Highlights of retail week: Dicos, Yanji closed the store again; Suning.cn rumors bankruptcy rumors, overseas retailers’ performance rose sharply.

[data]

In October, the total retail sales of social consumer goods was 4,045.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%.

In October, the total retail sales of social consumer goods was 4,045.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%; It increased by 9.4% compared with October 2019, with an average growth rate of 4.6% in two years. Among them, the retail sales of consumer goods other than automobiles reached 3,705.7 billion yuan, up 6.7%.

From January to October, the total retail sales of social consumer goods was 35,851.1 billion yuan, up 14.9% year-on-year, up 8.1% from January to October 2019. Among them, the retail sales of consumer goods other than automobiles reached 32,312.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.1%.

[epidemic prevention]

Beijing: Entertainment venues are open according to 75% flow restriction.

On November 17th, Beijing strictly controlled the management of entertainment places. To implement the requirements of "limited, reserved and peak-shifting", Beijing’s performance venues, entertainment venues, Internet service places and other entertainment venues will be opened according to 75% current restrictions. Do not accept people who have lived in the county (city, district, banner, the same below) where there is more than one case (including one case) infected with Covid-19 within 14 days, or who have lived in the county where the land border port is located within 14 days, and who have entered the country less than 21 days and have abnormal health code and unknown itinerary.

[Policy]

Shanghai will put on record the script killing in the Chamber of Secrets.

On November 17th, Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism issued "Provisions on the Record Management of Script Killing in Shanghai Chamber of Secrets (Draft for Comment)", and Shanghai became the first city in China to include script killing in the record management. The opinion draft makes it clear that the script killing business unit in the Chamber of Secrets will become the "first responsible person" of the script content management, and must undertake the important task of ensuring the script content as the first pass.

[e-commerce]

JD.COM Double 12 Rule released: Continue to "Don’t Stay Up Late"

On November 17th, JD.COM Open Platform 12.12 theme activity investment rules were released. In 2021, JD.COM 12.12 is one of the A+ level marketing activities, and the overall promotion activity lasts for 7 days, inheriting the principle of "not staying up late", and will officially start at 20 o’clock on December 6th.

[new store]

Decathlon’s first national sports park flagship store will open in 2022.

Recently, it is reported that the first Decathlon project in China has been capped, the main structure has been completed, and the fa? ade is being installed. It is expected to be installed by the end of this year and will open in 2022.

The project is located in the west of Intercity Road in Suzhou High-tech Zone (600736, Guba) and south of IKEA, with a planned construction area of over 21,000 square meters. The project integrates consumption, leisure, fitness, sports and amusement, and will be built into Decathlon’s first flagship sports park in China. At the same time, Decathlon joined hands with Yinli Sports Group, the head brand of fitness industry, to build the largest fitness club in Suzhou, Suzhou.

WILLchá, a new tea species, opened its first store in Beijing Chaoyang Joy City (000031, Guba).

On November 12th, the first store of WILLchá officially opened in Beijing Chaoyang Joy City. The store has created a new format of "new tea experience space", which combines the business models of existing tea and retail.

Mango Super Media’s first store, MCITY Magic Capital station, was unveiled.

MCITY Magic station, a subsidiary of Mango Hypermedia, was officially launched in Mango Plaza, Xuhui District, Shanghai. This is the first immersive game experience hall derived from Mango TV’s "Star Detective" and "Escape from the Chamber of Secrets", with a building area of 5,000 square meters. It is also the first store in Shanghai that is completely legal and compliant in terms of fire protection, script guidance and copyright use.

Box Horse opens the first "Fresh Ole" in Shanghai.

On November 15th, Box Horse opened its first box horse fresh Ole store in Shanghai, with an area of about 480 square meters. The store is located on the first floor of Pudong Shopping Mall, No.333 Changli Road, Pudong New Area, and mainly sells discounted fresh food, which comes from the surplus goods ordered by Box Horse, rather than the off-shelf goods. At present, the second box horse fresh Ole store is planned to be located in Chengdu.

Homearch, a home furnishing brand owned by Alibaba, opened its first store nationwide.

-homearch, a home furnishing brand owned by Alibaba, opened its first store in the country in Zone B of Starlight 68 Plaza and officially opened its trial operation on November 19th. The store covers an area of 6,000 square meters, and the business area is divided into three floors, covering multiple home functional spaces and life inspiration scenes.

Official announcement! The fourth Sam member store in Suzhou landed in Wujiang.

Sam member store officially responded that a Sam member store will be opened in suzhou bay, Wujiang by the end of 2022. Up to now, there are three Sam member stores and three stores in Suzhou. Wujiang Sam will become the fourth Sam member store in Suzhou.

Nordic fashion brand Totême China Kaishou branch

Totême, a Nordic fashion brand, recently opened the first offline store in China in Taikooli, Qiantan, Shanghai, after the brand had settled in Tmall to open a flagship store.

Aerospace Wenchuang’s first space-themed restaurant in China opened on December 5.

China Aerospace Wenchuang "Aerospace Theme Self-help Parent-child Restaurant" will officially open on December 5th. Space Restaurant is located on the 2nd floor of Jin Yan City Plaza, Yanjiao Development Zone, Langfang, Hebei Province, with an area of over 2,000 square meters, which is divided into three areas: dining area, immersive role experience area and amusement area.

[closing shop]

A few words also closed the Beijing Wangfu Central Store. At present, more than 20 stores have been closed nationwide.

On November 10th, Yanji, located in the central part of Wangfu, Beijing, was closed again. So far, Yanji has only three stores in Beijing, which are located in Financial Street (000402, Guba), Chaoyang Official House and Wukesong. The eight stores in Beijing shown by official website have been closed for more than half. Compared with the 58 stores in official website, more than 20 stores have been closed.

Dicos Beijing store has been closed by half.

Dicos select store located in Panda Star Kitchen, Jing ‘an West Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing has been closed. Not only that, only 13 Dicos stores are open in Beijing. According to official website of Dicos, there were 36 Dicos restaurants in Beijing, and now there are 13 in Beijing, of which 2 are not yet open and 1 has been suspended.

[financing]

Tea brand future tea wave WILLCHA won Pre-A round of financing.

On November 16th, the new tea brand Beijing Qingnian Chaolu Tea Co., Ltd. (namely Future Tea Wave WILLCHA) won the Pre-A round of financing of Sanqi Mutual Entertainment (002555, Share Bar).

Future Tea Wave WILLCHA is a new tea brand focusing on "Healthy Fine Tea" and dedicated to inheriting and innovating China tea culture.

[enterprise]

Suning.cn: Bankruptcy rumors at the end of December are rumors.

On November 16th, Suning.cn (002024, Share Bar) official Weibo denied that "Suning.cn declared bankruptcy at the end of December" was a rumor, and the company was operating normally. In the first three quarters of this year, Suning.cn achieved operating income of 115.574 billion yuan, down 36.1% year-on-year. The net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was a loss of 7.568 billion yuan, down 1483.29% year-on-year. Deducting non-net profit was a loss of 9.215 billion yuan, down 813.38% year-on-year.

Louis Vuitton denied that he would open a duty-free shop in Sanya, Hainan.

Louis Vuitton recently denied Reuters’s report that it will open its first duty-free store in Haitang Bay, Sanya, Hainan, stressing that the brand will look for new market opportunities in Hainan, but it will not be related to duty-free franchise.

Chen Yihang resigned as CEO of Golden Eagle Trading Group.

On November 17th, Golden Eagle Trading Group Co., Ltd. announced that Chen Yihang had resigned as the CEO of the company, and Wang Heng, the executive director and chairman of the board of directors, had been appointed as the executive director, CEO and chairman of the board of directors, with effect from that day. Chen Yihang joined Golden Eagle Trading Group as CEO in April 2020.

Fangyuan Capital may acquire the business of Papa John and DQ in China.

It is reported that FountainVest Partners has agreed to acquire the controlling stake of China F&B Group from Swedish private equity giant EQT, which is the franchise store operator of Papa John’s and Dairy Queen in China, and manages about 140 Papa John’s pizza restaurants and 660 DQ in China. Negotiations to reach an agreement are under way, and it is uncertain whether it will be completed.

CR Vanguard’s new brand Su Guo MART plans to open 600 stores.

In December, Su Guo will open four Su Guo MART in Jianhu in Yancheng, Hongze in Huai ‘an, Xuzhou and Jingjiang, so as to rapidly promote the new brand exhibition plan. In the next five years, Su Guo will focus on the construction of base areas, speed up the layout of new outlets and open 600 new stores, focusing on hypermarkets and supermarkets. Su Guo MART is a brand-new brand created by CR Vanguard in 2019. In April this year, it opened its first Nanjing store in Yaohuamen Jindi Plaza.

Keep responds to IPO rumors: there is no timetable for IPO planning.

On November 18th, Keep responded to IPO rumors that there was no timetable for the IPO plan. Earlier, it was reported that Keep, a sports technology company, plans to submit listing application documents to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January 2022, and it is expected to complete the listing process as early as May.

L ‘Oré al double 11 live room price dispute, Li Jiaqi and Viya shouted to suspend cooperation.

On November 17th, Li Jiaqi and Viya successively announced that they would suspend all cooperation with the official flagship store of L ‘Oré al Paris because the price concessions of L ‘Oré al Paris ampoule mask in its live broadcast room were inconsistent with previous commitments. Subsequently, on November 18th, L ‘Oré al Paris official Weibo responded with an apology, and said that L ‘Oré al Paris would put forward a proper solution to the suggestions made by Li Jiaqi and Viya on this incident for all relevant consumers. People’s Daily commented that L ‘Oré al could not apologize.

On the 18th, L ‘Oré al gave a solution, and netizens commented differently.

Gome punishes employees for "fishing" and informs them to spread the network.

On November 16th, the Notice on Punishment for Violation of Employees’ Code of Conduct issued by Gome was circulated on the Internet. The document shows that during the period from August 30th to September 30th, Gome found that some employees played games, chatted and listened to songs during working hours. According to the company’s regulations, these 11 employees (including an outsourcing employee) were notified and punished accordingly, which attracted the attention of many people.

China Zhongmian: The Stock Exchange has reviewed the company’s H-share listing application and still needs to obtain approval.

China Zhongbao announced that the Hong Kong Stock Exchange held a listing hearing on November 16, 2021 to consider the company’s application for issuing overseas listed foreign shares (H shares) and listing them on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The announcement clearly points out that the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has reviewed the company’s listing application, but it does not constitute a formal listing approval. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange still has the right to make further comments on the company’s listing application.

[Performance]

Wal-Mart (demand area: 8,000-10,000 square meters) earned $140.525 billion in the third quarter, up 4.3% year-on-year.

Wal-Mart announced its financial report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 as of October 31st. Revenue in the third quarter of this fiscal year was $140.525 billion, a year-on-year increase of 4.3%; The net profit of returning to the mother reached $3.105 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 39.5%. Revenue in the first three quarters was $419.883 billion, a year-on-year increase of 3.1%; The net profit of returning to the mother was $10.111 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 35.2%.

The sales of Wal-Mart’s Sam member stores increased by 13.9%, with a cumulative increase of 25% in two years. Membership income increased by 11.3%, which is the fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth.

The loss attributable to shareholders of Parkson Group in the first three quarters was 42.889 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 79.06.%

In the nine months ended September 30, 2021, Parkson Group achieved a total operating income of 3.528 billion yuan, up 13% year-on-year, and the loss attributable to shareholders was 42.889 million yuan, down 79.06% year-on-year. In the third quarter of 2021, same-store sales decreased by 11.3%. In the nine months ending September 30, 2021, same-store sales increased by 12.3%.

Macy’s sales in the third quarter were $5.44 billion, a year-on-year increase of 36.3%.

Macy’s sales in the third quarter of 2021 were $5.44 billion, a year-on-year increase of 36.3%. The net profit was $239 million, compared with a net loss of $91 million in the same period last year. Compared with 2020, self-owned sales increased by 37.2%, and self-owned and licensed sales increased by 35.6%; Online sales increased by 19% compared with the third quarter of 2020.

Target’s revenue in the third quarter rose 13% to $25.652 billion.

Target department store, the second largest retail department store in the United States, released its third-quarter performance data. Its total revenue rose by 13.3% year-on-year to $25.652 billion, and its net profit rose by 46.7% to $1.488 billion compared with $1.014 billion in the same period of last year. However, the operating profit rate of this department store dropped from 8.5% in the previous year to 7.8%, and the gross profit rate also dropped from 30.6% to 28%.

The third quarter net loss of Perfect Diary parent company Yixian E-commerce narrowed by 43.8%.

On November 18th, YSG, the parent company of Perfect Diary, released its financial report for the third quarter of 2021, showing that its total revenue reached 1.34 billion yuan, up 6.0% year-on-year. The gross profit margin increased by 2.2% to 67.9% year-on-year, and the net loss was 362 million yuan, which was 644 million yuan compared with the same period of last year, narrowing by 43.8% year-on-year.

The first performance of Victoria’s Secret’s independent listing: Q3 sales increased by 7% year on year.

After Victoria’s Secret’s independent listing, its performance in the third quarter still maintained its growth momentum, with quarterly sales increasing by 7% year-on-year to $1.441 billion, operating profit further increasing to $107.9 million from $97.5 million in the same period last year, with a year-on-year increase of 11% and net profit of $75.2 million.

Prada: Prada brand revenue increased by 52% year-on-year in the first nine months

On November 18th, Prada announced that the retail income in the first nine months of 2021 was far better than that in 2019. Retail sales rose further: in the third quarter of 2021, compared with the same period in 2019, it increased by 18% at a fixed exchange rate, and the net income of Prada brand was 1.918 billion euros, which increased by 52% at a fixed exchange rate compared with the same period in nine months in 2020.

Richemont Group’s operating profit in the first half of 2021 increased by 67% compared with the same period two years ago.

In the six months ended September 30th, Compagnie, a Swiss luxury goods company, recorded sales of 8.91 billion euros (US$ 10.2 billion), and its internal operation increased by 65% year-on-year and 20% over the same period two years ago. Operating profit increased by 67% compared with the same period two years ago, reaching 1.95 billion euros and net profit reaching 1.25 billion euros.

Overseas

US retail sales in October hit the biggest increase since March this year.

US retail sales in October increased by 1.7% from the previous month. Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist of the American Retail Federation, said that due to the COVID-19 epidemic, American consumers continued to spend more on goods than on services, which increased the pressure on the supply chain and led to an increase in commodity prices. With the arrival of the year-end holiday, consumer spending on goods may still increase in November and December.

7-11 Osaka, a new shopping mall, opened, claiming to be more fun than a theme park.

On November 17th, SEVEN PARK AMAMI, a new shopping mall planned and operated by 7-11, opened in Osaka. The shopping mall is located at No.500, Sandingmu, Tianmei East, Songyuan City, Osaka Prefecture. It is a theater shopping center planned by Seven&I Holdings, the parent company of 7-11. The project covers an area of about 67,000 ㎡. In addition to retail and catering, it also plans avant-garde virtual space and many entertainment activities, claiming to be a theme park with no loss of fun.

Ralph Lauren opens a new flagship store in Milan.

Ralph Lauren, an American fashion brand, recently opened a new flagship store in Milan, which has five floors and covers an area of nearly 16,000 square feet. In addition to selling Ralph Lauren men’s and women’s ready-to-wear clothes and RRL brand products, it also has home gifts and decorative accessories, and has Ralph Lauren bar.

Burberry opens an immersive pop-up shop in South Korea.

Burberry opened an immersive pop-up shop in Jeju Island, South Korea, which not only showed and sold the latest coat series of the brand to consumers, but also blurred the boundaries between nature and technology, indoor and outdoor, truth and imagination through various devices, and opened Thomas’s Cafe named after the brand founder.

Image source: Unless otherwise specified, they all come from official channels of brands and enterprises.

Sources: Win Business Network, Leju Finance, Viewpoint Real Estate New Media, National Bureau of Statistics, CCTV News, E-commerce Network, 36Kr, Kaipineapple Finance, Xinhua News Agency, Zhitong Finance, China Economic Net, Retail Krypton Planet, Sina Finance, etc.

(Editor: Wang Zhiqiang HF013)

Haier: quality leads to create a world-class enterprise.

Quality standards should be defined by users.

Haier: quality leads to create a world-class enterprise.

□ Our reporter Zhu Wenda

As a representative of the real economy, Haier has entered more than 200 countries and regions around the world, and has been ranked among the top 10 "Top 50 Global Brands in China" by Google & Kaidu for seven consecutive years. If China enterprises are facing the world to create a shining business card of China quality, then Haier is one of the best practitioners and leaders.

Haier pioneered a quality management system with the best user experience as the core. Haier believes that quality standards should be defined by users, inspection is not the standard, and customer satisfaction is the standard. Therefore, quality should pay attention not only to performance standards, but also to user experience. Haier’s quality management system has triggered a learning trend of cross-industry, cross-field and cross-cultural enterprises, which has made the world see the innovative development of quality management in China and provided the world with a "China plan" for quality management.

Initiate-

China’s quality management model leads the Internet of Things era.

In the development of human society, every innovation in the field of quality has promoted the progress of production technology and the improvement of residents’ quality of life. Looking back at the history of global quality management, we have to mention some famous quality management methods, such as Total Quality Management and Six Sigma: the popularization and application of Total Quality Management has made Japanese products synonymous with high quality in the world; After the success of General Electric, Six Sigma went to the world.


Haier team took part in the presentation of the basic quality innovation project of China Electronic Quality Association and China Light Industry Federation.

Since the reform and opening up, China has actively studied advanced quality management theories and methods from Japan, the United States, Europe and other countries, and applied them to enterprise practice, which has promoted the improvement of product quality in China. Entering the Internet of Things era, the business environment is constantly changing, and the rapid economic development in China provides the soil for the birth of quality management mode in China.

Haier pioneered a quality management system with the best user experience as the core.

First, how should quality be defined? Haier believes that quality standards should be defined by users, inspection is not the standard, and customer satisfaction is the standard. Therefore, quality should pay attention not only to performance standards, but also to user experience.

The traditional quality system includes the whole process of R&D, manufacturing, production and service, which is linear. But Haier’s quality system is different. Haier takes users as the center, makes users become producers and consumers, participates in R&D, design and manufacturing in the whole process, and builds a continuously evolving experience cloud platform to provide users with new experiences of diversified scenes, personalized customization and lifelong iteration.

For example, before 2016, there will be at least 10 cm gap between refrigerators and cabinets in users’ homes around the world. In 2016, casarte, a high-end brand of Haier Group, reduced the distance from 10 cm to 2 cm. However, Chinese consumers are still not satisfied, because the refrigerator and home are still not perfectly integrated, and it is easy to accumulate dust in the gap and inconvenient to take care of. This is also a problem that the industry has been unable to solve for many years, because the door of the ordinary refrigerator can not be opened after being embedded at zero distance, and the two sides can not effectively dissipate heat, which will bring great security risks. Focusing on users’ needs, casarte R&D personnel eliminated the last 2 cm in five years. On the one hand, they sorted out 4 major technical topics and 45 sub-topics, and set up a technical team of nearly 100 people in 7 major professional directions, which lasted more than 20,000 hours to create an original scientific and technological refrigeration system; On the other hand, after dozens of iterations, they innovatively introduced the design scheme of the second rotating shaft, and finally designed and developed the original technology of double-axis track-changing hinge, which realized that the refrigerator can be flush with the cabinet and connected with the lines.

Secondly, Haier endowed the quality system with higher standards and connotations, namely "high-quality products, high-quality systems and high-quality people".

High-quality products should have two characteristics: first, high reliability, which is the basis of quality; The second is high brand loyalty.

The high-quality system not only opens up the whole process from R&D and design, module procurement to intelligent manufacturing, intelligent service and quality guarantee period within the enterprise, but also covers the ecological stakeholders of all nodes such as suppliers, distributors and service providers, and realizes the high quality of the whole process, all nodes and all cycles.

High-quality talents are not only the foundation of the quality system, but also the continuation and guarantee of the system. In Haier, it is necessary to establish a high-quality workforce and a corporate culture that respects users. It is necessary to instill the corporate culture in the hearts of every employee, so that the craftsman spirit can be turned into corporate genes and integrated into the DNA of the enterprise.

Relying on the leading quality management concept and practice, Haier won the first China Quality Award in 2013. In addition, Haier has won many domestic and international awards, including the national quality benchmark, the quality technology award, and the "Olympic" (ICQCC project) gold award in the quality industry, and has become one of the enterprises with the largest number of such awards in the industry.

Subversion-

Digital intelligence drives life cycle quality guidance.

Economic development and technological innovation promote the continuous innovation of quality management system and methods. In order to keep pace with the times, enterprises must focus on improving the quality management level, especially to conform to the new round of scientific and technological revolution and the general trend of industrial transformation, accelerate the construction of digital and intelligent quality control mode, and realize the digital upgrade of quality management.

Haier exerts its strength from the practice of innovative quality management, and drives the innovation of quality management with digitalization and intelligence. First of all, in terms of equipment as the production base, Haier built an intelligent equipment self-optimization system based on digital twin technology, and built an IOT platform for equipment. Through the collection of key parameters and real-time interconnection of parameters, it can monitor equipment, process and production operation parameters at any time, diagnose and deal with abnormal data found in time, and turn the original fault maintenance into predictive maintenance beforehand. Secondly, in terms of technology, Haier has built a process design platform integrating R&D and manufacturing, providing a digital, traceable, reusable data base for lean manufacturing and intelligent operation.

Technological innovation is an important part of digital and intelligent innovation quality management. Haier carries out innovation around three key points: first, automation technology innovation, extensive application of intelligent cooperative robots and logistics automation technology, and creation of intelligent man-machine cooperation working environment; Secondly, detection technology innovation, Haier has carried out all-factor and process verification experiments in the application of visual detection technology and performance intelligent detection station of sound quality intelligent detection system; Third, the new ICT technology innovation, the whole industry has opened up hundreds of application scenarios of the integration of information technology and manufacturing technology, such as 5G+ machine vision, 5G+AR, 5G+AI+MEC, and formed standardized and modular products that can be quickly copied. At present, it has successfully empowered 20 world-leading interconnected factories, helped 4 factories pass the level 4 certification of intelligent manufacturing maturity, 2 factories were awarded the intelligent manufacturing benchmark, and 6 factories were awarded the "lighthouse factory" in the world.


Intelligent+5G Interconnected Factory Based on Haier COSMOPlat Mass Customization Mode

In terms of test and inspection equipment support, Haier has the first-class testing capability in the home appliance industry and the international leading 700+ professional laboratory, covering 50,000+testing projects in the field of whole machine and module testing, and has been recognized by many international authoritative testing institutions such as CNAS, VDE, JET, UL and TüV, and obtained mutual recognition of data. At the same time, Haier has the first "Industrial Product Quality Control and Technical Evaluation Laboratory" awarded by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China.

Haier did not stop at the digital technological innovation of quality management, but also exported the "Haier Scheme" for the high-quality experience of users and the high-quality development of the industry by transforming the achievements of quality technological innovation into patents. For example, in the process of breaking through the needs of users, Haier has applied for 17 patents, including 6 invention patents, such as intelligent detection and isolation technology of communication faults in control panels, which has solved the quality management problems that have plagued the industry for many years.

Pilotage-

Help the high-quality development of China’s real economy

The fourth industrial revolution is subverting almost all industries. At present, a new generation of information technologies, such as Internet of Things, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and big data, are deeply integrated, breaking the boundaries between the digital world and the physical world. At the moment when Chinese-style modernization is fully promoted, promoting the high-quality development of the real economy with digitalization has become a "required question" for enterprises.

Based on nearly 40 years’ manufacturing experience, Haier initiated the COSMOPlat industrial Internet platform in kaos in 2017, which takes mass customization as the core and introduces users’ full-process participation experience. While empowering Haier to transform itself from a "digital enterprise" to a "digital enterprise", it also empowers more enterprises and industries to achieve high-quality development.

On the enterprise side, Compass is an RV manufacturer in Rongcheng, Shandong Province, and was selected as the second batch of state-level specialized and innovative "Little Giant" enterprises. Aiming at the pain points of the original products, such as homogenization, high cost, long cycle and weak R&D ability, kaos COSMOPlat has provided transformation consulting, lean transformation and mass customization mode transformation schemes to help it link ecological resources and change its business model, which has reduced its procurement cost by 7.3%, shortened its delivery cycle by 43%, increased its revenue by nearly five times and achieved rapid growth in profits. Empowered by COSMOPlat of kaos, Compass has changed from a small and medium-sized enterprise that originally worked as an OEM for Australian RV dealers to an eco-operator of RV travel.


Kaos Industrial Internet

On the industry side, kaos COSMOPlat promotes the digital transformation of the whole industrial chain, realizing the transformation from a "walled garden" to an endless "tropical rainforest", and promoting the deep integration, quality improvement and efficiency improvement of the whole industry. Taking the ceramic industry as an example, COSMOPlat of kaos cooperated with Jingdezhen of Jiangxi to build a digital platform for ceramic industry to serve the development of the industry and enterprise transformation. At present, the platform has been put into operation, attracting tens of thousands of industrial service providers, more than 300 ceramic masters and more than 3,000 upstream and downstream enterprises in the national ceramic industry chain.


Electromagnetic compatibility detection of household appliances

On the urban side, COSMOPlat of kaos initiated the "1+N+X" model of industrial internet empowering urban digital economy, that is, to build a comprehensive service platform for city-level industrial internet enterprises, N industrial internet platforms in specific industries and fields and X industrial internet demonstration parks. Taking Qingdao as an example, by the end of 2022, the platform had empowered 4,500 enterprises and added an output value of 30 billion yuan.

As the first batch of enterprises in China to explore intelligent manufacturing, Haier has always taken the initiative to explore and innovate, driven the digital transformation and upgrading of enterprises with platform empowerment, released innovative kinetic energy for the industry with scientific and technological innovation, created a win-win situation with all ecological parties, and helped the high-quality development of the national digital economy. In 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the first batch of national-level "digital navigation" demonstration lists, and Haier ranked first among 30 enterprises and became the benchmark of digital navigation.

Universality—

Quality management in China has changed from "bringing in" to "going out"

In the late 1970s, total quality management was introduced into China and gradually took root. In the early 1990s, China introduced the ISO9000 quality management series standard certification mechanism, which promoted the systematization and standardization of enterprise quality management and brought it into line with international standards.

Total quality management emphasizes that quality is produced rather than tested, and the final quality is guaranteed by quality management in production. Six Sigma is a management tool based on data to analyze the improvement of on-site ability, which can be interpreted as 3~4 mistakes in every one million opportunities. What they have in common is that they are based on the internal production process of the enterprise.

China is not only a big manufacturing country, but also a big consumption country. With the continuous growth of consumer demand, the integration of production and consumption has become a major feature of China manufacturing. On the basis of the introduction and implementation of total quality management and Six Sigma management, Haier explores a high-quality management system with the integration of production and consumption and "quality for all", and forms a quality management model with China characteristics. China’s quality management has also experienced the process from "bringing in" to "going out".

Haier’s quality management model has aroused the learning and reference of cross-industry, cross-field and cross-cultural enterprises, not only domestic leading automobile enterprises and dairy enterprises, but also representatives from countries along the Belt and Road such as Spain, Serbia and Israel. Quality Progress, an international authoritative journal, published "Consolidating Intelligent Interconnected Quality System and Improving User’s Product Experience" to deeply understand Haier’s quality strength and let the world see the new development of quality management in China.

Quality development is the way of rejuvenating the country and the strategy of strengthening the country. Through continuous innovation and practice, enterprises in China, represented by Haier, are pushing to make attaching importance to quality and creating quality a social trend, making the pursuit of Excellence and advocating first-class a value orientation, and finally realizing the transformation from China manufacturing to China creation, from China speed to China quality, and from China products to China brand, thus contributing to the world the excellent quality management mode from China.

China Quality Newspaper [Special Issue of China Quality (Chengdu) Conference]

Good morning Olympics | After 9 years, China won the gold medal in fencing again, and the foreign teacher picked up Sun Yiwen.

Today’s "Good Morning Olympics" includes: China won the Olympic gold medal again in fencing after 9 years, and the foreign teachers carried the champion on their shoulders; A major mistake of Japanese gymnastics brother missed the horizontal bar final; The funeral of the assassinated president in Haiti was interrupted by gunshots; Heavy rains in India have killed 125 people.

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Global focus

China once again won the Olympic gold medal in fencing after 9 years, and the foreign teachers carried the champion on their shoulders.

On July 24th, Beijing time, in the women’s individual epee final of the fencing event of the Tokyo Olympic Games, China’s Sun Yiwen (right) defeated Romanian popescu 11-10 to win the championship. French foreign teacher Yuge Oberli carried Sun Yiwen on her shoulders and finally gave Sun Yiwen a five-star red flag.

Oberli and Sun Yiwen celebrate winning the championship. Oberli was a legendary fencer in the world when he was an athlete-he won the individual silver medal in men’s epee at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and the gold medal in men’s epee team at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. After 2014, Oberli led the French epee team to win the World Championships and the World Cup for many times, and led the French men’s epee team to win the team championship at the Rio Olympic Games. Since September 2016, Oberli has been the coach of men’s and women’s epee team of China fencing team.

Big mistake of Japanese gymnastics brother missed the horizontal bar final.

On July 24th, Beijing time, the first competition day of competitive gymnastics was held in Tokyo Olympic Games. In the ongoing men’s qualifying competition, Uchimura Kohei, the first Japanese gymnast, made a major mistake in the horizontal bar event and dropped his equipment, so he missed the horizontal bar final.

 

Wu Jingyu lost the taekwondo women’s 49 kg resurrection and missed the bronze medal.

On July 24th, Beijing time, Wu Jingyu lost to Serbian teenager 9-12 in the women’s 49kg Taekwondo resurrection of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, and missed the bronze medal.

A quick tour of the world

The funeral of Haitian assassinated President moise was held, and the scene was interrupted by a sudden gunshot.

On July 23rd, 2021, in Cap Haitien, Haiti, the funeral of Haitian President moise was held. At the funeral, moise’s widow Martina spoke alternately in French and Creole. However, the funeral was interrupted by gunfire and protests nearby. A high-level American delegation attending the funeral left urgently, while other dignitaries hid in the car to avoid danger.

Continuous heavy rainfall in the Philippines caused floods and more than 15,000 people were evacuated.

On July 24th, 2021, local time, people rode through the flooded road in rizal province. Due to the continuous heavy rainfall in recent days, floods occurred in many places in the Philippines, and more than 15,000 people were evacuated. 

Heavy rains in India have killed 125 people. Modi: Providing assistance to the affected people.

On July 24th, 2021, in Maharashtra, India, people trapped in the flood were rescued. It is reported that heavy rain caused landslides and other accidents in the local area, and the death toll has risen to 125. Experts say that Maharashtra, India, suffered the worst rainfall in 40 years in July.

New confirmed cases reached a new high in a single day, and New South Wales, Australia, entered a state of emergency.

On July 24, 2021, in Sydney, Australia, pedestrians walked across the empty Sydney Opera House. New South Wales, where Sydney, Australia’s largest city, is located, declared a "state of emergency" on the 23rd. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, as of 8: 00 pm on the 22nd, there were 136 new confirmed cases in COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, and one new death case. The number of newly confirmed cases in a single day reached a new high.

Lake water in Argentine village was polluted and turned pink.

On July 23rd, 2021, local time, in the province of Chubat, Patagonia, Argentina, the lagoon in the local village became a "pink sea". This color is caused by sodium sulfite preservative, which pollutes local river water and urban water.

 China’s giant panda Huanhuan will give birth to twins.

On July 23rd, 2021, Aignan, France, Bauvalle Wildlife Park announced that Huanhuan, a giant panda from China, would give birth to twins. Following the discovery of the first embryo in Huanhuan’s womb on the 20th, the zoo veterinarian found the second embryo on the other side of Huanhuan’s uterus on the 23rd when doing ultrasound examination for Huanhuan.

On the morning of July 25th, 2021, in Zhongtan Road, Putuo District, Shanghai, a vegetable delivery brother who bought vegetables ding-dong delivered the bill through the stagnant water section. The Central Meteorological Observatory predicts that "Fireworks" will move to the north-north direction at a speed of 15-20 kilometers per hour, and will land in the coastal area from Xiangshan, Zhejiang to Qidong, Jiangsu from noon to evening today. On the morning of 25th, Weibo @ Shanghai Weather, the official of Shanghai Meteorological Bureau, said in the comment area that the possibility of landing in Shanghai was not ruled out.

This article pictures Xinhua News Agency, people’s vision, and vision. 

 

From Dilemma to Revival, SAIC-GM’s Self-confident Rise and Future Layout

SAIC-GM has been very busy in recent months.

Within half a year, SAIC-GM launched a number of new cars, and the effect of the "one-price" policy was even more immediate, which seemed to instantly activate the vitality of this old joint venture car company. "In the last two or three months, we have done a lot of actions and met with you frequently." On the eve of the Guangzhou Auto Show in 2024, Haitao Xue, the deputy general manager of SAIC-GM, said this in a relaxed tone. Although this remark is somewhat joking, it is a true portrayal of a series of intensive new product launches and marketing offensives of SAIC-GM in recent months.

In November, in the face of increasingly fierce competition in the market environment, SAIC-GM achieved another great success. Data show that in November, SAIC-GM’s terminal sales volume was 66,797 vehicles (including exports), up 14.7% from the previous month, setting a new high in the year and maintaining growth for five consecutive months. At the same time, the performance of new energy vehicles was particularly bright. In November, the terminal sales reached 10,010 vehicles, up 5.9% from the previous month. From January to November, the cumulative terminal sales of SAIC-GM exceeded 600,000 vehicles, and the cumulative sales of new energy vehicles reached 97,056 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 77.4%.

This series of data not only reflects the signs of SAIC-GM’s gradual recovery in the predicament, but also marks its staged success in the rapid layout in the fields of new energy, intelligence and high-end. As one of the mainstream joint venture car companies in China, SAIC-GM has been accelerating its transformation in recent years, making full efforts in products, technology, marketing, services and other fields, showing strong market resilience.

New energy strategy: the key layout from oil-electric dual track to electrification transformation

The wave of new energy is irreversible, and the transformation process of SAIC-GM, especially in the field of new energy, is particularly critical.

As one of the strongest R&D centers in China, Pan Asia Technology Center is regarded as the "trump card" of SAIC-GM. From chassis adjustment to body design, Pan Asia always adheres to the highest standards in the world. In the field of new energy, Pan Asia also holds enough trump cards … From the development of Ultium platform to the promotion of intelligent solutions for new energy vehicles, this R&D center has gradually brought SAIC-GM into the electrified track.

In order to cope with the drastic changes in China’s automobile market, SAIC-GM set its sights on the development of "oil-electric dual track" from the very beginning. In November, Buick MPV SkyTeam performed well, with monthly sales reaching 10,211 vehicles, up 16% from the previous month. Among them, the GL8 family is still the main force in the market, and the new energy model GL8 PHEV is a leader. As a luxury gold standard hybrid MPV, GL8 PHEV’s sales volume and orders have maintained a double-digit growth. At present, the number of orders of GL8 PHEV is still increasing, and the market share of hybrid MPVs above 350,000 yuan exceeds 30%, and the market share of MPVs above 380,000 yuan is close to 70%.

At the same time, as a pure electric vehicle, its sales in November also reached 3,039 vehicles, up 55.7% year-on-year. With its spacious interior space, solid battery life and excellent safety, Buick E5 attracts a large number of consumers. Since its launch in September, E5 has been selling more than 3,000 vehicles a month for three consecutive months, making it another brilliant work of SAIC-GM in the field of new energy.

In the field of new energy, SAIC-GM continued to promote the expansion and optimization of product matrix. From January to November, the sales volume of new energy vehicles was close to 100,000, making it one of the fastest brands in the joint venture vehicle enterprises. Buick and Cadillac’s "electrification+intelligence" double upgrades have made SAIC-GM not only occupy a place in the fuel automobile market, but also gradually occupy a leading position in the field of new energy vehicles.

In the next two years, SAIC-GM plans to launch 12 new energy vehicles, covering a complete product matrix from compact cars to large SUVs. This not only shows the technical background, but also reserves enough "ammunition" for the competition in the new energy era, which has injected a strong impetus into brand reshaping.

Price offensive: innovation "limited price" won!

It is natural for Buick to continue to improve by accelerating the renewal of new models, distinctive product strength, and superimposing the "stable and ruthless" marketing strategy and escalating value system.

In the second half of 2024, the Buick brand’s "limited time and one price" strategy became an important driver of SAIC-GM’s successful recovery. What is a "bite price"? In short, the price of car models is unified throughout the country, regardless of regions and dealers, and consumers do not need to bargain with sales staff in the process of buying cars. This policy not only saves consumers time and energy, but also avoids the psychological gap after buying a car. At the same time, there is no need for price competition among dealers, but more energy is devoted to improving service quality.

This strategy directly promoted the growth of sales. Through this innovative strategy, SAIC-GM quickly attracted a large number of consumers’ attention and activated market demand. After the release of the limited-time "one-price", orders quickly exceeded 5,000 units during the National Day. In addition, the continued sales of Plus can not be separated from the promotion of one-price strategy. With this strategy, Buick Angkewei Plus has gained a firm foothold in the SUV market and become an important force that cannot be ignored in the current fuel auto market. According to the latest data, the sales volume of Angkewei family reached 18,300, of which the sales volume of Angkewei Plus reached 12,807, setting a new record for the monthly sales volume of 2.0T displacement vehicles.

In the field of cars, since the launch of Buick 2025 Platinum, the sales volume has continued to rise, with 4,603 vehicles sold in November, up 50.5% year-on-year. The performance of this series of products has laid a good foundation for SAIC-GM’s market recovery.

In addition, GL8 "Tiantuan" also performed well. The luxury gold standard MPV—— listed at the end of October-the new GL8 Luzun terminal is hot, with orders increasing by 108% month-on-month; For the first time, the GL8 land business class entered the price range of less than 200,000 yuan, further lowering the purchase threshold for MPV users. In addition, the 2025 CENTURY was launched less than a month ago, with sales volume increasing by 84.4% month-on-month, and orders rising by more than 240% month-on-month, continuing to write the "century" legend of the top luxury MPV market.

Under the strategic deployment of SAIC-GM, Cadillac brand will not be outdone. This year, Cadillac launched XT6, a luxury six-seat SUV with all road conditions. With the market pricing advantage and replacement subsidy policy, it quickly broke the barriers for consumers to buy luxury SUVs. In November, Cadillac’s brand-new XT5 also sold well, with 6,127 new orders. Since its listing, it has ordered more than 6,000 units and delivered 3,933 units for three consecutive months, and the market share of key cities has risen to the top three. Star rear-drive car CT5 sold 5,306 cars in November, up 9% from the previous month. Undoubtedly, both Buick and Cadillac have demonstrated the firm steps of SAIC-GM in the direction of high-end and electrification.

From channel to organization, the gold content of SAIC-GM system strength is still improving.

At present, the sales volume of SAIC-GM terminals has stabilized at more than 50,000 vehicles per month, and it has continued to grow for five months, obviously stabilizing and warming up.

In fact, the success of SAIC-GM is not only reflected in the breakthrough of products and sales, but also in the deep localization strategy and organizational optimization behind it. This year, SAIC-GM successfully "destocked" more than 150,000 vehicles, significantly improving the health of the channel. Combined with the new marketing strategy and management optimization, the company’s market performance gradually picked up. In particular, the comprehensive optimization and integration of production efficiency, organizational structure, core team and operating costs have laid a solid foundation for the company’s future sustainable development.

In terms of channels, SAIC-GM has strengthened its support for dealer networks through digital means. It not only provides a more transparent data sharing platform, but also helps dealers reduce operating costs through the optimization of financial policies. This "empowerment management" model has won more support for the brand in the market competition.

More importantly, thanks to the full support of the parent companies SAIC and GM, SAIC-GM has formulated a series of long-term development plans for the future, including product planning for the next decade. With the continuous introduction of more new technologies and new models, SAIC-GM is accumulating strength for further breakthroughs in the coming year.

In the face of the deep transformation of the market, SAIC-GM has demonstrated strong coping ability and market acumen. Whether it is continuous innovation in new energy and intelligence, or multi-dimensional adjustment in products, technology and marketing, it shows that it is fully prepared for healthy and sustainable development in the future. With the gradual recovery of sales in 2024, SAIC-GM is expected to continue to be at the forefront in the field of new energy and intelligence in 2025. The strong rebound in monthly sales once again verified its strong competitiveness against the trend in the predicament.

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For SAIC-GM, the recovery of sales volume is not only a staged victory, but also a starting point for redefining brand value and winning back consumer trust. Under the circumstance of accelerating the reshuffle of China automobile market, SAIC-GM is moving towards the peak again at a steady pace.

At present, China auto market is undergoing a deep transformation, and opportunities and challenges coexist. As the leader of joint venture car companies in the era of smart electricity, SAIC-GM has continuously adjusted its strategy and demonstrated its strong resistance to pressure with innovative breakthroughs. A series of reform measures have demonstrated the confidence and determination of SAIC-GM, as if to declare to the market that the past trough is only temporary. In the future, it will continue to meet the challenges with an open attitude, and with its strong brand influence, technical strength and market insight, it will set off new waves in China and even the global automobile market.

We are confident that we can see the day when SAIC-GM "the king returns".

Crossing the gap from 1 to 10 empowers thousands of industries.

CCTV News:Let’s look at the series of reports of "High-quality Development Research Bank". If basic research is a breakthrough from 0 to 1, then the industrialization of scientific research results is a leap from 1 to 10. In the process of high-quality development, it is very important to realize this leap. Facing the gap between scientific research and industry, Shanghai, which has strong scientific research strength, is looking for a way to solve it. Recently, Pudong New Area has released a list of the supply and demand sides of scientific research transformation. What’s the effect? Let’s watch the reporter’s investigation together.

When the reporter came to Shanghai Pudong New Area Science and Technology Commission, the staff were busy sorting out the latest docking situation. A few months ago, they launched a public service platform to collect technology and innovation needs for the whole society. Unexpectedly, more than 120 items were collected soon.

Enterprises need core technology, but they can’t find innovative resources. Scientific research institutions have innovative achievements, but they don’t know how to transform them. Even Shanghai, the "capital of innovation", is facing this practical problem. The heads of some scientific research institutions frankly told reporters that the crux of the problem lies in the imbalance between supply and demand of innovative resources.

How to get through the blocking point and cross the gap from academic to industrial? Shanghai established the Achievement Transformation Center of China Academy of Engineering, opened large scientific facilities to large enterprises, and built embedded innovation spaces in science and technology zones such as Lingang and Zhangjiang, which awakened a large number of sleeping scientific research resources.

In order to help enterprises accurately find the source of innovation, at the beginning of this year, Pudong New Area publicly collected the demand for scientific and technological innovation for enterprises in the fields of information technology, biomedicine and artificial intelligence for the first time, formed a "list" of scientific research projects, published it on public platforms, and docked the corresponding enterprises or research institutes by "revealing the list".

A platform to build a bridge of "two-way going"

In just a few months, seven major scientific research projects have been achieved, and the role played by this "list" cannot be underestimated. So, what is the current progress of the first batch of projects? What is the story behind their "two-way trip"? Continue to look at the reporter’s investigation.

This docking is undertaken by the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center. When the reporter came to the China Innovation Center, he was catching up with the first batch of projects in-depth docking, and talked about topics such as joint research and talent training. The two sides talked endlessly.

Yang Weizhong is the head of a chemical fiber manufacturing enterprise. Because a key technology has not been solved, his industrial renewal has been stagnant. This time, he issued a scientific research demand with a try attitude. I didn’t expect to get a response from a professional research institute in Jiangsu three days later, and the scientific research results that the other party had painstakingly studied for more than a year also had a place to use.

Guochuang Center is a national scientific research and innovation platform with rich innovation resources. Here, the reporter saw many industrialization achievements. However, the relevant person in charge told reporters with regret that many scientific research results are still idle on the bookshelf.

The transformation from technology to industry requires deep cooperation and repeated polishing between scientific research institutes and enterprises. This process is long and trivial. Without a good cooperation mechanism, it often fails on the way. As an important platform for Industry-University-Research’s integration in the Yangtze River Delta region, the Innovation Center is building a variety of new R&D carriers to help scientific research institutions, enterprises and even the government adopt various modes of cooperation.

Cross-border integration to create a "tropical rainforest" innovative ecology

From the reporter’s investigation, we can easily see that once the supply and demand of scientific research and industry are blocked, it will stimulate new impetus and even produce new industries and tracks. It is precisely because of this that Shanghai Pudong is accelerating cross-border integration, creating a "tropical rain forest"-style innovative ecology and accelerating the layout of future industries such as artificial intelligence.

In Shanghai Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang University, a research on new drugs is under way. Different from the traditional cytological research, researchers use artificial intelligence technology to analyze the protein structure of bacteria. Team members come from computer, physics, biology and other disciplines. Interdisciplinary research like this has been widely carried out in many fields.

Relying on the interdisciplinary research platform based on computing, Shanghai Pudong is laying out the artificial intelligence industry, and through the opening of innovation centers by large enterprises, it will form a collaborative innovation ecology in which large, medium and small enterprises are United and Industry-University-Research is integrated, so as to accelerate the transformation of scientific research into technology and empower thousands of industries.

Not long ago, Pudong also opened the intelligent networked automobile test demonstration zone to the society.

CCTV reporter:The road around me is the first open test road for self-driving cars in the central city of a megacity in China. At the scene, we saw that intelligent networked cars were tested on the road from time to time. This road is equipped with complex road conditions and multiple traffic lights, which can meet the application of multiple scenarios including intelligent driving and intelligent parking.

In the subsequent experience, the reporter learned that this section of road can not only meet the technical test requirements, but also be standardized in terms of road rights and driving rules, and constantly meet the needs of industrial innovation and application.

In addition to "future cars", Pudong also takes six hard-core industries such as "innovative drugs", "China Core", "intelligent manufacturing", "blue sky dream" and "data port" as the main direction in the future, and accelerates the promotion of all these key industries to the scale of "100 billion".

Villi, Director of Science, Technology and Economic Committee of Pudong New Area:Give full play to the strategic role of scientific and technological innovation, build a innovation chain from basic research, technical research to the transformation and application of achievements, lay out new tracks around five areas, such as future information, future health, future intelligence, future energy and future space, cultivate future industrial clusters and promote high-quality economic development.

Try first, break the ice. Strong scientific research strength has given Shanghai Pudong a foundation from 0 to 1. Nowadays, as a leading area of socialist modernization, it is accelerating the deep integration of innovation chain and industrial chain, and striving to cross the gap from 1 to 10. We have reason to believe that with the continuous improvement of innovation ecology, Pudong will achieve a continuous breakthrough from 10 to 100 in the future.

Are pregnant women more likely to be infected with COVID-19? Can you give birth naturally after infection? What should be paid attention to in the prenatal examination at the peak of infection? 【 tips

  Are pregnant women more susceptible to COVID-19?

  Can you give birth naturally after being infected with COVID-19?

  At the peak of infection

  What are the precautions for pregnant women’s prenatal examination?

  Zhao Yangyu, director of obstetrics and gynecology, Peking University Third HospitalTo answer

  Are pregnant women more likely to be infected with COVID-19?

  Pregnant women are as susceptible as the general population. If pregnant women have no basic diseases, their clinical manifestations are similar to those of the general population.

  For pregnant women with other diseases, such as asthma and hypertension, we should pay attention to the clinical symptoms, strengthen daily self-monitoring, seek medical advice in time if they are not suitable, and be alert to the occurrence of severe diseases caused by the superposition of pregnancy complications and COVID-19 infection symptoms.

  Special reminder, pregnant women in the third trimester, if there is abnormal fetal movement, bleeding, stomachache. Fatigue, weakness, etc., even if you don’t have a fever, you should go to the hospital. It may not be COVID-19 infection, but some of them are complications in the third trimester.

  Can you give birth naturally after infection?

  Can I choose labor analgesia?

  After COVID-19’s infection, if it is mild, under strict protection, pregnant women can choose to give birth naturally. If it is severe or critical, it needs to be discussed by multidisciplinary teams. If pregnant women can’t tolerate it, they should choose cesarean section.

  In the process of natural delivery, it is not taboo for the parturient infected with COVID-19 to have labor analgesia. Labor analgesia can also relieve hyperventilation caused by pain and anxiety, reduce maternal oxygen consumption and burden of cardiopulmonary function, and the natural delivery process may be smoother.

  At the peak of infection

  What should pregnant women pay attention to in prenatal examination?

  At the peak of infection, pregnant women are advised to know about the changes of outpatient time in midwifery institutions. Many midwifery institutions have online medical treatment, and online consultation can reduce the number of visits to hospitals.

  Some inspection items have critical time points, which should not be postponed (such as ectopic pregnancy screening, NT, prenatal screening or prenatal diagnosis, fetal ultrasound screening in the second trimester, etc.). We should communicate with the prenatal hospital and the attending doctor to determine the prenatal inspection plan.

  Pregnant women should be well protected during prenatal examination, and the suggestions are as follows:

  One isThrough online appointment registration and appointment inspection, etc., know the relevant inspection contents in advance to minimize the stay time in the hospital;

  The second isWear N95 mask when visiting a medical institution;

  The third isTry not to take crowded public transport;

  The fourth isKeep a distance of more than 2 meters from others as much as possible;

  The fifth isAfter touching suspicious exposure, it is recommended to wash your hands with hand sanitizer or soap through running water according to the standard washing method, or use antibacterial hand gel containing 75% alcohol.

About the scope and frequency of nucleic acid detection, the construction of 15-minute nucleic acid sampling circle … authoritative response!

The State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a press conference in Beijing on June 9th to introduce the situation of nucleic acid detection and epidemic prevention and control. Let’s look at it together-

If there is no epidemic situation and no import risk, nucleic acid inspection should not be the norm.

After the outbreak of cluster epidemic, according to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, we should scientifically determine the strategy of nucleic acid detection, delimit the scope and frequency of nucleic acid detection, avoid blindly expanding the scope of nucleic acid detection for all staff, and carry out nucleic acid detection in turn according to the risk level from high to low. The first nucleic acid screening should be completed in the sealed control area within 24 hours, and the first full-time nucleic acid screening should be completed in the control area within 48 hours. That is to say, after the outbreak, the personnel, scope and frequency of nucleic acid testing must be arranged as a whole according to the needs of epidemic prevention and control. People in medium and high-risk areas, sealed control areas and control areas are not allowed to go out, but if it is really necessary to travel in low-risk areas and prevention areas where the epidemic occurs, a 48-hour negative nucleic acid test certificate is required. All localities can make adjustments according to the needs of epidemic prevention and control.

If there is no epidemic situation and there is no risk of import, nucleic acid inspection should not become a normal state.

The 15-minute nucleic acid sampling circle should be built according to the time and situation.

In the prevention and control of normalized epidemic situation, such as port cities, provincial capital cities and cities with a population of 10 million, because of the high risk of epidemic situation input, it is beneficial to provide more convenient and convenient nucleic acid testing services for people who should and want to complete the inspection. It is conducive to improving the sensitivity of epidemic monitoring and early warning and building a system for early warning and discovery of epidemic situation; It is also conducive to discovering potential risks earlier, implementing prevention and control measures faster, and avoiding large-scale and explosive clustering epidemics. In particular, it is important to emphasize that the 15-minute nucleic acid sampling circle is not required to be established in all cities, but mainly concentrated in large cities with high risk of epidemic import, especially with large population. Whether to build a 15-minute nucleic acid sampling circle and the frequency of our detection are mainly based on the occurrence and development of the local epidemic situation and the needs of prevention and control work, and should be determined according to the situation and the situation, and it is not possible to make a "one size fits all".

Nucleic acid detection is the "gold standard" of diagnosis, and virus variation has no effect on the detection ability of nucleic acid detection.

As for nucleic acid detection, it is a mature and international laboratory diagnostic method. In the past, we mainly relied on culture to detect the pathogen of virus, and we identified it by dyeing, morphological observation, biochemical test, immune test and other methods. The virus was cultivated for a long time, and some pathogens in the laboratory were difficult to cultivate. Later, we had a nucleic acid detection method. The nucleic acid detection method has high sensitivity and specificity can reach 100% in methodology. That is to say, the positive result of nucleic acid detection is equivalent to the result of pathogen culture and becomes the "gold standard" of diagnosis. Not only do we do COVID-19’s viruses, but also common pathogens, such as hepatitis B virus and HIV, can be diagnosed by nucleic acid detection and monitored for treatment.

We do nucleic acid detection in Covid-19, and the nucleic acid detection reagents used are aimed at the double-target or triple-target genes in COVID-19. There is basically no possibility that the virus mutation will mutate in two or three target genes at the same time, so the virus mutation has no influence on the detection ability of nucleic acid detection.

Positive nucleic acid detection in environmental samples does not mean that there is a live virus.

The positive detection of nucleic acid in environmental samples does not mean that there must be a live virus in environmental samples. If there is a live virus, it is necessary to do cell virus isolation or sensitive mice to isolate the virus to determine whether there is a live virus. Because both dead virus and live virus are in environmental samples, or the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine we are playing now, it contains nucleic acid, which can be detected as positive by nucleic acid detection, so the detection of nucleic acid positive does not mean that it has a live virus, so it should be comprehensively judged.

There is no need for frequent nucleic acid testing in low-risk areas and low-risk people.

There is no need for frequent nucleic acid testing in low-risk areas and low-risk people, such as long-term family members. The focus of nucleic acid testing should be on high-risk people and staff in high-risk positions, as well as areas with epidemic situation.

It is necessary to publish the information of nucleic acid sampling points in time, feedback and update the test results in time.

To publish the information of sampling points in time, we can publish the sampling points to the public through official websites, clients, WeChat WeChat official account and public service applets, so that the public can choose the nearest points for nucleic acid sampling. In addition, we also guide local governments to constantly establish and improve electronic maps and update them in time to facilitate people’s inquiries and sampling nearby.

It is necessary to feed back and update the test results in time. After the testing organization completes the test, the relevant departments should synchronize the test results to the health code and other platforms in time, so that the public can find their own test results as soon as possible.

Nucleic acid detection sampling swab belongs to medical devices, not cotton swabs, and is non-toxic and harmless.

The sampling swab looks like a cotton swab, but it is not a cotton swab. It is made of polyester or nylon fiber, which is similar to the toothbrush in our daily life. The bristles of the toothbrush are also nylon, but in the process of making our sampling swab, millions of tiny fibers are vertically and evenly covered on the handle end of the swab. When we are sampling, we brush our teeth like a toothbrush, but it brushes the posterior pharyngeal wall in our mouth to take cells, and then puts the sampling swab into the sampling tube. Because it uses nylon and polyester, it is easy to take it off into the preservation solution, and then the relevant tests are carried out in the laboratory.

Sampling swab belongs to medical devices, its production environment and requirements are very strict, and there are also relevant standards for quality supervision. The most basic standard of one of our products is non-toxic and harmless, and harmful substances will not be produced in the production process of sampling swab.

For large-scale population screening, oropharyngeal swabs are generally used.

Samples include samples of lower respiratory tract, such as sputum, and samples of upper respiratory tract, such as nasopharyngeal swab and oropharyngeal swab. Among these swabs, the sputum virus content is the highest and the positive detection rate is the highest, followed by nasopharyngeal swabs and oropharyngeal swabs. As an infected person in Covid-19, dry cough was the main symptom in the early days, and sputum is not saliva, so it is difficult to obtain. The collection of nasopharyngeal swab requires a high level of operation of the sampler, and the sampling process is slow. Although the positive rate is higher than that of pharyngeal swab, it is generally not used for screening most people, but can be used for sampling isolated people. The sampling of oropharyngeal swab is relatively simple and fast, so we usually use oropharyngeal swab in large-scale population screening, although its detection rate is not as good as that of nasopharyngeal swab. As an anal swab, we don’t recommend it. Considering the discomfort of the taker and the low positive detection rate of anal swab, we don’t recommend sampling with anal swab.

There are three situations in which nucleic acid detection is negative for many times and then positive.

Nucleic acid test is negative for many times in a row, and finally it appears positive. Most people will not have it, but it has happened. It should be in these three situations: in the first case, this person was not infected at first, but infected at a later time, and then the test was positive after infection. Also, when we were in the incubation period, our test was not detected, and the test was positive after the onset. The third aspect, as mentioned above, is that although the virus was present at the beginning, its load could not reach the lower detection limit, and it was not detected at this time, but it was detected as soon as the load was high.

Those who take illegal and compulsory measures for nucleic acid detection will be required to rectify and correct in time.

Call on the masses to abide by the relevant provisions and requirements of epidemic prevention and control in accordance with the law, actively cooperate with the development of nucleic acid testing, fulfill their personal prevention and control obligations, and jointly promote the formation of a good social atmosphere for mass prevention and control.

For regions, units and individuals who take illegal and compulsory measures, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council will require the relevant places to rectify and correct in time, and the media friends are also welcome to supervise.

The Central Meteorological Observatory upgraded and issued a typhoon red warning this morning.

  CCTV News:This year’s No.9 typhoon "Sura" (super typhoon level) moved into the northeastern South China Sea last night (30th). At 8 o’clock this morning, it was located about 300 kilometers southeast of Huilai, Guangdong Province, and the maximum wind force near the center was 17 (58m/s).

  It is estimated that "Sura" will move to the northwest at a speed of about 10 kilometers per hour, and gradually approach the coastal area of eastern Guangdong, and its intensity will gradually weaken. It will land in the coastal area of Huilai, Guangdong from the afternoon of September 1 to the night (strong typhoon level or super typhoon level, 45-52 m/s, 14-16), and it may also move to the south-west direction in the coastal area of eastern Guangdong.The Central Meteorological Observatory upgraded and issued a typhoon red warning this morning.

  Affected by Sura, there will be 6-8 winds and 9-10 gusts in bashi channel, Taiwan Province Strait, northeastern South China Sea, Fujian coast, central and eastern Guangdong coast, southern coast of Taiwan Province Island and dongsha islands from day to night. Among them, the winds in the west of bashi channel, northeastern South China Sea and dongsha islands are 9-11, and the winds in some sea areas can reach 12-13. "Sura"

  In addition, the forecast path of typhoon "Anemone" has been adjusted compared with yesterday, and it will tend to the coastal area of Zhejiang in the future. At 5 o’clock this morning, "Anemone" was located on the northwest Pacific Ocean about 1480 kilometers northwest of Guam, USA, and the maximum wind force near the center was 10 (25 m/s). It is estimated that "Anemone" will move to the north-north direction at a speed of 20-25 kilometers per hour and gradually strengthen.

  In terms of rainfall, affected by typhoon Sura and the cold air heading south, from August 31st to September 3rd, there were heavy rains in most parts of Guangdong, central and southern Fujian and southern Taiwan Province, heavy rains in central and eastern Guangdong and southeastern Fujian, and heavy rains in coastal areas. Among them, from day to night today, there are heavy rains in parts of southeastern Fujian, eastern Guangdong and central and southern Taiwan Province Island, and there are heavy rains (100-220 mm) in the local area. In addition, due to the typhoon "Anemone" from September 2, there will be strong rainfall in Zhejiang and other places.

  Meteorologists have warned that whether Sura will land or not in the future, its wind and rain will seriously affect Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan Province. The public in these areas should prepare for typhoon prevention in advance, and be alert to strong winds, heavy rainfall and possible secondary disasters!

Tesla clarifies the timetable for FSD’s entry into China, and how does China’s driverless driving "lead" globally?

  On September 5th, Tesla released a road map on social media, and predicted to launch fully autonomous driving technology (FSD) in China and Europe in the first quarter of 2025. Although it still needs regulatory approval, it still attracts great attention. At the same time, Tesla’s plan to launch Robotaxi (driverless taxi) on October 10 this year has also caused widespread discussion. It is reported that the Tesla Robotaxi conference will be held in Hollywood studios, and its vehicle seats may lie flat and rotate.

  In April this year, Musk made a "lightning visit to China" to speed up the landing of FSD. Obviously, as a representative of American technology enterprises, Tesla is not willing to lag behind China enterprises in the field of driverless driving.

  It is worth mentioning that after years of development, China’s driverless industry has taken Beijing as the starting point and completed an amazing leap from technology research and development to application, which has blossomed in major cities across the country.

  It is understood that as one of the most active cities in driverless innovation in the world, Beijing has been leading the way since it released the first self-driving road test and demonstration policy in 2017, and promoted technological innovation with policies. At the beginning of 2024, the demonstration area has achieved full coverage of 160 square kilometers of intelligent networked roads and smart city private networks, taking the lead in opening a number of commercial pilot services such as autonomous driving, and keeping ahead in supporting policies, opening test roads, supervision and management, etc.

  At present, Beijing has covered eight main application scenarios, including self-driving taxis, self-driving minibuses, unmanned feeder vehicles, unmanned delivery vehicles, unmanned sanitation vehicles, unmanned patrol vehicles, self-driving heavy trucks and unmanned retail vehicles.

  In Yizhuang, Beijing, driverless cars from radish Kuaipao, Xiaoma Zhixing and Wen Yuan Zhixing are driving in the streets, providing travel services for more citizens.

  Behind Beijing’s support for driverless development is a new round of global technical competition. As an important landing scene of artificial intelligence, driverless driving has become the commanding height of global scientific and technological competition. In order to accelerate the development of unmanned driving in China, many experts have called for speeding up legislation and policy innovation at the national level, promoting the large-scale landing of unmanned vehicles, and keeping China’s unmanned driving ahead.

  The unmanned large-scale landing faces the "stone of other mountains". What are the challenges?

  Not only Tesla FSD has entered China, but in recent years, unmanned driving between China and the United States has been staged at its peak, which has also pushed the competition in the global unmanned driving industry to a fever pitch. At the same time, Germany, Japan, Britain and many other traditional automobile manufacturing countries have also joined the unmanned competition camp, implemented industrial deployment from the national strategic level, and made continuous legislative actions to seize the development opportunities of the unmanned industry by creating an "institutional highland".

  At present, Chinese and American companies are neck and neck in the landing of driverless technology. As the world’s industry leaders, Waymo in the United States and Radish Run in China have both crossed the threshold of unmanned automatic driving test and are competing for the speed of large-scale landing.

  According to the data released by Waymo on September 5th, as of June, 2024, Waymo has traveled 15.4 million miles in Phoenix, 5.9 million miles in San Francisco, 855,000 miles in Los Angeles and 14,000 miles in Austin. The cumulative mileage of unmanned vehicles in the four cities has exceeded 22.2 million miles, an increase of 212% compared with 7.1 million miles eight months ago.

  It is worth noting that Waymo announced two weeks ago that its number of paid trips for unmanned vehicles in the United States has exceeded 100,000 times per week. This figure was only 50,000 in May, which means that Waymo’s weekly single volume has doubled in just three months.

  It is observed that this growth is related to Waymo’s continuous expansion of service area and allowing more users to take its driverless taxis this year. It is understood that Waymo expanded its driverless travel service in the San Francisco Peninsula in March this year, and announced in June that it would open its driverless travel service to users all over San Francisco. More than 700 unmanned vehicles were carried out in prosperous urban areas such as San Francisco and Los Angeles in the United States. Full-time (7×24 hours), unmanned and chargeable scale operation.

  With the recent opening of unmanned driving in San Francisco, the surge in the number of unmanned vehicles and the increase in the number of users covered, Waymo also surpassed Radish Run, the largest self-driving travel platform in China. According to public data, since it landed in Wuhan in May 2022, there are only over 400 unmanned vehicles in Wuhan, and the order volume per quarter is about 826,000 orders, with an average of about 68,000 orders per week.

  In the industry’s view, the large-scale development of Waymo autonomous driving is inseparable from the open attitude and "leap-forward, fast-paced" approach adopted by the United States for driverless driving. Boldly let go at the regulatory level and give a green light all the way, giving Robotaxi the greatest development space.

  In the view of Lv Benfu, vice president of China National Innovation and Development Strategy Research Association and professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences, it is the window of global intelligent networked vehicles development, and the opportunity is fleeting. China’s driverless technology is at the leading level in the world, and the policy actively supports industrial development. Only when enterprises actively embrace intelligent networked vehicles without hesitation will they not fall behind in the core frontier technology field in the future.

  However, European and American countries are also actively developing the driverless industry. For example, in June this year, the British "Self-driving Car Act" was approved by the royal family, which established a complete legal framework for self-driving cars, including the vehicle authorization system. Self-driving cars can not only be legally on the road, but also be authorized to provide automated passenger services. The British government said that the Bill will pave the way for self-driving vehicles to run smoothly in the UK in 2026.

  In fact, driverless driving is a new industry that needs to be developed in practical application. It has no practical significance in simulation test and unmanned road test. It needs to verify technology in complex and changeable real roads, improve cognitive ability in interaction with surrounding real vehicles and pedestrians, and solve practical problems in the road ahead, so as to make unmanned vehicles stronger and safer.

  Zhang Zhuting, chairman of the Legal Work Committee of China Communications and Transportation Association and a senior researcher at Taihe Think Tank, said that the development of autonomous driving in China has been in a critical period of development. The passage of the Self-driving Car Act in Britain and the successive legislation in other countries have greatly inspired us. At the same time, intelligent networked new energy vehicles are the main application direction of artificial intelligence and an important field for developing new quality productivity. We should speed up the introduction of policies and regulations related to autonomous driving to ensure the leading position of China’s intelligent networked automobile industry in the world.

  Experts call for speeding up the opening of legislation and policies and promoting the scale of unmanned driving.

  In the development process of unmanned driving, policy opening is the booster of this technology from "laboratory" to "test site". Up to now, the General Office of the State Council has initiated the revision of the road traffic safety law and road transport regulations. At present, more than 10 cities across the country have promoted local legislation on autonomous driving, and six places, including Shenzhen, Pudong, Yangquan, Wuxi, Suzhou and Hangzhou, have issued legislative documents, while Wuhan, Beijing, Hefei and Guangzhou have accelerated the legislative process.

  Taking Beijing as an example, it has maintained a leading position in many aspects, such as testing road opening, evaluation standards, guiding policies, and license issuance, and has become a dual highland of intelligent networked automobile technology innovation and policy innovation. Through multi-faceted technical exploration, Beijing has achieved a key breakthrough in the "China Plan" for the integration of vehicles and Lu Yun, and demonstrated "China Power" to the world with the "Beijing Model".

  It is worth mentioning that in July this year, the Beijing Economic and Information Bureau solicited opinions on the Regulations of Beijing Municipality on Self-driving Cars (Draft for Comment), and planned to support self-driving cars for urban bus passenger transport, network car rental, car rental and other urban travel services.

  "The" Draft for Comment "proposes to support self-driving cars for urban travel services such as urban bus passenger transport, network car rental, etc., which shows Beijing’s determination to promote the commercial application of autonomous driving technology." Wang Peng, a researcher at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that clarifying the application scenarios of self-driving cars through legislation will not only help to broaden its market space, but also provide legal support for related enterprises to innovate and explore in different fields. In the future, with the continuous maturity of autonomous driving technology, these application scenarios will be further enriched and improved to provide citizens with more convenient and efficient travel services.

  At the same time, the "Draft for Comment" clarifies the legal status of self-driving cars. For a long time, self-driving cars have faced many obstacles due to the lack of clear legal definition. This legislation is expected to formally confirm the legal status of self-driving cars from the legal level and provide legal protection for them to drive on the road. This not only helps to promote the research and development and application of autonomous driving technology, but also provides a more stable and predictable policy environment for related enterprises and investors.

  Previously, many experts and scholars called for accelerating legislative and policy innovation at the national level, clarifying the legal status of self-driving cars through legislation, promoting the scale of unmanned driving, and continuing to lead the development of the global driverless industry.

  Jiang Haoran, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Hengyin Financial Technology Co., Ltd., said that at present, the local small-scale pilot demonstration policy of local driverless vehicles on the road is mainly based on the scientific experiment of autonomous driving. Due to the lack of strong support from the superior law, the large-scale pilot demonstration for industrialization is difficult. It is suggested to strengthen the top-level legislative design at the national level, seize the opportunity of the current revision of the Road Traffic Safety Law, build a sound collaborative support and supervision system for autonomous driving, solidly and effectively promote industry norms and local legislation, and ensure the large-scale road traffic of driverless vehicles; At the same time, it is clear about the conditions and procedures for drivers’ vehicles to pass on the road, and support the road right permission of drivers’ vehicles in the form of laws and regulations.

  He Xia, former chief engineer and professor-level engineer of the Institute of Policy and Economics of China Information and Communication Research Institute, believes that local governments should make full use of legislation, data regulations and documents to continue to accelerate the path of large-scale commercial exploration of autonomous driving. With the gradual maturity of the industry, the lack of superior law and the disunity of local legislation will affect the development of the whole industry, so it is necessary to give autonomous driving an appropriate legal status from the national level.

  "Local legislation on autonomous driving should be further accelerated. Factors such as employment problems, mature algorithm technology and safety concerns brought about by industrial adjustment should not hinder the acceleration of local legislation." Yu Lingyun, a professor at Tsinghua University Law School and director of the Public Law Research Center, said.

Ten questions and ten answers, understand the "semi-annual report" of China economy!

  China’s economic data for the first half of the year was released on 15th. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s GDP in the first half of the year was 56,264.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.5%. Among them, the economy grew by 0.4% in the second quarter.

  What is the economic situation in China? For the first time, China through train held the "China Forum: Analysis Meeting of China’s Economic Situation in 2022", and interviewed many experts to interpret the top ten issues that everyone was concerned about.

  What are the highlights of the semi-annual report?

  Under the circumstance that the epidemic and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine have dealt a heavy blow to the global economy, China’s economy has withstood the pressure, stabilized and rebounded in the first half of the year, showing five bright spots.

  In the second quarter, GDP achieved positive growth: in the first half of the year, China’s GDP was 56,264.2 billion yuan, up 2.5% year-on-year. Fu Linghui, spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics of China and director of the National Economic Statistics Department, said that the 0.4% growth in the second quarter was achieved against the background of the decline of major production and demand indicators in April and May, which should be said to be very difficult, reflecting the strong resilience of China’s economy.

  Investment picked up faster: in the first half of the year, the national fixed assets investment was 27,143 billion yuan, up 6.1% year-on-year. Among them, the investment growth rate was 1.8% in April, accelerated to 4.6% in May, and further rebounded to 5.6% in June.

  Strong rebound in import and export: In the first half of the year, the total import and export value of China’s goods trade reached 19,802.2 billion yuan, up 9.4% year-on-year, of which the growth rate in June was as high as 14.3%, further rising from 9.5% in May. Against the background of the huge impact on global economy and trade, the growth rate of China’s import and export has risen instead of falling, which fully highlights the strong resilience of China’s foreign trade.

  Accelerated transformation and upgrading: In the first half of the year, the added value of high-tech manufacturing industries above designated size in China increased by 9.6% year-on-year, and investment in high-tech industries increased by 20.2%, both of which maintained rapid growth. The retail sales of physical online goods increased by 5.6%. The output of new energy vehicles and solar cells increased by 111.2% and 31.8% respectively.

  Employment prices are generally stable: in the second quarter, the national urban survey unemployment rate averaged 5.8%. Despite the increasing inflationary pressure in major economies around the world, the inflation rate in China is still low. In the first half of the year, the national consumer price (CPI) rose by only 1.7% year-on-year, and the price increase in China was significantly lower than that in Europe and the United States by more than 8%.

  What pressures did you withstand in the second quarter?

  China’s economy finally achieved positive growth in the first half of the year, from the deep decline of major indicators in April to the narrowing of the decline in May, and then stabilized and rebounded in June. In this process, China’s economy withstood the pressure.

  First, the impact of unexpected internal and external factors. From the Ukrainian crisis to repeated epidemics, major institutions have repeatedly lowered their global economic growth expectations. Frequent outbreaks in China have also impacted the stable operation of the economy. In the face of difficulties, China stepped up macro-policy adjustment, introduced a package of policies and measures to stabilize the economy, stabilized the economic market, and promoted positive economic growth in the second quarter.

  The second is the pressure to stabilize prices. Food prices, go up! Energy prices, go up! Since the beginning of this year, international commodities have remained at a high level, and the impact on domestic imported inflation is also increasing. In the face of this situation, we have continuously increased efforts to ensure supply and stabilize prices in the market. In the first half of the year, the consumer price in China rose by 1.7% year-on-year, which was lower than the expected target of about 3% for the whole year, and also significantly lower than the increase level of more than 8% in European and American countries.

  The third is the pressure of people’s livelihood such as employment. Affected by the impact of the epidemic, the employment pressure has suddenly increased this year. In response to this situation, all aspects are continuing to increase efforts to stabilize employment and strengthen the protection of people’s livelihood. The effect is also constantly showing. In the first half of the year, 6.54 million people were newly employed in cities and towns nationwide. In June, the national urban survey unemployment rate was 5.5%, which has been declining for two consecutive months. In the first half of the year, the per capita disposable income of the national residents actually increased by 3% year-on-year. Although it dropped from the first quarter, it still outperformed the economic growth rate.

  What is the potential growth rate of China economy?

  Fu Linghui, spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics of China and director of the National Economic Statistics Department, said that many institutions and scholars have calculated the potential economic growth rate of China, and the results are different. Generally speaking, most of the conclusions are that the potential economic growth rate of China is about 5.5% to 6.5% at this stage.

  Fu Linghui said that in the future, with the increase of China’s economic volume, the constraints of labor resources and environment will be strengthened, and the potential growth rate will gradually decrease. However, from a global perspective, the potential growth rate of 5.5% to 6.5% is still in the middle and high level, especially under the condition of China’s large economic volume, it is very difficult to maintain the middle and high level of growth, which also shows that China’s economic growth potential is still relatively large.

  What are the policy priorities in the second half of the year?

  Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher of China International Economic Exchange Center, suggested at the China News Service’s "National Forum: Analysis Meeting of China’s Economic Situation in 2022" on the 15th that the policy in the second half of the year should focus on three aspects: First, coordinate scientific epidemic prevention and comprehensive economic and social recovery, and promote the return to work; The second is to promote the comprehensive start of national infrastructure projects; The third is precise policy, and more direct and targeted measures are introduced to stabilize consumption.

  Su Jian, a professor at Peking University University of Economics and director of Peking University National Economic Research Center, told China News Service that China is a through train. At present, the focus is on coordinating epidemic prevention and control and macroeconomic growth targets. In the second half of the year, in addition to gradually implementing the policies put forward before, macroeconomic policies need to be further developed. In this process, efforts should be made to maintain the continuity of macro-policies, which should be both powerful and reasonable. This means that the current implementation of macro policies should not be too strong or too hard to prevent overdraft in the future. In particular, the scale of issuing bonds should be controlled within a reasonable range.

  What challenges will foreign trade face in the second half of the year?

  In the first half of the year, China’s foreign trade increased by 9.4% year-on-year, of which the total import and export volume and total export volume reached monthly highs in June.

  Zhang Jianping, deputy director of the Academic Committee of the Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce of China, said on the 15th that China’s foreign trade increased by 9.4% in the first half of last year, which laid a solid foundation for stabilizing foreign trade in the second half.

  Talking about the challenges faced by China’s foreign trade in the second half of the year, Zhang Jianping believes that the current global energy crisis and food crisis will impact the global market to a great extent, and the US economy may fall into recession in 2023, which will have a great contractive impact on the demand of the global market. Recently, the WTO also lowered its forecast for global trade growth from 4.8% to around 3%. Therefore, foreign trade enterprises need to closely follow market changes and make good use of dividends such as the Pilot Free Trade Zone.

  He said that although some foreign trade orders in China did transfer to Vietnam and India, the added value of "Made in Vietnam" was limited, while India was limited by weak infrastructure, low administrative efficiency and poor business environment, so it was not easy to catch up with China.

  How can investment continue to exert its strength?

  In the first half of this year, China responded strongly to the unexpected factors, and the national economy stabilized and rebounded. Among them, investment plays a prominent role under the policy, which forms a strong support for China’s economy.

  According to the 15th data, the national fixed assets investment (excluding farmers) in the first half of the year was 27,143 billion yuan, up 6.1% year-on-year.

  Bai Jingming, a researcher and former vice president of China Academy of Fiscal Science, said that the growth rate of fixed assets investment in China exceeded the GDP growth rate in the first half of the year, which showed that when the economy was greatly affected by the impact and consumption growth slowed down, the investment growth rate supplemented the vacancy for stimulating the economy.

  The data disclosed on the same day also showed that infrastructure investment in the first half of the year increased by 7.1% year-on-year, 0.4 percentage points faster than that in January-May.

  Wen Bin, chief economist of Minsheng Bank, said that the growth rate of infrastructure investment continued to rise, mainly for three reasons. First, the smooth traffic logistics policy has achieved practical results, and the construction progress has been guaranteed; Second, because the source of funds has been guaranteed, the issuance of special bonds has accelerated; Third, the projects gradually landed. In addition to the 102 major projects in the 14th Five-Year Plan, a package of stable economic policies decided to start new projects, and a number of water conservancy projects, especially large-scale diversion irrigation, transportation, renovation of old residential areas and underground utility tunnel, also supported the infrastructure.

  Lian Ping, chief economist of Zhixin Investment and dean of the research institute, believes that in the second half of the year, infrastructure and manufacturing investment will jointly promote fixed asset investment to continue to play a "steady growth" role. Driven by favorable factors such as sufficient reserves of financial support superimposed projects and in-place policy support, infrastructure investment will still maintain steady and rapid growth.

  How to restart the consumption engine?

  According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China on the 15th, consumption in China increased by 3.1% in June, and the growth rate "turned from negative to positive". As one of the "Troika" driving the economy, China’s consumption shows signs of recovery, but the power is still insufficient. How should China restart the consumption engine?

  Zhang Jianping, deputy director of the Academic Committee of the International Trade and Economic Cooperation Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce of China, said that the demand of China residents for housing improvement, car trade-in, high definition multimedia and smart home appliances is increasing day by day, and the corresponding market supply should be increased to meet these needs. The potential of tourism consumption is also great, and all aspects of entertainment, accommodation, catering and so on should be further improved in quality and cost performance. To expand the steady growth of effective demand, we must make good use of e-commerce platform, and we must combine online and offline development. While online consumption is booming, we should also pay attention to the pressure faced by offline stores.

  Zhao Ping, vice president of the Research Institute of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said that in the second half of the year, the expansion of consumption should be more from the supply side, and the supply capacity of consumption should be enhanced, especially in the aspect of ensuring the supply of basic daily necessities at a stable price, so as to stabilize the basic consumption. The supply side should create a good market environment and create an open, transparent and predictable business environment. Increase support for small and medium-sized enterprises that were severely hit by the epidemic in the early stage, protect market players, and enable small and medium-sized enterprises to better seize market opportunities. Improve the quality and level of supply, encourage enterprises to innovate and develop, create new consumption highlights through supply-side innovation, and inject more impetus into consumption growth.

  Can China stabilize prices?

  Guo Liyan, director of the Comprehensive Situation Research Office of China Macroeconomic Research Institute, said on the 15th that China has the confidence and ability to keep prices stable. "Even if the current global inflation is high, looking forward to the whole year, there is no basis for comprehensive inflation in China."

  First of all, China insists on scientifically grasping the strength, rhythm and key points of policies, and does not engage in strong stimulation of flood irrigation, which has a good support for stabilizing prices.

  Secondly, China has done a lot of work in coordinating epidemic prevention and control, economic and social development, and coping with shocks. At present, the progress of industrial chain supply chain in key areas has been steadily advanced. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, especially last year and this year, the overall relationship between domestic supply and demand has been relatively stable, and there has been no mismatch between supply and demand in the international market, which is the premise of stabilizing prices.

  At present, consumption is in the process of accelerating recovery, and the consumption of basic consumer goods such as food has been relatively stable. At the same time, the consumption of bulk consumer goods such as automobiles and home appliances is also recovering. Recently, a series of measures to promote consumption have been introduced from the central government to the local government, so contact consumption is expected to recover steadily in the second half of the year.

  Has the real estate market recovered?

  Ni Pengfei, director of the Center for Urban and Competitiveness Research of China Academy of Social Sciences, said that the downward pressure on the real estate market in the first half of the year exceeded expectations, but it still showed some resilience. In May and June, the decline in several core data of the property market narrowed or stopped.

  At present, the real estate market is changing from negative cycle to positive cycle, and the market is expected to recover in the second half of the year. If there is no external unexpected impact, the real estate market may start to recover in the third quarter, and some indicators can turn positive in the fourth quarter. From a spatial perspective, first-and second-tier cities are expected to take the lead in warming up.

  This recovery process will be accompanied by a game between positive and negative forces. Ni Pengfei pointed out that from the positive perspective, in the second half of the year, with the recovery of the macro economy and the introduction of various supporting policies, the property market is expected to be more stable. Moreover, the real estate market does have structural potential, especially in metropolitan areas, urban agglomerations and some cities with good economic development and large population inflows, and it does have the potential to continue to release rigid and improved demand. It is estimated that the commercial housing market will still maintain the scale of 1.2 billion to 1.5 billion square meters.

  The negative forces mainly come from the risk spillover of housing enterprises and external uncertainty. The recent "loan suspension" storm is actually a manifestation of the risk spillover of housing enterprises. Affected by this, the overall credit of the real estate industry has declined, affecting the normal financing of enterprises.

  Pang Yao, chief economist and head of research department of Jones Lang LaSalle Greater China, believes that the real estate market is expected to achieve a soft landing in the second half of the year, market sentiment and expectations will recover, and the year-on-year growth of real estate investment is expected to turn positive under the combined effects of factors such as the improvement of epidemic prevention and control situation, the continued implementation of differentiated real estate control policies, especially the housing credit policy, the effective disposal of debt default risks of individual housing enterprises, the stabilization of personal income expectations, the continuous decline in the purchase cost of rigid demand and improved housing demand groups.

  What is the recovery of the areas affected by the impact of the epidemic?

  In the first half of the year, the economy of some areas was greatly affected by the impact of the epidemic.

  Fu Linghui, spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics of China and director of the National Economic Statistics Department, said that the economies of the regions that were greatly affected by the epidemic situation have accelerated their recovery. Although the economy of some areas was greatly affected by the epidemic in the second quarter, from a monthly perspective, with the overall improvement of epidemic prevention and control, enterprises resumed work and production, and the main economic indicators improved significantly in June.

  In June, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size in Shanghai and Jilin increased by 13.9% and 6.3% year-on-year, and decreased by 30.9% and 4.9% respectively last month. In terms of consumption, the retail sales of consumer goods above designated size in Jilin increased by 5.5% in June and decreased by 1.5% last month. In terms of employment, the survey unemployment rates in Shanghai and Jilin cities and towns decreased by 9.7 and 0.8 percentage points respectively compared with last month, indicating that the economic recovery in these areas which were hit hard by the epidemic was steadily accelerating.

  Fu Linghui said: on the whole, the economy in most areas of China is generally stable, the growth in the central and western regions is faster than that in the east, and the trend of coordinated regional development has not changed. Some areas have encountered temporary difficulties due to the epidemic, but under the influence of various stable economic policies and measures, the economic operation has accelerated to recover.