[Circumferential depth] "De-Americanization era", the Middle East ushered in "reconciliation season"

  [Global Times correspondent in Syria and Egypt Xue Dan Huang Peizhao] After Saudi Arabia and Iran signed a joint statement in Beijing on March 10, agreeing to resume diplomatic relations, good news came from the reconciliation between the two countries — — According to a report by the Saudi National News Agency on March 27th, Foreign Minister Shai agreed to hold a bilateral meeting during Ramadan to speed up the resumption of diplomatic work between the two countries. The warming of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran is only part of the "reconciliation season" in the Middle East. Recently, high-level visits have entered a frequent period between Arab countries or between Iran, Turkey and Arab countries, and relations between countries have improved significantly. For more than a century, the Middle East has been one of the most turbulent regions in the world, with constant conflicts among countries and within countries. What has laid the foundation for the turmoil in the Middle East? What makes the parties to the long-term conflict now extend an olive branch to each other? How will this affect the world?

  "breaking ice" and "thawing" become key words

  "Breaking the ice" and "thawing" have become the key words of recent diplomatic activities in Middle East countries. On March 19th, nine days after Saudi Arabia and Iran announced that they had agreed to resume diplomatic relations, the Iranian President’s Office said that President Leahy had received and accepted the invitation of Saudi King Salman to visit. The warming of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia has also led to the thawing of relations between Tehran and other Arab countries. According to AFP and other media reports, on March 16th, Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, held talks with UAE President Mohammad in Abu Dhabi. On March 13th, Iran expressed its hope to resume relations with Bahrain, so as to end the seven-year relationship breakdown. Tehran also hopes that the "thawing tide" can be extended to Egypt, Jordan and other countries. According to the American Grid News Network, Saudi Arabia and Iran are considered to be a pair of old enemies in the Middle East, and the religious and political contradictions between the two countries are very complicated. In 2016, Saudi Arabia executed a Shiite cleric, and in Tehran, the Iranian capital dominated by Shiite Muslims, protesters attacked the Saudi embassy, and then the two countries broke off diplomatic relations. Arab countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait immediately cut off or downgraded their diplomatic relations with Iran.

  With the breaking of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, the reconciliation between Arab countries is also accelerating. Also on March 19th, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited the United Arab Emirates, and the Afghan military sent fighter jets to escort him. President Muhammad personally greeted Bashar at the airport, and then the two men discussed issues such as "brotherhood" and "strengthening cooperation" between Syria and Syria. After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the League of Arab States suspended Syria’s membership and publicly supported Syrian opposition forces. Regarding Bashar’s visit, Mohammed said that Syria has been away from the Arab family for a long time, and "it is time to go home now". In addition to the UAE, Saudi Arabia is also holding talks with Syria to explore the restoration of consular relations. Reuters previously said that Saudi Arabia and Syria may reopen their embassies in late April. Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Overseas Chinese Affairs Assafadi and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria Peterson also discussed the initiative to solve the Syrian crisis through direct intergovernmental dialogue.

  The relationship between Israel and Arab countries is also constantly breaking the ice. According to the US "Wall Street Journal" report, Oman abolished a decades-long ban in February this year, clearing the way for Israeli planes to fly over Afghanistan’s airspace. This move shows that the relationship between Israel and the Arab countries that have long refused to openly accept this Jewish state has been further thawed. Earlier, Israel had normalized relations with several Arab countries, including Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco.

  "Reconciliation season is coming in the Middle East". According to the Gulf Times of the United Arab Emirates, there have been many encouraging reconciliation phenomena in the Middle East recently, including cavusoglu’s visit to Egypt on March 18th, becoming the first Turkish foreign minister to visit Egypt in 10 years. Even Palestine and Israel are negotiating to curb violence at least during Ramadan. The two sides recently held a meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and agreed on a plan to stop the escalation of violence. The atmosphere of reconciliation between countries also has an impact on both sides of the conflict in some countries. After 10 days of negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, the Yemeni government and Houthi armed forces recently reached an agreement on prisoner exchange, agreeing to release 887 detainees. The parties to the conflict in Sudan also realized the value of reconciliation and agreed to promote peace through the political process.

  In fact, this round of "reconciliation tide" in the Middle East can be traced back to the second half of 2020 at the earliest. The British "Middle East Eye" news network said that at that time, the UAE and Iran began to contact, and Saudi Arabia contacted Qatar in early 2021. Subsequently, intensive diplomatic contacts were launched between Egypt and Qatar and other Arab countries, and between Turkey, Israel and Iran and Arab countries. For example, the Israeli president visited Turkey in March 2022, which was the first time that an Israeli president visited Ankara in 15 years.

  Divide and rule in western countries is the source of unrest.

  For a long time, the Middle East has been one of the most turbulent regions in the world. According to Qatar Al Jazeera, in the past half century, there have been more wars in this region than in any other region. After the end of the cold war, violent conflicts in many parts of the world have subsided, but the Middle East is the opposite. Since the 21st century, the armed conflicts in this region have accounted for one third of the total armed conflicts in the world. However, the "Middle East Forum", an American think tank, has previously issued a document pointing out that in the four centuries before the First World War, the Middle East was relatively stable. Wang Guang, a professor at Shanghai International Studies University and executive director of the China-Arab Reform and Development Research Center, said in an interview with the Global Times reporter that in history, Arabs have lived in the same country for a long time. Although their relationship is complicated, they have many integrations and close contacts.

  So, what makes the Middle East so "flammable and explosive"? Wang Guangda said that the long-term turmoil in the region has both internal and external causes, and the politicization of religious issues is one of them. From the religious point of view, there are two pairs of contradictions in the Middle East countries. First, the contradiction between Islamic countries and Israel is the main contradiction in the Middle East countries, which has continued since the founding of Israel. Secondly, the contradiction between Islamic countries is mainly reflected in the struggle between Sunni countries represented by Saudi Arabia and Shiite camps represented by Iran for the leadership of the Islamic world. This contradiction has been continuously fermented since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 and intensified in the 21st century. An important reason for the long-term disharmony between Middle East countries is that religious issues have been used by extraterritorial forces and become a tool for the West to provoke relations between Middle East countries.

  "The Sykes-Pico Agreement of 1916 opened a century of Middle East history." According to the UAE newspaper El Pais, the traditional view is that this secret agreement between Britain and France to carve up the Asian part of the Ottoman Empire is the source of chaos in the Middle East. Professor Logan of Oxford University said that Britain, France and other western countries forcibly demarcated national borders in the Middle East and used them to divide and rule these countries, laying a hidden danger for future conflicts. If the Balfour Declaration written by the British Foreign Secretary in 1917 led to the continuous Arab-Israeli conflict, then France’s attempt to establish a Christian nation-state in Lebanon not only led to the partial disintegration of the country, but also led to the conflict between Lebanon and Syria. The root cause of the border conflict between Iraq and Kuwait is also territorial dispute.

  After the Suez Canal crisis in 1956, the United States replaced Britain and France as the main "player" in the Middle East, and Washington’s Middle East policy also had a long-term impact on the pattern of the region. Wang said that the Middle East is one of the cradles of the Cold War, and it is also a place where the United States and the Soviet Union compete for hegemony. Countries in the region choose to take sides and join different camps. After the end of the Cold War, the United States dominated the Middle East, forcibly promoted regime change and the so-called "democratic" export, and plunged the Middle East into perennial war by waging war and instigating the "Arab Spring", bringing deep suffering to the local people.

  With the change of security concept, countries are more pragmatic and open.

  "(Middle East ‘ Reconciliation tide ’ ) is determined by the changes in the broader international situation. "Al Jazeera and other media all mentioned the United States when analyzing the accelerated reconciliation of Middle East countries. The United States continues to shift its strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific region, gradually changing its strategic focus in the Middle East and giving up its traditional commitment to Arab allies. This has led American Middle Eastern allies to gradually realize that Washington cannot be trusted, so they began to make efforts to diversify their security and military partners and implement more hedging strategies. Both Saudi Arabia and Iran want to join the BRICS cooperation mechanism, and Iran is already an observer of the SCO. Gary Peng, a scholar at American Wesleyan College, believes that, to a large extent, the Middle East has entered the "de-Americanization era", which is characterized by more pragmatic and open governments and mixed alliances among countries, and they do this in order to win more room for manoeuvre for themselves.

  Wang Guangda said that the United States, which is keen on camp confrontation, has gradually implemented strategic contraction in the Middle East, while China, which upholds the concept of peaceful development and win-win cooperation, has increasingly close ties with countries in the Middle East, and the "One Belt, One Road" initiative is also well received by these countries. In the "tide of reconciliation" in the Middle East, China played a role of boosting and mediating.

  Ezzat, executive director of the Egyptian Foreign Affairs Committee, said in an interview with the Global Times that the people in the Middle East have suffered from war for a long time and have long longed for peace. With the changes in the international situation and the promotion of all parties, Middle Eastern countries have begun to realize that peace is the best choice, which provides important conditions and impetus for reconciliation. Li Xueyan, from the Middle East Institute of Shanghai International Studies University, said that from the perspective of the region, "seeking peace and development" has become the mainstream aspiration of countries in the Middle East in recent years, and it has also enhanced the willingness of countries to resolve conflicts. In addition, regional countries also hope to expand their influence in the construction of a new Middle East order, which needs to be shaped by soft power rather than war. In particular, it should be pointed out that the urgent task for most countries in the Middle East, represented by Saudi Arabia, is to speed up development and change the single economic development model that relies on oil. Therefore, their focus is no longer on geopolitical games, but on creating a better surrounding environment, improving regional relations and creating conditions for domestic development.

  The British "Middle East Eye" news network and other media said that the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic and the losses caused by it also made Middle East countries more pragmatic and began to give priority to interest-based agendas such as trade rather than ideological agendas. This is particularly evident in the reconciliation process between Egypt and Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine makes the location advantage and the importance of oil and gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean more prominent, thus creating a positive atmosphere for Turkey, Israel and Egypt to reach a consensus. In addition, the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on February 6th created space for the "disaster relief diplomacy" of Middle East countries. Some analysts said that the Trump administration played an important role in promoting reconciliation between Israel and Arab countries.

  The United States and the West will not let go easily.

  What impact will this "reconciliation tide" in the Middle East countries have on the region and the world? First of all, Saudi Arabia and Iran have played an important role in shaping the political structure in the Middle East, and the improvement of relations between the two countries may further ease the internal conflicts in other Middle East countries. According to media analysis such as CNN, Yemen’s civil war broke out in 2014, and Shay supported the opposing factions in Yemen’s civil war. Reconciliation between the two countries will promote a ceasefire between the two sides of the Yemen conflict and form an inclusive national government. A similar situation may also be staged in Lebanon and Syria. Analysts say that it is also in Iraq’s interest for Shai to achieve reconciliation, because since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, Iraq has become an arena for confrontation between Tehran and Riyadh.

  Wang Guang said that the acceleration of reconciliation among Middle Eastern countries will enhance their influence in international organizations and increase their weight in the multipolar world structure. If the countries in the Middle East put more energy into seeking reform and development, the people in the Middle East will actually benefit. If the countries in the Middle East break the barriers and become one, they will create a strategic economic zone with rich resources and important geostrategic value, and an integrated Middle East market may appear in the future. The long-term turmoil in the Middle East has seriously affected world peace and development. If the region stabilizes, it will be an important contribution to promoting world peace. All countries will benefit from the stability of the Middle East, a region of great geopolitical and geo-economic significance.

  However, The New York Times, Britain’s "Middle East Eye" news network and other media believe that the sustainability of reconciliation among countries in the Middle East and the resilience of the process of normalization of relations remain to be seen. The international and regional situations that promote the accelerated reconciliation of countries in the region are prone to change, and there are also uncertainties within countries, so how far reconciliation can go is still unknown. Wang Guangda reminded that it will take time for Middle East countries to form consensus and join forces. For the Middle East, a region with special geostrategic value, the United States and the West will not let go easily, but will probably try to undermine the process of regional reconciliation.

  While countries in the Middle East were carrying out shuttle diplomacy, the US military said that it had carried out air strikes against Iranian-backed militants in eastern Syria on the evening of March 23rd. In the afternoon, a drone suspected to be launched by pro-Iranian militants attacked a local US military facility, causing casualties among US contractors and soldiers. Jalillund, a professor of international relations at Tehran University, said that some regional and international forces do not want security and peace in the Middle East. They are trying their best to create problems between Iran and Arab countries and prevent Syria from returning to the embrace of the Arab world.

Dealing with cultural differences.

  In recent years, more and more China students have gone abroad to study all over the world. Due to the differences in cultural concepts, students sometimes inevitably encounter cultural conflicts. It is undoubtedly a compulsory course for students to enhance mutual understanding and resolve conflicts caused by cultural conflicts.

  Dialectical view of differences 

  Wang Meng is really a junior and is currently studying in the University of Southern Denmark. Her life in the local area is smooth and she gets along well with the local people, but she still feels the cultural differences.

  This semester, Wang Mengzhen exchanged studies in Denmark, with few students from China around, so she often went out for dinner with foreign friends and got to know the local society more quickly. She told the author that in the process of communicating with foreign friends, some of their views were not very agreeable to her, and she would affirm the good views and have reservations about those that she did not agree with. "But I will listen to their logic completely." Wang Mengzhen said.

  Cai Yu, an exchange student at Barnard College of Columbia University, also shared her experiences. "We often regard modesty as a virtue." Cai Yu said, "But Barnard’s class made me realize that being too modest will make me miss many opportunities."

  Cai Yu told the author that studying abroad is very hard, there are a lot of materials to read and papers to write, and the pace of class is very fast. By feeling the atmosphere in the classroom and colliding with the views of local students, Cai Yu learned more about the local culture.

  "Academic seminars are dominated by students, and everyone is never humble. If you have opinions, you can say that the speech speed is very fast." Cai Yu began to slowly adjust her state, speak boldly and keep up with the rhythm of her classmates. I have also gained more opportunities for communication.

  Accommodate different cultures

  How to deal with cultural differences? Overseas students summed up their own methods.

  Wang Mengzhen believes that cultural differences are inevitable. "I didn’t conflict with the locals because of differences in ideas. When I have different understandings, I actively communicate with them, let them understand the cultural factors behind my point of view and strive for their understanding. " 

  Cai Yu believes that everyone should be respected. "I respect your right to speak, but I can disagree with you."

  Wang Mengzhen said that people who understand different views make themselves more tolerant and calm. "I have met all kinds of people and often reflected on myself. I have a better understanding of what kind of person I am and what kind of life I am most suitable for."

  When sharing her experience with American roommates, Cai Yu said: "Everyone is different, but we should respect this difference and seek common ground while reserving differences. For example, my roommate and I are both studying literature, and we also have common topics. We all like music very much, and we will care about each other and think of each other everywhere. When there are differences of opinion, we will stand in the cultural perspective of the other party and understand tolerance as much as possible. "

The 2021 "New Development and New Order" Macroeconomic Forum and Innovation Summit ended successfully.

On November 25th, the 2021 Macroeconomic Forum and Innovation Summit jointly organized by Economic Observer and Jingguan Media was launched in the cloud.

Focusing on the theme of "New Development, New Order", the forum invited policy researchers, economists and entrepreneurs to discuss and share, and jointly take the pulse of China’s economic trend and explore a new development path. On the same day, guests attending the 2021 Macroeconomic and Innovation Summit included: Gao Peiyong, vice president of China Academy of Social Sciences and member of the faculty; Chou Baoxing, academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, former vice minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and chairman of the China Urban Science Research Association; Chen Daofu, deputy director of the Financial Research Institute of the State Council Development Research Center; Bi Jiyao, vice president of China Macroeconomic Research Institute; and Yao Yang, president of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University.

This year is the first year of the 14 th Five-Year Plan, and it is facing the goal of the second century. In this context, China’s economy is moving forward steadily, and the road to high-quality development is more solid, which fully reflects the resilience of China’s economy and China’s enterprises. At the same time, the epidemic has not been effectively controlled worldwide, and the world economic recovery still faces many uncertainties.

Under such circumstances, China’s economy is under pressure. How to stabilize China’s economic recovery, keep the economy running in a reasonable range in the face of the future, and continue to promote green and low-carbon in the recovery to achieve high-quality development, which is an important issue that all sectors of society are most concerned about when we are about to bid farewell to 2021.

At the 2021 Macroeconomic Forum and Innovation Summit, experts and scholars gave the answer that innovation is driven by reform and development is driven by innovation, and thought that innovation and reform are the only way to solve the above problems. What people expect is that, while maintaining the necessary growth rate of China’s economy, monetary and fiscal policies will be more effectively coordinated, macro-policies will be more closely integrated with industrial development, and regional development and industrial layout will provide more open development space for enterprises, and finance will truly serve the entity and stimulate the vitality of generate, the main body of innovation.

Sharing five macroeconomic themes

Wen Zhao, executive editor-in-chief of Economic Observer, said in his speech at the forum: "China has set the’ double carbon target’ of carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and by 2060, which means the reconstruction of the energy system and a major change in production and lifestyle; For enterprises, this is a clear signal that opportunities are everywhere, and the key lies in whether enterprises have the ability to grasp them. "

As a professional financial media, Economic Observer chooses to hold a macroeconomic forum at the end of each year, hoping to build a platform for communication and exchange, and invite authoritative experts and scholars in the fields of economy, finance and industry to discuss the macro trend together with rationality and constructiveness.

Subsequently, the guests delivered keynote speeches one after another.

Gao Peiyong, vice president of China Academy of Social Sciences and member of the academic department, said in his keynote speech that if macroeconomic policies are to be extended to, integrated with and configured around micro-subjects, they should focus on and be based on market subjects. To promote economic and social development, we must base ourselves on the growth of market players and their development. Only by keeping the main players in the market can we keep jobs, jobs and people’s livelihood, thus keeping the basic disk of China’s economic development. At present, there are more than 150 million market players in China, and the role and position of market players have changed greatly. It is under such a background that macro-policy allocation has the driving force of deep integration with micro-foundation.

Chou Baoxing, an academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, former deputy minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and chairman of the China Urban Science Research Association, believes that the dual-carbon strategy actually needs to be promoted by double innovation, because more than 70% of the technologies and policies used in the future are waiting for all our entrepreneurs to create and innovate, and this is also an opportunity for countless large enterprises, new enterprises and high-efficiency enterprises to emerge; To achieve carbon neutrality in China, new investment will be increased, which will exceed 150 trillion yuan in any case, so 150 trillion yuan is much larger than GDP, which means that it is a second opportunity for wealth distribution. Most of these new wealth will be distributed between cities and new enterprises, because wealth is created and investment is invested by enterprises, which is a very good opportunity for wealth creation and distribution for the second time.

Chen Daofu, deputy director of the Financial Research Institute of the State Council Development Research Center, said that when China is talking about building the country through science and technology and how finance can better promote the development of science and technology, it should first promote the development of science and technology itself, so that the achievements of science and technology can be more quality, more pioneering and have potential production potential. Only on this basis can this part of the results be gradually recognized by the industry and presented in this realistic industry. At this time, finance can build a bridge between technology and industry, so that technology and industry can achieve good connectivity.

Bi Jiyao, vice president of China Macroeconomic Research Institute, gave a keynote speech on "The New Environment Faced by China’s Development during the 14th Five-Year Plan". During the 14th Five-Year Plan, China will enter a new stage of development, and its continued development has many advantages and conditions. The fundamentals of long-term economic improvement have not changed. However, at the same time, the problems of unbalanced development and insufficient development are still outstanding. It still needs hard work to maintain stable economic operation and promote high-quality development. First, pay more attention to expanding domestic demand; The second is to deepen the structural reform of the supply side; The third is to accelerate the improvement of independent innovation ability; The fourth is to develop and expand strategic emerging industries; The fifth is to deepen the structural reform of the financial supply side; The sixth is to expand high-level opening up.

Yao Yang, president of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, predicted that in the next 10 to 30 years, the best investment destination in the world will still be China, not other countries. We should not be swayed by these short-term economic downturns, but should see the potential of China’s economic growth in the future. The potential growth of China’s economy itself is probably between 5.5% and 6%. If it can grow by 8.5% this year, it should be a very high growth rate. On average for two years, the growth rate is also around 5.5%.

Four thematic round-table dialogues

On the afternoon of November 25th, Guo Hongchao, deputy editor-in-chief of Economic Observer, said in his speech at the summit that 2021 is the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the macro-economy is gradually weakening. China is accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, and opportunities and challenges coexist. With the official opening of the Beijing Stock Exchange, it shows the decision-makers’ determination to further improve the multi-level capital market and promote innovation-driven development and economic transformation and upgrading. Listed companies are the cornerstone of the development of the capital market and the pillar force of China’s economy.

The summit set up four forums, namely, round-table dialogues, with four themes, namely, "Finance helps the real economy", "The road to high-quality development of listed companies", "Sustainable development and upgrading" and "Innovation promotes urban upgrading", respectively, to discuss how finance can help the development of the real economy, increase support for the real economy and prevent risks in the financial system. Hot economic topics such as the development of listed companies, promoting the realization of "double carbon" goals, and urban innovation and development.

In the section of "Finance Helps the Real Economy", Professor Wang Jian, vice president of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Finance and former senior economist of the Federal Reserve, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Financial Opening and Financial Technology Opportunities".

In the subsequent round-table dialogue session on "Finance Helps the Real Economy", chaired by Chen Jingwei, deputy director of the Investment and Financing Research Center of the Institute of Finance of the Academy of Social Sciences of China and executive researcher of the Institute of Finance of China Academy of Social Sciences, Zhang Fei, head of Standard Chartered Venture Capital in Greater China and North Asia, John Zhang, Party Secretary and Vice President of Changan International Trust Co., Ltd., He Beina, President of Shanghai Chunxin Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd., Yuan Yuming, CEO of Huolian Technology Co., Ltd., and Li Dazhi, Executive Vice President of Beijing Fuguo Datong Fund Sales Co., Ltd. were invited to discuss how finance can help the development of the real economy, increase support for entities and prevent financial system risks.

At the same time, the parallel forum focused on the topic of "the road to high-quality development of capital market", which was presided over by yu zhang, assistant director and chief macro analyst of Huachuang Securities Research Institute. Join hands with Chen Zhi, deputy general manager and executive director of Yuanchen Technology, Zhou Hongjun, deputy general manager and secretary of the board of directors of Zhendong Pharmaceutical, Li Jia, chief financial officer of Rongchang Bio, Chairman of China-Israel Hyde, Chairman of Dongfang Gaosheng, Chairman of Dongfang Lue, economist, venture capital expert, founder of incremental origin, president of incremental research institute and founder of incremental capital. In-depth discussions were carried out on exploring the road of innovation-driven high-quality development, how listed companies can play a good role in the overall strategy of economic and industrial upgrading, and how environmentally-friendly listed companies can seize development opportunities under the dual-carbon goal. Companies with outstanding performance in the capital market in the past year were honored from two main aspects: scientific and technological innovation and investment value.

Subsequently, the round-table forum with the two themes of "sustainable development and upgrading" and "innovation promoting urban upgrading" was opened at the same time.

Among them, the "Sustainable Development and Upgrading" roundtable forum was hosted by Ge Xing ‘an, vice chairman of the Social Value Investment Alliance and former president of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the chief consulting officer of Menglang Technology Company. Zhao Junhua, Director of Energy Market and Energy Finance Laboratory of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Finance, Zhao Yonggang, General Manager of Research and Development Department of CSI Index Co., Ltd., General Manager of ESG Business Department, Zhang Hui, Managing Director of Huaxing Capital, Li Zhenxing, Executive Director of southern fund Equity Investment Department, and Ma Linqing, Managing Partner of Wuniu Holdings, participated in the discussion to discuss issues such as promoting the realization of the goal of "double carbon", promoting green development, seizing the opportunity of carbon neutrality, and sustainable development promoted by ESG investment. In addition, the round-table dialogue on "Innovation Promotes Urban Upgrading" was hosted by Hao Ju, President of Ruixin Consulting and Dean of Ruiguan Research Institute; Liang Ma, a researcher at the National Institute of Development and Strategy of Renmin University of China and a professor at the School of Public Administration; Peng Kong, director of the Research Center for Sustainable Settlements of the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University; and Zhang Qiqi, general manager of 51WORLD Urban and Transportation BG, participated in the round-table discussion, and discussed in depth the driving force of urban future upgrading and development, the boosting force of science and technology and innovation to cities, the content and direction of urban industrial upgrading.

Successfully held the ten-year ceremony of outstanding financial enterprises

After the guests’ wonderful speeches, the 2020-2021 Ten-year Festival of Outstanding Financial Enterprises and the awarding ceremony officially landed.

China’s economy is moving forward steadily, and the road to high-quality development is more solid. As an important part of China’s economy, the financial industry will face brand-new changes and challenges. Financial institutions need to improve their governance structure system to achieve all-round improvement in business scale, operating efficiency and service quality.

The Financial Enterprise Excellence Festival was initiated and hosted by Economic Observer. Since its establishment in 2012, it has been successfully held for the tenth time, and it has become a large-scale financial industry-wide selection activity in China with authority, professionalism, public welfare, innovation and sustainability.

Through the evaluation and investigation of professional institutions, industry experts and data statistics institutions, the evaluation criteria are taken from enterprise services, profitability, innovation ability, risk control ability and social responsibility, so as to excavate more outstanding enterprises and potential financial institutions for China’s financial field and commend institutions and brands that made outstanding contributions to the promotion and development of the industry in that year.

After several months’ evaluation and investigation, this year’s Excellent Financial Enterprise Festival selected institutions and brands that made positive contributions to the development of the financial industry in the fields of banking, insurance, funds, trusts, securities, wealth management, futures, third-party financial institutions, financial leasing and so on in 2020-2021. Through the integrated communication of Economic Observer, the participating enterprises can get more accurate market positioning in the financial market, enhance their corporate image and brand awareness, and promote the steady development of the financial industry.

The 7th Annual Financial Conference in 2021 was announced.

Grasping the new development stage, implementing the new development concept, building a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development-looking forward to a large number of market players in the future in 2021 is one of the unique advantages of China’s economic development, and "activating the vitality of market players" will become the key to China’s economic "14 th Five-Year Plan". At the same time, in the era of scientific and technological change, hard core technology will become an important strategic support to promote the high-quality development of China’s economy and ensure national security. We also expect that, while maintaining the necessary growth rate, all walks of life will also have a broader space for development, and finance will truly serve the entity and stimulate the vitality of generate, the main body of innovation.

At present, China is just like a huge ship sailing in the vast sea of the new era, and the magnificent journey needs the power of navigation.

In this context, the Seventh Annual Financial Conference in 2021 was grandly opened, and the honor of "Pilot Enterprise of the Year" was announced. In the future, these financial institutions in various fields will promote financial development in a healthy and orderly manner and drive economic development.

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From the chart below, we can see the sales trend of Toyota Corolla. Toyota Corolla sold 10,261 vehicles in the past month. Although sales volume does not represent everything, sales volume has indeed become one of the measures for consumers to choose a car. A high-sales car means that it is suitable for most consumers, and it also has relatively complete after-sales services. The natural turnover rate of auto parts will also be higher.

With the improvement of consumption level, the frequency of consumers changing cars is generally increasing in recent years, especially the share of the used car market is also increasing year by year. Now the vast majority of capable consumers will not drive a car to scrap. So the value preservation rate is not only related to your sales rate, but also reflects the quality of the car, market share, user reputation, etc., and is also closely related to maintenance costs. The figure below shows the value preservation rate of the Toyota Corolla. Is it within your acceptable range?

Let’s take a look at consumers’ evaluation of the Toyota Corolla. If the overall score is 5 points, then the Toyota Corolla’s score is 4.48 points, which is not bad.
Among them, the Toyota Corolla is the most outstanding in terms of appearance and cost performance, so consumers pay more attention to appearance and cost performance.
Then the Toyota Corolla can be considered.
Because each user has different needs for the car, different uses, and different feelings, the evaluation is only for reference. The most reliable thing is to go to the store to test the car in person. Even if you can’t go on the road for a test drive, you have to sit in the car more and feel it.

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The public online shopping for 6 pure camellia oils found that they were all "adulterated"

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Deep and fierce investigation

Text/photo reporter Song Wangqun

Camellia oil, also known as camellia seed oil, is commonly called "Yuezi oil" by citizens. With the implementation of the "two-child" policy, camellia oil is becoming more and more popular. However, the reporter’s investigation found that the quality of camellia oil currently on sale in the market is mixed, and even some brands still have "adulteration" behavior. A citizen of Shenzhen recently bought six pure camellia oils and sent them to Shenzhen Institute of Metrology and Quality Inspection for inspection. The inspection results showed that none of the six pure camellia oils met the national standards. The person in charge of Shenzhen Consumers Association said that related products are suspected of false propaganda, and consumers can ask for ten times compensation.

Customer complaint: online shopping for camellia oil actually detected "adulteration"

Mr. Zheng is in charge of purchasing in a company in Shenzhen. "The Spring Festival is approaching. According to the company’s arrangement, he bought a batch of camellia oil through the Tmall flagship store of six brands of camellia oil and gave it to the company’s customers." Mr. Zheng said, "The six brands of camellia oil are all 5L specifications, and the price ranges from more than 200 yuan to more than 600 yuan per bottle. The sellers all claim that their products are pure camellia oil, and the quality grade is the first grade. You can buy them without adding any other edible oil ingredients."

"But some familiar customers told me that the camellia oil received was not pure enough and had no natural fragrance of camellia oil." Mr. Zheng said, "The camellia oil I purchased is purchased through Tmall flagship store, unless there is something wrong with the product itself." In order to find out, Mr. Zheng sent one of the camellia oils to a testing institution for testing.

"The test results surprised us. Other vegetable oils were detected, which did not meet the national standards. It was not pure camellia oil. Isn’t this adulteration?" Mr. Zheng said.

Recently, the reporter checked the Taobao Tmall purchase records and invoices of Mr. Zheng’s purchase of camellia oil, as well as the unopened camellia oil products. In the column of quality grade, all six products are marked as "first class", "international first class" or "squeezing first class", the product standard number is "GB11765", and the ingredients are "camellia seed oil".

According to the national standard GB11765 issued by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, all products marked with "Camellia oleifera seed oil" should meet the standard, which requires that "Camellia oleifera seed oil should not be mixed with other edible oils and non-edible oils, and should not be added with any flavors and fragrances".

On the afternoon of January 8, the reporter accompanied Mr. Zheng to send six kinds of camellia oil to Longhua experimental base of Shenzhen Institute of Metrology and Quality Inspection for inspection. On January 17th, the inspection report was released. The inspection report showed that none of the "Rapeseed Oil Purity Test" of six brands of camellia oil met the requirements of the first-class standard for crushing, and other vegetable oils existed in the measured values (see the above figure). In addition, two of the camellia oils are not up to standard in terms of refractive index, iodine value, oleic acid and linoleic acid.

Insiders: The cost per catty is about 80 yuan.

On January 22 nd and 23 rd, the reporter called six camellia oil manufacturers to verify the situation. Among them, the service calls of three manufacturers were not answered. The manufacturer of Jinx responded that all the products submitted by the company were up to standard, and said that the same batch of products submitted by Mr. Zheng had been sampled for inspection. A person in charge of X township factory who claimed to be Vice President Zhou said that the report submitted by consumers for inspection has no legal effect. The manufacturer of Green X responded to the reporter that the company sent tea oil for inspection many times, all of which met the national standards.

Zhang Gong, who has been engaged in the camellia oil industry for more than ten years, said that at present, the price of purchasing a kilo of camellia oil by the people is generally around 80 yuan, and the weight of a 5L bottle of camellia oil is 9-10 kilos. The most expensive camellia oil purchased by Mr. Zheng is more than 600 yuan, and the average price is only more than 60 yuan a kilo, which is far lower than the private purchase price.

Zhang Gong said that if the mixed ingredients are controlled within 10%, it is basically difficult to detect. If even the indexes such as refractive index, iodine value, oleic acid and linoleic acid are not up to standard, it can only show that more other edible oil ingredients are mixed.

Shenzhen Consumers Association: Related manufacturers are suspected of false propaganda.

On January 23rd, the reporter reported the situation to Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision Administration and Shenzhen Consumers Association. According to the Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision Administration, since it is an online shopping product, consumers should report it to the industrial and commercial administration department where the product trademark is located.

The Shenzhen Consumers Association said, "The product is advertised as 100% pure tea oil, but the result of the consumer’s inspection is that it is mixed with other edible oil, which is suspected of false propaganda. According to the rule of’ one fake and ten penalties’, consumers can ask for 10 times compensation, and the market supervision department will investigate it." The staff of Shenzhen Consumers Association said that the laws and regulations on online shopping supervision are still not perfect, and it is difficult for consumers to protect their rights. At present, Mr. Zheng can only complain to the industrial and commercial departments where the trademarks of the purchased products are located.

"Avenue of the Country": the "most beautiful" self-driving route of China G219.

National Highway 219 is a world-class scenic avenue, which starts from Kanas in Xinjiang in the north and ends in Dongxing in Guangxi in the south, with a total length of 10065 kilometers. It is the longest national highway in China at present. Along the way, it passes through snow-capped mountains, glaciers, alpine canyons, rivers and lakes, grassland forests, and finally goes to the sea. The rich landscape and rich folk customs are amazing, covering the border areas of Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan and Guangxi. It is the main artery connecting China’s western border, and is called "the road of the country" by go on road trip lovers.

G219 line is divided into old national highway 219 line and new national highway 219 line. The old national highway No.219, the new Tibet highway, starts from Yecheng County in Kashgar, Xinjiang in the north and reaches the 2140-kilometer stone tablet in Lazi County, Shigatse City, Tibet in the south, where it meets the Sino-Nepalese highway section of National Highway No.318, also known as Yela Highway. Kashgar, Hotan, Ali and Shigatse are the main transportation routes connecting Xizang and Xinjiang, and it is also the highest highway in the world, with an average elevation of more than 5,000 meters. It was opened to traffic on October 6, 1957, and has been extended and renovated for many times, with a total length of 2,140 kilometers. It is the third highway to enter Xizang after Sichuan-Tibet Highway and Qinghai-Tibet Highway. The new G219, also known as Kadong Line, was issued by the Ministry of Transport on March 5, 2018. The northern end of the original G219 was extended to Kanas in northern Xinjiang, and the southern end was rerouted to dongxing city in Guangxi. The whole highway passed through Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. The new G219 is 10065km long, which is twice as long as the National Highway 318 (5476km) and the longest national highway in China at present. This national highway not only has the landscape elements such as snow-capped mountains, grasslands, no man’s land, Yadan landform, tropical rain forest and sea, but also becomes an important border defense line in China.

G219, as the longest world-class landscape avenue in China with rich landscapes and rich folk customs along the way, is the highest highway in the world, the main artery connecting China’s western border and the land-sea Silk Road. It travels through different cultural areas in China, and along this way, you can enjoy five peaks, 16 icebergs and 44 glaciers with an altitude of over 8,000 meters … across snow-capped mountains, grasslands, deserts, Gobi, lakes, canyons and plateaus.

Go on road trip G219 starts from Kanas, Xinjiang in the north, passes through Ili along the snowy grassland, passes through the no-man’s land of Ali, Xizang, goes south along Bingchacha and Tengchong in Yunnan, reaches Pingxiang, the border city of Guangxi, and finally reaches Dongxing, where it meets the endless sea. Walking along this world-class landscape avenue, almost all the desirable landscapes are located here.

On December 5, 2020, under the guidance of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the cultural and tourism administrative departments of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xizang Autonomous Region, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province jointly established the China G219 Tourism Promotion Alliance in Nanning. The establishment of the alliance conforms to the general trend of China’s tourism development, aims at promoting development through tourism, prospering the border and enriching the people, enhancing consensus, sharing experiences and deepening cooperation, and promoting the sustainable and prosperous development of tourism along G219. Since its establishment, the Alliance has organized theme promotion activities in Guangxi and Xinjiang successively. On March 16th this year, Yunnan Province, as a rotating province, will host a promotion activity in Nujiang, Yunnan Province, and organize a team of over 100 people from all over the country to experience the beautiful highway of Nujiang, Yunnan Province, National Highway 219, and feel the unique charm of the national road.

Xinjiang section of National Highway 219

The Xinjiang section of National Highway 219 is 3,216 kilometers long, passing through 8 prefectures and 7 cities in the western border of Xinjiang. It can radiate to 10 5A-level scenic spots and 25 4A-level scenic spots along the way, with beautiful scenery, all-encompassing natural landscape types and colorful humanities and history. Along the way, it includes unique natural landscapes such as snow-capped mountains, alpine meadows, grasslands, wetlands, lakes, glaciers, Gobi, deserts, etc. At the same time, it is also a great penetration from nomadic culture to oasis civilization, which combines the most typical frontier characteristics, natural geography and national customs of Xinjiang and has multiple attributes. In recent years, the strategy of rejuvenating Xinjiang through tourism has been implemented in depth, and the tourism market in Xinjiang has continued to be hot. The Xinjiang section of National Highway 219 has become the "online celebrity Highway" for national tourists to punch in.

Recommended Route 1 of Xinjiang Section of National Highway 219: Red go on road trip at Border Post.

Enter the northwest of the motherland and feel the beauty of the border; Follow the footprints of stationing troops and guarding the border, and pay tribute to the motherland in the northwest. Feel the simple patriotic feelings, visit the beautiful scenery at the port and Baymuzha, reminisce about the story of Xiaobaiyang Post, visit Sun Longzhen Martyrs Memorial Hall, and feel the frontier spirit represented by the spirit of "rooting in frontier defense and flourishing".

Red go on road trip route of border post: Urumqi-Wuerhe ghost city-Rainbow Beach Scenic Area-Burqin County-Baishahu Scenic Area of the 10th Division-185th Regiment of the First Company in Northwest China-Burqin County-Jimunai Port of the 186th Regiment of the 10th Division-165th Regiment of the 9th Division-Baymuzha Scenic Area-Xiaobaiyang Post of the 161st Regiment of the 9th Division, Sun Longzhen Martyrs Memorial Hall-Urumqi.

Recommended Route 2 of Xinjiang Section of National Highway 219: Red Tour in Southern Xinjiang

There is a natural barrier that runs through the northern and southern Xinjiang, and a memorial hall for the reclamation of the 359 brigade that feels the glorious tradition … Driving along the red army reclamation line of the Silk Road, you can feel the frontier scenery, remember the history of the Corps, carry forward the spirit of the Corps, and eulogize the cause of reclamation and frontier defense.

Southern Xinjiang Red Tour Route: Urumqi-Korla-Malan Hongshan Military Expo Park-tiemenguan-Daxi Village-Luobu Village-Luntai Western Duhufu Cultural Town-Kuqa-Aksu Monument to the People’s Heroes-Aksu Museum-First Division Aral 359 Brigade Reclamation Memorial Hall-Chinese People’s Liberation Army March into Hotan Monument.

National Highway 219 Xizang Section

Driving in the Xizang section of National Highway 219 is like walking in the clouds, with an average elevation of about 5,000 meters. The familiar landscapes such as Bangong Lake, Guge Dynasty, Mount Everest, Mabian Yongcuo, Gangrinboqi and Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon are all located here.

National Highway 219 is a road into Tibet paved in the air, crossing several hundreds of kilometers of no-man’s land, and the laying conditions are daunting. From "Extreme Ali" to "Zangyuan Shannan", from "Peak Dream" Shigatse to "Snowy Jiangnan" Linzhi, from the stars to the sea, from the mountains to the rivers, there are snow peaks and glaciers, winding streams and beautiful lakes.

Recommended Route 1 of Xizang Section of National Highway 219: Bingchacha Cross-sectional Imagination Road

When G219 meets G214, but Wujiao meets G318;; When the Nujiang River flows parallel to the Lancang River in a narrow place, when Bingcha agrees to Shangri-La, a new Yunnan-Tibet tourism ring line of G219 with "three G tours and three rivers flowing parallel" will be built.

The whole journey is about 1465km: Bingzhongluo (Yunnan)-—G219 National Road-Songta Village (the first village in Tibet)-ChaHuaron-Chayu County-—G559—-Ranwu-Basu-—G214—-Zuogong-Mangkang-Quzika-Deqin (Yunnan)-Shangri-La-Diqing Shangri-La Airport (flying).

Recommended Route 2 of Xizang Section of National Highway 219: Feel the dream trip of the plateau peak.

When G219 meets the highest mountain in the world, G318 holds G219 hand in hand, and the extreme border of the motherland experiences "8" and "9" without "10". I met in Lhasa and walked hand in hand into the hometown of Mount Everest. The snowy peaks are endless, the glaciers are numerous, the streams are winding, and the lakes are hidden. It is only owned by Mount Everest. This is the ultimate journey of "peak dreams and Tibetan border conventions".

The whole journey is about 1850km: Lhasa-Langkazi County-Gyangze-—G219—-Kangma County-Yadong County-Gamba County-Dingjie County-Dingri County-Mount Everest-Nyemora-Lazi-Shigatse City-Lhasa-Gongga Airport (flying).

Recommended Route 3 of Xizang Section of National Highway 219: Tour Link of Tianhu.

When G219 meets the snow-covered "Holy Lake", meets the snow-capped mountains, meets the "Holy Lake", and faces the human history, "take measures again". Encountering glaciers, snow-capped mountains, lakes and historical sites is a "trip to Tianhu" tour loop of "crossing three cities, crossing the holy lake and seeing yourself".

The whole journey is about 2200km: Lhasa-Langkazi County-—G219—-Luozha County-Kangma County-Gamba County-Dingjie County-Dingri County-Jilong County-Saga County-Zhongba County-Gaer County-Ali Kunsha Airport (flying).

Yunnan section of National Highway 219

Enter Bingzhongluo, Yunnan along Bingchacha Highway from National Highway 219, bid farewell to Xizang in the clouds and enter Yunnan in the south of colorful clouds. Here, there are Bingchacha and the mysterious Bingzhongluo, and the southwest monsoon swings in the season of Nujiang Grand Canyon. When I came to the First Bay of Nujiang River and Wuli Village not far away, the dense water vapor refracted the sun, making every corner seem to be full of "fairy spirit". The Yunnan section of National Highway 219 also connects Tengchong, which has the reputation of "the first city on the extreme edge", Lincang, a place where Wa cultures gather in China, Pu ‘er, Xishuangbanna, an emerald on the crown of plants, Honghe and Wenshan, so that tourists can enter Yunnan with spring-like seasons from the deep scenery of ice and snow and canyons.

219国道云南段推荐线路一:高黎贡山秘境之旅

怒江傈僳族自治州境内居住着傈僳族、怒族、普米族、独龙族等21个少数民族,也是我国生物多样性、文化多元性较富集的一个地方,被称为“世界物种基因库”“天然地质博物馆”“一部活的社会发展史”和“民族歌舞的海洋”。在漫长的历史发展中,各少数民族世代繁衍生息,共同耕耘劳作,用自己的血汗和智慧谱写了光辉灿烂的文化篇章,创造了丰富多彩的民族文化。怒江州是因为怒江由北向南纵贯全境而得名。怒江最佳旅游时间在每年的10月至次年4月。219国道横穿怒江州境内的泸水、福贡、贡山、丙中洛。

219国道云南段推荐线路二:保山温泉火山体验之旅

219国道从秘境怒江进入“极边第一城”的保山腾冲市。腾冲市位于云南省保山市西南部,西部与缅甸毗邻,从腾冲到克钦邦首府密支那217公里,是云南到缅甸、印度、泰国的必经地之一。腾冲在西汉时称滇越,大理国中期设腾冲府。由于地理位置重要,历代都派重兵驻守,明代还建造了石头城,称之为“极边第一城”。这里的温泉、火山、雨林与独特的边地汉文化给自驾旅行带来独特体验。219国道在保山市境内途径腾冲滇滩、明光、固东和龙陵县。

Recommended Route 3 of Yunnan Section of National Highway 219: A Tour of Primitive Tribes in Lincang Wa Township

Lincang is an ancient, mysterious and beautiful land, where 23 ethnic minorities have thrived for generations. This is the gathering place of Wa culture in China, and it is also the "eternal spring capital" with pleasant climate all year round. There is a graceful song between the lush mountains and the flowing water. Wild fruits in the mountains and fungi after the rain are natural gifts. Humanity and art achieve each other, and man and nature live in harmony, which creates the mysterious and unique beauty of Lincang. National Highway 219 will pass through three counties here: Yongde, Zhenkang and Cangyuan.

Guangxi section of National Highway 219

The section of National Highway 219 in Guangxi has a total length of 704.2 kilometers, which belongs to the border area between China and Vietnam, involving 3 cities and 8 counties on the border, with rich and unique tourism resources. G219 Guangxi section begins in dongxing city, Fangchenggang, and ends in Napo, Baise, running through the charming scenery of Guangxi’s secret land. Driving through rivers, seas and mountains, a landscape scroll stretching for more than 700 kilometers slowly extends under the wheels. All the way along the mountain and around the water, it sets off the humanities, history and scenery on both sides along the way and carries the memories from the depths of time. It is like a ribbon floating from the Beibu Gulf to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, floating on the mountains and hills. This road is full of poetry and fairyland of Guangxi’s mountains and rivers, and it is also full of pictures of time and customs.

Recommended route 1 of Guangxi section of National Highway 219: Passing through Hena Expressway between landscape galleries, the charming scenery is like a fairyland.

The British "Mirror" once described it like this: "This is the most beautiful road in the world, and the charming scenery means that this may be the road to heaven." This is the Hena Expressway in Guangxi, with a total length of 503 kilometers, which consists of highway sections from Hepu to Qinzhou (142 kilometers), Qinzhou to Chongzuo (129 kilometers), Chongzuo to Jingxi (147 kilometers) and Jingxi to Napo (85 kilometers).

Self-driving route of Hena Expressway: Heiyizhuang Village in Tunlitun, Napo, Baise (the "living fossil" of Zhuang culture)-Jingxi Goose Spring (one of the three famous springs in southwest China)-Jiuzhou Ancient Town (the hometown of Chinese hydrangea)-Tongling Grand Canyon (the waterfall with the largest single-stage drop in Asia)-Detian transnational waterfall in Chongzuo (the largest transnational waterfall in Asia)-Daxin Mingshi Garden (the location of TV series Hua Qiangu)

Recommended Route 2 of Guangxi Section of National Highway 219: Self-driving Chongzuo "Drunk and Beautiful Border Customs Road" to enjoy the mystery and beauty of the border.

In Guangxi, there is a short-distance tourist scenic avenue, which covers almost all the beautiful scenery in nature. Mountains, rivers, rainforests, villages and cultural customs can be found on this line. This is the first-class tourist scenic avenue in Chongzuo, which is one of the routes that self-driving enthusiasts have to go. It has a total length of 84.17 kilometers, connecting Daxin, Longzhou and Ningming counties in Chongzuo, and a line runs through the landmark scenic spots of Chongzuo, such as Detian transnational waterfall scenic spot, Mingshi pastoral scenic spot and Zuojiang Huashan rock painting cultural landscape, and is known as "drunken beauty border customs road".

Self-driving route of the first-class tourist avenue in Chongzuo: Detian Transnational Waterfall in Chongzuo (national 5A-level tourist scenic spot, the largest transnational waterfall in Asia)-Mingshi pastoral scenic spot (location of TV series Hua Qiangu)-Huashan rock painting landscape in Zuojiang (rock painting world cultural heritage)-Nonggang National Nature Reserve (a scenic spot for birdwatchers).

Mila Tang Jian: Building ChatGPT in the field of life science and developing drugs with generative artificial intelligence.

"I have always been interested in biology. When I was in high school, my teacher told us that the 21st century was the century of biology. When I studied artificial intelligence, I believed that the 21st century was the century of artificial intelligence."

During the scientific lecture "Understanding the Future" hosted by the Future Forum, Tang Jian, an associate professor at the Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Quebec, Canada (Mila) and a professor of artificial intelligence at the Canadian Institute of Advanced Studies (CIFAR), introduced the application of generative artificial intelligence in life sciences: how to build a "ChatGPT" in life sciences. He said, "Later, I felt that it might be the best choice if I could do something in the field where artificial intelligence and biology intersect."

Today, he is not only studying AI and biology at the same time, but also "left-handed scientific research and right-handed entrepreneurship". He said that he is a person who is willing to accept new things and challenges. From scientific research to entrepreneurship, many things are different, and it is difficult to carry out interdisciplinary cooperation, but this also reflects the value of doing these things.

Figure | Tang Jian (Tang Jian’s personal homepage)

According to reports, Tang Jian University studied geography at the beginning, transferred to the Department of Mathematics in his sophomore year, and successfully applied to the Department of Computer Science in his senior year. In his computer learning career, he first studied traditional machine learning, and in the last year of his doctoral degree, he turned to deep learning.

After graduating from the doctor’s degree, he officially embarked on the road of scientific research and made many achievements in the field of graphic representation learning. As one of the representative scholars in this field, his network representation learning method LINE (large-scale information network embedding) has been widely used, with more than 5,000 references.

"The double revolution of artificial intelligence and biotechnology broke out, and we are in the best era of doing research."

In 2018,Tang JianStart the research on the intersection of artificial intelligence and biology. At that time, he applied the graph representation learning technology to the research in the field of drug discovery, and did a lot of work in the prediction of three-dimensional structure of small molecules and the design of macromolecular proteins.

But a few years ago, only a few people devoted themselves to the research in this direction. In the past two years, more and more investment has been injected into this field. Tang Jian believes that the reason for this change is that artificial intelligence has brought great breakthroughs to the structural prediction and biological field in protein, and the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic has also aroused people’s focus on health and biomedicine.

"Now we are in the best era, because we are experiencing the dual technological revolution of artificial intelligence and biotechnology." Tang Jian said, "Therefore, we have seen great opportunities for generative artificial intelligence in the field of drug discovery, especially protein design."

Based on his accumulation in scientific research, he devoted himself to entrepreneurship and set up the artificial intelligence-driven biopharmaceutical company Baiao Geometry in 2022.

Build an AI macromolecular drug design platform to provide innovative drugs to save patients’ lives.

existTang JianIt seems that perhaps it is the entrepreneurial idea that has sprouted since childhood and the character of constantly seeking self-breakthrough that drives him to embark on the road of entrepreneurship.

The Baiao Geometry Company, founded by him, aims to develop a programmable protein by integrating the technologies of generative artificial intelligence and geometric deep learning, so as to overcome the problems of long cycle, high cost and low success rate of traditional macromolecular pharmacy and provide innovative drugs to save patients’ lives.

Tang Jian is mainly responsible for technical work in this company, and designs antibodies by building artificial intelligence models. As a new diffusion generation model, this model can model the amino acid sequence and three-dimensional structure of protein at the same time, and show the relationship between them, so as to generate protein with specific functions.

At present, the team has set up an AI macromolecular drug design platform, and is building a wet experiment verification platform for Qualcomm macromolecular drugs. At the same time, it also launched TorchProtein, an open source machine learning platform for macromolecules, in conjunction with companies such as NVIDIA, Intel and IBM.

"I hope that the technology I have made can really push several drugs into the clinic, solve more complicated diseases like cancer and save patients’ lives." Tang Jian said. In addition, he also said that with the development trend of intelligence, digitalization and automation in the biomedical field becoming inevitable, he expected to become a world-famous and international high-tech company in this field.

Based on generative artificial intelligence, build "ChatGPT" in life science field

In addition to starting a business, Tang Jian’s scientific research work at hand is also being carried out simultaneously. Based on generative artificial intelligence, he and his team have carried out research on three-dimensional structure prediction of small molecules and protein design of large molecules in the field of biomedicine.

In the prediction of the three-dimensional structure of small molecules, the team mainly modeled them based on the diffusion generation model. Specifically, a completely random structure is taken as the initial structure, and after several rounds of optimization, it finally converges to a stable protein structure. Each step of the optimization process is also called denoising. In addition, on the basis of expanding the research, the prediction of the complex structure was realized.

In the design of macromolecular proteins, the team proposed to design protein structure and sequence based on diffusion generation model, which not only realized the generation of antibody CDR Loop structure and sequence, but also designed α -helix transmembrane proteins with a specified number.

Not only that, the team also conducted research on antibody design and optimization. For example, it cooperated with the research team from Fudan University. Based on the antibody CR3022 obtained from newly crowned patients, it first designed the sequence with AI model, and then tested it on the wet experimental platform of Qualcomm, and finally successfully found the antibody molecule with strong affinity.

For generative artificial intelligence, its most critical ability is that it can generate new data. Then, if it is used in the biomedical field, it can help to generate a brand-new protein and help people find better drugs.

As a typical generative artificial intelligence model, ChatGPT has spread all over the world since it was introduced at the end of 2022. It can talk and communicate like a human being, and complete tasks such as writing papers and coding. "It is essentially a chat robot." Tang Jian said. As a large-scale pre-training language model, ChatGPT first pre-trains a large number of text and code data on the Internet, and then further optimizes it to enable it to be used for tasks such as dialogue.

The development of biotechnology, such as gene sequencing and gene synthesis, has brought a lot of data to the biomedical field. Therefore, Tang Jian believes that in the near future, people can also use these data to build ChatGPT in the field of life sciences.

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  Author: Huang Kun, Deputy Director and Professor of Chinese Modernization Research Center of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration)

  On July 26th, 2022, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized at the seminar for leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels on "Learning the spirit of the important speech of General Secretary of the Supreme Leader and Meeting the 20th Party Congress" that "the modernization we are advancing is the socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and we must persist in promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization", and clearly pointed out the socialist nature of Chinese modernization. Scientific understanding and grasping the socialist nature of Chinese-style modernization is of great significance to deeply understand Chinese-style modernization and ensure its stability and far-reaching development.

  Adhering to Chinese modernization to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has made it clear that only socialism can save China and only socialism can develop China.

  Exploring the road of national rejuvenation has started since the Chinese nation faced the invasion of western powers in modern times, which is manifested in the hard exploration of utensils, systems and ideas in order to save the weak China. Due to class attributes and historical limitations, these explorations ended in failure. The real opening of the road to national rejuvenation began with the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the struggle for national independence and people’s liberation. Since its birth, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has devoted himself to the prosperity of the country, the happiness of the people and the rejuvenation of the nation. The dream of rejuvenation and modernization runs through the whole century of party history and has become the biggest theme of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s century-long struggle.

  During the period of the new-democratic revolution, the Communist Party of China (CPC) fought for national independence and people’s liberation through arduous armed struggle, united and led the people of the whole country to overthrow the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, and established a new China, which created fundamental social conditions for realizing Chinese modernization and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. During the period of socialist revolution and construction, the party led the people to overcome a series of severe challenges in politics, economy and military affairs, successfully completed socialist transformation, realized the transformation from new democracy to socialism, established a brand-new socialist system with strong vitality on the ancient land of China, and laid a fundamental political premise and institutional foundation for realizing Chinese modernization and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In the new era of reform, opening-up and socialist modernization, the Party United and led the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, made a historic decision to shift the work center of the Party and the state to economic construction and carry out reform and opening-up, successfully created Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and provided new and energetic institutional guarantee and rapid development material conditions for realizing Chinese modernization and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. With great historical initiative, great political courage and strong responsibility, our party has provided a more perfect institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation and a more active spiritual force for realizing Chinese modernization and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has shown unprecedented bright prospects.

  It is through the unremitting struggle and exploration in the past century that we have found the correct way to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, that is, the road of modernization in Socialism with Chinese characteristics and China. "Promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization" is an important experience for the success of our cause. In essence, Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization, the concretization of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s development path and the realistic path of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Chinese-style modernization, like Socialism with Chinese characteristics, is the inevitable result of the historical logic, theoretical logic and practical logic of China people’s long-term struggle in modern times, which has a profound historical origin and a broad realistic foundation. Historical facts show that the closed and rigid old road is a dead end, and the evil road of changing the flag is a dead end. Only the Socialism with Chinese characteristics road and the Chinese modernization road are the new road, the right road and the main road to develop and strengthen China and prosper and stabilize China. Only socialism can save China and only socialism can develop China. Socialism with Chinese characteristics and Chinese modernization not only point out the direction for realizing the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation, but also provide the fundamental guarantee for realizing the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation. The great practice of modernization in Socialism with Chinese characteristics and China has not only enabled our country to develop rapidly, improved the living standards of our people, and enabled the Chinese nation to catch up with the trend of the times and usher in the bright future of great rejuvenation, but also enabled the people of China and the Chinese nation to make great contributions to world peace and development. As it turns out,To build a powerful socialist modernization country in an all-round way and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must unswervingly adhere to and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics and Chinese modernization.

  Adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and clarify the essential characteristics and fundamental guarantee of Chinese modernization.

  The party’s leadership is the root and lifeline of the party and the country, and it is the interest and destiny of the people of all ethnic groups in the country. The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership is the most essential feature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it is also the most essential feature of Chinese modernization. Adhering to the party’s leadership over Chinese modernization is fundamentally related to the future and destiny of Chinese modernization and the fundamental guarantee for Chinese modernization to adhere to the socialist direction.

  Chinese-style modernization is a modernization with a specific development process, stages and social attributes, which is different from both western developed countries and other developing countries. Its task is more arduous, its course is more complicated and its nature is more special. From the development process, Chinese modernization is a "parallel" modernization. Different from the "series" modernization development process in western developed countries, industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization and informatization develop in sequence, while China’s modernization is the "parallel" superposition development of industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, with multiple modernization processes developing in coordination and multiple modernization goals being realized simultaneously. From the development stage, Chinese modernization is catch-up modernization. As a developing country, China’s modernization was launched only after the success of modernization in developed countries. The problems it encountered were very different from the international environment, and even faced with the obstruction and containment of developed countries. The tasks it faced were more arduous and special, and the development environment was more complicated and uncertain. In particular, the world today is experiencing a great change that has never happened in a hundred years. China’s socialist modernization is facing a more severe domestic and international situation, and the risks and challenges are obviously increasing. From the perspective of social attributes, Chinese modernization is socialist modernization. The nature of socialism is the most remarkable and fundamental social attribute that China’s modernization is different from the western modernization.China’s socialist modernization can’t follow the modernization road of western developed countries’ internal oppression and exploitation, foreign aggression and plunder, and create an unequal international political and economic order. Instead, it puts more emphasis on the people-centered development thought and the international relations concept of the community of human destiny, and embarks on a socialist modernization road with China characteristics.

  The essential requirements of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the unique and arduous modernization of China make it particularly important to uphold the leadership of the Party. We must uphold and strengthen the Party’s overall leadership, lead the way for China’s modernization, create a stable and United political situation, maintain the stability and continuity of the country’s major policies, mobilize the people’s enthusiasm and creativity in participating in national construction and governance, and concentrate the strength of the whole party and society to continue their struggle to realize the Chinese dream of becoming a socialist modernization power and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

  Adhere to the fundamental purpose of people first, and clarify the people-centered development thought and the essential attribute of modernization with human modernization as the core.

  "China’s modernization is a modernization with a huge population and the common prosperity of all the people", which shows the socialist nature of Chinese modernization. Chinese-style modernization insists on the supremacy of the people in its fundamental purpose, people-centered in its fundamental position, constantly promoting the all-round development of people and realizing the common prosperity of all people, which embodies the essential attribute of Chinese-style modernization with human modernization as its core and the social nature of socialism.

  The supremacy of the people is a valuable experience of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s century-long struggle, and it is the root of the great achievements of Chinese modernization. The foundation of Chinese modernization lies in the people, the subject lies in the people and the strength lies in the people. Chinese modernization always insists on development for the people, development depends on the people, and development results are shared by the people. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The people are both creators and witnesses of history, and they are both historical ‘ People in the play ’ And historical ‘ The playwright ’ " . The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s revolution, construction and reform are all realized in the process of maintaining flesh-and-blood ties with the people and relying on them closely. The people are the main body and source of strength for Chinese modernization. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee clearly put forward that we should adhere to the people-centered development thought, and take enhancing people’s well-being, promoting people’s all-round development and making steady progress towards common prosperity as the starting point and the end result of economic development. Chinese modernization takes the people as the center, emphasizes the people’s position, and always puts the promotion of people’s free and all-round development in the primary position of modernization, which is the most fundamental value orientation of Chinese modernization.

  Chinese modernization emphasizes the people’s stand and adheres to the people-centered development thought, which fundamentally opens up the consistency between human modernization and the fundamental purpose of people first. Marxism holds that man is the main body of social practice, which is shaped by the real society and realizes his own development in promoting social progress. What kind of modernization to build and what kind of goals to achieve are determined by people. The overall modernization of society cannot be separated from the modernization of people, who is the core content of the overall modernization of society. People are not only the subject of modernization practice, but also the subject of modernization value and the ultimate goal of modernization. The practice of world modernization proves that human modernization is more important than material modernization. Once people’s modernization is ignored or hesitated or lagged behind on this issue, it will inevitably bring great harm and disaster. Socialism with Chinese characteristics, not only bears the heavy responsibility of the times for the overall modernization of society, but also bears the historical mission of continuously promoting human modernization and promoting human all-round development. Comrade Supreme Leader wrote in Zhijiang Xinyu: "People are essentially cultural people, not ‘ Materialization ’ People; Is a dynamic and comprehensive person, not a rigid, ‘ One-dimensional ’ People. " The value pursuit of the people’s subject established by Chinese modernization is essentially the same as Marx’s theory of all-round development of human beings, which is a reaffirmation and creative development of the proletarian as the subject of liberation.It is also a vivid embodiment of our party’s fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly.

  Adhere to Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s fundamental system, basic system and important system, and clarify the institutional guarantee and institutional advantages of Chinese modernization.

  Socialism with Chinese characteristics system is a scientific system composed of fundamental system, basic system and important system, and it is the most important system regulation, system guarantee and system advantage of Chinese modernization. Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s fundamental system includes the fundamental system of the Party’s leadership, the fundamental system of the people’s democratic dictatorship, the fundamental system of the people’s congresses, the fundamental system of Marxism’s guiding position in the ideological field, and the fundamental system of the Party’s absolute leadership over the people’s army. It plays a "main beam" and "pillar" role in China’s national system and national governance system, and fundamentally embodies Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s institutional advantages. Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s basic systems are those that embody the socialist nature of our country, stipulate the basic principles of the country’s political life and economic life, and have a great influence on the country’s economic and social development. Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s important system is the subjective system of state governance in all fields derived from Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s fundamental system and Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s fundamental system. Specifically, it is the subjective system of legal rule, administrative management, cultural construction, people’s livelihood security, social governance, ecological civilization, "one country, two systems", foreign affairs, party and state supervision and so on. These fundamental systems, basic systems and important systems are the institutional guarantee and obvious institutional advantages of Chinese modernization.It is the fundamental reason why Chinese modernization has maintained its socialist nature and made great achievements.

  After more than 70 years of rich practice in New China, the Party led the people to create and develop the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s system has been further consolidated and improved, and Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s institutional advantages have been further highlighted and strengthened. The historical achievements of the founding of New China for more than 70 years fully prove that the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system is the fundamental guarantee for the great achievements of Chinese modernization. Socialism with Chinese characteristics system is a scientific system formed by the Party and the people in the long-term practice and exploration. It not only reflects the historical achievements made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) in establishing and perfecting the socialist system, forming and developing various systems, but also reflects that since the founding of New China for more than 70 years, our Party has been able to unite and lead the people to promote and expand Chinese modernization, lay a material foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, generate spiritual strength, create social conditions, and usher in a period from standing up to becoming rich and strong. To take the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and achieve the goal of the second century as scheduled, we must strengthen the linkage between the fundamental system, the basic system and the important system, promote the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system to be more mature and stereotyped, continuously inject new kinetic energy into Chinese modernization, and promote Chinese modernization with efficient state governance.

  Adhere to the global vision of the new form of human civilization, and clarify the epoch-making significance of Chinese modernization in the history of China modernization, world modernization, world socialist development and human civilization development.

  Chinese-style modernization is a great change in the continuation, iteration and innovation of civilization. It not only depicts the special law of the continuation of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years, but also explores the universal law of the revival of human civilization, especially in developing countries, and the universal pattern of exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations in the same time and space environment, creating a new form of human civilization, showing Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s remarkable advantages and strong vitality, and fundamentally surpassing the "clash of civilizations" and "western-centered theory" and.

  On the one hand, Chinese-style modernization is the independent road of the nation-state. No nation or country in human history can achieve modernization by relying on external forces, copying foreign models and following others. Chinese-style modernization insists on putting the development of the country and the nation on the basis of its own strength, firmly holding the destiny of China’s development and progress in its own hands, and always proceeding from China’s national conditions, exploring and forming the correct road in line with China’s reality.

  On the other hand, Chinese modernization is an open and inclusive modernization rather than a closed and exclusive modernization, which shows the openness and cosmopolitan nature of civilization. Chinese modernization takes socialism as its essential attribute, takes the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom as its value orientation, and adheres to the basic concepts of win-win cooperation and mutual benefit. It is firmly rooted in the soil of China, based on the logic of Chinese civilization development, and firmly follows the law of modern civilization construction. On the basis of conforming to the development trend of the times, it insists on exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, finds consensus in exchanges, realizes development in mutual learning, and shows a distinct openness.

  Chinese modernization, based on China’s basic national conditions and development practice, conforms to the development trend of the times, opens a successful path for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, transcends the logic of western modernity, breaks the uniqueness of western modernization model, drives developing countries to realize "group rise", promotes the image of socialism and promotes the progress of human civilization, which is of great significance in the history of China modernization, world modernization, world socialism development and human civilization development. In the history of China’s modernization, the Chinese-style modernization road has solved the perplexed and tortuous problem of China’s modernization road since modern times, and combined Socialism with Chinese characteristics with the Chinese-style modernization road, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has shown an unprecedented bright future. In the history of world modernization, the Chinese modernization road has surpassed the western modernization model, provided a new choice different from the western modernization model, and opened up a new road for developing countries to modernize. In the history of world socialist development, the Chinese-style modernization road has overcome the defects of the traditional socialist model, opened up a new realm of socialist modernization road, and made it possible for socialism to revive, prosper and develop continuously in the world. In the history of human civilization development, Chinese-style modernization road has made new contributions to human exploration of modernization road, created new forms of human modern civilization, and demonstrated the diversity of human civilization development.

TEPCO: The bottom of the reactor pressure vessel of Unit 1 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant may be perforated.

  Recently, Tokyo Electric Power Company of Japan conducted an internal investigation on the reactor containment of Unit 1 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and thought that the "control rod drive mechanism" at the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel might partially fall off and cause perforation at the bottom of the vessel.

  Japan’s Kyodo News reported on the 16th that the investigation of TEPCO was carried out from March 28th to 31st, and the company put underwater robots into the containment of stagnant water. When the camera is used to photograph the surroundings, there is a space where no image is displayed, which is said to mean that the bottom of the pressure vessel is perforated. The attached blocks are considered as fuel fragments, which strongly interfere with the captured images and may have a high radiation around them. Blocks suspected of molten nuclear fuel (fuel fragments) are attached to the inner wall of the pressure vessel base. According to the analysis of TEPCO, "the heat of fuel fragments leads to the perforation of pressure vessels".

  According to TEPCO, the control rod drive mechanism is a device that lifts the control rod from the lower side of the pressure vessel to adjust the output power of the reactor. At present, the tubular rod bundle about 4 meters long is lower than the normal position, and part of it falls to the bottom of the containment.