How many brands of cars does SAIC have?

SAIC owns many automobile brands, including SAIC Volkswagen, SAIC-GM Buick, SAIC-GM Chevrolet, SAIC-GM Cadillac, SAIC Volkswagen Skoda, SAIC-GM Wuling, SAIC Roewe, SAIC MG, SAIC Chase, Nanjing Iveco, Shenwo Bus and SAIC Hongyan. The main business of SAIC covers the R&D, production and sales of complete vehicles (including passenger cars and commercial vehicles) and parts (including engines, gearboxes, power transmission, chassis, interior and exterior decorations, electronic appliances, etc.), automobile service trade business such as logistics, vehicle information, used cars, and automobile finance business. The main vehicle companies affiliated to SAIC include passenger car companies, commercial vehicle companies, Shanghai Volkswagen, Shanghai GM, SAIC-GM-Wuling, Nanjing Iveco, SAIC Iveco Hongyan, Shanghai Shenwo and so on.

SAIC Volkswagen is currently responsible for the production and sales of Volkswagen and Skoda, and its products cover A0, A, B, C, SUV, MPV and other market segments. Volkswagen brand models include Polo family, New Santana family, Lavida family, Lamando brand, New Passat brand new Passat, PHIDEON Huiang, Tiguan Silk Road version, All New Tiguan L brand new Tiguan L, Teramont Touran and Touran brand. Skoda brand models include Fabia Jing Rui, Rapid Xin Rui, Rapid Spaceback Xin Dong, Octavia Ming Rui, Superb Express, Yeti and KODIAQ.

SAIC General Motors Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between China SAIC and American General Motors Co., Ltd. It owns three brands, Buick, Chevrolet and Cadillac, and its product lineup includes more than 20 series, covering SUV, car, MPV, hybrid and pure electric vehicle. Among them, Volkswagen brand models include Polo family, New Santana family, Lavida family, Lamando, New Passat brand new Passat, PHIDEON Hui ‘ang, Tiguan Silk Road Edition, All New Tiguan L brand new Tiguan L, Teramont Touran and Touran, etc.

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The business scope of SAIC is very extensive, including not only the R&D, production and sales of complete vehicles (including passenger cars and commercial vehicles) and parts (including engines, gearboxes, power transmission, chassis, interior and exterior decorations, electronic appliances, etc.), but also the automobile service trade business such as logistics, on-board information and used cars, as well as the automobile finance business. The main vehicle companies affiliated to SAIC include passenger car companies, commercial vehicle companies, Shanghai Volkswagen, Shanghai GM, SAIC-GM-Wuling, Nanjing Iveco, SAIC Iveco Hongyan, Shanghai Shenwo and so on.

Henan reiterated that health code is only used for epidemic prevention and control to serve people’s health.

According to the client news of Henan Daily, the epidemic prevention and control headquarters of Henan Province requires all localities to strictly implement the Administrative Measures for Epidemic Prevention and Control of Health Codes in COVID-19, Henan Province and the rules for assigning and transcoding health codes. Health codes are only used for epidemic prevention and control to serve people’s health, and are never allowed to be used outside the circumstances stipulated by the national and provincial epidemic prevention and control headquarters, and are never allowed to be used in scenes unrelated to epidemic prevention and control, and are never allowed to add or delete the database of health code risk personnel beyond the rules.

The provincial epidemic prevention and control headquarters once again asked all cities and counties to strengthen the management of health codes, and severely dealt with those who caused serious consequences due to improper use of health codes.

Editor Zhao Xi

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Global news: market digests inflation data, US stocks rise and fall, humanoid robots welcome industry catalysis again.

  On Wednesday, Eastern Time, US chip stocks experienced a one-day rebound tour, which weakened in an all-round way overnight, and the market was also dragged down. The three major indexes were mixed. In addition, after the release of heavy inflation data, the market also lacked catalysts, and the overall performance was relatively dull.

  At the close, the Dow Jones index rose 0.10% to 39,043.32 points; The S&P 500 index fell 0.19% to 5,165.31 points; The Nasdaq index fell 0.54% to 16,177.77 points.

  The yield of US bonds has rebounded, with the benchmark 10-year US bond yield closing at 4.1879% and the 2-year US bond yield, which is most sensitive to the Fed’s policy interest rate, closing at 4.6324%.

  It may take some time for the market to digest the inflation data, because the last interest rate meeting in the first quarter will be held next week. At this meeting, the bitmap and economic outlook will be announced, when investors will have a clearer expectation for the prospect of interest rate cuts. Before that, if there is no heavy news, US stocks may be more inclined to defensive trading strategies.

  Some analysts said that although the latest CPI data is a relief, people are still cautious about the basic data. In the short term, the macro narrative around the Fed will be the primary and central issue.

  Let’s pay attention to the progress of the US presidential election again. According to Xinhua News Agency, according to calculations and reports from many mainstream media in the United States, former President Trump locked in the Republican presidential nomination for the 2024 US presidential election on the 12 th. That is to say, if there is no accident, Biden and Trump will fight for the second time in the presidential election, but the market has not obviously responded to this at present, and the policies pursued by the two are worthy of attention.

  In terms of enterprises and industries, it is not as dull as the broader market. Tesla, in particular, has been under the headwind so far this year, and was once again slashed by two investment banks overnight. UBS maintained Tesla’s neutral rating and lowered its target price from $250 to $165. Wells Fargo lowered Tesla’s target price from $200 to $120. Tesla fell more than 4% overnight to $169.5, and there was still 30% room for decline from Wells Fargo’s target price.

  Colin Langan, an analyst at Wells Fargo, reported that the growth of the electric car manufacturer in the core market has slowed down. He downgraded Tesla’s rating to the equivalent of selling. It is expected that Tesla’s sales will be flat this year and will decline in 2025. Langan writes that Elon Musk’s company is a "growth company without growth". He pointed out that in the second half of 2023, sales only increased by 3% compared with the first half, while prices fell by 5%. Analysts have become more and more cautious about Tesla, and the bullish rating ratio has dropped to the lowest since April 2021.

  In the future, see how Musk will fight back.

  In terms of AI, Figure, a robot startup company blessed by Amazon and NVIDIA, has released its first robot demo blessed by OpenAI. Although only a neural network is used, it can be used to hand apples to humans, put black plastic bags into frames, and put cups and plates on the drain rack in order to obey human orders. The video shows that the whole operation of the robot is very smooth.

  In addition, Cerebras Systems, a California semiconductor company, released the third-generation wafer-level AI acceleration chip "WSE-3", whose specifications and parameters are even crazier, and its performance has doubled under the premise of constant power consumption and price. It can train the next generation AI model which is ten times as large as GPT-4 and Gemini, and can store 24 trillion parameters in a single logical memory space without partition or reconstruction.

  However, it should be noted that the EU passed the world’s first heavy artificial intelligence supervision bill, which is expected to take effect in May.

  [Hot stocks]

  Most large technology stocks fell, with Apple down 1.21%, Microsoft down 0.04%, NVIDIA down 1.12%, Google up 0.93%, Amazon up 0.66%, Meta down 0.84% and Tesla down 4.54%.

  In terms of Chinese stocks, Nasdaq China Jinlong Index rose by 1.04%, Alibaba rose by 0.43%, JD.COM rose by 2.34%, Pinduoduo rose by 3.55%, Weilai Automobile fell by 4.36%, Xpeng Motors fell by 3.10%, LI fell by 3.30%, Blilly fell by 1.42%, Baidu rose by 2.49% and Netease rose by 1.94%.

  [global index]

  In European stock markets, the FTSE 100 index rose slightly by 0.31% to 7772 points. The French CAC40 index rose slightly by 0.62% to 8138 points. Germany DAX index fell slightly by 0.02% to 17,961 points.

  In Asian stock markets, the Hang Seng Index fell slightly by 0.07% to 17,082 points. The index of state-owned enterprises fell slightly by 0.29% to 5932 points.

  [foreign exchange commodities]

  The main contract of Brent crude oil closed at $83.95 per barrel, up 2.48%; The main contract of crude oil in the previous period closed at 630.90 yuan per barrel overnight, up 1.64%.

  Overnight, the Shanghai gold main contract closed up 0.76% to 508.84 yuan per gram.

  [Highlights]

  Yellen: US interest rates are unlikely to fall back to the pre-epidemic level. The slowdown in rent growth will push inflation down.

  As to why the forecast released by the White House on Monday shows that the interest rate forecast in the next few years is significantly higher than that of a year ago, Yellen said that the relevant economic forecast of the White House reflects the current market reality, and she also refuted the concerns about stagflation, insisting that the progress in inflation has not stagnated.

  Figure launches robot demo blessed by OpenAI big model.

  Robot startup Figure released its first robot demo blessed by OpenAI big model. Although only a neural network is used, it can be used to hand apples to humans, put black plastic bags into frames, and put cups and plates on the drain rack in order to obey human orders. The video shows that the whole operation of the robot is very smooth.

  The world’s first AI chip upgrades 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 cores.

  Cerebras Systems, a California semiconductor company, released the third-generation wafer-level AI acceleration chip "WSE-3", with even crazier specifications and doubled performance under the premise of unchanged power consumption and price. WSE-3 was upgraded to TSMC’s 5nm process again, but the area was not mentioned, but it should be similar. However, the number of transistors continued to increase to an astonishing 4 trillion, the number of AI cores further increased to 900,000, the cache capacity reached 44GB, and the external matching memory capacity was 1.5TB, 12TB and 1200TB. The number of cores and cache capacity have not increased much, but the performance has achieved a leap. The peak AI computing power is as high as 125PFlops, which is 1.25 billion floating-point calculations per second, comparable to the top supercomputing. It can train the next generation AI model which is ten times as large as GPT-4 and Gemini, and can store 24 trillion parameters in a single logical memory space without partition or reconstruction. Four parallel, it can complete the adjustment of 70 billion parameters in one day, and support up to 2048 interconnections, and it can complete the training of Llama 700 billion parameters in one day.

  UBS and Wells Fargo slash Tesla’s target price

  On March 13th, local time, Tesla closed down 4.54% to $169.48, and its market value evaporated by about $257 overnight, with a total market value of $539.8 billion. UBS maintained Tesla’s neutral rating and lowered its target price from $250 to $165. Wells Fargo lowered Tesla’s target price from $200 to $120.

  The European Parliament passed the Artificial Intelligence Act.

  On March 13th, the European Parliament passed the landmark Artificial Intelligence Act with 523 votes in favor, 46 votes against and 49 abstentions. The European Parliament said that the bill aims to protect basic rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental sustainability from the impact of high-risk artificial intelligence, while promoting innovation to "build Europe into a leader in this field". The bill will ban some artificial intelligence applications that "threaten citizens’ rights", including biometric classification systems based on sensitive features, as well as capturing facial images from the Internet or closed-circuit television videos to create a facial recognition database. Artificial intelligence that manipulates human behavior or exploits human weaknesses will also be banned.

  Musk confirmed that Tesla’s German factory resumed operations.

  Musk issued a document on March 13 that Tesla’s super factory in Berlin has resumed operations and thanked the employees for their support. It is reported that the Tesla German factory was blacked out for a week due to arson. The power company responsible for solving the power outage said later on Monday that the factory had been reconnected to the power grid. It is reported that the factory has about 12,500 employees.

  It is reported that Samsung Electronics plans to increase the price by 15-20% with downstream manufacturers on the price negotiation of NAND flash memory.

  Samsung Motor plans to renegotiate the price of NAND flash memory with major mobile, PC and server customers from this month to next month, with a target price increase of 15-20%. After more than a year of oversupply, the price of Samsung Electronics’ NAND flash memory was once flat, so it plans to negotiate with big customers to bring the price back to a reasonable level.

  GPT-4.5 is suspected to be available. OpenAI official website webpage was indexed by netizens. GPT-4.5Turbo was officially released on Thursday.

  Search engines such as Bing and DuckDuck Go have indexed the product pages of GPT-4.5Turbo, and netizens speculated that the official release date of GPT-4.5 Turbo might be this Thursday-the anniversary of the release of GPT-4.

  [financial calendar]

Frequent sanctions on China chips, US Secretary of Commerce utters the truth: in vain.

  On December 23rd, the Office of the US Trade Representative announced that it had launched a 301 investigation against the chip industry in China. The target of this survey is mainly the mature process chips in China.

  In the past few years, we have the impression that the United States is more concerned about advanced process chips. The United States has done the same. From products to technology and manufacturing equipment, every time the United States introduces trade restrictions, it is restricting China from acquiring advanced process chips from different dimensions.

  But now, America’s goal has changed.

  How to understand such a change?

  This time, there are many clues about the changes in the United States in the official notice of the United States launching the 301 investigation.

  In the notice, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative mentioned that it would investigate whether there is overcapacity in China’s chips and the dependence of downstream industries in the United States on China caused by these chips.

  The reason why these investigation directions are related to the specific problems that the United States is worried about.

  Recently, the U.S. government completed a study, and according to the research results, two-thirds of American products use mature process chips from China.

  For this phenomenon of "dependence" on China chips, the US government has a great anxiety.

  In the eyes of the US government, the development of China’s chip enterprises not only means that the market share and jobs of American chip enterprises have been "robbed", but also means that China has more chips and "threatens" the safety of the American industrial chain.

  Therefore, according to the "investigation results", the United States will decide whether to impose tariffs or introduce other measures to prevent China chips from entering the US market.

  In this way, many people can feel that the American rhetoric is already a cliche — — From the relatively elementary manufacturing industries such as chemicals and textiles in previous years to the electric vehicles in recent two years, as long as China has established an advantage in the global market, the United States has initiated investigations and imposed tariffs on the grounds of "disrupting market order at low prices" and "threatening American economic security".

  However, after inquiring about the data of China’s export of chips to the United States, Mr. Tan found that things were not so simple.

  △ Since the export data of December this year has not been released, the statistics have selected the data of the same period in the past ten years.

  It can be seen that China’s exports of chips to the United States have not changed much in the past three years. In other words, "the United States relies on China’s mature process chips" is not a new phenomenon this year, which is not the time when the United States launched an investigation.

  And the timeline goes back to 2022 — — At the end of this year, China’s chip exports to the United States gradually stabilized at today’s level. Taking 2022 as the coordinate, and then combing how the United States has discussed mature process chips in these years, we will find that,What really promoted the 301 survey is that the cognition of mature process chips in the United States has changed.

  American media, American think tanks and American government were selected as the statistical objects. In 2022, there was little discussion about "China mature process chips". This year, Biden’s export control measures have just been introduced, which are full of restrictions on China’s advanced manufacturing processes. Americans also have their own hot spots to catch up with.

  By the end of 2022, China’s chip exports to the United States have increased by more than 60%, reaching the biggest increase in the past decade. At this time, a different voice appeared.

  At the beginning of 2023, an American think tank published an article pointing out that the focus of the US government was biased, and they ignored the importance of mature process chips.

  Tan Zhu noticed that this article pointed out a key problem: it is misleading to divide chips into "advanced process" and "mature process".

  Unlike many people’s first reaction, "mature process chips" do not use outdated technologies, including new technologies such as silicon carbide, which are all used in mature process chips. At the same time, such chips will be continuously improved to meet new requirements and applications.Therefore, traditional chips are destined to maintain a high degree of correlation with emerging industries and technologies for a long time.

  Tracing back to the source, the term "mature process chip" was originally a military term. In order to promote the development of military technology, the United States made a distinction between "advanced process chip" and "mature process chip". This distinction has nothing to do with industrial logic.

  The importance of this article lies in the fact that this cognitive rectification has had an effective impact on the US government:

  In January this year, the US-China Special Committee on Strategic Competition of the US House of Representatives sent a letter to the US Department of Commerce and the Office of the US Trade Representative, requesting to launch an investigation into mature process chips in China. This is the starting point of the investigation.

  Soon, the US Department of Commerce responded first. This year, the U.S. Department of Commerce launched a research on the basis of the U.S. semiconductor industry. This study draws the conclusion that the United States "depends" on China’s mature process chips through statistics.

  Based on the evidence provided by the US-China Special Committee on Strategic Competition and the data studied by the US Department of Commerce, the Office of the US Trade Representative finally decided to launch the 301 investigation.

  Initially, the US-China Special Committee on Strategic Competition paid attention to the progress of mature process chips in China, largely because it saw this article.

  In their letters asking the US government to launch an investigation on mature process chips in China, a large number of opinions and data of this article appeared.

  △ Letter from the "US-China Special Committee on Strategic Competition" requesting an investigation on mature process chips in China.

  In other words, this 301 survey reflects that the cognition of the relationship between industrial competition and technological progress in the United States is changing. This also makes this 301 survey more symbolic than before.

  Cao Yun (Former practitioners of chip enterprises in China):

  ● From the perspective of our industry, technological innovation will be divided into different links to discuss. Now, the improvement of chip production process is the most important, not the innovation of the source.

  ● The improvement of chip production process is divided into process node improvement, material improvement, yield improvement and detail optimization. As mentioned above, using silicon carbide on mature process chips belongs to material improvement.

  China has a unique advantage that it has the most comprehensive manufacturing category in the world, which means that we can promote innovation in all processes and links of the chip industry chain.

  From this point of view, it is unrealistic for the United States to try to block the development of advanced process chips in China and then suppress the whole chip industry in China.

  Now, the United States is beginning to understand that simply blocking other countries’ access to advanced technology and products in areas where it has technological advantages cannot maintain its advantages for a long time.

  From this "reflection", we can also better understand the objective law of the development of the chip industry.

  You can look at such a set of data.

  In 2024, the US chip market is expected to grow by 23.7% year-on-year. But there are two important driving forces behind this data:

  In 2024, the global chip market is picking up, and it is expected to increase by 20.7% year-on-year. At the same time, NVIDIA’s revenue in 2024 is expected to increase by over 100% year-on-year, becoming the biggest driving force for the growth of the US chip market.

  But it also means that most chip companies behind it are "dragging their feet".

  Master Tan counted the top ten chip companies in the United States except NVIDIA, and found that 80% of them had a revenue growth rate far lower than that of the global chip market this fiscal year. Even, five companies are expected to have negative growth this year.

  By combing the chip policy of the U.S. government in the past four years, we can see that the thinking of the United States is basically "two-legged": subsidizing American enterprises through the Chip and Science Act, and restricting the export of advanced technologies to curb the development of China enterprises.

  After four years, obviously, the result is not ideal.

  US Commerce Secretary Raymond recently said: It is futile to try to contain China. But there is still a half sentence that she failed to say. At the same time, the US government’s assistance policy was not successful. These two factors have jointly caused the dilemma of American chip companies today.

  The Chip and Science Act was signed in August 2022, but it was not until the end of 2023 that the US government approved the first subsidy. According to relevant disclosures, as many as 40% of large-scale projects have been postponed or stopped indefinitely because of the ineffective promotion of the Chip and Science Law and the Inflation Reduction Law.

  Not only can the US government not help American companies, but more importantly, this year was originally a year of recovery in the global chip market, and many chip companies are expecting a rebound in profits. However, the "chip method" has become an obstacle to this vision — — The "chip law" has set up protectionist provisions, and accepting subsidies from the United States means giving up markets in other countries.

  The choice of market is a particularly important issue this year.

  Professionals told Tan Zhu that a large number of chip companies were pushed to set up factories in the United States through huge subsidies and political pressure, resulting in industrial transfer under non-market conditions, which would lead to increased costs. According to estimates, the cost of opening a new chip factory in the United States is about 30% to 50% higher than that in Asia, which will be shared among chips produced in the United States in the future.

  In the long run, perhaps the profits of these factories in the future can make up for these costs. But for many companies, they don’t have the luxury to think about the market in 10 years.

  In the past three years, every year, the global chip market has a new atmosphere:

  From 2022 to 2023, the phenomenon of "hoarding goods" first appeared in the global chip market, which promoted enterprises to expand production, and then there was the problem of oversupply.

  In 2024, the focus of the global chip market shifted from the previous CPU chip to the GPU chip driven by artificial intelligence.

  When the wind is high and the waves are urgent, should we choose the mature industrial chain that has been verified in the global chip market, or choose the illusory idea of the US government to build a new industrial chain?

  Professionals told Tan that the United States interfered with the balance of supply and demand of global chips, and trade disputes would follow. For enterprises, these are risks.

  The more global scientific and technological innovations emerge and new development opportunities emerge, choosing unknown risks is essentially giving up development opportunities.

  In other words, the act of reshaping the global chip industry chain has not made the United States more "safe" as the US government said, but has destroyed the market environment on which American enterprises depend for survival and growth.

  Master Tan once discussed a question with chris miller, the author of Chip Wars. What was the final result of American intervention in the global chip industry chain?

  Chris miller (American historian, author of Chip Wars.):

  ● The most likely situation is that there are more and more "separated" supply chains, which eventually produce completely independent or parallel supply chains. At present, this trend has appeared.

  ● An obvious impact is that this will lead to inefficiency, and countries will spend a lot of manpower, financial resources and time on the same research. The cost is huge, and the sacrifice of the chip industry is also huge. You know, we could have made progress together and accelerated the development of technology.

  The peak of human wisdom should have been used to explore the sea of stars. It would be a pity if it was consumed in meaningless competition for the sake of zero-sum game.

  Not to mention, the way of competition chosen by the United States has been proved to be the wrong way.

  From 2018 to 2021, American importers paid nearly $123 billion to cover the increased tariff costs. According to the report of the American Chamber of Commerce, if the tariff rate of 25% of the previous administration is continued, the United States will lose $190 billion annually by 2025 and $250 billion annually by 2030, which will make the United States lose nearly $1 trillion in economic growth potential.

  According to the United States’ own forecast data, by 2029, China will further expand its global market share, accounting for about 50% of the global market for mature process chips.

  On this basis, the chip will also be related to the normal operation of key industries such as communications, enterprises, electronic equipment and industrial manufacturing in the United States.

  If the United States imposes tariffs on China chips, it will surely bring huge losses to itself.

  Not to mention, this time, 301 survey is used, which points to unfair trade in global trade. Professionals told Tan Zhu that in the global chip industry, the United States has the largest subsidy, and the United States is the biggest unfair manufacturer.

  What the U.S. economy really needs is not to think hard about what kind of China products to suppress, but more importantly, to completely jump out of this thinking and help American enterprises return to the wave of free flow of global trade to find opportunities for growth.

  For any American government, this is the truth they need to see.

Feature story | The Power Behind the Detection of Nucleic Acid in Wuhan, Hubei Province

CCTV News:At present, the nucleic acid testing of all staff in Wuhan, Hubei Province is being carried out in an orderly manner. How to finish the task efficiently in the shortest time? The power behind this is not only the concerted efforts of medical staff and citizens to fight the epidemic, but also the "hardcore" technology "weapons" invested by medical institutions and technology enterprises.

At 8 o’clock in the evening, more than 200 people in Longyang Street, Hanyang District were waiting in line to do nucleic acid. Liu Zhilian, the person in charge of the scene, had a special interview during the busy interval.

Wu Hui, who came for an interview, has 11 years’ experience as a nurse, and she is eager to participate in this epidemic.

Volunteer Wu Hui:Although I have left the hospital now, I think we need to come forward and contribute our little strength in this epidemic.

Because of her rich experience, Wu Hui passed the interview. She immediately put on a red vest and prepared for tomorrow’s nucleic acid test with other volunteers. In more than 2,800 sampling points in Wuhan, there are still many "uninvited" volunteers like Wu Hui.

In Donghu Road community nucleic acid testing point, every resident has a special guide when testing nucleic acid.

Li Feng, the fourth-level director of the directly under the authority Working Committee Office of Hubei Provincial Party Committee:I started to make preparations at 6 o’clock in the morning and worked until the early morning. Last night, I worked until nearly 12 o’clock.

The strength of science and technology is also helping the whole staff to detect nucleic acids. Ms. Wu of Donghu community felt a robot doing nucleic acids.

Ms. Wu, a resident of Donghu Community in Wuhan:It will move left and right, then turn around, and you will obviously feel something circling in the upper part of your throat.

This is the first mobile nucleic acid detection vehicle in Hubei. The robotic arm equipped with artificial intelligence algorithm collects one sample in one minute, and can detect nucleic acid of 24 samples at the same time, and the results can be obtained within 45 minutes at the earliest.

Li Yirong, Director of Laboratory of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University:The traditional PCR technology is divided into three temperatures to amplify it (sample), which means that it takes time for the instrument to switch between the three temperatures, but it only has a temperature of 60, so it can shorten the time.

Environmental tax will be levied next month! Do not withdraw from the historical stage by personal sewage charges.

  BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Reporter Qiu Yuzhongqing) On January 1, 2018, China was the first one-way tax law to promote the construction of ecological civilization — — The Environmental Protection Tax Law will be formally implemented, which also means that the sewage charge system that has been implemented for nearly 40 years will withdraw from the historical stage.

  Do ordinary residents have to pay environmental taxes? Are the collection standards the same everywhere? What changes will "fee to tax" bring to enterprises? Zhongxin. com has combed and interpreted this.

  On February 12, 2016, many places in Shandong suffered from smog weather. Image source: vision china

  Do individuals have to pay environmental taxes?

  The Environmental Protection Tax Law stipulates that enterprises, institutions and other producers and operators that directly discharge taxable pollutants into the environment in People’s Republic of China (PRC) and other sea areas under the jurisdiction of People’s Republic of China (PRC) are taxpayers of environmental protection tax, and they shall pay environmental protection tax in accordance with the provisions of this law.

  In other words, ordinary residents are not included in the scope of taxation and do not have to pay environmental taxes. According to local media reports, the responsible persons of tax authorities in Hebei, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places have made it clear that individual residents do not pay environmental protection tax.

  When do you start paying taxes?

  Zhongxin. com reporter learned from State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China that the first collection period of environmental protection tax will be around April next year, not to say that tax returns will be started after January 1st.

  In this regard, Shi Zhengwen, director of the Finance and Tax Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, pointed out in an interview that the environmental protection tax is "calculated on a monthly basis and declared quarterly", and the reporting period and the time when the specific tax obligation occurs are two different things.

  Shi Zhengwen said that the tax calculation began on January 1, but the declaration was from April 1 to 15. During this half-month period, enterprises had to declare their taxes.

  Data Map: In Guozhuangzi Village, Xinkou Town, Xiqing District, Tianjin, electric heating pipes instead of coal are connected to every household. China News Service reporter Yan Yushe

  What pollutants are taxed?

  The Environmental Protection Tax Law clearly states that air pollutants, water pollutants, solid waste and noise are listed as taxable pollutants.

  Taxable air pollutants include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, chlorine gas, etc. Taxable water pollutants include total mercury, total cadmium, total lead, petroleum, animal and vegetable oils, formaldehyde, etc.

  It is worth noting that noise refers to industrial noise according to the Table of Items and Taxes of Environmental Protection Tax attached to the Environmental Protection Tax Law. This means that construction noise and traffic noise are not included in the scope of collection.

  According to the Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise Pollution, environmental noise refers to the sound produced in industrial production, construction, transportation and social life that interferes with the surrounding living environment.

  Among them, industrial noise refers to the sound that interferes with the surrounding living environment when using fixed equipment in industrial production activities; Construction noise refers to the sound that interferes with the surrounding living environment during construction.

  How much do you pay?

  According to the Environmental Protection Tax Law, the amount of environmental protection tax has both an upper limit and a lower limit. The tax range of air pollutants is from 1.2 yuan to 12 yuan per pollution equivalent, and that of water pollutants is from 1.4 yuan to 14 yuan per pollution equivalent.

  Pollution equivalent refers to a comprehensive index or unit of measurement to measure the environmental pollution caused by different pollutants according to the harmful degree of pollutants or pollution discharge activities to the environment and the technical economy of treatment.

  For example, in terms of industrial noise, different decibels exceed the standard, and the monthly tax levied is different. For example, if it exceeds the standard by 1-3 decibels, 350 yuan will exceed the standard by more than 16 decibels per month, and it will cost 11,200 yuan per month.

  Data Map: Wetland Ecological Restoration Project in Sanbiao Township, Xunwu County, Jiangxi Province. Su Lucheng photo

  Is the tax payment standard the same everywhere?

  According to the Environmental Protection Tax Law, each province has certain discretion in the specific applicable tax amount of air pollutants and water pollutants. In other words, the specific tax payment standards may be different from place to place.

  "This is equivalent to giving local governments greater discretion," Shi Zhengwen said. "The Environmental Protection Tax Law mentions three factors, namely, the environmental carrying capacity of the local area, the current situation of pollutant discharge and the requirements of economic, social and ecological development goals. According to these three factors, local governments determine the specific applicable tax amount, which varies greatly among different provinces."

  Among them, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding provinces generally set higher taxes on air pollutants and water pollutants. The applicable tax amount of taxable air pollutants in Beijing is 12 yuan per pollution equivalent, and the applicable tax amount of taxable water pollutants is 14 yuan per pollution equivalent, both of which are implemented according to the upper limit of tax range stipulated in the Environmental Protection Tax Law.

  Will it increase the burden on enterprises?

  The relevant person in charge of State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China told the reporter of Zhongxin.com that the environmental protection tax was jointly promoted by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation. According to the standard of "shifting taxes and fees", the past sewage charges were directly converted into environmental protection taxes. Of course, generally speaking, the design of policies is not aimed at collecting money, but mainly to stimulate the awareness of environmental protection and boost the consciousness of environmental protection.

  The person in charge of the Regulation Department of the Ministry of Environmental Protection said that changing the sewage charges into environmental taxes is conducive to improving the rigidity of law enforcement, reducing local government intervention and internalizing environmental costs. Environmental protection tax is levied according to the amount of emissions, with more emissions and more payments, less emissions and less payments, which is conducive to promoting enterprises to improve their environmental protection level and reduce pollutant emissions.

  Data Map: Seven enterprises and institutions withdrew from Fuxian Lake Nature Reserve in Yunnan, showing their determination to protect the environment. China News Service reporter Ren Dongshe

  Does the environmental protection tax belong to the local government or the central government?

  On December 27th, the State Council issued the Notice on the Ownership of Environmental Protection Tax Revenue, which made it clear that environmental protection tax was local revenue.

  The circular pointed out that in order to promote the protection and improvement of the environment and increase investment in environmental protection, the State Council decided to use all environmental protection taxes as local income.

  The current sewage charges are divided between the central and local governments by 1: 9. Wang Jianfan, director of the Department of Taxation and Administration of the Ministry of Finance, pointed out earlier that in order to mobilize local enthusiasm, considering that local governments bear the main responsibility for pollution control, it is planned to take all environmental taxes as local income, and the central government will no longer participate in the sharing. (End)

Double Ninth Festival, please accept nine health tips

  Life is easy to get old, but it’s hard to get old. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is China’s Double Ninth Festival, which is also called "Old People’s Day". Respecting the elderly is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. Just after the Double Ninth Festival, Luo Tianjiong, director of the geriatrics department of Nanjing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, sent nine health guides, aiming at caring for the elderly and caring for their health.
Correspondent Xia Fan Yangzi Evening News/Zi Niu News Trainee Reporter Lu Yanlin

  1. Pay attention to fall prevention.

  Due to the increase of osteoporosis and bone fragility, the elderly are prone to fracture, soft tissue injury, psychological trauma and other serious consequences when they fall, and their incidence rate rises sharply with age. Luo Tianqiong said that the elderly need to pay attention to the prevention of falls at home, shoes should be anti-slip, and the light should be bright enough. Once they fall, they should be actively sent to the hospital. 48 hours after the fall of the elderly is the prime time for treatment.

  2. Reasonable diet and balanced nutrition

  Light diet, less oil and salt, fresh and hygienic food, and balanced nutrition. The diet is mainly cereal, with a matching thickness. Eat regularly and quantitatively, chew slowly, ensure that there are vegetables in the meal and fruits every day, take in some high-protein foods such as fish, meat and eggs, often drink milk to supplement calcium, and take vitamin D in the sun for 15-20 minutes every day to promote the absorption of calcium, actively replenish water and pay attention to prevent sunburn. Advocate not smoking, drinking less and drinking too much.

  3. Exercise properly and do what you can.

  With the growth of age, many elderly people are more and more reluctant to exercise. Although they understand that proper exercise can promote health, what they don’t know is that due to lack of exercise, elderly people often suffer from decreased resistance, muscle atrophy, physical decline, etc. Over time, diseases come one after another. It is suggested that the elderly choose appropriate exercise methods, such as walking, square dancing, Tai Ji Chuan, Baduanjin, etc., and the exercise intensity should be tolerated by individuals.

  4. Ensure sleep and take a proper lunch break.

  The sleep of the elderly is shallow and easy to wake up. Half of the elderly in China have sleep disorders. Long-term lack of sleep will cause mental fatigue, dizziness, weakness of limbs, etc. Luo Tianjiong suggested that the elderly should ensure six hours of sleep and take a proper lunch break for half an hour every day, which is conducive to physical and mental health. When insomnia occurs, they can massage points such as Neiguan, Shenmen and Sanyinjiao to help sleep.

  5. Brush your teeth frequently, wash your hands frequently and take a bath frequently.

  Brush your teeth in the morning and evening, and rinse your mouth after meals. For the elderly with dentures, brush them clean and soak them in cold water when not in use, and change your toothbrush every three months. Wash your hands and bathe frequently to resist the invasion of bacteria and enhance your resistance.

  6, keep the stool unobstructed

  Due to the continuous decline of physical function, the gastrointestinal peristalsis of the elderly will also be very obvious, often manifested as constipation. In view of constipation of the elderly, Luo Tianjiong suggested keeping the habit of regular defecation, drinking more water, not eating laxatives indiscriminately, or massaging the abdomen clockwise around the navel to relieve constipation.

  7. Don’t stop drugs for chronic diseases.

  Many elderly people think that chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes have no impact on their lives, so they choose to stop taking drugs, but they don’t know that stopping taking some drugs is likely to cause recurrence or "rebound" of the original diseases and even accidents. Luo Tianqiong stressed that if there is a need to stop taking drugs, you must first consult a doctor and gradually stop taking drugs under the guidance of a doctor.

  8. Keep a good attitude

  Luo Tianjiong reminded that emotional excitement and bad emotions will affect the physical and mental health of the elderly, keep a calm mind, communicate with people more, and avoid depression, anxiety and mood swings, especially patients with basic diseases such as hypertension, heart disease and cerebral infarction.

  9. Strengthen self-health management.

  Director Luo Tianqiong said that it is very necessary for the elderly to have a physical examination. It is necessary to actively prevent the occurrence and development of diseases, so as to achieve early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment. It is recommended that the elderly have a physical examination once a year, and people with basic diseases should have regular physical examinations on the advice of doctors, and be responsible for individuals and their lives.

Diablo 3 necromancer skills how to match necromancer equipment recommendation.

Diablo 3 is an action role-playing game owned by Blizzard. Necromancer’s skill combination recommends plague ice gun stream and toxic bone spear stream, and equipment recommends the grace of Sanzang Inarius, the incarnation of blood set Tagao and the bone armor of pet set Rathma, all of which are very powerful.

Diablo 3 necromancer’s equipment skill collocation is as follows:

Skill collocation

1. Plague ice gun flow

The active skills, passive skills and gouyu collocation of plague ice gun flow are as follows. The skill collocation of necromancer mainly realizes the effect of quick drawing through corpse spear and fragility. The advantage of this skill combination is that it can quickly brush the map. When the corpse spear is matched with fragile collision, it will increase the critical strike probability of the corpse spear to the enemy and achieve the deceleration effect. Weakness, with the blessing of Gouyu’s hungry grave, will consume 10% of the Necromancer’s blood, but the standard blood of the vulnerable enemy can be increased from 15% to 18%, which will enable ordinary players to quickly brush through the first 100 layers of the Great Mystery. In the actual experience, although the Necromancer’s plague ice gun stream can achieve the effect of extreme drawing, this set of skills pays great attention to the players’ skill cooling, attack speed and the recovery of the spirit. The recovery of the spirit can be achieved through the realm of the dead and devouring, while the skill cooling and attack speed require players to work harder on equipment and gems, so as to achieve the ultimate painting effect.

2. Toxic bone spear flow

The active skills, passive skills and gouyu of toxic bone spear flow are as follows. This skill is to use bone spear (dead bone marrow) to brush the picture. It is understood that the bone spear (dead bone marrow) can improve the output damage of the bone spear. In the case of passive skill bone spur proliferation, the output damage of the bone spear can be increased to about 515%~535%. Coupled with the coma effect of the bone nail (bone dislocation) and the freezing effect of the dead field (dead cold land), it is also convenient for players to control the whole monster. As for the advantage of this set of skills, it is that the control effect is better and the ability to survive and recover is stronger. The weakness is that the cooling time of control skills is relatively long. Even if the passive skill "Desperate Loyalty" is added, it is difficult to change the shortcomings of this skill set.

Equipment collocation

1. Santa Claus — — Enze in Inarius

Because of its global injury increase of up to 2750%, the holy sleeve is very lubricated in fitting, and it is very enjoyable whether it is corpse gun, corpse explosion, Galaxy gem special effect or pet flow.

2. Blood sleeve — — Tago’s incarnation

Although the blood set was overshadowed by the holy set in the single-player mode, it was very popular in the team mode, and the utilization rate was amazing.

3. Pet condoms — — Rathma’s bone armor

At present, pet covers have some problems, such as stuck, inefficient injury reduction, and sudden death Bug of pets, so the pet covers have fallen out of the first-line play of necromancers. However, according to the test suit data, after the pet covers are repaired or enhanced, they will still perform well and even return to the mainstream ranks of necromancers.

Creative judgment of utility model patent

Patent involved

editorial comment/note

Recently, a series of requests for invalidation for the utility model patent of "Integrated Self-timer Device" of Yuandesheng have attracted wide attention in the industry. To this end, this newspaper specially invites experts to clarify the relevant examination standards and principles in the patent invalidation procedure in combination with the focus of controversy in the case, and explore why the patent is "invalid", in order to help enterprises improve the quality of patents and improve the level of protection.

Creativity is one of the substantive conditions for an invention to be granted a patent right, and it is the legal issue with the highest proportion involved in the substantive examination of patent application, patent invalidation procedure and patent administrative cases, so its examination standard has also become the most concerned issue for patent applicants or patentees, courts and even the public.

Fact finding in creative judgment

In the examination practice, because the utility model patent involves the specific structure of the product, it is difficult to avoid the comparison between the specific technical features of the technical scheme when comparing the features. If the specific technical features are isolated and the integrity of the technical scheme is split in the comparison process, simply and mechanically comparing the words will lead to unclear facts and affect the conclusion of the examination. This problem is fully reflected in a series of patent invalidation request cases of "integrated selfie device", and objectively and accurately identifying the facts is the basis for the case to draw a correct conclusion.

In the case of a series of patent invalidation requests for "integrated selfie device", the core technical content of the patent involved is that "the stage is provided with a notch, the clamping mechanism is provided with a bending part corresponding to the notch position, and the telescopic rod can be accommodated in the notch and the bending part after being folded", which is recorded in Claim 2 of the patent involved. The claim defines that the notch on the object table corresponds to the bending part on the clamping mechanism, and the notch and the bending part form a space for accommodating the folded telescopic rod, which saves more space for accommodating the selfie stick and realizes the beneficial effect of convenient carrying. During the trial of the case, whether the above-mentioned bending part was made public by the existing technology became the focus of dispute between the two parties. The author will analyze how to identify the fact that the comparison document was made public from two aspects.

1. Comparison of features with the same words.

In one of the requests for invalidation, the claimant used the utility model patent with the invention name "A shooting device clamping device of hand-held remote control shooting device" as evidence (hereinafter referred to as Evidence 1) to comment on the creativity of Claim 2. The petitioner thinks that Evidence 1 discloses that the clamping structure includes a movable rod 3, both ends of which are arranged in two supporting arms in a stretchable manner, and the middle part of which is provided with a bending structure 31, and the bending mechanism 31 is located above the objective table, that is, Evidence 1 discloses the technical scheme of setting a bending part on the clamping mechanism.

Through careful analysis of the contents disclosed in Evidence 1, it is not difficult to find that the middle opening of the bending structure in Evidence 1 is used to engage with the groove on the handle, and the handle is fixed in the middle of the movable rod to facilitate the up-and-down movement of the movable rod, thus clamping the shooting equipment. This is completely different from the function and function of the bending part in the patent involved: the bending part of the patent involved has a U-shaped opening, which together with the notch on the stage forms a storage space for accommodating the folded telescopic rod, thus realizing the miniaturization and portability of the selfie stick. Therefore, although the bending structure in Evidence 1 is similar to the bending part of the patent involved in the case in terms of words and structure, the bending structure in Evidence 1 is used for coupling with the handle, and after it is fixedly connected with the handle, it no longer has any space and cannot be used for storage. Therefore, it can’t be considered that Evidence 1 discloses the bending part of the patent involved, and it doesn’t give the technical enlightenment for its acceptance.

2. Identification of the public contents of the attached drawings

In another request for invalidation, the claimant used a patent for utility model named "a hand-held remote control device for shooting" as evidence (hereinafter referred to as Evidence 2), and once again commented on the creativity of Claim 2. The petitioner believes that Figure 5 of Evidence 2 shows that the end of the fixing frame is provided with a bending part with a large opening, which is the bending part involved in the patent involved.

In patent application documents, the appended drawings are an integral part of the specification, and their function is to supplement the description of the text part of the specification with graphics, so that people can intuitively and vividly understand each technical feature and the overall technical scheme of the invention or utility model. However, only the technical features that can be directly determined from the attached drawings are public contents, and the contents inferred from the attached drawings should not be regarded as public contents.

Attached Figure 5 of Evidence 2 shows the schematic diagram of the connection between the mobile phone holder and the remote control shooting device, in which the mobile phone holder includes a holder and a connecting platform, the holder is used for placing the shooting device, and the connecting platform is used for connecting with the remote control shooting handle. Figure 5 does show that there is a bending part with the same structure as the patent involved in the case in the middle of the fixing frame, but there is no explanation about this bending part in the description of Evidence 2, and according to the analysis and understanding of the full text of Evidence 2, it can be judged that this bending part cannot be used to form a storage space, because the mobile phone fixing frame in Evidence 2 is connected with the remote control handle through the first connecting part, which is a threaded connector. The remote control handle connected by thread can’t be folded, and Evidence 2 doesn’t need to solve the storage space problem in the process of folding the selfie stick, so the setting of the bending part can’t be to solve the technical problems to be solved by the patents involved. Therefore, only on the basis of the structure shown in Figure 5 of Evidence 2, the technicians in this field can’t directly and undoubtedly determine that this structural feature can achieve the same effect as the bending part in the patent involved, and Evidence 2 does not disclose the bending part in Claim 2.

In a word, accurate fact finding is an important basis for correct feature comparison and objective review conclusion. The fact that the technical scheme disclosed in the prior art cannot be simply taken out of context, but should be considered from the perspective of the technical personnel in this field as a whole, and the technical characteristics and functions of the technical scheme should be considered as a whole, so as to accurately compare the characteristics and objectively judge the creativity of the claim. That is to say, for the technical features that support each other in function and have an interactive relationship, the technical features should be considered as a whole.

Influence of protection scope on creativity

The scope of protection of the patent right should match the technological contribution of the invention-creation. If the scope of protection is too large, it obviously exceeds the technological contribution of the invention-creation, which will easily lead to the invalidation of the claim because it is not creative at the stage of invalidation request.

As far as the case of patent invalidation request for "integrated self-timer device" series is concerned, first of all, independent claim 1 defines a larger scope. In independent claim 1, the preamble defines the characteristics of the usual self-timer device, including the telescopic rod and the clamping device, which includes the objective table and the stretchable clamping mechanism, and the connection relationship between the telescopic rod and the clamping device is defined in the characteristic part. That is, "the clamping device is integrally connected to the top end of the telescopic rod", which embodies the difference from the background technology. However, in the trial process of invalidation, it was disclosed by the prior art because it covered a large protection range, so it was declared invalid.

Secondly, the dependent claim 2 embodies the main innovation of the patent involved, that is, the notch on the stage and the bending part corresponding to the notch on the clamping mechanism form a space for accommodating the folded telescopic rod, and the telescopic rod can be directly accommodated in the notch on the stage and the bending part of the clamping mechanism after use, which can solve the technical problems of better accommodating the selfie stick and being convenient to carry. The remaining dependent claims 3-13 refer to claim 2 directly or indirectly, so that even if claim 1 is invalid due to too large a scope of protection, other dependent claims 3-13 can remain valid while dependent claim 2 remains valid.

To sum up, combined with the problem of fact finding in creative judgment, this paper focuses on the analysis of the reasons why Claim 2 was kept valid in the series of cases of "self-timer" invalidation request. Because Claims 3-13 directly or indirectly quoted Claim 2, Claims 2-13 were declared to be kept valid, which benefited from the patent involved’s well-defined patent layout, which reasonably determined the protection scope of the claim.

From the perspective of patent layout, the patents involved are based on a single technical point to construct a combination of claims to effectively protect innovative technologies. Although it is only a single technical point, the layout of claims takes into account the main innovation points, necessary technical characteristics, singleness and other factors, taking into account the principle of layered protection, narrowing the protection scope of claims layer by layer, and the layout ideas are clear and reasonable.

(Song Zuozhi Su Qing Author: Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office)