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Wen Yi is at the forefront of entrepreneurship, written by Li Xiaofan and edited by Dan Zong.

There is a fierce battle going on in the track of offline beauty shops.

The two sides of the game are: a new beauty collection store represented by plum and colorist, and a traditional beauty retail store represented by Sephora and Watsons.

During the visit, "Frontline of Entrepreneurship" found that in the same shopping mall, there were obvious differences between these two different models of beauty shops. For example, the flow of Watsons and colorists on the first floor of Xinzhongguan Shopping Center is less than one third of that of the latter. In terms of popularity, the new beauty collection store won for the time being.

However, from the perspective of supply capacity and customers’ trust, the new beauty shops are slightly inferior. It is difficult for them to get authorization from international brands and they have to find other channels to get goods, which leads to the risk of authenticity of their supply and no great advantage in price.

Who will be the final winner in the multi-faceted contest between these two species?

In January 2020, next to Watsons on the first floor of Beijing Xinzhongguan Shopping Center, THE COLORIST Colorist (hereinafter referred to as "Colorist"), a beauty collection shop, officially opened. It is also from this time that a battle between "new style and tradition" of beauty shops was staged here.

I don’t know whether it is accidental or deliberate "business grab". The location of the colorist seems to be "declaring war" on the traditional beauty collection stores represented by Watsons and Sephora.

These two different forms of beauty collection stores show great differences in store decoration, business philosophy and commodity selection.

At 6 o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the colorist’s shop was crowded with consumers who selected and tried products. Visually, most of them were between the ages of 20 and 30. Here, consumers can choose and try colors freely, without the interference of shopping guides. If you need help, the shopping guide will recommend it.

According to the observation of "The Frontline of Entrepreneurship", the clerk of the colorist is also a young man in his twenties, wearing white T-shirts and jeans, and with the design of the store with gray and pink tones, the store as a whole looks bright and lively.

Watsons, on the other hand, took a very different road of management. As soon as I entered Watsons, a shopping guide warmly greeted me and asked what the demand was. Its store design is dominated by black and yellow tones, and dressing the, the shopping guide, is dressed in black and looks older than the staff of the colorist.

The area of Watsons’ store is much larger than that of the colorist’s, but during the 20-minute visit to the "Frontline of Entrepreneurship", its traffic was less than one-third of the latter. It seems clear at a glance who can win the favor of young people.

Figure/Colorist and Watsons at the same time

The competition between colorists and Watsons is no exception.

On the afternoon of a weekend in July, in Xidan Joy City, the "Frontline of Entrepreneurship" visited and saw that the WOW COLOUR store on the second floor was crowded, and every shelf was surrounded by consumers. The Sephora store downstairs is much deserted, and there are less than 10 consumers who choose goods in the store. Not only that, but the counters of beauty brands such as MAC and CHANEL on the second floor are rarely visited by consumers.

Figure/WOW COLOUR store on Saturday afternoon

Most of the products sold by colorists and WOW COLOUR are domestic products and cheap brands from Japan and South Korea. If they may attract many young consumers by low prices, they can’t compete with Sephora and Watsons, then the high-end HARMAY preserved plum (hereinafter referred to as "preserved plum") is qualified to compete with them.

Huameimen Store, located in the renovation site of Xidan, Beijing, is more like a place in online celebrity, and its personalized industrial design has attracted many consumers to take photos. On the weekend of July, not only young people but also many middle-aged mothers with children came to punch in, and there was a long queue in front of the cashier. From the perspective of popularity, the new beauty collection store is a proper winner.

In Tu/Huamei Store, consumers queuing to check out.

Since last year, the outlet of the beauty collection store has obviously been blown up.

At the end of last year, H.E.A.T enjoyed burning and obtained angel round financing from Gaorong Capital; HAYDON Black Hole also received angel round financing led by Gao Ling and Tencent. In March of this year, WOW COLOUR announced that it had received 500 million yuan in Series A financing.

Their store opening speed is also extremely rapid. Peng Yao, CEO of colorist, mentioned in his speech that he had opened more than 300 direct sales stores in a year, covering Class A business districts in first-tier cities. According to public information, WOW COLOUR also opened nearly 300 stores within 8 months. While the new beauty shop is in full swing, the traditional beauty shop has a declining trend.

Watson’s financial report shows that in 2020, China’s performance share decreased by 19% year-on-year, and the epidemic also affected Watson’s performance. Last year, its global sales decreased by 11% year-on-year. In July last year, Wanning, an old-fashioned beauty chain, was also reported to have withdrawn its store on a large scale.

This natural law is being verified in the beauty collection store industry.

Under the influence of the new beauty collection store, in addition to the above-mentioned new brands that have obtained financing, there are also some small and medium-sized brands running with franchisees. They vigorously promoted the "way to attract gold" of beauty collection stores, attracting many players who want to enter the market to make money.

"Since 2007, our company has been doing the franchise business of snack collection stores. Now that this franchise store is not good, it will be transformed into a beauty collection store." Wang Lin (pseudonym), a staff member who claimed to be the source manufacturer of makeup collection, said.

Wang Lin introduced that they can provide customers with "one-stop" service-the owner only needs to carry out simple basic decoration of the store, and they will help the owner choose the site, provide the store design scheme, shelves and other equipment, as well as the supply of beauty products.

"We don’t charge any joining fee, management fee or deposit. You send us the floor plan of the store, and we will give you a design plan. The color, background board, mirror and lighting of the shelf can be done according to your requirements." Wang Lin said.

She also revealed to the "Frontline of Entrepreneurship" that many customers who originally opened snack collection stores directly transformed into beauty collection stores on the original storefronts, and many people who were engaged in clothing and shoes and bags switched jobs.

"The makeup collection store is a slogan, and everyone wants to seize this slogan, so we have a lot of lists in the past two years." Wang Lin said. It will take them about 15 days to make the shelves, and the current order has been placed for one month.

In the mouth of these franchisees, the beauty collection store is a good business worth investing in.

"The cost of a store of about 100 square meters, hardware facilities and the first distribution of goods is about 350,000 to 400,000 yuan." Yang shen (a pseudonym), a staff member of another makeup collection shop who joined the chain brand "YISUCOLOUR Easy Life", said.

58 According to the same city, the monthly rent of a shop near SOHO in Sanlitun, Beijing, which is about 120 square meters, is 42,000 yuan. If it is in a county town, the monthly rent for a shop of similar size is several thousand yuan.

"The profit of make-up is very considerable. We all supply goods to shopkeepers in the range of 3.5~4.5 fold, and the profit can basically reach 50%~70%." Yang shen said that among their franchisees, the turnover of some shopping malls and stores can reach more than 100,000 yuan a month. "Some customers can sell 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a day, and the holidays can be doubled."

In other words, if the business is done well, some shopkeepers can cover the initial investment with more than one month’s revenue.

Yang shen said that at present, they have more than 40 franchise stores in Henan, Yunnan, Xinjiang and other regions, and even stores have opened in counties and towns. "What we mainly do is cheap beauty, and most people can accept this price. Nowadays, users in counties and towns have also become more beautiful and need makeup. Therefore, the audience is also relatively wide. In addition to the post-90 s and post-00 s, some post-70 s and post-80 s will also have demand. " Yang shen said.

According to yang shen, the prices of commodities are the lowest in 9.9 yuan, mostly in 69 yuan and 79 yuan, and the unit price of customers is basically between 100 and 500 yuan. "After the guests arrive at the store, few people can go out empty-handed, and there is a high probability that they will buy a variety of goods."

Yang shen also introduced that there are currently more than 200 brands of products sold in their franchise stores, mainly domestic hot beauty products and imported niche brands, and there are also big-name samples. "We will ensure that there are 3 to 5 brands every month. To put it bluntly, it is nothing more than what brands and single products are hot at the moment, and we will do what we do." Yang shen said.

However, on the occasion of the rise of online beauty shops, the wildly promoted franchise model does not mean that "everyone has money to earn". "The first batch of shops are people who eat crabs. There will only be more and more stores in the back, just like tea shops, everywhere, but there are not many latecomers who can make money." Yang shen said.

Although the new species is slightly better in catering to young users and the speed of development, the new collection stores are not as advantageous as traditional stores in terms of the most fundamental source of goods.

Among them, the most worrying thing for consumers is whether the products of beauty shops, especially the samples, are genuine. Some people think that the sample as a gift, the brand side is controlled, but it continues to flow into the market, and there may be some problems.

In February this year, the blogger "Macromolecule Lab" released a video in Xiaohongshu, in which he tested nine samples of a beauty collection store in online celebrity and compared them with the formal clothes of the counter. Through NMR experiments, it was found that one of the eye creams was obviously different from the formal clothes of the counter.

He analyzed that for such a result, one possibility is that the version of this eye cream is different, and the other possibility is to buy a fake.

This video also caused controversy in the industry and discussion with the outside world. But in any case, this incident reflects to some extent that consumers have some doubts about the authenticity of some sample products in the new beauty collection store.

Relatively speaking, traditional beauty shops don’t have to worry about this problem.

For example, the source of Sephora is a genuine channel in the hearts of the public. It is reported that Sephora is a mid-to-high-end cosmetics retail store under LVMH (Moet Hennessy-louis vuitton Group). It cooperates with LVMH, Estee Lauder Group, L ‘Oreal Group and other large daily chemical groups in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. Sephora in various countries directly gets the goods from the top channels of the brand in the local market, which ensures the authenticity of its products.

However, it is difficult for some new beauty collection stores in China to get the authorization from the brand directly, so they can only find other channels.

"Some of our customers were originally in the makeup business, and they have access to goods. If you need it, we can also help you connect channels." Wang Lin said.

However, what these shopkeepers and franchisees call "the channel to get goods" must be reliable?

Xiaohongshu blogger, who claims to have more than 10 years of experience in cosmetics entrepreneurship, once revealed in the video that there are two main channels for imported cosmetics.

One is the "general trade" channel, which is "basically risk-free", and the brand needs to make a general trade record, but the brand will add 21% tax point to the price of the product itself, and it is controlled by the brand, which leads to no advantage in the price of the supply.

"Medium-sized and above physical store merchants, and in the case of strict market supervision, suggest taking formal trade channels to minimize business risks." Nanmu said.

The other is the circulation channel, that is, products do not enter China through formal trade channels, and practitioners can purchase them in wholesale markets, distribution centers and websites.

There are several large cosmetic wholesale distribution centers in China, such as Xingfa Square in Guangzhou, Yifa Square, Meibo City, and Shenzhen Mingtong Cosmetics Wholesale Market, which emerged in recent two or three years. "Some big-name imported cosmetics shops in Meibo City basically do high imitation or super A goods (high-end imitations)." Nanmu said in the video.

She also introduced that most of Shenzhen Mingtong sells parallel imports. "It means that products that have not come in through formal tariff and regulatory channels, parallel imports are not equal to fakes, but it does not rule out that individual businesses are mixed and sold, or some stalls are half genuine and half fake."

Therefore, once the beauty collection store is not careful, it is possible to get fakes or parallel imports, thus facing operational risks.

In addition to the supply problem, the prices of some products in the beauty collection store have also been vomited by some users, who think that their cost performance is not high.

Little Red Book blogger "Yili Shark White" found that the price of make-up is not cheap, which is not much different from the counter. For example, a lipstick for MAC, the official price is 170 yuan, and the price of plum is 167 yuan. "It’s better to find the counter sister of MAC and draw me a European and American makeup." The blogger said.

Take Lancome Pink Water as an example. As seen in Huamei Store, the price of a single bottle is 340 yuan, while in cdf Duty Free Shop applet, the lowest price of this product is 242 yuan, and the purchasing price is generally within 300 yuan.

Figure/Price comparison between plum and cdf

As a new species, the popularity of new beauty collection stores really evokes the curiosity of young users, and at the same time, it also allows some source manufacturers to see the development potential of the collection store model, which further promotes the rise of offline beauty franchise stores.

However, in the face of the two mountains of supply capacity and price advantage, whether the new beauty collection store can successfully break the game and run out of a sustainable profit model remains to be further tested by the market.

[Exclusive Interpretation] Table Tennis Mixed Team World Cup Battle Report & standings, the live broadcast of the focus schedule on December 5, said the competition system.

Hello, dear readers! I am your self-media writer. Today, I want to bring you the latest battle report and standings of the table tennis mixed team World Cup, as well as the live broadcast of the focus schedule on December 5. In this world-famous competition, the wonderful performances of players from all over the world are dizzying, and the competition system behind it also has its unique charm. Next, let’s walk into this table tennis world full of passion and wisdom!

First, let’s take a look at the latest battle report and standings. After rounds of fierce competition, the strength of each team has gradually emerged, and the rankings in the standings are constantly changing. In this process, we have seen many wonderful competitions, as well as the hard work and perseverance of many players. They proved their value with their strength, and also brought us endless surprises and touches.

Here, I want to tell you a short story. This is a story about table tennis, and it is also a story about persistence and perseverance. The protagonist of the story is a table tennis player named Li Ming. He used to be an unknown teenager, but he has a dream, that is, to get good results in the table tennis mixed team World Cup. In order to realize this dream, he sweated on the training ground every day, and he never stopped, no matter whether it was windy or rainy, no matter whether it was cold or hot. His efforts paid off. He broke through himself again and again in the competition and finally led the team to achieve excellent results. His story tells us that as long as we have dreams and persistence, we will be able to achieve our goals.

Next, let’s take a look at the focus schedule on December 5. This day’s game will be very exciting, because it is a crucial day to decide the ownership of the champion. All teams will go all out to fight for their honor. And we will also bring you the most real-time and exciting game reports through live broadcast. Whether you are an avid table tennis fan or a novice interested in table tennis, don’t miss this day’s game!

Finally, I want to talk to you about the competition system of this event. The competition system of the table tennis mixed team World Cup is very unique, which not only tests the individual strength of the players, but also tests the overall cooperation of the team. In this competition system, each team needs to send one male and one female player to compete, which requires players not only to have excellent personal skills, but also to have good teamwork. This competition system makes the competition more intense and tense, and also enables the audience to see more wonderful moments.

Generally speaking, the table tennis mixed team World Cup is a game full of passion and wisdom, which shows the strength and grace of the players, as well as the charm and spirit of table tennis. I hope that through my introduction, more people can understand and like this sport. If you are interested in my article, please pay attention to my self-media account, and I will bring you more exciting content.

Here, I would like to thank all the friends who supported me, paid attention to me and liked my article. Your support is my motivation and the source of my writing. I will continue to work hard to bring you more exciting content. Let’s look forward to the focus schedule on December 5 and cheer for our players!

Hello, everyone, here is the "Picture a Good Game" updated every Monday. I am the younger brother! It’s time for us to look at pictures and choose games again, without saying much nonsense, above!

Zero: the mask of eclipse: astringency and timidity must be cured today!

Game platform:
PC/PS5/PS4/XSX/XboxOne/Switch

"Zero: The Mask of Eclipse" is the fourth work in the "Zero" series of wind and horror adventure games in 2008. Following the remake of Zero: The Witch of Ya Ru, which was released in 2021, the masterpieces of Zero series will revive beautifully again.

In the current HD version, the overall characters are very delicate, and both the heroine and other "scary female ghosts" in the game can choose different costumes. Compared with the original version, this HD version has a very good picture upgrade, and the plot has not changed much, so it can still bring familiar feelings to the old players.

As a horror game, the official is also very aware of the "longing" of the players. The soft and lovely sister and heroine, coupled with the detailed characterization, make people have to give this game full marks. Although it is a horror game, it has to overcome the panic and continue to play for the "features" in the game.

Player comments:

-it’s been ten years since I first touched this series, and some friends have fooled me about what I want. As a result, after playing for more than ten minutes, I feel a little embarrassed. It turns out that the fear engraved in DNA is hard to kill. QAQ is definitely not that I am not good enough! !

-this series of works is to prove an old saying: lust for sex can really cover the sky!

-The first console bought for playing the Zero Series was wiiu. At that time, I played the butterfly of Zhen Hong first, and I thought the atmosphere was already quite depressing. As a result, the scene and atmosphere of the eclipse mask are as heavy as the nose can’t breathe. It’s really great to play on steam now, and the atmosphere is as good as ever. I’m looking forward to the new Zero or Duplicate Zero 3 on ps2! ! !

"Collage Adventure Biography": One person has done it for 7 years!

Game platform: PC

"Collage Adventure Biography" is a game made by Liam, a foreign brother, for seven years, which integrates meat pigeons, barrage shooting and pet collection. Moreover, after the game was done for three years, because the younger brother was dissatisfied with the original design, he simply overthrew it and relearned it, and it took four years to reshape it. Up to now, ninety-seven percent’s favorable comments have been maintained in Steam.

At first glance, you might sum it up as a Roguelike game. Buff, props and maps are randomly generated, and players need to start new adventures in repeated failures until customs clearance. These are common Roguelike paradigms in recent years;

But a closer look shows that it is a bit magical. For example, on the basis of the programmed map, it adopts the level structure of the Galaxy Demon City, with all kinds of shortcuts and exploration elements; Moreover, it has designed dozens of monsters, and you can subdue them into mounts or companions just like playing Pockmarked Dreams. The game is surprisingly refreshing to play, which is well worth a try!

Player comments:

-customs clearance has been completed. Very excellent sketch-level game, rogue+ collection+shooting, the style of painting is very cute, the difficulty is not high, and it is worth trying.

-This game is highly recommended by my friend, saying that I want to support the game that individual developers have been doing for 7 years. Although stupid people are not very good at meat pigeons, I quite like this painting style, bright cream; It’s very fun to play, and it keeps pushing pictures, plus it can catch monsters as mounts, which is great ~

-sloths, snails and even spiders all look so cute under the style of paper. Bgm and sound effects are even more brilliant. With the action of the ferrule, the sense of accomplishment of taming is directly max. Single game play = light meat pigeon+breaking through the customs+barrage shooting. Outside content = talent+construction

Call of the Devil: The Battle of Kronecker: Another MMORPG Korean Tour

Game platform: PC/ mobile phone

Call of the Devil: Battle of Kronecker is a new work based on the IP of Com2us’ best-selling work Call of the Devil: Battle of the Sky, and it is the first MMORPG game under the IP of Call of the Devil. The game breaks away from the existing MMORPG structure, and is based on three summoners with full personality and more than 350 kinds of demons with various attributes and skills, providing "collection" of characters and "strategic" fun realized through team combination.

The game inherits the game mode of Call of the Demon Spirit: Battle of the Sky. It is not that some powerful demons have an absolute influence on the outcome of the game, but that they need to use a variety of attributes and skills strategically according to their opponents.

The Call of the Devil: The Battle of Kronecker will be released globally on March 9 this year based on the operating experience in South Korea and North America, supporting 14 languages including Chinese, which can be played on both PC and mobile phone.

Player comments:

-After waiting for many years, the demon spirit summons IP to keep up with the pace of the times. The painting style of the second element is very good, and the game begins with a bunch of demon spirits.

-Advantages: Real-time control of elf combat has certain operability and playability. Disadvantages: I’m here to play games, not to calculate which krypton project has the highest cost performance. In fact, if you only play PVE in this game, you should only smoke elves. Others are training materials that can be accumulated slowly. But with PVP, it will be very curly.

-the demon spirit summons in the same series of games, which is the benchmark! Kronikko Zhan Ji is … unremarkable in the same kind of games. Can only say that don’t look forward to the war discipline with the call of the demon spirit.

Zhang Wei

How to build the core competitiveness of the industry, create a good ecological environment, and promote the high-quality development of the cosmetics industry in China is a topic of concern at the "Oriental Beauty Valley International Cosmetics Conference 2023" held in Shanghai recently.

As the only "cosmetic industry capital of China" in China, Oriental Beauty Valley, located in Fengxian District, Shanghai, has gathered more than one third of cosmetics enterprises in Shanghai, with an industrial scale of nearly 100 billion yuan.

Beauty industry is at the forefront of fashion consumption.

Yolanda, secretary of Fengxian District Party Committee, said that in the past five years, Oriental Beauty Valley has been accelerating from the cosmetics capital of China to the cosmetics capital of the world. By 2022, the number of enterprises above designated size in the beauty and health industry in Oriental Beauty Valley has exceeded 230, and the number of cosmetics production enterprises accounts for 37% of Shanghai’s total, with sales accounting for 40% of the city’s total, and there are more than 3,000 cosmetics brands.

Yolanda said that Fengxian will actively integrate into the construction of Shanghai as an "international consumption center city", accelerate the gathering of innovative elements, vigorously support enterprises with underlying technologies and subversive projects, make every effort to create a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international first-class business environment, deepen industrial policies such as "fund+base", implement the "service package" system of enterprises, boost the healthy growth of enterprises, and promote Oriental Beauty Valley to become the innovation source, investment first choice and fashion consumption of beautiful and healthy industries.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce said at the meeting that consumption is an important engine of economic growth and a direct manifestation of people’s needs for a better life. In recent years, the cosmetics consumption market in China has become one of the most dynamic markets, with various new consumption hotspots and changes emerging one after another, with great development potential. Shanghai is speeding up the construction of an international consumption center city, creating a new global product launching place, a global consumption destination and a new landmark of international consumption. Among them, the beauty industry represented by cosmetics has been at the forefront of fashion consumption in China. Fengxian District has made great efforts to build a global launching place and demonstration area for new cosmetics products, and Oriental Beauty Valley has become an important business card representing the beautiful health industry in Shanghai and even China on the international stage. The Ministry of Commerce will continue to optimize consumption supply, improve consumption conditions, innovate consumption scenarios, and inject more new kinetic energy into the high-quality development of the beauty consumer goods industry.

Jointly create a good and orderly market environment

At the "Media Forum of 2023 Oriental Beauty Valley International Cosmetics Conference" held in the same period, participants pointed out that China’s cosmetics industry has developed rapidly and has risen to the second largest market in the world thanks to China’s consumption upgrading and the development of beauty social platforms. In 2022, the total retail sales of China’s cosmetics industry reached 393.56 billion yuan. With the all-round rise of the industry, the competition continues to intensify, and the relevant state departments have issued a series of policies and regulations, which put forward more standardized and standardized requirements for the supervision of the cosmetics industry. However, in the information age of "everyone is a microphone", there are many social media and voices from the media. The public opinion environment facing the development of domestic cosmetics brands is becoming increasingly complex, and the construction of industry brands is facing multiple challenges.

Xue Ke, deputy dean of the School of Cultural and Creative Industries of Shanghai Jiaotong University-University of Southern California, said that technology leads the beauty industry in today’s era, which has brought great influence and marketing changes in the development and dissemination of the beauty industry. The emergence of the era of big data can accurately locate consumer portraits, thus bringing new consumption characteristics to the beauty industry.

"The innovation of technical means such as" accurate portrait "and" immersion experience "on the Internet, the iteration of consumers, the ever-changing public opinion and the changes in market structure have all changed the pattern of the industry market environment. Faced with such changes, beauty companies need to respond to the new environment and new challenges with new ideas and new ideas, and do a good job in brand strategic positioning and brand management strategy from the aspects of creating the ultimate single product, product customization, integration and communication, and surrounding areas. " Xue ke said.

Based on the communication awareness and overall image building of the cosmetics industry, this media forum launched the "China Beauty Escort Action" and the "Joint Initiative of Cosmetic Integrity and Compliance Management" to help the industry develop well.

In response to some industry chaos such as false propaganda, over-packaging, and heavy money marketing, a number of enterprises issued the Joint Initiative on Integrity and Compliance Management of Cosmetics on the spot, and made initiatives from eight aspects, such as complying with the requirements of the Regulations on Cosmetics Supervision and Management and strictly implementing the national standards and related documents of Restricting Over-packaging Requirements of Commodities-Food and Cosmetics, to jointly create a good and orderly market environment and protect consumers’ rational consumption and legitimate rights and interests.

From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, after the anti-corruption "hurricane" that affected the management of the China Football Association to a great extent, Sun Junhao, a player of the Korean national team, was investigated, which proved his anti-corruption stance, Sean said. Report. Football fraud in China is in an unprecedented situation.

On May 16th, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yonhap News Agency, East Asia Daily, KBS, SBS TV and other mainstream Korean media reported that Song Junhao, a Korean foreign aid worker, had been detained by the China police in Taishan City, Shandong Province. On the same day, when answering questions from foreign journalists, it was reported that Sun Junhao had been detained by the Public Security Bureau of Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province since May 12th, and the Consulate General of South Korea had applied for consular visit on the 17th. China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin confirmed that a Korean citizen was criminally detained by the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Bureau on suspicion of accepting bribes. The Korean Embassy in China also confirmed that Sun Junhao was under investigation by the China police, but it was the first time in the history of China football that foreign aid involved in corruption and counterfeiting.

China national team coach Li Tie and some senior officials of the China Football Association have been investigated one after another, and the coaches and players of the China national team have also been investigated recently. Deep. The investigation of South Korean international Song Junhao is a symbolic event, which proves that the intensity and scope of this football liquidation operation are unprecedented. However, recent reports from Korean media and mainstream European sports media say that this attention is a proof of the strength of this anti-counterfeiting activity, and its shocking power is self-evident.

South Korean media did not pay much attention to the anti-corruption and anti-counterfeiting actions of China football management, but it was reported that South Korean national team player Song Junhao was being investigated by China police, which caused concern. Pay attention to Song Junhao and his fight against corruption and counterfeiting in China football. The South Korean Embassy in China and the Consulate General of Shenyang in China paid close attention to the arrest of Sun Junhao at the boarding gate of Shanghai Pudong Airport on the 12th, and met with members of the South Korean national team at Hao’s location. Criminal detention. Sun Zhuohao said that he was in good condition, but did not elaborate on the case under investigation as required by China law.

The Korean Football Association had previously written to the China Football Association, the Asian Football Association and FIFA, asking for cooperation in investigating Sun Junhao, but no response was received. In addition, the Korean Football Association also informed the South Korean team coach Klinsmann, who lives in the United States, about Song Junhao’s situation. The Korean Football Association announced that it would send two experts to Sun Xingyu’s detention place to provide him with necessary assistance according to the laws of China.

Sun Junhao’s Korean agent denied these allegations, saying that Sun Junhao was healthy and cheerful. The China agent who controlled Sun Junhao’s entry into Taishan Mountain was also brought in for investigation. As the investigation time dragged on, South Korea hired a local China lawyer to follow the progress of Sun Junhao’s case, which was a plan.

Fans in China are no strangers to the crime of accepting bribes from non-state officials. Because Qi Hong, Shen Xi and other players were convicted of such crimes in the previous lawsuit against gambling and cracking down on gangsters. Sun Zhuohao’s involvement in this case objectively proves that he is likely to participate in match-fixing and match-fixing like Qin Si and Qi Hong. Sun Zhuohao was taken to emergency headquarters, Liaoning Province, and before that, Hao Wei, Gu Chao, Jin Jingdao and other coaches and players were also investigated one after another, and it was this task force that shot. The task force has not officially announced the specific suspects involved. As the details of Sun Zhuohao’s situation gradually became clear, the focus of the Liaoning task force was on counterfeiting.

Korean media was shocked by Sun Junhao’s criminal detention investigation, but it was actually unnecessary. Football corruption and match-fixing are not uncommon in South Korea. In 2011, more than 50 people, including coaches, agents and club management, were killed in the K-League match-fixing scandal, which led to the suicide of two players and one player. Coaches and athletes are involved. People are on trial.

In 2017, South Korean football giant Jeonbuk Hyundai was deducted 9 points in the league for bribing the referee and was deprived of the AFC Champions League seat. At the end of March this year, the Korean Football Association pardoned 100 people who were disciplined by football, which caused strong dissatisfaction in Korean society, and 48 of them were punished for manipulating the game. In the end, the Korean Football Association took responsibility and resigned at once. It was not until May that the Korean Football Association was completely reorganized.

Sun Zhuohao’s criminal detention for investigation is the latest development of anti-corruption and anti-counterfeiting in football in China. It is only because of his status as a player of the Korean national team that he has received more extensive attention. Sun Zhuohao is just a small player in the background of anti-corruption and counterfeiting in China football. This not only proves that corruption and match-fixing in China football are infiltrating into foreign aid groups, but also proves that the scope of this attack is beyond the past and the intensity can be imagined.

The six-month-long "hurricane" against corruption and counterfeiting in football is still raging in China football. The constant censorship of football leaders, coaches, players and agents in China means that anti-corruption and anti-counterfeiting measures are still on the rise. For China football, which is currently at a low ebb, this is the only way to rebuild. China’s football will have a future only after it has thoroughly cracked down on crime and completely restored the industry atmosphere.

From scientist to entrepreneur, Yu Kai is not the first person to "run away" in the field of artificial intelligence.

Despite the previous achievements in scientific research, joining in entrepreneurship means facing the reality of bone feeling.

In March 2015, Yu Kai said in an interview: "If a business can get the resources it deserves to do what it wants, then choose to start a business; If you join a big platform and have more resources to do one thing, then join a big platform. " Sure enough, three months after that, he left Baidu and founded Horizon.

From the initial "no one pays the bill" to October this year, Horizon successfully won the investment of 2.4 billion euros from Volkswagen, setting the largest single investment record for Volkswagen in the past 40 years, and establishing a joint venture company with audi ag’s software company. The transformation of Yu Kai’s identity can be described as unsuccessful.

Before becoming the founder of Horizon, Yu Kai’s label was the top international scholar in the field of machine learning and the main promoter of deep learning technology in China. His published papers were cited more than 20,000 times, and he won the silver award for the best paper in ICML-2013 International Machine Learning Conference. He himself also served as the domain chairman of ICML and NIPS, two major conferences of machine learning.

Yu Kai’s achievements in the academic field go far beyond this.

NEC Research Institute of the United States was once one of the major centers of international machine learning research. During his tenure, Yu Kai established a highly prestigious technology research and development team in Silicon Valley. This team is one of the earliest and most active teams in the field of deep learning in the world. A series of technologies led and developed by him have pushed image object recognition to a new level worldwide, and won many international famous awards.

After joining Baidu in 2012, the voice technology team, deep learning technology team and image technology team led by Yu Kai won the "Baidu’s highest award" three times in succession, creating records of various technical and business teams within Baidu.

In the eyes of outsiders, Yu Kai at that time, both academically and professionally, was smooth sailing.

But at this time, he chose to start a business.

Yu Kai’s reason is straightforward: "In the past three years, what I have done at Baidu is to promote artificial intelligence in the cloud. But I think there will be a bigger trend in the next few years that I have to do: from artificial intelligence in the cloud to artificial intelligence around everyone. "

Therefore, Yu Kai, who has always believed in "doing things is the most important thing", founded Beijing Horizon Information Technology Co., Ltd. in July 2015, focusing on edge computing in the field of artificial intelligence.

From the moment the company was founded, in his own words: First of all, I will forget that I am a scientist more and more.

To be a scientist, you can put the mainexperienceDo research and write papers, but as an entrepreneur, you should focus more on business and customer needs.

Yu Kai has always wanted to grasp some "truth" things in this process, for example, things that can really create long-term value. With this idea in mind, at the beginning of Horizon’s establishment, he played the slogan of "making brains for machines", and avoided the edge of the field giants, took the edge computing route, and insisted on making AI chips.

It was really hard at first.

When recalling the initial stage of starting a business and determining the development direction, Yu Kai mentioned: At that time, we were predicting a far future, a future that might take 20 years as its dimension. From computers to smart phones, and beyond, what is a bigger computing platform than these? At that time, they were sure,beRobot computing platform. AI chip is the indispensable key to realize this calculation.

Now that we hear about AI chips, it’s needless to say its importance. But when Horizon was founded, not every investor could understand the "blueprint" in Yu Kai’s eyes. As a direct result, the horizon was once unsustainable. Until smart cars become "robots"calculate"The first and biggest landing scene at present, everyone began to understand that Yu Kai had bet on it.

In 2020, smart cars ushered in an outbreak period. As a result, there is a global "lack of core" in the automotive industry.question.

A chip with excellent computing power, like a smart brain, can accurately control the behavior of the vehicle. A series of functions, such as environmental awareness, route planning, driving assistance and so on, advertised by smart cars all need to rely on chips to be realized.

This is also consistent with what Yu Kai has always wanted to do. He has always believed that the real significance of artificial intelligence is not to survive and develop as the opposite of human life, but to support people’s decision-making and enhance their ability. Once the smart car scene is broken down, this ability will definitely spill over to others.floatApplication scenario of robot.

In August 2019, Horizon announced the mass production of China’s first car-class AI chip "Journey 2";

In September 2020, Horizon officially launched the AI chip "Journey 3";

In July, 2021, Horizon released "Journey 5", a high-performance and large-computing, full-scene intelligent central computing chip for the whole vehicle.

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Yu Kai once said, "The course of a scientist’s entrepreneurship is not based on business opportunities,FromStart in the future. "

This cooperation between Horizon and Volkswagen may be the next future in Yu Kai’s plan.

Recently, Yan Ning, a famous structural biologist, announced that he would resign from Princeton University and set up the Academy of Medical Sciences in Shenzhen. In response to the latest research that she will focus on when she returns to China, she said that the discovery of structural biology is of great significance to the pharmaceutical industry, including the research on the interaction between drugs and hormones, which has more implications for drug development and disease treatment.

Yan Ning said, for example, that through the method of structural biology, scientists saw for the first time that two commonly used drugs used protein as a "scaffold", which directly "side by side" affected the normal function of protein.

Technological change promotes the development of structural biology.

Protein, as the scaffold and main substance of human tissues and organs, plays an important role in human life activities. In the cell, a large number of protein elements form the molecular machines, which performs important molecular processes in the cell through the interaction of protein, including the cell’s response to the external environment and the internal environment, and also forms a signal transduction network system with the interaction of protein as a link.

Structure By studying the three-dimensional structure, dynamic process and biological function of biological macromolecules, biology can provide more details of protein interaction and real-time dynamic process, thus helping scientists to understand molecular mechanism and explore the pathogenesis of diseases related to macromolecular dysfunction.

The development of biology not only contributes to the discovery of drugs, but also affects the research fields of life sciences including biochemistry, cell biology, genetic development, neurobiology, microbiology and pathopharmacology.

The development of science and technology has been promoting the progress of structural biology. In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to cryoelectron microscopy, which can greatly improve the efficiency of analyzing the atomic resolution three-dimensional structure of large protein complexes; Moreover, researchers can freeze biomolecules in motion and visualize their motion process.

This breakthrough has brought a perfect storm to the field of structural biology. In recent years, important breakthroughs have been made in the field of life sciences. The work of China scientists such as Cheng Yifan, Shi Yigong, Yang Maojun and Liu Zhengfeng has also benefited from this technology. They have analyzed the important complex structure of atomic resolution. In addition, the enzyme that produces the protein that leads to Alzheimer’s syndrome was analyzed by cryomicroscope.

In August, 2015, Shi Yigong’s research team published an article in Nature, reporting the three-dimensional electron microscope structure of human γ -secretase with a resolution of 3.4 angstrom, and studying the function of the pathogenic mutant of γ -secretase based on the structure analysis, which provided an important foundation for understanding the working mechanism of γ -secretase and the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease.

In February, 2020, after the outbreak of COVID-19, the research team of West Lake University successfully analyzed the full-length structure of novel coronavirus receptor ACE2 for the first time by using cryo-electron microscopy, which helped the research and development of drugs in COVID-19.

What does AI predict protein folding change?

With the help of artificial intelligence technology, DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google, recently announced 220 million kinds of protein structures predicted by AlphaFold software, which shocked the field of structural biology, because it indicates that artificial intelligence enterprises have begun to "truly hand over the power of Al to scientists all over the world".

Scientists compare the significance of this disruptive breakthrough with the human genome project. In the 1990s, when the Human Genome Project began to take shape, scientists realized that it was not enough to master the base arrangement of genes, but also to know the protein, the product of genes.

Shi Yigong, academician of China Academy of Sciences, structural biologist and president of West Lake University, commented on AlphaFold’s work: "Its accurate prediction of protein structure is the greatest contribution of artificial intelligence to the scientific field, and it is also one of the most important scientific breakthroughs made by mankind in the 21st century."

Shi Yigong once told China Business News: "AlphaFold represents the world’s leading artificial intelligence protein organization prediction system." At the same time, he said, China’s high-tech enterprises are catching up, expecting to bring surprises to the world in the near future.

He also said that the improvement of the accuracy of protein structure prediction will greatly benefit the pharmaceutical industry. "Artificial intelligence prediction of protein structure provides an important foundation for drug design and optimization. The structure of drug target proteins combined with all small molecule drugs can almost be wiped out by AlphaFold. " Shi Yigong said.

In the opinion of some scientists, although AlphaFold’s work is shocking, the accuracy of drug research and development prediction is not enough. Professor Liu Zhijie, executive director of iHuman Institute, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, told the First Financial Reporter: "It has been a long time to predict the protein structure. Now the accuracy of the prediction is definitely getting higher and higher, but it still hasn’t reached the precision of crystal structure."

Liu Zhijie First Financial News told the reporter that the crystal structure is the most accurate, and now artificial intelligence can predict the protein folding with the accuracy of electron microscope and nuclear magnetic resonance. In addition, because there are thousands of structures in protein, the difficulty of analysis is different. "If some protein sequences are similar to the known structure of artificial intelligence, it is easier to predict." Liu Zhijie said.

However, he still believes that with the continuous improvement of the prediction accuracy of protein folding, it will play a more important role in the field of life sciences in the future. "If the current prediction can reach the accuracy of electron microscope, some drugs can already be designed. Drug design is the biggest application field of artificial intelligence protein folding prediction." Said to Liu Zhijie First Financial Reporter.

Others think that with the development of artificial intelligence, there may not be so many structural biologists in the future. "Many researchers who do structural biology are actually more like technical service personnel. The more people there are, the more structures that can be analyzed. Therefore, in essence, a large part of their work depends on manpower. Now with AI, it is true that a large number of people who do structural biology have changed careers." A virus researcher told the First Financial News reporter.

However, for top structural biologists such as Shi Yigong, technology is only a powerful support for the "top brain", which can help them realize more ideas. "Every conscientious biologist should know how to make good use of the structural prediction of artificial intelligence." Shi Yigong said.

Professor Michael Levitt, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013, told China Business News: "I think many structural biologists are not only doing structural research, but also doing a lot of work on protein function and drug research and development, just like Professor Yan Ning. Artificial intelligence only liberates a part of traditional manpower, but the progress of science still needs to rely on the smartest human brain. I’m afraid that artificial intelligence alone will not work. "

In recent years, a number of AI pharmaceutical companies have also been born in China. In this regard, Ewing Nan, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Beijing Institute of Scientific Intelligence, pointed out to the First Financial Reporter: "The emergence of AI for Science research paradigm is an important historical opportunity for scientific and technological innovation, which not only expands the capability boundary of data-driven and physical model-driven models, but also is expected to promote the organic combination of the two, provide theoretical basis for further solving practical problems, and greatly narrow the distance between scientific research and practical application."

Ding Yan Yuhang, a Shandong player who hasn’t updated his personal social dynamics for a long time, recently updated his personal social media. He took a big photo of the China men’s basketball team participating in this World Cup qualifier, and gave his best wishes to his friends. Originally, this was a perfectly normal dynamic, but some fans thought that Ding Yanyuhang was rubbing against the popularity of China men’s basketball team. In fact, it was a bit unfair to Ding Yanyuhang. After all, Xiaoding’s wishes for the national team and friends were sincere, and fans should not be mixed with too much personal feelings.

For Ding Yan Yuhang, some fans also very much hope that he can return to the national team. It is also a great encouragement for Ding Yan Yuhang to see that Abdul Salamu, who has suffered serious injuries like him, has already returned to the national team. Du Feng has also given all players a chance. After all, it is the greatest honor for a player to play for the national team, and it is also a very confidence-boosting thing to have the opportunity to enter the national team after a serious injury.

Recently, there are a lot of news about China men’s basketball team, one of which makes the fans very worried. That is, when qi zhou participated in nbl preseason, many of their opponents were found to have COVID-19. qi zhou, as a close contact, is likely to be isolated and missed. However, recently, some media broke the news that qi zhou appeared in China men’s basketball team’s training abroad, which broke the previous rumor that qi zhou would miss the preliminaries. China men’s basketball team has been sent to the strongest team in the world, hoping that they can break into the final with all their might.

The second phase of the cba is about to start, and wcba has already gone through six rounds. Compared with the attention of CBA in China, there are few fans in wcba. Up to now, three teams in WCBA have maintained an unbeaten record this season, namely the defending champion Inner Mongolia team, Sichuan team and Shandong team. In the first six rounds, Inner Mongolia team beat their opponents by a big score, and their biggest competitor this season is Sichuan team, which is temporarily ranked third.

In fact, after seeing the lineups of the two teams, the fans were not surprised why the two teams competed for the championship. Together, the two teams gathered a total of 17 national players. The Inner Mongolia team gathered 9 national players including Li Yueru, Yang Liwei, Huang Sijing, Zhao Shuang, Zhang Ru, Pan Zhenqi, Ma Xueya, Wei Wei and Li Yifan, while the Sichuan team had Han Xu, Wu Di, Shao Ting, Li Meng, Sun Mengran, Li Shanshan and so on.

In today’s cba league, Guangdong men’s basketball team and Liaoning men’s basketball team are still the two strongest teams. Compared with the 11th championship of Guangdong men’s basketball team, Liaoning men’s basketball team has won the championship of cba league only once, but the runner-up has won many times, which has also been criticized by many fans. Liaoning fans who are very unconvinced listed the past record of Liaoning team, and the time goes back to the national basketball championship in 1985. As we all know, cba league only has a history of more than twenty years. Here

According to the statistics of the fans, since 1985, Liaoning men’s basketball team has won 12 championships in many competitions, such as the National Basketball Championship, the National Basketball League, the National North-South Championship, the National Games, the Asian Club Cup, cba, Extraordinary 12, etc. From this figure, it has indeed surpassed Guangdong’s 11 championships. In fact, just from the data point of view, it can’t explain too many problems. After all, the glory created by our predecessors has become.

On the afternoon of November 4th, 2022,Under the guidance of Futian District Talent Bureau, the Smart City Special Session of Zhichuang AI-AI+Industry Summit sponsored by Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, Gongdadi Innovation Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. and Guangzhou Yingma Information Technology Co., Ltd. was successfully held.

The talent development activity of "Zhichuang AI" is one of the series of activities of "Endeavour New Journey to Spend Talent Day" in Futian District in 2022. It gathers professionals from enterprises in artificial intelligence industry, focuses on AI industry ecology and artificial intelligence industry chain, shares cutting-edge perspectives and talks about new opportunities for artificial intelligence development. With the theme of "Smart Convergence into a City, Winning the Future", this forum focuses on the smart city field, and faces software developers, system integrators and hardware providers in smart city transportation, urban management and other fields, bringing together enterprise representatives and industry elites with AI intelligent upgrade requirements, and connecting upstream and downstream business opportunities, industrial landing experience and other all-round resources to jointly explore the development direction of urban scene application.

Zhao Cong, CEO of Gongda, Liang Hongbo, General Manager of Yingma Technology, and Lang Liping, Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association delivered speeches for the event; Li Sunan, Senior Marketing Director of Gongda, Lu Zhitao, Director of AI Scene Application Division of English Code Technology, Yan Weijie, Manager of Qianshitong Solutions Department, and Liu Rongjie, Product Director of Gongda attended the event and delivered speeches, and had in-depth interactive exchanges with business representatives and industry elites in the smart city field on the key technologies, scenes and needs of smart city development.

This activity focused on key technologies and fields such as visual AI, intelligent transportation, intelligent security, AI computing power, etc., and invited more than 60 enterprises to participate in the in-depth discussion of hot and difficult issues in the construction and promotion of smart cities. At the same time, the live broadcast of the event attracted nearly 3,000 participants. Through this activity, participating enterprises share their experience in AI construction of smart cities, combine the digital and intelligent transformation needs of their fields, make all-round docking of related resources, jointly explore the development trend of smart cities, and jointly promote the high-quality development of artificial intelligence industry.