In August, the economic recovery trend in Jiangsu Province was significantly enhanced. Compared with last month, the growth rates of industry, service industry, investment and consumption all showed an upward trend. From January to August, the industrial added value, investment in fixed assets and total retail sales of social consumer goods in Jiangxi Province increased by 7.3%, 8.5% and 5.6% respectively, which were higher than the national average … … The economic "transcripts" handed over by many places recently show that the economy continues to recover.

　　However, some places also said that the current external situation is still complicated and severe, domestic economic recovery still faces many difficulties and challenges, and the foundation for sustained economic recovery still needs to be strengthened.

　　How to stabilize the economy? The recent the State Council executive meeting intensively deployed this, emphasizing that "while implementing the package policy of stabilizing the economy, 19 successive policies will be implemented to form a combined effect, so as to promote the economic stabilization and keep the operation in a reasonable range". Streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services ’ The reform measures will further promote the effectiveness of the package policy of stabilizing the economy, refine the implementation policy, and implement the detailed rules in early September. ""All localities should shoulder the responsibility of stabilizing the economy and protecting people’s livelihood, and provinces with large economies should take the lead and work together to consolidate the foundation of economic stability and promote stability. "

　　From Jiangxi’s promulgation of "Several Successive Measures to Effectively Stabilize Economic Development" to Gansu’s formation of 24 policies and measures to stabilize the economy, and then to Shanghai’s emphasis on implementing a new round of national and municipal policies … … At present, while implementing the national macro-policies, all localities have further enriched the policy toolbox around areas such as expanding effective demand and stabilizing market players to protect people’s livelihood, so as to ensure the sustained release of policy effects.

　　— — Give play to the key role of effective investment

　　On September 22nd, the construction of Huaihong Xinhe Irrigation District in Anhui Province started with a total investment of 10.4 billion yuan. So far, all the six new large-scale irrigation projects promoted by the State Council this year have started. On September 21st, the centralized commencement of major water conservancy projects in Hubei Province was held at the site of the second phase of water resources allocation project in northern Hubei. The total investment of 19 projects started this time is 27.48 billion yuan, which will promote the construction of Hubei as the first batch of provincial water network pilot areas in China.

　　Expanding effective investment is a key link in the policies and measures to stabilize the economy in various places. For example, Henan proposed that, in order to make full use of the economic stabilization package and the dividends from the following policies and measures, seize the key period and fight for the red throughout the year, we will focus on tackling key problems in important economic stabilization projects. Give play to the key role of effective investment in stabilizing the economic market, realize the annual growth of fixed assets investment by more than 10%, complete 2.8 trillion yuan, and strive to achieve an economic growth rate of more than 5.5% in the second half of the year, and the annual economic aggregate exceeds 6.3 trillion yuan.

　　Jiangxi said that it will seize the policy-oriented development financial instruments and special bonds to increase the scale, expand the opportunities in the field, strengthen the project to sort out the reserves, accelerate the preliminary work of the project, win more support from the state, and ensure that the first batch of contracted projects will start construction before the third quarter. According to the principle of "landing, solid support and quick results", we will implement the "four major actions" of urban shantytown renovation, "big traffic" construction, rail transit in Nanchang metropolitan area and infrastructure construction in water conservancy, with a total investment of over 1 trillion yuan.

　　— — Promote the accelerated recovery of the consumer market

　　In Jiujiang City, northern Jiangxi Province, an online launching ceremony was held a few days ago for the Jiujiang Branch of the 2022 Jiangxi "Hundred Cities and Hundred Nights" Cultural and Tourism Consumption Season. During the event, nearly 100 supporting activities such as non-legacy shopping festival, camping music festival and food carnival will be held in counties (cities, districts) of Jiujiang City. According to the relevant staff of Jiujiang Wenguang New Tourism Bureau, the local government takes the creation of a national-level night cultural tourism consumption gathering area and a provincial-level cultural tourism consumption pilot city as the starting point, and actively cultivates a night consumption industrial system integrating night sightseeing and recreation, special catering, fashion shopping, cultural performances, fitness and entertainment, and immersion experience to further tap the consumption potential of domestic demand.

　　In order to further accelerate the recovery of consumption, many places have made great efforts in promoting mass consumption and promoting the recovery of service industry. For example, Jiangxi emphasizes that it will continue to implement the vehicle purchase tax exemption policy for new energy vehicles and encourage new energy vehicles, smart home appliances and green building the countryside. Fully activate the consumption of business travel, continue to implement various policies to promote consumption, and study and introduce policies and measures to support the recovery and development of catering and accommodation industries.

　　With the main promotion activities as the carrier, key consumption season activities will also appear one after another. Gansu proposed to organize a three-month key consumption season of "Enjoy Consumption and Buy Longyuan" in combination with the consumption promotion activities such as "2022 International Consumption Season", "100-city Linkage Automobile Consumption Season" and "National Household Appliances Consumption Season" organized by the Ministry of Commerce. Hainan proposed to issue 50 million yuan travel vouchers to tourists outside the province and 100 million yuan vouchers to residents in the province.

　　— — Boost the development confidence of market players

　　The key to stabilizing the economy lies in protecting market players. Many places have made great efforts to grasp the important window period and opportunity period of economic recovery, and made every effort to solve outstanding problems such as insufficient demand, weak confidence and weak expectations in the current economic operation, and adopted various measures to stimulate the vitality of market players and enhance market confidence.

　　Shanghai said that it is necessary to implement a new round of policies of the state and the city on the basis of the previous implementation of the policy of helping enterprises to bail out difficulties, increase financial subsidies, tax relief, rent relief and other support, and take out real money to boost corporate confidence. Focus on all kinds of problems that affect economic development, find out the bottlenecks faced by enterprises in time, and study targeted measures in time.

　　Gansu has put forward a series of preferential policies for market players, such as delaying payment, reducing financing costs, reducing taxes and fees, dissolving arrears of debts, increasing incentives and support for scientific and technological innovation, optimizing market supervision, and promoting employment and entrepreneurship, so as to help market players resume development.

　　"From the perspective of local measures to stabilize the economy, the key point is to boost consumer demand, expand effective investment, and support the promotion of infrastructure in the fields of energy, water conservancy and transportation with greater efforts, especially the construction and implementation of major projects such as new energy and new infrastructure. In addition, comprehensively adopt fiscal and taxation financial means such as tax reduction and exemption, increasing financial subsidies and expanding credit supply to solve the pain points and difficulties of industrial development, further increase the efforts to help enterprises bail out, and enhance the vitality and development confidence of market players. " Sun Chuanwang, a professor at the School of Economics of Xiamen University, told the Economic Information Daily.

Historically, rice once occupied a supreme position in Japanese life. The Japanese once thought that food was rice, and eating rice was nothing more than adding salt. There is even a saying in Japan that "rice is rich in salt" means that as long as there is rice and salt, there is life. But now, according to a survey conducted by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Association), "Ramen (Lamian Noodles)" has become the Japanese favorite food in the New Year-noodles have reached the top of food in this rice country.

Why didn’t ancient Japanese eat wheat?

There is a folk legend in Japan that "the fox stole an ear of rice from China and took it back to Japan in a bamboo tube", so that Japan had rice. Through this legend, we know that Japanese rice culture was spread from China, and there are two ways to spread it: first, it passed through Jiangsu and Shandong, and crossed the sea from Shandong Peninsula to the south of the Korean Peninsula; The other is introduced into the northern part of the peninsula by land from North China to Northeast China, and then spread to the south. Both reached the same goal by different routes, and spread to Japan through Ma Haixia. This can be seen from the early remains of paddy fields in Japan-archaeological discoveries in the coastal area of Fukuoka in the northern part of Kyushu Island, which is closest to the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula. Subsequently, the rice cultivation technology gradually spread to the south and east with the northern part of Kyushu as the center. By the 3rd century AD, it had spread to Shikoku Island and most parts of Honshu Island. The grains unearthed in the sites of Yayoi and Gufen from the 3rd century BC to the 7th century AD were all rice.

Sites of ancient tombs

Yayoi era imagination map

Because the water and heat conditions in the Japanese archipelago are suitable for rice planting, and compared with planting coarse cereals in dry fields, rice planting is labor-saving, time-saving and high-yield. Therefore, for thousands of years, Japan’s rice production has been the first of all kinds of crops. Therefore, the Japanese call rice the king of food, and rice is a gift from heaven to Japan. Japanese people are used to eating rice, so in the history of ancient Japanese agriculture, barley and wheat are rare. In ancient Japan, people even thought it was time-consuming to eat pasta, but the saying that "the poor eat wheat" was repugnant to pasta. Although in famine years, Japanese officials often encourage the cultivation of wheat to alleviate famine and distribute seeds; However, farmers refused to buy it. Even if they were forced by the government to plant wheat, they refused to eat it as food. Instead, they cut it before it matured and sold it as horse feed, so that the Emperor had to issue a decree in 715 AD announcing that if the immature wheat was sold as horse feed, it would be severely punished.

Is it really that the taste of wheat doesn’t agree with the Japanese? In fact, it is not. The fundamental reason for boycotting wheat planting is actually that Japan lacked the technology to make flour at that time. Before the era of mechanized mass production, ancient people used a stone mill to make flour. In China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, firstly, the stone mortar was pushed by human or animal power to process flour, and then the flour was milled by water truck, thus reducing the price of flour, making it possible for ordinary people to eat pasta, and thus making pasta appear and popularize in large numbers. According to the Japanese history book "The Book of Japan", as early as 610 AD, a Koguryo monk named Tanzheng brought the stone mill to Japan, but the Japanese couldn’t copy it. To make a stone mill, it was necessary to carry out precision processing on hard stones. However, the stonework technology in ancient Japan was underdeveloped, and it was really beyond their power to produce the stone mill. At that time, Japanese people could only grind flour with wooden mortar and pestle, but wooden mortar and pestle were only suitable for pounding rice. When wheat with hard bran was encountered, it was quite laborious to pound it, and it became very difficult to make pasta. Unlike wheat, which needs to be ground into powder to eat (the seed coat of wheat is hard, so it is very unpalatable to eat it directly), millet can be cooked directly as long as it is washed, and even eating brown rice unexpectedly makes up for the vitamins and minerals that Japanese people lack in their daily diet. After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese army generally ate polished rice, but beriberi caused by vitamin deficiency appeared on a large scale. As a result, contrary to the folk saying that "the poor eat wheat", for a long time,Japanese pasta has become a kind of precious food monopolized by officials, nobles and senior monks.

Traditional style stone mill

Plain noodles, udon noodles, buckwheat noodles

When it comes to pasta, we can’t help but mention noodles. In 2002, in the Qijia cultural layer of the Neolithic age in Qinghai Province (the Neolithic culture in Gansu Province from 2200 BC to 1600 BC), archaeologists unearthed noodles made of millet and millet 4000 years ago, which were about 50 cm long and 0. 3 cm wide, even in thickness and bright yellow in color. This is probably the earliest known noodles. China’s invention right of "noodles" is therefore beyond doubt.

Ancient noodles unearthed in Qinghai

Before the Tang Dynasty, all foods made of wheat flour were called "noodles", and foods such as noodles, which were heated by putting wheat dough in boiling water, were called "soup cakes", but in the Song Dynasty, "noodles" were separated from "cakes" to refer to "noodles" exclusively. In Meng Liang Lu, written by Wu Zimu, which describes the bustling scene of Lin ‘an (now Hangzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty, a noodle shop has been set up, including "silk chicken noodles", "three fresh noodles" and "fried chicken noodles", which is no different from today.

Although there was no communication between China and Japan at the national level in Song Dynasty, the cultural and economic exchanges between the two sides were still frequent. Different from the official "envoys to the Tang Dynasty", Japanese monks who entered the Song Dynasty played a vital role in the exchanges between the two sides. At that time, when Zen Buddhism was flourishing in China, most Japanese monks also wanted to study in China. While introducing Zen Buddhism to Japan, they also brought back the food culture of China monasteries at that time (all vegetarian, of course), and noodles were one of them. Some people in later generations concluded that "most epoch-making Japanese food comes from monasteries and is generally spread by monks who have experience in studying in China".

In 1241 AD, the founder of Tofuku-ji Temple in the south of Kyoto today, Shengyi Kunshi, returned from China and brought back a "water mill map" (a design of a mill made of waterwheels and gears), which finally made Japanese flour-making technology catch up with China’s level. From then on, Japanese people can taste pasta, which used to be exclusive to monks and nobles, and gradually change their views on pasta.

Schematic diagram of water mill

Kyoto Tofuku-ji Temple

What noodles did the ancient Japanese eat? The first thing that was welcomed by the Japanese was Su (Suo) noodles. Vegetarian noodles are the earliest Japanese noodles. At that time, the vegetarian noodles were all stretched by hand after the dough was kneaded repeatedly, just like the handmade Lamian Noodles, which was characterized by being long and thin, refreshing to eat, and mainly used as cold food. Next came the famous udon noodles, which were made by slicing thin dough into hot soup noodles. It is said that the troops of Takeda Shingen, the famous "Tiger of Jiafei" in the Warring States Period, used udon noodles as their food for marching. It stands to reason that udon noodles can only be made by rolling the dough thin with a rolling pin and then cutting it with a knife. Unlike making vegetarian noodles, it takes high technology to pull the dough into long strips first, but in fact udon noodles appeared in Japan as late as the 15th century. Investigate its reason, it is because the technical level of the Japanese at that time was too poor to make a chopping block! It takes a planer to make a chopping block, but it didn’t become popular in Japan until the Edo period in the 16th century. Before that, workers needed to put the blade on the front end of the stick and flatten the wood bit by bit to make a chopping block, which was very laborious.

The buckwheat noodles appeared later than udon noodles. Buckwheat itself is not sticky and easy to break, so it is not suitable for making noodles. Legend has it that in 1659, Zhu Shunshui (1600-1682), a adherent of the Ming Dynasty who stayed in Mitofan (now Ibaraki Prefecture), taught the Japanese to mix wheat flour into buckwheat flour to make it sticky and elastic, so this kind of noodle called "the most Japanese characteristic" came out. One of the reasons why soba noodles are popular is to win the favor. It is said that Japanese gold foil masters, at work, often use soba dough to touch the gold foil fragments that take off and fall everywhere. To this end, Japanese folks think buckwheat is a cash register item, so they use its auspicious saying to prepare buckwheat noodles when they are engaged, married or celebrating. Eating buckwheat noodles every other year on New Year’s Eve is also for good luck, hoping for gold and silver to enter the home, which is a mentality with China’s "more than fish every year". By the 19th century, Edo (now Tokyo), a city with a population of 1 million, had a list of 100 buckwheat noodle shops, which showed the Japanese people’s enthusiasm for this kind of noodle at that time.

Japanese udon noodles

Japanese buckwheat noodles

The Birth of "Lamian Noodles"

The same is noodles, whether udon noodles or buckwheat noodles. An important difference between Japanese noodles before modern times and Chinese noodles is that Japanese noodles are made without adding alkaline water. When wheat flour meets water, it will produce a grid-like tissue, commonly known as "gluten". Alkaline water is a kind of alkaline natural soda water containing potassium carbonate and sodium carbonate. When Chinese noodles are made, alkaline water is added, so the kneaded dough can change the protein in flour, enhance the viscosity and elasticity, and make the taste more comfortable.

正宗的中国面条迟至19世纪末、20世纪初才进入日本。1893年时，日本横滨的外国人居留地中居住着约5000名外国人，其中中国人约为3350人。而在甲午战争之后，清朝开始向日本派遣官费留学生，以后自费留学生的规模也急剧扩大。在1905年前后，在日本的中国留学生人数达到大约5万人。与此同时，无论是梁启超这样的立宪派，还是孙文这样的革命党，都将日本作为重要的活动据点，如此众多的中国人在短时间内来到日本，势必又一次将中国的饮食文化带入东瀛四岛。

大约在20世纪初期，中国面条出现在了横滨的“南京町（唐人街）”，并从这里出发，迅速征服日本人的脾胃。值得注意的是，当时的日本一心脱亚入欧，断发易服之外，连饮食也恨不得一日西化，著名思想家福泽谕吉撰文鼓吹要像西洋人一样“应该吃肉”（此前受佛教影响，日本人几乎不吃鱼肉之外的肉类）。明治天皇带头喝牛奶吃牛肉，当时的日本宫廷膳食干脆就是法式大餐。相反，对于传统的文化母国，日本则是一副鄙薄心态，印度古籍用于指代中国的“支那”一词正是在这一时期，在日本人的口中出现了贬义。在这样的背景下，中国面条在日本的传播，完全是出自食物本身的魅力。

普通的中国（苏州）羊肉面

横滨唐人街

尽管这种中国面条毫无荞麦的成分，但比起粗粗圆圆的乌冬面，形式上更接近固有的细长的荞麦面，被日本人称为“南京荞麦面”，并以其价格低廉、滋味鲜美而受到日本中下层市民的欢迎，逐渐走出“唐人街”，在日本主流社会中流行开来，名字也变成了“支那荞麦面”。第二次世界大战之后，迫于作为战胜国的中华民国政府的压力，日本官方不得不下令禁用“支那”一词。结果，不知从何时起，“支那荞麦面”又变成了“ラーメン”。这个假名的读音“ramen”极似普通话的“拉面”，显系晚近从汉语里直接借入的外来词。

(Japanese) ramen

Lamian Noodles has become a national delicacy in Japan today, mainly because the long Lamian Noodles can be matched with various vegetables and animal meat as the main materials, and seafood such as soy sauce, ginger, onion, sesame oil and various scallops or shrimps can be added to meet the dietary needs of all social classes. Therefore, there is a "Chinese Noodle Noodle Center" in Fukuoka, a "New Yokohama Lamian Noodles Museum" in Yokohama, and even a "Japan Lamian Noodles Research Association", which specializes in Lamian Noodles magazine … Lamian Noodles has become a well-deserved king of Chinese cuisine circulating in Japan.

The scene of eating Lamian Noodles in the cartoon "Chess Soul"

References:

(Han) Li Xuzheng et al. Translated by Hong Weiwei: The Road of Noodles: A Wonderful Diet Inherited for 3,000 Years, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press, 2013.

Xu Jingbo: The East Wind Blows from the West: Chinese Culture in Japan, Yunnan People’s Publishing House, 2004.

Hubei Daily News (Reporter Jassamyn Liu, correspondent Liu Chang, Li Xingde) On April 25th, it was learned from Wuhan Hanyang Urban Management Law Enforcement Bureau that in order to facilitate the visually impaired to travel, the bureau laid a new type of hot-melt blind road on several roads, which will be gradually promoted in the whole region in the future.

On Jiangcheng Avenue in Hanyang District, blind people walk on the new hot-melt blind road in this section, and there is obvious concave and convex feeling under their feet. The strip-shaped blind brick indicating the heading direction is basically the same as the permeable concrete pavement on both sides, and there is no discomfort when accidentally stepping on the brick surface. During the hundreds of meters’ journey, except for the tension caused by "invisibility", there is no feeling of slipping under the feet.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Facilities Management Section of Hanyang Urban Management Law Enforcement Bureau, in the past blind road construction, concrete blind road bricks were mostly used, which were mainly laid on sidewalks. In order to ensure the practicability, safety and humanization of blind roads, Hanyang Urban Management Law Enforcement Bureau draws lessons from advanced practices and listens to the opinions and suggestions of visually impaired people, taking Jiangcheng Avenue, Mohe Hubei Road and Longyang Avenue as the pilot, and gradually adopts hot melt technology to build blind roads in the whole district.

Hot-melt blind road pavement is fast, and traffic can be opened in 20 minutes after on-site construction. "Compared with the traditional concrete blind road brick, the hot-melt blind road is more durable, wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant, and has good identification and anti-slip, which is more friendly and safer for blind friends." The person in charge introduced.

In view of the problems existing in urban blind roads, the bureau will continue to adjust some details, such as the conflict between blind roads and piles, the irregular setting of stone-missing ramps or kerb ramps, and the discontinuous interruption of blind roads, so as to ensure the safety and smoothness of visually impaired people’s walking to the greatest extent.

According to statistics, since 2023, Hanyang District Urban Management Law Enforcement Bureau has concentrated its efforts on the rectification of blind roads, such as subsidence, dislocation, breakage, looseness, lack, continuous unreasonable turning around of blind roads and obstacles on blind roads. Up to now, 837 blind roads with an area of 2,114 square meters have been rectified.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Fuzhou, July 9 (Reporter Zhang Huaying) A few days ago, the reporter learned from the Wuyishan National Park Scientific Research Monitoring Center that during the background investigation of biological resources in Wuyishan National Park, researchers discovered five new insect species of the genus Euonymus, namely, Euonymus brevis, Euonymus versicolor, Euonymus versicolor and Euonymus versicolor. At present, relevant scientific research results have been published in the Journal of Insect Taxonomy.

　　This is the morphological feature map of the short-protruding yellow hidden-shouldered bat. (Photo courtesy of Wuyishan National Park Scientific Research Monitoring Center)

　　This is the figure of morphological characteristics of the yellow-shouldered bat. (Photo courtesy of Wuyishan National Park Scientific Research Monitoring Center)

　　This is the morphological feature map of the yellow hidden-shouldered bat in Jiuquxi. (Photo courtesy of Wuyishan National Park Scientific Research Monitoring Center)

　　This is the figure of the morphological characteristics of the square-protruding yellow-shouldered bat. (Photo courtesy of Wuyishan National Park Scientific Research Monitoring Center)

　　This is the morphological feature map of the yellow-hidden-shouldered bat in Wuyishan. (Photo courtesy of Wuyishan National Park Scientific Research Monitoring Center)

　　In April 2021, Wuyishan National Park Administration launched a three-year background survey of biological resources. More than 100 experts from many scientific research units and universities went to the field many times to comprehensively investigate the main ecosystems and biological groups of Wuyishan National Park. Up to now, 24 new species have been found in the survey. During the investigation, researchers collected a large number of insect samples, observed the morphological characteristics of adult samples through stereoscope and microscope, and identified them as new species by means of morphological taxonomy.

　　Ma Fangzhou, an associate researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the yellow-shouldered dance insects are generally small in size, with the adult body length ranging from 1.8 mm to 2.8 mm, the male insect’s abdominal end is thick and the female insect is slender. Their larvae live under the ground cover, rocks or soil, and adults are terrestrial, mostly moving on the surface and ground of plants. Preying prey mainly includes psyllids, aphids, scale insects, mosquitoes, flies, mites and other important economic pests or health pests.

　　Ma Fangzhou said that the new species of Rhopalosiphum discovered this time plays an important role in clarifying the insect resources of Rhopalosiphum, and at the same time, it is of great significance in the comprehensive management of pests by biological control and the study of indicator organisms for biodiversity and environmental assessment.

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The Dragon Boat Festival is in mid-summer, and it grows longer when it is clear.

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The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

"The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the totem sacrifice held by the tribes who worshipped the dragon totem in ancient times. It was a festival founded by the ancestors to worship the dragon ancestors and pray for evil spirits. During the Warring States Period, the patriotic poet Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River with a boulder on the Dragon Boat Festival, so later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan."

Dragon boat festival custom

First, dragon boat race

Dragon boat race is the main custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, in ancient times, Chu people were reluctant to let Qu Yuan, a sage, die in the river. Many people rowed boats to catch up with the rescue, and then rowed dragon boats every May 5 to commemorate Qu Yuan.

Nowadays, dragon boat race has become one of the most important folk activities in China Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boat rowing has a long history. It is a traditional folk water sports and entertainment project in China since ancient times. It is mostly held on festive festivals and is a multi-person collective rowing competition.

Second, eat zongzi

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan’s death, people put rice in bamboo tubes and threw it into the river in order not to damage his body. From then on, in order to show respect and memory for Qu Yuan, on this day, people put rice in bamboo tubes and threw it into the river to pay homage. This is the origin of the earliest zongzi "tube zongzi" in China.

Eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. It has a long history and various patterns. Zongzi was originally used to worship ancestors and gods. The custom of eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is popular in China, and spread to Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

Third, hang sachets

Dragon Boat Festival sachets, also known as sachets, sachets, purses, etc., are made of five-color silk thread and filled with Chinese herbal medicines and spices. Its manufacturing process has become a national intangible cultural heritage. Now it has become a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Fourth, tie colorful ropes

On the Dragon Boat Festival, when children wake up, their wrists and ankles have been tied with "five-colored ropes" woven with colorful silk threads. Adults say that if they are tied, they will not be invaded by all diseases. After the first rain after the Dragon Boat Festival, cut off the five-color rope and let the rain wash away, and the disaster will be taken away with it.

With regard to the five-color line, the customs in different places are similar. Some of them are tied with five-color silk, or hung at the door, or worn by children’s necks, or tied by children’s arms, or hung in bed curtains, cradles, etc., which is said to avoid disasters, protect health and prolong life.

Five, hanging mugwort leaves

A folk proverb says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival, and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". People think that May is a poisonous month, and the fifth day is a poisonous day. Every May, it is the time when Artemisia argyi is mature and has the best medicinal properties, so people have to pick Artemisia argyi in the wild during the Dragon Boat Festival. Acorus calamus and Artemisia argyi leaves are hung in front of the door and eaves to prevent plague and avoid disaster, and hung on the door and bedside to avoid evil spirits.

Six, eat duck eggs

In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival is to avoid five poisons, namely snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions. People use five kinds of red dishes to symbolize the blood of the five poisons. When eating these dishes, they are roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs with red oil, lobster and realgar wine. Therefore, eating duck eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival has a certain color to ward off evil spirits. From a scientific point of view, eating duck eggs is to preserve health and dispel summer heat.

Seven, drink realgar wine

It is said that drinking realgar wine can ward off the five poisons. The custom of drinking Pu wine and realgar wine has been circulating for a long time. After soaking in wine, people use Acorus calamus and Aipeng to dip in the corners of walls, doors and windows, under the bed, etc., and then use wine to coat the ears, nose and navel of children to ward off poisonous insects. From the health point of view, realgar can be disinfected by adding water and wine indoors, and drinking Pu wine is also quite beneficial.

Original title: "Do you know the origin and customs of the Dragon Boat Festival? 》

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　　At the press conference of 2023 Tmall in double 11 held on October 20th, Daishan, CEO of Taotian Group, said that the scale of online consumption will be further expanded in the future, and Taobao Tmall will move from thousands of people to hundreds of millions of people, better matching the needs of each consumer, allowing businesses willing to create consumer value to grow up, leading consumption together, and deepening the China market.

　　Dai Shan believes that there is still a lot of room for growth in the domestic big market, huge room for upgrading the domestic manufacturing capacity, and sufficient consumer demand, which determines that the China market is still strong and the growth potential is more certain. Taobao Tmall will firmly deepen the China market and join hands with brand merchants to provide consumers with better product value and consumption experience.

　　The reporter learned from the meeting that in 2023, Tmall double 11 will be officially opened at 8: 00 pm on October 24, and it is expected that 1 billion consumers will participate, and over 80 million hot-selling goods will achieve the lowest price in the whole year. The much-anticipated "Cat Night" will also return, and the festive atmosphere will be stronger than in previous years.

　　Bosideng, Bee Flower, Laoganma, Tianfu Coke and other well-known domestic brands have already prepared the goods of Tmall double 11, ready for the biggest business growth in a year. Tmall not only relaxed the restrictions on the number of products registered by new brands and small and medium-sized businesses for the first time, but also increased the subsidies and incentives of real money. This year, it will also be the double 11 with the largest participation of new brands, new businesses and small and medium-sized businesses.

　　In response to the demands of consumers and businesses, this year Tmall double 11 has further simplified its gameplay, increased its official subsidies, and increased public welfare entrances such as "shopping for convenience", thus truly becoming a simpler, more affordable, happier and warmer double 11.

　　In order to make consumers buy more cheaply and better, this year, on the basis of the previous cross-store full reduction, Tmall double 11 launched a large-scale official direct reduction and vertical reduction, and invested the largest official red envelopes and coupons in history. Consumers can buy more favorable products and enjoy the service of "low price on the whole network" and "official reduction".

　　For consumers who like to buy furniture, home appliances and other big items in double 11, Tmall double 11 will provide 88VIP coupons to help consumers save money by buying big items. For users who like live shopping, this year Taobao Live will take the lead in sending a 1 billion yuan red envelope in the live broadcast room, and the minimum discount for a limited time will drop, bringing consumers a double 11 full of surprises.

　　In order to enable businesses to achieve business explosion in double 11’s consumption season, Taobao Tmall focuses on supporting businesses to do comprehensive optimization in terms of users, goods, content and services, so that user growth can become the engine of business growth for businesses, and businesses can have business not only during the peak consumption period in double 11, but also in daily life.

　　This year, Tmall double 11 will be the double 11 with the largest participation of new brands, new businesses and small and medium-sized businesses. To this end, not only did the restrictions on the number of products registered by new brands and small and medium-sized businesses be relaxed for the first time, but also the subsidies and incentives of real money were increased. During the period of double 11, new businesses will have the opportunity to receive a large promotion subsidy of 19,500 yuan, while new brands can enjoy measures such as category expansion, custody services, freight insurance subsidies, financial rights and interests support, etc., thus reducing the pressure on funds and stocking, and bringing businesses a better double 11.

　　Domestic brands such as Bosideng, Brewmaster. com, Bee Flower, Laoganma and Tianfu Coke have long felt the enthusiasm of consumers to participate in double 11. Brewmaster. com and Tmall jointly built the "Brewmaster Liangge" live broadcast room, which achieved a breakthrough from 0 to 100 million in three months. From "cooking tea around the stove" to "cooking wine with green plums", from China ingredients to Chinese nourishment, from Hanfu to horse-faced skirts, young people who love traditional culture will drive a new round of explosion and growth of domestic products in double 11.

　　Since the beginning of this year, Taobao Tmall has intensively introduced business support measures to simplify the store opening process, cancel the store opening deposit, increase the traffic promotion subsidy, logistics delivery subsidy, optimize the business environment, and help small and medium-sized businesses, especially small and micro enterprises, to start businesses better. In this double 11, Taobao Tmall will also launch 10 free AI tools for merchants to help them operate digitally, and enhance the consumer experience through the AI intelligent assistant "Taobao Ask".

　　The data shows that in the third quarter of this year, the number of new brands entering Tmall reached a new high, up 105% year-on-year, of which 42% were self-owned brands founded by factories in China manufacturing industry belt; Among the new merchants who settled in Taobao, after 00, the proportion exceeded 90 for the first time, and Taobao became the preferred platform for young people to start businesses.

　　At the same time, the income index of small and medium-sized businesses on Taobao rose for two consecutive quarters, and the business situation continued to improve.

　　This year, Tmall double 11 is also a warmer double 11. More goods have been added to the "charity baby". When consumers place an order for these goods, the backstage will automatically donate to the charity project according to the donation amount set by the merchants. During the period of double 11, Taobao will also upgrade the "buy one thing conveniently" to "buy one thing conveniently" for the first time, so that more goods of public welfare treasures, agricultural products and disabled shops can be seen by consumers and they can place orders conveniently. At the same time, consumers will be encouraged to share public welfare projects, so that goodwill can be seen and passed on by more people.

　　During the period of double 11, it coincides with the Double Ninth Festival. After giving 50,000 elderly people nationwide yellow handrails last year, Tmall double 11 will also launch the "Yellow Handrails 2.0 Plan" this year, and jointly donate home cameras to the society to provide a real-time care for empty nesters and elderly people living alone. Taobao will also join hands with the China Foundation for the Development of the Cause for the Aged to jointly launch the "Old Baby on the New" public welfare program, and put up teaching videos on Taobao on skills such as knitting, flower arranging skills and raising pigeons to pay attention to the spiritual life of the elderly.

　　"We always believe that technology creates new businesses." Dai Shan said that Taobao Tmall will unite with all brands and businesses with R&D, design, manufacturing and excellent brand power, continue to make long-term investment in brands, new products and users, and contribute to helping the elderly, farmers and the disabled, encouraging and conveying the happiness of helping others.

Data source: People’s Bank of China, Network Clearing Co., Ltd. Drawing: Cai Huawei

　　The online payment business involving bank accounts needs to be cleared through the network, and the capital channel is more transparent, but the payment experience is not affected.

　　Liu Manning, who lives in Tongzhou District, Beijing, placed 14 orders in Taobao this year, and paid by China Merchants Bank credit card bound by Alipay, spending more than 10,000 yuan. "Most of the things I bought were not pre-sold, so I quickly placed an order for payment just after zero. At that time, it was definitely the peak period of snapping up, but the payment process was very smooth and there was no stagnation when paying. " Liu Manning said.

　　The central bank stipulates that all third-party online payment services involving bank accounts are cleared through the network. The full name of the network is the network payment and clearing platform of non-bank payment institutions. Whether consumers transfer money from a savings card to a WeChat red envelope, or transfer the balance of Alipay to a bank card for cash withdrawal, or pay through a credit card bound by Jingdong wallet, the network connection plays a key role in the behind-the-scenes liquidation process.

　　As an important financial infrastructure, Netlink has access to more than 400 banks and all 115 licensed online payment institutions including Alipay and Tenpay (WeChat Pay).

　　Before the establishment of the network, online payment institutions directly connected with banks for liquidation, which easily caused problems such as multi-head liquidation and unclear capital flow. For example, buying a pair of shoes from 300 yuan in Tmall, in short, the liquidation mode of the network connection is: consumers choose the savings card of China Construction Bank bound by Alipay to pay; When Alipay receives the payment request, it automatically initiates the agreement payment to Netlink, which saves the transaction information in the database and forwards the request to CCB. After 300 yuan was deducted from the consumer’s account, CCB informed the network that the deduction had been successful; Netlink then informed Alipay that the payment was successful and the transaction was completed.

　　From the payment data released by the central bank in the third quarter of this year, we can get a glimpse of the rapid growth of online business. The data shows that Netlink handled 33.655 billion transactions in the third quarter, amounting to 12.68 trillion yuan; The daily average processing business was 366 million transactions, an increase of 3.09 times compared with the second quarter; The average daily processing amount was 137.822 billion yuan, up 3.65 times from the previous month.

　　However, when consumers pay for goods, they may not be aware of the changes brought by the network connection, which is mainly due to the optimization of the back-end clearing system, which will not have much impact on the front-end operation behavior and usage habits.

　　What impact will access to the network bring to the payment institution? The person in charge of the payment institution serving an e-commerce platform said: "At the beginning of May this year, we cut some e-commerce businesses to the network for liquidation, which improved the user payment experience in a short time. By analyzing the data of 40 days before and after cutting, we found that the success rate of user card binding increased by 2.34 percentage points, and the success rate of PC-side fast payment increased by 2.39 percentage points. "

　　"double 11" is a big test for the network. According to the data provided by Netlink, since November this year, more than 90% of the online payment services jointly carried out by payment institutions and commercial banks have been handled through Netlink. On the day of "double 11", Netlink handled 1.17 billion inter-agency payment transactions, and the corresponding peak value of inter-agency transaction processing exceeded 92,000 transactions per second, which also set a record for clearing institutions at home and abroad.

　　"double 11" is the peak of online payment over the years, and the peak time has repeatedly set a global concurrent peak record, which brings great challenges to the system capacity and line bandwidth of the participants, and is a centralized test of the scientific and technological capabilities of the participants. Xue Hongyan, director of Internet Finance Center of Suning Financial Research Institute, thinks that the processing performance and peak load-carrying capacity of Netlink have been verified and recognized by the market from the situation of "double 11" this year.

　　"Disconnecting direct connection" leaves traces everywhere in the transaction, making the payment account safer and the operation and maintenance cost of the payment institution lower.

　　In recent years, the rapid expansion of online payment services has played a positive role in supporting economic development and the convenience of people’s lives, on the other hand, it has also brought some problems.

　　The person in charge of a small and medium-sized payment institution was very touched by this: "Before the establishment of the network, our company mainly settled through the agency model, which is the so-called’ direct connection’. At that time, we established a total of eight clearing channels with eight banks. However, in this mode, because the interface standards and security specifications between these clearing systems are different, our operation and maintenance costs are pushed to a particularly high level. "

　　Under the traditional "direct connection" mode, the management of customer reserve fund is also a difficult point. After consumers buy goods online, the payment they made before receiving the goods has been kept in the bank account opened by the online payment institution, which is the customer reserve. From the time the payment institution receives the payment to the merchant, the customer’s reserve fund will stay in its account for a period of time, and the reserve fund will also be misappropriated, which will endanger the security of the payment account.

　　The safety of capital flow has attracted much attention. Yan Lidong, a member of the expert committee of China Supply Chain Financial Services Alliance, said that in the past, after a number of banks set up accounts, online payment institutions were able to complete all payment transactions, which essentially enabled the inter-bank clearing function. Because the capital flow and information flow only circulate in the payment institution itself, the supervisor can only see the changes of funds in the bank account of the payment institution, but can’t effectively supervise the possible violations in the payment process.

　　After the establishment of the network, these chaos is expected to be gradually improved. Zhao Yi, a special researcher at the Research Center for Payment and Clearing of the Institute of Finance of China Academy of Social Sciences, said that the original intention of the establishment of the network link was to "break the direct connection". "Broken direct connection" can leave traces everywhere in the transaction, help to monitor the flow of funds, maintain the stability of the payment system and ensure financial stability. A large-scale clearing platform dedicated to third-party payment institutions is also unique in the world.

　　Zhao Wei believes that, on the one hand, the network connection adopts a unified access platform, technical standards and message specifications, which not only saves the repeated construction costs of online payment institutions and banks, but also reduces the post-maintenance costs caused by inconsistent standards. On the other hand, after access to the network, the operation and maintenance costs and channel barriers of small and medium-sized payment institutions will be reduced, and they can get equal opportunities to compete with large institutions at the liquidation level, and they can focus on product innovation and customer service. The competition among all kinds of payment institutions will be carried out in enriching payment scenarios, facilitating financial services and enhancing customer experience in the future.

　　"The network is centralized and liquidated, all black-box operations will be exposed to the sun, and the safety of users’ funds can be guaranteed to the greatest extent." Zhao Yi said that according to the plan, customers’ reserve funds will be deposited in the special deposit account of the central bank for centralized custody, and it is expected that the phenomenon that payment institutions only focus on increasing the scale of reserve funds and endangering the safety of consumers’ funds will be curbed.

　　"The centralized depository system introduced by the central bank is not only for the need to protect the safety of customers’ funds of third-party payment institutions, but also based on the basic principles of financial supervision, which brings all kinds of’ innovations’ carried out by payment institutions based on customers’ reserve funds into a more prudent supervision category." Zhao Wei said.

　　There is a big platform behind the "small wallet", and future funds may be transferred between various "wallets"

　　"Some time ago, the typhoon Mangosteen hit Shenzhen. At that time, I was hiding at home and could only pass the time by online shopping. " Liu Xiaohui, who works in Shenzhen, said, "I placed a few orders with my mobile phone. I thought that the typhoon was coming and the payment would be affected. I didn’t expect it to be as smooth as usual."

　　The ability of "disaster tolerance" is greatly enhanced, which is one of the characteristics of the network. Using the distributed cloud architecture system, Networked has established six data centers in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Compared with the traditional "two places and three centers" architecture, the six data centers of Networked Network provide services to the outside world at the same time and back up each other, which means that any one of the computer rooms has a major failure, and other computer rooms can still provide services smoothly. "When Typhoon Mangosteen hit Shenzhen, we switched the business of Shenzhen data center to other cities in advance, so customer transactions were not affected at all." The relevant person in charge of the network introduced.

　　"The network signal of the supermarket downstairs in our house is not good. Every time I have to pay for something after I buy it, I have a special headache. I don’t know if I have paid successfully." Wu Lifang, who works in Shanghai, said. As payment and clearing involves information transmission between systems of different market participants, it is inevitable that there will be abnormal situations, such as the payment institution prompting consumers that the transaction failed, but the bank has actually deducted money.

　　"We invited payment institutions and bank personnel to jointly design an automatic reversal solution, which achieved full coverage of all national commercial banks. Take ICBC as an example. For a transaction paid by agreement, if Networked fails to get the result returned by ICBC within the agreed closing time, the final state of the transaction is determined as’ presumed failure’, and Networked will send the final notice to ICBC; If it is found that the deduction has been made, the ICBC system will directly correct it according to this notice, and the deducted money will be immediately returned to the consumer account, and the consumer can pay again. " The relevant person in charge of the network said.

　　"If the clearing technology can’t keep up, it will be difficult for payment institutions to carry out business innovation on the client side, and the emergence of network connection has a decisive impact on the reform of third-party payment business model." Zhao Wei said that the primary task of the network now is to continue to promote the "broken direct connection" and prevent and resolve various risks brought by the "direct connection" model. While doing a good job of auxiliary supervision, the future network can consider using its own advantages to become a platform to support the innovation and development of the payment industry and make people’s e-wallets safer and better to use.

　　Zhao Wei introduced that a fast payment system called "Fast Revolution" was launched in Hong Kong in September this year. The highlight was the mutual transfer between Octopus, Alipay and Tenpay. "The establishment of the network link will help promote interoperability across payment platforms and guide the coordinated development of non-bank and bank payment systems. After accessing the network, there is no obstacle to the mutual transfer of accounts between payment institutions at the technical level. Whether and when it can be landed requires the efforts and promotion of all parties. " Zhao Wei said. (Reporter Ge Mengchao)

(Original title: After accessing the network, the industry ecology among online payment institutions will become more balanced, the payment scenarios will become more abundant, and customers will have new experiences-making e-wallets safer)

As a standard post-90s generation, I think most young people’s aesthetics should be the same as mine, and they don’t like the same doll face. Young and stylish design is our dish.

In the domestic self-owned brand models, it seems that the MG brand has not served anyone, regardless of design.

Precipitate the brand in quality, and be advanced and beautiful in innovation. On July 3rd, 2023 models of quality cars were brand-new, equipped with "Double Top Ten" power combination, and their performance was improved in an all-round way, making them the strongest in their class. The sharp face value once again attracted the attention of a large number of young people. So today, I will actually drive for a long distance and test whether the fuel consumption performance of this "Yan Xiaosheng" is worthy of the "young man’s wallet".

At the same time of product upgrade, MG MG5 2023 launched a "limited time surprise price" of 57,900 yuan, which broke through the reserve price at the same level. It also enjoyed beautiful and advanced gifts such as daily supply as low as 0 interest in 10 yuan /24 issues, discount as high as 5,000 yuan, purchase subsidy as high as 5,000 yuan, and free basic flow for life, which truly achieved "value for money" and helped users "easily purchase". This time, with the guidance of user demand, the sense of value has climbed again, providing consumers with the first choice of buying a car within 100 thousand.

The new MG5 adopts the latest "third generation family design" language, which brings super-high face value and dynamic posture, especially the "shark-hunting" front face with downward dive lines, creating a full sense of low-lying movement.

In terms of details, the oversized shield-shaped front grille with the internal black "burning fire" grid design makes the whole front face extremely visual tension, and the matte plaques extending outward from both sides of the net can effectively enhance the visual width. The whole design is matched with a huge LOGO, which highlights the sense of movement.

In addition, MG5 is also equipped with a long, narrow and sharp headlight group. The interior design of the lamp cavity and the shape of the daytime running lamp also have a strong sense of design, giving people a very strong sense of visual impact.

The side of the car body is also pursuing a sense of movement, and the design of the slip back creates a coupe atmosphere, which undoubtedly adds fuel to the sense of movement of the whole car. The wheelbase of 2680mm also belongs to the mainstream level.

Compared with the front face, the shape of the rear of the car has a little more fullness, but the slightly raised duckwings and the rear surrounding bottom spoiler can still highlight a certain sense of movement. The bilateral chrome-plated exhaust port at the tail has a stronger sense of movement.

The rim is designed in black and silver, and the overall look is still very cool. ZEON C7 tire is used as the tire, with the size of 205/55 R16.

In terms of interior, this set of interior of the brand-new MG5 is different from other models of MG. Although there are many materials, it is good in hierarchical design. The steering wheel is moderately thick and feels good. At the same time, it has been punched in the hand position, but it only supports up and down adjustment in adjustment, which is not very friendly for taller friends.

The first impression of the 10.25-inch integrated suspension central control panel is good, and the functionality and fluency of the built-in VENUS system are also well received.

Advanced power, MG5 with high energy and low consumption is in place.

SAIC Blue Core 2.0 MEGA Tech blessing, 2023 models, all-round advanced upgrade, power leads the same class models, providing users with a smoother, smoother and more balanced travel experience. The 2023 MG MG5 provides two power combinations at the same time, which can meet the diverse needs of users.

A new generation of 1.5L high-efficiency power combination is equipped with a new 1.5L in-cylinder direct injection naturally aspirated engine, which adopts 350bar ultra-high pressure fuel direct injection system, intelligent thermal management system, advanced intelligent D- speed response timing technology, intelligent variable system, extreme antifriction technology, lightweight all-aluminum body, etc., which greatly saves fuel consumption, reduces emissions, saves energy and worries, and significantly improves power and quick response, from 129Ps to 158 N. At the same time of enhancing power, the model is equipped with an intelligent stepless gearbox simulating an 8-speed CVT. Combined with the characteristics of a 1.5L naturally aspirated engine, such as smooth power connection and linear speed increase, the driver can feel stable and abundant power output regardless of rapid acceleration or high-speed cruising, and the power is available with stepping.

1.5T Double Top Ten Power Technology was launched, equipped with the strongest MEGA Tech 1.5T high-pressure direct injection turbocharged engine in its class. With the support of 350bar ultra-high pressure fuel direct injection technology and ePower Control electronically controlled turbine technology, the maximum horsepower of MG5 2023 is increased to 181Ps. After the upgrade of instantaneous supercharging technology, its peak torque is increased by 20%+, and the maximum torque is optimized to 285N·m, and the dynamic response of starting and following the car is faster, and the response of following the car is increased by 2 times. The more you step on it, the more power output performance you have, so that drivers are always one step ahead of each other whether they are shuttling through the city or galloping at high speed, and the fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is as low as 6.47L, truly realizing the goal of high energy and low consumption.

Full quality, strength leading the new market of cars within 100 thousand

Adhering to the initial intention of "high-quality as standard", MG5 2023 started the journey of upgrading the user experience with high quality and high configuration, and achieved a better life with an "advanced" seat.

MG MG5 2023, with full marks from American businessmen, inherits the classic design aesthetics, which not only has a slip back design with extraordinary value, but also has an internal space that exceeds expectations. The widest body of the same class of 1842mm, the super-long wheelbase of the same class of 2680mm, and ample rear head and leg space have brought the internal space and comfort to the extreme, creating a first-class seating space. At the same time, this model provides comfort and convenience for users with rich and practical configurations, such as oversized sunroof, zero-gravity full-embracing seat, 360 HD panoramic image system+180 transparent chassis, intelligent keyless entry system, etc., which enhances the user’s high-value car experience in all directions.

Thanks to the global system, MG5 2023 adopts the world-class supply chain system, meets the European standard, completes the comprehensive road test of 5 million kilometers, and guarantees the quality style with the luxury quality control standard. The authoritative certification is reliable and durable, and MG5 won the first place in the product quality of its own brand compact car in the 2021 China Automobile Product Quality Performance Research Report. According to the "Research Report on Automobile Insurance Rate in China in May 2023", MG5 ranks the first in the insurance rate of independent compact cars within 100,000 with a one-year insurance rate of 74.0%, leading the new car market within 100,000. In just three years, the sales volume of MG5 has been rising steadily, and the preservation rate has remained at a high level, which further proves that the quality and strength of MG5 have been recognized by the public, making users worth buying and getting more value.

The test drive MG5 is equipped with an 8-speed CVT gearbox. In addition, a 5-speed manual gearbox is matched with the 1.5L engine. Matching the 1.5T engine is a 7-speed dual clutch gearbox.

Before the start of the race, we will drive the vehicles to the gas station, and the same person will fill all the vehicles up to the gun, excluding the influence of the refueling personnel. At the same time, after refueling, we will clear the vehicle odometer.

If the standard of the fuel-saving race is anything, it must be the seal on the fuel tank cover. In order to ensure the fairness of the competition and the truth of the data, the coaching staff put a seal on each car after the vehicle refueling was completed.

The distance of this competition is set from Anting Sinopec gas station to Suzhou Dongshan gas station, with a total distance of about 90 kilometers. Among them, expressways account for a large proportion. When driving at high speed, we keep the vehicle speed at about 80km/h, and in order to control fuel consumption, we don’t have a big foot accelerator and a big foot brake during the race.

The congested roads in the city are fatal to the performance of vehicle fuel consumption, and the stop-and-go driving state in the city will make fuel consumption rise sharply. If it is equipped with an automatic start-stop system, it is helpful for the fuel economy of urban road driving, but this MG5 is not equipped.

Because the vehicle adopts the power combination of 1.5L+CVT, the overall driving is much smoother than the vehicle, and the power output is very smooth whether driving in a low-speed city or accelerating at a high speed. However, in terms of absolute acceleration, this self-priming MG5 is obviously not as good as the turbo model. For the editor himself, I personally prefer smooth power output. (Non-competition time test)

During driving, our MG5 lane departure warning function is still sensitive, and the front camera can clearly identify the lane line. When the vehicle deviates, the reaction force and vibration to the steering wheel are still relatively large, which can effectively remind the driver.

The adjustment of the overall throttle and brake of the vehicle is relatively linear, and it takes almost no adaptation time to master it for the first time. The steering force of the steering wheel is adjustable in three levels, and it can be adjusted to the lightest mode, and it can be controlled with one finger. The overall virtual position is not big, and the directivity of the front is good. (Non-competition time test)

Although the adjustment of vehicle chassis tends to be comfortable, the road feeling is also obvious. Because the rear wheel of the vehicle is adopted, the vehicle can still feel the bounce of the rear wheel when crossing the pit. In addition, when power is needed to increase the engine speed, the engine noise will be transmitted to the car very obviously, and the tire noise is also obvious, so there is still room for improvement in the overall NVH performance.

After driving to the destination gas station, the coach tore off the seal and refueled until the gun jumped. Because everyone drives the same road section, the specific driving distance will not be too bad, and the fuel consumption directly determines the performance of each car.

According to the apparent data of the vehicle, the total driving distance is 88.2km, the average speed is 59km/h, and the apparent fuel consumption is 4.3L/100km.

According to the refueling amount of the tanker, the total refueling amount is 3.39L L. According to the actual calculation, the average fuel consumption of this journey is only 3.84L/100km, which is lower than the apparent fuel consumption. This performance is not bad for a compact car.

Editor’s comment: Because the displacement of MG5′ s self-priming engine is 1.5L, it is necessary to maintain a relatively high speed to have a better power performance when driving at high speed, which is a disadvantage compared with the turbo car, but from the final fuel consumption result, it is not easy for MG MG5 to run 3.84L/100km. Although we deliberately keep the skill of fuel-efficient driving when driving, we can’t deny the outstanding performance of MG5 in controlling the power system.

Since Mercedes-Benz launched EQS, which is known as the high-end luxury flagship, it recently launched its first joint-venture domestic pure electric vehicle based on EVA platform, EQE, with a price range of 528-585,000 yuan. The price range of 500,000 is the mainstream market of pure electric luxury cars in China, so what is the driving impression of this medium and large luxury pure electric car produced according to the standard of "Made in China, Global Quality"? A few days ago, we experienced a real car in a 4S shop. Let’s find out!

The new EQE is the first pure electric vehicle of Mercedes -EQ brand developed in China based on EVA platform, and it is a milestone on the road of "all-electric" transformation of Mercedes-Benz. The new EQE has been further upgraded on the basis of inheriting many EQS pioneer luxury designs and excellent configurations, and has perfectly integrated the practicality of cars with the elegance of four-door coupe, creating a brand-new luxury market segment.

The coupe is both practical and luxurious, both inside and outside.

Mercedes-Benz EQE follows EQS’s pioneering and luxurious design style in appearance design, creating a harmonious and smooth coupe posture with a length of 4,969 mm and a wheelbase of 3,120 mm. The bow design created by pure electric platform brings ultra-low drag coefficient as low as 0.22, revealing elegance and luxury from the bones.

Appearance: elegant pioneer exquisite texture

Mercedes-Benz EQE comes standard with adaptive far and near light, and the high-profile models are also equipped with 1.3 million pixel intelligent digital headlights, which can realize accurate beam distribution according to road conditions, which is also rare in this class of models. Mercedes-Benz EQE’s front face "Night Star Array" closed grille complements the intelligent digital headlights with a lighting effect of 2.6 million pixels. The 3D penetrating spiral taillights continue the amazing lighting effect, and the 20-inch AMG aerodynamic wheel not only helps the battery life, but also highlights the dynamic temperament. It is equipped with EQ-specific projection themes of "electro-optical Shi Huo" and "meteor shower", and "electricity" illuminates every trip of the owner. The first special edition of 350 is decorated with the "EDITION ONE" logo and comes standard with night components, which is even more extraordinary.

Interior: luxury quality and texture are very good.

Mercedes-Benz EQE highlights the sense of technology and luxury in the interior design layout, which echoes the exterior design. The luxury cockpit of the new EQE fully mobilizes the multi-dimensional sensory experience-the 12.3-inch instrument screen from the S-class car and the 12.8-inch central control screen with the highest resolution of 210ppi, combined with the use of large-area walnut decorative panels, are particularly exquisite in visual effect. In addition, Mercedes-Benz EQE is also equipped with 64-color active ambient light, and the color of the light strip can change with the vehicle speed, creating a dynamic flow effect. Mercedes-Benz EQE is equipped with a full LCD instrument with a size of 12.3 inches. In addition to displaying rich driving data, it is also equipped with a variety of mode switching to present better visual effects and create more digital atmosphere for the interior.

Details: at your fingertips, advanced texture

Panoramic skylight with electric sunshade protects the cool inside of the car for drivers and passengers; No.6 sweet and bitter fragrance (equipped in the future) further demonstrates the luxurious atmosphere created by EQ family models; Listen to the ear, and the Burmester? Sound Surround Stereo System with 15 speakers makes two kinds of personalized analog sounds "sound" enter people’s hearts; In terms of the comfort of drivers and passengers, the seat of Mercedes-Benz EQE continues the comfort and luxury of Mercedes-Benz. The seat is covered with Nappa leather and matched with Paris nail-patterned solid buttons, which shows advanced texture; The ride feels spacious and soft, and the double-sided sound insulation glass in the front row makes the ride atmosphere more quiet and comfortable. Mercedes-Benz EQE has a number of practical storage spaces in the front and rear rows of the car, so people in the car can put things neatly at will to ensure the cleanliness of the car space as new.

The new EQE not only has surging power, but also creates outstanding driving quality in all directions with steady braking, flexible control and intelligent travel, making every journey full of pleasure.

Power: abundant power and long battery life: For electric vehicles, braking performance is closely related to kinetic energy recovery. On the basis of excellent braking performance, the new EQE provides four-speed kinetic energy recovery systems of D+, D, D- and D Auto. Among them, in the D Auto mode, the new EQE can intelligently adjust the kinetic energy recovery according to the driving state and driving mode of the vehicle, and even decelerate to a stop without using the brake pedal to ensure excellent braking effect of the vehicle at all times. In addition, Mercedes-Benz’s self-developed battery management system can reach a maximum of 128 kilowatts of DC charging (which can replenish the power from 10% to 80% within 48 minutes), greatly alleviating the "mileage anxiety" of pure trams.

Travel: rear wheel steering quality chassis The new EQE is equipped with four-link front suspension and multi-link rear suspension, and four-wheel independent suspension is supplemented by outstanding adjustment, which creates the chassis texture of Mercedes-Benz quality. The 350 prototype special edition comes standard with a rear wheel active steering system up to 10 degrees, and the turning diameter is as low as 10.7 meters, which gives the new EQE the flexibility comparable to that of a compact car. When the speed is less than 60 km/h, the rear wheel and the front wheel rotate in the opposite direction, and they can freely shuttle through the narrow roadway; When the speed exceeds 60 km/h, the rear wheel and the front wheel rotate in the same direction, and high-speed cornering or emergency lane change can be handled with equanimity; When the automatic parking function is turned on to drive out of the parking space, the front and rear wheels can also rotate at the same angle, so that the vehicle can walk out of the street in a "dressage".

People-oriented exclusive configuration of digital technology has been fully upgraded.

The new EQE inherits many people-oriented technology configurations of EQS, and at the same time, it also upgrades many exclusive configurations for the China market, in order to better meet the digital technology and localization functions of China customers’ usage habits and empower them for a better trip.

Zero-level operation scene push: The new EQE is equipped with a "zero-level interface", which always puts the core functions at the top of the desktop. Car owners can also log in individual user settings with fingerprints, open an efficient digital experience at the touch of their fingertips, and enjoy the convenience brought by many localized applications. In addition, the upgraded "mind-reading assistant" can intelligently push according to customers’ usage habits, and at the same time, it can realize domestic leading full-scene function recommendation, such as accepting Tencent video push at any time while waiting for parking and charging. The new EQE also supports wireless CarPlay screen projection function, which seamlessly projects the mobile phone interface in full screen, making the interaction more diverse and convenient.

Deep integration of customized navigation: The new EQE is equipped with high-tech customized navigation, and the functions of EQ optimized navigation, AR real-life crossing navigation and other aircraft are deeply integrated with the navigation system. AR real-life navigation can accurately distinguish the correct navigation entrance, and the navigation system can also accurately distinguish the parking floor, showing the brand temperature on the basis of technology. After the upgrade of "Mind-reading Voice Assistant", not only the intonation is more lifelike, but also the vehicle can recognize the combined instructions and listen to them in 15 seconds, and provide encyclopedia material interaction, so that voice control can open the world at any time.

Quiet, fresh and exclusive upgrade: The new EQE provides rear seats optimized for China customers, as well as front-row bilateral sound insulation glass and vehicle acoustic package as standard in China. It is also equipped with HEPA high-efficiency filtration system with a filtration effect of 99.75% in the "Changxin Air Shield", providing a cabin space that is always quiet and fresh. According to the localization needs of customers in China, the new EQE provides up to 10 local exclusive upgrade configurations, including rear gentleman function, rear central armrest, rear sunroof sunshade button, comfortable rear headrest, etc., so that every driver and passenger can enjoy exclusive luxury travel experience.

The new EQE is an important milestone on the road of Mercedes-Benz’s "all-electric" transformation, announcing the acceleration of the electrification process. As the 4 millionth car rolled off the production line in Beijing Benz factory, the new EQE was made in Shunyi factory. Beijing Benz Shunyi Factory strictly implements "Made in China, Global Quality" and has four characteristics: digitalization, flexibility, high efficiency and sustainability, and implements the enterprise’s sustainable development commitment and carbon-neutral production target. Beijing Benz Shunyi Factory reduces energy consumption through advanced production technologies and measures such as dry painting and ground source heat pump. Vigorously develop photovoltaic power generation and increase the proportion of self-made green energy; Beijing Benz also bought green electricity last year, becoming one of the first enterprises in Beijing to buy green electricity. The whole vehicle adopts a steel-aluminum hybrid body, and some structural parts of the body are made of 100% recyclable steel, effectively reducing the energy consumption output by 60%. Using more than 20% aluminum material can reduce the weight by 51.29 kg on the basis of ensuring structural strength, and NVH components can reduce the weight by about 14 kg on the basis of ensuring outstanding effect, further improving energy efficiency.

Although the test drive experience lasted only one day, Mercedes-Benz EQE left a deep impression on us in the actual driving. First of all, in terms of power output, Mercedes-Benz EQE feels linear output in economy and comfort mode, relaxed but not impatient, and can experience the smoothness of driving while driving. When switching to sports mode, with the personalized sound system, you can’t feel that this is a pure tram, with abundant power and sensitive acceleration. As a medium and large car with a length of nearly 5 meters and a wheelbase of more than 3 meters, the power steering and shock absorption adjustment of Mercedes-Benz EQE are very delicate, and the sense of stable control during steering is particularly practical, which can be seen as the heritage of an old luxury brand. After finely bumpy road sections, the chassis adjustment of Mercedes-Benz EQE makes us basically feel no vibration, but when passing through a large pothole road surface, the road feel will be clearer, but the front seats can absorb most of the vibration.

In addition, Mercedes-Benz EQE has added many practical functions in science and technology. For example, by integrating the real road with navigation tips through AR technology, we can clearly see the turn signs and street signs on the real road through the central control screen. This feeling is quite novel and interesting, and the guiding effect is very intuitive.

Mercedes-Benz EQE, which follows most designs and configurations of EQS, has done a remarkable job in appearance design, atmosphere creation, spatial layout, intelligent assistance and power adjustment. From this model, we can see the intention and determination of Mercedes-Benz, a luxury brand, in electric transformation.

The transformation of old urban residential areas is an important measure to enhance the sense of acquisition of ordinary people, and it is also an important content of implementing urban renewal actions. In the first half of this year, the renovation of old urban communities progressed smoothly. Recently, seven departments, including the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, jointly issued the Notice on Solidly Promoting the Renovation of Old Urban Residential Areas in 2023 (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), demanding that the renovation plan of old urban residential areas in 2024 be reasonably arranged, indicating that China will continue to promote the renovation of old urban residential areas, which will benefit more urban residents.

Positive progress has been made in the transformation.

Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said in an interview at the "Ministerial Channel" of the National People’s Congress this year that in the past five years, 167,000 old residential areas have been renovated nationwide, benefiting more than 29 million households and more than 80 million residents. In 2023, it is hoped that more than 50,000 old communities will be rebuilt, so as to benefit 20 million residents.

The data shows that from 2019 to 2022, in the process of renovation of old residential areas, all localities have renovated over 200,000 kilometers of aging pipelines such as water, electricity and heat letters, installed 70,000 elevators, added and upgraded 2.4 million parking spaces, added 63,000 charging piles for electric vehicles, and added 45,000 community service facilities such as old-age care.

Since the beginning of this year, the renovation of old residential areas has progressed smoothly. According to statistics from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, in 2023, the country plans to start the renovation of 53,000 old urban communities, involving 8.65 million residents. According to the data reported by local statistics, from January to June, 42,600 old urban communities were newly renovated nationwide, benefiting 7.42 million households, and the operating rate was 80.4% according to the number of communities. In terms of provinces, the operating rate of 11 provinces including Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangsu and Inner Mongolia exceeded 95%.

Up to now, 24,000 kilometers of aging pipelines such as water, electricity and heat have been newly renovated, 12,000 elevators have been installed, nearly 300,000 parking spaces have been added, 10,000 charging piles for electric vehicles have been added, 3,200 community service facilities have been added, and nearly 2 million square meters of leisure and fitness venues have been added.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the transformation of old residential quarters focuses on the urgent problems of the masses. Through the transformation, the living environment, facilities and service functions of old urban residential quarters and old communities have been improved, meeting the needs of the people for a better life, and also playing a positive role in strengthening and improving grassroots social governance. It is not difficult to find that after some buildings are equipped with elevators, the "suspended old people" who used to go downstairs for a year or so can often go downstairs to bask in the sun and chat with the old neighborhoods. Some old communities have implemented barrier-free renovation to create a "barrier-free and loving" travel environment.

The travel experience of the disabled, the elderly and pregnant women is smoother. After the renovation of some old communities, convenience service facilities such as breakfast shops, repair shops and side dishes stations have been added, and the fireworks in the old communities have returned.

The "Notice" makes it clear that we should vigorously transform and upgrade residential quarters (including single-family residential buildings) that were built earlier, were out of care and disrepair, had obvious shortcomings in facilities and had strong residents’ willingness to transform, and focus on transforming old urban quarters that needed to be transformed before the end of 2000. Encourage qualified places to study and establish the mechanism of "finding problems through physical examination and solving problems through renovation" in residential quarters, explore the establishment of housing pension and insurance system, solve the problem of "where does the money come from", and form a long-term mechanism for renovation and construction of residential quarters.

Effectively solve difficult problems

How will the transformation of old urban communities be further promoted? On the "ministerial corridor", Ni Hong proposed that the renovation of old residential areas should focus on "corridor revolution", "environmental revolution" and "management revolution". The "Notice" also proposes to carry out a comprehensive physical examination of the old urban communities to be rebuilt, and identify potential safety hazards and shortcomings in facilities and services. According to the physical examination results and residents’ wishes, according to the sensible, quantifiable and evaluable working standards, the content, scheme and construction standards of the renovation are reasonably determined by "one community, one countermeasure", and the problems of difficulties, blocking points and pain points strongly reflected by the masses are effectively solved.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, to promote the "corridor revolution" in a down-to-earth manner is to speed up the renovation of aging and hidden dangers pipelines such as gas, water supply, heat supply, drainage, power supply and communication, and to rectify pedestrian walkways, exhaust flues, ventilation shafts, up and down paths, etc. in the building, and to carry out the safety rectification of residential external walls. Vigorously promote the installation of elevators in conditional buildings. Focus on promoting energy-saving renovation of existing buildings.

To further promote the "environmental revolution", it is necessary to add parking and charging facilities, as well as supporting facilities such as health, sports and fitness according to demand. Focus on the transformation of old urban residential areas, promote the aging and child-friendly transformation of public space and supporting facilities in old residential areas according to local conditions, strengthen the construction of barrier-free environment in old residential areas, make overall plans for the construction of community service facilities such as old-age care, nursery and meal assistance, and improve the service function of "one old and one small" in old residential areas.

To effectively implement the "management revolution" means to establish and improve a joint meeting mechanism with the leadership of grass-roots party organizations, the cooperation of community residents’ committees, the participation of owners’ committees and property service enterprises, and guide residents to negotiate and determine the management mode, management regulations and owners’ rules of procedure of the reformed community to jointly safeguard the transformation results. Actively guide qualified old residential areas to introduce specialized property service enterprises, improve the mechanism of using special funds for housing, and promote the maintenance and renewal of old residential areas to enter a benign track after renovation.

In the process of renovation of old residential areas, the renovation of installing elevators has attracted much attention. In recent years, the number of elevators installed in existing houses has continued to increase, and it has also become the focus to solve the problem that it is difficult for residents of high and low floors to reach a consensus when installing elevators. On June 28th, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) passed the Law on Barrier-free Environment Construction in People’s Republic of China (PRC), which clarified the principle that barrier-free environment construction should be combined with aging renovation, and supported the installation of elevators in existing houses.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will "actively promote the installation of elevators in existing houses with conditions" and solve the problem of "difficulty in installing elevators" in old communities. Residents will be guided to jointly agree on the design, construction, fund sharing and follow-up management and maintenance plan for installing elevators to protect the people’s right to know, participate and supervise. It will guide all localities to actively solve the problem of "one-vote veto" in the process of residents’ consultation through grassroots consultation, dispute mediation and civil litigation. Efforts should be made to install elevators in the form of flat floors to achieve barrier-free access, encourage elevator enterprises to develop elevator products and technologies that meet the needs of installing existing houses, and encourage organizations to purchase elevator equipment in a centralized manner, so as to strive for preferential prices, high-quality after-sales service and quality assurance for residents.

Focus on eliminating potential safety hazards

In the process of rebuilding old urban communities, security issues are also highly concerned. Due to its long history, all kinds of pipelines and facilities are relatively old, and it is easy to have more security risks. Safety accidents caused by obsolete pipelines and facilities have occurred frequently in recent years.

In this regard, the "Notice" requires that pipeline units and professional technicians should be organized to conduct a physical examination and evaluation of the safety status of old residential areas by subcontracting to the film and taking responsibility to the people, focusing on fire-fighting facilities and public parts such as building roofs, external walls and stairs, as well as various pipelines and pipelines, so as to comprehensively identify possible safety hazards in old residential areas. For the discovered safety hazards, it is necessary to determine the safety management and control and hidden danger remediation plans in different categories, and speed up the implementation of rectification as a priority transformation content, ensure that the aging and facilities and components with safety hazards should be completely changed, guide relevant technical institutions to do a good job in inspection technical support, and speed up the elimination of safety hazards around the masses.

At the same time, residents should further improve their safety awareness and strive to form a consensus on transformation. For example, the replacement of rubber hoses for gas users, installation of gas safety devices at the user’s end, maintenance and replacement of aging pipelines such as indoor gas and water supply and drainage of residents will be included in the renovation plan of old urban communities, so as to guide residents to do a good job in cooperating with the construction and jointly maintaining the renovation effect.

In addition, in the process of renovation of old urban residential areas, the main responsibility of project quality and safety of all parties involved in the construction should be compacted and the construction site management should be strengthened. Take targeted measures to accurately eliminate all kinds of construction safety hazards, and effectively prevent and contain production safety accidents such as falling from a height, hitting objects, and lifting machinery injuries. Optimize the site layout, reasonably arrange the construction sequence, strictly control the construction vehicles, and minimize the impact on residents’ lives. Resolutely crack down on behaviors that harm the interests of the people, such as cutting corners and substandard construction quality.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said that it will work with relevant departments to strengthen coordination and cooperation, compact local main responsibilities, urge and guide all localities to focus on serving the people, facilitating the people and ensuring the people’s safety, implement targeted transformation, speed up the elimination of potential safety hazards, and comprehensively improve the living environment, facilities and service functions, so that old communities can also have modern functions, and constantly enhance people’s sense of acquisition, happiness and security. (Reporter Kang Shu)