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4 minutes will break through 10,000, and Xiaomi SU7 will brush the screen! 5,000 original editions are sold out, will you buy them?

From March 2021 to the present, the three-year contract of Xiaomi Automobile has finally arrived. On the evening of 28th, Xiaomi SU7, the first model of Xiaomi Automobile, officially announced the price: 215,900-299,900 yuan. According to Xiaomi’s official Weibo, four minutes after the price was announced, this new car broke 10,000 sets, 20,000 sets in seven minutes and 50,000 sets in 27 minutes.

There are three versions of Xiaomi SU7, namely standard version, Pro version and Max version, in which the standard version is 215,900 yuan, the Pro version is 245,900 yuan and the Max version is 299,900 yuan. In addition, there is the founding version of Xiaomi SU7 (also divided into standard version and PRO version, with the same price), with a limited edition of 5,000 units nationwide. Before April 30, the car will also be sent to the car refrigerator, luxury stereo, leather seats, etc., and the Pro version and Max version will be sent to the electric tail and plum hub respectively.

The price of Xiaomi SU7 can be said to be the biggest suspense in recent months. Since the end of last year, netizens have been speculating about it, with various prices ranging from 99,000 to 199,000 and 299,000, but Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, denied it.

After the price of Xiaomi SU7 was announced on the evening of 28th, netizens were still arguing endlessly. Some people say that this pricing is expected, but others say that the final pricing is higher than their own expectations. In the face of competing models such as Tesla Model 3 and Extreme Krypton 001, Xiaomi SU7 has no obvious competitive advantage. However, the Xiaomi Auto APP was opened around 10 pm on the 28th, showing that the original version of Xiaomi SU7 was sold out.

For Lei Jun, no matter what the outside world thinks, Xiaomi finally handed over his first job in the automobile industry on schedule.

At the press conference of Xiaomi’s official announcement of building a car three years ago, Lei Jun said that this was his "last venture in life" and he was willing to "put all my reputation on the line". On March 25th, he said at the Weibo that the listing of Xiaomi SU7 "is the first step of Xiaomi Automobile and the beginning of the last battle of my life." He even made it clear that the goal of Xiaomi SU7 is "the best-looking, best-driving and most intelligent car within 500,000."

215,900 started, did you guess right?

In terms of building cars, Lei Jun and the Xiaomi car he led belong to the out-and-out "rookie", but as a leading brand in the digital industry, Xiaomi understands traffic. With Lei Jun’s frequent appearance on social media, since he announced his entry into the automobile industry in 2021, almost every node of Xiaomi Automobile will attract netizens to watch whether it is production qualification or design drawings, whether it is the price of new cars or the arrival of new cars. It can be called the "traffic star" of the automobile industry.

Especially around the pricing of the first model, Xiaomi SU7, people are even more heartbroken, and various rumors are constantly emerging in the workshop, but they are all officially rumored by Xiaomi. Lei Jun even made a public statement: "The price of Xiaomi SU7 will not be 99,000, 149,000 or 199,000." He also said that "the pricing of Xiaomi SU7 is indeed a bit expensive, but it will make sense."

It seems that in order to give a shot in the arm for the higher-than-expected pricing, Lei Jun sent a message to Weibo on March 20th: "The standard version of Xiaomi SU7 is far more configured than Model 3, with solid materials and high procurement cost at the initial stage of product launch. There is indeed some pressure on pricing, I hope everyone understands. "

However, for Xiaomi SU7, its official pricing is really not easy. It is necessary to consider both its own cost and the satisfaction of rice noodles, as well as the challenge of competing products. Before the listing of Xiaomi SU7, the price war in the domestic auto market, especially in new energy vehicles, has been prolonged. Not only BYD, Tesla, Ideality and other new energy vehicle companies are involved, but also traditional joint venture vehicle companies such as Beijing Hyundai, Buick and FAW-Volkswagen’s oil vehicles and trams have frequently defended their "territory" through price adjustment. Among them, Tesla China promoted the new version of Model 3 Huan and Model Y through price reduction, subsidies and limited-time concessions for four times in a short period of three months.

In this context, it is undoubtedly a considerable challenge for Xiaomi SU7 to make its price meet the requirements of "both ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

On the evening of the 28th, as the price was announced, netizens quarreled again. Some people think that "this price can kill all sides", some people think that "this price is ok", and some people call Lei Jun, "Why not just start with 199,900 yuan?"

I don’t know what you think?

Young people’s first Porsche? Have been involved in appearance disputes.

In addition to pricing, Xiaomi SU7 triggered a hot discussion among netizens about its design.

Since the shape of Xiaomi SU7 was exposed, this car has been controversial. Although Xiaomi officially claimed that its design was inspired by "water droplets in zero gravity blown by the wind", the headlights were designed in the shape of water droplets, and the taillights were inspired by Saturn’s halo, but the appearance was very similar to that of Porsche Taycan, which was dubbed by netizens as "time-keeping meter".

What’s more, a Porsche Paramera owner in Guangxi "exploded" his car into a Xiaomi SU7, which caused onlookers and heated discussions among netizens.

However, regardless of whether Xiaomi borrowed Porsche’s design or not, the face value of Xiaomi SU7 is really attractive: the low-lying front face, penetrating taillights, semi-hidden door handles, petal-shaped wheels, colored brake calipers, electric tail fins … all of them step on the aesthetic line of young people.

Specific to the product level, Xiaomi SU7 has a length, width and height of 4,997 * 1,963 * 1,440 (1,455) mm and a wheelbase of 3,000 mm, and is positioned in a medium and large-sized pure electric car. The car is equipped with a 16.1-inch 3K central control panel, in addition to a 56-inch HUD head-up display and a 7.1-inch rollover instrument panel. The operating system of the locomotive adopts the surging OS operating system, which matches the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 cockpit chip.

In the car, Xiaomi SU7 adopts many humanized designs, such as two umbrella storage slots under the front door panel storage compartment and the rear seat, which are convenient for drivers and passengers to store umbrellas in rainy days; An ecological expansion interface is set on the instrument panel, which is convenient for inserting the mobile phone bracket; Super-large canopy glass is treated with double-layer silver plating, which effectively isolates ultraviolet rays and infrared rays (ultraviolet rays isolate 99.9% and infrared rays isolate 99.1%), avoiding the exposure experience brought by glass canopy to drivers and passengers in summer …

In terms of power, different versions of Xiaomi SU7 provide different batteries, of which the standard version uses a rear-drive 220KW motor and a 73.6KWh Ferrous lithium phosphate blade battery, and the pure battery life is 700 kilometers under CLTC working conditions; Pro version adopts rear-drive 220KW motor and 94.3kWh Ningde Shenxing iron-lithium battery, with pure battery life of 830 kilometers under CLTC working condition; Max version is equipped with four-wheel drive 495KW motor and 101kWh ternary lithium battery, and its pure battery life is 800 kilometers under CLTC working condition.

It is not easy for Xiaomi SU7 to be surrounded by "heroes".

As a high-heat model, Xiaomi SU7 has earned enough attention recently. Since March 25th, Xiaomi SU7 has started offline static car viewing in 59 stores in 29 cities across the country. It is said that all the stores are full of people, and many rice noodles are also eager to try, indicating that they will book cars as soon as the price is right.

However, it remains to be seen whether consumers will buy this "the best-looking, best-driving and most intelligent car within 500,000" in Lei Jun’s eyes. At least in many aspects, Xiaomi SU7 did not completely surpass competing products as advertised.

At present, in the range of 200,000-350,000 yuan, pure electric cars with both performance control and intelligence mainly include Tesla Model 3, Kykrypton 001, Weilai ET5 and Tucki P7. Take the new Krypton 001, which was just launched a month ago, as an example. The whole system comes standard with 800V overcharge and lidar, while the low-profile model of Xiaomi SU7 adopts 400V architecture. The Krypton 001 WE version is equipped with a 140-degree battery, and its pure battery life exceeds 1000 kilometers. In order to surpass other opponents equipped with 100-degree batteries, Xiaomi SU7 MAX version is deliberately equipped with a 101kWh battery, with a pure battery life of 800 kilometers. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 cockpit chip carried by Xiaomi SU7 has also been used in models such as Extreme Krypton 007, Extreme Yue 01, Galaxy E8 and Zero Run C10, especially the price of Geely Galaxy E8 started at 175,800 yuan.

Xiaomi SU7 claims that acceleration, steering, suspension height, suspension damping, front and rear drive distribution and kinetic energy recovery can all be adjusted, and it can be combined into as many as 1.68 billion driving modes. However, for users, too many choices are more gimmicky than practical significance. How many people really need so many driving modes? In the words of the insiders, I feel that Xiaomi is racking his brains to fight for the "first".

In addition, Xiaomi SU7 claims to be equipped with intelligent assisted driving as standard in all departments, including high-speed pilotage that can be started all over the country. However, the urban pilotage assistance (city NOA) will not be opened nationwide until August this year. Compared with Huawei, Tucki and Jiyue, which have already opened the city NOA, Xiaomi SU7 has no advantage.

In fact, many consumers are full of expectations for Xiaomi SU7 because of Lei Jun’s "full ecology of people, cars and homes". The so-called "the whole ecology of people, cars and homes", Xiaomi’s official statement is that it can link all Xiaomi intelligent terminals together, with no sense of interconnection and synergy. However, according to Lei Jun’s introduction at the press conference, the so-called millet equipment collaboration is only that all kinds of millet smart terminals at home can be displayed on cars and mobile phones, and there is not much practical significance. As for how to form an ecological circle and how to develop in the future, Lei Jun did not introduce it.

Many car buyers have previously revealed that they are optimistic about Xiaomi SU7. On the one hand, they are attracted by the product strength of Xiaomi SU7, but more importantly, they expect Xiaomi, the price killer in the field of digital products, to bring you surprise pricing, so they are all waiting to announce the price on the evening of 28th.

With the announcement of the price of millet SU7, rice noodles seem to be quite satisfied. According to the official Weibo of Xiaomi Automobile, this new car broke through 10,000 in 4 minutes, 20,000 in 7 minutes, and 50,000 in 27 minutes. The limited edition of 5,000 founding models was sold out early.

Tatum, a new clip of Hail, Caesar! and a retro poster, sings and dances.

    

    1905 movie network news The upcoming Berlin Film Festival has recently exposed two clips and two retro posters. In the clip, channing tatum and Scarlett Johansson appeared separately. Tatum sang and danced with great joy, demonstrating his good singing and dancing ability. Johnson, on the other hand, quarreled with josh brolin on the set, and the content of the quarrel was nothing more than the cliché about the marriage of men and women and the sinister content on the set. The two retro posters, with distinctive features, are easy to remind people of the famous films of Hollywood’s golden age: and.

 

    Hail, Caesar! is jointly directed by two brothers, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, who are also writers and producers, so as to ensure that the film will continue their previous film noir style. The original script of the film is about a group of 1920s theatrical troupe actors rehearsing an ancient Roman drama, and later it is changed into a story of Hollywood in the golden age. The protagonist of the film is Eddie Mannix, who works as a private detective, dealing with all kinds of thorny problems for film companies or stars. This profession has a special name — — Hollywood "problem solver" (Fixer). In the current words, it is crisis public relations, but it has a large scale and uses unscrupulous means to track, buy and even use violence to deal with all negative news of customers. This profession has a long history, and it was born with the Hollywood star system.

 

    The works directed by the Cohen brothers have always been famous for their black style. Before that, the two men won the awards of best film, best director and best screenwriter in the 80th Oscar, which is a banner of the American independent film industry. This film has a strong cast, and josh brolin plays the leading role, that is, Eddie, the problem solver. George Clooney plays Baird Whitelock and is a movie star. Channing tatum, who can take off and dance, plays the target client of the leading actor, who is said to be a Hollywood star of gene kelly’s style, while Scarlett Johansson is probably an actress in a musical, with the shadow of esther williams, the heroine of Lotus Out of Water. Tilda Swinton plays a well-known gossip columnist and Ralph Fiennes plays a director.

 

    According to the plan, the film will be released on February 5, 2016, and then the Berlin Film Festival will open on February 11.

Russia condemns US sanctions against "Beixi -2" peskov: sanctions are naked plunder.

       CCTV News:According to a report by Sputnik news agency & radio on the 27th, Russian Presidential Press Secretary peskov recently condemned the US sanctions on the "Beixi -2" project as naked plunder.

       In an interview with Russian media a few days ago, peskov said that the sanctions against the "Beixi -2" project, which Russia cooperated with European countries, were totally naked cowboy-like plunder, and aimed at ransacking Gazprom. At the same time, peskov said that the related work of natural gas pipeline laying of the "Beixi -2" project is still going on in an orderly way. The project is close to the final completion.

       According to reports, a person familiar with the matter revealed that the United States plans to adopt a new package of sanctions against the "Beixi -2" project soon.

       After the completion of the "Beixi -2" project, Russian natural gas will not be transported to Germany through Ukraine, and then sent to other European countries. Under the obstruction of sanctions and other measures by the United States, the European contractor of this project started construction at the end of last year. Russia has repeatedly stressed that the United States blocked the "Beixi -2" project in order to export more American natural gas to Europe.

Notice of China National Intellectual Property Administration on continuously and strictly regulating the behavior of patent application

Notice of China National Intellectual Property Administration on continuously and strictly regulating the behavior of patent application
Guo Zhi Fa Bao Zi [2022] No.7

Intellectual property offices of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Sichuan Intellectual Property Service Promotion Center and relevant local centers; All departments of China National Intellectual Property Administration Bureau, all departments of the Patent Office, other directly affiliated units of the Bureau and various social organizations:

High-quality development is the theme of China’s economic and social development in the 14 th Five-Year Plan and even in a longer period, which is related to the overall situation of China’s socialist modernization. Cracking down on abnormal patent applications is not only an important measure to implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, but also an inevitable requirement to maintain the stable operation of the intellectual property system, strengthen intellectual property protection and promote high-quality development. In 2021, local intellectual property management departments optimized the patent assessment index system, cleaned up and improved various patent-related incentive policies and qualification assessment policies, and severely cracked down on abnormal patent applications, achieving phased results. However, there are still some problems in some places, such as insufficient attention to standardizing patent applications, insufficient understanding of the dangers of abnormal patent applications, limited supervision of agencies, imperfect relevant working mechanisms, and outstanding abnormal patent applications. In order to further solve the pain points in work, establish and improve a long-term mechanism, promote the formation of joint efforts of up-and-down linkage and collaborative governance, eliminate abnormal patent application behavior that does not aim at protecting innovation, standardize the order of patent application, and effectively promote China’s transformation from a big country that introduces intellectual property rights to a big country that creates it, and from pursuing quantity to improving quality, relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

First, continue to improve and improve the information communication mechanism.China National Intellectual Property Administration regularly reports information about abnormal patent applications, withdrawals, complaint handling, the proportion of high-quality patent applications and abnormal patent applications, the proportion of authorization in the closing of invention patents and the proportion of invalidation after only paying the annual fee for the first year after authorization. The abnormal patent application problem is outstanding, depending on the circumstances in the China National Intellectual Property Administration municipal government website and related media public, to be informed. Support business environment innovation pilot cities to study and establish a linkage mechanism for rapid disposal of abnormal patent applications, smooth information exchange channels, and realize the first-time notification, first-time treatment and first-time feedback of abnormal patent applications. The provincial intellectual property management departments should regularly summarize the reported cases, clues of key issues, the handling of active verification and reporting clues, the formulation and adjustment of funding policies, etc., and submit them to China National Intellectual Property Administration in a timely manner. Local intellectual property management departments should take the initiative to inform the departments of science and technology, education and health about abnormal patent applications.

Second, strengthen the precise management of patent application behavior.Improve the efficient and accurate investigation mechanism for abnormal patent applications and promote the establishment of a precise management system for patent applications. The provincial intellectual property management departments clearly define the conditions, procedures and exit mechanism for inclusion in the list of precise management, strictly verify the R&D situation and innovation ability of relevant units and individuals, and submit them to China National Intellectual Property Administration for review and publicity. China National Intellectual Property Administration will reduce the frequency of abnormal patent applications for listed applicants. If the applicant on the list has an abnormal patent application, China National Intellectual Property Administration will remove it from the list, and the local intellectual property management departments will deal with it severely according to the law.

Third, improve the active verification and reporting mechanism.All local intellectual property management departments should continue to increase the active verification of abnormal patent applications. All intellectual property protection centers, fast rights protection centers and patent agencies should establish working mechanisms in patent acceptance, pre-trial and enterprise filing, and actively investigate abnormal patent application behaviors. Local intellectual property management departments should set up special lines, strengthen the role of special lines, and encourage the public to report abnormal patent application behavior, illegal index setting and funding incentive policies.

Fourth, strengthen hierarchical and classified governance.The local intellectual property management departments shall focus on the units and individuals that submit abnormal patent applications within their respective jurisdictions, such as project declaration, funding incentives, pre-trial services, priority review, etc., and carry out classified rectification according to different situations. If there is no objection to the applicants, they shall urge them to withdraw voluntarily; If there are objections to the applicant, guide the timely submission of complaint materials and follow up the handling of the complaint; For those who refuse to withdraw and submit the complaint materials and sufficient written evidence, the local intellectual property management departments shall strictly deal with them according to the circumstances, cancel the qualification of enjoying the relevant local preferential policies, cancel the qualification of declaring the national intellectual property demonstration and advantageous enterprises, the enterprises registered in the intellectual property protection center, and the qualification of declaring, participating in or winning the China Patent Award.

Five, strengthen the governance of key violations.All local intellectual property management departments should focus on the key clues of suspected violations of laws and regulations, such as an unusually large number of applications, fraudulent use of other people’s information, repeated applications for abnormal patents, profiteering and selling abnormal patent applications, and patent applications by "three noes" shell companies with no R&D investment, R&D personnel and no production and operation, continue to overcome difficulties, increase disposal efforts, dig deep into the root causes of the problems, and strengthen comprehensive rectification.

Sixth, strengthen departmental collaborative governance.It is necessary to cooperate with and support the departments of science and technology, education and industrial informatization to further improve and perfect the evaluation standards related to patent work, strengthen the evaluation of patent quality in the evaluation and identification of work management, effectively use the patent evaluation report, and highlight the quality orientation. It is necessary to cooperate with market supervision, science and technology, finance and other departments to gradually reduce all kinds of financial support for patent authorization by at least 25 percentage points every year until it is completely cancelled before 2025. The number of patent applications and authorizations shall not be directly regarded as the main conditions for enjoying the reward or qualification evaluation policy. Resolutely put an end to repeated funding, over-funding, zero-clearing incentives, disguised funding, and large-scale incentives. All local intellectual property management departments should cooperate with market supervision, public security, credit supervision and other departments to check the clues of key issues suspected of violating laws and regulations in the field of abnormal patent application and deal with them strictly according to law.

Seven, strengthen the credit supervision in the field of patent application.Promote the revision of relevant laws, regulations and rules such as the detailed rules for the implementation of the patent law, and provide a strong legal guarantee for effectively cracking down on abnormal application behavior and strengthening the credit supervision of intellectual property rights. We will implement the Measures for the Administration of the List of Serious Violations of Laws and Trustworthiness in Market Supervision and Management and relevant policy documents, and list the submission of abnormal patents and engaging in illegal patent agency acts as acts of dishonesty according to laws and regulations, and manage and publicize them.

Eight, strengthen the supervision of agency behavior.Deepen special rectification actions, and constantly increase the crackdown on the agency of abnormal patent applications and unqualified patent agents. Strengthen the sharing of regulatory information on abnormal patent application agency behavior between regions, and improve the efficiency of cross-regional supervision. Strengthen cooperation with relevant regulatory authorities, give full play to the advantages of comprehensive supervision, strengthen supervision over illegal activities such as engaging in abnormal patent application agency, and improve supervision efficiency. Strengthen the performance appraisal of local agency supervision work, compact local supervision responsibility, promote local supervision power allocation, and strengthen the guarantee of working conditions.

All local intellectual property management departments should further unify their thinking and understanding, strengthen their sense of responsibility, give full play to the vertical linkage between provinces and cities and the horizontal synergy of departments, establish a long-term governance mechanism, and promote the continuous and in-depth implementation of the work; It is necessary to actively publicize the progress and effectiveness of the work, interpret policies and measures, expose typical cases, popularize useful experiences, guide the public to consciously resist abnormal patent applications, and protect and use intellectual property rights legally, reasonably and fully.

I hereby inform you.

China National Intellectual Property Administration
January 24, 2022

Micro-observation of current politics: Feeling China’s economic vitality from the annual "report card"

  On January 17, 2023, China’s annual "report card" was announced — —

  The annual GDP exceeded 126 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.2%; The national urban survey unemployment rate decreased by 0.4 percentage points over the previous year; The per capita disposable income of the national residents actually increased by 6.1% year-on-year & hellip; … The main expected goals were successfully achieved.

  This "report card" is hard to come by.

  In 2023, the international environment is complex and severe, and the tasks of domestic reform, development and stability are arduous and arduous, and the complexity and challenge of economic work have not been seen for many years. On the one hand, the world economy continues to slump, the global industrial chain supply chain is profoundly adjusted, and the international circulation faces some difficulties and challenges; On the other hand, problems such as insufficient domestic effective demand, overcapacity in some industries, weak social expectations, and still many hidden risks need to be solved urgently.

  Facing the complicated and severe international environment and the arduous and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, China’s overall economic recovery has been solidly promoted to good and high-quality development, and solid steps have been taken to build a socialist modern country in an all-round way.

  Through this annual "report card", Current Affairs Micro-observation takes you to feel the pulse of China’s economic development.

  Economic structure — —

  Constantly optimize and actively promote transformation and upgrading.

  Recently, at the 2024 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, China’s global green and low-carbon transformation plan received wide attention. Previously, GAC Ai ‘an Intelligent Ecological Factory was selected as the "Global Lighthouse Network" of the World Economic Forum in Davos, becoming the only new energy vehicle lighthouse factory in the world.

  In recent years, Guangzhou Automobile Group has continuously promoted manufacturing intelligence. From factories to products, from parts to vehicles, from research and development to systems, the company is making every effort to lay out an "intelligent" industrial chain. The fully automatic production line supports the mixed production of customized products and spot products, and a customized new car can be rolled off the assembly line every 53 seconds.

  △ Assembly production line of Guangzhou Automobile Aian New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd.

  In April 2023, when General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited Guangzhou Automobile Research Institute, he pointed out: "The economy should develop continuously, and there should be no ups and downs. What is very important here is science and technology, education and talents. "

  Guided by scientific and technological innovation, China’s manufacturing industry has embarked on a new track of high-end, intelligent and green development.

  New energy vehicles also ran out of acceleration. In 2023, China’s automobile production and sales exceeded 30 million, ranking first in the world for 15 consecutive years; The production and sales volume of new energy vehicles ranked first in the world for nine consecutive years, and the export volume reached a new high. The export volume of electric manned vehicles increased by 67.1% year-on-year.

  Further promote the green and low-carbon transformation, China will also form a huge development increment in the fields of green infrastructure, green energy, green transportation and green life. According to estimates, the investment and consumption market will reach 10 trillion yuan every year, with great potential.

  △ On December 31, 2023, tourists visited Harbin Ice and Snow World Park.

  From the economic "report card" in 2023, we can also see that as the "main engine" to promote economic growth, China’s consumer market has recovered. The total retail sales of social consumer goods exceeded 47 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.2% over the previous year, a record high; The contribution rate of final consumption expenditure to economic growth reached 82.5%, an increase of 43.1 percentage points over the previous year.

  From Zibo BBQ "one is hard to find" to "southern potato" courageously breaking into Harbin, from long queues of catering stores to the fastest record of breaking 10 billion yuan at the movie box office … … With the full recovery of normal operation of economy and society, consumption has become the main driving force of economic growth again.

  △ On March 26th, 2023, the first "beautiful countryside" Basketball League Finals was held.

  The recovery of consumption benefited from the strong support of the super-large market with a population of more than 1.4 billion in China.

  The Central Economic Work Conference regards "focusing on expanding domestic demand" as one of the key economic tasks in 2024, and calls for stimulating potential consumption, expanding effective investment, and forming a virtuous circle in which consumption and investment promote each other.

  At present, there are many favorable conditions to support the sustained recovery of consumption. For example, the advantages of super-large-scale market are still obvious, and consumption hotspots such as recreational tourism and sports events are heating up. In addition, the integration of urban and rural development and the advancement of urbanization have provided broad space for consumption growth.

  People’s livelihood security — —

  Powerful and effective, and the overall employment price is stable.

  "Our goal is grand and simple. In the final analysis, it is to let the people live a better life." In his New Year message, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader said with deep affection, "The upbringing and education of children, the employment of young people and the medical care for the elderly are family affairs and state affairs. We should work together to do these things well."

  Through the 2023 economic "report card", we can feel the temperature and intensity of China’s economic development — —

  In 2023, the per capita disposable income of residents increased by 6.1% year-on-year, and the income of urban and rural residents increased steadily; We made every effort to stabilize the overall employment situation. In the first 11 months, 11.8 million new jobs were created in cities and towns across the country, an increase of 350,000 over the same period last year.

  △ On January 5, 2024, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Employment Assistance Month special service activity site.

  Employment is the foundation of people’s livelihood and concerns thousands of families. Since 2023, the funds directly supported by governments at all levels in China have exceeded 200 billion yuan, and the situation of gradual improvement in employment is more obvious.

  It is worth noting that the employment of migrant workers and other groups has been effectively guaranteed. In 2023, the total number of migrant workers reached 297.53 million, an increase of 1.91 million over the previous year, and the average unemployment rate of migrant agricultural registered population in cities and towns was 4.9%, a decrease of 0.7 percentage points over the previous year. From January to November, the number of unemployed people in cities and towns was 4.75 million, and the number of people with employment difficulties was 1.56 million.

  The person in charge of the National Bureau of Statistics said: "The overall judgment of this year’s employment situation is that the pressure still exists, and the structural contradictions of employment in some groups and some industries will still be more prominent. However, with the economic recovery, industrial transformation and upgrading are accelerating, and the positive factors of stable employment are also accumulating, and the employment situation in China is expected to remain stable. "

  Today’s China is more determined and capable than ever to continuously improve people’s well-being.

  △ Old people are enjoying lunch in the elderly canteen in Qingcheng Community, Gulou District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province.

  At noon, the elderly canteen in Qingcheng Community, Gulou District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province was bustling. Lunch with reasonable nutrition is steaming, and the old people can enjoy it only by spending 9.9 yuan.

  At present, there are more than 500 canteens for the elderly in Fuzhou, benefiting more than 600,000 elderly people. "A hot meal is a trivial matter of people’s livelihood, but it is a major event for many families. By innovating the system and reforming the supply, the problem of eating difficulties for the elderly will be solved, benefiting thousands of households. " Qingcheng community staff said.

  In Shanghai, the multi-level rental housing supply system of "one bed, one room and one suite" is enabling more "new Shanghainese" to realize their "dream of living in peace".

  … … … …

  Prices generally maintained a moderate rise, with investment in the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas and water increasing by 23%, and investment in agriculture by 9.3%, faster than all investment … … In 2023, China’s investment in people’s livelihood continued to increase, and people’s livelihood security was strong and effective.

  Global contribution — —

  Promoting stability and improving quality is the biggest engine of world economic growth.

  Vertically, in 2023, China’s economic growth exceeded 6 trillion yuan, equivalent to the annual economic aggregate of a medium-sized country; Per capita GDP reached 89,358 yuan, an increase of 5.4% over the previous year.

  Horizontal ratio, in 2023, China’s economic growth rate of 5.2% is higher than the estimated global growth rate of about 3%, and its contribution rate to world economic growth is expected to exceed 30%, which is still the biggest engine of world economic growth.

  Under the background of global trade shrinking by about 5% in 2023, China’s total import and export volume is basically the same year-on-year, with a slight increase in exports, accounting for more than 14% of the international market, and its position in the world economic cycle has been consolidated and enhanced.

  △ Guangxi Qinzhou Port Wharf

  In winter in Guangxi, the Beibu Gulf is blue and blue, and 10,000-ton ships shuttle back and forth.

  In 2023, the direct flights between Beibu Gulf Port, Malaysian Guan Dan Port and Brunei Mora Port were opened one after another, and the "Two Bay Express" jointly built with Guangzhou Port realized domestic and foreign trade transportation on the same ship.

  In December last year, when General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited Guangxi, he emphasized that "to play this game of high-quality development in Guangxi, the chess eye is on expanding opening up." "Deepen and expand cooperation with ASEAN countries in various fields, actively serve to build a China-ASEAN community of destiny, and take the initiative to accelerate development."

  China has always insisted on common development and sharing new opportunities with other countries in the world.

  As a major trading partner of more than 140 countries and regions, China’s total tariff level has dropped to 7.3%, which is close to that of developed WTO members. In the past five years, the rate of return of foreign direct investment in China is about 9%, which is at a high level in the world. China market has become a big market shared by the world.

  △ China International Fair for Trade in Services site in 2023

  Under the background of weak global economic growth, China’s domestic demand is stable, inflation remains low, the added value of manufacturing industry ranks first in the world for 14 consecutive years, and the scale of import and export is growing against the trend, which is the stabilizer of the global economy.

  Looking ahead, the basic trend of China’s economic recovery to be good and long-term good has not changed.

  Give full play to its unique advantages, strengthen its confidence, and constantly promote Chinese modernization with high-quality development, and China’s economic ship will surely be able to break the waves and make steady progress.

  Producer: Geng Zhimin

  Producer Xing Lai

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Looking at Haier from China International Import Expo(CIIE): From Single Product to Full Scene Ecological Solution

  Magnetic proton therapeutic instrument, the first domestic ultra-high-speed centrifuge, the panoramic ecosystem for the use of hazardous chemicals, and the first global aviation temperature control industry ecological platform … At the 5th China International Import Expo (referred to as "China International Import Expo(CIIE)"), Yingkang, a big health ecological brand of Haier’s Internet of Things, made its debut with a number of cutting-edge scientific and technological innovations.

  From the single display of scientific and technological innovation products to the self-developed innovation achievements reaching the international leading level, to the whole scene of ecological solutions landing and going to overseas markets, looking back on the three years of participating in China International Import Expo(CIIE), Gong Wenwen, the chief strategy officer of Yingkang Life, lamented the tremendous changes it brought. "China International Import Expo(CIIE) has built a bridge for global trade opening and circulation, bringing a global vision to China enterprises, not only displaying innovation achievements, but also building a platform for China enterprises to explore overseas markets and accelerating business integration and technological innovation."

  From "0" to "1" to "n" Haier independently researched and developed to open up a new situation of industrial development.

  In recent years, with the implementation of relevant policies and industrial planning, the medical device industry has continuously made new innovations, and medical device manufacturers have paid more and more attention to independent research and development and innovation to pry open a new situation of industrial development. Yingkang, a subsidiary of Haier, is a leader in this period.

  The key to medical innovation lies in scientific and technological innovation. Scientific and technological innovation is the foundation of enterprise’s survival and the source of development. Only through continuous innovation and finding more new opportunities and new directions can we achieve sustainable and high-quality development.

  The "Xiangyun" ultra-high-speed centrifuge, which is being exhibited for the first time in the world at the 5th China International Import Expo(CIIE), is one of the scientific and technological innovations independently developed by Haier Biomedical under Yingkang Lifetime. This is also the first time that China has broken through the technical bottleneck of ultra-high-speed centrifuges and has completely independent intellectual property rights.

  As an essential instrument for the scene of sample separation in the laboratory, centrifuges are mainly used for the separation and purification of biological macromolecules, organelles and viruses, and the determination of relative molecular weight, etc. The greater the rotating speed, the finer the sample separation. The "Xiangyun" ultra-high-speed centrifuge independently developed by Haier Biomedical has a rotating speed of 50000rpm and a maximum centrifugal force of 135557xg, which can separate specific membrane proteins of tumor cells, identify tumor cells, provide a basis for the research and development of tumor-targeted drugs, and provide equipment support for the research and development of cutting-edge technologies in life sciences, medical innovation and other fields.

  In the planning perspective of Yingkang’s life, scientific and technological innovation is not limited to the breakthrough in a single direction, but runs through the whole process of the medical and health industry chain.

  Breakthrough begins with every obstacle on the road to localization. In the field of bio-safety, as an important part of the medical and health industrial chain, aviation temperature control is regarded as an international "life transport line". But for a long time, in the field of aviation temperature control logistics, China enterprises have always lacked industry "breakers".

  Meng Zhigang, general manager of the aviation temperature control industry of Haier Biomedical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Yingkang Lifetime, introduced that Haier Biomedical has surmounted the three mountains of technical barriers, no standard to follow and supply blockade in the absence of domestic experience, and overcome the technical problems of active aviation temperature control technology in terms of temperature uniformity, battery life and energy consumption, realizing accurate and uniform control of the internal temperature of the box and fully automatic real-time recording, and innovating the first active aviation temperature control container in the industry.

  "Compared with similar foreign products, Haier Biomedical’s self-developed active aviation temperature-controlled container not only prolongs the battery life by nearly 50%, but also makes it more convenient for users to use; It has also reduced power consumption by 20%, which is more green and energy-saving. " According to the person in charge, it took Haier Biomedical only one year to complete the research, development and listing of the first product, and pushed the high-end aviation temperature control scheme in China to the world. "This is all due to Haier’s complete scientific and technological innovation system."

  "10+N" open innovation ecosystem promotes the rapid transformation of innovation achievements

  "Two-way integration" between industrial chain and innovation chain is the necessary way to realize the commercial value of scientific and technological innovation and the high added value of industrial chain. This is not only an important starting point to promote the conversion of old and new kinetic energy, but also a necessary way to achieve high-quality growth.

  At present, Yingkang has formed a development model of "technological independent innovation+scene fusion innovation" all his life, which is based on tackling core technologies and driven by user needs, accelerating the iteration from technology to patent to standard, and promoting the breakthrough and innovation from "0" to "1" in the industrial field.

  Take ——INFINI head gamma knife, a radiotherapy "sharp blade" independently developed and produced by Yingkang for example, its radiotherapy accuracy has reached nearly three times of the international standard, and it has successively obtained several authoritative certifications such as CFDA certification in China, FDA certification in the United States and SS&D certification. While ranking first in installed capacity in China, Yingkang is also the only China brand that exports gamma knives to developed countries and "Belt and Road" countries. In July of this year, this scientific and technological achievement also ushered in a rapid transformation. Yingkang Yisheng Medical Device Digital Wisdom Ecological Park officially signed a contract with Qingdao High-tech Zone, planning to integrate a large-scale medical equipment production base, a high-end medical equipment research institute and a shared laboratory, and at the same time build a CDMO medical device industry ecology.

  According to statistics, in the past 10 years, Haier has created more than 170 original scientific and technological innovations that have a significant impact on the industry, and all the innovations have been quickly transformed into the industrial chain.

  "Where is the user, where is the research and development." In Haier’s view, each R&D center is not a walled garden, but should build a local innovation ecosystem and cooperate with the global R&D platform. Taking R&D center and innovation center as nodes, Haier has connected various innovation platforms, forming a global contact network, which can link more than 1 million first-class technical resources. This is the idea clarified by Haier’s "10+N" open innovation ecosystem.

  Haier’s "10+N" open innovation ecosystem, that is, in the top 10 R&D centers around the world, N innovation centers, innovation networks and an expert community of innovation partners with more than 10,000 people are connected in parallel at any time according to users’ pain points, with a total of 71 research institutes, 259 design centers and more than 1,000 laboratories, which can be said to condense global resources to promote uninterrupted innovation.

  With the blessing of policies and the acceleration of independent innovation of domestic equipment, Yingkang will continue to be user-centered and market-oriented, increase investment in research and development of medical devices, accelerate the development of deep integration of Industry-University-Research, and look forward to working together with first-class partners at home and abroad to continuously open up new tracks for economic development and promote the high-quality development of the medical device industry.

  From cross-border "going out to sea" to global layout, scientific and technological innovation accelerates the globalization of national brands

  With the development of independent innovation with China characteristics, more and more national brand enterprises have gone from cross-border "going out to sea" to seeking global distribution.

  "Take root in China and look at the world." Gong Wenwen said that Yingkang has been deeply involved in the three major industries of biotechnology, medical devices and medical services all his life. The industrial chains of two listed companies, Haier Bio and Yingkang Life, have been aggregated and coordinated, and the global layout is also advancing.

  For example, Yingkang Life has realized the independent export of large-scale radiotherapy equipment. As mentioned above, the head gamma knife has first landed in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia with its unique technical advantages and excellent clinical effects. Haier Bio is actively promoting the overseas replication of the scenario model and further promoting the layout of "network+localization". At present, there are more than 700 overseas distribution networks, and the localization response ability has been continuously improved in Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other regions, and the multi-category comprehensive scheme including ultra-low temperature storage products has been continuously upgraded to cover liquid nitrogen, biosafety, biological culture and other series, which has been applied in more than 130 countries and regions around the world.

  It is understood that at the beginning of 2022, Haier Group established a Science and Technology Committee, which will implement core scientific and technological research in five common key technical directions: green double carbon, security privacy and compliance, chips and operating systems in professional fields, AIoT/ perception and interaction, and data productivity, and break through core technical problems in industries such as smart brain, smart home operating system, industrial intelligent BaaS engine, and sophisticated radiotherapy system. Support the high-quality development of business with original, independent and controllable differentiated technologies, products and scenarios, improve and upgrade the "four-level" R&D system, and promote the continuous iteration of technological innovation, global coordination of innovation capabilities and continuous upgrading of innovation systems.

  Incorporating into the global layout under Haier’s scientific and technological innovation, Yingkang Lifelong said that it will increase international exchanges and cooperation, explore new modes of cooperating with Industry-University-Research at home and abroad, build a global smart supply chain system, continuously improve the international and efficient market service level, create value together with partners with an open attitude, and inject new momentum into the development of the big health industry.

  (Source: New Vision)

Jiang Wen Donnie Yen filmed Star Wars for children.

  Chinese has finally appeared in the Star Wars series, and this time it’s not one, it’s not "playing soy sauce". Jiang Wen and Donnie Yen, as the most appealing stars in China at present, also appear in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which will be released on January 6th next year. Yesterday, the film held its premiere in the Water Cube. Talking about the reasons for taking the film, the two stars also said that they took the film at the request and encouragement of their children, and they were "cool dads" in their children’s hearts.

  Jiang Wen found the feeling of filming at school.

  "Grand Theft Auto I" is the first independent story in the Star Wars series. The story happened before the later Jedi knights appeared. A group of warriors gathered together and planned to steal the design of the imperial weapons of mass destruction "Death Star". The film is directed by gareth edwards, the director of Godzilla. Felicity jones, diego luna, Jiang Wen, Donnie Yen, mads mikkelsen, etc.

  Jiang Wen plays weapons expert Bates Mabus in the film. He has long hair and carries a heavy submachine gun. In the film, he didn’t believe in the "Force" at first, but only believed in the weapons in his hand. A reporter commented that Jiang Wen’s role was "the cosmic version of Zhang Mazi", and Zhang Mazi was Jiang Wen’s role in Let the Bullets Fly. "I think he’s right. I don’t object." Jiang Wen answered with a smile.

  Talking about the filming process, Jiang Wen said that he was very happy, and the biggest feeling was that he found the feeling of "no distractions" when filming in Chinese opera school. However, when Mr. Jiang was stood up on the set, he once went to the scene to shoot at 4 am, and the filming didn’t start until 4 pm.

  Jiang Wen’s greatest sense of accomplishment comes from his children. His son has been asking to attend the premiere. "I suddenly became cool in the hearts of children." Regarding the role played by Jiang Wen, diego luna, the leading actor, said that Bates, played by Jiang Wen, was a warm man and middle-aged uncle. "I really want to hug him."

  Because Jiang Wen is busy filming his new film "Xia Yin", yesterday’s premiere was the only publicity activity he participated in recently. "People always say that I am a villain, but I really have something to do." When Donnie Yen said "welcome" to the foreign star, Jiang Wen interrupted: "(Beijing) is not your home, it is our home." He revealed that it was the winter solstice, and after the premiere, the actors would be invited to eat jiaozi together.

  Donnie Yen designed the role of the blind for himself.

  "I have played so many plays, and only this time the child strongly asked me to take him to the premiere." Donnie Yen said that, with the encouragement of her children, she also served as the piano accompaniment of the China version of the promotion song "The Faith of Decisiveness" sung by Jam Hsiao. Donnie Yen plays a blind monk, Qilu Yingwei, who is skilled in martial arts. Donnie Yen revealed that the original design of this role was not blind, but after communicating with the director, he thought that this character would be "more interesting" if it had physical defects. This is also the first time that he plays a blind person. He has to wear contact lenses during the filming. After wearing them, he finds that he is "more painful than expected". He has to take them off every three hours and rest for 20 minutes. The glasses also affect his visual communication with other actors. "I can’t see clearly, which affects eye contact and can’t find a reaction point. I underestimated the difficulty of playing a blind person."

  Director Edwards said that "Grand Theft Auto 1" is a brand-new independent story, and it will be a great success if the audience comes home after watching it and is interested in watching the Star Wars series again.

  Edwards wants Grand Theft Auto 1 to have a rough sense of reality in style, just like his directorial debut Monster. "I want this film to look more natural, realistic and vivid, just like a real world."

  Our reporter Wang Jinyue Photography Ji Chen

Health = health+heart.

  If you want to ask what is the most popular thing at the moment, many people may answer without thinking: "keeping in good health." You see, you can see the figure of health-preserving people every day in the streets, alleys and parks and squares; Almost all newspapers and periodicals have health-preserving columns, and TV broadcasts have health-preserving lectures every day.

  That’s not surprising. With the development of economy and rich material resources, people naturally want to live a long and healthy life and improve their quality of life. So, what is the real health?

  "Health preservation refers to all physical and mental care activities carried out according to the law of human life process". Obviously, body-building is the foundation and mind-building is the guidance, and the two complement each other. Furthermore, health care not only refers to physical and medical health care, but also psychological and spiritual health care. Nourishing the heart is a higher level of health preservation, the soul of a healthy body and the essence of health preservation. At all times and in all countries, those who maintain health and live a long life are all related to their emphasis on nourishing the heart.

  The problem now is: although health care is hot, it is mostly about health care and ignores heart care. Some people rely too much on the original way of keeping in good health. When they talk about keeping in good health, they eat health products, go to the gym or listen to health lectures … Although they have taken a lot of medicine and spent a lot of money, the effect of keeping in good health is not satisfactory, happiness and happiness have not increased, and chronic and rich diseases have not decreased.

  Where do you start to raise your heart?

  One said "thick virtue". "Be virtuous and carry things". Only "great virtue … will lead to its longevity". Therefore, we must rely on the word "Germany" to make "Germany" really play the role of commander in chief. The second is "Yuan Zhi". Aim high. "Make a heart for heaven and earth, make a life for the people, carry forward the past and learn from the past, and make peace for the world." Third, it is "philosophical". A visionary is also open-minded. In normal times, don’t be embarrassed or humiliated, and have no intention of staying or staying. In times of crisis, "Mount Tai collapses in front and its color remains the same, while the elk thrives on the left without blinking."

  Ancient sages also had a lot of health care experience. Taoism stresses "harmony between man and nature" and advocates "three trips": going to the extreme, going to luxury and going to Thailand. What to do, that is, don’t pursue excessive things that should not belong to you. To be extravagant means not to pursue a luxurious and wasteful life. Go to Thailand, that is, don’t enjoy an excessively comfortable life. In Huangdi Neijing, it is said that "diet is moderate, daily life is regular, and work is orderly". Zhuangzi’s "Happy Travel", "Health Master" and Confucian health-keeping thoughts all contain many elements of nourishing the heart. We can get a lot of inspiration from these beneficial things.

  In 1917, that is, nearly a hundred years ago, Mao Zedong, a young man, advocated "civilizing his spirit and barbarizing his physique" in the article "Research on Sports". So, can today’s physical and mental health care be regarded as a continuation of this initiative? The answer is, of course, yes. (Mu Zi)

Export to domestic sales will help to form new trade advantages.

At present, many countries are struggling to find a "balance" between epidemic prevention and control and restarting the economy. The impact of the epidemic on the demand side has caused the global international trade to shrink and the downward trend to intensify. In the second quarter of this year, the global goods trade prosperity index released by the World Trade Organization (WTO) continued to fall to 87.6, a new low since the index was launched. Recently, the WTO predicts that global trade will shrink by 13% to 32% this year.

Faced with the sharp drop in orders from the international market, the backlog of domestic stocks, insufficient start-up and possible capital chain breakage, one of the important measures for foreign trade enterprises in China to hedge this situation is to sell their exports to domestic markets. From the proposal of "effective integration of domestic and foreign trade" to "coordinating the development of domestic and foreign trade", to "deploying and supporting marketable export commodities to open up the domestic market", and then to the launch of "Implementation Opinions on Supporting Export Products to Domestic Sales" by the General Office of the State Council, the China Municipal Government has formed a brand-new road map to support export products to domestic sales.

Export to domestic sales has a trade diversion effect. The transfer of high-quality export products to domestic market has changed the traditional trade flow, but it has not formed a substitute relationship with the existing domestic market. The reason why it can produce the effect of trade diversion is that China has a huge domestic market, a large population and huge consumption potential, and the growing domestic demand for high-quality and high-level products shows a steady growth trend. In this context, the trade diversion effect caused by the transfer of high-quality export products to domestic sales can just fill the gap that domestic products can not fully meet domestic consumption demand in the past. While meeting the domestic consumption demand, the design and manufacturing level of existing products in China will be promoted by trade transfer, thus forming a virtuous circle of product upgrading and stimulating domestic consumption demand.

Export to domestic sales forms a trade creation effect. The transfer of high-quality export products to domestic market can bring structural changes to the original domestic production of products with low production efficiency and high cost, which is only part of the embodiment of trade creation effect. The most important thing is that foreign trade enterprises try to solve the problems of expanding sales channels, turning production lines, brand building and so on in the process of converting exports to domestic sales, and realize the reform of design, production and sales models, which is actually the reconstruction and reshaping of the lifeline of enterprises. According to the "Implementation Opinions on Supporting Export Products to Domestic Sales", the government has launched many targeted measures to promote the development of "the same line, the same standard and the same homogeneity", strengthen credit insurance and financial support, and improve the convenience level of domestic sales, which will further promote the market-oriented flow and allocation of production factors such as raw materials, technology, services, capital and personnel, thus helping various enterprises to enhance their innovation and development capabilities, and promoting the pace of optimizing industrial structure with trade creation effect.

Export to domestic market releases trade promotion effect. China’s new round of consumption upgrading has just begun, and there is huge consumption space worth exploring. The transfer of high-quality export products to domestic market will help to further enrich the market supply, increase consumers’ choices, especially promote the consumption of ordinary households and rural areas by sinking the market, accurately meet new consumer demand, promote consumption upgrading, and further enhance the efficiency and benefit of economic development. In particular, the segmented consumption in different fields and at different levels actually provides a huge market space for all kinds of products, including products that are exported to domestic market, and the satisfaction and upgrading of this kind of consumption in turn promotes enterprises to actively produce specialized (industry) fine (product) tip (end) special (color) products, promotes high-end market consumption, and truly upgrades trade and consumption.

Under the epidemic situation, promoting the export products of foreign trade enterprises to be sold domestically, effectively connecting domestic and international standards, and opening up the double circulation of domestic and foreign markets can not only open up new development space for foreign trade enterprises, but also help to improve the domestic business environment and fully release China’s super-large market size advantage and domestic demand potential. While the export products are sold domestically as "Made in China", focusing on global resources and markets, and making better use of domestic and international technologies, talents and management, the new path of steady transformation from OEM to R&D, from imitation to innovation, and from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing" will also become a "stabilizer" to promote the effective penetration of domestic and foreign trade and smooth the supply chain of the global industrial chain, thus enhancing China’s new advantages in international foreign trade competition.

Bet Rapidus Japan 2nm chip manufacturing trial production

Only three companies in the world can perform mass production of the most advanced computer chips with incredible accuracy. Last month, a Japanese startup took the first step to become the fourth. On April 1st, a key milestone was achieved. Based on IBM’s nanosheet transistor structure, it started and tested the test line of its 2-nanometer node chip using the formula developed in cooperation with IBM. Tell IEEE Spectrum that its new wafer factory in Chitose has installed more than 200 cutting-edge equipment, including Keystone components, a state-of-the-art extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography system worth more than 300 million dollars, and is now ready to put into operation.

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"We broke ground in September 2023," said Henri Richard, president of Design Solutions, which was founded in Santa Clara, Silicon Valley last April to supervise the business development in the United States. "Therefore, at the beginning of the second quarter of 2025, we have made the first exposure to the EUV lithography system, and now we are ready to start trial production, which is really amazing."

As for when Rapidus will ship the first batch of test chips, Atsuyoshi Koike, CEO of Rapidus, told the Japan Times in April, "The prototype chip may be produced in July. Although in a company statement, it clarified the media reports on negotiations with customers, the company said that it was "discussing with many potential customers, from large mature enterprises to AI startups".

5 trillion yen: capital Rapidus predicts the need for mass production.

Founded in August 2020, Rapidus is supported by a consortium of eight domestic companies: Denso, Armored Man, MUFJ Bank, NEC, NTT, Softbank, Sony and Toyota. But it turns out that the support of the central government is more important, which is part of the efforts to revitalize the country’s advanced semiconductor industry. Japan’s support stems from national security concerns, because the country relies on overseas suppliers who may be vulnerable to provide cutting-edge chips. For the same reason, the United States has also taken action to reduce its dependence. So far, the total amount of government subsidies is 1.72 trillion yen ($12 billion). However, the equity investment of the eight founders is still only 7.3 billion yen (US$ 51 million), which raises concerns about the future of Rapidus. The new foundry estimates that it needs about 5 trillion yen ($35 billion) to achieve its mass production goal.

However, the situation of Rapidus is no different from that of Taiwan Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC), which was established in the 1990s. Atsushi Osanai, a professor at Waseda University’s Graduate School of Business and Finance, pointed out that at that time, like Japan, the Taiwan Province government supported the startup, while the private company was "not enthusiastic at first". "Similarly, Japanese private companies have a wait-and-see attitude towards Rapidus. The key factor will be whether the government provides sufficient support for Rapidus [to stimulate] the private sector.

Rapidus and TSMC

Despite the rapid start of Rapidus, its delivery date of 2 nm in 2027 may be two years behind TSMC, Intel and Samsung, the three leading silicon producers in the industry. It is reported that these three companies may start mass production of 2 nm chips in the second half of this year.

In order to catch up and compete, Rapidus is adopting a different method from the large-scale silicon wafer production mode favored by the three major manufacturers. The business model, represented by TSMC, focuses on processing large quantities of wafers with GPU and CPU, with high yield, and relies on rigid processing methods that are only gradually improved. In contrast, Rapidus will use a single wafer process to produce application-specific chips, produce customized chips for niche markets, and only produce large quantities of orders in the future.

As the name implies, the single wafer method processes each wafer individually, rather than in batches. Although many wafers can pass through the production line at the same time, each wafer is handled separately at each stage of the process. Rapidus will also apply a newly developed scheme called Design and Manufacturing Collaborative Optimization (DMCO). The company claims that this will promote design by linking design with manufacturing, which will also help offset the reduced throughput due to the elimination of batch processing. By using AI to optimize production parameters, DMCO aims to improve design speed and yield. This requires sensors to be widely used in the equipment to measure parameters such as temperature, gas density and reaction rate, so as to obtain a large number of production data for AI analysis.

"This will enable us to measure the processing process of a single wafer, learn from the results and feed the data back to the system quickly," Richard explained. "In order to increase the output, the parameters must be constantly adjusted, and these changes depend on the data learned during the processing."

In addition, he added, the wafer factory is using "a revolutionary grid transportation system, which enables us to move the wafer to any position during the processing, thus avoiding the traffic jam when the machine stops or problems occur in the standard wafer factory with linear transportation system."

Tadahiro Kuroda, an engineering professor at the University of Tokyo, said: "The idea of obtaining a large amount of data from the manufacturing process and feeding it back [to the system] to increase production more quickly will shorten the time to market." Tadahiro Kuroda, an engineering professor at the University of Tokyo, said that he worked in Toshiba’s semiconductor department for 18 years and then entered academia. "This is an ideal scene for semiconductor manufacturing, which is very meaningful."

However, because a large number of new technologies depend on a large number of new technologies, Rapidus may encounter initial problems, which may extend the time required to deliver products to customers in batches. At the same time, competitors did not wait for it to catch up. In April, TSMC launched its next-generation A14 process (equivalent to 1.4 nm node chip), and plans to "put into production in 2028".

"Technically, the success of Rapidus depends on whether the semiconductor prototype developed for mass production in 2027 goes smoothly," Osanai said. "Achieving mass production in two years represents a key condition for the company’s success."

Other experts are more optimistic. In view of the expected huge growth of AI applications and emerging AI data centers, and the consequent leap in power consumption, "there will be a great demand for 2-nanometer chips," Kuroda said, because these semiconductors are expected to reduce power consumption by more than 30% compared with today’s leading silicon. "Therefore, the demand for artificial intelligence-related semiconductors is expected to exceed the production capacity of current foundries."

If the latter viewpoint is successful, and Rapidus can achieve its mass production goal on time, then the government-supported effort to regain Japan’s status as an advanced power may become a successful bet, not a rash gamble.