Although the state explicitly prohibits it, there are still a large number of tobacco advertisements on the Internet and they are more hidden. Yesterday, Beijing CDC released the monitoring results of Internet impact data in China in 2018. The Internet platform with many young users and relatively lack of supervision has become the hardest hit area of tobacco marketing. In addition, in some lifestyle sharing apps with the slogan of "discovering a better life", there are also a lot of tobacco marketing information for women. According to a survey conducted by Beijing Youth Daily reporter, there are more than 90,000 pieces of marketing information related to "cigarettes" only on the "Little Red Book" APP, and most of these information are developed in the form of "evaluation" and "planting grass", which has attracted a lot of readers’ attention.

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　　Nearly 15% of the Internet tobacco advertisements are flooding, playing a "feeling card"

　　According to the "Monitoring Report on Internet Tobacco Marketing Data in 2018" issued by the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, from January to June 2018, a total of 51,892 pieces of information related to tobacco advertisements and promotions, 7,289 pieces of tobacco news and 47,304 pieces of discussion by smokers were captured. Among the information related to tobacco advertising and promotion, tobacco agents have the most sales information, accounting for 39,507, accounting for 76.13%; 1959 pieces of tobacco purchasing sales information, accounting for 3.78%; 1977 tobacco advertising messages, accounting for 3.81%; There are 265 pieces of tobacco sponsorship information, accounting for 0.51% of the total.

　　Zeng Xiaoyu, deputy director of Beijing CDC, said that at present, men are still the main consumers of cigarettes in China, but on the Internet platform, women and teenagers are becoming the main targets of tobacco marketing information. The monitoring found that there are a lot of tobacco marketing information (2051 articles) on some shopping guide sharing platforms mainly for women, and on these life sharing platforms, female users account for about 70%. Besides "smoking" and "smoking", "exploding beads", "fine branches" and "loving happiness" have also become the most popular keywords for women to discuss.

　　At the same time, the Internet platform with many young users and relatively lack of supervision has also become the hardest hit area of tobacco marketing. Among the 14 monitored online platforms, the most information about tobacco advertisements and promotions was captured from Weibo, accounting for 42,834 pieces, accounting for 82.54%. On March 15th, 2019, Sina Weibo Data Center released the latest "2018 Weibo User Development Report", which showed that young users aged 18-30 accounted for 75% of users of Weibo platform. It can be seen that women and teenagers are becoming the main targets of tobacco marketing information.

　　The Interim Measures for the Administration of Internet Advertising clearly stipulates that it is forbidden to use the Internet to publish tobacco advertisements. However, with the rapid development of Internet industry and the change of Internet communication mode, tobacco online marketing still exists in large numbers. It is worth mentioning that, compared with traditional advertising forms, tobacco marketing information on the Internet platform is more embedded in a soft way, which is more concealed.

　　The reporter of Beiqing Daily noticed that a large number of soft information and pseudo-scientific information related to tobacco advertisements and promotions were found in this monitoring. Among them, 7766 pieces of sentimental soft text information were captured, accounting for 14.97%. These sentimental soft articles spread tobacco information, beautify smoking behavior and enhance public recognition of tobacco brands by exaggerating the relationship between tobacco and love, friendship and affection.

　　At the same time, this monitoring also captured 418 pieces of tobacco-related pseudo-scientific information, spreading pseudo-scientific information contrary to science, so as to strengthen brand awareness and attract more potential customers. These hidden advertising messages will bring difficulties and challenges to the supervision work of relevant departments.

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　　The "planting grass" tobacco-related soft text on APP attracts a large number of female users’ attention.

　　According to a survey conducted by the reporter of Beiqing Daily, there are many tobacco marketing articles in some apps that are mainly female users and were originally used for "lifestyle sharing" and "planting grass", which achieve the purpose of "advertising" through soft communication and mainly promote "cigarettes suitable for women".

　　On an APP called "Little Red Book", the reporter entered the word "smoke" to search, and the page suggested that there were 95,000 "notes". The second keyword was "Ms" and the third was "female smoke". The topic recommended on this page is "E-cigarette". After clicking in, there are 2,656 notes in the topic of "E-cigarette", with a total of 4.916 million views. Search for "ladies’ cigarettes" and you can see 6848 notes. Just open one of them, and you will see that these articles are all tobacco information displayed in the form of "evaluation" and "experience report". And this kind of "planting grass" that doesn’t look like an advertisement has attracted the attention of many readers.

　　For example, there is an article titled "Hard-core Young Electronic Cigarette, Rejecting Secondhand Smoke" on the home page. I thought it was to discourage smoking, but after opening it, I introduced an electronic cigarette product. Another article is entitled "Girl’s Heart | I’ve been thinking for a long time whether to buy XXX or not, so I’ll share my evaluation with you". At the beginning of the article, I wrote: "Smoking is harmful to health", and then I introduced a cigarette in more than 1,000 words, which won 4,168 likes and 698 comments, and 4,837 users collected this article. The first comment reads: "A non-smoker has carefully read every word!"

　　"This soft implant is hidden, not in the traditional sense ‘ Advertising ’ But in fact, it is still for the purpose of advertising. Many publishers are behind tobacco marketing agencies. " A staff member who has been engaged in tobacco control public welfare for a long time told the reporter of Beiqing Daily, "And these lifestyles share APP, and the main target is women, and women have become the main target of tobacco online marketing."

　　The reporter of Beiqing Daily learned that in 2016, China issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of Internet Advertising, which prohibited the use of the Internet to publish tobacco advertisements. Previously, Article 13 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control stated that tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship were completely prohibited. The newly revised Advertising Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 2015 also clearly stipulates that "it is forbidden to publish tobacco advertisements in mass media or public places, public transport and outdoors; It is forbidden to send any form of tobacco advertisements to minors. "

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　　Continue to monitor tobacco marketing information and deal with suspected offenders.

　　The reporter of Beiqing Daily learned that this Internet tobacco marketing data monitoring was jointly carried out by the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Social Media Research Center of Peking University New Media Research Institute. The monitoring adopts the technology of automatic keyword recognition by web crawler, and conducts a preliminary investigation and research on the advertising and promotion release status of some tobacco enterprises on the Internet in China. The monitoring time is from January 1 to June 30, 2018, mainly from four aspects: the number of tobacco advertising and promotion information released, the characteristics and new trends of tobacco advertising and promotion information on various network platforms, the case analysis of typical online tobacco advertising and services, and the characteristics of tobacco information publishers. After three rounds of argumentation by tobacco control industry experts, legal experts, market supervision experts and network management experts, the information is classified, judged and prevention and control measures are sorted out, with a view to providing help for tobacco marketing information supervision on the Internet platform in China.

　　The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that the next step will be to conduct in-depth research from the following three aspects to provide a basis for purifying China’s Internet tobacco control environment: First, continue to monitor the Internet tobacco marketing situation, dig deep into monitoring data, collect typical cases, and publish monitoring results regularly; Second, strengthen the cooperation of relevant government departments, screen typical cases, and submit cases suspected of violating the Advertising Law to relevant departments for handling; The third is to organize experts to sort out and refute pseudo-scientific information, make full use of the Internet to strengthen tobacco control education and legal education for the public, mobilize social supervision forces, and purify the Internet environment.

　　Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Xiaomei

Jiangsu Tongjiang reaches the sea and is endowed with unique water transport resources. The total length of railways built in the province has exceeded 4,500 kilometers, and the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network has been improved day by day. Both railways and waterways have the characteristics of large capacity, low cost, green and low carbon. In recent years, focusing on building a transportation pattern of "iron is suitable for iron, water is suitable for water, and public is suitable for public", Jiangsu has continuously promoted the adjustment of transportation structure, developed multimodal transport, improved comprehensive transportation efficiency, and reduced social logistics costs. Hot metal combined transport is an important type of multimodal transport. According to the latest statistics, in 2023, the province’s waterway and railway freight volume totaled 1.26 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%. The container multimodal transport volume and inland container transport volume were 2.32 million and 1.455 million TEUs, up by 15.2% and 19.9% year-on-year. The volume of "iron-water combined transport" has been rising all the way.

Convenient and efficient, the railway reaches the port and is connected with a huge ship.

Recently, a sea-rail intermodal train loaded with photovoltaic modules blew its whistle from Yancheng North Railway Freight Yard, headed for Shanghai Port, and then transferred to Europe by sea.

"The’ Yancheng North-Shanghai Port’ sea-rail intermodal train runs regularly every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. When the goods exported by enterprises get on the train, it is equivalent to arriving at Shanghai Port, which is fast and efficient. This train can reduce the logistics cost of 1000 yuan for enterprises." Xi Peng, deputy general manager of Xinchang Company of Provincial Railway Group, said that in the freight volume of Yancheng North Freight Yard last year, the sea-rail combined transport volume accounted for more than 90% of the total shipments. Up to now, the company has opened more than 10 sea-rail combined transport lines, including Hai ‘an-Luchao Port, Yuanbei-Beilun Port and Wuxi West-Guangzhou International Port. A total of 51,775 vehicles, accounting for 1,400,143.2 tons, were delivered by sea-rail combined transport, with the number of vehicles delivered increasing by 78% and the tonnage increasing by 79% year-on-year. The opening of these classes has greatly boosted the local economic extroversion.

In 2023, Changzhou’s sea-rail combined transport operation was in good condition. In the first 10 months, 65,166 TEUs of heavy containers were delivered, a year-on-year increase of 33.7%, and the annual plan of 60,000 TEUs was completed ahead of schedule.

"In 2018 and 2019, Changzhou-Ningbo Port and Changzhou-Shanghai Port sea-rail intermodal trains were opened one after another. The sea-rail intermodal trains have developed from the initial one train per week to the current 17 trains per week, and the delivery volume has also increased from the original 12,000 TEUs per year to 77,000 TEUs in 2023, saving transportation costs for enterprises by over 100 million yuan." Shi Zelin, General Transportation Department of Changzhou Municipal Transportation Bureau, introduced that since 2020, the Changzhou-Shanghai Port sea-rail train has become the train line with the largest volume and the most stable operation among all the sea-rail trains in Shanghai Port, and was awarded the "Shanghai Port Sea-rail Intermodal Transport Demonstration Base" by Shanghai Port.

On January 12, Lianyungang Port Terminal. Looking around, the container yard is very spectacular. The railway leading to the port is connected with a huge ship, and the efficient hot metal combined transport system sends containers to their destinations between the sea and the sky.

"In 2023, Lianyungang completed a total of 854,012 TEUs of container hot metal combined transport, an increase of 8.1% year-on-year." Xu Yue, director of the container train in the container division of Lianyungang Port Holding Group, said that since last year, Lianyungang Port has accelerated its integration into the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and provided competitive "one-price" products for the majority of enterprises in the central and western regions, gradually achieving the goal of combined transportation of hot metal and water.

"Relying on the seamless connection between the Yaohuamen Station of China Railway and Nanjing longtan port Railway, the company has launched three excellent multimodal transport lines, including Nanjing-Shanghai and Huainan-Nanjing, which have realized the fixed-point, fixed-line, fixed-train, timed, priced and scheduled operation of intermodal transport lines, ensured the stability and timeliness of logistics transport channels, and actively served key enterprises in Nanjing and surrounding areas, such as Nanjing LG, Chuzhou Jingke Photovoltaic and Longji Photovoltaic." Shi Qingsong, general manager of Nanjing Shenghai Multimodal Transport Co., Ltd., introduced that in 2023, Nanjing Port completed 156,800 TEUs of container multimodal transport, up 49.8% year-on-year, maintaining the number one inland port, and achieving remarkable results in reducing comprehensive logistics costs and carbon reduction targets of enterprises.

Nanjing Longtan port hot metal combined transport site. Photo by Zhang Yue

Rich in goods, think what the enterprise wants and what the enterprise wants.

In 2019, Changzhou established a professional sea-rail combined transport company, which was guided by the supply chain thinking, thought about what enterprises thought and what enterprises were anxious about, standardized various modes of transport and set reasonable transport prices.

"At the beginning of the operation of the sea-rail intermodal train, the supply of goods included diesel engines, syringes, cables, tractor accessories, intelligent sensing equipment, pharmaceutical products, traffic track accessories and other traditional advantageous industrial products in Changzhou." Shi Zelin said that in recent years, with the construction of Changzhou’s new energy capital, the transportation volume of products in the new energy industry has risen sharply, and the sea-rail combined transport has been continuously adjusted. In February 2023, the first sea-rail combined transport train for new energy vehicles was opened. Last year, more than 17,000 vehicles were sent, which became an important channel for the export of new energy vehicles in Changzhou.

Photovoltaic industry is another business card of Changzhou’s new energy industry. In the Science and Technology Warehouse of Trina Solar Changzhou Base, boxes of finished photovoltaic modules are waiting to be loaded and sent to all parts of the world. As the main chain enterprise of photovoltaic industry, Trina Solar’s sales area has expanded to more than 150 countries and regions around the world, and the shipment volume has increased by more than 10 times compared with 10 years ago. The stable delivery channel is the lifeline to ensure the development of enterprises.

"Highway transportation is basically about 300 kilometers. For transportation over 300 kilometers, we will use multimodal transportation, such as railway and waterway connection, which makes the transportation capacity more flexible and abundant, and the transportation cost is reduced by about 10%." Su Huizhong, head of Trina Solar’s global logistics, said that the sea-rail intermodal trains actively connect with photovoltaic enterprises and provide stable delivery channels for enterprises by expanding transportation capacity. At present, single photovoltaic products have exceeded 10% of the total transportation volume.

Yan Peng introduced that in order to better meet the strong transportation demand of photovoltaic enterprises, on the basis of the normal operation of photovoltaic trains such as Yancheng North-Karamay North and Yancheng North-Golmud, a number of photovoltaic trains such as Yangzhou North-Jinta, Yangzhou North-Jiuquan and Taizhou West-Baotou West were successively added. The company promoted the implementation of the "more active and closer" "sinking" service measures, sent employees to take root in the front line, helped the transportation of photovoltaic modules to continue to increase, and ensured the stable delivery of photovoltaic modules. Last year, the company sent a total of 12,837 vehicles and 367,938.68 tons of photoelectric plates, an increase of 11,994 vehicles and 344,369.98 tons respectively.

"The goods of Lianyungang Port’s hot metal combined transport mainly include Xuzhou construction machinery parts, tires, Henan pebbles, Hefei white goods, cassava starch in Southeast Asia, and tiles in South China." Xu Yue analyzed the rapid growth of freight volume since last year, saying that the first reason is to set up 11 overseas container office outlets and Henan marketing centers at important nodes such as Sulu, Henan, Anhui, etc., focusing on "connecting goods and transportation" and the hinterland market along the Longhai, and newly opening trains from Pangu Temple to Lianyungang, Hefei to Lianyungang and Lianyungang to Zhengzhou and Xinxiang westbound to help the goods in the central and western regions go to sea in an all-round way. The second is to pilot the business process of "multimodal transport+direct loading in Hong Kong" in Lianxu, and quickly realize the high-quality development of the train operation of Xulianhai railway combined transport. Third, actively integrate into the construction of "Lianhuaixu" combined hub, cooperate with Xuzhou dry port to operate the digital platform of multimodal transport, and jointly develop market supply.

Lianyungang port. Image source: vision china

"Thanks to the rapid development of export-oriented economy in Nanjing and its surrounding metropolitan areas, there is a strong demand for logistics products exported to Europe and the United States. With key enterprises such as LG Electric, Jingke Photovoltaic, Longji Photovoltaic and Jiangsu Sumeida as representatives, the main foreign trade export products include washing machines, refrigerators, solar module, monitors, auto parts, furniture and daily necessities, which provide excellent basic conditions for the operation of sea-rail trains along the Yangtze River." Shi Qingsong said that by continuously strengthening the efficient serial port and railway, the company provides "one-stop" service to foreign trade enterprises within the radiation range of Nanjing metropolitan area, and the supply of goods is still increasing.

Optimize the passage, break through the blocking point and build the hub adjustment structure

With the continuous construction and improvement of Jiangsu high-speed rail network, the freight capacity of trunk railways such as Beijing-Shanghai, Longhai, Xinchang and Ningwu has been effectively released, and more than 110 multimodal transport demonstration lines and 24 China-Europe train lines have been expanded, supporting the growth rate of railway freight volume.

Pei Jianping, deputy chief planner of Huashe Design Group, said that although railway freight has developed rapidly in recent years, the backbone role of railway freight in Jiangsu’s comprehensive transportation system has not been fully exerted, and the railway freight volume and turnover are only about 3%; The railway transportation of bulk materials such as mining construction, bulk groceries, oil, natural gas and products is also less than 6%. In short, Jiangsu’s freight structure still has a lot of room for optimization and adjustment, and the freight volume of railway and water transport needs to be further accelerated.

Nanjing longtan port Image Source: vision china

"Under the current background, around the deployment of the Implementation Plan for Promoting High-quality Development of Iron-water Intermodal Transport in Jiangsu Province (2023-2025), to further enhance the railway freight volume and promote the development of iron-water intermodal transport, it is necessary to speed up the improvement of the’ three vertical and three horizontal’ railway freight passages, especially the construction of railway passages behind the port." Pei Jianping believes that in view of the bottleneck problems such as saturated transportation capacity of railway freight corridors in our province, low standards of some lines, and insufficient cross-river freight capacity, we can speed up the improvement of the functions of coastal freight corridors by expanding the capacity of new lines and opening the freight functions of green salt and salt. Through the construction of high-speed railway along the river in the north and the expansion and transformation of Ningwu, the westward radiation capacity of the channel along the river will be accelerated. Relying on the capacity building of freight channels and inland terminals, we will focus on building hot metal combined transport channels along the new Eurasian continental bridge, along the river and along the coast.

At the same time, it is particularly critical to smooth the "last mile" of railway transportation. According to the survey, at present, the coverage rate of special railway lines in the whole province is insufficient and the utilization level is not high, which is about 55%. The railway entry rate of 20 key port areas along the Yangtze River and the coast is only 40%. "It is necessary to focus on resource-rich areas, major ports and logistics parks, speed up the construction of railway special branch lines, form a modern railway collection and distribution system with effective connection of trunk and branch lines and multimodal and efficient intermodal transport, and realize full coverage of railway special lines in key port areas along the Yangtze River." Yan Jianping said.

At present, there are eight special railway branches under construction in the province. According to the plan, the special railway line of Lianyungang Economic Development Zone Processing and Assembly Park, Binhai Port Railway Line and Canal Suqian Port Railway Line will be built this year.

Zhao Guobin, general manager of Nantong Yanglu Railway Company, said that Yanglu Railway is a key project for the construction of a new international first-class port in tongzhou bay, connecting four ports and connecting with Ningqi and Haiyang Railway. It is a special railway line integrating the combined transport of iron, sea and molten iron. Since the first bid section was officially put into operation last year, it has mainly transported coal for Zhongtian Iron and Steel, and now it has transported 37 trains, totaling 73,000 tons. The future prospect of Yanglu Railway can be expected.

"Synchronization should further improve the multimodal transport hub system and improve the service level of freight nodes." Pei Jianping said that while further improving the functions of existing multimodal transport freight hubs such as Nanjing longtan port, Suzhou International Railway Logistics Center and Lianyungang SCO International Logistics Park, it is necessary to accelerate the construction of a number of multimodal transport freight hubs such as Xuzhou land port Logistics Base, Lujiabang Freight Yard and Xinyi Public Railway Logistics Base. Make full use of Jiangsu’s "six vertical and six horizontal" high-speed rail network resources, study the layout of high-speed rail logistics nodes and air-rail intermodal hubs, and build an efficient and convenient high-speed rail logistics channel with internal communication and external communication. In addition, it is necessary to enrich the connotation of China-Europe trains and expand the radiation range of trains; We should actively innovate the freight mode and improve the efficiency of intermodal service.

Xi Peng said that the company is actively docking local logistics development planning, accelerating the expansion and transformation of key freight yards such as Taizhou West and Yancheng North, promoting the integrated development of modern railway parks, logistics parks and industrial parks, and comprehensively improving freight capacity and logistics service level. At present, relevant strategic cooperation framework agreements and project agent construction agreements have been signed with Yancheng City and Taizhou City to promote the implementation of the capacity expansion and reconstruction project of the railway freight yard in Yancheng North and Taizhou West Station, and jointly build a regional railway logistics park.

Xu Yue introduced that this year, it is planned to promote the inclusion of classes in Xuzhou and Zhengzhou, develop classes in important nodes such as Hefei, speed up the construction of empty container centers in Xuzhou and other regions, promote the pre-positioning of empty containers and the establishment of container return points by shipping companies, and carry out domestic trade business in combination with the "one-single system", and strive to complete 850,000 TEUs by sea-rail combined transport and 25,000 TEUs by water tank loading and unloading.

"Around the sea-rail combined transport, Changzhou will continue to exert its efforts on the development of" one single system "and" one box ",promote platform construction, break through information barriers, form a high-energy logistics hub network, and let resource elements gather in Changzhou on their own initiative. Accelerate the construction of the empty container circulation center to make the import and export logistics and transportation channels smoother. " Shi Zelin said.

Xinhua Daily Meeting Point reporter Mei Jianfei Tian Mochi made a wish

　　On August 31st, the Department of Natural Resources of Henan Province and the Meteorological Bureau of Henan Province jointly issued the meteorological warning of geological disasters in Henan Province: the areas that reached the red warning were Luoyang, the south of Sanmenxia, the southwest of Zhengzhou, Nanyang, Pingdingshan, the northwest of Xuchang, most of Ruzhou and the south of Gongyi, and the possibility of geological disasters in the above areas was very high.

　　The areas that have reached the orange warning are Luoyang, northern Sanmenxia, northern and southern Zhengzhou and Jiyuan, western and northern Nanyang and Pingdingshan, northwestern Xuchang, and most of Gongyi, where geological disasters are likely to occur.

　　The areas that have reached the yellow warning are most of Jiyuan, western Anyang, Hebi and Zhumadian, northern Jiaozuo and Xinxiang, southeastern Pingdingshan and Nanyang, where geological disasters are more likely to occur.

　　Please take the following precautions in relevant cities:

　　1. Pay close attention to the changes of rain and water conditions, carry out uninterrupted inspection and monitoring of hidden points of geological disasters within the early warning range, and send early warning information to villages, households and people in time;

　　2. Evacuate the persons threatened by geological disasters in the red and orange warning areas;

　　3. Strengthen the investigation and inspection of key parts such as slope-cutting building, traffic trunk lines, important pipeline tourist attractions, and the surrounding areas of schools. In case of emergency, take immediate measures such as closure and evacuation;

　　4. In the early warning area, temporarily stop outdoor operations and activities;

　　5. All localities and relevant units should strengthen emergency duty. Once geological disasters and dangerous situations are discovered, they should immediately start emergency response to geological disasters and do emergency rescue and dangerous situation disposal.

　　(Headquarters reporter Tian Meng)

　　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)