Wuhu Institute of Digital Economy 2026 Chinese New Year Message for the Bingwu Year of the Horse

Respected leaders, dear friends, and partners,

As spring returns and a new year begins, the spring breeze of 2026 sweeps across the land of Wanjiang, brimming with vitality across the fertile soil of Jiuzi. We bid farewell to the Year of the Snake, a year of steady perseverance, and embrace the surging momentum of the Bingwu Year of the Horse. On the occasion of the upcoming Spring Festival, Wuhu Institute of Digital Economy extends its sincerest greetings and best wishes to all government departments, universities, colleagues, and friends at home and abroad who have long cared for and supported the development of our institute. We also pay high tribute to all public welfare volunteers who have stayed dedicated to the research and industrial development of the digital economy.

Looking back on the past year, time has engraved the footprints of hard work, and years have witnessed our resolute progress. Over the past year, we have focused on six core sectors: digital energy, digital building materials, digital agriculture, digital education, digital healthcare, and digital culture-tourism. We have forged ahead with firm steps and unremitting diligence, delivering a high-quality development report with solid achievements. Every breakthrough and every harvest embodies the care and guidance of leaders at all levels, the full support of our partners, and the concerted efforts of all colleagues and volunteers of the institute.

This year, we have consistently adhered to the "Five Persistences", which have become the fundamental guidelines and action plans for the institute’s steady development:

- Uphold Party-building leadership, align with national strategies and local development needs, take an active role in policy research and industrial planning, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee.

- Uphold integrity and innovation, deepen core sectors, tackle industrial development challenges with distinctive innovation paradigms, foster new quality productive forces, and translate multiple research results into practical applications.

- Uphold institutional improvement, refine research management and collaboration mechanisms, and establish a modern governance system. We achieved "zero defects" in audit findings and "zero items" in rectification in the annual special audit conducted by a third-party accounting firm entrusted by the government, laying a solid foundation for the institute’s steady growth.

- Uphold perseverance in overcoming difficulties, address bottlenecks in industrial transformation, empower enterprises to solve problems with professional intelligence, boost industrial upgrading, and fulfill social responsibilities.

- Uphold service to society, fully promote the in-depth integration of government, industry, academia, research and application, actively spread the concept of digital economy, and facilitated targeted resource connection exceeding 20 billion yuan throughout the year, turning digital dividends into industrial benefits and people’s well-being.

This year, the digital building materials sector has set a benchmark, setting a model for empowering the real economy. We have deeply engaged in concrete and other building materials segments, focusing on digital transformation of production, supply chain collaboration, quality traceability, and green low-carbon promotion, to create a full-chain solution. We have broken industrial resource barriers, promoted the free grassroots deployment of cutting-edge technologies, quality resources, and high-end intelligence, effectively filling gaps in market and public services, and helped the building materials industry upgrade toward digitalization, greenization, and intelligence.

This year, a solid legal guarantee has been built to safeguard the steady development of enterprises. Public welfare volunteers including Senior Lawyer Fan Daping have devoted themselves to compiling and publishing professional works, focusing on corporate pain points such as resolving chain debts, standardizing invoice management, and ensuring compliance of legal documents. With practical cases and accessible interpretations, they have clarified legal boundaries and provided compliance guidance for small and medium-sized enterprises. This commitment and responsibility align perfectly with the institute’s philosophy of "serving society and overcoming difficulties", jointly protecting market entities.

This year, the public welfare team has grown stronger, and the spirit of volunteerism has shone brightly. Public welfare ambassadors represented by Ms. Zhang Yuxi and all volunteers have upheld the spirit of "dedication, friendship, mutual assistance and progress", and built communication bridges with the institute. They have promoted digital legal concepts and popularized knowledge on industrial transformation, sowing the seeds of digital economy across broader fields, enabling more market entities to share development achievements, and expanding the public welfare landscape and development momentum of the institute.

This year, the in-depth integration of industry, academia, research and application has fully unleashed vitality for collaborative innovation. We have deepened university-local and university-enterprise cooperation, gathered the wisdom of alumni, synchronized university theoretical research with industrial practice; joined hands with enterprises to promote technological innovation and industrial upgrading for win-win cooperation; and linked public welfare forces to make digital empowerment more caring and legal protection more effective, steadily advancing toward the goal of "co-construction, sharing and harmonious development".

As the Golden Horse strides into a new journey, we sail toward the future with resolve. 2026 is a crucial year for the in-depth integration of digital and real economies, a key year for industrial transformation and upgrading, and a pioneering year for the institute to seize opportunities and leap forward. In the new year, we will:

- With the pioneering spirit of "leading the charge", deepen the six core sectors, extend the mature experience of digital building materials to digital energy, digital agriculture and other fields, and create more empowering benchmarks.

- With the drive of "pressing ahead without pause", deepen industry-academia-research collaborative innovation, expand the coverage of high-quality public welfare resources sinking to the grassroots, strive for new highs in annual resource connection, and empower market entities on a larger scale.

- With the faith of "achieving immediate success", join hands with public welfare partners to further enhance public welfare value, deepen the popularization of digital legal concepts, and extend the benefits of digital economy to more people.

The journey is long and the wind is favorable; with great responsibilities, we set off again. We will always uphold the core philosophy of the "Five Persistences", with improved systems, more pragmatic work style and more open attitude, stand at the forefront of the digital economy tide, and contribute greater digital intelligence to the high-quality development of the local economy.

The past year has woven a splendid tapestry; the new year aims for new heights. May the spring breeze of the Year of the Horse inspire every striver’s glorious career. May we march forward in unity, embrace the new era of digital economy, and forge ahead on the track of high-quality development with galloping momentum!

We sincerely wish all leaders and friends a happy Spring Festival, a harmonious family, good health, all the best, and success in the Year of the Horse!