has earmarked RMB 1.11 billion for the industry. Consumers will receive subsidies when buying NEVs instead of fossil fuel cars. It has also encouraged enterprises， especially power supply corporations， to invest more in the construction of charging stations.

Since the first charging station was built in 2010 in the city， Liuzhou has been nurturing the NEV industry， and emerged as a capital of NEVs.