Song Kai, secretary and director of the Party Committee of the Nonferrous Metals Industry Talent Center, said vocational education is the main field for training technical and skilled personnel, and the quality of such training directly determines the supply capacity of talent for related nonferrous metals industries.

Song Kai said that to further improve the quality of education delivered by textbooks, state-owned central enterprises should play a leading role in building vocational textbooks, raising those textbooks' strategic status and international influence, and deepening the integration of textbook research with industrial research.

The four newly approved colleges belong to two types of provincial construction projects.

Two of them are Shandong provincial specialty colleges with clear educational missions: the Smart-Rural E-commerce Specialty College focuses on rural revitalization and building digital countryside, training interdisciplinary talent suited to the entire rural e-commerce industrial chain;

The Digital Intangible Cultural Heritage and Cultural‑Creative Industry Specialty College focuses on digital protection of intangible cultural heritage and the cultural‑creative industry track, using digital technology to empower the inheritance and innovation of traditional culture.

As the desert area's ecology improves, sand-related industries are also booming.

Huang Caiyi, director of the Desertification Division of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, said that by developing location-appropriate industries such as high-quality forage, commercial fruit trees, medicinal herbs, and desert tourism, desert areas produce 48 million tonnes of fresh and dried fruit annually—about a quarter of the national total—with an annual output value of 120 billion yuan, and in key areas fruit-tree income accounts for over 50% of farmers' net income.

The Cuban Electricity Union said in a statement on July 10 that at 16:30 local time the country's power system completely collapsed.

This is the second nationwide blackout in Cuba within a week.

Liu Xiaochen, associate researcher at the Ministry of Public Security's Road Traffic Safety Research Center, said: Specifically, lateral friction mainly affects a vehicle's steering control and stability, so in rain vehicles are prone to insufficient grip when turning, which can cause skidding in curves.

Longitudinal friction mainly affects a vehicle's braking and deceleration ability, so in rain braking distances increase and rear-end collisions become more likely.

At the same time, the Hecheng Quality Products People's Market opened amid great fanfare, gathering black-soil specialties from Qiqihar's 16 counties (cities) and districts, barbecue cultural-creative items, and specialty supporting products, and combining creative displays with e-commerce livestreaming to build integrated online-offline shopping experiences.

The market will run through July 21, continuing to energize consumer spending and injecting fresh momentum into the city's diversified development as an "International Barbecue Food Capital."