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Here are the key reports and articles that I found noteworthy from the People’s Daily’s edition on Thursday, September 25, 2025.

Page 1: The front page is again focussed on Xi Jinping’s visit to Xinjiang. Let’s begin with Xi’s remarks at a meeting where he heard reports from the Xinjiang Party Committee and government.

In his remarks, Xi: “stressed that Xinjiang must fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the Party’s governance strategy for Xinjiang in the new era, adhere to the general principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, coordinate development and security, firmly grasp the overall goal of maintaining social stability and long-term peace and order, closely focus on forging a strong sense of Chinese national community and promote its development, anchor the ‘five strategic orientations’ assigned by the central leadership, unite hearts and gather strength, work persistently for long-term results, and work tirelessly to build a united and harmonious, prosperous, civilised, progressive, safe, and ecologically sound modern socialist Xinjiang.” 他强调，新疆要完整准确全面贯彻新时代党的治疆方略，坚持稳中求进工作总基调，统筹发展和安全，牢牢扭住社会稳定和长治久安工作总目标，紧紧围绕铸牢中华民族共同体意识、推进中华民族共同体建设，锚定中央赋予的“五大战略定位”，凝心聚力、久久为功，努力建设团结和谐、繁荣富裕、文明进步、安居乐业、生态良好的社会主义现代化新疆.

Xi Jinping pointed out that in the 70 years since the establishment of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and with the vigorous support of people throughout the country, the Party committee and government of the autonomous region have united and led cadres and masses of all ethnic groups throughout the region to resolutely safeguard national unity, ethnic unity, and social stability, and continuously promote economic and social development. The face of Xinjiang has undergone earth-shaking changes, and together with all parts of the country, it has achieved the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society on schedule and embarked on a new journey of comprehensively building a socialist modernised country. On behalf of the Party Central Committee, he expressed warm congratulations to the cadres and masses of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang and extended sincere greetings! 习近平指出，新疆维吾尔自治区成立70年来，在党中央坚强领导和全国人民大力支持下，自治区党委和政府团结带领全区各族干部群众坚定维护国家统一、民族团结、社会稳定，持续推动经济社会发展，新疆面貌发生翻天覆地的变化，同全国各地一道如期全面建成小康社会、迈上全面建设社会主义现代化国家新征程。他代表党中央，向新疆各族干部群众表示热烈祝贺、致以诚挚问候!

Xi Jinping emphasised that it is necessary to be grounded in resource endowments and industrial foundations, and actively explore paths for high-quality development that suit Xinjiang’s unique characteristics. Adhere to developing distinctive and advantageous industries, and cultivate competitive industrial clusters. Strengthen deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and develop new-quality productive forces in line with local conditions. Strengthen integration of culture and tourism, and promote the development of the cultural tourism industry. Strengthen the protection and restoration of ecosystems, and promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. Accelerate the advancement of constructing the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, and play a greater role in promoting the dual circulation of domestic and international economies. Put safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood in the priority position, consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, vigorously develop social undertakings, and allow the masses of all ethnic groups to broadly participate in the development process and share in the fruits of development. 习近平强调，要立足资源禀赋和产业基础，积极探索符合新疆特点的高质量发展路子。坚持发展特色优势产业，培育有竞争力的产业集群。加强科技创新和产业创新深度融合，因地制宜发展新质生产力。强化文旅融合，促进文化旅游业发展。加强生态系统保护和修复，推动经济社会发展全面绿色转型。加快推进丝绸之路经济带核心区建设，在促进国内国际双循环中发挥更大作用。把保障和改善民生放在优先位置，巩固拓展脱贫攻坚成果，大力发展社会事业，让各族群众广泛参与发展进程、共享发展成果.

“Xi Jinping emphasised the need to make every effort to maintain overall social stability in Xinjiang. Persist in focusing on grassroots efforts, strengthening the foundation, and consolidating fundamentals, building a solid people’s defense line against terrorism and maintaining stability. Forge a strong sense of Chinese national community, promote the construction of the Chinese national community, advance the sinicization of religions in our country, strengthen cultural enrichment of Xinjiang, focus on educating people with culture, and guide cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups to establish a correct view of the country, history, nation, culture, and religion.” 习近平指出，要全力维护新疆社会大局稳定。坚持抓基层、强基础、固根本，筑牢反恐维稳的人民防线。铸牢中华民族共同体意识、推进中华民族共同体建设，推进我国宗教中国化，加强文化润疆、注重以文化人，引导各族干部群众树立正确的国家观、历史观、民族观、文化观、宗教观.

Xi Jinping emphasised that strengthening Party leadership and Party building are the fundamental guarantees for advancing Xinjiang’s modernisation construction. We must continuously strengthen theoretical armament and use the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to pool hearts and forge souls. Maintaining stability and promoting development should be regarded as a big classroom for cultivating and training cadres, let the vast number of cadres temper their will to be fearless of dangers and overcome difficulties in practice, and enhance their ability to unite and serve the masses and handle complex situations. Comprehensively strengthen grassroots organisations and enhance the political functions and organisational functions of grassroots Party organisations. Consolidate the achievements of education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point regulation, improve long-term mechanisms for upholding integrity, enforcing discipline, and fighting corruption, and create a political ecology that is clean and upright. 习近平强调，加强党的领导和党的建设是推进新疆现代化建设的根本保证。要持续加强理论武装，用新时代中国特色社会主义思想凝心铸魂。把保稳定、促发展作为培养锻炼干部的大课堂，让广大干部在实践中磨炼不畏艰险、攻坚克难的意志，增强团结服务群众、驾驭复杂局面的本领。全面建强基层组织，增强基层党组织政治功能和组织功能。巩固深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育成果，健全正风肃纪反腐长效机制，营造风清气正的政治生态.

Xi Jinping pointed out that the XPCC is a key strategic force in achieving the Party Central Committee’s overall goals for Xinjiang. It is necessary to deepen XPCC reform and explore a path for high-quality development that suits the XPCC’s realities and highlights its unique characteristics. 习近平指出，兵团是实现党中央关于新疆工作总目标的重要战略力量。要深化兵团改革，探索符合兵团实际、彰显兵团特色的高质量发展之路.

Next, there’s a report (English report) on Xi attending an exhibition on Wednesday morning, celebrating the 70th founding anniversary of Xinjiang. The big takeaway from Xi’s remarks here is this:

Xi “emphasised that the profound changes in Xinjiang over the past 70 years are a vivid reflection of the historic process of national rejuvenation. Practice has proven that the system of regional ethnic autonomy established by the Party is entirely correct, Xi said, noting that the Party’s policy for the governance of Xinjiang in the new era is both scientific and effective, and must be adhered to for the long term.”

Also on Wednesday, Xi attended a gala, featuring lots of song and dance. On the front page, there’s also an editorial on Xinjiang. It says:

“Since the 18th Party Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to Xinjiang work, visiting Xinjiang three times and attending two central symposiums on Xinjiang work, where he delivered important speeches. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has deepened its understanding and grasp of the laws governing Xinjiang, formulated the Party’s strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era, and ushered Xinjiang into its best period of development in history, fully demonstrating the decisive significance of the ‘Two Establishments’. In 2024, Xinjiang’s GDP exceeded 2 trillion yuan for the first time, 204.3 times that of 1955. Today, Xinjiang enjoys sustained social stability, a growing sense of Chinese national community, a significant increase in comprehensive strength, significant improvements in people’s well-being, and a marked improvement in the ecological environment. The Party’s ruling foundation has been further consolidated, and cadres and people of all ethnic groups have a significantly enhanced sense of gain, happiness, and security. Together with the rest of the nation, Xinjiang is marching forward with high spirits toward building a modern socialist country in all respects and achieving the second centennial goal.” 党的十八大以来，习近平总书记高度重视新疆工作，先后三次赴新疆考察、两次出席中央新疆工作座谈会并发表重要讲话。以习近平同志为核心的党中央深化对治疆规律的认识和把握，形成了新时代党的治疆方略，引领新疆迈入了历史上最好的发展时期，充分彰显了“两个确立”的决定性意义。2024年，新疆地区生产总值首次突破2万亿元，是1955年的204.3倍。今天的新疆，社会大局持续稳定，中华民族共同体意识不断铸牢，综合实力显著增强，民生福祉极大提升，生态环境明显改善，党的执政基础更加巩固，各族干部群众获得感、幸福感、安全感大幅增强，正和全国一道意气风发向着全面建成社会主义现代化强国、实现第二个百年奋斗目标迈进.

Xinjiang’s glorious achievements over 70 years are the result of the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the result of cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang advancing with gratitude and struggling tenaciously, and the result of the joint struggle and vigorous support of the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, fully demonstrating the tremendous superiority of the socialist system, fully showing the strong vitality of the correct path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics, fully proving that the Party’s strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era is completely correct, and will certainly be recorded in the annals of the development history of the Chinese nation! Xinjiang’s 70-year development process enlightens us that only by upholding the leadership of the Communist Party of China, persisting in socialism with Chinese characteristics, persisting in the system of regional ethnic autonomy, persisting in the Party’s strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era, persisting in forging a strong consciousness of the Chinese national community, persisting in comprehensively deepening reform and opening up, can we achieve Xinjiang’s long-term peace and stability, prosperity and development.” 知其所来，方能明其所往。新疆70年的辉煌成就，是党中央坚强领导的结果，是新疆各族干部群众感恩奋进、顽强拼搏的结果，是全党全国各族人民共同奋斗、大力支援的结果，充分彰显了社会主义制度的巨大优越性，充分展现了中国特色解决民族问题正确道路的强大生命力，充分证明了新时代党的治疆方略是完全正确的，必将载入中华民族发展史册！新疆70年发展历程启示我们：只有坚持中国共产党领导，坚持中国特色社会主义，坚持民族区域自治制度，坚持新时代党的治疆方略，坚持铸牢中华民族共同体意识，坚持全面深化改革开放，才能实现新疆长治久安、繁荣发展. (Note: The bit about gratitude in this paragraph is not something to be ignored.)

Comprehensively building a socialist modernised country embodies the long-cherished aspirations and expectations of the Chinese nation, condenses the struggles and perseverance of the Chinese people, and requires mobilising all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation to think together and work together. Today, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable, the prospects for advancing Chinese-style modernisation are incomparably bright, and Xinjiang’s development stands at a new starting point. Firmly grasping Xinjiang’s strategic positioning in the national overall situation, doing deep, detailed, and solid work in governing Xinjiang according to law, uniting and stabilising Xinjiang, culturally nourishing Xinjiang, enriching the people and revitalising Xinjiang, and building Xinjiang for the long term, we have more capability, confidence, and determination than at any time in the past to build a more united and beautiful socialist Xinjiang, allowing people of all ethnic groups to share in the great glory of building a strong country and national rejuvenation. 全面建设社会主义现代化国家寄托着中华民族的夙愿和期盼，凝结着中国人民的奋斗和汗水，需要动员全体中华儿女一起来想、一起来干。今天，中华民族伟大复兴势不可挡，推进中国式现代化前景无比光明，新疆发展站在了新起点上。牢牢把握新疆在国家全局中的战略定位，把依法治疆、团结稳疆、文化润疆、富民兴疆、长期建疆各项工作做深做细做实，我们比以往任何时候都有能力有信心有决心建设一个更加团结美好的社会主义新疆，让各族人民共享强国建设、民族复兴的伟大荣光.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasised that ‘forging a strong consciousness of the Chinese national community is the main line of the Party’s ethnic work in the new era’ and ‘in constructing a new development pattern, promoting high-quality development, and advancing Chinese-style modernisation, Xinjiang faces new opportunities and should have new achievements.’ To better build beautiful Xinjiang in the process of Chinese-style modernisation, we must completely, accurately, and comprehensively implement the Party’s strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era, closely focus on the main line of forging a strong consciousness of the Chinese national community, promote all ethnic groups to embrace each other tightly like pomegranate seeds, and ensure that Xinjiang work always advances in the correct direction. We must unwaveringly prioritise maintaining social stability, persist in governing Xinjiang according to law, consolidate the grassroots foundation of social stability, and promote the realisation of sustained and long-term stability in the overall social situation; unwaveringly consolidate and develop the great unity of the Chinese nation, persist in and improve the system of regional ethnic autonomy, construct an embedded social structure and community environment for all ethnic groups, and strengthen governance of religious affairs according to law; unwaveringly promote high-quality development by closely focusing on people’s livelihood, better promote development achievements benefiting people’s livelihood and gathering people’s hearts; unwaveringly deepen reform and expand opening up, better utilize both international and domestic markets and resources to comprehensively promote the construction of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, and build a golden Eurasian corridor and bridgehead for opening to the west. 习近平总书记强调，“铸牢中华民族共同体意识是新时代党的民族工作的主线”“构建新发展格局、推动高质量发展、推进中国式现代化，新疆面临新机遇，要有新作为”。在中国式现代化进程中更好建设美丽新疆，必须完整准确全面贯彻新时代党的治疆方略，紧扣铸牢中华民族共同体意识主线，促进各民族像石榴籽一样紧紧抱在一起，确保新疆工作始终沿着正确方向前进。要坚定不移把维护社会稳定摆在首位，坚持依法治疆，夯实社会稳定的基层基础，推动社会大局实现持续稳定、长期稳定；坚定不移巩固发展中华民族大团结，坚持和完善民族区域自治制度，构建各民族互嵌式社会结构和社区环境，依法加强宗教事务治理；坚定不移紧贴民生推动高质量发展，更好推动发展成果惠及民生、凝聚人心；坚定不移深化改革扩大开放，更好利用国际国内两个市场、两种资源全面推进丝绸之路经济带核心区建设，打造亚欧黄金通道和向西开放桥头堡.

Moving on, there’s a report on Xi’s speech to the United Nations Climate Summit. Xinhua has the English text. Xi was critical of the US, saying that:

“Green and low-carbon transition is the trend of our time. While some country is acting against it, the international community should stay focused on the right direction, remain unwavering in confidence, unremitting in actions and unrelenting in intensity, and push for formulation and delivery on NDCs, with a view to providing more positive energy to the cooperation on global climate governance.”

He said that “developed countries should take the lead in fulfilling emission reduction obligations and provide more financial and technological support to developing countries”. He also demanded greater “international coordination in green technologies and industries to address the shortfall in green production capacity and ensure free flow of quality green products globally.”

Xi ended by announcing China’s new nationally determined contributions:

• “China will, by 2035, reduce economy-wide net greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% from peak levels, striving to do better;

• increase the share of non-fossil fuels in total energy consumption to over 30%;

• expand the installed capacity of wind and solar power to over six times the 2020 levels, striving to bring the total to 3,600 gigawatts;

• scale up the total forest stock volume to over 24 billion cubic meters;

• make new energy vehicles the mainstream in the sales of new vehicles;

• expand the National Carbon Emissions Trading Market to cover major high-emission sectors; and

• basically establish a climate adaptive society.”

Page 2: There’s a report (English report) informing that China’s carbon trading market hit a new high in 2024. The total transaction volume for the whole of 2024 was the highest since the market began trading in 2021. In 2024, China’s carbon emissions rights trading market operated for 242 trading days, with the average daily carbon emissions quota trading volume increasing 43.55 percent from the compliance period prior. The cumulative trading volume for the whole year was 189 million tonnes, with a total transaction volume of some 18.11 billion yuan. The country’s electricity carbon emissions intensity in 2024 decreased 10.8 percent compared to 2018.

By the end of August, the cumulative trading volume of China’s carbon emissions rights trading market was nearly 700 million tonnes, with a trading value of approximately 48 billion yuan.

Page 3: On this page, we get to Li Qiang’s visit to New York. First, Li delivered a speech at a high-level meeting on the Global Development Initiative. He talked about the threat of unilateralism and protectionism being on the rise and international cooperation on development being under serious strain. He then made four points:

• First, we need to foster a stable and open international environment for development. Peace and stability underpin development and prosperity; openness and cooperation sustain economic growth. The overarching trends of multipolarity and economic globalization are irreversible. Decoupling, severing supply chains and bloc confrontation would only hurt the global economy, disrupt global order and create greater risks. We should jointly safeguard the UN-centered international system, uphold multilateralism and free trade, build an open world economy, and promote global development that is more dynamic.

• Second, we need to build balanced and universally beneficial partnerships for development. Behind the growing North-South development gap in recent years are the inequalities and inequity in rights, opportunities and rules. Certain developed countries are reluctant to fulfill their pledges of development financing, and even cut off funding to global development institutions, which has seriously undermined North-South cooperation. More concrete actions are needed to promote universally beneficial and inclusive development. The North and the South should work in concert. Developed countries, in particular, need to fulfill their obligations, give more consideration to the needs of developing countries and actively address unbalanced and inadequate development.

• Third, we need to cultivate future-oriented drivers for innovation-driven development. At present, rapid advances in technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data are becoming a powerful driver of global development. We need to seize the opportunities to enhance international cooperation on scientific and technological innovation, and oppose such moves as putting up walls and barriers and blocking the flow of technology. We need to explore the vast blue ocean of development and jointly cultivate and strengthen new drivers for economic growth. It is important to remove digital and AI divides, and speed up technology transfer and knowledge sharing, so that innovation-driven development can truly benefit the world as a whole.

• Fourth, we need to promote green and low-carbon development with greater sustainability. Climate change, environmental degradation and overconsumption of resources are major challenges facing the world. Development is in urgent need of a green transition. Climate and ecosystem know no borders, and homeland Earth should be jointly preserved. We must strengthen the alignment of green development strategies, enhance global industrial collaboration in new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, and circular use of resources, and work together to pursue more sustainable development underpinned by harmony between human and nature.

He then said:

“In the past four years, with China’s vigorous efforts, the GDI mobilized over 23 billion U.S. dollars to support the development and invigoration of the Global South, and launched more than 1,800 cooperation projects. In the next five years, China will implement another 2,000 ‘small and beautiful’ livelihood projects in developing countries, and work with relevant countries and the World Health Organization to carry out more health projects. China will also continue to contribute funds to the ‘China Program’ at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to help least developed countries integrate into the global trading system. Here, I would like to solemnly declare that as a responsible major developing country, China will not seek new special and differential treatment in current and future negotiations at the WTO.”

Li also added: “I wish to use this opportunity to put forward a new AI+ International Cooperation Initiative. We warmly welcome participation from all sides. In the next five years, China will establish a funding program dedicated to digital capacity-building within the Global Development Capital Pool to support the ‘Digital South’ initiative under the GDI. China will also initiate an International Alliance of Sustainable Development Satellites to provide solid support of space observation data for global development.”

And he said: “China will continue to make its contributions to filling the ‘green gap’ of the world through the stable supply of its high-quality new energy products. In addition, over the next five years, China will carry out 200 maritime development cooperation projects to support small island countries in boosting sustainable development capacity, and implement a Clean Stove Project in developing countries to contribute to a clean, beautiful and sustainable world.”

The full text of the AI+ Cooperation Initiative is published in the paper. The English text is also available. The initiative basically calls to implement AI+ campaigns across certain domains, calling for enhancing policy exchange and practical cooperation, and sharing best practices and solutions.

It’s key domains are:

1. “Carrying out the ‘AI+ public well-being’ campaign to raise the sense of fulfillment among people of all countries. We should harness AI to enhance public services, improve people’s quality of life and provide solutions for issues concerning people’s livelihood. In healthcare, we should use AI to promote disease prevention and control, pharmaceutical research, assisted diagnosis and telemedicine, expand the coverage of medical services in remote and underdeveloped regions, and improve global health. In education, we should use AI to promote equitable distribution of high-quality education resources, drive innovation in education and teaching, and boost education quality at a faster pace.

2. Carrying out the ‘AI+ technological advancement’ campaign to stimulate the dynamism of global innovation. We should harness AI to lead the paradigm shift in global technological innovation, shorten research and development cycles, propel new interdisciplinary studies and areas of research, seek breakthroughs in basic sciences, promote the integration and iteration of knowledge across disciplines, and help scientists and researchers bridge the gap between theory and practice, and push the boundaries of human knowledge.

3. Carrying out the ‘AI+ industrial application’ campaign to shape new engines for future economy. We should harness AI to revitalize traditional industries, fuel the boom in emerging sectors, foster new business forms, models and applications, create more jobs, and inject fresh energy into economic growth. We should join hands to keep the industrial and supply chains stable, and foster a steady stream of innovations, continuous upgrade of industries, and release of more AI-enabled dividends.

4. Carrying out the ‘AI+ cultural prosperity’ campaign to promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations. We should support the use of AI to inherit and promote the fine traditional cultures of all countries, and achieve creative transformation and innovative development. Technologies such as Al-enabled restoration, digital preservation and immersive exhibition can bring new life to the cultural treasures of all countries. We should use AI to actively promote cultural communication and inter-civilization exchanges, enhance the affinity among people of all countries, and preserve the diversity of world civilizations and the unique culture of different countries.

5. Carrying out the ‘AI+ talents cultivation’ campaign to build the foundation for future development. We should step up the joint development and sharing of AI education resources, promote talents exchanges to train AI talents equipped with digital literacy, innovation skills and a global vision, establish a system for the cultivation of AI talents, and help all countries enhance their ability to understand, accept and apply AI and better adapt to the evolving era.”

After this, there are reports of three bilateral meetings that Li had.

First, the readout of his meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says:

“Li expressed China’s willingness to work with the EU to implement the consensus reached by both sides, stay true to the original aspiration when diplomatic relations were established, strengthen solidarity and coordination, and promote the healthy and stable development of China-EU relations. Over the past 50 years, Li said, China-EU relations have braved the shifting international tides and maintained sound and steady growth in general. A key reason is that the two sides have always kept sound communication, and actively sought ways to resolve differences on the basis of understanding and trust, Li said. China hopes that the two sides will enhance mutual trust, treat each other with sincerity, honor commitments, and uphold the principle of seeking common ground while shelving differences, he added.”

“Li also called on China and the EU to identify the broadest possible convergence of interests and steadily deepen bilateral cooperation to better benefit the peoples of both sides. China, Li said, hopes the EU will honor its commitment to keeping trade and investment markets open, adhere to fair competition and WTO rules, and avoid politicizing economic and trade issues or overstretching the concept of security. The international situation is undergoing new and complex changes, with instability and uncertainties on the rise, Li said, calling on China and the EU, as two major forces in the world, to demonstrate responsibility, uphold strategic autonomy, fairness and justice, and play a more constructive role in global affairs. He called on both sides to better safeguard the common interests of China, the EU, and the wider international community, and contribute to the stability and certainty of the world.”

The report on Li’s meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says:

China is willing to make more active and practical efforts with Canada to promote further improvement of bilateral relations…He also called on both sides to steadily steer their ties onto a track of healthy, stable and sustainable development. Li said that recently, China and Canada have been promoting the improvement and development of their bilateral relations in a practical and constructive manner, which has been widely welcomed by all sectors in both countries. China hopes the Canadian side can adopt a correct perception of China, and respect each other’s core interests and major concerns to cement the political foundation for the development of bilateral cooperation and ties, said the Chinese premier. China supports closer exchanges between the two countries’ governments, political parties, legislatures and local authorities, as well as people-to-people and youth communication, so as to enhance understanding and increase mutual trust through dialogue and exchanges, he said.”

“China has long been Canada’s second-largest trading partner, and bilateral trade has seen rapid growth since the beginning of this year, noted Li, stressing that China is ready to work with Canada to maintain and develop the positive momentum, while addressing each other’s economic and trade concerns through dialogue and consultation. Li called on the two sides to deepen and expand mutually beneficial cooperation in energy, green development, tourism and other fields, so as to bring more benefits to the two peoples. He also expressed the hope that Canada will provide a fair and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies in Canada. With a host of new developments in the current international landscape, notably the rise of unilateralism and protectionism and the proliferation of trade restrictions, Li said, the international community should enhance solidarity and join hands in responding to risks and challenges. He voiced China’s readiness to enhance communication and coordination with Canada to jointly promote economic globalization and free trade, support the reform and development of the World Trade Organization, and work toward building an open world economy to better safeguard the common interests of the international community.”

Finally, the report on Li’s meeting with Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker says:

Li “expressed the hope that Austria will abide by the one-China principle and make efforts to build a solid political foundation for bilateral ties. The Chinese and Austrian economies enjoy strong complementarity and numerous converging interests, offering vast space and potential for deepening cooperation, Li said. China is ready to continue leveraging bilateral exchange mechanisms such as the joint commissions on economy and trade, as well as on scientific and technological cooperation with Austria, so as to promote the continuous expansion and upgrade of bilateral trade, he said. Li called on both sides to strengthen cooperation in areas such as green transition and digital economy and push for innovation, sustainability and high-quality growth in industrial development. And China encourages more established Chinese enterprises to invest in Austria, he said. The two sides should also expand cultural and people-to-people exchanges, facilitate personnel exchanges, and foster new highlights in culture and tourism cooperation, Li said. Li called on Austria, a key member of the European Union (EU), to prompt the EU to view China-EU relations from a strategically autonomous and long-term perspective, adopt a positive and pragmatic policy towards China, and work with China to safeguard multilateralism and free trade so as to deliver more benefits to China and the EU, as well as the rest of the world.”

Page 4: There’s a report on a press briefing by the Ministry of Commerce on the announcement that China will not seek new special and differential treatment in the current and future WTO negotiations. Vice Minister Li Chenggang said that this “further demonstrates China’s firm position and responsibility as a major country in supporting the multilateral trading system with practical actions.”

“This is an important statement of China’s position made to the outside world, focusing on both the international and domestic situations. It is a significant measure for China to firmly uphold the multilateral trading system and actively implement the GDI and GGI. It will surely inject a shot in the arm to promote the liberalisation and facilitation of global trade and investment, and will surely inject positive energy into the reform of the global economic governance system,” said Li. “这是中方着眼国际国内两个大局对外作出的重要立场宣示，是中方坚定维护多边贸易体制、积极落实全球发展倡议和全球治理倡议的重要举措，必将为促进全球贸易投资自由化便利化注入强心剂，必将为推进全球经济治理体系改革进程注入正能量。”李成钢说.

“Li Chengang said that currently, the rules-based multilateral trading system faces severe challenges, hegemonism, unilateralism, and protectionism are rampant, individual countries have successively launched trade wars and tariff wars, seriously damaging the legitimate interests of WTO members, seriously disrupting the international economic and trade order, and bringing uncertainty and instability to global economic development. The international community’s calls for maintaining the multilateral trading system are becoming stronger, and expectations for the WTO to play a more positive role are rising with each day.” 李成钢说，当前，以规则为基础的多边贸易体制面临严峻挑战，霸权主义、单边主义、保护主义甚嚣尘上，个别国家接连发起贸易战、关税战，严重损害世贸组织成员正当利益，严重扰乱国际经贸秩序，给全球经济发展带来不确定性和不稳定性。国际社会对维护多边贸易体制的呼声更加强烈，对世贸组织发挥更积极作用的期待日益上升.

“‘It is important to emphasise that China remains the world’s largest developing country, and its status and identity as a developing country have not changed.’ Li Chenggang said that China has always been a member of the Global South and will always stand with developing countries. Looking ahead, China will remain committed to the goal of Chinese-style modernisation, unswervingly deepen reform across the board, expand high-level opening up, and promote high-quality development. Han Yong said that three things will remain unchanged for China in current and future WTO negotiations: China’s status as a developing country will not change, its determination to defend the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries will not change, and its position on promoting the liberalisation and facilitation of global trade and investment will not change.” “需要强调的是，中国仍然是世界上最大的发展中国家，中国作为发展中国家的地位和身份没有改变。”李成钢说，中国始终是全球南方的一员，永远和发展中国家站在一起。面向未来，中方将锚定中国式现代化目标，坚定不移全面深化改革，扩大高水平对外开放，推动高质量发展。韩勇说，中方在世贸组织当前和未来谈判中有三个不会变：中方作为发展中成员的地位不会变，捍卫发展中成员正当权益的决心不会变，推动全球贸易投资自由化便利化的立场不会变.

“Han Yong further said that “China is willing to strengthen communication and cooperation with all parties to contribute to the development of an open world economy. First, China will firmly oppose unilateralism and protectionism and uphold fundamental WTO principles and rules, including non-discrimination. Second, China will promote the updating of WTO rules and push for the early inclusion of the Investment Facilitation Agreement and the E-Commerce Agreement into the WTO legal framework. Third, China will focus on the development dimension and strive for practical, development-oriented outcomes at the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference, to be held in March 2026.” 韩勇说，下一步，中方愿与各方加强沟通合作，为推动建设开放型世界经济贡献力量。一是旗帜鲜明反对单边主义和保护主义，维护非歧视等世贸组织基本原则和规则。二是推进世贸组织规则与时俱进，推动投资便利化协定、电子商务协定尽早纳入世贸组织法律框架。三是聚焦发展维度，推动将于2026年3月举行的世贸组织第14届部长级会议取得发展导向型务实成果.

Also on the page is a report on Ding Xuexiang’s comments at the 4th International Summit on BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) Applications in Zhuzhou. He made four key points:

• First, accelerate the development of an international network of friends for the Beidou system, strengthen multilateral and bilateral cooperation, improve cooperation mechanisms, conduct extensive academic exchanges, jointly cultivate satellite navigation talent, and continuously enhance the global application of the Beidou system.

• Second, accelerate the promotion of universal access to development results, promote the deployment of Beidou services overseas, jointly establish Beidou Application Cooperation Centers, promote demonstration applications of Beidou in disaster prevention and mitigation, precision agriculture, public safety, and other fields, and drive industrial development and transformation and upgrading.

• Third, accelerate the promotion of compatibility and sharing of satellite navigation systems, actively promote resource sharing and complementary advantages, and support the integrated development of the spatiotemporal information industry.

• Fourth, accelerate the improvement of global satellite navigation governance, practice the concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, and strengthen communication and coordination on international satellite navigation affairs within the framework of the United Nations.

一是加快打造北斗系统国际朋友圈，加大多双边合作力度，完善合作机制，广泛开展学术交流，共同培养卫星导航人才，不断提升北斗系统全球应用水平。二是加快推动发展成果普惠共享，促进北斗服务在海外落地，共建北斗应用合作中心，推进北斗在防灾减灾、精准农业、公共安全等领域的示范应用，推动产业发展和转型升级。三是加快推进卫星导航系统兼容共用，积极推动资源共享、优势互补，支持时空信息产业融合发展。四是加快完善卫星导航全球治理，践行共商共建共享的全球治理观，在联合国框架内加强卫星导航国际事务沟通协调.