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Australian-Chinese journalist detained for 3 years in China returns to Australia_我的网站

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一 | CANBERRA, Australia -- A Chinese Australian journalist who was convicted on murky espionage charges and detained in China for three years has returned to Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday.Cheng Lei, 48, worked for the international department of China's state broadcaster CCTV. She has reunited with her two children in Melbourne, Albanese said.Her return comes ahead of Albanese’s planned visit to Beijing this year on a date yet to be announced. He will become the first Australian prime minister to visit the Chinese capital in seven years.Albanese said Australia had traded nothing with China for Cheng's release.“Her release follows the completion of judicial processes in China,” he said.China’s Ministry of State Security said that Cheng had been approached by a foreign organization in May 2020 and provided them with state secrets she had obtained on the job in violation of a confidentiality clause signed with her employer. A police statement did not name the organization or say what the secrets were.A court in Beijing convicted her of illegally providing state secrets abroad and she was sentenced to two years and 11 months, the statement said. She was deported Wednesday after serving her sentence, presumably because she had already been detained for that long .“Her return brings an end to a very difficult few years for Ms. Cheng and her family," Albanese said. "The government has been seeking this for a long period of time and her return will be warmly welcomed not just by her family and friends but by all Australians.”The FreeChengLei account on X, formerly known as Twitter, posted a photo of Cheng with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Australia's ambassador to China, Graham Fletcher.The post included a quote, apparently from Cheng, that read: “Tight hugs, teary screams, holding my kids in the spring sunshine. Trees shimmy from the breeze. I can see the entirety of the sky now! Thank you Aussies.”Albanese’s government has been lobbying for the release of Cheng and another Chinese Australian held in China since 2019, Yang Hengjun.Bilateral relations have improved since Albanese's center-left Labor Party was elected after nine years of conservative rule. Beijing has lifted several official and unofficial trade barriers on Australian exports.Albanese's reference to China's judicial system suggested that Cheng had recently been sentenced after she was convicted in a closed-court trial last year on national security charges.Questioned by a reporter, Albanese said China was not acknowledging through Cheng's release that she posed no threat or had been wrongfully detained.“No, China would have not have said that that's the position. China would say that the judicial processes have been completed in China,” Albanese said.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the Chinese judicial system tried the case “in accordance with the law, fully safeguarding the rights enjoyed by the person concerned in accordance with the law.”Albanese said he spoke to Cheng in Melbourne, where her children have been living with her mother, and that they discussed a letter she had written to the Australian public in August to mark the third anniversary of her detention. The Chinese-born journalist spoke in her letter about her love for her adopted country.In the letter, she also described her living conditions in detention in China, saying she was allowed to stand in sunlight for just 10 hours a year.“She is a very strong and resilient person ... and when I spoke with her she was delighted to be back in Melbourne,” Albanese said.Albanese did not say whether Yang was also likely to be released.“We continue to advocate for Dr. Yang’s interests, rights and wellbeing with the Chinese authorities at all levels,” Albanese said.Yang, a 58-year-old writer and democracy blogger, told his family in August he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment.Yang has been detained in China since January 2019, when he arrived in Guangzhou from New York with his wife and teenage stepdaughter.Yang received a closed-door trial on an espionage charge in Beijing in May 2021 and is still awaiting a verdict.Yang's friend, University of Technology Sydney academic Feng Chongyi, said on Wednesday a verdict had been postponed for three months 11 times and the next possible ruling was January.He said Cheng’s release was good news for Yang. “I do hope Yang is treated in the same way. Given Yang’s poor health, his release is actually more urgent,” Feng said.___Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Beijing contributed to this report.___This story corrects the name of the Chinese security agency.。中新网重庆8月25日电题：武陵深处“红土地” 振兴路上“再出发” 　　作者罗永皓　　立秋刚过，晨雾贴着山坳，轻轻覆在重庆市酉阳土家族苗族自治县南腰界镇大片稻田上。风过处，稻穗低头，一栋青瓦木楼默然伫立。楼前，一块石碑上刻着“中国工农红军第三军司令部旧址”(下称，红三军司令部旧址)。　　“来南腰界，先得读懂这片‘红土地’的分量。”当地志愿讲解员何立双的一段开场白，将时间拉回至90多年前。图为酉阳县南腰界镇。

二 | (无人机照片)冉川摄　　1934年6月，中国工农红军第三军在贺龙、关向应等人的率领下辗转来到南腰界，建立了以南腰界为军事指挥中心的黔东特区；同年10月，红三军(后恢复红二军团番号)和红六军团在南腰界猫洞大田举行会师庆祝大会，后从南腰界出发，发动湘西攻势。　　时至今日，这片地处渝黔边区、武陵山区腹地的“红土地”，完好保存红三军司令部旧址等不可移动革命文物34处，被评为国家国防教育示范基地，并列入全国红色旅游经典景区名录、长征国家文化公园(重庆段)重点建设区域。　　在南腰界镇副镇长甘红光看来，当地传承下来的苏区精神和长征精神值得人们长期研究和感悟，但很长一段时间内，山高路远始终是一道绕不过的“坎”。　　“没有统一管理，平日大都关门闭户。”何立双本职是南腰界镇中心小学校的语文教师。每年，他都会带学生来南腰界扫墓，把这里当作德育课堂。

三 | 可早些年，不少革命文物建筑还属于村民私有，鲜有外地游客到访。

四 | 　　如何让这些沉睡的红色资源活起来？　　转机出现在2022年。当地以加快建设长征国家文化公园(酉阳段)为契机，开始系统破题，对南腰界老街和建筑进行整体性提档升级。图为红三军司令部旧址。冉川摄　　把文物“收回来”是第一步。酉阳县文旅委文化遗产保护科科长冉勇介绍，酉阳县探索建立“政府主导、企业出资、镇村联动”的私有文物回购模式。　　截至目前，当地筹集回购资金1520万元(人民币，下同)，完成13处私有产权文物征收，推动革命文物统一管理、连片保护。　　文物保护，需要“细功夫”。当地建起“修旧如旧”的保护机制，完成红三军司令部旧址、红军医院旧址等11处革命文物本体修缮工程，并推广“微改造”理念，恢复“传统民居与红军遗迹共生”的原真性历史场域。

五 | 　　“以前总觉得故事太少，现在文物自己会‘说话’。”看着红三军司令部旧址全新的展陈，何立双告诉中新网，如今，更丰富的实物和更生动的场景，不仅让他的讲解更有底气，也让来到这里的外地游客和研学团队越来越多，“一天讲上几场是常事”。

六 | 　　翻开红三军司令部旧址门口那本游客团队登记本，卷边的纸页上，字迹挤在一起，翻页的痕迹很深。南腰界镇党委书记冉维介绍，近三年来，当地游客接待量年均增速保持在25%以上。　　从保护到利用，红色旅游已然成为该镇经济发展的新引擎。冉维介绍，该镇依托红色旅游，推进基础设施提档升级，搭建多元化民众就业增收平台，探索红色引领、绿色发展的农文旅融合发展之路。　　漫步南腰界，红色氛围扑面而来。

七 | 红军寨83栋民居修旧如旧，青瓦白墙间尽显岁月本色；主街133栋房屋统一“换装”，进一步擦亮红色地域名片；一组组红色浮雕伫立路旁，再现往昔烽火岁月……历史与现代交织出独特的乡村风貌。

八 | 图为酉阳县南腰界镇。(无人机照片)冉川摄　　“道路修到了田间地头，路标立到了高速路口。”谈及变化，南腰界镇南界村村民罗春感触最深的是“路宽了、地整了”。公路两旁“南腰界”的指示牌一路延伸，直指山外更广阔的世界。　　过去，村民守着好粮却卖不出好价钱。

九 | 红色旅游兴起后，罗春带领村民将大米精心分装，并打上“红军稻”的标识，产品迅速走俏、供不应求。2025年，他创办的农业公司，仅大米销售收入就突破50万元。　　据了解，当地发展“红色研学+农耕体验+非遗传承”等复合业态，依托“酉阳800”区域公用品牌，开发富硒大米、红军茶等农特产品，并引导村民通过房屋入股、劳务用工、特产销售等形式参与旅游发展。