Nuclear Watch | The United States proposes to freeze its nuclear arsenal. Is there any hope for the renewal of the US-Russia strategic arms control treaty?

Recently, some media reported that the United States and Russia reached an agreement in principle to freeze their respective nuclear warhead inventories, and the United States also hopes to set an upper limit on the number of nuclear warheads. However, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov responded on 14th that Russia could not accept the US position on freezing nuclear arsenals. What is the purpose of the United States to set a ceiling on the number of nuclear warheads? What impact will this move have on the future fate of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty?

American intercontinental missiles are equipped with nuclear warheads.

During the Cold War, there was a nuclear arms control with a ceiling.

It is no stranger to voluntarily freeze the size of nuclear arsenals and set a ceiling. This kind of move occurred during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The first stage of negotiations on the limitation of offensive strategic weapons (SALT-I) between the United States and the Soviet Union contained the content of limiting the upper limit of their respective strategic weapons. For example, the United States has 1,054 intercontinental ballistic missiles (when SALT-I negotiations were concluded), and the Soviet Union has 1,398 intercontinental ballistic missiles, which are limited to 1,618. There are 600 submarine-launched ballistic missiles in the United States, limited to the upper limit of 710, while the Soviet Union has 950, and the upper limit is 950. There are 37 strategic missile nuclear submarines in the United States, and the upper limit is limited to 44, while the Soviet Union has 63. Instead, it is necessary to cut one and limit it to 62. The United States and the Soviet Union did not impose restrictions on strategic bombers. At the same time, the negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union at this stage also restricted and restrained strategic defensive weapons, and the ABM Treaty signed during the SALT-I negotiations made some positive contributions to maintaining strategic stability between the United States and the Soviet Union.

However, SALT-I is not a disarmament agreement in a positive sense. The United States and the Soviet Union aim at limiting each other’s arms expansion, with emphasis on control and restriction. As far as the United States is concerned, the achievement of SALT-I provides space for the United States to spare time and energy to improve the quality level of strategic deterrence. For example, the existing Trident missile and B-1 bomber in the United States are all developed during the relaxation period after the conclusion of SALT-I by the United States and the Soviet Union. As far as the Soviet Union is concerned, the number of nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union in the late 1960s was basically equal to that in the United States, and the use of the salt-I relaxation period can also improve the quality of nuclear weapons for the Soviet Union and accumulate capital for future confrontation with the United States.

Russian "Jarls" road mobile intercontinental missile.

During the three years from 1977 to 1979, the United States and the Soviet Union continued to negotiate the second stage of strategic offensive arms limitation (SALT-II). The main purpose of SALT-II was to implement the temporary agreement and related temporary constraints reached in SALT-I negotiations before, and form a real strategic arms limitation treaty. The negotiation result was that the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms Limitation. As can be seen from the name, the arms control agreement reached by the United States and the Soviet Union at this stage is still based on restrictions, rather than real disarmament and reduction.

For example, according to the content of the treaty, when the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated, the United States owned 2,142 strategic projection weapons, including land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, sea-based submarine-launched ballistic missiles and strategic bombers, and the Soviet Union owned 2,318, and the United States and the Soviet Union were unified and limited to 2,250. The emergence of multi-warhead technology was the focus of technical attention between the United States and the Soviet Union in that period. The land-based multi-warhead missiles and sea-based multi-warhead missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union have also been restricted. At the time of negotiation, the United States had 1,046 land-based and sea-based submarine-launched missiles capable of carrying multiple warheads, and the Soviet Union had 588 land-based and sea-based submarine-launched missiles capable of carrying multiple warheads, which was limited to 1,200 according to the treaty. The technological capabilities of the United States and the Soviet Union, including the number of nuclear weapons, reached a peak in the Cold War before and during the SALT-II negotiations. The two countries were aware of the restrictions on strategic offensive weapons, but this restriction set an upper limit. Specifically, both SALT-I and SALT-II set an upper limit on the number of strategic offensive weapons of the other side, such as multi-warhead missiles. The upper limit set by SALT-II gave the Soviet Union room to continue to develop and increase multi-warhead missiles.

Russia has accelerated the modernization of nuclear weapons in recent years. The picture shows the newly developed "sarmat" liquid intercontinental missile.

What are the considerations for the United States to set a nuclear ceiling?

There are certain historical reasons for the SALT-I and SALT-II negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. For example, the United States was mired in the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, and its domestic economy was dragged down to some extent. In order to confront the United States in the Cold War, the Soviet Union neglected the livelihood economy, and the problems of the livelihood economy emerged in the early 1970s. In 1971, the ninth five-year plan for the Soviet economy formulated at the 24th Congress of the CPSU was not completed, and the production efficiency of consumer goods for the people’s livelihood was low. The domestic economic situation of the United States and the Soviet Union is not optimistic, and the two countries need to reduce the negative impact of the arms race on the economy. In addition, the technical level of strategic weapons of the two countries has been continuously broken, and both countries have strategic intentions to restrict the development of their opponents. However, the strength of the two countries is equal, and it is difficult to reach a mutually acceptable reduction agreement in a short time. Therefore, under the circumstances that it is difficult to achieve arms reduction in a short time and the prospect is uncertain, setting an upper limit and voluntarily freezing can not only achieve some restrictions on the other side, but also leave room for the development and operation of armaments. Restricting nuclear armaments has become the main manifestation of nuclear arms control behavior in the pre-cold war period between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Salt-I and Salt-II didn’t help to reduce armaments, but to a certain extent put a brake on the strategic arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union still drives them to expand their strategic arms capabilities. It was not until the middle and late 1980s that the nuclear arms control between the United States and the Soviet Union began to transform into real reduction.

Now the United States and Russia are discussing freezing the number of nuclear warheads, and the United States proposes to set the upper limit of nuclear warheads, which is actually similar to the consideration of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. On the one hand, both the United States and Russia have increased their investment in the development of strategic weapons in recent years. A series of new types of strategic weapons have been put into use in Russia, and the United States is also upgrading the modernization level of its nuclear arsenal and implementing nuclear expansion. The continuous withdrawal and breach of the contract by the United States has also undermined the strategic stable relationship between the United States and Russia. The prospect of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is worrying. Since it is difficult to reach an effective consensus on further reductions in the future, trying to freeze and set a ceiling is a move to build minimum mutual trust and ease the tension in strategic competition between the United States and Russia.

American B-61 nuclear bomb.

In addition, the US election is approaching. If the Trump administration throws out the idea of limiting and freezing the number of nuclear weapons at this time, it does not rule out that it is a consideration to alleviate its overly radical unilateralist security policy in the past four years and improve the image of Trump’s arms control saboteur. It is less than a month before the US election. If Trump wins the re-election, the upper limit of the number of nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia envisaged by the United States will actually provide flexible space for the United States to upgrade its nuclear arsenal and adjust the number of different nuclear weapons in the future. This is quite similar to the fact that although the United States and the Soviet Union conducted nuclear arms control in the middle period before the Cold War, the number of nuclear weapons became more and more controlled, and the nuclear weapons and equipment became more and more advanced. The United States intended to set a ceiling, which was tantamount to providing development space for the US nuclear arms expansion in disguise.

With the approach of the general election, the policy ideas of the two presidential candidates in the United States have gradually become clear, and Trump and Biden have different attitudes towards arms control. Trump, as always, emphasized "withdrawing from the treaty" for nuclear arms expansion, while Biden said that if elected, he would extend the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, reconsider returning to the Iranian nuclear deal in full compliance, shrink the Trump administration’s nuclear arms expansion plans, such as developing new nuclear warheads and new nuclear vehicles, and carefully consider the role of nuclear weapons. No matter who dies in the final US election, whether Trump continues to spoil the game or Biden makes up for it, the negative impact of the Trump administration’s destruction of international social security and stable relations between major powers in the past four years will be difficult to eliminate in a short time.

(The author is a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University Institute of Social Sciences, studying arms control and national security.)

Never retreat until the flood recedes! Veterans rushed to Jiangxi to fight floods.

CCTV News:There are two veterans in the flood fighting team in Furong Dun Town, pengze county City, Jiangxi Province. One is from Shenyang, Liaoning Province, and the other is from Zunyi, Guizhou Province. They had all retired from the army at home, but when they saw the news of the flood in Jiangxi, they came to Jiangxi for flood fighting.

Wang Xiyuan, 69, from Shenyang, Liaoning Province, has more than 20 years of military career. Wang Fei, 34, is also a retired soldier from Zunyi, Guizhou. After watching the news of floods in Jiangxi on TV, the two men made a decision — — Come to Jiangxi to support flood fighting.

Wang Xiyuan, a 69-year-old veteran with more than 20 years of military career.

Wang Xiyuan, a 69-year-old veteran with more than 20 years of military career.

Wang Fei, a 34-year-old retired soldier.

Wang Fei, a 34-year-old retired soldier.

After they met in Hukou County, Jiangxi Province, they learned that the flood in Pengze was very serious, so they took a bus to Furong Dun Town in Pengze. The night they first arrived, they encountered a piping emergency.

Furong Dun Town is one of the worst-hit places in Pengze this time. They have been guarding the levee with local cadres and masses to participate in emergency rescue, plugging and strengthening the dam.

Now, although the local flood control situation has eased, they have not left. When the reporter asked about their next plan, they all said that the flood would not retreat and they would never retreat.

Movie Channel May 4th Film List | Play the Song of Youth and Contribute to Youth.

Special feature of 1905 film network "China youth are young people with lofty ideals and ambitions! China youth are young people with deep feelings for home and country! China youth are young people with great creativity! Regardless of the past, present and future, China youth has always been the vanguard force to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! "


Today is the 103rd May 4th Youth Day. This year, we also celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Communist Youth League of China.


On this special day, the film channel will broadcast four films filled with the youth of their parents.Let’s go back to that era and look for those inspiring shining footprints.

01

Song of youth

At 9: 40am on May 4th, the film channel broadcasted the dazzling revolutionary literary classic Song of Youth in China’s film history, revisiting the revolutionary wave that stirred up in the 1930s.



The color film Song of Youth, produced in 1959, is adapted from the novel of the same name by Yang Mo, a female writer who has been translated into more than 20 languages and has attracted much attention at home and abroad.


With the historical period from "September 18th" to "December 9th" as the background and the student movement as the main line, the film tells the story of young intellectuals in China, represented by young woman Lin Daojing, who made unremitting exploration, went through many twists and turns and finally embarked on the revolutionary road in order to resist Japanese imperialist aggression and save the motherland in distress.



This surging film of the times is not only touching in story, but also unique in filming.


In the use of lens language, Song of Youth, contrary to the habit of using relatively static screen lenses in the 1950s, boldly and appropriately used a lot of push-pull and zoom lenses to express the majestic momentum of the revolution more vividly.



At the same time, "Song of Youth" used a lot of revolutionary songs that were deeply rooted in people’s hearts. Popular songs such as "On the Songhua River", "Song of Saving the Nation" and "Flowers in May" pushed the mood of watching movies to one climax after another, and deeply sympathized with the feelings and revolutionary enthusiasm of Chinese sons and daughters.



They burned the mottled old shadows of youth for the revolutionary cause, and now they are vaguely moving.


02

Forever a teenager

 "Teenagers are not afraid of long years, and they are still teenagers after a hundred years of wind and rain." May 4th.At 15: 15, the movie "Forever Teenagers" is set in the Anti-Japanese War era in the 1920s, focusing on five ideal students, and tells the story of young college students with ideals struggling for their beliefs in the constant social changes in the early days of the founding of the Party in communist party.



In order to present a true sense of time and life, the creative team successively traveled to nine provinces and cities such as Jiangsu, Guangdong, Fujian, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shandong, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shaanxi, etc., and reproduced historical scenes such as the birth of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the workers’ movement in the early days of the founding of the Party, the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Northern Expedition, the failure of the Great Revolution, and the establishment of revolutionary armed forces of workers and peasants to the maximum extent.



The director said: "In the movie, a group of ordinary students chose the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the ideological trend and laid the foundation stone for the new China Building. I’ve been thinking about it and want to present such a story. I am going to digest a lot of historical materials, look for moving points in Qian Qian’s thousands of stories and historical events, and mix them with processing and creation. "


This group of college students is a group of people who dared to act in those days: Wen Ting is full of iron, Feng Jianxing is full of wisdom, the leopard is awkward, the old warrior is mature and calm, and the soybean milk is brave and fearless … …



Although they have different personalities, their fiery youth and burning passion are the same under the special historical background. No matter how tortuous the revolutionary road is, they still stick to their original intentions and embrace regretless youth.

03

The Sacrifice

The great spirit of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea forged in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea is precious spiritual wealth, which will inspire the people of China and the Chinese nation to overcome all difficulties and obstacles and all powerful enemies.


The Sacrifice, which was broadcast at 17: 30 on May 4th, focused on the engineering soldiers outside the frontal battlefield in jincheng battle in 1953, and tried to truly present that little-known history.



There are not many movies describing the theme of engineers. The Sacrifice looked back at the "pioneer of the army" behind the bridge of heroes, which could not be broken and bombed, in order to ensure logistics supply and transportation and defend the traffic fortress.



"We didn’t get bayonets in this battle, and we didn’t kill the enemy ourselves, but we know the meaning of our work: we ensured the victory of the battle." Zhang Zhenzhi, the "engineering hero", was the actual commander who repaired and protected the Yanli Bridge in Jingangchuan.



"Why is the battle flag picturesque, and the hero’s blood dyed it red? Why is the spring always there, and the hero’s life blooms?"


They launched a life-and-death relay for defending the country and defending the country, and used their lives to open up an "exploding steel transportation line", which provided a strong reliance for the frontal battlefield and exchanged peace and development for generations.



The Sacrifice has opened up a big picture from a small viewpoint, which shows us the brave and lovely young people in China outside the front line and their great spirit of "not afraid of sacrifice, defeating the strong with the weak".


04

The Pioneer

At 19: 50 on May 4th, The Pioneer walked into the life of Li Dazhao, a "great Marxist", which brought us back to the awakening era of being born to death.



The May 4th Movement in 1919, the Covenant of "South Chen Bei Lee" and the strike of Kailuan Minmetals Alliance … …


The film takes the 38 hours before Li Dazhao died heroically as the breakthrough point. In flashbacks, several important moments that Li Dazhao explored hard for the road of China are constantly flashed back, which uniquely weaves his life of leading a group of revolutionaries to actively run and fight for national salvation.



With a romantic lens, The Pioneer presented the audience with not only a magnificent history under a wide-angle lens, but also the mission and dream of the revolutionaries a hundred years ago.



"I wish my dear youth, born in youth and died in youth, born in youth and died in youth. Go ahead without considering the future, turn your back on darkness and turn to light, advance civilization for the world and create happiness for mankind. With my youth, I will create a family of youth, a country of youth, a nation of youth, a human being of youth, a planet of youth and a universe of youth, so that I can enjoy my endless life. "


Li Dazhao’s article "Youth" published in "New Youth" in 1916 was about the young people who fought for the revolution and himself.



It is their revolutionary pride that makes us believe that victory will surely come.



Looking back on the century-old history, countless young people have turned their flesh and blood into the cornerstone of progress, and struggled on the road of building a new China with firm faith and no regrets.


Nowadays, the young people of our new era are also inspired by their parents’ century-old struggle history, and write a beautiful chapter of the new era with the passion of youth.


On May 4th, the film channel will continuously broadcast the revolutionary historical film Song of Youth and Forever a Teenager, which shows the high-spirited youth of my father, The Pioneer, The Sacrifice.


Let’s go with our dreams in Do not forget your initiative mind!


Butterfly Change of Puhe Reservoir in Baoding, Hebei Province: A whole game of chess with clear water in one reservoir.

    In September, the "green gauze tent" filled the vast central Hebei plain, and the waterfall river in Xushui District of Baoding City, Hebei Province shuttled through it like a blue belt, flowing silently at the foot of Taihang Mountain, and meandering eastward into the algae pond on the westernmost side of Baiyangdian Lake.

    Overlooking the waterfall river, the water plants are swaying and the fish are shuttling. The breeze started at first, and the small waves jumped, which inadvertently alarmed a group of egrets foraging in the shallows. They flew up and then fell.

White spoonbill in waterfall river shoal

    Overlooking the mountains, the trees are lush and green, and the lakes and mountains are staggered and picturesque.

   Puhe Reservoir "Rebirth" with Water to Continue Homesickness

    Puhe Reservoir, located in Puhe Township, Xushui District, is the main stream reservoir of Puhe River, which was founded in 1958. Among the Eight Scenes of Xu Shui recorded in xushui county Xinzhi, there are three waterfalls, namely "Qingxi printing the moon", "watching fish on the bank" and "Changhong sunset". In 1980s, the reservoir area collapsed one after another, and the reservoir water decreased sharply every year. By 2008, the Puhe Reservoir had been exhausted. The beauty of water and grass is no longer there.

    Because of its remote location, harsh environment and backward infrastructure, the economy of the villages around Puhe Reservoir was once backward. "Young and middle-aged people go out to work, and most of the rest in the village are old people and women, with traditional agricultural cultivation as the main source of income." Mi Shiliang, secretary of the Party Committee of Puhe Township, said that the "presence" of Puhe Township in Xushui District at that time was very low.

Puhe Reservoir

    The ecological change of Puhe Reservoir began in 2018.

    Baoding, located in the hinterland of Beijing, Tianjin and xiong’an new area, is an important ecological barrier for Beijing, Tianjin and. In order to serve the construction of the new district, Baoding has launched an ecological defense war for Baiyangdian in an all-round way since 2018, and comprehensively implemented various comprehensive measures such as sewage treatment upgrading, rain and sewage diversion transformation, river ecological dredging, constructed wetland construction, abandoned mine restoration and treatment, and ecological water replenishment to promote the comprehensive management of the upper reaches of Baiyangdian. This has also revived the waterfall reservoir area that has been abandoned for more than 20 years.

    "The waterfall reservoir is connected to the main canal of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project and connected to the waterfall river channel. Since 2018, the reservoir has been diverting clean water from the South-to-North Water Transfer Project to replenish water for Baiyangdian." Li Liu, director of the office of Xushui District Water Conservancy Bureau, said that in 2020, the waterfall river was identified as the normalized recharge channel of Baiyangdian Lake, and since April 2018, the cumulative ecological recharge to Baiyangdian Lake has reached 450 million cubic meters.

    "On the day of water release, the reservoir was surrounded by people." Xi Xiaoxian, a villager in Jiecun Village, Puhe Township, still remembers the scene of water coming from the reservoir area. In her view, the water attracted not only filled the waterfall river, but also continued the homesickness of the villagers.

   Pollution control and greening, rare birds "in the same box"

    In order to "prevent a drop of sewage from flowing into Baiyangdian Lake", the Xu Shui Municipal Party Committee and District Government has been steadfast in tackling tough battles such as pollution control, ecological restoration and greening corridors.

    "The stable effluent of sewage treatment plants can meet the third-class water standard, which can be used for farmland irrigation and livestock drinking." According to Liu Jianjun, general manager of Xu Shui Sewage Treatment Plant, the effluent standards of all sewage treatment plants in Xushui District have reached the discharge standard of Daqing River core area, and the daily sewage treatment capacity is 30,000 cubic meters.

    Li Liu said that from 2017, the district will comprehensively establish a three-level river patrol management system at district, township and village levels, actively carry out the special action of "cleaning up the four chaos" in rivers, improve the full-time management team of reservoirs, carry out joint law enforcement of water conservancy, public security, environmental protection and neighboring township governments, and promptly investigate and deal with acts that endanger the safety of reservoirs and destroy the ecological environment.

    In addition, in recent five years, Xushui District has completed 80,900 mu of afforestation, focusing on the construction of high-speed high-speed rail corridor and 500-meter forest belt around xiong’an new area, and built a green ecological barrier in the upper reaches of Baiyangdian Lake. The ecology of the waterfall river is gradually improving.

    Wild birds are an ecological barometer. In recent years, more and more wild animals around the waterfall river have come from generation to generation.

    "In 2019, the waterfall reservoir attracted swans. In 2020, crested pheasants, kestrels, mallard ducks and spoonbills began to gather here; In 2021, a large number of geese migrated; In 2022, the national first-class protected animal Great Bustard appeared … "Shi Jianfang is a bird photographer. From the autumn of 2018 to the summer of 2022, more than 80 species of birds were photographed in the waterfall river, including more than 10 species of national first-class and second-class protected animals. He witnessed the increasing number of birds in the camera.

Great bustard on the bank of waterfall river

   The mountains and rivers are treated together, and the barren hills are "covered with green and golden"

    Landscape ecology is an organic whole, and there is a folk saying: "Planting trees on the mountain is equivalent to building a reservoir."

    Shilongshan is located in the northwest of Xushui District, separated from the Puhe Reservoir by a dike. Due to the disorderly mining in the early years, the mountain was broken and the vegetation coverage rate was less than 10%. Since 2011, Xushui District has started the ecological restoration of Shilongshan through government-enterprise linkage.

    "We have invested more than 3 billion yuan, and it took more than 10 years to raise this riddled mine from the original 10% greening rate to the current 80%." According to Shi Jianguo, the person in charge of ecological restoration in Shilongshan, the project specially hired a team of experts from Chongqing to issue a mountain restoration plan, which greatly reduced the risk of geological disasters such as landslides, mudslides and dangerous rock collapses by cutting slopes and reducing loads, lattice slope protection and anti-slide piles, and fully combined with the trend of mountain topography, selected suitable vegetation types and reshaped the ecological environment.

    After 10 years of mountain management, the "scar" faded, and the barren hills were covered with green, quietly painting an ecological picture of green mountains surrounded by water and green waters.

    Nowadays, Shilongshan has not only become the ecological barrier of the waterfall river, but also become a leisure and holiday resort with the 8,000-mu waterfall river reservoir, including agricultural formats such as land grain painting and vegetable art garden, recreational formats such as caravan camps, unpowered parks and homestays, as well as labor and practical education bases for primary and secondary school students.

   Ecological resources become rich capital, and the integration of agriculture and tourism unlocks rural revitalization.

    The waterfall river ecosystem has gradually formed, and the local government has begun to introduce social capital and high-quality projects to explore green growth points and promote the integration of agriculture and tourism.

    On the south bank of the reservoir area, Baoding Haojing Tourism Development Co., Ltd. relies on the good ecology of Shilong Mountain and waterfall river to vigorously develop agricultural industrial clusters and develop green ecological products with local characteristics, such as Moushan dry valley, Busan millet and waterfall river sunflower oil crops. At the same time, the company actively cooperates with Hebei Agricultural University, a number of leading agricultural enterprises, livestock breeding enterprises, agricultural planting bases and family farms in various forms to promote the integrated development of agriculture and tourism.

    Industrial linkage development, stretching and improving related industrial chains, creating more business opportunities for local people and enhancing the economic value of the whole region.

    Mi Shiliang said that driven by leading enterprises, the employment problem of a large number of villagers around has been solved. With the increase of tourists, the villagers’ willingness to develop homestays and farmhouses has gradually increased. What makes Mi Shiliang more gratified is that he has recently received frequent consultation calls from investors. From the "small transparency" of "nobody cares", the waterfall river township has now become the "fragrant cake" in the eyes of everyone.

   The flourishing of landscape green culture leads to new kinetic energy for development.

    "The waterfall river with a long history is not only the old course of the Yellow River, but also known as Yishui in ancient times and belongs to Nanyishui. There are many cultural allusions and sites here. " According to Mi Shiliang, there are Yangshao Cultural Site, Busan Site of Huangdi Hefu, Chiyou Solitary Tomb of Hongtu Mountain and Yannan Great Wall Site around the Waterfall River.

    With the rejuvenation of the waterfall river, the waterfall river culture has once again entered the public eye. In December, 2021, Yannan Great Wall Site was selected into the list of "One Hundred Important Archaeological Discoveries in Hebei in a Hundred Years", which attracted a large number of cultural relics workers, historical and cultural enthusiasts and tourists to "punch in".

    The ecological restoration of the waterfall river has activated the historical context. On the other hand, the prosperity of culture has also injected new development momentum into the waterfall river. On September 8th, the Waterfall River Ecological Leisure Resort made a stunning appearance at the 5th Cultural and Tourism Industry Development Conference in Baoding, opening a new historical chapter.

    One son falls and is full of vitality. The ecological restoration of the waterfall river has revitalized the local agriculture and culture, created a "waterfall river ecological leisure resort" with rich landscape and rhyme, and promoted the integration and development of the "agricultural tourism" industry. The green mountains and green hills are changing to "Jinshan Yinshan".

Bali shopping guide

  The most worthwhile things to buy in Bali are local handicrafts, such as wood carving, stone carving and batik. If your wallet allows, you can also buy some works by local artists.

  In Kuta, Denpasar, Nu Shadoa and other places, the price will be more expensive because of the large number of tourists. There are many villages in Bali that specialize in producing certain handicrafts, such as Mas and Sulu. Buying them in workshops is not only cheap, but also can witness the whole process of making these exquisite instruments. Ubud in Bali is the best place, and many handicrafts sold by shops in Kuta and other places are wholesale from here.

  Special note:

  1. You should bring enough cash to buy things in Bali. Most small shops with cheap prices do not accept credit cards, while the prices in large handicraft shops and duty-free shops are much more expensive.

  2. Be careful that there are some artists near the tourist attractions who ask tourists for high prices and sell fake antiques.

The latest progress has been made in the death case of the first "Tesla autopilot" car accident in China.

  CCTV News:Recently, the first fatal case of "Tesla Autopilot" car accident in China, the case of Tesla owner Gao Jubin, the father of the vehicle driver Gao Yanning who died in the accident, sued Tesla China Company, which made the latest progress after more than a year of difficult trial. Tesla finally confirmed that the vehicle was in an "automatic driving" state when the car accident occurred. This is only a small progress in this case, and the process of litigation still has a long way to go. So, what kind of traffic accident is this?

  On January 20, 2016, a serious rear-end collision occurred in Handan section of Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway in Hebei Province. While driving in the first lane on the left, a white Tesla car ran into a road sweeper that was working ahead.

  There were no brake marks before the collision.

  In the process of handling the accident, the high-speed traffic police did not find any brake marks on Tesla cars before the collision. Combined with the on-site investigation and video data of driving recorder, after careful investigation, the high-speed traffic police department issued a letter of responsibility for this traffic accident.

  Jia Weichuan, Director of Cixian Brigade Office of Hebei High-speed Traffic Police Handan Detachment: "The driver of the white Tuosule (Tesla) car did not take braking and avoidance measures when encountering the vehicle in front, which should be the main cause of the accident."

  After being sent to two hospitals for emergency treatment, Gao Ya Ning, who was driving a Tesla sedan at that time, eventually died of his injuries and lost his 23-year-old life.

  Gao jubin: "I always feel that the child died a little unjustly, and I have to find out the reason."

  Analyze the driving video and infer it as "automatic driving"

  Gao Jubin thought of the "automatic driving" function that his son had mentioned many times. After many experts were invited to study the video of the driving recorder, everyone unanimously speculated that it was precisely because Gaoyaning started the "automatic driving" function during driving and handed over the driving to the vehicle, and the "automatic driving" system failed to identify the vehicle in front, which eventually led to tragedy. Therefore, in July 2016, Gao Jubin sued Tesla’s sales company in China to the Chaoyang District People’s Court. Claim compensation for the loss of 10 thousand yuan.

  Gao Jubin’s attorney, Wang Beibei.: "In fact, the amount of this compensation is not the purpose pursued by this case. We hope that through this case, it will have some social value and let the public know this ‘ Autopilot ’ The technology is flawed. Because of this immature technology, once you cause a vicious accident, it is a broken family like Mr. Gao. "

  Both the defendant and the original witness to take out the data memory card.

  On October 18, 2017, Gao Jubin finally waited for the day to test this Tesla car. After the accident insurance claims ended, Gao Jubin bought back the wreckage of this car from the insurance company and kept it in the garage. Now, the data stored in the car has become the most important basis for finding the truth of the accident for my son.

  The plaintiff’s attorney, Guo Qing.When the garage door rose slowly, I stood at a distance of about two meters from the car. I saw that the car was exposed bit by bit, and it had crashed into powder, like a ferocious monster, and my heart was shocked.

  Under the auspices of the judge and witnessed by both the original defendant and the defendant, the staff of Beijing CIMC Vehicle Judicial Appraisal Center inspected the vehicle. After more than a day, the appraisal agency completed the inspection of the vehicle and took out the memory card with the data of the vehicle driving state from the vehicle.

  Get the data of memory card and send it to America.

  After taking out this memory card, at the suggestion of the plaintiff’s attorney, both the original defendant and the defendant found a professional institution recognized by both parties and made a mirror copy of the contents of the memory card. The original defendant and the court each keep one copy. At this time, it is already January 2018, and it has been two years since the traffic accident occurred. After that, the data will be transmitted to the United States.

  On February 26, 2018, the first Monday after the Spring Festival, several people came to the Tesla delivery center again and sent the data in the memory card back to the United States. The process of uploading is very simple. The judges put seals on the computers used for uploading and the doors and windows of the office where the computers are located to prevent people from entering. There are also surveillance cameras on the roof of the corridor.

  Gao jubin’s wife Gao juhong: "At night, we still don’t feel at ease. The two of us are downstairs. Several of us took turns staring at it all night. Now I am afraid that even if there is a little hope, I want to have an explanation for my child, for fear that there are some loopholes and I am sorry for my child."

  Interpretation of stored data was "automatic driving" at that time.

  At two o’clock the next afternoon, the judge of Chaoyang court, the staff of the Judicial Appraisal Center of China National Aircraft Corporation and the original defendant came to this office again to check the return results. In response to the returned data results, Tesla engineers cooperated with the interpretation on the spot.

  Gao jubin: "In the later period, at 2: 07 after repeated questioning, until the crash, what was the explanation of this letter? Finally, after repeated questioning, they told me that this was automatic driving, which finally proved that their son used automatic driving. There is also a data reading behind, and my son’s feet are still stepping on the brakes. I think it should be in the collision. When it is about to collide, it is estimated that the child found it, as if he wanted to brake with his feet. "

  Gao Jubin told reporters that in April 2017, he had proposed to the court to adjust the amount of the claim from the original 10,000 yuan to 5 million yuan in response to Tesla’s prevarication and procrastination attitude in the previous litigation. At present, Gao Jubin’s lawsuit is still going on, and Tesla’s "automatic assisted driving" system is constantly updating and iterating.

  Expert: There are five levels of autonomous driving technology.

  According to Professor Yang Diange, director of the Department of Automotive Engineering in Tsinghua University, at present, the auto-driving technology of automobiles is mainly divided into five levels.

  Yang Diange, Director of Automotive Engineering Department of Tsinghua University.: "The first-level and second-level autopilot can be regarded as a low-level autopilot, which is commonly known as the driver assistance system. At the third level, it is actually a man-machine co-driving, and at the fourth level, it is called conditional high-level autopilot. At the fifth level, it is completely unmanned."

  According to Director Yang Diange, Tesla’s system should be at the level between the second and third levels.

  Yang Diange, Director of Automotive Engineering Department of Tsinghua University.: "It should not be regarded as a very advanced automatic driving system. So from a technical point of view, it may be more appropriate to call it a driver assistance system. "

  Car companies should have social responsibility to ensure safe use.

  Director Yang Diange said that this requires automobile manufacturers to have a high sense of social responsibility.

  Yang Diange, Director of Automotive Engineering Department of Tsinghua University."Automobile products are completely different from mobile phone products and computer products. It involves human life safety, and the requirements for its reliability are very high. Therefore, it is also very important to make great efforts, spend a lot of investment and do long-term tests in technology to ensure its safety, and at the same time let the people better understand, understand and use these technologies."

The first batch of complete vehicles of Star Road Star Era ET officially rolled off the assembly line in Wuhu.

A few days ago, the first batch of production cars of Star Era ET, the first long-life luxury SUV—— of Star Era, was officially launched in the first phase of Chery production base in Wuhu, Anhui Province.

The first batch of complete vehicles of Star Road Star Era ET officially rolled off the assembly line in Wuhu.

The first batch of complete vehicles of Star Road Star Era ET officially rolled off the assembly line in Wuhu. Photo courtesy of Chery Automobile

At the off-line ceremony, Gao Xinhua, executive deputy general manager of Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. and CTO of Chery Automobile Engineering Technology R&D Institute, vividly expounded the development concept of the new car. "At the beginning of design, Xingjiyuan ET adhered to the initial intention of’ car is an extension of home’ and built a super comfortable long-life luxury SUV with the technical standard of’ black box’.

The first batch of complete vehicles of Star Road Star Era ET officially rolled off the assembly line in Wuhu. Photo courtesy of Chery Automobile

The first batch of complete vehicles of Star Road Star Era ET officially rolled off the assembly line in Wuhu. Photo courtesy of Chery Automobile

In order to let users feel the comfortable and luxurious atmosphere more truly, Star Age ET adopts the luxury design concept of "super comfortable home", with the appearance being "more than shape" and the interior being "more luxurious than products". It combines the smart big screen, mobile bar, locker, lounge chair and other home elements in the living room with multi-light sources and applies high-end environmental protection materials at no cost to create a comfortable and livable home space.

The first batch of complete vehicles of Star Road Star Era ET officially rolled off the assembly line in Wuhu. Photo courtesy of Chery Automobile

The first batch of complete vehicles of Star Road Star Era ET officially rolled off the assembly line in Wuhu. Photo courtesy of Chery Automobile

It is worth mentioning that Star Age ET recently completed the industry’s first "extreme challenge of -30℃ and 24-hour immersion and freezing", which comprehensively solved the three major pain points of users’ car life shrinkage, electrical safety and driving safety in winter.

The first batch of complete vehicles of Star Road Star Era ET officially rolled off the assembly line in Wuhu. Photo courtesy of Chery Automobile

The first batch of complete vehicles of Star Road Star Era ET officially rolled off the assembly line in Wuhu. Photo courtesy of Chery Automobile

Facing the outlet of new energy vehicles, Xingtu Xingyu is committed to the high-quality development of high-end new energy. The successful launch of Star Era ET further consolidated the image of Star Era as a new benchmark in the high-end new energy market, and inserted the "wings" for the new energy, intelligence and high-end brand of Star Way. (Chery Xuan)

The blue warning of heavy rain and strong wind in Beijing is double, and gusts in some areas can reach 8 levels.

  Beijing, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) According to the official Weibo news of Beijing Meteorological Bureau, the Beijing Meteorological Observatory issued a blue rainstorm warning signal at 18: 15 on September 9, 2019: It is predicted that there will be short-term heavy precipitation with hourly rainfall intensity of about 30mm in Beijing from now until 5: 00 on the 10th, and the secondary disasters such as floods, mountain torrents and geological disasters induced by heavy precipitation in mountainous areas and shallow mountainous areas are high, and water accumulation is easy to occur in low-lying areas. Please pay attention to prevention.

  At the same time, according to the website of Beijing Meteorological Bureau, Beijing issued a blue warning of strong wind. It is estimated that gusts in most parts of Beijing will reach 7 or 8 by 00: 00 on the 10th, so please take precautions.

  Image source: Beijing Meteorological Bureau official Weibo

Is it possible for people to spit out shit when they vomit? The doctor said: Yes.

Original: medical rivers and lakes of DrX, medical rivers and lakes of DrX

The full text is 1879 words, and it takes 5 minutes to read.

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If you are eating or preparing to eat, the following content may not be very friendly to you.

Shit, as an important part of maintaining human physiological operation and life activities, is self-evident. Whether you like it or not, we must face this fact from the moment we are born.

Shit can be said to be one of the most important life activities in a person’s life. It will make you feel comfortable all over, forget all your troubles, and let you sit on the toilet and pour a thousand miles, and live a rainy life with the red dust of the toilet from now on.

Just today, Dr.X saw such a question on the Zhihu:

"When people vomit, is it possible to spit out shit? 」

In an instant, "a life of shit" began to emerge in my mind. With the sensitivity of a medical worker, Dr.X must popularize "Will shit be vomited?" 」

Yes!

Why? There are many reasons, the most important of which is intestinal obstruction.

The following content comes from the personal experience of an oncology intern:

An old man with low intestinal obstruction came to the department. He didn’t defecate for about ten days and had severe abdominal distension.

After coming to the department, the first thing to do is to insert a gastric tube for drainage. When the patient opened his mouth, a pungent and strong smell of feces came to his face.

The patient vomited just after the drainage tube was fixed and it didn’t work.

In an instant, the patient’s clothes and sheets were covered with thick liquid fecal vomit. Followed by the second and third waves of shocks … the families of patients standing on the side are stupid.

Imagine that all kinds of digestive juices and foods have been fermented in the human body for more than ten days. What kind of "wonderful" taste is this?

Is it possible to spit out shit?

I’m afraid this smell is worse than shit and more disgusting than shit.

Of course, no one wants this to happen to himself, but since the disease of intestinal obstruction has been developed, no matter how disgusting it is, it has to suffer.

In addition to nausea and pain, we can’t ignore the danger of long-term inability to defecate.

There is a disease called congenital colon, because the congenital colon development is abnormal, which leads to some large intestine or the whole large intestine in a state of spasm, and it is difficult to pass stool.

The young man in the picture below suffers from Hirschsprung’s disease. When he was 16 years old, he could only defecate once a month, so that his stomach became bigger and bigger.

Finally, at the age of 29, the man was found dead in the toilet while he was trying to defecate. After dissecting his body, it was found that his colon was many times larger than that of ordinary people, and the thickest part had reached a diameter of 76cm, while the stool inside was a full 18 kg.

The picture below is a specimen made of his colon, which is now on display in a museum in the United States.

Hirschsprung’s disease (HD) is a deformity characterized by the lack of nerve cells in the intestinal wall. Generally, the ganglion-free segment of the colon is located at the distal end of the colon, and the intestine of the ganglion-free segment lacks propulsive peristalsis. At this time, the intestine is in a spastic state, which will cause colon obstruction.

Generally, children with HD will have related symptoms within 24-48 hours after birth. If the baby has abdominal distension, delayed meconium discharge or even vomiting after birth, it is necessary to check whether it is Hirschsprung’s disease in time. In addition, 50%-90% of children will have abdominal distension, bile vomiting, intractable constipation, etc., and 10% of children will have fever, abdominal distension, diarrhea, and recurrent attacks, and even fatal risks.

Therefore, Hirschsprung’s disease cannot be ignored.

Congenital colon of the man above is relatively rare, and intestinal obstruction is more common. In medical terms, intestinal obstruction means that part or all of the intestinal contents cannot flow normally or pass through the intestine smoothly.

Generally, nearly 90% of intestinal obstruction will occur in the small intestine, especially in the narrowest ileum, and colon obstruction is more likely to occur in the sigmoid colon.

The condition of intestinal obstruction is very changeable. Don’t think it’s just simple constipation or indigestion. In many cases, carelessness may be life-threatening. According to the data of the World Health Organization, the mortality rate of small intestinal obstruction in the United States is 10%, and the mortality rate of colon obstruction is even higher than 30%.

If diagnosis and treatment are not carried out within 24 hours, the mortality rate will continue to increase.

Why do you still suffer from intestinal obstruction when you clearly pay attention to healthy diet and often exercise?

Before that, you need to recognize the cause of intestinal obstruction.

In fact, there are many reasons that can cause intestinal obstruction. Generally, the causes of intestinal obstruction may be inflammation, tumor, adhesion, volvulus, intussusception, food mass blockage and even intestinal stenosis caused by external pressure. Of course, serious infection can also cause intestinal obstruction. It is worth noting that more than 80% of mechanical intestinal obstruction in large intestine is caused by tumor, which is most likely to occur in sigmoid colon.

Because the tumor grows slowly and the intestinal cavity of the large intestine is relatively wide, it is usually blocked by fecal blocks in the obstructed area and induces or aggravates the condition of intestinal obstruction. In general, the manifestations of small intestinal obstruction are often the first symptoms of small intestinal tumors, and the lumen of the small intestine may be a little narrow, but there are many substances in the small intestine and they are generally fluids, so the obstruction will not appear in the early stage of tumor occurrence. This means that when the obstruction occurs in the small intestine, the small intestine tumor may have been there for some time.

It should be noted that malignant intestinal obstruction (MBO) is generally the most common complication of patients with advanced tumors, usually intestinal obstruction caused by primary or metastatic malignant tumors, which accounts for 5%-43%. The primary tumors of general intestinal obstruction are ovarian cancer (5.5%-51%), colorectal cancer (10%-28%) and gastric cancer (30%-40%)

Seeing this, do you dare to ignore your defecation problem? In particular, the problem of intestinal obstruction in middle-aged and elderly people needs special attention. Dr.X has contacted many patients with intestinal obstruction, and most of them think that they just have poor defecation, but in the end they have detected various tumors, most of which are intestinal cancer.

We won’t elaborate so much on the causes of intestinal obstruction, after all, it is hard for ordinary people to understand. Let’s focus on the manifestations of intestinal obstruction, and readers in front of the screen can also judge whether they have signs of intestinal obstruction according to their own situation.

abdominalgia

Abdominal pain here is generally paroxysmal severe colic, which generally has the following characteristics:

Wave-like pain from light to heavy and then relieved;

When you have an attack, you can feel a sharp drop in gas, and it will suddenly stop when you reach a certain part of the body. At this time, abdominal pain is generally the most intense;

When abdominal pain occurs, you can feel that the intestinal type is moving.

Stop defecation

This is the most typical feature of intestinal obstruction. However, when suffering from high intestinal obstruction, there will be a small amount of defecation and gas discharge in the early stage, which will cause many patients to be paralyzed. Strangulated intestinal obstruction can discharge bloody mucus-like stool.

vomit

Vomiting usually comes with intestinal obstruction at the same time, which is generally reflective in the early stage. At this time, the vomit is food and gastric juice, and the vomit in the above case is still relatively rare. When intestinal obstruction enters the quiescent stage, vomiting will be more frequent at this time, and the vomit at this time is gastric juice, duodenal juice and bile.

After the rest period, vomit is an object with the smell of feces, which is commonly known as "shit".

abdominal distention

This situation usually occurs after the obstruction has occurred for a period of time. The degree of abdominal distension here is largely related to the obstruction site, and abdominal distension is not obvious when suffering from high intestinal obstruction. But when suffering from low obstruction, the whole abdomen will swell.

It is worth noting that strangulated intestinal obstruction is likely to bring serious consequences, so once you have the following symptoms, don’t hesitate to seek medical attention!

Sudden abdominal pain with persistent severe pain

Vomiting occurs early, violently and frequently.

As the body temperature rises, the pulse rate increases.

Abdominal distension is asymmetrical, and there is obvious local bulge in the abdomen.

Vomit or excrement contains bloody liquid.

Dr.X said

Intestinal health is not only related to the digestive system, but also affects the intestinal flora and the cognitive development of the brain. If you feel stupid, it may be the intestinal cause ~

Finally, if you find yourself with chronic constipation, diarrhea, or even intestinal obstruction, please seek medical advice as soon as possible to avoid irreparable consequences.

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In the first three quarters, the installed capacity of renewable energy increased by 90.36 million kilowatts.

  Science and Technology Daily, Beijing, November 14th (Reporter Liu Yuanyuan) On the 14th, the National Energy Administration held an online news conference for the fourth quarter to introduce the energy situation in the first three quarters of 2022 and the grid-connected operation of renewable energy.

  "In the first three quarters of 2022, China’s renewable energy installed capacity was 90.36 million kilowatts, accounting for 78.8% of the country’s new power generation installed capacity." Wang Dapeng, deputy director of the New Energy and Renewable Energy Department of the National Energy Administration, said that the installed capacity of renewable energy has steadily expanded. Among them, hydropower increased by 15.9 million kilowatts, wind power increased by 19.24 million kilowatts, photovoltaic power generation increased by 52.6 million kilowatts, and biomass power generation increased by 2.62 million kilowatts, accounting for 13.9%, 16.8%, 45.8% and 2.3% of the newly installed capacity in China respectively.

  By the end of September 2022, the installed capacity of renewable energy power generation in China reached 1.146 billion kilowatts. Among them, hydropower installed capacity is 406 million kilowatts (including pumped storage capacity of 43 million kilowatts), wind power installed capacity is 348 million kilowatts, photovoltaic power generation installed capacity is 358 million kilowatts, and biomass power generation installed capacity is 40.6 million kilowatts. The power generation of renewable energy has also increased steadily: in the first three quarters of 2022, the national renewable energy power generation reached 1.94 trillion kWh.

  "Renewable energy continues to maintain a high level of utilization." Wang Dapeng said that in the first three quarters of 2022, the water energy utilization rate of major river basins in China was about 98.6%, an increase of 1.1 percentage points over the same period of last year; The average utilization rate of wind power in China is 96.5%, which is 0.5 percentage points lower than the same period of last year. The average utilization rate of photovoltaic power generation in China was 98.2%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the same period of last year.

  Dong Wancheng, deputy director of the Development Planning Department of the National Energy Administration, said that the first batch of large-scale wind power photovoltaic bases have all started, and the second batch of projects are starting one after another. At present, the third batch of project review is being promoted. In the first eight months of this year, the investment in key projects in the national energy field was 1,229.5 billion yuan, up 16.7% year-on-year, 0.8 percentage points higher than the growth rate in the first half of this year.

  "Anchoring peak carbon dioxide emissions’s carbon neutrality, ‘ Fourteenth Five-Year Plan ’ During this period, we will thoroughly implement ‘ Four revolutions and one cooperation ’ The new strategy of energy security promotes the high-quality leap development of renewable energy. " Wang Dapeng said that in terms of production, the development mode will be optimized and renewable energy will be developed on a large scale; In terms of technology, we will adhere to the drive of innovation and develop renewable energy with high quality. Intensify the research on renewable energy technology innovation, fill in the shortcomings of technology and equipment, accelerate the cultivation of new models and formats, improve the modernization level of industrial chain, enhance the flexibility and toughness of supply chain, and continuously consolidate and enhance the international competitiveness of China’s renewable energy industry.