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)

In 2030, "Healthy China" turned out to be like this!

        CCTV News:The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council recently issued the Outline of Healthy China 2030. What will happen to China’s health index by 2030? What impact will these changes have on public life? Let’s take a look.

        1. prolong life and reduce death

        In 2020, the average life expectancy will reach 77.3 years, and in 2030 it will reach 79 years.

        The infant mortality rate, the mortality rate of children under 5 years old and the maternal mortality rate have respectively decreased from the current 8.1‰ 、10.7‰ And 20.1/100,000, down to 5.0&permil in 2030; 、6.0‰ And 12/100,000.

        2. Eat nutritionally and exercise is guaranteed.

        Formulate and implement the national nutrition plan, carry out evaluation and research on food nutrition function, and establish and improve the nutrition monitoring system for residents.

        By 2030, the smoking rate of people over 15 years old will drop to 20%. The number of people who regularly participate in physical exercise has increased from 360 million in 2014 to 530 million.

        By 2030, a three-level network of public sports facilities in counties and villages will be basically built, with a per capita sports area of not less than 2.3 square meters, and a 15-minute fitness circle will be fully covered in urban communities.

        Ensure that students have no less than one hour of physical activity in school every day. By 2030, the standard rate of school sports facilities and equipment will reach 100%.

        3. Health education has increased, and it is no longer fooled by health care "brick home"

        Establish a core information release system for health knowledge and skills, and improve the monitoring system for health literacy and lifestyle covering the whole country. Incorporate health education into the national education system and take health education as an important part of quality education at all stages of education. In 2030, the health literacy level of residents will be raised to 30%.

        Liu Yuanli, Dean of School of Public Health, Peking Union Medical College, China Academy of Medical Sciences:

        At present, there is a gap between the average life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in China, and chronic diseases show a "blowout" trend. One in ten adults in China suffers from diabetes, one in four suffers from hypertension, and many people live with diseases and their quality of life is not high. If we only equate the pursuit of health with medical treatment and do not strengthen prevention, it will be difficult to cope with the severe health situation. Starting with healthy living, the planning outline helps people master scientific health knowledge and skills and develop good living habits, which is the most direct and proactive response to the disease challenge.

        4. Increase in medical staff

        By 2030, the health service capacity will be greatly improved, and a high-quality and efficient integrated medical and health service system will be fully established. The number of practicing (assistant) doctors per thousand permanent residents reached 3.0 and the number of registered nurses reached 4.7.

        5. Improve the order of medical treatment

        We will improve the medical and health service system, so that everyone in the province can enjoy homogeneous diagnosis and treatment of critical and difficult diseases and specialized medical services.

        Establish a mature and perfect grading diagnosis and treatment system in an all-round way, and form a reasonable medical order of primary diagnosis, two-way referral, up-and-down linkage and rapid and slow division.

        Li Bin, Director of the National Health Planning Commission:

        China has established a medical security network covering 96.5% of the country through medical insurance for employees, new rural cooperative medical insurance and medical insurance for urban residents. On this basis, the medical security system has been gradually improved through serious illness insurance, commercial insurance and charity assistance, which has changed the situation of "minor illness, serious illness, etc." in the past. Although the coverage rate of medical insurance is over 95%, the overall level of medical insurance in China is still not high, and medical insurance should become an economical medical insurance.

        6. Medical insurance is mature and stereotyped

        By 2030, the universal health insurance system will be mature and stereotyped.

        With the further development of modern commercial health insurance service industry, the proportion of commercial health insurance payment expenditure to total health expenditure has increased significantly.

        Meng Qingyue, Dean of Peking University College of Public Health:

        Without a sound medical and health service system, the role of medical and health investment and medical security system will be difficult to play, and it will be difficult for the people to benefit from health and healthy development. To improve the capacity of medical and health service system, we need to put people first, improve functions, strengthen cooperation and linkage, and promote the integration of medical and health service system.

        7. The sky is bluer and the water is clearer

        The ratio of days with good air quality in cities at prefecture level and above will exceed 80% in 2020 and will continue to improve by 2030.

        The proportion of surface water quality reaching or better than Class III water bodies will exceed 70% in 2020 and will continue to improve by 2030.

        By 2030, the food safety risk monitoring and food-borne disease reporting network will achieve full coverage.

        8. Sewage discharge should be certified and agricultural production should be clean.

        We will fully implement the management of industrial pollution source discharge permit, promote enterprises to carry out self-monitoring and information disclosure, establish a discharge ledger, and realize the discharge of pollutants with certificates.

        Accelerate the elimination of processes, equipment and products with high pollution and high environmental risks.

        Carry out special pollution control in industrial clusters.

        Focus on steel, cement, petrochemical and other industries, and promote the transformation of industrial emission standards.

        We will fully implement standardized and clean agricultural production, carry out in-depth risk assessment of agricultural products quality and safety, promote comprehensive management of agricultural and veterinary drug residues and heavy metal pollution, and implement action to control veterinary drugs and antibiotics.

        Strengthen the guidance and supervision of food origin and improve the market access system for agricultural products.

        Rao Keqin, Vice President and Secretary General of Chinese Medical Association:

        At present, China is facing many contradictions and problems such as economic transformation and "multiple disease burdens", aging population and structural changes, ecological destruction and environmental pollution, and environmental sanitation needs to be improved, which requires us to change the mode of economic development and implement the strategic choice of interaction between green development and healthy environment. It is necessary to organically unify the construction of beautiful China and healthy China, mobilize the whole society to jointly create a healthy environment, and take human health as the center from urban planning, construction to management, so as to ensure the healthy life and work of residents and organically combine healthy people, healthy environment and healthy society. (This article Source: Xinhua Viewpoint WeChat WeChat official account)

How to modify the bank’s online bank transfer limit?

Modification of online bank transfer limit: a comprehensive analysis and operation guide

In today’s digital financial era, online banking has become an indispensable part of our daily life. However, banks usually set a certain limit for online bank transfer to ensure the safety of funds. However, in some specific cases, users may need to modify this limit.

First of all, we need to understand why banks set online bank transfer limits. This is mainly due to the consideration of risk control and security. Limiting the transfer amount can reduce the risks of fraud and misoperation to a certain extent and protect the safety of customers’ funds.

There may be differences in the online bank transfer limit regulations of different banks. Generally speaking, the limit is divided into daily cumulative limit and single limit. Common limits range from several thousand yuan to several hundred thousand yuan.

So, how to modify the online bank transfer limit? The following are the general steps:

1. Log in to online banking: Log in to the online banking system of the bank you use with your user name, password and verification code.

2. Find the option of limit setting: in the menu of online banking, look for options related to "transfer limit setting", "security setting" or the like.

3. Select Modify Limit: after entering the limit setting page, select the limit type you want to modify (such as daily cumulative limit and single limit).

4. Enter a new limit: according to your needs, enter the new limit amount you want to set.

5. Authentication: The bank may require you to authenticate by SMS verification code, dynamic password, U shield, etc. to ensure that you are operating.

6. Confirm modification: After the authentication is completed, confirm your modification operation to make the new quota setting take effect.

It should be noted that some banks may not allow customers to modify the limit by themselves, but you need to go to the counter or apply for modification through customer service telephone.

Let’s take a bank and a bank as examples to show you their online bank transfer limits and modification methods:

| Name of bank | Daily cumulative limit| Single limit| Modification method |
|—-|—-|—-|—-|
| Bank A | 50,000 yuan | 20,000 yuan | Log in to online banking and modify it in "Security Settings", which requires SMS verification code verification |
| Bank B | 100,000 yuan | 50,000 yuan | can be modified through online banking or counter, and online banking modification needs U shield verification |

In short, it is an important operation to modify the online bank transfer limit of the bank. When making the modification, you must set it reasonably according to your actual needs and risk tolerance, and strictly abide by the relevant regulations and procedures of the bank to ensure the safety of your funds and the smooth transaction.

(Editor in charge: difference extension)

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Health and Health Commission: Internet medical services are expected to be included in medical insurance.

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  On September 27th, west china hospital, doctors from Huaxi Hospital, Ganzi People’s Hospital and shiqu county People’s Hospital consulted patients with echinococcosis through telemedicine platform. Beijing News reporter Xu Wenshe

  A few days ago, the National Health and Wellness Committee issued three important documents in the field of Internet medical care, namely, Administrative Measures for Internet Diagnosis and Treatment (Trial), Administrative Measures for Internet Hospitals (Trial) and Management Standards for Telemedicine Services (Trial).

  The document clarifies the scope of Internet medical care for the first time. According to users and service methods, Internet medical services involving diagnosis and treatment are divided into three categories: telemedicine, Internet diagnosis and treatment, and Internet hospitals, and classified management is implemented, and the policy "red line" is clearly drawn.

  Lu Qingjun, director of the National Center for Telemedicine and Internet Medicine and the Telemedicine Center of China-Japan Hospital, participated in the formulation of the above-mentioned documents. According to it, the National Medical Insurance Bureau is formulating the price guiding principles for Internet medical care, and Internet medical services such as telemedicine are expected to be included in medical insurance.

  case

  Internet medical care on the plateau

  At an altitude of 4,178 meters in shiqu county, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the liver of Tibetan Tashi (pseudonym) is being eaten by echinococcosis. Three years ago, the 31-year-old man refused the doctor’s advice on surgery, but his increasingly unbearable abdominal pain made him go to shiqu county People’s Hospital again.

  On September 27th, Tashi’s medical records were displayed in front of Wang Wentao, an echinococcosis expert and deputy director of liver surgery in west china hospital, through the telemedicine system. This was a multi-party consultation. More than 10 doctors from shiqu county People’s Hospital, Ganzi People’s Hospital and Huaxi Hospital discussed Tashi’s illness remotely through the screen. His electronic medical record and abdominal MRI were displayed simultaneously on the screen.

  "This is a very clear patient with advanced alveolar echinococcosis. The important structures in the liver and neighboring organs have been violated. It can be seen that the bile duct and portal vein of the first hepatic portal have all been eaten. It is recommended to arrange surgery as soon as possible." During the consultation, Wang Wentao gave treatment suggestions.

  Echinococcosis, a chronic parasitic disease zoonotic, is plaguing 66 million farmers and herdsmen in western China. There are two kinds of echinococcosis: cystic echinococcosis and alveolar echinococcosis. Among them, alveolar echinococcosis has a long incubation period, and the patient has no treatment, and the 10-year mortality rate is 94%, which is also called "insect cancer".

  Shiqu county, where Tashi is located, is the hardest hit area of hydatid disease. However, the local medical level is limited. If you go to Huaxi Hospital 1000 kilometers away, you have to go to Kangding for two days, and then transfer to Chengdu. Many late patients give up treatment. Nowadays, with the help of telemedicine, patients can get diagnosis and even treatment from experts in big hospitals without leaving the local area.

  On September 28th, Devaji, a 28-year-old Tibetan girl, met Wang Wentao again at Ganzi People’s Hospital. Seven months ago, Wang Wentao gave Dwaji, who had advanced hepatic echinococcosis, an autologous liver transplant in People’s Hospital. This time, Wang Wentao came from Chengdu to review Dewaji and 11 other patients after surgery.

  "The recovery is very good. If you continue to take albendazole, you can reduce it from 4 tablets a day to 2 tablets a day." Wang Wentao made a diagnosis and told Dewaji to pay attention to hygiene in his daily life, not to drink raw water and wash his hands before meals.

  In Sichuan, such a telemedicine system has covered all 88 poverty-stricken counties and 1,800 medical institutions. Throughout the country, according to Jiao Yahui, deputy director of the Medical Administration and Hospital Authority of the National Health and Wellness Commission, 22 provinces have established provincial telemedicine platforms, covering 13,000 medical institutions and more than 1,800 counties. In 2017, the total number of telemedicine services exceeded 60 million.

  superiority

  It is expected to solve the problem of uneven medical resources.

  For policy makers, telemedicine is not only a simple medical service project. With the advantages of telemedicine, the problems of insufficient total medical resources and uneven distribution can also be solved.

  Lu Qingjun, director of the National Center for Telemedicine and Internet Medicine and the Telemedicine Center of China-Japan Hospital, explained that at present, 10% or 20% of the top doctors in the country undertake 80% of the diagnosis and treatment business, but they do not need to undertake many common diseases. With the help of telemedicine system, higher-level hospitals can improve the level of doctors in lower-level hospitals through remote teaching, remote discussion of difficult cases and remote live teaching of surgery, so that they can undertake more diagnosis and treatment of common diseases. Hospitals below the second level can undertake 60%~70% of the diagnosis and treatment business, and doctors in tertiary hospitals can spare more time to treat intractable diseases.

  Taking Sichuan as an example, Wang Wentao said that the team composed of doctors from vascular surgery, anesthesiology and ICU of West China Hospital went to Ganzi Prefecture once or twice a month to conduct teaching rounds and surgical teaching, and sent corresponding experts to explain the confusing problems according to local needs, helping the local authorities to establish a multidisciplinary team.

  Duoji, president of Ganzi People’s Hospital, told the reporter that Huaxi Hospital has trained two surgical teams for echinococcosis. In the past, the People’s Hospital could only do 20 echinococcosis operations throughout the year, but now it can do more than 500 operations every year, basically realizing the local cure of echinococcosis. In 2016, Ganzi People’s Hospital successfully established the top three hospitals.

  "Medical resources face multiple dilemmas. The first one is the shortage of total medical resources. When the total amount remains unchanged, the efficiency of diagnosis and treatment will be improved, and the patient’s experience will also be improved. The distribution of our medical resources is a pyramid-shaped triangle, but the flow of patients is an inverted pyramid, and now it needs to be reversed. " Lu Qingjun said.

  question

  The technology is not standardized, and the enthusiasm of doctors is difficult to guarantee.

  But the status quo is not optimistic. Lu Qingjun pointed out that the medical quality of telemedicine is uneven, some hospitals are not standardized in technology, and even QQ video and WeChat chat are used for telemedicine, and the quality of medical image transmission simply cannot meet the requirements; Although some hospitals have built telemedicine platforms, they have been idle for a long time, "just for show"; Some hospitals regard telemedicine as a channel to siphon patients from lower-level hospitals.

  The enthusiasm of doctors to participate is also difficult to guarantee. An anesthesiologist in a 3A hospital who didn’t want to be named told the reporter that although the hospital will give certain performance rewards to doctors participating in telemedicine, the enthusiasm of doctors is not high. "The whole perioperative period (around the whole process of surgery, including preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative) requires teamwork. Doctors go to primary hospitals and leave after surgery. The conditions and level of primary hospitals are not enough. What should I do if patients have problems during the recovery period after surgery?" Doctors have their own concerns.

  A few days ago, the National Health and Wellness Committee issued three heavy documents, namely, Administrative Measures for Internet Diagnosis and Treatment (Trial), Administrative Measures for Internet Hospitals (Trial) and Management Standard for Telemedicine Services (Trial). For the first time, the scope of internet medical care was clarified, and businesses that did not involve the core of medical care, such as online appointment registration and online health consultation, were excluded.

  Internet medical services involving diagnosis and treatment are classified into telemedicine, Internet diagnosis and treatment, and Internet hospitals according to the users and service methods, and classified management is implemented.

  "Some people think that the Internet can do everything, which is wrong." Lu Qingjun participated in the formulation of the new regulations. He believes that the core point of the document is to ensure medical quality and medical safety.

  The three documents have drawn a "red line" for Internet medical behavior. For example, the operation of Internet hospitals needs to apply for a license from the regulatory authorities, and it must be run by offline physical medical institutions; Internet diagnosis and treatment can provide patients with some common diseases and chronic diseases for follow-up, and patients may not be treated for the first time; The new regulations also require that doctors who conduct Internet diagnosis and treatment must be certified by their real names, so as to avoid quack doctors impersonating well-known experts; The platform construction, management process design and doctor’s responsibility division of telemedicine information system are also clarified.

  look ahead

  We are studying the formulation of price guidelines.

  But this is really just the beginning. Lai Jian, deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission, bluntly said that Internet health care is still in the exploratory stage. With continuous exploration, the service content will continue to be enriched and deepened. It is necessary to continuously improve the work management system, incentive assessment mechanism, project charging standards, medical insurance reimbursement and payment and other supporting policies in collaboration with the development and reform, human society and other departments.

  The most urgent thing is to fill the gap in the Internet medical price policy. Lu Qingjun told reporters that in the past, Internet medical services such as telemedicine did not have a definite business model, and the price department could not calculate the cost and pricing. If hospitals set their own prices and charge fees, they will be defined as "arbitrary charges" by the price supervision department. Therefore, many hospitals provide telemedicine services free of charge, but the telemedicine equipment is millions, and the cost of a remote consultation is 2,400 yuan to 2,700 yuan.

  Without pricing, medical insurance reimbursement is out of the question. The reporter noted that in April this year, the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting the Development of "Internet+Medical Health", proposing that qualified Internet medical services should be gradually included in the scope of medical insurance payment.

  "But the premise is that there must be fees first." Jiao Yahui said that because not all Internet diagnosis and treatment behaviors belong to the basic medical category, they do not have to be included in the scope of medical insurance reimbursement. If it belongs to the category of basic medical services, medical insurance should be reimbursed; Do not belong to, by the patient’s burden.

  Lu Qingjun revealed that the National Medical Insurance Bureau is stepping up the formulation of guiding principles for Internet medical prices, and has now entered the stage of expert discussion. After the country issued the preliminary guiding opinions, the local price departments can formulate local price standards according to the guiding principles.

  "The principle is uncertain, and there will be many bottlenecks in local standards. When the principle comes out, a game of chess in the country can be done. " Lu Qingjun said. (Reporter Xu Wen)

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?


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[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.

Fire drill into the construction site to build a "safety wall"

  In order to do a good job in the safety management of construction sites, the Housing and Construction Bureau of Huancui District recently coordinated the projects under construction in its jurisdiction to carry out the "Fire Emergency Drill and Forest Fire Emergency Drill in the Field of Building Construction in 2025" to enhance the awareness of disaster prevention and mitigation of construction employees and the ability to deal with forest fire emergency, and further prevent and resolve security risks.

  At the drill site, the full-time safety officer explained the methods of extinguishing the initial fire, the use of fire extinguishers, escape and self-help, and organized the workers to conduct practical drills in batches to ensure that the participants could "call the police, know how to evacuate and put out the fire", and at the same time, they also gave a vivid "fire handling class" to everyone who arrived at the site.

  Ji Cheng, the person in charge of Genting Sunshine Phase II Project, said that the main purpose of our fire drill this time is to let workers know their escape routes and learn the correct use of fire extinguishers. We also insist on giving workers safety education every week, so that everyone can really pay attention to it ideologically, so that everyone can pay attention to safety and everyone can respond to emergencies.

  Safety is the bottom line of production. In the first quarter of 2025, the Housing and Construction Bureau of Huancui District has conducted a comprehensive inspection of 65 construction sites in Huancui District, focusing on key areas such as large-scale lifting machinery, border protection and high-altitude operation, requiring all projects to strictly implement fire management systems such as on-site safety production, domestic electricity consumption and flammable material protection, and build a strong project safety defense line.

  Zhang Qinming, Construction Engineering Service Center of Huancui District, said that at present, it is the forest fire prevention period, and we have launched a new round of special inspections on production safety, urging enterprises to strictly implement the main responsibility of production safety, investigate the potential safety hazards existing in temporary electricity use and fire-fighting facilities on site, and carry out fire emergency drills. At the same time, we will intensify inspections and inspections for projects under construction around the forest to better ensure the smooth and orderly production of projects under construction.

  (Correspondent Yang Yuzhen)

Domestic and foreign trade make concerted efforts in both directions to save new vitality in economic operation.

CCTV News:Recently, the Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference, and a spokesperson introduced that this year’s 1-mdash; In July, the actual utilization of US funds in China increased by 25.5% year-on-year, showing the confidence of US-funded enterprises in China’s business environment.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce said that China has always adhered to the basic national policy of reform and opening up, and has always been committed to creating a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international first-class business environment. In order to create a more optimized investment environment for foreign investors, recently, the State Council issued "On Further Optimizing the Foreign Investment Environment"

Opinions on increasing the intensity of attracting foreign investment, put forward 24 policy measures in six aspects, and strive to reduce the burden and increase the vitality of foreign trade enterprises in many aspects.

The number of foreign trade enterprises has increased and their vitality has increased.

Since the beginning of this year, China’s foreign trade has withstood multiple pressures, and under the background of falling demand in the international market, it has generally achieved stable operation, demonstrated strong resilience, and its endogenous motivation has continued to increase.

From the main point of view, the number of foreign trade enterprises has increased and their vitality has increased. The majority of enterprises are the cornerstone of foreign trade development. 1-mdash this year; In July, the number of foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance exceeded 550,000, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%.

From the perspective of the format, the new kinetic energy of foreign trade development has been accelerated. Cross-border e-commerce has maintained rapid development. In the first half of the year, imports and exports increased by 16%, and the proportion of total foreign trade imports and exports rose from less than 1% five years ago to about 5%. There are over 100,000 cross-border e-commerce entities and nearly 700 industrial parks, and new modes such as live e-commerce and social e-commerce are constantly emerging, which has become an important channel for foreign trade enterprises and products to go to sea.

The foreign exchange reserve ratio is lowered again to promote the stability of RMB exchange rate

Recently, due to internal and external factors, RMB exchange rate volatility has intensified. In order to improve the ability of financial institutions to use foreign exchange funds, the People’s Bank of China decided today (September 1) to reduce the foreign exchange deposit reserve ratio of financial institutions by 2 percentage points from September 15, 2023, that is, the foreign exchange deposit reserve ratio will be reduced from the current 6% to 4%. It is estimated that about US$ 16 billion in foreign exchange liquidity will be released in China, which will help to reduce the negative spread between domestic and foreign currencies and promote the stability of RMB exchange rate.

Experts said that adjusting the foreign exchange reserve ratio has always been regarded as a reserve policy in the central bank’s policy toolbox to stabilize market exchange rate expectations. Lowering the foreign exchange reserve ratio can improve the ability of financial institutions to use foreign exchange funds, strengthen the management of foreign exchange liquidity, partially release foreign exchange liquidity, adjust the relationship between supply and demand in the foreign exchange market, and smooth the fluctuation of the foreign exchange market.

Partial time deposit interest ratelower Better support the real economy

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, China CITIC Bank, Zheshang Bank and other banks have successively announced that they will reduce some time deposit interest rates from September 1st. Experts said that lowering interest rates will help banks better support the real economy.

The two departments jointly issued a document to reduce the interest rate of the first home loan in stock.

On August 31st, the People’s Bank of China and the General Administration of Financial Supervision jointly issued the Notice on Matters Related to Reducing the Interest Rate of the First Home Loan in Stock. After the adjustment of the interest rate of the first commercial personal housing loan, the average decline is 0.8 percentage points, and the financial burden of residents will be significantly reduced. Taking a loan with a term of 1 million yuan and an original interest rate of 5.1% for example, assuming that the mortgage interest rate is reduced to 4.3%, the borrower’s interest rate expenditure can be saved by more than 5,000 yuan per year. Reducing the interest rate of the first home loan in stock will help to reduce the housing consumption burden of residents, promote residents to convert savings into consumption and investment, and boost residents’ willingness and ability to expand consumption.

Coetzee’s new novel is published, and he has no hope for the adult world like a pessimistic believer.

The book cover of the student days of Jesus.

In 2003, Coetzee, the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, published his new novel The Schooldays of Jesus in the UK in August this year.

Nobel Prize in Literature winner Coetzee.

This novel is the sequel to his last work, The Childhood of Jesus. In The Childhood of Jesus, Simon, an old man, took David, a boy, from a refugee camp in the desert to Novella, a Spanish-speaking city. They lost their memories, and even their surnames were taken by others. Simon took David to find his birth mother. Finally, the three of them completely despaired of the orderly but passionate Novella and left it for the next city, Estella.

The story of "The Schooldays of Jesus" begins here. Simon and Yi Ni take David to Estella. They work on a farm, and David soon enters the local dance academy. This is a mystical dance academy, which "devotes itself to guiding students’ souls to the sky, so that souls can fit in with the movement of the great universe-or dance". David quickly learned to express "noble numbers from the planet" with dance, and met Dmitry, a museum security guard. Dmitri fell madly in love with the dance teacher Madeleine, and finally killed her.

Like its prequel, The Times of Students attracted many readers’ complaints: "English translation like Spanish", "environmental description like IKEA" and "too few social details to make the characters stereoscopic".

Its plot is not always convincing: in Jesus’ Childhood, Simon, who promised to find David’s biological mother, confirmed that she was David’s mother when she first met Yinis, and she undoubtedly accepted and formed a family with them; David, a boy, is suspiciously precocious. In the book, he speaks amazingly and makes remarks such as "I am the truth".

As a reader, I feel that time passes slowly in a mysterious world where my memory is banished. When faced with a novel that lacks reading pleasure, it is easy for us to have rejection ("this is a terrible writing") or self-doubt ("I must be too stupid to read his profound meaning"), but there may be another way, that is, to try to understand the writer-what kind of person is Coetzee? What’s he thinking?

First of all, Kutcher is very cold.

Thin, tall, silver hair, a pair of thoughtful, slightly narrowed eyes. Look at him, and then look at Marquez-thick eyebrows, big hands, Mario-like grin-and you can immediately feel the temperature difference between them.

This critic James Wood once said, and also found evidence in Coetzee’s memoir Youth published in 2002:

"If he is a more enthusiastic person, he will undoubtedly find it easier to do all this: life, love and poetry."

Coetzee does not belong to the mural writer with dense brushwork, but his past language can never be considered dry:

"ninety minutes a week with a woman is enough to make him feel happy, which makes him feel very strange, because he always thought he needed a wife, a home and marriage. In fact, his needs are very light, light and short-lived, just like the needs of butterflies. There is no emotional impulse, or only the deepest and most difficult feeling to guess: a most basic sense of satisfaction, like the buzz from the road urging the city people to sleep gradually, and like the silence that makes the country people sleep at night. " ("shame")

In the two works of Jesus series, the temperature of his character dialogue plummeted and he has retreated to the outline style:

"He and Yinis exchanged glances. Should they follow Juan’s advice? Money is not a problem. He has a lot of money in his pocket. It is not a problem for them to stay in a hotel. But officials in Novella are chasing them, and maybe they are safer among the unknown temporary residents.

Yes,’ said Yinis. Let’s live on this farm. We’ve been locked in the car long enough. Poliva needs to run.’

I think so,’ Simon said. However, the farm is not a place for a holiday. Are you ready, Yinis, to pick fruit in the hot sun every day?’

I’ll try my best,’ said Yinis. Neither more nor less.’

Can I pick fruit?’ The boy asked.

I’m sorry, you can’t,’ Juan said. This is illegal. This is child labor.’

I don’t mind working as a child.’ The boy said. "

Is this language style an imitation of the Bible? The plot of Jesus series is intertextual with the Bible. If the precocious David represents Jesus, then Simon and Yinis seem to represent Joseph and Mary respectively. The story follows a sacred family in exile in the empty text land, and the reader seems to vaguely understand that this is Coetzee creating his own gospel. In recent years, he has become more and more close to religion, and the self-analysis of his past works, which is almost cruel, seems to indicate this.

In the novel "Bad Age", the protagonist is highly coincident with Coetzee, who is also an elderly South American writer living in Australia. He recalls that his father once thought he was a selfish child, and his art lacked "generosity, no praise for life and no love"; In his memoir "Youth", he confessed his appearance defects, his mental life moaning without illness, and his emptiness after passion-honesty has always been Coetzee’s virtue, but it is always separated by a layer: "Youth" is a memoir, but Coetzee chose the third person.

This is certainly not the first time Coetzee has expressed his views in a roundabout way.

He hardly gives interviews to the media, does not attend the Booker Prize ceremony, and even if he gives a Nobel Prize in Literature Prize-winning speech, he still chooses to tell an obscure and tortuous story.

He likes to make a confession by fictional doppelganger: in Elizabeth Costello: Eight Classes, Coetzee teaches animal life, African humanities, evil problems and sexual desires through his female avatar Elizabeth. He speaks freely and at the same time excuses himself from his speech, which sometimes makes people wonder whether that remark was Coetzee’s opinion or just that of a fictional character.

"Summer" is even bolder. Coetzee directly "murdered" himself, and let the biographer Vincent build a multifaceted and even unbearable self by interviewing the late writer "Coetzee" in the eyes of others … Coetzee, like a deeply poisoned Russian doll, kept adding brackets, brackets and brackets to the narrative until the brackets themselves became an inseparable part of the narrative.

Since Shame in 1999, Coetzee began to try to "nonfiction" the novel, and created a series of memoirs, essays and biographies that are difficult to distinguish between true and false. Now, in Jesus series, he has returned to his most familiar allegorical writing again. However, this time, the allegory is not as strongly insinuating the injustice and hypocrisy of the South American colonies as Waiting for the Barbarian and Michael K’s Life and Times in his early years.

In Childhood of Jesus and Student Life of Jesus, Simon or David talked with porters, government officials and dance teachers and expressed their views on various grand themes: passion, lust, power, order and shame … It sounds like Plato’s tone, but it is not as clear and meticulous as the Republic.

Simon once had a lover in Novella. When he sought passion from other women, the lover said:

"This endless dissatisfaction, this desire for’ more’, this way of thinking has long been eliminated, I think. Nothing is missing. What you think is missing is an illusion. You are living by illusion. "

Such a speech embellishes the whole story. There are many reasons, but the taste is very weak. Coetzee doesn’t seem to care whether this dialogue is credible or far-fetched, because it is a fable, and readers who have concluded a trust treaty with the writer should believe the rationality of the story, even if the writer doesn’t provide enough perceptual details, social details and emotional details like Bunyan’s description of pilgrim’s progress or Dante’s description of hell. However, I have to say that it is too difficult to fish with a hook without a sharp hook.

David and his party lost all their memories before they came to Novella, which may be a hint from Coetzee: readers who open this book should also wash away their memories of the real world and enter this uncomfortable place unarmed. For Coetzee, who has always been metaphysical, a "real and sensible world" may not be his interest; In other words, what he wants to extract through the novel is another kind of truth.

In 2012, Coetzee gave a speech to the graduates of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa for the first time. He made a puzzling appeal to the male students among the graduates, hoping that they could devote themselves to the cause of primary education, because "as far as what we call the’ real world’ job is concerned, one of the boring facts is that when you sell things to others, buy things from others, or fiddle with numbers on the computer screen all day, you will have a feeling of being hard to get rid of.

If you work with children, I promise you will never feel this way. Children may be tiring and annoying, but they are complete human beings. In the classroom, you can experience a sense of nakedness that you can’t experience in the world where adults work. "

Only children are complete people, and only the children’s world has not been whitewashed to appear sincere-Coetzee, who said this, sounded like a pessimistic believer and had no hope for the adult world.

Coetzee was not the only writer who turned his back on the real world and built the fable Lego. Kafka wrote Castle, kazuo ishiguro wrote No Comfort, and Beckett, which Coetzee loved … These works were all books that refused to bring pleasure to reading: the reader followed the protagonist to an unknown world, his wishes and expectations were constantly frustrated, and doubts and repression accumulated like a snowball … Coetzee added a sigh to this little nightmare showroom.

Changing the old look of the block to improve the happiness of living.

Harbin, Heilongjiang promotes the renovation of old residential areas, investigates fire hazards and improves environmental sanitation.
Changing the old look of the block to improve the happiness of living.

Upgrade infrastructure and transform old communities; Investigate fire hazards and ensure the safety of residents; Excavating stock resources and creating creative blocks … Since the theme education was launched, Heilongjiang Province has focused on the transformation of urban infrastructure and done a good job in people’s livelihood. The reporter visited Harbin and found that with the implementation of various measures, the city’s appearance changed, living conditions improved, and people’s lives became more convenient, more comfortable and better.

Red walls, green trees, benches and windmills, in front of the 80-meter-long "graffiti" wall, people put on various poses to take pictures and punch in. Many citizens and tourists came here and praised the "net red wall" of Hongqi Street in Xiangfang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province.

"In the past, this area was a garbage transfer point that stinks and residents can’t avoid." Lin Shan, head of the Pearl River Community, said. Change the way of garbage removal, demolish the damaged wall and rebuild it, and organize residents to paint the wall art. Now, this garbage spot has become a punching place.

"The wall is still that wall, but the surrounding area is clean, and the artistic taste is raised, which is different. We old residents are also happy!" Rebecca, a resident of Zhujiang Community, lamented.

Since the education on the theme of studying and implementing the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era was launched, Heilongjiang Province has carried out field research, focused on people’s livelihood, given priority to solving people’s urgent problems, and continuously improved urban functions by transforming urban infrastructure. Recently, during a visit to Harbin, the reporter learned that the local government organically combined environmental remediation with the renovation of old residential areas, investigation of fire hazards, improvement of environmental sanitation, and promotion of industrial development, constantly improving people’s happiness in living, making efforts to build a livable and happy city, and taking various measures to realize the old look of old streets with a new look.

Listen carefully to the opinions of the masses

Transform and upgrade infrastructure.

"This new cement pavement is so good that it makes people feel bright." Standing on the newly paved concrete floor in the corner of the community, Wang Guihuan, a resident of No.248 Gogol Street, Harbin, was happy in his words. In the past, the community was a mess, with abandoned boiler rooms and small yards full of garbage.

"No.248 Gogol Street was built in 1977 and is a typical old community." Chen Haijing, secretary of the Party Organization of Struggle Community, said that after the heating was connected to the grid, the community’s own boiler room was abandoned and left in the community. Now, according to the residents’ opinions, fitness equipment has been added here, and the old boiler room has been transformed into a service center for the party and the masses, providing a place for the residents’ leisure life.

There is a large stock of old residential areas in Harbin, and the area of old residential areas that were built before 2000 in Chengjiu District alone reached 61.23 million square meters. "Old residential areas have low building standards, incomplete supporting facilities, lack of property management, and strong willingness of the masses to transform." The relevant person in charge of the Harbin Housing and Construction Department said.

This year, Harbin started 224 renovation projects of old residential areas, with an area of 10.93 million square meters, 42.2 kilometers of water supply network and 100 kilometers of aging heating network, and simultaneously implemented environmental remediation work such as demolition, power repair and network cable bundling.

No.248, Gogol Street, where Wang Guihuan lives, is the beneficiary community. "The old courtyard wall has been removed, and our residents have added 400 square meters of leisure space." Wang Guihuan said.

Putting the people’s urgent difficulties and worries in the first place, Harbin strives to make the environmental remediation work in the hearts of the people, listen carefully to the opinions of the people, listen to the voices of the people, gather public opinions, solve people’s worries, and handle complaints overnight.

"I hope to solve the problems such as hanging wires in disorder and the leisure and fitness area in the courtyard of the community together in the renovation." "The roof leaks and the sewers are often blocked, and I hope it can be solved." … Harbin has deeply integrated the environmental remediation work with the renovation of old communities, and made a thorough investigation of 1,630 buildings planned to be renovated in 2023, and held more than 210 public opinion consultation meetings, renovation plan review meetings and public opinion survey forums.

Carry out hidden danger investigation actions

Ensure that residents live and work in peace and contentment.

Smooth and spacious asphalt roads, freshly painted walls, rows of lilac trees, quaint and elegant Chinese pavilions … The clean environment of the petrochemical community in Xiangfang District is refreshing.

"Demolition of private buildings in the neighborhood, cleaning up the mess, and cleaning up the environmental sanitation, the change of our community is the boss." Wang Xiuyun, a resident of the community, lamented.

Behind this is Harbin’s efforts to improve the public sanitation of the community by combining environmental remediation with striving for a civilized city: comprehensively carrying out urban road cleaning and washing, floating debris cleaning, garbage daily cleaning, and carefully carrying out greening plant pruning and maintenance.

In Ningjiang Hutong District of nangang district, the fire rescue department of Harbin took the lead in jointly launching a special campaign to investigate fire hazards, demolishing illegal buildings that affected fire safety, clearing evacuation routes and safety exits, opening fire corridors, and making full use of idle boiler rooms to build community miniature fire stations and central pump rooms.

Harbin has made great efforts to ensure the safety of owners’ lives and residences through environmental improvement. At present, all the 171 hidden fire hazards have been rectified, and 60 small fire stations and 5,493 micro fire stations have been set up.

In order to put an end to the problem of "resurgence" and all kinds of messy phenomena coming back after the renovation of old residential areas, Harbin accelerated the property management work after the renovation of old residential areas, and hundreds of property residential areas led by party building emerged in the city to play a leading role in demonstration.

The fifth block of Honghe Community in Daowai District was built in the 1990s, with more than 1,500 households. Streets, communities, property companies and community committees have set up the Party branch of Minqiang Red River Fifth Block, forming a long-term management mechanism of co-construction and co-management.

"Residents complain less and the community atmosphere is getting better and better." Meng Xuebin, director of the Industry Committee of Honghe Fifth Block, took the lead in setting up a "volunteer service team" to help solve more than 20 problems such as underground pipeline maintenance, parking space division, roof repair of residential areas, replacement of security doors, and more than 1,500 "key things" around the people, such as dredging the water, repairing unit doors, replacing voice-activated lights, and repairing stagnant roads.

Perfecting function and improving quality

Create characteristic creative blocks

"Brother, 10 more kebabs!" "Boss, another beer" … In the evening, when the lights are on, the uniform business sheds on both sides of the road come into view, and the nightlife of Xingfu Road in Xiangfang District has just started.

There is a street with a total length of nearly 1 km outside Happiness Road Food, including more than 60 restaurants, which can taste the food of most famous catering brands in Harbin.

Through the environmental improvement work, Xiangfang District upgraded this road section, expanded the sales area, opened the food and beverage stalls, made unified food stalls, set up creative landscape sketches, and created a "street with food outside".

"Opening the external pendulum can increase the turnover by at least 30%, and the government has invited enterprises to cooperate and help us build a unified external pendulum business shed for free." Yang Jing, manager of a restaurant, said.

Harbin organically combines industrial development with improving the neighborhood environment, and strives to create a unique creative neighborhood through environmental remediation. Xiangfang District has become the first area to start the pilot project.

Xiangfang District mobilizes and organizes all the towns in the whole district to dig deep into the existing resources and advantages such as regional characteristics, historical culture, realistic foundation, industrial characteristics and commercial layout, and creatively transform the old urban areas through cultural creativity empowerment.

"Environmental improvement, especially after injecting cultural and creative elements, has changed the face of the messy areas that have long plagued people and become a popular punching place." Li Yafei, secretary of Xiangfang District Party Committee, said that Xiangfang District should pay equal attention to improving its functions and improving its quality in building blocks with cultural and creative characteristics, so as to revitalize it and promote the construction and renovation of the surrounding environment.

The dormitory area of the boiler plant has been transformed into a "living room for urban culture". Leisure blocks with the theme of TCM health preservation, Dongxing Manchu-style street with strong ethnic flavor and night market full of fireworks have emerged … Since this year, Xiangfang District has successfully created 14 cultural and creative characteristic blocks, which has become a punching place to attract citizens and tourists. (Reporter Zhu Dawei, Liu Mengdan)

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.