Internet giants in China are stirring up the global music market.

Original: Fan Zhihui’s music first sound
Author | Ersansan Editor | Fan Zhihui

When Lil Nas X recorded the single "OldTown Road" in a small studio, he never thought that more than 70 million people would use this song to record short videos on TikTok. It is even more unexpected that such a popular way will make him occupy the top position of Billboard Hot 100 for 19 consecutive weeks.

Maybe even TikTok didn’t expect that not only in China, but also in European and American markets, musicians began to use TikTok to promote their songs, and record companies paid more and more attention to this platform. At the same time, as the most popular social platform, TikTok frequently appeared on the front pages of major overseas media, became the number one competitor of overseas Internet giants, and was also targeted by the US Securities and Futures Commission.

ByteDance, an Internet company in China, successfully stirred up the overseas Internet market through TikTok. However, this is only the tip of the overseas music market layout of China Internet giants.

Netease: machine emperor blessing, cast a dark horse in the African music market

Last month, Netease released its financial report for the third quarter, and the revenue of Netease Cloud Music reached a new high. At the same time, BoomPlay, a music streaming service owned by Netease, reached a copyright licensing cooperation with Sony Music. Previously, it reached copyright licensing cooperation with Universal Music and Warner Music Group in November 2018 and March 2019 respectively.

What’s the origin of BoomPlay? In 2017, the intelligent terminal production service provider Chuanyin Holdings and Netease established a joint venture company Chuanyi Internet, and BoomPlay is a music streaming platform for the African market under Chuanyi Internet.

According to MBW, Boompla can be divided into two modes: free mode and paid mode, and paying users spend about $1.50 per month. At present, BoomPlay has covered most of Africa, with 60 million users, an increase of 18 million compared with February this year, and an increase of about 2 million users every month.

According to seven wheat data, this two-year-old music streaming platform ranks in the top five in the music application rankings of Apple stores in many countries/regions in Africa, and ranks in the top three in Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania.

In March 2019, Boomplay announced the completion of the $20 million Series A financing, which was led by Maixing Investment, followed by Yunshi Capital and other strategic investors. The funds raised in this round will be mainly used for music library expansion, product upgrade and talent introduction to support the team to further consolidate its leading position in the African market.

The development of market economy in 54 countries/regions in Africa is very different. Although sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 15% of the global population, it only accounts for 2% of the global record music market, and its streaming media market is "still in its infancy". However, according to IFPI data, South Africa’s streaming media revenue increased by 334.2% in 2016 and 40.2% in 2017, from 8.4 million US dollars in 2016 to 11.78 million US dollars in 2017. Some media believe that Africa’s music industry is a volcano waiting to erupt.

It is estimated that by 2020, 500 million African citizens will have smartphones. Chuanyi Internet’s other major shareholder, Chuanyin Holdings, is the largest smartphone service provider in Africa, with a market share of about 40%. According to the IDC report, Voice ranked first in the smartphone market in Africa in 2018.

BoomPlay pre-installs the software in the mobile phone due to the advantages of the voice service provider, which not only enhances the competitiveness of the mobile phone, but also brings new users to BoomPlay continuously. Based on Netease’s experience in music streaming media business, with the help of the business advantages of voice transmission in the local market in Africa, the combination of the two makes Boomplay expand rapidly in the African music market.

ByteDance: Short video+streaming media, sweeping overseas music market.

According to CNBC, ByteDance beat Tencent and Baidu in the first half of 2019 and became the second largest digital advertiser in China after Alibaba. Compared with the same period of last year, ByteDance’s advertising revenue in the first half of 2019 increased by 113%, most of which came from its short video platform "Tik Tok" and news information application "Today’s Headlines".

In 2019, TikTok’s overseas version of TikTok achieved amazing growth. It is no exaggeration to say that TikTok has become a global phenomenon. According to the report of Sensor Tower, as of November, TikTok has more than 1 billion users worldwide, with about 800 million active users every month. In June of this year, TikTok users spent a total of $10.8 million, with American users accounting for about 20%. According to foreign media reports, TikTok has made a profit of $175 million on App Store and Google Play Store.

In November 2019, TikTok also launched its own ticketing function-TikTok Tickets in Thailand, which provides tickets discounts and discounts for concerts, movies and other activities. At present, TikTok Tickets has reached cooperation with several entertainment brands in Thailand, such as BEC Tero, Major Cineplex, Neon Festivals and Ticketmelon.
In addition, according to foreign media reports on December 11th, ByteDance quietly launched a new music application Resso in India and Indonesia in May this year. According to Sensor Tower data, about 27,000 users of iOS App Store and Google Play have installed Resso since it was released six months ago. Unlike Spotify, Resso displays real-time lyrics, allows users to comment under songs, generates GIFs and videos accompanied by music, and provides a monthly subscription service at a price of 119 rupees (about 1.70 US dollars).

At present, Resso has obtained the copyright of songs from Indian record companies T-Series and Times Music. However, according to informed sources, Resso has not yet reached a copyright agreement with Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.

Obviously, ByteDance’s traffic play and local operation are quite successful, which even makes overseas Internet giants a little overwhelmed. This China Internet company, which has more than one billion active users in the world, has made a large territory overseas through Tiktok and is attacking the music industry in its own way.

Tencent: shareholding alliance+strategic investment, layout of Southeast Asia and India markets.

In addition to the eye-catching overseas layout of ByteDance, as early as December 2017, Tencent and Tencent Music Entertainment reached a cooperation in the form of stock exchange alliance, and the two companies jointly held 9.1% of the shares of Spotify, becoming its third largest shareholder. At present, Tencent’s acquisition of at least 10% shares in Universal Music is close at hand.

Last month, according to a Bloomberg report, people familiar with the matter said that Tencent planned to acquire a 10% stake in UMG for $3.3 billion, of which about $2 billion might be in the form of equity financing. The report mentioned that Tencent hopes to complete the acquisition in the next few months, and may recruit more minority investors to acquire up to 20% of the shares of Universal Music. These potential investors include Hillhouse Capital and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte.

Before joining Spotify, Tencent launched its own music platform JOOX in Southeast Asia in 2015. This platform, which is positioned as a multimedia entertainment application, provides a highly localized user interface, and also establishes a team of local experts to monitor and predict the situation of song lists and real-time broadcasting in real time.

According to seven wheat data, JOOX basically occupies the top five positions in the music application rankings of Apple stores in Hong Kong, China, Macau and Southeast Asian countries. JOOX also launched its own service in South Africa in 2017, and ranked fourth in the music application ranking of Apple Store. According to a media report in Bangkok, JOOX currently lives at around 10 million a month.

Last month, JOOX also launched activities such as listening to songs and sharing songs to do tasks, earning gold coins for VIP, obtaining K-song value-added services, and tickets for music activities. In addition, K-Pop fans can also use gold coins to support idols before the MMA awards ceremony and have the opportunity to get tickets for MMA 2019.

In addition, in 2017, the national karaoke under Tencent Music Entertainment also launched an overseas version of WeSing to enter the Southeast Asian market. Hundreds of kols from the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia have joined WeSing and uploaded thousands of karaoke videos. In July this year, overseas media reported that "WeSing has been the most popular application among similar products in the Philippines for three consecutive months".

In order to meet the needs of diversified experiences and satisfy the interests of music fans, WeSing cooperated with MYX, the music channel of ABS-CBN, a leading media and entertainment group in the Philippines, and its activities included daily song lists provided by MYX and karaoke programs hosted by celebrities.

Similarly, Tencent has not let go of the Indian market, which is still in its infancy but is growing rapidly. In early 2018, Tencent invested $115 million in Gaana, an Indian streaming service. Gaana is currently the largest music streaming platform in India, with more than 125 million active users every month. The platform has more than 45 million songs, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi, Malayalam, English and other languages, and users can try them out for free. This month, Gaana announced the first lineup of exclusive podcast programs on the platform.

Looking at Tencent’s overseas layout, on the one hand, it constantly adds its own good business, on the other hand, it continues Tencent’s consistent idea of leveraging partners to gain opportunities to enter new markets by means of investment, such as using equity transactions with Universal Music and Spotify to enter the mature European and American music markets.

Internet giants in China are stirring up the global music market.

"Its performance in the United States began to take off, especially for young people. Its growth in India is very rapid. I think it has surpassed Instagram in terms of scale. " Zuckerberg’s conversation inside Facebook was leaked, and this one refers to Tiktok.

Undoubtedly, the rapid popularity of Tiktok has brought a great sense of crisis to overseas giants. At the end of last year, Facebook launched a software called Lasso to benchmark TikTok, but its monthly download was less than 1% of TikTok’s-by the end of June 2019, Lasso, a similar short video software of Facebook, had an average monthly download of 15,000 times, while TikTok’s download in January increased by 6.4 million times. On November 12th, Instagram also released a TikTok-like product called Reels. The same is true of Twitter, but its attempt in the field of short video Vine has failed.

Although TikTok is a social short video application, it has also set off a gust of wind in the overseas music market. In a report of "Top Ten Media and Entertainment Predictions in 2020" published by Forbes, Tiktok added the word "Music" in addition to the prefix of social video. Record companies have incorporated Tiktok into their own marketing centers, and in terms of music copyright fees, the asking price of record companies has also risen with the valuation of Tiktok. At the same time, for the new music streaming platform launched by ByteDance, the parent company of Tiktok, all major record companies also expect to get a piece of it, which is in a game period.

In addition, the rapid development of China’s streaming music market has even played a role in forcing the functional innovation of overseas streaming media platforms. For example, Spotify added a video function Canvas this year, allowing artists to insert short videos into playlists and attach GIFs to song playing pages. This is not unrelated to the popularity of short videos.

At the same time, the scrolling of lyrics with tracks is a basic function in China’s music streaming media platform, but due to copyright restrictions in the United States and Britain, there has been no function of displaying lyrics for a long time. In August of this year, Apple Music launched this feature in IOS13, and soon afterwards, Spotify began to test the launch of this feature. Last month, it was reported by the media that Apple Music applied for a patent for lyrics search technology, and it has been released by the US Patent Office.

At the same time, while expanding their overseas distribution, China’s Internet giants have also forged closer ties with overseas enterprises, feeding back the domestic music market. Two months ago, both Tunecore and CD baby, well-known overseas distribution platforms, announced that they had reached a cooperation with TME to distribute the music of overseas musicians to China. On the other hand, China enterprises are appearing more and more frequently in overseas well-known music media such as MBW and Digital Music News. In various overseas news and reports, there are highlights such as "China is one of the fastest growing regions in the global music market" and "China ranks seventh among the top ten music markets in the world in 2018", which makes the global music market see the latest trends and development potential of China’s music industry.

It can be predicted that with the continuous improvement of the strength of Internet enterprises in China and the further development of the music industry in China, the Internet giants in China will become more and more active on the global stage.

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How to protect yourself on a "barbecue" day when the temperature in more than 30 places in China has broken the historical extreme value?

  Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 13th (Reporter Deng Huaning, Wang Bin) According to the information released by the Central Meteorological Observatory, the temperature in more than 30 areas of the country has recently exceeded the historical extreme, and Turpan, Xinjiang even exceeded 49 degrees Celsius. On the 12th, the country entered a 40-day "three volts". What impact will the "barbecue" day with long time, wide coverage and high intensity have on people’s lives? How to deal with it? The reporter recently interviewed an environmental and health expert from China Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

  Experts said that continuous high temperature or heat wave makes people feel uncomfortable, and the main impact on human health is heatstroke, which leads to indigestion, increased incidence of gastrointestinal diseases, arthritis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and even death. But as long as the corresponding protection is done, the damage of high temperature can be avoided.

  First of all, the general population needs to pay attention to five aspects:

  Get and understand the forecast and early warning information of high temperature and heat wave in time. The public can check the weather forecast through the Central Meteorological Observatory or China Weather Network, or through radio, mobile phones, newspapers and other channels, arrange their work and life reasonably and take corresponding protective measures;

  In the hot and hot weather, you should try to avoid traveling from 10 am to 4 pm, and pay special attention not to exercise under the strong sunlight, such as brisk walking and running.

  Necessary protective measures should be taken during outdoor activities, including wearing breathable and light-colored clothes, which is helpful for heat dissipation; If you are outdoors for a long time, it is recommended to wear long-sleeved shirts; Wear sunglasses, use an umbrella, or wear a sun hat; For exposed skin, sunscreen can be applied to avoid solar dermatitis or sunburn;

  Due to the high temperature weather, the body temperature will rise, and it is easy to cause heatstroke due to lack of water. Attention should be paid to timely hydration, but excessive drinking water will make the stomach difficult to adapt;

  No matter when using air conditioning in the room or in the car, don’t set the temperature too low and the temperature difference between inside and outside should not be too large; It is best not to turn on the air conditioner immediately when the car stops in the hot sun. You should open the window to let the hot air out, and then turn on the air conditioner after the temperature inside the car drops. No matter in the room or in the car, it is best not to sleep with the air conditioner on, especially in the stopped car, where the ventilation is poor, and the carbon monoxide emitted by the engine leaks into the car, which will make people poisoned.

  For the elderly, infants, pregnant women and vulnerable people such as patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular sclerosis, we need to pay attention to the following aspects:

  In hot weather, vulnerable people such as the elderly, infants, pregnant women and patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular sclerosis should avoid outdoor activities during periods of strong sunlight;

  Patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular sclerosis, etc. should drink some water first when they get up in the morning to replenish the water consumed overnight, reduce blood viscosity and promote blood circulation;

  Patients with chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, hypertension and arteriosclerosis, especially the elderly and patients with joint pain, should not stay in rooms with low air conditioning temperature for a long time. The indoor and outdoor temperature difference of vulnerable people should not exceed 5℃. It should not be too long to turn on the air conditioner, and it is best to turn it on in 1-mdash; Shut down after 3 hours and conduct natural ventilation. It is best to turn off the air conditioner before going to bed at night.

  In addition, outdoor workers should attach great importance to protection:

  People engaged in outdoor work in high temperature weather should arrange their working hours reasonably, rotate their work, appropriately increase the rest time of workers in high temperature working environment, reduce labor intensity, slow down and reduce outdoor work in high temperature period. In addition, it is necessary to take effective protective measures and carry heatstroke prevention products with you;

  The operation time shall be adjusted according to the forecast temperature released by the meteorological station of the competent meteorological department at or above the municipal level on the same day;

  Outdoor workers can wipe their bodies with ice towels to physically cool down;

  After returning indoors from the outside, don’t turn on the air conditioner immediately to avoid catching a cold;

  Outdoor workers should pay attention to dizziness, nausea, dry mouth, confusion, chest tightness, shortness of breath and other symptoms, should immediately rest, drink some cold water to cool down, serious illness should immediately go to the hospital for treatment.

Guangzhou launches rectification of Renmin South Road, which is no longer "it is hard to go".

  Keep the original heart, take the mission, find the gap and implement it

  Carry out in-depth education on the theme of "Do not forget your initiative mind, Remember Mission"

  People’s South is the witness of Guangzhou’s commercial development and foreign trade in ancient and modern times. It has been a famous wholesale market gathering area in Guangzhou since 1970s and 1980s, covering more than 60 professional wholesale markets such as clothing, dried seafood, paper products, toys, fine products, electronic appliances and Chinese herbal medicines. Due to the large flow of people and goods, the problems such as occupation of roads, traffic congestion, changing non-warehouses into warehouses and noise disturbing people are relatively prominent. Over the years, the renovation of the people’s southern periphery has been under way. Beginning at the end of last year, Guangzhou took the lead in Yuexiu District, Liwan District and relevant departments to carry out key rectification work in Renmin South Area, including thirteen banks. Especially this year, many neighborhoods have found that the appearance and order of People’s South have been significantly improved. According to the recently released "Three-year Action Plan for Accelerating the Transformation and Relief of Professional Wholesale Market in Guangzhou (2019-2021)", this area is about to usher in quality improvement.

  Li hang Li Gai

  Cross-regional linkage

  Taking the improvement of traffic congestion as a breakthrough

  The People’s South Area is governed by the People’s South. To the east of People’s South Road is the People’s Street in Yuexiu District, where there are 35 professional wholesale markets covering seafood dry goods, food, paper products, toys, fine products and other industries. To the west, there are more than 30 professional wholesale markets in clothing and electronics, such as the New China Building and the Red Sky Clothing Trading Center. A large number of goods distribution and floating population bring pressure and difficulties to urban traffic, social security, fire safety and community governance. Since the end of December last year, Guangzhou has been linked with Yuexiu District, People’s Street, Liwan District and Lingnan Street to start the key rectification of the surrounding areas in the south of the people.

  Due to the large number of wholesale markets, traffic congestion and chaos have long appeared in People’s South Area, which is a problem with great public grievances. An important breakthrough in rectification is traffic. It is understood that Renmin Street has applied for support from the traffic police and transportation departments, installed machine non-isolation fences on Daxin Road and other road sections, and closed Renji West Road to prohibit trucks from loading and unloading goods, further reducing the living space of illegal logistics; Install a pedestrian guardrail on the sidewalk along Renmin South Road from Yanjiang West Road to Dade Road. In traffic monitoring blind spots (such as Dade Road, Renji Road and other sections), five all-day illegal capture cameras are installed. Yuexiu Traffic Police Brigade entrusts People’s Street Command Center to capture illegal vehicles through video monitoring equipment in the street, and then hand them over to the traffic police for punishment and joint efforts to control traffic ills. Yuexiu Traffic Police Brigade arranged two traffic policemen to work in the street, strengthened the enforcement of illegal parking of trucks, and effectively curbed the phenomenon of occupying the road to load and unload goods. Chen Fang, director of the Party and Government Affairs Office of Lingnan Street, said that since the beginning of this year, the city, district and street have dispatched more than 6,648 police forces, carried out traffic safety inspection and supervision for 4 times, and organized 46 special operations. A total of 1,903 vehicles in five categories were seized, 7,210 vehicles in bike-sharing were cleared, and 628 vehicles illegally parked were investigated. At the same time, urge bike-sharing enterprises to strengthen standardized management, set up electronic fences in the 13th line area, restrict bike-sharing from parking in the 13th line core area, and purchase property management services from the society in the name of Lingnan Street Peace Promotion Association, which is responsible for cleaning up bike-sharing. Under a series of measures, the serious congestion in the past has been improved and the roads have resumed traffic.

  In this key rectification, People’s Street involves three communities: Anyeli, Yidexi and Zhuangyuanfang. Shen Jian, deputy director of People’s Street Office, said, "In ‘ Change from non-warehouse to warehouse ’ During the renovation work, 1,590 original warehouses in the three communities were closed down ‘ Change from non-warehouse to warehouse ’ 410 rooms, 398 rooms were restored to the original use of the property, and 782 rooms were rectified by installing intelligent smoke detection system and power failure indication system, with a rectification rate of 100%, basically eliminating ‘ Two in one ’ ‘ Trinity ’ Place. " Among them, after the smoke detector discovers the fire, it can report the fire alarm signal to the gateway, and at the same time send the alarm signal to the mobile phones of warehouse users, owners, street monitoring and command centers, community neighborhood committees and other related personnel through the mobile phone APP. The street arranges to dispatch community volunteer fire brigade to the scene to verify whether it is a real fire alarm or a false alarm, so as to achieve "timely fire detection and immediate verification" in the warehouse fire safety work.

  Party construction leads

  Get through the whole process of "be responsive"

  In the governance of People’s South, it is not enough to have government and market forces alone. People’s Street adheres to the guidance of party building, builds a grassroots party building work pattern of "forbidding and responding", innovates the grassroots governance mechanism system with problem orientation, and fully mobilizes social resources and forces to participate. According to Shen Jian, People’s Street regards the construction of grass-roots party organizations as the backbone and power source of key rectification in the southern surrounding areas of the people. According to the characteristics of the People’s Street business circle market and active business buildings, it increases the autonomy and participation of industry chambers of commerce, enterprise organizations and industry professionals, and comprehensively enhances the degree of regional co-construction, co-governance and sharing. "We absorb geographical and industrial forces to participate in community governance to prevent and reduce unstable factors. For example, Datong Commercial Building set up a building mediation committee, and took the lead in organizing qualified professionals to participate in periodic cross-checking by stages and districts. At present, the cross-checking has been carried out every two months, so far, it has been inspected nine times, 54 problems have been found, and 53 have been rectified. For another example, the dried seafood industry association has set up a coordination group, which is composed of ‘ Daxie ’ Coordinating labor disputes and payment disputes can at least resolve contradictions within the industry in the bud. " Excalibur for example.

  To be problem-oriented, it is required to get through the whole process of "being responsive". It is reported that Renmin Street has initially realized a four-level response mechanism of "grid dispatching, community ordering, street ordering and department ordering", and set up basic grid staff, professional grid staff and social grid staff to collect and solve problems at multiple levels, help to intervene in advance and resolve conflicts and disputes cooperatively, and expand the "response" efficiency to the system according to the existing resources and characteristics of the street. Relevant departments "respond", professional market safety promotion associations, residents’ organizations and other collaborative forces "respond", forming a situation in which the government, institutions, enterprises and the masses respond in multiple ways. It is reported that since the implementation of the rectification, 108 cases have been called to social organizations and other forces, with a completion rate of 100%.

  According to Chen Fang, Lingnan Street, led by party building, constantly mobilized, organized and relied on market promoters, operators, merchants and the masses within its jurisdiction to set up a community "big party committee" in the 13th line community, supported by the "big party committee", and specially set up a grid deliberation workstation to fully implement the system of community party member people’s affairs council, community construction management committee and major project co-creation committee, thus forming a community party building work pattern with shared resources and complementary advantages. In particular, relying on social organizations such as the 13th Line Management Committee, the Xidi Management Committee, the "Home in Lingnan" Volunteer Service Team and the "Handheld 13th Line" Handcart Association, we constantly integrate existing resources and implement a joint mechanism of discussing major issues, doing practical things together, deciding important issues together, discussing urgent matters together and solving difficult problems together. At present, drawing on the experience of copying the "Ten Shops Joint Defense" of Shangxiajiu, relying on the thirteen-line management committee and Xidi management committee, the Lingnan Street Peace Promotion Association coordinates the market operators, and the market sends management personnel and security forces in turn to participate in the patrol management of the thirteen-line public areas. Through holding a joint meeting of market promoters, operators and owners, social publicity, distributing leaflets to small owners and other ways, the rectification will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, forming a benign interaction between government governance, social self-regulation and community residents’ autonomy, and striving to create a new pattern of multi-governance community governance.

  Transformation and upgrading

  The crowded scene of people and trucks has improved.

  The traditional professional wholesale market is characterized by spot, cash and on-site "three cash" transactions, which cannot avoid the gathering of people and logistics. If wholesale transactions and logistics are transferred online, the "flow of people and goods" can be reduced from the root cause, and the traffic, fire protection and public security conditions can be improved. During the interview, the reporter learned that many wholesale markets are exploring online transformation. The New China Building is the leader of the thirteen-line clothing wholesale industry and a well-known women’s clothing wholesale market in China. The scene where people, goods and cars were packed once made many people who went nearby "afraid". Nowadays, there are fewer trucks and vans on the surrounding roads, and the roads are orderly. "In the past, my friends were afraid to come to me, and they entered the thirteenth route from the people’s south. The distance of 300 meters could not be entered for half an hour, but now it will take 5 minutes." Tang Hongjiang, the general manager of Guangzhou Guangzhong Shisanhang Information Technology Co., Ltd., has worked in the New China Building for more than ten years. He described the change like this.

  Wholesale trading, logistics transfer to network to improve traffic

  In addition to the strong and normal rectification of relevant departments, there are also market efforts behind the improvement. Tang Hongjiang told reporters that they are exploring the transfer of wholesale transactions and logistics. In the past two years, they have been pushing an online logistics APP. Tang Hongjiang showed this APP to reporters, and users can choose the identities of merchants, stall owners and logistics to enter different interfaces. "If I am a merchant, after ordering the goods with the stall owner, fill in the delivery address, re-select the goods specifications, logistics enterprises and other information, the merchant can wait for the receipt." He told reporters that "goods are sent from the factory" or online logistics APP is advocated in the new China Building, which promotes the separation of bulk freight and business negotiation points, the two-way integration of physical market wholesale and electronic logistics operation, and promotes the transformation and upgrading of the professional market to a modern wholesale business model integrating commodity display, distribution agency, negotiation and order taking, and logistics distribution. "In our cargo transportation, 60% are bulky goods, of which 18% are carried out in online logistics, and our goal is to achieve 60%. The remaining 40% are small goods under 50KG, and you can use express delivery or two-wheeled wagons, which can greatly reduce the frequency of use of the noisiest four-wheeled wagons. " He said.

  Pigeonhole-style stalls are integrated into brand stores.

  The electronic wholesale market with small goods has another transformation idea. "In the past, Mingzhisheng was a pigeon-cage-style small stall with narrow passages and scattered warehouses. After reducing the number of warehouses, many small shops were integrated into more than ten large exhibition hall-style brand stores, which not only made the environment more comfortable, but also greatly reduced the fire hazards." Chen Fang introduced the reporter on the way to Mingzhisheng Digital City. It is understood that due to the small size of electronic accessories, customers who come to pick up the goods can leave with them. More than a year ago, there were many "five types of cars" along the street to attract business. Now, the reporter saw that these are relatively rare on the road. Chen Yongqiang, the manager of Mingzhisheng Cyberport, told the reporter that after the lease expired in September 2017, they retired a number of small stalls, rectified the market and built the first to third floors into brand showrooms. Now, the original 400 stalls have been integrated into 50 stalls and more than 10 brand stores. "The management model has not changed, but there are fewer management objects, and the management pressure, especially the fire pressure, is much smaller, and the market benefit is better than before." He said.

  "We are not the main body of the market. What we can do at the street level is to guide, encourage and cooperate with them to spontaneously explore transformation and upgrading." Chen Fang said. It is reported that on August 14th this year, the "Three-year Action Plan for Accelerating the Transformation and Relief of the Professional Wholesale Market in Guangzhou (2019-2021)" was released, in which it was proposed that the professional wholesale market should be classified through five ways: transformation and upgrading, transfer to development, demolition and closure, relocation and relief, and standardization and rectification. Yidelu and Renmin South are included in the scope of standardization and rectification, and comprehensive rectification will be carried out together with surrounding areas to improve quality.

  Environmental improvement

  Let residents sleep peacefully at night.

  After solving the traffic, fire and public security problems, the benefits are relatively large, and everyone’s feelings are relatively intuitive. The residents living in this area have the deepest understanding of solving the problem of logistics noise disturbing the people. Yidexi Community is located at the western edge of Renmin Street, with a total area of 0.028 square kilometers, a permanent population of 1,298 households and 3,401 people, with a dense population and a strong business atmosphere. It is a comprehensive community with mixed shops and residents. Among them, Yan Gong Street, located between the two buildings of Datong Square Commercial Building, has long been occupied by logistics and goods piled up, which has made the city look chaotic, and the surrounding residents have repeatedly reported problems such as noise disturbing people and community security. "The trolley that pulls goods at night clangs, and I can’t sleep all night." Neighborhood Guo Bo said.

  It is reported that since May this year, People’s Street has implemented regular enclosure management actions for the first batch of three communities, prohibiting goods from entering and leaving from 22: 00 at night to 6: 00 the next morning, and strengthening night inspections. "I can finally have a good sleep, and I want to praise the streets and neighborhood committees!" Guo Bo said. "By implementing regular enclosure, the community not only solves the problem of noise at night, but also manages multiple entrances and exits of the community at night, and also ensures community security so that residents living here can feel at ease at night." Excalibur said.

  Yan Gong Street was originally an open space, named after the original Yan Gong Temple. In the Qing Dynasty, Nanhai County Department moved to this place, close to the ancient city wall of Guangzhou and the bamboo gate of the ancient city gate, which has a strong historical and cultural atmosphere. People’s Street is based on the fact that the infrastructure of Yidexi community is outdated and the living environment of the community is crowded. It listens to residents’ wishes for a leisure place, and builds a community pocket park in Yangong Street. The design and construction of the pocket park is based on the principle of "adapting to local conditions, inheriting culture, improving quality and facilitating management", and at the same time, it fully explores the historical and cultural elements of the community and builds an open cultural museum in the community. Walking into the park, you can see that there are exhibition plates such as the ancient city gate, Yan Gong Temple and the old Nanhai county government. In the future, there will be a small exhibition hall of red street culture here, and now it has become a favorite rest place for the neighborhood. "Our family of six lives in a living room of more than 30 square meters. Now with this small park, grandchildren have a place to play." This is the happiest thing for Aunt Dai in Yide West Street.

  Grass-roots sound

  Guo Kai Yuexiu District People’s Street Yidexi Community Residents

  There is no noise, so I can have a good sleep.

  We live in a Dexi Yangong Street, born and raised here, and have never left here for 66 years. In the past, it was noisy here, and traffic jams and selling on the sidewalk were common. What’s even more disturbing is that the surrounding markets and warehouses are buying goods from night to early morning, and the sound of wagons is particularly noisy, so I can’t sleep well. Not only me, but many people in the community have reflected the problem of noise disturbing the people. Now, after rectification, this problem has been solved, and the market within the community has changed the purchase time, and the purchase can not begin until after 6 am. They are all punctual.

  Deng Zengding, Head of Management Office of Datong Commercial Building, Guangdong Huaxin Service Group Co., Ltd.

  The environment has become better, and the goods have entered and exited more smoothly.

  Since January 2019, Datong Commercial Building has been rectified in coordination with the renovation of Renmin Street and the micro-renovation of Yidexi Community. In response to the complaints from the neighborhood about the logistics noise, we reformed the tires of the flatbed car in and out with soft rubber to minimize the noise, and implemented a night enclosure to prevent the trolleys from being shipped into the goods. The transformation has also been recognized by customers. They said that the environment is better, the goods can enter and exit more smoothly, there is no need to queue up and there is no traffic jam.

  Peng Shanshan Ming Zhisheng Cyberport Remax Brand Store Manager

  The stalls are integrated, and business customers are good.

  In the past, all kinds of products of our brand were scattered in small shops around the Cyberport, so it was troublesome for customers to purchase, and they had to go to another stall after running one stall. Now these small shops have been integrated into our big brand shop. The advantage of doing this is not only convenient for customers to make "one-stop" purchases, but also has two advantages for our brand. First, after the integration, customers who only stayed in a small stall can see more goods on the dazzling shelves, display their brand image and drive potential orders; Second, decentralized stocking and decentralized procurement have become a thing of the past, and brands can rent warehouses and deliver goods in the surrounding areas, and some of them can be delivered directly from the factory, saving costs.

  (Text/Guangzhou Daily All Media Reporter Wu Duotu/Guangzhou Daily All Media Reporter Mo Weinong)

  suit measures to local conditions

  Upgrade people’s south area.

  At one time, due to the numerous wholesale markets and the gathering of people and logistics, there were long-term problems such as traffic congestion, noise disturbing people and crowded community living environment, which affected the happiness of surrounding residents. Nowadays, with the coordinated efforts of various departments and the orderly promotion of cross-regional heavy-handed rectification work, the environment in the surrounding areas of People’s South has become better and better, the streets have become cleaner, neater and more beautiful, the serious congestion has been improved, and the traffic chaos has been effectively eliminated.

  In order for the transformation results to benefit more citizens, it is necessary to simultaneously exert efforts in joint rectification and long-term governance. First, we must lead by grassroots party building. People’s South Area is located at the junction of Yuexiu District and Liwan District, which involves many related departments and is difficult to rectify. Therefore, it is necessary to better implement fine grid management, strengthen the construction of basic grid staff, continuously integrate existing resources, make good use of the strength of communities and social organizations, and jointly solve and manage community affairs. Second, we must adapt to local conditions. There are many professional wholesale markets in People’s South Area, and how to transform and upgrade is the key. We might as well make good use of the "internet plus Business" model, expand from simple commodity trading to full chain business services, and plan business models with higher gold content and technical content, such as standard rights and pricing rights, so as to become a comprehensive high-end service provider that grasps pricing rights and gathers high-end commodity and industry information. It not only promotes the high-quality development of the professional wholesale market, but also promotes the upgrading of the surrounding environment.

  In-depth renovation of the People’s South Area is a popular project for the benefit of the citizens and a long-term project. Next, we will maintain the spirit of consistency and long-term success, constantly promote the transformation work to achieve greater achievements, effectively improve the living, business environment and citizens’ happiness and sense of acquisition in the surrounding areas, and add a lot of color to all the work in Guangzhou.

  (Guangzhou Daily commentator Liu Wei)

Foreign trade operation meets expectations.

As one of the "Troika" driving economic growth, foreign trade is a key hub connecting domestic and international double cycles, and its development trend has attracted much attention.

Since the beginning of this year, global merchandise trade exports have weakened, and the foreign trade of major trading countries has experienced negative growth, and China’s foreign trade has been under great pressure. According to customs statistics, in the first 10 months, the total import and export value of China’s goods trade was 34.32 trillion yuan, and the year-on-year growth rate changed from 0.2% in the first three quarters to 0.03%, showing stability and resilience under the background of major adjustment of global trade pattern into deep water areas.

The development of foreign trade involves many links such as production, circulation and consumption, reflecting the background of economic development. To look at the trend of foreign trade operation, we should not only pay attention to the immediate data, but also put it in the three-dimensional coordinate system of space and history, and insist on a comprehensive, dialectical and long-term view.

To judge the running situation of foreign trade, we should consider it in the abscissa of global economic development. Foreign trade exports connect international demand and domestic supply, while imports connect domestic demand and international supply. A country’s foreign trade import and export performance cannot be separated from changes in global market supply and demand. At present, the demand for export, consumption and investment in the world’s major economies continues to be sluggish, the new order index is at a low level, the recovery of commodity consumption is relatively slow, and the global manufacturing purchasing managers’ index has been lower than that of threshold for many months. Weak demand and slow trade are common challenges faced by all economies, which will inevitably have an impact on China’s foreign trade. Judging from the objective law of development, it is normal for the growth rate of foreign trade import and export to fluctuate with the change of supply and demand in the international market. As long as the fluctuation is within the normal range, we should keep a normal mind.

From a global perspective, we can clearly feel the development resilience of China’s foreign trade: the latest forecast of global trade released by the World Trade Organization on October 5 lowered the growth forecast of goods trade this year from the previous 1.7% to 0.8%, which was significantly lower than the average of 2.6% in the past 12 years. According to the latest data released by the World Trade Organization, the international market share of China’s exports in the first seven months was basically the same as that of the same period last year. It can be said that in the face of the complicated and severe external environment, China’s international competitive advantage in foreign trade has not been weakened, and its ability to resist stress and adversity is stable.

To judge the running situation of foreign trade, we should also observe it in the ordinate of a country’s foreign trade development. It depends not only on whether the scale is stable or not, but also on whether the quality is high or not, and more importantly, on whether the internal vitality supporting the high-quality development of foreign trade is strong or not. Generally speaking, since the beginning of this year, under the general environment of unstable world economic recovery, China’s foreign trade has withstood the pressure, and positive factors have been continuously accumulated, and foreign trade has achieved stability and quality improvement, in line with expectations.

China has maintained its position as the world’s number one trader of goods for six consecutive years, and its foreign trade scale has exceeded 40 trillion yuan in 2022. In the second and third quarters of this year, China’s total import and export value was above 10 trillion yuan, maintaining a historical high level. From a monthly perspective, the total value of imports and exports in October was 3.54 trillion yuan, and the monthly growth rate changed from a year-on-year decline for four consecutive months from June to an increase of 0.9%. The foreign trade operation showed a positive development trend.

Faced with the impact of weak external demand, the majority of foreign trade entities actively responded to changes in international demand, increased investment in research and development, and integrated industrial resources, and the endogenous motivation for foreign trade development continued to increase. In the first 10 months, China’s foreign trade exports increased by 0.4% year-on-year, of which the proportion of mechanical and electrical products exports was nearly 60%. The results of the statistical survey of customs trade prosperity show that the proportion of enterprises that are optimistic about future imports and exports has increased.

To judge the running situation of foreign trade, we should put it in the future coordinates of high-quality development to evaluate it. At present, China’s foreign trade development has shifted from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage. Facing the new stage, new situation and new requirements, the vast number of foreign trade enterprises have made great efforts in structural optimization, mode transformation and kinetic energy transformation to accelerate the cultivation of new advantages in foreign trade competition.

New products optimize foreign trade structure. Industrial base is the bottom support of foreign trade development. For example, in the past two years, a significant change in China’s foreign trade development is that the export performance of "new three" products such as electric manned vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and solar cells is very bright. In the first three quarters, China’s "new three products" exported a total of 798.99 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 41.7%.

From the "old three samples" of clothing, furniture, household appliances and other foreign trade exports to the "new three samples" characterized by "high technology content, high added value, green and low carbon", the structural changes of foreign trade export products are the result of China’s initiative to adapt to the requirements of high-quality development and promote industrial transformation and upgrading. Relying on a complete industrial system, with technological innovation, industrial application and market cultivation, China has accelerated the construction of a modern industrial system, and has formed a complete, efficient, stable and safe industrial chain supply chain in many emerging industries.

The new format releases the vitality of foreign trade. The annual turnover of an intelligent rangefinder exceeds 600,000 US dollars, a fishing line has been sold to more than 200 countries and regions around the world, and a projector has grown from scratch to an annual export of 40 million yuan … On the cross-border e-commerce platform, a group of small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises have bravely entered the international market and written their own legendary stories. In the first three quarters of this year, China’s cross-border e-commerce import and export was 1.7 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.4%.

From processing trade to general trade, and then to cross-border e-commerce trade, with the continuous improvement of China’s resource utilization efficiency, the modes and formats of foreign trade development are more diversified. In particular, the vigorous development of the digital economy has promoted the efficiency of all links in the whole process of foreign trade and improved the convenience of small and medium-sized enterprises in foreign trade import and export. At present, there are more than 100,000 cross-border e-commerce entities in China, and new models such as live e-commerce, social e-commerce and foreign trade integrated service platform are constantly emerging, and the vitality of foreign trade business entities is accelerated.

New markets enhance the momentum of foreign trade. China-Europe trains improve quality and efficiency, the construction of new land and sea passages in the west is accelerated, and the level of "hard connectivity" is improved; With the in-depth implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, the comprehensive launch of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area version 3.0 negotiations, and the improvement of the ability of "soft connectivity" … While stabilizing economic and trade exchanges with developed economies, China has deepened the development of regional markets such as developing countries and ASEAN, and the diversification of trading partners has added new momentum to the growth of foreign trade. In the first 10 months, the total trade volume between China and ASEAN was 5.23 trillion yuan, up 0.9% year-on-year, accounting for 15.2% of China’s total foreign trade. In the same period, China’s total import and export to countries that jointly built the "Belt and Road" was 15.96 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.2%.

In the first three quarters, the number of foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance in China increased to 597,000, of which the import and export value of enterprises that have been active since 2020 accounted for nearly 80% of the total. Over the past 45 years of reform and opening-up, it is a family of enterprises that have bravely stood on the tide, climbed over the hurdles, weathered the storm and seen the world in the sea of Wang Yang in the world market, and always maintained their keen perception of the market and their courage to fight and venture, thus writing down the glorious course of foreign trade braving the wind and waves and bravely climbing the world peak.

At present, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and uncertainties, instability and unpredictability have increased. There are indeed pressures, ups and downs and challenges to stabilize foreign trade, but the more turbulent the wind is, the more strategic it is necessary to maintain. China has the institutional advantages of the socialist market economy, the complete supply advantages of the industrial system, and the talent advantages of a large number of high-quality workers and entrepreneurs. As long as we strengthen our confidence and forge ahead courageously, we will certainly continue to write a new chapter in the high-quality development of foreign trade. (Reporter Luo Shanshan)

Design of internal control system for government procurement demand management

    ■ Jiang Aihua Chang Yanzhen

The Measures for the Administration of Government Procurement Demand (Caiku [2021] No.22, hereinafter referred to as the Measures) was formally implemented on July 1, 2021. Among them, risk control runs through the whole process of demand management, which provides a guarantee for the smooth formulation of procurement demand and procurement plan.
This paper takes the government procurement demand management procedure as the main line, combs the risk points of the whole process, and hopes to provide reference ideas for relevant departments or units to improve the internal control system of government procurement demand management and further improve the government procurement demand management system.
General process of demand management
The Measures defines government procurement demand management as: "The purchaser organizes activities to determine procurement demand, prepare procurement implementation plan, and implement relevant risk control management." Accordingly, the author divides the government procurement demand management process into four links: determining procurement demand, compiling procurement demand, making procurement implementation plan and controlling risk.
The first step is to determine the purchase demand. Procurement demand is the target that the purchaser needs to purchase and the technical and commercial requirements that he needs to meet in order to achieve the project objectives. Technical requirements are aimed at the function and quality of the procurement target. Business requirements refer to the time, place, financial and service requirements for obtaining the procurement target. Purchasing demand should be carefully determined according to market supply, industrial development, historical purchasing experience and other information. If necessary, it is necessary to carry out demand investigation. According to the "Measures", demand investigation should be carried out for procurement projects in the following four situations: first, procurement projects of goods and services with a price of more than 10 million yuan and procurement projects with a price of more than 30 million yuan; Second, procurement projects involving public interests and high social concern, including public service projects provided by the government to the public; Third, projects with complex technology and strong professionalism, including information construction projects that need to be customized and developed, and projects that purchase imported products; Fourth, other procurement projects that the competent budget unit or purchaser thinks need to carry out demand investigation.
The second step is to prepare the purchase demand. First of all, it should be based on the determined purchasing demand. Secondly, it is necessary to comprehensively consider the project characteristics, actual needs and departmental budget. Finally, we should pay attention to the description of purchasing demand, and the expressions such as words and charts should be accurate and clear.
The third step is to formulate the procurement implementation plan. Procurement implementation plan is the arrangement made by the purchaser to conclude and manage the contract in order to realize the procurement demand. The arrangement for concluding the contract includes the budget (approximate) calculation of the procurement project, the maximum price, the time schedule for carrying out procurement activities, the procurement organization form and the principal-agent arrangement, the division of procurement packages and the subcontracting of contracts, the qualification conditions of suppliers, the procurement method, the scope of competition and the evaluation rules. The contract management arrangement includes contract type, pricing method, main terms of contract text, performance acceptance plan, risk control measures, etc. Usually, according to laws and regulations, government procurement policies and relevant state regulations, combined with the characteristics of procurement demand, financial departments at all levels shall file records in accordance with the principle of simplicity and necessity. In formulating the procurement implementation plan, it is necessary to pay special attention to the risks in the procurement process and contract performance for projects that carry out demand investigation, and put forward targeted risk plans.
The fourth step is to review the key risk items. The Measures clearly stipulate that purchasers should establish a review mechanism to review key risk items in procurement demand management. The review is divided into general review and key review. General review, mainly to review whether the procurement demand is determined and the procurement implementation plan is prepared in accordance with the procedures and contents stipulated in the Measures; Key review refers to non-discriminatory review, competitive review, procurement policy review, performance risk review and other contents that should be reviewed by the purchaser or the competent budget unit on the basis of general review. Projects that carry out demand surveys should be reviewed with emphasis. For projects that fail to pass the examination, the contents of the procurement requirements and procurement implementation plan shall be revised and re-examined.
Main risks in demand management
First, the procurement demand determination link. The risk of determining the demand link is mainly concentrated in the demand survey: first, the projects that need to be investigated according to the regulations have not been investigated; Second, when conducting demand surveys for market participants, the purchasers choose less than three survey objects, which are not representative and violate the provisions of Article 10 of the Measures; Third, according to the actual situation of the procurement project, the demand survey was not carried out in an appropriate way. For example, the opinions of relevant suppliers and experts are not solicited for complex procurement projects, and the opinions of the public are not solicited for public service projects; Fourth, there is no scientific and reasonable price calculation for purchasing demand.
Second, the procurement requirements preparation link. The requirements of the Measures for the preparation of procurement requirements are compliance, completeness and clarity. However, in practice, there may be illegal, incomplete and vague risks in demand preparation, which are mainly reflected in the following four aspects: First, government procurement demand preparation violates laws, regulations and social ethics; Second, the preparation of procurement requirements failed to achieve the specified functions or objectives, and failed to implement the requirements of government procurement policies; Third, the preparation of procurement requirements is incomplete, and the technical and commercial requirements of the procurement target are not specified; Fourth, the procurement demand formulation standards are not compliant, the opinions of relevant suppliers and experts are not solicited, and the factors that may affect suppliers’ quotations and project implementation risks are not fully considered. The indicators are vague and the quantification is unreasonable.
Third, formulate the procurement implementation plan. The risks in the process of making procurement implementation plan can be roughly divided into two categories: procedural risk and content risk.
Procedural risk is mainly the risk in the principal-agent procurement process, that is, the purchaser fails to confirm the procurement requirements formulated by the agency before the procurement activities begin. Content risks mainly include: First, there is no procurement implementation plan; Second, the content of the plan violates the requirements of laws and regulations and does not attach importance to the principles of non-discrimination and competitiveness in procurement. For example, performance requirements are set in violation of the evaluation criteria (suppliers are required to provide samples), or budget standards are exceeded on the grounds of special use, and bulk centralized procurement is avoided.
Fourth, the risk control link. At present, the risk control mechanism of government procurement demand has not yet formed a system, some purchasers’ awareness of risk prevention and control needs to be strengthened, incompatible positions are not set reasonably, and risk prevention and control measures need to be refined. Although the "Measures" clearly put forward to establish a review mechanism, there are still five problems in the specific implementation of some purchasers: First, the review mechanism has not been established according to regulations; Second, there is no review of procurement requirements and procurement implementation plans; Third, the results of the review were shelved, and the procurement items that failed the review were not rectified or re-examined; Fourth, the contents of general review and key review are not comprehensive; Fifth, the demand review post setting does not fully reflect the control mechanism.
Assumption of strengthening internal control of demand management
The fourth chapter of the Measures is "Risk Control", which highlights the importance of internal control system construction in government procurement demand management. According to the process of government procurement demand management and its potential risks, and according to the Measures and the Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Internal Control Management of Government Procurement Activities (Caiku [2016] No.99, hereinafter referred to as the Guiding Opinions), the author tries to put forward some ideas on building a relatively complete internal control system of government procurement demand management and improving the risk control system of government procurement demand management.
Assumption on internal control system. The Guiding Opinions pointed out that the internal operation and management control system of government procurement should be gradually formed with the main line of "dividing power, setting power in different posts and grading authorization", which is compliant according to law, efficient in operation, controllable in risk and strict in accountability. Based on risk control measures, especially the review mechanism, the author envisages to further build an internal control system, which can be divided into three parts: approval control, performance evaluation and control and division of responsibilities control (Figure 1).
Assumption on the control of division of responsibilities. The control of division of responsibilities is the concrete embodiment of the internal control system of procurement requirements, namely, "exercising power according to different tasks, setting power according to different posts, and grading authorization", and it is also an important measure to contain the risks of procurement requirements management procedures, as shown in Figure 2. It is suggested that units or departments form an internal division of labor system in which internal supervision, procurement and business balance each other, and define institutions, posts, personnel, posts and responsibilities according to administrative functions. Among them, the internal supervision and audit department conducts double examination and approval, and regularly organizes risk assessment and assessment; The procurement department is responsible for formulating all kinds of documents and reports needed for government procurement demand management; The competent business department is responsible for the specific implementation of demand management, organizing demand surveys on the spot, and publicizing documents to the public.
Tentative ideas on examination and approval control. The examination and approval control is mainly designed for the content risks existing in the process of determining the demand, compiling the demand and formulating the procurement implementation plan. It is a further improvement of the examination mechanism to examine whether the content of the procurement demand is legal and compliant (see Table 1, Table 2 and Table 3 for the main points of examination). Specifically, the internal supervision department is responsible for the examination and approval control, ensuring that the requirements are set in line with the requirements of laws and regulations and the actual situation of the project, and the final examination and approval personnel need to sign the examination and approval opinion form to realize the responsibility to the people.
Ideas about performance evaluation and control. Performance evaluation and control is mainly designed to strengthen the application of the results of internal control measures, which is mainly reflected in the following aspects: First, it implements "double linkage", linking the internal control system construction, risk assessment and audit results with the performance evaluation of units and departments and the personal development of employees, and mobilizing the positive initiative of units and employees to participate in the internal control system construction. Second, both material incentives and spiritual incentives are given, and appropriate material rewards and praise are given to project team members who have performed well in risk assessment and audit. The third is to intensify punishment and rectification. The audit department should strictly implement the audit system, earnestly perform its supervisory duties, and promptly notify the rectification and review the non-compliant projects. (Author: School of Finance and Taxation, Central University of Finance and Economics)

China has been number one for 7 consecutive years! The World Trade Organization released data on global trade in goods in 2023.

  On April 10th, local time, the World Trade Organization released the data of global trade in goods in 2023. The data shows that in 2023, the total value of global exports was 23.8 trillion US dollars, down 4.6%. In 2023, China’s export international market share was 14.2%, which was basically the same as that in 2022, and it maintained its position as the largest country in global goods trade for seven consecutive years.

  According to the data of the World Trade Organization, in 2023, China’s total import and export value was 5.94 trillion US dollars, 0.75 trillion US dollars more than the second United States. In 2023, China’s export international market share was 14.2%, which was the same as that in 2022 and increased by 1.1 percentage points compared with that before the epidemic (2019). China’s import international market share is 10.6%, which is basically the same as that in 2022.

  The World Trade Organization predicts that the global trade volume of goods will increase by 2.6% in 2024. However, in a pessimistic situation, the global trade volume of goods may drop by 1.6%.

  (CCTV reporter Ding Yani Eva)

Can the concept of short drama "pull the listed companies of series ashore" again?

Wen | refers to the moon

At the end of 2023, with the short play market becoming more and more popular, the concept stocks related to short plays in the securities market experienced a strong rising period in early 2024, including Huace Film, Tianwei Video, Baina Qiancheng, Tang De Film, Ciwen Media, Chinese Online and Ning Meng Film.

However, with the round of concept speculation and the changes in the securities market environment, the share prices of these companies once again took a roller coaster ride and experienced a period of sharp decline. Take Huace Film and Television as an example, its share price rose by 64.91% from January to March 2024, reaching a high of 11.06 yuan on March 22, but then it started a long road of decline, falling by nearly 30% as of April 16, and other short drama concept stocks were similar.

However, on April 17th, when the market picked up, these companies rose again, and the concept of short play once again became a hot topic.

In the near future, the revenge-themed short play "Advanced Record of Deep House" produced by Ning Meng Film and Television has continuously occupied the forefront in the hot list of DataEye. However, the whole drama is a high imitation of last year’s revenge short play "Black Lotus Upper Manual", which was removed from the platform for reasons such as "exaggerating the bad values of extreme revenge, fighting violence with violence, and confusing the concept of right and wrong". On April 17th, The Advanced Record of Deep House seems to have suffered the same removal treatment as The Upper Manual of Black Lotus, and it is no longer possible to search for key words on platforms such as Tik Tok.

In the ups and downs of the stock price, the influence brought by the rapid growth of short plays is obviously not to be underestimated, especially for the listed companies with sluggish performance in the past few years. Short plays are both a hot topic and a vast market for real money. Whether they can firmly grasp this lifeline seems to have become the biggest factor for these drama companies to prove their growth value.

On March 27th, Ning Meng Film and Television, a Hong Kong-listed company, mentioned the development of short drama business in its 2023 annual report. The annual report shows that in 2023, the company achieved revenue of 1.22 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.4%; The adjusted net profit was 227 million yuan, up 60.4% year-on-year, of which the accumulated contribution income of short drama related business was 32.23 million yuan, up more than 12 times year-on-year.

The annual report also mentioned that the number of micro-dramas, such as Twenty-nine, Behind the Traffic and Save My Family, which it launched, continuously occupied the list of short dramas on the vibrato short video platform TOP1. Therefore, in the traditional film and television drama companies that enter short plays, Ning Meng Film and Television has been called a real mature layout rather than just a gimmick.

On the one hand, the annual income of short plays of about 30 million accounts for a very limited proportion of the annual income of 1.22 billion; On the other hand, the gross profit margin of the short drama-related business disclosed by Ning Meng Film and Television is 25.2%, which is far lower than the gross profit margin of the company’s long drama business of 39.7%. In terms of earning power, it only brings the company about 8 million gross profit, and the real profit figure will be even smaller after deducting other expenses.

It can be seen that in the drama companies with large basic discs, short plays are still in the early stage of layout, and Raytheon has little rain and little sense of existence in the overall revenue for the time being.

The Huace film and television behind the recent hit drama "The Story of Success" has also focused on short plays since last year. In November, 2023, Huace Film and Television said that the company began to pay attention to short plays in 2022, and began to gradually cut into it in June, 2023, and clearly established two core competencies of short play script development and marketing distribution. Six teams have been established, and five short play projects have been filmed, among which "The identity of the president of the lonely husband was exposed" was launched on November 7, and four projects such as "My General Boyfriend" are expected to be.

At first glance, my husband’s identity as president was exposed, and my general boyfriend was a short program with the theme of following the wind. After it went online, it sank into the sea in the rolling craze of short programs and did not set off any waves. Huace, who has many big dramas and movie IP in his hand, seems to focus on the short drama development of his own drama IP at present.

At the beginning of 2024, Huace’s short play Going to a Windy Place, My Way Home is Windy, A Writer’s Odyssey’s short play The Girl Who Killed the Novelist Strikes Back, and the antique comedy Looking for the Song entered the Tik Tok 2024 boutique miniseries "Project Stars". Of the two short plays that have been broadcast, the Tik Tok broadcast volume of Seeking Song is currently 22 million+.The broadcast volume of "My Way Home is Windy" is as high as 190 million, and it has been praised by many mainstream media with the characteristics of literary travel and short drama. It can be seen that the extra-curricular mode of this kind of drama IP really has great potential to be tapped, and it is also one of the core competitiveness that traditional film and television companies can quickly establish.

The same is true of Ciwen Media, another listed company of veteran dramas, trying to quickly develop the reserved IP in the form of short plays. After signing an agreement on the three-dimensional development of Gulong IP in August, 2023, Ciwen Media promoted the development and production of five online mini-dramas, namely, Wulin Waishi, Sentimental Swordsman’s Ruthless Sword, Full Moon Machete, Legend of Chu Liuxiang’s Mystery, and Legend of Chu Liuxiang’s Jianghu tales of mystery, among which Full Moon Machete, Legend of Chu Liuxiang’s Mystery, Chu Liuxiang

Another veteran drama company, Tang De Film and Television, is now the holding company of Zhejiang Radio and Television Group, whose "Blue Media Short Play" platform is being put into operation steadily. On March 17th, Tang De Film and Television announced that the launching ceremony of the boutique female frequency-crossing mini-short drama "Copy Female General" jointly produced by Tang De Film and Television Corporation and Zhejiang Satellite TV (Z Vision) was held in Jiangxi Shifang Guangying Film and Television Base. The development of short plays in Tang De film and television may match the development rhythm of Zhejiang Radio and Television more.

For most drama listed companies, it is necessary to actively lay out short plays. Because from the perspective of the capital market topic, companies that can’t keep up with the hot spots of short plays are often regarded as slow to respond and miss growth opportunities. After all, the possibility of the future is always more concerned than the present. Therefore, acquiring short play studios and companies and trying to test the water may be the common idea of drama companies at the beginning.

Like Tang De Film and Television, Ciwen Media and Huanrui Century, they used to be drama giants with a market value of over 10 billion and 20 billion at their peak, but in recent years, their production capacity has dropped significantly, and video platforms have occupied the overwhelming initiative in the drama market, with more and more customized dramas. It has become increasingly difficult for ordinary drama companies to have both explosive capacity and work scale.Therefore, in addition to the "basic disk" of long dramas, drama companies are not necessarily committed to finding new growth points such as short dramas, but they are also "just needed" for real development.

Judging from the situation of the listed companies of the above-mentioned series, the copyright drama is still the core of each company’s business, because a large amount of investment in small programs and short plays and the development of betting content themes are not so easy to make money. In addition to the above-mentioned low gross profit margin of Ning Meng’s short film and television dramas, Beijing Dianzhong Technology, the publisher of the short drama "I became a stepmother in the 1980s" in 2024, responded to the media, and the overall gross profit margin of the company was about 10%, of which the net profit margin of short drama business was less than 1%.

On the other hand, according to DataEye’s "Data Report on Mini-short Plays in 2024", the scale of mini-short plays in China will exceed 30 billion yuan in 2023 and 40 billion yuan in 2024. In this upsurge, it is still the investment platform that has made a big profit.

With the listed companies of drama series joining the short drama industry one after another, it is bound to further promote the speed of industry development iteration. Whether it’s a vertical screen mini-drama or a horizontal screen short drama, in the two tracks with obvious differences, the entry methods of drama companies such as Ning Meng Film and Huace Film and Television are further "uncoiled" in production and lineup, which forces the industry to create quality content. Process.

At the same time, since 2024, the supervision of short drama content on short video platforms has been further tightened. For example, extreme revenge themes such as The Advanced Record of Deep House mentioned above have been removed from the platform, as well as contents such as promoting unhealthy and non-mainstream family views, love and marriage views, deliberately magnifying and exaggerating the contradiction between husband and wife, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, etc., such as My husband is a mother-in-law man, The Last Bottom Line, darling daughter Counterattack and Pregnant Women.

It may be the right time for listed companies to actively enter the short drama industry. Because the content of short plays that attract people’s attention with exotic themes and extreme values is bound to get narrower and narrower.Under the general trend of upgrading the overall quality of short plays and tightening the theme management, there will be more and more solo short plays customized by the platform, and the demand for professional content production will only increase day by day.

On the other hand, the IP resources and copyright resources held by drama companies can also have more room to play under the expansion of the short drama market. The "quality improvement and quantity reduction" of the long drama market is obvious. The Lighthouse Professional Edition "2023 Drama Market Report" shows that the number of effective dramas in the online drama market in 2023 is 294, which is 10.6% lower than last year, and the total broadcast index of large-scale feature films is 38.612 million, which is 7.7% higher than the trend. It can be seen that the current long drama market is somewhat inclined to the mode of head drama.

On the other hand, drama companies with IP resources and copyright adaptation obviously need the space of short drama market to try more low-cost and give play to their unique competitive advantages, which may be the reason why Huace Film and Ciwen Media mentioned above all develop their own IP resources in the short drama market.

From the commercialization point of view, it is easier for drama listed companies to open up diversified commercial services in the short drama market. Take Ning Meng Film and Television as an example, it has tried many ways to realize short drama layout, such as small program payment, platform customization, platform account sharing, brand sponsorship business, etc. Compared with small teams that can only rely on platform or C-side cash, listed companies may have more channels and resources to try diversified business models in the short drama market.

Although it may not be immediate, the strong entry of drama companies may be changing the state of the short drama industry. Can these revolutionary forces stimulate the innovation vitality of the short drama industry, or will it trigger a new round of chaos after raising the threshold?Although the results are not yet clear, it is foreseeable that with the continuous investment and active exploration of more drama companies, the short drama industry will usher in a new era with richer formats and greater commercial potential. At that time, for these drama listed companies, short dramas may really change from capital topic gimmicks to facade signs.

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Analysis of Advantages and Disadvantages of Short Video Platform

Nowadays, when our brains are empty, what we do most is to brush short videos. Under the blessing of AIGC, what are the advantages and disadvantages of short video platform? This paper analyzes it, and let’s take a look.

Most people empty their brains in heavy work, and the most common thing to do isBrush short videoThe short video platform in the head can be roughly divided into three common platforms: Tik Tok, Xiaohongshu and WeChat video number. Today, the advantages and disadvantages of these short videos are analyzed through articles, as well as the future prospects under the blessing of AIGC.

Let’s split the segmentation field again.The explosive trend of short videos is obvious.. Its proportion in the social entertainment video industry is also rapidly increasing.From 8.1% in 2016 to 65% in 2020, it may exceed 70% in the future, which means that the revenue scale of the short video industry can reach more than 370 billion yuan in 2022.Its broad prospects are visible to the naked eye.

(1) Advantages

  • Social attributes: backed by WeChat, this hugeSocial platform, the number of daily active users of WeChatMore than 1 billion. This means that the WeChat video number has a huge potential audience, which is conducive to the dissemination and promotion of content.
  • Content diversity: Content types are rich and diverse, including but not limited to education, entertainment, lifestyle and other fields.
  • ConvenientSharing mechanism:Users can share the video number content directly to friends or groups within WeChat, or to friends circle, without jumping to other applications, which increases the exposure and communication efficiency of the content.
  • Live broadcast function: Support live broadcast function, users can broadcast live through video number to further expand their influence.

(2) disadvantages

The content ecology needs to be improved: compared with Tik Tok, the content ecology of WeChat video number is not mature enough, and the types and quantity of content need to be improved.

(1) Advantages

  • powerfulAlgorithm recommendationAccording to the user’s viewing behavior,Recommend content that meets users’ preferences., improve the user’sViewing experienceAnd contentExposure rate.
  • Rich short video content: A large number of creators are gathered, and a large number of short video content is provided for users to watch, which meets the diversified needs of users.
  • E-commerce function: Tik Tok combines short video with e-commerce function, shopping while watching video, providing new marketing channels for brands and businesses.

(2) disadvantages

Serious homogenization: Some contents in Tik Tok are homogenized, and there are relatively few high-quality original contents.

Weak social relations: No matter how many fans there are in online celebrity and KOL, the popularity of each video is determined by the algorithm. Even the KOL of the head, not every video has strong exposure, and the social relationship is relatively "weak".

(1) Advantages

  • Good thing recommendation platform: it’s a super big one.Grass planting platform. About 70% of users are women, and they are mainly concentrated in first-and second-tier cities. They have high consumption power and are very suitable for planting grass.
  • Rich in fashion, beauty, lifestyle and other content: rich inFashion, beauty, lifestyleUsers can attract other users through detailed shopping notes and beautiful pictures.
  • Graphic notes: mainly based onGraphic-based, supplemented by short video and live broadcast attributes.. The creative form of graphic notes is very suitable for planting grass, because the time cost of notes is lower than other creative forms.

(2) disadvantages

Limitation of content form: It is mainly graphic, which may not provide enough dynamic visual experience in some cases compared with the short video form in Tik Tok.

  • Content generation: AIGC technology can automatically generate short video content, including but not limited toScript creation, video editing and special effects productionWait. For example, through deep learning algorithm, AIGC technology can better identify and understand different types of roles and generate AI roles such as virtual network red.
  • Content recommendation: AIGC technology can be based on users’ viewing habits and preferences.Can recommend the corresponding short video content.This personalized recommendation mechanism helps to increase the stickiness of users and improve the user activity and retention rate of short video platforms.
  • Content audit: AIGC technology can also be used to audit short video content.Automatically identify and filter out illegal, low-quality or harmful content.To ensure the health and safety of the platform content.
  • Interactive content creation: AIGC technology can interact with users,Dynamically generate content based on user input and feedback.For example, users can instruct AI to create short video content through voice commands or text input.
  • Content optimization: AIGC technology can analyze the popularity of short videos, user behavior and other information, and provide optimization suggestions for content creators to help them.Improve the quality and attractiveness of content..
  • Personalized content creation: AIGC technology can customize personalized short video content for users according to their interests and behaviors, and provide content creation services that are more suitable for users’ needs.

Generally speaking, the application of AIGC technology on social media platforms such as video number, Tik Tok and Little Red Book can not only improve the efficiency and quality of content creation, but also enhance the accuracy of personalized recommendation system and provide users with richer and more personalized content experience.

32℃! 32℃! The weather in Anhui will be reversed again.

sunlit and enchanting scene of spring

The temperature in Bengbu continues to climb.

It is expected that in the next few days

The temperature will continue to climb higher.

Maximum temperature on 26th

Will reach about 32℃

It’s really running into summer

But don’t worry about the thick clothes!

The big reversal is coming!

↓↓↓

According to the latest meteorological forecast in Anhui:

Affected by the cold wave

27-28

Average temperature in the whole province

Will drop by 10 ~ 12℃

The northerly winds in the province increased to 4 ~ 5.

Gust above 9

On the 23 rd, there was light rain in the south between Jianghuai and some areas along the river; There was a precipitation process south of Huaihe River from 26th to 28th, in which there was moderate rain in Dabie Mountain area and parts of Jiangnan on 27th. At other times, the province is dominated by sunny to cloudy weather.

Daily precipitation forecast of the whole province on the 22nd and 23rd.

From 21st to 26th, the temperature in our province continued to rise, and only dropped slightly on 23rd. On 26th, the highest temperature in most parts of the province could reach 31℃. Affected by the cold wave, the average temperature in the province will drop by 10 ~ 12℃ from 27th to 28th. At the same time, the northerly winds in the province increased to 4 ~ 5, with gusts above 9.

▼ Specific forecast of the whole province

22nd (Saturday): The whole province turns sunny to cloudy.

23rd (Sunday): The Huaibei area is cloudy; It is cloudy to cloudy south of Huaihe River, and there is light rain in the south between Jianghuai and some areas along the Yangtze River.

24th (Monday): The whole province is sunny to cloudy.

25th (Tuesday): It will be sunny to cloudy in Jiangbei; Jiangnan is cloudy to sunny.

26th (Wednesday): Cloudy to cloudy in the whole province, with light rain in most areas between Jianghuai.

27th (Thursday): It is cloudy in the whole province, with light rain south of Huaihe River, including moderate rain in Dabie Mountain area and parts of the south of the Yangtze River.

▼ Urban weather forecast

The weather is hot and cold repeatedly

Remember to increase or decrease clothes in time.

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Wonderful review of the past

Original title: "32 C! 32℃! The weather in Anhui will turn upside down again.

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On-the-spot report on the emergence of the new central leading body of the party

  On the journey of winning the victory in building a well-off society in an all-round way and winning the great victory of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, this moment is undoubtedly of symbolic historical significance — —

  On the morning of October 25, 2017, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

  The First Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee elected the 19th the Political Bureau of the Central Committee composed of 25 members, and elected the supreme leader, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji and Han Zheng as The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) and the supreme leader as the general secretary of the Central Committee. Passed the members of the Central Secretariat; Decided the composition of the Central Military Commission (CMC); Approved the leading body elected by the first plenary session of the 19 th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

  This is the guide of more than 89 million people in party member, and it is the backbone of more than 1.3 billion people.

  Do not forget your initiative mind, keep moving! The new CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core will lead China and set sail again.

  Look at the main peak with majestic mountains.

  — — On the new journey of strengthening the country and the army, at the critical juncture of national rejuvenation, it is the aspiration of the party and the people to establish the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader as the core of the CPC Central Committee and the whole party, and to establish Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era as the party’s guiding ideology.

  In a magnificent era, there are bound to be moments of stirring people’s hearts.

  A year ago, in the golden autumn of Beijing, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee established the core position of the Supreme Leader General Secretary in the CPC Central Committee and the whole party, and the thunderous clapping sound of the Great Hall of the People was still in my ears.

  This is the heartfelt reverence and love of all party comrades, and this is the emotional recognition of hundreds of millions of people pursuing their dreams.

  Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has faced difficulties, forged ahead, made historic achievements in reform, opening up and socialist modernization, and promoted historic changes in the cause of the party and the state:

  Great achievements have been made in economic construction, major breakthroughs have been made in comprehensively deepening reform, great strides have been made in building democracy and the rule of law, great progress has been made in ideological and cultural construction, people’s lives have been continuously improved, remarkable achievements have been made in building ecological civilization, strengthening the army and opening up a new situation, new progress has been made in the work of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, all-round diplomatic layout has been carried out in depth, and remarkable results have been achieved in comprehensively administering the party strictly … …

  The achievements in the past five years are all-round and groundbreaking, and the changes in the past five years are deep-seated and fundamental. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era.

  New practice breeds new ideas. On the basis of adhering to the basic principles of Marxism, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core creatively adhered to and developed scientific socialism, opened up a new realm of the development of Marxism in China in the 21st century, and created the Supreme Leader’s New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought.

  Do great things, solve difficult problems, turn the tide and start a new game.

  Carrying out great struggles, building great projects, advancing great undertakings and realizing great dreams, a series of great practices and theoretical innovations have poured into the ideals and beliefs of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people and people’s feelings, demonstrated the political courage and responsibility of the CPC Central Committee, and demonstrated the great talent and leadership style of the Supreme Leader General Secretary. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made great efforts to turn the tide, made overall plans for internal affairs, foreign affairs and national defense, and led the party, state and army in running the country. He spared no pains for the long-term stability of the party and the country and won the party’s heart, military heart and popular support. He is a well-deserved strong core of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the new era.

  In the election of the Party’s 19th National Congress, the Supreme Leader was unanimously elected. When the members of the 19th Central Committee were elected, the supreme leader was unanimously elected. When the first plenary session of the 19th Central Committee elected the new central collective leadership, the supreme leader comrade was unanimously elected as the general secretary of the Central Committee again. Thunderous applause rang again and again, and it lasted for a long time … …

  One vote represents the party’s heart and public opinion, and applause conveys trust expectations again and again — — It is the great fortune of the party, the army and the people to have the Supreme Leader General Secretary as the core of the party, the commander-in-chief of the army and the leader of the people! It is the hope, strength and victory to realize the goal of "two hundred years", the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the people’s yearning for a better life!

  Marked by the victory of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China entered the historical intersection of the goal of "two hundred years" — —

  By 2020, it is necessary to build a well-off society in an all-round way and achieve the goal of the first century, but also to take advantage of the situation to start a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and March towards the goal of the second century.

  At the same time, the situation at home and abroad is undergoing profound and complex changes, and China’s development is still in an important period of strategic opportunities, with bright prospects and severe challenges. Facing difficulties, carrying out great struggles with many new historical characteristics, and taking a good long March in the new era, the party’s leadership is crucial, and the leadership core is particularly important.

  The cross-flow of the sea shows the mainstay, and the mountains are majestic to see the main peak.

  In this critical period of connecting the past with the future, the whole party, the whole army and the people of all nationalities in the country have a common expectation, that is, they hope to elect a good central leadership collective, and under the leadership of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, continue to consolidate achievements, overcome difficulties and forge ahead bravely, and write a magnificent chapter in the new journey of socialist modernization.

  Qian Qiu Wei ye ju ying Cai

  — — Focusing on the cause of the party and the long-term prosperity of the country, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has made overall plans for the nomination of candidates for the new central leading bodies.

  The key to the great cause of the Millennium lies in people. The key to governing the country lies in employing people.

  The new era calls for a new strong collective leadership.

  How to produce a new central collective leadership with the Supreme Leader General Secretary as the core and lead China into the future is expected by the whole party, concerned by the whole people and attracted worldwide attention.

  Party constitution stipulates that the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party shall be elected by the plenary session of the Central Committee.

  According to this provision, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will elect a new Central Committee and the 1st Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee will elect a new central leading body.

  In this regard, the CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to it.

  General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that our party is a big party with more than 89 million people in party member. Being in power in a big country with a population of more than one billion, it has a heavy burden and great responsibility on its shoulders, and it is necessary to form a central leading collective that is politically firm, united, strong and energetic.

  Under the overall planning of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, the nomination of candidates for the new central leading bodies has been carried out in an orderly manner … …

  From the beginning of 2017, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader listened carefully to Comrade The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC)’s opinions on how to prepare the candidates for the new central leadership.

  It is unanimously agreed that, on the basis of summing up the relevant practices of the 16th, 17th and 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and drawing lessons from the practices and experience of the 19th "two committees" candidates and the inspection work of provincial party committees, we should take the form of talk and investigation to listen to recommendations and suggestions face to face in a certain range on the candidates for the new the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the Standing Committee and the Secretariat, the candidates for the Central Military Commission, the candidates for leading members in the State Council who need to be considered as a whole, and the newly promoted candidates in the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Party.

  On April 24, 2017, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader presided over the The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) meeting to conduct special research, and discussed and adopted the Arrangement Plan for Talks and Research on the Brewing of Candidates for the 19th Central Leading Body. Conversation, investigation and candidate preparation are conducted under the direct leadership of the Supreme Leader General Secretary. Mainly follow the following principles:

  — — Focus on promoting the overall layout of the "five in one" and coordinating the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, implement the new development concept, build a well-off society in an all-round way, and constantly promote the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era; Focus on improving the party’s leadership level and ruling ability, maintaining and developing the party’s advanced nature and purity, promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance ability, and consolidating the party’s ruling position; Focus on the successors and prosperity of the party’s cause, and ensure the long-term stability of the party and the country.

  — — Adhere to the standards of politicians’ groups, adhere to all corners of the country, appoint people on their merits, adhere to both ability and political integrity, put morality first, put career first, be fair and upright, strictly control politics and integrity, and select and employ people accurately and scientifically.

  — — We will further improve and perfect the mechanism for the generation of party and state leaders, and actively and steadily promote the replacement of old and new leaders at the top of the party and state.

  — — Adhere to the principle that the Party is in charge of cadres, implement democratic centralism, give full play to inner-party democracy, and improve the quality and effectiveness of democracy. Talk and research focus on brainstorming and unified understanding, without limiting the number of recommendations, and the number of recommended votes is used as a reference, not taking people by votes. According to the requirements of cadres’ conditions, consistent performance and team structure, we will study and propose candidates for the new central leading bodies.

  The selection scheme for the new Central Military Commission should emphasize the adherence to political standards, focus on preparing for war, optimize the structural layout, and pay attention to the echelon allocation of the old, middle-aged and young.

  According to these principles, the Central Committee has put forward the conditions for recommending candidates:

  — — Loyalty to the Party, firm belief, firm establishment of "four consciousnesses" and "four self-confidences", firm implementation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, and high consistency with the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, are qualified Marxist politicians.

  — — Strong leadership, rich practical experience, strong revolutionary dedication, spirit of reform and innovation and seeking truth from facts, courage to take responsibility, correct outlook on political achievements and outstanding work performance.

  — — Take the lead in implementing democratic centralism, consciously safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, be good at uniting comrades, be fair and upright, and be broad-minded.

  — — Have the world outlook, outlook on life and values of communist party people, take the lead in adhering to principles, take the lead in observing the party’s discipline and rules, have a good style, be honest and upright, and have a high prestige and a good image inside and outside the party.

  Referring to the previous practice, according to the needs of the development of the cause of the party and the state and the reality of the construction of the central leading body, the central government also put forward clear requirements on the scope, age and structure of the recommended candidates.

  Everyone agrees that the Central Committee’s principles on the preparation of candidates for the new central leading bodies are scientific and reasonable, the standard conditions for recommending candidates are clear and definite, and the recommended scope, age and structure requirements are in line with reality, which reflects the foresight of the CPC Central Committee.

  Democratic science condenses consensus

  — — A series of new ways and measures have been adopted in the selection of candidates for the new central leading bodies, which embodies the new mechanism and orientation of selecting and employing people and shows the new style and image of the party.

  In late May 2017, a leading cadre at the provincial and ministerial level was informed to come to Beijing to participate in the organization talk.

  The meeting place is arranged in Zhongnanhai. As soon as I arrived in the waiting room, three materials were already on the table — — Relevant Arrangements of Conversation and Investigation, Roster of Current Party and State Leaders party member and Roster of Leading Cadres at Provincial and Ministerial Level in party member.

  According to the working procedure of conversation research, arrange sufficient time for the cadres to read the materials and think carefully and prepare independently.

  On this basis, the central leading comrades listened to the cadre’s recommendation on the candidates for the new central leading bodies by face-to-face talks.

  "There is no limit to the number of referees, talk as much as you know, talk as you think, seek truth from facts and speak freely." The cadre felt afterwards, "As a comrade working in a local area, I have the opportunity and qualification to express my opinions and recommend the candidates for the new central leading body. This is the high trust of the CPC Central Committee, which fully reflects our party’s democratic style and broad mind, and reflects our party’s fine tradition of concentrating the wisdom of the whole party."

  In the form of individual interviews and research, face-to-face listening to the recommendations and relevant suggestions for the candidates of the central leading bodies within a certain range is a major innovation in the nomination of candidates for the 19 th central leading bodies.

  This major innovation is embodied in drawing lessons from historical experience and exploring new ways and measures to select and employ people — —

  Our party has a fine tradition in selecting high-level leaders of the party and the state, and has been actively exploring, with experience and lessons. The 17th and 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China adopted the method of meeting recommendation. However, due to the excessive emphasis on the weight of votes, it brought some disadvantages: some comrades simply "ticked off" during the meeting recommendation process, which led to random voting and distorted public opinion, and even voted for relationship votes and human votes. Zhou Yongkang, Sun Zhengcai and Ling Jihua, who have been investigated and dealt with by the Central Committee, used the recommendation of the meeting to engage in non-organizational activities such as canvassing and bribery.

  Adhering to the problem orientation, the Central Committee has innovated and improved the selection method of the new central leading body, emphasized the democratic orientation, improved democratic methods and improved the quality of democracy, and decided to gradually select the candidates for the central leading body on the basis of in-depth inspection and strict control of the candidates for the 19th "two committees" through talks, investigations, listening to opinions, repeated brewing and meeting decisions.

  From late April to June 2017, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader specially arranged time to talk with the current party and state leading comrades, members of the Central Military Commission, and old comrades in the party, fully listening to opinions and talking with 57 people before and after.

  According to The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC)’s arrangement, the relevant leading comrades of the Central Committee respectively listened to the opinions of 258 leading comrades in charge of party member at the provincial and ministerial level and in the military theater and other members of the 18th Central Committee. The responsible comrades of the Central Military Commission respectively listened to the opinions of 32 leading comrades in the current theater and the main responsible comrades in the theater-level departments of the military commission.

  This way of taking individual interviews and listening to opinions and suggestions face to face has won unanimous praise from comrades who participated in the talks. It is generally felt that the plan is well thought out, the work arrangement is meticulous, the program is well designed, and the discipline requirements are strict, so that the opinions reflected are more comprehensive, more true and more accurate.

  This major innovation is reflected in the insistence on selecting people by things and forming a new mechanism and new orientation for organizational work — —

  In the interview recommendation work, the Central Committee made clear the conditions for recommending candidates, insisted on selecting candidates according to the standards of Marxist politicians group, and paid attention to the integration of knowledge and practice; Adhere to the career-oriented, meritocratic, pay attention to work ability and practical experience; Adhere to the strict integrity and style of candidates, and pay attention to image and word of mouth.

  Strict standards, career first, comrades who participated in the conversation spoke highly of this and unanimously agreed.

  Everyone thinks that the leadership positions of the party and the state are not "iron chairs" or "iron hats", and those who meet the age may not necessarily continue to nominate, mainly according to the political performance, integrity and career needs of the candidates, and they can stay and transfer, be promoted and demoted.

  Everyone reflected that the selection of candidates for the 19th Central Leading Body has improved the scientific employment mechanism, which is of far-reaching significance for further forming a good inner-party political ecology and enhancing the scientificity and credibility of cadre selection.

  Many comrades said that it is an effective way to fully develop inner-party democracy in the new situation to listen to opinions widely on the high-level personnel arrangements of the party and the state on such a large scale, and it is a successful practice to improve and perfect the mechanism for the generation of party and state leaders, and advocates a new correct orientation for employing people.

  This major innovation is embodied in adhering to a clean and upright style and reshaping the party’s new style and new image — —

  With a glorious political mission and heavy political responsibility, and a highly responsible attitude towards the cause of the party and the state, the comrades who participated in the conversation were serious, knowing everything and saying everything, telling the truth and expressing their opinions fairly.

  Comrades who participated in the conversation were very serious and cautious when thinking and preparing, and some drew up the outline of the conversation; In the conversation, everyone can speak freely, not only giving full recommendations, but also many comrades put forward good suggestions on the construction of the central leadership team; Some comrades called to supplement their opinions after returning from the conversation, and some also specially submitted written materials … …

  "The conversation process is also a test and party spirit education for me, and it is a vivid practice for senior leading cadres to participate in political life within the party." Everyone reported that this method has overcome all kinds of disadvantages brought by the previous "pushing by the sea at the conference" and "drawing votes and ticking", and there is no undercurrent, and the wind is always clean and upright.

  Fully communicate and brew, and unite the will of the whole party.

  On the basis of comprehensive opinions and suggestions, on September 25, 2017, The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) put forward a proposal for the composition of the new central leadership.

  The proposal for the selection of leading members of the new Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was put forward by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Central Organization Department after deliberation and discussion. The proposal for the composition of the new Central Military Commission was put forward to the Central Committee by the Central Military Commission after collective discussion.

  On September 29th, Politburo meeting of the Chinese Communist Party deliberated and approved the list of candidates for the new central leadership, and decided to submit it to the First Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee and the First Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for election, adoption and decision respectively.

  The process of the emergence of the new central leading body is a process of adhering to the party’s leadership and fully carrying forward democracy, and condensing the wisdom of the whole party. It is a process of doing things in strict accordance with party constitution, the system and the procedures, and a process of constantly improving and perfecting the mechanism for the emergence of party and state leaders, which fully shows that our party is more United, unified, mature and confident.

  Sail in the wind and waves

  — — The new central leading body has brought together outstanding ruling backbones from all walks of life of the whole party. They will unite and lead the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to carry out great struggles, build great projects, advance great undertakings and realize great dreams with lofty sentiments and high spirits.

  On October 24th, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China elected the new Central Committee and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

  On October 25th, the first plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee elected a new central leading body.

  This is a leading group that embodies the will of the whole party, embodies the consensus of the whole party, reflects the expectations of the people, and deserves the full trust of the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country — —

  The new central leading bodies are composed of ruling party backbones who meet the standards of Marxist politicians, can adapt to the overall layout of "five in one" and coordinate the promotion of "four comprehensive" strategic layouts, have the professional quality of solving difficult problems in reform and coping with various risks, have rich leadership experience and mass work skills, are loyal, clean and responsible, and have high prestige among cadres and the masses.

  This is a leading group that links the past with the future and carries forward the future, fully embodying the style of contemporary the Communist Party of China (CPC) people — —

  The 19th the Political Bureau of the Central Committee consists of 25 comrades who are familiar with all aspects and fields of work, all of whom have higher education and professional knowledge, and have a reasonable structure. Some of them work in local areas, some in central and state organs, some comrades in the army and some lesbians. Among them, 10 comrades were nominated by the 18th members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, 3 comrades were transferred from the National People’s Congress and leading comrades in the State Council, and 12 comrades were newly promoted.

  This is a leading group full of vigor and vitality, which can meet the needs of the long-term development of the cause of the party and the state — —

  The advance and retreat ratio of the new central leading body is relatively appropriate, maintaining the continuity of personnel and work, and actively and steadily realizing the alternation of old and new senior leaders of the party and the state. A group of leading cadres who have both ability and political integrity and are in the prime of life have entered the new the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, which fully reflects the prosperity and success of our party.

  When the new central leading bodies were considering candidates and soliciting opinions, some leading comrades of the Party and the state put the interests of the Party and the people first, and took the initiative to step down in the spirit of being highly responsible for national development and national rejuvenation, so as to let relatively young comrades come up, showing the broad mind and integrity of communist party people.

  Pilot a new era and start a new journey.

  On the morning of October 25, 2017, the East Hall of the Great Hall of the People was brightly lit and the atmosphere was warm. At 11: 54, the Supreme Leader of the 19th Central Committee, General Secretary of communist party, China, and Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji and Han Zheng of The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) entered the East Hall and had a cordial meeting with Chinese and foreign journalists covering the 19th Party Congress.

  With vigorous steps and calm posture, the central leading comrades showed calm and heroic bearing and enterprising spirit in front of the camera and flash.

  On behalf of the members of the new central leading body, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader sincerely thanked the comrades of the whole party for their trust, and said that he must be conscientious, diligent, and live up to his mission and trust. He said that in the past five years, we have done a lot of work, some have been completed, and some will continue to do so. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward new goals and tasks, and we should make overall plans to implement them. As long as we are deeply rooted in the people and rely on them closely, we can gain infinite strength and forge ahead courageously, rain or shine.

  This is the confidence of the leader of the new era, this is the responsibility of a ruling party, and this is the hope of the great national rejuvenation.

  The new central collective leadership with the Supreme Leader as the core will unite and lead the whole party and the people of all nationalities in China, hold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, forge ahead with determination, work hard, win the decisive victory in building a well-off society in an all-round way, win the great victory of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and lead the ship carrying the great dream of the people of China to sail forward through the waves and sail to the glorious other side.

  (Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 26th, Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Cheng Huo Xiaoguang Zhang Xiaosong Luo Zhengguang)