At present, some unscrupulous operators sell fake and shoddy drugs by packaging them as "magic doctors" and "magic medicines", fooling the elderly into buying them and illegally seeking huge profits.In this regard, the China Consumers Association reminds elderly consumers to improve their awareness of risk prevention and self-protection ability.

Drugs without an approval number are counterfeit. Don’t buy drugs through informal channels.

First, we should buy drugs through regular channels such as hospitals and pharmacies, and carefully check the approval number of drugs. Except for Chinese herbal medicines and Chinese herbal pieces that are not subject to examination and approval management, drugs listed in China shall be approved by the drug supervision and administration department of the State Council, and can be listed only after obtaining the drug registration certificate and approval number, so as to ensure the safety, effectiveness and quality controllability of drugs. Consumers should try to choose hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and other formal places (including e-commerce platforms) that hold the Drug Business License and Business License to buy drugs, and carefully check the approval number (national medicine quasi-font number) and expiration date of drugs. Consumers can make inquiries and verification on the website of National Medical Products Administration. Consumers should never buy drugs that have no approval number or can’t find the information of national medicine quasi-brand name on National Medical Products Administration website, so as to avoid being infringed by counterfeit drugs.

In May, 2021, Wenzhou Market Supervision Bureau of Zhejiang Province announced a typical case of "Iron Fist" action in the field of people’s livelihood in the city recently, one of which was "Longwan District Market Supervision Bureau investigated and dealt with Yang Mobin’s suspected case of producing and selling counterfeit drugs". On February 25th, 2021, law enforcement officers of Yongxing Institute of Longwan District Market Supervision Bureau inspected Yang Mobin’s residence according to the report clues, and found 8 bottles of "new gout specific medicine", and the outer packaging was marked with "Function indication: acute and chronic gout, this medicine has the effects of expelling wind and removing dampness, dispelling cold and relieving pain & HELIP; …” Words such as, in line with the definition of drug, but the product has not obtained the drug approval document. The above drugs were tested by Wenzhou Food and Drug Inspection Science Research Institute, and dexamethasone was detected. Yang Mobin’s act of selling the above-mentioned counterfeit drugs is suspected of violating the provisions of Article 141 of the Criminal Law, which constitutes the crime of selling counterfeit drugs. At present, the case has been transferred to Longwan Branch of Wenzhou Public Security Bureau for investigation according to law.

Foods with significant medical effects are likely to be illegally added with drugs.Products are harmful to health.

Food is not medicine, and it has no effect on treating diseases. For some "foods" that claim to be able to treat diseases, they are either false propaganda or drugs are probably illegally added. Long-term consumption of such "food" will bring great health risks to consumers.

Among the typical cases of the fourth batch of 2021 cases in the field of people’s livelihood investigated and dealt with by the General Administration of Market Supervision on August 24th, there was a case in which the Market Supervision Bureau of Jiyuan City, Henan Province investigated and dealt with Huang and others selling illegally added drugs and food. On July 5, 2021, Jiyuan Municipal Market Supervision Bureau received complaints from consumers, saying that the pollen yam tablet candy it bought in Huangmou had a very good hypoglycemic effect after taking it, but at the same time there were a series of adverse reactions. After inspection, glibenclamide was detected in the product. Glibenclamide is a prescription western medicine with obvious hypoglycemic effect. Because of the obvious side effects, long-term large-scale use will cause hypoglycemia and kidney disease, and even lead to death, so the drug can only be used by specific people and needs to be taken under the guidance of a doctor. The behavior of the parties concerned is suspected of violating the provisions of Article 38 of the Food Safety Law "No drugs shall be added to the food produced and operated" and the provisions of Article 144 of the Criminal Law, which constitutes toxic and harmful food in production and sales. At present, the case has been transferred to the public security organs.

"imperial doctor"The "magic medicine" is a false advertisement. Don’t lose your health in pursuit of it.

In order to obtain economic benefits, some unscrupulous operators publish false and illegal advertisements involving traditional Chinese medicine, and induce consumers to buy and use them through false or exaggerated curative effects. This behavior not only affects the healthy and orderly development of Chinese medicine, but also adversely affects the life, health and safety of consumers.

In the fifth batch of typical cases of investigating and handling "Tiequan" in 2021 people’s livelihood cases announced by the General Administration of Market Supervision on September 29, there was a case that "Qilihe District Market Supervision Bureau of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province investigated and dealt with the false advertising case published by Gansu Zhuoyuantang Internet Hospital Co., Ltd. according to law". On March 17, 2021, the Qilihe District Market Supervision Bureau conducted an on-site inspection of Meilin County Chinese Medicine Clinic of Gansu Zhuoyuantang Internet Hospital Co., Ltd. according to the clues reported, and found a large number of "Product Introduction — Ninger Formula, Product Introduction — The advertising materials of the product "Huofei Prescription" are printed with the words "ancient prescription and ancient method for collecting and processing drugs". After investigation, the company published "Lanzhou Zhuoyuantang Chinese Medicine Museum — — The article "Pioneer of online diagnosis and treatment" promotes "the annual number of medical visits is more than 100,000"; The first online consultation Internet hospital in Lanzhou — 　 — The article "Zhuoyuantang Chinese Medicine Hospital" promotes "specially invited Chinese medicine academicians, Chinese medicine masters and outstanding Chinese medicine experts inside and outside the province" and other contents. At the same time,The company’s customer service staff publicized "guarantee never to recur" to patients through online consultation; We use the secret recipe for more than 200 years ","the average cure rate is over 95% "and" to ensure that it will never recur; There are hundreds of thousands of rehabilitation cases and so on. The company’s advertising is inconsistent with the facts and seriously misleads the public. The above-mentioned behavior of the parties violates the relevant provisions of Articles 16 and 28 of the Advertising Law and is an illegal act of publishing false advertisements. Qilihe District Market Supervision Bureau imposed an administrative penalty of 800,000 yuan on the parties according to law.

　　Cctv newsBeijing Meteorological Observatory issued a blue warning signal for cold wave at 10: 10 on February 18, 2024.

　　Affected by cold air, it is expected that there will be cold wave weather in Beijing from the night of the 18th to the 20th, and the minimum temperature will drop by 8℃, and the minimum temperature in the plain will drop to around -5℃. From the evening of 18th to 19th, the gust can reach about 7, so please take precautions.

　　A few days ago, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) voted to completely ban illegal wildlife trade, get rid of the bad habit of eating wild animals, and effectively protect people’s lives, health and safety.

　　This decision is obviously closely related to the COVID-19 epidemic. So, what is the relationship between Covid-19 transmission and wildlife?

　　Let’s sort out the recent related scientific research results.

　　On February 24th, a piece of news caught people’s attention. The National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) voted to pass a decision on completely banning illegal wildlife trade, getting rid of the bad habit of eating wild animals, and effectively protecting people’s lives, health and safety. A system of completely prohibiting the consumption of wild animals has been established. In violation of the existing laws and regulations, the punishment should be aggravated on the basis of the existing laws.

　　At present, under the situation that the whole country is playing chess and fighting against the COVID-19 epidemic, this decision is obviously closely related to the COVID-19 epidemic.

　　Bats may be the source of Covid-19.

　　Humans are no strangers to infectious diseases caused by coronavirus. The SARS coronavirus, which was prevalent in winter of 2002 to 2003, was confirmed to have originated from the natural host bat, passed through the intermediate host civet cats and then passed on to humans. MERS coronavirus discovered in 2012, namely Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, was also considered to have originated from natural host bats and spread to humans through intermediate host camels.

　　Since the winter of 2019, novel coronavirus, whose infection scale far exceeds that of SARS and MERS, has been transmitted to human beings through what channels?

　　Because of the lessons of SARS and MERS, scientists naturally set their sights on bats first.

　　Shi Zhengli’s team from Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper in the form of preprint on bioRxiv website on January 23rd, and this paper was published online by the top academic journal Nature on February 3rd. In this paper, the research team compared the novel coronavirus genome extracted from patients with severe pneumonia with the coronavirus gene sequence carried by a bat in the early laboratory, and found that the whole genome sequence of RaTG13 coronavirus in this bat was as consistent as 96.2% with novel coronavirus infected by human.

　　This means that the natural host of Wuhan novel coronavirus is probably a bat!

　　RaTG13, a virus closely related to bats, is the ancestral virus of novel coronavirus, which is derived from a coronavirus of China Jutoubat, which was discovered by Shi Zhengli’s team when sampling in Yunnan.

　　Moreover, novel coronavirus’s infection with humans needs to go through the pathway of ACE2 receptor. The similarity between the ACE2 receptor of China Jutous Bat and the human ACE2 receptor is consistent with the potential intermediate host other than other non-human primates. This shows that novel coronavirus, from bat virus to human infection, may not need an intermediate host, but can directly infect humans from bats.

　　In China, the hibernation period of bats is from December to late February. At first, people thought that the virus began to spread at the end of December last year, so the possibility of direct transmission from bats to people was ruled out. However, with more and more retrospective case studies, people found that novel coronavirus had been passed on to people as early as last November. Then, it is possible to pass it directly from bats to people.

　　For example, in a paper published on the website of ChinaXiv on February 21st, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of China Academy of Sciences, South China Agricultural University and Beijing Brain Center excavated the source and transmission path of Covid-19 from genome data. The researchers collected 93 genome data of novel coronavirus from 12 countries in 4 continents. According to the genome calculation, Covid-19 has undergone two large-scale expansions, one of which was on December 8, 2019.

　　It is inferred that the virus began to spread from person to person at least in early December 2019 or even in late November. Obviously, the virus should be transmitted from animals to people before human transmission. In other words, Covid-19 will be transmitted from animal hosts to humans no later than November 2019.

　　Pangolin may be the intermediate host of Covid-19.

　　At present, the academic circles still accept the conclusion that Covid-19 originated from bats and bats are its natural hosts, but there is no conclusion as to whether Covid-19 directly passed from bats to humans.

　　Many of the early cases of Covid-19 were related to the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, where there were a lot of wildlife transactions. China Center for Disease Control and Prevention also reported that Covid-19 was detected in environmental samples obtained from this market. More than 10 years ago, a similar wildlife market has been proved to be related to the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003, so wild animals probably participated in the spread of Covid-19.

　　At present, many scientists are looking for intermediate hosts in Covid-19, among which pangolin is the most likely candidate animal for intermediate hosts in Covid-19.

　　Among the papers speculating that pangolin is an intermediate host, two papers are most worthy of attention at present.

　　On February 18th, Professor Guan Yi from the School of Medicine of Hong Kong University and Hu Yanling from Guangxi Medical University published a paper on bioRxiv, a pre-printed website of medical papers, saying that genome sequencing showed that coronavirus was found in Malay pangolins smuggled from Southeast Asia intercepted in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the similarity with Covid-19 was between 85.5% and 92.4%. The paper holds that the coronavirus pedigrees found in pangolin are very similar to those in Covid-19, and pangolin should be regarded as a possible intermediate host in Covid-19, and it should be forbidden to be sold in fresh markets to prevent the spread of zoonotic diseases.

　　It was South China Agricultural University that first proposed that Malayan pangolin was an intermediate host. On February 7th, South China Agricultural University announced this research result: Pangolin is a potential intermediate host in novel coronavirus. Researchers from South China Agricultural University, such as Shen Yongyi and Xiao Lihua, joined hands with Yang Ruifu, a researcher from the Academy of Military Medicine, and Chen Wu, a senior veterinarian from the Scientific Research Department of Guangzhou Zoo to tackle the problem. By analyzing the virus genome, they found that the virus strain isolated from pangolin was 99% similar to the virus strain currently infecting people, and the receptor binding domains of the two viruses were similar.

　　In the preprint of the paper published later, they claimed that pangolin coronavirus was highly related to Covid-19. In particular, the receptor binding domain of pangolin coronavirus S protein is almost the same as that of novel coronavirus in 2019, with only one amino acid difference.

　　The paper also puts forward important serological evidence, that is, the coronavirus antibody in pangolin’s peripheral blood can bind to Covid-19. Moreover, pangolin infected by virus shows pathological changes and clinical symptoms similar to those of human beings.

　　In this paper, the author also boldly infers that the comparison of existing genomes shows that novel coronavirus in 2019 may have originated from the recombination of pangolin coronavirus and bat coronavirus RaTG13.

　　The paper also said that if the wildlife trade is not effectively controlled, the newly discovered coronavirus may pose a continuous threat to public health.

　　Wild animals are virus reservoirs.

　　What changes did novel coronavirus go through before it was brought into Wuhan and broke out in the crowd?

　　According to the evidence that scientists are looking for now, it may have originated from bats and spread directly to humans; It may also originate from the recombination of bat coronavirus and pangolin coronavirus, and then spread to humans through pangolin.

　　But to be sure, this is not the first or the last virus transmitted from animals to humans. In just 20 years of this century, there have been three kinds of new coronavirus epidemics: SARS, MERS and novel coronavirus.

　　In fact, it is not only the SARS virus and Covid-19 that have caused great losses to our country that are closely related to wildlife. Wild animals are the natural hosts of many serious emerging diseases. Statistics show that at present, 70% of new infectious diseases come from wild animals.

　　For example, natural reservoir, a bat that attracts much attention, has more than 100 kinds of viruses. They can carry many deadly viruses that are very dangerous to people, such as Ebola virus, Marburg virus, SARS virus, MERS coronavirus, Hendra virus and Nipah virus, but they don’t get sick themselves. This may be related to bat’s unique "all-weather" immune system.

　　"We all live on the virus planet, and wild animals are the reservoirs of these viruses." Nathan Wolf, Ph.D. in immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard University, once said this in "The Virus Attacks: How to Deal with the Outbreak of the Next Epidemic".

　　In our country, people have the backward concept of "eat what you eat to make up for what you eat", and there is also the mentality of eating novelty. All kinds of game are served on the table, and all kinds of wildlife trade are repeatedly banned. These invisible dangerous viruses will mutate in various trading links of wild animals and break through the species barrier — — From animal infectious diseases to human infectious diseases. With the increase of population density, the continuous progress of urbanization and the continuous improvement of the convenience of the national transportation network, once the relevant epidemic situation occurs, it will easily turn into a huge disaster and cause huge losses.

　　Although the relevant law enforcement agencies in China have made a series of achievements in prohibiting illegal hunting, breeding, transportation, trading and smuggling of wild animals, due to the lack of ideas and weak market supervision, there are still chaos such as openly selling wild animals and their products, and illegal hunting, transportation and trading of wild animals for the purpose of eating. However, the current Criminal Law and the Wildlife Protection Law lack or are insufficient in provisions on the consumption of wild animals, and the scope and intensity of sanctions are very limited.

　　We expect that, after the passage of the relevant bills banning the consumption of wild animals in an all-round way and severely cracking down on illegal wildlife trading, we will strengthen law enforcement in order to safeguard public health safety and ecological safety legally and in compliance, and prevent the recurrence of epidemics such as SARS and novel coronavirus.

　　Respecting nature, adapting to nature and protecting nature, and making "protecting wild animals and guarding against cross-species transmission of viruses" become the idea of each of us, which is the lesson we should learn from this novel coronavirus epidemic.

What’s your first reaction when you mention Shijiazhuang?

Xibaipo, industrial city, drug capital, Zhengding County, Zhao Zhouqiao … Different people may give different answers.

In recent years, Shijiazhuang has a young, dynamic and energetic business card, which is being known by more and more people-"Rock Home Town Rock City".

"Zhuang" is burning and hi.

On the stage, Miserable Faith, the lead singer, shouted "Shijiazhuang", and the fans in the audience responded to "Rock and Roll" in unison, and repeated several times to push the atmosphere to a climax. This is the scene at the end of Hutuo Music Festival on October 15, 2023. Even though the lights have been extinguished, the audience still refuses to disperse. The author stood among tens of thousands of people, infected by this atmosphere, and shouted "Shijiazhuang!" "Rock and roll!"

Nearly a year later, this music festival, with an audience of 62,000 and foreign fans accounting for 70%, is still talked about by people.

Looking back on 2023, Shijiazhuang invited more than 130 famous rock bands to perform more than 100 rock music performances for the benefit of the people, attracting more than 1 million fans. Many large-scale music performances such as Shijiazhuang Original Music Festival, Hutuo Music Carnival and Hutuo Music Festival brought audio-visual feasts to fans.

In 2024, Shijiazhuang Rock will continue!

In front of long summer this year, the performance of "Passionate Summer Night" kicked off at the Wanli Temple Pedestrian Street in Shijiazhuang. "Friends of Shijiazhuang, are you ready?" "Ready!"

"I really look forward to it for a long time and feel very excited." Liu Yilin, a college student, said, "I have brushed a lot of videos of Shijiazhuang rock music performance season before, and I feel particularly burning and embarrassed. I finally came to the scene, and this impact is stronger."

"I love rock music! I love Shijiazhuang! " On May 4th, 2024 Shijiazhuang Original Music Festival kicked off in Shijiazhuang Industrial Heritage Park, and the Melody Band made a passionate debut, and the dynamic melody instantly mobilized the atmosphere of the audience. Xiaoyu band blended flute and guzheng into rock music, and the audience lamented that "rock music can still be played like this". Relativity Band and Hanggai band made their final appearance, which pushed the atmosphere to a climax. In this ruins park with the style of "Cyberpunk", rock lights up the night sky.

On the evening of August 3rd, the lights were colorful, the music was dynamic, the stage was gorgeous, and the fluorescence was flashing. The rock music performance "Between Mountains and Waters" was performed in the Fanpai Sports Park in Yuanshi County, Shijiazhuang, and the wharf French fries band and the shining band took turns to appear. The songs such as "Sudden Self", "Train Diary" and "Anti-war" triggered the chorus of the audience.

It’s more than that. In Xinle City, Jingxing County, Shijiazhuang, in characteristic commercial districts, summer beer gardens and commercial complexes, multi-point and continuous rock performances are on the scene. From the end of April to September this year, Shijiazhuang plans to organize 80 performances of "Passionate Summer Night" and "Weekend Lawn" in five districts of the city; From the end of April to October, 120 performances between mountains and rivers were organized in scenic spots, campsites, self-driving RV camps, county-level characteristic commercial streets and night economic gathering areas.

"Through three forms: weekend lawn, passionate summer night and mountains and rivers, Shijiazhuang has made rock music performances for the benefit of the people into open green spaces, parks, characteristic commercial blocks, commercial complexes and scenic spots, cultivated new cultural consumption formats, and further enriched people’s cultural life." Han Zhenmin, deputy director of Shijiazhuang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, introduced strawberry music festival and new youth rock music festival to unlock the new mode of "music+cultural travel" and expand the new experience of people’s cultural life.

Why Shijiazhuang?

"I got off work at 6 o’clock in the evening, changed my clothes in the pharmaceutical factory, my wife was cooking porridge, and I went to drink a few bottles of beer." "The high school attached to Hebei Normal University, the table tennis teenager turned his back on me, silently watched, and couldn’t leave the classroom."

Omnipotent youth society Band was born in Shijiazhuang, and its songs are also sung in Shijiazhuang. The narrative style and singing method make this song always have a high degree of singing.

When Shijiazhuang showed its "Rock Home Town" business card, it was also questioned: Why is Shijiazhuang a rock city?

From the perspective of development, Popular Songs, dubbed as "the first issue of Chinese rock", was born in Shijiazhuang in 1986, and since then, I love rock music was born here. Music critic Red Tide once said in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Popular Songs: The position of this pamphlet in the Chinese rock music scene is equivalent to the nine-year compulsory education of rock music, which has made great contributions to the enlightenment and popularization of rock music.

The rich rock soil has produced many famous rock musicians in Shijiazhuang. In addition, there are dozens of rock bands active in Shijiazhuang all the year round. Besides omnipotent youth society, Click#15 and Penicillin also have deep roots with Shijiazhuang.

"The audience in Shijiazhuang is very enthusiastic, and the rock atmosphere in this city is great!" Shao Zhuang, the lead singer of Relativity Band, is a native of Shijiazhuang and has been engaged in rock music for more than 20 years. He said: "Shijiazhuang is closely related to rock music, and many excellent bands have emerged here. Now Shijiazhuang is vigorously building a’ rock city’, and we musicians also very much hope to contribute to our hometown. "

The strong support of Shijiazhuang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government is also an important factor. In 2021, the work report of the municipal government proposed to create a new fashion of modern music with "Rock Home Town" as a unique brand. In the government work report of 2024, it was proposed that the IP of two major cities of "music" and "sports" should be continuously built, and the seven aspects of "people, music, teams, instruments, venues, meetings and standards" should be exerted, and music training, musical instrument rental and sales, theater performances and other formats should be concentrated in Heping East Road area; Invite internationally renowned bands to hold rock music season regularly and polish the brand of "Rock Home Town".

Not just rock and roll.

What has the Rock City brought to Shijiazhuang?

Show charm. Doing a good job in "Rock+"articles and deeply integrating catering, cultural tourism, shopping and other diversified formats, Shijiazhuang has planned and launched a series of measures to promote the integration and consumption of cultural tourism, such as subway delay, bus line, rock gift package and scenic spot discount. "The realization of rock elements all over the city, rock images can be seen everywhere, and the topic of rock is constantly hot, which has aroused widespread concern and deep resonance in the whole society." Zhang Hui, Party Secretary of Shijiazhuang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, said that it is necessary to create a strong atmosphere of Shijiazhuang’s "Rock Home Town" in China, highlight the brand concept, brand value and brand image of Shijiazhuang’s "Rock City", and make Shijiazhuang a charming city integrating music, entertainment, food and tourism.

Gather popularity. According to the data of "Rock Home Town" in 2023-"Rock City" in China, more than 100 music performances attracted more than 1 million people. During the performance season, the night passenger flow of more than 160 enterprises in Shijiazhuang increased significantly, and the night sales accounted for 33% of the whole day’s turnover, up 14% year-on-year.

From the Spring Festival to the May Day holiday, the tourist popularity of Shijiazhuang has steadily increased on the basis of the previous high level, and Zhengding Ancient City has become one of the popular attractions in China.

At the 2023 Hutuo Salon Music Festival Roundtable Dialogue on Industrial Development, experts attending the meeting believed that Shijiazhuang brought music into people’s lives, which not only stimulated the vitality of the city, but also promoted the development of cultural tourism, commerce and other industries.

Promote consumption. Listening to rock and roll, visiting ancient cities and enjoying beautiful scenery have become a must for many fans. "I watched the passionate rock music performance in the evening and came to Zhengding Ancient City to punch in during the day." Liu Xiaodong, a tourist from Guangxi, said that he came for a rock performance, but he didn’t want the local characteristic culture to be very attractive.

During the Strawberry Music Festival in Shijiazhuang and the concert tour in Angela Zhang this year, about 440,000 tourists from other places came to Shijiazhuang, which directly led to the consumption of transportation, accommodation, catering, tourism and shopping of about 240 million yuan.

"Rock T-shirts, rock badges and rock wenchuang ice cream are fans’ favorite’ three-piece sets’. We have designed more than 90 rock element cultural and creative products in 20 categories. " Zhai Kaikuang, general manager of Shijiazhuang Rock City Brand Management Co., Ltd. said that at present, they have set up fixed sales points in Shijiazhuang Liberation Memorial Hall and some hotels, and opened online sales.

Revitalize industries. With the goal of industrialization, the city plans to build Shijiazhuang "Town" series performance space cluster and promote the infrastructure construction of the music industry. We will gradually develop the Shigang Industrial Ruins Park and the Mian Yi Mian Er Lao Factory, and strive to create a music art space integrating exhibition, creation and performance around the industrial elements of "performance".

In addition to tangible results, rock and roll brings Shijiazhuang more promotion of city image and reputation. In the view of Zhang Fan, president of Midi Music School, Shijiazhuang created a new IP of the city by holding a rock music performance season, which enhanced the city’s popularity and reputation, and made a large number of fans come to Shijiazhuang to learn about Shijiazhuang, making the city more dynamic and passionate.

"The music festival with the theme of rock and roll attracted bands and music lovers from all over the country to participate, which enhanced the popularity and influence of Shijiazhuang and injected new vitality into urban development." Zhang Yawen, deputy general manager of Shijiazhuang Wenlv Investment Group Culture and Sports Company, said.

After beginning of autumn, the North China Plain is slightly autumn, but Shijiazhuang Rock is still online, with full firepower to build a "music" city IP, showing a new impression and new symbol of self-confidence, vitality and openness. Once an industrial city, with the help of this new business card of rock and roll, it is moving towards a modern, international and beautiful provincial capital city that is "proud of locals and yearned for by outsiders".

Opinions of the General Office of Hunan Provincial People’s Government on the Implementation of Several Provisions on the Safety Management of Residents’ Self-built Houses in Hunan Province

Xiang Zheng Ban Fa [2023] No.7

The people’s governments of cities, counties and cities, the provincial government departments and commissions, and the directly affiliated institutions:

　　"Several Provisions on the Safety Management of Residents’ Self-built Houses in Hunan Province" (hereinafter referred to as "Several Provisions") was adopted at the 34th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th People’s Congress of Hunan Province on November 23, 2022, and shall come into force on January 1, 2023. In order to do a good job in the implementation of the "Several Provisions", this opinion is formulated with the consent of the provincial people’s government.

　　I. General requirements

　　We will fully implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress and the important instructions of the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader on safety in production, especially the safety of residents’ self-built houses, coordinate development and safety, strictly implement the responsibility of territorial management, strengthen the responsibility of departmental guidance and supervision, compact the main responsibility of those responsible for housing use safety, establish and improve the working system of coordinated joint control, full chain control and closed-loop control, promote the normal and long-term safety management of residents’ self-built houses, and effectively protect the safety of people’s lives and property.

　　Second, the main task

　　(A) to strengthen land planning and construction management

　　1. Strict planning and control. Strictly implement the land and space planning, and basically complete the planning of towns and villages before the end of 2023 to achieve full coverage of village planning; Strengthen the preparation and implementation of detailed planning, clarify the controlling indicators such as land use scope, height and number of floors, strictly implement the provisions that "no new residents’ self-built houses shall be built within the current construction land of cities and counties" and "no new residents’ self-built houses shall generally exceed three floors", and strengthen the control over the number of floors and height of residents’ self-built houses. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Natural Resources, people’s governments of cities, counties and cities. The following shall be the responsibility of the people’s governments of cities, counties and cities, and will not be listed)

　　2. Improve site selection and land use approval services. Carry out risk investigation in areas prone to geological disasters, and formulate risk zoning and control measures; Guide the rational delineation of the scope of construction land, and strengthen the approval of land use and planning for new construction, renovation (expansion) construction and reconstruction of residents’ self-built houses; Guide the Township People’s Government to do a good job in issuing the approval letter of rural homestead. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Natural Resources and Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Involving multiple provincial units, each unit is responsible for the division of responsibilities, the same below).

　　3. Standardize construction approval and supervision. City, state, county and city people’s governments, township people’s governments and sub-district offices shall strengthen the capacity building of residents’ self-built housing safety supervision, and clarify the supervision institutions and personnel. For self-built houses built by residents with three floors or above, if the project investment is more than 300,000 yuan or the construction area is more than 300 square meters (referred to as "self-built houses built by residents above the quota"), the new construction, renovation (expansion) construction and reconstruction shall go through the procedures of construction drawing review, quality and safety supervision, construction permit, completion acceptance and filing according to law, and the county-level housing and urban construction departments shall strengthen daily supervision; Other residents’ self-built houses (hereinafter referred to as "self-built houses for residents below the quota") shall be supervised by the county-level housing and urban-rural construction departments to the township people’s governments and sub-district offices for quality and safety, and random checks shall be conducted according to a certain proportion. The provincial housing and urban-rural construction department shall formulate the management measures for the completion and acceptance of residents’ self-built houses below the "quota" before June 30, 2023, and guide the quality and safety acceptance of residents’ self-built houses in the province. Implement the system of permanent signs embedded in residents’ self-built houses, and implement the main responsibilities related to housing quality and safety. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)

　　4. Do a good job in information sharing of residents’ self-built houses. Township People’s governments and sub-district offices shall timely send a copy of the construction information of each new building, renovation (expansion) building and reconstruction of residents’ self-built houses to the departments of county-level natural resources, urban and rural housing construction, agriculture and rural areas, urban management and comprehensive law enforcement, and form an information sharing and linkage supervision mechanism. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs)

　　(two) strict management of self-built houses for residents.

　　5. Strengthen the management and control of the business format and number of self-built houses for operating residents. Standardize the relevant certification materials submitted for the registration of residents’ self-built houses as the main residence (business premises) of the market. At the time of registration, the owner of the self-built house who uses the self-built house as the main residence (business premises) of the market needs to submit a certificate of ownership of the residence (business premises) and a letter of commitment that each self-built house has no more than three business formats, and is responsible for the authenticity and legality of the materials. The registration authority shall conduct a formal review. The provincial market supervision department introduced the supporting system and management measures for residents’ self-built houses to be converted into business purposes. The municipal and state market supervision, education, public security, commerce, culture and tourism, health and health, emergency management, civil affairs and other departments, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the province, differentiated different business formats to formulate control standards for the number of self-built houses for operating residents, and guided and urged all localities to complete the adjustment of residents’ self-built houses that did not meet the requirements of business formats and numbers before June 30, 2025. (Responsible units: Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Education Department, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Provincial Health and Wellness Commission, Provincial Emergency Department and Provincial Civil Affairs Department)

　　6. Strengthen the fire safety management of self-built houses for operating residents. Improve the relevant provisions and technical standards for fire safety management of self-built houses for operating residents, guide and strengthen the fire safety management of self-built houses for operating residents and those with changed use purposes, and urge the implementation of provisions such as the use of fire and electricity, the configuration and maintenance of fire-fighting facilities and equipment, safe evacuation and fire separation, and shall not occupy or block evacuation passages and safety exits. According to the law to carry out the fire design review and acceptance of residents’ self-built houses, and do a good job in daily fire inspection and fire rescue. (Responsible units: Provincial Fire Rescue Corps, Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Public Security Department and Provincial Market Supervision Bureau)

　　7. Carry out insurance services for residents’ self-built houses. We will develop insurance products for the safety management of residents’ self-built houses, and encourage those responsible for the use of self-built houses to purchase housing safety insurance. (Responsible unit: Hunan Banking Insurance Regulatory Bureau)

　　(3) Strengthen the management of safety appraisal of residents’ self-built houses.

　　8. Strictly regulate the situation of house safety appraisal. Establish and improve the safety appraisal system for residents’ self-built houses. If houses with obvious subsidence, cracks, inclination and corrosion are found in the safety investigation and rectification, houses damaged due to natural disasters, fires, explosions and other accidents, and houses with other obvious safety hazards endanger public safety, the Township People’s Government and sub-district offices shall urge those responsible for housing use safety to entrust appraisal institutions to conduct safety appraisal. Engaged in catering, accommodation, entertainment, education and training, pension and other personnel-intensive business activities, the responsible person for the safe use of residents’ self-built houses shall obtain the certificate of housing safety appraisal that conforms to the requirements of the business format or the relevant certification materials for the completion acceptance after the renovation (expansion) and reconstruction according to the requirements of the business format, and the relevant information shall be included in the housing safety clear card and posted in a prominent position; County-level market supervision and management, education, public security, commerce, culture and tourism, health, emergency management, civil affairs and other departments shall conduct supervision and inspection according to laws and regulations. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Department of Education, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Provincial Health and Wellness Committee, Provincial Emergency Department and Provincial Civil Affairs Department)

　　9 clear housing safety appraisal institutions. Provincial Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Department shall improve the normative documents of housing safety appraisal management in a timely manner in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the housing and urban-rural construction departments of cities and prefectures shall, before June 30, 2023, combine local conditions, and report the list of institutions with independent legal personality, corresponding professional technicians and professional equipment and facilities engaged in housing safety appraisal to the provincial housing and urban-rural construction department for the record, and make it public for public inquiry. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)

　　10. Compacting the responsibility of housing safety appraisal institutions. City and county housing and urban-rural construction departments should strengthen supervision and inspection of the authenticity and accuracy of appraisal reports, and city and county market supervision departments should standardize the charging behavior of housing safety appraisal institutions, and severely investigate and deal with acts of issuing false appraisal reports and charging fees in violation of laws and regulations according to law. The appraisal institution shall deliver the appraisal report to the client in time and report to the township people’s government, neighborhood offices and county-level housing and urban-rural construction departments where the house is located; If there is a danger of collapse, the appraisal institution shall immediately inform the client and immediately report to the township people’s government, street offices and county-level housing and urban-rural construction departments where the house is located. Township people’s governments and sub-district offices shall, according to the appraisal report, promptly issue a notice to urge the people to solve the crisis or take emergency measures, and urge those responsible for the safety of housing use to take measures to solve the crisis. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau)

　　(4) Strengthen the investigation and rectification of hidden dangers of residents’ self-built houses.

　　11. Highlight the key points of investigation and rectification. The people’s governments of provinces, cities, counties and cities shall establish and improve the working mechanism for the investigation and rectification of safety risks of residents’ self-built houses. County and urban people’s governments should guide and urge township people’s governments and sub-district offices to conduct a comprehensive investigation on key areas such as urban-rural fringe, villages in cities, resettlement areas, schools and hospitals, industrial parks, tourist attractions, and geological disaster-prone areas, and strengthen daily inspections, highlighting the inspection of key contents such as structural safety, operational safety, fire safety, and legal compliance of construction. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps, Provincial Department of Natural Resources)

　　12. Improve the effect of investigation and rectification. The investigation activities should involve professional organizations and personnel, and the government can purchase services where conditions permit. The municipal housing and urban-rural construction department shall establish an expert database for investigation and rectification, and make selection and dynamic adjustment from professionals such as design, construction and testing of universities and enterprises. County-level housing and urban-rural construction departments shall guide and urge the Township People’s governments and street offices to put forward written opinions to the person responsible for the safety of housing use in a timely manner if there are potential safety hazards in the houses found in the investigation and daily inspections; If it is found that there are obvious security risks that endanger public safety, it shall immediately take emergency measures and establish a ledger for investigation and rectification work until the hidden dangers of housing safety are eliminated. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Department of Finance)

　　13. The safety management responsibility of the person responsible for the use of compacted houses. According to the principle of "who owns the house is responsible, who uses it is responsible", the owner of residents’ self-built houses is the person responsible for the safety of housing use; If the owner of the house is inconsistent with the user of the house, the owner and the user of the house shall bear the responsibility for the safety of the use of the house in accordance with the agreement. If there is no agreement or the agreement is unclear, the owner of the house shall bear the responsibility for the safety of the use of the house; If the owner of the house is missing or the ownership of the house is unclear, the township people’s government and the street office shall make it clear that the user or manager of the house shall bear the responsibility for the safety of the use of the house. County-level natural resources, housing and urban-rural construction, market supervision, fire rescue, agriculture and rural areas and other departments should guide and urge the township people’s governments and sub-district offices under their jurisdiction to strengthen safety education and training on the site selection, planning, design, construction, use and operation of residents’ self-built houses, and implement the main responsibility of those responsible for housing use safety. Township people’s government, street offices to supervise and guide the use of housing safety responsible person in accordance with the planning purposes, design requirements for rational use, decoration of housing; Do not change the use function of the house, add stories or demolish the main load-bearing structure of the house without authorization; Conduct daily safety inspection, maintenance and repair of houses, and eliminate potential safety hazards in time; Ensure the fire safety of houses; Found that there are serious security risks, should promptly report to the village (neighborhood) committees, and take emergency measures such as suspending use, evacuating people, and setting warning signs; According to the written handling opinions put forward by the notice of danger relief,Take measures such as maintenance and reinforcement, immediate cessation of use, and demolition. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Provincial Department of Education, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Provincial Health and Wellness Committee, Provincial Emergency Department and Provincial Civil Affairs Department)

　　(five) to strengthen the supervision of law enforcement in the whole process of residents’ self-built houses.

　　14. Strictly implement the department’s law enforcement responsibilities. Self-built houses built by residents who have not obtained the construction project planning permit shall be handled by the urban management and comprehensive law enforcement departments of the people’s governments of cities and counties according to law. Residents who have not built their own houses in accordance with the provisions of the construction project planning permit shall be ordered by the competent department of urban and rural planning of the people’s government of the city or county to stop construction and handed over to the urban management and comprehensive law enforcement departments of the people’s government of the city or county for handling according to law. Residents who have not obtained the rural construction planning permit according to law or have not built their own houses in accordance with the provisions of the rural construction planning permit shall be dealt with by the township people’s government according to law. New construction, renovation (expansion) construction and reconstruction of self-built houses above the "quota" have handled the construction project planning permit or issued the rural construction planning permit, but failed to handle the procedures of construction drawing review, quality and safety supervision, construction permit, completion acceptance and filing according to law, which shall be handled by the county-level housing and urban-rural construction department. In the process of use, if the main load-bearing structure of the house is added or demolished without authorization, the residents’ self-built houses within the scope of the construction project planning permit shall be handled by the urban management and comprehensive law enforcement departments of the people’s governments of cities and counties, and the residents’ self-built houses within the scope of the rural construction planning permit shall be handled by the township people’s governments. Failing to entrust a housing safety appraisal agency to conduct safety appraisal according to law, residents’ self-built houses within the scope of handling construction project planning permits shall be handled by the county-level housing and urban-rural construction departments, and residents’ self-built houses within the scope of issuing rural construction planning permits shall be handled by the Township People’s Government. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Natural Resources and Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)

　　15 clear administrative licensing and administrative punishment delegated matters. The whole process of administrative law enforcement supervision shall be implemented for newly built, renovated (expanded), rebuilt and converted into self-built houses for business purposes. The Township People’s Government shall implement the relevant administrative penalties for the safety management of residents’ self-built houses in charge of the relevant competent departments of the people’s governments at the county level; According to the entrustment of the relevant competent departments of the people’s government at the county level, the relevant administrative license for the safety management of residents’ self-built houses shall be implemented. The relevant competent departments of the people’s governments at the county level may, according to the actual situation, entrust the street offices with the relevant administrative penalties and administrative licenses for the safety management of residents’ self-built houses. The relevant departments of the people’s government at the county level shall publish the list of matters entrusted by administrative licensing and administrative punishment before June 30, 2023. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Provincial Department of Education, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Provincial Health and Wellness Committee, Provincial Emergency Department and Provincial Civil Affairs Department)

　　16 highlight the key points of law enforcement of residents’ self-built houses. Strengthen law enforcement, standardize law enforcement procedures, and focus on strengthening law enforcement supervision over the following acts: construction and use without obtaining or in accordance with the approval, planning permission, construction permit and business license of land and homestead; Adding stories or demolishing the main load-bearing structure of the house without authorization during use; Failing to entrust a housing safety appraisal institution to conduct safety appraisal according to law; The safety appraisal institution issues a false appraisal report; Engaged in personnel-intensive business activities without obtaining the certificate of housing safety appraisal that conforms to the requirements of business format or the relevant certification materials for the completion acceptance after the renovation (expansion) and reconstruction according to the requirements of business format; Residents above the "quota" did not adopt fire separation measures according to relevant standards, the number of evacuation passages and safety exits was insufficient, and electric vehicles were not parked and charged according to relevant regulations. Improve the benchmark system of administrative penalty discretion, so as to enforce the law strictly and in a civilized way. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps, Provincial Department of Education, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Provincial Health and Wellness Committee, Provincial Emergency Department and Provincial Civil Affairs Department)

　　17. Give play to the role of reporting rewards and punishments and grassroots organizations. The people’s governments at the county level shall establish and improve the complaint, report and reward mechanism for acts endangering the safety of houses and dangerous houses, and publish the complaint and report methods, processing procedures and time limits. The specific reward methods and standards shall be formulated by the people’s governments at the city, state and county levels. Township people’s governments and sub-district offices shall guide and urge the village (neighborhood) committees to actively assist in the safety supervision and management of the construction and use of self-built houses by residents, and assist in the investigation and rectification; Incorporate the relevant provisions on the safe construction and use of residents’ self-built houses into the village regulations and residents’ conventions, promptly discourage illegal construction and other acts that endanger safety, and report to the township people’s government and sub-district offices.

　　(six) to strengthen the information management of residents’ self-built houses.

　　18 to establish a comprehensive management information system for residents’ self-built houses in the province. Adhere to the combination of long and short, prioritize, adopt the way of overall planning and phased construction, deeply integrate the data of investigation, approval and supervision of residents’ self-built houses in the province, establish a full-scale database of residents’ self-built houses in the province, integrate the business processes of relevant functional departments in the whole life cycle supervision of residents’ self-built houses, establish a one-yard house management system, and build a unified comprehensive management platform for residents’ self-built houses in the province to realize intelligent supervision of full-scale houses. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps, Provincial Government Affairs Bureau, Provincial Education Department, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Provincial Health and Wellness Committee, Provincial Emergency Department and Provincial Civil Affairs Department)

　　19. Promote data collection and sharing exchange. Relying on the comprehensive management platform of residents’ self-built houses, timely collect the basic information of houses, hidden dangers investigation, rectification of sales numbers, construction approval, daily safety supervision, public services and other data, carry out big data analysis and application, and provide data sharing application services to governments at all levels and industry authorities through the government data sharing exchange platform. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps, Provincial Government Affairs Bureau, Provincial Education Department, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Provincial Health and Wellness Committee, Provincial Emergency Department, Provincial Civil Affairs Department, Provincial Government Services and Big Data Center)

　　20. Improve the public service system for residents to build their own houses. Relying on the comprehensive management platform of residents’ self-built houses, government portals and departmental government websites, timely release necessary management information such as residents’ self-built houses construction, safety early warning, renovation of dangerous houses, operation and use, provide service information such as building knowledge, policies and regulations, free atlas, and building craftsmen, and establish channels such as complaints and reports of violations of laws and regulations, self-inspection and reporting of potential safety hazards, information disclosure and information inquiry, so as to realize government leadership, property owners (users) subject, professional and technical support. (Responsible units: Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps, Provincial Government Affairs Bureau, Provincial Department of Education, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Provincial Health and Wellness Committee, Provincial Emergency Department and Provincial Civil Affairs Department)

　　Third, safeguard measures

　　(1) Strengthen organizational leadership. The provincial leading group for the special rectification of the safety of self-built houses is responsible for coordinating the safety management of self-built houses by residents in the province, further refining the tasks according to the needs, implementing the safety management responsibilities, and strengthening the supervision and guidance on the safety investigation and rectification of self-built houses by residents in the province; The office of the leading group (located in the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development) should strengthen the work tracking and scheduling, and cooperate with relevant provincial departments to do a good job in daily work. The people’s governments of cities, counties and urban areas should establish and improve the coordination and linkage mechanism for the safety management of residents’ self-built houses, establish a normal and long-term system for the safety investigation, review and spot check of residents’ self-built houses, clarify the institutions and personnel for the safety management of houses in cities and counties, and ensure the funds for safety management according to regulations; Township people’s governments and sub-district offices shall establish and improve the system of housing safety administrators and grid dynamic management, and carry out regular investigations.

　　(2) Compaction responsibility. All departments at all levels should follow the requirements of "three management and three necessities", implement the territorial responsibility and industry sector supervision responsibility of residents’ self-built housing safety management, and accelerate the formulation and implementation of supporting systems and measures in light of the main tasks specified in the "Several Provisions" and the requirements of this opinion. It is necessary to strengthen communication and coordination, cooperate closely, form a joint force, strengthen information sharing, data interconnection and departmental linkage law enforcement, and ensure that the whole process of safety management of residents’ self-built houses and the supervision of all links are not disjointed and absent.

　　(3) Strengthen supervision and inspection. The people’s governments of cities, prefectures, counties and cities and the relevant departments at the provincial level should list the implementation of the "Several Provisions" as a key task, incorporate the safety management of residents’ self-built houses into the special assessment of safety production of lower-level governments and relevant functional departments, strengthen daily supervision and assessment, and ensure full implementation. The clues about the violation of discipline and law by the relevant responsible personnel shall be transferred to the relevant authorities for handling according to the cadre management authority.

　　General Office of Hunan Provincial People’s Government

　　February 24, 2023

　　(This piece is made public voluntarily)

　　Beijing, August 29 (Xinhua) The Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference today, and the spokesman Gao Feng responded to a number of hot issues in Sino-US economic and trade consultations. Gao Feng confirmed that the economic and trade teams of China and the United States have always maintained effective communication. In response to the US proposal to impose tariffs on US$ 550 billion of China’s goods exported to the United States and then raise the tax rate, Gao Feng said that China has sufficient countermeasures, but the trade war should be prevented from escalating under the current situation.

　　Profile photo: Gao Feng, spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce. Xia Bin

　　China resolutely opposes the escalation of Sino-US trade war.

　　A reporter asked that US President Trump said a few days ago that China is very welcome to reach a trade agreement and calmly handle differences. How do you comment on this?

　　Gao Feng said that China has made clear its attitude, resolutely opposed the escalation of the trade war, and is willing to solve the problem through consultation and cooperation in a calm manner. "The escalation of the trade war is not conducive to China, not conducive to the United States, and not conducive to the interests of people all over the world."

　　The economic and trade teams of China and the United States have indeed maintained effective communication.

　　Recently, it was said that China called American economic and trade negotiators to negotiate or reach an agreement. In this regard, Gao Feng, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, said that the economic and trade teams of the two sides have indeed maintained effective communication. There is no more information about the details at present.

　　Gao Feng said that there are many rumors at present, and the Ministry of Commerce will clarify the facts and let everyone know the truth in the economic and trade field.

　　China has sufficient countermeasures, but it should prevent the trade war from escalating.

　　A reporter asked whether China intends to take corresponding countermeasures against the US proposal to impose tariffs on US$ 550 billion of goods exported from China and then raise the tax rate.

　　Gao Feng said that China’s countermeasures are sufficient. However, in the current situation, China believes that the issue that should be discussed is to cancel further tariffs on 550 billion US dollars of China goods to prevent the trade war from escalating.

　　Gao Feng stressed that "the escalation of the trade war is not conducive to China, the United States, and the interests of people all over the world, and may even bring disastrous consequences to the world."

　　China has the ability to ensure the good momentum of the fundamentals of economic development.

　　In response to the question "Will the escalating trade war have a serious impact on China’s economy", Gao Feng said that China’s economy is changing from high-speed growth to high-quality development, and the trend of transforming old and new kinetic energy is constantly strengthening. China has a dynamic micro-foundation, a huge room for maneuver and sufficient macro-policy tools, and is fully confident and capable of ensuring a good momentum of economic development fundamentals.

　　Responding to the question "China Economic and Trade Delegation to the United States for Consultation in September"

　　In response to the question "About China’s economic and trade delegation going to the United States for consultation in September", Gao Feng said that the economic and trade teams of China and the United States have maintained effective communication and are discussing the issue of China’s economic and trade delegation going to the United States for consultation in September. At present, the most important thing is to create the necessary conditions for the two sides to continue consultations. If there is any further information, the Ministry of Commerce will release it in time.

　　American manufacturing enterprises move out of China? Ministry of Commerce responded

　　Some media asked, US President Trump recently asked American companies to move manufacturing from Beijing back to China or to other places. What is the response of the Ministry of Commerce?

　　In this regard, Gao Feng pointed out that China and the United States are important trading partners and sources of investment, and the interests of both sides are deeply integrated, which has formed a pattern of "you have me and I have you". The economic ties between China and the United States cannot be cut off by anyone who wants to. If someone tries to decouple the two countries’ economies by force, the result will inevitably harm others and themselves, which will not only seriously harm the interests of American enterprises and people, but also threaten the security of global industrial chain supply chain, international trade and the world economy.

　　Gao Feng said that people from all walks of life in the United States have expressed their opposition to the above remarks. The essence of Sino-US economic and trade relations is mutual benefit and win-win. The two sides are not rivals of zero-sum game, but should be mutually beneficial partners. China welcomes enterprises from all over the world, including the United States, to invest and operate in China and will continue to create a good business environment.

　　Will soybeans become the main tool to counter the United States?

　　A reporter asked, last Friday, China listed soybeans as one of the targets of imposing tariffs on the United States and Canada. Will soybeans and other agricultural products continue to be the main tools for China to counter the United States? Will you worry about the impact on China’s soybean industry? Last Friday, China announced that it would resume imposing tariffs on cars and parts produced in the United States. European car companies produced in the United States, such as Mercedes-Benz, may be affected. Will China consider providing tariff exemptions for these European car companies, such as Germany, which are produced in the United States?

　　In this regard, Gao Feng said that last Friday, China listed some goods imported from the United States as the target of tariff increase again, which was a necessary counter-measure that China had to take. It is hoped that the United States will cancel the new tariff increase measures and avoid further escalation of the trade war. The issue of tariff exclusion will be arranged by the State Council Customs Tariff Commission in a unified way. If there is any further information, it will be released in time.

　　It will be American companies that will eventually be damaged by suppressing China enterprises.

　　Some media have asked questions. Recently, the US Department of Commerce has received more than 130 applications for licenses to sell products to Huawei, but the Trump administration has not issued any licenses. What is the comment of the China Department of Commerce?

　　Gao Feng said that China has noticed relevant reports, which shows that in many fields, Chinese and American enterprises have formed an interdependent relationship in the industrial chain. If China enterprises are suppressed, American enterprises will eventually suffer. It is hoped that the United States will, based on the interests of its own enterprises and the safety of the global industrial chain and supply chain, cancel the suppression and sanctions against China enterprises such as Huawei as soon as possible.

　　The trade war should be prevented from escalating under the current situation.

　　Reporter’s question, the spokesman, you just answered the question about Trump’s new tariffs on China’s 550 billion products. You said that China has sufficient tools to counter them, but now China feels that the more important issue is to discuss the cancellation of these tariffs. Does this mean that China will not counter Trump’s new tariffs? Why change this strategy now, because China will take countermeasures against all new tariffs imposed by the United States before?

　　Gao Feng pointed out that I have responded very clearly just now, and China’s countermeasures are sufficient. However, in the current situation, China believes that the issue that should be discussed is to cancel further tariffs on 550 billion US dollars of China goods to prevent the trade war from escalating. At present, China is making solemn representations with the US.

　　The Sino-US trade war has reached the point where it has to be fought? Ministry of Commerce responded

　　A reporter asked, recently, the United States has been escalating its economic and trade frictions with China. Has the Sino-US trade war reached the point where it has to be fought?

　　In this regard, Gao Feng said that China resolutely opposes the escalation of the trade war. Starting from the overall situation of China and the United States and the whole world, China is willing to solve the problem through consultation and cooperation with a calm attitude. It is hoped that the United States and China will move in the opposite direction and promote the proper settlement of Sino-US economic and trade issues on the basis of equality and mutual respect.

　　In 2023, frequent extreme weather and climate events once again left a deep impression on people. In China, sandstorms in the northwest, droughts in the southwest, extreme rainstorms in North China and typhoons in South China have all brought rare disasters in recent years. On a global scale, forest fires in Canada, alternating droughts and floods in the United States and India, high temperatures in Europe, and heavy casualties caused by hurricanes in the Mediterranean have also caused shocking consequences.

　　Reality warns people that the negative consequences of climate change are increasing with the rising temperature. At the end of November this year, world leaders will gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to attend the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28). People hope that this meeting will achieve more results and create more favorable conditions for the global response to climate change. We should not only pay attention to the set ultimate goal, but also find feasible paths and effective ways to promote it.

　　On December 12, 2015, in order to cope with the increasingly serious climate change problem, nearly 200 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change unanimously agreed to adopt TheParis Agreement at the Paris Climate Change Conference to make arrangements for global action to deal with climate change after 2020. At this year’s COP28 conference, all parties will conduct the first global inventory since the Paris Agreement.

　　On September 8th, the report on the inventory results released by the United Nations showed the progress made since the Paris Summit in 2015, and pointed out that compared with the prediction made in 2010 that the global temperature would rise by 3.7-4.8 degrees Celsius by the end of this century, the predicted temperature rise is now 2.4-2.6 degrees Celsius, but it still far exceeds the goal of controlling the temperature at 2 degrees Celsius and trying to control it within 1.5 degrees Celsius.

　　At the same time, the report clearly pointed out that all parties need to respond to climate change in an all-round way with higher ambition and a stronger sense of urgency. At present, global greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing, and to achieve the above goals, global greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by 43% compared with 2019 levels by 2030 and 60% by 2035.

　　On the occasion of the upcoming global climate conference, The Paper’s Critical Point combed the climate commitment actions of some major countries in the world. In response to climate change, our window of time and opportunity is shrinking rapidly.

　　United States of America

　　It has been six months since the United States resumed its contribution to the United Nations Green Climate Fund (GCF) and allocated a new $1 billion. Rich countries, including the United States, have not yet fulfilled their climate funding commitments, and developing countries are facing the fact that the speed at which funds are put in place is far behind the increasingly severe extreme weather and climate events.

　　According to British media reports, on October 21 this year, the negotiations on implementing the "loss and damage fund" first proposed at last year’s UN Climate Conference to help countries with fragile climate rebuild their homes reached an impasse. The United States and the European Union proposed that the World Bank should host the fund. However, questa, Chairman of the Group of 77, believes that the effectiveness of the World Bank’s decision-making is difficult to cope with the climate crisis. In addition, if the fund must operate within the legal structure of the World Bank, the wider sources of funds may be limited.

　　Not only is the operation of funds stagnant, but the amount of funds raised at present is still insufficient for the reconstruction of countries with fragile climate. According to American media reports on October 6, at the donor conference held in Bonn, Germany, developed countries promised to provide 9.3 billion US dollars to supplement green climate funds. However, NGOs believe that these funds are not enough to help countries with fragile climate to cope with climate change. It is worth noting that the United States is one of the few developed countries that have not provided new funds.

　　Nine years ago, the United States promised to provide $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund, but so far it has only injected $2 billion. Of the $11.4 billion pledged by US President Biden to developing countries, the country’s Congress only approved $1 billion. In fact, as early as the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15) held in Copenhagen in 2009, the United States and other rich countries promised to raise 100 billion dollars annually for climate action in developing countries by 2020. This goal was reaffirmed at COP21 in Paris and extended to 2025. According to reports, the current funding gap is as high as $17 billion per year.

　　Fossil fuel subsidies are still soaring, despite the delays in climate finance in rich countries. According to the global regulatory organization Energy Policy Tracker, the public funds flowing to fossil fuels in G20 countries will reach a record $1.4 trillion, more than double the amount before the COVID-19 outbreak in 2019.

　　Restricted by domestic social contradictions and inflation, it is difficult to cancel fossil fuel subsidies in the United States. In the United States, the Supreme Court, which has been dominated by the Republican Party for a long time, keeps opening the floodgates of money politics for the wealthy class. The accumulated polarization between the rich and the poor has laid the groundwork for the social phenomenon that high oil prices are often accompanied by a decline in the support rate of presidential polls. On the other hand, unlike other countries, subsidies in the United States are mainly tax relief for fossil fuel companies, that is, by providing credit and expense deduction to energy producers to reduce production costs.

　　Saudi Arabia

　　Under the pressure of decarbonization, Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, launched a comprehensive action to deal with climate change and reduce carbon emissions in 2021 to reduce domestic carbon emissions, including achieving "net zero" greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, planting 50 billion trees in the Middle East in the next few decades, and launching a $10.4 billion clean energy project for the region.

　　However, according to the Financial Times reported on July 23rd, several countries, led by Saudi Arabia, tried their best to stop G20′ s call to reduce the use of fossil fuels. At the same time, Reuters reported that Saudi Arabia and other countries opposed G20′ s proposal to triple renewable energy production capacity by 2030. Saudi Aramco announced in 2021 that it plans to increase crude oil production from 12 million barrels per day to 13 million barrels per day by 2027. According to Agence France-Presse, the total profit announced by Saudi Aramco in 2022 reached a record $161.1 billion.

　　Reduce the burning of fossil fuels at home, so that Saudi Arabia can free up more oil to sell abroad. In this regard, Saudi Arabia attempts to explain the rationality of this contradiction by implementing the "circular carbon economy" plan, which envisages continuing to exploit fossil fuels and adopting new technologies to capture, store or sell carbon emissions. At the same time, according to media reports, Saudi Arabia and other traditional fossil energy countries believe that it is unrealistic to tighten the "faucet" of fossil fuels immediately, and hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas and coal will continue to become an important part of the global energy structure in the next few decades.

　　Saudi Arabia regards tackling climate change as a long challenge, but the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report in May 2021, saying that if the world wants to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050, governments and enterprises of all countries must immediately stop investing in new oil and gas projects. The unresolved issue is also the "carbon capture" technology promoted by Saudi Arabia — — The effectiveness of this technology has not been proved, and the cost of applying it to large-scale mining is too high.

　　"It is believed that the economy based on the exploitation and combustion of fossil fuels can be ‘ Loop ’ The idea is absurd, and the only way it works is to rely on technologies that don’t exist yet. " Matthew Archer, a researcher at the Geneva Institute, said in an interview with the media, "These measures … are full of ambitious and ambiguous language, with few specific plans and no accountability mechanism."

　　Japan

　　Coincidentally, Japan’s climate solution is also questioned. According to local media reports, on September 29th, Japan hosted the 3rd International Fuel Ammonia Conference, which focused on the theme of decarbonization of supply chain and shipping industry. This meeting is a sign of Japan’s commitment to a climate solution, but some experts believe that the solution may not meet the world timetable that urgently needs to reduce carbon emissions.

　　Consistent with all countries, Japan urgently needs to decarbonize the energy sector. At present, Japan plans to reduce the energy share of coal to 19% by 2030. At the meeting, the government and major industries described the vision of using ammonia (a gas composed of nitrogen and hydrogen) on a large scale in the foreseeable future, that is, reducing carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants by replacing fossil fuels with ammonia. Because ammonia combustion will not emit carbon dioxide, and the co-combustion equipment of existing coal-fired power plants in Japan does not need major transformation.

　　From a technical point of view, it seems feasible to burn ammonia to generate electricity. "Japan Times" reported on October 22nd that JERA, Japan’s largest power company, is testing the 20:80 ammonia-coal co-combustion ratio at Binan Thermal Power Station in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is reported that JERA’s goal is to gradually increase the proportion of ammonia-coal mixed combustion and realize 100% ammonia combustion by 2050.

　　However, with the government and enterprises eager to establish an ammonia fuel supply chain on a global scale, experts began to question the feasibility of ammonia as a decarbonization solution in Japan. Although ammonia will not emit carbon dioxide when it is fully burned, fossil fuel is an essential raw material for ammonia production.

　　In this regard, many Japanese power companies, including Mitsui & Co., Ltd., are exploring a new mode of ammonia production, that is, using fossil fuels to produce ammonia, and at the same time capturing 80%-90% of carbon emissions through CCS technology. Considering the high price and poor performance of CCS technology at present, some ongoing ammonia synthesis projects focus on developing technologies to produce ammonia through renewable energy. However, Motoichi Kato, deputy secretary-general of Japan Clean Fuel Ammonia Association (CFAA), told the media that all ammonia imported from Japan is still produced by traditional production methods, and the new ammonia production technology has not yet covered the whole world.

　　In addition to concerns about carbon emissions caused by ammonia production procedures, experts also said that producing such a large amount of ammonia may pollute the air and water quality. According to the Japan Times, Japan is expected to need 3 million tons of ammonia by 2030 and 30 million tons by 2050. Climate Integrate, an independent climate policy think tank in Japan, warned that fixing nitrogen from the atmosphere to produce ammonia may further disrupt the balance of the global nitrogen cycle. In addition, the increase of nitrogen will lead to eutrophication of marine ecosystem, as well as air pollution and groundwater pollution.

　　South Korea

　　Compared with the above countries, South Korea has not performed well in dealing with climate change in recent years. According to the report updated by Climate Action Tracker on July 17, 2023, the overall rating of South Korea’s actions to deal with climate change is classified as "seriously inadequate". Furthermore, South Korea’s climate policy and energy sector planning still lack the necessary speed and rigor, and can not embark on the road that conforms to the temperature limit of 1.5°C in the Paris Agreement.

　　After the change of government in South Korea in 2022, the country’s climate policy changed, deviating from the 100% renewable energy target previously set by the government. The new president Yin Xiyue publicly stated that the target was "too expensive". According to media reports, on March 21st this year, South Korea announced that it would lower the greenhouse gas emission target of the industrial sector in 2030. According to the plan, the Korean industrial sector is required to reduce carbon emissions by 11.4% compared with 2018 levels by 2030, while the emission reduction target set by the end of 2021 is 14.5%.

　　According to the plan, the carbon emission gap caused by the adjustment will be made up by increasing emission reduction overseas and replacing traditional energy with more renewable energy. However, given that South Korea has reneged on its climate commitments, the way to make up for the plan is still in doubt. According to the Climate Action Tracking Agency, in April 2021, South Korea announced at the leaders’ climate summit hosted by the United States that it would immediately stop providing financing for overseas coal projects. Just one month later, it announced the exception of renovation and approval of related projects.

　　On the other hand, Yin Xiyue decided to revive the nuclear power plan, overturning the previous president’s reform of phasing out nuclear power. It is reported that the Korean government promulgated the tenth power plan in January 2023, aiming at using nuclear energy to realize national decarbonization. Contrary to the original goal of limiting the proportion of nuclear energy to 30% by 2030, the latest goal is to increase the proportion of nuclear energy use to 34.6%.

　　In January 2012, South Korea promulgated the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS). According to the International Energy Agency, the plan aims to expand the use of renewable energy and make it a promising market competitor. To this end, the 13 largest Korean power companies are required to increase the use of renewable energy to 14.5% and 17% in 2023 and 2024 respectively, and to reach 25% after 2026. However, according to Yonhap News Agency’s report on January 13th, 2023, the South Korean government lowered the RPS target for this year and next to 13% and 13.5% respectively, and the final goal was postponed until after 2030.

　　Canada

　　Countries that have failed to say what they must do in climate action include Canada. According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), since 1990, the country has formulated nine climate plans, but failed to achieve the goals.

　　Even though Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a comprehensive emission reduction plan for 2030 on March 29th, 2022, listing a series of actions that the country will take to reduce climate pollution to 40% to 45% lower than the 2005 level by the end of this century, the plan still has many defects.

　　For example, the plan does not provide enough funds to help automobile suppliers increase the sales of electric vehicles according to the government’s goals. Secondly, there are criticisms that the goal is to reduce the climate pollution of the energy industry without limiting production, which will require fossil fuel companies to make great improvements in carbon capture technology.

　　In addition, a report on April 24th said that a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that the Canadian government and enterprises seriously underestimated the current domestic carbon emissions.

　　Britain

　　Backward climate action may also affect the activity of other countries in the field of climate governance. According to media reports on September 20th, British Prime Minister Sunak may dilute Britain’s plan to deal with climate change, including postponing the ban on the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles originally scheduled to take effect in 2030, greatly weakening the plan to phase out gas boilers by 2035, and not updating the energy efficiency regulations for housing construction.

　　Sunak said that he is still committed to the legally binding goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. At the same time, he also said that Britain can slow down its progress in achieving this goal because Britain is "far ahead of all other countries in the world." However, considering the national election in 2024, Reuters in the United Kingdom believes that Sunak leaked the news of reducing the green policy in order to gain the support of voters who are troubled by high inflation and stagnant economic growth.

　　Britain is the first country to set a legally binding "net zero" goal in 2050. Since 1990, with the closure of coal-fired power plants and the rise of offshore wind power, the country’s carbon emissions have dropped by nearly 50%. However, according to media reports on September 21st, the British government’s independent climate adviser said that Britain still has some shortcomings in achieving its climate goals, and diluting its plan to deal with climate change may further weaken its ability to fulfill its legal commitments.

　　Since China’s accession to the WTO (hereinafter referred to as WTO), China has fully fulfilled its commitment to tariff concessions, scientifically and finely adjusted the tariff rate, tax items and special preferential tax policies within the scope of WTO rules, effectively exerted the macro-control function of tariffs, and gradually established a relatively complete tariff system that adapts to the domestic and international economic development trends.

　　(oneThe tariff policy system is improving day by day. First, the tariff level has been greatly reduced. from1992Since the end of the year, China has started a substantial process of independent tax reduction.2001Before China’s entry into WTO in, the general tariff level was changed from43.2%Drop to15.3%, a drop of up to65%.2001Since, China has reduced import tariffs year by year in accordance with its WTO commitments, up to2010In, the commitment of tax reduction after China’s entry into WTO has been fully fulfilled, and the overall tariff level has changed from that before China’s entry into WTO.15.3%Further reduce to9.8%, a drop of up to36%. Among them, the average tax rate of agricultural products is from pre-WTO18.8%Drop to15.2%The average tax rate of industrial products is from before China’s entry into WTO14.7%Drop to8.9%. Compared with the tariff rates promised by member countries to the WTO, China’s overall tariff level is higher than that of the EU (5.3%), the United States (3.5%) and other major developed countries, but significantly lower than India (48.5%), Indonesia (37.1%), Mexico (36.1%) Brazil (31.4%), Argentina (31.9%) and South Africa (19%) and most other developing countries, less than the average tariff rate of countries around the world (40%) of1/4. Among them,15.2%The average tax rate of agricultural products is not only lower than that of most developing countries, but also significantly lower than that of Norway (130.9%), Switzerland (48%) and Japan (22.2%) and other developed countries, about the average tax rate of agricultural products in the world (57.6%) of1/4;8.9%The average tax rate of industrial products is lower than that of most developing countries and less than the average tax rate of industrial products in the world (thirty percent) of1/3. Compared with the actual level of tariff burden, China is even lower. According to WTO statistics,2009The ratio of China’s tariff revenue to total imports in was only1.8%, not only lower than most developing countries such as India, Argentina and Egypt, but also lower than developed countries such as Australia and New Zealand, and similar to developed countries such as Japan and the United States.

　　The second isThe tariff items are further refined.1992In, China began to set up tariff items based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of the World Customs Organization. According to the international practice, the tariff items were set aseightBit encoding, and respectively in the1996Years,2002Nianhe2007In, the Harmonized System with the World Customs Organization was revised synchronously, and the pace of revision was consistent with that of developed countries and faster than that of most developing countries. At the same time, according to the needs of customs supervision and the rapid development of science and technology, some products, new technology products and commodities subject to import and export management measures unique to China have been added.eight hundredMultiple national subheadings,eightNumber of tax items by2001Annual7111Gradually increase2011Annual7977A.

　　The third isThe tariff structure has been continuously optimized. In recent years, while the overall level of tariffs has gradually declined, the structure of China’s tariff rate has been continuously optimized. The import tariffs on primary products such as energy, resources and raw materials have been greatly reduced, and the import tariffs on intermediate products such as some key parts and important mechanical and electrical equipment have been selectively reduced. Take gasoline and diesel oil as an example, the import tariff has changed from before China’s entry into WTO.1996Annual9%Down to the current implementation1%and0%. At present, the tax rate of imported energy and resource products in China generally does not exceed5%Among them, key commodities such as crude oil, coal and iron ore have been subject to zero tariffs. The import tariffs on consumer goods have been greatly reduced. Such as automobile import tariffs by1996Annual100%-120%Fall to the present25%, the decline is nearly80%In the past ten years, the tax reduction process of developed countries has been completed for 50 or 60 years, while the automobile tariffs of India and Brazil, both BRICS countries, are as high as.57%and35%. At present, China’s tariff rate on imported cosmetics, clothing, bags, shoes, hats, watches and other consumer goods is at a medium-low level internationally. Louis Vuitton made in France (LV) handbags, for example, China’s import tariffs are10%South Korea and India are respectively8%and10%, the United States and Japan are9%and12%The tariffs imposed by Brazil and South Africa arethirty percent. After more than ten years of adjustment, the average tax rates of primary products, intermediate products and finished products in China are about5.9%、6.7%and10.6%, and1996Three kinds of products in9.7%、16%and26.2%Compared with the tax rate, not only the tax rate is greatly reduced, but also the structure is obviously improved, which basically realizes the transformation from "high level and narrow tax base" to "low level and wide tax base" and forms a more reasonable tax rate structure.

　　(2) The role of tariff control has been effectively exerted. First, adjust the provisional import tax rate and optimize the structure of imported goods. In recent years, China has made centralized adjustments to import tariffs every year in the form of provisional tax rates, focusing on reducing the import tax rates of important energy resources products, agricultural means of production, basic industrial raw materials, advanced technical equipment and key parts, and some commodities closely related to people’s daily lives, and expanding the scope of commodities involved year by year.2011At the beginning of the year660A number of commodities are subject to provisional import tax rates, and the average tax rate is lower than5%Compared with the most-favored-nation tax rate, the preferential margin reaches50%Above. Since then, according to the changes in macroeconomic operation, since2011yearsevenmoononeSince June, it has further reduced some energy raw materials such as refined oil, non-ferrous metal raw materials and textile raw materials, as well as some disaster relief items and daily commodities.33The import tariff of a commodity, the preferential margin reached.50%. The implementation of the provisional import tax rate has effectively promoted the import of related commodities and the development of upstream and downstream industries, and played an important role in meeting the needs of economic and social development. On the one hand, the import of energy, resources, raw materials and other primary products located in the upstream of the industrial chain has continued to grow rapidly, and its proportion has been continuously improved, which has strongly supported domestic industrial production and economic construction; On the other hand, the imports of consumer goods located in the lower reaches of the industrial chain have also maintained steady growth, which has played a positive role in enriching domestic market supply and promoting domestic consumption growth. According to the statistics of customs trade,2011In, China imported primary products and consumer goods respectively.6043.8Billion dollars and1059.1Billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase.39.3%and34.5%, both higher than24.9%The overall increase of imports, accounting for the total import34.7%and6.1%The proportion has increased year on year.3.7and0.5Percentage points.

　　The second isConstantly enrich tax collection methods and effectively play the role of tariff leverage. The method of taxation is becoming more and more complete. At present, in addition to ad valorem tax, China also applies sliding duties to imported cotton beyond quota, selective tax to imported natural rubber, compound tax to imported electronic video recording equipment, specific tax to imported photosensitive materials and seasonal tax to exported chemical fertilizers. Different tax methods are adopted according to the characteristics of different commodities, which not only fully considers the interests of many parties, takes care of the relationship between upstream and downstream industries, but also comprehensively balances the relationship between supply and demand, and has received good regulatory effects. At the same time, the leverage of tariffs is effectively exerted. In recent years, according to the changes in the international and domestic economic situation and other regulatory measures introduced by the state, we have effectively responded by adjusting import and export tariffs in a timely manner.2007The price of raw materials in the international market rose in,2008The price of grain products in domestic and foreign markets rose in,2009Foreign trade fell sharply in,2010International commodity prices rose in,2011The complicated situation, such as excessive annual price increase, has effectively ensured that the domestic market supply and the overall price level are basically stable.

　　The third isImplement special preferential tariff policies to promote scientific development. In recent years, by formulating preferential tax policies on tariffs and import links, we have vigorously supported industrial transformation and upgrading and independent innovation of enterprises, effectively cooperating with the implementation of national development plans such as ten key industries, strategic emerging industries and major scientific and technological projects. At the same time, the orientation of tariff policy is further tilted towards public utilities such as science, education, health, culture and public welfare, supporting the improvement of people’s livelihood. such as2008The preferential tax policy for import of major technical equipment, implemented since, exempts key parts and raw materials imported by domestic enterprises for R&D and production of major technical equipment from customs duties and import value-added tax, and cancels the corresponding tax-free policy for import of complete machines and complete sets of equipment. With the support of this policy, domestic200A number of equipment manufacturing enterprises have developed a number of products with independent intellectual property rights and core technologies by introducing technology to digest, absorb and innovate, and achieved leap-forward development.

　　The next step is to strengthen the preliminary thinking of tariff system construction: First, pay more attention to the scientific and planning adjustment of tariff rate and tax items, and change from reactive and temporary adjustment to active and forward-looking adjustment, forming an efficient, scientific and strict policy adjustment mechanism. Second, pay more attention to the construction of tariff policy system, further strengthen and improve the role of tariff leverage, and change from studying and introducing individual policies to strengthening policy coordination and policy convergence, so that tariff policies and other regulatory measures can form a joint force and enhance the regulatory effect. Third, pay more attention to the performance evaluation of tariff policy, from paying attention to policy design to paying attention to the evaluation of policy implementation effect, optimize the evaluation model and improve the evaluation method. In addition, the Ministry of Finance will actively and steadily promote various multilateral and bilateral tariff negotiations in accordance with the principle of mutual benefit and win-win, and change from designing a single negotiation plan to making a master plan and formulating a standardized negotiation plan.

　　Ma Jia is a teacher majoring in mathematics in a university in Beijing. This summer, he enrolled his daughter Ma Lu in a 12-day math extracurricular class. "In her daughter’s words, the most difficult questions in the extracurricular class are also simpler than the simplest ones she usually does at school." However, Ma Jia still insisted on letting her daughter go to this extracurricular class. "The mathematics learned at school is too difficult, so let the children find the confidence to do the problem here."

　　Ma Lu is studying in a good middle school, and the second day of junior high school is about to begin. This school is yearning for many parents because of its "difficult study" and "good grades in the senior high school entrance examination".

　　While attending classes in Ma Lu, in the adjacent classroom, Tao Qian, who just finished "Xiaoshengchu", was also attending math classes. "Many parents told me that math in primary schools is too simple. If I don’t study in the summer vacation, I can’t keep up with school." Tao Qian’s mother told the reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network.

　　Same math, different troubles.

　　In fact, the troubles brought by mathematics to Chinese people in these years are by no means just these.

　　A few years ago, at the craziest time of choosing a school in junior high school, Olympiad was the most powerful "weapon" in choosing a school, so that many children were miserable when they learned it.

　　Later, the Olympiad became a "monster" and was banned again and again. Mathematics was also in the voice of reducing the burden and has been reducing the difficulty.

　　What followed was that China students’ scenery in the International Mathematical Olympiad was no longer there, and the champion who had won for many years was lost for four years.

　　Just as people questioned whether the difficulty of mathematics had dropped too much, just after the college entrance examination and senior high school entrance examination this year, there were media reports that the candidates were crying outside the examination room because the questions were too difficult.

　　Is mathematics difficult or easy? Should mathematics be more difficult or easier?

　　Some people say that China’s mathematics education has been swinging in recent years, and this swing seems to be unique to China: when a group of people shout "too easy", we seem to think that mathematics is easy and should be more difficult; When another group of people shouted "It’s too difficult", we seemed to think that mathematics was difficult and were busy reducing the difficulty.

　　On July 12th this year, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Natural Science Foundation of China jointly issued the "Work Plan on Strengthening Mathematical Science Research" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), calling for strengthening mathematical science research and continuously and stably supporting basic mathematical science.

　　It is mentioned in the Plan that the strength of mathematics often affects the strength of a country, and almost all major discoveries are related to the development and progress of mathematics, which has become an indispensable and important support in the fields of aerospace, national defense security, biomedicine, information, energy, ocean, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing and so on.

　　The release of the document has played a decisive role in mathematics teaching, and some essential problems should be discussed more fully: how should mathematics education in primary and secondary schools develop? Can the swing from easy to difficult stop? The reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network recently interviewed many experts in the industry, trying to make a more rational analysis of the current mathematics education in primary and secondary schools.

　　"shallow enough to make people want to cry"

　　Primary school mathematics is caught in the form of operation and visualization.

　　"I always emphasize that primary school mathematics must not be too operational and intuitive, and students should learn to think and recall problems." Liu Jiaxia, dean of the School of Primary Education of Beijing Institute of Education, said.

　　At one time, mathematics education in primary and secondary schools in China was famous for its difficulty. Many people may still remember the classic example: when an American adult is asked what 7×8 is, they will be very embarrassed to answer, "I’ll look for a calculator." And the same question, China grade two or three primary school students will basically blurt out.

　　While people are proud of China’s children’s solid mathematical foundation, they are also thinking about how memorizing the multiplication table of 1999 can really help a child’s mathematical study.

　　Some experts pointed out that mathematics learning should go through romantic period, accurate period and comprehensive period, while primary school learning is in romantic period, so that children can play and go to school.

　　As a result, in many places, primary school mathematics has not only increased the content of practical operation, but also the exams in the lower grades of primary schools have become a "music test". Many years ago, the exercises such as oral arithmetic competition and calculating the standard for 100 days have become rare.

　　"But in fact, this ‘ Play and learn ’ It is a higher realm, and the requirements for teachers are higher. " Liu Jiaxia said that not all grades of study must be ‘ Play and learn ’ , and not all knowledge is suitable for ‘ Play and learn ’ . Especially in the middle and senior grades of primary schools, we should not only operate and be intuitive, but also have reasoning, and some rational methods and training should keep up. "Although it is necessary for middle schools to reflect on refining the law after doing the questions, there will be difficulties in the connection of middle schools if there is no relevant training at all in the primary school stage."

　　Not long ago, there was a post on the Internet that caused a heated discussion. A teacher left homework in the parents’ WeChat group, saying: One of the math homework in the evening is hundreds of millions of grains of rice, so parents can urge their students to finish it and take it to school in food bags the next day. The group of parents immediately exploded. Some said, "If one grain counts, it will take a year." Some said, "Is this a brain teaser?" Others asked, "How can I get to school tomorrow?".

　　Although the case of hundreds of millions of grains of rice is too wonderful, the situation of being too formal and operating for the sake of operation can be seen everywhere in today’s primary school mathematics classroom.

　　Teacher Liu Jiaxia introduced that once she went to a division class in primary school. The example given by the teacher in class is 24÷2, which means that 24 is divided into two parts on average. How to divide it? The teacher led the students to divide the sticks, first one by one, then two by two, and then continue to divide them. "If you are a sophomore, this division is still meaningful, but the real difficulty in this class is the vertical division. This division is completely for the sake of division and operation." Liu Jiaxia said that the teacher should directly present: "two bundles of four", two bundles are two tens, and there are four left, and divide the "two bundles of four" equally. At this time, the children should be led to discuss why they should be divided into high positions first (that is, "bundles"), and then the high positions will be divided into low positions.

　　"Elementary school mathematics is so shallow that people want to cry." A primary school math teacher said that sometimes it is even required to teach students no more than two steps to solve problems.

　　Teacher Liu Jiaxia introduced that primary school students often use the "staring method" to solve problems: there is no need to draw pictures, discuss or question, and the answer is unique. There are only two steps at most, and you can know the answer by staring. "In fact, primary school mathematics should be easier to test, but it is slightly more difficult to learn. The difficulty is not to increase the difficulty of knowledge, but to expand students’ knowledge, to be more reasonable, and to tell the stories behind mathematics knowledge." Liu Jiaxia said, but now there is too much emphasis on operation and intuition, which makes many primary school math classes like teachers coaxing children to play.

　　不过有时候也不仅是老师哄着学生玩，学生也哄着老师玩。

　　“我们在实际教学中还有一个矛盾。”北京某小学的数学牛老师说，学习内容虽然简单，但是对老师的课堂教学过程还要求多样化。“我们经常在课堂上问：孩子们谁还有别的方法？谁还有问题？但这其实低估了孩子的智商，学习内容这么简单还能有多少方法？还能提出多少问题？”牛老师说，久而久之，学生们便配合着老师一起演。

　　老师哄着学生、学生哄着老师，学校里的学习氛围变得轻松了，这种轻松既无法满足聪明孩子的求知欲，同时也无法满足中国家长“不输在起跑线上”的期望，于是“不满足”的家长带着“吃不饱”的孩子进了课外班。

　　初一学初二的课程

　　超前学让中学数学陷入刷题的汪洋大海

　　小学阶段的数学太容易了，浪费了学生的智力。那么，中学呢？

　　有人说在中国最苦的学生就是中学生，因此最应该给中学生减负。

　　Many people feel that it is difficult to learn, so the burden is heavy, so to reduce the burden, we should reduce the difficulty. "There is actually no relationship between burden reduction and difficulty." Professor Zhao Xuezhi from the School of Mathematical Sciences of Capital Normal University said.

　　Today, great changes have taken place in the content of mathematics learning, and at the same time, the methods of mathematics have also changed. This change itself may bring a burden to students. "For example, we used to use derivation to do geometry problems, but now we will use vectors." Zhao Xuezhi said that vector has been debated by math teachers since the day it was introduced. Many people think that the introduction of vector destroys the joy that geometry brings to students when they finally draw a wonderful auxiliary line after trying to break their heads. Others regard the introduction of vectors as evidence that mathematics has reduced the difficulty.

　　"In fact, it is difficult to make a simple summary with difficulty." Zhao Xuezhi said that just like walking the same road, people used to walk, but later they changed to take a bus. Originally, walking and taking a bus would not add extra burden to people. But if you go out for a while and then drive back, then go and drive again, the burden will be heavy.

　　Experts pointed out that these problems encountered in the development of mathematics will disappear with the skilled use of tools and methods. In middle school, what really causes students’ heavy burden of mathematics learning is not the difficulty, but the advance — — That is to say, when teachers and students are not ready, they are in a hurry to catch up with the progress, which often causes teachers not to pay attention to the teaching process, while students are eating raw rice.

　　Ma Lu, who started school in Grade Two, began to learn the content of Grade Two in the next semester of Grade One. Ma Lu said that just because what she learned in school was fast and difficult, she had to "return to the furnace" in the extracurricular class during the summer vacation.

　　Learning ahead of time has become a very common phenomenon in middle school mathematics learning.

　　What knowledge is learned at what age is suitable for students’ cognitive characteristics at this stage. Learning ahead means that what they have learned is beyond students’ cognitive ability. In order to let students master knowledge, teachers usually practice a lot.

　　"Let’s take a simple example to see the relationship between learning ahead and the burden." Professor Zhao Xuezhi said that if we teach at an age consistent with students’ cognitive level, we only need to make it clear that 2 is bigger than 1, and then students can draw countless groups of comparisons by analogy. However, if students learn ahead of time, they can’t understand the relationship between comparisons. In order to let students master this knowledge, teachers will let students remember that 2 is bigger than 1, 3 is bigger than 2, and 4 is bigger than 3 … … "Exhausted and remember, this process is a process of massive practice. Can the burden on students be small?"

　　在这个过程中，数学教学培养的是学生的记忆力，而不是推断力。“数学的学习关键是掌握了原理，然后举一反三，而不在于你记住了哪些具体的知识。”赵学志说。

　　但是，在当前的很多中学，中考和高考分数仍然是教学的主要奋斗目标，在这种前提下老师们不是以更多的精力引导学生进行更多的思考，而是总结题型，追求题型的全覆盖，进而把学生扔进刷题的汪洋大海。学生的思辨能力、推理能力自然无法得到很好的训练。

　　今年高考之后，考生们被“难哭了一片”，很多人不禁怀疑：难道数学的难度又要提高了吗？其实，高考数学科目刚刚结束，教育部考试中心的命题专家就指出，2019年的数学试卷，在难度、区分度上都与前两年相当，只是更加强调考查学生的理性思维能力，综合运用数学思维方法分析问题、解决问题的能力。

　　The proposition expert specifically mentioned the Venus that made the candidates "frightened" and pointed out that this question is not to be difficult for students, but to "explore the beauty of the golden section of the human body and integrate aesthetic education into mathematics education." When the candidates calmed down and looked at this "Venus" again, they finally understood that "Venus" was only a narrative way of the topic, and the real mathematical knowledge had probably been learned in the sixth grade of primary school.

　　The difficulty of the college entrance examination has not increased, but the flexibility has increased, and the students who are tired of brushing the questions are at a loss.

　　Many experts pointed out that there is nothing wrong with the reform direction of mathematics education, and there is nothing wrong with reducing students’ burden. The crux of the problem is that professional things have not been entrusted to professional people.

　　An expert said that people will always mention the difficulty coefficient now, but in fact, the difficulty coefficient is an indicator of post-verification, and it is a monitoring indicator for the education management department to maintain the stability of the exam for a long time. "We don’t need to monitor the difficulty coefficient like monitoring blood sugar at all." Zhao Xuezhi said that the whole society and even ordinary people are concerned about talking about this coefficient, which can only increase anxiety, and it is easy to misread the changes of numbers, which in turn leads to unnecessary misunderstanding of mathematics education.

　　An expert suggested that the reform should be handed over to the education management department and teachers should be liberated from daily affairs, so that the mathematics classroom can return to rationality and mathematics can return to its original appearance. (Reporter Fan Weichen)

　　(At the request of the interviewee, Ma Jia, Ma Lu and Tao Qian are all pseudonyms.)

　　A few days ago, the statistics released by the Ministry of Finance showed that from January to April, the national general public budget revenue was 8,317.1 billion yuan, up 11.9% year-on-year; General public budget expenditure was 8,641.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%. Overall, fiscal revenue continued to rise steadily, and fiscal expenditure maintained a high intensity. Experts said that the fiscal revenue and expenditure structure was further optimized and balanced in the first four months, reflecting that fiscal sustainability has improved with the steady recovery of the economy.

　　It is reported that in the first four months, the national general public budget revenue increased by 11.9% year-on-year, which was not only driven by economic recovery growth, but also affected by some special factors. For example, part of the income at the end of 2021 was put into storage at the beginning of last year, raising the base and lowering the income growth. Last year, small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing industry deferred taxes and some taxes were put into storage at the wrong time this year, which boosted the income growth this year. In addition, a large-scale tax refund policy was implemented in April last year, and it returned to normal this year. The tax refund amount was greatly reduced year-on-year, which directly increased the income growth in April to 70%, which correspondingly increased the cumulative income growth from January to April. After deducting the above-mentioned special factors, from January to April, the national general public budget revenue increased by about 4% on a comparable basis, and the comparable growth rate increased by 1 percentage point compared with the first quarter, continuing the steady recovery trend.

　　General public budget revenue consists of tax revenue and non-tax revenue. From the perspective of tax revenue, from January to April, the national tax revenue totaled 7,037.9 billion yuan, up 12.9% year-on-year, and increased by about 4% after deducting special factors such as tax rebates.

　　Statistics show that from January to April, the domestic value-added tax increased by 58%, and increased by about 10% after deducting the tax rebate factor, which was mainly driven by factors such as economic recovery growth and the slow tax payment of small and medium-sized enterprises in manufacturing last year. Domestic consumption tax decreased by 17.9%, and value-added tax and consumption tax on imported goods decreased by 12%, mainly due to the high base in the same period last year. In addition, corporate income tax increased by 3.7% year-on-year.

　　The real estate market is still gradually recovering, with deed tax increasing by 6.3%, which has rebounded for three consecutive months, mainly driven by factors such as narrowing the decline of land transfer income and the recovery of second-hand housing market in some key cities; Property tax increased by 20.5%, and urban land use tax increased by 11.5%, mainly because the income in some areas was put into storage in advance at the wrong time; Farmland occupation tax decreased by 8.8%, and land value-added tax decreased by 15.2%.

　　Bai Yanfeng, a professor at the School of Finance and Taxation of the Central University of Finance and Economics, believes that from January to April, the national general public budget revenue and tax revenue achieved double-digit growth, even after deducting incomparable factors such as tax rebate, it also achieved positive growth, especially the growth rate of the first tax value-added tax after deducting the tax rebate factor still reached about 10%, and the income tax of the second tax enterprise also achieved positive growth. "These indicators all show that China’s national economy is fully recovering and getting better."

　　"Tax indicators that mainly reflect the status of business entities, such as value-added tax and corporate income tax, show a year-on-year growth trend, reflecting China’s strong economic resilience, great potential and full vitality. The proactive fiscal policy will further release the potential of optimizing the economic structure, continue to improve the effectiveness and accuracy of the policy, and promote the consolidation of the economic recovery momentum. " Li Xuhong, director of the Institute of Finance and Taxation Policy and Application of Beijing National Accounting Institute, said.

　　From the perspective of fiscal expenditure, financial departments at all levels strengthen the overall planning of financial resources, maintain the necessary expenditure intensity, and increase investment in weak links and key areas of economic and social development. Statistics show that from January to April, the national general public budget expenditure increased by 6.8% year-on-year. Key expenditures such as basic livelihood, rural revitalization, major regional strategies, education, and scientific and technological research have been effectively guaranteed. Among them, social security and employment expenditure increased by 10.3%; Education expenditure increased by 6.9%; Health expenditure increased by 8.7%; Urban and rural community expenditure increased by 3.1%; Expenditure on agriculture, forestry and water increased by 8%; Expenditure on science and technology increased by 9%; Expenditure on housing security increased by 8.9%.

　　Li Xuhong analyzed that the implementation of fiscal expenditure was strengthened in the first four months, especially in the fields of people’s livelihood and science and technology. "In the future, we should further optimize the structure of fiscal expenditure and give full play to fiscal funds ‘ Four or two thousand catties ’ The role of effectively promoting the expansion of investment in the whole society and promoting the recovery and growth of consumption. "

　　Special debt plays an important role in promoting the expansion of effective investment and maintaining stable economic operation. Statistics show that from January to April, 1,857.5 billion yuan of local government bonds were issued for project construction, including 330.3 billion yuan of general bonds, which were mainly used for the construction of non-profit public welfare projects such as rural revitalization, pollution prevention and control, and reinforcement of small reservoirs. The special bonds amounted to 1,527.2 billion yuan, which were mainly used for municipal construction and industrial park infrastructure, social undertakings, transportation infrastructure, affordable housing projects, agriculture, forestry and water conservancy and other key areas identified by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and promoted the construction and implementation of a large number of projects that benefited people’s livelihood, supplemented shortcomings and strong and weak items.

　　The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Finance said that the next step will be to work with relevant departments to guide local governments to continue to do a good job in the reserve of special bond projects in accordance with the key areas determined by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, continuously improve the quality of reserve projects, and give full play to the fund efficiency of special bonds.