National Day Holiday Social Landscape: Flag-Raising, Travel, Fishing Bans, and Open Cooperation in Focus

National Day Atmosphere and Travel Scene

During National Day, National Day flag-raising ceremonies were held across the country.^[3] A National Day travel report mentioned that a white-collar worker's holiday plans were to go from Beijing to Xuchang to visit Pang Donglai on September 30, then return to his hometown in Hunan to attend a relative's wedding, and finally take a trip to Wuhan.^[1]

Cross-Border Ecology and Local Business Environment

From 00:00 on October 1, the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, the border rivers between China and Russia, entered a 20-day autumn fishing ban, with a focus on protecting the cross-border migratory spawning of chum salmon; each of the two border rivers has a total of 55 fishing-ban days per year, implemented in two phases: summer and autumn.^[5] Hainan: related reports noted that high-quality development of market entities is the 'touchstone' of the business environment and even more the 'power source' of free trade port construction. Hainan embeds services into the entire chain of market entity development, doing well in three 'articles'—efficient approval, full-process support, and credit empowerment—so that market entities can operate with confidence and grow faster in the free trade port.^[6]

International Observation and Lifestyle Topics

Amid the global geoeconomic landscape and anti-globalization currents, an article mentioned that the so-called 'China squeeze' narrative slanders China's manufacturing development as 'crowding out' the industrialization space of Global South countries; however, looking back at more than 10 years of objective practice and fruitful results of China's jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, this narrative is utterly groundless.^[4] On lifestyle topics, a report related to couples therapists pointed out that criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling are four behaviors showing that a relationship may be heading toward breakup; but a relationship can still be saved, and the therapist offered some specific suggestions.^[2]