Can the self-heating food praised by capital become the "next instant noodle"?

  Text | "Financial Weekly" reporter Li Yuxi Intern Luo Yubai Liu Yangnan

  The rainstorm disaster in Henan province is serious, instant noodles have become important relief materials as before, but self-heating food, which has high hopes from capital, has not come in handy at this critical moment.

  Self-heating food refers to prepackaged foods which is heated by its own heating bag without relying on electricity or fire. When in use, just put the special heating bag at the bottom of the food box and pour a cup of cold water to make steaming food.

  In 2020, the epidemic broke out suddenly, and the self-heating food, which has been tepid, got a rare opportunity for development. New brands and products emerged one after another, and capital followed suit. Self-heating food was once thought to be expected to take over instant noodles as the next "national food".

  However, with the national epidemic peak receding, the take-away and in-house food formats gradually returned to normal, and industries such as pre-made food rose, and the heat of self-heated food also dissipated. Single eating scene, high price, safety and other issues have all become obstacles for self-heating food to embark on the road of "national food".

  With high hopes from capital and bets from many enterprises, self-heating food is facing a growth dilemma. Is it still expected to become the "next instant noodle"? What should we do next?

  Is the self-heating food cold?

  The founder of a well-known domestic catering brand told the reporter that self-heating food appeared in early 2000 and remained tepid until 2017. 2017 is a turning point. Without much marketing promotion, self-heating hot pot began to become popular, which is partly due to changes in the consumer market that have driven changes in the industry.

  The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 has changed the development of self-heating food.

  During the outbreak of the epidemic, the restaurant and take-out were blocked, and the demand for special home food brought about a spurt of self-heating food. Omni-channel sales have soared, major e-commerce platforms are out of stock quickly, and offline supermarkets are "in short supply". Self-heating food has become the first choice for many people to solve the problem of eating at home during the special period.

  Tmall data shows that since February 2020, the overall sales volume of convenience foods has increased by 7 times year-on-year, among which self-heating foods have the fastest increase. During the Spring Festival, the online order volume of "Zi Hei Guo" exceeded 200%, and the shipment volume of "Shi Ren" increased by 30% year-on-year, and the turnover in March increased to 90 million yuan.

  What followed was the follow-up of brands and capital. According to the incomplete statistics of the reporter of Caijing National Weekly, at present, there are more than 350 self-heating food brands on the market.

  In the convenience food industry, after the unified introduction of self-heating food, Jinmailang, Master Kong, Baixiang, Zhengda and Keming followed suit. Outside the industry, Yang Guofu, who makes mala Tang, Haidilao and Xiaolongkan, who make hot pot, and even snack brands such as Three Squirrels and Liangpin Shop, as well as online celebrity, such as Li Ziqi, have all entered the market.

  Capital with a keen sense of smell will naturally not let go of this fiery new field.

  In May, 2020, in just one month, there were three tens of millions of financing in the field of fast food, namely "eater", "self-hi pot" and "Mo Xiaoxian". The investors included well-known investment institutions such as Gaoying Group, Jingwei China and Jinding Capital. Among them, as the "first brand" of self-heating food, the self-cooking pot has been established for more than three years, and it has already received five rounds of financing, of which the C++ round of financing has exceeded 100 million yuan.

  However, the spring of self-heating food seems to be too short. After the domestic epidemic situation has been effectively controlled, take-away food, in-house food and other formats have returned, and self-heating food is no longer the main choice of consumers. In the second half of 2020, self-heating food will enter a downward channel.

  A business manager who provides heating packages for self-heating food factories was deeply touched by this. He told reporters that since the second half of last year, the heat of self-heating food has dropped, and the orders for heating packages have dropped significantly. In the face of market changes, the factory has to adjust the product structure to avoid being more affected.

  "A wave of people buy self-heating food for early adopters. After curiosity, the overall sales volume will inevitably decline." A person in charge of a self-heating food brand told reporters that since the beginning of this year, the overall sales volume of self-heating food has been slightly better than that of the same period in 2019, but it has declined compared with last year.

  In the person in charge’s view, self-heating food broke out irrationally in 2020, but the reason why this kind of food can explode in 2020 also proves that it has a certain market demand, which is why the self-heating food category also achieved good growth in 2017-2019.

  More people in the industry are pessimistic about the growth of self-heating food.

  Zhu Danpeng, a food industry analyst in China, believes that self-heating food is not the outlet for the development of the food industry, but only a category that benefits from the special node of the epidemic. With the rapid development of take-away and pre-made products industry, the market space of self-heating food has been squeezed to some extent.

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  "It costs money to eat hot pot, and it is terrible to eat self-heating hot pot." Compared with instant noodles with simple operation and high food safety, the operational safety of self-heating of heating package has always been a questioned risk point of self-heating food, and related food safety problems have occurred frequently.

  Not long ago, the Shanghai Consumer Protection Committee conducted a comparative experiment on self-heating hot pot to further understand the current safety and quality status of self-heating instant hot pot. The results showed that 16 of the 20 samples had different degrees of deformation at the bottom of the cooking pot, and the bottom of the cooking pot of four samples named Kaka Shamo Xiaoxian, Shu Girl, Zhen Xin and Mu Ge had obvious deformation.

  The main reason is that self-heating food is still a new industry in China, and has not yet formed a certain system scale. Most domestic self-heating food brands adopt OEM production, without their own production lines, and the product quality is difficult to control.

  Zhu Danpeng said that from the policy point of view, at present, China has not yet issued a national standard for self-heating food, and the industries are mixed and the brands are mixed, which increases the danger of the industry.

  As the product of "lazy economy" and "otaku economy", the high price of self-heating food also makes it difficult for lazy people to say that they love it.

  The reporter visited a large supermarket in Beijing and found that the price of self-heating chafing dish with a net content of about 150g was higher than that of 30 yuan, and some products even approached 40 yuan, while the price of self-heating rice was generally higher than that of 20 yuan, which was a huge difference compared with instant noodles with a net content of less than 10 yuan per barrel.

  People in the industry interviewed believe that self-heating food is mainly for "lazy people" or third-and fourth-tier consumer groups who are extremely sensitive to price, and the price of tens of dollars can only make them flinch.

  "Not as a last resort, I won’t choose self-heating food. The price is too expensive, I can’t use so much money to order a takeaway, and the taste is better than self-heating food. " Xiao Yi, a standard "house girl" engaged in video editing, said.

  The reporter learned from the survey that it is not without reason that self-heating food is priced like this.

  The person in charge of the above-mentioned self-heating food brand told the reporter that the high price of self-heating food comes from high cost. A product of self-heating food should include package, heating package, container box, etc. Only the product cost price of higher quality products should exceed that of 10 yuan. Generally, the cost of self-heating food accounts for 50% of the retail price of the market, that is to say, under the gross profit margin of 50%, the enterprise has to cut 20%-30% of the channel expenses, and the final profit can only be controlled at about 20%.

  In addition to the difficulty in forming the advantages of instant noodles in price, the single taste and usage scenarios of self-heating food also stop consumers who have the ability to buy.

  An industry source told reporters that because most brands are OEM, the sources of raw materials are basically the same, and even some brand products are from the same manufacturer, it is not surprising that the tastes are not much different.

  The person in charge of the above-mentioned self-heating food brand admits that the use scenario of the self-heating food industry does have certain limitations: "So the competition in the future industry will mainly focus on product taste. In order to improve food recovery, self-heating food enterprises have made great efforts and made great progress in meat production technology, constantly improving user experience and generating user stickiness. "

  It’s a little far from the next "instant noodles"

  In recent years, with the decline of instant noodle industry, there has been a brief outbreak of self-heating food, and there are endless discussions about whether self-heating food will become "another" national food after instant noodles. Now it seems that self-heating food is far from becoming the next "instant noodles".

  "We can’t replace instant noodles. First of all, there is no way on the price, because the reason why a category has a national degree is that everyone needs to be able to afford it." The person in charge of the above-mentioned self-heating food brand is very calm about the positioning of the self-heating food industry.

  Zhu Danpeng said that the possibility of self-heating food becoming "national food" is very small. On the one hand, it is limited by the lack of industry standards. On the other hand, the expansion of self-heating food categories is squeezed, which will hinder the development of the industry.

  In addition to the category disadvantages, the distance between self-heating food mainly based on OEM and "national food" is still worse than the whole supply chain system and the channel system that goes deep into the capillary market.

  Considering the operating cost of enterprises, most enterprises can greatly save the input cost by adopting OEM production, but the biggest problem in this form is the lack of quality control management, which leads to the inevitable product quality problems.

  At the same time, because most enterprises in the self-heating food industry pattern are not from the food industry, they have insufficient experience in channel construction and food production management, and there is still a long way to go to really get familiar with this field.

  "In fact, we are now very envious of those brands whose offline channels are very mature. From the perspective of channels, the whole industry is still in the trial and error stage." The person in charge of the above-mentioned self-heating food brand admits that the biggest obstacle at present is the construction of offline channels, which is different from online sales that can be created by marketing and platform power. The construction of offline channels is not achieved overnight, but it is always the offline channels that really determine the future of brand development.

  At present, self-heating food industry enterprises can be divided into three types:

  For a kind of catering enterprises such as Haidilao and Dalongyi, self-heating food is a choice for their business diversification. The advantage of this kind of enterprises lies in their high brand awareness and advantages in marketing, and two different types of production and management logic in catering industry and food industry are the problems that this kind of enterprises must solve.

  The second category is the brand of the transformation terminal at the supply chain end. The advantage of this kind of brand is to rely on the advantages of the supply chain to optimize the product price, but it lacks brand power and is slightly weak in brand operation and marketing.

  The third category, such as self-help pot, is a brand cultivated under Internet thinking. It is good at using Internet thinking and can rely on capital to make the brand bigger in a short time. However, the disadvantages of offline channels are bound to lay a hidden worry for its future development.

  People in the industry interviewed believe that after a short period of explosive growth, the self-heating food industry, which is in a downward channel, is entering the stage of industry reshuffle. After many small and medium-sized brands make waves, resources are concentrated in several head brands, and the market pattern of self-heating hot pot is expected to take shape basically this year.

  It can be judged that with the introduction of small and medium-sized brands, the self-heating food industry will change from barbaric growth to brand intensification. In the future, with the continuous growth of big brands, the industry will be more standardized and the future can be expected.

The boy was beaten into a coma by his stepfather, and his mother sprinkled salt on the wound many times (Figure)

  Too cruel! Stepfather abused six-year-old child’s biological mother and sprinkled salt on the wound.

  Reporter Jiang Qiongbo correspondent Zhu Enhong’s photo report

  "I am willing to give up the custody of Xiao Han!" In the court, Xiao Han’s mother, Zhao, was indifferent to the judge sitting on the trial bench. A few days ago, the Qilin District Court of Qujing City set up a circuit court in the village committee of Shuijing, dongshan town, and heard the case of revocation of custody.

  6-year-old boy in danger

  "The 6-year-old Xiao Han is in a very bad situation. It is necessary to contact Qujing Children’s Welfare Institute, which will temporarily supervise him!" The staff of the Women’s Federation of Qilin District of Qujing City said.

  The Women’s Federation complained that in 2011, Xiao Han’s biological mother was introduced to live with Hu Mou, a villager in Jiemi Village, Gaojia Village Committee, dongshan town, and gave birth to Xiao Han in the same year. Because of the disharmony between the two, Xiao Han’s biological mother broke up with Hu, who thought Xiao Han was not his own and was unwilling to raise him. Later, poor Xiao Han lived with her mother.

  In 2015, Xiao Han’s mother lived with Tao, a villager in the forbidden grass village of Shuijing Village Committee. In March 2016, Qilin District Women’s Federation received a report from the masses that a 5-year-old child of Shuijing Village Committee in dongshan town had been beaten by her stepfather for a long time. Immediately, the District Women’s Federation joined the town, village committee, police station, judicial bureau and other departments to go to the parties’ homes to understand the situation.

  After careful examination, there was no new injury on the child. The District Women’s Federation severely criticized and educated her stepfather Tao, and the police station issued a warning to Tao. Tao himself accepted the criticism and promised not to hit the child again.

  Apply for revocation of custody

  However, since then, Xiao Han has been beaten many times, and the police station has visited the house many times. His stepfather Tao denied the fact of beating, and his mother also said that "the injury was caused by naughty wrestling."

  In August 2017, Qilin District Women’s Federation once again received feedback from the masses and came to Shuijing Village Committee. It was found that Xiao Han dropped out of school at home, and there were many obvious scars all over his body. The wound on his head was covered with pus, and his left arm was fractured. Because he was not treated in time, his arm was deformed and could not move freely.

  At the same time, Zhao, the mother of the child, also said that she was unable to raise Xiao Han, unwilling to raise her children, and hoped that good people in the society would adopt Xiao Han …

  The Women’s Federation of Qilin District, Qujing City believes that the respondent Zhao’s behavior has seriously violated the legitimate rights and interests of Xiao Han, and requests the people’s court to revoke Zhao’s custody according to law, and appoint Qujing Children’s Welfare Institute as Xiao Han’s guardian according to law.

  Stepfather violence, mother salting.

  Xiao Han said that his stepfather often punched and kicked him, sometimes beat him with tools such as tongs and sticks, sometimes kicked him directly from upstairs, sometimes beat him with his arm, and sometimes called him up in the middle of the night for no reason. He was in a coma many times, but his mother only verbally stopped it and did not give any protection.

  What is even more incredible is that after the child’s head was injured by his stepfather, his mother Zhao foolishly sprinkled salt on the child’s head wound …

  According to the inspection by the Public Security Judicial Appraisal Center of Qilin District, Xiao Han has 12 burns, healed scars and old scars. The total length of head and scalp scars is 18cm, the upper front teeth fall off and the left upper limb is fractured. Xiao Han was comprehensively assessed as a minor injury.

  Xiao Han was sentenced to the care of welfare homes.

  After hearing the case, the People’s Court of Qilin District held that the respondent Zhao, as Xiao Han’s mother, not only failed to protect Xiao Han when Xiao Han was injured for a long time, but abandoned her son Xiao Han after the relevant departments intervened and criticized her behavior, and her behavior had seriously damaged Xiao Han’s physical and mental health, so she should no longer be Xiao Han’s guardian. In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of minors, according to the relevant laws and regulations of our country, the defendant Zhao was disqualified as the guardian of Xiao Han, and the third person Qujing Children’s Welfare Institute was appointed as the guardian of Xiao Han. This judgment is for life.

  Heart-piercing question and answer

  At the trial, the presiding judge was also very distressed by Xiao Han and had the following questions and answers with his biological mother Zhao.

  Judge: After Xiao Han was injured, how did you handle the wound?

  Zhao: Wipe it for him with wine!

  Judge: Have you used anything other than wine?

  Zhao: (Silence …)

  Judge: Have you ever sprinkled salt on Xiao Han’s wound?

  Zhao: a little, I think it will be better soon!

  Judge: If you are injured yourself, will you put salt on the wound?

  Zhao: Yes!

Bainian

  It is a long and extensive custom to pay New Year greetings. Children pay New Year greetings to their parents, and younger generations pay New Year greetings to their elders. I remember that as soon as I could walk, I followed my parents to pay New Year greetings to my elders and uncles. Nowadays, although this custom is changing quietly, its cultural connotation has not faded, and that beautiful memory is deeply in my mind.

  In my hometown, Yimeng Mountain, after eating Chinese New Year in jiaozi, the first important thing for the younger generation is to put on new clothes for the Chinese New Year, dress up in a straight manner and be full of spirits, and pay a New Year call to the elders, but also take advantage of "early". Every family is a stone-built house and courtyard wall. Most of Westinghouse’s younger generations live in it, while the East House is a cooking pot house, and the elders live in it. During the Chinese New Year, it is snowing heavily, freezing in the cold, and the temperature of the cooking pot house is high, which is the first choice for New Year greetings. Families should prepare some rare things such as fried peanuts, melon seeds, candy bars and cigarettes. Older people sit cross-legged on the warm kang, and when the younger generation offers their blessings, they kowtow and bow, thank their ancestors and enjoy their family. When the elders meet unfamiliar people, they have to drag their voices and ask, "Whose daughter-in-law is this?" "Whose child is this, and what’s its name-?"

  When I was a child, just after eating jiaozi, people came to pay a New Year call at home. My father was busy handing out cigarettes and tea and greeting and thanking me, while my mother was busy taking candy, holding peanuts and handing melon seeds. Grandpa, sitting on the kang, spread his face wrinkled and his beard cocked up with laughter. He said happily, "Happy Chinese New Year! Let’s have fun. The more people, the better."

  I have to take my younger brother and sister with me to pay a New Year call to the elders near the door. The old man repeatedly told me who to go to first, then who to go to, and don’t forget who to go to. The younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elder, and the elder will give the younger generation "lucky money", which is the reward and blessing of the elder to the younger generation. It doesn’t matter whether you have more money or less, it’s the heart that counts.

  Welcome New Year, Chinese New Year and New Year greetings every year. I have experienced a historical change in the way of New Year greetings. From bowing and kowtowing to New Year’s greetings by letters, telegrams and greeting cards, from telephone, pager messages and mobile phone messages to Weibo, WeChat and online video … New Year’s greetings are changing, and the enthusiasm for New Year’s greetings is undiminished. On New Year’s Eve, families eat New Year’s Eve together, watch the Spring Festival Gala, and pay New Year’s greetings by SMS and WeChat. From time to time, there will be video calls: "Congratulations, Happy New Year!"

  The sound of New Year’s greetings conveys the anticipation and hope of the new year, full of prosperous and delicious hopes …

Take the lead in building "the whole ecology of people and cars", why Xiaomi?

Author | Wang Jingya/Wen Shuzhijuan/Editor

"In the past, Xiaomi has been learning, growing and accumulating. Today, Xiaomi has ushered in a leap moment." On October 26th, Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, announced that Xiaomi Group’s strategy has been officially upgraded to "the whole ecology of people, cars and homes", which integrates personal equipment, smart home and smart travel into an organic whole with people as the center. The key to carrying Xiaomi’s new strategy is Xiaomi’s OS.

With the development of Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence technology, the Internet of Everything has become a trend. In the future, mobile phones, smart homes, smart cars, and even robots will break the boundaries and cooperate across devices, but the scene will become more complicated. Operating system plays a particularly critical role in the cross-terminal connection of devices, and its innovation is as important as chips, semiconductors, and advanced processes.

Crucially, the appearance of Xiaomi’s surging OS is not only a turning point for Xiaomi to take the lead in realizing the layout of "people, cars and homes are all ecological", but also a microcosm of China science and technology companies’ continuous breakthrough, continuous innovation, improvement of international competitiveness and efforts to win the crown jewel of science and technology. From Huawei’s Harmony OS to Xiaomi’s surging OS, from BYD’s blade battery and Yunqi chassis technology to Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited Shenxing’s rechargeable battery "getting on the bus", China’s science and technology enterprises have moved from following to leading, and gradually grown into global enterprises with "advanced strength".

Xiaomi 澎 OS is online.China technology moves from following to leading.

78 years ago, the appearance of Von Neumann architecture determined that binary logic, program storage and execution, and computer were composed of five parts, so that hardware design and program design could be executed separately. On this basis, the operating system manages the software and hardware resources.

In the field of mobile devices, due to the change of operating system, different ecosystems have been derived and different moderns have been shaped. In the era when Symbin system dominated the rivers and lakes, Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson and other enterprises blossomed and occupied a large market share. However, there are always innovators who are constantly pushing the times forward. In 2007, Google named an operating system based on Linux kernel Android. In the same year, Apple announced an operating system at Macworld conference and renamed it ios in 2010.

When the mobile terminal represented by the mobile phone entered the intelligent age, the former king gradually faded out of the stage. In 2013, Nokia announced that it would no longer release Symbian mobile phones. Since then, the emerging Android and ios have been competing for many years, and the market has also been divided into Apple’s whole family barrel and Android camp.

Based on the operating system, technology companies represented by Apple quickly established an ecological moat to seize the market on a global scale. However, in the past years, the mobile terminal field only lacked the presence of competitive China enterprises. In fact, in the past, China enterprises were in a state of following for a long time, and all kinds of knockoffs that ran rampant in the market once became synonymous with China’s science and technology industry.

Although China science and technology enterprises are accelerating to catch up, it will not happen overnight from catching up to surpassing. Especially in the bottom innovation level such as operating system, from the point of view of importance, it is the key for China science and technology enterprises to get rid of the "bottleneck" of supply chain, and it is also an important link to establish their own ecology and lead scientific and technological innovation. Its research and development is as difficult and important as chips and advanced processes that are well known by all walks of life. From the perspective of investment scale, the huge R&D expenses, long R&D cycle and unpredictable complex risks are the real challenges faced by China science and technology enterprises.

When Lei Jun introduced Xiaomi 澎湃 OS, he said: "The positioning of Xiaomi 澎湃 OS is people-centered, and it is to create an ecological operating system for people, cars and homes. This goal is extremely ambitious. After 13 years of exploration, Xiaomi has been researched and developed for 7 years. At the beginning, Xiaomi soldiers were divided into four ways, involving mobile phone operating system, embedded operating system, self-developed operating system and car system. Two years ago, Xiaomi made up his mind to integrate and unify the software architecture and the bottom of the system. This time, the reconstruction of the bottom of the system, Xiaomi Group participated in more than 5,000 engineers. "

At present, in the field of operating systems, Huawei HarmonyOS, which took seven years and more than 4,000 R&D personnel to develop, followed by Xiaomi’s surging OS. With the support of Huawei and Xiaomi, China’s science and technology industry has entered a new stage of development. Based on the huge user ecology, China science and technology enterprises have achieved a key turning point from following to leading in the international market.

"The operating system is the cornerstone of the development of the ICT industry. If the software is a variety of passengers and the hardware is an airplane, then it is the operating system that uses the underlying resources to play a scheduling role in the middle. It is the terminal building connecting hardware and software. " Wu Chao, director of CITIC Construction Investment Research Institute and chief analyst of TMT industry, said metaphorically.

In Wu Chao’s view, the most important thing about Xiaomi 澎湃 OS is that it rewrites the entire underlying system architecture. In addition to continuing the original Linux and Vela kernels, AI-related modules are added to ensure the stability and reliability of the operating system.

People-centeredTake the lead in realizing the layout of "people, cars and homes are all ecological"

In 2016, Alpha Go, a robot developed by Google, caused a sensation all over the world by beating the world champion of Go 4:1 in a Go match. Recently, driven by technologies such as 5G and big data, the artificial intelligence industry has entered a period of rapid development. In particular, the emergence of a large model represented by Chat GPT has made people realize that AI has moved from basics to intelligence.

With the rise of the Internet of Things and smart cars, more and more devices will realize cross-terminal circulation and collaboration, and the generation of a large amount of data combined with large models is expected to make AI smarter. However, it is not easy to achieve smooth flow and combination between different types of equipment. It involves chips, sensors, communication technology, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, application ecological construction and other latitudes. In order to achieve this goal, different scientific and technological enterprises have increased their investment and stepped out of their own development paths.

Previously, Huawei put forward the "1+8+n" strategy, and based on HarmonyOS’s ecology, it realized cross-device circulation and formed a super terminal. Xiaomi is constantly laying out around the IoT field. In 2014, Xiaomi began to enter the IoT field; In 2017, Xiaomi released the self-developed Xiaomi Vela OS to gradually unify the loT equipment system; In 2023, Xiaomi 澎湃 OS realized the all-device cross-end convergence architecture, and the whole scene of mobile phone, car and AIoT will be unified in architecture and communication.

Although the strategic names are different, the core behind Huawei’s and Xiaomi’s strategies is to make AI serve people and take people as the center, so that AI can understand people’s thoughts more and more, and provide people with more personalized and accurate services in different scenarios.

At present, facing the new round of opportunities brought by the big model, China science and technology enterprises have increased their prices. Among them, Huawei and Baidu accelerate the layout from the chip layer, architecture layer and application layer, while Xiaomi deeply integrates the self-developed AI model with Xiaomi 澎湃 OS, realizing the whole ecology of people, cars and homes, and establishing an interconnection experience of self-perception and self-decision.

In fact, Xiaomi’s opening up of the ecology of people and cars is not unrelated to the development of the automobile industry. New energy vehicles are an important way for China to overtake in the automobile industry. In recent years, China enterprises including BYD and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited have continuously increased their investment in technology research and development, which has promoted China’s new energy industry chain, new energy vehicle technology and battery technology to occupy a leading position in the international market.

Intelligentization is the competition focus of new energy automobile industry in the future. In the past period of time, China enterprises including Huawei, Geely and Weilai have been exploring the interconnection technology between cars and mobile phones, and even more devices. Xiaomi is using Xiaomi 澎湃 OS to achieve this idea and let the smart experience land in the scene of the car.

In the future, when users are sitting in the car, if they encounter beautiful scenery, they can call the car camera to take pictures and share the photos with friends through their mobile phones. At the same time, with the blessing of the big model, the device will independently understand the user’s preferences and living habits, such as leaving for work at eight o’clock every morning, and the system will automatically generate corresponding commuting suggestions.

"In recent years, the development of mobile Internet has been very rapid. On the one hand, the system driven by China enterprises meets the market demand, on the other hand, it also accelerates the innovation speed of the entire technology industry in the process of accelerating technology iteration." Guan Qingyou, vice president of China Private Economy Research Association, said that Xiaomi has built an ecosystem of people and cars, and this system is our advantage.

Continue to overweight innovationChina science and technology enterprises are going international.

The appearance of Xiaomi’s surging OS is not accidental, and this scene can only appear in the China market.

In the past ten years, China has gradually developed into the largest producer and marketer of consumer electronics, and domestic mobile phone brands account for over 60% of the global market. At the same time, China is also the largest smart home market in the world; In the automotive field, China’s new energy vehicle production and sales ranked first in the world for 8 consecutive years; In the field of AI, China’s artificial intelligence technology is also showing the trend of competing with foreign markets.

Xiaomi has complied with the development cycle of science and technology in the future, and developed an operating system which was initiated by China science and technology enterprises and linked with the intelligence of all things.

In fact, Xiaomi’s surging OS is only the tip of China technology company’s continuous innovation and improvement of international competitiveness. To become an "advanced and powerful" global technology enterprise is not aimed at upgrading a single technology, but more at a comprehensive breakthrough. Xiaomi 14 series, which was unveiled with Xiaomi 澎湃 OS, is equipped with a variety of "black technologies" such as congruent deep micro-curved screen, Xiaomi Longjing glass, and endless iris, which makes Xiaomi grow from benchmarking apple to surpassing apple and leads the industry to realize the key leap of mobile optics.

At present, the pace of innovation of science and technology enterprises in China is far from stopping. Lei Jun once said that Xiaomi’s goal after entering the new decade is to invest in the underlying core technologies on a large scale. Xiaomi will choose areas with long-term value for human civilization, and achieve deep integration of software and hardware and comprehensive empowerment of AI. In the next five years, Xiaomi will invest at least 100 billion RMB as research and development funds.

It can’t be ignored that the innovation of China science and technology enterprises not only drives the development of the enterprises themselves, but also the upgrading of the whole industrial chain. For example, Xiaomi’s intelligent manufacturing system is constantly being exported to the whole manufacturing industry. Some supply chain cooperative enterprises, including Lansi Technology and Longqi Technology, have enabled a complete set of production line equipment and smart factory systems exported by Xiaomi. Driven by Huawei, Xiaomi, BYD and other enterprises, Huawei’s industrial chain, Xiaomi’s industrial chain and automobile industrial chain have gradually grown into international models.

The overall upgrading of the industrial chain has accelerated the process of China’s scientific and technological enterprises going abroad, and more and more China’s scientific and technological enterprises have begun to go abroad and compete with overseas head enterprises in the international market. Take Xiaomi as an example, its business has entered more than 100 countries and regions. As of the second quarter of 2023, Xiaomi smartphones ranked in the top three in 51 markets around the world and ranked in the top five in 61 markets; In June 2023, the monthly users of MIUI operating system reached 606 million, of which more than 455 million were overseas users.

"The speed of scientific and technological progress in China in recent years can be described by leaps and bounds. Not only has significant progress been made in core technologies such as chips, but science and technology have also driven the accelerated upgrading of high-end manufacturing. This is due to the huge market in China and the efforts of China enterprises, as well as international competition. " Guan Qingyou believes that strengthening self-research and realizing autonomous and controllable technology by head enterprises is not only a way for China to cope with the "bottleneck" of technology, but also an inevitable option after technology development enters no man’s land. China has entered an explosive period of scientific and technological progress. In the future, more and more technologies will be in the leading position in the world, which will promote the upgrading and transformation of the industrial chain and enhance global competitiveness.

Anti-shedding doesn’t work at all? Learn how to "cover up" the hairline

  Introduction: Some time ago, the issue of hair loss was frequently searched. Has it opened the model of national hair loss? (ELLE Chinese Network)

Current situation of hair loss in China

  Doctors talk about the current situation of hair loss in China: the post-80s and post-90s have become the main force for hair straightening! The post-8090s account for more than 35% of the hair loss population. It seems that the advance of hair loss has become a real fact, and the number is not a minority. So why is hair loss happening?

  Enthusiastic netizens summed up a very "important" reason, being single makes people lose hair. Haha, just kidding.

Users ridicule

  However, if you think about it, severe hair loss will really affect the appearance, and affecting the appearance will really affect the search for a partner. Even our male god "Wu Yanzu" lamented "I hope my hair is back".

Wu Yanzu Weibo

  Nowadays, with the increase of age, the male god’s facial features have hardly changed, but he is gradually threatened by the hairline. But if it used to be Xiao Fresh Meat, now it is a strong masculine smell, and it is still very handsome!

  Yang Mi has also been complained by everyone because of the hairline problem in the play. With such a tight hairstyle, I really feel distressed for its hairline.

Yang Mi Weibo '

  Once in an interview, when asked if the hairline could retreat 10cm, Da Mimi blurted out "there is no place to retreat", which is enough to see that the hairline is too high is really a "pain point"~

  Song Qian is also a high-forehead star, but Song Qian has a lot of hair, so you can use the hairstyle to blur the little bug of the high hairline~

Song Qian

  Yang Zi also revealed in the interview that because she often wears wigs for a long time in ancient costumes, she also has the problem of her hairline gradually shifting back, so she has changed her hairstyle with bangs to relieve the "burden" of her hairline.

Yang Zi

  But let’s not worry too much, or overcorrect. The netizens say it well, having hair loss troubles means that you still have hair to lose, so while you still have hair, how can you defend this line of defense with practical actions?

  Girls with long hair that is difficult to take care of, easy to break and lose hair, you can try cutting short hair.

  In recent years, short hair has been at the forefront of fashion. It is not only fashionable and good-looking, but also can relieve the hair loss problem caused by long hair tails that are too heavy and pulled to the scalp. After cutting it short, there will be some improvement.

  After Tong Liya cut her short hair, because of the fluffy end of her hair, it did appear visually more voluminous. The clavicle hair not only modified the face shape, but also made the lines of the side face more obvious, and the temperament of the whole person became more distinctive.

Tong Liya

  After the little fairy Liu Shishi cut her short hair, she became much more playful, gentle and sweet without losing her youthful vitality. Adding some care to the top of the hair will not only increase the amount of hair, but also lose weight.

Liu Shishi

  After Miss Song Qian cut her short hair, she felt that she wanted to change her temperament. She was sweet and cool, and her fashion was even better. Her short tail and S bangs also modified her face and forehead!

Song Qian hairstyle comparison

  Is the receding hairline really worrying? Quickly cut a bangs to cover it up.

  The hairline is one inch higher and the appearance is reduced by 50 points. It’s really not a joke. Many girls tie their hair all back for a long time, or divide their hair one way to the end, resulting in sparse hairline hair. At this time, the best way is to cut a bangs.

  Da Mimi’s fluffy bangs can not only modify the forehead, but also visually make the face smaller, making the facial features more prominent and delicate.

Da Mimi

  Our brother Qi has bangs and no bangs are two styles of painting. After cutting bangs, the temperament is much softer. The lazy medium and long hair makes the sense of fashion line up, and the age reduction effect is also very good.

Qi Wei

  Miss Yang Zi’s hairstyle all back looks more mature, or a bangs full of air, which highlights her quirky characteristics, and compared with dark hair color, light hair color is more white and tender.

Yang Zi hairstyle comparison

  In addition to changing hairstyles, are anti-loss shampoos and instruments useful?

  The most important purpose of shampoo is to clean, and some shampoos contain some effective ingredients, which can play an anti-fungal, dandruff, oil, and other roles. It can relieve hair follicle inflammation or seborrheic hair loss to a certain extent, but whether it can help you grow hair is debatable.

  However, you can choose these cleaning products every day to clean more effectively and ensure the health of the scalp.

  WELLA Amino Acid Double Enhancement Nourishing Cream RMB238/250ml

WELLA Amino Acid Double Enhancement Nourishing Cream

  Zaol Zilvo Double Effect Hair Solidifier RMB349

Zaol Zilvo double effect hair growth agent

  Balmain Hair Night Deep Repair Essential Oil RMB668/30ml

Balmain Hair Night Deep Repair Essential Oil

  KéRASTASE Paris Cass Miracle Red Ampoule RMB500/10 pcs

KéRASTASE Paris Castles Miracle Red Ampoule

  RENE FURTERER Fu Lvdeya No. 80 Hair Solidification and Development Serum RMB528

RENE FURTERER Fu Lvdeya No. 80 Hair Solidification and Development Serum

  AVEDA INVATI ADVANCED ? Nourishing Shampoo by Singapore Shilla Duty Free Shop (not available in China)

  About RMB182/200ml

AVEDA INVATI ADVANCED ? Nourishing Shampoo

  Regarding the hair growth instrument, Shen Yue once mentioned on the program that she was very excited and hoped that her friends would give it to her.

Shen Yue participates in the program

  It seems that Xiaoyueyue also has the need to prevent hair loss, but she did not mention the specific effect. From the price point of view, it is so expensive to hope that it can really help the hair to regenerate!

Hair growth machine

  The reasons for hair loss are various, and the treatment methods for hair loss are different for different reasons. The number of hair loss in young people is increasing by 20% -30% every year, and the most important thing is caused by bad living habits. If you want to fundamentally prevent hair loss, you must pay attention to these points first.

  1. To maintain a happy mood, stress, nervousness, anxiety and other negative emotions will cause hair loss.

  Another doctor said: "Young people often have the bad habit of staying up late. Staying up late will not only change hormone levels, but also induce an increase in male hormones, which will lead to hair follicle miniaturization. In addition, if you stay up late to work and study, it may lead to insufficient nutrition for the scalp, affecting hair follicle regeneration. Finally, the hair enters the regression and resting period from the growth period, and it will naturally fall off." So are you still staying up late?

  2. Pay attention to your diet and don’t over-diet. Dieting will not only not make you lose weight healthily, but also make you bald, which is absolutely not worth the loss. Another point is daily hair and scalp care. Don’t over-perm, dye, and especially bleach, which will make the hair fragile and damage the scalp.

  3. Some people worry that frequent shampooing will lead to hair loss. This is a misunderstanding. Frequent shampooing will not lead to hair loss. Even for people with band seborrheic dermatitis, they should wash their hair frequently.

  You who have got so many anti-take-off coups, you still have to be happy every day and keep a happy mood to have more hair~

Shaanxi Zhouzhi is suspended, and all taxis resume operations


The buddies expressed satisfaction with the reply and handling of the relevant departments of the county government, and resumed operations one after another. Xin Fan, photo


  After many efforts, at 3:30 pm yesterday, more than 100 taxis suspended in Zhouzhi County gradually resumed normal operation.


  Yesterday, this newspaper and many other media reported the news that more than 100 taxi drivers in Zhouzhi County gathered in Yunta Square in the county seat to stop operating collectively because of the resurgence of the illegal operation of the "black three wheels". After the taxi outage incident, the Zhouzhi County Party Committee and the county government attached great importance to it. County Chief Zhang Yinshou presided over an emergency meeting to study the requirements put forward by taxi drivers one by one, and deployed a thorough crackdown on the "black three wheels" and further governance and rectification of the passenger market order.


  Learn from field experience to solve problems fundamentally


  It is understood that in recent years, Zhouzhi County has been insisting on cracking down on the operation of illegal tricycles, but due to the lack of relevant legal basis and effective means (cannot be banned), the operation of illegal tricycles has rebounded from time to time. Recently, Zhouzhi County has consulted the relevant departments at the higher level on this topic, and learned from the practices and experiences of other places, and began to fundamentally solve the problem of illegal operation of tricycles. Liu Shulin, assistant to the county magistrate and director of the county public security bureau, is in charge. The county traffic police brigade takes the lead, and the transportation bureau cooperates to strengthen the police force, increase the intensity of the crackdown, and conduct uninterrupted patrols to resolutely crack down on the illegal operation of tricycles.


  Transportation Bureau investigates and handles taxi company’s "arbitrary charging"


  The owners demanded a complete solution to the problem of charging at the Heihe toll station in the past. The county and the Xi’an Municipal Transportation Bureau communicated and charged Zhouzhi taxis 100 yuan per car per year, which was less than one-tenth of the normal vehicle. In response to the taxi company’s "arbitrary charges" reported by the owners, the person in charge of the relevant department explained to the taxi driver on the spot that the risk deposit and insurance of the vehicle were charged according to regulations. As for the transaction fee charged by the company and the undisclosed account for the purchase of new cars, it was investigated and dealt with by the Transportation Bureau. The unreasonable charges were immediately refunded, and the public account was made public in a timely manner. Individual owners suggested a lighter penalty for taxi violations, and the traffic police department made it clear that it would further strictly enforce the law to ensure normal traffic and transportation order. The public security department also said that in the future, it will further increase its efforts to crack down on car bandits and road bullies, so as to provide a safer and more harmonious production and living environment for the general public.


  All operations resumed at 4pm yesterday


  Yesterday morning, the public security and transportation departments of Zhouzhi County have organized forces to patrol the streets and enforce the law, confiscating more than 10 "black three wheels", and other "black three wheels" have also stopped operating. Deputy county head Liu Wuzhou led the transportation, public security and other departments to work on the spot to receive the petitioning taxi drivers and continue to patiently do publicity and persuasion work. At 3:30 pm, the petitioning taxi drivers expressed satisfaction with the government’s work and gradually resumed operations. At 4 pm, all the suspended taxis concentrated in Yunta Square resumed operations.

Editor in charge: Zhang Renhe

British architect Zaha passed away, his works include Wangjing SOHO and Galaxy SOHO

Zaha

Famous for Vitra Fire Station

  Zaha Hadi, a world-renowned British architect of Iraqi origin, died at 65 of a heart attack while being treated for bronchitis at a Miami hospital, according to a BBC report. She was known as the "witch" of architecture. She had four projects in Beijing: Wangjing SOHO, Galaxy SOHO, Lize SOHO and the new airport’s Terminal 1.

  Died suddenly in the hospital

  Zaha Hadid Architects confirmed her death on its Web site, which said she had contracted bronchitis earlier this week and had suffered a heart attack while being treated at a hospital. She died suddenly on the morning of March 31 local time. After the news of her death broke, the architects’ Web site was repeatedly busy and inaccessible.

  Extremely famous in the architectural world

  Zaha is well-known in international architecture, having become the first female architect to win the Pulitzer Prize in 2004, says Frank Gehry, a jury judge. "The 2004 winner is probably one of the youngest to win and one of the clearest designs I have seen in years. Her work is full of passion and innovation." Last year, Zaha became the first female architect to win the Royal Gold Medal, the highest award in British architecture, from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

  Zaha has designed many well-known architectural works around the world, such as the New National Arena in Tokyo, the BMW Central Building in Germany, the London Olympic Swimming Pool in the United Kingdom, the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Center, the Innsbruck Cable Car Station in Austria, the Fino Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany, the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art in the United States, and the 170-meter glass tower in Milan.

  In Beijing, Zaha’s work includes New Airport Terminal 1, Wangjing SOHO, Galaxy SOHO, and Lize SOHO.

  Zhang Xin, chief executive of Soho China, also wrote on Weibo last night: "I just received the shocking news that my good friend Zaha Hadid, an architect, died of a heart attack this morning in Miami. Seeing her in New York last week, I didn’t expect her to be the last of us."

  Zaha’s employee, Chinese architect Shen Jianghai:

  Her temper is just critical of the design itself

  "She has influenced almost everyone who does architectural design," Shen Jianghai, a Chinese architect and former employee of Zaha, told reporters in the morning. Since she was 19 years old and a freshman in college, Zaha has been her most admired architect, and this worship has continued to this day. It has not changed for more than a decade, and no designer can replace it. "It was Zaha who let me know that architecture can be different, and it was also she who taught me from my freshman year how important it is for designers to persevere!"

  Shen Jianghai said that in June 2010, he was fortunate enough to get an interview with Zaha Architects and then went to work there. During his working days, everyone worked in a small house that used to be renovated by a girls’ school, so they were able to see her often. Although Zaha’s temper is not very good, it does not affect the charm of a designer at all, and she is usually very gentle, and her temper is only critical of the design itself. "In fact, at that time, I felt that her physical condition was not very good."

  Controversies are also her charm

  Mr. Shen said it was not unusual for Mr. Zaha’s architectural work to be the subject of controversy online a few years ago over his project in Beijing, which was described by some as "the curve of God and the waves of heaven" and others as ugly.

  "The controversy about Zaha is not limited to China. In fact, the world has been full of controversy about Zaha since she was discovered by Japanese architect Isozaki after her first project. But this is also the charm of Zaha, because she has led architectural design to a completely different field. Without her persistence and even paranoia, people would not know that architecture can also be streamlined." Shin Jianghai said that what he admires most about Zaha is her criticism of reality and her non-conformity.

  Talking about Zaha and China, in Shen Jianghai’s observation, he felt that Zaha was very interested in China, and not just in the market. "In addition, she sometimes invites colleagues to eat, and she also likes to go to an expensive Chinese restaurant near Chinatown."

  Today, the Architect’s Moments are filled with tributes to Zaha. As Shen Jianghai said, without Zaha, he would not be who he is today, and his designs would not be what they are today. "Please go all the way, many people say, you led mankind to a new world, and then you returned to your planet."

  character life

  The road to fame is full of thorns

  Zaha was born in 1950 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, into a wealthy, enlightened family. Her parents believed in the independence of education, and they invested a lot of expectations in their daughter. Her father’s son, a close friend, was a brilliant architect, and the brother next door had a great influence on the young Zaha.

  In 1982, Zaha won the first prize in an international architectural competition held in Hong Kong, China, strengthening her belief in continuing in this field. However, Zaha’s work was rejected in the first review. It was Japanese architect Shin Isozaki who had the unique eyes to fish her plan out of the waste paper pile.

  Zaha was so inspired that she taught at Harvard, Yale and other prestigious universities, and her design works cover almost all design categories, including doors and windows, furniture, sculpture ornaments, lamps, chairs, water glasses and tableware. Her paintings are even more avant-garde and have been exhibited all over the world. Her works are permanently collected by industry authorities such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Deutsches Architecture Museum in Frankfurt.

  Ms. Zaha’s path to fame was fraught with thorns. Despite her early reputation as a "master deconstructionist," and despite her bold use of geometry and the many awards she has won, sometimes as many as four a year, many people still reject her bizarre designs.

Zhang Xinghai, Chairman of Sailis Automobile: Building a high-end smart travel life with technological innovation.

    On May 11th, People’s Daily published a series of articles on the theme of China Brand Day, "Driving Innovation to Stimulate Brand Vitality". Among them, Zhang Xinghai, the chairman of Sailis Automobile, introduced the vivid practice of enterprises to play a leading role in innovation and promote high-quality development with the theme of "building a high-end smart travel life with technological innovation". The content is as follows:

   Constructing high-end smart travel life with technological innovation

    Zhang Xinghai, Chairman of Sailisi Automobile

    Nowadays, the "digital intelligence" of the automobile industry is reshaping people’s lifestyles. As a technology-based manufacturing enterprise deeply involved in technological innovation, Sailis Automobile always adheres to the innovation drive, and is committed to promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional cars to smart cars and traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing, and building a high-end smart life for users with innovative product strength.

Cyrus headquarters located in Shapingba District, Chongqing.

  In the field of innovative product research and development, Celestial Auto actively applies digital intelligence technology, and has successively launched intelligent new energy vehicle solutions with multiple technical paths such as pure electricity and extended range. The sales volume of AITO series models designed and launched has accumulated to 100,000 vehicles. At the same time, Celestial Automobile strives to promote the integrated research and development of intelligent software and hardware, including two major capabilities of "full-stack self-research+system integration", covering five major vehicle functional domains such as intelligent vehicle control, intelligent electronic control, intelligent cockpit, intelligent network connection and intelligent driving.

  Based on its own intelligent manufacturing capability, Celestial Automobile has also cultivated and developed a super electric drive intelligent technology platform, which has realized the comprehensive evolution of the third-generation range extender, drive technology and intelligent control in terms of technology, and met the driving needs of users with low energy consumption, long battery life and high performance. In order to provide a better travel experience for users, Sailis has built an effective machine vision traffic solution, which greatly improves the operation and maintenance efficiency of vehicles.

  Celestial Auto also relies on independent innovation ability, uses digital twin technology to build an intelligent production base, and is committed to building a smart factory that is "leading in China and world-class". Sailisi Smart Factory has stamping, welding, painting and assembly workshops, with more than 1,000 robots working together. The key processes are 100% automated and online 24 hours a day, which effectively reduces labor costs, further improves production efficiency and guarantees product quality.

  All along, Sailis Automobile adheres to the green and low-carbon long-term principle, and adheres to the mission of "promoting the transformation of automobile energy and creating a smart mobile life", and integrates the concept of green environmental protection into the whole product life cycle, covering design, production, logistics and recycling, so as to promote green development and realize low-carbon development.

  Serving users wholeheartedly is the "anchor" for the high-quality development of Sailis. In the 20 years since it was built, the customer service of Celestial Automobile has experienced the transformation from "after-sales maintenance" to "passive service to active service", and then to "software-defined automobile" in response to the trend of the times, but the concept of serving customers wholeheartedly has been firmly practiced for a long time.

Yuedong Xiong ‘an xiong’an new area Mengwa football match started in full swing.

On March 20th, 2024 xiong’an new area Mengwa Football Match officially kicked off. The competition is divided into six sub-venues and a main venue, and the schedule is from March 20 to 23. The theme of the activity is "Young Boys with Ambition for Children’s Feelings", which aims to provide a platform for kindergarten children to learn football and help them enjoy the fun, strengthen their physique and grow up healthily.

From March 20th to 22nd, Jinan Kindergarten, Xiong ‘an Beihai Kindergarten, Honglian Kindergarten, Rongxi Heping Kindergarten, Yinfan Kindergarten and Anxin No.2 Kindergarten in Rongxi District will be used as sub-venues to hold 5v5 football match, the first football lesson and interesting football games respectively. These activities can not only teach and improve children’s football skills, but also further cultivate children’s interest in sports.

In Xiong ‘an Beihai Kindergarten and Jin ‘an Kindergarten Branch, the event officially kicked off. Well-known football coaches in Hebei Province opened the "first football lesson" for the cute babies and led them to warm up and train.

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Event site. China Xiong’ an official website hair

With the referee’s whistle, the first goal of this Mengwa football match was kicked out, and the little players quickly entered the game. On the pitch, the figure of children running and the sunshine in spring complement each other, forming a moving picture.

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Event site. China Xiong’ an official website hair

This Mengwa football match also carefully planned three interesting activities to let Mengwa experience the charm of football in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. The first is the "spin shot". After three turns, the children quickly adjust their balance and shoot accurately, which not only exercises their balance ability, but also improves their shooting skills. Secondly, "Meng Wa dribbles the ball". Children need to cross obstacles and transport the ball to the finish line steadily, which not only tests the ball control ability, but also cultivates patience and perseverance. Finally, there is the "little genius of ball skills". The children aim at the hole and play the ball accurately, showing excellent footwork.

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Event site. China Xiong’ an official website hair

Event site. China Xiong’ an official website hair

There was laughter and laughter at the event, and the cute babies were enthusiastic and actively participated, feeling the happiness brought by football in the game. In the future, more children will participate in football and contribute to the development of football and the construction of a child-friendly city in xiong’an new area.

More Xiong ‘an news is worthy of attention.

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What is education to promote Chinese modernization?

In a popular science education base in Antai Street, Gulou District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, science and technology volunteers accompanied the children to experience the technology model device. Xie Guiming photo/bright picture

College student volunteers from more than 10 institutions of higher learning, including Shandong University of Technology, Jinan University and Liaoning University, set up a public welfare class for primary school students in Jimo District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province. Xinhua news agency

Education, science and technology and talents are the basic and strategic supports for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. It is the responsibility of the times for education to accelerate the modernization of education and build an educational power, so as to promote Chinese modernization. In this context, "what is education and where is education going" has become a major issue that needs in-depth thinking. Facing the future, where is the orientation and direction of education development, and what problems and shortcomings still exist? How should we make accurate efforts and grasp the key points in order to take the road of educational modernization? The reporter recently interviewed Yang Xiaowei, a professor at East China Normal University and former director of the Institute of Basic Education Reform and Development, to discuss related issues.

To realize modernization, how to understand the change of educational concept

Reporter: In 2035, China will basically realize socialist modernization. This is an important time node. The modernization of education is a process of catching up with the advanced education level in the world, and it is also a process of continuous development and advancing with the times with the development of the times and the deepening of practice. In this context, how can we better understand the overall goal of promoting educational modernization and do a good job in the strategic deployment and overall design of a strong educational country? From a strategic point of view, the proposal of educational modernization requires us to adjust the original concept.

Yang Xiaowei:The goal orientation of China’s educational modernization has undergone changes or upgrades with the times. The general thread is from "modernization-oriented" to "modernization with China characteristics" and then to "modernization with Chinese characteristics", and the promotion from "localization" to "characteristics" to "China style" has been realized. In the orientation of national strategy, from education serving modernization to the modernization of education itself at the same time, it has also experienced an order of magnitude improvement from "basic realization" to "overall realization" of educational modernization. According to "China Education Modernization 2035", "by 2035, we will realize the overall education modernization, step into the ranks of educational power, and promote China to become a country with great learning, human resources and talents", and clearly put forward that education modernization should lay a solid foundation for building a socialist modernization power. The status of education has also been upgraded from "priority development" to "overall, basic and leading status" and then to "power and foundation of a strong country".

The programmatic document "China Education Modernization 2035" is intended to "make strategic deployment and overall design for accelerating education modernization and building an education power with a higher historical position, a broader international vision and a deeper strategic vision". Among them, promoting educational modernization is the path, and building an educational power is the goal. Specifically, it is through the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country through talents and the strategy of innovation-driven development to build a strong country through education. Building an educational power is a process of dynamic improvement, which requires "pushing China’s education forward in a higher quality, more efficient, fairer and more sustainable direction".

In the overall design, the goal of building an educational power is "total-division-total" design, that is, building a "modern education system" and forming a "new pattern of governance" is the "total", and the development goals of all levels and types of education in the middle are "division"; The guiding ideology, basic ideas, overall goals and strategic tasks are the design of "virtual" and "real", the ideological concept is "retreat" and the goals and tasks are "pragmatic"; From the relationship between development goals, strategic tasks, implementation paths and safeguard measures, it embodies the gradual and interrelated strategic operation mode of "purpose-content-means-guarantee".

From the strategic point of view, in the overall strategic level, education, science and technology and talents should be corrected from the previous "fragmented thinking" to the "trinity" collaborative thinking, making it the basic and strategic support for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way; On the overall strategic level, under the guidance of the goal of "total-division-total", we should promote the high-quality development of education at all levels and realize our own modernization; At the operational strategy level, we should focus on some key and difficult issues, such as deepening evaluation reform, information technology empowerment, modernization of governance system and governance capacity, etc., deepen education reform from details and parts, and promote the connotative development of education.

To promote educational modernization, we need to focus on three key themes.

Reporter: Educational modernization is a high-level development state of education, a transcendence of traditional education, and an all-round transformation of educational development concept, development mode and system. What are the problems that need to be solved in the implementation of the blueprint for educational development described in the outline of the long-term goal in 2035?

Yang Xiaowei:It is the long-term goal of China’s educational modernization in 2035 to build a high-quality modern education system serving the lifelong learning of the whole people and form a new pattern of educational governance in which the whole society participates. But at the implementation level, we still face many problems that need to be solved urgently.

First of all, the integrated development of education, science and technology and talents is the most critical, but the coordination among the three parties is also the most difficult. The biggest problem in practice is how to truly integrate science, technology and education in terms of concept, goal, planning, management system and implementation mechanism, and how to find the accurate position of talent development in its integration. Generally speaking, adhering to the priority development of education is the foothold of the basic strategic support for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way; Insisting on self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology is its starting point; Adhering to the talent-led drive is its traction point. These three orientations should be the breakthrough point to solve the problem of the integration of education, science and technology and talents.

Second, quality change, efficiency change and dynamic change promote the high-quality development of education, which is not difficult to understand logically, but it still faces bottlenecks in practice. Specifically, it is difficult to establish the concept of quality first and benefit first, to improve the total factor productivity through factor allocation and structural optimization, and to stimulate the vitality of schools and form endogenous motivation.

The difficulties related to quality reform are mainly how to get rid of the single one-sided quality view, which only focuses on entering higher schools, and establish the overall quality view of all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor; The difficulty related to efficiency reform is mainly whether we can correctly maintain the relationship between fairness and efficiency, avoid the rigid operation of either/or, and form a complementary and perfect relationship; The difficulty related to the dynamic change is mainly how to correctly grasp the relationship between breaking the old kinetic energy and cultivating new kinetic energy, and further clarify how to break the old "involution" kinetic energy that only focused on scores and enrollment rate in the past, and cultivate new kinetic energy such as curriculum innovation, classroom innovation and school-running vitality.

Finally, all kinds of educational reforms at all levels need scientific evaluation most after entering the deep water area, but the reform of educational evaluation needs to be deepened. Whether the evaluation standard is reasonable, whether the evaluation can generate incentive force, whether the evaluation tool is scientific and feasible, whether the single result evaluation can be improved, whether the process evaluation can be optimized, and whether the comprehensive evaluation can be sound and so on all need to be overcome.

Reporter: Finding the connection point between the development of education and the process of national modernization is the key to accelerate the modernization of education and build an educational power with high quality. What are the key themes to focus on in the process of educational modernization in China?

Yang Xiaowei:One of the key themes is to integrate education, science and technology and talents to jointly support the construction of a strong education country. It can be roughly divided into three sub-themes: research on the relationship between the three, research on the integration mechanism and research on the path of strengthening the country. In the past, the independent exploration in the fields of education, science and technology and talents needs to be turned to cross-field, cross-industry and cross-regional collaborative exploration, which can not only focus on any one of the three, but also connect with or infiltrate the other two, and can form a higher level of overall planning beyond the three parties.

The second key theme is to promote the high-quality development of education in China with quality change, efficiency change and dynamic change. The high-quality development of education is a new mode of development. At present, the "transformation mode" of education is to shift from the extensional development of pursuing speed, scale and hardware upgrade to the connotative development of pursuing fair, high-quality and sustainable development. Its specific characteristics are strengthening factors, adjusting structure and optimizing ecology, and realizing the overall improvement of education quality and efficiency. The quality change is oriented and related to the direction of high-quality development of education; Efficiency reform is a process, and its key lies in expanding efficiency vision, upgrading efficiency level and pursuing efficiency priority. Dynamic change is regulatory, and the key is how to effectively mobilize the enthusiasm of the development subject.

The third key theme is to deepen the evaluation reform to promote the fair, high-quality and sustainable development of education. The deepening of educational evaluation reform is a systematic project, which involves the top-level design and concrete implementation of evaluation schemes at different levels, the commonness and particularity between different gradients in the east, west, urban and rural areas and various types of education, and the mutual transformation between strategic objectives and evaluation indicators, evaluation concepts and evaluation tools, evaluation process and evaluation results. It is necessary to have an overview of the overall situation and analyze it in detail. We can focus on the key indicators that reflect their own characteristics and needs in the evaluation of various regions, schools at all levels and different curriculum areas.

Learn to "discover modernity from tradition" and try to "discover the future from reality"

Reporter: Institutional innovation is regarded as the fundamental driving force of educational modernization. In the face of the urgent problems faced by the current educational development and the concerns of the people, what outstanding problems and weak links should we focus on to make breakthroughs and innovations to ensure the realization of the goal of educational modernization?

Yang Xiaowei:Let’s talk about outstanding problems and weak links first. Urbanization is the general trend of modernization, but we should also see that rural areas generally lag behind cities. The overall development of education needs to fill the "short board" of rural education in particular. In addition to simultaneously promoting the modernization of rural education by cooperating with the rural revitalization strategy, we must also promote the integration of urban and rural education in a more reasonable and effective way, with the city leading the countryside and the countryside promoting the city and the symbiotic development.

According to our on-the-spot investigation, secondary vocational education in China is generally faced with the embarrassing situation of being at a loss for further studies and employment. For secondary vocational schools, the integration of general education and vocational education weakens the employment orientation of vocational education to a certain extent, and strengthens the cultural foundation and the orientation of further studies. However, there are not many ideal universities for secondary vocational school graduates who want to choose further studies. Therefore, it is necessary to promote the innovation and diversification of the general-vocational diversion mode, and explore a variety of new modes based on the "3+N" mode. For example, secondary schools are not classified, but the different needs of different orientations of further studies and employment are met by "curriculum diversion".

Special education is also a weak link, and the problems such as insufficient investment, improper teacher-student ratio and shortage of regional special education resources hinder the healthy development of special education. It is necessary to further expand the resources of special education and promote its inclusive development.

New breakthroughs are also needed in mechanism, mode and technology. In terms of mechanism, the operation mechanism of urban-rural integration has formed some good achievements and experiences in various places. Among them, the operation mechanism of school management in school districts and groups, the promotion mechanism of high-quality balance in the field of basic education, the promotion mechanism of comprehensive reform, the adjustment mechanism of kindergarten degree supply, the expansion mechanism of high-quality educational resources, the management mechanism of "county management and school employment" for teachers in compulsory education schools, the diversification of high school running models and the development of high-quality characteristics are all worth exploring.

In terms of new models, in addition to a large number of new models, such as school district-based group running, entrusted management, "one school with multiple districts/schools" and "new high-quality schools", it is worth continuing to tap the potential and expand the capacity. In promoting the combination of special education with general education, vocational education, medical rehabilitation and information technology, creating demonstration zones and schools for integrated education, and promoting the construction of multi-level special education resource centers from the state to the local level, it is also necessary to intensify exploration.

In terms of new technologies, big data, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence technologies, the "future school" model integrating new concepts and new technologies, and the application of artificial intelligence products in education all need to be demonstrated by organizing some experimental, simulated and immersive explorations.

Reporter: To promote educational modernization, we must take root in China, integrate China and foreign countries, base ourselves on the times and face the future, draw nutrition from China’s excellent educational traditions and actively absorb and learn from international advanced experience. What problems should we pay attention to avoid in this regard?

Yang Xiaowei:In the process of building Chinese-style modernization, China has a "late-comer advantage", which not only provides rich resources and valuable reference for China’s modernization, including educational modernization. Based on this, on the one hand, we should avoid "looking only at foreign things" and "not eating foreign things", on the other hand, we should respect the national conditions, be good at learning from them, learn to "discover modernity from tradition", and also let go of our imagination, be brave in foresight and try to "discover the future from reality". In short, we should grasp the right degree between adhering to tradition and absorbing foreign countries, basing ourselves on the present and creating the future.

(Reporter Yan Xiaoyan)