Weiran Viloran successfully completed the VIP car task of 2023 TEDA Auto Forum.

  The 19th China International Forum on Automobile Industry Development (TEDA) (hereinafter referred to as TEDA Automobile Forum) was held in Tianjin Binhai New Area from September 1 to 3, 2023. As a VIP car for TEDA Auto Forum — — Weiran Viloran shoulders the important mission of escorting this grand event. With its excellent strength, it brought first-class driving experience to the participants and successfully completed the VIP designated reception task during the meeting.

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  Weiran 2024 built the flagship luxury cockpit with "really comfortable three rows of space", adding 80mm space for the third row, which is called a free "upgrade". At the same time, with German high-quality driving and German seiko quality, we can enjoy the "driving" and "riding" double-flagship car with space, safety and comfort, and welcome the distinguished delivery room.

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  Wei Ran’s 2024 model comprehensively considers the three major indicators of riding space, riding somatosensory and riding safety. The whole system is equipped with a gold power combination of 2.0T+7DSG, and with a solid chassis of German, which not only has flexible handling, but also can achieve smooth driving in complex road conditions, without swaying or drifting, and riding without carsickness. In addition, Weiran’s 2024 executive-level two-row concierge chair is ergonomically designed, which integrates the functions of electric adjustment, active ventilation, heating and massage. The leg rest can be adjusted to a flat posture, and the mobile physiotherapy room can be opened with one button.

  Weiran 2024 integrates high-end intelligence, and IQ.Drive intelligent driving butler can realize L2-level driving assistance, which can be easily controlled in many road conditions. Smart Car Link System 3.2+ is equipped with Carplay and CarLife, and is equipped with Huawei HiCar mapping system, which supports one-click screen projection of Huawei mobile phones and enjoys rich and vivid in-car entertainment functions during travel. Weiran’s front and rear doors and windows are equipped with 4.96mm VSG double-layer silent glass, and with more than 60 silent designs, it is really quiet all the way.

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  While bringing practicality, comfort and entertainment, Weiran has built a "safety fortress" with the quality of German Seiko. The whole car has 9 airbags, all of which are equipped with driver’s knee airbags to protect the safety of the driver’s seat. The second and third rows are equipped with child seat fixing devices, which can always protect the baby’s safety and protect the whole family’s travel with flagship strength.

  Since TEDA Auto Forum 2020, Weiran has served as a VIP car for the grand event for three consecutive years, and this year is the fourth year. TEDA Auto Forum is committed to building a high-end think tank platform in the industry, where many outstanding auto brands compete for industry glory. SAIC Volkswagen Weiran Viloran has been recognized by the organizers of this event. In the future, the two parties will continue to work together, innovate together, take consumer demand as the guide and value creation as the core, continue to expand brand value and influence, and continue to contribute to the sustainable and high-quality development of China’s automobile industry. (Photo: provided by Weiran Viloran)

"Ip Man" premiere Li Wantong appeared in praise of Donnie Yen Hong Jinbao


Li Wantong


  China Broadcasting News on December 9, 2008, the end of the year kung fu blockbuster, reflecting a generation of martial arts guru, Bruce Lee master Ip Man’s legendary life story of the film "Ip Man" held a grand premiere in Beijing, in addition to starring Donnie Yen, Xiong Dailin, Ren Dahua and martial arts director Hong Jinbao, producer Huang Baiming and other main creators, just in the movie version of "Dream of Red Mansions" successfully played "spicy housekeeper Wang Xifeng" beautiful woman star Li Wantou and many other film and television stars were also invited to cheer for the film said to be the best-looking action movie in 2008, and claimed that it was worthwhile.


  Li Wantong, who is about to star in the kung fu blockbuster "King" with Hong Jinbao in 2009, has been working hard to practice kung fu recently. Although the film director has always emphasized that as long as there is enough, she still refuses to relax at all, saying that it is a very rare opportunity to work with such a kung fu superstar, and she must be prepared.


  In the espionage drama "The Final Contest", which is about to hit the national TV screen at the end of the year, Li Wantong plays the heroine Qin Muyao, an underground member of the Communist Party of China, who has already had a good time playing stars, but she said that those action scenes should not be comparable to the action scenes in real kung fu movies. Although the filming is also very clean, there is no very beautiful routine or very exciting action scenes in the end. She also hopes to take this opportunity to challenge herself and learn from Kung Fu kings like Hong Jinbao and Liang Xiaolong.


  For the movie "Ip Man", Li Wantong said that he had been looking forward to it for a long time, and now he finally saw it, and he was really shocked and moved. Donnie Yen, Hung Jinbao and Fan Shaohuang are all action actors he likes very much, and Ren Dahua is also an actor he admires very much. Ye Weixin and Huang Baiming are all Hong Kong directors he hopes to cooperate with very much. Their strength no longer needs to be described in words. The action movie they jointly produced will not disappoint fans. For the heroine of the film "Sister Cheng" Xiong Dailin, Wan Tong expressed his envy that she could act with Donnie Yen, and hoped that he could have such an opportunity in the future.



Li Wan Tong and Ip Man martial arts instructor Hung Jin Bao

Editor in charge: Liu Li

LI’s revenue doubled in the first quarter and hit the delivery target of 30,000 vehicles in June, and the price reduction will not be considered for the time being.

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  In the industry environment where overspeed and stall occur frequently,It seems that it has always maintained its own rhythm.

  On May 10th, the published financial report for the first quarter of 2023 showed that it delivered 52,584 new cars during the period, up 65.8% year-on-year; Realized revenue of 18.79 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 96.5%; Operating profit and890 million yuan and 1.41 billion yuan respectively, grossAbout 20.4%, reaching the "healthy" threshold set by Chairman and CEO Li Xiang.

  Based on the market feedback in the first quarter, the second quarterThe guideline gives a new high, and the delivery of new cars is expected to reach 76,000-81,000, up 164.9%-182.4% year-on-year; The total income is expected to be 24.22 billion-25.86 billion yuan, up 177.4%-196.1% year-on-year; Annual grossThe goal remains at 20%. At the first quarter performance meeting held on the same day, the management of LI also showed full confidence in the company’s development rhythm. Strive to deliver 30,000 vehicles in June, release pure electric vehicles in the fourth quarter, not consider price reduction for the time being, and adjust production capacity according to demand, which are the key words of management.

  Maintain the gross profit margin target of 20% for the whole year.

  Among the total revenue of 18.79 billion yuan in the first quarter, LI’s vehicle sales revenue was about 18.33 billion yuan, up 96.9% year-on-year and 6.1% quarter-on-quarter.

  Li Tie, CFO of LI, said at the performance meeting that the year-on-year increase in vehicle sales revenue was mainly due to the increase in vehicle delivery and the increase in the average selling price contributed by the ideal L series models; The month-on-month increase in this revenue was mainly due to the increase in vehicle delivery, and at the same time, some of the increase in delivery was offset by the decrease in average selling price caused by the difference in product mix between the two quarters.

Main performance indicators of LI in the first quarter of 2023 (Source: EnterpriseScreenshot)

  On February 8th this year, LI officially released the first five-seat product ideal L7, and launched the third model L7 Air; after L7 Pro and L7 Max on the same day. In addition, the L8 Air, the third model of the six-seat SUV, was also launched simultaneously. According to the official price published by LI, the national unified retail prices of L7 Air, L7 Pro and L7 Max are 319,800 yuan, 339,800 yuan and 379,800 yuan respectively, which are 20,000 yuan lower than the retail prices of ideal L8 models.

  On March 11th, Ideal L7 was delivered. According to the data released by LI, the ideal retail volume of L7 terminals in March was 8,009, and the delivery volume in April exceeded 10,000.

  The delivery of vehicles with relatively lower prices has increased, and its impact has also been fed back to the Maori side. In the first quarter of 2023, LI’s gross profit was 3.83 billion yuan, up 77.0% year-on-year and 7.4% quarter-on-quarter; The gross profit margin of bicycles was 19.8%, which was lower than 20.0% in the fourth quarter of 2022.

  Among many new brands, LI has been at the forefront in cost control. Although nearly 50 stores have been expanded or optimized in LI since late June, 2022, the sales, general and management expenses in LI in the first quarter were basically the same, which remained at the level of 1.6 billion yuan, about 1.65 billion yuan. As of April 30th, LI has 302 retail centers, 318 after-sales maintenance centers and authorized car body panel repair and painting centers all over the country. In the first quarter, its research and development expenses dropped to 1.85 billion yuan.

  "Overall, we are very confident about the steady increase in gross profit margin." Li Tie said, "In the first quarter, the sales in Li ONE reduced the overall gross profit margin of vehicles in the quarter by 1.6%. We expect to complete all the sales in Li ONE in the first half of the year, so we can basically eliminate the impact of this part. Regarding the profit margin climbing of ideal L7 and Air models, we think there is still room for improvement. However, considering that there are other potential factors, we still maintain the goal of 20% gross profit margin for the whole year. "

  Before entering the pure electricity market, stabilize the market share.

  Once the news that LI will launch pure electric vehicles was exposed, it quickly seized the hot spot of public opinion.

  In Li Xiang’s view, the ultimate goal of pure electric vehicles is to replace fuel vehicles on a large scale, just like extended-range vehicles; To achieve this goal, the safety and convenience of energy acquisition are the basic conditions.

  In 2023, LI indicated that it will invest heavily in the construction of the overcharge network, and plans to build 300 high-speed charging stations before the end of the year, covering.Yangtze River Delta, Greater Bay Area, Chengdu and Chongqing, and expand the number of charging stations to 3,000 by the end of 2025, covering 90% of the country’s high-speed mileage and major cities in the first, second and third tiers.

  "We will not pass these costs on to consumers, so we will also let users buy the most competitive products in the same level at a cheaper price through effective R&D and supply chain layout." At the press conference, Li Xiang said that the layout of pure electricity sector was decided by LI after long-term planning and research. Therefore, the company has made sufficient preparations in R&D and supply chain.

  "Our core goal is to make high-voltage pure electric vehicles have prices similar to those of extended-range vehicles, and obtain gross profit margins similar to those of extended-range vehicles, which is the embodiment of our healthy operation. This is based on the research and development of models and the layout of the supply chain that we started a long time ago. "

  According to him, the first all-electric vehicle in LI will be released in the fourth quarter of 2023, and then delivery will begin, keeping the release rhythm similar to the ideal L7, L8 and L9.

  Before entering the field of pure electricity to divide cakes, LI put more energy into steadily increasing the market share. "Our core goal in the second quarter is to increase the market share of the NEV market above 200,000 yuan in the first quarter from 11% to 13%." However, Li Xiang bluntly said that there is no plan to reduce the price in LI at present. "When we make detailed long-term planning and pricing, we have set the price at the most competitive price in the corresponding price range according to the level and size of each model, and there will be problems when the price floats up and down. This is the fundamental reason why we have been very cautious in pricing and insist on long-term consideration. "

  Judging from the ideal L7 and L8 vehicle segmentation strategy, the successive appearance of Air, Pro and Max models also differentiated the same product on the basis of overall price reduction, providing more choices at the consumer end.

Ideal L7 three models configuration difference (Source: enterprise official website screenshot)

  Li Xiang said that with the test drive of the Air model to the store, the order volume has indeed increased significantly, and the ideal L7 and L8 Air models have brought about a 20% increase. "According to the first-tier, new first-tier and second-tier cities, the new first-tier cities have the highest sales growth rate at present, because for the SUV market of more than 300,000, the new first-tier cities have real consumption.. In the long run, third-and fourth-tier cities are also the focus of LI’s future expansion, with a view to gaining more market share in these regions. "

[See you at 8: 00] Promote illegal content! 42 anchors were banned for 5 years.

  At 8 o’clock every day, CCTV will sort out the big and small things that happened around us within 24 hours.

  [Focus]

  With the approval of the Central Military Commission, the Armed Police Force started to use a new vehicle license plate, and the current license plate was abolished on October 31st.

  The first batch of generic drugs was encouraged to be published, and 33 drugs were selected.

  According to the national medical insurance bureau, it is expected to realize the "one code communication" of the national medical insurance system in 2020.

  The director of the State Post Bureau said that the contribution rate of parcel delivery in China to global growth exceeded 50%.

  The Ministry of Culture and Tourism will issue regulations to "kill big data" or be punished for online travel.

  According to the General Administration of Market Supervision, new energy vehicle companies should report the accident within 12 hours.

  From 10th to 19th, the last batch of savings bonds (electronic) will be issued by banks this year.

  On the 9th, the 2019 Beijing Industry Wage Guidance Line involving 19 industries was released, and the minimum wage guarantee line was set at 25,920 yuan.

  Twenty-one 4A-level scenic spots were rectified in Shandong, and four scenic spots, including Cowherd and Weaver Girl, were delisted.

  Zhao Jingbo, former inspector of the General Office of Jilin Provincial Government and former secretary of Jilin Municipal Committee, was double-opened.

  Su Shaoyun, former chairman of Tongcheng Rural Commercial Bank of Anhui Province, returned to China and surrendered himself.

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  [Expo]

  The White House said it would not cooperate with the impeachment investigation of President Trump in the House of Representatives.

  An F16 fighter plane of the US Air Force in Europe crashed in Germany and the pilot was injured.

  On the 9th local time, Turkish President Erdogan announced that the Turkish army and the Syrian National Army launched military operations against extremist organizations and Kurdish armed forces in northeast Syria.

  The World Health Organization released the first global vision report, saying that more than 2.2 billion people around the world are blind or have visual impairment.

  Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s unfinished cigars will be auctioned, starting at 6,000 pounds.

  Recently, the Korean Cultural Relics Department unearthed more than 400 ancient pottery and 2 seals on the seabed just 100 meters away from the west coast of Jeju Island, which were suspected to be owned by China businessmen.

  NASA’s Curiosity rover found sulfate deposits in Gail Crater on Mars, which indicates that there may have been life in Gail Crater.

  Britain has won a lottery prize of 170 million pounds, a record high.

  [hundred States]

  The network performance (live broadcast) branch of China Performance Industry Association announced the fourth batch of anchor blacklists, and 42 people were banned for five years for promoting pornography, gambling and other illegal content.

  In the next 10 days, cold air will come one after another, and the temperature in many places in the north will be lower than normal.

  Mobike began to adjust the pricing method in Beijing: 1.5 yuan is charged for riding within 30 minutes, 1.5 yuan is charged for riding beyond 30 minutes.

  Two men in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region killed a family of four and robbed them of money to go home for the New Year. After 23 years of absconding, they were arrested.

  A woman in Haikou missed the station, angered and hit the bus driver, and was sentenced to four years in prison.

  A 10-year-old girl sued her biological mother for nine years, and the court ordered her to pay 1000 yuan every month.

  Teachers and students of Shanghai University will pay a cleaning fee of 5,000 yuan for stealing the stone carvings of the Southern Dynasties. 

  The woman was bitten by a monkey while playing in Jiangsu Baoshengyuan Scenic Area. The person in charge of the scenic area said that macaques are protected animals and can only be passively defended.

  Zhejiang A&F University has set up a self-help shared kitchen for students, and 10 yuan can use it for 4 hours.

  Visual sense

  On the 9th, the Shanghai Sports Federation issued a notice that the "2019NBA Fans Night" activity was cancelled. The staff dismantled the built chairs and stools in the Shanghai World Expo Celebration Square.

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  On the 9th, at this moment — — The 4K Cantonese version of the 70th Anniversary Celebration of the National Day was premiered at the Yuanfang Theater in West Kowloon, Hong Kong. More than 200 people from all walks of life in Hong Kong attended the premiere.

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  On October 9th, local time, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry would be awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Wittingham and Akira Yoshino for their contributions to lithium-ion batteries.

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  "First of all, I want to wish my very good friend — — Happy birthday to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is 39 years old today. "

  — — On October 7, local time, Putin’s birthday, Trump wished Abe a happy birthday.

  "It is estimated that I am fat after retiring, and help me maintain my image."

  — — Hui Ruoqi responded humorously to Weibo, the official of Tianjin Sports Bureau, who mistakenly sent a mosaic photo of himself.

  "If Brexit cannot reach an agreement, how long can the inventory of toilet paper last?"

  — — British parliamentarians asked the government to ensure that there should be enough toilet paper available in the case of "no agreement to leave the European Union".

  [face]

  Feng Duan, a famous physicist and educator, academician of China Academy of Sciences and retired professor of Nanjing University, has been writing poems for his wife for decades, and has been called "the most beautiful love" by netizens.

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  Zou Yiqing, a well-known playwright and one of the writers of the 86th edition of The Journey to the West, died of illness on the 9th at the age of 81.

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  See you at 8 o’clock tomorrow!

  Editor: Xiao Xiao Luo Meng

What do you think of the random inspection of papers written in ChatGPT?

  Recently, Gu Jun, director of the Supervision and Evaluation Department of the Science and Technology Department of Jiangsu Province, said when he was a guest on a media program that he would organize self-examination and active spot check of published papers by scientific and technological personnel, and conduct ethical review of science and technology to guide scientific and technological personnel to improve their integrity awareness. Gu Jun said that ChatGPT can generate coherent and logical articles, which provides convenience, but it may also be used to avoid the problem of duplicate papers, or even list fictitious reference lists, leading to academic misconduct.

  This is not a new problem. Almost since the birth of ChatGPT, the controversy has never stopped around its possible impact on education and science and technology. Compared with those who advocate "no ChatGPT intrusion" and those who advocate "actively embracing new technologies",An increasingly accepted consensus is that it is necessary to clarify the application scenarios and boundaries of ChatGPT, draw the bottom line and clarify the rules, so as to maximize ChatGPT’s positive role and limit its negative impact.Take the papers published by scientific and technological personnel as an example. Although this is not the only yardstick to evaluate the academic research level of scientific and technological workers, it is still one of the important standards to test academic achievements and evaluate the quality of scientific research. It is still an insurmountable red line to ensure the originality, innovation and writing independence of the papers.

  Through self-examination and irregular spot checks, the procedures and standards for handling academic misconduct can be updated, which can strengthen the "physical examination" of published papers from technical means, judge the authenticity and originality of papers, and make scientific and technological personnel dare not and cannot take a slant; Carrying out ethical review of science and technology and guiding scientific and technological personnel to improve their sense of integrity will seize the core element of personnel using new technology, strengthen education from ideological consciousness, and make them truly stay away from academic misconduct from the heart.In the current context, strengthening the integrity education of the core population and improving the supervision mechanism by technical means are two important aspects to prevent scientific and technological personnel from using ChatGPT to write papers.

  At present, many universities at home and abroad have opened related courses such as ChatGPT, and students are encouraged to use it to complete some homework. However, it is forbidden to use ChatGPT to write papers without exception. Jinan University’s Journal of Jinan (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) and Journal of Tianjin Normal University (Basic Education Edition) clearly stated that articles signed separately or jointly by any large language model tools such as ChatGPT will not be accepted for the time being. The same is true of many top academic journals. For example, Nature magazine stipulates that any large language model tools such as ChatGPT are prohibited from becoming paper authors, and it is suggested that researchers who use these tools should specify the use of AI in their manuscripts; "Science" magazine clearly stated that it does not accept the papers generated by ChatGPT and does not allow ChatGPT to be the author of the papers. The papers generated by ChatGPT are equivalent to plagiarism.

  It can be seen that from universities to top authoritative journals, from teaching staff to all scientific and technological personnel, their governance logic is consistent:Carefully accept and strictly limit the use.No matter from the perspective of ensuring the innovative value of papers, maintaining the fair competition of scientific researchers, or ensuring that scientific research results truly serve social progress, this strict and standardized management is of due significance.

  Although China has not officially introduced measures to deal with the problems caused by ChatGPT, it does not mean that there is no relevant management. For example, in March last year, the Central Office and the State Council issued the Opinions on Strengthening the Ethical Governance of Science and Technology, taking artificial intelligence as one of the key areas that need to be strengthened. In April this year, the National Internet Information Office issued the "Administrative Measures for Generative Artificial Intelligence Services (Draft for Comment)", which intends to stipulate that intellectual property rights and business ethics should be respected when providing generative artificial intelligence products or services; Pre-training and optimized training data used for generative artificial intelligence products should not contain any content that infringes intellectual property rights.

  In particular, on August 28th, the draft law on academic degrees was submitted to the 14th the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) for deliberation. Among them, the corresponding legal responsibilities are clarified for the acts of degree winners using artificial intelligence to write dissertations: the degree-granting unit decided to revoke the degree certificate after deliberation by academic degree evaluation committee. The signal conveyed by this is obvious:With the majesty of law, resolutely defend the dissertation from being "invaded" by artificial intelligence.

  Today, as a powerful and widely used new technology, ChatGPT should not be rejected and avoided blindly, but in the final analysis, it is still a tool created by human beings and serves human beings, and it is neutral in itself. How to use it depends on ourselves. It is believed that with the passage of time, the relevant institutional measures of management and governance will become more and more perfect, and finally ChatGPT will give full play to its advantages and serve the development and progress of human beings and society on the basis of following the rules of various fields and industries such as science and technology ethics, intellectual property rights and serious academic authority.

Christmas in Siheyuan —— Changes of foreign festivals in China in the past 30 years

  Beijing, China Broadcasting Network, December 25 th When the traditional Christmas atmosphere in the West is getting stronger and stronger, the courtyard of No.35 Xitangzi Hutong, a famous quadrangle in Dongcheng District of Beijing, has been particularly busy these days. In this traditional courtyard in China, which was built in Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty and once lived by Zuo Zongtang, an important official in the late Qing Dynasty, someone is organizing a lively Christmas party.


  Through the long corridor, rockery and garden full of China traditional culture in this courtyard, people feel a different kind of feelings when they look at Santa Claus in red and red hat and Christmas tree with lights on.


  Pride and prejudice: celebrating the foreign festival is to worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries.


  "After hard work and study for a year, Christmas at the end of 2008 is the time for us to relax and celebrate this festival together! Exchange each other’s gifts in beautiful songs, bring joy to everyone in self-made programs and get beautiful gifts, get together in various interesting games and dance in exciting music … "This is the advertisement for the Christmas party to be held in No.35 Courtyard of Xitangzi Hutong.


  In China 30 years ago, this Christmas call, which was imbued with many elements such as joy, reunion and commercial speculation, was unimaginable. Until the early 1980s, overseas festivals in China were almost equated with the word "worshipping foreign things and obsessing foreign things".


  "At that time, most people were very sensitive to overseas festivals, because there was always public opinion accusing China of having so many traditional festivals, why did it have to be overseas? Are foreign festivals better than those in China, and the moon in foreign countries is rounder than that in China? Damn it! Too worshipful of foreigners! " Yin Yungong, director of the Institute of Journalism of China Academy of Social Sciences, said, "This kind of emotion was normal at that time, because we were relatively closed and exclusive at that time, which was a kind of arrogance and prejudice in another sense.".


  This "arrogance and prejudice" made foreign festivals have no market in China before the 1990s. Occasionally, there were some commercial or spontaneous activities to celebrate western festivals in some coastal cities, and they were often criticized. Some foreigners who entered China in the early days of reform and opening up will generally choose to go back to China for holidays or go to neighboring countries such as Japan and the Philippines for holidays when festivals such as Thanksgiving and Christmas come.


  Tolerance and appreciation: crossing the foreign festival generously.


  Even though there were many refusals and rejections, in the early days of reform and opening-up, China, which opened its doors, gradually began to re-examine and treat foreign festivals differently, even from the bud of timidity.


  Allan Zeman, the boss of Hong Kong Lan Kwai Fong, felt the changes in China at that time. At the end of 1980, Allan Zeman went to Hangzhou for business, and the foreign-related hotel where he stayed held a small-scale "Christmas party" for the guests. Allan Zeman said with emotion: "This is my first Christmas in China, which shows that China is really open."


  Just as the reform and opening up started in the special zones and coastal areas, China people’s attitude towards foreign festivals is also "the south wind gradually spread to the north". At first, Guangdong, Shanghai and other regions broke through the imprisonment in understanding, and then began to gradually affect the whole country.


  Around the 1990s, businesses in Guangdong and other places began to actively play up pure western festivals such as Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Valentine’s Day for commercial purposes, and gradually formed a trend. More and more people in China began to celebrate foreign festivals generously.


  "On the surface, the start of foreign festivals in China seems to be a purely commercial promotion, but its origin is the openness and tolerance of China people’s mentality formed with the reform and opening up, and foreign cultures are no longer blindly excluded." Zhang Yu, general manager of caeg Company, said: "Learning to appreciate with tolerance is a major change for China people to treat foreign festivals."


  In fact, China people, who were just curious at first, gradually discovered the positive factors of foreign festivals from the perspective of cultural level and psychological needs, such as mother’s day, father’s day, Thanksgiving and other grateful feelings, such as the candor and expression of love on Valentine’s Day.


  In 1998, Ms. Chen Zinan, who returned from overseas, returned to Beijing. She liked quadrangle culture and opened a western private restaurant called "Chief of Autumn". Since its opening, Valentine’s Day and Christmas are the best prime time for business here. "Apart from foreigners, more and more people from China have come here for Christmas and Christmas dinner in recent years."


  Reason and Emotion: Traditional festivals in China are the main theme.


  In the 21st century, foreign festivals have blossomed everywhere in China. Nowadays, whenever Valentine’s Day, Christmas and other foreign festivals come, waiters wearing little red riding hood can be seen in many cities in China, and news that roses are seriously out of stock can be heard. The foreign festival economy spawned by foreign festivals has become a gimmick for merchants to attract customers, and foreign festivals have also become a fashion.


  However, in the hot atmosphere of the festival, the decline of traditional festivals in China has gradually caused China people to worry about the protection and inheritance of their traditional culture.


  On the eve of Christmas in 2006, 10 doctors from Peking University, Tsinghua, Nankai University and other universities issued a joint signature proposal, calling on netizens to be cautious about Christmas. They believe that the reason why Christmas is popular in China is that Chinese people are in a state of collective unconsciousness in culture-indifference and indifference to their own traditions is the reason why foreign festivals are popular.


  Therefore, after foreign festivals prevailed in China for more than 10 years, China people began to think about them from the perspective of reason and emotion.


  "When China people flock to celebrate Christmas, people will have some worries." Zhang Yiwu, a professor of Chinese literature in Peking University, said: "The root cause of anxiety lies in China people’s fear that the younger generation will lose enthusiasm for their traditional festivals and forget the foundation of their own culture. Of course, we don’t exclude foreign cultures, but our foundation should be our own traditional culture, so we must make it clear that China Festival is the main theme of our festival. "


  Some scholars wrote that we should not persuade people to stay away from or even resist the proliferation of foreign festivals, but should objectively examine the exchange and mutual accommodation between Chinese and Western cultures with the broad mind of the Chinese nation and a heart without cultural prejudice. While paying attention to and accepting western culture, we should pay more attention to how to revitalize our own traditions and culture, reform and enrich the connotation of these traditional festivals, and make them more attractive.


  In fact, the China government has begun to consciously guide people to pay attention to their traditional festivals. It is a positive and clear signal that Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival have become legal holidays.

Editor: Liu Li

Generative AI stands on the cusp: Silicon Valley bets that future technology giants will shuffle?

Generative AI is getting more and more popular. Is this really a good business?

Recently, AI painting is on fire.

By inputting some words, AI can generate an image that matches the words in a few seconds. These images are wild, and some are even bizarre. For example, people have extra fingers on their hands, and their fingers bend unnaturally. Even, AI can generate some meaningless billboards and alphabets that humans have never seen before.

Although AI painting is outrageous, it has set off a wave of science and technology: the spring of generative AI has come.

David Beisel, a venture capitalist at NextView Ventures, said that in the past three months, the word "generative AI" once became a hot word. Moreover, the generative AI technology has developed rapidly and the market enthusiasm is so high that many people even quit their jobs to start a business in this field.

There is no doubt that AI has been in a prosperous stage in the past five years or so, but most of these past advances have to do with understanding the existing data-for example, the AI model has been able to quickly and efficiently identify whether there are only cats in your mobile phone photos. However, the generative AI model generates something completely new that has never been seen before. In other words, generative AI is not just about analyzing existing data, but creating.

Boris Dayma, founder of Craiyon generative AI, believes that "generative AI is not only creating old images, but also creating many new things, which are completely different from what we have seen before."

Sequoia Capital also said in a blog post on its website: "Generative AI has the potential to create trillions of dollars in economic value." Sequoia Capital predicts that generative AI may change all industries that require human beings to create original works, from games to advertising to the legal profession. It is worth mentioning that Sequoia Capital also pointed out in its blog post that this message was partly written by GPT-3 (GPT-3 is a generative AI capable of generating text).

Working principle of generative AI

In the past, deep learning technology was widely used to train the model on large data sets. When the program understands the relationships in these data, the model can be applied to actual scenes, such as identifying whether there is a dog in a picture or translating text, and so on.

The working principle of the image generator is to reverse this process. For example, instead of translating English into French, it translates English phrases into images. Specifically, it usually has two main parts, one is to process initial phrases, and the other is to convert data into images.

At first, generative AI was based on a method called GAN, that is, the generative adversarial network. In essence, this method is to make two artificial intelligence models compete with each other to better create images that meet the target.

At present, generative AI is usually based on Transformer, such as image generator DALL-E and so on. DALL-E was first created by OpenAI in 2021, and in 2022, OpenAI released DALL-E 2.

Christian Cantrell, a developer who focuses on generative AI, said: "With DALL-E 2, we can really cross uncanny valley." (The Valley of Terror theory is a hypothesis about human perception of robots and non-human objects. It was put forward by Japanese robot expert Masahiro Mori in 1970. )

Another commonly used AI-based image generator is Craiyon (formerly known as DALL-E Mini), where users can enter phrases in the browser and see the illustrations it generates within a few minutes.

According to Dayma, since its launch in July 2021, Craiyon has produced about 10 million unprecedented pictures every day, which adds up to 1 billion. Earlier this year, the use of Crayon soared, and Dayma also took Crayon as its full-time job. In addition, Dayma has created a Twitter account to post the weirdest and most creative pictures generated by Craiyon. For example, ketchup comes out of the tap on the Italian sink.

In addition, Stable Diffusion has also received wide attention. The project was released in August this year and has been open source on GitHub. Developers can run the project on computers, not just in the cloud or through programming interfaces. For example, Stable Diffusion can be integrated into Adobe Photoshop by plug-in, allowing users to generate backgrounds and other parts of images, and use layers and other Photoshop tools to operate in applications.

Cantrell, the developer of the plug-in, said, "I want to meet these creative professionals, so that they can introduce artificial intelligence into their creative work, instead of destroying their work."

It is understood that Cantrell has worked for Adobe for 20 years. After leaving in 2022, Cantrell focused on the direction of generative AI. Cantrell said that Stable Diffusion has been downloaded tens of thousands of times, and artists told him that they used this plug-in in many unexpected places, such as making Godzilla animation or creating pictures of Spider-Man.

Start-up companies get together

Some investors regard generative AI as a potentially transformative change, just like the early development of smart phones or the Internet. This kind of transformation has greatly expanded the potential market of this technology.

"Before that, artificial intelligence was not unprecedented. Before 2007, we were not without mobile devices, "said Beisel, a seed investor." But at this moment, everything came together. The final consumer can experience and see something different from before. "

Cantrell believes that machine learning is similar to a more basic technology: database. "Machine learning is a bit like a database, which opens up a whole new world for network applications. All the applications we have used in our life are built on the database. But no one cares about how the database works. People only know how to use it. "

Michael Dempsey, managing partner of Compound VC, said that in the past, it was "very rare" for laboratory technology to enter the mainstream, but at present, generative AI has attracted wide attention of venture capitalists. Nevertheless, he warned that the current generative AI may be in the "curious stage" near the peak of the hype cycle, and the companies established at this stage may fail because they don’t focus on the specific uses that enterprises or consumers are willing to pay for.

Others in the industry believe that startups that can apply new technologies such as generative AI today may challenge technology giants such as Google, Meta and Microsoft in the future.

At present, many companies applying generative AI technology have already received large amount of financing, and their valuations have also risen. For example, earlier this year, Hugging Face was valued at $2 billion after receiving investments including Lux Capital and Sequoia Capital; OpenAI has also received more than $1 billion from Microsoft and Khosla Ventures.

In addition, according to Forbes, Stability AI, the developer of Stable Diffusion, is negotiating with investment institutions to raise up to $1 billion in venture capital.

Cloud vendors and chip vendors will benefit.

Besides start-ups, cloud service providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google can also benefit from it, because generative AI may require a huge amount of computation.

Meta and Google have also taken action and started recruiting talents. In September of this year, Meta released an artificial intelligence application called "Make-A-Video", which can generate videos, which makes the generative AI technology a step further.

"This is a great progress," Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, posted on his Facebook page. "It is much more difficult to generate videos than photos, because besides correctly generating each pixel, the system must also predict how they will change over time."

Recently, Google matched with Meta and released a program code called Phenaki, which can also convert text into video and generate several minutes of footage.

This craze may also boost chip manufacturers such as Nvidia, AMD and Intel, because the advanced graphics processors produced by these companies are ideal for training and deploying artificial intelligence models.

At a recent meeting, Huang Renxun, CEO of Nvidia, emphasized that generative AI is the key use of the company’s latest chip, and he said that this kind of program may "revolutionize communication" soon.

At present, there are not many uses of generative AI that can generate commercial benefits. Many exciting breakthroughs today come from free or low-cost experiments. For example, some writers have tried to use image generator to generate images for articles. An example of Nvidia is to use a model to generate new 3D images, including people, animals, vehicles or furniture, which can be filled into the virtual game world.

Ethical issues can not be ignored.

While generating AI excites the industry, the ethical issues it brings are also worthy of attention.

The first is employment. Compared with professional illustrators, generative AI is obviously cheaper. Therefore, generative AI is likely to rob artists, video producers and other people engaged in creative work of their "rice bowls".

In addition, there are complex problems in originality and ownership of the content created by generative AI.

Generated AI is trained on a large number of images. Therefore, it is still controversial whether the creator of the original image has copyright requirements for the generated new image.

Some time ago, an artist won an art competition in Colorado, and his winning image was created by a generative AI named MidJourney. After winning, the artist said in an interview that he selected one image from hundreds of images generated by himself and post-processed it in Photoshop.

It is worth mentioning that some images generated by Stable Diffusion are watermarked, which indicates that some of the original data sets are copyrighted. Previously, Getty Images (a picture trading company based in Seattle, USA) announced that it was forbidden for users to upload generated AI pictures to its picture library, because the company was worried that there might be some copyright problems in such pictures. .

With the improvement of image generation software, generative AI may also deceive users, make them believe false information, or display images or videos of events that never happened.

In addition, developers must also deal with the possibility that models trained on a large amount of data may have biases related to gender, race or culture contained in the data, which may cause the models to show such biases in their outputs.

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"New Time and Space", "New Model", "New Experience" 2020 Shanghai Tourism Festival to produce beautiful responses

Shanghai, September 27th (Gong Li SHA) On September 27, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government held a press conference. An introduction of effectiveness, deputy director of the Cultural and Tourism Cheng Meihong City Bureau, Deputy Director of Liu Min City Commercial Committee, Minister Lu Xiaohui, Propaganda Department of Xuhui District Committee, Changlong Wanlong, Jing’an District, deputy district, and deputy head of the Chujie Yan District of Songjiang District attended the meeting.

Create a "new space" everywhere for the tourist scene

Shanghai is a well -known tourist city. This is an excellent tourist city "king is everywhere and should be accessed from time to time." The journey of this Tourism Festival has adhered to Jiangsu, the city of festivals, excavating tourism landmarks, new carriers, and new methods to fully stimulate the vitality and release of the city, in order to better serve the development of the Yangtze River Delta.

First, the tourist destination that focuses on promoting shows the Yangtze River Delta. In the context of promoting the development of high -quality cultural tourism integration in the Yangtze River Delta, strive to take the lead in traveling in the "same city effect" in tourism. In some cities in the Yangtze River Delta, the original "good neighbors" to the current "family." This year’s tourist festival, our first time, our first tourism festival. Four items of implementation. The first group of the Yangtze River Delta Tourism Festival was at the Nantong venue, Wenzhou, Huangshan, and three cities launched nearly 100 theme activities. It attracted the participation and attention of more than 8 million people. Through the first time to go to the night market culture, business activities, gourmet punch, self -driving tour, people who have been driving, such as the Yangtze River Delta city, showed some new boutique space for cultural tourism.

At the same time, at the main venue of the opening ceremony of the tourist festival, there is no cultural tourism Yangtze River Delta with rich TV network broadcast resources. The first batch of Shanghai -Huzhou City, Zhejiang’s boutique tourism line "living room from Huangpu River to the world", and the first batch of Shanghai citizens and tourists embarked on a wonderful journey of Shanghai Lake. For the first time, we launched 17 joint Shanghai and Yangtze River Delta cities. The products launched only 12 days, and it sold more than 20,000 copies.

The second feature of the new space is the dotted line of Shanghai urban cultural tourism strings. Shanghai Red Culture, Shanghai Culture, and Southern Cultural Resources are very rich. In the tourist festival, we carefully sort out and integrate, the integration of the focus will not work, provide the public to the public, and lead tourists to participate in a high -quality experience life. Essence At the Tourism Festival, the 16 district government’s cultural tourism enterprises, including our business business, and so on. Then it launched 156 events and nearly 500 fine lines of fine lines, covering three cultures, one river and one river, and buildings can be read. All aspects of online celebrities photography, shopping, food, and so on. The network involves thousands of red punching points.

"The road of sailing, listening to Shanghai Wei," The sound of cultural activities in Shanghai, Shanghai launched 100 red tourism routes; the "Charm Binjiang" event across the river area, released the theme and product line of the five major theme 104 seaside linkage; The introduction of "Building can read", a good place in Shanghai on 16 nights, 103 micro -structures; the golden autumn tourism shopping season to create eight shopping integration, tourism, CultureConsumer’s wonderful destination, to provide consumers with various green business for consumers Travel joint document; "Good Shanghai? Garden Life" launched the theme park line of the five nations for the theme of the five nations; "Magic City Model Young 2020 Youth Travel Experience Award", launch the 15 -week youth journey Deep official website of recruitment experience.

Third, the wave of C -disc in Shanghai is the latest demonstration of punching. During the tourist festival, adapting to the new needs of urban life, the trend of young people, Shanghai launched many recent waves of red networks, punching and best movie photography points, and continue to cultivate "platform+merchants", "boxing line grass grass grass grass grass grass +Offline, "text travel consumption model. The top ten "best movie points" and 12 "best stamping red dots" were launched by Yangpu River in Yangpu District; Hongzhuang District launched four best photography in the eight o’clock and the most beautiful landmarks; Minhang District , Launched "Treasure Hunting Minxing? Minhang Hongfa Ten Nets," He "traveling Minhang called" Book Competition Minhang Road; Xuhui District Celebrating the Vitality of the Holidays, Public Speaking of Music and Wonderful Charm Construction Cross -border Integration; Putuo District Organization; The three lines were packaged on the ground camps to play the two parties in Suzhou to expand the new space of hydrological tourism on the Suzhou River.

Establish a "new model" for integration and interaction in all places

Tourism is a comprehensive industry, and has the effect of "100 % of the industry". In the normal context, prevent control, the tourism festival adheres to leading innovation, initiative to change, respond to new new needs, create new demand for new supply, online and offline interaction, and the complementary platform content. In order to better serve the new development model Essence

Provide and demand and promote each other. The epidemic prevention and control in the background of the standardization, the travel method and destination to the public have changed a lot. Forcing the text tour, we need to improve the quality For the service series, leading public tourists choose new local tourism depth. During the Tourism Festival, the integration of iterative upgrades of the "micro -Shanghai" project of the text tour, Daren Punch and the best movie photography point of photography in Shanghai, listening to the story of urban cultural researchers tell the story of the old house, listening to a wonderful opera chanting, has become Shanghai’s’s in Shanghai City walking line.

So far, the spring travel company has organized more than 50, and 10,000 people participated in Micro Shanghai tourism products. In the next step, it will also strongly support the wishes of local farming Shanghai Cultural Tourism Company, increase the supply of product content, improve service quality, and meet the new needs of public tourist tourists. September 27th is World Tourism Day. This morning, a good place was found in the suburbs of Shanghai-2020 World Tourism Day to see Shanghai activities. Shanghai travel consumer market recovers.

Hug each other online and offline. In the Internet economy, she gave birth to "New Online Text Brigal" as a new concept, "Online Tour", and "the next holes" has become a new cultural tourism experience model. Through the online platform, a new urban cultural tourism business card is realized, the competitiveness of the global market of Shanghai cultural tourism industry has been enhanced, and the new allocation of regional tourism resources is highly created.

The first "Cloud Tourism" platform of the Tourism Festival this year brought together hundreds of high -quality tourist festivals on the live line. Hundreds of articles covering Shanghai’s key business districts, tourist attractions, and cultural sites theme lines.新华社, 伦敦, 美国特派团评论, 携程, 驴母亲旅行, 巡回赛上海应用程序, 颤音, 百度, 丁东买食物, 获取物理应用程序, 达达集团和其他公司,旅游节发射特殊窗口, 特征, List online to show the theme of the tourist festival, and the tourism festival provides exclusive rewards and trends.

According to statistics, the "Cloud Tourism" platform clicks a total capacity of 1.017 million people. In the comments from participating in the statistics of Midea Group, from September 12th to 25th, the amount of food and beverages increased by 56.6 % year -on -year, leisure and entertainment expenditure increased by 39.8 %, bed expenditure increased by 33.9 %, 90 % of 90 % , Sales of Travel Ticket Sales at the same time.

Mutual assistance interactive platform and content. The services of the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole country are set up to the masses. Passengers in Shanghai are mission. Through the connected platforms and contents, they will continue to strengthen exchanging cultural tourism and tourism to combine the country’s resources to improve quality and promote literary promotion effects.

On the day of the visit, the city jointly established the Yangtze River Delta Tourism Promotion Alliance in Sanxue and Zhejiang Province. The Yangtze River Delta will work together to host various tourism promotion activities. The team builds a tourism marketing network to cover the entire media. Jointly developed a tourist boutique line shared by the Yangtze River Delta, information sharing, product push, and transmitting each other, creating a new image of the Yangtze River Delta integrated tourism destination. This year’s tourism festival has also become the best time to focus on Shanghai and Shanghai. According to statistics, there are remote markets, such as nearly 40 tourism promotion activities in Inner Mongolia, Tianjin, Shandong and Yangtze River before and after tourism.

All local Wenxiao departments through literary performances, food activities, shopping mall road shows, and so on. Babies, beautiful scenery, cultural folk customs, food specialty, and so on. Let the citizens enjoy the great riverside of the beautiful motherland at the door. The 2020 Shanghai (China) Conference and Business Tourism and Domestic Tourism Direct Transactions have established a series of conference industry exchanges and interactive activities, sharing conferences awards and the current situation and development trend of the business tourism industry, and strengthened industry exchanges and improvements.

Share "new experience", so that a beautiful life is everywhere

Tourism is a good time to live in a beautiful life of the people. The tourist festival adheres to the concept of people’s urban development, and vigorously promotes the integration of tourism, urban life, and city experience, so that citizens and tourists will be tourism, fully experience "cities, make life better", and let the book "people city" read. , I can see it, you can see it.

"Cross -border integration" "Travel+ N". The epidemic suffered unprecedented impact. How to seek opportunities from the needs of CRISISFROM in adversity, it is necessary to seek new cross -border integration of the upstream industrial chain. The cooperation between the various departments this year is a highlight. This launched a series of "travel+" products and activities. The opening ceremony of the Tourism Festival merged with Nanjing Road East Tower. It only takes 20 minutes to sell the "self -sufficient flow" of the tourist festival and the two IP addresses of Nanjing Road. The overall effect of the opening of the Championships has formed a geometric factor growth.

According to statistics, on September 12, at 8:00 pm, the instantaneous traffic of Nanjing Road was 3.60,000 people, and the tourist festival almost turned over last year. The Municipal Commerce Commission has led the autumn tourist peak season shopping. It has created eight business travel lounges. The integration of 644 is famous. The famous, famous restaurant, the name of this street. Autumn is the harvest season. The Municipal Agricultural Committee and the Municipal Transportation Commission launched 18 rural boutique tourism routes to propose comprehensive suburbs of Shanghai’s most beautiful villages. Shanghai Film Group has held nearly 50 well -known brand business travel of the "Worry -Free Calcium Marathon Party" text brings exquisite cultural and creative and interactive activities, attracting tourists to participate in the public to participate in the public.

The 3rd China (Shanghai) International Health Tourism Expo has become an important platform for the pharmaceutical industry to gather tourist attractions, cross -border integration of sports and health, promoting a win -win cooperation between the health tourism industry, prosperity and development. Shanghai Pudong Development Bank has launched the theme of the debit card theme happy Yangtze River Delta. You can buy the Yangtze River Delta text brigade voting, and 18 has been released. 40000.

The cultural connotation of "show depth". "Shanghai urban tourism resources cannot be separated from red culture, Shanghai culture and southern culture empower power, and show the depth of cultural connotation for the" cultural soul "of tourism in the tourism industry. The text brigade provides a better experience for public visitors. Reading the content of the "Tourism Festival, the second meeting of the cultural and creative market, Shanghai will become the resource characteristics of the" building possible "cultural creative product, so that public visitors will be stronger and more intuitive to understand the city’s city’s History, the taste of urban culture.

According to statistics, a total of 62 cultural and creative enterprises in the city’s 16 districts have 929 cultural and creative product exhibitions. Shanghai People’s Broadcasting Station, "The road of sail, listening to the Shanghai" plan ". Without the voice of Shanghai Red Culture, Red Tourism provides a new experience for the people. On September 14th, "early 990 news" listened to 3.13 %, an increase of 37.89 %, and the number of 55 years per day. 70,000.

The world holds the theme activity of the "traditional city center" and gives full play to the advantages of the comprehensive effect of art world performance art. The Yangtze River Delta has created the theme of IP IP in the non -heritage music festival. 16 days of tourist festival, Shanghai’s colorful culture and performance art market, the world’s main performance art performances 51 and 152 on -site projects, with an average of nearly 10 games per day, the number of major performance projects increased by 59 %, and the on -site growth rate was 55 %.

Consumption upgrade "Enable power." Continuous innovation supporting markets, high -quality products of consumers, and launching many high -quality products in the tourist festival of organizational activities, promoting consumption, and leading public tourists pursuing the quality of life. According to statistics, the sales of the businessmen along the Nanjing Road along the Tourism Festival have increased significantly, and the new world of Deman Department Store in Dim Province. Sales of Family Fashion Store. 080,000 yuan, Rose 54 % subway: September 12-13 days, 1388 entire network traffic. 60,000 people, the ring on weekends -more than 5 % (September 6) increased.

On September 12, the passenger flow of Nanjing East Road Station was 11.560,000 passengers, which usually increased by 16 % on weekends. According to statistics, during the tourist festival, the sales of the four districts of the city increased by 5.2 %, and the sales of Huangpu District increased 26 times. 6 %. Fireworks Shanghai Food Season Activities attracted nearly 13 million people to participate; the "Southern Food" section "on -site" on -site participation was more than 50 years old, 10,000, and sales of nearly 200 million.

(Edit: Tang Xiaoli, Han Qing)