After 10 minutes, the order broke through thousands, and the pre-sale price of Zhiji’s first medium and large luxury SUV LS7 was 350,000 ~ 500,000 yuan.

Reporter | Yan Yao

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On the first day of pre-sale, Zhiji LS7′ s ten-minute order volume exceeded 1,000.

"Amazing!" "Interesting." -This is how many people feel after seeing Zhiji LS7. On December 20th, Zhiji LS7, the first SUV model of Zhiji Automobile, officially opened for pre-sale. At present, Zhiji LS7 offers three power combinations, with the pre-sale price range of 350,000 ~ 500,000 yuan, and announced the exclusive upgrade booking rights at the same time.

It is reported that Zhiji LS7 is an intelligent pure electric medium and large luxury flagship SUV built by Zhiji Automobile with the standard of "scene definition product", which focuses on the fields of "the best in the whole field", "the big five seats in the whole scene" and "the driving control and safety in all road conditions". In the extremely domestic atmosphere of SUV, the essence of SUV products and the user value have been "conquered and explored" to the extreme with Zhidian technology.

According to the plan, the Zhiji LS7 exhibition car will arrive at the IM IN National Brand Experience Center in January next year, officially go on the market in mid-February, and start delivery in March.

"In the past two years, Zhiji Automobile will take five models to enter the market." Tamia Liu, co-CEO of Zhiji Automobile, said that Zhiji Automobile successfully anchored the luxury new energy vehicle market through its first flagship car product, Zhiji L7, and stood firm in the queue of high-end luxury brands. The second product, Zhiji LS7, is aimed at the "medium and large luxury SUV" with greater market potential, impacting sales and striving to create "explosive" products. "In the next step, Zhiji Automobile will lay out more market segments, attract more users and enhance its popularity."

The determination to build a "new car"

Strange semi-spoke steering wheel, huge dome windshield, front seats that can disappear … These new weapons are installed in the same car, breaking people’s inherent understanding of "car". This is also the embodiment of SAIC’s determination to subvert the existing car model and build a "new car".

From January to November this year, the sales volume of SAIC’s new energy vehicles reached 930,000, accounting for 20% of the total sales volume of the group. In the next three years, this number will double, accounting for 40%. Starting from grasping the trend of consumption upgrading and the demand of high-end brand development, the pace of pushing forward Zhiji Automobile, a brand of high-end new energy vehicles under SAIC, is accelerating.

In Tamia Liu’s view, if the first Zhiji L7 is to undertake the mission of becoming a high-end brand of Zhiji automobile, then the second Zhiji LS7 is SAIC’s answer to the exploration of "new automobile".

The design concept of Zhiji LS7 is "hyperspace cockpit". "It’s the best SUV in the whole world." Zhiji automobile engineer said that Zhiji LS7 has adopted the "ice-sensitive front dome of Star Fall Star Waterfall" in a breakthrough way, which has improved the traditional 20-degree viewing angle to a 106-degree wide field of vision.

At the same time, the new car is equipped with the first mass-produced "Yate cruise half steering wheel" in China, which is more transparent when looking at the long screen in front with a huge immersive lifting smart scene screen.

In addition, the right side of the cabin of Zhiji LS7 is equipped with the longest electric slide rail in the existing SUV model. This slide rail allows the front co-pilot seat to be "fully folded", leaving more space for the rear row and comfortably experiencing the real "zero gravity floating seat". Zhiji LS7 also improved the rigidity of the whole vehicle in a targeted way, and used submarine-grade steel to build the cockpit structure, so that the vehicle’s wading, top pressure and rollover resistance were enhanced step by step, and it became an SUV with good driving and control performance and safety in all road conditions.

Of course, the imagination of the "new car" goes far beyond this. For example, the location of laser radar is not a single option for various car companies. "If you stand tall, you can see far. We think that the best position of lidar is installed on the roof, which is the best choice for the automatic driving performance of vehicles." Tamia Liu explained that, therefore, there will be three raised "front bangs" on the roof of Zhiji LS7. "Two of them are placed with lidar, and the other is Carlog (super car intelligent camera system)."

More and more changeable cars may be the charm of the era of car change.

"Do the hard and right thing"

This year, China’s new energy vehicle market will achieve nearly 100% growth. This shows the strong endogenous power in this field.

However, in the era of new energy vehicles, how can Zhiji Automobile break the game? What to do in the second year of development? In Tamia Liu’s view, it is "doing difficult and correct things."

Tamia Liu said that on Zhiji L7, we have created a new "driving ceiling" with extreme power and control, and created the most remarkable label and selling point that is different from other brand products so far. "We hope this car is a very good industrial product. It is a high-quality product that is comfortable, safe and beautiful, and can’t just be attracted by the big screen."

Two months ago, Zhiji L7 Snake Performance Performance Edition became the fastest mass-produced electric vehicle in Zhesai. In April this year, Zhiji L7 successfully challenged the Guinness World Record for the longest drift distance of Taycan mass-produced electric vehicles. The fastest original electric car lap speed record was also created at Tianma Circuit. "These achievements come from the hard work of the team, but it just proves that Zhiji L7 is a very’ capable’ car, especially in driving control and power control."

A taxi can naturally attract a group of users who love it. Among the owners of Zhiji L7, more than 22% users have an annual household income of more than 1 million yuan; 60% of users are buyers of luxury brands and ultra-luxury brands; More than 25% of users have more than 3 cars in their families. Undoubtedly, this is in line with Zhiji Automobile’s main high-end target market.

A car owner of Zhiji L7 who has worked in Germany for more than ten years said: "The curved surface modeling scale of Zhiji L7 is a master’s work at first glance. After driving in Germany for so many years, I knew this car was a good foundation as soon as I got started. "

One thousand vehicles, one thousand appearances.

"Driving to and from work every day can harvest about 1.5 rough stones, and thousands of them are accumulated, which is simply a fortune." Zhiji car owner said.

During the National Day this year, Zhiji Automobile launched IM GO! The "Impact of 8 million kilometers" campaign encourages Zhiji car owners to drive more and travel more. The data shows that more than 50% of the first users participated in this interaction, and the total mileage in 16 days exceeded 3.5 million kilometers, circling the earth 86 times, covering more than 200 cities. The user who runs the most has opened more than 10,000 kilometers in 10 days.

"The most intelligent person has obtained 45,000 original stones in more than three months since he picked up the car in early July." Tamia Liu said. It is reported that the exchange of original stone rights of Zhiji Automobile in the first quarter was officially opened in November. At present, more than 930 Zhiji owners have exchanged 5 million original stones. With the original stone, users will hope that this car company will develop better and better, and then form a benign partnership. "And this is the value of building a’ new car’ in the intelligent age."

Behind the combination of virtual and reality, it is the result of Zhiji automobile getting through the screen, operating system and ecology. The owner is experiencing the extensive interaction between online and offline, inside and outside the car, mobile phone screen and car screen. For example, recently, car owners can upgrade the IM OS1.5.0 car system through OTA. While optimizing many smart cabin functions such as intelligent acoustic system, Carlog, DLP/ISC (Intelligent Car Language System), they also unlock Christmas eggs, even if they are sitting in the car, they can feel a strong Christmas atmosphere.

It can be predicted that diversified and personalized demand will be the trend of automobile consumption in the future. "If a thousand cars are driven down, there will be a thousand car owners themselves." Such a picture is gradually becoming a reality.

Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China’s "Ten Years in China" series of press conferences were held, and the auditing of key livelihood funds and projects continued to increase.

CCTV News:People’s livelihood is no small matter. At a series of press conferences on "Ten Years in China" held in Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China today (May 17th), the relevant person in charge of the Audit Office introduced the positive achievements made by the Audit Office in strengthening the audit of people’s livelihood funds and projects in recent years, and promoting the protection and improvement of people’s livelihood.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, audit institutions have continuously increased their audit efforts on key livelihood funds and projects such as medical care, pension, employment, housing, agriculture, rural areas and farmers. Insist on sinking the audit force to the lowest level, promote the implementation of the policies of the CPC Central Committee to benefit the people and the people, and seriously investigate and deal with corruption and unhealthy practices that occur around the masses, and promote better solutions to the problems of the people’s urgent difficulties and hopes, so as to firmly grasp the bottom line of people’s livelihood and enhance the people’s sense of gain, happiness and security.

Wang Lujin, Deputy Auditor-General of the Audit Commission:Taking helping to win the fight against poverty as a major political task, we will continue to increase the audit of poverty alleviation. In recent years, we have randomly selected 1.02 trillion yuan of various poverty alleviation funds, promoted the standardization of poverty alleviation fund management year by year, and continuously improved the use performance. The proportion of audit-found problems in the random inspection funds decreased from 36.3% in 2013 to 1.5% in 2020, which contributed to the overall victory in the fight against poverty.

In the past ten years, around the improvement of the multi-level social security system, audit institutions have continuously carried out audits of pension and medical insurance funds, employment subsidy funds, lottery public welfare funds, and affordable housing projects, and effectively implemented major policies and measures such as safeguarding the safety of social security funds and promoting employment priority.

Wang Lujin, Deputy Auditor-General of the Audit Commission:In the audit, we focus on the safety of funds, and focus on revealing and cracking down on illegal acts of fraudulent insurance, hedging or misappropriation of various social security funds. We pay attention to the efficiency of funds and reveal the problems of ineffective and inefficient use of funds, such as precipitation, idleness, unpaid payables and over-guarantee. We also pay attention to the sustainability of policies, reveal the blocking points, difficulties and breakpoints in institutional mechanisms and policy implementation, promote the filling of shortcomings in social security, and make the fruits of reform and development more fair and benefit all people.

Unsweetened fruits also have low sugar content? Not necessarily!

At the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, the hot weather is constant, the air is sultry, and people’s appetite is also getting worse. Therefore, cold and juicy fruits, such as watermelon, cantaloupe and peach, have become a "good heart" for many people. Nowadays, people’s health awareness has improved, and they know that some fruits have high sugar content and cannot eat too much. "Sugar" and "sweet" seem to be born together. Many people think that the unsweetened fruit must contain less sugar, and the sweeter fruit must contain more sugar.
Research shows that this is actually a misunderstanding. Whether the sugar content of fruit is high or not is not just as simple as whether it tastes sweet or not. For example, strawberries taste sweeter than pineapples, but the sugar content of strawberries is much lower than that of pineapples; Pitaya and kiwifruit taste sour, but their sugar content is higher than watermelon. The sweet and sour taste of fruit is closely related to the types of sugar and organic acids in the fruit itself.
Different sugars have different sweetness.
There are many kinds of sugar in fruit, including monosaccharide (fructose, glucose), disaccharide (sucrose, maltose) and polysaccharide (starch). Professionally, the sweetness of sucrose is 1, the sweetness of fructose is 1.2, and the sweetness of glucose is 0.7. Fruits with the same sugar content and high fructose content will taste sweeter.
Taking pitaya and watermelon as examples, because the sugar of pitaya is mainly glucose, and fructose accounts for more than half of the sugar of watermelon, the sweetness of watermelon is higher than that of pitaya. But in terms of sugar content, the sugar content of watermelon is lower than that of pitaya. Many people think that watermelon is very sweet, and its sugar content must be high, but on the contrary, the sugar content of watermelon is only 5%-6%, which is lower than that of apples used by many people to lose weight. Although the sugar content of watermelon is low, it is easy to eat it. Some people question: "Can eating an apple be the same as eating a watermelon?" Netizen said: You can’t blame watermelon for eating too much!
The fruit that tastes very sweet has high or low sugar content, so the fruit that is not sweet must have low sugar content, right? This is really not certain! Take pear, kiwi fruit and apricot as examples, the total amount of fructose, sucrose and glucose is about 10%, but the proportion is quite different.
If we only look at the type and proportion of sugar, pear should be the sweetest, followed by kiwi fruit and apricot at last. Some people wonder: does kiwi fruit have so much fructose? The kiwifruit I have eaten is not very sweet. This is because there are not only "sugar" but also "acid" in fruit. For example, organic acids such as citric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid, and polyphenols such as astringent tannins will make fruits less sweet.
Experts suggest that adults should consume 200-350 grams of fruit every day.
In real life, many people worry that eating fruits with high sugar content will lead to obesity. For people who want to lose weight, they can try to avoid "high-sugar" fruits such as grapes, durians and cherries. According to the Balanced Diet Pagoda for China Residents recommended by China Nutrition Society (2016), adults should consume 200-350g of fruit every day, which is equivalent to 1-2 apples or pears of normal size. Generally speaking, the fruit consumption of Chinese residents is obviously lower than this standard, which needs to be improved urgently. It should be noted that fruit is best eaten between meals. From a nutritional point of view, you can’t just eat fruit for dinner.
(Source: China Nutrition Society)
Some diabetics also expressed concern: fruit has a high sugar content, can it be eaten after all? In this regard, Nie Jiyun, a professor at the School of Horticulture of Qingdao Agricultural University and a member of the Expert Group on Agricultural Products Quality and Safety of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that diabetics can eat fruits properly, provided that their blood sugar is relatively stable, and they should follow the dietary principles of diabetics and not eat too much.
First of all, diabetics should be selective in the types of fruits. You can refer to the glycemic index (GI) of food, which indicates the speed and ability of food to raise blood sugar compared with glucose. Don’t judge the sugar content by the sweetness of the taste. Diabetic patients had better choose fruits with low GI, such as cherries, peaches, grapefruit, strawberries, apples and pears.
In addition to soluble sugars such as glucose, fructose and sucrose, there are quite a few sugars in fruits in the form of polysaccharides, such as gum and dietary fiber. The human body absorbs pectin and dietary fiber slowly, or even does not. Therefore, eating some fruits rich in pectin and dietary fiber, such as mulberry, hawthorn, pomegranate and fig, will not lead to significant fluctuations in blood sugar.
The following is a common fruit calorie ranking table for your reference:
(Source: Zhongxin Jingwei)
(Public Network Poster News Internship Editor Zhao Yawen Comprehensive CCTV, Science and Technology Daily, Poster News, etc.)
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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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To welcome the new year, Zhuhai launched the "New Year’s Day Joy Club"

In order to welcome the arrival of the New Year, from the evening of December 30th to the evening of January 1st, Yuanming New Garden in Zhuhai launched the "New Year’s Day Joy Club", which will stage a variety of activities, such as the "Dragon and Phoenix Becoming Auspicious" flight show, the Royal New Year Blessing Festival and set up an antique market.
It is reported that at 9: 00 every night, the aerobatic performance will make its debut in Zhuhai, and the models of dragon and phoenix will hover in the air with the music, giving citizens and tourists a unique visual experience. In addition, Yuanming New Garden will also launch special performing arts to create a happy atmosphere for the New Year in various forms such as sitcoms, dances and magic.
In the meantime, a large-scale stage sitcom "The Battle of Qi ‘ao Against Britain" will be staged in the park. Based on real events, the play was created to commemorate the feat of the people in Qi ‘ao, Zhuhai, who spontaneously armed themselves against the British smoking ban, and reappeared the moment when the villagers in Qi ‘ao fought with the British army to the death. In addition, an antique market was set up on the spot, which brought the citizens an immersive experience of playing and felt the charm of culture.
Text | Reporter Qian Yu
Figure | Lu Shaolong
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Chongqing International Talent Exchange Conference "Surfing the Waves and Running Forever" opened in Yongchuan, Chongqing.

On December 15th, Chongqing International Talent Exchange Conference "Surfing the Waves and Running Forever" opened in Yongchuan Convention and Exhibition Center, Chongqing. Nearly 500 academicians of the two academies, doctors and postdoctoral students from well-known universities at home and abroad, representatives from overseas Chinese and enterprises gathered together to seek common development and talk about the future, and jointly draw a beautiful blueprint for talents to lead innovation and innovation-driven development. Academician He Jishan and Peng Suping of China Academy of Engineering attended the event.
Event site. (Photo courtesy)
There are not only young doctoral representatives introduced full-time but also high-level talents introduced in the form of "specially invited experts". Five academicians of the two academies, including Huang Weihe and Luo An, and five top talents in the industry, including Xia Qingyou, Fang Ning and Xie Yingchao, were employed as special experts for decision-making consultation in Yongchuan District. Sichuan-Chongqing Zhi Gong Dang Overseas Chinese Poster Country Practice Base, Nordic Talent Liaison Service Station and Academician He Jishan Workstation were established one after another.
The breakout activity Mingjing International Young Talents Forum received more than 200 doctoral applications from famous universities and research institutions at home and abroad, and more than 60 outstanding young talents who met the development needs of the school came to communicate and dock forever. Among them, 18 doctors successfully passed the examination and entered the follow-up recruitment review process, and 9 doctors are willing to learn more.
During the activities of the conference, 225 high-level talents in short supply were registered by institutions in the whole region, and 26 professionals in the field of education and health entered the follow-up procedures through interviews. During the activities of the conference, the whole region has introduced more than 210 talents of all levels and types, and established more than 120 talent contacts.
The conference organically integrated attracting talents and attracting investment, and based on "talents lead innovation, innovation promotes industries, and industries gather talents", signed 36 projects with a total investment of 22.7 billion yuan. This signing project involves intelligent networked new energy vehicles, new energy motorcycles, intelligent equipment, deep processing of quartz sand, fiber and composite materials, paper and paper products, meta-universe, science and technology film and television and many other industrial fields. Among them, Chengdu Haidekang Pharmaceutical invested 2 billion yuan to build an international high-end innovative pharmaceutical preparation production base; Xinyi Group (Glass) invested 1.82 billion yuan to build high-end float and Low-E glass production projects, which will provide important kinetic energy for the development of Yongchuan advanced materials industry. In addition, more than 10 cutting-edge scientific and technological projects in the future have been reserved through this conference.
At the signing ceremony. (Photo courtesy)
According to reports, Yongchuan iteratively issued the "Several Measures on Further Strengthening Talent Work", forming a more active and open policy system around the whole chain of talents "introducing, educating and retaining". Focus on "one thing" in the whole cycle of talent innovation and entrepreneurship, improve and perfect the talent information resource database, and realize multi-span collaboration in the talent field and "free application and enjoyment" in the talent policy. Upgrade the "one-stop" service platform for talents, implement the "Yongchuan talent service card", open the "96008" talent service line, provide "housekeeper-style" consulting service for talents 24 hours a day, and build more than 3,500 sets of "carrying bags" talent apartments to actively create a good atmosphere for talents to innovate and start businesses.
On the same day, the first Mingjing International Young Talents Forum and the "Two Bases" high-quality development academician expert symposium were also held. On the evening of the activity, Yongchuan received good news: Yongchuan won the title of "Best Employer of the Year in China" in 2023 by the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, Peking University Social Investigation and Research Center and Zhaopin.
Zhang Zhikui, secretary of Chongqing Yongchuan District Party Committee, said that Yongchuan has always placed talent work in a prominent position, focused on revitalizing the city by gathering people, promoting production by retaining people in the city, and educating people in schools to improve production, and further promoting the talent gathering project of "chasing the waves and running forever" and accelerating the construction of influential talent centers and innovative highlands in the Shuangcheng Economic Circle in Chengdu and Chongqing. Yongchuan will help all kinds of talents to pursue dreams, build dreams and realize dreams with the greatest sincerity, the best environment and the best service.
It is understood that Yongchuan has a total of 192,300 talents, more than 460 high-level talents above the municipal level, 17 colleges and universities, and 180,000 students. It has built 374 talent development platforms such as Chongqing Yungu Big Data Industrial Park National Science and Technology Business Incubator and Chongqing Meta-Universe Technology Innovation Center. (China Daily Chongqing reporter station Tan Yingzi)
Source: China Daily.
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Can’t wait! Chelsea want to win Leipzig in January, and are interested in being a good frontcourt player in Brighton.

Chelsea have been paying attention to Nkunku for a long time. As many teams are eyeing this Leipzig Red Bull general, the Blues hope to win him first in the winter window. In this way, you can avoid joining the fierce battle for Ming Xia. The Blues know that it is not easy to take such an important player from Leipzig Red Bull in the middle of the season, and I’m afraid it will cost more money than Ming Xia. However, Chelsea is willing to do so, rather than wait until next summer to fight with other teams.

Nkunku has started 14 games in 15 games so far in the new season, and is the regular main force of the team. The data performance of scoring 10 goals and assisting once and participating in the team’s 16 goals is enough to show that this general is still in an excellent state in the new season, which is not much different from last season. As far as Leipzig Red Bull’s player operation strategy is concerned, the price-in-place area is, uh, no sale, but the club prefers to let Nkunku go at the end of the season, not in the middle. There was a player trade between Chelsea and Leipzig Red Bull. Werner is an example. At the beginning, the Blues met the buyout request of Leipzig Red Bull, and directly won Werner in full. This season, Leipzig Red Bull bought back, and Chelsea didn’t do much to block the price.

It can be seen that the two clubs still maintain a good relationship. Chelsea hope to use this relationship to persuade Leipzig Red Bull to let Nkunku go in the winter window, and the Blues will try their best to meet the requirements in terms of price. It is reported that Nkunku’s current transfer fee will reach 52 million pounds. It is reported that Chelsea has reached an agreement with the player on a five-year contract, but it has not yet been formally signed. Chelsea hope to finalize Nkunku’s joining as soon as possible to avoid big sleep. After all, there are many teams interested in Nkunku. Although an agreement has been reached with the players, after all, the contract has not been signed, and there will still be variables.

If the negotiations go well, the Blues even hope to reach an agreement with Leipzig Red Bull on the Nkunku deal before the World Cup starts. The current position of the Blues is to win Nkunku as soon as possible, while the Red Bull of Leipzig still insists on Ming Xia’s position of re-selling Nkunku. In addition to Nkunku, Chelsea also want to introduce another middle-front-back player, who is currently playing for Trossat in Brighton. When negotiating with Brighton about its coach Potter, the Blues noticed Trossat. This frontcourt player’s contract with Ming Xia will expire. If a team outside the Premier League persuades players to vote in January, then they can win it without a visa.

Now Atletico Madrid is very interested in Trossat, hoping to win the 27-year-old Argentine frontcourt attacker in the winter window. Chelsea will have to compete with Atletico Madrid, and the Blues have an advantage in the competition for Trossat. Porter had previously coached in Brighton and had a cooperative relationship with Trossat. If Porter contacts Trossat personally, the players will be more willing to vote. If he joins the Blues, Trossat doesn’t have to go to other leagues to get used to playing again. These are the advantages of Chelsea. However, Atletico won’t give up Trossat easily, and will make every effort to pursue it. The primary goal of Chelsea’s winter window is Nkunku, and Trossat is not the primary goal.