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Ma Huateng pays attention to the industrial Internet and rural revitalization, while Li Yanhong focuses on new infrastructure and continues to pay attention to artificial intelligence.
Wen Yi Lieyun. com Editor Sheng Jiaying
Good morning, everyone. It’s Friday in a blink of an eye. Let’s take a look at the news worthy of attention in the science and technology circle today.
The first is a group of news about the suggestions of the two conferences on science and technology:
Tencent Ma Huateng: Focus on Industrial Internet and Rural Revitalization
This year, Ma Huateng, deputy to the National People’s Congress and chairman and CEO of Tencent’s board of directors, will submit seven written suggestions to the National People’s Congress, covering hot issues such as industrial Internet, rural revitalization, financial technology, medical services and doctors’ sense of acquisition, development of small and medium-sized enterprises, regional development, and ecological protection.
Ma Huateng said that the digital economy is moving towards a new era. The industrial Internet should be planned in the historical tide of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and it should be promoted from the height of national strategy to continuously expand the digital economy strength of China. At the same time, Ma Huateng also pointed out that digital technology can help rural revitalization and enhance the resilience of SMEs. In the proposal, Ma Huateng also said that the construction of smart hospitals should be further accelerated to help medical staff achieve "technical burden reduction".
Baidu Li Yanhong: Focus on new infrastructure and continue to pay attention to artificial intelligence.
Li Yanhong, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Baidu, submitted four proposals at the two sessions this year, covering new infrastructure, intelligent transportation, support for continuing education and personal information protection.
Li Yanhong put forward a proposal to build a new artificial intelligence infrastructure and outline the blueprint for the development of intelligent economy. In the past few years, Li Yanhong’s CPPCC proposals have repeatedly involved artificial intelligence, such as "strengthening the research on artificial intelligence ethics, building the cornerstone of intelligent society development", "opening the artificial intelligence platform, promoting the transformation of the real economy" and "strengthening the application of artificial intelligence and building a national innovative economy", which have attracted great social attention.
Xiaomi Leijun: An intelligent disaster warning system should be established.
Lei Jun, deputy to the National People’s Congress and chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, submitted four suggestions to the two sessions. In Lei Jun’s view, "the COVID-19 epidemic reminds us that a prosperous and harmonious society must not only have the motivation for continuous development and progress, but also have the ability to resolve major systemic risks." Lei Jun said that the coming era of intelligent interconnection of everything with 5G+AIoT can contribute more to the construction of public service systems such as disaster early warning system in China.
In view of the problem of small and micro enterprises returning to work and production, Lei Jun suggested further exploring the long-term mechanism of accurately serving small and micro enterprises’ financing, and promoting China’s economy to a new stage of high-quality development.
Sequoia Shen Nanpeng: Pay attention to medical care and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
This year, Shen Nanpeng, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and global managing partner of Sequoia Capital, will submit five proposals to the two sessions, including innovative drug research and development, reform of examination and approval system, informationization and intelligentization of medical care, construction of various prevention and control mechanisms for infectious diseases, and financial innovation and development of science and technology in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
As the only Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference member of the venture capital industry in China, Shen Nanpeng understands the significance of scientific and technological innovation, digital upgrading and information application to medical and health enterprises and institutions. This year, he has three proposals focusing on this field. In these proposals, Shen Nanpeng suggested that government departments should constantly optimize the soil for pharmaceutical innovation, provide policy support for further strengthening the research and development of new drugs, and promote the construction of a "pharmaceutical power"; Medical and health institutions need to pay attention to the application of big data and artificial intelligence, "apply both software and hardware" in medical resources investment, make good use of digitalization and informatization, and improve the overall medical supply capacity in China; The emergency response capacity of infectious diseases departments in China needs to be improved to a strategic level, the epidemic prevention capacity should be normalized, and a distributed infectious disease reporting data sharing network should be built.
Next, there is a set of investment and financing news:
Providing a complete data security product line, Meichuang Technology completed a new round of financing of 150 million yuan.
@ 36Kr Meichuang Technology announced that it has recently completed a new round of financing with a financing amount of 150 million yuan. This round of financing was led by Shengyu Investment and Broadband Capital successively, followed by Zhejiang Saibole and Yuyue Technology. In addition, the old shareholder Oriental Fuhai also participated in this round of follow-up.
Wen Jianxia, co-founder and deputy general manager of Meichuang Technology, said: The proceeds from this round of financing will be mainly used for product research and development, adhere to the technology-driven route, strengthen R&D investment in the field of data security, expand the data management product line, and continuously tap the value of data.
Looking for ingredients to complete two rounds of financing of 80 million yuan, with GMV exceeding 70 million yuan in a single month.
@ Hunting Cloud Network Pre-cooked Vegetable R&D and supply chain platform to find ingredients announced that it has obtained a total investment of RMB 80 million in Round A and A+ from Qingsong Fund and Zero One Venture Capital. Previously, in September 2019, looking for ingredients received 30 million yuan angel round financing from Galaxy Venture Capital, with accumulated financing exceeding 100 million yuan.
Finding ingredients was established in 2019, focusing on the research and development, production and distribution of prefabricated dishes, providing one-stop supply chain services for upstream and downstream businesses in the industry. The company has set up a set of supply chain+city station system, which can realize the same-day delivery of prefabricated dishes and serve the food service distributors in counties and towns of Line 3-5.
Shuomao Technology, a chronic disease diagnosis and treatment company, completed tens of millions of strategic financing.
@ Hunting Cloud Network Recently, Shuomao Technology, a chronic disease diagnosis and treatment company, completed tens of millions of strategic financing. This round of financing was invested by Aptar, a packaging solution provider in the medical and consumer industries. Lanchi Venture Capital is the A-round investor of Shuomao Technology.
This round of financing will be used to promote and commercialize the core product-disease diagnosis and treatment management system, establish deeper cooperation with hospitals and explore business models, and at the same time increase the strength of talent reserve and echelon construction. As a strategic investor, Aptar will cooperate with Shuomao Technology in the field of digital disease management platform and algorithm, and accelerate the development, manufacturing, commercialization and supply of respiratory drugs that have been listed and under development, so as to realize the digitalization of drug delivery, diagnosis and patient support.
Behind the above investment and financing news, have you seen some valuable investment trends? Next, let’s pay attention to the news of big companies:
Baidu or U.S. stocks delisted to increase valuation.
@ Sina According to media reports, Baidu is considering delisting from Nasdaq to improve its valuation. Baidu dived more than 6% before the market.
In response to this news, Baidu officially responded that (delisting) related statements are rumors. In fact, rumors about the privatization of Baidu have not stopped since the beginning of this year, and there is also a special discussion on whether Baidu will return to A or Hong Kong after privatization. On May 21, Li Yanhong told the media publicly that he was not worried about the suppression by the US government, and was constantly discussing what he could do, including the secondary listing in Hong Kong and other places.
After the above news came out, Baidu’s share price fell by more than 8% before the market opened. After the official opening, Baidu’s share price fell by 1% to around $107, and then stopped falling and turned up. At the close, Baidu reported $110.03, up 1.39%.
The original Zanyi technical director was sentenced to three years in prison for smuggling and taking drugs, and the drugs were seized in the company.
@ Sanyan Finance On January 22, 2020, the Intermediate People’s Court of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province issued criminal judgment, the first instance of Jiang’s smuggling, selling, transporting and manufacturing drugs.
The judgment shows that the defendant Jiang, male, was born on May 14, 1984. He was originally the technical director of the retail business department of Hangzhou Youzan Technology Co., Ltd., and his household registration was in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He was criminally detained on January 3, 2019 on suspicion of drug smuggling, and was released on bail on January 30 of the same year.
It was found through trial that around October 2018, the defendant Jiang started to log on to the website selling methamphetamine (ice) overseas (commonly known as "dark net"), placed an order to buy methamphetamine, and bought bitcoin through Alipay to pay for the drug purchase. The purchased methamphetamine was mailed from abroad to the office address of Hangzhou Youzan Technology Co., Ltd., his work unit, by surface mail. After receiving methamphetamine, Jiang used it all for himself.
Cheetah Mobile has risen more than 47% and will sell all its remaining shares in ByteDance.
@ TechWeb On May 20, the US stock market closed, and the three major indexes of the US stock market rose across the board. Cheetah Mobile (CMCM.US) rose 47.34%, with an intraday increase of 58%, the biggest increase since its listing, closing at $3.05 with a total market value of $420 million.
Cheetah Mobile announced before the US stock market closed yesterday that it would sell all its remaining shares in ByteDance. This transaction is expected to bring about $66 million in investment disposal income in Q2 this year, and will bring about $130 million in cash inflow. The transaction is expected to be completed before the end of June 2020.
According to Bloomberg News, ByteDance’s valuation in non-public stock trading has exceeded $100 billion. As soon as the news came out, the cheetah mobile disk once rose by more than 30%.
Netease accelerates the return of Hong Kong stocks to be listed at the end of June at the earliest, raising funds of less than 2 billion US dollars.
@ Securities Times. com learned from a foreign investment bank that Netease’s return to Hong Kong has been accelerating, at least half a year in advance. Like Ali and JD.COM, Netease submitted its application for listing in Hong Kong to the Stock Exchange in a confidential manner, and it will be listed at the end of June at the earliest, but the scale of fund-raising was not disclosed. The reporter simultaneously asked the relevant person in charge of Netease for verification, and the other party said that it would not comment at this stage.
As of the closing of the US stock market on the morning of 21st Beijing time, Netease reported a price of $390.31 per share, down 1.36% from the previous trading day, with a market value of about $50.4 billion.
Huya 1Q20 Financial Report: Revenue exceeded expectations for eight consecutive quarters, and profits increased steadily to 263 million.
On May 21st, 2020, Beijing time (May 20th, US Eastern Time), Huya (NYSE:HUYA) released its financial report for the first quarter ended March 31st, 2020. The financial report shows that in the first quarter of 2020, Huya’s total revenue increased by 47.8% year-on-year to RMB 2.412 billion, exceeding the management’s expectations for the eighth consecutive quarter since listing. Under non-GAAP, the net profit attributable to Huya was RMB 263 million, up by 100.7% year-on-year, reaching a new high, and it was profitable for ten consecutive quarters. In terms of domestic user data of the company, in the first quarter, the MAU of Huya live broadcast (monthly average active users) and the MAU of mobile terminal (monthly average active users) were 151 million and 74.7 million respectively, with year-on-year growth rates of 22.2% and 38.6% respectively, among which the MAU of mobile terminal reached a record high.
The rookie station has launched an unmanned vehicle to deliver express delivery, which has been launched in Hangzhou and Shanghai.
@ 36Kr Cainiao Post Station has been delivered by unmanned vehicles in many places across the country, including Hangzhou, Chengdu, Shanghai and Tianjin. Some community residents, teachers and students in colleges and universities have used the new service of unmanned vehicles. After the parcel is delivered to the community, users can make an appointment for convenient door-to-door time at any time by using mobile phone Taobao. According to the rookie technician, each unmanned vehicle can store 18 pieces of express delivery, and it takes about 1 hour to drive in the community for one week, and it can travel more than 40 kilometers once charging, so as to meet the all-day demand.
OceanBase, Alipay’s self-developed database, refreshed the TPC-C benchmark world record again.
@ Hunting Cloud Network A few days ago, Alipay’s self-developed database OceanBase once again refreshed the world record of TPC-C benchmark test, won the ranking first, and improved the record created by itself seven months ago by more than 10 times. You know, the opponent of OB database is Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the old overlord of the United States, but now OB has beheaded Oracle Bone Inscriptions twice, which has directly rewritten the global map of the database.
Not long ago, the authoritative intellectual property agency IPRdaily released the "2019 Global Blockchain Patent Ranking", and the number of patent applications for Alipay blockchain ranked first in the world, far exceeding the sum of the second and third places.
Didi’s "0188" plan: Four-wheelers undertake 50 million single targets.
@ LatePost Didi has previously proposed the "0188" plan for the new three years: 0 major safety accidents, more than 100 million orders are served every day, the penetration rate of domestic travel exceeds 8%, and the global service user MAU exceeds 800 million. In Didi’s planning, in order to achieve the goal of 100 million tickets, the main battlefield four-wheeler undertakes 50 million tickets, and the new battlefield two-wheeler and internationalization are 40 million and 10 million respectively. And Didi’s current order volume is less than half. A Didi management official said that it is "absolutely no problem" to complete the plan as scheduled.
The ranking of invention patent applications in the automobile industry: BYD (002594, stock bar) ranked first.
According to the data of @ Sina Finance Choice, as of January 31st, there were 175 companies in the automobile industry. According to the data of Sixlens, as of January 31st, these 175 companies in the automobile industry had applied for a total of 57,948 invention patents, of which 167 had applied for invention patents and the other 8 had not. On average, each company applied for 331.13 invention patents. The top three companies applying for invention patents are BYD, Jianghuai Automobile (600418, shares bar) and Changan Automobile (000625, shares bar), and the corresponding number of invention patents is 9384, 6062 and 4072 respectively.
Tongcheng Yilong’s revenue in the first quarter was 1,005.1 million yuan, down 43.6% year-on-year.
@ 36Kr Tongcheng Yilong released its financial report for the first quarter of 2020. The financial report shows that Tongcheng Yilong’s revenue in the first quarter was 1,005.1 million yuan, down 43.6% year-on-year; The adjusted profit during the period was 78.1 million yuan, down 82.6% year-on-year; The average monthly active users were 148.4 million, a year-on-year decrease of 25.5%; The average number of monthly paying users was 14.8 million, a year-on-year decrease of 35.9%.
After knowing the basic news at home, let’s look overseas:
The output of electric vehicles in Tesla fremont factory in the second quarter may be less than 55,000.
@TechWeb According to foreign media reports, Tesla’s assembly plant in fremont has been allowed to reopen after it stopped production for more than one month, but the output of electric vehicles in this factory in the second quarter may not exceed 55,000. According to the news, even though the production of electric vehicles was resumed on May 9, the time for Tesla fremont factory to produce electric vehicles in the second quarter was only 53 days. According to the calculation of the highest output in the month before the Shanghai Super Factory was put into production, about 55,000 electric vehicles were produced.
Apple released the official version of iOS 13.5: Optimizing the way to unlock your phone with a mask.
@ Silicon Valley Analytic Lion reported on May 21st that Apple released the official version of iOS and iPadOS 13.5 today, which is more than a month away from the release of iOS 13.4.1. The most important upgrade in the new system is that iPhone users can successfully unlock their phones with masks.
In contrast, it was troublesome for the user to use the face ID to unlock it before wearing a mask. Usually, the password input interface will appear after swiping up several times. For such an adjustment, Apple said that the more convenient unlocking is to cope with the current epidemic.
Foreign media said that Apple may cancel the wired headphones attached to iPhone 12 to stimulate AirPods sales.
According to the latest reports from foreign media, Apple may cancel the complimentary wired headphones, namely EarPods, in this year’s iPhone 12 series, which is also to increase the sales of its own AirPods.
It is mentioned in the report that the cancellation of the attached EarPods is to increase the demand for AirPods, and at the same time, Apple may start the AirPods promotion plan. Affected by the epidemic and destocking, the demand for AirPods 2 was weak, resulting in a decline of about 29% in total shipments in the second quarter of this year.
Amazon announced five large-scale solar energy projects.
@ Sina Technology According to foreign media reports, Amazon announced the details of five new renewable energy projects, hoping that these projects can supply nearly 1.2 million MWh of renewable energy for its warehouse network and AWS data center. These five projects are located in Australia, China and the United States.
Earlier, Amazon revealed that they plan to make 80% of the electricity they use come from renewable energy by 2024; Achieve 100% renewable energy in 2030, and then achieve zero carbon emissions in 2040. The new renewable energy project is part of Amazon’s plan.
That’s the hot news today. I hope you can have a good Friday after reading this morning paper! Let’s meet again next working day!
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