Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 18-Han Zheng, Vice Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China extended cordial condolences and New Year’s wishes to the scientific expedition members who are performing tasks in the polar regions and oceans in Beijing on January 18.
On January 18th, Vice Premier Han of the State Council was in Beijing via satellite video link, extending cordial condolences and New Year’s wishes to the scientific expedition members who were performing tasks in the polar regions and oceans in China. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Linshe
After listening to the speeches of the crew members of the "Snow Dragon" Antarctic scientific research ship, Antarctic Great Wall Station and Zhongshan Station, and the "Ocean" ship, Han Zheng said that the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have always attached great importance to the scientific investigation of polar oceans. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, great achievements have been made in China’s deep-sea polar work, and the ability to understand, protect and utilize the deep-sea polar regions has been significantly enhanced. The vast number of polar ocean workers have overcome various difficulties and made important contributions to the development of deep-sea polar scientific research in China.
Han Zheng encouraged the team members to keep in mind the great trust of the motherland and people, make persistent efforts, make tenacious efforts, carry out in-depth scientific investigations, and strive to make more new progress and breakthroughs, make new contributions to accelerating the construction of a maritime power, and make greater contributions to human scientific understanding and peaceful utilization of the polar ocean. He asked the relevant departments to further strengthen guidance and services to provide a strong guarantee for the scientific investigation of polar oceans.
Responsible comrades from relevant departments of the State Council attended the event at the main venue. Members of the 39th Antarctic Expedition, Arctic Yellow River Station, and the crew of the "Ocean" participated in the activities at various venues.
On Thursday (April 25), Eastern Time, the three major indexes of US stocks opened sharply lower, then bottomed out and rebounded, but eventually closed down across the board. The S&P Nasdaq stopped for three consecutive days and the Dow fell nearly 1%.
At the close, the S&P 500 index fell 0.46% to 5048.42 points; The Dow Jones index fell 0.98% to 38,085.80 points; The Nasdaq index fell 0.64% to 15,611.76.
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US stocks almost encountered a "black swan" overnight, and the main reason for the decline was the sharp drop of technology giant Meta and the US economic data hitting the Fed’s interest rate cut expectations.
Meta’s 10.56% plunge caused the market to worry about the company because AI burned money and could not see the profit prospect in the short term. Since then, the US GDP in the first quarter (the annualized quarterly rate increased by 1.6% compared with the expected 2.5%) and the PCE annualized quarterly rate (3.7% compared with the previous value of 2.0%) released far below expectations not only delayed the interest rate cut until December, but also further suppressed market sentiment.
Faced with the unexpected "unexpected" economic growth and stubborn core inflation in the United States, the market is worried that the risk of stagflation in the United States seems to be increasing.
American debt
The stubborn signs of inflation in the GDP report made traders further lower their expectations for the Fed’s interest rate cut. The yield of US Treasury bonds hit a new high in the year, and the yield of 10-year US Treasury bonds finally closed at 4.70%. The yield of 2-year US bonds, which is most sensitive to the Fed’s policy interest rate, finally closed at 4.96%.
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Among the popular US stocks, Microsoft fell 2.45%, Apple rose 0.52%, NVIDIA rose 3.71%, Amazon fell 1.65%, Meta fell 10.56%, TSMC rose 2.74%, Tesla rose 4.97%, and AMD rose 1.33%.
Among them, Google and Microsoft announced after-hours earnings that exceeded expectations, and paid dividends for the first time in Google’s history. The stock price rose by 12% after hours, and Microsoft also had nearly 5% performance. However, Intel Q2′ s revenue outlook fell short of expectations, and its share price fell nearly 8% after hours.
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In European stock markets, the FTSE 100 index rose slightly by 0.48% to 8079 points. The French CAC40 index fell slightly by 0.93% to 8017 points. Germany DAX index fell slightly by 0.95% to 17,917 points.
In Asian stock markets, the Hang Seng Index rose slightly by 0.48% to 17,285 points. The index of state-owned enterprises rose slightly by 0.33% to 6120 points. The Nikkei 225 index fell 2.16% to 37,628 points.
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Overnight, Hang Seng Technology Index futures fell by 0.30%, Nasdaq China Jinlong Index rose by 0.75%, and FTSE China A50 Index rose by 0.52%.
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In terms of popular Chinese stocks, Tencent Holdings (Hong Kong stocks) fell by 1.39%, Alibaba rose by 0.66%, Pinduoduo by 1.38%, Netease by 0.11%, Baidu by 0.72%, Ctrip by 0.36%, LI by 1.68%, Weilai by 0.60% and Xpeng Motors by 0.07%.
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The picture shows the real-time market as of press time.
The US dollar index maintained a downward trend in the Asian and European markets, once falling below 105.50 after the release of the unexpected US GDP data, and then rebounded to the 106 mark in the short term and fell back, finally closing down 0.52% to 105.598.
Supported by the weakening of the US dollar index, gold maintained an upward trend, and COMEX gold closed up 0.27% at $2,332.2 per ounce; COMEX silver finally closed up 0.44% to $27.465 per ounce.
WTI crude oil rebounded due to the new US sanctions against Iran and Israel’s planned attack on Rafah, and finally closed up 1.26% to US$ 83.85/barrel. Brent crude oil closed up 1.45% to $89.3/barrel.
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The GDP growth rate in the first quarter of the United States was much lower than expected, and the Fed’s interest rate cut was postponed.
The annualized quarterly growth rate of GDP in the first quarter of the United States was lower than expected, the lowest growth rate since Q1 last year. At the same time, the initial value of the annualized quarterly rate of the core PCE price index in the first quarter recorded 3.7%, the highest since Q2 last year. As a result, traders delayed the Fed’s expectation of the first rate cut until December. Goolsbee said that the Fed must readjust its policy after the high inflation data. In addition, the Fed megaphone said that inflation performance was stronger than expected, and the dream of cutting interest rates gradually drifted away.
Bank of Japan considers reducing government bond purchases.
It is reported that the Bank of Japan will consider taking measures to reduce its government bond purchases. Yellen also talked about the yen issue, saying that intervention in the foreign exchange market should be a rare behavior, which only occurs when there is excessive fluctuation and will be negotiated in advance.
For the first time in Google’s history, revenue, advertising and cloud revenue all accelerated in the first quarter.
Google’s revenue growth in the first quarter was the fastest in two years, and its profit surged by 60%, betting on AI’s capital expenditure of $12 billion. The growth of cloud business has accelerated again to a high of 28% at the beginning of last year, its operating profit has quadrupled and its advertising revenue has improved steadily. The company also paid a quarterly dividend for the first time in history and will buy back up to $70 billion in additional shares.
AI helped Microsoft’s first-quarter earnings report exceed expectations across the board, and cloud revenue once rose by more than 5% after the accelerated growth.
This is the first full quarterly financial report after the launch of Copilot’s generative AI assistant, which not only increased Microsoft’s profit by 20% year-on-year but also slightly increased month-on-month, but also promoted the accelerated growth of Azure cloud revenue by 31%, and the contribution of cloud revenue increased to 7 percentage points, all of which were liked by Wall Street. CEO Nadella said that he has been integrating the artificial intelligence technology of partner OpenAI into Microsoft’s entire product line.
Early warning recovery is slow. Intel’s second-quarter profit and income guidance is inferior. After-hours, it once fell more than 9%.
In the first quarter of this year, Intel’s sales revenue and profit were higher than analysts’ expectations, but the guidance in the second quarter was lower than expected, which sounded the alarm. It means that Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s efforts to revive the company may take longer and cost more.
Musk may soon get billions of dollars to build his chat robot Grok into a rival of ChatGPT. This round of financing is considered to be one of the largest financing on the artificial intelligence track, and Sequoia Capital is one of the investors who participated in this round of financing.
The world’s largest rhubarb gold stocks led the S&P 500 index.
As of Thursday’s close, Newmont, the world’s largest gold mining company, rose 12.46% after its financial report, ranking first among the S&P 500 stocks. Due to the rapid rise of international gold prices, the average selling price of gold in Q1 was $2,090/ounce, which was $136 higher than the average price in 2023, and the gold sales also rose from $2.3 billion in the same period last year to $3.3 billion.
Micron received a US$ 6.1 billion subsidy from the US government.
Micron Technology confirmed on Thursday that it will receive $6.1 billion from the US federal government to build three chip manufacturing plants. In addition to this grant, Micron is also eligible for the US Treasury’s investment tax credit, which will provide a 25% credit for qualified capital investment. In addition, the New York State Government will provide incentives worth $5.5 billion.
CCTV News:The General Administration of Market Supervision issued an announcement last night (18th). In response to media reports that pork products such as dumplings were positive for African swine fever virus nucleic acid, the General Administration of Market Supervision and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs have asked enterprises to immediately trace the source of pork raw materials and dispose of pork products. At present, the two departments have sent a joint inspection team to investigate and verify the relevant situation, requiring pork products manufacturers to further strengthen the control of pork raw materials, implement the inspection and quarantine ticket inspection regulations, improve the African swine fever detection and review system, and prevent infected pork raw materials from entering the food processing link. Enterprises that fail to fulfill their prevention and control responsibilities as required will be severely punished once they are found.
Sanquan Food: Suspected batch products have been sealed.
In this incident, it was revealed that several batches of soup dumplings produced in Sanquan Food were suspected of African swine fever virus. In this regard, Sanquan Food announced yesterday (18th) that the company had sealed all relevant suspected batches of products from all sales channels for the first time. At the same time, the Henan provincial government has sent a joint investigation team to Hunan and Gansu respectively to check the relevant situation with relevant local departments.
Expert: There are four possibilities for quick-frozen food to be infected with virus.
After the incident was exposed, netizens raised some questions, such as: How did African swine fever virus flow into frozen food? In this regard, a reporter from Voice of China interviewed Yi Zhu, an associate professor at the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University. Yi Zhu pointed out that the most extreme situation is that sick and dead pork is mixed into the production process. In addition, there are three possibilities.
Yi Zhu, Associate Professor of College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, said: "The first reason is that the detection methods have been greatly improved and the detection sensitivity is very high. Even if there are only a few viruses, it can be detected. The second reason is that when pork was imported and slaughtered, some pigs with latent disease were not identified. It has been carrying African swine fever virus, the incubation period is about 5 to 19 days, and there is no disease. If you don’t do special disease detection, you can’t see it with the naked eye, so that such pork is mixed into the supplied products. The third reason is that there is no problem with pork itself, but it is polluted by African swine fever virus in transportation, processing and packaging. "
Expert: It will not infect people and will not affect food safety.
Another question that everyone cares about is, is African swine fever virus harmful to human body? Can pork still be eaten?
Experts from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs have responded to this repeatedly mentioned question. African swine fever is not zoonotic and will not infect people. At the same time, it will not infect other animals except pigs and will not affect food safety. In addition, experts also said that high temperature can kill African swine fever virus, and continuous heating at 60 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes can kill the virus. Therefore, everyone can safely consume the quarantined pork.
However, is African swine fever virus harmless to human body? In an interview with Yi Zhu, an associate professor at the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, Yi Zhu said that although African swine fever virus does not pose a health risk to people, pigs with African swine fever belong to sick pigs, and there is no reason to walk on the shelves and dining tables.
What is African swine fever? It was diagnosed in Africa in 1921 and ravaged many countries in 2018.
African swine fever is an acute and severe infectious disease of pigs infected by African swine fever virus. It was first diagnosed in Kenya in 1921, and it raged in many countries around the world in 2018. More than 6,200 outbreaks were reported in 22 countries. In August 2018, the first African swine fever epidemic occurred in Shenbei New District, Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Subsequently, epidemics also occurred in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, and Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province.
According to the survey, there are three main transmission routes of African swine fever in China: the transportation of pigs and their products in different places, the feeding of kitchen waste to pigs and the spread of viruses carried by people and vehicles, accounting for 16.3%, 42.9% and 40.8% respectively. Among them, the spread of viruses carried by kitchen waste feeding pigs and personnel vehicles accounts for the vast majority.
In January this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs formulated and issued the "Emergency Implementation Plan for African Classical Swine Fever Epidemic (2019 Edition)" to guide all localities to deal with the epidemic in a strict and standardized manner. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that the current epidemic situation in China is in a state of sporadic distribution, and the epidemic situation is generally controllable. However, because the traditional farming structure is difficult to fundamentally change in a short period of time, the transmission route of the epidemic is complicated, and the prevention and control situation is still complicated and severe.
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Every morning and evening rush hour or weekend, the surrounding area of Chaoyang Joy City is always full of traffic. The residential areas and office buildings here are connected together, gathering a large number of fashion brands and creative restaurants, which is not only the punching place for trendy people and foodies in Beijing, but also the regional "base camp" for takeaway brothers.
One by one, waiting beside the electric take-away cars on the roadside, the riders who have taken orders are in a hurry. They go in and out of various restaurants, and the lunch boxes in their hands may be freshly baked restaurant specialties, coffee, ice cream or midnight snack.
Chaoyang Joy City is just a microcosm of the take-away market. According to the report of iResearch, there are more and more young people and office workers in China who are willing to spend money on convenience. After five years, the online penetration rate of food consumption will reach 29.5%, which is about 14.1 trillion yuan.
Behind the busy riders is the protracted battlefield of the giants. After numerous melee, killing and subsidy wars, this year, Meituan Dianping finally went public as the world’s largest food and beverage delivery service provider and the largest in-store food and beverage service platform in China. However, Ali was hungry after integration, and Enemy at the Gates.
This year, in order to achieve the goal of gaining 50% share of the take-away market, Ali took out nearly three times the subsidy of the US delegation, and claimed that there was no upper limit for the recruitment of riders.
The ultimate battle around "eating" is underway. In addition to the first-tier cities such as Beishangguangshen and Shenzhen, the war is about to spread to more cities and counties in Ali and Meituan.
In the new retail industry logistics system that pursues efficiency and speed, the rider is the most basic element, and it is also an important link in the increasingly refined life industry chain. In the world of short video, riders, as individuals with emotions, are like detectors, reflecting the changes of the whole market, the vibration of industry and the transformation of society.
From factory to takeaway
Every year, Meituan Review publishes an "Annual Report on Takeaway Development". In the report, the daily average number of active distribution riders of the US Mission increased from 100,000 in 2015 to 531,000 in 2017.
According to the statistics of "Research Report on Takeaway Riders in 2018", 75% of riders come from rural areas, and nearly 70% of riders choose to leave their hometown to work hard in other places and struggle in first-and second-tier cities. Moreover, young people after 1980s and 1990s account for 82% of the riders.
In just three years, take-away riders have changed from marginal jobs to "reliable" jobs for young rural laborers in cities. The comments of the US delegation and Hungry have created more than one million jobs, and the work of "Lingzhi Xiaoxiao" belongs to this "one in a million".
At the beginning of this year, a 21-year-old Dong girl came to Hangzhou from her hometown of Yunnan. A friend introduced her to work in a clothing factory where many fellow villagers worked. In a workshop full of girls, she kept cutting clothes and car lines from morning till night. The first month’s salary was 2,800 yuan, the second month was 2,500 yuan, and the third month found that the salary was too low. She only worked for half a month and resigned after taking 1,500 yuan.
Later, she went to work in a restaurant. I heard from a familiar rider that Meituan crowdsourced her working hours flexibly and made more money, so she wanted to try it part-time. Unexpectedly, she found a sense of belonging in this man’s industry.
"When I arrived at the US Mission, I felt that I had been mixed up before." Novel, in the past, in the clothing factory, peers always wanted to eat, wear and play. After becoming a rider, I saw that my fellow riders were racing against time to make money, and the realistic pressure of "getting married and saving money" made her mature at once.
Unlike the assembly line in the factory, the rider needs a strong "motive force". Because part-time riders have no basic salary and earn as much as they do, the real-time income of sending a few dollars makes her very economical and punctual. Short stories, those riders who earn more than 10,000 yuan a month are very hard-working, running for 15 hours every day, and often finishing work at 3 or 4 in the morning. These role models make her even reluctant to talk about her boyfriend, because time is too precious and she is afraid it will cost too much money.
Xiaoxiao also found himself "more and more tough." I remember that in the first week as a rider, the delivery road was bumpy at 11 o’clock at night. Some soup spilled on the bag, and the customer looked ugly and slammed the door. She cried sadly, thinking about "bad reviews" and "I didn’t mean to". At that time, she took a video to record an unfortunate day. As a result, fans in Aauto Quicker left messages to cheer her up, and riders left messages to teach her how to deliver a soup meal and how to appease unhappy customers.
However, Xiaoxiao is afraid to tell her family that she is running a takeaway, because a little girl who works as a rider always makes people worry. She said that if there is no income from live broadcast on Aauto Quicker, she will often deliver meals until the early hours of the morning, which is the normal state of crowdsourcing riders.
In the past six months as a rider, Xiaoxiao recorded the ups and downs of being alone in a foreign land on Aauto Quicker in the form of short video, which is also her way to fight loneliness and pressure. She said that although there are only 14,000 fans, chatting with them live every night after work, and the fatigue and grievances of work have vanished.
Although she is not as stable as her fellow villagers, Xiaoxiao is not very satisfied with her job. She can earn four or five thousand yuan by delivering food every month, and her income is several times that of a girl from her hometown.
As shown in the World Development Report 2019: Changes in the Nature of Work released by the World Bank, technological progress has accelerated the growth of platform enterprises, and is also changing the way people work, creating more non-traditional jobs and short-term "odd jobs". From the small description, we can intuitively feel that the young labor force is shifting from the traditional agricultural and manufacturing fields to the service industry, and correspondingly, it will also accelerate the rapid development of local life business.
From the third and fourth lines to the first and second lines.
In July this year, Hungry announced that it had invested RMB 3 billion in the "Summer Campaign", and what this data shows is the way to attract cooperative large, medium and small businesses and riders and incite the take-away market.
Abo can list the policies such as unit price, rewards and subsidies for the US delegation and the hungry riders. He has experienced them from the US delegation to the hungry, from the first-tier cities to the fourth-tier counties.
In 1992, A Bo once worked as a part-time delivery man in Suzhou, and later returned to Luoyang County, Henan Province to be the stationmaster of the US group delivery station for two years. Because I heard that there are many orders in first-tier cities, the unit price is high, and the monthly income can exceed 10,000 yuan, I came to Beijing this fall to become a hungry hummingbird takeaway crowdsourcing.
A Bo explained that both the US delegation and the hungry have special delivery and crowdsourcing teams. The riders who just entered the business generally choose to do "special delivery", which can guarantee the basic income in the team, but the experienced riders choose to do "crowdsourcing". It takes a little longer to take orders freely, and the price of the list that runs far away is higher.
In Abo’s view, Meituan has a very high penetration rate in third-and fourth-tier cities and sinking markets. In 2016, Meituan has opened up county markets such as Luoning, and it was not until 2018 that it was hungry to accelerate its entry into these areas.
In Beijing, the two platforms give crowdsourcing riders "almost the same amount of tickets". If you are hungry, 9 yuan crowdsourcing each ticket, praised 1 yuan, and Meituan crowdsourcing each ticket, praised 1.5 yuan. Coupled with weather subsidies, praise, attendance and other rewards, there is no difference in the overall income of riders.
There is only one difference. When the US group crowdsources meals and delivery is delayed, the rider’s deduction needs to be exempted through online appeal; When you are hungry, hummingbird crowdsourcing directly cancels the time limit for picking up meals from merchants, reducing the deduction fee for overtime delivery.
Such a difference in process is important for ABO. A Bo has always been careful. He said, "You have to run at least 7,000 yuan a month to take care of your family." He and three riders huddled in a 20-square-meter bungalow, and went out at 7: 00 a.m. until the early morning to make money and save money. He said that when his parents are old, he also wants to "marry a daughter-in-law to repair the house", and his two roommates have to support their wives and children in their hometown.
Even if he delivers hungry takeout food, A Bo is proud to have been the "Minions" of the US group. Every time in the dead of night, A Bo always misses the days when he delivered takeout in his hometown, boasting and betting. At that time, he was the most famous takeaway brother of the US group. Until now, he has been wearing the work clothes of the US group when shooting videos.
At that time, whenever the take-away rush hour passed, A Bo would watch Aauto Quicker eat and shoot a video. The boss curiously bet with him that if his fans exceeded 10,000, he would give 500 yuan a reward. Unexpectedly, Abo shot more than 250 videos in one year and gained nearly 40,000 fans, which also brought him confidence and anticipation.
He said that he often feels inferior because of unclear speech. However, in Aauto Quicker, many users in the same city will follow him to order "the same paragraph" for take-out, and a little girl from school specially came to ask for his signature.
What makes A Bo most proud is a good thing he did when he was a rider of the US Mission. At that time, there were many "Bao Ma non-profit organizations" on hand. When they found him in the live broadcast room and asked Abo to help send the donated materials to the local poor households, he did not hesitate. He rode an electric car for more than ten kilometers in one breath and sent the materials and his own money to the poor families.
There are not a few take-away riders like Abo all over the country, and they grow up with the distribution system that pursues efficiency and speed. But from a personal point of view, they even hope that the competition of take-away platforms will last longer and they can get more subsidies themselves.
From sight to poetry and distance.
From the factory to the takeaway platform, from the third and fourth lines to the first and second lines, it is one of the manifestations of the continuous extension and scale of the industrial chain in the competition process of the takeaway platform. As ordinary people in the internet tide, Xiao Xiao and A Bo revealed their helplessness to the pressure of life and their longing for the future. Most riders are busy with "struggling in front of them", but some people dream of "poetry and distance".
When I met Zhou Lei, he was recording the annual finals of CCTV variety show "Avenue of Stars". His other two identity tags were "Little Takeaway Brother God" who had more than 300,000 fans in his hands and the first takeaway rider who won the monthly championship of "Avenue of Stars".
Zhou Lei, 31, has lived in the rural area of Qinhuangdao since childhood. She never thought that she would embark on the road of performing arts. Singing is just a way to entertain herself and relieve pressure.
Before joining the US Mission, Zhou Lei was unemployed at home and didn’t want to go out. He said that there were not many job opportunities in the county. He worked as an ore truck driver and sold potted plants on the roadside. In order to let his children enjoy a better education, he borrowed money to buy a house and moved to the city.
Last October, Zhou Lei took a video of singing in a fast hand wearing the take-away work clothes of Meituan. Unexpectedly, it suddenly became popular and attracted more and more fans’ attention. He said that every day, someone waited for him to sing and order songs in the live broadcast room. After two months, the income of fans’ rewards was actually 40,000 yuan, which suddenly eased the family’s economic pressure.
The real turning point comes from the attention of the "talent scout" on the fast hand. In November last year, Aauto Quicker, a private letter from Zhou Lei, received an invitation claiming to be "the crew of Jilin TV variety show Family Fun Show", and left the county life circle for the first time to start recording programs in big cities. Since then, it has moved to bigger stages such as "100 seconds of gold" and "Avenue of Stars".
Zhou Lei felt the power of the Internet. He said that TV editors and directors will not charge a penny for discovering "material" on a short video platform like Aauto Quicker. Moreover, there are many professional musicians in Kuaishou’s hands. They often interact and learn skills and give him professional guidance, which is a valuable resource for Zhou Lei who has never received professional music training.
Even when delivering takeout food, Zhou Lei obviously felt the love and respect of users. A customer named Zhou Lei to take delivery and asked him to sing a few songs on the spot. A local fast food restaurant also invited him to sing. Later, because of the popularity of Zhou Lei, it became the most famous "online celebrity Restaurant" in the county.
On Aauto Quicker, Zhou Lei was often teased by netizens as "a singer who was delayed by the take-away platform". However, he believes that it is the identity of the US group rider that makes him get more attention than others. Even on the performance stage of "Avenue of Stars", the yellow take-away uniform of the US Mission is his iconic image.
Zhou Lei, who became a monk halfway, hitchhiked on the Internet, and he became "the hope of the whole village" in the eyes of the villagers. More riders need to do their best to maintain the living needs of a wanderer and support their elderly parents and school children. More importantly, they all have light in their hearts, and they all have their own "poetry and distance", just like a small goal-to save money by their own efforts, to go back to their hometown to shoot a video of the mountain village one day, and to bring the villagers together to make a fortune.
"Meituan is a mysterious organization"
In fact, in the huge life industry chain composed of more than 500,000 riders, 4.4 million merchants and 380 million users, the rider profession is getting more and more recognition and respect. In the huge social and industrial transformation, riders are burdened with the confusion of life and the burden of family, and they are also looking forward to social recognition.
In the stories of several interviewees, take-away riders are a particularly mobile industry. Sometimes, a site with about 20 people changes more than a dozen people a month. Some people envy how much money they earn by sending takeout food. There are many experienced riders who have worked for several years. Some people leave because they can’t eat hard after working for a few days, and some people leave because of bad reviews from users and family reasons, just like a song sings, "When you say goodbye, you will leave."
For many riders, Aauto Quicker is a very special circle of friends. Usually, the original intention of sending videos is to cheer themselves up and tell strangers about their troubles that they can’t tell their family and friends, but they soon find out that they have found fellow villagers and peers here and found more understanding and recognition.
According to incomplete statistics, at present, there are more than 40,000 on-the-job riders in Aauto Quicker who use short videos to communicate, and there are not a few riders with tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of fans. The "Little Fatty" with the most fans has attracted more than 950,000 people’s attention.
Xiao Pang said that in Aauto Quicker’s short videos, he could feel people’s goodwill and respect for the riders of the US Mission, and he also agreed that many videos reflected the hardships of riders’ lives.
For example, when a rider delivers food upstairs, the meal left downstairs is stolen, so he can only order another one at his own expense; When a rider comes across a slip with a wrong address or a hidden address, he can only call the customer again and again to explain it; Some riders have to pay for their own meals returned by customers because of overtime or spilled soup, so they have to take them home to eat; Some riders are sad in the center of the heavy rain, and they will stand on the road and cry while walking.
These common experiences give riders a natural sense of closeness. They cheer each other and share joys and sorrows. Xiao Pang said that he met many riders in Aauto Quicker, commented or interacted with each other live, and sometimes met and chatted in each other’s cities, just like they had known each other for many years. Now, Xiao Pang intends to transform into an e-commerce, and also find people to do business with through Aauto Quicker, and introduce and inspect the source of goods through the riders’ friends in Yiwu.
According to incomplete statistics, at present, there are more than 100,000 user-related and theme videos of Meituan riders published on Aauto Quicker platform, and many real stories of riders have been adapted into short video works. In these videos, riders use their own frustrations to dissuade boys who want to jump into the river and commit suicide. When they see kidnapped girls, they cleverly track and save people, take off their raincoats to take their babies out of the rain in the wind and rain, and try their best to rescue gas poisoning when taking meals in restaurants. They are "new urban youths" with ideals, skills and responsibilities, supporting the Internet life industry chain and conveying positive social energy, which has infected the fierce take-away business war with warmth.
In the eyes of more people in Aauto Quicker, "Meituan is a mysterious organization", because the rider brother in the video can do almost anything: they can catch thieves, help comatose old people, perform singing, play drums and even make a disc DJ in the street, draw a beautiful "Piggy Peggy" according to the requirements of the customer’s order, and even go to the kitchen to cook when the restaurant bursts …
With its excellent design style, various cultural activities and intelligent facilities, Beijing Daxing International Airport has become a "online celebrity attraction" for people to travel and visit every day. Yang Jiankun/photo
"Dad, this airport is so spectacular and beautiful, just like the palace in the story." Seven-year-old Zhao Xinxuan said excitedly. She skipped to the C-pillar of Beijing Daxing International Airport (hereinafter referred to as "Daxing Airport") and made a lovely gesture. Zhao Xinxuan’s father, Zhao Kang, recorded this precious moment with a camera.
In October 2019, a report released by Qunar.com, an online travel platform, showed that Daxing Airport welcomed 518,400 people to visit during the National Day. Among them, on October 3rd, the number of tourists reached 107,000, which was 23 times that of travelers. Daxing Airport has therefore been called "the well-deserved online celebrity Airport" by netizens.
"The planning and design of Daxing Airport is advanced, extremely creative and full of China cultural elements, while the interior ‘ Five-star red flag ’ ‘ Central axis ’ Such landscapes are elegant and meaningful, and are deeply loved by the general public, especially young people. " Du Xiaoming, deputy general manager of Daxing Airport Planning and Development Department, said.
At the same time, in order to further add a strong cultural atmosphere, Daxing Airport has successively launched a series of colorful cultural activities, such as the "window of national treasures" and the New Year concert, and continued to build a "cultural gateway". "Daxing Airport has become a brand-new window to show China’s great achievements in reform and opening up, and to show China’s speed, China’s strength and China’s spirit." Du Xiaoming said.
As a newly-built "online celebrity Airport", Daxing Airport is not only "beautiful" but also "useful". It is understood that when taking a flight at Daxing Airport, passengers can complete the whole process of ticket purchase, check-in, consignment, security check, boarding, etc. only through face recognition, and cabin attendants can use the cabin face recognition system to conduct passenger re-inspection, inventory confirmation, seat guidance, etc., to provide passengers with accurate and personalized services.
In addition to improving passengers’ travel efficiency through intelligent technology, according to Du Xiaoming, Daxing Airport is also the first airport in the world to realize the high-speed rail passing through the terminal building, double-deck departure lane and the first airport in China to adopt the "omni-directional" runway layout. It has the world’s largest seismic isolation building, the world’s largest coupled shallow geothermal energy utilization project and many other "best in the world", providing passengers with a safe, green, intelligent and humanistic "four-type airport" travel experience.
According to the official data of Daxing Airport, as of December 31, 2019, Daxing Airport had completed a total passenger throughput of 3,138,200 passengers, guaranteed 21,000 inbound and outbound flights, and the cargo and mail throughput was 0.74 million tons. The normal flight rate is ahead of airports of the same size at home and abroad. "In 2020, Daxing Airport will enhance the competitiveness of international aviation hubs and build ‘ A net in the sky ’ ‘ A net on the ground ’ To build an efficient and comprehensive transportation system. " Du Xiaoming said.
It is worth mentioning that with the official operation of Daxing Airport, the rail transit Daxing Airport Line has also been put into use simultaneously. In the future, Daxing Airport-Daxing Airport Line-Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway will become the traffic artery for athletes and tourists from all over the world to watch the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
"One city and two games" work together to ensure the operation of civil aviation in the capital
The establishment of the pattern of "one city, two games" in Beijing has greatly eased the operating pressure of the Capital Airport. "In the past, there were many flights in and out of Hong Kong. Sometimes, after the plane was launched or landed, it had to wait for a long time on the runway, but now this situation is not much." Shen Hao, a flight attendant in Dalian, felt deeply about this.
"At the beginning of the construction, T3 Terminal of Capital Airport was responsible for the reception of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but no one expected that China would develop so fast. At that time, I thought ‘ Enough ’ The capital airport is now running at full capacity, which also witnessed the rapid development of China. " Xue Xu, associate professor of Peking University Institute of Economics and secretary general of the Marketing Expert Committee of China Market Society, said.
According to the official data of the Capital Airport, the annual passenger throughput of the Capital Airport once again exceeded 100 million passengers in 2019, ranking among the top in the world. It is by no means easy to complete such a huge transportation task safely, smoothly and on time, which requires the full cooperation of public security, logistics, service and other forces.
This winter, there were several heavy snows in Beijing. When people basked in beautiful snow scenes in their circle of friends, the logistics support staff at the Capital Airport were already busy. It is understood that in order to ensure the safety of inbound and outbound flights, the Capital Airport gives early warning according to the snowfall, and deices and snows in advance. During the heavy snow in mid-December last year, the Capital Airport arranged nearly 400 people and 67 deicing vehicles to ensure the normal operation of the airport.
In addition to the workers that these passengers can see, another group of workers are silently guarding the safety of passengers entering and leaving Hong Kong. "In order to ensure the absolute safety of air defense in the Capital Airport and the good social order, we combine the outstanding characteristics of illegal and disorderly behaviors in the airport area, implement the work mode of policy-making, classified management and key crackdown, actively crack down on illegal and disorderly behaviors, and realize the full coverage of public security prevention and control in the jurisdiction without blind spots." Liu Sixiao, a policeman from the West Air Station District Police Station of the Capital Airport Public Security Bureau, said.
In addition, Liu Sixiao said that the police at the Capital Airport are still advancing with the times. By strengthening the application of scientific and technological information technology, they will create a new era of smart public security, solve a series of problems that passengers are urgently concerned about, and continuously improve the sense of security and satisfaction of passengers.
Xue Xu pointed out that the cooperation between Daxing Airport and Capital Airport will effectively alleviate the problems of heavy shipping pressure and channel congestion in Beijing, and will make effective operational contributions to the 2022 Winter Olympics and other important international conferences.
"At present, the formation of our country ‘ One city, two games ’ The pattern of cities is Beijing and Shanghai, and the cooperation between Shenzhen and Guangzhou airports is also fruitful. These six airports are important carriers for China’s Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to build a world-class airport group. They have not only become important transportation hubs, but also played an important role in promoting local social and economic development and urban agglomeration construction. " Xue Xu said.
Recently, Taicang, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, issued a "zero cost" entrepreneurship support policy for college students.
According to "Several Measures on Supporting Taicang University Science Park to Create the First Choice for College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Yangtze River Delta", the college students’ entrepreneurship project that came to Taitai for the first time directly gave 50,000 yuan of entrepreneurship funding; Those who have settled in the winning projects of the National College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition will be given entrepreneurship funding directly according to the first prize of 500,000 yuan, the second prize of 300,000 yuan and the third prize of 200,000 yuan.
In order to reduce the cost of college students’ entrepreneurship, the local government will also give the newly settled college students’ entrepreneurship project in Dakeyuan a three-year rent-free venue; Those who employ college graduates who have been employed for the first time in Taitai will be given a subsidy of 3,000 yuan per person after paying social security for 6 months.
On December 16th, the relevant person in charge of Taicang told CBN that they have no restrictions on the content and form of college students’ entrepreneurial projects, and any project can enjoy this policy. "As long as it is registered in Dake Park, this is the first in China". Once the registration is completed, the 50,000-yuan business start-up grant will be paid to the company account at one time.
This package of support policies for college students’ entrepreneurship is under the background that the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Employment and Entrepreneurship of College Graduates in 2024 (hereinafter referred to as the Notice) on December 1. The "Notice" decided to implement the "Promotion Action for Employment and Entrepreneurship of College Graduates in 2024", continuously improve the employment and entrepreneurship service system for college graduates, and fully promote the high-quality and full employment of college graduates.
The above policy of Taicang will be implemented on January 1, 2024, with a trial period of one year, and the Talent Office of the Municipal Party Committee, High-tech Zone and relevant departments will be responsible for the interpretation.
Ceng Gang, dean of the Urban Development Research Institute of East China Normal University, told CBN that the latest policy issued by Taicang provides a new case for attracting talents from all over the country in the new era, and is generally implementing concrete actions for the integration and development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. "Taicang hopes that by holding ‘ Talent ’ This bull’s nose is a wise move to achieve the goal of innovation and high-quality development. From the perspective of specific fields, providing employment subsidies for talents and optimizing the ecological environment for innovation and entrepreneurship are effective and effective. "
However, Ceng Gang suggested that optimizing the investment environment and attracting foreign and local investment to promote college students’ employment should be the main and important policy direction. Considering the high risk of entrepreneurship and the lack of business experience of college students, it is debatable to take college students’ entrepreneurship as the first priority of preferential policies.
Taicang’s above-mentioned talent policy says it will increase financial support for entrepreneurship. For example, an angel investment fund of 300 million yuan was established, and the highest equity investment of 3 million yuan was given to the entrepreneurial projects of college students. We launched the "Loucheng College Students’ Entrepreneurship Loan", a government-enhanced financial product, to provide risk compensation, with a maximum loan of 1 million yuan for a single project. At the same time, increase subsidies in technology and finance, and grant loans to enterprises such as "Suke Loan" and "Louchengke Creation Loan" at the rate of 5&permil of the actual payment; Give a subsidy of up to 500,000 yuan/year; For enterprise intellectual property pledge financing, the maximum reward is 100,000 yuan according to 1% of the actual financing amount.
The goal of Taicang’s new policy is to create the first choice for college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship in the Yangtze River Delta. As the first choice for college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship in China, the war of grabbing people in the Yangtze River Delta region is becoming increasingly fierce.
In recent years, Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, which has increased its efforts to develop new economic industries, has also introduced a package of policies with great efforts around the strategic goal of "introducing 100,000 young college students" this year.
Among them, in terms of entrepreneurship subsidies, Anji gives college students or college students who come to start a business for the first time within five years after graduation an entrepreneurship subsidy of 2,500 yuan/month, which will be enjoyed from the next month after normal operation, with a subsidy period of one year. For eligible Qingchuang projects that have settled in Qingchuang Space, a startup subsidy of 2,500 yuan/month will be given, with a subsidy period of 1 year; Those selected as Class A, B, and C youth creation projects will be given 220,000 yuan, 90,000 yuan, and 30,000 yuan respectively, which will be allocated by 50% in two phases. Support the third-party operation and management of Qingchuang Space, and give a maximum financial reward of 150,000 yuan.
In addition to entrepreneurship subsidies, talents who come to Anji for employment and entrepreneurship can also receive monthly subsidies for settling down and renting houses. Among them, 2000 yuan/month for doctoral students, 1200 yuan/month for master students and "double-first-class" university graduates, 400 yuan/month for other undergraduate graduates and 250 yuan/month for college graduates. As for the rental subsidy, the period of subsidy is 2,200 yuan/month for doctoral students, 1,500 yuan/month for master students and "double-class" university graduates, 800 yuan/month for other undergraduate graduates and 650 yuan/month for junior college graduates.
In addition to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui have also introduced relevant measures for talent employment and entrepreneurship this year. Yao Kai, director of the Global Science and Technology Talents Development Research Center of Fudan University and chief expert of the Shanghai Talent Theory Research Base, said earlier that in the face of the complicated and changeable situation of attracting talents, a single talent development measure has been difficult to meet the needs of long-term sustainable development of talents. In addition to the attractive talent policy, it also needs to be equipped with comprehensive, systematic and operational support measures.
While the war of robbing people is escalating, the integration of talents in the Yangtze River Delta is also expected to accelerate. The 5th Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Corridor Talent Summit, which opened in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province on December 16th, focused on deeper talent integration, released the Implementation Plan of Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Corridor Talents Leading Innovation Highland Construction (2023-2025), signed a cooperation project on talent integration in nine cities of Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Corridor, and established a strategic cooperation alliance for the introduction and education of young talents in nine cities.
Recently, Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, made a fire. "If the United States doesn’t act, then China will overtake us! The reason is that digital currency Libra, launched by FB, has been opposed by regulators in various countries only four months since its high-profile release (French and German regulators have issued a joint statement that "the right to issue money is part of national sovereignty and private companies cannot own it"); A quarter of the founding members such as VISA and eBay announced their withdrawal from the Libra Association.
Looking back on the past 25 years, technology has changed and developed by leaps and bounds, and the Internet has experienced two waves of Web and mobile. A number of technology predators such as Amazon, Google and Facebook have been born in the United States, and Silicon Valley has become the "Internet Holy Land" that attracts worldwide attention. While China began to learn from American technology companies after accessing the Internet in 1994, and now the penetration rate of mobile payment has been ahead of the world, far exceeding that of developed countries in Europe and America. Zuckerberg felt the threat from China.
It must be said that this change is closely related to the openness of the Internet: the Internet has crossed national boundaries since its birth. Most of the first Internet tycoons like Li Yanhong in China are returnees, so it is the only way to learn the new models, technologies and products of Silicon Valley in the United States. To this end, IT Orange has sorted out the star Internet benchmarking companies that have emerged at home and abroad in the past 20 years and found an interesting phenomenon-
In recent years, the global 2C Internet has become so popular that it can even be called "outstanding". They have changed the lifestyle of human beings such as shopping, socializing, entertainment, reading, traveling and even eating. As a "backward student", China probably experienced these three stages: the first stage, completely imitating and copying the American model, represented by Baidu search, QQ and Taobao; In the second stage, learn from foreign new models and carry out localization improvement, represented by Sina Weibo, Renren.com and JD.COM; The third stage is to dig deep into the local market and discover new business opportunities and new models, represented by today’s headlines and Tik Tok.
The Internet has no borders, and successful business models are similar.
According to the incomplete statistics of IT oranges, there are 29 American star companies in this arrangement, involving 8 fields, of which 11 are the most social fields, followed by 8 in the local life field and 4 in the cultural and entertainment field. Nine companies have been acquired, and a total of 15 companies have been listed; There are 30 star companies in China, involving 8 fields, of which 9 are social fields, 8 are local life fields, and 6 are cultural and entertainment fields. Four companies have been acquired and 11 companies have been listed. (The article is very long. It is recommended to read it after collection.)
From the perspective of time span, China’s response to the market is getting faster and faster. For example, Taobao was born eight years later than eBay, and WeChat was born two years later than WhatsApp. The recognition and acceptance of the Internet is getting higher and higher, and the online penetration rate is gradually rising. Even the development of cmnet has surpassed that of the United States.
Judging from the outcome, the first batch of Internet start-ups have only been established for 25 years. Whether in the United States or China, most of them have gone to the two common outlets of merger or IPO (the place of listing will usually be Nasdaq in the United States). Why is this happening? The role of capital behind it should not be underestimated.
For venture capital companies to recover their investment, there are only two ways for founders and early employees of technology companies to get the return of starting a business. The first is to be acquired, such as youtube being acquired by google, Youku being acquired by Ali and skype being acquired by ebay. This method is quick to get money and simple to operate, but it is only a short-term cash-out, and there is no long-term return. Such companies often have good technology or many users, but they are difficult to make profits or are in a state of sustained losses.
The second is the initial public offer (ipo) of some shares of the company on the trading market, commonly known as listing, which is suitable for companies with sustainable profitability. It can not only make investors and founders get long-term returns, but also raise funds for the development of enterprises.
Judging from the time of listing, around 2000 was the Internet bubble period. We can see that there were Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and other companies listed in the United States one to three years after their establishment. At that time, China’s Internet-based technology companies also piled up to list in the United States. Whether it is the early four major portals or today’s mobile Internet rookie, except Tencent and Meituan Dianping, the rest are listed in the United States (Nasdaq or new york).
EBay and Taobao have exactly the same business model, and now a moat is established.
In 1995, pierre-Omidyar, an American engineer of Iranian origin, put the yard junk and flea market on the Internet, which was originally called webauction and later called ebay. Later, ebay gradually changed from an online flea market to an online free market, helping small businesses in e-commerce to open their own stores through eBay.
However, the biggest problem ebay is also facing is fraud. There are many fakes. In 2007, The Times reported that the author of Harry Potter sued ebay for selling pirated books. In the same year, Louis Vuitton sued ebay for selling counterfeit lv brand goods and claimed 37 million euros from eBay. Previously, tiffany, a famous jeweler, also filed a similar lawsuit with the court. Some fraud gangs take advantage of the loopholes in ebay’s transaction feedback (comment) system to sell some small commodities at low prices, get high scores, then sell thousands of dollars of big commodities, and then run away.
The core of C2C online trading mode is to solve two problems, namely, credit problem and payment problem. In view of the credit problem, ebay’s solution is to let buyers and sellers evaluate each other and form a set of credit evaluation system. In terms of payment, cash, checks and credit cards all have obvious disadvantages. In 2002, PayPal, an online payment company, was acquired (but in July 2015, PayPal was split and listed independently, and the 13-year "marriage" between the two companies was terminated). Taobao has also spared no effort to solve the above two problems, such as "counterfeiting" and improving community rules; In 2004, Alipay, a payment guarantee platform, and Want Want, an instant chat tool, were successively launched, which was also one of Ali’s forward-looking strategies.
Taobao’s biggest competitor was eBay, and Taobao Xiaoer left the seller on the Taobao platform for free. Then, around the Taobao system, Ali launched the IM chat tool Ali Want Want, the data marketing platform Ali Mama, through train, Juhua, Tmall (formerly Taobao Mall), Yitao, etc., and established a strong e-commerce ecosystem; In addition, according to the investment map statistics of IT orange companies, Ali also acquired 66 companies, represented by Youku, UC browser and Hungry; 158 enterprises have been invested strategically, which have blossomed in the fields of entertainment, logistics (rookie network), cloud computing (Alibaba Cloud) and enterprise services.
At present, Alibaba’s market value is $465.2 billion, equivalent to three ebay+PayPal (with a total market value of $152.5 billion); In terms of the number of users, the number of buyers of ebay in the world has reached 175 million, the number of retail users in China has reached 785 million, and the annual active users of Taobao and Tmall have reached 256 million and 227 million. Obviously, in the field of e-commerce and consumption, the market prospect and scale of Internet enterprises in China are far greater than those in the United States.
Amazon and Dangdang started as online bookstores, and the ending was quite different.
Also in 1995, bezos, an analyst on Wall Street in New York, founded Amazon, a B2C online bookstore. In order to avoid taxes reasonably, bezos chose to open an online bookstore in Seattle instead of Silicon Valley in California. Because buying books is not like selling clothes, it is a standardized commodity, and it can’t be returned casually, so it is suitable for online sales. It took Amazon only seven years to reach the turnover that barnes&noble, the largest chain bookstore in the United States, took 130 years to reach (in 2002, Amazon’s turnover reached $3.9 billion, while barnes&noble reached $3.7 billion in the same period).
Obviously, the ceiling of the online bookstore is obvious. For sustainable growth, Amazon has developed from the largest online bookstore to an online department store in the United States and assumed the role of a transaction guarantee platform. Users pay money to Amazon, and Amazon keeps customers’ payment information confidential, and charges merchants a handling fee. At the same time, it stipulates the maximum charge for each product (on ebay, some products are priced at a penny, but they charge more than ten dollars for postage).
In June 1998, Amazon Music Store was officially launched. In order to compete with its rivals, Amazon has adopted a large-scale expansion strategy to become the largest online music product retailer; On August 19, 2004, Amazon acquired Joyo.com with a total capital of 75 million US dollars and officially entered China. In 2005, Amazon Prime service was launched, and until March 2014, the membership service kept the price of $79. 2006: AWS Amazon cloud service was launched; Amazon Kindle； was released in 2007; In 2012, it acquired the robot manufacturing company Kiva for $775 million in cash.
Today, Amazon has become the second largest Internet company in the world, with a market value of 881.1 billion US dollars, second only to Google, and has successfully surpassed the leading Facebook a few years ago. Its business involves e-commerce, intelligent hardware, video, cloud, media and other fields.
Dangdang, which is also an online bookstore, has recently been plagued by negative founders and its share price has plummeted, with a market of only $500 million. Where is the failure of Dangdang? It is largely attributed to the founder’s own pattern and strategic vision, including the positioning of the company, the attitude towards competitors, and the brand marketing PR without strengthening their own business capabilities and improving their core competitiveness.
For example, when the sales volume of paper books fell due to the influence of e-books, Dangdang positioned itself as an online bookstore, only playing in the book market. Even if the category expanded 3C and new clothing business later, it was not a strategic focus. Even in August 2011, Li Guoqing publicly stated at the 2011 Internet Conference, "Dangdang’s 3C products are only a stopgap measure, and if the opponent gives up Dangdang, it will also give up. "So that in the face of JD.COM’s attack on the book category, Dangdang’s share is gradually eroding, and the competition in shopping malls is always cruel.
Another example is Li Guoqing’s exultation. He was quite proud of his creative planning case of "Dare to Do and Dare to Dangdang" and awarded the CEO Award to the team. May I ask: "What is the core of the slogan? Optimize the after-sales return service, or improve the delivery speed, or discount more? Shouting a slogan in the air is not to compete in PK strength, but to fight a public relations war of words.
The worst star Internet companies in history are Yahoo and Renren.
In July 2016, after a series of management turnover and strategic mistakes, Yahoo with the highest market value of $128 billion finally sold its Internet core assets to Verizon Communications, an American telecom operator. This former internet star can’t help but be embarrassed.
Yahoo was founded in the dormitory of Stanford University in 1994, and was initially positioned as a web portal. Compared with Google defined by "search" and eBay defined by "auction", Yahoo executives have different definitions of their own companies, which may be "email", "news" and "search". After six CEO changes, including founder Yang Zhiyuan, he can make it clear what Yahoo is. It is still a vague Internet portal.
In 2000, Yahoo and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin discussed the acquisition of Google for $1 billion, but the two sides could not agree on the purchase price. In 2006, Yahoo considered buying Facebook for $1 billion. But once again, the two sides abandoned the transaction because they could not agree on the price. Some former Yahoo employees said that the reason for Yahoo’s slow decline is very simple: it missed development opportunities such as search, social media and mobile.
Seeing him climb a tall building, seeing his building collapse.
Another "he is my brother" Renren. com, whose market value has fallen to freezing point, has a share price of less than $1. In 2018, it was sold to Duoniu Media at a low price of $20 million, which caused another sigh.
Before the transaction, Chen Yizhou said, "I declare that I am no longer suitable to be a social product for young people. Renren. com, I have used it much less recently, although I logged in almost every day until a year or two ago. Most of our social colleagues have left their jobs. Although I think they are awesome, you don’t think so, and I can’t help it … So, who will do it? I definitely didn’t do it. It’s possible to contract with an awesome person inside the company (it’s unlikely, if you can’t be a user, you will still be scolded …), or to cooperate with an awesome external team and company! 」
Speaking of it, Renren originated from the campus network founded by Wang Xing, focusing on real interpersonal relationships and real-name registration system. It was acquired by Thousand Oaks Group in 2005 and renamed Renren in 2009. Began to March into the white-collar market from campus; In 2011, Renren.com quickly caught up with the number of QQ users and went public in the United States. At its peak, its market value reached 9.4 billion US dollars. For a while, it became a daily routine to find junior high school students and college alumni on Renren.
It was also in that year that WeChat appeared.
Renren’s failure is more due to Chen Yizhou’s strategic mistakes in transformation and the team’s execution is not in place. Netizens use this jingle to describe the operation of Renren. com: "Common sense of life and makeup skills are the secrets of the twelve constellations. I don’t regret the success of recording, and the thesis is full of IELTS questions. The golden sentence of love is the portal, and the tears of men and women are painful. What heartache did you read? No, it’s not Chinese. 」
Of course, there is also ill-timed luck. Why did Facebook succeed in the same SNS community, but Renren failed? Compared with Facebook, the first factor is that everyone is in a fierce competitive environment, followed by the diversity of the population structure of netizens in China and the huge differences in habits and preferences.
Facebook is facing declining MSN, MySpace and Google+, Renren is facing QQ space (personalized primary school users), Baidu Post Bar (irrigation users), and later Weibo (groupies) WeChat, etc. However, everyone did not think about their core competitiveness, focused on serving the original college students, blindly transformed to serve all netizens, and finally became a nondescript product.
Therefore, it is not that Renren is too weak, but that its opponents are too strong. (Who has been spared by Heaven. jpg)
China’s version of Meituan’s comments are strong and United, and the American versions of GroupOn and Yelp are declining after listing.
Yelp is an online review website in the United States. It was established in 2004 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange on March 2, 2012, with an IPO financing of 100 million US dollars. The current market value is 2.48 billion yuan.
Groupon, the originator of the group buying website, was founded in November 2008, and it quickly became popular because of "launching a discounted product every day and limiting everyone to shoot once a day". On November 4, 2011, Groupon landed on Nasdaq; The IPO raised 700 million dollars. Since then, Groupon has developed rapidly. At the beginning of 2015, its business spread to 47 countries around the world, and its business scope expanded from group buying to online shopping. It also launched group buying business with Gaopeng.com (Gaopeng.com), a joint venture established by Tencent.
However, Gaopeng.com was finally closed. In 2016, Groupon CEO Rich Williams said that he realized that "the supply and product growth did not meet expectations, and the high-frequency local services were not invested enough and needed more investment; Shopping for low-profit goods can increase income, but it is not conducive to the healthy development of the company … "
As of October 29, 2019, Groupon’s share price has fallen to $3, and Groupon’s market value was as high as $16 billion. At present, it is only $1.7 billion. Since 2018, company executives have been seeking business for sale, and Ali is one of the potential buyers.
Perhaps witnessing the tragic end of Groupon, Meituan. com refused to go public independently. At the end of 2014, Wang Xing talked about how to treat the heavy trading model and the light information service model in an interview with Forbes Chinese website. The current market value of heavy Groupon has been surpassed by the light Yelp.
Wang Xing: Now Yelp is 3.8 billion, GrubHub is 2.9 billion and Groupon is 5.4 billion, slightly more. But if you look at Priceline (that is, booking), it has nearly 60 billion. They are both very low, and I think they are not doing the right thing. Our current valuation is higher than both of them. (Meituan is valued at $7 billion, almost twice as fast as Groupon.)
It can be seen that Wang Xing’s purpose is by no means as simple as buying a website, but to become a giant in the field of local life services like booking and Priceline. According to the statistics of IT Orange Company’s investment map, Meituan has invested in 69 enterprises, accounting for half of the local life, especially in the catering field. It is not surprising that Meituan takes out food and merges with public comments. In September 2018, Meituan Dianping was listed in Hong Kong, with a current market value of 68.1 billion yuan, ranking ninth, second only to booking, with a difference of nearly 20 billion US dollars.
TIkTok (overseas version of Tik Tok) is popular in the United States, which led to Facebook plagiarism.
TIkTok and Tiktok are on fire, and the earliest fire is musical.ly, which may be the earliest short video APP； in the world to cut into 15 seconds; Musical.ly officially appeared in the North American market in 2014. Since then, it has developed rapidly and once topped the US App Store list. The product was developed by a team of less than 10 people from China in Shanghai and San Francisco. It was once regarded as a "miracle" of China’s Internet products in the primary market. In 2017, the company was ready to enter the domestic market.
At this time, Tik Tok, which was hatched in today’s headlines, was launched in September 2016. In the first half of 2017, she launched the Tik Tok Red Man Project, and invited 300 talents from platforms such as Weibo and xiaokaxiu to sponsor "China has Hip Hop", and Wu Yifan made great efforts to stand on the platform; By June of 2018, the number of daily users in Tik Tok exceeded 150 million, and the number of monthly users exceeded 300 million, making it a phenomenal product.
Among them, the most obvious change comes from the platform content. In the early days, the most popular content of Tik Tok Platform was mainly singing and dancing and moving mirrors by hand, accounting for more than 50% of the content. Nowadays, the popular content in Tik Tok Station is more diversified and balanced, covering 19 categories, among which music, dance, food, animals, sports, parent-child and travel all account for about 5%.
TikTok’s overseas version of TikTok won market recognition after it was launched in January 2018. India’s Economic Times quoted the data of Sensor Tower, a world-renowned third-party data monitoring company, as saying that the global download volume of TikTok in the first quarter of 2018 was 188 million, of which India accounted for 47%. Facebook ranked second with 176 million, with India accounting for 21%.
Since TikTok’s strategic focus is on the US, Japanese and Indian markets, in 2017, ByteDance (the parent company of today’s headlines) bought musical.ly for $1 billion to seize the US market; In August 2018, musical.ly and TikTok, which have more than 100 million monthly active users, were integrated into a brand-new short video platform.
In just one and a half years, TikTok has covered 150 countries and regions, covering 75 languages, with more than 700 million monthly active users worldwide, including 200 million users in India. In contrast, Facebook currently has 300 million users in India, but TikTok has surpassed Facebook in downloads.
In November 2018, Facebook released a video application-Lasso in a low-key way. The product did not hold a press conference, and even foreign media called it a "clone version of Tik Tok" from China.
Lasso also adopts the mode of vertical screen and cyclic video playback, and slides up to switch to the next video. Users can filter videos through # theme tags, and Lasso puts popular tags at the bottom of the video playing page. In addition, the length of the video recorded on Lasso is set to 15 seconds at most, and users can add background music, adjust the slow speed and fast forward to increase the interest of the video.
As Taylor Lorenz, the author of Atlantic, commented on Twitter, "It’s like Facebook moved TikTok’s video content. 」
According to foreign media reports, by the end of September 2019, Lasso had been downloaded 425,000 times, while TikTok had been installed 640 million times outside China during the same period, with a total of 1.4 billion times. Zuckerberg has felt the great threat of TikTok, so he can understand what he said at the beginning.
It can be said that from learning imitation to active innovation is a process of Internet development in China. We can see that there are both successful experiences and painful lessons, which are insignificant in the long history of China, but still worth studying.
For example, from the perspective of business models, the most successful models that have been verified in the PC Internet era are mainly e-commerce, instant chat, and online search. They have made Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu respectively, and the relatively successful model is the US group comment in the local life field. Didi in the field of travel; What comes out of the mobile Internet era is the innovation and subdivision of the original model, such as Pinduoduo, a representative of social e-commerce, and Tik Tok, a short video community.
In addition, most of them are either lack of profit model or out of scale. For example, business socialization has been tepid in China, and the development of LinkedIn has not been smooth after it entered China, or it is not suitable for China’s national conditions. For example, the habit of dining reservation in Chinese has not been cultivated, so the development of catering reservation enterprises represented by small secretary for ordering food is not successful; And anonymous society, represented by "No Secrets/Secrets" in the transformation, was once on fire for a while, but in the end, it could not escape the supervision under low-cost cyber violence and the closure under the difficult realization.
It is necessary to explain that personally, the business model is essentially a strategy or an idea, unlike literary and computer works, which have "copyright" and cannot be protected; Moreover, the scale of the company’s final development and whether it can grow rapidly are not all determined by the business model. Even if it is the same model, the strategy is wrong, and the mistake may be beyond redemption. Say a thousand words and ten thousand words, learn from them or copy and plagiarize them; For competitors who are also startups, this is understandable. What entrepreneurs are afraid of and what netizens criticize is nothing more than the "unkind" copying of Dafa by giants.
Throughout these decades, 2C Internet products (including APP) have formed an oligopoly pattern in both the United States and China, and the entrepreneurial field has become more and more subdivided, which also means that innovation is becoming more and more difficult. On the other hand, China’s 2B Internet products are still a wasteland waiting to be developed. On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, a giant with a market value of $12 billion like Slack has been born in the United States, which was founded in 2009. So far, there is no 2B Internet company in China. When will the spring of domestic SaaS come?
The content of the article has reference: Wu Jun’s "Top of the Tide"
Original title: "Tik Tok swept the world and cited FB plagiarism, China Internet from following to leading | Detailed explanation of PK of 60 benchmarking giants at home and abroad"
The problem of farmers in agriculture and rural areas is a major issue related to the overall development of the cause of the party and the state. At the end of 1970s, China took the lead in launching reforms in rural areas, thus opening the prelude to reform and opening up. Reviewing the great achievements of China’s rural reform and development in the past 40 years and summing up rich experience have important enlightenment significance for comprehensively deepening rural reform and implementing rural revitalization strategy in the new era.
First, China’s rural reform and development has made historic achievements.
Over the past 40 years, the party and the government have persistently taken reform as the fundamental driving force to promote rural development, and rural reform and development have made historic achievements. (1) A rural economic system in line with the world, national conditions and agricultural conditions was initially established. We will continue to deepen rural reform and initially establish a rural economic system that meets the requirements of developing a socialist market economy. Abolish the people’s commune and the management system of "three-level ownership and team-based", implement a two-tier management system based on household contract management and combining unified management with separate management, deepen the reform of rural land system, implement the "separation of ownership, contracting rights and management rights" of rural contracted land, and consolidate and improve the basic rural management system. Break through the single rural collective ownership and implement the ownership structure with collective ownership as the main body and multiple ownership economies developing together. Cancel the system of unified purchase and marketing, steadily promote the reform of agricultural product circulation system, strengthen the role of market mechanism in resource allocation, determine the basic direction of the reform of agricultural product price formation mechanism of "separation of market pricing and price compensation", and strive to establish and improve the rural market system. (2) The level of agricultural productivity has been continuously improved. Continue to promote rural reform, pay attention to the dynamic role of scientific and technological innovation in promoting agricultural and rural modernization, and greatly liberate and develop rural social productive forces. Modern agricultural construction has taken a new step, agricultural mechanization has made great progress, and the comprehensive mechanization level of main crops cultivation and harvest has exceeded 65%; The contribution rate of agricultural science and technology progress exceeds 56%;Moderate scale operation of land accounts for 40%. This indicates that China’s agricultural production has achieved a fundamental change, which is mainly based on mechanical operation and mainly driven by scientific and technological progress. Relying on major agricultural technological innovations such as hybrid rice, China has created a miracle of feeding about 20% of the world’s population with 9% of the world’s cultivated land. (3) The comprehensive agricultural production capacity has been significantly improved. China’s comprehensive grain production capacity has been continuously improved. From 1978 to 2017, China’s grain output increased from 609.5 billion Jin to 1,235.8 billion Jin, which successfully solved the problem of feeding 1.3 billion people, and achieved that "Chinese’s rice bowl must be firmly in its own hands at all times". Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s national food security and the basic supply capacity of bulk agricultural products have been significantly improved. After the first breakthrough in 2013, the national total grain output has been stable at more than 1.2 trillion Jin every year. The total output of meat and aquatic products in China ranks first in the world, and cotton, oilseeds, sugar, vegetables, fruits and other major cash crops have maintained a high output level, becoming a "ballast stone" for economic development and social stability. (4) The agricultural economic structure was continuously optimized. Constantly adjust and optimize the agricultural product structure, industrial structure and layout structure, promote the all-round development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and accelerate the transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture. First, continue to adjust and optimize the structure of agricultural products, vigorously promote the development of green agriculture, and strive to promote the structural reform of the agricultural supply side.The second is to continuously adjust and optimize the rural industrial structure, promote the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, increase the added value of products, extend the industrial chain and upgrade the value chain. Leisure agriculture and rural tourism, which are deeply integrated with culture, science and technology, ecology, tourism and recreation, have flourished, promoting diversification of subjects, industry specialization and formats. The third is to continuously adjust and optimize the agricultural layout structure. The proportion of the primary industry, namely the added value of agriculture, in GDP dropped from 28.1% in 1978 to 7.9% in 2017; Continuously optimize the agricultural industrial structure. In 2017, among the added value of the three rural industries, the proportions of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries were 33.5%, 51.7% and 14.9% respectively. (5) The living standards of farmers have greatly improved. The income of farmers in China has continued to grow rapidly, and the per capita net income has increased from 134 yuan in 1978 to 10,772 yuan in 2015, with an average annual growth rate of 7.28%. The anti-poverty work in rural areas has made remarkable achievements: according to the current poverty alleviation standards in rural areas, the number of poor people in rural areas in China has dropped from 770 million in 1978 to 30.46 million in 2017, and the incidence of poverty has dropped from 97.5% in 1978 to 3.1% in 2017, contributing to the cause of poverty alleviation in the world. The quality of life of farmers has been greatly improved, and the Engel coefficient has dropped from 67.7% in 1978 to 29.3% in 2017. (6) The rural landscape has undergone fundamental changes.Rural grassroots democratic political construction, spiritual civilization construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction have developed in an all-round way, and the construction of new countryside has been solidly promoted. In 2000, the goal of "two basics" in rural education was realized, and the quality of rural population was improved obviously. In 2006, the agricultural tax was completely abolished in China, and farmers went into battle lightly, resulting in social harmony; The construction of rural ecological civilization is gradually unfolding, and the awareness of environmental protection is increasing day by day. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, great achievements have been made in the construction of "five in one" in rural areas.
Second, the rural reform and development has accumulated rich experience.
(1) We must uphold the Party’s leadership over rural work. Always regard upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership over rural work as a political guarantee for promoting rural reform and development. Since the reform and opening up, our party has deeply realized that the issue of farmers in agriculture and rural areas is a fundamental issue related to the national economy and people’s livelihood. It has held many plenary sessions of the Central Committee to specifically deploy the work on agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and held a central rural work conference every year. The 20 central "No.1 documents" have basically established a mature and stable policy system of strengthening agriculture, benefiting farmers and enriching farmers. This shows the importance attached by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to the work concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and the most important position of the work concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers in the work of the whole party. The party’s leadership over rural work is also reflected in constantly summarizing and refining farmers’ inventions and creations in practice, and promoting the experience with universal significance into policies for promotion.
(B) We must adhere to the market-oriented rural reform. Only by adhering to the market-oriented rural economic system reform can we give full play to the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of farmers. It is precisely because of adhering to the direction of market-oriented reform that the vitality of the broad masses of farmers is competing in generate, township enterprises have sprung up everywhere, and small towns have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Relaxing the employment restrictions of rural labor force, breaking down the barriers of household registration system, and allowing the rural surplus labor force to flow freely have promoted the rapid acceleration of urbanization. The proportion of urban population in the total population has increased from 17.9% in 1978 to 58.5% in 2017.
(3) We must fully respect the initiative of farmers. We must fully respect farmers’ initiative and rely on farmers to promote rural reform and development. The practice of rural reform and development for 40 years proves that farmers are the main body of rural development and a group full of vitality and creativity. The formation of household contract responsibility system, the creation of township enterprises and the development of grass-roots organizations are all the results of farmers’ inventions and creations. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out, "We should persistently promote rural reform and institutional innovation, give full play to the main role and initiative of hundreds of millions of farmers, constantly liberate and develop rural social productive forces, and stimulate the vitality of rural development." To implement the strategy of rural revitalization in the new era, we should continue to respect the initiative of farmers and mobilize their initiative, enthusiasm and creativity.
(4) We must persist in safeguarding and developing the fundamental interests of farmers. Realizing, maintaining and developing the fundamental interests of farmers is the starting point and the end result of rural reform. To mobilize farmers’ enthusiasm, the core is to protect farmers’ material interests and respect farmers’ democratic rights, which is the fundamental principle to solve the "three rural issues". The rural household contract responsibility system, such a profound change involving the vital interests of 800 million farmers, has not caused social unrest and turmoil. The most fundamental thing is to safeguard and develop the fundamental interests of farmers. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has always put the people in the highest position, kept in mind the purpose of serving the people, and abided by the ruling philosophy of building the party for the public and governing for the people. Always adhere to the dominant position of farmers, ensure their material interests economically, safeguard their democratic rights politically and promote their all-round development. Persisting in safeguarding and developing the fundamental interests of farmers is the guarantee for continuing to promote rural reform and development and smoothly implementing the rural revitalization strategy.
(5) Adhere to the problem-oriented, step-by-step reform method according to local conditions. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that the reform was forced by the problem and deepened by constantly solving the problem. In the past 40 years, rural reform has been deepened by constantly solving problems. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee has strengthened the problem awareness, adhered to the problem orientation, firmly grasped the "bull nose" of comprehensively deepening rural reform, focused on solving major practical problems such as "who will farm", and further stimulated the new vitality of agriculture and rural areas. The particularity of "three rural issues" in different regions and different stages of development determines that the rural reform in China must be a gradual reform from point to surface and from part to whole. Practice has proved that only by adhering to the problem-oriented, adapting measures to local conditions, step by step, scientifically grasping the characteristics of rural differences and development trends, and persisting in overall promotion and key breakthroughs, can rural reform be promoted in an orderly and in-depth manner. (Author: Li Nan, professor and doctoral supervisor of Marxism College of Wuhan University, Li Yuanfeng, doctoral student of Marxism College of Wuhan University)
CCTV News (Reporter Chen Xin Wang Yuxi):The recent popularity of a film and television drama has once again attracted the attention of the group of "North drift".
In the play, in order to realize his acting dream, the hero came to Beijing with his bare hands, lived in a dark basement, lived on instant noodles and canned food, and ran around every day for an interview with the crew … … However, after ten years down and out, all I got was moving from the basement where I couldn’t see anything to the basement where I could see my feet. The best role I played was just a faceless "lion essence".
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The experience of the hero made the audience who followed the drama cry, and the topic in the play # Should I go after drifting in the North for ten years # also appeared on the hot search, which triggered a hot discussion among netizens. Many people who have experienced "drifting north" have also seen their own shadow more or less in it.
What can I get for drifting in the North for many years? Did you get ahead? Is there a moment when you want to escape?
"From the capsule-youth hostel-basement, I don’t know if I will drift down."
Yu Meng, a handsome young man from Xuzhou who has been in Beijing for more than 8 years, is engaged in public welfare activities. He said bluntly that he came to Beijing because he was lovelorn, and it happened that his relatives in Beijing called to let him come, which was an escape.
Not long after he arrived in Beijing, the accommodation conditions went downhill: express hotel-space capsule-youth hostel (one room for 10 people)-basement.
While staying in the hostel, he enthusiastically told the unfamiliar roommate the computer password on the phone when he was at work, and then he never found his beloved notebook again. Yu Meng, who had no money, had to find a cheap basement to live in.
"I haven’t lived in the basement before, but I didn’t know it was wet and damp until I lived there, and there was a musty smell everywhere. Why live in the basement? " Yu Meng said with a wry smile, "I don’t have much money, and I don’t want to ask my family for it."
"You can stay in a better hotel when you are on a business trip. As soon as you get back there, you feel like you have fallen from heaven to hell." Loneliness and inferiority crept into his body. Yu Meng once suspected that he had depression. He broke contact with his friends and rarely talked to his colleagues. After work, I always like to "stay" outside a cafe in Joy City. "I don’t want to go back to that boring and lonely place."
After getting alopecia areata and losing a piece of hair, Yu Meng decided to move. He found a rental house with a good environmental location, with a monthly rent of 2,000 yuan. After signing the contract and paying a deposit of 5,000 yuan, Yu Meng told his mother the "good news" with joy, but he didn’t want to be drenched with cold water.
"My mother didn’t advise me to live in such an expensive house and advised me to eat more bitterness. After all, I still have to pay back the mortgage of that house in my hometown, and I have to get more than 2,000 yuan a month, and my salary is not enough. " After calling, Yu Meng cried bitterly for a few minutes.
However, what made Yu Meng collapse even more was that he met a black intermediary, and the deposit finally hit Shui Piao. Yu Meng didn’t want to find another house, and continued to live in the basement for more than a year.
"Fortunately, I am a Xiaoqiang who can’t be killed. I survived that difficult time."
Today, Yu Meng lives in a clean and tidy shared room of more than 10 square meters, with a monthly rent of more than 2,000 yuan. The residential environment is good and it is close to the place where he goes to work.
In Yu Meng’s view, Beijing is a place that people love and hate.
"In recent years, my horizons have broadened a lot, and my living standards have improved, but my happiness is not high and I have no sense of belonging. I don’t know if I will continue to drift. If you are busy, you will forget the rest; Once I am free, I feel ‘ Empty, lonely and cold ’ . I have thought about fleeing and returning to my parents and brothers many times, but I am not willing. If there are no more people or things in Beijing that make me worth staying, I will go back to Nanjing to start a business. After all, I am closer to home. "
"Beijing is like a ‘ Love rat ’ I gave it my best youth, but it refused to give me a home. "
In her fifth year in Beijing, 28-year-old Li Meng sent a message to her mother: I want to quit my job and go home!
She felt that she was pushed to the limit by her work.
Appear bleary-eyed in the crowd at the morning rush hour of the subway every day. It takes an hour and a half to get to the unit by changing the subway three times and taking two bus stops. Waiting for her, there are endless planning cases and PPT. When there is a big event, it is normal to work overtime all night.
"I feel that my body and mind have been devastated." Li Meng said.
And let Li Meng made up his mind to go home, it is more than 12 o’clock one night, Li Meng was awakened by a hard knock on the door and asked who it was. No one answered, but he knocked harder and twisted the doorknob from time to time. Li Meng felt that her brain was blank. She ran to the kitchen and got a kitchen knife, and called 110. "I don’t know how long it took. The knock on the door outside the house stopped, and the property sent someone. I didn’t find anything unusual. They said that someone might be drunk and admit the wrong door."
Li Meng never fell asleep again, and stayed alone in the studio of the old residential area outside the Fifth Ring Road, waiting for dawn. "It’s nice to turn to my friends in my hometown to bask in my children and husband, and they laugh so happily! Look at me again, poor thing! "
Early the next morning, she knocked down the WeChat that fled Beijing.
"At that time, I felt that Beijing was like a ‘ Love rat ’ I gave it my best youth, but it refused to give me a home. " Li Meng can’t remember where she saw this sentence, but she felt that she spoke her inner feelings very accurately.
However, Li Meng returned to his hometown in Northeast China for six months, but failed.
In my hometown, I can go to all places within an hour, and there are few people on the street after 9 pm. There are no endless exhibitions, plays and lectures, but there are many relatives and classmates who take pleasure in comparing with others. "In their eyes, they are not married at the age of 27 or 28; Do not want to take an examination of public institutions and civil servants; Get married and don’t have children. Think about Dink … … These behaviors are heterogeneous. "
Li Meng also tried to work in an Internet company in her hometown for two months, but she found that the employees’ overall business level was not high, and everyone’s ideas were conservative. They were used to the fast-paced working life in Beijing, but they didn’t adapt to it when they went home.
"Although Beijing has abused me thousands of times, I can only treat it like first love. After all, it really gave me an experience and vision that my hometown could not give. "
During these years in Beijing, Li Meng likes to go to the Film Archive and livehouse when he is free.
In this way, Li Meng once again returned to Beijing. She interviewed a large-scale real estate company to do event planning, and most of her team were young people. "The atmosphere here is more relaxed and free, you can meet people who used to only see in the news, and you often have the opportunity to go abroad for business trips. Such platforms and resources are unattainable in their hometown. "
Drawing lessons from previous renting, Li Meng "collected" a roommate online. The two girls rented a small two-bedroom apartment together. Although the monthly rent is twice as expensive, the community is new, with 24-hour security and safety.
Now, Li Meng, who has been drifting in the North for eight years, feels that she is more mature than before. "Difficulties always have to be experienced. In Beijing, more blood and tears mean more growth. I feel that my horizons are more open. My horizons are not the same as going to high-end places, using high-end products and living a luxurious life. Instead, I have the opportunity to contact the world more, embrace the world, and gain mature and diversified thinking. Perspective, critical thinking, and strong empathy are more important to me. "
"I was in debt for 300 thousand in the second year of my work, but I never thought of leaving Beijing."
Darren Liu, a young town man from Sichuan, made up his mind very early that he must go to Beijing in the future. "When I was very young, my parents went out to work, and only my grandfather took me at home. At that time, my grandfather told me that if I went to Beijing to study, I would be able to get ahead."
It is said that the harder you work, the luckier you will be. Darren Liu was admitted to a well-known university in the capital as he wished. Before graduating from university, he got a postgraduate degree. At the age of 24, he worked in the financial system and got a Beijing hukou more smoothly.
"When I got my hukou, I felt that I was finally going to get a foothold in Beijing. At that time, the house price had not risen. I figured how I could get a down payment on the house in a few years." However, it wasn’t long before Darren Liu found that the house seemed to be too late for him to save money to buy.
"When I went to work one day, a message popped up on the Internet saying that the average house price in Beijing’s Fifth Ring Road had reached 30,000. My first reaction at that time was that this was false news." Although he was dubious about the news, Darren Liu immediately made an appointment with a real estate agent. After work that day, he hurried to see the house.
Three months later, Darren Liu selected a small apartment outside the South Fourth Ring Road with a down payment of 500,000 yuan. My parents in my hometown took out all the savings of 200 thousand, but it was a far cry from it. Darren Liu had to bite the bullet and borrow from his colleagues, predecessors and leaders. The taste of borrowing money is not good, but Darren Liu can only do this: "If I miss this opportunity, I will never want to buy a house in Beijing in my life."
In the second year of work, 25-year-old Darren Liu was burdened with a foreign debt of 300,000 yuan, providing a monthly mortgage of nearly 10,000 yuan. This once "other people’s children" lived in Beijing with extra anxiety: working overtime desperately to change their performance, for fear that they would be eliminated by work if they relaxed; Rent a small bedroom of seven or eight square meters, and there is basically no extra space outside the bed; There is not a penny left, and when it is the most "bleak", you have to find one yuan and fifty cents in the piggy bank to collect lunch money; I don’t go out on weekends and holidays, and I have been rejected by my girlfriend for being stingy, boring and uninterested for countless times.
"Who doesn’t want to live a quality life, but you can’t be fake and exquisite without money." Although helpless, Darren Liu understands that it is not easy for a child who lives in a foreign country and has an ordinary family to really establish himself in Beijing. However, the thought of harvest, Darren Liu still feel particularly hopeful.
Darren Liu said that the happiest thing when renting a house is that his girlfriend will cook him a simple lunch on weekends.
In 2019, it was the 13th year that Liu Di came to Beijing. At the age of 31, he moved to a new unit and his salary tripled. Married his girlfriend and moved into a new home. For so many years of living in the North drift, Darren Liu said: "Although it is very hard, I have never given up. If I hadn’t stayed here, I wouldn’t have forced myself to grow up so fast. Stay in Beijing, but I feel practical. "
Darren Liu always disliked that the word "drifting north" was endowed with too much "desolation". "Beijing, though bigger and more crowded than other cities, also means more opportunities and more choices. The world of adults is not easy anywhere. drifting north is just a choice of life. Since you choose this life, you have to bear all the things it gives you. " (At the request of the interviewee, all the articles are pseudonyms.)
