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一 |     Beijing, Oct 21 (UNI) The world has largely moved on from Covid -- except for China, where towns and cities are still shut down overnight.
And that's unlikely to change soon, judging by President Xi Jinping's opening speech at the Communist Party Congress on Sunday, BBC reported.
China -- and even the world -- was hoping for a hint of relaxation. But Xi, who is set to be handed a historic third term to lead the Party, said that the government would not "waver" in its commitment to record zero cases.
Driven by Xi's approval, China's lockdowns have been incessant, unpredictable and hellish by most accounts.
They have sparked food shortages, crippled healthcare access, hit the economy hard and even spurred rare signs of protest, the BBC reported.
But Beijing has clung to zero-Covid, which has come to define Xi's rule and the authoritarian bureaucracy at his disposal like almost no other policy.
The BBC found that since March, China has partially or fully locked down 152 prefecture-level cities, affecting a population of more than 280 million. But 114 of those have been locked down just since August, as the Party Congress approached.
Beijing is the only major city to have avoided a full lockdown so far. Residents half-jokingly observe that the capital has managed this by locking down the rest of the country when needed.
However on Thursday some housing estates and shopping centres in Beijing were being locked down after a steep rise in cases.
China's bureaucrats have certainly found inventive new ways to describe lockdowns. The measures had become so controversial and dreaded that confusing official-speak was one way to make them more palatable, the report said.
So they used phrases like "stasis management", "at-home stillness" or to be clearer, "stillness throughout the whole region" or "stop all unnecessary movement".
Then came "temporary societal control", which authorities said was not a "lockdown" but reduced movement that somehow would not affect the "normal order of production and life". And yet "the public was asked not to go out unless necessary".
"Enclosed management" was another new phrase invented in the southern province of Guangdong. It means that the village, district or residential compound is enclosed, with checkpoints at entrances and exits. People and vehicles are allowed to enter and leave with passes, the BBC reported.
People who do not live or work in the enclosed area are not allowed to enter. But, residents were told, it's not a lockdown.
When track-and-trace methods started to grate, eager officials came up with an alternative: "temporal and spatial overlapper". The sci-fi-inspired phrase refers to someone whose location, tracked by their phone, has overlapped in time and space with someone else who is Covid-positive.
Rather than tell people not to visit their hometowns during this year's Spring Festival, the governor in Dancheng County in central Henan province warned them that "those who come home with malicious intent will first be quarantined, then be detained", the report said.
Experts also say China's bureaucracy is far more centralised under Xi - it's a reversal of the decentralisation that began after China introduced economic reforms. What that means now is that bureaucrats enforce Xi's signature policies with zeal.
UNI MR。    据悉，这个解决方案有一个在线光学传感器，可以在每次挤奶时对奶牛进行检测。目前，该产品可以早期检测出潜在的问题，但随着时间的推移，该公司相信它可以在问题发生之前开始预测。该公司的产品被称为MilKey，有两种变体：一种是可以在任何地方使用的手持式产品，另一种是可以挂在挤奶机上的在线式产品，这使得每天的奶农能够连续进行测试。这两种产品的主要区别在于各自不同的优势。手持式设备可由技术员在现场使用，在智能手机应用上选择要测试的奶牛后测试结果就会显示出正确的动物。

二 | 当奶牛四处游荡或检测员怀疑某只动物有病时，这非常实用。内嵌式设备则是全自动的，通过Wi-Fi工作。对于这种设备，虽然需要手动将结果分配给正确的奶牛，但它使每次挤奶时测试所有奶牛成为可能。Labby告诉TechCrunch，该设备对牛奶样本进行光谱测量并将其上传到云端。从那里，该公司使用机器学习模型并将光谱读数作为输入。它可以估计牛奶的含量，然后细分为脂肪、蛋白质和体细胞数。一旦测量结果并分配给动物，牧场主就可以使用一个应用或任何网络浏览器来查看任何动物的完整测试历史。Labby的CEO兼创始人Julia Somerdin在接受TechCrunch采访时说道：“动物健康记录就像人的记录，它们提供了关于动物健康和饲料效率的关键指标。事实证明，牛奶是一切的最佳生物标志物。目前，该行业只对每只动物每月进行一次检测。我们认为这对农民和动物来说是一个系统性的失败。动物健康的一个并发症是乳腺炎。它是最常见但又是最昂贵的疾病之一，并且每天都可能发生变化。因此，当它们做30天的测试时，测试会告诉你一切正常，但第二天动物可能会出现一个病例，这可能是亚临床的，没有症状。因此，对于农民来说，在测试日之间，他们不知道动物的情况如何。”据悉，美国境内的40000个农场养有900万头奶牛，在全世界，1.15亿个农场养着2.5亿头奶牛，并且这些数字还都在增加。“通过我们的解决方案，我们可以提供农场的实时测试，从而帮助为农场主提供每日、每周和每月的健康记录，”Somerdin说道，“动物健康是当今行业实践中缺少的关键指标。”从数字和影响来看，你会毫不惊讶地发现其中涉及到大笔资金。Labby团队表示，最好的牛奶能给奶农带来最好的价格，这意味着牛奶质量跟收入直接挂钩。

三 | 这样做的好处是双重的：更健康的奶牛需要更少的兽医照顾，而更高质量的牛奶为牛奶生产商带来更多收益。

四 | “我们可以将Labby插入价值链中。乳业是一个投入非常密集的行业，所以我们有各种供应商来帮助奶农生产更多、更好的牛奶，然后奶农将牛奶卖给乳品加工厂。

五 | 通过我们的服务，除了省钱方面，最大的战役是我们创造了所有这些实时数据，”Somerdin继续说道，“动物遗传学公司可以使用这些数据来帮助他们完善其算法。我们还可以在乳品生产商和兽医之间架起桥梁，从而实现奶牛的远程保健。”“最重要的是，你不再需要技术人员对牛奶进行采样。清洁工作也可以跟目前的系统整合，”Somerdin说道。Labby是Techstars的一部分，从他们和其他一些投资者那里总共筹集了130万美元，包括麻省理工学院媒体实验室的E14基金。该公司在10月初正式开始销售其产品，现在才刚刚开始向客户发货。在短期内，它是一个硬件+SaaS的业务，但在这之后，就该开始获取数据本身的智慧了。Somerdin说道：“我们的商业模式有三个收入来源。对于奶农来说，他们只需支付一次硬件设备的费用，然后每月由我们在云端提供测试服务。牧场主按每头牛每天付费。此外，我们正在看着数据。我们相信我们正在为这个行业产生巨大的价值，例如为基因公司。我们将有一个数据许可费，但我们将等到我们在平台上有50万头奶牛时再提供。”随着时间的推移，该公司希望能够利用大数据也能瞥见未来的景象。

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