Attention, attention! If there are such circumstances, please downgrade your driver’s license in time.

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Driver’s license downgrade business

A little knowledge or even a fog.

Today, we will tell you about it.

Those things about the downgrade of driver’s license

What is a driver’s license downgrade?

According to the Road Traffic Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China, drivers should drive motor vehicles according to the quasi-driving type specified in the driver’s license. The higher the quasi-driving model, the more types of vehicles can be driven. If you want to drive more types of motor vehicles, you need to apply for "additional driving"; On the other hand, "demotion" can reduce the range of drivers’ permitted driving models.

The following three situations

Need to reduce the quasi-driving model ("downgrade")

01

Voluntary reduction of quasi-driving types

Before the age of 60, Class AB drivers can voluntarily apply for lowering the quasi-driving type without submitting physical condition certificates.

02

"Over-age demotion"

"Over-age demotion" means that when the driver is over a certain age and does not meet the requirements of holding relevant quasi-driving models stipulated by law, it is necessary to handle the demotion business.

"Over-age degradation" mainly includes the following two categories:

#1

Drivers with Class A and B driver’s licenses are over 60 years old, and their driver’s licenses need to be reduced to C1 or C2 (A2 can be reduced to C1 and C6).

#2

Drivers with D and E driver’s licenses are over 70 years old, and D and E driver’s licenses need to be downgraded to F certificates.

03

The body does not meet the driving conditions and is degraded.

According to the "Regulations on the Application and Use of Motor Vehicle Driving License" (Order No.162nd of the Ministry of Public Security)

Article 67 If a motor vehicle driver’s physical condition changes, and does not meet the requirements for driving license, but meets the requirements for other driving licenses, he shall, within 30 days, apply to dmv, the place where the motor vehicle driver’s license is issued or other than the place where the motor vehicle driver’s license is issued, for reducing the driving license.

The application information shall be confirmed at the time of application, and the identity certificate of the motor vehicle driver and the certificate of physical condition issued by the medical institution shall be submitted.

Before handling the driver’s license downgrade business

Also know the following

● The driver’s license does not have 12 points, fails to be verified within the time limit, is detained, detained, temporarily detained, cancelled, revoked or revoked. If it is merged with the expiration of the replacement certificate, the driver’s license will not have road traffic safety violations or traffic accidents that have not been handled.

● If the driver’s license is valid for more than one year, it shall be merged with the business of restoring driving qualification.

Class AB drivers who need to lower the age of driving permit are approaching.

Remember to handle the driver’s license downgrade business in time ~

Original title: "Attention, attention! If there are such circumstances, please apply for driver’s license downgrade in time.

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With the data, we can use statistical analysis methods to analyze it. The methods of statistical analysis of data can be roughly divided into descriptive statistics (Descriptive statistics) and inferential statistics.

 

Descriptive statistics is a statistical method to study data collection, processing, description and visualization. Its contents include how to obtain the data needed for research, how to process and display the data in the form of charts, and how to get the concerned data characteristics by synthesizing, summarizing and analyzing the data.

 

Inference statistics is a statistical method to study how to infer the overall characteristics by using sample data, including parameter estimation (Estimation) and hypothesis test (hypothesis test).

Sogou hardware completely exits, and there is no "small but beautiful" intelligent hardware?

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.

Share your worries about buying a car. Guide to buying a car in 4S shops in Shenzhen

  [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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  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
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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


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Sanya will carry out a special rectification of consumer fraud in the seafood market.

Cctv newsAccording to "Sanya Released" WeChat WeChat official account News, in order to continuously standardize the operation behavior of the tourism market and purify the environment of the tourism market, on March 24th, Sanya Municipal Market Supervision Administration issued the Work Plan for Launching the Special Remediation Action for Consumer Fraud in the Seafood Market, which will launch the special rectification action for consumer fraud in the seafood market in the whole city. Comprehensively investigate seafood restaurants, tourist shopping spots, wedding photography, fruit shops, tourist accommodation, seafood and fruit wholesale markets, various markets, shopping malls, supermarkets, mobile vendors and other key industries and key areas, as well as emerging tourism formats such as sea-related tourism projects, low-altitude flying and diving, and severely crack down on short weight, use of unqualified measuring instruments, illegal advertisements, price fraud, false propaganda, and other illegal activities such as forcing, inducing consumption, and deceiving customers.

The key points of rectification are as follows:

01 Strengthen the whole chain inspection of seafood and fruits from the wholesale source to the consumption terminal.

Supervise wholesalers to standardize the establishment of a complete account of purchase and sales, and the delivery notes should be marked with the name of the store and stamped with the official seal. The retail terminal business entity shall establish a complete purchase ledger, have a business license and a copy of the business license stamped by the supplier for future reference in the business premises, and have a delivery document stamped by the supplier for each purchase.

Severely crack down on unlicensed operation and illegal advertising.

Check whether the license of the business premises is complete and hung in a conspicuous position, and severely crack down on unlicensed business practices; Check whether the business entities with self-operated websites, WeChat official account or online shops established through third-party platforms display the electronic link logo of business license in their websites or publicize the business license information in a prominent position on the home page, whether there are illegal advertising behaviors such as using terms such as "national level" and "superlative level" in the advertisements of the goods or services they sell, and whether they deceive and mislead consumers with false or misleading contents. Whether there are boxes in tourist shopping spots to engage in business activities, whether there are false propaganda, commercial bribery, forced induced consumption, sales of fake and shoddy products and other acts.

Severely crack down on price fraud and other illegal acts such as unclear price tag and fictitious original price.

Check whether the price is clearly marked, whether seafood and fruit operators use uniform and standardized price labels, whether the wedding photography industry clearly indicates the unit price of individual items in the package (such as shuttle service fee, shooting scene fee, photo frame, photo album, etc.), and whether the 12345 complaint telephone number is publicized on the price tag; Whether the goods or services sold online are consistent with the price of the offline business site, and severely crack down on price fraud and illegal acts such as unclear price tag, fictitious original price, and low elevation knot.

Severely crack down on fraudulent acts such as short weight and short weight caused by using non-compliant scales.

Check whether the scales have passed compulsory verification and have qualified marks, and whether there is any situation of using the scales that have not been verified for an extended period of time or continuing to use the scales that are unqualified in verification and explicitly eliminated by the state. Check whether seafood and fruit operators install and use Internet of Things traceable electronic scales, whether they implement "naked weighing", whether there are cases of weighing without receipt and weight, and whether there are cases of short weight and short weight, and whether there are acts of cheating with scales and cheating consumers in other ways.

05 Strictly investigate the implementation of the main responsibility of market management by market promoters.

According to the Anti-Consumer Fraud Regulations of Hainan Free Trade Port, check whether the market promoters implement the main responsibility of market management, set up qualified fair scales in a prominent position and give consumer tips; Whether to sign an anti-consumer fraud commitment letter with the admission operators, whether to implement the "10-point deduction" management model for the business entities in the market, and whether to implement punishment measures such as suspension of business, rectification and withdrawal from the market for operators with a certain deduction point.

06 Strengthen the inspection of travel-related restaurants.

Strengthen the supervision of the catering service units of the reception team, large-scale catering units, catering units in tourist hotspots, and seafood restaurants operating on third-party platforms such as Meituan and Public Comment. Carry out food and beverage safety inspection, check whether food safety related systems are publicized on the wall, strengthen food safety publicity and education, enhance food safety and prevention awareness, and strengthen emergency handling of food and beverage safety accidents.

07 Strengthen the supervision of other travel-related industries

The first is to strengthen the supervision of the tourism and accommodation industry. Supervise the tourism and accommodation industry to set up price publicity boards, standardize the price tag, whether the advertisements are true or not, whether there are false propaganda behaviors, strengthen the safety supervision of elevators and other special equipment, and eliminate potential safety hazards.

The second is to cooperate with relevant departments to rectify the behavior of soliciting tourists, and severely crack down on illegal and illegal business practices of seafood catering operators.

Third, according to the list of enterprises with the Business License for High-risk Sports Projects approved by the Municipal Tourism Bureau, urge OTA platforms such as Meituan, Qunar. com, Xiaohongshu, Feizhu and Ctrip to publicize the business license information and related administrative licensing information of diving enterprises in a prominent position.

Fourth, actively cooperate with relevant departments to carry out the rectification of diving, low-altitude flight and water tourism projects, and urge operators of low-altitude flight tourism projects to standardize and clearly mark prices.

Fifth, actively cooperate with relevant departments to carry out the supervision of tourist-related religious sites, strengthen the comprehensive rectification of religious information on the Internet based on market supervision responsibilities, and rectify illegal activities such as commercial propaganda, false propaganda and induced consumption in tourist shopping malls in the name of religion.

Report on the layout of insurance enterprises and the development of pension industry in China

Author Wu Shixue

Edited by Wu Shixue and Michelle ChenMiao

Opening:

On December 4, 2019, the first "China Kangyang 30 People" Forum was held. Gao Jianguang, director of the Capital Utilization Supervision Department of the Insurance Company of the Ministry of Finance of China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, China, revealed that by the end of September this year, 10 insurance institutions including China Life Insurance, Taikang Life Insurance and Taiping Life Insurance had invested in 47 community projects for the aged, which were distributed in 20 provinces and cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Anhui, with a total bed size.

At the same time, the total amount of insurance funds invested in private equity investment funds in the upstream and downstream medical and health industries of pension and pension industries has reached 234.782 billion yuan.

According to the Report on the Development Model and Practice of Long-term Care Insurance in China issued by CPIC Allianz, it is estimated that the market size of China’s pension real estate will reach 7.7 trillion yuan in 2020 and 22.3 trillion yuan in 2030.

Three large insurance companies: China Ping An, China Taiping and Taikang Insurance invested more than 41 billion yuan in the field of pension real estate. Insurance companies such as China Life Insurance, China Pacific Insurance, New China Life Insurance, Sunshine Life Insurance, Hezhong Life Insurance, Qianhai Life Insurance, Evergrande Life Insurance, Junkang Life Insurance and Renhe Life Insurance have also announced or substantially intervened in the investment in the old-age community, and the total investment and planned investment has exceeded 100 billion yuan.

It can be seen that since 2006, insurance companies represented by Hezhong and Taikang entered the pension industry, the natural complementary gene of insurance+pension has been fully verified, and the insurance department has become one of the important forces participating in the investment+operation of the pension industry, and more innovative models will be born in the future.

This time, AgeLifePro will systematically review the motivation, participation mode, development process and future trend of insurance companies participating in the pension industry, hoping to bring some valuable reference to the pension industry.

catalogue

First, why do insurance companies have laid out old-age care?

Two, six innovative models of insurance companies participating in the pension industry

Third, the development process of the insurance company’s layout pension

Fourth, the echelon and location layout of insurance companies to develop old-age care

V. Five Future Trends of Insurance and Pension

VI. Insurance+Pension: Pension Layout of 12 Insurance Companies

Seven, insurance companies to develop pension in a variety of ways.

-The full text is 17,145 words-

part1

Why do insurance companies have laid out their pensions one after another?

one

policy support

The policy has experienced a progressive process from caution, to liberalization, and then to rational regulation. In 2009, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission issued the Measures for Insurance Investment in Real Estate and the Measures for Insurance Investment in Equity, which allowed insurance companies to invest in real estate and corporate equity, thus opening the prelude to policies to encourage insurance companies to enter the pension industry.

On November 19th, 2009, with the support of policies, China Insurance Regulatory Commission issued the Notice on Filing Taikang-Pension Community Equity Investment Plan, and approved Taikang to set up a pension community. In 2010, Taikang House was established, which indicated that the policy of insurance investment for the aged really landed.

Figure: Measures for the Administration of the Use of Insurance Funds

After the insurance companies have invested heavily in assets, the policies have become more rational and perfect. On January 24, 2018, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission issued the Administrative Measures for the Use of Insurance Funds (the "Measures for the Use of New Insurance Funds"). The new measures have two new principles: First, the use of insurance funds must be aimed at serving the insurance industry (that is, the well-known "insurance surname"), and second, the use of insurance funds should adhere to independent operation and not be interfered by shareholders in violation of regulations.

In addition, the new measures for the use of insurance funds and the Outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Insurance Industry in China issued by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission also mentioned that insurance funds should be allowed to invest in asset securitization products, broaden the service fields of insurance funds, and innovate the use methods of insurance funds (encouraging the establishment of professional insurance asset management institutions such as real estate, infrastructure and pension, and allowing professional insurance asset management institutions to set up mezzanine funds, merger and acquisition funds, real estate funds, etc.).

2

Focus on the development of insurance companies themselves

1. Investing in heavy assets for the aged can improve the solvency of insurance companies.

In the early days of insurance companies entering the pension industry, the investment speed of insurance companies is very fast. By investing in the pension community, we can evaluate and increase the value, create income on the books and improve the solvency. However, it is worth mentioning that after 2017, due to the control of the proportion and solvency of large-scale assets by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, the feast of evaluating and increasing the value of insurance companies’ investment in pension communities will no longer be available, and insurance companies will no longer be able to obtain solvency, but will be discounted accordingly.

2. It is conducive to alleviating the pressure of "mismatch between long and short" of insurance funds.

There are abundant insurance funds and a large number of investable assets, but at present, the funds mainly enter short-term investment channels such as bank deposits and government bonds, and the investment channels are relatively single, resulting in a mismatch in the maturity of assets and liabilities. As a comprehensive service industry, providing for the aged needs a certain amount of time to settle the service. Considering the long construction period of the old-age community and apartments for the elderly, it also needs a long-term and stable source of funds. Matching the two can alleviate the pressure of "mismatch between long and short" of insurance funds.

3. Promote policy sales.

Figure: Policy sales of listed companies docking with pension communities

The expiration and renewal of commercial insurance has always affected the stable operation of insurance companies. Insurance companies link insurance products with pension services and pension real estate membership, which can increase the attractiveness of insurance products, form differentiated competition, provide customers with more choices, improve customer stickiness and promote policy sales.

According to the survey of 21st century business herald, in 2019, CPIC issued 7,906 qualification letters for the elderly community; The occupancy qualification of Taiping Pension Community Project drove the initial premium of about HK$ 5.6 billion, and the contribution rate of the initial premium reached 18.8%, which became an important contribution force for Taiping’s life insurance companies to promote the growth of new orders.

4. Extend the industrial chain

The rapid development of the old-age care industry has spawned more and more formats. In addition to large-scale old-age care communities with heavy assets, there are also various lightweight service projects covering all aspects of the lives of the elderly. The distribution of insurance funds for the aged can deepen the existing life insurance customers, create services for the elderly around the whole life cycle, link up with engineering insurance, and link down with medical insurance, nursing insurance, endowment insurance, door-to-door service, etc., and then drive the overall development of the company and provide the comprehensive income of the company.

part2

Six innovative modes of insurance enterprises participating in pension industry

one

Real estate investment model based on old-age community

Since Taikang Home built a large-scale community for the aged (CCRC) on a large scale, this model has also become the "correct" idea for insurance companies to intervene in the elderly. This model is based on real estate, and only with the right to use or property rights of real estate can we get the corresponding pension services.

This investment model attaches great importance to asset layout, which can give full play to the comprehensive advantages of insurance companies and integrate development, investment and operation. At the initial stage of entering the pension industry, it was favored by some head insurance companies.

Under the old-age real estate model, the elderly can live in by paying a deposit and a monthly fee, or they can become members, or they can buy relevant insurance products to lock in the right to live in the old-age community in advance. Union Life’s insurance policy+physical endowment insurance plan, Taikang’s "Happiness with a Contract" insurance product innovatively links virtual insurance products with physical communities.

While Taikang, Taiping and China Life successively built large-scale old-age care communities and sold the right to use them, Ping An Real Estate Co., Ltd. also launched the first old-age care project that can sell property rights in Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province.

In addition to the typical CCRC product types, everyone insurance cooperates with BTG to build an urban pension complex by means of light asset leasing; New China Life Insurance transformed its office building into an apartment for the elderly and a rehabilitation hospital, which means that insurance companies have begun to cover the "urban institutional pension scene".

2

The service mode of going deep into the scene of community home-based care for the aged.

This model mainly provides old-age services for the elderly at home in the community. Insurance companies take advantage of their abundant policy information to provide corresponding intermediary services and charge relevant intermediary fees. This model has a good development prospect in the future under the overall situation that community homes occupy the mainstream of old-age care in China.

Because insurance companies only appear as service intermediaries or traffic platforms in this mode, the investment is light, and large, medium and small insurance companies can participate.

Photo: Love Life "Love+Home Care Service Plan"

Love Life launched the industry’s first "Love+Home Care Product Plan" and became a leading explorer in the field of home care. This product includes a complete set of home care service system and builds an efficient service platform. Combining medical care with nursing care, through the "1+N" consulting professional service, we can solve the comprehensive needs of medical care, pension, nursing and rehabilitation in one stop.

In the early days of entering the old-age care industry, Taikang also took community home-based care for the elderly as the entry point. In January 2008, Taikang Home Wangjing Senior Club officially opened, but this exploration was unsuccessful, which eventually prompted Taikang to choose the heavy asset CCRC model.

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Establish a professional endowment insurance institution

Since the establishment of the first pension insurance company in December 2004, there are currently nine professional pension insurance institutions in China, namely, caring for the elderly, China Life Pension, Taiping Pension, Yangtze Pension, Taikang Pension, Ping ‘an Pension, Xinhua Pension, Everyone Pension and Hengan Standard Pension, all of which were initiated by medium and large insurance groups.

The core business of pension insurance companies can be divided into trust-based asset management business and contractual commercial insurance business. Trust-based asset management business mainly includes enterprise annuity, occupational annuity, pension products, old-age security management products and third-party asset management business (issuing insurance asset management products and conducting fund management in special accounts of third-party institutions). Contractual commercial insurance business mainly includes health insurance, accident insurance and pension insurance. The specific business situation varies depending on the business development path of each insurance company.

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Innovation of financial products for the aged

Figure: China’s three-pillar pension system

This model fits the insurance company’s industry. On the one hand, insurance companies can enrich the supply of commercial endowment insurance products and meet the differentiated endowment insurance needs of customers. Support qualified commercial insurance institutions to actively participate in personal tax deferred commercial pension annuity insurance and innovate housing reverse mortgage pension model. Happiness Life Insurance and People’s Life Insurance both operate reverse mortgage insurance business for personal housing pension.

On the other hand, participate in long-term care insurance. At present, the policy is vigorously encouraging commercial insurance to enter the field of nursing insurance. With the gradual expansion of the pilot scope of the long-term care insurance system, commercial insurance companies can play more roles in the future, and work with the government, individuals and other relevant parties to open up the payment system and promote the development of community embedded institutions. Taikang, China Life Insurance and Qianhai Life Insurance all participated in or calculated to participate in the field of long-term insurance.

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Construct an ecological circle of insurance+medical care+pension

In this mode, insurance companies often pay attention to medical investment, and give full play to the comprehensive advantages of insurance, medical care and service from both online and online perspectives, so as to build a service ecosystem and realize the closed-loop business of B2B2C, in which pension is an important part.

Figure: Ping An Health Care Service Chain

Ping An has created an "insurance+health care" ecosystem, striving to achieve an online+offline health ecosystem of "upstream health prevention, midstream economic compensation and downstream medical services", and provide customers with life-cycle health management and medical services.

Photo: Pacific Insurance "Insurance+Health+Pension" Ecosphere

Similarly, one of the important directions of CPIC Pension Transformation 2.0 is to build an "insurance+health+pension" ecosystem. Among them, "Pacific Insurance Blueprint" medical service, "Pacific Insurance Wonderful Health" health interaction plan and "CWI Health Examination Center" constitute the "insurance+health" ecosystem; Through its life insurance companies, pension investment companies, Yangtze River pension, and cooperation with Pacific Oubaoting and third-party service providers, it constitutes an "insurance+pension" ecosystem. These two ecological circles can cooperate with the main insurance industry and realize ecological integration.

Sunshine Life Insurance and Qianhai Life Insurance respectively invested in the establishment of Sunshine Fusion Hospital and Guangzhou General Hospital of Qianhai Life Insurance, believing that there will be a further layout in building a healthy ecosystem in the future.

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Underwriting comprehensive liability insurance for pension institutions

The daily operation of old-age care institutions will face various risks, and building a sound risk prevention and control system has become an important part of the smooth operation of old-age care institutions. Especially for some large-scale old-age care institutions, asking professional insurance companies to design relevant risk protection products can effectively avoid losses and prevent accidents.

According to the Notice of Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau on Relevant Matters Concerning the Implementation of Comprehensive Liability Insurance for Aged Services (J.M.F.F. [2012] No.424), in September 2012, People’s Insurance Company, Ping ‘an Company and China Life Company became comprehensive liability insurance underwriting companies for aged services in Beijing through government bidding.

part3

The development course of insurance enterprises’ layout pension.

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Review of the course of insurance enterprises building old-age community

2006-2012: Reference and Exploration Stage

Taikang, Hezhong, China Life Insurance and other insurance companies have visited the United States and Japan to inspect the operation experience of mature old-age communities and explore the construction and operation methods of old-age communities. In November 2009, Taikang Life Insurance took the lead in obtaining the permission of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission to obtain the pilot qualification of investing in the old-age community.

2012-2015: Initial stage of construction

The idea of insurance companies investing in the old-age community has become clear, and the old-age communities invested by insurance companies such as Taikang, Xinhua, Hezhong, Ping An and Taiping have been opened one after another.

In June 2012, the foundation stone was laid for "Taikang House-Yanyuan";

In June 2012, the foundation stone was laid for Xinhua Life Insurance "Xinhua Home" in Beijing;

In September 2012, the "Comprehensive Service Community for Health Care and Pension" invested by Ping An Life Insurance Company of China landed in Tongxiang, Zhejiang;

In October 2013, Hezhong Life Insurance established the first insurance pension community in China-"Wuhan Hezhong Younian Life Pension Community";

In October 2014, the foundation stone of "Wutong Family" of Taiping Life Insurance was laid in Shanghai …

2015-present: accelerate the layout stage

Insurance companies have accelerated the layout, more insurance companies have joined, and they have participated in the old-age care in different cities across the country in two ways: heavy assets and light assets.

By 2020, Taikang has laid out key provinces and cities in China, covering 22 cities in the core areas such as Beijing-Tianjin Wing, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Southwest China and Central China, among which 7 communities have opened, forming a chain operation trend in the east, west, north and south of the country;

China Life has the layout of Guoshou Jiayuan Yunjing (Beijing), Yijing (Tianjin), Lejing (Tianjin) and Yajing (Suzhou), and it also has two home-based retirement projects: Guoshou Kang Xin Community Yikang Home and Guoshou Fubao Community Yikang Home.

Taiping Life Insurance’s old-age community, Shanghai Taiping Wutong Family and Taiping Town Haitang Family, has now opened. In addition, Taiping cooperation projects include Shanghai Happy Home, Ningbo Xingjian Lanting, Dalian Yifang Yijinghui, Kunming Ancient Yunnan Famous City, and Beijing Contemporary Time;

The layout of China Pacific Insurance includes Chengdu International Support Community, Hangzhou International Support Community and Dali International Music Support Community. These three projects have all started, but they have not yet opened …

In addition, insurance companies such as Junkang Life Insurance, Tongfang Global Life Insurance, China Insurance, PICC Life Insurance and Guohua Life Insurance also began to provide for the elderly through investment or cooperation during this period.

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The insurance companies formally laid out the time point for providing for the aged.

Judging from the time when the insurance companies formally laid out the old-age pension, most of the insurance companies that entered the old-age pension in the early days were large-scale insurance companies, and most of them laid out heavy assets. With the development of time, more and more small and medium-sized insurance companies are also involved in the cause of providing for the aged, and the old-age projects under construction have also changed from CCRC to apartments for the elderly to community home services. In addition, the way insurance companies participate in providing for the aged is more flexible and diverse.

part4

The echelon and location layout of insurance companies to develop old-age care

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Layout of the four major insurance company echelons for the aged

Looking at the layout of these insurance companies, we can find that they have shown four echelons:

The first echelon is Taikang, Taibao and China Life, which have a clear style of play. Investing in the community for the aged with heavy assets has achieved remarkable results, insisting on the initial intention to continue the national layout, and attaching importance to the combination of medical care and rehabilitation nursing resources allocation.

The second echelon is Taiping and Hezhong. From the original intention to build their own old-age communities in many cities, they finally chose to change from heavy to light, and retreat to advance by means of equity cooperation and acquisition of nursing homes, which can not only reduce the "heavy", but also cut into the key areas of the old-age industrial chain and play an important role in the old-age market in the future.

The third echelon, represented by Xinhua and Ping ‘an, has long been laying out the old-age care and has certain strategic plans, but it is in a state of shallow taste and cautious wait-and-see for the development of old-age real estate.

The fourth echelon is represented by less well-known insurance companies such as Happiness Life Insurance, China Insurance, Love Life Insurance, Guohua Life Insurance, etc. Its mode of developing old-age care is extremely light, and it is innovating and exploring in a certain field. At present, it is mostly in the initial stage of old-age care.

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The layout of insurance enterprises and the national and urban layout of providing for the aged

 

1. National layout

From the nationwide layout, Taikang Life Insurance, China Pacific Insurance, China Life Insurance and Hezhong Life Insurance are all based on the whole country, mainly CCRC.

Among them, Taikang Life Insurance has formed a nationwide chain layout, linking 22 cities, with the earliest and most perfect layout.

At present, the community under China Pacific Insurance is still in the process of preparation, which is firmly carried out in accordance with the layout of "East-West Progress, North-South Echo, National Layout and All-Age Chain", and has formed a trinity product system of "suburban support (middle-aged elderly people aged 70-79), living and enjoying (young elderly people aged 50-69) and urban support (over 80)".

China Life has implemented the "three points and one line, evergreen all the year round" pension industry layout, and some of its pension projects are still slowly advancing.

From the beginning, Union Life planned to deploy in second-tier cities nationwide, and finally contracted its strategy. At present, its main projects are located in Wuhan, Shenyang and Nanning, and some private nursing homes have been acquired in the Yangtze River Delta.

Different from the national layout of the above four insurance companies, Taiping Life Insurance has established itself in the Yangtze River Delta, and gradually cooperated with neighboring projects such as Ningbo and even the whole country, such as Dalian, Kunming and Shenzhen, from Shanghai to the whole country. Shouhou Everyone, New China Life Insurance and Sunshine Insurance occupy the layout of pension projects in Beijing. Qianhai Life Insurance started from Shenzhen, and will have strategies in Xi ‘an, Nanning, Chengdu and Hainan in the future.

Photo: Everyone’s insurance travel series

Considering the development of the residence market, cities such as Sanya, Dalian, Kunming and Hangzhou are also favored by insurance companies. Insurance companies such as Taikang, Taiping and Hezhong, which have laid out national pension projects, can develop their residence business with the help of pension projects laid out in cities across the country. There are also some insurance companies that have plans to lay out their travel business, such as the travel series products that everyone intends to develop.

2. Urban location layout

In terms of urban location layout, from June 2012, when the foundation stone was laid for Yanyuan, the first old-age care community in Taikang, Beijing, insurance institutions started to build large-scale high-quality old-age care communities in the suburbs, entered the urban areas, and successively laid out some high-quality old-age care institutions. At present, insurance companies such as China Life Insurance, China Pacific Insurance, New China Life Insurance, and Everyone Insurance have all set up pension institutions in urban areas, thus forming a "urban+suburban" product line with full coverage.

According to Litwak, an American scholar, proper service provision for the elderly needs to go through three stages: when the health of the elderly is good, it is most beneficial to live in a community with homogeneous age; When the elderly are disabled, it is most beneficial to live in an age-homogeneous community near their children’s residence; When the degree of disability of the elderly develops to the point where they need 24-hour care, living in a nursing home is the most beneficial.

In the early days, Taikang Insurance, China Life Insurance, China Pacific Insurance, New China Life Insurance, Taiping Life Insurance, China Ping An, Hezhong Life Insurance, Junkang Life Insurance and other large and medium-sized insurance institutions laid out large-scale pension communities in the suburbs as standard. Nowadays, more and more insurance institutions have laid out pension communities in urban areas, such as:

The scheme of "one city chain 1+1" designed by Taibao Jiayuan. That is, the younger elderly can live in the Dongtan Retirement Center of Taibao Home in Chongming for a short time; Middle-aged self-care elders can live in Dongtan Retirement Center for a long time; The elderly with disabilities can be referred to Putuo Kangyang Community through the internal passage of Taibao Home to receive professional care services combining medical care and nursing, and to facilitate relatives to visit nearby;

Everyone’s insurance officer announced the layout mode of "providing for the aged in the heart of the city". At present, there are three old-age care communities located in the urban area of Beijing. In the future, we will start with light assets and lay out high-quality old-age care communities in the core area of the city, which are close to medical care, children and fireworks. "Close to the top three hospitals" will be the primary consideration for the location of old-age care communities;

New China Life Insurance transformed the office building of Liuliqiao in Beijing West Third Ring Road into a high-end nursing home with rehabilitation hospital;

China Life piloted the "Yikang Home of China Life Fubao Community" in Shenzhen.

part5

Prospect of the future trend of insurance+pension

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Stones from Other Mountains —— American Experience

Figure: Classification of old-age communities according to different service types.

According to the experience of the United States, according to the different clients, the community for the aged can be divided into six types: active elderly community (AAC), independent living community (IL), assisted living community (AL), professional nursing community (SNF), memory nursing community (MC) and continuous care community (CCRC). It can be seen that with the gradual decline of the self-care ability of the elderly, the types of services they need are more and more professional, and the requirements for the residential community are getting higher and higher, especially the ability of professional care and medical treatment.

Figure: American pension real estate operation mode

American pension real estate involves investors, developers and operators, who form a complete market-oriented system of financing, construction and operation. Among them, the project manager is separated from the holder. The mainstream investor is Real Estate Trust Fund (REITs), which is responsible for raising funds for the development and operation of the project. Developers are responsible for planning and developing pension real estate projects, and operators operate and manage well-developed projects.

Operators adopt two ways for the project. One is the net lease mode, in which REITs companies rent the property to operators, and the operators charge a fixed rental fee every year, and the operators bear the direct operating expenses, community maintenance fees, taxes, insurance fees, etc. The second is the entrusted management mode, in which REITs entrusts its properties to operators, and the operating costs and income are attributed to REITs.

In addition to REITs model, American pension communities can be divided into two different types according to the developer-led or operator-led: one is the developer-led Sun City model, which is aimed at active health of the elderly aged 55-70 and led by real estate developers, and can recover investment and generate profits through the sale of pension concept houses; The second is the CCRC model led by operators, which takes the form of renting to serve three types of elderly people: self-care, intermediary assistance and intermediary care, and only provides real estate lease rights and service enjoyment rights.

Excerpt from "2020 Senior Housing Outlook Report"

According to the "2020 Senior Housing Outlook Report" published by SHN, in 2020, Private equity, public REITs(Private REITs, Institional institutions, etc. are all buyers of housing for the elderly.

At the same time, the financing sources of American housing for the elderly have expanded, and both Private equity and Bank/Finance company have played a great role in the financing of housing for the elderly.

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Five Future Trends of Insurance Companies’ Pension Development

Compared with the experience of American pension housing, it is found that the development, investment and operation of China’s pension market are still not very mature. In the past few years, the entry of some large insurance companies and real estate companies has promoted the rapid development of the pension market, but various market participants have not formed a clear division of roles, and many enterprises are integrating investment, development and operation. Until these years, this situation has changed, and there have been more cases of division of labor and cooperation based on their respective professional fields.

Photo: Taiping Life Insurance official website-Taiping Enjoy Home

For example, Taiping Life Insurance has only built Shanghai Wutong Family and the newly opened Sanya Begonia Family. The rest of the projects, such as Shanghai Happy Home, Ningbo Xingjian Lanting, Dalian Yijinghui, Kunming Ancient Yunnan Famous City, Beijing Contemporary Time Li, Suzhou Hecheng and Hangzhou Langhe International Medical Center, are all strategic cooperation projects.

In 2017, Taiping Life joined hands with a third-party organization to launch Taiping Life’s community brand-Taiping Lexiangjia. According to the plan, in the future, at least 16 cities across the country will match the resources of Taiping Lexiang Family Pension Community. Under the unified brand management, all communities in Taiping Lexiangjia carry out standardized management and formulate reasonable and consistent marketing, check-in and check-out procedures. At the same time, the community can also jointly carry out residence business.

In addition, the designated cooperative units of Taiping Life Insurance’s pension service experience include: Yuenianhua Support Center (Shenzhen), Runhua Songhe Support Center (Shenzhen) and Zangmashan Support Community (Qingdao). This mode of cooperation can further make up for the shortcomings of insurance companies in the urban distribution, scale, type and location of pension projects, and provide customers with more choices.

Take China Life as an example. At present, China Life’s community project for the aged is progressing relatively slowly, but it has made some efforts in the field of community home. On December 29th, 2020, the first comprehensive community service center for the aged in Yantian District, which was jointly established by Yantian District Government and China Life Insurance, officially opened. So far, China Life’s community home-based care projects have included: Yikang Home in Fubao Community, Yikang Home in Kang Xin Community, Yuexiang Center in Yantian District, and Youxiangjia Health Care Center in Luohu District under construction.

In addition, Bohai Life Insurance, Tianjin Daji Development Co., Ltd. and Beijing Yangzheng Investment signed a strategic cooperation on the "Home-based Care for the Aged" project in China Jihai Shipping City, Tianjin.

According to the development of the old-age community over the years, zhang yi, vice president of Junkang Life Insurance and general manager of the Health Industry Division, summed up these stages:

Among them, in the "1.0" stage, the property of real estate is stronger, and the procedure is usually in the form of property rights sales of real estate developers and basic old-age services provided by third parties;

The "2.0" stage is a relatively mainstream format with the concept of CCRC in the current market, that is, providing relatively standardized high-quality catering, medical care, care and entertainment services for the elderly in large communities;

In the future "3.0" stage, it will become a trend to realize customization and meet individual needs through science and technology. Specifically, through data mining and intelligent analysis, we can build intelligent systems including smart home, face recognition, mobile housekeeper, vital signs detection, cloud health detection, telemedicine, etc., and provide high-quality and personalized health services and living environment for the elderly through big data analysis.

Figure: Maimai Smart Pension Solution

Therefore, in the future, smart devices and technology will empower the elderly on a larger scale, and insurance companies should also be prepared for this.

On the other hand, insurance companies can also introduce some innovative practices from the main business of insurance, and provide feasible reference ideas for the innovative development of insurance and finance.

Zhu Junsheng, a researcher at the China Insurance and Pension Research Center of Tsinghua University Wudaokou Finance College, said in an interview: "With the increase of the aging population, people’s attention to risks is increasingly shifting from the risk of death to the risk of survival, and more and more attention is paid to old-age care and health … Commercial health insurance and old-age insurance can play a greater role in multi-level medical care and old-age security system."

Figure: Health insurance

As early as 2018, Ping An Insurance launched the first flagship product for the elderly group in its official APP Ping An Health: Ping An I Kangbao Geriatric Care (three-high version), which guarantees "accidental hospitalization+cancer hospitalization" and the insurance age is open to 70 years old, covering the three-high population of "hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia". And such insurance products for the elderly will be more and more.

All the above cases indicate that in the process of developing old-age care, insurance companies have formed five development trends:

1. Pay more and more attention to the direction of light assets, community home and inclusive old-age care, and be more rational and diversified in the layout of old-age care. And more and more emerging insurance companies can also intervene in the cause of providing for the aged in the form of light asset cooperation.

2. Considering the overall situation of home care and community care market, "light assets+heavy services+insurance products" may become a breakthrough point for insurance companies to realize profits in the field of pension real estate. Leaving aside the construction of large-scale old-age communities, insurance companies have a lot of room for innovation in traditional life insurance, long-term care insurance and personal commercial old-age insurance products. If they are matched with community home-based old-age care services, they can further expand the market.

3. With the country giving more support and encouragement policies to the financial innovation of insurance, in the future, insurance participation in pension can amplify the financial attributes of insurance, carry out financial innovation for C-end, and design insurance+pension products with the idea of "combining consumer insurance with savings insurance".

4. Smart devices and technology will empower the elderly on a larger scale. Insurance companies should increase investment in science and technology, break through the "fence" of communities and nursing homes, and provide accurate and thoughtful services for more elderly people with pension needs.

5. Union Life has started to deploy overseas in the industry, and I believe that more insurance companies will participate in it in the future. Foreign pension enterprises are more mature and have a lot of high-quality and cheap assets, which are worth investing by China insurance companies. Moreover, with the hot development of residence, including foreign travel routes will be more popular with customers.

part6

Insurance+Pension: Pension Layout of 12 Insurance Companies

After combing the history of insurance companies’ pension development, AgeLifePro also counted 12 insurance companies with pension projects, and their corresponding pension brands and strategic plans:

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Taikang Life Insurance Co.,Ltd.

Pension business product line

1. The product plan of the happiness contract endowment insurance;

2. Taikang House (CCRC).

Asset type

1. Emphasis on asset layout, self-built and self-operated, with a total investment of more than 20 billion yuan;

2. It has the first-Mover advantage, the firmest strategy, the closest pace, the largest investment and the largest number of policies sold.

profit model

Insurance+asset management+operation.

Pension project

Figure: Taikang’s national layout

List of Taikang Community (with ★ indicating that the community has opened)

Charging mode

1. Happiness has an old-age insurance plan, and you can stay in the old-age community after paying a premium of 2 million yuan;

2. Insurance (premium over 2 million)+deposit (200,000 entry fee +120/180/360 Le Tai card)+monthly fee mode.

medical service

1. Self-built hospitals: equipped with secondary rehabilitation hospitals, of which the rehabilitation hospitals in Yanyuan, Shenyuan, chu garden, Yueyuan, Shuyuan and Wuyuan have been put into operation, and the hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu have been included in the designated medical institutions for medical insurance, and they can enjoy medical insurance reimbursement for medical treatment;

2. Medical resources: build an international standard tertiary general hospital, Taikang (Nanjing) Xianlin Gulou Hospital, Taikang Tongji (Wuhan) Hospital, Taikang Southwest Medical Center (to be established), Taikang Shenzhen Qianhai International Hospital (to be established), Taikang Ningbo Hospital (to be established) and Taikang Baibo Dental;

3. Cooperate with many well-known domestic 3A hospitals to realize two-way referral, green channel, telemedicine and expert consultation services.

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China Life Insurance

Pension business product line

1. Community for the Aged (CCRC);

2. Community home-based care for the aged;

3. Living.

Asset type

By the end of 2017, the investment scale in the health and old-age care industry was nearly 25 billion yuan, with emphasis on asset layout and self-construction, which was steady and steady.

profit model

Great asset management, great health and great old-age care.

Pension project

Photo: Guoshou Jiayuan

List of China Life Pension Projects (with ★ indicating that the community has opened)

Charging mode

1. The mode of "deposit (100,000 yuan)+Jiayuan card (90/150/1.8 million yuan)+monthly fee" is adopted for the pricing of self-care area;

2. The nursing area adopts the model of "deposit+monthly fee".

medical service

In addition to providing medical resources in the community and providing 24-hour medical security, it also cooperates with nearby 3A hospitals to open green channels.

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Taiping life insurance

Pension business product line

1. Taiping Life Insurance Personal Tax Extension Pension Insurance (2018);

2. Community for the Aged (CCRC).

Asset type

1. Shanghai Wutong family invested nearly 4 billion yuan, self-built and self-operated;

2. We are accelerating cooperation with other pension institutions and integrating resources extensively.

profit model

Create a closed-loop service in the whole life cycle from health management and pension industry, and form an industrial ecological chain of "insurance+health+medical care".

Pension project

Figure: Layout of Taiping Life Insurance Pension Project

Taiping Happy Family Pension Project includes: Shanghai Wutong Family, Shanghai Happy Home, Ningbo Xingjian Lanting, Dalian Yijinghui, Kunming Ancient Yunnan Famous City, Beijing Contemporary Time Li, Suzhou Hecheng, Sanya Haitang Family and Hangzhou Langhe International Medical Center, all of which have been opened.

Most of these pension projects are cooperative projects. Only the Shanghai Wutong Family Project is self-built and self-operated. The project covers a total area of 280 mu, with more than 1,500 healthy and energetic apartments for the elderly and nearly 900 beds for rehabilitation and nursing, which can serve about 3,500 elderly people by then.

The designated cooperative units of Taiping Life Insurance’s pension service experience include: Yuenianhua Support Center (Shenzhen), Runhua Songhe Support Center (Shenzhen) and Zangmashan Support Community (Qingdao).

The Wenjiang project in Chengdu is about to land, and projects in Zhuhai and Nanning are also being actively promoted.

Charging mode

1. Purchase insurance products linked to the Wutong family community, and you will be eligible for occupancy if the premium is more than 2 million yuan; Directly purchase the community membership of Wutong family, and pay monthly after check-in;

2. Deposit+monthly fee.

Number of existing beds

Shanghai Wutong family has 288 beds.

medical service

1. Shanghai Taiping Rehabilitation Hospital has been completed;

2. The Wutong family is close to Zhangjiang Science City, which is a new comprehensive medical park integrating "medicine, teaching, research and production" and is rich in surrounding medical resources;

3. Cooperate with hospitals around the community to get through the green channel.

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China Pacific insurance

Photo: layout of old-age care in Taibao home

Pension business product line

The trinity product system of "supporting the elderly in suburban areas (middle-aged people aged 70-79), living and enjoying (young people aged 50-69) and urban health care (over 80 years old)".

Asset type

1. Pay attention to the investment in assets, give full play to the advantages of backwardness, have a clear strategy and a clear style of play;

In 2.3-5 years, the initial investment will be 10 billion yuan, and 8,000-10,000 sets of high-end pension apartments will be expanded, with 10,000-12,000 beds.

profit model

Comprehensive solution of "insurance products+community for the aged+professional services".

Pension project

medical service

Docking local medical resources and cooperating with surrounding hospitals.

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Everyone insurance

Pension business product line

1. Community for the Aged (CCRC);

2. Community embedded nursing station.

Asset type

Give priority to light assets.

profit model

1. Create the mode of "providing for the aged in the city" and explore the mode of "nursing station" embedded in the community;

2. Relying on the unique overseas pension license of Everyone Insurance Group, we will lay out our capabilities around four aspects: "operation, nursing, medical care and informatization" and integrate and export pension operation services and brands.

Pension project

Figure: The first thick pension project for everyone

1. The building area of Shouhou Dajia Chaoyang Community is 40,000m, with 230 beds;

2. Shouhou Friendship Community has 545 beds;

3. Fuwai Community for the Aged and the first embedded nursing station in the community are under construction, which can provide more than 1,500 beds.

Charging mode

1. The membership mode is between 1.9 million and 2.6 million;

2. The monthly fee is 15,000-22,000 yuan/month.

medical service

Create a graded diagnosis and treatment service system, including four-tier service settings: medical institutions in the community, remote consultation of Internet hospital experts and remote distribution of drugs, nearest service of 3A hospitals, high-end physical examination and overseas diagnosis and treatment.

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Union life insurance

Pension business product line

1. Community for the Aged (CCRC, AAC);

2. Physical old-age security plan-buy union insurance and live in an old-age community;

3. Living and supporting the elderly.

 

Asset type

1. Build a community for the aged with heavy assets and invest 26.8 billion yuan to build projects in Wuhan, Hefei and Shenyang;

2. Investing in light assets to acquire pension communities at home and abroad.

profit model

Invest, run the community, and cooperate with the third party to carry out living and providing for the aged.

Pension project

Figure: Hezhong Pension Health Industry Layout (taken in 2015)

1. Hezhong Younian Life Wuhan Community is the first pension community invested and operated by an insurance company in China, with a construction area of 1.6 million m, 600 CCRC beds and about 1,000 AAC (Active Elderly Community) units, which can accommodate 3,000 people;

2. Hezhong Younian life Nanning community can accommodate 2000 people;

3. Hezhong Younian Life Shenyang Community can accommodate 559 people;

4. Invest and acquire 56 pension communities at home and abroad.

Charging mode

1. Policy+physical endowment insurance plan, you can stay in the old-age community by paying 500,000-750,000 yuan;

2. Deposit+monthly fee mode;

3. You can enjoy the service of living and providing for the aged by purchasing the old card for excellent years.

medical service

Construction of medical rehabilitation centers, medical and health service centers, and docking with local medical resources.

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Qianhai life insurance

Pension business product line

1. Establish a happy home for the elderly;

2. Combination of medical care and nursing: set up a medical and health management center, link high-quality domestic medical and nursing resources, operate a medical and nursing combination project, and form a national medical and nursing network;

3. Carry out old-age care services for migratory birds.

Asset type

The hospitals and nursing homes under Qianhai Life Insurance are self-built and self-operated, creating a precedent for the insurance industry.

profit model

Establish a service system of "insurance+pension+medical care" to link medical care services with insurance business.

Pension project

Photo: Qianhai Life Insurance Shenzhen Happy Home

1. Shenzhen Happy Home Nursing Home is a pension project fully invested and operated by Qianhai Life Insurance Co., Ltd., covering an area of 10,860m2, with a total construction area of 33,400m2 and more than 500 planned nursing beds;

2. Plan to invest in the construction of many hospitals, outpatient departments and comprehensive pension apartments in Guangzhou, Nanning, Xi ‘an and Shaoguan.

Charging mode

1. Buy insurance to stay in the community;

2. Deposit+monthly fee mode.

medical service

1. There is a health management center in the nursing home of Happy Home, equipped with a professional health management team;

2. Established the Guangzhou General Physician of Qianhai Life Insurance, and will also build a medical cooperation station with Baoan District People’s Hospital to jointly build a comprehensive diagnosis demonstration model for senile diseases and build a family bed demonstration base;

3. Cooperate with Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical University and other hospitals to open a green medical channel.

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Junkang China life

Pension business product line

Four product lines with Kangyang Community, Kangyang Hotel, Kangyang Center and Health Resort as the core have been constructed.

Asset type

Combining light and heavy, it is estimated that the total investment will be more than 7 billion, and the company will hold and operate for a long time after the community is completed.

 

profit model

Integrating insurance products, community pension, medical care and health management services, the insurance products focusing on old-age care supporting Junkang Nianhua Kangyang Community are composed of Junkang Happiness Annuity Insurance (dividend-sharing type) and Junkang Premium Account Annuity Insurance (universal type).

Pension project

Photo: Junkang Nianhua Pension Community

There are Junkang Beijing Nianhua shunyi new town Kangyang Community and Junkang Nianhua Shanghai Minhang Pujin Kangyang Community. More than 2,500 living units are planned and constructed, which will be held and operated by the company for a long time after completion.

Charging mode

Customers who purchase the "Junkang Happiness Lifelong Pension Plan" with a premium of 2 million will enjoy the guaranteed right to stay in Junkang Nianhua Kangyang Community and enjoy the preferential price policy for staying in the community in the future.

medical service

Cooperate with neighboring hospitals.

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Sunshine insurance

Pension business product line

1. Take home care and pension operation services as the main body, and build a "four-in-one" pension model of "home, community, institution" and Internet;

2. Establish Sunshine Yikang Pension Service Co., Ltd. and Beijing Yihe Tianxiang Pension Service Co., Ltd..

Asset type

Light assets.

Pension project

Photo: Sunshine Family Guangzhou Kangyang Community, which was put into operation on December 24, 2020.

1. Sunshine Yikang Pension Service Co., Ltd. has jurisdiction over Yikang Home Tiantongyuan Store, Sunshine Jishan Maintenance Center and Xinhu Sunshine Retirement Center (public and private);

2. Beijing Yihe Tianxiang Pension Service Co., Ltd. has established three parent care institutions in Beijing, Dashilan Pension Care Center, Sunshine Li Elderly Care Home and Sunshine Family (Guangzhou).

Charging mode

Deposit+monthly fee mode.

medical service

Medical care stations are set up in the hospital of the institution to connect with local medical resources.

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Xinhua insurance

Pension business product line

After four years, three typical projects have formed a multi-product pension industry layout that combines suburbs and echoes the north and south, covering three product lines: rehabilitation care, continuous care and old-age health care.

Asset type

Heavy asset investment.

Pension project

Photo: Xinhua Home Community

1. Beijing Lianhuachi nursing apartment with 206 rooms and 360 beds;

2. Hainan Boao Leisure and Holiday Pension Community, with about 1,000 rooms in the first phase;

3. An active community for the aged (to be established) in Yanqing District of Beijing, with 1,800 rooms and 3,200 beds planned.

Charging mode

Charge mode of bed fee+nursing service fee.

medical service

1. Establish Xinhua Zhuoyue Health Investment Management Co., Ltd.;

2. Self-built rehabilitation hospitals and institutions have medical offices;

3. Cooperate with neighboring hospitals to open up green channels.

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Picc life insurance

Pension business product line

CCRC。

Pension project

Photo: People’s Health Care Dalian Yiyuan Pension Community

The first community for the aged-People’s Insurance and Health Care Dalian Yiyuan Community for the Aged and Health Care can provide about 1,100 old-age care/health care units, and 323 old-age care units in the first old-age care area have been officially put into operation.

Charging mode

"Insurance policy+check-in confirmation letter" mode, with priority for paying 450,000 yuan.

medical service

Actively explore the business model of "combining medical care with community+online doctor signing+hospital strategic cooperation", and provide the "combining medical care with nursing care" health care service for the elderly with disease treatment, disease-free prevention and rehabilitation after illness.

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Tongfang Global Life

Photo: Tongfang Global Life joined hands with Tsinghua University Institute of Economics and Management.

Release the survey report of China residents’ retirement preparation index.

Pension business product line

1. Pension apartments, CCRC, and cooperative construction of nursing homes;

2. Cooperate with Tiandi Health City to launch a "self-satisfaction club" medical care solution and create a "pension+medical care+insurance" model.

Asset type

We will introduce a new model of providing for the elderly that integrates "medical care, support and insurance" and "light assets".

Pension project

1. Tongfang Global Life Retirement Paradise project based on pension apartment solution has been completed in Qingdao;

2. Tongfang Global Life Pension Community (CCRC) project will be listed in the near future;

3. Join hands with Hunhe Ruiyi ‘an Nursing Home in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, benchmark the international level, and lock the target customers into those who need immediate care, so as to prepare for the introduction of disability insurance and long-term care insurance;

4. Cooperate with Tiandi Health City (CCRC) to launch the "Self-satisfied Club" medical care solution.

Charging mode

The "Self-satisfied Club" medical care service solution is in cooperation with Shanghai Tiandi Health City, which is of the same origin. Customers can enjoy the exclusive right to use the old-age service apartment after purchasing the designated products of Tongfang Global Life and paying the membership fee.

medical service

Carry out strategic cooperation with Nanjing Tongren Hospital and strengthen the in-depth cooperation between commercial insurance and medical institutions.

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Various ways for insurance companies to develop old-age care

1, with the help of the group’s internal resources to build a community for the aged.

This model appeared in the early stage of the exploration of pension real estate. Some large-scale insurance parent groups have diversified business formats, and there are professional real estate companies under them. They often use the internal resources of the group to set up projects for elderly housing, and the successful projects can be sold to the market. In fact, the selling community model is no different from real estate development, which can quickly recover funds and obtain development profits, thus realizing rolling development. However, under this model, it is difficult to guarantee the community’s old-age service.

The "Comprehensive Service Community for Health Care and Pension" built by Ping An Insurance in the early days was developed and constructed in conjunction with China Ping An Real Estate Group, which integrated three product lines: pension apartment, family community and holiday leisure, with a total construction area of 1.5 million square meters.

The project adopts the mode of "both renting and selling", that is, like commercial real estate, property rights can be bought and sold. Member products are operated by Ping An Real Estate, which only rents and does not sell. At that time, this model was the only pension real estate developed in the form of "selling+holding operation" in the financial department.

Figure: Health Valley Member Service System

Evergrande Real Estate, the parent group of Evergrande Life Insurance, has built the Evergrande Health Valley, creating four parks, namely, Yiyang, Changle, Kangyi and Parent-child, providing 852 types of facilities and 867 comprehensive health management services, covering the whole life cycle from pre-pregnancy, infants to centenarians.

At present, the completed Evergrande Health Valley has been sold to the market. It is understood that Evergrande Health Valley will provide health care and old-age care services to customers through the membership mechanism of "rent, purchase and travel". Customers can become members by renting, buying products in Health Valley or traveling and living in Health Valley, and get membership rights such as health insurance, high-end medical care, health management and health care services. 

Evergrande Life put forward the strategic model of "insurance guarantee+ecological pension+combination of medical care and nursing care", and issued the permanent endowment insurance, which creatively combined insurance products with the old-age community to provide customers with a package of pension plans linking financial planning and pension entity services.

Photo: Everbright Peace of Mind Pension Plan

Everbright Life Insurance launched the "Everbright Peace of Mind Pension Plan", which connects insurance products with Everbright Huichen Pension Service Community to provide customers with a package of pension solutions of "insurance+pension community" and realize the combination of financial products and physical pension. "Everbright Peace of Mind Pension Plan" is divided into two sub-plans:

Plan A serves mid-to-high-end customers through "insurance+long-term care for the aged+preferential service for the aged living in residence", and locks in the occupancy right of Everbright Community in advance for customers. The occupancy right is further divided into "guaranteed occupancy right, priority occupancy right, preferential price right, experience occupancy right", etc., to provide customers with more and clearer protection, with up to six rights holders, including not only customers and their spouses, but also parents of both parties. In addition, the right holder can also enjoy the service of living and providing for the aged at preferential prices all over the country from the date of insurance;

The content of plan B is "insurance+preferential right of living service", with low payment threshold and wider coverage. Six rights holders can enjoy the same level of living service in plan A in advance without staying in the old-age community.

In 2019, Xingbao launched "Star Pension"-a comprehensive solution of pension insurance and pension community. Relying on Fosun Real Estate’s Healthy Honeycomb Platform, the two parties jointly create an exclusive pension community scheme for Fosun Prudential Life Insurance customers-customers can reserve pension annuity by purchasing corresponding insurance products of Fosun Prudential, and Fosun Real Estate promises the rights and interests of customers to stay in the "Fosun Pension Community" in the future. It is reported that if the total premium is more than 2 million, the insured can get the qualification to live in an old-age community.

China Merchants Guanyi Home launched the "Renhe Yijia Comprehensive Pension Plan", with the development strategy of "the same platform, giving equal attention to both light and heavy, and combining medical care with nursing care". China Merchants Renhe Life Insurance focuses on the whole industrial chain of pension insurance products, pension community development and pension community operation services.

Specifically, the pension community in Guangzhou Golden Valley (Renhe Yijia Heyuan) is only open to customers who buy insurance. Only by purchasing more than ten designated insurance products, including "China Merchants Renhe Zhaoying Jinsheng Annuity Insurance" and "China Merchants Renhe Heyue Life whole life insurance", and the accumulated premium payable reaches more than 2 million, can they be eligible to apply for the pension community.

2. Innovative gameplay of insurance+pension

Figure: UC club membership rights

China Insurance launched the UC Club of New Life, and launched membership service for the junior and old people. Members who join the club can enjoy services such as learning, medical care, traveling, doing something and having fun. It is also known that United Life also has plans to form a new senior club.

Guohua Life Insurance has established three companies on medical health and old-age care: Hainan Guohua Kangyang Co., Ltd., Gongqingcheng Zhongke Xukang Medical Industry Investment Partnership, and Guohua Residence Kangyang Co., Ltd. At present, the company’s work in medical care, old-age care and other aspects is in the preparatory stage, and there is no more definite information to disclose.

Love Life put forward the four-in-one ecological strategy of "medical care and insurance" for the aged. In 2020, China International Fair for Trade in Services released the first "insurance+service" home-based care product in the industry-"Love+Home-based Care Product Plan", which provides home-based care solutions for the elderly with the combination of "annuity protection+medical care service".

In addition, Love Life is also a pilot agency for long-term care insurance in Beijing, and has set up a special team with rich experience in care management services, and has become one of the eight financial institutions selected by China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission Financial Support Community Home Care Service Agency Project.

Happy Life, supported by the national policy, launched the reverse mortgage pension insurance product "Happy House Laibao reverse mortgage pension insurance for the elderly (Clause A)", and invested in regional leading pension institutions all over the country through the special equity investment fund for medical pension.

Zhonghong Life Insurance cooperates with Greenland Kangyang to create a cross-border innovative cooperation model of "insurance products+high-end pension community+Kangyang hotel", organically combining insurance financial products with physical pension services to provide customers with more comprehensive pension solutions. This indicates that Zhonghong Insurance has made important progress in building a "health+pension" dual-engine strategic layout.

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Insurance and old-age care both start from the whole life cycle of people, and they are strongly related. Looking at overseas, insurance companies have always been an important pillar of the development of old-age care. The social security and market profitability of providing for the aged coincide with the original meaning of the insurance industry.

On the level of social security, the overall security level of the three-pillar pension system in China is relatively low, with the first pillar dominating, but there are also problems of low security level. Therefore, the participation of commercial insurance can improve the level of social security to a certain extent.

As far as market profitability is concerned, with the improvement of the living standards of the elderly and the enhancement of their ability to pay, the demand of the elderly for commercial insurance products is increasingly prominent, and the inclusiveness of products and services with various asset properties is also increasing. There will be great market space for commercial insurance companies to cut in from this aspect and participate in pension real estate, insurance products and pension services.

In recent years, after the previous heavy lifting asset layout, insurance companies are slowly returning to rationality and becoming more and more clear about their own positioning-"insurance surname". They should form differentiated competition through providing for the aged, innovate services, give full play to the advantages of insurance+and build a big healthy ecosystem.

At the moment when long-term insurance is ready to come out and commercial insurance can play more roles, we believe that all insurance companies will participate in the pension industry in their own ways in the future, which makes us more full of expectations for this industry.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark 5: 81-year-old Indiana Jones, no one watched it?


Special feature of 1905 film network Since its release on June 30th, the veteran IP sequel "raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny" has had a mediocre box office performance, with only 17 million box office receipts after four days of release, and the total box office forecast of all media is less than 100 million.For a classic IP with a history of 42 years, such box office results are really embarrassing.



According to the data, in the audience portrait of raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny, the audience aged 40+ accounts for as high as 21%. The movie fans who walked into the cinema to watch "raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny" seemed to be "paying for their feelings".


But in fact, this feeling is not only hidden in the hearts of fans, but also exists in the director’s creation.



In the latest release of raiders of the lost ark: Turntable of Destiny, we can see many details of the first four works, whether it’s the worms crawling all over the protagonist while searching for treasure, the affectionate confession of Indiana Jones and his lover, or the action design of "beating the enemy with one punch". These classic bridges in the previous works are all presented in raiders of the lost ark: Turntable of Destiny.



However, many plots of the previous tribute works are also a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they can satisfy the expectations of Laofen for IP feelings in the cinema, but on the other hand, they will also disappoint the new audience of raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny.


It’s true that these slightly clumsy plot designs are gradually out of touch with the current film market. When people who don’t know much about raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny enter the cinema, they expect to see a treasure-winning adventure film under the background of a new era, not just a "tribute film" that reviews the past and relives their feelings.


Although this work has been labeled as "old school" and ""the Chen Dynastyold",but for director James Mangold, he never shy away from aiming the camera lens at" Old Age "in raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny.


The initial intention of his creation is precisely to tell an old story in an old-fashioned way, so that an old-fashioned hero can bid farewell to this story seriously on the way of pursuing treasure.



The actor who plays Indiana Jones in the movie is 81 years old this year. Compared with 40 years ago, he is no longer a "whip-wielding god of war" in his early forties, and he has gradually retired from the super-popular actor who was active in Hollywood in the past.



When the turntable of time stayed at the 40-year-old debut of raiders of the lost ark: The Turntable of Destiny, the director followed the passage of time and told the story of an 80-year-old "dying hero" with romantic brushstrokes: Indiana Jones was no longer a superhero who saved the heroine in from the mire in his previous work, but an "adventure old man" who was helpless and saved by the hostess; Although Indiana Jones can still climb, ride horses and fight, everything seems a bit clumsy, and Dr. Jones himself spoke indifferently of this clumsiness during this adventure.



These voices of "getting old" pervaded the whole movie, but did not make the audience feel helpless in the face of time.It happens that this self-mockery and this bow to time reflect the director’s values hidden in the story: the real old age is not to surrender to time on the ground, but to take the hand of time and go further and further together.


Heroes can no longer be heroic, and heroes can also be saved by "beauty". Heroes can’t compete with time, but they can walk in time.However, the reason why "raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny" no longer attracts young audiences is not only the reason of "the old hero", but also deeply related to the "the old theme" of adventure and treasure hunting movies.


In recent years, the development of adventure movies in the domestic and foreign film markets has been weak, and few influential adventure movies have appeared. The movie that was once called "raiders of the lost ark: The Wheel of Destiny" was also released seven years ago.



Adventure and treasure hunt movies were all the rage in the 1980s. For the whole world, the 1980s was a romantic era. At that time, the world was full of unknowns and mysteries, and people wanted to pursue things beyond our knowledge, which also provided social and cultural soil for the vigorous development of adventure and treasure-hunting movies.


In the series of raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny, there is a story that is interesting: in the first part, Indiana Jones is an archaeological university teacher. When he is in class, the students under the podium are absorbed and fascinated; However, in his latest work "raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny", he said that no one looked up under the desk in class, and everyone no longer cared about archaeology, but cared about the vast universe and the boundless space.



The team of creators of "raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny" used this lens to compare and accurately capture the changes of people’s mentality in different times, and also announced the decline of adventure movies from the side.


In today’s era, everyone is looking up, looking forward to the mysterious universe in the deep blue, but less and less looking down at the solid land under their feet. Indiana Jones is just a member of the solid land, and he has always adhered to the initial intention of exploring the land.


From this point of view, the series raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny has spanned 40 years, and given such an epoch-making work in today’s film market, which has already completed its historical mission, and also handed over an answer sheet with the name of a curtain call for adventure and treasure hunting movies.



However, although the hero is old and the theme is no longer fresh, raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny is still a film worth going into the cinema and enjoying seriously.


This work inherits the classic and smooth plot trend of the previous work, and tells the ups and downs of adventure films very purely.


At the same time, as one of the top actors in Hollywood, how Harrison Ford plays the role of Indiana Jones as an explorer at the age of 81, and what superb details he will perform, is also worth seeing by the audience.


We have to admit that the golden age of exploration, which was once shining, has gone away from us, but the spirit of never giving up and going forward will never die.



This spirit of exploration also runs through the film raiders of the lost ark: Wheel of Destiny: 40 years ago, Indiana Jones was the embodiment of human exploration spirit; 40 years later, at the age of 81, he is still wearing armor, and on his own adventure, he keeps going forward and never looks back.


Post it old, can you still eat?

Text | Zhenxin Editorial Department Li Xiaonan

Editor | Yang Zhenxin

In late September, 2020, a user of "Anti-pressure Back Pot" of Million Bar told a story in his post that his mother sold her house to raise money because she couldn’t afford the bride price, and her sister who went to high school was not distressed, but also excitedly told the landlord "Brother, our family has money" on WeChat. The post quickly formed a high popularity in the bar, and the screenshots in the article were widely spread in major platforms. Countless netizens were moved and called "broken defense".

This is Baidu Post Bar’s latest outing, and the Chinese Internet has once again seen the powerful cultural creation and communication power of this ancient behemoth in the online community.

But many years ago, the post bar didn’t need this kind of broken circle, it was the biggest circle itself. At that time, half of the online buzzwords came from post bars every year, and their monthly activities accounted for half of the total number of netizens. Time has passed, and the king of the PC era has gradually declined in the era of mobile Internet. The reason is the evolution of the environment and the limitations of the product itself, but more is the blind pursuit and evil thoughts of the product leaders.

Now, it’s old, can you still eat?

The pinnacle of grassroots culture

On December 3, 2003, Baidu Post Bar was officially launched. Some people said that it was inspired by Li Yanhong’s idea of "building an online interest exchange platform with search engines". Others said that when Jun Yu searched the logs, he found that many users were searching for the same keyword, so he conceived to aggregate these people into an interest community.

As soon as it went online, Post Bar became popular because of its simple interface, low speech threshold and unique product form. At that time, Baidu’s main business was search engine, but search only grabbed and presented the existing information on the Internet, but it could not create content itself. The appearance of Post Bar made Baidu have the ability to produce its own content, which made up for the lack of Internet content at that time, and its proportion in Baidu traffic quickly increased from 1% to 11% later.

In 2004, the player Li Yi became popular because of the phrase "I protect the ball like Henry", and was called "Li Yi the Great". Li Yi Bar, the largest bar in Baidu Post Bar named after him, was also established. Later, due to Li Yi’s flamboyant style, more and more black powder poured into Li Yi Bar, and a unique "connotation" culture was formed, that is, various PS pictures, jokes and pranks were used to express their views on social current affairs.

The real rise of Post Bar was in 2005, when the phenomenal talent show "Super Girl" exploded, and fans began to hold a group discussion in their idol bars after the show was broadcast. At that time, there was no Weibo, and fans who had nowhere to go poured into Post Bar, which formed a huge flow. At the beginning of 2005, the number of users of Post Bar exceeded 10 million, and at the end of the year it soared to 30 million, surpassing Sina to become the largest Chinese website in the world.

On June 21st, 2007, a conflict broke out between Li Yi Bar and Chris Lee Bar. A large number of users of Li Yi Bar rushed into Chris Lee Bar to brush posts crazily, which caused Chris Lee Bar to explode more than 2,000 pages of meaningless content, making it paralyzed for a time. In the end, Chris Lee Bar suspended posting, and several bar owners members of Li Yi Bar were withdrawn. This is the first "expedition" of "Diba" and the first explosion in the history of Post Bar.

In the next few years, Li Yiba organized several "expeditions", but unlike the first "fighting" in the circle, most of the later explosions were just. For example, in August 2007, Rainie Yang Bar was exploded because Rainie Yang was suspected of insulting China and Nanjing Massacre martyrs. In May, 2008, some dance troupe players insulted the victims of Wenchuan earthquake, and the dance troupe bar was exploded.

From 2004 to 2010, the post bar at this stage was at its peak, and a large number of netizens from grass roots gathered in different post bars with their interests, producing numerous high-quality posts and settling them down, hence the name "Louvre on the Chinese Internet".

At this time, the post bar is the representative of the grassroots culture of the Internet. In this highly decentralized community where everyone is equal without hierarchy, countless lonely souls have found a sense of belonging. Bar friends are highly creative and enthusiastic, and these online buzzwords, such as diaosi, baifumei, Xi Da Pu Ben, Pipi Shrimp Let’s Go and Ignorance, are all born out of post bar culture.

Li Yanhong once said in an interview: "We just want to do our own thing in a down-to-earth manner and build Baidu into a place that can bring a sense of belonging to netizens." At this time, the post bar was really done.

When the giant slowly falls

No one thought that the infinitely brilliant post bar in the PC era would be "dead" in the era of mobile Internet.

In 2009, "God of Products", Baidu Post Bar and Jun Yu, the father of Baidu Know, left Baidu. In 2010, when Google left China, Baidu quickly ate Google’s market share, and a year later, its market value surpassed Tencent to become the top Internet company in China. Baidu, which has fallen into unprecedented loneliness, urgently needs to tell a new growth story, so it internally puts forward a long-term strategic goal of reaching 100 billion revenue within ten years.

After this strategic goal was put forward, it was widely valued by high-level and investors, and the long-term goal was continuously subdivided into KPI and distributed to various departments. At that time, Post Bar was a typical "traffic, no revenue", coupled with the high server cost due to high user volume and high activity, Baidu hoped that Post Bar could bear more responsibility for growth, and even put forward the slogan "How can it become an independent business unit without revenue?" Everything was in line with KPI. Post bar has thus embarked on its decline.

In the fourth quarter of 2011, the new version of Post Bar was released for public beta, and the bar owners audit system was cancelled when it was originally added to Post Bar, and it became click attention; At the same time, the hierarchy and experience system are introduced, and users can increase their experience value by logging in, posting, replying and other operations, so as to improve the level of posting.

A series of revisions have greatly improved the number and activity of users. However, the product logic of Post Bar is very unique: unlike today’s content products that use subscription system and recommendation algorithm to achieve the effect of "thousands of people and thousands of faces", the post bar pages are sorted according to the latest reply time of posts. Different users enter the same post at the same time and see the same content, which makes the post bar very public, and some stalks are very easy to form explosive points, resulting in great influence and even out of the circle.

However, this model also causes crowding and competition among contents. When many users start posting meaningless posts and pictures for experience, the content quality of the post bar will also decline.

In 2012, with the popularity of mobile Internet, Post Bar officially started its "self-destructive commercialization" process. Baidu requires bar owners, who has no salary, to bear the KPI of user growth and activity, and not to be dismissed or airborne in bar owners; In September, it was officially launched to promote the Post Bar, namely, the advertisement of the headline, the advertisement of the topic list page and the advertisement of the electronic details page. However, the excessive force led to too many advertisements on the page, which further reduced the visibility of the page. Since then, the content quality of Post Bar has been declining, but the overall afterglow still exists. In 2012, the number of netizens in China was 564 million, and the monthly activity of Post Bar was 200 million, accounting for more than one third.

In 2015, Baidu found that the commercialization attempts in recent years did not change the loss situation of Post Bar, so it finally made the worst decision in the history of Post Bar and even Chinese Internet: sell it.

An insider of Baidu once said when recalling this period of history: "Then, some people began to focus on the authority of bar owners. At first, there was a fierce internal argument, saying that this thing could not be sold, but the final outcome was known to everyone. Anyway, there are many internal objections, but let’s take advantage of the word. "

In March 2015, the infamous Baidu partner system was launched. When a merchant becomes a partner of Post Bar, he can have all the rights of bar owners, such as deleting posts, monitoring public opinion and initiating activities in the bar.

Baidu chose the former between interests and morality, which also brought bad consequences to society and Post Bar itself. In January, 2016, the news that "Hemophilia Bar" was sold gradually spread. The original bar owners was removed, and the airborne bar owners paid for the right to operate. A place where patients gathered for warmth for nearly ten years became a victim of over-commercialization. Later, netizens found that many medical-related post bars were sold by Baidu. Coupled with the Wei Zexi incident that occurred in the same year, the public image of Baidu and Post Bar plummeted and has not recovered yet. The Baidu partner system was also cancelled after the incident.

A series of events in 2016 marked the decline of Baidu and Post Bar, and since then Post Bar has never recovered. Later, with the admission of the regulatory authorities, Post Bar strengthened its internal audit management. In 2019, Post Bar officially banned all posts before 2017 on the grounds of "data system upgrade", and some of them were unsealed after a period of time, but some early posts that had settled down were deleted.

In March 2015, an organization gave data: the user activity of Post Bar is 1.8 times that of Weibo, and the number of monthly users is 300 million, exceeding Twitter; By February 2019, its monthly activity was only 46.08 million. One year later, this figure became 37.43 million, ranking 101 on the APP list. Post Bar completely lost its former glory.

Does Baidu still have a choice?

The direct reason for the decline of Post Bar lies in its extremely failed commercialization, but the root cause of commercialization failure is not only the deviation of Baidu’s values, but also the limitations of Post Bar itself. To be precise, the product form of Post Bar determines that it must face many difficulties in the process of commercialization.

There are two types of social interaction, one based on "relationship" and the other based on "theme". The core of the former lies in the construction of interpersonal relationship, and WeChat and Momo are typical products. The core of the latter is to gather a group of people who are interested in this topic by relying on the "theme", so as to generate communication and form interpersonal relationships. Post Bar is the leader of this kind of products.

When the recommendation algorithm continues to push the highly homogeneous information flow named "thousands of people and thousands of faces", Post Bar is truly "interest-centered". Any niche hobby can find its own gathering place and partner in Post Bar, and most users in the bar have a certain understanding of the theme, so it is very easy for anyone to get informative feedback when speaking in the bar. This product mechanism makes Post Bar have extremely strong content creation ability and high activity, and at the same time, it also produces a culture of absolute equality and high decentralization.

However, although this cultural atmosphere is conducive to content production, it is not conducive to product commercialization. Because a high degree of equality and decentralization means scattered traffic, it is difficult for KOL and professional content creators to stand out from ordinary users and get a lot of attention. Weibo, bilibili, Xiaohongshu and other content communities have a group of "big V" who rely on their own content to attract fans, and finally turn it into cash and undertake the commercialization function of the community. Advertisers and brands can easily carry out marketing activities by relying on them.

However, in Post Bar, high-level users and bar managers do not have much higher traffic and trust value than ordinary users. Coupled with the unique sorting mechanism by response time, brands and advertisers can hardly find a "central node" that can directly reach a large number of target users or provide trust endorsement.

Even if a commercial promotion post is specially opened, it is difficult to attract traffic and heat, and it will soon be buried in the information flow. What’s more, there are a large number of knowledgeable users in the bar, and they can see at a glance whether the promoted products are good or not. It is not a problem to spray inferior products for hundreds of floors in minutes. All these make the commercialization of Post Bar extremely difficult.

But does Baidu really have no choice?

The difficulty in realizing the content community has always been a long-standing problem in the Internet field. The unique product mechanism and community atmosphere of Post Bar make it more difficult to commercialize than ordinary content products by several factors, but does Baidu have no other choice but to sell it? I’m afraid not.

First of all, the traffic of Post Bar itself is large enough, and the aggregation logic based on interest also makes many Post Bar have a very active second-hand trading market. Baidu may refer to the model of Aauto Quicker and salted fish to establish an official trading platform to draw as the income base; Or social interest itself has a lot of imagination. When major dating apps are racking their brains to match users with the same interests, Post Bar has long had a unique advantage in this respect.

Furthermore, even if Post Bar is really unprofitable, it is of great strategic significance to Baidu. If Post Bar is not dead, Baidu will have a traffic treasure on a par with Weibo and bilibili, which will have a great synergy with other businesses, at the very least, it will not create a "hundred number" that it can’t afford.

Selling it is the last choice, because in the long run, the negative effect of selling it is far greater than the positive significance.

The current post bar is in a very embarrassing situation-it is a product with hope but no future.

Although the Post Bar has declined, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse. It still has a monthly life of tens of millions, a large number of high-quality content and old users scattered in every corner of the Internet. The incident of "Our family is rich" also proves that its powerful stalk-making ability is still there. If we can make some innovations, it may not be hopeless.

However, Post Bar, which hasn’t brought much revenue, has become a marginal business in all in AI and Baidu with smart cars. It doesn’t have much resources to make changes related to the underlying architecture, and it can only be like an old warrior. He died slowly and painfully in the corner alone.

The history of the rise and fall of Baidu Post Bar is worthy of reflection by all content platforms, to think about how to find a balance between user experience, content quality and commercialization, to understand the social responsibility that C-end products must bear due to their natural social attributes, and to reflect on the disastrous consequences when KPI becomes the only goal.

In 2016, an insider of Baidu once said after the hemophilia bar incident: "It’s not too late for Baidu to mend today, and even posting it is not necessarily a bad thing for Baidu. Tencent in that year was also openly written on the cover by an Internet magazine, which led to later reflection and Tencent’s open platform, and today’s Tencent."

It’s not too late to mend after it’s too late, but it depends on whether Baidu cares about the life or death of that sheep.

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"A vivid history of the decline of post bars", nine commandments of pigs

Why has Baidu Post Bar become a "hidden corner" of the Internet? ",Leng Sizhen

"In addition to straight men, who still misses the post bar? ",alphabetical list

You don’t know the development history of "Post Bar", Lan Xi.

Listening to insiders reveal the realization of Baidu Post Bar, three lessons.

Peng Qinghua: Do a good job in the great article "Emancipating the mind and gathering talents"

Talent-oriented is the great cause of a thousand years. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation must be used by gathering talents from all over the world. As a western frontier ethnic area, Guangxi should, in accordance with the new mission entrusted by the central authorities, achieve the goal of "two constructions" of building a well-off society in an all-round way in synchronization with the whole country and building a new strategic fulcrum for the opening up and development of southwest central and southern regions. What needs to be paid most attention to is people, the most active factor in productivity, the most important thing to gather is the wisdom and strength of outstanding talents from all sides, and the most reliable thing is the huge "talent bonus" hidden among the 52 million people of all ethnic groups in the region. Strengthening Guangxi with talents is an important strategy for Guangxi’s leapfrog development. We should conscientiously study and implement the spirit of a series of important instructions of the Supreme Leader’s General Secretary on talent work, do a good job of "emancipating the mind and gathering talents" with an open mind, reform measures and development orientation, and accelerate the formation of a vivid situation in which talents come forth in large numbers, generate is energetic and the cause is prosperous.

Guided by further emancipating the mind, we will strive to enhance the vitality of open cooperation and gathering talents. In recent years, with the deepening of the strategy of strengthening Guangxi with talents, the whole region has paid more and more attention to talents and talent work, and the scientific concept of talents has become increasingly popular. However, there are still many old and rigid ideas in practical work, which seriously restricts the development of talents in the region. In recent years, taking emancipating the mind as the premise, we have seized the major historical opportunities such as comprehensively deepening reform, building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, and building an upgraded version of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area. Relying on the frontier advantages of facing ASEAN and connecting Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, we have taken the initiative to connect the central units with the developed provinces in the east, hired academicians’ consultants, hired high-end talents such as Bagui scholars, promoted post-employment training in central organs, enterprises and universities, and recruited young crop talents in "985" universities. Talent training needs a cycle. It is our long-term strategic choice to further emancipate our minds and take the initiative to go out and introduce. We should vigorously carry forward the spirit of openness and tolerance in Guangxi, establish a win-win concept of openness and cooperation, and introduce and develop talents regardless of location or status. Actively integrate into the global and regional talent flow allocation, and deepen the talent exchange linkage in China-ASEAN multilateral cooperation, domestic strategic cooperation between schools and regions, and regional cooperation between Guangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Guangxi and Taiwan. Continue to broaden channels, and attract talents by means of open selection, exchange and attachment, directional selection, project cooperation and intellectual consultation.Explore innovative methods such as team introduction, special introduction, transfer of talent savings, and joint branch schools to attract talents from all sides to the maximum extent and gather strong kinetic energy to accelerate development.

Focusing on breaking down institutional and institutional obstacles, we will continue to optimize the policy environment for making good use of living talents. Compared with developed regions, the gap in talent work in Guangxi is not only reflected in quantity and quality, but also in policies and mechanisms. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that to make good use of living talents, we must establish a more flexible talent management mechanism and implement a more open talent policy.

We should correctly handle the relationship between the party’s management of talents and the market’s allocation of human resources, respect the law of talent growth, and manage talents according to law, grasp the top-level design of policy innovation, give play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, give play to the main role of employers, and fully mobilize their enthusiasm and initiative. Adhere to the problem orientation, proceed from the reality of Guangxi, break down the system barriers and identity boundaries, make the mobile allocation mechanism turn, and make the talents in and out of the region and the incremental stocks available to us. Deepen the reform of distribution, break the inertia of seniority and quick success, establish a scientific incentive mechanism, and let innovation and knowledge contribution be respected and recognized by the society. Innovate management methods, break the tendency of administration and "official standard", build a support mechanism, and make concentrated research and undivided attention become the value choice of professionals. Pay attention to the guidance of classification and classification, and determine the focus of talent reform according to the regional functional orientation. The Beibu Gulf Economic Zone focuses on promoting the construction of a pilot zone for talent reform facing ASEAN and Pan-Beibu Gulf cooperation, the Xijiang Economic Belt focuses on exploring policies and measures for regional talent cooperation around undertaking industrial transfer in the eastern region, and the resource-rich area in western Guangxi focuses on establishing a long-term mechanism for the smooth flow of talents to difficult areas and posts. Encourage key parks and key employers to take policy innovation as the guide, build a number of demonstration sites for the priority development of talents, and activate the "one pool of spring water" for the development of talents in the whole region.

Taking strengthening the construction of platform projects as the starting point, we will fully explore the potential of talent service development and value realization. In the last ten years, relying on key industries, major projects and important innovation platforms in the whole region, we have successively built 50 autonomous regions’ talent highlands, adopted special mechanisms and policies, flexibly supported outstanding talents inside and outside the region to form teams and overcome difficulties, and focused on breaking through a number of key technical problems that have a significant impact on economic and social development, directly promoting construction machinery, mini-cars, diesel power, sugar silkworm and other fields to occupy a dominant position in the country. At present, in order to achieve the goal of "two constructions", Guangxi is stepping up the implementation of the "dual-core drive" strategy of Beibu Gulf Economic Zone and Xijiang Economic Belt, focusing on strengthening the six supporting systems of transportation, industry, finance, opening up, towns and ecology, and has made special arrangements for key areas such as industry, tourism, non-public economy, education and poverty alleviation. In accordance with the requirements of the deep integration of talent career and economic and social development, we should grasp projects and build platforms, and combine the development of talent resources with the development of advanced productive forces and the completion of the task of reform and development, so that development can be motivated and talents can start. We will closely follow the industrial structure to optimize the distribution of talents. According to the needs of the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the transfer of eastern industries and the development of strategic leading industries, based on the resource endowment and the cultivation of advantageous industries in Guangxi, we will vigorously carry out applied research and transformation of achievements, and guide more useful and useful talents to gather in the main battlefield of economic construction. Closely follow the project construction, give full play to the effectiveness of talents, and promote the combination of attracting investment and attracting talents.When introducing projects, we should pay attention to introducing management team and R&D force, and when introducing talents, we should pay attention to exploring and incubating projects, so as to realize the benign interaction between project construction and talent development. Closely follow the platform to help talents achieve their careers, focus on improving the carrying capacity of top-notch talents, focus on building a number of first-class platforms that occupy the commanding heights and enjoy the right to speak, and open up more room for development for outstanding talents. Vigorously improve the training chain and growth steps of all kinds of talents at all levels, focus on supporting the most creative youth, the initial stage of business start-up, and the crucial stage of innovation research, so that all innovation and entrepreneurship activities can compete with generate’s vitality and achieve practical results.

On China’s Economic Development Confidence from Ten Dimensions

  In the spring of 2023, the two national conferences will be held soon, and the world’s eyes will focus on China — —

  At this moment, the pace of China’s economic stabilization and recovery is accelerating. All localities and departments are working hard, and people’s confidence in economic development is more firm.

  This confidence stems from the blueprint, and the convening of the party’s 20 th National Congress of Victory blew the horn of the times for a new journey of endeavor;

  This confidence comes from the mainstay. Under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country are United and forge ahead, and China’s economic ship is sailing forward through the wind and waves.

  On the eve of the National People’s Congress and the National People’s Congress, Xinhua News Agency interviewed the deputies to the new National People’s Congress and Committee member Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and felt the confidence of China’s economic development from ten dimensions.

  Super-large-scale market: great potential

  With the arrival of the last batch of Chilean cherries "charter boat" this year, Dalian Port’s direct flight to South America "Cherry Express" recently closed, and the cumulative import volume increased by 1.5 times year-on-year.

  In Chile, 20,000 kilometers away, the planting area of cherries has increased by about four times since 2011, and 90% of the output has been exported to China. In order to sell more cherries to China, some people began to plant them near Patagonia Plateau, while others sought opportunities in the northern desert.

  Small cherries are a microcosm of China’s big market affecting the domestic and international double cycle.

  With a population of over 1.4 billion and a middle-income group of over 400 million, by 2030, the cumulative import volume of commodities is expected to exceed 22 trillion US dollars, and China is undoubtedly the largest market with the greatest potential in the world. The middle-income group will exceed 800 million in the next 15 years, which will promote the continuous development of the ultra-large-scale market.

  In 2022, under the severe impact of the epidemic, China remained the second largest consumer market and the largest online retail market in the world with the total retail sales of social consumer goods of 44 trillion yuan, and became the second largest import market in the world for the 14th consecutive year.

  "Every 1% increase in household consumption can drive GDP growth by about 0.5 percentage points." Deputy Huang Maoxing, vice president of Fujian Academy of Social Sciences, prepared relevant suggestions, proposing to expand domestic demand from accelerating consumption upgrading and cultivating new growth poles of regional consumption.

  "Promoting economic recovery and sustained and healthy development mainly depends on consumption, so that consumption can be restored as soon as possible to become the main driving force for economic growth." Deputy Xu Hongcai, Vice Minister of Finance, said that China will enhance consumer confidence and release consumption potential from three aspects: increasing residents’ income through multiple channels, increasing the supply of marketable goods, and promoting smooth sales channels and logistics.

  At the end of 2022, the Outline of the Strategic Plan for Expanding Domestic Demand (2022-2035) issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council was released, which defined the medium-and long-term goals, accelerated the cultivation of a complete domestic demand system, promoted the formation of a strong domestic market, and supported the smooth domestic economic cycle.

  Member Bai Zhongen, Dean of Tsinghua University Institute of Economics and Management, said that a strong domestic market is an important support for China’s economic growth potential. Growing investment and consumer demand provide fertile ground for innovation and promote industrial upgrading.

  Made in a big country: lay a solid foundation for high-quality development

  The international market share of China shipbuilding industry remains the first in the world!

  In 2022, China’s shipbuilding completion, new orders received and hand-held orders accounted for 47.3%, 55.2% and 49% of the global total, respectively. Among them, 12 new orders for ship types rank first in the world.

  The real economy is an important pillar of the country’s prosperity. The deeper the foundation, the more solid the pace of development.

  China is the only country in the world with all the industrial categories in the United Nations industrial classification, and the output of more than 220 industrial products ranks first in the world. In 2022, the total industrial added value exceeded 40 trillion yuan, accounting for 33.2% of GDP.

  Deputy Zhang Li, president of China Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute, said that China has basically formed a manufacturing system with large scale, complete system and strong competitiveness, which has forged hard strength for China’s economy to cope with risk challenges.

  At present, the global industrial structure and layout are deeply adjusted to create a complete and resilient industrial chain supply chain. China regards the construction of a modern industrial system as the most critical "winner".

  At the beginning of the new year, the export of new energy vehicles maintained a strong momentum. "Relying on the support of the complete supply chain industry chain, China’s new energy vehicles continue to seize opportunities and become a new advantage in China’s economic competition under economic pressure." Committee member Zhang Xinghai, Chairman of Sailisi Group, said.

  Focus on cultivating and expanding emerging industries, and constantly enrich and expand new application scenarios in key areas such as artificial intelligence and intelligent networked vehicles; In order to upgrade traditional industries, vigorously promote technological transformation and equipment renewal; Focus on strengthening advantageous industries and consolidate and enhance the advantages of the whole industrial chain … … Power conversion is taking a solid step.

  In 2022, China’s integrated circuit industry sales exceeded one trillion yuan, with a compound growth rate of 19% in the past decade.

  Deputy Jiang Bin, chairman of Goer Co., Ltd. said that the industrial base is the foundation for the development of manufacturing industry. At present, it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of new national system and super-large-scale market, effectively solve the technical problem of "sticking neck" and continuously improve the core competitiveness of manufacturing industry.

  After decades of hard work in the field of medical devices, Zhang Haijun, the chairman of Shandong Baiduoan Medical Devices Co., Ltd., knows the importance of core technologies: "We are speeding up the intervention in key technologies such as medicine, and only by taking the road of specialization and innovation can we become high-end devices ‘ Made in China ’ Contribute. "

  Great Power Project: Tamping the Chassis of Modernization

  The progress bar of engineering construction in big countries is constantly refreshed — —

  The first starting project of the follow-up project of South-to-North Water Transfer Project — — The project of diverting water from the Yangtze River to fill the Han River officially entered the construction stage of the main tunnel;

  The East-West Computing Project has been fully launched for one year, and the pattern of a national computing power network and a game of chess coordinated by East and West has been accelerated … …

  A modern country must have a modern infrastructure system.

  On April 26th, 2022, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader presided over the 11th meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Committee, studied the issue of comprehensively strengthening infrastructure construction, and proposed to build a modern infrastructure system to lay a solid foundation for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.

  "From the perspective of per capita infrastructure capital stock, China is only 20% to 30% of developed countries, and the demand for infrastructure construction is still very large." Zhao Chenxi, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said.

  Infrastructure construction has obvious "multiplier effect", and an infrastructure investment can bring several times the total social demand and national income.

  Looking back on the extraordinary ten years, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was completed and opened to traffic, the Baihetan Hydropower Station was put into operation in an all-round way, and the world’s largest network of charging facilities was built. The expressway mileage is 177,000 kilometers, the high-speed rail mileage is 42,000 kilometers, the world’s top ten super ports have seven seats, and there are 254 civil certification airports. The world’s largest optical fiber network has been built, and more than 2.3 million 5G base stations have been built and opened … … A number of major infrastructure facilities have been built, becoming pioneers in modernization.

  Member Huang Qunhui, director of the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that new infrastructure is the infrastructure supporting new industrialization, new urbanization and modern economic system. Promoting the construction of new infrastructure is conducive to supporting economic growth, promoting economic upgrading and improving the quality and level of economic cycle.

  During the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period, China will accelerate the large-scale deployment of 5G networks, and the user penetration rate will increase to 56%; Build a modern comprehensive transportation system and add more than 30 civil transportation airports; Promote the energy revolution, and the proportion of non-fossil energy in total energy consumption will increase to about 20%; Implement flood control and upgrading projects, strengthen the protection and restoration of water conservation areas, and promote the construction of the follow-up project of the East Middle Route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project … …

  "Accelerate the construction of a modern infrastructure system and lay a solid foundation for the sustained and healthy economic and social development of China." Member Wang Tongzhou, Chairman of China Communications Group, said.

  Hundreds of millions of market players: gathering and developing powerful kinetic energy

  After returning to the expansion range in January, the manufacturing purchasing managers index continued to rise in February; In January, the new credit was 4.9 trillion yuan, a record high in a single month; The development index of small and medium-sized enterprises has stopped falling and rebounded … …

  Since the beginning of the year, with the epidemic prevention and control entering a new stage, market confidence has accelerated and the vitality of various market players has been gradually released.

  "The market is picking up. We must speed up the integration and optimization of the local agricultural product industry chain and bring more and better agricultural products to the market." Deputy Huang Xiufen, Chairman of Guangdong Yabei Agricultural Products Co., Ltd. said.

  Statistics from the General Administration of Market Supervision show that as of January 2023, there were 170 million market players in China, including 114 million registered individual industrial and commercial households nationwide, accounting for about two-thirds of the total market players and driving nearly 300 million people to obtain employment.

  China is continuing to optimize the business environment, increase relief efforts, and help small and medium-sized enterprises to grow steadily, adjust their structure and strengthen their capabilities; Build a high-level socialist market economic system, improve the basic systems of market economy such as property rights protection, market access, fair competition and social credit, and earnestly implement the "two unshakable" … …

  Zhang Junkuo, former deputy director of the State Council Development Research Center, said that the business environment should be continuously optimized so that various market players can not only seize opportunities, but also turn crises into opportunities and achieve better development.

  The key to promoting the overall economic operation is to strengthen innovation.

  According to the preliminary calculation of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2022, the investment in R&D in China broke the 3 trillion yuan mark for the first time. Enterprise R&D investment accounts for more than 75% of the total social R&D investment. By the end of 2022, there were 355,000 domestic enterprises with valid invention patents, and 2.324 million were valid invention patents, a year-on-year increase of 21.8%.

  "Change and innovation, every wall is a door." After nearly 40 years of entrepreneurship, we have developed a small family workshop-style factory into an international company with revenue exceeding 100 billion yuan. Member Nan Cunhui, chairman of Zhengtai Group, was deeply touched. "As a private entrepreneur, we should carry forward the entrepreneurial spirit, constantly enhance the sense of responsibility and mission of entrepreneurship, innovation and creation, and strive hard to build a new development pattern in the new era."

  From "Demographic Dividend" to "Talent Dividend": Providing Key Support for Modernization

  Before going to Beijing to attend the two sessions of the National People’s Congress, Yang Denghui, a deputy to the National People’s Congress after 1995 and a teacher of Guangdong College of Mechanical Technicians, was still taking the time to coach the students: "The key to modernization lies in people. In addition to scientific research talents, it also needs a large number of highly skilled talents to support it, and it is necessary to increase investment in technical education and personnel training. "

  "The labor force factor is the key factor that determines the long-term trend of the economy. It refers to the number of people who have labor skills and can participate in social and economic activities. Its potential depends on health and education. These two conditions are available in China." Li Daokui, a professor at Tsinghua University, thinks.

  From the perspective of talent scale — — China has a working-age population of 880 million, exceeding the total working-age population of all developed countries in the world; With a total of 220 million people, it is the largest and most complete talent resource country in the world, and the total number of R&D personnel ranks first in the world.

  From the perspective of talent quality — — The average age of China’s population is 38.8 years old, the population receiving higher education reaches 240 million, and the average years of education of the newly added labor force reaches 13.8 years. Every year, hundreds of millions of employees receive diversified training, and the quality structure of the labor force has undergone major changes.

  From the perspective of talent efficiency — — China ranks first in the world in the number of SCI papers published and the effective amount of invention patents. The number of highly cited papers continues to climb to the second place in the world.

  "The contribution of a scientific and technological innovation talent to economic and social development is more than four times that of the general labor force on average. Talent competition has become one of the core elements of comprehensive national strength competition. " Sun Rui, a researcher at China Institute of Personnel Science, said.

  China is in a critical period from "Made in China" to "Created in China", from relying on a large number of low-cost labor inputs to technical factors to promote economic growth.

  "Improve the quality of personnel training in an all-round way and strive to bring up top-notch innovative talents, ‘ Demographic dividend ’ Will be upgraded to ‘ Talent bonus ’ It will provide lasting impetus for China’s economy to maintain medium and high-speed growth and achieve high-quality development. " Sun Rui said.

  Self-reliance and Self-improvement in Science and Technology: Seeking a New Competitive Advantage for Powerful Countries

  In the past three years, China CNOOC Hainan Branch Lingshui — Representatives of Lei Yafei, a senior engineer of Yacheng Operation Company, are all accompanying the "Deep Sea No.1" gas field. "In the process of construction, we will concentrate on tackling key problems, initially build a complete set of deep-water gas field operation and maintenance system, and propose three world-class innovations and 13 domestic pioneering technologies." Deputy Lei Yafei said.

  Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has adhered to the core position of innovation in the overall situation of modernization, driven development by innovation, and comprehensively shaped new development advantages.

  In 2022, China’s ranking in the global innovation index rose to the 11th place, which has been steadily improving for ten consecutive years; 21 regions have entered the top 100 global science and technology clusters.

  Bloomberg commented that China has been focusing on achieving higher quality growth through technological innovation and industrial upgrading in recent ten years, and these high-tech fields are creating more and higher value for China’s economy.

  According to the Party’s deployment in Report to the 20th CPC National Congress, the ability of self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology will be significantly improved in the next five years. By 2035, we will achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and enter the forefront of innovative countries.

  To win the first opportunity and advantage, we must seize the powerful engine of innovation.

  On February 21st, when General Secretary of the Supreme Leader held the third collective study on strengthening basic research in the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, he stressed that party committees and governments at all levels should put strengthening basic research on the important agenda of scientific and technological work, strengthen overall coordination, increase policy support, and promote the high-quality development of basic research.

  The data shows that in 2022, the proportion of basic research funds to R&D funds in China is 6.32%, which has been stable above 6% for four consecutive years.

  The construction of national laboratories and the reorganization of national key laboratories were accelerated, and the construction of basic discipline research center was started … … Provide inexhaustible kinetic energy for consolidating the foundation of self-reliance and self-improvement of science and technology.

  At this year’s National People’s Congress, Sun Dongming, a researcher at the Institute of Metals, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is going to put forward a proposal on opening up the "last mile" of the industrial chain of scientific and technological innovation: "Accelerate the process of localization and self-control of key core technologies and realize the integrated development of innovation chain, industrial chain and market chain."

  Coordinated development of urban and rural areas: broadening new development space

  In 2022, under the complicated and severe domestic and international situation, China’s economy pushed forward, and the high-quality development of regional economy played a key role.

  The economic aggregate of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei has exceeded 10 trillion yuan, the economic aggregate of nine cities in mainland Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has exceeded 10 trillion yuan, and the economic aggregate of three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta has exceeded 29 trillion yuan — — The economic aggregate of the three major urban agglomerations accounts for more than 40% of the national total, and it has become a veritable economic ballast stone, a high-quality development power source and a reform experimental field.

  The vast urban and rural areas provide huge development space and room for maneuver for China’s economic development. In 2022, affected by unexpected factors such as epidemic situation, China’s economy grew by 3% year-on-year. Among the 10 provinces with GDP growth rate above 4%, the western provinces have 6 seats and the central provinces have 3 seats. While the eastern provinces have been slowed down by the impact of external demand, the central and western regions have played a key role in stabilizing and ensuring the chain and ensuring the security of food and energy supply.

  Deputy Cai Jiming, director of Tsinghua University Political Economy Research Center, said that to solve the problem of insufficient development imbalance, an important aspect is to promote regional coordinated development and urban-rural integration development, and promote the free flow of resource elements between urban and rural areas and between regions, which will release huge potential and space for China’s economic development.

  The coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the regional integration development of the Yangtze River Delta, the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin … … Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has planned new ideas for regional coordinated development, opened up deep space for high-quality development with major regional strategies, promoted new urbanization with people as the core, comprehensively promoted rural revitalization and coordinated urban and rural development, and provided powerful impetus for China’s economy.

  From 2012 to 2022, the urbanization rate of permanent residents in China increased from 53.1% to 65.22%, and the per capita disposable income ratio of urban and rural residents decreased from 2.88∶1 to 2.45∶1. The per capita disposable income ratio of residents in the eastern, northeastern, central and western regions decreased from 1.7, 1.29 and 1.1 in 2013 to 1.63, 1.11 and 1.07 in 2021 respectively.

  Zhang Yan, director of the Fourth Research Department of the Supreme Leader’s Economic Thought Research Center, said that under the national "one chess game" layout, promoting different regions and regions to take the road of differentiated and high-quality development will provide a broad space for the construction of a new development pattern and a regional dynamic support with multi-gradient growth, diversified development and strong toughness.

  Green water and green mountains: opening up a new realm of sustainable development

  Incorporate the construction of ecological civilization into the overall layout of "Five in One", write "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" into the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and party constitution, and protect the ecological environment with the strictest system and the strictest rule of law … … Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the construction of beautiful China has been pushed forward continuously.

  In the past 10 years, China has supported an average economic growth of 6.6% with an average annual growth rate of 3% in energy consumption, making it one of the countries with the fastest reduction in energy consumption intensity in the world. China has exceeded the target of reducing carbon emission intensity by 40% to 45% by 2020, and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 5.8 billion tons, building the largest carbon market and clean power generation system in the world.

  Strive to achieve peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, which is a major strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee based on the situation and the national conditions, and a solemn commitment of China.

  "Implement ‘ Double carbon ’ The goal and pressure challenge are enormous, but it will also promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. " Deputy Hong Hupeng, Mayor of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, said.

  This is a revolutionary change in the mode of production.

  In 2023, it is planned to invest 150 billion yuan, up 31.2% year-on-year, and the investment in new energy infrastructure accounts for 71% of the investment plan & hellip; … Talking about the company’s green development goal this year, Chairman Kong Ngai of china huadian is full of confidence: "Green investment will provide a strong impetus for high-quality development."

  This is an all-round upgrade of lifestyle.

  All-round conservation and recycling, the ancient wisdom of "harmony between man and nature" has given new vitality, and new science and technology, new lifestyles and new values have set off a new green upsurge. Hundreds of millions of people are beneficiaries of green development and builders of ecological civilization.

  Constructing a new development pattern: grasping the initiative of development

  On January 31, 2023, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized in the second collective study in the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee that accelerating the construction of a new development pattern is a strategic decision based on achieving the goal of the second century, overall development and security, and a strategic deployment to grasp the initiative of future development.

  Based on oneself and self-reliance, this is the first move to judge the situation and grasp the initiative of development.

  On February 10th, the No.5 test plane of domestic large aircraft C919 took off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport with full passengers to Ezhou, Hubei, Taiyuan, Shanxi and other places, and successfully completed the full passenger verification flight.

  By the end of 2022, the global order for C919 has reached 1,035. Deputy Zhou Xinmin, vice chairman and general manager of China Commercial Aircraft Co., Ltd. said that the strong domestic market provides strong support for the industrialization, scale and serialization of domestic aircraft. The development and operation of domestic commercial aircraft models such as C919 will promote the upgrading of China aviation manufacturing industry chain as a whole.

  Demand pulls supply, and supply creates demand, smoothing the economic cycle and providing support for building a new development pattern.

  According to the relevant deployment, China is accelerating the urbanization construction with the county as an important carrier, injecting new impetus into the strong domestic market; Construct a "four horizontal and five vertical, two along and ten corridors" logistics channel, and get through the blood circulation … …

  "Better tap the potential of domestic demand, the development potential of domestic industrial chain supply chain and the potential of participating in leading international circulation, improve the ability of independent and controllable economic development, improve the quality and efficiency of domestic circulation, and enhance China’s position in international circulation." Member Wang Changlin, president of China Macroeconomic Research Institute, said.

  Opening up to the outside world at a high level is a key measure to shape new advantages in participating in international cooperation and competition.

  In the first month of the new year, the actually used foreign capital in China was 127.69 billion yuan, up 14.5% year-on-year.

  The construction of Hainan Free Trade Port has been accelerated, the implementation of the free trade pilot zone has been promoted, and all parties have continued to create a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international first-class business environment … …

  Attract global resource elements with the domestic big cycle, steadily expand institutional openness such as rules, regulations, management and standards, accelerate the construction of a new open economic system at a higher level, and promote the smooth connection between domestic and international double cycles.

  On January 25th, the United Nations predicted that China’s economic growth rate would reach 4.8% against the background that the world economic growth rate would drop to 1.9% in 2023. On January 30th, the International Monetary Fund sharply raised its economic growth forecast for China this year to 5.2%.

  "The development of China is very likely to become the most important factor to promote global economic growth in 2023." Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said.

  Deepening reform in an all-round way: transforming institutional advantages into governance efficiency

  From February 26th to 28th, the Second Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing. The plenary session deliberated and adopted the Plan for the Reform of Party and State Institutions.

  Facing the new situation and new tasks, adjusting and optimizing the institutional setup and functional allocation of the party and the state will continue to promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity and create a new situation of development with new achievements in reform.

  Reform and opening up is a key measure to determine the future and destiny of contemporary China, a strong driving force to promote the development and progress of China for more than 40 years, and a source of vitality for the high-quality development of China.

  After being re-elected as a deputy to the Fourth National People’s Congress and making suggestions for deepening the reform of the registration system for four consecutive years, Fan Yun, the chairman of Shanghai Fushen Evaluation Consulting Group, was deeply touched by the word reform: "The more severe and complicated the situation, the more we must unswervingly deepen the reform and use institutional advantages to deal with risk challenges."

  Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly put forward that we should deepen reform and innovation, unswervingly expand opening-up, focus on breaking down deep-seated institutional and institutional obstacles, constantly highlight the institutional advantages of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, constantly enhance the motivation and vitality of socialist modernization, and better transform China’s institutional advantages into the effectiveness of state governance.

  To start a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and March towards the goal of the second century, the fundamental driving force is still to comprehensively deepen reform.

  "Constantly break the blocking points and blocking points that block the economic cycle, and constantly boost the development confidence of various market players through reform." Member Decai Yang, director of the Institute of Private Economy of Nanjing University, said.

  Only reformers advance, only innovators are strong, and only those who reform and innovate win.

  At the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit, Shanghai, Hebei, Zhejiang and other places focused on optimizing the business environment, blocking points and breaking difficulties; Full implementation of the stock issuance registration system will open up a broader space for the development of the capital market … … The reform measures promoted one by one have accumulated new strength for the modernization journey.

  On October 23, 2022, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out when meeting with Chinese and foreign journalists at the 20th CPC The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC): "After more than 40 years of unremitting efforts in reform and opening up, we have created two miracles: rapid economic development and long-term social stability. Now, China has strong economic resilience, sufficient potential and wide room for manoeuvre, and the long-term positive fundamentals will not change. "

  The new journey is an expedition full of glory and dreams. Deeply understand the decisive significance of "two establishments", resolutely implement "two maintenances", base on the new development stage, implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, promote high-quality development and solidly promote Chinese modernization, which is an inexhaustible source of China’s confidence.

  Text reporters: An Bei, Jiang Lin, Fan Xi, Ruta, Zhang Xinxin.