A | 央视网消息：4月20日，《新闻联播》报道了中国交通、农业、展会、财政、邮政、科技、能源等多领域取得的新进展新突破，结合品种培育、邮轮批量化建造等方面传来的好消息，诸多积极因素为中国经济发展蓄势聚能，有利推动高质量发展稳中有进、稳中向好。 一季度多项交通运输指标创新高 今年一季度，交通运输生产开局良好，多项运输指标创新高。 一季度，我国民航全行业共完成运输总周转量349.3亿吨公里，同比增长45.6%。
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With pressure mounting to avert a government shutdown, heightened by culture war demands from House conservatives burned by previous brawls, the House speaker faces a difficult decision – risk a shutdown or risk the gavel.
That was 2015. But 2023 is treading a similar course.
For former House Speaker John Boehner, it was the final chapter in a lengthy standoff with House conservatives that contributed to his resignation from Congress after 25 years and almost five in the top job. For current House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, just seven months into his tenure, the outcome remains an open question.
With a looming deadline to fund the government and much left to be accomplished upon Congress’ return from recess, McCarthy and other congressional leaders expressed willingness earlier this month to pass a stop-gap measure to keep the government funded, buying lawmakers more time to work out the 12 appropriations bills they’ve been pursuing. But demands from the House Freedom Caucus have complicated the effort and put McCarthy in yet another bind from the right that analysts say could be the one to put his leadership position on the line.
“This is now the most important fight he faces as speaker and the choice between kind of the campaigning arm, the House Freedom Caucus arm, and the actual governing arm of keeping a government running,” says Casey Burgat, the director of the Legislative Affairs Program at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.
McCarthy has walked a fine line with the conservatives since the speaker battle, when they took him 15 grueling rounds before granting him his win, and in turn gained the power to bring up a vote for his ouster, lowering the threshold to just a single lawmaker.
So when the House Freedom Caucus announced it would oppose a stop-gap measure to keep the government funded unless certain conservative provisions are includes – like addressing DOJ "weaponization" and ending "woke" Pentagon policies – it prompted a confrontation with McCarthy that’s been brewing and bubbling in fits and starts for months, ready to boil over.
Such legislation would lose support among House Democrats and face steep odds in the Democrat-controlled Senate, making a shutdown likely. But without the support of conservatives on a clean continuing resolution and only a few votes to spare in the GOP narrow majority, McCarthy will likely need to rely on Democrats to approve a stop-gap measure – a move sure to provoke the hard-liners in his caucus.
“This is where his choice comes in,” Burgat says. “If he takes Democratic support, which likely he'll need to do, then that opens himself up to at least a motion to vacate because it only takes one now.”
The contours of the standoff were previewed during the debate over the debt ceiling, as House conservatives demanded controversial spending cuts and policies that put McCarthy in a difficult negotiating position with Democrats and the White House. Ultimately, Democratic votes on the debt ceiling agreement outnumbered Republicans in the House in a turn of events that infuriated some members of the House Freedom Caucus.
That same small but vocal minority – numbering in the mid-30s out of 222 Republicans in the chamber, though the caucus doesn’t publicize the exact number – made their frustration known just days later, when they blocked a routine vote, sending the chamber into a week-long gridlock. At the chamber’s reunification, McCarthy told reporters they had agreed to “sit down and talk more” in future spending negotiations. And shortly after, Republican appropriators agreed to mark up the 12 spending bills well below the levels agreed to in the debt ceiling deal in what appeared to be a major concession made to the House Freedom Caucus that has colored the funding process so far.
But this time, emboldened by the shortcomings in the last fiscal battle, they may come out with a greater show of force, as McCarthy faces what political science professor Rob Mellen Jr. calls a “no win situation.”
“I think this might be the fight they're willing to go to the mat for,” says Mellen, of the University of South Florida. “That this time if he really doesn't feel like he's going to compromise with them and give them what they want, that they may be willing to just say, ‘Hey, we'll shut this down. We'll go that direction, and we'll remove you if you go to the Democrats.’”
Members of the Freedom Caucus have for months suggested that they would be willing to let the government shut down if they don’t agree with the funding package. Indeed, for the conservatives, who largely hail from safe districts, there isn’t much to lose, as analysts note that if the government shuts down and Republicans are blamed, the conservatives won’t be on the chopping block like their colleagues in swing districts.
But some have noted that for the Freedom Caucus, perhaps armed with the understanding that their demands have little chance of becoming reality, the ultimate goal may be McCarthy’s removal after all.
“It just puts McCarthy in this bind and sort of forces his hand almost to do what he did before, which is get the government funded with Democratic votes, and in so doing, they can respond by triggering a call for his removal,” says David C. Barker, professor of government and director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. “And I think that's what they're agitating toward. That's what they want. That's kind of what they wanted from the beginning. And they've been looking for a mechanism to do it. And I think maybe all along they've planned on this being the one.”
True to form, Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas didn’t mince words about McCarthy’s dilemma with the Freedom Caucus last week, calling a motion to oust McCarthy “inevitable” if he continues to rely on Democrats.
“McCarthy’s going to have to listen to the people on the right or else he’s going to have to rely on the Democrats to pass this,” Jackson said on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. “But I’m telling you if that happens, I mean, it’s going to be detrimental to leadership in the House if they blow off the concerns of the people like myself and Freedom Caucus and some of the other people on the right that are making reasonable demands in this process – it’s going to be a problem.”
Whether McCarthy can rely on Democrats to back a CR is one thing. But whether they’ll protect his gavel is another matter altogether.
Some dynamics suggest at least some Democrats would come to his aid, like reports of a coalition of Democrats offering McCarthy a deal during the debt ceiling fight that they would help him keep his job should he responsibly raise the debt ceiling. Another calculation for Democrats is McCarthy’s possible replacement, who likely wouldn’t align more closely with their positions, making McCarthy’s retention arguably in Democrats' best interest.
But even if McCarthy survives a motion for his ouster with the help of Democrats or calls conservatives’ bluff and his speakership isn’t ultimately threatened, analysts say his hold on the conference will remain shaky and his ability to get things done stunted.
“He can only afford to lose four. And if there's 40 that are just mad at him all the time, then they're going to be reluctant to support him even if it's on things that they want to,” Burgat says. “They've proven willing to shut down the chamber even when it's run by their own party. And so, as much as he'll defang them on this one vote, he'll need them again for any Republican priorities to be passed out of the House heading into an election year.”
It’s a dynamic that haunted Boehner for years and ultimately contributed to his early departure. And the House Freedom Caucus has only grown bigger and more brash, releasing statements and listing demands publicly, while McCarthy’s margin is just a fraction of what the former speaker’s was in 2015.
“McCarthy is closer to being one of them than Boehner ever was,” Barker says. “Boehner really was more of a traditional Chamber of Commerce-type of Republican whereas McCarthy stylistically and policy-wise for some time now has been a MAGA-friendly flame thrower right in line with them. He certainly was during the Trump years. And so, you know, it just shows their willingness to eat their own.”
Unlike McCarthy, Boehner was already on his way out, planning to resign months later, when he made the decision to step down. Even then, he noted that had he not been planning to leave, he wouldn’t have done so when talk of a motion to vacate began swirling.
“It was never about the vote. There was never any doubt about whether I could survive a vote, but I don’t want my members to have to go through this, and I certainly don’t want the institution to go through this, especially when I knew I was thinking about walking out the door anyway,” he told reporters at the time.
When asked what advice he would give to McCarthy, then his presumed successor, he urged the California Republican to protect the institution. And when questioned by another reporter about whether the next speaker would ultimately face the same fate, he earnestly replied.
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E | 在湖北浠水，智能无人驾驶插秧机每天工作时间可达16个小时，今年，当地投入1.4万台（套）各类农业机械用于春耕生产。
F | 当前，各地小麦进入抽穗扬花期，也是田间管理的关键时期。
G | 在山东宁津，5G智慧农业平台让种植户可实时掌握墒情、虫情、灾情等数据，并为小麦生长提供科学的灌溉、施肥、施药策略。在安徽天长，全天候智能无人化巡田应用系统让农户可以实时查看小麦的生长状态。在河南民权，农机员手持遥控器操控着无人机进行飞防作业，依托北斗导航精准定位，飞防作业误差可控制在厘米级。 我国短生育期油菜培育取得突破：南方地区可实现双季稻+油菜生产方式 近日，经中国作物学会油料专业委员会组织专家田间评价，我国短生育期油菜新品种“中油早1号”创造了“稻稻油”三熟制模式下油菜百亩机收实产新纪录。 “稻稻油”是指早稻、晚稻、油菜一年内三岔轮作模式，是我国在南方地区提高粮食油料作物产量的重要举措。
H | 而南方地区利用冬闲田种油菜，必须把生育期压缩到180天左右，才能不耽误来年种早稻。 在江西省吉安市遂川县堂境村，100亩“稻稻油”连片种植的油菜新早熟品种“中油早1号”，机收亩产达166.05公斤，亩产油量约73.33公斤，生育期约170天，为利用南方冬闲田扩大油菜面积、保障食用油供给安全提供了可复制推广的综合技术解决方案。 国家油菜产业技术体系岗位科学家杜德志称：“这个品种的培育成功解决了早熟与高产、早熟与抗倒抗病的矛盾。
I | 过去我们有些品种虽然早熟，但是要么产量不高，要么不抗病不抗倒。这个品种把这几个问题都解决了。” 今年，“中油早1号”在江西、湖南、广西、湖北、浙江等油菜主产省份示范面积达5000亩以上，各示范点均实现了“稻稻油”模式轮作岔口的从容交接，且越往南方生育期越短，在广西北海生育期仅约130天。 老展会焕发新活力 在4月19日结束的第135届广交会第一期展会上，数字技术、智能制造相关参展企业将近3600家，智能产品超9万件。大量的新产品和新技术让有着67年历史的广交会焕发出新活力。 在现场，记者遇到了一个德国采购团。
K | 这次广交会，突出展示了新质生产力发展的最新成果。智慧生活、“新三样”等高技术含量企业数量增长24.4%。智能仿生手、可变形电视、清洁机器人等高端、智能、绿色产品受到全球客商青睐。
L | 来自英国的采购团在广交会上就达成了近5000万美元的意向合作。层出不穷的新产品、新技术为中国制造迎来新订单、新生意，也让全球客商共享发展新机遇。
M | 中国邮轮开启批量化建造时代 4月20日，第二艘国产大型邮轮在中国船舶上海外高桥造船2号船坞完成下坞，开始搭载总装。这也意味着邮轮建造进入加速期，船体将快速成型。 在中国船舶上海外高桥造船的2号船坞，第二艘国产大型邮轮已经进入船坞，完成了下坞仪式。进入船坞后，船体分段将像搭积木一样快速拼接在一起，邮轮建造全面提速。
N | 中国船舶外高桥造船总经理助理、大型邮轮项目建造总监陈剑威称：“下坞是船舶建造过程当中一个标志性的节点，船舶下坞之后就代表着这个船后续要连续地搭载施工了，节奏会非常快。首制船交船之后，二号船这次下坞也标志着我国船舶邮轮这个领域批量化设计建造能力基本形成了。” 第二艘国产大型邮轮“尺码”更大、设备更先进，相较于首艘船总吨位增加0.64万吨，达到14.19万吨；总长增加17.4米，达341米；客房数量也增加了19间，达2144间，并且新增了2套脱硫系统和5套先进环保系统设备，让整船航行更加绿色环保。 同时，船上配置了高达16层的生活娱乐区域，设有大型演艺中心、大型餐厅、特色餐馆、艺术走廊等丰富的休闲娱乐设施。并且通过优化设计布局，使第二艘国产大型邮轮的公共区域和户外活动休闲区域面积也增加到了25599平方米和14272平方米，也让第二艘船更加令人期待。 第一艘国产大型邮轮“爱达·魔都号”正在火热运营，第二艘国产大型邮轮也在前不久公布了建造节点，将于2026年年底之前命名交付，中国邮轮开启批量化建造时代。 目前，第二艘国产大型邮轮全船699个结构分段已完工124个，舾装工程也已全面启动。根据计划，二号船将在4月20日下坞后进入建造加速期；计划2025年5月初实现第一次起浮，让船漂浮在水中；2026年3月底出坞，并在同年6月开始试航；最终在2026年年底之前完成命名交付。
o | 有了第一艘的经验，第二艘国产大型邮轮的建造过程更加顺畅。 陈剑威介绍：“主要还是运用了一号船一系列的科研成果，包括管理的经验、一些工具手段。我们重点优化了流程，在这种情况下，我们推进了总装阶段的完整性下坞，加快区域舾装的工作。另外在建造方面，我们也开发了这种巨系统工程，包括设计、采购、物流等8个方面的数字化管控手段，这样对于二号船大幅提高效率有很大的支撑作用。” 今年中央财政安排4980万元支持社会组织参与社会服务 记者从民政部了解到，今年中央财政安排专项资金4980万元，示范引导社会组织参与社会服务，支持项目重点面向条件相对薄弱、基层需求强烈的区域，聚焦“一老一小”服务、乡村振兴、援疆援藏等领域。即日起，有条件的社会组织可以通过信息系统申报，申报截止日期为2024年5月11日。
p | 3月份全社会用电量同比增长7.4% 国家能源局发布数据显示，3月份，全社会用电量7942亿千瓦时，同比增长7.4%。
r | 大会期间还发布了我国内燃机行业最新技术成果——全球首款本体热效率突破53%的商业化柴油机。 上海汽车文化节拉开帷幕 上海汽车文化节4月19日拉开帷幕，本届汽车文化节重点围绕汽车赛事、汽车文旅等重点内容，推出汽车露营、汽车影院等20项重点活动，上海各大商圈也将举办以汽车文化为主题的促消费活动。此外，在嘉定、昆山、太仓等长三角部分地区，7条汽车主题旅游线路可实行“沉浸式”汽车文旅体验。
