Deliberating and passing! The first e-sports Olympic Games will be held in Saudi Arabia in 2025.

  On 23rd local time, at the 142nd plenary session of the International Olympic Committee held in Paris, France, a proposal that attracted much attention was unanimously adopted:Hold the first Olympic e-sports games in Saudi Arabia in 2025..

  △ On 23rd, Bach attended the 142nd plenary session of the International Olympic Committee held in Paris.

  The International Olympic Committee has previously announced that it will cooperate with the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee to host the first e-sports Olympic Games, and said that the proposal will be considered at the plenary session of the International Olympic Committee held on the eve of the opening of the Paris Olympic Games.

  The International Olympic Committee said in its official website that "history was made today". At the press conference of the plenary session, Bach said that the world is changing and people are experiencing a digital revolution. This cooperation is a milestone. Both the IOC and the e-sports community need to learn a lot and find common ground. He also stressed that this cooperation is based on the Olympic Charter and Olympic values.

  The International Olympic Committee has been in contact with e-sports since 2018, and held the Olympic E-sports Week in Singapore in 2023. At the 141st plenary session held in Mumbai in 2023, the International Olympic Committee announced that it would study the establishment of an e-sports Olympic Games. Over the past year, the work of the E-sports Committee of the International Olympic Committee has made great progress.

  According to reports, the cooperation period between the IOC and the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee is 12 years.After the proposal is passed, the two sides will immediately start to select the host city and venue of the event, and confirm the details such as the competition time, events and promotion procedures of the players..

  According to the International Olympic Committee,Priority will be given to cooperation with international individual sports organizations that have launched e-sports competitions, and priority will also be given to inviting Olympic committees of countries (regions) that have accepted e-sports events.. In addition, due to the special nature of the e-sports Olympic Games, the IOC must adopt different methods in the financing and preparation of the event, and the IOC willEstablish a new specialized agency, which is clearly separated from the traditional Olympic Games preparation and financial model..

China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission issued a risk warning: to prevent illegal fund-raising in the name of "meta-universe"

  On February 18th, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission issued the Risk Warning on Preventing Illegal Fund-raising in the Name of "Metauniverse", saying that recently, some lawless elements took advantage of hot spots to absorb funds in the name of "Metauniverse Investment Project" and "Metauniverse Chain Tour", and were suspected of illegal fund-raising, fraud and other illegal and criminal activities. The relevant methods and risk warnings are as follows:

  First, fabricate false meta-universe investment projects. Some lawless elements stir up the concepts of game making, artificial intelligence and virtual reality related to the meta-universe, fabricate high-tech investment projects with numerous packaging names, openly and falsely publicize high profits, and take the opportunity to absorb public funds, which is characterized by illegal fund-raising and fraud.

  Second, fraud under the banner of the meta-universe blockchain game. Some lawless elements bind the concept of "meta-universe", claiming that "making money while playing games" and "short investment cycle and high returns" trick participants into investing by exchanging virtual coins and buying game equipment. This kind of game is confusing, and there are risks such as running away with money.

  Third, malicious speculation Yuan Universe real estate circle money. Some lawless elements use the concept of hot spots in the meta-universe to render the expectation of rising prices of virtual real estate, artificially create the illusion of buying and luring into the market to hoard and buy, so we must be alert to the risk of such speculation.

  Fourth, engage in illegal profits from virtual currency in the meta-universe in disguise. Some criminals claim that the virtual currency issued is the future "universal currency", which induces the public to buy investment. This kind of "virtual currency" is often the spontaneous air currency of criminals, and it mainly makes illegal profits through behind-the-scenes means such as manipulating prices and setting cash withdrawal thresholds.

  The above activities are under the banner of "Metauniverse", which is attractive and deceptive, and participants are prone to property losses. The public is requested to enhance their awareness of risk prevention and recognition, and beware of being deceived. If you find clues about suspected crimes, please actively report them to the local authorities.

The list of the "Top Ten" industry "Wild Goose Formation" cluster and cluster leading enterprises in the province was publicized, and high-tech was shortlisted!

A few days ago, the Provincial Development and Reform Commission publicized the list of "Wild Goose Formation" clusters and cluster leading enterprises of the "Top Ten" industries in the province to be put into storage in 2023, and the high-tech zone Weifang High-tech Zone Yuanhuayu Industrial Cluster and Shandong Tianrui Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. were shortlisted.

"Wild Goose Formation" Cluster Library of "Top Ten" Industries in Shandong Province

List of industrial clusters to be put into storage (the fifth batch)

First, a new generation of information technology

1. Yantai software and information service characteristic industrial cluster

2. Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industry Cluster

3. Weifang High-tech Zone Meta-cosmic Industrial Cluster

4. Weihai Printing Equipment Industry Cluster

5. Rizhao New Generation Information Technology Industry Cluster

Second, high-end equipment

6. yi river New District Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Cluster

7. Jinan High-tech Zone High-end Equipment Manufacturing Industry Cluster

8. Zaozhuang Equipment Industry Cluster

Third, new energy sources

9. Zibo New Energy Manufacturing Industry Cluster

Fourth, new materials

10. Zhaoyuan Gold Industry Cluster

11. Qingdao West Coast New District Advanced Polymer Materials Industry Cluster

12. Zhangqiu New Materials Industry Cluster

13. Liangshan rare earth recycling industry cluster

14. "Wild Goose Formation" Cluster of New Materials and New Building Materials Industry in Daiyue District

15. Green functional aluminum industrial cluster in Chiping District

16. Zibo Polymer New Materials Industry Cluster

V. Modern oceans

17. Weihai Marine Prefabricated Vegetable Industry Cluster

18. Dongying Port Modern Marine Integrated Three-dimensional Transportation Logistics Industrial Cluster

19 Changyi modern marine eco-economic industrial cluster

Sixth, medical care for health

20. Jinan Medical Device Industry Cluster

21. Qingzhou Medical Health Industry Cluster

Seven, high-end chemical industry

22. Dezhou Chemical New Material Industry Cluster

23. Juye County Fine Chemical Industry Cluster

24 Binzhou Bincheng high-end chemical new material industry cluster

Eight, modern and efficient agriculture

25 Yantai city, the advantages of pre-cooked vegetables characteristic industrial cluster

26. Jiaxiang County Green Soybean Industry Cluster

27. yinan county Prefabricated Vegetable Industry Cluster

28 Dezhou soybean and corn intensive processing industrial cluster

29. Dongming County Modern and Efficient Agricultural Industrial Cluster

30 Liaocheng Grain and Oil Processing Industry Cluster

IX. Cultural creativity

31. Jinan Creative Design Industry Cluster

32. "Ingenuity Zaozhuang" Cultural and Creative Industry Cluster

X. Boutique Tourism

33 Dongying City Yellow River into the sea tourism industry cluster

34. Journey to the Water Margin, Shuiyun Dongping Boutique Tourism Industry Cluster

XI. Modern light industrial textiles

35. Qingdao Food and Beverage Industry Cluster

36. Binzhou Intelligent Textile Industry Cluster

37. Qingdao Jimo Textile and Clothing Industry Cluster

The leading enterprise library of "Top Ten" industrial clusters in Shandong Province is planned to be put into storage.

List of leading enterprises (the fifth batch)

First, a new generation of information technology

1. Zhongke Shuguang International Information Industry Co., Ltd.

2. Jin Modern Information Industry Co., Ltd.

3. Shandong Youyan Semiconductor Material Co., Ltd.

Second, high-end equipment

4. CRRC Qingdao Sifang Vehicle Research Institute Co., Ltd.

5. Shandong Longji Machinery Co., Ltd

6. Shandong Tianrui Heavy Industry Co., Ltd

7. Shandong Aotai Electric Co., Ltd.

8. Taishan Group Limited by Share Ltd.

9 Rongcheng Kangpaisi New Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd.

10. Shandong Haoxin Co., Ltd.

11. Shandong Huacheng Group Co., Ltd

12. Shandong Classic Heavy Industry Group Co., Ltd.

13. Weihai Neptune Cyclone Co., Ltd.

14. Shandong Donge Steel Ball Group Co., Ltd.

15 Liaocheng Boyuan Energy Saving Technology Co., Ltd.

16. Shandong Huayuan rigging Co., Ltd.

Third, new energy sources

17. Sinoma Lithium Film Co., Ltd.

18 Shandong Chaowei Power Supply Co., Ltd.

19. Shandong Fengyuan Chemical Company Limited by Share Ltd.

Fourth, new materials

20 Yantai Zhenghai Magnetic Materials Co., Ltd.

21 Shandong Kaisheng New Materials Co., Ltd.

22. Shandong Taipeng Group Co., Ltd

23 Taishan Sports Industry Group Co., Ltd.

24. Shandong Taishan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd.

25. Shandong Genyuan New Materials Co., Ltd

26. Lihua Yiwei Chemical Co., Ltd.

27. Shandong Xinmeida Technology Materials Co., Ltd.

28. Zhongxi Tianma New Materials Technology Co., Ltd.

29. Jinneng Chemical (Qingdao) Co., Ltd.

30 Shandong Shengyang Metal Technology Co., Ltd.

V. Modern oceans

31. Shandong Haomai Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

32 Penglai Jinglu Fishery Co., Ltd.

Sixth, medical care for health

33 Shandong Qidu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

34. Shandong Huge Dental Materials Co., Ltd.

35. Shandong Boke Biological Industry Co., Ltd.

36 Huaxia Sinopharm (Heze) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

37 Shandong Fangming Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd.

38 Shandong Yikang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Seven, high-end chemical industry

39 Wanda Group Co., Ltd.

40. Shandong Alliance Chemical Co., Ltd.

41 Hailier Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd

42 Shandong Hongda Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

43 Shandong Huimeng Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

Eight, modern and efficient agriculture

44 Shandong Jiaguan Grain and Oil Industry Group Co., Ltd.

45 Yantai Changyu Grape Brewing Co., Ltd.

46. Changshouhua Food Co., Ltd.

47. Shandong Xingquan Grease Co., Ltd.

48. Shandong Dashu Dafute Catering Co., Ltd.

49 Shandong Qiyuan Development Group Co., Ltd.

50. Qingdao Jinma Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd.

51 Liaocheng Lihai Refrigeration Co., Ltd.

IX. Cultural creativity

52. Zibo Kanggan Glass Art Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

53 Linyi Jiahua Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd.

X. Modern light industrial textiles

54 Shandong Huatai Paper Co., Ltd.

55 Shandong Chenming Paper Group Co., Ltd.

56. Instant Group Limited

57. Wei Qiao Textile Company Limited.

58. Asia Pacific Senbo (Shandong) Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd.

59 Yantai Zhongchong Food Co., Ltd.

Metauniverse is the carrier of the integration of the virtual world and the real world. It is known as the "strongest outlet" and the third generation Internet in the next decade, with a huge market of 10 trillion, and it is an important track for the development of new economy and new industry. In accordance with the deployment requirements of Weifang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government to speed up the development of new fields and new tracks, the High-tech Zone strives to be the main position and main force of "building the technological innovation and industrial capital of the meta-universe". At present, it is planned to build the Meta-Universe Science and Technology Industrial Park, and 12 professional parks, including the Meta-Universe Future Innovation Valley, Weifang Information Technology Industrial Park and Weifang Semiconductor Industrial Park, which have gathered a number of innovative enterprises such as Concentric Vision and Fast Technology to create a first-class meta-universe industry development ecology.

Shandong Tianrui Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. is an outstanding enterprise in Weifang High-tech Zone. As a pioneer in implementing the national "double carbon" strategy and accelerating the conversion of old and new kinetic energy, it specializes in the research and development of magnetic levitation technology and high-end rock drilling equipment, and has grown into a single manufacturing champion of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, a gazelle enterprise of the Ministry of Science and Technology and a national intellectual property demonstration enterprise. Tianrui Heavy Industry has successfully developed green energy-saving power equipment such as magnetic levitation blower, magnetic levitation vacuum pump, magnetic levitation air compressor, magnetic levitation refrigerator and magnetic levitation low-temperature waste heat generator after years of research, and has become one of the few leading enterprises in China to master the core technology of magnetic levitation power equipment.

Industrial cluster is an important carrier to build a modern industrial system, and leading enterprises are the core and key of "interacting upstream and downstream and forming an industrial chain". In recent years, the Hi-tech Zone has adhered to the principle of "grasping with both hands" and cultivating emerging industries, and introduced 30 measures for high-quality development. The quality of industrial development has improved, and advanced manufacturing clusters have continued to grow, empowering the region’s high-quality development. In the next step, according to the deployment requirements of the "Seven Breakthroughs" of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, the High-tech Zone will strengthen project support, strengthen carrier construction, go all out to fight for the economy, and contribute high-tech forces to accelerate the construction of a better Weifang with strong strength, excellent quality and beautiful life.

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The latest progress in AIDS treatment is expected to rewrite the future treatment pattern.

Original Lingjun medical field

The study once again suggests that monoclonal antibody combined therapy is one of the most promising methods to completely cure AIDS.

Author | Ling Jun

Source | "Medical" WeChat official account

On June 1, 2022, the top magazine Nature published a heavy research on AIDS treatment.

In the experiment, as an alternative therapy to conventional antiretroviral therapy (ART), the HIV level in the infected person was controlled for up to 43 weeks after the combination of two broad-spectrum neutralizing monoclonal antibodies.

Researchers believe that in the future, HIV-infected people may not need ART treatment every day, but only need low-frequency (such as biennial) medication, and perhaps combined with long-acting antiretroviral drugs, they can return to normal life.

Based on this research, Professor Lu Hongzhou, Dean of the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, told the "medical field" that monoclonal antibody combination therapy is one of the most promising methods to completely cure AIDS. "At present, many studies have shown that low-frequency use of monoclonal antibody combination therapy can effectively maintain virus inhibition, but the virus will rebound after stopping drug use. It is expected to change this situation by further screening and developing long-acting monoclonal antibodies."

High level of HIV inhibition

Up to 43 weeks

Today, 40 years later, AIDS is no longer a "terminal disease".

With the advent of "highly effective antiretroviral therapy" (HAART), that is, cocktail therapy, the virus level in HIV-infected people has been effectively controlled, even reaching "non-infectious" in clinical indicators, and the life expectancy is close to that of ordinary people.

But the defects are also obvious. HIV-infected people need to take medicine every day and for life, and their compliance varies from person to person. Once the drug is stopped, the virus level in the body will rebound quickly. In addition, lifelong use of drugs may have long-term side effects and create the possibility for the emergence of drug-resistant viruses.

This time, the researchers conducted a small phase I clinical trial, and tested the combination therapy of two monoclonal antibodies, 3BNC117 and 10-1074, which are aimed at different targets, and are expected to bring a breakthrough in "long-term treatment".

The trial is divided into two parts. The first is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 14 infected people. They first received antiretroviral therapy (ART), then stopped taking drugs and received up to eight times of "monoclonal antibody combination therapy" or placebo-twice in the first month and once a month thereafter.

The results showed that, except one infected person who secretly recovered ART for fear of illness, the HIV levels of the other six placebo subjects all rebounded 28 weeks ago, and ART treatment must be restarted immediately, with a median time of 9.4 weeks.

All 7 people in the monoclonal antibody combined treatment group did not need to restart ART. Five of them showed a very high level of HIV viremia inhibition, and the effect lasted for up to 43 weeks, that is, 19 weeks after stopping the "monoclonal antibody combination therapy".

However, it is worth noting that in the second part of the experiment, the researchers recruited another five HIV-infected people who had not received ART. After the start of "monoclonal antibody combined therapy", only two people achieved complete inhibition of HIV, and the average duration was 41.7 weeks.

Further research found that the other three infected people whose virus levels were not controlled were resistant to two kinds of monoclonal antibodies.

The same findings also appeared in the first trial. Although there was no need to restart ART treatment in the treatment group, two people had a partial rebound in virus level in the first 8 weeks, which was also due to the existence of drug-resistant viruses in the body.

The researchers pointed out, "This suggests that the premise of treatment is that there can be no virus resistant to the corresponding monoclonal antibody in the infected person before administration.

Can we finally realize the "clinical cure" of AIDS?

This is not the first time to study the treatment of AIDS with 3BNC117 and 10-1074.

As early as 2018, the team of Professor Nussenzweig from Rockefeller University published a paper in Nature: After stopping ART, using this monoclonal antibody combination can effectively inhibit HIV for 15-30 weeks (median 21 weeks).

"They can inhibit HIV in infected people for several months, and may produce new methods to prevent and treat AIDS." In 2020, Rockefeller University published a document in official website, and the antibody combination has been acquired by a large multinational pharmaceutical company in the United States.

On April 13th, 2022, Professor Nussenzweig and his team updated the research progress again. All the infected people who received the combination therapy of the monoclonal antibody for 7 times still maintained virus inhibition within 21 to 48 weeks after stopping the injection.

Professor Lu Hongzhou told the medical community that monoclonal antibody therapy has been widely studied and applied in the field of HIV prevention and treatment in recent years, and it has been proved that it can inhibit HIV-1 infection in animal models for several years.

"The breakthrough significance of the latest research is that it is further confirmed that the combination therapy of broad-spectrum neutralizing monoclonal antibody can inhibit the virus level in human body for a long time, and it shows good safety and tolerance, which is expected to become an alternative to daily ART." Professor Lu Hongzhou said.

However, combined with the latest research, Professor Lu Hongzhou said that there are still some problems to be solved urgently.

First of all, the combination therapy of monoclonal antibodies needs to screen HIV drug resistance in the infected person in advance, and the sensitivity test for monoclonal antibodies requires high test technology itself, which may limit the popularization and application of this therapy.

"HIV virus has a high frequency of mutation and a variety of immune escape strategies, and the problem of drug resistance can not be ignored. Therefore, it is also the key to develop effective extended-spectrum neutralizing antibodies and jointly identify monoclonal antibodies against different targets of the virus in the future." Professor Lu Hongzhou said.

Secondly, the study mentioned that although it is expected to greatly reduce the frequency of drug use (only twice a year), in the current course of 8 doses, once the drug is completely stopped, the virus level will eventually rebound.

"Whether the infection process can be completely changed, that is, whether the virus can be suppressed for a long time after stopping the drug, needs to be finally solved and evaluated by increasing the previous course of treatment and extending the follow-up time." The researchers said.

Professor Lu Hongzhou believes that whether "long-acting monoclonal antibody combination" can help HIV-infected people to suppress the virus in their bodies for a long time (such as several years) and achieve the final "clinical cure" by clearing the HIV virus repository still needs longer-term clinical data to support.

Source: medical profession

Editor: Song Kunlun

Proofreading: Zang Hengjia

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The Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Harbin Institute of Technology unveiled the high-end forum of "Creating the Future with Wisdom".

News from Harbin Institute of Technology (Liu Peixiang/Wen Liqi, Sun Zhuo/Photo) On the morning of May 5, the unveiling ceremony of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Harbin Institute of Technology and the high-end forum on "Creating the Future with Wisdom" were held in the Science Park International Conference Center. Li Mingchun, Deputy Secretary-General of Heilongjiang Provincial Government, and Xiong Sihao, Executive Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Heilongjiang University, delivered speeches at the meeting and unveiled the Institute. Vice President Han Jiecai presided over the unveiling ceremony.

Li Mingchun said in his speech that the establishment of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence is another important measure for Harbin Institute of Technology to embody "the first source of technological innovation in Longjiang" and help the revitalization and development of Longjiang. Science and technology make the nation prosperous, and science and technology make the country strong. The Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government have always insisted on promoting local economic development with scientific and technological innovation, thoroughly implemented the spirit of the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary when he visited Heilongjiang Province, constantly strengthened the construction of innovation ability, strengthened the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and regarded the artificial intelligence industry as an important field to cultivate new economic growth points. At the beginning of this year, Heilongjiang Province issued the "Three-year Special Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence Industry", hoping to promote the industrialization of artificial intelligence by strengthening the construction of artificial intelligence innovation ability and realize the coordinated development of innovation chain’s industrial chain and value chain. Over the years, Harbin Institute of Technology has been deeply rooted in Longjiang, making great contributions to China’s national defense and aerospace industry and national economic construction, and has achieved a number of major achievements with international leading level. It is also one of the earliest universities in China to carry out artificial intelligence research. The provincial party committee and government will fully support the development of the research institute, hoping that the research institute will carry out solid and effective work in artificial intelligence basic theory research, core key technology research, support platform construction, innovative application and industrial development, and produce fruitful results as soon as possible.

In his speech, Xiong Sihao reviewed the development of artificial intelligence in the world and China, and introduced the unremitting exploration in the field of artificial intelligence in our school for many years, especially a series of widely used achievements in the fields of handwritten text image recognition, sentence-level pinyin input method, machine translation, and a large number of outstanding talents delivered by our school for the field of artificial intelligence. He said that with the emergence of technologies such as deep learning, artificial intelligence has entered a new stage of development, and the rapid development of artificial intelligence in the future will profoundly change human social life and change the world. In 2017, the State Council officially released the Development Plan of New Generation Artificial Intelligence, and the provincial party committee and government also put forward clear hopes for the establishment of an artificial intelligence research institute. The school attaches great importance to the development of artificial intelligence, actively responds to the national deployment and local needs, seizes the major strategic opportunity of the development of artificial intelligence, and establishes an artificial intelligence research institute to support scientific research in the field of artificial intelligence. The research institute will fully integrate the superior resources inside and outside the school, break down the barriers between departments in the campus, promote the development of interdisciplinary integration, and deeply integrate with the industry, and strive to build a domestic first-class and internationally influential specialized research institution of artificial intelligence, making greater contributions to Longjiang’s economic development and national scientific and technological progress.

Academician Gao Wen, director of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and alumnus, delivered a video speech to congratulate the establishment of the Institute, and hoped that Harbin Institute of Technology would continue to play a leading role in the field of artificial intelligence and provide a platform for young talents to devote themselves to artificial intelligence research; I also hope that young scholars will actively carry out cutting-edge, innovative and leading research to promote the innovative development of China’s artificial intelligence industry. Wang Haifeng, vice president of Baidu and president of Baidu Research Institute, Bill F. Spencer Jr of Illinois State University at Urbana-Champaign, and Professor Dang Jianwu of Tianjin University delivered speeches at the meeting.

In order to better unite the wisdom of experts, scholars and representatives of industrial enterprises, gather wisdom to tackle key problems, offer suggestions and suggestions, and jointly promote the rapid development of the Institute, the Institute has set up an academic committee. Academician Gao Wen served as the director of the academic membership association. From IBM and Microsoft, the first batch of national artificial intelligence open innovation platforms Baidu, Ali, Tencent and Iflytek, as well as famous experts, scholars and industry leaders from famous universities and research institutions at home and abroad, such as the United States, Germany, Canada and Hong Kong, China, served as members of the Academic Committee. At the meeting, Xiong Sihao presented letters of appointment to members of the academic committee.

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After the establishment of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, it will be established in eight directions according to four levels: theory, technology, platform and application, artificial intelligence foundation and machine learning, intelligent control theory, brain science and brain-like intelligence, machine perception and pattern recognition, natural language processing and knowledge engineering, hybrid enhanced intelligence, autonomous intelligence and artificial intelligence applications (including intelligent manufacturing, intelligent civil engineering, intelligent finance and business, intelligent pension, intelligent remote sensing, etc.). The first batch of 30 researchers will be stationed in the research institute, focusing on a group of outstanding young and middle-aged scholars in the field of artificial intelligence in the school. Facing the development of artificial intelligence science, technology and industry, the research institute will gather first-class research teams, create first-class research results, train first-class scientific and technological talents and build a world-class artificial intelligence innovation base.

At the high-end artificial intelligence forum of "Creating the Future with Wisdom", Zhang Tong, director of Tencent’s artificial intelligence laboratory, Shen Xiaowei, global vice president of IBM, president of IBM China Research Institute and chief technology officer of IBM Greater China, Zhang Jianwei, director of the Institute of Multimodal Technology of Hamburg University in Germany, academician of Hamburg Academy of Sciences in Germany, vice president of Microsoft Asia Research Institute and alumnus Zhou Ming, president-elect of International Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), respectively made "AI Industry Development and Tencent Practice" and "Anticipating the Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence".

In the afternoon, the Academic Committee of the Institute held its first meeting to conduct in-depth discussions and exchanges on the future development and construction planning of the Institute.

Famous experts and scholars from home and abroad, representatives of industrial enterprises, leaders of relevant departments of provinces and cities, Xu Xiaofei, vice president of our school and president of Weihai Campus, heads of relevant units of our school, teachers and students of relevant colleges attended the unveiling ceremony and forum.

Unveiling ceremony and high-end forum site

Speech by Li Mingchun, Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Government

Speech by Xiong Sihao, Executive Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of our school.

Vice President Han Jiecai presided over the unveiling ceremony.

Speech by Wang Haifeng Alumni

Speech by Professor Bill F. Spencer Jr

Speech by Professor Dang Jianwu

Artificial intelligence research institute unveiled

Issue letters of appointment to members of academic committees

Dean Wang Yadong introduced the general situation of the Institute.

academic lecture

Steady and good! China’s GDP increased by 12.7% in the first half of the year.

  People’s Daily Online, Beijing, July 15 (Zhao Zhuqing) Today, the National Bureau of Statistics announced that the national economy in the first half of 2021 showed that in the first half of the year, China’s economy continued to recover steadily, production demand continued to pick up, employment prices were generally stable, new kinetic energy grew rapidly, quality and efficiency improved steadily, market players expected to improve, major macro indicators were in a reasonable range, and economic development showed a steady and stable trend.

  According to preliminary accounting, the GDP in the first half of the year was 53,216.7 billion yuan, up 12.7% year-on-year at comparable prices, down 5.6 percentage points from the first quarter. The average growth rate in two years was 5.3%, and the average growth rate in two years was 0.3 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter.Quarterly, the first quarter increased by 18.3% year-on-year, with an average growth of 5.0% in two years; It increased by 7.9% in the second quarter and 5.5% on average in two years. In terms of industries, the added value of the primary industry in the first half of the year was 2,840.2 billion yuan, up 7.8% year-on-year, with an average growth of 4.3% in two years; The added value of the secondary industry was 20,715.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.8%, with an average increase of 6.1% in two years; The added value of the tertiary industry was 29,661.1 billion yuan, up 11.8% year-on-year, with an average growth of 4.9% in two years. From the ring comparison, the GDP in the second quarter increased by 1.3%.

  Summer grain was harvested again, and animal husbandry production grew steadily.

  In the first half of the year, the added value of agriculture (planting) increased by 3.6% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 0.3 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter; Average growth of 3.7% in two years. Among them, the growth in the second quarter was 3.7%, 0.4 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter. The total output of summer grain in China was 145.82 million tons (291.6 billion Jin), an increase of 2.967 million tons (5.93 billion Jin) or 2.1% over the previous year. The agricultural planting structure has been continuously optimized, and the planting area of cash crops such as rapeseed has increased. In the first half of the year, the output of pork, cattle, sheep and poultry was 42.91 million tons, up by 23.0% over the same period of last year, of which the output of pork increased by 35.9%. Milk production increased by 7.6% year-on-year, while poultry and eggs production decreased by 4.1%. At the end of the second quarter, the number of live pigs was 439.11 million, a year-on-year increase of 29.2%; Among them, there are 45.64 million sows that can breed, an increase of 25.7%.

  Industrial production has grown steadily, and high-tech manufacturing has grown rapidly.

  In the first half of the year, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 15.9% year-on-year, with an average growth rate of 7.0% in two years, 0.2 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter; Among them, the second quarter increased by 8.9% year-on-year. In June, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 8.3% year-on-year, with an average increase of 6.5% in two years; The chain increased by 0.56%. In terms of three categories, the added value of the mining industry increased by 6.2% in the first half of the year, with an average increase of 2.5% in two years; The manufacturing industry grew by 17.1%, with an average growth rate of 7.5% in two years; Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply industries grew by 13.4%, with an average growth of 6.0% in two years. The added value of high-tech manufacturing industry increased by 22.6% year-on-year, with an average increase of 13.2% in two years. In terms of products, the output of new energy vehicles, industrial robots and integrated circuits increased by 205.0%, 69.8% and 48.1% respectively year-on-year, and the average growth rate in both years exceeded 30%. In terms of economic types, the added value of state-owned holding enterprises increased by 11.9% year-on-year; Joint-stock enterprises increased by 15.8% year-on-year, and foreign-invested enterprises from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan increased by 17.0% year-on-year; Private enterprises increased by 18.3% year on year. In June, the purchasing managers’ index of China manufacturing industry was 50.9%, which was higher than the critical point for 16 consecutive months. The expected index of enterprise’s production and operation activities is 57.9%.

  From January to May, the total profits of industrial enterprises above designated size nationwide reached 3,424.7 billion yuan, up 83.4% year-on-year, with an average increase of 21.7% in two years. The profit rate of operating income of industrial enterprises above designated size is 7.11%, which is 2.05 percentage points higher than that of January-May 2020.

  The service industry recovered steadily and the market expectation continued to improve.

  In the first half of the year, the tertiary industry continued to recover steadily. In the second quarter, the added value of the tertiary industry increased by 8.3% year-on-year, with an average growth of 5.1% in two years; The growth rate in the first quarter was 15.6% year-on-year, with an average growth rate of 4.7% in two years. In terms of industries, the added value of transportation, warehousing and postal services, information transmission, software and information technology services increased by 21.0% and 20.3% respectively in the first half of the year, with an average increase of 6.9% and 17.3% respectively in the two years. In June, the national service industry production index increased by 10.9% year-on-year, with an average growth of 6.5% in two years. From January to May, the operating income of service enterprises above designated size increased by 31.9% year-on-year, with an average increase of 11.1% in two years, 0.2 percentage points higher than that in January-April.

  In June, the business activity index of service industry was 52.3%, which was higher than the critical point for 16 consecutive months. From the industry situation, the business activity indexes of postal express, telecommunications, radio and television, satellite transmission services, internet software and information technology services, which are closely related to online consumption, are all in the higher boom range of more than 57.0%; Monetary and financial services and insurance are all located in the high-level boom zone above 60.0%. From the market expectation, the expected index of business activities is 60.4%, which continues to remain at a high level.

  Market sales have gradually improved, and consumption upgraded goods have grown rapidly.

  In the first half of the year, the total retail sales of social consumer goods was 21,190.4 billion yuan, up 23.0% year-on-year, with an average growth of 4.4% in two years, 0.2 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter; Among them, the growth rate in the second quarter was 13.9% year-on-year, with an average growth rate of 4.6% in two years. In June, the total retail sales of social consumer goods was 3,758.6 billion yuan, up 12.1% year-on-year, with an average growth of 4.9% in two years. The chain increased by 0.70%. In the first half of the year, according to the location of business units, the retail sales of urban consumer goods was 18,409.8 billion yuan, up 23.3% year-on-year, with an average growth of 4.4% in two years; The retail sales of rural consumer goods reached 2,780.7 billion yuan, up 21.4% year-on-year, with an average growth of 4.0% in two years. By consumption type, the retail sales of commodities reached 19,019.2 billion yuan, up 20.6% year-on-year, with an average growth of 4.9% in two years. The catering revenue was 2,171.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 48.6%, and the scale was basically the same as that in the first half of 2019. By commodity category, the year-on-year growth rate of 18 commodity categories of units above designated size all exceeded 10%, of which more than 70% commodity categories grew at a year-on-year rate of more than 20%. From the two-year average growth rate, except for petroleum commodities, the retail sales of other commodity categories are all positive growth, among which the average growth rate of retail sales of nine categories of commodities such as sports and entertainment products, communication equipment, cosmetics and cultural office supplies exceeds 10% in two years. The national online retail sales reached 6,113.3 billion yuan, up 23.2% year-on-year, with an average growth of 15.0% in two years, 1.5 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter. Among them,The online retail sales of physical goods reached 5,026.3 billion yuan, an increase of 18.7%, with an average increase of 16.5% in two years, 1.1 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter; The online retail sales of physical goods accounted for 23.7% of the total retail sales of consumer goods, an increase of 1.8 percentage points over the first quarter.

  Investment in fixed assets continued to recover, and the two-year average growth rate of manufacturing investment accelerated.

  In the first half of the year, China’s fixed assets investment (excluding farmers) was 25.59 trillion yuan, up 12.6% year-on-year, and 0.35% month-on-month in June. The average growth rate in two years was 4.4%, 1.5 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter. In terms of fields, infrastructure investment in the first half of the year increased by 7.8% year-on-year, with an average increase of 2.4% in two years, slightly lower than that in January-May; Manufacturing investment increased by 19.2% year-on-year, with an average growth of 2.0% in two years, 1.4 percentage points faster than that in January-May; Investment in real estate development increased by 15.0% year-on-year, with an average increase of 8.2% in two years, slightly lower than that in January-May. The national commercial housing sales area was 886.35 million square meters, up 27.7% year-on-year, with an average growth of 8.1% in two years. The sales of commercial housing was 9,293.1 billion yuan, up 38.9% year-on-year, with an average growth of 14.7% in two years. In terms of industries, investment in the primary industry increased by 21.3% year-on-year, with an average increase of 13.2% in two years; Investment in the secondary industry increased by 16.3% year-on-year, with an average increase of 2.9% in two years; Investment in the tertiary industry increased by 10.7% year-on-year, with an average increase of 4.8% in two years. Private investment increased by 15.4% year-on-year, with an average growth of 3.8% in two years. Investment in high-tech industries increased by 23.5% year-on-year, with an average increase of 14.6% in two years; Among them, the investment in high-tech manufacturing industry and high-tech service industry increased by 29.7% and 12.0% respectively, with an average increase of 17.1% and 9.5% respectively in two years. In the high-tech manufacturing industry,Investment in computer and office equipment manufacturing, medical equipment and instrumentation manufacturing increased by 47.5% and 34.2% respectively, with an average increase of 26.3% and 18.7% respectively in two years. Among the high-tech service industries, the investment in e-commerce service industry and R&D and design service industry increased by 32.9% and 28.4% respectively, with an average increase of 32.5% and 15.9% respectively in two years. Investment in social fields increased by 16.4% year-on-year, with an average increase of 10.7% in two years; Among them, health investment and education investment increased by 35.5% and 14.2% respectively, with an average increase of 24.9% and 12.5% respectively in two years.

  The import and export of goods grew rapidly and the trade structure continued to be optimized.

  In the first half of the year, the total import and export volume of goods was 18,065.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.1%. Among them, exports were 9,849.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.1%; Imports were 8,215.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.9%; Import and export balance, with a trade surplus of 1,633.6 billion yuan. The trade structure continued to be optimized. In the first half of the year, the export of mechanical and electrical products accounted for 59.2% of the total export, an increase of 0.6 percentage points over the same period of last year. The import and export of general trade accounted for 61.9% of the total import and export, an increase of 1.7 percentage points over the same period of last year. The import and export of private enterprises accounted for 47.8% of the total import and export, an increase of 2.8 percentage points over the same period of last year. In June, the total import and export volume was 3,291.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.0%. Among them, exports were 1,812.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.2%; Imports reached 1,479.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.2%.

  Consumer prices have risen moderately, and the ex-factory prices of industrial producers are still at a high level.

  In the first half of the year, the national consumer price (CPI) rose by 0.5% year-on-year, and remained flat in the first quarter. Among them, in June, the national consumer price rose by 1.1% year-on-year, which was 0.2 percentage points lower than that in May. It decreased by 0.4% from the previous month. In the first half of the year, the consumer price of urban residents rose by 0.6%, while that of rural residents rose by 0.4%. By category, the prices of food, tobacco and alcohol rose by 0.4% year-on-year, the prices of clothing were flat, the prices of housing, daily necessities and services rose by 0.2%, the prices of transportation and communication rose by 1.9%, the prices of education, culture and entertainment rose by 0.9%, the prices of medical care rose by 0.3%, and the prices of other supplies and services fell by 1.1%. Among the food, tobacco and alcohol prices, pork prices dropped by 19.3%, grain prices rose by 1.2%, fresh fruit prices rose by 2.6%, and fresh vegetables prices rose by 3.2%. After deducting food and energy prices, the core CPI rose by 0.4%, which was flat in the first quarter.

  In the first half of the year, the ex-factory price of industrial producers nationwide rose by 5.1% year-on-year, an increase of 3.0 percentage points over the first quarter; Among them, June increased by 8.8% year-on-year, and the growth rate dropped by 0.2 percentage points compared with May. In the first half of the year, the purchase price of industrial producers nationwide rose by 7.1% year-on-year, an increase of 4.3 percentage points over the first quarter; Among them, June rose by 13.1% year-on-year and 0.8% quarter-on-quarter.

  The urban unemployment rate was the same as last month, and the employment situation was generally stable.

  In the first half of the year, 6.98 million new jobs were created in cities and towns nationwide, achieving 63.5% of the annual target. In June, the national urban survey unemployment rate was 5.0%, which was the same as that in May and decreased by 0.7 percentage points over the same period of last year. The survey unemployment rate of local registered population is 5.0%, and that of foreign registered population is 5.1%. The survey unemployment rates of the population aged 16-24 and 25-59 are 15.4% and 4.2% respectively. The survey unemployment rate in 31 big cities and towns was 5.2%, which was the same as that in May. The average weekly working hours of employees in enterprises nationwide were 47.6 hours, 0.3 hours more than that in May. At the end of the second quarter, the total number of migrant workers in rural areas was 182.33 million.

  Residents’ income continued to grow, and the ratio of per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents narrowed.

  In the first half of the year, the per capita disposable income of the national residents was 17,642 yuan, a nominal increase of 12.6% year-on-year, which was mainly affected by the low base in the first half of last year, with an average increase of 7.4% in two years, 0.4 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter; After deducting the price factor, the real growth rate was 12.0% year-on-year, with an average growth rate of 5.2% in two years, which was slightly lower than the economic growth rate and basically synchronized. According to the place of permanent residence, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 24,125 yuan, with a nominal increase of 11.4% and a real increase of 10.7%. The per capita disposable income of rural residents was 9,248 yuan, a nominal increase of 14.6% and a real increase of 14.1%. From the source of income, the per capita wage income, net operating income, net property income and net transfer income of the national residents increased by 12.1%, 17.5%, 15.0% and 9.0% respectively. The per capita income ratio of urban and rural residents was 2.61, which was 0.07 lower than the same period of last year. The median per capita disposable income of the national residents was 14,897 yuan, an increase of 11.6%.

Promote the construction of a community of human destiny and win the strategic initiative (in-depth study and implementation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in

  synopsis

  Since the reform and opening up, our party has been accelerating the development of China in keeping with the trend of the times and seizing historical opportunities. On the new journey, we must rely on further comprehensive deepening of reform to seize historical opportunities, properly respond to challenges, develop and strengthen the power of world peace with our own development, and better promote the building of a community of human destiny.

  The the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee meeting held on April 30th proposed that continuing to push forward the reform "is an inevitable requirement to promote the building of a community of human destiny and win the strategic initiative in the increasingly fierce international competition". Today’s world is in a great change that has never happened in a century, and peace and development are facing new challenges. The new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation have developed in depth, which has had a profound impact on the global economic structure. Faced with the instability and uncertainty of the world situation and the new trend of global scientific and technological innovation and industrial development, we must rely on further comprehensive deepening of reforms to seize opportunities and meet challenges, provide a strong impetus for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation with Chinese modernization, and contribute China’s strength to promoting the building of a community of human destiny and building a better world.

  Seize the opportunity and make better progress in the reform and opening up.

  General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized: "Reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for contemporary China to catch up with the times". Since the reform and opening-up, our Party has grasped the overall situation at home and abroad as a whole, insisted on the mutual promotion of reform and opening-up, actively participated in the process of economic globalization, and constantly accelerated China’s own development in keeping with the trend of the times and seizing historical opportunities.

  One of the important reasons why our party made the historic decision to implement reform and opening up is based on its profound insight into the trend of the times. In the 1970s, the booming new scientific and technological revolution in the world promoted the world economy to develop at a faster speed, and the gap between China’s economic strength, scientific and technological strength and the international advanced level obviously widened, which made us feel a strong sense of crisis and a sense of urgency to catch up. In December 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a historic decision to shift the work center of the Party and the state to economic construction and implement reform and opening up. generate, the land of China, showed unprecedented development vitality.

  In the late 1980s and early 1990s, great changes took place in the international situation, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War. This great change in the world is both an important opportunity and a severe challenge for China. Whether we can unswervingly adhere to the party’s basic line, seize opportunities, accelerate development, and continue to push forward reform, opening up, and socialist modernization has become a major issue that our party urgently needs to answer and solve. In October 1992, the report of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that the goal of China’s economic system reform is to establish a socialist market economic system. From the traditional planned economy system to the unprecedented socialist market economy system, the reform of keeping pace with the times has greatly stimulated the vitality of China’s economic development.

  The development of China benefits from its own reform, and also benefits from connecting its economy with economic globalization through reform and opening up. By connecting the global raw materials, capital, technology and market through peaceful means, China has created a miracle of modernization of peaceful development. In the 21st century, China’s socialist market economic system has been initially established, coastal areas along the Yangtze River and inland central cities have been opened to the outside world, and the level of China’s opening to the outside world has been continuously improved. In December 2001, China officially became a member of the WTO, which marked the beginning of China’s full participation in economic globalization. The courage to deepen reform, participate in global competition, and constantly open wider to the outside world to open up more room for development has become an important reason for China’s rapid economic rise.

  In the new era, the popularization of information technology and the deepening development of global value chain have become an important driving force for economic globalization, and the degree of interdependence and interest blending among countries in the world has further deepened. At the same time, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, and the international environment is becoming increasingly complex. In November, 2013, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing, which opened a new era of comprehensively deepening reform and promoting reform through overall system design. From building a high-level socialist market economy system to deepening the reform of science and technology system, education system and talent system, from setting up a free trade pilot zone to building a free trade port with China characteristics, we have deepened reform and innovation, unswervingly opened wider to the outside world, and the institutional advantages of Socialism with Chinese characteristics have been constantly highlighted, and China’s comprehensive national strength, scientific and technological strength and international influence have been greatly enhanced. History and practice strongly show that if reform and opening-up continue to March in breadth and depth, we can better move with the times and take advantage of the situation, firmly hold the initiative of development in our own hands, and let the cause of the party and the state continue to glow with new vitality.

  Win the initiative, win the advantage and win the future by further deepening the reform in an all-round way.

  The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "We should take comprehensively deepening reform as the fundamental driving force for promoting Chinese modernization and as an important starting point for stabilizing the overall situation, coping with emergencies and opening up new opportunities." At present, the international competition is becoming increasingly fierce, and major countries have seized the commanding heights of scientific and technological innovation and competed to lay out emerging industries and future industries. At the same time, economic globalization has encountered countercurrent, and the global governance deficit has expanded. The external environment and conditions facing China’s development have undergone profound and complex changes, and both opportunities and challenges have new changes and new connotations. Only by continuing to push forward the reform can we enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of China’s development and win the initiative, advantage and future in the increasingly fierce international competition.

  Reform is the self-improvement and development of the socialist system. China started the reform process when the level of productive forces was very backward, and through the reform, it formed a comparative advantage in the system and mechanism, showing strong competitiveness in international competition. Today, we will continue to improve and develop the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system by further deepening the reform in an all-round way, promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and win the initiative in international competition with institutional advantages and governance efficiency. For example, at present, China’s advantage of low labor cost in international competition tends to weaken, and to reshape its advantage in international division of labor, we must establish a high-standard market system through reform, innovate the allocation of production factors, and better gather domestic and foreign resource factors. Another example is that scientific and technological innovation is a key variable in the great change that has never happened in a hundred years. Whoever takes the first move of scientific and technological innovation well will take the lead and win the advantage. At present, the situation that key core technologies in some fields in China are controlled by people has not fundamentally changed. It is urgent to deepen the reform of the science and technology system, improve the overall efficiency of the national innovation system, and accelerate the realization of high-level science and technology self-reliance. Only by further deepening the reform in an all-round way, getting rid of the drawbacks of ideological concepts and institutional mechanisms that hinder the promotion of Chinese modernization, cracking the deep-seated institutional and institutional obstacles and structural contradictions, and promoting the better adaptation of production relations with productivity, superstructure and economic base can we continuously consolidate and expand our institutional advantages in international competition.

  An important driving force for China’s sustained and rapid economic development is opening to the outside world. In the future, China’s economy must achieve high-quality development under more open conditions. With the development of economic globalization, the policies and measures of global opening have gradually expanded from the traditional border measures of reducing tariffs and non-tariff barriers and other trade and investment liberalization and facilitation to a wider range of post-border measures. Foreign capital not only requires wider market access, but also requires higher protection of rights and interests. This requires us to steadily expand the institutional opening of rules, regulations, management and standards, strive to create a market-oriented, rule-based and international first-class business environment, better adapt to the new situation of economic globalization, effectively enhance the linkage effect of the two resources in the domestic and international markets, and further integrate into the global division of labor system. To build a new development pattern in the new era, it is necessary to improve the efficiency and level of domestic large-scale circulation with international large-scale circulation on the basis of taking domestic large-scale circulation as the main body, enhance China’s influence and voice in the global industrial chain supply chain innovation chain, and shape China’s new advantages in participating in international cooperation and competition. Only by continuously expanding high-level opening-up can we provide a good external environment for realizing Chinese modernization and win the initiative of development and international competition with open initiative.

  In order to further comprehensively deepen reform and better promote the building of a community of human destiny.

  Since the reform and opening up, China has not only achieved its own development and progress, but also made great contributions to the lofty cause of human peace and development. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "Chinese modernization is a modernization that takes the road of peaceful development, which not only benefits the people of China, but also promotes the modernization of all countries in the world." Closely following the theme of promoting Chinese-style modernization and further deepening reform, China will surely develop and strengthen the forces of world peace with its own development, provide a broader market space for all countries in the world, bring more opportunities for win-win cooperation and better promote the building of a community of human destiny.

  Inject impetus into world peace and development with high-quality development. As the largest developing country in the world, China has developed from a country with relatively backward productivity to the second largest economy in the world through more than 40 years of reform and opening up, which is not only a great change in China, but also a great contribution to world peace and development. Over the years, China’s contribution rate to world economic growth has remained at around 30%, making it an important engine of global development. China’s economic development will surely reach a new level by further deepening the reform, improving the system and mechanism to promote high-quality development, breaking through the bottlenecks that constrain the development of new-quality productive forces, and forming a new production relationship that is compatible with the development of new-quality productive forces. With the continuous development of China’s high-quality development, we will provide the world with more and better products made in China and created in China, provide the world with a larger demand for China market and China, add more vitality and motivation to the world economy in a difficult recovery stage, and also contribute to the cultivation of new global development capacity, global green and low-carbon transformation and sustainable development of mankind.

  Opening up at a high level will provide more opportunities for world peace and development. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "China’s opening to the outside world is not about a one-man show, but about welcoming all parties to participate together; Not to seek spheres of influence, but to support the common development of all countries; It is not to build your own back garden, but to build a hundred gardens shared by all countries. " Over the past 40 years, China has developed itself and benefited the world through opening up. Today, China is a major trading partner of more than 140 countries and regions, and a major source of investment for more and more countries. China’s initiative to jointly build the Belt and Road with high quality has become the widest and largest international cooperation platform in the world today. By further deepening the reform in an all-round way, we will steadily expand institutional opening, actively meet international high-standard economic and trade rules, further expand market access and reduce the negative list of foreign investment access. Under the circumstances that anti-globalization and trade protectionism have brought obstacles and obstacles to the world economic cycle, China’s measures will provide stable growth expectations for the world economy and provide a broader world for the growth of world trade and investment. A more open China with a steady economy will surely bring more new opportunities and hopes to the world.

  To participate in global governance and provide China wisdom and China plan for world peace and development. The reform and opening up has made China more deeply integrated into economic globalization and become an active participant in the reform of the global governance system. With China’s further deepening of reform and opening-up, domestic reform and global governance reform will have more interactions, and China will contribute more China wisdom and China’s programs to the development of global governance in a more just and reasonable direction. China advocates an equal and orderly world multipolarization, insists that all countries, big or small, are equal, opposes hegemonism and power politics, and advocates that all countries should participate in global governance on the principle of consultation, joint construction and sharing, and earnestly promote the democratization of international relations. China advocates inclusive economic globalization, conforms to the universal requirements of all countries, especially developing countries, solves the imbalance between countries and within countries caused by the global allocation of resources, promotes the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment, maintains the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain supply chain, and urges all parties to work together to solve the structural problems that hinder the healthy development of the world economy and maintain the vitality and motivation of global economic growth. Standing at the forefront of the times, China in the new era will further deepen its reform and open wider to the outside world, and will certainly make greater contributions to building a community of human destiny with its own development.

  (The author is a professor at the Foreign Affairs University)

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security: The pension income and expenditure of enterprise employees are balanced, and there are reserves in the long run.

Cctv news: On March 2nd, the State Council Press Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Opening by authoritative departments".

   At the meeting, a reporter asked: all walks of life are very concerned about the issue of pension payment. What is the overall situation of the basic endowment insurance fund for enterprise employees?

  In this regard, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Minister Wang Xiaoping said that the issue of pension payment involves the vital interests of hundreds of millions of retirees, and everyone is very concerned. Over the years, the reform of the old-age insurance system has been steadily advanced, the coverage has been continuously expanded, the fund income has been continuously increased, the system operation has been generally stable, and it has a strong ability to guarantee and distribute.

  "I want to make an exchange from four angles." Wang Xiaoping said: First, there is a balance between revenue and expenditure. The annual income and expenditure of the basic endowment insurance fund for enterprise employees are basically balanced, and the fund operation is generally stable.

  Second, the fund has been adjusted. In order to solve the structural contradiction of uneven distribution of funds, on the basis of the implementation of the central fund adjustment system, the national overall planning system was launched last year, and the funds were uniformly adjusted nationwide, with greater efforts.

  Third, there is financial input. The central financial subsidy continued to increase, and the local finance established a long-term investment mechanism, and the investment continued to increase.

  Fourth, there are reserves in the long run. The scale of the national social security fund is constantly expanding, and the transfer of some state-owned capital to enrich the social security fund has been completed. These two funds are long-term reserves of pension funds.

  "So, I clearly tell you that China’s pension insurance fund is running steadily." Wang Xiaoping said.

Extended-range vehicles have both prospects and bottlenecks.

Recently, the new flagship model AITO Wenjie M9 of Sailis Automobile was officially released. After AITO Wenjie M7, it injected explosive extended-range models into the new energy automobile market. AITO asked M9 to release more than 10,000 reservations in two hours.

Wen Jie M9 Source: AITO official website

Coincidentally, Chen Zhuo, president of Aouita Science and Technology, recently announced the new car plan for 2024, saying that Aouita will launch brand-new extended-range products in 2024. Subsequently, Aouita officials further indicated that four extended-range power models will be launched.

Previously, it was reported in the industry that Xiaomi was also laying out extended-range vehicles, and Xiaomi official website also released the position of design and development engineer for extended-range systems.

In recent years, China’s hybrid passenger car market has experienced explosive growth, especially extended-range vehicles, which have played an important role in promoting China’s electrification transformation.

As early as the 12th China Automobile Forum at the end of 2022, Zhang Yongwei, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of committee of 100, China Electric Vehicle, publicly stated that the extended-range route is a unique route in China, which originated from the market, is a technical route driven by consumer demand, and has quickly become an effective supplement to pure circuit lines in the development process, and its future development is worthy of market attention.

For this reason, China Electric Vehicle committee of 100 and Chebai Think Tank launched the research report "The Development Prospect of Hybrid Passenger Cars II: The Development Prospect of Hybrid Passenger Cars in China" (hereinafter referred to as committee of 100 Research Report), which made an in-depth study on the development of hybrid vehicles including extended-range vehicles.

Committee of 100 Research Report Home Page

Committee of 100 research report shows that in China, hybrid vehicles including extended-range vehicles have achieved explosive growth, but they will also encounter bottlenecks in development.

According to the committee of 100 Research Report, extended-range vehicles are the first choice for the new forces to lay out the hybrid market.

In October 2018, LI released the extended-range SUV Li ONE, and the market began to pay attention to extended-range technology. The extended-range vehicle is closer to pure electricity. Compared with plug-in and hybrid electric vehicles, the extended-range vehicle uses a larger battery, which is completely driven by a motor and can be externally charged. When the power is insufficient, the fuel engine is used to generate electricity to extend the cruising range.

Since 2021, many car companies have flooded into the extended track. Cyrus and Huawei cooperated to launch the extended-range vehicle boundary series; Dongfeng Lantu, Chang ‘an Deep Blue, Zero Run, Nezha and other brands also laid out pure electricity and extended range routes.

Extended range vehicles are increasingly recognized by consumers. From January to October, 2023, the sales volume of extended-range vehicles has exceeded 400,000, among which the monthly sales volume of ideal brands has continuously exceeded 30,000, and the market share of SUVs above 300,000 is higher than that of luxury brands such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW Audi.

At present, the ideal of success in extended-range vehicles, as well as the executives of Huawei BU, greatly praised extended-range vehicles, and contradicted the once popular statement that "extended-range vehicles are backward technology".

For example, Li Xiang, CEO of LI, thinks that saying that extended-range electric is an backward technology is "nonsense" of a group of technicians who have no user thinking and don’t care about users at all. Yu Chengdong of Huawei BU believes that an extended-range vehicle "is actually a pure electric vehicle if the extended-range engine is removed". The news from the "Seminar on Development Prospects of Hybrid Passenger Cars" held in committee of 100 shows that the industry has accepted the technical route of extended range vehicles, and the market for extended range vehicles is becoming mature.

In 2022, Yu Chengdong also said that extended range is the most suitable new energy vehicle mode at present.

Regarding the positioning and future of the extended program technical route, Zhang Yongwei, vice chairman and secretary general of China Electric Vehicle committee of 100, said that the future development of the extended program technical route is worthy of market attention, and predicted that in the next 10-20 years, the extended program and the hybrid technology route still have a good development space.

In October, 2023, seven departments jointly issued the Work Plan for Steady Growth of Automobile Industry in 2023-2024, which clearly stated that it was necessary to "encourage the development of hybrid power and low-carbon fuel technologies".

The emergence of extended-range vehicles actually stems from the precise control of the user experience by new car companies.

When the new forces started their business, the mileage anxiety of electric vehicles was very serious, and the extended-range vehicle was equipped with an extended-range engine on the basis of electric vehicles, which can achieve "daily electricity consumption, no electricity and no oil", which is an important choice to alleviate mileage anxiety. As an early extended-range car, Li ONE’s slogan is "Electric car without mileage anxiety".

Although the extended-range car has no mileage anxiety, after entering the power loss state, the fuel consumption increases linearly, and some owners of extended-range cars frequently complain that the fuel consumption is high at high speed. The main reason is that the engine can’t directly drive the vehicle under the extended-range series structure, so the gasoline needs to be converted into mechanical energy in the engine first, and then the mechanical energy is converted into electrical energy through the generator, and the electrical energy is finally converted into mechanical energy by the driving motor. After many energy conversions, the loss will naturally be "folded up".

However, this shortcoming is not the focus of attention for car buyers. At present, users who buy cars have more driving environments in urban areas and rarely travel long distances. Committee of 100 Research Report shows that consumers buy cars mainly for daily commuting, and the average daily mileage of 74% respondents is less than 50 kilometers, so most users of extended-range cars rarely experience the disadvantage of high fuel consumption.

Moreover, the new car announcement data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that in recent years, the pure electric cruising range of plug-in hybrid vehicles, including extended range, has been continuously improved, and it has gathered in the range of 100-200 kilometers.

The most important thing is that for the majority of users, the extended-range car is more economical.

According to the research report of committee of 100, the total cost of hybrid electric vehicles is about 4,000 yuan lower than that of fuel vehicles, and the total cost of hybrid electric vehicles (including extended-range vehicles) can be saved about 10,000 yuan under the assumption that the average annual mileage is 15,300 kilometers during the five-year use.

In addition to meeting the needs of consumers, extended-range vehicles are also good for car companies, mainly reflected in the low cost.

According to the committee of 100 Research Report, new energy passenger car enterprises are facing greater operating pressure due to multiple factors such as insufficient supply of spare parts, fluctuation of raw material prices and price war, and the hybrid route including extended range can help enterprises to alleviate the operating pressure. In the first half of 2023, five new energy listed car companies with pure electricity suffered losses. However, hybrid electric vehicles have a certain cost advantage over pure electricity. For example, the BOM cost of a large SUV in a plug-in hybrid vehicle is about 20% lower than that of pure electricity of the same level. Therefore, the hybrid route can help enterprises reduce costs and open up sales.

Moreover, hybrid power, including extended range, can continue to promote the innovation and development of the three power technologies. A number of domestic independent engine enterprises have taken advantage of the east wind of extended-range vehicles to glow with new vitality. For example, in 2019, Harbin dongan power provided range extenders for Li ONE, and in 2020, its engine business revenue increased by 70% year-on-year. Later, dongan power cooperated with Tianji, Nezha, Zero Run and other enterprises to further expand the market.

Compared with other new power car companies that take the pure circuit line, LI can make a profit for four consecutive quarters, which has nothing to do with its insistence on the technical route of extended-range cars.

Compared with fuel vehicles, hybrid vehicles such as extended-range vehicles are also easier to combine with intelligence.

This is because the battery of traditional fuel vehicles is small, and it is difficult to meet the demand of intelligence. The power battery of hybrid vehicles such as extended-range vehicles provides power guarantee for intelligent equipment. Therefore, hybrid technology will be deeply integrated with intelligent driving and intelligent cockpit technology.

A well-known example is the deep cooperation between Cyrus and Huawei, which makes the series of extended-range vehicles equipped with intelligent cockpit system and Huawei advanced intelligent driving system on the basis of electrification, bringing a leading intelligent experience.

However, this does not mean that the development of extended-range vehicles will be smooth sailing, on the contrary, its development will also encounter a series of bottlenecks.

According to committee of 100 Research Report, the hedging rate has a great influence on the total cost of ownership of plug-in hybrid vehicles, including extended range. It is estimated that after five years, the preservation rate of hybrid electric vehicles is about 50%, while that of plug-in hybrid vehicles including extended range is about 40% due to the attenuation of power batteries. In the future, with the upgrading of battery technology, the value-keeping rate of plug-in hybrids including extended-range vehicles will be improved rapidly.

The adjustment of purchase tax preferential policies will also have a certain impact on plug-in hybrid vehicles including extended-range vehicles. According to the "Announcement on Continuing and Optimizing the Vehicle Purchase Tax Reduction and Exemption Policy for New Energy Vehicles", plug-in hybrid vehicles will be exempted from purchase tax before 2026, and will be halved from 2026 to 2027. When the plug-in hybrid vehicle no longer enjoys the purchase tax, its total cost of ownership advantage will be reduced, and consumers’ willingness to buy plug-in hybrid vehicles will be reduced. According to the survey data in committee of 100 Research Report, about 40% of potential users of plug-in hybrid vehicles, including extended range, may give up buying because of the cancellation of preferential purchase tax policies.

Looking ahead, committee of 100 Research Report shows that hybrid vehicles, especially plug-in hybrid vehicles including extended range, will accelerate the replacement of fuel vehicles.

From the demand side, 36% of consumers intend to choose hybrid vehicles. The excellent power performance and economic performance of hybrid vehicles meet the needs of consumers, and at the same time, they also dispel consumers’ anxiety about cruising range and recharge. From the supply side, the dual-point policy has improved the enthusiasm of car companies to produce hybrid vehicles, and the strength of hybrid products of domestic brands has been continuously improved, and the supply of models has been continuously enriched.

In short, thanks to cost control and economies of scale, the price of hybrid electric vehicles, including plug-in, will further drop, and the market space will continue to expand. In the coming 5-10 years, hybrid vehicles will still have a rapid development momentum, and traditional fuel vehicles will be replaced by hybrid vehicles and pure electricity. It is estimated that the market share of plug-in hybrid vehicles including extended range may reach 30% from 2025 to 2030.

For more detailed research data, opinions and authoritative predictions about hybrid vehicles such as extended range, please refer to committee of 100 Research Report.Topic 2: Development Prospects of Hybrid Passenger Cars in ChinaAnd other related research reports.

During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, environmental protection investment will reach 17 trillion yuan, and PPP projects will be strictly controlled.

  The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to promote green development, accelerate the establishment of a legal system and policy orientation for green production and consumption, and establish and improve an economic system with green and low-carbon circular development. Build a market-oriented green technology innovation system, develop green finance, and expand energy-saving and environmental protection industries, clean production industries and clean energy industries.

  The reporter of the Economic Information Daily learned that with the strengthening of environmental governance and the strong growth momentum of PPP projects in the field of environmental protection, the environmental protection investment market is accelerating.

  Zhao Hualin, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of State-owned key large enterprises in the State Council, revealed at the first Xin ‘anjiang Green Development Forum held recently in 2017 that the traditional environmental protection business will maintain an annual growth of 25% on the basis of 500 billion yuan in environmental protection investment in 2015, and the annual investment in environmental protection industry will rise from 400 billion yuan to 500 billion yuan to 1 trillion to 1.5 trillion yuan.

  Investment in environmental protection will reach 17 trillion during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.

  "At present, the intensity of environmental governance is unprecedented. Both the atmospheric environment and the water environment have entered an important turning point of improvement, which has provided a strong impetus for environmental protection technology research and development and industrial development, and the environmental protection industry has ushered in a golden age." Wang Yuqing, deputy director of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Population, Environment and Resources Committee and former deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, pointed out at the first Xin ‘anjiang Green Development Forum in 2017.

  China’s green economy market has great potential. The data shows that in 2016, the output value of the three industries of energy conservation, environmental protection and resource recycling in China has exceeded 4.5 trillion yuan. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the planned social environmental protection investment will reach 17 trillion yuan. Among them, the action plan for the prevention and control of air, water and soil pollution has been fully implemented, with an estimated total investment of 8.6 trillion yuan. In 2016, the sales revenue of the national environmental protection industry was about 1.15 trillion yuan, an increase of 20% over the previous year. According to estimates, in order to achieve environmental protection goals and international commitments to peak carbon emissions, until 2030, China’s annual green investment will reach 30,000 to 4 trillion yuan.

  Zhao Hualin gave another set of data that confirmed each other: In the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" and the next 10 to 20 years, China will focus on three major areas: gas ten, water ten and soil ten, and the main investment line will shift from emission reduction to governance. According to estimates, during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the original business models of water, gas and solid waste will continue to maintain the growth rate of 20% to 30%, while the water environment, sponge city and soil remediation will drive the investment of 1.5 trillion to 2 trillion yuan, and the annual environmental protection investment will increase by 300 billion to 400 billion yuan. In addition, the traditional business will maintain an annual growth rate of 25% on the basis of 500 billion yuan in environmental protection investment in 2015, and the annual investment in environmental protection industry will rise from 400 billion yuan to 500 billion yuan to 1 trillion to 1.5 trillion yuan.

  "The future and a long period of time will be the best time for environmental protection enterprises, and it is also an era full of challenges and opportunities. In recent years, many central enterprises have established environmental protection companies, which means that they are optimistic about the development prospects of the environmental protection industry. " Zhao Hualin said.

  According to Fu Tao, president of E20 Research Institute, the development of environmental protection industry has gone through three stages: the early environmental protection industry mainly provided professional services to the government, and the government did whatever it needed; sewage treatment was done when the sewage treatment failed to meet the standards, and garbage treatment was done when the garbage treatment failed to meet the standards. This is the 1.0 era of environmental protection industry, that is, the era of unit service. The release of "Water Ten", "Gas Ten" and "Soil Ten" marks the arrival of the era of environmental protection industry 2.0, and all three "Ten" require environmental effects. This era considers the system services of enterprises. But the first two stages need to spend government money. As the environmental industry enters the 3.0 era, it is the practical period of landing in Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. It is a great proposition whether the ecological management can be completed with less government money and without government money.

  By 2020, the demand for green finance will exceed 15 trillion.

  In the eyes of experts and insiders, there are many opportunities and large space for the development of green finance. Relevant data show that during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, China’s green industry needs to invest at least 2 trillion yuan per year, and the demand for air control in the past five years is about 1.7 trillion yuan, of which the government’s financial funds can only provide 10% to 15%, and a large amount of funds gap needs financial channels to support it.

  Internationally, the development of green finance has become a world trend. Many countries, such as China, are strengthening top-level deployment, and more and more international financial institutions are actively participating in the green financial market. Taking green bonds as an example, it is estimated that the global issuance of green bonds will reach 300 billion US dollars in 2018.

  Domestically, China has taken green development as a major national strategy. In June this year, Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China presided over the the State Council executive meeting and decided to set up green financial reform and innovation pilot zones in five provinces (regions) of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou and Xinjiang to accelerate the innovation of green financial system and mechanism and promote the development of green economy.

  Hong Qi, chairman of China Minsheng Bank, predicted that green finance will become a new growth point for financial institutions in the future green development of the Belt and Road Initiative and supply-side structural reform. By the end of 2020, the demand for green finance in China will reach 15 trillion to 30 trillion yuan. The demand for innovation in green credit, green insurance and asset securitization will be more urgent, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, which will have a broad space for green finance.

  According to Ma Zhong, the former dean of the School of Environment of China Renmin University, to develop green finance, other resources and conditions should be considered. For example, only by exerting the synergistic effect of fiscal and tax policies and environmental protection policies can green finance bring the greatest benefits.

  It is understood that at the end of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, the final accounts of financial funds for environmental protection and energy conservation reached 480 billion yuan. At present, the financial funds for environmental protection in China are the fastest growing. In the first nine months of this year, the growth rate of financial funds for energy conservation and environmental protection was 33%, which is expected to exceed 600 billion yuan by the end of the year. However, compared with investment in fixed assets, this is only a few tenths.

  "If we continue to increase investment rapidly, we can promote and support green finance, and make financial funds enter the environmental protection field and green field. Together with the price tax policy and the strictest environmental protection system, it will really promote the rapid development of green finance." Ma Zhong said.

  PPP in the field of environmental protection has entered the stage of "upgrading"

  Many insiders said that green finance needs to guide social funds and use comprehensive services to support environmental protection construction. The PPP model will greatly promote the development of environmental industry.

  In fact, PPP in the field of environmental protection is showing a strong growth momentum. According to the eighth quarterly report of the National PPP Integrated Information Platform Project Library recently released by the Ministry of Finance, the participation of private enterprises in environmental protection projects has increased significantly. Compared with last year’s municipal engineering, transportation and water conservancy construction, this year’s municipal engineering, ecological construction and environmental protection are in the forefront.

  Deng Qi, vice president of CDB Securities, believes that after the 19th National Congress, in the field of green finance, policy will further build institutional innovation to guide social funds. In addition to financial policy support, there should be some specialized guarantee institutions and credit enhancement mechanisms to attract social capital to participate effectively, especially to attract private enterprises to actively participate in the construction of environmental protection.

  Li Yuantang, director of the Environmental PPP Center of the Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, pointed out that to better promote the PPP model in the field of environmental protection, efforts need to be made in five directions: First, PPP projects in the field of environmental protection will be more closely integrated with industry management in the future. It is necessary to combine the requirements of environmental protection tasks at the stage, prioritize and give priority to projects with strong necessity and urgency; Second, for PPP projects in the field of environmental protection, we should strengthen the payment according to performance. Environmental effect is the starting point and end result of environmental PPP project implementation; Third, strengthen the characteristics of the industry. At present, many environmental PPP projects have applied models in other fields, such as applying the municipal field to the rural field. We should fully consider the characteristics of different projects and carry out targeted design; Fourth, at present, many environmental comprehensive improvement projects are very large, and the scale even reaches billions or tens of billions. For such projects, it is necessary to strengthen the relevance between projects or the contribution to achieving the expected environmental protection goals; Fifth, actively promote the innovation of PPP model.

  "At present, in the field of environmental protection, it is basically based on public welfare projects, and the government needs to pay for it later. However, if we do not innovate the investment return mechanism of environmental PPP projects and rely entirely on government payment, the project will be difficult to sustain. " Yan Yuantang said.

  It is worth mentioning that in recent days, PPP management has frequently issued documents, emphasizing the standardized operation of PPP projects. Shi Yaobin, Vice Minister of Finance, also said earlier that the next step is for the financial sector to focus on the "four lines" of PPP work, including strengthening the rigid constraint of 10% of the "red line" of financial affordability demonstration and keeping the "bottom line" of prohibiting all kinds of borrowing in disguised form by PPP.

  In this regard, experts believe that the next step in the development of PPP should not focus on increment, but on improving quality. The future development of PPP will be more standardized and orderly. PPP in the field of environmental protection is also facing challenges. On the one hand, the control of PPP projects will be more stringent; On the other hand, PPP projects will become bigger and bigger in the future.

  Tian Weihong, executive deputy secretary-general of the strategic alliance for technological innovation of water environment treatment industry, believes that the gradual concentration of PPP projects will become a trend in the future. With the development of industry, fighting alone will gradually change into coordinated development, creating benefits for enterprises, creating value for society and creating green for the country.

  Reporter Ban Juanjuan