Home Talk: Peng Mingshan and aston martin, a Double-faced Gentleman.

  [high-end dialogue]  Speaking of aston martin, youThere must be a Bond-style figure in the James Bond movie, whose suit is elegant and elegant, and his gestures reveal unusual stability and wisdom. This setting mainly comes from ian fleming, the author of 007 series novels. In the original book, 007 chose a DB4 that was on sale at that time, but in the subsequent films, DB5 and Bond became indissoluble bonds. So far, aston martin, as the "bond girl" who has set off Bond for the longest time, has almost become an organic whole with aston martin in nearly half.

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  Peng Mingshan and aston martin Laguna China are a steady and wise Chinese. Since taking over Aston Martin Laguna (China) in 2015, we have seen a more active aston martin. From DB11 to DB11 Volante to the brand-new Vantage, aston martin’s product line has been updated faster than other top luxury brands. At the same time, its excellent sales performance makes people feel that it is different from before. It is no longer silent, and it is no longer an unknown minority luxury. Only one person knows about the changes, and that is Peng Mingshan. We take this opportunity to show you how this century-old gentleman has integrated into the contemporary society.

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You need to get to know this gentleman again-aston martin.

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  007 and aston martin complement each other to create a gentleman’s side in aston martin, which is rare among top luxury brands. However, with the changes in consumer groups, more and more car owners hope that their cars can show more personality or performance. Compared with other competing products, aston martin’s traditional style seems to be too conservative, and its models do not have too obvious personality differences. Peng Mingshan decided to change all this. In 2017, he put forward a new brand proposition-only beauty.

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  "’Wei’ means pursuit. We want to pursue something beautiful, including the process of our production, and build each car with craftsmanship or by hand." Peng Mingshan explained, "and’ beauty’ is to maintain the beauty of this appearance, interior, macro, micro and golden section, and compromise other things." Aston martin’s philosophy of beauty only reminds me of aestheticism, which advocates that the philosophy of art should be independent of all philosophies, and art can only be judged by its own standards, which also perfectly explains the main style of aston martin in the new era.

  Peng Mingshan admits that aston martin once introduced the car Little Swan, a product based on IQ, but in his view, it seems to be a car born without continuous product strategy at all, even out of the brand idea of aston martin. In order to keep the essence of the brand, Peng Mingshan has made a separate positioning for each brand-new aston martin.

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  After several years of brand "trough", the birth seems to indicate that this century-old gentleman is rejuvenating. As the successor of DB series, Peng Mingshan’s team defined it as-gentry and extraordinary. "Being gentry and extraordinary is a very good positioning, representing its gentleman, and extraordinary represents its performance." In a word, Peng Mingshan explained the DB11 product very well, which inherited the elegant features of aston martin family, decorated with classic British Brock patterns, and the DB series products with mediocre performance before really showed extraordinary strength in this generation of products.

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  Another latest aston martin, the new generation Vantage, which is launched in the world, defines the product as "unruly" and takes it from the idiom "unruly" in China. Jie was the last monarch of the Xia Dynasty in China, and he was a tyrant. As the name implies, Jie was hard to tame, with a violent personality and hard to tame, and the new generation of Vantage turned to the other extreme aston martin. Compared with the previous generation products, the new generation Vantage is clearly defined as a track weapon. Although it is smaller than the elegant and extraordinary DB11, it sacrifices some comfort and practicality, but gains a more powerful track driving experience. For example, the V8 and frame-type all-aluminum body are used to control the weight at 1530kg. At the same time, in order to achieve a balanced counterweight of 50:50, the engine of the new generation Vantage is arranged as far as possible, and the gearbox is placed at the rear of the car. This is a pure aston martin built for driving.

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  Careful friends who are "gentry but uncommon" and "unruly" may think that DB11 and the new generation of Vantage are completely different personalities, which seems to have never appeared in the first 100 years, which is exactly what Peng Mingshan expected. "We have to find two attributes, otherwise you will have to pull the customers who bought DB11 to buy Vantage. This is not my purpose. I have to find new customers." The track has become the second attribute of aston martin, and we can say that this is a great return.

  Before 007 was bound to aston martin as a gentleman, aston martin, as a century-old brand, was also racing in Europe. In 1928, it participated for the first time, and International Racing ranked third with 82 laps. In 1935, it won the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It can be said that the blood of sports has been flowing in the connotation of aston martin, and now aston martin will return to the track with its brand in the new era.

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  Peng Mingshan said, it is hard to imagine how a brand can survive for more than 100 years without competition culture. The latest AMR brand launched in aston martin is the abbreviation of Aston Martin Race. Officially, it is an exclusive brand focusing on high performance and sports. In the future, every aston martin will launch AMR version, and the latest one is DB11 AMR. In addition, in the Le Mans stage of 2018 WEC 24 Hours, which will be unveiled this week, aston martin will launch the latest racing model-Vantage GTE on this oldest track.

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  Aston martin is no longer static, and no longer sticks to the gentle gentleman style, but shows the male desire to conquer everything behind the gentleman, which is called a double-faced gentleman.

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Excessive discharge of pollutants into the municipal pipe network! Harbin garbage and feces treatment plant was fined 730 thousand

  Cctv news(Reporter Li Wenxue): The unit that should have treated garbage and feces harmlessly discharged sewage into the municipal pipe network. Recently, Harbin garbage and feces harmless treatment plant was fined 730,000 yuan for allegedly violating the water pollution prevention and control law, and the circumstances were particularly serious.

  Harbin Garbage Disposal Plant is located in Gaojiadian Village, Tuanjie Town, Daowai District. It is built by Harbin Urban Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd. and managed by the Municipal Urban Management Bureau. The plant started construction in August 2011, completed the main acceptance and put into trial production in August 2014, and completed the environmental protection acceptance in December 2015; It covers an area of 18,696 square meters, with a building area of 10,284.23 square meters, with a total investment of 93,616,900 yuan and a designed treatment capacity of 500 tons/day. The process of "fecal pretreatment tank+bag anaerobic system +A/O biological reaction tank +MBR membrane system" is adopted, which mainly undertakes the harmless treatment of domestic garbage and feces in the city.

  Harbin Garbage and Manure Harmless Treatment Plant is located on a hillside in Gaojiadian Tun, about 100 meters away from Guodian Road under the slope, and not too far away from Ashe River, a tributary of the south bank of Songhua River. There is a big billboard in the factory, which reads: After the completion of the project, Harbin Urban Management Bureau and Harbin North Environmental Protection Engineering Co., Ltd. signed an entrusted operation agreement, with a term of 30 years, from November 9, 2012 to November 9, 2042.

  Article 10 of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution in People’s Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "The discharge of water pollutants shall not exceed the national or local standards for the discharge of water pollutants and the control indicators for the total discharge of key water pollutants." During the inspection from the night of April 16th to the early morning of April 17th, the eco-environmental department of Harbin City found that the Harbin Garbage and Manure Harmless Treatment Plant discharged sewage into the municipal pipe network of Guodifang Road. The third-party testing company sampled and tested the sewage from the sewage factory connected to the municipal pipeline, and the results showed that it exceeded the standard. The "Heilongjiang Province Environmental Protection Administrative Punishment Auxiliary Calculation Results Table" ruled that the circumstances were particularly serious and the consequences were minor.

  On June 1st, Harbin Bureau of Ecology and Environment made an administrative penalty decision of "Ha Huan Penalty ([2022] No.0220001)" according to the second provision of Article 82 of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution in People’s Republic of China (PRC), ordered Harbin Garbage and Manure Harmless Treatment Plant to stop illegal activities and imposed a fine of 734,000 yuan.

Can the United States really get what it wants by pushing the "Middle East Strategic Alliance" to contain Iran?

  CCTV News:In May this year, the United States announced its withdrawal from the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue, and the relationship between the United States and Iran accelerated, and the two sides set off round after round of slobbers; Recently, the United States has made military moves in the Middle East, and Iran is not to be outdone. The atmosphere is tense for a time.

  Recently, some Australian media reported that "the United States may bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities next month" — — In this regard, US Defense Secretary Matisse said on the 27 th local time that this is purely nonsense.

 

  At the Pentagon press conference that day, when asked whether the United States sought regime change or collapse in Iran, Matisse replied: "We have not formulated such a policy."

 

  However, he also said that the United States may take other ways to pressure Iran to "change some practices." In recent years, the United States has always accused Iran of fostering Shiite forces in Syria, Yemen and other places, playing "proxy war" and disrupting the situation in the Middle East; Iran accused the United States of favoring Israel and interfering in regional affairs.

  The United States may create an "Arab version of NATO" to contain Iran.

  Recently, a number of American and Arab officials disclosed that the United States is planning to build the so-called "Arabic version of NATO" based on NATO to contain Iran’s influence in the Middle East.

 

  According to reports, this alliance is still in the tentative stage, and its tentative name is "Middle East Strategic Alliance", including the six members of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, namely, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Amman, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, plus Egypt and Jordan. The leaders of relevant countries are tentatively scheduled to meet in Washington, DC, in mid-October this year to discuss the formation of the alliance.

 

  According to US officials, the alliance "aims at establishing a regional anti-missile defense system and upgrading armaments" and "this alliance will become a fortress against Iranian aggression, terrorism and extremism".

  In fact, the concept of the so-called "Arab version of NATO" is not new. The previous US government tried to build similar alliances many times, but failed. The "Middle East Strategic Alliance" that the United States is now pushing is also facing challenges. For example, the six countries of the "GCC" are not United. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain broke off diplomatic relations with Qatar last June, and there is no sign of easing up so far.

640,000 people recruited up to 118! Sichuan police cracked a mega-network pyramid scheme

       CCTV News:Recently (June 13), the reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department that the Zigong police in Sichuan cracked a mega-network pyramid scheme at the end of March this year, and according to statistics, 640,000 people were recruited.

       He Mou, the chairman of Fanren Maker E-commerce Co., Ltd., created an APP software called Fanren E-commerce in 2015. His main business is to develop merchants and customers, publicize merchants and let customers go to merchants for consumption.

       The criminal suspect He confessed: "The customer is introduced to the merchant for consumption, and the merchant gives us a certain rebate. How many merchants will be returned according to his investment, according to his operating costs, according to his profit level, and then we will determine for ourselves. Return it to our company’s system, and then we return it to consumers. For example, if the merchant has 10 yuan for one point, if you buy a product with 100 yuan, he (the merchant) will accumulate 10 points (for the platform). "

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       According to He, usually one point is equal to 30 cents. Merchants pay their companies according to the number of points, and then they return two-thirds of the money to their customers.

       In addition, merchants need to pay the membership fee from 580 yuan and customers need to pay the membership fee from 30 yuan to join the mortal maker e-commerce platform. If customers continue to develop offline, they can get about one-third of the points.

       He said that customers can withdraw cash with points, but if the amount of points withdrawn is less than 50 yuan, this point cannot be withdrawn, and the points should be cleared every month. Therefore, if customers want to earn back their 30 yuan money, they must go offline or go to businesses to spend money in exchange for points.

       It is to use consumer rebates and membership rebates to lure customers to develop offline. Ordinary makers have developed a total of 640,000 members, involving more than 40 million yuan.

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       Liang Hui, a policeman from Ziliujing Branch of Zigong Public Security Bureau, Sichuan Province, said: "Ordinary e-commerce companies have set up a pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid pyramid pyramid-like pyramid-like pyramid

       According to the police, at present, the customers of Fanren Maker Company have grown to 118 floors, with a total of 640,000 people. A customer can enjoy the headcount of nearly 80 thousand people on the tenth floor below him at most. Gao told reporters that there is another way for the company to attract membership. If a customer doesn’t want to pay the membership fee of 30 yuan, the company also has a fund-raiser to help fund the membership, but the customer can’t quit in any way, but can only earn points by developing offline or going to a merchant for consumption, and pay back the money by points.

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       The police in Zigong, Sichuan Province conducted a follow-up investigation for nearly three months through technical means. After mastering all the personnel information and various data of the company, on March 26 this year, the net was closed at the meeting of important personnel of the company.

       At present, the police have detained 12 suspects according to law, and the case is under investigation.

The brand-new Lan Tu Dreamer Gan Kun version is on the market, and the price of two new cars starts at 359,900 yuan.

More than 300,000 MPVs have been sold, and the monthly sales can still break through 10,000. Recently, there seems to be no one else except Lantu Dreamer.

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On February 19th, Lantu Automobile held a launch conference of smart new products in Wuhan. In the existing Lantu Dreamer product matrix, two new models, namely, the four-wheel drive excellent Gankun version and the four-wheel drive distinguished Gankun version, were added.

Both cars are equipped with Huawei Gankun Intelligent Driving ADS 3.0 and Huawei HarmonyOS Cockpit, and adopt the Tianyuan architecture developed by Lantu and the original intelligent electric architecture of ESSA, which are completely upgraded in intelligence and intelligent driving.

In terms of selling price, the brand-new Lantu Dreamer four-wheel drive excellent Gankun version PHEV version is 359,900 yuan, EV version is 379,900 yuan; Four-wheel drive distinguished Gankun version PHEV version is 389,900 yuan, EV version is 409,900 yuan.

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  • Double-car launch, configuration upgrade

The two new models launched this time are both Gankun versions, all of which are equipped with Huawei Gankun Zhijia without exception. Among them, Zhuoyue Gankun Edition has added the practical function of AIQD on the basis of the original Zhuoyue Edition. Not only that, it is also equipped with Huawei Gankun Intelligent Driving ADS 3.0 and HarmonyOS cockpit, all of which are high-level intelligent configurations that everyone is thinking about.

Lantu Dreamer Interior 2025.2.19

Looking at the distinguished Gankun version, the car was originally equipped with a refrigerator and color TV, but now it has added comfort equipment such as silent tires, hairy nose roof and negative ion atmosphere system, and also equipped with Huawei Gankun Intelligent Driving ADS 3.0 and HarmonyOS cockpit.

It is not difficult to see that these two new models are upgraded in configuration, and Huawei Gankun Intelligent Driving A DS 3.0 and HarmonyOS cockpit are still retained, which brings us one step closer to intelligent driving. After all, it is the focus of everyone’s choice. It can be said that consumers have been properly grasped.

Huawei Dreamer 2 official map

Objectively speaking, the configuration of the entry-level version of Lantu Dreamer is already quite excellent. If you put it on Saina and Grevia, this configuration is properly super-top-level. The length of the car is over 5.3 meters, and the acceleration of 100 kilometers takes only 5.9 seconds. This data is also quite amazing.

The price is more than 300,000, and the monthly sales in December actually exceeded 10,000, which is really beyond my expectation.

It is worth mentioning that the current version is the same as when it was released in August last year, so the new dreamer mainly adds new models and provides consumers with more choices.

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  • Amazing smart driving is at your fingertips, and the experience is upgraded.

Many people may not know what kind of sparks Huawei will collide with when it combines ADS 3.0 with Lantu Dreamer. Imagine that when you go to work in the morning, starting from home, the vehicle can automatically plan the route and deliver you directly to the parking space of the company. This is the real high-level intelligent driving experience.

There is also the parking service function. When you arrive at the shopping mall, you just need to hand over the task of finding a parking space to the vehicle, and it can do it by itself. When you walk out of the mall after shopping, the car will automatically drive out of the parking space to meet you.

These functions, which are both practical and full of sci-fi, have been realized in the version of Lan Tu Dreamer Gan Kun, and it feels like watching a sci-fi film, which is surprisingly convenient.

Lantu dreamer driving at high speed on a sunny day

  • Electric EV:

The cooperation between Lantu and Huawei is of great significance. It allows consumers to buy an MPV equipped with Gankun Zhijia in the price range of 350,000, which is undoubtedly a key step in the process of popularizing Zhijia in 2025.

Nowadays, buying a dreamer equipped with Huawei Gankun Zhijia is no longer limited to the top version, and all versions have the opportunity to own it. The high-end technology has sunk from "flagship exclusive" to "accessible to the public", giving high-end MPV consumers more car choices and truly realizing the equal rights of intelligent driving.

Recommendation of six joint venture compact hatchback models not exceeding 100 thousand yuan

speed up apply the brakes oil consumption second rice rise Red Bunny Test 2016 Skoda Motive 1.4T Evaluation editor-Yu Han:

On the premise of putting aside the quality and failure rate, I found that my favorite car to drive on weekdays is Volkswagen’s car. This car is a car with enough power, flexible control and comfort, which will never make people tired of driving. In addition, this Xin Dong can meet certain practicality, which is really enough.

Evaluation editor-Shi Muhua:

It’s really exciting, with a sense of control and acceleration that almost no one can match at the same price, and a new standard sports appearance kit to arm it into a lovely personality car. Its space is great, so you don’t have to sacrifice practicality for coolness. How can young people who pursue performance and driving pleasure not like it?

Evaluation Editor-Cao Haomin:

Although we have repeatedly stressed that we should not judge the quality of a car by the sound of closing the door, when I first closed the door, I was actually moved by its beautiful sound. It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the best in its class. It is also relatively easy to drive, and there is nothing wrong with the mature powertrain. The interior is also consistent with the style of Volkswagen Group, and it is easy to get started. If you really spit, the fuel tank cover can only be locked with a key, and the overall performance is not bad.

One week AIGC released the policy of artificial intelligence industry in Hangzhou, and DeepMind used AI to achieve the breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion.

Hangzhou issued implementation opinions on accelerating the innovation and development of artificial intelligence industry. In 2025, the industrial ecology of "high computing power+strong algorithm+big data" will be basically formed, and a virtuous circle will be realized in which big computing power incubates big models, big models drive big industries and big industries promote big development, and Hangzhou will be built into a national computing power cost depression, model output source and data sharing highland. Following last year’s announcement that AI was successfully used to control the nuclear fusion plasma inside the tokamak for the first time, DeepMind achieved a controlled nuclear fusion breakthrough with AI, and the accuracy of plasma shape simulation increased by 65%.

01. Financing

CGI, a Canadian information technology service company, plans to invest about 750 million US dollars to expand the AI field within three years.

According to a report by MarketWatch on July 24th, CGI, a Canadian information technology service company, plans to invest 1 billion Canadian dollars (about 756.3 million US dollars) in three years to cooperate with customers to expand artificial intelligence services and solutions.

Web3 and AI startup ZYBER 365 completed $100 million Series A financing.

According to Financial Express, Web3 and AI startup ZYBER 365 announced the completion of a series of financing of 100 million US dollars, with the company’s valuation reaching 1.2 billion US dollars, and the British SRAM & MRAM Group participated in the investment.

AI security company Protect AI completed $35 million in financing, led by Evolution Equity Partners.

According to TechCrunch’s report on July 26th, AI security company Protect AI announced that it has completed the $35 million Series A financing, with Evolution Equity Partners leading the investment, and Salesforce Ventures, Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures, Knollwood Capital and Pelion Ventures participating. The scale of this round of financing is more than twice that of the Protect AI seed round that ended in December last year, bringing the total financing of the startup company to 48.5 million US dollars.

AI startup Graft received $10 million in financing, led by Radical Ventures.

According to TechCrunch, on July 26th, the AI startup Graft announced that it had received a seed investment of US$ 10 million, with Radical Ventures leading the investment and GV participating. Last year, the company raised a total of $4.5 million before the seed round of financing, and the total financing amount has reached $14.5 million. At the same time, Graft announced that when it starts to open the artificial intelligence development platform to more companies in a controllable way, it will invite companies to apply for access to the platform.

AI protein design company "Liwen Institute" completed tens of millions of angel round financing.

According to the investment community, recently, AI protein design company Hangzhou Liwen Institute Biotechnology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of tens of millions of angel round financing. This round of financing was led by Cailletet Capital, followed by Panlin Capital and Hongshi Capital, and the seed round led the investor Zhenge Fund to make additional investment. The financing funds will be mainly used for the optimization and development of the AI protein design platform, and to promote the incubation and construction of multiple product pipelines.

"Lingao Technology" completed a multi-million-dollar seed round of financing and devoted itself to building large-scale model middleware.

According to 36Kr’s report on July 31st, Lingao Technology, a startup company dedicated to building data pipelines and large-scale middleware, recently officially announced the completion of seed round financing. According to reports, the amount of this round of financing is in the order of millions of dollars, and the investors are Jingya Capital and Plug and Play. At present, the company mainly provides two products-data pipeline (Vanus Connect) and large model middleware (Vanus AI). Among them, Vanus AI, the middleware of AI big model, can help enterprises to link big models and build knowledge base, debug prompt engineering at the same time, and finally build their own AI applications.

The AI-driven enterprise learning platform "Little Knowledge" has completed tens of millions of Pre-A rounds of financing.

According to the report of science and technology innovation board Daily on July 28th, a little knowledge (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as a little knowledge) has completed tens of millions of yuan of Pre-A financing, which was led by Zhencheng Investment, followed by former UFIDA CFO Xu Zhoujin, and joined the company as a co-founder. This round of financing is mainly used for brand building, market expansion and promoting product research and development based on AI large language model.

AutogenAI, an AI generation tool used to write tenders, received an investment of 22.3 million US dollars.

According to TechCrunch’s report on July 27th, London AI startup AutogenAI received an investment of $22.3 million from Blossom Capital. The new funds will be used to hire more talents, expand the platform and expand the customer base. People familiar with the matter said that the investment valued AutogenAI at about "hundreds of millions of dollars". The company had previously raised about $3.5 million.

02. Start a business

Sogou’s former CMO Hong Tao joined the big model company founded by Wang Xiaochuan.

According to the science and technology innovation board Journal reported on July 27th, Hong Tao, former CMO of sogou, announced in a circle of friends that he would join Baichuan Intelligent, an AI big model company jointly founded by Wang Xiaochuan, former CEO of sogou, and Ru Liyun, former COO of sogou, to take charge of commercialization. On July 11th, Baichuan Intelligent officially released two quantized versions of the general large language model Baichuan-13 B-Base, dialogue model Baichuan-13 B-Chat and its INT4/INT8 with a parameter of 13 billion.

Wang Xiaochuan AI Company added several shareholders and increased its capital to 6.47 million.

According to Tianyancha App, recently, Beijing Baichuan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. has undergone industrial and commercial changes, adding Baichuan Zhongzhi (Beijing) Management Consulting Partnership (Limited Partnership) and a number of natural persons as shareholders, and the registered capital of the company has increased from 5 million RMB to about 6,476,700 RMB.

03, big model

Know Smart Technology Releases 140 Billion Parameter Know Smart KDF Model

According to the report of IT House on July 25th, Beijing Zhiwei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. recently released a large model of intelligent KDF in Shanghai, and a series of products developed based on this model, including financial industry tools such as "KDF Zhixun", "KDF Never" and "KDF Zhongshu".

It is reported that the training data of the KDF model is mainly in Chinese, and it contains a lot of financial data to improve the problem-solving ability of the model in the commercial and financial fields. In addition, some English and code data are combined in the training data to adapt to the general ability of the model. In the training process, the intelligent KDF model treats a single Chinese character as an independent Token. The model parameters amount to 140 billion, and the number of training Token reaches 400 billion.

TransGPT?, an open source transportation model of Beijing Jiaotong University, is far-reaching.

On July 19th, Beijing Jiaotong University, together with china computer federation Smart Transportation Branch and Zuzhi Multimode Company, officially released and opened the first comprehensive transportation model in China-TRANSGPT Zhiyuan, which was independently developed by the research team of the Key Laboratory of Transportation Big Data and Artificial Intelligence of the Ministry of Education of Beijing Jiaotong University.

"Zhiyuan" takes the meaning of "going far and being far-reaching", and adopts the large text model, multi-modal model and real-time scene data calling mode based on Transformer architecture, forming an overall framework based on comprehensive traffic model and supplemented by traffic segmentation industry applications. Some of its main functions and features include: intelligent traffic planning, intelligent traffic management, intelligent travel assistant, traffic policy research and traffic safety education. At present, some data, codes and models of Zhiyuan Big Model have been opened in GitHub.

Yongyou released YonGPT, a big model of enterprise service.

According to a report by Cailian on July 27th, UFIDA released YonGPT, a large enterprise service model. According to the official introduction, YonGPT is an important component of UFIDA BIP, which can adapt to the mainstream general language model in the industry, and realize enterprise intelligence in four aspects: business operation, human-computer interaction, knowledge generation and application generation by providing general capability services, domain services and industry services.

Netease has officially released the "Zi Yue" big model.

According to the report of science and technology innovation board Daily on July 26th, Netease Youdao officially released the "Zi Yue" big model this evening. According to Zhou Feng, CEO of Netease Youdao, the "Zi Yue" big model has been applied to the software and hardware in Youdao Ecology, and it has been commercialized, including big model translation, AI composition correction, English grammar intensive speaking, virtual human oral coach, AIBox, document question and answer and so on.

Xinyi Technology released the first vertical video model in China.

According to 36Kr’s report on July 27th, Xinyi Technology held the "New Vision Xinyi Video Model Release Conference" in Beijing. At the meeting, Xinyi Technology released the first large-scale model focusing on video in China, and the AIGC video generation platform "Sechuang Video Creation Platform", the first commercial digital platform "Xinyi Digital People Platform". In addition, it also released the first domestic star digital person blessing video production product "Secondwish".

Google’s team of experts released the medical model Med-PaLM M, which can encode and interpret biomedical data.

According to the report of Webmaster’s House on July 31st, a team of experts composed of several research institutes under Google recently published a paper and released a multi-modal model named Med-PaLM M.

Med-PaLM M is a large-scale multi-modal generation model, which can flexibly encode and interpret biomedical data. Compared with the existing model, Med-PaLM M is competitive in many tasks, and even performs better in some tasks. The researchers also demonstrated the transfer learning and zero sample reasoning ability of Med-Palm M. However, in practical application, further work is needed. This research has a positive prospect for future medical solutions based on artificial intelligence.

MosaicML, an AI company, has launched a 7 billion parameter model MPT-7 B-8 K, which is said to be "commercially available for processing 8,000 words of text at a time".

According to the news of IT House on July 25th, AI startup MosaicML recently released its 7 billion parameter model MPT-7 B-8 K. It is reported that the model can handle 8000 words of text at a time, and it is quite good at dealing with key abstracts and questions and answers of long articles, and can further fine-tune relevant configurations according to specific tasks on the MosaicML platform.

It is reported that the series model uses 1.5 million Token, and it takes 3 days to complete the model training with 256 H100 GPU. MosaicML released three versions of the model this time, including MPT-7 B-8 k, MPT-7 B-8 k-Instruct and MPT-7 B-8 k-Chat.

Foreign media: OpenAI is developing a new open source model G3 PO to fight against Microsoft Llama 2.

According to IT House, citing The Information, a foreign technology media, OpenAI is currently developing a new open source model codenamed "G3 PO" in order to counter the open source model Llama 2 jointly developed by Microsoft and Meta, and it is not clear when it will be released.

Reddit community users believe that OpenAI has delayed the release of the open source model for two reasons: the OpenAI team is relatively small, focusing on promoting the application mall and providing customers with a market for selling customized AI models. This helps OpenAI to build a moat; OpenAI also wants to create a personalized ChatGPT assistant. According to sources, launching a real "derivative version" directly competes with Microsoft, and this effort "may take several years."

Shanghai "Fengwu" big model accurately predicts "Du Surui", and its accuracy is better than that of Europe and America.

According to the news of China Meteorological Bureau, the No.5 typhoon Du Surui made landfall on the coast of Jinjiang, Fujian at 9: 55 on July 28th, and the maximum wind force near the center was 15. Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Shanghai AI Laboratory) predicted the typhoon path based on the original research and development of the Fengwu meteorological model (hereinafter referred to as "Fengwu"), and achieved accurate prediction. Based on the comparison between the forecast path and the actual path of typhoon from July 21 to July 27, the 24-hour advance error of Fengwu is 38.7 kilometers, which is better than the 54.11 kilometers of ECMWF, the international authority of meteorological forecasting, and the 54.98 kilometers of NCEP. The numerical comparison of forecast 120 hours in advance shows that the error value of wind and black is 121.4 km, which is obviously better than that of ECMWF (293.8 km) and NCEP (826.5 km).

04. Application

Xiaohongshu online "at the moment" pure text note-taking function, using AI technology to generate pictures.

According to 36Kr’s report on July 25th, Little Red Book recently launched the "Now" function. With the "Now" function, the user can directly input text, and the algorithm will generate a picture for the user based on the input text content and complete the publishing. In addition, users can also doodle on the drawing board and use AI to beautify the doodle before publishing it. The landing of this function benefits from AIGC technology. At present, this function has been fully launched in the latest version.

BMW is using AI technology to reduce the production cost of automobile factories, saving $1 million a year.

According to CNBC reported by IT House, BMW recently deployed artificial intelligence technology in its factory in Fort Sparthan, which is said to save $1 million (about 7.15 million RMB) every year. BMW did not disclose the name of the artificial intelligence tool, but simply stated that the tool is "mainly aimed at the company’s production workshop" and can play the role of "optimizing the manufacturing process, improving efficiency, reducing waste and predicting equipment failures".

Runway, the behind-the-scenes special effects company of "Instant Universe", opened the AI video generation tool, and registered an account for free trial.

According to a report by IT House on July 26th, Runway, the behind-the-scenes technology company of Instant Universe, was previously invested by Google, and its AI-enabled video editing tool Gen-2 was made public. Users can directly use text prompts to generate "realistic video content" and "automatically edit videos".

Photoshop beta introduces the AI function of "generative expansion", which can easily expand images.

According to the report of IT House on July 27th, Adobe has launched an artificial intelligence function called "Generative Expand", which has been provided to Photoshop beta users. This function allows users to easily expand the image and create a seamless scene effect. Adobe introduced this function in its blog post, and showed its usage and application scenarios.

It is reported that "Generative Expand" is part of the Firefly artificial intelligence project under Adobe. The project initially focused on image generation and text effects, and later added vector recolor and Generative Fill functions. The Generative Fill function allows users to fill the blank areas in the image with one click, and it has been added to the Photoshop beta in May this year. The "Generative Expand" function allows users to expand the canvas of the image and create content matching the original image without giving any hints.

Trailer: Genesis, the first sci-fi movie trailer made entirely by AI, was released online.

According to Machine Heart, a sci-fi movie trailer "Trailer: Genesis", which was all done by AI, became popular on social media. The trailer lasted less than a minute, and everything from image and video synthesis to music editing was done by AI. Nicolas Neubert, the producer, listed the corresponding AI tools, namely, Midjourney to process images, Runway to process videos, Pixabay to process music, and CapCut to edit videos. It is understood that Neubert spent 7 hours, Midjourney generated 316 tips and enlarged 128 images, Runway generated 310 videos, and there was a video with text, and 44 videos were used in the trailer.

Stack Overflow officially launched its OverflowAI code tool.

According to the news of IT House on July 28th, Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer platform for programmers, has quietly "officially announced" its code tool OverflowAI. It is reported that OverflowAI is not a "single product", but a collection of multiple AI tools, and users can use these tools to achieve related applications in a targeted manner.

DeepMind uses AI to achieve controlled nuclear fusion breakthrough: the accuracy of plasma shape simulation is improved by 65%.

According to the science and technology innovation board Journal reported on July 28th, after DeepMind announced last year that it had successfully controlled the nuclear fusion plasma inside the tokamak for the first time, the company announced the latest experimental simulation results, which further improved the plasma shape accuracy by 65%. Related research was submitted to the preprint website ArXiv on July 21st, and the paper was titled "Practical Reinforcement Learning for Magnetic Control of Tokamak".

05. Policy

Hangzhou will accelerate the innovation and development of artificial intelligence industry, and has defined four tasks: computing power support and model ecology.

On July 27th, the General Office of Hangzhou Municipal Government issued the Implementation Opinions of the General Office of Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government on Accelerating the Innovation and Development of Artificial Intelligence Industry. The "Implementation Opinions" pointed out that Hangzhou will thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the important speech of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on artificial intelligence series, take the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy as the main line, and make every effort to build an innovation system from algorithm model innovation breakthrough to industry transformation and application, so as to realize a virtuous circle in which large computing power incubates big models, big models drive big industries and big industries promote big development, and provide strong support for reshaping the first city of the national digital economy at a high level and striving to promote the "two firsts". By 2025, the industrial ecology of "high computing power+strong algorithm+big data" will be basically formed, and Hangzhou will be built into a national computing power cost depression, model output source and data sharing highland.

06. Views

Open AI CEO: AI can improve employee productivity, but it will also create more unemployment.

According to the news of webmaster’s home on July 28th, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said that generative artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT may improve the productivity of many employees in the next few years, but it may also lead to some people losing their jobs. In an interview with Atlantic Monthly, Altman refuted the view that the AI craze will only have a positive impact on employees. He said, "Many people who are engaged in AI pretend that it will only benefit; It will only be a supplement; No one will be replaced. " But the widespread application of AI may also create new jobs. Altman expects to create better jobs in addition to any disrupted jobs, although he is not sure whether the replaced employees can find these new positions.

Musk: The programmer’s favorite Stack Overflow Q&A platform will be replaced by AI model in the future.

According to a report by IT House on July 26th, the number of users of Stack Overflow, a well-known software developer forum operated by Stack Exchange, is gradually declining. A user named mediator shared an article entitled "The Fall of Stack Overflow" with a chart showing that "the traffic of Stack Overflow has decreased by about 50% in the past year and a half, and the number of questions/answers appearing on the website has also decreased by about 50%".

Musk made a brief comment on this article, arguing that such question-and-answer platforms will gradually be replaced by AI models. He said that the Stack Overflow platform was "killed by LLM (Large Language Model)". Musk also said: "LLM will lead to more and more common (question and answer platform) deaths."

Musk: Within two years, it will change from "lack of silicon" to "lack of electricity" and hinder the development of AI.

According to reports from Wall Street, Musk predicted at the energy conference held in Austin last month that with the increase of electric vehicle consumption, the power demand in 2045 will triple compared with the current one. Musk predicts that by 2030, half of the new cars sold worldwide will be electric vehicles. Recently, Musk once again warned that power shortage may have serious consequences, just as the recent lack of core hinders the technology and automobile industries. This time, the lack of electricity may hinder the development of AI. "We will go from … today’s extreme shortage of silicon to … power shortage in two years." He said.

According to the latest report released by Digital Information World, the energy consumption generated by data centers for training AI models will be three times that of conventional cloud work. It is estimated that by 2030, the power demand of data centers in the United States will increase at an annual rate of about 10%.

Viewpoint: Most large models are running with each other. If GPT3.5/4 is open source, it will face a devastating blow.

According to articles published by Wall Street, most large models are running with them. If GPT3.5/4 is open source, it will face a devastating blow. The article believes that, first of all, the gap between major models and Open AI is still obvious, and the market space originally reserved for other major model manufacturers is already very small. The emergence of open source promotes the big model to enter the hundred-model war, but the problem is that the product homogeneity is serious and there is no ability comparable to GPT4, which will lead to the very low discourse power of the big model and the pricing of the big model will only become more and more difficult; Secondly, in order to optimize the output results, large model enterprises need to iterate the model continuously, which requires a large number of professional data feeding, so data enterprise providers will also become an important role restricting the development of large models. Finally, the training cost of the big model is very high. If you want to make a super big model, you have to work hard, that is, to see who can grab more NVIDIA A/H100 chips; Generally speaking, most large model enterprises are faced with the dilemma that it is difficult to collect fees while desperately spending money. Presumably, many large model enterprises will give up this crowded and unprofitable track in the future.

07, research report

Mizuho: NVIDIA’s AI-related revenue is expected to reach 300 billion US dollars in 2027, and its AI server chip market share will be 75% by then.

According to the science and technology innovation board Journal reported on July 25th, Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh recently released a research report that NVIDIA’s AI-related revenue is expected to reach 300 billion US dollars in 2027, when its AI server chip market will still account for 75%. According to the report, with the increasing demand for generative AI, there will be a lot of opportunities for hardware vendors supporting the high computing demand of large language models (LLMs), especially in NVIDIA. However, this does not mean that the market closes the door to AMD. Rakesh predicts that by 2027, AMD’s share of the AI server chip market will be about 5%.

IDC: It is estimated that by 2026, 50% of terminal equipment processors in China will have AI engine function.

According to the science and technology innovation board Journal reported on July 25th, IDC announced a forecast that by 2026, nearly 50% of the terminal devices in China market will have AI engine technology. IDC believes that in the future, AI terminals will be widely developed in the fields of creation and creative future, games and virtual worlds, speech synthesis and conversion, vision and image processing, chat robots, personalized recommendation, medical assistance and so on.

Huatai Securities: It is estimated that by 2030, the regulatory market scale of domestic AI big model will reach 50-100 billion yuan.

According to the science and technology innovation board Journal reported on July 25th, Huatai Securities released a research report saying that the scale of China’s artificial intelligence core industry will exceed 1 trillion yuan in 2030. In general, the proportion of safety in information investment is at least 5%-10%, and due to the particularity of AI big model, AI safety will become a problem that all participants must consider in the future, which runs through the whole process from data labeling, model training and development, content generation and application development, and the investment is no less than that of traditional safety investment. Therefore, assuming that the proportion of AI supervision in the whole industrial chain is 5%-10%, it is expected to reach 2000.

ABI Research: In the next seven years, generative AI will bring in more than $450 billion in revenue.

According to a report by the webmaster’s house on July 27th, ABI Research, a global technical intelligence company, predicts that in the next seven years, generative AI will bring more than $450 billion to the enterprise market in 12 different vertical fields.

Although there are hundreds of application cases of generative AI in enterprise vertical field, its adoption will be divided into three stages. The current stage is internal focus, which increases the productivity of employees by providing generating tools. The second stage will have a greater impact on external services, and enterprises will be able to start building products or services around generative AI. The third stage will be the most valuable creator, and the manufacturing and logistics industries will use generative AI to automate and optimize processes. At present, the enterprise market is still in its infancy, and most markets are still exploring use cases and deployment options.

Observation on Holiday Consumer Market | Two to New Year’s Flowers Dress up Urban and Rural Life

CCTV News:Pay attention to the holiday consumer market. At present, it is the New Year’s Day holiday, and the Spring Festival is approaching. Many people have begun to buy new year’s goods, and the online and offline consumption fever continues to climb. Recently, the sales of smart home appliances, fitness equipment and flowers and green plants have doubled.

In Chencun Flower World, Shunde, Guangdong, the workers in Phalaenopsis planting base are busy pruning the residual branches, and the packaged flowers are uniformly labeled "Happy New Year" and will be sent to all parts of the country.

Wu Xiaohua, manager of Phalaenopsis planting base:They are all queued for shipment. I am very happy. I do it every day. I don’t have enough flowers. I have to go outside to adjust the goods.

There are also many local people who go to the flower market to choose flowers and green plants. In addition to palm flowers such as Phalaenopsis, Hylaenopsis grandiflora and Anthurium andraeanum, beautiful flowers such as lilies and money trees are also very popular.

In Dounan Flower Market in Kunming, there are plenty of festive flowers with various characteristics. Red fresh cut flowers such as roses and Anthurium and green plants of seasonal flowers such as lily and holly sell well.

Luo Jianhong, Executive General Manager of Kunming Dounan Agricultural Products Auction Co., Ltd.:Like our whole market, all kinds of products add up to tens of millions of pieces a day.

In view of the sporadic epidemic situation in Kunming a few days ago, Dounan Flower Market strictly does a good job in epidemic prevention and control, and arranges large-scale regular disinfection twice a day. In order to reduce unnecessary personnel flow, the market has also opened an online sales platform to help flower farmers sell online by sending orders.

Luo Jianhong, Executive General Manager of Kunming Dounan Agricultural Products Auction Co., Ltd.:There are many modes of order group purchase, so they don’t have to come to our site and make reservations through the platform. We will then distribute the orders to farmers, so that farmers can sell their products directly to consumers through the platform, and truly realize the mode of fixing production by sales.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: The comprehensive strength and core competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises have been continuously enhanced.

At the press conference on the theme of "Ten Years in China" this morning (14th), Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that in the past decade, the vitality of various market players in China has been fully stimulated, and the comprehensive strength and competitiveness of China enterprises have been significantly enhanced.

Xin Guobin introduced that from 2012 to 2021, the total assets and operating income of the top 500 manufacturing enterprises in China increased from 19.7 trillion yuan and 21.7 trillion yuan to 44.33 trillion yuan and 40.24 trillion yuan respectively. The comprehensive strength, core competitiveness and ability to fulfill social responsibilities of small and medium-sized enterprises have been continuously enhanced. By the end of 2021, there were 150 million market players in China, up 2.8 times compared with 2012, of which 48.423 million were enterprises, up 1.7 times, and more than 99% were small and medium-sized enterprises. The number of industrial SMEs above designated size reached 401,000, with operating income reaching 75.5 trillion yuan, total profit reaching 4.7 trillion yuan and total assets reaching 77.3 trillion yuan, up by 23.5%, 38.7%, 37.1% and 101.5% respectively compared with 2012. In 2021, the total number of private individual employment in China reached 400 million, an increase of more than 200 million compared with 2012.

According to the data of the fourth economic census, the number of employees in small and medium-sized enterprises accounts for 80% of all employees in enterprises. Private enterprises, mainly small and medium-sized enterprises, became China’s largest foreign trade business entity in 2019. In 2021, the proportion of import and export value reached 48.6%, and the contribution to foreign trade growth exceeded 58.2%. In 2020, the R&D expenditure of industrial enterprises above designated size reached 1.53 trillion yuan, 2.55 times that of 2012, and the investment intensity increased from 0.71% to 1.41%. The number of industrial enterprises with R&D activities increased from 47,000 in 2012 to 147,000 in 2020, and the proportion of enterprises increased from 13.7% to 36.7%.

Xin Guobin said that up to now, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has cultivated 4,762 state-level "little giant" enterprises and 848 state-level single champion manufacturing enterprises, which has led to the cultivation of more than 40,000 provincial-level specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and the warehousing of more than 110,000 enterprises. The average R&D intensity of individual champion enterprises and "little giant" enterprises is 5% and 7% respectively, which is 5 times and 7 times of the average level of industrial enterprises above designated size in China. It is an important guarantee to improve the vitality of China’s economic innovation and enhance the toughness and competitiveness of industrial chain supply chain.

(CCTV reporter Chen Sicong Yang Yi)

Mid-Autumn Festival "private moon cakes" sell well. The industry says it is illegal to sell by friends.

  Beijing, China, September 16 (Reporter Zhou Yifan Yu Zhongtao) According to the Voice of China report, today is the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. Eating moon cakes is a must-have program for every family in the Mid-Autumn Festival. I wonder where you bought the moon cakes that your family ate this year? Physical store or online platform?

  Nowadays, it is nothing new to buy moon cakes online. Many moon cake brands also have flagship stores online. But the novelty of this "buying moon cakes online" we are talking about today is that the seller is not a company that makes moon cakes, but a private person.

  This is the so-called "private moon cakes". To put it bluntly, it is the moon cakes sold by individuals through online platforms such as Taobao and WeChat friends circle. These moon cakes are generally made by themselves, without adding, and are purely handmade, which is somewhat similar to those online food delivery platforms that focus on private dishes cooked by their own families.

  From this year on, this mooncake has a national standard, and many problems have been exposed in the so-called private cuisine, including lack of qualification, worrying hygiene and so on. Is the quality of "private mooncakes" reliable?

  At the end of last year, the new national standard for moon cakes was officially implemented. This recommended standard requires the classification, fat content, sugar content, protein and so on of moon cakes. On the first Mid-Autumn Festival since the implementation of the new national standard for mooncakes, "private mooncakes" came into consumers’ sight. Search for keywords in Taobao, and more than 400 treasures will appear. The one with the highest sales volume shows that the monthly sales of private mooncakes is nearly 2,000 pieces.

  The seller declared that "it is handmade without any additives". "Generally, it can be kept for about ten days, because we all have no additives, we all make them ourselves, and we don’t do them with additives."

  Similar private moon cakes have also appeared in many people’s circle of friends. Endorsement by acquaintances, coupled with delicious and safe gimmicks, private mooncakes are generally very popular. Last year, Mr. Wang tried to sell homemade fresh meat mooncakes in a circle of friends: "In a circle of friends, because there were too many people who asked me for them last year, I said, OK, let’s start selling them, and then I sold almost 3 or 400, and then I felt that this business was quite easy."

  The sales volume is huge and there is room for profit. In order to convince consumers to trust the quality of products, some WeChat sellers will also make videos of their own moon cakes and send them online. Miss Li from Liaoning said, "You can really see them through small videos. This intuitive way makes me believe in this kind of thing."

  However, although the video can partially show the production process, consumers can’t judge the ingredients in the raw materials. Some media sent four different homemade moon cakes online for inspection, and two of them detected sodium cyclamate: "Its (sodium cyclamate) is 0.15 g/kg, which means that the two private kitchens can’t be said to be zero-added, because sodium cyclamate has been detected, and everyone will know whether it is zero-added."

  In addition, after the production of moon cakes, there may be hidden dangers of food safety due to the limited storage capacity of family workshops. Gwan Chin, director of the Food Circulation Supervision Department of Nanjing Food and Drug Administration, said that it is actually illegal to sell directly to friends in the WeChat circle of friends, and the quality is not guaranteed, especially the storage period of moon cakes, or the storage temperature, which has a certain impact on the quality.

  From the packaging point of view, these "private" moon cakes do not indicate the manufacturer, production date, shelf life, food production license number and food label, which also does not comply with the law. An industry insider who once worked in a well-known pastry company in Shanghai said: "Mooncakes sold in China need a qualified food factory to make and process them, and they need to be labeled with all ingredients, as well as the factory and contact information for processing them. Private mooncakes can’t do this because they are all made by themselves."

  In July this year, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the Measures for the Investigation and Punishment of Internet Food Safety Violations, which will be implemented on October 1 this year. It stipulates that online food operators should obtain food business licenses or filing vouchers according to law. Those who have not obtained the food business license or filing certificate shall not engage in online food business activities. Liu Deliang, director of the Asia-Pacific Network Law Research Center, said that as long as there is sales behavior, no matter what platform, it should be bound by relevant laws and regulations:

  "If you are a good friend, you don’t need food safety and health when you eat at home. The key is that it can target an unspecified third party, and the scope is relatively large. In this case, it is no different from roadside hawking, stall selling and Tmall Taobao. Around food safety, the law has corresponding provisions."

  However, because it is a relatively closed sales environment, it is difficult for the regulatory authorities to investigate and deal with these private mooncakes that are sold in the WeChat circle of friends and have a huge sales volume. HanDong, deputy director of the Food Circulation Supervision Department of Hefei Food and Drug Administration, suggested that consumers should still choose qualified manufacturers: "Third-party platforms must provide information about sellers. If consumers have problems, they can first look for third-party platforms. WeChat circle is not a form of online sales of third-party platforms. From a certain point of view, it belongs to private friends who buy in mutual trust. Whether it has production capacity, quality and hygiene is guaranteed, Consumers should also keep their eyes open. We suggest buying moon cakes or going to a qualified physical store. If you buy them online, you should go through a third-party platform, which is also guaranteed. "