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According to Jiemian News, Canadian Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announced on March 9, local time, that the Canadian government has completed a further review of TikTok Canada’s investment case and decided to allow the investment to continue, but TikTok must comply with a series of new legally binding commitments, including strengthening the protection of Canadian users’ personal information and minors.

The Canadian government stated that this decision will protect Canadian jobs and ensure that TikTok maintains its physical presence in Canada.

"We look forward to investing in new and returning projects to support Canada's thriving ecosystem of creators, artists and small businesses," a TikTok spokesperson said in a statement.

On January 21 this year, the Canadian Federal Court made a ruling to shelve the Canadian government’s previous order requiring TikTok to close its Canadian operations, which means that TikTok’s Canadian operations can continue to operate.

In November 2024, the Canadian government ordered the closure of TikTok's local business due to national security risks, but it did not prevent Canadians from using the short video application or creating content. TikTok responded at the time: "Closing TikTok's Canadian office will destroy hundreds of high-paying local jobs and is not in anyone's best interests. The company will challenge this order in court."

In December 2024, TikTok Canada announced that it had filed a judicial review with the Canadian Federal Court against the government’s order to close TikTok’s Canadian business. TikTok said at the time that the order would cost hundreds of dedicated local employees their jobs and livelihoods, who support TikTok’s community of more than 14 million monthly Canadian users. TikTok said it is in the best interest of Canadians to find a meaningful solution and ensure that local teams continue to exist alongside the TikTok platform.

IT House reported on March 8 that on Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple introduced a new 3D printing manufacturing process for the titanium case. This technology allows Apple to save raw materials, reduce costs, and use 100% recycled titanium powder. Apple also uses 3D printing technology on the titanium version of Apple Watch Series 11 and the USB‑C interface of iPhone Air.

Now, Apple is planning to expand this process to aluminum metal, and most Apple Watch cases in the future are expected to be produced using 3D printing. According to a report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in the "Power On" newsletter today, in the long run, this technology may even be applied to the iPhone.

Apple has adopted a new low-cost aluminum manufacturing process on MacBook Neo. Even in this cheapest MacBook in history, Apple still retains a strong and durable aluminum body, while low-priced products often use plastic. Before 2010, Apple even launched a low-priced MacBook with a white plastic body.

However, this new aluminum metal manufacturing process, although cheaper, does not use 3D printing. Its core is to reduce the amount of metal as much as possible. MacBook Neo's aluminum metal consumption is reduced by 50% compared with traditional manufacturing processes.

Apple hopes to achieve similar breakthroughs with future iPhone and Apple Watch models. Mark Gurman revealed: "As far as I know, Apple's manufacturing design team is working with the operations department to develop 3D printing aluminum metal technology, which will greatly improve the production efficiency of Apple Watch cases and is expected to be used for iPhone bodies in the future."

While cost savings are the most talked about benefit, the value of 3D printing goes beyond that. On Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple also used this process to improve the waterproof performance:

Another key design upgrade brought about by 3D printing: the ability to print textures in places that traditional forging processes cannot reach. For Apple Watch, this means that the waterproofing process in the antenna area of ​​the cellular network version has been optimized. There is a partition structure filled with plastic inside the honeycomb version of the watch case to implement the antenna function; and by 3D printing specific textures on the inner surface of the metal, Apple can make the bonding between plastic and metal better.

According to IT House, iPhone Air also benefits from 3D printing to create a slimmer USB-C interface. Without 3D printing technology, the iPhone Air's body would likely be thicker.

It is unclear what other intuitive consumer-facing experience improvements the 3D printed aluminum metal body will bring, but in any case, this will be a major improvement in terms of environmental protection. Perhaps we will see lower-priced iPhone "e" series models in the future, but time remains to be verified.

March is here again, and many people’s Moments are flooded with all kinds of flowers.

If you go to the forest and the flowers are blooming, you will be a flower-watcher when you go out. Flower-viewing and spring outings have been around since ancient times, and now cherry blossoms, rapeseed flowers, and tulips have become spring standards and traffic codes in many cities.

On the flower-viewing circuit, Wuhan, with more than 500,000 cherry blossom trees, has become a top city in spring in recent years.

Just a few days ago, Wuhan officially released the 2026 "Meet in Spring Cherry Blossom Viewing" series of activities, with the theme of "Romantic Wuhan, Flowers Along the Way". Wuhan also proposed to build a "world-class cherry blossom viewing destination" and formulated the "Wuhan City Cherry Blossom Viewing Tour Planning and Construction Plan."

At the same time, many cities such as Shanghai, Wuxi, Guiyang, etc. are eyeing cherry blossoms as a traffic entrance, and do not want to miss out on the "flower viewing economy" cake worth hundreds of billions or even trillions.

The challenge comes not only from other cities but also from time. The flowering period of cherry blossoms is short. How can Wuhan race against time to extend the flowering period, preserve spring, and produce flowers all year round?

A small cherry blossom is not simple. Behind it is the innovation, wisdom and vitality of a city.

It’s spring again. From city parks to rural fields, flowers are blooming one after another and tourists are everywhere.

When flowers become the entrance to traffic, many cities begin to plant flowers, flower beds, gardens, and even seas of flowers, trying to attract more people to check in. Flower viewing is all "rolled" like this, how can a city stand out?

On the track of cherry blossom viewing, Wuhan not only has a place, but has also topped the list of popularity for many years in a row. There is even a grand occasion of "going to a city for a flower". Behind this is Wuhan’s painstaking efforts and fancy arrangements, which bring new surprises to citizens and tourists every spring.

Speaking of cherry blossoms in Wuhan, if your first thought is Luojia Mountain of Wuhan University, you are showing your age. Nowadays, cherry blossoms have already "walked down" Luojia Mountain and bloomed in various corners such as East Lake Cherry Garden, Qingchuan Pavilion, Hankou River Beach, Jiefang Park, Northwest Lake, and Sha Lake. Cherry blossoms are everywhere in the city, and there are good places to enjoy them everywhere.

Wuhan breaks away from the traditional must-go scenic spots for cherry blossom viewing and plans to build 45 cherry blossom landscape corridors, including 9 waterside corridors and 36 roadside corridors, breaking the traditional viewing model and creating an immersive and multi-dimensional garden experience.

Not only do cherry blossoms need to be visible everywhere, but the way to enjoy them also needs to be fully realized in 3D. In early March, the East Lake Cruise Ship officially launched the "Cherry Blossom Viewing Cruise Line", allowing people to enjoy the falling cherry blossoms and the perfect color of the water and sky. During the night tour during the cherry blossom season, there are also extra night tours to make it easier to enjoy the night cherry blossoms and the night view of East Lake. You can also go to the sky to enjoy cherry blossoms. Visitors can take the Optics Valley Skyrail to overlook the "Sea of ​​Cherry Blossoms and Clouds", which is mainly three-dimensional, adding a different kind of novelty to cherry blossom viewing.

Although cherry blossoms are beautiful, their flowering period is short, usually only seven days. Wuhan, which "does not accept Zhou", relies on technological innovation to race against time.

On March 9, Hubei Meteorology, together with the Wuhan Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau and Wuhan Meteorology, officially released the "2026 Wuhan Cherry Blossom Forecast", which accurately calculates the flowering schedule based on comprehensive factors such as temperature, sunshine, and wind speed. This forecast is accurate to the sky and covers popular cherry blossom viewing spots in Wuhan, making it more targeted for cherry blossom viewing.

Wuhan also relies on the national cherry blossom germplasm resource bank to extend the cherry blossom viewing cycle through precise variety matching. From the end of February to mid-March, early spring cherry blossoms such as "Chutian Hongri" independently cultivated by the Municipal Landscape Research Institute light up the early spring; in mid-to-late March, mid-day cherry blossoms such as Sunshine Sakura bloom like clouds and snow; in April, late cherry blossoms such as tulip cherry blossoms bloom continuously. Through the scientific planting of early, mid-day and late cherry varieties, the cherry blossom viewing period is extended to nearly two months, achieving "from early spring to late spring, cherry blossoms continue to bloom."

There are more and more choices for cherry blossom viewing, the "eyes" of cherry blossom viewing are getting sharper and sharper, the cherry blossom blooming period is getting longer and longer, and Wuhan's annual "cherry blossom time" is becoming more and more exciting.

Vitality begins with flowers but doesn’t end with them.

The government work report has put expanding domestic demand at the top of the work tasks for two consecutive years, especially "implementing special actions to boost consumption" in a prominent position.

Last year, Wuhan's total retail sales of consumer goods exceeded 900 billion yuan, an increase of about 5%, and it was just one step away from being a city with a trillion-dollar consumption.

Wuhan has clarified its goals in the previously released "Wuhan Three-Year Action Plan to Create an International Consumption Center City (2025-2027)". In 2027, the city's total retail sales of consumer goods will exceed 1.07 trillion yuan, the total number of tourists will increase by an average of more than 8% annually, the number of inbound tourists will increase by an average of more than 30% annually, and the comprehensive tourism revenue will increase by an average of about 10%.

Cherry blossoms are not only the "city card" of Wuhan, but also a breakthrough in expanding domestic demand and boosting consumption. During last year's cherry blossom season, the number of tourists received by East Lake Cherry Garden exceeded one million for the first time, reaching 1.0636 million, of which 77.33% were foreign tourists.

This year’s government work report also proposed that we should create a number of new consumption scenarios with wide coverage and high visibility, and accelerate the cultivation of new growth points for consumption. In addition, the concept of integration of culture, tourism, sports and commerce also officially appeared in the government work report for the first time.

Wuhan's 2026 "Meet to Enjoy Cherry Blossoms in Spring" series of activities integrates resources from all regions to suit the situation and launches a total of 316 activities in five series including cultural tourism, sports, business, investment, and gardens. The cultural tourism section alone has arranged 130 cultural tourism activities such as romantic flower viewing, watching performances and exhibitions, and fashionable entertainment.

Major scenic spots and neighborhoods have launched various "Sakura+" experiences. For the first time, Wuhan held intensive performances during the cherry blossom season, including solo concerts by Nicholas Tse, City of Stars, Tao Zhe, Shan Yichun, Wang Feng, etc., achieving a deep integration of the fan economy and cultural tourism consumption.

Starting in 2024, the Wuhan Marathon will be deliberately moved to March, the cherry blossom viewing season.

In addition to creating the most beautiful cherry blossom race track, this year we also launched the Han Horse Tourism Season, deeply linked with many core scenic spots such as East Lake Cherry Garden, created a number of "sports + cherry blossom" quality tourism routes, organized "Horse Racing and Cherry Blossom Viewing" themed tour groups, issued 10 million yuan in sports consumption coupons on the "Han Sports" platform, and built special consumption scenes in many old food districts.

It is worth mentioning that cherry blossoms represent more than just consumption. Wuhan is interested in discovering the side of "sakura blossoms" that promotes industrial development.

During this year's cherry blossom viewing season, Wuhan has also planned more than 40 investment promotion activities, the highlight of which is the "Meet the Spring Cherry Blossoms" economic and trade negotiation event, and will focus on planning a series of themed activities focusing on Chucai gathering, grain industry investment, and foreign investment.

Romantic cherry blossoms are both scenery and opportunity.

Behind the cherry blossoms, more systemic renewal is taking place.

The Qingchuan Pavilion Scenic Area, which was closed for repairs and maintenance in November last year, has recently reopened to the public. Set against the backdrop of cherry blossom trees, Qingchuan Pavilion will become a strong contender as a popular cherry blossom viewing spot.

If you zoom out, you will see multiple urban renewal areas throughout the city, providing a better background and stage for cherry blossom viewing. After these areas have been updated, they have provided better tourist carrying capacity and better protection for citizens' lives.

The imagination that flowers bring to the city does not end there.

The "China Flower Viewing Tourism Report 2025" jointly released by the China Tourism Academy and Mafengwo recently selected the top ten flower viewing tourism destinations, and Wuhan was among them. Along with the cherry blossoms of Wuhan East Lake and Wuhan University, there are lotus and plum blossoms of West Lake in Hangzhou.

Plum blossom is the city flower of Wuhan, and there are many places to enjoy plum blossoms in Wuhan. The natural scenery of the City of Hundreds of Lakes has made lotus flowers a daily sight in Wuhan in summer. Wuhan can create a flower-viewing economy for each season throughout the year.

Jiangsu Xinghua has built a closed loop of year-round tourism through the four-season IP of "seeing cauliflowers in spring, lotus flowers in summer, chrysanthemums in autumn, and reed flowers in winter". The time-series landscapes such as forsythia, peach blossoms, and sophora japonica created in Qinglongyu, Jinan, have also achieved "flowers every month and income generation throughout the year."

In the spatial dimension, there is also the possibility of cooperation.

Last year, the "Flowers Blooming in Three Places" series of activities in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei integrated the resources of Beijing peach blossoms, Tianjin roses and Hebei pear blossoms to build a global flower viewing network, providing a creative and flexible link for the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

This year, “promoting the accelerated development of urban agglomerations in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River” appeared in the government work report for the first time. The coordinated development within the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River can use cultural tourism as a driving force for advance cooperation.

On May 20, 2024, the news that "Changsha and Wuhan have officially announced" became a hot search topic. The two cities used lights to show their love, expressed their love on the city's big screens, and jointly sent more than 200,000 gardenias. Nanchang Cultural Tourism immediately responded with "It's Always Quiet": It's obviously a movie about three people, but I can't be named.

It can be seen that not only cherry blossoms, but also gardenias have the potential to be trending. In the future cultural tourism cooperation between the three places, using flowers as a matchmaker can exert greater energy.

In addition to expanding outward, there is also digging inward. Focusing your gaze back on the cherry blossoms in front of you will occasionally make you feel like you are in another world. For a long time, the image of cherry blossoms has almost always been bound to poignant images such as mourning.

But on a spring day in Wuhan, romantic cherry blossoms meet huge crowds of people and human fireworks. Wuhan uses its popularity and vitality to reinterpret the concept and cultural connotation of cherry blossoms.

Cherry blossoms are not exclusive to any one country. Biogeographic research shows that cherry blossoms originate from the foothills of the Himalayas, and China is the hometown of cherry blossoms. Cherry blossoms flourished in the Tang Dynasty. The famous poet Li Shangyin's poem "Cherry Blossoms on the Bank of the Alley with Weeping Poplars" was the first time that cherry blossoms were recorded as a proper noun.

Wuhan’s reinterpretation of cherry blossoms is more like a return. Enjoying it alone is not as good as enjoying it together, which is the true nature of cherry blossom viewing. Just like Bai Juyi said, "There are thousands of cherry blossoms in the coming spring. Who will sit under them in the coming spring?"

This is the people’s city and everyone’s cherry blossom.

The Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress held its second plenary session

Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Wang Huning, Cai Qiding, Xue Xiang, Li Xi, Han Zheng, etc. attended

Zhao Leji delivers a work report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress

Hear and review the work report of the Supreme People's Court and the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, etc.

The Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress held its second plenary meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of the 9th to hear and review the work report of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, the work report of the Supreme People's Court, and the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and review the report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the legal cleanup work and opinions on the handling of relevant laws and decisions.

Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, Han Zheng and others attended the meeting.

Entrusted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Chairman Zhao Leji reported to the General Assembly on the work of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Zhao Leji pointed out in the report that 2025 will be an extraordinary year. Over the past year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, comprehensively implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party and the 20th Plenary Sessions, studied and implemented Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and General Secretary Xi Jinping's Thoughts on the Rule of Law. Focusing on the important thought of upholding and improving the system of the People's Congress, focusing on building a more complete socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, building a higher-level socialist country under the rule of law, and closely focusing on the Chinese-style modernization drive to perform duties and assume responsibilities in accordance with the law, new progress and results have been achieved in all aspects of work. The first is to strengthen the implementation and supervision of the Constitution and safeguard the unity of the country's rule of law. The Standing Committee twice reviewed the draft Law on Promoting National Unity and Progress and submitted it to this session for review, laying a solid foundation for the rule of law in order to forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. Establishing a commemoration day for Taiwan’s liberation will strengthen the common national historical memory of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Improve the quality of constitutionality review and filing review work, and promote the spirit of the Constitution and the spirit of socialist rule of law. The second is to strengthen legislative work to serve and protect reform and development with high-quality legislation. Coordinated the drafting of legislation, reforms, abolitions, and interpretations. In the past year, a total of 40 draft laws, legal interpretations, and decisions were reviewed, and 24 of them were adopted, including 6 enactments of laws and 14 amendments to laws. The third is to perform supervisory duties and give full play to the important role of National People's Congress supervision in the party and state supervision system. A total of 22 supervision work reports were heard and reviewed, the implementation of 5 laws was inspected, 2 special inquiries, 11 special investigations were organized, and 1 resolution was made. The fourth is to deepen and expand the work of representatives and better play the role of representatives of the National People's Congress. We will fully implement the newly revised Representative Law, continue to strengthen the capacity building of representatives, closely rely on representatives to do all kinds of work, and support and guarantee representatives to perform their duties in accordance with the law. The fifth is to give full play to the characteristics and advantages of the National People's Congress's foreign exchanges and actively serve the overall diplomatic situation of the country. Sixth, comprehensively strengthen self-construction and continuously improve the ability and level of performing duties in accordance with the law.

In the report, Zhao Leji pointed out that we are clearly aware that there are still some gaps and deficiencies in our work. We will listen humbly to the opinions and suggestions of representatives and all parties, consciously accept the supervision of the people, and continuously strengthen and improve our work.

In the report, Zhao Leji pointed out that 2026 is the first year of the “15th Five-Year Plan”. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards", adhere to the organic unity of the party's leadership, the people's ownership of the country, and the rule of law, develop full-process people's democracy, adhere to, improve, and operate the People's Congress system well, strive for stability while promoting high-quality development of the work of the National People's Congress, and make due contributions to achieving a good start in the "15th Five-Year Plan".

In the report, Zhao Leji laid out the tasks for the next year: promote the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution, improve the legal system related to the Constitution, and give full play to the core role of the Constitution in legislation; continuously improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, focus on ensuring the implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan", strengthen legislation in key areas, emerging areas, and foreign-related fields, and strive to improve the quality of legislation; further enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of supervision work, and promote resolution Restrict outstanding contradictions and problems in economic and social development, and promote the rule of law in all aspects of work; provide services and ensure that representatives perform their duties in accordance with the law, support representatives to closely contact the people, and better reflect the public opinion and wisdom of the people's opinions and deliberation speeches; actively carry out the People's Congress's external exchanges, based on the functions and responsibilities of the People's Congress, strengthen exchanges and cooperation with foreign parliaments, international and regional parliamentary organizations; solidly promote the construction of the "four organs" and improve the work level of the People's Congress in the new era.

Zhang Jun, President of the Supreme People's Court, pointed out in the work report of the Supreme People's Court that in 2025, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, the Supreme People's Court faithfully performed its responsibilities conferred by the Constitution and laws, focused on serving China's modernization drive with high-quality judicial services, and made new progress in various tasks. The Supreme People's Court accepted 29,154 cases and closed 31,958 cases, a year-on-year decrease of 16.5% and 1.8% respectively. Courts at all levels across the country accepted 37.486 million trial and enforcement cases, and concluded 36.2 million cases, a year-on-year increase of 10.8% and 8.9% respectively.

Focusing on adhering to fairness and justice, Zhang Jun reviewed the work in 2025: ensuring high-level security with high-quality justice; serving high-quality development with high-quality justice; protecting high-quality life with high-quality justice; supporting high-level opening up with high-quality justice; standardizing the operation of judicial power; and consciously accepting supervision from all aspects.

Zhang Jun stated in the report that in 2026, the people's courts must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, strengthen confidence in the rule of law, pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, pay more attention to ensuring and promoting social fairness and justice, strengthen trial work in the new era, and provide strong judicial services and guarantees to achieve a good start in the "15th Five-Year Plan". Perform duties faithfully, be thorough and practical in serving the overall situation and administering justice to the people; be upright and innovative, and improve the fair judicial system and mechanism; strictly manage and show love, forge an iron army of courts in the new era that is worthy of important responsibilities, work together, work hard and take on responsibilities, and make new and greater contributions to building a higher-level socialist country under the rule of law.

Ying Yong, Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, pointed out in the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate that in 2025, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the Supreme People's Procuratorate will actively integrate into further comprehensively deepening reforms and advancing the Chinese-style modernization process, insisting on serving the overall situation, serving the people's justice, and taking responsibility for the rule of law, strengthening procuratorial supervision, handling every case with high quality and efficiency, and continuing to promote the procuratorial practice of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought. All procuratorial work has achieved new results. Procuratorates across the country handled a total of 3.467 million cases of various types, of which the Supreme People's Procuratorate handled 8,151 cases.

Ying Yong reviewed the work in 2025: implement the overall national security concept and promote the construction of a higher level of Safe China; implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, and serve high-quality development; adhere to the people's livelihood as the first priority and safeguard the people's rights and interests in accordance with the law; strengthen procuratorial supervision and promote fairness and justice; strengthen the awareness of accepting supervision to ensure that procuratorial power always operates on the track of the rule of law; with the political construction of the party as the guide, effectively strengthen the construction of a strong procuratorial team.

Ying Yong pointed out in the report that in 2026, procuratorial organs nationwide must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, pay more attention to ensuring and promoting social fairness and justice, and perform the duties of national legal supervision agencies. We will always uphold the party's absolute leadership over procuratorial work, better serve high-quality development and high-level security, deepen procuratorial work for the people, strengthen procuratorial supervision, strengthen public interest litigation, and continue to strengthen the construction of the procuratorial team.

The meeting also reviewed the report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the legal cleanup work and opinions on the handling of relevant laws and decisions.

There should be 2878 representatives present at the meeting, 2760 people were present and 118 were absent. The number of people present complied with the quorum.

The meeting was chaired by Li Hongzhong, executive chairman and executive chairman of the presidium of the conference.

Executive chairman of the conference Yu Weiguo, Wang Ning, Wang Weizhong, Wang Zhonglin, Wang Xiaohui, Wang Hao, Bayin Chaolu, Feng Fei, Liu Yiliang, Du Jiahao, Li Xiuling, Yang Xiaochao, Wu Xiaojun, Zhang Shengmin, Chen Xiaojiang, Lin Wu, Zhou Zuyi, Zhao Yide, Ni Yuefeng, Huang Lixin, Huang Qiang, Huang Chuping, and Luo Shugang took their seats at the executive chair of the rostrum.

Thanks to IT House netizen Ruoyi for the clue submission!

IT House reported on March 2 that on February 27, local time, foreign media TechCrunch reported that weeks after resigning as the CEO of the Indian version of Meituan, the online food ordering and delivery platform Zomato and its parent company Eternal, Indian entrepreneur Deepinder Goyal announced the completion of US$54 million (IT House note: the current exchange rate is approximately 371 million yuan) for the wearable device startup Temple. This funding came from a round of investment from family and friends, and the company's post-investment valuation was approximately US$190 million (approximately 1.305 billion yuan at the current exchange rate). Goyal said more than 30 employees also invested at the same valuation.

Image sourceEternal

Goyal led the round, with Steadview Capital later joining the round, regulatory filings show. Other investors include Peak XV Partners, InfoEdge Ventures, Dharana Capital, and a number of well-known entrepreneurs and executives, including Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, CRED founder Kunal Shah, Zerodha co-founders Nitin Kamath and Nikhil Kamath, as well as current and former management members of Eternal.

Goyal handed over the CEO role to Blinkit chief Arbinder Dinsa in January, ending a management career that spanned nearly 20 years. Zomato was co-founded by Goyal and Pankaj Chadha in 2008 and has grown into one of the largest food delivery platforms in India.

Temple is seen as the epitome of Goyal's shift toward "higher-risk exploration and experimentation." The company is developing high-performance wearables for elite athletes. Goyal once said that the device continuously monitors blood flow in the brain through sensors worn on the temples.

He said on the X platform that Temple's goal is to create "the ultimate wearable device for elite athletes" and claims to measure key indicators that existing products cannot provide. The company is recruiting talents in the fields of embedded systems, computational neuroscience, and brain-computer interface engineering.

Temple is just one part of Goyal's changing investment profile. In October 2025, he promised to invest US$25 million of personal funds in Continue Research to explore technological paths to extend human lifespan. He is also the co-founder of LAT Aerospace, which recently entered the defense technology sector through the acquisition of Sharang Shakti.

Before Temple, Goyal also invested in a number of health technology companies, including Indian wearable company Ultrahuman, which competes with the Oura smart ring, further reflecting its strategic focus in sports performance and health technology.

Thanks to IT House netizen Si Wenfeng for submitting the clue!

IT House reported on March 10 that according to People's Financial News, Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of Weilai, said at the fourth quarter and full-year financial report conference call for 2025 tonight that Shenji's second advanced smart chip for a wider range of customers has been successfully taped out and is currently in the process of mass production.

IT House noted that in July 2024, NIO announced the successful tape-out of its world's first car-sized 5nm high-performance smart driving chip "NIO Shenji NX9031", which marks that NIO has achieved independent design of hardware chips/underlying software. According to reports, this chip has more than 50 billion transistors, uses a 32-core CPU architecture, and has built-in LPDDR5x 8533Mbps rate RAM, which can achieve "high dynamic range and high-performance ISP". It has 6.5 G Pixel / s pixel processing capabilities and a processing delay of less than 5ms.

Li Bin also said that NIO, Letao, and Firefly will jointly develop lower-tier markets this year while deeply exploring key markets, and cover more prefecture-level cities with an efficient sales and service network through SKY stores jointly established by the three brands.

NIO CFO Qu Yu said at the conference call that the company will maintain a quarterly R&D investment of 2 billion to 2.5 billion yuan in 2026, continue to improve R&D efficiency based on the CBU operating mechanism, and will also dynamically adjust the company's R&D rhythm and investment based on operating conditions and ROI mechanisms to ensure the intensity of investment in key products and core technologies. At the same time, Qu Yu said that based on the company’s five large SUVs on sale this year and the strong performance of large vehicles in gross profit margins, NIO will strive to achieve non-GAAP full-year profits in 2026.

Qu Yu also said that vehicle gross profit margin in the first quarter of 2026 is expected to maintain the level of the fourth quarter of 2025. Although affected by seasonality and policies, ES8 stock orders and orders after the Spring Festival have recovered well, and ES8 deliveries accounted for a relatively high proportion of the overall delivery volume in the first quarter. Qu Yu also said that NIO will have five large SUVs on sale this year, and large vehicles will account for a relatively high proportion of overall sales. The gross profit of large vehicles is relatively high, and the company has stronger ability to resist risks. It is confident that the gross profit for the whole year will be maintained at a reasonable level. In addition, Qu Yu said that quarterly R&D investment of 2 billion to 2.5 billion yuan will be maintained in 2026 to promote the company's long-term competitiveness.

Today, NIO released its financial report for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025. NIO achieved an operating profit of 1.25 billion yuan in the fourth quarter, achieving the company's first quarterly profit. Cash reserves in the fourth quarter were 45.9 billion yuan, a significant increase of nearly 10 billion yuan from the previous quarter.

NIO disclosed in its financial report that on March 6, 2026, the company's board of directors approved the 2026 share incentive plan and approved the grant of 248,454,460 company restricted shares to the company's founder, chairman and CEO Li Bin accordingly. These restricted shares are divided into ten batches of equal amounts, and their vesting conditions are subject to the company's achievement of specific performance targets related to market value and net profit and Li Bin's continued employment in key positions. In addition, as of December 31, 2025, cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, short-term investments and long-term time deposits were RMB 45.9 billion.

Live Broadcast News March 9th In the final round of the Women's Asian Cup group stage, the Chinese women's football team defeated the North Korean women's football team 2-1, winning three consecutive games and advancing to the quarterfinals as the group leader. "Beiqing Sports" wrote an article that the Chinese women's football team has a greater chance of reaching the top four and qualifying for the 2027 Women's World Cup.

Data shows that the Chinese women's football team has played against the North Korean women's football team in the past 20 years, losing more than winning. Taking the Asian Cup as an example, the Chinese team lost 5 of the past 6 games against its opponents. The last time the team defeated an opponent in the Asian Cup was in the 2006 Women's Asian Cup semi-finals. Coincidentally, the venue at that time was also Australia. In this game, the Chinese women's football team once again significantly adjusted the starting lineup. Wang Shuang, Zhang Rui, Wu Haiyan and other veterans who were suspended in the last round started the game. It has to be said that the Chinese women's football team, which paid full attention to its opponents, was meticulous in enforcing technical and tactical disciplines in this game. The team's passing and receiving success rate, especially the offensive efficiency, was significantly better than in previous games.

Data shows that the Chinese women's football team had a ball possession rate of 53% in the first half and took 3 shots, one more than their opponents. It should be said that in this half, the Chinese women's football team seemed relatively calm from partial passing and receiving cooperation, to physical confrontation, to transitioning between offense and defense, and therefore suppressed the opponent for a time. Entering the second half, the North Korean women's football team launched a frenzied counterattack, but the Chinese women's football team did not disrupt its own style of play and rhythm. All players were highly focused and did not lag behind the North Korean women's football team, which has seven U20 World Cup champions, in terms of will and quality.

It is worth noting that with the Chinese women's football team winning three consecutive games to secure the top spot in the group, the team will successfully avoid the host Australian women's football team in the quarter-finals. As for the opponent in the quarterfinals, there is a high probability that the Chinese Taipei Women's Football Team will be the Chinese Taipei Women's Football Team. This is because this team has been ranked second in Group C after defeating the Vietnam Women's Football Team in the group stage. In the last round, they faced the Indian Women's Football Team, the weakest opponent in the same group. In the same round, the Vietnam Women's Football Team will face the group leader Japan Women's Football Team. From this perspective, the Chinese women's football team has also achieved a phased victory at the strategic level. After all, once it encounters the Chinese Taipei women's football team, the Chinese women's football team will have a high chance of advancing to the semi-finals, which means that it is very likely to advance to the semi-finals, thus directly locking the ticket for the 2027 World Cup.

Of course, the significance of the victory of the Chinese women's football team in this game is that when facing the top teams in Asia, they did not retreat on defense. Instead, I played the most beautiful victory against a strong team in recent years. This victory also adds confidence to the Chinese women's football team as they continue to move forward in defending their title.

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China News Service, March 8: Xi Jinping smiled and said, "I remember your name."

"Did you appear on TV today? I remember your name."

On March 5, General Secretary Xi Jinping participated in the deliberations of the Jiangsu delegation at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress. At the meeting, the general secretary asked with a smile as soon as representative Gao Derong from the Jiangsu Lixiahe Agricultural Science Research Institute opened his mouth.

In the "Representative Channel" that morning, Gao Derong shared the story of over 30 years of hard work in wheat breeding. He said, "What we pursue is not only 'eating enough,' but also 'eating well,' and giving grain growers a head start."

During this face-to-face exchange with General Secretary Xi Jinping, Gao Derong reported on the progress in cultivating high-yield and disease-resistant varieties. The general secretary listened and asked carefully: "How many areas have your varieties been promoted?" "Where are the prone and re-infected areas of wheat scab?"

"The seed industry is the most important, and the seed industry must be promoted in agriculture." The general secretary said with serious words.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has always attached great importance to the security of seed sources and the revitalization of the seed industry.

Why do you think about it now?

More than a billion people need to eat, which is a unique national condition of our country. To produce more and good grain on limited arable land, seeds are the key.

"To solve the problem of food, the fundamental solution lies in science and technology. The safety of seed sources is related to national security. We must be determined to develop our country's seed industry to achieve self-reliance and self-reliance in seed industry science and technology, and autonomous and controllable seed sources."

In March 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized this when visiting members of the agricultural, social welfare and social security circles who attended the fifth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and participated in the joint organizing meeting.

In April of that year, the General Secretary visited Hainan for an inspection. The first stop was at the Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory in Sanya City, where he once again pointed out the importance of seeds: "Only by grasping Chinese seeds with one's own hands can China's rice bowl be stabilized and food security be achieved."

The seed industry is at the source of the entire agricultural industry chain and is a landmark and leading project in building modern agriculture.

"With this equipment, this equipment, this condition, it is difficult to realize agricultural modernization without improved seeds." "Biological breeding is the general direction, and the pace of industrialization must be accelerated." . . . . . The general secretary repeatedly warned.

2026 is the first year of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, and it is crucial to do a good job in the work of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”. This year’s Central Government Document No. 1 proposed to implement in-depth actions to revitalize the seed industry, accelerate the selection and promotion of breakthrough varieties, and promote the industrialization of biological breeding.

General Secretary Xi Jinping once said: "A seed can change a world, and a technology can create a miracle."

The purpose of making greater efforts and making greater contributions to "One Seed" is to allow more than 1.4 billion Chinese people to eat better and to hold China's rice bowl more securely.

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On March 9, Beijing time, the Chinese women’s football team ushered in the final group match of the 2026 Women’s Asian Cup.

Against the strong North Korean women's football team, the Chinese women's football team won 2-1.

The Chinese women's football team is in the same group as Bangladesh, Uzbekistan and North Korea women's football team in this Asian Cup. In the previous two rounds, the Chinese women's football team first defeated Bangladesh 2-0 and then defeated Uzbekistan 3-0.

After winning two consecutive games, the Chinese women's football team has already secured a place in the group and has been shortlisted for the quarterfinals of this Asian Cup. However, in the final group match against the North Korean women's football team, the Chinese women's football team still needs to go all out.

This dialogue will directly determine who can become the top player in the group. If they win the first place, they can face a relatively weaker opponent (most likely Chinese Taipei) in the quarterfinals. If they only finish second in the group, they will compete with the host Australian women's football team.

In the first two rounds, the North Korean women's football team scored 8 goals, surpassing the Chinese women's football team's 5 goals. Therefore, if they want to win the first place in the group, the Chinese women's football team must win this head-on dialogue. This is the first tough battle the team has encountered so far in this Asian Cup.

The team is also looking forward to this game. Head coach Milicic said bluntly, "We have conducted a detailed analysis of our opponents and will prepare as many details as possible. I believe the girls can stay calm and focused."

"We need to stand in our position first and be brave enough to ask for the ball and meet our teammates. Everyone must understand that it is normal to make mistakes in such a high-intensity game. We will also deploy in a targeted manner and believe that we can gain some control over the game."

The starting lineup sent by the Chinese women's football team in this game is different from the previous two games: goalkeeper Chen Chen, defenders Wu Haiyan, Yao Wei, Chen Qiaozhu, Zhang Chengxue, midfielders Wang Aifang, Zhang Rui, Zhang Linyan, Wang Shuang, forwards Urigumula and Shao Ziqin.

After the opening, the two sides fought fiercely. Shao Ziqin was kicked to the knee by his opponent and fell to the ground. However, after reviewing the video, the referee did not show a red card and only showed a yellow card to North Korean player Kim Sung-kyung.

Subsequently, the Chinese women's football team relied on active pressure and running to create threats, but failed to create very good scoring opportunities. In the 32nd minute, the North Korean team launched a long pass to the frontcourt. Han Jinhong sent a cross pass from the bottom, and Jin Jingying outflanked the ball in the middle to score the goal.

Under adversity, the Chinese women's football team responded immediately. Just two minutes later, the Chinese women's football team took a corner kick. Shao Ziqin responded from the middle. Chen Qiaozhu hit the opponent's goal with a powerful volley, tying the score at 1-1.

In half-time stoppage time, the Chinese women's football team had a set-piece opportunity in the frontcourt, and Wang Shuang received a cross pass and scored. After a VAR review, the referee determined that the ball was not offside, and the Chinese women's football team took a 2-1 lead.

North Korea coach Ri Sung-ho also received a yellow card because he was dissatisfied with the penalty.

In the 80th minute of the second half, substitute Choi Il-sun scored a goal for the North Korean team. Later, VAR intervened and determined that Choi Il-sun and Kim Hye-young, who assisted, were offside, and the goal was invalid.

In the end, the Chinese women's football team maintained the winning score until the end and qualified first in the group.

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Two netizens maliciously "unboxed human flesh" and illegally obtained and distributed other people's private information. They were convicted and sentenced in accordance with the law. This case was included in the 2026 Supreme People's Court Work Report, sounding a legal alarm for the chaos of "unboxing". Cyberspace is not a place outside the law, and there is no excuse for "opening boxes". This judicial "dark sword" not only demonstrates the firm stance of severely punishing cyber violence, but also allows the whole society to see the clear attitude and determination to control the chaos of "opening boxes".

In recent years, "unboxing" has become a common form of online violence. It starts with illegally obtaining and exposing citizens' personal information, and then superimposes rumors, slander, "human flesh searches" and other behaviors. It spreads online violence to real life and has become a strong social pain point. A malicious "box opening" can ruin a person's life. In a typical case released by the Supreme People's Court, the defendant illegally purchased the personal information of Zhu, a teacher, in order to retaliate against him, maliciously selected the information of more than 20 women whose time and space intersected with him, and fabricated false posts. This behavior not only plunged Zhu's teaching and life into chaos, but also affected his students, causing a school and multiple families to fall into unreasonable trouble. According to data from the Ministry of Public Security, many industries such as express delivery and education have exposed the problem of insiders participating in information leaks. The defense line of personal information protection has been repeatedly breached. Victims not only have to face online abuse and slander, but may also encounter offline nuisance. Their personal safety is directly threatened, seriously undermining social harmony and stability.

Behind “opening the box” is the intertwined result of multiple factors, which also determines that its governance cannot rely on a single method. The anonymity, immediacy and group nature of cyberspace make the "box-opening" behavior low-cost and fast-propagating; from illegal acquisition of information, reselling to "box-opening", there is a clear division of labor in each link, and many insiders are involved, forming a black chain of personal information leakage that has not yet been completely cut off; some websites The monitoring and early warning mechanism of online platforms lags behind, and the identification and processing of information related to "opening boxes" is not timely, and it has even become a carrier of "opening box" information, allowing it to spread rapidly; some netizens have a weak awareness of the rule of law and regard "opening boxes" as a means of "eating melons", following the trend and making offensive remarks, becoming "accomplices" of online violence. These factors make it difficult for victims to obtain evidence and the cost of defending their rights is high, making some criminals unscrupulous.

To crack the "open box" problem, we need to take comprehensive measures to promote the formation of a collaborative and co-governance pattern among judiciary, supervision, platforms and netizens. Judiciary agencies must continue to maintain a high-pressure posture, use typical cases as guidance, unify judgment standards, severely punish illegal and criminal activities related to "opening boxes", and at the same time provide legal aid to victims, reduce the cost of defending their rights, and enable victims to dare and be able to defend their rights. Regulatory authorities should strengthen source governance, pay close attention to key links such as information acquisition, reselling, and use, conduct joint rectifications, and cut off the illegal chain of personal information trading; at the same time, strengthen supervision of express delivery, finance, education and other fields, urge enterprises to fulfill their personal information protection obligations, severely punish units and individuals who leak information in accordance with the law, and prevent personal information leakage from the source.

While consolidating the main responsibilities and guarding the governance gates, online platforms must also improve the technical prevention and control system, use artificial intelligence, big data and other technical means to establish feature libraries and early warning models for information related to "unboxing", accurately identify and quickly handle relevant information; upgrade user privacy protection functions, and provide users with Provide protection options such as information blocking and interception of unknown private messages, set up quick portals for reports involving "box-opening", and respond to netizen complaints in a timely manner; moreover, strengthen account management, and take measures such as blocking and blacklisting accounts that organize and incite "box-opening" in accordance with the law to resolutely block the dissemination channels of "box-opening" information.

A peaceful and clear network is what the people want. Being punished for "opening the box" and included in the Supreme People's Court's work report is an important step in controlling cyber violence, but it is by no means the end. Everyone is likely to become a victim of "unboxing". To respond to the public's urgent demands for personal information security, we must further upgrade technical security, improve the rule of law and supervision, and work together with multiple parties over a long period of time to provide a good "safety lock" for personal privacy security and better block the breeding and spread of online violence.

(The author is an associate professor at China University of Political Science and Law)