Monday, July 1, the twenty-sixth day of the fifth lunar month
High-level dynamics
1. Qiushi magazine published an important article by General Secretary Xi Jinping entitled "The Mission and Tasks of the Communist Party of China in the New Era and New Journey" The article emphasizes that from now on, the central task of the Communist Party of China is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to build a modern socialist country in an all-round way, realize the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. (Xinhua News Agency)
2. Xi Jinping: On June 30, he sent a congratulatory letter to congratulate the completion and opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan cross-river channel, and to extend sincere greetings to all comrades involved in the planning and construction. (Xinhua News Agency)
3. Xi Jinping: From July 2 to 6, Xi Jinping will attend the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Astana, and pay a state visit to the two countries at the invitation of President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and President of the Republic of Tajikistan Rahmon. (Xinhua News Agency)
Hard news
1. Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee: According to the latest intra-party statistics, by the end of 2023, the total number of members of the Communist Party of China was 99.185 million, a net increase of 1.144 million over the previous year. There were 5.176 million grassroots party organizations, a net increase of 111,000 over the previous year. (Xinhua News Agency)
2. General Office of National Defense and Ministry of Emergency Management: At present, the water level of the main stream of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the two lakes continues to rise, and numbered floods occur in Taihu Lake and Dongting Lake. (Ministry of Emergency Management website)
3. Ministry of Education: This summer, we will continue to open a hotline for college student financial assistance, the numbers are 010-66097980, 010-66096590, and the acceptance time is from July 1 to September 15, 8:00-20:00 every day, to provide financial aid policy consultation and help for college freshmen, especially college freshmen with financial difficulties. (Ministry of Education website)
4. State Administration for Market Supervision: This year, it has organized the revision and upgrading of a number of mandatory national standards for fire protection products, involving fire extinguishers, fire shutters, fire blocking materials, fire indication systems, fire detection alarms and other key fire protection products. (State Administration for Market Regulation website)
5. The Ministry of Water Resources and the China Meteorological Administration: At 18 o'clock on June 30, the red meteorological warning for flash floods was jointly issued, and it is expected that from 20 o'clock on June 30 to 20 o'clock on July 1, there is a high possibility of flash floods in western Hunan and eastern Guizhou (red warning). (China Meteorological Administration website)
6. China Railway Group: The 2024 National Summer Festival will start on July 1 and end on August 31, with a total of 62 days. Heilongjiang Province is a popular summer destination, and it is expected that China Railway Harbin Bureau Group Co., Ltd. will send more than 20 million passengers during the summer travel period. (CCTV News)
Hot news
1. No casualties in the fall of the Gongyi rocket On June 30, the Tianlong-3 liquid launch vehicle carried out a hot test of a sub-stage nine-machine parallel power system at the comprehensive test center of Gongyi City, Henan Province. The rocket then fell into the mountains 1.5 kilometers southwest of the test bench. After investigation, there were no casualties. The Tianlong-3 large liquid launch vehicle has a product performance comparable to SpaceX's Falcon 9. (@人民日报)
2. At about 7 o'clock in the morning on June 29, on the way from Shanghai to Jeju, South Korea, the staff checked the surveillance video on the ship and found that a male passenger fell into the sea after climbing over the railing. The Aida Modu urgently reversed course to the area where the passengers fell into the sea and immediately launched search and rescue work. At present, the search and rescue of the passenger is still in full swing. (@上游新闻)
3. Villagers hired forklifts to dig up the ruins of the Great Wall of Qin for the construction of a cemetery Recently, Zheng Moumou, a villager in Jingbian County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, was transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution by the Jingbian County Public Security Bureau for deliberately damaging the provincial-level cultural relics protection unit "Warring States Qin Great Wall Site" and was suspected of intentionally destroying cultural relics. In April this year, Zheng Moumou hired a forklift to excavate and level the land at the site of the Qin Great Wall in Longyi Village, preparing to use it as a cemetery, and was subsequently arrested by the police. (Yulin Public Security)
4. Beijing Tobacco Control Association recommends supervising cigarette cards Recently, a game called "cigarette cards" has become popular among primary school students. According to the Municipal Tobacco Control Association, the "cigarette card" is a carrier for the disguised dissemination of tobacco information, and the early exposure of primary school students to tobacco trademarks may lead to psychological hints of trying to smoke. In order to get a "cigarette card", some students look for discarded cigarette packs on the side of the road, or even rummage through the garbage cans, and their hands are very susceptible to bacterial contamination. The association proposes to supervise and manage the "cigarette card". (@中国新闻网)
5. NASA denies that 2 astronauts were trapped in space NASA said on June 28 that the return time of the Boeing "Starliner" spacecraft will continue to be postponed, and it is not yet possible to give a definite return date. The "Starliner" spacecraft, which made its first manned test flight, took off on June 5 with two American astronauts, Barry Wilmore and Suni Williams, and the spacecraft was originally scheduled to leave the International Space Station on the 14th and return to Earth, but the return time was repeatedly postponed. (@新华社)
Warm news
1. A 99-year-old Anti-Japanese War veteran demonstrates how to fight a bayonet with a cane Recently, Sun Hongxiu, a 99-year-old veteran of the Anti-Japanese War, came to the barracks. Seeing the new equipment, he couldn't help but pick it up and make an aiming and shooting action, his eyes were resolute. He also used crutches to perform the bayonet fighting maneuvers he had trained that year. Netizen: It seems that I saw the little soldier who charged into battle back then. (@央视新闻)
2. The scene of rainstorm rescue is worrying and touching On June 29, Yuan County, Qiandongnan Town, Guizhou Province, suffered continuous heavy rainfall. Facing the elderly man with limited mobility, the three of them slowly walked forward in the water that was submerged over their shoulders. Thank you for coming to the rescue! Everyone pays attention to safety. (@人民日报)
International News
1. Israeli Army Claims to Strike Northern Gaza Strip The Israel Defense Forces said on the 29th that the Israeli army carried out an airstrike on Shujaya, east of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, and simultaneously launched ground and underground combat operations, killing a number of Palestinian armed personnel and discovering an arms depot. The Qassam Brigades, an armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said its fighters had repeatedly ambushed Israeli soldiers in the Shujaya area. The Kasan brigade also claimed to have seized an Israeli reconnaissance drone. (CCTV News)
2. North Korea Severely Condemns Joint Military Exercises of the United States, Japan, and South Korea In response to the recent joint military exercises held by the United States, Japan, and South Korea, the Foreign Policy Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK issued a statement on June 30, severely condemning the reckless military provocations carried out by the United States, Japan, and South Korea. The statement warned that the DPRK will take offensive and overwhelming countermeasures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty. (CCTV News)
Source: An Jian, head of the Central Political and Legal Commission