NPC deputy from Zhejiang committed to pursuing shared prosperity by partnering with villages across China

Xinchuan Village will work with other villages across the country to achieve shared prosperity and rural revitalization, said Zhang Tianren, Party Secretary of Xinchuan Village in east China's Zhejiang Province and deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC).

Speaking at a group interview ahead of the opening meeting of the third session of the 14th NPC at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday morning, Zhang shared the secret recipe that led Xinchuan Village to revitalization.

"One village becoming rich is not true prosperity. True prosperity is when everyone prospers together. In recent years, Xinchuan Village has partnered with Taipan Village in Taijiang County, Guizhou Province, Xiaogang Village in Fengyang County, Anhui Province, and several other villages to jointly promote rural revitalization. Over 80 enterprises in Xinchuan Village have also provided high-quality employment opportunities for more than 1,780 ethnic minority individuals from 32 ethnic groups across the country, helping them increase their incomes," said Zhang.

Zhang also said that he has personally witnessed the tremendous changes the "Green Rural Revival Program" brought to the mountain villages, where lush green mountains have been transformed into sources of prosperity.

The "Green Rural Revival Program" was launched in 2003 in east China's Zhejiang Province, one of the country's richest and most developed regions.

The program began with a mission to improve rural living conditions by renovating approximately 10,000 incorporated villages in five years, and by transforming about 1,000 of that number that were classed as central villages into examples of moderate prosperity in all respects.

He said that Xinchuan Village will work with other villages to achieve shared prosperity and rural revitalization.

"In the future, we will partner with more ethnic groups and villages across the country, uniting like pomegranate seeds. Together, we will share Zhejiang's experience in the 'Green Rural Revival Program' and comprehensive rural revitalization to achieve common development and shared prosperity," said Zhang.

NPC deputy from Zhejiang committed to pursuing shared prosperity by partnering with villages across China

More than 1,000 coal mines in China have adopted intelligent systems, as their application expands from pilot projects to large-scale deployment, the China National Coal Association said recently.

Statistics show that by the end of 2025, a total of 1,066 coal mines nationwide have introduced smart systems, with such technologies now supporting more than 65 percent of the country's coal production capacity. The number of autonomous mining trucks in operation surpassed 4,000 units, roughly doubling on an annual basis.

The rapid adoption of smart mining is driven by robust domestic capabilities in intelligent equipment and technology. In Beijing, a newly deployed underground Internet of Things (IoT) precision positioning and management system links workers, positioning cards and operating zones, while also enabling health monitoring. Its core technologies and components are fully domestically developed and have been applied in coal mines and coal preparation plants. "This underground positioning system we've developed has a positioning deviation of less than 20 centimeters when a person or device is stationary. Even when a person or device is moving at high speeds, the margin of error remains minimal. A single device can cover a radius of 800 meters," said Wu Fengdong, general manager of China Coal Beijing Coal Mining Machinery Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Coal Group Corporation.

Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021–2025), cumulative investment in smart mining has exceeded 107.1 billion yuan (about 15.6 billion U.S. dollars), with intelligent technologies now widely applied, accelerating the shift from traditional mining to modern, technology-driven extraction.

Over 60 pct of China's coal production capacity uses smart technology by end of 2025