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　　In order to adapt to the new situation that the relationship between supply and demand in China’s real estate market has undergone major changes, recently, many places and departments have issued intensive documents to adjust and optimize real estate policies in a timely manner, which will better meet the rigid and improved housing needs of residents, and will also have a favorable impact on expanding consumption, stimulating investment and stabilizing economic growth.

　　On August 30th, Guangzhou City and Shenzhen City of Guangdong Province successively announced the implementation of the policy of "recognizing houses but not loans". On September 1, Shanghai and Beijing also announced the implementation of this policy.

　　On August 31st, the People’s Bank of China and the State Financial Supervision and Administration jointly issued a notice, which unified the minimum down payment ratio of the first and second sets of commercial personal housing loans to be no less than 20% and 30%. At the same time, reduce the interest rate of the first home loan in stock.

　　Experts pointed out that in recent days, many departments have issued intensive documents, adjusted and optimized real estate policies in a timely manner, and released positive signals to promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market.

　　The policy plays a "combination boxing" to better meet the rigid and improved housing needs of residents.

　　The policy of "recognizing the house but not the loan" is clear. When households (including borrowers, spouses and minor children) apply for loans to buy commercial housing, if family members do not have a complete set of housing in the local name, banking financial institutions will implement the housing credit policy according to the first set of housing, regardless of whether they have used loans to buy housing.

　　"For families who need to change rooms, in ‘ Admit the house but not the loan ’ Under the policy, houses can be exchanged at a lower down payment ratio and a more favorable loan interest rate, and the preferential period of personal income tax rebate for residents to purchase houses has also been extended. These policies will help reduce the cost of buying houses and release the demand for changing houses. " Pu Zhan, deputy director of the Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, introduced.

　　Jiang Nan has worked in Guangzhou for more than 10 years. In 2015, just before she got married, she first bought a wedding room in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, and rented it out after simple decoration, while she rented a house in Guangzhou. In the past two years, seeing that the children have reached the age of going to school, the desire of Jiang Nan and his wife to buy a suite in Guangzhou has become stronger and stronger.

　　"I saw more than a dozen sets of second-hand houses, and I was satisfied. Almost all of them cost more than 6 million yuan. Before that suite in Foshan also had a loan, now I want to buy this suite, with a down payment of 40% and a loan interest rate of 4.8%. " Jiang Nan said that according to the new policy of "recognizing the house and not recognizing the loan", the down payment is only 30%, and the down payment is less than 10%, which is more than 600,000 yuan; Moreover, the loan interest rate enjoys 4.2% of the first suite interest rate, and the monthly supply burden can also be reduced a lot.

　　Ms. Huang, a citizen of Shenzhen, also expressed a similar idea: "We have always wanted to change a bigger house and improve our living conditions. However, if it is identified as a second suite, the down payment ratio is high and it is difficult to bear. After the introduction of the New Deal, the pressure is much smaller. "

　　Gao Yuan, president of Beijing Chain Home Research Institute, believes that "recognizing houses but not loans" mainly benefits new citizens and improved groups in Beijing. In terms of new citizens, it is more common that they have no house in Beijing, but they have had a credit record of buying a house in other places. Under the original standard, they have to pay 60% (ordinary house) or 80% (non-ordinary house) down payment for buying a house in Beijing; In terms of improved groups, it is beneficial to "sell one and buy one" to improve the replacement groups. Due to factors such as family structure changes, child care and old-age care, nearly 70% of buyers in the current Beijing residential market belong to improved demand.

　　What is the market reaction after the introduction of policies such as "recognizing houses but not loans"? Lou Chunlei, manager of an active regional store in Chaoyang District, Beijing Chain Home, told reporters that after Beijing announced the policy, we received many customers’ consultation calls one after another. In the first two months, the number of online consultations was generally more than 20, and this weekend it increased to more than 60, and the number of regional listings was also active. "The price of the target room type of our improved customers is mostly between 8 million yuan and 10 million yuan. Before looking at the house, considering that 80% of the down payment for the second suite was hesitant, now the policy has landed, and many customers have chosen to list the property to obtain the first set of qualifications. " Yan Chunlei said.

　　According to the data provided by RealData, the average daily turnover of second-hand houses in Guangzhou and Shenzhen increased by 25% and 70% respectively from August 30 to 31, compared with last week (August 21 to 27), and the number of customers taking care of them also increased rapidly.

　　Not only the policy of "recognizing the house but not the loan", but also the policies of adjusting and optimizing differentiated housing credit and reducing the interest rate of the first home loan in stock will also help to better meet the demand for rigid and improved housing.

　　According to the relevant persons in charge of the People’s Bank of China and the General Administration of Financial Supervision, the key points of the adjustment and optimization of differentiated housing credit policy include two aspects: First, unify the lower limit of the national minimum down payment ratio policy for commercial individual housing loans. No longer distinguish between cities that implement "restricted purchases" and cities that do not implement "restricted purchases", and the lower limit of the minimum down payment ratio of commercial personal housing loans for the first home and the second home is unified to not less than 20% and 30%. The second is to adjust the lower limit of the second set of housing interest rate policy to not less than the loan market quotation rate (LPR) of the corresponding term plus 20 basis points. The lower limit of the first set of housing interest rate policy is still not less than the corresponding period LPR minus 20 basis points. All localities can independently determine the minimum down payment ratio and the lower interest rate limit of the first and second houses within their jurisdiction according to the principle of city-specific policies and the local real estate market situation and regulatory needs.

　　The real estate market as a whole has turned into a buyer’s market where supply exceeds demand.

　　The real estate chain is long and involves a wide range, which can be said to lead the whole body.

　　In the second quarter of this year, affected by the macro-environment, residents’ ability and willingness to buy houses declined, and the recovery of buying houses as a bulk consumption lagged behind, and the growth rate of real estate market turnover slowed down. From January to July, the sales area of commercial housing was 665.63 million square meters, a year-on-year decrease of 6.5%; The newly started housing area was 569.69 million square meters, down by 24.5%.

　　On July 24th, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting and pointed out that it is necessary to effectively prevent and resolve risks in key areas, adapt to the new situation that the supply and demand relationship in China’s real estate market has undergone major changes, adjust and optimize real estate policies in a timely manner, and make good use of the policy toolbox to better meet the rigid and improved housing needs of residents and promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market.

　　Yu Xiaofen, Dean of China Institute of Housing and Real Estate, Zhejiang University of Technology, analyzed that the relationship between supply and demand in the real estate market has undergone major changes, mainly in three aspects: First, it has shifted from the seller’s market to the buyer’s market. After more than 20 years of large-scale development, the per capita housing construction area of urban residents in China has exceeded 41 square meters in 2022. Due to the negative growth of superimposed population and the middle and late stage of urbanization, the market as a whole has turned into a buyer’s market with oversupply, especially in small and medium-sized cities, where the inventory of commercial housing is large and the cycle of de-melting is long. The second is to shift from an incremental market to a stock-based market. In many cities, the growth rate of stock housing transactions is faster than that of new commercial housing sales, and the turnover of second-hand houses in some cities has exceeded that of new houses. Third, the proportion of existing home sales has steadily increased from auction sales to existing home sales.

　　"Adapting to the new situation that the relationship between supply and demand in China’s real estate market has undergone major changes, the implementation of a series of policies and measures in recent days can not only better meet the rigid and improving needs of residents, but also have great significance for expanding consumption, stimulating investment and stabilizing economic growth." Yan Xiaofen believes.

　　Dong Ximiao, chief researcher of Zhaolian, said that according to relevant calculations, the average decline in the interest rate of the first home loan was about 80 basis points. Take the stock mortgage with a term of 1 million yuan, 25 years and the original interest rate of 5.1% as an example. Assuming that the mortgage interest rate is reduced to 4.3%, the borrower’s repayment expenditure can be saved by more than 5,000 yuan per year, which will help reduce the housing consumption burden and increase the consumption and investment capacity of residents.

　　To promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market, we need to be patient in many ways.

　　Experts interviewed said that the current timely adjustment and optimization of real estate policies has opened the market expectation window. In the short term, just-needed and improved demand will be concentrated in the market, and the market transaction volume may increase significantly before the end of the year. However, as a whole, the relationship between supply and demand in the real estate market has changed greatly, and it is greatly influenced by the macro environment. To look at the development of the real estate market with a more rational attitude, we must have both confidence and patience.

　　"When the overall development of the market slows down, the positive side will be particularly noticeable. For example, some markets will be more resilient and new business opportunities will emerge." Yu Liang, Chairman of Vanke’s Board of Directors, believes that the urbanization rate in China is about 65% at present, and it is expected to reach 70% in 2030, and the urban population will increase to about 980 million. According to the construction experience, it is conservatively estimated that the newly started real estate area of 1 billion to 1.2 billion square meters in the future is guaranteed.

　　Yu Liang said that according to the experience of London, Tokyo and other cities, the population will continue to concentrate in cities that can create jobs. Even after the market is fully mature, there will still be a large number of urban renewal projects in the central city to enhance the development vitality of traditional areas and meet the needs of job-residence balance. In addition, the construction of affordable rental housing, the renovation of villages in cities, and the construction and operation of real estate agents will also be important business growth areas in the future.

　　"The current policy is already exerting strength. I believe that with the joint efforts of all parties, as the economic operation continues to improve and the expectations for the future gradually stabilize, the market will return to a healthy and reasonable level." Yu Liang said.

　　Yan Xiaofen believes that in the medium and long term, to promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market, we need to focus on both supply and demand: stabilize the market scale by accelerating the start of urban renewal and urban village transformation; By lowering the mortgage interest rate and expanding the coverage of housing provident fund, we will strive to improve the housing consumption capacity, relax the purchase restriction in big cities or districts where the relationship between housing supply and demand has undergone major changes, and stabilize market demand; By comprehensively promoting the "mortgage transfer" of second-hand houses, reducing transaction deed tax and reasonably reducing real estate agency fees, we will encourage trade-in and promote a virtuous circle of the market; Support high-quality state-owned housing enterprises and high-quality private housing enterprises equally, appropriately relax the restrictions on development conditions and stabilize real estate enterprises.

　　The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said that we will continue to focus on increasing confidence, preventing risks and promoting transformation to promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market. Because of the city’s policy and precise policy, we will vigorously support the demand for rigid and improved housing, solidly promote the work of ensuring the people’s livelihood and stability, resolve the risk of corporate capital chain breakage, strive to improve quality, build a good house, rectify the order of the real estate market, and let the people buy houses and rent houses with confidence.

　　Recently, cold air strikes frequently, the north is getting colder and colder, and the south is also "autumn overnight". On weekends this week, the lowest temperature in Wuhan may come to single digits, only 9℃! Imagine that in just a few days, from summer to autumn, and then to winter, the cold air in season is "delivered" one after another. It is really a season, from short sleeves to windbreakers to cotton-padded clothes, and friends have to change their clothes quickly.

　　However, as the saying goes, "Spring covers autumn, and no miscellaneous diseases are born". Proper freezing will help the body gradually adapt to the cold and improve the body’s disease resistance. Can everyone "freeze in autumn"? When is the best time to add clothes? Xiao Qiming, chief physician of respiratory medicine of Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Sun Qiwei, deputy chief physician of the Center for Prevention of Diseases of Xiyuan Hospital of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Wang Xiao, deputy chief physician of the Department of Rheumatology of Longhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, will teach you to get cold scientifically without getting sick.

　　Why is freezing healthier in autumn?

　　Spring is born, summer grows, autumn harvest and winter storage, and man and nature are integrated. When I go to Qiu Lai in summer, the sun’s spirit gradually converges and the temperature gradually drops, which is a transitional stage from hot to cold. Although the temperature begins to drop, if you put on a thick cotton-padded coat too early, you will not be able to exercise against cold air, which will reduce your cold-proof ability and is not conducive to the self-regulation of human resistance. In the really cold season, once the nose and trachea are attacked by cold air, the blood vessels inside shrink because they can’t resist, which reduces the blood flow and weakens the antibacterial ability. Bacteria hiding in the nose or trachea take the opportunity to move, causing symptoms such as cough, sneezing, runny nose and fever, which makes people sick.

　　Therefore, it is necessary to freeze properly in autumn and gradually improve the body’s ability to resist cold and disease. This is a subtle exercise that can improve people’s physique invisibly. On the other hand, autumn is the season of nourishing yin. If you wear too much clothes and cover them too hot, it will encourage yang spirit, which is not good for maintaining the balance of yin and yang, and will also cause diseases.

　　Therefore, when the temperature is a little cold in autumn, don’t add clothes too early and too much, so that your body will feel a little cold, gradually adapt to the cold, improve your disease resistance, and it is healthy to "freeze" your body properly.

　　Boundary of autumn freezing temperature: 15℃

　　Autumn freezing is good for health, but when there is strong cold air activity and the temperature drops sharply, we should add clothes to keep warm in time and properly. At this time, if we insist on "autumn freezing" blindly, it will be counterproductive. China has a vast territory, and the process of entering autumn is inconsistent in different places. Under what circumstances should we add clothes?

　　The answer given by experts is: Take 15℃ as the standard, if the temperature drops below 15℃ in autumn and lasts for more than two weeks, you can put on clothes for autumn and winter.

　　In addition, scientific autumn freezing has three principles:

　　When the temperature drops slightly, healthy people can not wear thick clothes immediately, but add clothes and pants as late as possible or gradually to enhance their adaptability to the temperature drop.

　　Old people, children or people who are physically weak should not blindly pursue autumn freezing, but should "stop the heat" to avoid the hot air spreading outside, the yang spreading outside and the wind evil entering the body.

　　When the temperature drops sharply, you should not blindly pursue autumn freezing, otherwise you will get sick easily.

　　Four types of people can’t stand the autumn freeze.

　　Autumn freezing is not suitable for everyone. The following groups of people are more vulnerable to cold than the average person. It is best to add clothes in time according to the temperature and physical feeling.

　　A frail old man

　　There is a large temperature difference between morning and evening in season change, which is the high incidence season of upper respiratory tract infections such as influenza. The respiratory muscles, diaphragm and ligaments of the elderly are atrophied, the elasticity of lungs and trachea is weakened, and the respiratory function is reduced. It is easier to catch a cold if clothes are not added in time.

　　Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

　　After being stimulated by cold, the capillaries of the whole body contract, the peripheral resistance of blood circulation increases, and the blood pressure is higher than that in summer. Cold stimulation will make the myocardial ischemia and hypoxia that have already been diseased more serious. People with cardiovascular diseases should add coats in time to keep their chests warm to avoid myocardial infarction; In the past, elderly people with multiple cerebral infarction, cerebrovascular malformation or stenosis should pay attention to keeping their heads warm to avoid aggravating or inducing stroke.

　　Patients with rheumatism or rheumatoid diseases

　　Arthritis patients often feel pain and heaviness in their legs when the weather is cold. It is suggested to wear warm knee pads on their legs to ensure the stability of the knee joint and promote blood circulation.

　　diabetic

　　Diabetic patients have poor local blood supply, and their blood vessels are stimulated by cold air, which is prone to vasospasm, further reducing the blood supply to muscle tissue and aggravating local numbness of hands and feet and low back pain. When the weather changes greatly, the elderly with "three highs" should strengthen the monitoring of blood pressure, blood sugar and blood lipid, and pay attention to the changes of their condition at any time.

　　Don’t freeze these parts of your body.

　　Head and neck: There are abundant nerves and capillaries in the head and neck. Autumn wind attacks easily lead to vasoconstriction of the head and neck, which is not conducive to blood supply to the brain, and it is also easy to cause a cold with lung symptoms.

　　Shoulder: The tissues around the shoulder joint are relatively fragile. After a long cold, it is easy to be attacked by "wind, cold and dampness", which will cause shoulder pain. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that scapulohumeral periarthritis is caused by cold in the shoulder, and the chest and shoulder joints are stiff after illness, which seems to be frozen, so it is called "frozen shoulder" and "shoulder coagulation". Sometimes the pain will spread to the arms and hands, and even the pain is unbearable.

　　Abdomen: There are many organs in the abdomen, and many important meridians pass through, such as spleen and stomach meridians and liver and kidney meridians. Renchong and Du meridians start in the abdominal cavity. Cold and cold qi is also easy to invade the human body from the abdomen. Being cold here will cause stagnation of qi and blood in the abdominal meridians, such as stimulating the intestine and causing diarrhea; People with a history of stomach trouble are prone to stomach pain; Women who catch cold in the lower abdomen are easy to induce dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation. The belly button part is the longevity hole of the human body, so it should be protected.

　　Feet: "Cold comes from the feet", the feet are the parts of the whole body that are most afraid of cold, and the meridians of the kidney and spleen and stomach all originate from the feet. However, because the feet are farthest from the heart, the blood flows the longest "distance". If the feet are cold, the blood flow will be stagnant, and the blood supply in the whole body will be insufficient, which will easily cause the capillaries in the relevant parts to contract, and the pathogenic factors will easily take advantage of it to enter the organ function and then be damaged. Soaking feet with hot water can relax muscles and promote blood circulation, generally at a water temperature of about 40 degrees Celsius (not hot).

　　Excessive fear of cold

　　It’s the body calling for help.

　　Our bodies can quickly perceive the warmth and coldness of the surrounding environment, and protect our bodies from physical injuries caused by excessive cold and overheating. If you are more afraid of the cold than the average person, or you are still afraid of the cold when you wear a lot of clothes, it may be that your body is "calling for help".

　　The stomach is afraid of cold — — cold syndrome of the stomach

　　Eating a little cold food and drinking some green tea will make you feel bloating and stomachache, which may be related to overeating and getting cold in the stomach. If it happens repeatedly, it may be a sign of spleen and stomach weakness and yang deficiency.

　　Tips: Try to choose ingredients that are mild in taste and beneficial to qi, such as longan meat, medlar, jujube, etc., and avoid cold, wet and greasy foods.

　　Legs are afraid of cold — — chronic rheumatism in the leg

　　In addition to being affected by cold and humid environment, "old cold legs" have a common cause — — Joint, ligament and muscle strain are mostly caused by long-term physical labor, improper walking posture, aging and other reasons.

　　Tips: Moxibustion can be applied to the points around the knee joint, such as Zusanli and Dubi, every time for 5-mdash; Ten minutes.

　　The waist is afraid of cold — — Strain or disc herniation

　　Cold and dampness blocking the waist can lead to cold waist. Waist injury, lumbar muscle strain, lumbar disc herniation, etc., lead to the obstruction of yang qi operation, but also show that the waist is afraid of cold.

　　Tips: Lumbago can be used for hot compress on the waist; Morning is the time when the body’s yang is gradually filled with the weather, which can increase outdoor activities; You can practice Wuqinxi, Baduanjin and Tai Ji Chuan at ordinary times.

　　Cold hands and feet — — Yang deficiency

　　Cold hands and feet are more common in people who have been dieting for a long time or have bad eating habits, which is mainly caused by the lack of nutrients and the lack of material basis for yang. If you don’t pay attention to it, your physical fitness will further decline, leading to more serious problems.

　　Tips: Chinese medicine believes that "movement leads to yang". Usually, you should pay attention to exercise, get more sunshine, and eat regularly for three meals a day. You can add 15 grams of safflower and 30 grams of Artemisia argyi to soak your feet before going to bed to promote blood circulation and dispel cold.

　　Comprehensive Life Times and The Paper reported.

From the perspective of game theory and information economics, involution and lying flat are two sides of the same problem.

First, from eating Chili peppers

So that’s it | How many peppers are you going to eat? The article "Analysis from the Perspective of Nobel Prize Winners in Economics" (2023-12-04, Surging Business School) tells a story: Zhang San, a new classmate in the class, is bullying the weak and afraid of the hard. Zhang San, who just arrived, doesn’t understand the character of his classmates, but he knows that people’s behavior will expose their personality traits. In particular, Zhang San believes that people who eat Chili peppers usually tend to be tough. The next morning, you and Li Si, who usually don’t eat Chili, eat noodles together, and there is a bowl of chopped millet spicy on the table. It’s a coincidence that Zhang Sany, who is bullying and afraid of bullying, is sitting opposite you two. At this time, both you and Li Si need to make a choice: Do you want to add Xiaomi spicy to your bowl of noodles? How much more?

At that time, the thought experiment we did was: it is meaningless to pretend to be tough and add millet spicy to your bowl because Li Si around you will put more peppers than usual in order to send a strong signal to Zhang San until the amount of peppers makes you unbearable. In this way, it is meaningless for you to eat spicy food. So, the final result-Li Si ate "too much" pepper, and you chose not to eat it.

The reason for this result is that there is a typical information asymmetry problem here. Both you and Li Si know their own personality traits, but for Zhang San, this is his information blind spot. Therefore, eating Chili peppers is not only a consumption behavior that increases utility, but also a signal sending mechanism to release his personality traits to Zhang San, who is at an information disadvantage.

If Wang Wu, a classmate who had breakfast with you this morning, usually eats a little pepper, so he is more spicy than you, then Li Si will have to put more peppers.

If a group of classmates like Li Si who are usually addicted to spicy food come at this time, and everyone has learned that Zhang San’s habit is to stop bullying others after finding someone to bully. It is conceivable that there may be a fierce competition about eating spicy food between Li Si and other students who are fond of spicy food. These always spicy people will also secretly scold in their hearts: "It’s too curly."

If the rice spicy on the dining table is replaced by the less spicy Hangzhou pepper, then Li Si may be forced to eat more peppers. So we can say that they "rolled up" even more in the dimension of the amount of peppers they ate.

If there is an involution, there must be a flat one. At this time, you and those students who can’t eat spicy food will definitely choose to stay out of it, while leisurely eating breakfast with the same taste as usual, while watching those students who can eat spicy food "roll" into a ball. You are the so-called "flat" people.

If we first regard Chili as a degree or diploma, and then regard the diploma as a signal that job seekers send to their employers about their own abilities in the labor market, just like spence, the Nobel Prize winner, it is not difficult to understand why the current education field with strong exam-oriented color is involved in all kinds of jaw-dropping strange phenomena.

Second, where did the "volume" come from?

What people usually call involution refers to a special competitive state. The above logic about signaling is not enough to fully explain the involution. In other words, information asymmetry does not constitute a sufficient condition for "involution". In fact, it does not constitute a necessary condition.

So, what is the root of involution?

The root of involution lies in three interrelated basic characteristics of the competitive pattern: first, resources are highly scarce; Second, the track is single; Third, the system is closed.

Look at the scarcity of resources first.In human society, scarcity and competition are synonymous. The higher the scarcity of a resource, the higher its market value, and the fiercer the competition around it. Conversely, the fierce competition in a certain field must mean that there are very scarce resources in this field.

If Zhang San’s so-called "bullying the weak and being afraid of the hard" is actually harmless, but it is only manifested in the size of Zhang San’s voice in daily life, then people like Li Si will lose more by eating too much Chili, so the "involution" around eating Chili will disappear.

Look at the single track.The essence of single track is that the competition around scarce resources has a single dimension. For example, in the above example, an important assumption is potentially implied: the only way to send a signal to Zhang San is to eat Chili peppers. If there are other channels to send signals, such as the size of biceps brachii, the strength of organizational leadership, the atmosphere during the debate, the style of playing cards and chess, the amount of alcohol, the amount of food, etc., then the competition in the dimension of eating peppers will tend to ease.

The above-mentioned resources are highly scarce and the competition pattern of the track is single, which is often accompanied by another remarkable feature: the system is closed. In fact, the reason why it is called "inner" volume is that the system is closed.

The English for "inner volume" is involve. Directly observing the prefix and root of this word, it is easy to remind us of an old saying: "Dojo is made in the snail shell." The prefix in- of Involve means inward, while the root volv stands for "turning and rolling".

Conversely, if it is an open system, the competition between different individuals will naturally not turn inward, but develop outward. The corresponding English is evolve. Its root is the same as involve, except that the prefix is changed to "e-" which means "outward" or "external". The word means "evolution". It is not difficult to understand that on the blue planet where we live, the evolution of organisms presents increasingly complex and diverse characteristics, and the root cause lies in the fact that the biological system is an open competitive system.

3. Roll inward or outward?

The "14th Five-Year Plan" clearly regards "domestic and international double circulation promoting each other" as the basic feature of the new development pattern, which actually reflects the importance of openness to the economic system. Economic system is a typical competitive system.

Traditional farming civilization, as Mr. Fei Xiaotong said, the whole society is divided into small communities. These small communities are formed on the basis of blood and geography, and the relationship between them is isolated and separated. The traditional society based on this closed small community has not surprisingly caused fierce involution, and the whole society has been trapped in the Malthusian trap for thousands of years. Once the economy turned from closed to open, in just a few decades, China’s economic structure and development level have undergone earth-shaking changes.

A study just completed by our research team is also related to this.

Since the reform and opening up, the traffic conditions in the Yangtze River Delta region have been constantly improving, and the traffic from central cities to Shanghai has naturally become more and more convenient.

An easy-to-ignore problem is that this improvement does not naturally mean good for the cities around Shanghai. The reason is intuitive: the transportation to a megacity like Shanghai is more convenient, which not only facilitates the gathering of various resources locally, but also provides convenience for megacities to siphon local resources and economic opportunities. In the latter case, it is often said that megacities have a "siphon effect" on surrounding cities. The former situation corresponds to the positive "radiation" effect of megacities on the surrounding areas, or plays a "leading role".

Our research finds that for the central cities around Shanghai in the Yangtze River Delta region, the improvement of traffic convenience may indeed produce both favorable radiation and unfavorable siphon for the development of these cities. Specifically, before China joined the WTO, the "siphon" effect that Shanghai was unfavorable to the surrounding cities played a slight leading role; After China’s entry into WTO, Shanghai’s positive "radiation" effect on surrounding cities has become very significant.

The law revealed by this study shows that opening to the outside world, a major strategy to make China’s economy break away from the involution track and develop towards a more complex, diverse and advanced economic structure, not only makes China’s economy as a whole gain considerable benefits by participating in the international cycle, but also makes our domestic cycle more efficient.

[The author Li Huiwen is a professor of economics at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, director of the Research Center for Regional and Industrial Development, and a distinguished researcher at the China Development Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University. His research interests are urbanization and economic development, institutional economics, the history of world economy and economic thought, and he has published Modern Comparative Advantage Theory Research and Economics of Great Powers (co-author). ]

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Due to the impact of the epidemic, today’s cross-border e-commerce has become more and more difficult. However, compared with the involution of domestic e-commerce, cross-border e-commerce is still relatively easy to do. As a result, it has also attracted a large number of people to join the cross-border e-commerce industry. However, there are so many cross-border platforms. How to choose as a small white who has just entered the cross-border business? Today, I have sorted out several mainstream cross-border platforms for you to refer to and compare.

No matter which platform you choose, it is very important to choose products, because it accounts for 60% of the whole cross-border business.

Amazon

One of the earliest cross-border platforms, it is also the first choice for many businesses to go to sea. It helps domestic businesses to seize the new opportunities of cross-border e-commerce, develop export business, expand the global market and build international brands. Moreover, the current Amazon has a fairly complete logistics and warehousing system, allowing businesses to concentrate on operating stores without worries.

But for other cross-border platforms, Amazon’s rules are relatively strict, and businesses need to operate in strict accordance with Amazon’s rules.

Advantages:

(1) large flow,Hundreds of millions of people visit the Amazon market every month, which can bring great exposure to goods.

② Perfect service:Amazon has a first-class service system, and its own FBA logistics storage system can handle inventory, packaging, shipping and transportation for merchants, so that you can concentrate on Amazon store operation.

③ It covers a wide range, with 17 sites at present.

Disadvantages:

① Expensive: It is more expensive to settle in FBA warehouse; Moreover, it must also ensure that the stored goods can be sold. If they cannot be sold, you will face the status quo of losing money.

② Great competition: Large flow means great competition. There are a lot of stores in Amazon that sell similar products to you. They may be the source of businesses, and they will sell at lower prices because of their own production. This makes you have to use price war to get higher traffic, but your own profits will be reduced.

Shopee：

Shopee is a relatively large e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia. Since its establishment in Singapore in 2015, Shopee’s business has rapidly covered more than 10 markets including Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan, China, making it the fastest-growing e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia.

Advantages:

Low entry threshold: in some sites, you don’t need to pay any deposit to enter Shopee, as long as you have a business license, self-employed or business license. However, due to the rapid development of Shopee in recent years, a deposit of 3,000 yuan is required for domestic settlement.

Traffic: According to official statistics of Shopee, 40 million users visit Shopee every month, which is the largest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia.

Perfect warehousing and logistics system: Shopee has warehouses in China and does not need international logistics, so it can be delivered to domestic transfer stations.

Disadvantages:

Low unit price: Compared with Amazon, Shopee’s main market is Southeast Asia, and the traffic is relatively small; Moreover, the current e-commerce market in Southeast Asia is immature, with high return rate, immature logistics system and relatively low unit price.

Consumers don’t trust you when you start late: Shopee platform started late, and the Southeast Asian market is weak and still in the development stage. Therefore, many consumers don’t have high trust in it, and most of them use cash on delivery.

eBay

EBay is also an established cross-border website, and its main services are online auction, e-commerce, shopping malls and so on. EBay has 37 independent websites and portals around the world, covering more than 190 countries and regions.

Advantages:

Have special customer service: eBay has special customer service, which can be communicated by telephone or online conversation.

Relatively flexible; EBay can be priced in a variety of ways, such as bidding without reserve price, bidding with low price, selling at a fixed price, etc., and the marketing methods of goods are also diversified.

Disadvantages:

Background operation is more difficult: at present, eBay only displays in English, so it will be more difficult for those businesses with weak English.

High cost: eBay doesn’t provide customs clearance service, so domestic merchants need to handle customs clearance by themselves.

Difficult to review: eBay is more inclined to buyers, has strict requirements for merchants, and the refund process is very low.

AliExpress

The full name of AliExpress is AliExpress, which is a cross-border e-commerce platform built by Alibaba in the international market, and is also called "international Taobao" by many sellers.

Advantages:

Low entry threshold: AliExpress has a low entry threshold and active trading, which is very suitable for many small businesses to export quickly.

The transaction process is convenient and fast: the exporter does not need to have the qualification of enterprise foreign trade, and does not need to import and declare in person, and the import and export can be completed by the logistics party.

Disadvantages:

Great competition: As the entry threshold of AliExpress is relatively low, a large number of cross-border people have settled in, and the homogenization competition is serious. Most businesses can only gain advantages through low prices.

Low profit: AliExpress mainly focuses on developing countries and underdeveloped countries.

Summary:

Finally, I want to say that no matter which cross-border platform you choose, you must first understand what you want to buy and who to sell it to. Only by clarifying the relationship between people and goods, can the overall operational objectives be determined, and better operational strategies be formulated to obtain more orders.

(Source: Dora)

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CCTV News:Statistics from the General Administration of Customs show that in the first half of this year, China’s cross-border e-commerce increased by 10.5% year-on-year, which has become a new engine and new potential for China’s foreign trade growth.

According to the preliminary calculation of the Customs, in the first half of 2024, the import and export of cross-border e-commerce in China reached 1.22 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.5%; It is 4.4 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of China’s foreign trade in the same period. From 1.06 trillion yuan in 2018 to 2.38 trillion yuan in 2023, the import and export of cross-border e-commerce in China has increased by 1.2 times in five years.

China’s cross-border e-commerce is booming. In 2023, there were more than 7 billion cross-border e-commerce and cross-border mail express shipments under customs supervision, with an average of about 20 million pieces per day. In this regard, the customs has continuously innovated its supervision methods, developed and applied a cross-border e-commerce import and export supervision system, and made efforts to improve the efficiency of cross-border e-commerce customs clearance. At the same time, take a series of measures to ensure that it can be connected quickly and managed.

Guangzhou: Innovative export pooling mode Cross-border e-commerce ran out of "acceleration"

Nowadays, cross-border e-commerce has become a new trade bridge that directly links global consumers and producers, and everyone can participate. Domestic consumers watch the live broadcast with goods on the short video platform, and they can drink red wine from France as soon as possible after placing an order; Foreign consumers can put on the latest fashions from China in just two or three days with a click of the mouse on the e-commerce platform.

As a "Millennium Capital", Guangzhou has advantages in logistics, warehousing and goods categories, attracting more than 1,000 cross-border e-commerce enterprises to do business in Guangzhou, forming a complete cross-border e-commerce ecosystem from preferential policies and platform agglomeration to convenient logistics and financial innovation.

Entering the Nansha Comprehensive Bonded Zone, which is located in the south of Guangzhou and the geographical center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, more than 100 kinds of goods are being put on shelves in an orderly manner in the warehouses of cross-border e-commerce enterprises, thousands of packages are slipping from the conveyor belt, and the staff are skillfully packing and loading cars.　

Zhang Yuyuan, a four-level researcher at Guangzhou Customs Postal Supervision Office, said: "At present, the cross-border e-commerce retail imports in Guangzhou are mainly food, cosmetics, leather products, etc., involving 1075 tax codes and 163 import countries and regions, covering five continents."

Enterprises develop in "selling the world" and consumers benefit from "buying the world". In recent years, cross-border e-commerce imports have become more and more abundant. Hot-selling goods such as household dishwashers, video game equipment, ski equipment, beer and fitness equipment have been added to the list of cross-border e-commerce retail imports, and the tax number of the listed goods has reached 1474.

Zhang Yuyuan introduced: "At present, Guangzhou’s cross-border e-commerce industry has three characteristics: First, the import demand is large, and the import scale has remained the first in the country for nine consecutive years since 2015. In the first seven months of this year, the value of cross-border e-commerce imports in Guangzhou reached 16.22 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%, involving more than 23.7 million consumers. Second, the proportion of imported mainstream e-commerce platforms continues to increase. Third, the types of goods are still dominated by consumer goods. "

With the rise of "Made in China" and the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce exports, the online ordering and consumption patterns of "fast fashion" retail goods such as domestic fashion clothes and clothing bags are widely favored by overseas consumers. However, online shopping for fast-selling goods often needs to be returned due to the mismatch of sizes and consumers’ dissatisfaction with the wearing effect. The problem of "difficult return" in cross-border online shopping has once become a difficult problem for consumers and cross-border export enterprises.

Li Qi, deputy section chief of Nansha Customs Cross-border E-commerce Supervision Section under Guangzhou Customs, said: "Unpacking, sorting, shelving, storage and re-export are completed in one stop in the warehouse of the comprehensive bonded area, and enterprises are also supported to store the goods returned overseas in the same warehouse as the goods exported by cross-border e-commerce. ‘ Turnkey ’ Distribution and container transportation not only reduce the cost of setting up return warehouses overseas, but also save management and logistics costs for enterprises and further improve the cross-border e-commerce export industrial chain. "

Relying on the export return policy of cross-border e-commerce special areas, cross-border e-commerce export enterprises can also integrate logistics warehousing and management teams inside and outside the special customs supervision areas into the same warehouse operation, so as to reduce the logistics management cost of consolidated export commodities by 30%. In the first seven months of this year, the cross-border e-commerce export consolidation project in the special customs supervision area of Guangzhou Customs delivered nearly 50 million parcels, and related enterprises saved nearly 1.25 billion yuan in international logistics and transportation costs.　

Since the centralized mode of cross-border e-commerce export in the special customs supervision area has landed, it has attracted many leading cross-border e-commerce export enterprises to enter the area to carry out related business. In the first seven months of this year, the import and export value of cross-border e-commerce export in the special supervision area of Guangzhou Customs exceeded 20 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of nearly five times. The warehouse area in the comprehensive bonded area was 330,000 square meters, which led to more than 3,000 jobs.

Shandong: "Summer Economy" Hot Cross-border E-commerce New Track

In the scorching sun, "summer products" have become hot commodities snapped up by foreign consumers, and the export volume of cross-border e-commerce seasonal commodities has increased significantly, adding new vitality to China’s foreign trade.

A few days ago, in the cross-border e-commerce supervision center of Yantai Comprehensive Bonded Zone, 24 container vehicles drove out of the customs supervision bayonet one after another, loaded with seasonal products such as "cool summer clothes", "sunscreen" and "outdoor products", and will soon be sent to South Korea by liner. This summer, foreign consumers snapped up "Made in China" in succession, and the number of packages exported by cross-border e-commerce increased significantly.

Zhan Xiao Bin, general manager of the supply chain company, said: "At present, the sales of summer commodities on major e-commerce platforms are booming, and the volume of goods in places has increased greatly, with an average daily shipment of nearly 100,000 orders and an average daily turnover of 20 container trucks. In July this year, we have exported 2.15 million cross-border e-commerce orders to Korea, with a value of more than 43 million US dollars, up 13.7% year-on-year. In August this year, we expect to exceed 2.2 million orders. "

While the volume of export orders has increased substantially, the timeliness requirements of cross-border e-commerce have also improved significantly. Customs and other departments have strengthened the support of scientific and technological equipment, improved the port operation and customs clearance inspection capabilities, and ensured that e-commerce products can go to sea quickly in season.

In the first seven months of 2024, Qingdao Customs supervised the import and export of cross-border e-commerce by more than 97 million votes, a year-on-year increase of 26%; Among them, more than 15 million votes were imported and exported in July, a year-on-year increase of 23%.

Zhejiang: Exports of sporting goods increased by 26.9% in the first seven months.

In this summer, from the European Cup to the Olympic Games, from sports equipment to peripheral products, a large number of "Made in Zhejiang" figures are active in the field of sports economy brought by large-scale events. Cross-border e-commerce, as one of the highlights of Zhejiang’s foreign trade, has also become a "new track" for "Made in Zhejiang" exports.

Xu Xiaobing, the statistics and analysis department of Yiwu Customs under Hangzhou Customs, said that with the holding of international sports events such as the European Cup and the Olympic Games, the export of sporting goods in Yiwu ushered in a "big year" this year. 1— In July, Yiwu exported 5.81 billion yuan of sporting goods and equipment, a year-on-year increase of 37.8%.

Zhejiang e-commerce enterprises can seize the business opportunity of "event economy" without the mature industrial chain formed by the first-Mover advantage of Zhejiang cross-border e-commerce industry and the efficient logistics network. In the first cross-border e-commerce comprehensive experimental zone in China, batches of cross-border e-commerce retail export commodities have arrived at the customs supervision place of Hangzhou Bonded Logistics Center. After rapid customs supervision and release, these cross-border e-commerce commodities will be freely exported through five airport ports in the Yangtze River Delta region, including Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport and Shanghai Pudong Airport, according to the capacity of freight flights.

Chen Min, customs manager of international freight forwarding company, said: "Generally speaking, after overseas consumers place orders on cross-border platforms, 5-mdash; You can receive goods from domestic sellers within 7 days, which also encourages more overseas consumers to choose domestic e-commerce companies to place orders. "

At present, the average daily export of cross-border e-commerce parcels by Hangzhou Bonded Logistics Center has exceeded 100,000. Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, near the logistics center, has greatly improved the "capacity" and freight capacity of airport freight by opening the country’s first "multi-layer structure+intelligence" international cargo terminal and encrypting all freight routes. Up to now, Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport has opened a total of 27 all-cargo flights, of which 12 routes are "bound" to the top 25 airports in the world in terms of cargo and mail throughput, providing strong logistics support for cross-border e-commerce commodity exports in Zhejiang. At the end of July, Hangzhou Airport also opened an all-cargo flight from Hangzhou to Osaka, Japan, and the cross-border e-commerce products exported to Japan achieved "the next day".

Bao Minwei, the second-level organizer of Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport Customs Comprehensive Business Division II, which belongs to Hangzhou Customs, said: "We embed the customs supervision operation chain into the enterprise logistics operation chain, relying on the construction of smart customs, such as using some intelligent screen comparison, intelligent drawing review and intelligent sorting to further reduce the customs clearance time. 1-mdash this year; In July, the outbound freight volume of Hangzhou Airport reached 96,700 tons, up 53.7% year-on-year, of which the outbound freight volume of cross-border e-commerce reached 65,200 tons, accounting for nearly 70% of the total export freight volume of the airport port, showing ‘ E-commerce of freight ’ The characteristics of. "

According to statistics of Hangzhou Customs, 1-mdash; In July, Zhejiang’s sporting goods exports reached 18.5 billion yuan, up 26.9% year-on-year, 19 percentage points higher than the average growth rate of Zhejiang’s exports, among which exports to France increased by 53.3%.

　　Guangming Daily, Beijing, September 17th (Reporter Li Yun and Wang Xiaofei)Recently, National Cultural Heritage Administration held a working meeting on the important progress of the major project "Archaeological China" in Beijing. The four archaeological projects of this workshop are the latest achievements in the excavation and research of early city sites in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, which are all in the early development stage after the formation of Chinese civilization. These latest achievements show the historical process of China’s prehistoric civilization and the formation and development of early countries.

　　Excavation site of Xiaoyuliang stone building in Bicun site, Xing County, Shanxi Province Xinhua News Agency issued

　　　Shicheng Site in Houchengzui, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia: Prehistoric Prototype of "Tunnel War"

　　■ Project introduction:The Shicheng site of Houchengzui is located in Qingshuihe County, Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with an area of about 1.38 million square meters. Archaeological findings show that this site of Longshan period, which is more than 4,000 years ago, has a triple defense system: the first defense system consists of the outer urn city wall, horse face, abutment and outer ring trench; The second defense system consists of the urn city wall, the abutment and pier arranged on the urn city wall, and the inner ring trench; The third defense system consists of the main city wall, the main city gate and two horse faces arranged on both sides of the main city gate.

　　The most amazing thing is that two underground passages were found under the outer urn. Sun Jinsong, dean of the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said that the two tunnels have both offensive and defensive functions. The widest part of the passage is 3.4 meters, the deepest part is 6.3 meters, and the top of the passage is 2.4 meters, so that people can travel without hindrance. After deduction, it can be seen that people outside the city can enter the urn through the tunnel at that time, and then shunt into the city wall to reach the interior of the main city. Of course, the reverse is also possible. Are these two tunnels the remains of "tunnel warfare" more than 4,000 years ago?

　　■ Expert comment: Song Jianzhong (researcher of National Cultural Heritage Administration Archaeological Research Center)

　　In recent ten years, archaeology has continuously promoted fine excavation and multidisciplinary cooperation. There are three levels in the area of Shenmu Shigao site in Shaanxi, Shicheng site in Houchengzui, Inner Mongolia and Bicun site in Xingxian, Shanxi. Shigao site has the largest area and the highest level, while Bicun site has the smallest area. Moreover, the three sites are all buildings made of stone and wood, and they are similar in cultural appearance. Therefore, I think Shanxi, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia should work together, adhere to the problem orientation, study the context of the three sites, and make clear whether there is synchronicity among them. These will certainly promote the study of the large regional form in the north.

　　Pottery unearthed from Bicun site in Xing County, Shanxi Province, Xinhua News Agency issued

　　　Bicun Site in Xing County, Shanxi Province: An Important Guancheng along the Yellow River around 4000 years ago.

　　■ Project introduction:Bicun Site is located in Xingxian County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, dating from 4000 to 3700 years ago. It is the first confirmed large-scale Shicheng settlement in Longshan period along the Yellow River in Shanxi Province, and it was also an important Guancheng at that time.

　　Xiaoyuliang site is the core area of Bicun site. Archaeologists have discovered a group of stone buildings, the second house in the middle is the central house, and the houses on the other two sides are arranged progressively to the west on this axis. The walls and floors of these houses have been carefully treated, and the walls are smeared with grass and mud. There is a ground stove in the house, and the maximum diameter of the stove reaches 2.6 meters. In addition to the house in the central building, there is a house in the northwest corner, which was a large studio in the early stage and divided into small compartments in the later stage. "It is particularly noteworthy that there are steps in the northwest corner of the room near the north wall. We speculate that this may be a post." Zhang Guanghui, a researcher at Shanxi Institute of Archaeology, introduced. Bicun site is located at the key road between the west and the Central Plains, and the inner and outer city walls have a relatively strict defensive layout. The city gate is backed by the Yellow River and faces the east, and checkpoints are set up everywhere. Therefore, "we speculate that this is an important checkpoint". In addition, the gate of the site is composed of three large piers in the shape of "pin" in the east, south and north, which shows a unique gate shape of Shicheng site in Hetao area.

　　■ Expert comment: Han Jianye (Professor, School of History, Renmin University of China)

　　The gate structure of Bicun Ruins is not only practical in layout, but also very neat in symmetrical structure, with a ceremonial nature. Houchengzui site and Bicun site are similar in age, and both are in the early development stage of Chinese civilization, which may be closely related. The next step should be to explore the relationship between sites in a wider scope in the north, such as what is the relationship between Bicun site and Shimao site? What is the relationship between Bicun Site and Shimao Site and Xia Dynasty? What is the relationship between cattle and sheep unearthed from Bicun site and Eurasian grassland? These relationships still need to be sorted out.

　　Gold Covered Surface Unearthed from M2 of High-grade Noble Tomb in Zhengzhou Shangcheng Site Xinhua News Agency

　　　Erlitou Site in Yanshi, Henan Province: How many more pieces are added to the Wangdu puzzle?

　　■ Project introduction:Erlitou site is located in Yanshi District, Luoyang City, Henan Province, with an existing area of 3 million square meters, which is generally considered as the capital site in the late Xia Dynasty by academic circles.

　　Before, I only knew the "Jiugongge" layout of Erlitou site, but the details were not clear. The latest archaeological excavations show that there are rammed earth walls on both sides of roads in many cities, and the outer sides of many areas outside the palace area and workshop area are also separated and protected by fences. There are different levels of buildings and tombs in different grids, and each grid may be inhabited by different people. Zhao Haitao, an associate researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that all these indicate that Erlitou Capital probably has a layout of "living in different areas, living outside the area, and integrating residence and burial".

　　The latest excavation also found the remains of pottery making for the first time in the site, and unearthed more than 800 pieces of pottery with red paint on the surface, suggesting that there may be lacquer making workshops around; Nearly 100 square meters of bone and horn processing workshops were found in the southwest corner of Miyagi. The discovery of these new workshops is helpful to study the manufacturing process and technology of handicraft industry.

　　■ Expert comment: Lei Xingshan (Professor, School of History, Capital Normal University)

　　The discovery of Erlitou site "Jiugongge" is a major breakthrough in Xia cultural archaeology. Lifang system was once an important system in the city, but it appeared relatively late. The "Jiugongge" in Erlitou is the "Li" that can be confirmed.

　　In the past archaeological work, turquoise workshops were found. Now, workshops for making bone horns and lacquerware have been found, which has strengthened some characteristics of Erlitou as the capital. It can also be seen from archaeological discoveries that although the ages and crowds are not the same, there are similar cultural features in the ruins far and wide. The similarity and continuity of cultural characteristics and the identity and inheritance of cultural genes are vivid examples of the pluralism and continuity of Chinese civilization.

　　The remains of the bone-making workshop, which was carefully excavated for the first time at Erlitou site in Yanshi, Henan Province, were issued by Xinhua News Agency.

　　　Shang Dynasty Cemetery in Shuyuan Street, Shangdu, Zhengzhou: First Discovery of Gold Covering in the Early Shang Dynasty in Central China

　　■ Project introduction:The Shang Dynasty cemetery in Shuyuan Street, Shangdu, Zhengzhou is located in the southeast of the inner city of Zhengzhou Shopping Mall site. It is a high-grade aristocratic cemetery in the early and middle period of Shang Dynasty, where a rare gold overlay was unearthed.

　　Two east-west trenches were found on the north and south sides of the cemetery, and the tombs were mainly distributed between the two trenches. Tomb No.2 is the tomb with the largest number, the richest variety and the highest level of funerary objects found at present. Besides a large number of bronzes, there are also gold coverings with a gold content of 88% and a weight of 40 grams, as well as gold ornaments such as gold bubbles and gold foils, which provide new reference materials for discussing the gold masks appearing in Sanxingdui and the cultural style of gold decorations in southwest China. Huang Fucheng, a researcher at Zhengzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said that the phenomenon of dog martyrdom at the bottom of Tomb No.2 was very rare in the early and middle Shang cultures, which provided a new understanding of the source of dog martyrdom culture in later high-level tombs such as Yin Ruins in Anyang.

　　■ Expert comment: Chen Xingcan (researcher, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

　　The age of Shang Dynasty cemetery in Shuyuan Street, Shangdu, Zhengzhou is in a critical period between the early Shang Dynasty and the middle Shang Dynasty, one period earlier than the Yin Ruins and one period later than the lower culture in Erligang, Zhengzhou. In the past, tombs were rarely found in the early and early stages of the Shang culture in Zhengzhou, especially high-grade large tombs, so the discovery of this large tomb is of great significance. Gold wares began to appear in Shang Dynasty, but they were very few. Such a large number of gold ornaments, such as the gold overlay unearthed in M2 tomb, provided us with new research materials to study the relationship between the appearance of gold wares and Eurasia grassland and the West.

　　Schematic diagram of the Shicheng site in Houchengzui entering the city through the tunnel Photo courtesy of National Cultural Heritage Administration

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On September 10th, 2017, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a girl visited the China high-speed train model at the China Pavilion of the Thessaloniki International Expo (Saab Fair).

Xinhua News Agency (photo by lefter Reese Pacharis)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is a high-speed train to Ankara, which was shot at Pendek Railway Station in Istanbul, Turkey on April 30, 2017. The second phase of the high-speed railway connecting Ankara, the Turkish capital, and Istanbul, the largest city in China, was successfully opened to traffic at the end of July 2014, which shortened the running time of the railway between Ankara and Istanbul from 9 hours to 3.5 hours.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Qin Yanyang photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On January 16th, 2017, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, people experienced the console model of China high-speed train. China High-speed Rail Consortium led by China Railway Corporation held the China High-speed Rail Experience Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur on 16th, aiming at introducing the experience and achievements of China High-speed Rail to the public when Maxin High-speed Rail was invited for bidding.

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Zhang Wen)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is April 30, 2017. At Pendek Railway Station in Istanbul, Turkey, passengers are preparing to take the high-speed train to Ankara. The second phase of the high-speed railway connecting Ankara, the capital of Turkey, and Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, which was built by China enterprises, was successfully opened to traffic at the end of July 2014. The opening of the line shortened the running time of the railway between Ankara and Istanbul from 9 hours to 3.5 hours.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Qin Yanyang photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is August 25, 2017, at the Chile Post Logistics Center in Santiago, the capital of Chile, the staff sorted the packages from China. In Chile, a country far away from China, AliExpress, a cross-border e-commerce platform owned by Alibaba, is one of the main online shopping websites for Chileans.

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Jorge)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is May 24, 2017, in Nova Scotia Seafood Co., Ltd., Canada, a worker showed live lobsters wearing Chinese quality certification marks. Nova Scotia and China Alibaba Group Tmall Fresh held a ceremony in Royal, Annapolis on May 24th, officially launching the project of providing high-quality fresh lobster to the online market in China.

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Zou Zheng)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is November 3, 2017, in the processing plant of Orwell Fruit Company on the outskirts of Wenatchee, Washington, USA, workers monitored the quality of apples. Wenatchee is known as the "Apple Capital" of the United States. Since Orwell Fruit Company became attached to China e-commerce platform Tmall a few years ago, China has become one of the main overseas markets for its apple and cherry exports.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Yingshe

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On October 31, 2017, Lei Natuo guimaraes, director of the Department of Physics at the Federal University of Fluminense in troy, Brazil, showed the reusable coffee capsules purchased on AliExpress (international version of Taobao) owned by Alibaba. According to comScore, an Internet statistics company, AliExpress has 10 million monthly visits in Brazil, far ahead of other international shopping websites such as eBay and Amazon that have entered the Brazilian market.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Mingshe

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On November 28th, 2017, workers of garces Agricultural Products Company sorted cherries on the assembly line in Mo Stassart, Chile. 82% of the cherries produced by this company are sold to China.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Peishe

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is the Paytm payment QR code taken in an electrical appliance store in New Delhi, India on April 12, 2017. Ant Financial, the parent company of Alipay, made investment and technical support for Paytm in India in 2015. At present, Paytm has become the Indian version of Alipay and the largest mobile payment platform in India, with 220 million mobile e-wallet users.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Bi Xiaoyang photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On September 18th, 2017, in Helsinki, Finland, the head of Alipay Europe (left) exchanged documents with Antie Omo, Executive Vice President of Finland National Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Agency. On the same day, the two sides signed a memorandum of cooperation to further expand the application of Alipay in Finland.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Yuzhi photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is August 30, 2017, in Johannesburg, South Africa, a tourist is going to pay for the zip line experience course with Alipay. Ant Financial announced on August 30th that its Alipay mobile payment service has been connected to 10,000 merchants in South Africa to provide payment services for China Alipay users who travel to South Africa.

Xinhua news agency

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is November 11, 2017, in a shopping mall in Manila, Philippines, consumers use GCash electronic payment system to pay. GCash, which cooperates with Alibaba, is called "Alipay in the Philippines" and now has more than 5 million users in the Philippines.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Qin Qingshe

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is November 21, 2017, in Berlin, the German capital, a man tried to take the mobike. Berlin has become mobike’s 200th city in the world.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Shan Yuqi photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On June 29th, 2017, the citizens of Manchester, England were experiencing mobike. Mobike from China made his debut in Manchester, the second largest city in Britain. This is the first stop for mobike to enter the European market and its 100th city in bike-sharing.

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Craig Bluff)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On December 3, 2017, in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, the riders participated in the "Zero Pollution Earth" cycling activity jointly organized by the United Nations Environment Programme and mobike Company. The organizers of the event specially transported 70 "Little Oranges" from China, which was the first time that mobike landed on the African continent.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Cheng photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is August 15th, 2017, at the National Hosei University in Bangkok, Thailand, a student is going to use the ofo sharing bicycles to travel.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Mang Lee Yushe

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On October 26th, 2017, in Sydney, Australia, a citizen showed his mobile phone payment interface after using ofo sharing bicycles.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Bai Xuefei photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is Xidi Road, where bauhinia blooms in Liuzhou, Guangxi on April 13, 2017. A motor train passes by.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Xiaobang photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On December 1, 2017, some CRH3A EMU trains stopped at Chengdu EMU of China Railway Chengdu Bureau Group Co., Ltd. These trains will be officially put into operation after the Xicheng high-speed railway is opened to traffic.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Xue Yubin photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is on December 4, 2017, the first crew of Xicheng High-speed Railway was unveiled at the Chengdu EMU of China Railway Chengdu Bureau Group Co., Ltd.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Xue Yubin photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is December 6, 2017. The train from Xi ‘an North Station of Xicheng High-speed Railway passes through Xicheng High-speed Railway and crosses Xibao High-speed Railway Bridge. This bridge is the first extra-large bridge out of Xi ‘an North Station.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Yushe

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On September 21st, 2017, a train of "Fuxing" EMUs met with "Harmony" EMUs on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line.

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Su Yang)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is June 14, 2017, when passengers brushed Alipay at Wuhan BRT Wuchang Station.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiao Yijiu photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On December 12, 2017, the "Double 12" Alipay Global Carnival held a special preferential activity for Hong Kong users in Baoda Market in Hong Kong. Ms. Yang (middle), a Hong Kong citizen, showed the Alaskan long-legged crab that she had snapped up with 1 yuan money.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Qin Qingshe

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is April 14, 2017. Tim from Sydney, Australia used his mobile phone to realize mobile medical services such as registration and payment in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Zongzhi photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is May 23, 2017, when Alipay HK was tested in a store. Alipay, the electronic payment platform of Ant Financial Services Group (Ant Financial Services), launched the Hong Kong dollar version of Alipay-"Alipay HK" in Hong Kong, which is the first non-RMB version of Alipay’s mobile phone application.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Qin Qingshe

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On June 9, 2017, passengers ordered drinks in the restaurant of the Costa Cruises Selena, which traveled between Shanghai and Japan. Visitors can scan the code to associate the Alipay account with the room card of the cruise ship for shopping, catering, entertainment and shore sightseeing.

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Wang Ying)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On September 17th, 2017, citizens of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province rode bike-sharing in the Central Park.

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Jin Peng)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is April 20, 2017. A student is going to use the intelligent access system to park.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Bai Yushe

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is July 11, 2017, when the citizens put it in mobike, Xuanen County, Hubei Province, and scanned the QR code to pick up the car.

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Song Wen)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is a temporary parking spot in bike-sharing at the intersection of Sanshi Street and Jinbi Road in Kunming (photo taken on April 5, 2017).

Xinhua News Agency reporter Hu Chao photo

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is a drone group carrying 6 boxes of passion fruit flying from the seaside of Xiuyu District, Putian City, Fujian Province to Meizhou Island (photo taken on October 31, 2017).

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Tian Ye)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

On November 10, 2017, employees of an eco-agricultural product company in Jianhe County, Guizhou Province were drying bamboo woven express packaging.

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Yang Wenbin)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is the early morning of November 12, 2017. The staff of the sorting center of Hengyang Postal District Central Bureau of Hunan Branch of China Post Group Corporation are working intensively.

Xinhua News Agency (photo by Cao Zhengping)

In the middle of this year, young people from 20 countries along the Belt and Road Initiative selected China’s "four new inventions"-high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and bike-sharing. In the eyes of these international students from all corners of the country and different races, China’s most convenient lifestyle "four new inventions" has penetrated into their lives. The high-speed train ran out of the "China speed" and narrowed the distance between cities; High-quality goods reach consumers all over the world with the help of developed e-commerce platforms; Scan code payment leads consumer fashion, making it normal to go out without a wallet; Bike-sharing provides solutions for the "last mile" and effectively relieves traffic congestion … The "four new inventions" are the epitome of China’s scientific and technological innovation in recent years, which not only changed Chinese’s life, but also refreshed the world’s understanding of China and vividly explained the inspiration of China’s innovative model to the world.

This is May 3, 2017. Robots carry parcels for sorting.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Yushe

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Editor | Park Fang

In this Spring Festival drama market, short plays are a bit popular.

First, a small program short play "I became a stepmother in the 1980s" overtook on social media, then Tencent’s video short play "Give her a handle" rushed to the top two in Weibo’s hot search list, and Rainbow starred in Tik Tok’s short play "Big New Year’s Day", which triggered a heated discussion …

Behind the heat and traffic is the high demand for short drama content, and the scheduled operation of short drama Spring Festival files by platforms, content companies and other parties.

A short program to recreate the myth of "getting rich"

After a period of silence, the short play of small programs took on a "splash of wealth" during the Spring Festival in 2024. What I have to mention here is "I became a stepmother in the 1980s" (hereinafter referred to as "stepmother"), which rushed to the second place in the DataEye short play heat list on February 12th.

This is a paid vertical screen short play, each episode lasts for 1-2 minutes, with a total of 82 episodes, which can be finished in two hours. To put it simply, "Stepmother" is a female short drama that makes people "go to the top". It belongs to the rural love theme in the era when the short drama market is scarce. It is probably about a female college student who went back to the second marriage pig farmer who married in the countryside in the 1980s and became the stepmother of two children. The two of them went through five hurdles and cut six generals all the way and lived a happy life.

Since the show was launched, the related content has quickly attracted widespread attention on social platforms such as Tik Tok and Weibo. As of February 19th, the topic # I became a stepmother in 1980s has been played 500 million times in Tik Tok. And according to the data released by New Wrist and Whip Cowboy, the drama topped the list of short plays in Tik Tok on the second day after its launch. On the Weibo, actor Su Lihe, who plays the male lead, also attracted a lot of "face powder" because he bumped into male stars such as Wallace Huo and Sean Xiao.

Not only that, this drama once again shows the myth of "getting rich" in the short drama industry. According to industry sources, the shooting cycle of "Stepmother" is only 10 days, and 80,000 yuan was invested in the later period, but the single-day recharge was as high as 20 million yuan. This input-output ratio is really amazing.

The reasons for its going out of the circle are as follows: firstly, it is attributed to the fact that it has no "urine point" feeling in the whole process and the people who are in line with the aesthetics of the majority of the audience. The female host is full of firepower and never has internal friction. The male host has the face and money and unconditionally trusts the female host, giving the audience a "breast-opening" viewing experience. Secondly, the male and female protagonists are online, and the drama party makes full use of this to make a big fuss about the publicity. In addition to the male coach being like a "top-notch", the female protagonist looks a bit like Han Xing Sulli in those days. In short, this wave of popularity was "rubbed" by Stepmother.

Of course, the offensive of short programs during the Spring Festival is not limited to this. Many short plays, including "Mr. Li, you are looking for the wrong wife", "The Attack Plan of Ill-tempered Villains", "the Year of the Loong’s Return to the Home with Great Prosperity" and "Emperor of Kowloon", are widely circulated on various social platforms. Among them, the urban romantic comedy "Li Zong, you have the wrong wife" from the same producer as "Stepmother" ranked first in the DataEye short drama thermal list for three consecutive days, which is also simple and rude "cool" and high configuration of handsome men and beautiful women.

However, objectively speaking, no matter the content or production, these short programs are still far from the short dramas of various video platforms, and problems such as routinization and roughness still exist. However, we must also admit that the creators in this field are always good at providing immediate emotional value to the current audience. If we find the key points of publicity again, it should not be difficult to obtain short-term high returns.

Long and short video platforms "align" with fine short plays

Small programs and short plays are hot in the Spring Festival file, and the long and short video platforms are also full of smoke.

Before the Spring Festival, the Network Audio-visual Department of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television focused on promoting 16 excellent mini-short plays launched during the Spring Festival, and Tik Tok and Aauto Quicker also officially announced the film list in advance. At present, all platforms have come up with projects at the bottom of the box to welcome the first Spring Festival file belonging to short plays, and the market response of many works has reached the level of hit.

The long video platform represented by Aiyou Tengmang has not promoted short plays as much as long ones, but there are still short plays that give surprises in terms of popularity and word of mouth.

In terms of popularity, Tencent video’s costume love miniseries "Give her a handle" is outstanding. After it was launched, the popularity in the station quickly broke through 20,000 and reached the top of the cat’s eye short drama list for several days in a row. # Jewel Lee gave her a handle #, # gave her a handle with great stamina #, # gave her a handle he or be# and other topics have repeatedly boarded the hot search in Weibo.

The play is directed by Zhou Xiao, the director who has created many well-known short plays, such as "This man is a little cold" and "Ten Thousand Slags at the Phoenix", and starred by Jewel Lee, a popular actor in the short drama industry. The plot focuses on sadism, complicated relationships between characters, crazy literature, and a lot of other elements.

In terms of word-of-mouth, "Young Master and Me" of iQiyi’s "Little Funny Theater" got a score of 7.4, which is a good result in the short drama market. As a derivative customized short drama of the Aiqiyi ace comedy variety "The Annual Comedy Contest", the drama was created by the Aiqiyi Sesame Pod Studio, which produced many comedies such as "Broken Elite" and "Love Apartment 5", and incorporated many elements such as the Republic of China, modernity, martial arts, infinite flow, etc., so that the industry can once again see the feasibility of the linkage between variety and drama.

On February 8th, the mini-drama "Aunt’s World New Year’s Eve" focusing on the elderly was jointly broadcast on Mango TV and Tik Tok, and then landed on Hunan Satellite TV, which became the first work of both sides after the release of the "Excellent Short Drama Support Plan". The drama was once on the hot list of Tik Tok during the Spring Festival. In addition, The Little Beast and the Demon Catcher, which was created by Escape from the British Museum’s creative team, has been broadcast on Mango TV, Tik Tok, Aauto Quicker, Bili Bili and other platforms. As of February 19th, the average praise of the drama in Tik Tok has exceeded 1 million.

On February 17th, the micro-short drama "Flying Youth" launched on Youku focused on the theme of rural cultural tourism in the new era, and deeply integrated the beauty, food, culture and plot, which conformed to the mainstream trend of the short drama industry.

Short video platforms, represented by Tik Tok and Aauto Quicker, pay more attention to the Spring Festival file of short plays, including single-film publicity, in-station drainage, and the participation of head film and television companies and famous actors.

Tik Tok is dominated by short dramas derived from popular movies or long dramas, such as "Beyond it" derived from the animated film "The Lion Boy". A Juan, My Way Home is Windy, which is adapted from the hit TV series Go to a Windy Place, and Tianya little nyonya, a derivative of the long drama little nyonya, etc. There are also many production companies behind them, such as Baina Qiancheng, Huace Film and Television and Changxin Media.

It is noteworthy that the urban family short play "The Great New Year’s Day" starring Rainbow and Li Chuan has caused extensive discussions after it was launched in Tik Tok, and most of them focused on the disputes on topics such as "Rainbow went to play a short play" and "Rainbow responded to play a short play". The play, jointly produced by Perfect Film and Tik Tok, is the perfect follow-up to "Full-time husband training plan" and "Wake up! Another short drama with realistic theme after "Love Brain", the production standard is a long drama.

The star effect is even more obvious in Aauto Quicker. Four of the six short dramas of the Spring Festival are performed by stars. Among them, three short dramas of stars, I Open a Bar in Dasong, Yuanyang Duane and Super Sitting Class, which are co-operated with Tmall, have assembled a number of long dramas such as Zhang Xiaolong, Xi Lan, Chun Li, Andrew and Guo Xiaoting. Song Muzi and Qiao Shan were invited to the star short play "All the Way Home" by JD.COM Auto and Aauto Quicker. However, compared with Tik Tok, the short plays launched in Aauto Quicker before and after the Spring Festival are not strong in overall popularity, but they are still profitable in business.

The Spring Festival holiday has ended. Judging from the competition pattern of short dramas in this year’s Spring Festival, short dramas will still be the focus of all platforms in 2024, and "quality" will become more and more mentioned words. What needs to be vigilant is that quality is the general trend, but we should also avoid putting the cart before the horse. The investment in stars, clothing and other aspects can certainly be icing on the cake, but the improvement of content quality is the most important thing.

　　Cctv news In order to solve the problem of "urgent difficulties and anxious expectations" for business clients, Jiangxi Provincial Department of Commerce has achieved phased results by taking various measures for the people, such as "helping enterprises to relieve difficulties and promote development", "caring for the excellent environment", "helping people to relieve worries and benefit people’s livelihood" and "serving the countryside to help revitalize".

　　Help enterprises to alleviate difficulties and promote development

　　In order to protect enterprises, boost confidence and promote development, Jiangxi Provincial Department of Commerce has taken active actions to solve worries, worries and worries for enterprises.

　　Among them, by optimizing the port policy, strengthening the port collection and distribution system, promoting the construction of open channels, and carrying out "100 lectures" on the port policy of benefiting enterprises, more than 4,000 enterprises have been helped to make good use of the "three-in-one" policy.

　　It is understood that from January to October this year, Nanchang Changbei Airport completed 99,000 tons of international cargo and mail throughput, an increase of 68.3% year-on-year; There were 350 trains in Jiangxi and Europe, up 18.24% year-on-year.

　　By stepping up efforts to honor foreign trade policies, 58.32 million yuan of policy funds were honored for 3,000 foreign trade enterprises, and 120 enterprises were helped to obtain loans of 1.03 billion yuan.

　　In addition, in the form of "one country, one exhibition", 33 online trade fairs for export commodities were held, helping more than 1,000 enterprises to explore the international market through online channels, and a total of 1.02 billion US dollars of intentional transactions were reached.

　　Intimate service and excellent environment

　　Jiangxi Provincial Department of Commerce deepens the reform of streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services and provides customized services. Since the beginning of this year, the list of administrative powers of commercial departments has been reduced, and the time limit for handling all government service matters has been shortened by more than 50%, and some government service matters have been promoted to achieve "all-in-one province".

　　It is understood that Jiangxi’s "single window" service platform for international trade has successively launched the functions of "National Port Charge and Service Information Publishing System", "Export Tax Refund (Golden Edition 3)" and "Application for Import and Export Supervision Certificates".

　　As of October, China (Jiangxi) International Trade "Single Window" Standard Edition has put 94 functions of government declaration into operation, developed 26 functions with local characteristics, and applied for 30 kinds of regulatory documents.

　　At the same time, we will promote the implementation of the pilot system of notification and commitment of business licenses for chain catering enterprises to help enterprises effectively reduce operating costs.

　　According to the feedback from the enterprise, opening a store will save at least 12 days and reduce the operating cost by 300,000 yuan.

　　In addition, it also issued the Measures for Complaints of Foreign-funded Enterprises, established and improved foreign complaints institutions, formulated the Guidelines for Handling Complaints of Foreign-funded Enterprises, clarified the procedures for accepting foreign complaints, and further improved the business environment ruled by law.

　　Facilitating people’s worries and benefiting people’s livelihood

　　In order to practice the concept of "business for the people", Jiangxi Provincial Department of Commerce "attentively" and "emotionally" solves the problems that people are in urgent need of.

　　Jiangxi Provincial Department of Commerce arranged 12.9 million yuan, which led to 250 million yuan investment at the city and county levels, and supported the construction (renovation) of 120 county and township farmers’ markets, which improved the market function and improved the consumption environment.

　　Coordinating and handling labor disputes in overseas enterprises caused by the epidemic, involving more than 30 laborers, with an amount exceeding 5 million yuan, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of expatriate laborers.

　　Through the continuous development of comprehensive demonstration construction of e-commerce in rural areas, six national demonstration counties have been added: Yongxiu, Fuliang, Yudu, Xunwu, Fengcheng and Zhangshu.

　　It is understood that a total of 52 counties in Jiangxi Province have been included in the comprehensive demonstration construction of e-commerce in rural areas for 58 times, and all 24 former state-level poverty-stricken counties have been included, striving for a total of 1.036 billion yuan from the central government.

　　At present, 47 county-level e-commerce public service centers, 5,515 town and village e-commerce service stations and 45 county-level logistics distribution centers have been built.

　　Training 446,900 rural e-commerce entrepreneurs, driving 309,500 rural youth, returning migrant workers, the disabled and the poor to find jobs.

　　By actively promoting the public platform of provincial domestic service, 570 enterprises and 20,004 domestic service personnel were attracted, which eased the problem of two-way docking between consumers and domestic workers.

　　Serve the countryside and help revitalize.

　　In order to implement the political responsibility of rural revitalization and counterpart assistance, the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Commerce selected a resident team and arranged 2 million yuan to support the construction of rural revitalization projects in designated villages.

　　By actively carrying out live e-commerce activities to help agriculture and community e-commerce activities to promote agriculture, we guided and helped agriculture-related enterprises to sell online. In the first nine months, the online retail sales of agricultural products in Jiangxi Province reached 4.35 billion yuan.

　　By establishing a green channel for e-commerce, building an online docking platform, and improving the multi-party collaborative e-commerce emergency assistance mechanism, we can respond immediately and solve the urgent problems of unsalable agricultural products and difficult online sales of consumer goods.

　　In addition, we actively helped poverty-stricken areas to develop characteristic food industries, set up rural revitalization exhibition areas at the first China Rice Noodle Festival, yingtan Chinese Pastry Expo and Jiujiang Famous Tea and Spring Expo, and organized more than 300 enterprises from poverty-stricken areas to participate in the exhibition, reaching a transaction volume of more than 46 million yuan.

　　Container ships berthed at Shanghai Yangshan Port. People’s vision

　　"Blocking points" increase, one cabin is hard to find, and one box is hard to find … … Since the second half of last year, affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, the international container shipping operation is not smooth, the transportation capacity is tight and the freight rate is rising, which has brought a lot of pressure to some Chinese enterprises, especially foreign trade enterprises. In view of this situation, relevant departments such as transportation, commerce, industry and information, as well as shipping, ports, container production and other enterprises have taken action to help foreign trade enterprises solve problems. What have all localities, departments and related enterprises done? What is the current effect? The reporter conducted an interview.

　　Tight transport capacity and rising freight rates

　　Poor shipping has put a lot of pressure on foreign trade enterprises.

　　"In early June, I was very nervous and the production line was almost forced to stop!" Zhejiang Juyi Group is a foreign trade enterprise that produces footwear products, with an annual export volume of nearly 100 million US dollars, and its products are mainly sold to European and American countries. The main reason that makes Pan Jianzhong, the chairman, nervous is the poor international shipping. "There is no shortage of orders, but there are 200 containers of shoes in the factory. First, the storage space is limited; Second, if you can’t get the money back, the funds will become a problem. "

　　Like most export enterprises in China, Juyi Group signed a trade contract with foreign customers on FOB terms, that is, overseas buyers were responsible for logistics and paid freight, which was not affected by freight fluctuation in theory. "In the past, we didn’t have to worry about export logistics. But now the global shipping is not smooth, and it is difficult for foreign customers to solve it. We have to find our own way. " Pan Jianzhong told reporters that when there was an urgent need, COSCO Shipping extended a helping hand to enterprises and arranged transportation capacity under the active coordination of transportation, commerce and other departments. "From the end of June, 10 to 15 containers will be arranged to go to sea every week. In August, production basically returned to normal, capital turnover was smooth, and we dared to take orders again. "

　　International shipping plays an irreplaceable role in serving economic and social development and smoothing global trade. In China, about 95% of international trade goods are completed by sea. However, since last year, the global spread of the epidemic has kept the international shipping market under pressure.

　　The most direct impact is poor turnover and tight transportation capacity.

　　"Affected by the epidemic, the ports in some countries are seriously congested, the inland transportation cycle is blocked, and the supply of crew members continues to be tight. The time for ships to stay in Hong Kong, including anchorage waiting time and terminal operation time, has been greatly extended." Jia Dashan, vice president of the Water Transport Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport, said that in August and September this year, the quasi-scheduled rate of global trunk routes has dropped from over 70% under normal circumstances to less than 20%. According to statistics, in the past, the round-trip time of liner from Shanghai to ports in western America, eastern America and northwestern Europe was about 46 days, 76 days and 82 days respectively, but since July this year, the time has been lengthened to 61 days, 87 days and 99 days respectively.

　　While the long ship turnover time leads to the shortage of transportation capacity, the container turnover is also greatly affected, and a large number of empty containers are overstocked in some overseas ports and freight yards. For a period of time, "one cabin is hard to find" and "one box is hard to find" in the market, which has become a bottleneck restricting international trade.

　　Strong foreign trade demand and insufficient effective supply of transportation capacity have caused the freight rate to rise.

　　"In the first half of last year, the demand in the shipping market declined and was at a low point. Since the second half of last year, with the recovery of global trade, the maritime demand of various countries has recovered rapidly. " Jia Dashan said that compared with the situation that supply and demand were basically balanced and slightly surplus in 2019, due to the decline of turnover efficiency, the supply of effective transport capacity was lost by more than 15%, which had little impact on about 60% of long-term transport agreements and contracts in the market, and the shortage of transport capacity was concentrated in 40% of the spot market, resulting in a sharp increase in global shipping container freight rates.

　　According to Jia Dashan, from the Spring Festival this year to the end of March, the contradiction between supply and demand eased relatively, and the freight rate in the international container market dropped for eight consecutive weeks. However, after April, due to the Suez Canal blocking incident and the epidemic situation in some countries and regions, the capacity of major routes in the world continued to be tight, and the freight rate generally increased.

　　"The government departments have promoted the cooperation between port and shipping enterprises and import and export enterprises, and advocated mutual benefit and win-win, which has benefited us." To Pan Jianzhong’s peace of mind, the price offered by COSCO Shipping has obvious advantages compared with the average freight rate in the market.

　　Increase transport capacity and stabilize the market

　　Government departments and related enterprises take active actions to ensure smooth shipping.

　　Behind the steady operation of foreign trade enterprises and the rapid growth of China’s foreign trade are a series of measures taken by government departments and related enterprises.

　　— — Increase the supply of transportation capacity and resolve the "one cabin is hard to find".

　　"Since the third quarter of last year, COSCO Shipping has put all its transportation capacity into the market, and the company’s transportation capacity has reached a historical peak." The relevant person in charge of COSCO Shipping told the reporter that while actively increasing the market charter efforts, COSCO Shipping accelerated the ships on existing routes, freed up the capacity, increased the supply of shipping spaces on trunk lines in Europe and America, and organized the capacity to provide overtime ships and open special lines to provide more shipping spaces.

　　The relevant person in charge of the Water Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Transport said that it has actively coordinated and guided liner companies to increase investment in China’s export routes with relevant departments. In the first three quarters, the number of shipping spaces invested by major liner companies in China’s main export routes increased by more than 27% compared with the same period in 2020, which was significantly higher than the 4.5% increase of global shipping spaces in the same period.

　　Port enterprises have also taken active actions. Since the second quarter of last year, Zhoushan Port in Ningbo has taken some measures for foreign trade liner companies, such as giving priority to the berthing of ships, reducing the pilotage fees of tugboats, and extending the stacking-free period, so as to strive for foreign trade ships to berth and adjust containers.

　　— — Actively dispatch and produce empty containers to solve the problem that "one box is hard to find".

　　On the one hand, speed up the return of overseas empty containers. Cosco Shipping made full use of the return shipping space by adding ports and other means to speed up the return of overseas empty containers. In the first 10 months of this year, the cumulative return of empty containers from overseas exceeded 4.9 million TEUs, an increase of 23.6% year-on-year.

　　On the other hand, speed up the production of new boxes. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Transport actively coordinated China’s container manufacturing enterprises to fully expand production, so that the monthly production capacity increased from 200,000 TEUs to the highest in history of 500,000 TEUs. With the release of new container capacity in China, the turnover of empty containers has accelerated, and the shortage of empty containers has basically been alleviated. At present, the inventory of new containers in China’s major container manufacturers has exceeded 700,000 TEUs, and the supply of new containers is fully guaranteed.

　　— — Strengthen the docking of supply and demand and maintain market stability.

　　In China, many foreign trade enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, are unfamiliar with export transportation and often entrust freight forwarding enterprises to go through the formalities. In the case of tight shipping space, some freight forwarders have increased the price of sea freight, which has increased the pressure on SMEs. In order to solve this problem, COSCO Shipping has broadened the channels for directly serving the majority of small and medium-sized shippers with the help of Syncon Hub foreign trade e-commerce platform. At present, the platform has covered all foreign trade routes in China, and realized the functions of self-service price inquiry and online confirmation of booking. Cosco Shipping also introduced some warm-hearted measures, such as increasing the number of small and medium-sized direct passenger overtime boats, establishing a supervision mechanism for small and medium-sized customers to give priority to cabin release, and opening an e-commerce line for small and medium-sized customers. The number of small and medium-sized customers served in the first 10 months increased by 9.5% year-on-year.

　　Effective response to stable recovery

　　Successfully coping with the changes in international shipping can not only save the day, but also turn the crisis into an opportunity.

　　In the first three quarters of this year, China’s port cargo throughput and container throughput reached 11.55 billion tons and 210 million TEUs respectively, up by 8.9% and 9.5% respectively, with an average increase of 5.9% and 4% respectively in two years. The throughput of foreign trade goods reached 3.54 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 5.2%— — According to the data of the Ministry of Transport, China’s shipping market is recovering steadily.

　　In the interview, the reporter found that for Chinese enterprises, successfully coping with the changes in international shipping can not only save the day, but also turn the crisis into an opportunity.

　　The competitiveness of foreign trade enterprises is expected to be further enhanced.

　　"Some competitors are affected by the epidemic, or they are unable to start work or are difficult to export, and we can carry out normal production and export, thus obtaining a large number of orders." Zhang Meili, vice president of Zhengte Co., Ltd., Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, told reporters that the company mainly produces and exports outdoor leisure furniture. In the past two years, although the international shipping price has increased the product price, the demand in Europe and the United States is still strong. "We can even ‘ Select ’ Customers. "

　　China is at the forefront of the world in epidemic prevention and control and economic recovery, allowing foreign trade enterprises to gain more market opportunities. In the first half of the year, the international market share of China’s import and export, export and import was about 13.2%, 14.5% and 12%, respectively, up by 0.8, 0.9 and 0.8 percentage points year-on-year, and China continued to maintain its position as the largest country in goods trade.

　　The close cooperation between foreign trade enterprises and shipping enterprises is expected to be further deepened.

　　"Using FOB method, marine logistics is handed over to overseas customers. Now, we are more inclined to sign CIF trade contracts (export enterprises are responsible for transportation and payment of freight), set up overseas warehouses and organize logistics. " Zhang Meili said that under the test of the epidemic, China’s backbone shipping enterprises have won more recognition for their stable and efficient performance.

　　During the interview, some insiders expressed their concern about the uncertainty of the shipping market. From the demand point of view, with the gradual recovery of national economies, international trade has picked up, and some institutions predict that the global container freight volume will increase between 6% and 9% this year. From the perspective of capacity supply, most of the existing 24 million TEU container fleet in the world has been put into operation, and the annual capacity growth is expected to be less than 5%, which is less than the demand growth rate. Under the background that the global epidemic is still spreading, the imbalance between supply and demand will continue for a long time.

　　Coping with the changing situation requires enterprises to deepen long-term cooperation. The relevant person in charge of the Water Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Transport said that foreign trade enterprises and shipping enterprises are encouraged to sign long-term transport agreements to ensure the supply of transport capacity and reduce freight rates. COSCO Shipping also actively strengthens docking with leading enterprises in the industry and signs long-term transportation agreements to provide stable long-term transportation prices and capacity support. In January this year, they signed a cooperation agreement with Midea Group to cooperate deeply in container transportation and "end-to-end" logistics supply chain. As of the beginning of November, the cooperation volume of all routes between the two sides increased by more than 600% year-on-year.

　　In addition to increasing the proportion of long-term transport agreements, Jia Dashan suggested that China should take measures in construction and supervision to deal with the challenges brought by the epidemic to the maritime industry: speeding up the construction of port infrastructure and improving the resilience to emergencies; Accelerate the construction of automated terminals and smart logistics to improve the safety and reliability of the supply chain; Strengthen relevant regulatory measures to promote sustained and healthy development of the market.