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Here are the key reports and articles from the People’s Daily’s edition on Friday, November 7, 2025.
Page 1: The lead report in the paper is about Xi Jinping attending a briefing on the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP). This took place in Sanya. On Friday, Xi also attended the commissioning and flag-presentation ceremony of the Fujian, China’s first aircraft carrier equipped with an electromagnetic catapult. He boarded the aircraft carrier to inspect the vessel.
Anyway, as part of the session on the Hainan FTP, NDRC Director Zheng Shanjie and Feng Fei, Secretary of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee, delivered the report. After listening to them, Xi delivered a speech.
“He pointed out that the Party Central Committee has decided that the Hainan FTP will officially launch island-wide special customs operations on December 18. This is a landmark measure to unswervingly expand high-level opening-up and promote the construction of an open world economy. All levels of authorities and relevant parties should make careful preparations to ensure a smooth and orderly process. Xi Jinping emphasised that the strategic goal of building the Hainan FTP is to make it an important gateway leading China’s opening-up in the new era. It is necessary to remain steadfast in this strategic goal, fully implement the overall plan for the construction of the Hainan FTP, thoroughly implement the Hainan FTP Law, emancipate our minds, reform and innovate, and build a policy and institutional system adapted to a high-level free trade port in stages and steps. It is necessary to steadily expand institutional opening-up and further improve the level of trade and investment liberalisation and facilitation. It is necessary to deepen the opening-up of commodity and factor flows to better facilitate the cross-border flow of production factors. It is necessary to build a more open talent mechanism and provide strong talent support for the construction of the free trade port. It is necessary to deepen administrative system reform, optimise government services, and strive to create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized.” 听取汇报后，习近平发表重要讲话。他指出，党中央决定，今年12月18日海南自由贸易港正式启动全岛封关，这是我国坚定不移扩大高水平对外开放、推动建设开放型世界经济的标志性举措。各级各有关方面要精心准备，确保平稳有序。习近平强调，建设海南自由贸易港的战略目标，就是要把海南自由贸易港打造成为引领我国新时代对外开放的重要门户。要锚定这个战略目标不动摇，全面落实海南自由贸易港建设总体方案，深入实施海南自由贸易港法，解放思想、改革创新，分步骤、分阶段构建与高水平自由贸易港相适应的政策制度体系。要稳步扩大制度型开放，进一步提高贸易投资自由化便利化水平。深入推进商品和要素流动型开放，更好促进生产要素跨境流动。构建更加开放的人才机制，为自由贸易港建设提供有力人才支撑。深化行政体制改革，优化政务服务，着力打造市场化法治化国际化一流营商环境.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the main purpose of building a high-standard Hainan FTP is to promote high-quality development in Hainan and contribute to the country’s efforts to build a new development pattern. The 15th FYP should be scientifically formulated in light of local conditions, closely focusing on the strategic positioning of building ‘three zones and one center’ to comprehensively improve Hainan’s economic and social development. Efforts should be made to build a modern industrial system with Hainan characteristics and advantages, promote the optimisation and upgrading of leading industries, and promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, striving for new breakthroughs in developing new productive forces. It is necessary to strengthen coordinated development with the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, deepen cooperation with the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and deeply integrate into the joint construction of BRI, playing a leading role in promoting high-level opening-up. Ecology is a major advantage of Hainan; we must guard this asset well. Adhere to the overall planning of land and sea, continue to firmly grasp the rectification of prominent environmental problems, and build the National Ecological Civilization Pilot Zone with high quality. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of livelihood projects that are inclusive, fundamental, and provide a safety net, properly resolve the urgent, difficult, and anxious issues of the people, and steadily advance common prosperity. 习近平指出，高标准建设海南自由贸易港，主要目的是促进海南高质量发展，助力全国构建新发展格局。要结合实际科学编制“十五五”规划，紧紧围绕建设“三区一中心”的战略定位，全面提高海南经济社会发展水平。着力打造具有海南特色和优势的现代化产业体系，推动主导产业优化升级，促进科技创新和产业创新深度融合，努力在发展新质生产力上取得新突破。加强同粤港澳大湾区联动发展，深化同京津冀、长三角、长江经济带等区域合作，深度融入共建“一带一路”，在推进高水平对外开放中发挥牵引作用。生态是海南一大优势，要守护好这份家底，坚持陆海统筹，持续抓好突出环境问题整治，高质量建设国家生态文明试验区。加强普惠性、基础性、兜底性民生建设，解决好人民群众急难愁盼问题，扎实推进共同富裕.
Xi Jinping emphasised that the greater the opening up, the more important it is to coordinate development and security, and firmly safeguard the bottom line of security. The pace and progress of opening up should be scientific and orderly, risk identification and prevention should be strengthened, and advance steadily and surely, proceeding step by step as though occupying positions/camps. 习近平强调，越是扩大开放，越要统筹发展和安全，牢牢守住安全底线。要科学有序安排开放节奏和进度，加强风险识别和防范，稳扎稳打、步步为营.
Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to advance the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party with a clear-headed and resolute attitude, consolidate the achievements of in-depth study and education on the spirit of the Central Committee’s 8-point regulation, and strive to create a clean and upright political ecology. It is essential to improve the integrated mechanism for not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, and focus on eliminating the soil and conditions that breed corruption. We must guide leading cadres at all levels to dare to take responsibility and be good at doing things under the premise of observing rules and discipline, and to create work achievements that can stand the test of practice and history through solid struggle. 习近平指出，要以永远在路上的清醒和坚定推进全面从严治党，巩固深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育成果，努力营造风清气正的政治生态。完善一体推进不敢腐、不能腐、不想腐工作机制，着力铲除腐败滋生的土壤和条件。要引导各级干部在遵规守纪前提下敢于担当、善于作为，用扎实奋斗创造经得起实践和历史检验的工作业绩.
Xi also talked about the need “to closely monitor Typhoon Kalmaegi and take concrete measures for prevention and emergency response to minimise losses.”
Also on the page are a couple of reports on congratulatory messages that Xi has sent. First, he exchanged greetings with Samoa’s Head of State Tuimaleali’ifano Va’aletoa Sualauvi II over the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries. Xinhua says:
“Xi said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations half a century ago, China and Samoa, with a long history of friendly exchanges, have always practiced mutual respect and treated each other as equals, firmly supported each other in safeguarding national independence and sovereignty, steadily deepened political mutual trust, achieved fruitful results in mutually beneficial cooperation, and expanded people-to-people exchanges, thereby enhancing the well-being of their peoples. Xi said that he attaches great importance to the development of China-Samoa relations and is willing to work together with Tuimaleali’ifano to take the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties as an opportunity to carry forward the traditional friendship and deepen practical cooperation so as to write a new chapter in the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Samoa.”
Second, Xi sent a congratulatory message to Samia Suluhu Hassan on her assumption of the presidency of Tanzania. Xinhua says:
“Noting that China and Tanzania enjoy a profound traditional friendship, Xi said in the message that in recent years, bilateral relations have developed at a high level, with the two sides supporting each other on issues concerning their respective core interests and major concerns, and achieving fruitful results in practical cooperation across various fields. Xi said that he attaches great importance to the development of China-Tanzania relations, and stands ready to work with Hassan to implement the outcomes of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Beijing Summit, continuously advancing the China-Tanzania comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership to new heights and making greater contributions to building an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era.”
Next, there’s a report on Ding Xuexiang’s visit to Brazil, where he met with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Xinhua says:
Ding “voiced China’s readiness to work with Brazil to strengthen political mutual trust, firmly support each other on issues concerning their respective core interests and major concerns, and jointly oppose unilateralism, protectionism and hegemonism…During the meeting, Ding first conveyed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s cordial greetings and best wishes, noting that under the strategic guidance of Xi and Lula, the building of a China-Brazil community with a shared future and the alignment of the two countries’ development strategies have got off to a good start. He said that China-Brazil cooperation has become a model for collaboration between major developing countries, with its strategic, comprehensive and long-term significance increasingly evident. Noting that the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee has made top-level design and strategic planning for China’s future development, he said China is firmly committed to promoting high-quality development and higher-level opening up, which will create more opportunities for deepening practical cooperation between China and Brazil. Ding said that China stands ready to expand practical cooperation across various fields and upgrade cooperation so as to achieve more landmark and exemplary outcomes. He called on the two sides to strengthen coordination and collaboration in multilateral arenas, advance the reform and improvement of global governance, and safeguard the interests of the developing countries. Ding said China will enhance cooperation on poverty reduction and implement the Global Development Initiative to deliver more benefits to both peoples and the people of the world. China supports Brazil in playing its active role as a major country in the region, safeguarding peace and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean, he added. Ding said China appreciates Brazil’s efforts in hosting the Belem Climate Summit and advancing global climate governance, and stands ready to work with Brazil to ensure the success of the summit and inject new momentum into multilateral processes in the climate field.”
Ding also met with Chief of Staff of the Brazilian Presidency Rui Costa. Xinhua’s report on that meeting says:
“Ding called on the two sides to become reliable partners on each other’s path to modernization, enhance the alignment of their development strategies, advance cooperation in key areas in an efficient and practical manner, and better support the common development and revitalization of the two countries. China prizes Brazil’s leading position in the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), and is willing to work with Brazil to promote greater development of China’s relations with Mercosur and with CELAC, Ding said.”
Finally, there’s a report (English report) on the State Council promulgating a regulation on the monitoring of the ecological environment.
Page 2: There’s a report on Zhang Guoqing speaking at the 2025 BRI Ministers’ Meeting on Natural Disaster Prevention and Emergency Management in Sanya. Zhang said that “through practical measures such as dispatching international rescue teams and providing disaster relief material assistance, China has contributed its strength to international cooperation in natural disaster prevention and control.” 中国始终坚持人民至上、生命至上，始终践行“两个坚持、三个转变”理念，不断提高防灾减灾救灾能力，通过派遣国际救援队伍、提供救灾物资援助等务实举措，为自然灾害防治国际合作贡献中国力量。
He added: “China is willing to work with all parties to actively implement GDI, GCI, GSI and GGI, continuously promote the building of relevant cooperation mechanisms, to join hands in deepening disaster prevention capabilities, to strengthen technological empowerment for disaster reduction, to enhance international responses to major disasters, and to weave a dense and solid security protection network that crosses borders, mountains, and seas, and connects with one another, jointly safeguarding the beautiful homeland of humankind.” 中方愿同各方一道，积极落实全球发展倡议、全球安全倡议、全球文明倡议、全球治理倡议，持续推进相关合作机制建设，携手深化灾害防治能力，强化减灾科技赋能，加强重大灾害国际应对，织密织牢跨越国界、跨越山海、互联互通的安全防护网，共同守护人类美好家园.
Another report on the page informs that the total number of EV charging facilities in our country reached 18.063 million units, a year-on-year increase of 54.5%. Among them, a total of 68,000 charging facilities have been built in expressway service areas.
The report adds: “Recently, multiple departments jointly issued an action plan, specifying that by the end of 2027, 28 million charging facilities will be built nationwide, meeting the charging demand of more than 80 million electric vehicles. The action plan also proposes to encourage all types of enterprises to participate fairly in market competition and to support the development of the private economy in the charging sector. As of the end of September, 8 of the top 10 charging operators nationwide were private enterprises, and the number of public charging piles operated by these 8 companies accounted for 70.7% of the total.” 政策供给持续加码加力。近期，多部门联合印发行动方案，明确到2027年底，在全国范围内建成2800万个充电设施，满足超过8000万辆电动汽车充电需求。行动方案还提出要鼓励各类企业公平参与市场竞争，支持民营经济在充电领域发展.
Page 3: There’s a report on Wang Yi’s call with British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper. The report says:
Wang said that the current international situation is intertwined with turbulence and transformation, and China–UK relations, if they do not advance, will retreat. Both sides should strengthen strategic communication, and promote the sustainable development of bilateral relations along a healthy, mutually beneficial, and stable track. China and the UK are both major countries and permanent members of the UN Security Council, and bear important international responsibilities for world peace, stability, and development. The Chinese side firmly upholds the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, safeguards the leading role of the UN in the international system, respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, advocates resolving disputes through peaceful means, supports global free trade and WTO rules, and ensures the stability of global production and supply chains. On the above major issues, China and the UK have broadly consistent positions, which constitutes an important connotation of deepening the strategic cooperative relationship between the two countries. The Chinese side is willing to work together with the British side, join hands to address global challenges, and promote world peace and development. 王毅表示，当前国际形势变乱交织，中英关系不进则退。双方应加强战略沟通，推动两国关系沿着健康、互惠、稳定轨道可持续发展。中英都是大国和联合国安理会常任理事国，对世界和平、稳定与发展承担着重要国际责任。中方坚定维护联合国宪章宗旨和原则，维护联合国在国际体系主导地位，尊重各国主权和领土完整，主张以和平手段解决争端，支持全球自由贸易和世贸组织规则，确保全球产供链稳定。中英在上述重大问题上立场总体一致，这是深化两国战略合作关系的重要内涵。中方愿同英方共同努力，携手应对全球性挑战，促进世界和平与发展.
Wang Yi said that China and the UK have different histories and cultures, and it is normal for differences to exist between the two sides. However, they should, on the basis of mutual respect, strive to enhance mutual understanding, providing a solid guarantee for the stability of bilateral relations. Regarding occasional discordant voices and interference, it is especially important to maintain a clear head, handle them actively and prudently, and maintain the main theme of the development of bilateral relations. 王毅说，中英两国历史文化各异，双方存在分歧也很正常，但应本着相互尊重原则，努力增进相互了解，为双边关系稳定提供坚实保障。对于时而出现的杂音和干扰，尤要保持清醒头脑，积极稳妥处理，保持两国关系发展的主基调.
As per the readout, “Wang emphasized China’s position on accelerating the resolution of pressing issues affecting China-Britain relations. Both sides agreed to work together and address their respective reasonable concerns on an equal footing.”
Also on the page is a report on Zhang Youxia meeting Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic. Xinhua says:
“Zhang said that under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, China and Serbia have embarked on a new journey toward building a China-Serbia community with a shared future in the new era, and that military relations between the two countries have been developing at a high level. Zhang said that China is willing to work with Serbia to enhance military cooperation that is more dynamic, broader in scope and of higher quality.”
And there’s a very brief report on the Global South Media Partners Mechanism Inauguration Meeting and the 13th Global Video Media Forum in Xi’an. More than 300 guests, including heads of international organizations and media institutions from 40 countries and regions, as well as representatives from relevant embassies in China, attended the event. Here’s a detailed English report if you are interested.
Page 6: Today’s post-fourth plenum article is by Li Shulei, discussing the cultural domain. This is a really important article that sheds light not only on domestic narrative control approaches but also thinking around international discourse power contestation. It is also important because it is indicative of the kind of regulation that one is likely to see with regard to cyberspace, gaming, entertainment, news media, etc.
Li begins by talking about the importance of “building a culturally strong nation.” In the first section, he writes:
Building a socialist cultural power is a major strategic decision made by our Party, concerning the overall situation of China’s modernisation, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the enhancement of international competitiveness. Since the 18th Party Congress, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has persisted in placing cultural development in a prominent position in the governance of the country, made a series of major arrangements, formed Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, and promoted cultural development to achieve historic accomplishments through rectifying the root and source and upholding integrity while pursuing innovation, taking solid steps in building a socialist cultural power. However, facing the strategic goal of building a cultural power by 2035, cultural development still has shortcomings and deficiencies. It is necessary to give full play to the role of the people as the main body of cultural creation, stimulate vitality for innovation and creation, and better pool the wisdom and strength of all the people. 建设社会主义文化强国是我们党作出的重大战略决策，事关中国式现代化建设全局，事关中华民族复兴大业，事关提升国际竞争力。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央坚持把文化建设摆在治国理政的突出位置，作出一系列重大部署，形成习近平文化思想，推动文化建设在正本清源、守正创新中取得历史性成就，社会主义文化强国建设迈出坚实步伐。对标2035年建成文化强国的战略目标，文化建设仍存在短板和不足，必须发挥人民群众文化创造主体作用，激发创新创造活力，更好凝聚起全体人民的智慧和力量.
He then makes three points:
First, stimulating innovation and creativity is an essential requirement for promoting cultural prosperity. He terms innovation and creativity as “the lifeblood of culture.” He says that “in the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has proposed the ‘two integrations’, opening up a vast space for innovation and raising the Party’s awareness of promoting cultural innovation while inheriting excellent traditional Chinese culture to a new height.”
Second, stimulating innovation and creativity is an essential requirement for meeting the people’s spiritual and cultural needs. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that the ‘strength” of a culturally powerful nation ultimately lies in the people’s ideological realm, spiritual outlook, and cultural attainment. Currently, with economic and social development and the improvement of people’s living standards, the spiritual and cultural needs of the masses are increasing with each day, and their requirements for the quality, taste, and style of cultural products are becoming ever higher, showing diversified, multi-level, and individualized characteristics. In particular, the improvement of the public’s knowledge level and the popularization of the Internet have brought about tremendous changes in spiritual and cultural needs. People are no longer merely satisfied with enjoying spiritual and cultural products; they also want to participate in cultural creation and production, gaining spiritual satisfaction and elevating their ideological realm through a complete and authentic spiritual and cultural life. These changes have injected new impetus into cultural development and also raised new requirements. Only by stimulating the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation, giving full play to the pioneering spirit of the people, and providing a broad cultural stage for the masses, can we unify meeting the people’s cultural needs with promoting their cultural creation, and truly enhance the people’s sense of cultural gain and happiness. （二）激发创新创造活力是满足人民精神文化需求的必然要求。习近平总书记强调，文化强国之“强”最终要体现在人民的思想境界、精神状态、文化修养上。当前，随着经济社会发展和人民生活水平提高，人民群众的精神文化需求与日俱增，对文化产品的质量、品位、风格等的要求越来越高，日益呈现多样化、多层次、个性化的特点。特别是大众知识水平的提高和互联网的普及，使得精神文化需求发生巨大变化，人们不再仅仅满足于享受精神文化产品，还要参与文化创作生产，在完整真实的精神文化生活过程中获得精神满足、提升思想境界。这些变化给文化发展注入了新的动力，也提出了新的要求。只有激发全民族文化创新创造活力，充分发挥人民群众的首创精神，为广大人民群众提供广阔的文化舞台，使满足人民文化需求和促进人民文化创造相统一，才能切实增强人民群众文化获得感、幸福感.
Third, stimulating innovation and creativity is an essential requirement for gaining the initiative in international cultural competition. Today’s world is undergoing changes unseen in a century that are accelerating their evolution, with turmoil and transformation turmoil being intertwined, instability intensifying, and geopolitical conflicts occurring frequently, thereby making international competition more complex and fierce. This competition manifests not only in hard power domains, such as economy, science and technology, and military strength, but also in soft power domains, such as culture and institutions. As China increasingly moves to the center of the world stage, exchanges and mutual learning between China and different civilizations are deepening; but at the same time, it also faces more frequent cultural clashes and even more intense ideological and cultural competition. Only by fully stimulating the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation, and creating a gratifying situation of emerging talents and outstanding achievements in literature and art, philosophy and social sciences, and news and publishing, can we truly form our cultural competitiveness and influence internationally. 激发创新创造活力是在国际文化竞争中赢得主动的必然要求。当今世界，百年未有之大变局加速演进，世界变乱交织、动荡加剧，地缘冲突易发多发，国际竞争更加复杂激烈。这种竞争既表现为经济、科技、军事等硬实力的竞争，也表现为文化、制度等软实力的竞争。随着中国日益走近世界舞台中央，中国与不同文明之间的交流互鉴不断加深，但同时也面对更加频繁的文化碰撞，乃至更加激烈的思想文化竞争。只有充分激发全民族文化创新创造活力，使文学艺术、哲学社会科学、新闻出版等领域出现人才辈出、高峰迭起的可喜局面，才能在国际上真正形成我们的文化竞争力与影响力.
In the second section, Li outlines five points that cover the basic requirements for stimulating cultural innovation and creativity.
First, uphold the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological field. The banner is the direction, and the source of strength. Upholding the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological field determines the nature and direction of China’s culture and is the fundamental guarantee for promoting cultural innovation and creativity along the correct path. We must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, and use the worldview and methodology of this thought to observe, interpret, and lead the times. We must integrate the stance, viewpoints, and methods of this thought into all aspects of stimulating innovation and creativity and promoting cultural prosperity and development. Adhering to the guidance of Marxism also includes the requirement of advancing the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism. We must adhere to integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with China’s excellent traditional culture, continuously promoting the Party’s theoretical innovation, and using the ever-developing Marxism to guide the ever-developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era. 坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域的指导地位。旗帜就是方向，就是力量。坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域的指导地位，决定着我国文化的性质和发展方向，是推动文化创新创造沿着正确道路前进的根本保证。要坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，深入学习贯彻习近平文化思想，用这一思想的世界观和方法论观察时代、解读时代、引领时代，把这一思想的立场观点方法贯彻到激发创新创造活力、推动文化繁荣发展的全过程各方面。坚持马克思主义指导也包含着推进马克思主义中国化时代化的要求，要坚持把马克思主义基本原理同中国具体实际相结合、同中华优秀传统文化相结合，不断推进党的理论创新，用发展着的马克思主义指导不断发展的新时代中国特色社会主义文化.
Take root in the broad and extensive Chinese civilization. Knowing where we come from is essential to understanding where we are going. The profound and extensive Chinese civilization embodies the unique values and spiritual pursuits of the Chinese people, encapsulates the genes and codes of the Chinese nation’s continuous development; it is a precious legacy bestowed upon us by history, and is also a rich resource and inexhaustible driving force for cultural innovation and creation. To stimulate cultural innovation and creative vitality, it is necessary to hold high the banner of the Chinese nation’s cultural subjectivity and, with a high degree of cultural confidence, inherit and carry forward the over 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization, promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture. We must adhere to the ‘two integrations’, especially the ‘second integration’, using Marxism to activate excellent traditional Chinese culture and using excellent traditional Chinese culture to enrich Marxism, integrating the essence of Marxist thought with the essence of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and developing a new era of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics that possesses strong ideological guidance, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence. 植根博大精深的中华文明。知其所来，才能明其所往。博大精深的中华文明蕴含着中国人独特的价值观和精神追求，凝结着中华民族绵延发展的基因和密码，是历史赐予我们的宝贵财富，也是推动文化创新创造的丰富资源和不竭动力。激发文化创新创造活力，必须高扬中华民族的文化主体性，以高度的文化自信传承五千多年中华文明，推动中华优秀传统文化创造性转化和创新性发展。要坚持“两个结合”特别是“第二个结合”，用马克思主义激活中华优秀传统文化，用中华优秀传统文化丰富马克思主义，把马克思主义思想精髓同中华优秀传统文化精华贯通起来，发展具有强大思想引领力、精神凝聚力、价值感召力、国际影响力的新时代中国特色社会主义文化.
Third, take root in the great practice of the new era. Practice and life are the wellspring of cultural innovation and creation. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasised that the history of world civilization reveals a law: any civilization must keep pace with the times and constantly absorb the essence of the era. Contemporary China is undergoing the most magnificent and unique social practice in human history, which provides a powerful impetus and broad space for cultural innovation and creation. To stimulate the cultural innovation and creation vitality of the entire nation, we must be rooted in the great practice of the new era, conduct in-depth research to address the new problems encountered in practice, draw fresh materials from practice, and continuously promote cultural innovation based on practice. Especially, we must closely connect with the creative practices of hundreds of millions of people, explore and establish effective mechanisms for writers, artists, experts and scholars, and journalists to deeply engage in practice, truly enter the thriving fields of China, enter the daily work, life, and inner world of the people, and carry out cultural creation worthy of the times and the people. 立足新时代伟大实践。实践与生活是文化创新创造的源头活水。习近平总书记强调，世界文明历史揭示了一个规律：任何一种文明都要与时偕行，不断吸纳时代精华。当代中国正在进行着人类历史上最为宏大而独特的社会实践，这种伟大实践给文化创新创造提供了强大动力和广阔空间。激发全民族文化创新创造活力，必须立足新时代伟大实践，深入研究回答实践遇到的新问题，从实践中汲取鲜活素材，不断推进实践基础上的文化创新。特别是要紧密联系亿万人民的创造性实践，探索建立作家、艺术家、专家学者、新闻记者深入实践的有效机制，真正走进蓬勃发展的中国田野，走进人民群众的日常工作生活和内心世界，展开无愧于时代、无愧于人民的文化创造.
Fourth, adapt to the trend of information technology development. Technology is the driving force behind cultural innovation and creation; every iteration of technology has driven cultural innovation and breakthroughs. Currently, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and the integration of culture and technology is constantly giving rise to various new business models, applications, and platforms. Whether we can seize the opportunities presented by this round of technological revolution, represented by AI, is a key factor determining whether China’s culture can flourish and win in international competition. It is necessary to foster an open and innovative ecosystem, promote the development of digital-intelligent technologies such as the internet and AI, so that the capacity for cultural and technological innovation achieves an unprecedented liberation; accelerate the innovative application of frontier technologies such as AI in the cultural field; use internet thinking to optimize cultural creation, production, and dissemination; and let science and technology ‘add wings’ to cultural innovation and creation. At the same time, we must proactively address the drawbacks associated with digital technologies, such as false information, cultural fragmentation and superficiality, and excessive entertainment, and strive to create a positive and healthy cultural environment.顺应信息技术发展潮流。科技是文化创新创造的推进器，科技的每一次迭代都推动了文化的创新和突破。当前，新一轮科技革命和产业变革加速突破，文化和科技融合不断催生各类新业态、新应用、新载体。能否抓住这一轮以人工智能为代表的科技革命机遇，是决定我国文化能否生机勃发、能否在国际竞争中胜出的一个关键因素。要营造开放创新生态，推动互联网、人工智能等数智技术发展，让文化科技创新能力获得空前解放，加快人工智能等前沿技术在文化领域的创新应用，用互联网思维优化文化创作生产传播，为文化创新创造插上科技翅膀。同时，要主动纠治与数智技术伴生的虚假信息、文化碎片化与浅表化、过度娱乐化等弊端，努力营造积极健康的文化环境。(Important to note the point about superficiality and excessive entertainment. Those are significant pointers in terms of the continued regulation of domains like social media, live streaming, online sales, entertainment, gaming, the metaverse, LLMs, etc.)
Fifth, uphold openness and inclusiveness. Openness and inclusiveness have always been the source of vitality for the development of civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasised that the most direct way to stimulate people’s vitality for innovation and creation is to engage with different civilizations, discover the strengths of others, and inspire one’s own thinking. Chinese civilization possesses outstanding innovativeness, and it also possesses outstanding inclusiveness; inclusiveness is an important foundation for the realization of innovativeness. Historically, it is precisely through openness and inclusiveness that Chinese civilisation has connected with foreign cultures, learned from their strengths, and made up for its own weaknesses, thereby giving rise to cultural peaks and achieving repeated civilizational renewals. We must actively practice the Global Civilization Initiative, engage in dialogue and exchange with various thoughts and cultures with an open mind, and learn from all the achievements of human civilization with an inclusive attitude, stimulating innovative and creative vitality through exchanges and mutual learning, and forming an open and inclusive cultural pattern and cultural atmosphere. 秉持开放包容。开放包容始终是文明发展的活力来源。习近平总书记强调，激发人们创新创造活力，最直接的方法莫过于走入不同文明，发现别人的优长，启发自己的思维。中华文明具有突出的创新性，也具有突出的包容性，包容性是创新性得以实现的一个重要基础。历史上，中华文明正是在开放包容中贯通中外、取长补短，才涌现出一个个文化高峰，实现一次次文明更新。要积极践行全球文明倡议，以海纳百川的胸襟与各种思想文化对话交流，以兼收并蓄的态度学习借鉴人类创造的一切文明成果，在交流互鉴中激发创新创造活力，形成开放包容的文化格局和文化气象.
In the final section, Li talks about the Proposal document released after plenum had outlined key tasks and measures in the cultural domain. He calls for their implementation with a “high sense of political responsibility and mission” and with a sense of urgency, working diligently and effectively…” He makes four points in this regard:
First, promoting and practice socialist core values. Core values are the spiritual bond that holds a nation together and the common ideological and moral foundation of a country. We must improve institutional mechanisms, strengthen the working system, and innovate activity platforms to integrate socialist core values into the rule of law, social development, and daily life. It is necessary to deepen the study, publicity, and education of the Party’s innovative theory, closely link study with reality, read the original works, study the original texts, and grasp the original principles, and truly transform the results of study into vivid practice for doing one’s job well and advancing undertakings. 弘扬和践行社会主义核心价值观。核心价值观是一个民族赖以维系的精神纽带，是一个国家共同的思想道德基础。要完善制度机制、健全工作体系、创新活动载体，把社会主义核心价值观融入法治建设、融入社会发展、融入日常生活。核心价值观建设说到底是人的思想建设，要深化党的创新理论学习和宣传教育，紧密联系实际读原著学原文悟原理，切实把学习成效转化为做好本职工作、推动事业发展的生动实践.
Forming an independent knowledge system is the foundation of cultural construction and cultural prosperity. We must be rooted in the land of China, continue the Chinese cultural heritage, and cultivate a solid academic foundation, researching real problems and truly studying them, deeply answering the questions posed by China, the world, the people, and the times, and accelerating the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences. 形成自主知识体系，是文化建设和文化繁荣的基础。要扎根中国大地、赓续中华文脉、厚植学术根基，研究真问题、真研究问题，深入回答中国之问、世界之问、人民之问、时代之问，加快构建中国哲学社会科学自主知识体系.
Values and culture give birth to and depend on each other. We must use the Core Socialist Values to guide cultural development, coordinate the advancement of spiritual civilization construction in both urban and rural areas, and enhance the people’s level of civility and the degree of social civilization. At the same time, we must bring into play culture’s function of nourishing the mind and cultivating moral character, using culture to shape people, using literature and art to educate people, and using rich and excellent cultural works to enlighten thinking and nourish the soul, subtly influencing people’s ways of thinking, value judgments, and moral sentiments. Promoting socialist core values requires focusing on young people, combining their developmental patterns and practical needs in the new era, strengthening their ideals and beliefs education, integrating classroom and extracurricular activities to improve ideological and political education, promoting campus cultural development, strengthening psychological support and humanistic care, and guiding young people to establish correct worldviews, values, and outlooks on life, cultivating noble sentiments of serving the country and contributing to society. 价值观与文化相生相依，既要以社会主义核心价值观引领文化建设，统筹推进城乡精神文明建设，提升人民文明素养和社会文明程度，又要发挥文化养心志、育情操的作用，以文化人、以文育人，以丰富的文化佳作启迪思想、温润心灵，润物细无声地影响人们的思想观念、价值判断、道德情操。弘扬社会主义核心价值观要抓好青少年这个重点人群，结合新时代青少年的成长规律和现实需求，加强青少年理想信念教育，贯通课堂内外办好“大思政课”，推进校园文化建设，加强心理纾解和人文关怀，引导广大青少年树立正确的世界观、人生观、价值观，养成报效祖国、服务社会的高尚情怀.
Second, Li says that “cultural prosperity cannot be separated from a good cultural ecosystem. We must uphold the principles of ‘letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend’, fully promote academic and artistic democracy, advocate love for culture and devotion to cultural pursuits, and encourage studying diligently and focusing wholeheartedly on creation. Ultimately, cultural prosperity must be reflected in a continuous stream of excellent works. We must encourage emancipated thinking, individual expression, and bold exploration; innovate and expand themes, content, forms, and techniques; continuously improve the quality of literary and artistic creation; and strive to produce cultural masterpieces worthy of our times, promoting the advance of literary and artistic creation from the ‘plateau’ to the ‘peak’. 大力繁荣文化事业。文化繁荣离不开良好的文化生态，要坚持百花齐放、百家争鸣，充分发扬学术民主、艺术民主，提倡热爱文化、献身文化的志向追求，鼓励面壁向学、潜心创作。文化繁荣最终要体现到层出不穷的好作品上。要鼓励解放思想、发挥个性、大胆探索，创新拓展题材、内容、形式、手法，不断提高文艺创作质量，努力推出无愧于时代的文化杰作，推动文艺创作从“高原”走向“高峰”.
People are the key to cultural prosperity. We must ‘keep people in our eyes’; take the cultivation and support of high-level cultural talents as a strategic task, follow the laws of talent development, and improve the systems and mechanisms for talent growth, so that creators can fully display their talents. We must strive to foster cultural leaders who can shoulder great responsibilities and nurture a large number of cultural talents and promising newcomers who possess both virtue and ability. Cultural prosperity is inextricably linked to a high degree of respect for and effective protection of cultural heritage. We must protect historical and cultural heritage as carefully as we cherish our own lives. We must uphold a reverence for history and culture, improve the system for the protection and inheritance of historical and cultural heritage, promote the systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage, strengthen the supervision of cultural heritage protection, enhance the effective protection and living inheritance of historical and cultural cities, districts, villages, and towns, resolutely fight against all acts that damage cultural heritage, and cherish, promote, and develop the cultural treasures of the Chinese nation. 文化繁荣关键在人。要坚持“目中有人”，把培养、支持高水平文化人才作为战略性任务来抓，遵循人才成长规律，完善人才发展体制机制，使创作者充分展示才华，努力造就担纲顶梁的文化领军人物，培育大批德才兼备的文化英才和文化新秀。文化繁荣与对文化遗产的高度尊重和有力保护相伴生，要像爱惜自己的生命一样保护好历史文化遗产。要秉持敬畏历史、敬畏文化之心，完善历史文化保护传承体系，推动文化遗产系统性保护和统一监管，加大文化遗产保护督察力度，加强历史文化名城、街区、村镇有效保护和活态传承，与一切破坏文化遗产的行为作坚决斗争，把中华民族的文化瑰宝呵护好、弘扬好、发展好.
New mass literature and art are emerging phenomena and also vibrant cultural soil. To promote the prosperity of new mass literature and art under the Internet conditions, we must support the broad participation of the masses in genuine cultural creation, guide and regulate the healthy development of online literature, games, and audiovisual content, and make new mass literature and art a vital force for the prosperity of socialist literature and art. Reading is the most basic form of cultural development. We must deeply advance the building of a ‘book-loving society’, accelerate the formation of a nationwide reading promotion service system covering both urban and rural areas, create a strong atmosphere of loving to read, reading good books, and reading effectively, and cultivate reading habits in more people, especially young people, so that reading truly becomes a way of life and a spiritual pursuit. 新大众文艺是新生事物，也是生机勃勃的文化热土。要繁荣互联网条件下新大众文艺，支持人民大众广泛参与真正的文化创作，引导规范网络文学、网络游戏、网络视听等健康发展，让新大众文艺成为繁荣社会主义文艺的有生力量。读书是最基本的文化建设，要深入推进书香社会建设，加快形成覆盖城乡的全民阅读推广服务体系，营造爱读书、读好书、善读书的浓厚氛围，使更多的人特别是青少年养成读书习惯，使读书真正成为人们的一种生活方式、精神追求.
Third, Li talks about the development of the cultural industry. He calls to “intensify reforms, strengthen policy support, and make good use of technological support” in order to boost the cultural and tourism industries as “pillar industries.” He calls for administrative and IPR reforms. Further he writes:
“The development of the cultural industry requires properly handling the relationship between the government and the market, giving full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of cultural resources, improving the cultural industry system and market system, perfecting the cultural production and operation mechanism, and cultivating vibrant and competitive outstanding cultural enterprises and brands. At the same time, it is essential to better leverage the role of the government, implement proactive cultural economic policies, increase policy support in finance, taxation, and other areas, innovate cultural market supervision policies in the digital age, improve cultural trade policies, and promote the high-quality development of the cultural industry. Culture and technology are mutually reinforcing. We must promote the integration of culture and technology, accelerate the development of new cultural formats, broaden the space for cultural development, and promote the digital and information-based transformation of cultural construction.” 文化产业的发展要处理好政府和市场的关系，发挥市场在文化资源配置中的决定性作用，健全文化产业体系和市场体系，完善文化生产经营机制，培育充满活力和竞争力的优秀文化企业和品牌。同时，要更好发挥政府作用，实施积极的文化经济政策，加大财政、税收、金融等方面政策支持力度，创新数字时代文化市场监管政策，完善文化贸易政策，推动文化产业高质量发展。文化和科技相生相促，要推进文化和科技融合，加快发展新型文化业态，拓宽文化发展空间，推动文化建设数智化赋能、信息化转型.
Finally, Li talks about the importance of enhancing the communicative power and influence of Chinese civilization. Comprehensively enhancing the communicative power and influence of Chinese civilization is not only related to our country’s position in the global cultural landscape but also to the quality of a modernised socialist power. We must take reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, improve the institutional mechanisms for international communication, strengthen the construction of key bases for international communication, establish and improve the system of responsibilities for international communication work, and promote the joint participation of all regions, departments, and sectors in international communication efforts. We must innovate communication platforms and methods, make good use of new media tools, and support the international development of social media platforms. We must accelerate the construction of a Chinese discourse and narrative system, improve our storytelling ability, persuade people with facts, move them with emotions, and influence them with reason, making it easier for more foreign audiences to understand and accept our message.Enhancing the effectiveness of international communication requires a thorough understanding of foreign contexts. We must follow the laws of international communication, strengthen regional and country-specific research, gain a deep understanding of the history, culture, and social realities of target countries, and conduct precise communication targeting different regions, countries, and groups of audiences to enhance the affinity and effectiveness of international communication. Culture is a bridge that connects hearts and minds. We must strengthen the concept of using culture to engage in dialogue with the world, improve mechanisms for people-to-people and cultural exchanges, continuously broaden channels of exchange, and carry out wide-ranging and diverse forms of international cultural exchange and cooperation. We must encourage more cultural enterprises and outstanding cultural products to go global, using culture to convey moral principles and spread our voices, enabling the international community to better understand Chinese civilization and the Chinese nation, and allowing Chinese civilization to make greater contributions to human civilization.” 提升中华文明传播力影响力。全面提升中华文明传播力影响力，不仅关系我国在世界文化格局中的地位，而且关系社会主义现代化强国的成色。要以改革创新为根本动力，完善国际传播体制机制，加强国际传播重点基地建设，建立健全国际传播工作责任体系，推动各地区各部门各方面共同参与国际传播工作。要创新传播载体和方式，用好新媒体手段，支持社交媒体平台国际化发展。加快构建中国话语和中国叙事体系，提高讲故事的能力水平，用事实说服人、情感感染人、道理影响人，让更多国外受众易于理解、乐于接受。提升国际传播效能，知外是前提。要遵循国际传播规律，加强区域国别研究，深入了解对象国历史文化和社会现实，贴近不同区域、不同国家、不同群体受众开展精准传播，增强国际传播的亲和力和实效性。文化是沟通心灵的桥梁，要强化用文化同世界对话的理念，完善人文交流机制，不断拓展交流渠道，广泛开展形式多样的国际人文交流合作，鼓励更多文化企业和优秀文化产品走向世界，以文载道、以文传声，使国际社会更好了解中华文明和中华民族，使中华文明对人类文明作出更大贡献.