Optimizing the business environment is not the best, only better.

  In the face of many challenges brought by changes in the external environment to China’s development, as well as many shortcomings and deficiencies still existing in the business environment, we must make great efforts to promote the optimization of the business environment in depth. The various reform measures introduced depend on whether the procedures can work, the possible negative effects and overlapping effects of policies and measures should be considered, and enterprises and the masses should really get benefits.

  According to the Business Environment Report released by the World Bank recently, the ranking of China’s business environment in the world jumped from 78th last year to 46th, and it entered the top 50 in the world for the first time. According to the report, in the past year, China has implemented a record number of reforms to improve the business environment for small and medium-sized enterprises, ranking among the top ten in the world this year.

  The improvement of the business environment is driven by reform. In recent years, China has fully implemented the national unified negative list system for market access, giving market players more initiative; Push forward the reform of "separation of licenses" throughout the country and reduce the start-up time of enterprises; "Internet+government service" opens up isolated islands of information, allowing more people to "run the internet more and run the road less"; Fully implement "double random and one open" supervision to improve the efficiency and fairness of supervision; On the basis of vigorously reducing taxes and fees in the past few years, this year, a number of measures have been intensively introduced, such as reducing the value-added tax rate and retaining tax rebates. It is estimated that the tax burden will be reduced by more than 1.3 trillion yuan in the whole year … …

  The continuous optimization of the business environment makes the market more dynamic and attractive. In the first three quarters, there were a large number of new players in China’s market, and the number of newly registered enterprises exceeded 5 million, with an average daily number of more than 18,000. In the first three quarters, 45,922 foreign-invested enterprises were newly established in China, a year-on-year increase of 95.1%; The actual use of foreign capital was 636.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.9%.

  The results are gratifying, and we still need to stay awake. In the face of many challenges brought by changes in the external environment to China’s development, many shortcomings and shortcomings still existing in the business environment, and the strong expectation of enterprises to reduce burdens, we must make great efforts to promote the optimization of the business environment in depth.

  The intensity is bigger. At present, Chinese enterprises are facing multiple pressures such as transformation and upgrading, rising costs and intensified competition, and the changes in the international economic environment have brought troubles to some enterprises. Under this circumstance, it is even more necessary to increase tax reduction and fee reduction, release more policy dividends, and let enterprises have a real sense of gain. While ensuring that the established policies are implemented to the letter, we should promptly study specific measures to further reduce corporate tax burden and social security rates, further clean up and standardize administrative fees, increase the efforts to clean up and rectify intermediary service fees, and help enterprises go into battle lightly.

  There should be more innovation. There are differences in business environment in different places, so it is necessary to be based on reality, innovate ideas, methods and countermeasures, act positively and be brave in innovation, and form an atmosphere of competing to optimize the business environment. The General Office of the State Council has previously informed some places of the typical practices of optimizing the business environment, such as the reform of the commitment system for enterprise investment projects, the reform of joint acceptance within a limited time, the reform of "one photo with multiple addresses" and "one license with multiple addresses", and the implementation of the "one-stop sunshine price" list. All localities should continue to innovate, constantly explore new methods, and use scientific and efficient "one thousand ways" to seek "exquisite" business environment.

  Look farther. At present, countries are competing to create a more relaxed and convenient business environment to enhance their national competitive advantage. We need to relax market access, improve the system of qualified foreign investors, improve the level of investment facilitation by benchmarking international standards, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investors. On cross-border trade, the World Bank report praised China’s "single window" construction. Of course, we still need to look at the world and the future, promote a new round of reform and opening up, and further improve the level of rule of law, internationalization and convenience of the foreign investment environment.

  The measures should be more practical. To optimize the business environment, we should not only focus on the internal evaluation of the government, but also focus on the actual feelings of enterprises and the masses. The various reform measures introduced depend on whether the procedures can work, the possible negative effects of policies and measures and the overlapping effects between them should be considered, and enterprises and the masses should really benefit. Government departments should strengthen the service spirit of "shop assistant", listen to the needs of enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, private enterprises and difficult enterprises, and help them solve difficult problems.

  At the symposium of private enterprises held a few days ago, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader put forward six policy measures: reducing the tax burden of enterprises, solving the problem of difficult financing for private enterprises, creating a level playing field, improving the policy implementation mode, building a pro-fresh relationship between government and business, and protecting the personal and property safety of entrepreneurs, which injected strong confidence and motivation into the healthy development of the private economy, and also pointed out the clear direction and put forward higher requirements for the next step of optimizing the business environment.

  Optimizing the business environment is not the best, only better. On this endless road, we should continue to struggle forward.

Colorful cultural tourism activities light up the "May 1" holiday, and innovative measures inject new vitality into the tourism industry.

CCTV News:During the May Day holiday, traveling to the ancient town has become the choice of many people. The colorful cultural tourism activities allow tourists to experience the charm of the ancient town in an immersive way and enjoy the holiday time.

During the "May 1" holiday, Zhengding Ancient City in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province held wonderful cultural tourism activities. In the evening, a square of Chinese costumes consisting of more than 300 people appeared in the historical and cultural street of Zhengding Ancient City. The crowd was surging and the drums were deafening. The actors stopped their performances from time to time and interacted with the tourists, who took photos as a souvenir.

I came to Zhengding Small Commodity Night Market, where I was full of vigor and vitality.

Qingcheng Ancient Town is located in the northernmost part of Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City, and has preserved the most concentrated and complete ancient residential buildings in Gansu Province. During the holiday, the ancient town was completely dressed up. In addition to visiting the ancient buildings represented by Qingcheng Academy and Luojia Courtyard, tourists can also taste the special foods such as Qingcheng noodles, and enjoy many folk customs such as West Chamber tunes, stilt performances and paper-cutting exhibitions.

During the May Day holiday, the ancient town of Libo in Guizhou welcomed tourists from all directions. Everyone participated in the game interaction and felt the charm of local culture.

The ancient town of Libo launched a variety of projects such as script tour, trend market and pop music performance on May 1 this year, which attracted many young tourists to participate.

Ningguo, Anhui: Feel the pastoral scenery and experience the artistic village.

During the "May Day" holiday, rural tourism has become the choice of many people. Beautiful natural scenery and various artistic exhibitions provide citizens with a good place to relax.

In Ningguo, Anhui, green wheat fields and villages in twos and threes are like a quiet and elegant picture. As the whistle sounded, the small train shuttled through the wheat fields, and the tourists enjoyed the pastoral scenery.

In addition, various activities such as the exhibition and creative production of the works of the non-legacy dragon kiln, and the field photography exhibition of art villages were held in the local area, which attracted many tourists to participate.

As night falls, in the square of the fashionable ancient town of Puyuan, Tongxiang City, concerts have brought new vitality and vigor to the traditional ancient town.

During the holiday, the scenic spot also launched a series of cultural performances — — Folk performances, storytelling and food fairs allow visitors to feel the warm festive atmosphere of the ancient town, and the unique water parade and song rhyme dance make people linger. 

Zhengzhou, Henan Province: The scenic spot opens the night tour mode, and the wonderful programs are staged in turn.

During the May Day holiday, many scenic spots in Zhengzhou, Henan Province started the night tour mode one after another, and wonderful programs such as large-scale live performance, float parade, carnival party and drone light show were staged in turn.

In a large amusement park in Zhengzhou, thousands of drones formed a huge "Happy May Day" message, as well as night tours such as the Dream Galaxy Parade and the bonfire carnival party, which attracted a large number of tourists. In this marine park, visitors can watch more than 50,000 polar marine animals at close range, and ocean drama, national tide flash, mecha parade and other programs are staged in turn.

In a movie town in zhongmou county, Zhengzhou, a large-scale night tour program "There’s a Play All the Way" is being staged. After dressing up, tourists can interact with actors in an immersive way.

In order to solve the problem of difficult parking for holiday tourism, more than 10 temporary parking lots have been newly designated around key scenic spots, which can provide more than 20,000 free parking spaces. During the holiday period, a number of tourist bus lines directly from the urban area to the scenic spots were opened in the local area, which extended the operation hours until 11: 00 pm to serve citizens and tourists traveling at night.

Beijing: Night tour activities are rich and colorful holidays are lit up.

During this "May Day" holiday, the Flower Street Night Market was held in Beijing Flower Trading Center in Fengtai District, Beijing. Visitors can visit the flower market, pick cultural creations, taste delicious food, and sit around with friends from three to five to enjoy an open-air music show.

In Miyun, the Simatai Great Wall is also "lit" at night, winding like a fire dragon in the mountains. Visitors can take a night tour with lanterns, feel the majestic momentum of the ancient Great Wall, or go boating on the river, looking at the mountains from a distance and the lights are shining from a close look. The scenic spot also launched performances combining music, dance, poetry and painting, and the flight performance of drones in the night sky also brought shocking audio-visual enjoyment to citizens and tourists.

Qiannan, Guizhou: Walking on the glass trail and enjoying the scenery of mountain canyons

In addition to some places of interest, this holiday, new landscapes in many places have also become popular places for people to punch in. In Guizhou, Longlihe Bridge, which has just opened to traffic, has attracted many tourists. People boarded the bridge, walked along the glass trail, experienced walking in the clouds, and enjoyed the natural scenery of mountain canyons. Tourists took photos and punched in.

It is understood that Longlihe Bridge, with a total length of 1,260 meters, spans the Duohua Grand Canyon, and the top of the tower is about 400 meters away from the bottom of the valley. It is a canyon landscape bridge with a roadway and a glass sightseeing trail. The main bridge and tower columns are also equipped with facilities such as sightseeing elevators and aerial viewing platforms, which can provide a 360-degree panoramic view of the Duohua Grand Canyon and Longli Prairie.

Haiyan, Zhejiang: Watch the sunrise in the sea garden at dawn.

In these two days, Guanhai Garden in Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province attracted tourists from all over the country and enjoyed the "most beautiful sunrise". At 5 o’clock in the morning, the dawn was slightly exposed. Nearly10,000 people waited quietly by the fish scale seawall of Guanhai Garden in Haiyan County. When the first sunshine pierced the clouds, tourists took out their mobile phones and cameras to record this moving moment.

Against the backdrop of sunrise, the sea is gradually dyed golden, and the vicissitudes of the fish-scale seawall and the Hangzhou Bay Bridge complement each other. Volunteers of local photographers also take photos for tourists free of charge, and there are also staff on the scene to send warm gifts such as flowers and breakfast coupons to tourists.

Xinxiang, Henan: Feel the scenery of the canyon, enjoy the scenery and enjoy the holiday.

Baoquan Grand Canyon, located in Taihang Mountain, Xinxiang, Henan Province, from the cliff to the canyon, allows tourists to experience different travel experiences.

Taihang Mountain’s unique Zhangshiyan landform contrasts with the clear water, forming a beautiful canyon landscape picture here. The local area has made full use of the advantages of cliff resources and carefully launched a series of eye-catching experience projects: cliff bungee jumping, cliff roller coaster, cliff swing, cliff walking and so on. These projects not only meet the tourism needs of tourists to visit the mountains and rivers, but also attract a large number of tourists, mainly young people, to experience and go to the top of the cliff.

As the temperature is getting higher, more and more tourists choose to walk into the canyon, pick up the trouser legs and walk barefoot into the shallows to feel the coolness of summer first. Here, you can not only swim in the shallows, but also take photos with waterfalls with a drop of nearly 400 meters. The ingenuity of nature and the innovative measures of scenic spots have injected new vitality into the local tourism industry and driven a new round of consumption boom.

Baoding, Hebei Province: The reception volume of Baishishan Scenic Area on the peak day of passenger flow exceeded 20,000.

This holiday, Baishishan Scenic Area in Baoding, Hebei Province has become a popular destination for short-distance tours in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei with its unique marble peak forest landform. On May 2nd, the number of tourists received in the scenic spot exceeded 20,000.

Baishishan is located at the northernmost part of the Taihang Mountains. During the May 1 holiday this year, a cliff climbing experience project was set up in the scenic spot, allowing visitors to overlook the beautiful scenery of the Taihang Mountains from high altitude.

During this year’s "May Day" holiday, the tourists received by Baishishan Scenic Area mainly came from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and neighboring provinces such as Shanxi and Shandong, and more than 80% of them chose to travel by car. To this end, the scenic spot has taken measures to separate people and vehicles to ensure the safety of tourists and enhance the play experience.

Guanghan, Sichuan: The popularity of Sanxingdui Museum continues to rise.

During the "May Day" holiday, in addition to going into nature and expressing affection for mountains and rivers, some people choose to go into museums and go to a cultural tourism feast.

In the exhibition hall of Sanxingdui Museum, exquisite cultural relics come into view with unique shapes and exquisite craftsmanship, reflecting the superb casting technology of the ancient Shu people. Among them, the complicated bronze altar, exquisite and solemn standing figures, exquisite bird’s foot statues and other national treasures make tourists feel the heavy history and the unique charm of ancient Shu civilization.

In the cultural and creative products area of Sanxingdui Museum, a variety of cultural and creative products with Sanxingdui culture as the element are dazzling, attracting many tourists to stop and buy. In order to meet everyone’s holiday cultural needs, Sanxingdui Museum provides delayed service during the May Day holiday, and the opening hours are from 8: 30 am to 8: 00 pm.

Changde, Hunan: Visit the ancient street to enjoy the non-legacy food and attract guests.

During the "May 1" holiday, Changde, Hunan Province organized a variety of cultural tourism activities with the theme of "not leaving a legacy to burn the fire, enjoying the river street", which attracted many tourists.

In Yuanyang Zouma Building in Changde River Street, Changde Sixian, Jing Hexi, Hanju Zhezi Opera, Huagu Opera and other non-legacy programs were staged in turn, and the scene was packed, with applause and applause.

Eating a special bowl dish in Changde and a bowl of new Chinese tea, the local food culture also attracted many tourists during the holidays. On May Day, Changde River Street received more than 100,000 tourists.

Since the beginning of this year, more than 30 cities have introduced the property market optimization policy, and the interest rate of the first home loan has dropped to a minimum of 3.7%

  After reaffirming the status of "real estate is a pillar industry of the national economy" at the central level and introducing a number of policy tools to support the smooth operation of the real estate market, in 2023, the local government continued the easing policy of the property market and continued to introduce optimization policies to promote the healthy development of the property market.

  According to The Paper’s incomplete statistics, this year, Including Fujian Xiamen, Sichuan Ziyang, Shandong Jining, Hubei Yichang, Zhejiang Wenzhou, Jiangxi Nanchang Honggutan District, Anhui Huaibei, Henan Jiyuan, Heilongjiang Harbin, Hunan Changsha, Shandong Jinan, Jiangxi Nanchang Anyi, Inner Mongolia Ulanhot, Guangxi Guiping, Hubei Wuhan, Jiangsu Yancheng, Zhejiang Shaoxing, Liaoning Dandong, Anhui Bozhou, Guangdong Dongguan, Jiangsu Xuzhou, Liaoning Dalian, Jiangsu Lianyungang and Guangxi Fangchenggang.

  From the perspective of policy content, it includes lifting the purchase restriction, raising the maximum amount of housing provident fund loans, adjusting the minimum down payment ratio of provident fund loans, extending consumer subsidies, increasing the amount of provident fund loans for families with many children, clearly confirming that houses are not recognized for loans, and encouraging group purchases to buy houses.

  Raise the amount of provident fund loans in many places

  Taking Jining, Shandong Province as an example, the Housing Provident Fund Management Center of Jining City, Shandong Province issued a notice on adjusting some policies of individual housing loans of housing provident fund on January 29, clarifying that from February 1, 2023, the maximum amount of housing provident fund loans will be increased, the standards for determining the number of housing units will be adjusted, and the minimum down payment ratio of housing provident fund loans will be adjusted. The maximum amount of double-paid employee family provident fund loans will be raised to 800,000 yuan; The maximum amount of a single employee family provident fund loan will be raised to 500,000 yuan. For families with many children, the maximum amount of provident fund loans will be raised to 800,000 yuan for the first set of self-occupied housing, and 500,000 yuan for the second set of self-occupied housing; For families with many children raising minor children, if they buy the first and second sets of self-occupied housing, the maximum amount of provident fund loans will be raised to 800 thousand yuan.

  At the same time, the minimum down payment ratio of the first home provident fund loan is adjusted to 20%, and the minimum down payment ratio of the second home provident fund loan is adjusted to 30%.

  Hubei Yichang Housing Provident Fund Center issued the "Notice on Adjusting the Policies for the Use of Provident Funds in the City". Since January 29th, families with two or more children in Yichang household registration can apply for provident fund loans at 1.4 times the current maximum amount (600,000 yuan), that is, 840,000 yuan.

  Wuhan continued to implement the policy of no purchase outside the Second Ring Road. On January 13, the staff of Wuhan Real Estate Trading Center said that at present, no matter whether it is a new house or a second-hand house outside the Second Ring Road, it is not limited to purchase, just apply for the qualification to buy a house. Prior to this, the relevant staff of Wuhan Housing Security and Housing Administration responded to the news that Wuhan adjusted the purchase restriction policy outside the Second Ring Road on December 9, 2022, saying that there were new policies only for the housing fair.

  The implementation period of housing subsidy is extended.

  At the same time, many places continue to implement housing subsidies and preferential policies.

  Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province issued a document saying that in order to better meet the reasonable housing needs of property buyers, individuals will continue to purchase new ordinary commodity housing and stock housing in urban areas (including Lucheng District, Longwan District, ouhai district, Dongtou District, Haijing District and Economic Development Zone) for the first time (subject to the time when the contract for the sale of commercial housing and stock housing in Zhejiang Province is signed online), and after obtaining the real estate certificate of housing, they will be given a consumption subsidy of 0.6% of the purchase price, and the implementation time will be 2020.

  The Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province issued a notice on January 12, which will use the peak period of returning home during the Spring Festival to launch a series of measures to promote housing consumption. Among them, including the urban "housing eight articles" housing subsidies extended for 2 months, and encourage local sub-sectors to carry out online and offline home buyers to buy special exhibitions. At the same time, organize a group purchase online signing and accreditation activity. All localities organized group buyers to focus on the signing activities of house selection, and actively carried out the activity of "handing over the house to apply for a certificate" at the delivery site to promote the service of people’s livelihood. Organize a bank-enterprise docking activity.

  On January 20th, official website, the People’s Government of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, showed that in order to further promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market in Harbin, the Municipal Housing and Construction Bureau took the lead in studying and drafting the Opinions on Measures to Further Promote the Stable and Healthy Development of the Real Estate Market in Harbin (draft for comments), which has Harbin household registration (including 9 districts and 9 counties (cities)) and conforms to the birth policy. After October 29th, 2021, families who have given birth to the second and third children will buy the first or second set of newly-built commercial housing in the 9 th district of the main city, and they will be given a one-time housing subsidy of 15,000 yuan and 20,000 yuan respectively by filing the Commercial Housing Sales Contract, my identity certificate, bills for payment of house purchase, immovable property certificate, household registration book and birth medical certificate.

  The interest rate of the first home loan will be reduced to 3.7%.

  In addition to adjusting the purchase policy, the lower limit of the first home loan interest rate has been lowered many times this year. According to the incomplete statistics of Zhuge Housing Search Data Research Center, after the Spring Festival, cities including Zhengzhou, Tianjin, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Zhuhai, Changchun and Shenyang successively lowered the lower limit of the interest rate of the first home loan, and a new wave of lowering the mortgage interest rate is being staged. Up to now, 30 cities have lowered the lower limit of the first home loan interest rate, of which the lowest is 3.7%.

  According to the dynamic adjustment mechanism of the first set of housing loan interest rate policy announced by the central bank, cities where the sales price of new commercial housing has decreased for three consecutive months month-on-month and year-on-year, the lower limit of the local first set of housing loan interest rate policy can be maintained, lowered or cancelled in stages.

  According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, there are 35 cities in 70 large and medium-sized cities that meet the downward adjustment requirements. According to the data of Zhuge Housing Search Data Research Center, 20 of them have lowered or cancelled the lower limit of the first home loan interest rate. It is expected that the unadjusted cities will also follow up with the downward adjustment of the mortgage interest rate. There are many second-tier cities such as Harbin, Wenzhou and Nanning. In the first quarter, the first home loan interest rate of more cities will fall below 4%.

  On January 17th this year, the National Conference on Housing and Urban-Rural Construction was held in Beijing. The conference emphasized that 2023 is the first year to comprehensively implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, and we should focus on twelve aspects. These include promoting the stable and healthy development of the real estate market with increasing confidence, preventing risks and promoting transformation as the main line. Vigorously support the demand for rigid and improved housing, unswervingly adhere to the positioning that houses are used for living, not for speculation, because of the city’s policy and precise policy. We will promote the work of guaranteeing the people’s livelihood and stability, resolve the risk of capital chain breakage of enterprises, strive to improve quality, build a good house, rectify the order of the real estate market, and let the people buy houses and rent houses with confidence.

  Chen Wenjing, director of market research in the Index Division of the Central Finger Research Institute, pointed out that in 2023, the policies on both sides of supply and demand are expected to be further improved, with the demand side emphasizing "precise policy" and the enterprise side focusing on preventing and resolving risks. On the one hand, the demand side emphasizes unswervingly adhering to the positioning of "housing and not speculating", on the other hand, it emphasizes "precise policy" to enhance the precision and coordination of policies, accurately support the demand for rigid and improved housing with greater efforts, and enhance market confidence.

With full firepower, the crown landing can be as simple as more than a "crown" logo.

At the Chengdu Auto Show some time ago, there was an endless stream of people on the booth of FAW Toyota. And the focus of everyone’s attention, naturally, is the newly listed Crown Lu Fang. Many people are both familiar and unfamiliar with Crown Car. The familiarity is because Crown has a history of 66 years, while the strangeness is the first SUV launched as an independent brand. So the popularity of Crown Lu Fang is only due to the logo? What are the advantages of Crown Lu Fang compared with similar cars? This time, let’s have a good talk.

Domineering appearance, inheriting the luxury essence of Crown family.

Today, with the emergence of small SUVs and compact SUVs, why do consumers spend more budget to start with more expensive luxury SUVs? The reason is actually very simple: the design is more luxurious and the experience is higher.

Crown Lu Fang locates the quiet luxury and dynamic flagship seven-seat SUV. Its Chinese name "Lu" is easily associated with a land cruiser, so we can see the flagship positioning of this car. From the appearance, Crown Lu Fang gives people a confident posture of the king. The large-area black horizontal grille on the front face broadens the visual width, and it is more sporty than the traditional design with highly recognizable LEDs on both sides.

Secondly, in order to reflect its special identity, this car also hangs a highly recognizable crown logo. This design not only retains the imprint of the Crown car, but also better demonstrates the noble temperament of the owner. In addition, a lower grille with a low posture is created, and with the black fangs on both sides, the movement is once again vivid, which is in line with the aesthetics of this generation of young people. After all, who doesn’t love a sports car?

Like Toyota’s traditional SUV, Crown Lu Fang has also made great efforts in the application of lines and surfaces. The smooth waistline extends from the front fender to the rear, and with the cooperation of the body over 5 meters, the whole body presents an atmosphere of awe-inspiring. In contrast, the tail design is quite satisfactory, and the slender taillight shape echoes the headlight group, and once again echoes the movement of the front face design with the exhaust pipe with a total of one side and two outlets below.

Comfortable interior, a sense of spaciousness and a sense of technology.

For Crown Lu Fang, the domineering appearance does not affect the comfort of riding in the car at all. When getting into the car, Crown Lu Fang adopts the design style of TNGA architecture. The asymmetric center console and stepped layout not only increase the three-dimensional sense, but also stretch the lateral visual width of the car through straight lines. In addition, the accessible areas such as the central control and side door panels are covered with soft materials, and the overall workmanship is also very solid.

In detail, the steering wheel is wrapped in leather, with a large diameter but delicate feel. After adding the unique LOGO of the Crown family, it well reflects the difference between this car and other cars. In addition, the air conditioning control area retains physical buttons, and the small LCD screen in the middle and the knobs on both sides can display the temperature, which looks very delicate.

Crown Lu Fang adopts the design of dual 12.3-inch multimedia navigation system and full LCD instrument panel. With the HUD head-up display system, the feeling of three-screen interaction is very scientific and technological. In addition, for high-profile models, configurations such as face recognition function, PVM panoramic monitoring system, panoramic sunroof and intelligent voice interaction system are not absent, which is also the driving atmosphere pursued by consumers pursuing high-quality SUVs.

Since it is positioned as a luxury SUV, the configuration must be mentioned. Crown Lu Fang comes standard with a new generation of Toyota Safety Sense, which includes PCS collision prevention, DRCC dynamic radar cruise, LTA lane tracking assistance and AHB automatic high beam adjustment. Among them, DRCC dynamic radar cruise can realize car-following control in the full speed range of 0-180km/h, and the safety of vehicle driving has also been greatly improved.

Super hybrid, power and control have their own strengths.

What we talked about earlier is the static experience. Let’s focus on the dynamic control of this car. The whole system of Crown Lu Fang comes standard with Toyota’s new-generation TNGA 2.5L dual-engine hybrid system. The TNGA 2.5L DYNAMIC FORCE engine equipped with it has a maximum power of 141kW and a maximum torque of 238N·m, and its thermal efficiency reaches 41% leading in the industry, which can achieve both high output, high efficiency and low power consumption.

It should be noted that, like all hybrid vehicles, the Crown Lu Fang was mainly driven by electric motor in the initial stage, so at the beginning of the start, the car not only had strong acceleration, but also had remarkable quietness. When the vehicle reaches a certain speed, this engine with high thermal efficiency can be involved in the work. Thanks to the precise cooperation between the two, the whole vehicle can also show better acceleration performance.

As a 7-seat SUV, the importance of dynamic response and driving texture can not be ignored. In addition to the common three driving modes of SPORT, NORM and ECO, Crown Lu Fang also has EV pure electric mode and TRAIL low-speed extrication mode, so this car can easily cover most daily driving scenes.

There is another detail to be said on the driving level, that is, the E-Four electronic four-wheel drive system of this car. Because this set of E-FOUR electronic control four-wheel drive can realize the automatic distribution of front and rear axle torque of 100:0~20:80, the car has excellent tracking performance and is very confident to drive whether the vehicle is in a straight line or a curved road. Moreover, Crown Lu Fang is equipped with a powerful AIM four-wheel drive integrated management system, which can balance and control various driving control configurations of vehicles according to different road surfaces and driving conditions, based on TRAIL mode and different driving modes, so as to achieve superior handling stability and driving comfort.

Conclusion:

How does a car perform? The heat of the market is the best answer.

Although Crown Lu Fang has just been listed, its popularity can be seen. Based on the previous introduction, it is not difficult to see that the dynamic and domineering appearance, rich technology configuration and dynamic driving experience with high performance and low fuel consumption all explain the "luxury character" of Crown brand and Crown Lu Fang in details.

What is certain is that Crown Lu Fang can basically meet the car demand of the mainstream social elites through the characteristics of the product itself and the inheritance of the Crown quality. Therefore, the best-selling Crown Lu Fang is more than just a "Crown" logo!

The reform of college entrance examination has given birth to high school career education, and there are still many difficulties to be solved urgently.

  "Today, the school organized the second year of high school to carry out professional experience activities, and our class came to China Youth Newspaper. Different from the imagination, there are many young people in the newspaper, and the office is full of vitality and youth … …”

  On May 8th, nearly 80 senior two students from the middle school affiliated to Beijing Jiaotong University came to China Youth Newspaper to carry out career experience activities. After the activity, Zhou Xinyou of Class 2, Senior Two wrote down her feelings.

  Once upon a time, many high school students only "stimulated" their career planning for the future when they filled in their volunteers for the college entrance examination. However, due to the lack of understanding, many candidates "rely entirely on Mongolia" when volunteering for the college entrance examination, and even choose which professional name is good.

  This kind of "ignorant" day for the future will become history. At present, 14 provinces have entered the pilot of comprehensive reform of college entrance examination. These pilot provinces, which carried out the comprehensive reform of college entrance examination, "forced" students to choose and plan their future academic interests and career development from the time they entered high school; There are also schools that are "forced" to carry out reforms — — They should undertake the relevant educational responsibilities of career planning for senior high school students.

  The reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network learned in the interview that at present, although many schools have realized the importance of students’ career planning and have carried out relevant education, the career planning education of high school students is far from ideal and still faces many difficulties to be broken through.

  "Career planning education should be earlier and more practical."

  "I just caught up with the college entrance examination reform." Beijing student Zhang Can (a pseudonym) said.

  Beijing is the second batch of provinces to enter the pilot reform of college entrance examination, and it has been implemented since the first year of high school in 2017, when Zhang Can was promoted to the first year of high school.

  "After I went to high school, the school had education in career planning. Our school adopts ‘ One-to-one ’ The way of talking, I feel that it has played a calming role psychologically. " Zhang Can said.

  The reporter learned in the interview that many high school students think that career planning education is really useful. Entering senior one, a new period of study and more difficult knowledge are inherently challenging for children. Coupled with the "new college entrance examination" factor, "everyone is quite confused. Career education has given us a down-to-earth feeling and made us think more clearly about the future development. Some small psychological problems have also been channeled together. " Zhang Can said.

  "I think career education should be carried out earlier." Wang Xinran (a pseudonym), a senior three student in Jiangsu, said.

  There are quite a few students who share similar views with Wang Xinran.

  "I don’t think career education can begin in high school, and children should be given at least one ‘ What do I want to do in the future ’ The general direction of guidance. " Like Zhang Can, Li Haihe (not his real name) caught up with Beijing’s "New College Entrance Examination", and Li Haihe felt that career education should not only be aimed at students, but also parents should receive this education.

  Unlike many students’ ignorance of the future, Li Haihe wanted to be a doctor when he was very young, so he wanted to choose subjects in this direction after he entered high school. However, the career planning test conducted by the school shows that his thinking characteristics are more suitable for theoretical research.

  After the teacher advised the parents, Li Haihe also weighed it for a while, still unwilling to give up the ambition he had set since he was a child. In order to study medicine, he discussed and argued with his parents for two years. "If parents take this course, they will at least consider it from their children’s interests, and the chances of respecting their choices will be greater."

  However, some students feel that career planning education is of little help to them.

  Guangdong student Lin Jianxiang (a pseudonym) said that the school’s career education didn’t leave much impression on him. The school’s career planning education is arranged in the third year of senior high school. The school organizes the whole grade students to attend the lecture in the auditorium. "The content of the lecture is very theoretical and general, and our schoolwork is very tense, so few people listen carefully." Lin Jianxiang said that in order to be of practical help to students, the teaching content should be closer to the reality of students, and you can’t just search for some test questions or articles on the Internet.

  "A lot of content in career education can easily become the kind of talk about success or big talk, which is somewhat formalistic." Zhang Can said.

  The realistic dilemma of shortage of teachers, practice base and funds

  Some high school students feel that the current career course is still unsatisfactory, but there is a reason.

  In the interview, the reporter found that many places where the comprehensive reform of college entrance examination is being carried out are provinces with higher education level and richer educational resources. However, even in these places, schools still face many practical difficulties in carrying out career planning education.

  Take the middle school affiliated to Beijing Jiaotong University as an example, the career planning course is a very "serious" course in this school — — Not only was it put into the curriculum, but it also developed its own school-based curriculum.

  Xu Xinyan, vice president of teaching at the North Campus of the Middle School affiliated to Beijing Jiaotong University, said that the school has set up a compulsory course of career education since the first year of high school, with one session per week for a total of one and a half semesters; In the second year of high school, the school will also organize students to enter the society, enter the workplace and have professional experience.

  The situation of the middle school affiliated to Beijing Jiaotong University envies many schools. Because, compared with many schools, the teachers of career planning course in Beijing Jiao Tong High School can be described as "abundant" — — There are three teachers, including two psychological teachers and a part-time teacher.

  Even so, "the school’s psychological teachers should not only undertake mental health classes in junior high school, but also undertake career classes in senior high school, and at the same time, they should also bear the daily psychological counseling and consultation of students, and the manpower is obviously insufficient." Xu Xinyan said.

  For most schools, the lack of teachers for career planning courses is a common phenomenon.

  As early as 2010, the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020) mentioned that it is necessary to establish a guidance system for students’ development and strengthen guidance for students’ ideals, psychology and studies. The 14 provinces that have entered the comprehensive reform of college entrance examination have also formulated guidance opinions on students’ development in their own provinces, established guidance centers for students’ development, and defined guidance institutions.

  In 2019, the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Reform of Educational Methods in Ordinary Senior High Schools in the New Era" issued by the General Office of the State Council once again made it clear that all localities should formulate guiding opinions on student development, guide schools to establish a guiding system for student development, and strengthen the training of instructors. Ordinary senior high schools should clarify the guidance institutions, establish a team of full-time and part-time guidance teachers, and guide students through the infiltration of subject teaching, offering guidance courses, holding special lectures, and developing professional experience.

  However, the ideal is full and the reality is skinny.

  "Top teachers from other disciplines" is one of the ways to solve the shortage of career education teachers in many schools.

  "Our school implements the tutorial system, and tutors also have to undertake part of the responsibilities of career education, but tutors are professional teachers. They are most familiar with the teacher industry and don’t know much about other industries." Han Shaoguo, executive vice president of the North Campus of the Middle School affiliated to Beijing Jiaotong University, said.

  Many experts pointed out that career planning guidance is very professional and needs rich social experience, which can not be undertaken by any teacher.

  In order to solve this problem, many schools have developed resources for parents. To some extent, this can not only make up for the shortage of school teachers, but also make up for the lack of social experience of school teachers.

  However, a high school teacher in Fengtai District, Beijing said that the biggest defect of parents’ resources is "instability". "This year’s parents have a rich occupational distribution, so they can introduce more to their students, and the next session may be gone, and some parents only share their children’s classes." The teacher said.

  There are also some schools that buy third-party services to solve this problem. And to buy services, you must have financial support.

  "In the first two years, there was special financial support. We asked professional career planning companies to do professional scale measurements for students and organize students to go to the corresponding units for practical activities." A high school principal in Haidian District, Beijing said, "However, this special fund has disappeared in the past two years."

  Nevertheless, the headmaster said that no matter how to save money, there must be some expenditure in career planning. Take professional scale measurement as an example. Every student has at least 100 yuan, and the school can only "squeeze out" money as much as possible, but it still has to cut off some measurement contents.

  When the funds can’t keep up, it is the practice that is most likely to be "cut". Many interviewees told reporters that their school’s career education was spent in "listening to several lectures" and "doing several test questions".

  Fang Lihui (a pseudonym), a senior three student from Jiangsu Province, remembers that she also had a career planning class from high school, but it was put together with the psychology class. The school also requires students to have professional experience, but the time is limited to winter and summer vacations, and they are looking for their own units, usually about 3 days.

  "Some students went to the supermarket to distribute goods, some found a production workshop, and some organized groups to go to large enterprises." Li Lihui said that he felt that his professional experience was the most comfortable. "In those three days, I sat in my dad’s office, drank water, played with my mobile phone, chatted with my uncles and aunts, and then took some photos and asked my colleagues in my dad’s unit to write an evaluation and stamp it."

  Even the professional experience of school collective organization, the effect is not satisfactory. A principal introduced that many units are more willing to accept college students’ practical activities than middle school students. "Because many units can promote themselves through such opportunities and attract more outstanding graduates to choose employment, it is difficult for middle school students to have a real professional experience when they come to such units, that is, to take a cursory look."

  "We especially hope that the competent authorities can establish some professional experience bases like military training and provide more professional and standardized student career planning services." Xu Xinyan said.

  We should get rid of the concept of "putting scores first"

  Many senior high school students’ career education faces the embarrassment of "it’s important to talk about it, but don’t be busy". The reason for the embarrassment is mainly the concept.

  "The school didn’t really guide the students." Tang Jiangpeng, president of Xishan High School in Jiangsu Province, said in an interview with the reporter of Zhongqing Daily and Zhongqing.com.

  Although the reform of the college entrance examination has been going on for several years, the evaluation system of measuring schools by the scores of candidates and the enrollment rate still exists. Therefore, many schools still put scores first when giving guidance to students, rather than students’ interests and ambitions. "Which combination can get high scores and which combination can avoid strong opponents, use which method," said Tang Jiangpeng. It is far from the schools and teachers who help students choose subjects by means of "Tian Ji Horse Racing".

  When career planning meets the desire to get high marks in the college entrance examination, planning is often abandoned.

  When Jia Jinxuan (pseudonym) from Zhejiang was in high school, she also received education related to career planning. "But the final goal of most people is to go to a good school, so it is difficult to consider the factors of career planning when choosing a subject, but ‘ What will help me get a higher score and go to a better school ’ What subjects will we choose? Although university majors will have certain restrictions on our choice of subjects, there are too many volunteers and too many uncertainties at that time. In the end, no matter what career plans we have, we will see which one can get high marks. "

  In addition, the career planning education for students in many schools is still too traditional.

  With the development of society, more and more emerging industries have emerged. "My future career plan is to become a online celebrity." Zhao Han (pseudonym), a senior one student in Beijing, said, but this idea has never been seriously discussed with her parents or communicated with her teacher. "I know that for them, this is a ‘ Not serious ’ The idea is useless. "

  Some experts pointed out that it should be emphasized that all today’s choices are temporary and can be adjusted with further study in the future.

  In fact, the expert’s words are only half right. What should be adjusted and changed is the education itself. Education does not have to cater to every novel idea of high school students, but at least it should be close enough to them. Only in this way can we better guide them.

  Many schools have made valuable attempts.

  "What we set up is ‘ Experiential ’ The course is to present students with various majors or industries ‘ Typical lifestyle ’ 。” Tang Jiangpeng said that doing so at least "makes a little sense" when students choose courses. For example, the school started the course of "News and Interview". "This course is either about knowledge, or about letting students really participate in the compilation of school journals and the production of media, so that students can experience whether they like this kind of life in real practice." (Zhongqing Daily, Zhongqing Net reporter Fan Weichen, intern Zhang Hanqiong)

The downward policy shift of inflation data in the United States and Europe has attracted attention.

  The recent inflation data of developed economies, represented by the United States and Europe, has dropped significantly, which has advanced the time when the market turns to loose monetary policy. In fact, the economic outlook is full of uncertainty, which also increases the urgency of policy adjustment in the United States and Europe.

  Inflation in the United States and Europe has dropped significantly.

  The latest inflation data released by the United States and Europe recently shows that the inflation rate has dropped significantly, and the market believes that the monetary policy shift cycle is coming soon.

  According to data released by the US Department of Commerce, excluding volatile food and energy prices, the US core personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price index rose by 3.5% year-on-year in October, the smallest year-on-year increase since April 2021.

  At the same time, the actual personal consumption expenditure announced in October increased by 0.2% month-on-month, higher than the expected 0.1%, and the growth rate slowed down by 0.2 percentage points from last month. After the data was released, the market reaction was relatively dull. According to FedWatch, an interest rate observation tool of CME, the market expects that by May next year, the probability that the Fed will cut interest rates by 25 basis points will be flat at 47%.

  The inflation rate has dropped significantly this year. The annualized rate of core PCE increased by 2.5% from May to October, which was lower than the 4.5% increase in the previous six months.

  According to preliminary statistics released by Eurostat, the inflation rate in the euro zone in November was 2.4% at an annual rate, which was lower than 2.9% in October and fell to the lowest level in more than two years.

  Data show that in November, the prices of food, tobacco and alcohol in the euro zone rose by 6.9% year-on-year, the prices of non-energy industrial products rose by 2.9%, the prices of services rose by 4.0%, and the prices of energy fell by 11.5%. In that month, the core inflation rate excluding the prices of energy, food, tobacco and alcohol was 3.6%.

  From a country perspective, the inflation rates of Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the major EU economies, were 2.3%, 3.8%, 0.7% and 3.2% respectively in November.

  According to the latest market survey, it is expected that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates by 25 basis points in April next year, and even the probability of cutting interest rates ahead of March will reach a state of "50-50 split". Just a month ago, the market expected the European Central Bank to cut interest rates as soon as next June. Harvey, head of foreign exchange analysis at Monex Europe, said it was only a matter of time before the European Central Bank officially admitted that its policies were too tight.

  Anti-inflation related policies or adjustments

  The Wall Street Journal reported that inflation in developed economies fell faster than expected, marking a turning point for many central banks to fight against soaring prices in the past two years.

  The report pointed out that the slowdown in inflation in developed economies has strengthened people’s concern that the central bank will "brake" the stimulus policy prematurely and cut interest rates next year. More and more evidence shows that the impact of rising borrowing costs is continuing to emerge.

  Gerakl, former deputy governor of the Irish central bank, said: "This is definitely a turning point in inflation." "The rate of interest rate cut by the central bank next year may surprise investors, and the rate of interest rate cut may reach 1.5 percentage points."

  According to incomplete statistics, economists compared with media surveys predicted that 53% of the inflation data in October was lower than expected, including Britain, the euro zone, the United States, Mexico, Australia and other places, and another 25% was in line with expectations. In many countries, the downward trend of energy prices is the main factor driving down inflation. For example, in the euro zone, energy inflation fell by more than 11% for two consecutive months, while in the UK, energy inflation fell to -15.7% in October. Even excluding food and energy, the core annual inflation (excluding food and energy) in many countries is lower than expected, including the United States, Britain, Indonesia and Japan.

  Preliminary data in November show that this trend is becoming more and more obvious. 78% of the data is lower than the forecast. For example, Italy’s inflation rate unexpectedly dropped to 0.7% in November, far below the European Central Bank’s target level of 2%. In addition, Belgium has experienced deflation for two consecutive months.

  Reuters quoted Koval, a senior economist in Moody’s analysis, as saying that in the euro zone, people may soon talk about inflation being too low, not too high.

  Since last year, in the context of inflation exceeding expectations, policy makers have raised inflation forecasts one after another. Take the Bank of England as an example. In many monetary policy reports in the past two years, it has adjusted the average inflation expectation in the last quarter of 2024. In August 2022, this predicted value was 1.4%; In February this year, this forecast was raised to 2.1%; In the latest report in November, this forecast was further raised to 3.4%.

  The economic situation needs to be improved by policy shift.

  Poor economic prospects are also the main reason why the industry thinks that the United States and Europe will stop raising interest rates and turn their policies. The demand for promoting consumption and economic recovery in the future is urgent.

  Economists say that raising interest rates is affecting the economy, dragging down loans and spending. On both sides of the Atlantic, the growth rate of employment is slowing down, and the level of unemployment is rising, thus curbing wage growth. Economists say that households are increasingly reluctant to spend because rising interest rates make saving more favorable. This will put pressure on the economic growth prospects in the coming months.

  According to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell said that his policy setting "has gone deep into restricted areas, which means that tight monetary policy" is slowing down economic activity, which is the strongest signal he has sent so far that officials may have decided to end raising interest rates.

  According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, consumer spending increased by 0.2% in October, a sharp slowdown from the 0.7% increase in September. This is the slowest growth month since May. Economists say that the cooling income growth, high interest rates and prices, the decline in savings during the epidemic period and the resumption of repayment of student loans have all weakened Americans’ ability to maintain the rapid increase in spending as in summer.

  Specifically, the primary reason affecting consumer spending is the slowdown in the income growth trend of American residents. Due to the slowdown in employment scale growth and the slowdown in salary growth, the growth rate of nominal labor compensation began to decline. In addition, the excess savings accumulated by American residents during the COVID-19 epidemic bottomed out. According to the latest research of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, in the third quarter of 2023, the excess savings may have been exhausted. At present, the savings rate of the residential sector continues to rebound, that is, the marginal propensity to consume declines, which also confirms that the support of excess savings for consumer spending is weakened. The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that the growth rate of total retail sales in the United States will slow down to 3%-4% this holiday shopping season, ranging from $957.3 billion to $966.6 billion. This will be the smallest increase since the total retail sales increased by 3.8% in 2019.

  There is also widespread concern about the real estate industry. Due to the fall in the interest rate of long-term US debt, the interest rate of 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 7.3%, and the number of mortgage applications rebounded slightly at a low level. However, the data of Redfin, a real estate agency in the United States, showed that the housing sales continued to fall in November, and the sales of new homes and existing homes both exceeded expectations.

  The Wall Street Journal article pointed out that compared with American families, European families are also more reluctant to use their savings during the epidemic. All of this may lead to a more serious recession in the European economy and a sharp drop in inflation rate, prompting Europe to adjust its economic policies earlier.

Not willing to just be an AI application factory, ByteDance makes up a big model

Source: light cone intelligence

Text | Hao Xin

Editor | Wang Yisu

Light Cone Intelligence gets the latest exclusive news. Following the first launch in August 2023, in April this year, ByteDance’s big language model Lark Big Model is about to usher in an important version of the upgrade.

The update frequency of eight months is really rare in the large model market. In such a large model with internal volume, bytes seem to be somewhat different, and the sprint is as rapid as a hundred rivers of intelligence. In the early stage, a large model was released and upgraded on average once a month.

But looking back on the past year, Byte didn’t want to lie flat.Different from the thinking of large model companies at home and abroad that "the large model is used first, and then the product is applied", byte selection, which is known as "application factory", bets on AI native applications hard, accurately and quickly on the basis of having a lark large model.

First, from the organizational level, in the second half of 2023, Byte began to integrate the big model team and other business groups, and set up a new department, Flow, which focused on AI innovation business. The department also became the vanguard of Byte in AI technology research and product development.

Another is like a huge manufacturing machine. In more than half a year, Byte frantically delivered more than a dozen AI products to domestic and foreign markets. At the same time, in the process of product development, a number of basic technology research results of image generation and video generation have been accumulated and published.

Nowadays, Byte is like coming back after a full circle in the product and market fields, and looking at the basic big model itself from a more diversified perspective.

As a upstart of the Internet, Byte has not experienced the wave of AI labs in 2016. Instead, it has combined AI algorithm technology with graphics and video to create today’s headlines and explosive applications in Tik Tok.

According to the latest disclosure, Byte’s Q3 revenue in 2023 was $30.9 billion, which has surpassed Tencent. After the new king ascended the throne, the problem in front of Byte is also very clear. How to make use of his own advantages to make up for the missed lessons and catch up with the new wave of AI?

AI application manufacturing factory, with eleven products launched in half a year.

"Strengthen the sense of crisis, always start a business, and escape the mediocre gravity." At the beginning of 2024, Byte CEO Liang Rubo set a goal for the whole year.

To say that the most suitable entrepreneurial attribute mentioned by Liang Rubo is the Flow established by Byte last year.

In August last year, the lark model was officially released, and at the same time, it was announced that it began to test the AI dialogue product "bean bag" externally. Bytes immediately went to the battlefield of the next application, and the lark model gradually disappeared in the overwhelming news and turned into the "base" behind a series of AI products such as bean bag.

In September, the newly established Flow adapter became the main force. According to the publicly reported information, Byte has deployed a large number of senior management talents at the helm. Zhu Wenjia, the head of the big model team, is also responsible for the business line of Flow. Hong Dingkun, vice president of Byte Technology, is responsible for the technical line of Flow. Zhu Jun, vice president of Byte Products and Strategy, is responsible for the product line of this department. At the same time, Qi Yuanjun, vice president of products of Feishu, has joined us.

(Light cone intelligence is made by combing according to public reports)

Under the big advance of bytes, it has realized the situation of multiple applications and multi-flowering. According to incomplete statistics of light cone intelligence,From last August to now, in more than half a year, Byte has tested and launched eleven AI application products at home and abroad, and an image product Picpic has not yet been launched, among which eight products are led by the Flow team.

From the perspective of product types, the direction of byte selection is mainly concentrated in four main directions: Chatbot, virtual role, Agent and image, which basically covers the application-level entrepreneurial direction of last year’s fire.For example, there is an efficient product ChatGPT in the field of Chatbot, a considerable number of users in the field of virtual characters, GPTs introduced by OpenAI in the direction of Agent, and so on.

Attacking from many directions and blossoming everywhere, this picture seems to have returned to the eve of Tik Tok’s birth overnight. When entering the AI ​ ​ application track, Byte once again adopted the strategy of "internal horse racing". In China, the capability was provided through the Lark model, and in foreign countries, the service was provided based on GPT. Many times, overseas is used as a test field, and similar products are launched in China first, so as to run market and user data and prepare for domestic launch.

In addition, bytes are also very clear about their own advantages. Tiktok and Tiktok, two large traffic pools, have naturally become sharp tools for byte drainage and innovation. According to the light cone intelligent observation, Byte has specially set up a "live room with goods" for bean bags, introducing the functions of bean bags to users who enter the live room, and promoting that the App can be downloaded for free. In addition, Byte also invited a large number of talented people from Tik Tok to be the platform of bean bags, and implanted new functions of bean bags in the jokes.

(Source: Tik Tok)

Perhaps it is because of the traction of traffic that the bean bag released late has surpassed Baidu’s ERNIE Bot in terms of awareness and monthly activity. According to reports, it is revealed by some sources that the monthly activity of bean bags has increased to 2 million in December last year, and doubled on this basis in January 2024. The monthly average daily activity of bean bags has already surpassed that of ERNIE Bot.

From the perspective of byte’s own business, in addition to Flow, flying books, clipping, byte Singapore company, huge engine, and vigorous education are also testing water and launching AI tools and products. Since the advent of Sora, the AI video track has rekindled the war, and the byte clipping business has also been placed with high hopes. Zhang Nan resigned as the CEO of Tik Tok Group to lead the clipping team. From the current point of view, the clipping has been launched with the functions of AI cloning timbre, AI drawing, AI drawing, AI generating oral broadcast and so on.

(Source: Clipping)

It may only be a matter of time before Byte launches its products on AI video. In terms of technical reserves, Byte has accumulated the video generation model MagicVideo-V2, video editor Boximator, and video generation research PixelDance, and has dug up counterpart talents from Google’s video generation model team.

It has been reported that Byte is secretly developing a number of products in the field of AI big model, including multi-modal digital human products, AI video products and AI video products.

Byte is not eager to change the old business, but uses the ability of a single point to radiate to internal horse racing. On the one hand, it is to test the market, and on the other hand, it is also exploring how to embed AI into the original business flow.

For example, the "smart partner" was introduced in the flying book business line, and the traditional workflow was changed by the technology of Agent, and the functions of content creation, content summary and data analysis in the office scene were realized, so as to reduce costs and increase efficiency for individuals and enterprises. Where to play the ability of Agent, where to use the ability of literary drawing, and which scenes to call the ability of dialogue reasoning, these should be tested during the landing process.

Xie Xin, CEO of Feishu, once said at the press conference that the ability of AI will definitely become very strong in the future, and great changes will take place in all walks of life. However, at present, the ability of AI is still very limited, which may not make every task as expected. "What is more important now is to make yourself AI Ready first."

Return to the main battlefield and make up the big model.

Liang Rubo reflected at the annual meeting at the end of 2023, "Bytes are not as sensitive to technology as startups, and GPT was not discussed until 2023. The big model startups that have done well in the industry were founded from 2018 to 2021. "

The implication of Liang Rubo is that the big model of bytes is slow.

In March last year, Baidu released ERNIE Bot, and then Huawei and Ali quickly followed suit to release the big model. It was not until mid-August that the big model of Tik Tok lark arrived late.

The news about the big model team of Byte can be traced back to January last year. 36Kr reported that Byte formed the first big model team at that time, including the big model team of language and the big model team of pictures. Among them, the language big model team is led by the byte search department, and the picture big model team is led by the intelligent creation team under the product development and engineering architecture department.

At that time, ChatGPT and Midjourney had already exploded. Perhaps it is to see these two types of products with different paths behind them, and then consider how to transform a series of products.From the initial formation of the team, Byte chose technology and products to walk on two legs. But the big model is the base of most AI applications. If you want to develop products, you must first have a big model.

Lark big model just assumed such a role. As soon as the big model landed, Bytes quickly started the research and development of AI applications at the same time, but the immature performance of the big model also affected the landing of AI applications to some extent.

First of all, from the time line, the products with the same function went online earlier in foreign countries than in China. For example, the domestic opening time of buttons on GPTs-like platforms is two months behind that of foreign countries. Even after the domestic buttons are launched, many users in China choose the foreign Coze because they can directly call GPT-4 turbo.

The ability of the model will also be reflected in the use effect of the product. For example, the overseas version of CapCut has recently launched a text-generated video function, but with user feedback, this function is not satisfactory in terms of video clarity, understanding of prompts and waiting time for generation.

This led to the killing of bytes in the product battlefield and had to go back and make up the big model.

However, for bytes, it doesn’t make much sense to benchmark OpenAI, and thinking about the big model route that suits you is the way out.

Judging from the public information, the force point of bytes in the AI direction is still concentrated in the fields of images and videos.As for the big model, Byte has introduced the Lark, a universal big language model, and BuboGPT;, a multi-modal big model that supports text, image and audio. In the direction of image vision, the MagicVideo-V2 video generation model launched last year has caused a wave of heat at home and abroad, which can make people in still pictures move. The research after bytes continues to extend in the direction of video, including how to control the action of characters by inputting text and how to improve the dynamic effect of video.

(Light cone intelligence is made by combing according to public reports)

From this point of view, bytes still learn from the practice of OpenAI, that is, outside the GPT big model, all kinds of single-point capabilities are pulled to the full-Whisper model in voice direction, DALL·E series in image direction and Sora in video direction.

Because the breakthrough of single-point ability also depends on the ability of the underlying big model, especially Sora provides an idea that the framework of Transformer big model can be combined with the image generation model, which means that the reasoning and understanding ability of the big model will affect the final video generation logic. Therefore, on the basic big model, all big model companies, including bytes, still can’t be ignored.

In addition to complementing the ability in the video model, Byte has also made great efforts in team talent allocation.At the beginning of the establishment, Zhu Wenjia, the former head of TikTok technology in Singapore, was transferred to lead the large model team, and later he was also responsible for the business line of Flow. A vanguard department, Flow, has assembled the vice presidents of technology, products and strategy, and flying books. Recently, it was revealed that Jiang Lu, the research leader of Google video generation model VideoPoet, joined the intelligent creation team. It is reported that the idea of VideoPoet is very similar to that of Sora world model.

After Sora burst into flames, many people compared it with the cut film personally led by Zhang Nan, the former CEO of Tik Tok, but in fact, Zhang Nan still paid more attention to the product level. The real byte version of Sora must be born in the team led by these scientists and technical leaders.

Advertising & cloud business, AI has a greater impact on bytes than expected.

Last year, Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance, spent all his energy on AI, which is of great significance to the biggest beneficiary who benefited from the previous generation of AI technology (recommended algorithm).

What AIGC ultimately generates is content, which is naturally a change in the form of content production. Compared with other companies’ original business attributes such as e-commerce, search and social networking, Tik Tok’s gene itself is the content. Therefore, the strategic significance of this big model wave to Byte may be far greater than that of other companies.

Although ChatGPT-4 has just been born for one year, the big model and AIGC technology have only taken the first step, but the imagination about the future business growth of the company may just be opened.

Take Baidu as an example, its just-released annual financial report data for 2023 shows that AI has brought practical benefits to Baidu. In the year of All in model, Baidu search, advertising and other old businesses have been revitalized, and the once depressed cloud computing business has also seen new growth momentum.

In 2023, Baidu’s core revenue was 103.465 billion yuan, and the net profit attributable to Baidu’s core was 27.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 38%; The big model is bringing more and more business income to Baidu. In the fourth quarter, the revenue growth brought by the big model alone reached 660 million yuan, and the revenue of Baidu AI Cloud also reached 8.4 billion yuan. According to Morgan Stanley’s forecast, Baidu’s advertising revenue is expected to achieve a year-on-year growth of 7% in 2024.

Although for bytes, this growth is far from our own eyes, but many business lines still have certain reference and reference value.

According to the light cone intelligence, influenced by the big model wave, the revenue growth of Volcano Engine, a byte cloud computing business, is also considerable. Thanks to a large number of NVIDIA’s GPUs, many large model startups are willing to take the initiative to join the ecology of Volcano Engine, thus boosting the growth of Volcano Engine.

Although the first wave earned the first bucket of gold by selling computing power, for Volcano Engine, customers who pay for cloud computing business again by using the algorithms of these big model companies in the future are more attractive.

For the advertising business on which Bytes depend, the influence of the big model has not yet been exerted. At present, several companies, including Baidu and Netease Youdao, have mentioned that large models can promote the conversion of their advertisements. This is undoubtedly good news for Tik Tok and today’s headlines.

In order to improve the marketing efficiency, Tik Tok’s marketing platform Giant Engine also released the automatic technology brands UBMax on January 23rd, based on three scenarios: application download, clue retention and e-commerce drainage.

In addition, Volcano Engine has also launched a very byte-featured product-Volcano Engine Intelligent Creation Cloud, which is an intelligent SaaS platform to generate videos in batches, mainly helping e-commerce sellers to generate commodity materials in batches. Although there are many companies making such products in the market at present, and some of them are deep partners of Tik Tok, for companies with both technology and scenarios, they can only do it in bytes.

To sum up, on the whole, Byte’s investment in AI tends to be conservative, paying more attention to products that can generate value for actual business, while its investment in cutting-edge technologies has just started.

This is also related to Byte’s focus strategy in the past year. In the past year, Byte has almost retired or cut all business lines unrelated to core business, such as Pico and games.

When the core business is strong, development can cover up all problems. Byte’s quarterly revenue can still maintain a year-on-year growth of more than 40%, which has envied all other domestic companies, but for Byte and Zhang Yiming, there is still a dream.

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"The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" was exposed, and Gu Tianle and Hong Jinbao started to fight on high


1905 movie network news On April 25, the action crime movie released its final trailer, accompanied by a set of stills.


The film tells the story of a young man in distress, Chen Luojun (Lin Li, played), who mistakenly broke into the Kowloon City, not only regained a stable life with the help of the storyteller Tornado (played), but also gained brotherhood here. Unexpectedly, he was involved in the high-burning story of the gang taking over the village and everyone stepping forward to defend the family village to the death. The powerful actor Gu Tianle,, met the cutting-edge force Lin Li,,,, and gathered across generations of Hong Kong stars to jointly interpret the hot-blooded hardcore gang past.


The film was created by the original cast, and the director who won the Best Director award at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards was also fully blessed by the well-known action director (,). In the recent special screening event in the Hong Kong cultural sector, the film was well received by people inside and outside the industry, praising the film’s unique comic-like fighting and character presentation, which can be called the most unique Hong Kong film in recent years.


At present, the film has been shortlisted for the official "Midnight Screening" section of the 77th Cannes International Film Festival, which is the next Chinese-language film to be shortlisted for this section after 11 years.


The film "Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" is directed by Zheng Baorui, starring Koo Tianle, Lin Yu, Liu Junqian, Wu Yunlong, Beard Tong, and Zhang Wenjie, starring Ren Xianqi, starring, and starring Hong Jinbao. The film will be released nationwide on May 1, and will be released in advance on April 25-30.

"The Founding of the Party" adds another star, and Zhang Jiahui and Liu Yunlong’s stills are first exposed


Liu Yunlong and Zhang Jiahui joined


Zhang Jiahui


Director Huang Jianxin tells the scene

   Shortly after the launch of "The Founding of the Party", the crew officially welcomed two actors, Liu Yunlong and Zhang Jiahui, who played Jiang Baili and Liang Qichao respectively in the play.

Liu Yunlong practiced English hard for Jiang Baili to play well

  If the film is Liu Yunlong’s debut film, this is Liu Yunlong’s second entry into the film industry. Liu Yunlong in the film plays the "three heroes of Chinese non-commissioned officers" (Jiang Baili, Cai E and Zhang Xiaozhun were also known as the three heroes of Chinese non-commissioned officers at the time) Jiang Baili, who is in his 30s and was then the president of Baoding Army University. When the May 4th Movement broke out in 1919, Jiang Baili was on a tour of Europe with Liang Qichao and others.

  Since Jiang Baili and Liang Qichao first appeared in Europe in the play, speaking English became a natural thing. For Hong Kong actor Cheung Ka Fai, English is a piece of cake. But for Liu Yunlong, it is not so simple. Liu Yunlong only has a few lines of dialogue in the play, but according to the staff around him, he attaches great importance to this performance and has been practicing English dialogue in private. Director Huang Jianxin has a hobby, which is to often give the actors enough room to play according to the performance of the actors on the spot. Unexpectedly, this style made Liu Yunlong break into a cold sweat. He was worried that Director Huang would temporarily add or subtract the dialogue on a whim. The previous kung fu was in vain, and he kept saying, "The lines set before are very good, very good."

Zhang Jiahui as Liang Qichao "handy"

  For Zhang Jiahui, who has just won the Best Actor at the 10th Changchun Film Festival, it should not be difficult to play Liang Qichao this time. Unexpectedly, Zhang Jiahui still feels pressured, because Liang Qichao himself has a strong cultural atmosphere in the play. He went to Europe to study and learned about many problems and drawbacks of Western society. After returning to China, he advocated to expand traditional culture and use the "inherent civilization" of the East to "save the world". Since 1922, he has been a part-time teacher at Tsinghua School, and in 1925, he applied for a position as a tutor at Tsinghua Academy of Sinology. Zhang Jiahui felt that he should have more cultural atmosphere, and took the initiative to ask Huang Hua, the makeup artist on the crew, to strengthen his appearance first. He prepared a variety of glasses and tried them on again and again. Outside of the play, the best actor, Zhang Jiahui, is humble and has been actively discussing characters with directors Han Sanping and Huang Jianxin. "This time, no matter how many scenes, whether they have lines or not, they take their characters very seriously," Huang Jianxin said.

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