Carrying out hanyu pinyin scheme according to law to play a greater role in building a well-off society in an all-round way

Li Weihong


  On February 11th, 1958, the Fifth Session of the First National People’s Congress approved and promulgated the Chinese Pinyin Scheme. In the past 55 years, the implementation of Chinese Pinyin has achieved fruitful results. Chinese Pinyin has become an important tool for reading Chinese characters, learning Mandarin, cultivating and improving reading and writing abilities, an important basis for reforming and creating minority languages, and an important basis for compiling Braille, sign language, semaphore and signal language, which is widely used in Chinese literature sorting and retrieval, and models and codes in industrial and scientific fields. With the popularization of modern information technology, hanyu pinyin is widely used to input Chinese characters, and hanyu pinyin permeates all aspects of social life, which is indispensable for a moment. As an international standard for spelling names and place names in China, as an important basis for foreign languages to refer to China and express the concept of China, and as a cultural bridge for China’s foreign exchange, Chinese Pinyin is widely used in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, foreign exchange and other fields. As a scientific, convenient and practical language tool, Hanyu Pinyin has provided great convenience for the modernization and informatization of China’s economic and social life, made important contributions to eliminating illiteracy, popularizing education, developing science and technology and improving the level of informatization in China, and played an irreplaceable positive role in socialist modernization.


  Standing at a new historical starting point, we should, in accordance with the requirements of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on language and writing, strive to implement the Law on the Common Language and Writing and the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Reform and Development Plan for Language and Writing, conscientiously sum up the achievements and experiences in implementing the Hanyu Pinyin Program in the past 55 years, properly handle the problems existing in the use of Hanyu Pinyin under the new situation, and further intensify its implementation, so that Hanyu Pinyin can play a greater role in the new era.


  First, the implementation of the Chinese Pinyin Scheme is an important language policy in China.


  The creation of Hanyu Pinyin Scheme has a profound historical origin and a broad mass base. Chinese characters are not phonography, and the Chinese nation’s efforts to find a scientific and appropriate pinyin scheme for Chinese have never stopped since the direct pronunciation and reverse tangent. At the end of 19th century and the beginning of 20th century, some domestic intellectuals started the phonetic alphabet movement and created more than 20 pinyin schemes. On the eve of the May 4th Movement, the government of the Republic of China promulgated the stroke-type phonetic alphabet of Chinese characters, which played a certain role in helping literacy and pronunciation. In the 1920s, Qian Xuantong, Zhao Yuanren and others created "Romanization of Mandarin", and in the 1930s, Guo Zhisheng and Qu Qiubai created "Latin New Characters of Northern Dialect", but failed to form a unified romanization scheme. At the beginning of the founding of New China, in order to meet the needs of socialist economic, political and cultural development, the CPC Central Committee made a major decision to reform the language. From 1956 to 1958, the state established the "Chinese Pinyin Scheme Review Committee" and published the "Chinese Pinyin Scheme (Draft)", and the the State Council Plenary Session adopted the "Resolution on Publishing the Chinese Pinyin Scheme (Draft)". In February 1958, the Fifth Session of the First National People’s Congress officially passed and promulgated the Chinese Pinyin Scheme. "Chinese Pinyin Scheme" is the inheritance and development of the Chinese Pinyin movement since modern times, and it is a master of more than 1,000 suggested schemes at home and abroad in the development stage. Its Latin (Roman) alphabet form and the characteristics of "phoneticization" and "internationalization" conform to the historical trend.It embodies the vision and mind of the China government and people facing modernization, the world and the future. In today’s information age, the reason why we can input Chinese characters into the computer through Chinese Pinyin and search for the required Chinese information in the massive network database is due to the scientific pragmatism of the original developers, and also to the foresight of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Chen Yi and Wu Yuzhang who personally asked and guided the development work.


  The formulation and implementation of "Chinese Pinyin Scheme" has always been an important content of language and writing work in China. As an important language policy in China, the formulation and implementation of the Chinese Pinyin Scheme has always been highly valued by the party and the state. In 1958, Premier Zhou Enlai defined the basic framework of the language and writing policy of the new China in his report "Tasks of Current Chinese Character Reform", and put forward three major tasks: sorting and simplifying Chinese characters, popularizing Putonghua, and formulating and implementing the Chinese Pinyin scheme. In 1986, the state held a national conference on language and writing work, which determined the guidelines and five tasks of language and writing work in the new period, and "further promoting the Chinese Pinyin Scheme and studying and solving related problems in practical use" ranked third. In 1997, the state held the second national conference on language and writing work, which determined the guiding ideology and goal of cross-century language and writing work. "Continuing to implement the Chinese Pinyin Scheme and expanding the scope of use" is still one of the four main tasks. In 2000, the 18th meeting of the 9th the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) deliberated and passed the Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the National Common Language and Characters, which confirmed the legal status of the Chinese Pinyin Scheme as a "spelling and phonetic tool" for the national common language and characters. In 2012, the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-term Reform and Development Plan for Language and Writing set the working goal by 2020, and clearly pointed out that "Chinese Pinyin should play a better role".


  The popularization of Hanyu Pinyin Scheme benefits from the strong support and guarantee of China’s language policies and regulations. Over the past 55 years, the state has taken various measures to promote the Chinese Pinyin Scheme. First, a series of norms and standards supporting the Hanyu Pinyin Scheme have been formulated and promulgated, such as Basic Rules for Orthography of Hanyu Pinyin, Rules for Spelling Hanyu Pinyin Letters of China Place Names, Transliteration and Transliteration of Hanyu Pinyin Letters of Minority Place Names, Spelling of Hanyu Pinyin Letters of China Names, and General Keyboard Representation Specification of Hanyu Pinyin Scheme, so as to facilitate social application. Second, through a series of policies, decrees and normative documents, clear requirements have been put forward for standardizing the use of Chinese Pinyin in the fields of press and publication, place name signs, sports activities, shop plaques and commodity packaging, and efforts have been continuously intensified. Third, we should persist in the teaching of Chinese Pinyin in the basic education stage, extensively carry out the teaching experiment of "Phonetic Literacy, Reading and Writing in Advance", and strive to improve the Chinese Pinyin ability of the people. At present, more than 1 billion people in China have mastered Chinese Pinyin.


  The Chinese Pinyin Scheme is not only from China, but also from the world. In 1977, the Third United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names held that "the Chinese Pinyin Scheme is perfect in linguistics, and the Roman alphabet spelling of geographical names in China is the most suitable", and adopted the resolution of "adopting Chinese Pinyin as the international standard for the Roman alphabet spelling of geographical names in China". In 1979, the United Nations Secretariat decided to adopt Chinese Pinyin as the standard for transliteration of China names and place names in various Roman alphabets. In 1982, the International Organization for Standardization adopted the Chinese Pinyin Scheme as the international standard for the spelling of Roman letters in Chinese documents. The governments of Singapore and Malaysia have adopted the Chinese Pinyin Scheme as the Pinyin Scheme for their own Chinese. China’s names, place names and other proper nouns spelled in Chinese Pinyin are absorbed in English and other Roman alphabets. Authoritative tool books published in Britain, the United States and other countries include a large number of such words. Maps published in Britain, Germany and other countries use Chinese Pinyin to spell China’s place names, and the Library of Congress and libraries in some European countries use Chinese Pinyin to spell Chinese book catalogues.


  "Chinese Pinyin Scheme" is the crystallization of the wisdom of several generations of the Chinese nation, a representative achievement in the history of China’s cultural development, and an important achievement in the cultural construction of new China. It benefits the society and the whole people and has far-reaching influence.


  Two, to further expand the scope of application of "Chinese Pinyin Scheme", improve the standardization level of application.


  At present, with the rapid development of Chinese information technology, the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language is in the ascendant, and the inheritance, promotion and dissemination of Chinese culture, it is expected that Chinese Pinyin will play a greater role and help realize the "Chinese Dream" of national rejuvenation. It is necessary to further strengthen the implementation of the Chinese Pinyin Scheme according to law and improve the standardization level of its application. Specifically, we should do the following work:


  First, strengthen the teaching of Chinese Pinyin. It is necessary to resolutely implement the provisions of the Law of the State on Common Languages and Characters that "Chinese Pinyin should be taught in primary education", to ensure that the educated can master Chinese Pinyin and apply it to all aspects of Chinese learning, information retrieval and processing, and to strengthen teacher training, supervision and inspection. We should actively explore ways and means to bring Chinese Pinyin into the national lifelong education system, so as to benefit the elderly who failed to receive Chinese Pinyin teaching in primary education. We should also vigorously promote the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language for different countries, regions and languages, and give full play to the role of Chinese Pinyin in Chinese teaching.


  Second, strive to expand the use of Chinese Pinyin. On the basis of existing achievements, we should seriously think about how to make the Hanyu Pinyin Scheme further serve the "informatization" and "internationalization" and how to help spread Chinese culture. It is necessary to give full play to the function of Chinese Pinyin in accurately and conveniently expressing China’s unique things, concepts and ideas in foreign languages. It is expected that Chinese Pinyin will be directly used to spell China’s names, places and unique concepts such as Confucius, Tibet and Putonghua in foreign exchanges, and that more and more similar words such as Fuwa, Haibao and Chang ‘e will be used in foreign exchanges. At the same time, we should realize that the global, intercontinental and international languages that have been widely used in the world belong to all mankind, so we should take the initiative to enrich the expressions of these languages through Chinese Pinyin and create cultural wealth belonging to all mankind together with people of all countries and nationalities in the world.


  Third, strengthen management according to law. Governments at all levels and their relevant departments should fully implement the language policy of "Hanyu Pinyin Scheme", abide by relevant national laws, regulations and standards, and actively promote and use Hanyu Pinyin. We should adhere to the "Chinese Pinyin Scheme" as a unified standard for the spelling of Roman letters in China’s names, place names and Chinese documents, take effective measures to strengthen supervision and inspection, and correct irregularities in application; It is necessary to gradually improve the standardization of the use of Chinese Pinyin in Chinese information processing, social public services and other fields.


  Three, in-depth study, properly handle the relevant issues in the application of "Chinese Pinyin Scheme"


  In the past 55 years, great achievements have been made in the implementation of the Chinese Pinyin Scheme, but there are still some problems in understanding and practical use, which should be paid attention to and properly handled.


  First, we should properly handle the relationship between Chinese Pinyin and Chinese characters. The Chinese Pinyin Scheme is not a written scheme, and the Law of the State on the Common Language and Characters clearly stipulates that the Chinese Pinyin Scheme is a spelling and phonetic tool for the common language and characters in the country, and "is a unified standard for the spelling of Roman letters in Chinese names and place names and Chinese documents, and is used in areas where Chinese characters are inconvenient or unusable". Chinese Pinyin will not replace Chinese characters, and Chinese characters will not take the road of Pinyin. In the past 30 years, China’s Chinese character policy has always been to "maintain the relative stability of Chinese characters in a certain period of time and promote the standardization, standardization and informationization of Chinese characters". Language and writing departments should take the initiative to do a good job in relevant publicity work, so that the society can fully realize that the Chinese Pinyin Scheme is an auxiliary tool for the national common language, which mainly helps Chinese characters to play a role in aircraft frequency, train number, product model, phonetic sorting and retrieval of Chinese characters, and in situations where it is inconvenient or impossible to speak Chinese characters such as names and places in China in foreign languages.


  Second, we should properly handle the relationship between Chinese Pinyin and foreign languages. Chinese Pinyin is a phonetic spelling tool for Chinese common language, not a foreign language. Correctly using Chinese Pinyin according to law and properly handling the use of Chinese Pinyin and foreign languages are related to the sovereign dignity of the country. If you need to mark the Roman alphabet, you should spell it according to the Chinese Pinyin Scheme, and you can’t use Chinese Pinyin according to the habits of foreign languages. For example, when spelling China names, you should put "surname" before "first name". On the other hand, we should also realize that with the deepening of China’s reform and opening up and the increasing frequency of international exchanges, it is not only the hospitality of our country with a history of 5,000 years of civilization, but also the inevitable requirement of China’s "opening to the outside world and integrating into the world" to provide foreign language services in the field of public services to facilitate their work, study and life. Therefore, we must make overall plans and properly handle the relationship between "safeguarding sovereignty" and "providing services", strengthen the research on related issues, clarify the different functions and usage occasions of Pinyin and foreign languages, and reverse the current chaotic phenomenon of nonstandard and inconsistent use of Pinyin and foreign languages.


  Third, efforts should be made to study and solve relevant technical problems in practical use. According to the National Law on Common Languages and Characters, the Chinese Pinyin Scheme is not only a phonetic notation tool, but also a spelling tool. However, it should be noted that the achievements made in the implementation of the Chinese Pinyin Scheme in the past 55 years are mainly reflected in the function of "phonetic notation for Chinese characters", but the function of "spelling Putonghua" has not been fully and effectively exerted, and the research on related issues is also insufficient. The difference between spelling and phonetic notation is not only that the object of spelling is language, but that of phonetic notation is text; Moreover, spelling needs orthography, such as letter case, word segmentation, punctuation usage and other requirements of the text. In practical use, many people use phonetic notation to spell Chinese characters, which has some problems, such as no word segmentation and hyphenation, and incorrect use of case and case. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen research and properly handle some problems in the orthography of Chinese Pinyin, such as word segmentation, idiom spelling, proper noun spelling and tone marking. In addition, efforts should be made to study and deal with a series of problems, such as how to take care of social habits in the pronunciation of the names of Chinese pinyin letters, how to coordinate the writing style of Chinese pinyin letters with related foreign letters, whether to use two spellings or three spellings in pinyin teaching, and how to express foreign or foreign proper nouns in Chinese pinyin. Only by solving these problems, further improving the efficiency of the use of Chinese Pinyin and perfecting the functions of Chinese Pinyin can it be conducive to the further implementation of the Chinese Pinyin Scheme.


  The formulation of "Chinese Pinyin Scheme" is a pioneering work of language and writing in China. Over the past 55 years, the state has carried out a lot of fruitful work and achieved brilliant achievements in promoting Chinese Pinyin. At present, social informatization and economic globalization provide a broader and deeper application space for Chinese Pinyin. At the same time, there are still many problems in the implementation and application of Chinese Pinyin, which can not meet the needs of China’s economic construction and social development. For example, due to insufficient publicity and implementation, there are still some people in society who don’t understand the nature and function of Chinese Pinyin and can’t fully understand its scientific, practical and wide application prospects; Some localities and schools ignore and weaken the teaching and scientific research of Chinese Pinyin. In social application, the use of Chinese Pinyin is not in accordance with the relevant rules, and spelling mistakes and irregularities are common; In some fields, the phenomenon of not using Chinese Pinyin or replacing Chinese Pinyin with foreign languages has also occurred from time to time in violation of national regulations and standards. The above situation shows that in the face of the new situation of language and writing work, we must further strengthen the promotion of Chinese Pinyin, expand its application scope, constantly improve the relevant application rules, improve the popularity of Chinese Pinyin, and enhance the standardization level of Chinese Pinyin application.


  As the competent department of the national language and writing work, the State Language Commission will take the opportunity of commemorating the 55th anniversary of the promulgation of the Chinese Pinyin Program to thoroughly implement the Law on the National Common Language and Writing, comprehensively promote the legalization, standardization, standardization and informatization of the national common language and writing, further strengthen the planning guidance, management supervision and scientific research on the implementation of Chinese Pinyin, and promote Chinese Pinyin to make due contributions to building a well-off society in an all-round way and realizing the Chinese dream.

Apart from China, the Spring Festival in these countries is also booming.

In fact, apart from China, which regards the Spring Festival as an important festival, there are also some Southeast Asian countries influenced by China culture, such as Viet Nam, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries, which also regard the Spring Festival as a legal holiday. In addition, Sydney, Australia has also made the Spring Festival prosperous. Since it is an annual festival, people will naturally think about how to make the festival colorful, and let’s see how they spend the Spring Festival.

Sydney: From the first day to the fifteenth day, every day is the taste of New Year.

Sydney Opera House

New year’s goodsYou may not believe it, but in Sydney, the Spring Festival is very strong. In Sydney’s Chinatown, there are all kinds of Chinese restaurants, pastry shops and handicraft shops. Whether it’s Spring Festival couplets, lanterns, Chinese knots, or traditional China cuisine, you can basically buy them, so don’t worry about the new year.

Red envelopes for lucky money

Old customsIn addition to the official Spring Festival series in Sydney, there are many activities in major Chinese areas. Since the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, various activities have been staged in Sydney. On New Year’s Eve, the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge will become the most beautiful red, followed by New Year’s Eve and grabbing red envelopes.

On New Year’s Day, you can listen to a free China concert brought by the Sydney Conservatory of Music and famous tenors. You can enjoy a difficult lion dance performance; During the Spring Festival, Sydney also invited some calligraphers to show off the charm of calligraphy. On the second day of New Year’s Day, there are special events in the Art Museum during the Spring Festival. On the fourth day of the first month, there is a red envelope distribution activity at the Sydney fish market. It’s time to start exercising your hand speed. On February 8, there was also an LED lion dance show at the Circular Pier. The China Cheongsam Show on February 9th can take you through time.

[New Year’s Eve]On New Year’s Eve, in order to tie in with the Spring Festival, many restaurants in Sydney have launched "New Year’s Eve". No matter western food or buffet, China elements are added to their menus. Families who don’t want to do it themselves at home can go to the restaurant to have a look.

Singapore: Preparing New Year’s Eve dinner at home is even more delicious.

Singapore Chinatown Plaza

[new year’s goods]】 In the Spring Festival, the legal holidays here are two days, that is, the first day and the second day. Chinatown in Singapore is called Chinatown. When the Chinese New Year is coming, there are many people selling New Year’s goods there. You can see Spring Festival couplets, lighting, desserts, preserved ducks and dried fruits.

Chinese knot with auspicious meaning

Old customsOn January 26th, in Chinatown Square, the lion dance competition has already started. There are more than 10 pairs of top lion dance teams, who show their talents on the plum blossom pile and try their best to compete for the plum blossom award. Next, at Xinqiao Road and Yudongxuan Street, local and overseas art groups will jointly perform, which is the highlight of the New Year every year. You can also see the lighting display for seven weeks in a row, which is very suitable for taking a concave photo.

People go shopping in Chinatown Square to buy new year’s goods.

At the Spring Festival party in Chinatown, you can see the atmosphere of Chinese New Year singing and dancing. At the New Year’s Eve party, you can also see new media artists interacting with the audience through Chinese New Year songs, short videos and games to welcome the arrival of the New Year. On the evening of February 17th, there will be a large-scale street performance famous in Asia, which will be staged in Chinatown on the weekend of Lantern Festival. Float parade and makeup parade will bring the New Year celebration to a more joyful situation. According to local people, fireworks can be set off at mbs on the night of the Spring Festival, and many people will go to see it.

New year lion dance custom

[New Year’s Eve]As for the New Year’s Eve dinner, many Chinese will want to eat it at home, buy food and cook for jiaozi. On the one hand, we respect China’s traditional customs; on the other hand, it is difficult to change our living habits for so many years. The whole family gathers together to cook and eat, which is more festive.

Vietnam: Chinese New Year is still a celebration.

New year’s goodsThere is not much difference between Vietnamese new year’s goods and Chinese’s new year’s goods. In addition to selling New Year’s pictures and oranges, there are all kinds of red envelopes and gold-lettered Spring Festival couplets on the street. For the families of the Yue nationality, there are three kinds of decorations during the Spring Festival: a bunch (or a big one) of budding peach blossoms, a bonsai of kumquat and a "five-fruit pot" filled with fruits of various species. It is said that these three things indicate good luck, peace and prosperity in the New Year.

Wuguopen

Old customsVietnamese people have the custom of standing up banners and eating zongzi on New Year’s Eve. They use a bamboo pole, trim the top bamboo leaves, and hang red banners and wind chimes on it. It is said that the noise made when the wind blows will scare away ghosts. With regard to zongzi, it is necessary to be round and square. The so-called round place is considered as a symbol of joy. Interestingly, this kind of zongzi is very big, usually weighing 2 to 2.5 kilograms.

On the morning of the first day of the lunar new year, every family should worship their ancestors, and at the same time, they should also worship the land, the kitchen god and the ancestors of the hundred artists. Generally, there are zongzi and braised fish as sacrifices. Children should pay New Year greetings to the adults and the elderly at home, and adults will give them lucky money.

Burn incense and worship during the New Year.

In addition, there are many recreational activities, such as singing and dancing, performing plays, dragon and lion dances, etc. However, there are many taboos on the first day of the lunar new year, such as not borrowing things, not collecting debts, not doing farm work and so on. If a family travels, they can choose to visit the New Year’s Fair, such as Guangbo Flower Market, Grapefruit Market and Xingjie Ma Antique Market.

A lively dragon and lion dance team in the street.

[New Year’s Eve]This year’s New Year’s Eve dinner is just eating out. It’s basically the same in recent years. Book a private room in a hotel, and then the family will be happy. Usually, everyone is very busy at work. When taking advantage of the New Year’s Eve dinner, exchange more feelings.

Malaysia: New Year’s Eve hot pot is booming.

New year’s goodsIn Malaysia, the Lunar New Year is a legal holiday for all citizens, and the annual flavor is very strong. Malaysia is a country with relatively complete preservation of Chinese culture in the world, and the celebration customs in cultural festivals have inherited the beauty of Chinese culture for 5,000 years. New Year’s cakes are cakes used by Malaysian Chinese in the New Year. They are essential for offering sacrifices to the gods in the New Year, almost equivalent to the symbol of the New Year, and are essential new year’s goods for the New Year. In addition, Malaysia’s Jiabi, shaped like an egg roll, was originally a traditional cake food of Malays, and later it was subtly integrated into Chinese families and became a necessary festive food for Chinese New Year.

Old customs]Speaking of Malaysia’s distinctive Spring Festival activities, the first one is of course "fishing for a living". Fishing for fish is a popular New Year custom of Han nationality in Nanyang area, especially in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Colorful raw fish have colorful and brilliant intentions, and the name "fishing raw fish" also means "wind and water" and "fishing more and more prosperous"

Laosheng

Under normal circumstances, local people will also eat potted vegetables, which are made of more than a dozen raw materials through more than a dozen cooking methods, such as frying, frying, burning and boiling. These specially treated potted vegetables are packed in a round basin, which represents round and round.

On the first day of the lunar new year, many relatives will have dinner together. If you are unmarried, you can get a red envelope from your elders.

On the Lantern Festival, people will throw oranges to find a good match. This is the custom of Fujian beauty looking for a husband. Now it has evolved into a New Year’s festival for all people to entertain. On the Lantern Festival, people throw fruits at the sea and lakes, while women throw oranges and men throw bananas for people who are destined to salvage.

Hotpot New Year’s Eve dinner

[New Year’s Eve]In Malaysia, it is a trend to eat hot pot on New Year’s Eve. Putting a burning stove under the table means a prosperous family and a reunion. Put money by the fire and hope everything goes well. The family sat around eating steaming hot pot, expecting a prosperous new year.

If you spend the Spring Festival in Southeast Asian countries, you can talk about your Spring Festival customs, New Year’s Eve dinner and delicious new year’s goods ~

It is difficult to expand the production of mask "heart" melt-blown nonwoven fabric with a unit price of 20 thousand to 300 thousand

In the workshop of Shandong Junfu Nonwoven Fabric Co., Ltd., workers are processing non-woven fabrics for masks. (Tonglian photo, provided by the interviewed enterprises)

  From the usual 20 thousand yuan/ton, it has risen to more than 300 thousand yuan/ton, and the industry expects it to rise in the future … … Melt-blown non-woven fabrics (hereinafter referred to as melt-blown fabrics), known as the "heart" of masks, have increased their prices by more than 15 times in recent months, forming a very strong seller’s market.

  During the epidemic period, masks are important protective equipment, and they have become a must-have for first-line medical care, enterprises returning to work, and people traveling, and the market demand has soared. The new production capacity of masks in China has doubled rapidly, and the supply of melt-blown cloth, the core raw material, is in short supply.

  How scarce are the core raw materials of masks? What is the root cause of the skyrocketing price of meltblown fabrics? A large number of mask production lines have been put into production. Why don’t manufacturers take the opportunity to expand the production capacity of meltblown fabrics? When can we alleviate the shortage of raw materials for masks? With relevant questions, the reporter tracked the upstream industrial chain of masks and investigated key production links such as mask factories, cloth factories and material factories.

  Tight cloth

  Melt-blown fabrics are in short supply and their prices are rising rapidly, forming a very strong seller’s market.

  "Everything is easy to say except meltblown cloth." In a mask supply sharing exchange group, a manufacturer said this.

  The group brings together more than 100 related manufacturers in the upstream and downstream of the mask industry, and they will exchange information related to masks in the group. Although the prices of materials such as ear straps and nose bridge strips are also rising, the supply is not in short supply. Only meltblown cloth forms a very strong seller’s market.

  "Recently, the inquiry for meltblown fabrics has quoted at least 200,000 yuan/ton, and it is not unusual for 300,000 to 400,000 yuan. Two weeks ago, we purchased 80,000 yuan/ton, and the highest was 120,000 yuan/ton. " Recently, a Shandong clothing company that switched to masks and other epidemic prevention materials "has no way to find materials". Ding Yan, the person in charge of the company, said that the rapid rise in the price of meltblown fabrics made people unprepared.

  Melt-blown cloth is the key material to filter viruses for masks, and it can be called the "heart" of medical surgical masks and N95 masks. Medical surgical masks generally adopt multi-layer structure, which is called SMS structure for short: single-layer spunbonded layer (S) on the inside and outside, and single-layer or multi-layer meltblown layer (M) in the middle, and meltblown cloth is the best material for the meltblown layer.

  Without meltblown cloth, we can only "let the machine wait for the cloth" Qingdao Hainuo Bioengineering Co., Ltd. owns two production lines of medical surgical masks and one production line of civil masks. They once reported to the local government that some production lines had to stop production because of the shortage of raw materials and the unavailability of goods.

  "Meltblown fabrics that meet medical standards can’t be bought now," said the person in charge of Sheng Da Medical Hygiene Materials Co., Ltd., whose inventory of meltblown fabrics can only be used until the beginning of March. The company now has a mask production line, and two new lines will arrive at the factory in early March, when the daily demand for meltblown fabrics will increase from the current 80 to 90 kilograms to about 200 kilograms. If meltblown fabrics can’t be purchased, the new lines will be difficult to put into production. At present, the company has reported the demand information to government departments, hoping to solve the problem of medical meltblown cloth gap in the near future.

  A flood of demand

  On the demand side of melt-blown fabrics, the number of masks has increased greatly, and some manufacturers are looking for materials everywhere to raise the price of fabrics.

  According to the introduction of the National Development and Reform Commission, the current capacity utilization rate of masks in China has reached 110%. As of February 29th, the daily capacity of masks in China has reached 110 million, and the daily output has reached 116 million. At present, 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities except Tibet have successively set up new mask production lines, and at the same time, new mask production lines will be put into production. The person in charge of China Textile Business Association said that in the future, the market demand for meltblown fabrics will further increase.

  In order to alleviate the shortage of masks, it has become an important way for non-mask manufacturers to become mask manufacturers. At present, many governments have opened up green channels to speed up examination and approval, and encouraged enterprises related to the industrial chain to switch to emergency production. Based on industrial and commercial registration’s changed information, from January 1st to February 7th, more than 3,000 enterprises in China added "masks, protective clothing, disinfectant, thermometers and medical devices" to their business scope.

  In the "Docking Zone for Production Process of Key Medical Prevention and Control Materials" launched by the State Council Client applet on February 21st, the reporter saw that most enterprises are seeking the supply of meltblown cloth.

  The reporter found that the recent surge in cloth prices was mainly reflected by small and medium-sized mask factories and new mask factories that had just changed production. The relevant person in charge of the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology said that the price of masks is high, and the production of masks is profitable. Coupled with the initiative of local governments, many enterprises have switched to masks, and the demand for raw materials has increased greatly, and the supply is not enough.

  In order to ensure the supply of epidemic prevention materials in the first line of medical care, the national and local industry and information departments have formulated a number of key enterprises to ensure materials. The production of these mask factories and cloth factories is monitored by the government, and the sales are dispatched by the government, and the price increase is relatively controllable. However, people in the industry believe that there are a large number of mask factories that have emerged recently, and there are no stable suppliers. They can only look for raw materials everywhere, and they will not hesitate to buy materials.

  A restless supply of goods

  At the supply end of meltblown cloth, there are small factories sitting on the ground, and at the circulation end of meltblown cloth, there are middlemen who take the opportunity to earn the difference.

  Walking into the factory of Shandong Junfu Nonwoven Fabric Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shandong Junfu) located in Dongying City, Shandong Province, the reporter saw a busy scene. It is reported that they have been working overtime since receiving the notice from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on January 27, and all 10 production lines are producing at full capacity 24 hours a day. The daily output of meltblown cloth produced by Shandong Junfu is about 13 tons, accounting for 1/10 of the whole country. According to the scheduling of the state and relevant departments, it is mainly supplied to downstream enterprises in Hubei and Shandong.

  There are not many large-scale manufacturers that can produce meltblown fabrics in China. The industry has been lacking attention for a long time, showing a tepid situation, and the industry as a whole has shown a small and scattered situation. At present, the domestic meltblown cloth production capacity is mainly distributed in a few provinces and cities such as Shandong, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

  At the supply end of meltblown cloth, the price increase of large cloth factories is not large under the control of the government, but some small factories sit on the ground and start at the price.

  "The usual price of meltblown cloth is about 20,000 yuan/ton, and now our price is 100,000 yuan/ton. Because of our price reduction, local small cloth factories dare not raise prices, but in some provinces and regions lacking leading enterprises, small cloth factories raise prices for each other, and the prices are all above 200,000 yuan/ton. Many small mask factories want to use our materials and ask the local government to coordinate. I receive two or three hundred calls a day. " Huang Wensheng, general manager of Shandong Junfu, said.

  A person in charge of a mask factory in Xiantao, Hubei Province said that at present, the local price of meltblown cloth in Xiantao is about 200,000 yuan/ton, while the price before the epidemic was about 22,000 yuan/ton; According to the manufacturer of meltblown cloth in Nantong, Jiangsu, in order to make the mask production line run normally, some mask factories offered high prices to buy meltblown cloth.

  Many small cloth factories that are not included in the supply list of mask raw materials have raised prices seriously. Lin Youqiang, the person in charge of a mask manufacturer in Shandong, said that meltblown cloth enterprises with stable customers at ordinary times should not raise prices arbitrarily to maintain customer relations; A group of enterprises with no stable partners and poor management in the past maliciously raised their prices, hoping to make a quick sum of money.

  According to industry insiders, some meltblown cloth suppliers are quite "strong" in the market, not only issuing less or no invoices for delivery, but also requiring downstream factories to use "hard currency" masks to offset the payment at a discount, and to add cash.

  At the circulation end of meltblown cloth, there are middlemen who take the opportunity to earn the difference.

  A small and medium-sized enterprise owner who switched to production of masks told reporters that in some WeChat groups where mask raw material resources are connected, middlemen arbitrarily charge high prices. "They opened their mouths and offered a high price of 300,000 to 300,000 yuan per ton, taking advantage of our lack of goods to rush production, and often said ‘ If necessary, transfer the money quickly. You don’t want people to get the goods ’ , create ‘ Seconds rise and kill ’ The tension. "

  The relevant person in charge of the Industrial and Information Bureau of a city in Shandong Province said that many people hoard goods and sell them upside down, and the price is greatly increased. Many meltblown fabrics stay in the warehouse and circulation, waiting for the price increase, and supply and demand cannot match well.

  A handsome profit

  The reporter learned that the amazing profit of masks is an important reason why mask factories are willing to buy meltblown fabrics at high prices.

  An insider calculated a cost account for the reporter: 1 ton of meltblown cloth can make 1 million medical surgical masks. If the meltblown fabric sells for 200,000/ton, the fabric price only accounts for 0.2 yuan in the cost of a mask. At present, the price of masks allocated by the government from Shandong is about 1.5 yuan each, and 0.2 yuan is subsidized; Each of Beijing is about 4 yuan, and each of Shanghai and Hubei is about 3 yuan. Although the cost of logistics, labor and melt-blown polypropylene has doubled recently, it also accounts for a small proportion in the price of masks.

  On the other hand, the demand for masks has increased greatly, and some enterprises anxious to return to work do not care about the price of raw materials, which has pushed up the price of masks. "Recently, there has been a wave of enterprises returning to work all over the country. The state requires enterprises to distribute protective equipment such as masks for their employees. If each employee of each enterprise uses a mask a day, this is an astronomical figure." Lin Youqiang said.

  According to the data of the fourth national economic census, the total employment population of domestic legal entities and self-employed households is as high as 533 million, and at least 533 million masks are needed every day based on one mask per person per day. Compared with the current daily production capacity, the mask gap is huge, and the profit margin can be imagined.

  Awkward "thin waist"

  The production capacity of enterprises related to the mask industry chain is "gourd-shaped", which is one of the root causes of the shortage of meltblown cloth.

  Yu Xiaoning, chairman of Shandong Daoen Group, said that the downstream mask factory is growing rapidly at present, and the national production capacity has increased by about 2 times in the last month, which is the "bottom of the gourd"; The production capacity of meltblown fabrics in the middle reaches grows slowly, and the number of manufacturers is small due to the small structural influence of the previous market, which is "the waist of gourd"; The leading enterprises producing melt-blown polypropylene in the upstream have expanded their production rapidly, which can basically meet the downstream demand for melt-blown materials. This is the "upper end of the gourd". Take Dawn Group as an example, the company has received orders for the next two months, and the daily production capacity of melt-blown materials has expanded from about 85 tons to about 200 tons now.

  This embarrassing "thin waist" has become a "bottleneck" that restricts downstream production expansion.

  The reporter’s investigation found that behind the bottleneck of melt-blown cloth production capacity is the difficulty and long time of production line expansion.

  Yu Xiaoning and other people in the industry said that compared with the mask production line, the investment is small, the technical content is not high, the reproduction is fast, and the operation is easy. The production technology of meltblown cloth is high, and the quality of meltblown cloth directly determines the quality of masks. The production line investment of the cloth factory is tens of millions of yuan, and the equipment manufacturing and installation are much more complicated than the mask production device, and the requirements for the factory building are higher, and special training is needed for the staff.

  At present, there are not many domestic manufacturers providing complete sets of production equipment and key components of meltblown fabrics, and the production of core components such as spinneret and spinneret die is still far from foreign manufacturers, and the delivery cycle and assembly time of imported equipment are relatively long. "The import delivery cycle of dies and spinnerets takes four to six months. Domestic molds can be delivered in two months, but this kind of mold with short delivery time can’t make high-end medical products. " Huang Wensheng said.

  The procurement cycle of parts for several months limits the delivery capacity of meltblown fabric equipment, making it difficult to put it on the market overnight like a mask machine. It is understood that some enterprises that sell complete sets of melt-blown cloth production equipment are using inventory to quickly assemble new production lines. But the design, processing and debugging of a complete production line will take about two or three months.

  A supplier of meltblown cloth production equipment in Zhejiang said that the production line of meltblown cloth was really introduced, and perhaps the peak demand brought by the epidemic had already passed. This kind of worry has prevented many investors from entering this field. The market scale of meltblown cloth is not large. Once the epidemic situation is over, the competitive pressure of meltblown cloth manufacturers will be very great.

  Capacity to be tapped

  Insiders pointed out that it is urgent to strengthen the overall planning of industrial chain, tap the potential of related enterprises and leading enterprises, and maximize the production capacity of meltblown fabrics.

  Experts believe that in order to solve the problem that the supply of raw materials such as meltblown cloth in the mask industry chain is in short supply, the following measures can be taken to ensure the supply and price stability:

  First, promote similar technology enterprises to switch production and supply mask materials.

  According to the statistics of China Industrial Textile Industry Association, the production technology of China nonwovens industry is mainly spunbonded. In 2018, the output of spunbonded nonwovens was 2,971,200 tons, accounting for 50% of the total nonwoven production, which was mainly used in sanitary materials and other fields; However, the proportion of meltblown process is only 0.9%, and the output of meltblown nonwovens is 53,500 tons/year. These meltblown fabrics are not only used for masks, but also for environmental protection materials, clothing materials, battery diaphragm materials, wiping materials and so on.

  Huang Wensheng said that enterprises that produce automotive sound insulation cotton, meltblown thermal insulation cotton, meltblown oil-absorbing cotton and other materials can switch to special filter materials for mask protection, and the annual production capacity of these enterprises is about 150,000 tons. It is understood that BYD, Changan Automobile, BAIC, SAIC and other automobile manufacturers have been taking advantage of the industrial chain to mobilize the supporting manufacturers of sound-absorbing cotton to transform the original production line of meltblown cloth and transform the production of special filter materials for masks.

  Second, take the central enterprises as the leader and speed up the production line related to meltblown cloth.

  The relevant person in charge of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission said that the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission attaches great importance to the changes in the supply chain and industrial chain of domestic epidemic prevention materials and guides central enterprises to take the initiative to make up for shortcomings.

  Because polypropylene, the raw material of melt-blown cloth, is taken from petroleum, petrochemical enterprises have advantages in producing melt-blown cloth. China Petrochemical Company has invested about 200 million yuan to build 10 melt-blown cloth production lines in Yanshan Petrochemical Company in Beijing and Yizheng Chemical Fiber Company in Jiangsu Province. After all the production, the daily output can reach 12 tons of N95 mask melt-blown cloth or 18 tons of medical flat mask melt-blown cloth, which can be processed into 18 million medical flat masks.

  Third, strengthen government regulation and control to ensure the balance of upstream and downstream supply.

  Lei Limin, vice president of China Textile Business Association, said that at present, the production situation of mask industry chain enterprises is complicated and information communication is not smooth, so it is difficult to know the real-time situation of the return to work rate and the newly put into production line. The industry believes that the mask industry chain is characterized by "marketization of upstream raw materials and administration of downstream masks", and the contradiction between market mechanism and plan management is constantly emerging. It is recommended to take administrative measures to properly intervene and straighten out the connection.

  Yu Xiaoning said that in the face of the epidemic, the overall decision-making from the central government to the local government has solved many problems for the development of the industry. The next step is to strengthen the overall planning of the industrial chain, form an organic combination of government, industry associations and enterprises, and use big data to make comprehensive statistics on the number, distribution, production capacity and production capacity under construction of mask factories, cloth factories and raw material factories. In the extraordinary period, entrepreneurs should organize all kinds of production work well, at the same time, they should improve their consciousness from the overall height and cooperate with the government’s dispatch, which not only completes the epidemic prevention task, but also makes the market develop more orderly.

Brake failure, driver school delivery hit students, how to define the responsibility? The court ruled!

On the way back to the classroom after class exercises.

The driver injured a student in school because the brakes were out of control.

Who should be responsible for drivers and schools?

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The Ziyang District Court of Yiyang City, Hunan Province heard this case.

Cases involving campus safety

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In February, 2022, when Li delivered the goods to a vocational school in Yiyang by car and returned to the downhill section of the campus, he lost control of the brakes and collided with 17-year-old Song, who was on his way back to the classroom after class exercises, causing Song to be injured. Later, Song was sent to the hospital for treatment, and the medical expenses were 34,176.29 yuan. After identification, Song’s right medial and lateral ankle fracture line involved the epiphysis, which was a grade 10 disability; Multiple fractures of the right foot cause complete destruction of the arch structure of the right foot, which is a grade 9 disability.

Afterwards, Song sued a vocational school, Li and the vehicle insurance company driven by Li to the court, demanding compensation for medical expenses, follow-up treatment fees, hospitalization food subsidies and other losses totaling 296,673 yuan.

After trial, the court held that citizens’ right to life and health was protected by law. If another person infringes upon a citizen’s personal rights due to his fault, he shall bear civil liability for compensation. The vehicle involved in the accident is owned by Li and has been insured with compulsory motor vehicle traffic accident liability insurance. According to Article 43 of the Regulations on Compulsory Motor Vehicle Traffic Accident Liability Insurance, for Song’s loss, the insurance company shall be liable for compensation within the limit of compulsory motor vehicle traffic accident liability insurance, and the rest shall be liable for compensation according to the degree of fault of all parties.

In this case, when driving on campus, Li should ensure the safety of pedestrians, especially on downhill roads, and pay attention to avoiding pedestrians. Li injured Song, who was returning to the classroom because of brake failure, and his fault was the root cause of the accident, and he should bear all the responsibility for the accident; A vocational school failed to fulfill the corresponding obligation of prompting and supervising the vehicles coming to the school. During the dissolution of recess exercise, it should try to avoid the traffic of vehicles on campus, thus inferring that a vocational school failed to fulfill its management responsibilities, and according to the provisions of Article 1201 of the Civil Code of People’s Republic of China (PRC), it was determined that the school should bear 30% of the supplementary liability for compensation.

Based on the above situation, the court ruled that the insurance company compensated Song for medical expenses, follow-up treatment expenses, hospital food subsidies, nursing expenses and other losses of 180,000 yuan within 10 days from the effective date of the judgment; Li compensated Song for medical expenses, follow-up treatment expenses, hospital food subsidies, nursing expenses and other losses of 81,536.99 yuan within 10 days from the effective date of this judgment; A vocational school shall bear the supplementary compensation liability within the range of 24,461.09 yuan when Li can’t pay off the above sum. After the school bears the above supplementary compensation liability, it has the right to recover from Li.

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The accident happened in a closed campus. Is it a road traffic accident?

This case is a dispute over damages caused by an accident when a vehicle passes outside the road. If a motor vehicle is damaged by a traffic accident, it shall be liable for compensation in accordance with the relevant provisions of the road traffic safety law. Article 77 of the Road Traffic Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China stipulates that accidents that occur when vehicles pass outside the road shall be handled with reference to the relevant provisions of the Road Traffic Safety Law. Article 25 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in the Trial of Road Traffic Accident Damage Compensation Cases stipulates that the provisions of this Interpretation may be applied with reference to damage compensation cases caused by motor vehicles passing outside roads. In this case, Song was injured by a motor vehicle in a non-road traffic accident on campus, and his personal injury compensation can be handled in accordance with the above-mentioned legal provisions.

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Who will bear the responsibility for the traffic accident on the way to delivery?

According to the provisions of Article 1191 of the Civil Code of People’s Republic of China (PRC), if a student suffers personal injury from an off-campus person while he is at school, the infringer shall bear the responsibility. If the staff of the employing unit causes damage to others due to the execution of work tasks, the employing unit shall bear the tort liability. In this case, a maintenance service co., Ltd. contracted the maintenance and cleaning project of the drainage ditch and septic tank in the male and female dormitory of the school. Li, an outsider in this case, is not a worker or employee of the company, but a deliveryman. Because of his fault, he should bear all the responsibilities.

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Does the school take responsibility for the accident on campus?

According to Article 1201 of the Civil Code of People’s Republic of China (PRC), if a person without or with limited capacity for civil conduct suffers personal injury from a third person outside the kindergarten, school or other educational institution during his study and life, the third person shall bear the tort liability; Kindergartens, schools or other educational institutions that fail to fulfill their management responsibilities shall bear corresponding supplementary responsibilities. Article 9, paragraph 2, of the Measures for Handling Student Injury Accidents stipulates that if the school safety management system has obvious omissions or management confusion and fails to take timely measures to cause student injury, the school shall bear corresponding responsibilities according to law.

At the time of the incident, Song was a person with limited capacity. During the dissolution of the class exercise, when Li was driving on campus, the school did not have managers to stop reminding him. It can be seen that the school’s safety management was negligent and did not do its due management duties, which caused Song’s personal injury accident. If the school is at fault, it should bear corresponding supplementary responsibilities. After the school assumes the supplementary responsibility, it can recover from Li.

In addition, students are injured from time to time due to construction on campus. During construction, the school should not only educate students about safety, but also make necessary control over related work, always reminding them to pay attention to the safety of teachers and students and create a safe campus environment.

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Reducing import tariffs affects geometry.

The the State Council executive meeting held recently pointed out that the import tariffs on daily consumer goods should be lowered on a large scale to better meet the diversified consumption needs of the masses. At the routine briefing on the State Council policy held by the State Council Information Office on June 1st, Vice Minister of Finance Zhu Guangyao introduced the relevant situation.

On May 31st, the State Council Customs Tariff Commission issued an announcement to reduce the import tariffs on consumer goods, which will take effect on July 1st this year.

Why should the import tariffs on consumer goods be lowered on a large scale this time? In this regard, Zhu Guangyao introduced that consumer goods for daily use are closely related to people’s needs for a better life. At present, the average MFN import tariff rate of consumer goods in China is 14.5%, which is 9.8% higher than the general tariff level in China. In 2017, China’s general trade import of consumer goods was US$ 65.7 billion. Since 2015, with the approval of the State Council, China has reduced the import tariffs on daily consumer goods for four times in order to attract overseas consumption back and meet the needs of residents’ consumption upgrading, mainly considering the high-quality products that are concentrated in consumption abroad and cannot be supplied at home for a while, including woolen clothes, some shoes and boots, sunglasses, thermos cups, diapers, some special foods and health care products.

It is understood that this tax reduction, in addition to appropriately reducing some products that have been significantly reduced in the previous period, plans to greatly expand the scope and intensity of tax reduction for other consumer goods, including products that are relatively few in consumption abroad but have distinctive advantages abroad, and products with relatively high import tax rates, involving 1,449 tax items, which is seven times the total of the previous four tax reductions. The average tax rate decreased from 15.7% to 6.9%, with an average decrease of 55.9%.

"Reducing import tariffs on consumer goods is conducive to expanding the import of products with distinctive advantages, meeting the needs of people’s better life, and better embodying the people-centered development concept; It is conducive to creating a fair competitive market environment and deepening the structural reform of the supply side of consumer goods; It is conducive to further opening up and is a major measure and practical action for us to actively open up the market. " Zhu Guangyao said.

Regarding the reduction of import tariffs this time, everyone is very concerned about whether the prices of consumer goods with concentrated demand from the people can continue to decline. In this regard, Zhu Guangyao explained that lowering tariffs did reduce the import cost to a certain extent, which generally helped to lower the price in the domestic market.

"At the same time, we should also look at it objectively. Tariffs are levied according to the import price of goods rather than the domestic market price. Reducing taxes on mass consumer goods priced on the basis of cost can promote market price reduction. However, for high-end consumer goods, the market sales price is usually several times the import price. " Zhu Guangyao said.

"After reducing tariffs, whether the price of consumer goods is reduced and how much it is reduced does have market behavior. We hope to enrich domestic consumption choices by reducing import tariffs and expanding imports of consumer goods. We hope that tax reduction can promote the decline of consumer goods prices, so that policy dividends can be truly transmitted to consumers and our consumers can get more benefits. " Zhu Guangyao said. (Reporter Yang Liang)

Notice of the General Office of the People’s Government of Guangdong Province on Establishing the Leading Group for the Work of China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone

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General Office of Guangdong Provincial People’s Government on the Establishment of China (Guangdong)

Notice of the Leading Group for the Work of the Pilot Free Trade Zone

People’s governments at the local level and listed, people’s governments of counties (cities, districts), departments and institutions directly under the provincial government, and relevant units of Zhongzhi in Guangdong:

  In order to strengthen the organization and leadership of China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone, the provincial people’s government agreed to set up a leading group for China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone, with the following members:

  Group leader: Governor of Zhu Xiaodan.

  Deputy Head: Member of the Standing Committee of Xu Shaohua Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor.

      Zhao Yufang, Vice Governor

      Mayor of Guangzhou, Chen Jianhua

      Xu Qin, Mayor of Shenzhen

      Mayor of Jiangling Zhuhai

  Member: Pan Xiangqing, director of the provincial editorial office.

      Director of He Ningka Provincial Development and Reform Commission

      Director of Lai Tiansheng Provincial Economic and Information Technology Commission

      Director of Education Department of Luo Weiqi Province

      Director of Science and Technology Department of Huang Ningsheng Province

      Deputy Director of Zhengdong Provincial Public Security Department

      Director of Yang Jianghua Provincial Department of Justice

      Director of Ceng Zhiquan Provincial Department of Finance

      Director of the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Lin Yingwu Province

      Director of the Department of Land and Resources of Wu Gongquan Province

      Director of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department of Wang Peng Province

      Zeng Zhaogeng, Director of the Provincial Department of Transportation

      Director of Guo Yuanqiang Provincial Department of Commerce

      Director of Wu Junsheng Port Office

      Zheng Jianrong, Director of the Work Office of China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone

      Fang Jianhong, Director of Provincial Department of Culture

      Deputy Director of Health and Family Planning Commission of Huangfei Province

      Director of Foreign Affairs Office of Fu Lang Province

      Director of Zhu Zejun Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce

      Director of Quality Supervision Bureau of Xiaotie Province

      Director of Huang Xiaoling Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television Bureau

      Director of Ma Xianmin Provincial Intellectual Property Office

      Yang Rongsen, Director of Provincial Tourism Bureau

      Director of Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Liao Jingshan Province

      Director of Legislative Affairs Office of Wang Xuecheng Province

      Liu Wentong, Director of Provincial Finance Office

      President of Wang Jingwu People’s Bank Guangzhou Branch (Director of Guangdong Branch of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange)
      Deputy Director of Guangdong Branch of Heli Customs

      Director of Hu Jinmu Provincial State Taxation Bureau

      Zhan Siming, Director of Guangdong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau

      Zhao Zhenshuan, Director of Shenzhen Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau

      Li Qingxiang, Director of Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau

      Wang Zhanfeng, Director of Guangdong Banking Regulatory Bureau

      Hou Wailin, Director of Guangdong Securities Regulatory Bureau

      Fang Yongbin, Director of Guangdong Insurance Regulatory Bureau

      Gu Weizhong, Director of Provincial Communications Administration

      Ding Hongdou, member of the Standing Committee of Guangzhou Municipal Committee and director of Guangzhou Nansha Development Zone Management Committee.

      Luo Weifeng, Vice Mayor of Guangzhou

      Chen Biao, Vice Mayor of Shenzhen

      Liu Jia, member of the Standing Committee of Zhuhai Municipal Committee and Party Secretary of Hengqin New District

      Zhang Bei, Director of Shenzhen Qianhai Administration Bureau

      Niu Jing Director of Zhuhai Hengqin New District Management Committee

      Sun Chengming, Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Group

  The daily work of the leading group shall be undertaken by the work office of China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone, with no seal engraving and no formal writing. If the members of the leading group need to be adjusted due to changes in work, the unit to which they belong shall submit it to the office of China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone, report it to the leading group for approval according to procedures, and send a copy to the provincial office.

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Provincial general office

May 5, 2015

Design and implementation of hedging scheme for copper smelting enterprises

  It is necessary to grasp the node that opens every profit window and rationally arrange the positions that need to be hedged.


铜冶炼企业套保方案的设计与实施


  A profit structure and risk characteristics of smelting enterprises


  The profit of copper smelting enterprises can be deduced by the following formula: profit = selling copper price-copper concentrate cost-smelting and processing cost = selling copper price-(purchasing copper price-smelting and processing cost)-smelting and processing cost = (selling copper price-purchasing copper price)+(smelting and processing cost-smelting and processing cost), in which the difference between smelting and processing cost is the core profit of copper smelting enterprises, which depends on the smelting technology, equipment and production management level of enterprises. The fluctuation of selling copper price and purchasing copper price is the external market risk faced by enterprises. If it is not managed or poorly managed, it will greatly infringe on the processing profits of enterprises. Therefore, smelting enterprises and traders above designated size often hedge their prices and lock in profits through the futures market.


  China’s copper resources are scarce, and the dependence of smelting enterprises on the import of raw materials is as high as 70%, while the finished electrolytic copper is basically sold domestically. Therefore, it is necessary to synchronize hedging in the internal and external markets. The actual hedging plan needs to weigh the scale of production and sales of enterprises, the differences in pricing benchmarks, pricing methods and pricing timing at both ends of the purchase and sale, and at the same time, the fluctuations and changes of macroeconomics and exchange rates cannot be ignored.


  The pricing of overseas purchased ore is based on LME price in London, and the pricing of domestic electrolytic copper is based on SHFE price in Shanghai Futures Exchange. The price changes of LME and SHFE are not completely synchronized, and the price difference exists for a long time and fluctuates violently. The calculation formula is "the current price of No.1 electrolytic copper in Yangtze River -(LME copper-swap fee+Yangshan copper premium) ×(1+ VAT rate )× exchange rate-miscellaneous fees".


  Theoretically, only when the above-mentioned tax-free static spread is greater than zero, the profit can be locked when the LME market imports the spot price and simultaneously sells the hedging in SHFE.


  Because the time node where the above price difference is positive is limited, usually there are only 3-4 opportunities throughout the year, it is very important for smelting enterprises to pay close attention to market dynamics and seize the right time to lock in the right amount of raw materials.


  B hedging scale and structure


  Before confirming the scale and structure of hedging, it is necessary to analyze the quantity and structure of raw materials and finished products of smelting enterprises. Because of the same pricing basis, the domestic purchased and sold parts can be hedged naturally, and only the purchased raw materials and the domestic finished products can be hedged. If the copper output of a smelter is 500,000 tons/year, and the monthly price of raw materials and finished products is 41,700 tons, of which 60% of raw materials depend on imports, then the specific structure of hedging.


  Raw material part


  The average monthly import of copper concentrate is 25,000 tons, based on the spot average price of LME market in QP month or the spot price before entering QP month; Purchasing 16,700 tons of copper concentrate in China every month is based on the monthly average price of copper in SHFE that month.


  Finished product part


  The ratio of long orders to zero orders for electrolytic copper sales in the industry is 7∶3, that is, the monthly sales volume of long orders is 29,200 tons, based on the average price of SHFE in that month; Sporadic sales of 12,500 tons, based on the timely copper price of SHFE in the current month (that is, the spot price), and referring to the spot price of Yangtze River Nonferrous Metals.


  Natural hedging


  In order to reduce the occupation of hedging funds, based on the same pricing basis, 16,700 tons of copper concentrate purchased in China and 16,700 tons of electrolytic copper sold in long orders can be naturally hedged.


  Hedging scale and structure


  In the product part, 12,500 tons of electrolytic copper sold in long-term orders and 12,500 tons of electrolytic copper sold in retail orders are hedged in SHFE market; The corresponding monthly import of 25,000 tons of raw materials, buy hedging in LME market.


  Capital occupation


  If an average of 25,000 tons of raw materials are hedged every month, 5,000 lots of copper contracts need to be sold in SHFE. At the current price of 48,000 yuan/ton, calculated according to the margin ratio of 10%, it needs to occupy the trading margin of 120 million yuan; In order to reduce the risk and ensure the safety of positions, the continuous margin should be appropriately increased.


  C hedging strategy implementation of QP in different pricing periods


  The so-called pricing period is the validity period of pricing agreed by buyers and sellers in international trade. For example, the pricing period of copper concentrate is the second month after transportation, and the time of transportation month is subject to the ocean bill of lading. With the increasing concentration of the global copper concentrate market, the international mining monopoly oligarchs will not distribute the annual agreed trade volume to each month in a balanced way. Even QP quantity is only of theoretical significance, and uneven QP quantity is the normal state of international trade.


  Hedging strategy under QP uniformity


  At this time, the quantity of copper concentrate imported every month is 1/12 of the annual agreed quantity. The importing enterprises must seize every opportunity that the tax-free price difference is beneficial to import, and lock in the processing fee income through the operation of selling and buying at the same time in the domestic and foreign futures markets. Usually, there are three or four import hedging opportunities periodically every year, and the number of active months of SHFE copper contracts is also three to four months, which can basically meet the demand of imported enterprises for uniform hedging in domestic and foreign futures markets throughout the year, and the hedging operation is relatively simple.


  Hedging strategy under the condition of uneven QP


  Copper concentrate suppliers will take advantage of the strong market position and deliberately increase the QP in the traditional peak consumption season, so as to increase the copper price in LME market after entering this month, thus indirectly increasing the sales price of copper concentrate. At this time, it is only through the combination of positive cross-market and inter-period arbitrage that the imported enterprises can achieve the expected hedging effect.


  In January, May and June, 2019, there were hedging opportunities in which the tax-free spread was greater than zero. For example, on January 16th and 17th, the import profits were all around 400 yuan/ton, which was worth operating. If the refinery contract situation is that the amount of QP in February, March and April is small, totaling 34,000 tons, while the amount of QP in May is as high as 41,000 tons, then the total amount of QP in February, March and April should be bought into the LME3 March contract; Corresponding to China, SHFE2 contracts in February, March and April should sell 11,300 tons. If LME’s May date price (the third Wednesday of each month) and SHFE contract also have hedging opportunities, we can buy all or part of the May QP in LME market, and at the same time, we can choose to sell the same amount of goods on the contract with tax-free spread greater than zero in SHFE market, with the equivalent month or the active distant month as the top choice, and then adjust the monthly contract quantity evenly when the SHFE contract structure is suitable for short positions, thus solving the problem of "uneven import QP quantity". When the spot price is higher than the contract price of the month with the largest short position, the spot can be oversold and the contract of the month can be closed first, and the contract of the month can be suspended.


  It should be noted that the profit should be locked in advance by buying LME and throwing SHFE copper before QP month. Because after entering QP month, buying raw materials can only be priced according to the average settlement price of LME market spot month, it is difficult to grasp the timing of selling hedging positions in China at this time. Back to the above case, if the amount of QP in February exceeds the average, and the amount of QP in March, April and May is less, the extra amount of QP in February should be dealt with when there is an arbitrage opportunity without tax spread in January. In addition, we need to pay attention to the influence of the market structure of internal and external markets on the hedging effect.


  The fluctuation of exchange rate is of great significance to importing enterprises, and the fluctuation of RMB against the US dollar will greatly affect the profits of enterprises. Therefore, while locking the price comparison during the import profit window, we should lock the exchange rate at the same time to hedge the risk of RMB depreciation. Specific operation can choose to buy RMB/USD futures (CUS) of HKEx or RMB/USD futures (UC) of SGX, and the contract month corresponds to the domestic SHFE copper contract month.


  Let’s take the above example. For example, on January 16th, 34,000 tons of copper were bought at the LME market for $5,900/ton, with a total market value of $ 34,000× 59,000 = 2,006 million. The first-hand RMB futures of SGX were $100,000, so it was necessary to buy 2,006 lots of RMB futures, with a margin of about 2.5% and a capital of about $50 million.


  D factors affecting import profit and loss


  Judging from the formula of tax-free spread, it is easy to find that the profit and loss of imports depend on the following factors:


  First, the linkage and differentiation of the relative trend of the internal and external disk. For copper, due to the existence of a large number of cross-market hedging arbitrage positions, it is difficult for the two cities to get out of the differentiated market, and more is just the different ups and downs. Generally speaking, the trading time of Luntong copper is long, and the market leads Shanghai copper to move towards and ahead of Shanghai copper, and the fluctuation range often exceeds Shanghai copper. In this regard, we can intuitively observe with the ratio of the inner disk to the outer disk, and the increase in the ratio indicates that the increase in the inner disk is higher than that in the outer disk, and vice versa.


  For example, from the end of 2017 to the beginning of 2018, Luntong continued to rise in December, hitting a new high of $7,312.5/ton on the 28th. As shown in the figure below, the ratio of the main contract of the internal market to the closing price of LME3 at 3 pm in March shows a gradual downward trend in the first box, which means that Shanghai copper is gradually weakening relative to Luntong. During this period, the average import loss was around 600 yuan/ton. Subsequently, on January 23, 2018, Luntong fell by 2.49%, but the decline of Shanghai Copper did not follow. On the 22nd, the ratio of Shanghai Copper was 7.64, and on the 23rd, it rose sharply to 7.80, and the import profit on that day exceeded 1000 yuan/ton.


  The second is the impact of CNH exchange rate changes. Of course, the influence of Shanghai-Shanghai ratio on import profit is not absolute. From the opening in mid-June to mid-July, 2018, the import window was always closed. Judging from the basis difference between the internal and external disks at that time, they were all in a positive structure and were in a spot discount state. Yangshan copper premium remained at a high level of about $80/ton. However, from March 27th to August 15th of that year, the offshore RMB CNH depreciated from 6.2355 to 6.9583. As can be seen from the second box in the figure below, the exchange rate trend wears the Shanghai-Lun ratio, which means that the exchange rate decline far exceeds the increase of the Shanghai-Lun ratio. This factor alone can determine the state of import profit and loss, which shows the importance of exchange rate management.



图为SHFE主力与LME的3月合约收盘价



  The picture shows the closing price of the March contract between SHFE main force and LME.



图为LME库存与现货升贴水



  The picture shows LME inventory and spot discount.


  The third is the influence of the different basis structure of the inner and outer disks. On August 13-22 and August 31-September 11, 2018, two long-lasting profit windows were opened, and the highest import profit was almost equal to 1000 yuan/ton. At that time, LME went to stock by canceling warehouse receipts. On August 13th, the cancellation of warehouse receipts accounted for less than 10%, and LME’s cash-3s was greatly discounted at about $30/ton. With the opening of the import profit window, the profit-driven inventory moved to Asian warehouses. On August 31st, the proportion of cancelled warehouse receipts rose rapidly to 53%, and LME’s cash-3s discount shrank to USD 7/ton. At the same time, CNH also cooperated with the withdrawal from a relatively high level and was in a state of slight appreciation. Domestic consumption entered the peak season, and the spot premium rose to about 200 yuan/ton. At this time, the internal and external disks echo each other, and the spot market is in a rare common heat.


  Fourthly, the influence of spot copper premium in Yangshan foreign trade market. With the development of the breadth and depth of the market, the financial attribute of copper gradually fades, and the commodity attribute is increasingly enhanced. The import quantity basically reflects the rigid demand of the real economy. When the import profit expands, traders are profitable, and the import clearance volume is greatly increased, and the Yangshan copper premium rises. Therefore, the spot copper premium in foreign trade market is a dependent variable determined by the above three factors, and its own change has been difficult to affect the import profit window.



图为洋山铜溢价与进口盈亏对比



  The picture shows the comparison between Yangshan copper premium and import profit and loss.


  E market outlook and enterprise countermeasures


  In 2019, the TCbenchmark was US$ 80.8/ton, while the spot TC of copper concentrate fell all the way to below US$ 60/ton, and the price of sulfuric acid continued to fall. Some small smelters with few long-term associations have fallen below the production cost. Although the output of electrolytic copper decreased by 50,000 tons in the first half of the year, it is estimated that the crude refining capacity will increase by 800,000 tons and the refining capacity will increase by 1 million tons during the year. At the same time, due to various unexpected disturbances, woodmackenzie has predicted the negative growth of copper concentrate output. As far as the industrial chain as a whole is concerned, it is obviously bad for smelting enterprises, so it is particularly important to maintain due profits.


  At present, the global economic growth is slowing down and the trade friction is constant. On April 17th, the copper price of Luntong continued to drop from a high of 6,608.5 USD/ton to 5,740 USD/ton on June 7th. At present, with the staged achievements of the Sino-US trade agreement, Luntong has once again returned to the 6,000 USD/ton mark. From the perspective of terminal consumption, domestic automobile consumption may be in a state of bottoming out, air conditioning production is no longer strong, and cable orders are not optimistic. Superimposing the international political and economic environment that may be repeated, it is difficult for copper prices to get out of the trend of unilateral rise. The current rise is more about repairing the low volatility for a long time before.


  During the observation period, the depreciation rate of the exchange rate was slightly larger than the price comparison between the internal and external markets. Due to the weakening of downstream consumption, Yangshan copper premium fell sharply, and the import profit window was opened from time to time, but it didn’t last long and the profit margin was limited. Therefore, for smelting enterprises, it is more important to grasp the nodes that the profit window opens every time and rationally arrange the positions that need to be preserved.

(Editor: Zhao Peng)

China has become the largest trading partner of 25 countries.

  On August 27th, the State Council Press Office held a press conference in Beijing, inviting Ning Ji Zhe, deputy director of the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Construction of the Belt and Road, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission and director of the National Bureau of Statistics, Qian Keming, Vice Minister of Commerce, and Zhang Jun, Assistant Foreign Minister, to introduce the progress and prospect of the five-year joint construction of the Belt and Road, and to answer questions from reporters.

  Significant progress has been made in the construction of the "Belt and Road"

  Five years after the "Belt and Road Initiative" was put forward, it has received positive global response and participation. After five years of practice, the "Belt and Road Initiative" has been transformed from concept and vision into practical action, and significant progress has been made.

  Ning Jizhen said that the "One Belt, One Road" initiative and its core concept have been written into the outcome documents of important international mechanisms such as the United Nations, and 103 countries and international organizations have signed 118 cooperation agreements with China. Among the 279 achievements of the first "Belt and Road" international cooperation summit forum in 2017, 265 have been completed or turned into normal work, and 14 are being supervised and promoted, with an implementation rate of 95%.

  In addition, in the past five years, the "Belt and Road" construction has made positive progress in paying close attention to key projects, strengthening financial support, and close cultural exchanges. It is estimated that by 2020, the number of two-way tourists between China and countries along the route will exceed 85 million, and the tourism consumption will be about 110 billion US dollars.

  "The practice in the past five years shows that co-construction of ‘ Belt and Road ’ In line with the trend of the times and the development direction, international recognition is growing, there are more and more partners, and the influence continues to expand. " Ning Jizhe said that China is now the second largest economy in the world, and China’s economic growth has contributed more than 30% to the world’s economic growth. Cooperation between China and countries along the route is conducive to sharing opportunities for mutual development. In the past few years, China and countries along the route have made joint efforts to promote regional economic development and world economic recovery.

  Zhang Jun said that the "Belt and Road Initiative" bears the good wishes of people of all countries to achieve common development and prosperity, meets the practical needs of coping with the risks and challenges of the world economy, shows the strategic vision of leading and building an open world economy, and also shows China’s constructive role as a responsible big country.

  Economic and trade cooperation has achieved remarkable results

  Qian Keming said at the press conference that in the past five years, China’s trade with countries along the route has been expanding. At present, China has become the largest trading partner of 25 countries along the route, and has signed or upgraded five free trade agreements with 13 countries along the route, which is based on the periphery and covers the "Belt and Road" and is accelerating the formation of a high-standard free trade network facing the world.

  — — In the past five years, China’s total trade with countries along the route has exceeded 5 trillion US dollars, with an average annual growth rate of 1.1%.

  — — In the past five years, China’s direct investment in countries along the route has grown at an average annual rate of 7.2%, and the newly signed foreign contracted projects in countries along the route have exceeded 500 billion US dollars, with an average annual growth rate of 19.2%. At the same time, we will continue to relax the field of foreign investment access, create a high-standard business environment, and attract countries along the route to invest in China.

  — — In the past five years, Chinese enterprises have built 82 overseas economic and trade cooperation zones in countries along the route, with a cumulative investment of 28.9 billion US dollars, 3,995 enterprises have entered the zones, and the taxes and fees paid to the host country have totaled 2.01 billion US dollars, creating 244,000 jobs for the local area.

  When answering a reporter’s question from Economic Daily, Ning Ji Zhe said that China and relevant countries have achieved positive results in promoting third-party market cooperation. Third-party market cooperation is an open, inclusive, pragmatic and effective mode of international cooperation, which embodies the "One Belt, One Road" concept of joint venture, joint construction and sharing, and helps enterprises in China and other countries, especially those in developed countries and multinational enterprises, to complement each other’s advantages, inject new kinetic energy into the economic development of third countries and achieve a win-win effect of "1+1+1>3". China is willing to work with relevant countries and enterprises to expand the scope of cooperation in third-party markets, adhere to the concept of co-construction, co-construction and sharing, open up markets for investment, production and operation, actively innovate cooperation modes, and support enterprises to open up new markets in various ways, including joint bid and joint investment, so as to achieve complementary advantages and win-win results.

  China has always attached importance to strengthening debt management.

  Ning Ji Zhe said that in the face of the new situation, the China Municipal Government will, as always, adhere to the principle of mutual cooperation, joint construction and sharing, adhere to the laws of the market economy and international rules, and promote the construction of the Belt and Road with high quality and high standards with win-win cooperation as the goal.

  In response to concerns about the debt problem, Qian Keming said that China has always attached great importance to how to promote the economic growth of the host country without creating a burden. Therefore, it has always emphasized the choice of infrastructure investments with better economic benefits, especially those that can promote employment, increase tax revenue and increase exports. Developed countries and multilateral financial institutions are also welcome to participate and improve the efficiency of capital use.

  Ning Jizhen said that the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" project has brought effective investment to relevant countries, not the so-called "debt trap". Judging from the actual situation, some national debt problems reported by foreign media are not necessarily related to the "Belt and Road" construction and its projects. Among them, some countries have high debt levels in the past, and some countries do have a heavy debt burden, but they mainly borrow a lot from other countries and international financial organizations for a long time. China is a latecomer, not the biggest creditor.

  Ning Ji Zhe said that China has always attached importance to strengthening debt management for joint projects and investment cooperation with relevant countries. On the issue of investment and financing of the "Belt and Road" construction project, China has always adhered to the guidance of economic benefits, provided loans according to the actual situation of the project countries, supported the project construction, and avoided causing new debt risks and financial burdens to the project countries. Before providing financing for the project, Chinese banks will strictly measure the borrower’s liabilities and solvency, and will continue to track and monitor relevant country risks and sovereign risks after the loan. Developing economy and improving people’s livelihood are the most urgent tasks for developing countries. For some developing countries that really need urgent funds for economic construction, Chinese banks will also help them achieve debt sustainability by rationally designing financing structures and other ways.

On-the-spot Report of the 10th Anniversary of the Reform of Shanghai Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station

  Zhou Xiaodong, Shanghai Channel of Xinhuanet reported on October 17th that Shanghai Port is one of the largest and earliest ports opened to the outside world approved by the State Council, and enjoys the reputation of "China’s first airport". Established in 1998, Shanghai Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station is responsible for frontier inspection of entry-exit personnel and means of transportation at Shanghai Port. After ten years’ experience, Shanghai border inspectors have taken a reform road of developing through inheritance and innovating through development.


  In 2007, Shanghai Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station inspected more than 19.5 million entry-exit personnel, 4.9 times that of 1998. The number of people entering and leaving Shanghai Airport has ranked first in the national airport for nine consecutive years. In the past ten years, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has inspected more than 113.28 million entry-exit personnel, ranking first in the country. Among them, the number of foreign passengers inspected accounts for more than a quarter of the national total, ranking first in the country. More than 740,000 flights of inbound and outbound aircraft were inspected, ranking first in the country. 177,309 international ships were inspected and 1,553 Shanghai-Hong Kong trains were inspected.


  Inheriting the glorious brand of professional reform


  Fifty years of vicissitudes and great changes, half a century of spring and autumn. On January 4th, 1952, the East China Military and Political Commission of People’s Republic of China (PRC) set up the "Shanghai Frontier Inspection Station" in Shanghai, which was responsible for the frontier inspection at the Shanghai port, ending the history of "having borders without defenses" in Shanghai. In the following forty years, Jinshan, Wusong, Waigaoqiao and Hongqiao border checkpoints were established one after another.


  With a flick of a finger, history ushered in a new opportunity. On July 1, 1998, according to the spirit of the State Council’s reply, the Shanghai Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station was formally established, with a deputy department-level system, directly under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security, and all personnel were changed from active military personnel to professional people’s police, thus the Shanghai border inspection team entered a brand-new development stage. The sense of overall situation and sense of responsibility passed down from the original army made Shanghai border inspectors devote all their enthusiasm to their new posts as always. Time flies, with the glorious brand of the national guard. In just ten years, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has successively set up Pudong Border Inspection Station, Railway Border Inspection Station and Yangshan Border Inspection Station, and the number of border inspection stations under the main station has increased from five before the transformation to eight. The service area covers 105 docks and 429 berths in Pudong and Hongqiao International Airports, Shanghai Railway Station and Shanghai Port. The coastline of the harbor is 470 Li long.


  Struggle hard to start a business.


  Follow the footsteps of history and forge ahead. How long is the road of ten years? Shanghai border inspectors are not afraid of difficulties, and how far is the pace of hard work.


  In 1999, when the first phase of Pudong Airport was completed, the designed annual passenger flow was 20 million, of which the designed annual international passenger flow was 4.5 million. In fact, by 2004, the annual international passenger flow of Pudong Airport reached more than 12 million passengers, nearly three times the designed annual passenger flow. Faced with the situation and pressure, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has been exploring for breakthroughs, actively contacting relevant parties and expanding the passenger waiting area. Around their own potential, maximize the existing police force to deal with major border security tasks. In October, 2001, all the police in Shanghai Border Inspection Station fought hard and fulfilled their mission, successfully completing the border inspection security task of the world-renowned APEC meeting. In October 2002, Shanghai Border Inspection Station ushered in a major adjustment in border inspection service since the vocational reform. In order to meet the needs of aviation hub port construction, all international, Hong Kong and Macao flights that took off and landed at the former Hongqiao International Airport moved eastward to the newly built Pudong International Airport. Under the guidance of the superior, the frontier inspection station has repeatedly brewed and carefully formulated a set of implementation plans to ensure the smooth handover of the frontier inspection work after moving eastward. On January 26th, 2003, with the first Taiwanese Spring Festival charter flight flying over the Taiwan Province Strait to Pudong Airport, the ice of direct cross-strait flights for more than 50 years will be broken at this moment. As a witness of this historic moment, the Shanghai border inspector undertook the border inspection task of this Taiwanese charter flight. Facing the new challenges, Shanghai Border Inspection Station successfully completed its task again under the guidance of its superiors.It has been fully affirmed by the Taiwan Affairs Office, the Exit-Entry Administration of the Ministry of Public Security and the city leaders. Up to now, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has inspected 388 chartered flights by Taiwanese businessmen, providing high-quality and efficient customs clearance services for more than 81,800 passengers.


  In recent years, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has been focusing on improving the service level, insisting on customs clearance efficiency and strict control, and has handed over satisfactory answers for arduous tasks again and again. It has successfully completed the entry and exit frontier inspection tasks of a series of major international conferences and activities, such as the Shanghai Annual Meeting of the Fortune Forum, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, the 35th Annual Meeting of ADB, the 12th Special Olympic Games and the Beijing Olympic Games, and made positive contributions to the country’s reform, opening up and economic construction. During the APEC meeting and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, Shanghai Border Inspection Station was awarded Class II by the Ministry of Public Security respectively.


  Strengthen the police with science and technology and build a good soldier at the port


  Ten years of take-off cannot be separated from the wings of science and technology. Shanghai Border Inspection Station adheres to the principle of "strengthening police through science and technology" and continuously increases investment in scientific and technological equipment. Since the vocational reform, the main station has invested more than 70 million yuan in science and technology. More than 2,000 computers and nearly 200 vehicles were distributed to the grassroots. The grass-roots front line is equipped with the world’s advanced document inspection instrument, which greatly improves the technical content and identification ability of false and false documents. According to the passenger flow analysis system, the airport border inspection station scientifically deployed police to ensure the smooth completion of the entry-exit border inspection task under the situation of large numbers of people entering and leaving. The construction of "digital service" has been strengthened and standardized at seaport border checkpoints and railway border checkpoints. Through the three-dimensional service management mode of "TV monitoring+mobile patrol+limited area", the management and control ability of port entry and exit activities has been further enhanced. The information query system software of border inspection documents jointly developed fills the gap in the field of passport documents query in China’s border inspection system.


  Chen Jian, a policeman at Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station, was deeply impressed by the strong police through science and technology. "I was one of the first policemen to patrol the dock in a police car!" , he all proudly recalled, "I remember the first time I drove a police car to patrol the dock, many foreign crew members came out to see us. In their eyes, China border police patrolled the dock on foot and by bike. At present, the conditions of our border inspection are getting better and better, and electronic monitoring equipment has been put into use at every seaport and port, which completely changed the "one ship, one post" international navigation ship monitoring mode in the early 1990s. As witnesses, we are also sincerely proud of our profession! "


  The pace of Shanghai border inspectors climbing the peak of science and technology has never stopped. In March 2006, Shanghai Border Inspection Station fully launched the "Golden Shield Project" project "Meisha System" of the Ministry of Public Security at the port, which made the informationization level of Shanghai border inspection work reach the international advanced level. Through this powerful core command system, the two-level duty disposal mode of the main station and the border inspection station has been optimized, and the joint duty of sea, land and air ports has been realized in the national border inspection organs, and a criss-crossing port management and control network has been carefully woven. In the past ten years, the main station has seized more than 4,600 cases of smuggling, with more than 6,000 person-times, and received and handled more than 30,000 repatriated persons. The increasing strength of "strengthening the police through science and technology" has really improved the combat effectiveness of the Shanghai border inspection team.


  Practicing internal strength hard and strengthening the quality of police


  Ten years of change, things have changed. The harvest lies not only in the innovation of technical equipment, but also in the improvement of personnel quality, which is the greatest wealth of the ten-year job reform and the source of the vigorous development of border inspection.


  In the past ten years, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has always insisted on carrying out the police training plan based on quality education, the standardization of grass-roots teams and various forms of on-the-job training, which has greatly improved the overall quality and professional skills of the team. At present, 100% of the police have achieved college education or above, and all 35 grass-roots teams have achieved standardization. Since the restructuring in 1998, the Central Station has recruited more than 1,000 local college students who are interested in border inspection to enrich the team and constantly optimize the quality structure of the team. As a new force in the team of college students’ police, the main station pays attention to professional navigation and vigorously cultivates professionalism and dedication. With the training of organizations and their own efforts, many people have grown into professional backbones in their posts. In recent years, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has sent seven policemen to participate in UN peacekeeping missions. Organized business experts to give business lectures overseas for many times. More than 200 collectives and more than 1,500 policemen have been commended by various levels and types. A large number of advanced models, such as Nie Rendong, a national super-excellent people’s policeman, and Chen Peihong, a red flag bearer in Shanghai, have emerged in the ranks, and the anti-smuggling experts fighting at the front line of the port are well-known at home and abroad.


  A teacher who is determined to forge ahead.


  With the support and guidance of their superiors, Shanghai border inspectors have pioneered the national border defense system and the Ninth Border Inspection Station again and again, and achieved the first time and again.


  In January 1999, Wusong Border Inspection Station started to use electronic monitoring equipment, which completely changed the "one ship, one post" international navigation ship monitoring mode in China.


  On January 1, 2000, the 48-hour transit visa-free policy was implemented in some countries, which further simplified the customs clearance procedures for transit passengers.


  In August, 2001, the "Entry Passage for China Citizens" was first set up in China, which greatly enhanced the sense of honor of China citizens.


  In September 2006, the supporting commercial housing "Baojingyuan" project was launched, which completely solved the housing difficulties of more than 1,000 police officers without housing in the main station.


  In May 2008, the inspector grading system was initiated, which provided a new mechanism guarantee for promoting the sustainable development of the team and improving the level of border inspection services.


  In 2008, the civilian staff openly recruited by the general station went to work, replacing the front-line police with civilian staff as auxiliary work, and boldly embarked on a brand-new road for China’s border inspection organs to revitalize the police force.


  Phoenix nirvana is the sublimation of the realm, and the reproduction of history is in line with the development of the situation. On September 29th, 2007, under the care of Premier Wen Jiabao, the international flight of Hongqiao Airport officially resumed, and eight routes between Japan and South Korea were opened. The police at Hongqiao Border Inspection Station once again performed their duty of guarding the country. They gave this 44-year-old border inspection station a new life with a brand-new service concept. The T2 terminal in Pudong has been completed, designed to handle 60 million passengers at home and abroad every year, and the first-class environmental facilities have created a new landmark of Shanghai’s air gateway. Frontier inspection facilities are more perfect and humanized, with 144 new border inspection channels. It is estimated that the number of international passengers will reach more than 27 million by 2010.


  Yang Xiangda, the chief stationmaster of Shanghai Border Inspection Station, commented on this team when he reviewed the stormy course of the ten-year reform of Shanghai Border Inspection: "The ten-year reform is not only a change in hardware facilities, but more importantly, a change in the mental outlook of our Shanghai border inspectors, and an improvement in the overall quality of our team. There are both inheritance and development, and we have inherited the tenacious tradition of the army and made new progress in our understanding of service. This can be said to be the professional characteristics and spirit of our Shanghai border inspectors. After ten years of sharpening a sword, today, we have a team that can fight hard, a team full of honor and responsibility. Such a team is the guarantee for us to meet all challenges and win hard battles! "


  With the continuous acceleration of the construction of "four firsts" and "four centers" in Shanghai, history has put forward brand-new requirements for the level and efficiency of border inspection work. In 2008, Shanghai Border Inspection Station, under the leadership of its superiors, successfully completed the border inspection and security tasks for the Beijing Olympic Games. In 2010, the Shanghai World Expo has set the largest number of participating countries and will attract more than 200 countries and international organizations and more than 70 million domestic and foreign tourists. Shoulder the glorious mission of showing Chinese civilization and welcoming guests from all over the world. According to the overall deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, Shanghai Border Inspection Station is making great strides towards the goal of building the best administrative law enforcement team in China and the service level entering the advanced ranks in the world!

Editor: Wang Jiaolong

Netizens visit Jay Chou’s "Magic Master E-sports" Internet Cafe: VIP charges 300 yuan every hour!

  Apart from being a singer, Jay Chou is also an out-and-out e-sports fan. In April this year, Jay Chou and IDG co-founded the "Magic Jie E-sports" brand, and the first e-sports Internet cafe jointly opened by the two parties officially settled in Shenzhen.

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  The overall specification of this internet cafe is completely against the standard of high-end internet cafes, and the price is also the standard of high-end internet cafes. Some netizens visited the first Jay Chou Internet cafe in Shenzhen, and it was not cheap in terms of price. The price of the lobby was 10 yuan/hour, while the most expensive VIP seat reached 300 yuan/hour.

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  Different from other Internet cafes, the display screen, mouse, keyboard and headphones of Jay Chou Internet Cafe are all customized versions with Jay logo, and the host is a high-end game console known for its powerful game performance and high price.

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  The following private room is Jay’s exclusive private room, which is a complete copy of Jay Chou’s office in Taipei. Besides playing games, you can also enjoy the office in Jay Chou.

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