The entrance of China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone.

　　Egyptian workers are working in the production workshop of China Jushi Group Egyptian Glass Fiber Industry Company.　　

　　Our reporter Zhou Yushe

　　On March 23, 2020, Chairman of the Supreme Leader and Egyptian President Seyce pointed out on the phone that China attaches great importance to developing China-Egypt relations and is willing to work together with Egypt to deepen pragmatic cooperation in various fields and make China-Egypt relations a model for building a community of destiny between China and Africa.

　　This year marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Egypt. Egypt is the first Arab country and African country to establish diplomatic relations with New China. Sino-Egyptian relations are a model of solidarity, cooperation and mutual benefit between China and Africa. Over the past 65 years, China and Egypt have always helped each other and moved forward hand in hand. The relationship between the two countries has withstood the test of changing international situations and has always maintained healthy and stable development. With the joint construction of the "Belt and Road Initiative" deeply docking Egypt’s "Vision 2030", the traditional friendship and pragmatic cooperation between China and Egypt have been deepened, pushing China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership to a new level.

　　Pragmatic cooperation has progressed steadily.

　　In the vast desert 50 kilometers east of Cairo, the capital of Egypt, tall buildings are springing up. On the morning of June 17th, local time, the main structure of the sign tower in the Central Business District of Egypt’s new administrative capital, which was built by China enterprises, was capped. Egyptian Minister of Housing assim Gazal and Chinese guests jointly completed the concrete pouring of the last cubic meter of the sign tower. He said: "Today we have witnessed the achievements achieved by Egypt and China through cooperative efforts. We believe that this project today (officially capped) will become a new landmark in Egypt."

　　In recent years, China and Egypt have strengthened the docking of development strategies, jointly built the "Belt and Road" and expanded cooperation in infrastructure construction, production capacity and science and technology. During the epidemic prevention and control period, China-Egypt pragmatic cooperation maintained a good momentum of development, and major cooperation projects were promoted in an orderly manner: on the Suez River, Egyptian enterprises were helping Egypt build container terminals; On the coast of the Red Sea, by the end of April this year, the TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone jointly established by China and Egypt had attracted 102 enterprises to settle in, directly solving about 4,000 jobs, and the industry drove more than 36,000 jobs; In the aerospace field, the Egyptian satellite assembly integrated test center project signed by China and Egypt and the implementation agreement of Egypt-2 satellite are progressing simultaneously … …

　　According to statistics of China Customs, in 2020, the import and export volume of bilateral goods between China and Egypt reached US$ 14.566 billion, up 10.34% year-on-year. Since 2013, China has been the largest trading partner of Egypt for eight consecutive years. In the first quarter of this year, the bilateral import and export volume of goods between China and Egypt was US$ 4.176 billion, an increase of 32.14% over the same period of last year, reaching a new record high.

　　China has become the country with the most active investment in Egypt and the fastest growth rate in recent years. In 2020, China increased its direct investment in Egypt by 190 million US dollars, and its investment stock in Egypt exceeded 1.2 billion US dollars. In the first quarter of this year, China’s new direct investment in Egypt was US$ 83 million, up 134% year-on-year. At present, Chinese and Egyptian enterprises are discussing cooperation in the fields of electric vehicles, agriculture and smart transportation.

　　"China welcomes more Egyptian enterprises to invest in Egypt and is willing to work with China to further enhance the comprehensive strategic partnership between Egypt and China." Sethi said.

　　Humanities exchanges are closer.

　　On June 15th, the unveiling ceremony of the "Chinese Bridge" club Cairo Station was held in Cairo. Mohammed Ayman ashur, Deputy Minister of Higher Education of Egypt, who attended the unveiling ceremony, said that Chinese has become one of the most important languages in the world. At present, young Egyptian students have spontaneously formed a craze for learning Chinese.

　　Egypt is the first country in the Middle East and Africa to teach Chinese. At present, there are 16 Egyptian universities offering Chinese majors or courses. In May this year, the Egyptian Ministry of Education announced that 10 middle schools in Egypt will be used as pilot schools from next year, and Chinese will be offered as an optional course for the second foreign language. Gamar Elshali, vice president of Cairo University, said: "I hope that Chinese teaching will become a channel for cultural exchanges between the people of Egypt and China and promote the communication between the people."

　　"Egypt-China cultural exchanges have a good foundation for cooperation." Mohammed Ersa, former deputy minister of information in Egypt, said that through frequent exchanges in the cultural fields between the two countries, the two peoples have enhanced mutual understanding and the friendship between Egypt and China has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

　　Over the past 65 years, people-to-people exchanges between China and Egypt have yielded fruitful results. According to data from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Relics, China has become Egypt’s fourth largest source of tourists, with hundreds of thousands of China tourists visiting Egypt every year; By the end of 2019, more than 2,800 Egyptian students and 1,200 China students were studying in two countries; Last year, China and Egypt held 52 online cultural exchange activities, attracting nearly 10 million visitors and over 650,000 people to participate in the interaction … …

　　During the epidemic prevention and control period, with the joint efforts of China and Egypt, two Luban workshops located at Ain Shams University in Egypt and Cairo Advanced Maintenance Technical School were completed as scheduled. At present, the teacher training for Egyptian teachers and the formulation of advanced training syllabus for junior high schools have been completed. "Egypt’s vocational and technical education is undergoing reform, and Luban Workshop has brought advanced educational concepts, teaching standards and training equipment." Mohammed Almugahed, Egyptian Deputy Minister of Education, Technology and Education, said.

　　Mahmoud Alam, former Egyptian ambassador to China, said that with the docking of Egypt’s "Vision 2030" and the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, cultural exchanges between Egypt and China have become closer, laying the foundation for Egypt and China to jointly build a community of destiny and deepen comprehensive strategic partnership. Egypt-China cooperation has made great achievements in education, health and other fields.

　　Anti-epidemic cooperation sets a good example

　　An Arabic proverb says, "A friend who comes in trouble is a true friend." In the face of the challenge of the epidemic, China and Egypt have helped each other, written a new chapter in sharing weal and woe, and made contributions to promoting the construction of a healthy human community.

　　During the critical period of China’s anti-epidemic, the Egyptian government and people expressed their firm support for China. Sethi sent Hala Zayed, Minister of Health and Population, as the special envoy of the President to visit China with anti-epidemic materials. Three world cultural heritage sites in Egypt lit up the "China Red" in the form of light shows and raised the five-star red flag to express their firm support for China.

　　China is one of the earliest and largest countries to provide anti-epidemic assistance to Egypt. It has provided four batches of anti-epidemic aid materials to Egypt, provided the latest version of prevention and treatment plan as soon as possible, carried out many video exchanges between Chinese and Egyptian experts, established a counterpart cooperative hospital mechanism, and helped Egypt establish a mask production line. "Different states share weal and woe". The poem of the famous Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawgī vividly explains the friendship between the Chinese and Egyptian people in times of trouble and sharing weal and woe in the aid of the China government to Egypt’s anti-epidemic materials.

　　China has provided two batches of vaccine assistance to Egypt and supported Egypt in purchasing Chinese vaccines. Egypt is one of the first countries to carry out Phase III clinical trials of Chinese medicine vaccine, and is cooperating with China in COVID-19 vaccine production.

　　At the end of May this year, the "China-Africa Counterpart Hospital Cooperation Mechanism Project" was officially launched. jiangsu province hospital and Egypt Ain Shams University Hospital held a signing ceremony of the framework agreement cloud. The two sides will carry out pragmatic cooperation in remote consultation, personnel training and discipline construction. China will further help Egypt improve its epidemic prevention capacity and health service level, and promote the construction of China-Egypt and China-Africa health community.

　　Hala Zayed said that the unity and cooperation between Egypt and China in fighting the epidemic has further deepened the traditional friendship and political mutual trust between the two countries and set an example for the international community in fighting the epidemic.

　　Egyptian Prime Minister Madbouli said that in recent years, Egypt and China have carried out pragmatic cooperation in various fields, and the anti-epidemic cooperation between the two countries has yielded fruitful results, further confirming the special friendship between Egypt and China. Egypt is willing to make joint efforts with China to accelerate cooperation in fighting the epidemic. It is believed that the comprehensive strategic partnership between Egypt and China will be more solid after the epidemic has been tempered, and the friendly cooperation between the two countries will reach a new level.

　　(Cairo, June 18th)

Why did Changsha waste store dump the leftover bits and pieces of thousands of stores?

Recycling is hard to sell. There used to be 1,500 stores, but now there are 200: the more they are torn down, the more they are padded.

With the profit of waste recycling getting smaller and smaller, street vendors who recycle waste are becoming less and less common. (data picture)

"Waste, color TV refrigerator washing machine … books and newspapers … beer bottles …"

Hearing shouts coming from the alley, Wang Miao ran out. Five minutes later, the 14-year-old color TV at home changed its owner.

Half an hour later, this color TV set was sent by Lao Li to the waste recycling station in Zhushanyuan, Changsha, and sold to 80 yuan. Lao Li earned 10 yuan on this trip.

The data shows that in 2015, 1.7 million tons of waste electrical products were recycled and dismantled in China, with an output rate of 98.2% and an economic value of 4.95 billion yuan. However, when the reporter visited the recycling destination of used household appliances, he learned that the number of waste materials recycling shops in Changsha has been greatly reduced, and now there are only more than 200. Moreover, qualified waste household appliances dismantling enterprises are also facing a series of problems such as difficult recycling and difficult capital operation. ■ Trainee reporter and Tingting

survey

Profits fell, and waste shops in Changsha dropped sharply.

On the afternoon of August 13th, the reporter went to Zhushanyuan Waste Recycling Station where Lao Li resold color TV sets, and found that the site of nearly 20 square meters was filled with plastic and some old household appliances, and the carefree and boring proprietress was dressing up.

"It has been open for more than ten years, and now even the children can’t afford to study. My husband has already switched to the construction site as a temporary worker." When it comes to business, the proprietress has some complaints.

"I feel that business is getting worse every year, and now many waste shops are closed." Wife of shop-owner looking at the outdoor sun, some low tone.

"There are indeed many closures. At present, there are only more than 200 waste recycling shops in Changsha." Zhou Wei, secretary-general of Changsha Renewable Resources Recycling Association, said that around 2009, there were more than 1,500 waste recycling shops in Changsha at the peak.

It is understood that the reason for the closure of many waste recycling shops is the serious decline in profits. Boss Liu of the recycling station of renewable resources in Maojiaqiao Lane has been engaged in this line for many years. "I used to collect three plastic bottles for one dime, but now I can collect six. What do you think?"

Profits have declined, but daily expenses such as rent and labor have increased year by year. Unsustainable bosses can only change careers or close their doors.

In the investigation and interview, the reporter learned that many recycling shops simply disassemble the used household appliances that arrive at the store or send them to individual small workshops for disassembly, and most of them are resold to the second-hand household appliances market, and the profit margin can be imagined. "There are only a few people, so how can we have the energy to make a fine disassembly?" Boss Liu said frankly.

In fact, waste household appliances have huge invisible wealth. Data show that from 2012 to 2015, nearly 200 million sets of discarded electrical and electronic products were recycled in China, and 195 million sets were dismantled. Among them, in 2015, 1.7 million tons of waste electrical products were dismantled, and the output rate was as high as 98.2%.

In addition to waste stations and small individual workshops, many enterprises also took a fancy to this piece of cake, and some enterprises specializing in dismantling came into being. There are four such enterprises in Hunan. "Last year, the number of waste’ four machines and one brain’ theoretically produced in our province was about 2 million units, and these four enterprises dismantled about 4 million units. They digested most of the waste household appliances in our province." Zhou Wei said.

However, these qualified formal dismantling enterprises have also encountered difficulties. Zhuzhou Kaitian Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the four qualified dismantling enterprises in Hunan, with an annual dismantling capacity of about 800,000 units. Li Jun, the company’s new business development department minister, was deeply touched. "There are more and more scrapped household appliances dismantled, but less and less money is made."

question

The more demolition, the more the enterprise advances.

"At present, the recycling price of a waste household appliance is around 80 yuan, and the management and dismantling cost is 25 yuan, and the total expenditure cost is about 105 yuan. Dismantling a home appliance can probably generate value around 35 yuan, plus the fund subsidy around 75 yuan, and the profit of each home appliance is probably above 5 yuan. " Li Jun calculated an account.

But this is only an ideal account book.

"Our dismantling subsidies in the third and fourth quarters of last year have not yet been put in place, so the company has been paying for it." Li Jun said.

According to Li Jun, an enterprise with an annual dismantling capacity of 1 million household appliances needs to pay about 40 million yuan in advance for the fund subsidy of 75 yuan, excluding the dismantling value of 35 yuan. "In addition, enterprises will still have some stocks, and the basic amount of funds will be around 40 million to 50 million."

"Now there are three mountains on the head of our dismantling enterprises. The first mountain is the continuous decline in the prices of bulk commodities. Second, the price of recycling keeps rising. Third, with the massive dismantling in recent years, the amount of used household appliances has gradually decreased. " Zhou Jun, general manager of Hunan Wanrong Technology Co., Ltd. said.

trace to the source

What is the crux of the problem ?

The recovery system is not perfect

What is the crux of the recycling of used household appliances?

Zhou Wei introduced that China’s fund subsidy policy is biased towards the management and subsidy of dismantling enterprises, but it does not set certain thresholds or requirements for circulation links such as waste stations at the front end. Therefore, it can be collected by walking the streets and lanes, and three or two sets can also be collected, and the recycling price is also difficult to control.

Moreover, the policy model of domestic fund subsidies is borrowed from foreign countries. However, abroad is an extension of producer responsibility system and consumer responsibility system, and not only producers but also consumers have to pay for the disposal of used waste household appliances. However, there is still a lack of consumer responsibility system in China, and residents’ treatment of used household appliances is sales, and whoever bids high will sell it to them.

"In the 1970s and 1980s, recycling enterprises were state-owned, and they had a complete system. Nowadays, recycling enterprises are private, and their fundamental attributes are profit-seeking, big profits, small profits, and no profits. So far, the domestic recycling system has been imperfect. " Zhou Wei said.

suggestion

Transformation and upgrading

Self-built recycling channel

Zhou Jun said that in the face of the current difficult recycling situation, enterprises need to be deep and refined at the front end, build their own recycling channel system and increase recycling efforts.

"The imperfect recycling system has restricted the development of many waste electrical appliances dismantling enterprises in the province. Two years ago, one or two of the 10 discarded electrical appliances dismantled by the company were recycled through its own channels, and now the proportion has increased to 7-8. In this way, the industrial chain can be moved forward ecologically. On the one hand, it reduces circulation links to avoid scalpers raising prices, on the other hand, it can guarantee the quality of home appliances. " Zhou Jun said.

Tang Qinqin, president of the Provincial Chamber of Commerce for Household Electrical Appliances Industry, believes that a rental platform for household electrical appliances can be established, and the whole process of product sales-reservation-installation-maintenance (-subletting)-recycling-dismantling-scrapping can be completed on this platform, so as to realize the full integration of electronic products from factory to scrapping. This can not only ensure the whole process of product control, but also reduce circulation links and save costs. In addition, the form of leasing is also conducive to improving the reuse rate of products and promoting the recycling of resources.