Firmly innovate to drive development and accelerate the construction of an innovative country

  In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Supreme Leader emphasized that innovation is the first driving force for development and the strategic support for building a modern economic system. In accordance with the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, it is of great and far-reaching significance to take accelerating the construction of an innovative country as the overall strategic measure of modernization, firmly implement the innovation-driven development strategy, strengthen the position and role of innovation as the first driving force, and highlight the leading role of scientific and technological innovation in all-round innovation.

  Deeply understand the great significance of accelerating the construction of an innovative country

  The main symbol of an innovative country is that science and technology and talents have become the most important strategic resources for a strong national strength. The improvement of labor productivity and social productivity mainly depends on scientific and technological progress and comprehensive innovation. It has a number of world-class scientific research institutions, research universities and innovative enterprises, and the innovative legal system environment, market environment and cultural environment are excellent. The essence of an innovative country is to rely on innovation activities to promote economic development and improve competitiveness, and its measurement indicators are mainly reflected in innovation resources, knowledge creation, enterprise innovation, innovation performance, innovation environment and so on.

  Accelerating the construction of an innovative country is an inherent requirement for China to move towards a modern power. Science and technology are the sharp weapon of the country, and all the modern powers in the world are innovation powers and science and technology powers. The strategic goal of building an innovative country in China is to enter the ranks of innovative countries by 2020, to be in the forefront of innovative countries by 2035, and to become a world science and technology power by the centenary of the founding of New China. At present, China’s development has reached a new historical starting point and is moving from a developing country to a modern power. If we can’t win in the field of innovation, we can’t grasp the opportunities and advantages of global competition, and we will lose support in moving towards a modern power. We must speed up the construction of an innovative country, highlight the improvement of scientific and technological innovation ability, and support a modern power with a strong country of science and technology.

  Accelerating the construction of an innovative country is an inevitable choice to solve the main social contradictions in the new era in China. At present, the main contradiction in our society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development. In particular, economic development is big but not strong, big but not excellent, the driving force of factors is obviously weakened, and new kinetic energy has not been fully connected. The demand for scientific and technological innovation in economic and social development has never been as urgent as it is today. Only by speeding up the construction of an innovative country and fully practicing the development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing in the whole process of economic and social development can we accelerate the transformation to connotative development mainly relying on knowledge accumulation, technological progress and the improvement of labor quality, realize a fundamental change in the endogenous motivation and vitality of China’s development, and open up a broader space for solving major social contradictions.

  Accelerating the construction of an innovative country is a strategic measure to seize the historical opportunity of the new scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. At present, a new round of global scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is gestating, especially information technology, biotechnology, manufacturing technology, etc., which have widely penetrated into various fields, and led to major group technological changes characterized by green, intelligence and ubiquity. The pace of integration of next-generation information technologies such as big data, cloud computing and mobile Internet with robots and intelligent manufacturing technologies is accelerating, which is triggering a major adjustment of international industrial division of labor, thus reshaping the world competition pattern and changing the balance of national power. China is faced with a rare historical opportunity to catch up and leapfrog, but also a severe challenge to widen the gap. Only by accelerating the construction of an innovative country, comprehensively enhancing the ability of scientific and technological innovation, and striving to achieve leapfrog development in important scientific and technological fields can we win the strategic initiative in the new round of global competition.

  Firmly implement the strategy of innovation-driven development

  The innovation-driven development strategy is related to the overall situation of China’s economic and social development. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China puts forward the strategy of firmly implementing innovation-driven development, which shows that our party regards the implementation of this strategy as a major and long-term task and puts it at the core of the overall development of the country.

  Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has made remarkable achievements in implementing the innovation-driven development strategy. The contribution rate of scientific and technological progress to economic growth has increased from 52.2% in 2012 to 56.2% in 2016, which has effectively promoted industrial transformation and upgrading. Breakthroughs have been made in the industrialization of major scientific and technological achievements such as high-speed railways, hydropower equipment, UHV power transmission and transformation, hybrid rice, Earth observation satellites, Beidou navigation, electric vehicles, etc. Some industries are at the forefront of the world, continuously improving the quality and efficiency of China’s economic development and expanding the new space for China’s development.

  To implement the innovation-driven development strategy, it is necessary to highlight the supporting and leading role of scientific and technological innovation in supply-side structural reform and fostering new kinetic energy for development. First, promote the innovation of industrial technology system around the new generation information network, intelligent green manufacturing, modern agriculture, modern energy and other fields, pay attention to the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries with new technologies and new formats, and lead the development of emerging industrial clusters with the support of technological breakthroughs. The second is to promote the integration of technological innovation, management innovation and business model innovation, expand emerging service industries such as digital consumption, e-commerce, modern logistics and internet finance, and vigorously develop digital economy, platform economy, sharing economy and intelligent economy. The third is to vigorously promote innovation and entrepreneurship, establish a number of low-cost, convenient and open creative spaces and virtual innovation communities, and incubate and cultivate innovative small and micro enterprises with "specialization and novelty". Fourth, create new economic growth points, growth zones and growth poles, deepen the construction of globally influential scientific and technological innovation centers in Beijing and Shanghai, accelerate the coordinated innovation of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Economic Belt and the eastern and western regions, strengthen the radiation-driven role of national independent innovation demonstration zones and national high-tech zones, and build a number of innovative cities and regional innovation centers with strong driving effects.

  Promoting new breakthroughs in key areas of scientific and technological innovation around "three orientations"

  Facing the forefront of world science and technology, facing the main battlefield of economy and facing the major needs of the country is the main strategic direction of China’s scientific and technological innovation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the forward-looking layout and systematic promotion of the "Three Orientations" have been significantly strengthened, and breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation have been significantly accelerated. Benchmarking the forefront of international science and technology, China has achieved a large number of major original achievements in basic research and applied basic research fields such as quantum communication and computer, high temperature superconductivity and neutrino oscillation, and its international influence has been greatly enhanced. Facing the main battlefield of economy, a series of major technical and engineering breakthroughs have been achieved in major national science and technology projects, and the mobile communication field has developed by leaps and bounds from "2G following", "3G breakthrough", "4G parallel" to "5G leading", and the C919 large passenger plane made its first flight successfully. Focusing on the major needs of national development, China has achieved a number of landmark major scientific and technological innovations with international influence in strategic areas such as deep space, deep sea, deep ground and deep blue, such as manned spaceflight and lunar exploration, manned deep diving, deep drilling and supercomputing.

  At the same time, we should also see that basic research in China is still weak. Original technology and subversive technology are relatively insufficient, and key core technologies in many fields are subject to people. It is necessary to integrate scientific and technological resources more effectively and accelerate breakthroughs. First, strengthen basic research and applied basic research, and strengthen the source reserve of new ideas, methods, principles and knowledge. Second, focus on major national science and technology projects, organize Industry-University-Research to jointly tackle key problems, and break through a number of key common technologies in the fields of information, biology, new energy, new materials and artificial intelligence. The third is to launch "Science and Technology Innovation 2030— Major projects ",increase efforts in the fields of space, ocean, network, materials, energy and health, and break through and master a number of original and subversive technologies. The fourth is to promote modern engineering technology research and demonstration application, and strengthen technology development and integration, equipment development and large-scale application for marine engineering, heavy equipment, transportation, power grid, modern agriculture and other fields.

  Strengthen the construction of national innovation system

  National innovation system is the basis of determining the level of national development, strategic scientific and technological forces are the backbone of national innovation system, and international competition is largely the competition of scientific and technological innovation capability systems.

  Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the construction of China’s scientific and technological innovation capability system has reached a new level. The construction of scientific and technological innovation bases has been accelerated, the comprehensive national science center has been promoted as a whole, and breakthroughs have been made in the construction of large-scale scientific research infrastructure. Major scientific and technological facilities such as the world’s largest spherical radio telescope (FAST) with a diameter of 500 meters and the super-large hypersonic shock wind tunnel will be built, and innovative platforms such as the State Key Laboratory will be laid out. At the same time, we will promote the open sharing of science and technology infrastructure platforms, and bring 58 major scientific research infrastructures and 58,000 sets of large scientific research instruments into a unified national network management platform. A number of large-scale comprehensive scientific research institutions have greatly improved their research capabilities and moved forward in international rankings. The technological innovation capability of enterprises has been further enhanced. In 2016, enterprises accounted for more than 77.5% of the R&D expenditure of the whole society, and a number of internationally influential scientific and technological innovative enterprises emerged.

  At present, in the face of the requirements of building a world science and technology power, we must vigorously strengthen the capacity building of the national innovation system and systematically build China’s strategic scientific and technological strength. First, lay out national laboratories in major innovation fields and build a strategic scientific and technological innovation base that reflects the will of the country and has a world-class level. Second, focus on energy, life, particle physics and other fields to build a number of major scientific and technological infrastructures, and accelerate the construction of three comprehensive science centers in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, Hefei, Anhui and Huairou, Beijing. The third is to optimize and integrate the layout of national scientific research bases and platforms, and make layout around the national strategy and innovation chain to promote the open sharing of scientific and technological resources. Fourth, according to the requirements of enterprise-oriented, market-oriented and Industry-University-Research’s deep integration, we will promote technological innovation, build a number of national technological innovation centers to lead enterprise innovation and industrial development, support a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises to enhance their innovation capabilities, and cultivate a number of innovative leading enterprises with outstanding core technological capabilities and strong integrated innovation capabilities. The national innovation system we are building is open, not closed. We should improve the internationalization level of scientific and technological innovation in all directions, build a "Belt and Road" collaborative innovation community, and actively take the lead or participate in international major scientific plans and projects.

  Building a team of high-end scientific and technological innovation talents

  Innovation drive is essentially talent drive, and comprehensive national strength competition is talent competition in the final analysis. Whoever has the advantage of talent will have the advantage of innovation strength.

  There are still some problems in innovative scientific and technological talents in China, such as outstanding structural contradictions, lack of world-class scientific and technological masters, shortage of leading talents and top talents, and disconnection between engineering and technical personnel training and production and innovation practice. Therefore, the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to cultivate a large number of strategic scientific and technological talents, leading scientific and technological talents, young scientific and technological talents and high-level innovative teams with international standards. We should take this deployment as a priority task in implementing the innovation-driven development strategy and pay close attention to it. First, promote the strategic adjustment of the structure of innovative scientific and technological talents, strengthen the construction of high-end scientific and technological innovative talents, highlight the orientation of "high precision and sharp lack", and strengthen the selection and training of strategic scientific and technological talents, leading scientific and technological talents and high-level innovative teams. Second, aim at the world’s scientific and technological frontiers and strategic emerging industries, support and train young and middle-aged leading talents with development potential, and open up special support channels for young talents. The third is to cultivate a large number of entrepreneurial talents with global strategic vision, innovation ability and social responsibility, and protect entrepreneurs’ innovation income and property rights according to law. Fourth, continue to increase the introduction of overseas high-level talents, introduce high-level innovative talents such as chief scientists to the world, and achieve accurate introduction. Fifth, vigorously promote innovation education, enhance the innovation consciousness and ability of the whole society, and create a team of innovative and entrepreneurial talents with large scale, innovative spirit and dare to take risks.

  Deepen the reform of science and technology system

  To build an innovative country, we must adhere to the two-wheel drive of scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation. Only when the two wheels work in harmony can the new engine driven by innovation be started at full speed.

  The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to deepen the reform of the scientific and technological system, and we should work hard on the strength and methods of implementation. First, improve the inclusive policy system to support enterprise innovation, and increase the implementation of policies such as R&D expenses plus deduction, tax incentives for high-tech enterprises, and accelerated depreciation of fixed assets. The second is to promote the reform of project evaluation, talent evaluation and institutional evaluation to stimulate the enthusiasm of scientific and technological personnel. The third is to improve the national technology transfer system, cultivate a number of national technology transfer institutions with high professional level and strong service ability, establish and improve regional and industrial technology markets, and build a technology transfer network connecting innovative resources such as technology, capital and talents at home and abroad. The fourth is to strengthen the creation, protection and application of intellectual property rights, deepen the reform of rights management of scientific and technological achievements, improve the incentive evaluation system for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and strengthen the legal protection of intellectual property rights in innovative countries. The fifth is to create a fair, open and transparent market environment, establish a government procurement system in line with international rules, and expand the market space for innovative products and services.

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Chinese businessmen in Russia: from the bitter experience of the ruble crash to "earning 100 thousand dollars in ten minutes"

"How did the ruble depreciate again recently?" Xu Xiujuan, a female boss from Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, is a little anxious in a shop that wholesales denim clothes in Blinault market.

Moscow Liu Blinault Market. The pictures in this article are all from Xinhua News Agency.

For Chinese businessmen in LiuBlinault market, keeping a close eye on the ruble exchange rate is a "compulsory course" every day. A few years ago, the injury caused by the ruble’s plunge has not been completely healed, and how to get out of the stormy big market is a new problem before us.

Wake up, the ruble is worthless.

Liu Blinault Market is the largest wholesale market for daily necessities such as clothes, shoes and hats, with about 6,000 stalls, one third of which are run by Chinese businessmen.

The stalls are crowded and the middle aisle is narrow. From time to time, porters with Central Asian faces push carts and shout "Excuse me".

Due to the underdeveloped light industry in Russia, Chinese businessmen have flocked to the Far East, Moscow and other places to seek gold since the 1990s, and "profiteering" once became synonymous with Chinese businessmen in Russia. From 2000 to 2008, the Russian economy entered a period of rapid growth, and the business of Chinese businessmen was also smooth.

After Russia was hit by the global financial crisis in 2008, the "collecting money" model of Chinese businessmen "earning a Mercedes-Benz a week" became a memory. In 2008 and 2014, the ruble plummeted twice, which brought a serious blow to Chinese businessmen.

Zheng Riwei and Hu Dongling run down jacket export business in Russia.Hu Dongling said that at that time, the exchange rate of the ruble fluctuated violently, and the ruble earned by selling goods could not be immediately exchanged for RMB or US dollars and sent back to China. Often, when I woke up, I found that the ruble I held was even less valuable. "I feel like I’m sleeping in the presidential suite every day, and all the money I lost overnight is worth the room money."

Yan Linfu, a businessman from Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, said that in 2015, the ruble exchange rate fluctuated too much, and product pricing was difficult, just like speculating in futures. Businesses engaged in non-governmental trade with Russia have lost more than 60%, and few have made profits.

Moscow Liu Blinault market.

Compared with the impact of the two rouble crashes, the Chinese businessmen have a more painful memory of the closure of the Cerchi Zovsky market.

In 2008, under the depression of Russian domestic economy, the boss of a big market went to Turkey to invest a lot of money and angered the Kremlin. The Russian government seized and destroyed the goods in the big market on the grounds of cracking down on "gray customs clearance", and then closed the market indefinitely. Tens of thousands of Chinese businessmen lost as much as $2 billion.

Due to the particularity of the Russian market, the problem of informal "grey customs clearance" has not been solved, and Chinese businessmen still face risks.

Yan Linfu said that the owner of Liu Blinault Market is a pair of Jewish brothers, and most Chinese businessmen pay management fees to them. Under their protection, Russian customs and tax authorities turn a blind eye to the "gray customs clearance". The "grey customs" cost is low, which lowers prices and meets the needs of low-income people in Russia. The special problems in this specific period can only be solved slowly.

Russia has a large market and a low threshold, and there is a rigid demand for clothing and other department stores, which is the reason why many Chinese businessmen are attached to this land. However, this market is full of troubles, so many merchants in Blinault have the mentality of taking a gamble and taking a chance.

Double 11 broke $100,000 in 10 minutes.

Zheng Riwei said that hardships gave birth to opportunities, and the blow in Russia prompted him to change his mind and try to cooperate with AliExpress, from wholesale to retail.

During AliExpress’s overseas "double 11" event last year, the ICEbear brand of Beijing Riwei Clothing Company, founded by Zheng Riwei, became the champion of clothing sales, with its revenue exceeding 100,000 US dollars in 10 minutes and 200,000 US dollars in half an hour.

On the AliExpress website, the fans of the ICEbear store have a collection of more than 370,000. On the sales page of a white women’s down jacket, buyers left thousands of messages, most of which praised the down jacket for its good quality and fast delivery.

According to Zheng Riwei, these down jackets specially for the Russian market are thicker than ordinary down jackets, and they have waterproof function, which can not only resist the cold weather in Russia, but also cope with the water droplets falling after melting snow.

In the view of Gou Shanchao, director of e-commerce operation of Riwei Clothing Company, cooperation with AliExpress has brought at least two major benefits to the company.

The first is to improve brand awareness. After joining the cross-border e-commerce platform, the company directly faces consumers, and customers’ recognition of the brand is improved. There are many Russian "loyal fans" who will take the initiative to ask when the new model will be available.

Second, products can be optimized in time according to customers’ needs. On the e-commerce platform, the company can get customer feedback at any time. If the buyer says there is something wrong with the version of this batch of clothes, the company can change it in time in the next batch of goods.

Gou Shanchao said that the company joined the cross-border e-commerce platform in 2014 and just started to deliver goods from China, and the arrival time was at least one month. In 2016, the company implemented overseas warehouses. First, large quantities of goods were sent to warehouses in Moscow. After customers placed orders, they were delivered directly from overseas warehouses, and the goods would arrive the next day in Moscow and nearby areas.

Since 2015, the Russian economy has fallen into negative growth, the people are not well off, and the price/performance ratio of goods is higher. With the help of cross-border e-commerce platform, some Chinese businessmen cut off the intermediary channels and directly connected with Russian consumers, so that consumers can buy high-quality goods at lower prices.

Going out of the big market, from "grey customs" to "white customs"

As the Secretary-General of Wenling Chamber of Commerce in Moscow (China), Yan Linfu is quite familiar with the living conditions of Chinese businessmen in Russia. Going out of the big market is his advice to Chinese businessmen.

Yan Linfu said that he is now "walking on two legs", not only doing wholesale in Liu Blinault market, but also setting up a company to do retail in Russia. The company opened a flagship store in the bustling section of Moscow and opened up online sales channels.

The sales model of Liu Blinault big market is to wait for customers to come to the door. Because of the small market scope and repeated customer resources, the vicious door-to-door bargain is inevitable. Yan Linfu believes that Chinese businessmen need to go out of LiuBlinault, face consumers directly and try online to offline.

In recent years, e-commerce has developed rapidly in Russia, and a large number of China goods with high quality and low price have directly reached Russian consumers through cross-border e-commerce platforms such as AliExpress.

As for the influence of cross-border e-commerce on the wholesale business, the merchants in LiuBlinault are unable to agree. Some Chinese businessmen believe that cross-border e-commerce has little impact on Liu Blinault’s business due to different groups of people. Others hold the opposite opinion that cross-border e-commerce leads to price transparency and has a great impact on wholesale business.

Alibaba once held a mobilization meeting in Yabao Road, Beijing to encourage businesses to try e-commerce and set up training courses. Many people tried, but few succeeded.

The reason is that Gou Shanchao believes that, first of all, businesses that trade with Russia do not pay enough attention to e-commerce. Many people are used to making big money by wholesale, while e-commerce earns small money every time; Secondly, many Chinese businessmen are born in entities, do not understand e-commerce, and have no professionals around them.

Zheng Riwei said that at present, the company’s delivery through the e-commerce channel is all "white customs", and all the procedures are legal from domestic registered companies to foreign registered companies. He suggested that Chinese businessmen bravely try to organize formal business and gradually turn "grey customs" into "white customs".

Liu Wei, director of AliExpress Russian Station of Alibaba, said that China merchants who have branches and stocks in like Riwei Clothing belong to the partners of AliExpress localization business. This year is the first year of AliExpress’s localization business. At present, we are still carrying out infrastructure work in logistics and market. We hope to cooperate with more merchants in Yabao Road and Liu Blinault when conditions are ripe.

In the long run, normalization and branding are the general trend of Sino-Russian non-governmental trade. E-commerce can provide an opportunity for the transformation of Sino-Russian non-governmental trade and force Chinese businessmen to standardize their operations.

"Only through e-commerce can we truly make the brand bigger. The company not only has more confidence in deepening the Russian market, but also sets a goal of going global," Zheng Riwei said.

(The original title is "Earn $100,000 in 10 minutes! Chinese actually does business like this in Russia ")

BYD’s Eye of God opens the ultimate battle of intelligent driving.

BYD has been working all over again, and 70,000 yuan can be used for high-level intelligent driving, and the whole industry can’t sit still.

Some people say that this is a general benefit for mass consumers, and some people will question the low price as the level of "smart driving for all", but it is undeniable that smart driving is no longer a differentiated product point in today’s cars, and it has become a trend of standardized configuration.

After completing the breakthrough in sales volume, BYD once again started in the field of smart driving. If we set 2024 as the first year of smart driving for car companies, can we call it the year of popularization of smart driving with the development momentum of the opening year in 2025? And when smart driving began to spread and decentralize, who was the most injured? Will the industry rules be changed? Is it a good thing for the future development when Zhijia also begins to involute?

# Popularize smart driving, how lethal is it? #

Why the popularity of national smart driving this time has caused such a high fever in the automobile circle? The core point is that the attribute of smart driving has changed.

For example, when we go to see the competition between car companies, the main thing that is advertised is that people have nothing, which is also the basic element of the differentiated brand positioning. Before 2025, the attribute of smart driving was like this. This is the core technology of arm-wrestling between car companies, and it is also the decisive factor for widening the pricing gap between different levels of products.

However, what BYD did this time was to smooth out such a differentiation. After it announced the national smart driving, the share price of Tesla, another giant of electric vehicle brand, suffered heavy losses. After all, a smart driving product that needs to be subscribed, and it has not yet landed in the China automobile market, makes people worry about its development and later profit. After four days of continuous decline, its market value has evaporated by more than 200 billion US dollars.

Of course, Tesla is not the only one affected. After the popularization of smart driving, the new forces bear the brunt, and the advantages of smart driving labels are directly weakened. For example, Xpeng Motors has always focused on the core competitiveness of smart driving seats, especially last year, through the decentralization of smart driving, the sales of 100,000-class MONA rebounded. However, after BYD’s operation, the high-speed NOA of smart driving has reached 78,800 products, which is more cost-effective than that of Tucki.

At the same time, smart driving is an important factor to support the brand premium of new power brands that take the high-end route, such as Weilai and Huawei, and the ideal of starting to do smart driving. Their prices of hundreds of thousands of dollars are actually supported by a previously scarce technology such as high-order smart driving, but now consumers may not be willing to pay for such a premium after seeing other brands make smart driving standard.

After seeing such a situation, Yu Chengdong began to shout: "Intelligent driving is a completely different realm, which is easy to use and easy to use and safe! Just like making a phone call with Internet, it takes 5G to surf the Internet! This is why many people say that Huawei HarmonyOS Zhixing is leading the generation! " Everyone knows the purpose of saying this, and anyone with a discerning eye who insinuates it can understand it. This also reflects from the side that the operation of popularizing smart driving has had a great impact on the new power brands that focus on high-end.

In addition, the pressure of traditional car companies has further increased. For example, those who sell well on their own will take BYD as the catch-up target, and joint venture brands are also trying to reduce profits and keep themselves at the poker table. However, this strategy of popularizing smart driving has directly impacted other traditional brands.

In fact, many car companies have invested in smart driving now, but the difference is that they have not achieved a popularization in the whole product, mainly relying on external suppliers, or smart driving companies hatched under their own brand system, so when they get on the bus, they may face higher costs.

At the same time, the prices of the main sales models of joint venture products are basically around the price range of 100,000-200,000. Originally, cars like BYD were cost-effective. Now, a smart drive will make them look like products of two eras, and it is difficult for joint venture brands to make up for this disadvantage in a short time.

If the supplier scheme is introduced, the cost will be big, and the accumulation of local data is lacking, and the user experience is unknown. The way to make money by relying on smart driving in the future has been blocked. Now, the top priority has become how to keep up with the popularization of smart driving.

In combination with the above, we can sum up that after the popularization of smart driving, its attribute has changed from a commodity that can make money and profit to a standard on a car. At this time, the impact of such an approach is not only aimed at the automobile field, but also at the whole industry, which makes people question the profit model of smart driving and the premium sustainability of subsequent development. "High added value" has become "basic configuration" and the smart driving industry is about to change.

# Zhijia’s job of making money was smashed #

The market has a unified recognition of the development of the automobile industry, that is, the first half of electrification and the second half of intelligence. After completing the transformation of electrification, everyone is actually looking forward to the arrival of intelligence, because with the increase of software, car companies have seen more profit space.

For example, before Mercedes-Benz needed software to order rear wheel steering, Tesla’s FSD cost $199 a month, and the market analysis judged that the gross profit margin of this kind of software reached 80-90%, which made people lament that they had to make money by software. This also clarifies the development direction of the industry, especially the core intelligent driving in the field of intelligence.

Before the national smart driving, we can see many schemes to make money by smart driving. The most direct thing is to make it a premium factor for high-profile models, which is reflected in many traditional car companies and new power brands. For example, the 30,000 price difference between the ideal high-profile and other versions is supported by high-level intelligent driving.

Secondly, consumers can buy out their own cars. For example, the models that come standard with Huawei’s Gankun Intelligent Driving are actually only the basic versions. For example, its main city’s intelligent driving without a map still needs to buy high-end intelligent driving bags. Huawei itself, its buyout price is 30,000 yuan.

Then there is the subscription mentioned above, the most representative of which is Tesla, but in fact, our daily acceptance is relatively high, such as members of video platforms, members of network disks, etc., according to their own needs to choose the subscription time, although it costs less money in the short term, it is not a small expense in the long run.

It can be seen that there are many ways to make money by intelligent driving, but there is a premise to make money: only you have perfect autonomous driving in the market, and no one else has such ability, but this situation is obviously impossible, and the reality is that intelligent driving is everywhere.

Then, in this case, what BYD has done has actually blocked the above-mentioned ways to make money. What it has spent money on has become the standard without increasing the price, and it is not necessary to increase the price with smart driving. This makes smart driving such a way to make money become one of the directions of involution.

# Smart driving is good, but don’t roll it hard if you can’t move it #

Volume has become a theme in the auto market now. After the operation of popularizing smart driving is ushered in at the beginning of this year, there will be a lot of car companies and suppliers to join in order to keep up with this wave of heat, but this is actually the biggest concern in the market. I am afraid that I will not be able to come up with mature technology to shoddy it.

This kind of atmosphere has been around for a long time in the automobile circle. For example, DeepSeek, which only caught fire in the Spring Festival, is now competing with car companies, and then Huawei, before it, is now a frequent visitor to the car company conference. As long as one company opens its books, other brands must keep up.

But building a car shouldn’t be this kind of heat, right? As long as something with heat gradually becomes one of the configurations in a car, can we understand that we are so keen on combining heat because we don’t have the unique technology that we can’t get rid of?

Moreover, in the context of the price war, the automobile industry is becoming more and more demanding on cost control, and no one can be immune to it, so is smart driving. It is a common phenomenon in the industry that some suppliers are forced to lower their costs in order to get the list of automobile companies.

But at this time, there is a question in front of us. Where have these depressed costs gone? It is good that the price of smart driving is down, but the premise of all this is based on technology, cost advantage and experience. However, it is natural that the market can do this. After all, the market is now full of some "futures and semi-finished products", which makes the products in this respect nominal.

13 popular HTML5 video players for the Web

▲ Scan the QR code in the picture to learn more about the audio and video technology conference ▲

Translation: Alex

Technical review: Zhang Qi

This article is from OTTVerse and written by Krishna Rao Vijayanagar.

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When video streaming media is sweeping the communication world, in order to maintain and enhance the growth of users, content creators and streaming media service providers need to provide high-quality user experience. To achieve this, they all need to embed an HTML5 video player on their websites.

In this article, we will learn about the available HTML5 video players (including open source and commercial players).

HTML5 video players are often used to play videos on browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari and other platforms that support HTML5 video playback, such as Samsung and LG TV. They can be configured as single-rate video streams (ordinary mp4 files), HLS, MPEG-DASH, HDS, etc. In addition, companies can also configure the HTML5 video player with DRM(Widevine, PlayReady or FairPlay), advertisement insertion using CSAI or SSAI technology, subtitles, data analysis and other functions.

Next, I will introduce 13 popular HTML5 video players (please note, in no particular order).

Before it’s too late, let’s get started!

1、VideoJS

VideoJS is the most popular free and open source HTML5 video player on the market. In 2010, it was developed from scratch and has become the basis of many open source and commercial players in the market.

In terms of playing form, VideoJS can be used for live broadcast and on-demand, and supports HLS, DASH, WebM and MP4 to play while downloading. In terms of appearance and style, VideoJS can be highly customized, and there are many skins to choose from in the open source community. Most important functions such as Multi-DRM, advertisement insertion, subtitles, etc. can be configured into the player through plug-ins. See https://docs.videojs.com/ for more complete functions and features of VideoJS.

Linkedin, The Guardian, Tumblr and many other high-traffic organizations and companies use the VideoJS player, which also proves that it is not only stable, but also being continuously improved, while ensuring adequate testing.

2、Shaka Player

Shaka Player is a very popular free and open source HTML5 video player. It can support adaptive bit rate streaming media protocols such as HLS and DASH without any plug-ins or Flash. Shaka plays videos through open Web standards such as MSE and EME. It supports functions such as on-demand, live broadcast, multi-time content, Multi-DRM, and subtitles. You can check all its functions here: https://github.com/google/shaka-player#dash-features.

As an open source player, it can provide you with a variety of options: including viewing the source code, making the modifications and extensions you need. On the other hand, if you encounter difficulties in using the player, you must rely on the help of the open source community.

3、Clappr

Clappr is an open source, extensible and free HTML5 video player, which is used to play video content in HTML5. Media giant Globo.com supported its development. This open source player can be easily integrated into your project and expanded according to your needs. Clappr uses a plug-in-based architecture, which allows you to write plug-ins for all kinds of functions you need, and you don’t need to study and mess up the core code in depth.

Clappr uses HTMLVideoElement [1] for video playback by default. In addition, it also supports functions such as DASH, HLS, playing while downloading, advertisement insertion, dynamic Overlay, and picture in picture.

For such an open source and community-supported player, you can use a large number of third-party plug-ins, or write your own plug-ins and submit them to Clappr.

4、dash.js

Dash.js player is one of the best MPEG-DASH players, and its stated goal is: "dash.js is initiated by DASH Industry Forum, with the purpose of using the media source extension API defined by W3C to realize a product-level quality framework, which is used to create video and audio players for playing MPEG-DASH content." Dash.js is suitable for all kinds of coding formats, supports in-band events and multi-periods, and supports DRM across browsers, and is free for commercial use. You can see that many companies use dash.js as a stand-alone player or as a plug-in (such as VideoJS-contrib-dash [2]) built into videojs.

For this open source player, you can use the source code for free, and modify the dash.js player according to your own needs and requirements. In addition, through the continuous development of some important architects in the MPEG-DASH community, you must be using the latest and greatest MPEG-DASH specification.

To test the dash.js player, you can visit: http://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/nightly/samples/dash-if-reference-player/index.html.

5、hls.js

Hls.js is another popular video player, which is used to play HLS(m3u8) video stream. It is free, open source and maintained by developers in the technical community. Its website statement is: "HLS.js is a JavaScript library that implements the HTTP video streaming client. It relies on HTML5 video and media source extensions for playback. " You can often see people using hls.js as a stand-alone player, or using it with VideoJS through plug-ins (such as VideoJS-HLJS [3]).

Hls.js has rich functions, including support for live broadcast and on-demand, fMP4 (CMAF), DRM(AES-128 and SAMPLE-AES), subtitles and closed captions. You can check all its functions here: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/#features.

To access the hosted demo of the player, please click: https://hls-js.netlify.app/demo/.

6、JWPlayer

JWPlayer is a popular end-to-end video solution for video streaming companies. You can upload the video to JWPlayer, which will compress, package and transmit the video to the player, and provide monitoring. JWPlayer can be used across websites, mobile applications or connected TV platforms. As a reliable video player, it is a good choice.

In terms of functions, JWPlayer supports HLS and DASH video streaming, 360-degree full-motion video and VR, advertisement insertion (CSAI and SSAI), Multi-DRM, subtitles and their own audience interaction and data analysis services. Once the video is released, JWPlayer’s audience interactive products can automatically insert related videos from your content library, which is an exciting solution for large-scale media companies. JWPlayer also provides mobile SDK(Android and iOS), which makes it a popular choice for multi-platform streaming media service providers.

You can check all the functions of JWPlayer here: https://www.jwplayer.com/html5-video-player/.

7、Bitmovin

Bitmovin is a top video streaming technology provider, which has developed services such as video player, analysis and cloud coding. Bitmovin’s technology has been trusted by big companies such as DAZN, BBC, Discovery, Telecine, RTL and iflix. If you choose to use Bitmovin player, then you have joined the ranks of these big companies.

Bitmovin HTML5 player supports most modern streaming media protocols, such as HLS, DASH and Smooth Streaming. It also supports various codecs, subtitles, closed captions, DRM, and advertisement insertion (CSAI and SSAI). You can learn more about its functions here: https://bitmovin.com/docs/player.

One advantage of using Bitmovin is that video players are set up for their own analysis services and can be seamlessly integrated. In addition, Bitmovin provides players with a huge ecosystem including Android, iOS, tvOS, Roku, Chromecast, Amazone Fire TV, Samsung and LG smart TV, and other platforms, which makes it a good choice for multi-platform streaming media services.

8、THEOplayer

THEOplayer is another popular video player software company, which has won many awards in video playback technology. The company has excellent video players (supporting HLS, DASH and MSS, etc.), which are suitable for other streaming media platforms such as Web(HTML), Android and iOS. In addition, CNN, RAI, VRT, Telia, BT Sport, etc. are all their big customers, which is a good sign for THEOplayer brand.

THEOplayer’s HTML5 video player supports HLS, DASH, Smooth Streaming and the low-latency variant protocols of HLS and DASH. Users can use THEOplayer player in Web, mobile Web, set-top boxes and smart TVs. This player also has a custom ABR algorithm for downloading video slices, and can support Multi-DRM, advertisement insertion (CSAI and SSAI), subtitles, analysis and other functions through vendors (such as NPAW, Conviva, MediaMelon, Mux Data, Agama, etc.).

Similar to other video providers, THEOplayer is a great player choice (in view of its huge ecology, strong support for various functions and multi-platform availability).

9、NexPlayer

NexPlayer is a video playback technology provider, and has more than 15 years of experience in video streaming and HLS and MPEG-DASH playback (on all devices). Many video player manufacturers usually base their players on open source players and make a lot of modifications. Unlike these manufacturers, NexPlayer developed its own players from scratch and wrote all the codes.

NexPlayer fully supports HLS, DASH, Smooth Streaming, DRM, advertisement insertion (CSAI and SSAI), subtitles and other functions. Although it does not have its own analysis service, it is fully compatible with mainstream analysis service providers. You can check all its features here: https://nexplayersdk.com/.

10、castLabs

CastLabs is a video solution company, which provides video playback software, DRM and content processing toolbox. Many companies can use its PRESTOplay video player toolbox to create players embedded in websites. Streaming media service providers can also deploy their players on smart TVs (such as Samsung and LG) and game platforms (such as Xbox one). PRESTOplay is built on the popular Shaka player and has been modified a lot for commercial use.

PRESTOplay of castLabs supports HLS, DASH, MSS, playing video while downloading, AirPlay, Chromecast, Multi-DRM, and advertisement insertion (CSAI and SSAI). You can check its full function here:

PRESTOplay for Web Apps

Although castLabs does not have its own analysis platform, it supports integration with popular analysis service providers such as Conviva, Mux Data, NPAW and Agama.

Like other video players, castLabs’ player can be used on Android and iOS platforms, and it is a good choice for multi-platform video playback.

11、Flowplayer

Flowlayer is a very lightweight and extensible video player, which is a part of Flowlayer full-stack solution for video streaming media providers. It provides all the functions of encoding, hosting, playing and monitoring for your video service. In addition, its system is configured to be very easy to modify and set styles (see the screenshot above), so founders and creators without technical background can easily use this player.

Flowplayer supports HLS, DASH and mp4 playback. Based on HTML5 native player, Flowplayer can support functions such as Chromecast, AirPlay, Android, iOS, advertisement insertion, DRM and data analysis. You can check all its functions here:

https://flowplayer.com/features/html5-player

As a full-stack solution, the analysis function provided by Flowplayer is well integrated into the player, which is an attractive choice for streaming media providers.

12、Radiant Media Player

Radiant Media Player describes itself like this: "The modern HTML5 video player that can be seen everywhere can quickly create Web, mobile and OTT applications." For Radiant Media Player, which has a wide range of functions and features, this description deserves its name. As a cross-device HTML5 video and audio player, it can display HLS, DASH or progressive (download and play) downloaded content.

In terms of functions (you can check it in its documentation: https://www. Radiant Media Player.com/docs/latest/quick-start.html), radiantmediaplayer supports HLS, DASH and playing while downloading. It also supports DRM(Widevine, Fairplay and PlayReady), closed captioning, captioning and advertisement insertion (CSAI and SSAI).

One advantage of Radiant Media Player is that teams can use a code base to create applications for mobile platforms through their players in Cordova and Ionic. Although it has no built-in analysis service, it supports integration with Google Analytics, MediaMelon, Mux Data and Matomo.

13、VisualON

VisualOn is a mainstream player SDK provider with its own player technology stack, which can support cross-platform content transmission on any networked device.

Their players support the most important streaming media protocols such as HLS, Smooth Streaming, MPEG-DASH, downloading and playing, RTSP and MS-HTTP. In addition, it also supports a variety of video and audio codecs, Multi-DRM, advertisement insertion (SSAI and CSAI), subtitles, AirPlay, Chromecast, low-delay transmission and so on. You can learn more about its functions here: https://www.visualon.com/index.php/onstream-analytics/.

The advantage of VisualON is that it can closely integrate its own streaming media monitoring service (or analysis service) into the player. The second advantage is that it is a player manufacturer that supports multiple platforms and supports Android, iOS and tvOS at the same time.

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I hope the popular HTML5 video players listed above can help you. Of course, each player has its own advantages and disadvantages in terms of performance, pricing, support, usability and ecology. You can choose these players after fully studying them according to your own needs and budget.

If you know any other HTML5 video players, please comment below.

See you next time. Take care! Happy Streaming!

Notes:

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLVideoElement

[2]  https://github.com/videojs/videojs-contrib-dash

[3]  https://github.com/streamroot/videojs-hlsjs-plugin

References:

https://videojs.com/

https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player

https://github.com/clappr/clappr

https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js?

https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/

https://www.jwplayer.com/html5-video-player/

Homepage 2.0

https://www.theoplayer.com/

https://nexplayersdk.com/

https://flowplayer.com/

Homepage

https://www.radiantmediaplayer.com/

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Acknowledgement:

This article has been translated and published by the author Krishna Rao Vijayanagar. Thank you.

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The commercial operation of C919 large passenger plane, the first flight of domestic large aircraft, officially "started"

CCTV News:Today (May 28th) morning, China Eastern Airlines used the world’s first C919 large passenger plane delivered by Comac China to carry out flight MU9191, which took off from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and arrived at Beijing Capital Airport, officially opening the world’s first commercial passenger flight of this type. Today’s flight marks that the "R&D, manufacturing, evidence collection and operation" of C919 has been fully integrated, and the commercial operation of domestic large aircraft has officially "started", and China large aircraft has also officially approached the consumers.

CCTV reporter Wang Shantao:This is Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. The world’s first C919 large passenger plane delivered by Comac China will take off from here, and more than 130 passengers will take the lead in taking the domestic large aircraft.

First flight passenger Mr. Meng:I’m very excited, and I’m honored to be able to take part in our maiden voyage of C919. It feels incredible to witness such a historic moment.

Mr. Huang, maiden passenger:This is also a very significant event for me personally, which is equivalent to witnessing a history of the development of China aviation industry. I also wish China’s big planes a smooth flight in the future.

At 10: 32, the maiden flight of flight number MU9191 took off on time and flew to Beijing.

C919 large passenger plane is the first jet trunk passenger plane with independent intellectual property rights developed by China in accordance with internationally accepted airworthiness standards. Among them, business class and economy class choose a new generation of domestic cabin seats that are completely independently developed. The aisle height of 2.25 meters in the cabin can make passengers feel comfortable at the top and sufficient visual space in front.

Feng Dehua, Deputy General Manager of China Eastern Airlines Party Group:The C919 large passenger plane opened its first commercial flight, which means that this model is fully integrated from research and development, manufacturing, evidence collection to operation. We will join hands with all parties to aim at the goal of "flying out of safety, flying out of ambition, flying out of brands and flying out of benefits" and operate C919 finely.

China Eastern Airlines and Comac China signed the first batch of five C919 purchase contracts. From May 29th, C919 large passenger plane will be put into the route from Shanghai Hongqiao to Chengdu Tianfu, and normal commercial operation will be implemented. With the introduction of this model, C919 large passenger aircraft will appear on more routes.

The black material exposed by Zhang Yi many years ago was used maliciously. This "black" history can’t turn over the boat.

During this period, because of the popularity of TV series The Knockout, all the actors in the drama have received unprecedented attention. With everyone’s attention, restless netizens began to look up other works of these actors except The Knockout, which means that each actor has entered the archaeological period. When we enter the archaeological period, some good things and bad things will come all at once. Anything the actors have done in the period of little transparency will be turned out and discussed in greater detail at this time.

Suddenly, there was a topic, that is, the only pure white jasmine in Jinghai. An Xin, the hero of this drama, and Zhang Yi, the actor, did some bad things to her classmates, especially to her female classmates.

For example, grabbing a girl’s purse, stuffing bugs into someone’s schoolbag, putting stones in the pencil case, pouring water on the chair cushion, preferring to die without washing the tablecloth, stealing the cup at the same table, clamping the collar of the girl in the front seat with a pencil box, pretending to pick up an eraser and tying the shoelaces of the girl behind the desk feet, and so on.

This behavior, which is similar to bullying female students, immediately aroused the feelings of gender opposition, and the original Weibo forwarding volume of these messages exceeded 30,000. Some netizens who didn’t like it immediately stood up and said: Sure enough, the male star didn’t stand up to it, and it was too low. There are also some relatively objective people who think that roles are roles and actors are actors, and the two should be viewed separately. But no matter what kind of evaluation, it always left a bad impression on the actor himself, and the purpose of this news broke was achieved.

In fact, if you think carefully and calmly, it’s normal that there are so many black materials about Zhang Yi suddenly appearing on the Internet. When a series is popular and someone pays attention, someone will be jealous, and then all kinds of news will appear.

What’s even more surprising is that all these things are actually revealed by Zhang Yi himself in various interviews and his autobiography. It’s really a rare thing to expose your own black material. These wild words in those days are now being used for hype, and the only result of doing so is nothing more than forcing Zhang Yi, who is now in a rising career, to stumble. However, the news that has been raging for so long seems not to affect Zhang Yi’s career development, but to explode more die-hard fans.

First of all, let’s take a look at the main sources of these news, all of which are extracted from Zhang Yi’s autobiography, but when unscrupulous marketing company took these fragments, it really took them out of context. Because Zhang Yi is telling the purpose of these things, his original intention is to apologize to these people. We don’t know whether the apology from the bottom of my heart is true or not, but if he has the heart to correct the mistakes he made when he was a child, it can be said that he is courageous.

Take a closer look at these things that he did when he was a child, but they can be big or small. The above-mentioned online involves women’s rights, which is heinous. personality problem, get out of here and retreat. But if you have to measure a person like this, few people can achieve such high moral standards.

Faced with more and more remarks about "nodding", "peeling off powder" and "so he is such a person" because of this news, it has aroused the competitiveness of Zhang Yi fans and determined to fight against these black materials to the end, forcing some fans to embark on the road of traffic powder circle, start making data and set up anti-triad stations.

However, their work tasks are not very heavy. Because they just need to show the evidence, that is, what Zhang Yi asked himself and answered, and everything can be solved.

As mentioned just now, if someone tries to excuse Zhang Yi, they will definitely say that this is a child, and children will be like this, and they will always make some mistakes in the process of growing up. Don’t worry, before the sunspot came out to refute, Zhang Yi himself said this sentence.

"It seems that these are detours that must be taken in the process of growing up-but do you really have to go?"

"Who hasn’t been young? This can be used as a whitewash of our bastard’s past with a hint of arrogance, but it is too late to regret it if it is a big mistake. Be kind to yourself, to others, and even to animals, because the world is not just ourselves. "

All of the above are taken from the original words in Zhang Yi’s book. It can be seen that it is obviously untenable to really trace back to the source and bring down Zhang Yi.

In addition, as far as Zhang Yi’s personal development is concerned, at present, both films and TV plays are excellent, and his acting skills have been stable, and he has been favored by Zhang Yimou, who has been cooperating constantly over the years. Some people even joke that Zhang Yi is the real girl in recent years. In addition, he only wanted to play a good show wholeheartedly, and did not participate in variety shows and reality shows, which put an end to many possibilities of exposing his true character and collapsing his house.

In short, strength is the only hard truth. If you have a work, you have the confidence, a little black history, and you can’t turn over a big ship.

Test drive Mercedes-Benz EQE in Germany

Author’s prefaceIn the autumn of 2024, in the northern part of Stuttgart, Germany, the author started from Schwaikheim to Affalterbach (where Mercedes-Benz’s AMG department is located), the fast lane (up to 100 km/h) and ordinary city streets, and tested the latest Mercedes-Benz new energy vehicle EQE (which can be said to be the pure electric version of the E-class car). The author experienced the handling, comfort and automatic driving mode of the whole vehicle. The videos and pictures in the article were taken by the author or Mercedes-Benz colleagues in person.

Test drive Mercedes-Benz EQE in Germany

Figure 1 The exterior of Mercedes-Benz EQE350 tested by the author 1

Basic parameters of Mercedes-Benz EQE

Length x width x height 4946X2103X1510, wheelbase 3120mm, cruising range 693km (WLTP road condition), battery capacity 90.5kWh, curb weight 3035kg and rated motor power 215kW.

Test drive Mercedes-Benz EQE in Germany

Fig. 2 The exterior of Mercedes-Benz EQE350 tested by the author 2

Test drive Mercedes-Benz EQE in Germany

Figure 3 Mercedes-Benz EQE350 interior tested by the author.

Static impression

Observing, EQE has abandoned the former style of being quite regular and business-oriented, and is close to the exterior of the coupe style as a whole, and the interior is still finely crafted, not forgetting the true colors of Mercedes-Benz; The ambient light that runs through the waistline of the whole vehicle has moved closer to China car companies; Mercedes-Benz has always been the leader of the industry (up to now, almost 90% of the armrest boxes of vehicles are modeled after Mercedes-Benz); What makes the author not particularly satisfied is the wood grain decorative board of the dashboard, which looks too "old school". In the digital and intelligent era, do you need to keep pace with the times here? !

The 90.5 kWh battery pack has a cruising range of 693 kilometers (WLTP), which is quite good for a motor vehicle with a curb weight of 3035 kg. DC fast charging power can reach 170kW, and it can be charged from 10% to 80% in 32 minutes, bid farewell to cruising range anxiety.

A variety of optional packages are dazzling: Advanced-Paket, Advanced-Plus-Paket, Premium-Paket, Premium-Plus-Paket, Night-Paket, from mobile phone integration, voice recognition, head-up display (HUD) to all kinds of assisted driving, including assisted autonomous driving.

Dynamic experience

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Fig. 4 Photo of the author during the test drive of EQE350 (assisted autopilot mode)

The video author is on the way to test drive Mercedes-Benz EQE350.

The author often tells friends that if the driving mileage is also 500 kilometers, if you drive a Volkswagen Golf, you will feel that you have driven 500 kilometers after driving 500 kilometers. However, if you drive a Mercedes-Benz E-class car, you will feel that you have only driven 250 kilometers after driving 500 kilometers. This is the difference between the two cars. Handling, comfort and noise (NVH), Mercedes-Benz’s E-Class car has great advantages, which is not lost in EQE. Its handling and comfort are almost perfect. Of course, some models of China car companies, such as P7 of Xpeng Motors and M7 of Wenjie, have already caught up, and even BYD’s Yuan Plus EV is close in handling and comfort.

During the test drive, the author likes the constant-speed assisted autopilot mode: in the fast lane of the German town of Schwaikheim to Affalterbach, the author started the constant-speed cruise. Hands off the steering wheel, enter the "automatic driving" mode, drive in straight lines and corners, completely "automatic", and it will automatically slow down when there is a vehicle in front. It is very distinctive that if there is circular traffic ahead, it will automatically slow down when it recognizes circular traffic. However, it is up to the author to operate from which intersection to drive circular traffic. The steering wheel is equipped with a sensor to assist "automatic driving" for several minutes (? ), it (the vehicle) will prompt in the instrument cluster that the driver needs to hold the steering wheel again. After several times of prompting, the driver still does not hold the steering wheel, and it (the vehicle) will enter an emergency mode and automatically slow down to a stop to prevent the driver from "losing consciousness and losing control of the vehicle".

Headup-Display is a good configuration function and has the potential to replace mobile navigation.

price

The price of the EQE 350 test drive by the author is about 90,000 euros, equivalent to about 690,000 yuan. The entry price of EQE is 67,187 euros, about 520,000 yuan. Compared with M7 (starting from 250,000 yuan) or P7+(starting from 186,000 yuan) in Tucki, many car owners will ask, why?

1. The R&D cost of a single vehicle, if European car companies need 50 to 1 billion euros, equivalent to 3.85 to 7.7 billion yuan, while the R&D cost of bicycles of China car companies is only 350 to 700 million yuan, the gap is huge; If the R&D cost of bicycles is allocated to every vehicle sold (assuming that the sales volume of a single vehicle is 500,000 vehicles in its life cycle, and the gap of R&D cost allocation of bicycles is 7,000 to 14,000 yuan, the price gap of bicycles due to R&D cost allocation will be about 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.

2. Energy cost, taking electric energy as an example, is about 0.75 Euro/kWh in Europe, equivalent to 5.77 RMB/kWh, and the average industrial electricity consumption in China is 0.73 RMB/kWh, which is 8 times different! The energy cost difference of bicycles is about 3,500 yuan, and the price difference of bicycles is 5,000 yuan.

3. Labor cost, the average skilled worker in Europe is about 1 euro/minute, which is equivalent to RMB 7.7 yuan/minute, and the average skilled worker in China is 10 times (don’t misunderstand that the salary is 10 times, and various tax rates and social insurance (medical care, retirement, unemployment, etc.) in Europe are the main gaps), the labor cost of bicycles is about 10,000 yuan, and the price gap of bicycles is 150,000.

4. Material cost, the bicycle gap is expected to reach 70,000 to 160,000 RMB, especially in battery packs, motors, other electronic systems and wiring harnesses.

5. The premium gap of brands, the author does not make a detailed analysis here (interested readers can refer to an article published by the author in Geshi Automobile earlier, Brand Strategy of Automobile Enterprises).

Test drive Mercedes-Benz EQE in Germany

Fig. 5 The author is on the way to test drive Mercedes-Benz EQE350.

To sum up, the total price gap at 1, 2, 3 and 4 o’clock is about 100,000 to 200,000 yuan, and the price gap between Mercedes-Benz EQE and the customer M7 or Tucki P7+ is not completely closed. With the passage of time, the gap in labor costs will continue to narrow. After reading this article, colleagues from China automobile companies and colleagues from European automobile companies can feel where there is a competitive advantage and where is the direction to catch up.

author Dr. Liu xiaoyi(Founder and CEO of Guanyu Electromechanical Technology (www.costkey-solutions.com)), new production technology, vehicle planning (including new energy vehicles) and cost engineering of German Daimler Group (Mercedes-Benz) for more than 20 years; German physicist award winner; Expert in the automotive industry think tank of the "Changfeng Plan" of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; High-level technical management of Great Wall Motor and Haichen Energy Storage; Author of Cost Engineering System of Manufacturing Enterprises, the key book of China Gongxin Publishing Group’s "National Heavy Equipment Publishing Project"; Graduate enterprise tutor of School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Visiting Professor, School of Automobile, Tongji University; Talent Exchange Center of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology/China Automobile Industry Training Base/Special Lecturer of Cost Engineering of Gao Dun Institute of Finance and Taxation; Author of Gai Shi Automobile’s Liu Xiaoyi Column; CostKey is the first SaaS software system of cloud enterprise-level cost engineering independently developed by Guanyu Electromechanical Technology in China, and won the Innovation Fund Award of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission.

Some details of Meng Wanzhou’s arrest were exposed and law enforcement officials admitted that the procedure was wrong

  China News Service, Toronto, October 31, 2008. A round of hearing on Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case about the abuse of procedures by Canadian law enforcement agencies in the process of arrest ended on October 30, local time in the High Court of British Columbia, Canada. Witnesses from Canadian law enforcement agencies admitted that there were mistakes in the process of arresting Meng Wanzhou when they appeared in court for cross-examination.

  During this five-day hearing, three witnesses from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Border Services Agency appeared in court successively and were cross-examined by both the prosecution and the defense. This is also the first time to let the outside world know about the specific process of Canadian law enforcement agencies arresting Meng Wanzhou, vice chairman and chief financial officer of Huawei, at Vancouver International Airport on December 1, 2018.

  Officer of the Royal Mounted Police admitted that the procedure was "wrong"

  The first half of the court was Winston Yep, a police officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He admitted that he knew this was a "high-profile" case before he acted.

  Ye gave an affidavit to the judge before the action, describing that Meng Wanzhou has "no connection" with Canada. He signed his name without verifying the background information, and later found that the content was inconsistent with the facts, but he did not make corrections or any remedial measures. He admitted that it was his "mistake".

  In this case, the content of the affidavit is the only source of information that the judge can rely on when deciding whether to issue a provisional arrest warrant.

  During the operation, law enforcement officers failed to "immediately arrest" Meng Wanzhou on the plane according to the arrest warrant. Ye explained that this was due to "security concerns" and respect for the "jurisdiction" of the Border Service at the airport, but he did not mention security or jurisdiction issues in any notes or documents.

  Ye said that she was worried that Meng had anti-reconnaissance ability and that she carried a knife with her. However, when Meng Wanzhou got off the plane, the law enforcement officers did not search whether she was armed, but confiscated and searched her electronic equipment.

  Ye also failed to comply with the prosecution’s prior request to write an event schedule after the action. For many details such as changing the action plan, Ye responded that he had "forgotten".

  Meng Wanzhou’s defense lawyer said in court that Ye’s answers to some questions were not honest.

  Border officials admitted giving the password to the police by mistake.

  In the second half of the hearing, kirkland, an official of the Canada Border Service Agency, was the main person who appeared in court for questioning. He said that before the action, he learned that Meng Wanzhou was listed as a "national security" alert figure by the Canadian Border Service. However, after interrogating Meng, he thought that she was not involved in national security issues.

  Kirkland said that he had collected Meng Wanzhou’s mobile phone and put it in a radiation-proof bag provided by the FBI. He denied that the Border Service was collecting mobile phones for the FBI, but he was not sure whether the RCMP would hand over the items to the US.

  He admitted that he "inadvertently" handed the note with Meng Wanzhou’s mobile phone password and his mobile phone to the RCMP, which basically violated the privacy law. He said that he felt heartache and headache.

  Kirkland also admitted that she was really worried that the delay in executing the arrest warrant due to the interrogation of Meng would affect her rights.

  The defense lawyer of Bangladesh believes that the border service agency’s practice is a trick to use the privilege to interrogate Bangladesh without a lawyer present and without telling the real reason for the confiscation of the mobile phone.

  The witness who briefly appeared in court in the last half day of this round of hearing was Bryce McRae, an official in charge of the Canada Border Service Agency. He confirmed that the day before Meng Wanzhou flew to Vancouver, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation called and "unusually" asked the Canadian Border Service to provide the telephone number of the supervisor on duty the next day. However, the next day, the FBI did not report electricity.

  McRae said that he "can’t remember" some specific questions about the pre-action meeting and the process of intercepting and interrogating Meng Wanzhou.

  Meng Wanzhou’s team of lawyers has always believed that there was procedural abuse in this case, so the extradition procedure should be suspended and three branches should be set up to appeal. One is to prove the political nature of the case with the statements of senior politicians in the United States; The second is to demonstrate that there is procedural abuse in the process of detention of Meng by Canadian law enforcement agencies at the airport; The third is to point out that the case records and other documents provided by the United States to Canadian officials are misleading, and there are major omissions and misstatements. This round of hearing belongs to the second branch.

  In this round of hearing, the prosecution lawyer tried to prove that the arrests were in line with the process requirements, and the mistakes did not hinder the effectiveness of extradition.

  Because the progress of questioning witnesses is slower than expected, the court will investigate the follow-up schedule, and will hold more sessions in November and December to continue cross-examination of witnesses and conduct hearings on other branches. The next hearing will begin in mid-November.

Seven imported films "Speed and Passion 10" staged their final journey in the summer before the war.

  Seven imported films’ pre-war summer files [Fast and Furious 10 staged the final journey; Transformers Part VI, the unprecedented gathering of two camps]

  According to previous years’ practice, the market was generally cold before entering the summer movie file. Due to the release of seven Hollywood blockbusters, such as Transformers: The Rise of the Super Warrior, The Dreamweaver and Spider-Man: The Universe, May and June this year may be different.

  The last time an imported film was released, it was at the end of December last year — — Led by Avatar: The Way of Water, nine imported films were released, including Voyager with Red Hair, Cat in Boots and Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween. In the end, Avatar: The Way of Water earned 1.697 billion yuan at the box office.

  Speed and Passion 10

  On May 12th, Speed and Passion 10 premiered in Rome. On the 17th, the film will be released in the mainland. As the final chapter of the series, the expected value of the film is full. In 2001, when Speed and Passion 1 was released in North America, although it was produced at a low cost, it made a box office of 200 million dollars worldwide. "Speed and furious 7" and "Speed and Passion 8" both exceeded 2 billion yuan at the box office in the mainland market. The box office performance of Fast and Furious 10 in the Mainland is worth looking forward to.

  Dream maker

  On May 25th, The Dreamweaver directed by Spielberg was released, which won the Best Drama and the Best Director at last year’s Golden Globe Awards. Based on Spielberg’s personal experience, the film tells the story of a teenager named Sam Faberman, who gradually grows into a famous filmmaker under the influence of his family.

  Spider-Man: The Universe.

  On June 2nd, the film Spider-Man: The Vertical and Horizontal Universe was released. In 2018, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse told a story about Spider-Man by combining two-dimensional hand-drawn cartoons with three-dimensional CG modeling animation, and won the best animated feature film at the 91st Academy Awards. The film tells the story of "Little Black Spider" Miles Morales, vowing to break the fate curse of "saving one person or the whole universe" experienced by three generations of Spider-Man, and stand alone against the "Spider Alliance" led by Spider-Man 2099.

  The flash

  On June 16th, the superhero blockbuster "The Flash" was released simultaneously in mainland China and North America. The film tells the story of Flash barry allen who once had a happy family and lost his parents overnight. In order to save his parents, Flash tried to change history by going back to the past quickly, but unexpectedly disrupted the universe and met the story of Batman, Super Girl and the villain General zod in another time and space.

  The little mermaid

  On May 26th, The Little Mermaid was released. The film is a live-action movie, adapted from the animated film version in 1989. It tells the story of the little mermaid who lives in the sea, after falling in love with the prince, resolutely gives up her country and race, becomes human and pursues love.

  Transformers: The Rise of Super Warriors

  On June 9, "Transformers: The Rise of Super Warriors" was released. As the sixth film in this series, the film is also the first film made by the Big Mac camp. The two camps, Autobots and Big Mac, have gathered unprecedentedly, and the villains are as sinister as ever.

  Crazy element city

  Pixar’s new animation "Crazy Element City" was released on June 16th. The film constructs the characters in the animation with the four elements of wind, fire, water and earth in nature, and deduces a brand-new story for the audience.

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  Rome premiere of the final chapter of "speed shock"

  The fast-paced journey across the film history for more than 20 years set off again, and the new chapter "Speed and Passion 10" premiered in Rome on May 12. On the red carpet of the premiere ceremony, Vin Diesel made a dazzling appearance with the style of "Boss Tang". As a leading actor and producer, he is the soul of The Fast and the Furious series. In this final journey, everything that Tang loves and his loved ones will face unprecedented crisis.

  Charlize Theron, the Oscar-winning actress, plays the villain Seve in the previous play, which is one of the most ruthless, cunning and greedy opponents that Tang’s team has ever met. With the return, her relationship with Boss Tang and the Feiche family became more complicated, and Charlize Theron’s wonderful performance also showed her powerful female strength.

  Recently, several movie clips and behind-the-scenes tidbits have revealed the highlights of Speed and Passion 10, a highly anticipated masterpiece. Especially in the location of this premiere — — The street racing chase in Rome was described by director Letril as "an unprecedented high-level scene".

  Over the years, The Fast and the Furious has always been deeply concerned and loved by the global audience, from the initial street racing story to a well-known series of movies, and Speed and Passion 10 will also lead fans to embark on this grand final. "It will pay tribute to those who have grown up, married and supported us for a quarter of a century." Dissel promised that "die-hard fans of the The Fast and the Furious series will feel full at the end of Fast and Furious 10."

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  Coordinator/Liu Jianghua

Jerry Li Yucheng video blogger "mentor" Wong Cho Lam Li Yanan helped the anchor home "reunion"

Dragon TV’s first documentary variety "Dear, Come to Eat" of urban observation food in China came to Hangzhou, a pilot city of national informatization and e-commerce. Under the epidemic situation, the program will be parachuted into Binjiang with concern about the living conditions of employees in the new economic industry. In this programme, guests Jerry, Li Sheng and Wong Cho Lam Li Yanan went into the families of video bloggers and e-commerce anchors respectively to record the warmth of their busy lives.

Video blogger "Meet Parents" and Jerry Li Shengcheng "Mentor"

In the program, guests Jerry and Li Sheng walked into the homes of video bloggers Yang Yadong and Chen Huimin. Although the small rental house was a little messy, they also decorated it with warmth and love, and the sweetness of their lives could be seen everywhere. Two people from Harbin and Qingdao stayed in Hangzhou to start a business after graduating from college. The post-95 couple edited their daily lives into short videos and posted them on a social platform, which attracted the attention and love of a large number of fans with a relaxed and humorous style. The good viewing volume and click volume of the video have brought economic benefits that can balance daily expenses.

But in my mother’s eyes, making videos can’t be a career that can support my family. After seeing her son’s life suddenly, she was worried that she would work too hard outside, hoping that he could return to his hometown Harbin to find a stable job and buy a house to settle down. The couple were obviously unprepared for their mother’s expectations, and Jerry and Li Sheng became their "mentors" and acted as "lubricants" between generations. How will they resolve the conflict of ideas between the two generations in one meal?

Entering the "anchor house", Wong Cho Lam Li Yanan helped "reunion"

On the other hand, Wong Cho Lam and Li Yanan met the "anchor family", and all four members of the family were engaged in the live broadcast of e-commerce. Because of the long time span of the live broadcast, it was difficult for the mother and twin daughters who broadcast live in different time periods to get together. In order to know more about the anchor’s daily life, Wong Cho Lam and Li Yanan decided to have this special dinner in the studio where they work.

During the live broadcast, Wong Cho Lam and Li Yanan met their twin sister Chufei Churan who was preparing for the live broadcast. They feel that the fast pace of work makes it rare for the family to sit together and have a meal. Even their birthdays can’t be celebrated with their parents. The unexpected arrival of Wong Cho Lam and Li Yanan has given the family a long-lost meal.

At the dinner table, my father frankly revealed the hardships of the sisters’ work: many times, they had no time to eat, so they could only eat two bites between live broadcasts; Always in a tense working environment, even dreaming will worry about insufficient inventory … … Words are full of concern and love for her daughter’s life. As a practitioner in the same industry, my mother pays more attention to the status of the two sisters at work, and often gives some professional suggestions and opinions.

In the program, the anchor dad also disclosed the criteria for choosing a husband. What is the perfect son-in-law in his heart? What interesting story happened at the dinner table? For more touching stories and warm-hearted moments, please look forward to the Dragon TV "Dear, Come to dinner" which will be launched at 22 o’clock this Saturday night.