"Too many American farmers are unhappy, and as the dispute persists, more people are confused about the future." A former congressman from Iowa wrote this at the beginning of his letter to the China media "Shanghai Daily".

　　On June 17th, Shanghai Daily published an in-depth English report by Xinhua News Agency, entitled "Floods and US-China Trade Disputes Bring Disastrous Disastrous by Historical Floods". The article objectively reflects natural disasters and trade disputes, especially the disasters brought by the latter to American farmers. The article mentioned that since the end of March this year, the continuous floods in the midwest of the United States have made local farmers complain. Blake Hurst, president of Missouri Farmers’ Association, said that such a large-scale serious flood that swept across the central and western regions had never happened in his memory of farming for more than 40 years. In addition to natural disasters, the trade dispute with China provoked by the US government has further aggravated the plight of farmers in the Midwest of the United States. Trade disputes have caused a sharp decline in US soybean exports to China, lower soybean prices, greatly reduced farmers’ income, and many farmers are facing economic difficulties. Although the U.S. government launched a subsidy assistance program of $12 billion last year and $16 billion this year, the affected farmers told reporters that they wanted a stable market more than subsidies.

　　Shortly after the article was published, Shanghai Daily received a letter from Greg Cusack, a former representative of Iowa. Kusak said in his letter: "Too many American farmers are unhappy, and as the dispute persists, more people are confused about the future."

　　Kusak pointed out that because "Republicans are used to making a fuss about a single political issue, throwing salt at the wound and the rural areas where the Democratic Party depends on are dying day by day", American farmers feel quite helpless and have no choice. The Democratic Party is far from finding a package solution for agriculture or rural areas, which makes the situation even worse.

　　Kusak also said in his letter that Xinhua News Agency and other related articles published by Shanghai Daily reported on American farmers and other issues extensively and were in line with the facts. In contrast, some American media reports on domestic and foreign news in the United States are very lacking, which is far from meeting the needs of even readers with general knowledge background.

　　In his letter, he also described various manifestations of the increasingly divided American society, and pointed out: "I think the Shanghai Daily is very extensive in reporting these topics of concern, and I hope your newspaper will continue to report these problems in the United States, despite the current trade friction between the United States and China. These problems show that American society is in a dilemma. They include: high student debt (which is also high after graduation), stagnant wages, widening wealth gap and rural difficulties. "

　　This is not the first time that Kusak has written to Shanghai Daily. Wang Yong, deputy editor-in-chief of Shanghai Daily, told The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) that after reading the in-depth comments on Shanghai’s construction of beautiful countryside published by Shanghai Daily, Kusak wrote a special letter praising China’s great efforts to revitalize the countryside under the leadership of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, and pointed out that the support of the two parties in the United States to the countryside was lip service, which led to the decline of American agriculture and rural life. His letter was also published in the commentary section of Shanghai Daily.

　　Kusak was a representative of Iowa, and one of his main tasks was to revitalize rural areas and agriculture in the United States.

　　Wang Yong told The Paper that Kusak has repeatedly supported China’s just position on major issues, such as the South China Sea issue and Internet management, and he has written to actively support China’s position. He also studied the history and traditional culture of China at his own expense. Two years ago, he also facilitated a senior commentator of the Des Moines Chronicle in Iowa to come to Shanghai to interview the Shanghai Daily, affirming China’s news reporting concept. After returning to the United States, the reporter from Des Moines Chronicle wrote an in-depth report on the media, hoping that the United States would stop being biased against the China media.

　　"Kusak has been writing to tell us that the American press is not only the Wall Street press, but also an agricultural state like Iowa. The press is friendly to China, and the report is objective and rational. He hopes that Iowa will make greater contributions to Sino-US friendly cooperation. " Wang Yong said.

　　The report published in Shanghai Daily and the letter from Greg Cusack are as follows.：

　　Midwest farmers devastated by historic floods, ongoing US-China trade tensions

　　(Shanghai Daily, June 17))

　　About 10 days after the latest round of rainfall, half of Tom Waters’ farmland is still under water. “Some of it’ s flooded from the river. Some of it’ s flooded from seep water. Some of it just rain water that has nowhere else to go because it won’ t drain,” said the seventh-generation farmer.

　　Waters and his family farm about 3,500 acres (1,416 hectares) of land in Orrick, Missouri, a small town east of Kansas City. Among his nearly 1, 700-acre rain-soaked fields, 900 acres were swallowed by the surging Missouri River when a levee broke on June 1 and are still up to 4.5 meters below water.

　　He had planted a few acres of corn, with the rest intended for soybeans, but “it’ s just gone now,” Waters told Xinhua, estimating the loss to be “several hundred thousand dollars.”

　　When the flood hit, Waters had to move out some 60,000 bushels (1,633 tons) of soybeans in storage, and sold them at “a pretty low price, ” about US$3 a bushel off the normal price prior to the US-China trade tensions. “That’ s a lot of dollars difference for us,” he said.

　　“This has just been rain after rain. Before it even dries out it rains again. It’ s been week after week after week like that,” said Waters, who has been farming for over 40 years in this area, adding that the persistent wet weather is a “very rare event.”

　　Noting that reservoirs up in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota still have too much water to dump, the seasoned farmer worried that “the river is going to be high all the rest of spring and through summer, so chances are we won’ t get any of this (flooded land) planted this year.”

　　Blake Hurst, president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, also a corn and soybean farmer in Tarkio, northwest Missouri, told Xinhua that he saw similarly catastrophic floods in this area in 1993, but such a widespread severe flooding throughout the Midwest is the worst he can remember. “The last 12 months, in the center part of the United States, have been the wettest 12 months on record,” said Hurst, who has about 500 acres of land under water, noting that the relentless rain since late March has contributed to significant planting delays.

　　In the biggest corn-producing states, farmers had planted 83 percent of corn acreage by June 9, compared with a five-year average of 99 percent, according to the latest data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

　　Hurst, who also has 40-plus years of farming experience, said corn should ideally be planted by the first week of May, and a one-month delay could cut the normal yield by roughly 20 percent, as there might not be enough time for it to mature before the frost hits the ground. The seemingly relentless rain in the Midwest has left farmers dro wning in frustration. On top of that, many growers have been bearing the brunt of the US-initiated trade dispute with China, struggling with financial hardship and facing an uncertain future.

　　“We’ ve seen a big cut in our (soybean) exports to China because of the trade tension, and that’ s caused prices to drop,” Hurst said, adding that several months of trade frictions have “made a big difference” to farmers’ income.

　　Noting that the United States has had five years of above average crop yields, Hurst said that already led to an oversupply. A decline in exports to China, caused by the trade tensions and compounded by the African swine fever outbreak, has worsened the situation, he said.

　　‘ Not a dependable supplier’

　　“It’ s just a combination of all of them that has really made farming kind of difficult this year,” Hurst said. “It just keeps on and coming.”

　　For Waters, a combination of circumstances has made planning nearly impossible. “I think this has been the hardest year to make decisions for me since I’ ve been farming,” he said.

　　Waters said it has been stressful to wait for a resolution to the trade dispute. “You keep thinking, well maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow, then you hear a little bit of good news and maybe the price bumps up a little bit and then that blows up and it goes back down. So it’ s just been difficult,” he said. Hurst, who farms 6,000 acres of land with his family, usually plants corns on half of the acreage and soybeans on the other half. Earlier this year, he had planned to plant 5 to 10 percent more corn because of the trade dispute and lower demand for soybeans. The unusual wet spring, however, makes that goal unfeasible.

　　“Now, anybody that’ s shifting will shift to soybean simply because it’ s too late for corn,” Hurst said, adding that if soybeans don’ t get planted by this week, farmers will start to lose yield as well.

　　However, the USDA data shows that growers in the major soybean-producing states had only planted 60 percent of acreage by June 9, far below a five-year average of 88 percent. Speaking of the newly approved disaster relief bill and the new round of trade aid package, Hurst urged the administration to announce detailed rules of these programs quickly so that farmers can better plan.

　　Noting that it took Congress months to pass the disaster relief bill, Waters said he doesn’ t expect to receive any money until weeks later. Still, he prefers a stable market rather than a trade aid package. “The question has to be, are we losing these markets permanently?” Hurst said, noting that trade tensions in some ways make the United States “not a dependable supplier” for soybeans.

　　“Obviously we’ re going to put tariffs on you. We’ re going to announce tariffs in a tweet. So they can happen at any time. So if I’ m a grain buyer anywhere in the world, I’ m looking for a supplier I can trust, and we’ re no longer that supplier,” he said. “We’ ll be paying for this for years.”

　　The authors are Xinhua writers.

　　Media role in informing US farmers

　　Letter from Gray Kusak, published in Shanghai Daily on June 21st.

　　I wrote this after reading “Midwest farmers devastated by historic floods, ongoing US-China trade tensions” in the Shanghai Daily (June 17). One heck of a lot of farmers in America are not happy, and an even greater number are very worried about how this will all play out, especially the longer the stand-off continues.

　　The age of the average farmer continues to increase, the prices they receive for their crops are stagnant, the costs of the inputs nonetheless are increasing, and corporate mono-crop “farming” is harming land, air, and water (the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than ever).

　　So, are they just stupid, misinformed, or what?

　　I think the problem is really the vast division in our country caused by the culture wars — the real, but deliberately exaggerated, tensions between generations, the urban-rural divide, the skillful way the Republicans keep single-issue politics picked raw, and the marked decline in rural districts that are Democratic leaning. In a sense, many farmers thus believe that they have nowhere else to go.

　　The Democratic candidates have yet to produce, at least to my knowledge, anything that could remotely be described as a farm or rural program package, making the situation even more dire.

　　I think the wide range of concerns covered by the Shanghai Daily is truly remarkable, and I hope that despite current tensions you will continue to cover matters in the US, including the many indicators that we are a society in deep trouble: such as levels of student debt after graduation, still largely stagnant wages, the ongoing widening disparity of wealth and the genuine plight of rural America. In contrast, newspapers in the US are not doing so well. The Oregonian, the newspaper published in Portland and its metro area of a few million, is nothing like what it was in the recent past.

　　They now deliver paper editions to subscribers only four days a week, expecting that on other days people will use their digital apps to access them. And their national, let alone international, coverage is insufficient to provide the information even half-informed citizens need.

　　The author is a retired US statesman. He now lives in Oregon.

　　The Chinese version of the report published in Shanghai Daily and the article written by Greg Cusack are as follows:

　　Close-up: The spring sowing season with floods and trade disputes has brought too many difficulties to American farmers.

　　(Xinhua News Agency, June 14, 2019)

　　Xinhua News Agency, Auric, USA, June 13th (Reporter Xiong Maoling, Hu Yousong) In Auric, a small town in central Missouri, USA, Tom Waters, who was over 60 years old, pointed to a muddy water area and told Xinhua News Agency that there were nearly 1,000 acres (1 acre is about 0.4 hectares) of his farmland here, but it was a pity that it was flooded after the Missouri River burst its banks earlier this month.

　　The Waters family has been farming for seven generations. At present, they have more than 3,500 acres of farmland, mainly growing soybeans and corn, but half of the farmland has been affected. He said that due to the large amount of water storage in reservoirs in Montana and North Dakota in the upper reaches, it is necessary to open floodgates and flood discharge, and it is estimated that his flooded farmland will not be seen again until the end of the summer.

　　"(The flooded farmland) may not be able to grow anything this year." Waters said helplessly that he expected that the flood would cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars.

　　Since the end of March this year, the continuous floods in the midwest of the United States have made farmers like Waters complain, and the sowing process has been delayed again and again. According to data from the US Department of Agriculture, as of last week, about 83% of corn fields in the United States have been sown, which lags behind the average of 99% in the same period of the past five years; The soybean planting completion rate is 60%, which is also lower than the average level of 88% in the same period of the past five years.

　　Blake Hurst, president of Missouri Farmers’ Association, told reporters that such a large-scale serious flood that swept across the central and western regions had never happened in his memory of farming for more than 40 years. He said that even if the flood recedes, the flooded farmland will have to wait for time for the soil to recover, which means that some farmland will miss the whole sowing season.

　　Hearst said that the best sowing date of corn has passed one month. If we start planting corn now, I am afraid we can only achieve 80% harvest this year. The sowing window of soybeans is also narrowing. If the sowing cannot be completed next week, the soybean output will be affected this year.

　　Not only is it a natural disaster, but the trade dispute with China provoked by the US government has aggravated the plight of farmers in the Midwest of the United States. Hearst said that the trade dispute caused a sharp drop in US soybean exports to China, lower soybean prices, greatly reduced farmers’ income, and many farmers faced economic difficulties.

　　Hearst said that in the past five years, the rare continuous high yield of soybeans and other crops in the United States has already caused an oversupply, while the economic and trade friction has reduced the demand for American soybeans in China, a big market, and the oversupply of American soybeans is even more serious. "These factors are superimposed together, making it difficult for farmers this year."

　　Waters originally hoarded 60,000 bushels of soybeans (1 bushel of soybeans weighs about 27.2 kilograms) for sale when the price picked up. However, due to the flood this spring, he had to transfer his inventory in time and have a sale at a low price. Compared with the soybean price before the Sino-US economic and trade friction, he lost about $180,000.

　　Compared with many farmers, Waters is lucky. It is understood that in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and other States, floods not only flooded fields, but also swept some barns, and farmers could only watch helplessly as the food that was too late to rush was wiped out.

　　Waters admits that this year is the most difficult year for him to make a decision since he was a farmer, and he has spent many "sleepless nights". He has been expecting the United States and China to reach an agreement as soon as possible to resolve the trade dispute, but the waiting process makes him anxious.

　　"I’ve been thinking about it, maybe tomorrow (an agreement will be reached), and then I heard a little good news, and then the price of soybeans went up a little, and then the expectations failed and the price fell again. This is not easy for all farmers." He said.

　　For Hurst, who owns 6,000 acres of farmland, the planting season this spring is also very difficult. Hearst’s farmland is located in Tacchio, a small town in the northwest corner of Missouri. In previous years, he usually planted half soybeans and half corn. Hearst originally planned to plant hundreds of acres of corn this year because of the reduced demand for soybeans caused by economic and trade frictions. However, the continuous rainfall has repeatedly delayed his corn sowing plan and missed the best sowing date. Now, if he replants soybeans, he will face the uncertainty of market demand.

　　In order to make up for the losses caused by economic and trade frictions to farmers, the US government introduced an agricultural subsidy plan of about $12 billion last year to provide certain subsidies to farmers of crops such as soybeans. But Waters said that the soybeans he produced last year were only partially subsidized.

　　In late May this year, the US Department of Agriculture announced that it would provide farmers with up to $16 billion in aid to compensate them for the losses they suffered in economic and trade frictions. But Waters doesn’t expect to get money soon. He wants a stable market more than government subsidies.

　　Hearst also expressed concern about the market prospects. He said that the U.S. government’s actions of arbitrarily imposing tariffs and provoking trade disputes will make the United States lose its status as a "reliable supplier" and cause long-term negative effects. "We will pay the price for this for many years." (Participating in reporters: Gao Pan, Liu Jie)

　　Letter from Gray Kusak.(Chinese translation)

　　After reading the article published in Shanghai Daily on June 17th ("Floods and trade disputes bring disasters to farmers in the Midwest of the United States"), I started writing to your newspaper. Too many American farmers are unhappy, and as the dispute persists, more people are confused about the future.

　　The average age of American farmers is getting bigger and bigger, the production cost is getting higher and higher, but the price of agricultural products is stagnant, and the company’s single-variety planting behavior has brought harm to land, air and water (the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is increasing day by day. )

　　Is all this because American farmers are stupid? Or is it because their information is wrong, or other reasons?

　　In my opinion, the real root of the problem lies in the social gap caused by the cultural war in our country – Generational conflicts (real but deliberately exaggerated), urban-rural division, Republicans’ habit of making a fuss about a single political issue, throwing salt into the wound, and the rural areas on which the Democratic Party depends are dying. It can be said that many farmers in the United States feel quite helpless and feel that there is no way to go. The Democratic Party is far from finding a package solution for agriculture or rural areas, which makes the situation even worse.

　　I think Shanghai Daily has a wide coverage of these topics of concern. I hope your newspaper will continue to report these problems in the United States, despite the current trade friction between the United States and China. These problems show that American society is in a dilemma. They include: the debt of students remains high (even after graduation), the wages are mostly stagnant, the wealth gap is widening, and the countryside is in trouble.

　　Contrary to your newspaper, American newspapers are not doing well. For example, The Oregonian, published in Oregon and surrounding areas with millions of people, is not as good as it used to be. The quality edition of the newspaper is only published four days a week, and the rest of the time readers are expected to read it through electronic applications. (In the case of such a shrinking newspaper industry), not to mention international news, even domestic news in the United States is poorly reported, which is far from meeting the needs of readers with only general knowledge background.

　　Gray Kusak

The wholesale market can be said to be a major feature of Chongqing, and it is also a place with a strong flavor of life. When it comes to the wholesale market in Chongqing, people may be familiar with it as Chaotianmen Wholesale Market, Caiyuanba Fruit Wholesale Market and Shuang Fu Wholesale Market.

But in fact, the wholesale market in Chongqing is far more than that. GO sister has taken stock of a wave of wholesale markets for everyone, both familiar and unfamiliar. Let’s take a look ~

Jinhaiyang commodity city

Golden Ocean Commodity City is a large wholesale market with five or six floors, and the contents can be described as dazzling, only you can’t think of it, and there is nothing you can’t find.

Most wholesale socks are on the first floor; There are hats, scarves and jewelry on the first and second floors; Wholesale slippers, stationery, home decorations, chopsticks and umbrellas on the 234th floor; On the fifth floor, there are bags, earrings, hair clips, all kinds of bags that make you want to chop your hands in minutes, and there is a super cute doll area that can completely capture your girl’s heart.

Address: No.1-6, 18th Floor, No.22 Shaanxi Road, Yuzhong District (get off at Xiaoshizi Station of Metro Line 6 and walk there).

Business hours: Monday to Sunday from 7: 00 to 16: 30.

Xin Chongqing international small-commodity wholesale center

The new Chongqing International Commodity Wholesale Center is located in the original 10,000 shoes and clothing shopping mall in Xiaoshizi, Chongqing, with an operating area of 85,000 square meters and nearly 1,000 business households. It deals in more than ten categories of commodities such as stationery, toys, underwear, ornaments and furniture. It is the largest commodity wholesale business center in the western region and the shopping mall closest to Jie Fangbei in Chaotianmen.　

There are 8 floors in total, and the first and second floors mainly sell ornaments and cosmetics. Most of the third and fourth floors are household items and decorations; Five or six layers of clothes and bedding are mostly; The seventh and eighth floors are toys and stationery, and the goods are dazzling and the prices are very close to the people, which is suitable for large purchases.

Address: No.16 minzu road, Yuzhong District

Business hours: Monday to Sunday 07:00-18:00.

Da Xi Gou ju Jin Hua Shi

A wholesale flower market in Daxigou was very popular on the Internet for a while, and many people went to punch in. The flower market is very small, just one floor. But there are many kinds of flowers in it, all of which are very fresh, even imported flowers.

△ Figure source @ Madman Yiqing

There is also grass for matching flowers. If you have any requirements, the owner of the shop can also match it for you. As a wholesale market, the flowers here are really super cheap, including one sunflower in 3 yuan, one lotus in 4 yuan and one rose.

△ Figure source @ Madman Yiqing

If you can bargain, there should be a little room for bargaining. In addition to being cheap, the quantity is also large. It is recommended to take two small partners with you when you go, and you can get a point if you buy more.

△ Figure source @ Madman Yiqing

Address: Exit B of Daxigou Station, Line 2, Store No.7 (Jiabang Road), Jujihua City, Daxigou, Yuzhong District, turn right and walk for about 5 minutes.

Business hours: 06:00-22:00 from Monday to Sunday.

Wanlong candy xijiu wholesale market

There are dozens of merchants in Caiyuanba Wedding Candy and Wine Wholesale Market. There are many kinds of candy and candy boxes. Some of them are bought as gifts, and some need to be bought separately. Be sure to bargain with the boss. Some candy bosses have not displayed them. You can ask the boss if they have them.

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Address: No.26 Caiyuan Road, Caiyuanba Street, Yuzhong District

Business hours: Monday to Sunday from 08: 00 to 17: 30.

Daronghui shopping mall

Daronghui Mall is known as the East Gate of South Korea, and its clothes are relatively Han Feng, which is suitable for young people and belongs to both wholesale and retail. This year, the second phase of Da Ronghui opened, from the children’s wear on the first floor, the European Pavilion on the fifth floor, and the one-stop shopping mall for men’s bags.

Now there is a food street downstairs, and you can continue shopping after you replenish your energy. However, some students say that the price here is higher, which requires everyone to distinguish for themselves.

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Address: No.1 Xinhua Road, Yuzhong District (170 meters south of the intersection of Xinhua Road and Shaanxi Road), get off at Chaotianmen Station of the subway and arrive a few hundred meters later.

Business hours: 7:00-17:00.

Dazheng shopping mall

Dazheng Shopping Mall can be said to be an old-fashioned clothing wholesale shopping mall in Chongqing. The clothes styles inside are not as young and grounded as Dahuonghui. The first and second floors are children’s clothes, and the clothes on the sixth and seventh floors are more upscale.

The shopping mall itself is relatively old, but things are still relatively real. It is said that the box lunch, slippery meat and glutinous rice at the door are delicious, and they are also the memories of many old Chongqing people.

Address: No.38 Shaanxi Road, Yuzhong District (Xiaoshizi Station of Metro Line 6)

Business hours: 6: 00 am-15:00 pm　

Caiyuanba fruit market

Caiyuanba Fruit Wholesale Market is one of the largest, oldest and most complete fruit wholesale markets in the center of Chongqing. It has been almost 25 years since Caiyuanba Fruit Wholesale Market was born in November 1996.

Although some of them have moved to Shuang Fu, Jiangjin, there are also some merchants left here for the convenience of people living around. For families who love fruits, wholesale a bunch of fruits at one time is not only fresh, but also saves a lot of money.

Address: No.41-7 Caiyuan Road, Caiyuanba Street, Yuzhong District, near Block B, No.41 Caiyuan Road.

Business hours: Monday to Sunday all day.

Exhibition flower market

The exhibition flower market is known as the cheapest flower market in Chongqing. The flower market is small and the environment is general. Just entering is mainly some storefront merchants. Going in to buy flowers can give you packaging design. The further you go inside, the real flower wholesale market will be.

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Roses, carnations, small daisies, platycodon grandiflorum, chamomile, hydrangea, Eucalyptus, sunflowers, gypsophila, tulips … everything, one rose in 1 yuan, one small daisy in 10 yuan, and one chamomile in 10 yuan. I feel that I can easily realize the freedom of flowers ~

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Address: G/F opposite Nanping Convention and Exhibition Center

Business hours: 9: 00-22: 00.

Yurenwan wharf seafood market

Fisherman’s Bay Wharf, with a total of six floors, the whole market is relatively large, and the negative floor alone is enough for you to visit for most of the day. After all, this is a large-scale "underwater world", and you can think of aquatic products here.

There are so many choices, such as oysters, recently popular crayfish, crawfish, metapenaeus ensis, flower shell, big white shellfish, scallops and so on, that a day’s visit will definitely dazzle you.

Address: Fisherman’s Bay Wharf, No.1 Beibin Road, Shimahe Street, Jiangbei District (between Shimen Bridge and Gaojia Garden Bridge)

Business hours: Monday to Sunday all day.

Panxi wholesale market

Panxi wholesale market should be the largest wholesale market in Chongqing. The first and first floors are dry goods, bulk goods and aquatic products, the second floor is mainly candy, snacks and frozen storage, and the third floor is mainly engaged in tea and snacks. Friends who like to eat hot pot can buy hot pot ingredients and bottom materials here, which is quite complete.

Address: No.1-3, Floor 1, Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, No.200 Yudaishan, Panxi Bypass, Jiangbei District

Sanya wan aquatic products comprehensive trading market

Sanya Bay Aquatic Products Market is the largest seafood wholesale market in Chongqing, and some businesses in West Third Street have also moved here. The first floor is full of seafood and there is a freezer.

There are many things, and it is best to compare the prices before you fork them. When weighing, you should pay attention to whether there is a shortage of two pounds.

Address: No.456, Yubei Agricultural Park, Airport Road (300 meters walk from No.2 entrance of Sanya Bay of Metro Line 3)

Zong da cheng wan long food wholesale market

The first small commodity wholesale market in Yubei, which has 2 or 300 wholesale merchants, has a complete range of things, such as snacks, dry and non-staple food, grain and oil, and toiletries. Every 147, there is a catch-up, and all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables are sold, which is quite grounded.

Address: 130m south of the intersection of Yu Xiang Road and Changdong Road, Yubei District (near Gaobaohu Light Rail Station).

Business hours: Monday to Sunday from 08: 00 to 17: 30.

Hailing international agriculture products trading center

The newly-opened Hailing International Agricultural Products Trading Center in Yubei District, it is said that many merchants in Caiyuanba have moved here. A box of fruit in the market ranges from 2 kg to 30 kg, and as much as 4 kg to 50 kg. If you can’t finish eating a box at a time, you can find relatives and friends to spell the order together in advance!

Friends who drive want to drive in from the No.1 entrance of the Trade Center. After buying, they can borrow a trolley from the merchant to pull the fruit to the parking place. It is more convenient to pick up the goods. The fruit wholesale market opens at around 9 pm and closes at 5 am. If you want to go, it is recommended to plan the time in advance.

Address: Konggang Linghang South Road, Yubei District, directly navigating Hailing International Agricultural Products Trading Center.

Business hours: Monday to Sunday from 21: 00 to 5: 00.

Meibocheng beauty products wholesale market

This place may not be known to many friends. It is opposite to the Hyde Hotel, which is four kilometers away. It mainly wholesales beauty and hairdressing products, and there are quite a lot of things. You can also buy professional products in barbershops here. The price is reasonable, but parking is not convenient.

Address: 4th Floor, Southwest Meibo City, Nan ‘an District (next to Hongsheng Hotel diagonally opposite Hyde Hotel, about 100 meters away from the 4-kilometer light rail station to Nanping).

Business hours: Monday to Sunday from 10: 00 to 21: 00.

Shuang Fu fruit wholesale market

Shuang Fu International Agricultural Trade City, which is regarded as the "vegetable basket", "rice bag" and "fruit plate" of the people in the city, has now become an important "one-stop" agricultural product procurement center in Chongqing and even the western region, with 4 major functional areas, 26 professional markets and more than 10,000 planned booths, mainly engaged in the comprehensive wholesale of vegetables, fruits, grain and oil, meat, dry goods, aquatic products and frozen products, and has been cooked away from the main city.

Address: Shuangfuxing Maobei Block, No.78 Jinma Avenue, Shuang Fu New District, Shuang Fu Street, jiangjin district

Business hours: Monday to Sunday from 08: 00 to 22: 00.

Chao Tianmen cloth wholesale market

The cloth wholesale market can be said to be a paradise for handicraft lovers. The cloth here is cheap, with the average price ranging from 10-30 yuan/m, and the special style is less than 10 yuan/m; The styles of cloth are floral, cotton and linen, silk, cashmere, plaid, gauze skirt, denim, lace cloth and so on. Compared with online shopping, buying cloth here can be seen and touched, which is convenient for fairies to feel the texture of cloth more intuitively.

Address: Exit 8 of Xiaoshizi Light Rail Station (most on the first floor, but also on the second floor)

Business hours: wholesale in the early morning, retail in the daytime, and many merchants close around 3 or 4 pm. It is recommended to go in the morning.

Wanjinghui glasses wholesale city

The newly-opened Wanjinghui glasses wholesale market near Jie Fangbei has gathered many glasses wholesalers, and all of them can be wholesale.

There are many styles of frames, and you can try on whatever you like. There are also many international brands of sunglasses, and the prices are cheap. The frames and lenses are clearly priced.

Address: the second floor of Yalan Electronic City (300m walk from the entrance 5A of Xiaoshizi Station of Metro Line 1/6) Business hours: all day from Monday to Sunday.

Chongqing Chinese herbal medicine professional market

Caiyuanba Chinese Herbal Medicine Market was relocated from Chuqimen Chinese Herbal Medicine Market, and started to open in 2013, with an area of more than 20,000 square meters and more than 300 pavements ranging in size from 20 to 50 square meters.

There are four floors in the market. The first and second floors sell expensive and fine medicinal materials, and the most common one on these two floors is Cordyceps sinensis. The third and fourth floors sell bulk medicinal materials, and Panax notoginseng and Gastrodia elata are the most popular medicinal materials here.

Whether flying in the sky, running on the ground or swimming in the water, you can find it here. In addition to the most primitive medicinal materials, there are also some processed products here, which can be said to be quite complete. Friends who are interested in health care can go shopping more.

Address: No.166, Nanqu Road, Yuzhong District

Business hours: 8:00-16:00 from Monday to Sunday.

Original title: Chongqing’s real "shopping paradise", more than a dozen cheap wholesale markets let you stroll to the cool!

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　　Unlike McDonald’s high-profile packaging of China stores for sale, KFC, another iconic American fast food chain giant, unexpectedly sold its China business in a low-key manner. The night before yesterday, Yum! Brands, the parent companies of KFC and Pizza Hut and listed on the new york Stock Exchange, announced that Yum! China would be separated from Yum! Brands and listed on the NYSE as an independent company. At the same time, after the spin-off, Yum! China will receive a total investment of US$ 460 million from Chunhua Capital and Ant Financial. This means that Yum! Brands has sold part of its operations in KFC and Pizza Hut in China to two purchasers from China.

　　Yum!’ s business in China has fallen into a trough?

　　In fact, Yum! Brands has already paved the way for China business. Last October, it announced that it planned to split Yum! Brands and Yum! China, and this transaction was carried out on the basis of that split at that time.

　　KFC is the first American fast food chain brand to enter the mainland market in China. In 1987, it opened its first store in Qianmen, then the most prosperous business district in Beijing. At that time, it was fashionable for both Beijingers and foreign tourists to queue up for a fried chicken or a hamburger at KFC. And KFC’s rule of "throw away the food after it has been sold for 90 minutes" brought from the United States has also attracted the attention of consumers in China. It is likely that KFC’s great success in exploring the China market attracted McDonald’s. Subsequently, McDonald’s also entered the mainland market of China in 1990. For a long time after that, these two brands were the iconic brands of American fast food culture in China.

　　In 2015, China accounted for half of the global business of Yum! Brands. However, this data can’t hide its downward trend in the China market. Since the incident that Shanghai Fuxi reprocessed expired meat raw materials and changed the shelf life and supplied them to McDonald’s and KFC restaurants in July 2014, KFC’s single-store income began to decline continuously. Yum! China’s same-store sales fell by 16% in the third quarter of 2014, and almost all of them fell by double digits in the following three quarters. Parkson’s financial report for the second quarter of this year, just released in July this year, shows that the same-store sales of KFC in China increased by 2% year-on-year, but it actually climbed slowly from the low base of last year’s lowest valley. During the same period, the same-store sales of Pizza Hut in China shrank by 11%. Therefore, it is widely analyzed that the reason why foreign shareholders strongly demand Yum! Brands to spin off its business in China has something to do with the poor prospect.

　　The "China Golden Period" of franchising may have passed.

　　Franchising is an effective way for KFC to expand its business in the world. As early as 1993, it began to carry out franchising in China, and since 2000, it has only adopted the franchising mode of "not starting from scratch" in China. The so-called "not starting from scratch" means that KFC will hand over a mature and profitable restaurant to its franchisees. In this way, franchisees can put all their energy into the operation and management of stores without having to make preliminary preparations such as site selection, opening stores, recruiting and training employees. This greatly reduces the business risks of KFC franchisees. In the words of Su Jingshi, former president of Yum! China Restaurant Group Greater China, "franchisees can succeed only by maintaining." By this means, KFC has achieved rapid expansion in China, and the number of stores has reached nearly 5,000 by the end of last year.

　　However, KFC has set a high threshold for joining, and the transfer fee for each restaurant is as high as 8 million yuan. After that, the going-concern expenses include the franchise fee accounting for 6% of the sales and the advertising sharing fee accounting for 5% of the sales, and the first agreement is signed for at least ten years. At this point, McDonald’s joining in China is exactly the same, and even the joining fee and cost-sharing ratio are exactly the same. This is obviously not a simple imitation of who, but a careful calculation based on a rigorous business model.

　　In fact, no matter KFC or McDonald’s, its investment in the global business chain is more than the catering service itself, that is, it operates the store in a benign state by selecting a location. As can be seen from the income structure of the two catering giants, this part of the profits is far greater than their own stores. With KFC and McDonald’s reaching the scale of thousands of stores in China and gradually covering third-and fourth-tier cities, the blank market space in the future is getting smaller and smaller, and the golden period of realizing profits through joining and transferring has passed. Therefore, it may be the best time for them to "pack up and sell" their business in China.

　　Although the supply of raw materials, as well as the annual brand use and marketing promotion expenses exceeding 10% of sales are still the long-term benefits they can enjoy, it is obviously only a decimal for them. Moreover, with the increasingly fierce competition in the catering market in China, the future sales potential of these foreign fast foods is not clear.

　　The receiver may want to change the joining mode and continue to expand.

　　Judging from the current Chinese takers of foreign fast food, whether it is Chunhua Capital or Ant Financial, or BTG, Sanpower and Sinochem, which are interested in bidding for McDonald’s China business, their real intention is probably not to directly participate in the catering industry, but to graft their current business to achieve profits in a new expansion mode.

　　This can be seen from the caliber of Ant Financial. "Ant Financial will help Yum! China provide mobile payment services for its brands, including Alipay platform." In fact, although the online speculation of Ma Yun "finally achieved revenge for not being hired by KFC that year", in fact, Ma Yun is definitely a supporting role in this investment — — His total investment with Hu Zuliu of Chunhua Capital will only account for a few percent of Parkson China in the future. Even compared with Hu Zuliu, the $50 million invested by Ma Yun is too small, accounting for only a fraction of the total investment of $460 million.

　　In fact, it can be seen from the fact that no real catering enterprise is willing to take over the business of KFC and McDonald’s in China that these two brands are more tools for the industry, which may also indicate that their future development in China will not be too exciting. Even some people in the industry believe that China KFC and McDonald’s, which have been abandoned by their parent companies, may embark on a development path in China that is divorced from stores in other countries in the world.

　　I don’t know if it is the first move to merge into Ali. The Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned that KFC will officially enter Tmall on September 6. In the future, consumers can buy electronic coupons for KFC food in Tmall stores and then exchange them for corresponding foods in physical stores.

　　Text/reporter zhangqin

　　Financial observation

　　Kfcs are "old"?

　　Although in many countries, KFC and McDonald’s are still regarded as the representatives of American fast food industry and even the symbols of American consumer culture, in fact, in the United States, more and more people have begun to diversify their choices, especially the opportunities for the younger generation of Americans to enter KFC are decreasing.

　　In the first half of the year, the only cross-industry economic indicator of customer satisfaction in the United States, the American Customer Satisfaction Index, released the 2016 Restaurant Satisfaction Survey Report. It shows that the average satisfaction score of fast food restaurants in the United States this year is 79, but the scores of KFC and Pizza Hut under Yum! are below the average. McDonald’s ranked at the bottom of many participating fast food chain stores with a score of 69 points, and McDonald’s ranked at the bottom last year.

　　As for the poor performance of KFC and McDonald’s, some American businessmen believe that although this does not mean that the food quality of KFC and McDonald’s has declined, they are "really old" in the eyes of American consumers and can no longer be the most typical representative of American fast food culture.

　　In fact, in the China market, KFC and McDonald’s are also facing the same problem. With a new generation of young people becoming the main force of fast food consumption, McDonald’s and KFC are no longer their absolute first choice to experience foreign fast food, and a large number of other brands of fast food subdivide the China market. More crucially, no matter how the varieties cater to the taste of China population, the standard fried chicken, French fries, hamburgers and coke that KFC and McDonald’s take care of have become the global representatives of "junk food". More and more young families in China have kept their children away from such fast food restaurants, at least in first-and second-tier cities.

　　For KFC and McDonald’s in China, the aura of standardization and trustworthiness that they were most proud of in the past has also been shattered with repeated food safety incidents. No matter Sudan red or fast-growing chicken, and then to the Shanghai Fuxi incident, these foreign fast foods have not been able to stay out of it.

　　Text/reporter zhangqin

　　When we use the browser, we often encounter the situation that the webpage stays too long or the typesetting is chaotic. At this time, refreshing is the best method, one is ordinary refreshing, and the other is forced refreshing. So let’s take a look at the method of forced refreshing the browser with Xiaobian. Interested users should not miss it.

　　Introduction to the method of forcibly refreshing browser

　　1. press Ctrl+F5. In most browsers, pressing Ctrl+F5 will require the browser to get data from the website instead of the cache. Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer all send a "cache-control: no-cache" command to the server. This command will require the server to send complete web page data to the browser. Users who use Safari in OS X need to press Option+Command+E to clear the cache, and then press Command+R to refresh the page. Since the cache is emptied, the page data will be obtained from the server. If you don’t want to delete all the caches, please refer to the next steps.

　　2. Click the refresh button when pressing Shift. Pressing the refresh button in the browser address bar can only be used for normal refresh operation, but you can click the refresh button while pressing Shift, which will force refresh from the server. Internet Explorer users can click the refresh button when pressing Ctrl.

　　3. Clear the cache. If you want to get pages from all websites when you visit them, you can clear the local cache. This will force the website to send you the latest web content. You can refer to wikiHow’s guide on how to clear the browser cache. Mobile users need the same steps to refresh the web page, because there is no shortcut to force refresh in the mobile version of the browser.

The 2023 Chengdu ITTF Mixed Team World Cup came to an end a few days ago. The box office of this brand-new event, which was created by the ITTF, was about 28 million yuan. More than 35,000 tickets were robbed in one hour in the first round of ticket sales, and 10,000 tickets were sold in the second round of ticket sales in 7 minutes.

According to the data, more than 20,000 fans outside Chengdu bought tickets to watch the game, and the average cost per fan ranged from 2,000 yuan to 7,000 yuan. The output value of sports industry, accommodation industry, catering industry, transportation industry and shopping reached 260 million yuan.

Consumption "increment"

A large number of people watch the events across provinces and cities, which drives a series of consumption such as tourism and transportation.

According to the data of barley net, the official ticketing platform, in 2023, there were 39,535 users of Chengdu ITTF mixed team World Cup, and the total number of tickets purchased was 60,139. Judging from the residence of the whole ticket purchasing crowd, Sichuan accounts for 15.45%, Guangdong 13.09%, Chongqing 8.88%, Zhejiang 8.08%, Jiangsu 5.36%, Shanghai 4.48%, Beijing 4.16%, Shandong 3.74%, Hubei 3.38% and Hunan 3.15%.

The proportion of people who watch events across provinces and cities has increased, which has increased the flow of tens of thousands of people in the city in a short period of time and stimulated a series of consumption such as tourism and transportation.

Ctrip data shows that from December 4 to December 10, the number of travel orders from other places to Chengdu increased by more than 2 times year-on-year, hotels increased by more than 10 times, and air tickets increased by about 1.5 times. Compared with November 27th to December 3rd, the number of travel orders from other places in Rongrong increased by 3%, and hotel bookings increased by over 30%.

According to Ctrip’s online service platform, during the week of the competition, many hotels within 500 meters of Fiona Fang of Sichuan Gymnasium were in short supply, and the main room types showed "booked up" early.

"Sports watching tours have brought direct benefits to the city." Wang Xueli, director of Tsinghua University Sports Industry Development Research Center, gave an example. This year is the year of Chengdu Universiade. As one of the Universiade venues, Sichuan Gymnasium has been upgraded in software and hardware, creating a better watching experience for the audience. "This is actually the benefit of the Universiade, which reflects the input-output mechanism of large-scale comprehensive sports games."

Investment "increment"

Hold a "sports+"industry promotion meeting with the event as the link.

Wuhou District, as the venue of this tournament, is rich in cultural tourism resources, and Wuhou Temple, Huaxi Dam and Wangjianglou are all famous tourist punching places in China. During the games, the passenger flow of these scenic spots increased significantly. One week before the competition, the sales of merchants in Yulin East Road during the competition generally increased by 20% to 80%, the merchants of light meals and snacks increased by about 80%, the beauty and hairdressing business increased by about 50%, the retail and cultural entrepreneurship increased by about 40%, and the beverage business increased by about 20%.

Wonderful competition and excellent service continue to polish the city brand of "three cities and three capitals" in Chengdu. Wuhou district also takes the competition as a link and goes all out to promote high-quality development. On December 4th, at the supporting activity of the event-2023 Chengdu "Sports Plus" Industry Promotion Conference, Wuhou District signed a multi-project contract with a total value of 400 million yuan.

Judging from the long-term effect, Wang Xueli believes that the innovative hosting and service guarantee of this event have been praised by athletes and media at home and abroad, which has established a good reputation for Chengdu’s hosting of the event and contributed to the construction of a world famous event city. "This will promote Chengdu’s city image and city positioning on the international stage." (Reporter Xue Jian)

A hundred long tables

Thousands of old Chengdu hotpot are composed together.

Changlongzhuang hotpot park

Citizens and tourists enjoy a hot pot feast here.

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Mid-Autumn National Day holiday this year

"Thousands of people in a thousand pots-Long banquet of hot pot in the park"

First presented in Xibo North Square!

"There is a leisurely and comfortable courtyard dam hot pot, a spicy taste of Chengdu, and a lively atmosphere of a long banquet." Mr. Liu, a citizen, commented on the beef at the hot pot long banquet.

It is understood that this hot pot banquet takes the form of a single person and a single pot, with a total of more than 1,000 mouths, which can be used by more than 10,000 diners to experience authentic flavor on the spot.

At the same time, there are many kinds of hot pots for the Long Banquet, and the ingredients are also carefully selected, covering mutton hotpot, beef offal hotpot, frog hotpot and rabbit hotpot with pickled peppers, which can satisfy different diners’ one-stop tastes for different types of high-quality hot pots. There are five parts: tasting area, operation area, food area, shared dining area and performance area. Among them, the food area not only focuses on displaying fresh food, but also allows tourists to pick up food by themselves.

How to rinse the hot pot with the best taste? The chef of beef omasum hot pot in Qingbaijiang Slaughterhouse showed the tourists the technique of "seven ups and eight downs". "To taste the best taste, first iron the beef omasum, and the beef omasum will not leave the chopsticks for more than 8 seconds." The chef of Chongqing hot pot is ready for the diners who pursue spicy degree. "Three kinds of peppers are used in the bottom material, and the taste level is richer."

In terms of the cost performance of hot pot that the public cares about, it is understood that the Black Dragon Beach Deep Water Fish Hot Pot has launched a 38 yuan/person set meal, which includes the bottom of the pot, oil dish, diced yellow pepper, etc. The single set meal in 50 yuan of Qingbaijiang Slaughterhouse contains thousands of layers of shredded beef omasum, flaming beef, piranha and other classic dishes for hotpot. According to reports, this activity will present the hot pot dragon feast for the majority of diners and citizens in accordance with the activity strategy of excellent quality, people-friendly price, gathering popularity and creating vitality.

Hot pot has the characteristics of extensive participation, diverse styles and good interactive atmosphere. The chef of Dalhan grassland mutton hot pot enthusiastically introduced the way to eat mutton with special sesame sauce. "Instant mutton with radish and white tofu is the original flavor of Inner Mongolia prairie." He believes that instant-boiled mutton hot pot is loved by diners in Chengdu, which is also the embodiment of the city’s inclusiveness.

Not only local residents, but also tourists who come to Xibocheng to rinse hot pot and overseas friends. "Thai students who come to experience the taste of Chengdu like this braised tiger skin chicken feet best, and they also say that they want to bring delicious food back to their hometown." The proprietress of pot-stewed hot pot said.

Chengdu is a world-renowned international food capital. If you want to find a kind of most representative food, it is undoubtedly a hot and spicy hot pot. This city-wide food carnival of "thousands of people and thousands of pots" provides a brand-new hot pot food experience and holiday punching destination for diners and citizens, and further polishes the signboard of the international food capital while offering gifts for the National Day.

This long hot pot banquet coincides with the 20th Chengdu International Food Festival and is open to the general public from 11: 00 to 22: 00 every day from September 28th to October 6th.

It is understood that the food festival links the major food activities in the city and forms a global consumption linkage system. Focusing on the theme of "the city of food is full of weather", we will hold professional exhibitions of food, round tables of the city of food, and the 20th anniversary of Chengdu’s "Rongyao" food, presenting Chengdu’s food style in a multi-level and multi-dimensional way, and displaying the image of Chengdu with modern and colorful Chinese style. Simultaneously with the hot pot banquet, there is also the "Xunwei Tianfu" food market, which provides special snacks such as electric barbecue, fried skewers, bell dumplings and stinky tofu, as well as live performances in Mahua FunAge and unplugged music.

What if you want to eat more delicious food?

Take a walk on the streets of Chengdu

Thermal map of fireworks walking on the streets of Chengdu

Take it quickly ~

Thermal map of fireworks walking on the streets of Chengdu

[Fireworks Chengdu Street Walking Thermal Map-Activity Introduction]

● Soak in the teahouse. In Chengdu, soaking in teahouses is not only the basic way of life in the streets for thousands of years, but also the correct way to experience the myriad weather in Chengdu.

● Drink coffee. More than 4,000 cafes, the third city of coffee. Coffee adjusts the taste of life in Chengdu and updates people’s taste bud experience.

● Taste delicious food. Fireworks in the streets, aesthetics of the tip of the tongue in the hall. Starting from spicy and delicious flavor, it is compatible with all kinds of dishes. I’d like to invite you to Chengdu.

● Stay in a homestay. Big hidden in the city, small hidden in the wild. B&B is reshaping the definition of tourism and vacation.

What are you waiting for?

Take advantage of the holiday

Hurry up and eat ~

Source | Chengdu Daily Jinguan News

Original title: "First presentation! "Hotpot for ten thousand people" is too hard! 》

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Family in the series, can be said to be the glory of the king. It has subversive technologies leading the world, such as Yunqi, Yifangfang, Super Hybrid DM-i and E Platform 3.0, etc. It is full of confidence. In 2024, it was first proposed that "electricity is lower than oil", which opened the tide of price reduction for major car companies and triggered the shopping of major car companies to subvert the joint venture fuel brand.

Among many cars, the 2024 DM-i Glory Edition is more suitable for running.

The performance of Handong Power is excellent. The DM-p version of the system has a comprehensive maximum power of 426kW and 822N·m, and it takes only 3.7 seconds to accelerate at 000 km, and it comes standard with Yunqi -C intelligent body control system. The power output is comparable to that of a 2.0T engine.

Han EV Glory Edition also adds a "Eye of God" intelligent driving version. The new car is equipped with 5, 12 ultrasonic radars and 11 cameras, which supports NOA navigation, automatic overtaking, lane change, ramp up and down and other functions, and also supports AVP parking service function. Simply put, after the user gets off the bus, the vehicle can find its own parking space and can automatically drive out to find the user at any time.

Support full scene digital keys (NFC car keys, digital keys)

During the outing, it is a small VTOL mobile power station with a maximum discharge power of 6kw.

　　On October 30th, Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China presided over the the State Council executive meeting, and adopted the Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Development of Industrial Internet in internet plus’s Advanced Manufacturing Industry to promote the revitalization of the real economy and accelerate the transformation and upgrading. The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to speed up the construction and development of industrial internet and promote the deep integration of the new generation of information technology and manufacturing industry, with the supply-side structural reform as the main line and the implementation of "Made in China 2025" and "internet plus".

　　On October 30th, Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China presided over the the State Council executive meeting, and passed the Decision of the State Council on Abolishing the Provisional Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Business Tax and Amending the Provisional Regulations of People’s Republic of China (PRC) on Value-added Tax (Draft). Cancel the business tax in an all-round way, adjust and improve the scope of VAT taxation, designate units and individuals selling services, intangible assets and real estate as VAT taxpayers, and clarify the corresponding tax rates. At the same time, the transitional policies currently implemented for some industries remain unchanged.

　　The State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs recently jointly signed and issued the Memorandum on Promoting the Reform of Multi-certification and Strengthening Information Sharing and Cooperation among Departments, and reached an agreement on accelerating the reform of Multi-certification and deepening information sharing and business collaboration among departments and carried out relevant cooperation. The Memorandum of Cooperation puts forward clear requirements for relevant departments to establish information sharing channels, establish information sharing mechanisms, strictly control information collection, and promote the wide application of the "one photo, one yard" business license.

　　In the fourth quarter of 2017, the Ministry of Commerce, together with the Development and Reform Commission and other 12 departments, will jointly supervise the special actions to expand consumption led by local commercial authorities. The main content of the inspection is the specific work carried out by local commercial authorities around the two major tasks of "developing circulation and promoting consumption" in domestic trade and six major measures such as promoting standardization and intensification of circulation information, deepening the reform of circulation system, building a unified big market, increasing effective supply of goods, improving the quality of life and service, and optimizing the consumption environment.

　　The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has decided to launch a nationwide concentrated action on law enforcement and counterfeiting in the field of consumer goods e-commerce from October 25th to November 15th. During this year’s "Double Eleven" period, local quality inspection departments will severely crack down on illegal activities in the field of e-commerce, strictly investigate and thoroughly handle quality violations, deter those who manufacture and sell fake and shoddy products, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. In addition, it will also strengthen coordination and cooperation with public security departments, and effectively strengthen the crackdown on quality crimes.

　　In order to further promote the disclosure of land acquisition information, China will establish a national land acquisition information sharing platform to fully safeguard the vital interests of the people. Since May this year, 35 counties (cities, districts) in five provinces (autonomous regions) have carried out the pilot work of standardization and standardization of grass-roots land acquisition compensation government affairs. The Ministry of Land and Resources will strengthen guidance with the relevant provincial departments of land and resources, and combine the relevant requirements of land acquisition information disclosure to promote the pilot results to the whole country.

　　The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security recently issued the "Notice on Issues Concerning the Setting of Post Conditions for Public Institutions" to further standardize the setting of post conditions for public institutions. The notice requires that the employer should scientifically and reasonably set the conditions of the recruitment position according to the requirements of the recruitment position, and must not set directional or discriminatory conditions unrelated to the position.

On March 11th, SAIC Volkswagen launched 2024 outstanding models, including three models. On the basis of the elite version, luxury version and flagship version of the current 380TSI, they were added and renamed Longteng version, Longyao version and Longxiang version respectively. Perhaps it was influenced by BYD’s volume price tactics at the beginning of the year, and the new version launched by Volkswagen this time also directly reduced the price by 20,000.

The appearance of the new car still continues the design of the current model, with a sense of fashion in the main hand. The difference between the normal version and the starry sky version is mainly in the front air intake grille, the starry sky lattice grille is slightly fashionable, and the horizontal multi-section grille is more rich in business atmosphere. The side of the new car adopts a tough design, and straight lines run through the front fender to the rear. The rear part of the car still uses straight lines, which shows stability and has a good sense of hierarchy. It is worth mentioning that in addition to the Longteng version/Starry Dragon version, the other two models are equipped with inductive electric tailgates.

The size of the new car has not changed, with the length, width and height of 4948x1836x1469mm and the wheelbase of 2871 mm. The space performance is good, and both home and business are quite satisfactory. The old problem still exists: the height of the middle bulge in the back row is higher, and the passenger experience in the middle position is worse, which is also a common problem of German cars.

In terms of interior, the new car still continues the unique design style of the current Passat, and the design of the center console tilting to the driver’s side is more convenient to operate during driving. At the same time, the use of a large number of bright black paint, as well as a small number of chrome trim, makes the whole car look a certain sense of grade. However, from the current aesthetic point of view, the design at the bottom of the central control screen will be somewhat outdated, and it would be better if it could be simpler. Many people are worried that this price reduction will lead to a reduction in allocation. By comparing the configuration information, we can find that the difference between the new and old models is only the optional package, and the standard configuration is the same.

In the power part, the car is still equipped with a 2.0T engine, with a maximum output of 162kW and a peak torque of 350N·m, and the fastest acceleration time of 100 kilometers is only 7.4 seconds. The chassis suspension is still a multi-link independent suspension before McPherson. Users who are familiar with this car should know that Volkswagen’s suspension training of Passat is not bad, and its driving texture and shock absorption performance are good.

Next, let’s talk about these three configurations, which is the most cost-effective.

In terms of configuration, Longyao Edition has more lane departure warning, lane keeping assistance, lane merging assistance, automatic parking and electric induction trunk than Longteng Edition. Compared with Longyao version, Longxiang version has more safety and comfort configurations such as fatigue driving tips, side airbags, front knee airbags, steering wheel heating, front seat massage and rear seat heating. That is to say, there is no Longteng version with the above configuration price of 188,300 yuan. It should be emphasized here that the Longteng version of the car machine system also lacks many basic functions, such as car navigation, voice control, OTA upgrade and other functions.

From this point of view, the Longteng version with the lowest price among the three cars is extremely low in cost performance, and the price of 180,000 doesn’t even have some basic configurations. If the budget is sufficient, the top-mounted Longxiang version has the highest cost performance, and a series of safety functions and comfort configurations can be obtained at an additional cost of 16,000 yuan, so that such rich configurations are enough for both business and home use.

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