CCTV.com News: At the beginning of the new year, the "progress bar" of construction in multiple fields is constantly refreshing, making a good start and a good start for the new year.

The new railway mileage has been added to more than 3,000 kilometers, and the new line stimulates new vitality. The 2025 Spring Festival travel rush is about to start. This year, the new railway line with more than 3,000 kilometers will be put into the Spring Festival travel rush. While alleviating the pressure on passenger and freight transportation, it has also injected new impetus into the tourism industry and economic development along the route.

The just-opened Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou High-speed Railway not only extends the business mileage of the Yangtze River Delta Railway to 15,000 kilometers, but also brings more choices for New Year's travel. Starting from January 5, the "Super Ring Line" of the Yangtze River Delta High-speed Railway has been launched in two directions. Jiangsu Shengze, Zhejiang, Huzhou and other places have taken the Yangtze River Delta Ring Line tourism express train, and the tourism circles of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui Provinces and one city have been continuously expanded.

In 2024, the national railways added 3,113 kilometers of operating mileage, including 2,457 kilometers of high-speed rail. The "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network is constantly extending.

By region, the eastern road network is getting denser and denser. From Shanghai to Shanghai and Qingdao to Qingdao, more and more high-speed rails are forming rings across provinces, improving the accessibility and convenience of the road network. In the west, the railway connects scenic spots. After the opening of the Sichuan-Qinghai Railway, passengers can take the express train from Chengdu and reach Jiuzhaigou in as fast as more than 3 hours, which greatly shortens the passage time and improves travel efficiency. In the north, the opening of the Jining-Datong-Yuanping high-speed railway not only narrowed the time and space distance between the two provinces and regions of Shanxi and Mongolia, but also achieved seamless connection between the Northwest Road Network and the Central Plains Mi-shaped high-speed railway network.

In 2025, the national railway operating mileage is expected to be extended by about 2,600 kilometers.

The number of specialized and new "little giant" enterprises in my country has reached 14,600

Statistics show that my country has cultivated a total of 14,600 specialized and new "little giant" enterprises, and more than 600,000 scientific and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises. The gradient cultivation work of high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises is progressing steadily.

In the rivers in some cities such as Beijing, such "small discs" are floating on the water surface.

The staff told reporters that this is actually an intelligent water quality monitoring device produced using quantum dot spectral sensor technology. Put it into the river channel, and real-time water quality parameters can be transmitted back to the background. Once an abnormality is found, it can be warned immediately. In the past, manual inspection of the source of pollution that took several days to find, it only takes a few hours to rely on such a digital monitoring system. And this product comes from a national-level specialized and new "little giant" enterprise.

Now, nearly 15,000 specialized and new "little giant" enterprises like this that have become the leader in the professional segment have cultivated nearly 15,000 in my country. Nearly 90% of these "little giant" enterprises are manufacturing enterprises, and more than 80% are distributed in strategic emerging industrial chains such as integrated circuits and aerospace. More than 90% have become supporting suppliers of well-known domestic and foreign companies. Especially in future industries such as artificial intelligence and low-altitude economy, the number of "little giant" enterprises in my country is close to 5,000.

The transaction volume of the online sales platform for agricultural and sideline products in poverty-stricken areas across the country was nearly 50 billion yuan

The reporter learned from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative that as of the end of 2024, the cumulative transaction volume of the online sales platform for agricultural and sideline products in poverty-stricken areas across the country was nearly 50 billion yuan, effectively driving farmers in poverty-stricken areas to increase their income.

The national online sales platform for agricultural and sideline products in poverty-stricken areas is mainly government procurement. Through the construction of preferred brands and sales service system and other assistance measures, it helps the stable sales of high-quality agricultural and sideline products in poverty-stricken areas, transforming "assistance orders" into an endogenous driving force for industrial development in poverty-stricken areas.

In Yuzhong, Gansu, 8 agricultural and sideline products including plateau vegetables, beef and mutton have gone out of the mountains through the platform. In Wanquan, Hebei, the platform has joined hands with the government and leading enterprises to build a characteristic industrial cluster of fresh corn. In Luocheng, Guangxi, the kumquats sold on the platform have been renewed and upgraded to the third generation of products.

At present, more than 30,000 suppliers have entered the platform in 832 national poverty-stricken counties, and the categories of agricultural and sideline products are continuously enriched. More than 350,000 famous and high-quality local specialties are on sale, and more than 680,000 registered procurement units are available.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched the 10 Gigabit Optical Network pilot.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Notice on Carrying out the Pilot Work of the Ten Gigabit Optical Network" on January 7, proposing that by the end of 2025, the 10 Gigabit Optical Network pilot will be carried out in key scenarios such as communities, factories, and parks in cities and regions with conditions and foundations. The 10G Optical Network has significantly improved compared with the existing network in terms of network speed, delay and network reliability. At present, Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places have carried out application exploration of 10 Gigabit optical networks.

In 2024, the effective amount of domestic invention patents in my country reached 4.756 million

The reporter learned from the State Intellectual Property Office on January 7 that in 2024, the effective amount of domestic invention patents in my country reached 4.756 million, and the effective amount of invention patents in strategic emerging industries reached 1.349 million, an increase of 15.7% year-on-year, and the quality of intellectual property rights increased.