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Taiwanese couple trapped in Himalayas for 47 days: male rescued female killed, suggesting who dies first.

Shengyue still said that if he did it again, he would still invite Liu Chenjun to climb the mountain, "because this is what she likes."

China Taiwan Province Network reported on April 29 that Taiwan Province couple Liang Shengyue and Liu Chenjun went hiking in the Himalayas in Nepal earlier. After they disappeared on March 9, they were finally rescued the day before yesterday (April 26). The man lost 30 kilograms and was lucky to save his life, but his girlfriend died three days before being found. Liang Shengyue, who was rescued, revealed in an interview with the media on the island on April 28 that his girlfriend Liu Chenjun even took the initiative to meet with him in life and death: the one who died first and was not dead would "eat each other’s meat and live".

Climbing the Himalayas, being trapped for 47 days, the man was rescued and the woman died.

Taiwan Province’s China Times and other media reported that Liang Shengyue and Liu Chenjun went to Nepal to climb the Himalayas at the end of February, and were finally discovered by climbers on March 9, and then lost contact. Their parents went to Nepal to find someone, and the man’s family hired a guide and chartered a helicopter to search.

According to reports, on the day of their disappearance, heavy snow fell in many places in the mountains, which led to avalanches. At one time, the two men tried to retreat to the valley area with lower altitude. In the end, Liang Shengyue was found in the Nachate Valley on April 26th, but Liu Chenjun died three days before his discovery.

According to reports, when Liang Shengyue was discovered, he was conscious and could speak and express himself, but he was weak and was immediately sent to a local hospital for treatment. After the body gradually recovered, Liang Shengyue was interviewed by the media on the island on the 28th, telling about all kinds of experiences during the period of being trapped with his girlfriend, and telling how he survived these days.

Liang Shengyue said that he and Liu Chenjun set out to climb the mountain in late February and got lost in early March. During the period of being trapped, they once thought about jumping off the cliff to end their lives, but they found a cave and hid in it.

In the first three weeks of being trapped, they ate cooked potatoes, soaked flour in water to eat batter and chewed raw rice to maintain their basic physical strength. "Because there is gas, they ate cooked instant noodles twice, which is super happy." Later, when the food gradually disappeared, I ate oil and salt. "Touch a little salt with your fingers. Salt has a lot of minerals. Just eat two or three mouthfuls a day with mountain spring water, which is enough."

After being trapped for nearly three weeks, Liang Shengyue and Liu Chenjun gradually became desperate. Liang Shengyue said, "I remember it was March 17, and the two of us decided to simply burn charcoal." However, with the trekking poles left by mountain friends and our tents, it can’t burn at all. Think about it, since you can’t die, let it be.

Liang Shengyue revealed that when his girlfriend Liu Chenjun was most desperate at the end of his trap, he offered to suggest: "If one of us dies first, we will eat each other’s meat and live." However, he immediately interrupted his girlfriend’s thoughts and said with a smile: "We all have to live, otherwise we may fight to eat each other." Later, my girlfriend passed away first, and the media asked, "Have you ever thought about eating meat?" Liang Shengyue said that it has never been.

Sobbing memories: My girlfriend shouted "Mom and Dad" before she died.

After being sent to the hospital for examination, Liang Shengyue lost 30 kilograms. At that time, his feet were covered with maggots and his hair was covered with lice, so he lived for 47 days. But sadly, his girlfriend Liu Chenjun couldn’t help but die three days before he was discovered.

Liang Shengyue said that during the period of being trapped, in addition to cheering each other up, they were just empty, and even to save their physical strength, they also agreed not to talk during the day. He and his girlfriend talked about what to do after being rescued, and she said that she would eat tofu pudding when she went back.

Liang Shengyue choked up and recalled that on the day of Liu Chenjun’s death, he kept shouting "Dad, Mom, Aunt, PINKRAY " and never spoke again. At first, he thought she was sleeping. Towards evening, he tried to climb over and touch her. "Why is it cold?". Liang Shengyue said: "I started shaking her violently and tried to wake her up, but she didn’t respond."

He said sadly that he thought it was too cold, so she would be fine after sleeping. But after dawn, she still didn’t wake up!

"If I do it again, I will still ask her to climb the mountain."

The news of Liu Chenjun’s death was sent back to Donghua University in Taiwan Province, where she studied. wang xing, a former classmate, said sadly, "We agreed to come back and share.". Since the news of the disappearance came out, classmates and friends have come to Facebook to cheer them up. "I hope they are only temporarily in the distant snow-capped mountains." Even Wu Mingyi, Liu’s most admired teacher, sent a message to help find them.

Qilu Evening News

Liu Chenjun’s classmates revealed that Liu Chenjun is cheerful by nature, likes to be close to nature, and is also very concerned about social issues. He hit it off with her boyfriend Liang Shengyue, who also likes outdoor activities.

Liang Shengyue graduated from high school in 2014 and spent 110 days riding a bike from Fujian to Xinjiang via Zhejiang, Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu, completing the feat of 7,700 kilometers. Liang Shengyue said that he met Liu Chenjun through a friend’s introduction after he came back from cycling across the mainland. Because of the same interests, he started dating last year.

Their trip to the Himalayas was planned and arranged from last semester. Originally, they were expected to take a semester off and stay in the local area for four months, but now they are separated forever. However, Liang Shengyue still said that if he did it again, he would still invite Liu Chenjun to climb the mountain, "because this is what she likes."

(The original title is "The lovers are trapped in the Himalayas, and the heaven and man are separated forever. It is agreed that whoever dies first will eat their meat and live")

Stimulate the cultural vitality of the Yellow River and arouse the spirit of self-improvement and forge ahead.

  [Guangming Forum]

  The Yellow River falls to the East China Sea, and Wan Li writes in his mind. The Yellow River has witnessed the rise and forge ahead of the Chinese nation and stirred up the splendid civilization that has lasted forever. As an important part of Chinese civilization, the Yellow River culture is the root and soul of the Chinese nation. Recently, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed at the symposium on comprehensively promoting ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin that the times value of the Yellow River culture should be deeply explored, and the national character and spirit of struggle of the Chinese nation should be fully demonstrated. The water vein is connected with the cultural context. Strengthening the cultural protection, inheritance and promotion in the Yellow River Basin is the only way to continue the historical context and strengthen cultural self-confidence. The important exposition of the Supreme Leader General Secretary has provided us with important follow-up and pointed out the way forward.

  The Yellow River culture embodies the spirit of perseverance, perseverance and courage. The Jiuqu Yellow River rushes forward, and its magnificent momentum leaves a deep impression on people. As the mother river of the Chinese nation, the Yellow River has nurtured countless Chinese sons and daughters in the long years, nurtured the spiritual characteristics of Chinese civilization, and shaped the national character of self-improvement, perseverance and indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation. At the same time, the Yellow River, as an unruly "worry river", is "silted, determined and frequently moved" and "burst twice every three years and changed its course once every hundred years". Faced with the changefulness of the Yellow River, Chinese sons and daughters manage the Yellow River and defend their homeland with courage and wisdom. Dayu led the people to abandon "blocking" and change it into "dredging" to calm down the flood with creative dredging strategies; In the Ming Dynasty, Pan Jixun invented the method of "bundling water and washing sand", which managed the river four times and built three long dikes. Jiao Yulu, secretary of Lankao County Party Committee, led the masses to explore hard. After decades of efforts, Lankao finally bid farewell to the long yellow sand and the vast saline-alkali land … … It is in the process of overcoming disasters and sufferings again and again that the Chinese nation forged indomitable and self-reliant character and tenacious vitality, and formed the outstanding characteristics of the Yellow River culture and Chinese culture. With the hard exploration and unremitting efforts of generations, the Yellow River is magnificent in An Lan, with beautiful scenery on both sides.These are the best praise for the spirit of struggle and perseverance of the Chinese nation.

  The Yellow River culture shows the enterprising attitude of the Chinese nation, which is vigorous and promising, seeking new things and making changes. As a multi-level and multi-dimensional cultural complex interwoven with time and space, the Yellow River culture has been continuously enriched and expanded in the labor practice of hundreds of millions of people, and has developed new connotations with the times. Pangu created the world, The goddess patching the sky and Kuafu pursued the sun, and Yugong moved mountains … … These myths and legends born in the Yellow River basin all bear the value pursuit of innovation and change of the Chinese nation. Whether it is astronomical calendar, papermaking, compass, printing and other major inventions, or many revolutionary practices that have taken place along the Yellow River, it has strongly proved that the Yellow River culture contains the gene of seeking novelty and change. Today, the book of rites, University, and the book of songs, Elegance, record that "although Zhou was an old country, his life was renewed", which still inspires the Chinese nation to innovate and develop continuously. Nourished by the spirit of innovation and enterprising, Henan and other places along the Yellow River economic cluster have developed new quality productivity according to local conditions, implemented green manufacturing projects, and cultivated key industrial chain clusters. Zhengzhou and Kaifeng new energy automobile industrial clusters, Luoyang modern agricultural machinery equipment manufacturing cluster and other clusters have been selected into the first batch of advanced manufacturing clusters in Henan Province, developing new advantages and accelerating accumulation, injecting more kinetic energy into promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin.

  The Yellow River culture contains profound wisdom of harmony but diversity and eclecticism. For thousands of years, distinctive regional cultures such as Hehuang culture, Guanzhong culture, Heluo culture and Qilu culture have been formed along the Yellow River basin, and many scholars have emerged. This flowing river bears witness to people’s exchanges and cultural exchanges. In the pre-Qin period, different schools of Confucianism, Mohism and Taoism contended, which promoted the prosperity of China’s thought and scholarship. The Silk Road and the Yellow River waterway have jointly achieved a large-scale cultural blending in the history of human civilization; Buddhism was introduced into China and integrated into Chinese culture, resulting in the cave temple culture represented by Longmen in Luoyang and Maijishan in Tianshui … … It is in the process of colliding with grassland nomadic culture, farming culture and religious culture that the Yellow River culture glows with strong vitality, showing the grand atmosphere of integration, tolerance and pluralism, and gradually forming the unique spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation’s "harmony and harmony" and "seeking great harmony". The inherent characteristics of openness and tolerance endow the Yellow River culture with strong vitality, and also enhance the leading, cohesive, shaping and radiating power of Chinese culture, which has effectively promoted the exchange and mutual learning of world civilizations. For example, the sixth Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo was opened to build an international cultural exchange and cooperation platform; Nishan World Civilization Forum is held continuously to exchange ideas and gather wisdom around building a community of human destiny;The dance drama Rain on Silk Road, inspired by grotto art, has performed more than 3,800 performances in more than 40 countries and regions, setting a Guinness World Record for dance drama … … Today’s Yellow River still tells an open and inclusive story of the East.

  It is our sacred mission to deeply explore the value of the Yellow River culture in the times and let the precious spirit and cultural heritage be passed down from generation to generation. In the new era and new journey, we should strengthen our cultural self-confidence, do a good job in the study of the Yellow River culture and the protection of cultural relics in the site, innovate and promote the activation and utilization of cultural relics in the Yellow River, push the Yellow River culture out, and tell the "Yellow River Story" in the new era. It is necessary to constantly activate the vitality of the Yellow River culture, inspire the spirit of self-improvement and perseverance, provide strong support for comprehensively promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and unite majestic forces for building a strong country and national rejuvenation.

  (Author: Zheng Jingbin, deputy academic director of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, the supreme leader of Shandong Province, and professor of Marxism College of Shandong University)

Sino-Vietnamese "snakeheads" colluded to organize Vietnamese to sneak into Taiwan Province via Fujian.

  On December 9, Fujian Provincial Public Security Frontier Corps organized and commanded Pingtan and Fuzhou Public Security Frontier Detachment to cooperate with each other, and simultaneously acted in Pingtan and Fuqing, and detected a case of Vietnamese smuggling into Taiwan Province by diversion, and arrested 31 people involved, including 4 smuggling organizers and transporters (2 from China and 2 from Vietnam), 27 illegal immigrants (all Vietnamese, 23 men and 4 women), and seized a vehicle transporting illegal immigrants.

  It is reported that this is a smuggling gang with the largest number of people arrested in our province this year.

  The two men have frequent contact.

  Planning and organizing smuggling into Taiwan Province

  Yesterday, Fujian Public Security Frontier Corps reported the detection of this smuggling case.

  At the beginning of June, Fujian Provincial Public Security Frontier Corps found that Qiu Mou, a 53-year-old man from Pingtan, had frequent contacts with Vietnamese and Taiwan Province.

  After further peripheral investigation by Pingtan Public Security Frontier Detachment, a smuggling gang organized by Vietnamese and Pingtan nationals gradually emerged, and border guards also learned that the gang was planning to organize a group of Vietnamese to sneak into Taiwan Province by boat along Pingtan coast.

  Due to the seriousness of the case, the Fujian Provincial Public Security Frontier Corps set up a task force. Not long after, Vietnamese man Li Mou entered the sight of the task force. Li, a 33-year-old who speaks Chinese, spent some time in Taiwan Province before. In 2013, he was sent back to Vietnam for illegally staying in Taiwan Province for an extended period of time, and then he was sent back to China for attempted smuggling.

  Investigators also learned that Qiu had been to Taiwan Province in 2012 in the name of visiting relatives, and was repatriated because of overstaying. During his stay in Taiwan, Qiu met many Vietnamese, including Li. The two men contacted each other many times, and planned to organize a group of Vietnamese nationals to sneak into Taiwan Province via Pingtan.

  "Snakehead" has a clear division of labor

  One side recruits people and the other side buys ships.

  After some discussion, Qiu and Li made a detailed smuggling plan. According to the division of labor plan of the two, Li is responsible for recruiting illegal immigrants in Vietnam and taking them to Pingtan, Fuqing and other places to find a suitable time to sneak into Taiwan Province; Qiu is responsible for buying boats for smuggling, and arranging accommodation for stowaways after they arrive in Fuqing and Pingtan.

  From June to November, Li hired a Vietnamese "Ma Zi" Huang, and successively recruited 27 stowaways in Vietnam. Among these stowaways, 23 were men and 4 were women, the youngest being 21 years old and the oldest being 46 years old.

  Li Mou and Qiu Mou intend to sneak into Taiwan Province by means of "stowaways buying boats at their own expense, driving boats by themselves, and abandoning boats when they arrive at the shore". When Li Mou recruited stowaways, he specially chose Ruan Mou and Fan Mou who knew how to sail boats.

  After the personnel were in place, Li received a deposit from each stowaway and came to Pingtan on November 28 to talk with Qiu and Du about the details of the stowaway. Du Mou has a personal face in Fuqing, mainly responsible for transporting Vietnamese stowaways to Fuqing, Pingtan and other places.

  On November 29th, Li and Qiu went to Chengtou Town, Fuqing City, and bought a wooden fishing boat for smuggling from local fisherman Lin for 53,000 yuan. At the same time, Qiu and Du rented houses in Pingtan and Fuqing respectively for stowaways to use.

  On November 30, Li returned to Guangxi, while Qiu and Du started to refuel the ship, buy quilts and food and put them in the rented room, waiting for the arrival of stowaways.

  Frontier officers and soldiers attacked

  Destroy smuggling gangs

  Soon, under the arrangement of organizers, 27 Vietnamese stowaways arrived in Fuqing and Pingtan in batches with passports or border cards after entering through Youyiguan Port in Guangxi.

  At noon on December 8, the first batch of 11 stowaways arrived in Honglu Town, Fuqing City, and Qiu and Du sent them to Pingtan rented house to wait for stowaways.

  On the 9th, the second batch of 16 stowaways arrived in Fuqing, and 12 of them were sent to Fuqing’s rental house by Qiu and Du. At 15: 00 on the same day, Qiu Mou, Du Mou and Li Mou were preparing to send the other four people to Pingtan rented house. When the vehicle was driving to the second line of Pingtan Strait Bridge, the task force attacked Qiu Mou, Du Mou, Li Mou and the stowaway. Pingtan and Fuzhou public security frontier detachments closed their nets simultaneously, arrested 23 stowaways and an organizer Huang Mou in Pingtan and Fuqing, and seized the ships and vehicles involved in the case in Aoqian Town, Pingtan. This major smuggling case was solved.

  All the stowaways involved were punished by administrative detention and a fine of 500 yuan, and four stowaway organizers were detained in criminal detention.

  According to the investigators, these stowaways have contacted their relatives or friends in Taiwan Province in advance. Once the fishing boat arrives in Taoyuan, Taiwan Province, the stowaways will abandon the boat and go ashore, and their relatives and friends in Taiwan will take over the job.

  At present, the case is still under investigation.

  "Snakehead" and stowaways

  It’s too late to regret being caught

  On the afternoon of December 16th, the reporter saw "snakeheads" Li and Qiu in Pingtan Detention Center, and Vietnamese stowaways in Pingtan Detention Center.

  Li stayed in Taiwan Province for 8 years, including 6 years of illegal detention, and was sent back to Viet Nam in 2013. In the first two years in Taiwan, he worked as a welder, and later changed to marble processing, earning five or six thousand yuan a month, far exceeding his monthly income when he worked in Vietnam.

  After being sent back to China, Li wanted to go back to Taiwan Province to work, so he found Qiu through his friends and planned to organize illegal immigration.

  Li said that he and his wife met while working in Taiwan Province. On December 6 this year, he just came out of Viet Nam, and his wife gave birth to a boy. So far, he has not seen the child with his own eyes, and his family doesn’t know about his arrest. Now he regrets it very much. As he spoke, Li’s tears kept spinning in his eyes.

  Qiu, another "snakehead", appeared relatively calm after being arrested. He said that when Li called him, he thought that the other party was asking him to buy a boat, and later he realized that it was a smuggling. He also thought about reporting it, but he did not report it for fear of being implicated. In this smuggling case, Qiu mainly earned the difference in helping to buy a boat. He claimed that after a trip, he could earn more than 10,000 yuan except for buying a boat, buying oil, repairing the boat and other expenses.

  It is understood that Qiu’s two sons run a fishing gear shop in partnership, and the family conditions are ok. The granddaughter is now over one year old and the grandson has just reached the full moon. Qiu said that he was arrested the first time he did this, and now he is very painful and regrets.

  Chen Mou, a 33-year-old Vietnamese woman, left her old man and children at home and followed her husband to sneak into Taiwan Province to work. The couple mortgaged their house to the bank and raised the smuggling fee through a bank loan. Unexpectedly, they were arrested as soon as they arrived in Pingtan.

  Among these illegal immigrants, there are husband and wife and brothers. Because of their difficult family circumstances, many people raise enough money for illegal immigrants by means of loans or borrowing money. They don’t realize that if they go out through this illegal way, they will lose not only money, but also their lives.

  (Fuzhou Evening News reporter Lin Chunchang correspondent Ding Jichao)

Sequoia Capital, a long-simmering separation

As one of the largest VC (venture capital institutions) in the world, Sequoia Capital will be "divided into three parts" in the future. 

On the evening of June 6th, official micro of Sequoia China released a letter to the founders of Sequoia China member enterprises, announcing that Sequoia Capital will split its local funds in the United States, Europe, China and India/Southeast Asia, and conduct their own completely independent operations, which will be completed before March 31st, 2024. 

Sequoia Capital was born in the United States in 1972. By investing in more than 1,000 enterprises with distinctive technical characteristics, high growth and high development potential, it has become an investment institution with the influence of the industry vane, and is called "the entrepreneur behind the entrepreneur". By 2022, the company managed assets of about $85 billion, or about 606 billion yuan. 

In the list of global unicorns released by Hurun in 2023, Sequoia Capital has once again become the most successful unicorn investment institution in the world by investing in 238 unicorn enterprises, and is far ahead of well-known institutions such as Tiger Global Fund and Softbank. It is precisely because of its great influence that the spin-off of Sequoia Capital has also caused a lot of heated discussion in the investment community. 

In fact, this spin-off is not an emergency, but a long-simmering business restructuring of Sequoia Capital. As Shen Nanpeng, the main partner of Sequoia Capital and the founder of Sequoia China, told the media, "Now the similarities between different entities of Sequoia are much less, and discussions on the split business have been going on for the past two or three years." 

After the split, Sequoia Capital’s original three major sectors will not only have their names adjusted, but also the focus of investment will be quite different. 

Among them, Sequoia USA and Europe will continue to use the brand of Sequoia Capital, Sequoia China will continue to use the Chinese brand name of Sequoia, but it will use "HongShan" as its English name, and Sequoia India/Southeast Asia will be renamed as "Peak XV Partners". A person familiar with the matter told CNBC, "Sequoia China has diversified its investment strategy into multiple funds, while Sequoia’s US and European businesses have been reorganized to focus on Sequoia Capital Fund. Sequoia India/Southeast Asia is highly focused on the excavation and cultivation of early founders. " 

As for the reasons for the split, Sequoia’s explanation is that the deeper localization of each region makes the global centralized operation mode of some back-office functions gradually become a burden. With the internationalization of investment enterprises in different regions of Sequoia and the global competition, competition will inevitably occur, while Sequoia shares the same brand in all regions, which will bring troubles to the founders and member enterprises. 

As for why it split up at this time, it may be related to the rapid growth of Sequoia China. Although Sequoia China has brought rich economic returns to Sequoia Capital in recent years, the distribution of benefits has become increasingly prominent. After splitting up, Sequoia China will no longer share profits with Sequoia Europe and the United States. 

Sequoia revealed in the letter that after 18 years of development, Sequoia China’s investment direction is more extensive and diversified. Thanks to the opportunity of China market, Sequoia China set up a new infrastructure fund to invest in the infrastructure of China’s new economic industry, and in recent years, it developed M&A investment. These unique businesses of Sequoia China have enabled it to break through the definition of traditional venture capital and become an investment institution with diversified business. 

According to Forbes’ report in May, Sequoia China holds 10% of ByteDance’s shares, and the potential value of this investment alone is as high as tens of billions of dollars. In addition, the nearly 200-fold floating profit from previous investment in the US Mission and public comments has made Sequoia China earn a lot of money. According to the Securities Times, Sequoia China has managed over 300 billion yuan and invested in more than 900 projects. 

On the other hand, after Roelof Botha took over the top management of Sequoia USA, the "Sequoia Fund" launched was hit hard by the US stock market, and its performance was not satisfactory. Then in March of this year, the sudden "death" of Silicon Valley Bank made Sequoia America, as its big customer, also experience a test. 

In fact, under the leadership of Shen Nanpeng, Sequoia China already has a localized investment and management model, and has formed a unique system of Sequoia China in terms of business model and concept, so it needs independent operation to play a greater advantage. Coupled with the domestic fund-raising environment, state-owned funds are becoming an increasingly important source of LP. Abandoning Sequoia China as a foreign capital based on the basic situation of China will also be more conducive to its future development. 

Shen Nanpeng, the head of Sequoia China, is a "genius" in the investment field. 

Shen Nanpeng, born in Haining, Zhejiang Province in 1967, worked in Citibank, Lehman Brothers Asia and Deutsche Bank China after obtaining a master’s degree from Yale University. Later, he co-founded Ctrip.com and Home Inn, and both companies landed on Nasdaq in only four years. In 2005, Shen Nanpeng founded Sequoia China, and continues to write the legend of making wealth. 

In Forbes’ list of the world’s best venture capitalists in 2023 released not long ago, Shen Nanpeng topped the list for the fourth time with his investment in Meituan, Pinduoduo and ByteDance, which is also his 12th time on the list and his fourth time winning. Previously, Shen Nanpeng had been the best venture capitalist for three consecutive years (2018-2020), and was also the highest ranked Chinese investor for nine consecutive years since he was listed in 2012. 

Sequoia China official website shows that besides investing in the giants of their respective tracks mentioned above, there are also well-known enterprises such as Alibaba, JD.COM, Debon Logistics, noah wealth, DJI Innovation, BYD, Weilai, Gaode, Aauto Quicker, Huolala, Vipshop, Huada Gene, Jumeiyoupin, Qihoo 360 and ZTO Express. 

In fact, an important factor for the success of Shen Nanpeng and Sequoia China comes from the strategy of "investing early and investing small". Through the forward-looking judgment of industry trends, we choose the fields with the most promising investment opportunities and make an early layout, instead of spending a lot of money on strategic investment later. According to statistics, Sequoia China invested more than half of all fields before the A round (including the A round). 

Moreover, Sequoia China’s investment logic has experienced a gradual change in three stages: the whole track-the key track-the subdivision track in the key track. By dividing the broad investment fields more finely, it can help it to judge the next round of enthusiasm more accurately in advance. In addition, paying attention to post-investment management also enables Sequoia China to find risks in time, grow together with the invested enterprises, and give follow-up strategic guidance, so as to maximize profits. 

Through observation, it is not difficult to find that, in addition to science and technology industry, Sequoia China’s main investment fields include medical and health care and traditional consumption tracks. With the continuous emergence of new tracks, Sequoia China has also begun to exert its strength in these new fields. In a previous public speech, Shen Nanpeng revealed that "in recent years, hard technology projects such as artificial intelligence and high-end manufacturing have exceeded 80% of Sequoia China’s portfolio". 

According to Zhou Kui, a partner of Sequoia China, Sequoia China will capture new trends along three frameworks in the future, namely, low carbon, cloud/end structure evolution and industrial digitalization. 

Zhou Kui explained, "Traditional energy is resource-driven, new energy is innovation-driven, and all aspects of power generation, energy storage and application are improving efficiency through science and technology, so we will pay attention to the release of existing industrial capabilities and innovation and progress of new energy. As for the evolution of the cloud/end structure, although there have been various ups and downs and great changes in the world, the pace of technological progress and industrial development of the communication revolution has not stopped. We have seen opportunities for core software and chips, as well as the original information industry institutions. Gradually restructuring. " 

Resume of child prodigy: I know nuclear reactor and studied calculus.

  Xinhua News Agency, Changsha, April 21st (Reporter Xie Ying) A selection of 8000 students who can only admit 60 students has attracted a group of excellent kindergarten "Niu Wa Resumes" who know about nuclear reactors and learn calculus. These prodigies, who have been teased as "surpassing Einstein", have been brushing their screens in the circle of friends in recent days.

  Because parents are eager to accumulate advantages for their children’s smooth further education, "rushing to learn" and "advanced education" have become very common among preschool children. However, experts pointed out that "leading education" caused children to "lead" is only a temporary illusion. Imposing knowledge and skills that are ahead of children’s development process on children who are not fully prepared for their abilities may bring serious consequences of "pulling out the seedlings to encourage them" and staging a modern version of "hurting Zhongyong".

  The frequent emergence of "Niu Wa" has triggered a collective "spit"

  Recently, an article entitled "I’m afraid Niu Wa was not reincarnated as Einstein" has been widely circulated in the circle of friends. It is mentioned in the article that there are more than 8,000 applicants from a famous school. After three rounds of online selection, computer examination and interview, only 60 students were finally admitted, and the degree of competition is staggering. Under the aura of prestigious schools, many parents have carefully written "Niu Wa Resume", hoping to win a "admission ticket" for their children.

  Some screenshots of "children’s resumes" published in the article show that these "self-introductions" written in a child’s tone have become "writing competitions" for parents.

  "I inherited the language ability of Fudan master’s mother. After three and a half months, I began to speak and expressed my wishes skillfully at the age of one. During the trip, I will also take the initiative to talk to American tourists about Medusa and Curie & Hellep in English; …”

  "With the powerful mathematical genes of Dr. Tsinghua’s father, I can perform mixed operations within 100% in the middle class, and I also know decimals, fractions and negative numbers … …”

  "I learned time management when I was in shift, and I knew about nuclear reactors, base pairing and RNA transcription. I learned functions and limits by listening to calculus with my father. My favorite game is programming, and I can write codes in Swift language … …”

  The frequent appearance of "highly educated" parents, advanced ability and even some proper academic terms in resumes has made many netizens call it "an eye-opener", which has even caused netizens to "spit": "Other people’s babies have never let me down" "It is against the law of human development to speak after three and a half months" "There will be so many kindergartens, so what primary schools are there to attend? Teachers don’t know as much as you do "… …

  “‘ Resume of Niu Wa ’ We don’t know whether there is any suspicion of exaggeration, but it is not difficult to see that ‘ Niu Wa ’ Behind them are a group of anxious parents and a group of children who are afraid ‘ Lose at the starting line ’ Parents who want to "run". " Ding Jiayong, a professor at Hunan Normal University, said.

  The phenomenon of "rushing to learn" and "advanced education" is common in kindergartens.

  Zeng Lian is the parent of a child. Recently, her child is going to primary school, which makes her extremely anxious. "I took my children to visit my favorite school. I heard that 4,800 people robbed 120 enrollment places. If you want to pass the initial test, you must put out your child’s specialties, activities, certificates and rewards one by one ‘ Competition ’ 。”

  "There are too few things taught in kindergartens. Small classes only let children learn to count from 1 to 5. How can they compete with others?" Ms. Jiang, a parent of a young child in Changsha, told the reporter that since the small class in kindergarten, she has reported various cram schools for her children, including English, piano, Go, and robots. Both parents with high academic qualifications also help their children with pinyin, mathematics, Tang poetry, and classical Chinese.

  Some parents told reporters that a list of "Puwa", "Niu Wa" and "Super Niu Wa" circulated on the Internet has become a reference list for many parents to let their children learn. The reporter saw that Puwa "has a literacy of 700, recites 100-word stories, can add and subtract within 20 minutes, and can read English simply", while "Super Niu Wa" needs "a literacy of 1,500, recites 300-word stories, is proficient in pinyin, can multiply and divide, and can communicate skillfully in English". The knowledge that kindergarten children have to master has gone far beyond the "outline", and some children have actually learned the contents of senior primary schools and middle schools.

  Many parents are worried that their children will "lose at the starting line" and cannot enter "prestigious schools", so they send their children to training classes to "catch up". Xinhua News Agency issued Jiang Yuexin’s work

  "Everyone else is learning, so we can’t fall behind." Ms. Jiang told reporters: "In addition, we must create some different specialties for our children. The father of the child is engaged in scientific research in colleges and universities. We often take the child to the laboratory to let him know the principle of the experiment and cultivate his scientific research ability. "

  "We also know that children are too young and under too much pressure, but for the sake of their children’s future, parents can only follow the rules and create a good learning environment for their children." Zeng Lian said.

  "Many primary schools do exist now ‘ Don’t learn after class in class ’ The strange circle. Many knowledgeable children have learned it. They have no interest in the classroom, but they get high marks in the exam. Parents are still proud of it and continue to send their children to training classes after class ‘ Advanced education ’ 。” A primary school teacher in Changsha told reporters.

  "The outstanding achievements of children before attending primary school are all from extracurricular training, which requires parents to spend a lot of time and money to support them. If parents don’t have a solid knowledge ability and a solid economic foundation, there is no stepping stone in such cruel competition. " A parent said quite helplessly.

  Is it "leading education" or "pulling out seedlings to encourage"?

  "Many parents like to use advanced education to make their children look ‘ Smarter than other children ’ The state of. " Ding Jiayong said, "Being instilled with all kinds of utilitarian knowledge at an age that should be carefree, this kind of ‘ Pull out the seedlings and encourage them ’ The type of advanced education is not suitable and does not conform to the law of children’s development. "

  Ding Jiayong pointed out that scientists have demonstrated through experiments that parents "rush to run" to let their children master more skills earlier than their peers, but in fact, the "leading" advantage of early education will not last forever. After these children enter the fourth grade of primary school, they will gradually lose this advantage, and children who receive gradual education from their parents usually catch up.

  Many interviewed experts pointed out that with the growth of children, their learning interest and attitude gradually began to dominate their learning effect. The IQ advantage of children who are advanced in education in their early years is not the embodiment of their true ability, but based on their learning more knowledge than other children.

  Chu Zhaohui pointed out that the Ministry of Education has banned the teaching of Pinyin in kindergartens and resolutely prevented and corrected the tendency of "primary school" because it is easy for children to learn a lot of knowledge when they grow up to a certain age, and if they deliberately study ahead, they will waste precious time on rigid mechanical memory, thus missing the opportunity of personality development and quality cultivation.

  "Children are young, and their understanding and concentration are limited. If they are overloaded with study plans, they will have rebellious and repulsive psychology. Not only will they not learn well, but they will also feel tired of learning, and the result will be counterproductive." Chu Zhaohui said that even if it seems that children have learned it, it is easy to cause some knowledge to be superficial and not very understanding. Such study habits are not conducive to children’s future development.

  "Every child has his own characteristics. Parents should not be too eager for quick success and instant benefit. They should consider their children’s hobbies and give them time to do what they like and play what they like. These are not necessarily useful for the exam, but they will definitely be useful for his future development." Chu Zhaohui said.

Qualcomm released Snapdragon 8+ and Snapdragon 7 mobile platforms: "Strong performance by 10% and low power consumption by 30%".

  On the evening of May 20th, Snapdragon Night, Qualcomm officially released the long-rumored Snapdragon 8+ and Snapdragon 7 mobile platforms. As the main mobile platforms in Snapdragon, Snapdragon 8 and 7 series have greatly improved their performance, experience and power, bringing new impetus to the mobile phone market this year.

first generationbraveDragon 8+ Mobile Platform: Better performance and lower power consumption.

  Every generation of Snapdragon 8 series mobile platforms was the focus of the market at that time. The previously launched Snapdragon 8 has been well-known terminal mobile phone manufacturers at home and abroad, such as OPPO, vivo, Glory, Xiaomi, Yijia, Samsung, etc., with its outstanding performance in AI, video and games. The adoption of Snapdragon 8+ has been affirmed, and the performance, video, games, connectivity and other experiences have been upgraded:

  -In terms of AI, it supports the seventh-generation Qualcomm AI engine, which improves energy efficiency by 20%;

  -In terms of audio, it supports Snapdragon Sound Snapdragon listening technology, including Qualcomm aptX Lossless lossless audio technology;

  -In terms of connection, it supports the 5G downlink rate of up to 10Gbps, and supports the user scenario of 5G+5G dual-card dual-pass, which can ensure that data transmission and phone calls do not conflict with each other, and maintain the industry-leading level in the speed of 5G uplink carrier aggregation and Wi-Fi;

  -In terms of images, it supports taking photos with a maximum of 200 million pixels, supporting simultaneous shooting of 8K HDR video and 64 million pixel photos, and single-frame progressive HDR;

  -In terms of games, it supports HDR games, VRS Pro, stereoscopic rendering and physical rendering features;

  -In terms of security, Snapdragon 8+ also supports Android Ready SE authentication, which can provide vault-level security features.

  The CPU comprehensive performance of Snapdragon 8+ is about 10% higher than that of Snapdragon 8, and the highest CPU frequency is also increased to 3.2GHz. At the same time, Snapdragon 8′ s GPU has reached the leading position in the industry in terms of performance and energy efficiency. On this basis, Snapdragon 8+ will continue to increase the frequency by about 10%, which will further improve the extreme GPU performance.

  With the enhancement of performance and other characteristics, people pay more and more attention to the power consumption of mobile phone processors, and the power consumption endurance performance of Snapdragon 8+ has also been improved obviously.

  Snapdragon 8+ adopts TSMC’s latest 4nm process, which makes its power performance more excellent. When running Aztec Ruins, the GPU power consumption of Snapdragon 8+ is 30% lower than that of Snapdragon 8, and the energy efficiency of Snapdragon 8+ will be more advantageous in the same performance. The picture on the right shows the comparison of CPU. The CPU of Snapdragon 8+ uses Cortex-X2, A710 and A510, which are very large cores. The CPU power consumption of Snapdragon 8+ is about 30% lower than that of Snapdragon 8 under the same performance.

  Compared with Snapdragon 8, Snapdragon 8+ reduces the power consumption of the whole SoC by 15%. On the performance of the whole machine, except CPU and GPU, Qualcomm has also made great adjustments in other modules, which makes the overall SoC performance excellent.

  In the performance of e-sports games, first of all, take the familiar "Bench" as an example. When the ambient temperature is 25 degrees and the highest picture quality is 810p, the Snapdragon 8+ curve is very stable after continuous testing for 1 hour, and the frame rate fluctuates little, and the average frame rate can reach 60.2 frames. In terms of power consumption, the average power consumption of Snapdragon 8+ can be reduced by 30% compared with Snapdragon 8 under the same test environment and conditions.

  In addition, let’s take a look at the performance in "the glory of the king", and intercept two sets of test scenes of 90 frames+extreme image quality and 120 frames+high definition image quality. Compared with Snapdragon 8, the energy efficiency of Snapdragon 8+ has improved by about 30% in both cases.

  For the daily usage scenarios of users, based on the battery capacity equal to less than 4000mAh, Qualcomm also gave the endurance data of more scenarios of Snapdragon 8+ compared with Snapdragon 8:

  -In terms of games, Snapdragon 8+ is nearly one hour longer than Snapdragon 8, and quite a lot of it is played in the 3 rd and 4 th innings of the glory of the king;

  -Video playback time can be increased by more than 80 minutes, which is close to the length of a movie;

  -Voice calls and WeChat video calls under the 5G network also increased by more than 5.5 hours and 25 minutes respectively;

  -social media, web browsing and App browsing can increase by more than 50 minutes, which is close to an extra commute time;

  -The most amazing thing is playing music. The playing time of Snapdragon 8+ music can be increased by nearly 17 hours.

  According to the above rich usage scenarios, it is believed that the increase of battery life will be one of the most obvious experience upgrades that Snapdragon 8+ brings to users.

  Overall performance, the main frequency of Snapdragon 8+ GPU increased by 10%, the overall performance of CPU increased by 10%, and the highest main frequency of CPU reached 3.2GHz. The overall power consumption of SoC is reduced by about 15%, and the power consumption of CPU and GPU is reduced by 30% respectively.

first generationbraveDragon 7 mobile platform: 4nm process andbraveDragon 8 feature blessing

  In addition to the first generation of Snapdragon 8+, Qualcomm also launched the first generation of Snapdragon 7 mobile platform, which is the first appearance of Snapdragon 7 Series platform after the brand naming system in Snapdragon was updated. Snapdragon 7′ s CPU is sunk on the basis of Snapdragon 8, which adopts a super-large core of A710 with a main frequency of 2.4GHz, three large cores of A710 with a frequency of 2.36GHz and four small cores of A510 with a frequency of 1.8GHz. On the whole, Snapdragon 7 has inherited the characteristics of Snapdragon 8, which is quite different from the previous generation of Snapdragon 778G. In terms of process, Snapdragon 7 adopts Samsung’s 4-nanometer process to achieve lower power consumption and longer battery life.

  This time, Snapdragon 7 Series mobile platform brought three firsts:

  Snapdragon 7 is the first 7-series platform supporting the 7th generation Qualcomm AI engine. Compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 778G, the detection accuracy of Snapdragon 7 can be improved by 25%, and the area required for face recognition is reduced from 25×25 pixels to 20×20 pixels, and it can detect up to 300 facial feature points, which is the same as that of Snapdragon 8. I believe that many friends have encountered the situation that people’s eyes are closed when taking pictures. If we can achieve more accurate face detection, we can only take pictures when people’s eyes are open or when people are smiling.

  Secondly, Snapdragon 7 is also the first 7-series platform that supports 200 million pixels shooting. It is based on 14-bit three ISPs, and can support the single-frame progressive HDR feature, which significantly improves the image quality compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 778G.

  Finally, Snapdragon 7 has sunk the features of Qualcomm Trust Management Engine supported by Snapdragon 8 to the 7-series platform for the first time, and has also passed the Android Ready SE certification, which can provide vault-level security features.

  In addition, Snapdragon 7 can also provide a good performance in the mobile game experience, mainly through the following aspects:

  First, the GPU graphics rendering speed of Snapdragon 7 is 20% higher than that of Snapdragon 778G. Snapdragon 7 also supports some Snapdragon Elite Gaming features, including Qualcomm Adreno image motion engine, which is a GPU-based frame prediction technology, which can save half the power consumption at the same frame rate or provide a higher frame rate at the same power consumption.

  Snapdragon 7 also supports Game Quick Touch, which ensures that the touch response speed of the game can be improved by more than 20% compared with that of Snapdragon 778G, and supports top GPU features such as variable resolution rendering. In addition to GPU, the game experience is closely related to CPU, display, connection and other factors. In terms of display, Snapdragon 7 supports QHD+ display, which is more detailed than FHD+ display supported by Snapdragon 778G.

  In terms of audio, Snapdragon 7 supports the Snapdragon Sound Snapdragon listening technology, which can prevent howling in the game and dynamically adjust the volume according to the real-time audio environment/scene.

  In terms of connection, Snapdragon 7 is the first 7-series platform that integrates Snapdragon X62 5G modem and RF system conforming to Release16 standard, with the highest downlink rate of 4.4Gbps, which is obviously improved compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 778G, and it can also support 5G+5G dual card dual communication. Wi-Fi has been upgraded from the previous generation of FastConnect 6700 to FastConnect 6900, which can provide faster and ultra-low latency Wi-Fi connection.

  Generally speaking, the mission of Snapdragon 7 is to sink the best mobility characteristics and innovation of Snapdragon 8. The first generation of Snapdragon 7 can provide an excellent gaming experience, which is enhanced by GPU, supported by some Snapdragon Elite Gaming features, immersive audio experience, display features, and some connection features that first landed on Snapdragon 7 Series.

Finally:

  According to Qualcomm’s official announcement and current rumors, mobile phone products equipped with Snapdragon 8+ and Snapdragon 7 mobile platforms will be launched as soon as this quarter by brands such as Black Shark, Glory, iQOO, Lenovo, Xiaomi, moto and Nubia, and PConline will also pay attention to it with you.

Power failure occurred in villages where some houses were shattered by the M6.9 earthquake in Milin County, Linzhi City, Xizang.

(Society) (1) An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 occurred in Milin County, Linzhi City, Xizang.

  On November 18th, there was a big stone on a mountain road in Pai Town, Milin County, which blocked traffic (mobile phone shooting). Xinhua News Agency (photo by Liu Pengchao)

(Society) (2) An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 occurred in Milin County, Linzhi City, Xizang.

  On November 18th, Linzhi Frontier Detachment sent officers and men of the town frontier police station to check the disaster situation (mobile phone shooting) in the jurisdiction after the earthquake. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Liu Pengchao)

  Xinhua News Agency, Lhasa, November 18 (Reporter Liu Hongming, Bai Shaobo) The reporter learned from the Seismological Bureau of Xizang Autonomous Region that at 06: 34 on November 18, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 occurred in Milin County, Linzhi City, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers. Seven counties (districts) in the city have obvious earthquakes, and no casualties have been reported yet. Some roofs in Lulang Town, Bayi District fell off, houses were shattered, and some villages were blacked out.

  After preliminary understanding, the earthquake in Milin County and the area near the epicenter was strong. The roof of Lulang Town in Bayi District fell off, the houses in Zhaxigang Village and Luobu Village were shattered, and all the villages in Layue were blacked out. There were no reports of casualties.

  Basang Tsering, secretary of the Party branch of Zhaxigang Village, Lulang Town, said that when the earthquake occurred, the house shook so badly that it was unstable to stand in the house. It was the first time for him to experience such a strong earthquake. At present, there are cracks in five or six houses.

  The reporter learned from State Grid Xizang Electric Power Co., Ltd. that as of 8: 00 on the 18th, Xizang Power Grid and Linzhi Power Grid were operating normally, and the company had started the earthquake emergency response mechanism.

  After the earthquake, the Linzhi Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government launched the earthquake emergency plan in the city for the first time, and all counties (districts) and villages conducted detailed investigations to comprehensively verify the relevant situation. Xizang Autonomous Region Seismological Bureau, China Seismological Bureau and China Seismological Network Center are having a video conference on the earthquake situation and disaster situation in the earthquake area, and the earthquake emergency field team is rushing to the earthquake-stricken area.

  At present, local investigations and statistics are being carried out in an orderly manner. Xinhua News Agency reporters are rushing to the earthquake zone, and the earthquake damage is being investigated and verified.

Overbearing fat manager, class dismissed, Blizzard national costume reopened, Diablo?

Two months after Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard was completed, everything restarted.

Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, will leave the company that he has worked hard for half his life on December 29th. On Wednesday, he issued a statement to bid farewell to all employees.

On December 21st, Microsoft reported that Cotic officially announced earlier in the day that December 29th, 2023 would be his last day in Microsoft’s game department.

"In the 32 years that I have led Activision Blizzard, our employees and all those who have helped us have continued to contribute to our success. I can’t express my pride for them." He said in the departure statement issued by Activision Blizzard.

The departure of this controversial and topical CEO is bound to affect the direction of Activision Blizzard in the future.

A gift from Microsoft. Who is it for?

Cotic, who has worked in Activision Blizzard for more than 32 years, is known as the overbearing president of Activision Xiaopang. What impact will his departure bring to Activision Blizzard?

After Cotic leaves, what kind of activision blizzard will the new owner Microsoft hope to see?

It is worth noting that some deputy leaders of Activision Blizzard will also leave one after another, including Humam Sakhnini and Thomas Tippl;; Activision’s current chief administrative officer, chief personnel officer, chief financial officer and chief legal adviser will work until next March, and then we will talk about whether to stay or not.

For China players, Activision Blizzard is a love-hate existence.

The games that love it, to be precise, are the games of Blizzard Entertainment, which passively look at mergers and acquisitions: Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft and Hearthstone.

Hate its overbearing, stop taking clothes in 2009 and stop taking clothes during the Spring Festival in 2023, all of which are green tea performances that Blizzard wants to kidnap players and force China manufacturers to make concessions.

Can the once arrogant blizzard return to its familiar position?

Can we return to the China market under the banner of Microsoft?

In this regard, 21st century business herald reporter Cai Shuyue had an exchange with Shu Le, and this monkey thought:

The overbearing president should have finished class long ago. He achieved Activision, destroyed Blizzard and was finally kicked out of the game.

Bobby Cotic has been the CEO of Activision Blizzard for more than 32 years, but please note that his resume has been extended from Activision to Activision Blizzard, and Blizzard Entertainment was just a company annexed by Passive Vision.

In other words, the world-famous Blizzard game IP has nothing to do with Bobby Cotic, who is an heir.

Bully and fat, disaster game!

From the point of view of merits and demerits, the combination of Activision and Blizzard was achieved by him, and after the merger, the game of Blizzard Entertainment continued to decline, which is precisely because of his various problems in operating strategy as the owner of Activision.

On July 20, 2021, Activision Blizzard was sued by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) to the Los Angeles High Court for long-standing sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

Among them, Cotic’s management style has also become the focus of internal staff criticism.

Some employees have told the media that the personnel contradiction within Blizzard has a long history, and problems such as bad cultural atmosphere and deliberately depressing employees’ salaries have always existed.

In November of the same year, nearly 1,000 Activision Blizzard employees even signed a petition demanding the dismissal of Bobby Cotic.

In a sense, the whole Activision Blizzard has fallen into many problems in recent years, such as cliff-like decline, scandal entanglement and so on, as well as the dispute with Netease over Blizzard’s game agency rights, which led to its game withdrawal from China, all of which bear unshirkable responsibility.

His resignation means that Microsoft made him responsible for the past failures of Activision Blizzard, so as to realize a new beginning of the new Activision Blizzard era under the Microsoft system.

Microsoft’s game dream, three to five years!

At present, many executives of Blizzard report directly to the president of Microsoft Game Studio, which also represents Microsoft’s ambition.

The specific future planning of Blizzard may be in three aspects:

The first is the stable operation of old games.

Including the return of the original core technicians of Activision Blizzard, to ensure that Activision Blizzard can quickly recover its combat effectiveness.

The second is the new game research and development of the old IP.

Especially in the situation that Watch Pioneer has been in succession from the league to the new works, and the old IP only has Diablo’s counterattack on the new works, it is necessary to use more and better old IP new works to consolidate Microsoft’s right to speak in the game world.

Only in this way can Activision Blizzard return to the era cognition of "Blizzard is produced and must be a boutique".

The third is the promotion of joint research and development.

It is very important to develop mobile games through Activision Blizzard IP, especially to jointly develop Activision Blizzard IP mobile games with China game manufacturers, so as to quickly form the influence of Blizzard in the mobile game market and learn the experience of mobile game research and transportation.

In the process of merger, after transferring many rights and interests of Activision Blizzard to friends, what can this blizzard bring to Microsoft? Foolish thought:

Blizzard’s product matrix is still there, but the team is scattered, and it is difficult to restore combat effectiveness in a short time.

However, the existing game super IP matrix can completely create conditions for Microsoft to consolidate its position in console games, explore trial and error in the field of cloud games, expand its territory in the field of mobile games, and establish a virtual world of Microsoft+Blizzard in the field of metauniverse.

But at present, it is limited to conditions, and its running-in period may take one or two years. If it can really form combat effectiveness, it may take three or five years.

How difficult is it to reopen Blizzard’s national service?

As for whether Blizzard can return to China, there is no suspense. Although Tencent and Netease resolutely refuse, Microsoft will definitely give a satisfactory price.

But who are the China manufacturers who can take over the offer?

Based on the idea of Microsoft’s mobile game, and the "abnormal condition" of Blizzard’s technical ability and service requirements, there are not many choices, nothing more than Tencent, Netease and Mihayou …

It’s just that the game has passed, so what if it’s an agent?

China’s game market is no longer in the 2000s, when foreign games can make money by looking for an agent casually.

Therefore, after the New Year, Blizzard’s national costume will stop serving in Zhou Nianji, and if it doesn’t come back, there is no need to come back.

Author Zhang Shule, columnist of People’s Daily Online and People’s Post and Telecommunications, expert of Zhongjing Media Think Tank, and senior TMT industry critic, has newly published "From Introduction to Mastery of Media Writing" (Tsinghua University Press).

Observation | US "Tianjun" clarifies the vision of the next generation space architecture and seeks to maintain its absolute advantage.

Recently, SDA released the first information consultation on the federal business opportunity network of the US government, seeking the design concepts and schemes of satellite platforms, payloads, launch platforms and related ground facilities needed for the development of the next generation space architecture from the industry.

This is the first information consultation book issued by NASA since its establishment on March 12, and its development trend deserves attention.

The U.S. military believes that active satellites are powerful, but their survivability is insufficient, so it is necessary to explore new platforms. The picture shows the American SBIRS missile early warning satellite.

The development thinking of American space equipment is brewing a major change.

After Trump took office, he attached great importance to space. From the reconstruction of the space command, the establishment of the space army to the establishment of the space development agency, the US military’s space decrees, military orders and space equipment research and development system are undergoing major adjustments and changes. In this context, the US military is speeding up the planning and design of the next generation space system. The new version of the Missile Defense Assessment Report and the first project solicitation notice of the Space Development Agency reveal some clues.

In 1983, in order to prevent hostile countries from launching nuclear attacks on the United States and its allies, then US President Ronald Reagan proposed the "Star Wars" plan, which consisted of intercontinental ballistic missile defense and anti-satellite, and advanced the development of space weapons, which had a significant impact in history. Because the investment and technical difficulty of the "Star Wars" plan was too great, which exceeded the objective reality at that time, it was forced to suspend in 1993 and turned into a more realistic and feasible missile defense plan. In recent years, due to the rapid development of missile penetration technology, especially hypersonic technology, the missile defense system in the United States, which is mainly based on land and sea, is facing development bottlenecks, and there are calls and trends to shift the focus of missile defense to space.

On January 17 this year, the new version of the US Missile Defense Assessment Report clearly stated that the use of space can provide a more effective, flexible and adaptable missile defense posture. Space-based sensor system is not limited by geography, and can monitor, detect and track missiles launched almost anywhere in the world; Space-based interceptor and directed energy weapon are effective ways to intercept missile booster phase, effectively resist penetration and greatly improve the overall efficiency of missile defense system. Confirmed by the above statement, the US Congress has asked the Ministry of National Defense to carry out special research and demonstration on space-based sensors, space-based interceptors and even particle beam weapons, and come up with concrete and feasible development plans.

India conducted an anti-satellite test in March this year.

On July 1, the US Army’s New Space Development Agency issued the first project solicitation notice, which clearly pointed out the military needs of the US military’s new generation of space system construction to missile defense and space confrontation, marking a major change in the development ideas and ways of the US military’s space equipment system. The background is that the strategic focus of the United States has shifted to the competition of big countries, and it is believed that the existing space architecture and equipment can not maintain absolute superiority, especially in the case of the continuous development of anti-satellite missiles, cyber attacks and common-orbit spacecraft in some countries, once the space system dominated by large spacecraft is destroyed, it is difficult to replenish it in a short time, that is, there is insufficient flexibility; The second is that the existing space architecture and equipment can’t cope with emerging threats, especially hypersonic weapons, and the active missile early warning satellites can’t effectively provide timely early warning and tracking.

The new architecture will have a subversive impact on space attack and defense.

The first project solicitation notice of the Space Development Agency borrowed the idea of DARPA "Black Jack" satellite project, turned to the booming commercial space technology to seek subversion, and tried to develop the concepts, methods, technologies and systems related to the next generation flexible, flexible and agile space system based on micro-satellite technology, rapid launch technology and artificial intelligence technology.

According to the eight key space capabilities proposed in the "Space Vision of the Ministry of National Defense", the Space Development Agency proposed that the next generation space system of the US military should be composed of seven functional layers. First, the transport layer: it provides 7×24 hours uninterrupted and low-delay data transmission and communication around the world; The second is the tracking layer: it provides space-based target detection, early warning, tracking and indication to defend against the threat of advanced missiles (including hypersonic weapons); Third, the monitoring layer: monitoring time-sensitive targets around the clock, providing key guarantee for attacking enemy missile launchers, radar stations and command nodes before launching; The fourth is the deterrent layer: it provides the target situation awareness and rapid access and maneuver in the space range of the earth and the moon, and responds to the challenges posed by space attack and defense; Fifth, the navigation layer: provide positioning, navigation and timing capabilities in the environment of GPS refusal, and enhance the joint operational support capability under the conditions of space confrontation; Sixth, battlefield management: provide battlefield management, command, control and communication based on distributed artificial intelligence, including on-board intelligent autonomous mission planning, data processing, encryption and distribution, etc., and directly provide space information support for tactical users; Seventh, the ground support layer: providing the carrier system and ground facilities for the rapid maneuvering launch measurement and control of large-scale small satellite constellations, deploying portable, serialized and intelligent satellite application terminals, and providing supporting ground system support for flexible, elastic and agile on-orbit systems, thus forming an economical and practical next-generation space system.

The next generation space architecture attaches great importance to dealing with emerging threats.

As can be seen from the above-mentioned seven-layer architecture, the tracking layer and the monitoring layer mainly serve missile defense operations, especially for the whole-course target detection, tracking and indication of hypersonic vehicles; The deterrent layer and navigation layer are mainly oriented to space attack and defense confrontation, and the operational scope extends from low orbit and geostationary orbit to higher and farther earth-moon space; The battlefield management faces the intelligent development of space, further enhancing the timeliness and convenience of space-based information to support joint operations; The ground support layer provides rapid launch, measurement and control and application support for large-scale small satellite constellations, ensuring the rapid supplement and update of small satellite constellations under the condition of confrontation, and improving the efficiency of large-scale ground application of satellites; The transport layer provides interconnection between heaven and earth, between satellites in different functional layers and between satellites in the same functional layer, which constitutes the technical foundation and common support of the next generation space system.

To sum up, the development concept of the next generation space system of the U.S. military has changed from "making great beauty and ensuring zero risk" in traditional military space to pursuing "scale, economy and not being afraid of hitting" to win advantages, focusing more on missile defense and space attack and defense in target positioning, and emphasizing more practical and integrated functions and flexibility, flexibility and agility. Once the next generation space system of the US military is realized and put into actual combat, it will have a subversive impact on missile defense and space attack and defense operations, and change people’s existing understanding of the space battlefield, which deserves close attention from the world.

(The author is a professor at the Space Strategy Research Center of National University of Defense Technology)

New discovery! The largest known explosion in the universe has not stopped for 3 years.

  Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 12-Astronomers announced on the 12th that they had observed the "biggest" explosion in the universe so far, and the fireball produced was equivalent to 100 solar systems, and the explosion lasted for at least three years without stopping.

  According to Agence France-Presse, the explosion was named AT2021lwx, which was located in the depths of the universe 8 billion light-years away from the Earth and occurred at the age of 6 billion. The research report was published in the Monthly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. A study published in 2021 shows that the universe has a history of 13.77 billion years, with an error of about 40 million years.

  This is the first photo of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy released simultaneously by many astronomers around the world, including China, on May 12th, 2022. Xinhua News Agency (Photo courtesy of Event Vision Telescope)

  Researchers estimate that the brightness of the explosion AT2021lwx is 2 trillion times brighter than that of the sun, which is not the brightest explosion that has been observed so far. However, Philip Wiseman, the main author of the research report and an astrophysicist at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, said that the energy released by the explosion of AT2021lwx in the past three years exceeded the brightest explosion gamma ray burst GRB 221009A observed so far, which is the largest explosion observed in the universe.

  The gamma ray burst GRB 221009A was observed in October last year and ended 10 hours after it was discovered.

  Researchers first discovered AT2021lwx at the Zwaiki transient research facility in California in 2020, but they didn’t realize the scale and power of the explosion until they later observed it with a more powerful astronomical telescope. What caused the explosion is still inconclusive.

  The schematic diagram shows that in a binary system, white dwarfs devour the matter of their giant companion. Xinhua News Agency (provided by Australian National University)

  The researchers speculate that the most likely scenario is that a supermassive black hole slowly devours a huge gas cloud 5,000 times larger than the sun, triggering the explosion of AT2021lwx. However, Wiseman said that this explanation is not absolute, and researchers are working hard to test it with new models.

  They also thought of other possibilities, including supernova explosion or tidal destruction. Tidal destruction event refers to the process of releasing energy when a star is torn by a supermassive black hole. However, AT2021lwx is 10 times brighter than the previously observed supernova explosion and 3 times brighter than the tidal destruction event.

  The only cosmic event with the same brightness as the explosion of AT2021lwx is a quasar, that is, a supermassive black hole emits strong light in the process of devouring huge amounts of gas in the center of a galaxy. However, Wiseman said that the light emitted by quasars usually flickers, while AT2021lwx suddenly appeared three years ago and is still emitting light, which is unprecedented. (Yuan Yuan)