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The New Year's Day of 2026 is fast approaching, inevitably bringing to mind Chairman Mao's 1949 New Year’s address, “Carry the Revolution Through to the End,” and the momentous mission of unifying the motherland, just as it was during the liberation of all of China.

According to a report published in the Hunan Daily dated February 18, Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a notification to launch a large-scale discussion on “Emancipating the Mind” in the province.

The contemporary fertility crisis is essentially an eruption of the inherent contradictions of the capitalist mode of production.

The Indian government recently announced a support plan for the shipbuilding industry worth a total of 700 billion Indian rupees

Many in China look at India with contempt and believe India is no match for China. Some Chinese even believe India’s current development level is somewhat similar to that of China in the 1990s.

The article “How do we Read Lu Xun in the AI Era?” features an interview with Wang Xiaoming, a renowned cultural studies scholar, discussing the enduring relevance of Lu Xun’s ideas in contemporary society, especially amidst advancements in artificial intelligence (AI).

In the new stage of socialist modernisation construction, which has made great achievements and social development, China has been facing many problems.

When it comes to the People’s Commune, some people sneer at it, saying it is a symbol of “backwardness” and a “failure of the planned economy”.

Lu Xun (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936) was a “distinguished writer at the forefront of national emancipation”.

There is no need to be happy or worry though! This is a recollection of the events of World War III in a Chinese poem. Written in the late sixties of the last century, the poem is titled ‘Dedicated to the Warrior of the Third World War (献给 第三次世界大战的勇士)’.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a remarkable technology, with a wide range of advantages and perils. The contributions of AI technology to scientific fields have been recognised by the Nobel Prizes awarded this year in Physics and Chemistry.

This article has been written by Zheng Zhigang, a professor of finance at Renmin University of China. He puts forth suggestions to make China a leader in science and technology. He advocates that in terms of research motivation, China should move away from the inertial mindset of catch-up and pursue research and development based on market needs.