How long does it take a "characteristic town" from birth to death?

Beijing News (Reporter Zhang Yu) In recent years, "characteristic tourist towns" built around folk culture have blossomed everywhere in China. Whether it’s focusing on peasant customs or telling stories depending on the local historical background, building a characteristic town has become the key path for many areas to build tourism industry and get rid of poverty and become rich. However, the results of blooming everywhere are not overly optimistic, and some characteristic towns are declining at an unexpected speed.

 

Donghuang Town, located in Liquan County, Xianyang, has been open for less than a year, and merchants have closed their doors. Now the whole town has become an "empty city". Similar "short-lived" phenomenon still exists in Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village in Lantian County of Xi ‘an and Hexianfang Folk Culture Village in Fuping County of Weinan. When visiting these "short-lived" characteristic towns, the Beijing News reporter found that the direct reasons for the decline of the towns are that the investment is not cautious, the style characteristics are not prominent, and the overall consumption link lacks linkage. However, it is bound to be impracticable to put the construction idea of making quick money and making quick achievements on the construction of characteristic towns.

 

People go to empty characteristic towns. Beijing News reporter Zhang Yu photo

 

In less than a year, Donghuang Town in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province became an "empty city"

 

How long does it take for a characteristic town from birth to death? On this issue, Donghuang Town, located in the southeast of Liquan County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, gave a sad answer of "less than one year". It was grandly opened in October 2015, and in August 2016, merchants closed in batches. The whole town came in a hurry.

 

Donghuang Town is about 35 kilometers away from Xianyang City and belongs to Dongsheng Village, Liquan County. Due to the speed limit of the road, it takes nearly an hour to drive from Xianyang to the town. Taxi drivers told the Beijing News that people who travel to Liquan will go straight to the famous scenic spot yuanjiacun, where they can eat, live and play. As for Donghuang Town, the local driver in Xianyang has only heard of it on the news and has never been there.

 

In today’s Donghuang town, all the shops on both sides of each street are locked. The messy tables and chairs and abandoned building tools around the stage at the entrance show that there have been no tourists here for a long time. The same depression also appeared in the dining "castle" across the street from the town and the amusement square next to the village Committee.

 

In contrast, the poster of Oktoberfest and the banner of "Moral Model Commendation Conference" written in the square of Donghuang Town are a little lively. Wang Pinghan, director of Dongsheng Village, told the reporter that Donghuang Town has been "abandoned" for a long time, and there are no businesses operating here. The posters and conference banners on the square about Oktoberfest were used by Dongsheng Village Committee in organizing activities in the past two months.

 

Occasionally, villagers go for a walk in Donghuang Town Square. Beijing News reporter Zhang Yu photo

 

"It’s been too long, there are no tourists, and the businesses have left. At present, the whole town is temporarily left, and there is no way to deal with it. Occasionally, villagers will go for a walk inside. Because the venue is relatively large, there are some collective activities in our village. Come here."

 

Dongsheng Village, where Donghuang Town is located, consists of four natural villages, namely Donghuang Village, Xiaobai Village, Xigao Village and Yanji Village (formerly known as Jicun, with the word "drill" and later renamed Yanji Village). Among them, Yanji Village, the nearest to Donghuang Town, was also the main source of land transfer during the construction of the town at that time.

 

Is it a special case that people go to the empty Donghuang town in less than a year? On the reporter’s visit, Donghuang Town was not the only one that became an "empty city".

 

The Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village, located in Lantian County, Xi ‘an, also in Shaanxi Province, is now closed. The reporter saw the words "road construction, renovation and upgrading in the park" on a signboard at the entrance of the scenic spot.

 

Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village is undergoing upgrading. Beijing News reporter Zhang Yu photo

 

Walking into the interior of the scenic spot, we found that only three businesses are operating normally, namely, a small shop selling drinks, a restaurant specializing in Shaanxi cuisine and a music bar with a modern decoration. Everywhere else, the doors and windows are closed, and the houses and landscapes in the scenic area are also very shabby. According to a person who once worked in the project, Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village opened on May 1, 2016. After the Spring Festival in 2017, the number of tourists dropped sharply, and the excitement lasted only less than one year.

 

Repeated "snack street" merchants don’t even collect the deposit.

 

"There were a lot of people when I first opened the business. I saw 20,000 to 30,000 people at the most in a day. In addition to tourists from the county, there were also people from Xianyang and Xi’ an, but the number of people who came later suddenly decreased." When it comes to Donghuang Town, a wang xing villager in Yanji Village is in deep sorrow.

 

The investor of Donghuang Town Project is Western Rural Modern Agriculture Co., Ltd. In July 2013, the company’s modern agricultural parks were approved as the fifth batch of provincial modern agricultural parks in Shaanxi. Yuan Zhongmin, who once worked in the agricultural park, told the reporter, "At that time, it was proposed to build a model of park+scenic spot+community, and Donghuang Town was a folk tourist scenic spot." For several years, Yuan Zhongmin has been working in the agricultural park, mainly responsible for agricultural production and fruit tree management.

 

According to him, the whole Donghuang Town project covered an area of more than 100 mu at that time, including the main body of the town, the opposite dining castle and the amusement square next to the village Committee. The surrounding villagers originally used apple tree planting as their main source of income. "Later, I thought about engaging in special tourism to attract tourists like yuanjiacun, and seeing that people are doing so well, everyone wants to do a similar one."

 

In May 2015, the catering castle took the lead in opening. On October 1st of the same year, Donghuang Town was officially opened, with the slogan of "Guanzhong Grand Collection", focusing on snacks and various folk workshops.

 

"There are more than 300 merchants in 4 streets of the town, which are basically snack bars, and there are several selling agricultural and sideline foods. Even if we eat a lot of patterns here, can there be more than 300 without repetition? Moreover, tourists from around come to play, and people can eat 8 yuan a bowl of scorpion noodles at their doorstep. Why come here to eat 12 yuan a bowl? "

 

In Donghuang town, which is now deserted, although the shops have closed, we can also see the former style here from its dilapidated signs. There are almost signs of snacks and catering on both sides of the street, including Shaanxi’s signature foods such as basin mutton, Chinese hamburger and Hele, as well as street-side "tiger balm" snacks such as French fries and squid. Moreover, there are several shops selling Chinese buns in the same street.

 

Yuan Zhongmin’s family once set up shop in Donghuang town. After listening to my son’s suggestion, I decided to cooperate with the town investors and rent a small storefront of 12 square meters. Mainly selling hand-grabbed cakes and drinks. He told reporters that even during the peak period of passenger flow, the profit of the store is very small.

 

"There are 5 cakes in hand. When there are many tourists, you can sell 500 yuan a day. Like when there are few people, it is 50 yuan, which is still counted as drinks. Think about it, the number of cakes sold this day is sometimes less than double digits." Yuan Zhongmin remembers that the monthly cost of the store is 2,000 to 3,000 yuan, including noodles, oil, spices and utilities. "This is not the salary of hiring people in 100 yuan every day. No matter how much you earn, you will give it at the end of the month."

 

In the end, the hand-held cake shop opened with the town closed in July of the following year. However, as stipulated in the contract at that time, the deposit should be returned to the merchants after two years. Yuan Zhongmin, who left less than one year after opening, has not received his own deposit of 40,000 yuan.

 

Four "White Deer Plains" are close to each other, which leads to aesthetic fatigue.

 

Because of the novel by writer Chen Zhongshi and the TV series of the same name, "White Deer Plain" has become one of the pronouns of Shaanxi folk customs. Bailuyuan is the largest loess tableland in Xi ‘an, covering an area of more than 260 square kilometers, covering Chang ‘an District, Baqiao District and Lantian County.

 

"At that time, when the folk culture village was built, the TV series" Bailuyuan "was still being filmed. At that time, only everyone knew that there was a place called Bailuyuan." Kang Jie, who is familiar with the operation of the project, told reporters that Bailuyuan was called Dizhaiyuan in the past, which means the place where Di Qing stationed troops and camped. The name of Bailuyuan comes from an earlier allusion of "Zhou Pingwang moved the capital". "When Mr. Chen Zhongshi’s novel comes out, it will have another communication effect on this place. Now it is called Bailuyuan."

 

Until now, Kang Jie still feels that the quality of merchants in the once "Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village", whether closed down or still in continuous operation, is the best among all characteristic folk villages in the province.

 

There are many merchants selling snacks in Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village, and now they have all closed their stores. Beijing News reporter Zhang Yu photo

 

"The delicacies represented by Shaanxi, such as belt noodles, pulled noodles and braised three delicacies, are all invited by the scenic spots to have the title of China culinary master. From eating this piece, our overall quality is very high."

 

Kang Jie remembers that the Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village had a total passenger flow of 100,000 in the first three days. The most brilliant time was during the Spring Festival in 2017. Due to the light show and various cultural performances in the scenic spot, tourists were full, and reached 150,000 passengers a day on the 15th day of the first month of Lantian County Social Fire Competition. At that time, no one would have thought that the fifteenth day of the first month was the highest peak of the folk culture village, and then it went downhill endlessly.

 

"First, the number of tourists decreased, and then the income gap between stores began to become obvious. The shops with good locations and good projects had a very large passenger flow. Some shops with bad locations went to fewer people, and the shopkeepers didn’t have the strength to do it. Finally, it became a vicious circle."

 

When asked about the reasons, Kang Jie felt that there were too many homogeneous projects in Shaanxi Province, which led to the aesthetic fatigue of tourists. "Like a wind, in the area of Bailuyuan, in addition to our folk village at that time, there are also studios, Bailucang and Baizhangzhang, all of which focus on the Guanzhong culture of Bailuyuan, and the distance between the four houses is no more than 20 kilometers."

 

According to public reports, in July 2016, Bailuyuan Film and Television City, about 10 kilometers away from Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village, was opened, and Bailucang was officially opened in April 2017, because it is closer to Lantian City and Xi ‘an, and there will be more leisure tourists on weekends. The scenic spot of Bojizhang Village, also located in Lantian County, opened in the second half of 2016, with fewer tourists than when it was first opened, but its operation continued. The four scenic spots are not only close, but also the opening time can be regarded as "front and back feet", with an interval of no more than one year.

 

In fact, among the four similar scenic spots, Bailuyuan Film and Television City is still hot. On the day of the reporter’s interview, a large parking lot was almost occupied. On the one hand, the tourist facilities in the scenic spot are more diverse and perfect, and on the other hand, the investor Shaanxi Tourism Group Co., Ltd. is rich in funds. According to public reports, Bailuyuan Film and Television City invested more than 600 million, while Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village invested about 350 million. Regarding the investment in the project, Kang Jie said that the actual investment was smaller than this figure, and the specific amount was not disclosed.

 

A small town engaged in mahjong competition, an unreliable marketing

 

In 2016, Mr. Hu came to Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village to run a food and beverage store. So far, he is still one of the businesses that "Wei San" is operating here. For him who opened a restaurant in his hometown in Jiangsu and originally wanted to earn some money in the scenic spot, the goods in his hand have become a burden to get rid of now.

 

"This street, when it was first opened, people couldn’t walk. Later, the scenic spot changed operators, the personnel were streamlined, the management didn’t go up, and some activities didn’t work. Finally, it became like this."

 

Regarding the statement of changing the operator, Kang Jie said that after the passenger flow in the scenic spot declined, he changed the operator twice, but the effect was not good. "At that time, I felt that what we were doing here was unprofessional, so I found a professional operation team to cooperate, including scenic spot positioning, investment promotion and planning and publicity."

 

Kang Jie told reporters that the new operators moved in in June 2017 and early 2018 respectively. The former only maintained a cooperative relationship for two months, while the latter was responsible for the operation of the scenic spot until the Spring Festival of 2019, but the number of tourists did not improve significantly during that period. Now, recalling some activities and methods of the cooperative company at that time, Kang Jie thinks that it is "not very reliable".

 

"The first cooperative company, the first activity that came in was a mahjong competition. The grand prize was a car worth 60,000 yuan. The competition was to pick the first place at each table, then play the second round together, and give a bottle of wine for each win." Kang Jie recalled, "It took at least 100,000 yuan to go in, but there was no drainage effect at all. All the people who came were unemployed people living in villages near the scenic spot. They were close, loved drinking and playing mahjong. In the end, it was really a villager who won the car."

 

More than 300 merchants originally settled in the scenic spot, after two changes of operators, only less than 100 households were left. Kang Jie remembers that from 2018, the original investor Shaanxi Weishui Cultural Industry Investment Co., Ltd. began to seek equity transfer and stopped operating, and finally finalized the transferee in the first half of 2019.

 

The banner of "International Beer Festival" is also hung on the square of Donghuang Town. Beijing News reporter Zhang Yu photo

 

During the opening of Donghuang Town, Yuan Zhongmin felt that although the passenger flow was large, there was a big reason for continuing to "spend money" on activities. Including opera competitions and singing competitions, in less than a year since its opening, various activities in Donghuang Town have been almost uninterrupted. On the premise that "the omen of death" appeared in the town in July 2016, on the 16th of the same month, Donghuang Town also invested in a large-scale K-song activity, with an investment cost of more than 1 million. "I invited a star and sang three songs, and her appearance fee alone was 230,000."

 

"Sometimes you can sing for a month. Every day, people come, there are many tourists, and businesses are happy, but the money you spend can be earned back very little, because at that time, in order to attract businesses, it was a rent-free policy and only a deposit was paid."

 

Yuanjiacun’s success does not allow tourists to leave after eating.

 

When it comes to characteristic towns, people usually get the impression of buildings with certain customs and a street full of snacks. As the most direct source of income in tourist towns, snacks and catering seem to be the necessities of every scenic spot. It’s just that tourists "eat and wipe their mouths", and it’s obviously not enough to eat and stroll alone.

 

Not far from the entrance of Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village, the reporter saw a hotel. Throughout the entire scenic area, there is only one place for tourists to stay. Kang Jie told reporters that the only hotel was built nearly a year after the opening of the scenic spot. Tourists arrive at the scenic spot, spend more than an hour shopping, and then return to the county seat and urban area, with no subsequent consumption in accommodation and entertainment.

 

"In Shaanxi, there are many models of such folk villages and characteristic towns, but there are few successful cases. There are snacks, catering, accommodation and some entertainment facilities, so that tourists can stay, like the star town of yuanjiacun. It has developed for such a long time, and now it has formed this closed loop a little bit." Kang Jie said.

 

In 2007, Yuanjia Village, located in Yanxia Town, Liquan County, Xianyang, officially began to develop tourism, and it still maintains an annual passenger flow of about 6 million. The day of the reporter’s interview was a Friday. Even if it was not a rest day, the alleys in yuanjiacun were still full, and snacks and catering were particularly popular.

 

Catering shops in yuanjiacun are still hot. Beijing News reporter Zhang Yu photo

 

Wang Chuangzhan, director of the village committee in yuanjiacun, felt that from the beginning, yuanjiacun’s own tourism resources were actually lacking. Although there is Zhaoling scenic spot less than 10 kilometers from the village, it is still not enough to attract tourists. "When you go to Shaanxi to see history, most tourists look at the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, and then it may be Ganling. Many people only found out after staying in yuanjiacun that there was a Zhaoling not far away."

 

From folk tourism to food and beverage to holiday accommodation, the interval between the development of each stage is less than two years, so the popularity of yuanjiacun has been continued in the rapid upgrade. After the direction of vacation was formally determined in 2010, in addition to introducing homestays, boutique inns and hotels, along the extension of vacation, yuanjiacun successively built amusement parks at the entrance of scenic spots and bar streets open at night.

 

Yuanjiacun has also changed from the earliest street with two rows of houses to a tourist town with an area of nearly 400 mu, including three commercial streets: Ancestral Temple Street, Shuyuan Street and Huimin Street.

 

"It is definitely unsustainable to start making folk experiences and snacks alone. The consumption is low and the quantity is small. When tourists come and walk around, they can’t keep people. Therefore, we have to continue to develop catering and then go to a homestay where tourists can stay. What can I do if I stay? We opened a bar street and a playground, and completed the whole line, so that yuanjiacun can finally become a good place for a holiday. "

 

Today, there are more than 3,000 business operators in yuanjiacun, which is three times the number of villagers in yuanjiacun village. These people are also regarded as "new villagers" in yuanjiacun.

 

Can’t just be regarded as a "money-making business"

 

In terms of income, part of the income of characteristic towns comes from the rent of settled merchants. However, for unsuccessful towns, even in the booming period when they just started business, the monthly profits of merchants are very small.

 

"At the hottest time, the monthly income of the scenic spot is 1 million, which is already very good, but when we calculate the cost of the month, the salary of the employees of the scenic spot and the company, plus the water and electricity bills, will almost be close to 1 million." Up to now, Shaanxi Weishui Cultural Industry Investment Co., Ltd. has only one project, Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village. For investors who only rely on shareholders’ capital contribution and merchants’ rent after opening, the cost pressure can be imagined.

 

Kang Jie summed up the development of folk villages as the failure of "business field" in the mode of characteristic folk villages and characteristic towns. "In the final analysis, I think the mode initiated and invested by enterprises is different from that of tourism in yuanjiacun."

 

"It is said that the previous operating partners are eager for quick success and instant benefit, and we are not. The entire scenic spot invests a lot of money every month. Shareholders will continue to make money when they see it. If the benefits are not good, they will not dare to put the money in their hands, and they will not see the’ profit-making’. The momentum at the beginning of construction will soon disappear. "

 

Although it is a working day, yuanjiacun is still full of tourists. Beijing News reporter Zhang Yu photo

 

The starting point mentioned by Kang Jie is different because the tourism in yuanjiacun is developed and managed by the village committee. Although accepting external investment, the settlement and management of merchants need to be unified by the village Committee. Everyone wants to make the town a "money-making business", but a visionary village Committee may cherish and care more about its hometown.

 

The three main streets in yuanjiacun, Ancestral Hall Street, Huimin Street and Shuyuan Street, were invested and built by different investors, and they also presented three different theme styles: homestay, snacks and cultural creation. "The first step in attracting investment needs to be connected to the village Committee. We need to see whether the merchants are needed in the development of yuanjiacun as a whole, and whether they are controllable and safe. These conditions are met and the merchants will land again."

 

In the process of development, there are naturally problems. The outstanding problem is the attitude of the villagers in the village after the external merchants settle in to earn money. At this time, a reasonable, inclusive and prestigious village Committee is very important.

 

"Some merchants who have settled in are doing very well. The villagers want to make money from this project, but we will resolutely oppose it because we want to protect the rights and interests of these well-done merchants." Wang Chuangzhan said, "But in the final analysis, the development of yuanjiacun is to make the villagers rich. In this case, the village committee will coordinate with the merchants to see if the business can be industrialized, and then let the villagers join in the form of shares and enjoy the benefits every year. At present, this kind of dividend is also part of the villagers’ operation of their own farmhouses. "

 

Nowadays, Yuan Zhongmin is retired at home, and it is the "tail" of summer vacation. Every day, accompanying his grandson has become the whole of his life. When he mentions Donghuang Town, he can’t help but sigh. Kang Jie has already left his job in Bailuyuan Folk Culture Village and opened a small factory. For the previous experience, he felt that it was a pity and powerless. "Continue to invest money, but also be able to hold on to the time when you don’t make money."

 

(At the request of the interviewee, Kang Jie is a pseudonym in this article. )

 

Beijing News reporter Zhang Yu

Editor Zhang Shujing proofreads Wang Xin.

Have you tried all the thirteen old Beijing snacks?

Everyone knows that there are many snacks in old Beijing, among which thirteen are the most representative, which are collectively called "Thirteen Unique Snacks in Old Beijing". Which thirteen are they? Have you tasted them all? Which one do you like best?

rolling donkey, a Beijing snack

Bean flour cake, also known as snowballing usury, is one of the ancient snacks in Beijing. Its raw material is steamed with yellow wheat water, and the dough is slightly softened with more water. In addition, the soybeans are fried and rolled into flour. When making, the steamed yellow rice flour is covered with soybean flour and rolled into pieces, then coated with red bean paste (brown sugar can also be used), rolled up, cut into small pieces of about 100 grams, and sprinkled with white sugar. When making, the stuffing is required to be rolled evenly, with distinct layers and yellow appearance, which is characterized by fragrance, sweetness, stickiness and strong flavor of soybean powder.

Yellow bean is the main raw material of bean flour cake, so it is called bean flour cake. But why is it also called "snowballing"? It seems to be an image metaphor. After it is made, it is rolled in the yellow bean, as if the countryside is really snowballing and raising dust, hence the name. Nowadays, many people only know the nickname, but don’t know its proper name. At present, snack bars are available all year round, but most of them have changed from yellow wheat to Jiangmi noodles, because the color of soybean noodles is still yellow, which is a favorite snack of the masses.

steamed cake/bun made of glutinous rice with sweet filling

Aiwowo, a traditional snack in Beijing, is served in snack bars in Beijing around the Lunar New Year every year and sold until late summer and early autumn, so Aiwowo is also a spring and autumn variety, and it is now available all year round.

Aiwowo has a long history. In the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, "Taking glutinous rice with sesame seeds as a cold cake and filling it with pills as a nest" is also true in ancient times.

It can be seen that this kind of food is washed and soaked with glutinous rice, then steamed in a steamer, cooled and kneaded evenly, pulled into small doses, pressed into round skins, wrapped with peach kernels, sesame seeds, melon seeds, green plums, golden cakes and sugar, and mixed into stuffing, which became the food called Wowo in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. But why did it become a love nest later? Because an emperor loved this kind of nest, when he wanted to eat it or wanted to eat it, he ordered, "Love the nest." Later, when this kind of food was introduced to the people, ordinary people could not and dared not say the word "imperial", so they omitted the word "imperial" and called it "love nest".

The glutinous rice used for the skin of Aiwowo has been steamed, and the stuffing is also fried with peach kernel, melon kernel, sesame kernel and sugar in advance, so it can be eaten after it is cooked.

Candy roll

The main ingredients of the candied fruit are yam and jujube, with auxiliary materials such as plum, peach kernel and melon kernel. Fresh yam is nutritious and contains protein, refined fiber and vitamins, which is a traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that yam is warm, sweet and non-toxic. It enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians, and has the functions of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and stomach, growing muscles, stopping diarrhea and strengthening the spleen. Functions of consolidating essence and benefiting lung. Jujube is a tonic commonly used by Chinese medicine and people. The sugar content per 100g of dried product is 63-76.3g, and it also contains protein, fat and various vitamins and minerals. Among them, the content of vitamin C ranks first among all kinds of fresh fruits, reaching 300-600 mg per 100 g of fresh jujube meat, and the average utilization rate of human body is 86.3%. Chinese medicine believes that jujube meat is sweet and warm, and has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, nourishing qi and promoting fluid production, and can treat spleen and stomach weakness, deficiency of qi and blood, disharmony between camp and health, anemia, palpitation, irritability and dreaminess. The main ingredients of rolled fruit are yam and jujube, which is a veritable medicinal diet.

Sliced ginger fork

It is to peel fresh ginger and stamp it into fine powder, add a certain proportion of alum powder to flour, put it into a basin together, and use cold water to make dough. Another method is to knead dough with water, roll it on a dough rolling machine for five or six times until the flakes are even and smooth, then sprinkle fine starch flour on the flakes, fold them into strips, cut them into rows of forks with a knife, stack the two flakes together, cut them three times in the middle, spread them into single pieces, turn them over, and fry them with warm oil. The fried pork chops are honey-dipped. The method of honey-dipping is to peel fresh ginger, cut it into filaments, boil the shredded ginger with water, then take out the shredded ginger, add white sugar, add caramel and osmanthus fragrans after boiling, continue to boil, then move to low fire, and then fork the fried pork chops into the sweet-scented osmanthus caramel boiled by the shredded ginger for honey-dipping. After honey, the fork is light yellow, which has the characteristics of crisp, sweet and fragrant, and has ginger flavor when eating.

Cream fried cake

Cream fried cake is a nutritious snack variety in Beijing snacks. It uses good flour as raw material, first burns a proper amount of boiling water, then turns to low fire, pours the flour into the pot, and quickly stirs it until the dough turns from gray to white, and when it doesn’t stick to hands, takes it out and dries it into instant noodles. Dissolve the white sugar and vanilla powder with water, stir the appropriate amount of egg liquid in a bowl, add it into the instant noodle several times, and add the cream, sugar water and vanilla powder for the last time, and knead evenly.

Tangerduo

Honey twist is a famous product in Beijing snacks, also known as sugar ear, because it is named after being shaped like a human ear. There is a poem by predecessors: "Ears can be eaten? I often accompany my partner, honey twist, to ask who is good and point to a second bus ahead. " And the note said: "Sugar Ear honey twist is a food made for Qingzhen people. Its raw materials are nothing more than sugar flour and small sugar, which is commonly known as thin."

seasoned flour mush

Noodle tea is a nourishing snack in Beijing. It is made by frying flour in a pot until the color turns yellow and hemp seeds turn brown, adding osmanthus fragrans and bovine bone marrow oil, mixing and rubbing evenly, then putting the evenly rubbed noodle tea in a bowl, adding white sugar, and making it paste with boiling water. Face tea tastes sweet and can be used as breakfast or lunch, which is very popular among the people.

Noodle tea is usually sold in the afternoon among Beijing snacks. There is a poem that says: "When you wake up in the afternoon, you must always add dried ginger and sesame sauce."

Drinking noodles is very particular about how to eat. When eating, you don’t need chopsticks, spoons and other tableware, but you can drink the bowl in circles along the bowl with one hand. I am afraid that non-old Beijingers can’t eat this way.

sanzi twist

Twist with prickly heat is a fine product in Beijing Muslim snacks, which is very popular with the people, and its production is more troublesome. In advance, put alum, alkali, brown sugar and sweet osmanthus in a basin and melt it with warm water, then pour the flour into it and mix it evenly. After mixing, roll it up in long strips for a while, and then pull it into a small dose of 40 grams.

Mix the hemp seeds with boiling water, stick the small dose on the mixed hemp seeds, and crush them into small bar codes with a length of 10 cm in a plate, with 3-4 layers of yards before baking. After cooking, pick up two small strips and crush them into two even long rope strips by hand, fold them back and forth into eight, and knead the two ends together to form a jujube pit or fan shape with two sharp ends and medium size, and fry them until cooked. When frying, the peanut oil in the pan is 50% hot. Take the dough twist, put the blank into the oil pan and swing it back and forth to shape it. When the blank is slightly stiff, fry it in the oil and fry it brown. The twist of prickly heat is brown and yellow in color, crisp in texture, sweet and delicious.

saqima

Saqima is a famous Manchu pastry, and the folklore was handed down by a Manchu general. Because it is good at hunting and convenient to carry, it makes such a cake. Its raw materials are thin strips made of eggs and white flour, fried in oil, and then honey, white sugar and melon seeds are made into golden cake strips. The cake noodles are covered with green and red silk, which tastes sweet and delicious.

Inby

Inby, a snack in Beijing, is loved by men, women and children. Its crispy and oily taste really makes people unable to eat enough. Beijingers eat baked wheat cakes, often like to eat inby, and they must eat inby when drinking bean juice. Inby is an ancient food, and it is troublesome to make it. Because of the low labor efficiency, general restaurants are unwilling to make it, so it is often blocked for a while. When it comes to bombing inby, everyone in Beijing knows that a "handsome king of inby" was originally a "Nanlaishun" employee who died. His skills can’t be compared with those of ordinary people. The fried inby is brown and average in size, especially with the characteristics of fragrance, crispness and crispness. If it is put on the table, it will be broken at the slightest touch, and it will never feel hard.

Tanghuoshao

Tanghuoshao is one of the breakfast snacks that Beijingers often eat. It has a history of more than 300 years, and Dashunzhai’s tanghuoshao is the most famous. Sugar fire is fragrant and sweet, soft and non-sticky, suitable for the elderly. Kiln-oven sesame seed cake was originally a snack in Hebei province, and later it was introduced to Beijing and became a snack in Beijing. It is characterized by making a furnace out of a cylinder, and baking the biscuit green body directly on the cylinder wall.

Toad spits honey

Bean-filled sesame seed cake is a common variety of snacks in Beijing, which is named because it is filled with bean paste. In the baking process, because there is a natural opening on the side of the sesame seed cake, the bean paste is spit out and hung on the side of the sesame seed cake, so people call this kind of sesame seed cake toad spitting honey.

Pea Cake

A seasonal delicacy in Beijing in spring and summer. Originally a folk snack, it was introduced into the court. The official pea yellow, made of fine white peas, is light yellow in color, delicate and pure, melts in the mouth, tastes sweet, cool and refreshing. Famous for Cixi’s love of food. Its preparation method is that peas are ground, peeled, washed, boiled, fried in sugar, coagulated and cut into pieces. Traditionally, it is also embedded with jujube meat. Fangshan restaurant is the most famous one.

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Gansu: Feel the poverty alleviation through consumption in the barren land, and brew happiness with black bitter buckwheat.

Packaging Tongwei agricultural and sideline products to be sent. Wang Zumin

Packaging Tongwei agricultural and sideline products to be sent. Wang Zumin

In the office of Tongwei Renjia E-commerce Co., Ltd., the constantly updated order information on the online shopping platform attracted the attention of visitors. Wang Zumin

  In the office of Tongwei Renjia E-commerce Co., Ltd., the constantly updated order information on the online shopping platform attracted the attention of visitors. Wang Zumin

Nan Hongbin was interviewed by the media in his new house. Photo by Liao Ling

Nan Hongbin was interviewed by the media in his new house. Photo by Liao Ling

Heshan Village, Longshan Town, Tongwei County. Due to poor land and population outflow, large areas of land are still barren. Wang Zumin

Heshan Village, Longshan Town, Tongwei County. Due to poor land and population outflow, large areas of land are still barren. Wang Zumin

Chen Manqiang is in his own black bitter buckwheat field. Wang Zumin

Chen Manqiang is in his own black bitter buckwheat field. Wang Zumin

Li Guoliang knows a lot about the quality of black tartary buckwheat. Wang Zumin

Li Guoliang knows a lot about the quality of black tartary buckwheat. Wang Zumin

  BEIJING, Beijing, August 13 (Xinhua) Title: Feeling the Poverty Alleviation through Consumption in the Bitter Land: Brewing a Happy Taste with Buckwheat.

  Zhongxin. com reporter Wang Zumin

  When online shopping has gradually become a lifestyle of modern people, a new public welfare model of "consumption poverty alleviation" that everyone can participate in has also emerged — — The National Red Cross System Crowdfunding Poverty Alleviation Competition sponsored by the Red Cross Society of China (hereinafter referred to as the Crowdfunding Poverty Alleviation Competition) advocates the concept of "consumption is charity and purchase is public welfare", adopts the product crowdfunding model, sells characteristic agricultural products through e-commerce platforms, and stimulates the "hematopoietic" mechanism of farmers in poor and vulnerable areas, so that they can get rid of poverty with dignity and become rich through hard work.

  On the occasion of the second crowdfunding poverty alleviation competition, the reporter from Zhongxin. com went to Tongwei County, Gansu Province with the China Red Cross Foundation, and visited the benefits brought by this new model of "consumption poverty alleviation" to local poor households.

  Unwilling to be poor, "post-90 s" college students return home to start businesses

  Longzhong is known as "bitter and barren is the best in the world". Today, Dingxi City in Longzhong still fails to take off the label of "poverty". One district and six counties under its jurisdiction are contiguous national poverty-stricken areas, and Tongwei County is one of them.

  Tongwei County, located in the hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau, has an annual precipitation of 350mm and an annual evaporation of more than 1,500 mm.. Barren land, arid climate and once blocked traffic have hindered the pace of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich in this "hometown of calligraphy and painting" with a history of more than 2,100 years. However, this place, which was defined as "unfit for human habitation" by the World Food and Agriculture Organization in the 1990s, gave birth to the "King of Grains" Black Buckwheat, and "Tongwei Black Buckwheat Tea" was the entry of the second crowdfunding poverty alleviation competition.

  The sponsor of the project is Li Guoliang, the head of Liangxing Agricultural and Sideline Products Farmers’ Professional Cooperative in Tongwei County and the operation director of Tongwei Renjia E-commerce Co., Ltd. Born and raised in a small mountain village in Tongwei, this post-90s generation went to Shandong to study in order to get rid of poverty seven years ago. Now, it is the "bitterness" in his hometown that attracts him to return home to start a business.

  "When I was a child, I always liked to look at the distant hills and imagine what the outside world would be like. But once out of the mountains, I can never forget the picture of my parents facing the loess and the taste of bitter buckwheat tea in my hometown. " Li Guoliang said.

  In 2015, after graduating from college, he worked in Lanzhou for one year. Regardless of his family’s opposition, he returned to Tongyu, where "food is scarce like oil, and three meals are difficult to take care of people’s outflow", and he met Chen Qijun, a peer who is also an e-commerce.

  Two returning college students with the same feelings and ideals hit it off, and joined hands to build the farmers’ professional cooperative of Liangxing agricultural and sideline products in Tongwei County and Tongwei Renjia E-commerce Co., Ltd., and devoted themselves to opening up the market for high-quality black bitter buckwheat, pushing the agricultural and sideline products in their hometown to the whole country, and changing the deep-rooted poverty image left by the "bitter land is the best in the world".

  As rural children, they know more about the hardships of the villagers. In order to increase the income of poor farmers, they bought tartary buckwheat at a price 30% higher than the market price; In order to help the poor more accurately, and at the same time solve the problems of inconvenient transportation and insufficient manpower of the villagers, they went from village to village for home visits and made home purchases. As long as it is a product that farmers are willing to sell, they will come to the net. "Up to now, there is still a backlog of garlic and other substances in the warehouse." Chen Qijun said with a smile.

  Today, they have signed contracts with more than 200 households in 8 poverty-stricken villages in 3 townships, and have earned more than one million yuan for local poor households in recent years.

  Take pains to brew a happy taste with bitter buckwheat.

  For 32-year-old Chen Manqiang, black bitter buckwheat bears his hope for his son.

  Chen Manqiang has two children, and his wife is deaf and mentally ill. Two years ago, my two-month-old son was diagnosed with a rare disease, phenylketonuria, and he could no longer go out to work. The expenses of his family were immediately stretched, especially the high cost of his son’s treatment and special diet often made him sleepless.

  At this time, selling black bitter buckwheat became the main source of income for Chen Manqiang’s family. Chen Manqiang said that before, I didn’t know which crops were easy to sell and could make money. I planted a little bit of everything in the field. The yield of black tartary buckwheat is low and the price can’t go up, so it is rarely planted, and it is basically for personal use or to send some to relatives and friends. "Since the cooperation with Guoliang, the black bitter buckwheat is not worried about the market, and the price is high. The land at home has been planted. This year, 10 acres have been planted, and there are tens of thousands of incomes a year. The special diet of the baby is basically guaranteed."

  After understanding the special situation of his family, Li Guoliang and Chen Qijun also arranged for him to work in the company, and his time was free, so that he could take care of his family and get paid by piece, which greatly eased his pressure.

  Sitting in the small courtyard in front of the door, Chen Manqiang looked at Li Guoliang and Chen Qijun with gratitude and said, "I hope their company will get better and better, and I can develop with them and bring my son up smoothly."

  On the roadside leading to Shigou Village, Longshan Town, there is a rather "magnificent" bungalow, which was just completed by Nanhongbin, a villager from Shigou, last year.

  Sitting in the spacious and bright living room, 45-year-old Nan Hongbin’s face lit up. He said that since 2016, the cooperative has signed a contract with him, which not only provides high-quality seeds, explains relevant breeding knowledge, but also acquires at a high price. In recent years, the planting scale of tartary buckwheat in his family has been expanding, and the economic conditions of his family have also improved obviously. At the end of 2017, he built a new house near the road, and the family finally moved out of the ravine.

  Speaking of today’s life, his face is full of heartfelt joy: "Now we just plant and don’t worry about sales." As long as people are diligent, life is getting better and better. "

  What is even more touching and gratifying is that the northwest man who just got rid of poverty took over the baton of helping the poor. "I am thinking about how to help other people in need."

  The gratitude and gratitude of the villagers also added motivation to Li Guoliang and Chen Qijun. However, Li Guoliang said that he and the villagers should be more grateful for the crowdfunding platform provided by the Chinese Red Cross and the love and dedication of countless netizens.

  Li Guoliang told reporters that although Tongwei Black Buckwheat has the high nutrition, pollution-free and additive-free quality of "king of five grains", because Tongwei is remote, the villagers’ concepts are relatively backward and lack of effective marketing methods, which leads to the previous black Buckwheat being unsalable or sold at a very low price. The crowdfunding poverty alleviation competition can be said to have inserted a pair of wings for agricultural products in poor areas to fly freely. As soon as "Tongwei Black Buckwheat Tea" was launched, it attracted the attention of netizens. In less than a week, it successfully reached the goal of crowdfunding in the primary election and became the only buckwheat product selected for the contest in Tongwei.

  But for Li Guoliang and Chen Qijun, their "feelings" are obviously not just infatuated with their hometown elders and landscapes. Li Guoliang, who studied civil engineering at university, has laid the foundation stone for their ideal in his heart — — Taking the crowdfunding poverty alleviation competition as an opportunity, the brand Tongwei Black Buckwheat Tea was established, and its own factory was opened to expand the production and sales scale of agricultural products, forming an "industrial empire" of Tongwei agricultural products, attracting more outflow talents to return home, and brewing a happy day for the folks with black buckwheat.

  Crowdfunding for poverty alleviation Every consumer is a public welfare practitioner.

  Authoritative data show that by the end of 2018, there were still 16.6 million rural poor people in the country; As of the first half of this year, there were 334 deep poverty-stricken counties in China, and these poor people and regions became the key and difficult points in tackling poverty.

  Liao Ling, Deputy Director of Disaster Relief and Development Department of China Red Cross Foundation, said that the core of poverty alleviation for poor rural households is to increase income, and the key to increase income is sales. The purpose of the crowdfunding poverty alleviation competition sponsored by the Red Cross Society of China is to change "blood transfusion" into "hematopoiesis", encourage farmers in poor and vulnerable areas to fully explore local characteristics, promote agriculture through industry, and train a group of rural poverty alleviation leaders. The Red Cross Society of China, on the other hand, made use of its resource advantages to build a platform for them to export their products and help launch a number of special agricultural products brands.

  The reporter learned that the first crowdfunding poverty alleviation competition was launched on July 5, 2017. A total of 228 projects from 22 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions signed up for the competition, and 137 projects entered the preliminary online fundraising. Among them, 50 semi-final projects raised a total of 2.77 million yuan in two weeks. After online voting, 30 events from 14 provinces entered the finals. The contest finally decided on 20 red goods projects, and each project was supported by 100,000 yuan of Bo ‘ai Home Livelihood Fund, and 20 outstanding poverty alleviation leaders were commended.

  The second crowdfunding poverty alleviation competition was launched on March 20th this year, and 797 projects from 28 provinces and municipalities signed up for the competition. As of 0: 00 on August 13th, more than 400 projects after the primary election have raised 7.64 million yuan, and the last projects in the Western Division are still increasing. At present, the number of participants is nearly 1.33 million.

  The relevant person in charge of the China Red Cross Society said that the National Red Cross System Crowdfunding Poverty Alleviation Competition gathered the humanitarian forces of the National Red Cross, radiated all kinds of poverty alleviation work sites and Pok Oi Home project sites, and focused on improving the livelihood of the poorest and most vulnerable people, forming a new poverty alleviation model of "Red Cross+poverty alleviation sites+farmers+agricultural products+poverty alleviation leaders+Internet public". This incubation, development and platform-based poverty alleviation model has many added values, such as the spread of agricultural products brands, the cultivation of consumer communities and the development of rural economic cooperative organizations, which embodies the innovation and creativity of the Red Cross in tackling poverty.

  The Second Crowdfunding Poverty Alleviation Competition was hosted by China Red Cross Society, and undertaken by China Red Cross Foundation and JD.COM Digital Technology. At present, the competition is still in full swing, and a steady stream of orders are also reaching poor villages all over the country through e-commerce platforms.

  Before leaving Tongwei, the reporter visited Tongwei Renjia E-commerce Co., Ltd. In a small office, several young people are busy in front of the computer, and the open page is the order information constantly updated by the online shopping platform — — Tongwei tartary buckwheat products, which were previously "raised" in the plateau, finally got out of the "boudoir" through the e-commerce platform.

  Strangers who are across the Qian Shan may not know what kind of stories are hidden in the black bitter buckwheat tea they bought online, but their every order and every penny will be written into a new story of helping the poor. (End)

Finally! Lifan car is on fire again.

Comfort configuration is often linked to the quality of a car. Of course, the higher the comfort configuration, the more pleasant the passenger experience, which can give the car a higher evaluation. What xiaobian brought today is. Not much to say, let’s take a look.

First look at the appearance of Lifan Maple Leaf 80V. The front of Lifan Maple Leaf 80V presents a delicate design style and looks very sporty. With headlights, it looks very avant-garde personality. The car is equipped with LED daytime running lights, headlight height adjustment, delay closing and so on. Coming to the side of the car body, the size of the car body is 4706 mm * 1909 mm * 1699 mm. The car adopts elegant lines, and the side wall presents a fashionable and dynamic design style. With large-sized thick-walled tires, it looks full of sports. In terms of the rear end, Lifan Maple Leaf’s 80V rear end line is sharp, the taillights look very clean and refreshing, and the overall layout is impressive.

Sitting in the car, Lifan Maple Leaf 80V interior enhances the sense of visual simplicity and meets the aesthetic standards of young people. The car looks very good outside the steering wheel, equipped with the functions of manual steering wheel up and down+front and rear adjustment, and has a good feel experience. Take a look at the central control. The design of the center console is reasonable, which makes the interior design quite layered and looks round and lovely. Let Xiaobian introduce the dashboard and seats. The car is equipped with a simple and generous dashboard, which looks very fashionable and generous. The car adopts imitation leather seats, which are wide and thick, and the overall comfort is acceptable.

Lifan Maple Leaf 80V is matched with the fixed gear ratio gearbox, with a total motor power of 100KW and a total motor torque of 230N.m, with good power performance.

Lifan Maple Leaf 80V trunk space performance is ok. If there are big items during the trip, you can put down the rear seats to expand the space. At the same time, the car is equipped with anti-lock braking system (ABS), LED daytime running lights, brake assist (EBA/BAS, etc.), braking force distribution (EBD), traction control (ASR/TCS, etc.), main driver airbag and co-pilot airbag.

The car introduced today is remarkable in terms of space, configuration and power, and home travel is also a good helper. If you go offline and actually experience it, it is estimated that there will be many new gains.

Electric+hybrid! Detailed interpretation of Toyota Prius PHEV

    [XCAR Information Original]

    When it comes to hybrid power, most people should think of a Toyota car, which is the Prius. Yes, the Prius is not the first hybrid car, but it is the most famous and best-selling hybrid car at present. Its cumulative sales in the world have exceeded 2 million, which is beyond the reach of most conventional models. However, after three generations of development, today’s Prius has lost its youth and become more mature. At the same time, Prius has also derived more products with different technical routes, such as the Prius plug-in hybrid (PHEV) model we experienced this time. This is not just a hybrid, it is more energy-saving and greener than hybrid.If you don’t know much about the Prius PHEV, please click on the fourth page first!

The Prius

    The Prius PHEV is built on the basis of the third-generation Prius. The power system is quite different from the latter, but there is almost no difference in appearance. It can only be found from the signs on both sides of the car body that this is a plug-in hybrid vehicle.

 The Prius
The Prius PHEV is built on the basis of the third-generation Prius, and there is almost no difference in appearance.

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From this point of view, the Prius PHEV should be classified as fastback, similar to MG6.

    Compared with the old model, the new Prius is more personalized and dynamic. In addition, the Prius PHEV uses the same Toyota MC platform as Corolla, Matrix and Scion xB. Its length is 4.46 meters, only 1.2 cm more than that of the second-generation Prius, and the wheelbase has not changed, still 2.7 meters.
 

The Prius
The "fuel tank cover" in the front is the charging port, and the tail is the real fuel tank cover.

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From the rear, you will still think that this is an ordinary version of the Prius hybrid car.

    There is a charging port on the left side of the front of the Prius PHEV, through which the battery can be charged. The domestic 220V power supply can fully charge the 5.3kwh battery within 100 minutes.

The Prius
The daily charging scene should be in the garage, community or
You can see it in the roadside rest area

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The Prius

The Prius

    Although there is a white charging pile next to the Prius, it is actually not a power conversion device. 220V of household power supply is enough for the Prius PHEV. This means that as long as there is a 220V power supply, it can be charged anytime and anywhere, which is very convenient.

 


Introduction to Prius PHEV-Appearance


 

    The interior of the Prius PHEV is a warm style commonly used by Toyota. The design of the central control is relatively simple, and the floating central control operation panel divides the front cockpit into two halves. Considering the cost, the materials used in the interior of the Prius PHEV are average, but the fine workmanship is a good compensation.

 The Prius
Japanese typical shallow interior style, exquisite design and excellent workmanship,
However, the materials used are general, and the central control is made of hard materials, which is caused by cost control.

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The multifunctional steering wheel is the only part of the whole car wrapped in leather material.
Multimedia control on the left and air conditioning control on the right.

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Blue one-button start button unique to hybrid vehicles

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This design is actually not humanized, in the daytime with strong light.
It is difficult to distinguish the information on the screen, which will distract the driver.

The Prius

    The Prius PHEV doesn’t use the dashboard design, and puts the driving information on the narrow display screen in front of the central control. Although the display information is very rich, such a design is difficult to identify, especially in the case of strong light.

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The suspended center console is designed to maximize the space utilization, and the bottom is a 12V power socket.

The Prius
If you don’t pay attention, you will think that this is a manual transmission model.

     The operation of the Prius PHEV is a little different from that of the traditional model. Firstly, the shift lever is very small, and after shifting gears, the shift lever will automatically return to its original position, and the gear information will be displayed on the front display screen. Although this design is distinctive, it is not very humanized. In addition, the Prius PHEV doesn’t have a button to switch between EV (pure electric) and HEV (hybrid electric) modes, that is, you can only drive in EV mode before the battery is exhausted.


Introduction to Prius PHEV-Interior and Configuration


 

     After all, the Prius PHEV is a Japanese car, and the space design still reflects the meticulous and humanized Japanese style. The storage space in the car is rich, and the design is clever. However, for the same cost reason, the Prius PHEV does not use leather seats, but uses cheaper flannel seats. In addition, except for the front and rear electric adjustment in the driver’s seat, the rest of the seats are manually adjusted.

The Prius
The changeable space storage compartment has a large volume, but it can be opened without damping.

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Transformers-like central armrest, which can slide back and forth, is internally equipped with 12V power supply and AUX interface.

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The rear legroom brought by the wheelbase of 2.7 meters is very good, which is brought by the fastback shape.
There is also plenty of headroom in the back row.

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Mediocre car door design, pay attention to the gray-black part is also made of flannel material, which is the product of cost saving.

    The Prius PHEV is equipped with a motor with a maximum power of 60kw, which is matched with a 1.8L gasoline engine with a maximum power output of 73kw/5200rpm. The maximum power output of the combination of the two is 100kw. In pure electric mode, the Prius PHEV can travel 20km with a maximum speed of 100km/h. When the speed exceeds 100km/h or accelerates rapidly, the gasoline engine will start to provide power (with a maximum speed of 180km/h). The 0-100km/h acceleration score is 11.4s, of course, the performance is not the most important, and the fuel economy of the Prius PHEV is worthy of attention. The fuel consumption per 100 km under mixed road conditions is only 2.6L.

The Prius
A car with an estimated price of more than 300,000 RMB uses manual poles.
Also due to cost savings.

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The Prius PHEV is very quiet and smooth in pure electric mode, even if you step on the accelerator.
There will be no overreaction.

    supplementThe difference between the third-generation Prius PHEV and the second-generation Prius

    1. In fact, PHEV is the only version of the third-generation Prius, and the second-generation Prius only has the hybrid version of the ordinary version.

    2. The third-generation Prius PHEV uses the same 1.8L engine as the third-generation Prius (regular version), while the second-generation 1.5L engine.

    3. The third-generation Prius PHEV uses lithium batteries, while the second-generation and third-generation Prius (regular version) both use nickel-hydrogen batteries.

    4. The battery capacity of the third-generation Prius PHEV is greatly increased, and the cruising range of pure electric power is 20km, while the driving range of the second-generation or third-generation Prius (conventional version) is only about 2km.

     The Prius PHEV embodies Toyota’s careful consideration in vehicle development, which not only ensures the price advantage, but also ensures the practicality of the new car is not too bad. Excellent cost control is also a major feature of Toyota products. It is believed that the Prius PHEV will have a very attractive price and be more competitive than Volanda. At the same time, for urban users, the Prius PHEV is excellent enough, and there is no need to pay more when buying a car to save a little more oil. The accuracy of the design concept has laid the foundation for the success of the Prius PHEV. I just hope that Toyota can strictly control the quality while controlling the cost, otherwise the "brake door" incident may not be an end.


Introduction to Prius PHEV-Space, Power


 

    ● Technical explanation of Prius PHEV:

    What is a plug-in hybrid?

    Plug-in hybrid, many netizens may have heard of this term, which is not a brand-new concept. You don’t have to know the Prius PHEV, but BYD F3DM should know it. Yes, BYD F3DM is a typical product of plug-in hybrid. DM also means dual mode, which means that the car has two main working modes: electric vehicle mode (EV) and hybrid mode (HEV), which are the same as plug-in hybrid, but only in a different way.

The Prius

    Literally, it is also well understood that it is a rechargeable hybrid vehicle. Since it can be charged, it means that it needs more battery capacity, and the plug-in hybrid vehicle can be completely driven by electricity with the support of batteries, and become a pure electric vehicle. When the onboard power is used up, it can be switched to hybrid mode and turned into a hybrid vehicle. In this way, the plug-in hybrid vehicle will have a longer cruising range than the general pure electric vehicle, and at the same time, it will be more fuel-efficient than the traditional hybrid vehicle because it can use external electricity.

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    Of course, the above is a routine workflow of parallel plug-in hybrid power, and the actual situation is much more complicated, and the situation of series plug-in hybrid power will be very different (such as Chevrolet VOLT).

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    ●Let’s learn about the Prius Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) by asking and answering questions.

    Q: What is the battery capacity of the Prius PHEV? What is the cruising range in pure electric mode?

    A: Different from the ordinary Prius model, the Prius PHEV uses a lithium battery instead of a Ni-MH battery pack. The lithium battery has the characteristics of light weight and small volume under the same capacity, and has no memory effect, so it is more suitable for frequent charging and discharging. The lithium battery capacity of the Prius PHEV is 5.2kwh, which is four times that of the ordinary version.The cruising range in pure electric mode is 20km..

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    Q: Can the pure electric cruising range of 20 kilometers meet the daily needs? Why not use a longer cruising range?

    A: This may be a concern of many consumers. The official explanation given by Toyota is that according to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan, in Japan,More than half of car owners have a daily driving distance of less than 20km., can completely meet the power demand through the battery. And even beyond the cruising range, there are gasoline engines that can continue to provide power. As for why it is not designed to have a longer cruising range, the most important reason is economic considerations.The increase of cruising range will inevitably increase the battery capacity and cost, and at the same time greatly increase the car price..

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    Q: How long does it take to charge the Prius PHEV? Are there any requirements for charging equipment?

    A: The charging time of the Prius PHEV is 180 minutes under 100V power supply.The charging time under 200V power supply is about 100 minutes.. It can be charged on an ordinary household power supply, and there is no need to build a fast charging pile. It is understood that when charging, the current is about 16A, which is not much larger than the cabinet air conditioner, and will not cause too much burden on the power grid.

Do you really know the difference between No.92 gasoline and No.95 gasoline?

Friends who have cars know that, generally speaking, 95 # gasoline will be a little more expensive than 92 # gasoline. Some car owners will subconsciously feel that it must be more expensive gasoline. Is 95 gasoline really better than 92 gasoline? What is the difference between them? Do you really know?

Is 95 oil purer than 92 oil?

There are rumors on the Internet that the higher the gasoline label, the better the quality of gasoline.

That was not the case.

In fact, the base oil of 92 # gasoline and 95 # gasoline is the same, but different additives are used to make them have different antiknock properties, which has nothing to do with the quality of gasoline itself. It does not mean that the higher the label, the less impurities there are, and there is no saying that the higher the label, the more fuel-efficient it is.

The biggest difference between No.92 and No.95 gasoline: anti-explosion.

What distinguishes 92 # gasoline from 95 # gasoline is actually the ratio of isooctane to n-heptane. 92 # gasoline is rich in 92% isooctane and 8% n-heptane. No.95 gasoline is rich in 95% isooctane and 5% n-heptane.

When the cylinder in the automobile engine is in piston motion, gasoline and air will be mixed and compressed in the cylinder. If the pressure in the cylinder is too high, it is easy to knock. The antiknock substance in gasoline is isooctane. The higher the label, the higher the isooctane content, and of course the stronger the antiknock performance.

The engine of a good car generally has a high power and compression ratio, and it is undoubtedly easy to knock when adding 92 # gasoline, which is why the better the car, the higher the requirement for gasoline label.

Can different grades of gasoline be mixed?

Last time, the Shaker saw a news on the Internet. When a Bentley owner went to the gas station to refuel, he saw that the oiler added 98 to 95 by mistake. He was so angry that he rushed up on the spot and gave the oiler a fat beating. Seeing this, someone should be tempted to ask: Is it really so serious to add the wrong oil?

If you originally added 92% oil, you accidentally added 95, which actually doesn’t matter; If a car that was originally fueled with 95 # gasoline was mistakenly fueled with 92 # gasoline, the problem is not very serious once or twice. However, if it is mistakenly fueled or mixed for a long time, the pressure in the cylinder of the car will not meet the requirements of the combustion of the oil-gas mixture, which will easily lead to knocking. In addition, it will also lead to an increase in engine carbon deposition, an increase in fuel consumption, and a knock on the cylinder, which will affect the life of the engine.

Since gasoline should not be mixed, what should we do? In fact, just add gasoline in strict accordance with the label requirements posted on the tank cover. This is not wrong. There is not much need to spend more money to add high-grade oil (of course, you don’t care about the better money), and you can’t add low-grade oil to save money!

Have you ever filled the wrong tank?

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Countries with Middle East epidemic or "turning point" lifted a number of prevention and control measures.

  Recently, the number of new cases in COVID-19 in some countries in the Middle East began to decline. Among the top five countries with the most serious epidemic, except Qatar, the number of new cases declined after reaching the highest point recently. Although no country in the Middle East has officially announced that the inflection point of the epidemic has arrived, most countries in the Middle East have relaxed the strict epidemic prevention measures taken before to varying degrees, and it is becoming the "new normal" for all countries to persist in fighting the epidemic and gradually restore their economies.

  Turkey lifted the ban on a number of prevention and control measures on June 1, and the economy showed signs of recovery.

  On the evening of May 28th, local time, the data updated on the website of the Turkish Ministry of Health showed that 33,559 Covid-19 tests were conducted that day, and 1,182 of them were positive. So far, 160,979 cases have been diagnosed in Turkey, 4,461 cases have died and 124,369 cases have been cured.

  △ Statistics of No.28 epidemic situation in Turkey (Source: Ministry of Health of Turkey)

  The Turkish president announced the lifting of a series of prevention and control measures

  On May 28th, local time, Turkish President Erdogan delivered a televised speech in Istanbul, announcing that Turkey would lift a series of prevention and control measures from June 1st.

  Erdogan announced that from June 1 ST, Turkish government public officials officially resumed work; Restaurants, cafes, teahouses, gyms, etc. will be reopened under the premise of ensuring the prevention and control of the epidemic; Cancel the travel restrictions between provinces, but decide whether to impose travel restrictions on some provinces again according to the development of the epidemic. In addition, the weekend "grounding order" for some provinces and cities will continue to be implemented. Erdogan also re-emphasized the importance of wearing masks, paying attention to hygiene and keeping social distance in his speech.

  Earlier, Turkish Health Minister Koja said that the epidemic situation in Turkey has been controlled, the first phase of the anti-epidemic struggle has been completed, and it has entered the stage of "controlled social life". Turkish President Erdogan said that Turkey will gradually relax its prevention and control measures and normalize its life from May to July.

  △ Turkish President Erdogan delivered a televised speech (Source: local media)

  Turkish Minister of Industry and Technology: There are signs of economic recovery.

  Turkish Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varanke said on the 27th that Turkey has started mass production of ventilators, which were designed by the Turkish technology company BIOSYS, and produced with the support of Arcelik, a top home appliance company in Turkey, and Aselsan, a national defense giant. At present, 1,000 ventilators have been exported. The minister also said that Turkey’s economy showed signs of recovery, and the service industry, retail industry and construction industry improved in May, increasing by 10.8%, 5% and 31.1% respectively compared with April, and the consumer confidence index also increased by 8.5% in May.

  Recently, Turkish Trade Minister Pekcan said that after the outbreak, Turkey’s agricultural exports to the Far East countries will be increased and market obstacles will be gradually cleared. Turkey has completed the procedures for exporting apples to Thailand, and the export of poultry products to China has entered the final stage.

  According to the Turkish Anadolu News Agency, the Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization said that Istanbul, Doha and Dubai will become pilot cities for tourism projects after the COVID-19 outbreak. He said that at the end of June or July, these three cities will resume international flights and become the hub of international shipping.

  Iran reopened some border points with neighboring countries.

  By the 28th local time, there were 2,258 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 63 deaths. A total of 143,849 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed, with a cumulative death toll of 7,627. At present, there are still 2,543 severe cases.

  Iranian President Rouhani said at the special national conference against COVID-19 that people must adopt a new way of life to fight the epidemic before a vaccine is developed. He said that the main reason for Iran’s incomplete economic recovery is the impact of the epidemic, and if people take health and scientific measures to prevent the virus, people can gradually return to a more natural lifestyle.

  △ Rouhani meets with Iranian officials (Source: Yitong News Agency)

  Iran’s official news agency, Yitong News Agency, reported on the 28th that Iran has recently reopened the border point of bazar with Turkey. The border point is located in West Azerbaijan province of Iran, which was temporarily closed after the outbreak of the Iranian epidemic.

  △ Tui bazar dry border point (Source: Yitong News Agency)

  In addition, the report quoted customs officials in Basra, Iraq, as saying that Iraq will open the border point with Iran in Saramche next week, and for the sake of health and epidemic prevention, the government will set up health stations in this area to disinfect trucks coming and going. Some analysts have shown that the opening of Iran’s border points with its neighboring countries will help promote trade and, to a certain extent, alleviate the economic impact of the epidemic on regional countries.

  The number of new cases in Saudi Arabia continued to decline, and the social order was stable on the first day of "lifting the ban"

  According to the latest figures released by the Saudi Ministry of Health on the afternoon of 28th local time, 1,644 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the past 24 hours, and the number of new cases decreased for six consecutive days. At the same time, 16 new cases died on the same day. So far, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia has reached 80,185, making it the third country in the Middle East with a cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeding 80,000, among which 441 patients died of serious illness and 54,553 patients have been cured.

  △ The epidemic situation in Saudi Arabia as of May 28 (Source: Saudi Ministry of Health)

  The 28th is the first day of Saudi Arabia’s implementation of the "plan to restore normal social life". As most government departments and almost all employees of private enterprises have not finished the Eid al-Fitr holiday on that day, according to the reporter’s observation, there was no congestion in the main traffic arteries of the capital Riyadh on that day, and there were no long queues and large-scale snapping up in shopping malls and supermarkets. In the first stage of the implementation of the "Recovery Plan", commercial places such as cinemas, gyms and barbershops, which are difficult to achieve social distance, will not be opened to the public. The Saudi health department once again reminds people to do a good job of protection and not to let themselves become "accomplices" in the spread of the virus. The religious affairs department also reminds the elderly and minors not to participate in religious ceremonies such as weekend gatherings.

  △ Overlooking the scene in downtown Riyadh

  Qatar has broken 50,000 confirmed cases, and the government has lowered the standards for lifting isolation and discharge.

  The epidemic situation of Covid-19 in Qatar continues to grow, with new confirmed cases and single-day cured cases reaching new highs. At the same time, the number of single-day cured cases exceeded the number of confirmed cases on the same day for the first time since the outbreak. The Qatari Ministry of Public Health announced on the afternoon of May 28th that in the past 24 hours, 5,853 cases of Covid-19 pneumonia were tested, and 1,967 cases were confirmed, with a total of 50,914 confirmed cases. On the same day, there were three new deaths in Qatar. The deceased were 81 years old, 50 years old and 25 years old respectively. They all suffered from chronic diseases before their death, and the cumulative number of deaths in the country reached 33. In addition, there were 2,116 cured patients in Qatar that day, with a total of 15,399 cases cured. At present, there are still 35,482 people under treatment, of whom 1,608 are hospitalized and 214 are in the intensive care unit. Qatar has conducted a total of 207,033 Covid-19 tests, and the number of confirmed cases accounts for about a quarter of the total number of people tested.

  △ Qatar Ministry of Public Health official website data

  The number of cured patients in Qatar has increased significantly, which is largely related to Qatar’s substantial relaxation of the standards for lifting isolation and discharge. According to the previous standard, all confirmed patients need to be negative after two consecutive PCR swab tests before they can leave the hospital. According to the new standard, all asymptomatic infected people can contact and isolate and return home 14 days after the first swab test is positive. For mild infected people, they can be released from isolation and returned home even if they have been diagnosed for 14 days and have no symptoms for the last five consecutive days. After returning home, these people are also required to be isolated at home for another week. In special circumstances such as people over 60 years old at home, additional tests will be carried out before the isolation. If the test is positive, they need to be isolated in isolation facilities for another 7 days, and the isolation can be directly lifted without any tests after 7 days.

  Qatar said that their adjustment of patients’ discharge standards was based on the guidelines and experience of Britain, the United States, Germany and other countries. After 10 days of diagnosis, patients were no longer contagious, so Qatar decided to locate the release period in Qatar for 14 days.

  △ Qatar drive-in COVID-19 checkpoint (Source: local media)

  The number of new cases in UAE dropped sharply for the first time, and the government continued to relax epidemic prevention measures.

  On May 28th, local time, the Ministry of Health and Prevention of the United Arab Emirates announced that there were 563 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country, which also increased the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 32,532. On that day, there were 3 new deaths, with the cumulative number of deaths reaching 258 and 314 new rehabilitation cases, with the cumulative number of rehabilitation reaching 16,685.

  △ UAE epidemic data (Source: UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention)

  Looking back at the development of COVID-19 epidemic in UAE, the number of cases increased from more than 100 at the end of March to more than 400 after mid-April, with more than 600 new cases in a single day in early May. By mid-May, the number of new cases was about 700, and on May 18 and 19, the number of new cases exceeded 800 for two consecutive days, which exceeded 900 for the first time on May 20 and reached the highest point of 994 cases on May 22.

  △ Abu Dhabi COVID-19 Testing Center

  The relevant departments of the UAE did not further explain why the number of new cases dropped sharply for the first time in a single day, nor did they confirm whether the turning point in the development of the UAE epidemic has appeared. A person familiar with the matter alleged that during the Eid al-Fitr period, SEHA, the former UAE company mainly responsible for operating the testing center in COVID-19, closed its testing center in COVID-19 from May 24th. In different regions, the special COVID-19 testing center had different vacation time, some reopened on May 25th, while others opened on May 27th, which may affect the data of the epidemic detection in UAE, but the heads of relevant departments in UAE did not respond to this.

  △ mall of the emirates

  On May 26th, Sharjah, one of the seven Emirates in the United Arab Emirates, announced that all tourist attractions, including the water recreation center and the famous sightseeing island Al Noor Island, were reopened for business. On May 27th, Dubai resumed all commercial activities. After allowing all shopping centers to open, Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, allowed hotels and restaurants to open after observing the relevant epidemic prevention regulations of the government and accepting the goods. On May 28th, several museums in Dubai announced that they would reopen on June 1st. So far, the vast majority of public places previously closed in the UAE have been opened or have clear plans to open in the near future. (Reporter: Wang Wei, Chen Huihui, Li Jiannan, Li Chao and Zhang Yuchen)

China’s new energy vehicles shine to attract multinational car companies to cooperate with China car companies to embrace green travel.

  CCTV News:The 10-day auto china 2024 closed on May 4th. This year’s auto show has 117 first cars in the world and 278 new energy vehicles. Compared with auto china 10 years ago, China’s new energy vehicles are entering a new stage of comprehensive and rapid development. Why can China sell more than 9 million new energy vehicles a year? Find the answer through the auto show.

  Early in the morning, there was a long queue in front of the Xiaomi automobile booth, and all-color new cars collectively appeared at the auto show. According to the staff, this hot phenomenon happens every day from the first day of development.

  The reporter noted that almost all the independent new energy automobile exhibition platforms in China were flooded with Chinese and foreign visitors.

  At the auto china in 2024, China’s new products of independent new energy vehicles were unveiled, and their high-tech content and fashionable design attracted the attention of multinational car companies. However, this was unimaginable 10 years ago.

  Chai Zhanxiang, assistant president of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Automobile Industry Branch, said that in 2014, the booths were mainly international multinational companies, and at the same time, the models on display were basically diesel locomotive-driven models. In 2024, there were many faces of independent brands in China. In the past 10 years, from the perspective of auto show, China’s new energy vehicles have completed the leap from scratch, from followers to leaders.

  Multinational car companies increase cooperation with local enterprises in China.

  On the auto china, behind the booth changes is the rapid rise of new energy vehicles in China. The brilliance of new energy vehicles in China attracts multinational car companies to increase cooperation with local car companies in China and embrace green travel.

  A series of new products and technologies, such as intelligent cockpit with human-computer interaction, new battery products leading the world, and intelligent driving technology, are constantly innovating, making China intelligent new energy vehicle the absolute protagonist at this auto show.

  Facing the hot scene of new energy vehicles in auto china, established multinational automobile companies are following the pace of developing new energy vehicles in China and actively embracing the new energy vehicle market in China.

  Many multinational car companies put new energy vehicles in the most conspicuous position in the front row. Mercedes-Benz launched a world-first pure electric vehicle on the first day of its launch, while Porsche used the exhibition of "loong" to attract consumers in China.

  With China’s new energy vehicles and intelligent networked vehicle technology gradually reaching the forefront of the world, global multinational automobile companies have begun to seek changes and increase cooperation with local enterprises in China, which is becoming the common choice of more and more multinational automobile companies.

Central Meteorological Observatory: Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan and other places will reduce the warning of strong rainfall and high temperature to yellow

  CCTV News:According to the website of the Central Meteorological Observatory, in the past day, due to the influence of the "saddle" residual cloud system, heavy rains occurred in parts of southwestern Guangdong, central and southern Guangxi, western and southern Yunnan, and heavy rains (100 ~ 194 mm) occurred in Maoming and Zhanjiang in Guangdong, Xishuangbanna and Pu’ er in Yunnan; There are 6 ~ 8 gusts in some of the above areas, and the local level is 9 ~ 10. At present, the influence of "saddle" on China has basically ended.

  In the next ten days, the West China region will enter a rainy period, and the accumulated rainfall will turn from significantly less in the previous period to more. It is estimated that from 27th to 30th, there will be a round of heavy rainfall in the area from West China to Huanghuai, with moderate to heavy rain in the eastern part of Northwest China, the eastern part of Southwest China, southern North China, Huanghuai, Jianghan, Jianghuai and other places, and heavy rain in parts of Shaanxi, southwestern Shanxi, western and northern Sichuan Basin, northern Henan and other places. Some of the above areas are accompanied by strong convective weather such as short-term heavy precipitation and local thunderstorms and strong winds.

  Among them, from the 27th to the 28th, the rainfall will mainly appear in the eastern part of northwest China and the southern part of North China; From the night of 28th to 29th, the main rain area moved to the south of Shaanxi, the north and west of Sichuan Basin and the north of Chongqing. In addition, there will be obvious rainfall in Huanghuai, Jianghan and Jianghuai from the night of 28th to 30th.

  Meteorologists reminded that the rainfall process lasted for a long time and the local accumulated rainfall was large. Southwest Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Chongqing and other places need to guard against the sharp turn of drought and flood. The public should pay attention to preventing urban and rural accumulation and flash floods and geological disasters that may be caused by local heavy rainfall or continuous rainfall.

  In terms of high temperature, in the past day, some areas in Sichuan Basin, central Hunan, central and northern Jiangxi, southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian experienced high temperature above 37℃, and the highest temperatures in Beibei, Chongqing and Fengjie, and Fuzhou, Fujian reached 40 ~ 40.7℃.

  At present, the range and intensity of high temperature in the south are gradually shrinking, and the high temperature warning was downgraded to yellow on the evening of 26th. Affected by the strong rainfall process, the high temperature will further subside in the future: it is expected that the high temperature in Sichuan Basin, Chongqing and other places will weaken and end on the 29th, and the high temperature in most parts of the south of the Yangtze River will also subside on the 31st, and the continuous high temperature weather process in the south will end.

  The Central Meteorological Observatory continued to issue a yellow warning of high temperature this morning: during the day, there are high temperature weather of 35 ~ 39℃ in eastern Sichuan, Chongqing, northern and eastern Guizhou, southern Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, southern Zhejiang, Fujian, central and northern Guangdong, and northwestern Guangxi, among which the highest temperature in parts of western and northern Chongqing can reach above 40℃. The public should take measures to prevent heatstroke and cool down, and pay attention to the safety of electricity use indoors.

Building a China-Central Asia Destiny Community, Deepening Pragmatic Cooperation and Promoting Common Development

CCTV News:China — The Central Asia Summit was successfully held in Xi ‘an. The heads of government departments of Central Asian countries attending the meeting positively evaluated the important role of the Summit in promoting regional peace and development, and highly affirmed China’s promotion of the construction of China — Central Asia’s community of destiny and efforts to achieve common development with all parties.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan Mukhriddin:This summit is dedicated to building China — Central Asia’s community of destiny will have a far-reaching and comprehensive impact on the whole region. We appreciate this concept put forward by China very much, which reflects our commitment to win-win cooperation and common development. In addition, the global development initiative, global security initiative and global civilization initiative put forward by China leaders are of great significance to all countries.

Minister of Economy and Commerce of Kyrgyzstan Daniar Oman Geldyev:The "One Belt, One Road" initiative put forward by Chairman of the Supreme Leader unites all of us. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the initiative. I think we have made great achievements in the past 10 years. For our landlocked countries, the "Belt and Road Initiative" has helped the whole Central Asian region gain the potential for economic and trade development. China — The Central Asia Summit will bring broad prospects for cooperation and development in Central Asia.

During the summit, many countries in Central Asia signed cooperation agreements with China in energy, economy, trade, humanities, science and technology and other fields. The participants are looking forward to being in China — Under the Central Asia mechanism, we will further deepen pragmatic cooperation in various fields and make the results more beneficial to the people in the region.

Jurabek Mi Erzha Makhmudov, Minister of Energy of Uzbekistan:Under the framework of this visit, we signed a series of solid cooperation agreements and memorandums, and reached cooperation intentions on projects in renewable energy and other fields. These projects will not only help the development of Uzbekistan, but also promote cooperation among all countries in the region. We look forward to further deepening cooperation with China in various fields.

"Ali Farabbi" Tuimebayev Jansen CancentToure, President of Kazakhstan National University;Our university and Northwestern Polytechnical University signed a cooperation agreement under the witness of the two heads of state. This is the first time that a China university has set up a branch school in Kazakhstan. We believe in China — The Central Asia Summit will further promote exchanges and cooperation between Central Asian countries and China in the fields of education, science and technology. Especially in the current complicated international situation, the convening of the summit is of great significance to promoting peace and stability in Central Asia and even the world.