The pre-sale price and configuration of Chery Tiggo 8 Pro are suspected to have exposed 131,900. Is it expensive?

The price of Pro has always been controversial. Since the sales volume of the series plummeted in February, people can’t help wondering, if the price of Tiggo 8 Pro is not cheap, will there be so many people willing to pay the bill?

Recently, we also obtained a group of exposure information of suspected Tiggo 8 Pro configurations and pre-sale prices from online channels. It is reported that the new car will be listed at the end of April, with a total of 9 configurations, and the pre-sale price range is 131,900 to 169,900.

Of course, this is only a pre-sale price. There is actually a price on this price list, starting from 125,900. Are you excited? As a new member of the Tiggo 8 family, the positioning of the Pro is definitely above the PLUS, so the overall styling style of Ta is still better than that of the Tiggo 8 PLUS. And the size of the car body is also larger than that of the Tiggo 8 PLUS, and the length of the car body reaches 4745mm, but the width and wheelbase are consistent with the 8 PLUS.

The new car has a total of 9 configurations, the basic entry model adopts 1.6-liter displacement, and if it is higher, there are 4 models with 2.0-liter displacement. Among them, the entry-level 1.6-liter basic model is equipped with 24.6-inch dual screen, automatic air conditioning, reversing image, automatic headlights, 18-inch rims, leather seats, 8-speaker brand speakers and other configurations. If it is a higher level, there are side air curtains, 360-degree images, electric adjustment of the main driver’s seat, and ambient lights.

By the time 1.6 was luxurious, there was already front radar and blind spot detection, and the wheel hub was changed to 19 inches. The 1.6-liter distinguished model adds the main driver’s knee airbag, the second row of side airbags, fatigue monitoring, face recognition, fragrance system and so on.

The entry level of 2.0 liter is the same as that of the standard 1.6 liter, except that there is no basic beggar version. However, the 2.0-liter comfort model already has a timely four-wheel drive system.

Ghostbusters point of view: I don’t have much idea about the Tiggo 8 Pro except the final price. As a masterpiece of domestic products, overall, both power and fuel consumption are very good, but I won’t buy it if it’s expensive. What about you?

The 5th generation DM-i technology adds static experience to BYD Qin L.

  [Illustration of New Car in car home] At the 2024 Beijing Auto Show, BYD Qin L was officially unveiled, and the new car will be equipped with the fifth-generation DM-i hybrid technology, which is expected to raise the fuel consumption performance to a new height. The new car will form a two-car pattern with Qin PLUS to meet the car purchase needs of different users. Let’s learn more about the design details and space performance of this new car through the real pictures taken at the auto show!

Home of the car

● The appearance evolves again on the basis of family-style design.

  In terms of appearance, the new car adopts the design of "New Country Tide and Beauty", and the interior of the large-size front grille is decorated with lattice chrome-plated elements, which makes the visual effect fashionable and novel.

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Home of the car

  The headlight group is narrow and sharp, which is highly integrated with the luminous "dragon beard" on the top. The integrated design not only makes the dragon face more stereoscopic, but also enlarges the horizontal visual width of the front face. The headlight group uses LED light source, and the illumination is realized through lens focusing. The square lens group is simple and exquisite, which makes the headlight look bright.

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  From the side of the car body, its waistline runs through the front fender to the back door, which makes the car body more slender. With the concave rib line under the car door, it creates a three-dimensional cutting effect and shows the sense of strength. The new car adopts a slip-back design, which not only improves the aerodynamic performance of the vehicle, but also makes it look younger and sporty.

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  The exterior rearview mirror integrates a turn signal and a camera, and the door handle is of a traditional style. The new car supports keyless entry function, and the buttons on the door handle are used to lock/unlock the vehicle.

Home of the car

Home of the car

  The new car parking space is designed with a wide back shoulder, which not only echoes the front face, but also increases the muscular feeling of the rear. At the same time, the car uses a penetrating taillight shape, inspired by Chinese knots, full of recognition and family design.

Home of the car

Home of the car

  The rear bumper has a diffuser-like design, which further enhances the sense of movement of the rear design of the new car and should be able to win the love of many young consumers.

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  In terms of vehicle size, (|) has a length, width and height of 4830/1900/1495mm and a wheelbase of 2790mm, respectively. In contrast, the body size of the Qin PLUS model currently on sale is 4765/1837/1495mm, and the wheelbase is 2718 mm. It can be said that Qin L is bigger than Qin PLUS as a whole.

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  The new car uses two-color multi-spoke 18-inch wheels, which has a good visual layering. Matching with the rim is Chaoyang SU318a H/T tire with specifications of 225/50 R18 92V.

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  From the configuration of charging interface, Qin L will support DC fast charging and AC slow charging. For plug-in hybrid vehicles, DC fast charging configuration is conducive to rapid recharge.

Investigation on the waste of eating and broadcasting: the anchor makes "dark dishes" to spoil food.

  ● Originally, there were many "big stomach kings". The anchor put all the dishes on the table, and he couldn’t wait to build a hill and devour it. Now it is officially forbidden to be extravagant and wasteful. The "big-eaters" have turned to shops one after another and served a table of dishes one after another. In fact, many anchors have not eaten a few mouthfuls at all, and waste still exists in large numbers.

  ● Sauté ed lobster with mud, turkey noodles cooked with soy sauce, and "fruit salad" mixed with Chili noodles, soy sauce, vinegar and strawberries … … Some anchors are "ingenious". They choose to cook by themselves, but they focus on absurd and weird cooking methods. No matter how the dishes taste or whether they can be eaten, as long as they are enough to attract people’s attention, they will achieve their goals.

  ● Eating and broadcasting causes food waste, which violates the Civil Code and the anti-food waste law. The short video platform should properly review the programs related to eating and broadcasting, find out the food wasting behavior in time through manual inspection or technical filtering, and remind the relevant video producers to make rectification. If it is obviously illegal, it will be removed from the shelf.

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  Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, together with relevant departments, studied and drafted the Announcement on Preventing and Reducing Catering Waste (Draft for Comment), and put forward a series of measures from eight aspects to promote the implementation of anti-catering waste, including strictly marking prices, implementing clear scalars, reducing banquet catering waste, and improving the dining evaluation system, which aroused widespread concern in society.

  According to public information, the food waste in China’s catering industry is serious. The annual food waste in urban catering alone is 17 billion to 18 billion kilograms, which does not include the food waste in residents’ family diets. After the banquet, a lot of leftovers were thrown away, online ordering goods were thrown away directly, and the anchor made "dark dishes" to get traffic and ruined food … … All kinds of waste phenomena emerge one after another.

  Cang Li Shi, the world is safe. On the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the implementation of People’s Republic of China (PRC) Anti-Food Waste Law, Jingwei Edition of the Rule of Law opened the column of "Regulating Food Waste according to Law" and launched a series of investigation reports to expose the waste on the tip of the tongue, so as to promote the formation of a social fashion of "practicing economy and opposing waste". Stay tuned.

  □ Our reporter Han Dandong

  □ Intern of this newspaper Wang Yitian

  "You still want to see how many packets of sauce I put? Just mention it, no matter how many bags I put in, I will eat them all. " Recently, in order to bring turkey noodles, a female anchor on a short video platform made five cakes at a time, and then "out of control" kept adding sauce packets to them. Usually a whole bag of spicy sauce is unbearable. The anchor added 30 bags in a row, and then added a tablespoon of Chili oil and 6 fried eggs.

  "The average person but can’t eat, what’s more, you have to eat 5 copies. I don’t think you can. " A male anchor in the video provokes.

  "You just see if I can put it all ‘ Make ’ Yes! " The anchorwoman shouted. But when it came to the real "eating" part, the female anchor only ate two fried eggs and a few mouthfuls of noodles, and the video ended in a hurry.

  In the comments, some netizens questioned: originally, a packet of sauce was spicy enough for noodles. She put so many packets, so it was impossible to eat them. Isn’t it a waste of food? !

  Similar live or short videos are not uncommon on video platforms at present. After watching more than 30 related live broadcasts and more than 200 short videos recently, the reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" found that most of these videos attract netizens to click in and watch them continuously in an extremely exaggerated way, but often at the end of the live broadcast, there will be a full table of dishes, many of which have hardly moved, and some have only been eaten. There are also some anchors who are "ingenious". They choose to cook by themselves, but they focus on absurd and weird cooking methods. No matter how the dishes taste or whether they can be eaten, as long as they are enough for bloggers to get traffic, they will achieve their goals.

  How much waste exists in eating and broadcasting videos, and how to standardize this problem? The reporter conducted an investigation and interview on this.

  Eating and broadcasting shops is a serious waste.

  I didn’t eat a few mouthfuls of food on a table.

  The reporter found on several short video platforms that many anchors called "exploring shops" for drainage. In these videos, the anchor enjoys a full table of food, which is not only delicious, but also very impressive. Many users left a message in the comment area, "Can you finish eating so many dishes?" "I want to try such a large amount of food."

  "Zhang Xixi" is a shop-exploring blogger. In her videos, she can often be seen visiting restaurants with heavy oil tastes.

  In the first video, she visited a restaurant, and the boss on the side made it clear that their peppers were very spicy, and repeatedly discouraged the anchor from adding peppers to the dishes. She turned a deaf ear and told her boss that she was very spicy and wanted to eat the hottest.

  After shopping for a lot of food, a pot of red maocai was served, covered with a thick layer of Chili oil and Chili noodles, and the dishes below could not be seen at all. When eating, the anchor has been holding a bowl of rice in his hand. Every time maocai is eaten, the anchor will "oil" maocai on the rice in the bowl before putting it in his mouth.

  At the end of the video, there is a thick layer of oil on the rice, and the color has turned red. Until the end, the anchor didn’t move this bowl of rice much.

  After seeing this video, netizens questioned that the anchor used rice to suck Chili oil and didn’t eat rice. There was a lot of food left, which was a complete waste of food. "If you can’t eat spicy food, you should seek truth from facts. Why should you pretend to eat spicy food?" "Look at that bowl of rice. It’s all red and oily, and it’s changed color. Can you eat such rice? "

  The phenomenon of wasting food by eating and sowing has long been common. Earlier, the anchor "Sun Gouzi and Liu Laohu" mistakenly sent an unedited video of eating and broadcasting: eat fried dough sticks without swallowing, and then spit into the bowl after chewing. This behavior once triggered a hot discussion among netizens.

  Before, many anchors of the "Big Stomach King" used the method of repeatedly "spitting" and "eating" to destroy a large table of food, then cut out the "spitting" part, and finally edited it into a video of the "Big Stomach King".

  An Zi, a blogger on eating and broadcasting, told reporters that the anchor should not only rely on editing, but also master chewing skills. He picked up an egg to demonstrate, only to see that he stuffed the egg directly into his mouth and kept chewing it, looking like he was enjoying the food. After more than ten seconds, he swallowed it in his throat, and then picked up another egg and stuffed it into his mouth, seemingly feasting.

  "Do you think I swallowed it?" An Zi opened his mouth, but the reporter thought that the eggs he had swallowed were hidden under his tongue. An Zi said that such eating and broadcasting skills need a long time to practice, otherwise it is easy to vomit. With the later editing, a table of dishes can be quickly swept away.

  "An Zi" made a video of eating and broadcasting skills and uploaded it to a short video platform, which quickly gained tens of thousands of likes. In the comment area, there was a message from the audience, "It turns out that eating and broadcasting is like this." "Isn’t it a waste of food to eat fake?"

  Some insiders told reporters that there were a lot of "big stomach kings", and the anchor put all the dishes on the table, and he couldn’t wait to become a hill and devour it. Now it is officially forbidden to be extravagant and wasteful. The "big-stomach kings" have turned to shops one after another and served a table of dishes one after another. In fact, many anchors have not eaten a few mouthfuls at all, and waste still exists in large numbers.

  Zhang Ming (pseudonym) from Tianjin is a catering operator who has received many anchor visits. He told reporters that shopkeepers come to the store to eat in order to shoot videos, not really to eat. Every time a video is shot, the dishes are often cold and it is common to dump them.

  In this regard, Mr. Sun from Changsha, Hunan, shares the same feeling. Mr. Sun is a hotel owner who has received rave reviews on the third-party platform. His hotel is often visited by shop-visiting anchors, sometimes by teams and sometimes by individuals. Almost all the anchors will order most of the dishes in the menu, and then start tasting them.

  "anchor evaluation, you will eat one or two dishes, and finally you will take away very little, often wasting a table of dishes." Mr. Sun said with great heartache, "For the sake of publicity and promotion, the big anchor comes to visit the store, and we are all free of charge."

  A netizen named "Rourou" wrote that he was eating in a restaurant, and the table next door was a shop-exploring team with all kinds of equipment such as lighting and cameras. The flash never stopped during the serving, and the anchor commented on the dishes one by one, symbolically moving chopsticks. It was not until the team left that she found that a table of barbecues and side dishes basically did not move and were all wasted.

  When it comes to waste, the blogger "Yue" has his own "difficulties". She told reporters that she was arranged to visit five or six stores every day, and each family had to evaluate special dishes or packages. Often, a person faced a large table of dishes. "Time is particularly tight, and I have to catch up with the next one, and my appetite is limited. I really can’t eat that much. Sometimes I get up and vomit in the middle of the night after eating too much."

  "Some stores don’t let the anchor pack the food away, on the grounds that the food is provided by the store for free." Asked why he didn’t pack food, Yue replied.

  The Beijing Consumers Association has issued a document reminding that network anchors should not waste food, show fake food, overeating or other content that may easily lead to bad food consumption and food waste demonstration in the process of providing online performances and audio-visual program services. Such behavior has been suspected of violating the anti-food waste law.

  Another kind of eating and broadcasting bloggers’ eyes

  Spoil food and spoil the atmosphere.

  Braised prawns, prawns with tomato sauce and prawns with salt and pepper … … There are many ways to make prawns delicious. On the short video platform, the reporter saw such a video that the female anchor fried prawns with melon seeds and peanut shells.

  This is a video released by the anchor named "Huahua (Potato Home)" on April 5. The female anchor plays a "maid" dressed in a strange dress and enters the screen: "Hey, young master, what do you want to eat tonight?"

  "Something different." The male anchor replied.

  Then, the video entered the process of making "dark dishes". I saw that the female anchor opened a bag of melon seeds. With the words "prepare ingredients", she began to eat melon seeds, but instead of collecting the melon seeds, she put the melon seeds on the plate. Then, I collected a packet of peanut shells.

  After cooking oil, the female anchor put in peanut shells and melon shells in turn. "Now let’s add soy sauce and prawns!" Accompanied by music, the female anchor put prawns in the pot.

  The prawns out of the pot were placed on the plate, covered with a layer of black substance, which made netizens call it terrible. Did the anchor eat this prawn in the end? There is no explanation in the video that ended in a hurry. However, there are many comments in the comments, such as "shrimp that was good originally, who would want to eat it after such a toss" and "disgusting and wasting food".

  In addition, the anchor also produced "dark dishes" such as sauce-fried lobster with mud, oil-fried banana pitaya with soy sauce, and turkey noodles cooked with soy sauce. Some dishes were made in shapes that were unbearable to look straight at, making people sick.

  The reporter noticed that there are still many anchors who attract attention and attract traffic by making "dark dishes" like this.

  In the video released by the anchor "Tanjura Baby" on April 2, it poured a plate of Chili noodles into a pot of strawberries, and poured a lot of soy sauce and vinegar, calling it the new "fruit salad". Subsequently, the anchor poured two cups of different brands of milk tea together and added a can of lemon tea.

  Just when everyone thought this dish was coming to an end, the anchor actually scooped up a spoonful of lobster sauce and put it in the bowl. Many netizens exclaimed: "Can you drink milk tea mixed with lobster sauce?" "Disrespecting food is really irritating" … …

  These alternative and exotic eating and broadcasting have many fans on various short video platforms, and some people left a message saying that "it looks good and is ready to try". But more people are disgusted with this. Some netizens believe that this weird and exaggerated behavior itself is a disrespect for food and an obvious waste of food; Some netizens bluntly said that this kind of eye-catching behavior not only ruined food, but also played a wrong demonstration role and polluted the network atmosphere.

  There are also some so-called food bloggers who publish various challenge videos. For example, "Challenge Hot", the anchor sent hot food into the mouth, and it was so hot that he gasped, but he also kept his facial expression from changing, and some food fell to the ground.

  Some netizens bluntly said that it is not worth the loss to attract traffic with this kind of eating behavior comparable to self-abuse, which not only makes people unhappy, wastes food, but also hurts their health.

  Malformed video is poorly directed.

  Strengthen supervision and offenders are removed from the shelves.

  According to Meng Qiang, a professor at the School of Law of Beijing Institute of Technology, the video writer ordered a lot of dishes for the video effect, but they were "tasted" and wasted, or the anchor wasted food by absurd cooking methods and abnormal eating and broadcasting, and failed to make rational use of the ingredients according to their functions, which undoubtedly belonged to food waste and violated the Civil Code and the anti-food waste law.

  "After these behaviors are spread through short video platforms, they may attract a large number of network users to watch, and then they may convey a kind of ‘ Can waste food ’ ‘ It’s cool to waste food ’ ‘ It’s fun to waste food ’ The wrong idea is contrary to China’s advocacy of civilized, healthy, resource-saving and environment-friendly consumption patterns and simple, moderate, green and low-carbon lifestyles, and may also have long-term adverse effects on minors whose values are forming, which is not conducive to the correct consumption concept and the spread of values at the social level, which is not conducive to the physical and mental health of minors. " Meng Qiang said.

  He believes that when short video anchors tend to order too much food and waste food in restaurants, restaurants have the responsibility to make appropriate reminders to guide them to order food as needed, and they cannot waste food for making short videos and promoting restaurants.

  "anchors who make their own dishes and record videos should also follow the relevant provisions of the anti-food waste law and establish a civilized, healthy, rational and green consumption concept. In family life, they should also cultivate good habits of forming scientific health, making the best use of things and preventing waste, and purchasing, storing and making food according to the actual needs of daily life." Meng Qiang said.

  According to the Anti-Food Waste Law, news media are not allowed to produce, publish or disseminate programs or audio-visual information that waste food, such as eating and overeating. If network audio-visual service providers find that users have violated the provisions of the preceding paragraph, they should immediately stop transmitting relevant information; If the circumstances are serious, it shall stop providing information services.

  According to this, Meng Qiang proposed that the short video platform should properly review the programs involving eating and broadcasting. If it is found that there is a large amount of food and food wasted in the form of eating and broadcasting, cooking, etc., the relevant video producers should be reminded of rectification, or videos that are obviously illegal should be removed from the shelves. If the online platform is not audited and supervised, resulting in a large number of videos promoting food waste such as overeating, the online information department shall order it to make corrections and give a warning according to law. If it refuses to make corrections or the circumstances are serious, it shall be fined, and it may be ordered to suspend relevant business or suspend business for rectification, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be investigated for legal responsibility according to law.

  Zhao Zhanling, a lawyer of Beijing Yunjia Law Firm, also said that network service providers and network audio and video service providers should immediately delete the shelves once they find that users have produced, released and disseminated such videos. Network audio and video service providers should also take active measures, such as manual inspection or technical filtering, to find illegal and ill-directed audio and video in time, and once found, stop transmitting services immediately.

Digital video: the net repayment of financing is 6,954,300 yuan, and the financing balance is 759 million yuan (03.

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According to the information of digital video financing and securities lending, on March 18, 2024, the net repayment of financing was 6,954,300 yuan; The financing balance was 759 million yuan, down 0.91% from the previous day.

In terms of financing, 18,503,100 yuan was bought in financing on that day, 25,457,300 yuan was repaid in financing, and 6,954,300 yuan was repaid in net financing. In terms of securities lending, 300 shares were sold, 7,000 shares were repaid, the margin of securities lending was 1,516,400 shares, and the balance of securities lending was 7,885,300 yuan. The balance of margin financing and securities lending totaled 767 million yuan.

Disclaimer: This article is based on big data production, for reference only, and does not constitute any investment advice. Therefore, the operation risk is at your own risk.

Focus on forward-looking technology, and the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference will let a hundred flowers blossom.

The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference was held in Shanghai from July 6 to 8. The main exhibition of the 50,000-square-meter Expo covers four sections: core technology, intelligent terminal, application empowerment and cutting-edge technology, involving large models, chips, robots, intelligent driving and other fields. There are over 400 exhibitors, over 50 excellent start-ups, and more than 30 new products are exhibited for the first time. The number of exhibitors and exhibition area are the highest in history.

Layout of the new track of the future industry, large models have appeared.

Enter the key words of the work in the computer, such as "thick painting, illustration, girl, cuteness", and then choose different painting styles, and you can generate a beautiful painting in just over ten seconds. During this World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the reporter experienced the first AI painting experience activity launched by Netease Fuxi, Shanghai Communist Youth League Committee and Donghao Lansheng. This technology relies on the picture generation model developed by Netease Fuxi-"Danqing", which is also a 100% domestic model.

Picture generation model "Danqing", courtesy of Netease Fuxi.

According to the staff, the large model is trained based on native Chinese corpus data and Netease’s own high-quality picture data. After strict text and picture review, the model has good Chinese understanding ability while ensuring data source compliance and generated content compliance, and the works created can better meet Chinese aesthetics. In addition, the big model also supports users to give multiple rounds of modification suggestions across multi-modes such as words and pictures until satisfactory picture effects are generated.

"The big model is not a fireworks show, but an advanced productive force. This wave of AGI revolution is a brand-new meta-revolution. The big model is of great significance for industrial development. With the big model, enterprises have ushered in a new opportunity and realized an’ end-to-end’ value realization. " On the 7th, Xiao Yanghua, director of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Data Science and professor of Fudan University, co-hosted the theme forum "The Infinite Charm of AI Generation and Vertical Language Model" in Shanghai Pudong New Area Youth Federation, Daguan Data and Youkede.

The "Cao Zhi" big model of philosophical data was released. View data for the picture

At the forum, Chen Yunwen, Chairman and CEO of Daguan Data, officially released the "Cao Zhi" model of Daguan Data. As a vertically specialized large-scale domestic language model, this big model has the characteristics of long text, verticalization and multi-language. By connecting multiple models and knowledge maps in parallel, it supports the functions of automatic writing and multi-language translation of long texts in multiple languages, and enables all-round scenarios such as long document writing, machine translation, semantic analysis review, knowledge question and answer, text-to-SQL, etc., which can be deeply optimized and customized according to the needs of copywriting in different industries and fields. Whether in finance, government affairs or industry, Cao Zhida model can provide accurate and effective solutions for copywriting.

As a domestic strategic partner of Cao Zhi’s big model, UCloud’s AIGC computing base also made a wonderful appearance. Benjurry Ben, Chairman and CEO of UCloud, delivered a keynote speech on "Neutral and Secure Cloud Computing Helps the Development of Big Model", introducing its technical products, engineering capabilities and ecological construction in the field of AIGC.

The panoramic view of Youke AIGC solution made a wonderful appearance. You ke de gong tu

With profound technical accumulation and comprehensive system engineering capabilities, Youke has launched a series of products and solutions covering data centers, computing platforms, management platforms, network services, application services and ecological interfaces. The open, secure and customized AIGC solution allows customers to utilize existing server resources, and enjoy the flexible expansion of public cloud conveniently, so as to reduce costs and increase efficiency at the IT level. And through the data center hosting area, it can provide users with exclusive cabinets, servers, networks and storage resources that are completely physically isolated. Combined with complete security schemes and expert services, it ensures the smooth operation of users’ large models.

Benjurry Ben said that he will continue to explore the greater development prospects and broader development space of AIGC with the "Cao Zhi" big language model through the neutral and safe computing base. We will jointly improve the ability of enterprises to apply large models in privatization and promote the process of landing large models at the enterprise level.

Panoramic insight report of exhibitors at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference released by Digital Library Technology. Digital library technology for the picture

At this World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Database Technology released a brand-new conceptual product atlas-"ISTARI". The on-site staff introduced to the reporter that "istari" is a conceptual product that integrates UPG and large model exhibited at the conference of Digital Library Technology, and it is a new generation of industrial panoramic map platform that can present dialogue and interaction. Based on this small dialogue window, the data dimensions of industries and products and related companies are at your fingertips.

It is reported that the digital government solution is the main push of database technology, in which the industrial monitoring brain platform can carry out real-time monitoring and comparative analysis on industrial scale, industrial environment and other aspects, and through the multi-chain integration of supply chain, innovation chain, policy chain and talent chain, statistics and analysis of relevant upstream and downstream entities, policy orientation, etc., the business environment and investment and financing data can be integrated, and industrial ecological projection can be realized on the big screen through data visualization display. Assist policy implementation and project landing. At the same time, through the full-scene industrial map capability and big data mining analysis means, we will build a data base for investment promotion, empower nearly 50 investment promotion methods such as industrial chain investment promotion, enhance the full-scene data service capability of investment promotion, and vigorously promote the high-quality development of the industry.

Leo Liu, founder and CEO of Digital Database Technology, said at the "Smart Data Smart Way-Data Intelligence Forum" that since the establishment of industrial chain system by Digital Database Technology, enterprises have continuously upgraded iterative data products to better build industrial chain system and serve the real economy, and launched ——UPG(Universal Product Graph), an upgraded data product based on SAM industrial chain system. In the future, based on UPG unified product atlas system, all kinds of relationship lines will be further expanded, and finally the digital transformation will be effectively empowered.

Robot +AI: Towards a new era of embodied intelligence

At present, the industry generally believes that the next wave of artificial intelligence is embodied intelligence. As the carrier of artificial intelligence entering the physical world, embodied intelligence combines artificial intelligence technology with robot entities, giving the "brain" a body that can be controlled, perceived, interacted and acted, and bringing great convenience and benefits as an important partner and assistant of human beings.

At the opening ceremony of this World Artificial Intelligence Conference, a universal humanoid robot GR-1 released by Fu Liye Intelligent in the first show of major innovations has aroused widespread concern in the industry. The robot is 1.65 meters tall, weighs 55 kilograms, has 40 degrees of freedom, the maximum peak torque of joint module can reach 300NM, the walking speed can reach 5KM/h, and the load is 50 kilograms.

According to the staff, this robot has a highly bionic trunk configuration, anthropomorphic motion control, fast walking, agile obstacle avoidance, steady uphill and downhill, anti-impact interference and other motion functions, combined with cognitive intelligence, can cooperate with people to complete actions, and has great potential in many application scenarios such as industry, rehabilitation, home, scientific research and so on.

Fu Liye’s intelligent GR-1 universal humanoid robot debut. Fu Liye Intelligent Photo courtesy

As the next generation ontology of AI with body intelligence, humanoid robots are expected to lead AI into the "era of body intelligence", and will also promote the development of special robots to general robots. Gu Jie, founder of Fu Liye Intelligent, believes that, just like the development trend from desktop computers to personal computers to mobile phones, universal humanoid robots will gradually become the mainstream of the industry in the future. At present, the hardware foundation of universal humanoid robot is basically laid, and the application wave driven by large model is coming.

Unmanned loading robot. Photo courtesy of Netease Fuxi

"In the field of construction machinery, this unmanned loading robot can quickly adapt to different models, and can automatically perform actions such as moving, accelerating and decelerating, shoveling and unloading. The full bucket rate of shoveling operation is over 95%, and the residual rate of unloading hopper is below 5%. The shoveling efficiency is close to that of the master." In the exhibition area of artificial intelligence, the staff mentioned that this unmanned robot was jointly developed by Netease Fuxi and China Construction Eighth Bureau. It is a highly intelligent and fully automated main construction machinery based on the scene of mixing station.

"The concrete mixing station is the basic supply of the construction site, and it needs 24 hours of uninterrupted operation, and a lot of dust and particles will be generated during the operation. Therefore, mixing stations often face the problem of difficulty in recruiting workers. " The staff said that taking the mixing station with two machines and 180 units as an example, the standard configuration is 2 loaders +4 drivers. However, after the replacement of the unmanned loader, only one driver is needed to handle 1% of the special conditions at the scene, and in other 99% cases, the unmanned automatic feeding operation can be realized.

At present, the unmanned loading robot has been applied to the intelligent concrete mixing station of Hutong Railway, and batch delivery will be realized this year, so that construction workers can bid farewell to the dangerous working environment and achieve high safety and high quality work.

Accelerate the innovative application of AI in the industry and help achieve the goal of "double carbon"

How can artificial intelligence and big data technology help reduce carbon and promote high-quality development?

Q-Truck, 2023WAIC "Treasure of Town Hall". People’s Daily reporter Ge Junjun photo

Q-Truck, a driverless commercial vehicle with intelligent power exchange displayed by Xijing Technology, is the "treasure of town hall" in 2023WAIC. The staff introduced: "In terms of carbon reduction, after calculation, Q-Truck completely uses green electricity in actual production and operation scenarios, and bicycles can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50 tons per year, which is equivalent to planting 4,545 trees per year by bicycles, and the annual planting area of bicycles is 113,400 square meters."

Q-Tractor。 Photo courtesy of Xijing Technology

This year, Xijing Technology’s new energy unmanned tractor Q-Tractor was launched in the world in 2023WAIC. This product can be adapted to multiple scenes such as airports, factories and logistics centers, with deeper scene interconnection, more humane driving experience, highly derivative application scenarios and higher-order automatic driving, and can be used in logistics transportation fields such as small cargo transportation and luggage traction. The maximum load of Q-Tractor is 40 tons, and it can realize all-weather transportation for 7×24 hours, which is more stable, smooth and convenient, with "zero pollution and no emission". The relevant person in charge of Xijing Technology expressed the hope that with the help of WAIC, we can help more users to effectively reduce the cost of global production factors and create a green, intelligent and resilient global smart logistics.

"Smart Help Double Carbon, Traces to Follow" 2023 Smart Trend Forum. Photo courtesy of Schneider Electric

At present, the digital economy has become an important pillar of national economic growth. How to accelerate the integration of digital and real industries and move towards green and low carbon with key technologies has become an important issue to achieve high-quality development. Zhang Lei, vice president of Schneider Electric and head of digital service business in China, said at the 2023 Smart Trend Forum: "Artificial intelligence technology is the driving force to promote the leap-forward development of science and technology, industrial optimization and upgrading, and the overall jump in productivity. However, under the general trend of digital integration, the key to the potential of new technologies such as AI lies in their industrialization and large-scale application."

In order to accelerate the innovative application of AI in the industry, Schneider Electric recently set up an AI innovation laboratory in Beijing, and the AI innovation laboratory in Shanghai will soon be established.

Zhang Lei said that in addition to advanced models and algorithms, the key value of AI technology lies in combining practical application scenarios to meet industrial needs. To this end, Schneider Electric is accelerating the creation of an incubator for AI innovation applications. Its AI Innovation Lab is committed to exploring the application innovation of "entity industry+technology ecology +AI" and exploring the application of AI technology in asset and process optimization, infrastructure management, demand management and new energy management, empowering the digitalization and sustainable development of major industries.

"Future car" is about to sail to the "fast lane" of commercialization.

Starting from Shentao Road, Jinqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shanghai, turn left to Jianqiao Road … The whole journey is 2.8 kilometers, which takes about 15 minutes. On July 8, during the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the "Driver-free Intelligent Networked Car Show" in Shanghai Jinqiao Demonstration Zone was opening up the autopilot experience to the global audience.

This is the first time that the first batch of enterprises in Pudong New Area have obtained the "driver-free test license" to test their vehicles on the road. AutoX Antu and Neolithic Unmanned Vehicles became the first batch of "unmanned vehicles" enterprises to obtain the license for road test of driverless intelligent networked vehicles issued by Pudong New Area Government.

"Every car travels an average of 80-100 kilometers every day to conduct a safe driving test in driverless mode." Jinqiao, Pudong, Shanghai’s first self-driving open demonstration application road in the central city, has a wealth of application scenarios in the central city of super-large cities and has become the best testing ground for artificial intelligence technology. Lin Tailai, vice president of AutoX, said: "We need to realize the commercialization of completely driverless taxis in large urban areas on a large scale, reduce the cost of intelligent upgrading of automobiles through large-scale mass production, and realize the sustainable development of commercialization and marketization."

"In solving the’ last mile’ with the highest cost and lowest efficiency in logistics distribution, the cost reduction ratio of each unmanned delivery vehicle can reach more than 60%." Huang Hantao, director of the government affairs department of Neolithic Academia Sinica (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. said: "After receiving the notice of innovative application test, we can speed up the test in Pudong and develop three business models: unmanned retail, unmanned distribution and unmanned urban service. I believe that in the future life scene, there will be more and more unmanned equipment like Neolithic unmanned vehicles on the road. "

Parents need to know this to help their children overcome reading difficulties.

  [Window of World Education]
 
  In modern society, reading is one of the necessary skills for individuals. Reading is a key way for children to learn knowledge, and it is also an important way for children to develop their thinking and cultivate their temperament. In the frame map of students’ learning fields in the 21st century put forward by UNESCO, reading and communication occupy the central position in the seven learning fields. Therefore, parents expect their children to learn to read as soon as possible.
 
  However, in fact, all over the world, many children can’t read normally. Some parents feel that their children can’t concentrate, that they are "ADHD", and they don’t realize that their learning disabilities may be another situation.
 
  1. Is it dyslexia or ADHD?
 
  Under normal educational conditions, most children can learn to read normally. However, although reading is so important to children’s development, some children can’t acquire reading smoothly. According to research statistics, there are about 5%-10% children in English, Chinese, Japanese and other writing systems. They have normal intelligence and enjoy equal educational opportunities, but their reading performance is still far behind their peers — — These children are called dyslexia.
 
  As early as 1896, clinicians in Europe and the United States discovered the existence of children with reading difficulties. Limited by the level of science and technology at that time, the most knowledgeable people also knew little about "dyslexia". For a long time, society has misunderstood children with dyslexia, thinking that they are stupid, lazy, or "unable to sit still" (inattention and hyperactivity). Up to now, science has unveiled the mystery of "dyslexia", and our understanding of dyslexia is more clear.
 
  First of all, children with dyslexia do not have intellectual problems, and some children with dyslexia are even very smart. If the problem of dyslexia can be found in time and received special education, they may overcome the problem of reading and writing, give full play to their potential, and even become creative talents in various fields. Therefore, sometimes we call children with dyslexia "smart stupid children".
 
  Secondly, dyslexia is a developmental disorder, and people diagnosed with dyslexia are troubled by it all their lives. They have difficulties in word recognition, word understanding and dictation throughout primary and secondary schools and all the way to adulthood. So don’t expect dyslexia to heal naturally. Early detection and early intervention are very important to overcome dyslexia.
 
  Thirdly, dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, commonly known as ADHD) are two different problems, which can exist separately or at the same time. Although the prevalence of dyslexia with ADHD is as high as 20%-40%, dyslexia and dyslexia caused by ADHD are two different abnormal phenomena. It is important to distinguish the difference between these two problems, because there are different ways of intervention.
 
  Finally, dyslexia runs in the family. Studies have shown that among identical twins, if one person suffers from dyslexia, the probability of the other person suffering from dyslexia is as high as 68%; One of the parents or immediate siblings suffers from dyslexia, and the probability of this individual suffering from dyslexia is about 50%. This can be used as one of the signals for early identification of children with dyslexia.
 
  So, how should parents or teachers identify children with dyslexia? Typical manifestations of children with dyslexia are listed below. The following 10 items meet 6 or more and last for more than half a year. Children may have dyslexia and need to find a professional institution to diagnose their children.
 
  First, the language performance is significantly lower than the average level of the same class; Second, read slowly and laboriously, and do not understand the content after reading; Third, it is easy to jump words and lines when reading; Fourth, I don’t like reading aloud, and when I read aloud, I drop words or easily read typos; Fifth, the writing speed is slow and it is easy to write typos; Sixth, I often can’t remember the date or name; Seven, the sense of balance is not good, and the small muscles are clumsy; 8. Avoid tasks that require a lot of reading and avoid reading novels or other written materials; Nine, low self-esteem, no confidence in themselves; Ten, learning a foreign language is particularly difficult.
 
  2. A stumbling block to fluent reading
 
  Reading is an advanced cognitive function, not a physiological instinct that human beings naturally develop and mature at a certain age — — Reading is far more complicated than we thought. Reading involves a series of cognitive processing processes: first, bottom-up processing, that is to say, reading is to obtain meaning from written words, involving the recognition of written words, and only by recognizing words can we understand the meaning of sentences or chapters; The second is top-down processing. Reading comprehension depends on the interaction with the reader’s own memory (knowledge) structure to process and process the input textual information.
 
  Most children have been exposed to the written environment before they formally learn to read — — Advertising slogans, printed words on food packaging bags, and words on picture books that can be seen everywhere in life — — These make children have a preliminary understanding of the characteristics and functions of words, and they can gradually realize that words are symbols used to record spoken language, which are different from other symbols. This initial perception of words is called "word consciousness". Whether it is the reading of pinyin characters or Chinese characters, the sense of words is very important.
 
  As children grow older, they are exposed to more and more words. Especially after primary school, I began to systematically learn the recognition of words, and gradually formed my perception of the design rules of words, that is, "orthographic consciousness." When children know a certain number of words (or words), they can enter the stage of independent reading, that is, they will no longer rely on the help of adults to read text-based books independently. With the increase of children’s reading, the reading speed is gradually accelerated. By the fourth grade of primary school, most children can become skilled readers.
 
  Phonetic awareness is very important for children with pinyin (such as English and German) background to learn to read. Phonetic awareness refers to children’s ability to perceive and operate phonetics. For example, they can skillfully divide cat (meaning "cat") into three corresponding minimum pronunciation units /k//ae//t/, and can also combine pronunciation units to form a word. The deficiency of this ability is considered to be the core reason for the difficulty in reading pinyin. However, the role of phonological awareness in Chinese reading is not as important as that in pinyin. It is generally believed that phonological awareness only plays a limited role in the early stage of Chinese reading and learning.
 
  For children with Chinese background to learn to read, the first threshold is the decoding of Chinese characters, that is, literacy, that is, to establish the relationship between the font of Chinese characters and the pronunciation and meaning of words. On the road to becoming a fluent reader, the first stumbling block for children with Chinese dyslexia is to remember the glyphs and write Chinese characters. A large number of studies have consistently shown that children with Chinese dyslexia have difficulties in font processing. They often have slow literacy, less literacy, and often make mistakes in writing, so it is difficult to remember the font of Chinese characters. Therefore, in order to firmly grasp the writing of Chinese characters, Chinese children often spend a lot of time copying Chinese characters. Copying one stroke at a time can help children to carry out fine visual processing on each Chinese character’s glyph. Like building a Lego block, different strokes are combined according to a certain spatial structure and "built" in Mi Zige in a regular and harmonious way. This is not an inefficient and stupid method. On the contrary, copying is an effective means for both literacy and writing. It can not only help children to establish a solid representation of glyphs in their brains, but also help them write Chinese characters more accurately.
 
  The structure of Chinese characters is complicated. According to the spatial relationship, Chinese characters can be divided into single characters, upper and lower structures, left and right structures and surrounding structures. Because of the visual complexity of Chinese character composition and the spatial diversity of Chinese character structure, it is difficult for Chinese children to master orthographic skills. The research also shows that the defects related to orthography are the core defects of Chinese dyslexia.
 
  Chinese character is an ideographic character, and there is no direct relationship between the shape and the pronunciation, but the relationship between the shape and the meaning of the word is closer. Pictophonetic characters are the main body of modern commonly used Chinese characters, and 80.5% of them belong to pictophonetic characters. Pictophonetic characters include two parts: shape and sound. The ideographic meaning of Chinese characters is very strong, and many words with the same shape are consistent or related in meaning. For example, after children learn the words "sea, ocean and river", they will find that they have the same radical "Tanya" and are all related to water. When they learn the words "lake, swimming and stream" again, they can realize that the newly learned Chinese characters may also be related to "water" — — This understanding and cognition of the smallest semantic unit is called "morpheme consciousness". This morpheme awareness is particularly important for children to learn to read, because Chinese contains a large number of Chinese characters with homographs. After children know a certain number of Chinese characters and can read independently, the obstacles they encounter in reading become the understanding of vocabulary, especially some written vocabulary. Children with strong morpheme awareness are more likely to understand the meaning of words and expand their vocabulary. Therefore, morpheme awareness is more important for Chinese reading learning than learning pinyin characters. It is found that morpheme awareness is closely related to children’s word formation ability, vocabulary and reading comprehension.The defect of morpheme consciousness is also one of the main cognitive defects of children with Chinese dyslexia.
 
  In addition to the difficulties in font processing, writing and morpheme processing, the study also found that children with Chinese dyslexia still have naming speed problems. The naming speed obstacle may reflect that children with dyslexia have some difficulties in establishing stable and high-quality orthographic representations, thus affecting the speed of transforming visual symbols into sound symbols. Research shows that naming speed can also predict reading fluency well. Naming speed is also very important to the development of pinyin reading, and naming speed defect is also one of the main defects of pinyin reading obstacle. Therefore, naming speed defect may be one of the common cognitive defects of cross-language reading disabilities.
 
  To sum up, children with dyslexia may have cognitive defects in many aspects. The mechanism of dyslexia in different words is not only consistent across languages, but also specific to words. As far as the current research is concerned, the mechanism of Chinese dyslexia is more complicated than that of pinyin.
 
  3. Is reading a brain problem?
 
  Reading is one of the unique advanced cognitive functions of human beings, and the brain is the physiological basis of reading learning and development. The International Dyslexia Association points out that dyslexia has specific neurophysiological defects.
 
  At the end of the 20th century, with the help of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), scientists were able to detect the inside of the brain in a non-invasive and harmless way. Like a precise scientific camera, it takes a complete and clear picture of every slice of the three-dimensional body of the brain and shows it to people. At present, the research conclusion that has been repeatedly verified by scientific research and widely recognized by academic circles is that the dyslexic group of pinyin characters (such as English) is mainly abnormal in the posterior temporal-parietal junction area of the left brain, which is manifested in the level of brain functional activity, brain structure and the connection between this brain area and other brain areas. This abnormality may affect their phonological awareness development and thus hinder their reading.
 
  However, the Chinese dyslexic group mainly has specific problems in the middle frontal gyrus of the left brain (related to the writing skills mentioned above) and the ventral pathway of the brain (related to the semantic processing and visual font processing mentioned above). At the same time, the abnormality of the occipital part of the right brain (that is, the brain area where we touch the pillow after lying flat) used for the processing of holistic visual features may also affect Chinese reading. These are all "abnormal brain working modes". The abnormality of these working modes will make the process of learning reading slow and arduous for dyslexics, because they can’t use the efficient and labor-saving reading neural pathway that most readers can use.
 
  How to understand the abnormal brain working mode of dyslexic people? First of all, this once again shows that dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder, not the result of children’s lack of hard work and incorrect learning attitude. Secondly, the brain is plastic, and appropriate and timely targeted training can help children with dyslexia overcome their reading difficulties and regain their reading confidence. For example, neuroimaging studies have found that effective behavior intervention can enhance the activity level of the temporal parietal region in the back of the left brain, which was originally weakly activated, and improve their reading performance. Finally, the abnormal brain working mode of dyslexic people has two sides. On the one hand, it makes the road for dyslexics to learn to read full of thorns; On the other hand, many dyslexics who have achieved high achievements in some fields are grateful for it, believing that the "learning process that can’t take the usual path" has given them unique problem-solving ability, while the difficult process of overcoming dyslexia has forged their perseverance.
 
  4. How to help smart "stupid children"
 
  Dyslexia is a developmental disorder. Early identification and early intervention can not only improve the success rate of intervention, but also prevent dyslexia from continuing into senior grades, and also avoid children’s emotional, behavioral problems and lack of self-confidence related to low academic achievement. Foreign research shows that in order to achieve the same effect, the teaching time of intervention in senior grade is several times more than that in junior grade (2 hours in fourth grade/0.5 hours in kindergarten).
 
  The study of dyslexia has a history of hundreds of years in the west, and it has been relatively perfect in the evaluation, intervention and policy support of dyslexia. Hong Kong, China, has also taken the lead in this respect. At present, it has developed the dyslexia behavior scale and diagnostic test, designed Chinese reading and writing courses in kindergartens and primary and secondary schools, and developed corresponding teaching materials, and conducted relevant training for educational administrators and Chinese teachers in primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. In addition, they also used the three-level response intervention model to replace the traditional methods to intervene in children with dyslexia, and achieved good intervention results.
 
  Because the research on dyslexia in mainland China started late and mainly stayed in the basic research stage, the applied research on the diagnosis and intervention of dyslexia is still relatively weak. The public’s understanding of dyslexia is very limited. In recent years, more and more scholars began to pay attention to the popularization of common sense of dyslexia, and popular science books such as Smart Stupid Child: Helping Children Overcome Dyslexia and Getting Out of the Maze appeared, which made the public have more scientific understanding of dyslexia, but there is still a long way to go in the intervention of dyslexia and the development of diagnostic tools.
 
  As mentioned earlier, dyslexia is a special learning disability that stems from abnormal brain development. Children with dyslexia are not not smart enough or do not study hard. On the contrary, their IQ is normal or even extraordinary, and they even have special talents in many aspects. Without timely diagnosis and intervention, what they need most is the understanding and support from teachers and parents. I hope these "smart stupid children" can have a happy childhood and enjoy reading like other children.
 
  (Author: Liu Li, Gao Yue, professors and doctors of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning of Beijing Normal University; Kang Cuiping, Ph.D., now works for China Education Innovation Institute of Beijing Normal University)

A guide to setting off fireworks and firecrackers in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China

"Taofu firecrackers are new every year, and the Lantern Festival is never over. Try your best to compete for nothing else, and Nong’s family has a tea-picking lamp. " Li Songlin, a Shanghai scholar during the Jiaqing period, wrote this poem on bamboo branches to record the customs of his hometown. The custom of setting off firecrackers in Shanghai has been passed down for a long time. Until the ban on firecrackers in recent years, this trend lasted for a long time. The sound of firecrackers has long been a common memory of generations. However, in the hundred years after Li Songlin, Shanghai has undergone earth-shaking changes, from a county in the south of the Yangtze River to an international metropolis. The custom of setting off firecrackers and relevant regulations have also changed from time to time, from which we can get a glimpse of the historical process of urbanization and modernization in Shanghai.
Meet the god of wealth, the city streets in the early morning of the fifth day of 2013.
For quite a long time, firecrackers, as a special offer for the Spring Festival, were not shown in public only once a year in the first month. In previous occasions such as weddings, funerals, housewarming and opening, it was inseparable from crackling. What is even more grand in the scene is the community festival held regularly-the God Meeting. Houses and shops along the street have already placed incense tables and hung firecrackers on the roadside. The crowd surrounded the gods through the streets and lanes, and the guns rang for the second time, and the smoke spread.
Firecrackers set off by the roadside in the contemporary God-welcoming Games
For modern Shanghai residents, it is far from necessary to wait until the annual sales season to buy firecrackers as daily necessities. There are many firecrackers in the incense shops and tin foil shops around the temple, as well as shops along the street selling matches and cigarettes. Firecrackers sold in Shanghai since the late Qing Dynasty are mainly divided into two categories: citizens can choose to buy foreign products or support local manufacturers. In modern Shanghai, fireworks and firecrackers were very dependent on imports. After the opening of the port, the scale of the city expanded and a large number of migrants poured in, and the demand for fireworks and firecrackers also increased. Liling, Liuyang and other places in Hunan Province have been important firecracker industries since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and their reputation has spread far and wide overseas. During the reign of Emperor Xian in the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 100,000 people engaged in "weaving guns" in Liuyang. By Xuantong, firecrackers exported by the two counties contributed 902,000 silver to the national finance every year. Wuchang and Hankou are also important producing areas, rich in a kind of firecrackers called "Quanhong". Fireworks and firecrackers in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River went down the river and appeared in the streets and lanes of Shanghai. There are a large number of businessmen from Hunan and Hubei who travel to Shanghai, and many of them take this as their business. The wealth brought by firecrackers makes them worry about food and clothing. Even if their hometown is in a bad year, there is a stable industry to make a living, so they will not go out to escape and be displaced.
Shanghai Qugong Real-life Temple was once a gathering place for Hunan businessmen traveling in Shanghai. Now the temple no longer exists, and the place was renamed Quxi Road.
According to the market survey in the late Qing Dynasty, the firecrackers produced in Hunan and Hubei are mostly 40,000 to 50,000 rings, which can’t fully satisfy the desire of Shanghai residents. Shanghai prefers big ostentation and extravagance, and favors the "high rise" of around 80,000 rings. If you don’t trust foreign firecrackers coming from afar and are worried about potential risks such as getting wet on the way, you can buy products freshly baked by local workshops in Shanghai. In modern Shanghai, with the convenience of geographical location and industrial development, materials gathered in all directions, and it was not difficult to obtain the five raw materials needed for the production of firecrackers: potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, mirabilite, refined mirabilite and sulfur. The entry threshold of firecracker production is not high, and the technology is relatively simple. Hiring women and children for piecework production not only provides a livelihood channel for the urban poor in Shanghai, but also saves the production cost for firecracker manufacturers, and the price is naturally lower.
In modern times, Shanghai absorbed a large number of immigrants from surrounding areas, especially Ningbo, and the local firecracker workshops were mostly controlled by Ningbo immigrants. During the Republic of China, businessmen from Ningbo and Shaoxing joined forces with businessmen from Wuxi, Changzhou and other places in southern Jiangsu to form the Shanghai Firecracker Trade Association, hoping to compete with the Hunan and Hubei business gangs. When the competition among peers is fierce, consumers naturally benefit, and the shops under the trade association have clear industry norms and price scales, which has put an end to the phenomenon of exorbitant prices during the Chinese New Year holidays to a certain extent.
After determining the store, the timing of purchase is also very critical. According to industry practice, firecracker workshops usually start in September of the solar calendar, and intensive production lasts until March of the following year. April to August is the time for workers to return to their hometowns for farming. In addition to the peak season around the Spring Festival in the first month, there will also be a short sales peak when Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Shanghai Chenghuang Temple are held in October. In the off-season, firecrackers are unsalable. Because of the difficulty in storage, the store usually gives a discount of about 50%. Around 1927, the price of firecrackers rose sharply, because the government of the Republic of China levied a "superstitious tax"-firecrackers, incense sticks, tin foil, paper horses and other things were regarded as superstitious products and were heavily taxed. Although the trade association and the Ningbo-Shaoxing Association of Shanghai Association jointly presented their grievances to the government and asked for exemption from such taxes and fees, they had little effect.
How to set it off is also a big problem. It should be noted that the prohibition of burning fireworks and firecrackers is not a new decree produced by contemporary cities to control air pollution. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, cities have become increasingly crowded, and fire protection has become a major problem. For this reason, Nanjing, Yantai, Ningbo, Guangzhou and other cities in the late Qing Dynasty had clear regulations prohibiting the burning of firecrackers.
Discussion on the Prohibition of Firecrackers in Shenbao in the Late Qing Dynasty
Relatively speaking, the attitude of the concession is more tolerant, and the first day of the first month is the date of discharge; Although foreigners who manage the concession do not participate in activities such as ancestor worship and welcoming the gods, they can also get approval as long as they report in advance. In addition, if it is accidentally set off in violation of regulations, the perpetrators will be released immediately after symbolically "punishing the ocean triangle". Compared with ordinary consumers, the attitude of the concession towards firecrackers vendors is much stricter. It is absolutely not allowed for roadside shops to sell firecrackers on weekdays. As long as they are found by the patrol room, the shops will be arrested and fined less than 100 yuan, and the goods will be detained until the Chinese New Year. This kind of surprise inspection is very frequent, and the patrol house in songshan road, the French Concession, has this hobby. A large number of patrols often drive police cars to search at the door. Whenever such a situation occurs, the store must prepare a set of rhetoric to deal with it, claiming that these firecrackers are only reserved for their own use and have no sales plan. If people get all the stolen goods, they can only entrust the guild to intercede.
Although the concession has a moderate attitude, there are some kinds of fireworks and firecrackers that must not appear in the concession. In a file of the patrol house in Shanghai public concession in 1927, there were some kinds of fireworks, such as Kaushing (Gaosheng), Kio Long (Kowloon) and Liu Shing (Meteor). These kinds of "heavy firearms" which may cause noise nuisance to the people were blacklisted in the concession.
"Gaosheng", commonly known as "Ertui", is still very popular in contemporary times. Image source: Dongfang. com.
One of the most intolerable firecrackers in the concession is the cannon. It is still very popular in contemporary times, and it is a great weapon for primary school boys to scare girls, commonly known as "throwing guns"; In the period of the Republic of China, the cannon was the source of social panic. On the night of January 9, 1932, a passenger boarded the "Yamato" ship of Daida Company with a bag of guns. The cannon suddenly exploded in a casual touch. Although no casualties were caused, the noise was enough to make the whole ship out of order. People mistakenly thought it was a shooting and rushed into the cold river. The worse influence of slapping guns is produced in the streets. In the patrol house in the concession in the 1930s, it was described that "at the end of the past year, it was a common practice for hooligans and urchins to slap guns. In the streets and alleys, urchins hid the guns in their sleeves, followed by women in boudoir, and suddenly threw them out …" It can be seen that this kind of mischief has a long history. In the eyes of foreigners, it is obviously very ungentlemanly and indecent, and it is really indecent. When it is strictly prohibited, in fact, the police station can’t enforce the law on children, and street guns are repeatedly banned.
Although the concession promised to set off flammable firecrackers from the first day to the fifteenth day, this time was not fixed during the Republic of China. The Nanjing National Government advocated abolishing the lunar calendar and adopting the solar calendar. Therefore, in the 1920s and 1930s, Shanghai was allowed to shoot guns on the 15th day of New Year’s Day, but not during the Spring Festival. After the August 13th Incident, martial law was imposed at night in the concession, and firecrackers were not allowed after 5 pm in the French concession and 6 pm in the public concession. The Japanese puppet government is particularly sensitive to firecrackers, which is used to get rid of evil and filth, and makes the invaders feel pressure. In the early summer night of 1939, a rare lunar eclipse was observed in Shanghai, and the Chinese in the public concession set off firecrackers to drive away the tengu that swallowed the moon. This move made the Japanese military panic and suspected that it was a demonstration directed by anti-Japanese forces behind it. Japan submitted an investigation request to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Public Concession in an attempt to enforce the law across regions.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the commercial reconstruction, the firecracker guild resumed, and more than 40 firecracker workshops joined the guild and registered with the government for the record. The complete rules and regulations system was made public for the first time and had legal effect. The trade association even fully considered the government’s opinion and agreed not to produce the most unpopular gun. However, the market did not prosper for a long time, and inflation became increasingly serious. The workers in the firecracker workshop first rebelled. They set up the "Fireworks Industry Professional Conference" and started labor negotiations with the firecracker industry trade association, demanding higher treatment and higher wages. Prior to this, the trade association had decided to support Jiang Jingguo’s "August 19th" economic defense line, saying that although prices soared, the price of firecrackers would not rise. As a result, the profit of the firecracker industry has been difficult to support the expenditure of hiring labor.
At the beginning of liberation, the new government took over the old industrial and commercial organizations in Shanghai, and the firecracker industry ushered in a new life. It was no longer regarded as a superstitious product and was heavily taxed. On the contrary, this popular festival item was recognized by the new government and received strong support as a representative of local native products. In 1949 and 1950, various parades and celebrations were held frequently in Shanghai. On National Day, Army Day and the anniversary of the liberation of the city, people woke up at four o’clock in the morning with firecrackers and took to the streets. At eight o’clock in the evening, the parade will reach its climax, and there will be an hour-long fireworks display on the roof of Happy Valley Apartment at Huangpi North Road, Nanjing West Road.
During this period, the firecracker industry developed rapidly, and the number of firecracker workshops in the city rose to more than 50. In 1953, the firecracker dealers of the trade association responded to the call of the government and moved most of the workshops to Pudong towns outside the city, leaving only shops in Yimiao District and Penglai District in the city, but this does not mean that firecrackers are no longer popular in Shanghai. In 1956, the socialist industrial and commercial transformation was at its climax, and the whole city was filled with joy and passion. In the second week of January of that year alone, thousands of people lined up in the city to buy firecrackers every day. The local firecrackers were in short supply, and the trade associations sent people to Jiangyin, Shaoxing, Suzhou and other places to purchase goods every day. According to statistics, Shanghai residents had to set off more than 8 million firecrackers every day during that time. In the sound of firecrackers in the new era, the carnival Shanghai residents witnessed the rebirth of the city after a hundred years of vicissitudes and wars.
Celebration Parade in Shanghai in 1950s
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It’s fun for world champions to play chess on campus.

  Sanming, Dec. 19 (Lei Chaoliang) On the morning of the 19th, Alexander guttman, the world champion of international draughts from Russia, and Feng Chao, a senior coach of international draughts from all over the country, walked into the campus of Baisha Primary School in Sanyuan District, Sanming City, Fujian Province, and had a meaningful interactive teaching with the international draughts team members of the school.

The picture shows Alexander guttman, the world champion of international checkers, having a one-to-many interactive teaching at Baisha Primary School. Photo by Lei Chaoliang

  "I was surprised by the performance of the children today. They have strong learning ability and fast chess playing speed." Alexander guttman has been studying international checkers since he was five years old. He is the world champion of 100 checkers (lightning) in 2021.

  During this trip, he came to Fujian from Shanxi, Hunan and other places to experience the international checkers culture in China. He said that the atmosphere of learning international checkers in schools in China is very strong, and the children are very talented, and the future is limitless.

Aleksandr guttman’s match with the young players attracted the children’s onlookers. Photo by Lei Chaoliang

  In this activity, Chen Huaijin, a third-grade student from Baisha Primary School, was calm in the game against Alexander guttman. He skillfully used various tactics, carefully followed every step, and finally made a sum in danger. He said that he was very happy to play chess with the world champion and could learn a lot.

  Li Hong, principal of Baisha Primary School, said that the activity of "World Champion Entering Campus" can play a very good role in stimulating children’s enthusiasm for learning, and also laid a solid foundation for the school to establish an "international checkers school". (End)

(China News Network)

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Does Greater Paris need to be rebuilt after losing to Bayern in the Champions League?

Giants are not necessarily strong teams, and superstars together may not be able to make a strong team. Greater Paris once again pays for its own giants lineup.

Striker Trident’s strength makes the lineup top-heavy, extremely unbalanced, old and weak. Once Meme’s connection is cut off, the lifeblood of the big Paris attack will be cut off. If you really want to win the Champions League by building a giant, you must be world-class in every position like Real Madrid, and the lineup is balanced. The coach can completely control the locker room, and everyone has defensive responsibility and offensive desire.

After the exit from the Champions League, Obape may be determined to leave the team, because he knows that he may never win the Champions League in Paris, and it is difficult to win the Golden Globe Award. Neymar is a lesson from the past. He was called Messi’s successor when he left Barcelona, but he never entered the top three of the Golden Globe Award after leaving Barcelona, and now he has become mediocre. Mbappé doesn’t have much youth to waste, and the next world may reach its peak, but there is no future in Bali, and Real Madrid doesn’t know whether to take him or not.

Messi may win a Golden Globe with last year’s World Cup champion, but he is embarrassed about where to go. He definitely wants to stay in Europe and play for a strong team, but which club is willing to offer such a high salary and risk destroying the salary structure of the dressing room, Manchester City? Barcelona? Or anything else, it may not be possible.

After the Grand Paris Consortium took office, it spent a total of 1.484 billion euros on the transfer every season, but it didn’t bring a Champions League, which was a failure. Although the Qatar Consortium was not short of money, it couldn’t stand such a toss-up, and the reconstruction of Grand Paris seemed inevitable.