The Office of the Leading Group for Epidemic Prevention and Control in Shanghai released information on August 31st. According to the deployment of the joint prevention and control mechanism in the State Council, Shanghai started the registration and appointment vaccination of COVID-19, a compatriot aged 12 to 17 in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, at 20: 00 on September 1st.

　　According to the principle of "informed, voluntary and at your own risk", compatriots in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan aged 12-17 who voluntarily take COVID-19 vaccine can make an online registration appointment through the health cloud platform with the Hong Kong and Macao residents’ residence permits issued by the public security department, Hong Kong and Macao residents’ travel permits to and from the Mainland, and mainland travel permit for taiwan residents and Taiwan Province residents’ residence permits. At the same time, they must provide relevant information of their parents or guardians, including their names, ID numbers and contact information.

　　Compatriots aged 12 to 17 in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, accompanied by their parents or guardians, carry residence permits for Hong Kong and Macao residents, passports for Hong Kong and Macao residents to and from the Mainland, and residence permits for mainland travel permit for taiwan residents and Taiwan Province residents to the registration appointment point, present the "vaccination barcode" on the spot and voluntarily sign the informed consent form, and then carry out vaccination according to the staff’s instructions. Strictly observe the observation area for 30 minutes, and then leave without abnormality. If parents or guardians are unable to accompany the vaccination, they may entrust other personnel to accompany the vaccination, and sign the power of attorney and informed consent.

　　At present, the vaccines vaccinated are Covid-19 inactivated vaccine from Sinopharm Zhongsheng Beijing Institute and Kexing Zhongxin Crown Virus inactivated vaccine, with two doses throughout the whole process. Compatriots aged 12 to 17 in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan enjoy the same treatment as people of the same age in Shanghai, and receive free vaccination.

Cyberspace is the common spiritual home of hundreds of millions of people. The network is boundless and the speech is bounded. Internet rumors seriously disrupt the network order, seriously mislead public opinion, damage the rights and interests of netizens and pollute the network environment. Blocking the spread chain of rumors is the responsibility of many parties. In order to effectively purify the network environment and crack down on network rumors according to law, the network security detachment of Liaoyuan Public Security Bureau launched the following initiatives to the majority of netizens:

First, strengthen legal awareness and strictly observe the order of communication. The Internet is not an "extra-legal place", strictly abide by national laws and regulations, social morality and ethics, and resolutely put an end to rumors, rumors and other illegal acts.

Second, adhere to civilized internet access and build a network civilization. Establish a correct concept of network order and security, clearly distinguish the concept of right and wrong on the Internet, use network language in a civilized way, and strive to be an emissary of network civilization.

Third, raise awareness of prevention and maintain network security. Understand the network information through the authoritative official platform, do not trust, publish, forward or comment on the network information that has not been officially confirmed, and constantly improve the ability to recognize, distinguish and prevent rumors. Fourth, fulfill social responsibilities and exercise supervisory power. While paying attention to social hotspots and participating in topic discussions, if you find false information suspected of rumors, you should complain or report to the platform or relevant departments in time to fully curb the spread of online rumors.

In the face of "network rumors", what should we do? Rumors stop at the words of the wise who don’t blindly listen to the Internet. Before fully understanding the information, don’t edit and forward the eye-catching content at will, keep rational and not blindly follow the trend, have the quality of seeking truth and being pragmatic, understand the information through official and other formal channels, and resolutely don’t be rumors and rumors.

Enhance self-protection The more abundant the knowledge reserve, the stronger the dialectical thinking, and the lies will naturally break down in front of knowledge. Read more books, read good books, master certain social knowledge, and enhance self-protection awareness.

Consciously learning the law and obeying the rules can’t make Fiona Fang. We have the right to freedom of expression, but we also have the obligation to safeguard the truth. Being in awe of the law, learning legal knowledge, cultivating good habits of obeying the law, and protecting ourselves are also protecting our families.

Participate in the network construction. Any rumor you spread may become the last straw to crush the camel. Therefore, be cautious, refuse to be a "keyboard man" and resolutely maintain a good network order. Every netizen has the obligation to resist false information, and can reflect and report false information to relevant departments without looking on coldly.

Liaoyuan network police tips-

The internet is not a place of extra-legality. China’s relevant laws and regulations have made clear provisions on cracking down on illegal and criminal acts such as online rumors, and offenders have to bear corresponding civil, administrative and criminal responsibilities. The public security organs will severely crack down on fabricating, spreading and spreading rumors according to law. Please know the law and abide by the law, don’t believe in rumors, don’t spread rumors, go online in a civilized way, speak rationally, and jointly build a clear cyberspace.

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　　The surge of spring tide urges people to advance, and sails with the east wind. On April 8th, the Yancheng High-quality Development Project Observation Promotion Meeting was held in Dafeng District. The participants’ footprints spanned the main battlefield of the Yangtze River Delta Integrated Industrial Development Base and concentrated on "reviewing" the latest achievements of high-quality project construction in Dafeng District.

　　From Dafeng Economic Development Zone, an important part of "the core of intellectual creation", to a high-tech zone that shines with intelligence and is "in full bloom", and then to a port that thrives on the sea and develops green. Everywhere we go, we are full of vitality, and a picture of green transformation comes into view. The industrial clusters with distinctive characteristics have risen strongly, which has become a vivid footnote for Dafeng to "be the vanguard of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta", which makes people touch and feel the strong pulse and surging trend of high-quality development in Dafeng District.

　　Grasping projects means grasping development, and seeking projects means seeking the future. In recent years, Dafeng District has firmly grasped the core of industry and unswervingly promoted chain development. The annual invoicing sales of three strategic emerging industries, new energy and equipment manufacturing, new energy auto parts and new generation electronic information, exceeded 40 billion yuan. Honeycomb energy lithium-ion power battery and Bomin electronic high-density interconnection printed circuit board are listed as major projects in this year’s province.

　　Yancheng Bomin High Density Interconnected Printed Circuit Board Project

　　Jiangsu Bomin Electronics Co., Ltd., as the head enterprise of electronic information industry in Dafeng District, has aimed at the forefront of the industry in recent years, accelerated the "change from intelligence to digital" and continuously enhanced the innovation momentum, and built the first provincial-level intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory in Dafeng District.

　　Walking into the high-density interconnection PCB project workshop of this enterprise, sophisticated equipment and testing facilities such as cutting-edge press, vacuum etching line, fully automatic LDI exposure machine and fully automatic optical circuit inspection are dazzling, and the charm of "smart factory" is self-evident. At present, the project is in trial production. When it is fully completed and put into production, it is estimated that the annual invoice sales will be 3 billion yuan and the tax revenue will be 200 million yuan.

　　"Our high-end products can replace imports. Among them, Anylayer HDI boards focus on 5G new markets, big data, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet and other fields. IC carrier boards and Micro LED fill the gaps in domestic products, which will drive the downstream enterprises of integrated circuits to develop together and break the monopoly of foreign enterprises." Sheng Li, the general manager of the company, called several treasures.

　　Jiangsu jinweier machinery co., ltd　

　　The manufacture of high-end products is inseparable from high-end technology and production equipment. As a customized intelligent equipment manufacturing head enterprise, Jiangsu Jinwei Machinery Co., Ltd. persists in technological innovation and continuously increases independent research and development investment. Through cooperation with universities such as Tsinghua and Southeast University, it has successfully developed more than 60 kinds of extrusion equipment for plates, sheets and films required in various application fields. In the workshop of the enterprise’s high-end intelligent equipment manufacturing project, a series of EVA photovoltaic cell packaging hot melt adhesive film production lines attracted the attention of the participants.

　　"EVA packaging film is mainly used for packaging crystalline silicon and some thin-film solar cell modules. Because of its advantages in adhesion, durability and optical characteristics, EVA packaging film is more and more widely used in current modules and various optical products." The person in charge of the enterprise said that the company’s EVA photovoltaic film production line technology is internationally leading, and the current global market share is as high as 70%-80%.

　　Yancheng honeycomb energy lithium-ion power battery

　　The honeycomb energy power battery project with a total investment of 10 billion yuan is one of the first major projects in the province this year, and it is also the first major project to land in Yancheng Yangtze River Delta integrated industrial development base. "High level of intelligent manufacturing, strong ability of independent innovation and wide market application" is the general evaluation given by the participants after observing the enterprise.

　　It is understood that Honeycomb Energy has achieved mass production of cobalt-free batteries with a series of subversive innovative technologies such as high-speed lamination and cobalt-free batteries, and has become more than 30 high-end customers such as Great Wall Motor strategic suppliers. At present, the project has entered the trial production stage. After it is completed and put into production, it will realize the annual sales of 12 billion yuan and tax revenue of 500 million yuan, and become an important core industrial base of blade batteries in the Yangtze River Delta region.

　　Hongshun silicon-based semiconductor technology co., ltd

　　"The production technology of high-purity quartz sand with high temperature resistance of 1800℃, 99.998% and above has long been monopolized by foreign enterprises such as the United States and Norway, and the production process is extremely complicated. At present, we have this completely independent intellectual property right and hold the corresponding patent, which has solved the problem of silicon rod production ‘ Get stuck in the neck ’ Difficult problem. " Listening to the introduction of the person in charge of Hongshun Silicon-based Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd., the participants couldn’t help but praise it.

　　It is understood that the Hongshun silicon-based semiconductor material project is not only internationally advanced in process technology, but also extremely high in adsorption value. Through this enterprise, it has continuously built a strong chain to supplement the chain and attract more well-known silicon materials enterprises at home and abroad to invest in Fengfeng. In the near future, an influential domestic silicon material industry production base will rise from here.

　　Trina Solar 10GW Photovoltaic Module Project

　　It took only 120 days from breaking ground in March last year to mass production at the end of June. Trina Solar’s 10GW photovoltaic module project set a new speed in the industry, which was started, completed and mass produced that year. Stepping into Trina Solar’s spotless project workshop, with 20 automatic production lines running at full capacity, 210 ultra-high power components with the most advanced technology in the industry quickly rolled off the assembly line.

　　Wu Jianfeng, the person in charge of Trina Solar Yancheng, used four key words: "construction speed benchmark, process technology benchmark, cost control benchmark and intelligent management benchmark" to intensively express the industry leading and super competitiveness of the project to the participants. It is understood that the whole process of the project is automatic and intelligent, and AI technology is introduced into inspection and testing to improve the abnormal detection rate and reduce the intensity of work; The actual output of a single line exceeds 500MW/ line, and the average output value per mu exceeds 30 million yuan, ranking first in the industry. It can realize annual invoicing sales of 13.7 billion yuan and tax revenue of 250 million yuan.

　　Yueda Automobile (Dafeng) Kechuangyuan

　　Yueda Automobile (Dafeng) Science and Technology Park is an important supporting project of Yancheng automobile industry chain, covering an area of 122 mu, with a total investment of about 500 million yuan. Focusing on the functional orientation of "scientific and technological innovation, industrial incubation and scientific and technological service", it is committed to building a comprehensive scientific and technological innovation park of automobile industry, which integrates R&D design, testing, project incubation and demonstration application.

　　At present, it has settled in 4 intelligent networked enterprises, 2 new energy automobile enterprises, 6 testing and testing companies and 3 service organizations. After visiting the Smart Car Innovation Center, Science and Technology Incubation Center, Intelligent Networked Test Site, Yangtze River Delta (Yancheng) Intelligent Networked Automobile Testing Technology Innovation Alliance and other sites, the participants highly appreciated the project’s practice of relying on the unique geographical and industrial foundation of the port area, giving full play to the unique advantages and industry resources of the China Automobile Test Site, making every effort to build an intelligent networked demonstration highland and building the ecology of the whole automobile industry chain.

　　Rural revitalization is the "ballast stone" to achieve high-quality development.

　　Demonstration Project of Rural Revitalization in Xinzhong Village, Xituan Town

　　The demonstration project of rural revitalization in Xinzhong Village of Xituan Town is a vivid epitome of the comprehensive implementation of rural revitalization demonstration towns and villages in Dafeng District. As the first batch of rural revitalization demonstration villages in the whole region, Xinzhongcun adheres to the mode of "small incision, replicability and mass participation", focusing on the comprehensive improvement of the rural environment with all elements of "Tianshui Road Forest Village", promoting the rebirth of old houses with small investment, creating a new look with small courtyards, and retaining homesickness memories with small nodes.

　　When driving into Xinzhong Village Farm Belt, the villagers spontaneously donated old bricks, tiles, window frames and other old objects, and created node sketches through combination decoration, presenting exquisite art at a small cost, telling the past years and awakening homesickness memories. The Green Field Xinzhong Agricultural Park is full of vitality, with smart greenhouses, new farmers’ homes, fat horse shops, picking gardens, Xinzhong Station and other formats, and it is open to welcome guests.

　　This is not only a beautiful countryside, but also a grass-roots park. The "1+18" business entities gather here, attracting social capital investment of 200 million yuan, and building a benefit linkage mechanism of "government building, farmers singing opera and farmers increasing income". The fruits and vegetables in the park are sold to the Yangtze River Delta region for more than 200 million yuan every year. Participants walked, watched and discussed all the way, and spoke highly of the project’s efforts to build a rural complex with village and garden characteristics, with social capital investment as the main force, high-standard farmland construction as the starting point and the upgrading of old villages as the focus. They thought that this "new-middle experience" with small investment, replicability and popularization was worth learning.

　　The Yellow Sea coast is in spring tide, and the project construction is competing in Qian Fan. Dafeng District will focus on the integration of salt abundance, provinces and the Yangtze River Delta, highlight the two key words of "integration" and "high quality", give full play to the strength of the whole region, collect the wisdom of the whole region, and promote the integrated industrial development base of the Yangtze River Delta to "show its image in one year, make great changes in three years, and achieve results in five years", and strive to turn its characteristic advantages into high-quality development momentum, and sing the "Dafeng Song" of being the pioneer of high-quality development in coastal areas.

　　(Source: Editor of Dafeng District Rong Media Center/Su Yue)

According to "China Business News" reported on July 2nd, 43 azithromycin manufacturers were collectively heartbroken after seeing the catalogue of reference preparations for generic drugs published by the State Food and Drug Administration-they did not find the names of reference preparations backed up before.

The selection of reference preparation is the most critical step in the consistency evaluation of generic drugs. "After the starting gun of consistency evaluation started, the first thing everyone did was to determine and purchase the reference preparation. Once the reference preparation is wrong, it is as if the contestants made a mistake at the end and ran further and further in the wrong direction. " Li Tianquan, co-founder of Yaozhi.com, told CBN.

Since the State Food and Drug Administration announced the catalogue of this batch on April 28th, 43 enterprises have been in a panic. For them, the worst result of betting on the wrong treasure is that they may need to re-purchase the reference preparation and go on the road again, and the price paid is not just a reinvention.

With the mission of paying off debts for history and letting Chinese use drugs with quality and efficacy reaching the original research level, the conformity evaluation of generic drugs has been started in China for almost a year and a half. This time, so many pharmaceutical companies all chose the wrong reference preparation, which made this scene encounter embarrassment.

Collective bet on the wrong treasure.

In March, 2016, the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Evaluating the Consistency of Quality and Efficacy of Generic Drugs (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions). The consistency evaluation of generic drugs started from this document, and the government and enterprises have invested great enthusiasm.

Consistency evaluation determines the life and death of many enterprises’ drugs and the fate of zombie batch numbers. At the same time, the document also gives many temptations: "Drug varieties that have passed the consistency evaluation should be given appropriate support in medical insurance payment, and medical institutions should give priority to procurement and give priority to clinical use. If there are more than three manufacturers of the same variety of drugs that have passed the consistency evaluation, the varieties that have not passed the consistency evaluation will no longer be selected in the centralized procurement of drugs. "

Without consistency evaluation, there is only a dead end, and with consistency evaluation, there is still a living way out. The speed determines the size of the benefits. In the first round of consistency evaluation, 289 varieties in the National Essential Drugs Catalogue (2012 Edition) were included, and azithromycin, as an anti-infection "big drug", was included, which was 0.25 g specification of azithromycin tablets.

“At the beginning of consistency evaluation, the state requires enterprises to record their selected reference preparations. If no comments are given within 60 days, everyone can start work according to the registered varieties.. After filing, we spent 10 months doing drug research, prescription process verification test, etc. Now we have entered the drug verification batch to do bioequivalence (BE) test. "Zhang Chenguang, director of the preparation room of Yiling Pharmaceutical Research Institute, told CBN.

In the filing information of reference preparations released by the Central Inspection Institute on April 27, 2016 (as of April 20), there were 43 reference preparations for 0.25 g azithromycin tablets, and everyone chose them without exception.Hisumi(Zithromax，Produced in Pfizer, USA.)。

Within the prescribed 60-day feedback period, no one told me that Histamine could not be used as a reference preparation. 43 companies took this silence as the default, and in order to be the first to reach the finish line, everyone worked against time.

Just before entering the critical moment, the Food and Drug Administration announced the fourth batch of reference preparations, in which it was determined that the reference preparation of azithromycin of this specification was not Histamine previously filed by pharmaceutical companies, butTevaPharm B.V, Israel"Azitromycin 250 TEVA", listed in the European Union, originated in Croatia. This news is equivalent to announcing that all 43 pharmaceutical companies have got the reference preparation wrong.

"All manufacturers have chosen the wrong reference preparation for azithromycin tablets? This problem is a bit big, but why is there such a big deviation? " Zhang Chenguang is not the only one who is puzzled.

Is it reasonable to use TevaPharm B.V’ s products as reference preparations? Zhang Chenguang combed the development history of azithromycin. In the 1970s, a new macrolide antibiotic named azithromycin was discovered in Pliva, the former Yugoslavia. In 1981, Pliva Company applied for the patent of azithromycin in Yugoslavia, and then applied for the patent all over the world (including the United States).

At that time, Pfizer, USA, realized the potential of azithromycin and took the initiative to contact Pliva Company to obtain the authorization of azithromycin. In 1986, the two companies reached an agreement, and the agreement period expired in 2006. According to the agreement,Pfizer has obtained the global distribution rights of azithromycin, while Pliva Company has retained the distribution rights in Central and Eastern Europe..

Subsequently, Pliva Company listed in Central and Eastern European countries with Sumamed as the trade name of azithromycin; Pfizer is listed in other countries outside Central and Eastern Europe under the trade name of Histamine.

"When Pfizer first listed azithromycin in the United States, it only had capsule dosage form, and the tablet of 0.25 g specification was approved by FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) in 1996; Pliva company has not listed azithromycin tablets with the specification of 0.25g, only with the specifications of 0.125g and 0.5g..In contrast, Pfizer’s products are more suitable. However, the varieties were determined without public discussion, which made azithromycin manufacturers all over the country’ win the trick’. Should the reasons for choosing reference preparations be announced? Or solve the problem at the beginning, it won’t lead to rework."A medical expert said.

Anyway, this time, azithromycin manufacturers made a collective bet wrong.

Many people have heard of it.AuschwitzBut I don’t know the name of Auschwitz’s chief commander: Rudolf Hess.

However, if you search for the name "rudolf hess" on Baidu, you will see another Hess in Baidu Encyclopedia. He is also a major political figure in Nazi Germany-he served his sentence in the same prison as Hitler and finished Mein Kampf dictated by Hitler in prison. After the outbreak of World War II, he was appointed as the heir by Hitler.

　

Hitler’s successor rudolf hess.

As for Hess, who was in charge of Auschwitz concentration camp, it looked like this.

　

Commander rudolf hess of Auschwitz concentration camp.

At first glance, he looks kind and plain. Maybe you pass him in the street and don’t notice him at all. Because of the same name as Hitler’s successor Hess, his reputation was also covered up by the former. It is said that his entry was rejected by Baidu Encyclopedia for 137 times.

However, if you know a little about what he has done, you will not ignore this person. From May 1940 to November 1943, Hess, the commander of the concentration camp, killed more than one million Jews. In order to perfectly implement the "genocide" plan, he designed and built the first poisonous gas shower room for mass murder.

There are four such giant gas chambers in Auschwitz concentration camp, which can kill 12,000 people at a time if operated simultaneously. Whenever the train carrying Jews arrives, men who can do hard work will be chosen as coolies and stay. Other old, weak, sick or women and children will be tricked into "bathing". Thousands of people will be squeezed into a room of only 200 square meters, and Nazi guards will put the highly toxic "Zicron B" gas into it.

　

gas chamber

Whenever the gas chamber kills people, in order not to let others hear the cries inside, the Nazis play waltzes loudly outside to cover up the atrocities.But the waltz won’t last forever. On March 11th, 1946, Rudolph Hoss was arrested. Two months later, he was accused of murdering three million people; Almost a year later, he was hanged at the site of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Hess is undoubtedly a murderous maniac, but looking back on his life, it is hard to imagine that this man’s hands are covered with the blood of millions of lives. He came from a Catholic family and was strictly educated by his father since childhood. People who have seen him say that Hess looks like an ordinary person, like a grocery store owner. At the same time, Hess is also the father of five children, and reads the fairy tale "henschel and Gleiter" to his youngest daughter every night.

　

Rudolf hess and his family.

Why did the son of a devout man, the "best man in the world" in the eyes of his wife and children, finally become the most horrible killing machine in history?

German historian Daniel Schoenpflug is atThe Comet Age: 1918, When the World Restarted.The book focuses on the Nazi commander who was rejected by Baidu Encyclopedia for 137 times, and outlines how a person like Rudolf Hess went from hope to despair step by step and finally fell into the abyss of perdition.

It all started on November 11th, 1918, the day the First World War ended. At that time, Hess was only an 18-year-old German soldier. When the news of the defeat of the motherland came, what should he do?

　

Real shot of The Age of Comets

In the last days of the war, Rudolf H?? was also in Damascus, at least that’s what he said in his autobiography. This young German soldier is not yet 18 years old. He comes from Mannheim in Baden. His father is a strict Catholic and wants to train him as a clergyman. However, my father died in the second year of the war. The young man was out of control and lost interest in his studies. In order to leave home, he volunteered to join the army. This world war brought him to the promised land, which was influenced by Catholicism. In Palestine, a sacred land he knew through the Bible, Hess experienced a brutal war between the German Empire and its Turkish allies against the British Empire and its Arab allies.

When his troops met the enemy in the desert, Hess took up his gun for the first time and aimed at his opponents: the British, Arabs, Indians and New Zealanders.For the first time, he tasted the taste of life and death, and with the weapons in his hand, he could decide a person’s life and death.In the face of the first person who died under his gun, he dared not look directly at it. However, death soon became a common occurrence.

Hess felt like a duck to water in the hierarchical army, and he enjoyed the friendship of comrades-in-arms who fought with his teammates. "In particular, I trust my captain very much and am proud of him. The officer is like a father. This is a kind of intimate relationship from the heart, just like my father. "

　

In addition to the bloody war and the love of brothers in arms, Hess later recalled a special experience, which fundamentally shook his religious belief. On that occasion, German soldiers patrolling the Jordan Valley met a group of farmers pushing carts loaded with moss. The soldier turned the cart upside down to make sure there were no weapons smuggled to the British. Hess asked the farmers through an interpreter what the moss was for. He was told that they would be sent to Jerusalem. There, these gray-white mosses with obvious red spots will be sold to pilgrims as "Golgotha" mosses, who believe that they are stained with the blood of Jesus and will take them home as souvenirs.This practice of cheating money under the guise of religion made Hess deeply disgusted and began to alienate the Catholic Church.

Hess didn’t want to be trapped in Palestine and become a prisoner of war of the British. As an officer, he asked his subordinates if they were willing to follow him thousands of miles back. It is definitely forbidden for troops to act alone in the army, but all soldiers express their obedience to his leadership, even though many of them are obviously much older than him. It will be a long March full of adventure, and they will cross Anatolia, the Black Sea and the Balkans to Austria.

"Without a map, we can only rely on the geographical knowledge of middle schools, and the rations of mounts and soldiers are collected from local people." They finally returned to Germany successfully."No one expected us to come back alive."Along the way, they passed through a turbulent world: empires were overthrown one after another, socialist revolution broke out, and struggles for national independence and against colonial rule broke out. Hunger, epidemics and scarcity were everywhere they looked.

In February 1919, Rudolf Hess finally returned to Mannheim after months of arduous trekking. When he was still in the army, his mother died soon after his father. His mother left him a letter to remind him of his father’s wish to become a clergyman. When Hess got home, his uncle and other relatives who became his guardian urged him to report to the seminary at once. The home built by parents has been divided up by relatives, and the sisters have been sent to a nunnery school. "Now I really feel the pain of losing my mother. I have no home! Helpless, only myself. "

My uncle insisted that his father’s last wish must be fulfilled, otherwise he would not hand over his inheritance. But Hess had doubts about the work of the clergy during the war, and he would never give in to the will of his family. So he gave his share of the inheritance to his sister, and a notary recorded this decision. "I have the ability to survive alone in this world." Rudolph Hess soon went to the eastern part of the empire, where Lieutenant Gerhard Ro?bach set up a "Volunteer Machine Gun Company". At the beginning of 1919, this Freedom Corps belonged to the "Vorl?ufigen Reichswehr", which was responsible for defending the security of the eastern border of Germany. The soldiers of the Freedom Corps believed that Germany was defeated because it was betrayed. They only regarded the interim government as a transition, and continued to keep armed, waiting for the moment of revenge.

After joining the Freedom Corps in Rosbach, Hess’s problems seemed to be solved all at once: he now has a job and a salary, and he has an officer worthy of his admiration, a political belief almost as firm as religious belief, and a "home, a shelter built by mutual support among comrades." It’s strange that people like me who are withdrawn and have to face all their worries and troubles alone are always attracted by this brotherhood and this absolute trust relationship between people in times of trouble and crisis. "

　

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In the autumn of 1919, Rudolf Hess went to the Balkans with thousands of soldiers of Rosbach Freedom Corps. Although the Weimar government made it clear in October 1919 that supernumerary German troops were prohibited from participating in the war in the south of the Baltic Sea. Defense Minister Noske even threatened to shoot everyone who crossed the Balkan border. But the Freedom Corps ignored this order. They came to the eastern border of the empire and pointed machine guns at the border guards, so the latter saluted them and let them pass. This unauthorized action quickly disbanded the Rosbach Freedom Corps, and then it went underground.

In the Balkans, the Rosbach Freedom Corps joined the "West Russian Volunteer Army" composed of local German troops, Russian soldiers and remnants of the German Empire. They are fighting the newly established Lithuanian Republic and are going to suppress the Russian revolution. Hess remembered the atrocities committed against civilians in this war until the end of his life. Naturally, for him, these people are all enemies. "The degree of cruelty and ruthlessness is something I have never experienced in the world war and the subsequent wars of the Freedom Corps. There is almost no real front line, and there are enemies everywhere. Where there is fighting, there will be slaughter and even extinction. "Hess witnessed the fire engulfing houses and the residents being burned alive. The scene of scorched earth and dead bodies accompanied him all his life. "At that time, I could do such a thing while praying."

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On the evening of May 31, 1921, Rudolf Hess and his companions were going to Parchim in mecklenburg, northern Germany. These "Rosbach Group" people were drunk and full of anger. A few days ago, one of their companions, Alberto Schlageter, was executed by the French occupying forces in the Rhineland. He was accused of sabotage, especially explosion attacks. People in the Freedom Corps believe that they have found the guy who betrayed Schlageter to the French: Walter Cardo, a member of the "group". He was considered a spy because he was unpopular. These veterans despised the Weimar Republic and its army, and they believed that the new government, which followed suit in the French, would not be interested in the inside story of the Schlageter incident. Therefore, they will "use lynching according to German practice".

At that time, Cardo and some friends were drinking in a restaurant in Parchim. Hess and his companions thought that this was an excellent opportunity to send this disloyal comrade to the west. When they arrived at the restaurant, Cardo was already drunk on the sofa. Hess brought a revolver, while others wore knuckles and rubber sticks. They caught the drunk and threw him into their car. The car drove through the country road and entered the jungle. Cardo was pushed out of the car. He tried to run, but Hess shot him to stop. Then they started beating him up. Hess even broke a small tree and punched many heads with it.

Now, what about this bloody, half-dead guy? Should we wake him up and take him to the hospital? Hess had another idea. He instructed everyone to bury Cardo in the forest. Cardo was put in the trunk, covered with his cloak, and the car went deep into the forest. At the right place, his body was put on the ground, and several people cut his carotid artery with knives. While Cardo was still struggling, Rudolf Hess shot him in the head. They covered the body and cleaned the car. The next morning, they returned to the crime scene, buried the body under the forest and erased the traces of the crime at night. In his memoirs written during his detention after 1945, Hess still felt that his approach was right. He explained his reasons: "At that time, I was-and still am-convinced that this traitor deserved to die. Since it is impossible for a German court to try him, we will try him according to an unwritten law given by those of us who were born in difficult times. "

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Rudolph Hess, who was originally sentenced to 10 years in prison for murder, was released after only four years in prison. After he was released from prison, he made a living by working on a farm and rejoined the far-right organization. It was not until Hitler came to power in 1933 that his life took a turning point. Hess joined the SS and soon became a member of the Totenkopfverb?nden. He worked in different concentration camps and was appointed commander of Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940. As the camp commander, he was responsible for Auschwitz’s implementation of the "final solution" on the Jewish issue.It was under his orders that the gas chamber was established, and more than 1 million lives were taken with Zicron B gas, most of them Jews.

In 1946, Hess, who fled under a pseudonym after the war, was arrested and sent to Poland for trial. He was sentenced to death in Warsaw the next year. Two weeks after the verdict, in front of his former residence, the former concentration camp commander took a last look at Auschwitz and went to the gallows.

　

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At first glance, a man like Rudolf Hess doesn’t fit the image of a tightrope walker. However, he is also encouraged by a kind of passion, and boldly walks above the abyss of perdition:What haunted Hess was the charm of early totalitarianism and his first killing experience as a soldier. From his behavior, we can see how the false peace developed into dictatorship and war.

　

Paul Klee, Comet of Paris, 1918

One hundred years later, we still live in an uneasy reality. Since 1989, the whole world has experienced hope and crisis over and over again, and the bright and dark future versions go hand in hand. Many times, the reshuffled realistic reform failed, and the destructive and dangerous forces-autocratic government, populist movement, terrorism, new war and increasingly unscrupulous capitalism-appeared to be about to seize the whole world.

But as the brilliance of that moment in 1918 tells us, it is not predestined, let alone inevitable. Because in the final analysis, everything is always changing in history and life. Every state and every situation is temporary, just like in paul klee’s painting, a comet chases its tail in circles.

This article is selected from The Comet Age: 1918, When the World Restarted.

The Comet Age: 1918, When the World Restarted.

[Germany] By Daniel Schoenpflug

Translated by Jane Xinyi

New Classic Culture Wenhui Publishing House

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Article | Newly Excerpted Business Review, One White

This year, Xiaodu’s path forward seems to be "overshadowed".

At the end of March, Xiaodu launched a promotion campaign for the digital collection of Genesis, promising to promote 500 people to consumers and airdrop the Palace Museum’s digital collection "Listening to the Qin" for free. Some people successfully promoted more than 500 people, but Xiaodu did not fulfill the promise afterwards. Instead, it replaced it with other low-value digital collections, and was complained by users for suspected false propaganda.

In July, a woman found multiple private videos of guests staying in a small speaker in a bed and breakfast room, which was questioned as an infringement of user privacy.

After four months, Xiaodu was fined 250,000 yuan for propaganda in the name of MIIT, which once again made headlines.

Xiaodu, which Li Yanhong calls "a revolutionary new species of AI in the Chinese market", has been highly expected, and its AI voice assistant hidden behind the smart speaker carrier is Baidu’s shield for the next decade.

However, it has been two years since the spin-off of Xiaodu, and the news of independent listing has spread again and again, but no further action has been seen. Baidu’s subsidies to Xiaodu have not stopped, and the commercialization prospects are unknown.

In recent years, with the gradual enrichment of smart home product categories, the number of substitutes for smart home entrances is increasing, the status of smart speaker entrances has been shaken, and the beautiful idea of "hardware pasted upside down, ecological money" does not know when it will be realized.

The mobile ecosystem is facing huge challenges, and autonomous driving is still burning money. How long can Baidu give Xiaodu patience, and whether Xiaodu can support Baidu’s grand AI dream expectations, everything has to be questioned.

First, the AI story awakened by a "small degree"

"Xiaodu Xiaodu, play children’s songs."

This was the "killer sentence" of a treasure mother to awaken her baby’s rhythmic cells, and it also started Xiaodu’s busy day.

Xiaodu is the name of Baidu’s artificial intelligence assistant and the wake-up word of Xiaodu speakers.

In September 2015, Xiaodu came out as a secret and made many attempts around artificial intelligence voice technology. The most widely known ones are the voice operating system Xiaodu Assistant (Duer OS), and the Xiaodu Assistant as the core. Xiaodu smart speakers and other hardware products.

In March 2018, Baidu established the Smart Life Business Group (SLG), and at the same time released the first smart speaker with a screen – Xiaodu is at home, and Robin Li personally stands on the platform.

SLG is jointly composed of the former Baidu "Du Mi Business Department", Baidu "Hardware Ecological Channel Department" and the acquired "Raven Studio Studio", and is managed by Lu Qi. After Lu Qi left, Jing Kun became the general manager of SLG.

At that time, there was no screen speaker in the Chinese market, but foreign giants had tried the water (in 2017, Amazon released a smart speaker Echo Show SLG with a screen). The combination of "screen + speaker" led by Baidu in China has brought huge increments to Baidu and virtually changed the competition landscape of the domestic smart speaker market.

The major giants followed suit. Alibaba and Tencent launched Tmall Genie CC and Tencent Jingle one after another. JD.com also released JD.com Play…

2018 was a year of Xiaodu’s anger, and it was also a year in which Jing Kun frequently exported Xiaodu’s values.

Jing Kun once said that Baidu’s original intention of making Xiaodu was to let everyone have a smart assistant, but it has no form. In the early stage of development, it needs to be attached to the form of a certain product in order to make users feel that it is an "assistant".

"On the road of smart assistants, how to meet users’ expectations for this product at this stage is very critical, which will affect whether to abandon it later or use it all the time." The form of smart speakers does not have such high requirements for the entire smart assistant, and users’ expectations are relatively limited. The initial demand may be to play music or listen to the radio, which is more in line with the expectations of the "form".

2019 Q1 financial report released, Baidu suffered its first quarterly loss in 14 years, but Xiaodu’s performance was very impressive.

This year, Xiaodu smart speaker shipments in the Chinese market first, the number of smart devices equipped with Xiaodu assistant exceeded 275 million, up 279% month-on-month, and the monthly voice interaction reached 2.37 billion, up 817% month-on-month, becoming China’s largest and most active dialogue artificial intelligence platform.

In Q2 2019, Baidu’s smart speaker shipments increased by 37 times, surpassing Google to become the world’s second largest smart speaker supplier.

Thanks to Xiaodu’s outstanding performance, Jing Kun was also promoted to vice president of the group and reported directly to Li Yanhong. At the 2019 Baidu AI Developer Conference, the "young strong faction" management led by Wang Haifeng, Shen Shuo and Jing Kun came to the forefront.

Jing Kun’s promotion also represents Baidu’s expectations for Xiaodu, or rather, the expectations of the value of voice interaction represented by Xiaodu.

Baidu has always emphasized that it is not a hardware company, and the definition of Xiaodu smart speakers is not pure hardware, but growing AI software. Hardware is just a carrier of it.

Xiaodu is Baidu’s game of chess for the intelligent voice ecosystem. According to a previous survey by Bain, voice interaction will account for about 30% of human-machine interaction in the future, and the market prospect is broad. For Baidu, which has always wanted to build itself into a "Chinese AI business card", voice technology is the soul of smart speakers, and it is also a high ground that Baidu must snatch.

Over the years, Robin Li’s investment in the voice field has been firm. From the release of the first smart speaker with screen "Xiaodu at home" to the full-duplex wake-up-free Xiaodu Assistant 5.0 update, every time Xiaodu makes an appearance, Li Yanhong stands firmly in front of the stage.

The turning point occurred after SLG was spun off.

In September 2020, Baidu announced that its smart life business group business (referred to as "Xiaodu Technology") completed the signing of an independent financing agreement, led by Baidu Capital and CPE (CITIC Industrial Capital) strategy, IDG Capital joined the investment, post-money valuation 20 billion yuan. After the financing is completed, Baidu still has absolute control over Xiaodu Technology.

The official explanation is that independent financing has a positive role in promoting the development of Xiaodu Technology and its strategic coordination with Baidu. Independent financing may become a key step for Xiaodu Technology to start the domestic listing process.

A year later, in August 2021, Xiaodu Technology completed the B round of financing, with a post-money valuation of 33 billion yuan.

Nowadays, Xiaodu Assistant has been iterated to version 7.0 and is widely used in home, hotel real estate, car, portable and other multi-scene fields. In addition to smart speakers, the landing smart hardware products have also expanded to smart fitness mirrors, smart dictionary pens, smart headphones, smart camera TVs, etc.

Xiaodu Assistant, as Xiaodu’s core AI technology capability, is already the largest conversational AI operating system in China, but the fate of Jingkun and Xiaodu Technology is increasingly uncertain.

Second, Li Yanhong’s "good heart"

Looking back on the past, we will find that Li Yanhong once had a strong preference for Xiaodu.

The same is defined as the new entrance to smart home, Xiao Ai was only briefly mentioned by Lei Jun at the end of the tenth anniversary speech, and Tmall Genie rarely appeared at Alibaba’s group-level conferences. However, Xiaodu was able to stand at the C position at Baidu’s most important AI developer conference for many years.

In Li Yanhong’s opinion, Baidu’s core business search itself is a very typical AI problem, because the essence of search is to give answers to questions, and natural language processing technology in AI technology can help search more accurately.

In the era of AI-enabled search, search results are no longer sorted by the relevance of web pages, but are digested and processed based on the machine’s full understanding of the question.

From 1.0 to 7.0, Xiaodu Assistant has transformed into an "open API" that integrates Baidu AI voice technology and image technology, and can empower third parties. Robin Li regards it as the interaction hub, super entrance and operating system of the AI era.

Jing Kun once used "Xiaodu is the search and information flow of Baidu in the future, it is a natural search itself in the family" to illustrate the importance of Xiaodu to Baidu.

Xiaodu is also an entry point for Baidu to leverage smart life. Users’ demand for smart devices continues to diverge, and once the demand diverges, the application of technology will come out.

The ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny. In recent years, the popularity of smart homes has been accelerating, and now smart homes will have built-in smart assistants to interact directly with users. The role of smart speakers as the central control of smart homes has begun to weaken, and Xiaodu’s status as the "interaction center" has also begun to shake.

At the same time as the product iteration, Xiaodu did not forget to start commercialization attempts. At the Xiaodu media communication meeting in early July 20, Jing Kun first mentioned the concept of "breaking the circle". The corresponding action is that Xiaodu connected to Kuaishou, Douyin, Bilibili, Youku and other content partners in one go in the first half of the year, and launched Xiaodu education smart screen, Xiaodu smart early education machine and other products for children.

After the double reduction, the commercial water test effect for C-end users is not good.

Xiaomi’s smart hardware ecosystem has been wildly sought after by capital, and Xiaodu also wants to follow suit, saying that it wants to create an open AIoT interactive ecosystem based on Xiaodu Assistant’s core technology, and form a set of "1 + X + Y" ecological development ideas, 1 refers to Xiaodu Assistant (Duer OS); X refers to interactive hardware, including Xiaodu’s own products and cooperative products; Y refers to ecological hardware, smart home and IoT products.

However, it turned out that the story of the AIoT interaction ecosystem was even more difficult to tell, regardless of the intense competition in AIoT. In addition to Baidu’s Xiaodu Assistant, players in the voice interaction system also included Amazon’s Alexa and Ali’s AliGenie. Huawei, a communications equipment manufacturer, was building the Hongmeng system, and Haier, a home appliance giant, had also launched its own smart home system, U-home, very early on…

Each family has an ambition to build an "ecology", and the so-called ecology is not "open". Everyone is developing their own "ecological standards". Openness is "internal", and barriers are always external.

The fragmentation of the ecological level has led to an increase in the interconnection barriers of end point devices between different brands, and the clustering of different camps has further intensified the "data islands" of each brand’s ecology. These are all insurmountable mountains in front of Xiaodu.

I still remember when "Xiaodu Home" with Xiaodu Assistant was launched, Robin Li said excitedly, "Xiaodu Home is a new product form spawned by AI, a revolutionary new species of AI in the Chinese market, and will also open up new application scenarios."

Nowadays, revolutionary application scenarios have not emerged, and the focus of Li Yanhong’s AI narrative has also been placed on digital humans and autonomous driving.

In July this year, the Baidu World Congress was held as scheduled, and the opening was no longer the familiar conversation between Robin Li and Xiaodu, but the digital human Xiaoxiao.

Baidu has confidence in AI, but it doesn’t have much patience for Xiaodu, who is already independent. One detail is that Jing Kun’s title has not changed except for the newly added CEO of Xiaodu Technology.

Lining or face

Xiaodu, once popular with Baidu and the market, has become much like a "battle with a scarecrow": it can defeat its opponent in theory, but it can only defeat its opponent in theory.

"Voice interaction is the mainstream, it’s not extra and add-on", different perspectives bring business changes, just like when touching the screen, many people think what is the purpose of adding a touch screen to the mobile phone, but Apple sees the value of the touch screen.

For Baidu, the value of voice interaction represented by Xiaodu is a very low-level value that can revolutionize many things, such as the interaction frequency between users and devices, the interaction time between users and a smart device, and even the content and information service ecosystem after the entire device.

This is a particularly low-level revolution, and it is an irreversible revolution in history, and it will only happen faster. This is why Baidu really values voice interaction, because this low-level revolution will upend so many things and is a huge opportunity.

In an interview in 2019, Jing Kun has always emphasized that the commercialization of Xiaodu is not the focus, the most important AI capabilities and user experience, hoping that the product can reach a larger scale, but "the current scale is not that large, so it needs a golden development period".

Jing Kun also mentioned more than once in public that Xiaodu’s business model does not make money on hardware, and truly attaches importance to content and service ecology, focusing on interaction, such as multi-mode interaction, remote interaction, including voice interaction self-learning system, etc., will also have a lot of technical investment in related aspects.

Three years had passed, and smart speakers had already passed the initial stage of user education. According to the official statement, Xiaodu was now the largest in the country, and the technology was constantly being updated. Commercialization should also make a big breakthrough, but from the actual results, Xiaodu commercialization seemed to be still in the "embryonic" stage.

The performance of the Xiaodu brand has been repeatedly mentioned in Baidu’s financial reports, but the specific revenue of Xiaodu has not been disclosed.

It seems that Xiaodu is more like the "face" that highlights Baidu’s AI technical strength, rather than the "lining" that supports Baidu’s performance growth curve.

No matter how beautiful the business story is, it is just a "mirage" that cannot run through the closed loop of business. The fact is that Xiaodu cannot make money by relying on hardware products, and it is more difficult to make money by building an ecosystem through AI voice interaction.

No capital can continue to pay for an idea that cannot see returns. If Xiaodu cannot go public independently and raise money in the future, it will only be a matter of time before Baidu completely abandons it.

　　China News Service, July 28, "Interim Measures for the Management of Online Booking Taxi Business Services" was announced today to clarify the legal status of online car-hailing. The "Measures" make it clear that online car-hailing platform companies shall reasonably determine the freight rate of online car-hailing, implement clear pricing, and provide passengers with corresponding taxi invoices.

　　In response to the business behavior of online car-hailing, the "Measures" point out that the online car-hailing platform company assumes the responsibility of the carrier and shall ensure the safety of operation and protect the legitimate rights and interests of passengers. It shall ensure that the vehicles providing services have legal operating qualifications, are in good technical condition, have reliable safety performance, and have relevant insurance for operating vehicles. It shall ensure that the vehicles providing services online are consistent with the vehicles actually providing services offline, and report the relevant information of the vehicle to the taxi administrative department where the service is located.

　　At the same time, the online car-hailing platform company shall ensure that the drivers providing services have legal professional qualifications, and sign various forms of employment contracts or agreements with the drivers in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, according to the characteristics of working hours and service frequency, etc., to clarify the rights and obligations of both parties. The online car-hailing platform company shall safeguard and protect the legitimate rights and interests of drivers, carry out pre-job training and daily education on relevant laws and regulations, professional ethics, service norms, safe operation, etc., to ensure that the drivers providing services online are consistent with the drivers actually providing services offline, and report the relevant information of the driver to the taxi administrative department where the service is located.

　　The "Interim Measures" emphasize that online ride-hailing platform companies should publish and determine the metering methods that comply with relevant national regulations, clarify service items and quality commitments, establish a service evaluation system and a passenger complaint handling system, and truthfully collect and record driver service information. When providing online ride-hailing services, provide driver names, photos, mobile phone numbers and service evaluation results, as well as vehicle license plates and other information.

　　Online ride-hailing platform companies shall not impede fair competition in the market, and shall not infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of passengers and social public interests. They shall not engage in unfair price behaviors such as crowding out competitors or monopolizing the market, operating at a price lower than the cost, disrupting the normal market order, and harming the legitimate rights and interests of the state or other operators. They shall pay taxes according to law, purchase carrier liability insurance and other related insurance for passengers, and fully protect the rights and interests of passengers.

　　Online ride-hailing platform companies and drivers shall provide operating services in accordance with relevant national operating service standards, shall not dump passengers on the way or deliberately detour, shall not charge illegally, and shall not retaliate against passengers who report, complain about the quality of their services, or make unsatisfactory evaluations of their services.

　　The online ride-hailing platform company shall inform the purpose, method and scope of the collection and use of personal information of drivers, riders and passengers in a prominent manner through its service platform. Without the express consent of the information subject, the online ride-hailing platform company shall not use the aforementioned personal information for other business purposes. The collection of personal information of drivers, riders and passengers shall not exceed the scope necessary to provide online ride-hailing services.

　　Except for cooperating with state organs in exercising supervision and inspection powers or criminal investigation powers in accordance with the law, online ride-hailing platform companies shall not provide any third party with the names, contact information, home addresses, bank accounts or payment accounts, geographical locations, travel routes and other personal information of drivers, ride-hailing and passengers, and shall not disclose sensitive information related to national security such as geographical coordinates and geographical markers. After information leakage occurs, online ride-hailing platform companies shall promptly report to the relevant competent authorities and take timely and effective remedial measures.

　　The "Interim Measures" stressed that the network about the car platform company should comply with the relevant provisions of the national network and information security, the personal information collected and generated business data, should be stored and used in the Chinese mainland, the retention period of not less than 2 years, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations, the above information and data shall not flow out.

　　No enterprise or individual shall provide information docking to vehicles and drivers who have not obtained legal qualifications to carry out online car-hailing business services. No online car-hailing business services shall be provided in the name of private passenger car sharing. Online car-hailing vehicles and drivers shall not provide operation services through online service platforms that have not obtained business licenses.