Legendary shipbuilding "flagship" is difficult to continue the legend

In the brutal competition in the military market, survival of the fittest is an eternal law. With the passage of time, there are always some old military enterprises that will be eliminated by the times.


Just last year, Harland Wolf Shipyard, which has a shipbuilding history of more than 150 years, was exposed to be on the verge of bankruptcy. Once this news was announced, it quickly caused waves in the military industry.


Speaking of Harland Wolf Shipyard, most people may not know much about it, but when it comes to the famous cruise ship Titanic, almost everyone knows it. This luxurious cruise ship, which exudes romance and sadness, was born in Harland Wolf Shipyard.


After the baptism of two world wars, Harland Wolff Shipyard is second to none not only in the field of civil ships, but also in the manufacture of warships. Since the establishment of the shipyard, more than 170 warships of various types have been produced, and many famous warships such as the "awesome" aircraft carrier and the "Befast" cruiser have been built successively. After World War I, Harland Wolfe Shipyard once became a pillar enterprise of British military industry.


However, since the 1990s, the British navy began to drastically reduce its establishment, the shipyard lost the strong support of the state, and its former glory gradually faded away. In the new century, Harland Wolfe Shipyard has taken the initiative to change, but with little effect, and had to formally announce its farewell to the shipbuilding industry. In this issue, let’s approach Harland Wolf Shipyard and read the story of the rise and fall of this century-old famous enterprise.


From wooden deck to iron deck, the door to success is "bumped" by technological innovation.


Befast, a coastal city in the northeast of Northern Ireland Peninsula, has dozens of kilometers of coastline and the largest local seaport, Befast Port. Its unique geographical advantages once made this ancient city a world shipbuilding center, and the famous Harland Wolf Shipyard is located here.


Toggle the hands of the years, and time goes back to 1858. At that time, Britain took the lead in completing the first industrial revolution, and the fire of technological revolution ignited the passion of countless entrepreneurs. Many people hoped to seize the opportunity to do something. Under this background, Edward James Harland, general manager of a small shipyard, came up with the idea of starting a business. With all his assets, Harland bought a shipyard from his employer, and he believed that with his own ability, he would definitely make a career in the British shipbuilding industry.


However, the reality is far from what he imagined. At that time, British maritime trade entered the golden age of vigorous development, and various domestic shipbuilding enterprises sprang up like mushrooms after rain, and the market competition was unprecedentedly fierce. There are a series of problems in the newly established shipyard, such as chaotic management, lack of talents, aging equipment, etc. Every step of the shipyard is treading on thin ice.


Faced with many difficulties, Harland, who was stubborn by nature, chose to persist and led the shipyard staff to take the pace of innovation. They introduced advanced production lines, formulated strict shipbuilding technology standards, vigorously rectified management order, and sent special personnel to large shipyards for further study.


In 1859, France took the lead in building the world’s first armored ship, ending the centuries-long wooden warship era. This epoch-making creation, like a thunder, opened a breakthrough of technological innovation for Harland Wolff Shipyard.


Influenced by this armored ship, Harland Wolf Shipyard began to study the shipbuilding materials. They found that the ship decks in the market are usually made of wood, which not only has more consumables and less strength, but also affects the hull capacity. Recognizing this problem, Harland Wolff Shipyard immediately put its energy into developing a new deck. After repeated tests, they replaced the original wood materials with iron materials and developed a brand-new iron deck, which greatly improved the deck strength and hull capacity. With good performance, this deck quickly became an "explosive" product in the market, and Harland Wolf Shipyard began to receive a large number of orders one after another, earning the "first bucket of gold" in the fierce market competition.


The increasing orders did not slow down the exploration of Harland Wolf Shipyard. They tried to use iron materials for the whole hull, and soon built an all-iron yacht with a stronger structure-Miranda. This yacht is similar to the first "Warrior" armored ship built in Britain: the hull is made of a large piece of iron plate, which is divided into several watertight compartments and adopts advanced steam power system. These technologies were later successfully applied to the production and manufacture of armored ships, and accumulated the experience and technology of building warships for Harland Wolf Shipyard.


Innovation is the soul of an enterprise and the guarantee of its sustainable development. In the "painful period" of enterprise reform and development, Harland Wolff Shipyard has always regarded the concept of technological innovation and creating excellent products as a guideline, and has taken the lead in developing the first iron deck ship in Britain, won the "admission ticket" for building the future armored ship, and won the first opportunity in the shipbuilding market with strong hands.


An unusual "cross-border" modification, unexpectedly starting a military trip.


On April 10th, 1912, Southampton Port ushered in the busiest day in shipbuilding history. The "Titanic" cruise ship with colorful flags is lying quietly in the harbor, and the dock is crowded with tens of thousands of passengers, family members and staff who are off. At 12 o’clock noon, accompanied by the sound of sirens, the Titanic slowly sailed out of the dock and officially opened its maiden voyage. However, only a few days later, this luxurious "dream ship" unfortunately collided with an iceberg in the depths of the North Atlantic and slept forever at the bottom of the Na Pianhai.


Almost at the same time as Titanic, there were two other 10,000-ton "sister ships"-Olympic and British. The "maiden" of these three sisters were all Harland Wolf Shipyard. Perhaps it is fate. Although these "three sisters" are in the same era, the final outcome is completely different.


In the second year after the sinking of Titanic, World War I broke out, and the war quickly entered a white-hot stage. The British Navy urgently needed large transport ships to meet the demand of the front line. However, under the construction conditions at that time, it took a lot of time to build a new transport ship. In desperation, the British Admiralty came up with a fantastic idea-can the existing civilian ships be modified to support the frontline team?


This idea of "cross-border" modification has made many enterprises "retreat". However, in the view of Harland Wolf Shipyard, although the challenge is arduous, it is an excellent opportunity for enterprises to expand into the military field.


In the process of modification, Harland Wolff Shipyard skillfully transformed the deck public area of "Britain" into a wounded room, installed more than 3,000 beds inside the hull, and equipped with advanced medical equipment, and the whole ship became a medical ship of the British Navy. And its other "sister ship"-"Olympic" was converted into a troop transport ship, the hull was painted with camouflage stripes, and six anti-submarine guns were installed at the bow and stern, which greatly improved the protection performance and successfully completed dozens of troop transport tasks.


The outstanding performance of "Olympics" and "Britain" in the war made the strength of Harland Wolf Shipyard recognized by the British military. On the eve of World War II, countries have stepped up their military expansion to prepare for war. At that time, due to the lack of effective early warning system and fighter protective armor, the defense capability of the British navy aircraft carrier needed to be improved, and it was urgent to develop an aircraft carrier with better performance.


The heavy responsibility once again fell on the shoulders of Harland Wolff Shipyard. After two years of painstaking research and development, in the second half of 1939, the aircraft carrier "Awesome" was successfully launched in the port of Befast. Facing the needs of the military, Harland Wolff Shipyard handed over a nearly perfect answer: in the defense system, the aircraft carrier "Awesome" adopted the most advanced 79 radar in Britain at that time, with a monitoring range of tens of kilometers, and an armored hangar was set up on the aircraft carrier to protect the fighters. Six eight-in-one anti-aircraft guns were installed around the hull, with a maximum range of 6,200 meters. With its excellent performance, the "awesome" aircraft carrier destroyed a German heavy cruiser in its first battle when performing its mission in the Atlantic Ocean. Subsequently, the "awesome" aircraft carrier participated in many naval battles such as air strikes in the Indian Ocean and the Battle of Okinawa, and made great contributions to the British Navy.


Waiting for the country to "transfuse blood" and embark on the road of recession that is difficult to turn back.


"Destiny depends not on chance, but on your choice. Fate is not waiting, but fighting. " The famous saying of British Prime Minister Churchill has inspired countless British people to work hard on the road of starting a business. Extending this wisdom to the field of military industry, its spiritual connotation is equally important to the development of enterprises. In the fierce competition in the military industry market, Harland Wolf Shipyard quickly jumped into the "fast lane" of development with its pioneering and innovative spirit. In its heyday, the shipyard employed about 35,000 workers, and its business scope expanded to the fields of aircraft and tank manufacturing, becoming a well-deserved leader in the industry.


Before and during World War II, the British shipbuilding industry flourished and once occupied half of the global shipbuilding market. The output of Harland Wolff Shipyard is even more amazing. During this period, the shipyard built six aircraft carriers, two cruisers and more than 130 other naval vessels for the British Navy, and the number of various vessels repaired was tens of thousands.


There is a hidden crisis when the wind is smooth. With the change of the situation, the British army was repeatedly defeated in the battlefield at the beginning of World War II, and the German army once regarded the British military factory as a bombing target. In 1941, the German Air Force carried out air raids on Harland Wolff Shipyard and its port of Befast for several days, which caused heavy damage to the shipyard and killed nearly 800 people.


After the war, Harland Wolf Shipyard rallied, hoping to reproduce its former glory. However, after the war, countries began to reduce military spending, warship orders fell sharply, and many shipyards closed down. Harland Wolf Shipyard was doomed, and its performance began to plummet, so it had to spend the "cold winter" of the industry by laying off employees and reducing production.


In the 1970s, with the rapid rise of shipbuilding enterprises in Asian countries, the advantages of European shipyards in infrastructure, industrial scale, production capacity and other aspects were gradually reduced, and the shipbuilding market was once seized by shipbuilding enterprises in Asian countries. The advantages accumulated by Harland Wolff Shipyard for a hundred years have been exhausted, and even it has fallen into the dilemma of not having enough funds to pay workers’ wages.


In desperation, the shipyard submitted a subsidy application to the British government. In 1975, the shipyard was nationalized and began to rely on the military’s "care" orders to make ends meet. However, the good times did not last long. In the 1990s, the British Navy began to drastically reduce its establishment, and the orders for weapons and equipment also decreased, which was undoubtedly another heavy blow to Harland Wolfe Shipyard.


After a hundred years of vicissitudes of life, how can you be willing to sink into the sand? In the new century, Harland Wolff Shipyard began to make great efforts to transform, and devoted itself to the research of renewable energy, offshore wind power generation and tidal power generation construction technology, and the assembled offshore wind turbines also achieved certain sales.


However, a handful of military and civilian orders cannot change the "blood loss" of Harland Wolff Shipyard. With the saturation of the installed capacity of power stations in the British coastal areas, the last "livelihood rice bowl" of Harland Wolf Shipyard was overturned, and it gradually approached the edge of bankruptcy. Carrying a huge foreign debt, long-term arrears of workers’ wages, and massive brain drain … As of last year, there were only 123 employees left in the shipyard. Although the British government tried its best to support this legendary shipyard, all kinds of measures were of no help.


Looking at the development history of Harland Wolff Shipyard, it is not difficult to find that bold innovation and breakthrough are the power source for the rapid development of enterprises, and also the magic weapon to adapt to market changes and gain market opportunities. However, when in danger, Harland Wolf Shipyard never found a solution, but waited for the country to "transfuse blood" and finally embarked on the road of irreversible recession.


Above: A centaur aircraft carrier built by Harland Wolf Shipyard. Information photo

Interpretation of Beijing Household Appliances Trade-in Policy

  2. When did Beijing begin to apply for financial subsidies for household appliances trade-in? What time does it end?

  The implementation period of the Implementation Measures for Household Appliances Trade-in promulgated by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce and other ministries and commissions is from June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2010. According to the requirements of this method, the Municipal Commission of Commerce, together with relevant municipal departments, actively carried out preparatory work, including identifying home appliance recycling enterprises and home appliance sales enterprises in this city through public bidding, and entrusting relevant associations to conduct research on the recycling price of used home appliances. After the preparatory work was basically ready, the home appliance trade-in work was officially started on August 10. Therefore, from August 10th, residents with local hukou or legal entities registered in this city can apply for financial subsidies when they sell old household appliances to the successful home appliance recycling enterprises and buy new ones from the successful home appliance sales enterprises. The subsidy policy will end on May 31st, 2010.

  3. Can I buy new home appliances before selling old ones?

  I can’t. According to the national regulations, the process of applying for financial subsidies for household appliances trade-in is: consumers first sell old household appliances to obtain a trade-in certificate, and then use this certificate to buy new household appliances before applying for financial subsidies, so there are strict procedural requirements. Some enterprises in this city are not only home appliance recycling enterprises, but also home appliance sales enterprises. They have the conditions to realize integrated services in the process of recycling old home appliances and selling new home appliances. On the basis of not violating the relevant provisions and requirements of the implementation measures, they encourage sales enterprises to innovate their working methods and provide consumers with more convenient services.

  4. What are the subsidy targets and subsidy methods for home appliance trade-in?

  First, give subsidies to buyers who sell old household appliances within the scope of subsidies and buy new ones. The second is to subsidize the transportation costs of recycling old household appliances within the scope of subsidies and sending them to dismantling and processing enterprises. Any legal entity that has registered in this city or registered in this city can enjoy the subsidy of old-for-new funds when selling old household appliances and buying new ones during the policy implementation period. It should be emphasized that the name of the unit and the name of the individual who sells the old household appliances and buys the new household appliances must be the same. In addition, buyers who have enjoyed the subsidy policy of "home appliances going to the countryside" may not repeatedly enjoy the old-for-new subsidy. Household appliance recycling enterprises can apply for freight subsidies when they buy old household appliances within the scope of subsidies from buyers and sell them to designated dismantling treatment during the policy implementation period.

  5. What is the subsidy standard for each type of household appliances under the old-for-new policy?

  Eligible buyers will be subsidized by 10% of the sales price of new household appliances when purchasing new household appliances within the scope of subsidy. The upper limit of subsidy for each type of household appliances is: TV 400 yuan/set, refrigerator (including freezer) 300 yuan/set, washing machine 250 yuan/set, air conditioner 350 yuan/set and computer 400 yuan/set. Taking TV sets as an example, buyers who buy TV sets below 4,000 yuan (including 4,000 yuan) are subsidized by 10% of the sales price; The sales price of TV sets is more than 4,000 yuan, and only 400 yuan is subsidized.

  Recycling enterprises enjoy freight subsidies according to the number of old household appliances sold to dismantling enterprises. Specific subsidy standards are currently being formulated and will be announced separately.

  6. How to sell old household appliances?

  Buyers can make an appointment for home purchase by home appliance recycling enterprises through telephone and Internet, or they can transport old household appliances for sale to the nearest recycling site of home appliance recycling enterprises. The contact telephone number and address of recycling enterprises have been announced to the public through the website of the window of the capital, the website of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce, the website of renewable resources recycling and some print media channels.

  7. What is the procedure for applying for the subsidy for trade-in funds?

  The buyer must first sell the old household appliances to the household appliance recycling enterprise, obtain the certificate of trade-in of household appliances uniformly printed by the state from the household appliance recycling enterprise, and then buy new household appliances from the household appliance sales enterprise with the recycling certificate. Household appliance sales enterprises audit the buyer’s recycling vouchers and related documents on behalf of the financial department. If it meets the requirements, the payment will be collected according to the sales price of new household appliances minus the subsidy. At the same time, guide the purchaser to fill in the "Application Form for Home Appliances Trade-in (Home Appliances) Subsidy Fund".

  8. What information should I bring when I receive the subsidy?

  The information that the purchaser shall provide when declaring the subsidy includes:

  (1) Trade-in vouchers uniformly printed by the state;

  (2) the identity certificate of the purchaser or relevant certificates of the legal entity;

  (3) Application Form of Subsidy Fund for Household Appliances Trade-in (Household Appliances) (this application form is provided by the household appliance seller and filled in at the sales site).

  9. How are home appliance recycling enterprises and home appliance sales enterprises determined? Will the follow-up increase?

  Household appliance sales enterprises and household appliance recycling enterprises shall be determined by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce in conjunction with the Municipal Finance Bureau through bidding. There are 16 home appliance recycling enterprises and 15 home appliance sales enterprises determined by the first batch of bidding in our city. Among the 15 recycling enterprises that won the bid, there are 7 production enterprises, 4 sales enterprises, 4 professional recycling companies and 1 dismantling and processing enterprise; Among the 15 home appliance sales enterprises that won the bid, there are 3 home appliance professional chain enterprises, 4 comprehensive large-scale retail enterprises and 8 home appliance production enterprises’ sales organizations, which fully embodies the requirements of the national "Implementation Measures for Trade-in of Home Appliances" for diversified enterprises to participate in recycling and sales. After the start of this work, if the market demand is large, we will supplement it appropriately through bidding.

  10. How is the reference price for recycling old household appliances in this city determined?

  Beijing Renewable Resources Recycling and Second-hand Goods Industry Association has made a reference price for recycling old household appliances by investigating renewable resources recycling enterprises, household appliances dismantling and processing enterprises, consumers and the second-hand goods market, taking into account the affordability of recycling enterprises, dismantling enterprises and consumers. The following two factors are taken into account in formulating the reference price: first, the recycled old household appliances can only be sent to dismantling enterprises for dismantling, but not for secondary circulation, so the price of the old household appliances sold is different from that in the flea market; Second, although the price of old household appliances sold by consumers may be slightly lower than the price of old household appliances entering the secondary circulation, consumers can get a 10% price subsidy for new household appliances after selling old household appliances, so it is still very cost-effective.

  11. In the activities of selling old household appliances and buying new household appliances, which department should be consulted to solve the product quality or service quality problems?

  The state has high requirements for enterprises participating in this trade-in activity of household appliances. All enterprises involved in recycling and sales are confirmed through bidding, which can be said to be the best among them. These enterprises have made commitments to service quality and commodity quality in participating in bidding activities; The Municipal Commission of Commerce will also sign an agreement with these bid-winning enterprises to clearly stipulate the responsibilities and obligations of the bid-winning enterprises; At the same time, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission will, in accordance with the Price Law and the Provisions on Administrative Penalties for Price Violations, earnestly strengthen price management, standardize the price behavior of enterprises that recycle, sell and dismantle household appliances with old ones for new ones, and announce the supervision and reporting telephone number and be responsible for handling it; The Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce will give full play to the role of the "12315" consumer complaint reporting network, and accept and deal with consumer complaints and reports on home appliance trade-in products according to law; The Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision is responsible for investigating and dealing with illegal cases of producing fake and inferior products in the name of replacing old appliances with new ones. Through supervision and management in all aspects, we will earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

  12. How to identify which enterprises are regular home appliance recycling and sales enterprises?

  Consumers must identify the home appliance recycling enterprises and home appliance sales enterprises determined by government bidding when selling old household appliances and buying new ones. These two types of enterprises can be identified in the following ways: First, the recycling sites of all successful recycling enterprises must be hung with a unified logo of "Beijing Home Appliance Trade-in Recycling Sites", and the sales shops of all successful selling enterprises must be hung with a unified logo of "Beijing Home Appliance Trade-in Sales Stores"; Second, inquiries can be made through the website of the Window of the Capital and the website of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce. The winning recycling enterprises, winning sales enterprises, dismantling enterprises and their recycling sites or sales stores have all been published on the website.

  13. Can I return the purchased new household appliances if they have quality problems?

  Consumers’ purchase of home appliances for trade-in products is also protected by relevant national laws and regulations on commodity quality, and enterprises must also abide by national laws and regulations to ensure product quality and safety. Relevant government departments will strengthen the supervision and inspection of the quality of trade-in products to ensure the quality of products.

  14. Is there any time limit for purchasing new household appliances after selling old household appliances and obtaining recycling vouchers?

  As long as the financial subsidy is implemented, there is no time limit in principle. However, in order to avoid the loss or damage of household appliances recycling vouchers, consumers are advised to buy new household appliances as soon as possible after selling old ones.

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Teachers and students of Chongqing Police College reminisce about outstanding alumnus Yuan Hua.

Chongqing Broadcasting Network, November 10 (Reporter Wang Hai) On November 8, Yuan Hua, a policeman from Hefeng Police Station of fengjie county Public Security Bureau in Chongqing, was involved in a traffic accident while escorting a suspect to identify the scene. After being rescued, he died in the line of duty at the age of 28.

Yuan Hua’s heroic sacrifice touched the hearts of teachers and students of his alma mater, Chongqing Police College. Everyone recalled his life, without tears, and recalled and mourned the circle of friends between teachers and students of the Police College.

Rui Liu, a team leader of the Student Affairs Office of Chongqing Police College, who used to be the head teacher of Yuan Hua, told the reporter that Yuan Hua was determined to join the police and took the college entrance examination three times until 2013. What impressed him was that in September of that year, when Yuan Hua participated in military training, it was in the scorching sun, and the military posture lasted for an hour or two, although he was still sweating; Before and after practice, I often fall black and blue, and I never complain that I am tired. Practice crawling and other tactical actions. The clothes are worn out, and the hands are bloody, and the teeth are clenched. The classmates advised him to take it easy, and he smiled: I can overcome this pain!

Group photo of graduation of the 3 rd District Team of the 2017 Investigation Brigade of Chongqing Police College (Photo courtesy of Chongqing Police College issued by Yangguang. com)

During Yuan Hua’s stay in the police station, his team in the third district couldn’t get on the house, so he took the initiative to stand up and took pains to teach everyone to fold quilts into "tofu blocks" and tidy things up more neatly. Since then, the team in the third district has won the "flowing red flag" for many times, and Yuan Hua’s dormitory has been rated as "civilized dormitory". Chen Jiaojiao, a teacher of the Management Brigade of the Training Department of Police College, said that Yuan Hua had a strong sense of collective honor, and it was his dedication and responsibility that won these honors.

Cheng Cong, a policeman from Yongle Police Station of fengjie county Public Security Bureau, is a classmate of Yuan Hua Police College. He said that there are many excellent qualities worth learning from Yuan Hua. After four years in college, Yuan Hua worked hard and his grades were always among the best in his class. During the preparation for the public security joint exam, he got up early every day and soaked in the library. When he was thirsty, he drank a bottle of mineral water, and when he was hungry, he chewed a loaf of bread, and also helped other students improve their professional knowledge. Some students can’t keep up with their physical fitness. He volunteered to be a sparring partner, led them in middle and long distance running, back and forth running, pull-ups, etc., and corrected everyone’s posture and movements with his heart. With his hard work, all the students succeeded in their physical fitness assessment. Students ask, we are competitors, aren’t we afraid of being surpassed? He said with a smile, as long as the students can pass smoothly, I am willing to be their paving stone.

Group photo of Chongqing Police College students (Photo courtesy of Chongqing Police College issued by Yangguang. com)

Luo Xiaoguang, who once shared a dormitory with Yuan Hua, told reporters that when he was a freshman, Yuan Hua met an old man in rags outside the school and asked people around him for help, saying that he had lost his wallet and mobile phone and needed 20 yuan to go home. Passers-by dispersed one after another, thinking that the old man was cheating. Yuan Hua took the initiative to come forward, carefully consulted and asked, and handed the 50 yuan money to the old man. Passers-by laughed at him for being stupid, but Yuan Hua said, I can’t treat everyone with suspicion. What if it’s true? I want to feel at ease myself.

At the beginning of 2016, Yuan Hua went to the Petroleum Road Police Station of Yuzhong District Public Security Bureau for an internship. The teacher who took him was Liu Wenhua, a policeman. He commented on Yuan Hua: The young man is energetic and aggressive, and he is a good prospect! After half a year’s internship, Yuan Hua lived and ate in the institute. He followed Liu Wenhua on duty for 24 hours, visited and investigated, patrolled for prevention and control, and mediated contradictions and disputes. There were comrades in the institute who needed help at work, and he always accepted it cheerfully.

One night in late October, 2016, Liu Wenhua led his comrades-in-arms to crouch and arrest a criminal suspect for more than five hours. As soon as the suspect appeared, Yuan Hua was the first to rush up and throw him to the ground, searched him cleanly and handcuffed him. Liu Wenhua said with emotion, I didn’t expect a police cadet to show a heroic spirit!

Students take a photo with the school gate of Chongqing Police College (Photo courtesy of Chongqing Police College issued by Yangguang. com)

"Today we are ready-made reserve police, and tomorrow we are the immortal backbone of China ruled by law!" This is your solemn oath in your graduation speech in 2017. Unexpectedly, after four years as a police officer, your beloved career has just started, and your life is beginning to be wonderful, but everything comes to an abrupt end … You are only 28 years old, my good brother! Yuan Hua’s alumnus, Wen Hao, a policeman from the Political Department of Beibei District Public Security Bureau, recalled that this scene was still difficult to calm down.

The alumni of Chongqing Police College said that they felt sorry for their brothers and were even more proud of them. After seeing their heroic deeds, I realized the true meaning of the phrase "You are proud of the police station now, and your police station will be proud of you in the future" at the beginning of the school. The younger brothers and sisters of the police station will follow your example and work hard and forge ahead.

The voice and smile are still in sight, and now heaven and man are separated. I’m proud of you! The alumni of Chongqing Police College held graduation photo in their hands, and it was hard to restrain their grief. The training assembly scene in that year was vivid in front of them. In the future, the name will be called. "Chongqing Police College’s 2013 Class III team should have 42 people, actually 41 people, and one person died in the line of duty!"

Yuan Hua, have a good trip!

We will follow in your footsteps!

Ip man 3’s box office fraud reveals the tip of the iceberg.

  BEIJING, Beijing, March 22 (Reporter Zhang Xi) Only half a month after its release, the film "ip man 3" waited for a paper ticket from the National Film Market Special Governance Office — — It is alleged that there is a phenomenon of false ostentation and extravagance in abnormal time. According to Xinhua News Agency, the film has been verified for more than 7,600 times, involving 32 million yuan at the box office; At the same time, the total box office contains some self-purchased box offices, and the amount recognized by the issuer is 56 million yuan.

  As a matter of fact, before ip man 3, the rumor of box office fraud was nothing new. However, with the upsurge of guaranteed distribution and binding third parties, the act of buying box office out of one’s own pocket has become a commercial means for publishers.

Ip man 3 poster

  The truth of "midnight ghost field" and "Mingbi special price" was exposed

  Relevant responsible parties are dealt with seriously.

  According to the real-time data of Cat’s Eye movies, as of 2: 00pm Beijing time on 21st, the box office of ip man 3, which was released for 18 days, reached 790 million.

  However, what corresponds to the high box office is the punishment of the National Film Market Special Governance Office.

  From the beginning of the film’s release on March 4, netizens from different provinces have exposed screenshots of ticket purchases, ridiculing that its film arrangement is "midnight ghost field" and "Mingbi special price" and reprimanding box office fraud. "The same movie hall is played for 10 minutes, and the fare is as high as 203 yuan. It is full at one or two in the morning, and I am also drunk." "ip man 3 solemnly promises: Never steal the box office and never fake it. We are only full of tickets at 200 in the middle of the night, and ghosts from all walks of life are just enjoying their faces. "

  Recently, the Film Bureau interviewed the film distributor and related institutions respectively, and checked the suspicious times through the national film ticketing integrated management system and relevant provincial film authorities.

  On the evening of 18th, the Office of Special Management of the National Film Market announced that after investigation, ip man 3 did have the phenomenon of false ostentation and extravagance in abnormal time, with more than 7,600 verified performances involving 32 million yuan at the box office. In addition, the total box office of the film contains some self-purchased box offices, and the amount recognized by the issuer is 56 million yuan.

  The Office of Special Governance of the National Film Market decided that the verified fake box office of 32 million yuan will not be recognized and will not be included in the national box office statistics. At the same time, the big screen (Beijing) distribution company, the distributor of the film, suspended the new film distribution business for one month and was responsible for rectification; A serious warning was given to 73 cinemas that participated in false ostentation and extravagance and the circumstances were serious; Informed criticism of 20 cinema companies affiliated to 73 cinemas through the website of China Film Distribution and Projection Association; A serious warning was given to the three home appliance companies with relatively concentrated false tickets, and the film bureau admonished and talked.

Ip man 3 poster

  Expose the truth of the bank’s "buying box office"

  Three major goals may be behind the scenes.

  Ip man 3’s publisher, Big Screen (Beijing) Distribution Holding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Big Screen) is a subsidiary of Shanghai Kuailu. The reason why I spent 56 million yuan to buy a box office was revealed by insiders. This is a capital game played by the film shell.

  According to the business information website Tiger Sniff.com, many P2P and fund companies under Kuailu pulled out a lot of money from the pockets of ordinary users through P2P and crowdfunding platforms before the film was released, including fun financial management, day investment, vegetable seedling network (all of which are the actual control companies of Shanghai Kuailu), etc., only on Suning crowdfunding platform, the annualized income was 8%; Shanghai Kuailu also actually controlled two listed companies, Shenkai of A shares and Shifang Holdings of Hong Kong shares. Before the release of ip man 3, these two listed companies announced that they had invested a total of 160 million yuan in the name of guaranteed issuance, with a guaranteed target of 1 billion yuan.

  The so-called guaranteed release refers to a gambling agreement signed by the producer and the distributor before the film is released. According to the agreement, both parties confirm a certain amount. No matter what the final box office of the film is, the producer can lock in a high income in advance, while the issuer will get extra income first in the part where the actual box office exceeds this amount.

  With the fierce competition in the film market, some large and medium-sized film projects have become "fragrant buns", and publishers have to take some risks in order to grab business. Many insiders pointed out that ip man 3 didn’t buy the box office to guarantee the box office, but to reach the value of 1 billion, so as to benefit its financial products. In fact, these practices can be regarded as a link in a large capital operation chain.

  The reporter tried to contact the publisher of ip man 3, but the other party was not interviewed.

  Of course, capital operation is not the only purpose of "buying box office". A staff member of the issuer, who asked not to be named, told the reporter that buying the box office has become a routine means of the issuer, in order to bind the ticketing promotion and online marketing carried out by third parties.

  The staff member revealed that there are many purposes for publishers to buy box office at present. The most common one is to squeeze the space of films released at the same time by buying tickets to lock the film schedule. The second is the capital level, in order to drive financial behaviors such as stocks and funds behind investors; The third is to achieve a certain box office height to gain fame and fortune, or to achieve a certain box office in exchange for more bonuses and other resources.

  Regarding whether buying the box office is a blind spot of supervision, an industry insider bluntly said: "If you charge the box office by buying virtual games, it has indeed violated the original intention of this operation. But now the supervision of the domestic film market has improved a lot, but there will be some new resources and gameplay involved. "

Ip man 3 poster

  Movie box office fraud has been repeatedly banned.

  The media called for the introduction of relevant laws and regulations

  In view of ip man 3’s box office fraud, many media believe that it is caused by the imperfection of relevant laws and regulations.

  Xinhua News Agency wrote that in response to the chaos in the film market in recent years, the relevant management departments have repeatedly made heavy punches and issued a series of documents. Last year alone, dozens of cinemas were punished by informed criticism, warning, cancellation of special funds for films, and stopping film supply according to the circumstances and nature of violations. In this case, market chaos still emerges one after another, revealing that China’s films urgently need to establish an institutionalized and standardized long-term supervision mechanism.

  The article points out that according to the plan, during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China’s films will change from scale-based development to quality-based development, and it is even more necessary to establish a fair, just, open and transparent market environment. China film enterprises should compete in a fair way and seek development.

  In addition, some media bluntly said: "The result of the treatment was to eliminate the illegal box office and order the suspension of work for rectification. However, after all, the Film Bureau is not a law enforcement department, and there is no specific law to be used as a basis. Will there be an embarrassment of exorcising demons without swords? "

  In 2015, the box office of Chinese movies has reached 44.069 billion. What is worth mentioning is that at the national film market management conference held on January 12th, Zhang Hongsen, director of the Film Bureau, said that he would strike hard to regulate the market and never raise carbuncle. He pointed out that it will focus on solving the problems of inaccurate box office statistics, evasion and concealment, and illegal recording and release of films. (End)

General Administration of Customs introduces the import and export situation in 2016.

The State Council Press Office held a press conference at 10: 00 a.m. on Friday, January 13th, 2017 in the press room of the State Council Information Office, and invited Huang Songping, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs, to introduce the import and export situation in 2016 and take questions from reporters.

Press conference on the import and export of the State Council in 2016
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[Moderator Hu Kaihong]Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the press conference of the State Council Information Office. Today, we have invited Mr. Huang Songping, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs. Ask him to introduce the import and export situation in 2016 and answer your questions. Let’s ask Director Huang to introduce the situation first.

Huang Songping, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs, China Net Zongchao

[Huang Songping, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs]Ladies and gentlemen, Happy New Year 2017. Welcome to today’s press conference. It’s a pleasure to meet you again, to brief you on China’s foreign trade import and export in 2016, and then answer your questions. In 2016, the world economy recovered difficultly, and the domestic economy improved steadily. According to customs statistics, in 2016, the total import and export value of goods in China was 24.33 trillion yuan, down 0.9% from 2015. Among them, exports were 13.84 trillion yuan, down 2%; Imports reached 10.49 trillion yuan, up by 0.6%; The trade surplus was 3.35 trillion yuan, narrowing by 9.1%.


The specific situation mainly includes the following aspects:

I. Imports and exports stabilized quarter by quarter, and both achieved positive growth in the fourth quarter. In 2016, China’s import and export showed a trend of low before and high after, and stabilized and improved quarter by quarter. Among them, in the first quarter, China’s import and export, export and import value decreased by 8.2%, 7.9% and 8.6% respectively; In the second quarter, the value of import and export, export and import decreased by 1.1%, 0.8% and 1.5% respectively; In the third quarter, the import and export value increased by 0.8% and 2.3% respectively, while the export value decreased by 0.3%; In the fourth quarter, the value of import and export, export and import increased by 3.8%, 0.3% and 8.7% respectively.


Second, the import and export of general trade increased and its proportion increased. In 2016, China’s general trade import and export was 13.39 trillion yuan, up 0.9%, accounting for 55% of China’s total import and export value, up 1 percentage point from 2015, and the trade pattern structure was optimized.

Third, export growth to some countries along the Belt and Road. In 2016, China’s exports to Pakistan, Russia, Poland, Bangladesh and India increased by 11%, 14.1%, 11.8%, 9% and 6.5% respectively. In the same period, China’s exports to the EU increased by 1.2%, to the United States increased slightly by 0.1%, and to ASEAN decreased by 2%, accounting for 46.7% of China’s total exports.

Fourth, the proportion of private enterprises’ exports continued to maintain the first place. In 2016, the import and export of private enterprises in China was 9.28 trillion yuan, an increase of 2.2%, accounting for 38.1% of China’s total foreign trade. Among them, exports were 6.35 trillion yuan, down 0.2%, accounting for 45.9% of the total export value, and continued to maintain the top position in export share; Imports increased by 8.1%.


Five, mechanical and electrical products, traditional labor-intensive products are still the main export. In 2016, the export of mechanical and electrical products in China was 7.98 trillion yuan, down by 1.9%, accounting for 57.7% of China’s total export value. Among them, the export of medical instruments and instruments increased by 6.1%, and the export of storage batteries increased by 4%. In the same period, the total export of traditional labor-intensive products was 2.88 trillion yuan, down 1.7%, accounting for 20.8% of the total export value. Among them, the export of textiles, toys and plastic products increased.

6. The import volume of bulk commodities such as iron ore, crude oil and copper maintained growth, and the prices of major imported commodities remained at a low level, but the decline narrowed. In 2016, China imported 1.024 billion tons of iron ore, an increase of 7.5%; 381 million tons of crude oil, up by 13.6%; 256 million tons of coal, up by 25.2%; 13.21 million tons of steel, an increase of 3.4%; 4.95 million tons of copper, up 2.9%; Refined oil was 27.84 million tons, down 6.5%. In the same period, China’s import prices generally fell by 2.1%. Among them, the average import price of iron ore decreased by 0.5% year-on-year, crude oil decreased by 18.6%, refined oil decreased by 10.8%, coal decreased by 0.1%, copper decreased by 6%, and steel decreased by 5.5%, which was narrower than that in the first half and the first three quarters.


In July and December, China’s foreign trade export leading index continued to rise. In the fourth quarter of 2016, China’s foreign trade export leading index rose for three consecutive months, reaching 37.4 in December, up 0.5, indicating that China’s export pressure is expected to ease in the first quarter of 2017. Among them, according to the data of online questionnaire survey, China’s export managers’ index dropped by 0.6 to 39.4 in that month; The index of new export orders rose by 0.6 to 41.9, the manager confidence index fell by 2 to 43.5, and the comprehensive cost index of enterprises fell by 1.6 to 23.9.

At present, there are still some difficulties in China’s foreign trade development, which are as follows: the import and export of foreign-invested enterprises and state-owned enterprises in China have decreased by 2.2% and 5.6% respectively; The import and export of processing trade decreased by 4.9%.

Faced with the severe and complicated international trade situation, the Customs will continue to adhere to the general tone of striving for progress while maintaining stability, resolutely implement various policies and measures to stabilize foreign trade growth, comprehensively deepen reforms around building a new open economic system, solidly promote various customs reforms to take root, and strive to promote foreign trade to stabilize and improve, so as to better serve the overall economic and social development of the country.

Next, I would like to answer your questions.

Hu Kaihong, spokesperson of the State Council Information Office, invited reporters to ask questions.
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Hu kaihongThank you, Director Huang. Let’s start asking questions.

CCTV reporterHello, Director Huang. In 2016, the international economy was in a downturn, and the overall environment of China’s foreign trade was very severe. How do you evaluate the overall performance of China’s foreign trade in 2016? In addition, the latest customs data shows that since the fourth quarter of 2016, China’s foreign trade has obviously improved. What are the main reasons? Director Huang, please give us a detailed explanation. thank you

CCTV reporter asked questions.
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Huang SongpingThank you for your question. In 2016, the global economy is still in a period of deep adjustment after the international financial crisis, the economic recovery is weak, the international market demand is weak, the unstable and uncertain factors facing China’s foreign trade development are obviously increasing, the downward pressure is increasing, and the overall situation is complicated and severe. With the gradual emergence of the effect of national policies and measures to promote the stabilization of foreign trade, the import and export value of China’s foreign trade decreased significantly in the first quarter, stabilized in the second quarter, and continued to achieve positive growth in the third and fourth quarters. The whole year showed a trend of low before, high after, and stable and good. This is our overall view on China’s import and export of goods in 2016.

Among them, China’s foreign trade increased slightly in the fourth quarter, and we believe that it benefited from the gradual implementation of a series of policies and measures to promote foreign trade to stabilize and improve. Since 2014, the State Council has successively issued more than 10 documents on the steady growth of foreign trade, and relevant departments have continuously improved relevant supporting measures, which have provided a good policy environment for the stable and high-quality development of China’s foreign trade. For example, in September last year, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued an announcement to cancel the approval of processing trade business nationwide. In November, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation jointly issued an announcement to increase the export tax rebate rate of important products such as electromechanical products and refined oil products to 17%. These policies and measures are very specific, highly operable and targeted, and have played a positive role in promoting the steady growth of foreign trade.

Secondly, there are signs of improvement in the external environment, and the index of new orders of export enterprises has rebounded significantly. Overall, in 2016, the world economy continued to slump and global trade shrank, but some indicators were slowly improving. For example, the manufacturing managers’ index, which reflects the degree of economic prosperity, shows that the indicators of the United States, the European Union and Japan all remained above threshold in the fourth quarter and reached a new stage in December. In emerging markets, Russian and Indian countries also remain above threshold. The Baltic dry bulk index, which reflects the activity of global trade, also rebounded from the historical low in early February 2016. On November 11th, it rose to 1045, breaking through 1000 points for the first time in 16 consecutive months. At the same time, according to our monthly online questionnaire survey data of 3000 foreign trade export enterprises, since June, the index of new orders of export enterprises has obviously rebounded. It rose to 41.9 in December, the highest level since March 2015, which confirmed that the external market did show signs of slow improvement.

Third, the domestic economy’s "slowing down, stabilizing and improving" has driven the continuous increase in bulk commodity imports. The slowdown in the decline in import prices has simultaneously promoted the increase in import value. In 2016, under the influence of supply-side structural reform and moderately expanding aggregate demand, the domestic economy maintained a reasonable range, showing a steady and progressive development trend, which led to an increase in the import volume of some bulk commodities. For example, as just reported, China’s imports of iron ore, crude oil, copper and other commodities have maintained growth. At the same time, the decline in import prices continued to narrow. In 2016, China’s import price fell by 2.1% overall, which was 3.2 percentage points lower than that in the previous three quarters. The average year-on-year decline of iron ore imports was 8.1 percentage points lower than that in the previous three quarters, crude oil was 7.3 percentage points lower, coal was 14.7 percentage points lower, and copper was 5.9 percentage points lower. Although the import price is still the main factor dragging down the growth of China’s import value, the narrowing of the decline in import prices has also helped the annual import growth rate to surface.

The above three points are the main driving factors for the slight growth of China’s foreign trade in the fourth quarter. Thank you.

[Tass news agency reporter]I would like to ask you how to evaluate the Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation in 2016 last year, and what are your expectations for this year’s Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation?


Tass news agency reporter asked China Net Zongchao

[Huang Songping]Thank you for your question. Let me introduce the Sino-Russian trade first. In 2016, the total value of bilateral trade between China and Russia was 459.15 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7%. Among them, exports to Russia reached 246.32 billion yuan, an increase of 14.1%. Imports from Russia reached 212.83 billion yuan, up 3.1%, and the trade surplus reached 33.49 billion yuan, up 2.5 times. In recent years, under the guidance of the heads of state of China and Russia, the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Russia has been deepening, and the two countries have a high degree of political mutual trust, extensive economic and trade cooperation and close cultural exchanges. At present, Sino-Russian relations are in the best period in history. The two countries are comprehensively promoting the docking of the two development strategies of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Eurasian Economic Union, and jointly promoting the construction of the "China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor". The cooperation between the two countries has entered a new stage with great potential and broader prospects.

Thank you.

[Reporter of China Radio International]What do you think of China’s foreign trade trend in 2017? Thank you.

A reporter from China Radio International asked questions.
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[Huang Songping]Thank you for your question. In 2016, China’s foreign trade showed a stable and positive trend, and it was not easy to achieve such results. In 2017, the international environment is still severe and complicated, and the downward pressure on the domestic economy is still relatively large. There are still many uncertain factors affecting the development of China’s foreign trade, and the foundation for supporting the continued improvement of foreign trade is still not solid.

First, the current world economy is facing many new challenges, and the downturn is still the main theme of the world economy. The latest World Economic Outlook report of the International Monetary Fund predicts that the global economic growth rate will be 3.4% in 2017, and the latest forecast of the OECD is 3.2%. It is a consensus that the global economy will still operate at a low level. The latest trade outlook report of the World Trade Organization lowered the growth forecast of global trade in goods to 1.8%-3.1% in 2017. This is the first time that the WTO has put forward an interval forecast, which means that global trade will still be difficult to pick up in 2017 and uncertainties will increase. In such a big environment, China’s foreign trade can hardly be immune to it.

Second, China’s own reform has entered the deep water area, and the pressure of foreign trade structure transformation is great. 2017 is an important year for China to implement the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" and the deepening of supply-side structural reforms. Many structural adjustments have entered a critical period. On the one hand, with the rising comprehensive production cost, the competitive advantage of traditional foreign trade continues to weaken. On the other hand, the imbalance of regional development in China has not yet been solved. The industrial chain supporting in the central and western regions is still not perfect, the logistics cost is high, and the efforts to undertake the eastern factor cost-based industries and order transfer are not strong. The data shows that in the first 10 months of 2016, the market share of China’s labor-intensive products in the EU decreased by 1.8 percentage points compared with the same period of 2015, the share in the United States decreased by 1.2 percentage points, and the share in Japan decreased by 2.1 percentage points, while the market share of similar products in some Southeast Asian countries in Europe, America and Japan increased in the same period. In addition, at present, China is actively cultivating new advantages in foreign trade competition, and developed economies are vigorously promoting the return of manufacturing industries, which poses a challenge for China to introduce high-quality foreign capital. Higher-quality foreign trade puts forward more urgent needs for innovation and development and independent formation of new technological advantages.

Third, the process of globalization is blocked, and trade protectionism restricts China’s export expansion. According to the report released by the World Trade Organization in June 2016, from October 2015 to May 2016, the G20 economies implemented 145 new trade restrictive measures, with an average of more than 20 new measures introduced every month. The average number of new measures per month is the highest since the World Trade Organization began to monitor trade restrictive measures in 2009. Under the background of weak economic growth, implementing trade protection, setting up trade barriers and interfering with normal trade by anti-dumping have become important means for countries concerned to seize international market share. The trend of anti-globalization has become increasingly obvious, and China has become the biggest victim of this trend. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Commerce, in 2016, China encountered 119 trade remedy investigation cases initiated by 27 countries and regions, involving a total amount of 14.34 billion US dollars. The number of cases and the amount involved increased by 36.8% and 76% respectively. In 2017, the global political situation is undergoing tremendous changes, such as the Brexit, the general elections of major European countries, the inauguration of the new US president, the presidential election of South Korea and other major events, which will bring variables to the existing policy direction or aggravate the global trade protectionism.

On the whole, we believe that the internal and external environment of China’s foreign trade in 2017 is complicated, and the difficulties it faces are not short-term. However, after years of accumulation, China’s economy and foreign trade have good resilience, sufficient potential and great room for manoeuvre. No matter how the external market fluctuates, we are confident to cope. In the field of foreign trade in 2017, as long as we grasp the general tone of the work of "striving for progress while maintaining stability", consolidate and implement the series of policies and measures of "stabilizing growth and restructuring", and strive to make various reforms benefit enterprises, foreign trade will certainly achieve results in improving quality, increasing efficiency and stabilizing development.

Thank you.

[China News Service reporter]I’d like to ask you what progress China’s foreign trade has made in improving quality and efficiency in 2016, and promoting excellence. Thank you.

China News Service reporter asked questions.
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[Huang Songping]Secondly, good progress has been made in product excellence. In terms of exports, China’s exports of traditional advantageous products continued to grow in 2016, among which the exports of textiles, plastic products and toys increased by 1.9%, 0.5% and 24.9% respectively, which still maintained a good competitive advantage. At the same time, thanks to China’s abundant capital, perfect industrial system and strong manufacturing capacity, Chinese enterprises also promoted the export of equipment manufacturing and high value-added products in speeding up going abroad and promoting international capacity cooperation. The export of some mechanical and electrical products and equipment manufacturing products also maintained a good momentum, such as the export of motors and generators increased by 5%, the export of medical instruments increased by 6.1%, the export of auto parts increased by 3.5%, and the export of textile machinery increased by 3%.

From the perspective of imports, China’s imports of crude oil, copper and other commodities continued to grow in 2016, which also showed that China’s domestic economy was running smoothly and demand rebounded. At the same time, the policy effect of expanding imports and optimizing the import structure appeared, and the import of some advanced technologies, key parts and important equipment and other high-tech products increased rapidly. In 2016, the import of mechanical and electrical products in China increased by 1.9%, among which the import of turbojet engines increased by 26.8%, the ship increased by 26.6%, and the automatic control instruments and appliances for measurement, detection and analysis increased by 10.7%.

In the future, we need to face the complicated and changeable international and domestic economic situation and import and export environment more actively, strive to build a new open economic system, adhere to independent innovation, pay more attention to cultivating new advantages in foreign trade competition with technology, brand, quality and service as the core, continuously improve the quality and efficiency of foreign trade development, create a higher level of open economy, and fully realize the transformation from "big entry and big exit" to "excellent entry and excellent exit".

Thank you.

[Reporter of American International Market News Agency]As you just said, protectionism is on the rise in the world, and anti-globalization forces are also increasing. In the face of Trump’s foreign trade policy after he took office as president of the United States, what countermeasures should we have to deal with these forces that are not conducive to our trade?

A reporter from American International Market News Agency asked questions.
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[Huang Songping]Thank you for your question. Nowadays, the world economy is in a period of deep adjustment after the international financial crisis. The trend of major economies and macro-policy orientation are divided, the development of global trade is in a downturn, the tendency of anti-globalization is on the rise, and trade protectionism is heating up, which greatly increases the uncertainty of the world economy.

According to the data of the Ministry of Commerce, in 2016, China encountered 119 trade remedy investigation cases initiated by 27 countries and regions, involving a total amount of US$ 14.34 billion. The number of cases and the amount involved increased by 36.8% and 76% respectively, and the number of trade remedy cases in China reached an all-time high. The tendency of politicization and extreme measures of trade friction is obvious, and the final tax rate is generally high.

Faced with the potential impact of trade protectionism in developed economies on themselves and even the world economy, it is necessary for the international community to jointly take measures to deal with it. As a responsible big country and the second largest economy in the world, China will make efforts to overcome the uncertainty of the world economy, continue to promote economic globalization and promote the sustainable development of the world economy on the basis of resolutely opposing trade protectionism.

Many journalists also expressed concern about Sino-US economic and trade relations. We believe that China and the United States have complementary economies and mutually beneficial trade. In 2016, the United States is China’s second largest trading partner and largest export market. We hope that China and the United States, the two largest economies in the world, will have better development prospects in economic and trade cooperation in the future. We will pay close attention to Trump’s foreign trade policy after he became president of the United States. Thank you.

[Japan Asahi TV reporter]Director Huang, please tell us about the trade between China and Japan last year. What do you think of the trend of Sino-Japanese trade this year?

[Huang Songping]Sino-Japanese trade, in 2016, the total import and export value of China’s bilateral trade with Japan was 1.82 trillion yuan, an increase of 5%, accounting for 7.5% of China’s total foreign trade import and export value. Japan is China’s fifth largest trading partner, with exports to Japan reaching 852.75 billion yuan, up 1.3%, and imports from Japan reaching 962.75 billion yuan, up 8.5%. The trade deficit with Japan was 110 billion yuan, an increase of 1.4 times. In the future, we sincerely hope that the economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan will develop steadily and truly achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. Thank you.

[Reporter of China Review Society]I would like to ask Director Huang to introduce the import and export trade situation of Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province in 2016, and how do you predict the trade situation with Taiwan Province in 2017? Thank you.

[Huang Songping]According to our statistics, the total value of cross-strait bilateral trade in 2016 was 1.19 trillion yuan, up 1.6% year-on-year, accounting for 4.9% of the total foreign trade of the mainland in the same period. Taiwan Province is the seventh largest trading partner of the mainland, of which mainland exports to Taiwan reached 266.43 billion yuan, down 4.3%, while imports from Taiwan reached 920.4 billion yuan, up 3.4%, with a trade deficit of 653.97 billion yuan, up 6.9%. It mainly exports integrated circuits, steel products, automatic data processing equipment, etc. to Taiwan, and imports from Taiwan mainly include integrated circuits, liquid crystal display panels, primary plastic and so on.

As for the development of trade with Taiwan, we believe that the two sides of the strait should eliminate unfavorable factors and increase favorable factors to promote the stable development of cross-strait trade. Thank you.

[Hu Kaihong]Today’s press conference is over. Thank you, Director Huang, and thank you all.

Battlefield of applets: How do long-tailed applets survive?

After basically completing the tasks of connecting "people" (social) and "content" (social media), WeChat has focused on connecting "products" (applets). Although the current mainstream product form is still App, the growth rate of WeChat applets is very eye-catching. According to QuestMobile’s report, from January 2017 to March 2018, the monthly activity scale of WeChat applets exceeded 400 million. Last month, the daily users of applets reached about 140 million, with a penetration rate of 43.9%. There is still a lot of room for improvement.

 

Then, among the three BAT companies, why only the WeChat applet has strong user traffic and ecological scene capabilities? In the WeChat ecosystem, how can small programs survive?

 

What is the difference between BAT applets?

 

In essence, applets are based on Super App, which constantly incubates countless sub-apps, making Super App a new mobile Internet infrastructure. When various needs are met by different applets, it is easy to grow an ecosystem similar to Apple App Store.

 

1. Ali applet bets on "new retail" and expands offline scenes.

 

Ma Yun once commented on WeChat. When he first came out, he was "shocked" and later felt "nothing more". In recent years, the impact of WeChat payment on Alipay in the fragmented payment scenario is obvious; Wechat applet is playing a big game of chess. Only a Pinduoduo hatched from the applet has become another trump card for Tencent’s strategic impact on Taobao’s e-commerce monopoly.

 

The incubation bases for Ali’s small programs are Alipay and Taobao. Alipay’s small programs are more tools for convenience, and they belong to the nature of "running out". A remarkable change in Taobao this year is that it is no longer a pure e-commerce platform, but a new online retail base. At present, O2O services such as "Taobao Takeaway" and "Flying Pig Travel" have been integrated in Taobao. The "Member Code" next to Taobao search box is actually a local life service business that diverts water to offline stores near users.

 

In the Taobao platform mode, in order to realize complex and non-standard service scenes, it is necessary to adopt the "applet" product form without downloading the installation package to better realize the closed loop of traffic. Because Taobao itself is the diversion base of Ali products, it has a strong technical accumulation for light applications and the product experience is not bad. However, Ali’s small program can only get through the e-commerce scene on the small program, but there is no way to enrich other formats. The profit model of Ali’s e-commerce determines that merchants still need to buy their own advertisements to buy platform traffic or rebates.

The number of local life services on Taobao homepage has increased, and the membership code is actually a store applet. At present, Alipay uses a relatively high-frequency bike-sharing applet.

 

2. The way out for Baidu applets is to advertise information flow.

 

The strength of Baidu’s link information is to link official website or webmaster. This advantage has been weakened by WeChat official account and the media in the WeChat ecosystem. Next, the trend for enterprises to do official website may be to make a small program (the cost of developing an App is relatively high). After all, in the past, there were 400 million users on the PC side, and every enterprise had official website, which is about the same as the current WeChat applet users. Therefore, it is really a bit late for Baidu to stop pushing applets.

 

The previous light Application didn’t work because Baidu didn’t have a fist-level app belt on the mobile side.In the past two years, the transformation of Baidu’s mobile terminal has been completed. In 2017, Baidu’s information flow advertising business developed at a growth rate of 20% from the previous month, keeping pace with the big search business. It is a cash flow business that Baidu has long invested in AI technology research and development. Later, in the information flow of Baidu mobile terminal, it is expected to access some small program sites with good experience, and the home page will be presented when the user pushes (recommends), without jumping to the customer’s App, and the experience is much better than the H5-style advertising landing page.

 

The author found that the "Youxin Used Car" applet was launched in the "Common Services" of Baidu App on April 12, and it has not been involved in the homepage.

 

The shortcoming of Baidu applet is that its mobile payment market share is small, and there is no way to completely open up payment scenarios in its own ecosystem; And perhaps only small program businesses that cooperate with Baidu can get the recommendation of "brand zone" and the traffic recommendation of home page, which will restrict the interest of many enterprise developers to enter.

      Baidu applet is currently only used as a common service, and Youxin used car is used as a model to experience App, and there is no payment function for the time being.

 

How does the long tail applet survive in the "decentralized product ecology" of WeChat?

   

Many entrepreneurs and enterprises have been keenly aware that WeChat applet is replicating the logic of WeChat official account’s success. Few of the more than 20 million WeChat official account can really survive, and the pain points of small program operators are also closely related to the "decentralized product ecology" positioned by WeChat:

  

The most important thing about WeChat applet service platform is not technology. The underlying technology of WeChat has been simplified. The real barrier is the accumulation of operational experience in different vertical industries, which is difficult for service providers who only do a few applet cases to cope with.The bonus of the applet is in front of us, but it is still a minority who can really play and catch it. The trial and error cost of this bonus window of about two years is high, which makes the applet service platform prone to "head-oriented" Matthew benefits.

 

Providing applet application services is a technical activity. For example, the logic of applet products in different industries, such as micro-e-commerce, smart restaurants, smart takeout, smart beauty industry, is definitely different, and the interaction of transactions in different scenarios, official website, stores or conference applets is also different. 

 

Although applets need more than 50 traffic portals, to solve the problem of difficult popularization of applets, we have to rely on the combination of "WeChat official account+Applet". WeChat official account fans have a high retention rate, but the entrance is deep, the opening rate is low, and there are many small programs with high frequency. If the users of small and medium-sized enterprises with long tail can give full play to the advantages of WeChat official account stock and small program increment, they can save a lot of promotion costs and enrich the promotion of small programs.

Zhang Xiaolong said that applets are not for e-commerce. It means that applets can be widely used in many application scenarios such as content, social interaction, stores, tools, etc. Perhaps content e-commerce, social e-commerce, fan marketing and local lifestyle services can be truly detonated through applets.

Author’s information: Reliable A Xing (Li Xing), WeChat official account: Reliable A Xing, founder of Reliable Hui, columnist of science and technology media, and personal WeChat is QQ number: 1598145405.

AI current affairs pictorial | incomparably proud

On the afternoon of March 5th, when General Secretary of the Supreme Leader attended the deliberation of his Jiangsu delegation at the Second Session of the 14th National People’s Congress, he proudly recounted the achievements of China’s transportation development: "Now China’s automobile production and sales volume is the largest in the world, new energy vehicles are the best, and the highway mileage is also the longest. High-speed rail has gone out, urban rail transit has also gone out, ships have also gone out, and we have also built large aircraft, which is the ‘ Three pearls ’ It’s all made … …”

Traffic is the pioneer of China’s modernization. The general secretary once compared the traffic map of the whole country to a painting, demanding that "the traffic of beautiful China be outlined more beautifully".

Under the earnest entrustment of the General Secretary, the beautiful prospect of China’s transportation power is gradually becoming a reality. Today, let’s follow "AI Pictorial" and enjoy the magnificent picture of "opening the road on every mountain and bridging the bridge when encountering water", which is full of hope, vitality and dreams.

This is the C919 plane shot on the tarmac of Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport on May 28th, 2023. On the same day, flight MU9191 of Eastern Airlines, which was carried by C919 large passenger plane, landed smoothly at Beijing Capital International Airport, marking the successful completion of the first commercial flight of this aircraft and its official entry into the civil aviation market.

This is the C919 plane shot on the tarmac of Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport on May 28th, 2023. On the same day, flight MU9191 of Eastern Airlines, which was carried by C919 large passenger plane, landed smoothly at Beijing Capital International Airport, marking the successful completion of the first commercial flight of this aircraft and its official entry into the civil aviation market.

Traffic is the "artery" of economic development, and the cause of traffic always has a heavy weight in the heart of the supreme leader General Secretary.

In Xiangxi, Hunan Province, the General Secretary specially visited Aizhai Extra-large Suspension Bridge and asked carefully how the bridge was operating and whether the lives of local people had improved.

At the Tianjin Port Terminal, the General Secretary is very concerned about how to make the port bigger and stronger, pointing out that "the economy needs to develop, the country needs to be strong, and transportation, especially shipping, needs to be strengthened first";

At Beijing Daxing International Airport, the General Secretary carefully examined the process of intelligent technology and full self-help paperless intelligent check-in, and pointed out that Daxing International Airport should be built into a "world-class aviation hub" to show the wisdom and strength of the people of China to the world;

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A bridge spans north and south, all the way to all directions. Floating China, generate has developed vigorously in the construction of a powerful transportation country.

Up to now, the total mileage of China’s comprehensive transportation network has exceeded 6 million kilometers. From Linhai Xueyuan to Jiangnan water town, from Saibei Gobi to Lingnan mountains and rivers, 159,000 kilometers of railway networks crisscross, and 45,000 kilometers of high-speed rail lines are interwoven into a network. In 2023, China completed 61.25 billion person-times of cross-regional personnel mobility, up 30.9% year-on-year. The "travel radius" of Chinese is getting longer and longer, and the good life is constantly extending.

Behind the remarkable achievements, it is inseparable from the support of science and technology. When attending the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation, the general secretary pointed out that it is necessary to "take scientific and technological innovation as the guide, make overall plans to promote the upgrading of traditional industries, the growth of emerging industries, the cultivation of future industries, and strengthen the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation."

In recent years, China’s transportation science and technology innovation has achieved a historic breakthrough from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, from local advanced to system capacity improvement.

In Fuxing series EMUs, China has completely independent intellectual property rights for all key system software, and the China standard used accounts for 84%; During the construction of Daxing Airport Station, the builders installed 1232 shock-absorbing pads under the terminal building of Daxing Airport to minimize the vibration caused by trains passing through underground tunnels at high speed. Intelligent high-speed rail, intelligent highway, intelligent port, intelligent shipping, and intelligent postal service have accelerated to take shape, criss-crossing China … … Transportation has a stronger "science and technology flavor" and the level of modernization has been greatly improved.

When the road is clear, everything will flourish. The road network is criss-crossed, the routes reach the whole world, and the ocean-going ships shuttle back and forth, which drives the integration and development of industry, tourism and culture, and effectively unblocks the domestic and international double cycle. China high-speed rail, China Road, China Bridge and China Port, which are going global, intersect with the world and communicate with the times, and promote China’s deeper integration into the global industrial chain supply chain system.

On January 15th, 2023, the most "frost-resistant" and intelligent member of Fuxing family — — Fuxing's alpine intelligent motor car sped by on the northeast land.

In January 2023, the most "frost-resistant" and intelligent member of Fuxing family — — Fuxing alpine intelligent EMU is speeding on the land of Northeast China.

"The transportation industry is moving forward step by step, ahead of the world, and craftsmen are very important in it. It is not enough to design the light drawings well, and finally it will be implemented in the hands of welders. ‘ Without Jin Gangzuan, we can’t do porcelain work ’ 。” When participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation, the general secretary was concerned with transportation talents.

As a "craftsman" from the front line, representative Sun Jingnan shared her thoughts at the meeting: "What is ‘ Craftsman ’ ? Is to treat yourself in the professional field ‘ Haggle over every ounce ’ After tempering, breakthroughs can be achieved. "

With the rapid development of transportation industry, the demand for high-quality talents is also more vigorous. In recent years, Sun Jingnan has never kept secrets with his apprentices, and led the team to complete one technical research and achievement transformation after another. In the future, Sun Jingnan plans to work with more skilled craftsmen to manufacture high-end, intelligent and green rail transit vehicle products with exquisite skills and welding guns in his hands.

If you do not stop, the future can be expected. Nowadays, a mobile China is marching steadily towards the vision of "people like their actions and things are superior to their flow". The dense modern three-dimensional transportation network has made people’s "happiness road" smoother and smoother, and also provided solid support for Chinese modernization.

Starring "Autobot", Harbin actor Adi returned to "1980s".

A few days ago, Harbin actor Adi went on a hot search! Everyone was gripped by a smile from her.

In the TV series "Boiling Life" hit by Jiangsu Satellite TV, Adi turned into Shen Xia, a "female autobot", and partnered with Elvis Han, a native of Harbin, to reproduce the development of China’s automobile industry and write boiling life with youth and blood.

The 1980s was a sentimental era. Many young intellectuals devoted themselves to modernization, and that generation was pure, romantic and passionate. Shen Xia was a rare graduate of a prestigious university at that time. Before Adi started shooting, he asked his parents about many stories of that era, looked at a lot of old photos and got a deep understanding of the mental outlook of college students.

Homework was not done in vain. As soon as "Boiling Life" was broadcast, the topic # Adi’s youthful atmosphere in the 1980s # was posted on Weibo Hot Search. In the play, Adi’s simple coat was paired with a plaid shirt, and a neat ponytail was tied up, full of vitality, and he laughed green and simple. The netizen said, "The atmosphere in the 1980s was severely grasped."

This is Adi’s first time as an automobile engineer. She said: "Shen Xia has the ideal of serving the country with technology and the spiritual belief of fighting for it all her life, which is what attracts me most. This spirit has always infected me during filming."

One is a "precious" college student in the factory, and the other is a test driver who often gets into trouble. Although Adi and Elvis Han played Ai Changan as childhood friends, they started out as a pair of tell it to the judge, and they finally showed their hearts to each other, but they were suddenly changed. Because of Ai Chang ‘an’s impulse, Shen Xia’s father died with injustice. On the one hand, it is a father who is as grateful as a mountain, and on the other hand, it is ocean deep’s lover. In the play, Shen Xia is in a dilemma …

Adi commented on Elvis Han, "He is a very good partner, very dedicated, and has a very accurate understanding and interpretation of the role. When filming, everyone gets along very well." Although it was the first time for the two Harbin actors to be partners, they got full marks in tacit understanding and played the role of "Chinese Auto Man" together. They seemed to have witnessed the progress of China automobile industry from "Made in China" to "Made in China" and then to "Created in China".

Standing next to a heavy truck, Adi looks particularly petite, but she is a real "racing driver". In April, 2020, she set up a motorcade, which she thought was "the most successful thing she had done since she was 30".

She was very excited to appear in the first TV series in China with the heavy truck industry as the background. Adi, a "car fan", was very happy when she saw the seven-ton truck of Huaqi 2190 in the drama. "I like every model in the drama very much, and they are the testimony of the struggle of’ Huaqi people’ for the automobile industry."

In the heavy truck manufacturing industry, the vast majority of employees are men, but Adi plays Shen Xia, who is a female automobile engineer, showing gentle and strong "her" strength. "Many’ female autobots’ gave up their comfortable and comfortable lives and devoted themselves to construction without hesitation. They showed great professionalism and admiration in their work." Adi said.

Harbin Daily reporter Gao Yun

Jiangxi college "canteen goddess" became popular. Netizen: someone else’s school (Figure)

  Jiangxi, China Net News reporter Wang Fan reported that a part-time goddess appeared in the canteen of Jiangxi Normal University. The girl surnamed Yan is a junior. Faced with the popularity of the Internet and the title of "canteen goddess", she said that she went to the canteen to work and study to experience life, and she was actually very ordinary, hoping to do a good job. Xiaoyan’s classmates said that a cheerful, smiling and gentle attitude is really the highlight of the goddess.

  On March 3, the "canteen goddess" attracted the attention of netizens and became a hot topic on the campus of Jiangxi Normal University. "People are beautiful, the heart is more beautiful, and a cheerful, laughing and gentle attitude is really the highlight of the goddess." A student of the school said in a message. In addition, a number of netizens suspected of being students of Jiangxi Normal University commented: "I have decided to go to the canteen for dinner tomorrow."

  The comments of netizens also make people laugh. Mo of @ Teemo said, "As we all know, it is really beautiful". Some netizens said "sourly" that "it is someone else’s school". Some netizens said, "Why do you have to work and study?". The work place of "canteen goddess" is located in the stall of "Bengrou Dry Rice" in the third canteen of the school. The "canteen goddess", surnamed Yan, is a junior majoring in administration in the School of Political Science and Law of Jiangxi Normal University. On February 28th, she began to work part-time in the canteen, and went to work at the canteen window after class at noon and in the evening.

  Dialogue: "Not a schoolmaster, not a woman". Reporter: Do you know that you are on fire? Yan: I just found out (laughs). When I woke up, many students talked to me privately and said that they would go to eat collectively at night. Reporter: How do you feel? Yan: A little happy. Reporter: Is it the first time to work-study program? Yan: I used to work as a cashier at the front desk in a cafe, and I also worked as a tutor to teach junior high school students and senior high school students English. Reporter: Is that a schoolmaster? Yan: Not really (laughs). Both freshmen and sophomores got scholarships, and they were in the class, but they were not schoolmasters.

  Reporter: What is "Bengrou dry rice"? Yan: It’s delicious, with northern characteristics, similar to Guandong cooking. (ps: Mr. Liu, the owner of the small shop, said that dried rice with braised pork is a special food in Jining, Shandong Province. Braised pork refers to pork belly cooked with spices, and then served with vegetables, meatballs, small hot dogs, etc.) Reporter: What is life like? Self-evaluation? Yan: Appearance? Inside? Or character? Reporter: Appearance? Yan: I’m a little girl. My friends say I’m not like a junior. I like to play, and I have many friends around me. Reporter: Inside? Yan: Be strong, try to make yourself stronger. Reporter: Personality? Yan: Not a woman, but a little girl. Cheerful and love to laugh. Reporter: Are you a fan of bigbang? Yan: Yes. But not crazy, I like it. Reporter: Recently, some college students in other places have been cheated by online shopping for tickets to bigbang’s concert. Will you buy tickets online? Yan: Not at the moment. Maybe I’ll buy it from Jason (laughs).