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".

The high-end academic platform "Shanluo Lecture Hall" of Huaibei Normal University has started!

At 3pm on November 9th, 2022, many teachers and students gathered in Shanluo College of the Library of Binhu Campus of Huaibei Normal University. Yu Minhui, the vice president of the school, solemnly announced that the high-end academic platform of Huaibei Normal University "Shanluo Lecture Hall" was opened!

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The first lecture of "Shanluo Lecture Hall" was "Knowing Mr. Wu Mengfu" by Mr. Ji Jiansheng, an expert in philology in this school. With deep feelings, Ji Jiansheng gave a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to Mr. Wu Mengfu, the "leader of Anhui traditional scholarship" and "the last master of Tongcheng School", from the aspects of his life, academic experience, academic wisdom and academic achievements, and the value and influence of Mr. Wu and Huaibei Normal University and Mr. Wu.

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Yu Minhui shared his feelings of listening to the lecture with "thanks", "moving" and "feeling" and spoke highly of the wonderful and touching lecture. As the vice-president of Anhui Historical Society and Hui Society, Yu Minhui also recalled Wu Lao’s help to himself and expressed his deep gratitude to Wu Huaiqi, the second son of Wu Mengfu.

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Wu Mengfu (1919-1995), formerly known as Wu Changtao, was named Bolu and Meng Fu. Line by word; You zi shan Luo. Lujiang, Anhui Province, graduated from Wuxi National Studies School in 1937. In 1945, he was a professor at Shanghai Law and Politics College, and the following year, he was an associate professor at Jinan University in Shanghai. Shanghai was liberated and worked in the compilation group of Shanghai Cultural Relics Preservation Committee. After 1950, he returned to Anhui, where he first served as the teaching director in Chuxian Middle School, and then taught in Hefei Normal University (the predecessor of Anhui Normal University), and worked as the cataloging of ancient books in the school library. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to Dangshan to teach at Huaibei Normal University in the spring of 1975, and directed the compilation of A Chinese Dictionary. Later professor, librarian, director of Chinese department, editor-in-chief of liberal arts journal, and director of ancient books research office. In 1987, he was transferred to Anhui Education College (now Hefei Normal College), presided over the collation of ancient books in Anhui Province, and served as the chairman of the editorial board of Anhui Ancient Books Series and the vice chairman of Anhui Social Federation.

Wu Mengfu inherited the sages all his life, carried forward the tradition, devoted himself to hometown education and the collation and research of rural literature, cultivated talents and contributed to Anhui. In his early years, he was famous for his ancient poems; in his middle age, he was famous for studying Du Fu and Han Yu; in his later years, he mainly studied language and writing, collation of ancient books and Chinese teaching. He wrote, edited and proofread more than 20 books and wrote more than 100 papers. Huaibei Normal University is organizing the publication of The Complete Works of Wu Mengfu.

Wu Mengfu is an iconic scholar of liberal arts in Huaibei Normal University. He is an important Chinese educator, exegetist, philologist, classical literature expert, ancient poetry writer and calligrapher. Wu Mengfu loves his motherland, hometown, learning and education all his life. He is not only the academic brand and business card of Huaibei Normal University, but also a teacher who inherits the traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

Yu Minhui introduced that "Shanluo Academy" and "Shanluo Lecture Hall" were named after Wu Mengfu. Shanluo Academy is the key construction space of the library in Binhu Campus. Its layout is simple and simple, and its style is dignified in Jing Ya. You can sincerely invite scholars to cultivate talents. As an important platform for high-end academic lectures, "Shanluo Lecture Hall" will be built into a brand activity, and experts and scholars inside and outside the school and even at home and abroad will be invited to make high-quality academic reports for the teachers and students of the school, so as to remember Mr. Wu Mengfu’s academic demeanor and contribution, inherit his academic context and spirit, and promote the connotative high-quality development of Huaibei Normal University in the new era.

Gao Yulan, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Minister of Propaganda Department, Director of Discipline Construction and Planning Department, and teachers and students from the College of Literature and the College of Historical and Cultural Tourism attended the lecture.

Brief introduction of the speaker:

Ji Jiansheng was admitted to the Chinese Department of Anhui Normal University (the predecessor of Huaibei Normal University) in 1977. He was taught by Mr. Wu Mengfu and stayed there as an academic assistant to Mr. Wu Mengfu after graduation. Later, he served as director of the Institute of Ancient Books Arrangement, director of Anhui Literature Arrangement and Research Center, deputy editor-in-chief and rotating executive editor-in-chief of Ancient Books Research magazine, and member of the editorial board of Anhui Ancient Books Series. Famous scholar, mainly engaged in the collation and research of traditional literature. There are many achievements in the collation of ancient books, such as the Complete Works of Ling Tingkan, and academic papers are included in the manuscript of Xiang Lu Jing Luo. Now he is an academic consultant of the editorial board of Anhui Ancient Books Series.

Attachment: The Story of Shanluo Academy

Mr. Wu Mengfu, who was fond of learning in his childhood, was able to write poetry at the age of eight. Studying in Wuxi National College, and staying among famous teachers in Anhui Province and Shanghai, I changed to many teachers and didn’t read any books. His learning is far from Ganjia and close to Guangxuan; Both Han and Song Dynasties are good at rhyme and dispersion. Faru Tongcheng, petals fragrant in Korea and Europe, poetry merged with Tang and Song Dynasties, and exegesis was included in the poems. Throughout his life, he took revitalizing the Anhui School of Pu Xue as his career aim, promoting traditional culture as his direction, taking rural literature as a platform, and aiming at educating talents. Regard writing, literature, articles and culture as a whole, and integrate reading, managing books, writing books and teaching as one thing. Works, etc., benefit the learning forest; Jiaoze is widely known and renowned in Jianghuai. For twelve years, Huaibei Normal University’s spirit of studying and studying, its efforts to pass on the fire, and its demeanor of being a teacher are the precious wealth of the school and the outstanding symbol of its discipline. Today, the school has set up a space in the library of Binhu Campus, named after Mr. Shan Luo, and established an academy to admire, show the pulse of learning and encourage later learning. It’s to remember. Ji Jiansheng, Ren Yin, Xia Yujing, Luo Xuan (Wang Qiannan, Chen Yun, special correspondent: Ge Jie)

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Guide to the design of humanoid robots

This article comes from WeChat WeChat official account:Cody products go to sea (id: chenfeng element), Author: Chen Feng, original title: "Humanoid Robot Design Guide: How to find a way out for consumers?" 》, the title picture comes from: TESLA

Musk’s product design once again swept our field of vision, this time it was a humanoid robot.

Tesla Optimus Prime Product Design Path

On September 30th, Optimus Prime, which aims to "reshape the future of the labor force", was released, adding more variables to the product design of humanoid robots.

On August 11th, before Tesla, Xiaomi released his own humanoid robot CyberOne, code-named "Tieda". A well-known domestic artificial intelligence solution provider, Ubisoft, also released a new generation of Walker X in October last year.

The isometric drawings of Optimus Prime and other large-scale product designs.

However, if the DEMO released this time is shown to the Japanese fifty years ago, I’m afraid the product designers will be disappointed. As early as 1972, Waseda University in Japan had made the first full-size humanoid robot WABOT, which could communicate in Japanese, navigate indoors and grab objects.

Wabot is highly similar to the DEMO of Optimus Prime.

Fifty years later, humanoid robots seem to be stuck in the castle in the air of cutting-edge technology, and it is difficult to get out of the laboratory and land. Aside from Tesla’s brand aura, where does the future design of humanoid robots lead?

Chronicle of Honda ASIMO product design

From psychology to art, from product application to steering gear cost, humanoid robot may be the most challenging product design in human history.

Challenge uncanny valley.

In the classic book Crossing the Gap, Geoffrey Moore thinks: "The most dangerous and crucial point in the process of high-tech products coming out is the transition from the early market dominated by a few visionaries to the mainstream market occupied by a large number of customers dominated by pragmatists."

Tesla CyberTruck’s sense of the future is inseparable from industrial design.

Compared with Tesla’s previous CyberTruck and Model electric cars, humanoid robots rely more on industrial design. Only in this way can we achieve a thrilling leap from laboratory prototype to commercialization.

The theory of horror valley belongs to the industrial design of humanoid robots. If humanoid robots try to approach real people from various characteristics, users’ expectations for design will be unattainable.

"uncanny valley" Psychological Theory in Robot Design

Once designers pay too much attention to appearance and emotional expression, such as trying to recreate human muscles and skin, they will easily fall into uncanny valley, and become a failed commodity like the "corpses" of countless laboratory DEMO lying at the bottom of the valley.

The list of "scary robots" on IEEE

Zhang Haochong, director of Naiyang Creative Design, said: No matter from the design trend or the current product technology, the more effective design ideas are not to challenge the "uncanny valley", to resist the impulse of design, and to design robots as "digital products" and "home appliances" to avoid the corresponding seats for real people.

This means that on the left side of uncanny valley, there is still a vast design space to prove the consumption value.

How many obstacles are there to overcome in designing the dream humanoid robot commodity?

Overcoming Moravik Paradox

In fact, the design of humanoid robots has never been seen by the AI industry.

In 2012, teacher Kai-fu Lee once commented that the idea that humanoid robots will enter thousands of households immediately is simply nonsense.

Peter teale, the founder of Paypal, came to the same conclusion: "It’s just a simple action to let the robot take out the dirty clothes from the basket and put them into the washing machine". In the opinion of the engineers he communicated with, "it can’t be seen in his lifetime."

The criticism of AI predecessors is not groundless. Its foundation is actually one: Moravik paradox.

Humanoid robots are smart, but their movement ability can never keep up with the algorithm.-Because the existing motors and sensors are not accurate enough, the limbs are extremely underdeveloped. It can copy the story of AlphaGo countless times, easily defeating humans in data calculation and quiz, but it can’t twist a door handle and pick up a water cup accurately-not as good as a three-year-old child.

All children’s sports skills: picking up pencils, running and jumping, and tightening bottle caps-all are the most difficult problems for humanoid robots so far. A cold joke in the AI industry is that manual jobs such as gardeners, receptionists and chefs don’t have to worry about being replaced within 30 years.

The limitation of Moravik’s paradox is what all robot designers need to face up to.

The daunting design cost.

The industrial design of humanoid robot needs abundant funds to irrigate it.

The joints of Tesla Optimus Prime contain a large number of motors.

To create a perfect robot design, ABS plastic shell and color matching are only small heads among small heads, and a large number of joints and servo steering gears are needed to support the design.

Exploded view of millet CyberOne hip motor structure

Relevant practitioners have revealed that the cost of servo steering gear system accounts for 40% to 50% of sports robots. The multi-stage steering gear needed to realize human action design and the high price of accessories force humanoid robots to bid farewell to high quality and low price at the consumer end.

The common servo steering gear on Taobao is expensive.

Tesla shouted out a customer unit price of $20,000 at the press conference, but this is still not an acceptable price for the consumer market.Even in the field of children, considering the lower customer unit price of toy robots, the high cost of motors will not change because of their size, which greatly reduces the cost space.

Small steering gear for children’s toys is also expensive.

For Tesla and any robot, the whole body needs countless steering gears to drive, and the cost fluctuation of any motor is a factor that cannot be ignored when designing products.

Home furnishing field

If you want to design humanoid robots for the home field, the first thing to consider is the material and color matching.

White material is a common color for household appliances in industrial design. It has also become the home color matching standard for humanoid robots.

However, the curse of Moravic’s paradox is the strongest in the field of home.

Although the humanoid home robot has always been a design that attracts people’s attention, it has always been far from the designer’s expectations: since its inception, humanoid robots have been subjected to various "less human-like" home robots.

From 2021 to 2022, Aqara Green Rice and Eurobo completed financing with a total amount of 1 billion yuan respectively. It has become the two largest financing for smart homes in recent years. Humanoid robot and smart home are both capital-intensive industries, but the former is a research and development need, and the profit is far away; The installed capacity of the latter products is well documented.

Aqara’s various professional home robot matrices

In Japan, where ASIMO home robot was born, there is a unique SwitchBot company.

Its product design style is to use a small motor to quickly control the common buttons and door handles at home. To achieve the same function, humanoid robot needs the identification, positioning and linkage of dozens of servo motors.

The humanoid robot needs dozens of steering gears to twist the door handle.

A large number of micro-powered robots directly skipped the defense line of Moravik paradox. When humanoid robots are still studying how to form a mechanical arm with a variety of steering gears, press the switch and unlock the door lock with high precision, the IoT robot chose to reduce the dimension.

The best-selling button robot in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and Japan.

This is a moment that has appeared many times in the history of industrial design: in the 19th century, Germans once carved guns with the same high quality as works of art, which is still a model of design collection; The British designed a cheap, simple gun which is suitable for rapid and large-scale industrial manufacturing. When low-cost small steering gear can quickly realize the home scene of dozens of heavy steering gear linkage, the balance of war will inevitably tilt to the other side of the humanoid vase.

The search volume of Google Trend, a home robot, is significantly higher than that of humanoid robots after 2011.

What few people know is that before Tesla and Xiaomi’s robots, the once-popular Honda ASIMO home robot officially retired in March 2022.

On March 31st, 2022, Honda ASIMO robot officially retired.

The performance of humanoid robots on the home stage has ended before it started.

Although this expression is somewhat cruel, it is hard not to think that the design behind Tesla’s "Optimus Prime" and Xiaomi’s CyberOne today is just a replica of the defeated soldiers in the home battlefield.

An educational scene that is beyond one’s power

Outside the smart home stage, humanoid robots could have found another way to capture children’s desks as "educational robots".

The design opportunity began in 2017, when the State Council issued the artificial intelligence education policy.

This policy has greatly stimulated the demand for robot education. In front of major companies, it is a grand blue ocean market. In 2018, Ubisoft hired Takahashi Zhilong, who had designed RoBohon robot, as the chief product officer to take charge of product design.

China and Japanese robot industry designers met on the education track.

Everything about the humanoid educational robot looks beautiful.

Take the "Wukong" released in 2019 as an example. The size of the mini makes it not be regarded as a real person, avoiding the pit of the horror valley effect; As the most acceptable interactive carrier for children, humanoid can play the role of children’s learning companion and promote students’ social skills of communicating with others, understanding emotions and expressing. You can also get through all kinds of educational IP and become a traffic portal.

However, there have been professional teachers’ voices opposing humanoid design.

The reason is the familiar Moravik paradox: the educational subjects of humanoid robots are mainly mathematics, physics and engineering project learning, and the reasonable and efficient educational product modeling is actually not bound by humanoid.

The best-selling robots in Amazon, USA, are usually wheeled or tracked.

A robot product designer before making a child’s heart gave an example of an excavator: assuming that the mechanical arm and the principle of the mechanical arm should be taught in the primary school curriculum, the product form should reflect the semantics of mining. In modern classroom teaching, when introducing the popular science of robots, children’s reaction after getting humanoid robots is bound to exceed expectations: "Can it help me move things?" "Can these two robots race?"

Motionblock modular robot is a typical idea of split design according to projects.

Among them, the ability to walk and exercise is far beyond the ceiling that humanoid robots can meet from the beginning.

Teacher Cheng, who has used Alpha and Wukong robots to write courses, said: "Humanoid robots are very cost-effective and can’t support a few classes." Ye Yonghao, chairman of Yuzhi Kechuang, revealed: "Humanoid robots usually have requirements for venues and teachers, and institutions will not use human figures. Primary and secondary schools rarely introduce it. Even if there is, it is also the display purpose led by the Education Bureau. "

Modular educational robot occupying the market

The consensus reached by the education sector not only that teaching should not be restricted by human design, but also includes the need for emotional expression.

In April 2001, in Los Angeles, a studio named Cozmo Robot was established. Its products will be praised by many robot teachers, designers and even small bosses of Dongguan toy factory, and will occupy a very heavy weight in the design history of robots and educational toys.

Vector is not a humanoid design, but the introduction of LED panel brings emotional design to the extreme.

What makes Cozmo famous is the extremely rich emotional design. "This is what robots should look like. Please stop making humanoid robots like nightmares!" Become a representative of the consumer market.

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Cozmo’s design idea reduces the market’s dependence on human form and turns to richer expression design to meet the better output of children’s content. Drive the head expression of humanoid robot to develop in a rich and delicate direction.

The subsequent development has nothing to do with human form:After 2020, with the outbreak of online education and the decrease of the cost of superimposed screen components, the design trend is to further enlarge the expression panel and cut off the expensive humanoid joints.The industrial design at this stage is essentially a tablet computer dragging its body and speakers.

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Zhang Haochong, who has participated in Corbit, mTiny and Codey Rocky, pointed out the reasons:No matter the cost of steering gear, the feasibility of technology or the actual cost, its content can not bear the main responsibility of humanoid robot as education.

From school to family, from desks to dining tables, a large number of modular and kit toys and teaching AIDS have occupied the fields that Takahashi Zhilong and humanoid robots once dreamed of. However, due to the lack of support from professional B-end users, the proportion of humanoid modeling in the educational product line will inevitably decline.

Commercial performances and reception scenes

Tesla "Optimus Prime" pays attention to different physical labor scenes, and the commercial exhibition and reception in Chinese mainland is the undisputed home of humanoid robots.

The annual Spring Festival Gala is a battleground for all kinds of traffic operations for China Internet companies; For humanoid robots, it is a window to show product design.

In 2016, 540 Alpha humanoid robots landed in the Spring Festival Evening of the Year of the Monkey, and completed the product appearance in the song of Sun Nan’s "Rushing to the Peak"; Three years later, six Walker robots landed at the Shenzhen Branch of the Spring Festival Evening again. Subsequently, Ubisoft received a $100 million investment from CDH and CITIC Jinshi, and the overall valuation of the company reached $1 billion.

This is a pre-advertised product show. On the one hand, as a new product, it takes an educational process for design to go to the consumer market, and Spring Festival Evening Harmony is the best market promoter of product design. On the other hand, humanoid robots with excellent appearance and tonality in line with business scenes help to drain variety shows and offline shopping malls and tell a more technological brand story.

However, far from the performance of financing aura:In the field of domestic leasing, the product design with good sales performance is actually a wheeled flat-panel robot dominated by domestic Da Yun robots.

SoftBank Pepper, similar to Da Yun, receives robots.

In contrast, Ubisoft’s best-selling commercial reception robot is not a humanoid, but a Cruzr robot that also provides information consultation with a large tablet computer.

The choice of enterprises is clear-cut: avoiding the humanoid design with higher cost and more instability at this stage, and realizing offline service efficiency through AI voice and content. As for whether the product design is bipedal and conforms to the humanoid ideal of designers and engineers, it is not for enterprises to consider.

In any case, the B-end products support the valuation confidence of the industry. In April 2019, the representative of domestic humanoid robot, You Bixuan, started filing counseling at Shenzhen Securities Regulatory Bureau and started the journey of IPO listing.

At this moment, it is less than 10 months before the full-scale outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Epidemic prevention medical care, failed answer sheet

When the epidemic spread around the world, the design route of humanoid robots was also subverted.

Faced with such a large-scale epidemic and the emerging demand for massive service robots, designers suddenly found that wheeled robot talents are the solution to deal with the epidemic quickly.

The medical robot of Cizhi Wei ‘an has no obvious humanoid bipedal design.

As a result, there is no doubt that all kinds of unmanned vehicles have played a far more important role than humanoid robots. After 2020, humanoid robots are absent from both epidemic prevention service robots and rehabilitation service robots released in 2022.

European and American designers from the other side of the ocean, without China and Japan’s attachment to the biped scheme, adopted the wheeled design scheme "pragmatically". At this point, the stage of epidemic prevention and medical service has been decoupled from the design of humanoid robot.

The epidemic in COVID-19 seems to have nothing to do with humanoid robots, but it seriously overdraws the design funds-humanoid robots that are difficult to make profits in the short term and break through the technical bottleneck are even more backward in product application.

Entertainment and IP

The ebb tide of humanoid design does not seem to affect the surrounding IP and film and television products.

Why can today’s humanoid design still occupy a place? Essentially, humanoid robots are still enjoying the afterglow of all kinds of capital, media and IP. It has always been the global animation and film industry that has a profound impact on the product design of manufacturing industry, not the other way around.

When Takahashi Chihiro, the designer of the current article, was still studying at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, the Gospel Warrior of the New Century was already popular in East Asia, and at this moment, it has been 30 years since the humanoid robot Astro Boy was first serialized.

IP has a great influence on public cognition and product design.

When the design of humanoid robots lacks depth and fails to meet the public’s expectations of various classic IP, no matter how much design efforts, it will become a market failure. When one consumer story after another is finished, the humanoid robot persists except for the IP stage, and the audience on other stages has already gone empty.

The only purpose of design seems to be to stimulate investment.

Brand window telling vision

As the ceiling of humanoid design technology, Boston Power is probably a bumpy demonstration of stimulating investment.

Long ago, Boston Dynamics stated that it was, is and will be a money-burning company for a long time.

Although it has solved the problem of humanoid motion performance well enough, it has changed hands three times in seven years, and it has successively moved to Google, Softbank and Hyundai, which accurately illustrates the embarrassing situation that humanoid design lacks profit: enterprises are more inclined to use it as an imaginative tool to mobilize investment value, and once its revenue fails to meet expectations, it will be cut decisively.

This is similar to the underlying logic of Xiaomi’s project to build cars and robot products. Regardless of the impact of releasing humanoid robot products on business, it is definitely timely in stock price and future vision.

Xiaomi CyberOne Design Conference Site

This means that Xiaomi’s brand imagination has a new short-term anchor object.

Today’s Tesla has also learned how to pull this stock price. Musk clearly knows what the brand story about Tesla’s next decade looks like.

Today’s industrial design can’t solve the dilemma that humanoid robots are not popular, and Tesla is not optimistic. Various cost and scenario application problems will also be an urgent problem for Tesla designers.

Facing the Unknown Screenshot of Optimus Prime Tesla Conference

The Design Bonus of Sunset Western Hills

In the history of industrial design all over the world, no design team has completely run through the difficult design road of humanoid robots. How to design a humanoid robot? Musk, peter teale and Kai-Fu Lee have no answers, there is no answer in the history of industrial design, there is no answer in bionic design, there is no answer in motor parameters, and there is no answer in data algorithm.

In any case, humanoid robots will always inspire industrial designers deeply: try not to let backward product forms and concepts guide product appearance and creativity.

Jian li, senior product manager of Hetai, believes that the future prospect mainly lies in the service scene function of the companion.Humanoid has never been an efficient productive form, so when designing products, don’t be bound by the evolution process of carbon-based life, so that the efficiency of robots can not be limited to humanoid.

Nina, director of Naiyang’s creative design and operation, said: After the iPhone came out, all the industrial designs of the old era, such as the touch screen slider, disappeared. The category of "smart phone" has also been settled after years of competition. If Tesla’s "Optimus Prime" can become an iPhone-like classic design and have a profound impact on the industry, even if it is wheeled or modularized and detachable, it is very different from the "humanoid" imagined by consumers. As long as the market opens, everyone will slowly accept the new design.

Before the design proposition of human modeling, not only Tesla designers, but also product designers all over the world may be thinking: can humanoid robots get rid of the unnecessary conceptual constraints and break the original appearance ideas?

The answer to this design proposition will probably affect Tesla and other humanoid robots in the next decade or even twenty years.

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This article comes from WeChat WeChat official account:Cody products go to sea (id: chenfeng element), author: Chen Feng

Five cycling routes in Shanghai are recommended to explore the beautiful scenery along the way.

Let’s take a look at the cycling route recommended by the Municipal Bureau of Greening and City Appearance, and have a cycling trip.

Pudong binjiang boulevard

Recommended cycling route:Xupu Bridge-Yangpu Bridge

Total distance:About 20.7km

Good scenery along the way

All the way from Yangpu Bridge to Pudong Riverside of Xupu Bridge, there are three types of riding lanes, running lanes and strolling lanes. Among the three "people-friendly roads" in Pujiang, the red running road is particularly eye-catching; The purple riding lane sometimes goes side by side with the running lane, and sometimes it finds another way; The hydrophilic promenade is the closest to Huangpu River, which is spacious and comfortable. When you are tired of walking, sit on the stone bench for a while and watch the sunset. In the meantime, we can truly experience the harmonious coexistence between man and nature. The whole Lujiazui riverside is covered with shrubs and trees, and the flowers and plants are brightly colored, which adds a bit of beauty to Pujiang.

Songjiang Happy Cycling Line

Recommended cycling route:South Gate of Happy Valley-Linhu Road-Linyin New Road-Chenhua Road-Chenshan Botanical Garden-Chenta Road-Shetiankun Highway-tianmashan-Dingsong Road-Guangfulin Road-Guangfulin Cultural Relics-Songjiang Renmin North Road-Happy Valley

Total distance:25km

Good scenery along the way

Chenshan botanical garden

In 2023, the "Quiet Water Lily World" water lily exhibition in Chenshan Botanical Garden is in full swing. Come and see the exhibition by bike. Don’t miss this feast!

tianma mountains

Tianmashan has a long history and a rich cultural heritage. Lonely at sunset, green slopes shining in the evening, a graceful tower, leaning but not falling, is the most striking and peculiar scenery in tianmashan. The main scenic spots in the park include the Pearl-Protecting Pagoda, Ancient Ginkgo biloba, Sanguoshi Memorial Park, Liuyunge and so on.

Guangfulin country park

Guangfulin Country Park is built around the five core elements of "field, water, road, forest and village", and is based on the agricultural ecological natural landscape. It is composed of four major plates: agricultural garden picking, fruit forest scenery, wetland fishing village and camping base, and is divided into rape flower field, green trail, tent camp, forest oxygen bar, Taoxiang leisure shadow, Laolaiqing rice field, Peach Blossom Island and still water cedar.

Guangfulin cultural relics

Guangfulin Cultural Site is located in Lane 3260, Guangfulin Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai. It is a Neolithic site. The discovery of Guangfulin site obtained the archaeological name of Guangfulin culture, which filled the blank of the cultural pedigree in the late Neolithic period in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Jinshan ecology cycling line

Recommended cycling route:Langxia Country Park-Caolang Highway-Shanghai Bay Area Avenue-Jinshan District Planning Exhibition Center-Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway-Jinshanzui Fishing Village

Total distance:27km

Good scenery along the way

Langxia country park

The romantic planet light show in the country life season under the porch will last until August 27th. Combine various activities such as gourmet night market, theme dance performance, Northern Lights light show, non-legacy exhibition, camping, etc. to create an amusement scene that integrates lighting, dance beauty, culture and interactive experience. Let’s punch in!

Jinshanzui fishing village

Jinshanzui Fishing Village is an early-established and well-preserved fishing village along the coast of Shanghai, close to the city beach and echoing the three Jinshan Islands. Fishing villages have a long history of marine fishing culture and rich marine resources.

Fengxian haiwan cycling line

Recommended cycling route:Jinhaihu subway station-Fish around Shanghai-Wenyao Road-Jinhai Highway-Fengpao Highway-Fisherman’s Wharf

Total distance:16km

Good scenery along the way

jinhai lake

Shanghai Fish, also known as "Golden Sea Lake", is the third largest artificial lake in Shanghai. The lake is fish-shaped, and the peripheral water system is composed of Jinhui Port and Punan Canal, forming a circular waterway centered on fish.

Chongming hengsha island Cycling Line

Recommended cycling route:Hengsha Wharf-Xinmeng Road-Xinlian Road-Dongbin Road-Dongjiang Road-Fuminsha Road-Hengsha Wharf

Total distance:31km

Good scenery along the way

Hengsha island is the only area in Shanghai that can only be reached by ferry. The special geographical environment makes hengsha island one of the few areas in Shanghai that completely preserves the rural scenery, and it is also an important bearing place for "homesickness at sea".

Here, the river is clear, the greening is lush, and there is no dust in the river and sea. Set foot on the island, ride along hengsha island, and watch the beauty of nature. The pure sea breeze with all kinds of fresh fragrance in the air is refreshing. The troubles in my heart vanished in an instant.

Data: Municipal Bureau of Greening and Appearance.

National Film Bureau: The box office of Spring Festival movies in 2024 reached 8.016 billion yuan.

1905 movie network news According to the preliminary statistics of the National Film Bureau, during the Spring Festival holiday in 2024 (from February 10 to February 17, 2024), the national box office was 8.016 billion yuan, and the number of people watching movies was 163 million, which increased by 18.47% and 26.36% respectively compared with the Spring Festival holiday in 2023, both of which set new records in the same period.


The top four films at the box office were 2.718 billion yuan, 2.398 billion yuan, 1.389 billion yuan and 1.34 billion yuan respectively.


As of 9: 30 on February 18th, 2024, the annual box office has reached 11.081 billion yuan, with domestic films accounting for 96.75%.


Bo Huang: Gorgeous Transformation from Ordinary to Excellent

In the Chinese film industry, when the actor Bo Huang is mentioned, many people will immediately associate him with his recognizable smiling face and infectious acting skills. Whether it is the funny role in Crazy Stone or the profound interpretation in many literary films, he has become a powerful film winner in the eyes of the audience. However, little known is that behind this glamorous appearance, there is a story of constant pursuit and struggle.

Early experience: an ordinary boy of all beings

Bo Huang was born in 1974, and his hometown is picturesque Qingdao. His parents live quietly in this intellectual family, and the ideal education and blueprint for the future seem to be somewhat incompatible with the future of Bo Huang. Although his parents had high hopes for his studies, young Bo Huang was always absent-minded in class until the notes of music awakened his passion. For him, the boring classroom can’t dispel his desire for the stage, and music has become a ray of brilliance in his life.

When he was in kindergarten, he won the first small award in his life for a nursery rhyme. With the New Year’s Day party in junior high school, he made a sensation with a song "Looking Back", and his love for music became more intense. Although he chose to stay in the karaoke bars in a deviant way, this "devious" hat laid the foundation for his later artistic career.

Exploration and struggle of career

After graduating from high school, Bo Huang didn’t choose to go to college, but devoted all his energy to music and joined a band called "Blue Sandstorm". At the best moment, they could even perform eleven performances a day. But just as his life seems to be about to usher in a gorgeous turn, fate has pushed him to the harsh reality.

From the soul of the orchestra to the lost transition period, Bo Huang gradually realized that the road to music was not the broad road he imagined. In order to pursue his dream, he decided to give up music and turn to acting. This choice brought a series of challenges. At the beginning of the performance, he encountered many doubts and difficulties. There is no film that can display its talents. Almost no one cares about Bo Huang in the circle, and the roles played are mostly insignificant small roles.

Struggling on the edge of the film industry until 2006, the opportunity of "Crazy Stone" appeared in front of him. As a low-cost, low-paid crew, many actors refused, but director Ning Hao took a fancy to him. Bo Huang’s hard work and dedication on the set can be called desperate. Besides, this role makes him a household name. As he said, when he crossed the dark tunnel and everyone was expecting disappointment, he made a shocking choice and eventually became a shining star.

Brilliant moment of career

As soon as Crazy Stone came out, Bo Huang ushered in the biggest turning point in his acting career. After that, his films such as Bullfighting and Killing Life were highly praised. Especially in Bullfighting, his role as a farmer deeply touched the audience. With this role, he also won many awards such as the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, which inspired the whole Chinese film industry.

Bo Huang’s success is not accidental, but the result of hard work. He never stopped, honed his acting skills in his tepid career, and when the opportunity came, he proved his value with his strength. For those days when he lost his way in music, he seemed to cherish it.

Private life and life values

After becoming famous, Bo Huang was welcomed by actresses. However, he always cared about his beloved Xiao Ou, the ordinary girl who struggled together on his music path. In the face of fame and temptation, Bo Huang chose to stick to his original heart and be willing to protect the truth in the ordinary. He once said, "An ordinary wife is the treasure of my palm. If I abandon my spoiled wife after becoming famous, is that still a person?" This sentence not only reflects his emphasis on his family, but also expresses his life values.

Although he is in the noisy entertainment circle, Bo Huang always faces the scrutiny of public opinion and public with his extremely gentle attitude and inclusive and optimistic lifestyle, which makes him remain true and clear in the noisy environment.

External evaluation and social influence

Bo Huang’s evaluation was highly praised by the media and the public. In some interviews, he responded to the public’s praise for his efforts behind him with humorous words, and his experience inspired countless young people to pursue their dreams. The media once described his road to fame as "the harder he works, the luckier he is", which also made many people on the road of chasing dreams feel a lot.

Conclusion: Face the challenge of life bravely.

No matter in the initial stage of the difficult music career or in the ups and downs of the film industry, Bo Huang has demonstrated his perseverance and determination to pursue Excellence. He is not only a successful actor, but also a perfect family role. His story proves to us that a happy life is not smooth sailing, but to face every challenge bravely and embrace every ray of life. Through continuous efforts and pursuit, he set an example for contemporary people, encouraging successors to stick to their dreams, face every turning point bravely, and discover the beauty and hope in life. Bo Huang, once an "ugly duckling", has transformed into an attractive "swan" on the stage. This gorgeous transformation is also enlightening more dream catchers. Only by working hard can the colorful movement of life become more moving.

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Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

The past 72 hours have been the first weekend in which the Wang Jianlin family has returned to the throne of China’s richest man at 170 billion and surpassed Li Ka-shing to become the richest Chinese in the world for the first time. When Wang Jianlin flew to Europe to visit Oxford, buy and buy, and meet French President Fran?ois Hollande, his Wanda played another big game in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, at home.

It snowed again this weekend in Beijing, but in Xishuangbanna, it was a pleasant time with high clouds and a temperature of 24 degrees. In Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna, with beautiful mountains and rivers and rich Dai flavor, Gong Xiaowen, assistant president of Wanda Group and deputy general manager of the cultural and tourism project management center, and a group of Wanda executives all donned local ethnic costumes and kicked off a big party.

It is said that the painting style at the scene is like this:

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

You are wrong to think that this is just a beauty pageant. While the beautiful women are on stage to perform and canvass votes, the judges sitting under the stage are the bosses of the top 100 real estate distributors in China. It is said that everyone loves beauty and it is obvious, such as the one in the picture below:

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

But making money with the richest man is the true OS of those who are in business.

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

In addition to selecting a few splashing beauties, the distributors’ real ambition is to get a share of a cultural tourism market developed by Wanda in the southwest. Wanda Xishuangbanna International Resort – is the third large-scale cultural tourism project launched by Wanda Group after Changbai Mountain Resort and Wuhan Central Cultural District. After officially opening to the public on September 26, 2015, as of the first month of the Year of the Monkey, it has received more than 350,000 visitors. During the Spring Festival holiday, Wanda’s sales center welcomed more than 4,000 visitors and inquiries, and sold 300 suites. Follow the richest man to eat meat!

Compared with the more eye-catching tourist destinations in Yunnan that have been commercially developed on a large scale, such as Dali and Lijiang, why is Xishuangbanna, which has been stuck in people’s minds almost solely on the TV series "Sin" in the 1990s, so popular? How could I tell you that the picture below is Xishuangbanna Street during the Spring Festival, not the "parking lot" of the Third Ring Road of the Imperial City! (The tail numbers of the vehicles are all Yun A, Yu B and Sichuan A)

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

More than 90 distributors in 26 cities had signed up for the Wanda Xishuangbanna project by the end of the global distributor conference, according to the latest data. On Wednesday and Thursday in the past week, 11 and 7 other homes were sold respectively. It is not uncommon for customers in the three southwestern provinces with the highest awareness of Xishuangbanna and in Beijing to buy by air in droves, and the phenomenon seen in the Wanda project alone is that the proportion of hand-holding is quite high.

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

The richest man who is not short of money has invested 16 billion yuan with a wave of his hand. Today’s Wanda Xishuangbanna International Resort has become the largest and highest-level cultural tourism project in Southwest China. Those who have seen the Wanda Han Show in Wuhan can probably imagine what kind of visual enjoyment and cultural tourism senses the Dai Show in Xishuangbanna will bring. After the completion of Wanda Xishuangbanna International Resort, China has a cultural industry that can rival Disney in the United States.

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

Do not go abroad to enjoy the South East Asia style – theme park, Dai show theater, bar street, Wanda Plaza, six-star hotel group, one-stop education with ring, tier 1 hospital and other seven formats readily available, from the land to the opening, vigorous Wanda used only four years. Gong Xiaowen, wearing Dai clothes, said proudly at the distributor conference that in 2015 Wanda Xishuangbanna International Tourist Resort has received 21 million domestic and foreign tourists, and the increase in passenger flow has fully surpassed the traditional hot spots in Yunnan Lijiang and Hainan Sanya.

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

How significant is Xishuangbanna in the Wanda system? Three things can illustrate the problem.

First, Wanda set the 2015 annual meeting in Xishuangbanna, and all Wanda employees flew to Caiyun South. And this year, Wanda employees’ annual leave benefits are to bring their families to Xishuangbanna for vacation.

Second, the richest man usually walks the mall without a smile, but on the evening of January 16, Wang Jianlin made his debut in Xishuangbanna to vent his self for the first time, presenting a cover of "False Walking Monk" at the level of a Chinese good voice. The rock style is not inferior to the original singer Cui Jian, and the audience is very popular on the Internet.

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

Third, Wang Jianlin has repeatedly claimed in internal meetings that by 2018, Banna will be "hard to find a room". The overbearing president has spoken out, and Wanda has put this southwest cultural tourism market on the top agenda of the group. In addition, what he has gone to Europe to buy these days is actually a cultural tourism project. Wanda, which once relied on Wanda Plaza and Wanda Cinema to make its name in China, could not be more clear about its intention to turn the bow and go to the blue ocean of culture and tourism.

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

Wanda’s fourth transformation attempt to go real estate, in the world’s largest movie theater chain, the world’s largest sports industry, the world’s largest children’s entertainment enterprises, the world’s largest five-star hotel, the world’s largest tourism enterprises on the road, Xishuangbanna International Tourism Resort, is a very typical significance of the key.

It can be said that Xishuangbanna has become the international Banna and Wanda’s Banna. Before he had the ability to build high-rise buildings on the ground, Wang Jianlin had already opened up the wealth appreciation channel of Xishuangbanna. The ethnic minorities and exotic customs that have not been fully tapped by the outside world have made Xishuangbanna an investment depression. It is also the southwest gate of China on the international stage. After the opening of the Pan-Asian High-speed Railway in 2018, it will take only two hours from Kunming to Xishuangbanna, and only four hours to Thailand.

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

The richest man has such capabilities – the railway station is only a five-minute drive from the Wanda scenic spot, which means that Xishuangbanna’s future reception capacity will multiply exponentially.

What makes Xishuangbanna special ahead of tourist resorts such as Sanya is that Xishuangbanna has unparalleled geographical and religious and cultural advantages. A Lancang River, adjacent to the borders of six countries in South East Asia, and under the unique religious background such as pan-Asian and southern Buddhist holy places, there is huge room for international tourists to rise. Not long ago, on February 18, the South East Asia Buddhist event – the Southern Buddhist Monk Ascension Ceremony Ceremony was just held in Xishuangbanna, and Wanda took part of the reception work at that time.

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

It is not hard to see why, when Wang Jianlin decided to invest in Xishuangbanna, local government officials attended the signing ceremony and almost greeted him with their hands and feet raised – Wanda has become a coveted business card of Xishuangbanna and southwest China’s trade gate.

Nowadays, the room rate of Wanda Xishuangbanna Hotel is as high as 70%, and the price of Wanda Wenhua Hotel in the resort area has risen to more than 4,000 yuan/night during the Spring Festival. The richest man has decided to build two more five-star hotels in addition to Wanda Wenhua, Wanda Hilton DoubleTree and Wanda Crowne Plaza.

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

With the strong sales capacity of the Spring Festival, Wanda Xishuangbanna International Tourist Resort project has jumped to the top of Yunnan congeneric product sales. With China’s 100 savviest distributors hoping to make a fortune with Wanda, it is no surprise that this distributor conference will be the highest-profile and most attended event ever – no wonder the leaders of Wanda and exclusive e-commerce partner NetEase can laugh so happily in front of the splashing beauty.

Why do Wang Jianlin and Wanda executives frequently appear in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan?

The relevant person in charge of the State Administration of Taxation: 6% low-end tax rate applies to restaurants operating takeaways

  In order to allow the newly included 11 million taxpayers to adapt to the new tax system as soon as possible and enjoy the reform dividends as much as possible, the tax department recently launched a new round of policy guidance across the country. Recently, in response to the relatively concentrated policy difficulties reported by taxpayers, Lin Feng, deputy director of the Department of Goods and Labor Taxation of the State Administration of Taxation, explained and responded to concerns.

  6% low tax rate applies to restaurant takeaway

  Tax incentives continue, and academic education services enjoy VAT exemption

  In recent years, online food ordering has become a personalized choice for many consumers, and many catering companies are changing to takeaway business models. But should selling takeaway food be subject to a value-added tax rate of 17% like merchandise sales, or enjoy a low tax rate of 6% like traditional catering services?

  "The sale of takeaway food by restaurants, restaurants and other catering enterprises is not a sale of goods, and there is no need to pay VAT at 17%." Lin Feng said that according to the relevant regulations after the change to the VAT, taxpayers who provide catering services sell takeaway food and pay VAT according to the catering service. Among them, ordinary taxpayers are subject to the lowest rate of 6%.

  How much will this affect the operating costs of catering companies? "Our monthly takeaway income is 10,000 diverse. If we pay 17% VAT of more than 1,700 yuan, we can now pay more than 1,000 yuan less per month," said Zhang Jing, head of Shandong Zibo High-tech Zone Branch of Burger King (Beijing) Catering.

  At present, our country implements a 13% value-added tax rate on tap water sales. In reality, many residents buy water through property companies for resale. Some property companies propose that reselling tap water can only obtain 3% of the input invoice, but if the tax is paid at the 13% rate, there will be "high levy and low deduction" of VAT, thus increasing the tax burden.

  "The finance and taxation department has noticed and issued special policies to properly resolve it." Lin Feng said that for taxpayers who provide property management services, the tap water fee charged by the service recipient is calculated as the sales amount after deducting the tap water fee paid by the taxpayer. According to the simple tax calculation method, it is calculated according to the 3% collection rate.

  Dong Xiufang, director of company finance of Cangzhou branch of Hebei Travel and Investment Century Property Company, calculated the accounts on the financial statements: After the introduction of the policy, 8 months have passed, the company’s water fee is 79,796.09 yuan, and 2375 yuan value-added tax is paid; and according to the previous tax calculation method, 10373.42 yuan needs to be paid, which is obvious.

  In order to ensure the smooth transformation of the tax system, the finance and taxation department continues the preferential tax policies during the business tax period in principle based on the actual situation of the industry. Taking education services as an example, after the change from business camp to value-added tax, the original business tax preferential policies have all been translated into value-added tax preferential policies. Educational services provided by academic education can enjoy the value-added tax exemption policy; for general taxpayers to provide non-academic education services, they can also choose to apply the simple tax calculation method to calculate the tax payable according to the 3% collection rate.

  If the original invoice of the second-hand house is lost, the difference can also be taxed.

  Real estate development taxes reduce costs and promote inventory removal in third- and fourth-tier cities

  "I sold a house some time ago, and the agent told me that I need the previous purchase invoice to pay the tax difference, but I can’t find the invoice, and the agent said that it must be paid in full." Some buyers in Beijing said that they had just bought a house for two years, and it was quite expensive when they bought it before. If the full tax burden is too heavy, I hope the tax department can help them.

  This time, the pilot project of replacing business with value-added tax has been fully launched, and it is the first time that natural persons are involved in paying value-added tax, especially the sale of second-hand houses. Lin Feng said that if taxpayers transfer real estate and pay value-added tax according to the difference in relevant regulations, if they cannot provide the invoice at the time of obtaining the real estate due to loss and other reasons, they can provide the tax authority with other information such as tax payment certificates that can prove the taxable amount of the deed tax, and deduct the difference.

  So, what information can be used as the basis for proving the amount of tax? The person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Taxation Department told reporters that in order to reduce the impact of the tax change on personal housing transactions, the provable materials include: tax payment vouchers marked as "deed tax" or tax payment certificates, special tax payment certificates for deed tax, deed tax payment certificates, etc.

  At the same time, the tax authority can also use the means of verifying the housing deed tax records to find out the tax amount, including: file transfer to inquire about the bottom line of the ticket in the inventory file, and the housing management department to adjust the file to inquire about the invoice or deed tax payment certificate records collected when handling the transfer of ownership. In addition, the municipal tax department has specially established a deed tax database, which can be queried immediately.

  The price of land is one of the important costs in real estate development. It is very popular for real estate enterprises to deduct the land price from the sales volume and then calculate the value-added tax. But what items does the land price include? Many companies are quite concerned.

  Lin Feng introduced that according to the regulations, the land price includes not only the land acquisition and demolition compensation expenses paid by the land transferee to the government department, but also the land development expenses and land transfer income. The demolition compensation expenses paid by the general taxpayer in the real estate development enterprise to other units or individuals when they sell their development projects are also allowed to be deducted when calculating the sales.

  "The average selling price of our project can be reduced by 105 yuan per square meter, which stimulates the increase in housing sales." Li Weihong, general manager of Shandong Weifang Xiangkai Real Estate Company, said that after the change of VAT to include demolition compensation and other expenses, the company’s tax burden has been reduced by 33.35%. Through price reduction promotions, the company’s destocking cycle has been shortened from 11.5 months at the end of 2015 to 6.9 months at the end of 2016.

  The hotel can issue an invoice immediately.

  Electronic invoices, online invoice application, etc. to reduce the tax burden

  VAT has the characteristics of ring-ring deduction, and the importance of special VAT invoices as deduction vouchers is self-evident. This puts forward higher requirements for the use and management of invoices after the camp change. How to ensure that taxpayers issue and use VAT invoices in a timely and convenient manner?

  Mr. Liu is a salesperson at the Chongqing branch of the North China Design and Research Institute of Municipal Engineering. Because of his frequent business trips, issuing invoices has become one of his biggest headaches. "The company’s financing requirements are very strict, and the accommodation fee will only be reimbursed by issuing a special invoice."

  After the change, small accommodation enterprises need to go to the tax authority to issue special invoices on behalf of consumers, and cannot issue invoices for consumers on site. "Some large enterprises need to issue special invoices to deduct taxes. We can only let the guests check out first, and then mail it to the guests after opening it, and we have to pay the postage." Ji Yanbin, finance minister of Tianwaitian Business Hotel in Wu’an City, Hebei Province, said.

  In response to taxpayers’ demands, the State Administration of Taxation started a pilot in 91 cities in August last year, allowing small-scale VAT taxpayers in the accommodation industry to issue special VAT invoices by themselves. In November of that year, the pilot was extended to the whole country. "At present, eligible small-scale taxpayers in the accommodation industry can issue special invoices by themselves," Lin Feng said.

  "In the past, we had to issue hundreds of special invoices for the accommodation industry every day. Now not only do taxpayers pay less taxes and run errands, but the burden on our window is also reduced," said Du Juan, deputy director of the joint tax department of Wu’an City.

  With the rapid development of the Internet economy, some e-commerce companies have to bear the high cost of mailing paper invoices due to the dispersion of delivery places. Many companies hope to promote the electronic invoice model as soon as possible to save operating costs.

  In this regard, the State Administration of Taxation has implemented VAT electronic ordinary invoices across the country, and e-commerce enterprises only need to apply to the local competent national tax authority.

  "Save two hours of printing and mailing time every day, and save more than 500,000 yuan in postage fees throughout the year." Peng Liying, company finance manager of Shandong Zhuochuang Information, said that in the past, more than 300 paper invoices were issued and mailed every day, and the electronic invoice reduced the burden very well.

  "The appeal of applying for VAT electronic invoices is relatively strong." Wang Zhenzhu, head of the Goods and Labor Department of the State Taxation Bureau of Zibo City, Shandong Province, introduced that in the past year, taxpayers in the city have issued 322,700 VAT electronic ordinary invoices online, and the amount issued is 159 million yuan.

  In addition, in response to the situation that some enterprises need to go to and from the tax office to apply for VAT invoices, the State Administration of Taxation has also fully implemented the online application service for VAT invoices to achieve "a little mouse, the invoice goes home". (Reporter, Wu Qiuyu)

Great Wall real name report BYD! Qin/Song PLUS DM is suspected of substandard discharge.

On May 25, Great Wall Motor issued a statement: On April 11, 2023, Great Wall Motor submitted the report materials to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the State Administration of Market Supervision and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and reported the problem that BYD Qin PLUS DM-i and Song PLUS DM-i used atmospheric fuel tanks, which was suspected that the evaporation pollutants of the whole vehicle were not up to standard.

Subsequently, BYD also made a positive response: Great Wall said that the test vehicles were purchased, kept and arranged for inspection by Great Wall, and China Automobile Center (Tianjin) carried out tests on related projects according to the requirements of Great Wall. Strictly speaking, the test vehicle does not meet the requirements of the national standard, that is, it should be sampled, kept and sent for inspection by a third party, and it is required to complete the 3000 km running-in test, while the mileage of the vehicle sent for inspection by the Great Wall is only 450-670 km.

Great Wall Motor reported that BYD's two models involving Qin and Song were not up to standard-Figure 1

Great Wall Motor reported that BYD's two models involving Qin and Song were not up to standard-Figure 2

Great Wall Motor reported that BYD's two models involving Qin and Song were not up to standard-Figure 3

Great Wall reported that BYD Qin/Song PLUS DM was suspected of substandard emissions-Figure 1

Great Wall reported that BYD Qin/Song PLUS DM-i was suspected of failing to meet the emission standards-Figure 1

As soon as the news came out, it quickly fermented in the network. Some netizens even related the incident that BYD transferred the "Wei" trademark to Great Wall Motor for free in 2021 to this report, and thought that Great Wall Motor belonged to "bite the hand that feeds you".

Great Wall Motor reported that BYD's two models involving Qin and Song were not up to standard-Figure 4

Some insiders told Zhidian that Great Wall Motor chose to attack BYD at this point in time, which was more of a "psychological war". As we all know, Great Wall Motor focused on the DHT-PHEV plug-in hybrid market this year, which is the advantage of BYD. The recently listed Haval Xiaolong and Haval Xiaolong MAX directly bid for BYD Song Pro DM-i and Song PLUS DM-i, which shows that the competition between the two private car companies in the north and the south tends to be fierce, and the previous situation of "one family in the world" may be unsustainable.

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