Weekly developments: Regulations on Export Control of Dual-use Items in People’s Republic of China (PRC) promulgated; Gree establishes auto technology company (October 13th-19th)

Since this week, the Regulations on Export Control of Dual-use Items in People’s Republic of China (PRC) have been promulgated; Shanghai issued a three-year action plan to promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements; Slanjihong’s 8-inch SiC power device chip manufacturing production line will be connected in Q3 next year; From January to September, China’s automobile production and sales exceeded 20 million vehicles; Gree establishes automotive technology company in Shanghai …

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The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission deployed and built a pilot platform for new materials.

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the Guide for the Construction of Pilot Platform for New Materials (2024-2027), focusing on the key common technologies of short-board material breakthrough and cutting-edge material innovation, aiming at supporting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into industrialization capabilities, supporting and guiding local governments to carry out pilot platform construction and capacity improvement for new materials, solving the problems of insufficient overall layout, low construction quality and insufficient service support of pilot platforms in the field of new materials in China, and creating a number of high-level pilot projects.

The "Construction Guide" proposes to focus on the strategic needs of accelerating new industrialization and building a manufacturing power, focusing on key short-board materials related to national security and economic construction, leading the frontier materials of emerging industries and future industrial development, focusing on key common technologies with obvious "by analogy" effect and strong industry progress, and determining key areas for the construction of pilot platforms for new materials.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Vigorously develop humanoid robots, brain-computer interfaces, 6G and other new fields and new tracks.

On October 14, the State Council held a press conference to introduce the situation of increasing assistance to enterprises.

Wang Jiangping, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will issue implementation opinions to promote future industrial innovation and development, and vigorously develop humanoid robots, brain-computer interfaces, 6G and other new fields and new tracks. At the same time, support enterprises to build an "upgraded version" of intelligent manufacturing, focus on the application of intelligent manufacturing technology in typical industries, and gradually cultivate a number of intelligent factories with basic, advanced, excellent and pilot levels.

Map Technology Review Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources: More than 400 advanced assisted driving maps have been reviewed.

A few days ago, Wang Wei, deputy director of the Map Technology Review Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said that since the establishment of the Ministry of Natural Resources in 2018, more than 400 high-level assisted driving maps have been approved. In the first half of this year, 11 map vendors provided daily average location services for trillions of times, and the total daily average navigation service mileage reached 4 billion kilometers.

Wang Wei said that the next step will be to coordinate development and safety, guide the safe application of self-driving maps in the intelligent networked automobile industry, promote the transformation and upgrading of the geographic information industry, provide rich data elements for the construction and high-quality development of digital China, and strictly adhere to the management bottom line of surveying and mapping geographic information in order to build a new security pattern.

Shanghai released a three-year action plan to promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements

On October 12th, "Shanghai Action Plan for Promoting the Transfer and Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements (2024-2027)" was released, and 6 actions and 18 tasks were implemented to further enhance the transformation efficiency of scientific and technological achievements.

The Action Plan proposes that by 2027, the turnover of Shanghai technology contracts will exceed 800 billion yuan; The cumulative contract value of scientific research institutions for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements reached 100 billion yuan, and more than 2,000 enterprises were transformed and incubated with scientific and technological achievements; Cultivate more than 100 concept verification centers, open innovation centers and technology transfer institutions with professional service level, outstanding operation mode and obvious demonstration effect, and attract more than 3,000 professional and compound technical managers.

"Implementation Plan for Promoting 5G Lightweight (RedCap) Penetration Action in Hubei Province" was released.

Recently, the "Implementation Plan for Promoting the Penetration of 5G Lightweight (RedCap) in Hubei Province" was issued, proposing "five enhancements" to promote the commercialization process of 5G RedCap in Hubei Province in a solid and orderly manner.

The "Proposal" clarifies five key tasks. First, it strengthens the foundation of standards and empowers industrial integration; The second is to strengthen network upgrade and support application requirements; The third is to strengthen technical research and improve adaptability; The fourth is to strengthen the promotion and application and create a demonstration benchmark; The fifth is to strengthen risk assessment and build security. In order to ensure the effective implementation of work tasks, three safeguard measures are put forward, including strengthening the implementation of responsibilities, security and personnel training.

Project dynamics

Hui Ke Mini-LED project and high-power chip heat dissipation and sealing project landed in Mianyang.

On October 18th, Hui Ke Co., Ltd. held a signing ceremony for the project investment agreement with Mianyang City. The Hui Ke Mini-LED project and the Hui Ke high-power chip heat dissipation and sealing test project with a total investment of 10 billion yuan settled in Mianyang.

The Mini-LED project in Hui Ke mainly produces high-end Mini-LED direct display modules and high-end Mini-LED backlight modules, which are widely used in the fields of displays, mobile phones, flat panels, car displays and so on. Hui Ke high-power chip heat dissipation and sealing test project products are widely used in the fields of semiconductor display, new energy, automotive electronics and communication technology, and are important supporting industries in the upstream of new display and automotive electronics.

Slanjihong’s 8-inch SiC power device chip manufacturing line will be connected in Q3 next year.

According to Xiamen Gongxin, the Slanjihong 8-inch SiC (silicon carbide) power device chip manufacturing production line project has recently entered the final stage of earthwork. The first phase of the project is expected to be initially put into operation at the end of the third quarter of 2025 and trial production in the fourth quarter.

Slanjihong’s 8-inch SiC power device chip manufacturing production line project has a total investment of 12 billion yuan, which will be built in two phases, of which the first phase project has a total investment of 7 billion yuan, and the annual output of 420,000 8-inch SiC power device chips is expected to reach 6.7 billion yuan. After the two phases are completed and put into production, the annual production capacity of 720 thousand 8-inch SiC power device chips will be formed. On June 19th, 2024, the Slanjihong 8-inch silicon carbide power device chip manufacturing production line project started in Xiamen.

The first phase investment was 5.9 billion yuan, and the industrialization project of CRRC medium and low voltage power devices was completed and put into production.

On October 17th, the first phase of CRRC low and medium voltage power device industrialization (Yixing) project with an investment of 5.9 billion yuan was completed and put into operation in 18 months.

It is reported that the CRRC low-voltage power device industrialization (Yixing) construction project started pile foundation construction at the end of May last year, and the main workshop was capped in December last year. After the completion and commissioning of the CRRC medium and low voltage power device industrialization (Yixing) construction project, the annual production capacity of 360,000 pieces of 8-inch medium and low voltage component substrates can be increased (the production capacity of infrastructure and public facilities is 720,000 pieces/year).

Enterprise dynamics

ByteDance model training was attacked by interns? People familiar with the matter said that it did not affect the big model of bean bags.

Recently, it was reported that the large-scale model training of a head factory was invaded by interns and damaged code was injected, which made its training results unreliable and may require retraining. It is said that more than 8,000 cards have been injected into the hacked code, and the losses may exceed 10 million dollars. It is rumored that the intern took advantage of the vulnerability of HF(huggingface) and wrote destructive code in the company’s shared model, which led to the training effect of the model fluctuating and unable to produce the expected training effect.

According to informed sources, the big factory is ByteDance, and the descriptions of "injecting more than 8,000 cards" and "losing tens of millions of dollars" are untrue and too exaggerated; The affected business is not a big model of bean curd, but a model training task of commercial technical team, which affects some business progress of advertising department, but does not affect online business. At present, ByteDance has dismissed the intern, and informed the relevant industry alliance and the school where the intern is located.

Tesla Giga Shanghai delivered over 88,000 vehicles in September.

According to the data of the Association, Tesla Giga Shanghai delivered more than 88,000 vehicles in September 2024, up about 20% year-on-year. According to statistics, Tesla’s sales in China reached a new high this year with the achievement of over 72,000 vehicles, up 14% from the previous month and 66% from the same period last year. Among them, Tesla Model Y topped the domestic luxury car market with sales of more than 48,000 vehicles; Model 3 also sold more than 24,000 vehicles with a 32% quarter-on-quarter increase, ranking first in the luxury car market.

According to official Tesla data, in less than four years, Tesla Giga Shanghai has exported 1 million vehicles.

Core Bida completed a new round of financing of nearly 100 million yuan.

On October 14th, Wuhan Xinbida Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Xinbida") announced the completion of the A1 round of financing. This round of financing was led by Xinwei Capital, and investment institutions such as Optics Valley Financial Holdings participated together. The funds will be mainly used for the R&D and mass production of next-generation system basic chips (SBC), domain controller chips and driver chips, further enriching the company’s product matrix and strengthening the company’s market expansion. Core Bida pointed out that the new round of financing is nearly 100 million yuan.

Core Bida is a company specializing in the design of serial-analog hybrid chips for vehicle specifications, which was founded by a senior domestic automotive electronic chip research and development team. Core Bida follows closely the development trend of the new generation electronic and electrical architecture of smart cars, and its product line covers many key fields such as analog power chips, system-based chips (SBC), computing control chips and wireless communication chips.

After three years of establishment, Bose Quantum has completed five rounds of financing and won hundreds of millions of yuan in financing.

On October 15th, Beijing Bose Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Bose Quantum") officially announced the completion of several hundred million yuan of Series A financing, which is the fifth round of financing accumulated since the establishment of Bose Quantum more than three years ago. The financing was led by Qifu Capital, followed by Amoeba Capital, Yuanhe Capital and Infotek.

The financing will be mainly used in the following three aspects: first, the continuous research and development of coherent optical quantum computers and the formation of small batch production capacity; Second, the ecological construction of "quantum computing+"and the practical application of various industries; The third is to continue to invest in the research and development and layout of general optical quantum computer technology.

What are all-nutrient formula foods? This is rich in 35 kinds of high-quality nutrition!

During this time, I believe that the whole people are concerned about how to improve their resistance and reduce the impact of the epidemic on their health. For some elderly people with weak resistance, it is even more necessary to do comprehensive protection and pay attention to strengthening their physique. In addition to strengthening physical exercise, it is also very important to supplement nutrition in time. Many people ask about the full-nutrition formula foods suitable for the elderly. In fact, compared with general health care products, medical nutrition products such as Abbott Quanan are more suitable for the elderly who need to improve their resistance.

What are the total nutrition formula foods?? It is more reliable to choose this one!

Medical nutrition refers to the integration of medical and nutritional professional knowledge, through scientific and professional formula nutrition guidance, strict product quality inspection and a large number of clinical verification, to meet the nutritional needs of people with limited eating, digestive and absorption disorders, metabolic disorders or specific diseases for normal activities and growth.

In China, medical nutrition is also called formula food for special medical use. If you don’t know about formula food for special medical purposes, you can simply understand it as follows: special medical food is a kind of medical food that can supplement nutrition [1].

The reason why formula food for special medical use is more scientific, safer and more effective is because China’s food safety system has formulated a series of standards for formula food for special medical use, namely General Rules for Formula Food for Special Medical Use (GB29922-2013);). General Principles of Infant Formula for Special Medical Use (GB25596-2010);); Good manufacturing practice for formula food for special medical use (GB29923-2013)[2]. Only products that meet the above three standards can be called formula food for special medical use. The nutritional types and contents of special medical foods have been clinically verified and studied by experts, and the threshold is relatively high. Although general health care products can also provide some nutrients needed by the human body, they are definitely not up to the standard of medical nutrition.

Faced with the current situation of repeated epidemics, many elderly people will worry about whether it will increase the risk of infection after liberalization. Older people with physical diseases and poor immunity are more worried about the serious situation caused by infection. In fact, experts have testified that medical nutrition can play an important role in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19. Using scientifically matched medical nutrition formula can help the elderly to supplement comprehensive nutrition and improve their resistance. Abbott Quansu, as one of the registered and approved foods with full nutrition for special medical purposes, belongs to the category of medical nutrition.

What are the total nutrition formula foods?? Abbott is the best choice!

Abbott’s total safety contains not only three energy-supplying substances that can provide energy for body activities: protein, lipids and carbohydrates; It also contains a variety of vitamins and minerals necessary for the human body, as well as rich dietary fiber, with a total of 35 nutrients. Not only can it be used as a nutritional supplement for daily meals, but it can also be eaten as a single nutritional source.

For middle-aged and elderly people, people prone to digestive and absorption disorders such as chronic gastritis and malabsorption, Abbott Quansu contains three kinds of high-quality proteins, which can supplement balanced nutrition and use digestible protein and fat, so that the elderly can absorb nutrients to the greatest extent and reduce nutrient loss; At the same time, the dietary fiber derived from inulin and prebiotics in Abbott Quansu helps to maintain normal intestinal function and help the elderly maintain normal body function [3].

At present, the epidemic situation in China has not yet entered a stable stage, and all parts of the country have entered the peak of infection one after another. This winter is also a very difficult stage for many elderly people. During this period, the elderly need to keep warm and protect themselves. At the same time, they need to know what all-nutrition formula foods are, and start with some medical nutrients like Abbott’s Quanan, so as to supplement enough nutrition for themselves, so that their bodies can have better self-protection and stand more stably when dealing with external health threats.

References:

Wang Chunying, Li Xiaojun, Ma Yueying, Gong Hong, Feng Qian, Liu Yanmin. Analysis of the present situation of formula food for special medical use [J]. Agricultural products processing, 2018(21):63-67+70.

Han Junhua. Interpretation of General Principles of Formulated Foods for Special Medical Use (GB29922—2013) [N]. China Food News, 2014-09-02(008).

Wang Saibo, Cao Jun, Yuan Tianwen, He Yang, Zhou Xing, Peng Kong, Yan Bisong. Effect of high-calorie nutritional support on nutritional status and survival rate of patients with ALS after gastrostomy [J]. China Medical Guide, 2021,23(09):657-661.

To deepen the reform of economic system, we should grasp these three key points.

Since the beginning of this year, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province has issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Rapid and Healthy Development of Small and Micro Enterprises" to improve the business environment and help enterprises solve difficulties and increase efficiency. An Bofu Electric System Co., Ltd. mainly supplies joint venture automobile brands. Thanks to the good local business environment, this year, the company has newly accepted orders for the supply of wire harnesses for several brands of cars, plug-in hybrid vehicles and other models. The picture shows workers inspecting automotive wiring harness in the company’s production workshop. Photo by Huang Zhigang (People’s Vision)

  The Central Economic Work Conference proposed to deepen the reform of the economic system, including building a high-standard market system, accelerating the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, deepening the reform of the fiscal and taxation system, and accelerating the reform of the financial system. Experts pointed out that from high-speed growth to high-quality development, China’s economy is going through a "gear-changing period". To do a good job in the economic work in 2020, we should not only take "stability" as the priority, keep the economic operation in a reasonable range, but also deepen the reform of the economic system, so as to ensure the reasonable growth of China’s existing economy and a more qualitative and steady improvement.

  Building a high-standard market system

  The Central Economic Work Conference proposed to speed up the construction of a high-standard market system. How to understand the high standard market system?

  Hu Min, a researcher at the Central Party School (National School of Administration), said that building a modern economic system and achieving high-quality development is the strategic goal of China’s current development, which requires efforts to build an economic system with effective market mechanism, dynamic micro-subjects and moderate macro-control, and to build a high-standard market system, so as to completely get rid of the drawbacks that constrain the vitality of market subjects and hinder the full play of market and value laws, and build a more mature and stereotyped market system support for high-quality development.

  Many experts pointed out that the so-called "high standards" should be based on the fairness and openness of market competition. Wei Jianing, a researcher in the Macroeconomic Research Department of the State Council Development Research Center, believes that the next step should be to promote the transformation of industrial policies and emphasize fair competition in the market, so as to promote the transformation and upgrading of industrial structure. Hu Min also stressed that only by removing all kinds of regulations and practices that hinder unified market and fair competition can we ensure equal and fair opportunities for all kinds of market players to participate in the market, which is conducive to promoting enterprises to achieve survival of the fittest.

  To build a high-standard market system, we should also improve the protection system of property rights and intellectual property rights, strengthen the protection of business secrets of enterprises, promote the construction of factor market system, strengthen the basic position of competition policy, promote the development of advanced manufacturing industry, revitalize the real economy, improve the system and mechanism of scientific and technological innovation, and build a new open economic system with a higher level.

  Grasp the key points and carry out reform

  Petunia should lead its nose, and reform should also focus on the key points. The reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, the reform of fiscal and taxation system and the reform of financial system are regarded as the "bull nose" to deepen the reform of economic system.

  — — Accelerate the reform of state-owned enterprises and promote the optimization and adjustment of the layout of state-owned capital.

  State-owned enterprises have always been the "stabilizer" and "ballast stone" of the national economy. According to data from the Ministry of Finance, from January to November 2019, the total operating income of state-owned and state-controlled enterprises nationwide was 55,745.53 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%. Among them, the operating income of central enterprises supervised by SASAC increased by 5% year-on-year, and the profit growth rate was as high as 9%.

  Feng Qiaobin, deputy director of the Macroeconomic Research Department of the State Council Development Research Center, analyzed that the next step, the reform of state-owned enterprises should accelerate the transformation from managing enterprises to managing capital on the premise of strengthening supervision and preventing loss. We should focus on enhancing the vitality of enterprises and inspiring entrepreneurs to start businesses.

  — — Reform the management mode of land planning and deepen the reform of fiscal and taxation system.

  Perfecting legislation, clarifying powers, reforming tax system, stabilizing tax burden, transparent budget, improving efficiency and establishing modern fiscal system are the goals of current fiscal and taxation system reform. In the next stage, Feng Qiaobin believes that on the basis of consolidating the effect of tax reduction and fee reduction, we should speed up the reform of power and expenditure responsibility, speed up the improvement of local tax system, fully implement performance budget management, and optimize the structure of fiscal expenditure.

  — — Accelerate the reform of the financial system and improve the basic system of the capital market.

  Recently, a number of financial reform measures have been introduced. Experts stressed that the focus of deepening financial reform is still on unblocking the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. In the coming year, large banks should continue to promote the sinking of service focus, while small and medium-sized banks should focus on their main business and effectively alleviate the financing difficulties and expensive difficulties of the majority of small and medium-sized private enterprises.

  Optimizing Business Environment and Supporting Private Economy

  The Central Economic Work Conference put forward that it is necessary to improve the property right system and the market-oriented allocation of factors, improve the legal environment supporting the development of the private economy, and improve the policy system for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

  Achieving high-quality development is inseparable from the vigorous development of private enterprises and the vast number of small and medium-sized enterprises. Private economy has the characteristics of "56789" — — Contribute more than 50% of tax revenue, more than 60% of GDP, more than 70% of technological innovations, more than 80% of urban employment and more than 90% of enterprises.

  Since the beginning of this year, relevant favorable policies have been introduced one after another, offering "real money and silver" to private and small and medium-sized enterprises. According to China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission data, as of the end of the third quarter of 2019, the number of Pratt & Whitney small and micro enterprise loans with a total credit of 10 million yuan or less reached 20.864 million, an increase of 3.6316 million compared with the beginning of the year; The loan balance of small and micro enterprises nationwide was 36.39 trillion yuan, of which the loan balance of inclusive small and micro enterprises with a total credit of 10 million yuan or less was 11.31 trillion yuan, an increase of 20.81% over the beginning of the year.

  However, the improvement of the operating environment and financing environment of private and small and medium-sized enterprises was not achieved in a day, and efforts will be made again in 2020. Recently, in order to further improve the business environment, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued Opinions on Creating a Better Development Environment to Support the Reform and Development of Private Enterprises. The Opinions clarify that market access will be greatly relaxed in infrastructure, social undertakings, financial services and other fields, and barriers such as "glass doors" and "spring doors" will be broken to create a more level playing field. In addition, we should improve the direct financing support system for private enterprises, protect the property rights of private enterprises and the legitimate rights and interests of private entrepreneurs, and provide institutional guarantee for the development of private economy.

There was "Mo Mo Exploration" before and "Uki" after. Can the listing of Soul break through?

Editor’s Note: This article is contributed by a columnist, from Mantis Finance, by Chen Xiaojiang.

From 2016, Soul launched the APP, started commercialization in 2019, and then accelerated the sprint performance in 2020. Soul, a social platform for strangers who socialize with their souls, officially embarked on the journey of listing in the United States in 2021.

A few days ago, Soul formally submitted a prospectus to the SEC to apply for listing on NASDAQ. It is reported that the highest valuation of Soul can reach $2 billion. Compared with the market value of Momo, the head company of the track, which is 2.87 billion US dollars, whether the valuation of Soul is too high or not has become a hot topic.

In addition, with the publication of the prospectus, people have more knowledge about Soul, and their doubts have also increased accordingly. A series of old and new problems around Soul, such as burning money too fast, tight cash flow, the higher the revenue, the greater the loss, and former employees "fishing" to attack their opponent Uki, have also become hot topics of discussion at present.

Compared with the market and public opinion torture, Soul is still facing a more difficult legal lawsuit.

According to Xinhua Finance’s report on May 24th, Shanghai Niuka Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Uki) sued Shanghai Anyimen Technology Co., Ltd. (Soul) for unfair competition, and the case number was "(2021) Hu 0115 Minchu No.37860", and the subject matter of the case was 26.93 million yuan. At present, Soul has been frozen by 26.93 million yuan, and this may not be just a question of money.

Although listing is beautiful, for many enterprises, listing is also a life-and-death robbery-while enterprise information is open, it also faces torture and scrutiny from all sides. Soul is the same, and there are at least nine doubts about it.

First, burning money too fast, how can we solve our worries?

According to the prospectus, as of the end of the first quarter of 2021, the cash on Soul’s account was 475 million yuan. According to the rate of burning money in the first quarter of this year (471 million yuan), this money is only enough to burn for three months.

(Image from Soul Prospectus)

The problem of tight cash flow is not the first time Soul has faced it. According to the prospectus, as of the end of 2019, the end of 2020 and the end of the first quarter of 2021, the cash and cash equivalents held by Soul were 41.21 million yuan, 626 million yuan and 475 million yuan respectively. In the same period, the net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents was-353 million yuan, 585 million yuan and-151 million yuan respectively.

(Image from Soul Prospectus)

This shows that in the past two years, the money from Soul financing has been burned out continuously, and its net cash flow has been flowing out. How to avoid tight cash flow and leave more room for self-development is the first problem that Soul should think about.

Second, the more you earn, the more you earn. Is the business model working?

Behind the tight cash flow, it is related to the commercial realization path of Soul.

According to the prospectus, Soul has three sources of income: value-added services, advertising revenue and issuing virtual currency. At present, almost all of its income comes from value-added services, and the other two have limited contributions.

The data shows that by the end of 2019, the end of 2020 and the end of the first quarter of 2021, the income of Soul was 70.71 million yuan, 498 million yuan and 238 million yuan respectively, and the earning power has been increasing.

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But at the same time, its losses are also increasing, and the more losses, the more fierce.

In 2019 and 2020, Soul lost 349 million yuan and 601 million yuan respectively, while in the first quarter of 2021, it lost 410 million yuan, and accumulated a loss of 1.36 billion yuan in more than two years.

The more you earn, the more you owe to Soul. How to optimize the liquidation path and efficiency and improve profitability is the second problem to be solved.

Third, users are growing, but the retention rate is not high, and value-added services are not "value-added".

Due to the huge investment in advertising marketing, the number of Soul users has greatly increased since 2019.

By the end of 2019, 2020 and the end of the first quarter of 2021, its monthly users were 11.5 million, 20.8 million and 32.3 million respectively. The daily users are 3.3 million, 5.9 million and 9.1 million respectively. In the same period, the conversion rate of paying members also increased, but the growth rate slowed down, which were 2.3%, 4.5% and 4.8% respectively.

Although users are growing, the retention rate is not high. According to market statistics, the retention rate of Soul in the next month is only 16.17%, which is lower than 42.47% of exploration.

In addition, the number of users and the payment rate are increasing, but the problem of "earning much more thanks" is still unsolved, which also means that its value-added services are still not "value-added" for revenue.

Fourth, the soul has become stale, the number of payment checkpoints has increased, and advertisements and e-commerce have come together. Can we still have a good chat?

For social platforms, how to balance commercialization and platform atmosphere has always been a difficult problem.

For Soul users, going to Soul just wants to make friends. But for Soul, commercialization is the only way for a commercial company.

Since the commercialization of VAS value-added services was launched in 2019, Soul has also increased its advertising business in the third quarter of 2020, and launched the Giftmoji social e-commerce in the first quarter of 2021, and its realization path is increasing. However, when there are more payment checkpoints, advertisements and e-commerce come together, and some users say that the Soul has "gone bad".

Among Zhihu’s 9394 answers to "Why did you uninstall Soul", the second answer is: "Young, low quality, violent, and gentle in fake literary costumes." The answer said that after seeing the overwhelming love advertisements, many people found that they were all looking for someone to play games.

Fifth, the release of virtual currency, can curve exchange physical goods, strangers social e-commerce feasible?

Social e-commerce is very popular in recent years. Its essence is to use the trust and recommendation between acquaintances to achieve rapid transformation, and the foundation lies in "social relations between acquaintances". From this perspective, it is not difficult for Soul to develop social e-commerce through Giftmoj.

According to the prospectus, Giftmojis is a virtual gift that can be exchanged for physical gifts, and users can give each other gifts, while physical gifts are provided by Soul’s supplier partners. Soul’s profit path in this mode is to earn the difference between the purchase price of physical suppliers and the sales price of the platform.

You need to use the platform’s virtual currency-Soul currency to buy Giftmojis. Soul calls it a virtual commodity used in the App, and its one-way conversion ratio with RMB is 5: 1, which does not have the nature and function of legal tender. After recharging, it cannot be reversely converted into RMB or transferred.

Interestingly, Soul users buy Giftmojis——Giftmojis soul coins-giftmojis are exchanged for real goods, realizing the path of buying real goods with soul coin curve.

According to the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of Virtual Currency in Online Games" issued by relevant departments, the use of virtual currency in online games is limited to the exchange of virtual services provided by the issuing enterprises themselves, and may not be used to pay for or purchase physical products or exchange any products and services of other enterprises.

Therefore, it is worthy of Soul’s deep thinking whether it will touch on the relevant regulations to exchange the soul coin curve for physical goods.

Sixth, strangers socialize, and live broadcast is the most profitable. Soul, which doesn’t look at the face and socialize, has not been broadcast live. Is it a problem to go online?

Soul’s value-added service income mainly refers to membership fees. In 2019, after Soul launched the membership function "Super Star" and the virtual currency system, users can get virtual goods or functional privileges through recharging. Its core is to meet the needs of users’ personalization and show off.

However, Momo has proved by the road he has traveled that this is not a way to realize the "sunshine road". Momo’s solution is the live broadcast of the show-based on his "seeing the face and socializing".

Since the first quarter of 2016, Momo Live has surpassed membership subscription and mobile marketing, becoming its largest revenue source. By 2020, Momo’s live video revenue service will account for 64.1% of the total revenue, which is also the key to its profit for 24 consecutive quarters.

Soul, which focuses on "socializing without looking at face", has never been broadcast live. Whether to catch the last bus of live broadcast is a dilemma for Soul-the core of socializing without looking at face has changed. Without live broadcast, how to find a more effective way to realize cash has become a difficult problem.

More importantly, with the decline of the live broadcast of the show, Momo also admitted that the follow-up may not be able to continue to grow or continue to achieve profitability through such services. This means that on the path of realization, the path that Soul can choose has narrowed again.

Seventh, Tencent is the largest shareholder of Soul. Will Soul be "pipelined"?

In the Soul prospectus, the risk factor mentioned that one of our major shareholders (Tencent) provides similar products and services that compete with us.

Judging from its shareholding structure, Tencent’s shareholding in Soul is currently 49.9%, which is more than 32% held by its founder and CEO Zhang Lu. It is the largest external single shareholder and owns 25.7% of the voting rights of the company (Zhang Lu has 65% of the voting rights).

Because strangers focus on "making new friends", making friends is a low-frequency demand, and after becoming friends, strangers become acquaintances. Whether users who become acquaintances will flow out to platforms such as WeChat and QQ, and whether Soul will be "pipelined" is also a question that needs to be considered.

Eighth, concealing the punishment of the APP being taken off the shelf, and being suspected of "setting up a bureau" for the opponent’s shabu-shabu employees, is Soul worried?

According to media reports, at the end of June 2019, in the national "Special Remediation Action for Network Audio Chaos", 26 audio platforms were punished by steps such as interviewing, taking off the shelves and shutting down services. Soul, which focuses on voice socialization, is one of them. Until the end of August 2019, Soul App was re-launched in major application stores. On November 13th of the same year, Soul was removed from the Apple App Store again.

Objectively speaking, social platforms for strangers such as Momo and Soul, as well as other audio and video content platforms, are easy to breed the content of the edge ball, which requires high content review ability of the platform, which is also an industry problem.

Interestingly, Soul said in the prospectus that in July 2019, due to some defects in Soul’s data privacy measures, it received a written notice from the regulatory authorities to correct it, but did not impose any punishment on Soul.

(Image from Soul Prospectus)

In addition, according to 21st century business herald, Li, a partner and former director of Soul, is responsible for the company’s product operation and content review. After Soul was removed from the shelves in October 2019, Li instructed his subordinates and company employees Fan to collect the illegal content on the competing Uki App platform. After collecting no results, he registered his own (Uki) account to post the illegal content on the other platform, and then took screenshots to report it to the relevant departments. This malicious report of self-setting directly led to Uki being taken off the shelf for three months. Now these two people have been convicted by the court.

Interestingly, in the prospectus, Soul said that "we have no negligence responsibility in this matter" and was teased by netizens as "a shabu-shabu employee".

Objectively speaking, there are indeed some doubts behind it. On the one hand, the employees involved are directors of the company, and the company really doesn’t know about their actions. On the other hand, at the risk of imprisonment and huge fines (the court ordered them to compensate Uki Company for 3.3 million yuan), employees are so desperate for the company’s KPI? In addition, at least from the public level, the company’s values are also doubtful for employees of such a level to do such ridiculous things.

And Soul made such a statement in the prospectus. What are you worried about? I’m afraid it’s still a platform word-of-mouth problem. For any platform, it is not easy to establish a good reputation, but it is much easier to fall. However, the reputation of the platform does not depend on the description of the platform, but on the actions of the platform and the perception of the industry and users.

Ninth, there is a strong enemy before, followed by pursuers, which may be suspected of unfair competition. How should Soul break through?

Back to the stranger track, on the same day that Soul submitted the prospectus, the founders Wang Yu and Pan Ying withdrew from the company’s specific management affairs, and Wang Li, CEO of Momo Group, will temporarily hold the post of CEO of Exploration.

This means that after nearly three years of wholly-owned holding, Momo began to conduct a comprehensive "operation" on exploration, and the re-evolution of the two head players at the stranger social track will undoubtedly make the latecomer Soul more stressed.

The data shows that as of December last year, the registered users of Momo exceeded 100 million, and the cumulative registered users in the world exceeded 400 million. Except for the overlapping users, the two have a user volume of 400-500 million, which is almost difficult for Soul to surpass.

At the same time, judging from the malicious reporting of Uki by employees in the past, Soul is also quite jealous of Uki behind him. After the outbreak of this malicious incident, it also brought several influences.

On the one hand, it is equivalent to giving an advertisement to Uki for free, which is equivalent to telling users that Uki and Soul are doing the same thing, and they are evenly matched.

On the other hand, from the point of network public opinion, there has been a wave of "supporting Uki and resisting Soul", and netizens almost support Uki one-sidedly, and even download support.

In addition, strangers’ socialization is different from acquaintances’ socialization, without the shackles of social relationship chain, and user stickiness mainly comes from gameplay. Because both Uki and Soul are oriented to Z-generation users, they are mainly interested in social interaction and intelligent recommendation of AI algorithms, and they all have IM functions such as graphics, text and voice, and their users overlap, functions and gameplay are similar. If you insist on the difference, in terms of gameplay, Uki may be simpler, while Soul is more complicated.

It can be seen that going to Soul or Uki to make new friends makes little difference to many users. With the support of public opinion, Uki, which has been put back on the shelves, is destined to be a strong enemy of Soul.

Therefore, as far as the stranger social track is concerned, there is a strong enemy of this combination before Soul, and then there is a pursuer like Uki. How to attack and defend is a difficult problem.

A few days ago, Uki initiated a civil lawsuit against Soul on the grounds of "unfair competition", which was filed by the court and the funds were frozen, which deepened the concern of the capital market and the public about Soul. If Soul loses the case, it will not only make the tight cash flow more tense, but also damage the brand image and user trust, and make the market re-examine the path and sustainability of its user growth.

On the whole, Soul has made a staged achievement when it embarked on the journey of listing. But there is not a smooth road before Soul, and there are still many problems to be solved on its way forward.

In the short term, listing can delay Soul’s "financial anxiety", but it is difficult to solve its "user anxiety", which is also Soul’s biggest anxiety. This can also be seen from its series of initiatives.

First of all, Soul spent a lot of money on advertising marketing and user acquisition, even if it suffered huge losses and tight cash flow.

According to the prospectus, in 2019 and 2020, the marketing expenses of Soul accounted for 289.2% and 124.7% of the revenue respectively. In the first quarter of 2021, the proportion rose sharply to 197.6% again, much higher than 82.8% in the same period last year.

Judging from the proportion of company expenses, Soul’s expenses are mainly divided into four parts: marketing expenses, revenue costs, R&D expenses and administrative expenses, among which marketing expenses account for far more than the other three. Taking 2020 as an example, its marketing expenses account for 62.9% of the total cost, and the latter three accounts for 9.7%, 18.3% and 9.1% respectively.

And the money that Soul melts every time will soon hit marketing. For example, Soul, which received an investment of more than 900 million yuan from Tencent after Q2 in 2020, started the crazy money burning mode in the next few quarters. From Q3 in 2020 to Q1 in 2021, the marketing expenses of Soul reached 213 million yuan, 291 million yuan and 471 million yuan respectively.

Secondly, we should guard against our competitors, even friendly troops.

Different from acquaintance socialization, it will be relatively embarrassing for strangers to build a relationship chain socially. Once strangers become acquaintances, they may transfer to acquaintance socialization. This is also the reason why Tencent is the largest shareholder of Soul, and at the same time it is blocked by related keywords such as WeChat and QQ in the chat interface.

If we are afraid that Tencent will use it as a "pipeline" spare tire, it is normal anxiety to block the WeChat and QQ of friendly Tencent. Then the former employee maliciously set up a report to Uki with similar functions and higher daily retention rate of users, and its action has been deformed.

According to the prospectus, as of the end of 2019, the monthly and daily users of Soul were 11.5 million and 3.3 million respectively. Sun Mingjun, founder and CEO of Uki, said in an interview with Titanium Media App that before it was taken off the shelves in 2019, the user scale of Uki had reached 10 million, and the daily activity had reached about one million, and it was in a stage of rapid growth-from 2018 to the end of 2019, the user growth was nearly three times, and if it was not taken off the shelves, it might increase by 4-5 times.

Most importantly, the user retention rate of Uki is higher than that of Soul.

According to the report "Insights into the Social Industry of Strangers in 2019" released by MOB Research Institute in June 2019, the daily retention rate of Uki at that time was 65%, higher than that of Soul’s 41.7%.

Therefore, if it is not removed from the shelves, Uki is obviously a great rival of Soul in the case of rapid growth and high daily retention rate, and even it is hard to say who is outstanding now.

According to Sun Mingjun’s estimation, in the three months after the product was taken off the shelf, from a quantifiable point of view, Uki missed at least 5 million new users besides the company’s income. The unquantifiable losses, including the loss of brand reputation, may lead to the loss of old users, affect the goodwill of new users, and the normal development momentum of the company.

Conversely, after Uki sued Soul, once its "unfair competition" was established (the final result is subject to the court’s judgment). Then Soul’s business reputation will collapse, and the loss of old users and the decrease of new users’ goodwill may be staged in Soul. This may be a big turning point for Soul and the whole stranger social track.

All in all, for the social platform for strangers, the user volume is still the bottom line and upper limit that determines the development of the enterprise. After the user scale is expanded, the income will rise and there will be more choices for realizing the path. Soul knows this well.

However, as far as its current user scale is concerned, it is obviously not enough to support it to go on the right track of profitability, to approach Mo Mo and explore, and to distance itself from latecomers such as Uki, which also makes Soul feel anxious and crisis.

As Soul mentioned in the prospectus, the biggest risk of its products lies in whether it can continue to increase the number of paying users. If there are problems in brand reputation, user privacy and data security, and users cannot grow as expected, then the operation of the whole company will also be greatly affected.

From this perspective, listing is not Soul’s "panacea". Through listing, Soul can further expand financing and alleviate "capital anxiety". But in the face of more complicated "user anxiety", Soul obviously needs to come up with a better way.

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With the strategic co-construction of Alibaba Cloud, Shanghai private colleges and universities also have artificial intelligence colleges, blessing the intelligent Internet of Things training base.

After more than a year of mutual visits and discussions, Tianhua College of Shanghai Normal University and Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. reached a strategic cooperation intention to jointly build an artificial intelligence college and an intelligent Internet of Things training base. On the 29th, the Artificial Intelligence College of Tianhua University and Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Internet of Things Training Base were established at the same time, and the first batch of freshmen of ai College reached 322 this year. The liberation daily Shangguan journalist learned that this is the first and only artificial intelligence college in Shanghai’s private colleges and universities.

The national "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" puts forward that artificial intelligence has become a new focus of international competition, a new engine of economic development and a new opportunity for social construction. This year, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the annual filing and approval of undergraduate majors in ordinary colleges and universities, and the artificial intelligence major declared by Tianhua University was successfully approved, becoming the only private undergraduate college in Shanghai to offer this major.

In the connotation construction of new engineering, based on the research on the school situation and learning situation, Zou Rongxiang, chairman of Tianhua University, put forward the implementation strategy of running the artificial intelligence major well and then empowering the whole school, and carried out the "intelligent" transformation, and carried out the practice and exploration of the transformation from traditional engineering college to artificial intelligence college. On the same day, he and Xia Rui, the general manager of Alibaba Cloud Shanghai Branch, witnessed the birth of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and the training base, and formally joined the ranks of training applied talents of artificial intelligence in short supply for the society.

The newly established Institute of Artificial Intelligence, formerly known as the Institute of Technology, has thousands of students from freshmen to seniors. After 15 years of running a school, Institute of Technology has become one of the most mature colleges in the school, and has a good reputation among similar application-oriented undergraduate colleges. The Institute of Technology covers three disciplines, namely, computer, electronic communication and machinery, and has eight majors, namely, mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, mechanical and electronic engineering, automobile service engineering, electronic information technology, communication engineering, artificial intelligence, computer science and technology, and network engineering. It has won many Shanghai-level teaching and scientific research awards, as well as special government funds and school matching funds.

Private colleges and universities running characteristic ai colleges are forming a dislocation competition and complementary support pattern with research universities. Ling Xufeng, dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and chief engineer of school informatization, revealed that Tianhua College and Alibaba Cloud will jointly build the Institute of Artificial Intelligence in the mode of "industrial college", forming a complete teaching system, training system and innovation and entrepreneurship system for intelligent engineering majors, integrating modern intelligent technologies such as ubiquitous access, cloud computing, big data and edge computing, and determining "smart park" as the training direction for artificial intelligence majors. At the same time, a group of professional doctors from Tsinghua, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Tongji University were invited to form the core team of artificial intelligence teaching and research.

The person in charge of the Internet of Things education industry in Alibaba Cloud said that it will serve the teaching and training needs of the Artificial Intelligence College of Tianhua University, the needs of multi-professional ai training, the needs of the internal and external examination and research training, and the needs of the school’s artificial intelligence industrialization development goals, etc., with "engineering application" to promote teaching, shorten the distance between teaching and engineering needs, shorten the distance between talent training and enterprise demand skills, and gradually build a domestic first-class, benchmarking and application-oriented undergraduate intelligent Internet of Things training base that can be replicated in other domestic universities.

Empowering other disciplines with artificial intelligence also relies on the "whole system" led by the School of Artificial Intelligence of Tianhua College of Shanghai Normal University. According to the "Artificial Intelligence+"plan, the new major of artificial intelligence is combined with all majors in the school to form a discipline group of new engineering, new business, smart preschool education, smart health care and smart art. Even the newly-opened information office of the school will deeply connect artificial intelligence technology, strengthen the construction and application of information data platform, and implement the overall management intelligence of the school.

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Joint statement of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Mongolia on promoting comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era

  Joint statement of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Mongolia on promoting comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era

  (Beijing, November 28, 2022)

  1. At the invitation of the Supreme Leader of President People’s Republic of China (PRC), Mongolian President Uhna Huzhle Surh paid a state visit to People’s Republic of China (PRC) from November 27 to 28, 2022.

  During the visit, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader held talks with President Huzhle Surh in a cordial and friendly atmosphere. The two sides had a comprehensive and in-depth exchange of views on China-Mongolia relations and international and regional issues of common concern and reached broad and important consensus. People’s Republic of China (PRC) Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and the NPC Standing Committee Chairman Li Zhanshu met with President Huzhle Surh respectively.

  二、蒙方热烈祝贺中国共产党第二十次全国代表大会胜利闭幕,祝贺最高领袖主席再次当选中共中央总书记。中国全面消除绝对贫困,全面建成小康社会,成功实现了第一个百年奋斗目标,蒙方对此表示祝贺。相信在中国共产党领导下,中国将全面建成社会主义现代化强国,实现第二个百年奋斗目标。

  三、中方高度评价蒙方在“新复兴政策”引领下取得的发展建设成就,支持蒙方为实现经济振兴和提高人民生活水平所作努力,真诚祝愿蒙方在“远景2050”长期发展政策引领下,实现国家发展目标。

  四、双方忆及1994年《中蒙友好合作关系条约》、2014年《中华人民共和国和蒙古国关于建立和发展全面战略伙伴关系的联合宣言》精神,高度评价近年中蒙关系发展成果和两国抗击新冠肺炎疫情合作,一致认为中蒙全面战略伙伴关系不断深化发展符合两国人民利益。

  五、双方一致同意,作为好邻居、好朋友、好伙伴,中蒙将携手推进现代化建设,朝着共建和平共处、守望相助、合作共赢的两国命运共同体方向作出努力,进一步打造国与国关系典范,为地区和世界的和平稳定与发展繁荣作出更大贡献。蒙方对中方重视同周边国家关系,本着亲诚惠容理念同周边国家分享发展机遇表示高度赞赏。

  6. The two sides reiterated that the development of friendly and cooperative relations between China and Mongolia is the priority of their foreign policy, and they insist on mutual respect for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual respect for the development path chosen by the two peoples according to their national conditions, and firm support for each other’s core interests. Mongolia reaffirms its firm adherence to the one-China principle and supports China’s position on Taiwan Province, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. China congratulates Mongolia on the 30th anniversary of its declaration of nuclear-weapon-free status. Mongolia thanks China for its efforts to maintain regional peace and security and to promote and support the international community’s recognition of Mongolia’s nuclear-weapon-free status.

  7. The two sides believe that the off-line meetings between heads of state, heads of government and heads of legislatures of the two countries in 2022 have fully reflected the high level of bilateral relations while the COVID-19 epidemic has not been alleviated. The two sides agreed to give full play to the important role of high-level exchanges, strengthen political guidance on bilateral relations and continuously deepen strategic mutual trust. Cooperation between the legislatures and political parties of the two countries is an important part of the relations between the two countries. The two sides agreed to promote dialogue and exchanges between the legislatures, governments, political parties, national defense, local and other departments and levels of the two countries as a whole, and provide legal and policy support for the cooperation between the two countries.

  8. The two sides agreed to continue to actively transform the good political relations between China and Mongolia into a driving force for cooperation, make good use of the advantages of geographical proximity and complementary economies of the two countries, and strive to promote and expand mutually beneficial cooperation, which will really benefit the two countries and their peoples. The two sides will focus on economic recovery after the epidemic, and make good use of the three engines of the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and Mongolia’s "Grassland Road" development strategy, the global development initiative and Mongolia’s "New Revival Policy", and China’s "Two-step" development strategic goal and Mongolia’s "Vision 2050" long-term development policy to expand cooperation in trade, investment, finance, mineral energy, infrastructure, digital economy and green development.

  9. The two sides agreed to continue to play the role of China-Mongolia Joint Commission on Economy, Trade, Science and Technology, China-Mongolia Mining Energy and Interconnection Cooperation Committee, actively implement the newly revised Outline for the Medium-term Development of China-Mongolia Economic and Trade Cooperation, and formulate the Outline for the Development of Investment Cooperation between the Government of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Government of Mongolia, strive to increase the trade volume between the two countries to 20 billion US dollars at an early date, support enterprises of the two countries to expand the trade of coal, iron ore and agricultural products in accordance with market principles and commercial rules, support enterprises of the two countries to sign medium-and long-term coal trade agreements, and promote

  X. The two sides agreed to encourage the promotion of new freight equipment and technology at the port and effectively improve the cargo handling capacity. China will continue to give Mongolia support in transit transportation and sea access, and assist Mongolia in ensuring the import of important materials for the national economy and people’s livelihood.

  11. The two sides agreed to make interconnection and cooperation in the energy field one of the priority directions of China-Mongolia cooperation. The two sides will accelerate cooperation in infrastructure and mineral resources projects such as railways, highways and ports between China and Mongolia, create demonstration projects in the field of clean energy, and comprehensively enhance the scale, quality and level of China-Mongolia economic and trade cooperation. The two sides will actively promote the agreed cross-border railway construction and open up new channels for interconnection at an early date.

  12. The two sides will deepen exchanges and cooperation in the fields of culture, education, science and technology, sightseeing and tourism, vigorously carry out humanities exchanges, especially youth exchanges, encourage cooperation between educational and scientific institutions, and promote the communication between the people. Mongolia introduced the "President Sent 2100" study abroad program, and China is willing to actively study and continue to promote the cooperation between the two countries in sending international students.

  Thirteen, the two sides agreed to continue to gradually increase the number of direct flights between the two countries according to the epidemic situation, and actively promote the healthy and safe exchange of personnel between the two countries.

  14. The two sides positively evaluated the results of the sixth meeting of heads of state of China, Mongolia and Russia and the cooperation among the three countries, and unanimously agreed to work with Russia to intensify the construction of the China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor, accelerate the feasibility study on the upgrading and development of the middle line railway of the China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor, and actively promote the laying project of the Sino-Russian natural gas pipeline crossing Mongolia.

  15. Both sides agreed that China and Mongolia, as developing countries, share extensive common interests and similar positions in international and regional affairs. The two countries will continue to support each other in international and regional institutions and strengthen coordination and cooperation in platforms such as the United Nations, the Asia-Europe Meeting, the AsiaInfo Conference, the ASEAN Regional Forum and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The two sides will respect the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, safeguard the unity and cooperation of the international community, jointly defend multilateralism, and promote the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom for all mankind.

  16. Mongolia is willing to jointly address global issues such as climate change and terrorism within the framework of the global security initiative proposed by China, and actively carry out cooperation in the fields of disaster prevention and mitigation and public health protection. China spoke highly of the "Ulaanbaatar Dialogue" held by Mongolia and believed that the mechanism would make positive contributions to regional peace and security.

  17. The two sides positively evaluated each other’s strong measures to cope with climate change and combat desertification, and unanimously agreed to strengthen cooperation in the fields of ecological environment and sand prevention and control between the two countries. China spoke highly of and actively supported Mongolia’s plan of "planting one billion trees", and agreed to promote green development within the framework of the "Belt and Road Initiative", connect the work of tackling climate change with the plan of "planting one billion trees" and jointly implement cooperation projects. China congratulates Mongolia on hosting the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in 2026, and is willing to carry out relevant cooperation with Mongolia.

  18. During the visit, The two sides signed the Medium-term Development Outline of Economic and Trade Cooperation between People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Mongolia, the Development Outline of Investment Cooperation between People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Mongolia, the Handover Certificate of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Mongolia on Supporting Facilities Project of Development Center for Disabled Children in Mongolia, the Handover Certificate of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Mongolia on School Project (Phase II) in Mongolia, and the Agreement between People’s Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of Commerce and Mongolia Ministry of Economic Development Memorandum of Understanding on Establishing Investment and Economic Cooperation Working Group, Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Mineral Resources between Ministry of Natural Resources of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Ministry of Mining and Heavy Industry of Mongolia, Framework Agreement between General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China and General Administration of Customs of Mongolia on "Single Window" Cooperation in International Trade, Protocol between General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China and General Administration of Customs of Mongolia on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Requirements for Natural Forage Exported to China, People’s Republic of China (PRC) Letter of Intent for Cooperation between the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau and the Ministry of Natural Environment and Tourism of Mongolia on Drought Risk Prevention, Desertification Mitigation and Grassland Restoration, Exchange of Notes on Feasibility Study of the National Grand Theatre Project in Mongolia, Exchange of Notes on Feasibility Study of the Presidential Sports Center Project in Mongolia, and Supplementary Implementation Summary of the Infrastructure Construction Project in Mongolia Port (II)There are 16 bilateral cooperation documents: Loan Agreement for Ulaanbaatar Cross-railway Underground Passage Project, Memorandum on Further Strengthening Sister City Relations between Tianjin City of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Ulaanbaatar City of Mongolia, Memorandum on Cooperation between China Central Radio and Television Station and Mongolian National Public Radio and Television Station, Memorandum on Cooperation between China Red Cross Society and Mongolian Red Cross Society.

  19. Both sides agreed that President Huzhle Surh’s visit was a complete success and was of great significance in the history of bilateral relations. President Huzhle Surh thanked the Chairman of the Supreme Leader and the government and people of China for their warm and friendly reception, and invited the Chairman of the Supreme Leader to visit again at a convenient time.

The ultimate poster of "Six Lian Sha" previews the level of Huang Lu’s interpretation of pain.

1905 movie network news The crime drama directed by Xu Chao will be released nationwide on September 6th. Today, the ultimate poster and the ultimate preview of the film are online together. The trailer exposed this time has a huge amount of information, which slowly reveals the hidden feelings behind the cruel murder case and involves the sadness that can’t be concealed in the past. Huang Lu’s strength deduces "the level of pain", and Wang Longzheng’s wise detective is a complicated unsolved case. Who the hell is the murderer? What’s hidden behind it? On September 6, we will reveal the truth together.

 

The hidden feelings behind the serial murders gradually emerged. Huang Lu joined hands with Wang Longzheng and Liu Lin to explore the sad past.

The trailer exposed this time contains many new and unknown plots. Huang Lu is sad from shallow to deep, Wang Longzheng tries his best to attack the outwit murderer, Liu Lin’s tears are hard to suppress, and Bo Qu’s eyes are scarlet with grief and indignation! The evil hand released cruelly by the cliff, the bullying and abuse of children of the same age in the alley, and the wire rope that scrag died in front of the Buddhist shrine, all of which reveal a hint of danger. The starving baby, the mother who gave up and left, the cynical contempt, and the tears that kept dripping, all these cruelty in the world appeared in front of us.

Under the known unsolved fingerprints, there seems to be a more unknown sad past. What kind of hatred and hidden feelings have led to the human tragedy? Perhaps knowing the truth will be even more painful.

 

Xu Chao first challenged to be a director, and the strength team blessed the script.

The team behind the scenes of Six Lian Sha can be described as extraordinary in strength. Xu Chao, a cutting-edge director, started from his own feelings, took materials from what he saw and heard, and made artistic processing. It took a year to polish the script of Six Lian Sha. It is not easy for the director to tell the story of his creation. Every time he writes about the sad past of the characters, his heart is also wrapped in great sadness. Fortunately, this sad and powerful script infected the actors, and Huang Lu joined hands with Wang Longzheng to help out the script.

In addition to the joining of powerful actors, there is also a professional production team to cooperate, such as Chen Bowen, a famous editor of classic films such as "11"; Jeffrey Chu;, photography director of the film; The harmonious sound of the film guides Hao Gang to escort him and helps Liu Lian Sha transform from text to image.

 

The pain of growing up is hard to breathe. Sad cases reflect human nature.

The trailers exposed this time seem to be carried out around a central word "growth". At the beginning of the film, the children cried bitterly, the immature voice begged their mother to stay, the children pushed and laughed at them in the alley, and the sound of "bad seeds" was full of disgust. For a child’s growth, these were as deep as a knife in his memory. "Growing up is as painful as surgery", in the face of cruel reality, it bears humiliation. How can the pain of the soul be said? Family of origin’s injury, the malicious ridicule around him, the pain he has borne since childhood, maybe the devil was once an angel.

Is the murderer born a murderer? Is the murderer only the murderer? Who is not the murderer who throws stones hidden in the crowd, the heinous criminal, those who watch around and commit violence together, and those who use words as a sword without starting a fight? The evil of human nature may be the source of evil. 

Cruel past, painful growth. The mystery of the murder, the silent pain. On September 6th, Six Lian Sha was released nationwide.


Weilai car accident tracking | The partner of the 31-year-old entrepreneur who died was interviewed by Orange Persimmon Interactive: It is very embarrassing that there is no video at the time of the i

"Source of this article: Urban Express"
At 2 o’clock in the afternoon on August 12th, Lin Wenqin, a 31-year-old owner of Fujian Weilai ES8 and founder of Meiyihao Brand Management Company, had a traffic accident driving Weilai ES8 in Hanjiang section of Shenhai Expressway and died unfortunately.
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What happened at the time of the incident, whether autopilot was enabled or not, and whether the current autopilot technology is worth trusting? Around a series of questions, Mr. Lin, a friend and partner of Lin Wenqin, accepted an interview with the reporter of Express.
Friend of the owner:
At the time of the incident, the vehicle was in an automatic driving state.
Lin Wenqin, the car owner who was killed in the accident, is a well-known figure in Fujian catering industry. The obituary published by WeChat official account, the WeChat of "Meiyihao", shows that Lin Wenqin is the founder of Shangshan Ruoshui Investment Management Company, Yitong Tianxia Catering Management Company and Meiyihao Brand Management Company (nicknamed "Meng Jianke"). He has successively founded many well-known restaurant chain brands such as Yiqi Hong Kong-style afternoon tea, Daxi Spicy Mix, Guojuxia and Jiaru Flower Powder.
Lin Wenqin’s friend Mr. Lin said,What can be confirmed at present is that when the incident happened, Lin Wenqin enabled NOP automatic assisted driving of Weilai Automobile.At about 2: 30 pm on August 12th, he received a phone call from Weilai, knowing that something had happened to Lin Wenqin. "On August 13th, we went to the Putian High-speed Traffic Police Detachment Office with the head of Weinan area of Weilai Automobile, and the head called Weilai Headquarters at the traffic police office.People at the headquarters confirmed that Wen Qin was using automatic assisted driving at the time of the incident. "
"In addition, it can be seen from Lin Wenqin’s mobile APP that Wen Qin used autonomous driving at the time of the incident."
This is the automatic assisted driving data of the day displayed on Lin Wenqin’s mobile phone Weilai APP.
Mr. Lin said that because he wanted to know what happened at the time of the incident, including whether the collided road engineering vehicle had standardized operations at that time, his family asked Weilai to watch the video of the driving recorder, but on the afternoon of August 13, Weilai sent an engineer to adjust the driving recorder on the accident vehicle with them."After four or five hours, I finally got only 10 irrelevant videos, and most of them were in January this year. Except for one video when driving, the others were videos when parking, and the videos on the day of the incident were not at all!"
This made the Lins feel incredible, and Wei Lai gave Mr. Lin a preliminary explanation.It is not ruled out that the vehicle owner manually turned off the driving recorder before the incident, but the specific reasons need to be further verified.
At the same time, Mr. Lin also raised a question: they later learned that after the traffic police towed the accident car to the parking lot, Weilai Automobile sent a staff member to the parking lot to protect the accident car without notifying the Lin family and the traffic police department. "This shocked us very much. I don’t know if they did anything else to the vehicle. It happened that the parking position was not monitored and nothing could be seen."
Unable to find the video on the on-board driving recorder, the Lins turned to the background data of Weilai Cloud to see if the vehicle had stepped on the brakes and turned. However, the answer they got from Wei Lai was that they need to go through a stamping process and provide cloud data to the police and their families as soon as the process is over.
Mr. Lin said that the current progress is that the traffic police will identify the accident vehicle next Monday (that is, August 16), when Weilai will send two engineers to assist. "After the identification, the traffic police can give us the relevant monitoring, and Weilai’s background data will also be given to us in these days."
He said that Lin Wenqin bought this Weilai ES8 in November last year. He had been driving a gasoline car for many years before, so he was an old driver, so his family wanted to know what happened at the time of the incident."When Weilai sold the car, he always said how powerful the automatic driving was, including their propaganda draft, which also emphasized the automatic driving. One of their senior executives personally sent a video saying how convenient Weilai’s automatic driving was, and he could let go of his hands and feet to eat. It was a bit ridiculous to change his mouth to automatic assisted driving the first time after the accident."
Wei Lai:
At the time of the incident, the engineering vehicle was reversing the pile bucket.
For this accident, many senior executives of Weilai Automobile expressed their condolences yesterday. Qin Lihong, co-founder and president of Weilai, replied to the rider that Weilai had arranged a professional team to rush to Fujian to assist in the investigation.
A related person from the marketing communication department of Weilai Automobile Company replied to the reporter of Express that there was indeed a user who hit an engineering vehicle in operation on the Fujian Expressway and was unfortunately killed. "We are all particularly sad. Inferred from the live video, the engineering vehicle was reversing the pile bucket at high speed. For specific reasons, we are cooperating with the local traffic police and other relevant departments to conduct accident investigations and will assist the families of users to do the aftermath. "
The person in charge stressed that NOP is assisted driving, which is very easy to use and can reduce the fatigue of long-term driving. However, assisted driving is not automatic driving, and the driver must also pay attention to safe driving, use it according to the requirements, keep his hands off the steering wheel, and must not play with his mobile phone. He should concentrate on the front and take over when necessary, so that there will be no problem."At present, there is no evidence that the car accident is caused by vehicle quality problems."
Insiders:
Have awe of automatic assisted driving.
In 2014, the International Society of Automata Engineers published the classification of autonomous driving systems based on whether drivers’ attention and intervention are needed. This classification divides the automatic driving system into five levels, from L0 to L5 respectively representing that the driver’s attention can gradually disappear during driving. At present, the more popular automatic driving in the market is mainly L2, which means that the vehicle can automatically control the speed and keep driving in the middle of the lane in a good lane environment.
However, many manufacturers, especially in Chexin Power, are not satisfied with L2-level auxiliary functions, claiming that their products can surpass L2, such as automatic overtaking and merging, automatic on-off ramp, etc. The representative ones are mainly Tesla NOA, Weilai NOP and Tucki NGP.
"No.38 American Performance Control", a well-known domestic car critic, once made a program in May this year.Tesla Model 3, Weilai ES8 and Tucki P7 were all equipped with their latest automatic assisted driving systems at that time, and it took 30 minutes to test whether their automatic assisted driving functions were easy to use. The result was that "none of them could be used", because their success rate of driving in and out of the ramp was not high, some of them navigated to the right, but the vehicles actually left; Some took the wrong route and forced the driver to take over; Some people don’t always turn on the turn signal when trying to connect lines … There is no guarantee of safety and efficiency.
Therefore, he suggested in the program that if you really want to experience automatic assisted driving, you should always be ready to take over the vehicle at any time, and you should pay more attention than you usually do when driving, and questioned that assisted driving should bring convenience to the owner, but the so-called high-level pilot assisted driving function provided by these car companies requires the owner to maintain higher concentration, and the manufacturers have detailed exemption clauses, which makes it difficult to understand that something has nothing to do with him.
In recent years, from time to time, some shots of car owners showing off their automatic driving with their mobile phones have appeared on the Internet, which has attracted the attention of people in the industry for many times. Many people in the industry have repeatedly called for this, to maintain awe of automatic assisted driving, and car companies should correctly guide and not exaggerate publicity.
It is worth noting that on August 12th, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Opinions on Strengthening the Management of Intelligent Networked Automobile Manufacturers and Product Access (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions). The "Opinions" put forward: "Enterprises that produce automobile products with driving assistance and automatic driving functions should clearly inform the vehicle’s functions and performance limitations, the driver’s responsibilities, the indication information of human-computer interaction equipment, and the methods and conditions for function activation and withdrawal. Enterprises that produce automobile products with combined driving assistance functions should also take technical measures such as hand-off detection to ensure that drivers are always performing corresponding dynamic driving tasks. Enterprises that produce auto-driving automobile products shall ensure that the automobile products at least meet the requirements of system failure identification and safety response, human-computer interaction, data recording, process support and simulation. We should ensure that automobile products have safe and reliable spatio-temporal information services, and encourage and support the acceptance of Beidou satellite navigation system signals. "
Orange Persimmon Interactive City Express reporter Tang Dengtao
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Dare not spread internationally? Five new dimensions to enhance ability

Author: Zhang Xiaojun
Source: All Media Exploration, March 2024
Under the background of deep integration, how to give full play to the advantages of media at all levels to do international communication is not only the duty and mission of telling local development stories well and showing a good image to the outside world, but also an inevitable measure to enhance their competitiveness and influence.
In the all-media environment, how to smooth the channels of publicity and innovate the means of communication is a subject that media at all levels must face and think about.
New vision: vision determines the realm
With China’s comprehensive national strength and increasing international influence, telling the story of China to the world in international communication language has become a compulsory course for domestic media. Media people should learn to look at new things in China from an international perspective, be good at discovering China stories, and use diversified communication means to empathize with international audiences to create international communication influence.
Many grass-roots media are used to positioning themselves as regional media, and don’t want to or even dare to spread internationally. In fact, whether the international communication effect is good or not depends on the news events themselves. No matter the size or level of the media, as long as the news events they pay attention to have the nature of international communication, they should learn to internationalize the stories. To promote the construction of international communication ability, we must carefully build a language framework for foreign communication and enhance innovation, empathy and credibility.
In April, 2020, Qilu. com tracked and reported the situation of Shandong Province’s support to Africa in fighting the epidemic around the clue that Qingdao Hyde Group built isolation houses in Burkina Faso. This case is a powerful attempt by county-level financial media to systematically promote international communication by using linkage resources. The Media Center in Shinan District of Qingdao made full use of enterprise and provincial media resources to form a three-level linkage reporting model among provinces, counties and enterprises, gave full play to the advantages of new media platforms such as network and client, integrated the use of graphic, video, H5 and other media reporting methods, and tracked and reported this incident in all directions through foreign embassies, overseas editions of China Daily and other publicity channels, and told the story of China in Shandong practice on the international stage.
China’s assistance to the groundbreaking ceremony of the isolation room renovation project of Yalgado Hospital in Burkina Faso.
New content: Tell stories of good people, cities and cultures.
Storytelling is the best way to spread internationally. For grass-roots media, telling the story of China well means telling the stories around us, the stories of development and the cultural stories that we are proud of.
First, make a fuss about major events, take the "highlight" as the guide, and promote the innovation of international communication reports.
In the external communication, we can tell the story of China fully and vividly through our special skill-thematic reporting. For example, around the diplomatic theme of the great powers in September 2022, when the Chairman of the Supreme Leader attended the Summit of the SCO in Samarkand, Qingdao News Network cultivated the big V account of the sea media "Qingqing Island Master" and carefully planned six series of short video original reports, which became the explosion of communication. This series of works starts from a small incision and speaks with cases and data, focusing on the vivid practice of "running a good meeting and invigorating a city" in Qingdao, Shandong Province after the Shanghai Summit in 2018.
The second is to make a fuss about "people", especially to tell the story of China with the help of "outside eyes".
In 2022, Shunwang planned to launch "Foreign Friends Explore the Spring City", inviting foreign friends from Chile, such as Fu Lei, Canada’s Jixiang and Austria’s Pete, to experience the spring scenery, food, culture and customs of Jinan, and tell a vivid story of the spring city from their perspectives. In addition to being widely spread in China, the work has also been spread on international social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, with a cumulative page view of more than 58 million, which has spread the good voice of Jinan in a multi-dimensional, all-round and in-depth manner.
Third, make a fuss about China culture, strengthen the topic setting, and enrich cultural communication.
For example, lightning news does a good job of international communication around the Spring Festival every year. In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger in 2022, Lightning News, in conjunction with the Southern District Media Center in Qingdao, launched a bilingual topic "Travel Notes of Finding the Tiger Ring", reporting that Qingdao, China, and new york, London and Edinburgh in the United States jointly released a video of "Tiger and Tiger" around the world, which set off the festive atmosphere of "Global Year of China" and made Chinese excellent traditional culture out of the "international model". In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Loong in 2024, Lightning News launched "New Year! "Dragon Dragon" teaches you to send good luck in six languages, "Teach you a Chinese dish" and other international communication works.
Lightning news work "New Year! "Dragon Dragon" teaches you to send good luck in six languages.
New form: visualization, viewpoint and socialization.
Traditional media and new media are deeply integrated, and visual elements such as pictures, videos and live broadcasts have greatly enriched the media. New media products such as H5, holography and interaction have further enriched the expression of international communication, and visualization, viewpoint and mobile socialization have become the normal state of international communication.
One is the visualization of information dissemination.. Media products are spread in various forms such as live broadcast, short video and micro-documentary, which is more in line with the information consumption needs and information receiving habits of the audience. "Discovering Shandong" series Vlog is a short video special report carefully created by Shandong, China Network. This special topic appeared by online celebrity, introducing Shandong cuisine, beautiful scenery and beautiful things in English, Japanese and Korean, and guiding foreign netizens to explore Shandong’s economic and social development achievements, long history and culture and beautiful natural scenery from the first perspective. In 2021, Shandong, China.com launched more than 50 issues of the "Discover Shandong" series, with a total view of 16 million, which effectively promoted the international spread of Shandong’s image.
The second is the viewpoint of information dissemination.On the mobile Internet, which is overloaded with information and noisy, authoritative and credible mainstream media comments are "hard currency" in the field of public opinion. This is equally applicable in the field of international public opinion communication. For example, in the face of such arguments as "China threat theory" and "China collapse theory" that discredit and distort China’s reports in the western public opinion field, China Daily launched a commentary column "To The Point", focusing on China’s economic growth, high-quality development, Sino-US trade friction and other topics. With detailed facts and data, humorous style and international audio-visual language, it is a powerful display on overseas social media platforms. For another example, at the Yellow River Culture Forum held in April 2023, Lightning News made full use of the opinions of experts and scholars from nine provinces (regions) along the Yellow River and well-known foreign experts to launch a series of short videos, showing the world a brand-new image of the Yellow River culture.
The third is the mobile socialization of information dissemination.. In the ten years since the development of media convergence, fragmentation, mobility and socialization have become the common forms of information dissemination, and international communication must also adapt to the new situation and do a good job in building the international communication capacity of mobile terminals. In this regard, most provincial media in Shandong have opened exclusive accounts on overseas social media platforms such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube and Instagram, which has become an important window to promote Qilu culture to the world. Shandong, China. com launched a special topic around the "Hello, Confucius | Hi, Conficius" international research activity in Nishan, online celebrity, and used overseas social media platform accounts to report in four languages at the same time, publishing more than 60 posts and tweets, interacting with foreign netizens and achieving good communication effects.
New Technology: Empowering International Communication with Application Convergence
With the full development of the new generation of information technology in the world in recent years, the comprehensive role of advanced technologies in different fields such as 5G, AI and VR has given international communication a new focus.
Take the application of virtual digital people as an example. From the Japanese "Hatsune Miku" to the Xinhua News Agency "New Macey", virtual digital people are becoming more and more mature in technology and widely used, which has aroused widespread concern around the world. "Hailan" is the first surreal digital host launched by Shandong Radio and Television. Since its debut in January 2023, it has appeared in large-scale events such as Shandong News Network and Cultural Travel Expo, and has become a spokesperson of Shandong culture to promote Shandong to the world and publicize its brand-new image. The digital twin "Su Xiaomei" takes the host Wang Su as the prototype, and opens up multilingual expressions such as French in the program "Speaking Chinese Characters in Su Xiaomei", which promotes the international spread of the program.
Not limited by time and place, the virtual human with high efficiency and accuracy has many natural advantages since its birth. Shandong Radio and Television Station is planning to let "Hailan" participate in the weather forecast broadcast, so as to realize the intelligent development of conventional columns.
New platform: building an international communication center closely following regional positioning.
A powerful international communication platform is an important carrier for international communication. In recent years, a number of regional international communication centers have been launched in various places closely following the strategic communication orientation of the country to the local area.
On November 26th, 2023, the launching ceremony of Shandong International Communication Center was held. With high standards and a high starting point, the center will build an international communication leading platform with wide influence at home and abroad, integrating the functions of international communication platform, communication content production, foreign cultural exchange, communication talent construction, international communication research and foreign discourse innovation, and strive to tell the Shandong chapter of China story well.
During the two sessions of the National People’s Congress in 2024, Shandong Radio and Television Station took advantage of the resources of Shandong International Communication Center, integrated the communication matrix of "two networks (Qilu network and Shandong, China network)+two ends (lightning news client and Shandong client) +N marine media accounts", and spread the good voice of Shandong through multiple channels around the themes of cultural "two innovations", ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin, so as to comprehensively improve the efficiency of international communication.
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Based on local characteristics. In the past two years, media at all levels in Shandong have created many excellent international communication works, which also reflects the powerful exploration made by media at all levels in media integration. In the era of all-media, media at all levels should dare and be good at using media-melting means to exert their efforts in external publicity, open up internal and external propaganda bottlenecks, and add a new engine to all-round economic and social development.
(Author Zhang Xiaojun: Director of the Government Liaison Department of Shandong Radio and Television Media Information Center)
This article was published in the March 2024 issue of All Media Exploration, with the original title of "Five New Dimensions of Promoting the Construction of International Communication Ability".
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GIB Global Investment Digital Banking: Blockchain Technology Empowers Traditional Banking Industry

Blockchain technology has been widely concerned by governments and international organizations. As an important force supporting the development of the real economy, the research and layout of blockchain technology is of great significance for consolidating and cultivating the ability to serve social and economic development and improving the level of comprehensive financial services. Some people think that blockchain technology may be one of the core technologies with the greatest potential to trigger the fifth wave of subversive industrial revolution after steam engine, electric power, information and Internet technology, and it can jointly promote economic and financial transformation and upgrading with new technologies such as big data, mobile Internet and cloud computing. Perhaps it can be said that the blockchain economy is now on the eve of the outbreak. Whoever dares to explore and take the lead in this round of major historical opportunities will become the leader of the legendary swordsman in the financial field in the next stage.
GIB Global Investment Digital Bank is an international online bank established by AFF Technology Diversified Financial Group, which is jointly founded by professionals in the financial field and experts in the foreign exchange investment field to provide professional fund management services. Recently, Iain Gray, Chairman and Founder of GIB Global Investment Digital Bank, and Mark Wang, Marketing Director of GIB Global Investment Digital Bank in Asia Pacific, had a dialogue with Forbes China on the impact of blockchain technology on traditional banking.
Iain Gray, Chairman and Founder of GIB Global Investment Digital Bank
The following is Forbes China andIain Gray, Chairman and Founder of GIB Global Investment Digital BankDialogue.
Forbes China: Can you describe the motivation of establishing GIB Global Investment Digital Bank? How does your rich experience in the past 40 years relate to your plan to bring an extensible blockchain network to GIB Global Investment Digital Bank?
Iain Gray:I think one of the biggest value propositions of blockchain is that it can bring transparency and fairness to everyone. Although this is a great technology, it was not very practical when I first came into contact with it, because verification on distributed networks is slow and expensive. Therefore, I decided to build a high-performance blockchain to make up for these shortcomings and help make this technology applicable to everyone.
My work experience in the past 40 years, including creating remarkable economic and social benefits for the country and enterprises, has focused on resource integration, teamwork and capital operation for many years, and participated in projects spanning the fields of construction master planning, mining, information technology, biotechnology, fashion and real estate development. When working in another emerging technology field, these experiences are very important, and we plan to reproduce similar results in the blockchain by using the knowledge gained from previous related experiences.
Forbes China: Can you describe the main advantages of distributed applications in decentralized blockchain and how they can improve existing application prototypes? Are they a direct competition for today’s popular applications or a supplement?
Iain Gray:The characteristics of blockchain will change the core criteria between financial systems; Because of its security, transparency and non-tampering, the trust mode between financial systems no longer depends on intermediaries, and many banking businesses will be "decentralized" to realize real-time digital transactions. The application of blockchain will produce the most direct and effective application in five financial scenarios, such as cross-border payment and settlement, bills and supply chain finance, securities issuance and trading, and customer credit reporting and anti-fraud. In terms of cross-border payment settlement, blockchain will be able to abandon the role of transit bank and realize point-to-point fast and low-cost cross-border payment.
A large-scale transformation from traditional applications to blockchain-based applications seems unlikely in the short term. However, I believe that in the long run, the application of blockchain technology will open up many exciting possibilities, subvert the rules of the game in the banking industry and possibly reshape the entire industry structure.
Forbes China: Do you think the trend of blockchain technology upgrading and traditional banking going to the public will continue?
Iain Gray:The times are constantly changing, and the technology is constantly being iteratively updated. We should adapt to the development of the times, and even lead the development of the times. If we remain unchanged, we will fail and be eliminated by the times we love.
Facing the oncoming opportunities and challenges of blockchain technology, GIB Global Investment Digital Bank first paid attention to this issue in 2018. When we first decided to prepare for the construction, we spent two years conducting market research, data analysis, sand table deduction, etc. We submitted research reports to local governments and applied for relevant compliance licenses and authorizations from national governments. So far, we have applied for relevant compliance licenses and authorizations from 15 countries, including the United States, Dominica, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Laos, Malaysia and Thailand. We welcome people from all walks of life to supervise us. In this increasingly mature era of decentralized development, the supervision of various places will bring us great development momentum.
Forbes China: What is the prospect of bank digitalization?
Iain Gray:In my opinion, what we are discussing today should not just be a simple bank digitalization, but a real digital bank. Real digital banking not only refers to providing financial services through mobile phones and Internet channels, but also has a much deeper meaning, from the underlying technology to the brand-new changes in users’ consumption habits. It should be widely used by consumers and have powerful functions, including higher bandwidth, advanced data security and stronger privacy protection, stronger security and more intelligent service. This is what we should do.
Mark Wang, Marketing Director, Asia Pacific Region, GIB Global Investment Digital Bank
The following is Forbes China andMark Wang, Marketing Director, Asia Pacific Region, GIB Global Investment Digital BankDialogue.
Forbes China: How do you understand the impact of blockchain on the current industry?
Mark Wang:Blockchain technology is one of the core technologies that have the greatest potential to trigger the fifth wave of subversive revolution after steam engine, electric power, information and Internet technology. The application of this technology in the financial field will completely change the transaction process and the way of keeping records, thus greatly reducing transaction costs and significantly improving efficiency. In the past year, blockchain technology has become one of the most concerned topics in the global innovation field, and it has been enthusiastically sought after by venture capital funds.
Affected by the epidemic, online demand has risen sharply, and the iteration of transformation and upgrading of traditional banking industry is imminent. So global investment in digital banking is a huge opportunity, and the biggest question is, how do we seize this opportunity? So GIB Global Investment Digital Bank came into being!
Forbes China: What opportunities and challenges will blockchain technology bring to the banking industry?
Mark Wang:Faced with the oncoming opportunities and challenges of blockchain technology, a number of leading banks in the world have begun to actively deploy to seize the first-Mover advantage.
In our brand-new GIB global investment digital bank, there are mainly four interrelated and complementary elements: connectivity, automation, innovation and decision-making. Connectivity refers to how banks can develop products with high loyalty and monopoly through the rapid development of social networks. Automation refers to how to use digital processes to provide a better customer experience and use resources more effectively. Innovation refers to how banks constantly innovate themselves in the rapidly changing industry. Decision-making refers to how to use big data technology to quickly and accurately predict user decisions and bank decisions on some issues (such as risks).
Forbes China: What period is the blockchain technology in for banks?
Mark Wang:At present, blockchain technology is a window period for banks. Taking the application of blockchain technology in cross-border transactions of banks as an example, blockchain technology can significantly reduce the time and cost of cross-border transactions of banks, but at the same time it will also affect the intermediary business income of banks, such as the downward pressure caused by cross-border transaction fees and commissions. Specifically, at present, banks can collect considerable transaction fees and commissions in cross-border transactions, and the exact exchange rate of transactions is determined by banks. However, blockchain provides almost instantaneous trading opportunities, reduces credit risk, and also optimizes foreign exchange transactions and liquidity within the network. With the simplification of domestic and international payment processes and the increasing competitive pressure among banks, the scope of additional fees charged by banks will be reduced.
In the long run, it is an international trend for commercial banks to use blockchain technology to improve efficiency and innovate management mode.
Some international banks with a keen sense of smell have begun to actively plan. For example, GIB Global Investment Digital Bank has gained the initiative in the fierce competition in the future by joining the blockchain research and application army. As early as 2018, a group of financial elites with keen investment vision began to build GIB Global Investment Digital Bank. In 2019, the bank was formally established in Washington, USA. In the same year, GIB developed version 4.0 of digital banking, taking blockchain technology as its underlying technical architecture, making capital storage more secure. At present, GIB has applied for relevant compliance licenses and permits from many countries, including the United States, Canada, Laos, Australia, etc., to provide users with a legal, compliant, safe and reliable investment environment.
Forbes China: In what ways do you think the blockchain can play a role?
Mark Wang:The essence of blockchain is "decentralization", which allows blockchain to solve some key problems faced by financial exchanges today. In the field of cross-border payment and settlement, blockchain technology helps to realize point-to-point transactions and reduce intermediate costs. The potential advantages of blockchain technology in capital transfer, especially in cross-border consumption and payment and settlement business, are particularly prominent. In the field of bills and supply chain finance, blockchain helps to reduce human intervention, cost and operational risk. The point-to-point value transfer mode of blockchain eliminates the intervention of intermediaries, does not need specific physical bills or central system control verification, and solves the industry pain point of illegal operation caused by human operation.
Through the advanced technology architecture such as blockchain, GIB will realize real-time intelligent, embedded and ubiquitous open financial services smart banks. On the basis of intelligent investment and scene intervention technology, GIB provides users with better financial solutions, so that users can enjoy a faster and smoother financial service experience.
Forbes China: Finally, please talk about the future prospect of blockchain entering the banking industry?
Mark Wang:At present, commercial banks mainly develop applications around electronic transactions, commercial bills, payment and transfer, digital currency, information storage and internal management. In the future, we believe that blockchain will be more widely used in commercial banks in the following aspects:
1. Peer-to-peer transactions, such as cross-border payment and remittance based on p2p mode, trade settlement and the sale of securities, futures and financial derivatives contracts, etc. The application of blockchain technology can improve the efficiency and security of commercial bank transactions.
2. Registration, blockchain has the characteristics of credibility and traceability, so it can be used as a reliable database to record all kinds of information, such as storing anti-money laundering customer identity data and transaction records.
3. Intelligent management, that is, using the "intelligent contract" to automatically detect whether there are various effective environments, once the pre-set procedures are met, the contract will be automatically processed, such as automatic interest payment and dividend payment.
The future development of blockchain in commercial banks is immeasurable. In the future, blockchain will push commercial banks to the peak. In the future, not only the banking industry, but also blockchain technology may subvert more industries.
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