The 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue · Huangshan is currently underway in Anhui Province. During a tour of the iconic Huangshan Mountain, Filippo Gasperi, mayor of Gradara, Italy, expressed his admiration for the advanced exoskeleton suits provided to help tourists ascend the peaks, noting that he looks forward to further discussions on leveraging technology to increase accessibility for people with disabilities at world heritage sites. (Produced by Li Bowen, Lin Rui, and Wang Yuting. Interns Wang Ruonan, Xia Lehan, Liu Xinru and Song Qingzheng also contributed to the story.)

The 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue · Huangshan is being held in Huangshan, Anhui Province. Mayors and officials from countries including Germany, Nepal and Malaysia took part in tea-picking and tea-tasting activities in Lundu village to get a closer look at how eco-farming is helping boost local farmers' incomes. (Produced by Li Bowen, Lin Rui and Di Jingyuan.)

On May 25, He Tingbo, Huawei's director of the board and president of its Semiconductor Business Department, published a paper titled "A Time Scaling Theory for Multi-Layer Electronic Systems" on ChinaXiv, a preprint platform of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for sharing scientific and technical papers. In this paper, He elaborated on the Tau (τ) Scaling Law that she presented at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) and unveiled Huawei's roadmap for releasing some of its Kirin and Ascend series chips. The People's Daily recently sat down for an exclusive interview with He Tingbo. In May 2019, a public letter she wrote placed her in the spotlight. In this letter, she announced that Huawei's Plan B for chips that the company had been working on for years had suddenly become Plan A, and that the company would strive to ensure its self-sufficiency in technology. Now, seven years later, she is back in the public eye.

At the 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue · Huangshan, Filippo Gasperi, mayor of Gradara, Italy, shared how his town balances tourism, heritage preservation and sustainability. He said tourism should create opportunities for local residents and help sustain cultural heritage, rather than erode community life.

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