Screenshot of AI paintings displayed by Midjourney official website.

　　Screenshot of AI paintings displayed by Stable Diffusion official website.

　　Screenshot of the result of searching "Thomas Kinkade" in this database. These image data are used to train Stable Diffusion.

　　terrified

　　Fear is sudden. In the past year, He Ran, a freelance illustrator, watched the progress of AI again and again, and the speed surprised her. Judging from the works drawn by AI, it has basically reached the level of an intermediate professional designer or illustrator. She studied painting for seven years at school, and worked as an illustrator for five years after graduation, which is only intermediate.

　　"If there are companies with art needs and employees who can operate AI (painting), 90% of the artists can be laid off." He Ran said, "At first, we all thought that it would replace the bottom labor force first, to liberate physical (labor) things." Zheng Chujia, the founder of a design company in Shenzhen, told reporters that the emergence of AI painting tools prompted his company to optimize 20% of its employees. "As long as we can use it, it can basically replace most of our painters."

　　Originally, many people thought that the art field was difficult to be eroded by AI, but it was one of the earliest areas that suffered from AI impact.

　　It once painted a cat in 2012. A picture that seems to be full of mosaics can only vaguely see the outline of the cat’s eyes, nose, ears and face. By the beginning of 2021, the DALL-E1 model released by OpenAI company imitated Monet’s style to draw a fox, and the fox’s head could barely be recognized in a grass.

　　In 2022, the AI painting models DALL-E2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion came out one after another. Ordinary people who don’t master painting skills can also input keywords and direct their creation. This is considered "revolutionary". That year, it was called "AIGC (Generative Artificial Intelligence — — Reporter’s note) The first year ".

　　Jason Allen, an American game designer, was invited to participate in the use test of Midjourney that summer, and then he became fascinated by it. "I can’t believe what I saw," he said in an interview with The New York Times. "I think it was inspired by the devil, as if some extraordinary force was involved."

　　In August, with the help of the oil painting "Space Opera House" created by Midjourney, he won the gold medal of "Digital Art" in the art competition of Colorado Expo. This caused an uproar in the industry, but the work was created after more than 900 iterations. At that time, ChatGPT had not yet come out, and AI had emerged in the painting world.

　　It was only during that time that AI painting was still a little immature. Through the paintings drawn by it, many characters have blurred faces and can’t find their eyes, and some have six or seven fingers on their hands; Let it draw girls to eat noodles, it draws girls to grab noodles and stuff them in their mouths, and chopsticks are gone; The "fallen pedestrian" was twisted into an incredible posture by it, and his arm was also dropped.

　　Last year, He Ran also tried to use those AI painting tools. Although it was able to draw beautiful works at that time, for people in the industry, "the business demand of what (it) made was very low" and "it didn’t help much at work".

　　Some painters even think that it is not intelligent, but somewhat retarded and ridiculous. It is ironic that it is a tailor and a brainless tool, and that its works are soulless, illogical, patchwork and not real art.

　　"What you draw is just like a monster." Zheng Chujia said that his first attempt at AI painting had a poor experience. Most of the time, he could only "pick the tall among the short". At that time, company designers only used it to find inspiration, not directly used to generate works.

　　In December, 2022, a painter who has been in business for more than 10 years also told the media that AI painting is not perfect and has not yet posed an obvious threat to practitioners. Soon, however, some painters became nervous — — The evolving AI began to smash their jobs.

　　Zheng Chujia noticed that in January this year, many AI painting tutorials appeared abroad. He tried to let designers learn them and found them more and more useful. He remembers that a plane model of a game character was made with AI at that time, and it was completed in an hour or two. "If it is us, it may take more than a week or even half a month to finish."

　　He began to feel a little scared, and a group of people in the whole industry might face unemployment.

　　In January, He Ran, a freelance illustrator, learned that an Internet company had run through AI mapping. "The new works produced by AI only need to be modified a little manually." By February, the commercialization of AI painting had impacted her livelihood.

　　She has a project, which is to outsource a certain game. She needs to design 60 startup pages of games in different cities for Party A, and originally planned to make one page a week. A week later, the second picture was only halfway drawn. Party A gave feedback that "the company ran through AI", and she only needed to do fine-tuning on the picture generated by AI, but the cost plummeted, from two to three thousand yuan to three or five hundred yuan.

　　He Ran found that there were still mistakes in the drawings generated by AI at that time. Sometimes the bridges and towers it drew had problems such as structure and perspective, and sometimes something was strangely produced somewhere that was not needed. She needed to spend a lot of energy to revise them repeatedly.

　　"It should be Midjourney4.0 in February, and now it has been upgraded to 5.0." He Ran told reporters, "There are very few things that should be repaired in 5.0. It has evolved again. "

　　This time, the problem that painters often joke about "AI can’t draw hands" has been solved. The animals it draws are fine, and the portraits it draws are almost the same as those taken in photos, which is enough to confuse the real with the fake. A picture of "China Couples" generated by Midjourney5.0 caused a heated discussion. Many netizens thought it was a real photo, not an AI drawing.

　　In Guangzhou, a game outsourcing company began to lay off employees in January, and so far it has laid off more than 20 original painters in four batches.

　　"The original painters eliminated by our company are basically junior and intermediate, and the senior original painters are basically left behind." Chen Hua, the company’s special effects technical director, told the reporter of Zhongqing Daily and Zhongqing.com, "To be honest, it’s a bit cruel."

　　Originally, the most time-consuming step in creating a painting is the process that the original painter conceived and created the first draft. Chen Hua said that after using AI, the work efficiency of the original painter has been greatly improved. Nowadays, judging from the AI painting tools purchased by the company, it only needs to input instructions, and it can generate 40 to 60 schemes for painters to choose from, and the painter’s main job is to screen and modify the works.

　　"The work of revision requires senior original painters, and the primary and intermediate original painters will be weaker in revision." Chen Hua said, "They (the laid-off people) will want the reason that (the market) demand is not enough, and his ability is not enough. AI can really replace his job."

　　In the latest recruitment of this company, more positions are reserved for special effects artists who have not been impacted by AI, and only a small number of senior original painters are recruited. In the past few months, this company has only recruited two senior original painters. These two original painters used to work in a big factory. As for the reason for being laid off, one of them didn’t want to mention it, and the other said that it was squeezed out after the project used AI.

　　"It (AI) is a factor of acceleration, which accelerates our structural optimization." Zheng Chujia told reporters that the company once optimized the staff last year, reducing the number of team designers from more than 100 to more than 50. This year, the company’s design team has optimized 20%, and he plans to continue to optimize 40% in the future.

　　He is aware of the anxiety that designers in the company may be optimized. "We can only actively embrace this technology and make ourselves as valuable as possible to the whole company. If this person’s thinking is too conservative, it is easy to be optimized. "

　　confused

　　In foreign countries, unemployment related to AI has also appeared. In June, the report data of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an American company that provides re-employment services for retirees, showed that AI caused 3,900 people to lose their jobs in the United States in May, accounting for about 5% of the total number of layoffs in May.

　　AI has made some people unemployed, but it has also created some new jobs. On the recruitment website, there are new positions such as AI retoucher, AI draftsman, AI original painter and AI illustrator. However, at present, there is no data to show whether AI has caused more unemployment or created more jobs.

　　Many illustrators around He Ran are unwilling to retouch AI. In her view, compared with the original painting, the compensation for AI retouching is only one-fifth of the original in the same time, and there is no sense of accomplishment. Before, she finished painting a work, although the price was not high, but the work was her own. "But like this (AI painting), you can’t get it at all, saying it’s your work."

　　During this time, she often felt confused and confused, and once she didn’t know what to do in the future. The demand for outsourcing is decreasing, even the demand for posters by e-commerce companies is decreasing, the overall business volume has decreased by 50%, the unit price of orders has been lowered by the market, and the overall income has nearly halved.

　　More than 70% of her income originally came from the game outsourcing business, but now she is forced to transform and operate new business on the Internet, trying to find more personal design needs of smaller people.

　　In the past two months, she felt a little stressed, and her monthly income dropped from 20,000 to 30,000 yuan to about 10,000 yuan. "For the time being, it has little impact (on daily life) because there is still some savings, but it will definitely not work in the long run." He Ran said, "Based on reality, houses, water and electricity, eating and drinking Lazar, and raising kittens are all money."

　　One of her friends is a 3-D animator, which has not been affected by AI. Recently, there has been a surge in single volume. "He said, why don’t I study 3D? He gave me his list, but I don’t really want to. I know that thing makes money, but I don’t want to do it. "

　　"People who have been painting for several years actually do it because they like it." She said, "If you don’t make money like this now, it’s useless to like it again." She is not sure whether she wants to continue to develop in the industry. "It’s especially sad that people like us who have been abandoned by the industry are stuck in the middle and can’t get on."

　　Unlike painters, those companies of Party A and outsourcing companies are not confused about AI.

　　As the person in charge of a company, Zheng Chujia thinks very realistically. His first thought is how to deal with the impact. "If your company does not actively embrace AI, the overall development may be affected, or it will soon be eliminated by peers." Zheng Chujia said.

　　Soon, he established the "AI Exploration Alliance" within the company to explore the application mode of AI, and began to explore how to integrate resources and technical tools, introduced the popular AI painting tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and then conducted AI technical training. He compared AI technology to Jenny machine. "Its appearance is a subversive efficiency improvement tool." Introducing AI can improve his production efficiency by 40%-60%.

　　Since the company’s main expenditure is manpower expenditure, despite the recent loss of original design customers and the reduction of orders by 30% to 40%, the overall efficiency of the company has increased by 20% to 30% after the layoffs. Nowadays, the company has been equipped with a special AI retoucher. In the future recruitment, he is more interested in people who can embrace new technologies.

　　"Now, the commercial use of AI is very common." Chen Hua said that some Internet companies already have teams that specialize in researching and using AI to create. "It can save a lot of money." Now, after Party A’s company started to use AI, the game outsourcing company where Chen Hua works can’t meet the demand of the original painting, but in the past six months, the team AI painting technology and industrial chain have become more mature.

　　Although AI has not threatened Chen Hua’s job, he is still scared of the current era. "Technology is progressing a little too fast." He is worried that AI will continue to evolve in the future and "replace other positions in art". By that time, happy artistic creation will become monotonous technical creation.

　　He has a friend from the Academy of Fine Arts who doesn’t like AI painting very much and thinks that "it is destroying the ecology of this industry". When they discussed this topic, the other party felt that it was a tool without thinking. In just 10 minutes, it replaced a person’s painting experience for more than 10 years. "Do you think this is reasonable?"

　　"I feel unreasonable, too, but what can I do for me?" Chen Hua said, "I can’t act like it too much, and I can’t act like it too much."

　　"This kind of thing is the company’s demand. In fact, it has little to do with its own wishes. The company still focuses on economic benefits." Chen Hua told reporters, "After all, you are a migrant worker. Even if there is a contradiction (in my heart), there is no way. "

　　boycott

　　After AI hit the painting world, it was popular and resisted almost at the same time.

　　Some painters claim on the internet that AI painting is based on the feeding training of a large number of picture data, which may contain copyrighted pictures, but they did not get the corresponding copyright when training AI models. This training method was satirized by painters as "an alchemist without copyright" and was openly opposed by many painters.

　　"It’s equivalent to embezzlement. He uses our paintings to produce (commercial) value, but he won’t tell you or let you authorize it, and there is no profit sharing." He Ran said, "We get paid by copyright." This situation has also caused great controversy abroad, which is usually considered to involve moral and legal issues.

　　In order to find out which pictures are used to train AI painting models, Andy Baio, an American technical expert, and Simon Willison, his friend as an AI researcher, have captured more than 12 million image data used to train Stable Diffusion.

　　After indexing these data, they found that about 47% of the pictures came from 100 domains, including more than 1 million pictures from Pinterest, a photo sharing website. Other image data sources include WordPress, Flickr, 500px, Getty Images and Fine Art America.

　　There are also many artists’ works in the database. Of the top 25 artists, only three are still alive, among which the artist with the highest frequency is Thomas Kinkade, an American painter, whose 9,268 images are in the data set, but he died in 2012.

　　Someone found five of his paintings in the database and asked Andy Beo if there was any way to get them deleted. Andy Beo said: "As far as I know, there is no way to delete images from training data or make models forget what they have learned."

　　Andy Beo himself is also very ambivalent about the use of such emerging technologies. "Its ability makes people feel like they can summon magic, but it has caused many moral problems and it is difficult to track them." He said.

　　Before the potential moral and legal problems caused by AI copyright disputes have been solved, some art communities and photo agencies began to ban the emergence of AI-generated works. Getty Images has publicly stated that it is forbidden to sell AI works generated by using Stable Diffusion through its services. There are also some organizations that allow AI to generate works, but it is necessary to indicate that the works are generated by AI.

　　One day in December 2022, the homepage of the famous art website Art Station was occupied by pictures with the logo of "NO AI". In March of this year, there was also a wave of "boycotting AI" in China. Some painters publicly stated on social platforms that my works are forbidden to be fed to AI.

　　Jason Allen said in an interview with The New York Times that he sympathized with artists who were afraid that AI would make them lose their jobs, but their anger should not be directed at individuals who used AI painting tools to create art, but at companies that chose to replace human artists with AI.

　　Not long ago, a friend of Zheng Chujia also put on the head of "NO AI", but in his view, the boycott of AI is mainly due to copyright, not the boycott of this technology. "This (technology) is definitely unstoppable."

　　He is also worried about the copyright of AI painting, but the copyright he refers to is that when his company explores a new painting style, once it is taken by others to feed AI, "our style will instantly become popular".

　　Abroad, Paizo, a veteran game publisher, said in March that they would update the contract to make it mandatory that any submitted works must be created by human beings, and artistic works and words generated by artificial intelligence are not popular in their games.

　　The publisher also claimed that "as long as the moral and legal environment surrounding these procedures remains vague, we are unwilling to associate our brand with this technology in any way."

　　Chen Hua feels that this is a company with backbone, and it is good for the industry environment to want to contribute to this industry. "But if you want my boss to do this, it will definitely not work." Chen Hua said. He Ran sometimes feels ambivalent. She is very resistant to AI’s "stealing" those image data for training models, but she has to face the reality that her income drops sharply under the impact of AI.

　　"History shows that new technologies can bring huge benefits to our economy, but they are not painless for some people and communities. The overall impact will largely depend on social systems and policies. " Hong Pingfan, director of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said when talking about AI.

　　Zheng Chujia feels that in the future, the government may need to vigorously support AI-related training and incorporate relevant courses into the student training plan of colleges and universities. He is also worried that after the impact of AI, junior designers will find it difficult to receive orders and projects, and their ability will not be exercised, resulting in the loss of new people in the industry, and there may be a "talent gap" in the next 5-10 years.

　　In his view, AI does replace a lot of manpower, but we can’t ignore the cultivation of people’s basic ability and creativity. "Otherwise, when it is made, he can’t judge (good or bad), which is also a terrible problem." Chen Hua also felt that in the past six months, company designers have become more and more dependent on AI painting tools. "His personal creativity has indeed declined."

　　Recently, He Ran has stopped resisting AI as she did not long ago. She is planning to learn how to use AI to assist her painting.

　　"Last month was very resistant because it broke my financial path." He Ran said, "But I realized this month that you can’t resist it. You have to use it as soon as possible."

　　(At the request of the interviewee, He Ran and Chen Hua are pseudonyms)

　　Zhongqingbao Zhongqingwang reporter Li Qiang Source: China Youth Daily

Chapter one hundred and forty-two: Robert in his hometown was kicked out by the Brazilian Football Association.

After the 2014 World Cup, the Brazilian Football Association office

"Your hometown Robert, you are fired. What’s the matter with you? Twelve years ago, you performed very well. This year, your performance is so disappointing that you have humiliated our Brazilian football."

"David Genk, how did I lose the face of Brazilian football? I admit that my performance this year is a little poor, but I also led the team to complete the goal of securing four titles."

"I haven’t lost face, and my face has been thrown into the Pacific Ocean by you. I was defeated by Germany 0: 7 and the Netherlands 0: 5. You told me that I didn’t lose face, and I was so angry with you, you know?"

"These two games were accidents. It won’t happen again in the future. Don’t worry, but then again, my contract has expired anyway. It doesn’t matter."

"It doesn’t matter, haha, it’s killing me."

"Chairman Genk, what are you laughing at?"

"I tell you, your coaching career is over, hometown."

"What do you mean, make it clear?"

"I don’t know on other continents, at least in Europe and America, you can’t be the head coach of any national team, including the club team, and your home has been closed, which means you have no place in Brazil."

"What, who gave you the power, you are just the president of the Football Association?"

"President Barkson, he said to let me punish you, but he kicked you out of Brazil so that you could not coach in any team in Europe, America or even the world. I think it is the best punishment for you, Robert."

"What you said is true? I don’t believe it. "

"No, you don’t. Well, I’ll put President Barkson on the phone with you now."

After that, the phone was connected, and Barkson’s voice came: "Robert, leave Brazil now, or the consequences will be unimaginable."

"President Barkson, is it true what President Genk said?"

"Yes, it’s true, and Genk has reported it to me, and I agree with his decision to punish you."

"President Barkson, I didn’t break the law. Why confiscate my property?"

"You are not breaking the law, but it is similar to breaking the law, which is equivalent to breaking the law. Think about it, Brazil is a football kingdom and hosts the World Cup at home. As a result, you led the team to lose 12 goals in the semi-finals and the third and fourth finals, and lost the face of our country. " After that, Buckson hung up the phone.

"Did you hear that? You know, fans are scratching everywhere in China now, and many people have died. Do you think it’s your responsibility?"

"Well, I’ll leave. I’ll go. You’re too hard. As a player, I won the World Cup for my country. You didn’t mention my merits. This time, I did. You did this to me. I’m not reconciled."

"It’s because of your past contributions that your merits and demerits are at the end, or you may have to go to jail according to President Barkson’s meaning, understand?"

Robert slammed the door angrily in his hometown. Later, he found many national teams and clubs that were turned away, and he ran into a wall everywhere. He had no choice but to take a good trip and relax himself, and his chosen destination was China, an ancient oriental country.

Walking on the street in Sioux City, China, Robert of his hometown was ecstatic and shouted, "What a beautiful city. No wonder people say that there is Suzhou and Hangzhou under heaven, so it is really unnecessary to spread his name."

　　Zhongxin. com, July 1 ST, a number of tax reduction and fee reduction policies were implemented, car dealers were not allowed to increase the price of cars, and the acceptance of ID cards in different places was fully implemented … … A number of new regulations will be implemented today, which will soon affect all aspects of people’s lives.

　　A number of tax reduction and fee reduction policies will be implemented today.

　　According to the decision of the the State Council executive meeting, a number of tax reduction and fee reduction policies will be implemented today. In terms of tax reduction, the value-added tax rate was reduced from four to three, and the 13% tax rate band was abolished, forming a three-band structure of 17%, 11% and 6%. The pilot policy of pre-tax deduction of personal income tax for commercial health insurance will be extended to the whole country, and the expenses of individuals purchasing qualified commercial health insurance products are allowed to be deducted before tax according to the maximum annual limit of 2,400 yuan.

　　In terms of fee reduction, we will further clean up and standardize the deposit in the field of engineering construction, clean up and standardize the government’s non-tax revenue surcharge in the field of energy, temporarily exempt the two supervision fees of banking and insurance, and reduce the radio frequency occupation fee.

　　Simplify the handling of tax administrative licensing matters

　　The Announcement on Simplifying the Procedures for Handling Tax Administrative Licensing Matters will come into effect today. The "Announcement" clarifies five measures to degenerate and optimize the procedures for handling tax administrative licensing matters, including simplifying the acceptance of documents, providing agency forwarding services, simplifying application materials, realizing the appointment of consulting services, and improving the delivery methods of documents.

　　81 airports opened the "military priority according to law" channel.

　　The Civil Aviation Administration and the Logistics Support Department of the Central Military Commission jointly issued a notice to open the "military priority according to law" channel at 81 civil aviation airports nationwide from now on, and encouraged other airports to open as appropriate according to their own conditions, so as to provide thoughtful and efficient services for military personnel in check-in, security inspection and boarding.

　　All coal mine safety production work in China will implement the new standards.

　　The State Administration of Work Safety and other departments jointly issued the Notice on Vigorously Promoting the Standardization of Coal Mine Safety Production. The "Notice" puts forward a number of requirements, including organizing new standards publicity training, creating an incentive mechanism for standardization work, and coordinating and promoting standardization construction.

　　Full implementation of ID card acceptance in different places.

　　From now on, the Ministry of Public Security has fully implemented the "three systems" of accepting resident identity cards in different places, reporting the loss and claiming them for loss. The Ministry of Public Security pointed out that public security organs should issue resident identity cards within 60 days from the date when citizens submit the Registration Form for Acceptance of Resident Identity Cards in Different Places. In areas with inconvenient transportation, the processing time may be appropriately extended, but the extension time shall not exceed 30 days; Where conditions permit, the period of making and issuing certificates can be shortened according to the actual situation.

　　Handling ordinary passports and underpaying 40 yuan.

　　The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance issued a notice to reduce some administrative fees, which is expected to reduce the burden on enterprises and society by 2.6 billion yuan. The "Notice" stipulates that starting from today, the fees for citizens’ entry and exit documents, the cost of motor vehicle driving license, the cost of temporary entry motor vehicle number plate and driving license, the compensation fee for soil and water conservation, the actual (trial) inspection fee for pesticides, and the protection fee for integrated circuit layout design will be reduced. According to relevant standards, ordinary passports are reduced from 200 yuan to 160 yuan.

　　Since July, the new regulations on automobile sales have been implemented, and it is clear that dealers are not allowed to sell cars at a higher price. The picture shows the data map. Photo by Zhang Yun, a reporter from China News Service

　　Car dealers are not allowed to sell cars at a higher price.

　　The Measures for the Administration of Automobile Sales promulgated by the Ministry of Commerce will be implemented today. The measures have made clear provisions and requirements for increasing the price of automobile sales, providing three-guarantee certificates, and indicating the source of accessories. It stipulates that dealers are prohibited from raising the price of cars in all forms, and dealers must clearly indicate the prices of cars and accessories, and must attach certificates with the car when picking up the car.

　　According to the "Measures", it is no longer necessary for automobile brands to authorize the sale of automobiles, and two modes of authorized sales and unauthorized sales are allowed to be parallel, and new automobile sales forms such as automobile supermarkets, automobile stores and automobile e-commerce will blossom.

　　Travel tax increases

　　The tax ceiling for various types of vehicles has generally increased since today. The annual tax standard for large buses will be adjusted from 480 yuan to 660 yuan, for medium buses from 420 yuan to 660 yuan, for small buses from 360 yuan to 660 yuan, and for ordinary cars from 180 yuan to 360 yuan. At the same time, the tax targets have also been adjusted, and all kinds of buses that were originally tax-free will also pay taxes at the same standard as private cars.

　　Strengthen the "seller’s responsibility" for securities operating institutions

　　The Measures for the Administration of the Suitability of Securities and Futures Investors will be implemented from now on. The core requirement of the Measures is to strengthen the requirement of "the seller is responsible" for securities, funds and futures operating institutions, so that the operating institutions must bear the obligations stipulated by law while obtaining operating income, ensure the equality and unity of rights and obligations, effectively prevent one-sided pursuit of economic interests, and promote high-risk securities and futures products to investors with insufficient risk tolerance, resulting in damage and influence on the legitimate rights and interests of investors.

　　Increase penalties for illegal acts of traditional Chinese medicine.

　　The "People’s Republic of China (PRC) Chinese Medicine Law" has been implemented today, with five highlights: (1) the important position and development policy of Chinese medicine are clarified; Establish a management system that conforms to the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine; Increase support for the cause of Chinese medicine; Adhere to both support and standardization, and strengthen the supervision of Chinese medicine; Increase penalties for illegal acts of traditional Chinese medicine.

　　50,000 domestic cash transactions need to be reported.

　　The Measures for the Administration of Reports on Large-value Transactions and Suspicious Transactions of Financial Institutions issued by the Central Bank will be implemented today. The Administrative Measures adjusted the RMB reporting standard for large cash transactions from "200,000 yuan" to "50,000 yuan", and the reporting standard for large cross-border transactions denominated in RMB was "200,000 yuan", and for the first time, non-bank payment institutions were included in the scope of responsibility.

　　New invoice regulations: only the name of the enterprise can be filled in for office invoicing, and it cannot be reimbursed.

　　According to the announcement of State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China, starting from today, the purchaser must provide the corporate taxpayer identification number (i.e. "tax number") or the unified social credit code when issuing corporate invoices, otherwise it will not be used as a tax voucher to handle tax-related business. The announcement also requires that when the seller issues an invoice, it should truthfully issue an invoice that is consistent with the actual business; When the buyer obtains the invoice, it shall not request to change the name and amount.

　　Mobile phone pre-installed software must be uninstalled.

　　The Interim Provisions on the Administration of Preset and Distribution of Application Software for Mobile Intelligent Terminals will be implemented today. According to the regulations, production enterprises should restrict the sales channels, and should not install application software in mobile intelligent terminals without the consent of users, and all software except basic functions can be uninstalled. The application software of mobile intelligent terminal involved in charging shall strictly abide by the relevant provisions such as clearly marked price, express the charging standard and charging method, and express that the content is true, accurate and eye-catching, and the fee can be deducted only after being confirmed by the user.

　　Encourage and support the provision of disability prevention and rehabilitation services for the disabled.

　　The Regulations on Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons will come into effect today. The regulations clearly stipulate that the state shall take measures to provide basic rehabilitation services for the disabled and support and help them integrate into society; Prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability; The state encourages and supports organizations and individuals to provide disability prevention and rehabilitation services for the disabled, donate to the cause of disability prevention and rehabilitation for the disabled, and build relevant public welfare facilities; The provision of rehabilitation services for the disabled shall protect the privacy of the disabled and shall not discriminate against or insult them.

　　The lifelong responsibility system is implemented for soil pollution control and remediation.

　　The Measures for the Management of Soil Environment in Polluted Plots (Trial) will be implemented today. The method points out that according to the principle of "whoever pollutes will treat it", the unit or individual that caused soil pollution should bear the main responsibility for treatment and restoration. In principle, the treatment and restoration project should be carried out at the original site. During the treatment and restoration, measures should be taken to prevent secondary pollution to the plot and its surrounding environment. The lifelong responsibility system is implemented for soil pollution control and remediation.

Text |C2CC New Media

As the year approaches, I believe we are most concerned about two things: First, the A shares that have repeatedly fallen below 2,800 points have made China investors "lose their shorts"; second, whether the annual meeting and the year-end bonus will be "a fart year" as Wang Jianlin said, or "don’t give up hope even if you lose everything in the secondary market, after all, there is still a tertiary market".

The good news is that according to the data released by the national statistics department, the gross domestic product (GDP) of China reached 126.06 trillion yuan in 2023, up 5.2% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 2.2 percentage points faster than that of 2022.

In addition, the National Bureau of Statistics released the domestic consumption data for the whole year of 2023. From January to December 2023, the total retail sales of social consumer goods was 47,149.5 billion yuan, an increase of 7.2% over the previous year. Among them, the retail sales of cosmetics was 414.2 billion yuan, up 5.1%, and the growth rate of cosmetics market did not outperform the market.

At the end of January, 2024, listed beauty companies at home and abroad released their 2023 financial reports and performance forecasts one after another. C2CC Media’s "Counting Beauty" column counted the relevant financial report data, and found that for domestic beauty companies, profit growth and turning losses into profits are the main melody melody, but it seems that profit growth can’t save the bleak capital market, while international beauty companies are mixed. Behind the performance growth, it is more through "price increase strategy" to offset the continuation of product sales.

We can also spy from the import and export data released by the General Administration of Customs in 2023. From January to December 2023, the total import and export value was 41.76 trillion yuan, up 0.2% year-on-year, of which the quantity and amount of cosmetics showed a double downward trend. From January to December, the import of beauty cosmetics and toiletries was 358,600 tons, down 14.2% year-on-year, and the total import value was 126.02 billion yuan, down 15.2% year-on-year.

01 domestic beauty listed companies: growth is the main theme.

1. Marubi shares: the net profit increased by 72-89% in advance, and the performance reached a new high.

On January 22nd, Guangdong Marubi Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Marubi) released the annual performance forecast for 2023.

The performance forecast shows that, according to the preliminary calculation by the financial department of the company, the net profit in 2023 is expected to be RMB 300 million to RMB 330 million (hereinafter all RMB), which will increase by RMB 126 million to RMB 156 million compared with the same period of last year, with an increase of 72% to 89%. It is estimated that in 2023, Marubi’s net profit after deducting non-recurring gains and losses attributable to the owners of the parent company will be 220 million yuan to 250 million yuan, which will increase by 84.05 million yuan to 114 million yuan compared with the same period of last year, with a year-on-year increase of 62% to 84%.

As for the growth of performance, Marubi said in the preview that the main reason was that the company actively promoted the transformation of online channels and better grasped the annual marketing rhythm. Among them, Marubi brand’s content e-commerce represented by Tik Tok Aauto Quicker increased by over 100%, and the second brand PL’s love for fire increased by over 100%.

2. Freda: The annual revenue exceeded 2 billion.

On January 23rd, Lushang Freda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Freda") released the annual performance forecast for 2023.

According to the performance forecast, according to the preliminary calculation by the financial department, it is estimated that the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies in 2023 will be 260 million yuan to 290 million yuan, an increase of 215 million yuan to 245 million yuan compared with the same period of last year, an increase of 472% to 538%.

It is estimated that the net profit of listed public shares after deducting extraordinary gains and losses will be 116 million yuan to 146 million yuan in 2023, which will increase by 58 million yuan to 88 million yuan compared with the same period of last year, with a year-on-year increase of 98% to 150%.

For the surge in net profit, Freda said that the core reason benefited from the divestiture of real estate development business, and at the same time, relying on solid scientific and technological research and development strength and the advantages of multi-brand omni-channel development, it constantly empowered the development of core business, especially the performance of cosmetics.

3. Shuiyang shares: the net profit doubled.

On January 18th, Shuiyang Company released its 2023 annual performance forecast.

The annual performance forecast shows that in 2023, Shuiyang Co., Ltd. is expected to achieve a net profit of 280 million yuan to 320 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 124%-156%, and a non-net profit of 260 million yuan to 300 million yuan, an increase of 169%-210%.

For the reasons of high performance growth, Shuiyang believes that the overall business and product structure are further optimized, the brand matrix is perfect, and the proportion of high-margin brands continues to rise. At the same time, the company insists on refined operation, continuously improves management efficiency, continuously improves organizational system construction, and improves the effect of cost control.

4. Beauty and Beauty Makeup: Net profit turned into profit.

On January 30th, Liren Lizhuang disclosed the 2023 annual performance forecast.

The forecast shows that Liren Lizhuang expects to achieve a net profit of 28 million yuan to 35 million yuan in 2023, especially in the fourth quarter. The company turned losses into profits throughout the year and its business operations continued to improve.

Liren Lizhuang pointed out in the announcement that the company’s net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies in 2023 turned into profit compared with that in 2022, mainly due to the growth of the company’s emerging channel business, the smooth progress of incubating brands, the improvement of inventory structure and the overall cost control.

5. Runben shares: The revenue scale continues to grow.

On January 24th, Runben shares released the 2023 annual performance forecast.

The forecast shows that Runben shares are expected to realize a net profit of 215 million to 235 million yuan in 2023, an increase of 34.34% to 46.83%; Non-net profit deduction is estimated to be 207 million to 227 million yuan, up 34.1% to 47.05% year-on-year. In Q4 alone, the company expects to realize a net profit of RMB 34-54 million, up by 17-86% year-on-year, and realize a net profit of RMB 30-50 million deducted from non-homecoming.

The report pointed out that the pre-increase in performance was mainly due to the company’s further expansion of baby care products and product matrix, and the proportion of baby care products further increased, which improved the overall profitability of the company. At the same time, the company continuously strengthened operation management and continuously improved operation management efficiency, and the sales expense ratio decreased year-on-year.

6. Ruo Yuchen: The net profit is expected to increase by nearly 62%

On January 29th, Ruo Yuchen released the 2023 annual performance forecast.

According to the report, it is estimated that the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies during the reporting period will be RMB 42 million to RMB 54.6 million, an increase of 24.42% to 61.75% over the same period of last year; Non-net profit was 41 million yuan to 53.6 million yuan, an increase of 29.01% to 68.65% over the same period of last year.

Ruo Yuchen said that the increase in operating performance in 2023 stems from the company’s strengthening of refined operations in 2023, reducing operating costs from multiple dimensions, strengthening control over expenses and budgets, improving overall operating efficiency, and improving the company’s costs and various expenses as a whole; In addition, in 2023, the operating income of its own brand "Zhanjia" increased significantly. During the reporting period, the introduction of new brands such as "Ai Weinuo", "Ai Ziran" and "Kang Wang" developed rapidly, which had a positive impact on the company’s operating performance.

7. Celebrity Health: The net profit may exceed 100 million yuan.

On January 29th, Mingchen Health Products Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Mingchen Health") released the annual performance forecast for 2023.

The forecast shows that the estimated net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies in 2023 is between 70 million yuan and 100 million yuan, compared with 25.33 million yuan in the same period last year, up by 176.35% to 294.79%. Non-net profit was between 65 million yuan and 95 million yuan, up 1462.68% year-on-year to 2091.61%.

8. Kesi shares: Net profit soared by nearly 96%

On January 15th, Nanjing Kesi Chemical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Kesi) released the 2023 annual performance forecast.

According to the report, it is estimated that the net profit of returning to the mother in 2023 will be 720 million yuan to 760 million yuan, an increase of 85.5% to 95.8%; Deducting the net profit of non-returning to the mother was 703 million yuan to 743 million yuan, with an increase of 85.8% to 96.4%.

For the continuous high growth of performance and net profit in 2023, Kesi shares said in the forecast that due to the steady improvement of the company’s market position and the continuous growth of the market demand for sunscreen products, at the same time, due to the improvement of the company’s overall capacity utilization rate and the rapid release of the production capacity of new products represented by new sunscreen agents, it will eventually help the company’s main business income and gross profit margin level increase. In the future, KES will invest and build the "Malaysia Annual 10,000 Tons Sunscreen Series Product Project" in Malaysia to expand the market demand in Asia Pacific, Europe and other regions.

9. Aimeike: The annual net profit is nearly 2 billion yuan.

On January 5th, Aimeike released the 2023 annual performance forecast.

It is estimated that Aimeike will achieve a net profit of 1.81 billion to 1.9 billion yuan for the whole year, a year-on-year increase of 43% to 50%; Non-net profit was 1.782 billion to 1.872 billion yuan, up 49% to 56% year-on-year.

For the huge increase in net profit, Aimeike said in the preview that the company actively pays attention to market changes, provides high-quality services for downstream medical and beauty institutions at the academic and operational ends, better meets the needs of beauty seekers, and enhances the depth of cooperation with customers. At the same time, through the distribution model, it further expands the number of institutions covered by the company’s products and enhances the breadth of cooperation with customers.

10. Two-faced needle: the performance turned losses, and the net profit increased by over 147%.

On January 30th, "Toothpaste No.1" Double-sided Needle released the performance forecast for 2023.

According to the forecast, it is estimated that the two-sided needle will turn losses from January to December 2023, and the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies will be 18 million to 27 million yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 146.65% to 169.97%.

As for the turnaround in performance, the company said that in 2023, by opening up product sales channels and increasing product sales, the company’s profits increased accordingly. Among them, the operating income and net profit of its subsidiary, the hotel supplies business, increased significantly year-on-year.

11. Qingdao Golden King: Turn the net profit into profit.

On January 30th, Qingdao Jinwang Applied Chemistry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Qingdao Jinwang") disclosed the 2023 annual performance forecast.

According to the forecast, it is estimated that the net profit of Qingdao Jinwang returning to his mother in 2023 will be 11 million yuan to 16.5 million yuan, with a loss of 809 million yuan in the same period of last year; Deducting non-net profit is expected to be-4 million yuan to 2 million yuan.

According to the data, Qingdao Jinwang’s main business is divided into three parts: new material candle and aromatherapy and craft products business, cosmetics business and supply chain business. Among them, new materials, candles, aromatherapy and craft products business and cosmetics business are the core business development sectors of the company.

Qingdao Jinwang said in the notice that the main reason for the change in performance was that the company’s cosmetics business gradually recovered in 2023, but some subsidiaries’ cosmetics business failed to meet expectations.

02 international beauty listed companies: mixed feelings

1. LVMH Group: perfume and beauty business increased by 7%.

On January 25th, LVMH Group announced its annual performance report for 2023.

According to the financial report, in the twelve months ended December 31st last year, LVMH Group’s sales revenue increased by 9% year-on-year to 86.2 billion euros (about 670.82 billion yuan), its gross profit rate was 69%, its operating profit increased by 8% to 22.8 billion euros (about 177.39 billion yuan), and its net profit increased by 8% to 15.2 billion euros (about 118.20 billion yuan). Among them, the annual sales of perfume beauty business increased by 7% to 8.27 billion euros (about 64.3 billion yuan), an organic increase of 11%; The selected retail departments where DFS and Sephora are located have benefited from the recovery of global tourism retail and become the best-performing business of LVMH. The annual revenue increased by 20% year-on-year to 17.9 billion euros (about RMB 139.21 billion), with an organic increase of 25%, and the operating profit increased by 76% to 1.4 billion euros (about RMB 10.88 billion).

In terms of regions, Asia is the largest consumer market of LVMH, and Asia including China (excluding Japan) contributed the highest revenue of 26.707 billion euros, accounting for 31% of the Group’s revenue, up 1% from 2022. The United States and Europe contributed 21.538 billion euros respectively, accounting for 25% of the Group’s revenue, of which the proportion of revenue in the United States decreased by 2 percentage points, while that in Europe increased by 1 percentage point; Japan’s revenue was 6.031 billion euros, accounting for 7% and 12% in other regions.

LVMH Group said in the financial report that although there are still uncertainties in the geopolitical and macroeconomic environment, LVMH is full of confidence in its ability to continue to grow in 2024, the highly unique quality and creativity of its products and the professionalism of its management, and believes that it can stand out and gain market share.

2. Procter & Gamble: The annual net sales exceeded 600 billion yuan for the first time.

On January 23rd, Procter & Gamble released the second quarter (September 2023-December 2023) and annual performance report of fiscal year 2024.

The report shows that in 2023, P&G achieved a net sales of 83.964 billion US dollars (about 601.1 billion yuan) and a net profit of 14.861 billion US dollars (about 106.4 billion yuan). Among them, the company’s net sales in the second quarter was 21.4 billion US dollars (about 153.2 billion yuan), an increase of 3% over the previous year; The net profit of returning to the mother fell by 11.8% year-on-year to 3.468 billion US dollars (about 24.8 billion yuan).

In terms of departments, the organic sales of Beauty department in the second quarter was US$ 3.849 billion (about RMB 27.590 billion), an increase of 1%. The organic sales of Health Care department was 3.172 billion US dollars (about 22.738 billion yuan), up by 2%. The organic sales of Grooming department for men was US$ 1.734 billion (about RMB 12.430 billion), up by 9%. The organic sales of Baby, Feminine &Family Care department was 5.146 billion US dollars (about RMB 36.888 billion), with an increase of 2%; Fabric &Home Care’s organic sales amounted to US$ 7.415 billion (about RMB 53.152 billion), an increase of 5%.

It is worth mentioning that P&G highlighted in its financial report that its sales in the second largest market, Greater China, dropped by 34% due to the slowdown in demand for high-end skin care brand SK-II and other products, mainly due to the impact of nuclear sewage discharge in Japan.

3. Chiwaton: The perfume business leads the growth.

On January 25th, the Swiss flavor and fragrance company Givaudan released its annual financial report for 2023.

According to the financial report, the total sales of Chihuaton in 2023 was 6.915 billion Swiss francs (about 57.481 billion yuan), up 4.1% year-on-year, and down 2.8% year-on-year in terms of Swiss francs. The annual sales of perfume and beauty department in 2023 was 3.312 billion Swiss francs (about RMB 27.531 billion), up by 7.6% year-on-year, and increased by 1.7% year-on-year in terms of Swiss francs.

Among them, the sales of high-end perfume increased by 14.0% year-on-year, the sales of consumer goods increased by 7.1% year-on-year, and the sales of essence components and active beauty business increased by 1% year-on-year.

In terms of regions, sales in Europe and the Middle East reached 2.717 billion Swiss francs (about 22.653 billion yuan) last year, up 8.4% year-on-year, ranking first; In the Asia-Pacific region to which China belongs, sales amounted to 1.698 billion Swiss francs (about 14.157 billion yuan), up 3.9% year-on-year; The total sales in North America reached 1.653 billion Swiss francs (about 13.782 billion yuan), down 6.8% year-on-year; Latin America has the fastest growth rate, achieving sales of 847 million Swiss francs (about 7.062 billion yuan), up 15.1% year-on-year.

Chiwaton said in the performance report that the good growth benefited from the sustained strong performance of high-end perfume business, the continuous high level of new business, the increase in pricing of all businesses and the increase in the growth rate of consumer goods business in the second half of 2023.

4. Inter Parfums: The annual net sales increased by 21%.

On January 24th, Inter Parfums, a perfume manufacturer, released its financial reports for the fourth quarter and 2023 as of December 31st, 2023.

The financial report shows that the net sales of Inter Parfums in the fourth quarter was 329 million US dollars (about 2.357 billion yuan), up by 6%. In 2023, the company’s overall net sales were 1.32 billion US dollars (about 9.455 billion yuan), an increase of 21%.

By region, the sales of Inter Parfums’ European business increased by 2% to 200 million US dollars (about 1.433 billion yuan) in the fourth quarter; The annual sales of European business reached US$ 862 million (about RMB 6.175 billion), up by 16%. In the fourth quarter, the sales of American business increased by 13% to US$ 128 million (about RMB 917 million), and the annual sales of American business was US$ 456 million (about RMB 3.266 billion), up by 33% year-on-year.

5. Colgate: Toothpaste accounts for 41.1% of the global market.

On January 26th, Colgate announced the financial performance data for the fourth quarter and the whole year of 2023.

The data shows that Colgate achieved net sales of 19.457 billion US dollars (about 139.612 billion yuan) in 2023, an increase of 8.5% year-on-year. In the fourth quarter, Colgate achieved net sales of US$ 4.95 billion (about RMB 35.518 billion), a year-on-year increase of 7%.

Colgate said in the financial report that its net sales and organic sales both increased by 7% in the fourth quarter, and it still maintained a leading position in the toothpaste industry and manual toothbrush field. Among them, the global market share in toothpaste industry accounts for 41.1%, and the global market share of manual toothbrushes accounts for 31.5%.

6. L ‘Occitane: China market contributed 21.9%.

On January 30th, L ‘Occitane Group released its financial report for the third quarter and the first nine months of fiscal year 2024 as of December 31st, 2023.

The financial report shows that L ‘Occitane’s sales in the first nine months reached 1,915.3 million euros (about 14,883 million yuan), an increase of 18.9% according to the reported growth rate and 24.8% according to the fixed growth rate. Net sales in the third quarter reached 843.4 million euros (about 6.554 billion yuan), an increase of 19.5% at the reported rate and 24.6% at the constant rate.

In terms of regional performance, the Asia-Pacific region grew by 6.7% in the nine months of fiscal year 2024, and the China market contributed a strong growth of 21.9%.

Regarding the steady sales momentum in the first nine months, L ‘Occitane said that the growth was mainly due to the continuous excellent performance of Sol de Janeiro, the positive performance of Elemis and the steady growth of L’Occitane en Provence in China.

7. Amore Pacific: Double decline in performance and profit.

On January 30th, Amore Pacific Construction Group released its financial report for the fourth quarter and the whole year of 2023.

According to the financial report, in 2023, the group’s annual sales were 4,021.3 billion won (about 21.675 billion yuan), down 10.5% year-on-year; Operating profit was 152 billion won (about 819 million yuan), down 44.1% year-on-year. Among them, the sales in the fourth quarter of 2023 was 1,018 billion won (about 5.487 billion yuan), down 14% year-on-year; Operating profit was 29.9 billion won (about 161 million yuan), down 62% year-on-year.

8. LG’s healthy life: weak demand in China has become the key to the decline in performance

On January 31st, LG Life Health released its fourth quarter and full-year financial report for 2023.

According to the financial report, the annual sales of LG Life Health in 2023 was 6804.8 billion won (about RMB 36.609 billion), down 5.3% year-on-year, and its operating profit was 487 billion won (about RMB 2.616 billion), down 31.5% simultaneously. In Q4 of 2023, LG’s life and health sales amounted to 1,567.2 billion won (about RMB 8.419 billion), down 13.3% year-on-year, and its operating profit was 54.7 billion won (about RMB 294 million), down 57.6% year-on-year.

LG Life Health said in the financial report that the sales of beauty cosmetics, HDB and refreshments all declined in 2023, the profitability of beauty cosmetics declined due to weak demand in China, and the operating profit declined due to overseas restructuring.

　　"One thousand hopes, one hundred percent happiness."

　　"Buy more, buy less, buy as much as you want, and you will win sooner or later." … …

　　Previously, walking on the street, you can often see similar slogans hanging outside the lottery betting station; In the betting station, many lottery players get together to exchange experiences. But now, is such a scene less and less common? In June this year, the national lottery sales totaled 34.767 billion yuan, a decrease of 23.862 billion yuan or 40.7% over the same period of last year. Not only did the monthly data decline, but combing the lottery sales data in the past decade found that the lottery sales showed negative growth year-on-year for the first time in the first half of this year. What causes the lottery market to be cold? What is the future trend of lottery market?

　　In the first half of the year, national lottery sales fell first.

　　From January to June this year, the national lottery sales totaled 212.596 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 32.602 billion yuan or 13.3%. Among them, the sales of welfare lottery institutions was 97.757 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 12.838 billion yuan or 11.6%; The sales of sports lottery institutions reached 114.839 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 19.764 billion yuan or 14.7%.

　　Combing 2010 — The lottery sales data in the first half of the decade in 2019 found that this was the first year-on-year decline.

　　Judging from the monthly data, in June this year, the country sold a total of 34.767 billion yuan of lottery tickets, down 40.7% from the same period of last year. The year-on-year decline was mainly due to the large sales of quiz lottery games in the World Cup in June 2018, with a high base in the same period last year. In the first half of 2018, lottery sales increased by as much as 19.6%. Looking back on the past decade, the lottery market experienced a double-digit rapid growth period in 2010-2012, maintaining a high growth rate of more than 20%; In 2013 and 2014, the growth rate of national lottery sales fell below 20%; From 2015 to the first half of 2017, the growth rate of national lottery sales dropped significantly, only 5.2%, 3.5% and 5.5% respectively. Negative growth occurred for the first time in the first half of 2019.

　　Where do people prefer to buy lottery tickets?

　　Geographically, data from the Ministry of Finance show that in June this year, lottery sales in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) all declined compared with the same period of last year.

　　However, from the cumulative data in the first half of the year, lottery sales in five provinces increased year-on-year, namely Sichuan, Shanghai, Henan, Anhui and Beijing, with an increase of 1.681 billion yuan, 234 million yuan, 190 million yuan, 172 million yuan and 45 million yuan respectively. As far as the overall sales volume in the first half of the year is concerned, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang and Henan rank among the top five in the country.

　　Strengthen the supervision of high-frequency fast-opening games

　　Why did lottery sales decline in the first half of this year? An expert in the lottery industry analyzed that at the beginning of this year, in order to regulate the lottery market, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other departments strengthened the supervision of high-frequency quick-opening games and quiz games, extended the sales time of high-frequency quick-opening games and reduced the number of lottery games.

　　High-frequency fast-opening games mainly complete the process from sales to lottery every few minutes or ten minutes through electronic equipment. The data shows that in 2017, the share of Fucai quick-opening games in the total sales volume of Fucai reached 40%. In that year, the total sales volume of national welfare lottery was 216.977 billion yuan, of which the sales volume of quick-opening games was 87.522 billion yuan. A lottery player said: "The number of high-frequency fast-opening games is small, there are many awards, and the lottery is frequent. Many domestic lottery buyers are speculative when buying high-frequency fast-opening games. Some lottery buyers can play all day and easily lose their minds."

　　In January this year, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the General Administration of Sports issued a notice requesting to adjust the rules of high-frequency fast-opening lottery games and quiz lottery games and strengthen the supervision of the lottery market. According to the notice, in recent years, China’s lottery industry has generally shown a sustained and healthy development trend. At the same time, there are still irrational lottery buying phenomena in the lottery market, such as unauthorized use of the Internet to sell lottery tickets and large bets. In particular, the market supervision of welfare lottery quick-opening games, sports lottery high-frequency games and sports lottery national online single-game quiz games needs to be strengthened.

　　The notice is clear. From February 11th, if the sales time of high-frequency quick-start games is shorter than 20 minutes, it will be adjusted to 20 minutes. Since 2019, the number of contests and events for the annual quiz game shall not be higher than 70% of the number of contests and events for sale in 2018.

　　The above-mentioned experts also pointed out that the main reason is that there was a World Cup in June 2018. At that time, the sales volume of SMG was particularly large, which also boosted the sales volume of sports lottery. However, there were no important sports events in June this year. The sharp decline in sports lottery sales in June was an important factor in the decline in lottery sales in the first half of the year.

　　Internet lottery was banned.

　　The ban on internet lottery sales also has an impact on lottery sales. In August 2018, the Ministry of Finance and other 12 departments jointly issued a document, resolutely prohibiting the unauthorized use of the Internet to sell lottery tickets.

　　Internet lottery had previously shown a blowout growth trend in 2014. The huge sales volume of nearly 100 billion yuan makes internet lottery purchase an important force to promote the development of lottery market.

　　In 2014, Internet lottery experienced a glorious period. Major sports events, including the World Cup in Brazil, boosted the sales of Internet lottery by 102% from 42 billion yuan in 2013 to 85 billion yuan, accounting for 20% of the total lottery sales. According to the Analysis Report of Internet Lottery Market in 2014, there were more than 100 million users in China who bought lottery tickets through Internet channels, and the Internet became an important betting platform and channel for users.

　　Since then, since 2015, the Ministry of Finance and other departments have repeatedly issued a document to prohibit the sale of lottery tickets through Internet channels. However, during the 2018 World Cup, a large number of mobile apps illegally sold lottery tickets through the Internet.

　　At that time, there were many fish that escaped from the net without being investigated. According to reports, through the search of "lottery" in Android and Apple mobile phone stores, some apps have stopped selling lottery tickets, but there are still many softwares that can buy lottery tickets. In the early days of the World Cup last year, many companies launched online lottery platforms again. Finally, many online football lottery platforms such as "Winning the lottery every day" and "Everyone Winning the lottery" stopped selling on June 20 last year.

　　Standardize the management of welfare lottery issuance

　　The corruption case of Fucai Center exposed last year aroused social concern. On November 9, 2018, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection published a heavy article: "Pay equal attention to reduction and suppression, treat both the symptoms and the root causes, rebuild the credibility of Welfare Lottery, and the discipline inspection and supervision team stationed in the Ministry of Civil Affairs will promote the formation of a good political ecology from typical cases", with more than 4,000 words, and released confession videos of four former leaders of China Welfare Lottery Issuance Management Center.

　　After the corruption case of Welfare Lottery, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has improved the management system of welfare lottery issuance, sales, distribution and use of public welfare funds, such as changes in the internal institutions in charge of welfare lottery management.

　　On July 29, the Ministry of Civil Affairs held a press conference, and the relevant person in charge introduced that there are three main reform directions in regulating the issuance and management of welfare lottery tickets. First, cooperate with the Ministry of Finance, comprehensively rectify the unauthorized use of the Internet to sell welfare lottery tickets, and comprehensively conduct self-examination and inspection of national welfare lottery institutions and consignment agents. Second, vigorously adjust the rules of the quick opening game of welfare lottery to resolve the market risks of welfare lottery. The third is to improve the welfare lottery issuance management system. According to Economic Daily

　　CCTV News:According to the website of the National Bureau of Statistics,Issued by the National Bureau of Statistics1-mdash in 2023; The basic situation of the national real estate market in September.

　　I. Completion of investment in real estate development

　　1— In September, the national investment in real estate development was 8,726.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 9.1% (calculated by comparable caliber); Among them, residential investment was 6,627.9 billion yuan, down 8.4%.

　　1— In September, the housing construction area of real estate development enterprises was 8,156.88 million square meters, a year-on-year decrease of 7.1%. Among them, the residential construction area was 5,742.5 million square meters, down by 7.4%. The newly started building area was 721.23 million square meters, down by 23.4%. Among them, the newly started residential area was 525.12 million square meters, down by 23.9%. The completed housing area was 487.05 million square meters, an increase of 19.8%. Among them, the completed residential area was 353.19 million square meters, an increase of 20.1%.

　　Second, the sale and sale of commercial housing

　　1— In September, the sales area of commercial housing was 848.06 million square meters, down by 7.5% year-on-year, of which the sales area of residential housing decreased by 6.3%. The sales of commercial housing was 8,907 billion yuan, down by 4.6%, of which residential sales fell by 3.2%.

　　At the end of September, the area of commercial housing for sale was 645.37 million square meters, up 18.3% year-on-year. Among them, the residential area for sale increased by 19.7%.

　　Three, the real estate development enterprise funds in place

　　1— In September, real estate development enterprises received 9,806.7 billion yuan, down 13.5% year-on-year. Among them, domestic loans were 1.21 trillion yuan, down by 11.1%; The utilization of foreign capital was 3.6 billion yuan, down by 40.0%; Self-raised funds were 3,125.2 billion yuan, down by 21.8%; Deposits and advance receipts were 3,363.1 billion yuan, down 9.6%; Personal mortgage loans reached 1,702.8 billion yuan, down 6.9%.

　　

　　Fourth, the real estate development boom index

　　In September, the real estate development boom index (referred to as "national housing boom index") was 93.44.

Tea base in Panyao Village, seven buddha Township, Qingchuan County.

Overlooking the ten thousand mu tea garden in Meiling Village, Naxi District, Luzhou City.

Tea Garden in Jinping Town, pingshan county City, Yibin City.

Emeishan tea garden.

After the water-saving irrigation project of tea garden in Juexi Town, Xuzhou District, Yibin City was completed and put into use, the local tea production and output value showed an increasing trend.

Chashan Road Network, contention village, Huishan Town, wutongqiao district City, Leshan City.

At the end of the year, millions of acres of tea gardens in Sichuan are brewing a new season next spring.

On December 15th, the e-commerce live broadcast base of the national tea industry was officially unveiled in the Science Park of Chuancha Group, Jinqiuhu Town, Cuiping District, Yibin City. As one of the earliest spring teas listed in Sichuan, the pre-sale information of Yibin morning tea was released simultaneously on the whole network in 2024.

In 2023, Sichuan tea achieved gratifying results: the tea garden area in the province was stable at about 5.9 million mu, and the comprehensive output value was 120 billion yuan. This is the third consecutive year that the annual output value of Sichuan tea has exceeded 100 billion yuan, and it continues to maintain a high-spirited attitude of steady progress.

The construction of high-standard bases continues to advance, the intensive processing continues to break through, and the "Sichuan tea leaves Sichuan" runs out of the "acceleration" … In 2023, Sichuan tea handed over a high score answer sheet to help the rural areas revitalize in an all-round way.

The construction of high-standard bases continued to advance.

At the end of December, in Sanguan Village, Wuchang Town, Jiajiang County, Leshan City, the tea trees all over the mountains were green and green. Sanguan Village is the largest export tea filing base in Jiajiang County, and just finished picking this summer and autumn tea a few months ago. Promote standardized planting, machine-picked summer and autumn tea, and supply products to overseas markets. Sanguan Village was rated as "National Rural Characteristic Industry 100 million Village" by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs a few years ago.

Behind the completion of the "100 million yuan village" is the unremitting efforts of Sanguan Village to standardize and scale up the tea base.

According to the insiders, Sichuan tea was once faced with the dilemma of large area but scattered planting, many tea farmers but few large-scale operations. It is a key step to realize modern operation and improve economic benefits to build a small-scale, scattered tea garden into a large-scale, standardized, green, improved variety, digital and mechanized high-standard tea base.

Nowadays, in Sanguan Village, pieces of standardized tea gardens can be seen everywhere, and large-scale tea gardens have been formed, which has promoted the development of tea industry in the county. Jiajiang tea industry base has been built on a larger scale, with a tea planting area of 300,000 mu, including 100,000 mu of export tea filing base. In 2022, Jiajiang County’s tea export volume and export volume ranked first in the province.

In Sichuan, such tea bases are multiplying.

Since the beginning of this year, Sichuan has focused on the provincial-level projects such as the superior characteristic industrial cluster of morning tea in southwest Sichuan, the industrial cluster of black tea in Gongfu, and the strong town of agricultural industry, strengthened cooperation with academicians and scientific research institutions such as Sichuan Agricultural University, Tea Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Tea Research Institute of Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, strengthened Industry-University-Research’s collaborative research, popularized technologies such as machine mining, machine tillage and machine defense, and comprehensively applied the "two substitutes" green production and low-yield and low-efficiency tea garden transformation technologies. At the same time, implement integrated facilities of water and fertilizer in suitable areas, and vigorously promote the scale, standardization, greening, improved varieties, digitalization and mechanization of industrial bases.

A piece of high-standard tea garden is rapidly formed. The data shows that in 2023, the area of clonal tea gardens in the province reached 5,244,900 mu, an increase of 110,600 mu over the previous year; The area of low-yield and low-efficiency tea gardens in the province has reached 1.7 million mu, the area of mechanical tea gardens has reached 2.7637 million mu, and the area of green prevention and control has reached 4.615 million mu.

A batch of demonstration bases has accelerated. This year, tea bases in Rongxian County, Zigong City and Pingwu County, Mianyang City were selected into the list of high-quality development bases for agricultural international trade in the whole province, Shuang Fu Town, Emei Mountain City and Jiezi Town, Chongzhou City were selected as national agricultural industrial strong towns, Tuanba Town, Dazhu County, Caoba Town, Yucheng District, Ya ‘an City, Xintian Town, Yingjing County, Bazhong City, Yunding Town, wangcang county Mumen Town, Guangyuan City and Kuiduo Town, Jiulong County, Ganzi Prefecture were selected as provincial agricultural industrial strong towns.

The deep processing of tea has been continuously broken through.

Near the end of the year, a large number of agricultural industrial projects in Sichuan have been accelerated.

In Fenghuanghu Village, Dadukou Town, Naxi District, Luzhou City, the agricultural and sideline products processing park (tea processing factory) in Naxi District will speed up the decoration and equipment installation, and it is planned to be put into operation before the end of the year. After the park is put into operation, the annual processing capacity will reach 5,000 tons, which will effectively solve the problems of local tea planting, processing and sales, further enhance the tea processing capacity of Naxi Tea Modern Agricultural Park, extend the industrial chain, and cultivate and expand the scale of Naxi tea trading market.

As the "hometown of early morning tea in China", Naxi District is the earliest area where tea trees germinate at the same latitude in the world. In recent years, Naxi District regards the tea industry as one of the leading industries in the whole region, and based on the development idea of "early and organic", it cultivates refined Sichuan tea and builds a billion-dollar tea industry.

In view of the problems faced by Sichuan tea, such as low comprehensive utilization rate of tea deep processing and insufficient development of high-tech products and high value-added products, it is listed as an important matter for the high-quality development of Sichuan tea industry to improve the processing level of refined Sichuan tea. This year, Sichuan has further promoted the clean and standardized construction of tea enterprises, promoted the continuous, automatic, digital and intelligent transformation of production lines, improved the grading and product packaging capabilities, and improved the production efficiency and processing level of processing equipment. Around the construction of enterprise raw material base, guide the nearest standardized layout of processing workshops, transform and optimize processing equipment, and realize clean production.

The proportion of high-end famous tea continues to increase. This year, the province’s famous tea output reached 258,000 tons, the output value reached 35.49 billion yuan, the clean processing rate reached more than 75%, the mechanism rate reached 92%, and the facilities and equipment such as storage, preservation and cold chain logistics were more perfect. The output of characteristic craft teas such as yellow tea, white tea and purple tea continued to increase. This year, the output of yellow tea and purple tea in Guangyuan reached 70 tons and 1.2 tons respectively, with an output value of 1 billion yuan and 0.2 billion yuan.

The development of extended chain products continued to accelerate. This year, Guangyuan introduced the team of Liu Minru, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, to develop the value of brand tea, and Ya ‘an and west china hospital jointly studied the value of Tibetan tea, continuously extending the industrial chain and strengthening the value chain.

"Sichuan tea leaves Sichuan" runs out of "acceleration"

On November 15th, at the first China (Heilongjiang) International Green Food and National Soybean Industry Expo, the billboard printed with "Tianfu Longya Quality Sichuan Tea" was particularly conspicuous.

"This is Sichuan Tea’s’ Kanto’ after four years!" A comparison of the participation of Sichuan tea made Jiang Ningshan, deputy secretary of Sichuan Sichuan Sichuan Tea Brand Promotion Association, happy-four years ago, at the seventh Heilongjiang Green Food Industry Expo, there were only four tea enterprises in the province participating in the 200-square-meter exhibition area. In this activity, the 288-square-meter exhibition area occupied two-thirds of the product display, and the remaining space was crowded into 10 tea enterprises.

Not just an exhibition. This year, in Harbin Dafa International Tea City, as the first "stagnation point" of Sichuan tea in Northeast China, the Harbin Marketing Promotion Center of "Sichuan Tianfu Longya Quality Sichuan Tea" officially opened, which will exert its strength in the fields of Sichuan tea culture communication, Sichuan tea brand marketing, market development, regional investment promotion and joining, and form a complete three-dimensional service system. In addition, at the end of November, the promotion activity of Tianfu Longya Micangshan Tea in Urumqi was held in Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone (Toutunhe District), and the pace of Sichuan tea leaving Sichuan was more intensive.

The relevant person in charge of Sichuan Chuancha Brand Promotion Association introduced that this year Sichuan established an operating mechanism for the development, promotion, protection and utilization of Sichuan tea brands, built a brand system of "regional brand+enterprise brand+product brand", and promoted the construction of national and provincial geographical indication product protection demonstration zones. At the same time, adhere to the "Tianfu Longya" provincial public brand as the guide, and jointly promote the creation of regional public brands such as "three mountains and one red in the morning", establish and improve the brand standard system, increase the intensity of standard implementation and use, and conduct enterprise self-inspection, government sampling inspection and social supervision on products.

"Sichuan tea leaves Sichuan" runs out of "acceleration" This year, we continued to intensify the promotion of brand and quality Sichuan tea, and successively held tea events such as Sichuan Tea Mining Week, the 12th Sichuan International Tea Expo, the 4th International (Leshan) Green Tea Conference, and participated in exhibitions and sales activities such as China International Tea Expo and China (Chongqing) International Tea Industry Expo. During the Chengdu Universiade, Guangyuan Huangcha held a promotion activity of "Join hands with the Universiade to play in Guangyuan", and Yibin, Guangyuan, Ya ‘an and other places held promotion activities in Beijing, Urumqi and other major sales areas to further promote "Sichuan tea out of Sichuan".

Brand value continues to improve. This year, in the national tea regional public brand value selection, "Tianfu Longya" achieved excellent results of 4.321 billion yuan, and regional public brands such as "Mengdingshan Tea" and "Emeishan Tea" were among the best. In the list of 100 "Tianfu Granary" boutique (cultivated) brands released in 2023, 29 tea regional public brands, corporate brands and product brands were selected.

The new track boosts Sichuan tea "out of the circle". In April this year, Sichuan Shucha Industrial Group Co., Ltd. launched a new tea brand "Tea Tea Master" in Taikooli, Chengdu; In September, Sichuan Tea Group Co., Ltd. created a new Chinese tea shop "Chuanyan Tea Language" and opened four stores in Yibin at the same time; In November, during the Wuzhen Summit in world internet conference, the new tea "Freeze-dried Flash White Tea Coffee" under the regional public brand of "Dazhu White Tea" in Dazhu County was officially released.

Live broadcast with goods continuously enhances the influence of Sichuan tea. Sichuan Tea Industry Group Co., Ltd. relies on the advantage of "tea industry e-commerce live broadcast base" to realize the transformation of traffic and sales through high-frequency exposure of e-commerce live broadcast, accelerate the development of market-oriented branding, attract the concentration of external capital, resources and talent elements, open up the internal and external circulation of tea industry chain, and help "Sichuan tea leaves Sichuan" and brand break through.

Promote the high-quality development of refined Sichuan tea

"By 2030, the annual comprehensive output value of Sichuan tea will exceed 200 billion yuan, basically building a strong province of modern tea industry." Nowadays, it is getting closer and closer to achieving this goal, and the idea of accelerating the high-quality development of refined Sichuan tea is clearer.

Promote the improvement of tea garden quality and efficiency. We will continue to implement the construction of the dominant characteristic industrial cluster of morning tea in southwest Sichuan and the industrial cluster of black tea in Gongfu, Sichuan, guide the modern tea industrial park with foundation to establish a national modern agricultural industrial park, comprehensively promote the upgrading and transformation of low-yield and inefficient tea gardens, build a number of demonstration films of famous and excellent tea by machine, and build a record base for export tea. Promote the application of equipment such as fertilizer and water integration and smart tea gardens in areas where conditions permit, and improve the modernization level of tea gardens.

Improve the processing level of refined Sichuan tea. Support the initial processing into the base, build a processing workshop based on the specifications of the raw material base, and comprehensively improve the level of initial processing in the place of origin. Encourage refined processing into the park, improve storage and preservation facilities and equipment, improve the ability of grading and product packaging, and improve the quality, quality and commercialization of refined Sichuan tea. Accelerate the development of "new tea", expand the application of tea in medicine, health care products, food and cosmetics, and extend the industrial chain. Support the development of characteristic products such as yellowed tea, albino tea and purple tea.

Cultivate and expand the main body of market operation. We will promote the close cooperation and development of state-owned capital and private enterprises around primary, refined and deep-processed tea products and upstream and downstream related industries, and encourage powerful enterprises to integrate resources across regions. Relying on the working mechanism of "specialized and innovative" small and medium-sized enterprises and large enterprises and groups, we will develop a number of key benchmark tea enterprises with strong rural revitalization and driving force. Support leading tea enterprises to actively participate in the construction of tea industrialization consortium led by village collective economic organizations, farmers’ professional cooperatives, family farms and tea farmers, and promote the action of "prospering thousands of villages with Sichuan tea".

Create a famous brand in tea industry. Continue to implement the brand-building strategy of "regional brand+enterprise brand+product brand", and support the provincial-level regional public brand of "Tianfu Longya" to hold promotion activities in the main sales area to enhance brand value and product sales. Support the creation of regional public brands such as Mengdingshan Tea, Emeishan Tea, Micangshan Tea, Yibin Morning Tea and Chuanhong Gongfu Tea, and enhance the visibility of regional brands.

Build a marketing network. Establish and improve the marketing system of Sichuan tea, and explore the market-oriented and long-term operation mechanism of Sichuan tea marketing promotion center. Make Sichuan International Tea Expo a well-known tea industry exhibition in China. Organize key leading enterprises to actively participate in "China International Tea Expo", "China (Heilongjiang) International Green Food and National Soybean Industry Expo", and other major exhibition and sales activities to expand the market share of Sichuan tea. Open up direct sales channels for consumers such as live broadcast and delivery, and guide the standardized development of tea e-commerce.

Continue to promote the integration of tea tourism. Promote the construction of tea gardens as scenic spots, and develop a "tea tour" economy that integrates tea garden sightseeing, tea making experience, tea art appreciation and leisure and health preservation. Unify the development of tea industry with the construction of livable and suitable industries and beautiful rural areas, improve service facilities, empower tea, and promote the integration and mutual promotion of production villages and production cities. Dig deep into promoting Sichuan tea culture and tell good stories about Sichuan tea.

Looking to the future, Sichuan Tea, which stands at a new starting point, aims at a new goal and continues to help the rural areas to revitalize in an all-round way!(Xialv Image courtesy of Sichuan Sichuan Tea Brand Promotion Association)