Interpretation of Beijing Household Appliances Trade-in Policy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  6. How to sell old household appliances?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hong Kong flavor "Edge Walker" is released, and Yang Yang Zhao Lusi’s double A martial arts "Try the World" is broadcast tonight.

On April 15th, the action crime suspense film "The Marginalist", produced by iQiyi Film, directed by Huang Ming Shen and starring Richie Jen and Yam Tat-wah, was released in the mainland. As the only Chinese-language Hong Kong film recently, "The Marginalist" is undoubtedly the focus of many fans’ eyes. This film starts from the background of the special era on the eve of Hong Kong’s return to China, and exposes the story of shocking political conspiracy through undercover police investigating gang drug trafficking.

Up to now, The Marginalist has a total box office of 43.19 million, with 1.16 million people watching movies, ranking second in the box office list last week. According to the lighthouse forecast, the final box office in the mainland will be 50-60 million.

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The business rate of national cinemas continued to decline in May 1st blockbuster melee.

-It is reported that there are 9 movies released in May 1st. Among them, there are three movies scheduled for April 29th, namely, the comedy movie Keep You Safe, the romantic movie I really hate long-distance relationships and the imported movie League of Bad Guys. There are five movies scheduled for April 30th, namely, the drama movie Hello Brother, Hello Beijing, the animated movie I am Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Awakening of the Mini World and the crime movie The Prosecutorial Storm. The romantic movie "Meeting You" is scheduled for May Day.

     According to the statistics of Cat’s Eye and National Film Bureau, as of 17th, there were 5,497 cinemas in operation nationwide, and the operating rate of cinemas nationwide was 45.67%. Compared with the same period of last month, the number of operating cinemas in China decreased by 1,505, and the operating rate of cinemas decreased by 6.89%. Over the past month, the number of cinemas in the country has changed gradually, with no big ups and downs, but it is difficult to restore the previous grand occasion. Last month, the media predicted that the influence of Qingming archives might continue to May 1st archives. Judging from the present situation, the cinemas of May 1st archives may still be extremely deserted.

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"Try the World" broadcasts Yang Yang Zhao Lusi’s interpretation of Jianghu Sadism.

-Adapted from the novel of the same name by Qingyue, a large-scale costume martial arts drama "Try the World" directed by Yang Xiaopei and Fang Fang, and starring Yang Yang and Zhao Lusi will land on Tencent video tonight (April 18th). The drama mainly tells the story of the peerless Feng Lanxi (Yang Yang) and Bai Fengxi (Zhao Lusi) in absolute beauty. This is Yang Yang’s re-appearance in costume drama after "Wu Dong Gan Kun" in 2018. From the posters and trailers released by the play, we can see that Yang Yang’s costume is very consistent with the description of Fenglanxi in the original work, which is "black dress and ink moon, peerless elegance". In addition, this is the first time that Zhao Lusi, who has the title of "a sweet sister of online drama", has appeared in S+ martial arts drama, and "Try the World" is likely to become her transformation work.

     In addition to starring, the main lineup of the play is also in line with Tencent’s S+ puppet configuration. Director Yin Tao once directed costume dramas such as Under the Golden Clothes and Glory of Datang. The supporting cast is also very luxurious, with ZhangFeng yi, Carman Lee and Xuan Lu and Wayne of the new generation also playing important roles in the play.

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Tencent’s "New Travel Notes" VS Mango’s "Desired Life Season 6" S+ Reality Show Game

-Recently, the official announcement of Tencent’s video live-action travel observation variety "New Travels" was finalized. The program was directed by Yan Min, the director of Extreme Challenge and Deyun Douxiao Club, and six guests including Wang Yanlin, Ruoyun Zhang, Z.TAO, Kenny Lin, Yun-peng Yue and Chen Feiyu participated in it. It was broadcast on Tencent video every Saturday and Sunday from April 16th. "New Travels" is Tencent’s first S+ variety show this year, which will show the audience the human travel completed by six guests in 21 days. Judging from the first episode, "New Travels" is not the first live-action travel observation variety show, which is similar to the previous live-action travel show "Five Ha" of iQiyi. Both programs show the audience the experiences of several guests traveling around and making money by themselves. But the difference is that the creative source of New Travels is The Journey to the West.

     Another long-awaited life variety show "The Sixth Season of Desired Life" was also officially announced recently, and will be broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV from April 29. What remains unchanged is the guest lineup, which is still attended by Huang Lei, He Jiong, LAY, Peng Yuchang and Zifeng Zhang. What has changed is that the desire of the mushroom house family to go to the seaside has finally been realized. The program will explore the harmonious coexistence between man and nature and experience the interweaving of dreams and reality.

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Douban goose group was stopped.

—— On April 14th, Douban officially issued a penalty announcement on further strengthening the special action of "rice circle" chaos control. According to the announcement, in order to cooperate with the special work of "rice circle" chaos and create a clear online discussion environment for bean friends, seven problem groups, including Douban Goose Group, Douban Talent Appeal Group, 18th Floor Parenting Custody, 18th Floor Candy-Time Youth Group, were suspended. It is understood that the Douban Goose Group is the largest group in Douban, with 600,000 users.

     Previously, Douban successively dissolved or deactivated a number of problem groups. On March 22nd, 15 problem groups, including the antique grocery stall and the database on the 18th floor, were dissolved. In September, 2021, Douban Tea Room, Douban Orange Group and Youth You Group were shut down.

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Youku released the online cinema list "The Snake 3: The Battle of the Dragon and the Snake" in March, ranking first with 27.57 million points. 

—— On April 15th, Youku officially released the box office list of online movies in March. The top five on the list are The Serpent 3 Battle of the Dragon and the Snake (27.57 million), The New Truant, Wei Long (15.59 million), The Secret Record of Xieling (10.89 million), Cang Lang’s Special Battle Assault (10.47 million) and I’m not a Dionysian (9.89 million).

     The monster film "The Serpent 3: Battle of the Dragon and the Snake" directed by Lin Zhenzhao and starring Emily and Luo Liqun tells the story of prehistoric monster disaster caused by human overexploitation of nature. This film topped the box office of Youku in March, and it is also the highest solo film in 2022.

Geely Star Wish not only satisfies your transportation needs, but also conquers you with a smile!

Have you been paying attention to the car market recently? During this period of time, the car market has been quite lively, and various brands have launched their own new cars. Today, we will talk about a pure electric small car that Geely has just announced the pre-sale price, especially its exterior design and interior layout, to see how Geely has created an excellent visual and tactile experience in a highly competitive market.

Let’s talk about the appearance first. The body size of Geely Star Wish is 4135mm/1805mm/1570mm, and the wheelbase is 2650mm, which creates a vibrant and lovely styling beauty. Looking at the interior, Geely Star Wish adopts a double-spoke double-fight color, and the grip is relatively comfortable. The large-size LCD instrument panel and floating central control screen have a clear visual experience and convenient operation interface, making it easy and pleasant to drive a small car.

And Geely Star Wish’s strength is far more than that. It is equipped with an integrated electric drive system with a maximum power of 58 kW and 85 kW respectively, which is ready to rush forward at any time. And the CLTC pure electric cruising range is 310km and 410km, which is completely sufficient for daily transportation.

All Star Wish models come standard with independent suspension, an 11-in-1 smart electric drive, a Ningde era battery, and a Flyme Auto smart cockpit. These are Geely Star Wish’s hardcore strengths, just like its inner beauty, which cannot be ignored. On Geely Star Wish, you can’t see the grandiose decoration, only solid technology and attentive details.

With its smiling front face and droplet-shaped light set, large space in the same class, and high-level performance configuration, Geely Star Wish has added new vitality to the pure electric small car market, telling a story about aesthetics and technology. It is not just a car, but a manifestation of life attitude, a pursuit of beautiful things.

300,000 SUV has not sold well, how can Lantu sell 600,000 MPV?

Original, Wang Shuaiguo, Economic Observer

Landmap Dreamers are facing a much narrower MPV market, and there are a large number of luxury and joint venture competitors competing for the market cake. In this context, can Landmap Dreamers really "realize their dreams"?

Author: Wang Shuaiguo

Seal picture: official website picture

Lantu cars are "desperate" on the road to high-end. When the first car, Lantu FREE, was far from opening the market, a second car, Lantu Dreamer, was launched.

The Landscape Dreamer is an MPV, and its pre-sale price is beyond many expectations. The pre-sale price of the seven-seat version is 380,000 yuan – 480,000 yuan, and the pre-sale price of the four-seat version is 600,000 yuan. The new car is expected to be officially launched in the second quarter, and deliveries will start as soon as July.

380,000 start, up to more than 600,000 yuan, has never before had any independent brand models can be sold to such a high price range.

It is well known that Landu’s first car, Landu FREE, is targeted at medium and large SUVs, which is a relatively popular market, but even so, Landu FREE did not sell well.

In contrast, Lantu Dreamers faced a much narrower MPV market, and there were a large number of luxury and joint venture competitors competing for the market cake. Under such a background, could Lantu Dreamers really "realize their dreams"?

The product route is questionable

Before the Dreamer, Lantu Auto launched its first model, Lantu FREE, in June last year. The car is positioned as a performance-level intelligent electric SUV, focusing on high-end configurations such as extended-range power and air suspension. It is the first self-owned brand passenger car model of Dongfeng Motor Group priced more than 300,000.

Landmap officials are full of confidence in the first car. However, the market performance of Landmap FREE did not meet expectations, and sales continued to decline shortly after its launch. From December 2021 to February 2022, the delivery of Landmap cars fell from more than 3,000 to more than 700. In March, the delivery of Landmap cars rebounded to 1,400. After half a year on the market, the cumulative delivery volume was barely over 10,000. In addition, Landmap has not yet released the delivery data for April.

The reason is that Dongfeng Motor Group has always lacked the genes to build a high-end brand, and Lantu’s own brand positioning is vague, which has made Lantu FREE cold in the popular SUV market. As a comparison, the same as the extended-range electric SUV, the ideal monthly delivery volume of ONE reached the highest 10,000 units, and even the sales volume of Cyrus, which was not optimistic before, exceeded 3,000 units in March and April. Lantu FREE became a de facto "loser".

Just as the first model, Lantu FREE, had not yet established itself, Lantu cars rushed into the MPV field, which made the industry question its product route. There are even opinions that Lantu’s move is to "change the track".

In this regard, Lantu Automobile CEO and CTO Lu responded on Weibo on the second day of the Dreamer’s pre-sale in early April, proposing that there are many pain points and needs in the domestic MPV market, including consumers’ high requirements for low-carbon travel and intelligence; consumption upgrades, the demand for multi-person travel brought about by changes in China’s family structure; most MPVs in the market have safety hazards, and the driver’s seat and second row comfort are not enough.

"We are both enterprises and users, we understand these pain points and needs, and we want to provide solutions," Mr. Lu said.

"Landmap believes that the market needs a travel product that can reflect the corporate image, but also comfortable and safe enough to meet the needs of reception, commuting and business trips, and provide a full-scene comfortable experience. However, in the current market, there is no MPV that is truly comfortable and safe, and even most MPVs cannot reach the passing line." At the same time, with the emergence of more and more families with two and three children, the requirements for vehicles for family travel are also getting higher and higher. However, when cars and SUVs have fully entered the era of intelligence and electrification, MPVs are still stuck on the traditional fuel platform of the last century.

Based on this judgment, Landmap Dreamer targets its audience at "high-end business people who pursue low-carbon travel and new backbone who pursue technology and comfortable family travel experiences".

According to Lantu officials, Lantu Dreamer started pre-sale on April 7, and as of April 9, orders have exceeded 3,000 units. Compared with Lantu FREE, which received 3,689 orders in 43 days, the development prospects of Dreamer seem to be better.

Some of the orders received so far have made Lantu Auto have positive market expectations for Dreamers. "We are full of confidence in sales, and at the same time, we also pay more attention to the user experience than sales. The advantage experience of smart electric vehicles compared with traditional fuel vehicles is completely out of date. We look forward to exploring and leading this consumption trend with consumers who embrace smart electric technology," said the above-mentioned Lantu insider.

Crowded MPV market

Whether the MPV market is a new blue ocean that is about to break out, or whether the market is still a small marginal field, there has been controversy in this industry.

The development of the domestic MPV market has experienced a trough in recent years. Public data show that since 2017, domestic MPV sales have continued to decline. By 2020, the annual sales volume has only 1.054 million, only 40% of 2016.

This is not unrelated to the decline in the overall domestic auto market. However, the continuous decline in the willingness of young people to marry and have children has also become an important driving force for the decline in sales of MPV models with large space and high fuel consumption. However, based on the rise of the domestic middle class and the emergence of consumption upgrades, as well as the introduction of the national "three-child policy", some industry experts believe that the MPV market, especially the mid-to-high-end MPV market, is about to explode.

Zhou Lijun, president and chief analyst of the Easy Car Research Institute, said that in 2020, the increase in demand for the domestic car market has accounted for 60% of the total consumption, and this trend will accelerate in the future. Because the main group of people buying cars in the Chinese market is not young people, but middle-aged people with old and young people, especially those with two children at home, they will be more suitable for buying MPVs.

In 2021, there have indeed been several waves of MPV models coming together in China. For example, at the Chengdu Auto Show held at the end of August of that year, GAC Toyota, Dongfeng Yueda Kia (now renamed Kia Automobile) and Beijing Hyundai launched three joint venture brands, Saina, Ka Hua, and Kusitu. Three fuel MPVs were launched at the Guangzhou Auto Show in November. At the same time, Lantu Dreamer, SAIC MAXUS MIFA 9, and Hechuang Automobile’s electric MPV concept car Concept-M.

Driven by these new models, domestic MPV model sales in 2021 stopped falling and rebounded. According to data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China’s MPV sales reached 1.055 million in 2021, an increase of 0.09% year-on-year. However, the results of 1 million cars only accounted for 4.02% of the country’s total automobile sales, and MPVs were still on the edge of the automobile market.

From January to March this year, the cumulative sales of domestic MPV models 204,000, down 7.8% year-on-year. During the same period, the sales of cars and SUVs rose by 8.4% and 10.4% year-on-year respectively, and the MPV market does not seem to be showing signs of breaking out. Some market participants said that in the case of the epidemic affecting the income of ordinary people, compact cars and SUVs are once again sought after by consumers, and the sales prospects of high-end cars and large cars are not ideal.

In the narrow MPV track, Lantu dreamers want to cut their way through the cracks of strong opponents such as Buick GL8 and Toyota Saina. Whether it is "courageous" or "reckless" is also full of controversy.

600,000 yuan worth of "Mystery Confidence"

For many years, the mainstream price range of independent brand models is concentrated below 300,000 yuan. More strictly speaking, below 200,000 yuan is the mainstream price range of independent brands. But in the past two years, with the rise of independent brands and the emergence of new energy high-end brands, prices have gradually developed upward.

For example, the high-end brands represented by Geely Lynk & Co and Great Wall Wei brand broke into the price range of more than 200,000 yuan. And the new energy brands represented by NIO and Ideal have further broken through the high-end market above 300,000. Some models have exceeded 500,000 yuan, such as NIO ES8 to 600,000 yuan, Lynk & Co 09 also reached 400,000 yuan.

Lantu brand is also one of the new brands that follow the trend of independent brands to develop new energy high-end, and it also has the impulse of brand upward and price upward. But from the pre-sale price of Lantu Dreamers, 380,000 yuan starts to 600,000 yuan, not only does it have a large price span, but compared with the price of Lantu FREE 313,600-373,600 yuan, it is almost "leap-up", and there is a huge price gap between the two. Therefore, what does Lantu Dreamers use to support their worth of 600,000 yuan?

There is a view that the pre-sale of Lantu Dreamer for 600,000 yuan is just a symbolic meaning, highlighting the brand height, and the real volume is the model in the 400,000 yuan range. But even so, Lantu Dreamer still has many difficulties in convincing consumers to pay. Its first task is how to convince consumers not to choose Buick GL8, Toyota Saina, or Mercedes-Benz V, Lexus LM, but to choose an independent electric MPV.

From the perspective of product hard power, the length, width and height of the Landscape Dreamer are 5315mm, 1980mm, 1810mm, and the wheelbase is 3200mm. As a comparison, the above four parameters of the Buick GL8 ES Lu Zun are all smaller than those of the Landscape Dreamer. Therefore, in terms of interior space, the Landscape Dreamer is slightly better. However, the larger size also increases the difficulty of turning and parking for the Landscape Dreamer.

In terms of power, the Lantu Dreamer, like the Lantu FREE, adopts an extended range and pure electric dual-power layout. The extended range version adopts the 1.5T four-cylinder extended range internal combustion engine developed by Dongfeng, with a maximum power of 185 horsepower and a total power of 395 horsepower for the front and rear axle motors. The dual-motor pure electric version has a total power of 435 horsepower and a 100-kilometer acceleration of 5.9 seconds. The Buick GL8 ES Lu Zun uses a 2.0-liter inline four-cylinder turbocharged engine with a maximum power of 237 horsepower. In comparison, the power parameters of the Lantu Dreamer comprehensively surpass the Buick GL8.

In terms of chassis performance, the Lantu Dreamer is equipped with an aluminum alloy front double wisharm, rear five-bar linkage, and adaptive air suspension chassis. The 2022 Buick GL8 ES Luzun uses a front-enhanced McPherson suspension and a rear four-bar independent suspension chassis system. In contrast, it is clear that the front and rear suspension configurations of the Lantu Dreamer are better, and due to the presence of air suspension, the Lantu Dreamer has better vehicle passage and convenience of getting on and off the vehicle (the vehicle chassis can be adjusted from the ground).

In terms of technology selling points, Lantu Dreamer focuses on air suspension, CDC (continuous shock absorption control system) and "magic carpet function". The "magic carpet function" refers to the vehicle’s ability to use intelligent technology to monitor and analyze road conditions in advance, give real-time feedback and adaptively buffer shock absorption. Officials claim that this function is "superior to luxury brand MPV models such as Lexus LM and Mercedes-Benz V-Class".

In addition, Lantu Dreamer also has zero-gravity wide-fit seats, three-zone smart air conditioners, baby-grade skin-friendly fabrics, Danah sound system and other configurations, 26 intelligent driving auxiliary features, ECALL collision intelligent rescue system and OTA upgrade functions for the whole vehicle. In this regard, the 2022 Buick GL8 ES Lu Zun is also rich in configuration, and the two seem to be on par.

The above-mentioned Lantu automotive insider told the Economic Observer Network that compared with the existing luxury MPVs on the market, Lantu Dreamer has built its core competitiveness of "electrification" and "intelligence".

In terms of electrification, Landmap Dreamer is the world’s first dual-power new energy MPV. Among them, the pure electric version solves the licensing problem in first-tier cities, and the super-extended range version completely eliminates mileage anxiety while bringing pure electric quiet experience and low fuel consumption. In terms of intelligence, Landmap Dreamer is built on ESSA’s native intelligent electric architecture, the world’s first Gigabit 5G vehicle network, and has L2 + level intelligent driving assistance capabilities.

Overall, with multiple advantages such as size, power, and chassis configuration, Lantu Dreamer has abandoned the low-price strategy used by its own brands in the MPV market, and adopted a breakthrough strategy of competing with luxury and joint venture models with the strength of the whole vehicle. In other words, Lantu wants to "redefine the high-end luxury MPV".

But the problem is that the good reputation and inherent image accumulated by Buick GL8, Mercedes-Benz V-Class and other models in the market for a long time are like an insurmountable wall. It is not easy for Lantu dreamers to bypass or break this wall.

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Original title: "300,000 SUV has not sold well, how to sell 600,000 MPV?"

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[CCTV Review] It is difficult to take a taxi, and it is expensive to take a taxi. What is the problem with online car-hailing?

  CCTV News:Recently, "it’s hard to get a taxi, but it’s expensive" has become a hot topic in Moments. Many people complain that it has become difficult to get a taxi through online ride-hailing platforms such as Didi during morning and evening peaks and even many traditional off-peak hours. To increase the probability of a successful ride-hailing, you often have to increase the price. Some people even changed the slogan of Didi’s taxi to "Didi, increase the price immediately". Let’s see what everyone has experienced:

  Beijing resident Xiong said that two days ago, she refreshed her taxi waiting time: for more than 70 minutes, whether it was through Didi and other platforms to call a car or stop a car on the side of the road, it was unsuccessful.

  Xiao Liu recently gave up taking a taxi directly. She felt that the Didi platform did not force the delivery of orders, so some drivers did not accept orders when they heard that they did not want to go, or they had to increase the price when they waited. This actually made it convenient for drivers to choose to "refuse".

 

  According to netizens, not only Beijing, but also Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and other places have recently encountered the problem of "difficult and expensive taxi hailing" that has not been mentioned for a long time.

  @He said his name was Millet: Tell me a real story, last night the company’s annual meeting ended around 10:30, when the Didi platform had already turned to 2.x times. The starting price of the express train was 20 to 48, and no one took the order without increasing the fare of the taxi. The increase of 15 yuan took the order. It usually took more than 50 yuan to get home on the road of five or six kilometers. It was already half past eleven!

  @Ma Chujun: Shanghai’s Didi taxi is the same as neurosis recently. Not to mention that you can’t get a car, you must increase the price to 100 for the usual 40 yuan journey before someone can take the order. You are going to heaven!

  @Chanshowhaa: There are obviously n taxis nearby, but it shows that the taxis are no longer available. You have to make an appointment 50 minutes later! At this time, the screen directly pops up the express button and increases the price by 1.6 times! Consumers are not stupid!

  Didi responds: Changes in supply and demand make it difficult to take a taxi

  In response, Didi responded that from the background data of Didi, drivers went home early this year and their capacity declined. In two hand-drawn charts on "Didi online driver data" and "Beijing order demand", it can be seen that compared with January 10, the number of online drivers decreased by about 25% on January 20, while the number of travel orders rose by 30% over the same period.

  However, many people disagree with such a response. Drivers go home every year for the Chinese New Year, not because of the phenomenon of online car-hailing platforms. If it is difficult to get a taxi every year around the Spring Festival, then now with online car-hailing platforms, it is not only difficult to get a taxi, but also have to bear high prices. Is this kind of online car-hailing really what we need?

  CCTV Review

  The online car-hailing price increase model is to a certain extent "disguised price increase"

  In the face of netizens complaining that it is difficult and expensive to take a taxi, it needs to be discussed from multiple levels.

  First of all, people complain that taxis are expensive, and there must be an implicit sentence: "regular price" taxis are not available. The market price of online taxi-hailing is liberalized, and the price of cruise taxis is regulated, but the price of online taxi-hailing is being transmitted to cruise taxis.

  It is not difficult for careful people to find that when the vast majority of cruise taxis connect to ride-hailing platforms such as Didi, there are fewer and fewer taxis that are really empty for recruitment. The price of online car-hailing, especially for short-distance online car-hailing, has actually made taxi prices "marketized" to a certain extent because of the "fare increase model". In other words, taxi prices have been hidden and risen! From a practical point of view, this is at odds with the relevant regulations of "government-guided prices for cruise car freight".Through platform technology, you can bypass the hearing to achieve disguised price increases? You can hear the ups and downs of public opinion here. If so, this requires regulatory efforts. Technology cannot become a disguised price increase vest, and Internet ? taxis cannot become Internet ? money.

  Whether it is related to the dominance of the platform requires the regulatory authority to verify and act as

  Secondly, from the perspective of economic principles, it is difficult and expensive to take a taxi for two reasons. One is the shortage of supply, and the other is the artificial price increase caused by monopoly. If it is only the relationship between supply and demand, it is obviously difficult to fully explain why there will be price increases during off-peak hours to get a taxi.

  The dominance of the current online ride-hailing platform is well known. An article on the Internet has pointed out that the recent difficulty of hailing a taxi and the high cost of hailing a taxi are also inseparable from the "dispatch order logic". Under the Didi dispatch order logic, the mentality of taxi drivers who connect to Didi to stand still and wait for passengers to continuously increase their tips is common. The end result is that passengers repeatedly increase the fare to get a car, wasting time and money while damaging the efficiency of passenger transportation. If this statement is consistent with the facts, the difficulty and high cost of hailing a car are related to the dominance of the online ride-hailing platform. This also requires regulatory action.

 

  What should I do if solving the "travel difficulty" does not mean solving the "taxi difficulty"?

  Once again, in the long run, the cost and difficulty of taking a taxi may only be superficial. The core of the problem should be how to solve the travel problem.

  Public: Hope taxi is convenient, cheap and smooth

  From the perspective of the public, of course, I don’t want it to be difficult to get a taxi. The perfect travel in the eyes of a taxi driver is probably: taxi, cheap, not congested, and free (free access to the market for online car-hailing). But this is an "impossible quadrilateral" that cannot be realized simultaneously with a plump ideal and a sense of reality. The existing traffic pattern of the city is not a blank sheet of paper, the urban network cannot be optimized in a short time, and the use intensity of private cars cannot be compressed. Under such constraints, the free entry of online car-hailing, the car price is low, but the "smooth road" is likely to be more congested; conversely, if you want to ensure the smooth road, you need to implement quantity control of cars or increase the cost of car use through market-oriented means, and either situation will make the taxi driver blocked.

  Manager: Limited road resources, prioritize the development of public transportation

  In the eyes of local government officials and road traffic managers: online car-hailing is a new thing that is conducive to social development, but the limited road resources of the city cannot withstand the public taking a taxi to travel, and the priority development of public transportation is the focus of development; online car-hailing and taxi prices will only over-mobilize the demand for taxis. In short, taxis and online car-hailing are only and can only be supplements to urban public transportation. It is under this logic that the Ministry of Transportation’s "Interim Measures for the Management of Online Booking Taxi Business Services" calls for the orderly development of online car-hailing in accordance with the principles of high-quality service and differentiated management, and only then can Beijing "give full play to the leverage of freight rates to adjust the supply and demand relationship of the taxi transportation market".

  However, if this logic is true, the price increase of high-end online car-hailing is naturally in line with economic laws, but even if the taxi price increases, it should be realized after going through legal procedures, that is, it needs to go through the hearing process. It is not possible to use technical means or the so-called dispatch logic to essentially empty the procedural justice.

  Hitchhiking and carpooling need the help of online car-hailing platforms

  Finally, from the experience of Japan and other countries, although the number of private cars is high, the use intensity is not high. While developing public transportation, there is room to improve the use efficiency of private cars, which itself requires online car-hailing platforms to assist.

  Beijing and Shanghai have no restrictions on ride-sharing and carpooling, and these two forms that truly reflect the spirit of sharing actually have a lot of room for development. This is also to help solve the problem of travel difficulties by improving the efficiency of use under the condition that the stock remains unchanged.

  Otherwise, from the perspective of the situation of cruise taxis, the online car-hailing platform will not only fail to solve the problem of difficult and expensive taxis, but also may not be able to improve the efficiency of passenger transportation (if the order is logical). Instead, it will bring about an increase in taxi prices. The benefits of such online car-hailing to society are really limited. Because people can’t help but ask, what do you need an online car-hailing platform to do? Don’t go directly to the street to stop a car and try your luck! 

  Article | CCTV Commentary Contributor, Noyama

Brigitte Lin is expected to make her 101st film, escorted by Wong Kar Wai and Bai Xianyong

  Lin Qingxia, who has been out of the movie for nearly 15 years, is finally expected to make a comeback under the escort of the famous director Wang Jiawei? Yesterday, it was reported that Lin Qingxia will star in the movie "Eternal Yin Xueyan" adapted from the works of the famous writer Bai Xianyong, which will be directed by Wang Jiawei.


  However, Hong Kong Zedong Company told this reporter yesterday that there is no news of the filming plan of "Eternal Yin Xueyan", and "The Grandmaster" is confirmed to be expected to lead. As for whether Lin Qingxia will star in the film, Zedong only said that "the two sides have contact", but the exact list of actors "will be announced in about June".


  Discuss a comeback with friends for dinner


  About 14 years ago, Lin Qingxia announced her retirement after starring in Wong Kar-wai’s film "Eastern Heretic Western Poison", which happened to be her 100th film work. After Lin Qingxia retired from the film, people have been speculating about when she will return, but the signs are becoming more and more obvious.


  A few days ago, Lin Qingxia, dressed in green clothes, was found in Hong Kong eating hot pot with Wong Kar-wai, Leung Chaowei, Lau Ka-ling and friends such as Zhang Shuping, Dillon, Tao Minming, etc. Many media speculated that this was Lin Qingxia’s warm-up for her comeback film. The film is based on Bai Xianyong’s famous film of the same name "Eternal Yin Xueyan". It is understood that Wang Kar-wai had tentatively asked Leung if he would like to star not long ago, and Leung Chaowei replied very bluntly: "You shoot and I will act."


  It is also reported that Lin Qingxia’s friends also confirmed: "Bai Xianyong’s works are mostly written about the upper class of Taipei in the 1950s and 1960s, and the characters are mostly generals, official wives, and famous ladies. It just so happens that she is familiar with it, and it is also the era when Wang Jiawei is good at filming. Therefore, she decided to have the director go to Taipei to ask the meaning of the great writer."


  The comeback conditions have been basically achieved


  Of course, to invite Lin Qingxia back, the conditions are not low. It is reported that when Lin Qingxia attended the film festival in New York last year, she expressed her intention to return to the film industry, but for her to return to film for the 101st film, she must have representative and challenging works, including people she trusts such as art director Zhang Shuping, and friends such as Tao Minming, Wang Jiawei, and Bai Xianyong as consultants to choose suitable scripts.


  Therefore, among the many directors who hope to invite Lin Qingxia out of the mountain, Wang Jiawei has the best chance of winning. In fact, at the end of last year, Wang Jiawei and Tony Leung were found to be eating with Lin Qingxia. And on the 5th of this month, Zhang Shuping and Tao Minming also appeared in the dinner of this group, which is in line with Lin Qingxia’s previous request.


  Adding to the credibility of the news, Mr. Wong was photographed in Taipei last month having dinner with Mr. Bai for the first time. As he left, Mr. Wong praised himself for having grown up reading Mr. Bai’s books. "His works are an important memory of our generation," so he was accused of discussing a comeback.


  "The Grandmaster" is expected to take the lead


  However, in addition to "Eternal Yin Xueyan", it is also reported that Wong Kar-wai is also interested in inviting Lin Qingxia to play the heroine in the upcoming film "The Grandmaster". This was admitted by Wong Kar-wai at the end of last year. Since then, it has been reported that Wong Kar-wai has dispatched the "golden combination". In addition to Leung Chaowei playing Bruce Lee’s master Ip Man, he is more interested in asking Jay Chou to play Bruce Lee, in order to convince Qingxia to take over the first heroine.


  In this regard, the reporter contacted the Hong Kong Zedong Company yesterday, and the person in charge responded to the news of Lin Qingxia’s appearance in "Eternal Yin Xueyan": "If there is any, the company will notify me, but I have not heard of this news." As for whether Lin Qingxia will be cast in "The Grandmaster", the person in charge said: "All the actors will not be confirmed until the start of filming, and the full list will be announced in June." However, the person in charge also admitted that Wong Kar-wai and Lin Qingxia did have contact for this.


  Reporters have learned that "Eternal Yin Xueyan" is expected to be filmed in 2010. It is reported that Lin Qingxia will go to Taiwan early next month to deal with personal affairs, and it cannot be ruled out that she will meet Bai Xianyong.


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  "Eternal Yin Xueyan" is a short story in Bai Xianyong’s famous novel "Taipei People". The story tells the story of Yin Xueyan, a dancer who was once popular in Shanghai Paramount, who moved to Taiwan with her husband after getting married. Unexpectedly, after her husband arrived in Taiwan, his business failed miserably, Yin Xueyan divorced him and resumed her old business, and the Yin Mansion where she was located soon became a paradise and nostalgic place for the upper class in Taiwan to meet new friends, thus exposing the decadent life of the upper class in Taiwan at that time. New Paper Reporter | Mao Zhongyuan | Text

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The dance of "Subject III" in China Art Newspaper became popular, which gave a thought about network communication.

Recently, the dance of "Subject III" has become popular online and offline, and more and more people are attracted by it, which makes the dance quickly change from "dirty" and "questioned" to popular in many places and even attract attention abroad.

The dance of "subject three" rose in Guangxi earlier. Why is it called "subject three"? There is a network saying that every Guangxi person has to go through an exam in his life. If it is likened to driving test, then "subject one" means singing folk songs, "subject two" means talking about powder, and "subject three" means dancing, so the dance had the network name of "subject three in Guangxi" in its early days.

The author believes that the four characteristics of "Divine Comedy", minimalism, "open source" and platform have jointly contributed to the popularity of "Subject III" dance.

First, the adaptation of Divine Comedy makes dance and music complement each other. The classic BGM (background music) of "Subject III" dance is "Laughing at the Rivers and Lakes" (DJ version). The style of this song expresses a kind of heroism, optimism and self-confidence in the face of setbacks and failures, encourages everyone to face setbacks bravely and frankly, and inspires people’s courage and lofty sentiments. The DJ version of the music is lively and dynamic, and with the opera singing method, the lively and joyful atmosphere is quickly created between the music, which is easy to arouse the emotional resonance of onlookers.

Second, the minimalist action catalyzes innovation. Every movement of this dance is very simple, and ordinary people can master it after practicing several times. In addition, dancers can innovate anytime and anywhere, without special knowledge reserves and professional training, and zero-based fans can also arrange new moves. According to rough statistics, dozens of dance versions of "Subject III" have appeared on the vibrato platform at present, and they are still growing.

Third, "open source" is versatile and ever-changing. The performance threshold of "Subject III" dance is extremely relaxed, which provides a friendly "open source" environment for subsequent scene changes. As far as the number of performers is concerned, the dance can be performed by a single person or by a group of people. As far as the performance scene is concerned, the dance has low requirements for the performance location. As far as performance assistance is concerned, the dance can be adapted to a variety of costume props. As far as the performance effect is concerned, the movements are concise, smooth and large, especially with the constant change of the photographer’s angle of moving the mirror, the road show of this dance has a strong visual impact and shock. As far as the performance content is concerned, under the fierce competition of short video content and the situation of "involution", various creators have "crossed the sea" and "opened their brains wide" and rushed to release creative short videos, adding various storylines on the basis of dance, in order to win the valuable "second-level" attention of the audience.

Fourth, the short video platform enables sustainable development. The short video platform, represented by Tik Tok, integrates advanced digital technologies such as big data and virtual reality, integrates many resources such as finance, technology and culture, and opens the way for the production, dissemination and realization of Internet content. This unicorn-style head platform provides a warm soil and appropriate opportunities for the popularity and continuous popularity of the "Subject III" dance.

Of course, there are also some negative voices around the dance of "subject three" Some people think that the artistic value of this dance is low, even vulgar; Some people think that the dance is "too corny" and "spicy eyes"; Others think that such dancing movements may bring some health risks, such as spraining ankles. Such comments are not uncommon, but it is undeniable that such a dance has indeed "harvested" a considerable number of audiences, and has continued to circle in the network tide, and has continued to maintain or even increase its popularity. In the face of this cultural phenomenon, let’s take a cautious and discerning attitude towards it, and get valuable experience and methods through the analysis of removing the false from the true and discarding the bad, so as to provide experience reference and enlightenment for the creation and dissemination of other art categories.

In the current Internet era, although the online literary field presents the development trend of Qian Fan’s competition and a hundred flowers blossom, it also exposes some problems, such as the short life cycle of some literary works, and even "seeing death"; Some literary and artistic film and television works are applauded in the industry, but the market response is flat, and there is an embarrassing phenomenon of applauding and sitting upside down; Although some traditional excellent cultural works still have market competitiveness, they are limited by the lack of appropriate communication channels, which hinders their communication. In view of this, the continued popularity of "Subject III" dance may provide some solutions to the above problems.

There should be both upward intention and downward brushwork in creation. Since ancient times, excellent literary works must be upward and sublimated, which is consistent with people’s pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty. Low conception is like unstable foundation and broken roots, even with superb creative skills or gorgeous rhetoric, it can’t make it have classic characteristics. With a good idea, how to show it? This requires a downward stroke. Literary and art workers should often go deep into the lively scene, explore the first-hand materials, and carry out accurate screening, deep processing and classic empowerment to create excellent literary and artistic works with both local flavor and vitality.

In expression, we should constantly update the "thesaurus version" to adapt to the current context in time. Literary and artistic creators should first realize the necessity and importance of keeping pace with the times, then follow up in time, study moderately, master skillfully, and finally integrate, digest and absorb according to their own creative characteristics, so as to narrow the psychological distance and physical distance between their works and young people, thus increasing the audience depth of literary and artistic works.

In communication, we should constantly be compatible with new media and inject surging power into the spread of literary and artistic works. In the digital age, the digital platforms represented by Tik Tok, Aauto Quicker, Xiaohongshu, Bili Bili, etc. have shown strong advantages of being late-comer. They are extremely fast in spreading, easy to enter the threshold, and low in cost. They are rich in content, low in cost, convenient and simple, and quick to realize. They are quietly and rapidly changing our way of life and production. Faced with this trend, literary and art workers should also know the situation in time, change their development ideas, adapt to the new digital track, learn relevant successful experiences, start from imitation, accumulate in exploration, improve in resumption, become bigger and stronger in innovation, and inject strong impetus into the spread of literary and art works with the unique advantages of digital platform.

The price of Volvo XC60 in Yancheng has been greatly reduced! The reserve price is 289,500 yuan, this time only.

The latest news of Yancheng car home preferential promotion channel, luxury SUV is in progress. As a highly regarded model, the price reduction of Volvo XC60 is surprising. In Yancheng area, you can enjoy a maximum discount of 132,400 yuan, and the minimum starting price is 289,500 yuan. If you are interested in this model, don’t miss this excellent opportunity. Please click "Check the car price" in the quotation form to get a higher discount.

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Volvo XC60 is a luxury SUV, and its design is full of modernity and elegance. The front face design of this car is very unique, adopting the iconic Volvo family design language, such as the straight waterfall air intake grille and the sharp "T" headlight group, which makes the whole car look very exquisite. The body lines are smooth, and the overall style is simple and luxurious. In addition, the side of XC60 also adopts a unique "origami" design element, which makes the body more stereoscopic. At the same time, the rim of XC60 is also very attractive, and a variety of styles are available, which adds a sense of movement to the vehicle. Generally speaking, the design of Volvo XC60 is very attractive, full of modernity and luxury, and it is a leader among luxury SUVs.

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Volvo XC60 is a medium-sized SUV with a body size of 4708*1902*1660 and a wheelbase of 2865 mm.. The lines on the side of the car are smooth, showing an atmospheric and steady style. The front tread is 1653mm, the rear tread is 1657mm, the front tread is 235/60 R18 in tyre size, and the rear tread is also 235/60 R18 in tyre size. The car’s tire size and rim style are excellent, providing the driver with excellent handling performance and stability.

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The interior design of Volvo XC60 is simple and elegant, with high-quality materials and fine craftsmanship, creating a luxurious and comfortable driving environment. The steering wheel is made of genuine leather, which makes it feel comfortable. At the same time, it supports manual adjustment up and down and back and forth, so that drivers can easily find the driving posture that suits them best. The central control screen has a size of 9 inches, supports the speech recognition control system, and can realize the control of multimedia, navigation, telephone and air conditioning functions. The front and rear rows are equipped with USB and Type-C interfaces, which is convenient for passengers to charge and connect devices. The seat is made of imitation leather. The front and rear adjustment, backrest adjustment, height adjustment and lumbar support are supported by the main and co-pilot seats. At the same time, it also has the functions of heating and electric seat memory. The rear seats support proportional tilting, providing passengers with more storage space. Generally speaking, the interior design of Volvo XC60 is both practical and comfortable, and it is a luxury SUV worthy of consideration.

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The Volvo XC60 is powered by a 2.0T 250 HP L4 engine with a maximum power of 184 kW and a maximum torque of 350 N m.. This engine adopts advanced technology and has excellent performance and excellent fuel economy. At the same time, it is also equipped with an 8-speed automatic gearbox, which makes driving smoother and more comfortable. The outstanding performance of this engine provides Volvo XC60 with strong power and excellent acceleration performance, and also ensures the fuel economy and low emissions of the vehicle.

In the evaluation of the owner of car home, we saw her high praise for the design of Volvo XC60. As she said, the design of XC60 is very attractive, with dynamic appearance lines and a sense of stability and atmosphere. The streamlined design of the body gives people a delicate feeling, while the handling of details is also full of modernity. It can be said that the design of XC60 is very successful. In addition, XC60 has excellent performance and comfortable driving experience, plus luxurious interior and rich configuration, making it a very popular medium-sized SUV. If you are looking for a car that can meet the needs of daily commuting and weekend travel, Volvo XC60 is undoubtedly a good choice.

Create a secure and safe competition atmosphere | Beijing Winter Paralympics uses medical technology to protect the struggle and help athletes realize their dreams.

  CCTV News:The National Stadium Paralympic Ice Hockey Competition entered the final stage of medal competition. Outside the stadium, the most advanced medical care and technology are guarding the dream of every paralympic athlete. Recently, CCTV reporters from the General Station approached the medical team of the National Gymnasium. Let’s follow the reporter’s lens to explore these medical technologies that protect the health of athletes on the field.

  Before the competition began, the medical staff of the National Gymnasium were conducting a system connectivity test on individual medical equipment. Through this equipment, the real-time high-definition images of medical treatment in the stadium can be transmitted to the medical terminal of Beijing Winter Paralympic Games.

  Once the emergency button of individual equipment in the venue is triggered, at the medical system terminal of BOCOG, more than 200 experts from more than 20 hospitals will conduct online and offline real-time consultation on emergencies at any time.

  In the medical control room of the National Gymnasium, the situation of the stadium, clinic and ambulance is displayed on the big screen in real time. During the Games-time, based on 5G high-speed transmission technology, all venues including Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, as well as the Medical Center of Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, have realized real-time sharing of medical resources and first aid information.

  In addition to the telemedicine system created by the 5G signal, on the ambulances equipped in each venue, the latest medical equipment is also helping medical workers to race against time and grab the prime time for treatment. In the ambulance, the reporter saw that in addition to the negative pressure device to meet the epidemic prevention needs, the car was also equipped with ECG monitoring device, defibrillator and tracheal intubation equipment. Different from the large-scale equipment with the same function in the hospital, the biggest feature of all these equipment is light weight and convenience.

The universe we live in is just a holographic projection?

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In the past few decades, with many of us spending a lot of time online, the real world seems to have become wider. However, in one field of theoretical physics, the situation seems to be developing in the opposite direction. In the past twenty years (although this article was written in 2009, it is still worth reading), string theorists have been discussing the view that the time and space we live in, including ourselves, may be just an illusion.Holograms produced by "some reality". And this reality lacks a key feature of the world we perceive: the third dimension. Professor Juan Maldacena of Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies has played a decisive role in the development of the idea of holographic principle. In the 1990s, Marda Sina proposed the first implementation.Cosmological model of holographic principle. Recently, he was interviewed by the author during his visit to Cambridge.
The holographic principle originated from one of the biggest scientific problems in the 20th century:There is incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics..
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Einstein discovered thatTime and space are inseparable.He called the structure formed by the two space-time. His general theory of relativity points out that space-time itself willDistorted by a massive objectAnd gravity is the result of this distortion. It’s like putting a billiard ball on a trampoline, which will create a depression and make the nearby marbles roll into it; Similarly, massive objects (such as planets) will bend space-time and attract nearby objects by their gravity. According to Einstein, gravity is not something that propagates through space, but is caused by the geometric structure of space-time itself.
general theory of relativityThe main description isPlanets and galaxiesThe world, and quantum mechanics mainly focuses on the subatomic scale, that is, the basic particles that make up matter. At this scale, the mass is so small that gravity can be ignored. Quantum field theory is a quantum mechanical description of particle physics, which holds that elementary particles transmit force through messenger particles called gauge bosons:One elementary particle transmits force to another particle by sending some gauge bosons..
Figure 1. Huge objects distort space-time.
In the development of the 20th century, electromagnetic force, weak nuclear force and strong nuclear force are the four basic forces.Messenger particleAre all in the experimentBe observedYes. In order to maintain theoretical consistency, Einstein’s theory should also be able to be rewritten with similar messenger particles. Physicists willGravitational messengerParticles are calledgion(graviton), but we haven’t found its trace yet. Even more frustrating, tryingUsing quantum field theory to describe graviton meetinglead toinsignificance/meaninglessThe answer. Marda Sinar said: "Simply quantizing gravity is not feasible, which will lead to mathematical inconsistency. We need something new. "
So far, a much-anticipated new quantum gravity theory has not been discovered. A strong competitor isString theory, or "string theory family"-because string theory is actually a set of logically self-consistent.A collection of theories. The core point of string theory is to put the basicParticles are regarded as tiny vibrating strings.This provides a way for us to bypass the mathematical problems in simple quantum gravity. As a mathematical theory that has attracted many theorists with its beauty, the disadvantage of string theory is that it has not been given.A complete description of the worldMany physical quantities cannot be described yet. In addition, string theory has not been verified by experiments, and it can’t be verified in fact. However, it is string theory that provides Marda Sinar with a clue to solve the mystery of quantum gravity: regard gravity as an illusion produced by quantum holograms.
Figure 2. Quantum mechanics describes the subatomic world well.
The contradiction between general relativity and quantum mechanics will not bother most practical applications. What physicists usually study isLarge-scale worldHere it is.The quantum effect is not obviousOr a small-scale world, where particles are lighter and gravity has less influence. However, in a special case, the conflict between the two theories becomes particularly obvious: when a large amount of mass is concentrated in a small area of space, a black hole will be formed.. The gravity produced by a black hole is so strong that even light cannot escape.Therefore, when studying black holes, we can’t ignore the influence of gravity. At the same time,The small scale of black holes also means the existence of quantum effects.. Therefore, in order to explain the phenomena in black holes, we really need a unified theory of quantum gravity.
Black holes are the original holographic principle.Theoretical sources. They have a boundary that cannot be returned, which is called the event horizon. Once you cross this boundary, you will be sucked into the black hole and never escape. When you fall into a black hole, a lot of information will disappear with you. This information includes not only your DNA and one or two best ideas, but also countless combinations of blood cells in your veins and all the confused thoughts in your mind. However, in the world of black holes, things look much simpler. Classical physics assumes that nothing can escape from a black hole, and thinks that a black hole can be used only.Three messagesTo fully describe:Its qualityelectric chargeandspin velocity. Therefore, when you fall into a black hole, all the information needed to describe you will be sucked into these three parameters of the black hole-your fall makes the universe a little simpler.
Figure 3. A simulated black hole with the background of the Milky Way.
This reduction in complexity usually worries physicists because it violates one of the most basic laws of physics:second law of thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics shows that things will never get simpler. The total amount of information needed to describe a system is measured by a physical quantity called entropy. In classical physics, entropy is defined for thermodynamic systems, such as melting ice under the sun. Classical entropy measures the degree of heat (or energy) dissipation in a system.
However, energy is related to excited atoms (in ice, water molecules are arranged in a fixed lattice in order, while in liquid water, they move around), so entropy is also a standard to measure the disorder of the system. The disorder degree of the system is related to information: the periodic arrangement of water molecules in ice crystals can be described in one sentence, but for liquid water, you need to provide the exact position of each molecule, which involves a lot of information. Therefore, entropy is related to both thermodynamics and information.
The second law of thermodynamics shows that,Entropy will never decrease.. Under thermodynamic conditions, this means that the system will strive to reach the equilibrium state of complete energy dissipation. In the context of information, this means that things will not automatically become simpler. From the classical point of view, a black hole is not a hot object, and it is very simple to describe, so there should be no entropy. When you fall into a black hole, your positive entropy will become the zero entropy of the black hole, whichViolation of the second law of thermodynamics.
When this potential problem is noticed, some physicists can only accept the fact that the second law of thermodynamics may not be as basic as we thought. However, one physicist, Jacob Bekenstein, was unwilling to give up easily. In 1972, Beckenstein discovered the relationship between entropy and the properties of black holes discovered by Stephen Hawking. Hawking has been thinking about the horizon of a black hole. The event horizon wraps a certain space volume like an egg shell-it is a surface, and you can measure its area. Hawking has proved that,The horizon will never shrink.No matter what you do or put into a black hole, the area of the horizon will only increase, just like entropy.
Figure 4. The second law of thermodynamics paves the way for the holographic principle.
This analogy with thermodynamics was initially thought to be purely coincidental, but Beckenstein put forward a controversial explanation: "Beckenstein thinks you can putThe area of event horizon is regarded as a kind of entropy., "Marda Sina explained. "The idea was not clear at first, but when Hawking discovered that black holes couldquantity of radiant energy(now known as Hawking radiation), this idea became more clear. In other words, black holes are hot objects, so they must have entropy. "By combining Beckenstein’s original idea with Hawking radiation, we can calculate that the entropy of a black hole is indeed equal to the area of a black hole measured in a certain length scale-Planck unit. Because Planck unit is very small, soEntropy of black holeIs a considerable value. Although the black hole occupies the three-dimensional volume of space, its information content seems to be a feature of its two-dimensional event horizon.
You may think that black holes are very strange things, but physicists Gairal Us’ t Hofter and Leonard Susskind went one step further, and they considered those in ordinary space areas.information content. Whether it is the pages of books, neurons in the brain or photons transmitted through optical fibers on the Internet, information exists in physical form. This physical form involves energy. Since energy is equal to mass (recall Einstein’s E = MC), compressing information into a limited area of space is equivalent to compressing mass into it. If you try to put too muchQuality/information is compressed into it.You will get a black hole, so the information content in the limited space of non-black hole is limited. Hofter and Susskind calculated this limit, and found that it is measured in the same way as a black hole, which is measured by the surface area of the regional boundary.
Marda Sina said: "This may sound very simple and naive, but in all our other descriptions of the world, variables increase with the increase of volume. For example, if we want to describe the electromagnetic field in a space, we will divide the volume into many parts and describe the electromagnetic field of each part. " If you double the size of the area, you should also double the number of partitions, so the information required for your description should also be doubled. According to this intuitive idea, information should increase with the increase of volume, not with the increase of area as described by holographic principle. If the holographic principle is correct, then the three-dimensional method of our physics is wrong. We should be able to use a simpler version of physics, one that depends on area rather than volume. This leads to a puzzling question, that is, whether the third dimension really exists, or whether it is just an illusion, just like a three-dimensional image created in a hologram.
So far, no one has found an accurate formula to describe the two-dimensional version of physics in our three-dimensional world. However, in 1995, Susskind redefined string theory centering on holographic principle. Then in 1997, Juan Marda Sinar, who was only 29 years old, put forward a concrete description of the first holographic universe in history.
Marda Sina’s universe is not completely in line with the universe we actually live in: it is amodelA "toy" universe has its own complete set of physical rules. Because all the physical phenomena that occur in it can be defined by only.Physical theory on the boundaryTo describe, so this toy universe is aholograph. More importantly, in this universe, the problem between gravity and quantum mechanics has been completely solved: the theory defined on the boundary is pure quantum, which does not contain gravity, but the creatures living in it can still feel gravity. In this universe,Gravity is only part of the hologram illusion..
In order to understand the toy world of Marda Sina, we need to understand the world of map making first. In order to show the sphere on a flat piece of paper, we need to cut the sphere and flatten it, which will inevitably introduce some distortion. In the traditional Mercator projection of the earth, this distortion is the most serious near the poles. When you look at the map, Greenland looks as big as Africa, but in fact it is more than 14 times smaller. Besides, if you project the shortest path from London to Sydney on the map, you will get a curve instead of a straight line. On a map like this,A straight line does not correspond to the shortest path..
Figure 5. Mercator projection of the earth. The red disks actually have the same area, but their different sizes on the map illustrate the distortion of the map.
MC escher’s famous woodcut "Circle Limit III" shows a two-dimensional map of Marda’s Sina universe. Similar to Mercator projection, there are some distortions here. In escher’s map, the shortest route between two points is not a straight line connecting them, but an arc intersecting with the boundary circle of a disk at right angles.
Fig. 6. The Circle Limit III by MC escher. The shortest path is shown in white.
If you use this new metric to measure the size of fish, you will find that, contrary to their appearance, they don’t get smaller and smaller as they approach the boundary circle, but they are actually equal in size. Just as travelers walking on the surface of the earth will not realize the distortion shown by Mercator projection, people living in this so-called hyperboloid world will never notice any distortion in the size of fish. More importantly, in order to reach the boundary circle, the hyperbola must pass through an infinite number of copies of fish of the same size. In other words, it will have to span an infinite distance. For hyperbola, the boundary circle is infinitely far away.
Unlike a hyperboloid map, a "real" hyperboloid can hardly be drawn because it is severely distorted. Hyperbolic surfaces have what mathematicians call negative curvature. The small area of this "plane" looks like a saddle: along one direction, they look like the peak of a ridge; In the other direction, they look like the bottom of the valley.
For external observers like us, this strange two-dimensional world has an interesting feature: although according to new metrics, theirThe scope is infinite.But we can see their boundaries-this is exactly what we need to apply the holographic principle, which describes the interior of the space area according to the boundaries. In Marda Siner’s model of the universe, he used the three-dimensional simulation of hyperboloid plus the fourth dimension of time to form a model called anti-sitter space, which was named after the Dutch physicist William de Sitter.
Anti-de Sitter space is completely different from the world we actually live in.Where time and space are distorted in strange ways, but this does not prevent us from creating a set of physical rules for it. What you need is something.basic concept, such as elementary particles and forces, and the mathematical laws describing their interaction. Marda Sinar used a version of string theory to describe the physical phenomena in his model universe. As you remember, string theory includes quantum mechanics and gravity, so creatures living in Marda Sinar’s model universe will feel gravity in a way similar to ours.
Figure 7. A holographic universe
Marda Sinar’s key discovery is that the string theory describing the interior of the universe leaves a "shadow" on the boundary of the universe: you can define a quantum field theory on the boundary, so that every elementary particle in the interior has a corresponding particle on the boundary, and every interaction between elementary particles in the interior exactly corresponds to the interaction between boundary particles. Now you can completely describe it with the theory of boundary, for example, the action of throwing an apple inside. This means that you can even completely ignore the inner world without losing any information-this world is a real hologram.
From the point of view of quantum gravity, the key point is that the boundary theory is a quantum theory of particle physics that we are very familiar with, which is very similar to the theory used to describe the process of subatomic particles in nature. They only involve small scales, so they don’t include gravity. However, the quantum theory on this boundary can completely describe the mysterious quantum gravity theory in the internal world. This is the first time that we can completely describe a quantum spacetime.
So far, Marda Sina’s modelIt’s just a model. We don’t know whether the universe we live in is a hologram, and we still don’t have a consistent quantized description of gravity applicable to our world. The assumption of negative curvature in Marda’s Sinar model is very important, but our universe shows a slight positive curvature in the observation results. Marda Sina said: "We don’t know if there is a similar description in the case of positive curvature. People are exploring various ideas, but we don’t have a complete answer yet. "
But if it turns out that the holographic principle really applies to the world we live in, what will it mean? Does this mean that we and time and space are just an illusion? "Yes, you can say that we are an illusion or an emerging phenomenon," said Marda Sina. If we live in such a universe, then we are actually an approximate description in a sense. But this is not a new concept in physics. Take the lake as an example. It looks like a well-defined surface on which insects can walk. But if you look at it with a powerful enough microscope, you will find that there are molecules moving around and there is no clearly defined surface. For time and space, the situation may be similar. It is not clearly defined in absolute sense, but we are too big to realize it. Like insects on the lake, our eyes for observing the world are too rough to reveal the true nature of time and space. Ignorance is bliss. Although it is endless fun to discuss the philosophical aspects of things, from the perspective of daily practice, weWhether you live in a hologram or not may not matter.. "
However, for Marda Sina himself, does he really believe that the holographic principle is true? He responded: "Well, I regard this idea as a model, but it is a model that gives a complete mathematical description of quantum spacetime. Therefore, we should take it seriously until someone refutes it or comes up with a better idea. "
Author: Marianne Freiberger
Translation: K.Collider (
Revising: Xiao Cong
Original link: The illusory Universe
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