World

  • The Japanese government held a meeting of relevant ministers and officially decided to discharge the nuclear sewage stored in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company into the sea. It is reported that it will take about two years to start equipment construction before the discharge begins.
  • How much “lethality” is a million tons of nuclear sewage?
    • The so-called nuclear sewage is the waste water remaining after cooling the nuclear reactor.
      On March 11, 2011, the “March 11” Great East Japan Earthquake occurred in Japan, which triggered a huge tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster, killing tens of thousands of people.
      The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was destroyed in this major earthquake and tsunami, and dozens of radioactive materials leaked to the outside world in large quantities.
      These radioactive materials contaminated everything around Fukushima, except for vegetation, soil, objects, and even fine dust and air, as well as nuclear sewage, that is, radioactive liquid.
      Large amounts of radioactive materials have been detected in nuclear sewage.
      According to reports, nuclear radiation not only kills cells, but also has mutagenic effects, which may induce cell cancer or genetic mutations, leading to biological malformations.
      In a short period of time, once the ingested dose exceeds 100 mSv, the human body will be harmed, and if it exceeds 4000 mSv, it will directly cause death.
  • The spread of radioactive materials is beyond imagination
    • The calculation results of a marine scientific research institute from Germany show that
    • From the date of discharge, radioactive materials will spread to most of the Pacific Ocean within 57 days.
      Three years later, the United States and Canada will be affected by nuclear pollution.
    • Korean media pointed out, “If Japan’s nuclear sewage enters the sea, the polluted seawater will reach Jeju Island in 220 days. It will reach the west coast of South Korea in 400 days.
    • The German Antarctic Ocean Agency warned, if Japan discharges all wastewater into the sea. In less than half a year, the entire Pacific Ocean will face a high degree of radiation threat. Including the United States on the other side of the ocean.
    • Ten years later, the entire Pacific Ocean will be completely polluted. If it exists in the human body, it may cause the “three causes”, carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic, and it has a major impact on human genetics.

Industry Data

  • Gartner: In the first quarter, global PC shipments reached 69.9 million units, an increase of 32% year-on-year, setting the fastest year-on-year growth rate since 2000. Lenovo is still the world’s largest PC manufacturer with a market share of 25.1%. HP and Dell ranked second and third with 21.4% and 16.5% market share respectively. Apple, Acer and Asus ranked fourth to sixth. Among them, Apple’s Mac shipments were 5.57 million units, a year-on-year increase of 48.6%.
  • The use of copper in China’s electric vehicle market is expected to increase fivefold in the next five years. By 2025, the copper consumption of electric vehicles and charging stations will be approximately 540,000 tons, five times more than the 2020 level. The total copper consumption of the renewable energy and electric vehicle industries is estimated to reach 1.2 million tons, accounting for approximately China 10% of total copper demand.

Trade

  • The total value of China’s trade in goods was 8.47 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29.2%. Among them, exports were 4.61 trillion yuan, an increase of 38.7%; imports were 3.86 trillion yuan, an increase of 19.3%; the trade surplus was 759.29 billion yuan, an increase of 690.6%. ASEAN, the European Union, the United States and Japan are my country’s top four trading partners, with imports and exports of 1.24 trillion yuan, 1.19 trillion yuan, 1.08 trillion yuan, and 561.42 billion yuan, up 26.1%, 36.4%, 61.3% and 20.8% respectively. .
  • Vietnam’s textile exports surged, and orders from Pakistan and Bangladesh rebounded. The EU is still the largest export region of Bangladesh, accounting for 62.47%, followed by the United States with 18.5% and Canada with 3.11%.
  • South Korea’s exports in the first 10 days of April increased by 24.8% year-on-year. On the 12th, according to preliminary verification data released by the Korean Customs Service, South Korean exports in the first 10 days of April increased by 24.8% year-on-year to 15.04 billion U.S. dollars. The number of working days was 8 days, a decrease of 0.5 days year-on-year. Based on the actual number of working days, the average daily export value increased by 32.6% year-on-year. In the same period, imports amounted to 16.69 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 14.8% year-on-year.

Company

  • Intel: It is in contact with automotive chip suppliers to start producing chips at Intel’s factory in the next 6 to 9 months. The two new factories in Arizona will support Intel’s product production, but will also support the newly launched Intel foundry services, and will become major suppliers of chip manufacturing for American and European companies.
  • Microsoft will acquire Nuance for US$19.7 billion in cash. Nuance is a leader in cloud and AI software, with decades of experience in the healthcare and enterprise AI markets. The transaction is expected to be completed within this year.
  • Huawei: Announce the progress of cloud and computing business in 2020. Huawei Cloud ranks second in the public cloud service market in China and sixth in the global IaaS market, with the fastest growth rate in the world; Kunpeng and Shengteng computing are booming, empowering thousands of industries; Huawei’s storage market share ranks third in the world ,China’s first.
  • Faraday Future hopes to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in the United States within a few weeks, and plans to raise more than US$1 billion. The company’s chief executive officer is trying to reset investors’ expectations. After the merger, Faraday will surely sell 2,400 electric vehicles next year.
  • Google will close Google Shopping.
  • National Energy Group: in the first quarter, completed coal production of 141 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%; coal sales of 196 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 15.9%; power generation capacity of 260.2 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 24.8%; railway transportation volume of 126 million tons, a year-on-year increase An increase of 20.2%; the shipment volume of the two ports was 66 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 18.8%; the shipping volume was 48 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 41%.