There are speed, strength, temperature and depth … Multiple sets of data can see the future of China’s economy.

CCTV News:Recently, as various macro policies have exerted remarkable effects and positive factors have accumulated, we are confident that we will continue to promote economic recovery and achieve the expected goal of economic growth this year. Below, let’s take stock of what are the new highlights in many fields.

Ministry of Commerce: In the first quarter of this year, consumption grew steadily, demand was booming and there were many bright spots.

The State Council Press Office held a press conference on April 19th, and the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce introduced that consumption increased steadily in the first quarter, with strong demand and many bright spots.

The steady growth is mainly reflected in bulk consumption, automobiles, home appliances, home appliances and other commodity categories. In the first quarter, the sales volume of new cars was 6.72 million, up 10.6% year-on-year, among which new energy vehicles increased by 31.8% year-on-year. The retail sales of household appliances above designated size increased by 5.8% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 1.1 percentage points higher than the total social zero. The performance of building materials is even brighter. The growth rate of retail sales turned from negative to positive, which was -7.8% at the end of 2023. After the first quarter, the growth rate turned positive to 2.4%.

The strong demand is mainly reflected in service consumption. In the first quarter, the retail sales of services increased by 10.0% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 6 percentage points higher than the retail sales of goods. The per capita service consumption expenditure of residents increased by 12.7% year-on-year, accounting for 43.3% of the per capita consumption expenditure. The national catering revenue was 1.34 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.8%.

Most of the highlights are mainly reflected in new consumption. In the first quarter, the national online retail sales reached 3.3 trillion yuan, up 12.4% year-on-year, and the online retail sales of physical goods reached 2.8 trillion yuan, up 11.6%, accounting for 23.3% of the total social output. The concept of green consumption has been deeply rooted in people’s hearts, and the sales of green organic food in retail enterprises have increased by about 14% year-on-year.

In the first quarter of this year, the delivery business volume of China’s postal industry increased by more than 20% year-on-year

On April 19th, the State Post Bureau released the operation data of the postal industry in the first quarter, and the delivery business increased by over 20% year-on-year. The overall operation of the industry started well, showing a good trend of steady progress and steady progress.

Data show that in the first quarter, China’s postal industry delivered a total of 41.73 billion pieces, up 22.1% year-on-year. Among them, the express delivery business totaled 37.11 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 25.2%.

In the first quarter, the business income of the postal industry totaled 394.37 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.7%. Among them, the revenue from express delivery business totaled 311.69 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.4%.

In the first quarter, postal express delivery enterprises actively supported the promotion activities of e-commerce platform, met the needs of the masses for holiday delivery, focused on the fields of seasonal fresh food and online red tide products, and provided customized solutions for products such as spring tea and flowers and trees to promote the continuous growth of business scale.

China Securities Regulatory Commission: Public Offering of Fund’s transaction cost management regulations will be implemented on July 1.

On April 19th, China Securities Regulatory Commission formulated and issued the Regulations on the Management of Securities Transaction Costs of Public Offering of Securities Investment Funds (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations). The Regulations came into effect on July 1, 2024.

There are four main contents in the Regulations, including lowering the commission rate of fund stock trading, lowering the upper limit of the proportion of fund managers’ securities trading commissions, comprehensively strengthening the relevant compliance and internal control requirements of fund managers and securities companies, and clarifying the disclosure contents and requirements of fund managers’ trading commission information.

The General Administration of Market Supervision approved the issuance of a number of national standards.

The reporter learned on April 19 that the General Administration of Market Supervision (National Standards Committee) approved the release of a number of national standards, covering production and life, green sustainability and other fields.

The two national standards of intelligent networked vehicle operation safety test can promote the improvement of intelligent networked vehicle operation safety level, support the safe passage of intelligent networked vehicle on the road and public test road management, and lead the formulation of intelligent networked vehicle operation safety test standard system.

The national standard of artificial intelligence machine learning system can promote the development of artificial intelligence system with machine learning as the core, and guide the practice of artificial intelligence in various industries and the functional verification of machine learning related products.

The national standard of green product evaluation logistics turnover box puts forward evaluation index requirements and encouraging requirements from three aspects of resources, environment and quality, leading the green upgrade of logistics turnover box products.

Two national standards, biological sibling relationship and forensic individual identification technology, set a unified DNA identification and evaluation criterion for sibling relationship identification and forensic biological sample identification in judicial practice, which improved the accuracy and scientificity of forensic identification activities.

China’s largest freight train runs

On the morning of April 20th, a freight heavy-haul train with a total length of over 4 kilometers and a load of 30,000 tons will be transported from the second largest passage of China’s "West Coal to East" — — The Shuohuang Railway departs from Suning North Station and is expected to arrive at Huanghua Port Station after more than three hours of transportation. This is the heavy-haul train with the longest railway formation and the largest load in China. After successful operation, it will play an important role in improving China’s coal transportation capacity and exploring the frontier level of heavy-haul technology. Heavy-haul railway is actually a railway with heavy trains, large volume and long distance, which is mainly used for the transportation of large-scale raw materials and goods.

The screening program for high-risk population of cardiovascular disease has covered 31 provinces.

The reporter learned from the National Cardiovascular Center on April 19 that under the guidance of the Ministry of Finance and the National Health and Wellness Commission, the central government has transferred funds to local public health service projects, and the early screening and comprehensive intervention projects for high-risk groups of cardiovascular diseases have covered 31 provinces.

Up to now, the early screening and comprehensive intervention project for high-risk groups of cardiovascular diseases has screened more than 5.247 million community residents, detected 1.464 million high-risk objects of cardiovascular diseases, and completed 4.657 million follow-up visits for risk monitoring and intervention, fully grasping the distribution characteristics and prevention and control status of cardiovascular diseases. At the same time, the project carried out a survey on the service capacity and quality of more than 3,600 primary medical and health institutions covering 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.

Hu Shengshou, director of the National Cardiovascular Center and head of the early screening and comprehensive intervention project for high-risk groups of cardiovascular diseases, said: "The exploration of this model and technology will really shift cardiovascular diseases from treatment-oriented to prevention-oriented in the future, and implement it at the grassroots level, which will have a very important impact."

Ministry of Education: The pilot work of basic subject education and teaching reform has been pushed forward in an all-round way

On April 19th, the Ministry of Education deployed the "101 Plan", which is a pilot project of basic subject education and teaching reform, and promoted the undergraduate education and teaching mode from "knowledge-oriented" to "ability-oriented". At present, it has been fully promoted in nine fields, including computer, mathematics and physics.

According to reports, the pilot reform of basic subject education and teaching is a fundamental project to cultivate top-notch innovative talents. The key task is to build a number of first-class core courses with high order, innovation and challenge, a number of first-class core textbooks reflecting the international academic frontier and with China characteristics, a first-class teacher team and a number of first-class practical projects integrating science and education, production and education. In December 2021, the pilot work was first started in the computer field.

Zhou Tianhua, director of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, said: "The basis of computer language is a binary number consisting of 0 and 1, so we use ‘ 101’ To name this plan, I mainly want to create first-class educational elements. "

At present, the pilot work has been carried out in nine basic disciplines, including computer, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological sciences, basic medicine, Chinese medicine, economics and philosophy.

Lin Yifu, the leader of the "101 Plan" in the field of economics and a professor from Peking University, said: "We design courses and textbooks in each field based on the independent knowledge system and the needs of national development to determine experimental projects and train teachers."

National Energy Administration: The new version of Power Supply Business Rules will be implemented on June 1.

The reporter learned from the National Energy Administration on April 20 that a new version of the Power Supply Business Rules (hereinafter referred to as the Rules) will be implemented in China from June 1. This is also the first time that the Rules have been revised since their implementation in 1996 for 28 years.

According to reports, the "Power Supply Business Rules" is an important supporting regulation of China’s "Electricity Law", and its main content covers all aspects of power supply business activities. This revision highlights the optimization of the business environment and the protection of the rights and interests of the people. In the revision of the Rules, new clauses emphasize that users’ obligations should not be increased without authorization, and users’ rights should not be impaired. At the same time, relevant clauses should be adjusted and improved. For example, after the causes of power failure or power limitation are eliminated, the power supply recovery time will be reduced from three days to one day, so as to fully safeguard the people’s energy demand for a better life.

Song Hongkun, deputy director of the National Energy Administration, said: "In the revision of the Rules, we focused on key issues such as contract management, liability for breach of contract, liability for tort, etc., redefined the rights and obligations, and put the old version in many places ‘ Power supply enterprise regulations ’ Revised as ‘ Both parties agree that ’ It fully reflects the equal dominant position of power supply enterprises and power users in power supply and consumption activities. "

At present, there are about 3,000 power supply enterprises and 700 million power users in China. With the deepening of the power system reform, the old version of the Rules has been difficult to adapt to and meet the requirements of the new situation and new development. The new version of the Rules has further improved and improved the laws and regulations system in the field of power supply and consumption, which will have a far-reaching impact on the power supply activities of power supply enterprises and power users.

The Central Network Information Office and other three departments have further promoted the deployment and application of IPv6.

The reporter learned from the Central Network Information Office on April 19th that the Central Network Information Office, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the Work Arrangement for Deepening the Deployment and Application of IPv6 in 2024.

It is proposed that by the end of 2024, the number of IPv6 active users will reach 800 million, the number of IPv6 connections in the Internet of Things will reach 650 million, the fixed network IPv6 traffic will account for 23%, and the mobile network IPv6 traffic will account for 65%. IPv6 network performance has been significantly improved, and the use experience has been significantly improved. The IPv6 standard system has been continuously improved, and 50 national standards for IPv6 have been established.

China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone Nanning Area Collaborative Development Zone was officially unveiled.

On April 19th, the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially unveiled. At the end of 2023, the People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region officially approved the establishment of China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone in Nanning, Qinzhou, Chongzuo, Beihai and Fangchenggang. Among them, the first batch of coordinated development zones in Nanning area covers an area of about 70.2 square kilometers, covering three areas: Nanning Airport Economic Demonstration Zone, Nanning East New City and Nanning Yongning Emerging Industrial Park.

In the first quarter of this year, Xizang received more than 4.22 million domestic and foreign tourists.

In the first quarter of this year, Xizang’s tourism market achieved rapid growth, receiving more than 4.22 million domestic and foreign tourists, a year-on-year increase of 65.2%; The total tourism revenue exceeded 3.8 billion yuan, up 89.6% year-on-year.