Blind girls successfully registered for the national examination of teacher qualification certificate, but the written interview and physical examination are all difficult problems.

According to Red Star News, Wang Ying is a totally blind girl in Jinghai District of Tianjin. At 4: 40 pm on January 19th, only ten minutes left before the registration system was closed, she finally successfully signed up for the Tianjin Teacher Qualification Examination (written test).

She suffered from congenital glaucoma and was blind at the age of ten. Unfortunately, she was completely blind. She finished primary school and junior high school in a school for the blind, and later taught herself the knowledge of ordinary senior high school and took the adult high school entrance examination. In January 2017, she obtained an undergraduate diploma in social work from the National Open University. In addition, she took part in the self-taught examination of Chinese language and literature major in Beijing Normal University, with a total of 20 or 30 courses and five subjects to be completed.

Wang Ying’s computer and mobile phone are equipped with voice software, and every step of operation will be prompted, so that she can skillfully use electronic equipment. The pictures in this article are all Red Star News WeChat WeChat official account pictures.

She loves literature and dreams of being a Chinese teacher in high school. Her mother also wants her to have a job. The registration, Jinghai District Education Bureau, considering her eyesight, did not agree at first, and she and her mother insisted on finally signing up. But after that, there are still many unknown steps, such as applying for blind papers, interviewing, physical examination …

"If I don’t have the opportunity to participate in the process, how can I know that the result is not acceptable?" Wang Ying is the first blind candidate in Tianjin to register since the teacher qualification examination was included in the national examination. Her plan is to follow the procedure step by step.

You can’t always say that there is no precedent, you have to fight for it.. "Mom Wu Qingzhi hopes that Wang Ying can be such a" precedent ".

The teacher’s dream of blind girls

I started consulting four years ago and finally signed up this year.

From January 16th to 17: 00 on January 19th, this is the registration time of Tianjin National Primary and Secondary School Teacher Qualification Examination (written examination) in the first half of 2018, and the examination date is March 17th, 2018.

After the registration began, Wang Ying uploaded his own photos, and the audit results showed that the photos were unqualified.

Wang Ying’s registration failed many times, and the audit opinion showed that "the photo was unqualified". Finally, ten minutes before the registration deadline, he finally passed the audit and registered successfully.

On January 17th, Wang Ying and her mother went to the Education Bureau of Jinghai District for consultation. The staff of the Admissions Office said that because she was totally blind, she couldn’t register because she didn’t pass the physical examination. In fact, since 2014, their mother and daughter have been to the Education Bureau for consultation, and they will get such an answer every time.

She wants to apply for a high school Chinese teacher, which requires an undergraduate diploma to qualify. Before she finished her studies in the first few years, she just asked briefly, but now that she has an undergraduate diploma, she thinks she must sign up.

Wang Ying didn’t want to give up. She called Tianjin Education Admissions Examination Institute for consultation.

"It’s not that we restrict you. Even if you pass the written interview, you can’t get the teacher’s qualification certificate if you fail the physical examination. The final result is still the same." The staff of the examination institute answered her.

"This is different. Now it is a process. If I don’t have the opportunity to participate in the process, how can I know that the result is not possible?" Wang Ying said.

The staff of the examination institute consulted and still replied that she couldn’t: "First, we don’t have blind papers, and second, teachers don’t recruit blind people." And once again, I stressed that I can’t pass the physical examination and I can’t get the teacher qualification certificate.

The reporter obtained a schematic diagram of the work flow of Tianjin teacher qualification certification in 2017. According to this process, Wang Ying will face many tests next.

Wang Ying went on to reply that the examination papers or physical examinations for the blind are all things in the future and can’t be stuck in advance. "I just signed up and talked about it later."

"If you can’t take the test then, why do you sign up?" The staff asked.

"That’s the next step. Even if I can’t take the test then, it’s my personal reason." Wang Ying replied.

At 2 o’clock in the afternoon on the 19th, Wang Ying and her mother came to the Education Bureau of Jinghai District again and continued to strive for registration. At 4: 40, there were only ten minutes left before the registration system was closed. After reporting to the superior, the relevant staff of Jinghai District Education Bureau finally signed up Wang Ying.

"I have been grinding there and fighting for opportunities." Mother Wu Qingzhi recalled the situation at that time and breathed a sigh of relief.

There is no restriction on blind people in the application conditions.

The application materials for Braille papers or electronic papers have been mailed out.

Is Wang Ying qualified to register for the teacher qualification examination?

On the China Education Examination website, the reporter found the Announcement of Tianjin National Primary and Secondary School Teachers’ Qualification Examination (Written Examination) in the First Half of 2018, in which nine items were listed in the "Entry Conditions", which stipulated the qualifications, domicile, personnel relationship and other conditions, but did not put forward any related requirements such as prohibiting blind people from entering the examination.

Rui Huang, a lawyer of Henan Zhanzhan Law Firm, told Red Star News that Article 4 of the Regulations on Employment of Disabled Persons stipulates that the state encourages social organizations and individuals to help and support the employment of disabled persons through various channels and forms, and encourages disabled persons to obtain employment through various forms such as job application. Discrimination against disabled people in employment is prohibited, and disabled people should improve their own quality and enhance their employability.

"The regulations prohibit discrimination against disabled people in employment. If blind people are excluded from taking the teacher qualification examination without legal reasons, it is naked discrimination." Rui Huang said.

Successful registration is the first breakthrough, and then Wang Ying will start to plan the examination paper.

The examination time is March 17th, which is less than two months, and there is a Spring Festival holiday in the middle. After consulting lawyer Rui Huang, Wang Ying began to prepare materials quickly and wrote two applications, "one is to apply for an electronic test paper, and the other is to apply for special convenience." She told Red Star News that the application would be printed out after it was written and sent to the examination center of the Ministry of Education.

Wang Ying wrote the application.

It is understood that there are several ways for blind people to take exams: Braille papers, electronic papers or manual reading. On the afternoon of January 24th, Wang Ying and her mother printed the Application Form for Government Information Disclosure and other materials, and mailed them to the Ministry of Education, the Examination Center of the Ministry of Education, the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission and other departments at the post office to apply for Braille papers or electronic papers.

For the next steps, Wang Ying can’t think so far now. What she cares about now is the examination paper. Lawyer Rui Huang introduced that Article 54 of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Disabled Persons stipulates that all kinds of entrance examinations, vocational qualification examinations and post-holding examinations held by the state, in which blind people take part, should provide blind people with braille papers and electronic papers or be assisted by specialized staff.

Director of admissions

It is necessary to build a "blind road" and introduce special policies for special groups.

A staff member of Tianjin Education Admissions Examination Institute told Red Star News that in the second half of 2016, the teacher qualification examination was changed from the provincial examination to the national examination. After the national examination, the examination institute began to undertake related work, and Wang Ying was the first blind person to register.

"There should be more appeals and special measures should be taken for this special group." A director of the Admissions Office of the Education Bureau of Jinghai District, surnamed Liu, told Red Star News that at first, they thought that Wang Ying’s physical examination would definitely be a hard time, so they didn’t let her apply. Later, they saw that she really insisted. After asking the Tianjin Education Admissions Examination Institute, they agreed, and then they only said it step by step.

Director Liu introduced that there were also blind candidates who wanted to sign up for the teacher qualification examination before, but they were all discouraged because there were still vacancies in this area. "Just like blind people walking, let them go blind, but only if there is a blind road. If you let them walk on the normal road, they will definitely bump into each other and often violate traffic rules. "

Director Liu believes that this is not only a problem in Jinghai District or Tianjin. It is necessary to appeal to relevant departments to introduce special policies for special groups, because there are a series of procedures such as interview, physical examination and qualification recognition after the written test. "It is like building a blind road for them, and it will be unimpeded. If they are allowed to squeeze in ordinary people, they will be hit harder in the future."

Wang Ying reads books in Braille.

Executive Vice Chairman of China Blind Association

Disabled people are eligible to take the national examination, but there are many difficulties in practice.

Li Qingzhong, executive vice chairman of the China Association for the Blind, told Red Star News that there have been many successful cases of blind or visually impaired people becoming teachers at home and abroad, and they also have unique value. "For example, if a blind child is disobedient, an ordinary teacher will criticize it. It may make him rebellious, and blind teachers are more able to confide."

According to Li Qingzhong, according to relevant laws and regulations, disabled people are eligible to take national examinations, including college entrance examination, judicial examination, civil service examination, teacher qualification examination, etc. However, there are many difficulties in actual operation in various places, and even if they pass the examination, the physical examination standard is a great obstacle for them.

In the Education Bureau of Jinghai District, the reporter saw a printed "Tianjin Teacher Qualification Examination Standard", which showed:

Apply for the qualification of kindergarten and primary school teachers, with reference to the relevant provisions of the "secondary normal school enrollment physical examination standards"; Apply for the qualification of junior middle school teachers and above, with reference to the relevant provisions of the "higher normal school enrollment physical examination standards". The former stipulates that the sum of corrected visual acuity of both eyes is less than 5.0, and the latter is that the corrected visual acuity of both eyes is less than 5.0.

According to this standard, those whose corrected visual acuity is less than 5.0 in both eyes cannot be admitted.

Present situation of blind teachers

Both schools for the blind and ordinary schools have blind teachers.

Li Qingzhong told Red Star News that there are blind teachers in ordinary schools and schools for the blind, mostly in schools for the blind. There is no official statistics on the number of these blind teachers. However, there are nearly 100 blind teachers in a "group of blind teachers in national schools for the blind" he added. "There may be some others that we don’t know." According to Li Qingzhong, there are about 30 specialized schools for the blind in China.

Li Qingzhong introduced that most of the blind teachers in ordinary schools are blind halfway, such as Yang Jia, a professor at the Graduate School of China Academy of Sciences, and Fu Minghui, a professor at Sun Yat-sen University. "They were blind when they were very young, and then they made great contributions and proved to be competent for that job."

The blind teachers in blind schools, in addition to being blind halfway through the teacher qualification, were also blind before teaching, but they went to work in advance and obtained the teacher qualification after they were sure to be competent.

Wang Ying’s reading machine, if she wants to read ordinary books, she needs to scan pages into an electronic version, then use software to identify the words on the electronic version of the picture, convert them into documents, copy the documents into the reading machine, and read them out by voice.

Lv Min is a blind teacher in Anqing Special Education School. He was completely blind at the age of 12 due to traumatic retinal detachment, and then he was selected to enter the school. "We didn’t implement the teacher qualification certificate until many years after we joined the work, so we are a natural transition."

Lv Min told Red Star News that two young blind teachers who entered the school more than ten years ago passed the examination and obtained the teacher qualification, but at that time, the school came forward to communicate and got the certificate according to special circumstances. "It is difficult to coordinate the implementation of the national unified examination now, which is not something that schools can do."

A teacher from Tianjin School for the Visually Impaired told Red Star News that there are more than 50 teachers in the school, most of whom have normal vision or slightly low vision. There is only one teacher who is totally blind, which came more than 20 years ago. "Maybe it was not so strict at that time." Now, basically only normal vision can come in.

Beijing school for the blind is also in a similar situation. A teacher of the school told Red Star News that there are no completely blind teachers in the school, and a few of them have low vision. "They are all of a certain age, and they also met the relevant conditions at that time. It is not clear how they obtained the teacher qualification certificate before." The teacher introduced that if you want to enter the school as a teacher through public recruitment, including entering the Beijing School for the Blind, you must have a teacher qualification certificate, otherwise you will not be able to work.

"Recently, our China Blind Association also communicated with the Ministry of Education through the China Disabled Persons’ Federation and other departments, and put forward several requirements in writing, such as providing blind papers in some exams." Li Qingzhong said, firstly, we should strive to promote the admission of blind people into the teaching staff, and secondly, we should promote the amendment of laws and regulations. If a series of standards are not changed, it will be difficult for blind people to become teachers now.

"Dreamcatcher" in the dark

Take down the pages of the textbook, scan it and convert it into "lectures"

Wang Ying’s online name is "Dream Chaser". For more than twenty years, she has been doggedly following her dreams.

After finishing junior high school, because there were no ordinary high school courses in blind schools, Wang Ying had to study acupuncture, massage and other majors again. She didn’t like it, so she chose to drop out of school, teach herself ordinary high school courses and read a lot of books on literature, history and philosophy.

Besides Braille books, she needs to read many ordinary textbooks or books, and this process is tedious.

Wang Ying reviewed the textbooks for the teacher qualification examination. The textbooks were dismantled and every page could be taken down.

She needs to tear down the pages of ordinary textbooks, scan them into picture format with a scanner, then identify the words on the pictures with software and convert them into documents, and then copy the documents into a reading machine and read them out by voice. Recently, her reading machine broke down and she listened to it on the computer. "Some words can’t be recognized, and you have to type them by hand. It’s hard." Mom Wu Qingzhi said.

Wang Ying studies at home every day. Her computer and mobile phone are equipped with voice software, and there will be voice prompts at every operation step. With such assistance, she can skillfully operate electronic equipment. She writes articles, sends photos in qq space, and sends friends with WeChat. She added some friends to WeChat and qq, entered some groups, and the text and expression voice software sent by the other party would be read.

"If you send a picture, you will be prompted to have a picture, but I don’t know what the picture is." Wang Ying said.

There is a thick stack of award certificates, and I like to develop the photos of my visit into a book.

Wang Ying has a thick stack of award certificates. She has a wide range of interests. When she was a child, she liked to participate in various competitions such as recitation, speech, hosting and cross talk. Later, she mainly focused on literature and published her works in newspapers and magazines.

Wang Ying and her honorary certificate.

In 2006, she won the silver medal in recitation in the fourth national children’s artistic style exhibition competition; In 2007, after domestic selection, she went to Russia with more than a dozen other youth representatives to participate in the performance of the Sino-Russian Cultural Exchange Year and won the title of "Art Angel of Sino-Russian Friendly Exchange"; In 2015, she won the first prize of the first National Prose Competition for the Blind, and participated in TV programs such as Good Chinese Poetry and Tang Poetry.

She likes to travel, sometimes accompanied by her mother and sometimes attending summer camps. She developed many photos of her visit and made them into photo albums.

Wang Ying’s visual memory of the world is very vague, and she only has a little impression of the moon. She also has no visual concept of various colors, but she can describe them by imagination.

"For example, pink is a dreamy and romantic feeling." Wang Ying said. 

Original title: The blind girl successfully registered for the national examination of teacher qualification certificate, but the written test, interview and physical examination are all difficult problems.

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In the face of protectionism, what should China do in foreign trade? The State Council spoke.

China is responding in its own way to the unilateralism and trade protectionism that are rampant all over the world.

The Chinese government website announced on the 12th that Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, China, recently hosted a the State Council executive meeting, demanding greater opening-up and promoting diversified development of imports and exports. The meeting pointed out that taking enterprises as the main body and expanding diversified international markets are conducive to promoting the steady improvement of foreign trade and the smooth operation of the economy.

Simply put, we want to "sell globally" and "buy globally".

"global selling"

According to the latest data from the General Administration of Customs, China’s exports to major trading partners such as the European Union, ASEAN and Japan all increased steadily in the first five months of this year, with the export growth rate to the EU and ASEAN exceeding 10%; The trade volume with countries along the "Belt and Road" is also growing.

The figures will not deceive people, which shows that the market diversification of foreign trade enterprises in China is constantly advancing, and their ability to resist pressure and toughness is enhanced. Especially in the context of the current Sino-US trade friction, it has provided support for the steady development of China’s foreign trade.

Wang Xiaosong, a researcher at the National Development and Strategy Institute of Renmin University of China, told China News Service that China is a through train. Since the beginning of this year, the proportion of China’s exports to the EU has exceeded that to the United States, and the overall export situation is stable, which means that China’s exporters have opened up a wider market and the export diversification strategy has been gradually implemented.

Wang Xiaosong further pointed out that in the past, many enterprises relied too much on the United States and other single markets, believing that their markets were stable and their export profits were rich. However, in the current trade environment, the stability of the relevant market is no longer, which requires enterprises to adjust their business strategies. "If we can open up a broader export market, we can successfully cross this hurdle."

Talking about the diversified development direction, Bai Ming, deputy director of the International Market Research Institute of the Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce of China, believes that from the perspective of spatial breadth, China is actively adjusting the layout of the international market and expanding the third-country market and the national markets along the Belt and Road Initiative. From a high point of view, foreign trade enterprises should accelerate transformation and upgrading, open up more new fields, and cultivate and create new advantages in international trade competition.

"global buy"

While bringing the gold-lettered signboard "Made in China" to all parts of the world, China has also opened its doors to welcome all kinds of high-quality imported goods and services.

In fact, imported goods are now closely embedded in the daily life of China people. Avocado in the United States, cherries in Chile, red shrimp in Argentina … There are all kinds of delicious food from afar on the table; French perfume, Japanese cosmeceuticals, Korean masks … The bottles and jars on the dresser are printed with all kinds of words. So that some netizens in China laughed and said that if all foreign goods at home were taken away, "it would be at least half empty".

The strong import expansion policy has also provided conditions for a large increase in imports. In the past year, China’s import tariffs have been lowered many times, involving thousands of tax items such as medicines, complete vehicles and parts, consumer goods, mechanical and electrical equipment; The import clearance time was reduced by nearly half compared with the previous year. In the words of Li Kuiwen, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs of China, a series of policies and measures such as actively expanding imports have effectively stimulated the import vitality of enterprises.

Let’s look at another set of figures: from 2017 to 2018, the import volume of China increased by more than 200 billion US dollars, which is close to the total import volume of Switzerland in one year!

"In international trade, export is only a means, and import is the purpose," said Su Qingyi, an associate researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics of China Academy of Social Sciences. Only when export is finally reflected in import can it really play a role in improving welfare. Expanding China’s imports will not only enhance the welfare of consumers, but also make the economic and trade development more balanced and full.

Zhao Ping, director of the International Trade Research Department of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, pointed out that expanding the import of featured high-quality goods and services and enriching domestic consumption choices not only conforms to the current consumption upgrading trend in China, but also accelerates the pace of consumption structure upgrading. At the same time, by expanding imports, China will assume more responsibilities as a big country, and it will also allow the world to share its own development dividend.

How to do it?

To promote the diversification of imports and exports, the meeting proposed a number of measures, including actively promoting the signing of high-standard free trade agreements and regional trade agreements with more countries. Study and expand the comprehensive experimental area in cross-border electronic commerce. Encourage enterprises to improve the international marketing network and promote the export of products that meet the needs of the international market. Actively increase imports. Promote a balanced, stable and healthy development of imports and exports.

It is worth mentioning that at present, China is accelerating the construction of a high-standard free trade zone network based on the surrounding areas, radiating the "Belt and Road" and facing the world. At present, China has signed free trade agreements with more than ten economies along the Belt and Road, such as ASEAN, Singapore and Pakistan, and is actively promoting the negotiation of regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) and free trade agreements with Israel, Sri Lanka and other countries.

Wang Shouwen, Vice Minister of Commerce, recently revealed that this year China will continue to accelerate the construction of a free trade zone and actively play the role of a free trade agreement; Support enterprises to explore diversified markets and increase the import and export of goods and services on a larger scale.

At the same time, taking the development of cross-border e-commerce as a breakthrough to promote the liberalization, facilitation and innovation of international trade is of great significance for accelerating the transformation of foreign trade development mode and enhancing comprehensive competitiveness.

Since the State Council approved the establishment of cross-border electronic commerce Comprehensive Experimental Zone in 2015, relevant regions have tried first in terms of technical standards, business processes and supervision modes, forming a series of good experiences and practices, and the import and export scale of the comprehensive experimental zone has increased rapidly.

Experts said that this move will help increase the import of foreign competitive products, encourage enterprises to speed up the construction of "overseas warehouses" and global marketing networks, build well-known brands of cross-border e-commerce, actively explore diversified markets, promote the stable development of foreign trade, and improve international competitiveness. (Wang Enbo)

 

Chengdu announces the sixth batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage projects.

On April 15th, the list of the sixth batch of representative municipal intangible cultural heritage projects in Chengdu was officially announced. This time, a total of 39 projects were selected as municipal intangible cultural heritage, among which there were many traditional folk activities loved by citizens, such as Chengdu Temple Fair of Wuhou Temple, You Xi Shen Fang, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival in West Sichuan, and traditional skills such as cooked oil and sea pepper, which gathered the collective memory of old Chengdu people.

The sixth batch of Chengdu-level intangible cultural heritage announced this time is divided into seven categories, including traditional music, traditional dance and traditional skills. In 39 projects, Qiang flute performance and production skills, as well as Wuhou Temple Chengdu Temple Fair, Youxi Shenfang and other folk customs were selected. However, the most noteworthy thing in this list is that 17 items are all traditional techniques, including traditional production techniques such as Pujiang bean curd, Tianhui bean curd, Xindu Osmanthus Jelly, Chengdu Third Artillery and even Chengdu hot pot. In the future, these protected cooking techniques will ensure that they will always be "familiar recipes and familiar tastes". (Reporter   Wu Xiaoling)

Ou Yangming Gao, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences: In 2030, L4-class fully-automatic passenger cars based on end-to-end large models will be commercialized in mid-to high-end passenger ca

On March 29th, at the China Electric Vehicle committee of 100 Forum 2025 held today, Ou Yangming Gao, vice chairman of China Electric Vehicle committee of 100 and academician of China Academy of Sciences, said that the multi-modal large model as the base model of the end-to-end algorithm can empower high-order autonomous driving technology, but it also needs to solve the safety and reliability problems of the large model. At the same time, L3 autopilot needs to solve relevant laws and regulations as soon as possible, and L4 autopilot needs to accumulate experience step by step, so it is not appropriate to mention national autopilot for the time being. "In 2030, the L4-class fully automatic passenger car based on the advanced end-to-end large model will be commercialized in the middle and high-end passenger car scale." Ou Yangming high expectations. (Cailian)

Queue for more than 2 hours, monthly revenue of more than 2 million, this niche hot pot is on the rise.

Will Guizhou sour soup hot pot become the next hot pot category going to the whole country?

This article was originally published by Hongcan. com (ID: hongcan18) by Zhou Lich; Editor: Jing Xue.

From Wenchang Chicken in Hainan to Pot-stewed in Northeast China … More and more local specialties have been exported from the region, opening a nationwide development path. 

Among them, Guizhou Sour Soup Hot Pot has been popping up in many places all over the country since last year. In 2024, the development momentum of this niche hot pot, which was once settled in Guizhou, is still increasing. 

Young people have to wait in line for more than 2 hours to eat, and some stores earn more than 2 million yuan a month.

At the beginning of February, Jiumaojiu Catering Group launched a new brand "Shanwai Guizhou Sour Sour Sour Soup Hot Pot". With the entry of big brands, many catering people began to look at this niche hot pot category. But in fact, Guizhou sour soup hot pot is not a new thing. 

The climate in Guizhou is warm and humid, which provides unique conditions for natural fermentation and colony formation, and also makes a number of delicious foods featuring "sour soup". Guizhou Sour Soup Hot Pot is a hot pot soup base with bright red color and rich sour taste, which is made by salting and fermenting Maospicy fruit (local wild tomato) and adding red pepper and other main raw materials. 

△ Image source: Red Meal Network photo 

Guizhou sour soup hot pot, which was almost always settled in Guizhou, is not common outside Guizhou Province. But since last year, in Shanghai, Chengdu and other places, Guizhou sour soup hot pot began to stir up frequently. 

For example, in Shanghai, there are many brands such as Wangfu Guizhou Sour Sour Sour Sour Sour Beef Hotpot, Shanwanshan Guizhou Sour Sour Sour Sour Beef Hotpot, Barili Guizhou Sour Sour Sour Beef Hotpot, and Wangfendou Guizhou Sour Sour Sour Beef Hotpot. Among them, Wangfu Guizhou Sour Sour Sour Soup Hot Pot was also listed on the must-eat list of Shanghai public comment in 2023. 

Wang Fendou, who opened his first store in October last year, opened nearly 50 stores in just four months. Hongcan. com learned from Huang Qingjie, founder of Wang Fendou Guizhou Sour Soup Beef Hotpot, that the monthly turnover of some newly opened stores can reach more than 2 million yuan. 

△ Image source: Wang Fendou Guizhou Sour Soup Beef Hotpot 

In Sichuan and Chongqing, not far from Guizhou, Guizhou sour soup hot pot has also developed rapidly. Jiang Yi, the founder of Sichuan Haoxia Chuan, said that since the second half of 2023, a number of stores specializing in Guizhou sour soup hot pot have sprung up in Sichuan and Chongqing, and most of them appear in the form of "Qian xx hot pot" stores, such as Qian Sanyi Anshun grabbing powder hot pot and Guizhou sour soup hot pot. 

According to the big data of red meal, up to now, there are more than 60 stores in the country that have won the powder hot pot in Anshun. The total number of stores in Guizhou’s sour soup hot pot has also reached more than ten. From the very beginning, these brands opened more stores in business districts and communities with a large number of young people, attracting many young consumers to queue up for tasting. 

Chain hot pot brands have added product lines, and there are many sour soup hot pot products. In addition to the above-mentioned 99 cents, roadside and Haidilao also added sour soup products to their stores last year. In September 2023, the bottom of sour soup pot was put on the roadside, combining Guizhou acid with Sichuan and Chongqing spicy; In November last year, Haidilao also added a new "Guizhou red sour soup" pot bottom in the region. 

On the market demand side, consumers’ enthusiasm for Guizhou sour soup hot pot continues to rise. 

Hongcan. com noticed that after the official opening of Jiumaojiu’s "Guizhou Sour Sour Sour Sour Soup Hotpot" in Guangzhou and Foshan, the store business has been good. When Hongcan. com visited its Guangzhou store on the spot, it was found that during the dinner time on weekdays, the queue time of the store was basically more than 2 hours. 

△ Image source: Red Meal Network photo 

Up to now, the topic of "Guizhou Sour Soup Hot Pot" has been broadcasted more than 20 million times in Tik Tok. 

The taste recognition is high, the consumers are extensive, and the standardized soup base supply promotes rapid replication.

Hot pot has already entered the Red Sea market, and the competition is fierce, the market is becoming more and more saturated, and consumers are becoming more and more picky. Then, why can Guizhou Sour Soup Hotpot, which came out of Guizhou, be deus ex? 

We have to start with internal and external factors. 

From the external environment, the popularity of Guizhou sour soup hot pot is not unrelated to the tourism economic boom in Guizhou last year. According to the data released at the press conference on the economic operation of Guizhou Province in 2023, the total number of tourists and the total income of tourists in Guizhou increased by 29.2% and 41.2% respectively over the previous year. 

Tourists will not miss any delicious food, and the unique sour soup base is sour and spicy, appetizing and highly recognizable. Therefore, the hot pot of sour soup has become one of the representatives of local food in Guizhou, which is widely praised by tourists. Many tourists are obsessed with it and spread it widely on social platforms. With the enlargement of social platforms, the heat of hot pot of sour soup in Guizhou naturally rises. 

△ Image source: Juhui Meal Tone 

More importantly, the supply chain behind Guizhou sour soup is becoming more and more mature, which, to a certain extent, has also boosted Guizhou sour soup hot pot to the whole country. 

It is understood that the sour soup in Guizhou is particularly "stingy", and the fermentation will fail with a little carelessness. But nowadays, a number of catering supply chain enterprises, including Juhui Cuidiao and Qianwei Gaotang, have been able to provide merchants with standard and stable sour soup bottoms, and even customize the sour soup bottoms according to the individual needs of catering enterprises. 

This solves the biggest problem of scale and rapid replication of Guizhou sour soup hot pot. In addition, a manufacturer specializing in the production of hot pot bottom said that the cost of butter pot bottom can reach more than that of 40 yuan, while the cost of sour soup hot pot bottom is lower, which also brings more profit space to catering businesses. 

Judging from the characteristics of Guizhou sour soup hot pot, firstly, it has universal taste and can bring freshness to consumers. Yao Zhe, founder of Hezhonghe, said that Guizhou Sour Soup Hot Pot will be more refreshing than Sichuan-Chongqing Hot Pot. This makes sour soup hot pot more universal, which can not only attract young people, but also be acceptable to some family customers. 

On this basis, many sour soup hot pot restaurants in Guizhou will also provide snacks and drinks with Guizhou regional characteristics, such as soft whistle, potato Baba, Rosa roxburghii juice, and even prepare dipping materials with local characteristics such as broken ears, litsea nut oil and burnt pepper for customers, which will bring more freshness to consumers. 

△ Image source: Wang Fendou Guizhou Sour Soup Beef Hotpot 

Secondly, most of the hot pot restaurants with sour soup in Guizhou, which are emerging on the market, have the characteristics of "high cost performance". 

Wang Fendou Guizhou Sour Soup Beef Hotpot Restaurant has a package activity of "18 yuan Air Transport Wild Vegetables for Unlimited Eating"; The per capita consumption of Wangfu Guizhou sour soup hot pot is about 60 yuan; Outside the mountain, the price of the main sour soup pot bottom in Guizhou sour soup hot pot restaurant is only 29 yuan, and the per capita price is only around 80 yuan … Compared with Sichuan-Chongqing hot pot, Guizhou sour soup hot pot is obviously close to the people, which is in line with the current trend of paying more attention to "cost performance" in catering consumption. 

The first round of "scale competition" has started, and the category bonus has yet to be tapped.

Nowadays, in the eyes of many catering practitioners, this wave of consumption boom of Guizhou sour soup hot pot will continue in 2024, and the dividend of Guizhou sour soup hot pot has yet to be tapped. 

"At present, Sichuan-Chongqing hot pot is especially involved. From products, decoration to marketing activities, bosses will not let go of any details. On the contrary, it is a more differentiated and cost-effective Guizhou sour soup hot pot, and there may be opportunities to run out some large-scale and influential brands in the future. " The founder of a Sichuan-Chongqing hot pot brand told Hongcan. 

According to it, many catering practitioners are looking for suitable pavements to open Guizhou sour soup hot pot restaurant, and operators of other hot pot restaurants are planning to add Guizhou sour soup and other related products to their stores. 

Judging from the current operation of Guizhou Sour Soup Hotpot Restaurant on the market, everyone seems to be riveting hard, ready to start the first round of "scale competition" and want to seize the head position of the track. After all, only when the scale and volume are large enough can we further promote the formation of back-end procurement advantages and compete with peers for cost performance. 

△ Image source: Qian Sanyi Anshun grabbed the powder hot pot official website 

Jiang Yi told Hongcan. com that there is no absolute head brand in the field of sour soup hot pot in Guizhou. Whoever can take the lead in running out of scale in 2024 will eat up the dividends of this category in the following years. "Almost all teams that want to be large-scale want to find a super category that can be replicated and expanded nationwide in 2024, and" sour soup+beef+hot pot "just caters to this fanatical expansion demand!" 

However, behind the racetrack in Qian Fan, some "cold thinking" is also needed. 

Jiang Yi said that there is still a question mark about how high Guizhou sour soup hot pot can reach. Although sour soup can stimulate taste buds, it is not addictive enough. The ceiling of Guizhou sour soup hot pot can only achieve the degree of development of Chaoshan beef hot pot in the country at most, and finally it will probably shrink back to the regional market and become a regional category, which is difficult to become a national strong category. 

Yao Zhe also pointed out that when a category is on fire, it is inevitable that there will be many followers. In this way, although the categories are expanded and popularized together, it will also cause excessive supply and fierce competition, forming a competitive pattern in the Red Sea. 

"Sour soup hot pot has come out with regional characteristics and established a certain market awareness. However, at present, sour soup hot pot is mainly engaged in young people’s business. Young people are too changeable. How can brands attract this part of consumers for a long time and achieve long-term ism is still a problem that operators must think about." Yao Zhe said. 

Aesthetic exploration of four Kunqu operas, such as the new edition of the Jade Hairpin: blending the classical with the modern.

  On April 4th, a new version of Kunqu Opera "Bailuo Shirt", which was co-produced by Suzhou Kunqu Theatre and Bai Xianyong, was staged at Shanghai Oriental Art Center. The play was once again written by Zhang Shuxiang, the screenwriter of the youth version of Peony Pavilion, and directed by Yue Meiti, the first female student of Kunqu Opera. This tragic work is another attempt by Bai Xianyong to attract contemporary audiences with the new aesthetics of Kunqu Opera.

  Since the rehearsal of the youth version of the Kunqu Opera Peony Pavilion in 2002, Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre has cooperated with Bai Xianyong for four times in 17 years, and produced new versions of the Jade Badge, Bailuo Shirt and Chivalrous Man, except the youth version of the Peony Pavilion. The new performance of the old opera has integrated the exploration of the new aesthetics of Kunqu opera by contemporary Kunqu artists and cultural scholars, which not only gives the audience the ultimate aesthetic enjoyment, but also leads to in-depth thinking and discussion on human nature because of the characters in the play.

  Adapting the script from the perspective of human nature to convey truth and goodness.

  Where is the new version of Kunqu Opera? The new edition of Bailuo Shirt first explores the theme and the ideological excavation of characters. The original "Bailuo Shirt" is a simple public security drama, which tells that Su Yun and his wife hired a boat to take office in the Qing Dynasty, but they were victimized by the ship owner Xu Neng in the middle, and their husband was pushed into the river, and his wife escaped from being rescued and gave birth to a son, which was unintentionally picked up by Xu Neng. He was brought up with great care and named Xu Jizu. Eighteen years later, he made a tour of the Eight Houses, and happened to meet Su Yun’s grievance. Xu Jizu killed his adoptive father to avenge his death and had a happy reunion with his biological mother.

  After repeated discussions between Zhang Shuxiang and the creative staff, the original ending is formulaic, binary opposition between good and evil, simple thinking and flat characterization, which can not meet the high expectations and demands of modern audiences for emotion, mind and aesthetics. The crew finally decided to adapt the original work and set the theme in father and son, fate, humanity, redemption, affection and beauty. The last film "Trial in Court" became the climax of the whole drama. At this time, the truth has been revealed, and both father and son have fallen into the trap of fate and struggled painfully. In any case, Xu Jizu can’t be inhuman, and suddenly he will kill his adoptive father who loves him and loves him according to the law. Under the impact of emotion and responsibility, his heart shakes and tears. Xu Neng, whose beautiful image disappeared in front of his son, did not dare to expect his son to forgive him. In the emotional entanglement of fear and disillusionment, he chose to commit suicide in order to fulfill and protect his son, showing the warm side of human nature and realizing self-redemption. The whole play came to an abrupt end here, and the tragic emotion reached the highest point.

  The tension of tragedy is seldom used in traditional Chinese drama, so the new version of Bailuo Shirt has brought great shock to the audience. Starring Yu Jiulin, Xu Jizu’s inner contradictions and emotional struggles are vividly presented, which makes the audience struggle with the protagonist’s fate. In addition to watching the stage and the beauty of music and singing, it also shows the complexity and diversity of the characters’ personalities, which has triggered contemporary people’s in-depth thinking about human nature.

  Through the portrayal of the character Xu Jizu in the new edition of Bailuo Shirt, Yu Jiulin also completed the leap from a towel student to an official student in performance. "Liu Mengmei in the youth edition of Peony Pavilion is a towel student, paying attention to charming, bookish and a little stupid. Xu Jizu in the new version of "Bailuo Shirt" is an official student, with higher requirements for singing, wider range and more connotation in shaping characters. " Yu Yulin told reporters.

  The purpose of adaptation is to better interpret and inherit the classic plays in the contemporary era. The new edition of "The Heroes of Justice" is based on the version of Teacher Liang Guyin in the 1970s, with slight changes. The original version features Wu Song, while the new edition features Pan Jinlian. Through this play, Lv Jia, an actor of Suzhou Kunju Theatre, has well inherited the essence of Liang Guyin’s performance, and added his own understanding and expression of the characters, giving Pan Jinlian a new color from the perspective of human nature.

  After careful polishing, including the above four new versions of Kunqu Opera, Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre has put 14 major plays on the stage, including The Palace of Eternal Life, Xi Shi, The Story of the White Rabbit and The Broken Mountain.

  Blending the new aesthetics of Kunqu Opera into the classical program to meet the modern aesthetic needs.

  "The aesthetic feature of Kunqu Opera is that it is poetic, exquisite and elegant in freehand brushwork, which is reflected by different trades and characterization and has already formed an inherent cognition." Cai Shaohua, director of Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre in Jiangsu Province, told reporters how to integrate new concepts into the traditional Kunqu aesthetics and make Kunqu more poetic and elegant. Since the youth edition of Peony Pavilion, Bai Xianyong and the creative team have explored it. In Peony Pavilion, male and female flower gods are made to fall from the sky like fairies in cloaks embroidered with gorgeous flowers such as begonia, orchids and chrysanthemums, which makes the fairy scene in the story of dreams and feelings beautiful. The concept of new aesthetics of Kunqu opera was really put forward from the new edition of the Jade Hairpin.

  If The Peony Pavilion is an epic, The Jade Hairpin is a sketch. However, there is a "Qin Tiao" in "Jade Hairpin", which is about the protagonists Chen Miaochang and Pan Bizheng playing the piano to convey their love for each other. There is also a poem Stealing, in which Chen Miao often expresses his love for Pan Bizheng with poems. There are violins and poems, which convey feelings with violins and meanings with poems. Therefore, Bai Xianyong believes that the play "The Tale of the Jade Hairpin" has great potential to embody the extreme elegance of Kunqu Opera and realize the characteristics of abstraction, freehand brushwork, lyricism and poeticization which are very compatible with the basic aesthetics of China culture.

  Compared with the youth version of The Peony Pavilion, the new version of The Jade Hairpin has taken a step towards simplicity and freehand brushwork, interweaving poetry, calligraphy and piano on the same stage, and pushing the aesthetics of Kunqu Opera to a higher level of lyric poetry. In the play, Dong Yangzi’s calligraphy and Xi Song’s painting art create a world of ink and wash on the stage. Tong Wang, the artistic director, reduced the color of her costume design by one degree, which made it more elegant and exquisite. In the play, the audience can also enjoy the live performance of Li Xiangting, a guqin master, of the Tang Dynasty royal guqin "Nine-Xiao Huanpei", which is the first joint performance of the oral and intangible cultural heritages of the two worlds.

  Following the idea of presenting the beauty of the dance in the Jade Hairpin, the protagonist Xu Jizu, as a third-rate official of the imperial court, should wear a big red official uniform according to the convention in the Bailuo Shirt staged in 2016. However, in the new version of Bailuo Shirt, the color of the official uniform is mainly gold and white, which is outstanding and elegant. The chivalrous man, which premiered in 2018, boldly used China’s paper-cut art as the basic expression vocabulary of the stage background and the beauty of the dance. In addition, the costumes became more refined and incorporated the moral expression of the protagonist’s inner character.

  How to integrate the classical aesthetics of Kunqu opera with the aesthetic consciousness of the 21st century is the biggest challenge for contemporary Kunqu opera production. The principle of the four new versions of Kunqu Opera is to respect the classics but not follow them step by step, and to make use of the modern without "abusing the modern". "We all abide by the traditional singing, reading and doing of Kunqu opera, and modern elements such as lighting and dancing are integrated into the classical framework in an unobtrusive way, making the whole play both classical and modern." Bai Xianyong said.

  Judging from the audience’s reaction, they recognized the exploration of the new version of Kunqu Opera, and thought that this innovation made the interpretation space freehand and smooth, and made Kunqu Opera "more lyrical, more beautiful and more enjoyable". "In fact, modern audiences not only regard Kunqu opera as a serious performing art, but also regard Kunqu opera as a representative of oriental aesthetics and as a life aesthetics, and integrate it into their daily lives. In this direction, there will be more and more fans of Kunqu Opera. " Cai Shaohua believes.

  From the script to the actor and then to the audience, the inheritance ecology is formed.

  Walking into the garden-like architecture of Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre, Zhang Jiqing is teaching Liu Yu the passbook drama "Broken Mountain". Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre has been established for 60 years, from word generation to succession, inheritance, publicity and promotion, and has now spread to the sixth generation of vibrating characters. There are more than 20 young actors in Zhenzi generation, who are old, young, ugly and colorful. Twenty-seven-year-old Liu Yu is one of the vibration generation. She is a "kowtowing disciple" of Zhang Jiqing. She has been studying with Zhang Jiqing for seven years. This year, Zhang Jiqing is going to teach her the complete version of "Rotten Keshan". After experience, Liu Yu has been able to take the lead in the drama independently. The youth version of Peony Pavilion won three books in nine hours, and participated in the performance of the National Grand Theatre on behalf of Jiangsu Province as the starring role of The Legend of the White Snake, and won the outstanding performance award of Jiangsu Bauhinia Wenhua twice.

  The inheritance of Kunqu Opera is a cycle every fifteen years, and the fault will bring immeasurable losses to Kunqu Opera. Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre insists on promoting people with drama and leading teams with drama, forming a benign echelon structure. It is stipulated in the academy that every actor must learn a passbook drama every year, and national first-class actors must teach young actors at least one passbook drama every year. If a play is included in the inheritance plan of the theater, a crew will be formed for the overall inheritance. Every year, at least 12 passbook plays in Su Kun are passed down as a whole and put on the stage.

  According to written records, there are more than 2,000 folds of Kunqu opera texts, mainly legends of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and about 450 folds can be performed. Suzhou Kunqu Theatre has been rescuing and protecting traditional opera in recent years. At present, about 200 percent of it can be put on the stage. Yu Jiulin, Shen Fengying, Zhou Xuefeng and other "Plum Blossom Award" winners are the "pillars" of Suzhou Kunqu Theatre at present, and they are responsible for the performance of big plays and the teaching of young actors.

  From the script to the actors and then to the audience, Kunqu opera has formed a systematic inheritance in these years. The youth version of Peony Pavilion undoubtedly established the position of Kunqu Opera in the minds of the younger generation. In the past 15 years, the Youth Edition of Peony Pavilion has performed a total of 342 performances, with an audience of 800,000 people, 72% of whom are young, and 25% of them have entered the campus. They have successively entered more than 30 famous schools at home and abroad, which has reduced the age level of Kunqu opera audiences by 30 years, which has won more audiences for the new editions of Yu Pin Ji, Bai Luo Shirt and Yi Xia Ji. Before each performance, the organizer will try to arrange guided tours, with famous cultural scholars giving keynote lectures and leading actors demonstrating performances, so as to deepen the audience’s understanding and appreciation of the play.

  Over the past decade, nearly 20 universities at home and abroad, such as Peking University, Hongkong University and Berkeley University, have offered Kunqu courses or set up Kunqu credits. Bai Xianyong and Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre insisted on promoting Kunqu Opera in colleges and universities, and the 11th Oriental Famous Drama Month was held in Shanghai on March 8th — — At the media meeting of the Kunqu Opera Bai Luo Shan and Yi Xia Ji in Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre, representatives from Tongji University and other universities accepted the tickets presented by the organizers for the new edition of Bai Luo Shan and Yi Xia Ji, which planted the seeds of hope for the popularization of Kunqu Opera.

  Suzhou Kunqu Theatre, located on Jiaochang Road in the ancient city, is regarded as the most beautiful theater by the public. In the open experience space, three performance forms are designed: theater version, hall version and garden live version. "On the basis of adhering to the essence of inheritance, we plan to make the Kunqu Opera Life Aesthetics Experience Park, and express the oriental aesthetics through the combination of drama and space. This can be understood as a kind of performance art, so that more people can find relevant interests through experience, so that Kunqu Opera can be deeply embedded in people’s daily lives and realize the live transmission of Kunqu Opera in the audience." Cai Shaohua said.

  (Reporter Su Yan)

Xiaomi car, not enough "millet"

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On December 28th, Xiaomi Automobile Technology Conference was held in the National Convention Center, which officially revealed the progress and breakthrough of five core technologies of Xiaomi Automobile, and ushered in the first appearance of Xiaomi SU7, the first product of the platform. The design, performance, battery life, safety and other details of SU7 were made public for the first time. Next, let’s briefly understand the core technology of the big show at the meeting and the details of Xiaomi SU7, and finally we will analyze and summarize it.

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Release of five core technologies

At this conference, Lei Jun mainly introduced the five core technologies of Xiaomi Automobile: electric drive, battery, large die casting, intelligent cockpit and intelligent driving.

01

Xiaomi "super motor"

The speed of V6 and V6s which have been mass-produced is 21,000 rpm. Among them, the V6 super motor has a maximum power of 220kW and a peak torque of 400N·m, and is built with a 400V architecture. The V6s super motor has a maximum power of 275kW and a peak torque of 500N·m, and is built with 800V architecture. As for the V8s, which has not been mass-produced, the speed is as high as 27,200 rpm, which is the first in the industry from the data point of view, but it will not be available until 2025.

02

CTB integrated battery technology

The integrated efficiency of CTB integrated battery of Xiaomi Automobile reached 77.8%, which increased by 24.4% and released the height of 17 mm.. At the same time, the full-stack self-developed battery management system equipped with ASIL-D’s highest functional safety level can collect data in real time, encrypt the cloud through the private network for analysis and early warning, and realize active power failure within 4ms when necessary.

03

9100t Super Die Casting

The mold force reaches 9100t, and Xiaomi’s self-developed visual large model quality judgment system can complete the inspection within 2 seconds, with 10 times higher efficiency than manual work and 5 times higher precision than elite. With the application of this technology, 72 parts of the back floor of Xiaomi automobile are integrated, 840 solder joints are reduced, the overall weight is reduced by 17%, and the production hours are greatly reduced by 45%. In terms of material research and development, Xiaomi has developed a high strength, high toughness and heat-free environmental protection die-casting material "Titan alloy".

04

Full-stack self-developed intelligent driving technology

The industry’s first three key technologies, namely, adaptive zoom BEV technology, large road model and super-resolution occupation network technology, can be combined with the large air-to-end perception decision model, and can accurately park in the 0.05m mechanical garage. Lei Jun said that it is estimated that more than 100 cities can start urban assisted driving by the end of 2024.

05

"People-centered" Intelligent Cockpit

1.49S starts at top speed, the cockpit system is upgraded for 3 minutes, and the whole vehicle is upgraded for 30 minutes. It has a strong ecology, deeply adapts to mainstream applications, and more than 5,000 applications get on the bus. Moreover, the mobile phone X car is interconnected and connected across terminals, and the mobile phone application PIN is put on the car anytime and anywhere, and the car machine is native in seconds. In addition, the huge hardware ecology, the mijia equipment, and no feeling of getting on the bus. Car IOT hardware ecology is fully open to the public and freely develops various applications.

02

Xiaomi SU7 has bright parameters.

With the blessing of five core technologies, the core competitiveness of SU7 has the following points:

01

The maximum power is 495kW, the acceleration time is 2.78 seconds per 100 km, the braking distance is 33.3m per 100 km, and the maximum speed can reach 265 km/h, which exceeds Taycan Turbo and Model S.

02

CLTC has a mileage of 800 kilometers, and supports 800V super fast charging, supporting 200 kilometers battery life in 5 minutes and 510 kilometers battery life in 15 minutes.

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03

The car is equipped with five screens, including a 16.1-inch central control screen, a 56-inch HUD, a 7.1-inch instrument panel and two millet tablets in the rear seat. The car machine uses the latest 8295 car and chips and the 澎湃 OS interactive system, which can make the car machine of Xiaomi SU7 highly integrated with Xiaomi mobile devices and even intelligent furniture, and the accounts can be interoperable, so applications can be directly used on the car.

04

Full-stack self-developed intelligent technology and self-developed sensing technology, self-developed adaptive zoom BEV technology, large road model and super-resolution network technology are adopted to achieve a comprehensive leap in visibility accuracy, sensing accuracy and control accuracy.

05

The length, width and height of Xiaomi SU7 are 4997/1963/1440mm and the wheelbase is 3000mm. The drag coefficient of Xiaomi SU7 is only 0.195Cd, which is the lowest in the world.

06

The super-large die casting technology adopted has 90.1% high-strength steel and aluminum alloy, the highest strength of 2000MPa and the torsional stiffness of 51000 N m/deg.

03

Can we achieve "leapfrogging"?

At the meeting, Lei Jun said that he put high demands on the R&D team, and the design goal was to start from 100 "first, only and most", with the goal of building dream cars in a new era of automobile industry, becoming the top five automobile manufacturers in the world in the next 15 to 20 years, and working hard for the overall rise of China automobile industry.

First of all, we can be sure that the technologies released at the Xiaomi conference are not bad, and the Xiaomi SU7 has no obvious shortcomings at present. The explosion potential in terms of flow, product strength and design has been demonstrated, but after careful study, Xiaomi Automobile has no more prominent highlights. Some of the technologies it shows are "far ahead" or "pioneering". In fact, some friends have mass-produced them to real cars and launched them on the market.

For example, Xiaomi Automobile will adopt CTB technology in its battery system. As early as last June, BYD took the lead in releasing CTB technology in the industry and installed it on its BYD Seal model. Although the volume utilization rate of CTB battery released by Xiaomi is higher than that of BYD, the volume utilization rate of 77.8% is not the highest. Previously, the volume utilization rate of the "BRIC battery" released by Extreme Krypton Automobile has reached 83.7%.

Another example is Xiaomi’s 9100t super-large die-casting, with a press of 9100t, but Tucki has already used a press of 12000t, and the largest die-casting machine equipment factory in China is developing a press of 20000t. Therefore, 9100 tons is not leading, only the mainstream.

At the same time, at present, the main product details of Xiaomi SU7 are almost fully disclosed, leaving only the last "card"-price, which is also the most controversial place. At the meeting, after comparing various models, Lei Jun said: "Let’s stop calling 99,000 and 149,000. This is impossible, but we should respect technology." In other words, Xiaomi SU7 is likely to fall in the price range of 200,000-300,000.

But can the price range of 200,000-300,000 coincide with Xiaomi’s existing user base? You know, at the beginning of Xiaomi’s announcement to build a car, most of the voices on the Internet hoped that Xiaomi would knock down the price of the car. This time, the pricing may exceed the budget of most people. More importantly, the price range of 200,000-300,000 is actually the most competitive range of new energy vehicles in China. For consumers who can accept this price range, it is still unknown whether SU7 can meet their demand points, and Xiaomi Automobile currently lacks brand recognition and trust, which can actually give consumers little confidence.

For a long time, Xiaomi has given people the impression that it has amazing hard power and amazing cost performance. But this time, Xiaomi obviously didn’t want to continue to take the civilian route, and changed to a mid-to high-end route. The price exceeded expectations, and the road would naturally be more difficult. In addition to the price, the Xiaomi car that everyone expects unanimously is a model that can come up with some subversive new technologies. However, the actual situation of Xiaomi SU7 seems to be almost interesting, and it seems that people have not been able to see the unique side of Xiaomi.

However, in any case, it is worthy of tribute that Xiaomi Automobile has taken a brave first step seriously. Xiaomi, who has crossed the border to the automobile field, has a lot of core technologies. Starting from the lowest technology, it has spent ten times to build a good car. At the same time, Xiaomi Automobile has natural traffic and user attention, which not only helps to promote healthy competition in the industry, but also is likely to become a key role in leading the next development trend. Finally, let’s look forward to next year, and Xiaomi Auto will bring us more surprises!

The CEO’s "eye-catching" can’t solve Ji Ji’s anxiety.

Editor’s Note: This article comes from WeChat WeChat official account Connected Travel (ID: lianxianchuxing), author: Mo Bai, editor: Zhou Xiongfei, and the entrepreneurial state is authorized to publish.

Tamia Liu, CEO of Zhiji, recently stood in the eye of the controversy.

On Monday, when interviewed by the media, Tamia Liu first said that "the ideal L9 drives like the old GL8" and thought that it was not appropriate for the former to be called the "daddy car". Then, when talking about Weilai, he said that the sales of Zhiji’s L7 model will eventually surpass Weilai ET7.

Tamia Liu’s evaluation has a strong smell of gunpowder. However, neither Wei Lai nor the two founders of Ideal responded to this.

It’s nothing new to comment on friends and businessmen and take advantage of the situation to market. The source of the recent controversy in Tamia Liu is another matter.

Last month, a video about Tamia Liu’s test drive of his own L7 model was exposed by Sina Technology and other media. In the video, Tamia Liu made a number of behaviors suspected of violating traffic regulations, such as high-speed parking, lane change of compaction line and serious speeding.

Tamia Liu is suspected of dangerous driving video, screenshot from Weibo.

As a result, after this video was exposed, Tamia Liu’s dangerous driving behavior caused many netizens to question and criticize, and even some netizens said that "the CEO of car companies does not understand traffic regulations?"

Perhaps due to the pressure of public opinion on the Internet, Liu Taocai issued an apology statement in his official micro at the beginning of this month, saying that he would deeply reflect on his behavior, actively cooperate with the investigation and punishment, and also said that he would take a warning.

Compared with elon musk, who runs a company through Twitter, Tamia Liu doesn’t express many views to the outside world, but every time he acts and speaks, it will attract attention and discussion inside and outside the industry.

From the time point of view, the last controversy in the industry was that Tamia Liu shelled BBA in September this year, saying that "400,000 people are helpless and miserable to buy fuel vehicles"; And this month, in less than a week, he "fired" twice.

Behind Tamia Liu’s worry is the anxiety of Zhiji Automobile.

Zhiji Automobile, as a new energy automobile brand jointly created by SAIC, Alibaba and Zhangjiang Hi-Tech, has attracted attention from both inside and outside the industry since its birth, and is optimistic about it.

But it turns out that this brand is flashy. In June this year, Zhiji’s first model L7 began to be delivered. By the end of November, the total sales volume of this model was only 4,513, and the average monthly sales volume only reached about 1,000. On the other hand, BYD Han EV and Extreme Krypton 001, which are both large and medium-sized new energy vehicles, have reached 170,850 vehicles and 45,943 vehicles respectively in recent months, with an obvious gap.

Based on this declining sales volume, Zhiji Automobile not only lost the brilliance that attracted people’s attention at that time, but also had little sense of existence in consumers’ hearts. Faced with this situation, Tamia Liu, as the head of the company, may have to adopt the method of "commenting on friends and businessmen" to win traffic and attention for the Zhiji car behind him. Can his "small abacus" be realized?

In the last month of 2022, Tamia Liu was very busy.

As the CEO of Zhiji Automobile, Tamia Liu often goes to experience the products of other automobile companies, and Ideal L9 is one of them. But after his test drive, he didn’t give a good evaluation. In his interview with the media, he said, "From the opponent level, we are all electric vehicle companies in China and should encourage each other. But from the user’s point of view, I think the L9 is particularly like the old Buick GL8. "

It should be noted that both in the pre-heating before the release of Ideal L9 and in the promotion of this car’s listing, the ideal official said that this car "can replace BMW X7, Mercedes-Benz GLS and Rolls-Royce Cullinan", and Li Xiang even shouted the slogan "L9 is the best flagship SUV for home use within 5 million" at its listing conference.

Ideal L9, the source of LI Guanwei

In Tamia Liu’s evaluation, not only did he not compare the ideal L9 with Mercedes-Benz GLS and other luxury cars, but he also thought that the former was very similar to the driving experience of the old fuel version GL8. In the industry’s view, such comparison obviously belittled the ideal L9.

In addition to the ideal, Tamia Liu also pointed the finger at Wei Lai. "I (Tamia Liu) can persuade many people who want to buy ET7 in two sentences."

In his view, the design of ET7′ s door-opening button is very problematic. If you touch the door twice while waiting for the traffic lights, it will cause many security risks. He also said that at the product level, the competition between Zhiji L7 and Weilai ET7 is not lost. Although the former is not as good as the latter in sales volume at present, the former will definitely surpass the latter, and the core comes from products.

Once Tamia Liu’s evaluation was spread by the media, it quickly caused controversy among many netizens and people in the industry. Some Weilai car owners told Wired Travel that the hidden danger of the car door mentioned by Tamia Liu was actually a very small problem, and it would not be touched generally. It is not something that a car company CEO should do to deliberately enlarge this aspect.

It is not the first time for Tamia Liu to express controversial views like this.

In September this year, at the Chengdu Auto Show, Tamia Liu publicly said, "It is very strange why young people are still immersed in the traditional value system of BBA. These users who are willing to spend more than 400,000 yuan to buy fuel vehicles are helpless and miserable. The performance provided by fuel vehicles can’t be compared with electric vehicles."

Tamia Liu’s remarks may be intended to persuade young consumers to give up fuel vehicles and buy new energy vehicles, but they have aroused many young people’s dissatisfaction, because in their view, whether to buy fuel vehicles is their own freedom. If this choice is associated with the word "misery", it is a bit excessive.

Two months later, Tamia Liu’s controversial views reappeared in his personal Weibo. Last month, a video about Tesla’s out-of-control vehicle in Chaozhou was circulated on the Internet. As the incident eventually caused two deaths and three injuries, it once caused concern and discussion inside and outside the industry.

For this incident, Tamia Liu also quickly expressed his views. "The incredible nonsense has even forced a strong demand for monitoring the pedal camera. A brand’s indifference to life safety is staggering!" In addition to these, he also said that "poor quality control, gentle and courteous China users put up with it. Disregard for human life! Do you still have to bear it? "

Tamia Liu’s comment on the Tesla accident, screenshot from Weibo

Although Tamia Liu didn’t explicitly write the word Tesla in this blog post, he quoted the key words of "the third-party appraisal site of Chaozhou Tesla accident car", and his point of view was directed at Tesla.

After this tweet was sent out, it also caused controversy in the industry. In some people’s view, Tamia Liu, as the CEO of a domestic new energy vehicle company, made such a subjective opinion before the accident was investigated, and he could not rule out the suspicion of rubbing hot spots. Because of this, Tamia Liu quickly deleted this controversial tweet, which can’t be found in his personal Weibo.

Unexpectedly, after Liu Taogang criticized Tesla’s autopilot function in "just words", he turned his head and made an act of knowing the law and breaking the law.

At the beginning of this month, a video about Tamia Liu’s dangerous driving was exposed by Sina Technology and other media. In the video, Tamia Liu sits in the Zhiji L7, trying to show the acceleration performance of this model to reflect the characteristics of super-running.

However, if you watch the video carefully, you can find that Tamia Liu’s L7 was parked in the emergency lane on the side of the expressway, and did not turn on the light when the ejection started, so he changed lanes to the left express lane. In addition, in the expressway section, Tamia Liu also made many behaviors such as compaction line and sudden acceleration.

The picture displayed in this video is generally not recognized by the industry. "Even if you want to show the acceleration performance of the vehicle, you can find a closed road without a car to test drive. Driving at high speed like this not only violates the traffic regulations, but also poses dangerous hidden dangers to yourself and other vehicles. It is an extremely irresponsible practice." Sun Hao, an expert in the field of travel, said this to connected travel.

In the face of criticism from both inside and outside the industry, Tamia Liu quickly issued an apology statement in his personal Weibo. He said, "During this time, I paid close attention to the criticisms made by netizens, and deeply reflected on them. At the same time, I actively cooperated with the investigation and accepted the punishment today. As a practitioner in the smart electric vehicle industry, I should put compliance with traffic regulations in the first place … "

Tamia Liu’s apology for dangerous driving, screenshot from Weibo

In view of the above, Tamia Liu, as the CEO of Zhiji Automobile, has not only repeatedly touched the hot spots of Tesla, BBA, Weilai, Tucki and other car companies, but also frequently made controversial behaviors and expressed relevant opinions this month, constantly standing in the focus of controversy.

For Tamia Liu, he will make these performances, perhaps because he is eager to enhance the popularity of Zhiji Automobile.

Zhiji automobile has been highly anticipated since its birth.

"In the great era of artificial intelligence, symbiosis with users, define what the smart car era should look like, and achieve the realization of travel change in the intelligent era." At the launch conference of Zhiji automobile brand at the end of 2020, SAIC described its expectations for this new brand.

It is normal that Zhiji will be taken so seriously by SAIC. Although SAIC has laid out the business of new energy vehicles for a long time, there is basically no sound volume in the high-end market of new energy. For this reason, SAIC has tried many times to go high, such as launching Roewe brand and related models, and the goal of finally going high has not been realized.

Connected travel has been in the "wisdom before, flying after, can it support SAIC’s high-end dream of new energy?" This has been detailed in the article.

After its own internal incubation didn’t work, SAIC simply found Alibaba and Zhangjiang Hi-Tech to create a new brand of Zhiji Automobile, from which Zhiji Automobile also assumed the heavy responsibility of SAIC.

Perhaps after realizing that he entered the game late, compared with the brand release of "Wei Xiaoli", the first model was released one year later, and it took less than 20 days for Zhiji to release its products from the brand release. In January this year, Zhiji Automobile officially released its two production models-the intelligent pure electric car L7 and the intelligent pure electric SUV LS7.

Zhiji L7 and LS7 Conference, Tuyuan Zhiji Automobile Official Micro

At the Shanghai Auto Show in April this year, Zhiji started the pre-sale of Zhiji L7, and the pre-sale price was 408,800 yuan, which was delivered in June this year. According to the official of Zhiji, LS7 will also start pre-sale early next year.

As for the sales volume of L7, which was the first to go on the market, Zhiji said at that time that this model is expected to rank among the top three in the delivery volume of large and medium-sized luxury pure electric cars. When this model went on the market, Zhiji also said many times that "Zhiji L7 has become the fastest model with a cumulative delivery of luxury pure electric vehicles of more than 350,000 yuan in China".

Based on the favorable atmosphere created by Zhiji officials, and Zhiji’s backing from Alibaba, SAIC and Zhangjian Hi-Tech, this brand and product have indeed gained widespread popularity inside and outside the industry, and even been commented as "China Tesla".

But it turns out that the sales performance of Zhiji L7 is not optimistic.

In the first month of Zhiji L7′ s listing, according to the data of the Passenger Association, only 203 vehicles were sold in that month, ranking eighth in the sales list of medium and large new energy vehicles in that month. Before that, BYD Han EV, Weilai ET7 and Extreme Krypton 001 ranked first to third respectively with 25,209 vehicles, 4,349 vehicles and 4,302 vehicles.

In the following months, the sales of Zhiji L7 did not achieve much growth. From July this year to last month, the monthly sales of this model were 816, 1,007, 1,019, 860 and 608 respectively. From the perspective of sales trend, although there was a certain increase in the first two months, the sales volume declined quickly afterwards. According to the data of the Association, as of the end of last month, Zhiji L7 achieved a total sales volume of 4,513 vehicles.

On the other hand, the sales of BYD Han EV, Extreme Krypton 001 and Weilai ET7 in recent months totaled 170,850, 45,943 and 19,104 respectively. With these sales, these three models have been firmly in the top three in the sales list of medium and large new energy vehicles.

In November, 2022, the sales volume of medium and large new energy vehicles in China ranked in the top ten. The data came from the bus association and connected travel mapping.

In contrast, there is an obvious gap between Zhiji L7 and these models in sales volume, and it is also far from its previous goal of "being among the top three in the delivery of large and medium-sized luxury pure electric cars".

Under the current situation of declining sales, consumers’ perception of the brand Zhiji is not much.

When asked if they knew the brand of Zhiji Automobile, several owners of new energy vehicles gave the same answer-they had heard the name of this brand, but they didn’t see much of its products.

"I usually go shopping or buy things, and basically I can’t see this brand of models on the road. In some business districts, there are no offline stores of this brand. Even if you see the logo of this brand, many people should not know what brand it is. " A new energy car owner in Hangzhou said to the connected trip.

From this point of view, compared with standing in the high light in the past, Zhiji Automobile has faded its luster and become a brand that is no longer common and is not concerned by consumers. Tamia Liu, as CEO, naturally saw these difficulties, so he published comments on Youshang products for many times to attract public attention to Zhiji Automobile.

The reason why Liu Tao thinks that attracting attention can save Zhiji’s car may be inspired by Musk.

Musk has been recognized by the world as a veritable online celebrity, because he is not only named as the man of the year in 2021 by Time magazine, but also a trader of technology companies such as Tesla, Space X and Boring. In addition, he has more than 80 million fans all over the network, and even his every move has become the focus of attention of thousands of people around the world.

Based on the influence of this person, it has also greatly helped the development of Tesla, a car company. Connected travel has read his Twitter account, and it can be developed that 80% of the content is promoting and introducing Tesla and its products. Connected travel has been elaborated in the article "Musk’s shareholding in Twitter, is it a savior or a barbarian?"

Over time, the Tesla brand has become more and more closely tied to Musk, so that Tesla has not only attracted the attention of more consumers around the world, but also many of its products have been selected and loved by more and more global consumers.

Tuyuan Tesla Guanwei

But for Tamia Liu, it is not easy to reproduce Musk’s positive influence on Tesla.

"Tamia Liu, CEO of Zhiji Automobile, most people who have heard of this name or know this CEO are people in the new energy automobile industry. Compared with Musk’s global influence, Tamia Liu has not really broken the circle yet, even if he has published some controversial opinions to attract traffic, it will not help Zhiji Automobile much in the end." Sun Hao said.

We can see some clues from Tamia Liu’s Weibo. For example, according to his fan base, there were only 13,000 fans before the press release, which was not only far less than that of Musk, but even less than that of an ordinary Weibo V.

Based on this situation, Tamia Liu wants to help Zhiji Automobile by "being online celebrity", which sometimes backfires. Take the recent dangerous driving in Tamia Liu and the subsequent apology, the attitude of the industry and netizens is more critical.

In Sun Hao’s view, through such a wave of operation, Tamia Liu not only failed to beat out the brand power of Zhiji Automobile, but also linked the brand with his personal illegal behavior, which can be described as neither finding sesame seeds nor losing watermelon.

At the same time, Zhiji Automobile may have other shortcomings to make up for.

Let’s look at the products first. At present, only one model sold by Zhiji is L7, which is positioned as a high-end new energy coupe, and its shape design adopts streamlined design and slender body. However, when this car went on the market, it was complained by consumers that it was too similar to the Weilai ET7 released earlier.

On the interior level, Zhiji L7 adopts the design of 26.3-inch connecting screen +12.8-inch central control screen, while Weilai ET7 uses the dual-screen design of instrument screen+central control screen which is the mainstream in the industry. Apart from this difference, there is not much difference between the two cars in other interior aspects.

Comparison between Weilai ET7 (I) and Zhiji L7 Interior, from car home.

In terms of power performance, the shortest acceleration from zero to 100 kilometers of Weilai ET7 is 3.8 seconds, and the maximum cruising range of CLTC is 675 kilometers. In contrast, the shortest acceleration time of Zhiji from zero to 100 kilometers is 3.87 seconds, and the maximum cruising range of CLTC is 615 kilometers, which are not dominant compared with the former.

In terms of intelligence, Weilai ET7 is equipped with a laser radar as standard in addition to multiple cameras and millimeter-wave radars. Zhiji L7, though it also has multiple cameras and millimeter-wave radar, is not the standard sensing hardware, but consumers need to choose it when getting on the laser radar equipment, which has also become an aspect that some consumers spit out.

From the above points of view, the product strength of Zhiji L7 has some shortcomings compared with Weilai ET7 on the track of medium and large new energy vehicles. It should be noted that since the price of Zhiji L7 is in the high-end automobile market of 350,000-400,000 yuan, in addition to Weilai ET7, Zhiji L7 will also face the siege of popular models such as BYD Han EV, Extreme Krypton 001 and Feifan R7, a high-end brand owned by SAIC.

According to the sales performance mentioned above, Zhiji L7 has been defeated in the competition with Weilai ET7, BYD Han EV and Extreme Krypton 001, which shows that its product strength cannot gain too many advantages in the competition with the same track.

In addition to the product itself, Zhiji also shows some disadvantages in channel construction.

According to the official data released by Zhiji Automobile at the end of September this year, there were 80 experience and delivery service centers in China by the end of that month, and it is planned to reach more than 120 by the end of this year. On the other hand, as of the end of September, there were 418 stores, 407 stores and more than 250 experience centers in China.

Zhiji automobile store, Tuyuan Zhiji automobile official micro

While the number of stores is not dominant, there are still some "moisture" in Zhiji stores. According to car home and other media reports, in Zhiji stores in Beijing and other places, there are some channels to join by traditional 4S Buick dealers, which means that excluding these non-self-operated channels, Zhiji will have fewer offline channels.

Due to the lack of product strength, channel and brand strength of Zhiji Automobile, it seems that it is difficult to change the current decline of Zhiji Automobile by relying on Tamia Liu to attract attention. Because if a car brand does not have solid brand power and product power as the base support, even if there is traffic, it is difficult to convert it into sales.

(Sun Hao is a pseudonym in this article. )

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How popular is "Chongqing, online celebrity" on May 1st? Big data comes out to analyze the heat of scenic spots.

How popular is "Chongqing, online celebrity" on May 1st? Big data comes out to analyze the heat of scenic spots.

  Zhongxin. com, Chongqing, May 4th (Ma Jiaxin, Gao Lv Yanxing) During this holiday, "online celebrity Chongqing" continued to be screened in the circle of friends, including the realistic version of Hongyadong in Spirited Away, the Airbus Yangtze River cableway, the light rail passing through the building, the Ordovician hanging gallery in the sky, and the 8D magic city observation deck & HELIP; … There are crowds everywhere. How hot is Chongqing tourism? Chongqing Tourism Commission announced that Chongqing received a total of 17.3575 million domestic and foreign tourists in three days, achieving a total tourism revenue of 11.248 billion yuan, up 21.6% and 30.5% respectively.

  The data shows that during the May Day period, there were 10,461,400 mobile phone roaming in Chongqing, up 9.4% year-on-year. Among them: 4,005,000 roaming trips into Chongqing, up 4.3% year-on-year; The top five roaming in Chongqing are: Sichuan, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hubei and Zhejiang. 6,456,400 roaming trips from Chongqing, up 12.8% year-on-year; The top five roamers from Chongqing are: Sichuan, Guangdong, Guizhou, Zhejiang and Hubei.

  During the "May 1" period, the holiday tourism consumption in this city was strong, and the tourism market continued to grow. City tour, country tour and boutique scenic spot tour have become the first choice for tourists. The popularity of "online celebrity Scenic Spot" is bursting, and tourism festivals are colorful.

  On the same day, Chongqing Mobile Company also released "May 1" big data. According to the statistics of big data, the passenger flow into Chongqing during the May Day holiday was as high as 470,000, an increase of 22% compared with May Day last year. The peak of this small holiday was on April 29th.

  Who made Chongqing a "online celebrity"? According to big data analysis, the sources of passenger flow in Chongqing on May 1st mainly come from Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong and other places, accounting for more than 60% after 80s and 90s. After coming to Chongqing, Yuzhong District has almost become a must. During the May Day holiday, "Hongyadong" became a popular tourist attraction after the Forbidden City.

  It is worth mentioning that with the popularity of a short video APP in China, Chongqing Hongyadong, Yangtze River Cableway, Liziba light rail and other scenic spots have become "online celebrity attractions", attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists.

  In three days, Yuzhong District received 3.026 million tourists, up 18.9% year-on-year, and realized tourism income of 832 million yuan, up 20.3% year-on-year. Hongyadong Scenic Area received 142,000 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 120%; Ciqikou ancient town received 195,700 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%; Guanyinqiao business circle urban tourist area received 213,000 tourists, up 9.5% year-on-year.

  The most prosperous business district in Chongqing is Guanyinqiao business district, which attracted 417,000 people during May Day, of which 18% were from other places and 67% were from the main city. According to big data, the proportion of people from other places in Jie Fangbei is as high as 42%.

  According to the data released by Chongqing Tourism Development Committee, during the holiday, various districts and counties in Chongqing also carried out colorful tourism festivals. Huayan Tourist Area in Jiulongpo hosted the 2018 Spring Tea Party of Zen Forest and Fudi, the 2nd Colorful Grass-skiing Challenge of Geleshan International Slow City in Shapingba, the fairy mountain Banquet Lantern Festival held in fairy mountain in Wulong, and the 1st World Miao Culture and Art Festival and the 20th Miao Mountain Treading Meeting held in Wansheng Shilin Scenic Area in 2018, which increased the fun of the tour through colorful tourism festivals.

  The data shows that Huayan Tourist Area in Jiulongpo District received 42,600 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 21.7%; Wulong karst tourist area received 120,600 tourists, up 10.85% year-on-year; Fuling Wuling Mountain Rift Valley Scenic Area received 30,000 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 52.3%; Wansheng Black Valley Scenic Area received 24,800 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 13.2%.