Revealing the gray industrial chain behind the title evaluation paper, China Association for Science and Technology has started special rectification.

  For many industries, such as college teachers, engineers, doctors and nurses, publishing papers is a "hard lever" for being awarded professional titles. Where there is demand, there is a market. On the network platform, a large number of intermediaries and sellers have entered the line of sight by searching for keywords such as "paper" and "publication". They claim to be "providing topics, writing and publishing services" and "one-stop, time-saving and efficient". It seems that with their help, it is very easy to publish articles in regular journals.

  Beijing Youth Daily reporter noted that the generation of papers has spawned a complete interest chain, but the risks behind it are often ignored by people who are bent on "taking shortcuts". Due to the eagerness to publish, some people have been drained to various agencies with mixed quality. What’s more, even the follow-up employment notices, periodicals and magazines are false.

  Take advantage of the victim’s "guilty conscience"

  Junior high school students cheat highly educated doctors.

  Ms. Wang, 41, from Jiangyan District, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, is an employee of a local hospital. Due to the evaluation of professional titles by her unit, she needs to publish papers in relevant academic journals. Ms. Wang, who hasn’t written for many years, has some troubles. She was tempted when she heard from a friend that there are "gunmen" on the Internet who specialize in "writing and publishing papers on behalf of others".

  In May last year, Ms. Wang found many "merchants" who wrote and published papers on behalf of others through online search. Later, she chose one of the "institutions" for a simple consultation and added the micro-signal provided by the other party to establish contact. The other party claims that it can not only distribute papers, but also provide ghostwriting services according to professional needs, and ensure that the papers written on behalf of it can be published.

  The other party also sent some previous "successful examples" to Ms. Wang, and said that "the company should cooperate with several journals in depth" and reminded not to worry. After the two sides agreed on the price, Ms. Wang first paid the other party a "deposit" of 3,000 yuan through WeChat, and agreed to write the paper and talk about the publication after confirmation.

  Three months later, Ms. Wang received the paper as scheduled, and the content was related to the topic she provided, but the quality was not high and there was no research result, so it should be difficult to publish it under normal circumstances. The other party told her that as long as she paid the manuscript fee again, she could publish it in a national journal. Although Ms. Wang was somewhat suspicious, she turned to the agreed 5,500 yuan. After the transfer, I waited for several months and didn’t see the paper published.

  Realizing that she was cheated, at the end of April this year, Ms. Wang, who was ashamed and angry, was persuaded by her family and chose to call the police. After receiving the police, Jiangyan police inquired in detail about the process of being cheated and collected and verified relevant transfer records and other evidence. Later, the police arrested 12 suspects, including Huang.

  According to Sun Qiao, a police officer handling the case in Jiangyan, most of the criminal gangs have junior high school education and only two have high school education. They simply don’t have the ability to write and distribute professional papers, but they have mastered some "routines" and "words" for writing and distributing papers. There are more than 1,000 cases involving gangs, and most of the victims involved are doctors and nurses. The amount of fraud per person is about 5,000 to 10,000 yuan.

  In addition to the online platform advertisements that deceived Ms. Wang, Sun Qiao said that there are still several staff members in the gang who are responsible for "running business" offline. They focused their attention on hospitals around the country, photographed the address book of medical staff and summarized it into the company system. After that, other staff in the office made up the editor’s identity of a certain periodical, and sent text messages to doctors and nurses one by one to ask if there were any related needs and seek specific "cooperation".

  "It is disgraceful to write and publish papers on behalf of others. After discovering that I was cheated, I chose ‘ Silence ’ Criminal gangs are very smart, and they use this psychology to commit fraud. " Sun Qiao said.

  "Take a shortcut" for evaluating professional titles

  Received a fake magazine after handing out the paper.

  Compared with Ms. Wang in Jiangsu who didn’t even see the sample publication after spending money, Mr. Zhang in Beijing is even more bitter and can’t tell. Mr. Zhang is the backbone of a construction company in Beijing. This year, he waited for the opportunity to evaluate the intermediate title. Because Mr. Zhang was eager to publish his paper within the time limit stipulated in the title selection, he searched online and found a magazine that claimed to be able to distribute core periodicals on his behalf.

  After Mr. Zhang provided his own paper, the "magazine editor" told Mr. Zhang that the content of his paper was really not very good, and it might be a little difficult to publish it, but they could provide paid ghostwriting services for Mr. Zhang. I thought that I would have to invest a lot of time and energy in writing another paper. If I didn’t say it, I might still fail. So after careful consideration, Mr. Zhang decided to spend money to solve the problem.

  Twenty days later, Mr. Zhang received the periodical. Looking at his published papers, he felt that the money was not wasted. However, when he was full of joy and took the published paper to select the title, he was rejected. "Just say that this magazine is fake and ask me where I contacted this magazine. I also wrote a review."

  The title was not evaluated and was punished by the unit, which made Mr. Zhang very regretful. This magazine in my hand is very formal and clearly printed with the serial number of the public issue. How can it be fake?

  So he contacted the editor who helped him publish the paper at the first time. Unexpectedly, the other party changed his previous enthusiasm and said very strongly that the unit’s disapproval was a matter of the unit and had nothing to do with them. It was impossible to get a refund, and then he was blacked out. At this time, Mr. Zhang felt that something was wrong and immediately reported the police.

  The magazine provided by Mr. Zhang to Shunyi police in Beijing has a thickness of more than 100 pages, and its cover and layout look like a professional magazine in the construction industry. However, Shunyi police confirmed through investigation that this was a typical case of impersonating a regular magazine to commit fraud. Mr. Zhang received a counterfeit fake magazine, and the editors of the so-called magazine who contacted Mr. Zhang and collected money were also impersonating.

  The police found that this is a criminal gang that swindles people who need to publish papers. The members of the gang have a clear division of labor and are very cunning. They make full use of the victim’s reluctance to let others know that they are writing and publishing papers on their behalf, and commit tens of thousands of crazy crimes. According to the survey, there are many kinds of magazines that this gang pretends to be, including medicine, science and technology, etc.

  The reporter of Beijing Youth Daily noticed that many people who participated in the evaluation of Beijing’s professional titles in 2021 reported to the media that they were disqualified from participating in this year’s professional titles because the submitted journals were judged as false journals after submitting the preliminary examination materials.

  These participants who have the same experience have one thing in common. They all send their papers to an intermediary or "editor" instead of directly contacting the publishing unit of the journal. After the intermediary arranged for the publication of the article, the participants even got a paper-based periodical with a unified serial number. They said that they did not expect to encounter fake journals.

  China Association for Science and Technology has started special rectification.

  Beijing is recorded in the integrity archives.

  The reporter of Beijing Youth Daily noticed that a special rectification has been started for the cooperation between journals and "paper intermediaries" in spamming papers. On November 8th, official website, China Association for Science and Technology, issued the "Notice on Carrying out Special Inspection on Spamming of Papers in Journals in Charge of China Association for Science and Technology". According to the circular, the target of this special inspection is all journals whose papers are published by China Association for Science and Technology. Among them, it is important to check the periodicals with more than 2,000 papers published in the whole year, the periodicals with most papers of no more than 5,000 words or no more than 3 pages in each issue, the periodicals suspected of publishing papers beyond the scope in the annual inspection and reading in the past three years, and the periodicals with dense publishing cycles such as semi-monthly, weekly and so on.

  The notice also mentioned that serious violations such as renting and selling periodical number pages and cooperating with "paper intermediaries" should be dealt with and corrected seriously according to law. Periodicals that are unsustainable and do not have the corresponding ability to publish and check are changed to the competent organizer, closed and cancelled.

  On November 10th, 2021, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security issued the "Notice on Maintaining the Integrity Environment of Professional Title Evaluation" in official website. According to the circular, applicants who provide false materials, plagiarize other people’s works and academic achievements, or take other improper means will be disqualified in accordance with relevant regulations and recorded in the "blacklist" of professional title evaluation, and those who have obtained professional titles will be revoked and recorded in the integrity archives of professional title evaluation.

  In addition, the notice also stated that the evaluation system for representative works of achievements has been fully implemented in Beijing. The applicant can independently select project reports, research reports, technical reports, engineering plans, design documents, performance reports, patents, monographs, papers and other performance achievements to submit to the title review. Please don’t believe the false propaganda of "fake journals", but pay attention to summarizing and refining the achievements in technology research and development, technology reform, technology application, standard setting, academic research and other aspects in daily work, and timely summarize and sort them out, and declare the title evaluation with the achievements that best reflect the ability level.

  [Expert advice]

  Papers and other "paper" indicators can not fully reflect the professional title ability.

  Academic transformation achievements or ability assessment should be added.

  Lawyer Deng Qianqiu of Beijing Zhongwen Law Firm told Beijing Youth Daily reporter that if the participants really don’t know that the periodical that published their papers is a false periodical, and the intermediary conceals the fact that the periodical is false and fabricates the truth that the paper has been published on the periodical, according to the relevant judicial interpretation, if the intermediary defrauds the property with a value of 3,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan, it may constitute a crime of fraud in criminal law.

  If the periodical that publishes the paper is a real periodical, but the paper is not written by the participants, but written by the intermediary, the intermediary’s behavior is illegal; If the intermediary is an enterprise, the amount of illegal business operation reaches 500,000 yuan or the illegal income reaches 100,000 yuan, or if the intermediary is a natural person, the amount of illegal business operation reaches 50,000 yuan or the illegal income reaches 10,000 yuan, it should be criminally prosecuted for the crime of suspected illegal business operation.

  Shen Teng, an adjunct professor at China University of Political Science and Law, a tutor for master students, and a lawyer at Beijing Shuaihe Law Firm, told Beijing Youth Daily that the personnel who participated in the title selection should "go straight and do the right thing", and integrity is the first. If the whole paper is written by others, it is definitely suspected of academic fraud and should be included in the "blacklist" of academic dishonesty.

  Shen Teng said that the paper agency regarded writing on behalf of others as an industry, which ruined the social atmosphere. But the root cause is that even if this gang is destroyed, there will be other gangs like it; If this model is destroyed, it will be transformed into another model. The reason is determined by the supply and demand market of "paper" qualification examination. At present, many professional titles are evaluated by indicators, not by ability. And what is the index evaluation, as long as it meets the "paper" conditions on the appearance, this is not the ability to present.

  For normative intermediaries, it is an organization that is familiar with procedures and data standards for qualification declaration. They are limited to assisting and helping the standardization of application procedures and standards of materials, and cannot participate in entities (writing on behalf of others and paying for them). In the above cases, it is no problem for the intermediary to fabricate relevant facts for the purpose, and it is classified as fraud.

  Shen Teng suggested that "paper" indicators such as papers can’t fully reflect a person’s professional title ability, and academic transformation achievements or ability assessment and even psychological testing should be added. By face-to-face, video or practice, the appraisers’ academic, achievements and abilities are randomly verified in substance. Once fraud is found, or verified by reporting, it will be included in the national academic integrity credit information sharing platform, and accountability will be restricted.

  Text/reporter Zhu Jianyong

Notice of the State Council Municipality on Printing and Distributing the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Soil Pollution (Authorized Release)

  Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 31st

Notice of the State Council Municipality on Printing and Distributing the Action Plan for Soil Pollution Prevention and Control

People’s governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, ministries and commissions and institutions directly under the State Council:

  The Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Soil Pollution is hereby printed and distributed to you, please implement it carefully.

The State Council, People’s Republic of China (PRC)

May 28th, 2016   

  Action plan for soil pollution prevention and control

  Soil is the material basis of sustainable economic and social development, which is related to people’s health and the construction of beautiful China. Protecting soil environment is an important content to promote the construction of ecological civilization and safeguard national ecological security. At present, the overall situation of soil environment in China is worrying, and some areas are seriously polluted, which has become one of the outstanding shortcomings of building a well-off society in an all-round way. This action plan is formulated to effectively strengthen the prevention and control of soil pollution and gradually improve the quality of soil environment.

  General requirements: fully implement the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and the 3rd, 4th and 5th Plenary Sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, firmly establish the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing in accordance with the overall layout of "Five in One" and the strategic layout of "Four in All", conscientiously implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, base on China’s national conditions and development stages, focus on the overall situation of economic and social development, and take improving the quality of soil environment as the core. Taking ensuring the quality of agricultural products and the safety of human settlements as the starting point, we should adhere to prevention first, protection first, risk control, highlight key areas, industries and pollutants, implement classification, separate use and phased treatment, strictly control new pollution, gradually reduce the stock, form a soil pollution prevention and control system with government-led, corporate responsibility, public participation and social supervision, promote the sustainable utilization of soil resources, and build a "blue sky is always there, green mountains are always there".

  Work objective: By 2020, the increasing trend of soil pollution in China will be initially curbed, the overall quality of soil environment will remain stable, the soil environmental safety of agricultural land and construction land will be basically guaranteed, and the soil environmental risks will be basically controlled. By 2030, the quality of soil environment in China will be stable and good, the soil environmental safety of agricultural land and construction land will be effectively guaranteed, and the soil environmental risks will be fully controlled. By the middle of this century, the quality of soil environment has been improved in an all-round way, and the ecosystem has achieved a virtuous circle.

  Main indicators: By 2020, the safe utilization rate of polluted farmland will reach about 90%, and the safe utilization rate of polluted land will reach over 90%. By 2030, the safe utilization rate of polluted farmland will reach more than 95%, and the safe utilization rate of polluted land will reach more than 95%.

  First, carry out soil pollution investigation and master the quality of soil environment.

  (a) in-depth investigation of soil environmental quality. On the basis of existing relevant investigations, focusing on agricultural land and land used by enterprises in key industries, carry out a detailed investigation of soil pollution, and find out the area and distribution of soil pollution in agricultural land and its impact on the quality of agricultural products before the end of 2018; By the end of 2020, master the distribution of contaminated land and its environmental risks in key industries and enterprises. Formulate the overall plan and technical regulations for detailed investigation, and carry out technical guidance, supervision and inspection and results audit. Establish a regular survey system of soil environmental quality, which will be carried out once every 10 years. (The Ministry of Environmental Protection takes the lead, with the participation of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, and the local people’s governments at all levels are responsible for the implementation. The following must be implemented by local people’s governments at all levels, and are no longer listed)

  (two) the construction of soil environmental quality monitoring network. Unified planning, integration and optimization of soil environmental quality monitoring points, before the end of 2017, complete the setting of national soil environmental quality monitoring points, build a national soil environmental quality monitoring network, give full play to the role of industry monitoring network, and basically form soil environmental monitoring capabilities. All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) carry out at least 1 training for soil environmental monitoring technicians every year. According to the needs of the work, all localities can set up additional monitoring points, increase the monitoring items of characteristic pollutants and increase the monitoring frequency. By the end of 2020, all counties (cities, districts) will be fully covered by soil environmental quality monitoring points. (Led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, with the participation of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture)

  (3) Improve the level of information management of soil environment. Using the relevant data of environmental protection, land resources, agriculture and other departments, we will establish a basic database of soil environment and build a national information management platform for soil environment, and strive to complete it before the end of 2018. With the help of mobile Internet, Internet of Things and other technologies, we will broaden the channels of data acquisition and realize dynamic data update. Strengthen data sharing, compile a resource sharing catalogue, clarify the rights and methods of sharing, and play the role of soil environment big data in pollution prevention, urban and rural planning, land use and agricultural production. (Led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, with the participation of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the State Forestry Administration)

  Two, promote the prevention and control of soil pollution legislation, establish and improve the system of laws and regulations.

  (4) Accelerate the legislative process. Cooperate to complete the drafting of soil pollution prevention and control law. Timely revision of pollution prevention, urban and rural planning, land management, quality and safety of agricultural products related laws and regulations, increase the content of soil pollution prevention and control. Before the end of 2016, the revision of pesticide management regulations will be completed, and the measures for the management of soil environment of polluted plots and agricultural land will be issued. Before the end of 2017, departmental regulations such as pesticide packaging waste recycling, soil environmental management of industrial and mining land, and waste agricultural film recycling will be issued. By 2020, the system of laws and regulations for the prevention and control of soil pollution will be basically established. All localities can study and formulate local laws and regulations for the prevention and control of soil pollution in light of actual conditions. (The Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council and the Ministry of Environmental Protection take the lead, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Forestry Administration participate)

  (5) System construction standard system. Improve the relevant standards and technical specifications for soil pollution prevention and control. Before the end of 2017, release the soil environmental quality standards for agricultural land and construction land; Complete the preparation and revision of technical specifications for soil environmental monitoring, investigation and evaluation, risk management and control, treatment and restoration, and technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment; Revise the limits of toxic and harmful substances in fertilizer, feed and irrigation water and the standards for controlling pollutants in agricultural sludge, and further tighten the requirements for controlling pollutants; Revise the agricultural film standard, improve the thickness requirement, and study and formulate the degradable agricultural film standard; Revise pesticide packaging standards and increase requirements for preventing pesticide packaging waste from polluting soil. Revise pollutant discharge standards in a timely manner, and further clarify the requirements for special pollutant discharge limits. Improve the analysis and testing methods of pollutants in soil and develop soil environmental standard samples. Local soil environmental quality standards that are stricter than the national standards can be formulated by all localities. (Led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, with the participation of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the State Forestry Administration)

  (6) Comprehensively strengthen supervision and law enforcement. Clear regulatory focus. Focus on monitoring heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, arsenic, lead, chromium and organic pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and petroleum hydrocarbons in soil, and focus on monitoring non-ferrous metal mining, non-ferrous metal smelting, petroleum exploitation, petroleum processing, chemical industry, coking, electroplating, tanning and other industries, as well as major grain (oil) producing counties and built-up areas of cities above prefecture level. (Led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, with the participation of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Agriculture)

  Strengthen law enforcement. Take the prevention and control of soil pollution as an important part of environmental law enforcement, make full use of the environmental supervision grid, and strengthen the daily supervision and law enforcement of soil environment. Severely crack down on environmental violations such as illegal discharge of toxic and harmful pollutants, illegal storage of hazardous chemicals, illegal disposal of hazardous waste, abnormal use of pollution control facilities, and falsification of monitoring data. Carry out special environmental law enforcement for enterprises in key industries, and supervise and supervise enterprises that seriously pollute the soil environment and are strongly reflected by the masses. Improve the environmental law enforcement conditions at the grass-roots level and equip them with necessary law enforcement equipment such as rapid detection of soil pollution. Carry out one round of professional technical training on soil pollution prevention and control for national environmental law enforcement personnel every three years. Improve the emergency response capability of environmental emergencies, improve the emergency plans for environmental pollution incidents at all levels, and strengthen the construction of environmental emergency management, technical support, and disposal and rescue capabilities. (Led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, with the participation of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration of Work Safety and the State Forestry Administration)

  Three, the implementation of agricultural land classification management, to ensure the safety of agricultural production environment

  (seven) the classification of soil environmental quality of agricultural land. According to the degree of pollution, agricultural land is classified into three categories, those that are unpolluted and slightly polluted are classified as priority protection categories, those that are lightly and moderately polluted are classified as safe utilization categories, and those that are heavily polluted are classified as strict control categories. Focusing on cultivated land, corresponding management measures are taken respectively to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products. Before the end of 2017, the technical guidelines for the classification of soil environmental quality of agricultural land will be issued. Based on the detailed investigation results of soil pollution, we will carry out collaborative monitoring and evaluation of cultivated land soil and agricultural products, promote the classification of cultivated land soil environmental quality in an orderly manner on the basis of pilot projects, and gradually establish a classification list, which will be completed by the end of 2020. Delineation results are examined and approved by provincial people’s governments, and data are uploaded to the national soil environment information management platform. According to the change of land use and the change of soil environmental quality, the information of cultivated land area and distribution of various categories is updated regularly. Conditional areas should gradually carry out the classification of soil environmental quality of other agricultural land such as woodland, grassland and garden. (Led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Agriculture, with the participation of the Ministry of Land and Resources and the State Forestry Administration)

  (8) Effectively strengthen protection. All localities should classify qualified priority protected cultivated land as permanent basic farmland, and implement strict protection to ensure that its area does not decrease and the quality of soil environment does not decline. Except for the location of key construction projects stipulated by law, it is really unavoidable, no other construction shall be occupied. Large grain-producing (oil-producing) counties should formulate soil environmental protection plans. High-standard farmland construction projects are inclined to areas where priority protection farmland is concentrated. Measures such as returning straw to the field, increasing the application of organic fertilizer, less tillage and no tillage, rotation of grain and beans, reduction and recycling of agricultural film, etc. Continue to carry out pilot projects for the protection and utilization of black land. The transferee of rural land transfer should fulfill the responsibility of soil protection and avoid the degradation of soil environmental quality caused by predatory agricultural production methods such as excessive fertilization and abuse of pesticides. The people’s governments at the provincial level should give early warning to the counties (cities, districts) where the area of priority protected cultivated land is reduced or the quality of soil environment is declining within their respective administrative areas, and take restrictive measures such as limiting the approval of environmental impact assessment according to law. (Led by the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture, with the participation of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Water Resources)

  Prevent and control enterprise pollution. Strictly control the construction of new enterprises in industries such as non-ferrous metal smelting, petroleum processing, chemical industry, coking, electroplating, tanning, etc. in areas where priority protected cultivated land is concentrated, and the existing enterprises in related industries should adopt new technologies and new processes to accelerate the pace of upgrading and upgrading. (Led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the National Development and Reform Commission, with the participation of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology)

  (nine) efforts to promote the safe use. According to the situation of soil pollution and agricultural products exceeding the standard, counties (cities, districts) with concentrated safe use of cultivated land should formulate and implement the safe use plan of contaminated cultivated land in combination with local main crop varieties and planting habits, and take measures such as agronomic regulation and alternative planting to reduce the risk of agricultural products exceeding the standard. Strengthen the quality inspection of agricultural products. Strengthen technical guidance and training for farmers and farmers’ cooperatives. Before the end of 2017, a technical guide for the safe use of contaminated cultivated land will be issued. By 2020, the area of lightly and moderately polluted cultivated land will reach 40 million mu. (The Ministry of Agriculture takes the lead and the Ministry of Land and Resources participates)

  (10) Fully implement strict control. Strengthen the management of the use of cultivated land under strict control, demarcate areas where specific agricultural products are prohibited from production according to law, and prohibit the cultivation of edible agricultural products; To threaten the safety of groundwater and drinking water sources, the relevant counties (cities, districts) should formulate environmental risk management and control plans and implement relevant measures. The study will bring strictly controlled cultivated land into the scope of the new round of implementation of returning farmland to forests and grasslands, and formulate plans to adjust the planting structure of heavily polluted cultivated land or return farmland to forests and grasslands. We will continue to carry out pilot projects in Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, Hunan Province to restore farmland contaminated by heavy metals and adjust crop planting structure. Pilot implementation of the farmland rotation fallow system. By 2020, the planting structure of heavily polluted cultivated land will be adjusted or the area of returning farmland to forests and grasslands will strive to reach 20 million mu. (Led by the Ministry of Agriculture, with the participation of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Water Resources and the State Forestry Administration)

New technology allows the blind to "see" words, which is expected to benefit many blind people.

New technology allows the blind to "see" words, which is expected to benefit many blind people.
Argus II enables real-time text transmission to the implanted chip.
New technology allows the blind to "see" words, which is expected to benefit many blind people.
The new technology helps the blind to "see" and understand words in one second.
New technology allows the blind to "see" words, which is expected to benefit many blind people.
Some blind people use special glasses to see the outline of the object, and the video camera on the glasses sends the data to the chip implanted in the retina of the blind person.

The invention of Braille built a bridge for the blind to communicate with the outside world. They read, write and carry on their daily life through the touch of their fingertips. Nowadays, with the development of science and technology, blind people can even "see" words with their own eyes, as if seeing the light again.

According to the British "Daily Mail" website reported on November 23rd, this new system, named argus II, developed by American scientists, consists of an implantable retinal electrode array and a miniature video camera mounted on glasses, and is upgraded from the existing blind assistant system.

In the previous system, the video signal captured by the camera was converted into optical mode by the processor on the glasses, and sent to the nerve implant device, so that the blind could see the general outline of the object, but it was impossible to read it, because the text had to be large and it took several minutes to "translate".

Researchers in California, USA, managed to improve this system. Because Braille is composed of 63 coded characters, each character is arranged in a rectangle with 6 points by 1 to 6 protruding points, the researchers bypass the camera and directly stimulate the points with 60 electrodes, so that the text signals can be transmitted to the chip implanted in the retina of the eye in real time, and then these signals are transmitted to the visual nerve. After decoding, Braille words will be generated in the brain, so that the blind can "see" the words.

Dr Thomas Lauritzen, head of the research project, said that blind people can recognize a letter in less than one second using argus II system, and the accuracy rate is as high as 89%.?

In addition, if combined with video glasses and text recognition software, this latest system can also help the blind "see" street signs or warning signs in other public places. It is expected to completely change the treatment of patients with degenerative eye diseases and provide new hope for people with rare eye diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa. However, argus II is unlikely to replace traditional Braille books, and blind people can read 800 letters per minute by touching Braille books.

Peter Osborne, Dean of the Royal College for the Blind, said: "Any technology that may make some people’ see’ things again is a good thing. I hope more people can verify this research. There are about 18,000 blind people who master Braille in the UK. This technology is expected to enable them to communicate and communicate with others better in the future. It is exciting to witness the research progress in this area. "

(Source: China Daily News Xinlian Editor: Zhou Fengmei)

IFLYTEK heard the real-time recording on the computer and turned it into text, and finally went online!

Lead: As an employee efficiency software for office workers, iFLYTEK heard that APP has a place in the list of efficiency apps all the year round. Although the accuracy and efficiency of recording to text are excellent, iFLYTEK has been "spitted" by users when he heard that there is no real-time recording to text function on the computer side. This year, iFLYTEK heard that the function of "iFLYTEK will take notes when he hears it" was finally launched on the computer side.

It is reported that the technical ability of iFLYTEK’s listening and taking notes comes from the large model product "Spark Big Model" released by Iflytek. Through the computer-based real-time recording and text-to-text function, it can help professionals, students and news to record and review the content quickly and efficiently in scenes such as meeting records, interviews and research, classroom notes and live learning. The manuscript with the "listening and writing" function can also be opened in the "iFLYTEK Listening and Writing" function for further word processing such as AI retouching.

As an application of computer web page, "iFLYTEK will take notes when hearing" has the function of real-time recording to text and full-text summary, aiming to help users record important information efficiently in meetings, lectures and other occasions. The real-time recording-to-text function allows users to convert the speaker’s voice into text in real time during meetings and courses, which is convenient for users to consult and organize. The full-text summary function can automatically generate a summary containing the key information of the meeting after the recording, which can help users review the meeting content quickly and improve the efficiency of work and study.

The product of "iFLYTEK Hearing and Remembering" has powerful AI big model ability, which can automatically summarize the transcribed results into a quick view of chapters, so that users can get the key information in large paragraphs without reading the whole text. Through the blessing of AI technology, this product can achieve efficient information extraction and presentation, bringing users a more convenient reading experience.

"iFLYTEK will take notes when listening" can summarize the transcribed results according to the speaker, so that users can quickly understand the key points of key speakers’ speeches without looking at the full text. This function is very suitable for professionals and secretarial work.

Note-taking intelligently locates the original text, "back in time"

The intelligent positioning function of "iFLYTEK will remember when he hears it" can realize "going back in time" in the meeting scene. This means that when users write notes in the recording, these notes can be automatically identified and matched to the corresponding recording location. When users can’t remember what happened at the same time when taking notes, they can quickly recall and trace back through the positioning form of recorded manuscripts.

The oral draft of the leader’s speech changes to the written draft every second, and the function of "text regulation" saves the working people.

One of the major criticisms of the transcription of conference recordings is that the content of the manuscript is lengthy, and the oral communication content is too much to read quickly when looking back. IFLYTEK’s "regular text" function can simplify the long oral expressions, repeated contents and colloquial words, and make the writing fluent and readable.

After using the "iFLYTEK Hearing and Recording" to record the manuscript, you can also open it in the "iFLYTEK Hearing and Writing" webpage. Users can ask AI to help you write a more comprehensive meeting minutes, speeches, activity plans, event agents, news releases, etc. based on the meeting minutes information through the form of AI dialogue and template writing, so as to "record one paragraph at a time" from the recording file.

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High-tech popularization means doing it! Haier turns on 618: "air washing" air conditioner takes the lead.

The air in Bama Changshou Village is mild and humid, the air in Hulunbeier is natural and refreshing, and the air in Alps is fresh and transparent … Nature never lacks good air, but not everyone can enjoy it. The significance of scientific and technological progress lies in popularization, so that more people can easily enjoy healthy breathing. On the first day of the launch of 618, Haier’s "air-washing" air conditioner took the lead, distancing itself from the industry’s low-cost involution with the healthy air experience of technological upgrading, and setting off a wave of healthy air conditioners this year.

At 6:30 pm on May 13th, in Jinan Jiurushan Scenic Resort surrounded by green forests, the "Haier Air Conditioning National Air Washing Summer Party and 618 Launching Conference" was launched in full swing. At the scene, the first billion-level negative ion air-washing air conditioner in Haier’s new air-conditioning industry was launched, and it was officially launched on the JD.COM platform. As the version 2.0 of air-washing air conditioner, the new product innovates AI healthy air purification, AI smart machine cleaning, and AI precise control of cooling and heating technology, so that the air in the whole house is as fresh and refreshing as a mountain forest after rain, and the family can breathe freely at any time. As Du Hongwei, general manager of Haier Zhijia air industry in China, said in his live speech, "healthy air" will no longer be a luxury for a few people, and Haier’s new air-conditioning products will truly realize "equal rights in science and technology and universal benefits".

Good air washes out! Inhale billions of negative oxygen ions in one gulp.

"Take a deep breath, close your eyes, there is fresh oxygen all over the world." This song, which is full of oxygen, hummed by Xin Kai, an air-conditioning experience officer of Haier and a senior host of Shandong Radio and Television, takes everyone on an immersive journey of good air experience.

In the opening program, with the brainwashing melody of "theme song of washing air", the concept that good air can be washed out makes everyone both surprised and expected. The negative oxygen ion content of Jiurushan itself is as high as 70,000 per cm3. Can Haier’s new air-conditioning products be worse? At the scene, Lei Yongfeng, general manager of Haier air-conditioning brand, unveiled the mystery of washing air conditioner 2.0:

Wash it fresh and make the whole house oxygen. During the period of high incidence of allergies, Gao Minxing people have to wear masks when they go out, and they are prone to sneezing when they go home. Especially for those who have cats and dogs at home, Mao Mao can’t finish cleaning up, and it’s a "disaster" if the room is dry again. Haier air-washing air conditioner 2.0 innovates AI healthy air purification technology, which can not only sterilize, remove viruses, deodorize and other seven kinds of pollutants, but also easily blow out hundreds of millions of negative ions, effectively sterilize and reduce dust and increase two kinds of health factors. Although people who are afraid of allergies breathe heavily, after all, the air at home is comparable to well-known "negative ion oxygen bars" such as Changshou Village in Panama and Hongshan Valley in Qiandao Lake, and every bite is fresh.

Wash it clean, healthy and worry-free. The host, Wang Xi, shared his personal experience on the spot. Before that, he specially invited the team to go home to test the air conditioning situation. After the disassembly, the internal dirt was invisible. No wonder the air conditioner always smells a fishy smell when it is used for a long time, and it is too dirty! Haier air-washing and air-conditioning 2.0 innovates AI smart machine cleaning technology, which can self-clean the internal and external machines with one button, and the sterilization rate of the internal machine is 99.9% by self-cleaning at 56℃, which really only blows clean air.

Wash it comfortably, and the more you use it, the more you love it. If there are old people and children at home, they will be worried in summer. If the air conditioner is not turned on, the heat will be unbearable. If the air conditioner is turned on, the cold wind will blow straight, and the old people’s joints will be unbearable, and children will easily catch a cold. Haier air-washing air conditioner 2.0 innovates the technology of uniform temperature control with double air ducts, which can not only avoid uneven hot and cold in the whole house, but also realize that the cold air does not blow people and the hot air warms the feet. After the audience felt in the extremely good air experience area, the surprise showed that it was as gentle as the natural wind, and it could actively follow the direction of people and avoid direct blowing. It was too comfortable, so I replaced the cold hard air conditioner that blew my head and feet at home.

New products are first superimposed on 618, good air and good rights go to your home together.

Just this year, 618 officially kicked off. At the event site, Haier and JD.COM held the launching ceremony of Haier Air Conditioning 618. The latest release of Haier air-conditioning 2.0 is an explosion, and users who want to change to a new air conditioner have reached this wave! In addition to the three dimensions of service, product and experience, the whole process is strictly controlled. Now, JD.COM has placed an order for Haier’s new air-conditioning products, buying and installing them early, buying and enjoying them early, and insuring the price for the whole 618 cycle.

Double subsidies are superimposed, and the hand value is numb! In addition to state subsidies, users can also receive large coupons for superposition in the live broadcast room of Haier’s self-operated flagship store in JD.COM. For example, Haier’s air-washing and air-conditioning technology model, after superimposing coupons and national subsidy policies, will save hundreds of dollars. If there are old machines involved in trade-in, it will save more. In addition, you can get a summer quilt and a thermos cup when you place an order for any air washing series, and you can also get an E-card from 800 yuan and enjoy the 10-year machine repair service.

Good air is priceless and responsible for family health. As soon as summer comes, the air conditioner will enter the "endless period" immediately, and a healthier and more comfortable Haier air-washing air conditioner 2.0 will easily solve the problem of being depressed and uncomfortable in the air-conditioning room for a long time, and the wind will be more friendly to the elderly and children. At the same time, it will save the money for finding a master to clean the air conditioner.

In the era of the whole people’s pursuit of health, Haier Clean Air 2.0 redefines the standard of air conditioning again: not only the thermostat, but also the "bodyguard" of the whole family’s healthy breathing. This 618, instead of fidgeting in a stuffy room, it is better to open Haier JD.COM live room and move the forest oxygen bar home!

Find out the problem of air pollution in 284 thousand key areas in 5 years

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  As of this year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has carried out air pollution supervision and assistance in autumn and winter for five consecutive years. In the past five years, it has helped local governments find 284,000 problems, comprehensively found out the environmental problems of air pollution in key areas, and fully guaranteed the successful completion of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" pollution prevention and control target.

  □ Our reporter Qi Jianrong

  With the recent issuance and implementation of the Plan for Comprehensive Control of Air Pollution in Autumn and Winter in 2021-2022 (hereinafter referred to as the Action Plan), the action to combat air pollution in autumn and winter in key areas in 2021-2022 has been fully launched. According to the requirements of the Action Plan, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will continue to carry out atmospheric supervision and assistance in key areas such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas to ensure the double reduction of heavily polluted weather and PM2.5 concentration.

  According to Li Tianwei, inspector of the Law Enforcement Bureau of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, as of this year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has carried out air pollution supervision and assistance in autumn and winter for five consecutive years. In the past five years, it has helped local governments find 284,000 problems, comprehensively found out the environmental problems of air pollution in key areas, and fully guaranteed the successful completion of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" pollution prevention and control target.

  Li Tianwei pointed out that this autumn and winter, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will send a professional supervision and assistance team to strengthen supervision and law enforcement around key areas such as automatic monitoring and pollutant discharge permit, so as to do nothing to disturb law-abiding people and carry out precise strikes against offenders.

  Found 284,000 problems in 5 years.

  Suzhou Wanshen Flour Products Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Wanshen Company), located in Dongshili Circular Economy Park, Yongqiao District, Suzhou City, Anhui Province, mainly produces starch and has a 60t/h coal-fired boiler. According to the requirements of EIA approval, the boiler exhaust gas of Wanshen Company needs to be treated by SNCR denitration, bag dust removal and desulfurization wet electric dust removal integrated device, and then discharged through a new chimney equipped with automatic monitoring equipment.

  However, in September this year, the law enforcement officers of the air quality improvement supervision and assistance working group in key areas sent by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment found during on-site inspection that part of the exhaust gas of Wanshen Company was not treated by the integrated desulfurization, wet electrostatic precipitation device, but was directly discharged through the abandoned old chimney without automatic monitoring equipment. This kind of behavior of Wanshen Company is a typical way to evade supervision and discharge air pollutants to pollute the environment.

  Coincidentally. At the same time, Fuxin Liaoning Zhonghui Biotechnology Co., Ltd. stole air pollutants through emergency pipelines, Jinzhong Shanxi De Sheng Da Chemical Co., Ltd. stopped pollution control facilities without authorization, and air pollutants were discharged directly. A number of problems such as air pollutants discharged by Tangshan Rongyi Coking and Gas Making Co., Ltd. were verified.

  In order to promote the continuous improvement of air quality in key areas, in early September, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment sent 16 professional groups and 46 regular groups to go deep into key areas to carry out air quality improvement supervision and assistance. Including Wanshen Company, Fuxin Zhonghui Biological, Jinzhong De Sheng Da, Tangshan Rongyi and other enterprises, were all found on the spot during this supervision and assistance.

  According to Li Tianwei, the atmospheric supervision and assistance organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment began as early as 2017 and has lasted for five years this year.

  "Since 2017, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has coordinated the system-wide eco-environmental law enforcement team and backbone forces, and creatively organized and implemented atmospheric supervision and assistance in key areas." Li Tianwei said that through the investigation of more than 40 key special tasks, a total of 284,000 problems have been found in local areas, the environmental problems of air pollution in key areas have been comprehensively clarified, and the gap and crux of the formulation of policies, regulations and standards and the landing of tasks and measures have been identified, which has promoted the resolution of a large number of gas-related environmental problems.

  According to Li Tianwei, since the 14th Five-Year Plan, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has optimized and adjusted the supervision and assistance mechanism. This summer, this new mechanism was applied to the supervision and assistance of ozone pollution prevention and control in summer, focusing on key regional cities such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and its surrounding areas, Fenwei Plain, and digging into key industries such as steel, coking, petrochemical, chemical and building materials, and found a large number of outstanding problems such as by-pass emissions, non-installation or abnormal operation of pollution control facilities, abnormal operation of automatic monitoring or fraud, and assigned more than 10,000 local gas-related environmental problems, thus realizing the new mechanism.

  According to Wu Xianfeng, deputy director of the Atmospheric Environment Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, since 2017, the air quality in key areas has been continuously improved through the implementation of the autumn and winter atmospheric attack. Among them. In autumn and winter of 2020, the concentration of PM2.5 in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and its surrounding areas and Fenwei Plain decreased by 37.5% and 35.1% respectively compared with the same period of 2016, and the days of heavy pollution decreased by 70% and 65% respectively. The Yangtze River Delta has basically eliminated the heavy pollution weather.

  Heavy polluted weather still happens from time to time.

  The Action Plan jointly issued by 10 ministries and commissions including the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the governments of seven provinces (cities) including Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei shows that in autumn and winter of 2020, the concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and its surrounding areas and Fenwei Plain showed a downward trend compared with the same period in 2016, and the people’s sense of blue sky acquisition and happiness were significantly improved.

  At the same time, the Action Plan also pointed out that although positive results have been achieved in autumn and winter, the results of air quality improvement are still not stable. Heavy polluted weather in autumn and winter in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and surrounding areas, Fenwei Plain and other areas is still high and frequent, which not only affects the people’s health, but also directly affects the completion of the air quality improvement objectives and tasks in the 14 th Five-Year Plan.

  Liu Bingjiang, director of the Department of Atmospheric Environment of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that although China’s atmospheric environment has been improving continuously and rapidly, there is still a certain gap between the people’s expectations for blue sky, white clouds and twinkling stars and the goal of building a beautiful China. At present, PM2.5 pollution has not been fundamentally controlled; Ozone concentration is slowly increasing, which has become an important factor affecting air quality after PM2.5. Under unfavorable meteorological conditions, the process of heavily polluted weather still occurs from time to time. In addition, although the structural adjustment has made positive progress, the industrial structure dominated by heavy chemicals, the energy structure dominated by coal and the transportation structure dominated by highways have not been fundamentally changed, and the long-term, complex and arduous atmospheric environmental problems still exist.

  This year is the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan. The "Action Plan" pointed out that in the first half of this year, the product output and coal consumption of the "two high" industries rebounded significantly, and the pressure for continuous improvement of atmospheric environmental quality increased. According to Wu Xianfeng, this year’s tough action is mainly aimed at reducing heavy polluted weather and reducing PM2.5 concentration. On the basis of inheriting the effective work in the past, we will stick to the same direction and continue our efforts; Adhere to precise pollution control, scientific pollution control, and pollution control according to law, and further optimize and adjust the scope and measures of tackling key problems; Insist on treating both the symptoms and root causes, promote the adjustment of industry, energy and transportation structure, strengthen regional joint prevention and control, and actively respond to heavily polluted weather; At the same time, scientifically and reasonably set the average concentration of PM2.5 and the target of heavy pollution days in autumn and winter in relevant cities; While tackling the problem of atmospheric control, we will coordinate the stable operation of social economy and the protection of people’s livelihood, and focus on ensuring the supply of energy such as coal and electricity and ensuring warm winter.

  Wu Xianfeng said that in 2021, the central air pollution prevention and control fund specially arranged subsidies for clean heating operation, and all of them have been distributed to local governments to ensure people’s warmth for the winter.

  Investigating and handling nearly 200,000 illegal cases.

  According to Li Tianwei, from 2016 to 2020, a total of 193,300 illegal cases involving gas environment were investigated and dealt with nationwide, with a total fine of 14.051 billion yuan. In the past five years, the proportion of gas-related administrative punishment cases and fines to all administrative punishment cases and fines has increased year by year. Among them, the proportion of gas-related administrative punishment cases to all administrative punishment cases has increased from 11.7% in 2016 to 36.5% in 2020, and the amount of fines has increased from 22.9% to 30.0%, especially the number of outstanding cases such as seizure, production restriction, administrative detention and suspected crime has increased significantly.

  "Today’s autumn and winter atmospheric supervision and assistance will coordinate the two tasks." Li Tianwei said that one is to promote the task of tackling air pollution control in autumn and winter; The other is to timely investigate the implementation of emergency emission reduction measures according to the forecast and early warning of heavy pollution weather, and promote the "peak cutting and frequency reduction" of heavy pollution weather in autumn and winter.

  Li Tianwei also revealed that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment is also deepening the application of "Clairvoyance" atmospheric environment remote supervision while organizing the national ecological environment law enforcement team to conduct on-site investigation directly at the ministerial level. "Analyze the high-value areas of fine particles and ozone concentration, identify the fire points and dust sources of straw burning, and push these alarm information to the local authorities. The local ecological and environmental departments will organize verification, give full play to local enthusiasm, and implement territorial supervision responsibilities." Li Tianwei said that "Clairvoyance" divided 428,000 square kilometers of 39 cities in key areas into 60,000 3km×3km grids by using satellite remote sensing, ground micro-stations and big data, and screened 5,000 hot-spot grids with high PM2.5 concentration for "kilometer-level" monitoring, and further accurately identified 1,000 500m×500m small grids for "100 m-level" monitoring.

  According to Li Tianwei, since 2018, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has pushed 65,000 pieces of abnormal environmental information to the ecological and environmental departments of 39 cities in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and its surrounding areas, and instructed local ecological and environmental departments to investigate 75,000 enterprises and found 51,000 gas-related environmental problems.

  Li Tianwei pointed out that in autumn and winter this year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will continue to stick to the same direction and make unremitting efforts, anchor the goal of improving air quality, especially the goal of basically eliminating heavily polluted weather, continue to organize supervision and assistance work in key areas, and promote the prevention and control of air pollution in key areas during the 14 th Five-Year Plan period.

Dragon Boat Festival tickets are cheaper than last year, and some popular tourist routes still have special fares.

  BEIJING, Beijing, June 4 (Reporter Qiu Yu) "During the Dragon Boat Festival holiday this year, the ticket price is very close to the people." The reporter learned from Ctrip and other online travel websites that at present, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places can also find special air tickets to popular tourist destinations. When choosing non-popular tourist destinations such as Quanzhou, the ticket price is 50% cheaper than the same period of last year.

  "Going south" to watch dragon boat races is popular.

  It is understood that during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday this year, the overall ticket price was lower than the May Day holiday, and it was much cheaper than the same period last year, with a drop of about 5%.

  "As soon as the news of the 4-day holiday on May Day came out, the tourism fever exceeded other small holidays. Due to the influence of nearly 200 million tourists, the air ticket resources became very tight, which in turn made the air ticket price rise rapidly. The situation of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday is different. It is in the off-season of the civil aviation market, and the ticket price has generally declined. " Ctrip air ticket booking experts said.

  This has greatly stimulated people’s willingness to travel. A report released by Ctrip shows that nearly 100 million people are expected to travel during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday this year.

  Ctrip ticket big data shows that up to now, the top ten cities for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Wuhan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chongqing and Xi ‘an.

  In the choice of destination, "going south" has become a popular choice. Sanya, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Chengdu, Beijing, Chongqing, Zhuhai, Xi ‘an and Hangzhou are the top ten destination cities for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and other neighboring countries and regions are still the main destinations for outbound travel.

  Some analysts say that dragon boat racing is one of the important customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is more common in southern China. Therefore, many people are keen to fly to the south to spend the Dragon Boat Festival and feel the traditional folk culture.

  It is more cost-effective to fly to "unpopular" destinations such as Quanzhou.

  According to reports, the peak of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday is concentrated on the day before and the first day of the holiday, that is, June 6 and 7, of which the ticket departing on the 6 th is the most sought after.

  However, the reporter inquired about online travel websites such as Ctrip on June 3 and found that during the Dragon Boat Festival this year, Beijing and other places set off, and the ticket sources of popular routes are relatively abundant at present, and cheaper air tickets can still be bought during some departure times.

  For example, on June 6th, the lowest ticket price from Beijing to Hangzhou was 480 yuan, equivalent to 20% discount; The lowest ticket price for Beijing Fei Xi ‘an is 645 yuan, and the discount is 3.5 fold; The lowest price of air tickets from Shanghai to Kunming is 740 yuan, which is equivalent to 2.9% discount.

  In addition, what other tips are there to save money when buying a ticket for the Dragon Boat Festival?

  The average price of air tickets to Zhanjiang, Wenzhou, Quanzhou, Taiyuan, Yancheng, Phuket, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City and other places was at a historical low in June, with a year-on-year decline of about 50%. These destinations are worthy of a small holiday.

  On June 3, the reporter inquired about online websites such as Ctrip and found that even during the Dragon Boat Festival, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and other places can still buy ordinary air tickets when flying to the above-mentioned "unpopular" destinations.

  For example, on June 6, Shanghai Feiquanzhou only needs 440 yuan as the minimum, with a discount of 40%; The lowest fare from Shanghai to Wenzhou is 310 yuan, and the discount is 20%.

  Where are you going to play this Dragon Boat Festival?

Chen Shilin

  Chen Shilin

  Professional standards and enthusiastic service help the construction of consumer rule of law.

  Lawyer Chen Shilin is a typical representative of Zhenjiang community in the field of consumer rights protection. He is active and enthusiastic about consumer rights protection, and has made outstanding contributions with professional standards and enthusiastic service spirit in the field of safeguarding consumer rights and building a harmonious consumption environment for many years, and achieved good social effects.

  I. Brief Introduction of Lawyer Chen Shilin

  Chen Shilin, deputy director and part-time lawyer of Jiangsu Lutao Law Firm. Specializing in civil and commercial lawyer business, he is a member of the lawyer service group of Zhenjiang Consumers Association, a member of Zhenjiang Financial Consumption Dispute Mediation Committee, and has been rated as a special contributor to consumer rights protection in Zhenjiang. Over the years, he has provided various legal services to many consumers with profound professional skills and rich practical experience.

  Lawyer Chen Shilin is also the party member of the Communist Party of China, with a master’s degree in law, a doctoral student in management, an associate professor at Jiangsu University, and a master’s tutor. He is currently the vice president of the Economic Law Research Institute of Jiangsu Law Society, the legal adviser of Zhenjiang Municipal People’s Government, the secretary general of Zhenjiang Economic Law Research Institute, and the vice president of Jiangsu Zhenjiang Institute of Government by Law. In 2017, he was awarded the title of "Top Ten Lawyers" in Zhenjiang Judicial Administration System. He has published dozens of papers in Chinese core, CSSCI and other periodicals, and presided over or participated in more than ten projects with national social science fund projects and provincial and ministerial projects.

  Second, the advanced deeds of lawyer Chen Shilin’s consumer rights protection

  (1) Lawyer Chen Shilin, as a member of the Legal Service Group of Zhenjiang Consumers Association, actively played the role of professional director to lead the team of law firms to actively participate in consumer rights protection, ran for rights protection for many consumer disputes, and became a typical representative in the field of consumer rights protection in Zhenjiang. Miss Zhang (a pseudonym), a citizen of Zhenjiang, bought a set of commercial housing from a developer as a wedding room, only to find that there were nearly 100 cracks up and down the house when it was renovated. Miss Zhang went to the developer to defend her rights, but the developer refused to pay attention. After learning about the situation, lawyer Chen Shilin personally visited the commercial house purchased by Miss Zhang several times before and after, and helped Miss Zhang contact the notary department to notarize the cracks and preserve the evidence. At Miss Zhang’s request, lawyer Chen Shilin accompanied Miss Zhang and her relatives to the developer several times to defend their rights and interests. The developer still has a tough attitude, saying that if you want to sue, you can’t win. Lawyer Chen Shilin first helped Miss Zhang to contact the Consumers Association, and asked the Consumers Association to help mediate the situation. At the same time, she prepared evidence materials and legal documents, and helped Miss Zhang to contact the appraisal agency to make an appraisal conclusion on the nature, causes and effects of housing quality problems, and was ready to go through litigation and apply for arbitration. In the mediation process of Consumers Association, developers still don’t cooperate to solve it. Fortunately, in the arbitration, under the careful preparation and due diligence of lawyer Chen Shilin, the developer finally admitted its quality problems and was willing to bear the repair costs and related losses of Miss Zhang during the trial. A lot of work done by lawyer Chen Shilin finally got initial feedback, and the road of safeguarding rights taken by Miss Zhang finally saw the dawn of victory, and justice was initially done.Now the case is waiting for the original design unit to issue a repair plan.

  In addition, lawyer Chen Shilin also organized and led lawyers to provide help for consumers’ rights protection through legal consultation, case analysis and participation in negotiations, and did a lot of rights protection work.

  (2) Lawyer Chen Shilin actively participated in the analysis and demonstration of many difficult consumer cases, and made great contributions to the proper settlement of consumer rights protection cases in Zhenjiang City. Mr. Zhao (a pseudonym), a citizen of Zhenjiang, spent more than 600,000 yuan to buy an imported SUV, but soon after returning home, he unexpectedly found that this car was actually a refurbished car after the explosion of Tianjin Port, and the merchant did not mention it at all during Mr. Zhao’s car purchase. After Mr. Zhao failed to find a merchant to defend his rights, he was angry and took the merchant to court. Under the background that Zhenjiang Consumers’ Association and the competent court have established the docking mechanism of litigation and mediation, lawyer Chen Shilin actively responded to the call of the Consumers’ Association and the court, provided expert opinions and arguments for the pre-trial mediation of this case, assisted the Consumers’ Association and the court in doing a lot of work, and determined a more reasonable compensation amount in combination with the damage suffered by consumers, the amount of compensation claimed, the fault of merchants and the burden of proof, and actively promoted the mediation to close the case. In the end, under the mediation of the court, the merchant fully refunded Mr. Zhao and paid him nearly 1 million yuan in compensation. This case has aroused great repercussions in Zhenjiang City, and achieved good social effects, which has played a positive leading and exemplary role in consumer rights protection.

  (3) Lawyer Chen Shilin has organized lawyers to participate in public welfare activities such as the 315 party for many years to carry out consumer law popularization. During the period from 2015 to 2018, lawyer Chen Shilin actively responded to the call of Consumers Association, and organized many lawyers from Jiangsu Lutao Law Firm to participate in consumer public welfare activities such as the 315 party, so as to popularize consumer rights protection among mass consumers. The forms of participation are flexible and diverse, including home visits to consumer complainants, live broadcasts, off-site connections, and lectures on law popularization. The content provided is rich and colorful, including defending the rights of commercial housing leakage problems, automobile maintenance complaints, and revealing investment scams. Under the active arrangement of lawyer Chen Shilin, the lawyers of Jiangsu Lutao Law Firm provided professional advice to consumers with superb knowledge and professionalism, and made positive contributions to the popularization of consumer law and legal rights protection in Zhenjiang, and won unanimous praise from the masses.

  (4) Lawyer Chen Shilin responded to the requirements of the Consumers Association and organized lawyers to conduct consumption surveys. From September to October, 2018, lawyer Chen Shilin actively responded to the call of Consumers Association, and organized a number of lawyers from Jiangsu Lutao Law Firm to carry out consumer appraisal activities in the whole city in view of the service attitude, etiquette quality, work standard and workplace environment, commitment to honor the right to know, clear code and accurate measurement, convenient network setting, convenient complaint resolution and so on. During the two-month evaluation activity, a total of 420 questionnaires were sent out, and 412 were recovered, with a feedback rate of 99%. The survey questions of this activity were comprehensive and systematic, with a large number of participants, various forms of activities and all-round participation of consumers. Many rationalization suggestions were put forward for the public service industry, and the satisfaction was gradually improved, which played a positive role in further standardizing the business behavior of the public service industry, improving service quality and improving service efficiency.

  (5) Lawyer Chen Shilin responded to the call of the Consumers Association and actively provided expert advice for consumer legislation. Over the years, lawyer Chen Shilin has been enthusiastic about consumer legislation, actively responded to the call of Consumers Association, and organized lawyers from Jiangsu Lutao Law Firm to provide professional and rigorous expert opinions for consumer legislation such as the Measures for the Identification and Management of Breach of Credit Infringement on Consumers’ Rights and Interests in Zhenjiang City, and made profound research and demonstration for hot and livelihood issues closely related to consumer fields such as product trademark norms and the impact of product quality on consumption, and actively organized and hosted the Jiangsu Consumer Public Interest Litigation Forum. All the work done by lawyer Chen Shilin over the years has made great contributions to the promotion of consumption legislation in Zhenjiang, the regulation of operators’ legal operation and the protection of consumers’ legitimate rights and interests. His paper "On Key Issues of Pre-litigation Work of Consumer Rights Protection Public Interest Litigation" was awarded the first prize by the sixth excellent paper on market supervision.

  (6) Lawyer Chen Shilin has given dozens of lectures to protect consumers’ rights and popularize the law for operators. Over the years, lawyer Chen Shilin has led lawyers from Jiangsu Lutao Law Firm into communities, squares, universities, financial institutions and other places to give dozens of publicity lectures on consumer rights protection for students, women, the elderly and other consumer groups. Through on-site lectures, face-to-face answers, free consultation and other forms, he has explained the knowledge of rights protection to consumers, analyzed the difficulties and doubts about rights protection, and guided consumers to realize rights protection through legal channels and effectively solve mass problems. At the same time, Mr. Chen Shilin also led lawyers to conduct publicity on business popularization for business operators such as chambers of commerce, banks, federations of industry and commerce, and publicized legal business concepts for these operators through legal salons and lectures on law popularization, pointing out the risks of illegal business operation and infringement of consumers’ rights and interests, solving the core problems of consumer complaints, and making great contributions to building a harmonious consumption environment and realizing the rule of law in consumption, with remarkable social effects.

  Lawyer Chen Shilin gives full play to his legal specialty under the background of professional lawyer and associate professor of university law school, actively uses his knowledge and years of practical experience in professional fields for many years, and is dedicated to serving public welfare, society and people, striving to find a balance point of mutual benefit and harmonious consumption between mass consumers and legal operators, which has greatly promoted the cause of consumer rights protection, consumer rule of law and consumer harmony in Zhenjiang. Steadily carried forward the socialist core values with practical actions, left many indelible and touching deeds in the field of consumer rights protection in Zhenjiang, and achieved outstanding results in popularizing the law and won wide acclaim from the masses.

Amazon and shopee, a cross-border e-commerce platform, compare which one is better, their respective advantages and disadvantages.

Amazon and shopee, a cross-border e-commerce platform, compare which one is better, their respective advantages and disadvantages.

At present, the cross-border e-commerce industry is very hot, and there are many cross-border e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon, shopee, eBay, lazada, wish, etc., and each platform has its own advantages and disadvantages. Today, let’s talk about the hottest Amazon and Shrimp in the market.

First of all, let’s talk about the markets targeted by the two platforms:

Although Amazon is said to have opened stores all over the world, the sites it pays attention to are Europe Station, North America Station and Japan Station, and other sites have just been established for about a year, and they are still not very stable. Shrimp skin is mainly aimed at the Southeast Asian market. At present, there are seven major sites: Taiwan Province, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Viet Nam and the Philippines. Relatively speaking, Taiwan Province Station is relatively easy to do, because the languages are similar, so Taiwan Province Station can be opened at the first stop.

Mode of platform

Amazon has two modes: FBA and FBM. FBA is the boutique mode. First, it needs a large number of goods to be sent to Amazon’s overseas warehouses, which are delivered by Amazon officials. The advantage is that the logistics cost is low and the timeliness is relatively fast. The disadvantage is that it needs to be stocked. Secondly, it is necessary to ensure that the goods can be sold, and if they cannot be sold, they will lose money. (Novice Xiaobai does not recommend doing FBA directly)

There are two modes of shrimp skin, boutique and distribution. The profit of shrimp skin is not as high as that of Amazon, which is about 30-50%, Amazon is about 40-70%, and special products are about 100-200%. However, the shrimp skin takes the order quantity, and it is no problem for a stable store to pay more than 40 orders a day. Unlike Amazon, Amazon takes the customer unit price, which may be several orders a day, but the customer unit price is high.

Store registration conditions of two platforms

Amazon: business license, dual-currency credit card, mobile phone number, email address and ID card.

Shrimp skin: business license, screenshots of the store’s order flow or capital flow in the past 3 months (any store can be used, such as Pinduoduo, Taobao, JD.COM, Amazon, etc.), QQ number.

Platform service fee

Amazon has no deposit, but the platform has store rent every month, which is 25 pounds for Europe station and 39.9 dollars for North America station, followed by 8-15 points after the store issues the order.

Shrimp skin has no deposit and no rent. In the first three months, shrimp skin still has a certain subsidy for the store. After three months, the platform will charge a 5% commission on the order, which is also deducted from the turnover after the transaction. Basically, it can be said that it is zero cost to open a store.

Communication aspect

Amazon didn’t chat in time. Customer service came and went through email. The seller only needs to reply within 24 hours.

There is timely chat customer service for shrimp skin. The first stop is Taiwan Province site, and the correspondence is sent in the form of traditional Chinese characters. shopee provides some measures for the seller about customer service. Indonesian and Thai sites, Shopee has local customer service teams, through which the seller can communicate with the buyer.

In terms of profit

Amazon’s customer unit price is higher than that of shrimp skin, and the profit is generally 40%-70%. The platform draws 8-15 points. The customer unit price is high and the profit is high, but the order volume is small.

The profit of shrimp skin is not as high as that of Amazon, and the profit of a single order is 30%-50%. However, shrimp skin is in volume, and orders are basically issued in the first week. It is no problem to issue dozens of orders in January. The orders for shrimp skin are not the same as those of domestic e-commerce. The orders for shrimp skin are basically that one buyer buys multiple goods at the same time.

Logistics aspect

The delivery process of Amazon FBM mode is that the store issues the order and sends it to the international transit warehouse, and then the staff of the transit warehouse packs it twice and issues it to foreign countries.

The delivery process of dried shrimps is to send them to the transit warehouse of dried shrimps in China after the store issues the order. There are five warehouses in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Yiwu and Fujian, which are delivered by dried shrimps officials.

Store operation

All the modes of operation without goods supply are similar. They collect goods from other e-commerce platforms and upload them to their own stores. Amazon earns information difference and exchange rate difference between countries, and shrimp skin earns information difference and price difference. Amazon has no limit on the number of uploaded goods, but the number of new stores is only 1,000 in the first week. After the first week is over 1,000, it will apply to the platform for expansion, which will be unlimited after almost two or three applications. Shrimp skin has a limit on the number of uploaded products in the store. Only 1,000 products can be uploaded in the first month, and the number will be expanded to 3,000 after five orders are issued. At present, the maximum number will be extended to 2,000, and generally new stores will issue orders in the first week.

Prescription aspect

Generally, the logistics time limit of Amazon Europe Station in North America Station is about 25 days before customers receive the goods completely, and usually send air parcels.

The logistics aging of shrimp skin is faster than Amazon, because Southeast Asia is also close to us, usually in 5-10 days.

In terms of expense settlement

Amazon’s settlement method is that Amazon binds its own third-party collection account, and the third-party collection account is bound to my savings card. There will be an exchange rate conversion fee of 0.7, and the payment cycle of Amazon is 14 days, plus the customer receives the goods for about 10 days, which is almost 25 days. Shrimp skin supports P card and pingpong (third-party collection platform) to make payment. The payment cycle of shrimp skin is usually twice a month, at the beginning of the month and in the middle of the month, respectively, and the settlement currency is US dollars except Singapore station using Singapore dollar and Vietnam station using Vietnamese dong.

In fact, these two platforms have their own advantages and disadvantages. Amazon has high customer unit price and high profit, but the operation and logistics timeliness are not as simple as shrimp skin. Shrimp skin has low profit but large quantity, and it is easy to get started and operate. You can see the profit in a short time, and the logistics speed is relatively fast. All these two platforms are good choices at present. The final decision on which platform to choose depends on yourself (source: cross-border e-commerce bigwigs).

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(Source: Cross-border e-commerce incubation)

700 suppliers and partners gathered in faw liberation to hold the 2024 new vehicle promotion and procurement meeting.

  On January 11th, faw liberation 2024 New Vehicle Promotion and Procurement Work Conference was held in Changchun, Jilin, with 700 suppliers and partners from all over the world participating in the grand event. Hu Hanjie, assistant general manager of China FAW, Huang Xianyu, member of the Standing Committee of Changchun Municipal Committee and deputy mayor, Wang Haiying, member of the Party Group of Changchun Municipal Government and the first secretary of the Party Building Alliance of the automobile industry, Wu Bilei, chairman and secretary of the Party Committee of faw liberation, Li Sheng, general manager and deputy secretary of the Party Committee, Zhang Guohua, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of the trade union, and other leading members attended the meeting. Leaders of Changchun Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Cooperation and Exchange Office, Party Working Committee and Management Committee of Qikai District were invited to attend the meeting. The meeting was presided over by Tian Haifeng, member of faw liberation Party Committee and deputy general manager.

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  Sail and believe far and win the pilot.

  In 2023, faw liberation joined hands with global suppliers and partners, made concerted efforts to forge ahead, faced the fierce competition in the commercial vehicle market, and firmly occupied the leading position in the industry, taking NG car share as the absolute number one, medium and heavy truck terminal share as the industry number one for seven consecutive years, overseas sales exceeding 60% for three consecutive years, brand value as the industry number one for twelve consecutive years, and tractor sales as the industry number one for eighteen consecutive years.

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Speech by Hu Hanjie

  Hu Hanjie said that in 2023, in the face of severe challenges such as sluggish total volume of commercial vehicle industry, intensified competition and structural adjustment, faw liberation withstood the heavy pressure, and made concerted efforts with the majority of supply chain partners to overcome difficulties and achieved a series of brand-new outstanding achievements. Hu Hanjie demanded that in 2024, faw liberation should join hands with all supply chain partners to strengthen strategic coordination and enhance the security and resilience of the supply chain; Strengthen innovation breakthroughs and enhance the ability to independently control key core technologies; Strengthen value procurement and improve the competition level of supply chain; Strengthen the transformation of digital intelligence and work together to build an integrated supply chain platform; Strengthen "pro-Qing" cooperation and jointly build a new ecology of sunshine procurement.

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Speech by Huang Xianyu

  Huang Xianyu spoke highly of China FAW’s development achievements in recent years, and praised faw liberation’s leading role in expanding Changchun’s automobile industry cluster. He pointed out that in recent years, Changchun has focused on building a world-class international automobile city, promoting the "six regression" of production scheduling, production capacity, supporting facilities, settlement, talents and innovation, speeding up the transformation mode, restructuring and promoting the pace of transformation. He said that auto parts companies are welcome to investigate and build factories, and fully promote Changchun’s transformation, upgrading and leapfrog development.

  Create and change peers, and work hard for a long time.

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Speech by Wu Bilei

  Wu Bilei said that liberation in 2024 will adhere to the unshakable development strategy of building a "community of supply chain destiny". He emphasized that building a "community of supply chain destiny" and building a world-class commercial vehicle supply chain is not only an inevitable requirement for faw liberation to accelerate the construction of a world-class enterprise, but also the responsibility of faw liberation as a central enterprise. He said that faw liberation is looking forward to working with suppliers to build new mechanisms, new foundations, share new achievements, innovate ecology and seek new development, and jointly build a world-class industrial chain and supply chain of modern commercial vehicles. Facing the future development, Wu Bilei expects that all the supplier teams should do their best in seven aspects: "improving quality, reducing costs, controlling risks, being bold in innovation, fast in layout, being brave in pioneering, and being clean in ecology", and join hands with faw liberation to achieve all the business objectives in 2024, so as to make new achievements in the industry.

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Speech by Li Sheng

  Li Sheng said that in 2023, faw liberation will face challenges, forge ahead against the current, overcome difficulties and re-cast new glories in the industry. In 2024, supply chain work should focus on three aspects: customer focus, efficient collaboration, resource integration, empowerment and promotion, open cooperation, and co-creation and sharing. It is hoped that supplier partners will continue to follow the pace of faw liberation and jointly open a new chapter of high-quality development in faw liberation.

  Join forces to make a new start.

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Zhang Guohua read the commendation decision.

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Tian Haifeng presided over the meeting

  In recognition of suppliers’ contribution and support to the cause of liberation, some award-winning suppliers were commended at the meeting, which further conveyed the belief that faw liberation and the vast number of supplier partners will get together for development and create a win-win situation.

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Award winning group photo

  In order to deepen the cooperation with eco-partners in cloud services and management consulting, supply chain finance, star field concept truck development, centralized refueling, key core technologies of four modernizations and one high technology, delivery of pre-production parts, integrated logistics, supply chain alliance, application and research of new energy parts, milk run and post-market services, Ji Yizhi, member of the Party Committee and deputy general manager of faw liberation, took the stage to sign contracts with representatives of 12 eco-partners.

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Eco-partner signing

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Dong Yazhou made the Procurement Work Report.

  At the meeting, Dong Yazhou, Minister of Purchasing Department of faw liberation, made the Procurement Work Report, which comprehensively summarized the procurement work in 2023 from four aspects, such as the construction of resource network platform, cost improvement, physical quality improvement and supply security, and introduced the key vehicles to be put into use in faw liberation in 2024, clarifying the procurement policy and key tasks.

  Walk the road for a hundred years and forge ahead on a new journey. On the grand road of building a "community of supply chain destiny" and building a modern commercial vehicle supply chain, faw liberation will, as always, work hand in hand with the vast number of supplier partners to create a win-win situation and make the liberation cause climb new heights and create new glories. (Source: faw liberation)