Adam driver, the first episode of Escape from Cretaceous, is doomed.


1905 movie network news Hollywood action thriller visual effects giant will officially land in national cinemas on Friday, March 31, and the pre-sale is now in full swing. This latest masterpiece, created by the screenwriter team, will once again present treading on thin ice’s movie-watching experience, and take the audience to the road of escape facing the prehistoric beasts. A few days ago, the film released a clip of "Confronting the Beasts", in which the beasts who dominated the Cretaceous earth entered a state of battle and teamed up to besiege the survivors who were seriously injured. The inescapable plight was worrying.


The film "Escape from Cretaceous" was released for the first time, showing the tragic situation of two survivors "confronting the beasts". Commander Mills (decoration) was accidentally injured while trying to search for the signal. At the same time, several wild animals emerged from the fog and eagerly approached this "prey" that lost its combat effectiveness. With the help of the little girl Kouya (decorated), Mills barely resisted the first attack of the beast at this critical moment. But survival is only the beginning, more beasts show their fangs, and a more violent attack is coming!


Through this clip of "Confronting the Beasts", the audience can appreciate the escape atmosphere of "Escaping from the Cretaceous". Some people commented excitedly: "I feel the horror of the beast riding on the face through the screen." In the movie, Mills and Koya accidentally came to the earth 65 million years ago. In this prehistoric world dominated by wild animals, they had to fight hard to survive. The future vs prehistoric cross-time confrontation is officially staged, get ready, and the big screen will meet the extreme impression of "seeing palms sweating"!


In order to create such an immersive experience, the founders have made a lot of efforts behind the scenes. The director revealed: "Most of the filming of this film is in real locations and real scenes, and we will not stop even in thunderstorm weather." This ingenious shooting method enables the actors to make the most realistic response. The film’s protagonist, Mills, is played by Oscar-nominated actor adam driver. As the hottest powerful actor in recent years, he has contributed to the superb performance of "film emperor" in this film. His expressive body language and distinct emotional changes have brought the audience a "suffocating" experience with rapid heartbeat, and he has also won unanimous praise from film critics: "adam driver once again proved his performance skills and deserves to be the representative of the new generation of Hollywood acting school!"


"Escape from Cretaceous" was directed by Scott Baker, a screenwriter team in Quiet Place, and the director of "Spider-Man" series was the producer, starring adam driver and Ariane greenblatt. On March 31, Japan was released nationwide on Friday, and the pre-sale was in full swing!


2023 national rowing championship: Hubei aquatic athletes won 1 gold and 1 bronze.

"Steady! Add up the paddle frequencies! Come on! There are the last 500 meters! " On the waterway, the athletes struggled to paddle and cut the waves; On the shore, coaches, team leaders, etc. followed by cycling all the way, cheering up while commanding the team members, and the constant shouts resounded through the lake, becoming a beautiful landscape at the scene of the highest-level rowing competition in China.

From September 5 to 9, 2023, the National Rowing Championship was held in Yulin Water Sports Center, Shaanxi Province. A total of 731 athletes and 299 boats from 21 teams including Hubei, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian competed for gold medals in 14 events. 31 athletes from our province participated in 11 events, and after fierce competition, they won 1 gold and 1 bronze.

Yu Jingyi went into battle with injuries.Hubei team won the gold medal of women’s solo boat again after 22 years.

In the women’s single sculls final held on the 8th, Yu Jingyi won the championship with a score of 7 minutes 49.67 seconds.

It was a crosswind that day, with occasional raindrops flying. With the starting gun, six boats from Hubei, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Henan, Jiangxi and Shanghai entered the women’s open single sculls final A. In the first half of the 500-meter race, the contestants struggled bravely, but Yu Jingyi did not seize the advantage and ranked third. By the time she reached 1500m, Yu Jingyi maintained a good physical condition, and her oar was powerful, which enabled her to overtake. In the sprint stage, she accelerated the paddle frequency, and finally won the gold medal by leading her opponent by 1.46 seconds! This is also the second time that the Hubei team won the gold medal in the women’s solo boat project after a lapse of 22 years. The last time the Hubei team won the gold medal in the solo boat was in 2001.

Behind the success is the team’s all-out efforts and the tenacious struggle of the players. Few people know that Yu Jingyi didn’t start rehabilitation training until one and a half months before the game because of injury. On the night before the game, Yu Jingyi was still taking medication because of hip joint glenoid lip injury. During the competition, Yu Jingyi endured physical pain, overcame various difficulties and finally won the first prize.

Yu Jingyi used to be a kayaker, but later she switched to rowing and practiced rowing for just over a year. Chen Zheng, head coach of Hubei Rowing Team, said that Yu Jingyi’s physical fitness is very good, and she has both physical fitness, endurance and outburst. Although she is in poor health, she has broken through herself with tenacious fighting spirit.

Yu Jingyi said that the gold medal was really hard-won, and all this was attributed to the joint efforts of the team. Thanks to the care and support of the center, the training guidance of the coaching team and the full support of the medical team. What we have to do now is to take every step in a down-to-earth manner and strive to win gold and silver for Hubei in the National Games!

In addition, Zhang Qiuyi, He Jiaying, Shi Hongmei and Yang Rongrong won the third place in the women’s open four-person single paddle final held on the 9th. Wu Yongmei, Li Duolei, Sun Ning and Wei Wenlin won the fourth place in women’s open sculls.

Provincial aquatic center: gathering strength for "three major preparations" to strive for a breakthrough

The person in charge of the provincial aquatic center said that the competition was a little regrettable and did not fully reflect the overall strength level of the Hubei team. In addition to Liu Zhiyu, Wang Zifeng and Li Wenlei, the three main players selected for the national team were absent for preparing for the Hangzhou Asian Games, and absolute main players such as Lin Xinyu and Zhang Peixin were also unable to participate due to injuries. Zhang Peixin, in particular, just won the gold medal in women’s synchronized single oar at the Chengdu Universiade held in August. During her preparation for her return to the province, she chose to retire because of injury and illness, which caused the overall strength of the Hubei team to be insufficient. Fortunately, there was little gain in the competition, and the gold medal in the women’s solo boat was very meaningful, which made people see progress and hope.

In the next step, Hubei team members will do their best to play the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou, achieve the set goals, and make a good start for the "three major preparations" of this cycle. In the future work, Hubei team will continue to strengthen physical training, constantly improve the level of special sports, give full play to the advantages of the project, lay a solid foundation for next year’s Paris Olympic Games and the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao National Games the year after, strive for breakthroughs, and contribute to accelerating the construction of a strong sports province in Hubei to a higher level!

The competition was hosted by the Water Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration, China Rowing Association and Shaanxi Provincial Sports Bureau, and was undertaken by Shaanxi Water Sports Management Center and Yulin Sports Bureau.

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Seeing these children’s cars, I feel that my childhood has been wasted.

  [Aika Auto Vision Original]

  Children’s Day is coming, how can you let your children feel your deep love? I think that "you ask me how much I love you, and toys represent my heart", and only toys are the most conquering. But what kind of toys should I choose? Parents have no choice but to fall into the dilemma of "it is difficult to choose gifts and it is difficult to go to heaven". Think about our childhood, transformers, four-wheel drive racing cars and other toys, all left us with simple and beautiful childhood memories. But that era has long passed, and for the rich people now, they just like to play with some ordinary objects to make them luxurious and fancy. Today, let’s take a look at the toy cars of those "trenches", which can definitely kill everything in your childhood. Don’t believe it.

Children luxury car

  The electric children’s car must be familiar to everyone. At the beginning, it was mainly designed for children. In order to adapt to children’s behavioral ability, prams are generally simple in structure and easy to operate. Even adults can drive remotely outside the car, and the speed will not exceed 5 km/h. But the toy car we want to talk about today is completely different from the ordinary children’s toy car that can be seen everywhere on the street. They are made in strict accordance with the real car model, and even the roof, windshield, headlights and decorative parts have been copied intact, which is actually a mini car. Of course, the price is by no means affordable for ordinary families.

Ferrari children’s car

Children luxury car

Children luxury car

Mclaren P1 children’s car

Children luxury car

Children luxury car

Nicholas Mee DB5

Children luxury car

Children luxury car

Rolls-royce SRH

Children luxury car

Children luxury car

      Different from the children’s version of electric cars that cost thousands of dollars in the market, the current "baby carriage" has more scientific and technological content and is closer to the appearance of real cars in real life. Although it is much smaller than an ordinary car in size, it is by no means much cheaper than a car in price. With the popularization of automobile culture in China and the improvement of income level, wealthy people in China have also turned their attention to these advanced toy cars, and some domestic enterprises have begun to set foot in this field.

Children luxury car

Children luxury car

Children luxury car

On "Patent Invalidation" of Drug Patents

As an important protection in the process of drug development, patent is self-evident. The number of patents owned by an enterprise not only forms important intellectual property protection for products, but also reflects the status and value of the enterprise. However, patents are also divided into "three, six and nine grades". A high-quality authorized patent not only protects the value of the product, but also has high value itself. However, a patent full of loopholes is difficult to obtain authorization. Even if it is authorized, it will be easily challenged by competitors, and eventually it will be "invalid", which will bring serious economic losses to enterprises. Therefore, it is extremely important for the pharmaceutical industry to understand "invalid patent" and achieve "from defense to attack"

What is the "patent invalidation system"

Patent invalidation system, which is regarded as "a corrective procedure for wrong patent authorization", has attracted much attention in patent systems in various countries, and its essence has the functions of error correction, defense and defense. The invalidation of patent will have a direct impact on the validity of patent right, and whether the patent right is effective and stable is an important premise and index to measure the quality of patent. Generally speaking, the invalidation of an invention-creation experience is finally kept valid, and its patent value is higher, which will also have an important impact on the subsequent measures taken by the patentee and the invalid claimant.

With the rapid increase in the number of drug patent applications and patent authorizations in China, there are more and more phenomena of using invalidation to challenge other people’s drug patents and expand their own benefits. Even the patent departments of some companies will organize personnel to "attack" competitors’ patents; At the same time, in order to keep the core claims of their own patents, some patentees have reduced their patent protection scope through invalidation to avoid subsequent patent litigation. In short, it is one of the necessary skills for every pharmaceutical company to protect its "core rights" by using the patent invalidation system as much as possible.

Based on the case of sildenafil patent in Pfizer, the author explains the importance of "invalid patent". In this case, the key points of the game for "invalid reasons" are as follows:

1. The patent specification shall explain the drug activity, preparation method, effective dosage and use method of the drug, and describe the medical effect of the drug on the second indication in detail through animal experiment or clinical trial data. However, the writing of the instructions is far from the above requirements, so that technicians in the technical field can’t know what medicine to use, what disease to treat, how to use the medicine correctly and how effective it is by reading the instructions without creative labor.

Second, this patent specification only generally records that the compounds of the present invention have been tested in vitro and found to be strong selective inhibitors of PDE-V with specificity for cGMP; Ordinary technicians in this profession can’t see what the so-called particularly preferred compounds are from this description, while the claims seek to protect the use of four products, and ordinary technicians in this profession can’t determine the relationship between these four products and the particularly preferred compounds in the above text description.

Three, the applicant made a major amendment to the claim, in fact, after the original claim was deleted and reassembled. This modification cannot be directly and undoubtedly derived from the information disclosed in the original specification and claims. Obviously, because the original specification and the claims did not fully disclose that the products in the present claims have clear medical functions and unexpected technical effects as required by the Patent Law, the modification results of the claims cannot be directly and undoubtedly derived from the specification and the original claims.

4. As the existing cGMP and PDE inhibitors can be used to treat ED, it has been suggested and suggested many times in the relevant literature, it is not difficult for ordinary technicians in this field to draw the results in the claims from these tips and suggestions.

On the above questions, Pfizer answered each "invalid reason" one by one, proving that there is no problem with the creativity of its patent. After that, the original Patent Reexamination Board of China National Intellectual Property Administration finally declared the patent authorized by the original research company Pfizer invalid through in-depth research. Pfizer was dissatisfied with the above decision of the original re-examination board, and immediately appealed to the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People’s Court to sue the original patent re-examination board, requesting the court to cancel its decision of invalidation. After repeated debates, in 2006, the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People’s Court officially announced the revocation of the decision of No.6228 made by the original Patent Reexamination Board. Since then, Pfizer’s Viagra has made huge profits in China every year, but sildenafil produced by domestic generic drug companies cannot be listed. This situation continued until the listing of domestic sildenafil "Jinge" in 2014.

The importance of "public opinion"

The application for "invalid patent" can not be disputed only after authorization. When the application documents appear, they can be questioned in the form of "public opinions". Article 48 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law stipulates that "from the date of publication of an application for a patent for invention to the date of announcement of the grant of a patent right, anyone may put forward opinions to the patent administration department of the State Council and explain the reasons", which is also called "public opinions" in the industry. Pharmaceutical enterprises should make full use of this provision to protect their own interests to the maximum extent.

The rosiglitazone case illustrates the importance of "public opinion". In 1993, GlaxoSmithKline applied for a series of patents including pharmaceutical compounds and compositions, such as the invention patent application with the application number of CN98805686.0, which requested to protect the pharmaceutical composition containing 2mg~8mg of rosiglitazone. The application date was June 2, 1998, the publication date was July 5, 2000, and it was authorized on July 2, 2003. It can be seen that it took about three years from the disclosure of the patent application to the announcement of authorization. During these three years, the relevant enterprises in China did not put forward any "public opinions".

In 2004, when Shanghai Sanwei Pharmaceutical, Zhejiang Wanma Pharmaceutical, Chongqing Taiji Group and other domestic enterprises have invested a lot in research and development of this drug or entered the stage of drug registration, they suddenly received a lawyer’s letter from GlaxoSmithKline, claiming that the products developed by the above-mentioned enterprises infringed their patent ZL98805686.0, demanding that the above-mentioned enterprises stop the research and development and listing of related products and compensate for the losses. As a result, these enterprises jointly requested the original patent reexamination board to declare the patent invalid. Although the case ended in GlaxoSmithKline’s abandonment of the patent, it lasted for a long time and had a great impact, causing huge losses to China enterprises.

Analyzing the case, when domestic pharmaceutical companies were ready for production and even obtained the approval of drug production, they found that they were facing the infringement lawsuit of foreign pharmaceutical companies, so they passively responded and rushed to the original Patent Reexamination Board to file a patent invalidation request in an attempt to invalidate the patent. In this case, even if the patent right can finally be declared null and void in whole or in part, China enterprises still face huge market risks and interest losses due to the long trial period and long-term uncertainty of rights.

In fact, an application for a patent for invention will be published within 18 months from the date of filing (unless the applicant requests it to be published in advance), and then the Patent Office will start substantive examination on it at the request of the applicant. If the examiner thinks that the patent application conforms to the relevant provisions of the Patent Law and the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law, the patent right will be granted and announced to the public, otherwise, it will be rejected. After the patent is granted, anyone (the third party) who thinks there is a problem with the patent grant may go to the relevant department to request that the patent be declared invalid. Of course, if you are not satisfied with the invalidation or review decision made by the relevant department, either party can also bring a lawsuit in court. Generally speaking, after an invention patent is published 18 months from the date of filing, it sometimes takes 2-4 years to decide whether to authorize it. At this stage, whether the patent application can be finally authorized is still in a pending state, which is the time allowed to put forward "public opinions" as stipulated in Article 48 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law. It can be seen that how to reduce the losses caused by patent disputes relatively, the "public opinion" before patent authorization is very important.

In recent years, Chinese pharmaceutical enterprises have paid more and more attention to the protection of intellectual property rights. The intellectual property departments of many large pharmaceutical companies have even reached the scale of 100 people. In addition, for some important patent applications, some pharmaceutical companies will take them to more professional patent agencies for secondary processing and polishing before submitting applications. It can be seen that pharmaceutical companies pay more and more attention to patent application and are more and more cautious about controlling patent quality. With the increasing number of patent challenges and invalid patent applications, the trend of domestic pharmaceutical companies turning from defending to attacking intellectual property rights has been initially established.

(Qiang Sen)

How to apply for withdrawal of provident fund when buying a house outside Beijing? The official answer is here.

  The Beijing Housing Provident Fund Center recently released the hot questions of the 12329 hotline. In this group of "business questions and answers", there is a more detailed description of whether you can apply for withdrawal of provident fund when buying a house outside the administrative area of Beijing with a loan and how to withdraw the provident fund when buying a house outside Beijing.

  Beijing Housing Provident Fund Center said that if commercial bank loans and off-site housing provident fund loans are used to purchase houses outside the administrative area of Beijing, the paid employees and spouses should have no record of purchasing houses within the administrative area of Beijing and can apply for withdrawal if certain conditions are met. In addition, if there is no self-owned housing in the administrative area of Beijing, you can also apply for housing provident fund withdrawal without a rental contract and invoice. You can withdraw it once a month at the standard of 1,500 yuan every quarter, and you need to reapply after one year of withdrawal.

  Purchase

  It is necessary to meet the conditions that the depositor and spouse have no room in Beijing.

  The Beijing Housing Provident Fund Center said that if you use loans from commercial banks and loans from housing provident funds in different places to purchase houses outside the administrative area of Beijing, the employees and their spouses who have paid in should have no record of purchasing houses in the administrative area of Beijing, and they can apply for withdrawal if they meet one of the following conditions: First, buy houses in the province where their ID cards and household registration books are located; Second, the depositor and his spouse have no house in Beijing, and buy houses in Tianjin and Hebei Province or houses where relatives are located (such as grandma’s house).

  It should be noted that there is a big principle in both cases of purchasing houses outside the administrative area of Beijing — — Deposited employees and spouses should have no record of purchasing houses within the administrative area of Beijing.

  Two kinds of application extraction methods

  The first method: housing provident fund online business system application, counter settlement.

  Log in to Beijing Housing Provident Fund Network, click "Personal Online Business Platform" on the right, enter "Personal Online Business Platform (Beijing Center)", click "Registered User Login" and log in with registered account and password. Employees who log in for the first time need to register as registered users. After logging in successfully, complete the extraction application according to the following steps.

  Step 1: Select the extraction items and enter the extraction information.

  The applicant clicks "I want to withdraw" on the left side of the page, and then clicks "Withdraw Application" in the "Withdraw Provident Fund" tab to enter the withdrawal application interface. Click "Use commercial bank loans and use off-site housing provident fund loans to purchase housing outside the administrative area of Beijing and apply for housing provident fund withdrawal" in the new event application list to enter the event application page, and the system will automatically display the basic information of users. After selecting "payee’s co-branded card bank", the system will automatically display the corresponding co-branded card number. Enter the loan contract number, location of the purchased house, date of loan, repayment period, loan amount and purchase amount.

  Step 2: Personal authorization and commitment.

  Applicants should carefully read and check the Personal Information Verification Authorization and Commitment Letter, and click the "Submit" button, and the system will display that the submission is successful.

  Step 3: Submit the application and print the receipt.

  The applicant clicks "Print Receipt" to print the business receipt of this application, and clicks "OK" to complete the application. Submit the printed application business receipt and relevant materials prompted by the system to the unit manager (with the original ID card) to any management department or the entrusted bank agency for on-site handling. If you need to inquire about the business handling institution, click "handling outlets".

  The second way: through the housing provident fund business counter.

  The unit manager must hold the original ID card and extract the materials provided by the applicant to any management department or entrusted bank agency of Beijing Housing Provident Fund Management Center. Extracting the materials provided by the applicant is: (1) extracting the original ID card of the applicant; (2) Original uniform invoice or deed tax payment certificate (second-hand house) for sales of real estate; (3) The original loan contract; (4) If the county and city where the house purchase address is located are inconsistent with the ID card, the original household registration book is also required; (5) Fill in the Application Form for Using Commercial Bank Loans and Using Off-site Provident Fund Loans to Purchase Houses Outside the Administrative Region of Beijing and Withdraw Housing Provident Fund (Table 107 of Housing Provident Fund). The counter staff returned all the materials on the spot after verification, retained the application form for housing provident fund and entered it into the system according to the contents filled in, and initiated a "personal credit inquiry" to the Credit Information Center of the People’s Bank of China. 2-3 working days after the feedback query results are consistent, for the applicant to extract; The staff with inconsistent results will inform the applicant or the unit manager by telephone.

  renting a house

  You can also withdraw the provident fund without a rental contract and invoice in Beijing.

  According to the recent hot questions of hotline 12329 issued by Beijing Housing Provident Fund Center, if there is no self-owned house in the administrative area of Beijing, you can also apply for housing provident fund withdrawal without rental contract and invoice, and withdraw it once a month at the standard of 1,500 yuan, and you need to reapply after one year of withdrawal.

  Two kinds of application extraction methods

  The first way is to apply through the online business system of housing provident fund.

  Log in to Beijing Housing Provident Fund Network, click "Personal Online Business Platform" on the right, enter "Personal Online Business Platform (Beijing Center)", click "Registered User Login", and log in with registered account and password. Employees who log in for the first time need to register as registered users. After logging in successfully, complete the extraction application according to the following steps.

  Step 1: Select the extraction items and enter the extraction information.

  The applicant clicks "I want to withdraw" on the left side of the page, and then clicks "Withdraw Application" on the "Withdraw Provident Fund" page to enter the withdrawal application interface. Click "Rent Application and Withdraw Housing Provident Fund" in the new event application list to enter the event application page, and the system will automatically display the basic information of the user. After selecting "Payee Joint Card Bank", the system will automatically display the corresponding bank card number. Select "No self-owned house (1,500 yuan per month)" in the "Rental Type" item.

  Step 2: Personal authorization and commitment.

  Applicants should carefully read and check the Personal Information Verification Authorization and Commitment Letter, and click the "Submit" button, and the system will display that the submission is successful.

  Step 3: Submit the application and print the receipt.

  The applicant clicks "Print Receipt" to print the business receipt of this application, and clicks "OK" to complete the application. Submit the printed application business receipt and relevant materials prompted by the system to the unit manager for on-site handling at any management department or entrusted bank agency.

  The second way: through the housing provident fund business counter.

  The unit manager must hold the original ID card and extract the materials provided by the applicant to any management department or entrusted bank agency of Beijing Housing Provident Fund Management Center.

  Extracting the materials provided by the applicant is: (1) extracting the original ID card of the applicant; (2) Extract the "Application Form for Extracting Housing Provident Fund from Renting" that the applicant has filled out.

  Text/reporter Zhu Kaiyun

Has the "Chip Quartet Alliance" been established? What are the impacts on China? What is the working principle of the chip and why is it difficult to make it?

Is the "Four-Party Alliance on Chip" established? What are the impacts on China?

"Four-party Chip Alliance" is an idea put forward by the United States in March this year. The United States hopes to set up a chip alliance composed of the United States, Japan, Taiwan, China and South Korea to realize a closed-loop chip production and exclude mainland enterprises. The idea of four-party alliance put forward by the United States has gathered four major countries and regions in the field of chip manufacturing in the world. Among them, the United States has long been in the leading position in the field of chips, while Japan and Taiwan, China also have their own advantages in parts and OEM, and South Korea also has unique advantages. If South Korea does not join, it is likely to be sanctioned by another three parties, and the domestic chip field will face a huge disaster.

The United States has long planned to set up a "chip quartet" to contain China.

This alliance can be regarded as version 2.0 of the Semiconductor Alliance of America (SIAC).

As early as May 11th, 20211, the American Semiconductor Alliance (SIAC) was officially announced.

This is a cross-industry alliance, which consists of semiconductor design and manufacturing enterprises and downstream customers who widely use semiconductors in products in important fields such as consumer and military.

At present, the alliance has 64 enterprise members, including Apple and AT&; T, Google and other technology giants also own chip design companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and Qualcomm, as well as chip manufacturers such as TSMC, Samsung, SKHynix and Infineon.

The Semiconductor Alliance of the United States does not accept Chinese mainland enterprises and has an obvious tendency of "excluding China".

However, it is still a business alliance in essence.

However, the "chip quartet" has obvious political color.

One of the most obvious signs is that this alliance is not divided by industry, but by country (region).

The so-called "quartet", that is, the United States, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, China, has completely rejected Chinese mainland.

Chip quartet

This alliance is surprising, including almost the main participants in the chip industry, and can be called "the strongest alliance in the history of semiconductors".

According to ICinsights’ chip market research report, in the list of the top ten semiconductor companies in 2021, the United States monopolized seven seats, South Korea occupied two seats, and Taiwan, China occupied one seat, all within the alliance.

The four-party alliance covers the fields of chip research and development, production, sales and technology update, and basically realizes the closed loop of chip production.

The United States hopes to take this opportunity to exclude China from the semiconductor industry chain, thus curbing China’s chip development.

In March this year, the United States put forward the idea of establishing a "chip quartet" and planned to hold a meeting in August.

The meeting will be held soon, but South Korea is unwilling to make a statement.

Why doesn’t Korea want to get involved in this matter?

First of all, South Korea has invested a lot of money in the field of chips in Chinese mainland.

Not to mention other companies, just look at the investment and production capacity of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

In 2021, the vice president of Samsung said that the investment in China has reached 46 billion US dollars (about 310 billion yuan).

In February, 2022, Samsung invested another 101 billion yuan to expand the second phase factory of Xi flash memory and build a 12-inch 3Dv-nand production line.

In terms of production capacity, the production capacity of Samsung Electronics Xi factory accounts for 42% of Samsung’s total flash memory production capacity and 15% of the global production capacity.

Samsung electronics Xi factory

From the perspective of SK Hynix, it has been deeply involved in the China market for more than ten years, with an accumulated investment of more than 20 billion US dollars (about 134.8 billion yuan), and plans to invest 2,394 trillion won (about 12.2 billion yuan) in Wuxi factory in the next three years.

SkHynix produces DRAM chips in Wuxi, accounting for 47% of the company’s total output of DRAM chips.

To sum up, Samsung Electronics and South Korea Hynix have invested more than 550 billion yuan in China.

Investing in China is about making money.

In China, Samsung Electronics and Hynix really made a lot of money.

If South Korea joins the "four-chip alliance" led by the United States, it will have to worry about what to do with the invested funds.

Second, China is Korea’s largest trading partner.

In 2021, in addition to investing in chip production in China, South Korea also exported memory chips worth $69 billion to China, accounting for nearly half of the export volume.

As far as international trade is concerned, China is the largest trading partner of South Korea.

According to the data released by Yonhap News Agency recently, China has been Korea’s largest trading partner for 18 consecutive years, with an absolute advantage of 25% in exports to China, ranking first in Korean exports.

What is the working principle of the chip and why it is difficult to build;

Chip is an integrated circuit, which is composed of a large number of transistors. The circuit can be manufactured on the surface of semiconductor chip for operation and processing. The development and supply of the first and second generation semiconductor materials in China are restricted by people, and the third generation semiconductor is an important way to improve the performance of integrated circuits in the post-Moore era. The working principle of the chip is to make the circuit on the surface of the semiconductor chip for operation and processing.

The first step of the chip is design.

Just like building a building, you must have a design before building it, so that your house will be built stably and safely. On this premise, you can make the layout of the building on the first floor more reasonable, the utilization rate is higher, and more people live in it. Then the design drawing is more recognized, and the house you built will be better.

Why is it so difficult to make a chip?

Making a chip is as difficult as creating a city, even more difficult than creating a city!

A series of China enterprises, such as Huawei ZTE, were sanctioned by chips, China tightened its belt to make chips, and by 2022, the whole world began to make chips crazily. This silicon wafer, which is almost the size of a thumb, makes the whole world crazy. So why is the chip so difficult to make? What is its principle and manufacturing process? Let’s find out! Whether it is smart wearable devices (smart watch bracelets), digital microwave ovens or refrigerators, more common mobile phones and computers, Internet of Things devices, etc., you can see the chip.

What is the essence of the chip: the chip is also called integrated circuit IC (generally referred to as large-scale integrated circuit). Generally, it is mainly a large-scale circuit system composed of transistors (semiconductor devices, diode triodes or various subdivided gate-level components). Now, the transistors in the mainstream mobile phone computer chips have reached tens of billions, and some even rose to hundreds of billions. So how can such a large-scale transistor circuit be placed on an area the size of a fingernail?

The primary product of the chip: wafer

The chip is mainly burned or placed on the wafer, and finally cut, and so on. We can look like a CD, place or carve something on each unit area of the CD, and finally cut it in unit area.

So what is a round chip?

Polysilicon is dissolved and doped with silicon crystals, and then it is precipitated by various technologies to form cylindrical monocrystalline silicon. Then the silicon crystal is grinded, polished and sliced to form a flaky product of the silicon wafer, that is, the wafer.

(General process from wafer fabrication to chip production)

Mask aligner-the mother embryo of the chip.

What is the principle of mask aligner? Mask aligner’s principle of preliminary treatment of round crystal is similar to that of general circuit board manufacturing, and a protective film on the wafer surface is removed by using a designed template. Then, the wafer is soaked in the designed etching solution, and the part that lost the protective film is etched away to form the circuit we need. Then the impurities remaining on the wafer surface are washed with pure water. Among them, the exposure machine is a device that uses ultraviolet rays to remove the protective film on the wafer surface through the template. Then in the end, we can think of mask aligner as how to map the design drawings on a circular wafer with a unit area. It can be seen how complicated and delicate the manufacturing process is.

photoetching machine

What are the commercial chip manufacturing companies at present?

The most famous is TSMC in Taiwan, China: a manufacturer of integrated circuits and wafers, and most of a series of technology companies like Apple, Huawei and Qualcomm are actually manufacturing in TSMC.

South Korea’s Samsung Company: Samsung also has its own foundry, and its own chips, including those of other companies, can be produced in Samsung. However, some people in the industry think that there are still some gaps in the production process between Samsung and TSMC, so TSMC accounts for a larger proportion.

Samsung Semiconductor and TSMC

However, no matter how great the international scientific and technological situation changes, Chinese can always find a way to deal with it. It is believed that the country will occupy an important position in the cutting-edge chip in the near future with strong basic science and scientific research strength.

In fact, from the process of wafer production, we can see that it is very difficult to make chips, and the process and technology of wafer production cover a series of disciplines such as materials science, optics, crystallography, process flow, automation and so on, which shows that it is very difficult. In fact, wafer fabrication is not the most difficult in the whole process of the chip! Chip architecture design: since the chip is compared to building a city, then the wafer just bulldozes the land. How to plan and create a city is the most difficult!

The Soul of Chip-Chip Architecture Chips are not all the same. Different architectures (design drawings) have different types of chips, just like the selection of cities, whether inland cities or coastal cities. These cities are divided into transportation hub cities or port cities, etc. Different chip architectures have different chip design requirements and manufacturing processes. At present, the mainstream chip architecture is arm architecture and Intel’s X architecture. ARM is mainly used in embedded systems (including mobile phones, embedded computers, Internet of Things devices, etc., Huawei Kirin processors, and Apple A and M series chips all belong to ARM architecture). Intel chips are mainly desktop processors, which are mainly produced for various computers, but also some embedded chips and other types of chips. To sum up, the chip architecture is very important, and the knowledge involved in designing the chip architecture is also very much: mathematics (especially the mathematical analysis of matrix theory, applied mathematical model-operational research, etc.), not to mention physics (circuit analysis-analog circuit digital circuit, automatic chemistry, heating modeling of nonlinear system, etc.), computer science (studying its clock frequency, pulse signal, instruction set and other issues) and so on. So how do you put the chip architecture on the wafer? This is the core problem of chip making, just like how to build the city on the drawing!

Gree Bo’s performance in the first year of listing "changed face", can the "returnees" boss increase his holdings?

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  What happened to "the first share of new energy garden machinery"?

  The first report card after listing made investors very dissatisfied.

  On January 31, 2024, Gree Bo released a performance forecast, saying that the company expects its operating income to be 4.6 billion yuan to 4.7 billion yuan in 2023, down 9.8% to 11.7% in the same period; It is estimated that the net profit returned to the mother will be a loss of 370 million yuan to 430 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 239.1% to 261.7%; It is estimated that the non-net profit will be a loss of 300 million yuan to 360 million yuan, down 235.7% to 262.9% year-on-year.

  The year of listing was a huge loss, which immediately attracted the attention of Shenzhen Stock Exchange. On February 6, Shenzhen Stock Exchange sent a letter of concern to Gree Bo, asking Gree Bo to explain the specific impact of downstream retailers’ destocking on the company’s income; Rationality of the decline in gross profit margin; The reason and rationality of the increase in sales expenses.

  Source: Screenshot of Gree Bo Announcement

  In this regard, many investors said that "listing will be a huge loss, a problem company!" "It’s been falling every day this month, but it’s still falling and not rebounding", "Doubtful life of falling", etc., and some investors questioned Gree Bo’s "fraud".

  Source: screenshot of the stock bar

  Moreover, according to the statistics of the media "Deepwater Finance and Economics", among the 1,072 listed companies that have issued advance notices, only 10 will be listed in 2023, of which 3 will reduce losses and 5 will increase losses. Among the 2 pre-losses, except those listed on the North Stock Exchange,(830809.BJ), Gree Bo is the only company that lost money in the first year of listing.

  In 2019 and 2020, Gree Bo also has a net profit growth rate of over 200%; A year ago, with the aura of "the first share of new energy garden machinery", Gree Bo successfully went public with a gross profit margin and price-earnings ratio much higher than that of the same industry. What happened to Greebo in just one year?

  Where is the loss?

  In fact, Greebo’s losses have long been warned.

  On February 8, 2023, Greebo successfully landed on the founding board. The first quarterly report after the listing of Greebo showed a decline in revenue and net profit. In the first quarter of 2023, Greebo’s operating income was 1.551 billion yuan, a slight decrease of 0.77%. The net profit of returning to the mother was 87 million yuan, down 40.78% year-on-year.

  By the second quarter, Greebo directly turned into a loss. According to the semi-annual report of Gree Bo in 2023, in the first half of 2023, the company achieved an operating income of 2.581 billion yuan, down 18.79% year-on-year, and the net profit attributable to the mother was a loss of 54 million yuan, down 121.24% year-on-year.

  In this regard, Gree Bo explained that the main reason is that retail wholesalers gradually turned to the active destocking stage, which slowed down the procurement pace of suppliers and the sales of the company’s products declined. Moreover, in order to go out of stock, Greebo stepped up product promotion in stages and lowered the prices of some old products through discounts and other means. In the first half of 2023, the gross profit margin of Gree new energy garden machinery products was 25.26%, down 1.17% year-on-year.

  Even if the demand of downstream suppliers weakens, it is necessary to go to stock by promotion. But Greebo still believes that this is a good time to grab the market.

  "In order to seize the favorable position in the market and strive for greater profits in the future, the company increased its sales investment. In the first half of the year, the company continued to increase its brand building, the sales staff increased, the marketing expenses increased, and due to the increase of the company’s scale and inventory goods, the storage expenses also increased significantly year-on-year."

  According to the semi-annual report of 2023, the sales expenses of Gree Bo were 398 million yuan, up 40.93% year-on-year.

  Although Greebo spent a lot of sales expenses, it still failed to stop the downward trend of performance. By the third quarter of 2023, Greebo’s losses were further aggravated, with revenue of 3.468 billion yuan, down 16.93% year-on-year; The net profit of returning to the mother was-175 million yuan, down 186.58% year-on-year.

  The trend of "falling endlessly" still failed to stop in the fourth quarter. The operating income in 2023 is expected to be 4.6 billion yuan to 4.7 billion yuan, down 9.8% to 11.7% year-on-year; It is estimated that the net profit returned to the mother will be a loss of 370 million yuan to 430 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 239.1% to 261.7%.

  According to Greebo’s disclosure, the reasons for the decline in performance are similar to those in the first three quarters. Including: due to the destocking of downstream retailers, the company’s operating income decreased by 9.8% ~ 11.7% year-on-year; The decline in operating income and gross profit margin affected the company’s gross profit by 190-210 million yuan; Sales expenses, research and development expenses and management expenses increased by 270-290 million yuan year-on-year; Due to the sharp year-on-year decrease in exchange income, the company’s financial expenses increased by about 130 million yuan in 2023.

  Is the loss reasonable?

  The huge difference before and after listing has made many investors question whether Greebo is "fraudulent".

  Source: screenshot of the stock bar

  First of all, the "destocking" mentioned by Gree Bo in the financial report is indeed the key word of the whole industry of lithium battery OPE in 2023.

  "After two consecutive rounds of restocking, the channel inventory of retailers in Europe and the United States reached a historical high, and the demand side began to cool down under the influence of the Fed’s continuous interest rate hike. Therefore, since 2022Q3, retail began to enter the destocking cycle, and the order placing speed slowed down, which was reflected in the decline in the order growth rate of domestic agents and brands at the upstream production end." Ji Xiangyang, a researcher at China Merchants Household Appliances, said.

  However, knowing that downstream suppliers have gone to their own inventory and there is no high consumer demand, Gree Bo still chooses to spend a lot of sales expenses.

  According to the semi-annual report of 2023, among the sales expenses, all the detailed items of sales expenses of Gree Bo almost doubled. Among them, wages and salaries rose from 75.47 million yuan to 97.49 million yuan, advertising and marketing expenses rose from 109 million yuan to 128 million yuan, and storage expenses rose from 41.68 million yuan to 87.66 million yuan.

  Source: screenshot of annual report

  Although on the record sheet of investor relations activities on September 4, Greebo said that there were three major sales expenses in the first half of the year, namely, personnel salary, marketing and warehousing. With the decline of inventory level, warehousing expenses will decline in the second half of the year.

  However, in the third quarterly report, Greebo’s sales expenses increased by 26.66% year-on-year, due to the increase of sales channels, storage fees and brand building and marketing.

  Unsurprisingly, the money was spent and failed to bring corresponding returns. In 2023, Gree Bo’s revenue, net profit and gross profit margin declined across the board.

  In this regard, Gree Bo still blames the downstream suppliers. "Due to the destocking of downstream retailers, the company’s related investment did not achieve the expected revenue growth. In 2023, the company’s own brand business revenue was basically the same as that in 2022."

  It is worth noting that before listing, Gree Bo’s sales expense ratio was lower than that of its peers, and its gross profit margin was higher than that of its peers, which shows that Gree Bo can obtain higher sales revenue and profits at a lower cost. However, after listing, this advantage of Greebo suddenly disappeared, which increased the sales expenses, but the gross profit margin fell to the average level of peers. From 2019 to 2022, and from January to June in 2023, the comprehensive gross profit margin of Gree Bo was 34.49%, 35.10%, 27.5%, 25.72% and 25.26% respectively.

  Source: Screenshot of Prospectus

  "If a company’s gross profit margin is high, it means that the competitiveness of its products is stronger than that of other companies in the same industry, and the company should have certain negotiating advantages in product sales. It can be inferred that the company’s sales expenses will not account for a high proportion of operating income. If the gross profit margin of the company is much higher than that of the same industry, and its sales expense ratio is also lower than that of the same industry, it is unreasonable; Similarly, if the company’s gross profit margin is much lower than that of the same industry and its sales expense ratio is higher than that of the same industry, it is equally unreasonable. " Ma Jinghao, an expert in finance and taxation, said.

  On March 22nd, 2023, just one month after the listing of Gree Bo, Kelvin Cui, then the company’s chief financial officer, and Ji Zhenghua, the secretary of the board of directors, left their posts. Among them, Kelvin Cui has served as the chief financial officer, director and chief financial officer of Gree Bo since November 2018; Since December 2018, Ji Zhenghua has served as assistant to the chairman of Gree Bo and secretary of the board of directors of Gree Bo.

  As of February 8, 2024, Gree Bo’s share price closed at 11.35 yuan/share, which was 63.21% lower than the issue price (30.85 yuan/share). The total market value has shrunk to 5.553 billion yuan.

  Source: screenshot

  The stock price fell to "knee"

  Can the Master of Returnees "pull back a city" by increasing their holdings?

  According to the Prospectus, Gree Bo was established in 2002, and has been engaged in research and development, design, production and sales of new energy garden machinery since 2007. It is one of the leading enterprises in the global new energy garden machinery industry.

  The company mainly sells its own brands, and its products can be divided into lawn mowers, lawn mowers, cleaning machines, hair dryers, pruning machines, chain saws and intelligent mowing according to their uses., intelligent mounted mowing vehicle, etc. At present, there are brands such as greenworks and POWERWORKS under the company flag (Jin Qilin analyst).

  The actual controller of the company is Chen Yin, the co-founder and chairman, who was born in 1973 and is 51 years old.

  Chen Yin has rich working experience in foreign-funded enterprises. He studied in England and got a master’s degree. After that, he successively served as the product manager of Shanghai Biocy Gas Co., Ltd., a foreign-funded enterprise, and the general manager of Shanghai Star Jack Power Tools Department, a foreign-funded enterprise. Later, he also served as the general manager of the Asia-Pacific procurement center of Fiskars Group in Finland.

  In 2016, Chen Yin, who has a foreign working background, also introduced an external investor from Germany-STIHL to Greebo. STIHL is a manufacturer of garden machinery and a customer of Greebo.

  In 2020, Greebo was changed into a joint-stock company, and on May 21, 2021, it submitted the Prospectus on the Growth Enterprise Market of Shenzhen Stock Exchange. After nearly three years, Greebo went public on February 8, 2023. At that time, it was called "the first share of new energy garden machinery" by the outside world.

  After listing, the performance of Greebo’s share price rose all the way. Its listing price was 30.85 yuan/share, the highest price reached 41.82 yuan/share on the first day of listing, and finally closed at 38.3 yuan/share, with a total market value of 18.62 billion yuan.

  According to the third quarterly report in 2023, Chen Yin holds about 56.32% of the shares in Gree Bo. Based on this calculation, Chen Yin is worth 10.487 billion yuan.

  Who knows, Greebo’s share price peaked when it went public. Only one month later, it "showed its original shape" and then it "sat on the slide" all the way. On March 14th, 2023, Gree Bo’s share price fell below the issue price, and the lowest price on that day was 29.17 yuan/share.

  Chen Yin’s worth has also shrunk. According to the Hurun Report, Chen Yin made his debut in the 2023 Hurun Report with a net worth of 5.5 billion yuan.

  Source: screenshot of Hurun Report

  Galaxy Securities said that the deduction of new shares breaking tide is directly related to the price-earnings ratio of initial public offering. According to the Prospectus, the initial price-earnings ratio of Gree Bo is over 63 times, which is significantly higher than the industry’s price-earnings ratio of 33 times. According to wind data, as of February 7, 2024, the static P/E ratio of Gree Bo was 18.09 times.

  Source: screenshot of straight flush

  Faced with this situation, on February 6, 2024, Gree Bo released an increase plan. According to the announcement, GHHK, the controlling shareholder of the company, or Chen Yin, the chairman of the company, intends to increase the company’s shares within six months. The planned amount of this increase is between 25 million yuan and 50 million yuan.

  However, can Chen Yin, a master of returnees, "stop" the falling stock price by increasing his holdings?

  What do you think of Greebo’s "performance change" in its first year of listing?

During the epidemic season, it is recommended to actively vaccinate Covid-19 vaccine.

At present, it is the season of high incidence of respiratory diseases, and a variety of respiratory diseases are intertwined. A few days ago, National Health Commission held a press conference, calling on the masses to be active, proactive and vaccinated as soon as possible. On December 15th, the reporter interviewed experts from the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and made an exclusive interview on vaccination related issues in Covid-19.

According to the experts of disease control, at present, the spread of Covid-19 among people still exists, and the whole country is in a sporadic state, and Covid-19 XBB mutant has become the main epidemic strain in China. A few days ago, in the "Work Plan for Vaccination of Covid-19 for Key Populations in the Near Future" issued by the Comprehensive Group of the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism, it was suggested that key populations such as the elderly should be vaccinated with Covid-19 vaccine according to conditions, and the vaccine containing XBB mutant antigen was recommended first. People who meet the following two conditions can be vaccinated:

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Si Yuan, deputy director of the Institute of Immunization Planning of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said: "First, the elderly aged 60 and above or the people aged 18 to 59 with serious basic diseases, people with low immune function and people with high risk of infection. Second, the basic immunization has been completed or Covid-19 has been infected. The preventive effect of vaccine can be divided into several levels, such as preventing infection, preventing illness, preventing severe illness and preventing death. At present, the effect of Covid-19 vaccine in preventing severe illness and death is very significant, which is also the main reason why vaccination is being promoted all over the world. "

At present, it has been nearly a year since the last round of large-scale Covid-19 infection in most people. The antibody level produced after infection or vaccination gradually decreases with time. At the same time, because of the immune escape caused by virus mutation, the risk of serious illness and death is high for high-risk groups such as the elderly and those with serious basic diseases. Therefore, it is suggested to reduce the disease harm through vaccination. In addition, the interval between vaccination in Covid-19 and other vaccinations is at least 14 days.

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"Combined with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation on simultaneous vaccination of Covid-19 vaccine and influenza vaccine, according to China’s technical guidelines for influenza vaccine vaccination, people aged 18 and above can be vaccinated with inactivated influenza and Covid-19 vaccine at different parts at the same time. With regard to vaccination fees, the vaccination of Covid-19, a key population, is still carried out in accordance with the previous regulations, and the policy of free vaccination for residents and willingness to take it up is implemented. Influenza vaccine is a non-immunization program vaccine, and residents’ vaccination follows a voluntary and self-funded policy. "

(Contributed by: Shaanxi Guangdian Rong Media Group Starting Point News)

Does the Foreign Sanctions Law have an impact on foreign investment? Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded

  On June 11th, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin held a regular press conference. A reporter asked whether the spokesman was worried about the negative impact on foreign investment after the passage of the Foreign Sanctions Law.

  Wang Wenbin said that the Legal Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), China has introduced the relevant situation. Around the two sessions this year, some NPC deputies, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference members and people from all walks of life put forward opinions and suggestions that it is necessary for the state to formulate a special anti-foreign sanctions law to provide strong legal support and guarantee for China to counter foreign discriminatory measures according to law. According to the relevant work arrangement, the the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) Law Committee carefully studied the legislative suggestions put forward by various parties, summarized the counter-measures practice and related work practices in China, sorted out the relevant situation at home and abroad, solicited the opinions of relevant departments and experts of the central and state, and drafted and formed the draft of the anti-foreign sanctions law. According to the legislative procedure, China the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) deliberated the draft twice in April and June, respectively. The Law Working Committee solicited the opinions of the central and relevant state organs on the draft, and the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People’s Congress revised and improved the draft according to the deliberation opinions of the Standing Committee and opinions from all sides. At present, the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law has fully absorbed opinions from all sides, reflected the common wishes of the people of China, and conformed to the basic norms of international law and international relations.

  Wang Wenbin pointed out that regarding the influence of the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law on foreign investment, I don’t see an inevitable connection between the two. If there is, it is the enactment of the Foreign Sanctions Law, which provides a predictable legal environment and a stable and predictable business environment for enterprises from all countries to develop in China. At the 29th meeting of the 13th the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), the Hainan Free Trade Port Law and the Decision on Authorizing the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress and its Standing Committee to Formulate Laws and Regulations of Pudong New Area were also passed, which are new measures for China to deepen reform and open wider to the outside world.

  Wang Wenbin emphasized that China has always welcomed and supported foreign enterprises to conduct business and cooperation in China and protect their rights and interests according to law. China will only open wider to the outside world, and we will continue to strive to create a better business environment for foreign enterprises and share China’s development opportunities with the world. (CCTV reporter Huang Huixin Kong Luyuan)

Can freshly made drinks be delicious and healthy?

    At 8: 30 in the morning, Xiaohua (pseudonym), who is engaged in word work, started her day’s work. In order to alleviate the anxiety at work, she will order a cup of milk tea two or three days a week. "Compared with bottled drinks, the freshly made milk tea tastes better, with more choices and faster updates, and the process of choosing ingredients and sweetness is also very enjoyable." In Xiaohua’s eyes, "this is the sense of life ceremony of contemporary young people."

    There are not a few young people like Xiaohua, and their pursuit is not unrelated to the rapid development of the existing beverage industry. Among them, new tea brands with tea, fruit and milk as the main raw materials are emerging one after another. According to the "2022 New Tea Research Report" published by China Chain Store & Franchise Association, by the end of 2022, there were 486,000 new tea shops nationwide. At the same time, however, the opacity and low standardization of the types and dosages of additives in existing beverages have repeatedly attracted attention.

    So, what are the attractions of ready-made drinks? How to balance "good drink" and "health"?

  1. Unknown composition: the hidden worry behind "freshness"

    The history of beverages has a long history. As soon as mankind entered the door of civilization, it was no longer satisfied with just taking water as the object of daily drinking. As early as thousands of years ago, beer fermented from surplus grain has stimulated the taste buds of ancestors in Egypt and the two river basins. In ancient Greece and Rome on the Mediterranean coast, wine became a standard on the tables of dignitaries. In modern times, drinks made of tea, coffee, cocoa and other plants have reached every corner of the world with the sails of European and American navigators. With the development of industrialization, the preparation of beverages has entered the era of assembly line. While the types are extremely rich, there are also different "schools" such as making, selling and prepackaging, which meet the preferences and needs of different beverage lovers with their own characteristics.

    In today’s fast-paced era, different lovers have given their own answers to the attraction of ready-made drinks.

    "I drink coffee almost every day, order takeout on weekdays and go to coffee shops on weekends." Jiu Li (pseudonym), who has been drinking coffee for many years, said, "Besides refreshing myself, coffee can create a working state for me psychologically, just like reading in the study room is more efficient than at home."

    "For me, milk tea may be something that is not so daily, but it is relatively easy to get. I will have a little satisfaction psychologically, but buying bottled drinks will not feel this way." Xiaohua added.

    "The most attractive thing about the existing drinks is that they are fresh. I feel that there should not be so many preservatives." Cedar (pseudonym), who drinks milk tea every week, said, "And the frequency of new products and joint models will be higher, which will better satisfy curiosity."

    Freshness, atmosphere and instant satisfaction … … Speaking of the charm of ready-made drinks, respondents mostly talked about the above points. In the interview, most interviewees also said that when ordering ready-made drinks, they usually choose sugar-free, mostly because they don’t like sweet food, prefer original flavor and worry about gaining weight. It is not difficult to see that while drinking, young consumer groups also attach great importance to health.

    "In fact, I am a person who cares about the health of food ingredients, but once I have emotional problems, I will still get used to a drink." Although you will try to choose a style that is sugar-free and simple in ingredients when you buy it, there are still some changes in the weight and sleep of Xiaohua after several years.

    "I occasionally meet some patients with dyslipidemia, especially girls. During the dietary survey, I found that she may not like meat, but she likes to drink milk tea." Xu Yingxia, deputy director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, said, "In fact, the calories and sugar contained in drinks such as milk tea are not low."

    "I care more about food ingredients, and I hope that ready-made drinks can also be marked." Cedar added.

  2. Different standards: gradually disclosed ingredients

    What is the calorie of a cup of milk tea? What are the ingredients in the cup? Are the standards of sugar content uniform in different tea shops?

    "I led students to do a small survey four years ago, and found that the quality control of these ready-made drinks is not good. Different people in the same store may have a lot of differences in the grasp of 3-point sugar and 7-point sugar. During the test, I also found that a 3-point sugar drink added more sugar than a half-sugar drink in the same store." Xu Yajun, deputy dean of Peking University School of Public Health and professor of the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, said in an interview, "Different tea shops ‘ 3 cents sugar ’ The sugar content is also very different, which may be one of the reasons why it is not easy to clearly label the sugar content of existing drinks. "

    "Actually, I don’t recommend that you drink milk tea often, because you don’t know what you are drinking." Xu Yingxia said, "Bottled drinks will at least be marked with specific ingredients and know what is inside. But milk tea is generally not marked. "

    At present, there are clear regulations on the contents of labels in prepackaged foods, which require that the food name, ingredient list, net content, allergenic substances and so on be clearly written, but there are no hard and fast regulations on the foods that are made and sold now.

    "There have been similar attempts by catering brands before, but the effect is not ideal. For example, if a restaurant makes a kung pao chicken, how do you label the nutrients? There are still some implementation problems. " Kai Zhong of Kexin Food and Health Information Exchange Center suggested starting from the upstream of the industrial chain.

    "For example, the final finished product is not easy to make specific provisions, but the raw materials it uses can be supervised. Fruits should have the procurement standards for fruits, milk should have the procurement standards for milk, and the amount of additives should be standardized, and they must be purchased through formal channels. Supervise the front end, no matter how the merchants match within a safe range, the finished product is unlikely to have big problems. " Kai Zhong said.

    Nowadays, existing beverage brands pay more and more attention to the health of ingredients. Some brands slogan "real milk", "real tea" and "real sucrose", while others emphasize the use of healthy natural sweeteners. For example, recently, a tea brand announced the calories and nutrients of six products through official accounts.

    "Labeling the ingredients will make consumers drink more clearly, which is worth promoting." However, Xu Yajun said frankly, "Before labeling, the relative amount of the whole production process needs to be added ‘ Standardization ’ Otherwise, the number written on the label is meaningless. "

  3. The intake is controllable: the standardization process is accelerated.

    Ready-made drinks are inseparable from manual operation, and once manual operation is involved, it is difficult to be as accurate as a machine at all times.

    Among the interviewees, Cedar once had the experience of working in a chain of new tea brand stores. According to her introduction, "I will receive a list when I first go to work, which contains the preparation process of various beverages. There are specific requirements for how much each ingredient should be put. What I need to do is to memorize and operate strictly according to the process. At present, the large-scale chain brands, stores prepare a drink, the personal operation space is actually not that big, and the degree of standardization is still higher."

    The reporter checked the relevant national standards and found that they included GB/T10789-2015 General Principles for Drinks, GB7101 National Standard Drinks for Food Safety, GB2759-2015 National Standard Frozen Drinks and Materials for Food Safety, GB2760-2014 National Standard for Food Safety, and GB14880-2012. Take the sweetener aspartame as an example. According to the current national standards, it is allowed to be added to six kinds of drinks, such as fruit and vegetable juice (pulp) drinks and protein drinks. The maximum dosage is 0.6g/kg, and the dosage of solid drinks is increased according to the dilution multiple. However, as a separate category, there is no special national standard yet, and the supervision of this category is mostly carried out with reference to the above standards.

    "The General Principles for Drinks was put forward by China Beverage Industry Association, which is mainly aimed at prepackaged beverages, and the ready-made beverages are not in this." Kai Zhong explained, "Strictly speaking, the category of ready-made beverages is actually regarded as the catering industry. As long as it is operated by people, it is difficult to standardize it 100%. However, for example, the dosage of whole sugar, semi-sugar, less sugar, whether to use sugar or sweetener, etc., relatively unified standards can be established within the enterprise and even within the industry to avoid the situation that the semi-sugar in one store is sweeter than the whole sugar in another store. "

    Although there is no national standard, in recent years, in view of the rapid development of the existing beverage industry, different social groups have put forward group standards for the industry to abide by. In December 2019, China Cuisine Association took the lead in publishing the group standard T/CCA 009-2019 "Code of Practice for Ready-made Drinks", which stipulated the definition, classification, facilities, equipment and raw materials, and food additives of ready-made beverages. In March, 2021, Fujian Chain Store & Franchise Association issued the group standard T/FJCFA 0001-2021 "Ready-made Milk Tea". Subsequently, the Cross-Strait Tea Industry Exchange Association issued the "Group Standard for Tea Beverage Series", which clarified the scope, requirements and inspection rules of five types of products, such as freshly made milk tea and freshly made milk cover tea. The requirements further subdivided specific indicators such as microbial limit, pollutant limit and food additives. In recent years, China Chain Store & Franchise Association has successively issued group standards such as Terms and Classification of Ready-made Tea, Guidelines for Food Safety Self-inspection of Ready-made Tea Stores, and the standardization process of the ready-made beverage industry is gradually accelerating.

    "Generally speaking, processed foods are not as good as natural foods, especially those that remind pregnant women and children to use with caution. I suggest you control your intake." Xu Yingxia said, "A few times a week or a month is enough."

    (Reporter Jia Yueyang)