"Focus on basic public services and improve the efficiency of social governance" The first issue of "Sunshine asks Lian Lianli peers" was broadcast in 2021.

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On March 31st, the first phase (total 44 issues) of 2021, a large-scale survey all-media live broadcast program "Sunshine Asks Lian Li Peer", sponsored by Suining Municipal Committee and Suining Municipal People’s Government, undertaken by Suining Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, Suining Municipal Supervision Committee, Propaganda Department of Suining Municipal Committee and Suining Media Group, and co-organized by Suining Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, was held in the Civic Center. Deng Zhengquan, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, attended and made comments.
In this issue, "Sunshine asks Lian Lianli" to"Focus on basic public services and improve the efficiency of social governance"As the theme, through the exposure of short films, asking questions from the cheap group, the host asking questions, answering the questions from the cheap objects, expert comments, evaluation by the evaluation group, etc.The existing street numbers are unclear, the smart parking system charges are not standardized, the technology experience project is "suspended by branding" and the progress of installing elevators in the community is slow.Problems, such as "torture" the relevant person in charge on the spot, tracing back to the source to check the crux, forcing the questioned unit to examine its own responsibilities and promote the rectification and implementation of the problem.
Problem one
Merchants in the "unreachable" direction
House number is the basic work for the government to implement public management, and it plays an important role in people’s postal communication, emergency rescue, household registration management, urban planning and construction. However, many streets in the urban area adjacent to Xianghe Street in the east and Sichuan Zhongda Market in the west have never been named, and hundreds of merchants involved have no house numbers. In addition, the number of houses is confused, which brings many inconveniences to merchants’ business and residents’ normal life.
On-site statement
Deng Yongjin, Deputy Director of Suining Economic Development Zone Management Committee:The short film reveals that cadres have four problems: their work style is untrue, their methods are simple, their sense of responsibility is not strong, and the responsibility system of first inquiry is not strictly implemented. At the same time, there is also a lack of effective communication and cohesion between departments and cadres. We will immediately go to the site to implement the rectification measures and conduct a comprehensive investigation. For those who have been named, we will immediately organize the production and installation of house numbers, and for those who have not been named, we will declare them in time. At the same time, add a layout navigation map in the market and set up a courier disposal center.
Member and Deputy Secretary of the Working Committee of Suining Economic Development Zone, and nominated Xiong Jie, Director of the Management Committee:Suining Economic Development Zone will attach great importance to the style of work and the shortcomings of people’s livelihood exposed in the short film, and insist on standing up for reform, standing up for doing, standing up for doing, and making inferences, so that our work can go to the hearts of the masses, to the reality, to the high, and to the far.
Guest view
Zhang Tenglong, Associate Professor of Law in chengdu normal university and Vice President of Sichuan Construction Legal Association:A small house number, so that streets and communities can not be solved for so many years, has brought a lot of trouble to the people. Regarding the problems reflected by the people, the attitude of the relevant personnel is justified and helpless, but there is no deep reflection. So indifferent to the problems reflected by the people, indifferent to it, indifferent to it, reflects from the side that the relevant personnel have no deep feelings for the people, and they have no sense of public servants.
question 2
Irregular parking charges
In order to solve the practical problems of traffic congestion and "difficult parking" in Suining city, in August 2020, the "Meitian" intelligent parking system in our city was put into operation. However, since the system was put into operation, citizens have encountered many problems in parking. In the short film, Mr. Li, a citizen, told the investigation team that when he used the "Meitian" smart parking system, he repeatedly encountered the situation that parking fees were charged for not parking enough time, and other citizens also encountered similar problems when using the parking system. According to the statistics of 12345 municipal government service hotline, from January to February this year, a total of 142 complaints about the irregular charging of "Meitian" smart parking system were received.
On-site statement
Guo Sichu, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Suining Development Group:In response to the problems reflected, we will immediately hold a rectification meeting, improve our position and grasp the rectification, and go to the scene to find problems. Start the accountability procedure, and deal with the findings together. By analogy, we will make rectification, and comprehensively arrange and rectify the people’s livelihood and services that the company is responsible for. Establish a list, compact the responsibility and grasp the rectification, and check and implement it in time, so as to complete all the rectification within 15 days.
He Jiejun, Party Secretary and Chairman of Suining Development Group:It can be seen from the short film that we have a lot of services that are not done well, which is not only a technical problem. We will immediately start the rectification, strengthen the supervision of the two units at the same time, and hand over a satisfactory answer to the masses.
Guest comments
Zeng De, Professor of Management and Master Supervisor of Southwest University of Political Science and Law:This is not just a technical problem. The parking charge system should be a mature system, but it has been put into use for three or four months. Why are there so many problems? Why has the problem not been solved? Why can’t it be put into use after successful debugging? Or is it because enterprises do not put the interests of the masses first and only care about their own immediate interests? As a superior supervisory company, it failed to fulfill its supervisory responsibility, which led to the popular support project becoming a project full of complaints. I hope that the people’s livelihood project can be truly done and implemented.
Question 3
Science and technology experience projects that have been "suspended by branding"
Suining Science and Technology Museum, located in the east of Colorful North Road in Hedong New District, is one of the sub-projects of "Suining Cultural Center" construction project-Nine Museums, One Palace and One Center, which is complementary to the surrounding youth palaces, museums, exhibition halls and other exhibition halls. Since its opening in October 2019, the Science and Technology Museum has attracted a large number of students and parents to experience the magic of technology. Recently, many citizens have reported that most of the equipment in the Science and Technology Museum has been suspended, which has caused many citizens to come to the museum on a whim and return home disappointed.
On-site statement
Hu Jiewen, Vice Chairman of the Municipal Association for Science and Technology:In view of the exposure problem, we will compact the main responsibility, urge the personnel and materials of the exhibition company to be in place, complete the establishment of the daily maintenance team of the Municipal Science and Technology Museum within 3 days, and complete the maintenance of exhibits and optimize the inspection process of exhibits within one month. Further improve the quality and efficiency of service, improve the counseling ability of scientific counselors, and let the masses have a better experience. Organize online and offline satisfaction surveys, and strive to build a people’s satisfaction science and technology museum.
Guest comments
Zhang Tenglong, Associate Professor of Law in chengdu normal university and Vice President of Sichuan Construction Legal Association:Every penny of government procurement comes from financial funds, and the goods purchased should be state-owned assets. The establishment of science and technology museum is to make people have a better and more direct experience and popularize scientific and technological knowledge. In the short film, there are so many projects that can’t be used in just two years. What is the problem? No matter which link goes wrong, there is a problem of weak sense of responsibility of the staff.
Question 4
Residents expect and are disappointed to install elevators in the community.
With the aging of the population, more and more old communities have taken the step of adding elevators. Because there are more and more old communities with elevators installed, in 2018, the city issued the "Guiding Opinions on Adding Elevators to Existing Buildings in Suining City", which pointed out the direction for installing elevators in old communities. The guidance clearly stipulates the process of adding elevators and the division of responsibilities. However, many residents reported that elevators were installed in some communities because they did not follow the prescribed procedures, which led to the delay in acceptance of elevators after installation, or the elevator was unfinished in the middle of construction.
On-site statement
Ren Shen, deputy head of chuanshan district:Next, our district will immediately organize the competent departments of the industry to deeply reflect, carefully sort out, analyze the reasons, find the crux of the problem, and seriously pursue the responsibility for failing to perform their duties and not having a strong sense of service. Those who violate the law and discipline will be held accountable according to the law. Comprehensive investigation, immediate rectification, one step and one policy research and solution, reducing the approval process, opening a green channel, and completing the rectification before the end of November this year. Strengthen publicity and guidance, and organize relevant training this week to guide residents to choose qualified companies for installation and construction. By analogy, establish a mechanism, organize housing and construction departments and street communities to perform their duties, comprehensively investigate and rectify, establish a long-term mechanism, and do this livelihood work well and achieve satisfaction.
Guest comments
Zeng De, Professor of Management and Master Supervisor of Southwest University of Political Science and Law:Since there are corresponding guiding opinions on adding elevators to buildings, and the division of labor and responsibilities are clear, the exposure short film still illustrates three problems: First, the departments shirk each other; Second, the service consciousness is not in place and there is no initiative to work; Third, management is not in place and supervision is not in place.
Leader’s comments
After carefully watching the live broadcast program, Deng Zhengquan, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor, pointed out that in recent years, the municipal party committee and government have attached great importance to people’s livelihood issues, and continued to carry out special rectification of "10 things that people are most dissatisfied with" and live broadcast programs such as "Sunshine asks Lian Lianli", actively building a platform carrier for dialogue and communication with the masses, listening to people’s voices and understanding public opinion, and effectively improving the ability and level of serving the masses. The four problems exposed today seem to be minor problems in basic public services, but in fact they are "big troubles" in people’s lives, and also reveal that there is still a certain gap between departments at all levels in contacting the masses and serving the masses.
Deng Zhengquan emphasized that all levels and departments in the city should adhere to the principle of reform, constantly improve work efficiency, rectify problems in place, and earnestly fulfill their commitments. It is necessary to draw inferences from others, check and fill gaps, re-examine and sort out the shortcomings of public services, establish problem accounts, and rectify and implement them item by item to truly satisfy the people. It is necessary to seriously pursue the responsibility, thoroughly investigate relevant issues, and accurately account for negligence and oversight. For units and individuals that have poor rectification, poor results, perfunctory rectification, and false rectification, they must be seriously accountable.
Deng Zhengquan demanded that relevant departments, units and program groups should dare to touch the truth, expose shortcomings and highlight ugliness, further improve mechanisms and innovative measures, and give play to the functions of mass supervision, social supervision and public opinion supervision, so as to make this program more effective and targeted, and promote the work of the municipal party Committee and government to meet the expectations and requirements of the people.
City leaders Tan Xiaozheng, Tu Hong, Zhang Feng, Wu Xinchun, Yang Lin and Gou Zhongjin, President of the Municipal Intermediate People’s Court Lai Bojun, Party Secretary of Sichuan Vocational and Technical College Zhang Sheng, Secretary General of the Municipal Government Jiang Yuxin and Secretary General of the CPPCC Wu Tingyou attended the on-site activities.
Source: Integrity Suining All-Media Reporter Wang Wei, Du Linde, Huang Yao/Wen Liu Changsong/Figure
Editor: Guo Lan Sun Ge
Editor: Lin Min
Audit: Ran Qixiang
Final review: Li Xinghong
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Deputy Chief Economist of the World Bank: In 2024, emerging economies should increase investment to accelerate recovery.

China news agency, Beijing, February 28 (Reporter Xia Bin) At the 2024 academic dialogue on global economic outlook hosted by the International Finance Forum (IFF) on the 28th, Ayhan Kose, deputy chief economist and director of the forecasting bureau of the World Bank, called on emerging economies to increase investment in 2024 to accelerate the global economic recovery.
Gauss pointed out that global economic growth still faces many challenges in 2024. Rapid and sustained investment will help to quickly resume production, improve labor productivity, promote global trade, promote foreign direct investment, reduce inflation and eliminate poverty, and improve the financial and financial situation of emerging markets and developing economies.
With regard to China’s economy in 2024, Gauss said that the challenge facing China is to realize the transformation of its growth model, and it should change from the investment and export-led economic growth model to the consumption and service-led economic growth model as soon as possible. Gauss agrees with the current policies adopted by China to promote the transformation of consumption and growth patterns. He said: "It is very important for China’s economy to enhance consumer confidence in the short term, promote the transformation of growth mode through firm reforms, and consolidate the expectation of medium and long-term economic growth."
Gauss also mentioned that although the US economy will grow stronger than expected in 2023, driven by strong consumer demand, high interest rates will curb the momentum of US economic growth. The World Bank predicts that the US economic growth will slow down to 1.6% in 2024.
Gauss believes that overall, the global economy will be the weakest since 1995 in the first half of 2024. Due to regional conflicts and geopolitical tensions, persistently high interest rates and financial stress risks, the growth of major economies will be lower than expected. The global economic growth in 2024 will also be affected by the downturn in trade activities. The World Bank predicts that the global economy will slow down to 2.4% in 2024. (End)
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Wuling Hongguang MINI EV four-door version of city travel new cute pet

Recently, Wuling Automobile officially released the official picture of the EV four-door model. This new car is positioned in the mini pure electric vehicle market. Compared with the MINI EV version currently on the market, its internal space has increased. It is expected that the launch of the new car will cause widespread concern and discussion in the field of small electric vehicles.

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In terms of design, the new model inherits the classic style of MINI brand and adopts the design concept of "sweet aesthetics", and its lines are round and smooth. The design of the front of the car is presented as a "smile" image, with the unique "Wings of Ling" group and 13-inch "Bauhinia" wheels, showing an attractive appearance. The color of the new car launched this time includes three kinds of high-definition options: puffy blue, bubble green and sweet coffee. The puffy blue and bubble green are treated by seven-layer coating process, which makes them show changing color effects in the sun.

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In the interior, the design language of "cute and romantic" creates a warm and comfortable space atmosphere, which continues the family’s consistent style. The interior uses a "caramel cream" color scheme, and the combination of chocolate brown and cheese white is as pleasant as a delicate dessert. The car is equipped with a suspended central control panel and instrument panel, and is equipped with electronic knob shifting mechanism, two-piece, round air conditioning air outlet and round and full decorative board. Every detail is dedicated to providing users with a more comfortable driving experience. The four-door model has a length, width and height of 3256/1510/1578 mm and a wheelbase of 2190 mm; In contrast, the three-dimensional size of the model on sale is 3064/1493/1614 mm, and the wheelbase is 2010 mm. From these data, it can be seen that the space performance of the new model is close to that of the model, and its actual internal space can be expected by referring to the performance of bingo.

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Excellent performance in power and endurance, equipped with 30kW motor and 16.2kWh group, the endurance can reach 205 km under CLTC working condition and the top speed can reach 100km/h, which can fully meet the daily commuting needs in cities. The chassis of the vehicle adopts the combination of front McPherson independent suspension and rear integral bridge-type independent suspension to ensure the riding stability. At the same time, it supports fast charging and slow charging, and is also equipped with electronic, automatic parking function and independent control buttons for front and rear windows.

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So far, the cumulative sales volume of macro MINI EV models has exceeded 1.4 million units, ranking first in the global sales volume of micro new energy vehicles. This car even surpassed popular new energy vehicles such as Tesla and BYD. This time, the MINI EV has been upgraded in the internal space and has become a unique choice in its class. So, will the sales of this high-profile national scooter continue to climb? Let’s wait and see.

[Walking into the countryside to see a well-off society] Tourism drives Tibetan villages to develop "Xiuyixiu" in Gaxiu Village of Tibetan villages.

  CCTV News:Gaxiu Village, luqu, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, is becoming more and more beautiful, and more and more tourists come by the national highway. Many families in Gaxiu Village also run homestays, including guest rooms like hotels and rooms full of Tibetan customs. The rooms are equipped with fully functional toilets and electric water heaters for bathing. Today, Gaxiu has bid farewell to the dry toilets, and all of them have used flush toilets or biodegradable toilets.

  For some shepherds, if there is no one to cook or if there are too many tourists coming, they will be delivered by the central kitchen. On the one hand, unified procurement ensures food safety, on the other hand, tourists don’t have to wait too long to eat, and the travel experience is much better.

  In the tourist service center of Gaxiu Village, you can not only consult and get help, but also experience the local national culture.

  A Tibetan calligrapher in luqu, Gansu Province;This is a kind of regular script in Tibetan.

  Reporter:What does this mean?

  A Tibetan calligrapher in luqu, Gansu Province;This is Gaxiu Xiaokang Village.

  Reporter:
The pen you use is also quite special. What is it made of?

  A Tibetan calligrapher in luqu, Gansu Province;
This is a felt.

  Reporter:In fact, it is this thing like a felt.

  A Tibetan calligrapher in luqu, Gansu Province;Yes, felt.

  A Tibetan calligrapher in luqu, Gansu Province;Go into the countryside to see a well-off society.

Volvo is recalling some imported 2016 XC90, 2017 XC90 and S90 cars

  China News Service, October 13, according to the website of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, a few days ago, Volvo Car Sales (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. filed a recall plan with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and will recall some imported 2016 XC90, 2017 XC90 and S90 cars. According to the company’s statistics, a total of 9042 vehicles are involved in the Chinese mainland.

  The details are as follows:

  (1) Imported 2017 S90 vehicles produced between May 26, 2015 and September 7, 2016, with a total of 274 vehicles;

  (2) The total number of 2016 and 2017 XC90 vehicles produced between April 15, 2015 and September 19, 2016 was 8,768.

  The air-conditioning drain pipes of some vehicles within the scope of this recall may be improperly installed during the assembly process, which may cause condensate in the air-conditioning drain pipes to leak into the passenger compartment. If condensate leakage occurs and cannot be detected in time beyond a certain period of time, it will affect the normal operation of electrical systems such as air conditioners, and there are potential safety hazards.

  Volvo Cars Sales (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. will conduct free inspections of vehicles within the scope of the recall and replace air-conditioning drains if necessary to eliminate defects. Inventory vehicles will be sold after the defects are eliminated.

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What reforms will be implemented after the change of coaches in CDC?

Academician Gao Fu retired and became a full-time scientist. Academician Shen Hongbing has added a new post as the director of China CDC. China CDC has also been transferred, and it will be directly transferred to the State CDC for management by National Health Commission.

On the afternoon of July 26th, China CDC held a cadre meeting. At the meeting, the official announced these three things.

At present, there are three ministries and commissions named "Disease Prevention and Control": National Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control, National Health Commission Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control (cancelled, still displayed in official website) and China Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

The National Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention, a national bureau managed by the National Health and Wellness Commission, is a newly established vice-ministerial bureau, which was put up on May 13, 2021 and finalized on February 17, 2022.

China Center for Disease Control and Prevention is a public institution directly under the National Health and Wellness Commission according to the Reply of the Central Committee on the Establishment of Institutions Affiliated to the National Health and Wellness Commission (No.90 [2018] of the Central Committee).

Previously, the National Health Commission Municipal Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention (the internal organization of National Health Commission, bureau level) was cancelled simultaneously with the announcement of the final plan of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, together with the Comprehensive Supervision Bureau, and some of its supervision tasks were also transferred to the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention.

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Resume of Shen Hongbing, Source: official website, China CDC

At the beginning of 2022, the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology published the article "Several Issues Needing Thinking in the Reform and Development of China’s Disease Control Institutions after the novel coronavirus Epidemic" by Shen Hongbing, deputy director of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, and talked about his understanding and thinking from the aspects of "institutional reform" and "capacity building".

The article mentioned that in view of the main problems of China’s disease prevention and control system exposed in the process of epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19, such as weak ability, ineffective mechanism, insufficient motivation, and tight prevention and control, some key difficulties and emphases will be promoted. This article by Shen Hongbing can give a glimpse of the upcoming variables of the National CDC and China CDC.

The new task of CDC

According to the final plan, the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention plans to guide the construction of an epidemic monitoring and early warning system for infectious diseases, be responsible for the work related to the epidemic response of infectious diseases, and of course include many other tasks.

This requires that the entire disease control system should further strengthen the important capacity building in monitoring and early warning, risk assessment, epidemiological investigation, inspection and emergency response.

Shen Hongbing mentioned in the article that the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention will establish a collaborative monitoring mechanism between disease control institutions and medical institutions, which will be more flexible. For example, medical institutions can push, medical personnel can report, scientific researchers can report, and individuals can report.

The National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention will also improve the laboratory inspection and testing capabilities. Specifically, at the national level, four-level biosafety laboratories, high-level biosafety laboratories and key physical, chemical and toxicological laboratories will be built, and at least one third-level biosafety laboratory will be gradually built in each province, and at least one second-level biosafety laboratory will be built in cities, counties (districts) and ports across the country.

Disease control institutions at all levels will promote the construction and application of public health big data centers, further expand and integrate business information systems, strengthen the integration of information resources in regional health-related fields, and improve the collaborative sharing mechanism of health information.

Wang Hesheng pointed out at the cadre appointment meeting that in this process, China CDC should continue to "enhance the ability of scientific research and innovation, strengthen basic and applied research, overcome the key technical and scientific problems in the field of disease control and serve the country’s major strategic needs; Strengthen the construction of disease control teams, forge leading talents for disease control, improve the quality of personnel training, care for cadres and workers, and lay a solid foundation for high-quality development. "

Shen Hongbing also pointed out in the article that it is necessary to strengthen the system and capacity building of infectious disease prevention and control and public health science and technology research in CDC at or above the prefecture level. In the layout of scientific and technological projects, base construction, personnel training and other work, strengthen the collaborative research mechanism, encourage cooperation with scientific research institutes in universities, optimize the sharing and opening mechanism of scientific research resources such as data and platforms, and cultivate interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary scientific research teams. Strengthen the research and development of pathogenic diagnosis products, drugs and vaccines, etiology and epidemiology.

In terms of employing people, the national disease control bureau and local disease control bureausWe will increase the autonomy of disease control institutions at all levels in the use of editors and personnel, reform the evaluation criteria for professional titles, and reasonably increase the proportion of middle and senior positions in disease control institutions.Improve the system of public health doctors, cultivate and expand the team of public health doctors, and explore giving public health doctors the right to prescribe. Set up a special plan for cultivating public health talents, establish a system of public health chief experts and special posts, select and train leading public health talents and top-notch young talents, and build a high-level public health talent team.

What changes have taken place in the work of CDC?

This year coincides with the 20th anniversary of the establishment of China CDC.

Before this reform, there were some systemic chronic diseases in China CDC. For example, the construction of personnel team is unstable and the treatment is poor. Shen Hongbing also pointed out in the article that this is the primary reform focus after the establishment of the National Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention. It will establish a new operating mechanism that combines security and incentives and conforms to the characteristics of disease control institutions. In collaboration with governments at all levels, it should fully guarantee the funds of local disease control institutions, and allow them to allocate autonomy within the disease control institutions to stimulate their operational vitality.

In addition, insiders said that the CDC system also has some risks of selling with gold. In his speech, Deputy Director Wang Hesheng emphasized that in the new era, it is even more important to "insist on strictly administering the Party in an all-round way, promote the concept of not being corrupt, not being corrupt and not wanting to be corrupt, and constantly strengthen the construction of work style, so as to always strike while the iron is hot.".

The National CDC consists of monitoring and early warning department, emergency response department, infectious disease prevention and control department, health and immunization planning department, which overlap with some functions of China CDC before and are also the core work of CDC staff. With the integration and adjustment of personnel and business, and with the new reform goal, it will also put forward higher requirements for CDC personnel.

The main office area of National Health Commission is located at No.1, Xizhimenwai South Road, Xicheng District, Beijing; the office area of National CDC is located at No.14, Zhichun Road, Haidian District, Beijing; and the main building of China CDC is located at No.155, Changbai Road, outside Beijing’s North Sixth Ring Road. It can be predicted that when working in coordination with other departments of the National Health and Health Commission, the staff of China CDC will have one more place to countersign. I wonder if the office process will be increased?

On the whole, with the establishment of separate disease control bureaus in various places, the disease control system will have independent administrative authority under the leadership of the disease control bureaus, and it will be more convenient to communicate with local government agencies and coordinate with local departments and bureaus. In the supervision and inspection and evaluation methods, it is more justified. These are the advantages that institutions do not have.

As far as China CDC is concerned, it is more convenient to connect with the leaders of other departments because the leaders of the National CDC also serve as the director of the center, which has a certain administrative level.

Source: medical profession

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Xiaomi rushes out of the ecological chain: AI+IoT ambition behind the "three-ring" layout

Author: wei li

Design: Thomas

In 2014, the price of a WiFi connection module was more than 60 yuan; In 2018, the price of WiFi connection module was made in 9.9 yuan RMB by Xiaomi.

As a microcosm, this sharp reduction in hardware costs often means that the IoT industry is entering the growth period from the pioneering period, from small-scale exploration attempts to large-scale experience replication. At this stage, the expansion scope and expansion speed per unit time have become the core indicators for players in the industry to compete. For Xiaomi, building a larger connection and making AI ubiquitous will help him win this competition.

Constructing a complete "three-ring" layout is the need for Xiaomi to establish a larger-scale connection faster. The innermost ring of this model includes Xiaomi’s core products such as mobile phones, televisions, boxes, routers and smart speakers. The middle link is the IoT ecological chain system built by Xiaomi through investment incubation; The outermost ring will be a third-party manufacturer accessing the Xiaomi IoT system. Its advantage lies in that it can export the IoT ecological capacity quickly cultivated by the inner ring and the middle ring to the outermost ring.

On the basis of the "three-ring" layout, with the increasing number of connected devices, Xiaomi can realize the ubiquity of AI voice assistants, and with this advantage, it can integrate content and services, achieve a breakthrough in the field of Internet services, and help Xiaomi become a veritable "Internet company". Even when Xiaomi AI voice assistant occupies the user’s mind, the potential energy of this AI+IoT will have the opportunity to make Xiaomi the underlying foundation in both C-end and B-end markets.

This is also the ambition of Xiaomi’s "AI+IoT" strategy: on the one hand, it is possible to connect as many smart devices as possible to realize the ubiquity of Xiao Ai’s classmates; on the other hand, through this ubiquitous advantage and the cultivation of users’ voice interaction habits, it will become the ultimate integration and presenter of content and services, and finally improve the commercial ecological construction of hardware+Internet services and break the inherent stereotype of "hardware companies".

Open the ecological chain and build a larger connection.

As the mobile phone market enters the stage of stock competition, the new incremental market of IoT is becoming a new battlefield for mobile phone manufacturers. Looking for the next growth point, this encounter in the IoT industry has a more important significance for mobile phone manufacturers, that is, mobile phone manufacturers have the opportunity to become the leader of new connection establishment on a larger scale by virtue of their natural advantages in the IoT hardware field, thus having more voice in the AIoT era.

For this reason, Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun said at the "MIDC·2018 Xiaomi AIoT Developers Conference" that in the next 5 to 10 years, AI+IoT will be the core strategy of Xiaomi. In establishing the connection between things, things and people, Xiaomi, which has an early layout, mature ecology and determination, has a certain first-Mover advantage, but it also needs to break through the misunderstanding that people can’t access the Xiaomi IoT system without joining the Xiaomi ecological chain, and show a more open Xiaomi, and make the outermost part bigger and bigger.

"Xiaomi’s investment is only to promote and strengthen this cooperation more effectively. This is what I want to explain to you today. Xiaomi’s determination to open up has not changed. I hope everyone can understand this." Lei Jun stressed. In his view, all giants are extremely optimistic about the AIoT industry, and the competition is becoming more and more fierce, which also requires Xiaomi to be more open than before.

On the basis of early exploration, sharing Xiaomi’s experience and ecological environment with more third-party manufacturers, helping them to complete the intelligentization of products more efficiently, and accessing more IoT systems with more users is the key for Xiaomi to lead the connection in the future. With the demand of users pushing more and more hardware manufacturers to seek the intelligence of hardware products, it is obvious that the way of ecological chain can no longer meet the pursuit of speed and scale.

From the data point of view, the "enclosure movement" in the IoT market has just begun. According to iResearch data, in 2017, the global market share of consumer-grade IoT hardware accounted for 1.7%, followed by Apple 0.9%, Amazon 0.9%, Samsung 0.7% and Google 0.6%. Although Xiaomi’s Q3 financial report in 2018 shows that the number of IoT consumer-grade IoT connected devices in Xiaomi has reached 132 million (excluding mobile phones and laptops), compared with the 15.3 billion IoT device connections predicted by iResearch in 2022, there is also a big gap.

In the past year, Xiaomi IoT platform has accessed more than 1,000 third-party products. During the developer conference, Xiaomi announced a cooperation with IKEA. Starting from December, all intelligent lighting products of IKEA will be connected to Xiaomi IoT platform, which can be controlled by Mijia and Xiaoai. In terms of connection technology, Xiaomi not only made the WiFi module RMB in 9.9 yuan, but also began to support the connection between ZigBee and Bluetooth Mesh.

Not only Xiaomi, but also BAT, Huawei and OV are striving for more third-party hardware access to their own IoT ecosystem. By introducing small speakers with obvious price advantages, Baidu has caught up with Xiaomi in the sales of smart speakers in the third quarter, with more than 300 DuerOS partners and more than 160 landing master devices equipped with DuerOS. The partners of the HiLink smart home platform established by Huawei have already included brands such as Opal, Jiuyang, Midea, Cobos, Bull, Haier, Boss and Iflytek.

According to an employee of a third-party manufacturer at the developer conference, Xiaomi’s advantage over other manufacturers lies in its ability to bring goods. Xiaomi itself has a large number of users with strong scientific and technological attributes, and is willing to try new things such as IoT devices. At the same time, Xiaomi also has its own new retail channels, which helps to help new products be quickly recognized by more users. "In e-commerce channels other than products, users often find our products by directly searching for product names instead of product categories, which has a lot to do with crowdfunding on products."

"In addition to providing developers with embedded software solutions, networked intelligent modules, unified APP experience and intelligent linkage, and reliable cloud services, we actually provide developers with new retail channels for incubating their own brand products — — Xiaomi has a product. " These tools in Fan Diankou, general manager of the IoT platform department of Xiaomi Group, are the chips for Xiaomi to break out of the eco-chain model and go to more third-party manufacturers, and are also the key to winning the advantage in the connection agreement dispute.

Get through three big rings, AI is everywhere.

The establishment of more connections not only won the dominance of IoT connection agreement for Xiaomi, but also provided the foundation for Xiaomi to promote its AI voice assistant service to more users. In Xiaomi’s explanation of "AI+IoT strategy", open cooperation is a key word, which allows more devices to access Xiaomi’s IoT system and improve the "three-ring" layout; Core competence is also a key word, that is, to realize the communication of the three rings and jointly accomplish the goal of making Xiao AI’s AI ability ubiquitous.

"I believe that control technology such as AI+IoT will be embedded in every device in the future. There may not be a special device called smart speaker, or smart speaker will become a very small device. This technology is embedded in every device." Lei Jun said that in three to five years, every smart device may have the control module of AIoT, which will make the whole interaction very interesting.

What is interesting is that the intelligent voice assistant will become a powerful AI capability system, which is both an open platform and a strong ecology. One end of this system will be connected with all kinds of intelligent hardware, while the other end will be connected with content and services. In the middle, a well-run skill developer ecosystem is needed to develop different capabilities for this system and effectively connect hardware with content and services. On the basis of full hardware connection, voice assistant will become the ultimate integrator of hardware, content, service and AI technology.

"Xiaomi has a very deep layout in both mobile phones and IoT. It is based on the advantages of these Xiaomi on the end and based on the mature AI advantages, we feel that Xiaomi is standing on a bigger cusp today." Cui Baoqiu, vice president of artificial intelligence and cloud platform of Xiaomi Group, said.

In order to grasp this enthusiasm, Xiaomi provided Xiaoai students with the opportunity to run on other brands of Android phones and Apple phones by releasing Xiaoai students’ App+ Bluetooth devices separately. On the other hand, Xiaomi tried to integrate the content and function with Xiao Ai’s classmates, breaking the boundaries between the inherent apps, and cultivating users’ habits to directly summon content or services through Xiao Ai’s classmates.

In Cui Baoqiu’s introduction, there are now more than 200 smart devices that can support Xiao Ai’s control in 23 major categories, and this number is still growing at the rate of four (models) every Wednesday. At the same time, Xiao Ai also supports calling Microsoft Xiao Bing, and Xiaomi IoT system also supports connecting with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.

The simultaneous opening of the IoT system and AI capabilities has improved the speed of Xiaomi’s connection with IoT hardware, expanded the coverage of Xiaoai students, and accelerated the pace of Xiaomi’s integration of hardware, products, content and services.

"We should not only connect with smart device manufacturers, but also connect with Internet manufacturers. We should connect with APP developers of software and hardware, as well as skill developers. We should access AI technology companies and hope that various companies can help us provide services. We will fight for the world. In the end, all the green users in the upper layer will be served. Our users of Xiaomi are also users of everyone, and we are users together. " Cui Baoqiu said.

Users wake up and execute a specific function on mobile phones and intelligent hardware devices through voice commands, and behind this function are capability developers. These capability developers can independently choose which way their capabilities are carried by APP, applet or light application according to their needs. By connecting scenes and services, the AI voice assistant has presented the possibility of becoming a new front entrance, providing more imagination for Xiaomi.

Down-to-earth, longing for the starry sky

On the basis of the establishment of a wider range of connections, Xiaomi will be able to build a system including hardware, content and services: that is, Xiaomi takes IoT hardware as the carrier and implants its own AI capabilities into more hardware products by exporting its own hardware ecological chain capabilities; Then, with the ubiquitous AI voice assistant as a new entrance, more content and services are included in the ecology to realize the integration of hardware, content and services. Even, on the basis of this system, we have embarked on a bottom-up road of smart city construction.

Keeping the mobile phone business in the competition in the stock age, relying on users and ecological foundation to maintain its own advantages in the IoT market, and further strengthening the technical ability in AI, so that Xiaoai students can truly be everywhere, is the field that Xiaomi needs to step on in the C-end market, and the foundation of becoming a solution integrator.

If this attempt can be successful, it means that in the C-end market, a considerable number of users will choose to use Xiaomi’s intelligent hardware products to realize voice interaction through Xiaoai students, and at the same time, they will accumulate a large number of user data and ability developers with Xiaoai students. This accumulation is equally important for B-end users, which will make it possible for Xiaomi to March from the C-end market to the B-end market.

The cooperation between Xiaomi and All Seasons Hotel shows the possibility of expanding from C-end to B-end. At present, through this cooperation, Xiaomi has moved scenes such as small love speakers and intelligent lighting to the upcoming all-season Shanghai Hongqiao Center Hotel, where customers can experience Xiaomi’s smart home while traveling or on business, and play a role as a model room. When the users of IoT devices and Xiaoai classmates reach a certain number and become more and more dependent on voice interaction, it may become an inevitable user demand for hotels to install smart homes carrying Xiaoai classmates.

This will be a B-side change triggered by the accumulation of individual user needs. When Xiaoai students are ubiquitous, Xiaomi IoT system, which also grasps hardware, users, content and services, will also be able to extend to the depth of the industrial chain and undertake more service and management needs of B-side users.

"We have so many smart devices and have a good platform. Let’s start from this point. We will expand it from an individual user to a family, then expand it to the whole building and then to the community. Finally, through this platform, we will gradually make a real smart city." Wang Yulin, CEO of Jinshan Cloud, said.

Whether To C or To B, Xiaomi urgently needs to break out of the pattern of ecological chain and build a complete "three rings". On the basis of large-scale hardware equipment connection, it will complete its own ecological construction with the help of the potential energy of AI+IoT, so as to prepare for the coming AIoT era.

Because the competition in the AIoT era is destined to be a competition between different ecosystems, Xiaomi needs a complete ecology as a ticket for the final competition.

The landslide in Zhenba, Shaanxi Province caused the interruption of National Highway 210, and one person was injured.

  Xi ‘an, Central Broadcasting Network, September 10th (Reporter Zhang Wei Shu Longhuan) The reporter of Central Broadcasting Network learned today (10th) from the zhenba county Emergency Management Bureau of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province that on September 9th, the landslide in zhenba county caused the interruption of National Highway 210, and one person was injured and one trapped person was successfully rescued.

  A landslide occurred at the Dahekou at the junction of Yanchang Town and Yudu Town in zhenba county (video screenshot from Yangguang. com)

  Affected by four rounds of heavy rainfall since July, at about 18: 30 on September 9, 2021, a landslide occurred at Dahekou at the junction of Yanchang Town and Yudu Town in zhenba county, which interrupted the 210 National Road and blocked the Yushui River, injuring one person and trapping another. The injured people were immediately sent to the hospital for treatment, and were diagnosed with leg and rib fractures. The condition was stable and the mood was stable; The trapped people were successfully rescued at 7 am on September 10, and their vital signs are normal at present.

  The collapse of the mountain caused the water in Yushui River to be blocked (photo courtesy of local people from Yangguang. com)

  After the dangerous situation occurred, the local government departments attached great importance to it, and departments such as emergency, public security, transportation, water conservancy, health, natural resources and fire rescue rushed to the scene to rescue, set up an emergency rescue headquarters, and set up seven working groups including comprehensive coordination, on-site rescue, medical treatment, traffic control and personnel evacuation to carry out emergency rescue and disposal work.

  Traffic control is implemented in collapsed sections (photo courtesy of local traffic police issued by Yangguang. com)

  At present, the National Highway 210 has implemented traffic diversion control, and is carrying out personnel arrangement for village groups around landslides. The personnel in upstream and downstream risk areas have been fully and rapidly transferred, and rescue materials, rescue equipment and other transportation and storage work have been put in place, and rescue work is being carried out in an orderly manner.

  At the same time, zhenba county conducted a comprehensive investigation and risk assessment of geological hazards, promptly eliminated all kinds of safety hazards, and ensured the safety of people’s lives and property.

Using bitcoin to buy drugs and sell criminals in the "dark net": I would rather never touch them.

  "I’d rather never touch ‘ Dark net ’ It is too late to regret it now. " He Shi (a pseudonym), a 30-year-old Hainanese, got the court’s verdict at Hai ‘an Detention Center in Jiangsu. In July last year, he was arrested by Jiangsu police for drug trafficking, and was later sentenced to two years in prison and fined 10 thousand yuan.

  He Shi said in an interview that it was the "dark net" that made him break through the moral bottom line.

  The "dark net" refers to the hidden network, which ordinary netizens can’t search and access by conventional means, and they need to use some specific software, configuration or authorization to log in. Because the "dark net" has the characteristics of anonymity, it is easy to breed all kinds of illegal crimes with the network as a linking tool, and some young people are deeply involved. China Youth Daily China Youth Network reporter’s online search of China’s judgment documents shows that there are 21 cases involving "dark network", involving criminal acts such as drug trafficking, spreading pornographic and terrorist illegal information, and infringing citizens’ personal information.

  It is noteworthy that with the increasing number of people visiting the "dark net" in China, the group of young people is expanding, and even minors are involved. In recent years, criminals use the "dark net" to commit crimes increasingly. The public security organs continue to study the illegal crimes related to the "dark net", strengthen the crackdown on the "dark net" crimes, and urge the relevant units to strengthen the network security protection work and block the security risks from the source.

  "Although ‘ Dark net ’ It has the characteristics of anonymity and concealment, but ‘ Dark net ’ Not ‘ Extralegal land ’ And ‘ A sin-free paradise ’ 。” Wang Yingwei, director of the Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, said at the press conference of the Ministry of Public Security a few days ago.

  Use bitcoin to buy drugs in the "dark net" and sell them at a high price in China.

  Around 2014, He Shi liked to soak in foreign website forums and inadvertently learned about the "dark net". As a network maintenance major, he is full of curiosity. Through a series of operations, he saw a network world different from ordinary cognition.

  "Gun trafficking, drug trafficking, organ trafficking, bloody video … … Although I don’t know whether it is true or not, the evil of human nature is vividly displayed on it. " He Shi said that this is a network world with high freedom and extreme things and non-extreme things coexist. At first, he just browsed some new things on it and never thought of using it to do anything else.

  Later, after reading foreign novels, he noticed that a famous writer mentioned in the book that LSD had brought them infinite inspiration. "I especially want to know what it feels like." He Shi said.

  The scientific name of LSD is ergot diacetamide, which is a strong semi-artificial hallucinogen. Although all the publicity I came into contact with said that drugs were harmful to people, in these books, He Shi saw the magical effect of "creating technological upgrading". "This subverts my perception of drugs."

  He Shi wants to start with LSD first. In 2018, he contacted a Polish through the "dark net" and paid in bitcoin to buy more than 200 drug "stamps" with a unit price of LSD as the main component in 30 yuan.

  "The color is disordered and the time and space are reversed. It seems that I have experienced several lives and spent three lives." He Shi described the feeling of smoking "stamps" when interviewed by China Youth Daily and China Youth Network. He thought that this hallucinogenic drug was not addictive and harmless.

  He Shi realized that "stamps" have a big market in China. Not long after, he quit his original job in real estate sales, and contacted overseas sellers on the dark internet to buy "stamps", and contacted domestic buyers through WeChat and the Internet to sell the "stamps" received at the price of RMB from 160 yuan to 200 yuan.

  The "dark net" has become a hotbed of crime.

  The reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network entered the keyword "dark net" in China Judgment Document Network, and found 21 cases. Among them, there are 8 cases of smuggling, trafficking, transporting and manufacturing drugs, and 7 cases of infringing citizens’ personal information, 3 cases of illegal possession of articles promoting terrorism and extremism, and 1 case of other three types of crimes, namely kidnapping, destroying computer information systems, and making, copying, publishing, selling and disseminating obscene articles for profit.

  In September 2018, the People’s Court of Anyuan District, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province publicly pronounced the first case of infringement of citizens’ personal information in Pingxiang. The defendant purchased citizens’ credit card information through the "dark net", then bound the mobile phone payment and stole the credit card to obtain illegal benefits. The court sentenced two defendants to fixed-term imprisonment and fined hundreds of thousands of yuan for the crime of infringing citizens’ personal information.

  In June this year, the People’s Court of Luoping County, Yunnan Province also announced a case of using the "dark net" to infringe citizens’ personal information. The defendant posted on overseas websites, indicating the service items and prices of citizens’ personal information such as personal household registration, family household registration, house opening records, and living together records, and traded in bitcoin in the "dark net" market. From April to November 2018, more than 1,000 pieces of personal information of many people were illegally obtained and sold, with a profit of 1.33315 bitcoin, and 1.30948 bitcoin was converted into RMB 41,397.35.

  The verdict shows that after the defendant claimed that he was deceived in finding a job, he came up with the idea of "making money by providing personal information online". Most of the information he sells is sent to the other party through Chinese forum network and dark goods trading market, and some of it is sent to the other party through social software. The information mainly includes personnel tracks, room opening records, mobile phone account opening information, etc. Among them, the highest price is mobile phone positioning information, and the lowest is household registration information.

  In addition, obscene and violent videos in dark networks are also common. A case decided by the People’s Court of Pingyi County, Shandong Province shows that the defendant learned, downloaded and exchanged obscene and violent video files through the "dark net" and spread them to three people for profit.

  According to a network technology practitioner, due to the anonymity of access, the encryption of information and the concealment of servers, the "dark network" soon became a new channel for criminals to engage in illegal and criminal activities after 2004. In addition to illegal trade in prohibited goods, illegal information such as pornography, kidnapping, assassination and terrorism is also extremely rich, and it has even become an important platform for terrorist organizations.

  The "dark net" is not illegal.

  According to public information, on April 30 this year, the largest "dark net" market "dream market" was closed. On the same day, law enforcement agencies from Europe, Canada and the United States launched operations and announced that international law enforcement agencies had arrested 61 people, closed 50 dark online accounts for illegal activities, and executed 65 search warrants, seizing 2,995 kilograms of drugs, 51 guns and more than 62 million euros.

  According to public information, since the beginning of this year, public security organs across the country have filed 16 cases related to "hidden networks" and arrested 25 suspects involved in illegal and criminal activities involving "hidden networks", of which two have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment and 23 have been detained in criminal detention.

  With the increasing number of people visiting the "dark net" in China, the group of young people is also expanding. "Dark network" has become a new field of cyberspace governance in China, and the crime of "dark network" has also brought new challenges to cyberspace governance.

  Jin Ming, deputy squadron leader of the Seventh Squadron of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of Hai ‘an City, Jiangsu Province, said that there are many difficulties in cracking down on the crime of dark network in terms of system and technology, so the effectiveness of the crackdown in various countries is also uneven. Due to the cooperation between network and logistics, drug-related crimes have become more professional, and drug traffickers are at a low age and tend to be professional. The borderless network inevitably requires countries to strengthen international cooperation in law, system and technology, seize key links, bring criminals to justice, and prevent the "dark network" from becoming an extra-legal place.

  Dr Ni Jun, from the Institute of Cyberspace Strategy of Fudan University, wrote that China should further study and carry out governance measures that are in line with China’s national conditions on the basis of learning from the experience and practices of foreign "dark network" governance. Relevant government departments should organize domestic key cyber security research institutes to carry out research on special projects, so as to have the "dark network" management and control technical ability to meet the needs of cyberspace governance in China as soon as possible.

  Lawyer Fan Guomin of Jiangsu Nuofa Law Firm pointed out that it is difficult to obtain evidence for "dark net" crimes, which makes it more difficult for law enforcement agencies to crack down on crimes. It is suggested to improve the ability of obtaining evidence through various technical means. In addition, the state should establish cooperation with some enterprises involved in network security, jointly develop technologies and tools, and let some professional technicians participate in specific actions to control "dark networks".

  He also suggested that it is necessary to strengthen the implementation of relevant laws and regulations, eliminate the black and gray industrial chain of making and selling fake ID cards, black phone cards, fake IDs, etc., and the public security and network information departments jointly launched a special "dark network" crackdown to increase the monitoring and crackdown on "dark networks" and the use of "dark networks" to commit crimes.

  China Youth Daily China Youth Network reporter Li Chao Intern Cheng Rong Source: China Youth Daily

Tsinghua is a chip veteran who specializes in GPGPU! Seize the domestic gap

  Aspect: GPGPU processor developed by Denglin Technology adopts software and hardware co-design and will be used by customers for testing at the end of this year.

  Lead: The new concept of "AI chip" has gradually gone through the stage of popularization in the past year and is more and more familiar to the public. In the process that the industry has gone through barbaric growth and started to accelerate its landing and integration, more AI chip companies have also begun to step out of their own differentiated routes.

  After the first season of previous AI chip series reports, Zhidongxi set out again, and further conducted differentiated in-depth follow-up reports on nearly 100 core enterprises in the whole AI chip industry chain. This is one of the second seasons of the series of reports on the AI chip industry in Zhidongxi.

  When it comes to universal AI chips, no one will ignore NVIDIA.

  With the super parallel processing capability of GPU, NVIDIA got on the high-speed train of artificial intelligence (AI), and in recent years, its market value soared by more than ten times, making it invincible in the field of AI chips in data centers and becoming an unshakable cloud AI overlord.

  The outbreak of computing power provides the cornerstone for the accelerated development and landing of AI technology. The hot AI market has spawned a number of emerging AI chip entrepreneurs at home and abroad.

  In the past, chip giants such as NVIDIA and Intel dominated the cloud AI market, and most AI chip startups chose to avoid its edge and specialize in the field of terminal AI-specific chips.

  However, one company named "Denglin Technology" has a unique vision, aiming at GPGPU, which is now controlled by NVIDIA. GPGPU is the full name of general purpose computing on graphics processing unit, that is, a graphics processor (GPU) capable of general computing. It extends the application scope of GPU beyond graphics, and has been widely used in large-scale parallel computing in scientific research, education, financial computing, industry and other fields.

  At present, only NVIDIA has realized the large-scale commercialization of GPGPU in the world, and the gap in this field in China is still obvious, but several players have been working hard to develop it.

  ▲ Li Jianwen, founder and CEO of Denglin Technology

  On a warm morning, Zhi Dongxi chatted with Li Jianwen, the founder and CEO of Denglin Technology, to see how this veteran who has been deeply involved in GPU for 20 or 30 years led the team to develop innovative GPGPU architecture with versatility and high efficiency, and moved towards the vision of "becoming the NVIDIA of China".

  GPU veterans have been in business for a year and a half, and more than a dozen patents are in hand.

  As the mainstay of AI development, the opportunities for the underlying hardware of AI are undoubtedly extremely broad, but looking around, most of the solutions for cloud AI training in the world are provided by American company NVIDIA.

  The design of high-performance processor is facing many challenges such as high complexity, technical difficulty and deep technical barriers. It is a key field in the field of integrated circuit design, and the relevant talent pool is very limited, even in Silicon Valley, where many IC elites gather.

  Li Jianwen studied in Tsinghua University Institute of Microelectronics with a bachelor’s degree, and obtained a master’s degree from the Circuit Teaching and Research Group of Tsinghua Radio Department in 1990.

  As early as 2017, Li Jianwen began to think, why don’t we build Chinese’s own server AI chip?

  This idea became the bud of Li Jianwen’s founding of Denglin Technology.

  Before the establishment of Denglin Technology, Li Jianwen had twenty or thirty years’ experience in GPU field. He served as the vice president of TUxin Technology (founded in 2004), and the GPU/GPGPU IP products he was in charge of were sold to famous semiconductor and technology companies such as Freescale, Intel, Meiman, Google, Samsung, Nokia and Dahua.

  At first, Li Jianwen was also attracted by Google TPU, and wanted to have a try on special AI chips. However, during his time as a consultant of Northern Lights Venture Capital, Li Jianwen found that in the face of the rapid evolution of algorithms and the emergence of new applications, the special AI chip similar to Google TPU does not have the versatility needed by the market. Maybe after investing a lot of money and time to make the chip, the market no longer needs this thing.

  After seeing the bottleneck of dedicated AI chip, based on years of accumulated industry experience, Li Jianwen is determined to make some achievements in the construction of heterogeneous general computing platform with GPGPU as the core, and make GPGPU solutions with better performance than NVIDIA.

  In November 2017, Li Jianwen established Denglin Technology in Shanghai, which was hatched by the well-known high-tech venture capital institution "Northern Lights". The Angel Round and Pre-A Round of financing were completed at the end of 2017 and the first half of 2018 respectively, with a total financing amount of about 150 million RMB.

  The core founding team of Denglin Technology consists of eight people, seven of whom have been deeply involved in the GPU field for a long time, and one has rich experience in network processors.

  According to Li Jianwen, other members have worked for many years in world-renowned semiconductor, system and Internet companies such as TUX, NVIDIA, AMD, Cisco and Acacia. Each member not only has more than 20 years’ experience in high-tech industry, but also has the achievements of successful streaming and mass production in advanced technology from 28nm to 7nm, and comprehensively covers the parallel processor system architecture, software and hardware, core IP, processor verification platform construction, and the development of the overall SoC chip.

  After a year and a half of development, there are about 60 people in the company now, most of whom have at least a master’s degree, no less than 78 years of work experience and very rich industry experience. At present, Denglin Technology has obtained more than a dozen patents, and dozens of core patents are being applied at home and abroad.

  Software and hardware combined with innovative GPGPU will be delivered to customers at the end of this year.

  With NVIDIA GPGPU Zhuyu in the front, if a startup wants its products to be recognized by the market, it usually chooses to cut prices and earn less money.

  But Li Jianwen wants to do more than that. He hopes to do something different. He can not only inherit the advantages of NVIDIA, but also be as good as NVIDIA’s GPU in universality. At the same time, he has made some innovations in technology, which makes the calculation density higher, the efficiency further improved, and the demand for external bandwidth greatly reduced.

  In people’s traditional cognition, NVIDIA’s GPGPU core is mainly oriented to graphics acceleration and high-performance computing, but in order to take into account the characteristics of all these applications, his hardware structure is fixed, the execution mode is based on instruction set, and the storage is centralized data storage based on the traditional von Neumann architecture, which limits the efficiency of hardware to some extent and is not the optimal solution for AI applications.

  Therefore, Li Jianwen chose to adopt the concept of software and hardware co-design in the system architecture design, so as to solve the problem of both universality and high efficiency of AI computing.

  Different from the customized AI processing chips provided by other manufacturers, the "boarding -Minsky" architecture (software-defined heterogeneous AI computing platform) independently innovated by Denglin Technology has higher flexibility in architecture design.

  The software can predict the final application of customers. Through feature analysis at a higher application level, various hardware designs including pipeline, control model and storage model can be optimized according to the characteristics of tasks.

  Through this architectural innovation, Denglin Technology can make the computing density and efficiency of AI processor hardware higher, the power consumption and area lower, and the requirements for bandwidth are much lower.

  "It turns out that it’s like handing over the task to the right hand after the left hand has done something, and the way of software and hardware collaboration is that the two hands work together." Li Jianwen vividly metaphor.

  According to him, compared with Tesla V100 and Tesla T4, the latest mainstream products in NVIDIA, the products of Denglin Technology have improved their performance by 5-10 times on the basis of lower-cost mature technology and reducing the chip area by more than 50%.

  At the same time, it is unrealistic for a startup company to re-create a set of software ecology directly before it grows up. Therefore, Li Jianwen chose to inherit the ecology with NVIDIA as the main body and provide better solutions.

  Li Jianwen revealed that the GPGPU processor at the core of Denglin Technology has passed the FPGA verification, and the design of the first generation product Goldwasser has also been completed, which is being fully verified before streaming. The product is planned to be available for customer testing before the end of this year.

  Startups need to see three directions clearly.

  Li Jianwen believes that it is very important for a new company to understand three aspects: one is the market, the other is the technology and product route, and the third is that the market and technology direction should be consistent with the team’s ability.

  First of all, the AI hardware market is developing rapidly, which is recognized by everyone. According to the report of American research institute Tractica, by 2025, the market of cloud AI chips is expected to reach $14.6 billion.

  At this time, the choice of technology and product route is particularly important. Because the iteration speed of the current AI algorithm is still very fast, Li Jianwen thinks that the risk of developing a special AI chip will be greater. Relatively speaking, the route of a general AI chip is more secure and feasible.

  Even if you see the market opportunity and find the potential technology and product direction, you need to have the ability to be good at this field. Similarly, taking Denglin as an example, most of their members have mature experience in the GPU field, and they have practitioners with excellent professional and technical skills from software and hardware, IP to SoC, so they have the ability to solve problems quickly and develop products.

  Previously, with the increasingly hot AI chips, a large number of fans poured into this market. However, as the capital market became calm, people began to question whether there was a bubble behind this carnival.

  For this phenomenon, Li Jianwen thinks that the market is a little overheated. Some people and capital who jumped in underestimated the difficulty of cloud AI processors, but PPT can’t make chips. The ultimate winner must be someone who can have a deeper understanding of customers’ ideas and make products that truly solve customers’ core problems.

  Conclusion: The landing tide of large-scale AI chips has not yet arrived.

  Last year, it can be said that the domestic and international science and technology circles were involved in a frenzy of AI chips. Both traditional semiconductor companies and AI chip entrepreneurs stood their ground, and various cloud computing companies, AI algorithm companies and traditional industry giants poured in across borders, vying to announce their own research on AI chips.

  They chose different technologies and product paths to meet the needs of different application scenarios such as data center, security and voice.

  According to the AI chip plans announced by various companies before, there will be a number of products of AI chip companies at home and abroad one after another this year and next. From the underlying hardware to the adaptive solutions, the competition in the field of AI chips will become more intense. The bursting of any bubble will be accompanied by the disappearance of a large number of start-ups, but after the strong wind blows, the start-ups that really grasp the market needs and solve customer problems will stand out.

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