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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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)

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)

More than 800 restaurants in Chengdu, Sichuan are selling "Jiangxian" to rectify catering enterprises.

       CCTV News: From the end of December 2020, the Chengdu Municipal Market Supervision Bureau of Sichuan Province launched the "Spring Thunder Action 2021", in which the "Yangtze River is forbidden to catch and break the chain" joint law enforcement action, and through the strict investigation of aquatic products business households, food markets, catering enterprises and other points, the inspection records of merchants’ purchases and the legal sources of aquatic products were carried out.

       At the end of February this year, during a surprise inspection, law enforcement officers found that "Chinese sturgeon", a national key wild protected animal in 88 yuan/Jin, was actually peddled in the menu of a catering enterprise in Pidu District, and the law enforcement officers seized these four live fish suspected of "Chinese sturgeon" on the spot. After identification by the Fisheries Research Institute of Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the results showed that these so-called wild "Chinese sturgeon" were actually hybrid sturgeons of Russian Siberian sturgeon and Acipenser schrenckii, not the wild "Chinese sturgeon" advertised by the store.

       The special inspection found that some catering enterprises used wild animals and key protected animals in "rivers, lakes and seas" as gimmicks to make false propaganda. According to the identification of the aquatic products authorities, these so-called wild fish are artificially domesticated and propagated. As some merchants are unable to provide relevant domestication qualifications and purchase vouchers, they are being investigated and dealt with.

       At present, the joint enforcement action of "No Fishing in the Yangtze River and No Breaking of Chain" has inspected 6,042 farmer’s (wholesale) markets, 5,728 supermarkets and 38,035 catering units, and found that 862 catering units failed to implement the requirements of incoming inspection records and could not provide legal source certificates for aquatic products, and have been ordered to complete rectification, and 54 illegal cases have been filed for investigation.

China population seminar and NSFC China population emergency research project exchange meeting held.

 


Meeting site


On October 11th, the "China Population Seminar and NSFC China Population Emergency Research Project Exchange Meeting" jointly organized by the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Science, the Management Science Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Renmin University of China was held. More than 50 experts from the National Family Planning Commission, the National Bureau of Statistics, the Development Research Center of the State Council, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Renmin University and China Academy of Sciences attended the meeting. The opening ceremony was presided over by researcher Wang Shouyang, director of the Economic and Financial Interdisciplinary Research Department of the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and vice president of the School of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.


Speech by Researcher Wang Yuefei, Deputy Director of the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He pointed out that in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a group of well-known scholars, such as Zhu Guangtian and Han Jingqing, supported by the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, cooperated with Academician Song Jian to study the population problem in China, which provided an important decision-making basis for the population "family planning" policy implemented in China 30 years ago. The National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Science attaches great importance to the study of China’s population problem, and takes China’s population problem as one of the important research fields, and starts special research projects in time. He hoped that the population experts attending the meeting would continue to support and strengthen cooperation with the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Science in the study of population problems in China, and make new contributions to solving the problems faced by the population in China in the future. 


Academician Ma Zhiming introduced the background of the meeting and pointed out that the current population problem in China is a major issue that the national decision-makers are particularly concerned about. They directly affect the long-term development of China’s economy and society, and many related issues need to be studied and solved urgently. Yu Jingyuan researcher from 710 aerospace science and technology groups, Professor Chen Gong, deputy director of Peking University Population Research Institute, Professor Zhai Zhenwu, director of China Renmin University Population and Development Research Center, and Yue Tianxiang, researcher from Institute of Geographical Sciences and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively gave special reports. Eight research groups of NSFC China population emergency research project also reported the research progress respectively. Experts at the conference also conducted in-depth discussions on major population-related issues in China.


The meeting was strongly supported by the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Academician Bureau of China Academy of Sciences.

Keynote Speech by the Supreme Leader at the Opening Ceremony of the 10th Ministerial Conference of China-Arab Cooperation Forum (full text)

  Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 30th

  Deepen cooperation and forge ahead into the future.

  Promote the construction of China-Arab destiny community and run out of acceleration.

  — — Keynote Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 10th Ministerial Conference of China-Arab Cooperation Forum


  (May 30, 2024, Beijing)

  Chairman People’s Republic of China (PRC), Supreme Leader

Dear King Hamad,

Dear President Sethi,

Dear President Said,

Dear President Mohammed,

Mr. Gheit, Secretary General of the League of Arab States, heads of delegations,

Distinguished guests and friends,

  It gives me great pleasure to attend the opening ceremony of the ministerial meeting of the China-Arab Cooperation Forum. Every time I get together with Arab friends, I feel very cordial. The friendship between the people of China and China and the Arab countries and peoples stems from the friendly exchanges on the ancient Silk Road, from the side-by-side struggle for national liberation, and from the win-win cooperation in the process of national construction.

  Since the new century, China-Arab relations have continuously reached a new level. In December 2022, I went to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to attend the first China-Arab summit, and my Arab colleagues agreed to build a community of destiny between China and Arab countries facing the new era. China is satisfied with the implementation of the outcome of the first China-Arab summit, and is willing to play a leading role in the summit strategy with Albania and continue to promote the leap-forward development of China-Arab relations. Here, I am pleased to announce that China will hold the second China-Arab Summit in China in 2026, which I believe will be another milestone in China-Arab relations.

  Distinguished guests and friends!

  At present, the century-old changes in the world are accelerating, and both China and Arab countries are shouldering the mission of the times to revitalize their respective nationalities and accelerate national construction. Building a community of destiny between China and Arab countries highlights our common desire to open a new era of China-Arab relations and create a better world and a new future.

  China is willing to help each other with Albania and build China-Arab relations into a benchmark for maintaining world peace and stability. Facing the turbulent world, mutual respect is the way to live in harmony, and fairness and justice are the foundation of lasting security. We are willing to work with Albania to respect the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, the independent choice of people of all countries, the objective reality formed by history, and explore ways to solve hot issues that are conducive to maintaining fairness and justice and achieving long-term stability.

  China is willing to be equal and mutually beneficial with Albania and build China-Arab relations into a high-quality model for building the "Belt and Road". The spirit of Silk Road has been passed down from generation to generation, leading China-Arab cooperation to keep pace with the times and widely benefiting the people of both sides. In the face of an interdependent world, we are willing to continue to dock development strategies with Albania, constantly build ballast stones for cooperation in oil and gas, trade and infrastructure, accelerate the cultivation of new growth points such as artificial intelligence, investment and financing, and new energy, and jointly take the road of innovation, green and prosperity.

  China is willing to learn from each other and build China-Arab relations into a model of harmonious coexistence of different civilizations. In the face of a more diverse world, more dialogue, less confrontation, more tolerance and less estrangement. Peace, true knowledge, honesty and tolerance are the common pursuits of the Chinese and Arab peoples. We are willing to promote cultural exchanges with Albania, carry forward the common values of all mankind, and write a new era model of mutual learning and learning among different civilizations.

  China is willing to work closely with Albania to build China-Arab relations into an example of exploring the correct path of global governance. The fate of mankind has become an inevitable trend, but the deficit of governance, trust, peace and development is increasing, which requires us to uphold the principle of joint construction and sharing and constantly optimize global governance. We are willing to work with Albania to advocate an equal and orderly world multipolarization and inclusive economic globalization, and to create a model for South-South cooperation in global governance.

  Distinguished guests and friends!

  During the first China-Arab summit, I proposed "eight common actions" to promote pragmatic cooperation between China and Arab countries. Over the past year or so, thanks to the joint efforts of both sides, China and Arab countries have signed the "One Belt, One Road" cooperation document to achieve full coverage, made new progress in scientific and technological research and development and technology transfer, reached a new level in economic, trade and energy cooperation, promoted the landmark flagship project and the "small but beautiful" project to benefit the people in parallel, deepened cooperation in food security, green innovation, health and other fields, operated the platform for humanities exchanges and cooperation with high quality, and achieved important results in the "Eight Common Actions". In the next stage, China is willing to build "five cooperation patterns" with Albania on this basis, so as to accelerate the construction of a community of destiny between China and Afghanistan.

  The first is a more dynamic innovation-driven pattern. China will build 10 joint laboratories with Albania in the fields of life and health, artificial intelligence, green and low carbon, modern agriculture and spatial information; We are willing to strengthen cooperation with Afghanistan in the field of artificial intelligence, jointly promote artificial intelligence to empower the real economy and promote the formation of a global artificial intelligence governance system with broad consensus; We are willing to build a joint space debris observation center and Beidou application cooperation and development center with Albania to strengthen cooperation in manned space flight and civil passenger aircraft.

  The second is a larger investment and financial structure. China is willing to set up an industrial and investment cooperation forum with Albania, continue to promote the expansion of China-Arab Union Bank, and accelerate the implementation of special loans for industrialization in the Middle East and financial cooperation between China and Arab countries. China supports financial institutions of both sides to strengthen cooperation, welcomes Arab countries to issue "panda bonds" in China, welcomes Arab banking institutions to join the RMB cross-border payment and settlement system, and is willing to deepen exchanges and cooperation with Arab central banks in digital currency.

  The third is a more three-dimensional pattern of energy cooperation. China will further strengthen strategic cooperation with Albania in the oil and gas field to meet supply security and market security; We are willing to jointly develop new energy technology research and development and equipment production with Albania. China will support China energy enterprises and financial institutions to participate in renewable energy projects with a total installed capacity of more than 3 million kilowatts in Arab countries.

  The fourth is a more balanced pattern of economic and trade reciprocity. China will continue to actively promote the implementation of 3 billion yuan development cooperation projects; We are willing to speed up the negotiation of bilateral and regional free trade agreements with Albania and promote the construction of e-commerce cooperation and dialogue mechanism. China welcomes Albania’s active participation in China International Import Expo and is willing to expand the import of non-energy products, especially agricultural and food products from Albania.

  Fifth, a broader cultural exchange pattern. China is willing to set up the "China-Arab Center for Global Civilization Initiative" with Albania, expand the scale and influence of the China-Arab Research Center for Reform and Development, and accelerate the construction of platforms such as think tank alliance, youth development forum, university alliance and cultural and tourism cooperation research center. China will invite 200 political party leaders from Albania to visit China every year, and strive to achieve 10 million tourists’ mutual visits with Albania in the next five years.

  Distinguished guests and friends!

  The Middle East is a fertile ground for development, but the war in this land is still burning. Since October last year, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has escalated dramatically and the people have suffered greatly. War can no longer continue indefinitely, justice can not be absent forever, and the "two-state solution" can not be shaken at will. China firmly supports the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, Palestine becoming a full member of the United Nations, and the convening of a larger, more authoritative and more effective international peace conference. China will provide another 500 million yuan of emergency humanitarian assistance on the basis of the previous 100 million yuan to support the relief of the humanitarian crisis and post-war reconstruction in Gaza; A donation of $3 million will be made to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East to support the Agency’s emergency humanitarian assistance to Gaza.

  An Arabic proverb says that friends are the sunshine in life. We will continue to work with Arab friends to carry forward the spirit of China-Arab friendship, unite to create a better future, and make the road to building a community of destiny between China and Arab countries full of sunshine!

  thank you

In 2023, the box office of New Year’s Day broke through 100 million, and Avatar 2 and Want to See You led the way.

1905 movie network news According to the data of Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of 12: 25 on December 31, New Year’s Day in 2023(31 December-2 January)The total box office (including pre-sales) exceeded 100 million yuan. With a box office score of 46.684 million (including pre-sales), it is temporarily ranked first in the list, ranking second to fifth.

For 13 years, with a movie."Avatar: The Way of Water" is "making a comeback", which is highly anticipated by fans all over the world. The film is inOn December 16th, the painting was opened in China Mainland, and the cumulative box office has reached 889 million. The arrival of the New Year’s Day holiday will also help the film box office to rise again.



Seeing You, which ranked second on the list with a box office of 31.47 million yuan, is also a movie that netizens have been looking forward to for many years. The filmAdapted from the drama series of the same name, it was created by the original crew of TV series such as directing,,, and so on. The "Fengnan Team" returned again, and how the love of Huang Yuxuan, Li Ziwei, Chen Yunru, Wang Quansheng and Mo Junjie finally went, made the audience again."Above", this is full of staminaAt present, the total box office of movies has reached 171 million.

Fearless of fate, not afraid of loss, not afraid of meeting, bold to love!This New Year holiday, let’s go back to the cinema and feel the magic of this love through time and space.

Directed by, Li Jiaqi, Guo Xiangpeng, etc.The comedy film Desperate Husband, starring, temporarily ranked third in the box office list on New Year’s Day in 2023 with a box office score of 17.72 million yuan.The film tells the story of Hu Tienan (Chang Yuan) becoming a "full-time stay-at-home husband" due to an elevator accident. After experiencing a series of ridiculous "dislocation" experiences, he finally understands his wife’s silent dedication and the true meaning of "love".

New Year’s Day in 2023, comedy, science fiction, love, animation … … Various types of films gather to meet the different needs of the audience, and the China film market alsoIt ushered in a gratifying climax of watching movies.

Fingertips Touching the Net: A Never-ending Achievement Exhibition of "Five Years of Perseverance"

  Entering the scene of the "Five Years of Striving" large-scale achievement exhibition, from politics, economy and culture to social, ecological civilization, diplomacy and other fields, ten exhibition areas and characteristic experience areas have comprehensively publicized and displayed the historic changes that have taken place in the cause of the party and the country since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and also deeply attracted the attention of everyone who watched the exhibition.

  [Five-year series of reports that strive for progress]

  Future Network (www.k618.cn), Beijing, October 12 (Reporter Xie Qing) "It’s really nice to see Beijing’s achievements exhibition in hosting the country for five years on TV." "Grandpa used to be a soldier. I really want him to have a look at the armament model on display." "The domestic students in the circle of friends are taking photos and calling for the motherland crazily!" Since the opening of the "Five Years of Striving" exhibition in Beijing Exhibition Hall at the end of September, it has attracted a large number of visitors, but people in other regions and even overseas have expressed their desire to see the exhibition in various ways.

  In this regard, the reporter learned that in addition to on-site close visits, the "Five Years of Striving" large-scale achievement exhibition also specially built an online exhibition hall, using online 360 panoramic mode, voice-assisted explanation, and truly reproducing the contents of the physical exhibition, which can be accessed by computer, mobile phone and PAD.

  The online exhibition hall displays the brilliant achievements of the Party since the 18th National Congress in a panoramic way by using various display means, such as pictures, texts, videos, objects, models, hot-spot interactions, extended reading, viewing messages and interactive experiences.

  Really let people stay at home and visit the achievement exhibition, becoming a never-ending digital exhibition.

  Grandpa "Military Fans" watched the exhibition online. Old party member wished the people a strong Thailand.

  Entering the scene of the "Five Years of Striving" large-scale achievement exhibition, from politics, economy and culture to social, ecological civilization, diplomacy and other fields, ten exhibition areas and characteristic experience areas have comprehensively publicized and displayed the historic changes that have taken place in the cause of the party and the country since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and also deeply attracted the attention of everyone who watched the exhibition.

  As a college student, Liu Yanyu is most interested in the exhibition area of China’s national defense and military development achievements. Armed models of the army, navy and air force, nuclear submarines, destroyers and various fighters, Liu Yanyu kept pressing the camera shutter to take pictures.

  When studying in Beijing, Liu Yanyu can watch the exhibition at close range, but the photos taken are for his grandfather who is far away from his hometown in Northeast China. "Grandpa was a soldier when he was young. He is a military fan. He must be very interested in the achievements of our country’s current military development."

  Originally, I wanted to show my grandpa photos when I returned to my hometown during the "Eleventh Holiday", but Liu Yanyu found a more convenient and intuitive way-the online exhibition hall of the "Five Years of Striving" large-scale achievement exhibition.

  On the PC side, you can have a panoramic view of all areas of the exhibition by logging into the online exhibition hall (dlfj5.cctv.com) page of the "Five Years of Striving" large-scale achievement exhibition.

  In the seventh exhibition area of the exhibition, "Realizing the goal of strengthening the army and building a world-class army", the armament models of China’s army, navy and air force are placed on the long booth of the regional center. After returning to his hometown in Northeast China, Liu Yanyu logged into the online exhibition hall through the computer, and while sliding the mouse to show his grandfather the interior of the venue, he acted as a commentator.

  As a soldier and party member, Liu Yanyu’s grandfather watched and listened carefully with the mouse sliding. "Well, I can’t go to Beijing, and I can see it at home. The computer is powerful, and our country is even more powerful."

  Overseas students watch the exhibition on the mobile side, and friends circle pushes and call.

  With a flag on his face and a bright smile on his face, Li Jiaxin, who was studying in the United States, saw the photos of Beijing high school students visiting the "five years of hard work" large-scale achievement exhibition.

  In addition to the photos, there is also a QR code, which Li Jiaxin discovered only after scanning. It turns out that you can enter the online exhibition hall at any time by clicking on the website: dlfj5.cctv.com or directly scanning the QR code through mobile phones, mobile phones, pads and other mobile terminals.

  The online exhibition hall is exactly the same as the real exhibition hall. After clicking on the mobile phone, you can see that there are different exhibition areas at the bottom, and each exhibition is equipped with audio commentary. Exhibits such as "Jiaolong" and "Fuxing" are also equipped with in-depth materials such as pictures, texts, videos and three-dimensional models.

  "It’s amazing for my country, and overseas students care for the motherland." Like domestic students, although studying thousands of miles away, Li Jiaxin visited the exhibition through the mobile phone. When sharing and forwarding it to a circle of friends, she wrote, "The motherland is strong and offers deep blessings to overseas students."

  Blessing words speak out, and forwarding praise represents the mind. The reporter noticed that in the mobile phone page of the online exhibition hall of the "Five Years of Striving" large-scale achievement exhibition, netizens can offer peony, rose, carnation and other flowers, and leave comments at the same time.

  "China has undergone earth-shaking changes, and it is precisely because of these changes that we have become more and more confident and love this country that has made us stand up!"

  "Under the leadership of the Party, our country is getting richer and stronger, and our living standards are getting higher and higher. I wish our motherland prosperity."

  "Five years of hard work and rapid development, I hope that the motherland will develop better and better and people’s lives will become more and more affluent."

  "Looking forward to the 19th National Congress, summing up the results and exhibiting the future! The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will be realized. I am proud of China and I am pride of chinese. "

  … …

  The reporter learned that up to now, the cumulative number of visitors to the large-scale achievement exhibition of "Five Years of Striving for Progress" has exceeded 400,000, and more than 20,000 netizens have left messages on the online exhibition hall to express their views.

China hybrid rice with an area of 7 million hectares planted abroad benefits the whole world.

  [magnificent 70-year struggle new era]

  There is an unusual yard beside a small road in Ma Po Ridge, east of Changsha City, Hunan Province — — Hunan hybrid rice research center. The yard is small, and it is only a few minutes’ walk from the office building to the laboratory and then to the exhibition hall. For more than 30 years, this yard has been a "holy land" for hybrid rice research in China.

  Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, established in 1984, is the first professional research institution of hybrid rice at home and abroad. Several star varieties and breeding materials of hybrid rice were born here, reaching the highest level in the world in the research of super hybrid rice. Hybrid rice technology with completely independent intellectual property rights has made great contributions to food security in China and even the world.

  Scientific and technological innovation is fruitful.

  Since the research of hybrid rice was initiated in Hunan in 1964, the scientific and technological workers of rice seed industry, represented by Yuan Longping, have made unremitting efforts, and the research of hybrid rice has continuously made breakthroughs, realizing three major technological innovations from three lines to two lines and then to super hybrid rice.

  — — In 1964, Yuan Longping discovered a "natural male sterile plant" in Dongting early indica rice field. In 1966, Yuan Longping published his first paper "Male Infertility of Rice" in the 4th issue of Volume 17 of Science Bulletin. In 1973, three lines of indica hybrid rice in China were successfully matched.

  — — In 1987, Yuan Longping put forward in his paper "Strategic Assumption of Hybrid Rice Breeding" that hybrid rice breeding should be divided into three development stages: three-line method, two-line method and one-line method, and three development stages from the utilization of heterosis level: the utilization of heterosis among varieties, subspecies and distant heterosis, that is, the breeding program is developing from complexity to simplicity with higher efficiency, and the utilization of heterosis is developing in a stronger direction. In 1995, the research of two-line hybrid rice made a breakthrough, which can be widely popularized in production.

  — — In 1996, the Ministry of Agriculture of China initiated the China Super Rice Breeding Program. In 2017, the average yield per mu of super rice variety "Xiangliangyou 900" in Hebei Province was 1,149.02 kg, setting a record for rice yield per unit area in the world.

  Nowadays, the third-generation hybrid rice breeding technology has the advantages of stable fertility of "three-line method" and free combination of "two-line method", which makes China continue to maintain its leading position in the field of hybrid rice research.

  The data show that in recent years, the planting area of hybrid rice in China is 17 million hectares, accounting for more than 50% of the total rice area in China; The average yield of rice in China is about 6.4 tons per hectare, including 7.5 tons of hybrid rice per hectare. Yuan Longping said that the yield of hybrid rice is about 20% higher than that of conventional rice, and the increased grain can feed 70 million people every year.

  Hybrid rice "takes root and blooms" in many countries

  "I am very happy to help other developing countries develop hybrid rice to solve the problem of food shortage. I firmly believe that through joint efforts, my dream will come true in the near future. " At the end of June this year, the first China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo was held in Changsha, Hunan Province. Academician Yuan Longping, who was nearly ninety years old, delivered a speech in English at the China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation and Development Seminar and instantly became popular on the Internet.

  Hybrid rice went abroad in 1979. At that time, the Ministry of Agriculture presented 1.5 kilograms of hybrid rice seeds to the American Western Oil Company. After these seeds are planted in the United States, the yield is more than 33% higher than that of local improved varieties. Next, the technical cooperation of hybrid rice between China and the United States continues to this day.

  Academician Yuan Longping, who was invited to the United States for five times to teach technology, still remembers that due to the obvious increase in hybrid rice production in the United States, the American Western Oil Company made a special trip to China in 1981 to shoot a documentary "In the Garden of People’s Republic of China (PRC) — — The Story of Hybrid Rice in China, which was not only shown in the United States, but also broadcast nationwide by Japanese TV stations, caused a sensation.

  "The American rice technology company that cooperates with us pays the technology transfer fee to the research center every year. This year, the planting area of hybrid rice in the United States has increased again, accounting for 60% of the total planting area of rice in the United States. " Academician Yuan Longping said.

  In the past 40 years, the teaching scope of hybrid rice technology has been expanding. Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and Yuan Longping Agricultural High-tech Co., Ltd. have held nearly 100 international training courses on hybrid rice, and trained more than 10,000 technicians for about 80 developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Hybrid rice technology has taken root and blossomed in many countries.

  "Today, the planting area of hybrid rice abroad is 7 million hectares, and India has the largest planting area of more than 2 million hectares." Academician Yuan Longping said that hybrid rice not only solved the problem of eating in Chinese, but also benefited the whole world.

  Meet the challenge and continue to tackle key problems

  In recent years, Academician Yuan Longping, who calls himself "the post-90s generation", led the Chinese rice research team to start the research on salt-tolerant and alkali-tolerant rice breeding technology, and achieved initial results.

  It is reported that more than 6% of the world’s existing land area is endangered by salinity. Among the arable land, 19.5% of paddy fields and 2.1% of dry land have been harmed by saline-alkali. In Southeast Asian countries, millions of hectares of land suitable for rice cultivation are abandoned due to salinization every year. 15% of paddy fields in China are affected by different degrees of salt damage. Affected by climate change, sea level rise, unreasonable irrigation and drainage system, and bottom rocks rich in harmful salt, the global salinized land area is still expanding.

  "Starting the research on sea rice and popularizing rice cultivation technology in saline-alkali land is very important for realizing China’s ‘ Storing grain in the ground and storing grain in technology ’ , ensure that ‘ China’s rice bowl must be in his own hands ’ The strategic goals are of great significance. China has 1.5 billion mu of saline-alkali land, of which about 200 million mu has the conditions to grow sea rice. Taking hybrid sea rice research as one of the important directions of our future hybrid rice research will not only increase the planting area of hybrid rice in China, but also solve the problem of rice harvest loss caused by seawater intrusion in Vietnam, Bangladesh and other countries. " Bai Lianyang, secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said. (Reporter Long Jun)

BYD Auto: All models are equipped with high-level intelligent driving of the Eye of God.

At BYD’s intelligent strategy conference, the technical matrix of Eye of God was officially released, including Eye of God A, Eye of God B and Eye of God C.. At the same time, according to the official, all its models will be equipped with high-level intelligent driving of the Eye of God, and today, "21 models" will be listed.

It is worth mentioning that the official revealed that BYD currently has 110,000+R&D engineers, 5,000+intelligent R&D engineers and the world’s largest R&D engineer team composed of self-built AI supercomputer center. In addition, BYD officially said: Buying a car to see smart driving in 2025 will become an essential configuration in the next 2-3 years.

Wang Chuanfu said that safety is the greatest luxury of electric vehicles, and smart driving is the strongest guardian for safe travel. BYD Smart Drive puts safety first. Popularizing smart driving should start from the functions that consumers are most concerned about and need most. At the same time, the high-level intelligent driving of the Eye of God is standard in all departments above 100,000, and most of them are equipped below 100,000.


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