Boosting Party Building in the New Era with Big Data

  On July 9, 2019, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out in his speech at the party building work conference of the central and state organs: "We should closely follow the characteristics of the party building era and party member’s ideological and behavioral characteristics, actively explore new ways and methods that are conducive to solving problems, and actively explore new carriers and new ways to carry out work under the conditions of informationization." At present, with the rapid development of information technology, information technology represented by big data has profoundly changed people’s thinking, understanding and behavior. It is of great significance to make full use of the advantages of big data and strive to improve the breadth, depth and accuracy of party building work in the new situation.

  The Significance of Big Data in Promoting Party Building in the New Era

  In the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Opinions on Strengthening the Party’s Political Construction, it is proposed to actively use emerging technologies such as the Internet and big data, innovate the content and methods of party organization activities, and promote "smart party building". In the tide of informationization, we should explore the special role of big data in innovative party building.

  Big data is an important thrust to fully implement the general requirements of party building in the new era. The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership and organizational advantages are important guarantees for doing all the work well and overcoming all kinds of difficulties and risks. The world today is experiencing a great change that has never happened in a hundred years. The world has entered a period of turbulent change, and the difficulties and challenges faced by our party are different from those in the past. Facing the new situation and new challenges, how to fully implement the general requirements of Party building in the new era, so as to manage the Party well, effectively and effectively, and build our Party better and stronger. The application of big data in information resources, communication scope and work efficiency has provided favorable opportunities for grassroots party building work. Big data has become a powerful weapon for all countries in the world to achieve information development. The convenience, timeliness, extensibility and inclusiveness of big data determine its role in fully implementing the general requirements of party building in the new era today.

  Big data is the proper meaning of improving the scientific, accurate and standardized party building. A very important feature of big data technology is to digitize objects. Party building work can make use of big data to network and intelligentize Party building and education management services in party member, and provide standardized and convenient party management, innovative and diverse organizational activities, one-stop party member service, multi-angle learning and publicity, etc. Wherever the network develops, Party building work will cover it. Big data can also make centralized learning and organizational life break through the limitations of time and space, provide real-time, high-quality and large-capacity materials for party member’s learning and education, and provide digital support for party member’s learning achievement detection. Through the research and analysis of the data, we can master all the information of party member’s ideological level, work performance, behavior habits, party spirit cultivation and so on, upgrade and optimize the team building mode, and make the team building change from extensive management to refined management mode. At the same time, the value of big data can be further explored in the management of mobile party member, the assessment of leading cadres, the evaluation of party representatives’ performance, and the construction of the party’s grassroots organizations.

  Big data is an effective means to strengthen the daily supervision of leading cadres in party member. To uphold the party’s leadership, we must strictly manage the party. A very important aspect of "strictness" is to strengthen the supervision and management of cadres. Strengthen the daily management and supervision of leading cadres in party member, find the incipient problems as soon as possible, put the discipline ahead, and extend the comprehensive and strict management of the Party to the end and advance it to the depth. Judging from the current situation, there are still many shortcomings in accurately strengthening the daily supervision of cadres and power, and the extensive research and application of big data provides us with solutions and paths to improve the daily supervision and management of cadres. With the rapid development of the Internet, promoting the deep integration of traditional supervision means and modern information means, exploring the use of big data thinking and information means, strengthening comprehensive analysis and judgment, promoting the transformation of cadre supervision from simplification to three-dimensional, and making daily supervision more operational and effective are the "cages" for weaving power operation and effective means for strengthening daily supervision of leading cadres. Insisting on combining Party building with the application of information technology can help us fully, deeply and concretely understand the "hidden" problems existing in party member’s cadre information and Party building, and minor problems that are not easy to be found in the daily management of cadres are more likely to be exposed in data analysis, so that we can make an early warning response at the first time, "bite our ears" and "pull our sleeves" for cadres and move the cadre supervision barrier forward.Solve the problem at the beginning, in the bud.

  Using Big Data to Promote the Party Building Work

  Using big data to promote party building is a systematic project. Only by adhering to political guidance, making good use of technical means and strengthening team building can we better play the role of this emerging basic strategic resource and continuously improve the quality of party building.

  Political guidance is the premise. Big data is a double-edged sword. While realizing the great value brought by data security integration and data transaction circulation, the large-scale use of data inevitably brings potential risks, such as the risk of public opinion caused by public content, and the risk of data leakage, loss and abuse. In the process of making full use of big data to promote party building, strengthening political guidance is a prerequisite. We should deepen our understanding of the application of big data in Party building, further clarify the fundamental requirements for big data to boost Party building, always adhere to the correct political stance, political direction and political principles, and start with innovative forms of Party building work to provide high-quality and efficient information and technical services for Party organizations and party member groups, so as to enhance the organizational strength, cohesion and combat effectiveness of Party organizations. It is necessary to use Marxist philosophical principles to dialectically treat the advantages and disadvantages of the combination of big data and party building, realize the mutual promotion of science and technology and party building, and turn the biggest variable of the Internet into the biggest increment to promote party building.

  Technical means is the key. The data itself is meaningless, and the data is meaningful only after processing and interpretation. Starting from the massive data, after a series of technical processing such as collection, sorting, processing and analysis, effective information is deeply extracted and applied to specific goals, so as to reflect the value of the data itself. In this sense, the connotation of big data lies in the ability of thinking, tools and means to deal with these large-scale data. For the party building work in the new era, we should attach importance to the integration of advanced technology and ideas, break the conventional work mode, and promote the development of party work mode in the direction of informationization and intelligence. In particular, it is necessary to break the traditional thinking of "focusing on party building", take the big party building thinking as the guide, coordinate all functional departments, rely on advanced technical means such as big data, Internet of Things, VR and AR, cloud computing, take data and hardware as the basis, take the effective combination of traditional party building working methods and new smart party building models as the starting point, and aim at strengthening political functions, highlighting service functions and embodying innovative functions to build an efficient, smooth and safe party building information management platform.

  Team building is the foundation. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that being good at obtaining data, analyzing data and using data is the basic skill for leading cadres to do a good job. Emphasize the need to build a multi-level and multi-type team of big data talents. In the era of mobile intelligence, talents play an important role in promoting the transformation and innovation of party building work. They should not only have strong business ability of party building work, but also have high ability to use information technology, and can effectively use big data technology, Internet of Things technology and cloud computing technology to carry out party affairs and strengthen the ideological guidance of the party. At present, the talent team engaged in party building work is generally older, unskilled in the use of new technologies, and some even have exclusion psychology. This requires selecting young and middle-aged talents with good political quality, strong network technology and good at party building and ideological and political work, and enriching them into the party building work team. It is also possible to carry out the training of party affairs staff in the aspects of intelligent knowledge, information security maintenance and application ability, build a team of party building big data, uniformly deploy and guide the integration of party building big data in various regions, and give feedback and evaluation based on the implementation effect of the work to promote the steady progress of party building big data integration.

  Safeguard measures to promote party building work by using big data

  Using big data to promote party building is a highly innovative work, which needs support and guarantee from all sides. This requires us to establish the strategic thinking of planning Party building with Internet thinking and promoting Party building with information technology, clarify the leading institutions, introduce construction standards, and improve various mechanisms to ensure that the use of big data to promote Party building is effective.

  Strengthen overall planning. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader clearly pointed out that Party committees at all levels should attach great importance to the influence of information development on Party building, ensure that the Party’s work will be covered wherever the network develops, make full use of information technology to improve education management in party member, raise the level of mass work, and strengthen the positive guidance of online public opinion. Using big data to promote the construction of party building work is a systematic project. Without the cooperation of all parties, it is difficult to carry it out. It is necessary to build a smart party building leadership system with unified leadership of party committees, division of responsibilities of functional departments and joint management. Party organizations at all levels must understand the importance and urgency of promoting "big data+party building" from a strategic and overall perspective, and constantly enhance the consciousness and firmness of online party building. Relevant functional departments are in charge of formulating relevant policy documents and platform design of "Party Building+Big Data", coordinating, supervising and inspecting the work as a whole, strengthening the responsibilities and tasks of member units and relevant institutions, and building a development pattern of "Big Data+Party Building" with unified leadership of the Party Committee and government and relevant departments performing their respective duties. Leading cadres in party member have a leading role in demonstrating. They need to consciously establish new ideas, learn new technologies and use new media, take the lead in participating in the practice of "Big Data+Party Building", actively learn, understand and use the Internet, and truly become the leader and guide of smart party building.

  Introduce construction standards. At present, the use of big data to promote party building is in the exploratory stage. There is no unified construction standard, and all localities have their own characteristics and priorities, which is not conducive to standardized operation and high-quality development. We need to closely focus on the requirements and characteristics of Party building work in the new era, formulate a set of technical standards and protocols for "Big Data+Party Building" work including websites, software, APP, WeChat public platform and QR code application, clarify the interaction standards of various business data, define the data specifications for party organizations at all levels to exchange, and actively promote the rise to a unified standard. At the same time, from the three aspects of education, management and service in party member, a unified "Big Data+Party Building" business process is formulated, such as the development of party member workflow, the "three sessions and one lesson" process and the heart-to-heart conversation process.

  Improve various mechanisms. We need to speed up the establishment of a management mechanism for data collection, analysis, classification and use, and solve the problems of using big data to promote multi-head leadership of party building projects, repeated design of platforms, and different data standards, so as to achieve unified command, clear responsibilities and rights, and application to people. It is necessary to establish and improve the laws and regulations on personal information security and the supervision mechanism for the use of data information in party member, and strengthen the legal protection of personal privacy and data security. It is necessary to establish and improve the communication mechanism, realize the sharing of knowledge resources between party organizations across regions and industries, and realize the learning and transmission of key technical elements through new technical means. It is necessary to establish and improve the funding guarantee system and promote the infrastructure construction of "big data+party building". It is necessary to formulate corresponding performance appraisal standards in a targeted manner, carefully deploy the platform construction of party organizations at all levels, and evaluate the construction effectiveness, so that the new model of "Big Data+Party Building" can be put into practice as soon as possible.

  (Author: Linzi Unit: School of Marxism, Renmin University of China)

Geely Automobile’s "Geely Galaxy" has released two major architectures of electric hybrid and pure electricity, and will launch two series of 7 products

  China Securities Network News (Reporter, Yu Liyan) Geely Automobile CEO Gan Jiayue said on the evening of February 23 that the company’s mid-to-high-end new energy series "Geely Galaxy" will launch two major layouts of "new energy architecture vehicle". Among them, Geely Galaxy’s intelligent "electric hybrid" architecture covers A0 to B-level intelligent electric hybrid products; Geely Galaxy’s intelligent "pure electric" architecture covers A-level to E-level intelligent pure electric products. In addition, the engine thermal efficiency of Geely Raytheon’s next-generation electric hybrid system will exceed 46%.

  According to the plan, Geely Galaxy will launch seven products in the next two years, with the L series being electric hybrid and the E series being pure electric.

  Among them, the Galaxy intelligent electric hybrid L series will launch four products, the first electric hybrid SUV Galaxy L7 and the first electric hybrid car Galaxy L6 will be delivered in the second and third quarters of 2023 respectively; the Galaxy intelligent pure electric E series will launch three products, of which the first pure electric product E8 will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2023.

  The Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee announced on February 23 that the Geely Galaxy L7 will become the official designated car and Torch Relay support car for the Hangzhou Asian Games.

The subsidy of 10 billion yuan is 2,193 yuan: Xiaomi’s second-generation sweeping robot JD.COM has a subsidy of 10 billion yuan (the listing price is 3,499 yuan).

  Xiaomi Mijia Universal Sweeping Robot 2 was put on sale in mid-August last year, with an official price of 3,499 yuan.

  Today, JD.COM’s self-operated subsidy of 10 billion yuan has dropped to 2,202 yuan. After the reduction of PLUS members, it only needs 2,202 yuan, supporting the service of "buy twice as much as you pay" and limiting the purchase of one order:

  According to reports, compared with the original model, this product has been upgraded with "automatic water supply and drainage 2.0" (the original model does not support water supply and drainage), wide-area structured light obstacle avoidance, support for "automatic addition of detergent", upgrade from 2.5L to 4L large-capacity water tank, upgrade the suction from 4000Pa to 6000Pa, and support for "twisting and rubbing" and four cleaning modes.

  This mopping robot supports first sweeping and then dragging, mop self-cleaning+automatic air drying, mop automatic lifting, automatic dust collection, LDS laser navigation, intelligent linkage of the whole house and so on.

Tencent Music, whose profit increased by 36% year-on-year last year, is also worried, and the number of monthly users of its main business has decreased for several consecutive quarters.

The business map of Tencent Music has been adjusted.

On March 19th, Tencent Music released the unaudited financial performance report for the fourth quarter and the whole year as of December 31st, 2023.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, the total revenue of Tencent Music was RMB 6.89 billion, down 7.2% year-on-year; The net profit was 1.41 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%.

In 2023, the total revenue of Tencent Music was 27.75 billion yuan, down 2.1% year-on-year; The net profit was 5.22 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 36%.

After the financial report was released, before the US stock market closed on March 19th, the share price of Tencent Music rose by 0.48%, corresponding to a market value of $17.813 billion.

In terms of business, Tencent Music is still in the process of adjusting its business structure and continues to focus on online music services. In Q4 of 2023, Tencent Music’s online music service revenue reached 5.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 41.1%; The income from social entertainment services and other services dropped by 51.6% year-on-year to 1.87 billion yuan. Correspondingly, in Q4 of 2023, the operating cost of Tencent Music decreased by 14.6% year-on-year to 4.25 billion yuan due to the decrease in revenue sharing cost corresponding to the decrease in social entertainment service revenue.

In the whole year of 2023, thanks to the accelerated growth of online music subscription revenue and advertising service revenue, as well as the growth of sales revenue around artists, Tencent Music’s online music service revenue was 17.33 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 38.8%; As the company adjusted some live interactive functions and implemented stricter compliance procedures, the revenue from social entertainment services and other services was 10.43 billion yuan, down 34.2% year-on-year.

With the concentration of live broadcast traffic to the short video platform in the head, Tencent Music is also changing its strategy. Nowadays, online music service has become Tencent’s music business accounting for over 70%, and this proportion is increasing — — From 37.1% in Q1 in 2023 to 72.9% in Q4, and achieved good profits. Earlier, Tencent Music’s social entertainment service accounted for 70% of the company’s total revenue.

In this process, Tencent Music has tapped the paying potential of users, and both the number of paying users and the average monthly income of users of its online music service have increased. The former increased by 20.6% to 107 million in Q4, while the latter increased by 20.2% to 10.7 yuan.

In addition, Zhu Liang, CEO of Tencent Music, said at the performance meeting that Tencent Music pays more attention to the overall activity and liquidity of long audio content and the promotion of long audio content in the car market. In 2023, the long audio service achieved more than the expected results in the transformation of Tencent Music. Next, Tencent Music will continue to promote the distribution and commercial efficiency of long audio content on the entire music platform.

Cussion Pang, executive chairman of Tencent Music, said in the financial report, "2023 is a crucial year for the transformation of Tencent Music." "The strong performance of online music services not only eased the pressure on social entertainment services, but also promoted the steady increase of quarterly net profit."

However, Tencent Music, which has successfully transformed, is not without worries. On the one hand, the number of monthly active users of online music service, which has been regarded as the main business, has decreased for several consecutive quarters. In Q4 of 2023, the number of monthly active users of this service was 576 million, a year-on-year decrease of 4.2% and a quarter-on-quarter decrease of 3.03%. The number of monthly mobile users of social entertainment services also decreased by 28.8% year-on-year to 104 million.

On the other hand, although the net profit performance is good, but reducing costs and increasing efficiency has not changed its overall income decline. In 2023, the total revenue of Tencent Music decreased by 2.1% year-on-year.

Regarding the loss of Q4 users, Liang Zhu said that there are quarterly reasons, and the mobile terminal itself continues to be affected by short videos, and the traffic has the pressure of natural loss; In 2023, the promotion and marketing expenses of Tencent Music were also reduced, and the distribution channels were also reduced.

In addition, in 2023, the average monthly income of users of Tencent Music’s online music service increased, which also caused negative user feedback. The topic of "QQ music members’ price increase" was once on the hot search in Weibo. In addition, Tencent Music’s MOO Music, which focuses on young users and targets Netease Cloud Music, was shut down on December 31, 2023.

Netease Cloud Music, the main competitor of Tencent Music, released its financial report on March 1st. The latter also embarked on the road of reducing costs and increasing efficiency and adjusting its business structure, and also experienced a decline in income and an increase in profits — — In Q4 of 2023, the net income of Cloud Music was 1.986 billion yuan, down 16.4% year-on-year; Gross profit was 601 million yuan, up 42.32% year-on-year.

According to the financial report of Tencent Music, as of December 31, 2023, the total balance of cash, cash equivalents and time deposits of Tencent Music was 32.22 billion yuan. In addition, according to the $500 million share repurchase plan announced on March 21, 2023, as of December 31, 2023, Tencent Music has repurchased about 25.3 million shares of american depository receipts from the open market for $174.5 million in cash.