Published：June 25, 2026 According to experts at Bank of America (BofA), the recent pullback in the gold market is less a cause for concern and more of a strategic buying opportunity. Although the changed macroeconomic environment is forcing analysts to postpone their extremely bullish $6,000 price target until spring 2027 for the time being, they say it is precisely this correction that now opens up lucrative prospects. The long-term fundamental setup has remained completely intact—and massive valuation discounts have formed, particularly in mining stocks, according to the analysts. Macro Weakness as a Strategic Window of Opportunity The fact that the price of gold has recently slipped below the key $4,000 mark is primarily due to short-term interest rate fears. The geopolitical conflict between the U.S. and Iran, as well as the resulting global energy crisis, are forcing central banks to consider interest rate hikes instead of the hoped-for cuts. According to the CME FedWatch Tool , the market has almost fully priced in an interest rate hike for December. For strategic investors, however, this very interest-rate-driven period of weakness could open up an attractive window of opportunity. According to major investment banks such as BofA, UBS, and Goldman Sachs, the structural drivers of the gold price remain completely unaffected by the current interest rate debate: the spiraling U.S. budget deficits and the unstoppable trend toward de-dollarization are providing massive support to the market. A recent survey shows just how much potential still exists on the buying side: Nearly 75 percent of central banks want to reduce their dollar holdings, which is likely to inevitably lead to further gold purchases by central banks. At the same time, retail investors are significantly underinvested; gold investments currently account for only about 5.5 percent of global portfolios. Gold Mining Stocks: The Lever of the Current Correction BofA identifies the greatest opportunity in the current market environment in the gold mining stock sector. The correction in the spot market has led to discrepancies here that offer investors an asymmetric risk-reward ratio. A price-to-net asset value model from BofA shows: On average, the producers under observation are pricing in a gold price of just $3,354 per ounce. This means the sector is still trading at a massive 19 percent discount to the already-corrected spot price. This undervaluation is widespread across the entire industry, but the broad diversification also offers scope for targeted stock picking. While Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE: WPM) has an implied gold price of $4,395 in BofA’s calculation, Franco-Nevada (NYSE: FNV) sits at the lower end of the valuation range with an extremely conservative $2,416. Bank of America’s conclusion: Investors who can withstand short-term interest rate volatility will currently find rare entry points in a structurally supported market. Source： https://goldinvest.de/en/gold-sell-off-opens-up-new-opportunities-especially-for-mining-stocks

US Rare Earths (USAR) has started operating its heavy rare earth hydrometallurgy demonstration plant in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and plans to produce separated oxides for the first time in Q3 2026. USAR said the plant will produce separated heavy rare earth oxides, including dysprosium, terbium and yttrium. Quantity details were not disclosed. The company said the Wheat Ridge facility is fully automated and equipped with instruments for real-time process monitoring in all production operations. The plant processes three raw materials simultaneously, including ore from USAR's Round Top project in Texas, ore from the Serra Verde Pela Ema mine in Brazil, and magnet scrap.

[SMM Rare Earth News] USA Rare Earths (USAR) announced that its hydrometallurgical demonstration facility in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, has officially begun operations. The facility targets production of its first separated oxides in Q3 2026, at which point it will become one of the few Western enterprises capable of commercially supplying strategic heavy rare earth oxides such as dysprosium, terbium, and yttrium. The plant features a fully automated design and is equipped with multi-stage solvent extraction circuits and a real-time monitoring system. Its demonstration project will validate the processing flows for three raw materials in phases and in parallel: ore from the Round Top project in Texas, third-party mixed rare earth carbonates (including feedstock from Serra Verde), and the recycling of NdFeB magnet grinding scrap. This start-up marks a key step for USAR in building a complete rare earth value chain encompassing mining, processing, metals, and magnet manufacturing.

According to preliminary estimates by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China's GDP in Q1 totaled 33,419.3 billion yuan, up 5.0% YoY in real terms, accelerating by 0.5 percentage points from Q4 of the previous year. By industry, the value added of the primary industry was 1,194.1 billion yuan, up 3.8% YoY; the value added of the secondary industry was 11,613.5 billion yuan, up 4.9%; and the value added of the tertiary industry was 20,611.7 billion yuan, up 5.2%. On a QoQ basis, GDP grew by 1.3% in Q1. The National Economy Achieved a Good Start in Q1 In Q1, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, all regions and departments thoroughly implemented the decisions and plans of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, stepped up the implementation of more proactive and effective macro policies, and worked to stabilize employment, enterprises, markets, and expectations. Efforts were accelerated to foster and develop new quality productive forces. Production and supply growth picked up, market demand continued to improve, the employment situation remained generally stable, market prices saw a mild rebound, high-quality development advanced toward new and better directions, the national economy achieved a good start, and development resilience and vitality were further demonstrated. According to preliminary estimates, China's GDP in Q1 totaled 33,419.3 billion yuan, up 5.0% YoY in real terms, accelerating by 0.5 percentage points from Q4 of the previous year. By industry, the value added of the primary industry was 1,194.1 billion yuan, up 3.8% YoY; the value added of the secondary industry was 11,613.5 billion yuan, up 4.9%; and the value added of the tertiary industry was 20,611.7 billion yuan, up 5.2%. On a QoQ basis, GDP grew by 1.3% in Q1. I. Agricultural Production Was in Good Shape, and the Livestock Industry Remained Generally Stable In Q1, the value added of agriculture (crop farming) grew 3.7% YoY. The sown area of winter wheat remained stable, seedling conditions continued to improve, and spring plowing and preparation progressed smoothly. According to the national planting intention survey, the intended sown area for grain this year remained generally stable, with the rice area basically flat and the corn area stable with a slight increase. In Q1, the production of pork, beef, mutton, and poultry totaled 26.62 million mt, up 4.8% YoY, of which pork and poultry production increased by 4.2% and 9.3% respectively, while beef and mutton production decreased by 1.4% and 2.0% respectively; milk production increased by 3.4%, and egg production decreased by 3.1%. In Q1, hog slaughter reached 200.26 million heads, up 2.8% YoY; the quarter-end hog inventory stood at 423.58 million heads, up 1.5%. II. Industrial Production Growth Accelerated, with Equipment Manufacturing and High-Tech Manufacturing Growing Rapidly In Q1, the value added of China's industrial enterprises above designated size grew 6.1% YoY, accelerating by 1.1 percentage points from Q4 of the previous year. By three major sectors, the value added of the mining industry grew 6.0% YoY, manufacturing grew 6.4%, and the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas, and water grew 4.3%. The value added of equipment manufacturing grew 8.9% YoY, and that of high-tech manufacturing grew 12.5%, outpacing the overall value added of industrial enterprises above designated size by 2.8 and 6.4 percentage points, respectively. By economic type, the value added of state-owned holding enterprises grew 4.8% YoY; joint-stock enterprises grew 6.6%, foreign-invested and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan-invested enterprises grew 3.9%; and private enterprises grew 6.1%. By product, the production of 3D printing equipment, lithium-ion batteries, and industrial robots grew 54.0%, 40.8%, and 33.2% YoY, respectively. In March, the value added of industrial enterprises above designated size grew 5.7% YoY and up 0.28% MoM. In March, the manufacturing PMI stood at 50.4%, up 1.4 percentage points from the previous month; the expectations index for enterprise production and business activities was 53.4%. In January–February, the total profits of industrial enterprises above designated size nationwide reached 1,024.6 billion yuan, up 15.2% YoY. III. Services Sector Grew Rapidly, with Strong Momentum in Modern Services In Q1, the value added of the services sector grew 5.2% YoY. Among them, leasing and business services, information transmission, software and information technology services, financial services, transportation, warehousing and postal services, and accommodation and catering grew 12.2%, 10.6%, 6.5%, 4.3%, and 4.3%, respectively. In March, the national services sector production index grew 5.0% YoY. Among them, the production indices of information transmission, software and information technology services, leasing and business services, and financial services grew 11.8%, 10.1%, and 6.7%, respectively. In January–February, the operating revenue of services enterprises above designated size grew 7.4% YoY. In March, the business activity index for the services sector was 50.2%, up 0.5 percentage points from the previous month; the business activity expectations index for the services sector was 54.8%. Among them, the business activity indices of railway transportation, telecommunications, radio, television and satellite transmission services, monetary and financial services, and insurance were in the relatively high prosperity range above 55.0%. IV. Market Sales Picked Up, with Rapid Growth in Services Retail In Q1, total retail sales of consumer goods reached 12,769.5 billion yuan, up 2.4% YoY, accelerating by 0.7 percentage points from Q4 of the previous year. By location of business units, urban retail sales of consumer goods reached 11,057.4 billion yuan, up 2.3% YoY; rural retail sales of consumer goods reached 1,712.1 billion yuan, up 3.1%. By type of consumption, retail sales of goods reached 11,307.2 billion yuan, up 2.2%; catering revenue reached 1,462.3 billion yuan, up 4.2%. Sales of basic living necessities and some upgraded goods grew relatively fast. On a YoY basis, retail sales of grain, oil and food, garments, footwear, hats, knitwear and textiles, communication equipment, and gold, silver and jewelry by units above designated size increased by 10.0%, 9.3%, 20.8% and 12.6% respectively. In March, total retail sales of consumer goods were up 1.7% YoY and up 0.14% MoM. In Q1, retail sales of services were up 5.5% YoY, with the growth rate on par with the full year of the previous year. Among them, retail sales of communication and information services, tourism, consulting and rental services, and culture, sports and leisure services grew relatively fast. In Q1, national online retail sales of goods and services reached 4,977.4 billion yuan, up 8.0% YoY. Of this, online retail sales of goods reached 3,161.4 billion yuan, up 7.5%, accounting for 24.8% of total retail sales of consumer goods; online retail sales of services reached 1,816 billion yuan, up 8.8%. V. Fixed Asset Investment Grew Steadily, Infrastructure Investment Grew Relatively Fast In Q1, national fixed asset investment (excluding rural households) reached 10,270.8 billion yuan, up 1.7% YoY, compared with a decline of 3.8% for the full year of the previous year; excluding real estate development investment, national fixed asset investment grew by 4.8%. By sector, infrastructure investment was up 8.9% YoY, manufacturing investment was up 4.1%, and real estate development investment was down 11.2%. The floor space of commercial buildings sold nationwide was 195.25 million m², down 10.4% YoY; sales of newly-built commercial buildings totaled 1,726.2 billion yuan, down 16.7%. By industry, investment in the primary industry was up 15.9% YoY, investment in the secondary industry was up 5.8%, and investment in the tertiary industry was down 1.0%. Private investment was down 2.2% YoY, with the decline narrowing by 4.2 percentage points from the full year of the previous year; excluding real estate development investment, private investment grew by 1.3%. Investment in high-tech industries was up 7.4% YoY, of which investment in computer and office equipment manufacturing, aerospace and aircraft equipment manufacturing, and information services grew by 28.3%, 19.0% and 20.9% respectively. In March, fixed asset investment (excluding rural households) was up 0.52% MoM. VI. Trade in Goods Grew Rapidly, Trade Structure Continued to Optimize In Q1, total value of goods imports and exports reached 11,838 billion yuan, up 15.0% YoY. Of this, exports reached 6,846.7 billion yuan, up 11.9%; imports reached 4,991.3 billion yuan, up 19.6%. Ordinary Trade imports and exports were up 9.0% YoY. Imports and exports to countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative grew by 14.2%. Imports and exports of private enterprises grew by 16.2%, accounting for 57.3% of total imports and exports. Exports of electromechanical products grew by 18.3%. In March, total imports and exports reached 4,104.6 billion yuan, up 9.2% YoY. VII. Consumer Price Increases Expanded, and Industrial Producer Prices Continued to Rebound In Q1, the national consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.9% YoY, with the increase expanding by 0.4 percentage points from Q4 of the previous year. By category, prices of food, tobacco, alcohol and dining out rose by 0.5% YoY, clothing by 1.8%, housing fell by 0.2%, household goods and services rose by 2.3%, transportation and communication fell by 1.1%, education, culture and entertainment rose by 1.0%, healthcare rose by 1.8%, and other goods and services rose by 14.1%. Among food, tobacco, alcohol and dining out prices, pork prices fell by 11.3%, grain prices fell by 0.3%, fresh fruit prices rose by 4.3%, and fresh vegetable prices rose by 7.6%. Core CPI, excluding food and energy prices, rose by 1.2% YoY. In March, the national CPI rose by 1.0% YoY and fell by 0.7% MoM. In Q1, national ex-factory prices of industrial producers fell by 0.6% YoY, with the decline narrowing by 1.5 percentage points from Q4 of the previous year. Among them, March saw a YoY increase of 0.5%, compared with a decrease of 0.9% in the previous month; and a MoM increase of 1.0%. In Q1, the purchase prices of industrial producers nationwide fell by 0.5% YoY. Among them, March saw a YoY increase of 0.8%, compared with a decrease of 0.7% in the previous month; and a MoM increase of 1.2%. VIII. The Employment Situation Remained Generally Stable, with the Urban Surveyed Unemployment Rate Unchanged YoY In Q1, the average national urban surveyed unemployment rate was 5.3%, unchanged from the same period of the previous year. In March, the national urban surveyed unemployment rate was 5.4%. The surveyed unemployment rate for local household-registered labor force was 5.4%; the surveyed unemployment rate for non-local household-registered labor force was 5.3%, of which the surveyed unemployment rate for non-local labor force with agricultural household registration was 5.7%. The urban surveyed unemployment rate in 31 major cities was 5.3%. The average weekly working hours of employees in enterprises nationwide was 48.1 hours. At the end of Q1, the total number of rural migrant workers working outside their hometowns was 188.38 million, up 0.2% YoY. IX. Household Income Continued to Grow, with Rural Residents' Income Growing Faster Than That of Urban Residents In Q1, the national per capita disposable income was 12,782 yuan, a nominal increase of 4.9% YoY, or a real increase of 4.0% after deducting price factors. By place of permanent residence, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 16,549 yuan, up 4.2% YoY in nominal terms and 3.2% in real terms; the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 7,433 yuan, up 6.1% YoY in nominal terms and 5.4% in real terms. By income source, the per capita nationwide wage income, net business income, net property income, and net transfer income grew 4.9%, 6.6%, 1.6%, and 5.1% in nominal terms, respectively. The median per capita disposable income of nationwide residents was 10,433 yuan, up 5.0% YoY in nominal terms. Overall, major macro indicators rebounded in Q1, new momentum grew rapidly, and the national economy achieved a good start. However, it should also be noted that the external environment has become more complex and volatile, the domestic imbalance of strong supply and weak demand remains prominent, and the foundation for economic improvement still needs to be consolidated. In the next phase, it is important to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, resolutely implement the decisions and plans of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, fully and faithfully apply the new development philosophy, accelerate the construction of a new development paradigm, focus on promoting high-quality development, maintain the general principle of seeking progress while ensuring stability, implement more proactive and effective macro policies, continuously expand domestic demand and optimize supply, improve incremental resources and revitalize existing assets, and make efforts to stabilize employment, enterprises, markets, and expectations, so as to continuously consolidate and expand the steady and positive momentum of the economy. Recommended reading:

According to preliminary calculations by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the annual gross domestic product (GDP) for 2025 reached 140,187.9 billion yuan, representing a 5.0% increase over the previous year calculated at constant prices. By industry, the value added of the primary industry was 9,334.7 billion yuan, up 3.9% YoY; the secondary industry reached 49,965.3 billion yuan, up 4.5%; and the tertiary industry amounted to 80,887.9 billion yuan, up 5.4%. By quarter, GDP grew 5.4% YoY in Q1, 5.2% in Q2, 4.8% in Q3, and 4.5% in Q4. On a QoQ basis, GDP increased 1.2% in Q4. Economic Development in 2025 Advanced Toward New and Higher Quality, Meeting Expectations and Targets In 2025, amid complex changes in the domestic and overseas economic environment, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core, all regions and departments thoroughly implemented the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, unwaveringly implemented the new development philosophy, promoted high-quality development, balanced domestic and international situations, coordinated development and security, implemented more proactive and effective macro policies, and advanced the construction of a unified national market. The national economy operated under pressure, advancing toward new and higher quality, achieving new results in high-quality development, successfully fulfilling the main targets and tasks for economic and social development, and concluding the 14th Five-Year Plan victoriously. Preliminary calculations show that the annual GDP was 140,187.9 billion yuan, up 5.0% over the previous year at constant prices. By industry, the value added of the primary industry was 9,334.7 billion yuan, up 3.9% YoY; the secondary industry was 49,965.3 billion yuan, up 4.5%; and the tertiary industry was 80,887.9 billion yuan, up 5.4%. By quarter, GDP increased 5.4% YoY in Q1, 5.2% in Q2, 4.8% in Q3, and 4.5% in Q4. On a QoQ basis, GDP grew 1.2% in Q4. I. Grain Output Increased and Harvest Was Bountiful, Livestock Production Grew Steadily The total national grain output for the year was 714.88 million mt, an increase of 8.38 million mt, or up 1.2% YoY. This included summer grain output of 149.75 million mt, down 0.1%; early rice output of 28.51 million mt, up 1.2%; and autumn grain output of 536.62 million mt, up 1.5%. By variety, wheat output was 140.07 million mt, basically flat; corn output was 301.24 million mt, up 2.1%; rice output was 209.04 million mt, up 0.7%; and soybean output was 20.91 million mt, up 1.3%. The annual output of pork, beef, mutton, and poultry meat was 100.72 million mt, up 4.2% YoY, exceeding 100 million mt for the first time. This included pork output of 59.38 million mt, up 4.1%; beef output of 8.01 million mt, up 2.8%; mutton output of 4.96 million mt, down 4.2%; and poultry meat output of 28.37 million mt, up 6.7%. Milk production reached 40.91 million mt, up 0.3% YoY; poultry egg production was 34.98 million mt, down 2.5% YoY. For the full year, 719.73 million hogs were slaughtered, up 2.4% YoY; the number of hogs on hand at year-end was 429.67 million, up 0.5% YoY. II. Industrial Production Grew Relatively Fast, with Equipment Manufacturing and High-Tech Manufacturing Showing Better Growth Momentum The value added of industrial enterprises above the designated size nationwide increased by 5.9% compared with the previous year. By three sectors, the value added of the mining industry grew by 5.6%, manufacturing grew by 6.4%, and the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas, and water grew by 2.3%. The value added of equipment manufacturing grew by 9.2%, and that of high-tech manufacturing grew by 9.4%, with growth rates 3.3 and 3.5 percentage points higher than that of industrial enterprises above the designated size, respectively. By ownership, the value added of state-holding enterprises grew by 4.6%; that of joint-stock enterprises grew by 6.3%; that of enterprises with investment from foreign, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan investors grew by 3.9%; and that of private enterprises grew by 5.3%. In terms of products, the production of 3D printing equipment, industrial robots, and NEVs grew by 52.5%, 28.0%, and 25.1%, respectively. In December, the value added of industrial enterprises above the designated size increased by 5.2% YoY and 0.49% MoM. In December, the manufacturing PMI stood at 50.1%, up 0.9 percentage points from the previous month; the sub-index for production and business activity expectations was 55.5%, up 2.4 percentage points. From January to November, the total profits of industrial enterprises above the designated size nationwide reached 6,626.9 billion yuan, up 0.1% YoY. III. The Service Sector Grew Steadily, with Modern Services Developing Well The value added of the service sector increased by 5.4% compared with the previous year. Specifically, the value added of information transmission, software, and information technology services; leasing and business services; transport, storage, and post; wholesale and retail trade; and accommodation and catering grew by 11.1%, 10.3%, 5.2%, 5.0%, and 4.9%, respectively. In December, the service sector production index increased by 5.0% YoY. Specifically, the production indices for information transmission, software, and information technology services; leasing and business services; and financial services grew by 14.8%, 11.3%, and 6.5%, respectively. From January to November, the operating revenue of service enterprises above the designated size increased by 7.8% YoY. In December, the service sector business activity index stood at 49.7%, up 0.2 percentage points from the previous month; the business activity expectation index for the service sector was 56.4%, up 0.5 percentage points. Among these, the business activity indices for industries such as telecommunication, radio and television, and satellite transmission services; monetary financial services; and capital market services were all in the high expansion zone above 60.0%. IV. Market Sales Scale Expanded, and Service Retail Sales Grew Rapidly Annual total retail sales of consumer goods reached 50,120.2 billion yuan, up 3.7% YoY. By location of business units, urban retail sales reached 43,297.2 billion yuan, up 3.6% YoY; rural retail sales reached 6,823 billion yuan, up 4.1% YoY. By consumption type, retail sales of goods reached 44,322 billion yuan, up 3.8% YoY; catering revenue reached 5,798.2 billion yuan, up 3.2% YoY. Sales of basic living necessities and some upgraded goods showed good growth momentum. For the full year, retail sales of communication equipment, cultural and office supplies, sports and entertainment goods, household appliances and audio-video equipment, and grain, oil, and food products by units above the designated size increased by 20.9%, 17.3%, 15.7%, 11.0%, and 9.3%, respectively. National online retail sales reached 15,972.2 billion yuan, up 8.6% YoY. Among them, online retail sales of physical goods reached 13,092.3 billion yuan, up 5.2% YoY, accounting for 26.1% of total retail sales of consumer goods. In December, total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 0.9% YoY but decreased by 0.12% MoM. Annual service retail sales increased by 5.5% YoY. Among them, retail sales of cultural, sports, and leisure services; communication and information services; tourism consulting and rental services; and transportation services grew rapidly. V. Fixed-Asset Investment Decreased YoY, While Manufacturing Investment Maintained Growth Annual national fixed-asset investment (excluding rural households) reached 48,518.6 billion yuan, down 3.8% YoY; excluding real estate development investment, national fixed-asset investment decreased by 0.5% YoY. By sector, infrastructure investment decreased by 2.2% YoY, manufacturing investment increased by 0.6% YoY, and real estate development investment decreased by 17.2% YoY. The floor space of newly built commercial buildings sold nationwide was 881.01 million m², down 8.7% YoY; the sales value of newly built commercial buildings was 8,393.7 billion yuan, down 12.6% YoY. By industry, investment in the primary industry increased by 2.3% YoY, investment in the secondary industry increased by 2.5% YoY, and investment in the tertiary industry decreased by 7.4% YoY. Private investment decreased by 6.4% YoY; excluding real estate development investment, private investment decreased by 1.9% YoY. In high-tech industries, investment in information services and in the manufacturing of aircraft, spacecraft, and related equipment increased by 28.4% and 16.9% YoY, respectively. In December, fixed-asset investment (excluding rural households) decreased by 1.13% MoM. VI. Stable Growth in Goods Imports and Exports, with Continuous Optimization of Trade Structure The total value of goods imports and exports for the year was 45,468.7 billion yuan, up 3.8% YoY. Among them, exports were 26,989.2 billion yuan, up 6.1% YoY; imports were 18,479.5 billion yuan, up 0.5% YoY. Imports and exports by private enterprises increased by 7.1%, accounting for 57.3% of the total import and export value, up 1.8 percentage points from the previous year. Imports and exports with countries co-building the Belt and Road increased by 6.3%, accounting for 51.9% of the total import and export value. Exports of high-tech products increased by 13.2%. In December, the total value of goods imports and exports reached 4,263 billion yuan, up 4.9% YoY. Exports amounted to 2,535.9 billion yuan, up 5.2%, while imports were 1,727.1 billion yuan, up 4.4%. VII. Generally Stable Consumer Prices and Mild Rebound in Core CPI For the full year, the consumer price index (CPI) remained flat compared with the previous year. By category, prices for food, tobacco, and alcohol decreased by 0.7%; clothing prices increased by 1.5%; housing prices rose by 0.1%; prices for household goods and services increased by 0.9%; prices for transportation and communication decreased by 2.6%; prices for education, culture, and entertainment increased by 0.8%; healthcare prices rose by 0.8%; and prices for other goods and services increased by 9.3%. Within food, tobacco, and alcohol, pork prices decreased by 6.1%, fresh vegetable prices fell by 3.9%, grain prices dropped by 1.0%, and fresh fruit prices increased by 1.2%. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices, increased by 0.7%, with the growth rate widening by 0.2 percentage points from the previous year. In December, consumer prices rose by 0.8% YoY, with the growth rate expanding by 0.1 percentage points from the previous month; they increased by 0.2% MoM. For the full year, the ex-factory prices of industrial producers decreased by 2.6% compared with the previous year; in December, they fell by 1.9% YoY and rose by 0.2% MoM. For the full year, the purchase prices of industrial producers decreased by 3.0% compared with the previous year; in December, they declined by 2.1% YoY and increased by 0.4% MoM. VIII. Generally Stable Employment Situation and Steady Surveyed Urban Unemployment Rate The average surveyed urban unemployment rate nationwide for the full year was 5.2%. In December, the surveyed urban unemployment rate nationwide was 5.1%. The surveyed unemployment rate for the local registered labor force was 5.3%; that for the migrant registered labor force was 4.7%, of which the surveyed unemployment rate for the migrant agricultural registered labor force was 4.4%. The surveyed urban unemployment rate in 31 major cities was 5.1%. The average weekly working hours for employed persons in enterprises nationwide were 48.6 hours. The total number of migrant workers for the full year was 301.15 million, an increase of 1.42 million, or up 0.5%, from the previous year. Among them, local migrant workers numbered 121.09 million, up 0.1%, while migrant workers working outside their hometowns totaled 180.06 million, up 0.8%. IX. Continued Growth in Residents’ Income, with Rural Residents’ Income Growing Faster Than Urban Residents’ The national per capita disposable income for the full year was 43,377 yuan, a nominal increase of 5.0% from the previous year, and a real increase of 5.0% after deducting price factors. By place of residence, the per capita disposable income of urban households was 56,502 yuan, a nominal increase of 4.3% and a real increase of 4.2% over the previous year; the per capita disposable income of rural households was 24,456 yuan, a nominal increase of 5.8% and a real increase of 6.0%. The median per capita disposable income of the national population was 36,231 yuan, a nominal increase of 4.4%. Grouped by income quintiles, the per capita disposable income of the low-income group was 10,150 yuan, the lower-middle-income group 22,702 yuan, the middle-income group 35,536 yuan, the upper-middle-income group 55,586 yuan, and the high-income group 103,778 yuan. The per capita consumption expenditure of the national population was 29,476 yuan for the whole year, a nominal increase of 4.4%, or a real increase of 4.4% after deducting price factors. The proportion of per capita spending on food, tobacco, and liquor in per capita consumption expenditure (Engel’s coefficient) was 29.3%, down 0.5 percentage points from the previous year; per capita spending on services increased by 4.5%, accounting for 46.1% of per capita consumption expenditure, the same as the previous year. X. The Total Population Decreased Slightly, and the Urbanization Rate Continued to Increase The national population at year-end (including the population of 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government and military personnel, excluding residents of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan and foreigners living in the 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government) was 1.4049 billion, a decrease of 3.39 million from the end of the previous year. The number of births was 7.92 million, with a crude birth rate of 5.63‰; the number of deaths was 11.31 million, with a crude death rate of 8.04‰; the natural growth rate was -2.41‰. By gender, the male population was 716.85 million, and the female population was 688.04 million, with a sex ratio of 104.19 (females = 100). By age composition, the population aged 16–59 was 851.36 million, accounting for 60.6% of the national population; the population aged 60 and above was 323.38 million, accounting for 23.0%, of which the population aged 65 and above was 223.65 million, accounting for 15.9%. By urban-rural composition, the permanent urban population was 953.8 million, an increase of 10.3 million from the end of the previous year; the permanent rural population was 451.09 million, a decrease of 13.69 million; the share of urban population in the national population (urbanization rate) was 67.89%, up 0.89 percentage points from the end of the previous year. By education level, the average years of schooling for the population aged 16–59 reached 11.3 years, an increase of 0.1 year from the previous year. Overall, in 2025, the national economy withstood multiple pressures and maintained a stable and progressive development trend, achieving new results in high-quality development. However, it should also be noted that the impact of changes in the external environment has deepened, domestic supply-demand imbalances remain prominent, and there are still many old problems and new challenges in economic development. In the next stage, we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and its plenary sessions, as well as the deployment requirements of the Central Economic Work Conference. We will uphold the principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, improving quality, and enhancing efficiency, implement more proactive and effective macro policies, continuously expand domestic demand and optimize supply, improve incremental growth and revitalize existing resources, develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions, advance the construction of a unified national market in greater depth, promote effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth in the economy, and ensure a good start and a solid step for the 15th Five-Year Plan.

On December 16, the Ulanqab Municipal People's Government officially released the "Proposal of the Ulanqab Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Planning Proposal"). The document clearly identifies the hydrogen industry, new materials, and future industries as core development directions. It proposes advancing a full-chain layout for green hydrogen production, storage, transmission, and utilization, fully constructing the hydrogen transmission pipeline from Ulanqab to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and creating an autonomous region-level innovation demonstration base for the hydrogen industry. A series of key tasks are outlined to draw a clear blueprint for regional energy transformation and high-quality development. The Planning Proposal states that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Ulanqab will focus on developing new forms of the energy industry, addressing the pain points in electricity consumption, and promoting the implementation of load-side dominated direct green power connection projects. It also explores innovative models such as virtual power plants and smart microgrids. In the ESS sector, it will implement pumped storage projects and promote the cluster development of new-type energy storage, providing solid support for new energy consumption. As a core highlight, the plan clearly aims to advance the entire industry chain development of green hydrogen production, storage, transmission, and utilization, accelerating the cultivation of supporting industries such as hydrogen equipment manufacturing and storage and transportation. Leveraging the local abundant wind and solar power resources, it plans to create an autonomous region-level innovation demonstration base for the hydrogen industry. Currently, Ulanqab has launched the Three Gorges Group's first integrated demonstration project for green hydrogen production, storage, transportation, and refueling, establishing a full-process closed loop of "green electricity for hydrogen production - diversified storage and transportation - multi-scenario applications." Its PEM water electrolysis equipment has second-level response capability, adaptable to the volatility of wind and solar energy, laying a solid foundation for the large-scale development of the hydrogen industry during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. In terms of fostering emerging and future industries, the Planning Proposal clearly aims to strengthen the pillar industries of wind, solar, hydrogen, and ESS, promoting the coordinated development of green hydrogen, green ammonia, and green alcohol industries, and accelerating the promotion and application of new energy heavy trucks. In the material industry, it will extend six new material industry chains including carbon-based, molybdenum-based, and aluminum-based, focusing on the development of special alloys, lithium batteries, and graphene and other carbon-based functional materials, building a nationally important new material industry base. At the same time, it will proactively lay out future industries such as hydrogen, low-altitude economy, and biomanufacturing, improving the industrial ecosystem through demonstrations of new technologies, products, and scenarios. Notably, Ulanqab has already established a solid foundation for the new energy industry, with key projects such as the 6 million kW Phase I wind power base and the 1.5 million kW "wind-solar-thermal-ESS-hydrogen integration" base successively put into operation. In 2024, the monthly power generation of related projects reached a historical high, providing ample green electricity for the development of emerging industries. In terms of infrastructure and technological support, the Planning Proposal proposes to significantly enhance the power transmission and distribution capacity, with a focus on advancing the construction of the hydrogen transmission pipeline from Ulanqab to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. It is reported that as China's first cross-provincial, large-scale, long-distance pure hydrogen transmission pipeline, the project spans approximately 1,132 kilometers in total length, with a design pressure of 6.3 megapascals. In its first phase, the hydrogen transmission capacity will reach 100kt per year, with plans to increase this to 500kt per year in the long term. Upon completion, it will steadily supply green hydrogen to key regions and enterprises such as the Xiong'an New Area and Tianjin Petrochemical, addressing the challenge of supply-demand mismatch in the hydrogen energy sector. Meanwhile, the plan clearly states that it will focus on characteristic and advantageous industries such as new energy, green hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol, implementing a series of major scientific and technological tasks to promote R&D and the commercialization of research findings, thereby strengthening the technological support for industrial development.​ Additionally, the "Plan Proposals" emphasize the establishment of a mechanism to support the cultivation of new business models, encouraging cross-sector integration between energy enterprises and big data and cloud computing companies, and fostering a mechanism for coordinated development between computing and electricity. Through resource integration and leveraging complementary strengths, this approach aims to stimulate industrial innovation vitality. Leveraging its abundant wind and solar power resources, a solid industrial foundation, and clear policy guidance, Ulanqab City is accelerating its transition from a major new energy resource hub to a strong industrial city. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it will adopt multiple measures, including the layout of the entire hydrogen industry chain, cross-regional energy collaboration, and the cultivation of emerging industries, to establish itself as a demonstration hub for energy transformation radiating across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, injecting strong impetus into the realization of the "dual carbon" goals for the autonomous region and the entire country. Plan Proposals in full are as follows: Proposals of the CPC Ulanqab Municipal Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development (Adopted at the Tenth Plenary Session of the Fifth CPC Ulanqab Municipal Committee on November 29, 2025) To thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the important speeches and instructions made by General Secretary Xi Jinping regarding Inner Mongolia, fully implement the deployment requirements of the Tenth Plenary Session of the 11th Autonomous Region Party Committee, and considering the actual development situation of Ulanqab City, the following proposals are put forward for formulating the city's 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development. I. Forging Ahead Bravely Along the Direction Pointed Out by General Secretary Xi Jinping and Striving to Write a New Chapter of Chinese Modernization in Ulanqab (1) Ulanqab has achieved significant accomplishments during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, facing arduous and complex tasks of reform, development, and stability, the municipal party committee united and led party organizations at all levels throughout the city, as well as the vast number of party members, cadres, and the masses. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, they thoroughly implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches and instructions regarding Inner Mongolia, fully carried out the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the work requirements of the Autonomous Region Party Committee. Taking the strengthening of the sense of the Chinese nation community as the main line, they focused on the two major tasks of "completing the five major tasks entrusted by General Secretary Xi Jinping and building a model autonomous region in all respects," implemented the "six projects," carried out the "six actions," and coordinated efforts to advance all aspects of economic and social development, thereby taking solid steps toward the modernization of Ulanqab. The comprehensive ecological management of the Daihai Lake water ecosystem, the ecological protection and restoration of the Chahannaoer, and key national ecological projects such as the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program have advanced in depth, leading to continuous improvement in the quality of the ecological environment. The new energy industry has risen rapidly, with the first domestic "generation-grid-load-storage" demonstration project and the first "green power supply for industrial parks" demonstration project in western Inner Mongolia completed and put into operation, marking breakthroughs in industries such as green hydrogen, ammonia, and alcohol. The "Green Computing Power to Beijing" initiative has advanced strongly, earning honors such as the "Benchmark for the 'East Data West Computing' Project," the "Pioneer for High-Quality Development of Computing Power," and the "Pioneer for Collaborative Development of Computing Power and Electricity." Traditional industries such as ferroalloy, graphite carbon, chlor-alkali chemical engineering, and fluorine chemical engineering have undergone iterative upgrades, while characteristic industries such as "wheat, vegetables, potatoes, cattle, sheep, and dairy" have continued to grow stronger. The regional public brand "Authentic Ulanqab" has gained nationwide recognition. The collaboration between Beijing and Ulanqab has yielded fruitful results, with the city brand "Just one step west of Beijing lies Ulanqab, an ideal destination for investment and year-round tourism" being fully polished and widely recognized. Coordination in urban-rural development has strengthened, with the central city's capacity enhanced, county-level carrying capacity increased, achievements in poverty alleviation consolidated and expanded, and rural revitalization comprehensively advanced. Significant progress has been made in border stabilization and consolidation, social governance, disaster prevention and emergency rescue, contributing to a harmonious and stable social environment. Reform and opening up have advanced in depth, with reforms in key areas continuously deepened, government service efficiency significantly improved, the business environment continuously optimized, regional cooperation yielding noticeable results, and opening up to the outside world making solid progress. The "six facts and principles" have been widely recognized, the sense of community among the Chinese nation has taken deep root, the cause of ethnic unity and progress has continued to improve, cultural undertakings and industries have flourished, the building of democracy and the rule of law has been continuously strengthened, and people's well-being has significantly improved. Ulanqab has successfully been awarded the title of "National Civilized City" and approved as a "National Model City for Food Safety," achieving a fifth consecutive term as a National Model City for Supporting the Military and Giving Preferential Treatment to Families of Servicemen and Martyrs. Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party has been consistently implemented, with in-depth advances in work style construction and the fight against corruption. The attainment of these significant achievements fundamentally stems from the leadership and steering of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, as well as the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. (2) During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the development environment in Ulanqab will face new opportunities and challenges. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period represents a critical phase for China to lay a solid foundation and make comprehensive efforts towards basically achieving socialist modernization, a key period for Inner Mongolia to pursue high-quality development and accelerate its path to innovation, and also a window and crucial period for Ulanqab to leverage its advantages, optimize its industrial structure, address shortcomings, and strengthen its overall economic strength. From the perspective of the overall development landscape, China's economic foundation remains stable, with numerous advantages, strong resilience, and vast potential. The supporting conditions and fundamental trends for long-term positive growth remain unchanged, with the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the super-large-scale market, a complete industrial system, and abundant human resources becoming even more prominent, providing solid support for high-quality local development. From the perspective of development opportunities, multiple favorable factors are accelerating their aggregation and releasing effectiveness. The new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating with multiple breakthroughs. China is speeding up the construction of a new development pattern, and the "dual carbon" strategy is advancing in depth, creating broad space for Ulanqab to undertake the transfer of green and low-carbon industries, cultivate new quality productive forces, and expand internal and external linkage opening-up. As the superimposed effects of major national strategies such as the Western Development, Ecological Conservation and High-Quality Development in the Yellow River Basin, and the "East Data, West Computing" project continue to emerge, and policy dividends like the "State Council's Opinions on Promoting High-Quality Development in Inner Mongolia and Striving to Write a New Chapter in Chinese Modernization" are gradually implemented and take effect, various resource elements are accelerating their convergence toward our city, and the momentum for development will become increasingly robust. The unique geographical, energy, and ecological advantages of our city provide a solid foundation for transforming policy opportunities into tangible development outcomes. From the perspective of challenges, the prominent issues of unbalanced and insufficient development in our city still need to be vigorously addressed. The industrial structure is not optimal, scientific and technological innovation capabilities are inadequate, and the scale of emerging industries is relatively small. The modernization of agriculture, animal husbandry, and rural pastoral areas faces arduous tasks. Channels for increasing urban and rural residents' income are narrow, and the level of equalization of basic public services is not high. Changes in the population structure pose new challenges to economic development and social governance. Risks and hidden dangers in key areas cannot be overlooked. The entire city must maintain strategic resolve, strengthen confidence in victory, actively recognize, adapt to, and seek changes, leverage strengths, address weaknesses, and strengthen areas of deficiency with a reform and innovation mindset, overcome difficulties, combat risks, and meet challenges with a proactive historical spirit, make unremitting efforts, continue to strive, and vigorously write a new chapter of Chinese modernization in Ulanqab. (3) The overall requirements and main goals for economic and social development during the "16th Five-Year Plan" period. Adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Important Thought of Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and instructions for Inner Mongolia, thoroughly implement the work requirements of the Autonomous Region Party Committee, take forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main line, coordinate and advance the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan, coordinate and advance the Four Comprehensives, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, actively integrate into and serve the construction of a new development pattern, adhere to the general principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability, adhere to economic development as the central task, take promoting high-quality development as the theme, take reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, take meeting the people's growing needs for a better life as the fundamental goal, take strict governance of the Party as the fundamental guarantee, promote effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth in the economy, promote comprehensive human development and solid steps toward common prosperity for all ethnic groups, make new contributions from Ulanqab to building the "Two Barriers," "Two Bases," and "One Bridgehead," safeguard the lofty honor of the Model Autonomous Region, and ensure decisive progress in basically achieving socialist modernization together with the nation and the autonomous region. To implement the overall requirements, it is essential to deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses," fortify the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Upholds." We must adhere to the Party's comprehensive leadership, prioritize the people, pursue high-quality development, deepen reforms comprehensively, combine an effective market with a proactive government, and balance development and security. By better serving and safeguarding the overall development of the autonomous region and the nation, we will achieve high-quality development. The main objectives for the city's economic and social development over the next five years are as follows: —Achieve new progress in advancing the construction of the Chinese national community. The responsibility mechanism for implementing the main line of forging a strong sense of the Chinese national community will be continuously improved, with more achievements in theoretical research and interpretation. Efforts to promote ethnic unity and progress will be deepened, and the sense of the Chinese national community will be further ingrained in people's hearts, contributing more Ulanqab practical outcomes and distinctive experiences to the comprehensive construction of a model autonomous region. —Achieve new breakthroughs in high-quality development. The foundation of the real economy will be further strengthened, with significant progress in new-type industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and the modernization of agriculture and animal husbandry. Major breakthroughs will be made in developing new quality productive forces and building a modern industrial system with regional characteristics and advantages. The capacity to ensure the supply of energy, strategic resources, and major agricultural and livestock products will be continuously enhanced. Economic growth will remain within a reasonable range, total factor productivity will steadily increase, and the household consumption rate will significantly rise, ensuring that the per capita gross regional product reaches the middle level within the autonomous region. —Make new strides in scientific and technological innovation. An integrated development pattern for education, science and technology, and talent will be basically formed. The main bodies of scientific and technological innovation will continue to grow, with substantial improvements in the ability to gather factors, innovate in science and technology, and transform achievements. Key breakthroughs will be made in core technology research for characteristic and advantageous industries. The deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation will accelerate the release of innovation-driven effectiveness. —Take new steps in deepening reform and opening up. Major breakthroughs will be achieved in reforms of key areas and critical links, with the business environment continuously optimized. The vitality and creativity of market entities will be fully unleashed, and the level of internal and external opening up will be significantly improved. Regional cooperation will be deepened, and the strategic pivot role of the important bridgehead for opening up to the north will be more prominent. —Achieve new improvements in the degree of social civility. Cultural confidence will be further strengthened, with the core socialist values widely practiced. The public cultural service system, modern cultural industry system, and market system will be more sound. The spiritual and cultural lives of people of all ethnic groups will be enriched, and the moral, scientific, cultural, and health qualities of the masses will be significantly enhanced. —Realize new enhancements in the quality of life for the people. High-quality and full employment will be steadily advanced, ensuring that the growth rate of per capita income remains in the upper reaches of the autonomous region. The social security system will be more robust, the health system more complete, and the level of equalization of basic public services significantly improved. Common prosperity for all ethnic groups will be solidly promoted, bringing people's lives closer to happiness. —Ecological civilization construction reached new heights. Comprehensive management of Daihai Lake and Chahan Nur, along with key ecological projects like the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program, achieved significant results. Total emissions of major pollutants continued to decrease, urban and rural living environments improved markedly, green production and lifestyles were largely established, carbon peak goals were met as scheduled, and the ecological security barrier was further strengthened. —Building a Safe Ulanqab entered a new phase. The capacity to balance development and security was continuously enhanced, risks in key areas were effectively prevented and resolved, the development of democracy and the rule of law was steadily strengthened, social governance and public security governance levels were significantly raised, the pattern of joint border strengthening by the Party, government, military, police, and civilians was further consolidated, and the security and stability barrier in northern China became more secure. On this basis, after another five years of striving, by 2035, the city’s overall economic strength, core competitiveness, and regional influence will have significantly leaped. Per capita GDP and resident income will reach higher levels, playing a greater role in building the "Two Barriers," "Two Bases," and "One Bridgehead." It will continue to lead in promoting the construction of the Chinese national community and common prosperity in ethnic border regions, as well as in building national ecological and security stability barriers. The lives of all ethnic groups will be more prosperous, peaceful, and happy, and together with the nation and the autonomous region, Ulanqab will basically achieve socialist modernization. II. Strengthening the Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation and Promoting the Construction of the Chinese National Community Firmly grasp that strengthening the sense of community for the Chinese nation is the main theme of the Party’s ethnic work and all tasks in ethnic regions in the new era. Thoroughly, deeply, and concretely implement the requirements of this main theme into all aspects of the city’s work, including economic, political, cultural, social, ecological civilization, and Party construction, advancing the building of the Chinese national community in a tangible, perceptible, and effective manner. (4) Improve systems and mechanisms for implementing the main theme requirements. Strengthen pre-review and filing examination of local regulations and government rules to ensure they align with the main theme requirements. Enhance the review and evaluation mechanism for major economic and social development policies to ensure they embody the main theme and imbue all reforms and development with the "Three Meanings." Deepen legal publicity in ethnic affairs, promote the rule of law in ethnic governance, and legally protect the legitimate rights and interests of all ethnic groups. Strengthen the main theme awareness among Party committees (leading Party members groups) and leading cadres at all levels, and strictly implement the work responsibility system and coordination mechanism for strengthening the sense of community for the Chinese nation. (5) Strengthen theoretical research and education on strengthening the sense of community for the Chinese nation. Deepen research on major fundamental issues of the Chinese national community and enhance the quality and effectiveness of research bases for the sense of community for the Chinese nation. Promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of education on the consciousness of the Chinese nation community, implement training programs for Party members and officials, and deeply carry out mass education on "being grateful to the Party, listening to the Party, and following the Party." Deepen the "five micro" work method to guide officials and the public of all ethnic groups to firmly establish a sense of community characterized by shared weal and woe, honor and disgrace, life and death, and destiny. Integrate the mainline requirements into historical and cultural education, public cultural facility construction, urban landmark building creation, and tourism landscape displays, fostering more shared cultural symbols and images of the Chinese nation among all ethnic groups. (6) Promote in-depth exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups. Continuously deepen the publicity and education as well as the creation of ethnic unity and progress, solidly conduct activities for exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups, and tell the vivid stories of the Chinese nation community and Ulanqab City's efforts to strengthen the consciousness of the Chinese nation community with emotion and effort. Implement the "three plans" for exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups, and strive to create a national model city for ethnic unity and progress. Coordinate urban and rural construction layout planning and the allocation of public service resources to create more complete social conditions for all ethnic groups to live, study, build, share, work, and enjoy together. Fully promote the use of nationally unified textbooks and popularize the national common language and text. (7) Gather a powerful synergy to jointly build the Chinese Dream. Focus on strengthening commonality, enhancing centripetal force, and improving cohesion, continuously consolidating and developing a favorable situation of joint unity and struggle. Develop whole-process people's democracy, strengthen and improve the work of the People's Congress in the new era, play the role of the CPPCC as a specialized consultative body, enhance cooperation and coordination among various consultation channels, and promote the extensive, multi-level, and institutionalized development of consultative democracy. Fully leverage the bridging role of the "two representatives and one committee member," improve grassroots democratic systems, and establish long-term working mechanisms for absorbing public opinions and gathering public wisdom. Better utilize the role of mass organizations such as trade unions, the Communist Youth League, and women's federations in connecting with the public. Improve the overall pattern of united front work, implement the responsibility system for united front work, maintain close ties with compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese, and consolidate and develop the broadest possible patriotic united front. Adhere to the direction of Sinicization of religions in China, and promote the legalization of religious affairs governance. Solidly advance the comprehensive rule of law in the city, strengthen the construction of a law-based government and society, enhance the implementation and supervision of the Constitution and laws, optimize the legislative planning and review process, improve the quality and efficiency of local legislation, standardize the operation of judicial power, strengthen procuratorial supervision, effectively solve the problem of "difficult enforcement," strengthen the supervision and inspection of leading cadres' legal handling of affairs, and solidly advance the "Ninth Five-Year" legal education, creating a good environment where the whole society reveres the rule of law, adheres to rules, respects contracts, and upholds justice. III. Advancing Ecological Conservation and Green Development, Demonstrating New Achievements in Strengthening the Ecological Security Barrier in Northern China Thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization, firmly uphold the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, and adopt an integrated and systematic approach to protecting and managing mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts. Coordinate efforts to reduce carbon emissions, mitigate pollution, expand green areas, and promote growth, accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and support high-quality development with high-level ecological and environmental protection. (8) Fight a high-quality battle in the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Project. Accelerate the implementation of the sixth-phase plan for the "Three-North" Project, advance with high quality the battles in the Yellow River's "Ji"-shaped bend and the Hunshandake Sandy Land, expedite the implementation of ecological comprehensive management projects on the northern slopes of the Yinshan Mountains and integrated protection and restoration projects for forests, grasslands, wetlands, and wastelands, continuously consolidate the achievements in desertification control, and steadily increase forest and grassland coverage and ecological quality. (9) Strengthen the protection and restoration of key ecosystems. Strictly implement systems for basic grassland protection, grassland-livestock balance, and grazing bans and rest periods, steadily advance the protection and restoration of ecological functions in degraded grasslands, crack down on illegal forest and grassland destruction in accordance with the law, and consolidate the results of overgrazing control. Increase the coverage and protection level of grassland insurance. Clarify responsibilities under the forest chief and river/lake chief systems. Improve systems for forest protection, cultivation, and management, and deepen the reform of collective forest tenure. Comprehensively strengthen the protection and restoration of natural forests. Promote the construction of a system of protected natural areas and advance the application for the establishment of a national park in the Daqingshan National Nature Reserve. Deepen comprehensive ecological protection and management of Daihai Lake and Chahannao'er. Advance comprehensive management of soil erosion. Strengthen biodiversity conservation. Implement integrated protection and restoration projects for mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts within the Yellow River Basin under the jurisdiction. Enhance the construction of green mines and promote the restoration and management of historically abandoned mines. (10) Resolutely fight the battle against pollution. Vigorously address excessive pollutant discharges, accelerate pollution control in key industries, and expand the coverage of clean energy heating. Consolidate and enhance the results of the investigation and remediation of sewage outfalls into rivers. Promote zonal management and tiered prevention and control of groundwater pollution, and strengthen monitoring, early warning, and comprehensive management of over-extraction of groundwater. Improve facilities for the collection, transport, and disposal of urban and rural garbage and sewage. Deepen comprehensive management of agricultural non-point source pollution. Strengthen risk control and remediation of soil pollution on agricultural and construction land. Enhance the environmental management of hazardous waste and centralized, harmless disposal of medical waste. Strengthen coordinated management of new pollutants and the construction of environmental risk control systems. (11) Promote green, low-carbon, and circular development. Advance the ecologicalization of industry and the industrialization of ecology, accelerate green and low-carbon transformation in key sectors such as industry, construction, transportation, and energy, and innovate mechanisms for realizing the value of ecological products. Improve the incentive mechanisms for green consumption, increase the electrification rate of end-use energy, and promote green and low-carbon production and lifestyles. Implement the dual control system for total carbon emissions and emission intensity. Carry out forestry and grassland carbon sequestration and sink enhancement actions, carbon sink value realization actions, and carbon sink pilot demonstration actions. Implement foundational capacity-building projects for "dual carbon" goals, construct zero-carbon parks and factories with high quality, and strive to establish zero-carbon parks at the autonomous region and national levels. Adhere to the principle of "Four Waters and Four Determinations," strengthen rigid constraints on water resources, deeply explore water-saving potential in agriculture, promote technologies such as shallow-buried drip irrigation, enhance the reuse of reclaimed water and rainwater harvesting, improve the intensive and safe utilization level of water resources, and advance the construction of water-saving cities. Promote total resource management and comprehensive conservation, strengthen the resource utilization of traditional bulk industrial solid waste and the recycling of waste from emerging industries, and enhance the level of waste classification and resource utilization. (12) Improve the ecological civilization institutional system. Refine the responsibility system, regulatory system, market system, and legal policy system for ecological environment governance. Enhance the ecological environment monitoring and evaluation system, and conduct assessments of the ecological environment effectiveness of key ecological projects such as the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program. Improve the diversified investment mechanism for ecological protection and restoration and the ecological compensation mechanism. Streamline the institutional mechanisms for environmental protection supervision and law enforcement, and coordinate the advancement of ecological environment damage compensation. IV. Advance the Modernization of the National Security System and Capabilities, Demonstrating New Responsibilities in Fortifying the Security and Stability Barrier of the Northern Frontier Resolutely implement the holistic approach to national security, improve the mechanisms and systems for safeguarding national security, effectively prevent and mitigate various risks and hidden dangers, comprehensively enhance the governance efficiency of border areas, build a higher-level safe Ulanqab, and ensure high-quality development with a high level of security. (13) Resolutely Safeguard National Political Security. Strictly prevent infiltration, sabotage, subversion, and other activities by hostile forces at home and abroad, and deepen the struggle against terrorism and cults. Implement projects to enhance ideological work capabilities, and improve the collaborative mechanism for public opinion guidance and response. Strengthen national security capacity building in emerging fields such as cyberspace, data, and artificial intelligence. Enhance national security education, deepen national defense education for all citizens, and raise public awareness of national security. (14) Prevent and Mitigate Risks in Key Areas. Fully complete the tasks of clearing hidden debts, exiting financing platforms, and settling new rounds of arrears to enterprises, improve the financial risk prevention and disposal mechanism, consolidate the results of reforming and mitigating risks in small and medium-sized banks, regularly combat illegal financial activities, and resolutely prevent major fiscal and financial risks. Improve the public security system. Implement projects to enhance early warning, monitoring, prevention, and disposal capabilities for natural disasters, and carry out projects to improve the safety literacy and capabilities of all citizens. Improve the emergency response coordination mechanism, strengthen the construction of regional comprehensive emergency rescue bases and emergency material stockpiles, and enhance the effectiveness of grassroots emergency management. Focus on key areas such as flood control, drought relief, and forest and grassland fire prevention to strengthen disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief capabilities. Deepen the fundamental and tough actions for work safety. Strengthen the full-chain supervision of food and drug safety. Enhance the safety protection level of critical facilities. (15) Improve the efficiency of social governance. Improve the system and mechanisms for party building-led grassroots governance and the construction of grassroots political power, fully implement the list of responsibilities for townships (streets), and continuously optimize the list of work items for villages (communities). Strengthen the party building in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups. Strengthen the cultivation and management of social organizations, promote the standardization of industry associations. Strengthen the construction of a social worker team. Uphold and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" of the new era, improve the micro-governance system of urban and rural communities, and promote the standardized construction and practical operation of comprehensive governance centers. Improve the working mechanism for serving and rallying the masses, and promote the resolution of disputes at their source, through diversified means, and in an orderly manner. Promote the legalization of petition work. Strengthen online and offline collaborative governance. Leverage the role of citizen conventions and village rules, strengthen family education and ethics, and continuously advance the reform of customs. Vigorously rectify social chaos. Strengthen the construction of the social security prevention and control system and capabilities, and improve the social safety and stability risk monitoring and early warning system. Establish and improve the regular working mechanisms for eradicating organized crime, and strictly punish, according to law, criminal activities that strongly concern the public, such as those involving organized crime, firearms, explosives, personal extremism, violations of women's and children's rights, and offenses related to pornography, gambling, drugs, theft, robbery, fraud, and environmental crimes. Strengthen the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency. (16) Deepen the stabilization and consolidation of border areas. Implement the integrated enhancement project for national security assurance capabilities along the northern frontier. Strengthen the integrated construction of water, electricity, roads, and communications in border areas. Deepen the construction of smart border defense. Vigorously advance the new-era prosperity and development action in border areas, promoting high-quality development in these regions. Promote the construction of border towns. Strengthen professional, auxiliary, and mass self-defense forces. Improve the responsibility mechanism for border resident subsidy policies, and implement preferential policies for staff working in arduous and remote areas. Strengthen national defense mobilization and reserve force construction, fully support and serve the garrison troops and military base construction in the city, and consolidate the good situation of unity between the military, government, and people. V. Develop and expand the modern energy economy, accumulating new advantages in building a significant national energy and strategic resource base. Based on the region's energy and resource conditions, build a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient new-type energy system, accelerate the integrated development of mineral resource exploration, mining, selection, smelting, and processing, promote the integrated and fusion development of new energy, implement the "new energy+" initiative, and drive the high-quality transformation of the entire chain of new energy and mineral resource development and utilization, continuously enhancing the supply and guarantee capacity of energy and strategic resources. (17) Strengthen and Enhance the New Energy Industry. Increase the development of wind and solar energy resources, aiming to double the installed new energy capacity. Implement the New Energy Consumption Action, improve incentive policies guiding key energy-consuming industries and enterprises to use green electricity, accelerate the replacement of conventional electricity with green electricity in industrial, construction, and transportation sectors, actively undertake the transfer of advanced green high-energy-consuming industries, establish a regional-level demonstration benchmark for green electricity consumption, and build a national green energy production and application base. Strengthen the construction of power grid support systems, accelerate the development of smart distribution networks within the city, and enhance the grid's capacity to accommodate clean energy. Focus on cultivating and expanding leading enterprises in wind turbine equipment manufacturing, precisely introduce key supporting enterprises for generators, gearboxes, inverters, and other components, and promote the cluster-based and high-end development of the entire new energy industry chain. (18) Develop New Business Models in the Energy Industry. Focus on electricity consumption and utilization, promote the implementation of green electricity direct connection projects led or driven by the load side, and explore new models and business forms such as virtual power plants and smart microgrids. Implement pumped storage projects, advance the construction of new-type energy storage projects, and foster the cluster development of the energy storage industry. Promote the full industry chain development of green hydrogen, from production, storage, and transportation to application, accelerate the cultivation of supporting industries such as hydrogen energy equipment manufacturing, storage, and transportation, and build a regional hydrogen energy industry innovation demonstration base. Establish a mechanism to support the cultivation of new business models, encourage cross-sector integration between energy enterprises and big data or cloud computing companies, build a synergistic development mechanism for deep coupling of computing power and electricity, and carry out innovative demonstrations of computing-power-electricity synergy. (19) Strengthen the Development and Utilization of Mineral Resources. Promote traditional industrial and mining enterprises to implement the "extending, supplementing, and strengthening the chain" project, with a focus on planning and constructing an integrated 10-million-mt-level molybdenum mining, beneficiation, and deep processing project. Enhance the economical and intensive development and utilization of mineral resources, and vigorously promote advanced technologies such as intelligent mining and green beneficiation. Establish innovation platforms integrating industry, academia, research, and application, collaborate with universities and research institutions to tackle key technologies in the utilization of low-grade ore, associated ore, and comprehensive recovery of tailings, and improve the comprehensive utilization rate of mineral resources. Implement a new round of strategic action for breakthrough in mineral exploration. VI. Accelerate the Modernization of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Rural Pastoral Areas, and Demonstrate New Quality and Efficiency in Building a National Important Agricultural and Livestock Product Production Base Adhere to the simultaneous focus on production output and capacity, production ecology, and increased production and income, coordinate the development of technology-based agriculture and animal husbandry, green agriculture and animal husbandry, quality agriculture and animal husbandry, and brand agriculture and animal husbandry, create high-quality rural living spaces, and build a strong city in agriculture and animal husbandry as well as livable, business-friendly, harmonious, and beautiful villages. (20) Enhance the Comprehensive Production Capacity and Quality Efficiency of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. Implement a new round of action to increase grain production capacity. Promote the gradual conversion of eligible permanent basic farmland into high-standard farmland, and strengthen the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land. Deepen the implementation of the seed industry revitalization action, strengthen the breeding of improved varieties of potatoes and oats, and advance the breed improvement of beef cattle and meat sheep. Implement initiatives to enhance the efficiency and value of potatoes, expand production and improve quality of coarse cereals and legumes, stabilize volume and optimize varieties of vegetables, increase production and efficiency of beef cattle and meat sheep, and ensure supply and upgrade of forage grass. Promote the revitalization of the dairy industry, carry out per-unit yield enhancement efforts, and establish ten-thousand-mu-level grain production bases, thousand-mu-level cold-vegetable bases, and million-head (animal) level livestock and poultry breeding bases. Develop high-quality forage grass cultivation and improve the crop-livestock recycling system. Carry out the modernization and upgrading action for facility agriculture and animal husbandry. Develop appropriately scaled operations in agriculture and animal husbandry. Improve a convenient and efficient socialized service system for agriculture and animal husbandry. Increase the application of BeiDou terminals on agricultural machinery, promote intelligent, digital, and hilly-mountain-adapted agricultural machinery, and facilitate integrated efficiency gains from good fields, improved seeds, advanced machinery, and sound practices. (21) Excel in the deep processing of agricultural and livestock products and in green and organic branding. Promote the quality improvement and upgrading of the processing and circulation of agricultural and livestock products, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries such as potatoes, oats, meat sheep, and beef cattle, strengthen the comprehensive utilization of by-products like straw, hides, wool, bones, and blood, create a number of modern agricultural and animal husbandry industrial parks focused on deep processing, and build a national base for high-quality development of green agricultural and livestock products. Improve the quality and safety supervision system for agricultural and livestock products, and establish a whole-chain supervision mechanism "from field to dining table." Carry out brand cultivation actions for agricultural and livestock products, strengthen the cultivation of "three products and one standard" certification, develop and expand organic agriculture, and strengthen the regional public brand "Original Taste Ulanqab." Accelerate the construction of primary processing facilities at the origin of agricultural and livestock products and centralized express logistics shipping warehouses, and implement the "Internet+" project for agricultural and livestock products to move from villages to cities. Improve the mechanism for linking the interests of enterprises and farmers/herders, allowing farmers and herders to share in the value-added benefits of the industry. (22) Promote comprehensive rural revitalization in a categorized and orderly manner. Learn from and apply the experience of the "Thousand-Village Demonstration and Ten-Thousand-Village Improvement" project, tailor rural construction implementation mechanisms based on local conditions by area, address shortcomings in rural and pastoral area infrastructure, enhance public service levels, and promote the integrated urban-rural development of infrastructure such as roads, water supply, power supply, communications, and logistics. Adapt to population trends in rural and pastoral areas, optimize the layout of townships and villages, industrial structure, and public service allocation, and explore the governance of "hollowed-out villages." Continue to improve the living environment in rural and pastoral areas, focusing on resolving issues such as toilet retrofitting, sewage treatment, and waste disposal, and advance the construction of beautiful villages on a county-wide basis. Expand characteristic rural industries and under-forest economy, and promote the integrated development of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries in rural and pastoral areas. Complete the pilot work for the second round of land and grassland contract extensions for another thirty years after expiration. (23) Enhance the effectiveness of policies for strengthening agriculture, benefiting farmers, and enriching rural areas. Improve the diversified investment guarantee mechanism with fiscal priority protection, financial key support, and active social participation, and increase support for the modernization of agriculture, animal husbandry, and rural pastoral areas. Deepen the reform of the collective property rights system in rural pastoral areas, and strengthen the supervision and management of collective funds, assets, and resources in rural pastoral areas. Efficiently utilize collectively owned commercial construction land in rural pastoral areas, and revitalize and make good use of idle land in accordance with the law. Support the development of new-type rural collective economies. Encourage various talents to go to the countryside to serve, start businesses, and seek employment. Continuously consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation, coordinate the establishment of a regular mechanism to prevent a return to poverty and new impoverishment, adhere to targeted assistance, improve bottom-line guarantees, strengthen development-oriented assistance, enhance the endogenous development momentum of poverty-stricken areas and people lifted out of poverty, and ensure that there is no large-scale return to poverty or new impoverishment. VII. Expand Opening Up Both Domestically and Internationally in All Aspects, and Stimulate New Vitality in Building China’s Important Bridgehead for Opening Up to the North Adhere to equal emphasis on domestic and international opening up, actively participate in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, strengthen the support of open platforms, smooth internal and external connectivity channels, enhance industrial synergy capabilities, and build a national comprehensive logistics hub. (24) Continuously deepen domestic opening up. Actively connect with developed regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and build differentiated industrial transfer and undertaking bases. Deepen Beijing-Inner Mongolia cooperation, and carry out practical cooperation in areas such as industrial transfer, consumption assistance, labor cooperation, and talent exchange. Vigorously promote the integrated high-quality development of Hohhot, Baotou, Ordos, and Ulanqab, as well as the integrated development of Ulanqab and Erenhot port hinterlands, and deepen cooperation with surrounding cities such as Datong and Zhangjiakou. (25) Strengthen the construction of international opening up platforms. Accelerate the construction of land port-type national logistics hubs, national import trade promotion and innovation demonstration zones, national key undertaking sites for the gradient transfer of processing trade, and national modern circulation strategic pivot cities. Speed up the construction of node cities for the China-Europe Railway Express, promote the stable operation of the Qisumu Bonded Logistics Center (Type B), and facilitate the coordinated development of bonded logistics centers and the China-Europe Railway Express. Actively integrate into the autonomous region’s pilot free trade zone creation project, and promote the replication and dissemination of institutional innovation achievements. Expand the construction of international opening up platforms, actively strive to apply for aviation ports, and vigorously cultivate airport-oriented economies. Develop landing processing industries, and promote the transformation from "corridor economy" to "port economy" and "industrial economy." (26) Accelerate the development of an open economy. Vigorously develop landing processing economies for imported resources, focusing on bulk commodities such as agricultural and livestock products, timber, coking coal, and fluorite, and enhance the level of landing processing for imported resources. Precisely align with international market demands, build specialized export processing bases for agricultural and sideline food products, electromechanical new materials, chemicals, light industrial building materials, etc., and cultivate and expand export-oriented industries. Apply for the establishment of a cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone, accelerate the deployment of overseas warehouses and overseas logistics parks, and develop new foreign trade formats such as cross-border e-commerce, bonded processing, and bonded logistics. Enhance the international orientation of enterprises and support them in setting up exhibition centers abroad. Strengthen efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment. Promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, and cultivate a group of key enterprises with capabilities in both domestic and foreign trade operations. VIII. Building a Modern Industrial System with Regional Characteristics and Advantages, and Consolidating and Strengthening the Foundation of the Real Economy Adhere to focusing economic development on the real economy, emphasizing the directions of intelligentization, greenization, and integration, and advance in a unified manner the consolidation and upgrading, cultivation of new industries, expansion and quality improvement, and strengthening of foundations and efficiency enhancement, to enhance the stability and sustainability of development. (27) Optimize and Upgrade Traditional Industries. Promote the quality improvement and upgrading of traditional industries such as ferroalloys and chlor-alkali chemicals. Focus on encouraging ferroalloy enterprises to integrate, reorganize, and undergo technological transformation and upgrading, increase industrial agglomeration, develop deep processing of alloy products, create a industrial cluster with an output value of 100 billion yuan, and build the largest green alloy production site in the country. Extend the chlor-alkali chemical industry chain, and strive to build a green circular chemical industry cluster with core competitiveness and distinctive advantages. Accelerate technological transformation for energy conservation, pollution reduction, and carbon reduction, as well as digital and intelligent transformation in key areas. (28) Cultivate and Strengthen Emerging and Future Industries. Strive to build emerging pillar industries, expand the wind and solar power, hydrogen, and energy storage industries, and promote the development of green hydrogen, green ammonia, and green alcohol industries. Accelerate the promotion and use of new energy heavy-duty trucks. Extend the industrial chains of carbon-based, molybdenum-based, fluorine-based, aluminum-based, rock-based, and copper-based new materials, vigorously develop new materials such as special alloys, scale up the carbon-based functional materials and application industries including lithium battery, graphene, high-performance carbon fiber, and solid-state battery materials, and build a nationally important new materials industrial base. Prospectively lay out future industries such as the low-altitude economy, bio-manufacturing, hydrogen energy, brain-computer interfaces, and embodied AI, and explore diverse technological pathways and application scenarios. Improve the industrial ecosystem and implement large-scale application demonstration actions for new technologies, products, and scenarios. (29) Promote High-Quality and Efficient Development of the Service Industry. Implement actions to expand capacity and improve quality in the service industry, improve support policies, strengthen factor guarantees, and expand high-quality business entities. Promote the extension of producer services towards clustering, specialization, and the high-end of the value chain, and vigorously develop modern finance, modern logistics, business services, new energy operation and maintenance, and information transmission services. Foster the high-quality, diversified, and convenient development of consumer services, accelerate the layout and construction of life service infrastructure, and expand the supply of diversified services such as health, elderly care, disability assistance, childcare, and housekeeping. Accelerate the quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, and transformation and upgrading of the tourism industry, promote the integrated development of agriculture, culture, tourism, sports, and commerce, drive technological empowerment of tourism, improve tourism facilities, enrich the supply of high-quality tourism products, enhance tourism service quality, strengthen publicity and promotion, and build all-region, all-season tourism destinations. Leverage the role of events in attracting visitors and develop event economy. Develop the ice and snow industry and expand the ice and snow economy. Promote the deep integration of modern service industries with modern agriculture and animal husbandry, and advance the digitalization and intellectualization of the service industry. (30) Build a modern infrastructure system. Strengthen the overall planning of infrastructure, optimize the layout and structure, promote integrated convergence, and enhance safety resilience and operational sustainability. Coordinate functions such as drought resistance, flood control, water storage, and ecological water use, improve the urban and rural water supply guarantee system, accelerate the construction of a modern water network, and create a smart water conservancy platform. Support the creation of a "one-hour" transportation circle for Hohhot-Baotou-Ordos-Wuhai, cooperate in the capacity expansion and renovation project of the Jining-Erlianhot Railway, expand freight channel transportation capacity, and promote the construction of dedicated railway lines. Optimize and upgrade rapid channels exiting the region and entering Beijing, implement key highway corridor improvements, a new round of rural and pastoral highway upgrades, and actions to enhance transportation service quality, efficiency, and integrated transformation, building a green, intelligent, economical, and convenient highway network. Continuously improve the accessibility and support capacity of Jining Airport, accelerate the construction of general airports in Liangcheng, Zhongqi, and Huade, develop intercity drone transportation and low-altitude short-distance transport services, and improve the air transport network system. Vigorously enhance power transmission and distribution guarantee capacity. Strengthen the construction of natural gas pipeline network facilities, and fully advance the Ulanqab to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei hydrogen transmission pipeline project. Promote the coordinated development of computing and networks, prospectively explore and layout new-type infrastructure such as satellite internet, mobile internet of things, and blockchain, advance the renewal and digital transformation of traditional infrastructure, and build robust green computing and information transmission backbone channels. Focus on renovating underground pipe networks, improving the quality and efficiency of transportation and logistics, and expanding the coverage and quality of communication networks to establish a modern urban and rural infrastructure network. IX. Accelerate the Enhancement of Scientific and Technological Innovation Levels to Lead the Development of New Quality Productive Forces Seize the historical opportunity presented by the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, coordinate education, science and technology, and talent development, improve the innovation system, optimize the innovation ecosystem, comprehensively enhance original innovation capability, achievement transformation capability, and regional collaborative innovation capability, and boost the overall efficiency of the innovation system to better inject strong momentum into new quality productive forces. (31) Strengthen breakthroughs in key core technologies. Implement a number of major scientific and technological tasks focusing on characteristic and advantageous industries such as new energy, new-type energy storage, carbon-based new materials, non-ferrous metal new materials, green hydrogen-ammonia-methanol, and biological breeding, to drive scientific and technological R&D and the transformation and application of achievements. Support local universities, research institutes, and leading enterprises in integrating resources to actively cultivate autonomous region-level key laboratories, technological innovation centers, and enterprise technology centers as platforms for scientific and technological innovation. Encourage innovation platforms to collaborate with enterprises in building industry-academia-research cooperation bases, promoting the localized transformation of scientific research achievements. (32) Promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation. Strengthen the role of enterprises as the main drivers of scientific and technological innovation, improve policies that encourage technological innovation in enterprises, and facilitate the concentration of various innovation factors in enterprises. Foster and expand leading sci-tech enterprises, and support the development of high-tech enterprises, sci-tech small and medium-sized enterprises, and specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative "little giant" enterprises. Accelerate the efficient transformation and application of major scientific and technological achievements, deploy and construct concept verification and pilot testing platforms, and strengthen the development of application scenarios. Enhance open cooperation in scientific and technological innovation, carry out joint research with high-level domestic and overseas innovation teams, and create "two-way enclaves" for scientific research and industrial application. Strengthen the protection and utilization of intellectual property. Support young scientific and technological talents in innovation and entrepreneurship. Strengthen the popularization of science and technology, and foster an innovation culture. (33) Advance the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent. Establish and improve coordinated mechanisms for integrated advancement, strengthening the alignment of plans, policy coordination, resource integration, and evaluation linkage. Focus on collaborative talent cultivation to meet the demands of scientific and technological innovation, industrial development, and major strategic needs, support local universities and vocational institutions in deepening reforms to cultivate urgently needed and scarce talents, strengthen the role of research institutions, innovation platforms, and enterprises in gathering and cultivating talent, nurture top-notch innovative talents, and improve mechanisms for collaborative education involving science, education, and industry. Deepen the reform of industrial workforce development to enhance the overall quality and technical skills of industrial workers. Relying on the construction of Ulanqab (Beijing-Inner Mongolia) Talent and Innovation Park, increase efforts to attract and cultivate various types of talents, including leading scientific figures, outstanding engineers, and highly skilled professionals in key fields. With an evaluation orientation centered on innovation capability, quality, effectiveness, and contribution, deepen reforms in project review, institutional assessment, talent evaluation, and income distribution, smooth talent exchange channels among universities, research institutes, and enterprises, and stimulate the momentum and vitality for innovation and creation. (34) Advance the development of Digital Ulanqab. Adhere to the interconnected development of computing power, data, applications, and industries, and vigorously develop core digital economy industries with distinctive regional characteristics. Deepen the construction of the national integrated computing power network hub node, improve green computing power infrastructure, build computing power industrial clusters, develop and strengthen the computing power economy, and promote sustained and robust growth in computing power scale, aiming to reach one million P. Strive to achieve an annual revenue of the computing power industry exceeding 10 billion yuan as soon as possible and maintain sustained strong growth. Collaborate with Hohhot to develop the Horinger Cluster (Ulanqab) into a national green computing power hub and a gathering area for the data industry. Develop a comprehensive ecosystem for the computing power industry, strengthen the manufacturing of computing hardware such as servers and cabinets, enhance the electronic components industry, and foster the development of intelligent terminal manufacturing industries including smart controllers and sensors. Actively promote the software and information technology service sectors. Deeply implement the "AI+" initiative, integrate AI with industrial development, cultural construction, social welfare, and governance, widely promote the application scenarios of new-generation AI terminals and intelligent entities, and drive the empowerment of various industries. Accelerate the digitalization of industries and the industrialization of the digital sector, promote the innovative development of industrial internet, and facilitate the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy. X. Deeply Integrate into the Unified National Market to Promote Efficient Economic Circulation Firmly grasp the strategic base point of expanding domestic demand, fully connect and deeply integrate the industry chain, innovation chain, supply chain, logistics chain, and value chain with the large domestic market. Closely integrate improving people's livelihoods, promoting consumption, and investing in both physical and human capital, to ensure a positive interaction between consumption, investment, supply, and demand. (35) Vigorously Boost Consumption. Coordinate efforts to promote employment, increase income, and stabilize expectations, reasonably raise the proportion of public service spending in fiscal expenditure, and enhance residents' consumption capacity and willingness. Expand the supply of high-quality consumer goods and services, upgrade commodity consumption, and adopt multiple measures to increase service consumption, creating new consumption scenarios based on local conditions. Expand online consumption channels, actively develop e-commerce and digital consumption, cultivate local live-streaming e-commerce teams, and conduct "agricultural assistance live-streaming" and "origin direct supply" activities through platforms like Douyin and Kuaishou. Cultivate new hot topics in consumption, promote the digital transformation of traditional business districts, introduce first-store economies and night-time economies, and create new consumption scenes such as characteristic food streets and cultural and creative markets. Reasonably increase public consumption. Expand holiday consumption. Improve long-term mechanisms for boosting and expanding consumption, increase the intensity of universal policies directly benefiting consumers, and allocate more government funds to social welfare, effectively releasing consumption potential. Strengthen the construction of logistics infrastructure for consumption, smooth the channels for industrial products to reach rural areas and agricultural and livestock products to enter cities, and promote the deep integration of online and offline consumption. Implement paid and staggered vacations. Strengthen the regulation of the consumer market, establish and improve management methods suitable for new forms and models of consumption, eliminate unreasonable restrictive measures, strengthen the protection of consumer rights, and create a safe and reassuring consumption environment. (36) Expand Effective Investment. Optimize the structure of government investment, increase the proportion of government investment in people's livelihoods, and advance the implementation of major projects under the "two major" policies with high quality. Focus on the planning direction, policy orientation, and funding priorities of the country and the autonomous region, strengthen planning and argumentation, and implement a batch of strategically significant, foundational, and leading major projects. Improve the long-term mechanism for private enterprises to participate in major projects and increase the proportion of private investment. Deepen the reform of the investment approval system, simplify approval procedures, enhance approval efficiency, strengthen in-process and post-event supervision, and optimize the investment environment. Allocate resource factors based on unit output to improve investment efficiency. Strictly implement the "top leader" investment attraction responsibility system, innovate models such as industrial ecosystem investment attraction, green electricity-enabled investment attraction, and enclave economic cooperation to enhance the quality and effectiveness of investment promotion. (37) Remove blockages in the circulation. Fully implement the basic requirements of "five unifications and one opening" for building a unified national market, eliminate barriers in factor acquisition, qualification recognition, tender and bid, etc. Standardize investment attraction behaviors and comprehensively address "involution-style" competition. Strengthen the foundational capacity building of market supervision at the grassroots level, enhance legal supervision, credit supervision, and smart supervision. Accelerate the construction of a modern commercial circulation system and promote the intelligent transformation of logistics parks. Promote the implementation of policies for sharing benefits between corporate headquarters and branches, as well as between production sites and consumption sites. XI. Deepen Economic System Reform to Enhance the Momentum for High-Quality Development Adhere to the direction of socialist market economy reform, guide reform and innovation with the new development philosophy, break down institutional mechanisms that constrain high-quality development, create a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment, strive to optimize resource allocation efficiency and maximize benefits, and ensure steady and long-term high-quality development. (38) Stimulate the vitality of market entities. Firmly practice the "two unwavering principles," ensure equal access to production factors, fair participation in competition, and equal legal protection for all types of ownership economies. Deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, further clarify the functional positioning of different types of state-owned enterprises, focus on main responsibilities and core businesses, and enhance the core functions and competitiveness of state-owned enterprises. Vigorously support the development of the private economy, implement the Private Economy Promotion Law, and guide private capital to participate in the construction of major infrastructure, key industries, social livelihood, and other fields. Support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and individual businesses, strengthen the cultivation of "four above" enterprises, promote the transformation of individual businesses into enterprises, small businesses into regulated ones, regulated ones into joint-stock companies, and joint-stock companies into listed ones, and foster collaborative and integrated development of large, medium, and small enterprises. Establish and improve modern enterprise systems, promote the spirit of entrepreneurship, and support and guide various enterprises to enhance their management and operational levels. (39) Improve the market-based allocation mechanism for production factors. Deepen the organic integration of an effective market and a proactive government, activate the decisive role of market resource allocation, break down barriers to factor mobility, and facilitate the smooth flow and efficient allocation of various production factors. Establish a mechanism where labor, capital, land, knowledge, technology, management, data, and other production factors are evaluated by the market for their contributions and compensated accordingly. Comprehensively understand the baseline of existing resource assets, revitalize inefficient land use, idle real estate, and existing infrastructure, and promote the sharing and revitalization of state-owned assets held by administrative and public institutions. (40) Create a first-class business environment. Deeply carry out actions to improve the business environment. Upgrade the public resources trading platform, promote the full-process electronic, digital, and intelligent transformation of tendering and bidding, and reduce human intervention. Promote the construction of smart government services, leverage the leading role of "efficiently completing one task," and strengthen inter-departmental collaboration and service integration in more areas and on a larger scale. Strengthen the construction of an honest government. Legally protect the property rights of business entities and the personal and property safety of operators, improve the standardized mechanism for law enforcement involving enterprises, and strictly prohibit irregular cross-regional law enforcement and profit-driven law enforcement. Strengthen the judicial protection of property rights, and enhance judicial supervision over compulsory measures such as seizure, detention, and freezing. Implement the negative list for foreign investment access, and ensure national treatment for foreign-invested enterprises. (41) Deepen reforms in the fiscal and financial sectors. Strengthen the coordination of fiscal resources and budgeting, further advance zero-based budget reform, deepen the reform of fiscal responsibilities and expenditure obligations, and reasonably delineate the revenue relationship between municipal and county levels, using effective fiscal resources and budget coordination to support high-quality development. Promote performance management throughout the entire development process, develop a performance management system for planning and policy, refine the performance management process, and improve the closed-loop control mechanism for project performance. Enhance the effectiveness of financial and accounting supervision, formulate categorized lists of supervisory responsibilities, focus on comprehensive coverage of supervised entities, determine all elements of supervisory content, implement specific regulations for financial and accounting supervision, and establish a financial and accounting supervision work mechanism that is horizontally collaborative, vertically linked, and fully coordinated. Release the potential of financial services to support the real economy, vigorously develop technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, elderly care finance, and digital finance, and enhance the ability of financial services to support the real economy and their risk resistance. XII. Optimize the regional economic layout and promote coordinated regional development Adhere to the systematic concept of coordinating regional development, optimize the layout of productive forces, and build a regional economic layout and territorial spatial system characterized by complementary advantages and high-quality development. Improve the mechanism for cross-administrative cooperation and differentiated development, and enhance the overall, coordinated, and sustainable nature of development. (42) Optimize the development pattern of territorial space. Deeply implement the main functional area strategy, stabilize the patterns of urbanized areas, major agricultural and livestock product production areas, and key ecological function areas, and specify the details of special functional areas. Implement the requirements for a unified territorial spatial planning system, optimize the control lines for farmland and permanent basic farmland, ecological protection, and urban development boundaries, and implement differentiated and refined land use controls based on zones and categories. Promote the resolution of overlapping ownership of cultivated land, forest land, and grassland, as well as the issue of "multiple certificates for one plot." Conduct regular evaluations and monitoring of the suitability of territorial space development. (43) Promote coordinated development across the city. Firmly establish the concept of the city as a whole, break down administrative barriers, establish and improve a regular collaborative development mechanism among banners, counties, and cities, encourage banners with complementary industries to form collaborative alliances, promote cross-regional coordinated development of advantageous industries, and support banners in jointly building raw material bases, processing parks, and marketing platforms around advantageous industry chains such as potatoes, beef cattle, and sheep. Encourage banners to leverage their comparative advantages, cultivate and develop distinctive county economies, and achieve specialized, differentiated, and coordinated development. Support the integrated development of the central urban area with Chahar High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Wu’er Park, and Chahar Right Front Banner New Area, deepening intra-city linkage and regional coordination. Coordinate the advancement of major cross-regional infrastructure projects, accelerate the construction of an interconnected infrastructure network, and collaboratively deploy network-type infrastructure such as energy and information. Promote the sharing of basic public services and joint governance of the ecological environment. Optimize the layout of industrial parks, improve the factor support system, innovate park management mechanisms, and promote the quality enhancement, upgrading, and differentiated development of parks. (44) Advance people-centered new-type urbanization. Scientifically and orderly promote the urbanization process of agricultural and pastoral migrants, implementing the system of providing basic public services based on household registration in the place of permanent residence. Enhance the carrying capacity of the central urban area, promote urbanization with counties as important carriers, and improve industrial support capabilities and public service levels. Adhere to connotative urban development, vigorously implement urban renewal, promote urban structural optimization, momentum transformation, quality improvement, green transformation, cultural continuity, and governance efficiency, and build innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart modern cities. Strengthen urban disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities, such as flood control and drainage. Coordinate integrated urban-rural development, extend urban public services to industrial clusters, and plan urban and rural infrastructure construction at the county level. XIII. Promote Socialist Culture and Build a Culturally Strong City Uphold the guiding role of Marxism in the ideological field, deeply root it in the profound and extensive Chinese civilization, adapt to the trends of information technology development, vigorously develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and provide strong spiritual and cultural support for the city's various undertakings. (45) Promote and practice socialist core values. Strengthen the study and education of the Party's innovative theories, deeply implement the Marxist Theory Research and Construction Project, the Party's Innovative Theory Dissemination Project, and the Philosophy and Social Sciences Innovation Project, and persistently use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to inspire and shape people's convictions. Promote red culture, integrity culture, and clean governance culture, and leverage the role of culture in nurturing the mind and cultivating sentiments. Promote the spirit of the Mongolian horse, the "Three Norths" spirit, and the concept of mutual support, fostering an uplifting and positive spirit. Strengthen and improve ideological and political work, promote campus cultural development, make good use of red resources such as the Jining Campaign Memorial, and strengthen the education on ideals and beliefs for young people. Implement the new-era citizen moral construction project. Coordinate and advance the construction of urban and rural spiritual civilization. Strengthen the construction and management of online content, and enhance the governance capability in the cultural field under information conditions. (46) Vigorously flourish the cultural cause. Implement the high-quality literary and artistic creation project, support the production of high-quality literary and artistic works, cultivate a high-level cultural talent team, and enhance the original cultural creativity. Implement the project for inheriting and developing fine traditional Chinese culture, promote systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage, and comprehensively explore historical cultures such as the Great Wall and Yumin culture, strengthening effective protection and living inheritance of cultural relics and buildings. Implement the action to improve the quality and efficiency of public cultural services, and perfect the emergency broadcasting system. Extensively carry out mass cultural activities, and prosper new popular literature and art under internet conditions. Promote the high-quality development of the Ulan Muerqi cause, and conduct tours of local excellent plays. Advocate universal reading, and promote the building of a scholarly Ulanqab. (47) Accelerate the development of the cultural industry. Improve the cultural management system and production and operation mechanisms, and establish a complete cultural industry and market system, incubating high-quality cultural enterprises and brands. Deeply integrate culture with technology, drive the digital and intelligent empowerment and information transformation of cultural construction, develop new-type cultural industries, and innovate cultural consumption models. Guide and regulate the healthy development of online literature, online games, and online audio-visuals, and strengthen the online protection of minors. Promote the deep integration of culture and tourism, and empower economic and social development through culture. (48) Enhance the dissemination power and influence of mainstream culture. Strengthen the construction of the dissemination system, expand external communication and exchange, tell the stories of Ulanqab, spread the voice of Ulanqab, and showcase the image of Ulanqab. Deepen the systemic reform of mainstream media, promote the integrated management of news publicity and online public opinion, and improve the guiding ability of mainstream public opinion. Strengthen external cultural exchanges and cooperation, promote the regional characteristic culture to go nationwide and global, and enhance cultural soft power and influence. XIV. Increase Efforts to Ensure and Improve People's Livelihood, and Promote Common Prosperity Deeply practice the development philosophy centered on the people, strengthen the construction of inclusive, basic, and safety-net livelihood projects, effectively solve the urgent, difficult, and worrying issues of the masses, steadily promote the equalization of basic public services, and make common prosperity more tangible and accessible, allowing the striving Ulanqab to take a step closer to happiness. (49) Multiple Measures to Stabilize Employment and Boost Income. Thoroughly implement the employment-first strategy, improve the long-term mechanism for employment promotion, and establish a development model that is employment-friendly. Strengthen the synergy between industry and employment, actively cultivate new professions and job positions, and support enterprises in maintaining and expanding employment. Enhance the precise matching mechanism for labor supply and demand, improve the lifelong vocational skills training system, strengthen positive guidance on employment and recruitment perspectives, and focus on resolving structural employment mismatches. Optimize employment support and public service provision, stabilize and expand employment for key groups such as college graduates, migrant workers, and ex-servicemembers, strengthen employment assistance for individuals facing difficulties, including those from poverty-alleviated households, low-income families, zero-employment families, and persons with disabilities, and promote the healthy development of flexible employment and new forms of employment. Increase support for entrepreneurship to enhance its multiplier effect on job creation. Strengthen the protection of workers' legitimate rights and interests, create a fair and orderly employment environment, and improve employment impact assessment and monitoring and early warning systems. Implement the plan to increase the income of urban and rural residents. Improve mechanisms for reasonable wage growth, payment security, and adjustments to the minimum wage standard. Expand the scope of work-relief programs. Promote prosperity through culture and tourism. Increase property income for urban and rural residents through multiple channels. Guide and support enterprises, social organizations, and individuals willing and able to participate in public welfare and charitable causes. (50) Deliver Education That Satisfies the People. Implement the project for fostering virtue and nurturing talents in the new era, promote the effective integration of ideological and political education in classrooms and social practice, strengthen physical education, aesthetic education, and labor education, and promote students' physical and mental health and well-rounded development. Coordinate the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, the high-quality and inclusive development of preschool education, expand resources for regular senior secondary schools, and promote the revitalization of regular senior secondary schools at the county level. Improve continuing education, special education, and specialized education. Support Ulanqab Vocational College and Ulanqab Medical College in striving to become undergraduate institutions, building a regional hub for vocational education; support Jining Normal University in applying for master's degree granting units, improve the layout of postgraduate education, and enhance the level and quality of education. Guide, regulate, and promote the development of private education. Implement the initiative to cultivate the spirit of educators and strengthen the teaching force, training and fostering high-level principals, teachers, and homeroom teachers. Improve the collaborative education mechanism involving schools, families, and society. Advance the digitalization of education and the construction of a learning society. (51) Improve the Social Security System. Thoroughly implement the national insurance coverage plan, promoting the expansion and quality improvement of social insurance. Improve the multi-tiered medical security system, cooperating to advance the autonomous region-level coordination of basic medical insurance. Leverage the supplementary security role of various commercial insurance products. Improve the tiered and classified social assistance system, strengthening dynamic monitoring of low-income populations and providing regular assistance and support. Improve the service and protection mechanisms for special groups such as empty-nest elderly, children in difficult circumstances, and people with disabilities. Establish and improve the basic funeral service system. Safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of women and children. Strengthen the service and support for veterans. (52) Promote the construction of a healthy Ulanqab. Enhance public health capabilities, strengthen the disease control system, prevent and control major infectious diseases, and scientifically advance the coordinated management of allergens such as pollen and vector-borne organisms. Improve the collaborative development and governance mechanism for medical care, medical insurance, and pharmaceuticals, and promote tiered diagnosis and treatment. Deepen the reform of public hospitals with a focus on public welfare, strengthen the operational support for county and grassroots medical institutions, and strive to build a regional medical highland. Strengthen the connotation construction of closely-knit urban medical groups and county-level medical communities. Implement the healthcare strengthening project, promote the expansion and balanced distribution of high-quality medical resources, and advance the digital and intelligent construction of public health. Strengthen comprehensive prevention and control of chronic diseases. Consolidate and enhance the capacity for preventing and controlling endemic diseases. Strengthen the capability and conduct of the medical and health workforce. Promote the inheritance and innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine (Mongolian medicine). Strengthen mental health and psychiatric services. Coordinate the development of mass sports and competitive sports, and accelerate the construction of a strong sports city. Implement the "Student Milk Program" well. (53) Promote high-quality population development. Advocate a positive view on marriage and childbearing, implement supportive policies and incentives for fertility, and effectively reduce the costs of family reproduction, upbringing, and education. Strengthen the construction of infant and young child care systems, and develop affordable childcare and integrated early childhood education and care services. Strengthen health services for women and children. Promote the coordinated development of the elderly care cause and industry, optimize the supply of basic elderly care services, improve the urban and rural elderly care service network, and accelerate the adaptation of public facilities for the elderly and barrier-free modifications. Develop integrated medical and educational, as well as medical and elderly care services. Implement long-term care insurance. Foster the development of the silver economy. (54) Promote high-quality real estate development. Accelerate the establishment of a new model for real estate development, improve the linkage mechanism for the elements of "people, housing, land, and money," and establish a full-chain risk prevention and control system for real estate development, transactions, and rentals. Optimize the supply of affordable housing to meet the basic housing needs of urban salaried groups and various disadvantaged families. Adhere to city-specific policies and reasonably increase the supply of improved housing. Build safe, comfortable, green, and smart "good houses," and implement projects to enhance housing quality and property service quality. Establish a safety management system for the entire life cycle of buildings. XV. Strengthen the overall leadership of the Party and Party building to provide a strong guarantee for the implementation of the 15th Five-Year Plan Thoroughly implement the requirements of the Party's self-revolution in the new era, persistently advance the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, vigorously promote new trends and positive energy, effectively incentivize responsibility and action, and genuinely enhance the Party's ability and level to lead economic and social development, thereby gathering tremendous strength for promoting high-quality development. (55) Firmly uphold the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. Continuously unify thoughts, wills, and actions with Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, enhancing political discernment, comprehension, and enforcement, always maintaining high consistency in thought, politics, and action with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core. Strictly implement systems such as the "first agenda item," and improve long-term mechanisms for strengthening the soul through learning, increasing wisdom through learning, rectifying conduct through learning, and promoting work through learning, to deepen theoretical armament. Improve the full-chain, closed-loop working mechanism for implementing the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping and major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and perfect the system of "looking back" and reporting and notification. Uphold political discipline and rules, and strictly enforce the system of requesting instructions and reporting on major matters. Strengthen political supervision and deepen political inspections. (56) Comprehensively strengthen the construction of grassroots Party organizations and cadre teams. Strictly adhere to intra-Party political life, rigorously implement the system of democratic centralism, and enhance decision-making levels and implementation effectiveness. Adhere to the correct orientation in selecting and appointing personnel, deeply implement the standards for good cadres in the new era and the "four special" requirements for cadres in ethnic regions, and strengthen comprehensive management and regular supervision of cadres. Establish and practice the correct view of achievements, improve the cadre assessment and evaluation mechanism, adjust cadres who are not competent in their current positions, and promote the normalization of the ability of leading cadres to rise or step down. Intensify cadre education and training and practical exercises, fostering a strong atmosphere of extensive learning, in-depth surveys, pragmatic work, and integrity, to enhance the capabilities of the cadre team in promoting modernization. Combine strict management with care, and balance incentives with constraints, to stimulate the intrinsic motivation and overall vitality of the cadre team. Implement the important requirement of the "five fortresses," coordinate the construction of grassroots Party organizations in all fields, and enhance the political and organizational functions of the Party organizations. Improve the mechanism for Party members to play their roles both offline and online, and under normal and emergency conditions, to give full play to the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members. (57) Deeply advance the construction of clean government and the fight against corruption. Persistently implement the spirit of the eight-point decision of the Central Committee, vigorously promote a pragmatic style, advocate a clean and honest style, cultivate a simple and frugal style, and resolutely curb unhealthy trends, to achieve the normalization and long-term effectiveness of style building. Vigorously rectify formalism and bureaucratism, continuously relieve the burden on the grassroots. Regularly promote the study, understanding, and observance of discipline. Improve the institutional mechanisms that integrate authorization, power use, and power control, ensuring they are clear, transparent, and traceable, and strengthen the standardization and supervision of power allocation and operation. Continuously address misconduct and corruption issues close to the people. Thoroughly implement the important requirement of "zero tolerance" for both, and promote an integrated approach where officials dare not, cannot, and do not want to be corrupt, resolutely waging a tough, sustained, and comprehensive battle against corruption. (58) Improve the formulation and enforcement mechanisms for the 15th Five-Year Plan. Thoroughly implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party and the Tenth Plenary Session of the 11th Autonomous Regional Party Committee, scientifically formulate the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for our city and its specialized plans, and establish a planning system that is accurately positioned, clearly bounded, functionally complementary, and cohesively unified. Strengthen the monitoring, evaluation, and supervision of plan implementation, improve policy coordination and work collaboration mechanisms, enhance the enforcement of the plan, and ensure that all development goals and tasks of the 15th Five-Year Plan are effectively achieved. All Party organizations and the broad masses of Party members, cadres, and people in the city should unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core, thoroughly implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the work requirements of the Autonomous Regional Party Committee, deepen green development with concerted efforts, tackle industrial transformation with a pioneering spirit, and consolidate development synergy with mutual support, striving to write a new chapter of Chinese modernization in Ulanqab.