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Is Qualcomm Huawei’s only choice because of the urgent need for chips?

Without Kirin’s high-end chips, the only choice for Huawei’s flagship to maintain the competitiveness of high-end products in the Android camp is Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series flagship chips.

Even under the current gloom, Qualcomm and Huawei, the two leading enterprises in the communication industry between China and the United States, still have a balance point of competition and cooperation.

Kirin chip is about to stop production

Cooking without rice, sighing. Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei Terminal, admitted a few days ago that due to the second round of sanctions imposed by the US government, Huawei chips will stop production after September 15th. Mate 40, Huawei’s upcoming flagship product, will be equipped with Kirin 9000 chip (originally named as 1020) with 5nm technology, but it is also the last generation of chips that TSMC OEM for Huawei, unless the US government lifts the sanctions against Huawei.

Although Kirin chip itself has made many technological breakthroughs, in the field of chip manufacturing, the process of domestic chip manufacturers in China still lags behind the mainstream of the industry, which can not meet the demand of high-end Kirin chips developed by Huawei based on 5nm process. Last year, the first wave of sanctions in the United States did not affect TSMC, the foundry of Huawei’s Kirin chip. However, the second wave of sanctions in May this year finally forced TSMC to "cut off supply" to Huawei, which also made Kirin 9000 a swan song without a manufacturing factory.

Previously, Google was forced to stop providing Google services for Huawei’s mobile phones, which has caused Huawei’s new products to suffer a heavy blow in overseas markets (the models before sanctions can continue to be sold); This time, TSMC has no choice but to cut off the supply, which makes the future of Huawei’s flagship suffer a drastic cut, including the production capacity of Mate 40. This is undoubtedly a huge blow to Huawei, which just topped the global smartphone shipment list in the second quarter of this year.

However, the US government’s second round of sanctions against Huawei was issued on May 15th, giving Huawei a four-month buffer time, which came into effect on September 15th. In other words, TSMC will no longer accept new orders from Huawei after May 15th, and will no longer supply Huawei after September 15th. During these four months, Huawei has already made preparations, and the patent licensing agreement with Qualcomm is one of the key steps.

Finally reached an authorization agreement.

On July 30th, when Qualcomm released its financial report, it announced that it had reached a multi-year patent licensing agreement with Huawei, so Qualcomm will count $1.8 billion in patent licensing revenue in the fourth fiscal quarter. It should be emphasized that this fee is the licensing fee accumulated by Huawei since 2017, covering 3G and 4G LTE patents, not the future licensing fee for both parties. Boosted by this news, Qualcomm’s share price rose sharply from less than $93 on July 29th to $108 at present, and its market value also reached a new high.

In January 2017, after Apple filed a patent lawsuit against Qualcomm, it suspended the payment of patent licensing fees to Qualcomm. Qualcomm subsequently sued Apple iPhone for patent infringement, and successfully applied to ban the sale of some models of iPhone in Germany and China. In April of that year, Huawei also postponed the patent licensing fee for Qualcomm, but the relationship between the two parties was not as tense as that between Apple and Qualcomm. The two companies reached an interim agreement, and Huawei still paid part of the patent fees to Qualcomm regularly (paying $150 million every quarter) during the negotiation between the two parties.

In April last year, Apple and Qualcomm reached a settlement and multi-year patent licensing agreement, and paid a total of $4.7 billion in patent fees that were overdue for more than two years. In addition, Apple will purchase 5G baseband chips from Qualcomm for the iPhone 12 series released this year. Now Qualcomm has reached patent licensing agreements with all major OEMs, and Huawei is actually the last one to reach an agreement. A patent agreement with Huawei may bring as much significance to Qualcomm as a licensing agreement with Apple.

In addition to receiving $1.8 billion in patent fees payable, Qualcomm has completed the patent licensing agreement with major manufacturers in the whole smart phone industry. From 3G to 4LTE, and then into the 5G era, Qualcomm has always firmly occupied the leading position in the development of the smart phone industry by virtue of its basic invention advantages. In the field of communication technology, patent strength is not simply measured by quantity, but by quality. Although the absolute number of patents in the field of 5G in Qualcomm is not one of the best, most of them are core patents with higher quality and value.

Why pay Qualcomm?

This licensing agreement is also of great significance to Huawei. On the issue of patents, the two mobile communication giants actually have the same consensus: only by respecting intellectual property rights and paying for patents can we have enough revenue to ensure technological innovation, promote the development of the communication industry and form a virtuous circle. Both companies have invested 15%-20% of their annual revenue in technological innovation, and only in exchange for tens of thousands of communication technology patents have they become the two major innovators leading the 5G communication industry.

As an industry leader in the field of carrier equipment, Huawei also has a strong patent pool for communication technology and has reached extensive cross-licensing agreements with major telecom operators around the world. Huawei also has a large number of patents to seek authorized revenue, and its intellectual property rights need to be respected by its partners. Since 2015, Huawei has accumulated nearly $1.5 billion in patent licensing revenue. Earlier this year, Huawei also filed a patent lawsuit against Verizon, the largest mobile operator in the United States, demanding that the latter pay a patent licensing fee of up to $1 billion.

Huawei has spanned both telecom operators and consumer terminals, while Qualcomm is not involved in the manufacturing of terminals and basic equipment. This is the fundamental reason why Huawei must pay the patent licensing fee to Qualcomm. However, considering that both Huawei and Qualcomm have a large number of patents that need cross-licensing, perhaps Huawei is the most powerful manufacturer in the smart phone industry. However, as the largest manufacturer in the smart phone industry, the patent licensing fee paid by Huawei to Qualcomm with an annual shipment of more than 200 million units will not be a small number.

In the past three years, Huawei has been the fastest growing manufacturer in the smart phone industry, surpassing Apple and Samsung, and finally topped the industry in the second quarter of this year. Although it was banned by the US government last year, which slowed down the growth of Huawei’s mobile phones, it did not stop the rise of Huawei’s mobile phones. According to Yu Chengdong, the US ban last year caused Huawei to ship 60 million mobile phones less. In the first half of this year, Huawei’s consumer business realized revenue of 255.8 billion yuan and mobile phone shipments of 105 million units.

Huawei’s flagship is short of chips.

However, the chip is the "Achilles heel" of Huawei’s mobile phone. Huawei cannot cover every aspect of the chip industry. After TSMC was unable to OEM Kirin high-end chips for Huawei due to the ban, Huawei urgently needs to find a new chip supply for its flagship mobile phone to fill the supply chain gap of its high-end product line. And they only have three choices: Samsung, MediaTek and Qualcomm.

MediaTek was originally a supplier of Huawei chips. Earlier this month, the media reported that Huawei and MediaTek signed a cooperation intention and purchase order, and will purchase 120 million chips from MediaTek. However, a large number of MediaTek chips can be used in the low-end market, but there is no guarantee that Huawei’s flagship will continue to ensure its hard-won competitiveness in the high-end market.

It is also unlikely that Samsung will supply Orion to Huawei’s flagship. On the one hand, Samsung does not have a history of supplying Orion chips to the outside world on a large scale, nor does it have the corresponding customer support capabilities. Because the supply of chips is not only a simple sales volume, but also requires extensive technical cooperation and support. On the other hand, Huawei is Samsung’s main competitor at present. In the Android flagship market, Huawei’s two flagship P series and Mate series are almost in direct competition with Samsung’s S series and Note series. It is no exaggeration to say that supplying Huawei is a direct blow to the sales of its flagship products. Previously, Samsung, which also has the OEM capability of 5nm chips, also refused to OEM Kirin chips for Huawei.

As far as the current reality is concerned, without Kirin’s high-end chip, the only choice for Huawei’s flagship to maintain the competitiveness of high-end products in the Android camp is Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series flagship chip, which is also the general processor of all high-end flagships in the Android camp. Although some unique functions of Kirin chip can no longer be realized, at least Huawei can stand on a competitive platform with other Android manufacturers and form a differentiated advantage through its own research and development accumulation. Crucially, Qualcomm doesn’t set foot in the terminal business himself, and has always maintained close cooperation with mainstream mobile phone manufacturers in China such as Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo, and is also a long-term chip supplier of Huawei. The business model determines that Qualcomm is happy to see Huawei’s flagship continue to maintain strong sales with the support of Snapdragon’s 8 series chips.

Qualcomm openly opposes the ban.

As early as the end of May this year, John Vinh, an analyst at KeyBanc Capital in the United States, predicted that Huawei would soon reach a patent licensing agreement with Qualcomm, and would also purchase Snapdragon 8 series chips from Qualcomm to make up for the supply difficulties of its Hisilicon chips due to the limited supply chain. According to mainstream media reports in the United States, Qualcomm has been lobbying the US government for the past few months, hoping to obtain an export license from the BIS of the US Department of Commerce to supply Snapdragon mobile chips to Huawei’s 5G mobile phones.

For Qualcomm, they do not compete with Huawei in the field of terminal hardware; If we can supply Huawei with Snapdragon flagship chips, it will not only win each other, but also benefit the development of the whole industry. As for Huawei, if it can get Snapdragon’s flagship chip, it can ensure that it will continue to maintain its competitiveness in the high-end field of smart phones even if Kirin stops production, and save its own strength, waiting for the improvement of domestic chip manufacturing technology in the future.

This is not the first time that Qualcomm has called on the US government to release Huawei. Although it has its own Kirin chip, Huawei has been sourcing Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm for smartphone products in the mid-market. After the US Department of Commerce listed Huawei in the entity list last year, Qualcomm CEO Molenkov made it very clear that he hoped to continue cooperation with China partners no matter how the situation changed. Qualcomm will continue to focus on the development of 5G and will not be affected by government policies. In addition, Qualcomm, together with Silicon Valley giants such as Google and Intel, lobbied the US government to relax the ban and continue to supply chips to Huawei.

In September last year, in a speech to China media, including Sina Technology, Morenkov said that Qualcomm has been trying to supply Huawei, despite the regulatory problems faced by the US government. At that time, Morenkov said, "Every American company will be restricted by trade supervision to a certain extent, but in fact, Qualcomm has restarted its supply to Huawei and has been trying to ensure continuous supply in the future."

Despite the recent deterioration of the political environment, Qualcomm’s management has been speaking out against the current, calling for attention to the common interests between the two countries, and stressing that the two countries have opportunities to achieve win-win growth through cooperation in many fields. Qualcomm President An Meng said last month that Qualcomm has cooperated with China’s mobile communication industry for more than 25 years, which is a stable force in the technology industry, while China is leading the development of the world’s 5G industry.

Balance of interests in competition and cooperation

The U.S. government banned Huawei mainly because of political factors. They were worried that Huawei’s rising position in the communications industry would bring "national security risks" to the United States. Their purpose is to limit Huawei’s business to China as much as possible, which is also the main reason why the United States is trying to dissuade Britain, Australia, Japan, France, Italy and other allied countries from adopting Huawei’s 5G equipment. On the contrary, major American technology companies have always opposed the government’s ban on Huawei.

In fact, Qualcomm and Huawei have always had a benign relationship of cooperation and competition. On the one hand, both companies are investing heavily in the research and development of mobile communication technology, and each has its own advantages in the formulation of 5G communication standards, which objectively accelerates the pace of 5G commercialization; On the other hand, Huawei has been purchasing a large number of chips from Qualcomm and is an important customer of Qualcomm. This multi-year patent licensing cooperation also means that the two companies have found a balance of interests. Moreover, both companies are jointly expanding the smart phone market, especially popularizing 5G communication technology. It is in the fundamental interests of Qualcomm and Huawei to enlarge the whole ecosystem.

China is not only the largest smartphone market in the world, but also the largest smartphone production and supply chain base in the world, the most valued mobile communication market and partner base in Qualcomm, and the largest revenue source country in Qualcomm. In the American science and technology industry, Qualcomm, Apple, Microsoft and Intel have been firmly cultivating the China market and supporting the industrial development of China, and have always supported the common growth of Sino-US cooperation.

Although there are some negative factors in the current policy environment because of the US government, which is beyond the control of one or two companies, the trade and cooperation between Chinese and American technology companies will continue. Even under the current gloom, there is still room for competition and cooperation between Chinese and American technology companies, and there is a balance of interests for common benefits, especially in the 5G era.

Disclaimer: The market is risky, so you should be careful when choosing! This article is for reference only, not as a basis for trading.

Country Garden is in crisis, will it become the next Evergrande?

Country Garden’s crisis is more representative than Evergrande’s, and it is by no means a family facing such a problem.

In the adjustment period, the government needs to introduce various relaxation policies more quickly to reduce the pain of private enterprises and avoid systemic risks.

In the long run, the official determination to restore confidence is obvious, and the crisis in Country Garden is expected to be properly resolved.

On July 31, Country Garden announced that it expected to record an unaudited net loss in the half year ending June 30, 2023.

The Board of Directors of Country Garden said that in order to ensure the safety of cash flow, it will actively consider taking various countermeasures, including but not limited to reducing various operating expenses, speeding up payment arrangements, actively expanding financing channels, managing and optimizing debt repayment arrangements, and actively seeking guidance and support from the government and various regulatory agencies.

Seeing such wording, I believe many people will question: Will Country Garden become the next Evergrande?

01

Country Garden is in danger, and there are early signs.

Seeking support openly generally includes these two meanings:

1. If something goes wrong with me, the social impact will be very great;

2. This is a problem of economic environment and industry, and it is not entirely my responsibility. Under normal circumstances, no matter how hard I try, I can’t solve the problem.

In fact, the crisis in Country Garden had a clue a few days earlier.

On July 21st, four domestic bonds issued by Country Garden all fell by more than 20%, and many overseas bonds also fell to varying degrees.

On July 25th, it was rumored that KPMG had been invited to conduct due diligence on the assets and liabilities of Country Garden. There are also some rumors about Yang Guoqiang, the founder of Country Garden, and Yang Huiyan, his successor.

At that time, Country Garden’s response was that the rumor of "being transferred by the accounting firm" was not true, and both Yang Guoqiang and Yang Huiyan were working normally at the headquarters.

On July 30th, Country Garden Service, a Hong Kong stock company, revealed in the announcement that Yang Huiyan, Chairman of the Board of Directors, intends to donate 20% of his equity to Guoqiang Public Welfare Foundation (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd..

This incident caused the stock price to plummet, which also caused public concern.

Some people think that this is the Yang family’s donation to "transfer core assets". Because the founding member of Guoqiang Public Welfare Fund is Yang Huiyan’s sister Yang Ziying, and this fund promises not to sell the donated shares within 10 years, and the voting right is entrusted to Yang Huiyan, that is to say, this donation will not affect Yang Huiyan’s actual controller status.

However, professionals pointed out that Guoqiang Public Welfare Fund is indeed a qualified public welfare organization, and it is impossible to transfer core assets by donating shares.

Results On July 31st, Country Garden announced the cash flow crisis. So it seems that Yang Huiyan’s move will not be a simple donation. Of course, it is also true that Yang’s father and daughter are enthusiastic about public welfare. Over the past 20 years, they have participated in social charity donations totaling over 10.5 billion yuan.

In the past two years, Country Garden has really made great efforts and costs to solve the cash flow crisis.

In 2021, Country Garden achieved revenue of 523.06 billion yuan, gross profit of about 92.78 billion yuan, and core net profit attributable to shareholders of the company was about 26.93 billion yuan.

In 2022, Country Garden achieved an operating income of 430.37 billion yuan, only less than 90 billion yuan in 2021, but its gross profit fell to 32.88 billion yuan, and its core net profit attributable to shareholders fell to 2.61 billion yuan. It can be seen that in 2022, in order to pay off debts, Country Garden basically ignored profits.

In 2022, the number of employees of listed real estate enterprises was reduced by 159,100. Among them, the number of employees in Country Garden decreased by 30,773, with a year-on-year decrease of about 30.56%, ranking first in the downsizing of housing enterprises in 2022.

In terms of land acquisition, Country Garden’s land acquisition in 2019 was 130.3 billion yuan, while in 2022, Country Garden’s land acquisition was only 6.1 billion yuan. In the first half of this year, Country Garden’s land acquisition amount was only 5.8 billion yuan. Taking so little land for two consecutive years is definitely unable to support the continuous business operation of such a huge enterprise in Country Garden.

Therefore, the layoffs in Country Garden are understandable. At this point, what work can the development team and sales team do? From the cliff-taking decline, it can be seen that Country Garden is really saving its life by breaking its wrist.

At the same time, Country Garden’s share price is also falling all the way. In recent years, Yang Huiyan has repeatedly increased its holdings of Country Garden shares. In December last year, Yang Huiyan sold Country Garden service shares, and cashed in about HK$ 5 billion to lend it to Country Garden.

Country Garden takes the sinking route. The projects developed by Country Garden cover more than 1,000 counties. It is the only national real estate brand that people in many fourth-and fifth-tier cities and counties can get, which allows ordinary people to enjoy relatively high-quality houses.

It can be said that Country Garden has contributed to the urbanization of China. Yang’s father and daughter also tried their best to save the crisis. At the same time, because Country Garden sinks widely, if it collapses due to cash flow, the impact will indeed be very broad.

02

Yang Guoqiang, it’s too early to be optimistic

On February 16th, Country Garden Group held its 2023 annual working meeting. Mo Bin, the president and veteran of the group, said: "We paid a great price and won the’ Tieyuan Defence War’ which is related to the survival of the enterprise. This war has made us more mature and more powerful to face the long-term development this year and in the future. This is a valuable asset we have gained."

"Tieyuan Defence War" is one of the key battles to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

Why did Mo Bin say that the battle for survival had been won? This is because last October, a series of favorable policies for real estate were introduced.

Yang Guoqiang said at the meeting: "Two months ago, we were still walking in a dark tunnel. Today, two months later, we saw some light at the mouth of the tunnel."

Now look, their words are too early.

In the first quarter of this year, consumption, foreign trade and other data were very good-looking, and the property market transactions rebounded sharply. However, in the second quarter, the data became more severe, and the property market transaction also turned cold. From January to June 2023, the national investment in real estate development increased by -7.9% year-on-year, and the decline continued to expand by 0.7 percentage points compared with last month. Yang Guoqiang saw the dawn, seemingly fleeting.

But this does not mean that there is no hope to solve the problem, because after the economic restructuring is completed, China’s economy still has the opportunity to enter the expansion period again.

Only in this adjustment period, many enterprises will have a very painful life. Country Garden’s crisis is more representative than Evergrande’s, and it is by no means a family facing such a problem.

In the adjustment period, the government needs to introduce various relaxation policies more quickly to reduce the pain of private enterprises and avoid systemic risks.

Recently, various high-level meetings have given signals of relaxation.

The the State Council executive meeting held on July 31st emphasized that it is necessary to adjust and optimize the real estate policy, introduce policies and measures conducive to the stable and healthy development of the real estate market according to different needs and cities, and accelerate the research and construction of a new development model of the real estate industry.

But although the official signal to relax the property market is clear, it will take time for people’s confidence to recover. After all, they are worried that once house prices return to the upward trend, will the policy be tightened again? If so, isn’t it a pit to buy a house now?

Some time ago, a retired official issued a document saying that the real estate tax will be introduced immediately after the economy prospers again. Now that the economy is still in the process of recovery, just say that you will give it a stick when it prospers. Then, will the economy still dare to prosper? Do ordinary people still dare to have confidence?

In response to the concerns of ordinary people, the government has continuously released the signal that the relationship between supply and demand in the property market has changed. This signal is actually telling the people that the current adjustment of the property market policy is based on "changes in the relationship between supply and demand" and has certain stability.

However, ordinary people need time and look at the actual policies to understand this hint.

In the long run, the official determination to restore confidence is obvious. I believe that with the recovery of the economy and the property market, the crisis encountered by real estate enterprises such as Country Garden will also be properly resolved.

Reunion dinner, banquet for thousands of people, "holiday meal" … Let’s take a look at these different New Year’s Eve dinners.

The dish in the middle is seafood Babao soup (the pictures in this manuscript are provided by the sharer except the signature)

  Meng Jihua is a big fan of Jinbao. Although he is studying in Canada, he occasionally browses Ningbo News through Jinbao officials.

  Every year during the Spring Festival holiday, I have classes abroad. Two days ago, he cooked home cooking with several overseas students and had a New Year’s Eve dinner in advance. Yesterday, he shared this special "New Year’s Eve" with reporters. Xi ‘an’s classmates made fried buns, Suzhou’s classmates made sweet and sour tenderloin, Chongqing’s classmates made spicy chicken gizzards, and he made a seafood soup …

  During this year’s Spring Festival travel rush, Hyundai Jinbao joined hands with Ningbo Federation of Trade Unions to raise funds for "Going Home and Micro-recording" for employees and readers in the city. Pictures are pouring in, and behind them are warm stories about "Year".

  Sharer: Meng Jihua

  Made a seafood eight-treasure soup

  Amazing all the little friends.

  I am 36 years old. When I was a child, I lived in my grandparents’ home in Fenghua. I can say that I have deep feelings for Ningbo. I came to Canada a year ago to study as a graduate student and started my overseas study.

  Although I have lived abroad for the past two years, I have always kept the official micro-signal of Modern Golden Newspaper in my mobile phone. I brush the news in my spare time and feel that it is not so far from Ningbo. Some time ago, I saw the crowdfunding "New Year’s Eve" by Modern Golden Newspaper, and I wanted to contribute a draft to tell the story in my heart.

  Among Ningbo seafood, my favorite is swimming crab, which likes steaming. In those years when I lived in Ningbo, every autumn when I ate crabs, I made swimming crabs at both ends every three days, and sometimes I made them in a different way. In foreign countries, whenever I see seafood in the supermarket, I can’t help but buy it for processing and making it.

  There is no Spring Festival holiday abroad, so I have to attend classes at school during this time and can’t go home for the New Year. In a foreign country, I miss my relatives twice every holiday. Fortunately, during the Spring Festival, schools and local Chinese communities will have Spring Festival Galas, and everyone will watch the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala. When I feel homesick, I will FaceTime with my family. Life is not difficult.

  Because we have evening classes on New Year’s Eve, I had a reunion dinner with five overseas students in advance, which was full of the smell of my hometown. Students in Xi ‘an made fried buns, students in Suzhou made sweet and sour tenderloin, and students in Chongqing made a spicy chicken gizzard. Because I didn’t buy the swimming crab, I made a seafood eight-treasure soup for everyone, which has already surprised everyone.

  These days, as long as we have time, we will get together and regard it as Chinese New Year. I’m a good cook, so I can show my skills in cooking seafood, such as bread crabs, mussels, scallops and so on. Many of my overseas classmates are drooling at the name, and they all want to come to Ningbo to taste the authentic little seafood. Two of them have been to Ningbo before, and they have tasted the glutinous rice balls of the jar ducks and dogs, and they never forget the taste.

  In fact, every time I go back to Ningbo, I am really proud of the rapid changes in this city. I hope my hometown is getting better and better, and China is getting better and better. This is the wish of every overseas student.

It is especially warm for overseas sons to come back to visit relatives.

  Sharer: Tang Dandan

  Accustomed to eating the delicacies outside.

  My favorite is Ningbo Tangyuan.

  "The salmon brought back from abroad is very fresh, so be sure to try it!" Recently, my neighbor mammy gave me a very special Chinese New Year gift, saying that it was brought by my son who had settled abroad to visit relatives.

  The last time my neighbor’s mother’s son went home was three or four years ago. He didn’t see each other for a long time. The elders in the family always missed him and asked, "Is the child coming back?" At this time, the neighbor’s mother can only shake her head regretfully and tell her elders: "Foreign holidays are different. They celebrate Christmas, and their children are busy with their studies and work, so they can’t come back during the Spring Festival."

  Although everyone didn’t say anything, they still had regrets in their hearts. It is good for a big family to be neat on the reunion day.

  This year, the child finally came back with his pregnant wife, and soon a new member will be added to the extended family. The family members who got the news in advance were overjoyed.

  The neighbor’s mother specially went to the small restaurant in town to book the New Year’s Eve dinner, and the menu was full of home-cooked dishes, in order to make the wanderers who had not been home for a long time feel at home.

  Not only that, nephews who work in first-tier cities also come back to visit relatives with their children, and the elderly who live alone on weekdays get together with children of different generations, which is particularly lively. Located in the countryside, the same fireworks, another kind of holiday warmth.

  In particular, I am used to eating delicacies outside, but Ningbo glutinous rice balls are everyone’s favorite. A big bowl is served and every one is eaten. Because of work, Mammy’s son didn’t stay until New Year’s Eve and left early. Mammy stuffed a big bag of dried plums in his luggage, not forgetting the taste of his hometown.

The best taste of the year is the hometown dishes cooked by relatives and friends.

  Sharer: Xie Youran

  Friends and relatives cook a hometown meal together.

  This is the real taste of the year.

  It’s the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and it’s customary for wanderers to go home. On this day in anxious to return, I finished my day’s work, packed my luggage in a hurry, went to the railway station and set foot on my journey home. 15 hours, 1216 kilometers, this is the distance from my hometown to my work, what does this distance mean? It means that I may be concerned about being late, having little company, being absent at important moments, and having regrets that are hard to fill when I am in where will you go.

  During my eight years working in Ningbo, I missed many important moments that I never participated in, and my family never bothered me too much because they wanted me to work with peace of mind. When I was fighting all night for a repeated revision of an activity plan, what I didn’t know was that the whole family was celebrating my grandmother’s 70th birthday. What I didn’t know when I was in a meeting to discuss the work goal and task assignment for the next quarter was that my mother was lying on the cold operating table, doing an operation that she didn’t think was necessary to worry me about; When I was on my way to the company on duty during the New Year holiday, what I didn’t know was that my grandfather died suddenly in his sleep before the New Year came …

  Walking in our thirties, we have too many insincere and involuntary words. For me now, every time I go home for the New Year, my relatives and friends cook a delicious meal with the flavor of my hometown, and I get a reunion in the smoke. This is the taste of happiness, this is the taste of the New Year, and this is the New Year. After the Spring Festival, the broken firecrackers will see me go far away from my hometown. Love is on the side, not afraid of the road ahead.

Employees at a thousand-person banquet

  Sharer: He Yibo

  Five-star hotel holds a banquet for thousands of people.

  Ordinary employees taste happiness.

  The annual New Year’s Eve dinner can be said to be the most important "reunion dinner" of Shuanglu Battery, which is an old tradition of big families. In the past, we used to hold it in the company canteen, because there were many people in the big family, so we had to hold it in many venues. The leadership of the company has always had a wish that all employees can sit together and get together. In 2017, we held two banquets for thousands of people in Tiangong Manor. In 2018, the company went upstream with double-digit growth in performance, and the management of the company proposed that the harvest results should be shared by all employees.

  This time, the place of our New Year’s Eve dinner was chosen in the international conference center of Nanyuan Hotel, a five-star hotel, with hundreds of tables for three consecutive days. The scene is full of red lanterns and blooming flowers, and there are jubilant scenes everywhere. Seriously, many old employees who have worked in the company for more than 20 years are a little excited.

  Qin Deyun came from Nanchong, Sichuan, and worked in Shuanglu Battery for 22 years, from an ordinary employee to the workshop leader. "I didn’t expect the company to invite us to a five-star hotel for dinner. It’s so happy."

  On the New Year’s Eve, employees can not only eat a big meal with their bellies open, but also enjoy performances by professional actors and singers, and there is also an exciting game lottery. In addition to regular rice and cooking oil, there are Huawei mobile phones and commemorative gold coins with collection value.

  At the scene, the most exciting thing is that the general manager Wang Jianhao announced a heavy news: in 2019, the salary of all employees of Shuanglu Battery was raised. At the scene, applause boiled.

This lunch is the couple’s New Year’s Eve dinner.

  Sharer: Bao Hao

  It is rare for couples to rest at the same time.

  Ordinary lunch becomes "New Year’s Eve"

  In the ground service department of China Eastern Airlines Zhejiang Branch, as long as Xu Qin and Wu Haiyan are mentioned as "husband and wife", everyone always looks envious.

  Husband Xu Qin is a teacher of load balancing, and his wife Wu Haiyan is the team leader of VIP room. As a pair of "post-80s" couples, they have integrated their mutual care and love into the dribs and drabs of life and work. Every Spring Festival, they give up reunion with their families and stick to their front-line posts.

  "The ground service work is to arrive at the post before 5: 40 every day, and it depends on luck when you get off work." Spring Festival travel rush is the busiest time for them. Although they are in the same unit, they have been married for 8 years, and there are almost no friends at home. The children are taken care of by grandparents. In case of rain and snow, the flight is delayed in a large area, and sometimes it takes a whole night.

  This year, the passenger flow in Spring Festival travel rush is getting higher every day. The couple gave up their rest time and joined the volunteer team in party member, Spring Festival travel rush. Yesterday, it was rare for the husband and wife to have a rest at the same time. After finishing the housework in the morning and having lunch in a hurry, they hurried to the airport to help guarantee the flight.

  "Either I go to work or he goes to work. Spring Festival travel rush basically didn’t eat together at home this year. On New Year’s Eve, we have to have a’ reunion dinner’ with our colleagues at the post. This is our husband and wife eating’ New Year’s Eve’ in advance. "

  "One person sticks to Wanjiaan, one family is not round", which may be their best portrayal of work.

International observation | What are the highlights of Putin’s victory in Russia’s development

According to the data released by the Russian Central Election Commission in the early morning of the 18th local time, among the 85% of the votes counted in the Russian presidential election, the current President Putin led other candidates by 87.19%, and actually won the presidential election.

Analysts believe that after Putin’s re-election, Russia’s domestic and foreign policies will continue, including efforts to strengthen technological autonomy, promote economic diversification, actively develop relations with friendly countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, and promote the development of multi-polarization in the world.

On March 18th, Putin answered questions from reporters at the campaign headquarters in Moscow, Russia. Xinhua News Agency reporter Cao Yangshe

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The eighth presidential election in Russia was officially voted from 15th to 17th. Four candidates participated in the election, including current Russian President Vladimir Putin, slutsky of Russian Liberal Democratic Party, Haritonov of Russian Federation’s communist party and Da Vankov of Russian New Party.

According to the data of the Russian Central Election Commission, Putin, Haritonov, Da Vankov and slutsky won 87.19%, 4.24%, 3.99% and 3.16% of the votes in the Russian presidential election.

According to the Russian presidential election rules, the person who won more than 50% of the votes in the election was elected president, so Putin has actually won the election. The Russian Central Election Commission will confirm the results of this presidential election no later than March 28th, and announce them within 3 days after the election results are confirmed.

In the early morning of the 18th, Putin delivered a speech at the campaign headquarters, thanking all voters for their support. He said that Russia will further develop and become more solid, stronger and more efficient.

On December 14, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the "Annual Inventory" event. Xinhua News Agency reporter Bai Xueyu photo

Technical autonomy   Economic pluralism

The Russian economy gradually showed its resilience after experiencing shocks in the early stage of the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis. According to data released by the State Statistical Office of the Russian Federation in early February this year, Russia’s GDP increased by 3.6% in 2023. However, the blockade imposed by western countries on Russia in the fields of finance, investment and technology product import has brought difficulties to Russia’s long-term economic development. How to continue to hedge the influence of western sanctions is a task of Putin’s administration.

In his State of the Union address to the two houses of Parliament at the end of February, Putin said that factors such as lack of talents and insufficient advanced technology may lead to a slowdown in economic growth. Therefore, the state will vigorously strengthen the development of education, science and technology, and make technological autonomy the driving force for industrial upgrading, so as to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the Russian economy.

He proposed that by 2030, the share of Russian high-tech products and services in the domestic market should increase by 50%, and the export of non-raw materials and non-energy products should increase by at least two-thirds. Russia should have key technologies in areas related to citizens’ health and food security, and realize technological autonomy in areas that can promote sustainable economic development, such as machine tools, robots, transportation, unmanned driving, aviation, ocean, digital economy, new materials and chemistry. The investment in key areas should increase by 70%, and at least 100 new science and technology parks should be built.

Putin said that at present, non-resource industries account for more than 90% of Russia’s economic growth structure, and the Russian economy is becoming more diversified and sustainable.

Aksakov, chairman of the Financial Market Committee of the Russian State Duma (the lower house of parliament), said that the Russian economy has gradually adapted to western sanctions and changed rapidly. Western oppression has prompted Russia to vigorously promote internal economic restructuring and accelerate its dependence on resources.

This is the Kremlin photographed in Moscow on February 7th. Xinhua News Agency reporter Cao Yangshe

Continue foreign policy

Russian experts believe that resisting western containment and suppression, uniting friendly countries and achieving established diplomatic goals will become the focus of Putin’s future foreign policy.

Putin once said that no matter who wins the US presidential election in 2024, the US foreign policy toward Russia is unlikely to change fundamentally, and the US will still regard Russia as its enemy.

Mu Xin, director of the Russian Political Information Center, said that Putin will continue to take a tough stance against unfriendly countries. Koltunov, an expert of the Russian Council for International Affairs, said that Russia and the United States will continue to confront each other in depth for some time to come, but both sides will still exercise some restraint to avoid accidents such as nuclear war.

Russian experts believe that Putin will continue his previous foreign policy, actively develop relations with friendly countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, expand his circle of friends, strengthen his influence in international and regional organizations and promote world multipolarization.

In addition, some analysts believe that Putin will pay more attention to the relationship between Russia and other BRICS countries in the future and expand this relationship to many fields including trade. Mu Xin believes that Russia will continue to play an important role within the framework of the BRICS cooperation mechanism and the SCO.

(Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, March 18th   Reporter Chen Ting   Liu Kai   An Xiaomeng)

Delivered more than 20,000 units. Xpeng Motors’s sales in October were announced.

  [car home Information] Recently, Xpeng Motors released the latest sales data. In October, Xpeng Motors delivered 20,002 units, exceeding the 20,000 mark, with a month-on-month increase of 31% and a year-on-year increase of 292%, setting a new monthly delivery record. In terms of sub-models, (|) delivered 8,741 units in October, and the monthly delivery volume continued to increase.

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  As can be seen from the official sales figures, up to now, the delivery volume in Xpeng Motors has been steadily increasing in 2023, with the largest increase in October. On the just-concluded 1024 Tucki Science and Technology Day, He Xiaopeng announced the latest development of XNGP intelligent assisted driving system. The navigation assisted driving function of cities without high-precision maps will be opened to 20 cities in the first phase, and the public beta was officially opened that night, which will increase to 50 cities this year. The AI driving function will start a small-scale test, which will be open to some users during the year and complete national coverage in 2024. At the same time, Tucki X9, the fifth-generation Tucki intelligent cockpit Xmart OS Tianji, the next-generation electric drive system, Tucki flying car, and the brand-new robot PX5 were also unveiled at Tucki Science and Technology Day.

● The following is a complete review of the 1024 Tucki Science and Technology Day:

1. Tucki pure electric MPV-Tucki X9 was officially released.

  During this period of time, the automobile circle is simply an "MPV meeting". Many brands such as Volvo, Ideality and Great Wall are betting on the electric MPV market, and Tucki X9 is Xpeng Motors’s answer sheet in this brand-new field.

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  Tucki X9 is officially called a "new species", positioning the pure electric intelligent seven-seat MPV model.The car will be officially unveiled at the Guangzhou Auto Show.. It does stand out from the crowd in the design level, adopting many sharp lines and being very avant-garde. As always, the front of the new car uses penetrating daytime running lights and split headlights, and the front enclosure with borderless style is below. Just like Tucki G9, the black trim strip once surrounded and extended the car body, which enhanced the sense of grade of the whole car. In addition, this car places lidar on both sides of the front enclosure.

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  Different from the "Erffa-like" shape of many MPVs on the market and the "high-speed rail" design like the ideal MEGA, the body of Tucki X9 is more tough, which benefits from the application of many straight lines, such as A-pillar, roof, waistline and other details, and also shows another "science fiction" taste.

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  In terms of body size, the length, width and height of this car are 5293/1988/1785mm and the wheelbase is 3160 mm. Due to the suspended roof design, the car seems to have some space capsule feeling from the rear. Its taillights adopt a penetrating light group, and the license plate area adopts an inverted trapezoidal embedded shape, which is surrounded by bright black, and the overall visual layering is outstanding.

  As the flagship model of the roll-up structure, Tucki X9 will undertake the core technologies of the roll-up structure such as global 800V, front and rear integrated aluminum die casting and XNGP, and become the only MPV model with rear wheel steering as standard in the world. As the first vehicle equipped with XOS Tianji intelligent cockpit system, Tucki X9 will bring users the application scenarios and service experience of the next generation intelligent cockpit.

  According to the application information, the car will provide single-motor and dual-motor versions for consumers to choose from. The former has a maximum power of 235 kW. The maximum power of the latter is 235kW in front motor and 135kW in rear motor.

2. The latest development of XNGP intelligent driving in Tucki.

  Thinking about the future, Tucki thinks that the automobile category will gradually evolve from software-defined cars to AI-defined cars. Xpeng Motors, as a smart car brand in China, deeply applies AI big model, empowering many fields such as R&D, design, intelligent driving and intelligent voice.

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  At the beginning of April, 2023, XNGP in Tucki fired the "first shot" of urban autonomous driving. If the first half of intelligent automobile opened users’ minds through simple scenes such as high-speed navigation, assisted driving and automatic parking, then the second half of intelligent driving was the competition of "urban intelligent driving". With the support of the previous generation of high-precision maps, Xpeng Motors realized intelligent assisted driving in five cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Foshan. Thanks to this, the latest generation of XNGP intelligent assisted driving system can be used and opened all over the country. Up to now, Tucki XNGP intelligent assisted driving system has covered 37% of the roads in the country.

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  In addition, the function of "AI driving" is another "sharp weapon" for Tucki’s intelligent driving. This function is not limited by the city. After the AI driving function is turned on, users can set the starting point and the ending point nationwide, and a memory map can be formed after manual driving once. After selecting the travel route, the AI driving function can be used to realize the city navigation-assisted driving of a single route/specific scene.

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  According to Tucki’s plan, the architecture of intelligent driving terminal oriented to the whole scene will realize data-driven, end-to-end, spatio-temporal joint decision-making. At the same time, Tucki also launched ——XBrain, the ultimate intelligent auxiliary architecture for the whole scene. XBrain is a clear vein from perception to understanding to cognition, which is formed by Tucki in the process of practice, just like human brain. XBrain consists of XNet 2.0, a deep vision neural network, and XPlanner, a control module based on neural network. XNet 2.0 integrates the industry’s highest precision pure vision occupation network, and realizes the integration of dynamic BEV, static BEV and occupation network. Xnet 2.0 is the industry’s first perceptual architecture with the ability to understand time and space by applying large models. At the planning and control level, XPlanner based on neural network can continuously analyze the motivation by combining the time series of minutes or more, and adapt in time according to the surrounding environment information to generate the best motion trajectory.

  The core parts of XBrain: 1. XNet2.0 further improves the perception range by 200% and adds 11 types of perception. At the same time, it integrates the industry’s highest precision pure visual occupation network, and achieves the integration of dynamic BEV, static BEV and occupation network.

  2. XPlanner: Planning and control based on neural network. Long time series can predict your prediction; Multi-object: decision-making is more comprehensive and anthropomorphic based on complete surrounding information (dynamic traffic+static environment); Strong reasoning: being flexible like a human being, you can take it one step at a time.

  3. Using the big model, XNGP can understand time and space, read written information, have the concept of time and understand the traffic elements with different urban characteristics.

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  At the press conference, He Xiaopeng set a flag: It is necessary to challenge XNGP to achieve full coverage in the road networks of major cities in China (including Grade 1-4 roads) in 2024, and take the lead in applying X9 in Tucki.

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  At present, Tucki XNGP system has the technical ability to support urban intelligent driving nationwide, and it will be fully pushed to all XNGP users through OTA in the way of opening cities in batches. At present, five cities have been opened, which will increase to 25 cities by the end of November and 50 cities by the end of December. In the future, more areas will be covered, and the shadow mode will be launched to invite users to participate in the open plan, so as to improve more traffic lights, lane lines and intersection information with regional characteristics. Moreover, the Pro version of Tucki G6/G9/P7i will be greatly upgraded in the following aspects, and the public beta will begin on October 24th.

3. The fifth generation Tucki intelligent cockpit Xmart OS Tianji.

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  Tucki officially released the fifth generation intelligent cockpit system-XOS Tianji System, which is a cockpit system developed by Tucki to serve the "man-machine co-driving era" by deeply combining the intelligent driving ability and the application scenarios of the next generation intelligent cockpit. The system will be equipped with Snapdragon 8295 chip for the first time, with brand-new visual upgrade, dynamic effect upgrade and greatly improved interactive efficiency. Support split-screen multi-tasking, XDock, full-scene car sense SR, and intelligent voice access to XGPT Linxi model developed by Tucki. It is reported that XOS Tianqi system will be launched in Xiaopeng X9, and G6, G9, P7i and P7 will be upgraded to XOS Tianqi through OTA.

  In the aspect of voice interaction, Xpeng Motors developed the XGPT model and connected it to the voice system, leading the voice interaction into the era of big model. The new AI small P skill has been further upgraded, with more than 800 skills, and it can be accurately conveyed by adding "small P" when the demand is raised, and the interaction is more natural. At the same time, AI Xiao P’s perceptual understanding and reasoning ability have been greatly improved, and it can actively recommend services during the car use process. In the future, Xiao P will also log on to Xpeng Motors Mobile App, where users can remotely command Xiao P to realize some functions of remote vehicle control. It is worth mentioning that, in addition to training and improving the intelligent driving ability and improving the understanding and reasoning ability of intelligent voice, Xpeng Motors also applies the large model to vehicle design and code development, enabling multiple business sectors and R&D fields to further improve efficiency.

4. Tucki XEEA3.5, the first onboard computing center with integrated cockpit.

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  At present, the AIGC production model is becoming increasingly popular. Among many applications, Tucki has built the first vehicle-mounted computing center with integrated driving, cockpit, instrumentation, network management, IMU, power amplifier and other functions. It is the core computing node of the EEA3.5 electronic and electrical architecture in Tucki, and it is also the vehicle-mounted data center in Tucki facing the future era of autonomous driving and general artificial intelligence. Compared with the previous generation of central computing architecture, XCCP achieved 40% cost savings and 50% performance improvement.

5. Tucki Next Generation Electric Drive System

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  At present, Tucki is developing the next-generation electric drive system. It is reported that the next-generation electric drive system adopts a more efficient electromagnetic scheme, and the comprehensive efficiency exceeds 93% when driving at a high speed of 120km/h, breaking through the current "ceiling" of the industry. In addition, the further optimized silicon carbide scheme can reduce the key cost by 50% while ensuring the power efficiency, so that users can enjoy higher performance products at better prices.

6. Front-rear integrated die casting technology

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  This time, Tucki also released the only integrated die casting technology before and after mass production in China. And Tucki is also the only brand in China that has integrated die-casting body before and after production, and is pre-researching the next-generation CIB+ mid-floor integrated die-casting technology, which will further improve the vehicle life and reduce the vehicle manufacturing cost in the future.

7. Flying cars in Tucki.

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"Air-land integrated flying car"

  Besides cars, Tucki has been exploring more possibilities of future travel modes. At this year’s 1024 conference, Tucki Huitian made clear two development paths of flying cars, namely, air-land integrated flying car and split flying car. Among them, the land-air integrated flying car adopts a dual-mode cockpit, which is further optimized on the basis of the styling announced in the previous two years, and adopts a super-running styling design, which has a more scientific and technological aesthetic appearance; The flight systems such as rotor and boom can be completely folded and stored in the car, which greatly reduces the wind resistance coefficient when landing.

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Split flying car

  Split flying car is called "land carrier", which is the next direction of mass production in Tucki. It consists of a land-going vehicle (mother ship) and a flying vehicle. The land-going vehicle has a cockpit for 4-5 people, and adopts an extended-range hybrid power system, which can carry the flying vehicle and continuously replenish energy for the flying vehicle. The flying body with pure electric vertical take-off and landing technology is equipped with a 270 panoramic double cockpit, which supports manual/automatic driving modes and can be automatically separated/combined with the land-based body. According to He Xiaopeng, the split flying car has a very wide range of application scenarios: it can not only vertically expand the travel boundaries of individual users, but also serve public utilities such as emergency and rescue, so that technological exploration results can benefit more public fields. In view of the key safety technology of flying cars, it can still fly safely after the "double rotor failure", and it is the world’s first ultra-low altitude multi-parachute life-saving system.

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   It is worth mentioning that on October 20th, Tucki Huitian announced the success of its self-developed 50-meter ultra-low altitude parachute opening experiment of the whole multi-parachute lifesaving system. It is understood that this technology fills the gap in the field of ultra-low altitude safety and lifesaving at home and abroad. When X2, a passenger of Tucki Huitian Flying Car, flew at a height of 50 meters, several groups of large parachutes were ejected and deployed rapidly. X2 landed smoothly at a grounding speed of 5.2m/s, and the body was intact.

8. Robots are not only available in Tesla-a brand-new robot in Tucki.PX5be published

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  What will the next generation of robots look like? During last year’s Science and Technology Day, Tucki demonstrated its quadruped robot. This time the robot has evolved again. In order to complete the service of enabling robots to go to the public and the family, Tucki will explore the quadruped next. In the past five months, Tucki has completed stable biped walking, and developed a biped robot to achieve the industry’s top biped walking and obstacle-crossing ability. Through the self-developed high-performance joints, the robot has achieved high-stability walking ability, which can complete indoor and outdoor walking and obstacle crossing for more than 2 hours.

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  Not only that, the robot has ultra-light humanoid arms, humanoid dexterous hands: one hand has 11 degrees of freedom, and the holding power of two fingers is 1kg. The rigid-flexible hybrid drive scheme is adopted to provide grasping and covering postures for objects with different shapes. Drive and control are integrated, and one hand weighs only 430g, with terminal tactile perception ability. The ultra-light humanoid manipulator can realize 7 degrees of freedom and the repetitive positioning accuracy is 0.05 mm. The maximum load of a single arm (3kg)/ the self-weight of the mechanical arm (5Kg), the self-weight ratio of load exceeds 0.6, and the maximum terminal linear velocity is 1m/s.

  In the future, Tucki Penghang will apply XNGP, XEEA electronic and electrical architecture, XPower, XGPT Linxi big model, XOS and other smart car homologous technologies to intelligent robots, and try to apply them to scenes such as factory production and sales service, so as to deeply link intelligent robots with AI cars and drive to the next stop of auto companies. (Compile/car home Duandi)

Chery, big move

  On the morning of October 18th, 2024 Chery Global Innovation Conference kicked off in Wuhu. This year’s Chery Science and Technology Day, with the theme of "Science and Technology Mastering the Future", fully demonstrated Chery’s innovative practices and achievements in the field of science and technology. More than 600 international friends from all over the world, academicians, experts and global partners at home and abroad gathered here to witness what cutting-edge technologies Chery has released this year.

  The data shows that from January to September this year, Chery sold a total of 1.75 million cars, up 40% year-on-year, ranking second in the scale of its own brand and maintaining the first growth rate in the industry;The automobile growth rate, export scale and SUV market share all remain the first in the industry. This year, Chery entered the Fortune Global 500 for the first time, ranking 385th with an operating income of $39,091.7 million.

"Blow a cow every year"

Chery issued another "You’re welcome" declaration.

  "Chery blows a cow every year!" Yin Tongyue, chairman of Chery Automobile, said in his speech at the Innovation Conference, "On last year’s Science and Technology Day, I said that Chery’s ranking was still very backward." This year, Chery’s new energy vehicles started at full capacity, with monthly sales exceeding 40,000 vehicles and 50,000 vehicles. As of September this year, the monthly sales have reached 58,941 vehicles, ranking fourth in the industry, second only to.and. On the new energy car track, Chery finally changed from "getting up early and catching up with the late episode" to "getting up early and catching up with the big episode". Yin Tongyue made a goal, "Chery will cross the 80,000-vehicle mark in October and pass 100,000 vehicles in December to ensure the third place in the industry and strive for the second."

  "Today, the cow that Chery wants to blow is: Next year, Chery’s intelligence is also welcome!" Yin Tongyue said that quality ranking is more important than sales ranking, and innovation ability is more exciting than profitability. In the past, Chery was a very pure "science man". Now, Chery expects to become a "Superman" with super brain and super wisdom. The AI model is "Sister Lin falling from the sky", so we should develop and use it well. Chery will take intelligence and AI as the major opportunity and breakthrough direction in the next 20 or 40 years, just as it put into the engine 20 years ago, and it has a series of layouts and must enter the industry. He believes that AI not only redefines cars, but also redefines industries and human society. Cars are more and more like an agent that can self-evolve, which requires the overall design of "electrification+intelligence" and the comprehensive blessing of AI model.

Future flying cars debut

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  In the visit experience area on the first floor of the Innovation Conference, a large number of people gathered in front of Chery’s future flying cars. According to the staff of Chery Automobile, "this three-body compound wing flying car consists of three parts: flying wing, cockpit and chassis. It has two modes. In flight mode, the flying wing and cockpit fly in the air without the chassis. In the ground mode, the cockpit and chassis are combined to drive on the ground like a car. " Ultra-compact docking technology is adopted between three flying cars, which can realize vertical take-off and landing, rapid docking, land and airThe mode switching has eased the congestion problem for urban traffic. At present, this future flying car has successfully made its maiden voyage.

  "Charge quickly, run far, use for a long time, and be safe enough!" At the innovation conference, Chery released Kunpeng for the first time, which filled the last piece of its new energy puzzle, making Chery’s new energy "you’re welcome" complete the closed loop at this moment. According to reports, Kunpeng will build three categories: square Ferrous lithium phosphate series, square ternary series and large cylindrical ternary series, which are safe, fast-charging and high-energy, and the pure electric mileage can span 1000 kilometers. Gao Xinhua, executive deputy general manager and CTO of Chery Automobile, said at the scene that Kun PengThe research and development of is already in action, and it is expected to be targeted in 2026 and listed in batches in 2027.

Key Breakthroughs of 10+ Projects in Five Technical Fields of "Eta Ursae Majoris 2025"

  "Eta Ursae Majoris 2025" is the core strategy for Chery to lay out a new energy track. After two years of accumulation and exploration, Chery has made all-round progress in five technical fields: Mars architecture, Kunpeng power, lion intelligent cabin, great wisdom driving and Galaxy ecology, and achieved 10+ key technological breakthroughs such as Kunpeng battery, end-to-end large model, intelligent cabin model, flying car and Yuntai intelligent chassis 2.0.

  "Safety is the biggest., is the bottom line of Chery. In an interview with the owner of the Star Era ET high-speed collision broadcast live at the conference, it can be seen that the advantages of Chery’s cage body can be reflected when three cars collide with each other at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour. According to reports, Cage Spacecapsule 2.0 keeps the industry leading in five dimensions: safety, stiffness, mode, lightweight and sealing, with high-strength steel and aluminum accounting for more than 85%.

  The entire upgrade of Kunpeng Power constantly challenges the energy consumption limit. Chery continued to upgrade 72 energy consumption technologies and studied 6 new energy consumption core technologies, reducing the fuel consumption of two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive to 5.2L and 5.9L respectively, setting a new benchmark for extended-range energy consumption. At the same time, the pure electricity consumption of 9.9kWh sets a new benchmark for electric energy consumption, and the mixed fuel consumption of 2.98L sets a new record for mixed energy consumption and redefines the new energy consumption standard.

  At this conference, Chery released a future-oriented high-level intelligent driving technical scheme on the spot, and Dazhuo Intelligent Driving evolved from C-Pilot 4.0 to C-Pilot 5.0. It is reported that in 2025, Chery’s advanced intelligent driving will be mass-produced with more than a dozen models, and rich scenes will be generated through the cloud World Mode, forming a perception model plus a planning model to simulate human brain behavior decision-making, from NOA (high-speed pilot-assisted intelligent driving solution) in the city without a map to NOA (independent flagship high-speed NOA). It is expected that the end-to-end E2E model will be launched in 2025 and the end-to-end VLA model will be launched in 2027, so that the car will truly enter the era of intelligent driving.

All aircraft engines in China are imported? Super pilot tells you the inside story

  CCTV News:As the "crown jewel" of modern industry, aero-engine has always been a "heart disease" of China aviation industry. With the establishment of China’s 12th military enterprise in Beijing, Chinese people have high hopes for this aero-engine enterprise, hoping that it can achieve the same achievements as "two bombs and one satellite".

  Yesterday, the four-day air force aviation opening activity came to an end, and more than 20 military aircraft in the 34-type domestic weapons and equipment attracted national attention.

△ On September 2, 2016, the 2016 Changchun Aviation Open Day was held in the rain, in which a variety of air force active equipment such as H-6K, JL10, JL9 and Air Police 500 were unveiled.

△ On September 2, 2016, the 2016 Changchun Aviation Open Day was held in the rain, in which a variety of air force active equipment such as H-6K, JL10, JL9 and Air Police 500 were unveiled.

  At the same time, it also brings people cold thinking: what is the current localization ratio of the big country air force, which has a huge demand for aero-engine industry, and what level has it reached? How far are we from the aero-engine power?

  Guogui Wu Decryption: Localization has gone through the process of introduction, imitation, improvement and innovation.

  Guogui Wu, a 57-year-old special pilot of the Air Force, holds the rank of senior colonel. He used to be the captain of the Air Force Bayi Air Show Team and the deputy division commander of an Air Force Aviation Division, with 30 years of flying experience. As an old pilot with actual combat experience, and now a professor in the post-installation teaching and research department of National Defense University, he has unique insights in studying military high-tech, air force weapons and equipment, and equipment safety management.

  At present, what kind of level is the localization ratio and performance of aero-engines in China? Guogui Wu said in an interview that China has established an independent aero-engine industrial system in the process of industrialization, and the performance of imitation engines reached a very high level in the 1960s and 1970s.Among the main combat aircraft, domestic engines have accounted for about 90%.

  The so-called localization here refers to the process of introduction, imitation, improvement and innovation.Due to China’s weak industrial base, in order to meet the strong military demand for aero-engines, the Soviet Union’s aid and imported production methods were adopted. On the basis of the introduction and digestion of Soviet engine production technology, the model was improved, and the scale and serialization of domestic production were gradually realized, which basically met the needs of China’s air, land and sea aviation forces.

  In the 1960s and 1970s, the overall performance of aero-engines produced in China was not much different from the mainstream level in the world at that time. The fundamental difference was that the domestic engines were mainly imitations and modifications, and there was no engine that was completely independently developed and produced.

  "Not only do we have no independent intellectual property rights, but we also have no core technology." Guogui Wu said, therefore, in the 1980s and 1990s, when the aviation technology of the United States, Europe and Russia developed rapidly, and the third generation fighters were generally equipped with a new generation of turbofan engines, China was still "playing around" in the improvement of turbojet engines, hesitating on the road of introducing imitation and independent innovation, and the gap between China and the world’s advanced level was not large. Not only does the new generation of fighters lack the drive of advanced engines, but the engines in service also have some quality and safety hazards, which are called "heart disease" by Chinese people.

  Only a few third-generation aircraft of the main fighter are equipped with imported engines.

△FWS10 aero-engine is an advanced aero-turbofan engine designed and manufactured by China. It is installed on the domestic J -11 aircraft and can also be installed on the J -10 aircraft after modification. Now it has been mass-produced. It has become an ideal device for the third generation fighter in China.

  △FWS10 aero-engine is an advanced aero-turbofan engine designed and manufactured by China. It is installed on the domestic J -11 aircraft and can also be installed on the J -10 aircraft after modification. Now it has been mass-produced. It has become an ideal device for the third generation fighter in China.

  After 60 years of development, China has fighter planes, bombers, attack planes, transport planes and trainers.Systematize the aircraft production capacity of many types of aircraft. In line with this, a relatively complete engine development and production system has been established, which has the series development and production capacity of turboprop, turbojet, turbofan and turboshaft engines. Domestic engines are mainly assembled on fighter planes, fighter planes, bombers, fighter bombers and other main battle planes, and only a few third-generation fighters are equipped with imported engines.

  For example, domestic fighters such as J -5, J -6, J -7 and J -8 are adapted to corresponding domestic engines such as turbojet -5, turbojet -6 and turbojet -7. With the improvement of stability, safety and reliability of Taihang engine, it has been widely installed on three generations of fighters, such as J -11, J -15 and J -16.

  In terms of bombers, H -5 and H -6 realized the localization of engines. The turboprop engines used in Yun -7 and Yun -8 transport planes are all made in China.

  With the maturity of integral technologies such as Zhi -9, Zhi -8 and Zhi -10, the serial development of turboshaft -8, turboshaft -6 and turboshaft -16 engines has been realized on the basis of introduction, which provides a reliable power source for the rapidly expanding domestic helicopter fleet in China.

  At present, China’s aviation industry is in a stage from big to strong, from following up to catching up to developing on a par or even surpassing corners. Whether it is a new generation of military aircraft such as fighters, bombers, transport planes and drones, or large passenger planes and all kinds of general-purpose aircraft, there is an urgent need for strong and reliable driving of advanced engines. The sound and rapid development of aero-engines has become the proper meaning of the "Chinese Dream".

  Guogui Wu said frankly that the country has clearly regarded the engine as a major scientific and technological project in the medium and long-term scientific and technological development plan, and has made up its mind to concentrate manpower, material resources and financial resources to independently research and develop a series of new engines. Domestic aero-engines have entered an unprecedented fast lane of development. In this context, the establishment of China Aviation Engine Group can be said to have a long way to go.

  Development history of aero-engines in China

  Stage 1: imitation and improvement

  In 1950s, China aero-engine industry started from scratch and went through a road full of thorns. In 1956, China’s first turbojet -5 engine was successfully copied in Shenyang, and for a long time thereafter, China aero-engines were mainly copied and improved.

  Even if it is copied, it is not easy. Even if there is no operation manual, it is difficult to disassemble the aero-engine correctly. For example, there are many small holes on the leaves of several square meters and centimeters, and the location of the small holes is very particular, which is determined according to the recorded trend.

  Until 2002, when the domestic turbojet -14 "Kunlun" engine was finalized, China completed the whole process of self-development for the first time, and became the fifth aero-engine producer after the United States, Russia, Britain and France.

  Stage 2: successful localization by purchasing patents.

  The engine used in the flying leopard fighter is made in China and is called "Qinling", which is alsoIt is the first engine product in China that has been patented and successfully localized.

  From introduction to localization, it has experienced 30 years of industrial upgrading. In 1972, China contacted Britain to discuss the introduction of the civil turbofan engine from rolls royce. In 1974, during the negotiation, to our surprise, China directly obtained the patent of Spey military engine, which was a top product at that time.

  However, despite the patent, China’s new industrial materials and other technologies were too backward at that time. It was not until 2013 that this road of localization was completed, and it was equipped on the J-H -7 Flying Leopard fighter, and Flying Leopard became the only main fighter in China that completely got rid of its dependence on imported engines.

  Stage 3: Own independent intellectual property rights.

  In December 2005, turbofan -10, also known as "Taihang" engine, was successfully developed and became my engine.China’s first high-performance turbofan engine with independent intellectual property rights.

  The road to research and development of Taihang engine is also quite difficult. During the test flight, more than 200 technical problems and failures occurred successively. After hard work, the "Taihang" engine was finally equipped on the J -15 fighter and successfully made its first flight in 2012. On a group of J -20 equipment exposed at the beginning of this year, some military fans found that a J -20 was also equipped with an improved Taihang engine. Some military experts said that the "Taihang" engine can be directly equipped on the fourth generation fighter, which laid a good foundation for continuing to develop more advanced, mature and reliable engines in the future.

1000 horsepower output warrior 917 will be launched this year.

  [car home Information] Recently, it was revealed at the relevant meeting of Warrior Automotive Technology Company that the first model M18-2 of Warrior will be put on the market in 2023, and the new car is expected to be named Warrior 917. The new car is based on the M TECH Warrior Intelligent Off-road Architecture, which adopts the domain-controlled centralized electronic and electrical architecture supporting technologies such as 5G communication and Gigabit Ethernet, and the most comprehensive electronically controlled intelligent chassis system. It is reported that the price of Warrior SUV, which focuses on the luxury pure electric off-road market, is expected to be more than 700,000 yuan.

Dongfeng Motor M-Terrain 2023 Basic Model

  In terms of appearance, the new car has sharp edges and corners, adopts trapezoidal mid-net design and internal wave shape, and the headlights adopt X-shaped cross daytime running lights. The design of the whole bumper has been renewed, which is more in line with the design of the production car. Judging from the various probes and other equipment on the front window, it is expected that the new car may be equipped with relevant driver assistance systems. Previously, the press conference said that the new car will have L3 intelligent driver assistance system.

Dongfeng Motor M-Terrain 2023 Basic Model

Dongfeng Motor M-Terrain 2023 Basic Model

  At the rear of the vehicle, the cross taillights are retained, and the size of the rear window is not small. The rear end adopts a "small schoolbag" type external spare tire, and the rear tailgate adopts a side-opening design. The rear bumper has also been optimized, adopting the design of a production car. At the rear of the car, we saw the logo of Warrior 917, which was suspected to be the name of a new car.

Dongfeng Motor M-Terrain 2023 Basic Model

  In terms of interior, the overall interior of the new car is still the design style of a hard-core SUV, which is as sharp as the appearance, and has the design characteristics of American cars. The new car adopts a floating dashboard and a central control panel, and at the same time, there is a streaming rearview mirror. The overall configuration will look quite luxurious.

Dongfeng Motor M-Terrain 2023 Basic Model

  In terms of power, it is expected that the production version will continue the power reserve of the concept car. The whole car is equipped with four motors, with a power output of 1000 horsepower and an acceleration of 4.2 seconds at 0-100km/h, which makes off-road scenes such as climbing and sand washing have stronger lasting power. (Text/car home Qin Chao)

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The exterior design of the Asian Dragon is full of modern and dynamic, with a bold family-style design on the front face. The iconic polygonal air intake grille shows strength and refinement, and the sharp LED headlight group forms a strong visual impact. The body lines are smooth, and the overall style is both business and sports, showing the unique charm and advanced sense of the Asian Dragon.

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The side lines of the Asian Dragon are smooth and elegant, the body size is 4990mm*1850mm*1450mm, and the wheelbase is up to 2870mm, showing a spacious sense of space. The front and rear wheels are 1595mm and 1605mm respectively, ensuring good stability. The tire size is 215/55 R17, which matches the delicate wheel design, which not only enhances the driving performance, but also adds to the visual beauty of the vehicle.

唐山亚洲龙特价出售,最低售价15.08万!不容错过

The interior design of the Asian Dragon is exquisite and practical, showing the perfect fusion of luxury and technology. The center console uses a large 10.25-inch screen, with modern touch operation, which is convenient for the driver to control the vehicle information and entertainment system. The steering wheel is made of plastic material, although it is not wrapped in leather, but it is comfortable to hold and supports manual up and down and front and rear adjustment, ensuring convenient operation for the driver. As for the seats, the fabric material is used to provide good comfort. The main and auxiliary seats support multi-directional adjustment, including front and rear, backrest and high and low, to meet the needs of different drivers. The car is equipped with multimedia/charging interfaces, such as Type-C interface, and the front and rear rows provide 3 and 2 interfaces respectively, which is convenient for passengers to connect devices. The overall interior design pays attention to detail, creating a comfortable and pleasant riding environment.

唐山亚洲龙特价出售,最低售价15.08万!不容错过

The Asian Dragon is equipped with a 2.0L displacement L4 engine with a maximum power of 127 kilowatts, providing the driver with 173 horsepower output. Combined with the advanced CVT continuously variable transmission (simulated 10 gears), this powertrain not only guarantees a smooth driving experience, but also provides high-efficiency torque output, with a maximum torque of 206 Nm. This configuration plays a key role in meeting daily driving needs and enhancing driving pleasure.

To sum up, the Autohome owner was full of praise for the exterior design of the Asian Dragon. He believed that this model perfectly matched his aesthetics and ideals. The careful carving of the front face shape and the air intake grille design won him and his friends wide praise. This exterior design is undoubtedly a highlight of the Asian Dragon, which not only satisfies the personal preferences of the owner, but also inspires the desire of potential consumers to buy.

Nicholas Tse takes a group photo with passers-by and William Chan: secretly serving the people

Nicholas Tse helps people take pictures

Nicholas Tse helps people take pictures

William Chan

William Chan

Nicholas Tse

Nicholas Tse

??   On January 20, William Chan posted a photo of him and passers-by at the ski resort, and wrote: "I can’t think of who took the photo for you, thank you photographer Nicholas Tse." Later, Nicholas Tse retweeted: "Secretly serving the people". In the photo, Chan Weiting is wearing a hat, windproof glasses, mask and leaning against passers-by, while Nicholas Tse is holding up his mobile phone to take a photo of him and passers-by. Users have said: "Hahahahaha, Brother Feng is too warm-hearted", "I’m jealous, so envious".