[Global Times reporters, Zhou Yang, Chen Qian, Qu Qiuyan] "I often wonder what else I can do." Peng Yuyan, 37, is making a new attempt to play Gao Qian, the head of the maritime rescue team and the father of a 5-year-old child, in this year’s New Year’s Eve movie "Emergency Rescue." "He is calm and calm, which is something I have never played before," Peng Yuyan told the Global Times in an exclusive interview. Before the rescue captain, Peng Yuyan was a cyclist in "Breaking Wind", also played the anti-drug undercover in "Operation Mekong River" and the martial arts teenager in "Evil No Pressure", which he did not expect when he debuted in the idol drama "Love White Paper" 18 years ago. Off the screen, Peng Yuyan loves sports, loves food, and even tries to make his own coffee. He enjoys this slow life very much. "This era changes rapidly, so you need to slow down and be more comfortable."

"Filming is recording yourself"

Global Times: You said on Weibo that "the fourth collaboration with director Lin Chaoxian still has both challenges and gains." Can you talk about the challenges in "Emergency Relief" in detail?

Peng Yuyan:I remember that after filming "Breaking the Wind" in 2015, director Lin Chaoxian told me that he wanted to make a story about a Chinese salvage team and showed me some related cases. After reading it, I thought it was very exciting and touching. I wanted to understand the story behind the rescuers, and I also wanted to make such a story for the audience to see, knowing that there are still such a group of people who pay silently in this era. For these rescuers, saving people is addictive, and there is a kind of excitement after success. I want to interpret this feeling of excitement.

We did a lot of homework during the shooting, including going to Zhuhai for a class to learn how to first aid. There is a lot of first aid knowledge, such as determining which people must give up treatment in the event of a shipwreck, and making the first trade-off. We also learned a lot of details, such as how to calm the emotions of people in distress. I remember the first time I practiced free diving, I could only hold it for 45 seconds. After practicing for a month, I could hold it for about 2 minutes and 45 seconds. "Into the sea of fire" is not part of our training content. I wore a fire suit that can withstand 800 degrees of heat to shoot, but I could still feel the heat of smoke and fire.

Global Times: From Guild Wars, Breaking the Wind, Operation Mekong River to Emergency Rescue, what has been the greatest achievement of working with director Lin Chaoxian in the past six years?

Peng Yuyan:My relationship with the director (Lin Chaoxian) is like a good friend and a mentor. I admire his persistence, always sticking to the movies he wants to make, and never giving up. Every time I shoot his scenes, I have a fear that he will give me the most impossible tasks. But I like to challenge myself and am willing to spend a lot of time preparing before filming. From the boxing in "Guild Wars", the bicycle in "Breaking Wind", and the undercover gunfight in "Operation Mekong", every training is a record of my life.

Global Times: Many people comment that you are "hard enough" for the movie. What do you think your label is?

Peng Yuyan:It’s a good thing that someone has a label, which means everyone knows who I am. In fact, being an actor was not what I wanted to do at the beginning. At the beginning, I also had a job mentality. Later, I felt that this job requires observing people and communicating with people, which is quite interesting.

As an actor, I spend my time living in another world. In which year, I filmed what plays I learned from them, and these are all records of myself. In fact, I may not know who Peng Yuyan is, but I have the opportunity to slowly understand my hobbies and personality through filming.

"I often wonder what else I can do."

Global Times: Director Jiang Wen once commented that you have "very strong self-discipline". Have you ever thought of breaking this self-discipline by indulging occasionally?

Peng Yuyan:Director Jiang is so nice. To be honest, I haven’t been very disciplined lately (laughs). When filming, I have to focus on the character, hoping to satisfy the director’s cinematic world. For example, in the character of Li Tianran in "Evil Unconquered", I have to imagine the character and then discuss with the director how to portray it. This kind of communication is very enjoyable, and there is a sense of artistry that collides. I want to try to make some changes in every play to see where my limits are. In fact, a movie can send a lot of messages, and I hope it can bring strength to everyone. The profession of an actor can "save" people – it can heal a lot of people spiritually. I often wonder what else I can do.

Global Times: Are there any plans to enter the overseas market?

Peng Yuyan: When I first debuted, I had the opportunity to go for an interview, but I didn’t get selected. This is also a good training. In fact, our domestic film market is very rich now, and there is a lot of room to do a lot of things, but we should still learn from experts in different fields. I often go to other countries to understand the attitude of the local staff and the requirements for details. To be an actor, you need to learn from different cultures, so that you can give feedback to yourself and interpret the characters in different ways.

Global Times: Share your favorite foreign director or actor.

Peng YuyanI like Martin Scorsese very much. He recently made "The Irishman," and that kind of traditional storytelling is particularly flavorful. A lot of movies recently are that kind of commercial, special effects, fast-paced style. Maybe people don’t want to spend two or three hours understanding the core content of a character or movie these days, but there are still directors who are willing to shoot old stories in the traditional way. The actors in "The Irishman" are all in their 70s and 80s, but they are all very committed to the characters. This kind of love is amazing, and it is what I aspire to.

Global Times: In the identity of "actor", is there any type of role you want to try next? Will you consider working behind the scenes in the future, such as director or producer?

Peng Yuyan: I used to have a lot of ideas. I also wanted to try action movies. I wanted to do art movies, romance movies, and comedies. But after filming "Emergency Rescue", I felt that life was really very fragile, and filming, acting, and working were no longer all I had. Now what I most want to do is to enrich my heart – even if it’s not filming, I should try it. Being a director is too hard. I see a lot of peers (actors) as directors and involved in behind-the-scenes work. I think it’s amazing that they can do a lot of things. I may not be able to do both at the same time.

If you’re not an actor, be a food blogger

Global Times: It is said that "thirty stands, forty is not confused". What are your feelings about career and life now?

Peng YuyanWork is important, but find your true happiness outside of work. All the difficulties we encounter at work will teach us how to face life and live more seriously. This is very important. One’s life is about constantly exploring who they are.

Global Times: Summarizing yourself in life, which word do you think is the most appropriate? What would you like to do if you are not an actor?

Peng Yuyan: Be at ease. I try to pursue a state of being at ease and relaxed. Each of us is in a state of tension without realizing it, and times change rapidly, so we need to slow down and be more at ease. If you’re not an actor, then be a food blogger (laughs)! A big adventurer is fine, and when you’re not filming, I do like to run around and learn about food in different places, architecture, and what different people think.

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Hubei Daily full media reporter, Li Chaoxia

During the epidemic in 2020, community e-commerce emerged suddenly. For a while, "online order, contactless delivery, fixed-point self-pickup" has become a new model for many families to buy food. From fresh food to condiments to daily general merchandise, all kinds of group buying have followed. JD.com, Meituan, Pinduoduo and other Internet Tech Giants have entered the market, which has affected the current pattern and pattern of fresh consumption to a certain extent.

At present, while community group buying is still red, professional fresh food e-commerce represented by Missfresh and simple shopping is rapidly rising, traditional vegetable markets and life supermarkets are constantly being upgraded, and fresh sales formats of different business models meet different levels and different needs of consumers.

How is the development of community group buying? What are the advantages and disadvantages? How is the consumer experience? Recently, Hubei Daily full media reporters conducted a visit and investigation.

Shop owner "has several groups"

"Did the dishes you bought yesterday arrive?"

At 11 o’clock on April 14, Wuchang District Wuzhong Pearl Garden Community Xinminxin non-staple food store, a small space placed in a small variety of snacks, seasonings and other goods, yellow, blue and green on the ground in the storage basket piled up with all kinds of group buying goods.

The head of the group, Du Dongmei, sorted out the group buying goods that had just been delivered, and transferred the milk and other goods that needed to be stored at low temperature to the refrigerator. From time to time, community residents came to pick up the goods.

"At the same time, she is the head of five platforms including Jingxi, Hema and Meituan." Du Dongmei introduced that she and her husband are the head of the group while running the non-staple food store. Before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2019, the husband and wife began to contact community group buying, and have now "held several groups".

Reporters visited and found that as community group buying blossomed everywhere, many shops such as Cainiao Post Station, convenience stores, community supermarkets, dry cleaners, etc. became community group buying self-pickup points while operating their main business. The goods bought by residents’ groups are mainly fresh, and the platform distributes and after-sales goods uniformly. The head of the group is responsible for collecting and distributing the goods.

"The head of the group needs a fixed place to place the goods to deal with the uncertainty of the weather, and the residents have different pickup times, so they need to keep an eye on it for a long time." Du Dongmei introduced that considering the cost, "shop + group buying self-pickup point" is the more common operating model at present.

"Buying more food is cheap, and the quality of the box horse is good." Du Dongmei and his wife have rich experience in community group buying. They believe that the main reasons why residents in this community choose group buying are two: there is no fresh supermarket in the community; group buying price is favorable.

According to reports, similar self-pickup points have a WeChat group of more than 100 people, and the staff or heads of each platform will release preferential information from time to time, and consumers will only consult the order logistics and after-sales situation.

"Don’t look at the dozens of orders on just one platform, but most of the transactions are only a few yuan or more than ten yuan." Du Dongmei said frankly that there are more and more heads of delegation now, and there are two in this community. The order volume is not as large as before, and the commission is getting lower and lower. "It’s really getting harder and harder to do. Once, the commission for an order of 50 yuan was only a few cents."

Radish and cabbage have their own loves

The reporter observed in Xinminxin non-staple food store that most of the people who came to pick up the goods in the morning were fathers and mothers-in-law in the community. Du Dongmei introduced that as the head of the team, she mainly serves young office workers and the elderly.

"It’s mainly cheap," Shi, a resident of the community, told reporters. She orders three to four times a week, and community group buying has become the main way for her and her wife to buy food.

For post-90s office worker Xiao Zhang, community group buying can save the time and labor cost of going to the farmers’ market or supermarket to buy vegetables, and it is cheaper than fresh food e-commerce. "Just move your finger to place an order and pick it up at the pick-up point when you get off work the next day."

When it comes to shopping, consumers’ needs are diverse and scattered. Young people care about convenience and time saving, while the elderly care more about freshness and low prices.

There is a basket of life supermarkets in Yuyuan Community, Chutian City, Wuchang District. Every afternoon, the vegetables are bought by the middle-aged and elderly groups in the community. Tingting, a clerk, said: "The store is also a community group buying self-pickup point for three e-commerce platforms. There are only three or four orders a day for many times. On the contrary, we often use group buying to supplement daily necessities such as seasonings because of discounts."

Unlike the elderly who buy food first and then decide on the menu, young people mostly decide on the menu first and then place targeted orders. Xiaojin, a post-95 consumer, said: "Every time I think about what to cook before buying ingredients, it is more suitable to place an order online."

Consumer demand is constantly being subdivided, with different requirements for different formats. Obviously, the development direction of fresh retail is mainly to clarify service segments.

The problem of preservation is unavoidable

Despite the huge differentiation in the way people buy food, personal preferences vary and preferences change from time to time, which also makes the community group buying market usher in a round of reshuffle.

Last year, food enjoyment, orange heart selection, ten Hui group and other brands have completely shut down related business, the rise of community group buying under the special background of epidemic prevention and control, continuous industry shock.

The reporter learned in the interview that while pursuing price concessions, people’s requirements for quality are increasing day by day. As a daily consumer product, fresh food is consumed with high frequency and fast consumption speed, but there are many links in the fresh supply chain, long chain and large loss, so it is difficult to avoid how to keep "fresh".

Many citizens believe that community groups buying orders can only be "accepted as ordered", unable to select and select goods on the spot, and the delivery time of goods cannot be standardized. Many fresh products cannot be maintained after delivery.

In addition, quality, service, and after-sales issues also pose pain points.

Consumer Xiao Wang reported that he had bought unripe cantaloupe and slightly moldy leafy vegetables, and also lost quick-frozen French fries. Because the goods were only "left" on the overhead floor of the negative first floor of the community every time, and he never met the head of the team, the after-sales problem was settled.

According to industry analysts, the consumption model of "reservation + self-pickup" is doomed to the disadvantage of community group buying in terms of shopping timeliness and experience. Its biggest strength is low price, which comes from the reduced loss rate in the distribution process and the subsidy of the platform. In order to enhance the stickiness of old users and grab new users, many platforms often launch ultra-low price panic buying activities. When low price becomes the main competitiveness of the platform, the price fluctuation of other channels will affect the sales volume of the platform, and the order profit is extremely low, and even the transit warehouse and logistics costs cannot be covered.

Relevant experts said that the platform should return to the essence of the retail industry, make every effort to build a fresh supply chain system, provide consumers with guaranteed and quality products; use data, capital, technology and other advantages to fully cooperate with the upstream manufacturers to improve the business chain operating efficiency; fully empower local suppliers and heads, differentiate the operation of regional community group buying business, and ensure the stable development of the regional market.

I have always been used to ordering takeout before, whether fresh or daily necessities. Sometimes I am short of something temporarily, and sometimes I want to eat something temporarily. It is very convenient to order takeout. But takeout is generally more expensive than community group buying.

I didn’t find this problem before, until recently, I was cooking at home, using community group buying, and the contrast is obvious.

Coordinate Chongqing, community group buying subsidies are very popular in 2021. I haven’t been in the kitchen at that time, and I haven’t placed an order on the community group buying platform, missing the period when the discount is the largest. But at that time, many small supermarkets around have already started to do this business, and people go to pick up vegetables and fruits every day.

The income of the head of the team who did well can now be similar to that of an ordinary job, but this is only a side business for them to subsidize their family or development. Most of them have shops, and this starting point is already higher than that of many people. And some head of team not only does one platform, but also earns subsidies from major platforms.

I don’t have a store, because once I tried to place an order and pick up the goods near my home, I learned that the head of the group was registered at my home, delivered downstairs by myself every day, and then notified the customer to pick up the goods in the lobby. This experience made me want to taste what it was like to be a head of the group. So I started applying on March 31 this year.

The registration process is relatively simple. After applying from the platform, someone will contact you and be responsible for door-to-door registration for you. It is best to have a special refrigerator, which is convenient for customers to buy frozen goods for temporary storage. You can choose whether to deliver to your door, and set the delivery range, minimum delivery amount and delivery fee by yourself. It can also be delivered for free, which can attract more people to place orders.

By the way, our application condition here is to have a group of 60 people, and we need to share preferential information in the group every day.

You must be very curious. How much money can a good business leader earn a month?

The income of the head of the group is mainly the service fee after the customer places an order. This price is not necessarily. About each piece of goods is in0.5-3 Yuan.Between.

I am ranked seventh in the nearby community, and the number one is ten times higher than mine, that is, the transaction amount in 30 days is greater than 33,000. And the top 50 in the same city can’t see the shadow of our community at all.

According to my background data, the service fee to be received plus the service fee to be received, plus the platform reward, the revenue in the past 30 days is251.66 yuan. The income amount is 251.66/455 pieces, and the income of each piece is about0.55 yuan.…

I am at the Cainiao level, playing small. The income of the top-ranked head around us is about ten times more than mine, that is, the monthly income is more than 2,500 yuan.

The leaderboards around our community are also very rolled in. I will explain later.

Ranked in the top five in the same city, 50 people are on this list

This leader who dominates our surroundings can’t even enter the top 50 in the city, so it can be said that it is beyond our reach. I boldly speculate that this leader in the same city may be ten times that of the first leader around me, that is, the monthly income is more than 25,000 yuan.

For users, community group buying has its convenience:

1. Applicable to a wide range of people: middle-aged and elderly people who are unwilling to run the vegetable market and young people who do not have time to buy vegetables;

2. Moderate timeliness and affordable price: Compared with the short delivery time, community group buying can only pick up the goods the next day after placing an order. Compared with takeaway, the price is lower and the subsidy is more;

3. The nature of community marketing, preferential information is shared in the group, users can see what everyone is buying, and buy together to save purchasing time. After the goods are bought, information such as good quality can be exchanged and exchanged to avoid lightning.

But it also has its limitations.

1. The selection of categories is not very comprehensive, and some things are not available. You can only find other ways.

2. The order is placed on the same day and delivered the next day. The delivery time range is fixed, and it cannot be accurate to what time. Temporary urgent things cannot be ordered on the community group buying platform. You need to plan one day in advance, or take the time to wait patiently for the delivery of the goods.

1. Household cooks with plenty of time can share with friends in the group when they buy their own food, and then just go downstairs to distribute the goods when they arrive, take the goods that need to be frozen home and freeze them, and wait for the customer to contact and send them down.

2. Owners of stores, especially supermarkets, fruit stores, grain and oil shops, can easily cultivate users of community group buying. Because customers who come to these stores also have fresh purchase needs, resource integration is relatively easier.

3. The owners of community groups such as the Property Management Committee already have a community size base and a certain degree of persuasion.

However, everyone should proceed with caution.

That day, 49 pieces were sold, with an income of 30.17 yuan, each of which was 0.61 yuan, and the best one was the reward of the platform, rather than the commission for sharing the order.

This income is real. At the beginning, I invited five people and successfully received 130 yuan. Unfortunately, there are fewer newcomers at the back, and newcomers must place an order through your invitation to activate it. Many newcomers will hesitate and go to the Mini Program to place an order by themselves, but not through the link you shared… Then the reward will fly away…

After two months of opening, I bought about 1,300 yuan of goods on the platform and earned about 300 yuan. With so many subsidies for fresh food, especially vegetables, I am still satisfied.

However, I may be going out of business this month. At first, because there is no supermarket or vegetable market near my house, I also like to order takeout, and I don’t want to go out, so I started to be the head of the team. I figured that most young people are used to door-to-door delivery like me now, and lazy people enjoy this service very much. It should be possible to do it, but I didn’t think about how far to do it.

Later, in order to expand my business, I also tried my best. I printed my business card and put it in the courier cabinet, posted it on other people’s couriers, and so on. After two months, it turned out that the effect was minimal.

Brief summary:

1. The occupancy rate in our community is not high, there are few people cooking, there are not many fresh needs, and there are few target groups. I often see takeaways ordered by others piled up downstairs… and my business card was thrown into the trash…

2. Community group buying is rolled into every surrounding community, and even rolled into a community with a head of each building. The competition is too great, the sooner the person does it, the more customers there will be. The first in our surrounding community turned out to be the owner of a dry cleaner, and their community has several heads of delegation occupying different buildings.

3. Although it only takes ten minutes to distribute the goods every day, it is enough to tie you up. You can’t go out at all when the goods don’t arrive, because the goods that need to be refrigerated or frozen must be taken home in time. And the customer’s pickup time is uncertain. If you come one, you have to take it down and deliver one. All in all, it is more time-consuming.

4. People who already have a store have an advantage. On the one hand, they can attract new customers, and on the other hand, they also have a place to stack goods.

Attached at the end of the article is the chat record between me and the delivery master in charge of the community group buying:

Chat with the delivery driver, I learned that the original delivery is outsourced. Zero down payment to buy a car, the car 110,000 about, but the impact of comprehensive factors, sometimes really insolvent.

The master said that at present, he would get up at four or five o’clock every morning to go to the warehouse, and then deliver at various points. After the delivery in the morning, he would be fine, and he could do other business in the afternoon. However, it is difficult to find channels to contact the business, and let me introduce it to him. I confirm that I do not have the resources…

Of course, when buying a car, the car selling company said very well. The actual situation is that the daily delivery time is long and there are many goods, but the commission for delivering a piece of goods is about 0.17 yuan (I don’t know if there is any fluctuation), which is not enough for the monthly payment at all…

Recently, he asked me if I had a lawyer friend, and said that there was a guarantee agreement. He wanted to see if he could sign it, but he felt that there was a routine…

On the evening of September 22, China Evergrande announced that the company’s original September 25 and September 26 meetings on the relevant agreement arrangements for the proposed restructuring will not be held, mainly because the sales situation has been lower than expected since March 22.

On March 22, China Evergrande released a workout plan, and the proposed restructuring includes the "Evergrande Agreement Arrangement", the "Jingcheng Agreement Arrangement" and the "Space-based Agreement Arrangement".

On August 27, China Evergrande released an unaudited interim results announcement, indicating that the company actively planned to resume sales, with a significant increase in sales performance, steadily advancing work related to overseas debt restructuring, and signed an overseas restructuring support agreement with creditors in April.

So here’s the problem.Was it the sudden change in China Evergrande’s sales from June 30 to September 22, or has it been poor since March 22?

In less than a month, the sales situation suddenly changed

Who would have thought that less than a month ago, China Evergrande would still be sending a positive signal to the outside world.

On August 27, China Evergrande released an unaudited interim performance announcement, indicating that the company actively planned to resume sales, successfully seized the property market Xiaoyangchun that emerged at the beginning of the year, and achieved a significant increase in sales performance. It has always taken stable management and risk reduction as its top priority, and has made every effort to ensure the construction of the building.

At the same time, in line with the principles of respecting international restructuring practices, treating the rights and demands of all creditors with justice and fairness, China Evergrande has steadily advanced the work related to overseas debt restructuring, and signed an overseas restructuring support agreement with creditors in April.

China Evergrande has not disclosed sales from June 30 to September 22, but it gave "optimistic" sales figures in its unaudited interim results announcement.

As of June 30, 2023, China Evergrande had a land reserve of 190 million square meters and participated in 78 old renovation projects, including 55 in the Greater Bay Area (34 in Shenzhen) and 23 in other cities.

In terms of contract sales, in the first half of 2023, China Evergrande achieved a contract sales amount of 33.413 billion yuan, a contract sales area of 5.115 million square meters, and a cumulative sales refund of 27.10 billion yuan.

In the unaudited interim results, China Evergrande looks to the future, saying that it will resolutely assume the main responsibility of self-rescue insurance, do a solid job in the specific work of guaranteeing the delivery of buildings, and accelerate the restructuring of overseas debt to protect the long-term interests of various creditors.

On the evening of September 22, China Evergrande announced that it had cancelled the relevant meetings of the workout, mainly because the company’s sales were not as good as expected since March 22.

The previous two extensions

On March 22, China Evergrande released its overseas debt restructuring plan.

Among them, China Evergrande intends to carry out the proposed restructuring of the "Evergrande Agreement Arrangement" through the agreement arrangement in the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and other applicable jurisdictions. Evergrande’s agreement arrangement will have two sets of liabilities, namely Group A and Group C.

The Jingcheng Agreement Arrangement means that Jingcheng Limited plans to implement a reorganization through an agreement arrangement in the British Virgin Islands, including the issuance of four US dollar-denominated senior notes by Jingcheng.

Each Jingcheng creditor will be allocated a pro rata allocation of new notes issued by Jingcheng with a total principal amount of US $6.50 billion.

Under the space-based arrangement, creditors will receive four new notes issued by space-based holdings limited with a term of five to eight years and a total principal amount of $800 million.

On July 26, China Evergrande announced that the Evergrande agreement was scheduled for August 23, and the space-based agreement and the Jingcheng agreement were scheduled for August 22.

On August 16, China Evergrande postponed the above meeting for the first time until August 28.

On August 28, China Evergrande announced that it had agreed to postpone the meeting to September 26.

In order to maintain as much consistency as possible between the scheduling meetings of the Evergrande Agreement, the Scenic Agreement, and the Space-based Agreement, the Scenic Agreement scheduling meeting and the Space-based Agreement scheduling meeting will be postponed to September 25.

In less than a month, the reason has changed dramatically

What is even more bizarre is that on the eve of the cancellation of the above-mentioned meeting, China Evergrande confirmed that the hearing time of the agreement was postponed.

On the evening of September 8, China Evergrande announced that the approval hearings for the Jingcheng Agreement Arrangement, the Cayman Islands Evergrande Agreement Arrangement, Hong Kong Evergrande and the Space-based Agreement Arrangement were postponed to the evening of October 3, October 5, October 16 and 17, respectively.

The reporter noticed that China Evergrande’s agreement to extend the approval hearing to early October is a prerequisite for its reorganization to take effect in early November.

Compared with the cancellation of the meeting, sales were lower than expected. China Evergrande listed three reasons for the postponement of the second meeting.

First, China Evergrande’s recent series of overseas workout meetings and hearings have been postponed, which needs to give creditors more time to understand the terms of the reorganization procedures and agreement arrangements, so as to maximize creditors’ participation in the reorganization.

Second, China Evergrande shares have resumed trading on August 28, and creditors need to be given time to consider the impact of recent new developments in China Evergrande on restructuring and agreement arrangements.

Third, China Evergrande previously applied to the New York court for reorganization approval procedures under Chapter 15 of the United States Code, which was mistakenly interpreted by the outside world as a matter related to bankruptcy protection.

At that time, China Evergrande repeatedly stressed that the extension of the relevant meeting of the above agreement was still within the deadline (December 15), in line with the expectations of the creditors of the agreement to implement the proposed restructuring.

Sunac is one step ahead

Unlike China Evergrande, Sunac China has made progress in stages.

On the evening of September 18, Sunac China announced that the company’s overseas workout was approved with a high pass rate of 99.75% for the number of creditors and 98.3% for the total amount of debt.

Sunac China announced that the company will seek court approval and ruling on the plan. The petition seeking a ruling on the plan will be heard at 9:30 am on October 5.

At this point, Sunac China’s overseas workout has entered a critical moment.

On September 19, Sunac China applied for Chapter 15 certification in the US court for the restructuring of US dollar debt, and has been recognized by the US court for its restructuring agreement in the Hong Kong court of China.

According to industry analysts, the bankruptcy protection of enterprises is recognized by the court, which will temporarily prohibit creditors from taking measures to recover the property owned before the bankruptcy application, and also temporarily prohibit legal proceedings against debtors. Creditors need the authorization of the bankruptcy court to claim debts, which has a positive impact on the overall workout of enterprises.

The Shanghai Securities News reporter noticed that China Evergrande also made the above application recently, but was considered by the outside world to have applied for bankruptcy liquidation, and then made relevant clarifications.

Unlike Sunac China, which made the above application after confirming the overseas workout, China Evergrande is still negotiating the time for the overseas workout to hold relevant meetings when applying for Chapter 15 certification to the US court.

　　Look at the goods in the WeChat group, place an order with the Mini Program, and move your fingers, and all kinds of fresh food and grain and oil products will be delivered to your home. In 2020, a sudden epidemic disrupted everyone’s pace of life. The online retail industry broke out, and community group buying unexpectedly became an important support for the lives of residents in the community. Meituan, Ali, JD.com, Pinduoduo and other giants have entered the scene. Recently, Qilu Evening News · Qilu One Point reporter walked into many communities in the provincial capital to understand the current situation of community group buying.

　　Yu Minxing, reporter of Qilu Evening News, Qilu Yidian

　　Daily 70-80 orders

　　The maximum daily turnover is more than 10,000 yuan

　　Near eleven o’clock in the evening, Ms. Zhou "poisoned late at night" in the WeChat group buying group, and the photos and small videos of spicy crayfish teased everyone’s appetite. "Ding Ding Ding" The mobile phone kept vibrating, and Ms. Zhou received another wave of orders before going to bed.

　　After nearly four years in the industry, Ms. Zhou has been sitting on two WeChat group buying groups of 500 people, becoming a well-known "head" of a residential community in Jinan Tianqiao District. "We started doing community group buying in 2017, and the users are basically the owners of the community." Ms. Zhou’s community group buying relies on her own express collection point. When the owners take the express, they take home the fresh food bought the day before, which is very convenient. "The customer source is relatively stable, and it is not so laborious to do. It is like opening another online supermarket. Everyone orders online and picks up the goods the next day. I am a pickup point here."

　　It is reported that there are thousands of households in Ms. Zhou’s community, and several like her do community group buying. "Basically, some mother-and-wife stores are doing it, and the user intersection is very large." Ms. Zhou said that the platforms of the heads of the group also cover each other, including Xingsheng Preferred, Shihui Tuan, you and me. "I will send products to the group for users to choose by themselves. Recently, another Meituan Preferred has been added, and the activity is relatively strong. It is very popular with everyone."　

　　The opening situation of each platform is also different, some open groups every day, and some open the next day. "Every time you open a group, you can make a few dozen orders, and as many as hundreds of orders. Each platform adds one plus, and the average is 70 or 80 orders a day." Ms Zhou said that because most of them are fresh, grain and oil products, the daily turnover fluctuates relatively large. "It can be as little as two or three thousand yuan, and more can exceed 10,000 yuan. Especially during the holidays, the number of fruit gift boxes is very large, and the daily turnover can reach about 13,000 yuan."

　　Commission 10% -15%

　　"Leader" has a considerable monthly income

　　The day after the opening of the group was the busiest time for Ms. Zhou, which was basically from morning to night. "Especially when you get off work, users go home and take the dishes back by the way. There are often long lines at the door of the store to pick up the goods."

　　Ms. Zhang, a working mother, is a member of the daily queue to pick up the goods. "When there is no food at home, I will visit the group buying group in the community to see what I want to buy, and it will be delivered to the community the next day. It is too convenient to visit the vegetable market and supermarket." In Ms. Zhang’s opinion, convenience is the main reason for choosing community group buying.

　　In addition to convenience, high quality and low price are also a major reason for community group buying. Ms. Zhou cited mangosteen, kiwi fruit, dragon fruit and other fruits on her platform as examples. Mangkhut, which sells for more than ten yuan a catty in the supermarket, costs only 8.9 yuan to buy on the platform. Xu Xiang’s kiwi platform costs 9.8 yuan for three catties, and the cheapest kiwi in the supermarket also costs five or six yuan a catty.

　　"The quality of fruits, vegetables and supermarkets is comparable or even fresher, and the price is still cheap, so users who have bought them will place orders again and again." Ms. Zhou said that word-of-mouth communication between community users is more reliable than any advertisement. After being recognized by users, everyone will pull real-world friends in to buy together.

　　Ms. Feng, the "post-90s" mother, has less than half a year to become the "head" of the community group buying. "My best friend recommended me to join, just to earn pocket money while taking care of children." Ms. Feng said that there are more than 200 people in her group, with daily sales of about 1,000 yuan. The platform gives a 10% commission, and it can also earn two or three thousand yuan a month.

　　With two groups of 500 people in her hands, Ms. Zhou’s monthly income will increase by one or two times. "There are many platforms, and the commission is basically between 10% and 15%." Ms. Zhou said that the monthly income is basically stable at about 7,000 to 8,000 yuan. "During the holidays, with the gift box, the monthly income is around 10,000 yuan."

　　After seizing the market

　　Doing a good job in product service is the key

　　Ms. Li, who has been the head of the group in Jinan Dianliu Community for more than 2 years, was recently invited by Meituan Preferred and also went online to become the head of Meituan Preferred.

　　"For the head of the group, you can send multiple platform products to the same group, and let users compare and judge for themselves before placing an order." Mr. Yuan, a promoter of Meituan Preferred, said that Meituan Preferred has developed more than 3,700 WeChat groups with more than 100 people in Jinan in a month and a half.

　　Unlike the "seed players" who developed from the grass-roots level of the industry like the Ten Hui Group, Meituan is preferably a key project of a hundred billion-level large enterprise, with strong financial support, and can be quickly opened nationwide at the beginning. "Next, relying on the Meituan APP, Meituan Preferred will be built into a new industrial line side by side with Meituan takeaway."

　　In Mr. Yuan’s opinion, Meituan Preferred is fundamentally different from Ten Hui Group. The two models are different. Ten Hui Group has small profits but quick turnover. It is mainly profitable and requires sales; Meituan market values the number of orders more and wants to do data.

　　However, Mr. Yuan admitted that as far as Jinan is concerned, the number of orders placed by the Ten Hui Group is currently unmatched by Meituan Preferred.

　　However, Meituan also has an advantage that the Ten Hui Group does not have, and that is the Meituan APP. "At present, Meituan Preferred has been connected with the Meituan APP, and everyone can place an order through the Meituan APP, which means that everyone who owns the Meituan APP may become Meituan Preferred users."

　　"Community group buying, starting from the head, but will finally supply the supply chain", in fact, for Meituan Preferred, Ten Hui Group, City Life and other community group buying platforms, how to do a good job in product services after seizing the market is the most critical part.

　　Hot money is pouring in, and the giants are following suit

　　Are community groups buying "True Fragrance"?

　　If you win fresh food, you will win the world. In recent years, various sales models in the fresh food industry have been frequently favored by capital giants. In 2020, community group buying, as a "pre-sale + self-pickup" sales model in the fresh food industry, became popular overnight and was selected by capital again under the influence of the epidemic.

　　According to Tianyancha data, according to incomplete statistics, this year our country’s community group buying and fresh food e-commerce fields have accumulated more than ten times of financing, amounting to tens of billions of yuan. Among them, Ten Hui Group has been invested three times this year and received a total of 249.70 million US dollars of financing; Tongcheng Life has received 200 million US dollars and tens of millions of US dollars of financing in June and July. According to LatePost, Missfresh’s latest round of financing of 495 million US dollars is the largest financing in the fresh home industry to date.

　　Hot money influx, giants follow, community group buying in the future?

　　"Community group buying adopts the model of’pre-sale + self-pickup ‘, and there is no turnover, no need for offline stores, and there is no high distribution fee for centralized self-pickup." Ms. Zhou, who has been working in community group buying for three or four years, is very optimistic about "community group buying". She said that the pre-sale method of community group buying can effectively reduce inventory, and the goods have been booked and sold before they arrive at the warehouse. The turnover efficiency is improved, and the product loss rate and distribution cost are low.

　　However, Mr. Zhao, an industry veteran, pointed out that the so-called sales-based production and production-based production are actually difficult to achieve. In addition, there is a general lack of standardization of domestic agricultural products, and direct production from the origin and base acquisition are mostly gimmicks. "Community group buying also requires multiple categories, which is difficult for most enterprises to achieve. Many still rely on the local primary wholesale market."

　　In addition, Mr. Zhao believes that how the platform can retain the head of the team and maintain the customer base is also a question worth exploring.

　　It is foreseeable that the competition for community groups buying resources is bound to intensify, and with the entry of Internet Tech Giants, there are more possibilities for this track.

　　

　　Andy Lau

　　This year is Andy Lau’s 27th year in the arts. With records, concerts, and movies, Andy is still busy. Like every time he is familiar with the program, "Seeing the Dragon Remove Armor" was released in the mainland on the 3rd. Andy is promoting his new film, and his dedication is the same as before. Due to travel restrictions, "Seeing the Dragon Remove Armor" could not be promoted in Nanjing or Shanghai. Yesterday, Andy Lau, who was busy, accepted a telephone interview with this reporter.

　　Role:It’s so perfect, some dare not act

　　Director Li Rengang once said this in front of countless reporters: "No one is more perfect than Andy Lau to play Zhao Yun." Li Rengang, who calls himself a "Three Kingdoms Fool", prepared the script early and waited for Andy Lau’s schedule, just because he wanted a Zhao Yun who was the most like Zhao Yun. Hua Zai said that he was very grateful to the director, Zhao Yun has always been his idol. Zhao Erhu in "Naming" is not perfect, but the audience likes it, but it is indeed a big challenge to grasp the perfect Zhao Yun. "Since you have the opportunity to act, read more books and study carefully. Zhao Yun is too perfect, and sometimes I dare not act, and I don’t know how to do it well." When asked if he had any similarities to Zhao Yun, he humorously said, "I guess I’m not as tall as him, but they’re all very handsome. According to historical records, Zhao Yun is eight feet long and has a majestic appearance. One foot of the Three Kingdoms in the Han Dynasty is about 24 centimeters. I think he is about 1.90 meters. The key is to be brave and good at fighting. How perfect!"

　　Acting:The era of Andy Lau’s bad movies is over

　　Andy is famous for his hard work in the circle. Director Chen Kexin once said: "He has his own ideas. He never acts for the sake of acting. He always thinks, even more than I think." He has made the most movies, but there are also many bad movies. However, audiences from Zhao Erhu in "The Name" to Zhao Zilong in "Seeing the Dragon Remove Armor" will marvel: "Andy’s acting is getting better and better!" Some people say that Andy Lau’s era of bad movies is over, and except for his own loyal fans, most of his characters can convince audiences. However, Andy also has his own "high opinion" about acting: "In fact, every actor has his own best role. In fact, you are still you no matter how you act, and the audience still sees the character expressed through you, so whether it is Zhao Erhu or Zhao Zilong this time, it is conveyed to everyone through Andy Lau."

　　PK: I want to send a ticket to Fa Ge to see "Seeing the Dragon Remove Armor"

　　Hua Zai was very excited about the release of "Children of Yellowstone" starring Chow Yun-fat on the same day. He did not express his position on the media’s promotion of Andy Lau and Chow Yun-fat’s first PK in the mainland film market. After all, he is no longer the young man who just entered the wireless artist training class. Instead, he is very willing to tell reporters about the story of He Fa Ge. Hua Zai has always said that Fa Ge has a great influence on him, "When I entered the wireless, he was already very famous. If I hadn’t met him back then, many things might not have happened. As for the PK problem, I will send a ticket to Fa Ge to invite him to watch the play. Whether the box office is good or not is not entirely the relationship between the two of us, and the distributor."

　　Power:I don’t want to be forgotten soon

　　Andy has been out for 27 years and has been popular for 27 years, which can be regarded as a miracle in the entertainment industry. What is supporting him? Andy said with a smile that the current era is very changeable, and many things appear once, but disappear before they can be seen by others, so he cherishes those nostalgic fans very much, "Everyone gets old, just like me, I am also getting old slowly. As an artist, of course, I hope that I will be remembered as long as possible. Of course, I also hope that everyone will not forget me so quickly, but I can’t stop doing things every day. At present, I have no plans to stop."

　　Ideal:Director, husband, father

　　"I have always planned to be a director, but maybe the time has not yet come. I hope to do it when I am most confident, and I am looking forward to that day." Andy recalled that in the most desperate era, he took on four films at the same time, and he did not have time to think about good or bad. Today, he has been able to control many things, choosing directors, choosing scripts, choosing the team to cooperate with, and paying for the film to be the boss. In the end, Andy said that he was also very tired, and now he was not as tired as before. When he was tired, he hoped to stop to catch his breath and continue on the road. He hoped to form his own family at the most suitable time, be a husband and a father, and do his duty like a member of an ordinary family. "We gave a lot and got a lot, so I have always been grateful for everything I have."

Editor in charge: Li Dan

On the afternoon of November 29, Lei Jun, the founder, chairperson and CEO of Xiaomi Group, gave a speech at the 9th Wuhan University Alumni Luojia Forum, a 1987 computer department alumnus of Wuhan University, confessed his feelings and blessed his alma mater.

Lei Jun attended the celebration of the 130th anniversary of Wuhan University. Photo by Gao Yong, reporter of Changjiang Daily

"Today is the 130th anniversary of my alma mater, Wuhan University. Here, I would like to extend my sincerest and warmest congratulations to my alma mater. Happy 130th birthday to Wuhan University!"

"At the 9th Alumni Luojia Forum held by my alma mater, I am honored to be invited to share as a guest speaker again. I have always had an unforgettable love for my alma mater. The small achievements I have achieved today are inseparable from the training of my alma mater back then. It was from Wuhan University that I embarked on the road of scientific and technological exploration."

The following is the full text of the speech.

Dear teachers, seniors, and students, good afternoon!

I am Lei Jun, a 1987 alumnus. First of all, I would like to extend my sincerest and warmest congratulations to my alma mater. Happy 130th birthday to Wuhan University!

I have always had an unforgettable love for my alma mater, and the small achievements I have achieved today are inseparable from the training of my alma mater in those years. It can be said that Wuhan University has shaped me, allowed me to find my dream, learned the way to learn, and gave me the most precious wealth in my life. No matter where I go, I will always think of the great support and care given by my alma mater, and my heart is full of gratitude.

01

"Wuhan University is the best university in the world"

Five years ago, also here, I once said: In my heart, Wuhan University is the best university in the world, no one. This sentence caused a huge response on the Internet. In fact, it doesn’t matter. If everyone feels that there is a gap, all our teachers and students of Wuhan University and Wuhan University alumni have a common goal: to build our alma mater into the best university in the world!

What’s so great about Wuhan University?

Not only is it a long history, achievements and many masters, just talking about the campus environment, our Wuhan University is definitely the best. Take the architecture as an example, the old zhai house, the old library, the old gymnasium, etc., which fully reflects the ideological pattern of ancient and modern, and the integration of East and West. It is a classic business card of Chinese universities and a warm picture that we will always remember in our hearts.

Of course, what’s more important is the humanistic environment of Wuhan University. The most attractive thing about Wuhan University is that it pays special attention to the free development of people, the style of study is diverse and inclusive, and it never allows students to study, but allows students to fully develop independently. The teachers are also very friendly, and the relationship between teachers and students is very harmonious. Let me give a small example. When I was in school, the teachers rarely delayed the class, because once the class was delayed, the students knocked on the table to protest, and the teacher immediately understood.

In August this year, I held my fourth annual speech, with the theme of "Growing Up", which mainly told me how I went to college and started a business. Most of the content was about Wuhan University. At that time, Secretary Huang Taiyan also came to the scene to support. There are so many friends on the scene today, I ask a question, how many people have seen my speech in August?

In my memory, there are a lot of stories about Wuhan University, and I only told a small part of them in my speech, mainly five experiences: just entering the university, watching "Silicon Valley Fire" in the library; completing four years of college credits in two years; how to become a program master; undergraduate ** in the journal; and the experience of trying to start a business in college.

I cut a short video for you to watch.

Some netizens commented: This is a large-scale recruitment promotion of Wuhan University. This netizen is right, this speech is to promote Wuhan University and to warm up for Wuhan University’s 130-week celebration.

Wuhan University also had a crucial impact on me: it was here that I embarked on the path of scientific and technological exploration.

02

My path to technological exploration

2.1 The path to take in life

Before the college entrance examination, I like chemistry and wanted to apply for the Department of Chemistry at first. I have a good brother who wants to apply for computer science. I just temporarily changed my volunteer and applied for the Department of Computer Science of Wuhan University.

Looking back now, everything was the best arrangement. As soon as I entered college, I fell madly in love with programming, which can be said to be "addicted to it, and I can’t extricate myself".

There were too few opportunities to get on the computer in that era, and I thought of many ways, and even did such "bad things" with my classmates – sneaking through the windows in the middle of the night, sneaking into the computer room, playing with the computer all night, and almost being caught by the teacher on the spot. Of course, this was wrong, and I have to thank my alma mater for its tolerance.

The teachers have always encouraged us to continue to explore and innovate in technology. Coupled with the free and relaxed environment and laboratory conditions, I have the courage to set no limits. At that time, I dabbled in a very wide range, writing encryption software, antivirus software, financial software, CAD software, Chinese systems, etc., and also did hardware like Hanka.

Today, I can still find the code I wrote when I was a sophomore on the Internet. A memory management software called RI, this small software is very popular. At that time, I simply open-sourced it. Why open-source it? The main reason is to show off my skills, write such a good code, let everyone see it, and challenge the experts in the country.

Therefore, I feel that when you are young, you should try as much as possible, broaden your horizons, and enrich your "arsenal".

2.2 Hold the banner of national general software

After graduation, I joined Kingsoft as employee No. 6, participating in the development of office software.

Many friends may not be familiar with the fact that large-scale commercial software such as office software is extremely difficult to develop. At present, the world mainly includes Microsoft Office and Kingsoft WPS.

WPS was born in 1988 and experienced great success, but by 1996, "there was Microsoft before, and then there was piracy", and it was in a desperate situation. In the most difficult days, we discussed many times whether to continue to do WPS. In fact, from a business perspective, there was no reason to continue.

There is only one reason why we have never given up: WPS is the banner of national universal software, and we cannot let this flag fall in our hands.

To keep doing WPS, the most difficult thing is to find a way to survive. We make various tools and software such as Kingsoft Word and Kingsoft Drug Tyrant, and we make games, etc. We find survival space in the gaps that Microsoft does not want to do or disdains to do, and work hard to make money. Then, use the money earned to support the WPS team, insist on continuous research and development and continuous improvement, and fight a long-term war.

Of course, it is impossible to win by making small repairs to the original architecture alone. By 2002, we had made an important decision to rewrite WPS from scratch with all the money we had worked so hard to save over the years, a total of 40 million yuan in cash, a handful of All-in. This was a very difficult decision, involving the rewriting of tens of millions of lines of code, which required great courage and determination. We worked on it for 3 years, and finally in 2005, we completed a new architecture. We have made great efforts to build this architecture, and we can proudly say that it represents the most advanced level of office software in the past 20 years, and it has been used to this day.

In this protracted battle, Jinshan endured a long period of loneliness and suffering. At that time, there were not many people who understood us, nor did they cheer for us. We just thought we should do it.

In 2011, I became the chairperson of Jinshan, leading the transformation of Jinshan mobile Internet. The advantages of WPS rewriting architecture are reflected. This time, we finally overtook Microsoft Office and became the best office software for mobile end and the largest market share in China. After 20 years of groping in the dark, Jinshan has finally regained the glory of its early days.

In 2019, after 31 years of perseverance, Kingsoft WPS finally went public.

At that time, the entire IT industry said that WPS was a hardcore technology hero dream and the most inspiring story in China’s software industry.

Today, the number of WPS MAU equipment has exceeded 586 million, R & D expenditure accounts for more than 35%, and R & D personnel account for more than 60%.

The breakthrough of hard-core technology relies on lasting resilience and persistence. The counterattack of WPS is the victory of persistence.

To this day, when it comes to autonomous control and domestic substitution, in the field of office software, WPS has never worried anyone.

The history of WPS has also proved that with enough perseverance, Chinese engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs can all succeed in any field of hard-core technology.

2.3 From software to hardware

In the long-term battle of Jinshan, at the age of 40, I once again ventured into the field of hardware technology.

In 2010, in a small office in the Silver Valley Building of Baofusi Bridge in Beijing, I founded Xiaomi with 13 colleagues.

A programmer who had been working in software and the Internet for 20 years, and suddenly stepped into the hardware industry, can be said to be "ignorant and fearless". But the most important thing I did at Wuhan University gave me inexplicable confidence. As long as I have the ability to learn, there are no problems that cannot be solved.

Later, as everyone knows, Xiaomi won a fantastic start, but also encountered tremendous difficulties due to the lack of a solid foundation in hardware capabilities. At the most dangerous and difficult moment, in May 2016, I had to personally take over the mobile phone department, leading the team to seriously make up lessons and focus on hardcore technology.

Speaking of which, the courage to directly manage hardware research and development is still the confidence given to me by Wuhan University. Back then, when I was at Wuhan University, I soldered circuit boards and made programmable chips. Although I am not proficient, it can be regarded as some hardware basics.

At that time, I had more than 20 meetings every day, while learning the latest technology of mobile phone hardware, discussing engineering plans with my colleagues, and frantically recruiting the best engineers to expand the team and enhance the research and development strength. Looking back now, those more than a year were simply not a human life, and even cats and dogs could not stand it. But there is no wasted effort in the world. Just like practicing programming at Wuhan University, my hardware technology level soon improved.

In March 2021, Xiaomi Group officially announced the construction of a car, and I began to learn the technology of the car frantically. I will share it with you after Xiaomi Auto is officially launched.

2.4 In the next decade, from "striving" to "leading"

Xiaomi’s mission is to "insist on making good products that move people’s hearts and are affordable, so that everyone in the world can enjoy the good life brought by technology", which determines that Xiaomi must be a technology company.

Many people still have many misunderstandings about Xiaomi. What is the misunderstanding? Someone always says, "Xiaomi is an assembly plant, Xiaomi has little investment in research and development, and Xiaomi has no core technology."Overall, Xiaomi does have a certain gap compared to the world’s top technology companies. But as a 13-year-old company, Xiaomi’s investment and strength in research and development are still quite strong.

Let me report a set of figures: in the past five years, Xiaomi’s R & D investment has reached a compound annual growth rate of 38.4%. In 2022, Xiaomi’s R & D investment was 16.20 billion yuan, and it is expected to reach 20 billion yuan in 2023. In the next five years, more than 100 billion yuan will be invested in technology research and development. What is the level of 16.20 billion yuan? In September this year, the National Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Finance issued the "Statistical Communiqué on National Science and Technology Investment in 2022", and the national R & D investment 3.07829 trillion. Xiaomi’s R & D investment has accounted for 0.53% of all R & D expenditures in the country, including the sum of central enterprises, state-owned enterprises, universities, research institutions, and

Let’s take another example, let’s take a field that Xiaomi may be the least good at in everyone’s eyes, 5G standard patents. This field is the strength of communication equipment manufacturers, and it requires accumulation and precipitation in particular, and it takes years to endure. But even so, in the "5G Standard Essential Patent Declaration Valid Global Patent Family Enterprise Ranking" released by the China Institute of Information and Communications this year, Huawei is the world’s leader, accounting for 14%; while Xiaomi patents account for 4.1%, which has entered the top ten in the world.

On the issue of misunderstanding, I have also been troubled. Later I want to understand that there is no need to be torn, the key depends on your own growth.

On the other hand, when you compare 13-year-old Xiaomi with Apple, Samsung, and Huawei, you have extremely high expectations and requirements for us. However, rice is eaten bite by bite, and the road is taken step by step. I believe that as Xiaomi continues to increase its investment in research and development and its strength becomes stronger and stronger, we will definitely be able to win everyone’s trust and recognition by virtue of our own continuous growth.

In August this year, I announced Xiaomi’s strategic goal for the new decade: to invest heavily in the underlying core technology and strive to become a new generation of global hard-core technology leaders.

Just last month, we just released Xiaomi Surging OS, which is the world’s first "people, cars, and home ecosystem" operating system. Xiaomi Surging OS took 7 years of research and development, and more than 5,000 engineers participated in an unprecedented system underlying reconstruction. It will become the "public base for the interconnection of all things" in the future world, ready for tens of billions of devices and tens of billions of connections in mobile phones, homes, cars and other scenarios.

At the same time, Xiaomi has been working on many cutting-edge technologies, such as AI, chips, intelligent manufacturing, and humanoid robots.

I tell my colleagues inside the company that greatness is made, and we must be firm and patient enough. Xiaomi has only been around for 13 years, and we must be firm for at least 30 years before we can become a truly great company. This is an interesting phenomenon. In the field of hard core technology and manufacturing, almost all truly great companies have experienced more than 30 years of experience.

Why 30 years? Because 30 years is the time for generations of engineers to build a deep and leading technology system; it is the time required to grow to a sufficient scale to catch up with and surpass the original giants in the relevant industry. On the other hand, a technology company needs to go through several ups and downs and experience the test of industry and macro cycles in order to establish a solid industrial foundation and form a deep influence and leadership on the industrial chain.

The development of China’s hard-core technology has gradually participated in global competition since the 1990s, and is crossing the 30-year test threshold. On the one hand, China’s technology companies are catching up with the world’s top R & D technology level in the current low-level technology tracks; on the other hand, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is surging, and the cutting-edge hard-core technology strength is the decisive force.

Modern technology is a global battle for technology, resources, talent, and markets. We must seize the opportunity to win the future. In the current geopolitical environment, the more we face blockade and suppression, the less we can engage in self-isolation and self-isolation. We must always uphold a broad vision and mind. On the one hand, we are self-reliant and open-minded, and we will use the global advantageous resources to our advantage, forming an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness, and constantly moving towards the high end of the global value chain.

03

Gratitude and responsibility

3.1 The grace of a drop of water, the spring returns

During my college years and during my entrepreneurial career, I received a lot of help from people, and I have always been grateful.

I often ask myself: what should I do for my alma mater? What should I do for this era?

This morning, I finally fulfilled a major wish: I personally donated 1.30 billion cash to my alma mater as a birthday gift to support Wuhan University’s basic discipline development, scientific and technological innovation and college student training.

This wish originated more than 30 years ago. I grew up in an ordinary family in a county seat. When I was studying at Wuhan University, my family was very burdened, and I was determined to survive on my own.

So I studied very hard and worked very hard to get the scholarship. I once won the highest scholarship at Wuhan University at that time: 2,000 yuan, a huge sum of money from a donation from a company. I was particularly moved at that time, and I still clearly remember that on the podium, I secretly swore in my heart: When I have the ability, I will return it ten times, a hundred times, ten thousand times.

Six years after graduation, in 1997, at the age of 27, with a salary of about 4,000 yuan, I started my first donation to my alma mater, which was to establish the Lei Jun Scholarship (then called the Tengfei Scholarship) in the School of Computer Science. Since then, it has been donated for 26 consecutive years. In 2017, I finally donated a building at Wuhan University, and in June this year, the Lei Jun Building was officially completed.

Today, I decided to donate 1.30 billion, and I am very excited.

Struggling for a lifetime, what is it for? Different people have different answers. For me, being able to donate to my alma mater is one of the most worthwhile things to do.

However, I never advocate comparisons in donations. Everyone can give back to their alma mater with practical actions, and they can contribute money and make a strong contribution. This event has many, many alumni donations, and every donation is the love of alumni to their alma mater, and the weight is equal.

My donation this time focuses on three main directions: supporting basic research in the six major disciplines of mathematics, physics, literature, history and philosophy, supporting technological innovation in the field of computer science and technology, and supporting the training of college students. It is to enable more engineers, scientists, and technology entrepreneurs to appear in China, so that China can have more Huawei, more Xiaomi, more BYD, and more Ningde era. With more such people and companies, China’s hard-core technology will continue to rise and develop, and the forces supporting China’s hard-core technology will continue to emerge. Only then can we continue to lead the development of global science and technology, create a better life, and create a better and fairer world where everyone can continue to share the fruits of development.

3.2 Wuhan University spirit, endless life

Today, we gather here to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Wuhan University, not only the glorious history and great achievements of Wuhan University, but also the spiritual outlook and future blueprint of Wuhan University.

The history of the 130th anniversary of Wuhan University, as well as the revival of China and the changes in the world witnessed by Wuhan University in the past 130 years, tell us that we still have to believe. Believe in dreams, believe in persistence, believe in endless power, and believe in something beautiful and resilient that can cross the vicissitudes of life.

Finally, congratulations to the 130th anniversary of the alma mater, wish Wuhan University forever young; wish all Wu University people a bright future!

Thank you very much.

(Source: Lei Jun WeChat official account)

The new generation of domestic supercomputing system "Tianhe Xingyi" was released. On December 6, the National Supercomputing Guangzhou Center officially released a new generation of domestic supercomputing system – "Tianhe Xingyi". The reporter learned from the 2023 Supercomputing Innovation Application Conference that the "Tianhe Xingyi" system is application-centered, using domestic advanced computing architecture, high-performance multi-core processors, high-speed interconnected networks, large-scale storage and other key technologies to build, in general-purpose CPU computing capacity, network capacity, storage capacity and application service capacity and other aspects than "Tianhe-2" to achieve doubling, support high-performance computing, AI large model training and large data analytics application mode, will further enhance the Guangzhou Supercomputing Center’s multi-domain service capabilities, and effectively meet the needs of supercomputing applications in various industries. On the same day, the National Supercomputing Guangzhou Center, together with Guangdong Unicom, China Mobile Internet, Pengcheng Laboratory, Guangdong Public Resources Trading Federation, Guangzhou Trading Group, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Huo Yingdong Research Institute, Macau China Innovation and Technology Development Promotion Association and other 14 units, officially launched the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Supercomputing Application Internet Construction, aggregating computing power resources, high-speed network resources and supercomputing application resources represented by supercomputers, and jointly building a national science and technology innovation platform to support the national computing power network construction strategy, laying a solid foundation for the century project of opening the computing power economy era in the Bay Area. With the development of innovative computing power and the new generation of artificial intelligence technology, the integration of supercomputing and artificial intelligence has become a key force driving scientific and technological innovation, and will provide a core driving force for the transformation and upgrading of various industries and the development of digital economy in our country for a long time. The 2023 Supercomputing Innovation and Application Conference, hosted by the National Supercomputing Center of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, brought together more than 400 representatives from national supercomputing centers, university institutes, and technology enterprises to share the latest achievements and experiences in the application of supercomputing empowered industries, and jointly explore the integration and development of advanced technologies such as supercomputing, smart computing, artificial intelligence, and big data. Takamatsu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of Sun Yat-sen University, said that the development project of the new generation of domestic general-purpose supercomputing system of the supercomputing center has achieved phased results, which effectively ensures that the service capabilities of the center system continue to be leading at home and abroad. In the next step, Sun Yat-sen University will continue to support the construction and development of the center.It is hoped that the supercomputing center will continue to target the world’s cutting-edge science and technology and the country’s major strategic needs, actively connect with the local industrial layout, deepen the deep integration and intersection of multiple disciplines, and continuously produce major landmark application results to support the country’s high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. The Guangzhou Supercomputing Center has become the benchmark of our country’s supercomputing center "Tianhe-2". It was successfully developed in 2013 and won the TOP500 world supercomputing six consecutive championships, which is an important symbol of our country’s supercomputing system development entering the world’s leading ranks. Liao Xiangke, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief designer of the "Tianhe-2" development project, pointed out that the application of domestic supercomputing has always been a major challenge for the development of supercomputing in our country. The National Supercomputing Center Guangzhou has established a first-class talent team, developed a series of field-oriented supercomputing application platforms, and independently developed the "Starlight" domestic multi-mode supercomputing integration application support platform to build a bridge between domestic supercomputing systems and supercomputing applications in various fields. "Guangzhou Supercomputing insists on building a world-class supercomputing center as its goal, constantly expands the supercomputing application field, independently develops core application technologies, and creates a field-oriented application service platform." Lu Yutong, director of the National Supercomputing Center Guangzhou, said that the number of users of the Guangzhou Supercomputing Center has increased exponentially from the initial more than 300 to more than 300,000. The independently developed Starlight Supercomputing application support platform won the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Special Award. In order to further support the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center, the center has built 15 sub-centers in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and established the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Supercomputing Alliance, forming an application pattern based on the Bay Area, serving the whole country, and affecting the world. It has become the benchmark of our country’s supercomputing centers and ranks among the top five most influential in the world. Application case, in the Huo Yingdong Research Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the 100M network special line extending from the Nansha branch of the National Supercomputing Center of the Guangzhou Center is connected to the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou University Town in the north, and the Qingshuiwan Campus of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in the south, which closely connects Guangzhou Supercomputing with Hong Kong’s science and technology innovation, making it a "transfer station" for Guangzhou-Hong Kong science and technology innovation Gao Min, dean of the Huo Yingdong Research Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, said that supercomputing has a strong supporting role for scientific research. Hong Kong has many famous universities and a large number of cutting-edge scientific research talent teams, and the demand for supercomputing is very strong. In recent years, the Hong Kong scientific research team has used Guangzhou supercomputing to bear fruit.The University of Hong Kong has developed the world’s most durable hydrogen fuel cell. Thanks to the "Tianhe-2", a team led by Shaw Man-wah, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and dean of the HKUST Energy Research Institute, has developed a new hydrogen fuel cell, setting a world record for the durability of the battery to generate electricity. Hydrogen fuel cells are less harmful to the environment, but they have never been commercialized on a large scale. The reason is that hydrogen fuel cells rely on electrocatalysts to generate electricity, but catalysts are generally made of platinum (Pt), which is not only expensive but also rare. Scientists have been trying to find more common and inexpensive substances such as iron-nitrogen-carbon as alternatives to platinum, but these substances have poor catalytic power generation efficiency and durability. Relying on the rich storage resources and powerful computing power of "Tianhe-2", the team simulated the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on the surface of the new mixed catalyst, used density functional theory (DFT) to prove that its catalytic performance is superior to platinum, and finally developed a new hydrogen fuel cell, which greatly reduced the amount of platinum required by the catalyst by 80%. This new mixed catalyst not only has extremely low platinum content, but its catalytic efficiency remains at 97% after 100,000 voltage cycles of accelerated stress testing. The research team of Professor Zhang Xin of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Institute of Sport collaborated to study the aerodynamic characteristics of the cycling process using advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods through the "Tianhe-2" supercomputer. In the calculation, the overall wind resistance was evaluated and optimized based on factors such as wind speed, cycling attitude, bicycle parts, and wheel rotation, and validated and supplemented with the wind tunnel experimental measurements, which effectively promoted the athlete’s posture optimization, equipment design, and selection process. The simulation calculation also provided the flow field distribution of different parts of the body, assisted in clothing design and material selection, and was combined with the wind tunnel experiment. As a result, Hong Kong cyclist Li Huishi improved her training efficiency and competition results, and won a valuable bronze medal in the women’s track cycling competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games.