Cold towels selling smart home appliances are not very powerful. The "explosion" is still a bit weak.

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On hot days, tourists in the West Lake Scenic Area are "fully armed".

  Zhejiang Online August 12th (Zhejiang Daily reporter Zhang Hui)Although the industry has been in beginning of autumn, the high temperature began to make a comeback on August 10th. The best seller in hot weather must be air conditioning. Affected by this year’s hot weather, air conditioningSignificant progress has been made in "destocking". According to the statistics of Aoweiyun. com, in 2015, the inventory of the air-conditioning industry reached 40 million units, a record high. By the end of June 2016, the inventory of air conditioners had dropped to about 30 million units.

  In addition to air conditioning, what summer cooling tools are popular on hot days? What is the ability of Zhejiang manufacturing to fight in this hot weather? The reporter’s investigation found that in order to deal with "destocking", many air-conditioning companies "bet" on smart products, but the effect needs further observation.

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Tourists walk on the Bai Causeway of Hangzhou West Lake with umbrellas.

  Ice cream and sunscreen

  The search volume has increased significantly.

  The reporter checked the data of Hangzhou Meteorological Observatory and found that it entered the initial stage on July 17 this year and ended on August 25, and the "dog days" lasted for 40 days.

  In this "Ge You Paralysis" summer vacation, except for a small number of people such as students, teachers, full-time wives and retired people, most people have to learn the taste of the poisonous sun, so various heatstroke prevention artifacts have emerged. On Taobao. com, Liushen toilet water, Tiger head cooling oil and essential oil have all become hot-selling products. Ice silk sunscreen gloves, sunscreen masks, isolation cream and skin clothes have become hot items for girls; Parents are busy hoarding summer cold stickers and ice cushions for children who are undergoing military training; With the expansion of the "fun run" team, magic cold towels that can help runners absorb sweat and dry quickly are also selling well …

  This summer is too hot, which has almost become a common feeling of Zhejiang people, and the amount of online shopping data is also soaring. According to the data from Netease Koala and YEATION, the first-floor Shui Pi mat is 9 times more expensive than ordinary straw mats, and the unit price is 2,199 yuan, and the market response is also very good this year.

  According to a set of data provided by Alibaba, the number of searches for "ice cream" by users in Zhejiang Province has increased day by day since the second day of Tmall’s July 18th, and the search increase has reached 49% within one week of the 25th. Since July 22, the search volume of sunscreen has also increased significantly, increasing by 26.8% in three days.

  Air-conditioning sales are growing rapidly.

  The order has been placed in October.

  The data shows that the so-called heatstroke prevention tools, including small fans, are defeated in front of air conditioners. From July 23 to 24, the sales of Tmall air-conditioning category increased by 470% year-on-year, and the average daily sales increased by 81.3% compared with the first ten days of July. In addition to air conditioning, the sales peak of refrigerators is also ahead. This summer, the peak of the refrigerator appeared from July 11th to 13th, an increase of 163% over the same period last year.

  Hangzhou Shangbai is a Tmall gold medal seller who operates household appliances of Midea, Haier, Little Swan and other brands. Feng Jiru, the general manager, told reporters that compared with the festivals of e-commerce wars such as "double 11" and JD.COM 618, only air conditioners are best sold in summer. But air conditioning is the only category they don’t do. The reason behind it lies in the high inventory in the air-conditioning industry.

  Thanks to the high temperature this year, the air-conditioning industry has picked up slightly, which is mainly due to the sharp increase in online sales, and offline sales are still in a state of decline. Jiang Lihui of Ningbo Oaks Air Conditioning told reporters that Oaks achieved 150% year-on-year growth in July, with a cumulative increase of 130%. Jiang Lihui believes that this year’s weather is quite strong, and the company’s measures to improve product quality have reduced the inventory to the lowest level in history.

  Busier than air-conditioning manufacturers are air-conditioning accessories manufacturers. Sanhua Group produces air conditioning core accessories. At present, the core components of many international and domestic first-line brands use Sanhua products. Chen Yuzhong of the commercial business department of Sanhua Co., Ltd. told reporters that the peak sales season began in June, and the original production capacity of 400,000 was raised to 600,000. The pressure is still great, and orders have been placed in October. In order to improve the environment for workers to work overtime, Sanhua is urgently installing a sprinkler at the top of the workshop.

  Smart home appliances have large space.

  Key technologies to be broken through

  If there is no high temperature, how to solve the high inventory of air conditioners? How to transform home appliance enterprises? The companies interviewed mentioned smart products in unison.

  "August 1 can be said to be a historical turning point in the air-conditioning industry." Wu Wenxin described it at the recent annual meeting of the United States. He told the media that Midea air conditioners upgraded smart products across the board and gradually eliminated non-smart products. In terms of channels, Midea Air Conditioning will also set up "smart experience zones" in more than 30,000 retail outlets across the country, and carry out the popularization war of smart air conditioners through the "trade-in" activity of smart air conditioners. In order to break through the current "fragmented" situation of smart home appliances, Midea also invited JD.COM, Suning and other channel providers and Xiaomi Huawei and other Internet vendors at this annual meeting, in an attempt to speed up the popularization of smart air conditioners by opening up the industry chain.

  Betting on smart products is not only beautiful, but Haier is the first to explore smart home appliances in the industry. On August 2, Haier announced the achievements of building a big data cloud platform for smart air conditioners at the press conference, also with the theme of intelligence. It is said that Haier’s smart air conditioning market has accounted for more than 60%.

  Wu Dingjian, executive vice president of Suning Air Conditioning Company, said in an interview that consumers’ recognition of smart home appliances was low in the past. The fundamental reason was that smart home appliances did not really solve the pain points and rigid needs of consumers. From the market point of view, the real intelligent air conditioner with human body sensing and other functions still needs a process before the market breaks out. According to Wu Dingjian, at present, in Suning channel, air conditioners with wifi remote control function (basic intelligence) account for 40% of online sales. In the next three to five years, the proportion of wifi remote control intelligent air conditioners in the whole industry is expected to rise to 70%.

  Hu Zhenping, CEO of Yuechen Technology, bluntly said that it is necessary to turn on the air conditioner and water heater at home earlier on the way to work, but these are not just needed. "Smart home appliances began to face the domestic market in 2000. At present, the installation of systematic smart home appliances is still a minority market, and the user experience is not very good. " Hu Zhenping believes that the main reason is that there is no breakthrough in key technologies such as voice recognition, gesture recognition and image recognition, and smart home appliances are still in the era of single products, and the products have not formed a scale.

What engine is used in Kaiyi Xuanjie? Kai yi Xuan Jie size

Kaiyi Xuanjie, a compact SUV, is equipped with an eye-catching 1.5-liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine, which is driven at a maximum power of 85kw and can output a maximum torque of 143 Nm when the speed reaches 6150 rpm.

This engine adopts multipoint injection technology, and skillfully combines the design of aluminum alloy cylinder head and cast iron cylinder block, in which the use of cast iron cylinder block enhances the durability and reliability of the engine and can withstand the challenges of high temperature and pressure.

The engine is matched with two transmission options: 5-speed manual or cvt gearbox. Cvt gearbox is praised for its smooth shifting experience and improved fuel economy.

Its internal structure is simple, consisting of two tapered wheels and a steel chain, and its cost is relatively low, which can help reduce the price of vehicles.

In terms of suspension system, the front suspension of Kaiyi Xuanjie adopts McPherson independent suspension to provide drivers with comfortable handling feeling;

The rear suspension uses a torsion beam dependent suspension to optimize the seating space and trunk space. As a compact SUV, the spatial layout is very important for home users.

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It is worth noting that all parts of Kaiyi Xuanjie are equipped with this 1.5-liter naturally aspirated engine, and there is no turbocharging option. This power configuration aims to balance performance and economy and meet the needs of different users.

[Enough Science] International Day for Rare Diseases: Will Rare Diseases Be Inherited?

February 29th this year is the 17th International Day for Rare Diseases. Did you know that 80% of rare diseases are related to genes? Albinism, porcelain dolls and smiling angel syndrome are all genetic diseases, which are caused by genetic defects. People may not know that rare diseases caused by genetic defects may not necessarily be inherited. Dr. Gu Weihong, a researcher of neurology in Chinese and Japanese hospitals and the general coordinator of the CHPO working group, said that hereditary rare diseases are inherited by genes, and even if there are related genes, there may not be corresponding disease manifestations. Gene transmission and its influence on human body is a complicated process of arrangement and combination. Moreover, seemingly healthy parents may also give birth to children with rare diseases. But patients with rare diseases can give birth to healthy offspring through reproductive intervention technology. (Reporter/Proofread by Yang Wenjun/Intern by Liang Yaqin/Lv Qi)

The Federal Reserve announced that the minutes of the February monetary policy meeting will continue to raise interest rates.

  On February 22nd, local time, the Federal Reserve released the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) monetary policy meeting from January 31st to February 1st. According to the contents published in the minutes of the meeting, the Fed said that although there are signs that inflation is declining, it is not enough to offset the need for further interest rate hikes. At present, the inflation rate is "still much higher" than the Fed’s target of 2%. What followed was that "the labor market is still very tight, resulting in continuous upward pressure on wages and prices." Therefore, the Federal Reserve decided to raise the target range of the federal funds rate by 25 basis points, which is the smallest rate hike since March 2022. According to the minutes of the meeting, almost all the participants supported the decision and agreed to continue raising interest rates until inflation was controlled.

  At the same time, many participants said that the process of raising the debt ceiling in the United States has dragged on for too long, which may pose "significant risks" to the financial system and economy. Some participants believe that the prospect of economic recession in 2023 is rising. Some participants said that the job market is "very tight", the demand for labor exceeds the supply, and the continuous tight job market will put upward pressure on inflation. (CCTV reporter Xu Wei)

The personal pension system is officially implemented, and everything you want to know is here.

CCTV News:The Measures for the Implementation of Individual Pensions, jointly issued by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Finance, State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and CSRC, was officially released to the public on November 4th. This means that the personal pension system that the society has been paying attention to for a long time has been formally implemented.

So what is a personal pension? Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said that personal pension is a supplementary pension insurance system. At present, China’s multi-level endowment insurance system mainly includes "three pillars". The first pillar is the basic old-age insurance, which is the main part, and the current coverage has reached 1.04 billion; The second pillar is enterprise annuity and occupational annuity. By the end of 2021, more than 70 million employees had participated in the two annuities. The third pillar includes personal pension and other personal commercial pension financial services. Why should we develop a personal pension system? What’s the use of personal pension? Let’s listen to the heads of relevant departments in Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

Jia Jiang, Deputy Director of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Endowment Insurance Department:Personal pension is a part of the third pillar with institutional arrangements, and it is a supplementary old-age insurance system with government policy support, voluntary participation and market operation. The establishment of the personal pension system will add an accumulation on the basis of the basic old-age insurance, better meet the diversified old-age insurance needs of the people, and make the old-age life more secure and quality.

Workers in China can participate in the personal pension system.

The Measures for the Implementation of Personal Pension clearly states that the personal pension system covers a wide range, and all workers who participate in the basic old-age insurance for urban workers or the basic old-age insurance for urban and rural residents in China can participate, which also makes the personal pension a "universal" system. So why do you make such a rule? 

Jia Jiang, Deputy Director of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Endowment Insurance Department:The first aspect is from the perspective of system function. Only by participating in the basic old-age insurance and realizing the premise of "basic", participating in the personal pension can realize the "supplementary" pension function. Second, from the perspective of coverage, China’s basic old-age insurance system has achieved full coverage of the system. At present, the number of participants has reached 1.04 billion, basically covering the working-age population. Third, willing workers can participate, which can realize long-term payment of personal pension and continuously increase the accumulation of funds in personal accounts.

Personal pension shall be subject to personal account system.

The personal pension is based on the personal account system, including two accounts, one is the personal pension account and the other is the personal pension fund account. The Measures for the Implementation of Personal Pension stipulates that personal pension accounts should be opened on the personal pension information management service platform through the national unified online service portal or commercial banks. Personal pension fund accounts can be opened or designated by a commercial bank that meets the requirements, and can also be designated by other personal pension product sales organizations that meet the requirements.

So, why set up two accounts? What is the relationship between the two accounts? In addition, is there an upper limit for personal pension? Continue to look at the interpretation of experts.

Jia Jiang, Deputy Director of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Endowment Insurance Department:To participate in individual pension, participants must first open an individual pension account. By the participants through the national social insurance public service platform, in the personal pension information management service platform to open. It is used to record the whole process information of participants as the basis for participating in the personal pension system and enjoying preferential tax policies. After opening a personal pension account, it is necessary to open a personal pension fund account, which is designated or opened in a commercial bank that meets the requirements. These two accounts are unique and correspond to each other. Among them, through the channels of commercial banks, these two accounts can be opened at one time.

The "Implementation Measures" clarify that the maximum amount of personal pension paid by participants each year is 12,000 yuan, which can be paid monthly, by installments or by year. The payment amount is accumulated according to the natural year and recalculated in the following year.

Jia Jiang, Deputy Director of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Endowment Insurance Department:In the future, the state will raise the upper limit of the payment level in a timely manner according to the level of economic and social development and the development of a multi-level endowment insurance system. For participants, they can flexibly choose whether to participate every year or in parts of the year according to their own financial affordability, or they can choose the amount of payment they need during the year, which can be paid in one lump sum or in parts.

Personal pension account funds are mostly used to buy financial products.

After the money is deposited into the personal pension account, how should the money be used and how can it be preserved and increased? The "Measures for the Implementation of Individual Pensions" clearly stipulates that the individual pension shall be subject to the individual account system, and the payment shall be entirely borne by the participants themselves. They shall independently choose to purchase financial products such as savings deposits, wealth management products, commercial endowment insurance, Public Offering of Fund, etc. that meet the requirements, implement complete accumulation, and enjoy preferential tax policies in accordance with relevant state regulations.

Personal pension products are safer, more stable and standardized.

In this way, the funds in the personal pension account are mainly used to buy financial products, so what is the difference between personal pension products and general financial products?

Jia Jiang, Deputy Director of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Endowment Insurance Department:Personal pension products are diversified, which is conducive to meeting the investment needs of different groups, and also conducive to promoting market competition, prompting financial institutions to develop better and more financial products and participate in the personal pension system. Compared with general financial products, personal pension products should have the properties of safe operation, maturity and stability, standardized target and long-term value preservation.

The "Implementation Measures" stipulate that participants independently decide the variety and amount of personal pension products purchased from the personal pension fund account. Personal pension product sales institutions should take the principle of "sales appropriateness" as a principle, do a good job of risk warning, and may not actively introduce personal pension products beyond their risk tolerance to participants.

Exempt individual pension fund accounts from multiple fees.

On November 4th, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission issued interim measures to solicit opinions from the public on the management of personal pension business of commercial banks and wealth management companies. The interim measures require commercial banks to waive multiple fees for personal pension fund accounts.

Personal pension fund account is a special account with the functions of personal pension payment, transaction fund transfer, income collection, payment and payment of personal income tax, information inquiry and so on. The fund account will be closed before the conditions stipulated by the state are met.

Dong Ximiao, a researcher at the Institute of Finance of Fudan University:The closed operation of individual pension fund account means that individuals can only make money into the fund account, but can’t transfer it out or collect it before meeting the conditions stipulated by the state. Closed operation helps to ensure that the account funds and income are used for pension purposes, and also helps to guide participants to develop long-term investment habits.

The interim measures also propose that everyone can only choose a qualified commercial bank to open a fund account, and the fund account may not be opened directly in a commercial bank by a personal pension product sales organization. Commercial banks are exempt from annual fees, account management fees, SMS fees and transfer fees for capital accounts.

Personal income tax is paid at the rate of 3% at the time of collection.

Then, what favorable policies can you enjoy by participating in personal pension? First of all, in the payment link, the part that does not exceed the upper limit of 12,000 yuan per year can be deducted before the personal income tax by withholding the comprehensive income of personal income tax or settling it in the next year. Secondly, in the investment link, personal income tax will not be levied on the investment income. Finally, when participants receive personal pensions, they pay personal income tax at the rate of 3%, which is relatively low, regardless of the method and amount of collection. The method of collection is determined by the participants themselves, and they can receive individual pensions on a monthly basis, in installments or at one time.

The assets in the personal pension fund account can be inherited

In addition, whether individual pension can be inherited is also of great concern. It is clearly stipulated in the Measures for the Implementation of Individual Pensions that if a participant dies, the assets in his personal pension fund account can be inherited. If the participant’s social security card is cancelled due to reasons such as going abroad or settling abroad, death, etc., the commercial bank will transfer the funds in the participant’s personal pension fund account to the fund account designated by himself or his successor.

With the breakthrough of optical chips, photonic chips will realize faster and more energy-saving artificial intelligence programs.

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Photonic integrated link driven by Kerr frequency comb. Source: Light Wave Research Laboratory/Columbia Project.

Data centers and high-performance computers running artificial intelligence programs (such as large-scale language models) are not limited by the absolute computing power of their nodes. This is another problem-the amount of data they can transmit between nodes-which is the basis of the "bandwidth bottleneck" that currently limits the performance and expansion of these systems.

Nodes in these systems can be more than one kilometer apart. Because metal wires emit electrical signals in the form of heat when transmitting data at high speed, these systems transmit data through optical fiber cables. Unfortunately, when signals are sent from one node to another, a lot of energy is wasted in the process of converting electrical data into optical data (and back again).

In a study published in Nature Photonics, researchers from Columbia Institute of Technology demonstrated an energy-saving method, which can transmit a large amount of data through optical fiber cables connecting nodes. This new technology improves the previous attempt to transmit multiple signals simultaneously through the same optical fiber cable. Instead of using different lasers to generate light of each wavelength, the new chip only needs one laser to generate hundreds of different wavelengths of light, which can transmit independent data streams at the same time.

Simpler and more energy-saving data transmission method

Millimeter-scale systems use a technology called wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and a device called Kerr frequency comb. These devices acquire light of a single color at the input end and generate light of many new colors at the output end. The critical Kerr frequency comb, developed by Michal Lipson, professor of electrical engineering and professor of applied physics at Higgins, and Alexander Gaeta, professor of applied physics and materials science and professor of electrical engineering at David M. Rickey, allows researchers to send clear signals through individual and precise optical wavelengths, with space between them.

Photonic integrated chip is placed on a dime. Source: Light Wave Research Laboratory/Columbia Project.

"We realize that these devices are ideal sources of optical communication, and people can encode independent information channels on each color of light and spread them through an optical fiber," said Keren Bergman, a senior author, who is Charles Batchelor, a professor of electrical engineering at Columbia Institute of Technology, and the academic director of Columbia Nano Project. This breakthrough can make the system transmit more data exponentially without using more energy in proportion.

The team miniaturized all optical components to chips with each edge about several millimeters, which were used to generate light, encode it with electrical data, and then convert the optical data back to the electrical signal of the target node. They have designed a novel photonic circuit architecture, which allows each channel to encode data separately, and at the same time, the interference to adjacent channels is minimal. This means that the signals sent with each color of light will not be confused, and the receiver will not have difficulty in interpreting and converting back to electronic data.

"In this way, our method is more compact and energy-saving than similar methods," said Anthony Rizzo, the lead author of the study, who did this work as a doctoral student at Bergman Laboratory and is now a research scientist at the Information Council of the US Air Force Research Laboratory. "It is also cheaper and easier to expand, because the silicon nitride comb foundry can be manufactured in a standard CMOS foundry for manufacturing microelectronic chips, rather than in an expensive dedicated III-V foundry.

The compact characteristics of these chips enable them to directly interface with computer electronic chips, which greatly reduces the total energy consumption, because electrical data signals only need to travel to millimeters instead of tens of centimeters.

Bergman pointed out, "This work shows that this is a feasible way, which can not only greatly reduce the energy consumption of the system, but also improve the computing power by several orders of magnitude, so that the application of artificial intelligence will continue to grow exponentially, and at the same time, it will have the least impact on the environment.

The exciting results paved the way for actual deployment.

In the experiment, the researchers managed to transmit 16 gigabits per second for 32 different wavelengths of light, with a total single fiber bandwidth of 512 Gb/s, and the error was less than one bit in the one trillion transmitted data. These are incredibly high levels of speed and efficiency. The silicon chip for transmitting data is only 4mm x 1mm in size, while the chip for receiving optical signals and converting them into electrical signals is only 3mm x 1mm in size, both of which are smaller than human nails.

Schematic diagram of decomposed data center based on Kerr frequency comb driving silicon photonic link. Source: Light Wave Research Laboratory/Columbia Project.

"Although we used 32 wavelength channels in the proof-of-principle demonstration, our architecture can be expanded to accommodate more than 100 channels, which is completely within the scope of standard Kerr comb design," Rizzo added.

These chips can be manufactured by the same facilities as microelectronic chips in standard consumer laptops or mobile phones, thus providing a direct way for volume expansion and practical deployment.

The next step of this research is to integrate photonics with chip-level drive and control electronics to further miniaturize the system.

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Original title: "Optical Chip Breakthrough! Photonic chip will realize faster and more energy-saving artificial intelligence program.

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The US Embassy in Israel moved to Jerusalem? White House: It’s only a matter of time. It will be announced in the next few days.

[Observer Network Comprehensive Report] In the past two days, the Middle East can be described as coming. Whether US President Trump decides to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv has attracted much attention.

According to Agence France-Presse, on Monday (4th) local time, the White House said that Trump suspended the announcement of the decision on the relocation of the US Embassy in Israel, and the time would be postponed until 4th local time. In the past 48 hours, many world leaders, including American allies, have issued warnings to Trump.

"The president’s position on this issue has been clear from the beginning. It’s not a matter of deciding or not, but a matter of time," White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said. "It will be announced in the next few days."

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In May of this year, Trump visited Israel and visited the famous Jewish holy land "wailing wall" @ vision china.

In order to win over pro-Israel American voters, Trump made a commitment to this during his presidential campaign last year. American officials said that the fickle president has not made a final decision, but he does not expect to transfer the embassy directly to Jerusalem.

However, Agence France-Presse said that domestic politics may prompt Trump to make Jerusalem the capital of Israel, so as to show his attitude to conservative voters and donors.

Trump’s Commitment to Israel in the Campaign (Video/Liu Chuchu)

The status of Jerusalem is a key issue in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israel annexed East Jerusalem after the Middle East War in 1967, and declared the whole of Jerusalem as Israel’s "eternal and indivisible capital". Palestine insists that East Jerusalem be the capital of Palestine.

When the outside world knows that Trump is about to make a decision, leaders from many countries in the Middle East and other regions have warned that Trump will make a change in American policy for decades.

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In May of this year, Trump visited Israel and visited the famous Jewish holy land "wailing wall" @ vision china.

French President Macron warned Trump that the status of Jerusalem must be "within the framework of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians".

Agence France-Presse said that there were also differences within the White House on this matter, and several US officials were unable or unwilling to make a clear statement on Trump’s decision. "The president will make his decision," said kushner, Trump’s Middle East envoy and son-in-law.

On the 3rd, kushner made a rare appearance at the annual meeting of the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, to discuss the US Middle East policy. In response to the relocation of the US Embassy, kushner said, "He is still considering many situations. Once he makes a decision, he will explain it to you himself, not me."

Although Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman urged Trump to seize this "historic opportunity", AFP said that from the information in other parts of the region, it is clear not to do so.

Under the global trade counter-current, G7 is facing extreme pressure test. With Trump around, can Macron still control the market?

  If the G7 summit does not issue a communique, it will be the first time since the G7 summit was held in 1975 that a joint communique cannot be issued.

  Today (24th), French President Mark Long will face a rather tricky extreme stress test in his presidency: the global trade countercurrent, the uncertain prospect of Brexit, the Trump administration’s promotion of the "American model", the disagreement between France and the United States on the "digital service tax" and the debate on climate change issues, all of which will appear at the G7 summit in biarritz. If not handled properly, a grand event aimed at showing France’s strength globally may be posted.

  The biggest concern of the outside world is whether the G7 Summit will repeat the same mistakes and end awkwardly as the 2018 G7 Summit in Quebec, Canada. With US President Trump present, can Macron still control the audience?

  Before the G7 summit, Macron had an hour-long conversation with Trump, and then Macron told the outside world at a press conference that this summit might not be able to issue a joint communique. "Let’s be honest, no one reads those joint communiques." He said.

  If this happens, it will be the first time since the G7 Summit was held in 1975 that a joint communique cannot be issued.

  Zhao Yongsheng, director of the French Center for Economic Research in university of international business and economics and professor of finance, who is currently doing research in France, told the First Financial Reporter: "For western European countries, the most fundamental issue is trade and climate, but both of them will turn Europe and America against each other. I communicated with some of these officials and thought that the joint communique should not be issued this time because the parties could not reach a consensus. "

Trump visited Paris, France in 2018 Source: Xinhua News Agency

  Trump brings stress tests to G7.

  Judging from the current advance notice given by the US to Trump in France, the topics he wants to discuss have certain conflicts with other countries in the G7.

  Specifically, according to foreign media reports, senior US government officials said anonymously that Trump will attend the G7 summit in France from 24th to 26th, and will discuss the economic model promoted by the Trump administration through tax reduction and deregulation.

  The aforementioned US government officials said that Trump will discuss the US economic policy and the economic growth rate achieved, and compare it with Europe, where the current economic growth is stagnant.

  At the same time, Trump will also discuss with Europe, Japan and Canada how to open the market and increase the channels for American companies to sell goods and services.

  The official also said that Trump would also express his dissatisfaction with the French digital service tax to Macron and hold bilateral talks with the new British Prime Minister Johnson to discuss the US-UK trade agreement and the issue of Brexit.

  In this case, as mentioned earlier, Macron has reduced its willingness to issue a joint communique.

  He said that he himself had stayed up all night to catch up with the publication of the joint communique, but the wasted time could have been better used to formulate strategies. He will hold more "useful" and informal "closed-door meetings" so that leaders can discuss key issues more closely.

  At the same time, France has also set the theme of this session as "Combating Inequality".

  Judging from the agenda of this meeting, France has tried its best to avoid contradictions. Etien, foreign affairs adviser to the French President, said in an interview with China Business News: "Our work should focus on the achievement of concrete results, such as the work in some specific areas, such as environmental equality, gender equality, Africa policy, basic medical services, equality in schooling, tax equality and cyber security."

  In this regard, Zhao Yongsheng commented to the First Financial Reporter: "As far as the theme of the conference is concerned, the French color is too strong. The most serious problem in the world today is trade, such as the trade friction between Japan, South Korea and Europe and the United States. As the group of the most developed countries in the West, G7 should take trade as the theme of the meeting. Now France does not discuss the most important things, but finds an anodyne theme. "

  Zhao Yongsheng analyzed: "the French is more tactful, for example, the theme should have been ’ Combating trade friction ’ , now changed to ’ Combating inequality ’ The theme itself is to reach some consensus. "

  "This summit is a good exhibition opportunity for Macron, and if it ends in discord, it will be very unfavorable for France," Zhao Yongsheng added, "because ’ Yellow vest ’ The movement has basically subsided, and the French economy is also improving. In the second quarter of this year, only France has achieved positive growth in several major European economies, so the G7 (for Macron) must succeed. "

  On the other hand, Trump’s behavior is still unknown. Su Qingyi, deputy director and associate researcher of the International Trade Research Office of the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the First Financial Reporter that Trump would not change his style at this French summit. He said: "Trump will only consider the interests of the United States and target all countries with a tough stance."

  From trade to digital tax, there are many differences between Europe and America in G7.

  Under the theme of tepid conference, great differences between Europe and America on trade, digital tax, climate, Iran and other issues are surging.

  In terms of trade, Trump once again mentioned the car tax recently, and accused the EU of always charging high prices to the United States, which made it difficult to deal with it. However, if the United States only levies a car tax on it, the EU will "give us anything we want. After all, they want to sell a lot of cars in the United States."

  At present, in the "232 investigation" report on imported cars and spare parts, the United States has determined that imported cars and spare parts threaten to damage US national security, and will start the next action around November 14.

  The EU is preparing for a low profile. Cecilia Malmstrom, the outgoing Commissioner of the EU Trade Commission, pointed out at a hearing at the end of July that if the US introduced punitive tariffs on European cars, the total value of US products involved in the counter-measures list prepared by the EU would reach 35 billion euros.

  Her statement this time nearly doubled the "20 billion euro scale list" revealed by the EU in February this year. She later explained to the media that this new counter-measure scale reflects the latest trade data. Mamstrom also admitted that the negotiations between the EU and the United States "have not made any progress."

  Digital service tariff is a thorny thorn between France and the United States. At present, Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on French wines. However, Macron has not backed down in this regard. At the press conference on the 21st, he continued to urge Washington to help reform the existing global corporate tax law, saying that American technology giants pay very low taxes, which is unfair and makes no contribution to common interests.

  "(Most of the technology companies operating in Europe) are registered in Ireland because of their geographical proximity. The tax rate levied by Irish companies is low, but the key point is that G7 is not sure about this issue, and Ireland is not a member of G7." Zhao Yongsheng explained to the First Financial Reporter, "Second, for the United States, Trump was not very happy last time. This time France can only mention digital tax."

  Zhao Yongsheng believes that the issue of minimum corporate tax rate and digital tax will not make much progress at this G7 meeting, because this issue is mainly aimed at Ireland and the United States.

  In addition, on the climate issue, Trump’s resistance attitude is also very clear. Not only did he withdraw from the Paris Agreement in 2017, but he simply did not attend the meeting on climate issues at the G7 Summit in Canada last year.

  Macron also admitted that he knew where the differences with the United States were. If a communique containing the Paris Agreement was written, President Trump would definitely not agree, which was meaningless.

  "Climate issues are the lifeblood of France and Western European countries, but the United States does not take this seriously at all." Zhao Yongsheng compared the attitude of Europe and the United States and said, "Why did the United States withdraw from the Paris Agreement? If we follow the European practice, the United States will not survive. Trump wants to reopen the coal mine because he wants to work. "

Yunnan net: See these key points first when the Division of Planting and Breeding of Chinese Medicinal Materials in Yunnan (2025-2027) is published!

Original title: [Yunxin Release] "Planting and Breeding Division of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Yunnan (2025— 2027) "These key points are released first!

On February 13th, the reporter learned from the press conference on the high-quality development of Chinese herbal medicine industry in Yunnan Province that in order to scientifically and rationally plan the layout, guide and guide all localities to give full play to their distinctive advantages in planting and breeding Chinese herbal medicines according to local conditions, and promote the high-quality development of Chinese herbal medicine industry in Yunnan, the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, together with experts and technicians from Yunnan Baiyao Group, Chinese herbal medicine expert group, provincial science and technology department, provincial natural resources department and other units, studied and formulated the "Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine planting and breeding division (2025— 2027) (hereinafter referred to as "Division"). The Division was jointly issued and implemented by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Provincial Bureau of Forestry and Grass, and the Provincial Department of Natural Resources on December 31, 2024. It was divided into four parts, which clarified the overall requirements, regional layout, planting and breeding models and main measures.

Clarify the overall requirements. With the requirements of scientific authenticity, policy compliance, market orientation and dynamic adjustment, Zoning adheres to local conditions, characteristic development, ecological guidance, green development, market leadership, integrated development, brand-driven, standardized development, scientific and technological support, and innovative development. Through the cultivation and breeding of Chinese herbal medicines, we will continue to improve and strengthen Yunnan’s authentic medicinal materials such as "Top Ten Yunyao" and "Top Ten Health Resources". We will further improve the coordinated development system of Chinese herbal medicine resources, varieties, seed industry, planting and primary processing in producing areas, enrich the ecological planting and breeding model, continuously improve the level of standardization, specialization and greening, make the supporting role of raw materials in the high-quality development of Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine industry more obvious, stabilize its industrial position, continuously enhance its supply, support and leading ability in international and domestic markets, keep the scale of Chinese herbal medicine planting and breeding the first in China, and build the most important high-quality Chinese herbal medicine producing area in China and the world. At the same time, "Zoning" plans to renovate and upgrade 8 Chinese herbal medicine resource nurseries (banks), build 88 improved seed breeding bases, identify 144 GAP bases, renovate and expand and build 250 primary processing points (processing while fresh), build 1 national germplasm resource nursery and 1 provincial Chinese herbal medicine seed and seedling quality testing platform.

Delineate the regional layout. According to the land space planning, land change survey results, the advantages of social and economic development and the industrial base of Chinese herbal medicines, the regional planting and breeding layout of Chinese herbal medicines was carried out according to the five regions of central Yunnan, northeast Yunnan, southeast Yunnan, southwest Yunnan and northwest Yunnan. According to the physical and geographical characteristics, breeding status, development advantages and future potential, the main varieties are arranged according to key varieties and characteristic varieties; Among them, the key varieties are Yunnan’s "Top Ten Yunyao" and Yunnan’s "Top Ten Health Resources", as well as authentic medicinal materials with obvious advantages in breeding scale, yield, output value and development potential. Characteristic varieties are mainly regional specialty medicinal materials with distinctive characteristics, obvious advantages and short supply and demand. Through zoning, a total of 50 main varieties of Chinese herbal medicines in 4 categories have been planned and developed, and they have been refined to counties (cities, districts).

Innovative breeding mode. According to the requirements of keeping the red line of cultivated land, ensuring food security and stabilizing the scale of planting and breeding, "Zoning" explores and innovatively puts forward four ecological compound planting and breeding models of "under forest, garden, general cultivated land and four sides in one hospital" to scientifically and reasonably expand the scale of non-agricultural land planting. First, Chinese herbal medicines under the forest. Make full use of more than 70 million mu of forest land space in the province, and develop three-dimensional planting and breeding of Chinese herbal medicines under the forest and imitation wild planting and breeding. The second is Chinese herbal medicine in the garden. Make full use of more than 30 million mu of garden space in the province to develop ecological cooperative cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines in the garden. The third is the general cultivated Chinese herbal medicine. Make rational use of general cultivated land and develop cooperative cultivation and breeding of grain and medicine. The fourth is a courtyard with four sides. Combined with the construction of green and beautiful rural areas, we will vigorously develop courtyard economy, make full use of farmers’ courtyards, fields, fields, ditches and roadsides, and develop a small scattered and large centralized "one courtyard and four sides" planting and breeding model in key production areas.

Implement safeguard measures. The first is to strengthen the support of seed industry. Promote the construction of modern and industrialized multi-channel breeding system, improve the coverage rate of improved varieties, and set up a new variety evaluation and identification Committee. The second is to do a good job in green planting and breeding. Accelerate the green ecological planting and breeding such as under-forest, imitation of wild and intercropping, and accelerate the construction of green, organic and GAP bases and the use of traceable labels. The third is to do fine processing. Strengthen the infrastructure construction of primary processing (while fresh processing) in producing areas, improve the processing capacity and level of producing areas, and cultivate and expand a number of primary processing (while fresh processing) enterprises in producing areas. The fourth is to implement the service system. Strengthen the construction of modern industrial technical service system for innovative Chinese medicinal materials, and establish and improve the acquisition system for Chinese medicinal materials that takes into account the needs of stability and protection. (Reporter Gao Wei)

Volvo is recalling some XC90 and S90 long-wheelbase vehicles

  China News Service, May 19, according to the website of the General Administration for Market Regulation, recently, Volvo Car Sales (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Daqing Volvo Car Manufacturing Co., Ltd. filed a recall plan with the State Administration for Market Regulation in accordance with the requirements of the "Regulations on the Administration of Recall of Defective Automobile Products" and the "Implementation Measures for the Administration of Recall of Defective Automobile Products". Decided to recall the following vehicles from July 1, 2021, a total of 85 vehicles.

  (1) Volvo Car Sales (Shanghai) Co., Ltd

  Recall the 2017-2020 imported XC90 vehicles produced from April 15, 2016 to May 18, 2020, a total of 82 vehicles.

  (2) Daqing Volvo Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

  Recall three domestic S90 long-wheelbase vehicles from May 5, 2018 to August 21, 2019.

  For vehicles within the scope of this recall, due to design reasons, when there is liquid on the display screen of the rear seat control module, the module may detect an incorrect continuous touch signal. When the user calls up the seat adjustment interface in the rear seat control module, if there is liquid on the control module display screen and the user attempts to adjust the front passenger side seat, the front passenger side seat may be moved to the limit position. If the liquid is still present, it may not be possible to use the screen to re-control, resulting in the front passenger side seat control may be cancelled. In extreme cases, when the front passenger side seat is moved to the limit position, the person in the rear seat may be stuck and cause injury, which poses a safety hazard.

  Volvo Car Sales (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Daqing Volvo Car Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will upgrade the rear seat control module software for vehicles within the scope of the recall free of charge to eliminate safety hazards.

  Emergency response measures: Before the vehicle is recalled and the software is upgraded, the user should confirm that there is no liquid on the surface of the control module display before adjusting the position of the front passenger seat through the rear seat control module.