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[Introduction to Zhiyuan Xin] Grok of xAI opened its source as scheduled after seven days! Open the code behind Grok and let Musk slap his face at OpenAI. There are 8 MOEs with 314 billion parameters, and the weight structure is fully open. As soon as the project is launched, it has already snapped up 6k stars on GitHub.

When it comes to doing it, Grok of Musk xAI is really open source as scheduled!

Just now, xAI officially released the weight and architecture of the 314 billion parameter hybrid expert model Grok-1.

With a parameter of 314 billion, Grok-1 has become the largest open source LLM so far, four times that of Llama 2.

At present, xAI has not disclosed more information about Grok-1.

The information released by official website is as follows-

-The basic model is trained on a large amount of text data and has not been fine-tuned for any specific task.

The MoE of the-314B parameter has a weight of 25% that is active on a given token.

-In October, 2023, xAI started training from scratch using a custom training stack based on JAX and Rust.

Once online GitHub, Grok snapped up 6k stars and 586 Fork.

Project address: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-1.

Musk did not forget to ridicule OpenAI, "Tell us more about the" open "part of OpenAI …"

The new york Times commented that the original code behind the open source Gork is an upgrade of the future battle that the richest man in the world controls AI.

Will open source make technology safer or will it make it more abusive?

Musk, an "open source supporter", set an example and got involved in this heated debate in the AI community, and gave the answer with actions.

Xiao Zha also commented on Grok just now. "It didn’t really impress people. There are too many parameters of 314 billion. You need a bunch of H100, but I have already bought it."

A magnetic chain, the world’s first largest model open source.

This time, xAI open source Grok-1 is licensed by Apache-2.0, so users can freely use, modify and distribute the software.

The repository contains JAX sample code for loading and running the Grok-1 open source weight model.

Users need to download checkpoint, put the ckpt-0 directory in checkpoint, and then run the following code to test:

pip install -r requirements.txtpython run.py

This script will load the checkpoint and the samples in the model on the test input.

Because the model is large and the parameters reach 314B, a computer with enough GPU memory is needed to test the model with sample code.

Moreover, because the implementation efficiency of MoE layer in this repository is not high, this implementation is chosen to avoid the need to customize the kernel to verify the correctness of the model.

Through the Torrent client and the following magnetic link, you can download the weights.

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More details

Andrew Kean Gao, a Stanford researcher, browsed model.py and introduced more information about the architecture of Grok. There are no additional clauses for the 314 billion parameters.

8 mixed experts (2 active experts), 860B active parameters. It uses rotation embedding instead of fixed position embedding.

-tokenizer vocabulary: 131,072 (similar to GPT-4) is equivalent to 2 17.

-Embedded size: 6144(48*128)

-Transformer layer: 64 (each layer has a decoding layer: multi-head attention block and density block)

-Key size: 128

Multi-head attention module: there are 48 query headers and 8 key values.

Dense block (dense feedforward block):

-Width factor: 8

-The hidden layer size is 32768.

Each token selects 2 out of 8 experts.

The embedding size of the rotation position is 6144, which is meaningful, and it is the same as the input embedding size of the model.

-Context length: 8192 token

-Accuracy: bf16

Finally, attach a summary map.

Netizen: Open source battle is coming.

The AI community is already boiling!

The technical community points out that the highlight of Grok is the use of GeGLU and normalization method in the forward feedback layer, and the use of interesting sandwich norm technique.

Even OpenAI employees have expressed their strong interest in Grok.

Jim Fan, a senior scientist in NVIDIA, said, "The largest open source model in history was trained by a world-class team and released through the magnetic chain Apache 2.0.

314B parameter, mixed expert model (8 experts and 2 active). Even the active parameter scale (86B) exceeds the largest Llama model. I can’t wait to see the benchmark results and what kind of applications people can build with it. "

Sebastian Raschka, an AI researcher, said that Grok is more open-source than other open-source modular models that usually have restrictions on use. However, it is less open source than Pythia, Bloom and Olmo, which provide training code and reproducible data sets.

Boris Dayma, the founder of Craiyon, analyzed the code of Grok-1 in detail.

Netizen indigo said that in order to "understand the universe", it seems that the xAI team deliberately set the parameter as "pi 314B", which is the largest open source model at present. It is expected that Llama 3 will join Grok’s open source battle in June this year.

After Grok opened the source, a big wave of fine-tuning is coming.

The first generation Grok has surpassed Llama-2-70B.

In November, 2023, xAI launched its first generation of big language model, Grok, and formally joined the big model war.

At that time, Grok used Twitter as part of the "Premium+" subscription service, with a monthly fee of $16.

XAI said that Grok’s design was inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which can answer almost all questions and help people pursue understanding and knowledge regardless of background or political stance.

Grok’s original version, Grok-0, had 33 billion parameters, and then xAI introduced Grok-1, which was improved several times to support the Grok chat robot on X.

According to the data released by xAI, in a series of benchmark tests such as GSM8K, HumanEval and MMLU, Grok-1 outperformed LLMA-2-70b and GPT-3.5, although it was far from GPT-4.

At that time, Grok was not only able to handle the user content generated in real time on the X platform, but also had a little sense of humor, which injected a little vitality into the simple AI.

While providing information about the latest hot events (whether political or sports), it can also be clever and even occasionally sarcastic.

Why did Musk choose open source?

After mocking OpenAI as "CloseAI" several times, Musk really chose to open his own big model.

Of course, there must be commercial considerations behind this.

As a market leader, OpenAI has no reason to open source the model code behind ChatGPT.

Now, by releasing Grok’s code, Musk firmly rooted himself in the latter camp. This decision may make his xAI surpass Meta and Mistral AI.

Llama’s open source has brought many benefits to Meta, and almost made Xiaozha climb out of the quagmire of the meta-universe.

Mistral AI, which is just a small start-up, is also famous for its open source strategy and is recognized by the industry as "OpenAI in Europe".

The open source version may encourage developers and potential customers to adopt their own models more quickly, which actually plays a marketing role.

The feedback and improvement from the developer community on the open source version of Grok may also help xAI to speed up the development of new versions, which can choose to open source or keep exclusive rights.

For example, like Mistral, it promises to continue to release open source versions while retaining the most advanced models for paying customers.

Musk has always been a supporter of open source technology. Even Tesla has opened the source code of some parts of the car, and his social media platform X has published some algorithms for content ranking.

"There is still work to be done, but this platform is by far the most transparent, truth-oriented and not a high threshold platform," Musk said today in response to comments on the open source X recommendation algorithm.

Although OpenAI is still far ahead in the AI field, the war between open source and closed source is far from over.

Should the AI model be open source? Some people think that this powerful technology must be protected from intruders, while others insist that the advantages of open source absolutely outweigh the disadvantages.

As a market leader, OpenAI has no reason to open source the model code behind ChatGPT.

Now, by releasing Grok’s code, Musk firmly rooted himself in the latter camp.

This decision may enable his xAI to finally surpass Meta and Mistral AI.

References:

https://x.ai/blog/grok-os

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Original title: "Musk faces OpenAI, the world’s largest Big Mac model Grok-1 is open source! 314 billion parameters, 8 MoE, GitHub madly took 6k stars "

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CCTV News:The State Council Press Office held a regular briefing on the State Council policy at 3 pm on July 17th. Wang Jiang, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, and the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Justice introduced the Regulations on the Protection of Payment for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and answered questions from reporters.

Wang Jiangping introduced that small and medium-sized enterprises are the most dynamic enterprise groups, an important support for expanding employment and improving people’s livelihood, and an important foundation for building a modern economic system and achieving high-quality economic development. In recent years, influenced by the complicated and changeable economic situation at home and abroad and the downward pressure on the economy, the payback period of enterprise accounts has been extended, and some organs, institutions and large enterprises have the problem of owing money to small and medium-sized enterprises to varying degrees, which has seriously infringed on the legitimate rights and interests of small and medium-sized enterprises, aggravated their financial difficulties and even endangered their survival. Small and medium-sized enterprises have strongly reflected this and attracted wide attention from all sectors of society.

the first　　Purpose of award

Guiding and promoting intellectual property work plays an important role in supply-side structural reform, innovative country building and high-quality economic development; Encourage and commend patentees and inventors (designers) for their outstanding contributions to technological (design) innovation and economic and social development.

the second　　Award cycle

China National Intellectual Property Administration and the World Intellectual Property Organization jointly carry out the selection of the China Patent Prize, which is held once a year.

Article　　Award settings

China Patent Awards include China Patent Gold Award, China Patent Silver Award, China Patent Excellence Award, China Design Gold Award, China Design Silver Award and China Design Excellence Award.

China Patent Gold Award, China Patent Silver Award and China Patent Excellence Award were selected from invention patents and utility model patents, and there were no more than 30 China Patent Gold Awards and no more than 60 China Patent Silver Awards. China Design Gold Award, China Design Silver Award and China Design Excellence Award were selected from the design patents, with no more than 10 gold awards for China design and no more than 15 silver awards for China design. The winning proportion of China Patent Excellence Award and China Appearance Design Excellence Award does not exceed 30% of all kinds of qualified projects.

Article 4　　Review organization

The China Patent Award Evaluation Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Evaluation Committee) was established in China National Intellectual Property Administration, and China National Intellectual Property Administration, together with the World Intellectual Property Organization, carried out the evaluation, approval and award of the China Patent Award. The review committee has a review office, which is responsible for the daily organization and coordination.

Article 5　　Evaluation index and weight

(1) Invention patents and utility model patents

1. Patent quality (25%). Evaluation: novelty, creativity and practicality; Text quality.

2. Technological advancement (25%). Evaluation: originality and importance; Compared with the advantages and disadvantages of current similar technologies; Universality of patented technology.

3. Application and protection measures and results (35%). Evaluation: patent application and protection measures; Economic benefit and market share.

4. Social benefits and development prospects (15%). Evaluation: social benefits; Industry influence; Policy adaptability.

(2) Design patent

1. Patent quality (25%). Evaluation: innovation and industrial applicability; Text quality.

2. Expression of design points and ideas (25%). Evaluation: uniqueness of design points; Artistic and symbolic; Functionality

3. Application and protection measures and results (35%). Evaluation: patent application and protection measures; Economic benefit and market share.

4. Social benefits and development prospects (15%). Evaluation: social benefits; Development prospect.

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(a) China Patent Award participating projects are recommended by local intellectual property offices, intellectual property management agencies of relevant departments and units in the State Council, national trade associations, academicians of China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, etc. according to the requirements of the selection notice of the year.

(two) the evaluation office is responsible for the preliminary examination of the recommended projects, and organize the relevant preliminary evaluation work.

(three) the evaluation office according to the preliminary evaluation, put forward a list of pre winning projects, submitted to the evaluation committee.

(four) the review committee shall examine and approve the list of pre-winning projects, and determine the winning projects and their award levels.

(five) the evaluation office in the China National Intellectual Property Administration municipal government portal publicity selection results.

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(a) China patent award selection work to accept social supervision, the public has objections to the publicity project, can be put forward to the evaluation office within the specified time.

(2) The review office receives the objection materials, sets up an objection handling team, analyzes the specific situation of the objection, forms the objection analysis materials and handling opinions and reports them to the review committee. After the review committee decides, it will notify the objection party and the project applicant and the recommending unit of the handling opinions.

(three) the relevant personnel involved in the objection handling shall keep the identity of the objector and the relevant objection information confidential.

Article 8　　Award

China National Intellectual Property Administration and the World Intellectual Property Organization, according to the publicity of the selection results, will award prizes to projects that have no objection or the objection is not established, jointly award medals and certificates to the inventors (designers) of the projects that won the gold medal, and award medals to the patentee; China National Intellectual Property Administration awarded certificates to the inventors (designers) who won the silver award and the excellence award, and medals to the patentee.

China National Intellectual Property Administration held a meeting with the World Intellectual Property Organization to jointly commend the inventors (designers) and patentees who won the prize.

China National Intellectual Property Administration announced the winning results through TV, Internet, newspapers and other media.

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For the award-winning project, if it is found that the submitted materials are untrue and there is evidence to prove that they do not meet the award-winning conditions, the evaluation office will put forward the opinion of revoking the award, and with the approval of the evaluation Committee, the award will be revoked and the medals and certificates will be recovered.

If the patent right of the winning project is completely invalid, the China Patent Award granted to the patent will be automatically revoked with the invalidation of the right.

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The "Little Book-turning Party" is a sub-column of the "Book-turning Party" in The Paper: reading the knowledge in books in a well-documented way.

In the hit drama Ode to Joy, almost all the protagonists use Apple phones, except Qiu Yingying, who seems to have a replacement Android phone. We don’t know whether Apple also paid the advertising fee for this play, but it’s not surprising if there are a group of people around you who are using Apple phones, and everyone may encounter one or two "fruit fans" who are obsessed with Apple products and act as "free salesmen".

Martin Lindstrom of marketing guru said in his "brand brainwashing" that "fruit powder" is actually similar to Christians.

His exact words are as follows:

As we all know, no brand can become a cult-like, almost religious worship brand like Apple (in fact, in an experiment I did for my last book, when I studied the brains of Apple fans with functional magnetic resonance imaging, I found that their brain activities are similar to those of Christians), and peer pressure is the core of many Apple strategies. One of the strategies is "early recruitment", in other words, it is to sell it to children aged 13-17. This marketing activity is so effective that about 46% of the children of this age now own an iPod, and the product that children talk about most among themselves is the iPod, and a questionnaire survey shows that 82% of all high school students with portable music players use the iPod.

Once these children entered the university, Apple began to openly "recruit", hired college students to become "Apple campus representatives" and turned the whole university bookstore into a mini-Apple store. One job advertisement said, "This is a great opportunity to be an Apple spokesperson and have some fun." The job description includes hosting workshops, organizing activities, and establishing good relations with students, faculty and students’ parents. The most important thing is, "You will cooperate with the Apple team to implement marketing projects on campus, including promoting sales and raising the awareness of Apple products … We need a leader who can inspire peers and cooperate with student organizations."

This copy is very clever: who doesn’t want to think of himself as a leader, a trendsetter and a person who can inspire his peers? I would like to add that if you often go to the movies, you may think that people all over the world use Apple products-this is a victory that combines product implantation and peer pressure. In 2009, almost half of Hollywood movies-about 46%-featured Apple or Apple products. Although it is generally believed that this behavior does not involve money transactions, there is no better way to expose advertisements and brands.

Well-documented:

Martin thinks that Apple has obviously taken advantage of people’s psychology: it succumbs to some potential "peer pressure", that is, people want what others want. And the more obvious the needs of others are, the more we want what they have. According to Martin, this is what advertisers and marketers have known for a long time.

Black Friday and "11.11" snapping up may also take advantage of this psychology:

This fear of’ if someone else takes it, we will miss it’ drives fanatics to queue up at 4 am, just to get the latest iPad2 or a pair of UGG wool boots with rare colors, and this is why a bargain hunter was trampled to death outside Wal-Mart on Long Island on a black Friday a few years ago. If you bid for goods on eBay, you are likely to fall victim to this trap unconsciously. If there is only one product (for example, there is only one penguin tea set in the world), then the fear that’ others may easily get a set of mugs with orange beaks’ will drive people to raise the bid price exponentially-and pay a price far beyond the value of the product.

Martin thinks that the bestseller list also takes advantage of "peer pressure":

To know how much strangers’ preferences and purchases affect our decisions, just look at the leaderboard phenomenon. Imagine you walk into a large chain bookstore as big as a football field. Faced with a large number of choices, it is still quite risky to spend $27.99 on a novel or memoir that you later find hard to read. But wait, what’s on the independent shelf on your right? This week’s "Best-selling List of The New York Times", including fiction and non-fiction, has more than 20 books in total. Subconsciously, you think, "If so many people buy this book, it must be a good book", and then you think, "If so many people are reading this book, won’t it be out of date if I don’t read it?" Now, you not only avoid the pain of going through four floors and not knowing how to start, but also get the recognition of your peers who buy books. This is not a happy coincidence in the publishing industry. In fact, although publishers want you to believe the contents of the list, the main reason why the best-selling list existed at first was not only to track sales, but also to make us think that these books were "pre-approved"—in other words, if we didn’t read the books that everyone else was reading, we would be ill-educated, unable to keep up with the trend, and would be excluded from the national language theory.

Well-documented:

More interestingly, Martin found that even if consumers are "used", they still think that their buying behavior is rational:

Of course, we don’t always realize that the perceived popularity of goods affects our preferences. Recently, I asked 10 female fans in louis vuitton in a focus group: "Why do you like this brand so much?" Everyone mentioned the quality of zippers, leather and brand immortality. I am doubtful about that. So we scanned the brains of these 10 women with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Every time we show them pictures of louis vuitton products, the "Brodmann area 10" in the brain will be lit up, which will be activated when people see something they think is "cool". These women rationalize their buying behavior and tell themselves that they like this brand because of its high quality, but their brains know that they actually make choices because they are’ cool’. Even the brain can’t stand the fact that we are excluded, which seems to indicate that whether it is "hot" songs, "that" gifts or "trendy" designer handbags, what we finally buy has nothing to do with what we want, but more of what we think we should.

But the most interesting thing is that Martin found that even marketers themselves will fall into this trap:

For example, the planner of every advertising company I know (in most European advertising companies, this position is to do consumer research) has a beautiful Moleskine leather notebook. This was not sent when they joined the company; It has become an unwritten rule that every planner of an advertising company must own one and use it. If you don’t, it means that you are isolated and not an insider.

Book shadow:

　　Cctv news(Reporter Liu Wei): The Beijing Daxing International Airport Expressway, with a total length of about 27 kilometers, is an important part of the "five vertical and two horizontal" comprehensive traffic trunk road network outside Beijing Daxing International Airport, and it is also a new bridge connecting the world. It is known as "the first road in the country".

　　(Photography Liu Wei)

　　On August 5th, an interview group of the network theme activity "Together with each other in five years" came here to visit. During the introduction of Zhang Yanduo, assistant general manager of Beijing Investment Transportation Company, the reporter caught several key words of this high-level expressway.

　　Safety: The freezing point of the snow-melting pavement drops to minus 12 degrees.

　　(Photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission)

　　It is understood that in order to ensure the traffic safety of high-speed vehicles and improve the driving experience, the surface layer of the 23-kilometer bridge of the project is made of snow-melting materials, which can reduce the freezing point of the road surface to about MINUS 12 degrees, effectively improve the impact of snow and ice weather on the highway capacity, and greatly reduce the use of conventional snow-melting materials and reduce the damage to the environment and bridge structure. It is the first time in China to adopt the technology of melting ice and snow pavement in such a large scale in a project.

　　Wisdom: Intelligent street lamps and active luminous signs are widely used.

　　(Photography Liu Wei)

　　According to reports, Daxing Airport Expressway adopts advanced measures such as comprehensive control technology, smart street lamps and active luminous signs. Street lamps can be brightness level by themselves according to the environment; In foggy days, the guide device has a prompt flashing every 20 meters; Traffic sign facilities themselves are light sources, which keep emitting light continuously. Under any conditions, vehicles and pedestrians can easily identify themselves visually and take behavioral measures to further build a travel safety guarantee system.

　　In the process of project construction, we actively cooperate with relevant scientific research institutions and use a variety of new technologies to build a new model of wisdom and high speed. Provide a fast and convenient access experience by using the mobile Internet charging system; Through the establishment of comprehensive monitoring system, intelligent analysis of big data, simulation deduction and electronic sand table to create a smart management system, and strive to create a safe, comfortable, convenient, fast, efficient and intelligent "new country gate first road."

　　Modernization: "Three Lines and Four Bridges" Synchronized Rotation Break the Record

　　(Photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission)

　　According to the data, the control project of the project crosses beijing-shanghai railway and crosses the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, and it is constructed synchronously with three projects and four bridges of the track line and Tuanhe Road, and it is successfully completed by using the "skylight point" of railway transportation in 90 minutes in the morning. Make full use of BIM technology in the process of project implementation, generate the whole deduction before turning, accurately calculate and improve the control ability, and greatly reduce the safety risk. The synchronous swivel project of "Three Lines and Four Bridges" led by Beijing Investment Co., Ltd. pioneered the cluster swivel construction of long-span bridges across the railway in China.

Blind people dare not take the blind road: I don’t know what is waiting for me ahead.

On the sidewalks of the city, there is always a strip of blind roads. For people with visual impairment, the blind road is a "static eye". They judge the direction of the road through the detection of the blind road brick by their feet and blind poles. However, in an interview recently, the reporter found that there are many obstacles on the blind road in Shijiazhuang street, which seriously affects the travel of the blind and even brings them danger.

phenomenon

The bike is parked on the blind road.

On both sides of the blind road on the street sidewalk, a row of cars stopped on one side, and a row of bicycles and electric cars stopped on the other side. The rear wheels of non-motor vehicles occupied a large part of the blind road. This is the scene that the reporter saw on a service road south of the intersection of Ping ‘an Street and Huai ‘an Road on the afternoon of July 31st.

"The blind road has become like this. We people with healthy eyesight have to be careful when passing. How can the blind get by?" A gentleman passing by here lamented.

On the streets of Shijiazhuang, such a situation is not uncommon.

The blind road in front of northland supermarket in Zhaiying South Street is occupied by a row of bicycles and electric cars. There was a special parking space for non-motor vehicles in front of the supermarket, but because the parking space was full, someone parked the car directly on the blind road for convenience.

There is also a phenomenon that the blind road is occupied by bicycles next to the entrance of Beiguo Mall Station and Northern Song Dynasty Station on Metro Line 1. Bicycles are parked in disorder, which not only occupies the blind road, but also blocks the pedestrian passage. Many pedestrians have no choice but to bypass the road.

In front of the book building, some cars parked directly on the blind road, and they stopped in a row, completely blocking the blind road.

Roadside facilities play "edge ball"

In some places, obstacles have been erected on blind roads.

On a section of service road near Jianhua Street on Donggang Road, a row of iron piles with a height of 20-30 cm were erected close to the blind road. In some places, even irons stood on the other side of the blind road, and a short section of iron piles even circled the blind road into the parking lot. The motor vehicles parked here just cover the blind road. A lady who lives nearby said worriedly, "For blind people, I’m afraid they will trip on such a blind road."

On Ping ‘an Avenue, there is a small iron house next to the blind road, which also makes people worry about the blind people passing through here, fearing that they will bump into the house when they walk.

Mahjong table on the blind road.

In addition to some vehicles or facilities occupying blind roads, some citizens also occupy blind roads when setting up stalls or having fun.

On Zhaiying South Street, several citizens put tables on the blind road and played mahjong, with some onlookers watching the battle.

The citizens who played mahjong said that they didn’t realize that they occupied the blind road. They just felt that it was cool under the tree and few people passed by, so they played mahjong here.

The reporter also saw the interruption of blind roads in many road sections. On a section of Ping ‘an Avenue, not only the blind road was interrupted, but also a manhole cover was tilted, which simply became a "trap".

affect

Blind people usually dare not go blind.

Wang Huaijie is the owner of a blind massage shop on Jianming North Road. He told reporters that he was hit by an obstacle on the blind road when he was walking. This kind of thing has happened many times. "Once in the street in front of my shop, a sorbet seller put the sorbet box on the blind road, and people were not around. I couldn’t see it, so I went straight ahead and bumped into the sorbet box. " Wang Huaijie said, fortunately, he walked slowly, and there was nothing serious, but he was shocked at that time.

"On the road in the middle of the tree, inclined cables with telephone poles pass through the blind road, high and low. Walking through there, you often stumble when you meet the low ones, and sometimes there are wires on the high ones. Once I went to my sister’s house and passed there, and I was scratched by wire. I don’t know who to look for, I can only admit that I am unlucky. " Wang Huaijie said, "Some blind roads are too close to tree pits or green areas, so we can’t see them. It’s easy to walk askew. If you accidentally step into a mud pit on rainy days, your shoes and socks are wet."

Speaking of the impact of obstacles on the blind, Wang Huaijie has a lot to say. He said that some vendors will occupy blind roads, which is not bad, and stall owners will remind themselves when they see it. The most troublesome thing is that sometimes bicycles or other sundries will appear on the blind road, and no one will remind him that he is often tripped or injured.

Mr. Geng, the owner of another massage shop, said that he also had the experience of almost tripping over wires. Sometimes the blind road disappears when walking, leaving him at a loss. "Now I don’t take the blind road, because I don’t know what’s waiting for me in front, or it’s safer to walk by the curb." Mr. Geng’s words represent the voices of many blind people. They usually prefer to walk along the road in the non-motor vehicle lane when they go out, thinking it is safer. Some blind friends simply avoid traveling alone, but they really need to go out and let their families accompany them.

It is understood that blind people need to constantly compose pictures in their minds when walking, and build a three-dimensional picture with the feeling and hearing under their feet. The blind stick in their hands is like a detector, and they can check the road conditions 1 meter away at any time. When there is an obstacle at a certain point in this picture, it is necessary to detour, and this obstacle point will stay in this three-dimensional picture for a long time, and they may not dare to pass here next time. Because of this, many blind people are afraid to take the blind road because of the obstacles on the blind road.

hotline

Which department can take care of the blind road?

The blind road is occupied. Is there any department that can manage it?

The reporter called the Shijiazhuang City Management Hotline 12319, and the staff of the urban management department said that this situation needs to be understood by relevant personnel before replying.

Then the reporter called the hotline of Shijiazhuang Mayor 12345, and the staff said that they would report it to the relevant departments and hand over the matter.

sound

Blind roads are the standard of urban civilization.

The blind road is the standard of a city civilization. For everyone who needs to use the blind road, this road is "just needed". However, due to various reasons, there are many obstacles on the blind road, which makes the blind people afraid to take the blind road, and the blind road has become a decoration.

Shi Yunfeng, vice chairman of Hebei Association for the Blind, said that the occupation of blind roads is an old topic, and the state has always attached great importance to the travel of blind people, requiring all urban public roads to have blind roads. However, in real life, many citizens simply don’t have this awareness. It is not uncommon for bicycles, cars and stalls to occupy blind roads. Although they have appealed for many years, they have not been well solved.

"Now it is not only unsafe for disabled people to walk in the blind road, but also dangerous. When they walk, the wire hanging on the blind road cuts their faces, or they rub against other people’s cars and even fall into the sewer when they walk. The blind road not only failed to guide the blind to walk, but became a’ road killer’. " Shi Yunfeng said that there are many irregularities in blind road construction. In some places, blind roads are often laid according to the direction of roads, but the practicality of blind roads is ignored. "Builders don’t use them, users don’t have the right to speak", so that there are manhole covers and stay wires in the middle of blind roads.

"There are currently 79,000 visually disabled people in Shijiazhuang, and the occupation of blind roads and the irregular construction have affected their lives; For the country, it is also a huge waste that blind roads can’t be used when they are built. " Shi Yunfeng called on the relevant departments to effectively deal with this situation, and hoped that blind friends as users could be involved in the design and laying stage of blind roads, so as to effectively make blind roads play its due role. (Reporter Lu Weili Intern Yang Liyun)

　　Some artificial lanes are congested, the pass card is not recognized, and the toll amount is displayed incorrectly; Some car owners feel that the charges have increased … … Since January 1st, when the provincial toll station of expressway was cancelled and the new fast toll collection system was connected to the grid, the system was generally stable, but there were also some new situations and problems. On January 17, Wu Dejin, director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, and Wu Chungeng, spokesperson, responded to social concerns at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Transport.

　　After the station was withdrawn, the freight car charging standard was re-approved.

　　All localities will review the standards to prevent illegal price increases.

　　Some car owners reported that the toll became higher after the station was withdrawn. Why did this happen? Is the charging method changed?

　　"In the process of withdrawing the station, the toll standards of passenger cars in various places have not been adjusted. What has changed is the rounding rules of the fee and the accurate charging according to the actual traffic route; In order to realize the fast charging of trucks without stopping, the charging of trucks was changed from charging by weight to charging by model, and the provinces also re-approved the charging standard of trucks. " Wu Dejin said that when the Ministry of Transport previously asked all localities to verify the freight car toll standards, they should strictly follow the requirements of "two guarantees and one reduction", that is, to ensure that the overall burden of freight car tolls will not be increased under the same traffic volume conditions, and that the toll payable for each type of toll vehicle in the standard loading state will not be greater than the toll payable for the original toll by weight, so that the tonnage corresponding to the new toll standards will be at least 10% lower than the full tonnage.

　　Wu Dejin introduced that before this, all localities had formulated relevant charging standards through legal pricing procedures, and all of them were made public and interpreted before January 5. The Ministry of Transport has also asked all localities to carry out in-depth review of charging standards. "Those who do not meet the requirements should be implemented by lowering the charging standards or differentiating fees, and they must never take the opportunity to raise prices in violation of regulations and increase the burden on enterprises. Regarding the problem of rising rates reflected by everyone, we will instruct the relevant provinces to verify one by one, find out the reasons, properly dispose of them according to law, and earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the public. "

　　Wu Dejin also told reporters that in order to further improve the transparency of charges, the Ministry of Transport is organizing relevant units to develop apps or small programs. "After being put into use, the public can directly input the starting and ending points and driving routes and find out the corresponding tolls by themselves."

　　Troubleshoot system technical problems and improve information push settings.

　　Strive to realize the stable operation of the charging system before the Spring Festival.

　　At the beginning of the grid connection, the new toll collection system was unstable, which caused inconvenience to some ETC users’ normal travel. "In response to these problems, we set up a technical support team to organize technical backbone teams to guide provinces with weak foundations and unstable operations. Continuously optimize the system from the aspects of upgrading the entrance and exit lane software, optimizing the charging calculation module, and improving the recognition rate of ETC gantry system, so as to improve the operating efficiency and the accuracy of charging. " Wu Dejin told reporters that according to incomplete statistics, the lane system software has been upgraded more than 200 times, the rate calculation module has been upgraded and optimized more than 800 times, and the customer service APP and SMS applet have been tuned more than 30 times. "Recently, we have deployed ‘ Clear action ’ Re-examine and sort out the system, and strive to complete all the problems before the Spring Festival to promote the overall operation of the system. "

　　There are also some car owners who report that they frequently receive short messages of deduction when using ETC to take the expressway, which is quite puzzling. There are also many car owners who hope to achieve "one-time settlement and display the total cost" for export.

　　To solve these problems, Wu Dejin explained that after the station was withdrawn, the accurate charging of the expressway was carried out through the ETC portal system, that is, every time the vehicle passed an ETC portal, the system would charge accordingly. "The system should have formed a complete bill for the whole process of deduction, and then pushed it to the owner through SMS or APP. At present, the problem of frequent push is mainly due to the instability in the early stage of system switching, and sometimes the bills of sub-sections are pushed to customers. " Wu Dejin said that the Ministry of Transport has asked all localities to improve the information push system in strict accordance with the requirements of the technical scheme, so that the public can get relevant information accurately and timely.

　　Regarding the issue that the ETC lane exit does not display the full toll, Wu Dejin responded that the new networked toll collection system is an offline system. When calculating the full toll of a car at the ETC lane exit, it is necessary to call the toll collection records of the car from various ETC portal systems along the way, and the calculation time of the system will be longer than the time for the vehicle to pass through the ETC lane (270 milliseconds). "According to ‘ Access priority ’ Principle, ETC vehicle ‘ Pass first, then deduct the fee ’ The new charging system informs the whole cost through SMS and APP inquiry, but in the initial stage of system switching, both methods were not implemented satisfactorily. "

　　Wu Dejin told reporters that at present, the Ministry of Transport has deployed all localities to implement SMS push and APP inquiry in a timely manner in strict accordance with the technical plan to ensure that the public can know the toll amount in time. "At the same time, we have also studied and formulated the technical plan for the fee display according to the requirements of the majority of car owners. The next step will be to accelerate the related work and strive to implement it as soon as possible."

　　Measures are being taken to keep the system running and the site unblocked.

　　Never increase the travel burden of enterprises and people.

　　"With the continuous running-in and improvement for more than half a month, the operation of the charging system is constantly improving." At the meeting, Wu Chungeng introduced the traffic situation since the withdrawal of the station with a set of data: At present, the ETC utilization rate of buses has remained at around 76%, and the ETC utilization rate of trucks has increased from 17.04% on January 1 to 19.65% on January 14; The speed of vehicles passing through the entrance and exit toll stations increased by 13% compared with the same period of last year; The number of toll stations with daily average congestion of more than 500 meters at entrances and exits decreased by 21% compared with the same period of last year, and the average congestion duration decreased by 10% compared with the same period of last year; The time for buses and trucks to cross provincial boundaries has been reduced from 15 seconds and 29 seconds to 2 seconds and 3 seconds respectively.

　　"To cancel the provincial toll stations of expressways, it is necessary to comprehensively upgrade the software and hardware systems of all toll stations and toll lanes in the country to achieve interconnection, interoperability and mutual recognition." Wu Chungeng said that in view of the problems in the initial stage of system switching, the transportation system has taken a series of measures to ensure the system operation and smooth stops: establishing a three-level dispatching linkage mechanism between the Ministry of Transport, the Provincial Department of Transportation and the expressway toll station, and implementing 24-hour monitoring on the national network toll stations and expressway toll stations. If it is found that the length of congestion is more than 500 meters, the coordination mechanism will be started immediately to timely dispatch and divert to prevent large-scale traffic jams; Seriously accept complaints from the public, verify, deal with and reply to the clues reflected by the public one by one, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of highway users.

　　"Next, we will earnestly improve our service awareness, solve the existing problems as soon as possible, and never give them to the broad masses of the people ‘ Add a block ’ Never increase the travel burden of enterprises and people, so that more people can enjoy the reform dividend and enjoy the benefits of convenient travel. " Wu Chungeng said.

In the process of house decoration, the treatment of blank wall is a key link, which directly affects the quality and effect of subsequent decoration. The following will introduce in detail the proper treatment method of blank wall and the aspects that need to be paid attention to in the treatment process.

First of all, a comprehensive inspection of the blank wall is the first step. It is necessary to carefully check whether there are cracks, hollowing and other problems on the wall. You can tap the wall with a small hammer and judge whether there is empty drum by sound. If cracks are found, small cracks can be treated with special crack repairing agent; For larger cracks, it is necessary to cut the cracks first and then fill them with cement mortar. If there is an empty drum, the empty drum part should be eradicated and repaired with cement mortar again.

Followed by the treatment of the wall base. This includes cleaning the dust, oil and other impurities on the wall. You can use brooms, vacuum cleaners and other tools to clean up and ensure that the walls are clean and tidy. After that, choose the appropriate treatment method according to the flatness of the wall. If the flatness of the wall is poor and the error exceeds 5mm, it is recommended to use gypsum to level the wall first. Gypsum has the advantages of fast solidification and strong adhesion, which can effectively improve the flatness of the wall. If the wall flatness is good and the error is within 5mm, you can directly blow putty.

Scraping putty is an important step in the treatment of blank wall. Generally, it is necessary to scrape the putty for 2-3 times, and the interval between each time is 1-2 days, so that the putty can be fully dried. Pay attention to the technique when scraping putty, try to keep it even and flat, and avoid sagging and bumps. After scraping the putty for the last time, use sandpaper to polish the wall to make it smoother and more delicate. Pay even attention when polishing to avoid polishing marks.

After completing the above steps, you can decorate the wall. Common wall decoration materials include latex paint and wallpaper. If you choose latex paint, you should first paint the wall with primer before painting. The primer can enhance the adhesion between the wall and the top coat, and at the same time, it can also play a role in moisture prevention and mildew prevention. Topcoat generally needs to be painted for 2-3 times, and a certain time should be separated between each time. If you choose wallpaper, you should first paint a layer of basement membrane on the wall to prevent the wallpaper from being damp and moldy.

In the process of dealing with the blank wall, we also need to pay attention to the following aspects. The temperature and humidity of the construction environment have great influence on the wall treatment effect. Generally speaking, the construction temperature should be between 5℃ and 35℃, and the relative humidity should be below 85%. If the ambient temperature is too low or the humidity is too high, it will affect the drying speed of putty and latex paint, leading to problems such as cracking and peeling on the wall. In addition, pay attention to safety during construction and wear protective equipment, such as masks and gloves. When using electric tools, we should operate in strict accordance with the operating rules to avoid safety accidents.

The following table compares the advantages and disadvantages of different wall treatment materials:

In a word, it is necessary to properly handle the blank wall according to the correct steps, and at the same time pay attention to the construction environment and safety issues, so as to create a beautiful and durable wall.

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　　CCTV News:Issued by Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, December 3rd 0— At 1500 hours, there were 1,392 new cases of COVID-19 virus infection in Beijing. Among them, there were 1228 isolated observers and 164 social screening personnel; There are 420 cases in Chaoyang District, 144 cases in Fengtai District, 103 cases in Changping District, 101 cases in Xicheng District, 96 cases in Tongzhou District, 89 cases in Daxing District, 80 cases in Shunyi District, 71 cases in Economic Development Zone, 64 cases in Dongcheng District, 51 cases in Haidian District, 43 cases in Shijingshan District, 39 cases in Mentougou District, 22 cases in Yanqing District, 21 cases in Pinggu District, 19 cases in Huairou District and Fangshan District. There were 1 case of critical type, 1 case of severe type, 14 cases of common type, 349 cases of light type and 1027 cases of asymptomatic infection.

　　Infected persons 1 to 64: currently living in Dongcheng District. Among them, there were 61 isolated observers and 3 social screening personnel; There were 1 common case, 9 mild cases and 54 asymptomatic infected cases.

　　Infected people 65 to 165: now living in Xicheng District. Among them, 82 cases were isolated observers and 19 cases were social screening personnel; There were 25 cases of mild infection and 76 cases of asymptomatic infection.

　　Infected persons 166 to 585: now living in Chaoyang District. Among them, there were 395 isolated observers and 25 social screening personnel; 1 case was severe, 98 cases were mild and 321 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected persons 586 to 729: now living in Fengtai District. Among them, there were 117 isolated observers and 27 social screening personnel; 1 case was critical, 11 cases were common, 24 cases were mild, and 108 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected people 730 to 772: now living in Shijingshan District. Among them, 36 cases were isolated observers and 7 cases were social screening personnel; There were 2 cases of common type, 24 cases of mild type and 17 cases of asymptomatic infection.

　　Infected persons 773 to 823: now living in Haidian District. Among them, there were 46 isolated observers and 5 social screening personnel; 31 cases were mild and 20 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected persons 824 to 862: currently living in Mentougou District. Among them, there were 27 isolated observers and 12 social screening personnel; 4 cases were mild and 35 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected persons 863 to 878: now living in Fangshan District. Among them, there were 14 isolated observers and 2 social screening personnel; 2 cases were mild and 14 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected persons 879 to 974: currently living in Tongzhou District. Among them, 89 cases were isolated observers and 7 cases were social screening personnel; 35 cases were mild and 61 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected persons 975 to 1054: now living in Shunyi District. All are isolated observers; There were 18 cases of mild infection and 62 cases of asymptomatic infection.

　　Infected persons from 1055 to 1157: now living in Changping District. Among them, 85 cases were isolated observers and 18 cases were social screening personnel; There were 18 cases of mild infection and 85 cases of asymptomatic infection.

　　Infected persons from 1158 to 1246: now living in Daxing District. Among them, 82 cases were isolated observers and 7 cases were social screening personnel; 1 case was mild and 88 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected persons from 1247 to 1265: now living in Huairou District. Among them, there were 15 isolated observers and 4 social screening personnel; 6 cases were mild and 13 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected persons from 1266 to 1286: now living in Pinggu District. Among them, there were 17 isolated observers and 4 social screening personnel; 9 cases were mild and 12 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected persons from 1287 to 1299: now living in Miyun District. Among them, there were 11 isolated observers and 2 social screening personnel; 5 cases were mild and 8 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected people from 1300 to 1321: now living in Yanqing District. Among them, 9 cases were isolated observers and 13 cases were social screening personnel; 16 cases were mild and 6 cases were asymptomatic.

　　Infected persons 1322 to 1392: currently living in the Economic Development Zone. Among them, there were 62 isolated observers and 9 social screening personnel; There were 24 cases of mild infection and 47 cases of asymptomatic infection.

Accelerate the realization of brand going to sea, rely on the smooth logistics of China-Europe trains, and formulate a package of policies-
Cross-border e-commerce is booming.

The Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress proposed to speed up the construction of a trade power. As a new business model, cross-border electronic commerce has become a new kinetic energy for China’s foreign trade development, a new channel for transformation and upgrading, and a new starting point for high-quality development. In 2015, China established the first cross-border electronic commerce Comprehensive Experimental Zone. In recent years, China’s cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area model has become more and more mature, and the number of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test areas has expanded to 165, which has played an important role in the development of cross-border e-commerce.

Not long ago, the State Council approved the establishment of cross-border electronic commerce Comprehensive Experimental Zone in 33 cities and regions including Langfang. This is the seventh batch of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zones established in China. So far, the number of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zones in China has expanded to 165. Setting up a new batch of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zones and vigorously developing new formats and models such as cross-border e-commerce will help stimulate the vitality of foreign trade entities, improve the efficiency of foreign trade operation, stabilize the supply chain of foreign trade industry chain, and realize the integration of industrial digitalization and trade digitalization.

At present, what new changes are facing the development of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area? How can cross-border e-commerce achieve high-quality development? The reporter conducted an interview.

New advantages-

When the brand goes out to sea, press the development fast forward button.

Entering the Samsung Down Building in Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Zhu Zhiliang, the chairman of Zhejiang Samsung Down Co., Ltd., is browsing the background of the website to learn important data such as user consumption preferences, transaction volume, and product page stay time.

"In the past, the order was’ waiting for it’ and OEM. Now, through cross-border e-commerce, our own brand products can be sold directly to consumers. The feedback data can help us understand the pain points of users in the first time." Zhu Zhiliang, who has been engaged in foreign trade business for more than 30 years, is deeply touched.

By building independent stations overseas, Samsung Down can master a large number of front-end sales data such as styles and styles, thus quickly anchoring the research and development direction and adjusting product production.

Since its launch in May 2022, the independent station of Samsung Down in foreign countries has sold more than 5 million US dollars of bedding products, and the repurchase rate is about 20%. "It is not easy to achieve such a high repurchase rate of bedding products, which just shows the recognition of brands by overseas consumers." Zhu Zhiliang was very satisfied with the booming supply and marketing of his own products.

"Traditional foreign trade is waiting for others to give orders, and enterprises have no pricing power. Cross-border e-commerce has enabled some of our companies to find opportunities for brands to go to sea. " Wu Changhong, director of the Comprehensive Test Division of Cross-border E-commerce of Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that the essence of cross-border e-commerce is "cross-border trade in internet plus+made in China", the products of enterprises are excellent, and various services are guaranteed in the pilot area. More and more China brands will go abroad.

Established in 2015, Hangzhou cross-border electronic commerce Comprehensive Experimental Zone is the first comprehensive experimental zone for e-commerce in China. Since its establishment, the total scale and development level of Hangzhou’s e-commerce industry has always been in the leading echelon in the country, with a total of 100,000 cross-border e-commerce sellers and 4,371 overseas registered trademarks, and the import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce has exceeded 100 billion yuan.

"In the next stage, we will choose the best and help the strong, and cultivate waist enterprises to big sellers." Wu Changhong said that Hangzhou will increase policy support in brand subject cultivation, independent station construction, financial support, and overseas brand base construction to help cross-border e-commerce in Hangzhou enter a new stage of high-quality development.

New markets—

China-Europe train, open up the main artery of logistics

Recently, 50 containers filled with daily necessities started from Xi ‘an International Port Station on the "Chang ‘an" China-Europe train, heading west to Europe.

"This time we shipped vacuum cleaners, glass bottles, clothes racks, cosmetic bags and other products. It only takes about 12 days for the goods to reach Europe." Li Songxing, general manager of Xi ‘an Haocheng Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. told reporters.

"Since 2021, Xi ‘an has focused on building a national assembly center for cross-border e-commerce of the China-Europe train’ Chang ‘an’, and implemented a new mode of’ customs declaration first, then packing’ for cross-border e-commerce, so as to improve the customs clearance time of goods for 2-3 days." Wang Sports, member of the Party Working Committee of Xi ‘an International Port Area and full-time deputy director of Xi ‘an Comprehensive Bonded Zone Management Committee, said that Xi ‘an International Port Area has put into use 13 overseas warehouses, which are distributed in seven countries including Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, providing "end-to-end, door-to-door" full-link logistics services for cross-border businesses.

In 2022, there were 198 cross-border e-commerce classes in Xi ‘an, which was 1.6 times of the annual shipment volume in 2021. The cross-border e-commerce transaction volume was 3.51 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 40%.

According to Ma Xuanli, deputy director of the Management Committee of Xi ‘an International Port Area, relying on the channel advantages of China-Europe trains, Xi ‘an actively builds a "cross-border e-commerce+live broadcast" model and opens up a new track for overseas live e-commerce. In 2022, Xi ‘an introduced 11 new live broadcast projects, built 50 live broadcast rooms and introduced 200 live broadcast talents, basically forming a "cross-border e-commerce+live broadcast" ecosystem integrating cross-border live broadcast, short video production and anchor training. On July 24, 2018, the State Council officially approved the establishment of China (Xi ‘an) cross-border electronic commerce Comprehensive Experimental Zone. Since then, Xi ‘an has set up nine innovation demonstration pioneer zones, relying on platforms such as aviation, railway ports and comprehensive insurance zones to jointly promote the agglomeration and growth of cross-border e-commerce industry in Xi ‘an.

"In 2022, the cross-border e-commerce transaction volume in Xi’ an was 14.427 billion yuan, up 46.4% year-on-year. The cross-border e-commerce grew strongly and has become a new kinetic energy to stimulate the development of export-oriented economy." Zhang Xuanmin, director of the Xi ‘an Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said.

New measures-

Seize the opportunity and step into the fast lane of development

Walking into the production workshop of Shandong Boli Glass Co., Ltd., located in Zhangdian District, Zibo City, Shandong Province, a heat wave came to our face, and the glass solution as thick as syrup flowed out of the furnace. The intelligent manipulator waved its arm, and after bending, blowing, pressing, welding and other processing procedures, exquisite glass products were made.

"This export order reached 1 million US dollars, including glass vases, candlesticks, ceramics, candles and so on." Kang Jinheng, sales director of Shandong Boli Glass Co., Ltd. introduced that in 2022, relying on cross-border e-commerce business, the company’s performance achieved steady growth. In the first half of the year, it achieved revenue of more than 190 million yuan and profit of more than 17 million yuan. It is estimated that the annual export volume will be around 280 million yuan.

In January, 2022, Zibo was approved as a national cross-border electronic commerce Comprehensive Experimental Zone. In that year, Zibo completed 123.41 billion yuan of foreign trade import and export, and the number of cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Zibo increased by 67% year-on-year, which injected new impetus into building an open city.

How can Zibo achieve a rapid breakthrough in the cross-border e-commerce field?

Zibo has formulated a package of policies to increase support from encouraging the development of cross-border e-commerce enterprises, encouraging the construction and introduction of cross-border e-commerce platforms, and supporting the construction of cross-border e-commerce industrial parks, so as to improve the city’s development ecology.

"The research group of cross-border e-commerce tapping service was established in the city, and 366 regulated enterprises with import and export willingness and high product foreign trade compatibility were screened out as target enterprises for accurately tapping potential." Li Jiaxing, head of the Foreign Trade Development Section of the Zibo Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that the research team conducted on-site research and services to target enterprises, helped them to connect with international channels, talents, capital and other resources, and guided them to carry out cross-border e-commerce business.

As a rookie city to develop cross-border e-commerce, Zibo still faces some problems. "For example, as an inland city, the logistics cost of Zibo is significantly higher than that of other coastal cities. For example, the cross-border e-commerce industry involves comprehensive knowledge and skills such as payment, logistics, customs clearance and network. We still lack compound talents who know both foreign trade and cross-border e-commerce." Yin Qidi, Party Secretary and Director of Zibo Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said.

"In the future, Zibo will continue to make precise efforts and overcome difficulties on the cross-border e-commerce track, relying on universities and well-known Internet companies inside and outside the city to accelerate the cultivation of cross-border e-commerce talents, expand the scale of cross-border e-commerce, improve the cross-border e-commerce ecology, and build a high-level open city." Yin Qidi said. (Reporter Dou Wei Gong Shijian Li Rui)