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On June 9, the 21st Annual Meeting of the 2021 Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum was held in Yabuli, Heilongjiang. Wang Chuanfu, Chairman and President of BYD Co., Ltd. attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

Wang Chuanfu said that persistence is a very important characteristic of entrepreneurs, but persistence has many difficulties behind it. BYD has a green dream since its establishment, which is the responsibility and mission of the company. In 2008, BYD put forward three dreams: solar energy, energy storage, and electric vehicles.

“We made a vision film in 2008. After the film was shot, many people couldn’t understand it. Because in 2008, when we talked about electric vehicles and energy storage power stations, everyone was shaking their heads. When BYD entered electric vehicles, our stock price dropped. 40%, but we did not give up, we are still sticking to it. This is BYD’s vision and we have been sticking to it.”

Wang Chuanfu pointed out that 72% of China’s oil depends on imports, and 70% of the imported oil comes to us ashore through the South China Sea. Of all the oil in China, 70% is used for transportation a year, and our cars consume 70% of our oil in China. It can be seen from the three 70% that electric vehicles must be developed vigorously. China has more urgency to develop electric vehicles than any other country. Therefore, as an entrepreneur, we have no rights. We know that this is a responsibility, and we can only solve it with technical methods

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On June 8-10, the 21st Annual Meeting of the 2021 Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum was held in Yabuli, Heilongjiang. Chairman Leng Youbin of China Feihe attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

“Everyone knows that in Hokkaido, the output per acre of land in Hokkaido is 1.9 times that of Heilongjiang. We are all on the same latitude zone, and we are all on the latitude zone of 45 degrees, 47 degrees, and 49 degrees north. Why can Hokkaido in Japan be able to It is 1.9 times that of China. Why can’t our black land in China produce the same value as Japan?”

Leng Youbin said that our black soil is one of the three largest black soils in the world and has unique advantages, but what we lack is true deep processing, what is lacking is the brand, and what is lacking is the products in the minds of consumers.

“Heilongjiang has good rice, Wuchang rice, Thai rice, and Beidahuang rice. In fact, there are many better things in Heilongjiang, such as soybeans, corn, and corn. The total output of corn is also the first in China. And our vegetables, Potatoes, carrots, peppers, etc., etc.” Leng Youbin said that to truly turn these advantages into brands and products, can we truly bring out the value of Heilongjiang.

“We must use the business card of the black land, relying on the advantages of our company in the brand, in the channels, and in the membership to establish the connection between us and consumers. With the brand, the brand is actually equal to the integrity in the eyes of consumers. Brand is equal to quality, and brand is equal to value.” Leng Youbin said

After renewing the contract with the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Gridsum will continue to provide its official website monitoring and analysis services through Web Dissector (User Behavior Monitoring and Analysis System, hereinafter referred to as WD). Gridsum WD is a data product that drives the optimization of online marketing effects of enterprises and the growth of enterprise users. It covers from PC-Web websites to Mobile-mobile pages, APP (native + Hybrid), WeChat applets, Douyin applets, and Alipay. Most brand owners’ first-party platforms, such as mini programs, can provide enterprises with a set of full-process data-driven solutions from collection, modeling, storage, and analysis.

The official website of the National Centre for the Performing Arts was launched in 2007 and has been with the National Centre for the Performing Arts for more than ten years. After iterative updates, for many years, adhering to the National Centre for the Performing Arts’ mission of “people, artistry, and internationalism”, the official website of the National Centre for the Performing Arts is committed to providing netizens with authoritative and rich theater-related information and content, creating a digital art palace, and transforming elegant art. It’s within reach. The National Centre for the Performing Arts has implemented large-scale, high-standard, and normalized operations. From 2007 to 2020, a total of 10,788 commercial performances were organized, and a total of nearly 13,000 various art education performances and activities were carried out. Over the past 14 years, more than 22 million spectators have entered the National Grand Theater.

As a partner of the National Grand Theater for many years, Gridsum has always provided customers with in-depth data insights based on its technical advantages in the field of big data and artificial intelligence, and empowered the National Grand Theater’s intelligent marketing decisions. Gridsum WD has become an assistance to customers in Internet marketing An auxiliary decision-making analysis tool for income maximization. The successful renewal of the contract this time also fully reflects the National Grand Theater’s full recognition of the technical capabilities and products of the National Doubles. At present, WD WD has formed a closed loop of full-link marketing from data collection -> data insight analysis and optimization -> user management -> user access, assisting the National Grand Theater to use data to determine user operations.

Taking the two characteristic functions of WD funnel chart analysis and heat map analysis as an example, through the funnel model, National Double can help the National Centre for the Performing Arts understand every core conversion path from its official website homepage to the performance ticket page, and even to the final payment page. Step-by-step loss and conversion, and then analyze the reasons for user loss, optimize the design of the core conversion path, and improve the conversion rate of the site; through the heat map analysis, frame selection of any area in the page heat map, and drill down layers for multi-dimensional analysis , Gridsum can help the National Centre for the Performing Arts gain insights into a series of key information such as the dramas and broadcast times that users are most concerned about, and continue to support the optimization of webpage A/B test, website revision design, improve user experience and retention, and promote user conversion.

For a single customer, the WD system can handle 100 million-level PV per day, which is an important manifestation of Gridsum’s computing power advantage. Computing power drives the future. After more than 10 years of iterative updates, WD has developed into a real-time, multi-terminal user behavior analysis and user operation intelligent platform, which has served more than 600 industries such as automotive, aviation, consumer goods, justice, and industrial Internet. The top paying customers drive the optimization of corporate online marketing effects and the growth of corporate users.

In addition to its powerful computing power advantage, Gridsum also has in-depth accumulation in algorithms. Using natural language processing and knowledge graph technology, Gridsum can make machines truly solve complex problems in the industry like human experts. With computing power and algorithms, it is also necessary to be able to achieve scene-based landing in the business in order to promote industrial upgrading and modernization of governance capabilities. After 16 years of intensive cultivation and accumulation, Gridsum’s computing power and algorithms have been implemented in scenarios such as consumer goods, automobiles, airlines, industrial Internet, and smart cities. Relying on the three core advantages of computing power, algorithm, and scenario implementation, Gridsum continues to contribute to the transformation and upgrading of the industry

We always inadvertently ignore the hurried pace of time. When we pay attention, time is far away, and our parents are no longer the tall and omnipotent appearances in our minds. The white hair on the forehead and the slightly rickety figure are announcing the old age.

Think about it carefully, how long have you not held your mom and dad’s hands to relax and chat together? How long have you been happily going out with your parents as you did when you were a kid?

Don’t regret it after Shaohua’s passing, take advantage of the great time, take your parents, go on a trip together, let the good memories coexist in your heart!

Although the thought of taking parents to play is wonderful, the older generation is no longer young and has less energy than the young. It is best not to choose a trip that is too tossing and exhausting to prevent the elderly from being overwhelmed.

For the older generations, the way they prefer to play and where to play may not be the same as those of young people. Making excursion plans according to our own preferences may not be in line with the wishes of the elderly.

Today, Snail has counted the 8 cities in China that are most suitable for traveling with their parents. I hope to provide you with some ideas. If you are interested, let’s take a look!

Sanya

The cold and gloomy months in the winter are the easiest to affect people’s mood. Sanya is located in the south. At this time, it is a warm and comfortable climate. In addition to good weather, good scenery, and a very good environment.

The air quality in Sanya is among the best in the country and even in the world. There are 1,000 negative oxygen ions per cubic centimeter of air, which is also very beneficial to the body. The seaside scenery is beautiful and pleasant. Taking a walk on the beach and breathing fresh air is also a good pastime. The natural oxygen bar with such a suitable climate and beautiful scenery is perfect for taking your parents to relax.

Guilin

For the older generation, they may prefer the beautiful rivers and mountains of the motherland more than the crowded and noisy luxury metropolis. The mountains and rivers of the motherland are much more beautiful than the “copy and paste” skyscrapers. Returning to nature, looking at the magnificent mountains and beautiful water, I feel very happy. Guilin’s landscapes are unique in the hearts of many people. Mountains and water complement each other and form a group of their own. They are the most natural beauty of nature without being infiltrated by craftsmanship and not artificially carved. In addition to enjoying the mountains and playing in the water, the ancient town of Yoyo also has its own cultural heritage. Walking among the blue stones is full of nostalgia. Living in the city for a long time, it is a good choice to go here to relax.

Xiamen

Speaking of this city, in the minds of young people, it is the spokesperson of “artistic style”. Many popular movies have been filmed here, and many small literary style shops are also open here. You can shoot casually. The picture is very beautiful. With your parents, walk slowly on the clean streets of Xiamen, holding hands, and watch the sceneries that once appeared on the big screen and in the movie scenes. Don’t be interesting. At the same time, Xiamen is also a city with a mix of Chinese and Western styles, old and new cultures. It has both the old and retro old town with a flavour of ancient times and the beautiful and youthful new city scene, which is both quiet and energetic.

Chengdu

This is a place with a slow pace and a laid-back city life. I have to say that it is really a good place to travel with the older generation. If you want to breathe fresh air, return to nature, and relax outside, you can go to Qingcheng Mountain. If you want to feel the cultural heritage of this city, it is better to go for a stroll in Kuanzhai alleys, and there are various kinds of delicious food waiting for you to taste. If you have enough food and drink, why not go to see our national treasure giant panda together, the naive little cute creatures are “lethal”, whether they are grandparents or uncles and aunts, they will all be “captured”.

Chongqing

The unique topographic structure of the mountain city is impressive once you go there. There are majestic Yangtze River, alternate public transportation, dazzling gourmet snacks, and unique folk culture and architectural culture. The pace of Sichuan-Chongqing area has always been slow. Playing in such a city, it seems that even the restless heart can calm down. You can walk into a tea house casually, put a pot of fragrant tea, and serve a small plate of melon seeds to kill time. It’s rare to sit down and chat with your parents, listen to the stories of old Chongqing, and talk about the shortcomings of your parents. It will also become a rare memory with your parents.

Dali

I have to say that Dali’s climate advantage is still very sufficient. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the four seasons are like spring. Even if the elders go to play, they will not feel uncomfortable because of the cold and hot weather. The climate and temperature are very suitable. Naturally, the beauty here is also extraordinary. Looking at the sea in the east, climbing mountains in the west, Cangshan and Erhai Lake, the former is the base and the latter is the ink. That is a beautiful picture scroll. Traveling along the Erhai Lake from Huanhaidong Road, the picturesque scenery spread out in front of you, unobstructed and beautiful, which makes people sigh that it will be worth it once in a lifetime.

Xi’an

If you have a preference for history and culture, then Xi’an couldn’t be more suitable. The ancient capital of a thousand years has gone through winds and frosts, many dynasties have changed, time has passed, and the traces left over are all over the city. This is an ancient city in history where kings and princes vie for hegemony. It was once the most dazzling jewel in the East. The ancient capital blended with modern culture is even more attractive. In Xi’an, you can dig deep into many historical stories by going to any scenic spot. The Shaanxi History Museum has all the precious cultural relics collections. It is worth visiting slowly and savoring carefully.

Beijing

I believe that in the hearts of many older generations, the status of the capital is extraordinary. Go to Beijing with your parents, watch the solemn five-star red flag slowly rise, watch the majestic Forbidden City, and climb the magnificent Great Wall with a long history. Let’s look at the prosperous and lively scenes of the streets and alleys in Beijing today, and we can experience the prosperity and prosperity of the motherland firsthand. For the older generations who have suffered, look at the city today. , Must be even more emotional. After the editor: When we were young, we always hope that when we grow up we can go further and see the vast world. Nowadays, when we grow up, our parents are old. Looking back, our parents always encourage us with gentle eyes on the spot, and support us with not burly bodies. Taking advantage of the right time, it’s good to see the outside world, but don’t go there alone, with your parents, you may have more gains

In the past 10 years or so, Betteni steadily incubated China’s No. 1 functional skin care brand-“Winona”, and took the lead in the golden track for sensitive skin. In 2021, Betteni quickly broke through 100 billion in market value within one month of listing, becoming the company with the highest market value in China’s cosmetics industry so far. Recently, in just three months after the A-share listing, Betteni launched a plan to go public in Hong Kong, significantly accelerating the internationalization and multi-brand layout, pointing directly to the blueprint of “China’s skin health ecological enterprise”. Such a fast pace of development and huge potential value are quite eye-catching.

On the market side, they also voted “yes” with practical actions. On June 18, Betteni’s stock price rose again, closing at 257.98 yuan per share, with a market value of 109.3 billion yuan.

(Source: Wind)

Looking further, how did Betteni establish the blueprint of “China’s skin health ecological enterprise”? What is the latest result?

There is room for multiplication in the core track, high repurchase rate and strong supervision help the strong to become Hengqiang

According to previous financial reports, Dermatology-grade skin care products, as Betteni’s basic products, have driven its performance to continue to increase. For the whole year of 2020, Betteni achieved revenue of 2.636 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 35.64%; net profit attributable to parent company was 544 million, a year-on-year increase of 31.94%. Among them, the revenue of cosmetics accounted for 90.07%. In the first quarter of 2021, Betteni’s revenue was 507 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 59.32%; net profit attributable to the parent was 79 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 46.5%.

Looking to the future, it is still an important yardstick for measuring Betteni’s development space. Affected by the popularization of market education in China’s new media and live broadcasts, China’s dermatology-grade skin care product market has grown rapidly. In 2019, the market size reached 13.6 billion yuan, a growth rate of 33%, far higher than the global market’s 4% growth rate. However, in the same year, the per capita consumption of dermatology-grade skin care products in China was only 1.2 US dollars, which is quite different from the mature markets in developed countries. Compared to South Korea’s 3.9 US dollars, the penetration rate of China’s dermatological skin care products market has at least three times the room for growth.

At the same time, this track has market characteristics such as high repurchase rate and strong supervision, which makes it easier to help the strong to stay strong. According to the “Sensitive Skin Care Products Market Research Report”, 92% of the population will repurchase sensitive skin care products, that is, consumers with sensitive skin have higher brand stickiness, which makes it more difficult for new companies to enter. Supervision is also stricter, especially the “Cosmetic Efficacy Evaluation Specification” will be officially implemented on May 1, 2021. The “Specifications” require cosmetic claims to have sufficient scientific basis. The establishment of industry standards has further improved the entry of sensitive muscles. Barriers are conducive to leading enterprises that regulate their operations. After a long period of academic and word-of-mouth accumulation, Betteni has become the leader in skin care for sensitive skin. In 2020, Betteni’s market share in China’s dermatological cosmetics market will reach 21.6%, surpassing major international brands such as Avène, Vichy, and La Roche-Posay. In terms of “Winona”, it became the only domestic brand on the top ten list of Tmall Double Eleven sales in the same year. The product repurchase rate in the past three years was about 30%, and the repurchase rate of international big-name skin care products was also Only around 20%. So there is reason to expect, It is difficult for players to replace Betteni’s market position in the short term, and it is expected to continue its high growth momentum under the logic of the strong. It also means that it has the capacity and space to match a larger business scale, and then incubate new industries around the “skin health ecology”. The multi-brand matrix has been progressing in an orderly manner, and the H-share listing will accelerate this process In terms of specific progress, in addition to the main brand “Winona”, Betteni also owns a number of sub-brands. Among them, “WINONA Baby” is based on the professional infant and child care track, “Acne Care” focuses on acne skin care, and “Beauty Answers” focuses on precision repair, anti-oxidation and anti-aging after medical art. Positioned as a dry skin care brand. In the 2020 annual report, Betteni also stated that in 2021, it will continue to implement a multi-brand plan through intensive cultivation and extensional acquisitions. Intuitively, Betteni’s multi-brand matrix on the one hand expands the scope of the audience and further opens up space for users. On the other hand, it fully meets the needs of users for segmentation and meets the shopping demands of young consumers. It may be based on the brand matrix. Improve brand exposure and favorability. and, The R&D, channels and other resources accumulated by Betteni earlier can be more fully utilized to quickly promote the development of the new brand. Take “WINONA Baby” as an example. This brand is the first brand in China to conduct in-depth exploration through clinical observation of children from newborns to two-year-olds. It was co-created by Betteni and National Pediatric Dermatologist Professor Ma Lin and other experts through medical research. Exclusive skin care products for babies and toddlers. At the same time, it is understood that “WINONA Baby” will use OTC pharmacies and online as the main channels, with core functionalities. This is highly overlapped with the channel network of “Winona”. At the same time, Betteni is advancing the channel construction and alliance cooperation of medical aesthetics institutions to lay a good foundation for medical aesthetics promotion. On this basis, with the advancement of H-share listings, the layout of the Bettenido brand ecosystem may be further accelerated. This move will undoubtedly help the Betteni and Winona brands to increase their overseas visibility. At the same time, Betteni can stabilize the equity structure through the “A+H” approach and achieve efficient acquisition of overseas high-quality brand assets. Betteni also publicly stated: “Whether it is to build a new brand, lay out a new track, or promote the market from China to the world, build an international brand, and go public in Hong Kong is a good choice for Betteni.” summary It can be seen that Betteni’s development path is to focus on the skin health segmentation track, seize the leading position, build a solid barrier, and then expand the industry and market around the “skin health ecology”, returning to the multi-brand strategy defined in the initial period. . As Betteni’s business performance continues to increase and gains high recognition from the market, the opportunity to return to the multi-brand strategy is gradually coming. In the future, Betteni may no longer be limited to cosmetics, but will become an industry provider of “skin health ecology”, opening up a broader space for growth

Great Wall

Although China is rich in land and resources and has many historical sites, the Great Wall is undoubtedly one of the best, and no other scenic spot can match it. This is the most famous military fortification in ancient China. It was built nearly 3,000 years ago and has a total length of 21,196.18 kilometers. It ranks first among China’s top ten historical sites and deserves its name.

Guilin Scenery

Almost everyone in China has heard such a sentence: “Guilin’s mountains and rivers are the best in the world.” This is not an exaggerated statement. China has many natural beauties, each with its own characteristics, but its scenery and humanities can resemble Guilin. The perfect combination is very few. When you come to Guilin, take a boat tour on the Lijiang River, as if you are in a beautiful fairyland, which makes people linger.

the Forbidden city

As the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, the Forbidden City in Beijing can be regarded as a master of Chinese classical palace architectural art. It covers an area of ​​720,000 square meters, has more than 70 large and small palaces, more than 9,000 houses, and has different roofs. There are more than 10 kinds. Therefore, every time I go to the Forbidden City in Beijing, I cannot help being shocked by its grandeur.

Hangzhou West Lake

Among the numerous lake attractions in China, although West Lake is not the most beautiful, it is the most legendary. In this scenic area of ​​only 49 square kilometers, there are more than 100 park attractions, large and small, which can be called a step-by-step scene. Its interruption bridge, Leifeng Pagoda, Qianwang Temple, Jingci Temple and other scenic spots are well-known. Almost every tourist can say some allusions.

Suzhou gardens

If the Forbidden City in Beijing is the master of ancient Chinese palace architecture, then Suzhou gardens are the outstanding ones of Chinese classical private gardens. The history of Suzhou gardens can be traced back to the 6th century BC, but most of the gardens that survive today originated from the Ming and Qing dynasties, representing the Humble Administrator’s Garden, the Lingering Garden, and the Lion Forest.

Huangshan, Anhui

As the saying goes: “The Five Sacred Mountains do not look at the mountains when they return, and the Huangshan Mountain does not look at the mountains when they return.” The Five Sacred Mountains are believed to be familiar to everyone. They are Taishan, Huashan, Hengshan, Songshan and Hengshan. They are distributed in the north and south of the river and have their own characteristics. However, Huangshan Mountain is the master of the mountain landscape, not only the Five Sacred Mountains, but also the Five Sacred Mountains.

Three Gorges of the Yangtze River

I believe that my friends have memorized this poem by Li Bai: “The resignation of the Emperor Baidi to the colorful clouds, the thousand miles of Jiangling will be returned in one day.” Among them, Baidi City is one of the famous scenic spots in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, located on the north bank of the Yangtze River at the mouth of the Qutang Gorge. On the top of Baidi Mountain, there are towers of flying eaves and pavilions, hidden among the lush forests.

Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan

Among China’s top ten historical sites, Sun Moon Lake is undoubtedly the most controversial one. Many people think it is a mere name, and neither the scenery nor the historical heritage is commendable. However, as the largest natural freshwater lake in Taiwan Province of my country, Sun Moon Lake was a major tourist attraction during the Qing Dynasty. It is known as “a cave outside the world”, and it is unique and worth visiting.

Chengde Mountain Resort

Although compared to the other top ten places of interest, the mountain resort is not as famous as it is, but it is still a tourist attraction not to be missed. This is one of China’s three ancient architectural complexes, covering an area of ​​5.64 million square meters, with more than 120 groups of large and small buildings. It can be called “a garden in the mountains and mountains in the park”. Pavilions, pavilions and landscapes and grasslands reflect each other. Communication outlines a picture of a beautiful landscape garden.

Xi’an Qin Terracotta Warriors

Originally, among the many ancient monuments in Xi’an, it was particularly difficult to rank as the top one, because all of them were very large and many could be contended, but since the advent of the Qin terracotta warriors and horses, there has been no such controversy. Some people have always wanted to give the terracotta warriors and horses the title of “the eighth wonder of the world”. The starting point is good, but I think the historical and cultural significance of the terracotta warriors and horses does not need any title to prove it. It is one of the greatest miracles in the world. After the editor: Today, although these top ten places of interest are somewhat controversial, they are rare tourist attractions on the whole. If you have the opportunity, it is recommended to go all over and admire the great rivers and mountains of the motherland

China’s passenger jet C919 is lagging behind schedule

Status: 19.06.2021 07:29 a.m.

China’s domestic C919 passenger aircraft is set to compete with Airbus and Boeing. But the approval is still missing – and there is still no date for the first delivery.

From Steffen Wurzel, ARD studio Shanghai

China’s government has invested billions in developing and building its own passenger aircraft in recent years. There are great hopes for the C919. This medium-haul aircraft from the state manufacturer Comac should be able to carry up to 190 passengers in the future. In terms of size and equipment, the C919 is comparable to the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737. “Technically, the C919 is actually an international aircraft,” says David Yu, aviation analyst and economics professor at Shanghai’s New York University. Many individual parts of the machine come from the USA and Europe. “It will be assembled in Shanghai. Yes, the C919 is a Chinese aircraft, but with a significant proportion of foreign components,” says Yu.

Approval in China possible this year

Their Maiden flight had the C919 four years ago. It is still unclear when the machine will be delivered. The project is several years behind schedule, which is normal for all manufacturers around the world when they develop new aircraft models.

So far, the C919 does not even have official approval from the Chinese Civil Aviation Authority (CAAC). If this approval is granted – and that could happen this year – the machine will probably only fly in China for the time being. It is still unclear whether the responsible aviation authorities in Europe (EASA) and the USA (FAA) will also approve the machine.

In 2017 the C919 took off on its maiden flight – the start of delivery is currently still open. Image: picture alliance / Andy Wong / AP / dpa

For the time being, probably only in Germany

Nevertheless: Even if the Chinese medium-haul jet is initially only allowed to fly on domestic routes in the People’s Republic, Airbus and Boeing will not be left without a trace, says aviation analyst Yu. “Asia and especially China are the largest growth markets for the aircraft industry. If you also look at who ordered the aircraft – especially Chinese airlines and leasing companies – it becomes clear that the C919 will take Airbus and Boeing’s market share in China reduce, “said Yu. In China, all airlines and even leasing companies belong to the state – or they are subject to the instructions of the communist leadership. Ultimately, this can decide which aircraft type is bought by whom. This is also a clear advantage for the state-owned Chinese manufacturer Comac

Since the comprehensive sanctions imposed by the United States on China’s chip industry in 2019, domestic semiconductor stocks have always been tepid and flat. After the United States issued sanctions orders, chip stocks are even more difficult to describe. Many people have already given up. And now semiconductor stocks suddenly soared beyond everyone’s expectations. The reason why chip stocks have risen across the board is just because of a hype in foreign media. Some foreign media said that China will focus on increasing support for semiconductors, especially the chip industry, and will arrange dedicated personnel to lead chip research and development projects in response to chip sanctions initiated by the United States. The way to support the development of the chip industry is mainly through increasing capital investment, cultivating special talents and other related strategies, to the greatest extent, catching up with foreign semiconductor technology in a short period of time. Foreign media: China’s vigorous development of the chip industry is disrupting the market? In addition, according to national media excerpts from some securities reports, several semiconductor manufacturers have recently issued successive price increases notices, including TSMC, Qualcomm and other chip foundries that have been unable to keep up with market demand. Despite the tight chip production capacity, the semiconductor stock market has risen all the way. Judging from the news published by domestic and foreign stock market institutions in the past two days, the attention of semiconductors will continue for some time to come. From 2020 to the first half of this year, due to the epidemic, many corporate schools require home office work, resulting in a surge in demand for electronic products such as mobile phones and computers, which has led to an increase in the demand for semiconductor products such as chips. According to the prediction of relevant departments, the world-wide core shortage will continue until 2023, and the current good weather in the semiconductor stock market will also continue. The price increase of the upstream semiconductor industry chain in foreign countries has seriously affected the price of the downstream industry chain. As early as last year, the price increase of foreign semiconductors has seriously affected the domestic semiconductor price. Among them, Anshi Semiconductor and Silan Microelectronics all issued price increase notices at the beginning of this month. Raw materials and auxiliary materials including product prices, packaging prices, etc. all have different price increases. And some companies have also notified that power semiconductors may increase prices due to the impact of semiconductor raw material prices in the near future. There are also foreign media reports that although the semiconductor field is not an emerging field, there is no single company or country in the world that completely monopolizes the semiconductor industry, and even some countries have a very weak semiconductor industry foundation. Since the epidemic, many semiconductor companies have been affected to reduce production, and Western countries led by the United States and the United States have imposed sanctions on Chinese chips. They not only imposed comprehensive restrictions on HiSilicon, but also affected the development of chip companies such as SMIC and seriously threatened Chinese chip technology. If China strives to break the technological barriers of the West, it is now the best opportunity. No matter now or in the future, China will be the country with the largest demand for chips in the world. Therefore, it has very high requirements for the stability of the supply chain. The need for self-research and self-production is becoming more and more urgent. In the eighteenth meeting held by the relevant departmental group in the middle of last month, it was clearly pointed out that the research and development progress and support of the semiconductor, especially the chip industry, should be strengthened, and the current chip technology should be innovatively advanced. Foreign media also took out of context, and hyped semiconductors, leading to carnivals. Foreign media took this opportunity to speculate and boost the semiconductor stock market to make huge profits. At the same time, professionals from China Semiconductor Lab also pointed out that this foreign media report is out of context and has ulterior motives. The person refuted the report that China’s “third-generation semiconductor” plan is already underway, and it is expected to invest US$1 trillion in funds for research and development. First of all, it is completely nonsense to invest one trillion US dollars, and the global semiconductor market investment is only more than 10 billion US dollars. At present, the reports of many media are vague and without any basis. They are deliberately speculating on the chip market to profit from it. The so-called “third-generation semiconductor” is not the more advanced generation that everyone imagines. In the international chip industry, there is no generation difference for chips, but there are differences in nanometer numbers of different specifications. The so-called “third-generation semiconductor” is just a difference in chip application scenarios. The first generation in our country is used in products such as mobile phones and computers, and the second generation is used in satellite, mobile and other communications fields. It is applied in fields such as new energy electric vehicles and subways. Under the situation that the global core shortage will continue for a long time, semiconductors are a good direction for investment, but in the face of opportunities, we also hope that everyone will be alert to the threats brought by hype.

China’s anti-sanctions law Another setback for relationships

Status: 16.06.2021 10:30 a.m.

With the anti-sanctions law, China has created an instrument against foreign companies. Anyone who adheres to EU or US penalties against Beijing faces retribution. The industry is unsettled. From Steffen Wurzel, ARD studio Shanghai Many foreign business representatives see the new anti-sanctions law as a further setback for the relationship between Europe and China. As usual, the European Chamber of Commerce, the largest lobbying association of foreign companies in the People’s Republic, spoke up. The law continues to politicize dealings with China, so the criticism. “Basically, it ranges from uncertainty to shock,” said Chamber President Jörg Wuttke, describing the reactions of the member companies.

“Sovereignty inviolable”

With the new anti-sanctions law, the communist leadership in Beijing can punish foreign companies in the future; For example, if these sanctions follow, for example, the EU or the USA, which are directed against human rights violations in China. This could affect the textile industry, for example: If the EU should decide to sanction cotton companies from the Xinjiang region because there are strong indications of forced labor there, then China’s leadership could say the other way around to foreign textile and sporting goods manufacturers: You are only allowed to continue in China Do business if you specifically use Xinjiang cotton.

07/30/2020

“With this law, China shows that the sovereignty, the dignity, the core interests and the development interests of the People’s Republic are inviolable”, the constitutional lawyer Li Qingming of the State Chinese Academy for Social Studies defended the measure on the television channel CCTV. The state defends all of this. “We are resolutely opposed to the hegemonic striving and power politics of the West.”

Legal security for the government

Foreign observers in China criticized the fact that the law leaves much in the dark. The whole thing is “nebulous,” said a European diplomat ARD . It is clear, however, that the anti-sanctions law will not change much in the matter. Because the People’s Republic is not a constitutional state, and even without a legal basis, the communist leadership has repeatedly punished foreign companies and even entire states in the past. With the new law, however, the government can now deal with uncomfortable foreign actors in a supposedly legally secure manner.

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“Text kept very vague”

The President of the European Chamber of Commerce, Wuttke, called the law a new “toolkit” for the government. “You can worry when you see the text. The text is – typically Chinese – very vague. So you could interpret everything into it,” he said. The draft law, which the members only saw as a finished law, includes very large circles. Even family members and subcontractors could be punished.

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The passing of the anti-sanctions law has created a lot of uncertainty among foreign companies in China. But there are also other voices. The head of a German middle class center in Kunshan near Shanghai said the ARD : Many German companies with which he has to do take note of such news calmly. According to the motto: The decisions of the state leadership in Beijing cannot be changed anyway.

On June 14, local time, the Russian President’s website released Putin’s interview with NBC TV in the United States.

When answering questions about Sino-Russian relations, Putin said that the Sino-Russian strategic partnership has reached the highest level in history in recent years, and the two sides have maintained a high degree of trust and cooperation in political, economic, scientific and technological fields.

Putin emphasized, “We don’t think China is a threat to us. It is a friendly country. It does not declare us an enemy like the United States.” China’s development is obvious to all. China is a large and powerful country with a population of nearly 1.5 billion. In terms of purchasing power parity, China’s economy has surpassed that of the United States. Last year, China was Europe’s largest trading partner and the United States ranked second. But China’s strength will not worry Russia. One of the reasons is that Russia’s defense capabilities are at a very high level, but the most important thing is that the nature and level of Sino-Russian relations determines that Russia will not be wary of China’s development.

Putin also pointed out on the Xinjiang issue that he himself had the opportunity to meet with Uyghur representatives during his visit to China. He heard firsthand that the people generally welcome the Chinese government’s ethnic policies and affirmed that the Chinese government has done a lot of practical things for people living in Xinjiang in the economic and cultural fields.

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The No. 1 exhibition hall of Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum also has its own “special area” for the ancient “artifacts” of water towns.

Li Bing, who excavated Dujiangyan, was named the “Water God” by the ancients, and the “Three Gods Stone Man” based on him. The height is 2.9 meters, the shoulder width is 0.96 meters, and the thickness is 0.46 meters.

The Yangzhou Shaobo iron cow was unearthed in Shaobo Town, Yangzhou, Jiangsu. It is 1.98 meters long, 1.1 meters high, and weighs 1.5 tons.

Among the many “artifacts”, a Qing dynasty Zhenshui Iron Sword is particularly eye-catching. The 7.5-meter-long Zhenshui Iron Sword, weighing more than 1,500 kilograms, was discovered in Yanzhou, Shandong Province, which is now the Yanzhou District of Jining City, Shandong Province. It was cast by Jin Yifeng, an official during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty to treat the Surabaya disaster.

The iron rhinoceros in Tieniu Village, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, is a beast of floods in the canal of the town. It is jet-black, with a single horn facing the sky, its eyes are piercing, and its shape is strong.

Tieyi in Cangzhou, Hebei, was cast by local working people to pray for blessings and eliminate floods.

There are also five “water beasts” from Jingshan Park in Beijing and Qingfeng Gate in Tongzhou, Liaocheng in Shandong, Gongchen Bridge in Hangzhou, and Seven Gates in Yanggu, Shandong, as well as Panggu from the Tuqiao Gate in Liangshui Town, Liaocheng, Shandong. The legend is One of the nine sons of the dragon.

They say the law’s wide scope of application could put foreign businesses in China in a big dilemma, as they could be caught between complying with foreign sanctions and the law. ban them from taking such measures. Chinese technology company Huawei. Photo of CPO MAGAZINE According to Article 12 of the law passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on June 10, organizations and individuals that enforce or support foreign sanctions can be brought to court and forced to must “stop the violation and pay compensation”. Lester Ross, a partner at Beijing-based law firm WilmerHale, said he was concerned the new law would force regulators to “reduce companies’ discretion in determining whether they want to do business with them.” With whom”. “If so, this could have a big impact, especially for financial institutions,” he said. Businesses that may be at risk include multinational fashion brands that have announced they will not use cotton from Xinjiang after being banned by the US over human rights concerns, or suppliers to telecommunications giant Huawei, which has been hit by US export restrictions. Observers say the new law establishes a clear legal foundation for regulations issued by the Commerce Department last year. These include so-called untrusted legal entities lists, which identify foreign agencies deemed to pose a threat to China’s national security or interests and subject them to measures such as fines, economic restrictions and visa restrictions for employees. In January, the ministry also introduced a “blocking regulation” that forces Chinese organizations and individuals to report whether they have encountered any restrictions from foreign governments with the risk of fines if not, and allow them to claim. Tian Feilong, PSG at Beihang University’s law school, who has participated in consultations on the new law, said the blocking regulation has affected compliance with certain US sanctions. “In China, for example, Huawei can sue Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC for economic damages and seek compensation for the consequences,” Tian said. “Our court may rule that TSMC loses and Huawei will have a domestic legal channel to protect its interests. In this case, TSMC will have to decide whether to honor the sanctions. US sanctions or respect anti-sanctions laws in China,” he added. Tian said a leadership group would be set up to coordinate and enforce anti-sanctions measures, including representatives from the ministries of commerce and foreign affairs and the National Development and Reform Commission. “Simply put, foreign companies participating in sanctions against China will lose the Chinese market. Many companies need to weigh their pros and cons, whether to choose sides in the market. the Chinese market or the US and European markets, and between Chinese law and foreign law,” he said.

Alliance against China G7 countries decide on global infrastructure plan

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At the initiative of US President Joe Biden, the G7 countries agreed on a billion-dollar infrastructure initiative for the emerging countries. It should be an alternative to China’s “New Silk Road”. From Notker Blechner, tagesschau.de It sounds like a kind of “Marshall Plan” for the poorer countries of the world: At the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, the leading western industrialized countries have an infrastructure project entitled “Build Back Better World” (in German: a better world rebuild) decided. Hundreds of billions of dollars are to be invested by the G7 countries in cooperation with the private sector.

The US is the driving force behind the initiative

The project was promoted by US President Joe Biden. It is reminiscent of the billion dollar infrastructure plan adopted in the USA, which Biden promoted under the slogan “Build Back Better”. The aim is to offer poorer countries “transparent high-quality partnerships”, announced Biden at the end of the summit. The global infrastructure project of the G7 states is supposed to be an alternative to the “New Silk Road” with which China is promoting infrastructure projects from Asia to Europe. The People’s Republic has agreed “Belt and Road” projects with around 100 countries, including the construction of new train routes, ports and roads. According to the business information service Refinitiv, around 2,600 projects with a volume of 3.7 trillion dollars have already been launched. Critics accuse Beijing of driving poor countries into a debt trap and into political dependency. With the “Silk Road”, China is pursuing the goal of expanding its geopolitical influence worldwide. A US official called the new G7 alliance against China’s Silk Road a positive alternative vision that “shows our values, our standards and our way of doing business”. It is not about “the countries have to choose between us and China”.

Transparent alternative to the “New Silk Road”?

Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a less ideological justification for the infrastructure plan of the G7 countries. “We have to deal with the fact that China is running quite successfully infrastructure projects,” she admitted. “We can’t just stand by and watch.” The G7 group must show “that we are an important and successful factor in development work in the world”. She emphasized that the project was “not against something, but for something”, namely the expansion of the infrastructure, especially in Africa. The German economy has been demanding for some time that Europe react to China’s “New Silk Road” with its own infrastructure strategy. “If we want to regain spheres of influence in developing countries, it is not enough to criticize China. We have to make better deals,” said Friedolin Strack, head of the International Markets department in the Federation of German Industries (BDI), to the “Handelsblatt”. German companies usually go away empty-handed when it comes to the Silk Road projects.

Trillions of dollars are needed

According to Biden, there is a global need of 40 trillion dollars for the expansion and modernization of the infrastructure. He didn’t give any details. In a preparatory paper for the G7 summit it was said that 1.5 to 2.7 trillion dollars of additional money would be necessary every year for the developing and emerging countries to achieve the sustainable development goals of the United Nations. In fact, many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America lack modern roads, train lines, bridges and ports, as well as facilities for water supply, sewage and waste treatment. In the opinion of the G7 group, the World Bank and other international financial institutions have proven to be too clumsy when it comes to infrastructure projects. This is why national development banks in particular, such as the German Reconstruction Loan Corporation (KfW) or the US International Development Finance Corporation, are now to develop and implement projects.

Concrete projects only in 2022

It will take a few more months for the G7 countries’ global infrastructure plan to take shape. The first concrete projects are not expected to appear until next year. The new G7 task force for infrastructure projects in developing countries is to make specific proposals in 2022. “I hope that we can present such projects at the next G7 summit,” said Chancellor Merkel. Germany will take over the G7 presidency in 2022.

Criticism of China’s economic project Headwind on the “New Silk Road”

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China is expanding its influence worldwide, and the “New Silk Road” is intended to further strengthen the country. But the criticism of the project is growing. At the G7 meeting, the Australian head of government wants to report on his experiences. From Steffen Wurzel, ARD studio Shanghai Ding Laisong from the customs authority of the Chinese port city of Ningbo was satisfied at the beginning of the week: Trade with the states of the so-called “New Silk Road” had increased by 30 percent, he said on the Chinese state television broadcaster CCTV. In the case of trade with the particularly committed Silk Road countries in Central and East Asia, the plus is even 50 percent.

Sri Lanka regrets cooperation

China’s state and party leadership continues to sell its controversial strategy and trade project “New Silk Road” within the People’s Republic as a great success. In numerous partner countries, however, the initial enthusiasm for the project has given way to sober insight. China’s state and party leadership has nothing to give away with the Silk Road. On the contrary: in many cases, the Silk Road partner countries have borrowed considerably – with Chinese state banks. This sometimes creates considerable dependencies. One example is the Hambantota port project in Sri Lanka. According to media reports, the expensive Silk Road port project has hardly brought the island state anything economically. Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena now openly speaks of a mistake in leasing the port on the southern tip of the country to China for 99 years.

One billion euros in debt for Montenegro

In Europe, too, it is now becoming clear what the Silk Road critics have been calling a debt trap for years: the Balkan state of Montenegro, for example, had borrowed around one billion euros in China for the construction of a nearly 180-kilometer-long motorway. The autobahn is far from finished. But now the repayment is due – and the EU accession candidate lacks the money. The mood has also changed in large industrialized countries: In Italy, Prime Minister Mario Draghi put the Silk Road cooperation with China on hold, and the government in Canberra has also completed two projects in Australia. Only smaller, more symbolic projects were affected, but China’s communist leadership reacted angrily. She described Australia’s decision as “unreasonable and provocative”.

Australia accuses China of “extortionate behavior”

It is becoming clear that the communist leadership sees itself increasingly on the defensive in the Silk Road project, officially known as “Yi Dai Yi Lu”. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison complained at an economic conference in Perth “blackmailing behavior” by states like China. “Where compulsive acts have no consequences, there is little incentive to restrain,” said Morrison. Australia’s prime minister called for the sanctioning mechanisms of the World Trade Organization to be strengthened. Because if blackmailing behavior has no consequences, there is no reason for the corresponding states to hold back.

The G7 summit in Cornwall The heads of state and government of the seven leading industrialized countries (G7) will meet from June 11th to 13th in Cornwall, southwest England. For the first time in two years, they will meet again in person in the afternoon. In addition to climate change, the conference will also focus on trade issues and investments as well as the fight against the corona pandemic. In addition, the meeting will focus on the positioning towards Russia and China.
The G7 group includes the USA, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy and Japan. Like-minded democratic states such as South Korea, South Africa, Australia and India are invited to the summit as guests. After the government in Canberra demanded a complete clarification of the origin of the Covid 19 pandemic around a year ago, Australia was de facto covered with an economic war by China’s leadership. The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to share this experience with the G7 countries. He will be a guest at the summit in England.

my country is an ancient civilization with a long history. It has many ancient capitals and ancient cities. Some even ranked four ancient capitals, ten ancient cities, and ten ancient towns. Among the many ancient cities, there is one very special. It is an ancient city built on Jiangxin Island. It is surrounded by water and is very beautiful. Unfortunately, not many people know it, and it can even be described as little known. This ancient city is located in the ancient city of Danzhou in Sanjiang County, Guangxi. The ancient city of Danzhou is bordered by National Highway 209 and Zhiliu Railway in the east, Sanliu Expressway in the west, and about 50 kilometers away from Sanjiang County. The ancient city is located on Jiangxin Island on the Rongjiang River, surrounded by water on all sides. The island covers an area of ​​about 1.6 square kilometers and is home to five ethnic groups, Dong, Miao, Yao, Zhuang, and Han. There are 72 surnames, more than 200 households, and a total of more than 1,100 residents. Danzhou is not accessible by road. The ferry is the only means of entry and exit. The scenic spot does not charge tickets, but the ferry fee is charged. The ferry fee is 20 yuan per person (including the tickets). There is almost no need to wait. When the boatman sees someone boarding the boat, it will start immediately. It can be delivered to the island in a few minutes. It is said that the local government had previously intended to build a bridge to connect the island, but it was met with unanimous opposition from Danzhou villagers. Their reason is that “Once there is a bridge, there will be no Danzhou.” If the bridge is built, China’s only ancient city on the water will no longer exist. Because of this, tourists must ferry into the ancient city of Danzhou. Regarding the architecture of the ancient city of Danzhou, there is an ancient poem circulating in the local area: “Smelling Yinchuan around Danyang, dreaming of haze and melting the river. The Minyue Guild Hall talks about elegance, and the Danzhou Academy cooks articles. The fisherman sings in anticipation of Xiaoyue, and visitors share the joy of morning light. “Revisit the resort to look for historical sites, and go upstairs to write about the vicissitudes of life.” Basically, the ancient buildings of the ancient city such as Danzhou Academy, Minyue Guild Hall, East Gate Tower, North Gate Tower, and Ancient City Wall are summarized. As for the origin of the ancient city of Danzhou, there are relevant historical records. Danzhou was named after the 17th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. When Su Chaoyang, the local magistrate, visited Danzhou, he saw that the island looked like a fish with its head and tail raised. Leap to the sky, leading the way. The distant view is surrounded by green hills and green water wrapped around the waist. It means that the barrier is the mountain and the sky is the water. So I decided to move the county seat to this continent. It was the end of autumn and the beginning of winter. However, the maple leaves of Manchuria were all dyed and red, so I named this place. For Danzhou. Since Su Chaoyang built the city here, the county government in Danzhou has been over 340 years ago. It was not until the 21st year of the Republic of China (that is, 1932) that the county seat was moved to Guyi. Slowly fell silent. The ancient city was severely damaged in the last century. There are very few ancient buildings that have survived. Among them, the Minyue Guild Hall is one of the best. It is understood that the Minyue Guild Hall, also known as Tianhou Palace, is located on the northeast side of Danzhou and was built in the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it has a history of more than 300 years. It was built by an old man named Xue who was doing business here and spent thousands of taels of silver. The layout of the guild hall is built according to the Tianhou Temple in Zhangzhou, Fujian. It faces east from the west, the main hall to the west, the front hall to the east, and the wing building on the north and south sides. A statue of Shuo Mazu in the center of the main hall is dedicated to the worship and worship of merchants traveling from the north to the south. The front hall and the main hall are connected as a whole, and the momentum is magnificent. The guild hall has high walls and green tiles, with simple and beautiful paintings on the walls. It is one of the largest Matsu temples in the Lingnan area. There is a couplet in front of the gate of the Minyue Guild Hall. The upper couplet is “The vastness and virtue are in the water”, and the lower couplet is “Obviously, I am in position.” Heng criticized the “Fujian and Guangdong Family”. The fourth word in the upper and lower Lian is “Queen of Heaven”, which means that the wisdom and noble virtue of the goddess of the Queen of Heaven occupies an infinitely lofty position in the minds of Fujian people. The horizontal batch of “Fujian and Guangdong family” does not refer to Fujian and Guangdong, but only refers to Fujian, that is, the same town in Fujian is a family. The grass-covered wall in the picture above is the oldest section of the city wall on Danzhou. It is a real old antique. The information on the side shows that it was built in the 19th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1591) and consumed tens of thousands of silver at that time. . The city wall is based on blue stone, and the wall is rammed with two-sided masonry. The circumference is 879 meters, the height is 5.3 meters, and the thickness is 3.6 meters. 450 battlements are used by guards to release arrows during war. Due to long years of disrepair, in addition to the preservation effect of the northern city wall, half of the eastern city wall remains. The west and south city walls and gates have collapsed or demolished. The current city wall has only left more than 300 meters on the east and north sides, all of which have been included in Guangxi. Key cultural relics protection units. There are four main roads in the ancient city. One of the core roads is called Fujian Street. It is located in the northeast outside the ancient city and has a total length of more than 120 meters. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the administrative system of Danzhou has been stabilized. The transportation of freight is guaranteed by safety, so it is very prosperous. The ancient city has two gates, namely the North Gate and the East Gate. The North Gate, also known as “Zhiding Gate”, also has the characters “Beidilou” on the tower, which is located on the north side of the Danzhou City Wall. The four gates of the Danzhou city wall as a whole. Now, Zhiding Gate is the most intact ancient building of the Ming Dynasty among the four gates. There are 19 steps up to the gate, and it is the most intact monument on Danzhou Island. As for why it is called Zhidingmen, the local staff introduced it like this: During the Ming Dynasty, the border between Guangxi and Guizhou was mostly high and large mountainous areas, also known as barren land, with backward culture and extremely underdeveloped economy. There are often ethnic minorities who are dissatisfied with the oppression of Han officials and hold uprisings to occupy the mountain as king. Therefore, the war continued. After Su Chaoyang moved the county seat to Danzhou, four gates and walls were built. This gate faces the north, the border area of ​​Guangxi and Guizhou, and is named “Administration”, which means peace through governance and management. Looking down on Danzhou from the air, except for the cross-shaped old streets, all other areas are filled with greenery, and these greens are basically grapefruit trees, because Danzhou is a veritable “township of grapefruit”, and local residents plant sand fields. Pomelo makes a living, so that the entire ancient city is hidden in the pomelo grove. Almost every house is surrounded by pomelo trees, and behind the house is a pomelo garden. You visit here every autumn, but you can taste the authentic Shatian pomelo, which is said to be the same as Yulin. The county Shatian pomelo has the same name. The only ancient city on the water in China, although Danzhou is not as large as the ancient cities of Pingyao, Lijiang, and Lang, it also has its own charm. Unfortunately, few people know it. Not to mention that it is rarely known in other provinces, but it is similar to that in Guangxi. Compared with the ancient town of Huangyao, it can be said to be obscured. Fortunately, it has now begun to attract people’s attention and has been successfully promoted to a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. If you come to Liuzhou for tourism, then go to this unique Danzhou Don’t miss the ancient city.

Speaking of the most famous attractions in Lishui, it is probably the Jinyun Immortal Capital. There is a thousand-year history and cultural heritage of the Yellow Emperor. Tang Xuanzong praised it as “the capital of immortals” and wrote the word “Xiandu” in his own hand, which has been famous ever since. The scenic peaks and rocks are amazing, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the clouds are reflected, and the historical sites are flourishing. It is known as “the wonder of Huangshan, the danger of Huashan, and the show of Guilin”. Throughout the ages, it has attracted countless literati and ink guests. Humanities and historical sites. The famous film and television works “Dragons and Babu”, “Swordsman”, “Flower Thousand Bones”, etc. have all been shot here, so they have the reputation of “Natural Studio”. Qing Guangxu’s “Suichang County Chronicles” contained: The rock on the mountain is weird, and thousands of Buddha statues can be seen, hence the name “Thousand Foshan”. The Thousand Buddha Mountain, known as the “Small Jiuzhai in the South of the Yangtze River”, has strange peaks and strange rocks, deep valleys, lush forests, and lush mountains. There are not only a 300-meter-high natural mountain Maitreya Buddha, but also endless waterfalls, pools, lakes and ponds , Jian and other charming water scenes. Tang Xianzu once praised him as saying: “The morning sun is tired, the clouds are green, the rain is the wind, the smoke and the boat is painted.” When you set foot in this spiritual and beautiful place, feel the thick Zen in the breeze and the moon, you will feel unprecedented peace And tranquility, a quiet scene of time. Located on both sides of Daxi in the southwest of Lishui, the Guyan Painting Village has a profound historical heritage and beautiful natural scenery. It is a famous art hometown in China and a base for art sketching, art creation, oil painting production and photography creation. The Tongji Weir, which has a history of more than 1500 years, is one of the five major irrigation projects in ancient my country, and it is also the first batch of selected world irrigation project heritage in my country. It not only created the world’s earliest arched dam and the world’s earliest overpass, the two highest in the world, but also a precious material for the study of ancient water conservancy projects in my country. In addition, the town’s typical water towns, mottled old houses and old streets, as well as the thousand-year-old camphor trees lined with canopies are all rare “arts of life”. We all know that Zhejiang has enjoyed the reputation of “the home of silk tea” since ancient times. The abundance of products such as West Lake Longjing and Anji White Tea are well-known at home and abroad. Zhejiang’s tea gardens cover an area of ​​over 2 million mu, making it one of the largest tea-producing provinces in my country. Among them, Songyang County, Lishui City, produces tea with “green color, tight texture, high fragrance, and strong flavor”. Famous and once became a tribute. Today Songyang County has a tea plantation area of ​​over 110,000 acres and more than 80,000 tea farmers, so it is also called “China’s green tea distribution center” and “China’s famous tea township.” Among them, the Damushan Cycling Tea Plantation, which covers an area of ​​over 80,000 mu, is also known as “China’s largest tea plantation.” Located in Qingtian County, the hometown of overseas Chinese, the Qingtian Stone Sculpture Cultural Tourism Zone is composed of Qingtian Stone Sculpture Museum, the only stone sculpture cultural theme museum in China, China Stone Sculpture City, an important distribution center for domestic carved stones, and my country’s first stone cultural theme park Qiansi Rock Culture Park. . Here you can not only see all kinds of valuable stone sculptures from ancient times to the present, feel the charm of Chinese arts and crafts, but also understand the past, present and future of Qingtian stone sculptures, and feel the wisdom and culture of Qingtian. In addition, Lishui also has Yunhe terraces, which are known as “China’s most beautiful terraces”, the only Longquan Mountain tourist resort with a plateau climate in the Yangtze River Delta, and Baiyun Mountain, one of the eight scenic spots in Lishui since ancient times, as well as national cultural relics. The site of the Longquan celadon kiln, one of the five famous kilns in the Southern Song Dynasty, is the protected unit. Every place is worthy of visitors to appreciate and savor.

Recently, the whole country has focused on this city: When the epidemic suddenly rages, it responds quickly, the prevention and control order is orderly, and the response is calm. There are still pictures on the Internet ridiculing their “Buddha calm” performance-“Go on snacks, you all It’s almost the hardest hit area!” “Huh? What snack?”

Yes, it is Guangzhou, Known as a city that is naturally optimistic and reliable . Taking this opportunity, I finally have to talk about the old artist’s base camp.

△The beauty of Guangzhou is in no words. /unsplash

Among the four major first-tier cities, Beijing and Shanghai each have a strong culture and Western style. In terms of youth and vitality, Shenzhen is the representative. But if you want to talk about the essence of Lingnan culture and the city that can burst new life in the tradition, Guangzhou is the only city. Up.

Many people do not know that Guangzhou is another miracle in the history of global urban development: Among all the cities in the world, only Guangzhou is a commercial city that has remained unfailing for thousands of years.

Don’t just see Lao Guang’s calmness. After all, the city is just as its name suggests. Eating everything, and well-informed Guangzhou what.

The most pyrotechnic city in the first-tier cities

“What’s fun in Guangzhou?” Every time a friend asks this question when visiting Guangzhou, the old artist will think about it for a long time. In my opinion, Guangzhou is not a typical tourist city, and it may feel like that after seeing a circle of scenic spots.

On the contrary, I feel that there is no route at all, but it takes time to feel it with my heart. Just like Lao Guang often said “sigh morning tea” and “soup”—— “Sigh” and “Boiled” are both decided, and it takes time to make fine products .

It is the city with the most sense of time I have ever seen , Like the focal area of ​​this epidemic Liwan District In my opinion, it is the most Cantonese-style old town.

Liwan was formerly known as “Xiguan” , Because of the “a bay with green water and green lychee red on both sides”, my impression of Xiguan comes from this: the uneven old streets and lanes of bluestone slabs, the Xiguan-style arcade house, and the ancestral temples and historic sites scattered along Enning Road. , The melodious Cantonese opera can be heard on the banks of a river in Liwan Lake Park…

△Liwan is the place with the most ancient Cantonese charm in Guangzhou. /Picture Worm Creative

In Laoguang’s heart, the real aristocratic ladies are in Liwan and Yuexiu, which is what they used to be called “Miss Xiguan, Master Dongshan” .

Liang Jiyong, known as the “Relict of Xiguan”, once wrote the old house in memory in “Lingnan Grass and Trees”: “There are many flower pots high and low, one of which is slightly larger, about the size of a washbasin. In the late Qing Dynasty, In the Shiwan pottery kiln, the mottled white glaze has faint green spots of wax gourd. After wind and rain, it is more like a frosted wax gourd.” A few strokes bring out the old-school and indifferent life charm of Xiguan people.

△The taste of light and shadow in the Xiguan House. /Picture Worm Creative

If Liwan is the old soul of Guangzhou, then Yuexiu is the “root” of Guangzhou. Yuexiu is the center of Guangzhou that has never shifted since its establishment for more than 2,200 years.

There are the most magnificent department stores in South China, Dongshan Pass with red walls and green tiles, Long Causeway built along the river by shops and foreign companies, Beijing Road, which was the birthplace of ancient Guangzhou city and is now a characteristic shopping street, and humanities. The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and Sun Yat-sen Library with strong background… Compared with Liwan, Yuexiu has more prosperous and modern market flavors. .

△From top to bottom: Changdi Damalu/Tu Chong Creative, Shangxiajiu Street/Photographed @九九祥介

In my opinion, Guangzhou is the most pyrotechnic city among the first-tier cities. A large part of these pyrotechnic flavors also come from the old towns of Liwan, Yuexiu, and Haizhu with a sense of time. They carry the memories of the older generation of Guangzhou people, and they can also give off a cutting-edge and modern temperament in the old city——

Litchi Bay was silted up due to industrial pollution, and now it is remodeled. The Xiguan House on the lakeside has been built as a folk museum; Enning Road now has a new historical and cultural name card, Yongqingfang, which mixes Cantonese traditions with trendy fun; Beijing Road combines Tradition and modernity radiate the charm of “Guangfu Commercial Street”…

△The streetscape of Yongqingfang combining trendy and tradition. /Photo @九九祥介

Tianhe District, known as the representative of New Guangzhou, The bustling CBD scene is its most remarkable characteristic .

The Huacheng Square, which was originally just a foundation, has been completed as the tallest east tower in Guangzhou. The 532-meter east tower and the 432-meter west tower completed earlier form a symmetrical Gemini, plus a small waist on the other side of the Pearl River. Guangzhou The tower, three skyscrapers hold up the Guangzhou skyline.

△The bustling street scene of Guangzhou CBD. /Picture Worm Creative

Don’t watch the skyscrapers go straight through the sky, The surrounding low-rise bungalows seem to expose the unique vigor of Guangzhou .

Among the four major first-tier cities, Guangzhou is rare to see the harmonious coexistence of the bustling CBD and urban villages.

“Spider webs,” “a thin line of sky,” and “dirty, chaotic, poor” seem to be the most intuitive impressions of the urban villages in Guangzhou. They have witnessed the transformation of the urbanization wave, blurred the boundary between the city and the countryside, and derived more Guangzhou’s purest civilian temperament .

△From top to bottom: There are a large number of migrants living in the urban village of Guangzhou/Picture worm creativity, handshake building and a line of sky/unsplash

According to relevant statistics, The floating population of most urban villages in Guangzhou is 5-10 times that of local residents Take Tangxia Village in Tianhe District as an example. The local villagers have a population of only more than 20,000, but nearly 300,000 migrant workers have “crowded in”. It is precisely because there are villages in the city that can be rented at least a few hundred a month, Guangpiao people who come to work hard have enough big city life.

If you go to the most common urban villages in Guangzhou, such as Yangji, Shipai, Tancun, and Liede, you will find that behind the towering high-rise buildings, there are twists and turns, narrow lanes and streets like a maze.

There are signs of “beautiful house for rent” everywhere, food stalls, hair salons, convenience stores and vegetable markets all over the street, as well as many ancestral temples and ancestral halls with local characteristics. An inexplicable sense of intimacy is found in the icy urban business district.

△Guangzhou City Village is also the home of the original villagers. /Picture Worm Creative

Where does the taste of Guangzhou come from?

When people talk about Guangzhou, the most commonly used definition is “market taste”. Some people may think that “market” has a derogatory meaning, but old artists think this is a pragmatic and tolerant culture. Its cultural structure is absorbed from the bottom up.

And this kind of market taste is predestined in the roots, after all Who cast the soul of Guangzhou, It is the history of the “Millennium Business Capital”. If you trace the origin, you will find that Guangzhou’s “soul of business capital” can be seen as early as the source of the Pearl River.

△The tolerance of the Pearl River gave birth to the character of Guangzhou./Picture Worm Creative

Each of China’s three major rivers, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, has one entrance to the sea. Only the Pearl River has eight exits. This is different from the majesty of the Yangtze River’s “East of the Great River” and the magnificence of the Yellow River’s “Water from the Yellow River”. There are no rules for the “Eight Gates to Seize the Sea” of the Pearl River. Wherever you can go out to sea, you will flow there. It is not easy to block, and it is not easy to silt up the water.

This probably gives Guangzhou, which is located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta, a kind of Tolerant and open Temperament, always have China’s “South Gate” Known as.

As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, Guangdong Xuwen Port was the departure port of the “Maritime Silk Road”, and Guangzhou City was formerly known as “Panyu County”. It was already a distribution center for goods from the Central Plains, Jingchu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Qianshu and the South China Sea. There are related records in “Hanshu·Geography” “China’s merchants get rich and rich, Panyu, one of the cities is also” With sails like forests and gatherings of merchants, Guangzhou can be regarded as one of the first real coastal metropolises in history.

It seems that when it comes to making money, the people of Guangzhou can be traced back to two thousand years ago. At that time, the people of the Central Plains were still busy farming, and the people of Guangzhou often walked by the water, knowing that the world beyond the sea had “crabs” that they had never seen before.

Guangzhou’s commercial traditions allow people here to not stick to rules and regulations, and to support themselves by doing whatever they want. More free and easy-going by nature .

The traditional shackles of focusing on agriculture and restraining business have made Guangzhou far away from the core area. However, due to the relatively loose sea ban policy, when the Qing Dynasty closed the country and closed the country, only Guangzhou was left in the country. “Guangdong Customs” One-Port Commerce , The Thirteen Bank monopolized China’s foreign trade for 85 years.

The first group of Western businessmen who came to China for trade was the group of 13 tradesmen. The 13 trades became a key place for Sino-Western exchanges, and the world viewed China as a window.

△The glorious night view of “Guangdong Customs” along Jiangxi Road. /Picture Worm Creative

The impact of business on Guangzhou can be said to be profound. Since trade in the commercial city of Guangzhou is ubiquitous, after the sea ban, the supply of goods in the inland was cut off, and the source of foreign trade in Guangzhou could only rely on its own production. It vigorously developed local industries and promoted the surrounding cities such as Foshan, and the rise of industry and commerce.

This influence also includes the urban structure of Guangzhou. In ancient times, Guangzhou was composed of a shallow sea, mid-sea hills, terraces and many islands. The earliest record of the year when Guangzhou was founded is in “Panyu” in the Qin and Han Dynasties At that time, only the South Vietnamese lived in the highlands between Baiyun Mountain and the Pearl River.

The development of Guangzhou city is based on the contest between water and city. With the influence of commerce, the urban structure becomes looser and freer.

Nowadays, Guangzhou City is no longer a traditional “(Bai) Yunshan Pearl (River) Water” city”. It has already broken through the boundary of Yunshui, from west to east, from north to south, and has become a city with “Green hills, famous cities, fertile fields, blue seas” Natural pattern.

△ Zhujiang New Town can be called Guangzhou’s urban legend/unsplash

Guangzhou people once called the south of the Pearl River “Henan” and the north of the Pearl River as “Hebei”. There is an old saying that “I would rather have a bed in Hebei than a house in Henan.” The old Xiguan mansion in Hebei is in sharp contrast with the dilapidated villages in Henan.

Today’s vicissitudes of life in Henan and Hebei, or many in Guangzhou “bridge” . The bridge is not just a building connecting the two sides of the strait, It is like the skeleton of Guangzhou City, with unique lines and rhythmic beauty .

△ Today’s “Henan” Haizhu has a completely new look/unsplash

Looking at a city, perhaps the “bridge” can be an excellent viewing angle for you. The sky, earth, water, and bridges overlap each other, forming the veins of Guangzhou City, with vicissitudes of life hidden in it.

In 1933, the first bridge across the Pearl River in Guangzhou City—— Haizhu Bridge It was completed and opened to traffic, connecting the residential areas and industrial areas of “Hebei” and “Henan”. Later, Haiyin Bridge, Guangzhou Bridge, Liede Bridge, Pazhou Bridge built East Lake and Xiaogang, Wuyang Village and Kecun, Liede and Pazhou, the Luoxi Bridge connects to the suburbs, and the Nansha Bridge makes the blood of the Greater Bay Area city group more smooth…

△Haizhu Bridge. /Picture Worm Creative

According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 “Pearl River Bridges” have been built in Guangzhou. , In other words, if you take a night cruise on the Pearl River, you can watch a Pearl River Bridge every less than 10 minutes.

The city’s taste in Guangzhou probably originated from Its business instinct , This instinct extends the free context of the urban structure. After the reform and opening up, Guangzhou, like a fish in water, regained its grace and grace, and there were many “eating crabs” for the first time——

China’s first free trade and free bargaining Hexian warehouse opened in Fangcun, Guangzhou. The first batch of five-star hotels rose from the ground. The first batch of self-employed clothing market Gaodi Street led the glorious market. Tianhe Road, a business district with sales exceeding one trillion yuan, has risen…Made in GuangZhou’s daily chemicals, hardware, clothing, toys, etc. have attracted adventurers from all directions.

△ A scene of Shangxiajiu clothing wholesale market, now Shangxiajiu is in urgent need of iterative update. /Photo @九九祥介

The so-called “dare to be the first in the world”, In Guangzhou, it became nothing more than their “dare to drink soup” Now that you dare to try the first soup, what else has you never seen in the world?

There are a thousand reasons to be in Guangzhou

Guangzhou is the happiest city in the first-tier cities.Although this sentence sounds a bit subjective, Guangzhou has been on the list for three consecutive years in the “List of the Happiest Cities in China in 2020” last year. Among the Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the only first-tier city on the list .

In fact, the sense of happiness is blunt, but the sense of life occupies a large part-living here steadily and eating smoothly. “Groundness” is Guangzhou’s trump card , Even if you can find poetry and distant literary feelings in other first-tier cities, But after all, the meticulousness in front of you can move people’s hearts even more .

△The breath of life is the source of happiness in Guangzhou. /unsplash

In the 1960s, the name “Food in Guangzhou” has spread throughout the country. Compared with other cities, Guangzhou people are notoriously more affordable. Wearing clothes is superficial, what you eat in your stomach is your own .

So many outsiders will ridicule Guangzhou’s “whatever”, and there are also Cantonese “Seeking it” The statement, that is, as long as it is not a real problem in principle, there will generally not be too much pursuit of appearance.

Guangzhou people dress very “casually”, The most famous label is “flip flops”. The renters who collect the rent of a few suites are just those retired aunts and uncles who look like cleaning. They have a few properties under their ordinary appearance. There are also those bosses who open small restaurants and food stalls, who don’t want to be idle. Doing a little catering business can kill high-paid white-collar workers, but they seem to be very low-key.

The invisible tycoons in Guangzhou are more like hermit masters in the martial arts arena. They seem to be lazy and effortless, and they are all powerful factions who have been in the arena early.

△Just set up a stall on the side of the street, it is a pan full of fried noodles / photo@九九祥介

may Only in “eating”, they are more serious than anyone else.

The ritual of “sighing morning tea” is not casual: sit down and order tea, and some will bring their own tea to the teahouse to make; order two pieces of tea; blanch the bowl before eating, and when someone else is pouring tea for you, tap with two fingers The table top is a sign of courtesy; if you want to add tea, place the lid of the pot diagonally, and your own waiter understands this tacit understanding.

△ Guangzhou people sigh that morning tea is not sloppy

Listening to their Cantonese colloquialism, you will find that the way they explain the philosophy of life is nothing but the truth of “eating”—— “Food” Two words are enough to summarize the way of life of Laoguang people .

Working hard to make money is just to eat well, so there is “The hard work comes from eating” ； “Salted fish and cabbage are so delicious” It’s just the Guangzhou people’s mentality of contentment; if they have the courage to act, they will say “Eat salted fish to make you thirsty” ； “I have to drink tea freely” Lao Guang’s most frequently used words to greet relatives and friends are the same as “see you next time”, but with more human touch from the neighborhood.

Nowadays, although the Michelin Food Guide is leading a wave of food review frenzy, anyone who knows understands that Laoguang people don’t care how many stars a restaurant has. Pragmatic, they have already had their own “Ping Liangzheng” food map ——An old teahouse on West Huifu Road, a long-established Tangshui shop on Wenming Road, Apo Niu miscellaneous stalls at the end of Fangcun Alley, a small wantan noodle shop on Tongfu Road that has no sign…

△Snack bars hidden in the streets and alleys may also be treasures. /unsplash

I used to search for food in Guangzhou for a long time because of work. I found that the experience of traveling through the streets and alleys can also improve my sense of road and direction. When I went around and finally found a favorite gourmet shop, I felt as happy as finding a treasure.

Now that I have lived here for 8 years, I have heard many reasons for staying in Guangzhou from many people around me. Some of them even sound trivial:

Some people are attracted because the rice rolls in Guangzhou and claypot rice with crispy rice are delicious; some are left behind because they like to show more activities; some are happy because of the fish balls and cart noodles in convenience stores; some hear The Cantonese subway in front of the “next stop in the park” was attracted by the sound; also because You can buy flowers as soon as you get out of the subway station And what remains…

△The store downstairs and the tender moments glimpsed everywhere on the street may be the reason to stay in Guangzhou. /Photo @九九祥介

There is also a funny joke on the Internet, saying Guangzhou is a city that can make people “beautiful” , Because everyone is called “beautiful girl” and “beautiful boy” in this city.

It sounds a bit exaggerated, but it is also warm and intimacy.There may be many reasons to stay in Guangzhou, but in fact The core is just two words-life .

It is by no means an exquisite city, there are no heavy historical relics, and no sophisticated western food coffee shops. Some are just The lively and hot human touch, and the prosperous and undistorted fireworks .

△This gives the civilians enough tolerance and temperature. /Photo @九九祥介

Whether you are a native of this city or not, it seems that you can find the sense of life and balance you want here.

The haze in Guangzhou has not yet cleared, but I believe that the open-minded and optimistic Guangzhou will surely be able to see the moon and the moon .

△Let’s cheer for Guangzhou/ Photo @九九祥介

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The WHO Independent Panel of Experts recommends the use of Sinovac vaccine for people over 18 years of age. The evaluation data show that this vaccine is effective in protection in the elderly. Sinovac is the second Chinese vaccine approved by WHO for emergency use. (Photo: Reuters) WHO’s decision was made based on a review of the latest clinical data on the safety and efficacy of Sinovac’s vaccine as well as the company’s manufacturing practices. On May 5, the WHO technical advisory group met, reviewed and evaluated the Sinovac vaccine. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that Sinovac vaccine is safe and effective, emphasizing that it does not require a high level of vaccine preservation, suitable for low-income countries. “Now it’s important to get these life-saving tools quickly into the hands of those who need them.” , the head of WHO said. Sinovac is the second Chinese vaccine approved by WHO for emergency use. On May 7, the Sinopharm vaccine became the first vaccine not from a Western pharmaceutical company to be approved by the WHO. Meanwhile, China’s third vaccine, manufactured by CanSino Biologics, has also submitted clinical trial data. However, WHO has not yet scheduled an assessment. As of the end of May, Sinovac pharmaceutical company has supplied more than 600 million doses inside and outside China, of which more than 430 million doses have been used.

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Before flowing to Loei province – a province located on the Thailand-Laos border, the Mekong River’s water had to flow through dozens of other hydroelectric dams, including 11 of China and one of Laos. South China Morning Post On May 25, citing local people and experts, the hydroelectric dams of China and Laos have affected fish habitats, changing the natural flow with the seasons and even the color of the water. . The impact is becoming more and more obvious Rodjana Thepwong, a 64-year-old woman with a lovely smile, said gold panders in Thailand often wade into the middle of the river during the dry season. “The sediment at the bottom of the river is full of gold. I’ve even found pieces of gold as small as tamarind seeds,” she said, plunging into the river with a pickaxe, brushing away the mud and rocks. “Because of hydroelectric dams, river water rises and falls randomly, making the ecosystem out of balance. We were forced to move to the river’s edge, where there was only a very small amount of gold.” Ms. Rodjana is just one of 60 million people who depend on the Mekong River – the river that flows from China, through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia before emptying into the delta region of Vietnam. Environmental activists say the diets, livelihoods and environment of these millions have been put in jeopardy since Chinese companies harnessed hydroelectricity. One fine day, these two women were able to find $15 worth of gold. Photo: South China Morning Post. “I realized things were changing, many fish died and the water rose suddenly,” said Chantarasee Hieng, another gold pander. Downstream, experts say, in February, the river suddenly turned blue – a seasonal phenomenon for the first time, indicating that nutrients from silt are gradually disappearing from waterways this. Climate change also plays a role in causing this phenomenon, with heavier rains and prolonged droughts. But both Ms. Rodjana and Hieng insist hydroelectric dams are the main cause of the decline in the quality of the river that was once a source of food and income for many families. “So sad. But what can we do?” Ms. Rodjana said. Hope is forgotten A new dam is scheduled to be built about 2 km from the Chiang Kan district of Loei, the mountainous northeastern province of Thailand. The Sanakham Dam is a $2 billion program with electricity generated for export mainly to Thailand. The dam, built by Chinese company Datang, is expected to generate 684 megawatts of electricity when it comes into operation from 2028. The project is seen as an integral part of its strategy to become “the power source of Southeast Asia. ” of Laos. Gold panders in the Mekong River, Loei province, Thailand. Photo: South China Morning Post. The Mekong River Commission – the commission set up to manage water resources in the Mekong basin, with members Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam – says it has only about $28 million (1.4%) total budget) is devoted to measures to reduce harm to the environment and society. Thailand openly opposes the Lao plan. Residents living in this river area are lobbying the government to stop building the dam, along with public debate about the need for electricity generated by hydropower among officials in the country. Tosapol Wongwan, assistant secretary-general, National Water Resources Office of Thailand, said: “What is happening in the Mekong River has reached a point where it cannot be repaired. What we can do right now is focus on how to reduce the impact (human activities on the river).” Not easy to solve Upstream countries – China and Laos – have begun to share data on water flows and herald the closure and release of dams to their downstream neighbors. However, it is difficult to achieve complete transparency among countries with competing strategic, economic and national security needs. Laos owns two dams – the Thai-developed Xayaburi dam in the north and the Don Sahong dam near the Cambodian border. There are also seven other projects being planned. Mekong River near the Thai-Lao border. Photo: Reuters. Critics say it’s difficult to make a transparent assessment of the uses and impacts of dams on the environment. China, which is speeding up dam construction, insists hydroelectricity is an eco-friendly resource to boost the Mekong’s economy. However, according to Songrit Kirk Pongern, an academic researcher on the Mekong River at Thailand’s Kasetsart University, as dam construction continues, the forecast of a negative impact on the river is ominous. “In the next five years, the consequences will become more and more obvious. The number of fish will continue to decline, the downstream will lack alluvium, riverside and local fishing will disappear, food security for 60 million people will be exhausted,” he said.

Apollo not only has yet to answer the questions posed, but also raises more questions about what the true origin of the Moon is. The moon has UFOs, the moon is empty, the moon is an artificial object of an advanced civilization?… All questions are still unknown. Over the decades, the outcome of the 1969 American Apollo 11 successful landing on the Moon has always been a mystery and very unpredictable. On January 3, 2019, the Chinese lunar probe Chang’e 4 (Hang’e 4, Chang’e-4) successfully landed in the Von Karman crater on the back of the Moon, open hope to solve the mysteries about this place. Has Russia 4 discovered aliens on the Moon? The original image from the moon was sent back to Earth by the Chang’e 4 probe. (Photo: Sohu) Initially, the pictures of the Moon from the Chang’e 4 probe published by Chinese scientists were very normal, there did not seem to be any signs of aliens and UFOs on the Moon. This has almost caused disappointment in the world of space science. However, recently Thuong Nga 4 sent back to Earth an unusual phenomenon that is expected to happen on Saturday (June 26, 2021). About 430 meters from the ship’s landing area, a pyramid-shaped stone block appeared, standing out among the surrounding sand and dust. The strange rock mass was discovered by the probe, raising suspicions about aliens. (Photo: Sohu) According to previous studies, due to the impact of the solar wind on the surface of the Moon for a long time, combined with the large difference in temperature between day and night, almost all the rocks on the Moon all become dust. Can we conclude the existence of aliens on the Moon based on the unusual discovery of this rock? Chinese scientists have yet to come to an exact conclusion. They need more observational information and close analysis from the Chang’e 4 probe before they can make a final statement. Thuong Nga 4 conducts close-up photography of the rock mass. (Photo: Sohu) Through the process of approaching the object and sending information from the ship to Earth, scientists make preliminary comments, they believe that this phenomenon is unusual, but certainly not caused by aliens. out. Most likely, this is the underground structure of the solar wind weathering phenomenon and the temperature difference between day and night. Over time, it grew stronger and took on a new form that appeared as it is now. Before that, Thuong Nga 4 had many times discovered an anomalous phenomenon on the Moon, but all of them were deciphered by Chinese scientists with no relation to aliens. Once, Chang’e 4 discovered that the difference in gravity under the Von Karman crater on the back was larger than the rest of the Moon, but later discovered that it was just the result of gravity changes. caused by the nickel-iron compound sinking in the Von Karman crater, not the sign of aliens. Another time, Chang’e 4 found some special material structures in the Von Karman crater. The interconnected structures form a sticky mass and look slightly shiny. Based on this, many people suspect that there are creatures on the Moon and the liquid they release will bind the lunar soil together. After Thuong Nga 4 conducted close-ups, then sent the photos back to Earth for research. Chinese scientists have come to the final conclusion that this gel-like object is actually created by a thermal layer that, if we look at it from above, will look like a liquid coating on the surface of the Moon and also completely devoid of any signs of life. This is also the reason for us to believe that the rock that Thuong Nga 4 discovered this time was only formed naturally under the impact of weathering for hundreds of millions of years of the Moon, and then one day it will also be destroyed. will return to dust. Reference: Sohu

First clear image of a working J-10C with WS-10 engines/ Source: Chinese social media As with so much in China’s air force, much of the J-10’s history is shrouded in mystery. It is understood that the J-10 fighter originated in the 1980s, the prototype was the J-9, a delta wing fighter that was abandoned in the 1980s. It is also believed that the J-10 enjoyed benefit from Israel’s Lavi fighter program. The J-10 fighter was considered a state secret until January 2007, when the media revealed that it had entered service with the PLAAF. A few months later, in May 2007, the Russian arms agency Rosoboronexport announced a $300 million deal to sell 100 Saturn AL-31 engines to China’s J-10 fleet. Then, at the end of 2008, the J-10A made its public debut at the Airshow China exhibition in Zhuhai. Since that time, the AL-31 has been the key engine for all variants of the J-10, from the original J-10A to the more advanced J-10C. Challenges related to the development of the domestic Shenyang WS-10 Taihang engine forced the J-10 to stick with the Russian engine longer than planned. Finally, in early May, a J-10C in a combat unit equipped with a WS-10 engine was discovered by the public. However, there is no official statement yet. Instead, a clear photo of a flying J-10C with a WS-10 engine appeared on social media. Andreas Rupprecht, author of China’s Modern Fighter, was one of the first observers to comment on this. “This is a real milestone not only for the J-10, but even more so for the WS-10 program as it marks the end of China’s dependence on the Russian AL-31 engine for the AL-31. with all three of the PLAAF’s main fighters, namely the J-10C, J-16 and J-20,” he said. He noted that a decade has passed since the J-10B first flew with the WS-10 and that the engine was tested on the J-10A even earlier. Finally, after years of improvement, it seems the WS-10 is reliable and safe enough to power a single-engine fighter. Mounted inside the J-10, the WS-10 can be identified by several characteristics. One is that the petals of the posterior burner are significantly wider than those of the AL-31. The WS-10 also has a structural ring inside the nozzle that is not present on the AL-31. The J-10A used by the Chinese aerobatic team can be distinguished from later variants by its rectangular intake that is not horizontal to the fuselage. This variant was in production until the end of 2014, when production switched to the J-10B. However, the J-10A has been modernized, including the ability to carry the PL-10 infrared-guided missile. However, to evaluate the success of the WS-10 engine requires one thing: Time. Only through use can we know if they are really good, really replacing the Russian AL-31 engines.

Illustration. Source: CNN With a maximum speed of 350km/h, China’s high-speed railway will meet the needs of many intercity travel routes, creating favorable travel conditions for passengers. As of 2020, 75% of Chinese cities already have high-speed rail. Symbol of economic power quyền China’s ambition is to turn high-speed rail into a model for long-distance travel in the country. However, the birth of the country’s current massive rail network takes on much greater significance. Like Japan’s Shinkansen in the 1960s, China’s high-speed rail network is being viewed as a symbol of economic power, rapid modernization, growing technological prowess, and prosperity. prosperity of the country. Currently, high-speed rail is a powerful instrument of social cohesion, political influence and regional integration between cultures. “The construction of new railway lines is part of President Xi Jinping’s grand plan to promote integration into the vast national market,” said Dr. SOAS) of the University of London said. This move shows that China is repeating the history of promoting high-speed rail networks, before many early railway lines in North America and Europe have done so. The development of railway networks in Russia, France, Great Britain and several other countries has been strongly influenced by political and military needs. “China has created a high-speed rail network on an unprecedented scale in history, which is forecast to be faster and certainly more reliable than China’s domestic flights. New stations and incredible travel routes are the highlight of this program. All tickets must be booked in advance and passengers only need to scan their ID card or passport at the ticket gates,” the travel expert said. railroad Mark Smith emphasized. China initially thought of choosing high-speed technology imported from Europe and Japan to establish a high-speed rail network. “Global railway engineering giants” such as Bombardier, Alstom and Mitsubishi are all keen to promote the cooperation program because of the potential size of the new market and the ambitious plan that China is targeting through the project. this. However, over the past decade, China’s domestic companies have developed into world leaders in high-speed train technology and engineering. Therefore, the mobilization of the available potential is considered a certain success of China in this field. The enormous scale and dramatic changes in topography, geology and climate posed many challenges during the implementation of this project. From Harbin to the Lanzhou-Urumqi route across the Gobi desert, Chinese engineers had to spend a lot of effort to be able to design suitable weather terrain to meet quality standards for the road route. iron across. High-tech simulation efficiency Chinese companies are among the world leaders in introducing new technology such as autonomous (unmanned) train operations and advanced navigation technology. Passengers board the high-speed train. Photo: CNN An unmanned high-speed train connecting Beijing and Zhangjiakou in northern Hebei province capable of reaching speeds of up to 350km/h is now becoming the world’s fastest autonomous train. The new route opened in December 2019 as part of preparations for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. The fastest trains complete the journey in just 45 minutes. Built in four years, the route includes 10 stations serving two of the major Winter Olympics venues, along with several other stations in Badaling Changcheng allowing tourists to have a journey to their destination. The fastest Great Wall of China. Passenger cars on the self-propelled train have been expanded to store winter sports equipment, seats with 5G touch screen control panels, smart lighting systems, thousands of safety sensors and seats removable for wheelchair passengers… As China seeks to expand its influence across Asia, into Europe and Africa through its ambitious “Belt and Road Initiative”, the construction of a high-speed rail network is under way, according to CNN. contribute a fundamental part to create the “Silk Road” that Beijing is aiming for. “China’s high-speed rail industry has become one of the nation’s main economic pillars, and the high-speed rail network has brought convenience to passengers during travel,” said Jianwei. Zhang, President and Country Representative of Bombardier China said.

Chinese people watch the rocket that sent the Tianwen-1 probe into space. Photo: AP The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on May 15 that the Tianwen-1 (Tianwen-1) probe had successfully landed on the surface of the “Red Planet”. “China has left its footprints on Mars for the first time, an important step for our field of space exploration,” Xinhua news agency said. The New York Times reported that since 1976, the US has successfully landed on Mars nine times. The Soviet Union in 1971 became the first country to send a lander to the surface of the Red Planet, but the mission was unsuccessful because the probe then stopped transmitting. Recently, China has continuously recorded new space science achievements. On the morning of April 29, China launched the first module to build its own Space Station (CSS). It seems that to catch up with the US and Russia, China’s ambitions do not stop at Mars and the space station. Moon Dream In January 2019, China was the first country to land a probe on the dark side of the Moon. The dark side can be understood as the night side of the Moon while the other side is observable from Earth due to receiving sunlight and is the day side. This is China’s second successful landing on the lunar surface, the first being in 2013. China is the third country in the world to successfully explore the Moon, after the US and Russia. In December 2020, China sent another probe to the Moon, which is Chang’e-5. On December 16, 2020, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft landed in Inner Mongolia carrying samples from the lunar surface. This is the first time scientists have collected samples from the lunar surface, after the Soviet Luna-24 mission in 1976. Moon samples brought back by Chang’e-5 are on display at the National Museum of China in Beijing. Photo: Getty Images China plans to launch three more spacecraft to the Moon by 2027. Beijing’s goal is to establish a base on the Moon that can be accessed by astronauts within the next decade. In March, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said it would cooperate with China in building a research station on the Moon. However, the two countries have yet to announce the details of this coordination plan. Serious competition The fragmentation of China’s Long March 5B missile falling into the Indian Ocean in May has drawn much criticism from international public opinion. In April, this Long March 5B rocket sent the core module into space to build China’s first space station. In the near future, China plans to carry out 11 more launches to complete the space station by the end of 2022. The International Space Station (ISS) jointly developed by Russia, the US and many countries will “retire” in 2024. It is still unclear what will happen next. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) advocates keeping the ISS operational for a few more years. Russia meanwhile announced it would withdraw from 2025. In the event that the ISS is completely shut down, China will be the only country that owns the space station. Accordingly, the Chinese space station named Thien Cung is expected to be able to host three astronauts operating at the same time. China has selected a team of 18 astronauts, including only one woman. The first three astronauts are expected to spend three months in space. Mars and more Model of China’s first space station. Photo: AP China announced that it plans to make one more Mars landing by 2028 and bring samples from the planet back to Earth for study. NASA and the European Space Agency are also embarking on this work in the hope that the US Perseverance probe, which landed on Mars in February, can bring soil and rock from Mars to Earth by 2031. This is said to be more likely to lead to a race between the parties. China also plans to take 10 years to collect samples from the comet. In addition, the country also intends to set up spacecraft to orbit around Venus and Jupiter. By 2024, China plans to launch a space telescope like the US Hubble, which has been in orbit since 1990. On China Space Day (April 24), President Xi Jinping wrote a letter to senior space scientists, encouraging them to “intensify and expand space exploration and rapidly quickly turn China into a space power.

The Global Times (China) on the morning of May 15 reported on the successful landing on Mars of the Tianwen 1 mission. According to RT (Russia), the Tianwen 1 (Tianwen-1) spacecraft of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) was successfully launched from Wenchang Launch Site on July 23, 2020 and orbited Mars since February 10 this year. This interplanetary mission is China’s second attempt to reach the “Red Planet” after the 2011 Mars mission of the Huang Huo 1 (Yinghuo-1) probe. Citing CNSA sources, Chinese state media confirmed that the Tianwen 1 spacecraft successfully landed the Zhu Rong (Zurong) rover on the Martian surface on the morning of May 15. Thien Van 1, weighing 5,000kg, includes an orbiter, a lander and a golf cart-sized rover called Chuc Dung, named after an ancient fire god in the god of fire. Chinese phone. Carrying the Chuc Dung rover, the lander endured “seven minutes of horror” as it plowed through the Martian atmosphere on a parachute support lander. The spacecraft landed in Utopia Planitia, the same area where NASA’s Viking 2 mission landed in 1976. Watch a simulation video of the Chinese lander’s landing on Mars: (Source: Global Times) Earlier, in a statement on the same day, CNSA said, “The Tianwen 1 probe has been operating normally since its successful launch on July 23, 2020”. The agency added that it had collected a “massive amount” of scientific data as the Tianwen 1 rover orbited Mars. “With the assessment of the flight status, the Tianwen 1 probe is scheduled to conduct a landing operation against the Utopia Planitia area at the appropriate location from the early morning of May 15 to May 19 according to the Beijing time,” the CNSA statement said. The Utopia Basin is the largest recognized basin on Mars, with a diameter of about 3,300 km. Graphic image of China’s probe landing on Mars. Photo: Space The image of Mars was taken from afar by the Thien Van 1 spacecraft. Photo: AFP. According to The Verge, China is planning to land a pair of robots on the surface of Mars, making a daring attempt to become the second country to successfully land and operate a rover on Mars. Red Planet. China launched the unmanned Tianwen-1 spacecraft from the southern island of Hainan in July 2020, with the goal of sending a rover to the surface of Mars to collect data about the source groundwater and look for possible signs of ancient life there. So far, only the US has successfully implemented the technique to bring the rover to Mars and operate it. After a journey of nearly 7 months, the Tianwen 1 spacecraft successfully moved into Mars’ orbit on February 10 and then sent back to Earth many high-definition pictures of the Red planet’s surface. Image of the surface of Mars taken by the Tianwen 1 spacecraft from a distance of 330 to 350 km. Photo: AFP. “The main mission of Tianwen 1 is to conduct a global and extensive survey of all of Mars using orbiters and to bring the probes to surface locations of scientific interest to conduct detailed investigations with precision and high resolution,” the Tianwen 1 mission’s leading scientists wrote in the journal Nature Astronomy last year. Long March 5B rocket, the same type that launched the Tianwen 1 spacecraft to Mars, during the launch event of China’s space station module in April. Photo: AFP/Getty Images Model of the Tianwen 1 probe. Photo: AFP The Tianwen 1 mission marks the latest step in China’s rapid succession of advances in space exploration. The country became the first country in history to land and operate a probe on the far side of the Moon in 2019. Beijing also completed a lunar sampling mission last December. , with launching a robot to the Moon and quickly returning it to Earth carrying soil samples. Tianwen 1 is China’s first Mars landing mission, but it’s not the country’s first attempt to send a probe to Mars. The first is a fairy orbiter called Huynh Hoa 1, launched in 2011 with Russia’s Phobos-Grunt mission. This ship did not go beyond Earth orbit after launch, plunged into the Pacific Ocean and was destroyed. Before the successful Mars landing of the Tianwen 1 mission, the US successfully landed 5 rovers on the surface of the Red planet. Most recently, on February 20, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance probe passed through the Martian atmosphere and landed on this planet, with the historic mission of bringing back the rocks to help answer the question. whether life ever existed on Mars. On May 28, 1971, the Soviet Union also launched the Mars probe Mars 3, nine days after its “twin” spacecraft, Mars 2, was launched. Illustration of the Soviet Mars 3 probe on Mars. While making a Mars landing on November 27, 1971, the Mars 2 lander crashed to the Martian surface and disappeared in a dust storm. Then, Mars 3 landed in the Ptolemaic crater area in the southern hemisphere of Mars on December 2 of the same year. At first it seemed that Mars 3’s landing went perfectly, but just 110 seconds after landing, the device disappeared in silence. Since then, the Russians have not received any signal from the ship.

Although the local government has announced that it will install railings to prevent people from approaching, this area is still a place that attracts many children to play. Previously, the government of Phushun city asserted that this strange architecture was built simply to adorn the urban beauty. Even to build the “Circle of Life”, city planners had to cancel 3 other works. Built in 2012, the “Circle of Life” architecture is about 153 meters high and is made from a giant 3,000-ton steel block. At night, the bracelet is lit with 12,000 LEDs. A viral video on Chinese social media shows children carefree climbing up and then sliding down excitedly from the curve of the “Circle of Life”. Although there are signs near this structure that prohibit visitors from approaching, children and parents still often come here to play. “It is difficult to prevent children from climbing, maybe the local government should install fences to prevent people from approaching”, “The budget should be used to build real slides, instead of building giant hoops this”, are 2 of the comments of Chinese netizens.

Illustration. The Beijing-based smartphone giant sued the government earlier this year, after the US Department of Defense under former President Donald Trump issued an order designating the company as a Chinese military company. This will result in the deletion of US exchanges and deletion of names from global benchmark indices. The US Department of Defense has now agreed that the final order ignores the designation “would be appropriate,” according to a filing filed in US courts on May 11. Hong Kong-listed Xiaomi did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Pentagon representative was not immediately available for comment. Shares of Xiaomi rose 6.7% during the session in Hong Kong on May 12. “The parties have agreed to a direction that will resolve this lawsuit without the need for a controversial press conference,” according to the filing. Stakeholders are negotiating specific terms and will submit a joint proposal by May 20. Xiaomi, which makes robot vacuums, electric bicycles and wearable devices along with smartphones, was an unexpected target for the Trump administration. Co-founded by billionaire businessman Lei Jun more than 10 years ago, with US chip technology company Qualcomm as one of the earliest investors, Xiaomi insists it is not owned or controlled by the Chinese military. National. The deal comes after a US court in March sided with Xiaomi in the lawsuit and halted the ban. US regional judge Rudolph Contreras said at the time that Xiaomi was likely to gain a complete reversal of the ban once the lawsuit opened and issued an initial order to prevent the company from suffering “irreparable damages. “. The deal marks a rare victory for China’s tech giants to get caught in the sights of the US government, as the two countries clash on issues ranging from trade to human rights and the right to rule. of Hong Kong. In November, Mr. Trump signed a ban on US investment in military-owned or controlled Chinese companies aimed at exerting pressure on Beijing over what the US describes as abusive businesses. use. The order against Xiaomi, along with a number of other Chinese companies, was issued during the weak days of his administration. Trump has also pursued other Chinese giants including ByteDance, owner of popular video-sharing app TikTok and Tencent Holdings, which owns the WeChat super app. Telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co was hit hardest after it was banned from buying US-made parts and shutting down infrastructure projects around the world.

China has big ambitions for the digital yuan – Photo: CGTN As China moves towards issuing the world’s first government digital currency, the debate about it is getting hotter than ever. Historian Niall Ferguson describes China’s e-yuan as a “dangerous challenge” to the US financial hegemony over decades. Meanwhile, Michael Hasenstab, chairman of investment firm Franklin Templeton, said e-CNY could undermine the role of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. However, according to Bloomberg, when talking to people already using the digital yuan in China, the response was not very positive. APPEARANCE OF DOMESTIC USERS In Shenzhen – the tech hub is experimenting with using the digital yuan – most Bloomberg survey participants showed little interest in switching from popular mobile payment systems. currently such as Alipay of Ant Group or WeChat Pay of Tencent. Ant Group and Tencent are dominating the digital payment market in China with WeChat Pay and Alipay apps – Source: iResearch / Bloomberg Some are concerned that the digital yuan could be a tool for the authorities to access their financial data in real time. “I am not interested at all,” said Patricia Chen, 36, who works in the telecommunications industry, Chen is one of more than 500,000 people in Shenzhen eligible to test the yuan. While none of the Bloomberg survey participants had in-depth knowledge of the role of the digital yuan in the global foreign exchange market, their indifferent response showed the challenges faced by the administration. Chinese President Xi Jinping faces when he applies this currency at home and abroad. “I’m not interested at all” … “I’m afraid the authorities can track all my transactions” … E-CNY users According to Bloomberg, even if the Chinese authorities persuade or force citizens to accept the digital yuan, it will take a long time to do the same with international consumers and businesses. they have been wary of Beijing’s capital controls so far. With Vera Lin, 25, working for a finance company in Shenzhen, using the digital currency is not too difficult. However, Lin argues that users like her need a greater incentive to switch to the digital yuan altogether, because existing digital payment options are so reliable and work seamlessly within the platforms. other services, from social networks to e-commerce. Even a 10% discount on RMB purchases was not enough to lure Lin. The 25-year-old says platforms run by companies like Ant regularly offer discounts on everything from ride hailing to food delivery. Meanwhile, Jan Chen, a 33-year-old civil servant, is concerned about privacy issues. “I’m afraid the authorities can track all my transactions,” Chen said. China is testing the digital yuan in several provinces, including the largest scale in Shenzhen city, Guangdong province – Photo: Xinhua In a country where tax compliance is not as strict as China, many entrepreneurs are wary if information about their transactions is fed directly into government databases. Some fear that data from digital yuan transactions could be collected in real-time to monitor political disagreements or international businesses. competition with Chinese state-owned enterprises. Launched in 2014, the digital yuan project was promoted by then PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, who has long advocated the creation of a new international data currency to replace the dollar. . Zhou sees the e-CNY as a tool to counter potential threats from cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Facebook’s Diem (formerly known as Libra). THE COUNTRY IS HARD, IT’S ALTERNATIVE The PBOC has tried to quell these concerns by freeing the use of the digital yuan to retailers (they currently have to pay a 0.6% fee for transactions on Alipay and WePay), and pledged to that most of their transactions will be anonymous. In March, Mu Changchun, director of the PBOC’s Digital Money Research Institute, said the central bank would not directly grasp the user’s identity, but that they could get this information from financial institutions. in the event of a crime. Zennon Kapron, CEO of consulting firm Kapronasia, said that if the digital yuan is not gaining traction in the long term, the Chinese government may turn to coercive use. Beijing has begun to take moves to gain control over the data collected by technology and financial companies like Ant and Tencent. According to Francis Chan, a senior analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, even if Chinese lawmakers do not go that far, they can ask for more co-workers from the vendors and operators of the Internet platform. digital yuan on your own payment options. “The e-CNY only partially solves the problem, which is the payment infrastructure part. However, just solving this problem does not help solve the whole problem “… Michael Ho, Director of Financial Services, Oliver Wyman Recently, the platforms MYbank (invested by Ant) and WeBank (invested by Tencent) have been added as options on the e-CNY application, although not yet available. Chan as well as Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Sharnie Wong forecasts that the digital yuan could be put into use across China before the 2022 Beijing Olympics and take 10% of the market share in electronic payments in the country by year. 2025. This is not a small number but still cannot compete with the dominant positions of Alipay and WePay – two e-wallets with total market share of over 90%. In the country it is difficult, to persuade international users to use the digital yuan is much more difficult. “The e-CNY only partially solves the problem, which is the payment infrastructure part. However, simply solving this problem does not help solve the whole problem, “said Michael Ho, director of financial services at Oliver Wyman, commented. Many people are skeptical of the ability to fulfill China’s ambitions to internationalize the yuan – Photo: Getty Images According to Zennon Kapron, on the international arena, despite its great ambitions, the digital version of the yuan is unlikely to boost the share of the Chinese currency’s global payments by one percentage point, from below. 3% current. Many analysts are also skeptical of the yuan’s international application ambitions in Xi Jinping’s plan to reduce dependence on the US-led financial system.

The US Space Forces, the Russian Space Agency and the Aerospace Corporation, a US-funded nonprofit research firm, predict that debris and the missile body will fall to Earth by the end this week, possibly on May 8 (US time). At the present time, the authorities have not been able to accurately determine where the missile will fall. The studies showed that after the incident, the rocket moved into the Earth’s atmosphere. According to the principle, the missile Truong Chinh 5B will orbit the Earth for a while before free fall. The Truong Chinh 5B missile, which carries the main module for China’s space station, was launched into space from April 29. Photo: Getty The orbit of the universe sent the missile through many densely populated areas from New York City and Los Angeles (USA) to Southern Europe, Beijing (China), Australia, South Africa and South America. However, it is likely that the Truong Chinh 5B missile will “land” in the Pacific or a large uninhabited territory. “The rocket’s trajectory traverses the most densely populated areas in the world,” said John Logsdon, a former member of the NASA Advisory Council and founder of the Space Institute at the University of Washington. If we cannot control the missile’s position in the atmosphere, it creates a concern about where the missile falls to Earth. ” As the rocket phase falls through Earth’s atmosphere, friction heats the surrounding air to about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,649 degrees C). The rocket will likely break at this temperature and parts of it could burn, but there are still many large debris that could survive and fall to Earth. Accordingly, experts estimate that about 5 tons of the remaining missile components, including fuel tanks, propellants, large parts of the rocket engine, metal fragments and insulation, will fall to an area of ​​the Earth. The highest possibility of scientists’ calculations is that these rocket components will fall into the ocean, where no people are inhabited. “There is still a risk of the impact of the collision, including who could hit someone with a rocket,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer observing objects orbiting the Earth, CNN told CNN. But the risks of a missile hitting the residential area are very small so you don’t need to worry too much about this. ” However, according to John Logsdon, this is still an unusual situation and China needs to give an explanation of what happened. On May 7, Yonhap news agency reported that South Korea and the US discussed how to respond to the Chinese Truong Chinh 5B missile crash. It is known that Truong Chinh 5B missile was launched last week, bringing a module of China’s first permanent space station into space. However, the missile has a problem that worries space forces around the world. Members of the Korea Space Operations Center held a video conference with US-led Joint Space Operations Center officials on May 7. Photo: Yonhap The South Korean Air Force and the United States-led Joint Space Operations Center (CSpOC) hosted an online conference and shared their monitoring and analysis data. This conference was attended by both the German and Japanese armies. “We do not rule out the possibility that the missile fragment will hit the Korean peninsula. We are prepared for any situation,” said Lt. Col. Choi Seong-hwan of the Korea Space Operations Center. closely monitor the missile’s path and coordinate with CSpOC and other related agencies “. The US command said it was impossible to determine the exact landing point of the missile “until it returned to Earth”. In addition, The Guardian reported, the US has no intention of shooting down the remains of the Chinese Truong Chinh missile. Specifically, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said: “We have the ability to do a lot of work but we have no plans to shoot down this missile. We anticipate the missile will land in the ocean or not. people or similar land “. A spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on May 7 that the head of the missile will probably catch fire when it moves into Earth, so it will not pose a major threat to people around the world. White House press secretary Jen Psaki believes the US is committed to addressing the risks of space debris and wants to work with the international community “to promote leadership and responsible behavior. mission in space “. Minh Hanh (According to Business Insider, Guardian, Yonhap)

Luoyang Longmen Mountain, 303.5 meters above sea level, has two peaks facing each other in the east and west. The Yi River flows slowly to the north, and the natural scenery is very beautiful. However, according to legend, in ancient times, Longmen Mountain was a connected whole. Because the Yishui River was blocked on the south side of the mountain, flooding was often caused. So Dayu sculpted Longmen Mountain during water control and divided it into east and west halves, allowing the water to flow out to the north. Since then, the “Longmen Mountain” has been hailed as the first of the eight scenic spots in Luoyang. The Longmen Mountain that Dayu excavated back then is where the Longmen Grottoes are now. According to records, the Longmen Grottoes began to be carved when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved to Luoyang. In the 16th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (493), Emperor Xiaowen ordered the construction of a grotto on the Longmen Mountain. After more than 1,400 years of construction in more than 10 dynasties such as Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, etc., it became the longest-built grotto in the world. According to statistics, there are 2,345 existing cave niches, more than 100,000 statues, and more than 2,800 inscriptions on steles. They are a collection of sculptures, architecture, calligraphy, costumes, literature, religion and many other art forms. They are the world’s largest statues and largest scale. The treasure house of stone carving art, together with Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Datong Yungang Grottoes, Tianshui Maijishan Grottoes, are called “China’s Four Great Grottoes”, and it ranks first among all the major caves in China. These more than 100,000 statues and inscriptions on the steles are densely distributed like honeycombs on the 1km-long Longmen Mountain and Xiangshan rock walls on both sides of the Yishui River. The largest one is 17.14 meters high and the smallest is only 2 cm. For more than a thousand years, although the grottoes have been damaged to varying degrees due to natural wind erosion and man-made destruction, their lifelike and ingenious carvings have been admired to this day, and are hailed as the pinnacle of Chinese stone carving art. It is worth mentioning that the Longmen Grottoes are also the only royal grottoes in the world. Most of its statues are built by royal nobles. Among them, the Lucena Buddha carved by Wu Zetian according to his appearance is the most famous. This Buddha statue is 17.14 meters high, with a plump and round face, serene and majestic, and its image is admired by many Buddhist believers at home and abroad. It is known as the “most beautiful Buddha in China”. The Three Caves of Binyang, excavated in the Northern Wei Dynasty (500 AD), were built by Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty for his parents, Emperor Xiaowen and Empress Dowager Wen Zhao. The “Scissor Hand” Buddha statue that is popular on the Internet is located in Binyang North Cave among the three holes. This statue of about 10 meters high is called “the cutest Buddha in history” because of the broken right thumb, just like the cute “scissors hand”. . The Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave, completed in the first year of Tang Yonglong (AD 680), is the most complete cave in the Longmen Grottoes. On the wall outside the cave is a statue of Avalokitesvara with a height of 85 cm. The left hand holds the bottle clean and the right hand raises the dust. The posture is natural and graceful. It is said that the artist Mei Lanfang spent two hours here when he wrote and acted the Peking Opera “Luo Shen”, and then he was suddenly enlightened and the performance was a great success. It is said that the lotus roof of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing was designed based on the lotus relief in the lotus cave of the Longmen Grottoes. However, it is regrettable that a large number of exquisite statues in the Longmen Grottoes were insanely robbed and vandalized in the 1930s and 1940s. Some are stored in overseas museums, and some are still missing. This is not just the Chinese nation’s whereabouts. The pain is the shortcoming of human civilization.

From Steffen Wurzel, ARD studio Shanghai A battery factory in Changshu, just under 100 kilometers north of Shanghai. The Chinese e-car company Aiways has the batteries for their electric SUV called U5 assembled here. Robots put the individual parts together on a conveyor belt. The battery packs have a capacity of up to 63 kWh, which means that Aiways cars can travel 400 kilometers according to the manufacturer. Only a few workers stand on the conveyor belt. Most of the work steps run automatically, explains senior engineer Wu Lunbin. “It currently takes nine minutes and 44 seconds to make a battery pack for a car,” he says. “But we will continue to expand our production capacity, that will further increase the pace.”

Lots of bankruptcies and takeovers

In addition to Aiways, the other Chinese electric car start-ups are also self-confident. Of the original hundreds of small companies, around ten have remained after bankruptcies and takeovers, which have now actually brought market-ready electric cars onto the streets. They are called, for example, Li Auto, Xiaopeng, World Champion and Nio . Even if the sales figures of these companies are still very low compared to the established, international large car brands: The e-car start-ups have shaken up the car market in China, says Zeng Zhilin, founder of the Shanghai management consultancy LMC Automotive. “These e-car start-ups are digital through and through. They are brave and dare to sell their cars and use new technologies,” says Zeng. “E-car start-ups like Nio combine classic car technology and new software in a way that traditional corporations cannot.”

“Most difficult market ever”

In the affluent cities along the Chinese coast, the hip electric SUVs from the startup companies are already part of the normal street scene. So far, only a few have dared to go abroad, more precisely to Europe. The Shanghai company Aiways, for example, is trying. It also sells its off-road electric sedans in Germany for just under 30,000 euros if you include the state e-car bonus. “We want to start our business from Europe because that is the most difficult market ever,” says Aiways company founder Fu Qiang. “If we survive in Europe, we can do it anywhere. And with that we show our customers within China: Look here, we have what it takes to sell our products in Europe – we build high-quality cars.”

Aiways founder Fu Qiang wants to sell his cars in Germany over the Internet. Image: Steffen Wurzel Entering the German market is complicated for new car manufacturers: There is fierce competition, high price pressure, and German customers are not considered to be keen to experiment. And: It is time-consuming and expensive to set up a Germany-wide sales network. Aiways simply bypasses the latter point: The Shanghai company sells its cars in Germany online and through a consumer electronics chain that otherwise sells televisions and computers.

Cooperation with workshop chain

For inspections and repairs, Aiways customers are referred to the nationwide active workshop chain Auto -teile-Unger, ATU for short, explains Aiways company founder Fu Qiang. “ATU has enough locations in Germany. They don’t need any new equipment or new mechanics for our cars. The only thing they need is precise instructions on how our cars are serviced.” As far as the number of new cars produced is concerned, the e-car start-ups are catching up, but they are still far behind the established, large car manufacturers. Aiways plans to sell at least 10,000 cars outside of China this year. For comparison: the Volkswagen Group sold around 4.2 million cars last year – in China alone.

Xiao Fei Jun will choose Burqin County , This is located A fairy tale town in the northwestern border .

Don’t think this name sounds unfamiliar, maybe you have used it as a transit station or the scenery along the way hastily passed by. As long as you mention the scenery here, you will definitely have an impression.

Kanas Lake Map Insect@小罗细罗

Colorful Beach@图虫创意

Burqin belongs to Altay Region, Xinjiang , Is a county seat where the Irtysh River flows, but this low-key small county seat contains the essence of northern Xinjiang.

Many people think of it as going Kanas Lake, Wucai Beach, Hemu Village The transit station of Kanas is so famous that this small city is often overlooked by people.

In fact, these ancient and independent beauty is just a good place for local people to relax daily.

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In residential areas neglected by tourists, the leisurely and peaceful life of the locals is hidden.

People live by the water, and the urban area is dotted with undulating Russian-style buildings. The combination of candy colors is so cute that it looks like a small house in a fairy tale book.

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Going aimlessly to the outskirts of the city, you will come across countless harmonious and vital scenes in nature.

The daily life in Burqin is the magnificence of the colorful beach, the sunset on the Irtysh River, the delicious grilled pike in the middle of the night, and the coexistence of the beautiful scenery without filters. The most beautiful scenery is the life in front of you .

The town farthest from the sea

Poetic and picturesque exotic customs

“Burqin” is Mongolian, meaning a place where camels are grazing. Deep in the Eurasian continent, it is the only county in western my country that borders Russia.

The buildings here are full of rich western style, people’s life is quiet and peaceful. Not only can you enjoy the sunrise on the Burqin Bridge, you can also see flocks of wild ducks frolicking in the river, and vigorous fish and gulls flying in the sky. .

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Many people who have stayed in Burqin are obsessed with the streets of the city.

Walking in Burqin Street , There are lone low buildings along the way, Mediterranean, pink, light color, light green… the bold and jumping color scheme is unexpectedly harmonious.

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Even the Public Security Bureau is here “Cute version” Yes, the shape of the castle and the color scheme of Mediterranean blue are very cute, and in the freshness, you will find that this small city is clean beyond imagination.

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People who live in the suburbs even bring their own “Alps” style of painting.

Neighboring the vast grasslands and mountains, I can’t help but brainstorm scenes from the classic movie “The Sound of Music”.

The Burqin people who were born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Sri Lanka, some are Han people who fish by the river and cast nets, and some are Kazakhs wearing ethnic costumes passing by, but they all reveal the nourishment of the Burqin River and the Irtysh River. The love of life.

/Sino-Russian Old Wharf Customs Park/

There is also a Sino-Russian Old Wharf Customs Park in the urban area, which hides 16 scenic spots in just three kilometers.

include Hedi Night Market, Russian-style Commercial Pedestrian Street, Sino-Soviet Shipping Memorial Hall, Jinshan Academy, Kanas Grand Theater and many more.

The whole style street is on the Irtysh River, and it is very pleasant to stroll.

Hearing a piece of “red history” from the Sino-Soviet Shipping Memorial Hall, relive a piece of “business legend” that has gone through a century of history at the Sino-Soviet Tonghang Old Terminal.

Finally, don’t forget to have a satisfying meal at the Hedi Night Market! Grilled naan, hand pilaf, large plate chicken, grilled pike, braised five black, grilled lamb skewers Waiting for classic Xinjiang cuisine will surely satisfy you.

Accommodate the essence of northern Xinjiang

Beautiful as if God knocked over the palette

/Kanas Lake/

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Kanas Lake was named “the most beautiful lake in China” and people call it a paradise on earth.

And if you want to truly appreciate its beauty, only seeing is believing can you know how much praise is not as shocking as seeing it in person.

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Kanas Scenic Area is very large, with birch forests and larch all over the mountains, surrounded by snow-capped mountains, green grasslands, and charming lakes and villages.

Kanas Lake is very magical. From different angles and at different times of the day, the lake water will show different colors. However, no matter how the color changes, Kanas Lake always shows a kind of high saturation beauty.

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Wolong Bay, Moon Bay, Shenxian Bay These three places are treasured places for photography enthusiasts to cherish. Although the journey is long throughout the year, the hardships along the way are completely healed at the moment of seeing her.

More experienced players can also choose to Three Bay Waiting for a touching sunrise, just one sunrise can make you feel worthwhile.

Tips: The scenic area is large and the shuttle bus interval in the park is longer. It is recommended to hike or drive by yourself.

Not to be missed: 1. Take the Sanwan wooden plank road to enjoy the essence of Kanas Lake, the viewing platform is the best place to shoot Kanas Lake;

1. Overnight in the scenic area, waiting for a charming morning mist in Shenxian Bay;

2. Trekking from Moon Bay to Wolong Bay (usually about 1h)

   /Colorful Beach/

   

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   “A river is separated by two banks, and there are two heavens.” The rich landforms of Xinjiang are not only the Gobi Desert, but the Yadan landform of Wucai Beach is one of the representatives of colorful Xinjiang.

   Under the faint but glorious setting sun in the evening, the Yadan Rock and the blue water oasis on the south bank formed a sharp contrast. On one side, the lush Populus euphratica forest reflected in the river, and the other side was a rock cliff without grass.

   While lamenting the wonder of nature in my heart, I will be attracted by the depth of field in front of me.

   Address: Middle Section of Buha Highway, Burqin County, Altay Region, Xinjiang

   /Hemu Highway/

   

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   Before entering Hemu Village, you must pass this Hemu Highway.

   “There is a road in the scenery, and there is a scenery by the roadside”, The Hemu Highway is completely integrated with the surrounding scenery. There are mostly mountains along the way, with large elevations and a maximum elevation difference of 1,000 meters. The tourists in the car seemed to be wandering among the birch forests in the mountains along the winding mountain road.

   In order to let visitors not miss the scenery along the way, the road along the road is naturally formed according to the landscape. There are four types of cottage villages, grassland pastures, river valleys, and primitive forests , Designed 10 viewing platforms.

   /Hemu Village/

   

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   After entering Hemu Village, you will find that although it is not very big, the breath of life of the local residents has already come to your face.

   Tuva people who maintain the most complete ethnic tradition live here It is one of the famous Tuva villages and the farthest and largest of the three remaining Tuva villages (Hemu Village, Kanas Village and Baihaba Village).

   

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   The Irtysh River flows slowly under the Hemu Bridge, and the birch forest and sunflowers are full of fresh literary atmosphere on the river bank.

   In the twilight, the quiet village is filled with smoke, and the evening sun is softly sprinkled on the Tuva cabins, and the group of returning cattle walks across the Hemu Bridge, which is too beautiful to be a fairy tale.

   Don’t miss: 1. Don’t miss the experience of living in the original ecological cabin;

3. Go to Tuva’s home to be a guest, drink milk tea, listen to the hostess playing the matouqin accompaniment, and the hostess’s national dance.

   Grilled pike, Biwa beer,

   Savor regional characteristics in gourmet cuisine

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   Speaking of Burqin’s special cuisine, grilled pike is definitely the first one.

   The scientific name of the pike is “Joertai”, which is a kind of cold-resistant water fish living in the Altai Irtysh River. It is named because of its flat head and mouth like a dog.

   Although it looks fierce, the meat is tender and soft, and the taste is even more tender and delicious under the charcoal grill.

   tips: The grilled fish in Burqin Night Market is very famous, but the price of wild grilled fish is higher. It is recommended to say hello to the price. The food in the scenic area is very expensive, so it is best to bring your own dry food.

   /Biva Beer/

   In addition to the common kvass, there is also a Russian special Biva beer. In Russian, Kvass means a drink, and Biva means beer.

   Biwa has a refreshing, sweet and sour taste, and a mellow taste. You can see it in restaurants and Russian homes. This is the continuation of Russian culture in Burqin.

   If you are lucky enough to be a guest at the homes of the Russians, they will surely play the accordion, dance the folk dances, and welcome you with Biva, a wine unique to the Russians.

   /Earth hot pot/

   

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   The soil hot pot in Altay area has a rougher flavor than ordinary hot pot.

   The thick base and the round pot bottom are filled with sand meat, meatballs, beef, lamb chops, and vegetables. They are all meat slowly. Then use the beef bone broth that has been boiled for several hours to make the bottom. , Fragrant but not greasy.

   Shop recommendation

   ?Hou Sanyu Village

   Address: In the food street opposite the People’s Hospital of Youyifeng Road. A treasure shop in the downtown area that specializes in eating pike.

   ?Yunhe Kitchen

   Address: No. 71, Kanas Old Village, Baikaduan.In Kanas scenic area, good quality and low price

   ?He Xie Ren Jia Tu Hot Pot Fast Food

   Address: 330 South West Road

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   The picture comes from Tuchong, the Internet, Kanas Tourism, and the copyright belongs to the original author

“Ping An’s technology strategy continues to deepen, and its technology business maintains rapid development.” The relevant person in charge said. It is reported that as of the end of March 2021, the company’s number of scientific and technological patent applications has increased by 1,100 from the beginning of the year, reaching a total of 32,500, ranking it among the top international financial institutions.

“Ping An of China was the first to implement digitalization in China’s insurance industry, and the investment was the largest, and the results were the best. In the past, the effect of technology investment was obvious, so the income of the technology sector has gradually increased substantially.” China Insurance and Insurance and Insurance Group of Wudaokou School of Finance, Tsinghua University Zhu Junsheng, research director of the Pension Research Center, spoke highly of Ping An’s technology sector and believed that this was a positive result of the company’s firm implementation of its digital transformation strategy over the past years.

At the same time, according to the first quarterly report, Ping An achieved operating profit of 39.120 billion yuan attributable to shareholders of the parent company, an increase of 8.9% year-on-year; annualized operating ROE (return on equity) reached 20.0%.

In terms of customer operating performance, the first quarterly report showed that as of the end of March this year, the number of Ping An’s personal customers exceeded 220 million, an increase of 1.0% from the beginning of the year; among them, the number of individual customers holding contracts with multiple subsidiaries was 84.57 million, accounting for 38.3. %. In the first quarter of 2021, the scale of group business comprehensive financial financing increased by 84.9% year-on-year.

Business value increased by 15.4% year-on-year to 18.980 billion yuan; operating profit increased steadily by 4.2% year-on-year to 25.580 billion yuan. At the same time, according to a quarterly report, Ping An’s life insurance reform project has entered the stage of comprehensive promotion and implementation. In this regard, Zhu Junsheng commented that it will take time for Ping An’s personal insurance reform strategy to pass down, and the reform effect is gradually showing.

In terms of property and casualty insurance business, in the first quarter of 2021, Ping An Property and Casualty’s comprehensive cost ratio was 95.2%, a year-on-year decrease of 1.3 percentage points; operating profit was 5.119 billion yuan, an increase of 15.2%; the “Ping An Good Car Owner” APP is the largest car in China Service APP, as of the end of March this year, the number of registered users exceeded 133 million, an increase of 5.1% from the beginning of the year.

Regarding the decline in the comprehensive cost rate of Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance, Zhu Junsheng analyzed that the company’s strong risk control management and good customer segmentation led to a decline in the comprehensive cost rate. Therefore, it still achieved better operating performance under the background of the comprehensive reform of auto insurance.

In terms of asset allocation of insurance fund investment portfolios, the first quarterly report shows that as of March 31, 2021, the scale of Ping An Insurance’s investment portfolio reached 3.78 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.1% from the beginning of the year. At the same time, the annualized net investment rate of return on the company’s insurance fund investment portfolio in the first quarter was 3.5%, and the annualized total investment rate of return was 3.1%.

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Wu Xiaoqiu, vice chairman of the Academic Committee of Renmin University of China and dean of the China Capital Market Research Institute, said in a guest program of “National Wealth Lecture Hall” recently that an important sign of the success of capital market reform should be among the top 10 listed companies in China by market value. , There are at least 5 high-tech companies.

Wu Xiaoqiu said that the capital market focuses on growth. In the past, the capital market paid too much attention to traditional industries and confuses importance and growth. Therefore, one of the important signs of the success of the capital market reform is that among the top 10 listed companies in China by market value, there are at least five high-tech companies.

“At present, Moutai and financial companies rank relatively high. Although financial institutions are very important, they are the country’s important tools and towns, but in terms of industrial competitiveness, investor returns and asset growth, high-tech companies are more important. It is important.” He said that if the current policy guidance allows commercial banks to flow 400-500 billion yuan into high-tech companies from the profit of more than 1 trillion yuan, then the market value rankings of listed companies will undergo major changes in the future.

Wu Xiaoqiu said that without the intervention of new finance, the process from new technology to new industry will be very slow. To this end, we should fully realize the role of finance in promoting the transformation of new technologies into new industries. The role of finance is not only to provide loans for enterprises, but also to incubate the emergence of new enterprises and promote the transformation of new technologies to new industries. This is the deeper meaning of financial services to the real economy.

“Although traditional markets are easy to manage, they have weak functions, a single unit, and low efficiency. China’s financial development to the current prosperity is the result of persisting in reform and opening up, marketization, and the integration of technology and finance. We cannot Let it return to the era of traditional finance.”

Wu Xiaoqiu emphasized that China’s financial market competition is not yet sufficient. It is necessary to promote financial market competition through financial disintermediation reforms and technological reforms. At the same time, appropriate financial policies must be provided so that the high-tech real economy can obtain more profits.

He pointed out that the valuation of technology companies can reach 50-70 times, while the average value of the banking industry is about 5 times. The highest valuation of China Merchants Bank is only 10-12 times. “If profits can flow to high-tech companies, the value of China’s capital market will not only be 80 trillion, but may reach 120 trillion or more. This will help us reach the goal of a securitization rate of over 100%.”

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2021-04-16 12:32:10

Source: Times Finance

After Tucson is listed in the future, the commercial vehicle autonomous driving market in which it is located may also enter the eve of large-scale landing. Image source: Tuworm Creative At a time when passenger car autonomous driving is not yet mature, the field of truck autonomous driving has given birth to “the world’s first autonomous driving stock”. On April 15th, Eastern Time, the self-driving truck brand “Tucson Future” officially landed on Nasdaq. The opening rose by more than 3%, and the opening price was US$40.25, slightly higher than the IPO price (US$40), but it began to fall after rising to US$41.5, and closed at US$40 on the day, which was flat compared to the IPO issue price. It is foreseeable that after Tucson is listed in the future, the autonomous driving track will be sought after by more capital, and the commercial vehicle autonomous driving market in which it is located may also enter the eve of large-scale landing. In response to more issues related to future business planning after the listing, Times Finance tried to contact Tucson Future, but as of press time, no response has been received. Is the “first share of autonomous driving” worth US$8.787 billion? The autonomous driving track is divided into the passenger car market and the commercial vehicle market. The former, such as Baidu, Didi, etc., directly face C-end consumers, with Robotaxi as the final commercial landing scene; The specific business scenario is unmanned autonomous driving. Tucson Future was established in 2015. In the future, it will mainly provide customers with computer vision-based commercial L4 autonomous driving solutions, high-speed scenes and unmanned transportation solutions for container trucks in the port. Headquartered in Shanghai, with branches in the United States and Beijing, the main market is currently in the United States. Tucson’s future business model has been relatively clear. In July 2020, it launched its own driverless freight network “AFN”. The ecosystem consists of fully automated semi trucks, high-definition digital map routes, strategically placed terminals, and a cloud-based proprietary autonomous operation supervision system TuSimple Connect. composition. Based on this network, Tucson’s future service models mainly include three types:

Cooperate with the shipper. In the future, Tucson will use its own unmanned vehicle fleet operating in an unmanned network to provide shippers with unmanned freight services calculated by mileage.

Cooperate with the carrier. Carriers can purchase driverless trucks, operate them in the driverless freight network, and connect to Tucson’s future driverless systems when necessary.

Fleet. Fleet owners can buy and operate their own fleet of driverless trucks. These unmanned trucks will operate in the unmanned freight network according to the mileage-calculated charging mode.

Since its establishment, Tucson has gone through 10 rounds of financing in the future, and the disclosed amount of E-round financing is 350 million yuan. In addition to the founding team, Tucson’s future largest shareholder is Sina affiliate Sun Dream Inc., which accounts for 20% of Class A shares.

As the first stock of autonomous driving, what is the market value of 8.49 billion U.S. dollars? “From the perspective of Tucson’s current financial indicators such as revenue and profit, as well as its commercialization capabilities, the market value of US$8.49 billion is relatively high. However, Tucson’s future track will have high growth, and market competitors will be relatively If there is less, there is more room for imagination in the future.” Major General Ding, an IT Internet observer, told Times Finance and Economics.

The capital market has always valued autonomous driving very high. Both Baidu Autopilot and Waymo are currently valued at around US$40 billion. However, the market for autonomous driving passenger cars is very large, and the non-commercial vehicle market can match them.

Compared with its peers, Pony Zhixing, which is also on the truck autonomous driving track, is valued at more than US$5.3 billion after the latest round of financing, and Zhijia Technology is valued at US$1 billion. Tucson’s current market value can be regarded as the leader in the future. .

From the point of view of the track, Tucson’s future potential is indeed relatively large. According to an Essence Securities report, the traditional freight truck market in the United States is as high as 800 billion U.S. dollars, with high labor costs, accounting for 43% of operating costs per mile, and the problem of aging drivers is serious. 54% of commercial truck drivers are 45 years of age or older. There is a strong demand for autonomous driving technology.

However, in terms of specific operating conditions, US$8.49 billion may be more “paying for the future.” From the perspective of revenue, Tucson will always be at a loss from 2018 to 2020, with net losses of US$45.03 million, US$84.883 million, 177 million US dollars, a total of about 2 billion yuan. And Tucson said in the future that “a lot of expenses and continuous losses will be incurred in the foreseeable future.

From the perspective of commercialization capabilities, Tucson has not yet achieved mass production in the future. The prospectus discloses that it will cooperate with Navista and Volkswagen’s Traton for pre-installation and mass production to jointly build and deliver L4 unmanned trucks. At present, the vehicle has received 5,700 pre-orders and will be put into production in 2024 as planned .

Before mass production, the level of hardware reliability is not enough, so Tucson’s future half-car test vehicle still needs to be equipped with safety officers and drivers before it can go on the road.

Who is the second “Tucson Future”?

“Like the United States, it is difficult for the passenger car market to give birth to the next Tucson in a short period of time. The commercial sector is still the direction that domestic auto-driving related companies should pay attention to and make efforts.” Major General Ding said.

The passenger car autonomous driving market is vast. Most of the players entering the game are Internet companies with strong capital. Although there have been preliminary results, companies such as Baidu and Didi have already begun road tests, but they are still far from commercialization. The process is difficult.

From the perspective of the technical route alone, the domestic car-road coordinated route is still in the early stage of equipment laying, and it is far from reaching the level of mutual perception between cars and roads and other vehicles. Moreover, the current domestic laws on autonomous vehicles are basically in a blank state.

Foreign “smart bicycles” models are also full of difficulties. Earlier this month, the CEO of waymo, a leading autonomous driving company, resigned. According to foreign media reports, internal employees said Waymo did not have much direction inside, technology stagnated, and senior leaders set goals. unrealistic.

In contrast, self-driving commercial vehicles do not carry people, involve fewer safety issues, and the road conditions are relatively simple and fixed, and are easier to commercialize. The current domestic commercial vehicle autonomous driving fields are mainly truck freight and mines.

In the field of truck freight, Zhijia Technology and Xiaoma Zhixing have respectively completed D round financing and C+ round financing, and become unicorn companies. Among them, Zhijia Technology has introduced Guotai Junan International and Hedosophia as investors, both of which can provide Its listing assists, and according to media reports, it is in the process of SPAC merger negotiation in order to go public through backdoor. However, like Tucson’s future, both have not yet achieved mass production.

However, compared with the American truck freight market, the domestic truck freight market is not mature yet. Chen Mo, the founder of Tucson Future, once publicly mentioned the reasons for prioritizing the development of the American market.

First of all, there are only test licenses in China, and operations are not allowed. If trucks do not have an operating license, they cannot transport goods and cannot be profitable; in the United States, the cost of freight hardware is declining, and labor costs are rising, but the country has not yet reached the intersection; unmanned driving needs to be combined with drop-and-hook and box-drop transportation. Mode (after arriving at the transportation point, the tractor can drop the carriage and hang another carriage, which can shorten the stop time to a minimum), but many domestic trucks and trailers are integrated, and the drop-hang and drop-box rate not enough.

There is also great potential for autonomous driving in mines, with huge market space and high risk, difficulty in recruiting drivers, and strong demand for unmanned operations. According to Chentao Capital’s calculations, the total annual market size of domestic mine autonomous driving exceeds 100 billion.

Domestic mining autonomous driving solution providers are dominated by start-up companies, because mining operations are complex systems engineering, which not only require autonomous driving technology, but also dispatch and fleet management, and Internet of Vehicles communication technologies. Therefore, domestic large-scale equipment companies tend to cooperate in-depth with driverless start-up companies.

Tage Zhixing, a leading company in this field, was established in 2016 and has now completed 8 rounds of financing. Its founder and chief scientist Yu Guizhen stated that it is confident that it will be listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board within 1-2 years.

However, according to Chentao Capital’s analysis, mining autonomous driving companies are still in the initial stage of commercial trial operation and field deployment testing. The work efficiency of autonomous driving has not yet been equal to that of manual driving, especially night operations have not yet carried out normal operations. Although many companies have received commercial orders, most of them are pilot projects and have not yet participated in the normal production operations of the mine.

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The export business of Chinese companies experienced a strong boost in March. The increase was 30.6 percent compared to the previous year, as the statistics office in Beijing announced. That is a little less than experts had forecast. By contrast, imports climbed 38.1 percent faster than expected. Overall foreign trade increased by 34.2 percent in March – the ninth consecutive month of growth. For the entire first quarter, this results in an increase in exports of 49 percent. Imports increased by 28 percent. Regarding the growth rates, however, it should be taken into account that the previous year’s level was very low due to the Corona crisis. In addition, the pace of growth is slowing compared to the first two months of the year.

“A positive signal”

Nonetheless, experts are optimistic: “The strong foreign demand is likely to continue in the second quarter as the global economy continues to recover,” said economist Nie Wen of the Hwabao Trust. “But as global vaccination efforts accelerate, industries in other countries will gradually start up again.” The numbers are “a positive signal that global economic and trade activity is recovering and market confidence is growing,” said a spokesman for the customs office, Li Kuiwen. However, he warned that the global economic situation remained complex and serious.

Engine of the world economy

But the world economy is benefiting from the buoyant economic recovery in China. According to the customs authorities, imports from Germany rose by 28.4 percent in the first quarter. China delivered 60.5 percent more goods to Germany. Experts see the demand from the Chinese economy as a major reason for the relative robustness of German industry in recent weeks. Trade with the US is also flourishing. Despite the trade war and punitive tariffs, Chinese exports to the USA rose by as much as 74.7 percent in the first three months of the year. Imports from the USA increased by 69.2 percent. Germany is back in growth The world’s second largest economy after the USA will grow by a strong 7.8 percent this year, according to a forecast by the industrialized nations organization OECD, after being the only large country to grow in 2020 despite the corona crisis. For comparison: The Federal Reserve is forecasting economic growth in the US of 6.5 percent for the current year. Optimism is growing: in December, the Fed had only expected an increase of 4.2 percent. The federal government is currently forecasting an increase of only three percent. A few weeks ago, important economic institutes in Germany revised their forecasts downwards in view of the corona situation. On Monday, the three major industrial associations in Germany expressed their cautious optimism about the economic development. As a result of strong Chinese economic data, oil prices are rising today as China is one of the largest oil importers in the world. The prospects for a global economic recovery could also prove to be a driver for prices on the commodity markets in the future. That, in turn, could cause inflation rates to rise, as experts keep saying.

It will be built on the Yarlung Tsangbo River, just before the river exits the Himalayas and flows into India, along the world’s longest and deepest canyon located at an altitude of more than 1,500 meters. Yarlung Tsangbo is one of the major rivers of Asia originating in Tibet, flowing through India, Bangladesh and flowing into the Bay of Bengal (this river is named Brahmaputra when coming to India and Meghna when flowing into Bangladesh).

A hydroelectric dam on the Brahmaputra River. (Photo: Indiandefencereview)

The hydroelectric project in Medog district in Tibet is expected to break the record of the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River, in central China, with an expected capacity of 300 billion kw of electricity per year. This ambitious project was also featured in China’s 14th Five-Year Plan at the 4th Session of the National People’s Congress of China in March 2021. However, Chinese officials have yet to release the details, timeframe and budget for the project. Before that, China has implemented the construction of a number of smaller hydroelectric projects on this river.

In October 2020, Tibetan officials signed a “strategic cooperation agreement” with PowerChina – a company specializing in the construction of hydroelectric projects. Expressing his passion for “arguably the richest region in the world for this hydroelectric resource”, Yan Zhiyong, head of PowerChina, explained that the dam will generate ample electricity thanks to the Great slope of the river in this distance.

Beijing thinks the project is an eco-friendly alternative to fossil fuel use, however, it runs the risk of encountering strong opposition from environmentalists, like like what happened with the Three Gorges Dam. The Three Gorges Dam was built from 1994 to 2012, crossing the Yangtze River, the section that flows through Hubei province, and is currently the largest hydroelectric dam in the world.

The Tam Hiep Dam created a huge reservoir with a surface area of ​​more than 1,000 square kilometers, causing 1.4 million residents to evacuate. To complete the project, 40,000 workers worked non-stop for 17 years, at a cost of tens of billions of dollars.

Brian Eyler, program director of Southeast Asia, Stimson Research Center in Washington DC, USA, said: “Building a dam of great size can be a bad idea for many reasons.” Not only is it famous for its strong seismic activity, the area where China plans to build a super dam also has a unique ecosystem. According to Mr. Brian Eyler, the new dam can stop fish migration and sediment flows help the soil become fertile downstream during the flood season.

Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha, an environmental expert at the Tibetan Policy Institute, said that the project could face both ecological and political risks. Speaking to AFP, Mr. Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha said: “We have a very rich cultural heritage in this area. Therefore, any dam construction can damage the ecosystem and affect those heritages ”. According to Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha, the dam project will force many locals to leave their homes.

The danger of “water war” explosion

Analysts fear tensions between China and India could turn from the disputed border area of ​​the Himalayas to the flow from the world’s highest mountain range. India has repeatedly expressed concerns about China’s mega-dam construction project.

Many analysts said, China intends to use the super dam on the Yarlung Zangbao River to control the flow, putting pressure on downstream countries, like what it did with the Mekong River. Some other opinions that Beijing is intending to control the water resources of the whole South Asia region.

In a commentary in Times of India, political scientist Brahma Chellaney assessed: “The water war is an important element of war. China can use upstream power to control its most essential natural resource.

This expert warned that the risks associated with seismic activities will make the dam become a “water bomb” that can explode at any time and threaten the lives of people in the downstream area.

In response to China’s super dam plan, the Indian government has come up with the idea to build another dam on the Brahmaputra River to increase water storage and neutralize the impact of the project that Beijing follows. chase.

“There is still plenty of time to negotiate with China about the future of the super dam and the impact it will create,” said expert Eyler, but he also noted, “the failure of negotiations will cause India to build. another dam downstream ”./.

An old phosphorus mine in Florida.

According to information from the BBC, China uses rare earths as a trump card in the trade war with the US. China has signaled that it could limit exports of rare earth minerals to the US as the trade conflict between the two countries escalates.

By far, China is the largest producer of raw materials vital to many US industries including high-growth industries such as electric vehicles and wind turbine manufacturing. The US Geological Survey has determined these minerals are very important to the economy and defense of this country.

Restricting exports to the US, if implemented, could have a major impact on major US industries worth trillions of dollars that rely on rare earth minerals.

Rare earths are a valuable resource that plays an important role in the industry.

Rare earth is a group of 17 elements used in many fields, including renewable energy technology, oil refining, electronics, … Called “rare” because they are difficult to exploit. This raw material is believed to be in the Earth’s crust. There are very few places in the world that exploit or produce rare earths because rare earth exploitation is both difficult and potentially harmful to the environment.

Rare earth exploitation is very difficult and poses a risk to the environment.

Currently, Chinese mines account for about 70% of global rare earth production. Myanmar, Australia, the US and some other countries only exploit a small amount, accounting for the remaining 30%.

According to US government data, about 80% of imported rare earths come from China. Estonia, France and Japan also supply treated rare earths to the US, but the original ore is from China.

The US mines rare earths and sends ore to China for processing, but China has imposed a 25% import tax. Consequently, the United States considered developing its own rare earth refining industry.

Information from the New York Times and Bloomberg said that the US is seeing the potential to exploit rare earth from old phosphorus mines in Florida. The process of handling leaked waste here helps to protect the environment and is an opportunity to reduce dependence on rare earths from China.

China is holding back most of the world’s rare earth supply.

A sewage leak at an old phosphorus mine in Florida prompted authorities to issue an evacuation order and declare a state of emergency near the Tampa area amid a potential collapse of the mine’s radioactive waste. Cleaning up the forgotten giant pile of phosphorus scattered in Florida and other parts of the southeastern United States could help resolve America’s dependence on important imported raw materials, while eliminating Threats of environmental disaster are lurking in the local people.

Phosphorus is a byproduct of the production of fertilizers from phosphate rock. For every ton of organic phosphoric acid produced, more than five tons of phosphorus are produced. This waste is worthless in its raw form due to the concentration of uranium, radium and other heavy metals making it radioactive toxic, unable to be used as soil amendment or building material.

According to the study, there is a large amount of rare earths and radioactive metals present in phosphorus piles in Florida. However, those are not the only scarce metals that can be found in phosphorus ores. Rare earths are a collection of elements that are important for high-tech applications such as magnets and lasers. A 2017 analysis by the US-China research group showed that rare earths are present at a rate of about 0.2% in a waste pile of about 1 billion tons in Florida, equivalent to two million tons of rare earths, enough to cover global demand for a decade.

Many laboratory studies have been done to look at phosphorus recycling processes. However, prices for phosphorus, rare earths and uranium have been mostly curbed in recent years to limit the commercial appeal of phosphorus recycling around the world.

Every year, the US government spends a substantial amount of money monitoring and managing risks at the old phosphorus mine in Florida. The US plans to spend about $ 111 billion to clean water pipes and water infrastructure.

Under the Donald Trump administration last year, the US environmental protection agency authorized the use of raw phosphorus as road construction materials. However, the cost of waste treatment here is so high that investors are still afraid.

The US government has to spend a lot of money on the treatment of the phosphorus mine in Florida.

Huge open-pit ponds the size of the entire city block, filled with toxic wastewater, and underneath there is a lot of radioactive waste.

Recently, local officials allowed residents to return home after an urgent effort to pump millions of gallons of water out of ponds and into inland waterways. The environmental impacts of releasing large amounts of polluted water have not been evaluated. But in the past week, the “ghost” of a great cataclysm caused the government to evacuate hundreds of households from the dangerous area.

Researchers fear that, when giant puddles collapsed, radioactive waste will leak, it will lead to unpredictable dangers. The environment will be affected by the emergency discharge of polluted water, which contains many substances that can cause harmful algae to bloom and kill fish.

Wastewater in the area near Wilmington in North Carolina.

Florida is considered the largest producer of phosphorus in the world, accounting for about 80% of phosphorus mining in the US – where the exploitation and consumption of about 23 million tons of phosphorus per year.

When coal-fired power plants generate electricity, they leave hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic sediment known as coal ash, mixed with water and dumped into ponds within the plant.

Across the United States there are more than 700 landfills and large bodies of water still store coal ash discharged from coal-fired power plants. Under the Obama administration, there were regulations to close coal ash ponds in 2018. Currently, the North Carolina region authorities also began requiring power companies to dig coal ash ponds under the new law. state, also requiring the closure of all coal ash ponds by 2029./.

After sunset in Jaffna, Anthony Vigrado dived into the waters of Palk Bay to catch sea cucumbers – a prickly skin creature that has grown in value and has been his main source of income for the past 12 years.

But after 10 hours of searching, what he got is a fraction of what he used to be. The reason is that sea cucumbers have been extensively exploited in the northern coasts of Sri Lanka and southern India.

Treasures of the sea

“Illegal fishermen are fishing illegally in the places where we often dive for sea cucumbers. We are losing income and a livelihood for them, ”said the 31-year-old fisherman.

Sea cucumbers are echinoderms with a soft, tubular body resembling a vegetable of the same name. Photo: Guardian.

Sea cucumbers are echinoderms with a soft, tubular body resembling a vegetable of the same name. They are an unusual animal but play an important role in the marine ecosystem. When they eat debris in sediments, they regenerate nutrients and excrete nitrogen, ammonia and calcium carbonate – components that make up coral reefs. Sea cucumber also helps slow ocean acidification due to human activity.

The demand for sea cucumbers is huge in China and Southeast Asian countries, where they are processed into delicious dishes and used in traditional remedies. Dried sea cucumber is called calche-de-mer or trepang. They are also considered by many, especially China, an aphrodisiac.

This has made the sea cucumber trade become “super profitable”. Therefore, this animal is in danger of extinction. In the 1980s, sea cucumber was priced below 70 USD / kg, now the price has increased to more than 270 USD / kg. The rare species cost up to nearly 3,500 USD / kg.

Over the years, sea cucumbers in Palk Bay and Mannar Bay are overfished. For the most expensive species, the number of individuals has dropped by more than 60% globally.

Fishermen harvested sea cucumbers caught on Mannar Bay. Photo: Guardian.

Now, this tiny tropical island has become a hotspot for smuggling and illegal sea cucumber fishing. Like Vigrado, more than 10,000 fishing families living along Sri Lanka’s north coast are anxious about their livelihoods.

Chamari Dissanayake, Senior Lecturer in Zoology at Sri Jayewardenepura University in Sri Lanka, said: “The number of sea cucumbers is plummeting due to overfishing. It affects the biodiversity and the livelihoods of coastal fishermen who have long depended on this profession ”.

Vigrado said many illegal fishing boats damaged the facilities and equipment of local fishermen to catch sea cucumbers, causing some people to commit suicide because they could not pay the debt.

“They are grabbing everything”

AM Stanny Lambert, a 31-year-old fisherman from Vankalai in Mannar, said he was sad and angry at these crimes.

“It was unethical and we were stuck, because they were doing everything in front of us,” he said. Lambert and his father have been licensed to fish for 11 years and are the breadwinner of the family.

Most reported offenses take advantage of different regulations from neighboring countries. While Sri Lanka issued fishing permits and permits the export of sea cucumbers, India has completely banned all trade in these animals since 2001.

As a result, sea cucumbers are illegally caught in India and smuggled into Sri Lanka, where they are legally exported to Southeast Asia, or exported from India under fake labels.

Marine animal protection forces in Lakshadweep Islands, India seized 486 sea cucumbers died in March 2021. Photo: Lakshadweep Forest Management Board.

In August 2020, three men were caught smuggling nearly 1,000 kg of sea cucumber from Tamil Nadu in India to Sri Lanka via Mannar Bay. The Indian Coast Guard priced these sea cucumbers to nearly $ 700,000 in the international market. A similar case was reported in March 2021.

Teale Phelps Bondaroff, research director at OceansAsia, an organization that recently mapped sea cucumber arrests and seizures in the two countries, said: “If you have a legitimate market near a market, illegal, legal markets will become huge “fish wash” dens.

Exhausted

For many years, the Sri Lankan and Indian authorities have worked to combat this type of marine crime. But the growing number of arrests shows that illegal trade is spreading to areas that have never been affected before.

Nowadays, as the value of animals is increasing, exploitation is also becoming more common. Great demand for sea cucumbers has led to deadly violence in Mexico, related to yakuza criminal organizations in Japan, and smuggling between Tanzania and Zanzibar.

According to OceansAsia, the network of organized sea cucumber fishing and smuggling criminals is spreading from the Palk Bay and Mannar Bay into untapped areas of the Lakshadweep alliance, an archipelago off the west coast. South India.

Wild island of Suheli in Lakshadweep. Photo: Guardian.

In the largest recorded arrest, disclosure from local fishermen in February 2020 helped authorities find 1,716 sea cucumbers worth nearly $ 580,000 hidden in nearby coral reefs. Suheli deserted island.

“Resource depletion may be the main reason these people are looking for new locations. Lakshadweep is still pristine, which may be why merchants moved there, ”said Sajan John, head of the Marine Projects and Policy Management Unit at Wildlife Trust of India.

Realizing the seriousness of the crime of selling sea cucumbers, the local government reacted strongly. In February 2020, the world’s first sea cucumbers conservation area was established in Lakshadweep, anti-theft bases were established across the islands and Lakshadweep Sea cucumber Protection Task Force was established. established with the help of the Central Bureau of Investigation of India.

A batch of 416 dead sea cucumbers was seized on a deserted island off Perumal in Lakshadweep in March 2021. Photo: Lakshadweep Forest Management Board.

“The people of Lakshadweep understand the importance of sea cucumber because their livelihood depends on fishing. When sea cucumbers are affected, other fisheries are also affected, ”said Sivakumar Kuppusamy, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Wildlife.

But as the majority of illegally-caught and trafficked sea cucumbers continue to be smuggled into Sri Lanka, Kuppusamy agrees that while it is important to stop this illegal supply chain, educate the fighters. Illegally catching sea cucumbers correctly appreciates the importance of this animal is also important to protect them.

“We have to convince them of the role of sea cucumber in the ecosystem. Without sea cucumbers, they are jeopardizing the sea, ”he said. “That’s when they begin to realize that their livelihoods and their children’s futures will be affected.”

“Break that illegal supply chain and convince the fishermen – we have to do both. If not, this business will continue to grow ”.

The strange movement of a flying snake Some snakes are able to climb trees and “fly” from branch to branch with deliberate jumps. Scientists are investigating what makes them do that.

This spring, I went on a trip to Huizhou where I just wanted to go. When I started, I just wanted to go to Wuyuan to see the sea of ​​rapeseed flowers. Rape blossoms in Wuyuan are a broad concept. Many ancient villages have planted large areas of rape blossoms. Tourists say that they are viewing flowers, but they are actually looking at the Huizhou architecture with white walls and gray tiles and the bright yellow rape blossoms. . The most beautiful one is Jiangling.

Jiangling is located in the northeast of Wuyuan County, 45 kilometers away from the county seat, and is known as one of the “Four Great Flowers in China”. The week before we arrived, Wuyuan had just experienced heavy rains for several days, and the rape blossoms in the blooming period were smashed, so it only caught up with the end of the blooming period.

Before I came, I still hesitated. Jiangling is so famous, and it’s the end of the flowering period. Do we still need to see it? Later, with the mentality of “all coming”, he drove to Jiangling. The moment I stood on the observation deck, I sighed: Fortunately, I didn’t miss it!

Jiangling and Huangling are the two major scenic spots in Wuyuan. The difference is that Jiangling is included in the Wuyuan travel package, so there is no need to purchase additional tickets. At 7 o’clock in the morning, we got on the shuttle bus from North County Station to Jiangling, and it took about an hour to reach the scenic spot. When you arrive at the parking lot, you will transfer to the Jingjiao bus in the scenic area (no extra charge) and drive from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.

Check the ticket, enter the scenic spot, and walk for a few minutes to the No. 1 viewing platform. It should be regarded as the best viewing spot in Jiangling. From a high point, you can see terraced rapeseed flowers blooming throughout the valley. The distant mountains, near water, white walls, and black tiles complement each other, and a peaceful and quiet pastoral scenery is spread out. Before our eyes. Although the golden color is missing in the full blooming period, what we see before us makes us feel the essence of the rural beauty of Wuyuan.

Standing on a high place and looking down for a long time, we followed the mountain trail all the way down and began to shuttle through the village. The scenery at this time has also changed from a wide-open panoramic view to a detailed view of the village people. Without the former’s momentum, it is a little more leisurely and cozy.

The terraced rapeseed flowers are layered on top of each other, and only when I walked closer, I found that there are many tall old trees standing among them.

Old man making garland by the roadside.

The more you go down the mountain, the more obvious the golden color. Gradually I can see tourists too. Speaking of magic, Jiangling is so famous. Before I came here, I thought that it was probably as crowded as Huangling. I didn’t expect it until I discovered that the sky is high and the sky is wide and the place is spacious. We walked and stopped all the way, except for viewing the scenery in a few places. When encountering crowds of tourists on the stage, the rest of the time is basically to embrace this natural beauty alone.

You see, in this great river, tourists enter the sea of ​​flowers and become a little bit of a villain. So friends who love to take pictures, there is definitely enough space for you to take pictures.

Of course I have to take a photo with the rape blossoms too!

Although I haven’t encountered the most beautiful sea of ​​flowers, this pastoral scene composed of terraces, sea of ​​flowers, old trees and villages is also beautiful, isn’t it?

Finally, let’s talk about useful travel information. Friends who want to come can refer to:

1. Jiangling Scenic Area is included in the Wuyuan Tour Package (valid for five days, 180 yuan), and a separate ticket is 80 yuan. The Jingjiao car is included in the ticket, and there is no additional charge.

2. There are many shuttle buses from Wuyuan County North Bus Station to Jiangling, about 20-30 minutes, and the fare is 20/person, which is quite convenient.

If you want to learn more about popular and fun tourist destinations, you are welcome to pay attention to “Xiaoyu’s Travel Diary”. Let’s discover more beautiful scenery in the world with Xiaoyu!

US and Philippine soldiers in a “Balikatan” exercise

Attempting to repeat the “gray area” strategy.

The question of where the Chinese marine militia ships have been unusually concentrated since the beginning of March 2021 in the Ba Dau rocky area located in the Sinh Ton Dong island cluster in the Spratly archipelago of Vietnam. when the number of more than 200 ships dropped to a few dozen, there was an answer. The latest aerial photographs of the Philippines show that hundreds of Chinese marine militia ships are gathered in Ga Ven rock and Ken Nan rock in the Spratly archipelago of Vietnam.

Images taken by satellite Europe and the US, published by the AFP news agency on April 13, also show that China’s marine militia fleet is present in a large number of hundreds of ships in Ga Ven rock. The pictures taken by the Philippine authorities. According to experts, the Chinese maritime militia fleet is no longer crowded and large rafts like Ba Dau rock but radiates, thickens around Ga Ven rocks and Ken Nan rocks of the Spratly Islands of Vietnam. Male.

Previously, from the beginning of March 2021, Philippine officials and photos taken from satellites said that hundreds of Chinese iron-hulled ships were abnormally concentrated in the waters close to Ba Dau rock in Vietnamese territorial waters. The South is in Sinh Ton Dong island cluster, located in Truong Sa archipelago. Subsequent tallys showed that the number of Chinese iron-hull ships was more than 220, many of which were made into large rafts.

The Chinese side justifies that these are fishing boats, concentrated in Ba Dau rock “due to bad weather”. However, Philippine officials immediately rejected when claiming that the weather in this area is very good, moreover, these ships only turn on the lights all night, but absolutely do not have any fishing activities.

Filipino officials confirmed that hundreds of Chinese iron-hull ships gathered in Ba Dau rock since early March were Chinese marine militia ships disguised as fishing ships. Therefore, the fact that hundreds of marine militia ships have aggressive and aggressive acts on Ba Dau Rock has caused regional nations, the international community and analysts alike to think that Beijing is trying. calculated once again the “gray area” tactic for Ba Dau rock, a shallow beach with an area of ​​about 10km belonging to Sinh Ton Dong island cluster in the Spratly archipelago of Vietnam.

In a strategy throughout the realization of its sovereignty ambitions in the South China Sea, China has adopted the “gray zone” tactic, using the overwhelming power of a disguised fleet of iron-shell fishing vessels that are essentially marine militia ships with the backing of armed ships to illegally occupy control of entities such as the Philippines-controlled Scaborough Shoal in 2012, the Vanh Khan (about 50 nautical miles from Ba Dau) in the Spratly Islands Vietnam in 1995. Thus, the unusual concentration of hundreds of marine militia ships managed by the Chinese army in the Ba Dau Rock under Vietnam’s legal and undisputed sovereignty has caused experts to accept. China may be contemplating a repeat of a dangerous tactic nine years ago to forcefully capture and control a Scaborough.

This concern is more and more basic when hundreds of ships gathered in Ba Dau rock at the same time and radiated Ga Ven rock and Ken Nan rock of the Spratly archipelago of Vietnam, many armed ships, ships. Chinese heavy warfare is also present in the region for its taciturn backing. Most recently, the combat squadron of the Liaodong carrier of China, after conducting exercises in waters near the island of Taiwan, moved southward into the South China Sea. It is reported that the Shandong aircraft carrier combat squadron, the aircraft carrier built by China, is also present in the South China Sea.

Do not accept ostentation, encroachment in the East Sea

A series of moves that show off China’s military power in the South China Sea are concerned by regional countries, the international community, especially countries with interests attached to this sea area with deep concern. . On April 13, the Philippine Foreign Ministry summoned the Chinese Ambassador to the country to protest the actions of the Chinese ships at Ba Dau Rock. The Philippine Foreign Ministry earlier also sent a protest note to Beijing, and rejected the Chinese interpretation that disguised iron hulls in Ba Dau rock were just “ordinary fishing boats anchored due to bad weather. “.

At the same time with the strong response through diplomatic channels, the Philippines also took action on the ground to deal with China’s aggressive, aggressive behavior. Most recently, on April 13, the Philippines has deployed 1 more coast guard ship, 4 naval ships and 2 ships of the fisheries protection agency to many Chinese ships that are abnormally concentrated in the South China Sea.

Filipino Defense Minister Delfin Lorenzana on April 10 had a phone call with his US counterpart, Lloyd Austin, to discuss the South China Sea situation and the appearance of hundreds of Chinese marine militia ships in the Ba Rock. Head. During the phone call, Mr. Austin proposed a series of measures to strengthen defense cooperation between the US and the Philippines, including “raising awareness of the situation of threats in the South China Sea”, and the Minister of State. rooms of the two countries share a commitment to maintaining close communication.

Just a day after the phone call, the Chief of Staff of the Philippine Armed Forces (AFP) said on April 11 that the joint exercise with the US named Balikatan was resumed and started from April 12. during 2 weeks with the participation of thousands of soldiers from the two countries. The exercise is said to be the cooperation and action of the Philippines and the US in response to a series of provocations by China in the South China Sea.

Previously, when answering questions from reporters about Vietnam’s reaction to many Chinese ships operating at Ba Dau beach in the Spratly archipelago of Vietnam, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Thi Thu Hang affirmed. , the activities of Chinese ships within the territorial sea of ​​Sinh Ton Dong belonging to the Spratlys of Vietnam have violated the sovereignty of Vietnam, violating the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the activities of foreign ships in the territorial sea of ​​a coastal country, contrary to the spirit and content of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC), complicates the situation, is not beneficial for the negotiation process of a Code of Conduct between ASEAN and China in the South China Sea (COC).

The spokesperson stressed that Vietnam asked China to stop its infringement; respect for the sovereignty of Vietnam; goodwill to implement UNCLOS; strictly comply with the DOC, especially the obligation to restrain, not complicate the situation; create a favorable environment for the COC negotiation process; contribute to maintaining peace, security, stability and legal order at sea in the region.