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[A total of 850.5 billion yuan has been invested in the country to support the development of poverty-stricken areas.] Yesterday, at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on the theme of "High-Quality Completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan," the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stated that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, my country has made positive progress in consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation, firmly maintaining the bottom line of preventing large-scale relapse into poverty. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Jun stated that the central government has specifically allocated subsidies for the connection and promotion of rural revitalization. Since the 14th Five-Year Plan, a total of 850.5 billion yuan has been invested, representing real financial support. (CCTV)

[New Scientific Breakthrough: Chinese Scientists Solve the Century-Old Puzzle of Plant Cell Totipotency] On September 16th, Beijing time, the internationally renowned academic journal Cell published online the research findings of Chinese scientists, fully revealing the entire process of how a single plant cell develops into a complete plant. Using cutting-edge technologies such as single-cell sequencing and in vivo imaging, the research team of Professors Zhang Xiansheng and Su Yinghua from Shandong Agricultural University captured the entire division process of a single plant cell for the first time, directly confirming the "single-cell origin" of plant cell totipotency and resolving a long-standing question in the academic community.

[2025 National Cybersecurity Publicity Week Cybersecurity Entrepreneurs Symposium Held in Kunming] On September 15, the 2025 National Cybersecurity Publicity Week Cybersecurity Entrepreneurs Symposium was held at the Dianchi International Convention and Exhibition Center in Kunming. The meeting was chaired by Yang Jianwen, Deputy Director of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and Deputy Director of the National Cyberspace Administration of China. Yang Jianwen pointed out that at present, with the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, the demand for cybersecurity is accelerating the transformation from "compliance-driven" to "risk-driven". This is not only the core direction of industrial development, but also an inevitable choice for coping with complex network environments. It requires "three-party linkage and joint efforts." The competent industry departments should provide "real" support for industrial transformation, provide a better policy environment for cybersecurity companies, promote high-quality development of the industry, and encourage companies to participate in standard setting. Leading companies need to shoulder the responsibility of tackling "bottleneck" technologies, focus on key areas such as chips, and jointly build innovation alliances with universities and research institutes to accelerate the development of independent and controllable security chips to break the monopoly, and help small and medium-sized enterprises improve their security capabilities through "mentoring, helping and guiding". (Cyberspace Administration of China)

Singapore's exports continued to decline in August. Singapore's non-oil domestic exports fell for the second consecutive month in August, indicating that the impact of frontloading as US tariffs took effect continued to wane. Enterprise Singapore said Wednesday that the trade-reliant economy's non-oil domestic exports fell 11.3% from a year earlier. This compares to a revised 4.7% contraction in July, compared with a 1.1% growth forecast by a Wall Street Journal survey of nine economists. The decline in exports suggests that the boost to exports earlier this year from frontloading shipments to beat US President Trump's tariff deadlines has faded. Electronics exports, a key driver of Singapore's economic growth, fell 6.5% year-on-year in August, after a revised 2.7% increase in July. Non-electronics exports fell 13% year-on-year last month, after a revised 6.7% contraction in July. Non-oil domestic exports to the United States, China, and Indonesia contracted in August, while they rose to the EU-27 and South Korea. The government agency said exports of special machinery, food preparations and petrochemicals shrank by 29.1%, 51.4% and 23.2% respectively, with the biggest impact on the decline in non-electronics non-oil domestic exports. Enterprise Singapore said it is actively monitoring the evolving tariff situation and will adjust its 2025 non-oil domestic export forecasts, if necessary, to reflect changing market conditions.

Hubei: Accelerating the Development of a National Highland for the Artificial Intelligence Industry and Focusing on Implementing "AI+" Application Scenario Demonstration Projects. On the morning of September 16th, a special training session for key city and department-level leading cadres across the province, as well as a collective (expanded) study session of the Provincial Party Committee's Theoretical Study Center Group, was held. Wang Zhonglin, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized the need to seize the strategic opportunity of data-driven development of the artificial intelligence industry, strive to build a national highland for the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and provide strong support for accelerating the establishment of a key strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region. Wang Zhonglin emphasized that we must firmly grasp the key tasks of data-driven development of artificial intelligence, focus on implementing innovation-driven leading projects, promote the concentrated efforts in advantageous fields such as deep learning general-purpose chips, storage and computing integrated AI chips, automotive-grade smart cockpit chips, and three-dimensional flash memory, break through key common technologies such as 6G networks, large-scale model infrastructure innovation, and multimodal data processing, and promote artificial intelligence innovation to achieve a leap from "following" to "leading"; focus on implementing basic support and capacity-enhancing projects, strengthen computing power, algorithms, and data support, accelerate the construction of national node projects such as the National (Wuhan) New Internet Exchange Center, build an ecologically open, application-led artificial intelligence industry public service system, and strive to create a data element flow in central China. Connect hubs and build a data-strong province; focus on implementing industrial agglomeration and cultivation projects, give full play to the powerful role of artificial intelligence in driving industrial transformation, empower traditional industries to "transform into smart and digital", the development and growth of emerging industries, and forward-looking layout of future industries, promote the in-depth and practical integration of real and digital, and provide strong support for the development of new quality productivity and the shaping of new development momentum and new advantages; focus on implementing "artificial intelligence +" application scenario demonstration projects, promote high-quality development in manufacturing fields such as high-end optical chips, metaverse, autonomous driving, and low-altitude flight, improve the governance efficiency of social fields such as government services and urban governance, and innovate new scenarios, new models, and new business formats in people's livelihood fields such as education, medical care, elderly care, and childcare, and continuously meet the people's yearning for a better life.

[Institutions say the localization rate of home appliance analog chips is 65%] On September 16, it was learned from home appliance chip agents, analysts and experts that the localization rate of analog chips used in home appliances is already high. According to statistics from Industry Online, by the end of 2024, the localization rate of analog chips in China's home appliances will reach 65%.