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Limited spots available, first come first served. Let us jointly embark on the journey of sustainability! [Click to Register] Today's Focus: Latest Holiday Notice. Next month, Jiangsu Province's first autumn holiday for primary and secondary school students will arrive. According to Xinhua Daily · Jiaohuidian: On October 16, the "Autumn Holiday Awaits, Wonderful Study Tours — A Million Students Explore Jiangsu" Jiangsu Province primary and secondary school autumn holiday study tour special release event was held in Nanjing.
The event site released the 2026 Jiangsu Province primary and secondary school autumn holiday schedule, autumn holiday cultural tourism supporting preferential policies, and the "Jiangsu Province Primary and Secondary School Students Spring and Autumn Holiday Activity Proposal," and debuted 52 provincial-level curriculum-based premium study tour routes. Jiangsu has fully implemented the spring and autumn holiday system for primary and secondary schools starting from 2026, which is an important practice of implementing the "health first" education concept and carrying out the national deployment of promoting spring and autumn holidays in primary and secondary schools.
This year's spring holiday in Jiangsu landed smoothly and received widespread praise from society. The autumn holiday is arriving in succession, with all 13 prefecture-level cities in the province implementing staggered holiday schedules: Nanjing, Wuxi, Changzhou, Suzhou, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Taizhou, and Suqian will have holidays from November 14 to 18; Xuzhou, Lianyungang, and Huai'an from November 18 to 22; Nantong and Zhenjiang will have their autumn holiday from November 26 to 30. All localities have connected with weekends, leaving ample space for students' study tours and family companionship. The proposal released at the event called on primary and secondary school students to return the holiday to life, persist in physical exercise, maintain regular schedules, read independently, do household chores, actively participate in study tours, community volunteer services, and family tradition inheritance, tempering skills and cultivating character in real-life scenarios.
The event site debuted 52 curriculum-based provincial-level premium study tour routes, achieving full coverage of all 13 prefecture-level cities and building a five-theme matrix of red study tours, science and technology study tours, prestigious school study tours, intangible cultural heritage study tours, and humanities study tours. Nine red study tour routes turn revolutionary sites into immersive ideological and political classrooms; nine science and technology study tour routes enter factory workshops and innovation frontlines to ignite young people's scientific dreams; 13 prestigious school study tour routes connect university academic resources with urban history and culture; 10 intangible cultural heritage study tour routes integrate great power manufacturing with traditional craftsmanship; 11 humanities study tour routes link cultural landmarks such as the Grand Canal, Wu-Yue, and Chu-Han, promoting deep integration of textbook knowledge with real-world scenarios. All routes follow the design logic of "perception, critical thinking, practice," taking into account the cognitive levels of different grade levels, and will subsequently be incorporated into the province's study tour education resource database, pushed to 16 provinces nationwide that implement autumn holidays, polishing Jiangsu's study tour practice education brand.
Cultural tourism benefits for the people are simultaneously increased. The Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, together with the Provincial Department of Education, guides localities to deeply explore local characteristics and integrate quality resources, creating a "one city, one feature; one city, one brand" urban study tour IP, and launching premium study tour projects with distinct themes, rich content, and diverse experiences. "Read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles. The most beautiful autumn scenery is on the road, and the best classroom is in Jiangsu," said Wu Lintong, Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism. All 13 cities in the province have introduced free tickets, half-price, and special discounts for young people, comprehensively implementing the "students enjoy discounts, parents enjoy benefits" linkage policy, with accompanying parents able to enjoy free or half-price discounts; cultural and museum venues and intangible cultural heritage inheritance bases have centrally launched autumn holiday study tour courses, covering museum interpretations, intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, opera appreciation, etc., with the vast majority being public welfare and free of charge; at the same time, convenient measures such as ticket linkage and bus special lines are being introduced to make study tour travel more convenient.
He also used the "Autumn Holiday Study Tour of Water Transport Jiangsu" to connect various cities, from Nanjing to Suzhou, Xuzhou, Changzhou, Nantong, Lianyungang, Huai'an, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou, and Suqian, allowing young people to understand the universe and all things through walking in mountains and rivers. The "Jiangsu Province Primary and Secondary School Students Spring and Autumn Holiday Activity Proposal" focuses on "how to spend the holiday." The proposal suggests returning the holiday to life and returning growth to children; adhering to health first, engaging in daily outdoor physical exercise or nature experiences to prevent myopia; developing regular routines, avoiding staying up late scrolling on phones, reversing day and night, and prolonged sitting; encouraging moderate independent learning, carrying out extracurricular reading, observation records, interest exploration, and life research; actively participating in household chores, mastering skills such as organizing, cleaning, simple food ingredient handling, garbage classification, and simple bookkeeping; visiting patriotism education bases, cultural and museum venues, science and technology museums, intangible cultural heritage workshops, universities and research institutes, ecological wetlands, characteristic ancient towns, etc.; devoting themselves to community volunteer services; inheriting fine family traditions, carrying out return visits, folk custom experiences, filial piety and respect for the elderly, and other practices. "The best classroom is not just within the four walls of a room; mountains, rivers, and all things are growth textbooks," said Ye Biaorong, Party Secretary of Jiangsu Cultural Investment Group.
The Provincial Cultural Investment Group, relying on platforms such as the Jiangsu Grand Theatre, has created art study tours and the "Grand Canal Youth" study tour brand, integrating high-end resources such as science popularization by prestigious school academicians and laboratories, and has already served millions of young people. Next, the group will integrate quality resources across the province to create a Jiangsu study tour benchmark that combines cultural heritage, educational content, and contemporary characteristics, helping high-quality development of practical education. With the autumn holiday approaching, holiday childcare has become a topic of concern for many families. Fu Zhuyu, Party Member and Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Education, stated that in response to situations where some students cannot go out for study tours and families have difficulty providing care, local education administrative departments should refine childcare service measures, urge primary and secondary schools to provide on-campus services with "all who should be served are served," open classrooms, libraries, sports venues, and other resource facilities, provide care services, and strictly prohibit disguised remedial classes or teaching new lessons.
At the same time, education departments, together with trade unions, Communist Youth League, Women's Federation, and other mass organizations, should provide nearby public welfare childcare services for families with childcare needs. Source: Xinhua Daily, Jiangsu News. Local Attention: Though rice grains are small, they are a national affair! Shuyang brings food security knowledge to the masses. On October 16, Shuyang County carried out the 2026 World Food Day and National Food Security Publicity Week themed activity. This activity was hosted by the County Development and Reform Bureau and the County Grain Group Co., Ltd., focusing on food security science popularization and publicity, guiding the general public to establish food security awareness and understand whole grain nutrition knowledge.
At the event site, staff distributed publicity materials such as healthy staple food proposals, whole grain science popularization, and family scientific grain storage to passing residents, and set up a fun quiz session on grain and oil knowledge, distributing promotional gifts to participating masses. Through interactive forms loved by the masses, food security-related knowledge was popularized, further enhancing the masses' sense of responsibility for safeguarding national food security and deepening everyone's understanding of whole grain healthy staple foods. "Apple" adds a good "harvest" scene! Huachong Town's thousand-mu apple orchard enjoys a bumper harvest. In the golden autumn of October, the thousand-mu Red Fuji apple orchard in Dongyuan Village, Huachong Town, has ushered in a fruitful harvest season.
Fruit farmers are seizing the fine weather to pick and sort, with the joy of harvest everywhere. It is understood that Dongyuan Village has a history of apple planting for more than 30 years. Of the more than 800 households in the village, more than 500 are engaged in apple planting. Over the years, the local area has continuously promoted scientific cultivation and green management techniques, cultivating Red Fuji apples that are sweet, crisp, and well-shaped, with high market recognition and perennial shortage of supply. Bonsai Market Thrives Online. On October 16, the bonsai market in Zhouquan Village, Xinhe Town, Shuyang County, was bustling with popularity, with dozens of e-commerce livestreamers weaving through the stalls for live broadcasts. As "China's No. 1 Bonsai Taobao Village," Zhouquan Village has built a 2,850-mu bonsai industry base, gathering more than 260 operating entities and more than 360 online stores, cultivating more than 800 professional livestreaming practitioners, with the village's annual comprehensive bonsai output value of approximately 320 million yuan.
Zhouquan Village relies on e-commerce livestreaming to expand sales channels, revitalizing the traditional bonsai industry and driving villagers to increase income and become wealthy. News Express: National Hiking Index Map Released! These Ten Famous Mountains Are Worth Visiting on Double Ninth Festival. This Sunday (October 18) is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the Double Ninth Festival, another season for hiking and looking far into the distance. As temperatures drop, mountain leaves turn red like fire, orange like rosy clouds, and yellow like gold, with colorful scrolls slowly unfolding before the eyes. For this reason, China Weather Network has launched a national hiking index map.
Currently, a relatively strong cold air mass is affecting our country, with widespread precipitation arriving today and tomorrow. However, the day after tomorrow, which is the Double Ninth Festival, as the cold air moves east and south, precipitation will gradually weaken and decrease, and large areas of clear skies are expected in the northwest, north China, Huanghuai, and other regions, suitable for hiking and looking far ahead. On the day of the Double Ninth Festival, most of Xinjiang, most of Gansu, Ningxia, western Inner Mongolia, north-central Shaanxi, Shanxi, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Shandong, north-central Henan, south-central Jiangxi, south-central Zhejiang, Fujian, central-eastern Guangdong, and other places will have clear skies online, with crisp autumn air, suitable for hiking and looking far ahead.
The most famous are undoubtedly the "Three Mountains and Five Great Peaks." Besides traveling to famous mountains, small hills near home and gentle slopes in parks are also good places for hiking. This weekend, consider accompanying elders for a nearby walk. Hiking is not about distance; as long as the intention is there, it is the best Double Ninth Festival. Cases Involving Telecom Fraud Targeting the Elderly, Support Disputes, etc.: Supreme People's Procuratorate Releases Typical Cases. On October 16, during the national "Respect for the Elderly Month" activity, the Supreme People's Procuratorate released 9 typical cases of legally safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly, covering multiple key areas such as combating telecom fraud targeting the elderly, pursuing support payments, standardizing supervision of elderly care institutions, and protecting the social security rights and interests of the elderly, centrally demonstrating the achievements of the comprehensive performance of the "Four Major Procuratorial Functions."
The Supreme People's Procuratorate stated that it will continue to focus on the urgent and difficult problems of the elderly, strengthen the protection of rights and interests related to the elderly, promote systematic governance in areas related to the elderly through case supervision, and provide judicial guarantees for implementing the national strategy of actively responding to population aging. Railway Train Number Arrangement to Be Adjusted: Higher-Speed EMU Trains Add X Prefix. China State Railway Group has launched a nationwide railway train number arrangement reform, and will optimize and adjust the current train number arrangement in two batches in late November and late December. This adjustment adds the X prefix for Fuxing EMU trains with speeds above 350 kilometers per hour, increasing the number of EMU passenger train prefixes to 7, and the number of arrangeable train numbers increases by nearly 40%. After train number changes, the train operation sections and running times will temporarily follow the current operation diagram. Editor | Ye Chunyan, Wang Chenwu. Reviewer | Ni Yaqiong, Guo Qing.
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