Climate change will pose a persistent and increasingly serious threat to human life, ecosystem, economy and social development in the next few centuries. Recovery after the epidemic is an opportunity to help push the world along a more sustainable path.

　　Yang Haiquan, a reporter from Geneva Electric, reported that October 13th is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. On the same day, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released the 2020 Climate Service Status Report with the theme of "From Early Warning to Early Action". The report pointed out that in the past 50 years, there have been more than 11,000 disasters caused by weather, climate and water around the world, resulting in 2 million deaths and 3.6 trillion US dollars in economic losses. Although the average death toll of each disaster decreased by one third, the number of recorded disasters increased by five times and the economic losses increased by seven times.

　　The report said that due to climate change, the frequency, intensity and severity of extreme weather and climate events have increased. The data shows that one third of the world’s population is still not fully covered by the climate warning system. In 2018, about 108 million people around the world needed international humanitarian assistance due to disasters such as storms, floods, droughts and wildfires. It is estimated that this number will increase by nearly 50% by 2030, and the annual cost will be about 20 billion US dollars. The report emphasizes that it is necessary for climate forecasting to shift from forecasting weather conditions to early warning of weather evolution conditions, including paying attention to forecasting weather impacts, so that people and enterprises can take early actions according to early warning.

　　The Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, Petiri Talas, said that an early warning system is a prerequisite for effectively reducing disaster risks and adapting to climate change. Being prepared and responding at the right time and place can save many lives and protect the livelihood of community members around the world. Petiri Talas emphasized that although the COVID-19 epidemic has caused a large-scale international health crisis and economic crisis, and it will take several years for the world to recover, there is still a key point to keep in mind, that is, climate change will pose a persistent and increasingly serious threat to human life, ecosystem, economy and social development in the next few centuries. Post-epidemic recovery is an opportunity to push the world along a more sustainable path and enhance climate resilience and adaptability.

　　The report emphasizes that global climate services should strengthen the protection of the most vulnerable groups, including providing assistance to the least developed countries and small island developing States through mechanisms such as climate risk and early warning systems. Although nearly 90% of the least developed countries and small island developing States have identified the early warning system as the top priority of national independent contribution to climate change, many of them lack the necessary financial investment capacity. Since 1970, small island developing States have lost $153 billion due to weather, climate and water-related disasters. In the least developed countries, 1.4 million people (70% of all deaths) have lost their lives in weather, climate and water-related disasters.

　　According to the report, data provided by 138 members or regions of the World Meteorological Organization show that only 40% members have multi-disaster early warning systems. At present, only 75 members or regions (accounting for 39%) have the ability to provide weather impact-based forecasting services. In many developing countries, the communication ability of early warning system is very weak. At present, there is not enough global capacity to turn early warning into early action, especially in the least developed countries, where Africa faces the biggest gap. Although the African continent has a good ability in risk knowledge and prediction, in terms of available data, the early warning system only covers 44,000 out of an average of 100,000 people. Weather and climate services depend on data from systematic observation, but the observation network in Africa is insufficient. In 2019, only 26% of observation stations in Africa met the requirements of the World Meteorological Organization.

　　The report calls for the increase of climate-related disasters to show that it is necessary to increase investment in climate change adaptation in an all-round way, including improving the acquisition of risk information and strengthening the construction of multi-disaster early warning systems through investment, so as to reduce disasters related to weather, water and climate. It is gratifying that global climate financing has reached a record level, and it broke through the $500 billion mark for the first time from 2017 to 2018. Of course, this amount is still far from the funds needed to take climate action. It is estimated that from 2020 to 2030, global climate action will need $180 billion annually.

　　In order to promote the implementation of the global early warning system and improve its effectiveness, the report puts forward six strategic suggestions. First, fill the gap in early warning system in African least developed countries and small island developing States; The second is to focus on transforming early warning information into early action; The third is to provide sustainable funds for the global observation system supporting early warning; The fourth is to track the flow of funds to ensure that the relevant resources are allocated to the places related to the implementation of early warning systems, and to understand what impact it will have; Fifth, strengthen the consistency of monitoring and evaluation to better determine the effectiveness of the early warning system; The sixth is to fill the data gap of small island developing States.

　　Interview experts:

　　Fan Zhou, Dean of the School of Cultural Industry Management of China Communication University and Dean of the Institute of Cultural Development.

　　Zhang Xiaoping, a researcher at the Marxist Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences.

　　Qi Shuyu, Chief Expert of Innovation Engineering at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National School of Administration)

　　Interviewer: Economic Daily China Economic Net reporter Jiang Tianjiao Zeng Shiyang

　　What role will culture play in building a well-off society in an all-round way? What practical changes have cultural construction brought to people’s lives? Material life is rich, how can we build a spiritual and cultural home that matches it? Economic Daily-China Economic Net reporter interviewed Fan Zhou, Dean of the School of Cultural Industry Management of China Communication University and Dean of the Institute of Cultural Development, Zhang Xiaoping, a researcher at the Marxist Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences, and Qi Shuyu, chief expert of innovation engineering at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National School of Administration).

　　An important way to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation

　　Reporter:What is the internal relationship between cultural construction and building a well-off society in an all-round way? What role does culture play in the process of building a well-off society?

　　Fan Zhou:Cultural development is the spiritual motive force for building a well-off society in an all-round way. Specifically, the significance of cultural development in building a well-off society in an all-round way is mainly manifested in the following aspects:

　　First of all, developing culture is an important way to build a well-off society in an all-round way and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It helps to strengthen cultural self-confidence and promote the construction of a strong socialist cultural country. The significance of cultural development in building a well-off society in an all-round way lies in improving spiritual life, enhancing spiritual strength and promoting spiritual civilization. Giving full play to the role of culture is not only the internal demand of building a well-off society in an all-round way, but also the systematic composition of regaining national cultural self-confidence and cultivating and carrying forward socialist core values.

　　Secondly, cultural development to help build a well-off society in an all-round way can enhance cultural soft power and enhance international cultural influence. The enhancement of cultural power in the new era can consolidate the foundation of national cultural soft power and promote the construction of spiritual civilization. At the same time, show the unique charm of Chinese culture on the international stage.

　　Finally, developing culture can meet people’s multicultural needs and promote people’s all-round development in the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way. This is the starting point and the end result of building a well-off society in an all-round way. The people’s total demand for culture is increasing, and the requirements for the quality of cultural products and services are getting higher and higher, showing a trend of individualization and diversification.

　　Public cultural services have reached a new level.

　　journalistDuring the 13th Five-Year Plan period, great achievements have been made in China’s cultural construction. What progress has been made in the public cultural service system? What practical changes have been brought to people’s lives?

　　Fan Zhou:In recent years, China’s government-led cultural projects have made remarkable achievements. Based on the needs of public culture, the government has continuously promoted public cultural services and safeguarded citizens’ basic cultural rights. Specifically, first, the investment in public cultural undertakings has steadily increased, and the state has continuously increased its investment in public cultural undertakings and promoted the construction of public cultural service infrastructure; Second, the number of people serving public cultural services is constantly expanding, and public libraries, museums, art galleries, cultural centers and township comprehensive cultural stations are open free of charge, providing places for cultural activities; Third, important progress has been made in five public cultural service projects, such as radio and television coverage of every village and national cultural information resource sharing project, and new achievements have been made in exploring public cultural service innovation.

　　At present, important progress has been made in the construction of modern public cultural service system, laws and policies in the field of public culture have been further improved, and financial guarantee for public cultural services has been further strengthened. A six-level public cultural facilities system covering urban and rural areas has been basically established, and products and services in the field of public culture are increasingly rich. Data show that there are currently 2,753 county-level libraries, 2,938 cultural centers, 33,997 township comprehensive cultural stations and 640,000 farmer’s bookstores in China. The promotion of public cultural services has made people’s access to information more diversified and cultural life more colorful.

　　Reporter:Well-off is not well-off, the key depends on fellow villagers. Some people say that the backward cultural construction in poverty-stricken areas is a "short board" for building a well-off society in an all-round way. How do you think to fill the "short board"?

　　Qi Shuyu:The key point of building a well-off society in poverty-stricken areas is economy, while the difficulty lies in culture. Problems such as lagging cultural concepts, lack of cultural products and boring cultural life exposed in poor areas have become the bottleneck of building a well-off society in an all-round way. Spiritual "poverty" breeds negative thoughts such as "waiting, relying on and wanting", which indirectly leads to the lack of family viability and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. These problems should be seriously solved in the construction of a well-off culture.

　　At present, the cultural well-off society is facing the realistic problems of expanding the total amount, enriching varieties, optimizing the structure and strengthening the supply-side structural reform. There are still "shortcomings" in economic and social development, especially in the field of cultural undertakings, and a well-off culture still faces prominent contradictions in strengthening the foundation, supplementing the "shortcomings" and promoting balance.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, cultural departments all over the country have strengthened their cultural self-confidence, adhered to the new development concept, focused on filling the "shortcomings", improved their efficiency, vigorously promoted the standardization and equalization of basic public cultural services, enriched the supply of high-quality public cultural products, and the construction of public cultural service system has reached a new level. Focus on the "People’s Republic of China (PRC) Public Cultural Service Guarantee Law" as the basis, expand the transfer payment, accelerate the improvement of the public cultural service capacity and level in the old revolutionary base areas, ethnic areas, border areas and poverty-stricken areas, and promote the balanced and coordinated development of public cultural services throughout the country. Continue to deepen the supply-side structural reform in the cultural field, improve the transmission mechanism of cultural demand, and encourage and attract the whole society to participate in cultural creation and cultural supply. Change people’s passive acceptance into people’s independent choice, so that people can not only read books, read newspapers, listen to the radio, watch TV and watch performances, but also understand art, learn non-legacy, practice unique skills, form teams, hold performances, hold Spring Festival Evening and create brands. Change the fragmented pattern of "fragmented" and isolated islands, and form a cultural network system with interconnected facilities, resource sharing, service linkage and urban-rural integration. Actively use modern advanced technology, change the way of niche and close service, and maximize the potential of cultural development and service efficiency.

　　Cultural consumption upgrading has become a new economic growth point.

　　Reporter:The core of cultural construction is to meet people’s spiritual needs and people’s new expectations for a better life. With the people’s money bags bulging, the demand for cultural consumption is getting higher and higher. How do you think the cultural market will provide more spiritual and cultural food for the masses? How should cultural consumption be upgraded?

　　Qi Shuyu:As material life becomes richer, consumption problems also follow. In the era of consumption upgrading, cultural consumption upgrading symbolizes the improvement and even change of the quality of life of the public, and the public expectation and market potential make it a new economic growth point.

　　According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2019, China’s per capita expenditure on education, culture and entertainment was 2,513 yuan, an increase of 12.9%, accounting for 11.7% of the per capita consumption expenditure; China’s comprehensive index of cultural consumption shows an overall upward trend, and the proportion of cultural consumption in daily consumption will increase in the future.

　　To meet the growing cultural needs of the masses, efforts should be made in two aspects. On the one hand, we should create more masterpieces worthy of the times; On the other hand, efforts should be made to cultivate and develop cultural industries and create rich cultural life.

　　There are many proud data in China’s cultural industry: the number of books published in the world is the first, the number of TV dramas produced and broadcast is the first, and the number of movie screens is the first. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a large number of outstanding literary and artistic works have emerged in the field of literature and art in China. However, it is undeniable that there are still some phenomena in literary and artistic creation, such as quantity lacking quality, plateau lacking "peak". In the next step, we need to prosper the creation and production of culture and art, optimize the structure and supply mode of cultural products, improve the cultural facilities system adapted to modern society, vigorously promote universal reading, universal art popularization, universal inheritance of excellent traditional culture, universal fitness, universal popularization of law and universal popularization of science, and guide people to consciously pursue a rich and healthy spiritual life.

　　In terms of developing cultural industries, in recent years, China has adopted the "internet plus" strategy to transform and upgrade traditional industries, accelerate the development of emerging industries such as mobile multimedia, network audio-visual, digital publishing, animation games, 3D and image maximum, and promote the vigorous development of Internet services, games and entertainment industries.

　　There is still more room for development of a well-off culture.

　　Reporter:What aspects should we focus on in building a spiritual and cultural home that matches the material living standard?

　　Zhang Xiaoping:To meet the people’s new expectations for a better life, we must provide rich spiritual food. There is still more room for development and promotion of a well-off culture.

　　First of all, promote the coordinated development of urban and rural public culture and change the unbalanced situation of urban and rural cultural development. In recent years, through the development of cultural projects for the benefit of the people, rural residents have enjoyed the same rich and high-quality digital public cultural products and services as urban residents, and promoted the coordinated development of public culture between urban and rural areas.

　　Secondly, to realize the organic integration of cultural public welfare and marketability, so that the social benefits of public cultural services and the economic benefits of cultural industrialization can be coordinated. In recent years, many cultural consumption measures have improved the convenience of cultural consumption, improved the market environment, upgraded and expanded public cultural services for public welfare, and made market-oriented cultural products more colorful.

　　Third, highlight the organic combination of hard power of science and technology and soft power of culture. Promote the integration of excellent traditional cultural content, socialist core values and modern technology forms, open a new era of digital public culture based on technologies such as 5G, ultra-high definition and artificial intelligence, and change the imbalance between hard power and soft power in China in recent years. To promote the construction of public digital culture, local governments should speed up the construction of public cultural information centers, improve supporting electronic facilities, and especially ensure the full coverage of rural digital cultural services.

　　Fourth, the national image and the citizen image are shaped in an interactive and two-way way. Only by improving the cultural quality of the whole people can we show the image of a civilized country. The state vigorously implements the project of benefiting the people by culture, aiming at improving the moral quality and cultural accomplishment of the whole people, so that the people can enjoy a cultural feast with better quality and higher level, thus enriching their own cultural self-cultivation, realizing the interactive and two-way shaping of the national image and the citizen image, and creating a friendly, mutual-help, positive and healthy civilized social atmosphere.

　　In a word, a well-off culture is of great significance for enhancing the country’s cultural soft power, displaying the image of a big country’s civilization, casting a solid sense of the Chinese nation’s community, rallying the recognition of core values and shaping a good citizen image, and also laying a profound cultural foundation for realizing the goal of the second century.

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The investment will be cleared after half a year.

A good shop will clear its stock after investing in Zhao Yiming snacks for half a year.

On October 17th, Liangpin Store announced that Ningbo Guangyuan Juyi Investment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Guangyuan Juyi"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liangpin Store, intends to transfer its 3% equity of Yichun Zhao Yiming Food Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Zhao Yiming) at a total price of about 105 million yuan.

Zhao Yiming is a snack discount brand, with South China as an important market. At present, it has opened more than 2,000 stores in Jiangxi, Guangdong, Anhui, Hubei and other places.

In April, 2023, Zhao Yiming was attracted by a good shop, which invested 45 million yuan through its subsidiary. Now, in just over half a year, good shops have chosen clearance.

Through this short-term investment, the return of the good shop is very considerable, and it is estimated that the investment income will be about 60 million yuan.

▲ (source/city boundary)

The financial report shows that the single-season revenue of good shops has declined for four consecutive quarters since the third quarter of 2022.

In the first half of 2023, the revenue of good shops was 3.987 billion yuan, down 18.55% year-on-year, and the net profit was 189 million yuan, down 2.04% year-on-year, falling into a situation of double decline in revenue and net profit.

In this context, the 60 million investment income turned out will undoubtedly make the performance of good shops look better this year.

As for why we want to quit Zhao Yiming, "Market Boundary" asked about the good shops, and the other party replied that the sale was based on the needs of its own business development, which was conducive to improving the efficiency of the company’s asset operation. The company has been actively expanding the distribution of discount snacks business, and the investment income obtained from this transaction is also conducive to the company’s cultivation of brands such as "Snacks Hard Home". In the future, the company will continue to seize the opportunities in the snack market through diversified investment layout.

It is worth mentioning that the transferee of this transaction is related to Black Ant Capital, which once participated in the investment in Zhao Yiming with Liangpin Store.

Eye-catching investigation shows that the two transferees of this transaction-Shanghai Yihai Enterprise Management Consulting Partnership (Limited Partnership) and Xiamen Heiyi No.3 Overseas Connection Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership), their executive partners are all Gongqingcheng Yiyuan Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership). The shareholders of Gongqingcheng Yiyuan are He Yu and Zhang Peiyuan, founding partners of Black Ant Capital.

In other words, a good shop is equivalent to transferring its 3% equity directly to the relevant funds of the original shareholders in Zhao Yiming.

Discount snacks are not fragrant?

Zhao Yiming’s discount snack industry has attracted much attention in recent two years, and it can be seen everywhere in many towns and villages. This model focuses on customized products or "white-brand" products commissioned by Shangchao, and its price is cheaper than that of Shangchao, and there are many SKUs, which meets the needs of young people to pursue cost performance and one-stop shopping.

Huatai Research estimates that the number of discount snack shops in China will increase by over 100% from 2021 to 2022. By the first half of 2023, the number of discount snack shops in China may have exceeded 16,000.

The opportunity to cause such a large-scale outbreak is the intervention of capital after 2021. Among them, Snacks Youming has received several rounds of financing, including Caive Fund, Xinxian Capital and Masu Nozomi Fund, etc. Snacks are very busy with over 200 million financing jointly led by Sequoia China and Gaorong Capital, and Zhao Yiming Snacks have also won the favor of Black Ant Capital and good shops, which is the only financing of the company.

These three stores are also the three leading snack discount racetracks at present. According to the "market boundary", snacks are very busy to announce that the number of stores has exceeded 4,000 in early October, and the number of Zhao Yiming snacks in official website shows more than 2,000.

▲ (Source/Snacks are very busy in official website)

A fact that can’t be ignored is that the discount snack industry is gradually exposing its own problems, and consumers’ complaints about snack shops can be seen everywhere on the Internet, including the inflated prices, the lack of weight and the shortage of food quality.

In February of this year, some netizens broke the news that they bought a little snack for 100 yuan in a snack shop, and felt it was a little expensive. Later, they saw a chicken feet with pickled peppers marked 45g, and bought two snacks and actually weighed 118g. Subsequently, the netizen calibrated with his family’s scale and found that each product was 25g more on average, which calculated that the price was 57% higher.

In the case of black cat complaints, quality problems also make consumers angry. In September, a consumer bought a mother’s beef stick in Shaoxing snack discount brand Wife’s adult, which was moldy. "At that time, I immediately contacted the merchant, and the merchant admitted that it was their own problem, but in the end we did not negotiate successfully. We hope to pay according to the food safety law." In addition, incidents such as bread eating hair and biscuits eating wire have also occurred.

Franchisees are even worse. The "city boundary" has previously calculated according to the joining standards of various companies. It is impossible to open a snack shop without 700,000 yuan or 800,000 yuan, but there are many people who have lost money. Some people feel that it is becoming more and more difficult to open a snack shop.

First, because the public’s freshness to this format is limited, the peak of passenger flow only appears in the early stage of opening. In addition, the problem of homogenization in the industry has become more and more serious, and the phenomenon of getting together to open stores has become the norm. For example, in the county town below Wuhu, Anhui, one street can open four or five snack shops. Fierce competition leads to market saturation, which in turn affects the passenger flow and revenue in the store, and losses and closures follow. Like the wife’s adult, the best choice of snacks, Zhao Yiming snacks, snack daddy, and sweeping away the light, there have been news that franchisees have withdrawn from the store.

Liangpin store believes that discount snacks mainly seize market share through high cost performance, and its core lies in efficient supply chain integration, store resource layout and organizational operation ability.

Despite this, many research institutions predict that there will be track opportunities for snack supermarkets, and there is a high possibility that there will be a brand of Wandian in the future. In addition to investing in Zhao Yi Ming, Liangpin Store also expanded the new brand of snack discount chain business "Snacks Hard Home" in the second half of 2022.

In the semi-annual report of 2023, Liangpin Store mentioned that offline channels still occupy more than 85% of the circulation share of snack foods, and modern channels such as snack specialty stores and convenience stores constantly occupy the market share of traditional mom-and-pop stores, and the channel upgrading trend is obvious. This shows that the company is still optimistic about the offline discount store model.

After consulting the snack makers, the "City Boundary" learned that at present, the number of its stores is more than 200, and it is only open to join in Hubei. The plan of Liangpin Store is to open 500 new stores before the end of this year.

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Original title: "Good shop" clearance "Zhao Yiming, earned 60 million in half a year"

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