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September 20th - With the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays approaching, the airfare market continues to heat up. Monitoring on September 20th revealed that popular long-haul tourist routes and return-home routes saw significant price increases the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival. On October 7th, the lowest price on the platform for a flight from Urumqi to Shanghai reached 3070 yuan, approximately 99% higher than the 1540 yuan price for a flight from Shanghai to Urumqi on September 24th, nearly doubling. The Shenzhen-Chongqing route also shows a trend of "more expensive return trips": the lowest price for a Shenzhen-Chongqing outbound flight on September 24th was 1010 yuan, while the lowest price for a Chongqing-Shenzhen flight on October 7th was 1450 yuan, a return price increase of about 44%. Current booking and forecast data indicate that this years "Double Festival" civil aviation market is showing a clear characteristic of "both volume and price increases." Flight Manager data shows that as of September 17th, the average booked domestic economy class ticket price during the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays is approximately 973.7 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9%; the average daily passenger volume is expected to increase by 3.1% year-on-year during the same period.The China Earthquake Networks Center officially reported that a 6.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in Papua New Guinea (5.90 degrees south latitude, 146.10 degrees east longitude) at 17:17 on September 20, with a focal depth of 120 kilometers.The China Earthquake Networks Center automatically determined that an earthquake of approximately magnitude 6.2 occurred near Papua New Guinea (5.71 degrees south latitude, 146.17 degrees east longitude) at 17:17 on September 20. The final result is subject to the official rapid report.On September 20, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Reform of Higher Education Institutions by Category." The Opinions point out the need to improve the mechanism for categorized development. This includes perfecting the scientific establishment mechanism for higher education institutions, strengthening national top-level design and macro-guidance; establishing a categorized management mechanism for higher education institutions, promoting the formation of a higher education governance system and governance methods adapted to the categorized development of higher education institutions; constructing a categorized evaluation mechanism for higher education institutions, building a multi-track, multi-entity evaluation system; improving the incentive mechanism for resource allocation; strengthening the talent supply and demand matching mechanism, and improving the mechanism for adjusting disciplines and majors and talent training models driven by national strategic needs.On September 20th, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Reform of Higher Education Institutions by Category." The Opinions point out the need to optimize the categorized layout structure. It calls for the scientific construction of a categorized development system for higher education institutions, distinguishing between comprehensive and specialized basic directions, establishing a categorized framework, and creating diverse and adaptable categorization models based on affiliation. It also emphasizes coordinating the development of universities affiliated with central government departments and local universities; coordinating the allocation of higher education resources; coordinating and improving the talent cultivation structure; and coordinating the use of international and domestic resources. Furthermore, it stresses the need to stimulate the momentum of categorized development. This includes building a supporting force for serving major national strategies, leveraging the guiding role of the "Double First-Class" initiative in the reform of research universities; strengthening the foundation for serving regional economic and social development, implementing the construction project for high-quality, distinctive applied undergraduate institutions and disciplines, and optimizing the implementation of the high-level higher vocational school and professional construction plan; consolidating the support force for serving industry innovation and development, leveraging the traditional advantages of industry-specific universities, and strengthening their ability to serve the real economy; and constructing a new form of integrated development of higher education, exploring new models for cultivating top-notch innovative talents for the nation.
