On August 25, Anhui Province Governor Wang Qingxian conducted research on the fusion energy future industry in Hefei. He emphasized seizing the critical window period for fusion energy technology breakthroughs, adhering to technology-driven industrial innovation, and accelerating the engineering, industrialization, and commercialization of fusion energy. During the research, Wang Qingxian hosted a symposium to hear opinions and suggestions from academicians, experts, and entrepreneurs. He pointed out the need to deeply understand the global competitive landscape of fusion energy, leverage Anhui's advantages, strengthen and utilize national strategic scientific and technological forces, continuously advance key technology research, and form systematic competitive advantages. Efforts should be made to promote deep integration of government, industry, academia, research, finance, services, and applications, construct full-chain incubation and transformation innovation platforms, and gather innovation and industrial resources with greater intensity. Focus should be placed on cultivating fusion energy industrial clusters, systematically organizing "spin-off" technology projects, precisely conducting scenario matching and "dual recruitment," and rapidly forming industrial agglomeration effects. Institutional and mechanism innovation should be deepened, using reforms to stimulate market vitality, attract more social capital participation, and promote mutual empowerment of technology, industry, and capital.

**Analysis:** Fusion energy, known as the "artificial sun," possesses numerous advantages including abundant fuel supply, safety and reliability, environmental cleanliness, high energy density, and obvious economic benefits, making it viewed as humanity's most ideal "ultimate energy source." Currently, major global nations have begun actively promoting the commercial development of controlled nuclear fusion. According to the "2025 Global Fusion Industry Report" released by the Fusion Industry Association (FIA) in July this year, global fusion industry total investment has reached $9.766 billion to date, representing an increase of over 414% compared to 2021. Major technology companies like Microsoft have joined the race, igniting a global "race to the sun."

In recent years, nuclear fusion has been incorporated into China's future industry strategic layout. For example, "Opinions on Complete, Accurate, and Comprehensive Implementation of New Development Concepts for Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality" and "Carbon Peak Action Plan Before 2030" explicitly require active promotion of controlled nuclear fusion technology research. In 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and six other departments jointly released "Implementation Opinions on Promoting Future Industry Innovation and Development," clearly proposing to strengthen key core technology research in future energy represented by nuclear fusion. This policy signal has been viewed as "sounding the charge for China's controlled nuclear fusion to move toward practical application."

In this competition concerning future energy landscape, Anhui and Hefei possess obvious advantages. As a comprehensive national science center, relying on major national scientific and technological infrastructure such as EAST and BEST, Hefei has become the city with the most concentrated large-scale scientific installations in the global nuclear fusion field. Previously, Anhui explicitly stated its intention to actively create three major scientific innovation highlands: "quantum information, fusion energy, and deep space exploration." In Hefei's "6+5+X" industrial cluster, fusion energy is a future industry track that Hefei focuses on developing. Currently, Hefei has gathered over 70 fusion energy industrial chain enterprises, covering the entire industrial chain from upstream superconducting wire production, midstream main equipment manufacturing and engineering construction, to downstream design operators. As fusion energy ushers in its development window period, Anhui has begun to anticipate "lighting the first lamp of fusion energy."

**China to Deeply Implement "AI+" Action** The State Council recently issued "Opinions on Deeply Implementing 'Artificial Intelligence+' Action," proposing to accelerate implementation of six key actions. First, "AI+" science and technology to accelerate scientific discovery processes, drive innovation in technology research and development models and efficiency improvement, and innovate philosophy and social science research methods. Second, "AI+" industrial development to cultivate intelligent native new models and formats, promote intelligent development of all industrial factors, accelerate agricultural digital transformation and upgrading, and innovate service industry development models. Third, "AI+" consumption enhancement to expand new service consumption scenarios and cultivate new product consumption formats. Fourth, "AI+" people's livelihood welfare to create more intelligent work methods, promote more effective learning methods, and create higher quality beautiful life. Fifth, "AI+" governance capacity to create new landscapes of human-machine symbiosis in social governance, build new patterns of multi-party co-governance in security governance, and jointly paint new pictures of ecological governance for Beautiful China. Sixth, "AI+" global cooperation to promote inclusive sharing of artificial intelligence and jointly build a global AI governance system.

**Shenzhen's First Downtown Duty-Free Shop Officially Opens** Shenzhen's first downtown duty-free shop officially opened on August 26. The downtown duty-free shop is jointly created by China Duty Free Group, Shenzhen Duty Free Group, and Shum Yip Group. The store is located on the first floor of Shum Yip UpperHills, covering nearly 3,000 square meters. The store focuses on diverse consumer needs, covering categories including cosmetics and skincare, watches and jewelry, premium alcohol, domestic brand boutiques, and technology electronics.

**Jiangmen Neutrino Experiment Officially Operational** On August 26, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) successfully completed the injection of 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator and officially began operational data collection. After more than ten years of preparation and construction, JUNO has become the world's first operational ultra-large scale and ultra-high precision neutrino-dedicated large scientific facility. Data obtained during the trial operation period shows that key performance indicators of the JUNO detector have fully met or exceeded design expectations.

**Chongqing Strives to Cultivate 40 Ten-Billion-Yuan Enterprises** On August 25, Chongqing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology released the "Chongqing Quality Enterprise Gradient Cultivation Work Plan (2025-2027)." The plan proposes that by 2027, efforts will be made to newly cultivate 90 specialized and sophisticated "little giant" enterprises, 50 national and municipal manufacturing single champion enterprises, cumulatively cultivate over 300 (potential) unicorn and gazelle quality enterprises, and reach 40 ten-billion-yuan enterprises.

**Yangtze River High-Speed Railway Wuhan-Yichang Section Begins Trial Operation** At 8:46 AM on August 26, with the departure of the first test train No. 55402 from Yichang North Station, the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu Yangtze River High-Speed Railway Wuhan-Yichang section officially entered the trial operation phase. The Wuhan-Yichang section is located within Hubei Province, starting from Wuhan, passing through Tianmen and Jingmen, and ending in Yichang, with a main line length of 313 kilometers and a design speed of 350 km/h. After the line is completed and opened to traffic, the fastest rail travel time from Wuhan to Yichang will be compressed from 2 hours to about 1 hour.

**One in Every Three Units of Electricity Consumption is Green Power** On August 26, at a State Council Information Office press conference, Wang Hongzhi, Party Group Member of the National Development and Reform Commission and Director of the National Energy Administration, stated that the "14th Five-Year Plan" period represents the fastest five years for green and low-carbon transformation. China has built the world's largest and fastest-developing renewable energy system, with renewable energy power generation capacity share increasing from 40% to about 60%. Energy consumption is "pursuing green development," with one in every three units of electricity consumption being green power nationwide. In national energy consumption, the share of non-fossil energy increases by 1 percentage point annually, expected to exceed the 20% target set for the "14th Five-Year Plan," while coal's share decreases by 1 percentage point annually. This "one increase, one decrease" has significantly enhanced the "green content" of economic development.

The "14th Five-Year Plan" period has also seen greater breakthroughs in energy technology innovation. China's new energy and other technology equipment leads globally, with new energy patents accounting for over 40% of the global total. Photovoltaic conversion efficiency and offshore wind turbine unit capacity continue to set world records. In just a few years, new energy storage scale has jumped to first place globally.

**Summer Travel: Which Cities Are More Popular?** On August 25, a "2025 Summer Travel Market Report" released by Ctrip showed that the 2-month extended duration led nearly half of domestic tourists to choose long-distance travel, with overall consumption structure becoming more rational. Since July, national average temperatures have set records for the same period, making "coolness" the first keyword for summer tourism. Destinations with average temperatures not exceeding 30°C, including Weihai, Qiandongnan, Qinhuangdao, Dalian, Qingdao, Yantai, Anji, Guilin, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, and Guiyang, jointly entered Ctrip's reputation list of "Top Ten Summer Water Play and Heat Escape Destinations." Among them, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Dalian, Weihai, Qingdao, and Yantai also entered the top fifteen domestic tourism growth destinations, with average tourism orders showing double-digit growth.

This year's "chartered vehicle tours + summer retreat vacation" model is favored by more tourists. Orders for popular summer retreat destinations Guizhou and Yunnan grew by over 80% year-on-year, while niche summer retreat destinations Inner Mongolia Chifeng, Liaoning Dandong, and Jilin Baishan saw order volumes grow by over 200% year-on-year. Summer family car rental self-driving tour orders increased 77% year-on-year. Top summer domestic self-driving cities were Chengdu, Urumqi, Sanya, Xining, Haikou, Guiyang, Dali, Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou.

According to a "2025 Summer Travel Quick Report" released by Fliggy on August 26, this year's summer long-distance travel proportion further expanded, with destinations including Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Liaoning, and Ningxia leading in growth. In terms of total tourist numbers, Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Chengdu, and Guangzhou were popular summer travel destinations. In terms of growth rate, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Shanxi, and Yunnan ranked at the front, with places like Xinjiang Zhaosu, Yunnan Nujiang, Hainan Changjiang, Yunnan Dehong, and Jiangxi Jingdezhen all seeing summer tourism order volumes approaching year-on-year doubling growth.