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Disable the recall! Japanese pharmaceutical companies apologize and admit that they are also available in China.

China News Network reported on the 24th: Recently, Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Company, a well-known Japanese pharmaceutical company, said that some consumers who took the health products containing monascus ingredients produced by the company had recently developed symptoms caused by kidney diseases, and some patients even needed dialysis. In view of this situation, the company decided to recall three products containing related ingredients.

The recalled monascus health care products are labeled as "lowering cholesterol" and the products are introduced as "natural sugar-free". At present, some domestic e-commerce websites in China are still selling related products. Consumers who have bought similar health care products are reminded to confirm as soon as possible and immediately stop taking the products that the manufacturers have announced to recall. (China News Network CCTV Finance)

News quick glance

Recently, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Enrollment of Colleges and Universities in 2024", which deployed the work of establishing and perfecting a high-level examination security system, vigorously promoting the fairness of admission opportunities, steadily promoting the reform of college entrance examination enrollment, strictly regulating the enrollment management, and optimizing the publicity service for examination enrollment. The "Notice" requires that all local schools should not arbitrarily change their enrollment plans and severely crack down on "college entrance examination immigrants". (Xinhua News Agency)

On March 24th, "Haiji II", the first deepwater jacket in Asia with a total weight of nearly 37,000 tons, independently designed and built by China, started offshore installation. This is the first time that a fixed jacket has been installed in a sea area over 300 meters in Asia. After successful installation, many Asian records such as operating depth, height and weight will be set, and the installation process is expected to last for three days. (CCTV News)

Zheng Shanjie, director of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, said in Beijing on the 24th that the National Development and Reform Commission will continue to take practical measures to accelerate the development of new quality productive forces. In expanding high-level opening up, we should make greater efforts to introduce foreign investment, speed up the publication of the negative list of foreign investment access in 2024, continue to support the construction of a number of major foreign investment projects, expand market access for digital products, and vigorously promote the development, opening up and circulation of data. (China News Network)

According to the website of the Ministry of Finance, recently, the Ministry of Finance and the Emergency Management Department pre-allocated 40 million yuan of central natural disaster relief funds, including 20 million yuan in Sichuan Province to support forest fire relief work; 20 million yuan will be pre-allocated in Yunnan Province to support drought relief work, which will be mainly used to solve the water difficulties of urban and rural residents, purchase and lease emergency water storage, water purification and water supply equipment, organize personnel to protect the domestic water of urban and rural residents, and carry out relief for people who have temporary difficulties due to disasters. (CCTV)

At present, with the orderly promotion of spring ploughing and preparation for ploughing, the whole country has entered the peak period of purchasing agricultural materials. According to the dispatch of the special class of agricultural resources protection and supply in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, at present, the rate of fertilizer in place at the provincial level is 82.7%, and the rate at the county level is 77.1%. All localities are accelerating their household registration, and the progress is the same as normal. (Yang Guangwang)

The National Internet Information Office recently promulgated the Regulations on Promoting and Regulating the Cross-border Flow of Data. The regulations clarified the reporting standards for exit safety assessment of important data, defined the conditions for data exit activities that are exempted from reporting exit safety assessment of data, concluded personal information exit standard contracts and passed personal information protection certification, and established a negative list system for free trade pilot zones. (Rule of Law Daily)

Social hot spot

On March 23rd, a man in Shanxi found a 17-year-old girl’s mobile phone, and after returning it, the other party claimed to have lost 200 yuan’s cash in the phone case and called the police. Later, the girl changed her mouth and admitted that there was no money in the phone case. Finally, the girl apologized under the mediation of the police. The man’s family said that it was chilling to be blackmailed for doing good deeds. (Guangdong Online)

Recently, a man in uniform at a toll station in Yulin, Shaanxi Province forced the driver to eat garbage can food, which caused concern. In this regard, Shaanxi Traffic Control Yuwu Branch informed that the personnel involved were suspended for inspection and handling, and were subject to further investigation, and asked the toll stations of the branch to draw inferences and strengthen the internal management of employees. (Guangming. com)

On March 24th, Liu Haijing, an 18-year-old girl from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, reported that her biological father Liu had raped her twice. Liu Haijing said that she had asked her grandmother for help about her rape and indecency by Liu, but she was ignored. On the same day, the reporter learned that the police had completed the investigation of the problems reflected by Liu Haijing, but it was not convenient to disclose the specific situation. (People pay attention to Luzhong Morning News)

Recently, the announcement of "Deferred Delivery Penalty Deducting Parking Space Payment" issued by Suzhou Evergrande Real Estate triggered a heated discussion. The announcement called on the owners to only purchase parking spaces by default, saying that each household can deduct one parking space, and the reference price for parking space sales is 100,000 yuan/car. "If you can buy it, hurry to buy it. If you don’t buy a parking space, I don’t know when the penalty for overdue delivery will be paid." According to the staff of the project sales office, because the developer has financial problems, it is difficult to get this liquidated damages if it faces liquidation in the future. (national business daily)

On March 24th, the Beijing News reporter learned that the new tea company Xicha issued a statement saying that the unconfirmed cooperation card was exposed in advance and the supplier’s cooperation qualification was cancelled. There was a suspected reselling problem during the execution of the activity, and the employees involved in the store were dismissed. (Beijing News Shell Finance)

On March 24th, the cover journalist learned from Chen Xiaojia’s (pseudonym) mother, Ms. Li, that Chen Xiaojia, who lost contact while traveling alone in Emei Mountain on February 7th, was recently found under a cliff, with no vital signs. (cover news)

On the 23rd, Nongfu Spring’s intranet responded "Donate 24,000 bottles of water": actually, it donated more than 200,000 bottles, which seems to be a little "stingy", but don’t be small but not good. This is a practice of Nongfu Spring’s values, and it will continue to carry forward this value. In addition, Nongfu Spring pointed out that the online donation of 100 million to Harvard and 50 million to the earthquake in Japan is purely a rumor. (huashang. com)

Guizhou zhandian

Recently, the reporter learned from the Guizhou Provincial Department of Finance that from January to February 2024, the province’s general public budget revenue totaled 37.035 billion yuan, an increase of 7.3%. Among them, the tax revenue was 24.876 billion yuan, an increase of 3.6%; Non-tax revenue reached 12.159 billion yuan, an increase of 15.8%. (Colorful Guizhou Network)

Recently, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the State Post Bureau jointly issued the Notice on Announcing the Creation Results of the Fourth Batch of National Demonstration Counties of "Four Good Rural Roads". 195 county-level administrative units are national demonstration counties of "Four Good Rural Roads". Among them, Wudang District of Guiyang City, Huichuan District of Zunyi City, Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County, Chishui City, Xixiu District of Anshun City, Bijiang District of tongren city City, Wanshan District of tongren city City, Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Wangmo County, Liping County and Rongjiang County are on the list. (Ministry of Communications)

The flight from Guiyang to Macau will resume on April 1st. At the beginning of the resumption, Air Macau launched a promotional price for passengers departing from Guiyang with a minimum of 540 one-way tax and a minimum of 1060 round-trip tax. Before March 31, tickets will be purchased on the official platform of Air Macau, and additional tickets for sightseeing in macau tower will be attached; It can also be ordered on WeChat applet. (Guizhou Daily)

Recently, the list of the national step and pistol shooting team participating in the Paris Olympic Games was announced, among which Guizhou athlete Xie Yu was named, and will represent China in the men’s 10m air pistol and 10m air pistol mixed team in the Paris Olympic Games. (Colorful Guizhou Network)

Guizhou athlete Xie Yu won the honorary certificate of the trial (second from left)

A few days ago, the Guizhou Provincial Procuratorate issued the Special Work Plan for the Service Guarantee of Guizhou Procuratorial Organs around the strategic goal of the Provincial Party Committee to promote the "rich ore and fine mining", and decided to deploy and carry out the special work for the service guarantee of "rich ore and fine mining" in the procuratorial organs of the province in 2024, providing strong procuratorial guarantee for Guizhou to vigorously promote the "rich ore and fine mining" and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with Guizhou characteristics. (Procuratorial Daily)

Original title: "Stop immediately, emergency recall! 》

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On the afternoon of February 8, a traffic accident occurred when a truck collided with a car in the direction of Baoshan, Yunnan, on the Hangrui Expressway, killing five people and injuring one. Ms. Yang, the family member of the victims, told The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) on February 26th that Baoshan traffic police had confirmed the responsibility of the accident on February 25th, and identified the truck driver Wei Moumou as fully responsible for the accident.

The Paper previously reported that Ms. Yang’s father and his five people went to Yunnan to ask for the project payment in the Spring Festival. After getting back more than 1.2 million yuan in cash, the five people returned to Chongqing in a Volkswagen car driven by Yang and suffered a car accident on the way.

The Letter of Confirmation of Road Traffic Accidents issued by the Second Brigade of the Traffic Police Detachment of Baoshan Public Security Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the Letter of Confirmation) shows that on the afternoon of February 8, Wei Moumou drove the Futian brand heavy-duty warehouse truck of Yun M35775 from mangshi to Baoshan along Hangrui Expressway, and when he reached the k2777-972 meters of Hangrui Expressway at 17: 35, A rear-end collision occurred with the Chongqing A89W76 Volkswagen sedan driven by Yang Moumou in front. After the collision, the two cars rolled over one after another, and in the process of sliding forward, they scraped a Wuling minibus in front. The Volkswagen sedan then caught fire, causing five people to die on the spot, some RMB and articles burned, and Su Mou, a passenger of Futian heavy-duty warehouse truck, was injured.

Road traffic accident certificate (part) Photo courtesy of the interviewee

According to the Letter of Confirmation, the registered owner of the truck was Wei Xiaofen, and the registered residence was Xinjie Freight Co., Ltd., Longyang District, Baoshan City, with an approved load of 19.5 tons. At the time of the incident, the cargo of the truck was 30 tons.

According to the "Certificate of Confirmation", Wei Moumou drove a vehicle whose parts did not meet the technical standards and whose load exceeded the approved load quality on the road. After discovering that the vehicle brake failed during driving, he failed to take timely measures to avoid danger, and still drove the vehicle that was out of control and drove at a high speed, which was the root cause of the accident and assumed full responsibility for the accident.

Ms. Yang and other families of the victims confirmed to The Paper that the cash of 677,210 yuan left at the scene of the accident had been distributed to them in proportion.

Ms. Yang said that she returned to Chongqing from Baoshan on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month (February 14th). At present, she is taking care of her poor mother while working, and the follow-up of the car accident has been entrusted to local lawyers in Baoshan.

The staff of the Traffic Police Detachment of Baoshan Public Security Bureau said on the 26th that Wei Moumou was suspected of traffic accidents and had been criminally detained by the public security organs according to law, and the case was being handled according to procedures.

Recently, sogou announced that due to business adjustment, sogou hardware products will officially stop service at 23: 59 on May 30, 2024.This indicates that sogou’s hardware products such as Sugar Cat Watch, Sugar Cat at Home, Sugar Cat Dictionary Pen, sogou Translate Pen and sogou Recording Pen will no longer provide any online services, technical support or maintenance services.In order to ensure the safety of users’ personal information, sogou promised to delete all users’ data safely after the service stopped, and reminded users to back up relevant data in time.

Source: sogou

Since it was incorporated by Tencent, at least ten businesses of sogou have been shut down one after another, including sogou, sogou Reading, sogou Lending, sogou search App, sogou Map, sogou Game Center, sogou Internet Alliance and so on. With the adjustment of various businesses, many former sogou people who merged into Tencent’s non-core business departments mostly left after several rounds of business adjustment.

Hardware exits, and everything has a warning.

Intelligent hardware was once regarded by Wang Xiaochuan, then Sogou CEO, as the second growth curve of sogou except the combination of search+input method+browser. In his plan, the proportion of intelligent hardware in sogou’s overall revenue will reach 10%, but it did not reach this standard until sogou was acquired by Tencent.

Sogou’s last financial report before delisting showed that in the second quarter of 2021, sogou’s total revenue was US$ 147.5 million, of which search and search-related business revenue was US$ 137.2 million, down 43% year-on-year, accounting for 92%; The non-search revenue, including intelligent hardware, was $10.3 million, accounting for less than 10% of the revenue.

Although this part of the decline in revenue is mainly due to the company’s strategy of shrinking non-core business, sogou’s intelligent hardware is not without struggle. In fact, sogou’s intelligent hardware business also had its own highlight moments.

On December 8, 2014, sogou officially launched the company’s first intelligent hardware device-children’s smart watch "Sugar Cat", announcing the exploration of opening intelligent hardware business.At that time, it was the time when the intelligent hardware industry flourished. Sugar Cat, which was established only one year ago, achieved quite good results in the 618 promotion in 2015 and became the double champion of sales and reputation of children’s smart watches.

Source: Baidu Encyclopedia

After that, sogou successively released intelligent hardware products such as dictionary pens, recording pens, translation treasures and translation pens. In 2018, JD.COM, a travel translator named sogou, was first put on the shelves, with sales exceeding 10 million, winning the first place in the same category in JD.COM; In 2020, the sogou recording pen S1, which was priced at over 3,000 yuan, was put on the first show live room in Tik Tok, Luo Yonghao, and gained 48 million cumulative viewers.

The above list is one of the few highlights of sogou’s intelligent hardware business. Since its development in 2014, sogou’s intelligent hardware business has occasionally improved, but the competitors of each subdivision track are too strong. At the children’s smart watch track, there are manufacturers focusing on children’s watches such as Little Genius and Abachi, as well as digital manufacturers such as Huawei and Xiaomi, which have developed from smart watches across the border. In hardware tracks such as translation pens, dictionary pens and recording pens, there are also giants such as Iflytek, Netease Youdao, Alibaba and Baidu competing for competition.

Source: sogou

Taking dictionary pens as an example, as an important part of intelligent education hardware, it is difficult for sogou to cross the two mountains of Iflytek and Netease Youdao. According to the online monitoring data of RUNTO, in 2023, the retail volume of the online open retail market of dictionaries and pens in China (excluding e-commerce companies with content such as vibrato) was 3.626 million, and the sales volume reached 1.78 billion yuan.

Among them, Iflytek’s Alpha Egg and Netease ranked first and second respectively, accounting for 54% of the domestic market, while the TOP10 brands such as Aifen, Little Genius, samtwos and BBK only occupied single-digit market share, and sogou was directly reduced to Others.

Dictionary pens are only the epitome of sogou’s smart hardware business. After careful observation, it is not difficult to find that most of the products launched by sogou after joining the smart hardware track are aimed at specific people and specific businesses.It’s not that there is something wrong with the idea of choosing the track, but that compared with competing products, the products don’t show the advantage of continuously attracting the target group, and multi-line operations all face the same problem, so it’s not surprising that sogou’s hardware business ended up like this.

Sogou is lonely, with little business left.

Looking back on the development of sogou in the past 20 years, it left its own trace in the Internet PC era in China, and it had a history with Internet giants such as Sohu, Alibaba and Tencent.

In 2003, sogou engine was hatched in Sohu, but at this time, Baidu was firmly at the top of domestic search engines, leaving little room for sogou to play. Subsequently, the sogou input method gained a good reputation from users because of its convenient and accurate pinyin input and rich related vocabulary. According to public information, around 2010, the user utilization rate of sogou input method reached 79.7%, far ahead of other input methods, and this advantage was not surpassed by Baidu until 2020.

In this process, Wang Xiaochuan, the former CEO of sogou, put forward a three-stage rocket traffic conduction model of "input method-browser-search", which was once regarded as a classic business model by the search industry. like thatWith the advent of the mobile Internet era, the traffic portal has shifted, and the cross-application jump obstacles have made the information collection and integration ability that search engines are proud of fail. Sogou has also been gradually marginalized in a new wave, and the original search engine and input method have also withdrawn from the core competition circle.

Source: sogou

It can be said that since sogou announced the completion of the merger with Tencent on September 24th, 2021 and became an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Tencent, sogou, as the afterglow of the PC Internet era, can already foresee what will happen next. That is to say, the core business is integrated into Tencent, and the marginal business is gradually retired, which is particularly obvious in the peak period of Internet companies’ cost reduction and efficiency increase, and the unprofitable business is ushered in a large-scale contraction.

After sogou shut down the intelligent hardware business across the board, there are not many business lines in sogou that we can see on the bright side. Maybe sogou Input Method will leave quietly one day.By then, we can only find traces of sogou’s existence in Tencent products that have been integrated into sogou business, such as WeChat Watch and Search.

The strong are always strong, and there is no "small but beautiful" in intelligent hardware.

While remembering, we still have to face up to the fact that sogou quit the hardware business, and what the rest of the players in the intelligent hardware track should do to live longer.

In sogou’s intelligent hardware subdivision track, Xiao Lei saw a common trend: the strong will always be strong.A small number of head brands occupy the vast majority of the market share. Only when emerging brands stand out in the brutal market competition can they survive on the track, which is more obvious in the fields of educational hardware such as children’s smart watches, dictionary pens and learning tablets.

　

Source: Counterpoint

However, the closure of sogou’s hardware business is attributed to many reasons. First of all, the smart hardware market is fiercely competitive, and emerging brands and new technologies are constantly emerging, which makes sogou’s smart hardware products face challenges in function and innovation. When innovation can’t keep up with the market demand, consumers will naturally choose products of other brands, which can be intuitively reflected from the sales situation.

Secondly, the functions of smart phones are becoming more and more powerful, and many functions that can only be enjoyed by hardware products are integrated into smart phones, which makes it difficult for a single function of hardware products to meet the market demand. Only when hardware products adapt to market changes and user needs in time and create more professional functions can they attract target groups.

In addition, the maintenance and update of hardware products need continuous investment. Most of sogou’s revenue comes from search business, so it is obviously unrealistic to ask it to invest in intelligent hardware business that doesn’t make much money regardless of the cost. Later, we also saw that sogou made business adjustments based on cost and strategic considerations.

In the intelligent hardware market, small brands often face more severe challenges than big manufacturers. The closure of hardware services in sogou reflects the shortage of small brands in technology, capital and market competitiveness.

In the rapidly developing science and technology industry, continuous technological innovation is the key to the survival and development of enterprises. Large factories usually have strong R&D teams and abundant technology accumulation, which can quickly respond to market changes and launch innovative products. In contrast, small brands have limited investment in technology research and development, and it is difficult to keep up with the technological progress of the industry, resulting in products gradually falling behind in function and performance.

Source: small degree

With the advantages of scale and good profitability, large factories can invest more resources in product development and market expansion. However, small brands often have limited funds and cannot afford high R&D and marketing expenses, which limits their development space to some extent.

However, this does not mean that small brands have no room for survival and development. In Xiaolei’s view, accurate market positioning and technological innovation with memory points are the few opportunities for small brands to find a foothold in the intelligent hardware market.

Specific to products, children’s smart watches do not have high requirements for entertainment functions. It is the real demand of parents for children’s smart watches to create various learning functions, more convenient instant messaging, similar positioning and other security functions around educational scenes. Dictionary pens need to be innovated in translation accuracy and ease of use. Supporting more languages and accurate translation are only entry standards, and what really separates the products is the use experience for different scenes. The recording pen may strengthen the integration with cloud services to provide more efficient recording and information management solutions.

Although many sub-tracks of intelligent hardware products have different development trends, from the general perspective, versatility, intelligence and scene are the directions that every track needs to pay attention to. Netease Youdao, Baidu Xiaodu, Iflytek and other brands have begun the deep integration of AI+ products/applications. The products and applications such as Xiaodu learning machine Z30 and AI general learning assistant "Youdao Xiaop" APP have derived new usage scenarios and capabilities with the help of AI technology, such as AI assistant with smarter interaction, AI learning and other functions.

Just as the mobile phone, computer, TV and other industries have experienced, the intelligent hardware industry will eventually usher in the AI process of each subdivided track. Lei believes that this is also the general trend of intelligent hardware development in the future.

From May 20th to June 30th, 2024, in the year of 618, the Great Promotion struck, and the six major e-commerce platforms, Taobao Tmall, JD.COM, Pinduoduo, Tik Tok, Aauto Quicker and Xiaohongshu, collectively "listened to persuasion", canceled pre-sale and frantically bargained!

Popular AI hard technology categories such as mobile phone digital, AI PC, smart home appliances, TV, small household appliances and air ice washing are gearing up, and the situation is fierce.

Lei Technology 618 Reporting Group will pay attention to the latest situation of e-commerce platform, the latest trends of AI hard technology brands and the new trends of e-commerce industry, so stay tuned and look forward to it together.

　　[Car Information] I believe that friends who pay attention to the car information section of the car family will still remember our earlier car map articles in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The main purpose of this series of articles is to make consumers buy their favorite cars more conveniently and quickly, and also to let consumers know more about the distribution of cars. In view of the fact that the previous articles have been well received by the majority of netizens, it is imperative to continue to expand the audience, and now it is time for Shenzhen to launch a car purchase guide. If you want to buy a car in Shenzhen in the near future, I suggest that you might as well read this article first. Maybe our car purchase guide can help you a little.

　　The distribution and sales model of 4S stores in Shenzhen are quite different from those in Beijing and Shanghai, but closer to the "centralized and scattered" distribution model in Guangzhou, mainly in automobile cities, and scattered 4S stores will appear in some areas. The 4S stores in Shenzhen are mainly concentrated in three districts, namely, Luohu and Nanshan. These three districts basically include dealers of mainstream automobile brands at present, and the 4S stores in Longgang and Baoan districts are mostly branches of urban dealers. In order to make it easier for everyone to find dealers nearby, we will organize them according to the division this time.Due to the influence of urban planning, some store information in this article may be subject to demolition, etc. If you find that the information is biased, please let us know, and I will update the article for you as soon as possible.

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　　≥≥≥If you missed the earlier articles on car purchase maps in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, you might as wellClick on the picture below.Enter the corresponding articles in order to have a deeper understanding of these areas.

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　　At present, there are 6 districts in Shenzhen, namely Futian District, Luohu District, Nanshan District, Baoan District, Longgang District and Yantian District. Since Shenzhen 4S stores are mainly concentrated in the automobile markets in various districts, the following place names include the names of major automobile markets in Shenzhen.

Main distribution areas of 4S stores in Shenzhen
Futian district	Union huapeng automobile market　 Lingsan distribution dealer qiaocheng east pengchengbao automobile city
luohu district	Scattered distributor　 Dong yi Hua Peng automobile trading market　 South China automobile city International luxury car city
Nanshan District	Scattered distribution dealer Jiajinlong Automobile City Xinhao Automobile City Phase I/Phase II
Longgang District	Scattered distributor　 Dongdu automobile city Henggang Xinyi automobile city
Baoan District	Longhua Baomin Shajing scattered dealer
Yantian district	—

　　All the forms show the name of the 4S store, the LOGO of the selling brand, the details of the selling model, the sales switchboard and the specific address of the 4S store. I hope this information can help you buy a car!

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　　In the future, if a medical and beauty institution comes up with a product that is not a class III medical device and sells it to you as a "water needle", then this institution can directly pull the black. The Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned that National Medical Products Administration issued a notice on adjusting some contents of the Classification Catalogue of Medical Devices, and "Shuiguangzhen" was clearly regulated according to Class III medical devices.

　　survey

　　Water-light needle slightly corrects the fire.

　　The market is "mixed"

　　"Playing a water-light needle is equivalent to applying 1000 masks", "Aunt turns into a girl, only separated by a mixed water-light injection", "One needle can solve N kinds of problems such as hydrating and moisturizing, shrinking pores, lightening fine lines, whitening and removing spots" and "lunch beauty, minimally invasive without moving the knife" … …

　　The hydrating and skin care effect of Shuiguangzhen has been aroused by various road networks, and it has become a hot item in the non-surgical "Light medical cosmetology" market, attracting thousands of women to be obsessed with it. The injection operation of Shuiguang needle is very convenient, and the whole process only takes 1-2 hours. It seems to be an "efficient and safe" entry-level medical beauty project. In Little Red Book, there are as many as 100,000 notes on planting grass related to "Shuiguangzhen" and "Shuiguangzhen Medical Beauty".

　　At present, the price of a dose of water-light needle ranges from hundreds to thousands, or even tens of thousands of yuan. TF Securities pointed out that from the classification point of view, the scale of non-surgical medical beauty in China has expanded rapidly, while the proportion has remained at around 70%, which is higher than the global average. It is estimated that the scale of young medical beauty industry will exceed 200 billion yuan in 2023.

　　Such a huge market is very chaotic. According to the data of "White Paper on Insights into Medical Beauty Industry in China in 2020", at present, the genuine rate of injections circulating in the medical beauty market is only 33.3%, that is, out of every three injections, two are illegal injections such as parallel imports and fakes.

　　Chaos

　　Medical dressings and cosmetics are on the scene one after another.

　　"Shuiguangzhen" market is chaotic

　　When the reporter of Beiqing Daily inquired about some medical beauty platforms, it was found that the types of water-light needles used on the platforms were far more than the "sodium hyaluronate for injection" that had been approved as "Class III medical devices". Not only that, the reporter of Beiqing Daily noticed that some products with the status of "Class III medical devices" have been approved for indications that are irrelevant.

　　For example, a water-light needle named "Shu Wei Ke", the product name is "Medical Sodium Hyaluronate Gel", and it has also obtained the level of "Class III Medical Device", but its registered application scope is "Auxiliary for preventing and reducing postoperative adhesion of abdominal (pelvic) cavity surgery".

　　The "true identity" of more water needles is actually a medical dressing, which can’t be used for injection, and some even only have the record number of cosmetics.

　　The reporter of Beiqing Daily noticed that a kind of human collagen bio-repair dressing named "Kelijin" is a Class II medical device, and it has been approved as a product for healing damaged wounds, but it has been used as a water needle injection in some medical and aesthetic institutions. The product of "Yifuquan" water-light collagen is called yeast recombinant collagen liquid dressing, which is also a class II medical device. It has been approved for "adjuvant treatment of skin diseases caused by impaired skin barrier function and improvement of skin itching caused by dermatitis and eczema", etc., and has not been approved for injection. In September, 2020, it was reported that a Yueyang woman was disfigured when she was given a water-light needle, and the organization injected her with "Femander Youth Essence Enhanced" and "levorotatory VC". Among them, "Feimande" belongs to cosmetics, while the box of "levorotatory VC" does not have any Chinese logo.

　　Not only that, on some e-commerce platforms, there are hundreds of cosmetics that are actually essence, cream and mask with the identity of "water needle". However, as a medical beauty project, the word "Shuiguangzhen" cannot be put on record through cosmetics. According to insiders, calling cosmetics "water needle" is nothing more than a gimmick made by merchants to improve sales.

　　Supervision

　　Clarify the identity of "Shuiguangzhen"

　　Clear the "edge ball" behavior

　　A few days ago, National Medical Products Administration issued an announcement on adjusting some contents of the Classification Catalogue of Medical Devices, which readjusted the classification catalogue of 27 types of medical devices. Among them, especially the catalogue of some medical beauty products has been greatly adjusted. According to the Catalogue, sodium hyaluronate solution for injection, which is the main component of "water-light needle", is used to inject into the dermis, and the skin condition is improved mainly through the moisturizing and hydrating effects of materials such as sodium hyaluronate, and it is regulated according to Class III medical devices.

　　Previously, on November 9, 2021, National Medical Products Administration Medical Device Standard Management Center issued a notice on soliciting opinions on the adjustment of the Classification Catalogue of Medical Devices, which further clarified that Shuiguang needles were classified as Class III devices for supervision.

　　Analysts believe that the adjustment of some contents of the Catalogue of Medical Devices will have a significant impact on the medical and beauty industry. The most obvious is to strictly control the use of non-compliant products by institutions. Through the classification of medical devices, the "edge ball" behavior in the market is gradually eliminated.

　　According to the Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Medical Devices, enterprises engaged in the operation of Class III medical devices are subject to business license management, and business units need to hold a Medical Device Operation Record Certificate or a Medical Device Operation License, and the requirements for production technology and aseptic preservation will be much higher than those for Class I and Class II medical devices.

　　This group/reporter zhangxin

　　Photo courtesy/vision china Coordinator/Yu Meiying

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　　The so-called water-light needle is to inject hyaluronic acid (hyaluronic acid), collagen and other substances into the dermis of the skin by using negative pressure needle to make the skin firm and elastic. National Medical Products Administration Medical Device Technology Evaluation Center once said that water-light acupuncture is a kind of therapy that injects sodium hyaluronate as the main component into the superficial layer of facial dermis to improve the skin condition. As a skin-breaking injection project, water-light needles should be certified as Class III medical devices in National Medical Products Administration before they can be produced and sold.

　　However, it takes a long time to apply for Class III business license of medical devices and a lot of experiments are needed, and the production company is required to have a quality management organization or full-time quality management personnel suitable for the scale and scope of business, which makes many businesses opportunistic.

　　CCTV News:The Central Meteorological Observatory issued a weather bulletin. During the day, there was snowfall in Yantai and Weihai, Shandong Province. In the next three days, the national temperature will continue to be low, paying attention to the impact of strong cold air on the central and eastern regions from the 18th to 20th. The high altitude areas in western Guizhou pay attention to the icing effect of freezing rain on transmission lines, wind farm fans and other facilities. China’s offshore waters are windy, and we are concerned about the harm of strong winds at sea.

　　First, the weather situation

　　Snowfall weather in Yantai and Weihai, Shandong Province;During the day, there were small to medium snows in Yantai and Weihai, Shandong Province, and there was a local snowstorm in Yantai, with a precipitation of 12 mm; There is freezing rain in the western part of Guizhou. There are 6 ~ 8 gusts in Fujian and Zhejiang coastal areas, and the local level is 9 ~ 11.

　　Second, the key weather forecast

　　1. The temperature will continue to be low in most parts of China.

　　In the coming week, the temperature in most parts of China will continue to be low. It is estimated that from 20: 00 on December 17 to 20: 00 on December 20, the daily minimum temperature in parts of northern Xinjiang, central and eastern Northwest China, Inner Mongolia, North China, Northeast China, Huanghuai, Jianghuai, Jianghan, northern Jiangnan and Guizhou will be more than 5℃ lower than the historical period, and the daily minimum temperature in parts of eastern Northwest China, Inner Mongolia, North China, Northeast China, central and eastern Huanghuai and eastern Jianghuai will be 7℃ lower than the historical period.centreThe Meteorological Observatory continued to issue a low-temperature yellow warning at 18: 00 on December 17.

　　In addition, from 20: 00 on December 17 to 20: 00 on the 18 th, there will be strong winds of 5~6 and gusts of 7~8 in southern Xinjiang, central and northern Tibet, central and western Inner Mongolia and Hexi, Gansu; There will be strong winds of magnitude 7-8 and gusts of magnitude 9 in the southwestern part of the East China Sea, the Taiwan Province Strait, the bashi channel, and the northern and central parts of the South China Sea, with winds of magnitude 9 and gusts of magnitude 10 in some parts of the central and eastern South China Sea (see Figure 3).The Central Meteorological Observatory at 18: 00 on December 17Continue to issue a gale blue warning.

　　It is estimated that from 18th to 20th, a new strong cold air will affect the central and eastern regions from north to south, and the temperature will drop by 4 ~ 8℃ in parts of central and western Inner Mongolia, eastern Northwest China, North China, Huanghuai, Jianghuai, eastern Jiangnan and central and eastern South China, and the temperature will drop by more than 10℃ in parts of northwestern Shanxi, eastern Liaoning and eastern Jilin.

Figure 1 Forecast chart of national average temperature anomaly (from 20: 00 on December 17 to 20: 00 on December 20)

Figure 2 National lowest temperature forecast map (20: 00 on December 17 -20: 00 on December 20)

Figure 3 National Gale Forecast Chart (20: 00 on December 17th-20: 00 on December 18th)

　　There is rain and snow in the south.

　　From the night of 17th to 19th, there will be rain and snow in most parts of the south, sleet or snow in some areas such as Jianghuai area, light rain and local rain in Jiangnan and South China. From the night of 17th to 18th, there was freezing rain in high altitude areas such as north-central and eastern Guizhou, western and southern Hunan.

　　Third, the specific forecast for the next three days

　　From 20: 00 on December 17 to 20: 00 on December 18,There is light snow or sleet in parts of southeastern Tibet, southern Qinghai, southeastern Northwest China, western Huanghuai, northern Sichuan Plateau, Jianghuai and Jianghan, among which there is moderate to heavy snow (5 ~ 7 mm) in parts of southeastern Tibet, north-central Anhui and north-central Jiangsu. There are small to moderate rains in parts of the eastern part of Southwest China, the central, eastern and southern parts of Jiangnan, northern South China, Hainan Island and Taiwan Province Island. There are 4 ~ 6 winds in parts of central and western Inner Mongolia, Hexi in Gansu, Liaodong Peninsula and central Zhejiang, and there are 7 ~ 8 winds locally (see Figure 4).

Figure 4 National Precipitation Forecast Chart (from 20: 00 on December 17th to 20: 00 on December 18th)

　　From 20: 00 on December 18 to 20: 00 on December 19,There is light snow or sleet in parts of central and eastern Liaoning, southeastern Jilin, central and southern Jiangsu and Anhui, western Jiangxi, northeastern Hunan and central and eastern Guizhou, among which there is moderate to heavy snow (5 ~ 6 mm) in central Liaoning and other places. There is light rain in parts of south-central Jiangnan, southern Guizhou, western and northern Fujian, most of Guangxi and Hainan Island. There are 5 ~ 6 winds in parts of Liaodong Peninsula, northern Hebei, Shandong Peninsula and northern Zhejiang (see Figure 5).

Figure 5 National Precipitation Forecast Chart (20: 00 on December 18th-20: 00 on December 19th)

　　From 20: 00 on December 19 to 20: 00 on December 20,There is light snow in parts of Ili Valley in Xinjiang, eastern Jilin and Shandong Peninsula. There is light rain in most parts of Zhejiang, Fujian, southwestern Guizhou, central, eastern and southwestern Yunnan, southeastern Guangxi, southwestern Guangdong, and northwestern Hainan Island. There are 5 ~ 6 winds in parts of Liaodong Peninsula, northern Hebei, Shandong Peninsula, northern Zhejiang and southeastern Guangxi (see Figure 6).

Figure 6 National Precipitation Forecast Chart (20: 00 on December 19 -20: 00 on December 20)

First, the development process of China’s medical beauty industry

According to Article 2 of the Measures for the Administration of Medical Beauty Services, medical beauty refers to the repair and reshaping of human appearance and the morphology of various parts of the human body by surgery, drugs, medical devices and other traumatic or invasive medical techniques. Medical beauty is divided into surgical and non-surgical medical beauty according to whether surgery is needed, which are all carried out by registered professional doctors and medical experts.

Compared with the United States, South Korea and other big countries, China’s medical beauty industry started late, and its development process can be roughly divided into three stages:

Figure 1: The development course of China’s medical beauty industry

According to public information

From 1949 to 2008, marked by the establishment of plastic surgery for the first time, the domestic medical beauty industry began to sprout. In 1949, plastic surgery was established for the first time in China, which marked the germination of medical beauty industry in China. Since then, many public hospitals have set up plastic surgery departments, such as the Plastic Surgery Hospital of China Medical College. During this period, the main demand for medical beauty comes from passive plastic surgery such as post-injury repair and correction.

2008-2014 was the initial stage of the industry, and the upstream raw material manufacturers developed well, which led to the emergence of private medical institutions. This stage has three characteristics. First, a number of related companies are listed or listed, such as the listing of Huaxi Bio in Hong Kong in 2008 and the establishment of Huahan Plastic in 2010. Second, industry integration and mergers and acquisitions are frequent, and Langzi, suning universal and Fosun all deploy the medical and beauty industry through mergers and acquisitions; Third, the cooperation between China and South Korea has been further deepened, with Langzi and Evergrande as the representatives, and Korean technology and doctors have been continuously introduced and promoted.

Since 2014, with the help of capital, the industry has prospered and developed, and the "internet plus" wave has given birth to the Internet medical beauty platform. Driven by the mobile Internet and consumption upgrading, the Internet medical beauty platform has developed and gradually become the hub of the medical beauty industry chain. Since 2014, Internet medical beauty platforms such as New Oxygen, More Beauty and Yuemei.com have been favored by the capital market and have won several rounds of financing.

Second, the general situation of medical beauty industry chain

According to the relationship between the upstream and downstream of medical beauty products from manufacturing to serving consumers, the medical beauty industry chain can be divided into upstream raw material equipment manufacturers and downstream medical beauty institutions. The upstream raw material equipment, including instruments and equipment, injections and auxiliary materials, reach downstream private or public institutions through direct sales or consignment by manufacturers to provide corresponding services for medical beauty consumers. In addition, with the development of Internet technology and the penetration of consumer groups, the Internet medical beauty platform helps upstream manufacturers simplify distribution links by linking medical beauty institutions, and on the other hand, it can help consumers make efficient decisions. Related service providers include medical beauty industry information service providers, medical beauty APP, medical beauty insurance and so on.

Figure 2: Medical Beauty Industry Chain, compiled and drawn by the author.

Third, the status quo of China’s medical beauty industry

With the improvement of economic conditions, the continuous improvement of living standards, and at the same time, China consumers are influenced by the new trend of international medical beauty, and their awareness of medical beauty consumption is gradually awakening, and the medical beauty market is showing a rapid development trend. In 2019, the medical beauty market in China reached 176.9 billion yuan, and the CAGR was 28.54% in 2015-2019, which was higher than the same period in the world.

Figure 3: Global and China Medical and Beauty Industry Market Scale in 2015-2019

Source: Lemon Aimei, iResearch, etc.

1. Upstream: the overall concentration of raw materials and equipment is relatively high, and the domestic substitution is accelerated.

Medical cosmetology can be divided into surgical category (plastic surgery) and non-surgical category (Light medical cosmetology), in which the market capacity of Light medical cosmetology, China has steadily expanded, accounting for a stable proportion of the overall medical beauty market. Surgical medical beauty projects include eyelid plastic surgery, nose plastic surgery, oral orthodontics, hair transplantation and other head and face projects, breast enhancement and other chest projects, as well as liposuction and other physical projects. Non-surgical medical beauty projects include injection projects such as botulinum toxin and hyaluronic acid, facial rejuvenation projects such as photon rejuvenation, and other projects such as tooth beauty. China’s Light medical cosmetology market accounts for a much higher proportion of the overall medical beauty market than the surgical cosmetic plastic surgery market, and has been stable at around 65%-70% in recent years. In 2018, the market size of China Light medical cosmetology was 102.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.62%; In 2019, the market size of China Light medical cosmetology was 119.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.86%.

Table 1: Classification of Medical Beauty Projects

According to public information

Figure 4: The market scale of China Light medical cosmetology accounts for a high proportion of the overall medical beauty project scale.

Source: iResearch.

Figure 5: China Light medical cosmetology market size

Source: iResearch.

In terms of raw materials in Light medical cosmetology, hyaluronic acid and botulinum toxin are the main injection fillers. According to ISAPS data, the plastic surgery projects using botulinum toxin and hyaluronic acid reached 5.03 million and 3.3 million respectively, accounting for a total of 66%. According to the new oxygen big data, hyaluronic acid and botulinum toxin accounted for 66.59% and 32.67% respectively, accounting for a total of 99.26%.

Figure 6: Distribution of Injection Medicine Beauty in China

Source: New Oxygen Big Data

Upstream products have high technical barriers and strict listing approval, resulting in a high concentration of upstream manufacturers. In China, it takes 3-5 years to get the certificate of hyaluronic acid class III medical devices, and it takes 5-8 years to get the registration certificate of botulinum toxin drugs. Therefore, the upstream medical machinery link in the United States has a high moat advantage with strict policies and technical barriers. Up to now, a total of 16 enterprises in China’s mainland market have the registration certificate of hyaluronic acid class III medical devices issued by NMPA, while only 4 enterprises have the registration certificate of botulinum toxin biological drugs, of which only one is domestic.

Table 2: List of Domestic Approved Hyaluronic Acid and Botulinum Toxin Products

Source: NMPA, flint creation

Hyaluronic acid (commonly known as hyaluronic acid) is a kind of natural macromolecular mucopolysaccharide with N- acetylglucosamine and D- glucuronic acid as structural units, which widely exists in vertebrate connective tissues and body fluids, and has unique viscoelasticity and excellent water retention properties. At present, medical grade hyaluronic acid terminal products mainly cover three application fields: medical beauty, orthopedic treatment and ophthalmic treatment. In 2018, the medical beauty market was larger than other application fields, reaching 3.70 billion yuan, and the growth rate was higher than other fields, with a compound growth rate of 32.3% from 2014 to 2018. In 2020, it is estimated that the market scale of medical beauty hyaluronic acid terminal products in China will reach 4.82 billion yuan.

Figure 7: Market size of medical-grade hyaluronic acid end products in China (100 million yuan)

Source: Frost & Suliivan

China’s hyaluronic acid market is dominated by imports, and there is a large room for domestic substitution. At present, there are more than 20 kinds of hyaluronic acid products subdivided by National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). In terms of sales, the top four companies in the hyaluronic acid market are all foreign-funded enterprises, accounting for 68% of the total in 2019, and imported products dominate. In terms of sales volume, the sales volume of domestic hyaluronic acid has exceeded 40% in 2018, and domestic brands have gradually emerged. With the continuous improvement of cross-linking method and production technology of domestic hyaluronic acid products, the gap between domestic products and imported products in terms of concentration, degree of cross-linking, particle size, hardness and cohesiveness is gradually narrowing, and the domestic substitution process of hyaluronic acid will be deepened.

Figure 8: China Medical Beauty HA Product Sales Ranking in 2019

Source: Frost & Suliivan

Figure 9: Sales ranking of HA products of China Medical Beauty in 2018

Source: Frost & Suliivan

Botulinum toxin (commonly known as botulinum toxin): It is a toxic protein secreted by botulinum in the process of reproduction and has strong neurotoxicity. Botulinum toxin, as a nerve agent, can inhibit the release of acetylcholine from nerve endings by irreversibly cutting the neurotransmitter conduction complex, thus causing muscle relaxation and paralysis. However, its biggest application scenario is not in the medical field, but for medical beauty needs such as dynamic wrinkle correction, face-lifting and stovepipe. The overall market scale of botulinum toxin in China is in the stage of rapid growth. According to Limu Information Consulting, the market scale of botulinum toxin sold through formal channels in China has accelerated since 2015, reaching 3.92 billion yuan in 2018, a year-on-year increase of 32%.

Because the product is highly toxic, it is strictly regulated by the state. At present, there are only four official certifications in China (Hengli made in China, BOTOX imported from the United States, Dysport made by Ipsen in Britain and Letty Bo developed by Hugel in Korea). There are still seven botulinum toxin products in the process of applying for qualification. Looking around the world, the United States is the dominant company, Korean botulinum toxin producers all have the layout in China, and other manufacturers are researching botulinum toxin products, and Britain, Germany, Russia and India all have product layouts.

Laser beauty equipment: There are many kinds of equipment in the medical beauty equipment market, among which laser beauty equipment achieves the effect of plastic surgery through "light intervention" and becomes the backbone of the beauty medical market. Laser beauty instrument can be used in the fields of skin softening, nevus removal, wrinkle removal, hair removal and so on. According to public information, China’s laser beauty instrument market has developed rapidly. In 2019, the market scale was 2.84 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.73%.

Laser beauty instrument depends on imports, and domestic products are gradually recognized in the market. Although there are many laser medical beauty equipment enterprises in China, the mainstream equipment is mostly imported products. In the photoelectric equipment industry, foreign giants and local dominant enterprises are relatively mature, and the industry concentration is high. At present, the common suppliers of imported laser medical equipment include Alma in Israel, Lumenis in the United States, and Cynosure in the United States, accounting for 80% of the regular equipment and occupying a dominant position. The domestic medical and beauty equipment industry started late, and the technical foundation of enterprises is relatively weak. Domestic laser medical beauty enterprises have continuously enhanced their R&D capabilities, improved product quality, and gradually increased their market share through extension investment, mergers and acquisitions, and independent research and development. In terms of specific products, Wuhan Qizhi Laser’s photon therapeutic instrument and semiconductor laser depilation instrument, Shenzhen Peninsula Medical acne therapeutic instrument, Shenzhen GSD’s multi-element rf beauty instrument and other products are gradually recognized in the market.

2. Downstream: the entry barrier of cosmetic and plastic surgery hospital industry is low, and the distribution is unbalanced; The trend of "internet plus" is expected to reconstruct the ecology of medical beauty industry.

At present, in the market of medical beauty hospitals in China, service terminals are mainly divided into public plastic surgery hospitals and private beauty hospitals. Generally speaking, private specialized beauty hospitals and their clinics occupy most of the market space. However, due to the concentration of top experts, scholars and surgeons in the industry, the most advanced medical beauty resources and technologies in China, standardized management and high trust, public hospitals are still a very important part of the domestic medical beauty industry. In the future, with the advancement of medical reform, public hospitals are expected to regain their vitality in the market competition of medical beauty and jointly promote the rapid development of China’s beauty industry with private capital.

At present, medical and aesthetic institutions and professionals are mainly concentrated in the developed areas in the east. Although the market coverage has been extended to the central cities in the central and western regions, the market space of the second, third and third tier cities in the central and western regions with greater market breadth is still blank, and there is still a lack of channels for product promotion and business expansion, and it will take time to expand downward. On the whole, China’s medical beauty market has formed a layout with Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Changsha, Chongqing and Chengdu as the center of gravity, which can be roughly divided into four sectors: East China, North China, South China, Central China and West China, among which North China, East China and South China account for the vast majority.

Figure 10: Regional Distribution of China’s Medical Beauty Market

According to public information

Open up the relationship between medical and aesthetic institutions and consumers, and the Internet platform is expected to lead the reform of medical and aesthetic institutions. The main problem faced by private beauty hospitals is the high cost of sales and customer acquisition, and consumers are also faced with the embarrassment of asymmetric supply and demand information of medical beauty. The medical beauty APP platform mainly gathers users through the form of content+community+e-commerce or appointment referral, and builds a bridge for communication between B-end institutions, doctors and C-end customers, which improves the decision-making efficiency of users and reduces the marketing cost of institutions. From 2011 to now, dozens of medical beauty apps such as New Oxygen, Yuemei and Meituan Medical Beauty have emerged. Medical beauty App has purified the industry to a certain extent, promoted the medical beauty industry to transparency and standardization, and to some extent disintegrated the phenomenon of using the information of buyers and sellers to collect fees unequally. However, from the current point of view, the relevant medical beauty apps have not found a sustainable and stable profit model, and they still focus on business exploration in the short term.

Fourth, the future development prospects

At present, China’s medical beauty market is in the process of rapid development, and it faces the following outstanding problems: (1) The market is chaotic: raw materials and drugs of medical beauty are chaotic, and there are over-packaging of items and over-consumption of drugs; (2) The industry concentration is very low: the market share of head enterprises can only reach about 5%, and most of the markets are concentrated in some enterprises in the middle and long tail; (3) Medical resources can’t meet the demand: experts such as doctors and nurses, as well as hospital management talents are in short supply. With the rapid expansion of the medical beauty market, the medical resources in the industry will become more and more tense; (4) The supervision of the industry is still lacking: many medical and aesthetic supervision systems and policies are still in the process of exploration and improvement.

Since 2002, China’s supervision of medical beauty industry has become increasingly strict. The state has successively promulgated the management methods, institutional standards and classified management catalogue of medical beauty services, and promulgated the evaluation standards and detailed rules of medical beauty institutions. In 2016, China Plastic Surgery Association was established, and medical beauty service institutions officially entered the era of compliance. In 2020, eight ministries and commissions, including the Health and Health Commission, jointly issued the Notice on Further Strengthening the Comprehensive Supervision and Law Enforcement of Medical Beauty to crack down on illegal medical cosmetology and further rectify the medical beauty industry. With the increase of non-surgical items in the beauty market and the popularity of injection filling items, consumers’ complaints about after-sales service, quality and contract of medical beauty institutions have increased. Relevant departments should supervise medical beauty services and drugs in a targeted manner according to the development trend of the industry market, further promote the structural reform of the medical beauty industry, and improve the bad phenomenon of regaining customer marketing and neglecting professional medical care in the industry.

Table 3: Supervision Policy of Medical Beauty Industry in China

According to public information

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In the wave of "Yan value economy", everyone has a love of beauty, and the increase of per capita disposable income is an important factor to quickly enlarge the "love of beauty". In the medical and beauty industry chain, the domestic substitution of upstream raw materials and equipment has accelerated, while the downstream industries are more chaotic. However, the trend of "internet plus" is expected to reconstruct the ecology of medical beauty industry. At the same time, the state has issued a series of policies to continuously guide the industry to develop in a standardized and healthy way, and drive the industry to develop healthily.

* Disclaimer: This article is an original article for Flint, written by Xin Mingyu, and may not be reproduced without authorization.

　　Reference News Network reported on February 18, On February 15th, the website of the French newspaper Echo published an article entitled "Where is the end of protectionism? The author is Christian Desbois Searle, emeritus professor at the University of Paris I and vice president of the French Economists Association. The content is compiled as follows:

　　At the end of January this year, the first Washington economic talks jointly sponsored by the French Institute of Economists and the French Embassy in the United States were officially held. The main topics discussed in the talks are the development trend of globalization and the challenges faced by international cooperation.

　　Are we going to "go global"? Most of the globalization process has been difficult to reverse, and high-tech is a good example. The so-called "de-globalization" is just a split trend involving global trade or capital flow.

　　It is in this case that the American Inflation Reduction Act has also become a topic of discussion. Because of this bill, the United States has made most of its major trading partners respond one after another.

　　The signal given by the bill brings at least one positive aspect: the United States has begun to pay attention to the response to climate change again. But Europe will also be directly affected, because the attractiveness of funds in the United States has obviously increased. The position of many European companies has pointed to this.

　　Europe is no longer as naive as it used to be, and responds by increasing government subsidies. Europe’s strategic thinking is clear: strike back at the subsidy policy of the United States and other unreasonable policies that make competition go astray. However, there is a real challenge behind this: if the subsidy policy is used too much, will there be problems in the European unified market? Many EU member States are hesitant to increase subsidies, because it is very beneficial to those big countries (especially Germany and France).

Different attitudes between small countries and big countries remain an important factor of division. However, the dominant "non-cooperation" situation in public opinion is actually far from being formed. Adam Posen, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in the United States, suggested that Europeans "go to the World Trade Organization to launch actions against the United States". In the face of rampant protectionism, this is a good opportunity to rethink how the WTO works and its power.

　　When it comes to trade, everyone is used to targeting big trading countries. However, emerging countries and developing countries will be directly affected by the Inflation Reduction Act and other countries’ counter-measures The trade logic of the United States is to distinguish friendly countries from other countries, while Africa and many southern countries are listed as "other countries".

　　However, the southern countries have been affected by the tightening of monetary policy in developed countries, and are facing capital flight, currency war and forced interest rate hikes.

　　The Washington economic talks also mentioned a topic that the French Economists Association has been talking about for two years: the redistribution of the re-created SDR share, and the transfer of developed countries to southern countries. At present, Africa is expecting, France is pushing, and the US Senate is freezing.

　　[Test Drive] Today’s article is not so much a test drive as an appreciation of a giant car model in various backgrounds. Although there is no change in the technology and configuration of the upcoming new Black Orange version, a brand-new color matching also changes the feeling of the whole vehicle, which is the most direct effect achieved by the simplest method. When you drive slowly in the car with this color and personality, the high turn-around rate may make you a little nervous, but when you get used to being noticed, you will find that this is fun.

　　This test drive is the hard top version of the new Beetle AT Black Orange, which is the version painted in black and orange. The engine is still the old 1.8T I believe many friends have heard a little about the performance of this engine, even if you haven’t driven it. The old model 1.8T is the first engine that makes Chinese people have a concept. The advantage is that the cast iron cylinder block is very solid, and the modification potential is high. The disadvantage is that the low torque of 5 is very poor, and the power is lacking before the turbine intervention. The feeling after driving is similar to that of domestic models equipped with this model.

　　The only change that the performance of the Black Orange version of the Beetle can match is that the height of the car body is reduced by 10 mm. This little change is still practical, and lowering the center of gravity of the car body will also decrease, which will enhance the stability of the car to a certain extent. In addition, for users who pursue sports style, the small ground clearance feels more harmonious in visual effect.

"This color combination seems to be more masculine."

　

　　Today, I don’t want to describe the performance of this black orange version of the beetle in too many words, because if you drive 1.8T, racing and showing off its power may be the most effective way, but if you drive a beetle with a personality color, between the power of 1.8T and its personality color, if I have to choose, I will choose to show off its color. When I drive through the lane, passers-by observe my car, and I observe the smiles of passers-by, which is enough …

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The following four pictures are the four main differences between the Black Orange version and the normal version of the new beetle:

　　A large area of orange, the rest are all decorated with black, so the contrast of color matching is too big and conspicuous, which attracted many passers-by to watch when shooting. Plus this black+orange bug is lying in the 798 art factory in Beijing, which is simply a piece of personality. Not much to describe, look at the pictures.

"The new Beetle may be the best production car with the front and rear echoing …"

　　I didn’t PS too many words on the picture because I really didn’t want to spoil the overall feeling of the picture, but I still want to emphasize here that the main difference between the Black Orange version of the new beetle and the ordinary version is that in addition to the large area of orange paint on the car body, the Black Orange version also uses black 17-inch wheels, black exterior mirrors, black roof and color stickers with the word "Black Orange" on the side of the car body. The ink version uses silver 17-inch wheels and silver exterior mirrors.

Chinese restaurants, tea restaurants and overseas Chinese food in Britain are included in the topic # Afternoon Tea 1 Content # Life Bookstore New Book Recommended 31 Contents #2021 New Book 43 Contents.

▲ Beijing Restaurant, the oldest famous Chinese restaurant in Leicester, England.

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The taste of Chinese restaurants in Britain has changed from the traditional Cantonese flavor to the Hong Kong flavor. Especially in China City, the center of London, there are hundreds of very good Chinese restaurants, all of which can basically cook authentic Cantonese food, as well as dazzling hot "Cantonese dim sum", and Cantonese-style porridge with different flavors is also available. Overseas Chinese food seems to have the right style.

Afternoon Tea, Tea Restaurant and Hong Kong Pavilion

Author: Zhou Songfang

After Chinese arrived in England, he was not used to the food itself, but also to the time and way of eating. Chinese gets up early and goes to bed early, and has three meals a day, but Britain gets up early and goes to bed late, and it is divided into four or five meals. Students are no exception, and international students can only do as the Romans do. Some international students wrote down the meal schedule at that time:

As a rule, I get up at about 7: 30, and have breakfast after 8: 00. The food is milk cereal, ham and eggs, bread jam, cheese and tea. The earliest class time starts at 9: 00, and it is customary for British people to have lunch around 1: 00 pm, so the latest class time in the morning is from 12: 00 to 1: 00. In the afternoon, classes are held from 2: 00 to 5: 00, and about 5: 00 is Teatime for English people. English tea is eaten regularly (from 4: 00 to 5: 00, it is called High Tea), and it must be accompanied by bread jam, milk oil, cake cheese and fruit. We regard it as a meal, or at least it should be called refreshment. In the past, this kind of habit was only used by middle-class families, but it has been popular in the general society in recent decades. Although the food materials are different, few people don’t eat tea. Self-study time for students after tea. Dinner is served at about 9 o’clock, and the food is usually simpler than lunch, probably a cold dish, bread and cream, cheese and fruit and a few biscuits. After dinner, you can talk freely, or read soft words, or listen to the radio and phonograph. The usual bedtime is around eleven o’clock.

From this point of view, English dinner is like our midnight snack, and afternoon tea is like our dinner, and it is also as important as us. There is a saying that can show this degree of attention: "English people are used to having tea at five o’clock in the afternoon as usual." A pot of black tea, two pieces of bread, a plate of snacks and a plate of lettuce. Sometimes add an egg or a small fish. " In Chinese’s view, it’s not grand, but in Britain, "it’s better to be a housewife, and guests must watch a movie or eat China rice as a reward". Invite you to have afternoon tea. You should invite her to a movie or even a China meal, just like inviting someone to a western meal on the beach in the early days. That’s simply too much! Mr. Zhu Ziqing also said:

Europeans eat three meals a day, and the weight is quite different. Like Germany, there is only coffee and bread in the morning and cold food in the evening, only lunch is heavier. In France, coffee, moon cake, lunch and dinner seem to be average in weight. Britain pays equal attention to breakfast and dinner, and its lunch is lighter. Britain pays attention to breakfast, just like Chengdu in China. There are porridge, ham and eggs, bread, tea, and sometimes salted fish and fruit. Lunch is simple, you can just eat a piece of toast and a cup of coffee; Some small restaurants sell lunch boxes, such as cold fish and meat, but no dinner boxes.

However, no matter how much attention is paid to rich afternoon tea, it is afternoon tea after all, and it can’t be compared with dinner or dinner. Therefore, Zhu Ziqing probably regarded China’s "little man" as a "gentleman" in Britain, and thought that they often treated people with cheap and simple afternoon tea instead of expensive dinners: British people drink tea once a day at about 4: 30 pm, with toast and butter. When you invite a tea party, there are naturally other things, such as ham with bread, raw pea seedlings with bread, tea steamed bread and so on. They attach great importance to afternoon tea, which is almost indispensable. You can take this opportunity to treat people, which is much simpler and cheaper than inviting dinner. He also said: English people prefer tea to coffee, contrary to French people; They can’t make coffee well either. Most of the tea we drink now is Indian tea; Although China tea is sold in the tea and rice shop, there are few customers. It certainly has something to do with not allowing the profits to spill over, but it is not conducive to the publicity of China tea (for example, it is not clean when fried), and the main reason is that the tea taste is too weak. Indian tea is thick and bitter, and milk and sugar are just right; China black tea is not strong enough, but it smells good. It is strange that the tea sold in the tea and rice shop is so light in color, smell and fragrance that it is inexplicable how that kind of tea can be shipped out. Actually, that’s right. Tea restaurants focus on rice, tea is not important, what is the taste? Just like drinking tea in Guangdong, it is important to eat, and the taste of tea is not counted; Also like the popular tea restaurant, who knows that it is not from tea restaurants?

▲ Bun House Tea Room Teahouse in London.

(Source: sohu.com)

Tea restaurants are everywhere in Britain, and they are relatively cheap, so when Zhu Ziqing visited Britain in May and June 1932, he had a lot of experience and many observation records:

There are three cheap tea restaurants: Lyons, Express Milk Room and ABC Bakery. Each family has opened many stores, all over the city and outside; ABC is less and more expensive, and Laaynes is the most. The fried veal, veal liver and braised duck pieces in the express dairy are also delicious; They burn duck pieces with charcoal fire, so it has a China flavor. ABC fried beef liver can also be eaten, but it’s almost impossible to get old in a hurry; The dim sum is well baked, and several of them are comparable to the French bakery in Beiping. There doesn’t seem to be anything outstanding in Laaynes; But there are two "corner shops" in his house, both at the corner of downtown, but there are delicious foods there. The corner shop has two large rooms, one is upper and lower, and the other is three floors and three large rooms, which can accommodate about 1,500 people. There is a band playing in the evening. As soon as I entered, I saw it was dark and full of people. The corridor was narrow enough, but the weather was quite wide (a British student ridiculed it as "the palace of the poor", which might be good); There, I often find and stand for a long time before waiting for an empty seat. All the stores in these three stores use waitresses, but only two corner stores use some waiters-waiters are more expensive. The waiters and waitresses all wore black uniforms, and the women even wore white hats to entertain the guests in layers. Only in corner shops do you have to tip (although the door is marked "no tip"), and there is no need to tip in these three shops elsewhere. I have been to a corner shop, and the roast chicken is still delicious; But a chicken leg is one yuan and fifty cents in China, and it is more expensive to eat chicken wings. Tea restaurants sometimes have dominoes, etc. for guests’ entertainment, but they rarely ask the waiter for fun; Where there are many guests,There are always people waiting for seats, so there is no need to prepare them. In addition, there is an oyster shop, which specializes in oysters and is not cheap; A landlady told me that it was "unsanitary", but there were no fewer people to eat. Eating oysters is not suitable in summer, so the British say that oysters are out of order if the name of the month is not "R" (May, June, July and August).

▲ SALLY LUNN’S, an ancient bakery in Bath, England.

(Source: ctrip.com)

Through observation, Zhu Ziqing believes that tea restaurants are the true colors and can represent British cooking: "Old city restaurants and tea restaurants are the local flavors. Tea restaurant and frying shop are actually nicknames for small restaurants. The’ rice’ in the tea restaurant originally refers to lunch, but the things sold are not simple, and dinner is full; In addition to frying beef ribs and mutton ribs, the frying shop also sells other things. " There is a kind of sweet sesame cake (Muffin) and Crumpet in the tea and rice shop, which makes Zhu Ziqing never forget:

Sweet sesame seed cake is like our fire, but it has no stuffing, soft and slightly sweet, as if it were made with rice flour. There are many small nests on the cake surface, which are like beehives, relatively thin and like rice noodles. Both of them are about from France; But the sweet biscuits came early, at least 200 years ago. Chefs mostly live in Drury Lane, the place where the famous theater is located. I used to sell it with a plate on my head and a bell in my hand. At that time, people loved to eat, bought them, spread more butter on them, and baked them on the fireplace in the living room or dining room, so that the oil could be soaked in them and bitten off in one bite, or they would get stuck in the quarrel on both sides. This kind of leisure life is very interesting. However, the later Woer cakes were easier to soak in oil, more fragrant, not too thick, too soft, chewy and stylish; People like it gradually, so they buy less sweet biscuits. A lady was sad when she saw this situation, so she wrote to The Times to express her grievances for the sweet biscuits. The Times specially made a small editorial to persuade people to eat sweet biscuits to preserve the ancient style. However, I would rather keep the bad things that the lady said about Woer’s cakes. About that commentator also likes to eat Woer’s cakes.

This kind of English tea restaurant is quite similar to the tea restaurant that rose in Hong Kong later. I wonder if there is any origin between the two, and if so, what kind of origin? Although there are no more materials to explain at present, it is quite intriguing; The influence of Hong Kong diet on Britain increased day by day.

Due to the blockade of the newly established People’s Republic of China (PRC) by the western world, the number of overseas Chinese dropped sharply after 1950s, and it didn’t pick up until 1980s after China’s opening-up and reform. Therefore, the development of overseas Chinese restaurants over the past 30 years has formed a relatively unique form. In 1936, there were more than 8,000 overseas Chinese in Britain, and by 1955, there were only more than 4,000 overseas Chinese, a decrease of half. However, with the influence of the ultra-left trend in the mainland in the 1960s, Hong Kong immigrants joined in one after another, rising to 43,000 in 1971, more than 100,000 in 1981 after the reform and opening up, and reaching 150,000 in the mid-1990s. The same is true of Germany. In the 1930s, there were only over 800 people, and by 1991, there were over 50,000 people. Among them, at the end of December 1986, the Federal Statistical Office of West Germany announced that there were 7730 people from Hong Kong and Southeast Asia who went to Germany to run restaurants.

▲ Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, London

Image source: lushang.sdnews.com.cn

With the increasing number of overseas Chinese, the number of Chinese restaurants has increased even faster, because the early overseas Chinese had a low starting point and it was difficult to accumulate the original capital for opening restaurants, which was much easier to open than the later immigrants, especially those from Hong Kong. Take Britain as an example. In 1940, there were about 30 Chinese restaurants in Britain, but after the 1950s, 150 Chinese restaurants were opened every year. By the end of 1960s, there were 3,000 Chinese restaurants in Britain. According to its basic composition, the overseas Chinese who were the first to invest in the British Chinese food industry after the war can be divided into the following three categories: the first category is the staff of the former national government in Britain. After Britain recognized People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1950, they made a living and mostly invested in the Chinese food industry; The second category is Chinese immigrants from the former British colonies; The third category is immigrants from Hong Kong, especially the New Territories, who are the most successful. According to a survey, from June 1963 to April 1964, of the 150-200 Chinese restaurants in London, only four were run by overseas Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia, and the rest were run by Hong Kong people. As most of the practitioners come from Hong Kong, Cantonese cuisine is the main dish. In his book "American Overseas Chinese Restaurant Industry" published in 1970, Dr. Chen Benchang said that there were 100,000 overseas Chinese and about 6,000 Chinese restaurants in Britain at that time, and particularly emphasized that "90% of the owners and employees were visitors from the New Territories of Hong Kong in recent years".

Since then, the taste of Chinese restaurants in Britain has changed from the traditional Cantonese flavor to the Hong Kong flavor. Even in the provinces and ports, "food in Hong Kong" has gradually surpassed "food in Guangzhou". Thanks to the contribution of Hong Kong people, China restaurants in Britain finally got rid of the suspicion of chop suey and surpassed American chop suey. When a scholar went to Harvard University in the United States to attend a short course one year, the school took good care of them and arranged for them to eat in a Chinese restaurant called Dashenglou. For twenty days in a row, there were only a few dishes, and there was no change. Almost all the dishes were sweet and creamy, and there were still many fried foods. There was absolutely no hot soup. Everyone had a large glass of cold ice water, which really hurt people and ate them every day. Relatively speaking, Chinese food in London is very delicious, especially in China City, the center of London, where there are hundreds of very good Chinese restaurants, all of which can basically cook authentic Cantonese food, dazzling hot "Cantonese dim sum" and Cantonese-style porridge with different flavors. Because of the development of the catering industry and the status of Hong Kong practitioners, a restaurant owner named Deng Zhuting from the New Territories of Hong Kong was also honored as the president of the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce in London and the overseas consultant of the China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and was invited to attend the National Day ceremony in Beijing many times. Overseas Chinese food seems to have the right style.

▲ Zhongtai Restaurant in Leeds, England.

(Source: bangli.uk)

In addition, in the process of independence, a large number of Chinese immigrants from British colonies in Southeast Asia, such as Singapore, brought with them the flavor of Southeast Asia, adding to the charm of London Chinatown. Although the number of overseas Chinese in London Chinatown decreased from 1,000 to 200 in 1946, it did not prevent it from becoming a block where tourists concentrated again, because small restaurants with cheap and delicious Southeast Asian flavor "chicken with Chili sauce and China food, can attract customers the most".

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Since the Opium War, the western powers have knocked on the door of China with their guns. Since then, the trend of western learning spreading to the east has prevailed. From science and technology to ideology and culture, China has played a learner everywhere, and even admired others. In the history of communication between China and foreign countries for nearly a hundred years, only one item, "Chinese cuisine", spread from the east to all parts of the world with the pace of Chinese’s learning from the west, and staged a unique drama with oriental flavor flowing from east to west.

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