A comprehensive showcase of Hohhot's high-quality development, vibrant industries, flourishing culture and tourism, improved livelihoods, and open, progressive new image is being presented through the "State and Provincial Media Focus on Qingcheng" column. This column gathers recent outstanding reports on Hohhot from multiple central mainstream media outlets, offering a glimpse into the city's dynamic vitality and diverse charm.

On August 1, Xinhua Net reported, "2026 World Dairy Congress Opens, Global Dairy Leaders Gather in Hohhot to Discuss Development Plans." Using the industry event held at the Qilian Grassland Thousand-Person Conference Center as a platform, the report showcased Hohhot's status as a global dairy core hub. It highlighted the city's complete dairy industry chain, which integrates forage, breeding, farming, and deep processing. The congress brought together nearly a thousand global industry authorities and leading enterprise representatives, launched several dairy science and innovation and international cooperation projects, and held a "World Dairy Capital" awarding ceremony. This demonstrated to the world Hohhot's hard power in upgrading from "China's Dairy Capital" to a world-class dairy hub, leveraging its golden milk source endowment and a cluster of two top-10 global dairy enterprises to build a platform for domestic and international dairy exchange and cooperation, continuously amplifying the international influence of the capital's dairy brand.

On August 2, CCTV-2's "First Time" program aired "2026 World Dairy Congress Opens, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Awarded the 'World Dairy Capital' Title." The report focused on this landmark milestone, deeply interpreting Hohhot's 21-year journey of advancing the dairy industry. It showcased the city's full-chain, sustainable dairy development model from four dimensions: milk source foundation, scientific and technological innovation, green production, and industrial clustering. The report highlighted that the core indicators of the city's fresh milk surpass EU standards and that two national-level dairy science and innovation centers are operational. It described Hohhot's practice of using industrial innovation to achieve a leap from scale expansion to quality leadership, polishing the new city business card of "World Dairy Capital" for the whole country and the world.

On August 3, the CCTV Finance WeChat video channel aired "Super Production Line: How Hohhot, the World Dairy Capital, Redefines 'Green'." The segment entered the intelligent manufacturing base of a local leading enterprise, showcasing the city's entire dairy chain's low-carbon circular development system through on-the-ground footage. Relying on abundant local green electricity resources, the report fully presented the capital's unique green dairy closed-loop model, from ecological forage planting and zero-carbon pasture farming to factory water conservation and emission reduction, and waste resource utilization. It demonstrated the scientific achievements of digital and intelligent production lines breaking the overseas monopoly on high-end dairy raw materials, highlighting Hohhot's exemplary value in transforming ecological resource advantages into industrial competitive advantages and leading the sustainable development of the global dairy industry through green transformation.

On August 4, China News Service reported "World Dairy Congress Held in Qingcheng, Industry Experts Discuss the New Future of Milk Protein and Probiotics." The report focused on the conference's core industry forums, showcasing Hohhot's unique advantages as a source of innovation for deep processing in the domestic dairy industry. It recorded in-depth discussions on "bottleneck" technologies such as milk protein purification and independent probiotic cultivation by top domestic research teams and global dairy leaders gathered at the Hohhot National Dairy Technology Innovation Center. The report highlighted that the city has built Asia's largest smart probiotic factory, achieving domestic substitution for leavening agents and high-end dairy raw materials. Hohhot is attracting global industrial resources by relying on a complete industrial ecosystem, continuously solidifying its position as a high-end dairy science and innovation industry hub.

On August 4, the Farmers' Daily WeChat public account published "Why Did This Event 'Crown' a City?" The article deeply analyzed the underlying logic of Hohhot being awarded the "World Dairy Capital" title from the perspectives of agricultural industry, food security, and rural revitalization. Based on the strategic positioning of the national agricultural and livestock product base, it described how Hohhot builds a solid foundation for the dairy industry by relying on a million-mu high-quality forage base and an independent dairy cow breeding system. The article interpreted the city's path to enriching farmers by driving coordinated income growth in forage planting, large-scale farming, and rural cultural tourism through the dairy industry. It showcased Hohhot's model of using the entire dairy industry chain to boost rural industry prosperity and ensure national dairy food security, promoting the city's development experience of revitalizing the city through the dairy industry and enriching the people to the national agricultural sector.

On August 6, the People's Daily (Page 7) published "Women in Inner Mongolia Leverage Their Strengths to Boost Green Industry, Ethnic Unity, and Cultural Tourism Integration: Work Hard for Development, Bloom with Splendor." The article showcased the vibrant practices of grassroots women empowering the city's diversified development in Hohhot. It recorded the efforts of female community workers in Qingquan Street, Yuquan District, who are deeply engaged in ethnic unity governance, creating a model community where multiple ethnic groups live together in harmony, thus solidifying the foundation of ethnic unity. The report comprehensively displayed Hohhot's urban landscape of ethnic unity and coordinated urban-rural industrial development.

On August 7, the People's Daily (Page 7) published "Haraqin Village, Xincheng District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Develops Sports and Leisure Industry: Exciting Events Bring a Small Mountain Village to Life (Big Country, Small Village)." Using the case of Haraqin Village's sports-tourism integration revitalization, the article promoted Hohhot's new development path for ecological villages along the Daqing Mountains. The report focused on the village's use of ecological resources to establish the National Northern Football Training Base, a comprehensive sports and leisure park, and an understory camping base. It continuously hosts mass events like "Village BA," creating a year-round cultural tourism consumption chain by connecting mountain sightseeing, folk dining, and outdoor leisure. The article showcased the positive results of revitalizing idle land, encouraging returning youth entrepreneurship, and increasing villagers' income near their homes. It highlighted Hohhot's innovative measures to coordinate the ecological protection of the Daqing Mountains with the cultivation of rural industries, using mass sports to activate rural revitalization and create a model for suburban eco-cultural tourism.