The outbreak of outbound tourism on May Day Chinese tourists are located in 1,035 cities around the world
This May Day holiday, outbound tourism ushered in a big explosion. According to the platform's data, the number of international air ticket bookings departing on May 1, 2024 exceeded that of 2019, setting a new single-day high for May Day in the previous year, and the number of bookings for visa-free destinations during the holiday exceeded that of more than 30% of 2019. Chinese tourists have booked hotels in 1,035 cities around the world, and Chinese tourists have concentrated on traveling, driving the recovery of consumption around the world, and "Chinese festivals" have once again become the peak season for global tourism consumption.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is reported to be teasing new AI features next week
In an effort to revive consumer enthusiasm, Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to preview new AI features next week and unveil them at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Specifically, Cook will be warming up the AI features at next week's "Let Loose" event
。According to official sources, Apple will host this special event on May 7 at 10 p.m. Judging by the poster, the event is expected to focus on the new generation of iPad hardware and accessories, such as the long-awaited iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.
Apple was rumored to have reopened talks with OpenAI late last month for a potential partnership, with which the company is said to have re-discussed the possibility of deploying GPT technology in iOS/iPadOS 18, with the two sides at the heart of the talks using OpenAI technology to power AI-based chatbots in iOS/iPadOS 18.
This follows rumors in March that Apple was in discussions with Google to integrate the latter's Gemini AI engine into iPhones running iOS/iPadOS 18. According to other foreign media reports, Apple poached dozens of artificial intelligence experts from Google and established a "mysterious European laboratory" in Zurich, Switzerland, to form a new team responsible for the research and development of artificial intelligence models and products.
The United States relaxes the restrictions on electric vehicle tax credits for batteries using Chinese graphite Korean media said: Chinese graphite is inseparable
Finance Associated Press on May 4, a number of South Korean media on the 4th focused on reporting a "good news" of the South Korean auto industry, due to the international media leaking the news, the U.S. Treasury Department said on May 3 local time that it will release more "flexibility" in terms of automakers to obtain electric vehicle tax credits, which means that South Korean electric vehicle manufacturers that use Chinese graphite to make batteries can also get up to $7,500 in tax credits when they enter the U.S. market. South Korean media noted that the reason why this news is "good" for South Korea is because South Korean car companies need to rely on graphite from China to produce batteries, and they are currently inseparable from China in this material. Yonhap News Agency said that graphite is an indispensable core mineral in batteries, but China currently dominates the material, so it is expected that it will take years for South Korea to find an alternative to China's supply chain.
The total box office of the new films in 2024 will exceed 1.5 billion
According to the data of Maoyan Professional Edition, as of 13:13 on May 5, the total box office (including pre-sale) of new films on May Day in 2024 will exceed 1.5 billion yuan. "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team", "Spending Money at the End of the Road" and "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" are the top three in the box office list.
In the first four days of the May Day holiday, about 670,000 Mainland visitors visited Hong Kong
Kevin Yeung, Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Hong Kong SAR Government, said that about 670,000 mainland tourists visited Hong Kong in the first four days of the May Day holiday, and it is believed that the final figure will be close to the original estimate of 800,000 visitors, which is expected to bring more than HK$2 billion in additional spending revenue to Hong Kong.
Shenzhen has built 362 super charging stations, more than gas stations
It was learned from the Shenzhen Municipal Development and Reform Commission that as of April 30, Shenzhen has built a total of 362 super charging stations (referred to as "supercharging stations"), the number of which has exceeded the number of traditional gas stations, and the number of charging guns has also exceeded the number of gas guns. According to data from the Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau of China Southern Power Grid, the charging capacity of new energy vehicles in Shenzhen reached 670 million kWh in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 10.9%, reflecting the improvement of Shenzhen's new energy vehicle market and the effective operation of charging infrastructure.
After the discount of many brands of gold, the price returned to below 600 yuan/gram
Finance Associated Press, May 5, during the "May Day" holiday, the reporter visited and investigated the gold consumer market and found that due to multiple factors such as the decline in international gold prices and the promotion of the "May Day" holiday, the terminal gold price has fallen significantly. A number of brands of gold, including Chow Tai Sang and China Gold, are currently quoted back to the "5 era". "The discount per gram during the holiday is 100 yuan, and the discount is 599 yuan/gram, and the cost is calculated separately.
Or become the fastest new force in IPO car manufacturing Zeekr submitted a red herring prospectus
On May 3, Eastern time, ZEEKR submitted an updated Red Herring prospectus to the SEC Securities and Exchange Commission, planning to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock code "ZK". According to the prospectus, ZEEKR will issue 17.5 million ADSs (American Depositary Shares), each ADS corresponds to 10 ordinary shares, and the issue price range is $18 to $21 per ADS. Geely Automobile, the original shareholder, said it would subscribe for up to $320 million in ADS. Investors and shareholders such as CATL and Mobileye have also expressed interest in participating in the subscription. In 2023, ZEEKR's revenue will be 51.7 billion yuan, and the gross profit margin of the whole vehicle will reach 15%, second only to Tesla among high-end pure electric vehicle companies. As of the end of April 2024, ZEEKR has delivered more than 240,000 units in total, and more than 16,000 units in April, a year-on-year increase of 99% and a record high. From January to April this year, ZEEKR more than doubled its growth, a year-on-year increase of 111%, and continued to rank first in the sales of more than 200,000 Chinese pure electric brands. As the most growing global automotive technology company, ZEEKR, which has only been released for three years, will become the fastest IPO new energy vehicle company in history.
Chang'e-6 was successfully launched
At 17:27 on May 3, the Chang'e-6 probe was launched by the Long March 5 Yao-8 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in China, and then accurately entered the Earth-Moon transfer orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success. The Chang'e-6 probe thus started the world's first sample return journey on the far side of the Moon, and the pre-selected landing and sampling area was the South Pole of the Far Moon-Aitken Basin.
The Sino-Russian East Line Yangtze River Shield Crossing Project was completed, and the main pipeline laying project was fully completed
Finance Associated Press, May 3 -- The Yangtze River Shield Crossing Project, a key control project of the China-Russia East Line Natural Gas Pipeline in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, was completed today, and the main project was fully completed. The horizontal length of the tunnel is about 10.226 kilometers, the deepest buried depth of the pipeline is more than 60 meters from the river surface, and the inner diameter of the tunnel is 6.8 meters. The Yangtze River Shield Project is a key control project of the China-Russia East Line Natural Gas Pipeline, which started in July 2020, and the tunnel was broken through on December 4, 2022, and the pipeline began to be laid, and it is expected to be put into operation by the end of this year.
Synthetic biology innovation team of Jiangnan University: Using synthetic biotechnology to reduce the cost of hyaluronic acid to several hundred yuan per kilogram
Thanks to the efforts of the synthetic biology innovation team at the Future Food Science Center of Jiangnan University, the mainland has become the first country with the ability to produce all types of hyaluronic acid. The team used synthetic biology technology to produce ordinary molecular weight hyaluronic acid with the help of microbial fermentation, reducing the cost from tens of thousands of yuan per kilogram to several hundred yuan per kilogram, and realizing the popularization and application of large-scale hyaluronic acid. Through synthetic methods, the team redesigned and modified existing, naturally occurring biological systems, and even created "biological structures" that do not exist in nature, greatly increasing yields. Through technical research, the team uses cell factories to produce "everything", which greatly reduces the cost of raw materials, so that the acquisition of many cosmetic raw materials no longer depends on traditional animal and plant extraction.
The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has discovered a new high-efficiency insecticidal protein from cotton
According to the Cotton Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the cotton molecular genetic improvement innovation team of the Institute has discovered a new type of high-efficiency broad-spectrum insecticidal protein in cotton, which can replace chemical pesticides and efficiently poison lepidopteran pests, which is of great significance for the green development of agriculture. During the cotton tissue culture process, the team found that a protein called GhJAZ24 can enter the cells of lepidopteran pests, disrupt the cell cycle of pest stem cells, cause inflammation of the pest's intestines and lead to the death of pests, thus having significant insect resistance to pests such as fall armyworm and cotton bollworm. This protein is expected to be used as a biopesticide to spray crops and as a green biopesticide for the control of many types of lepidopteran pests, while also being environmentally friendly and residue-free.
Biden will finalize new rules for EV tax credits
Finance Associated Press, May 1, people familiar with the matter said that as the Biden administration ramps up to finalize regulations before the November election, the U.S. Treasury Department will release a final version of a new rule as early as Friday, capping a tax credit policy popular with electric vehicle buyers. The rules proposed by the government in December set new limits on the amount of tax credits of up to $7,500 per vehicle. For buyers who are interested in electric vehicles but are deterred by the high price, the tax credit has a clear stimulus.
Warren Buffett: There is no real substitute for U.S. Treasuries or the dollar
On May 5, when asked if he was concerned that rising debt levels would hurt the status of U.S. Treasuries, Buffett said his "most optimistic guess is that U.S. Treasuries will be acceptable for a long time because there aren't many alternatives." The question, Buffett said, is not quantity, but whether inflation will somehow threaten the structure of the global economy. He also said that there is no real currency that can replace the dollar. He recalled Paul Volcker's tenure as Fed chairman in the late '70s and early '80s amid inflationary pressures, when Volcker struggled to curb inflation in the face of death threats. Warren Buffett called Fed Chairman Jerome Powell a "very wise man," but he noted that Powell has no control over fiscal policy, and that is the root of the problem.
Japanese media said that the Bank of Japan may have implemented 8 trillion yen foreign exchange market intervention
According to Japanese media reports, market participants estimated based on the statistics of the Bank of Japan that the Bank of Japan may have intervened in the foreign exchange market on a scale of 3 trillion yen in the early morning of May 2. According to the report, this amount of funds, together with the 5 trillion yen invested on April 29, brought the total amount of intervention funds invested by the Bank of Japan in two days to 8 trillion yen (about 378.4 billion yuan). Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida declined to comment on the matter in an interview on May 2.
The UAE's Sharjah Petroleum Board announced the discovery of new gas reserves
On May 5, the Petroleum Commission of Sharjah of the United Arab Emirates announced on May 4 local time that new natural gas reserves had been discovered in the Al Hadiba oil field in Sharjah. Sharjah National Oil Company discovered the new gas field after drilling a well in the past few months, which will be tested in the coming days to confirm its potential gas reserves.
The world's largest three-dimensional transition zone exploration project undertaken by a Chinese enterprise has been successfully completed in the United Arab Emirates
Finance Associated Press, May 2 -- The world's largest three-dimensional transition zone exploration project undertaken by a Chinese company was recently successfully completed in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Transition Zone Exploration Project is the world's largest and first three-dimensional transition zone exploration project using full node operation so far, using a large number of new technologies and new equipment applications with independent intellectual property rights of Chinese enterprises, covering an area of nearly 10,000 square kilometers, covering about 400 kilometers of Abu Dhabi's coastline, almost all of Abu Dhabi's coastline. The construction area covers a variety of complex terrains such as shallow seas, tidal flats, salt marshes, deserts, etc., and involves many sensitive areas such as oilfield areas and nuclear power plants, and the construction environment is complex.
Abel responds to "why invest in fossil fuels"
Recently, when asked why Berkshire should continue to invest in fossil fuels in such a good place as the sun in Las Vegas, Berkshire Vice Chairman Abel said that when you think about the transformation that is taking place within the energy sector, we are moving from carbon resources to renewable resources, but this transition will not happen overnight, this transformation will take many years. And when we use renewable resources like solar or wind, they are intermittent. We do try to use it in combination with batteries, but we can't do it completely away from carbon resources at the moment.
Warren Buffett seconded that my friend Bill Gates is trying to shorten the time batteries work, but it's not something that can be done overnight, and I can understand why people want it to be done overnight, but it's going to take a lot of money, and it's going to take a lot of good ideas and smart people like Bill. There are a lot of people working on this and we have enough money to implement it, but some things do take a certain amount of time. Warren Buffett gave the example that you can't achieve by impregnating nine women to have a child in a month, and there are some laws of nature that you have to follow.
摩根大通发布Index GPT
Finance Associated Press, May 3 -- A year ago, JPMorgan Chase applied for a registered trademark for an artificial intelligence (AI) tool with the word "IndexGPT", which caused speculation, and now the bank has finally launched a product named after this word. With the help of OpenAI's GPT-4 model, IndexGPT has created a new series of thematic investment baskets of stocks. The tool generates a list of topically relevant keywords and feeds them into another natural language processing model that scans the news to identify companies involved in the field. Essentially, it's about creating so-called thematic indices in an automated way, based on emerging trends such as cloud computing, esports or cybersecurity, rather than identifying investment opportunities based on traditional industry or company fundamentals. It marks Wall Street's latest attempt to capitalize on investor enthusiasm for AI, which fans say has the power to usher in a new era of accelerated economic growth. Over the past year, this excitement has helped big tech companies drive the U.S. stock market to new highs.
1. According to Counterpoint Research's wafer foundry service data, the revenue of the global wafer foundry industry in the fourth quarter of 2023 increased by about 10% quarter-on-quarter, but decreased by 3.5% year-on-year. Despite persistent macroeconomic uncertainty, the industry began to bottom out in the second half of 2023, driven by supply chain inventories, with replenishment demand in the smartphone and PC segments. There have been urgent orders for both PC and smartphone apps, especially in the Android smartphone supply chain. TSMC continued to lead the foundry industry in the fourth quarter of 2023, with a market share of 61%. As smartphone restocking continues, the Samsung foundry still holds the second place in Q4 2023 with a market share of 14%. According to the data, SMIC's market share in the fourth quarter of 2023 is 5%.
2. According to the CEO of South Korean memory chip giant SK hynix, due to the outbreak of AI demand for advanced storage products HBM, the HBM products produced by the company according to the mass production plan in 2025 are basically sold out. Previously, the company announced that HBM's production capacity in 2024 had been snapped up by customers. The company predicts that the demand for "ultra-high-speed, high-capacity, low-power" memory dedicated to artificial intelligence will skyrocket in the future, with AI-oriented memories such as HBM and high-capacity DRAM modules currently accounting for about 5% of the overall storage market in 2023 and 61% by 2028.
1. Recently, Guangyu Technology, a leading company in the research and development of photonic crystal metamaterials and the manufacture of microspheres, completed a round of financing of 100 million yuan, and the investors in this round are BASF Venture Capital and Yijing Capital. Everwin Technology is a leading technology enterprise specializing in the research and development of photonic crystal metamaterials and the manufacture of microspheres. Photonic crystals are synthetic metamaterials produced by arranging polystyrene (PS), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), or silica microspheres into periodic structures. The funds from this round of financing will be used for further R&D investment, market expansion and team upgrades. Since its establishment, Everpower has gone through multiple rounds of financing, including angel rounds and equity financing.
2. Recently, Hagong Zhiling, a R&D and manufacturer of pipe network robots, completed an angel round of financing, the financing scale was not disclosed, and the investors were Zhefang Capital and Wuhu Hajiang Private Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. The funds from this round of financing will be used to increase R&D investment, further expand the market and upgrade the team. Hagong Zhiling is a R&D and manufacturer of pipeline network robots, and its self-developed products include amphibious exploration mobile robot series and unmanned underground operation robot series.
3. Recently, Camel Technology has completed tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing, and the investor in this round is Jinyu Bogor. Camel Aviation Technology is a drone developer, specializing in the research and development, production and sales of dual-use unmanned helicopters, providing services for military transportation, fire emergency, civil logistics, aviation plant protection and other fields. The funds from this round of financing will be used for product research and development, market expansion and team building. Previously, Camel Technology had completed the Pre-A round of financing.
1. On April 30, the three major indexes all fell, as of the close, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.26% to 3104.82 points, the Shenzhen Component Index fell 0.90% to 9587.12, the ChiNext Index fell 1.55% to 1858.39 points, and the CSI 500 Index fell 0.68% to 5441.14 points.
2. On May 3, Hong Kong stocks closed, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index closed up 1.48%, the Hang Seng Technology Index closed up 2.74%, and the State-owned Enterprises Index closed up 1.71%.
3. On May 4, the U.S. stock market closed, with the Nasdaq index closing up 1.99%, the S&P 500 index closing up 1.26%, and the Dow Jones index closing up 1.18%.
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On May 24, 2021, Coatings Industry, the first financial media of China's coating industry, released the "Global Paint Manufactrer Top 10 in 2021", which is based on the sales revenue of the coating business of industry enterprises in fiscal year 2020.
According to the list, Sherwin-Williams ranked first with an operating income of 18.362 billion US dollars, accounting for 9.78% of the sales revenue, which is the second consecutive year on the list, PPG ranked second with a sales revenue of 13.834 billion US dollars, accounting for 7.37% of the sales revenue, AkzoNobel followed with a sales revenue of 10.491 billion US dollars, accounting for 5.59% of the sales revenue, Nippon, Lipamai, BASF, Axalta, Kansai, Asia Coatings, and Bose Bear ranked 4th-10th in turn. Among them, BASF rose one place, Axalta fell one place, and Bose Bear replaced Jordan to enter the list again, ranking 10th with sales revenue of 2.5287 billion US dollars.
From the perspective of revenue increase and decrease, in 2020, affected by the continuous spread of the global epidemic, the sales revenue of PPG, AkzoNobel, Lipamai, BASF, Axalta, and Kansai experienced a year-on-year decline in fiscal 2020, with a decrease of 9.0%, 8.0%, 1.0%, 18.0%, 16.6%, and 10.4% respectively Among them, BASF and Axalta had the largest decline in sales revenue in fiscal 2020, mainly due to the high proportion of sales revenue of automotive coatings of the two companies, which were the most severely affected by the epidemic.
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