Yuan Dawei: 3D Printing Industry in the Future Better than Internet Taobao Not Needed Then

On December 14, the second annual meeting of China's industry reform and development was held in Beijing, with the theme "The road of reform and development of the industry under the new normal." In the afternoon the round-table conference was held with the theme of "reform pushing adjustment and innovation driven develop ”. Yuan Dawei, CEO of Qingdao AOD 3D printing Ltd. participated in an interactive dialogue.

Yuan said that in the future Internet would have a strong power of subversion , now we always talked about the industry 4.0, while combined to 3D printing, we would introduce a concept: industry 5.0. Each family was a miniature factory, with this concept, the structure of industry and logistics would be adjusted.

Yuan took Taobao for example, you placed an order, then the factory produced the product, and then sent it to you, which took long time, but if you produced it at home, there would be no need to buy on Taobao theoretically. You could create information and print it on your own, Taobao would be not necessary, it didn’t save time, it just made the information richer.

He pointed out, if the information was rich enough and personalized, Taobao and logistics would be not needed. For example, the products were shipped to Beijing in batches in the past but now they are shipped to Beijing one by one, causing the traffic congested. Thus a lot of factories change their production model. “I'm worried, 3D printing industry looks very humble now, as we thought of Alibaba a decade ago, but it won’t be weaker than Internet, it’s just beginning in China.” (www.chinainout.com)

20,000 Offline Stores Participate Taobao "12.12" Plan - You to Be Given a Discount of 50% Through Alipay payment

In the Taobao "12.12" plan, not only online shops are in full swing, but also offline stores participate. This year, nearly 100 brands offline and approximately 20,000 stores will participate in the activity. On December 12, if you pay though Alipay, the store will give you a discount of 50%, the stores include restaurants, desserts, bakery, supermarket, CVS and other places of daily consumption.

Haidilao and Wangxiangyuan nationwide stores and Pizza Hut stores in Shanghai will give you a discount of 50% on December 12, if you pay though Alipay, the preference is 50 yuan at most. It starts from 8:00 am. Supermarkets like Wumart, Wanning, Century Lianhua, xinyijia, Lotus, zhongbai, Wushang, Zhejiangrenben also participate. Vending machines throughout the metro station, school and office buildings are also included. There are 18 brands like youbao, miyuan, yichu participating. You just need to pay one cent to buy drinks through Alipay.(www.chinainout.com)

Xiaomi Enters into Field of Purifiers Priced￥899

The day before yesterday, Xiaomi released their air purifier products, which reflected it entered into this current hot market, and still played the role of a price killer, the price of Xiaomi purifier is only about￥899, eaqual to the 1/6 of price of the foreign purifier with the same performance.

Xiaomi entered into new industries

Lei Jun said that the current air purifiers on the market mostly have  obvious shortcomings, such as lack of air capacity, cumbersome filter replacement, expensive price, etc., so Xiaomi decided to do their own air purifier, which has excellent purifying ability and most people can afford.

Lei Jun introduced, CADR, the main indicator of the purifying performance of Xiaomi air purifier, is 406m3 / h (clean air output ratio), 10,000 liters of air can be sent out at most per minute, it only takes 12 mins to clean a room of 28-48㎡. It’s said that its filtering performance for PM2.5 is 99.99%, even the filtering performance for the smaller PM0.3 is more than 99.3%, moreover it can absorb 91% formaldehyde.

In addition, as a smart home appliance, Xiaomi air purifiers can also be connected to the cellphone, which can do remote control. When the filter needs to be replaced, a notification will be sent directly to the phone.

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Xiaomi always said that its product was cost-effective, the air purifier included. The current air purifier on the market is at the price of 2000-6000 yuan, the foreign branded purifier with same CADR values is at the price of 6,000 yuan, while Xiaomi purifier price is 899 yuan.

In fact, not only Xioami, but also 360, cheetahs and other Internet companies launched air purifier products by their own or through the cooperation with other companies. Insiders said that, due to hazy weather, users’ demand for air purification products is increasing, moreover, the product is so high-profit, with low technical threshold, therefore Internet enterprises were attracted.(www.chinainout.com)

Declined Fertility Drags on US Economic Growth

Nokidding! We need more babies. American fertility rates are declining at arecord pace. A new Wall Street Journal report citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that fewer births mean less workers to drive the economy and fewer people paying into a tax base to finance benefits for theelderly.

"Thisis one of the first signs we're seeing of a real tangible threat to the longterm economy," says Yahoo Finance's Jeff Macke. The U.S. needs 2.1 children per woman to keep the population stable.

In2013, women were only averaging 1.86. Fewer babies and a declining population means less consumer spending. "You're talking about a lot of disposable income.Diapers, anything related to a baby is just a money printing machine for the economy," Macke says.

So,why the decline? It could be a hangover from the recession that ended in 2009.Macke says, the Millennial generation is skeptical of the economy. "They came of age during the dotcom meltdown and then the housing meltdown. So they have reasons to distrust things like the stock market. Buying a house is just a ludicrous proposition right now." Economic concerns combined with the costs associated with starting a family are influencing this generation to wait longer and have fewer children.

Another factor in the declining rates is the delicate balance of work and life that today's women battle with. Women are heading into the workforce with careergoals that may put their family planning on hold. Facebook (FB) and Apple(AAPL)made headlines earlier this year by offering to cover the cost offreezing eggs for their women employees. An incentive they hope will retain and boost the amount of women in their workforce. (www.chinainout.com)

Driven by Domestic Market Demand Cheese Imports Scale Increases

Since China joined the WTO, driven by the growing market demand and the tariff reduction, the volume and amount of imports cheese increasingly grows. According to the Customs Information Network (wwww.haiguan.info) statistics, China's cheese volume increased from 2004 7244.1 tons to 2013 47,330.9 tons, the annual average growth rate was 23.2%, the total volume of the imports was more than 200,000 tons; the amount of imports increased from 2004 $21,638,000 to 2013 $231,090,000, the total amount of imports was over $900 million. 　

 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　    

The characteristics of China's imports of cheese in first three quarters were as follows:

First, imports in August fell back, the average price grew steadily

Second, the general trade import dominant

In the first three quarters, China through general trade imported 50,000 tons of cheese, an increase of 50.0% over the same period, accounting for 98.2 percent of China's total imports.

Third, Oceania is the main import market

In the first three quarters, China imported cheese from 24 countries, which was highly concentrated. Oceania was major market for imports, cheese imported from New Zealand accounted to 22,000 tons, an increase of 10.6 times; cheese imported from Australia reached 14,000 tons, an increase of 54.2%, both of which accounted for 69.4% of total imports over the same period.

Fourth, the private enterprises were the largest importer, the state-owned enterprises grew rapidly

In the first three quarters, private enterprises imported 24,000 tons of cheese, an increase of 32.2% over the same period, accounting for 46.5% of total imports; state-owned enterprises imported 18,000 tons of cheese, a substantial increase of 85.2%, accounting for 34.6%; over the same period, foreign invested enterprises imported 9,710 tons of cheese, an increase of 50.7%, accounting for 18.9%.(www.chinainout.com)

IDC Predicts China's Technology Market to Gow Unprecedentedly Next Year

In the year-end predictions game, most technology forecasts tend to be either blue sky or boring, flights of imagination or a firm grasp of the obvious.

For the last several years, IDC has published prediction reports that generally avoid the pitfalls of the genre, and offer a useful framework for thinking about the trajectory of trends in technology. The technology research firm’s predictions for 2015, published on Tuesday, come in a 17-page report that is rich in numbers and analysis.

Beyond the detail, a couple of larger themes stand out. First is China. Most of the reporting and commentary recently on the Chinese economy has been about its slowing growth and challenges.

“In information technology, it’s just the opposite,” Frank Gens, IDC’s chief analyst, said in an interview. “China has a roaring domestic market in technology.”

In 2015, IDC estimates that nearly 500 million smartphones will be sold in China, three times the number sold in the United States and about one third of global sales. Roughly 85 percent of the smartphones sold in China will be made by its domestic producers like Lenovo, Xiaomi, Huawei, ZTE and Coolpad.

The rising prowess of China’s homegrown smartphone makers will make it tougher on outsiders, as Samsung’s slowing growth and profits recently reflect.

More than 680 million people in China will be online next year, or 2.5 times the number in the United States. And the China numbers are poised to grow further, helped by its national initiative, the Broadband China Project, intended to give 95 percent of the country’s urban population access to high-speed broadband networks.

In all, China’s spending on information and communications technology will be more than $465 billion in 2015, a growth rate of 11 percent. The expansion of the China tech market will account for 43 percent of tech-sector growth worldwide.

Another theme in the IDC report is the quickening pace of the move from older technologies to new ones. Overall spending on technology and telecommunications, IDC estimates, will rise by a modest 3.8 percent in 2015. Yet the top-line numbers mask the trends beneath. IDC predicts there will be growth of 13 percent in what the research firm calls “3rd platform” technologies (cloud, mobile, social and big data). By contrast, older technologies will face a no-growth “near recession,” according to IDC, and “will shift fully into recession” by the second half of next year.

IDC’s 3rd platform is similar to what Gartner, another big research firm, has called a “nexus of forces” sweeping through the industry. (Gartner’s ingredients are virtually the same as IDC’s with slightly different labels — social interaction, mobility, cloud and information.) The 1st platform, in IDC’s taxonomy, was the mainframe era, running from the 1960s into the 1980s. The 2nd platform included personal computers and the Internet, and began in the 1980s and ran through the middle of the first decade of this century.

Cloud-computing data centers are the engine rooms of the other 3rd platform technologies of mobile, social and big data. Building these cloud power plants is increasingly a costly, high-stakes endeavor. In 2015, IDC predicts, there will be a winnowing.

The leading players will keep spending and growing, and IDC identifies the leaders as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM. “But we’ll see a lot of dropouts, as companies pull back from cloud infrastructure and focus on what they’re good at,” Mr. Gens said.

Candidates to dro out of delivering computing resources as a cloud service, he said, include Hewlett-Packard and the telecommunications companies. Salesforce, a leader in cloud-based business software, may want to do a deal with one of the big builders of cloud data centers, Mr. Gens suggested. That way, he added, Salesforce could concentrate its resources on software — as the German software maker SAP did recently in a deal with IBM.

But while some retreat, China will likely produce a major cloud rival or two, IDC predicts. Alibaba, China’s dominant online merchant, Baidu, the Chinese search engine, or Tencent, China’s big social network, might well move beyond building data centers for their own use to supplying cloud computing as a service — the path taken by both Amazon and Google.

“Driven by their massive domestic market,” IDC predicts, “one or more of these Big Three cloud-based giants will challenge Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google” and others over the next three to four years. (www.chinainout.com)

IMF Data: China to Exceed US and Become World's Largest Economy Entity This Year

IMF announced the latest data, China's total GDP would exceed US’s $17.4 trillion and reach $17.6 trillion, China would become the world's largest economy.

In terms of actual purchasing power, China’s proportion in the global economy has reached 16.5%, while US’s proportion was 16.3%.

Last year, China's global trade surpassed the United States. These data was calculated on basis of the purchasing power parity (PPP). only from the point of view of international exchange rates, the size of the US economy was still nearly 70 percent bigger than China. (www.chinainout.com)