What they are saying in ‘passage interviews’

With a stronger economy and enhanced education, the comprehensive qualities of newly recruited soldiers have been greatly improved. The young soldiers in the new era are passionate, ambitious and knowledgeable, with many holding bachelor’s or master’s degrees. In 2018, university graduates accounted for 60 percent of the intake. They are also more skilled with more qualifications, including academic degrees, vocational skill certificates and other awards for participating in various competitions. They are cheerful, aspirational and energetic. In talking with them you will feel that they have an

urgent desire to thrive in the military and contribute to making our country and military stronger.

The GuangdongHong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area serves as a window for Hong Kong youth to comprehensively learn about the nation’s development. Many young people in the city have vague or limited knowledge about the progress the country has made. The Bay Area offers a chance for them to get a full picture of

the development through interacting with the nine mainland Bay Area cities in Guangdong province. Closer interaction between Hong Kong and the mainland is expected thanks to the commissioning of major cross-boundary infrastructure, such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, and the implementation of a series of measures that make it more convenient for Hong Kong people to live, study and work on the mainland.

Chan Cheuk-hay,

Senior Colonel Wei Changjin,

political commissar of the Zaozhuang Regional Military Command, CPPCC member

president and principal of the Hong Kong College of Technology, CPPCC member tion will take place partly because ongoing industrial upgrading requires more digital technology applications in enterprises. Meanwhile, technological advances — such as 5G, supercomputing and artificial intelligence — have sharpened the ability of digital technologies to serve enterprises. Such a transformation will call for more digital technology professionals, especially those with expertise in both technology and management, who are in relative short supply in the labor market.

dean of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management, CPPCC member

Bai Chongen,

China Everbright Group has devoted its financial resources to support development of the environmental protection industry.

The group is exploring centralized power generation from a combination of household waste and straw biomass fuel in rural areas, and it built such a power plant in Anhui province in 2018.

As a central State-owned enterprise, it is our duty to participate in the “three tough battles” against major risks, poverty and pollution.

Party secretary and chairman of China Everbright Group, CPPCC member

Li Xiaopeng,

China’s consumer-oriented digital economy will gradually transform into a producer-oriented one. The transforma-