精彩2019年4月号 Issue 39

Hot 30 14

4 ONE OF THE WORLD’S SMARTEST 13 24
COMPANIES iFLYTEK SHINES ON AI DAY 4
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People

8 REFLECTING ON CHINA-NEW ZEALAND
TOURISM IN AN YEAR OF NEW TOURISTS

14 THE ICEHOUSE: BRIDGE FOR CHINA-NEW
ZEALAND VENTURE CAPITAL

16 ANGEL INVESTOR DAVID YU

Travel

13 CHINA-NEW ZEALAND YEAR OF TOURISM
THE TANG DYNASTY STYLE WELCOMING
CEREMONY

18 I BELIEVE I CAN FLY

Food

24 Dan Dan Noodles
28 YUM CHA

Culture

12 WHEN YOU DITCH YOUR FRIEND—IS NEW
ZEALAND A VICTIM OF A HIGHJACKED
FOREIGN POLICY?

20 THE WORLD’S MOST PROLIFIC WRITER IS
A CHINESE ALGORITHM

Business

30 THIS IS THE AGE OF STARTUPS

8

ONE OF THE WORLD’S SMARTEST
COMPANIES iFLYTEK SHINES
ON AI DAY

WORDS Huizi Li

New Zealand's top AI festival, or Zealand AI Association (NewZealand. Manager of Smart Service and Fintech
AI-Day, was held in Auckland on AI) and the New Zealand AI Forum. Department, and Wang Wei, Vice
March 27 and 28. Many officials from Top international industry experts President of Consumer Business
government agencies, experts and and business representatives from Group, all gave live speeches, sharing
scholars in the field of science and New Zealand, Australia, China the development of China's AI
technology as well as representatives and the United States attended industry, industrial applications in
of internationally renowned the presentations and seminars. multiple fields and many AI products
enterprises attended the conference. International giants such as for consumers.
Microsoft, IBM, and Spark have
iFLYTEK was invited as the only appeared to meet this AI feast. During the speech, the audience
Chinese enterprise in the event, also experienced iFLYTEK’s real-
and gave a talk about the frontier The conference focused on how to time Chinese-English translation
development of AI with international use AI technology to manage news system,“iFLY Rec.”Both English
counterparts. communication, whether robots words and Chinese characters, which
can replace human teachers, and were an accurate translation of their
iFLYTEK, who is ranked the sixth AI technology to promote cancer speeches, appeared on the big screen
in the MIT Technology Review's "50 detection and treatment, and behind the speakers simultaneously.
Smartest Companies of 2017," was explore how AI, a potential science This simultaneous interpretation
started in 1999, and became one of and technology, affects our lives, technology shows the art of language
four open AI companies in China. Its showing AI Innovative applications across borders, and greatly improved
voice technology is supported by AI and development prospects in many the communication efficiency.
and data analysis. It is widely used fields such as health, service and “It’s amazing and so convenient. It
by banks, insurance providers, and manufacturing. has never been seen in New Zealand!”
telecommunications companies, and When the sharing came to an end, the
has been widely used in healthcare Zhang Wuxu, General Manager of audience marveled at the“iFLY Rec”
and education. iFLYTEK International Cooperation system and showed a lot of interest
Department, Xie Fei, General
The AI-Day was hosted by the New

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towards iFLY Translators, Alpha eggs, to the China-led "Belt and Road"
and voice recorders. initiative to give full play to its
advantages and provide technical
As a natural extension of the Silk platform resources for voice and
Road in the 21st century, New Zealand language.
is a bright pearl on the "Belt and
Road" map. When it comes to it, you During their visit to New Zealand,
may think of the sun, the pasture, iFLYTEK delegation have exchanged
and the Hobbit, where the mountains thoughts with relevant industrial
and rivers are magnificent, along partners. The company had in-
with fabulous scenery and pleasant depth communication and exchange
weather. In addition to the gift of with Deloitte's New Zealand team.
nature, New Zealand's continued They highly appreciated iFLYTEK's
development of AI (Artificial technical strength and industrial
Intelligence) is also notable. application, and expected the two
sides to strengthen their cooperation
In July 2018, the world's first AI in the fields of New Zealand's smart
teacher entered a primary school in medical care, smart finance and smart
New Zealand, bringing a course in translation applications.
energy use to children to unlock AI's
new experience. In order to promote the technical
cooperation between China and New
iFLYTEK has been committed to Zealand in the AI field, iFLYTEK and
building the ecology of AI industry, The Icehouse, New Zealand's largest
promoting the international strategy venture capital organization, signed
and supporting global partners to a strategic cooperation agreement
build a better world of artificial through in-depth discussions and
intelligence, and actively responding

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friendly negotiations. The two sides
will strengthen information sharing
and jointly support the scientific and
technological innovation enterprises
invested by The Icehouse to develop
in China.

Andy Hamilton, CEO of The
Icehouse, is very optimistic about
the market potential of China's AI
industry and the mutual interests
of China's and New Zealand's
AI industries. He looks forward
to enabling more New Zealand
innovative enterprises to share the
opportunities in China's large market
through strengthening cooperation.

During the visit, iFLYTEK officially
started cooperation with local agent
dealers to build a sales and service
network for iFLYTEK AI.

While meeting with the Chinese
Consul General Xu ErWen in
Auckland on March 26, iFLYTEK
Senior Vice President Duan Dawei
and CFO introduced the development
history, scientific and technological
innovation, industrial application and
international cooperation of iFLYTEK.
He said that the company will
make full use of its advantages and
resources in the fields of AI, data and
market, expand mutually beneficial
cooperation with New Zealand
enterprises in product marketing,

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transformation of innovative Another important issue on the AI
achievements and venture capital, day is the prospect of AI and other
strengthen exchanges between China technologies creating a safer society.
and New Zealand, and better serve the
development of China-New Zealand After the March 15 Christchurch
relations. terrorist attacks, discussion of how
AI and other technologies can help
Xu affirmed iFLYTEK's development our world become safer is a topic that
direction, pointing out that New cannot be avoided in this exhibition.
Zealand is a“little giant" in the field of Undoubtedly, technology plays an
scientific innovation. A“Belt and Road important role. However, AI and other
" special report by the New Zealand- technologies face challenges such
China Council released last year listed as social media spreading violent
innovation as one of the four priority contents, and the balance of privacy
areas of cooperation between the two and public security.
countries.
When faced with a question asking
It is hoped that Chinese enterprises about the "moral policy" of iFLYTEK,
such as iFLYTEK will seize the Duan said that its philosophy can be
opportunity to give full play to their summarized as "doing the right thing
own advantages and make greater for human beings."
contributions to the cooperation
between China and New Zealand. iFLYTEK will use its technology
for education, health care and
iFLYTEK said in a company improvement of industrial efficiency,
statement that it will continue to Duan said, adding, "This shows that
promote technological innovation we are doing the right thing for
and strategic cooperation with society."
international partners, share more AI “For our company, and for most AI
technological achievements and high- companies, we all think that AI should
quality products with countries along do the right thing to help people,”he
the“Belt and Road," and contribute said.
more to the promotion of barrier-free “The direction of people is our
communication in the world. philosophy,”he added.

CAN AI MAKE OUR WORLD
SAFER?

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REFLECTING ON CHINA-NEW
ZEALAND TOURISM IN AN YEAR OF

NEW TOURISTS

WORDS Li Huizi PHOTOS Sammy Zhu

When 43-year-old Eric Livingstone, different from his own. as he hosted then Chinese Premier
managing director of an animal Zhao Ziyang in 1983 in Christchurch,
husbandry company, landed in Beijing BIG CULTURE SHOCK hometown of RewiAlley, one of the
in 1984 on a New Zealand Air Force most important foreign friends of the
plane after an 18-hour flight, he was It was cold, said Livingstone about Chinese people.
exhausted. his first trade mission to China in
1984. He walked around Beijing Hotel, The former premier gave him a
"Everyone was in a Mao suit, blue or but found it too cold and went back panda artwork, and asked him lots of
black. There were no bright clothes, to his hotel room. There he found interesting questions about breeding
no advertising. The only cars were old a thermal flask in his room, which dairy cattle, and also visited his
Russian cars," said Livingstone, who showed the importance of boiled company to see cattle, Livingstone
was among "a gang of 40" as described water in China. said.
by New Zealand media, referring to
a high-level delegation of company During his visit to China, Since then, he has hosted many
executives and senior officials then to Livingstone was also interested in the Chinese officials and delegations in
visit Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai. stone lions at the gate. Buying silk Christchurch, the largest city in the
at the Beijing Friendship Store was South Island of New Zealand, and
Livingstone, who used to be the another interesting experience, he visited China 17 times over the past 30
president of the New Zealand-China said. years.
Friendship Society, said before
theunveiling of the China-New Between 1984 and 1985, Livingstone When Livingstone and his wife Judy
Zealand Year of Tourism at the end joined three trade missions to China. went to Wuwei City in northwestern
of March that he never foresaw New China's Gansu Province in 1985, few
Zealand tourism would be boosted to However, he was familiar with foreigners had been there. As one
such a great extent by a country so China well before these China trips, of the early Kiwi "tourists," he and
his wife learned how to crouch on a

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to study in New Zealand around 2000, Livingstone said foreigners in China
Kiwis started to gain knowledge of were always "well looked after." He
China through interactions with these once joined a very long queue at a
students. China is now New Zealand's Beijing railway station in 2000 to get a
largest source of international ticket. He was pushed along the queue
students and there were more than to the front by people, and a staff
40,000 Chinese student enrollments in member brought him to the counter
New Zealand in 2017. and helped him buy a ticket.

In 2010, Li's company sold about "People always help. That's why
10,000 Shanghai World Expo tickets people want to go back to China. I felt
in New Zealand, which surprised my wallet was always safe in China,"
the expo's organizing committee as he said.
that meant a considerable number
of people in New Zealand with a Many years ago when people came
mere 4.8-million population were back from their first trips to China,
participating in the expo held in a they still called China the "Red
faraway country. Dragon" and they still had fear, his
wife Judy said. Later Livingstone

Chinese squat toilet. They had been The panda artwork given by China’s
invited to Wuwei to advise on animal then Premier Zhao Ziyang in 1983 to Eric
husbandry and pasture protection. in Christchurch

Over the past 40 years, more and
more Kiwi tourists and business
people have traveled to China,
Livingstone said. Meanwhile, he was
"hugely surprised" by the surge of
Chinese tourists into New Zealand.

GROWING MUTUAL INTEREST

When Lisa Li started a New Zealand
branch of the China Travel Service
(CTS) in 2000, China was not a
destination for New Zealanders, and
visiting New Zealand was also not
common for ordinary Chinese people.

Li, managing director of the branch,
said New Zealanders still had a
stereotyped understanding of China at
that time.

With more Chinese students coming

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introduced this big country in expanded to long-haul destinations, the opening ceremony of the 2019
courses to some New Zealand Cheng said. China-New Zealand Year of Tourism
business people and his Friendship on Saturday in Wellington, Chinese
Society also explained to people what YEAR OF TOURISM BECKONS Premier Li Keqiang said that tourism
China looked like in reality. is an important area of China-New
The 2019 China-New Zealand Year of Zealand cooperation and a driving
Tourism exchanges between the two Tourism was announced by the two force for the two peoples' mutual
countries took place on a large scale country's premiers in 2017 in a bid to understanding and friendly ties.
after 1999 when New Zealand was build a stronger bilateral relationship
included in the first batch of countries and strengthen economic and cultural Last year, around 600,000 visits were
gaining the Chinese government's ties. made between the two countries,
Approved Destination Status (ADS). including about 450,000 arrivals by
Rapid growth of Chinese tourists to "Tourism is a crucial strand in Chinese tourists, 38 percent of whom
New Zealand was witnessed after our bilateral relationship, and is came from the largest cities of Beijing,
2010, said Cheng Mingming, a scholar a particularly important driver of Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen,
on China-New Zealand tourism economic growth," New Zealand and 55 percent of whom were 25-54
exchanges. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said years old, according to New Zealand
in a welcoming message at Saturday's government figures.
In 2012, the number of Chinese opening ceremony of the Year of
tourists to New Zealand surpassed Tourism in Wellington. By 2024, the number of Chinese
that to Britain, making China the tourists is expected to grow to more
second-largest and most rapidly- There was an 8.8-percent increase than 800,000 arrivals. The Ministry of
growing source of tourists to the in Chinese holiday-makers to New Business, Innovation and Employment
country, only behind Australia. Zealand from 2017 to 2018, and China predicts that by 2024, China is
is New Zealand's second-largest expected to overtake Australia as New
This coincides with the boom of tourism market. The number of New Zealand's largest source of visitor
China's outbound tourism driven by Zealanders visiting China has also revenue.
the growing middle class over the reached a new high, Ardern said.
past decades, when the enthusiasm of Tourism New Zealand General
visiting Southeastern Asian neighbors In a congratulatory message for Manager, New Zealand & Government

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Eric Livingstone, former president of the
New Zealand-China Friendship Society

Relations, Rebecca Ingram said on new impetus into New Zealand tourists and to enable the Chinese
Saturday that her agency's focus is tourism in China's second- and third- visitors to have the right experience.
on ensuring New Zealand remains a tier cities, which have a huge potential
desirable destination and a top option to tap into, and boost the confidence "While the growth is very positive,
for Chinese travelers. of the industry on both sides, Cheng now we need to focus more of our
said. ability to sustain the growth from
"China is New Zealand's most China, and that means greater
valuable visitor market. With the INDUSTRY UPGRADE investment in infrastructure," he said.
highest daily spending of all our
visitors and a highly seasonal profile, The New Zealand government has The Year of Tourism also brings
our Chinese visitors help to spread been boosting marketing in China, new opportunities for the aviation
the benefits of tourism throughout the and domestically helped New Zealand industry, said Guo Gang, president of
year," Ingram said. enterprises to cope with the increase Air China New Zealand.
in arrivals of Chinese tourists.
Cheng said Chinese tourists' Air China jointly launched a Beijing-
preferences are shifting from group Livingstone said the New Zealand Auckland direct link in December
tours to self-guided, independent tourism sector needs to learn more 2015 with Air New Zealand. In the
tours. More Chinese women choose about the cultures of the people same month, China Southern Airlines
New Zealand as an ideal and safe coming to stay. Hotels are learning launched a direct link between
tourist destination. Holidays that to cater to the Chinese tourists, Guangzhou and Christchurch to
include renting cars are increasing providing some rice and dumplings serve the growing number of Chinese
among Chinese travelers, and "but not in a Kiwi way." Signs in visitors to the South Island.
more Chinese visitors are choosing Mandarin are a must, like the
adventure tours. However, they still Japanese signs that were created In peak seasons nowadays, there are
tend to have relatively short stays in during New Zealand's Japanese more than 80 direct flights between
New Zealand. tourism boom in the 1990s. New Zealand and China every week,
according to New Zealand's Ministry
Nick Jiang, head of the The introduction of Alipay and of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Christchurch-based Hi Travel tourist WeChat Pay is one of the key
company, said young Chinese tourists measures to facilitate the stay of tech- The Year of Tourism also aims to
tend to come in small groups such savvy Chinese visitors. bring more New Zealanders to China,
as only two to six people. Many of which would help increase Kiwis'
Jiang's clients chose hiking, skiing, Stephen Jacobi, executive director understanding of their top trading
or mountaineering during their New of the New Zealand-China Council, partner. About 31,400 visits were
Zealand holidays. said the challenge for New Zealand made by New Zealanders to China in
hotels and attractions is to absorb the 1999, and the figure increased fivefold
The Year of Tourism could inject to 143,700 in 2017, according to
Chinese government statistics.

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WHEN YOU DITCH YOUR
FRIEND—IS NEW ZEALAND
A VICTIM OF A HIGHJACKED

FOREIGN POLICY?

WORDS Qaiser Rashid

National won New Zealand coverage of China and New Zealand About the Author:
parliament elections in 2017. National tension. Jacinda got back in the office
decided not to bend too much and trying to clear the carnage and deal Qaiser Rashid is an expert and senior
allowed Labour and New Zealand First with some irreversible damage to the level tertiary education executive in
coalition to form the government. New Zealand and China relationships. New Zealand and is well known and
The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern respected for his contributions in the
conceived pregnancy soon after her New Zealand and China soft tertiary education sector.
election as Prime Minister and handed relationships go back many decades.
over her office charge to the Deputy New Zealand is the first western His recent role includes leading a
Prime Minister Winston Peters, who country to enter into a free trade large education delivery project of
also assumed Foreign Minister’s agreement with China. New Zealand Huadu International in New Zealand.
portfolio. New Zealanders’fate was developed trade and commerce ties As a CEO, he is responsible for strategy
in the hands of Winston’s party who with china in all of its key sectors – formulation and its implementation
had almost six percent representation tourism, dairy, meat, forestry, and to achieve high quality education
in New Zealand parliament, and none education. Fonterra, New Zealand outcomes at a business level.
of their parliament members were dairy giant, has considerable
elected members but list MPs. presence in China. China also made
investments in New Zealand through
Inevitable was to happen now … its private and public channels. As a
result, New Zealand enjoyed stable
Winston brought his own foreign economy and steady currency despite
policy for which he had no mandate turbulent time in the rest of the
from New Zealanders at large. He Western world.
invited Americans to intervene and
block Chinese increasing influence China has always valued and
in the Pacific. Defence published respected their relationship with New
a white paper targeting Chinese Zealand.
influence in New Zealand and Pacific
region. Huawaei (Chinese Telco Some serious questions remain to be
giant) was forced out of 5G rollout explored: how much New Zealanders
in New Zealand. Much more went on supported Winston Peter’s foreign
underneath the surface which was policy towards China? Where did
more than enough to provoke China Winston Peter get his mandate from
– New Zealand stubbornness was not with regards to his foreign policy
lightly taken by China! with China? Can New Zealand sustain
its stance with China? And Where to
It wasn’t until New Zealand from here … ?
businesses felt the heat from China,
New Zealand media started to provide

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CHINA-NEW ZEALAND YEAR OF TOURISM
THE TANG DYNASTY STYLE
WELCOMING CEREMONY

Be one of the first one thousand New Zealanders to schedule a trip to Xi’an on the 10th September
2019 and secure your place at this once-in-a-lifetime event. From the moment you check in with the

airline, the celebration will begin. So what are you waiting for?

Call 0800 CTS 999 for more info and to make your booking

The Ceremony their guests, which is symbolic of The historical capital“Chang’an”has
how China feels towards welcoming a unique charm as the terminus of
Held at the ancient Xi’an City Wall, tourists to the country today. the Silk Road in Shaanxi Province as
a UNESCO World Heritage site, this a melting pot of culture and religions;
once-in-a-lifetime performance is Inside the gates, guests are then led home to emperors, courtesans, poets,
usually reserved for distinguished to the Barbican at South Gate, which monks, merchants and warriors, the
visitors to the city. Former President will act as a stunning backdrop for glory days of Xī’ān (西安; pronounced
of the United States Bill Clinton and the ceremony. The towering South ‘see-an’) may have ended in the
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Gate is the oldest and grandest of early 10th century, but a considerable
Modi were both received with this the four gates within the ancient amount of ancient Cháng’ān, the
ceremony during their visit to the city. The mesmerising multimedia former city, survives behind the
historically rich city. This regal live-action performance is meant often roaring, modern city. Xī’ān’s
greeting of such a grand scale is to introduce audiences to the Tang Ming-era city walls remain intact,
sure to be a dazzling showcase of the dynasty culture with traditional vendors of all descriptions still crowd
ancient city, as well as the nation’s ethnic songs and dances throughout. the narrow lanes of the Muslim
rich culture and history. To honour the China-New Zealand Quarter, and there are enough places
Year of Tourism, for one night only of interest to keep even the most
Guests will be greeted by“city on 10 September 2019, the welcome amateur historian riveted.
officials”dressed in Tang dynasty ceremony also plans to incorporate
costumes. They’ll then be led down some Kiwi elements woven into the The Army of Terracotta Warriors is
the Royal Road by courtesans and show. This show is a tribute to the one of the top archaeological finds in
uniformed guards, all dressed in ancient civilisation and to those that the world. This subterranean life-
traditional costumes. This is the same once lived within its walls bestowing size army of thousands has silently
welcome that dignified guests would blessings of the glorious new world stood guard over the soul of China’s
have received over 1,000 years ago. we now live in. It also symbolises a first emperor for more than two
modern Silk Road, where people come millennia. Archaeologists believe
The drawbridge will descend and together from around the world in Emperor Qin Shi Huang expected his
Tang Royal Guards dressed in their peace and harmony. rule to continue in death as it had in
golden armour will emerge from life. Other places to visit include the
behind the walls to escort guests About Xi’an Tomb of Emperor Jingdi, Xī’ān City
into their city. In ancient years, if the Walls and the Muslim Quarter, as well
guards welcomed visitors it meant Xi’an City Wall has a long history as pagodas and museums, plus a side
that they were honoured to host with an iconic ancient city wall that is trip to nearby Huá Shān.
them and bestowed a deep trust in the most well preserved in the world.

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THE ICEHOUSE: BRIDGE FOR
CHINA-NEW ZEALAND
VENTURE CAPITAL

About The Icehouse potential and achieve business opportunity for New Zealand startups
success. The mission is to promote to enter the Chinese market smoothly.
New Zealand has always been the long-term development of the Up to now, among the Icehouse’s
considered a small country where New Zealand economy through the huge portfolio companies, three
small and medium-sized enterprises cooperation of professional investors high-potential Chinese startups have
dominate the market, but its strength and excellent entrepreneurship. obtained the Icehouse’s investment,
in technological innovation and IP and four New Zealand companies
output is rarely known outside the The Icehouse was elected as one of are about to enter the fast-growing
venture capital circle. Forbes Magazine’s top ten technology Chinese market.
startup incubators and the only non-
The Icehouse is a leading New U.S. company to receive this award. Angel Investment Club, Ice Angels,
Zealand Venture Capital enterprise, has successfully attracted more
which was established in 2001 by a Chinese investors and than 40 Chinese investors in the past
non-profit trust (ICE Foundation). entrepreneurs three years. These teams of senior
ICE is taken from the abbreviation experts and mentor consultants will
of“International Centre for The New Zealand Chinese work with the Icehouse to match the
Entrepreneurship.” investment community has always right investors and consultants for
been an important partner of the entrepreneurs and work together for
The Icehouse focuses on helping Icehouse. They offer a whole new their entrepreneurial success in New
New Zealand startups realize their

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Zealand. local incremental value, such as doing
business, investing, and contributing
Mission and responsibility to the country, rather than making
deductive value, for example,
Jason Wang, partner of The Icehouse receiving benefits and occupying local
Ventures, is a very sunny boy. He resources.
Joined the Icehouse investment team
five years ago after resigning from a In 2017, under Jason’s plan, the
Chinese venture capital firm. As the Icehouse and its strategic partners
only Chinese person in the whole set up one of New Zealand’s largest
team, he has a strong and pragmatic Chinese venture capital funds, Eden
style, and has great ideals and Ventures, which is committed to
ambitions. providing funding and professional
tutors for New Zealand’s fast-growing
Over the past few years, he is eager technology startups in terms of
to strengthen the foundation of the training, incubators, accelerators,
Chinese community. He believes shared workspaces, among others.
that the Chinese people living here
should also have a strong sense of In particular, a number of senior
responsibility for the country they Chinese investors in the team will
live, and participate more in the combine their own experience to
country’s policy and decision-making provide New Zealand startups with
process, and make more of their own comprehensive value-added services
voices. such as operational strategies, team
training, and deep product polishing.
At the same time, Jason also hopes
to change the impression of local Eden Ventures hopes to build a
Kiwi on the Chinese people, and let bridge into the Chinese market for
them see more of Chinese people’s local New Zealand entrepreneurs.

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ANGEL miss the growth of any child. to the Chinese language service of
INVESTOR government community agencies.
DAVID YU He is a man who works hard Accurate and fast simultaneous
and is passionate about his interpretation machines will be used
WORDS Liz Zhang and Huizi Li career. in various large business conferences.

Like most people who came to New The friends around him have Being a member of The Icehouse
Zealand in the 2000s, David and his witnessed his constant hardworking Angel Investment Association, David
wife, Sunny, came to New Zealand in over the years. Anyone who has been Yu's investor role made him fully
2003 to study, work and settle down. with David can feel his enthusiasm. aware that this is a great opportunity
From running small stores many years for development and cooperation --
He is a man who loves life and ago to be a local exporter and set up speaking Chinese around the world.
is full of enthusiasm. duty-free gift shops, from the tourism David Yu then decided to temporarily
industry to angel investment, his suspend the retail business plan
He loves to play the violin. Not only every step is firm and resolute. in Christchurch City Center, and
did he usually urge his daughter started with the translation machine
to study and practice violin, but A few months ago, the visit by to explore a new arena of the AI
sometimes when his feelings came, China’s leading artificial intelligence industry.
he would also give his wife a piece of (AL) company iFLYTEK, inspired
music to show his love. He and his son David. With the increasing In this cooperation, David officially
learned drums together. cooperation between China and New becomes the general agent of iFLYTEK
Zealand and the growing number of in New Zealand, and is committed to
In addition to his love for musical Chinese immigrants, local Chinese bringing more and exciting iFLYTEK
instruments, he also likes wine. There have started to play a greater role in AL products to the Kiwi market,
are various vintages and wines from New Zealand society. As New Zealand helping New Zealand businesses to
various places in his home. If you ask is a multilingual country, small explore the Chinese market through
him, he will definitely tell you a big portable multilingual translators providing effective and efficient voice
story. will greatly improve the daily and text translation services so as to
communication of Chinese people better serve the Chinese community,
living in an English environment, and directly connect with local Kiwi
bringing unprecedented convenience consumers.

He is a man who loves his
family.

As his wife is busy with work,
he is responsible for sending
children to school every day, going
to extracurricular and tutoring
classes, and running around in
various domestic and international
competitions. In addition to caring for
his wife and witnessing the growth of
the child, he said he does not want to

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你手里握着的 “环保咖啡纸杯”
其实根本就不环保

does eco-friendly coffee cup
really 100% recycle?

现在大街上我们随处可见大家拿着 些咖啡杯会对环境造成毁灭性的影响。
外卖咖啡杯。人们通过这种看似 如果不能做到100%分离，哪怕里面只残
合理的行为自我标榜：虽事务十分繁忙，但也
属潮流人士，简易便携的咖啡才符合自己身 留了1%的塑料，这1%融化的塑料就会污染整罐
份。或者，其实你戴起墨镜，拿着小白只是为 融化的纸浆。因此，无论你把中间这样的纸杯
了掩饰昨天的宿醉？ 扔到可回收还是不可回收垃圾桶，最后的结果
多数人认为 “外带” 咖啡是一种环保无害 是垃圾处理公司都会把它们当做不可回收来处
的行为。如果硬要说坏处，那便是习惯喝咖啡 理。而对于这些不可回收的垃圾，只有一种解
的人得经常去买来喝，比较麻烦。实际上，这 决方案—填埋。这对我们的环境会造成无比大
的负担。

但是Silver Fern Packaging 的咖啡杯是100%可以降解。里面没有那一
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I BELIEVE The coach is accompanying us
I CAN FLY into the vertical cabin. She will use
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WORDS Liz Zhang into the cabin. Once you get familiar
with the situation, you can try to float
In addition to the beautiful scenery, and spin gently in the air to simulate
Queenstown’s exciting entertainment the feeling of falling freely from the
are some of the reasons why tourists plane. When your flying skills have
are always so fascinated. Bungee improved, you can also learn to use
jumping, skydiving, and gliding are your body to move in the airflow,
all challenging tourists, making you completely under your own control,
scared, or excited, and scream. as you have never experienced before.

Last year, the newly opened Indoor
Flight Experience in Queenstown
caught my attention. According to
the staff, this is a vertical wind tunnel
simulated according to high-altitude
skydiving to achieve free fall. There
is a fan at the top of the vertical wind
tunnel that draws in air through the
flight chamber and then pushes the
wind back through the return air
tower (RAT). This used to be invented
to train parachutists. This activity has
been developed because of the global
trend, travel and space constraints
of indoor fitness in recent years. Yes,
in the big bunker, you feel that you
are experiencing the same thing as
a real high-altitude skydiving. It is
completely immune to the weather
and any risks than real skydiving.

I once experienced it with two kids.
Before entering the vertical cabin,
we need to register a declaration at
the reception. Then there is a training
course of about five minutes. The
experienced professional coaches
are very friendly. They will carefully
guide the entire safety program and
teach us to control our body according
to the gestures. After that, we started
wearing flying suits, gloves, goggles
and helmets.

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THE WORLD'S MOST PROLIFIC
WRITER IS A

CHINESE ALGORITHM

Douglas Heaven, BBC

“Inflatable duck baby pool with of similar items. - How smart are your decisions
canopy.”“Hot selling colourful It sounds simple, but there’s an - Norway’s plans for a fleet of
temporary full arm tattoo for men.” electric planes
“Splendid reusable dog pee pad art to this copywriting. Yet Alibaba - Can this simple change save lives?
(minimum order: 500).” recently revealed that it is training an
artificial intelligence to generate these Launched by Alibaba’s digital
Load up the homepage for item descriptions automatically – and marketing arm, Alimama, the AI
e-commerce giant, Alibaba – a they’re not the only ones. Over the copywriter applies deep learning and
wholesale shopping site that’s more last few decades AIs have been taught natural-language processing tech
or less China’s answer to eBay – and to compose music, paint pictures to millions of item descriptions on
you’ll find images and descriptions of and write (bad) poems. Now they’re Alibaba’s Tmall and Taobao sites to
anything you could wish to buy, from writing advertising copy, 20,000 lines generate new copy of its own.
kitchen sinks to luxury yachts. Every of it a second. “The tool removes the
item has a short headline, but most “Generative bots are the new inconvenience of having to spend
are little more than lists of keywords: chatbot,”says Jun Wang at University hours seeking design inspiration by
hand-picked search terms to ensure College London.“Generating copy is looking at competitor listings and
this USB phone charger or that pair of just one of the applications that can manufacturer sites,”says an Alibaba
flame-resistant overalls float to the top be done.”
in a sea of thousands upon thousands
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spokesperson.“The user can create the number of people that click and
their ideal copy with just a couple of then buy,”he says.“We’re not talking
clicks.” about generating art.”

Despite their forays into the world of According to Alibaba, using its
art, creating unexciting text such as tool is simple. You provide a link to
ad-copy is where generative systems the item you want a description of
will have the biggest impact in the and click a button.“This brings up
short term. Software will produce numerous copy ideas and options,”
millions of words and images that says the Alibaba spokesperson.“The
millions of people will see – and be user can then alter everything from
influenced by – every day. And if they the length to tone, as they see fit.”
do the job well enough, we will never
even notice the difference. The tool is also prolific. Alibaba
claims that it can produce 20,000 lines
The line between human and of copy a second and that it is being
machine agency is already blurred used nearly a million times a day by
online. Twitter bots sow the seeds of companies – including US clothing
misinformation, spambots generate brand Dickies – that want to create
oddly poetic emails about Viagra, multiple versions of advertisements
and automatic aggregators find and that still grab our attention when
republish online news articles so presented in different sized slots on
quickly it can be hard to tell who first webpages.
published what and when.
“It's not science fiction,”says Wang. And it’s not just Alibaba. The
He thinks advertising is a perfect company’s main rival JD.com says it is
fit for generative AI because it has also using software – which it calls an
a clear goal.“You want to maximise "AI writing robot”– to generate item
descriptions. According to tech

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website ZDNet, JD.com’s system object and string together a short
can produce more than 1,000“pieces description that looks like it could
of content”a day and has a flair for have been written by a human.
flowery language, describing wedding
rings as symbolising“holy matrimony But that’s only half the job.
drops from the sky”. “Copywriting is really about the long
tail,”says Riedl. To convert clicks into
Mark Riedl at the Georgia Institute sales, especially when competition
of Technology is skeptical that such for attention online is so fierce, you
tools are as good as the PR implies, need to address the specific concerns
however. Even if we ignore the claim and interests of a particular – possibly
made in Alibaba’s press release that niche – audience.
its AI copywriter can ace the Turing
Test – in which an AI must pass itself “You don’t just want to say this is
off as human – there are questions a camera and it has these features,
about the approach. For one thing, we you want to say why someone should
do not know how good these systems buy it or why this camera will solve
are at achieving their clear goal of problems that other cameras won’t,”
making people click and then buy – a says Riedl.“That requires a lot more
process known as conversion. context. You’re going to want to know
a lot more information about your
Learning how to produce text that product and a lot more information
describes an object is definitely the about your audience.”
kind of thing generative systems have
become good at, says Riedl.“You The problem with a machine-
can take an image or a few keywords learning approach like that used
and produce something that looks by Alibaba and JD.com is that the
like a product description.”An AI generative system will tend to learn
can recognise an image of a camera, the most average way of saying things.
say, look up what it knows about that “AI is really good at generic formats
but the more you want to specialise or

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customise it becomes a much, much few places on the internet that Google
harder problem,”says Riedl.“I don’t cannot track you. Its trackers operate
think we’re there yet.” on around 75% of the million most-
popular websites. And if Google
Perhaps not, but it is where we’re can’t see you, Facebook – which
heading. has trackers on 25% of those sites -
probably can.
To understand why, you first
need to delve into the ways that Those trackers record what we
advertising is already personalised search for, what websites we visit
and adapted to your habits. Wang, for and how long we spend on them. Say
instance, is co-founder of a company someone is interested in shoes and
called MediaGamma, which uses is known to have bought a particular
reinforcement learning – a type of type of shoe from a particular
machine learning that also powers store. MediaGamma’s AI learns to
DeepMind’s Go-winning software categorise internet users based on all
AlphaGo – to help advertisers buy of the information it has available.
ad space. When you visit a website If your online activity is similar to
that has adverts, the ads that you see the person who previously bought
will probably be different to the ones footwear then it will advise a shoe
someone else sees. That’s because the advertiser to bid.
ads have been selected especially for “It is highly probable that you
you. will convert,”says Wang.“We also
estimate, for this type of user in this
As soon as you load a webpage, the type of market, how much to bid in
page lets the internet's ad-brokers order to win.”
know who is visiting and a high-
speed bidding war kicks off, typically This is the direction we’re heading.
involving around 100 advertisers, with We’re seeing more and more
the winners getting to show you their businesses, political campaigns and
ads. The whole process is over in 100 consulting firms starting to use AI to
milliseconds, faster than the blink of help with their communications. We
an eye. should try to spot it when we can. But
that’s easier said than done. We may
MediaGamma’s AI helps advertisers find we are aware of these machine-
make smarter bids in this automatic generated messages about as much as
auction. How much is this person’s are of the online ad auctions running
attention worth?“We don’t every time a website opens.“Nobody
necessarily know who you are but notices,”says Wang.
we know your activity online,”says
Wang.

The three biggest ad networks –
Adsense, Admob and DoubleClick
– are run by Google. And there are

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Dan Dan Noodles

Author: Elaine

Famous Szechuan style Dan dan noodles (担担面) is one of the most popular Chinese street foods.  

History of Dan Dan Noodles fry a larger batch each time. You can at least 1/2 tablespoon of Sichuan
simply mix the remaining with salt red oil should be used in the mixed
Dandan in the name actually refers and sugar, serving just as a snack. If seasoning to compete the flavor.
to a carrying pole(扁担 in Chinese ). you do not want to brother for frying, By the way, the red oil should be
In the past, the vendors carried the when you use crushed toast peanuts. prepared at least 24 hours ago, so the
noodles and the sauces to sell them on capsaicin and red color can be well
the street. When you order one bowl Ya-cai(芽菜) is one of the three most mixed with the oil.
of dan dan noodles, the vender mix important and famous preserved
the noodle with the pre-pared sauce vegetables in Sichuan cuisine. The How to serve dan dan noodles?
and top with the pork topping. With other two are pickled zha cai and
this traditional method, the authentic black salted turnip. Making different Please do not use large raman noodle
dan dan noodle cannot be soupy. types of pickled and preserved bowls to serve dan dan noodles.
vegetables is one of the daily cooking Choose smaller ones and serve with a
Important ingredients for tasks of housewives in Sichuan small amount of soup base (chicken
dan dan noodles province. Traditionally, we will have stock or pork stock), so the noodles
a large jar for keeping this unique can be eaten up within minutes. Enjoy
With the traditional method, we ingredient. However, we use packaged when it is still hot and the pork is still
serve dan dan noodles with fried version for daily cooking now. crisp.
soy beans or peas. They present the
highest level of crispness. Usually we Sichuan red oil (四川红油) makes the It should be slightly soupy before
noodle spicy and slightly numbing. mixing.
Even if you cannot handle spicy food,

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Ingredients Fried soy beans
•2 serving fresh egg noodles •1/2 cup soy beans
•chopped scallion •cooking oil for frying
•blanched vegetables
•Chicken stock or pork stock Mixed Seasonings
•1 tbsp. sesame paste
Pork topping •1 tbsp. light soy sauce
•1 cup minced pork ,with some fat •1 tsp. sesame oil
•1/2 tsp. salt •1 tbsp. chili oil
•1/4 tsp. white pepper •1 tsp. black vinegar
•1/2 tbsp. light soy sauce •a really small pinch of salt
•2 tbsp. cooking oil ,divided •1 tsp. sugar
•1/2 tbsp. minced ginger •1 tbsp. minced garlic
•1/2 tbsp. minced garlic
•1 tsp. dark soy sauce
•1 cup ya-cai
•1/2 tbsp. chili powder

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Instructions: pinch of salt, white pepper and 1/2
tablespoon of light soy sauce.
1.Mix all the seasonings for serving
Fry soy beans 2. Heat up around 1 tablespoon of and divide into two portions,
cooking oil in wok, fry garlic and separately in two serving bowls. Pour
1. Pre-soak dried soybeans until they ginger until aromatic and then fry around 1/2 cup of hot pork stock.
are double in size. Transfer out and minced pork until crisp. Then add 1
drain with kitchen towel. teaspoon of dark soy sauce for better 2. Cook noodles in boiling water
coloring, Move the pork to the out according to the instructions on the
2. Add 3 tablespoon cooking oil in wok round of the wok, add another 1 package and blanch vegetables in the
and add soaked soybeans to fry until tablespoon of oil in the bottom add last minutes when the noodles are
you hear the“Pa Pa”sound. Transfer ya-cai, separate ya-cai quickly and almost ready. Transfer the noodles to
the soybeans out and set aside to cool mix them with the pork. Add around the serving bowl.
down chili powder (optional) and mix well.
Transfer out and we are done with the 3. Top with pork topping and then
Make the pork topping pork topping. pour around 1/2 cup hot pork stock or
chicken stock along with the edges.
1. Mix the minced pork with a small Cook noodles and serve 4. Add green beans and fried soy
beans. Serve immediately!

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卓亚：爱的中土世界斑斓与舒展

YUM CHA

Yum cha in Cantonese Chinese
literally means "drink tea". The phrase
dim sum is sometimes used in place
of yum cha; in Cantonese, dim sum (點
心) refers to the small-dish appetizers
and desserts, whereas yum cha refers
to the act of having a meal typically
involving such dishes.

Yum cha is as common a meal in
Hong Kong as coffee and toast in
Western culture, where Chinese tea is
enjoyed with dim sum at traditional
tea houses.

Yum cha is a group activity that
involves everyone around the table.
As it’s centred on sharing, there are
certain things to bear in mind when
you’re being served or serving others,
include finishing the last grain of
rice in the bowl so a future spouse’s
skin will resemble the smoothness
of the clean bowl; and to never stick
chopsticks straight down into a bowl
of rice because it resembles incense
for the dead and will bring bad luck.
Also to never bang our chopsticks
on the bowl for fun because that was
what beggars used to do for attention
and is thus believed to bring poverty
to the family.

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Coffee and Jam at EPIC Innovation Campus

THIS IS THE AGE OF STARTUPS

Marian Johnson, Chief Awesome Officer, Ministry of Awesome

If you’ve been thinking about inspiration - there’s no better place are working away at BizDojo on
launching that dream startup so that to begin than with the Ministry of technologies as diverse as VR through
you can finally fulfill your goals and Awesome and coming along to Coffee to Geospatial apps.
ambitions, then right now is a great and Jam. C+J is Christchurch’s
time to start. longest running meetup for startups, Over at UC, you’ll find the father
innovators, and entrepreneurs. It and son team of Professors Phil
Startup fever has gripped the globe takes place every Tuesday at EPIC on and Anthony Butler whose MARS
for at least a decade now - mostly the St. Asaph corner of Manchester xray scanner will revolutionise the
powered by the disruptive nature of Street. There’s no need to book, diagnosis of diseases such as cancer
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