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On September 13th, local time, the UN Security Council held an open meeting on the situation in Sudan. In his briefing to the Security Council, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sudan, Volcker perthes, said, "The armed conflict in Sudan shows no signs of abating, and neither side can win a decisive military victory. Since the outbreak of the conflict, at least 5,000 people have been killed and more than 12,000 injured. This is only a conservative estimate, and the actual number of casualties may be higher … … Sudan faces the risk of division. The conflict that began between the two armed forces is likely to escalate into a full-scale civil war in Sudan. "
The conflict in Sudan continues to be deadlocked.
Many forces are involved in the war.
From April 15th this year, two factions of Sudan’s former military camp — — The exchange of fire between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in the capital circle, Darfur, Kordofan and other places has continued to this day. On September 15th, the conflict in Sudan has entered its sixth month. The two sides of the conflict still show no signs of stopping fighting, and conflicts in many places continue to be deadlocked. Under the cloud of war, the situation in Sudan is "out of control".
If you want to ask where the conflict situation attracts the most attention, it is Khartoum State in the capital circle. For more than five months, the two sides of the conflict have launched an attack on important military facilities, bridge crossings and supply routes. The rapid support force is highly mobile, and gradually goes deep into the community to fight street battles. At present, it has occupied the vast majority of sites in Khartoum. The Sudanese armed forces used the advantages of heavy weapons and air strikes to fight back.
How to fight hand to hand? For example, since the beginning of August, the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Force have been fighting fiercely around the armored headquarters base in the southwest of Khartoum. The base has a large number of tanks, ammunition and military vehicles, but the area is actually small, only 1.57 square kilometers. Today, the two sides still control the east and west sides respectively, and it is difficult to capture them all.

△ The battle for the armored headquarters base in the southwest of Khartoum continues.
Throughout Sudan, the Sudanese armed forces still firmly control the northern and eastern regions. In Darfur, the rapid support force formed an alliance with the local Arab tribal militia and controlled most of the area. Around the capital cities of Kordofan, siege and counterattack are also staged alternately.
There are far more than the above two camps involved in armed conflicts, and violent conflicts among four tribes in Darfur are also expanding. According to the statistics of local medical institutions, at least 260 people have been killed and more than 540 injured in the conflict between Bani Halba and Salamat in Southern Darfur. In the conflict zone, people’s communities were burned, livestock were killed and vehicles were destroyed. The reasons for the outbreak are not only the mutual robbery between tribes due to economic factors, but also the support of different tribes for two opposing armies, which deepened the contradictions between them. In addition, many local forces in Sudan are also divided into groups, either eyeing "neutral" observation or directly joining the battle.

An important change affecting the war situation in Sudan occurred on August 24. On the same day, Borhan, Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, successfully withdrew from the headquarters of the Sudanese Armed Forces in Khartoum, which was besieged by the other side, and then arrived in Port Sudan, the "administrative capital" on the Red Sea by helicopter. On this day, it was also the first time that Borhan appeared in public since the conflict broke out.

△ On September 13th, local time, Borhan, commander-in-chief of Sudanese Armed Forces, held talks with Turkish President Erdogan.
Since then, Borhan has made intensive overseas visits from Port Sudan to Egypt, South Sudan, Qatar, Eritrea, Turkey and Uganda, actively seeking extensive support from neighboring countries. It is reported that seeking weapons and financial assistance from these "friendly countries" is of vital importance to the Sudanese armed forces. At present, most of the industrial and military facilities in Khartoum have been destroyed, and it may be a long process for the armed forces to reproduce weapons and ammunition.
The two sides of the conflict are sharply opposed.
The dawn of peace has not yet dawned
There is also a recent trend worthy of attention. The Sudanese armed forces have suddenly stepped up their air strikes and extended their strike network to areas outside the capital circle. Statistics show that in the past two weeks, there have been at least 150 deaths caused by air strikes. For example, on September 10th, the Sudanese Armed Forces attacked a free market in the south of Khartoum, causing at least 40 deaths and more than 60 injuries. The tragic degree made doctors in local hospitals call it "horror and shock".
This is the largest number of civilian deaths in a single attack since the outbreak of armed conflict in Sudan. The area attacked by air is controlled by the rapid support force and heavily manned. A person familiar with the matter pointed out that the target of the air strikes by the Sudanese Armed Forces is likely to be the market for goods trading by the Rapid Support Force, which is also one of the main economic sources of the Force.

△ After the air raid on a market in Khartoum, the wounded were treated in a nearby hospital.
In the face of the protracted armed conflict in Sudan, although both sides of the conflict kept making promises verbally and were open to ceasefire and peace talks, they did not forget to shout at each other frequently. The Sudanese Armed Forces regarded each other as "rioters" and "traitors", while the Rapid Support Force attacked each other as "remnants of the former dynasty" and "old forces" representing the military government. After international mediation, the two sides reached a ceasefire agreement in Saudi Arabia several times, but the agreement has never been effectively implemented.
On the current situation in Sudan, Borhan once said, "Now is not the time for negotiation. We must invest all our strength to destroy the rebels in the battle. " D ‘Gallo, the leader of the Rapid Support Force, even threatened that "if we want, we can come to Sudan today". The analysis believes that since Sudanese President Bashir was dismissed in 2019, and then the civilian transitional government was overthrown in 2021, the two sides have always been in step. It was not until the military government came to power, involving real power distribution, military merger and economic benefit sharing, that it finally came to nothing. The contradiction between the two armed camps is irreconcilable for a long time, and the dawn of peace in Sudan is still far away.
Desperate people’s livelihood under the bonfire
Half of Sudan’s population is in dire need of humanitarian assistance.
International human rights organizations say that Sudan is no longer walking on the edge of atrocities, but has "fallen into the abyss".
The bullet left a mark, and the armed conflict triggered a severe humanitarian crisis, which has been strongly concerned by the international community. According to the UN report, there are currently more than 24.7 million people in Sudan who are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, which is about half of Sudan’s total population. The Sudanese people are experiencing an unimaginable disaster where the war is burning.
Five months after the conflict broke out, the key war zones between the two sides have been hit hard. It is difficult to find an inch of intact land in the streets of Khartoum, the capital, and the whole city is devastated. The infrastructure in a large number of residential areas is damaged, and power, water and poor communication often occur, and banks and gas stations also stop serving.
Due to blocked traffic lines and poor logistics, there is a shortage of food in residents’ homes. According to United Nations data, the armed conflict in Sudan triggered a sharp rise in food prices. At present, about 20.3 million people in Sudan are facing food insecurity, and at least 700,000 children are severely malnourished and face the risk of death. The persistent conflict also endangers the planting and production of crops this year, which will further aggravate the food crisis in Sudan.

△ Within one day, a bullet landed at the door of a resident in Omdurman.
The normal life of many Sudanese has come to a standstill. Whether it is a government agency or a private enterprise, employees are experiencing "salary cut" for several months, which adds to people’s economic burden.
Sudan’s domestic medical system has also been hit hard. At the worst, 80% of hospitals in the country can’t operate normally. The hospitals in Khartoum, the capital, and the central and western regions of Darfur are the first to bear the brunt. The shortage of drugs and medical devices has become a universal problem in China, and the dialysis patients who need to go to the hospital every week are particularly worried. For safety reasons, some doctors even turned their home into a clinic. On social networks in Sudan, people exchange ideas and discuss how to give birth to pregnant women at home.
September is supposed to be the start of school in Sudan, but it is difficult for Sudanese students to return to school in conflict-affected areas. According to the statistics of UNICEF, about 19 million school-age children in Sudan are facing the problem of no schooling. The Sudanese education department has stated that the start of school depends on when the conflict ends.

△ Sudanese children under conflict
An economic crisis may have arrived. Since September, the exchange rate of Sudan’s national currency, the Sudanese pound, has depreciated sharply against the US dollar, and the domestic inflationary pressure has risen sharply. The war caused Sudan’s largest refinery to be forced to shut down and the fuel supply chain was seriously damaged. Some mineral resources companies in the Sultanate also said that the conflict has caused the gold production to drop to 2 tons this year, while the total output will reach 18 tons in 2022. Sudan was once the second largest gold exporter in Africa. In July this year, Sudanese economists generally predicted that the economic losses caused by the armed conflict in Sudan had reached 9 billion dollars, equivalent to 100 million dollars a day.
On September 13th, the latest report released by the International Organization for Migration showed that up to now, the armed conflict in Sudan has caused more than 5.25 million people to be displaced. Among them, more than 4.11 million people from 820,000 families fled in Sudan, most of them fled from Khartoum State, where the fighting was the fiercest, and more than 1.13 million Sudanese refugees fled to Chad, Egypt and South Sudan. It is worth noting that Sudan has been one of the largest refugee receiving countries in Africa before the outbreak of this conflict. When the war broke out, these refugees had to embark on a tortuous and arduous migration road again.

△ The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than 5.25 million people, and a large number of refugees have taken refuge in refugee camps in neighboring countries.
At present, there are various predictions about the situation in Sudan, one of which is that if the armed conflict in Sudan continues to escalate, it will not be ruled out that there will be "two governments" in the east and the west at the same time. In the 67 years since Sudan’s independence, it has experienced three civil wars, which lasted for more than 40 years. This time, people can’t help but ask, if a full-scale civil war breaks out again, how long will it last, what will be the impact, and how long will the suffering of the Sudanese people last?
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Source: International Business Daily
Five years have passed since the RMB joined the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) currency basket of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on October 1, 2016. According to the IMF’s practice, the weights of various basket currencies need to be re-examined. A few days ago, the IMF announced the updated weight distribution, and the new weight will take effect on August 1. According to the new weight distribution, the order of the five currencies has not changed, namely, US dollar (43.38%), Euro (29.31%), RMB (12.28%), Japanese yen (7.59%) and British pound (7.44%). Among them, the weight of the US dollar and the RMB increased by 1.65 and 1.36 percentage points respectively, while the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound decreased by 1.62, 0.74 and 0.65 percentage points respectively. So, what does this adjustment mean? Why should the IMF adjust it?
SDR is an international reserve asset created by IMF under the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system after World War II, which is allocated to its member countries. Although the total amount of SDR is limited so far, its role is still very important. As a supplementary reserve, SDR can play the basic payment function of money between IMF members and IMF designated holders. Since SDR cannot be held by private enterprises or individuals, only 15 organizations are designated holders at present. Up to now, with the approval of 85% members of the IMF Board of Directors, the IMF has allocated SDR to all parties in a common way five times according to the share of member countries, namely, 1970-72 (9.3 billion), 1979-81 (12.1 billion), 2009 (161.2 billion) and 2021 (456.5 billion). In 2009, members who joined after 1981, which exceeded one fifth of the IMF members, never received SDR, and a special allocation of 21.5 billion SDR was made in response to the impact of the global financial crisis. The allocation in 2021 is the IMF’s action to support countries with insufficient liquidity to tide over difficulties and enhance the resilience of economic development under the epidemic of COVID-19. It can be seen that, similar to the currencies issued by various countries, SDR also undertakes the function of international reserves, but its total scale and growth rate are much smaller than those of most currencies. Up to now, all SDR allocated by the IMF is only about 878.4 billion US dollars if calculated according to the exchange rate on May 13, 2022.Even considering the interest required to use SDR, the global SDR is still limited, which should not exceed the GDP of the Netherlands in 2021. In addition, the interest rate of SDR (SDRi) is also an important reference index. According to the weighted average of the representative interest rates of short-term government debt instruments in the money market of SDR basket currency, it is a measure of the cost of capital use for the IMF to provide non-preferential SDR loans to its members. The five representative interest rates are the market interest rate of 3-month US dollar bonds, the spot interest rate of 3-month euro zone member governments rated AA or above issued by the European Central Bank, the market interest rate of 3-month Japanese discounted bonds, the market interest rate of 3-month British bonds and the benchmark interest rate of 3-month China treasury bonds.
From the initial fixed exchange rate with gold to the present, the method of determining SDR value has been developing continuously. In 1980, the SDR basket contained 16 currencies. At that time, the idea was that the more kinds of currencies in the basket, the more it could reflect the global transactions; The less the number, the lower the possibility of currency composition and ranking changes, the easier it is to form a stable structure, and the more it can reduce the cost and complexity of using SDR. In 2011, the IMF changed its view that with the change of SDR, the cost consideration of using SDR should be more important, so it chose to use fewer types of currencies. In 2016, the IMF added RMB to the basket, which not only recognized the RMB as a freely usable currency, but also reduced the stability risk of the currency basket. The global export share of Japan and Britain is close, and the change of ranking has limited impact on international trade. Adding RMB to the basket will make SDR’s basket currency account for a larger proportion in international trade, while the administrative cost of adding another currency is limited and affordable. SDR has worked well for five years. Then, what is the basis for adjusting the weight of basket currencies in this review?
Since SDR basket appeared, it is an important issue to determine its weight. In 1978, the calculation method of basket currency weight was determined to examine the exports of currency issuing countries in the first five years, and add up the amounts of various currencies held by other countries’ reserves to get the weights of each item. Since 1985, the IMF has considered the development of the private financial sector based on many factors such as international finance, exports and reserves. Moreover, after the euro joined the currency basket, the relative proportions of trade and financial variables have changed a lot. Exports are measured according to the total amount, while the flow of financial accounts is measured according to the net value. Before the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the scales of the two indicators were roughly the same, but the transaction scale of the foreign exchange market changed significantly faster than that of trade, which made it possible that the real trade demand was concealed by the financial indicators in the calculation of the currency basket weight according to the original method and could not meet the original goal of SDR. To this end, the IMF chooses to give equal weight to exports and financial variables (foreign exchange reserves) to measure the global use of various basket currencies.
In 2016, China exported 2.10 trillion US dollars and the United States exported 1.45 trillion US dollars; In 2021, China exported 3.36 trillion US dollars, and the United States exported 1.75 trillion US dollars. If only this ratio is calculated, the export ratio between China and the United States will be 1.92 in 2021 and 1.45 in 2016, and the weight of RMB in SDR basket should increase more than that of US dollar. But in fact, although the weight of RMB increased by 1.36 percentage points, the growth rate was 0.29 percentage points lower than that of the US dollar, indicating that the proportion of RMB in the reserve currency of IMF members has declined compared with that of the US dollar in the past five years. On the comprehensive consideration of trade and reserves, it seems that the financial attribute of RMB needs to be further strengthened.
Although different from the more accurate data that can be provided by the customs in trade statistics, the foreign exchange reserves of each member are based on the data provided by the IMF’s official foreign exchange reserve currency composition (COFER) survey, and there may be some deviations, the weaknesses of RMB can still be found from it. Although China’s export performance is outstanding, and its share in the global market continues to increase, its attractiveness and influence at the financial level are quite insufficient, and its trade advantage has not been transformed into financial advantage. In the past five years, SDR has included RMB in the currency basket, which has not produced the expected effect of increasing RMB in foreign exchange reserves. The confidence of foreign governments in the value of RMB may still be insufficient because of the underdeveloped market of related products and doubts about the opening up of foreign exchange management. In order to continue to increase the weight of the RMB in the next review before the end of July 2027, I am afraid that more efforts should be made at the financial level.
The writer is a researcher at the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce.
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The First May Day International Labor Day in New China
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May 1st International Labor Day, also known as International Labor Day, Labor Day, etc. In 1866, the First International Geneva Conference put forward the slogan of eight-hour work system. On May 1, 1886, a large-scale strike and demonstration involving about 350,000 people was held in the United States with Chicago as the center, demanding that working conditions be improved and an eight-hour working system be implemented. In order to commemorate this great workers’ movement, in July, 1889, at the Second International Founding Conference organized by Engels, it was announced that May 1st every year would be designated as the International Labor Day, which is now the May 1st International Labor Day, and it is a national holiday in more than 80 countries in the world.
On October 1, 1949, under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the people of China fought bravely, carried out the Great Revolution, the Agrarian Revolution, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and finally won the national liberation and established People’s Republic of China (PRC), where the people were the masters of their own affairs. Workers have become the most respected people, and the working class has changed from an oppressed and enslaved position to the leading class of state power. On December 23, 1949, the Twelfth Meeting of the State Council of the Central People’s Government adopted the "Uniform National Holidays and Remembrance Days", which designated "May 1" International Labor Day as the most memorable and celebrated holiday, with a holiday of one day.
May 1st, 1950, as the first "May 1st International Labor Day" ushered in after the founding of People’s Republic of China (PRC), is of great significance. Throughout the country, this festival has been warmly celebrated in the form of parades, rallies and cultural performances. Among them, the celebration in the capital Beijing is the most grand, enthusiastic and representative.

On May 1, 1950, more than 200,000 people in the capital Beijing took part in a parade to celebrate the first May Day in New China.
1. President Mao Zedong personally revised the "May 1 Slogan"
On April 22, 1950, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions issued the Notice on Commemorating the May 1 ST Labor Day, requiring all trade unions across the country to widely and deeply publicize the significance and tasks of commemorating the May 1 ST International Labor Day; Cities and industrial zones should hold mass meetings and processions on May 1 to review and mobilize the fighting forces of the masses. In the evening, various entertainment parties can be organized, and model workers in production should be specially entertained; Newspapers published by local trade unions should publish a special issue of "May Day" and organize more manuscripts of workers and the masses.
On April 26th, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued "Slogans to Celebrate May 1st Labor Day", with a total of 38 articles, which clearly put forward relevant policies and tasks in all aspects. For example, the first one is: "Celebrate the first May Day after the founding of People’s Republic of China (PRC)!" According to relevant information, the first draft of the slogan was drafted by Hu Qiaomu and sent to Liu Shaoqi for review. Liu Shaoqi made several specific revisions to the slogan, such as "Long live Chairman Mao!" Revised as "Long live Comrade Mao Zedong, the great leader of China people!" Liu Shaoqi submitted the revised draft to President Mao Zedong for review. Mao Zedong has also revised three of them. First, change "resolutely implement the economic policy of giving consideration to both employers and employees" to "resolutely implement the policy of giving consideration to both public and private interests"; The second is to change "not moving the property of the rich peasants" to "not moving the land property of the rich peasants"; The third is to change "people in Taiwan Province, Xizang and other areas to be liberated" to "people in Taiwan Province, Xizang and other areas to be liberated, prepare all possible conditions, cooperate with the timely March of the People’s Liberation Army, liberate themselves and complete reunification".

On May 1, 1962, President Mao Zedong met people from all walks of life on the Tiananmen Gate.
Second, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held a commemorative meeting.
On the afternoon of April 29th, the National Committee of China People’s Political Consultative Conference held a commemorative meeting for cadres with more than 4,500 participants. The meeting was presided over by Zhou Enlai, and Liu Shaoqi made a long speech at the meeting. The full text of the speech was published on the front page of the People’s Daily and other domestic newspapers on May 1, 1950.
Liu Shaoqi’s speech at the May Day commemorative meeting was submitted to President Mao Zedong for revision and approval in advance. Mao Zedong made a serious revision to the speech draft, and wrote a letter to Liu Shaoqi at 5 am on April 29th to explain it. The letter said: "The report has been slightly revised and has been sent to you for reading. Chen Yun didn’t read the documents during the leave and didn’t send them to him. The main points of the revision are as follows: don’t say’ this year is the last difficult year’, because there will be difficulties in the next few years, and they will still be quite serious, but they will be reduced year by year. Everything else that said that the difficulty’ will soon pass’ was deleted. Take the northeast as an example. One section is merged into the previous section. The paragraph on the international situation is more strategic. Explaining the rich peasants’ strategy is a bit cumbersome, leaving it for the future. The paragraph on correcting commandism is more comprehensive, and don’t talk too prominently about financial and economic cadres. The slogan was added. If you have time, please print it after you speak, send me the proof and read it again, and then publish it. "
Mao Zedong’s slogan refers to the slogan at the end of Liu Shaoqi’s speech, adding: "Long live the unity and cooperation of all ethnic groups, democratic classes, democratic parties and people’s organizations in China!"
Liu Shaoqi’s speech was full of enthusiasm. At the beginning, he said with pride: "Labor Day has been designated as one of the most important legal festivals in the country by the Central People’s Government, and factories, workshops, institutions, schools and troops of the People’s Liberation Army have been ordered to have a holiday on this day. The people’s army and police will not ban people from holding celebrations and processions. On the contrary, they will join the people in celebrating and processions … For the first time in history, most working people in China are under the protection of their own government. How can this not make us and the working people in China feel very excited and proud! "
Finally, he pointed out: "If our work style is better, our shortcomings and mistakes are less, and our work is better, then we can better unite the people of China, inspire the enthusiasm of the people all over the country, increase their strength, and enable our country and people to tide over the current difficulties and create a bright future more quickly. And all this is exactly what we want to achieve when we celebrate Labor Day this year. "

1956年5月1日,北京举行群众游行,庆祝“五一”国际劳动节
三、20万人冒雨进行大游行
5月1日,北京春雨绵绵。人们高举红旗、敲锣打鼓、扭着秧歌、高唱着歌曲,从四面八方向天安门广场进发,隆重热烈地庆祝新中国的第一个五一劳动节。上海《大公报》5月6日刊登的记者高汾采写的通讯《跟我们的领袖在一起—-记首都“五一”大检阅》中具体形象地描写道:“5月1日的清晨,天上飘着暗云,一会儿开始降着蒙蒙细雨。11时未到,远从郊区来的,从工厂、机关、学校、作坊、家庭来的,战士们、工人们、学生们、市民们都穿着整齐的新衣,打着各色彩绸旗幡、巨像标语,带着满心欢喜向天安门附近各指定地点集中。雨越来越大了,但是带着一片嘹亮歌声与锣鼓声的队伍越来越多了,20多万人参加游行的队伍,在(下午)2时以前完全按照总指挥部指定地点有秩序地排列成队,等待接受人民领袖的检阅。”
Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central People’s Government, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Soong Ching Ling, Li Jishen and Zhang Lan, Vice-Chairmen, Zhou Enlai, Prime Minister of the State Council, and other party and state leaders, members of the Central People’s Government Committee, members of the National Committee of the China People’s Political Consultative Conference, principal leaders of various hospitals, ministries, conferences, departments and banks of the Central People’s Government, and leaders of various democratic parties and people’s organizations reviewed the parade. Attending the ceremony were envoys from the Soviet Union, the Czech Republic, North Korea, Romania, Hungary, Poland, India and other countries, delegations from the Communist Youth League of the Soviet Union, and Indonesian workers’ delegations.
Gao Fen, a reporter from Ta Kung Pao, wrote in his communication: "Especially the friends from the Soviet Union participated enthusiastically, and the viewing platform could not accommodate them. They were squeezed into the viewing seats of the first-class cadres of the Central Committee and North China. They were crowded in the crowd, and raindrops hit their faces and beautiful new clothes. They didn’t care, just like every Chinese present, they had an excited smile on their faces. It’s like having a holiday in front of their own leaders and Red Square. "
At 3 pm, Nie Rongzhen, then mayor of Beijing, announced the start of the parade. 120 salutes rang out, and the military band played "National Anthem of the People’s Republic of China" and "Internationale". When people in the parade saw President Mao Zedong, they were very excited and cheered. Some people kept throwing their hats into the air. The newly formed People’s Liberation Army Air Force and Navy also appeared in the parade.
“人民公安部队万岁”的口号声,一直响到整个队伍完全通过。
傍晚时分,下了一天的雨停了,天空中出现了绚丽的晚霞和彩虹,空军的战机翱翔在天安门上空,以排列整齐的队形,展示了高水平的空中飞行表演技能。当夜幕降临时,天安门城墙上五颜六色的彩灯和城楼上的灯光齐放,广场上灯火辉煌,首都公安部队走在游行队伍的最后,当他们迈着整齐的步伐,精神抖擞地通过天安门广场时,全场一片轰动,口号声此起彼伏。
当天晚上8时15分,游行结束。高汾写道:“时间已经过去5小时半,毛主席始终没有离开过他的位置。他的脸上时而庄严,时而微笑,他的手几乎永远高举起来,向群众有力而迅速地摆动着……经过几小时呼喊并不觉疲倦的刘副主席以更嘹亮的喊声高呼:‘中华人民共和国万岁’‘五一劳动节万岁’‘世界持久和平万岁’为大会的结尾,喊声冲破黑夜的长空,它将化为建设新中国保卫世界和平的一股强韧的力量!”

On the May 1 ST Labor Day in 1950, a parade composed of all walks of life in the capital Beijing participated in the celebration. The picture shows the front of the parade, holding high the colossus of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, the world’s great revolutionary instructors.
4. Celebrations throughout the country are splendid.
On the same day, in cities and rural areas all over the country, songs were everywhere and red flags were flying. Tens of millions of people in Qian Qian held rallies and parades to celebrate May 1 ST Labor Day, which jointly showed a spectacular picture of the Chinese laboring masses celebrating the victory of the great struggle and wishing the motherland prosperity and strength.
On the banks of the Huangpu River, bright five-star red flags have been flying over the streets and lanes since the early morning, and the continuous parade in the streets has attracted thousands of Shanghai citizens from their homes. In the morning, there were more than 20,000 workers’ pickets, security forces and mass organizations in the city, and an armed review was held. Mayor Chen Yi called on Shanghai workers to continue to carry forward the revolutionary struggle spirit of the past 30 years, overcome difficulties, and break out new forces in the journey of building a new China and a new Shanghai. Subsequently, the city held a parade to celebrate the district, with a total of more than 500,000 participants. In addition, the forms of celebration include physical fitness, discounted movie tickets and discounted books for workers. The first club of the working class in Shanghai-Huxi Workers’ Club was officially unveiled on the eve of Labor Day, and the "Labor Park" built by the workers themselves was officially opened.
In Tianjin, on the bank of Haihe River, more than 40,000 workers and representatives from all walks of life gathered at Minyuan Stadium to celebrate. Mayor Huang Jing put forward five tasks to the workers in the city, such as supporting the war of liberation, responding to the government’s call to launch a large-scale production campaign, helping unemployed workers, and learning politics, culture and technology, so as to carry forward the spirit of internationalism and consolidate unity with the Soviet Union and people’s democratic countries. The meeting adopted a signature campaign to ban atomic war in response to the call of the World Congress for Peace, and decided to set up a Tianjin branch of the China Congress for the Defence of World Peace. After the meeting, the participants held a parade and celebration in the city in four ways. The municipal music troupe, mass theatrical troupes, people’s cultural centers in various districts and other literary and art groups have staged operas, dramas, dances, slides and other commemorative celebration programs.
Shenyang combined the May 1st International Labor Day and the May 4th Youth Day celebrations. On May 1st, 160,000 workers, staff and students held a grand rally. Dressed in all kinds of brand-new uniforms, facing the rising sun, they carried huge portraits of Ma, En, Lie, Si, Chairman Mao Zedong and Commander-in-Chief Zhu De and walked neatly through the streets. Advanced producers hold the award flags they won in the May 1 ST production competition and walk in the forefront of the teams of all units. Many factories also send out propaganda trucks, or decorate them with huge portraits of model workers, or mark the good news that our factory has overfulfilled the national production tasks with striking figures. At 8 o’clock in the morning, the celebration meeting opened with a salute. They took a group of cavalry as the forerunner and organized and orderly parades around the main streets of the city. At night, the city square and the People’s Stadium held celebration parties respectively.
In the mountain city of Chongqing, laborers celebrated the first May Day International Labor Day after the founding of New China with unprecedented joy. Red flags are flying everywhere in the city, and the sound of gongs and drums is endless. Wallpapers and pictures written by the workers themselves are posted in every street and factory. At noon on May 1, a commemorative parade was held in different districts of the city. Wherever the procession went, the audience lined the streets to watch. Auto workers also appeared in the streets to decorate a new car for the May Day International Labor Day. In the Yangtze River in front of Chaotianmen Gate, more than 20 barge workers in red were driving dragon boats and singing in the middle of the river, which won warm applause from the audience.
In addition, other provinces and cities all over the country have also held commemorative meetings or celebrations related to the May 1 International Labor Day.

In May, 1950, more than 70,000 working class and people from all walks of life in Fushun, Liaoning Province, expressed their commitment to do a good job and work safety at the conference commemorating the May 1st International Labor Day and the May 4th Youth Day.
V "Labor Day" in the history of China
In fact, China celebrated Labor Day thousands of years ago.
The rudiment of "Labor Day" is the legend recorded in "Imperial Century": On February 2 of the lunar calendar every year, Fuxi and Shennong, the leaders of the ancient tribal alliance, personally went to the fields to "cultivate and plant", and all tribal members also cultivated and worked with them. The Records of the Historian recorded Zhou Wuwang’s naming February 2nd as "Spring Dragon Festival", and after the celebration, he followed Fuxi and Shennong’s example and led hundreds of civil and military officials to plough the fields. According to historical records, from the Tang Dynasty, February 2nd of the lunar calendar was named "Farming Festival" or "Labor and Agriculture Festival". On that day, the emperor wanted to personally lead hundreds of officials to work in the fields, and farmers were asked to carry agricultural tools with red silk to plow and sow in the fields. On February 2nd of the lunar calendar, emperors and subjects went to the fields to work together when it was raining, which expressed not only advocating and advocating labor, but also the connotation of the unity of heaven, earth and people.
可见,中国古代的“劳动节”,其本意更接近于字面意思,与恩格斯1890 年在第二国际大会上宣布设立的五一国际劳动节在本质上有很大不同。
1950年的5月1日,各行各业的劳动者20余万人聚集在天安门广场,载歌载舞,庆祝自己的节日,他们个个兴高采烈、斗志昂扬,浑身上下都流露出当家作主的喜悦。
70多年过去了,我国在不同年代都举行了不同主题的庆祝活动,广大劳动者通过各具特色的形式表达和体现了节日的主题。几十年来,虽然劳动的形式不断发展演变,但劳动精神始终传承,一代代中国劳动者始终在勤奋工作、奋发图强,勇于创新、甘于奉献,不断创造出更加美好、更加幸福的新生活。

来源:安徽党史方志
作者:胡遵远(安徽金寨干部学院副院长,金寨县委党史和地方志研究室主任)
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原标题:《【五一特辑】新中国第一个“五一”国际劳动节‖胡遵远》
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CCTV News:Every day at 8: 00, bring the latest first-line report on anti-epidemic. Everything you care about is here.
Focus on
The State Council executive meeting:
(1) to cancel the unreasonable return to work for approval;
② It is necessary to increase tax reduction and fee reduction, and reduce the airport service charges managed by some governments;
(3) to encourage insurance companies to appropriately reduce the operating vehicles, ships, aircraft insurance fees stopped during the epidemic, and encourage all localities to take measures such as phased reduction of "money" to help taxi drivers tide over the difficulties.
Ministry dynamics
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Basic telecommunications enterprises are encouraged to focus on offering special traffic packages and other precise assistance measures for students from poor families who have established a card, so as to reduce the pressure on students with difficulties to use the Internet.
Ministry of Finance: It can ensure that pensions for retired employees in Hubei are paid in full and on time.
Ministry of Finance: From February, all enterprises in Hubei will be exempted from three social insurance premiums for up to five months.
National Forestry and Grassland Administration: The population of endangered wild animals and plants in China has generally increased steadily.
Emergency Management Department: Since the epidemic, 3,754 people in distress have been rescued and 380 million yuan of property has been saved.
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security: Accelerate the implementation of the unemployment insurance policy to help enterprises stabilize their posts, and strive to put the inclusive and stable post return in place before the end of March, and fully roll out the stable post return work for difficult enterprises before the end of April.
Ministry of Justice: A green channel for legal services should be opened for epidemic prevention and control and resumption of work.
The latest everywhere
Beijing: Foreigners returning to Beijing need to register and report their health status when they enter the community.
Sichuan: Online educational resources used by local schools are not allowed to charge students any fees.
Cases in half cities in Guangxi were cleared, and A-level tourist attractions were opened in an orderly manner.
Focus on Hubei
Hubei Health and Health Commission: Zhong Nanshan, Li Lanjuan, Wang Chen, Huang Luqi, Yuan Guoyong, Zhang Boli, Chen Wei, Qiao Jie, Tong Xiaolin and other 10 famous academicians and their teams went to Hubei Province successively. More than 330 medical teams and over 40,000 medical workers came from all over the country to support Hubei.
The cure rate of patients in COVID-19, Hubei Province increased from 7.14% on February 12th to 53.81% on March 2nd.
According to the actual situation of epidemic prevention and control, Hubei will gradually reduce the number of designated hospitals in COVID-19, shut down the shelter hospitals in an orderly manner, and gradually restore the normal medical order in batches and step by step.
Wuhan: All frozen pork reserved by the government is put on the market.
Seven hotlines were opened in Huanggang, Hubei Province for psychological treatment of epidemic situation.
Foreign correlation
The Federal Reserve announced a 50 basis point interest rate cut, and the interest rate of the Federal Reserve Fund dropped from 1.5%-1.75% to 1%-1.25%.
International Olympic Committee: It will fully support the Tokyo Olympic Games to be held from July 24th to August 9th this year.
For the first time, Britain issued epidemic prevention measures and warned that as many as one-fifth of the workforce in Britain may stop working due to illness at the peak of the epidemic.
UAE Ministry of Education: Starting from March 8th, all schools and higher education institutions in the UAE will be closed for four weeks and enter the spring break ahead of schedule.
The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Ukraine.
Chile confirmed the first case of COVID-19 infection.
Argentine confirmed the first case of COVID-19.
Four cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Belarus.
The second case of novel coronavirus infection was confirmed in Ireland.
The cumulative number of cases of COVID-19 infection in Canada has reached 30.
The number of confirmed cases in COVID-19 rose to 2,502, with 79 deaths.
As of 22: 00 local time on March 3rd, 995 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed, and 12 people have died of COVID-19.
As of 10: 00 am local time on March 3rd, 188 cases of pneumonia infection in Covid-19 were confirmed.
All parties rushed to help.
The second batch of blood from Sichuan to support Hubei started on the 3rd, totaling 600,000 ml.
Guangxi: More than 60 kinds of fruits and vegetables and more than 2,000 tons of daily necessities have been sent to Hubei.
The most beautiful retrograde person


Zhang Xinchen is the deputy director of xiang tang Line Workshop in Nanchang Works Section, and Xiao Yaping is a member of the sixth batch of medical teams in Jiangxi Province to assist Hubei. Taking care of a pair of young children at home alone, Zhang Xinchen said, "Compared with the people of Wuhan, this difficulty in my family is nothing. We all have an appointment. She rescues patients, I guard the railway, and we love this family together. "
make a loud sound when thrown to the ground―(of a speech) powerful and rousing
"It is not enough to speak twice a day, I will speak 200 times!" "Goggles must be worn!" "You must wear gloves after washing your hands!"
— — As a head nurse, Chen Jing has gone through dozens of procedures, from wearing protective clothing, isolation gown and goggles to wearing shoe covers and washing her hands. She is glued to every doctor and nurse. She said that for the health of this group of nurses and girls, it is worthwhile to shout "do a good job of protection" even if it is one hundred times or one thousand times a day.
Seeing is believing

This is a hand-drawn map with coordinates of Wuhan, written by Lu Zihan, a fifth-grade pupil, and several striking words are specially marked next to Taikang tongji hospital in the lower left corner — — Dad’s Hospital. Her father is Lu Chuandong, a member of the army supporting Hubei medical team.
Epidemic prevention tips
How to use your eyes reasonably in home office?
① Reasonable arrangement of working hours. Work for half an hour to an hour, and have a rest for 10 minutes.
② Correct use of electronic equipment. The light in the room should be suitable, not too dark or too dazzling.
③ Maintain a correct sitting posture. Let your eyes look down or slightly down at the screen.
④ Pay attention to eye hygiene.
Editor: Tu Yueqing




Wen | Lei Technology
This year, after Apple announced the cancellation of the car-making plan, it finally made up its mind to allocate more energy to the AI project. The M3 MacBook Air just released and the upcoming iOS 18 correspond to Apple’s first answer sheet on the AI PC and AI mobile phone tracks respectively.
IOS 18 has not yet been released, and everyone can only guess Apple’s next move from many sources. However, judging from the performance of the released M3 MacBook Air, it seems that the number of AI computing cores, performance and even NPU of M3 chips are difficult to support Apple’s AI PC business in the face of the encirclement formed by a variety of AI PC competing products in the market. The new M3 MacBook Air was sold at a discount of $100 on Amazon only one month after it was put on the shelves.
However, the situation that M3 chip alone supports Apple AI PC is about to change: Apple M4 series chips may have to meet with you in advance. Mark Gurman, a reporter from Bloomberg, pointed out in the latest issue of Power On newsletter that Apple’s M4 chip is close to the mass production stage, and it will be loaded into the latest Mac devices as soon as the end of this year. The focus of this series of chips will be on improving the performance of handling AI tasks.
Considering that Apple released M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max chips in October last year, Mark Gurman predicted that Apple would also launch M4 series chips around October this year. Last year, M3 series chips were sought after by many consumers for their performance, dynamic cache, mesh coloring and rendering, and hardware-level ray tracing acceleration technology.
This year, the upgrade of M4 series chips will focus on the number of AI computing cores, efficiency and NPU. It is reported that the M4 series chips to be produced by Apple are expected to have at least three main models, namely, the low-end chip Donan, the mid-end chip Brava and the high-end chip Hidra. The above names are all code names, and the officially listed names are likely to follow the M4, M4 Pro, M4 Max and M4 Ultra of M3.
Not only that, M4 series chips will also cover the whole Mac product line. Among them, the new iMac, entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro, high-end 14-inch MacBook Pro, 16-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini models will be the first batch of MAC products equipped with M4 series chips, which are expected to be launched one after another from the end of this year to the beginning of next year.
In the first quarter of 2025, Apple will update the 13-inch and 15-inch M4 MacBook Air models, update the Mac Studio in the middle of the year, and update the Mac Pro in the third or fourth quarter.
Apple reorganized the Mac product line with M4 series chips, which has different significance for different products in the product line. For Mac mini, Mac Pro and Mac Studio, this is a rare intergenerational update. Previously, the latest models of the three products were only equipped with M2 chip, and their performance had already lagged behind other Mac products. Whether Apple directly skipped M3 chip and upgraded to M4 chip or inserted M3 chip into the original update rhythm step by step, with the current news, it is still impossible to draw a conclusion.
However, Lei Technology believes that according to Apple’s habit, it is not impossible for Apple to release M3 and M4 products at the same time, so the price of M4 products may hit a new high in this series.
For the newly upgraded M3 MacBook Air, it is expected that the M4 model released next year will exert great sales pressure on M3 model, and the shortened update time may make some consumers feel at ease as a "waiting party", and then make a decision after the release of M4 MacBook Air. This also means that M3 MacBook Air will accelerate the clearance and dumping of goods, which is expected to be greatly promoted at key promotion nodes such as 618.
According to the global PC sales in 2023 released by data research organization IDC, in the fourth quarter of 2023, the global PC shipments were about 259.5 million units, down 13.9% compared with 2022. Among them, Apple’s shipments ranked fourth, down 22.4% year-on-year. Although Apple’s shipments in the fourth quarter of 2023 improved, increasing by 10.1% year-on-year, from the annual data, Apple’s decline in the PC market is very obvious, and the decline rate far exceeds that of other PC manufacturers.
In fact, not only in the PC market, but also in other fields. A series of events such as the "Titan" project shelved for ten years, the iPad shipment was overtaken by Huawei tablet, the word-of-mouth of Vision Pro was extended, and the price of iPhone 15 series was successively reduced, which made Apple feel overwhelmed.
The outside world is generally not optimistic about Apple’s expectations, which is embodied in the investment market. As of the close of the US stock market on April 10, Apple’s share price has fallen by about 13% this year. It was not until the news that M4 series chips reorganized the Mac product line came out that Apple’s share price rose, with a total increase of more than 5% in two days.
It can be seen that the significance of AI Mac to Apple has far exceeded the scope of ordinary products. It represents the apple that the outside world wants to see more, and it also means that Apple has finally returned to the "right track" that the public thinks. Apple continues to iterate AI Mac products through M4 series chips. On the one hand, it can inject new power into the Mac product line whose shipments are already declining in 2023 and stimulate the sales of the Mac product line; On the other hand, AI PC has become the hottest topic in the PC market. Many PC manufacturers have either launched the first AI PC or are on the way to release it. If Apple keeps the iterative pace of the past few years, it is likely that the PC shipments in 2024 will further decline.
If we want to select the hottest keywords in the technology industry in 2024, Lei Technology believes that it is "AI". At present, AI has penetrated into all walks of life. AI mobile phone, AI TV, AI audio, AI kitchen appliances, AI music, AI headphones and the AI PC we are talking about today all represent the reconstruction of an industry by AI.
Microsoft and Glory have successively released their own AI PC products. Whether it is Microsoft’s Surface Pro 10 commercial version and Surface Laptop 6 commercial version, or the glory MagicBook Pro 16, they are all highly anticipated by their respective manufacturers.
In addition, Microsoft and Qualcomm jointly built the Snapdragon X Elite chip, and plan to launch the Surface product with this processor later this year. It is reported that Microsoft executives are very satisfied with the performance of Snapdragon X Elite chip, and think that it can surpass Apple’s MacBook Air equipped with M3 chip in terms of CPU performance and handling various AI tasks.
Lenovo also plans to officially release the first real AI PC on the 18th of this month. The biggest highlight of this product is that it will be equipped with a personal model AI TWIN (artificial intelligence twin) with a local knowledge base. According to the official introduction, the so-called AI TWIN means that by establishing a local knowledge base on the device, you can better understand the user’s behavior habits, even predict tasks according to your thinking mode, and find solutions on your own. It eventually evolved into a digital extension of users, just like twins.
It can be said that almost all PC manufacturers are going further and further on the road of AI PC. The addition of Apple’s AI Mac has made the already highly competitive PC industry more chaotic. Although Apple’s PC shipments in 2023 are not ideal, I believe that no PC manufacturer can ignore the influence of Apple products.
It’s better than Microsoft. The joint venture with Qualcomm to build Snapdragon X Elite chip only claims that its performance exceeds M3 MacBook Air. When Apple officially launches M4 series chips, perhaps the current PC industry will usher in a new round of reshuffle.
Apple’s "toothpaste-squeezing" update is nothing new. Although the performance of M3 series chips is basically improved by 10%-20% compared with M2 series, it obviously cannot meet the high expectations of some users for its performance. At present, we still don’t know how much the M4 series chips have improved compared with the M3 series chips. According to the news, the M4 series chips that are highly anticipated by Apple may really bring a good competitive advantage to Apple’s Mac product line.
However, no matter how superior the hardware conditions are, they can’t be separated from the landing scene after all, and users’ judgment on the quality of product experience comes more from practical applications. On M3 MacBook Air, we have seen the native functions of the system, such as real-time speech to text, translation, text prediction, visual understanding, and auxiliary functions, as well as the AI functions under the AI application ecology, such as Pixelmator Pro automatically enhancing photos and CapCut eliminating background noise in videos.
Although these functions are not amazing, they are quite satisfactory, but Lei Technology believes that AI Mac has not really played the traditional advantages of Apple’s ecology, such as using OS to connect different devices in series and build an application ecosystem, or launching AI OS for the era of generative AGI (universal artificial intelligence).
Recently, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple had a discussion with Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, which are owned by Alphabet. It is not excluded to introduce one or more AI models into iOS 18 to provide the news of generating AI chat robot function for iOS system, and related news of cooperation with Baidu has also been reported in China.
If Apple is only an AI hardware provider, this win-win approach is obviously wise, but Apple is a technology company famous for its innovation and intelligence. In the short term, adopting alternatives may be acceptable to most users, but in the long run, this practice will always fall into the next ride. This is still the case in the mobile phone market. If Apple adopts a similar approach in the PC market, I believe that even if the M4 series chips with super performance are launched, it will be difficult to reverse the current unfavorable situation of Apple in the PC market.
Lei Technology still hopes that Apple can develop more eco-related practical applications on the new AI Mac and bring more AI usage scenarios to users. If it can really reach the above level, perhaps M4 series chips will lead Apple’s Mac product line to rebound.