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　　Zhongxin. com, July 1 ST, a number of tax reduction and fee reduction policies were implemented, car dealers were not allowed to increase the price of cars, and the acceptance of ID cards in different places was fully implemented … … A number of new regulations will be implemented today, which will soon affect all aspects of people’s lives.

　　A number of tax reduction and fee reduction policies will be implemented today.

　　According to the decision of the the State Council executive meeting, a number of tax reduction and fee reduction policies will be implemented today. In terms of tax reduction, the value-added tax rate was reduced from four to three, and the 13% tax rate band was abolished, forming a three-band structure of 17%, 11% and 6%. The pilot policy of pre-tax deduction of personal income tax for commercial health insurance will be extended to the whole country, and the expenses of individuals purchasing qualified commercial health insurance products are allowed to be deducted before tax according to the maximum annual limit of 2,400 yuan.

　　In terms of fee reduction, we will further clean up and standardize the deposit in the field of engineering construction, clean up and standardize the government’s non-tax revenue surcharge in the field of energy, temporarily exempt the two supervision fees of banking and insurance, and reduce the radio frequency occupation fee.

　　Simplify the handling of tax administrative licensing matters

　　The Announcement on Simplifying the Procedures for Handling Tax Administrative Licensing Matters will come into effect today. The "Announcement" clarifies five measures to degenerate and optimize the procedures for handling tax administrative licensing matters, including simplifying the acceptance of documents, providing agency forwarding services, simplifying application materials, realizing the appointment of consulting services, and improving the delivery methods of documents.

　　81 airports opened the "military priority according to law" channel.

　　The Civil Aviation Administration and the Logistics Support Department of the Central Military Commission jointly issued a notice to open the "military priority according to law" channel at 81 civil aviation airports nationwide from now on, and encouraged other airports to open as appropriate according to their own conditions, so as to provide thoughtful and efficient services for military personnel in check-in, security inspection and boarding.

　　All coal mine safety production work in China will implement the new standards.

　　The State Administration of Work Safety and other departments jointly issued the Notice on Vigorously Promoting the Standardization of Coal Mine Safety Production. The "Notice" puts forward a number of requirements, including organizing new standards publicity training, creating an incentive mechanism for standardization work, and coordinating and promoting standardization construction.

　　Full implementation of ID card acceptance in different places.

　　From now on, the Ministry of Public Security has fully implemented the "three systems" of accepting resident identity cards in different places, reporting the loss and claiming them for loss. The Ministry of Public Security pointed out that public security organs should issue resident identity cards within 60 days from the date when citizens submit the Registration Form for Acceptance of Resident Identity Cards in Different Places. In areas with inconvenient transportation, the processing time may be appropriately extended, but the extension time shall not exceed 30 days; Where conditions permit, the period of making and issuing certificates can be shortened according to the actual situation.

　　Handling ordinary passports and underpaying 40 yuan.

　　The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance issued a notice to reduce some administrative fees, which is expected to reduce the burden on enterprises and society by 2.6 billion yuan. The "Notice" stipulates that starting from today, the fees for citizens’ entry and exit documents, the cost of motor vehicle driving license, the cost of temporary entry motor vehicle number plate and driving license, the compensation fee for soil and water conservation, the actual (trial) inspection fee for pesticides, and the protection fee for integrated circuit layout design will be reduced. According to relevant standards, ordinary passports are reduced from 200 yuan to 160 yuan.

　　Since July, the new regulations on automobile sales have been implemented, and it is clear that dealers are not allowed to sell cars at a higher price. The picture shows the data map. Photo by Zhang Yun, a reporter from China News Service

　　Car dealers are not allowed to sell cars at a higher price.

　　The Measures for the Administration of Automobile Sales promulgated by the Ministry of Commerce will be implemented today. The measures have made clear provisions and requirements for increasing the price of automobile sales, providing three-guarantee certificates, and indicating the source of accessories. It stipulates that dealers are prohibited from raising the price of cars in all forms, and dealers must clearly indicate the prices of cars and accessories, and must attach certificates with the car when picking up the car.

　　According to the "Measures", it is no longer necessary for automobile brands to authorize the sale of automobiles, and two modes of authorized sales and unauthorized sales are allowed to be parallel, and new automobile sales forms such as automobile supermarkets, automobile stores and automobile e-commerce will blossom.

　　Travel tax increases

　　The tax ceiling for various types of vehicles has generally increased since today. The annual tax standard for large buses will be adjusted from 480 yuan to 660 yuan, for medium buses from 420 yuan to 660 yuan, for small buses from 360 yuan to 660 yuan, and for ordinary cars from 180 yuan to 360 yuan. At the same time, the tax targets have also been adjusted, and all kinds of buses that were originally tax-free will also pay taxes at the same standard as private cars.

　　Strengthen the "seller’s responsibility" for securities operating institutions

　　The Measures for the Administration of the Suitability of Securities and Futures Investors will be implemented from now on. The core requirement of the Measures is to strengthen the requirement of "the seller is responsible" for securities, funds and futures operating institutions, so that the operating institutions must bear the obligations stipulated by law while obtaining operating income, ensure the equality and unity of rights and obligations, effectively prevent one-sided pursuit of economic interests, and promote high-risk securities and futures products to investors with insufficient risk tolerance, resulting in damage and influence on the legitimate rights and interests of investors.

　　Increase penalties for illegal acts of traditional Chinese medicine.

　　The "People’s Republic of China (PRC) Chinese Medicine Law" has been implemented today, with five highlights: (1) the important position and development policy of Chinese medicine are clarified; Establish a management system that conforms to the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine; Increase support for the cause of Chinese medicine; Adhere to both support and standardization, and strengthen the supervision of Chinese medicine; Increase penalties for illegal acts of traditional Chinese medicine.

　　50,000 domestic cash transactions need to be reported.

　　The Measures for the Administration of Reports on Large-value Transactions and Suspicious Transactions of Financial Institutions issued by the Central Bank will be implemented today. The Administrative Measures adjusted the RMB reporting standard for large cash transactions from "200,000 yuan" to "50,000 yuan", and the reporting standard for large cross-border transactions denominated in RMB was "200,000 yuan", and for the first time, non-bank payment institutions were included in the scope of responsibility.

　　New invoice regulations: only the name of the enterprise can be filled in for office invoicing, and it cannot be reimbursed.

　　According to the announcement of State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China, starting from today, the purchaser must provide the corporate taxpayer identification number (i.e. "tax number") or the unified social credit code when issuing corporate invoices, otherwise it will not be used as a tax voucher to handle tax-related business. The announcement also requires that when the seller issues an invoice, it should truthfully issue an invoice that is consistent with the actual business; When the buyer obtains the invoice, it shall not request to change the name and amount.

　　Mobile phone pre-installed software must be uninstalled.

　　The Interim Provisions on the Administration of Preset and Distribution of Application Software for Mobile Intelligent Terminals will be implemented today. According to the regulations, production enterprises should restrict the sales channels, and should not install application software in mobile intelligent terminals without the consent of users, and all software except basic functions can be uninstalled. The application software of mobile intelligent terminal involved in charging shall strictly abide by the relevant provisions such as clearly marked price, express the charging standard and charging method, and express that the content is true, accurate and eye-catching, and the fee can be deducted only after being confirmed by the user.

　　Encourage and support the provision of disability prevention and rehabilitation services for the disabled.

　　The Regulations on Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons will come into effect today. The regulations clearly stipulate that the state shall take measures to provide basic rehabilitation services for the disabled and support and help them integrate into society; Prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability; The state encourages and supports organizations and individuals to provide disability prevention and rehabilitation services for the disabled, donate to the cause of disability prevention and rehabilitation for the disabled, and build relevant public welfare facilities; The provision of rehabilitation services for the disabled shall protect the privacy of the disabled and shall not discriminate against or insult them.

　　The lifelong responsibility system is implemented for soil pollution control and remediation.

　　The Measures for the Management of Soil Environment in Polluted Plots (Trial) will be implemented today. The method points out that according to the principle of "whoever pollutes will treat it", the unit or individual that caused soil pollution should bear the main responsibility for treatment and restoration. In principle, the treatment and restoration project should be carried out at the original site. During the treatment and restoration, measures should be taken to prevent secondary pollution to the plot and its surrounding environment. The lifelong responsibility system is implemented for soil pollution control and remediation.

　　Cctv newsGoverning the chaos in the real estate market is a major event that many cities have concentrated their firepower on recently. From the end of June, seven ministries and commissions issued documents to control the chaos in the real estate market in 30 cities, to the first case in China that the black intermediary gang committed the crime of organized crime of underworld nature, and news of cracking down on speculative real estate speculation and black intermediary in various places kept appearing in the media. In the past two months, at least 16 cities have successively issued detailed rules, and at least 9 provinces (cities) have implemented the system at the provincial level.

　　9 provinces (cities) have implemented the system of controlling real estate chaos.

　　The reporter observed that at least 16 cities have successively issued detailed rules since the documents of seven ministries were issued at the end of June, namelyChengdu, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Foshan, Kunming, Hefei, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Xuzhou, Wuhan, Yichang, Taiyuan, Lanzhou and Guiyang.andShenzhen; At least nine provinces (cities) let the system fall from the provincial level, namelyChongqing, Shandong, Hubei, Zhejiang, Fujian, Yunnan, Heilongjiang, Jilin and Guizhou.

　　From the focus of rectification, some of the relevant documents of these provinces and cities are consistent with those issued by seven ministries, but some have added or refined relevant contents according to their own characteristics.

　　In view of the illegal behavior of real estate development enterprises, Kunming will"After obtaining the pre-sale permit of commercial housing, the real estate development enterprise failed to disclose all the saleable houses and pre-sale prices at one time within 10 days"Included in the scope of remediation. This provision has been mentioned in Chengdu, Hubei, Heilongjiang and other documents.

　　Jilin, Heilongjiang and other provinces have also listed the situation that the supervisory duties are not in place as the key actions to be cracked down. As clearly stated in the document issued by Jilin Province on August 13, it is necessary to increase"The real estate market supervision responsibility is not fulfilled"The blow, including the ineffective regulation of the real estate market, failed to perform the real estate transaction management functions and real estate market supervision duties according to law; There is no online signing and filing of commercial housing and second-hand housing transaction contracts.

　　There are different ways to crack down on illegal fund-raising in the real estate sector.

　　Hubei: according to local characteristics, increase the scope of key attacks.

　　The reporter noted that the "Work Plan for the Special Action to Control the Chaos in the Real Estate Market in Hubei Province" has added a lot of content on the basis of the documents of the ministries and commissions.

　　For example, in cracking down on "black intermediaries", the focus of the crackdown has increased."Solicit business by concealment, fraud, coercion, bribery and other improper means, trick consumers into trading or force trading", "illegally collect fees other than the house price of the purchaser to speculate on the house number" and "solicit business by false housing and false price information"Etc.; In cracking down on violations of laws and regulations by housing enterprises, it has increased"If the pre-sale plan of commercial housing is put on record as a blank house, it will be sold in the form of fully renovated commercial housing without authorization"Wait for the content.

　　Zhejiang: 10 departments jointly issued a document to control real estate chaos.

　　On July 24th, Zhejiang Province issued the "Notice on Launching Special Actions to Combat Illegal Acts against the Interests of the Masses and Control the Chaos in the Real Estate Market", which was jointly issued by 10 departments. Compared with the notices issued by seven ministries and commissions, Zhejiang has also added a lot of contents according to local characteristics.

　　For example, in combating "speculative real estate speculation", it has been added."Without obtaining relevant financial qualifications, engage in real estate financial business by using online platforms and equity crowdfunding platforms, or engage in relevant financial business in violation of regulations despite obtaining relevant financial qualifications"Terms; In the fight against "black intermediaries", new"instigating and assisting buyers to forge social security, tax payment, marriage, household registration and other certificates to avoid real estate control policies such as restricting purchases and loans"Terms.

　　The notice issued by Zhejiang Province mentioned that:"It is necessary to seriously investigate and deal with all kinds of violations of laws and regulations. Depending on the seriousness of the case, cities can take written warnings, be included in the blacklist of real estate integrity, interview the person in charge, publicly expose, suspend online signing, suspend business for rectification, revoke qualifications and licenses, administrative penalties, and incorporate multi-sectoral joint punishment to implement various market restrictions."

　　Chongqing: The public security department is deeply involved in rectifying the real estate chaos.

　　Chongqing, which has joined the "judicial means", has also made great efforts to rectify it. The remediation plan jointly issued by the Municipal Bureau of Land and Housing Management and the Municipal Public Security Bureau has made Chongqing the first city among the above 30 cities to be deeply involved in joint law enforcement to rectify the chaos in the real estate market.

　　There are nine key points in Chongqing’s rectification:

　　Fabricating and spreading false information about real estate to disturb public order;

　　The "speculative house number" is illegally profitable;

　　Illegal fund-raising in the real estate sector;

　　Forging official documents, certificates and supporting documents;

　　Misappropriation and occupation of real estate transaction funds;

　　"sell more in one room";

　　Infringement of citizens’ personal information;

　　Threatening personal safety;

　　Suspected of disturbing public order, obstructing social management, infringing on personal rights and property rights and other illegal acts.

　　Among them, the key points in the rectification of "threatening personal safety" are — — Development enterprises or intermediaries use threats, intimidation and other violent means to expel tenants, forcibly increase rents or maliciously deduct rents and deposits; Black and evil forces dominate the market and undermine the management order of the real estate industry.

　　"This rectification, once the problem is found, is not a simple interview, fine. The deterrence of law enforcement will also be significantly enhanced. " The person in charge of the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Land and Housing Management said.

　　"Resolutely hold accountable those who abuse their powers and neglect their duties."

　　"Illegal behavior of real estate development enterprises" is one of the focuses of this special action. On July 31, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announced a list of 20 illegal real estate development enterprises and intermediaries investigated and dealt with in various places, involving Beijing, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Chongqing, Changsha, Xi ‘an and Jilin. This is the first public exposure after the document "Special rectification of chaos in the property market" was issued.

　　According to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, these real estate development enterprises and intermediaries are involved in illegal activities such as price gouging, property hoarding, unapproved sales and false propaganda.

　　It is worth mentioning that the documents issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development are clear:"To carry out rectification actions ineffective, people complain more, and the real estate market has serious violations of laws and regulations, it is necessary to intensify supervision. Departments and personnel suspected of concealing, abusing their powers and neglecting their duties must be resolutely accountable. "

　　The seven ministries and commissions of "housing, living and not speculating" require 30 cities to act first.

　　The full name of the document issued at the end of June is "Notice on Launching Special Actions in Some Cities to Combat Illegal Acts against the Interests of the Masses and Control the Chaos in the Real Estate Market". This notice jointly issued by seven ministries decided to launch special actions in 30 cities from the beginning of July to the end of December this year. The focus of remediation mainly includes four types of behaviors, namelySpeculative real estate speculation, real estate "black intermediary", illegal real estate development enterprises and false real estate advertisements.

　　In addition, five kinds of false real estate advertisements, such as fabricating, spreading false information, or misinterpreting relevant real estate policies, are listed.

　　The above-mentioned document also lists the "list of cities to carry out special actions first": Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Hangzhou, Hefei, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Changsha, Chongqing, Xi ‘an, Kunming, Foshan, Xuzhou, Taiyuan, Haikou, Ningbo, Yichang and Harbin.

　　In May, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development interviewed the heads of 12 cities including Xi ‘an, Haikou, Sanya, Changchun, Harbin, Kunming, Dalian, Guiyang, Xuzhou, Foshan, Chengdu and Taiyuan. In August, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development also talked about the main leaders of Haikou, Sanya, Yantai, Yichang and Yangzhou. These interviewed cities, except Sanya, Dalian, Yantai and Yangzhou, are all on the list of this special action. Of course, the focus of the interview is different, but the starting point is the same, "housing is not speculation." (CCTV News Comprehensive Beijing Youth Daily)

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In the beginning of 2022, HARMAY, a new retail brand of beauty products, completed nearly $200 million in C and D rounds of financing. During the same period, WOW COLOUR, a beauty collection store brand, also announced at its annual meeting and 2022 strategy conference that it had won another $100 million in A+ rounds of financing; "B+ Oil Tank" announced the completion of a round of strategic financing, which indicates that the new beauty retail species that broke out in 2020 is still the "toon" in the eyes of capital.

Several families are happy and worried. In contrast, the new domestic brands of beauty products are caught in "collective anxiety". Perfect Diary, as the benchmark of new domestic products, bears the brunt. Its share price dropped from $25 at the beginning of 2021 to less than $5, and its market value evaporated by nearly 80%. According to Amoy data, during the period of double 11 last year, the sales of many cutting-edge brands such as Perfect Diary, Flower Xizi and Orange Blossom generally declined by more than 30% compared with the same period last year.

In fact, not only in the beauty industry, but also in the fields of coffee, tea, shoes and clothing, the discussion about "new consumption is going downhill" is endless, and new changes and transformations are quietly coming.

2018-2020 is the "honeymoon period" for the accelerated development of new domestic brands of beauty products, with the influx of hot money; Amoy incubates and supports new brands; With the rise of new traffic platforms such as Xiaohongshu and Tik Tok, a group of cutting-edge brands, who are well versed in traffic and content marketing, rely on the fast product iteration ability and the pricing strategy of "big brand replacement" to quickly create explosive items, which are in full swing in the e-commerce channel.

Along with the highlight, there are still constant doubts, including burning money for growth, emphasizing marketing and neglecting research and development, and serious homogenization of products. According to Perfect Diary Financial Report, the net loss of Q3 Company in 2021 was 360 million yuan. Although the loss range has narrowed compared with 640 million yuan in the same period last year, the high marketing expenses are still criticized, accounting for nearly 70% of the revenue.With the increasing cost of traffic, online growth has fallen into a bottleneck, and the enthusiasm of the capital circle for this model has gradually faded.

To make matters worse,International brands have completely outflanked the new domestic brands in terms of price, marketing methods and talents.. Since double 11 in 2020, the international big brands have concentrated on the lowest discount in history, providing a special "price line" for the China market, and some brands even have a 2-3 discount combined with buying and giving; Marketing gameplay has increased the efforts to launch KOL, online live broadcast rooms and private domain channels, and even the previous "disdainful" launch mode such as taobao guest promotion has begun to be adopted by the top management; In terms of talents, a new round of enrollment expansion of local talents has been launched, and the proportion of local talents in middle-level and key positions has continued to rise, so as to be closer to the China market and its Z-generation young people.

This series of "grounding gas" practices has also multiplied the brand potential accumulated by international big names for a long time, and the market share has been expanding.According to the latest financial report data, the sales of L ‘Oreal, Estee Lauder and Shiseido all achieved double-digit year-on-year growth in 2021. Among them, the financial report of L ‘Oré al Group pointed out that in 2021, it achieved double-digit growth in the China market, which was twice the average growth rate of the beauty market. Estee Lauder Group also stressed in its financial report that the performance of the Asia-Pacific region, especially Chinese mainland, has increased significantly.

It is worth mentioning that these international groups are optimistic about the growth prospects of cosmetics in China in the medium and long term, and further strengthen the layout. For example, L ‘Oré al will land its headquarters in North Asia in Shanghai; Estee Lauder adjusts its organizational structure, and China directly reports to the international president; Shiseido expects China’s income to increase by 16% in 2022 (statement+7%).Many signals show that the international giants are "ambitious" for the China market.

In addition,In the past few years, the "old brand manufacturers" who encountered strong challenges from new brands are also regaining their favor and welcoming the second expansion of revenue and profits.Taking Polaiya as an example, in the past two years, with the large single product of ruby essence and double anti-essence, it has successfully opened up an incremental customer base in the fields of affordable anti-aging, anti-aging, anti-oxidation and sensitive skin care, forming a word-of-mouth effect; And from the second half of 2020, Caitang, a make-up brand, achieved a revenue of 120 million yuan that year, with a year-on-year growth rate of 84% in the first three quarters of 21 years, becoming the second largest incremental business point besides the main brand of Polaiya.

The "rejuvenation" of international giants and local brands, in addition to TAs being more proficient in the operation of new marketing models, stable funds, R&D and manufacturing systems, long-term accumulated brand assets, and omni-channel layout capabilities are the cornerstones under the iceberg, enabling increased exposure to quickly translate into sales and stable repurchase.On the other hand, the proud DTC mode and private domain operation of many new brands have not effectively solved the problems of "loyalty" and "repurchase". According to the data of Dolphin Society, the repurchase rate of Yixian e-commerce has remained at around 40% in recent years, and it has hardly improved, and it has fallen into the dilemma that "if you don’t continue to spend money to buy traffic income, it may double down".

With online competition becoming a red sea, it tends to be homogeneous, and more brands begin to turn their attention to offline. For the brand,The significance of stores has gone beyond the scope of retail channels, and it is an important way to connect real consumers, express their own differences and build brand-specific content.; At the same time, with the application of digital means and the continuous iteration of consumer demand, the offline format has also given new vitality.

From the initial department store channel, to the traditional CS/KA channel, and then to the new beauty collection store at that time, the application of digital tools and technologies has become an important starting point for improving retail efficiency and changing user experience.Through the use of small programs, live broadcasts and other means, as well as the opening of the membership system, the seemingly single offline contact has been transformed into a rich online and offline consumer network, and the private domain attribute of the store can also help the brand reach consumers more accurately and establish deep links. At the same time, digitalization also goes deep into product selection, inventory management, logistics and distribution, etc., improving operational efficiency in an all-round way and releasing new imagination space for consumers to get unexpected experience in beauty consumption.

Social aesthetics+multi-format experience is becoming a new growth point of offline space.With the Z generation becoming the main force of beauty consumption, the behavior and characteristics of TAs have greatly influenced the direction of change in beauty channels, such as preferring undisturbed self-service shopping, preferring early adopters, being willing to pay for face value and trends, and pursuing immersive interactive experience.These have become an important force to promote the rise of beauty collection stores.

Throughout the current popular beauty collection stores, all efforts are made in space quality and scene aesthetics, such as the industrial style of Huamei and the design style of "one store, one theme", the INS girlish style of WOW COLOUR, and the future technology style of B+oil tanks.Stores themselves are very social topics, which bring consumers a deeper interactive experience and stronger brand awareness, thus driving the emergence of consumer behavior.

besidesThe beauty collection store, represented by Huamei, is extending users’ stay time and increasing the repurchase rate by expanding business and ecology.. In Huamei, you can buy not only beauty products, but also coffee, snacks, drinks, pet products, small household appliances, etc. In fact, Huamei is not only a retail distributor, but also an investor. According to the statistics of China Investment Network, Beijing Huamei Lexiang Technology Co., Ltd., the main company of Huamei, has invested in nearly 10 new consumer brands, mainly in 2021, involving skin care, health care, fragrance and other sub-tracks.In the increasingly fierce competition, it is considered to be an important source of differentiated competitiveness for beauty collection stores to use their sensitivity to trends and their ability to select products to explore and even empower new niche brands first.

If the expansion of categories is not without doubt, thenDigging deep into the service value of beauty is another path of overlapping experience.Lan Tingyuan, project director of L ‘Oré al China Consumer Center, said when talking about the trend in the next 5-10 years,Future products will not only be products themselves, but also need some combination with instruments or medical beauty, even with data and services.

In this regard, beauty brands and traditional department stores/CS channels have innate genetic advantages. For example, Estee Lauder will provide offline SPA services such as frozen platinum, black diamond luxury energy and platinum energy storage for members of different levels; Sephora stores provide diversified services such as hairdressing centers, professional service counters and professional beauty consultants; The offline counter of high-end makeup in Mao Geping will design a makeup trial area for consumers, and be equipped with a professional BA to make up half a face for customers to present the product effect.These offline services can greatly promote the distance between brands and consumers and build brand fan stickiness.

In the past two years, the beauty shop in department stores has been continuously expanded, which has been welcomed by beauty brands and customers.Take Hangzhou Wulin Yintai as an example. By the end of 2021, 18 high-end beauty brands had opened 21 beauty salons, including La Prairie, Mystery of Hailan, CPB, Sisley, helena rubinstein and Fresh. These beauty salons usually have an area of 10㎡-25㎡, allowing consumers to enjoy quiet, high-end and private professional skin care. At the same time, different brands of beauty care are different in techniques, instruments, special products and projects.Become a sharp weapon for brands to maintain high-end customers and enhance brand added value.

Hangzhou Wulin Yintai La Prairie brand beauty house

However, the offline expansion of Zhang Zhilu has not been smooth sailing, especially under the influence of the epidemic, many brands have delayed their plans to open stores. In the past 2021, in addition to Sephora’s accelerated expansion plan, nearly 40 new stores were opened, which is about twice the average annual growth rate since it entered China in 15 years. Compared with the target, the opening rhythm of new beauty collection stores has been greatly reduced. According to the statistics of interface news, the total number of WOW COLOUR stores in China at the end of 2021 is about 135, which is half of the peak of 300, which is contrary to its goal of laying out 1,000 offline stores within three years. Black hole once proposed the rhythm of opening 20 stores in 2021 and aiming for 50 stores in 2022, but so far there are only 14 stores.Behind the competition for high-quality offline space, there is still a need for strong financial strength and stable profitability.

It is worth mentioning that the new domestic brands do not have a strong sense of existence in this offline battle. Yixian e-commerce, where Perfect Diary is located, has laid out offline stores since 2019. By the end of November last year, there were 280 stores. However, according to the founder, affected by the epidemic, one-third of the stores have repeatedly closed, opened and closed, and will implement a more cautious store expansion strategy in the future; Tangduo opened 10 stores from September 2020 to the end of November 2021, "each one is very cautious"; Hua Xizi still has no offline stores and counters.It is not an easy task for new domestic brands that are native to the Internet and have limited profit margins, involving the location of offline stores, supply channels, service experience, and the control of personnel operating costs.

Under the double dilemma of online and offline, many founders of new domestic brands said that this is the most difficult moment. If we can survive this "life and death test period", it is likely that a number of new local international brands will be born, but in which direction should we break through?

Brand going out to sea has become a unanimous choice under domestic pressure.According to the statistics of China Business Daily, more than 20 domestic cutting-edge beauty brands are actively exploring overseas markets. Among them, Hua Xizi, relying on the characteristic advantages of oriental aesthetics, is particularly firm on the road of going to sea. In the past two years, she has made intensive brand voices around the achievements and cases of going to sea.

Hua Xizi is very good at using social media and the power of local talents to explore foreign markets. For example, at the end of 2019, the cooperation with the Japanese blogger "@ ????" triggered a hot discussion among Japanese netizens on Hua Xizi, and related topics once climbed to the seventh place in the Japanese Twitter hot search list; In 2021, TikTok "Micro online celebrity" @meredithduxbury, which found 200,000 fans, released a makeup tutorial video using Huaxizi products. The content exposure rate exceeded 5 million, and it gradually entered major international markets such as North America and Western Europe. At the beginning of this year, the evaluation video of domestic makeup flower Xizi pushed by Jeffree Star, an American top beauty blogger with 10 million+fans and sharp "poison tongue" on Youtube, once again boosted the popularity.

Now Huaxizi has opened official website in English and Japanese, successively opened logistics in Japan, the United States and Europe, and laid out many overseas mainstream social media such as Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, among which the number of TikTok fans has exceeded 200,000, which is growing rapidly.

butDomestic brands often go out to sea with the export of national strength and culture, just as the popularity of Korean cosmetics in China in that year was inseparable from its highly binding Korean culture and leveraging traffic dividends.At present, the gathering places of domestic brands of beauty products are more in Southeast Asia and Japan, which are more suitable in makeup habits, fashion trends and culture. However, for the European and American markets with high entry threshold, great skin difference and more intense competition, the space that can be developed at present is still limited.

It is a relatively wise and cost-effective way to keep and strengthen the brand mind of a certain subdivision efficacy/ingredient/category.Taking the skin care track as an example, iResearch data shows that consumers’ demand for effective skin care is increasing, and the driving effect skin care products continue to increase at an average annual compound growth rate of nearly 30%; According to the survey data of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, more than 70% of the people think that they have sub-health skin conditions, and they can solve skin problems in a targeted manner, and they are more likely to be favored by consumers with exclusive ingredients and formulas.

For example, Winona, with its natural plant ingredients and medical background, has become the first brand of sensitive muscle skin care in China, and has achieved a certain dominant position in the blue ocean of dermatological skin care products. Run Baiyan and Kuadi, owned by Huaxi Bio, have formed the appeal of not losing big names in medical meiquan by virtue of their exclusive advantages in the patented technology of hyaluronic acid components; The core of Lin Qingxuan’s shelling of Chanel some time ago lies in the dispute between users’ minds about the ingredient of camellia. Although netizens have different opinions, they have at least gained a free publicity position in strengthening Lin Qingxuan’s cognition and association with camellia.

If the above two strategies are more short-and medium-term strategies, it is a long-term doctrine that is difficult but must be adhered to to to effectively improve R&D and product strength and precipitate brand equity.At present, the leading new domestic brands are already making changes, such as Perfect Diary gradually upgrading the R&D team, and the proportion of R&D expenses has increased from 0.4% in 2018 to 1.3% in 2020; Hua Xizi hired Li Huiliang, deputy general manager, chief technology officer and core technician of Huaxi Bio, to be responsible for brand research under the brand. In the past year, the number of patents of Hua Xizi’s parent company reached 106, including 28 invention patents, and the number of new patents reached 50.

Although there are still many gaps compared with international beauty brands, this R&D competition has already started. Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and it is expected that the consolidation of R&D foundation will make generate’s user thinking and product iteration ability, which new domestic brands have always been good at, have greater potential energy, rather than "floating on the surface".

Every year-end or holiday, Microsoft founder Bill Gates Bill Gates will continue their "book selection" in the traditional personal social media platforms, recommended books of the year list of books he had in mind for everyone.

Not long ago, Bill Gates once again to share with you the five books, compared with previous years of books, five book clear "Technology sense of" full, contains two great science fiction, and discuss the future development of technology books let us work together to preview it!

Klara and the Sun

– Kazuo Ishiguro

This is caused by

The Nobel Prize in Literature

Winner Kazuo Ishiguro newly published science fiction story takes place in a dystopian future,

It tells the story of the friendship between the generated artificial intelligence robot Clara with a sick little girl.

Gates Book Review – "

Power is not evil robot

Instead, they can serve as companions to accompany people. This book got me thinking, has a super intelligent robot lives will be like – we had them as a technology, or

More important things

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Project Hail Mary

– Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary from the "Mission to Mars" The Marsian author Andy Weir (Andy Weir) hand, and "Mission to Mars" This book also appeared in the 2020 Bill Gates

Summer reading list

superior. It tells the story of a high school science teacher awoke to find himself in another galaxy,

Also take up the task of lifting the earth crisis.

Gates Book Review – "The story is about how he uses science and engineering to

save the world

. This book is very interesting, I’ll read it all weekend. "

Hamnet

– Maggie O’Farrell

This year, Bill Gates is recommended only a single book

Historical novel

The author wrote it with a fictional way how sad tear a family, explain how Shakespeare was writing his sorrow into power.

Gates Book Review – "If you’re a fan of Shakespeare, you’ll love this touching novel,

It tells the story of Shakespeare’s personal life affect the creation of one of his most famous plays.

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Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

– Jeff Hawkins

From technology entrepreneurs Hawkins (Jeff Hawkins) this book

More superficial

Way to introduce the sophisticated mode of operation of the human cerebral cortex,

More imagination and provides clues for the future of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Gates Book Review – "Hawkins identity may be best known for co-inventor of the PalmPilot, but he spent a few years time to study

Neuroscience and machine learning

The link between this book is the best introduction to his thought. "

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

– Walter Isaacson

It was awarded in 2020

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Jennifer Doudna biography of the story,

She was "God scalpel said," the CRISPR gene editing technology has attracted attention.

Gates Book Review – "CRISPR gene editing system over the past decade

Coolest, perhaps most importantly,

One scientific breakthroughs. This book is about the Nobel laureate biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues is how to find it.

Author Isaacson nicely highlights the most important ethical issues in genetic editing.

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