# Jiangxi
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How Jiangxi Became China’s Lone Province to Raise Its 2026 Growth Target — and Why It Matters
Jiangxi is the only Chinese province to raise its 2026 GDP target, setting it at 5–5.5% after a 5.2% rebound in 2025. The revision reflects a concerted industrial-policy push, emerging high-tech clusters and an ambition to pair manufacturing upgrades with deeper science investment, even as talent shortages and weak external demand pose risks.
Smile Walls and Statecraft: How a PLA Military District Is Recasting Rural Revitalization in Jiangxi
In Jiangxi’s Ganzhou region, the PLA’s military sub‑district has paired with 19 villages since 2021 to deliver infrastructure, education and agricultural support. Public “smile walls” of photographs dramatise tangible gains — higher incomes, new elderly care and improved schooling — while signalling the Party‑Army partnership behind China’s rural revitalization strategy. The initiative is practical and popular locally but also raises questions about the long‑term balance between military involvement and civilian governance in sustaining rural development.
Ex-Soldiers Turn Teachers: Nanjing’s ‘Jinling Vanguard’ Brings Military-Style Volunteering to China’s Mountain Schools
A Nanjing-based network of retired university student soldiers, the Jinling Vanguard, is running volunteer teaching programmes in Jiangxi’s mountain schools, combining military-style management with classroom instruction and patriotic education. Since 2021 the initiative has mobilised thousands of veterans, raised funds and books, built cloud classrooms, and been incorporated into broader municipal and national efforts to integrate veterans into civic life and sustain revolutionary memory.