China Unicom: Building the Digital Silk Road with High Quality

"Intelligence and informatization are the development trends of the industry. Countries should strengthen exchanges and cooperation in the fields of 5G and artificial intelligence and share the fruits of technological development." During the activity of "Chinese Envoys Entering the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology" held on April 18th this year, more than 100 Chinese Envoys and representatives of international organizations visited China Unicom. When visiting China Unicom Innovation Experience Center, Lebanese Ambassador to China Miriya Jabr said.

"5G technology will bring profound changes to the world, but there is no 5G application in Botswana at present." Moluohua, Minister Counselor of Botswana Embassy in China, who was in close contact with the 5G application scene for the first time, was very interested in the digital transformation of 5G-enabled production mode in the exhibition hall. She said that the development experience of China was very inspiring and she looked forward to deepening cooperation with China in the fields of smart agriculture, education and infrastructure.

In recent years, China Unicom has made great efforts to improve its core competitiveness and sustainable development ability, achieved new results by promoting high-quality development with new weather and new actions, and helped Chinese modernization with digitalization, networking and intelligence. At the same time, China Unicom is actively building new digital infrastructure around the world to provide high-quality information and communication services to customers around the world. Especially in the past decade, China Unicom has thoroughly implemented the "Belt and Road" initiative, aiming at a new leap in development quality, a new layout of infrastructure, a new breakthrough in digital intelligence services, new scientific and technological innovations, and a new improvement in governance efficiency, expanding new space for international cooperation and building a digital Silk Road with high quality.

Building a new digital infrastructure

China Unicom not only has the international land and sea cable resources and backbone Internet with "East-West mutual aid, North-South mutual backup, land-sea cooperation and robust access" in the world, but also is providing high-quality computing load-bearing network, data center and cloud network edge integration services for users all over the world.

In July 2018, China Unicom set up a leading group to participate in the "Belt and Road" construction, and has worked out an annual action plan for the "Belt and Road" construction for six consecutive years to comprehensively promote the construction of digital information infrastructure.

In fact, the gradual maturity of China Unicom’s international business can be traced back to 2015. In May 2015, China Unicom International Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Unicom International"), which aims to provide a package of comprehensive information services to global customers, was formally established, becoming the preferred partner of international digital services for Chinese-funded enterprises to "go global" and foreign-funded enterprises to "come in".

Over the years, China Unicom has actively improved the network capabilities of countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative, and comprehensively planned the construction of global submarine optical cables, overseas land cables, submarine cable landing stations, international customs offices and cross-border land cables. At present, China Unicom has more than 20 land and cable border stations, and has completed interconnection with dozens of operators around it, many of which are unique resources with distinctive features. For example, several sets of large-capacity and low-delay wavelength division systems built between Shenzhen and Hong Kong are important channels connecting the mainland with Hong Kong and overseas; China-Russia, China-Mongolia and China-Kazakhstan land cables are important channels connecting Central Asia and Europe, while China-Laos, China-Vietnam and China-Myanmar land cables are important channels connecting ASEAN countries. At the same time, China Unicom enjoys capacity in more than 60 submarine cable systems, and multi-path terrestrial optical cables and multiple submarine cables in the direction of "Belt and Road" can be mutually safely backed up, connecting major countries and regions along the route. On May 12th, 2022, the SEA-H2X submarine cable initiated by China Unicom began to be laid, and it is planned to be put into operation in 2024. It will connect Hong Kong, China, Hainan, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, and further extend to Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia. After the completion of the submarine cable, it can effectively meet the demand for network bandwidth in Asia and accelerate the digital industrialization and industrial digitalization in Asia and the world.

Signing ceremony of Asia-Africa-Europe No.1 submarine cable project.

However, the layout of China Unicom is far more than that.

As early as August 2017, the China-Myanmar International Cross-border Optical Cable (CMI) jointly built by China Unicom and Myanmar MPT was completed and put into operation. This optical cable is a terrestrial optical cable trunk line project starting from Ruili, Yunnan, China, and running through the whole territory of Myanmar to Weishuang, Bay of Bengal, opening up a new channel from China to Europe and Africa. In addition, the Asia-Europe No.5 (SMW5) and Asia-Africa-Europe No.1 (AAE-1) submarine cables invested and constructed by China Unicom form a double submarine cable coverage along the Belt and Road, which can be extended to important urban business access points in France, Germany, Italy and other countries after landing.

It is understood that the Asia-Europe No.5 and Asia-Africa-Europe No.1 submarine cables are highly coincident with the Maritime Silk Road and are important communication infrastructures of the Belt and Road Initiative. It connects 19 countries from Hong Kong, China to Marseille, most of which are countries and regions along the Belt and Road, which enhances the robustness and security of the overall network from China to West Asia, South Asia, Africa and Europe. It is a demonstration project to discuss, build and share global communication infrastructure.

In November 2018, the South Atlantic International Submarine Cable (SAIL) participated by China Unicom was officially put into production, with a total length of 6,000 kilometers. It is the first new intercontinental fast direct submarine cable channel across the South Atlantic and connecting the African continent and the South American continent. As an important communication infrastructure in the southern hemisphere, the South Atlantic international submarine optical cable has opened up a new channel for Internet exports in western Africa and South America, and promoted the deepening of international cooperation in the digital economy.

The Asia Direct (ADC) submarine cable project is also an important project for China Unicom to implement the Belt and Road Initiative. This project is a submarine cable project to strengthen the layout of the Asia-Pacific region. It was launched at the end of February 2020 and jointly invested by China Unicom and international operators. The submarine cable will land in China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and other countries, with a total length of more than 6,500 kilometers.

In order to further implement the "Belt and Road Initiative" and effectively support the construction of digital gateway in South Asia, China Unicom held the opening ceremony of Lhasa regional international communication service import and export bureau in August 2022. After the completion of Lhasa regional international communication service import and export bureau, it will meet the needs of international business development for South Asian countries, improve the service quality of international communication services for South Asian countries, and provide favorable conditions for global economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation.

China Unicom uses its own advantages to implement the innovation-driven development strategy and accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance; Through the development of a unified SDN intelligent management and control platform, the enhanced functions such as customized QoS and rapid distribution of configuration of data network can be realized, and it has become one of the main service providers connecting Hong Kong and overseas in the mainland, America and Central Asia and Europe in East Asia, and Southeast Asian countries in China.

Provide quality communication services.

Quality service can create a good reputation. China Unicom continues to create value for customers and provide impetus and support for the development of the global digital economy by creating an ecosystem of countries and regions along the Belt and Road.

In many countries and regions along the Belt and Road in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Unicom International has actively established an international talent team, rationally deployed the "Belt and Road" human resources by recruiting local people, giving full play to the advantages of global talents and enhancing customer experience.

Since the beginning of this year, Unicom International has completed the strategic layout of representative offices in Laos, Hungary and Mongolia. So far, Unicom International has more than 30 branches around the world, and more than 130 overseas business access points covering Asia, North America, Europe, Oceania, Africa and South America.

With the increase of branches, the intelligent evolution of China Unicom’s network has also achieved remarkable results. The relevant person in charge of Unicom International said that Unicom’s overseas data network has completed the evolution of SDN, and the SDN rate has reached 100%. In addition, the network robustness is continuously improved, so that the global traffic is further balanced and the network stability is effectively improved. The two indicators of Internet delay and packet loss rate remain the best in the industry throughout the year.

In terms of mobile roaming services for the public, China Unicom has included more than 100 countries and regions along the Belt and Road into the international roaming "Baotian tariff zone". Since 2020, China Unicom has lowered the international long-distance and international roaming tariffs of more than 100 countries and regions, with the largest drop of 89%. Through product optimization and tariff concessions, China Unicom has become the "chief consultant for international smart application of inbound and outbound business customers"; The number of VoLTE and 5G NSA service operators has increased from 11 to 75, and the activity of "Travel the world freely and use the traffic at will" covers China, Hong Kong, Macao, 10 ASEAN countries, Australia and New Zealand, providing great convenience for Unicom customers to use the traffic abroad. In terms of providing high-quality digital services for "going out" enterprises, we have focused on key industries such as industrial manufacturing, finance, government media, transportation and logistics, energy and e-commerce, and created "One Belt, One Road" international express products. Unicom SD-WAN products have achieved global coverage, and cloud networking services have covered the resource pools of major overseas partners. In building the "Belt and Road" circle of friends, we provide professional services to more than 3,000 corporate customers around the world, work closely with more than 1,000 partners, strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

At present, China Unicom is providing local Internet bandwidth services to more than 200 institutions and enterprises in Hong Kong and cross-border circuit services to more than 500 institutions and enterprises. In China Unicom (Hongkong) Tseung Kwan O Smart Cloud Data Center, more than 50 government agencies and corporate customers in Internet, finance, energy, retail and other industries have settled in, enjoying the safe and reliable professional services of China Unicom. It is worth mentioning that Tseung Kwan O Smart Cloud Data Center covers the data centers of HKEx and large banks, and can realize millisecond network connection with the financial industry. The low delay of 0.2 milliseconds with HKEx is a scarce resource in the industry, and it is a veritable international financial customer service center.

On December 3, 2021, China-Laos Railway, a landmark project of building the Belt and Road with high quality, was officially opened to traffic. It is reported that China Unicom Yunnan Branch and Yunnan Telecom have overcome the difficulties of complicated terrain and achieved the coverage of the entire line of 4G network in China-Laos Railway. The tunnel adopts the way of seamless connection between communication leakage cables and outdoor signals, and realizes special functions such as Doppler frequency offset compensation, cell merger and fast switching, so as to ensure that passengers can connect to stable network signals on high-speed trains. Not only that, Yunnan Unicom also achieved 5G network coverage in key areas such as stations. After testing, the download rate reached 860Mbps.

In the future, China Unicom will continue to join hands with partners at home and abroad to build the Digital Silk Road, actively lay out the new digital information infrastructure capabilities of "high-speed ubiquity, integration of heaven and earth, integration of cloud and network, intelligence and agility, green and low-carbon, security and controllability", improve the digital intelligence service level through scientific and technological innovation, and provide new kinetic energy, new value and new wisdom for the digital economy development of countries and regions along the Belt and Road with high-quality, safe and reliable products, services and solutions.

Improve the livelihood and well-being of local people.

As the third largest population in Africa and the third largest economy on the African continent, the supply and storage conditions of medical resources in Egypt are relatively limited, with a large geographical gap and uneven distribution.

"Because of the high temperature and poor storage conditions, not only Egypt, but also most countries in Africa are facing the problem of insufficient supply of medical materials." Longfei, the project manager of China Unicom, shared his experiences in Africa and told his excitement when he learned about the demand for digital construction of cold storage: "This is a project with a thousand times more significance than profit!"

In 2022, the Egyptian government issued the goal of achieving 70% vaccination rate for all people, which put forward extremely high requirements for the local production capacity, storage capacity, cold storage capacity, deployment capacity and logistics capacity of Egyptian vaccines. China Unicom joined hands with China Kexing and China Construction Eighth Bureau to jointly build the Egyptian vaccine cold storage, and the input hardware and software customization intelligence have reached the international advanced level. At the same time, the cold storage is also the largest vaccine storage center in Egypt and even Africa, which will greatly improve the cold chain storage and transportation capacity of vaccines in Egypt in the future and further improve the vaccine supply chain in Africa.

The smart warehouse project invested by China Unicom this time has a construction area of 2,800 square meters and a storage capacity of 150 million doses. China Unicom has built an intelligent warehouse management system based on Internet of Things technology. By applying technologies such as sensors, wireless communication and cloud computing to warehouse management, it can realize automatic management from warehousing to warehousing. By improving the operation efficiency of the warehouse system, it can reduce the operating cost of cold storage and ensure the safety of vaccine storage.

"Compared with China, the local digitalization level in Egypt is relatively backward. In the past, warehouse management needed to be manually entered, and there were many categories to fill in. The process was complicated, the work was heavy, and the error rate was particularly high." Longfei pointed to the flow chart of each link of the system. "Our system effectively controls and tracks all links in the whole life cycle of the cold storage business, provides perfect information management of vaccine cold storage, reduces manual participation, reduces management costs, realizes the intelligence and automation of warehouse management, and improves the efficiency, controllability and safety of warehouse management."

Help China enterprises "go global"

Under the traction of the Belt and Road Initiative, China enterprises have actively promoted investment cooperation with countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative. As a representative enterprise of China’s manufacturing industry, Great Wall Motor has actively deployed all over the world, built its third overseas wholly-owned manufacturing plant in Luo Yong Industrial Park in Thailand, radiated the ASEAN region with Thailand as the center, and exported its products to other ASEAN countries and Australia.

It is the first difficult problem for Great Wall Motor to quickly put into production to carry out digital information transformation of the acquired old factories. China Unicom and Great Wall Motor actively communicate in multi-departments, multi-aspects and multi-nodes, grasp the core problems and demands in the actual operation process, respond quickly, and complete the transformation of industrial network and office network system, new monitoring system replacement, new and old unified communication system construction and wireless network coverage in the park based on the principle of utilizing the old. "It is more difficult to rebuild a factory than to build three new ones. We should not only consider the production scenarios, but also maximize the value of old industrial plants." Liu Ya Lin Rushi, project manager of China Unicom, said.

In just seven months, China Unicom and the Great Wall Motor team have worked closely together to rejuvenate the old factory from the inside out: the digital production network and international dedicated line that meet the requirements of modern production have replaced the old network infrastructure, and the IT system to ensure its domestic and foreign interconnection and cooperation has been launched in the core computer room. The electromechanical distribution and lighting equipment in the park has been more scientific and safe after deepening transformation …

Empowering digital economy to accelerate development

The year 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (hereinafter referred to as "China-ASEAN Expo" and "Summit"). Over the past 20 years, China and ASEAN countries have continuously reached a consensus on cooperation, enhanced strategic mutual trust, and strengthened cultural exchanges, thus promoting the sustained and in-depth development of China-ASEAN relations. China Unicom has always kept pace with the development of China-ASEAN Expo and the Summit, accelerated the construction of communication infrastructure and contributed to the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.

With the rapid development of regional economy between China and ASEAN, and the rapid growth of China-ASEAN trade, people’s exchanges have become increasingly frequent. From laying the first optical cable line between Guangxi and ASEAN countries, to establishing Nanning International Bureau to build an international gateway for 10 ASEAN countries, and then to enabling China and ASEAN countries to develop their digital economy, China Unicom has actively accelerated the construction of information and communication infrastructure, and built a digital "connecting bridge" with 10 ASEAN countries through information and communication interconnection.

The construction of communication infrastructure and the improvement of connectivity have provided strong support for the development of digital economy in China and ASEAN countries. On the basis of the previous period, China Unicom has successively opened international direct channels from Nanning to Vietnam, Nanning to Laos and Nanning to Myanmar, actively expanding the outbound data services of domestic corporate customers and ASEAN countries, providing business continuity and international transmission network services for the international outbound services of domestic governments, banks and enterprises to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, and assisting customers to expand their international business in Southeast Asia and Europe.

At the beginning of September this year, China Unicom actively cooperated with China-ASEAN Economic and Trade Center to create a "one-stop digital communication service" window, providing specialized international communication services for domestic "going out" enterprises and "brought in" enterprises in ASEAN region, providing international digital private line services and cross-border cloud connection, cross-border office applications, overseas IDC customization, ITO and other communication services for foreign-related enterprises, as well as consulting and handling services for data traffic sharing services in 47 countries.

Up to now, China Unicom has provided more than 300 outbound business circuits for domestic industries and ASEAN countries, over 120 international inbound business circuits and over 240 cooperation projects, enabling ASEAN countries to develop their digital economy.

Expand new space for international cooperation.

Under the general trend of global market integration, China Unicom focuses on key industries such as industrial manufacturing, finance, media, transportation and logistics, energy and e-commerce, providing one-stop products and solutions for customers around the world, and continuously creating value for customers in countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative.

On the afternoon of December 15th, 2022, Egypt time, the glass fiber production line of China Jushi Egypt Company with an annual output of 120,000 tons was successfully ignited. After the project is put into operation, the annual production capacity of Jushi Egyptian Glass Fiber Base will reach 340,000 tons, making it the largest glass fiber production base in Africa, which not only fills the blank of glass fiber manufacturing in the whole Middle East and North Africa, but also has a "milestone" significance for the internationalization strategy of china glass’s fiber industry.

"Jushi Group has two local factories. We installed security systems for the two factories through digital means. From the LED large-screen display system of the main factory, we can understand the security situation of the whole factory and deal with it in advance." The relevant person in charge of China Unicom introduced.

To help the digital transformation of global enterprise intelligent manufacturing, we must not only base ourselves on the present, but also focus on the future. China Unicom makes full use of its successful experience in intelligent manufacturing projects for many years. While completing the wired coverage and comprehensive wiring project of the overall regional network, it also adds reserved points and related resources for the later factory capacity improvement and equipment expansion.

Guinea, located on the west coast of West Africa, is one of the countries with the richest natural resources in the world and one of the least developed countries in Africa. Guinea’s economy is dominated by agriculture and mining, and its industrial base is weak, so its food cannot be self-sufficient. China Unicom Boffa Bauxite Mine Car Networking Radio Communication Project settled here.

5G/4G-NAS integrated system, microwave transmission system, video monitoring system, VHF communication system, vehicle positioning anti-theft oil and load metering system … Various advanced scientific and technological means have been applied in Boffa bauxite mine project, which has created one industrial miracle after another for Guinea: cloud cameras are placed on communication towers in ports and mines, and the basic network of mine vehicle positioning system is guaranteed by cloud computing capability; With 5G/4GNSA and expanded VHF interconnected with existing networks and systems in port camps, functions such as dispatching control, on-board metering, vehicle condition monitoring, electronic door, electronic map, mobile machinery positioning and trajectory playback, abnormal fuel consumption alarm, vehicle electronic fence, etc. are realized; The dispatching intelligent center is equipped with two LED display screens, which can realize real-time access to vehicle positioning, video monitoring and other functions; Install the positioning acquisition device on the vehicle, upload the data to the platform server, and perform data visualization and graphical display by algorithm calculation …

Today, Boffa Bauxite has provided vehicle networking services for more than 10,000 commercial vehicles, meeting the requirements of vehicle performance monitoring and safety fault detection. It has not only achieved less or even unmanned processes, but also made beneficial exploration for African mining and extractive industries, and contributed China experience and China wisdom to the process of industrial modernization in Africa.

The road is far away, and the sea is wide and wide.

From "hard Unicom" to "soft Unicom" and then to "heart Unicom", China Unicom is becoming the value creator of international digital services trusted by customers, empowering customers in thousands of industries around the world. The Belt and Road Initiative originated in China, but the opportunities and achievements belong to the world. Facing the future, China Unicom will adhere to the principle of "promoting the building of a community of human destiny", rely on its own advantages in network, data, technology and users, brainstorm ideas and build consensus with the industrial chain, expand new space for international cooperation, and strive to create a bright future of "One Belt, One Road" open cooperation and win-win development.

The original big reversal! Cai Xukun denied being underage, was slapped in the face by the paparazzi, and the photos of the two intimate kissing were exposed

Original twist! Cai Xukun denied being underage and was slapped in the face by paparazzi. Photos of the two kissing intimately were also shown at the scene.

The content is not long, mainly to say: I did date Ms. C, both of whom were of legal age at the time, and nothing illegal happened. There used to be pigtails, but now they are all solved.

I have also suffered a lot in the past two years, and I will be more strict with myself in the future.

The netizens summed up Cai Xukun’s words: I’m really pregnant, I’m really going to have a miscarriage, and I still want to make money in the entertainment industry in the future.

Cai Xukun’s fans said: I will trust my brother and continue to support him!

But netizens found many loopholes in Cai Xukun’s words. First, the paparazzi reported that Cai Xukun’s mother asked a private detective to install a camera at the door of Ms. C’s house, which seriously violated Ms. C’s privacy and was suspected of violating the law.

Cai Xukun claims to "protect Ms. C’s privacy", but installs a camera at her door, which is the greatest invasion of privacy.

In addition, Cai Xukun’s words were entirely excerpted by his mother, but many of the actual operations were carried out by Cai Xukun and his mother.

Cai Xukun also said that he lived in self-blame and remorse. But after Mrs. C revealed that she was pregnant, Cai Xukun immediately investigated and suspected that the girl had ulterior motives and tried to force the girl to have an abortion.

If it was really because of the girl, he shouldn’t have taken such illegal and extreme measures. No matter how he looked at it, Cai Xukun didn’t seem to blame or regret it.

Cai Xukun said the two were "dating," but according to the paparazzi, the two met for the first time on the 20th and fell in love on the 21st. Because they were so careless and casual, Cai Xukun and his mother could not believe that their son had won once.

And Cai Xukunming doesn’t want children, but he doesn’t take protective measures when having sex, which really shows his lack of responsibility and responsibility.

Soon after, Cai Xukun’s studio released a statement saying that it had filed a lawsuit against netizens suspected of insulting and defaming, and that the evidence collection work had been completed and the materials had been submitted to the court.

The whole thing is really as "frivolous" as Cai Xukun said, why didn’t he reply immediately?

It took him five or six days to issue an unconvincing and flawed statement. The most critical issue of "private surveillance, invasion of privacy" is absolutely unacceptable to the public.

This incident even "disturbed" Zhuo Wei, who had been silent for a long time. Zhuo Wei even wrote a poem for the upper class, which made the direction of the story even more mysterious.

The Taiwanese paparazzi Ge Siqi’s decision to confront Cai Xukun directly means that what the paparazzi have is not what it appears.

Paparazzi Yang Yang also said: That’s it? Waiting is your piece of paper!

Then, paparazzi Yang Yang broke the news that a fan had met Cai Xukun at an event, and the two also added contact information.

Later, the girl had two relationships with Cai Xukun. She went to Cai Xukun’s house and was thirsty. Cai Xukun gave her a glass of orange juice, but she didn’t know what was in it. After drinking it, she felt dizzy.

When the girl went to Cai Xukun’s house, his mobile phone was confiscated and he was not allowed to take pictures.

The girl also had an intimate photo with Cai Xukun. This photo was taken by Cai Xukun’s assistant and handed to the girl. Subsequently, the assistant was fired by Cai Xukun.

Then the girl who was supposed to announce the news said that she began to like Cai Xukun when she was 13 years old, and when she fell in love with Cai Xukun, he was only 17 years old!

The girl also said that Cai Xukun’s father also often gambled and lost a lot of money.

"Xuan" is that while Cai Xukun replied, Wang Feng announced his concert with a hammer on Weibo.

Wang Feng’s reputation of "all melons have come out" has been confirmed once, just like Xiao Jingteng, he must be convinced!

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The price of cherries has dropped, but the price of most fruits may increase slightly before the Spring Festival.

Recently, the price of cherries has been falling continuously. According to the statistics of Beijing Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, the average wholesale price of cherries was 330 yuan/kg on October 31, 2023, and decreased to 120 yuan/kg on December 31, and further decreased to 73 yuan/kg on January 20, 2024.

"The price of cherries plunged rapidly in the short term, mainly due to the rapid increase in supply." Zhao Junye, a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Information of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told the reporter.

The sales season of imported Chilean cherries in China is from December to February of the following year. Before that, in October and November, the import of cherries sold in the market was small and mainly by air, with high transportation cost and high price. In December, a large number of cherries arrived in Hong Kong by sea, and the supply increased rapidly. Because the cost of sea transportation was significantly lower than that of air transportation, the sales price dropped rapidly.

Taking the 2022/2023 season as an example, January 2023 was the month with the largest import of Chilean cherries, with an import volume of 240,000 tons, accounting for 66% of the total import volume in the season. In December 2022 and February 2023, Chilean cherries imported 54,000 tons and 58,000 tons respectively, accounting for 14.8% and 15.9% of the total imports in the production season, and the total imports in other months accounted for only 3.4%.

According to the previous forecast of the Chilean Fruit Exporters Association, the peak shipment of Chilean cherries this season appeared from December 18 to 24, 2023. It is expected that the arrival will be the most concentrated in January 2024, and the peak shipping period will last until early February, and it will begin to decrease after the Spring Festival. The intensive arrival of imported cherries in Hong Kong led to a rapid and sharp drop in prices. In the later period, with the increasing supply of Chilean cherries, there is still room for price decline.

The decline in the price of cherries is also related to the listing of domestic big cherries to seize the high-end fruit market before the Spring Festival. Domestic greenhouse cherries from Yantai, Shandong Province and Dalian, Liaoning Province have recently been listed in small quantities, with excellent quality and high freshness, which provides more choices for consumers to buy fresh cherries.

Despite the sharp drop in the price of cherries, the prices of other high-end fruits are generally stable, such as durian. Because of the low temperature in the early stage, the price of strawberries rose significantly at the end of December and the beginning of January. Recently, with the increase in market volume, the price has dropped.

Recently, many merchants in Beijing Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market reported that the amount of high-end fruits was less than in previous years. "It takes a long time from New Year’s Day to Spring Festival this year, which lengthens the consumption period and the stocking period and slows down the sales rhythm. In addition, the strong sales of fruits on the e-commerce platform also pushed down the price. " Zhao Junyi said.

Regarding the trend of fruit prices before the Spring Festival, Zhao Junye said that most fruit prices are expected to show a slight upward trend due to the demand for stocking during the Spring Festival. With the improvement of domestic economy and the acceleration of tourism recovery, there is still room for growth in the consumption of high-end and branded gifts and fruits before the holiday.

It is expected that the price of most fruits will increase slightly before the Spring Festival. In the later period, the fruit market will be dominated by large varieties such as apples, oranges, pears and bananas, supplemented by special fruits such as strawberries, big cherries and durians and high-priced fruits, with sufficient total quantity and diverse varieties.

In terms of varieties, the supply of watermelons and grapes continued to decrease, pushing up prices. The inventory and price of apples are at historical highs. Before the Spring Festival, driven by the demand for stocking by merchants, the price is expected to increase steadily and slightly. Pear varieties are rich, and the selective diversification is beneficial to the sustained growth of consumption. It is expected that the price will continue to rise slightly before the Spring Festival. However, due to the significant increase in supply of some fruits, the upward momentum is insufficient.

Volvo XC90 new energy price reduction news in Xi’an! 186,000 discounts, sufficient cars

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In the seat section, the front seats are available in fabric and leather materials, equipped with front and rear adjustment, backrest adjustment, height adjustment (4-way) and leg rest adjustment, as well as waist support (4-way) to ensure comfort during long-distance driving. The driver and passenger seats also have a power seat memory function to provide passengers with personalized sitting posture. The second row of seats also supports front and rear adjustment and backrest adjustment to meet the needs of different passengers. At the same time, the rear seats support proportional reclining, which increases spatial flexibility and is very practical for carrying goods or family travel.

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Volvo XC90 New Energy is equipped with a 2.0T turbocharged engine with a maximum power of 228 kilowatts and a maximum torque of 400 Nm, providing a strong power output. This engine is equipped with 310 horsepower and an 8-speed automatic transmission, providing the driver with a smooth driving experience.

Summarizing the owner’s evaluation, he obviously has a soft spot for the exterior design of the Volvo XC90 new energy, especially the simple atmospheric lines of the body and the eye-catching Thor’s hammer headlights, which makes him very satisfied. He mentioned that the design of the front of the car seems to have left a deep impression on him, and even thinks that the score of the front of the car surpasses the rear of the car. Such detailed evaluation undoubtedly enhances the brand perception of the XC90 new energy in the hearts of consumers.

"willful" technology expert: it is not easy to invent a robot to work by hand brushing glue.

  Probe into the "National Skill Master Studio" of South Sichuan Machinery Factory of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

  In China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Chuannan Machinery Factory, there is a national skill master studio. It is full of "willful" technology experts — — I am almost obsessed with R&D and innovation. "Even if I fall asleep in the middle of the night, I will get up and write down the ideas immediately."

  It was they who assembled and processed more than 200 types of supporting initiating explosive devices, such as Long March rockets and Shenzhou spacecraft, and made their own contributions to the successful rendezvous and docking of Shenzhou-10 and Tiangong-1 in China. How is this national "master studio" tempered? Recently, Huaxi Dushi Bao reporter made a visit to this.

  The unique cultural wall is printed with a "broken finger hand model"

  Walking into the national "master studio", the reporter of Huaxi Dushi Bao found a unique right hand handprint model printed on a cultural wall. The middle finger of this hand model is obviously half shorter than the other fingers, and there are eight big characters written on it, "Pay attention to safety and remember the lessons".

  Yang Yinyu raised his right hand and said that this handprint is his. In 1981, Yang Yinyu just entered the South Sichuan Machinery Factory. As an apprentice, when he was operating at the stamping operation site, two middle fingers of his right hand were cut off because of illegal operation of the machine. "At that time, I was lucky, and the result was the price of finger disability."

  Yang Yinyu said, "The safety risk at this point is very high. If there is fatigue operation or lack of concentration or machine failure, accidents will occur." How to avoid this kind of accident? After becoming a technical leader, Yang Yinyu realized that fine technical operation can’t be based on personal experience, but must come up with a set of fine operating standards and norms.

  In 2004, South Sichuan Machinery Factory carried out "6S" management activities from top to bottom, which inspired Yang Yinyu’s management enthusiasm and potential as the monitor of the locksmith class. 6S are six elements: arrangement, rectification, cleanliness, standardization, literacy and safety. With this east wind, they finally formed a set of "50 Fine Management Rules".

  In order to strictly implement the "50 Articles of Fine Management", Yang Yinyu specially painted his right hand shape on the cultural wall to remind everyone to remember the lesson. In order to avoid the damage caused by machine failure, everyone also tried to do a set of machine protection measures, "If the machine fails, it will call the police". Such an effect is immediate. Since 2004, there has been no man-made safety accident in the stamping operation site of Yang Yinyu’s team for 12 consecutive years.

  It’s too difficult to create an atmosphere and brush glue, so build a robot to do it.

  If he hadn’t entered Workshop 204 of Yang Yinyu’s team in 2015, young Wang Chenglong might still be an ordinary worker in South Sichuan Machinery Factory.

  "The workshop where I used to work was mainly engaged in processing work, and now the workshop I am waiting for is mainly responsible for assembly." Wang Chenglong introduced that he came to Yang Yinyu’s team and was wrapped in a strong atmosphere of R&D and innovation. At the same time, he saw that a lot of work in the workshop was still in the original manual state.

  "At that time, one of my jobs was to brush the glue for the gunpowder box." Wang Chenglong said that the production of an ignition powder box often requires the cooperation of four workers. One person is responsible for brushing the glue, one person is responsible for covering the cloth, one person is responsible for wiping off the excess glue, and one person checks it.

  For Wang Chenglong, the job of brushing glue is "too difficult". It is only controlled by hand. If you are not careful, you have to start again. "I look very anxious every day, and the output is really low, but it is used for aerospace series more and more." He began to think, innovation is being promoted from top to bottom in the workshop, and everyone has their own innovative small products. Why can’t they invent and innovate a machine to help complete this work?

  In May 2015, Wang Chenglong began to fully contact with research and invention. When I go to work during the day, I take advantage of my off-duty or weekend time, and even set aside a studio for my own innovation in my newly bought house.

  In July and August, Luzhou was in full swing. Many nights, Wang Chenglong went shirtless and studied in a stuffy little room without air conditioning until the early hours of the morning; Even if he finally lies down to rest, his machine is still haunting him in his dream. Wang Chenglong’s innovation was not smooth sailing. In his view, the "unsolvable problem" almost made him give up several times. "If it weren’t for the encouragement and support of Teacher Yang and colleagues in the workshop, I might not be able to do it."

  Wang Chenglong said that in the process of machine development, how the machine can evenly brush the glue for the box once troubled him. "I always think about using a brush, but it is difficult to guarantee uniformity; Later, a colleague reminded me why I didn’t try it with a syringe. " It is this reminder that the needle brushing method developed by Wang Chenglong succeeded.

  In November, the successfully debugged "Automatic Assembly Robot for Igniting Powder Box Covering and Sticking" was brought to the factory workshop by Wang Chenglong for trial use. At the end of December, the robot was officially put into the assembly work in the factory. This little robot directly shoulders the workload of the three people in the team.

  "We needed four people to do this job before, and the pass rate was only 50%." Yang Yinyu introduced that after using the robot, only one person needs to operate the machine, and the product qualification rate can reach 95%. Nowadays, most of the assembly work of gunpowder boxes in the factory is undertaken by Yang Yinyu’s team, and Wang Chenglong’s innovative robot, South Sichuan Machinery Factory, also intends to copy it again, and put more effort into the production of gunpowder boxes, so as to promote the development of the whole factory towards semi-automation and automation.

  Exploring the "national" global vision is the source of its power.

  Yang Yinyu’s skill master studio was formerly known as Yang Yinyu’s team of South Sichuan Machinery Factory of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Because of its remarkable achievements in personnel training, management innovation and team building, it was rated as Sichuan Skill Master Studio in 2014 and upgraded to a national skill master studio in 2015.

  In their study room, there are nearly 100 medals and award-winning certificates, large and small. The National Worker Pioneer, the National Quality Trustworthy Team, the Advanced Manned Spaceflight Team, the Gold Team of Sichuan Aerospace Technology Research Institute, and the Gold Team of China Aerospace Group are all in this room. In addition, there are innovative inventions of team members.

  Since 2004, Yang Yinyu’s team members have invented more than 100 large and small tooling machines, which have solved many problems in their work, but in Yang Yinyu’s view, these are far from enough. "We still have a long way to go towards the goal of realizing automatic operation." Yang Yinyu said that innovation can never stop.

  Not long ago, Wang Chenglong collected the differences of light bulb manufacturing between Japan and China, and communicated with the team members. After reading the contents collected by Wang Chenglong, everyone was shocked. "You can clearly see the difference. There was no one in the Japanese workshop, and there were many people in our workshop. " Yang Yinyu said, "This shows that there is still a big gap between our country’s machinery manufacturing industry and advanced countries. Our team members should work harder for this." In the view of Yang Yinyu and his team members, when doing their job well, it is not limited to their own small studio, but the source of motivation for this studio is to look at the world, learn from advanced technology, and constantly study and innovate.

  Huaxi City Reader Xu Qing Photo courtesy of Propaganda Department of Luzhou Municipal Committee

Toyota is in trouble again! The appearance of Willanda is the highlight.

The brand-new still uses the sense of muscle, and the details have changed a lot. In terms of body lines, Willanda adopts Toyota’s family-style overall design. The trapezoidal air intake grille is very three-dimensional, with sharp headlights on both sides, and the internal light groups are patchwork, which makes it bright when lit. The whole side of the car body is still Toyota’s unique appearance, and the enchanting figure is vividly displayed! The front and rear wheel design looks very powerful. At the same time, Fangzheng’s rear design echoes the front, and the split taillights also have a certain sense of advanced.

In terms of the car, the car is also very classic. The steering wheel is full of movement. The central control panel is made of plastic and leather, and the materials and workmanship look quite satisfactory. The 10.1-inch central control panel is simple in screen design, but fully functional. The front row is also equipped with a manual air conditioning control system, allowing you to freely debug the most comfortable space atmosphere. The seat is relatively three-dimensional and can firmly grasp the family.

The length, width and height are 4665×1855×1680mm respectively, and the wheelbase has reached 2690 mm. In the same class, the wheelbase of Willanda ranks 83rd. As an SUV, its body size does not occupy much advantage in its class, and its internal seating space is only basically enough. After all, it is limited by the length and shape of the body. The skylight of the premium version of the Wilanda dual-engine 2.5L four-wheel drive provides a larger view, which can create a better visual environment and good sensitivity for the rear passengers and increase the light entrance for the whole vehicle. Among the models of the same price and class, the trunk volume of Willanda ranks 17th. The shape is very regular, and the storage volume is absolutely no problem for daily use.

Willanda is equipped with a 2.5 engine with a maximum output of 131kW and a maximum torque of 221Nm. 2.5 The power performance of the engine on the Willanda is quite satisfactory, the low torque is weak and the hysteresis can be felt. Ranked 49 th among 120,000-180,000 SUV models.

Wilanda’s active/passive safety configuration is complete, includingAutomatic parkingZero tire pressure endurance tireAutomatic parkingSteep slope descenthill start assist controlknee airbagHUD head-up displayAnti-lock braking (ABS)Braking force distribution (EBD/CBC, etc.)Brake assist (EBA/BAS, etc.)Traction control (ASR/TCS, etc.)Active noise reductionEngine start and stopSide safety air curtainWireless charging of mobile phonenight vision systemLED daytime running lightsForward reversing radarTire pressure monitoringSteering wheel heatingBody stability control (ESP/DSC, etc.)Rear reversing radarFatigue reminderRemote parkingChild seat interfaceLane keeping (LKAS)Equal configuration.

Among them,Automatic parkingYou can avoid stepping on the brakes for a long time or needing to pull frequently;Steep slope descentCan safely pass through steep slope road conditions at low speed;knee airbagReduce the injury of the car interior to the occupant’s knees in the secondary collision.

In order to get a more comprehensive and objective understanding of Willanda, you can go to the Easy Car Willanda Forum and browse the messages of users who have bought the car in history.

Shanghai’s "departure confirmation" helps to improve customs clearance time limit

  (Reporter He Yi) In the first three quarters of this year, the foreign customs under Shanghai Customs handled a total of 208,000 tickets for water-water transit goods at sea ports, up 2.8% year-on-year. Among them, 51,000 TEU "departure confirmation" mode goods were quickly transferred to customs, covering more than 30 ports along the Yangtze River in 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

  The so-called "departure confirmation" mode means that after the name of the inland river vessel is confirmed and the tally is completed, the imported goods are allowed to leave the port for declaration, and after receiving the "departure receipt", the goods can leave the port and be shipped to the destination. Compared with the traditional customs transit mode, the "departure confirmation" mode does not need to fill in the port tally data, nor does it need to fill in the name and voyage of the branch river vessel, which not only improves the customs clearance time, but also reduces the labor cost of enterprises.

  For example, recently, a batch of 528 tons of dissolved wood pulp imported by the Yangtze River was successfully transferred from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port to Jiujiang, Jiangxi under the mode of "departure confirmation", and it took only two hours from the time when the enterprise started to declare and the customs released the goods to the terminal company to put them in boxes, saving one to two days of transit time.

  Tongjiang Dahai is the most remarkable location advantage of Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port Area. As one of the pilot ports of the "departure confirmation" mode of water transport import transit, the foreign customs actively expanded the pilot scope on the basis of summing up the previous pilot experience, and has now completed pairing operations with eight customs areas in the Yangtze River basin, such as Nanjing, Hefei, Changsha, Wuhan, Nanchang and Chengdu, realizing full coverage in the Yangtze River basin and helping to improve the customs clearance efficiency of the "golden waterway".

  According to reports, Shanghai Customs has also established a cross-border emergency liaison mechanism to monitor the progress of cargo flow and information flow in real time, smooth the communication channels between customs and enterprises, and implement "one-hour copy" to quickly meet the needs of enterprises to ensure "zero delay" in customs clearance.

Zhejiang University Scientists "Dream Linkage" China Table Tennis Team in the Olympic Games

Will table tennis bouncing on the blue table, football rolling on the pitch and badminton flying one day become "close partners" with artificial intelligence?

At the recently concluded Tokyo Olympic Games, the China table tennis team scored four gold medals and three silver medals, which also made a scientific research team behind it, the Zhejiang University Sports Big Data Innovation Team, appear.

What different landscapes have this innovative team brought to competitive sports by using artificial intelligence? Recently, the reporter went to the State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG of Zhejiang University to find out.

Unexpected intelligent ping-pong

On July 29th, in Tokyo Gymnasium, the semi-final of women’s singles table tennis was in full swing. You wouldn’t expect that besides the athletes, referees and few spectators in the stands, there is also a powerful artificial intelligence platform monitoring the game.

Every serve, swing, move, etc. on the field is recorded by this AI cloud platform deployed in Tokyo. These data are transmitted to the technical team of "table tennis intelligent big data analysis platform" 2442 kilometers away from the gymnasium at an average speed of 100 megabytes per second.

Almost at the end of the game, a technical and tactical analysis report about the game was immediately pushed to the tablet computers of the coaches and athletes of China table tennis women’s team by the AI cloud platform. These latest game videos and technical and tactical data analysis reports are directly used for the follow-up preparations of China table tennis women’s team.

The reporter learned that technical and tactical data used to be collected by watching videos after the game. However, because the speed of table tennis is too fast, researchers often can’t quickly, accurately and comprehensively mark all the athletes’ game behaviors, such as players’ hitting skills, landing points, positions, racket sequences and other information. It sometimes takes about 5 hours to collect detailed data of a game and make in-depth and detailed analysis.

This work is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also very challenging.

How to delete redundant relay shots, accurately identify the score changes of each round, detect and locate each beat, and efficiently label the data automatically or semi-automatically, has become a scientific research difficulty.

Deng Dazhen is a fourth-year doctoral student in the State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, School of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, and a member of the sports big data innovation team of Zhejiang University. Deng Dazhao told reporters that in order to solve this problem, he and two classmates spent three months building a special model and realizing round segmentation, and developed an interactive data labeling method in the following year, successfully achieving high-quality data collection.

Professor Wu Yingcai, the doctoral supervisor of Deng Dazhao and vice president of the School of Computer Science and Technology of Zhejiang University, is the main developer of this intelligent big data analysis platform for table tennis that can "update combat effectiveness in real time". On the front line of AI cloud platform, it is Professor Zhang Hui, director of the Department of Physical Education, School of Education, Zhejiang University, who makes further analysis and feeds back key information to coaches and athletes in time. The two of them are also key figures in the sports big data innovation team of Zhejiang University. With the support of the State Sports General Administration and the Chinese Table Tennis Association, this team has been providing services for the national table tennis team in terms of game data analysis and technical and tactical research.

Since 2018, Wu Yingcai led the team to start the annotation analysis and platform construction of table tennis big data. Now, the sports big data innovation team has developed an intelligent big data analysis platform for table tennis based on interactive visual human-computer interface, combined with artificial intelligence algorithm and human experience wisdom, and realized semi-automatic data annotation, analysis and presentation.

This platform continues to make technological breakthroughs, which will shorten the labeling time. 2 hours, 1 hour … Now, the data can be collected as soon as the game is over.

Dr. Zhou Zheng from the Department of Physical Education, College of Education, Zhejiang University, and graduate students and undergraduates majoring in table tennis are responsible for the collection and analysis of competition data. Zhou Zheng and his mentor Zhang Hui have been deeply involved in the training and competition of the national table tennis women’s team for a long time. In addition to the Tokyo Olympic Games, they also participated in the series of competitions of the national table tennis team in preparation for the 2019 World Championship and World Cup, and produced a large number of targeted technical and tactical analysis cases and statistical reports, which contributed to the excellent achievements of the China table tennis team.

Now, the Tokyo Olympic Games has ended, and the China table tennis team has once again proved its strength, which also makes the scientific and technological forces behind it shine brilliantly on the world stage.

From evaluating technology to formulating tactics

Surprisingly, the table tennis intelligent big data analysis platform can not only evaluate technology, but also formulate tactics. This opens up a new direction for human-computer interaction.

The reporter noted that the application of artificial intelligence to the field of table tennis is nothing new. In 2011, two humanoid robots "Wu" and "Kong" developed by the Robotics Laboratory of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Control of Zhejiang University were officially unveiled. These two robots that can play table tennis can capture the movement track of table tennis in the air through the camera mounted on their heads, predict the impact point of the ball, and then make corresponding response actions, and even achieve a fight with people. The table tennis intelligent big data analysis platform developed now is mainly aimed at the training and competition of excellent athletes, helping coaches and athletes to better observe, understand and analyze the technical and tactical advantages and disadvantages of their opponents and themselves, so as to know ourselves and ourselves.

It turns out that an important aspect of table tennis technical and tactical analysis is to judge the quality of players’ hitting. This requires coaches and researchers to manually evaluate the quality of athletes’ shots on the spot or when watching the game video. Another question arises from this: what to do when the number of competitions is very large; If there are 100 or even 1000 videos, can such a task be completed?

Therefore, evaluating the quality of swing has also become a goal that sports big data innovation teams need to achieve.

The first thing they need to solve is how to let the computer learn the knowledge of professional table tennis players, and combine a series of attributes such as the technology used in each beat, the hitting position and the landing point to objectively and accurately evaluate the player’s hitting process. In order to solve this technical problem, from last year, Wu Yingcai began to tackle key problems through team cooperation with Professor Zhou Zhihua of Nanjing University. This year, they finally made important progress and original achievements.

"We use the theoretical framework of deductive learning to integrate more than 30 table tennis technical and tactical rules into data-driven machine learning, and develop a framework that can automatically evaluate the quality of swing." Wu Yingcai said that deductive learning can perfectly integrate data-driven machine learning technology and rule-driven artificial intelligence technology. Now, as long as the game video is input on the analysis platform, the hitting quality of each shot of the athletes in the video can be automatically obtained.

By overcoming the difficulties step by step, there are more than 8,000 high-precision competition data of international competitions on the table tennis intelligent big data analysis platform. Since 2018, the research team has started the simulation prediction of the game based on these data, and truly upgraded from technology to tactics. "With big data and artificial intelligence, we can simulate and deduce to predict how the winning percentage will change when our players change a certain skill and tactics." Wu Yingcai said.

This idea has also been applied to badminton. Xie Xiao, a special researcher in the Department of Physical Education, Zhejiang University, demonstrated a new system being developed by the team.

As long as you wear a VR helmet, you can see the tracks left by athletes waving badminton rackets on the court. At the end of a game, all the action tracks are presented on the computer screen, as if countless "ribbons" were thrown in the air. These "ribbons" are grouped and classified and distinguished by color.

This is Shuttlespace, an immersive analysis system that can help experts analyze badminton data. Xie Xiao said that in the traditional analysis, the video of badminton match is separated from the analysis chart, which makes people unable to intuitively perceive the real situation on the court. Shuttle Space uses virtual reality technology to simulate the three-dimensional trajectory of man and ball in the most realistic form, which is enough for experts to perceive and analyze the data from the player’s subjective perspective and better formulate tactics.

Micro-synthetic biology completed nearly 100 million yuan of angel round financing, and Jingwei Venture Capital led the investment.

On May 30th, the investment community reported that Microelement Synthetic Biotechnology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Microelement Synthesis) was completed.Angel round financing of nearly RMB 100 million., byJingwei Venture Capital leads the investment, Boyuan Capital, Henan Investment Group Huirong Fund, Xianfeng Changqing and Zhejiang Hongshi follow the investment.

This round of financing mainlyIt is used to build research and development laboratories, improve and sort out the underlying technologies, and lay out and develop product pipelines such as active APIs, high value-added natural products and bulk platform compounds.

Founded in 2021, Weiyuan Synthesis is a bio-manufacturing company based on synthetic biotechnology. It is committed to producing various compounds in a low-carbon, energy-saving and sustainable way, which is applied in the fields of medicine, daily chemicals, agriculture, food, feed and materials. Through the biosynthesis of active natural products in all ways, it replaces the inefficient production methods such as traditional planting extraction and animal tissue extraction, reducing the occupation of cultivated land resources and the killing of rare animals; Through the design, directional evolution and expression optimization of key enzymes, the technical route of organic synthesis of APIs was innovated, the production cost of APIs was reduced, and the environmental pollution caused by chemical synthesis process was avoided. Get inspiration from deep-sea creatures, find valuable bioactive molecules, and apply them to daily chemical products such as whitening, moisturizing, sun protection and oxygen free radical repair; Microorganisms were designed and transformed to secrete various plant growth promoters and applied to agricultural production, so as to improve the yield of grain crops and the color and taste of cash crops, and provide technical routes for food security except genetically edited crops.

In addition, the company reserves the underlying technology of multi-carbon source utilization, and replaces glucose with easily available and cheap carbon source to solve the situation of "competing for food with the people" in traditional bio-manufacturing; In the field of bulk material bio-manufacturing, cost is the core problem that restricts its industrialization. Due to the low gross profit, its industrialization faces more challenges. Even if the pilot and pilot tests are completed, there will be many obstacles in scale-up and commercialization, which require a lot of Know-How to solve. Based on the market demand, its own technical advantages and past project experience, Micro-element Synthesis has designed a number of low-cost bio-manufacturing product pipelines of bulk materials for the high-end bulk materials market. The selection of products is based on the judgment of the current and future markets, which avoids the current bio-manufacturing of bulk materials from falling into the dilemma of competing with traditional similar products on the same track.

The core team of micro-element synthesis comes from Institute of Microbiology, China Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Sichuan University, Finland’s national scientific research institutions and traditional biological manufacturers. The team consists of top-level design, product research and development, scale-up production, etc. The team has accumulated more than ten years of experience in all aspects of synthetic biology, and has strong technical feasibility of the project and the ability to predict the research and development cycle, which can minimize the risk of product research and development, reduce unnecessary expenses and accelerate the industrialization process.

For the investment in synthetic biology that has not diminished in recent two years,Researcher Tao Yong, Director of Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiology and Metabolism, Institute of Microbiology, China Academy of Sciences.Said: "Bio-manufacturing is a traditional and mature industry, and synthetic biotechnology has given this traditional industry more possibilities. By redesigning and constructing the life system, compounds that could not be manufactured by traditional means have become a reality. As a material producer, in the fierce market competition of traditional big factories, latecomers must always be aware of what kind of value they have created if they want to get development opportunities. At present, entrepreneurs tell many fascinating stories, which increases the imagination space for the future of synthetic biology. However, entrepreneurship is not a scientific research, and entrepreneurs need to look up at the stars and be down to earth. The early selection of products does not necessarily have a huge market, but it must have high enough technical barriers. With the leading global or global exclusive technology, on the one hand, it can give investors confidence, on the other hand, it can win enough time and space for the development and growth of enterprises. Micro-element synthesis is the kind of team mentioned above. The founder Dr. Liu Bo led his team to develop the world’s leading and industrialized technology. Such entrepreneurship has high certainty. "

Jingwei Venture Capital, as the leading investment institution in this round,Jingwei Partner Dr. Yu ZhiyunSaid: "Jingwei Venture Capital continues to be deeply optimistic about the revolutionary prospects of synthetic biology in various application fields. The micro-element synthesis team has a solid accumulation of technology and industrial transformation in the field of synthetic biology and bio-manufacturing, and has accumulated a lot of knowledge and experience in the original breakthrough and industrial transformation. It is a rare team in the industry with barriers from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 100. We expect the micro-element synthesis team to bring better, more environmentally friendly and more economical products, and start various living cell factories for the benefit of people in China and the world. "

Ma Jinbo, Vice President of Boyuan Capital InvestmentSaid: "The essence of synthetic biology is to make cells work for human beings and produce desired substances. It includes not only the design and assembly of biological elements or life systems that do not exist in nature; It also includes the redesign or construction of existing life systems; Weiyuan’s team has accumulated more than ten years in synthetic biotechnology. The team has long been out of the state of scientific research and publishing articles. In the past years, it has developed various products, carried out considerable technology transfer, and some of them have entered industrialization and achieved success, thus achieving a breakthrough of 1-100. At present, the company starts with difficult products and overcomes them, transforming the metabolic path to subvert the traditional extraction method, so as to be reused in other broader and higher ceiling fields. "

Dr. Ge Dangqiao, Deputy General Manager of Huirong Fund of Henan Investment GroupSaid: "Synthetic biotechnology will reshape human material civilization, and synthetic biotechnology-related industries are on the eve of the outbreak. Huirong Fund pays close attention to the team with superior innovation ability in the underlying general technology of synthetic biology. The micro-element synthesis team is well-known, has a deep understanding of the metabolic path of chassis cells, has the ability to build a rich chassis cell bank, and has built a whole process team from strain transformation to production process transformation. The founder Dr. Liu Bo has a clear understanding and vision of the whole process from scientific research to industrial production. To some extent, in the next few years, the competition of synthetic biological innovation enterprises will extend from the laboratory to the large-scale production capacity landing. Huirong Fund will combine the relevant production capacity foundation and production experience of Henan Investment Group in the industrial field to assist the micro-element synthesis to quickly complete the industrialization landing work. We hope that micro-element synthesis can create great value for the benefit of mankind through synthetic biology technology. "

Xianfeng Changqing Investor Feng YunqiSaid: "Synthetic biology, as a newly rapidly developing interdisciplinary, has shown more and more extensive application potential in biomedicine, energy, new materials and other fields. It greatly improves the ability of microbial cell factory to produce chemicals, effectively replaces the traditional process, significantly reduces pollution and energy consumption. Weiyuan team comes from Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Whampoa Military Academy in the field of synthetic biology. It is a rare team in the industry with the ability of scientific research, product selection and transformation. The rich experience of Weiyuan team in the past will continue to be extended in the future. I believe Weiyuan can break through and become a leader in the field. "

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The price of cherries has caused heated discussion. Why are imported cherries so expensive?

Why are imported cherries so expensive? Is the original price expensive or is the supermarket and platform raising the price? What is the price of domestic big cherries, and is it so expensive to import cherries?
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# The price of cherries is "cut at the waist" # and # Imported cherries are positive #. Recently, the topic of cherries has been heated on the Internet.
On the New Year’s Day, all major store platforms have also started to launch "New Year’s Purchase" activities. As a popular fruit that occupies the table of Chinese people in winter and spring all the year round, every topic about cherries can cause extensive discussion.
Of course, the reason why cherries are so concerned by the people is not only because it has the rare aura of "there are not many fruits in winter", but also because of its high price and taste in general winter fruits, which can always cause young people to laugh at themselves on the Internet about whether they can afford cherries.
Compared with oranges, apples and bananas with a price of six or seven yuan a catty, cherries with a price of thirty or forty yuan a catty always seem unique, and this price has really dissuaded many consumers. Therefore, when the news reported that the imported cherries were "cut at half price" this year, many people shouted: I can finally afford cherries.
Why are imported cherries so expensive? Is the original price expensive or is the supermarket and platform raising the price? What is the price of domestic big cherries, and is it so expensive to import cherries?
To understand why imported cherries are so expensive, we must first look at where they come from.
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China, the largest importer of cherries in the world.
Cherry, big cherry? Many people are stupid and can’t tell the difference.
In fact, cherry is a big thick-skinned cherry produced in America, Canada, Chile and other American countries. The more common varieties are Bing and Lam-bort, with dark red fruit, firm skin, good elasticity and sweet taste.
Cherry fruit trees have been introduced in Shandong and Liaoning, and many varieties of China cherry have been formed. Most of the domestic big cherries (that is, domestic cherries) on the market are produced in Shandong and Liaoning. The small cherry made in China in spring and summer tastes sour and slightly yellowish.
As far as cherries are concerned, they are high in value, bright in appearance, rich in various nutrients, and have the effects of invigorating qi, nourishing blood and beauty beauty, so they can be said to be diamonds in fruits.
Chinese people fell in love with cherries at first sight not only because of their high value, but also because their income increased, their consumption power increased, and they wanted to "buy something good", and their demand for fruit nutrition and taste also had a higher level.
Coupled with the convenience of transportation, cherries from Europe, America and other places have flooded into the fruit market like a flood, and the number of cherries imported from China has been increasing.
According to the "2019 Fresh New Year Consumption" report released by the fresh e-commerce platform, cherry won the first place in the new year fruit consumption and became the C star of the new year fruit category. The sales volume soared 32 times year-on-year, and the demand for cherry consumption in China was strong.
According to the data of GlobalTrade, in 2018, China mainland imported 41% cherries, Hong Kong, China 11% cherries and Taiwan, China 1.8% cherries. China became the country with the largest number of cherries imported in the world, and more than half of the cherries imported in the world were eaten by Chinese people.
In 2020, this proportion will also expand with the increase of imports. In 2020, China imported 210,400 tons of cherries from all over the world, and the import amount reached 11.358 billion yuan.
Where are so many cherries imported from?
According to the statistics of the General Administration of Customs, in 2020, more than 90% of cherries imported domestically came from Chile. This is also the most common cherry in supermarkets and e-commerce platforms this season.
Because of the different geographical environment, this season’s domestic cherries are still sleeping in the trees, and the cherries in South America and Chile have been full and mature under the influence of the sun, and have crossed the ocean to come to China.
In fact, as early as 2008, China and Chile signed the Protocol on Quarantine of Chilean Cherry and Plum Exported to China, which opened the door for Chilean cherries to enter China.
According to the report released by the Cherry Association under the Chilean Fruit Exporters Association (ASOEX), it is preliminarily predicted that the export volume of Chilean cherries will increase by 38% in the 2020/2021 season. Antonio Walker, Minister of Agriculture of Chile, estimates that about 500,000 tons of cherries will enter the China market.
It is precisely because of the bumper harvest of Chilean cherries this year that there will be the possibility of "cutting the price". However, judging from the prices of cherries imported from various countries, Chile has the largest number of cherries, but it is not the most expensive.
The import price of Chilean cherries is 53.1 yuan/kg, even slightly lower than the overall average import price (53 yuan/kg). While the most expensive ones are imported from New Zealand and Australia, and the price per kilogram exceeds that of 100 yuan, it is uncertain whether the price will be affected.
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Will you buy it after "cutting the price"
In addition to the bumper harvest and the price reduction caused by oversupply, the transformation of transportation mode can also save a lot of expenses. Lu Fangxiao, president of China Fruit Circulation Association, said in an interview with the media that when the price of cherries was the highest in the previous month, it was air transportation, with less imports and higher costs. Recently, mainly by sea, the number has increased, and the transportation cost has also decreased.
Indeed, cherries with high value are also very delicate, and the tender fruits that can be broken by blowing bombs have higher requirements for cold chain preservation technology, which is one of the main reasons why major e-commerce platforms are priced differently.
Open all kinds of store platform apps, and the cherries pushed are dizzying. Through the calculation of different prices corresponding to different weights, it can be seen that there is an obvious gap between the average selling prices of J, JJ and JJJ cherries. The most expensive JJJ cherries are 94.95 yuan/kg, and the cheapest J cherries are 68.28 yuan/kg.
The average price of the whole fruit is about 82.6 yuan/kg, which is nearly 60% higher than the average price of the customs.
Among them, there are transportation and storage costs, labor costs, platform benefits, etc. The most important thing is the transportation and storage costs, and the cold chain preservation transportation technology will also be an important influence factor for all e-commerce platforms in the future "Cherry Battle".
Recently, however, due to the news that "nucleic acid test is positive", the selling price of many cherries has plunged, and the price of cherries in Beijing has followed suit. Many supermarkets and fruit shops have reduced their prices to promote sales, and some of them have dropped by more than 50%.
In the face of the price before diving, more than 80% of consumers think it is a little high, and less than 17% of consumers think it is moderate or reasonable. Most of the Chinese people’s consumption of cherries is concentrated in 100 yuan.
According to the age breakdown of consumers, they have certain spending power, pay more attention to and pursue high-quality and exquisite life, and the post-80s and 90s with increasing demand for high-end fruits are the main force of cherry consumption, and the consumption of people aged 31-40 accounts for 38.46% between 201 and 500 yuan. Consumers aged between 41 and 50 mainly spend between 51 and 100 yuan.
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How much is the domestic big cherry more expensive than the imported cherries?
The reason why imported cherries can attract people’s wide attention is also inseparable from its production time. Every year from December to February, it is the two "year-end" of Chinese people. It is particularly appropriate to treat yourself with something good and buy some good cherries.
The import time of cherries is also mainly concentrated at this time. Perhaps for farmers in Chile, planting and harvesting cherries depends not only on the weather, policies, but also on the calendars of Chinese people.
Because of climatic factors, domestic cherries in China are immature in winter, and the market circulation is not much. However, the production and sales of domestic cherries are much higher than those of imported cherries in the whole year. There are also survey data showing that 75% of Chinese people choose domestic cherries when purchasing cherry and cherry products.
Because of the high market return, domestic cherry production has developed rapidly, and the cultivation area and planting area have expanded rapidly. According to incomplete statistics, in 2018, the planting area of big cherry in China reached 3 million mu.
At present, the cultivation of sweet cherries in China is mainly concentrated in Bohai Bay area. Shandong Province is the largest cherry planting area in China, and the warm temperate monsoon climate is very suitable for planting. It is one of the traditional producing areas where cherries were planted earlier in China, and the state has also given strong support in variety research and development.
Therefore, Shandong cherry is far ahead compared with other provinces in terms of planting area and yield.
Thanks to the increase of planting area, the output of domestic cherries has been increasing, and the output has more than doubled between 2013 and 2019. In 2019, the output has reached 1.125 million tons, an increase of 182,000 tons compared with 2018.
According to the fresh big data of the express delivery platform, Yantai was the region with the largest number of big cherries in 2019, and the popular foreign cherries were being replaced by domestic big cherries.
The competition in the cherry market has intensified, which has also forced the product quality to continuously improve. According to an interview with the Beijing News, the price of domestic cherry in greenhouse in Liaoning has just matured, reaching 300-400 yuan per catty. At this time last year, the price was even higher, and a catty was sold to 500 yuan. Although the cost of greenhouse planting is high, the fruit feeling and color of artificial grading exceed that of many imported cherries.
Because most of the domestic cherries began to mature gradually after the Spring Festival, the prices of most goods labeled "domestic big cherries" are not cheaper than those of imported Chilean cherries, and the average price per catty is basically between 80-90 yuan. But even at this price, you may not be able to buy fresh and genuine domestic cherries.
On-duty editor Wu Yanzu Kang Xixi
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