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Global news: technology giants drag down US stocks collectively. Musk reveals new progress in brain-computer interface experiments.

  On Tuesday (February 20th), Eastern Time, the first day after the market closed, the three major US stock indexes fell across the board, and the Nasdaq index fell more than 1% in intraday trading, closing at a two-week low. The dismal performance of the heavyweight technology giants and the market’s concern about the risk of the Fed’s potential return to raising interest rates are the main factors that weaken the market.

  At the close, the Dow Jones index fell 0.17% to 38,563.80 points; The S&P 500 index fell 0.60% to 4,975.51 points; The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 0.92% to 15,630.78.

  In terms of US debt, the benchmark 10-year US bond yield closed at 4.275%, and the 2-year US bond yield, which is most sensitive to the Fed’s policy interest rate, closed at 4.613%.

  After the US stock market closes today, the market will welcome the financial report of AI leader NVIDIA, who is also the main contributor to the increase of US stocks this year. According to statistics, NVIDIA contributed a quarter of the increase of the S&P 500 index this year, and its financial report is likely to be a watershed in the trend of US stocks.

  And because of its horrible rise and continuously high valuation, the market has begun to prompt risks. Some analysts believe that even if the company can hand over a slightly stronger than expected financial report, it is difficult to deserve its excessive valuation. Overnight, NVIDIA once fell more than 7% in intraday trading, and eventually it fell more than 4%, dragging down the market.

  Bank of America analysts believe that it is not surprising that NVIDIA’s share price showed a "significant but short-term correction" after the financial report was released, given that investors had previously "blindly pursued artificial intelligence". The correction of the stock may exceed 10%.

  Brent Kochuba, the founder of SpotGamma, thinks that once NVIDIA’s financial report is published, firstly, the implied volatility of the options market will decrease. The decline in implied volatility means that options will become cheaper, which will force market makers to sell some of their stocks to hedge their positions.

  In particular, companies with large bias of call options like NVIDIA will bear greater selling pressure. In addition, due to NVIDIA’s current weight, it will detonate the "thunder" of the current "overheating" of the US stock market, and then cause a wider decline.

  In addition, due to the high inflation in the United States, the market began to worry about the possibility of the Fed returning to raise interest rates. Last Friday, former US Treasury Secretary Summers said, "The possibility that the Fed will raise interest rates next still exists, and the probability may be 15%." More asset managers believe that the possibility is 20%.

  In terms of industry, the first subject of Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company, is said to have realized the control of computer mouse through ideas. On Tuesday, local time, Musk said on the social media platform: "The patient seems to have fully recovered, without any adverse effects we know, and he can control the mouse. He can move the mouse on the screen just by thinking."

  He also said that the company is currently trying to let patients "press the mouse button as much as possible through their minds", which includes moving the cursor up and down and dragging the box on the screen.

  In terms of AI, Sora’s popularity has not yet fallen, and there is the fastest large-scale model explosion field in history. The AI chip company Groq became popular overnight, and the self-developed LPU speed crushed the NVIDIA GPU. Its text generation speed is faster than blink of an eye. The reasoning scene is 10 times faster than NVIDIA GPU, but the price and power consumption are only one tenth of the latter.

  In addition, with the shortage of uranium supply and rising prices, uranium trading is becoming the hottest category on Wall Street, and both physical uranium and securities products are becoming very crowded. ETF, a uranium miner listed on NYSE, has increased by more than 55% in the past 12 months.

  It is reported that investment banks including Goldman Sachs, McGree and some hedge funds are actively participating in uranium trading. Among them, Goldman Sachs not only involved in physical uranium trading, but also participated in option trading. Some hedge funds are also stepping up their participation in the trading of physical uranium and securities uranium products, which shows that after a decade of downturn after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, uranium trading has once again begun to shine and attract financial institutions to participate.

  [Hot stocks]

  Most large technology stocks fell, with Microsoft down 0.31% and Apple down 0.41%. Google rose by 0.31%. Amazon fell by 1.43%, NVIDIA by 4.35%, Meta by 0.33% and Tesla by 3.10%.

  In terms of Chinese stocks, Nasdaq China Jinlong Index fell 1.33% to 6,005.10 points. Most popular Chinese stocks fell, with Xpeng Motors down 5.46%, JD.COM down 4.09%, Weilai and Pinduoduo down 2.93%, Baidu down 1.47%, Alibaba down 1.04% and LI up 0.57%.

  [global index]

  In the European stock market, the FTSE 100 index in Britain fell slightly by 0.12% to 7719 points. The French CAC40 index rose slightly by 0.34% to 7795 points. Germany DAX index fell slightly by 0.14% to 17,068 points. In Asian stock markets, the Hang Seng Index rose slightly by 0.57% to 16,248 points.

  [foreign exchange commodities]

  The main contract of Brent crude oil closed at $82.56 per barrel, down 1.20%; The main contract of crude oil in the previous period closed at 598.00 yuan per barrel overnight, down 1.01%. Overnight, the Shanghai gold main contract closed up 0.26% to 481.70 yuan per gram.

  [Highlights]

  Wall Street began to face up to the risk of the Fed returning to raising interest rates.

  Last Friday, Lawrence Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary, broke the window and said something that some market participants thought but didn’t want to hear: "The possibility that the Fed will raise interest rates next still exists, and the probability may be 15%." More asset managers believe that the possibility is 20%.

  Musk: The first human subject with brain-computer interface can control the mouse after rehabilitation thinking.

  Musk revealed the latest progress of the first human subject of his brain-computer interface company Neuralink. On February 20th, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, revealed in a live broadcast of Spaces on social media platform X that the first human subject of Neuralink "seems to have fully recovered without any adverse reactions as we know. Subjects can move the mouse on the computer screen just by thinking. " Musk also said that Neuralink is now trying to get subjects to click as many mouse buttons as possible.

  Groq, the fastest model bombing field in history, became a hit overnight.

  Its self-developed LPU speed crushes NVIDIA GPU. NVIDIA’s challenger Groq appeared. Abandon GPU and develop LPU. Text generation is faster than blinking. The reasoning scene is 10 times faster than NVIDIA GPU, but the price and power consumption are only one tenth of the latter.

  Microsoft is developing a replacement for the NVIDIA network card.

  Microsoft is developing a new network card to improve the performance of its artificial intelligence chip Maia, and ultimately achieve the purpose of reducing dependence on NVIDIA products. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has appointed Pradeep Sindhu, co-founder of Junbo Network, a communications equipment giant, to lead the network card project. The new network card that the Sindhu team aims to build this time is similar to the ConnectX-7 network card in NVIDIA, which is mainly used to improve the traffic speed of the server. According to the report, the development process may take more than one year. If successful, it is expected to shorten the time required for OpenAI to train the model on the Microsoft server and reduce the cost of the training process.

  Apple adjusts the leadership of the supervision team responsible for audio products.

  Apple adjusts the leadership of the audio product supervision team, and Gary Geaves will resign as the team leader and be replaced by Ruchir Davé.

  Uranium becomes the new hot deal on Wall Street.

  With the shortage of uranium supply and rising prices, uranium trading is becoming the hottest category on Wall Street, and both physical uranium and securities products are becoming very crowded. ETF, a uranium miner listed on NYSE, has increased by more than 55% in the past 12 months.

  Us house of representatives sets up AI task force

  On Tuesday (February 20th) local time, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson and Democratic Party leader Hakim jeffries announced that the two parties had formed a special working group to discuss legislation to solve people’s concerns about artificial intelligence (AI).

  Red Sea crisis reshapes global fuel trade pattern, Indian diesel turns to Asia.

  Due to the continuous turmoil in the Red Sea, the increase in freight rates has made it more attractive for transportation companies and commodity traders to export their goods to Asian countries.

  [financial calendar]

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Epidemic prevention and control dereliction of duty! Many people such as the director of Daqing CDC were exempted.

Cctv news(Reporter Li Wenxue): On September 5, the Organization Department of Daqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China reported that many leading cadres, including the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, were dismissed due to dereliction of duty in epidemic prevention and control.

According to the report, since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, Wang Fengjing, director of the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has failed to implement the epidemic prevention and control policy and has taken the main leadership responsibility; Li Jinbo, deputy head of Saertu District, failed to investigate the risk personnel and took important leadership responsibilities; Song Yongcai, director of the Market Supervision Administration Bureau of the High-tech Zone Management Committee, failed to supervise the prevention and control of the epidemic situation in the farmer’s market and took the main leadership responsibility; Wang Xibao, director of the Natural Resources and Construction Administration Bureau of the High-tech Zone Management Committee, is responsible for the poor management of community closure and control; Chen Yongfang, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Liming Street in High-tech Zone, did not implement the epidemic prevention and control measures in place, resulting in the risk of epidemic spread in the community under his jurisdiction and taking direct responsibility; Wang Hongbo, director of the market supervision administration of Saertu District and secretary of the party group, organized the farmers’ market to implement the epidemic prevention and control measures, and took the main leadership responsibility; Ma Zhen, vice president of Rand School, failed to investigate the risk personnel and took the main leadership responsibility; Xiao Guangyi, director and party secretary of Longfeng District Market Supervision Administration, organized the farmer’s market to implement the epidemic prevention and control measures, and took the main leadership responsibility; Ning Feng, the full-time deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of the High-tech Zone, as the chief commander of the district epidemic prevention and control headquarters, failed to perform his duties and took the leadership responsibility; Wang Shixin, deputy director of the High-tech Zone Management Committee and member of the Party Working Committee, failed to supervise the epidemic prevention and control work in the farmer’s market and assumed important leadership responsibilities; Wang Weihua, deputy director of the High-tech Zone Management Committee and member of the Party Working Committee, is ineffective in the management of community closure and control and bears important leadership responsibilities; Zhao Wen, deputy director of the High-tech Zone Management Committee and member of the Party Working Committee, bears the leadership responsibility for failing to transport the isolated personnel in time;Zhang Jiawei, member of the Standing Committee of Sarthou District Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, bears an important leadership responsibility for the ineffective management of personnel in the temporary control area, the lax control of the control area, the false control of business premises and the lack of management of mobile vendors; Miao Lulu, deputy head of Longfeng District, is responsible for failing to transport the isolated personnel in time.

After research by the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Wang Fengjing was removed from the post of director of CDC, Li Jinbo was removed from the post of deputy head of Sartu District, Song Yongcai was removed from the post of director of Market Supervision Administration of High-tech Zone Management Committee, and Wang Xibao was removed from the post of director of Natural Resources and Construction Administration of High-tech Zone Management Committee.

It is suggested that the Party Working Committee of High-tech Zone should be relieved of the post of Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Liming Street in Chen Yongfang High-tech Zone.

It is suggested that Sarthou District Committee should remove the post of Director and Party Secretary of the Market Supervision Administration Bureau of Saertu District, Wang Hongbo, and remove the post of Vice President of Ma Lande School.

It is suggested that the Longfeng District Committee be relieved of the post of director and party secretary of Xiao Guangyi Longfeng District Market Supervision Administration.

Ning Feng, full-time deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of High-tech Zone, Wang Shixin, Wang Weihua and Zhao Wen, deputy directors and members of the Party Working Committee of High-tech Zone, Zhang Jiawei, member of the Standing Committee of Sarthou District Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and Miao Lulu, deputy head of Longfeng District, were given informed criticism.

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Creative long picture | General Secretary is deeply concerned about people on the snowy plateau.

  Tibet is cold and oxygen-deficient, and the environment is hard. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader is deeply concerned about people living in this land. In July, 2021, when the Supreme Leader visited Tibet, he emphasized that to promote the high-quality development of Tibet, we should insist that all development should be given the meaning of national unity and progress, improve people’s livelihood and unite people’s hearts, and be conducive to enhancing the sense of acquisition, happiness and security of the people of all ethnic groups.

  People of all ethnic groups in Tibet bear in mind the earnest entrustment of the General Secretary, unite as one, forge ahead, and jointly paint a picture of high-quality development of Tibet’s economic prosperity and social stability.

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  Chief planner: Ren Weidong

  Chief producer: Xu Zhuangzhi

  Producer: Chu Guoqiang, Chang Ailing

  Planning: Qi Huijie, Zhou Ning and Ling Wei’s family

  Producer: Hu Guoxiang, Zhai Yongguan

  Final review: Zhang Shuqi Kang Lilin Jiang Chen.

  Reporter: Qiu Xingxiang Li Jian

  Design: Nie Yi

  Editor: Chen Qian Nie Yi

  Technical support: He Liu

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Complete solution of basic knowledge of ASIC chip

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This article is reproduced from WeChat WeChat official account’s "Intelligent Computing Core World" by Hao Zi. Reprint this article, please contact WeChat official account of Intelligent Computing Core World.

ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) chip is an application-specific integrated circuit, which is designed and manufactured from the root level according to the user’s demand for a specific electronic system. Its computing power and efficiency can be customized according to the algorithm needs, and it is the product of fixed algorithm optimization design. ASIC chip module can be widely used in intelligent terminals such as artificial intelligence equipment, virtual currency mining equipment, consumable printing equipment and military defense equipment.

On the hardware level, ASIC chip is composed of basic silicon material, gallium phosphide, gallium arsenide, gallium nitride and other materials. On the physical structure level, ASIC chip module is made up of IP cores such as plug-in storage unit, power manager, audio picture processor and network circuit. The same chip module can carry one or several ASIC chips with the same or different functions to meet one or more specific requirements.

(1) ASIC chips can be divided into fully customized ASIC chips, semi-customized ASIC chips and programmable ASIC chips according to different customization degrees.

Fully customized ASIC chip is one of the chips with the highest degree of customization. R&D personnel design logic units with different functions based on different circuit structures, and build analog circuits, storage units and mechanical structures on the chip board. The logic units are connected by masks, and the mask of ASIC chip is also highly customized.

The design cost of fully customized ASIC chips is high, and the average design time per chip module exceeds 9 weeks. This kind of chip is usually used for advanced applications.

Compared with semi-customized ASIC chips, fully customized ASIC chips perform well in performance and power consumption. For the same function, under the premise of the same process, the average computing power output of fully customized ASIC chip is about 8 times that of semi-customized ASIC chip, and the performance of fully customized ASIC chip with 24 nm process is better than that of semi-customized ASIC chip with 5 nm process.

Most of the logic units that make up the semi-custom ASIC chip are taken from the standard logic unit library, and some of them are customized according to specific requirements. Compared with fully customized ASIC chips, the design cost is lower and the flexibility is higher.

Semi-custom ASIC chips can be subdivided into gate array chips and standard cell chips according to the different matching modes of standard logic cells and custom logic cells.

A, gate array chip

Gate array ASIC chip includes channel gate array, channel-free gate array and structured gate array. In the gate array ASIC chip structure, the predetermined transistor position on the silicon wafer cannot be changed, and designers often adjust the interconnection structure of logic units by changing the metal layer at the bottom of the chip.

Channel gate array ASIC chip: the position of transistors in this chip is highly fixed, and designers can lay out the circuit in the predefined blank space between transistor rows;

Channel-free gate array ASIC chip: under the channel-free structure, there is no circuit layout space between transistor rows, and designers usually wire above the gate array unit;

Structured gate array ASIC chip: This structure includes basic gate array rows and embedded blocks. Embedding blocks can improve the flexibility of circuit layout, but it limits the chip size. Under this structure, the use efficiency of line layout area is higher, the design cost is lower and the turnaround time is shorter.

B, standard unit

This kind of ASIC chip consists of logic cells selected from the standard cell library. Designers can arrange standard cells by themselves according to the algorithm requirements. In addition to standard cells, fixed blocks such as microcontrollers and microprocessors can also be used for standard cell ASIC chip architecture.

Broadly speaking, programmable ASIC chips can be divided into FPGA chips and PLD chips. In the actual production process, the number of research institutions and enterprises that classify FPGA chips as different from ASIC chips is increasing, so this report only regards PLD(Programmable Logic Device) as a subcategory of programmable ASIC chips.

PLD, also known as programmable logic device, structurally includes basic logic cell matrix, flip-flop, latch, etc., and its interconnection part exists as a single module. Designers program PLD to meet the needs of some customized applications.

(2) ASIC chips can be classified into TPU chips, BPU chips and NPU chips according to different terminal functions.

① TPU is a tensor processor, which is specially used for machine learning. For example, Google developed in May 2016.

The programmable AI accelerator of Tensorflow platform, its internal instruction set can run when Tensorflow program changes or updates the algorithm.

② BPU is a brain processor, which is an embedded artificial intelligence processor architecture proposed by Horizon Technology.

③ NPU is a neural network processor, which simulates human neurons and synapses at the circuit level, and directly processes large-scale electronic neurons and synapses data with a deep learning instruction set.

Traditional chips, such as CPU, generate results by reading and executing external program code instructions. Relatively speaking, ASIC chips read original input data signals and directly generate output signals after internal logic circuit operations.

(1) Advantages:

Compared with CPU, GPU, FPGA and other types of chips, ASIC chips have multiple advantages in the application of special systems, which are embodied in the following aspects.

① Area advantage: ASIC chips are designed to avoid redundant logic units, processing units, registers, storage units and other architectures, and are constructed in the form of pure digital logic circuits, which is conducive to reducing the chip area. For small area chips, wafers with the same specifications can be cut into more chips, which is helpful for enterprises to reduce wafer costs.

② Energy consumption advantage: ASIC chips consume less energy per computing power than CPU, GPU and FPGA. For example, GPU consumes about 0.4 watts of power per computing power, while ASIC consumes about 0.2 watts of power per computing power, which can better meet the energy consumption restrictions of new smart home appliances.

③ Integration advantages: Due to the customized design, ASIC chip system, circuit and process are highly integrated, which helps customers to obtain high-performance integrated circuits.

④ Price advantage: Due to the characteristics of small size, high running speed and low power consumption, the price of ASIC chips is much lower than that of CPU, GPU and FPGA chips. At present, the average price of ASIC chips in the global market is about $3, and if it reaches mass production scale in the long run, the price of ASIC chips is expected to continue to decline.

(2) Disadvantages:

① ASIC chips have a high degree of customization, long design and development cycle, and the finished products need physical design and reliability verification, so the time to market is slow.

② ASIC chips are highly dependent on algorithms. The high-speed updating iteration of artificial intelligence algorithm leads to the high frequency of ASIC chip updating.

③ Because ASIC chips are highly customized and the research and development cycle is relatively long, the risk of ASIC products being eliminated by the market is expanded.

① Google launched TPU in 2016. Google’s 2017 version of AlphaGo physical processor is embedded with four TPU’s, which can support Google cloud TPU platform and machine learning supercomputer.

② In August 2014, IBM introduced the second generation TrueNorth chip with a manufacturing process of 28 nm by simulating the brain structure, which can be applied to real-time video processing.

③ Intel introduced Xeon series ASIC chips in 2017. This series of chips can act as processors independently, without additional host processors and auxiliary processors, and can be applied to machine deep learning.

④ The ASIC chip based on the new neuromorphological computing architecture introduced by Stanford University is 9,000 times faster than ordinary computers, and can simulate about 1 million brain neurons and billions of synaptic connections.

⑤ Emerging science and technology enterprises expand the application of ASIC chips to security, assisted driving, traditional household appliances, smart medical care and other fields.

The basis for the continuous growth of sales scale of ASIC chip products in China includes but is not limited to the following factors:

① Edge computing field will become the main revenue field of special deep learning ASIC chips.

② Consumer electronic products such as mobile communication devices, head-mounted display devices (AR, VR, MR), tablet computers, drones, smart home devices, etc. will become the concentrated application fields of ASIC chip products.

③ Deep learning processors based on graphics architecture are popular, and ASIC is more suitable for computing environment with graphics architecture.

④ It is predicted that around 2022, artificial intelligence terminal equipment capable of training and reasoning at the same time will become more popular, and ASIC chips will be imported into such equipment in large quantities.

Reference source: China ASIC chip industry boutique report.

 

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Britain announces further sanctions against Russia

  On September 30, local time, the British government website released a message saying that the British Foreign Office announced a new ban on the export of services and commodities on the same day for the vulnerable sectors of the Russian economy.

  The news said that Britain is keeping pace with international partners and targeting key areas of the Russian economy. The new measures will put economic pressure on Russia by targeting vulnerable sectors and destroying key supply chains.

  According to the news, on the basis of previous actions, Britain will prevent Russia from using IT consulting services, construction services, engineering services, advertising services and transactional legal consulting services. Britain also imposed sanctions on Elvira Nabiullina, governor of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, and banned the export of nearly 700 kinds of goods to Russia. (Headquarters reporter Kang Yudong Chen Lincong)

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Anyang, Henan Province: From September 7 to 9, some areas carried out full-time nucleic acid, and residents implemented home management in principle.

  CCTV News:"Anyang Rong Media WeChat WeChat official account News, Anyang COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters Office issued a notice. According to the current epidemic situation, in order to actively screen risks, prevent the spread of the epidemic, and effectively protect the health and life safety of the broad masses of people, the COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters decided to carry out regional full-scale nucleic acid testing in the urban area and tangyin county, Anyang County from September 7 to September 9, 2022. The relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

  1. Scope of control and detection: Wenfeng District, Beiguan District, Yindu District, Long ‘an District, Anyang County and tangyin county.

  Two, the city’s residents in accordance with the requirements of "inspection", complete 1 round of regional nucleic acid testing every day. Please pay close attention to the time of nucleic acid testing notified by the jurisdiction, participate in nucleic acid testing in an orderly manner in different periods and do personal protection, and return to your residence immediately after testing. Personnel in high-risk areas, home isolation and home health monitoring shall be subject to relevant prevention and control regulations.

  Three, since 16: 00 on September 7th, all residents at home in principle, non residents of the community (village) shall not enter in principle. In rural areas, the entry and exit of personnel are strictly controlled, and outsiders must report. There is no clustering or gathering in the community. Residents who go out for medical treatment and have other special needs may, with the consent of the community (village) where they live, "point-to-point" access to the community (village). Citizens (volunteers) who undertake epidemic prevention tasks, urban basic operation guarantee, medical security tasks and epidemic prevention tasks in the city can enter and leave the community (village) with the certificate issued by the unit (community, village) or work permit +24-hour negative proof of nucleic acid detection. The rest of the staff are all at home. Citizens who do not have to leave the country unless they have special needs can leave the country only with negative nucleic acid test certificate and community (village) certificate within 24 hours, and only after passing the inspection at the epidemic prevention checkpoint.

  4. Since 16: 00 on September 7, public service enterprises such as water, electricity, fuel, gas, communications, sanitation, grain, oil, meat and vegetables supply that guarantee citizens’ lives and the basic operation of the city have arranged necessary personnel to guarantee public services; Industrial enterprises undertaking important production tasks implement closed-loop management; Life supermarkets (including farmers’ markets), medical institutions, pharmacies, express delivery, take-out and catering enterprises (only express take-out service is provided for restaurant meals) and railway operators that guarantee the basic needs of citizens can operate normally, while other entertainment and leisure places and "Nine Small Stores" are closed.

  5. Suspension of public transport such as bus, taxi and passenger transport. Logistics transport vehicles such as industrial chain and supply chain, which come from low-risk areas, can directly reach their destinations through epidemic prevention bayonet with negative nucleic acid detection certificate within 48 hours; From the middle and high risk area, with the negative proof of nucleic acid test within 48 hours, people do not get off the bus and leave the window, "point-to-point" to the destination, and quickly leave Anyang jurisdiction after unloading without contact.

  Six, the district (county) Party committees and governments, townships (towns, streets) and communities (villages) to establish a special team, timely service to protect the needs of the public, especially to do a good job of caring for special groups such as elderly people living alone, disabled people, pregnant women and so on.

  This notice will be implemented from 16: 00 on September 7, 2022, tentatively for 3 days, and will be dynamically adjusted according to the progress of the epidemic and the needs of prevention and control.

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The courier has arrived! Thank you, the most familiar stranger express brother.

1905 movie network news In this special period, we saw many heroes who fought in the front line, but we often ignored the "unknown heroes" around us who have been providing assistance to us in the rear.

 

In this group of "unsung heroes", we have to mention the courier who is closely related to everyone. They have been escorting our lives, rain or shine, whether during our stay at home or at present when we have gradually resumed work.

 

On March 9th, Li Jie, a courier, attended the the State Council conference and said that the biggest difficulty now is that some communities are not allowed to enter, resulting in too little express delivery. He called for allowing couriers to enter the community on the premise of ensuring the health of couriers, so as to improve work efficiency.


Not to mention the "double 11" every year, they have to face all kinds of "explosive positions", and even the film industry can’t do without their "fastest support".


Everyone remembers the "sudden release" event in Better Days, but many people ignore that it is also because of the strength of this group of people that we can see the film smoothly on the day of the release.

 


The figure of courier brother can not only be seen everywhere in our lives, but also the art comes from life. Last year’s hit tribute drama "In the Distance" is an urban entrepreneurial drama that rarely focuses on the domestic courier industry. It allows us to see the development process of private express delivery enterprises, and they have all achieved today’s achievements through hard work.

 

In addition to this drama focusing on private express delivery in China, they are also the most indispensable roles in many movies.

 

Sorry, we missed you


In European and American countries, whenever a courier cannot reach the recipient, the courier will leave a note — — "sorry,we missed you" (sorry, we missed you).


Therefore, the famous British director ken loach made a film "Sorry, we missed you" with this sentence.

 

In this film, this sentence is not only a sincere apology at work, but also an apology for the children as a father in this family of the film.

 

In the film, my father is a courier. Every day, due to overwork, he can’t take care of the big and small things at home. He shoulders the burden of family economy and is bent on providing a stable life for his family, no longer looking at the landlord’s face and owning a house of his own. We can see that the courier is a profession he lives, and his real identity is the head of the family, the husband of his wife, and the father of his children.

 

At the end of the movie, although the hero lost his job, he didn’t play with his children as in the past, but still went out to work for a living. But this time, he said "sorry" to his family.

 

The rest of my life on a desert island


The film starring Tom Hanks is naturally a film that everyone is familiar with.

 

Chuck, the hero, works for FedEx, and he is as precious as gold on weekdays. A plane crash left him stranded on a desert island, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and opened up a new lifestyle. His belief in survival was supported only by the pocket watch and a courier package given to him by his fiancee.

 

Over the past four years, needless to say, his hardships and sufferings have turned into failures many times. When his will gradually collapsed, he was unexpectedly saved.


But when he returned to the real civilized world, he became nothing, and unlike fairy tales, his fiancee would wait for him all the time. Strong Chuck chose the blessing and stuck to his duty as an employee of the courier company, delivering the last package before the crash.

 

What exactly is this unopened express parcel? This is the curiosity that the audience outside the film are concerned about. But whatever it is, for him, it is a hope on a desert island and a sense of professional mission.

 

Two seconds


Courier is a race against time.

 

In the movie Two Seconds, the heroine Laurie is the kind of person who focuses on a simple and happy life. As a cyclist, she has no utilitarian heart, just reveling in this sport, enjoying the speed of chasing and eager to freeze the time. After retiring, she still chose the job of bicycle courier. To this end, she even devoted herself to her only racing car.


The life of a courier will not always be as fresh as it was at the beginning and only enjoy riding a bike. Riding a bike is not difficult for Laurie. She is handy, but she has to bear many unexpected difficulties and injuries at work.

 

Just like every courier, they all love their jobs, but they still encounter some unpleasant things when they rush about in crowded cities every day, either coldly or misunderstood, but because of this love, they all live hard and actively.

 

Of course, when we talk about choosing movies in the express delivery industry because we love bicycles, we have to recommend them again.


The hero turned to be a courier because he failed in stock trading, which led to bankruptcy. Compared with the drama of "Two Seconds", this film pays more attention to realism, which is the kind of freedom for couriers to shuttle through big cities and see the good scenery of a city.

 

Premium rush.


The same bicycle courier is even more thrilling.


The hero met a tricky thing, and was entrusted to send an unknown letter. Unexpectedly, it attracted the eyes of a policeman in new york, which led to a series of chasing stories.

 

This film gives an account of the life of express mail, and adds persistence to their fun of riding a bicycle. Express delivery people are happy, persistent, love their work and enjoy the exciting life face to face with time. They are flesh and blood, love and hate, not all of them are poor at the bottom, but some of them come from university campuses, such as the protagonist and his girlfriend.


Probably like the couriers in our life, although they are service industries, they have the responsibility of being full of goods, and they can enjoy their own philosophy of life only by making a phone call to get them to the consignee faster and better.

 

Life express


The movie "Hard Courier" is also a story about the courier being passively involved in a gang plot.

 

Jason Statham plays a retired special soldier, and now he is engaged in driving a BMW to transport goods. Unexpectedly, in a mission, he accidentally found that the goods he was transporting turned out to be a person. He started a magical adventure in line with the "three rules" in the industry.

 

For couriers in life, the "three rules" mentioned in the film are also the professional rules they pay attention to every day: 1. Never change the agreement; 2. Don’t mention your name; 3. Never open the package.


Because of this spirit of contract, on weekdays, the courier and we have more trust and tacit understanding with each other.

 

Super express


In the movie, when the courier played by Michael Chen met his future mother-in-law, he expressed that he would become "the best courier in China" in the future, and he also published a long declaration:

 

"The most important concept of China’s economy in the Internet age is O2O! What is the most important part of O2O? It is logistics! What is the main component of logistics? It’s us couriers! Without couriers, there will be no cheap and good goods; Without commodities, there is no consumption power; Without consumption power, there will be no future of the real economy. Therefore, it is our ordinary couriers who have set up a day in China’s economy! "

 

This slogan may be the voice of the staff in the express delivery industry.

 

In addition to these films, couriers, as the "most familiar strangers" in our lives, often appear in different films and become the strongest supporting actors.


Perhaps the appearance of these walk-ons is only for better advertising, but we may expect that in the future movie market, there will be works belonging to this group of people, and we can also use movies to tell them, "Thank you, courier brother."


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The Bright Future of "Internet Affairs" —— A Summary of China’s Internet Development in the 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up

  "In 1997, I used my company’s’ cat’ to dial up the Internet for the first time." "In 2005, I bought a scarf for the first time online." "In 2013, all my families were replaced by smart phones, and a WeChat group was established." "In 2017, I taught my dad to scan the code to pay for food … Talking about the changes in people’s lifestyles since the reform and opening up 40 years ago. Information acquisition, online shopping, code scanning payment, mobile phone socialization … People’s life scenes have been marked with the Internet.

  The rapid growth of Internet industry in China is the product of reform and opening up. Ma Huateng, chairman of Tencent’s board of directors, once said: "Tencent’s success has many factors, but the historical opportunity of reform and opening up is our greatest asset." Ma Yun, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, also said: "In the past 40 years, China has opened its market, both internationally and domestically. Without the reform and opening up policy, there would be no us today. "

  From the mouse to the touch screen, this is a great change at the fingertips. From the perspective of overall industrial development, China has been ranked first in the world for 10 years in terms of the number of netizens, broadband netizens and the number of national top-level domain name registrations. Online shopping, smartphone shipments and the number of mobile payments, these new world firsts outline that the Internet is becoming a new engine for China’s economic transformation and upgrading.

  Network infrastructure provides support.

  Cao Fangzhou, a Beijing white-collar worker who moved into his new home this year, made a "bold" decision: not to install cable TV. "There are two’ boxes’ at home. It is enough to watch dramas and variety shows. You can watch them on news phones, as well as live webcasts. It is enough to have a network." Like Cao Fangzhou, many users have migrated their spare time of watching video content from TV to the Internet. The data shows that as of June this year, the number of online video users in China is 609 million, the number of short video application users has reached 594 million, and the number of live webcast users has reached 344 million. The market size of the entire video content industry is expected to reach 201.68 billion yuan in 2018, a year-on-year increase of 39.1%.

  As a heavy traffic application, online video industry needs bandwidth and traffic support. "By the end of September this year, the proportion of national fiber-optic broadband users reached 88%. At the end of 2014, only 10% of users in China used broadband of more than 20M; By September this year, more than 60% of users in China have used broadband over 100M m. Since 2014, China has built the largest and most extensive 4G network in the world in just two or three years. With the help of the policy of speeding up and reducing fees, the average mobile traffic consumption of mobile users in China reached 5.14GB in September, 2.6 times that of the same period last year. " Wen Ku, Director of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the rapid development of infrastructure has provided support for various segments of the Internet.

  The online video industry is also enthusiastically embracing technological innovation. Su Hua, CEO of Aauto Quicker, a short video application, said: "Artificial intelligence runs through every link of video production, video understanding, user understanding and accurate distribution in Aauto Quicker. For the identification of video content, 15 million short video content generated every day will be labeled automatically by artificial intelligence and the voice content is recognized." In 2017, the number of patent applications for artificial intelligence inventions and the number of invention patents granted in China reached 46,284 and 17,477, respectively, with a year-on-year increase of 34.9%. Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman of innovation works, also said: "It took only two years for China to’ miraculously rise’ in artificial intelligence. Today, the most valuable artificial intelligence companies in computer vision, speech recognition and drones are China companies."

  E-commerce retail innovation continues.

  213.5 billion yuan! At 0: 00 on November 12th, this huge number appeared on the data screen of Tmall "double 11" Media Center in Shanghai World Expo Center, and the new single-day online shopping transaction volume of China e-commerce platform was fixed here. Data from the Ministry of Commerce show that on this day, the national online retail transaction volume exceeded 300 billion yuan. The US Cyber Monday, the target of double 11, has a transaction volume of only $7.9 billion this year, less than one fifth of that of double 11.

  Taobao was launched in May 2003. In that year, the transaction volume of online shopping in China was only 790 million yuan, but then the consumption of the Internet in China soared. Ma Ruisi, chairman of Procter & Gamble Greater China, was quite impressed: "In the United States, only 7% of Procter & Gamble’s business comes from e-commerce, but it has reached more than 30% in China. Last year,’ double 11′ Procter & Gamble spent 19 hours to reach sales of 1 billion yuan, and this year it only took 70 minutes."

  The rapid development of e-commerce has provided millions of small and medium-sized enterprises with direct access to consumers, including a series of "Amoy brands" such as wheat bags, Handu Yishe, Sheba, Qigege and puppy appliances. In the "double 11" in 2013, Tmall and Taobao sold 35 billion yuan in 24 hours. In that year, the national online transaction volume reached 1.85 trillion yuan, and China surpassed the United States for the first time to become the largest online shopping country.

  The rapid development of e-commerce has witnessed the tremendous energy of consumption upgrading. Li Yongjian, director of the Internet Economy Research Office of the School of Finance and Economics of China Academy of Social Sciences, said: "From the perspective of consumer choice, online shopping has begun to evolve from necessities to enjoyment products, and e-commerce platforms are also transforming from price competition to quality competition."

  According to the report released by the think tank Outlook Think Tank in October, in the past five years, China’s scientific and technological innovation has continuously improved people’s sense of acquisition, among which mobile payment has the highest contribution rate in enhancing people’s sense of acquisition.

  At present, Leopard Secret, the first supermarket robot in China, has started to provide services in wu mart, Beijing. It can answer all kinds of questions of consumers and guide them to find the products they want. This is just the tip of the iceberg of Wumart’s new retail. On the shelf, the electronic price tag can adjust the price at any time; In supermarkets, artificial intelligence cameras count passenger flow and consumption preferences.

  In addition, the unmanned shelves and supermarkets of Binguo Box and Convenience Bees, the small-scale rapid delivery explored by Boxma Xiansheng and Yonghui "super species", and various new formats emerge one after another … Li Fei, a professor in the marketing department of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, said frankly: "The retail revolution in China has become the focus of global attention and the’ testing ground’ for the retail industry facing the future."

At the 2018 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, participants watched the live game of "Tianrang" Go robot in the exhibition hall of the conference. Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Zongzhi photo

  Integrating "touching the net" to stimulate vitality

  "Changan Ford’s 20,000 employees, upstream and downstream suppliers and distributors are all connected through corporate WeChat. From organization and collaboration to teleconferencing, to direct access to information such as production, sales and service, digitalization has greatly improved Changan Ford’s operational efficiency." Wu Jinhao, chief information officer of Changan Ford, told reporters.

  In the field of manufacturing, a large number of modes of sharing production factors, such as production equipment, design ability and office space, have emerged. In Dongguan, Guangdong, expensive CNC machine tools are providing shared services for small and medium-sized enterprises. Enterprises don’t have to buy machine tools anymore, just pay by the hour or the processing capacity. Wang Gan, chairman of Xinquan Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. said: "Now more than 500 machine tools will cost more than 100 million yuan if purchased directly, but if shared machine tools are used, a set of machines will only cost several thousand yuan a month."

  According to statistics, by 2020, the industrial Internet will account for 22.5% of the total Internet of Things market, and the industrial Internet market in China will exceed 11.3 trillion yuan in the next 15 years. "With the industrial Internet, China’s manufacturing industry has taken the lead in the transformation of production methods." Zhang Yansheng, a researcher at the Academic Committee of the National Development and Reform Commission, said.

  In addition, public services are also being deeply transformed by the Internet. "Running at most once" has become a real commitment of the government to the people, and smart cities are thus more worthy of the name. Jiang Peng, director of the Smart City and Big Data Institute of the Planning Institute of the Urban and Small Town Reform and Development Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, said: "What smart cities really need is the innovation vitality based on data, which can improve the operational efficiency of cities and the decision-making level of city managers through data." Taking Inspur Group as an example, the enterprise helped Jinan become the first local government in China to realize the authorized operation of government data. As the core of operation, the Smart Spring City Operation Management Center has gathered more than 100 million pieces of basic database information from 65 departments in the city. Sun Pishu, chairman of Inspur Group, said that with the deep integration of Internet and government affairs, smart city service providers are also undergoing the transformation to smart city operators. (Chen Jing)

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The American Democracy Foundation funded 50 China projects to support anti-China forces.

  A "non-governmental organization" solely funded by Congress.


  Everyone in the United States emphasizes its status as a "non-governmental organization", but as long as we understand its funding source and organizational structure, we know that the Democratic Foundation is actually a US government department in the cloak of "non-governmental".


  The practice of promoting "American-style democracy" in a hidden way originated after the end of World War II. In order to prevent communist party’s influence from expanding in Europe, American policymakers began to subsidize pro-Western media and political parties in the form of secretly sending consultants, equipment and funds. By the end of 1960s, some American "private groups" began to receive secret funds from the CIA, which were also used to weaken communist party’s influence. These "private groups" later grew into "American Political Foundation", which is the predecessor of American Democracy Foundation.


  In November 1983, US President Ronald Reagan ordered the establishment of the American Democracy Foundation, and asked Congress to allocate $65 million for "promoting global democracy" in the fiscal year of 1984-1985. In addition to funding from Congress, the board structure of the American Democracy Foundation makes this "non-governmental organization" even more weird, because its members include two members of Congress, officials of American labor, business and education institutions, foreign policy experts, and representatives of Republicans and Democrats. John Richardson, the first "permanent chairman" of the Democracy Foundation, was a former assistant secretary of state. The current chairman, Carl Jeshman, was a senior adviser to the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations.


  The Democratic Foundation initially sought funding of $31.3 million a year, but Congress only gave it $18 million. Even so, some opponents of the Democratic Foundation in Congress suggested to the White House that since the Democratic Foundation is "non-governmental", it should not be appropriated by the US Congress, but should absorb donations from the people. However, the US Congress still insists that all the funds of the Democracy Foundation are allocated by the Congress, and it has repeatedly intervened in the projects of the Democracy Foundation, often giving it "specific guidance". For example, the US Congress asked the Democracy Foundation to support solidarity trade unions in Poland and "special interest groups" in Chile, Nicaragua and Eastern Europe. The US Congress also asked the Democracy Foundation to "give special support" to relevant organizations in South Africa, Myanmar, China, (China) Tibet and North Korea. After the "9.11" incident, the Democracy Foundation threw out the third strategic document and began to sponsor a large number of projects in Middle Eastern countries.


  At the same time, the amount of funds allocated by the US Congress to the Democracy Foundation is actually increasing: from the initial "quota" of $33 million to $40 million in 2004, and then jumped to $60 million in fiscal year 2006. In fiscal year 2008, the annual appropriation of the American Democracy Foundation was $100 million.


  It is the executor of American strategic intention.


  The American Democracy Foundation is very good at bringing together various "democracy foundations" in western countries to do their work. For example, in order to promote the democratic process in Myanmar, the American Democracy Foundation has brought together the Westminster Democracy Foundation in Britain, the Conrad Foundation in Germany and the International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Progress in Canada, and contributed to the "Democratic Forces in Myanmar". When dealing with China, North Korea and other Asian countries, the American Democracy Foundation mainly draws on Japanese, Italian and Portuguese "Democracy Foundations".


  How does the American Democracy Foundation approve a project? An expert familiar with the operation of the Foundation told the Global Times reporter that there are two sets of audit procedures for the American Democracy Foundation: a clear set of procedures is published on the official website, such as quarterly discussion and evaluation by the Board of Directors of the Democracy Foundation, which comprehensively considers the priorities, specific needs, national conditions, democratic effects and related experiences of the project, and then grants money to groups or organizations. Applicants should fill in a series of forms, such as project details, expenditure, budget plan, name and position of the person in charge of the organization, etc. The China expert told the Global Times reporter, "Whether the American Democracy Foundation gives money or not is mainly based on the degree of influence of this project on the national interests of the United States, the destructiveness to relevant countries, and the degree of recognition of American-style democracy by relevant organizations or groups. In the final analysis, the interests of the United States are fundamental. If it is not in line with the national interests of the United States, it is difficult to get a penny from the Democracy Foundation. "


  Kim A. Holmes, vice president of the Center for Foreign Affairs and National Defense Policy Studies of the United States, and Sherby Kurom, director of the Institute of International Relations of the Heritage Foundation of the United States, disclosed that on August 1, 1996, the Appropriations Committee of the United States Senate tried to cancel the funding of 30 million U.S. dollars to the Democracy Foundation that year, on the grounds that although the Democracy Foundation played an important role in "promoting democracy" in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Nicaragua, Vietnam and other countries, the Cold War was after all. However, U.S. lawmakers who support continuing funding for the Democracy Foundation said that despite the disintegration of the Soviet Union, communist party remained in power in China, Cuba, North Korea and Viet Nam, and communist party’s influence in the former Soviet republics remained considerable, so communist party’s global power should not be underestimated. Lawmakers believe that governments under western-style democracy pose less threat to the interests of the United States. Because they pursue profits and are keen on business activities, they are more willing to maintain international stability. Democratic countries rarely go to war with democratic countries, so strengthening the promotion of democracy, such as investing in the American Democracy Foundation, is much less costly than going to war with an "undemocratic country", which is in the best interests of the United States. ▲  

Editor: xu wen hua

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The 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland | Celebration activities gradually reached a climax, and all walks of life in Hong Kong expressed their patriotic feelings in various forms

  Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, June 26th (Reporter Cha Wenye) The 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland is approaching, and the festive atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger. Various social circles in Hong Kong have recently held various celebrations to express their patriotic feelings and express their joy.

  "My motherland and I cannot be separated for a moment. Wherever I go, there is a hymn. " Melodious songs and lyrical melodies strike a chord. Recently, the Education Bureau of the SAR Government invited students from many middle schools who won prizes in the Hong Kong School Music Festival to shoot and produce My People,My Country music videos, and sing out sincere patriotic feelings with music and songs.

  This is a 2-meter-high gold sign taken in Tamar Park, Hong Kong on June 22nd to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Shenshe

  The Education Bureau expressed the hope that students can understand the meaning of the lyrics and the artistic conception contained in the songs by appreciating and singing My People,My Country, deepen their understanding of Chinese culture, and cultivate their feelings of homeland and national identity.

  In Ping Shek Estate, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, the patio of a 20-storey public housing building is covered with five-star red flags and bauhinia regional flags on three sides of each floor. Bright flags decorate the building into a red ocean, which is very spectacular from the ground. Related pictures and videos were widely spread on the Internet, and were well received by Hong Kong netizens: "Like Ping Shek Tsuen!" "I’m so happy to see such a touching scene!"

  On the 160-meter-long wall of Hung Hom Road, many industrial associations and groups in Hong Kong mobilized volunteer painters and school teachers and students to carefully draw long scrolls reflecting the history of "Made in Hong Kong" with their brushes. The activity lasted for 25 days to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland.

  "New Youth, New Opportunities, New Development — — A youth theme forum celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland was held recently at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.

  Chen Kairong, Chairman of the YMCA of Hong Kong, said that the current YMCA Council put forward the "Youth Ladder Action Plan" to gather the care and strength of all sectors of society, continue to vigorously promote the integration of young people into the overall situation of national development, and strive to build more platforms and ladders for young people to help them achieve their personal ideals.

  This is the Hong Kong Island Light Show filmed in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong on June 25th. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Shenshe

  Celebration committees from all walks of life in Hong Kong recently held a film appreciation meeting of One Sky. This film was made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It was jointly produced by Yindu Institution, Emperor Film, Global Asia Film and One World Film.

  The film tells the growth experience of young people in Hong Kong and shows the artistic inheritance of Hong Kong culture with four stories running through 1997 to the present. Organizers hope that this film can awaken the inner memory of every Hong Kong resident, review the stormy journey we have gone through together, stimulate the feelings of Hong Kong compatriots for home and country, and enhance the sense of historical responsibility for national rejuvenation.

  On the evening of 25th, the evening party of "Celebrating the Return of Hong Kong Island with One Heart and Starting a New Chapter Together" and the commendation ceremony for 100 outstanding anti-epidemic volunteers who moved Hong Kong Island were held at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium. The evening party celebrated the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland in the form of cultural performances, and presented awards to 100 volunteers who made outstanding contributions to the anti-epidemic work.