The first batch of Chengdu street performers who will hold certificates will have an "admission rate" of less than 30%

  Work with certificates

  The first batch of licensed artists will be selected and employed later this month.

  anyone who made a good enough score can be accepted.

  The first batch of 100 places, 242 individuals and 114 teams signed up.

  Standardized management

  The schedule, location and content of the performance time should be managed, and a commitment letter will be signed with relevant departments, which will be audited every year to survive the fittest.

  On March 28th this year, Chengdu Wenguang New Bureau officially announced the first batch of 30 pilot sites for street art performances in 2018. The street performers who meet the requirements will be certified after selection in late April. According to the current data, the first batch of 100 places, more than 300 individuals and teams signed up.

  Street art is an important part of urban culture, and street performance is the most dynamic and active part of street culture. But for a long time, street performances were regarded as disturbing the order of urban management and were rejected. After the reunification, how can it overcome its own shortcomings and become a part of the urban landscape?

  End of recruitment:

  The first batch of "admission rate" is less than 30%

  After approval, interviews and training will be conducted.

  On March 23 this year, on the basis of extensive investigation and soliciting opinions from relevant urban areas, Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television Press and Publication announced the first batch of 30 pilot sites for street art performances in 2018. According to the "Announcement on the First Pilot Sites of Chengdu Street Art Performance in 2018", these 30 pilot sites are located in Chunxi Road, Lan Kwai Fong, Tianfu Square, etc. in Chengdu, which basically covers the places with the most street performances in Chengdu at present.

  As of April 20th, the recruitment of buskers has ended, with the first batch of 100 places, with 242 individuals and 114 teams signing up. Chengdu Cultural Center will organize experts in related fields to review the applicants’ conditions. After the examination, there will be an interview, and then the selected street performers will be trained. After the training, they can perform at the point.

  A person in charge of the Chengdu Cultural Center told the reporter, "When recruiting, there will be certain requirements on the age and performance content of the applicants. The selection criteria are suitable for most people, but mainly depends on the performance level, including some street performers who have already performed on the street." "We must manage the schedule, location and content of the performance time."

  The selected buskers will sign a letter of commitment with the relevant departments, stipulating that they should not be absent at will during the performance. The performance time of street performers is arranged on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays (16: 00 ~ 18: 00) and (19: 00 ~ 21: 00), and the performance time at specific points is adjusted according to the actual situation.

  It is understood that certified street performers in Chengdu will be audited every year, and those who are excellent will be rewarded, and those who are poor will be eliminated. "There are limited places during the pilot period, but in the long run, street performers will gradually become a huge group." The person in charge of Chengdu Music Industry Office (hereinafter referred to as "Music Production Office") told the reporter.

  Once the embarrassment of the street

  Whenever the lights are on, music and songs soar with the mist of Jinjiang, and the bar street of Jiuyanqiao in Chengdu has entered the most lively moment of the day. Across the river from here, on the east riverside road, street performers with guitars and speakers, together with Bar Street, construct the cultural symbol of Nine Eyes Bridge. Since last year, the riverbank along the east riverside road in Chengdu has become a place for Guangdong singers to perform in the streets in June. Many citizens who like music and even foreign tourists come here in the night. Around 8 pm, the people on the river bank are full one after another. The performance in June is very simple, with a guitar and a partner playing African drums.

  "Be ready to withdraw at any time"

  The sound of music can only be heard on the riverbank. Soon scattered banknotes were piled up in the yellow guitar bag, and passers-by took the initiative to walk over and asked if they could sing two songs.

  The sound suddenly stopped. A uniformed chengguan came straight, made some representations, quietly held the guitar in his hand in June, and watched the chengguan go away. He said that he had long been used to this embarrassing encounter. During the break, I talked about it in June. He usually stays in the bar or runs a business performance, but he will perform in this fixed place for an hour or two every night.

  Since 2014, he has wandered the streets of many cities across the country to perform for passers-by, feeling that the atmosphere in Chengdu is better. "Passers-by in the past will recognize you in various ways." Like many street performers, even though there are many spectators, they can’t get rid of the constraints of urban management. "In fact, I understand very well that there is no clear norm for street performances, and everyone is not good."

  25-year-old Hu Da is also a frequent visitor to Jiuyan Bridge. At 9: 00 pm on April 19, the urban management came. He stopped singing half of the songs, took his guitar and speakers, walked in the direction of Hejiang Pavilion for a while, looked back, and after confirming "safety", he put the equipment on the side of the road. "You can sing a few songs, so be ready to withdraw at any time."

  Street performances in Chengdu are "scattered, chaotic and of low quality"

  The well-known "Folk Masters" team has been performing in Kuanzhai Lane all the year round. Yang Guang, the founder of the team, said that because the team has been creating and promoting original folk songs, the Kuanzhai Lane management company found them to perform in Kuanzhai Lane. However, such a model is a minority after all. The publicity of the selection of street performers summed up the scattered, chaotic and low-quality street performances in Chengdu. "To tell you the truth, street performers are in a mess now, because the city management department doesn’t allow them to perform at will, so there are only ‘ Shoot a gun and change a place ’ 。” A person in charge of the audio production office told the reporter.

  Unlike most street performers, the "Folk Master" team performing in Kuanzhai Lane did not open the box to receive a "reward". Yang Guang, the founder of the team, said that the government can attach importance to street culture, and he and his team members are very happy. "Especially those who do original promotion like us can communicate with the public within three meters."

  Problems to be solved now

  "I’m just a guitar singer. How did I become a busker?" Li Zhonglan, 27, is a little embarrassed, because playing guitar is just a hobby, and his strength is not up to the level of an artist. He even thinks that playing and singing at friends’ parties is ok, and he gets a little stage fright when he goes to the street. However, in order to earn some "outside water", after the Spring Festival this year, he began to bring his guitar to perform in the street, and the location chose Jiuyanqiao. "There are many people there and the atmosphere is good." But in fact, what he values more is that there are many roadshows in that place, with uneven levels and no pressure.

  "Artistic? We are too far away. "

  On the evening of April 20th, Li Zhonglan took the subway from Guangdu to the new South Gate, then rode a bike-sharing to the singing place, sat on a stone bench on the side of the road and turned on his mobile phone to find the music score. Compared with other people who are on the road show at the same time, his audience is much smaller. There are four chords in a song, and he frequently makes mistakes, but even so, passers-by will take the trouble to scan the QR code used for payment.

  According to many days of visits and many related WeChat groups in Chengdu, the reporter learned that more than 20 people performed on the street all the year round. Outside the Jiuyan Bridge, street performers are scattered at the gates of shopping malls, parks and residential quarters in the form of individuals. According to the introduction of members of a performance group in Chengdu, Raffles, Happy Valley and some subway stations are places that performers like to choose. "Because everyone basically aims at making money, people go wherever they want." Singer Yan Zheng said.

  A person in charge of the Chengdu Music Production Office told the reporter, "From the current point of view, the street art form in Chengdu is too single, and it is usually based on singing and playing, and a large part of it is guitar playing and singing." Gao Yi, a singer who has been performing in the street all the year round, told reporters that this is related to the simple and easy-to-learn guitar. "From the artistic point of view, street performances are far from us."

  How is the spring snow compatible with the street?

  Since the recruitment of street performers, among the registered artists, there are mainly four kinds of talents, including vocal performance, instrumental performance, folk art performance and non-legacy traditional handicrafts.

  As one of the street performers, Huang Kang, a Chinese guqin player, has many feelings. "We never thought that Guqin would play in the street. In the final analysis, there is still no such atmosphere." For Huang Kang and her team, giving street performers a legal identity provides them with an opportunity to face the public. "Our literature and art should still approach the common people, no matter how elegant you are, change customs and be good at music. To be honest, we didn’t have such awareness in the past. " The street performance is just around the corner, and Huang Kang claims that what he is considering now is how Guqin should behave in the street. "How to keep pace with the times and make others understand."

  Tang Zheng, a "post-60 s" freelance musician who signed up for a busker’s license, is no stranger to street art. "Many foreign street performers simply like to share music on the street, and the performers even have the chief violinist of the art troupe."

  Guarantee quality? Guaranteed livelihood?

  Although it has already laid its own brand on the streets of Chengdu, there is still some concern in June: if the quality of performances is overemphasized, people who are currently performing in the streets will be greatly affected.

  A singer who runs in a bar told reporters that there are more and more people performing on the streets of Chengdu. Apart from the good atmosphere, another factor is that the bar earns too little money. A singer who stays in a bar for one night gets a reward of 100~200 yuan, while singing on the roadside, it is normal to earn more than 200 yuan for three or four hours a night.

  But in fact, many applicants are not buskers. In June, he said, "If only the good ones are selected, few of these places will really fall on the buskers. The busker’s card should be more targeted at people who perform on the street, and it is also a channel for buskers to make a living. "

  The person in charge of Chengdu Audio Production Office told the reporter that they had gone to Shanghai, Beijing and other places for investigation. "The advice they gave, the art category of street performance can’t just be music."

  Because there is no Chengdu hukou and residence permit, performer Vivi gave up the selection of street performers. "This is really a big restriction for me." He said with some helplessness. He believes that these requirements virtually limit the performance space of foreign street performers and break the original ecology of street performances.

  Chengdu Business Daily reporter Lu Wangyi Ren Hongwei

  Photojournalist Wang Hongqiang Qin Wang

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  Urban culture

  Not only in the theater but also in the streets.

  Street performers are the normal scenery in many cities. In Paris, new york, Moscow and other European and American cities, street performers can often be seen. They either play singing affectionately or bury themselves in painting, some interact with pedestrians frequently, and some do not interfere with pedestrians. And "the master is in the folk", many street performers have a skill, and there are many "sweeping monk" roles.

  In fact, around us, we will also see some street performers. Between different cities, the only difference lies in whether it has formed a scale, whether it has become a feature, and whether it has produced representative artists. At that time, the "Xidan Girl" was just a girl who sang in the Xidan underground passage. Because some netizens filmed and uploaded her cover "Angel’s Wings", it touched countless people and became the "online celebrity" at that time. The city of Beijing has completed the "Xidan Girl". Why didn’t the "Xidan Girl" complete Beijing and let people see the other side of the city?

  Some people recognize the artistry of street performers and supplement and enrich urban culture; Some people think that the disorder of street performers has affected the traffic and appearance of the city. Orderliness has always been an important option in urban governance. Out of the pursuit of order, some cities are unfriendly to street performers, and it is strictly forbidden to perform in the streets. Street performers sometimes even have to "guerrilla" with urban management.

  Urban governance should avoid falling into a single option and ignore the diversity of aesthetic needs. A city that brings people a good feeling needs an orderly side, but order does not mean rigidity or only one expression. The vitality of street performers, in many cases, makes the city show a vibrant side. The attitude towards street performers also involves the attitude of the bottom people’s livelihood.

  Moreover, cities now generally attach importance to cultural construction. Many cities spend huge sums of money to build public cultural facilities such as the Grand Theatre, organize several large-scale cultural activities every year, and have a number of support policies for cultural enterprises and cultural talents. Of course, it is right to attach importance to culture, but is culture only reserved in the grand theater? A truly literate city should exude a cultural temperament when it gestures, and it is filled with cultural styles in the streets and alleys. A city with real cultural confidence and wisdom will definitely face up to the existence of street performers.

  A beautiful city should be a city with culture, and urban culture should be integrated into all aspects of the city as a daily presentation. Modern cities should attach importance to street image design and cultivate their own "street culture". The mind determines the pattern, and the pattern determines the future. Give more tolerance to street performers, and this kind of mind and wisdom will bring unlimited imagination to the city. According to China Youth Daily

Splendid China Year | Looking at the "heat" through data, the tourism market in many places across the country ushered in a good start

CCTV News:During the Spring Festival in the Year of the Loong, affected by multiple factors such as returning home and visiting relatives, the popularity of family travel is obvious, and the tourism market in many places across the country has made a good start.

Since the second day of the Lunar New Year, the number of people traveling abroad has increased significantly. In Suzhou, solve riddles on the lanterns, watching dragon dances and visiting the market, a series of Spring Festival garden activities full of annual flavor have made the Xiangshan scenic spot here full of tourists, and the daily average number of tourists is nearly three times that of the same period last year. In the humble administrator’s garden, a traditional garden attraction, colorful lights are hung high and flowers of all colors are placed in traditional buildings, and the number of visitors to the park reaches 30 thousand every day.

According to statistics, two days before the Spring Festival holiday, 634 A-level tourist attractions and 195 key rural tourist villages above the provincial level in Jiangsu Province received more than 12.27 million tourists, and the total consumption of tourists reached 5.2 billion yuan. In Jiangxi, the province’s 5A-level scenic spots and key 4A-level scenic spots received 984,000 tourists, an increase of 82% over the same period last year. Xi’ an, which just boarded the hot search with the Spring Festival Evening, has experienced a surge in tourism popularity. The travel orders for the Spring Festival holiday increased by 317% year-on-year, and the ticket orders increased by 480% year-on-year. The passenger flow of 952 scenic spots included in big data monitoring in Hunan Province reached 1,583,400. Eleven parks in Beijing, such as Tiantan, Beihai and Jingshan, received a total of 547,600 tourists on the third day of the New Year, an increase of 127.13% over last year.

During the Spring Festival, it is a new trend to experience the national tide. By holding traditional folk custom activities such as characteristic folk custom experience, non-legacy cultural performances, temple fairs and lantern festivals combined with trend culture, scenic spots around the country have rendered the atmosphere of the New Year with new scenes and new ways of playing, which has driven the comprehensive consumption growth of hotels, restaurants and so on.

This Spring Festival, the ice and snow tourism in the north of Lanxi, Heilongjiang Province continues to be hot, and the south of Sanya, Hainan Province has also become the choice of many tourists.

Up to now, tickets for the Palace Museum, National Museum, Guangdong Provincial Museum, Suzhou Museum, Sanxingdui Museum, Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou and other scenic spots have been sold out or the number of people is full. It is recommended to visit in the wrong peak and area, and some scenic spots have taken current restriction measures.

Shenyang, Liaoning: the cultural tourism market welcomes the Year of the Loong to make a good start

At the beginning of the Year of the Loong, the travel market in Shenyang, Liaoning Province got off to a good start. In the first three days of the Spring Festival holiday, the cumulative reception of domestic tourists in Shenyang increased by 106.24% year-on-year, and the domestic tourism revenue increased by 218.03%. The number of tourists in popular scenic spots such as Shenyang Palace Museum has soared, and ice and snow sports have been sought after by everyone.

During the Spring Festival, the dragon dance performance organized by Shenyang Forbidden City attracted many tourists. In order to make it easier for everyone to visit and tour, Shenyang Forbidden City opened in advance and closed later according to the passenger flow during the festival. In Baiqingzhai Ski Resort of Shenyang Institute of Physical Education, the snowy roads are crowded, and many southern tourists come here to experience the ice and snow sports.

In addition, all kinds of authentic Northeast cultural tourism projects have become the first choice for many tourists.

Many scenic spots usher in the peak of passenger flow

During the Spring Festival holiday, the Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area in Anhui and the Mausoleum Museum of the First Qin Emperor in Shaanxi ushered in the peak of passenger flow.

In the early morning of the 12th, Jiuhua Mountain welcomed a large number of self-driving tourists. On the S228 provincial road entering the scenic spot, the traffic flow stretches for several kilometers. By 12 noon that day, there were more than 14,400 self-driving vehicles.

In order to cope with the continuous surge in traffic volume, Jiuhua Mountain opened five fixed parking lots and Jiuhua Avenue temporary parking lot at the same time, and the traffic police department implemented diversion control measures on the roads outside the scenic spot. Nearly 100 volunteers provide tourists with warm services such as tour guidance, ride guidance and order maintenance. Three days before the Spring Festival, Jiuhua Mountain received a total of 180,400 tourists.

In Shaanxi, in order to ensure tourists’ safe and orderly visit, the Mausoleum Museum of the First Qin Emperor implements time-sharing reservation and off-peak visit. Visitors who plan to visit can pay attention to the museum’s official ticketing website, WeChat WeChat official account and other online booking tickets. According to the needs of holiday reception, the check-in time of the museum from February 12 (the third day) to February 15 (the sixth day) is adjusted to 8: 00 am to 5: 00 pm.

Guide to market rental subsidies

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  Urban registered families in this city can apply for market rental subsidies if they meet the following three conditions:

  1. The per capita monthly income of the family in the first 12 months of the application month is not higher than 2,400 yuan;

  2. The family members who apply for it have no housing in this city;

  3.3 The net assets of families with less than 3 people are 570,000 yuan and less, and those with 4 people and more are 760,000 yuan and less.

  Houses rented by families that meet the above application conditions must meet the requirements of relevant laws and regulations on the management of residential housing rental, and have valid proof of housing ownership or proof of legal source of housing.

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  Except Huairou District, Pinggu District, Miyun District and Yanqing District, other districts implement a unified market rental subsidy standard, as shown in the following table:

The city (except Huairou, Pinggu, Miyun and Yanqing) market rental subsidy standards.

Unit: yuan/month

The city (except Huairou, Pinggu, Miyun and Yanqing) market rental subsidy standards.

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  (A) market rental

  1. Families eligible for market rental subsidies should rent their own houses in the market within 6 months.

  2. Market rental subsidies for family rental housing must meet the requirements of relevant laws and regulations on the management of residential housing rental, and have valid proof of housing ownership or proof of legal source of housing.

  3. If renting a bungalow, the lessor shall also provide the house safety appraisal certificate. Market rental subsidy families should sign housing lease contracts with housing lessors.

  (2) Handling the procedures for receiving subsidies.

  From the date of the lease term of the housing lease contract, the applicant for market rental subsidy and the lessor of the house shall go through the formalities for receiving the market rental subsidy together with the housing security management department of the neighborhood office (township people’s government) where the household registration is applied.

  Submission materials: the applicant should provide ID card, Notice of Qualification for Rental Subsidy in Beijing Market, house lease contract, bank card issued by the applicant himself in the subsidy issuing bank and other materials and copies; The lessor of the house shall provide ID card, proof of ownership of the house or proof of legal source of the house (including house sales contract and invoice, demolition compensation agreement, etc.) and other materials and copies.

  (three) street offices (Township People’s government) housing security management department verification materials

  Neighborhood offices (Township People’s Government) housing security management department verification materials. If the materials are complete and conform to the legal form, the housing security management department of the sub-district office (Township People’s Government) shall keep a copy, input the relevant information into the system, print the Confirmation Sheet of Beijing Market Rental Subsidy Information, and submit it to the district housing security management department after the applicant has checked it and signed it for confirmation.

  (four) the district housing security management department review

  The district housing security management department shall review the relevant materials within 5 working days. In line with the conditions for receiving market rental subsidies, the district housing security management department approved the actual amount of subsidies for families with market rental subsidies through the system. The district housing security management department formulated the Notice on Payment of Rental Subsidies in Beijing Market, which was issued to the applicant by the housing security management department of the sub-district office (Township People’s Government).

  (5) Payment of subsidies

  If a family with market rental subsidies goes through the formalities of receiving market rental subsidies in the current month, the subsidies will be calculated and distributed from the next month. The district housing security management department will distribute the market rental subsidy to the applicant’s bank account through the bank before the 20th of each month.

Comments on the management of the board of directors of Novartis in the first half of 2022

() The business review of the Board of Directors in the first half of 2022 is as follows:

  I. Description of the industry and main business of the company during the reporting period.

  (I) The industry of the company during the reporting period.

  1. Development trend of global pharmaceutical industry

  According to the report "The Global Use of Medicine 2022 Outlook to 2026" released by IQ via in December 2021, the global pharmaceutical market will reach 1.8 trillion US dollars in 2026, with a compound growth rate of about 3-6% from 2022 to 2026.

  2. Development trend of domestic pharmaceutical industry

  The aging population in China is on the rise year by year, and by 2050, the aging population in China will reach one third of the total population. With the aging of the population, the demand for medicine market in China has increased sharply. At the same time, the government of China proposed to coordinate the promotion of medical reform and the release of medical policies to benefit the people one after another, which promoted the growth of the medical market. In the future, the pharmaceutical industry in China will face a reshuffle, and the market system will be constantly standardized and improved in the adjustment of policies to enhance market supply. With the expiration of a large number of patents of "heavy drugs" around the world, pharmaceutical enterprises in China will have great development opportunities.

  3. The pattern and development trend of contract customization R&D and production (CDMO) business

  The market capacity of global pharmaceutical customized R&D and production industry is growing rapidly. In recent years, in order to reduce the R&D cost of new drugs, improve the R&D efficiency, shorten the R&D marketing cycle and reduce the post-marketing drug production cost, the penetration rate of customized pharmaceutical R&D production services has been increasing continuously. According to Frost&Sullivan’s data, in terms of CMO/CDMO, the proportion of global pharmaceutical companies’ R&D investment in CMO/CDMO in 2017 was 36.04%, and it is expected to increase to 52.22% by 2022. The continuous growth of global pharmaceutical R&D investment and the increasing penetration rate of pharmaceutical customized services will promote the continuous growth of market demand in the pharmaceutical customized services industry. CMO/CDMO industry not only benefits from the market demand brought by the continuous growth of R&D investment in the pharmaceutical industry, but also can share the growth dividend after the listing of innovative drugs, and the market space continues to grow. According to Frost&Sullivan data, the global small molecule CDMO/CMO market scale has increased from 42.3 billion US dollars in 2014 to 64.6 billion US dollars in 2018, with an average compound annual growth rate of 11.2%. It is expected to keep growing at an average compound annual growth rate of 10.7% and reach 107.2 billion US dollars by 2023.

  4. Development trend of characteristic API industry

  In November 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the Notice on the Implementation Plan for Promoting the High-quality Development of the API Industry. This notice was based on the Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Green Development of the API Industry issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in December 2019 with the Health and Health Commission, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, National Medical Products Administration and other ministries and commissions, and further put forward a more systematic guiding direction for the production of APIs in China, including "adjusting the industrial structure of APIs". "Optimizing the layout of API industry", "accelerating technological innovation and application", "promoting green production standards" and "promoting the construction of centralized production bases" indicate the future trend of China’s characteristic API industry led by policies.

  According to "Active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) market-growth, trends, and forecast (2020-2025)" published by Mordor Intelligence, the global API market has reached 165.7 billion US dollars in 2018, and it is estimated that the market size will reach 236.7 billion US dollars in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate of 6.12%. From the perspective of API supply areas, it is mainly concentrated in China, India, Italy, the United States, Europe and other regions. Western Europe, represented by Italy, was once the largest country in the world.

  Material and medicine production base. According to Evaluate Pharma, between 2020 and 2024, a total of nearly $160 billion of patented drugs will expire. According to the price of generic drugs is about 10%-20% of patented drugs, the replacement space of generic drugs in the past five years is about 16-32 billion US dollars. The expiration of a large number of patented drugs will stimulate the sustained growth of the generic drug market and drive the expansion of the characteristic API market.

  5. The pattern and development trend of preparation business

  In recent years, the centralized procurement policy organized by the state has promoted the reform of the preparation industry. In the context of slowing economic growth, aging population, and the gradual decline of per capita income growth and fiscal revenue growth, it is imperative to control medical insurance fees, and purchasing generic drugs with quantity is an important means to control medical insurance fees. Since 2018, in order to improve the utilization rate of medical insurance funds and reduce the unreasonable profiteering of generic drugs and original research drugs that have passed the patent period, the speed of quantity procurement has been accelerating, and it has been promoted routinely. According to the data of previous centralized purchasing published by the National Medical Insurance Bureau, the average price reduction of drugs in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh rounds was 52%, 53%, 53%, 52%, 56%, 48% and 48% respectively. In the old drug sales model, the sales expenses accounting for about 40% were almost completely squeezed. The substantial reduction in the price of generic drugs has promoted the increase in drug penetration and led to the increase in sales.

  With the normalization and institutionalization of centralized procurement in pharmaceutical industry, the company will follow the development of the industry, seize every opportunity to win the bid in centralized procurement and regional alliance, and have more varieties of centralized procurement is the long-term strategy for the company’s development and growth.

  (II) Main business of the company during the reporting period

  Minova is a comprehensive international pharmaceutical technology manufacturing enterprise specializing in the research, development, production and sales of characteristic APIs (including intermediates, the same below) and finished drugs. It is one of the top 100 pharmaceutical enterprises, one of the top 100 manufacturing enterprises in Ningbo, and a quality supplier and partner in the international market (ranked in the top 60). It focuses on the integration of CDMO, characteristic APIs and preparations, and its services cover mainstream countries and regions around the world. Its core products cover cardiovascular and central nervous system. The company is one of the enterprises that export the most varieties of raw materials with European characteristics in China.

  During the reporting period, the company achieved a total operating income of 897 million yuan in half a year, an increase of 29.74% over the same period of last year; The net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 185 million yuan, an increase of 58.71% over the same period of last year; The net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies after deducting non-operating gains and losses was 171 million yuan, up 74.48% over the same period of last year. The net cash flow generated by the company’s operating activities was 151 million yuan, up 35.29% over the same period of last year.

  Adhering to the business tenet of "pursuing perfection in product quality, keeping promises in business operation, and advancing with people and enterprises", the company has been deeply involved in its main business for a long time, serving the European and other medical standard markets for 19 years. With strict quality management and EHS management capabilities, solid process development and high-standard large-scale manufacturing capabilities, as well as fine and efficient team fighting capacity, We have established long-term, deep and stable cooperative relations with well-known pharmaceutical enterprises at home and abroad, such as KRKA, MSD (Merck), Servier (Servier), Bayer (Bayer), GEDEON RICHTER (Jirui Pharmaceutical), SANOFI (Sanofi), () and Kaituo Pharmaceutical. The company has formed a high brand international reputation and competitive advantage in CDMO sub-sectors and characteristic API sub-sectors, and gradually established a leading position in domestic and foreign markets.

  Since its listing in 2017, the company has taken advantage of the capital market, driven by the two-wheel drive of "connotative growth+extensional expansion", consolidated and strengthened the characteristic API business, and firmly deepened the integration strategy of "pharmaceutical intermediates, APIs and preparations" by relying on continuous R&D innovation and business expansion, expanding and extending the upstream intermediates and downstream preparations business, so as to further improve the industrial chain layout and fully expand the integration advantages; At the same time, based on the competitive advantage in the field of characteristic APIs and customer network resources, the company continued to lay out CDMO business, accelerated the creation of a one-stop integrated service platform for CDMO, and provided strong impetus for the company’s subsequent development. With continuous improvement of multi-dimensional strategic layout, the company actively develops and commercializes cutting-edge medical products with CDMO business and preparation integration business as the core, helps the company to "start a second venture" and is committed to making Minova a first-class domestic, internationally renowned and highly competitive international pharmaceutical technology manufacturing enterprise.

Second, the discussion and analysis of the business situation

  In the first half of 2022, the company has always been based on high-starting planning, high-standard construction, high-level operation and efficient management, and has always adhered to and focused on the specialization, synergy and integration of its main business, achieving steady operation and rapid development.

  In the first half of 2022, under the background of increasingly severe international political and economic forms, the COVID-19 epidemic occurred repeatedly at home and abroad, and the global economy continued to decline as a whole, the company actively responded to changes in the internal and external environment, made overall plans to promote epidemic prevention and control and business development, actively adapted to the new normal production and operation mode, followed the company’s development strategy and work plan to carry out various production and business operations in an orderly manner, and ensured the stock business.

  At the same time, we strengthened the development of incremental business, and finally realized the steady growth of operating income, and set up a layout in various business sectors, forming diversified business types and deepened products, laying a more solid foundation for the sustainable development of enterprises.

  The company has practiced the core values of "taking responsibility bravely and achieving value" with actual operation and development.

  During the reporting period, the Company’s main business activities were as follows:

  (A) Strategic layout of new business, CDMO growth can be expected

  CDMO business is the core driving force of the company’s development. Relying on the existing base, driven by talents leading innovation, the company continuously increased R&D investment, established an independent CDMO process development technology platform, strengthened quality control capability, safety and environmental protection capability and information security capability, optimized project management and production process, and comprehensively shaped CDMO hard core strength.

  With the signing of the strategic agreement of the international pharmaceutical giant enterprise, the influence of the company’s CDMO international brand has been greatly improved, and the development progress of the company’s major customers has been accelerated. With the continuous development of CDMO business, the company undertakes more and more customer project pipelines. Through the delivery of each project, it realizes the sticky binding with customers, and the customer cooperation continues to deepen. The CDMO business volume will continue to show a trend of double growth. At the same time, as the main target of the company’s CDMO business in the future, small nucleic acid drugs have developed from 0 to 1, and the customized synthesis business of pharmaceutical intermediates in COVID-19 has begun to take shape. It is expected that the CDMO business will become the company’s biggest revenue and profit growth point in 2022 or 2023. During the reporting period, the company completed the complete holding of its subsidiary Xuancheng Menuohua. As the core base of the company’s CDMO business, it will contribute all profits to the company in the future.

  1. The CDMO business of small molecular intermediates and APIs has made great strides.

  In the first half of 2022, we adhered to the established strategic transformation policy and vigorously promoted the CDMO business. At present, the company’s CDMO business has established business cooperation with more than 100 outstanding pharmaceutical companies at home and abroad.

  Since the outbreak of Xinguan epidemic, the company has paid close attention to the research and development progress of COVID-19 drugs at home and abroad, focused on the mainstream technical route, carried out technical reserve work in a planned way, and laid out corresponding production capacity. At present, the company has a number of production processes of key intermediates and APIs of COVID-19 specific drugs, and some of them have been commercialized.

  2. The small nucleic acid platform is ready to go

  In 2021, the company took the lead in the field of nucleic acid drugs and gene sequencing. After R&D and development, the company has undertaken the CDMO business of nucleoside intermediates used in small nucleic acid drugs, nucleic acid detection, gene sequencing and other fields, providing raw materials for mainstream products such as nucleic acid detection and gene sequencing at home and abroad. Although the small nucleic acid raw material business is still in its infancy, as one of the main targets of the company’s CDMO business in the future, the company will unswervingly develop according to the established plan and continue to become bigger and stronger.

  3. Reach a ten-year strategic cooperation with Merck, a large multinational pharmaceutical company, and comprehensively accelerate the construction of CDMO hard core strength.

  In 2021, the company signed a ten-year CDMO strategic cooperation agreement with Merck, a large multinational pharmaceutical company, in the fields of pet medicine, veterinary medicine and animal health care. By the end of the reporting period, the nine projects in the first phase have been carried out in different stages according to the schedule and will soon be commercialized; A number of projects are being evaluated in the later period, and both sides are committed to continue to explore more projects and more diversified cooperation possibilities. The cooperation project between the company and Merck will become a new growth point for the company’s performance contribution after it is transferred to the stage of commercial mass production.

  Merck is a global health care company, mainly engaged in prescription drugs, vaccines, biological products and animal health products, providing innovative medical solutions for more than 140 countries and regions. This strategic cooperation reflects Merck’s full recognition of the company’s research and development technology, production and quality in the field of APIs, which has a far-reaching and significant impact on the company’s development, especially the development of CDMO’s new business. The company will take this cooperation as an opportunity to strengthen the interconnection with Merck in order to form more broad consensus and promote the company to reach more fields and deeper future cooperation with Merck. At the same time, the company will continue to improve its R&D technical capabilities, project management capabilities and delivery capabilities, accelerate the strategic layout of CDMO business, and further build the company’s international competitiveness in the CDMO field.

  4. Acquisition of 49% equity of Xuancheng Menuohua to further improve the strength of CDMO software and hardware.

  During the reporting period, in order to speed up the layout and improve the strength of CDMO software and hardware, the company completed the acquisition of 49% equity of Xuancheng Meinuohua held by Meinuohua Ruihe Fund. So far, the company holds 100% equity of Xuancheng Meinuohua.

  Xuancheng Minova is an important service platform for the company’s CDMO business, and multi-functional workshops supporting CDMO business have been put into production one after another. It has a complete multi-functional GMP workshop and safety and environmental protection facilities. The production equipment adopts the domestic leading closed, automatic and pipeline design, and the equipment is flexibly connected to achieve the purpose of multi-function. The reaction types cover many kinds of chemical reactions, including complex reactions such as format, fluorination, cyanidation, hydrogenation, oxidation, azide, etc. The hydrogenation reaction pressure is up to 9.9MPa, and a number of standardized and multi-functional fine baking packages are built, and the scale can range from kg to 100 kg. The production process is controlled by DCS, and the production data is recorded electronically and kept permanently to ensure the integrity of the production data. High-risk reactions are escorted by SIS system, which can provide sustainable, flexible and reliable CDMO services in line with international GMP standards for global customers. Adequate wastewater and solid waste treatment capacity and advanced RTO and carbon fiber adsorption waste gas treatment equipment can also provide sustainable services to escort.

  (2) Promote the development strategy of "integration of intermediates, APIs and preparations" and accelerate the pace of strategic transformation.

  In the first half of 2022, under the background of generic drug collection policy, the company’s preparation sector developed strongly. The company takes the integration of "intermediates, APIs and preparations" as the strategy, and makes use of the advantages of the company’s API industrial chain to concentrate on developing preparations of superior varieties of APIs to help the company develop. The company actively implemented the development strategy of "technology transfer+independent declaration+domestic MAH cooperation", deepened the vertical integration and coordination of the whole industrial chain, enhanced the company’s comprehensive competitive strength, grasped the opportunity of rapid commercialization and heavy volume brought by the national centralized purchasing policy, and achieved phased results.

  1. The centralized procurement was successfully renewed, and the preparation business continued to increase in volume.

  In the first half of 2022, the company’s perindopril tert-butylamine tablets realized the renewal of the drug alliance procurement of thirteen provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities and corps) of the new corps of Yujin, Menge, Hubei, Hunan, Guiqiong, Chongqing and Guiqingning and the centralized drug procurement in Hebei Province. The delivery of pregabalin capsules, losartan potassium tablets, atorvastatin calcium tablets and lisinopril tablets which won the bid in 2021 is in normal progress. Under the background that the policy of purchasing with quantity weakens sales promotion, winning the bid for centralized purchasing of drugs can not only bring new profit growth points for the company, improve market share and brand influence of the company, but also promote the pace of preparation transformation of the company.

  2. Accelerate the pace of self-research and registration of cooperative preparation varieties, and many varieties will be approved for listing one after another.

  During the reporting period, the company’s apixaban tablets and valsartan tablets were approved for listing, and isoniazid tablets passed the consistency evaluation. It is expected that 2-3 varieties will be approved in the second half of the year. As of the reporting date, the company has accumulated 10 preparation products approved for listing in China.

  During the reporting period, the company newly established 11 varieties, and 3-5 projects are about to enter the BE stage. Five projects, including Propofovir Fumarate Tablets, Engelje Tablets and Dapagliflozin Tablets, have passed the formal BE test, and 10 varieties are under CDE approval. It is expected that 8-10 varieties will be submitted to CDE for review in the second half of the year. At present, the company has more than 20 projects under research.

  3. Layout the "heavy drugs" with patent expiration in advance, and the company has a huge development opportunity.

  In recent years, the drugs whose patents have expired mainly focus on cardiovascular system, hypoglycemic drugs, antineoplastic drugs, nervous system drugs, mental disorders drugs, digestive system drugs and other therapeutic fields. At present, the company has laid out products such as sitagliptin metformin tablets, Aggliptin benzoate tablets, Dapagliflozin tablets, Vonolasone fumarate tablets, Shakubatrivalsartan sodium tablets, Ibtinib capsules and so on. Among them, the company cooperates with strategic customers KRKA raw materials and preparations, and rivaroxaban and dabigatran axetil have been listed for the first time in Europe and have been commercialized.

  (3) Continuous cultivation and long-term layout of characteristic APIs

  Characteristic APIs and intermediates are the traditional core business of the company. During the reporting period, the company continued to strengthen market development, deepen cooperation with strategic customers, expand cooperation scope, and strive to develop and cultivate new customers at home and abroad, constantly optimizing customer structure and product structure.

  1. Continuously optimize the customer structure and cultivate key customers.

  During the reporting period, the company continuously strengthened its contact with international head original research companies, and added supplier certification of two original research companies. For existing strategic customers, the company has continuously explored the depth of cooperation and expanded the scope of cooperation. The cooperation with Sylvia has expanded from single product and upstream intermediates to advanced intermediates and API, and two new projects have made progress in stages. The company further strengthened its strategic cooperation and deep binding with KRKA. Based on years of cooperation in the European market, the two sides jointly tapped the market potential of China, and added seven new project cooperation on the basis of the original cooperation varieties.

  In addition, many core varieties of the company entered the project stage with many global multinational pharmaceutical giants, and carried out substantive cooperation and communication with many top 100 domestic pharmaceutical companies, especially Qilu Pharmaceutical, Zhengda Tianqing, Yangzijiang, (), etc., laying a solid foundation for business growth in the next 2-3 years.

  During the reporting period, by giving full play to its comprehensive competitive advantages and resisting the pressure of epidemic situation, the company actively strived for incremental growth and overcame various difficulties. The company actively explored channels and cultivated new customers, especially in South America, Japan and South Korea, and made breakthrough progress.

  2. Implement multi-category and multi-market routes of APIs, and accelerate the development and registration of new products.

  During the reporting period, the company accelerated the development and registration of new products, so as to expand the access of existing API products to China market and European and American standardized markets. At present, there are 54 varieties of APIs under research, of which 20 varieties have been converted to production, 6 varieties have been submitted for overseas market registration and certification, 1 variety has been submitted for domestic CDE registration, and 1 variety has been submitted for domestic veterinary drug product approval number application.

  During the reporting period, one variety of losartan potassium obtained the EU CEP certificate; Valsartan, clopidogrel bisulfate crystal form II, mirtazapine and rivaroxaban have passed the domestic review and approval. As of the date of this report, another API of esmomeprazole magnesium has passed the domestic review and approval.

  3. Strictly abide by the quality lifeline and continue to maintain excellent compliance records.

  In recent years, with the continuous introduction and improvement of a series of new regulations and systems of domestic and foreign regulatory agencies, the requirements for all aspects of drugs from research and development, production to listing have become stricter, and the company has also raised its own requirements for quality management and risk management. The company absorbs advanced ideas and experiences from all parties, tamps down the quality management system, pays close attention to detail management, traceability management and on-site management, and continuously strengthens the quality defense line.

  The company continuously optimizes the GMP system with high requirements, high standards and high quality work norms, and constantly consolidates the foundation of quality management. During the reporting period, the group company successfully passed 9 domestic official inspections and 21 customer audits, including well-known enterprises at home and abroad such as Novartis Pharmaceutical, Merck and Boehringer Ingelheim. All previous audits have passed smoothly, and the company’s quality system has been highly recognized by officials and customers.

  At the same time, the company adheres to the enterprise purpose of "pursuing perfection in product quality", continuously improves the quality management system in line with international standards, improves the quality awareness of all staff, and continuously strengthens the study of laws and regulations. The company continued to carry out quality month activities, actively promoted the construction of quality culture and informatization, raised the awareness of all staff to ensure the company’s cGMP management level to a higher level.

  (D) Continue to build and enhance the capacity of scale, and the harvest period of high-quality production capacity is approaching gradually.

  By the end of the reporting period, the main body of the first phase of Anhui Minova’s "Technical Transformation Project with an annual output of 400 tons of APIs" has been completely completed, and the installation of workshop equipment has been basically completed, and some workshops are ready for trial production; Zhejiang Meinuohua’s "annual output of 520 tons of APIs" phase I project has all been completed, and some workshops have completed electromechanical installation; The fundraising project "Construction Project of Export Solid Preparations with an Annual Output of 3 billion Tablets (Granules)" was completed during the reporting period and is ready for trial production; The convertible bond fundraising project "high-end preparation project" is under construction, and some of the buildings have been capped.

  All production bases are coordinated and complementary, and CDMO business and API business are distributed in many places. By building the competitiveness of large-scale production capacity, taking high-quality scarce production capacity as a springboard for development, we will seize the opportunity of rapid development of the industry, seize market share, improve the company’s development speed and lay the foundation for future growth.

  Major changes in the company’s operation during the reporting period, as well as matters that have a significant impact on the company’s operation during the reporting period and are expected to have a significant impact in the future.

Third, possible risks

  1. Risk of product quality control: Most of the company’s products are raw materials used to produce preparations, and quality management is particularly important. The company’s product quality is affected by many factors due to its long production process and complicated technology. If there are occasional factors in the process of purchasing raw materials, storing and transporting products, it may cause physical and chemical reactions of products and lead to product quality problems.

  Risk control measures: the company will always implement the concept of "quality is the lifeline of the enterprise", start from the details, strengthen process management, improve management level and quality awareness, strengthen internal inspection, and implement international quality standards with high standards.

  2. Safety production and environmental protection risks: flammable, explosive and toxic substances need to be used in the production process of the company. Improper operation or aging and disrepair of equipment may lead to safety accidents. The company’s industry is an industry with high requirements of national environmental protection supervision, and the relevant state departments have always attached great importance to the environmental protection management of the pharmaceutical industry. With the enforcement of the Discharge Standard for Water Pollutants in Pharmaceutical Industry, the environmental protection pressure of pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprises involved in fermentation, chemical synthesis, extraction, traditional Chinese medicine, bioengineering and mixed preparations has increased.

  Risk control measures: Each production base of the company has established an EHS management system based on international standard capabilities, always increased the investment in safety and environmental protection facilities, adhered to prevention, improved the safety management and three wastes treatment capabilities, and effectively reduced the safety, environmental protection and safety production risks.

  3. Market competition risk: API business may be affected by factors such as capacity certification cycle, technology transfer, technology redevelopment, etc. As domestic and foreign competitors participate in market competition, the company will face the risk of market competition.

  Risk control measures: The company deepens the cooperation mode with existing customers, actively expands new customers and markets, and actively develops new varieties to continuously enhance its own market competitiveness.

  4. Risk of exchange rate fluctuation: overseas markets account for a high proportion of the company’s operating income, and most of them are priced and settled in foreign currencies such as US dollars, while the company’s expenses are mainly paid in RMB. If the exchange rate of RMB against the US dollar and other foreign currencies continues to rise, even if the company’s foreign currency sales price remains unchanged, the converted RMB sales revenue will decline, and vice versa. Therefore, exchange rate fluctuations directly affect the level of profitability.

  Risk control measures: the company relies on the advantages of product quality, technology and cost to provide quality services to customers, expand the market, enhance customer trust and satisfaction, and increase market share and bargaining power of product sales. At the same time, the company chose the right time to lock the forward exchange rate of some US dollar assets, and moderately increased foreign currency loans with low interest rates to hedge the risk of the decline of the US dollar exchange rate of unilateral US dollar assets.

  5. Risk of product R&D not meeting expectations: The product R&D in the pharmaceutical industry has the characteristics of high technical difficulty, large capital investment and long approval period. Therefore, in the process of continuous investment in R&D projects of the company, there may be the risk of product R&D not meeting expectations.

  Risk control measures: the company continues to invest in R&D, increase the introduction of excellent R&D talents, and improve the success rate of R&D projects.

  6. Risk of raw material supply and price increase: The company has established a stable cooperative relationship with major suppliers. However, in case of force majeure factors such as natural disasters, or the domestic safety and environmental protection requirements are becoming stricter, the production capacity of some suppliers is limited, and raw materials may be in short supply, price increase or raw materials cannot meet the quality standards required by the company’s production, which may affect the profitability of related products of the company to a certain extent.

  Risk control measures: Facing the risks of raw material supply and rising prices, the company will strengthen the management of supply chain, sign strategic cooperation agreements and increase binding terms of price adjustment.

  7. Depreciation risk of fixed assets: With the commissioning of the company’s reconstruction and expansion projects, the projects under construction will be converted into fixed assets one after another, which will lead to the increase of depreciation expenses of fixed assets. If the company can’t reach the expected level due to the depressed industry environment in the future, the new benefits brought by the use of fixed assets may not make up for the amount of depreciation.

  Risk control measures: The company will actively expand new customers and new products, and through the release of new production capacity, continuously improve customer service capabilities and increase operating income.

Iv. analysis of core competitiveness during the reporting period

  The company has been deeply involved in the pharmaceutical industry for many years, and has accumulated rich experience in industrial investment layout, industrial transformation and upgrading, industrial resource integration and other aspects, forming a systematic core competitiveness with technology research and development, quality control, EHS management, customer service and talent team.

  (A) the advantages of integrated pharmaceutical industry chain

  Through years of industrial layout, the company has a complete industrial chain of "pharmaceutical intermediates, raw materials and preparations". The core products of the company, such as valsartan, losartan, clopidogrel, perindopril, rosuvastatin calcium, atorvastatin calcium and pregabalin, have formed a commercial R&D, production and sales system of the whole industrial chain. The layout of intermediates and APIs ensures the high standard and consistency of preparation quality from the source, ensures the stability of key raw materials supply, and brings strong quality advantages and cost advantages. The company will continue to promote the optimization and upgrading of the whole industrial chain of core products, strengthen the core advantages of integration, and provide efficient, high-quality and cost-effective products, services and solutions for domestic and foreign partners.

  (B) API quality management and EHS system compliance advantages

  The company always regards quality management as the most important lifeline, and has established a comprehensive and leading cGMP standard quality system with the concept of systematic and scientific cGMP for a long time. All staff practice the advanced quality concept, inherit the advanced quality culture, and always implement all aspects of the quality system with the principles of high requirements, high standards and high quality, and continue to carry out learning and training to provide strong support for product research and development, production and sales, and constantly meet the new standards and requirements of customers. Its subsidiaries have successfully passed the official GMP on-site review of FDA, EU, NMPA of China and PMDA of Japan and the supplier audit of several large multinational pharmaceutical companies for many times.

  (3) Reasonable production layout and advantages of large-scale production

  The company has been deeply involved in the raw material medicine industry for many years, focusing on standardizing the production management of high-standard raw materials in the market. It has four raw material medicine production bases (Zhejiang Menuohua, Anhui Menuohua, Xuancheng Menuohua and Liaoyuan Pharmaceutical), which are located in major pharmaceutical and chemical parks in Zhejiang and Anhui. The reaction kettle has complete specifications, covering production capacity ranging from 50L to 12500L. At the same time, through the continuous upgrading and transformation of the base, the facilities and equipment for the production capacity of the company’s raw materials are complete, with a DCS control system with full coverage and an EHS system with leading wastewater, waste gas and solid waste treatment capacity, covering many kinds of chemical reactions, including Grignard reaction, azide reaction, Friedel-Crafts reaction, hydrogenation reaction, cyanidation reaction and redox reaction. The company makes full use of the leading chemical synthesis ability and high-standard production capacity of APIs to give full play to the scale effect of APIs.

  At present, the company has sufficient reserves of high-standard, modern and advanced production capacity. The total production capacity of the four API production bases is about 3,700 tons/year, and the production capacity of Minolta Tiankang is 1.5 billion tablets/year. With the continuous development of the company’s operation and production, the continuous promotion of strategic transformation, and the increasing number of high-quality customers, the company actively deployed capacity expansion, in which the "3 billion tablets (granules) export solid preparation construction project" of Minolta was completed during the reporting period and is ready for trial production; The main body of the civil works in the first phase of Anhui Meinuohua’s "Technical Transformation Project with an annual output of 400 tons of APIs" has been completely completed, and the installation of workshop equipment has been basically completed, and some workshops are ready for trial production; The main body of the first phase project of "520 tons of pharmaceutical raw materials per year" in Zhejiang Meinuohua has been completed, and some workshops have completed electromechanical installation. In addition, the second phase expansion project of Xuancheng Meinuohua has been started.

  (D) Rich international customer resources and diversified strategic cooperation modes.

  The company has been deeply involved in overseas markets for many years. Since its inception, it has accumulated rich international high-quality customer resources and established long-term and deep and stable cooperative relations with many internationally renowned pharmaceutical companies. Among them, the company and KRKA have sublimated from strategic cooperation to strategic binding in the long-term win-win cooperation, and formed diversified cooperation modes such as joint research and development, joint declaration and joint imitation, which not only maintained long-term and stable cooperative relations in the fields of pharmaceutical intermediates and raw materials, but also expanded in-depth cooperation in the field of preparations.

  The company adheres to the market development concept of "exploring new customers and deeply cultivating old customers", keeps up with the development pace of customers, keenly understands the market development trend and responds to customer needs quickly. With the release of the company’s production capacity and business expansion, the company’s brand influence and international popularity have been further enhanced, and the product market share has continued to rise.

  (E) Advantages of high-end R&D technology platform

  Adhering to the international R&D concept and combining scientific and rigorous quality research, the company has established an efficient R&D management system. The company currently has three R&D centers, including Zhejiang Menuohua Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Pharmaceutical Innovation Research Institute and Hangzhou Xinnuohua Pharmaceutical, with a total experimental site of more than 13,000 square meters. After years of development, the company has reserved talents through self-cultivation and external introduction, brought into full play the role of European experts, Indian experts and scientific research forces in universities, and cooperated with postdoctoral workstations and foreign expert workstations to successfully build a core talent team with outstanding technology, efficient management and high loyalty. As of June 30, 2022, the company has 376 R&D personnel of APIs and 139 R&D personnel of preparations, and the number of R&D personnel has increased by 13% compared with last year. It has rich experience in drug synthesis and preparation process development, quality research and strong technical level of process amplification. Continuous R&D innovation is one of the important factors for the company to maintain its competitive advantage and achieve rapid growth. The company will continue to increase investment in R&D and build its core technological advantages.

  The company’s innovative ability of API R&D is outstanding, among which the API R&D Center has established a perfect R&D quality system and project management process to ensure the scientificity, authenticity, integrity and traceability of R&D projects. The R&D center can carry out various multi-step complex organic synthesis reactions, including hydrogenation (conventional high-pressure hydrogenation and asymmetric hydrogenation), various N- alkylation reactions, cyanidation reactions, azide reactions, chiral synthesis and resolution, redox reactions (reactions involving hydrogen peroxide, TEMPO, DIBAL-H, NaBH4, etc.), biological enzyme catalytic reactions, crystallization processes with special particle size or physical properties, etc. The center is equipped with advanced R&D equipment and technology.

  In terms of process safety research, the company set up a special safety laboratory, trained a special reaction safety risk assessment team, and equipped with the latest high-precision instruments and equipment such as RC1max, ARC, TGA and DSC. The safety laboratory passed CNAS certification, which further provided safety guarantee for the company’s process safety and could also provide reaction safety risk assessment services for other enterprises.

  In the aspect of chemical process amplification, aiming at the "three-pass and one-reverse" of chemical production, a process amplification department based on process and engineering experts was established, and a special process amplification research laboratory was set up, equipped with laboratory research equipment to simulate chemical production, and each process parameter was simulated and studied, and a systematic research and evaluation report on process parameters was put forward, thus avoiding various defects in the process of process amplification and ensuring the success rate of process amplification.

  In quality research, the company’s quality research ability is excellent. The company has experienced quality researchers, equipped with several semi-preparative chromatographs, high-resolution triple quadrupole LC-MS and GC-MS, and can carry out evaluation and research on all kinds of impurities, including evaluation of genotoxic impurities and nitrosamine impurities, verification and detection of method development, separation and structure identification of unknown impurities, etc.

  The company attaches great importance to the study of physical properties of APIs, and has set up special crystal research laboratories and particle size research laboratories. The company is not only equipped with different types of crushing research equipment, but also equipped with precise analysis equipment such as Brooke powder diffractometer, which can carry out crystal development, detection, stability research and particle size research.

  GMP management is implemented in the company’s quality research work, which can provide a complete set of analytical method development, verification, sample testing and other services for domestic and foreign research units.

  The Institute of Medical Innovation is a medical innovation platform integrating applied technology research and development, public technology service, introduction of high-level talents and incubation of high-end projects. It conducts research and development and pilot tests of various new technologies and new products around drugs and new materials, incubates entrepreneurial projects in related fields, and builds industrial clusters of drugs and new materials. The company has established a professional team with complete functions such as process development, quality analysis, clinical medicine, international and domestic registration, project management, technology transfer, etc., equipped with advanced equipment and instruments for preparation research and development at home and abroad; At the same time, a key technology platform for the development of pharmaceutical preparations has been established, and through this key technology platform, the industrialization of the company’s independent research and development preparation projects and the incubation of high-end projects have been realized, and public technical services have been provided to external pharmaceutical enterprises.

  The company established the CDMO business unit, which is dedicated to the development of CDMO business and helps the company to transform and upgrade its strategy. Through the strategy of "Novartis+"and the extension Development, the company brings the development of D-end.

  In order to enrich product reserves and cultivate long-term competitiveness, the company has always adhered to independent research and development innovation and continuously increased R&D investment. During the reporting period, 10 patents were declared and 26 patents were granted (including 3 inventions and 23 utility models). By the end of the reporting period, the company had authorized 163 patents (including 70 inventions and 93 utility models).

  (6) Excellent management team and talent echelon

  The company has established a leading pharmaceutical service platform in the world, with an international team of more than 2,700 people with rich experience in the industry. According to the characteristics of the international pharmaceutical market, the company actively introduced all kinds of medical professionals at home and abroad, and established professional teams in drug research and development, quality, pharmaceutical administration registration, process optimization, market development and intellectual property management that meet the international pharmaceutical industry standards. During the reporting period, in order to attract, retain and motivate outstanding talents and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of managers, core technicians and business backbones at all levels of the company, the company implemented the "2021 Stock Option and Restricted Stock Incentive Plan" and completed the first grant. The incentive covers key company management talents and core technical talents, so that the interests of shareholders, the company and the personal interests of the core team can be combined to jointly promote the long-term development of the company.

First-line doctors say that the general practice is almost "completely annihilated", but we can’t stop working because of a fever.

The news from The Paper seems to be earlier and faster than expected. At this moment, Shanghai began to usher in the first wave of infection after the "New Ten Articles".

Since last week, almost every Shanghai resident has found himself or someone around him "caught". Omicron has spread rapidly in an unpredictable manner, and the number of positive infected people has surged. On December 22nd, Zhang Wenhong, director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, said that Shanghai is expected to reach the peak of infection within one week.

At the other end of the shock wave, the medical staff stuck to the line of defense. Medical institutions are high-risk areas. Recently, many medical staff have been infected one after another. Now, most of the first infected medical staff quickly return to their posts after the symptoms are relieved, and make every effort to ensure the orderly operation of medical services.

On December 22nd, six first-line doctors from Shanghai 3A hospitals, district hospitals and community health service centers told The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) reporters about the current situation of hospitals and the status of medical care at this time. Some doctors were infected with Covid-19 not long ago, and they have not fully recovered. A slightly hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone; During the brief interview, they were still busy explaining their work matters.

Pressure, responsibility, worry, risk, mission … At this time, every doctor has too many things on his shoulders and is busy, which has also become a state of irresponsibility. Perhaps their voices are weaker than usual, but the power they emit is even more awe-inspiring.

On December 22nd, in the emergency building of Shanghai Changhai Hospital, the number of visits was much higher than before the current epidemic. The picture in this article is provided by the interviewee.

The infection of medical staff is earlier and faster than that of society, but the emergency can’t stop for a moment.

Narrator: Wang Meitang, Director of Emergency Department of Shanghai Changhai Hospital

I haven’t left the hospital or the emergency department since this wave of epidemic. I was infected with the virus on December 16th, and the symptoms were very serious that day. I lay in the office for a day and returned to work on the 17th. Because the emergency department is very busy and stressful recently, I really don’t have time to rest. My symptoms have been much better these two days, such as stuffy nose and sore throat, which basically do not affect my work.

Stress can be seen from some data. On December 21st, the number of emergency visits reached 1,517. Before this wave of epidemic, the number of emergency visits per day was about 800 to 900, but now it has almost doubled and is still climbing. In the emergency building, most patients will leave after seeing the doctor, and seriously ill patients will be diverted to the inpatient ward after rescue. There are about 20 temporary observation patients stranded in the emergency room at ordinary times, and now it has reached more than 50. These patients are all our care.

On December 22nd, in the emergency building of Shanghai Changhai Hospital, the number of visits was much higher than before the current epidemic.

On the other hand, the infection of medical staff is earlier and faster than that of society. I think this is understandable. First, because medical staff themselves are members of society, they have the same risk of infection in the community as ordinary people. Second, with the surge of medical staff, the risk of hospital environment is higher than that of society, and medical staff have to face such risks every day.

Judging from the situation in the past week, nearly 80% of our more than 100 emergency medical staff have been infected with COVID-19, which is really cruel. Most of the emergency doctors and nurses are young and middle-aged, all of them have been vaccinated, and the symptoms are generally in the upper respiratory system, such as fever, cough and headache, but there are still medical staff who even have high fever for four or five days, which is very distressing.

At present, most of the medical symptoms have been relieved, and they have all returned to their posts, which is remarkable. As we all know, the emergency department can’t stop for a moment. The hospital has also been sending staff to support emergency and fever clinics, but to be honest, working here for two or three days will soon face the risk of infection.

As the head of the emergency department, my responsibility is self-evident, and I dare not slack off. In addition to management matters, now I insist on making rounds every day, always on the front line, and my colleagues go all out to ensure the smooth operation of the emergency department.

Under such a high-pressure environment, our colleagues have become "yang" one by one.

Narrator: Emergency doctor of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University in Gao Jiamin.

On December 7 th, a big white background photo was circulated in the circle of friends, and the three characters of "the end of the whole drama" behind it poked the cheers that had been suppressed in our hearts for three years. However, we are well aware that after the "liberalization", the medical system, especially the first portal of hospitals, fever clinics and emergency departments, will face the biggest challenge in the past three years.

The isolation ward on the second floor of the fever clinic first accepted the hospitalization task of the patient under observation. On December 12th, the situation of the fever clinic was still under control. From December 13th, the "painting style" began to change. Not only were there more and more people with high fever, but also COVID-19-positive patients with hospitalization needs began to appear.

At 16: 50 on December 13th, I received a message from a fever clinic doctor that a 27-year-old female patient with neurogenic bladder, positive for antigen, had undergone left nephrectomy and ureterovesical reconstruction, and had high fever with low back pain and dysuria for 2 days. When I saw the patient in the hall, she was sitting in a chair and her spirits were very low. I learned that her parents are far away from Beijing, and the whole family, including her elderly grandmother, is suffering from high fever. She has a very obvious low back pain after high fever, and she is very worried that her only kidney will be affected.

After admission, we actively evaluated her condition, and through drug treatment, her urinary tract infection was quickly controlled. As the low back pain continues, she is very anxious and puts forward a lot of demands, and we will fully communicate with her every time. In the end, her condition was completely relieved. Before leaving the hospital, she said that she would send banners to our fever clinic and emergency department, and said, "Maybe you don’t think it is necessary, but for me, you saved my life."

Recently, Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University received a banner from a positive patient in the isolation ward of fever clinic.

Since then, we have devoted ourselves to the treatment of other positive patients. There are a lot of patients, including people with serious basic diseases. We need to help them with lumbar puncture and deep vein puncture in the isolation ward … In such a high-pressure environment, our colleagues have become "yang" one by one, and some colleagues have to take a short break under the high fever.

Dr. Wang Xinxin, who just joined Huashan Hospital this year, and I encouraged each other to drink more water, milk and fruit, so as to preserve our strength and strive for "sunset". When many comrades fell down beside them, two original people in the isolation ward had been working overtime for a week to collect patients and write medical history to ensure the orderly diagnosis and treatment of positive patients. At the same time, under the protection of the isolation ward, colleagues who are completely asymptomatic continue to work.

At the end of the night rounds, I passed by the transitional rescue room. When I saw the patients who were still temporarily under observation, I looked at the brothers and sisters who were sticking to their posts, looked at the busy figures in each post, and then looked at the first pennant in the isolation ward, and my heart was filled with infinite emotion. Perhaps this challenge is unprecedented, this rainstorm is violent, but as long as we work together, it will eventually be the last darkness before dawn, and if we break through the darkness, we will see the light.

General practice is almost wiped out, but we can’t stop working because of a fever.

Narrator: Zhang Jiaxiong, Director of Otolaryngology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital

This wave of epidemic situation is grim. When we examine patients, almost all patients need to take off their masks, so our otolaryngology department is a high-risk post. After this wave of infection, the whole department is almost "completely annihilated". Of the more than a dozen employees in the department, only one is not infected with Covid-19, but she also has mild symptoms of sore throat. My wife and children are also infected. In the past two days, my fever has reached nearly 39 degrees, and my throat is particularly painful. I feel that the disease is still developing.

However, everything in the department is still running as usual. We can’t go to work because we have a fever. We have to go to the specialist clinic, and the operation and emergency should be as usual. Everyone is basically sick and feverish, working and on duty in the front line. If a colleague’s symptoms are serious and he can’t persist, the person with lighter symptoms will help him put his class on top and make some adjustments to the shift schedule. Everyone will carry forward the spirit of unity and mutual assistance.

Now doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists and patients are all infected and feverish, and the number of our patients is still increasing. Because of the characteristics of the specialty and the need for patients to take off their masks, the risk is higher than that of fever clinics. At the same time, because many people infected with Covid-19 have symptoms such as sore throat, dry throat and itching, our outpatient department and emergency department are under great pressure, which has become the reason why we can’t stop.

Recently, Zhang Jiaxiong (first from right), director of the Department of Otolaryngology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, performed an operation on the patient.

In the process of diagnosis and treatment, we take "one-level plus" protective measures, that is, wearing hats, masks and face screens, plus anti-dressing. Our emergency doctors are the hardest, because the emergency department is open 24 hours a day, and they can’t refuse patients. The longest duty time for emergency medical care is 24 hours, and they can’t get off work until 8 am the next day. If there is surgery, they can’t get off work. As far as I’m concerned, I take an expert clinic in the morning and handle the operation in the ward in the afternoon. It is definitely uncomfortable to wear a mask to work for a long time when you have a fever, but we must persist, persist and persist.

I think at present, it is incumbent on us as medical staff to bite our teeth, tide over the difficulties together and face the impact of this epidemic together. If it used to be based on social prevention and control, now is the time for hospitals to really face the test.

So at this time, as a medical worker, as a Communist party member, and as a department director, I must also rush ahead and command from the front. If I hide behind alone, other employees will see it, so every day, no matter how high my fever is, I am the first to go to work and the last to leave, in order to give you a demonstration and become the backbone of the staff in the department.

The peak of infection hasn’t come yet, and we are actively expanding the beds for severe illness and rescue.

Narrator: Director of Emergency Department, Fengxian District Central Hospital, Chen Kang.

Recently, the number of emergency cases received by the emergency department has increased significantly, and the focus of our department is also here.

There are so many patients who need to be rescued, mainly from two parts. First, because the weather turns cold, some patients with basic diseases get worse and are sent to rescue. The other part was sent by patients with basic diseases complicated with respiratory diseases for rescue. Therefore, the total number of patients now is twice or even more than that before this round of epidemic.

There are 70% to 80% infected medical staff in our department. Generally speaking, there are no symptoms and they will return to their posts soon. Of course, departments and hospitals will seek the opinions of rehabilitation personnel, and only when their physical symptoms are relieved and they are willing to return to work will they come back, and at the same time, they will arrange work for those who return to work as much as they can.

Recently, Fengxian District Central Hospital.

I am under great management pressure as the director of the department. For example, every day, there are new situations and new problems. In the past, the schedule was arranged every two weeks and once a month. Now it is arranged once a day or even half a day, and people should be coordinated every day.

The admission of patients to the hospital is also one of my recent key tasks. With the increase of patients, beds and wards have become very tense. It is definitely not possible for patients to be confined to the emergency department, and problems such as hospitalization and discharge need to be solved.

I’m more worried about the trend of the peak infection now. When it will come, we should prepare in advance. At present, although the number of critically ill patients has increased, the peak has not yet come, and the elderly and people with basic diseases will be about two weeks later than the peak of social surface infection. After these people are infected, the rescue pressure of medical institutions will be great. We are actively making preparations to expand the beds for critical illness and rescue.

There’s nothing else to say. In the event of such a century epidemic, we must rush up. This is also the duty of medical staff, and we must go all out. Otherwise, what should we do? It’s not only the medical staff who are under pressure, but everyone is facing challenges. Only with the concerted efforts of Qi Xin, we can get through this epidemic together.

I really want everyone to go back to rest, but the medical staff has gone back to rest. What about the residents?

Narrator: Zhang Jianmin, Deputy Director of Changbai Community Health Service Center in Yangpu District, Shanghai.

These days, my feelings are very deep, and it is really not easy for everyone. I found that when meeting with you, many people’s voices were "pulled".

Last week, we were informed to start the deployment. This Monday (December 19th), our fever sentinel clinic was officially opened, and 54 people were admitted that day. The number of people basically doubled the next day. In recent days, the number of patients in this clinic has reached more than 100 every day. In order to serve as many residents as possible, we can only make some dynamic adjustments. On the first day, we dispensed medicine for residents for about three days, and then changed it to two days later.

At the same time, the statistics of our community health service center today are: 97 medical workers, 49 on the job; 16 logistics workers, 4 on the job, others are infected. Some of the employees on the job are symptomatic, but everyone is really "slightly injured."

To be honest, I really want everyone to go back to rest, but our medical staff has gone back to rest. What about the residents? I am very moved that all of us have the same heart. As long as we can support it, we want to go to work. We also have two doctors, Yuan Jin and Zhang Lei, who actively responded to the call of the municipal government and joined the emergency temporary medical rescue team, which really stepped forward at a critical moment.

Recently, Changbai Community Health Service Center recently visited the site.

At present, our manpower is very precious, and the more tired we are, the easier it is for the virus to take advantage of it. Therefore, we also hope to adjust everyone’s workload as much as possible. For example, if patients come to see a doctor and prescribe medicine in the morning, we will try our best to let employees with less things at hand go home and rest in the afternoon. The center is also trying to replenish some materials for everyone. Frankly speaking, yellow peaches are not easy to buy, so we gave lemons or something to the employees.

I’ve been working at the management level for a while, and it’s actually the sixth day of infection. Today I officially returned to work, but I had to deal with my work at home a few days ago.

Frankly speaking, I am also very sad every day, except for bedtime, things are full. In the morning, I mainly look at the situation of the outpatient service and whether there are enough people in the post; In the afternoon, I will take a look at the situation of the medicine, which is enough for a few days; I will also attend the dispatching meeting of the higher authorities and communicate with the employees.

Recently, in the friends group of medical staff and WeChat group of Changbai Community Health Service Center, everyone encouraged each other.

Including our community health service center and vaccination work, in this special period, this part of the work may also face downsizing. We must find ways to deploy and arrange limited personnel to the most needed positions to ensure the operation of our center. After consultation with the street, we can only stop the vaccine door-to-door service, but the work of the vaccination point is still in progress.

In addition, in order to cope with the emergency treatment of severe patients who may come later, our community should also undertake some research and health monitoring work for high-risk groups and susceptible groups, including the elderly, infants, pregnant women, people who need hemodialysis, cancer patients, etc. Of course, we are also doing this part of the work every day. We need family doctors and neighborhood committees to cooperate in this work, and now both of them are facing the problem of downsizing, so the workload of colleagues who are still on the job will also increase.

I think the hardest thing is only these two weeks. I believe that when the peak passes, it will gradually return to normal. My wife is also a doctor, and she has been very busy recently. A few days after I had a severe fever, she still had to go to the hospital, and especially told our first-grade son not to come to my room. The child still understands and understands. Last week, he drew me a card. I saw it later, and it was really touching.

As long as my physical condition permits, I will always stick to my first-line position.

Narrator: Endocrinologist, tongji hospital, Liu Guanghui.

After the introduction of the "New Ten" optimized prevention and control policy, our hospital immediately opened a positive clinic, an Internet hospital fever clinic and a positive patient ward in COVID-19. As a physician, I was also transferred to support the work of positive clinic and emergency department.

During the defending war of Great Shanghai in the first half of this year, I participated in the rescue work of three shelters. In the second half of this year, I signed up for the support of Sanya shelter in Hainan and had some anti-epidemic experience. In the positive diagnosis area, I am mainly responsible for helping some positive infected people with chronic diseases to prepare medicines, giving patient answers and professional treatment. In the epidemic, once this kind of people stop taking drugs and the basic diseases are not controlled, they may be in danger of developing into severe diseases. In addition, these patients have been infected with Covid-19. If they go to the outpatient clinic to get their prescriptions, there is bound to be a risk of cross-infection. The establishment of a positive clinic will help reduce the risk of infection in the whole outpatient clinic.

Liu Guanghui, an endocrinologist from tongji hospital, Shanghai, once worked in Shanghai Shelter (data map).

While working in the positive clinic, I also take care of the work in the fever clinic of the Internet hospital. I meet many patients who are worried about COVID-19. I will give them comfort at the first time, evaluate their condition and give guidance in drug treatment. For some mild cases, I will suggest that they can use antipyretics, cold medicines or cough medicines at home first, so as to reduce their rush to the hospital and avoid the risk of cross-infection. For some people with basic diseases, I will comprehensively judge whether it is necessary to come to the hospital for further diagnosis and treatment according to their situation.

With the recent increase in the number of fever clinics and emergency treatment, the work intensity has suddenly increased, and many medical care workers have been infected one after another. Faced with the situation of combative "downsizing", I was immediately transferred to emergency support, and I have been working for a week now. In the emergency room or temporary observation room, most of the recent arrivals are positive. They may be complicated with basic diseases such as coronary heart disease, chronic bronchitis, emphysema and diabetes, and even have the risk of sudden death at any time. We need to identify these critically ill patients and prevent them before they happen.

Every time we take over, we not only have to deal with the patients handed over from the previous class, but also receive new patients from time to time. The nerves are very tight throughout the work. The whole medical process needs the full cooperation of medical care and other links, from pre-examination and triage to final diagnosis and treatment, every step needs to be meticulous. As Director Wu Xianzheng of the Department of Emergency Medicine said, Tongji Emergency Department spent sleepless nights to protect every patient, risking high risks and fighting at the forefront of the fight against the epidemic. "243650"-24 hours, 365 days and 0 rest, this is the solemn promise of Tongji emergency patients!

As long as my physical condition permits, I will always stick to my first-line position. I’m also a party member, so I go to help wherever I need it. Here, I would also like to appeal to some patients with chronic diseases to pay attention to the observation of their own condition during their stay at home, and come to the hospital in time in case of wheezing and dyspnea. If the condition is stable, you can carry out some moderate home exercise at home, but the intensity is less than usual, while maintaining regular work and rest and developing good eating habits.

Help each other in the same boat, I hope we can win the battle against the epidemic as soon as possible!

Original title: Self-report of six first-line Shanghai doctors: Perhaps the biggest challenge in three years, we must go all out.

Editor: Yang Sihai

Editor: Zhou Shangdou

Audit: Feng Fei

Israel, suddenly!

Over the weekend, great news came from the Middle East!

According to the Israeli military, an air strike in eastern Lebanon on June 22nd killed a senior member of Hamas. On the same day, the Israeli air raid on Shati refugee camp in Gaza City caused heavy casualties. In addition, on the 22nd, a large number of Israelis held demonstrations in Tel Aviv, expressing their dissatisfaction with the Israeli government and demanding that the Israeli government immediately cease fire.

The British Maritime Trade Action Office announced that an accident occurred in the sea area 65 nautical miles west of the port of Hodeida, Yemen at around 6: 00 local time on the 23rd. A merchant ship reported being attacked by a drone, which caused damage to the ship and no casualties. The ship will continue to the next port of call. The British Maritime Trade Action Office said that relevant departments are investigating the incident.

In addition, in the early morning of the 23rd, the Iraqi militia "Islamic Resistance" claimed that drones were used to attack an "important target" in Eilat, a city in the Red Sea in southern Israel.

Israeli air strikes on Lebanon

On June 23rd, according to the Israel Times, the Israeli military said that on June 22nd, local time, the Israeli army carried out air strikes in eastern Lebanon, killing Ayman Gatma, a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). According to the report, Ayman Gatma is responsible for supplying weapons to Lebanese organizations such as Hamas.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, the Israeli army attacked several armed military targets of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon that day, including military observation posts and military infrastructure. In addition, the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon was attacked by Israeli troops. Sidon is nearly 60 kilometers south of the temporary border between Lebanon and Israel and about 35 kilometers north of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. This is the first time that the city of Sidon has been attacked by Israeli troops since the outbreak of this round of temporary border conflict between Lebanon and Israel.

According to a report by the Lebanese National News Agency on the 22nd, Hezbollah armed forces in Lebanon claimed that they used missiles to attack a number of Israeli military targets on the Israeli side of the temporary border between Lebanon and Israel, including Israeli military posts and bases.

Recently, the tension between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon has rapidly increased. On the 6th of this month, the Northern Command of the Israeli Army announced the completion of the deployment of a large-scale attack on Hezbollah. The Israeli army issued a statement on the 18th, saying that it had approved the plan to launch military operations in Lebanon. In this regard, the Hezbollah armed forces warned that they did not want the war to expand, but if Israel went to war with the Hezbollah armed forces, the armed forces would fight "unrestricted".

According to a report by CNN on the 22nd, a source said that the US side had assured Israel a few days ago that the US government was fully prepared to support Israel if it launched a full-scale war with Hezbollah. The United States will provide Israel with the necessary security assistance, but will not send ground troops.

Bomb many places in Gaza.

On the evening of 22nd local time, Israeli troops bombed a house in Darragi block east of Gaza city in Gaza, killing three people. So far, since the morning of 22nd local time, the death toll caused by Israeli bombing of many places in Gaza has risen to 43.

According to CCTV news, on the 22nd local time, Israeli air raid on Shati refugee camp in Gaza City caused heavy casualties. Palestinian media said that the number of casualties is expected to rise. Local residents expressed indignation at the wanton bombing and attacks on civilians by the Israeli army. They say that the Israeli army can fight wherever it wants. The United States always keeps saying that Israel should stop its actions, but at the same time it provides Israel with weapons to attack civilians.

On June 22nd, the health department in Gaza issued a statement saying that 101 people were killed and 169 injured in the military operations carried out by the Israeli army in the Gaza in the past 24 hours. Since the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out on October 7 last year, Israeli military operations in the Gaza have killed 37,551 Palestinians and injured 85,911 others.

On the evening of 22nd, the Israel Defense Forces issued a statement saying that an Israeli armored soldier was killed in a military operation in the south of Gaza earlier that day. According to Israeli military statistics, since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict broke out on October 7 last year, the total number of Israeli soldiers killed has reached 665.

On the 22nd, a large number of Israeli people held demonstrations in Tel Aviv to express their dissatisfaction with the Israeli government, demanding that the Israeli government immediately stop the war and let the detainees be released home as soon as possible. Some people also demanded that the Israeli government hold elections in advance at the demonstration site. Later that day, demonstrators clashed with Israeli police, who drove the demonstrators away. According to a subsequent statement issued by the police, three demonstrators were detained by the police.

Israel’s "important target" was attacked

In the early morning of 23rd local time, the Iraqi militia "Islamic Resistance" issued a statement saying that the armed forces used drones to attack an "important target" in Eilat, a city in the Red Sea in southern Israel. The Israeli side has not yet responded to this.

At the same time, Yemeni Houthi spokesman Yahya Zarrea issued a statement saying that the Houthi armed forces, in cooperation with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance Movement, have recently carried out several attacks on ships bound for Israeli ports.

Yahya said that the first operation targeted four ships in Haifa Port of Israel, including two cement carriers and two cargo ships. The second attack was aimed at a Mediterranean ship "Shorthorn Express" bound for Haifa Port. Houthi armed forces used drones to carry out the above attacks.

In addition, the Cuban Foreign Ministry announced on the 21st that Cuba has decided to join South Africa in suing the United Nations International Court of Justice for "genocide" committed by Israel in the Gaza.

The announcement said that the Cuban government has always been firmly committed to supporting and promoting the legitimate efforts of the international community through all possible means to end the genocide against the Palestinian people, so it decided to join the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel in the International Court of Justice. The announcement pointed out that the main purpose of this move is to stop the atrocities committed by Israel against the Palestinian people because of excessive and indiscriminate use of force.

In December 2023, South Africa filed a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice, accusing the Israelis of genocide in the Gaza Strip. Since then, many countries, including Chile and Spain, have announced their participation in the prosecution of Israel.

Original title: "Israel, sudden! 》

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[Program Preview] Jackie Chan’s 56 Years in the Movie: Comedy Kung Fu Dream Oscar

He is a kung fu superstar, he is the distributor of Chinese movies, and everyone affectionately calls him "Jackie Chan". Now he has become the first Chinese to win the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award. Standing on the stage, he lamented that he has been waiting for this golden statuette for 56 years. 17:34 on February 12 CCTV6 will take you back to Jackie Chan’s Oscar glory moment and watch his 56-year silver screen Phantom with you.

The Oscar Honorable Mention Award, commonly known as the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, is awarded to those who have made lifelong contributions to the film industry in recognition of their achievements. Not long ago, Jackie Chan became the first Chinese actor in history to receive this honor, and the fourth Asian actor to win the award. On the podium, Jackie Chan lamented that winning the golden statuette was his dream all along. After 56 years, he finally realized his dream. And in the 56 years of his film career, the audience also watched him create one surprise after another.

Every time we see Jackie Chan, he is always very busy. In addition to filming, he is also busy promoting Chinese movies more often. Wherever he goes, he loves to wear traditional Chinese costumes and perform Chinese songs for the world audience. For the world audience, his status may have long been not just a filmmaker, but an indelible element of Chinese movies. In our exclusive interview with him, he often talked about the many twists and turns and luck in his 56 years of filmmaking, from martial arts to the present.

Over the past 56 years, Jackie Chan has received awards from people from all walks of life, from children’s goodwill ambassadors awarded by the United Nations, global anti-smoking ambassadors, to human humanitarian awards from non-governmental organizations Silver Star Award, honorary police, honorary citizen. From the French Order of Arts and Letters, to the International Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Youth Leadership Foundation, the International Top 10 Outstanding Youth. This time, the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement is another honor among his many awards. This time, the award may not only affect Jackie Chan himself, but it is also a great testament to the growing popularity of Chinese-style films with Western audiences. Jackie Chan’s 56-year film life legend is an inspiration for young Chinese filmmakers, inspiring them to work harder to make good Chinese films and win more attention and applause for Chinese films "going global".

Meizu 21 PRO or has it been cancelled, and Meizu 21 has become a swan song?

 

  Meizu is a technology company with a deep foundation in mobile phones. It has been widely praised for its excellent product design and user experience. It has launched many classic smartphones, including M8, MX and Meizu 20. In addition to excellent product design, Meizu mobile phones also have many unique advantages in software, especially its Flyme system, which has always been known for its beauty, simplicity and efficiency. It has a good reputation in the circle, and the small window mode and Aicy voice assistant are also deeply loved by users.

  At the end of last year, Meizu released the Meizu 21 mobile phone, which also inherited Meizu’s excellent industrial design, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the most beautiful flagship mobile phone. However, the Meizu 21 Pro that netizens were looking forward to has not been released. On the contrary, shortly after the release of Meizu 21, rumors spread on the Internet that Meizu 21 Pro has been discontinued and listed, triggering speculation and discussion among many netizens. Such speculation is not entirely groundless.

  It is reported that the Meizu 21 Pro is an upgraded version of the Meizu 21. It was originally planned to be released in Quarter 1 in 2024. It focuses on a variety of powerful materials such as 2K large straight screen, periscope telephoto lens, 100-watt wired fast charging, and 50W wireless charging. But recently, Wan Zhiqiang, vice president of Meizu, chose to avoid the problem of Meizu 21 PRO in an interview. As of now, Meizu 21 PRO still has no exact release time, nor has it been determined whether it will be launched. This means that the fate of Meizu 21 Pro is still unknown, and it may be cancelled or postponed for various reasons. If so, then Meizu 21 may become the last flagship product of Meizu mobile phone and the swan song of Meizu mobile phone.

  The reason for all this is that most people speculate that it may be related to Meizu’s transformation. There are various indications that Meizu is transforming the automotive field and needs to invest more resources and energy in the automotive business. At the press conference at the end of last year, Meizu announced that it will launch its first car MEIZU DreamCar MX in 2024, based on Geely Group’s SEA architecture and Industry 4.0 manufacturing capabilities, customized by customer engagement, to create a highly intelligent and ecological smart car. This also shows that Meizu has taken the automotive business as its key development direction in the future, while the mobile phone business may gradually withdraw from the historical stage.

  At the same time, on January 30, the Meizu DreamCar MX community officially announced the launch, creating a new interactive communication platform for the majority of Meizu friends. The launch of the Meizu DreamCar MX community aims to gather the wisdom and creativity of Meizu friends, create and participate in the personalized detailed design of Meizu DreamCar MX vehicles, and further promote the personalized and diversified development of the intelligent travel field, which seems to confirm the relevant rumors of Meizu’s transformation.

  But no matter what the final fate of Meizu 21 PRO is, the current Meizu 21 is still a very good mobile phone, coinciding with the approaching Spring Festival, Meizu also opened the New Year’s Shopping Festival activities, the discount is still very awesome, like Meizu 21 can rush a wave.

It opened Jackie Chan’s path to stardom and also revolutionized Hong Kong film


1905 movie network feature As an audience, no matter how much experience you have, there will definitely be a name that cannot be avoided in the memory of growing up: Jackie Chan. Therefore, when the fourth "Jackie Chan Action Film Week" opens soon, it must once again evoke everyone’s feelings and tributes to this kung fu superstar.

 

This movie week not only showcased 24 Jackie Chan’s classic action movies, but also chose "Drunk Fist" as the opening film. For viewers who are more familiar with "Police Story", "Project Eagle", "Red Fan District", "Rush Hour", "Zodiac" and even "New Police Story", it is a bit "long".

 

Why does Jackie Chan have a "soft spot" for "Drunken Fist" this time? This drama is not only the origin of his road to stardom, but also the portrayal of his 40 years of success. It can be called a benchmark that changed the development of Hong Kong kung fu films and made Hong Kong films go to a golden age. It even has influence across the film field… Whether it is an exaggeration, let Xiao Dianjun accompany you to reveal the legendary appearance of "Drunken Fist" for 40 years.

 

1. "Something out of nothing" Drunk Eight Immortals


Producer Wu Siyuan, director Yuan Heping, and star Jackie Chan’s "Iron Triangle" were credited with the launch of "Drunken Fist". They had previously teamed up to create a Kung Fu comedy "Serpentine Diao Hands". After the box office hit, the Taiwanese filmmakers invited them to the local celebration party. Unexpectedly, the various movements of the filmmakers during the banquet triggered Wu and Yuan’s inspiration for "Drunken Fist". Ba Ye (Yuan Zhi’s nickname) even thought that "Drunken Fist has a sense of comedy, and the image will look good when shot!"


But boxing always has an ins and outs. As a result, Ba Ye spent a month summing up eight formulas from various ancient stories, including "Lv Dongbin: Drunk to carry the pot with great strength", "Tieguai Li: It’s true to choose a knee and hit the drunk", "Han Zhongli: Drunk walking and hugging the top of the heart", "Zhang Guolao: Drunk throwing a cup and kicking a chain", "Lan Caihe: A single toast to stop the waist and break", "Uncle Cao: Immortal toasting and locking the throat", "Han Xiangzi: Catching the wrist and hitting the chest and drunk blowjob" and "He Xiangu: Bouncing the waist and offering drunken swinging steps", which were interpreted by Jackie Chan and became a classic in the history of kung fu films.

  

In other words, the "Drunken Eight Immortals" boxing route that audiences are familiar with today is actually eight inspirations "made out of nothing"!

 

Second, Jackie Chan’s "double eyelid" truth


If you watch "Serpentine Diao Hands", you will find that Jackie Chan was still single eyelid at that time, why did "Drunken Fist" become "double eyelid"? This is from the list of Jackie Chan’s injury history, "Shooting" Drunken Fist "The corner of the eye was kicked out"…

 

It is said that when Jackie Chan was filming, Huang Zhengli, known as the "King of Leg Skills", kicked the part above the eye and below the eyebrow, bleeding profusely on the spot, and the diagnosis was that the corner of the eye was cracked. But Jackie Chan, who has always been afraid of injections, refused to sew, and finally could only stick the wound with medical tape. After tearing it off, the wound turned into a "double eyelid", and finally could only "open" the other eye. Therefore, "Drunken Fist" is not only Jackie Chan’s famous work, but also can be said to be a "cosmetic work".

 

3. "Look at my red face and thick neck"


In addition to filming injuries, Jackie Chan also worked hard for the performance. Especially before each performance, he didn’t really drink, but let himself bow down and hold his breath, and by holding his breath, all the blood rushed to his head, so that it looked like his face was red after being drunk.


It can be seen that Jackie Chan sang in the song "Drunk Fist" many years later, "Look at my blush and thick neck, and know in my heart that I am a hero", which is a portrayal of his drunkenness when he "held back" himself.

 


IV. Yuan Xiaotian became very popular in his later years


"Drunken Boxing" should not only mention Jackie Chan’s Wong Fei-hung, but also Yuan Xiaotian’s "Su Qier". As the father of Yuan Heping and others, Yuan Xiaotian is not only one of the earliest martial arts instructors in Hong Kong, but also made a series of "Wong Fei-hung" movies in the 1960s. By the 1970s, he had retired, but in order to support Yuan Heping’s directing career, he was willing to go out again, not wanting to be popular all over Asia.

 

In fact, Ba Ye conceived martial arts moves that combined elements of acrobatics and comedy in the theater, and his father was behind it: "My father basically passed on what he knew to our children… At that time, his academic career was very hard, and he practiced every morning… In the afternoon, he went to the suburbs to practice basic skills, swords, swords and halberds, and learned boxing and somersaults." So from the play that Yuan Xiaotian taught Jackie Chan in "Drunk Fist", Ba Ye did put a lot of childhood memories in it.

 

V. Unexpected success


In 1978, the "Iron Triangle" of Wu, Yuan and Cheng was already satisfied with the big sale of "Serpentine Diao Hands", but they did not expect the success of "Drunken Fist" to exceed their imagination: in Hong Kong, the film was released from October 5 to November 3 of that year, and the box office reached 6.76 million Hong Kong dollars, which digitally broke the box office record (5.31 million) held by Bruce Lee’s "Raptors Crossing the River", and finally ranked second in the annual box office.


In Taiwan, Wu Siyuan even described the results of "Drunken Fist" as "too profitable" and "outrageous at all", even to the point where the film distributor gave him a bunch of money every time he saw Wu Siyuan! In fact, before "Drunken Fist", many Taiwanese film distributors refused to buy Jackie Chan movies, on the grounds that "Jackie Chan is a box office poison, you want me to die!" But after the film was released, Jackie Chan soon became a millionaire, and even Golden Harvest wanted to poach him to pass the file, even offering a salary of 4.80 million Hong Kong dollars, which can be called "straight to the fool"!

 

South East Asia


"Drunken Fist" was already selling crazy in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and I don’t want to go even further when it was released in South East Asia and Japan and South Korea in 1979. In Japan alone, the film’s box office was as high as 1.90 billion yen, ranking eighth among the top ten grossing films of the year; in Seoul in the same year, the film was screened for half a year, and the number of viewers was as high as 1.42 million, which is equal to 4.27 million people in South Korea watching "Drunken Fist" at that time, thus breaking the local historical record and maintaining it for 11 years. It was not until 1990 that it was broken by "Ghost Love". No wonder the Korean newspapers said at that time: Why can other people’s movies be made so well?

 

"Drunk Fist" also broke Singapore’s historical sales record, with a box office of up to 1.46 million Singapore dollars; as for Malaysia, Wu Siyuan’s words describe it as "a sea of people at the entrance of the Kuala Lumpur theater, the boss ran to the box office and grabbed a lot of money, and wrapped it up for me with something…"


In the end, "Drunken Fist" reached more than 22 million US dollars at the global box office that year, confirming what is meant by "sensation"!

 

Seven, "bonuses" and "prizes" are not missing


If the box office is a "bonus", then the selection of the major film institutions is the prize that "Drunken Fist" deserves – who said that the kung fu films in the early Republic of China could not be elegant?


In 2000, "Double Film Weekly" selected "100 Best Hong Kong Films of the 20th Century", "Drunken Fist" ranked 20th, second only to "Jingwumen" in the kung fu film; in 2005, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chinese film, the Hong Kong Film Awards Association selected "100 Best Chinese Films in a Century", and "Drunken Fist" ranked 33rd; in 2011, the Golden Horse Film Festival voted for "100 Classic Chinese Films in Film History", and "Drunken Fist" was once again on the list; in the same year, the Hong Kong Film Archive selected "100 Hong Kong Films You Must See" list, and saw "Drunken Fist". It can be seen that from Hong Kong to the entire Chinese film, "Drunken Fist" is a classic masterpiece with far-reaching influence.

 

Eight, the rise of kung fu comedy


The popularity of "Drunk Fist" made the Kung Fu comedy reach its peak in the early years of the People’s Republic of China in 1979-80. All Hong Kong was thinking about how to add various comedy ideas to martial arts, so the authentic Hong Quan Liu Jialiang shot "Mad Monkey" and "Bad Head He", the fledgling Tsang Zhiwei shot "Kicking the Hall" and "Thief Stolen". In addition to shooting "Lin Shirong", Hong Jinbao Yuan Heping, the former’s "Mad Kid" won Yuan Biao, and the latter’s "North and South Drunk Fist" won his younger brother Yuan Xinyi. Even Cheng Xiaodong rarely shot "Ma Liu" as the protagonist, and even Xu Hark’s "No Door to Hell" also has many shadows of kung fu comedy. In short, the famous action movie artists we are familiar with today all contributed to the kung fu comedy back then.

  

However, in those two years, no one could shake Jackie Chan’s superstar status: in 79, Jackie Chan’s first self-directed and self-starred "Laughing Fist" became the annual box office champion with 5.45 million Hong Kong dollars; in 80, "Junior Brother" became the first film in Hong Kong’s film history to break through 10 million box office, and became the opening work of Hong Kong’s "Spring Festival"!

 

 Nowadays, if you mention or revisit kung fu comedy, you should remember the transformative significance of "Drunken Fist".

 

Hong Kong’s "Comedy Age"


Looking back, Hong Kong films were able to achieve prosperity in the 1980s, thanks in essence to the rise of comedy themes: before "Drunk Fist", although Hong Kong had the first comedy hits by the Hui brothers, it was still "unique", and kung fu films fell into a low ebb after Bruce Lee’s death, because no one could imitate and copy him.


As a result, Jackie Chan and Yuan Heping defied tradition, and the line of "Kung Fu + Comedy" was not only different, but also more down-to-earth. The success of "Drunken Fist" made the whole of Hong Kong find that as long as you can "fight and laugh", you can make a lot of money at a low cost! Afterwards, Hong Kong people will add comedy elements to any theme they shoot, and they will try their best, thus creating a golden age of Hong Kong films – in other words, "Drunken Fist" has contributed to the market tradition of "laughing every time" in Hong Kong films!

 


Ten, the sequel to Drunk Fist Yan Brilliant


Fifteen years after "Drunk Fist", Jackie Chan once again played Huang Feihong and created the genuine sequel "Drunk Fist 2". Compared with the first episode, the film is more meaningful because it is a commemorative work of the establishment of the Hong Kong Action Stuntman Guild. All the creators in front of the stage and behind the scenes confiscated the pay. The initial cost of the film was only 28 million Hong Kong dollars, of which 3 million was used to buy the guild’s meeting place. It was already a "cheap" one for Jackie Chan’s works at that time.

 

Just like the first episode, "Drunken Fist 2" once again broke the sales record of Hong Kong kung fu films, with a box office of 40.71 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking among the runners-up in the annual box office in 1994, and only looking at the numbers, the film’s box office record was maintained for a full 17 years, and it was broken by "Ip Man 2" (43 million), which shows the audience’s feelings for "Drunken Fist".

 

Perhaps many people do not know that "Drunken Fist 2" is still the first Hong Kong film to be introduced in the form of national distribution after the reform of the mainland film market. In other words, Jackie Chan can be said to be the "pioneer" of the mainland entering the box office era. And just looking at these scenes, you can see how famous Jackie Chan was in the mainland at that time:

 


"No injury, no drunken fist"


Back then, "Drunken Fist" made Jackie Chan "double eyelids", which was already a serious injury experience. I don’t want to think that 15 years later, he staged a more dangerous scene in "Drunken Fist 2": the whole person was kicked into the fire, and the heat and pain could be felt just by looking at the screen; and the last fight, not only did it take three months to shoot, but Jackie Chan really drank a little industrial alcohol, which was better than "holding his breath" in the first episode!

 

  

Therefore, the "bonuses" and "prizes" did not harm this drama. "Drunken Fist 2" not only became the world’s Chinese film box office champion in 1994 (according to data exceeding 365 million RMB), but was also selected by Time magazine as one of the "100 Best Movies in the History of Film", and was ranked fifth by Black Belt magazine as "The Most Wonderful Film and Television Fight in History". At the same time, it won the Golden Statue and Golden Horse Double "Best Action Design"…

It can be said that the two "Drunken Fist" starring Jackie Chan can be called one of the most outstanding kung fu series in the history of Chinese movies.

 

Twelve, drunken boxing and cultural crossing


Over the past 40 years, the influence of "Drunken Fist" has not only been in the film, but also one of the representatives of the "cross-regional culture" of Chinese films.

 

As the Japanese "national manga" of "Dragon Ball", the author of "Dragon Ball", Akira Toriyama, has bluntly stated that he is a fan of Jackie Chan, and his favorite movie is "Drunken Fist". "Without this movie, I couldn’t have created" Dragon Ball "at all."

 

"Naruto’s Li Luoke is also a" natural drunken fist master ":

 

In Hong Kong, the famous cartoonist Huang Yulang also created a comic of the same name in 1981 inspired by "Drunken Fist", which was popular and was called one of the "Four Famous Works of Huang Yulang":

 

Even weak sounds can be used to imitate "Drunken Fist", even to the point of "God Sync":

 

Even the Japanese variety show "Talk Show After the Rain" did a Jackie Chan special, and specially imitated the classic scenes of "Drunken Fist":

 

Even FC games, released in 1990 as "Jackie Chan’s Dragon", were inspired by "Drunken Fist".

 

 

Later, whether it was the arcade game "Double Dragon Fight", or the PC game "King of Kung Fu" and "Iron Fist" Lei Wulong, etc., they also used Jackie Chan’s style or action in "Drunken Fist":

 

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Of course, there is no shortage of Zhen Yuanzhai in "The King of Fighters", no doubt from Yuan Xiaotian in "Drunken Fist":


The history of Chinese film has been 40 years and countless classics, but "Drunken Fist" must be one of the influencers who can spread to the world; for Jackie Chan, he can become the longest-running superstar in the Chinese film industry, and "Drunken Fist" is a watershed in his acting career!

Netizens reported that it was difficult to unblock the mobile phone number after it was mistakenly blocked. Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department: Complaints can be made.

Netizens reported that it was difficult to unblock the mobile phone number after it was mistakenly blocked. Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department: Complaints can be made.

The picture shows the telephone number announced by Yunnan Provincial Public Security Bureau. screenshot

  Kunming, Dec. 9 (Du Xiaoxiao)-Recently, the press office of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Bureau announced that in the recent special crackdown on telecom network fraud, if there is a false seal, the public security organ will quickly identify the phone number and account number that was mistakenly shut down due to technical reasons after receiving the complaint and consultation call. If the public security organ is found to be inactive or passive, you can call "12389" to make a complaint.

  Recently, some netizens posted on the local message board that their micro-signal was permanently sealed by WeChat official on October 14th. After understanding, they learned that it was requested by Yunnan public security authorities, and provided contact numbers of 0871-630543xx and multiple telephones of Pu ‘er Public Security Bureau. After many contacts, the phone could not be opened.

  The netizen said that he works in Kunming and has never been to Myanmar. There is no violation of laws and regulations. The blocking of micro-signal has seriously affected his work and life. I hope the government can understand the situation as soon as possible and unblock the WeChat account.

  In addition, some netizens on the Internet reported that their QQ, mobile phone number, Alipay and other social platforms and payment platforms could not be used normally.

  The Information Office of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department responded on the 8 th that in view of the rampant telecommunication network fraud activities in the border areas of China and Myanmar, which seriously infringed on the property safety of the people, the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference Office of the State Council on Combating New Crimes in Telecommunication Networks and the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Organs are organizing special crackdown actions, and decided to block and shut down suspected telecommunication network fraud calls, social and payment accounts such as QQ, WeChat, Alipay and POS machines in northern Myanmar and some areas where telecommunication network fraud activities are serious from October 14, 2019.

  If the phone number is turned off by mistake, you can contact the anti-fraud center of the local public security bureau as soon as possible (area code +96110) or call the anti-fraud center of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Bureau (0871-63054338); If QQ, WeChat, Alipay, POS and other social and payment accounts are closed by mistake, you can contact the workstations of the Ministry of Public Security in Pu ‘er, Dehong and Lincang, Yunnan.

  The press office of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Bureau said that if there is a false seal, the public security organ will quickly identify the phone number and account number that was mistakenly shut down due to technical reasons after receiving the complaint consultation phone number. If the public security organ is found to be inactive or passive, you can call "12389" to make a complaint.