State-controlled papers replaced the previous day's innovation-surge copy with a unified canon on Xi Jinping's cultural thought guiding construction of a cultural power, moving from the morning installment to the midday pull-quote on cultural confidence to an afternoon variant on nourishing the spiritual home.
English-language state outlets maintained a companion post-holiday account, reporting longer trips, overseas travel and 15.46 million cross-border trips, up 6.7%, alongside county getaways and inbound tourism.
On trade and diplomacy, the central bank rejected currency-manipulation claims as crunch talks with the EU opened in Beijing, while reports described Washington and Brussels forging a coalition over industrial overcapacity, Trump pressing Xi to engage Japan's Takaichi over export curbs, and a Kremlin aide visiting amid talk of a Xi-Putin-Trump meeting.