Mila Tang Jian: Building ChatGPT in the field of life science and developing drugs with generative artificial intelligence.

"I have always been interested in biology. When I was in high school, my teacher told us that the 21st century was the century of biology. When I studied artificial intelligence, I believed that the 21st century was the century of artificial intelligence."

During the scientific lecture "Understanding the Future" hosted by the Future Forum, Tang Jian, an associate professor at the Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Quebec, Canada (Mila) and a professor of artificial intelligence at the Canadian Institute of Advanced Studies (CIFAR), introduced the application of generative artificial intelligence in life sciences: how to build a "ChatGPT" in life sciences. He said, "Later, I felt that it might be the best choice if I could do something in the field where artificial intelligence and biology intersect."

Today, he is not only studying AI and biology at the same time, but also "left-handed scientific research and right-handed entrepreneurship". He said that he is a person who is willing to accept new things and challenges. From scientific research to entrepreneurship, many things are different, and it is difficult to carry out interdisciplinary cooperation, but this also reflects the value of doing these things.

Figure | Tang Jian (Tang Jian’s personal homepage)

According to reports, Tang Jian University studied geography at the beginning, transferred to the Department of Mathematics in his sophomore year, and successfully applied to the Department of Computer Science in his senior year. In his computer learning career, he first studied traditional machine learning, and in the last year of his doctoral degree, he turned to deep learning.

After graduating from the doctor’s degree, he officially embarked on the road of scientific research and made many achievements in the field of graphic representation learning. As one of the representative scholars in this field, his network representation learning method LINE (large-scale information network embedding) has been widely used, with more than 5,000 references.

"The double revolution of artificial intelligence and biotechnology broke out, and we are in the best era of doing research."

In 2018,Tang JianStart the research on the intersection of artificial intelligence and biology. At that time, he applied the graph representation learning technology to the research in the field of drug discovery, and did a lot of work in the prediction of three-dimensional structure of small molecules and the design of macromolecular proteins.

But a few years ago, only a few people devoted themselves to the research in this direction. In the past two years, more and more investment has been injected into this field. Tang Jian believes that the reason for this change is that artificial intelligence has brought great breakthroughs to the structural prediction and biological field in protein, and the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic has also aroused people’s focus on health and biomedicine.

"Now we are in the best era, because we are experiencing the dual technological revolution of artificial intelligence and biotechnology." Tang Jian said, "Therefore, we have seen great opportunities for generative artificial intelligence in the field of drug discovery, especially protein design."

Based on his accumulation in scientific research, he devoted himself to entrepreneurship and set up the artificial intelligence-driven biopharmaceutical company Baiao Geometry in 2022.

Build an AI macromolecular drug design platform to provide innovative drugs to save patients’ lives.

existTang JianIt seems that perhaps it is the entrepreneurial idea that has sprouted since childhood and the character of constantly seeking self-breakthrough that drives him to embark on the road of entrepreneurship.

The Baiao Geometry Company, founded by him, aims to develop a programmable protein by integrating the technologies of generative artificial intelligence and geometric deep learning, so as to overcome the problems of long cycle, high cost and low success rate of traditional macromolecular pharmacy and provide innovative drugs to save patients’ lives.

Tang Jian is mainly responsible for technical work in this company, and designs antibodies by building artificial intelligence models. As a new diffusion generation model, this model can model the amino acid sequence and three-dimensional structure of protein at the same time, and show the relationship between them, so as to generate protein with specific functions.

At present, the team has set up an AI macromolecular drug design platform, and is building a wet experiment verification platform for Qualcomm macromolecular drugs. At the same time, it also launched TorchProtein, an open source machine learning platform for macromolecules, in conjunction with companies such as NVIDIA, Intel and IBM.

"I hope that the technology I have made can really push several drugs into the clinic, solve more complicated diseases like cancer and save patients’ lives." Tang Jian said. In addition, he also said that with the development trend of intelligence, digitalization and automation in the biomedical field becoming inevitable, he expected to become a world-famous and international high-tech company in this field.

Based on generative artificial intelligence, build "ChatGPT" in life science field

In addition to starting a business, Tang Jian’s scientific research work at hand is also being carried out simultaneously. Based on generative artificial intelligence, he and his team have carried out research on three-dimensional structure prediction of small molecules and protein design of large molecules in the field of biomedicine.

In the prediction of the three-dimensional structure of small molecules, the team mainly modeled them based on the diffusion generation model. Specifically, a completely random structure is taken as the initial structure, and after several rounds of optimization, it finally converges to a stable protein structure. Each step of the optimization process is also called denoising. In addition, on the basis of expanding the research, the prediction of the complex structure was realized.

In the design of macromolecular proteins, the team proposed to design protein structure and sequence based on diffusion generation model, which not only realized the generation of antibody CDR Loop structure and sequence, but also designed α -helix transmembrane proteins with a specified number.

Not only that, the team also conducted research on antibody design and optimization. For example, it cooperated with the research team from Fudan University. Based on the antibody CR3022 obtained from newly crowned patients, it first designed the sequence with AI model, and then tested it on the wet experimental platform of Qualcomm, and finally successfully found the antibody molecule with strong affinity.

For generative artificial intelligence, its most critical ability is that it can generate new data. Then, if it is used in the biomedical field, it can help to generate a brand-new protein and help people find better drugs.

As a typical generative artificial intelligence model, ChatGPT has spread all over the world since it was introduced at the end of 2022. It can talk and communicate like a human being, and complete tasks such as writing papers and coding. "It is essentially a chat robot." Tang Jian said. As a large-scale pre-training language model, ChatGPT first pre-trains a large number of text and code data on the Internet, and then further optimizes it to enable it to be used for tasks such as dialogue.

The development of biotechnology, such as gene sequencing and gene synthesis, has brought a lot of data to the biomedical field. Therefore, Tang Jian believes that in the near future, people can also use these data to build ChatGPT in the field of life sciences.

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[Li Xiang China] Correctly understand and grasp the socialist nature of Chinese modernization.

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  Author: Huang Kun, Deputy Director and Professor of Chinese Modernization Research Center of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration)

  On July 26th, 2022, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized at the seminar for leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels on "Learning the spirit of the important speech of General Secretary of the Supreme Leader and Meeting the 20th Party Congress" that "the modernization we are advancing is the socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and we must persist in promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization", and clearly pointed out the socialist nature of Chinese modernization. Scientific understanding and grasping the socialist nature of Chinese-style modernization is of great significance to deeply understand Chinese-style modernization and ensure its stability and far-reaching development.

  Adhering to Chinese modernization to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has made it clear that only socialism can save China and only socialism can develop China.

  Exploring the road of national rejuvenation has started since the Chinese nation faced the invasion of western powers in modern times, which is manifested in the hard exploration of utensils, systems and ideas in order to save the weak China. Due to class attributes and historical limitations, these explorations ended in failure. The real opening of the road to national rejuvenation began with the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the struggle for national independence and people’s liberation. Since its birth, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has devoted himself to the prosperity of the country, the happiness of the people and the rejuvenation of the nation. The dream of rejuvenation and modernization runs through the whole century of party history and has become the biggest theme of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s century-long struggle.

  During the period of the new-democratic revolution, the Communist Party of China (CPC) fought for national independence and people’s liberation through arduous armed struggle, united and led the people of the whole country to overthrow the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, and established a new China, which created fundamental social conditions for realizing Chinese modernization and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. During the period of socialist revolution and construction, the party led the people to overcome a series of severe challenges in politics, economy and military affairs, successfully completed socialist transformation, realized the transformation from new democracy to socialism, established a brand-new socialist system with strong vitality on the ancient land of China, and laid a fundamental political premise and institutional foundation for realizing Chinese modernization and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In the new era of reform, opening-up and socialist modernization, the Party United and led the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, made a historic decision to shift the work center of the Party and the state to economic construction and carry out reform and opening-up, successfully created Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and provided new and energetic institutional guarantee and rapid development material conditions for realizing Chinese modernization and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. With great historical initiative, great political courage and strong responsibility, our party has provided a more perfect institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation and a more active spiritual force for realizing Chinese modernization and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has shown unprecedented bright prospects.

  It is through the unremitting struggle and exploration in the past century that we have found the correct way to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, that is, the road of modernization in Socialism with Chinese characteristics and China. "Promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization" is an important experience for the success of our cause. In essence, Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization, the concretization of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s development path and the realistic path of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Chinese-style modernization, like Socialism with Chinese characteristics, is the inevitable result of the historical logic, theoretical logic and practical logic of China people’s long-term struggle in modern times, which has a profound historical origin and a broad realistic foundation. Historical facts show that the closed and rigid old road is a dead end, and the evil road of changing the flag is a dead end. Only the Socialism with Chinese characteristics road and the Chinese modernization road are the new road, the right road and the main road to develop and strengthen China and prosper and stabilize China. Only socialism can save China and only socialism can develop China. Socialism with Chinese characteristics and Chinese modernization not only point out the direction for realizing the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation, but also provide the fundamental guarantee for realizing the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation. The great practice of modernization in Socialism with Chinese characteristics and China has not only enabled our country to develop rapidly, improved the living standards of our people, and enabled the Chinese nation to catch up with the trend of the times and usher in the bright future of great rejuvenation, but also enabled the people of China and the Chinese nation to make great contributions to world peace and development. As it turns out,To build a powerful socialist modernization country in an all-round way and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must unswervingly adhere to and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics and Chinese modernization.

  Adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and clarify the essential characteristics and fundamental guarantee of Chinese modernization.

  The party’s leadership is the root and lifeline of the party and the country, and it is the interest and destiny of the people of all ethnic groups in the country. The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership is the most essential feature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it is also the most essential feature of Chinese modernization. Adhering to the party’s leadership over Chinese modernization is fundamentally related to the future and destiny of Chinese modernization and the fundamental guarantee for Chinese modernization to adhere to the socialist direction.

  Chinese-style modernization is a modernization with a specific development process, stages and social attributes, which is different from both western developed countries and other developing countries. Its task is more arduous, its course is more complicated and its nature is more special. From the development process, Chinese modernization is a "parallel" modernization. Different from the "series" modernization development process in western developed countries, industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization and informatization develop in sequence, while China’s modernization is the "parallel" superposition development of industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, with multiple modernization processes developing in coordination and multiple modernization goals being realized simultaneously. From the development stage, Chinese modernization is catch-up modernization. As a developing country, China’s modernization was launched only after the success of modernization in developed countries. The problems it encountered were very different from the international environment, and even faced with the obstruction and containment of developed countries. The tasks it faced were more arduous and special, and the development environment was more complicated and uncertain. In particular, the world today is experiencing a great change that has never happened in a hundred years. China’s socialist modernization is facing a more severe domestic and international situation, and the risks and challenges are obviously increasing. From the perspective of social attributes, Chinese modernization is socialist modernization. The nature of socialism is the most remarkable and fundamental social attribute that China’s modernization is different from the western modernization.China’s socialist modernization can’t follow the modernization road of western developed countries’ internal oppression and exploitation, foreign aggression and plunder, and create an unequal international political and economic order. Instead, it puts more emphasis on the people-centered development thought and the international relations concept of the community of human destiny, and embarks on a socialist modernization road with China characteristics.

  The essential requirements of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the unique and arduous modernization of China make it particularly important to uphold the leadership of the Party. We must uphold and strengthen the Party’s overall leadership, lead the way for China’s modernization, create a stable and United political situation, maintain the stability and continuity of the country’s major policies, mobilize the people’s enthusiasm and creativity in participating in national construction and governance, and concentrate the strength of the whole party and society to continue their struggle to realize the Chinese dream of becoming a socialist modernization power and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

  Adhere to the fundamental purpose of people first, and clarify the people-centered development thought and the essential attribute of modernization with human modernization as the core.

  "China’s modernization is a modernization with a huge population and the common prosperity of all the people", which shows the socialist nature of Chinese modernization. Chinese-style modernization insists on the supremacy of the people in its fundamental purpose, people-centered in its fundamental position, constantly promoting the all-round development of people and realizing the common prosperity of all people, which embodies the essential attribute of Chinese-style modernization with human modernization as its core and the social nature of socialism.

  The supremacy of the people is a valuable experience of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s century-long struggle, and it is the root of the great achievements of Chinese modernization. The foundation of Chinese modernization lies in the people, the subject lies in the people and the strength lies in the people. Chinese modernization always insists on development for the people, development depends on the people, and development results are shared by the people. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The people are both creators and witnesses of history, and they are both historical ‘ People in the play ’ And historical ‘ The playwright ’ " . The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s revolution, construction and reform are all realized in the process of maintaining flesh-and-blood ties with the people and relying on them closely. The people are the main body and source of strength for Chinese modernization. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee clearly put forward that we should adhere to the people-centered development thought, and take enhancing people’s well-being, promoting people’s all-round development and making steady progress towards common prosperity as the starting point and the end result of economic development. Chinese modernization takes the people as the center, emphasizes the people’s position, and always puts the promotion of people’s free and all-round development in the primary position of modernization, which is the most fundamental value orientation of Chinese modernization.

  Chinese modernization emphasizes the people’s stand and adheres to the people-centered development thought, which fundamentally opens up the consistency between human modernization and the fundamental purpose of people first. Marxism holds that man is the main body of social practice, which is shaped by the real society and realizes his own development in promoting social progress. What kind of modernization to build and what kind of goals to achieve are determined by people. The overall modernization of society cannot be separated from the modernization of people, who is the core content of the overall modernization of society. People are not only the subject of modernization practice, but also the subject of modernization value and the ultimate goal of modernization. The practice of world modernization proves that human modernization is more important than material modernization. Once people’s modernization is ignored or hesitated or lagged behind on this issue, it will inevitably bring great harm and disaster. Socialism with Chinese characteristics, not only bears the heavy responsibility of the times for the overall modernization of society, but also bears the historical mission of continuously promoting human modernization and promoting human all-round development. Comrade Supreme Leader wrote in Zhijiang Xinyu: "People are essentially cultural people, not ‘ Materialization ’ People; Is a dynamic and comprehensive person, not a rigid, ‘ One-dimensional ’ People. " The value pursuit of the people’s subject established by Chinese modernization is essentially the same as Marx’s theory of all-round development of human beings, which is a reaffirmation and creative development of the proletarian as the subject of liberation.It is also a vivid embodiment of our party’s fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly.

  Adhere to Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s fundamental system, basic system and important system, and clarify the institutional guarantee and institutional advantages of Chinese modernization.

  Socialism with Chinese characteristics system is a scientific system composed of fundamental system, basic system and important system, and it is the most important system regulation, system guarantee and system advantage of Chinese modernization. Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s fundamental system includes the fundamental system of the Party’s leadership, the fundamental system of the people’s democratic dictatorship, the fundamental system of the people’s congresses, the fundamental system of Marxism’s guiding position in the ideological field, and the fundamental system of the Party’s absolute leadership over the people’s army. It plays a "main beam" and "pillar" role in China’s national system and national governance system, and fundamentally embodies Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s institutional advantages. Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s basic systems are those that embody the socialist nature of our country, stipulate the basic principles of the country’s political life and economic life, and have a great influence on the country’s economic and social development. Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s important system is the subjective system of state governance in all fields derived from Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s fundamental system and Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s fundamental system. Specifically, it is the subjective system of legal rule, administrative management, cultural construction, people’s livelihood security, social governance, ecological civilization, "one country, two systems", foreign affairs, party and state supervision and so on. These fundamental systems, basic systems and important systems are the institutional guarantee and obvious institutional advantages of Chinese modernization.It is the fundamental reason why Chinese modernization has maintained its socialist nature and made great achievements.

  After more than 70 years of rich practice in New China, the Party led the people to create and develop the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s system has been further consolidated and improved, and Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s institutional advantages have been further highlighted and strengthened. The historical achievements of the founding of New China for more than 70 years fully prove that the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system is the fundamental guarantee for the great achievements of Chinese modernization. Socialism with Chinese characteristics system is a scientific system formed by the Party and the people in the long-term practice and exploration. It not only reflects the historical achievements made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) in establishing and perfecting the socialist system, forming and developing various systems, but also reflects that since the founding of New China for more than 70 years, our Party has been able to unite and lead the people to promote and expand Chinese modernization, lay a material foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, generate spiritual strength, create social conditions, and usher in a period from standing up to becoming rich and strong. To take the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and achieve the goal of the second century as scheduled, we must strengthen the linkage between the fundamental system, the basic system and the important system, promote the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system to be more mature and stereotyped, continuously inject new kinetic energy into Chinese modernization, and promote Chinese modernization with efficient state governance.

  Adhere to the global vision of the new form of human civilization, and clarify the epoch-making significance of Chinese modernization in the history of China modernization, world modernization, world socialist development and human civilization development.

  Chinese-style modernization is a great change in the continuation, iteration and innovation of civilization. It not only depicts the special law of the continuation of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years, but also explores the universal law of the revival of human civilization, especially in developing countries, and the universal pattern of exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations in the same time and space environment, creating a new form of human civilization, showing Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s remarkable advantages and strong vitality, and fundamentally surpassing the "clash of civilizations" and "western-centered theory" and.

  On the one hand, Chinese-style modernization is the independent road of the nation-state. No nation or country in human history can achieve modernization by relying on external forces, copying foreign models and following others. Chinese-style modernization insists on putting the development of the country and the nation on the basis of its own strength, firmly holding the destiny of China’s development and progress in its own hands, and always proceeding from China’s national conditions, exploring and forming the correct road in line with China’s reality.

  On the other hand, Chinese modernization is an open and inclusive modernization rather than a closed and exclusive modernization, which shows the openness and cosmopolitan nature of civilization. Chinese modernization takes socialism as its essential attribute, takes the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom as its value orientation, and adheres to the basic concepts of win-win cooperation and mutual benefit. It is firmly rooted in the soil of China, based on the logic of Chinese civilization development, and firmly follows the law of modern civilization construction. On the basis of conforming to the development trend of the times, it insists on exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, finds consensus in exchanges, realizes development in mutual learning, and shows a distinct openness.

  Chinese modernization, based on China’s basic national conditions and development practice, conforms to the development trend of the times, opens a successful path for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, transcends the logic of western modernity, breaks the uniqueness of western modernization model, drives developing countries to realize "group rise", promotes the image of socialism and promotes the progress of human civilization, which is of great significance in the history of China modernization, world modernization, world socialism development and human civilization development. In the history of China’s modernization, the Chinese-style modernization road has solved the perplexed and tortuous problem of China’s modernization road since modern times, and combined Socialism with Chinese characteristics with the Chinese-style modernization road, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has shown an unprecedented bright future. In the history of world modernization, the Chinese modernization road has surpassed the western modernization model, provided a new choice different from the western modernization model, and opened up a new road for developing countries to modernize. In the history of world socialist development, the Chinese-style modernization road has overcome the defects of the traditional socialist model, opened up a new realm of socialist modernization road, and made it possible for socialism to revive, prosper and develop continuously in the world. In the history of human civilization development, Chinese-style modernization road has made new contributions to human exploration of modernization road, created new forms of human modern civilization, and demonstrated the diversity of human civilization development.

TEPCO: The bottom of the reactor pressure vessel of Unit 1 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant may be perforated.

  Recently, Tokyo Electric Power Company of Japan conducted an internal investigation on the reactor containment of Unit 1 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and thought that the "control rod drive mechanism" at the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel might partially fall off and cause perforation at the bottom of the vessel.

  Japan’s Kyodo News reported on the 16th that the investigation of TEPCO was carried out from March 28th to 31st, and the company put underwater robots into the containment of stagnant water. When the camera is used to photograph the surroundings, there is a space where no image is displayed, which is said to mean that the bottom of the pressure vessel is perforated. The attached blocks are considered as fuel fragments, which strongly interfere with the captured images and may have a high radiation around them. Blocks suspected of molten nuclear fuel (fuel fragments) are attached to the inner wall of the pressure vessel base. According to the analysis of TEPCO, "the heat of fuel fragments leads to the perforation of pressure vessels".

  According to TEPCO, the control rod drive mechanism is a device that lifts the control rod from the lower side of the pressure vessel to adjust the output power of the reactor. At present, the tubular rod bundle about 4 meters long is lower than the normal position, and part of it falls to the bottom of the containment.

Promoting School-enterprise Cooperation Many joint R&D projects appeared at China Higher Education Expo.

CCTV News:Spring 2023 China Higher Education Expo was held in Chongqing International Expo Center from April 8 to 10. The theme of this year’s High-Tech Fair is "Campus-Land Convergence, Production-Education Integration: High-quality Development", with three sections: high-tech equipment exhibition, high-level conference forum, informationization and high-end achievement release. The joint research and development of scientific and technological products by many schools and enterprises has become a highlight of this exhibition.

In the high-tech equipment exhibition area, a new type of dual-arm cooperative robot attracted the attention of many exhibitors.

Yangjin, exhibitor of China Higher Education Expo:We adopt the configuration of flexible joints, which can drag the robot’s arm very flexibly, which is essentially different from our traditional robots. We cooperate with universities to introduce some of our industry applications and resources into the curriculum system, such as specialty construction and laboratory construction.

The "black technology" independently developed by many college students is also favored by exhibitors. In the booth of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this robot for inspecting the inner wall of large containers can adsorb and move on the inner wall of steel lining through magnetic adsorption, and transmit the image back to the staff of the control station in real time through wireless transmission, thus replacing the previous manual scaffolding for inspection.

Li Tongjia, Graduate Student, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University:In the process of developing it, I have been trained by both school tutors and enterprise tutors. On the one hand, I can apply what I have learned in school to actual production and life, on the other hand, I can understand the needs of enterprises.

Zhou Yu, Vice President of China Higher Education Society and Academician of China Academy of Engineering:Take the road of school-enterprise cooperation and integration of production and education, closely combine with the actual needs of production, extract the scientific and technological problems that enterprises need, and we will work together with schools to solve this problem.

In the newly-added college area of this high-tech fair, the achievements of 110 colleges and universities in 28 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) are displayed in a concentrated way. In the booth of Harbin Institute of Technology, 549 patriotic education bases and 50 national heavy equipment enterprise bases were drawn to form three maps of red resources, national heavy equipment and industry model, which effectively integrated ideological and political theory courses with practical teaching.

Yin Shengjun, Director of the Teaching and Research Section of the Ideological and Political Practice Course of Harbin Institute of Technology:On this platform, we pay special attention to the development of students’ subjectivity, that is, students participate in ideological and political courses as the main body, and more actively speak and present what they have learned through his perspective.

People’s Network Review: "Three Advocates" Promote the Construction of a Community of Cyberspace Destiny to a New Stage

  On November 8, 2023, world internet conference Wuzhen Summit kicked off. The Supreme Leader of president delivered a video address to the opening ceremony of the summit, focusing on jointly promoting the construction of a community of cyberspace destiny to a new stage, proposing "advocating development priority, building a more inclusive and prosperous cyberspace", "advocating safety and security, building a more peaceful and secure cyberspace" and "advocating mutual learning of civilizations and building a more equal and inclusive cyberspace". This speech clearly highlights the global vision and feelings of the big party and big country, and leads human society to take a solid step towards building a community of cyberspace destiny.

  At the opening ceremony of the second world internet conference in 2015, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader put forward the "four principles" and "five propositions" of global Internet development and governance, and advocated the construction of a community of cyberspace destiny, which was widely recognized and positively responded by the international community. World internet conference has now entered its tenth year. Facing the new situation and new tasks, the proposal of "Three Advocates" embodies a profound grasp of the development law of human society in the information age, and reflects the deepening of the concept of promoting the construction of a community of cyberspace destiny and the consolidation of its actions, which provides a Chinese plan for the development, governance and exchange of cyberspace and shows the wisdom of China.

  The wind is strong and the spring tide is strong. In the information revolution era, the internet is increasingly becoming a new kinetic energy to promote development, a new platform for maintaining security in Xinjiang and mutual learning among civilizations. Cyberspace bears the infinite vision of human beings for a better future. At the same time, today’s world is chaotic and intertwined, and the changes in the past 100 years have accelerated its evolution. Challenges are emerging one after another and risks are increasing day by day. The issues of the times faced by all mankind, such as reducing the development deficit, solving the security dilemma and strengthening mutual learning among civilizations, are increasingly prominent in cyberspace. Building a community of destiny in cyberspace is not only an inevitable choice to answer the topic of the times, but also the common voice of the international community. The "Three Advocates" have established the important principles of network governance, such as giving priority to development, sharing security and mutual learning among civilizations, opening the way for all parties to deepen exchanges and pragmatic cooperation, and pointing out the direction and path for jointly promoting the construction of a community of cyberspace destiny to a new stage.

  The power of doing is to know more, and the deeper you know, the more you can do. In terms of development, the digital divide between different countries, regions, industries, enterprises and communities is puzzling the sustainable development of the information age. The key to solving the bottleneck of development lies in advocating development priority and inclusive development, so that more countries and people can share the fruits of Internet development. In terms of security, we should respect network sovereignty, respect the Internet development path and governance mode of various countries, abide by the international rules of cyberspace, and consolidate the cornerstone of cyberspace security. Do not engage in cyber hegemony and camp confrontation, crack down on cyber crimes, strengthen data security and personal information protection, promote the safe development of artificial intelligence, and build a protective embankment for cyber security from all aspects. In terms of civilization, the exchange of civilizations and mutual learning is an important driving force to promote the richness of cyberspace. Strengthening online communication and dialogue and strengthening the construction of network civilization will help to better carry forward the common values of all mankind and build an online spiritual home.

  Work together to expand the route, and set sail after ten years. Cyberspace is the common activity space and spiritual home of mankind. Working together to build a more inclusive, peaceful, safe, equal and inclusive cyberspace is related to the sovereign security of all countries and the well-being of people, and to the process of human civilization and the future and destiny. Guided by the "Three Advocates" and joining hands with the international community to write a new chapter in network development and governance, China’s determination is firm and China’s actions are indomitable.

Make up for the "efficiency deficit" and solve the "contradiction between supply and demand", and China and Pakistan will work together to promote the reform of the global governance system.

  Introduction: The current global governance system is affected by political polarization, and the "efficiency deficit" is prominent. On the one hand, developed countries do not have enough ability and willingness to provide global public goods, on the other hand, they are unwilling to transfer more power to developing countries, resulting in two "supply and demand contradictions" in international governance. It is difficult for developing countries to deeply participate in global governance and promote the democratic reform of global governance. China and Brazil, as the largest developing countries and important representatives of emerging powers in the eastern and western hemispheres, will continue to carry out efficient and sustainable bilateral cooperation, twist into a rope with the vast number of developing countries, and work together to promote the reform of the global governance system.

  China and Brazil are the main representatives of emerging powers. They are in an important period of national modernization and rising international influence, and their international identities are facing a key transformation from "peripheral powers" to "central countries". Since the beginning of the new century, with the strong impetus of economic and trade relations and the promotion of South-South cooperation, China-Pakistan relations have made a leap-forward breakthrough with richer international connotations. Promoting the reform of the global governance system has become an important topic in the strategic dialogue between China and Pakistan, which is also the key reason why the international community is paying more and more attention to the development trend of China-Pakistan relations.

  Both China and Pakistan advocate the reform of the current global governance system, and hold similar positions on major international issues such as the reform of the international financial system, food security, energy security, climate change, the UN Millennium Development Goals, and global security governance. They both adhere to the principle of multilateralism, advocate the democratization of international relations and the multipolarization of the world, emphasize the concept of a new international political and economic order, and defend the development and security rights of developing countries. China and Pakistan hold common reform demands and similar reform positions, laying an important foundation for the two countries to expand bilateral cooperation in major international affairs.

  Since the beginning of the new millennium, the two countries have cooperated closely in international multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the G-20. Especially through the platform of BRICS, China and Pakistan have achieved more extensive cooperation with other developing countries (especially large developing countries), which has enhanced the overall voice of developing countries in global governance and promoted the gradual establishment of a new world political and economic order and an international multipolar pattern.

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  From the overall context of the development of China-Pakistan bilateral relations, global governance cooperation has become a significant growth point of China-Pakistan cooperation since the new century, and South-South cooperation, including China-Pakistan cooperation, has actually promoted the redistribution of global power resources. Although the developing countries are far from achieving an international status that matches their overall strength, their global governance concept has attracted higher international attention, which fully shows that multilateral cooperation has become an effective way for developing countries to enhance their participation in global governance.

  At present, the theme of "peace and development" is facing unprecedented challenges, and the "efficiency deficit" of global governance is prominent. Generally speaking, the current predicament of global governance mainly stems from two groups of contradictions between supply and demand. The first group of contradictions is the contradiction between the arduous task of global governance and the decline of the ability and willingness of the leaders of the governance system to provide public goods. At this stage, influenced by political polarization, the narrow nationalism, protectionism and populism of developed countries in the United States and Europe are on the rise. In the process of participating in globalization, they emphasize the maximization of their own interests, and their willingness and ability to participate in global governance and provide public goods are greatly reduced, and even the phenomenon of withdrawing from international multilateral cooperation mechanisms at will appears, which is in great contrast to the situation in which developed countries led the promotion of global governance in the rapid development stage of economic globalization in the past. Moreover, the problems of "democracy deficit", "responsibility deficit" and "trust deficit" existing in global governance are more prominent, and the reform of global governance system is very necessary and urgent.

  Another set of contradictions is the contradiction between the great demand of developing countries to participate in international governance and the small transfer of power in developed countries. In the process of the transformation of the international system, the vast number of emerging markets and developing countries have put forward reasonable demands for participating in global governance, demanding the reform of the global rule system dominated by western developed countries, changing the global governance rules oriented to the interests of developed countries, and paying more attention to the interests of developing countries (even all mankind). However, with the comparative change of global strength and the relative weakness of its own strength, the West hopes to continue to master the leading role of global governance at a lower cost. In other words, the leading party of the global governance system does not agree with or accept the new participants. This makes it more difficult for global effective governance, global governance reform and international system transformation to fit together, which leads to the lag of global governance mechanism that is not commensurate with the global power structure.

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  Obviously, the above two groups of contradictions between supply and demand form a two-way constraint on multilateralism, which is bound to create obstacles for developing countries to expand their participation in global governance and promote the democratic reform of global governance. Although multilateralism is in crisis, it is still the priority path for developing countries to carry out international cooperation. First, multilateralism can effectively reduce the cost of emerging powers participating in global governance; Second, multilateralism helps to alleviate the asymmetry of decision-making influence between emerging powers and established powers.

  China-Pakistan relations have a solid foundation for cooperation. At present, the world outlook, security outlook and development outlook of the two governments are highly consistent, and they have similar positions on the reform of the global governance system, which provides a favorable environment of mutual trust for deepening cooperation. In the next stage, the development focus of China-Pakistan relations is mainly reflected in the following two levels.

  First, maintain the efficiency and sustainability of bilateral cooperation. The development of relations between countries should be based on the integration of interests of both sides, and the degree of interest consistency is the key factor to determine the efficiency of bilateral relations. The trade structure between China and China is highly complementary. Brazil is an important partner of to ensure energy, resources and food security, and also a major supplier of soybeans, corn, iron ore and oil. At present, China and Pakistan still have a large space to "make a big economic and trade cake", especially the agricultural products trade has great potential. At the investment level, we should pay more attention to Brazil’s energy, infrastructure, mining, agriculture and other fields, especially focusing on the two major fields of energy and infrastructure, which have a large investment gap in Brazil. Considering Brazil’s "re-industrialization" demand, achieving higher quality integration of industrial chain will be the development direction of bilateral investment relations in the future.

  Second, firmly defend multilateralism and work together to promote global governance reform. As the largest developing countries in the eastern and western hemispheres, China and Brazil shoulder the mission of safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries, and should also be the core forces to promote the reform of the global governance system. Especially in the situation that globalization is going against the current, multilateralism is facing difficulties and the efficiency of global governance is shrinking, on the one hand, China and Brazil should strengthen the coordination of their positions on major global issues. We should make good use of multilateral mechanisms such as G20, BRICS and Basic Four countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) and strive to form a unified voice. On the other hand, we should strengthen interaction and cooperation with other developing countries to stimulate new vitality of South-South cooperation. Only when developing countries form a strong reform force can the reform of global governance system make a fundamental breakthrough.

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Leo and Angel’s "In the Blizzard" started shooting in Finland. They are all child stars. Do they have a sense of CP?

After Why Shengxiao Mo, Zhou Sheng as usual and other works, another work of Mo Bao Feibao is going to be filmed, and that is In the Blizzard. When a work is to be remake, people will always pay special attention to who is the main character. In this play, Leo and Angel play the leading roles, and they can be said to have got enough attention.

"In the Blizzard" is mainly about the love story of Lin Yiyang (Leo) and Yin Guo (Angel). When they met in the snowstorm, the fate began in this way. Later, they learned that they were both billiards players, and they began to work together for billiards career and love. Sports competition and youthful love are the standard of a proper modern romantic drama.

The new year is over, and it’s time to start shooting. The play has started shooting in Finland. From the pictures of the opening ceremony in Reuters, the red banners stand out in the snow and the white sky, and Leo and Angel standing in the front row are in good condition. In other words, the male and female hosts have similarities in the play, except that they are all billiards players.

That is, both are child stars. Angel debuted at the age of eight, and had more than ten works before he was 18. Among them, A Little Parting, School of Youth and The Wandering Earth are all very well-known and well-received works.

Not to mention Leo, who made his debut at the age of 6, was already very familiar before he grew up. He has taken all the roles of teenagers and children in many film and television dramas, such as the little rogue and the little Yang Guo. At a young age, there are almost 100 TV dramas and movies, and the number is really scary.

The two can be called "national daughters" and "national sons". Now that they have grown up, they play a couple and talk about love, but they are always familiar children in our memory, so can the sense of CP really be in place? Can’t you dance after watching it? Can this "In the Blizzard" really be a successful play? Xiaobian makes a prediction here, and they are still worth looking forward to.

Watching a son and daughter fall in love may really be a little uncomfortable, and it is human nature to be afraid of a sense of disobedience. The so-called first cause effect is like this. But people can’t always stay in the past, and now Leo and Angel can completely convince us.

As mentioned above, the two have the similarity of child stars, but there is still one similarity that has not been said, that is, both of them are "professional first". In 2018, Leo entered the Beijing Film Academy with the best performance in the country. In 2020, Angel entered the Central Academy of Drama with the first performance major in China.

Beijing Film and Chinese Opera, the highest institution for training literary and art workers in China, are the first. We have accumulated experience when we were child stars, and now we have training in professional colleges. What do we have to worry about in business ability?

Look at their works when they grow up! Not to mention too far away, they have achieved a lot in the past 2022. Angel was the heroine of the king’s bombing of "The Beginning" at the beginning of the new year. Although it was the theme of infinite flow, she and Bai Jingting had a very good sense of CP. They played a couple and kissed each other, but none of them said that they were dead! Looking at Pi 2, her love with Fiction is also very real and moving.

Leo was crazy about his girlfriend in the summer vacation. Judging from the audience’s reaction to "Bright Stars and Moons Rising to the Sea", he and Zhao Lusi’s CP are also deeply loved by everyone, and they are full of boyfriends. They are so successful in forming CP with others, and it is not a problem to shoot a romantic drama, so Xiaobian guessed that they were shooting a modern romance together, which must be something.

Both of them have a wide range of plays, and any type of drama and role can be used; Both of them have rich resumes, and both films and TV plays are performed; Coupled with the stereotype that men are handsome and women are beautiful and just child stars, I believe it should not be too difficult for them to break. Perhaps because of their familiarity, their sense of CP will be unexpectedly strong!

In recent years, whether in Gu Yan or now, the momentum of love sweet drama is still very sufficient, and it will soon explode. What "light me, warm you", "freesia" and so on, have many fans. Then the romantic dramas of sports competitions are also very popular, such as Cyclone Girl in earlier years and Chidao last year. "In the Blizzard" has the romance of snow, the competitive spirit of billiards, and many fans of the novel. The whole setting still looks very promising.

The play has started, so let’s wait for them to finish and then broadcast it. I hope that the main actors can make this drama a success and make it one of the shoulders in the romantic drama, and this drama can also make these two young actors a hit.

Interview with delegates | Be a good young man in the new era with ideals, courage to take responsibility, endurance and willingness to struggle.

  Be a good young man in the new era who has ideals, dares to take responsibility, can bear hardships and is willing to struggle.

  — — Interview with delegates to 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Liu Xiuxiang, Deputy Secretary and Vice President of the Party Branch of Wangmo Experimental High School.

  Editor’s note:The Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress is a political declaration and program of action that our Party unites and leads the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and new journey. It must be carefully studied, understood and resolutely implemented. Focusing on studying and implementing the Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress, Qiushi.com reporter specially invited delegates to 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Liu Xiuxiang, deputy secretary and vice president of the Party branch of Wangmo Experimental High School in Guizhou Province, to accept an exclusive interview and share their knowledge and experience.

  The picture shows that on August 26, 2022, Liu Xiuxiang chatted with the students during the military training for freshmen. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Xuanni/photo

  [Introduction to Representative]

  Liu Xiuxiang was born in a small mountain village in Wangmo County, Guizhou Province. His father died of illness when he was 4 years old, and his mother suffered from intermittent mental illness and lost her ability to take care of herself. The suffering of fate didn’t crush him. He studied hard and made a living by collecting waste products. After being admitted to a university thousands of miles away, in order to take care of his mother, he "carried his mother to college thousands of miles away", and the story of his humble son touched countless people.

  Liu Xiuxiang, who once walked out of the mountains desperately, resolutely chose to return to his hometown to teach after graduating from college in 2012. His goal is clear. He inspires and guides more children in the mountains to study with his own experience, and changes their destiny with knowledge. In the past 10 years, Liu Xiuxiang has persuaded students everywhere, and more than 1,800 dropouts have returned to school because of him. He also sponsored more than 4,200 poor students and gave more than 2,000 public welfare lectures. He was rated as the "most beautiful teacher" in China, and won the May 4th Medal of China Youth and the May 1st Labor Medal of China.

  Qiushi. com reporter: General Secretary of the Supreme Leader comprehensively summed up the work in the past five years and the great changes in the new era in the past 10 years in the Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party. Please talk about your understanding and experience in combination with reality.

  Representative Liu Xiuxiang:The report of the Supreme Leader’s General Secretary is inspiring, inspiring and gives people infinite strength. My hometown, Wangmo County, is located deep in the mountains and was once a deep poverty-stricken county in Guizhou Province. Today’s Wangmo, the traffic conditions have been greatly improved, the characteristic industries have developed in an all-round way, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the economy and society have made all-round progress. Especially the changes in education. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party and the government have effectively increased investment in education in rural areas, mountainous areas and remote areas, and Wangmo’s educational infrastructure has been improved in an all-round way. Now the most beautiful house and the best environment in the county are schools. The quality of education has improved in an all-round way. In 2012, only 70 people in the county were admitted to universities, and by 2022, there will be more than 1,300 people. Nowadays, persuasion has become a "past tense". People pay attention to education and talk about it all the time. Children in the mountains have a better way out and more choices.

  Wang Mo’s change is the epitome of the great changes in the new era in the past 10 years. As a grass-roots teacher, I have been fortunate to witness and participate in the development of education in my hometown in the past 10 years. I feel extremely proud when I see the earth-shaking changes in my hometown and motherland, and it has also strengthened my confidence and determination to take root in the grassroots, teach and educate people, and strive for the cause of the party and the people.

  Qiushi. com reporter: The Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress put forward that "we should give priority to the development of education", "accelerate the construction of a strong country in education" and "run a satisfactory education for the people". As a teacher, please talk about your understanding and experience.

  Representative Liu Xiuxiang:A century-long plan, education-oriented. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader once emphasized that "education is the fundamental way for human beings to inherit civilization and knowledge, cultivate the younger generation and create a better life". Take myself as an example. With the support of the policies of the party and the state, I went to college by studying hard, walked out of the mountains and changed my destiny. After graduating from college, I chose to go back to my hometown to teach and persuade students everywhere. It is precisely because I personally feel the importance of education that I want to use my story to guide more children to set up lofty aspirations and help them achieve a better future through education.

  Education has played an important role in the process of winning the battle against poverty. By improving the cultural quality of the poor population and enhancing the endogenous ability to get rid of poverty, education poverty alleviation can effectively block the intergenerational transmission of poverty, making the foundation of poverty alleviation more stable and the effect more sustainable. In the new era and new journey, whether it is rural revitalization or high-quality development, I think education is still an important fulcrum, which plays a fundamental role and determines the future of the country and the nation. As the Supreme Leader’s General Secretary repeatedly emphasized, "Education makes the country prosperous, and education makes the country strong".

  To run a satisfactory education for the people, we must adhere to the people-centered development of education, accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system, develop quality education, and promote educational equity in accordance with the Party’s 20th strategic plan. Running a satisfactory education for the people also puts higher demands on our teachers. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader once emphasized: "Teachers’ work is to shape souls, lives and people." How are our teachers, how are our children; What the children are, what the future China will be. It can be said that the future China is in today’s classroom. As a teacher, we must strive to be a good teacher with ideals and beliefs, moral sentiments, solid knowledge and kindness in accordance with the instruction of the General Secretary.

  Qiushi. com reporter: General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out in the Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress that "the country is strong when the youth is strong" and put forward ardent expectations for the vast number of young people. As a "post-85" youth, please talk about your understanding and experience.

  Representative Liu Xiuxiang:The words of the Supreme Leader’s General Secretary made my heart surge and I was full of energy. As young people in China in the new era, we are born at the right time, with a mission on our shoulders, a vast stage for displaying our talents, and a bright prospect for realizing our dreams. National rejuvenation and national prosperity are inseparable from the hard work and dedication of generations of young people. While feeling the great changes in the motherland, our generation must shoulder the mission, and continue to write the youth chapter of rejuvenating China with a never-ending mental state and an indomitable struggle posture.

  General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has repeatedly stressed that "struggle is the most beautiful background of youth". I often say to my students, "Believe in the power of struggle". Plum blossoms that have not experienced wind, frost, rain and snow will not be fragrant, and those who have not struggled will not succeed. Life is hard to beat, so don’t wait for it at this time! Young people in the new era must bear in mind the instruction of the General Secretary, "unswervingly listen to the Party, follow the Party, embrace dreams and be down-to-earth, dare to think and do good deeds, and be determined to be good young people in the new era with ideals, courage to take responsibility, hardship and willingness to struggle", work hard and unremittingly, and strive for the first place and make contributions in the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.

  (Reporter: Kuang Sisi Audit: Li Yanling)

How to pay three insurances and one gold? What are the rules for the payment ratio?

Three insurances and one fund include endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance and housing accumulation fund, which are closely related to people’s lives, life security after retirement, reimbursement of medical expenses and satisfaction of housing demand. The following will introduce in detail the payment method and payment ratio of three insurances and one gold.

There are two main ways to pay three insurances and one gold: unit payment and individual payment. For on-the-job employees, three insurances and one gold are usually withheld and remitted by their units. Before the monthly salary is paid, the unit will deduct the personal contribution from the employee’s salary according to the regulations, and at the same time, the unit will also bear the corresponding contribution share and pay the money to the relevant departments in a unified manner. Taking employees of enterprises as an example, enterprises will transfer the three insurances and one gold fees payable by employees and enterprises to the accounts designated by social security agencies and housing provident fund management centers at a fixed time every month by means of bank transfer.

Flexible employees without fixed units, such as individual industrial and commercial households and freelancers, can also pay three insurances and one gold by themselves. They need to go to the local social security agency and the housing provident fund management center to apply for insurance and open an account. When handling, you need to bring your ID card, household registration book and other relevant information, fill in the application form, and choose the payment grade that suits you. Payment methods can be selected from bank withholding and online payment. For example, in some areas, it is convenient and fast to allow flexible employees to pay fees through mobile APP.

Regarding the proportion of payment, there are certain differences in different regions. The following are the approximate proportions in general:

Insurance/provident fund Unit contribution ratio Individual contribution ratio endowment insurance Generally 16%-20% 8% medical insurance 6% – 10% About 2% unemployment insurance 0.5% – 2% 0.2% – 1% housing accumulation fund 5% – 12% 5% – 12%

For example, in a certain area, the pension insurance unit pays 16% and the individual pays 8%; Medical insurance units pay 8% and individuals pay 2%; Unemployment insurance units pay 0.7% and individuals pay 0.3%; The proportion of housing provident fund units and individuals is 8%. Assuming that the employee’s monthly salary is 5,000 yuan, then the employee pays 400 yuan (5,000× 8%) and 800 yuan (5,000× 16%) for the monthly pension insurance; Medical insurance individuals pay 100 yuan (5000×2%) and units pay 400 yuan (5000× 8%); Unemployment insurance individuals pay 15 yuan (5000×0.3%) and units pay 35 yuan (5000 × 0.7%); 400 yuan (5000×8%) shall be paid by individuals and units for housing provident fund.

It should be noted that all localities will adjust the payment ratio according to local economic development level, average social wage and other factors. Therefore, when paying three insurances and one gold, it is suggested to pay attention to the changes of local policies in time, or call the local social security hotline 12333 and the housing provident fund hotline 12329 for consultation to ensure accurate payment.

(Editor: Wang Zhiqiang HF013)

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From soil erosion area to green "cornucopia" —— Notes on soil erosion control in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River

  Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 25thTitle: From soil erosion area to green "cornucopia" — — Soil erosion control in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River

  Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Shiping

  The Yangtze River Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources recently issued the Announcement on Soil and Water Conservation in the Yangtze River Basin (2020). The monitoring results show that in 2020, the area of soil erosion in the Yangtze River basin will be 337,000 square kilometers. This is nearly 200,000 square kilometers less than the 531,000 square kilometers of soil erosion in the late 1990s.

  The reporter learned that soil erosion and its control in the Yangtze River basin are mainly concentrated in the upper and middle reaches. After treatment, the soil erosion area has not only been effectively curbed, but also turned into a green "cornucopia", becoming a green mountain and a Jinshan Yinshan.

  Sichuan: the soil erosion area has become a "green and rich beauty" ecological area

  Naxi District of Luzhou City is located on the bank of the Yangtze River, which is an important ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. "In the past, the Qingxi River was like a stinking ditch, and the soil erosion in the Qingxi River basin was serious." Jiang Qiwu, director of the Naxi District Water Affairs Bureau, said that in recent years, the combination of governance and protection of the ecological environment has improved the water ecology and water environment.

  The water environment has been improved after the regulation of Qingxi River small watershed in Naxi District of Luzhou City.

  Changing from "stinking ditch" into Qingshui River and Huimin River is the effort of "seeing the big from the small" in Naxi District: "Small investment" to improve the "big environment", taking 30 million yuan of national special funds for soil and water conservation as a pry point, integrating agricultural funds and inciting social funds of 720 million yuan, realizing the improvement of water quality into the river from inferior V to III, and reducing soil loss by 75,000 tons every year; The "small watershed" has built a "great livelihood", the environment has improved, and tourism has started. At the same time, the implementation of watershed management land transfer and small-scale water storage projects has driven the per capita disposable income of farmers to increase substantially.

  Jingyang District of Deyang City, taking the management of Huaixiang Valley small watershed as a breakthrough, through the comprehensive management of landscape Lintian Road Village, combined soil erosion control with the development of rural industry and the improvement of human settlement environment, drew a picture of Jingyang where people and water are in harmony, and successfully established the "National Soil and Water Conservation Demonstration Project" in December 2021.

  A glimpse of Gaohuai Village after harnessing the small watershed of Huaixiang Valley in Jingyang District of Deyang City.

  "All parts of Sichuan regard the prevention and control of soil erosion as the first move in the construction of ecological civilization, actively carry out small watershed management, implement key projects such as sloping farmland management, improve the ecological environment, and at the same time promote regional economic development and help rural revitalization." Gao Wei, director of the Water and Soil Conservation Division of the Sichuan Provincial Water Resources Department, said.

  Statistics show that during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the cumulative area of soil erosion control in Sichuan Province was 24,600 square kilometers, and soil erosion in the areas with the most serious soil erosion, such as Jinsha River Basin, Minjiang River Basin and Jialing River Basin, was continuously improved.

  Jiangxi: Red soil erosion area becomes green "cornucopia"

  Walking into the Garden Village of Shangyou County, Ganzhou City, the village is beautiful and clean. Before 2013, it was still a serious soil erosion area.

  What has changed the landscape here is the development of eco-clean small watershed construction. The Garden Village has explored the ways of "three simultaneous treatments" for mountain management, water control and pollution control, mountain management and water conservation, river dredging and water management, industrial water conservation, ecological water purification, and "five-water co-construction" for everyone in love the water. While managing mountains and rivers, Shangyou County was successfully awarded "National Model County for Soil and Water Conservation" in December 2021.

  A glimpse of Garden Village in Shangyou County, Ganzhou City.

  In the early 1980s, the area of soil erosion in Ganzhou accounted for 37% of the city’s mountainous area. After more than 30 years of comprehensive control, the area of soil erosion has decreased from 11,187 square kilometers in 1980 to 6,949 square kilometers in 2020, and ecological industries such as navel orange and leisure tourism in southern Jiangxi have flourished.

  Changshui Village, Wuning County, Jiujiang City, in the north of Jiangxi Province, has achieved 95.2% soil erosion control and 96% forest and grass coverage through the simultaneous implementation of "mountain management, water management and pollution control" measures. In December 2021, the "National Demonstration Project of Soil and Water Conservation" was successfully established.

  Ecological revetment engineering in soil erosion control in Wuning county.

  Baoshan Village, De ‘an County, Jiujiang City, relied on antimony resources to develop the quarrying economy in the early 1980s. However, the industry is booming, but the environment is deteriorating.

  Since 2010, Baoshan Village has closed factories and mines one after another to restore the mine ecology. Villagers have planted cash forest crops such as camellia oleifera and tea on barren hills, making them put on "green clothes" again, and the days of villagers who eat ecological rice are booming again.

  According to the dynamic monitoring results of the Ministry of Water Resources in 2020, the area of soil erosion in Jiangxi Province has decreased from 46,200 square kilometers at the worst in the late 1980s to 23,600 square kilometers in 2020, and the proportion of soil erosion in the whole province’s land area has decreased from 27.65% to 14.14%.

  "The comprehensive management of soil erosion in Jiangxi Province has effectively promoted ecological protection and rural revitalization." Hu Jianmin, director of the Water and Soil Conservation Department of Jiangxi Provincial Water Resources Department, said.

  Yangtze river basin: comprehensive control of soil erosion continues to advance

  Soil erosion in the Yangtze River basin is caused by complex geology and geomorphology, abundant rainfall and unreasonable human production activities, with a large amount and various types, mainly in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

  "After years of comprehensive management of soil erosion in small watersheds, the trend of soil erosion in the Yangtze River basin has undergone a historic turning point from increasing to decreasing." Zhang Guangfu, director of the Water and Soil Conservation Bureau of the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources, said.

  Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Yangtze River Basin has implemented key water and soil conservation projects, comprehensive soil and water loss control on sloping farmland, clean small watershed construction, rocky desertification control, returning farmland to forests and grasslands, high-standard farmland construction, comprehensive mine improvement and other water and soil conservation ecological construction projects, and the Yangtze River Basin has achieved a double decline in soil and water loss area and intensity grade.

  The monitoring results show that the forest coverage rate in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River has reached 47.8% in 2020. The coverage rate of forest and grass vegetation in the Jialing River, the middle and lower reaches of Tuojiang River and the Three Gorges reservoir area in the Yangtze River basin has increased by about 30%, and the area of barren hills and slopes has decreased by 70%.

  Ma Jianhua, director of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Committee of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that there are still 220,000 square kilometers of soil erosion areas in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River that need to be treated urgently. With the economic and social development, it is urgent for soil and water conservation to meet the needs of high-quality development. The phenomenon of extensive soil erosion and serious local problems also exists in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and soil and water conservation has a long way to go.

  It is understood that during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, the Yangtze River Basin will build a complete soil erosion prevention and control system by promoting coordinated management, comprehensive management, systematic management and source management, and vigorously promote the soil and water conservation work in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River to a new level.