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In recent days, a WeChat group admin was fined RMB 10,000 for merely removing members from his WeChat group chat, which has sparked a heated discussion among netizens.  © Image | Weibo   It seems that he didn’t break any laws in China, but the truth is he got a huge penalty. Why? Let’s check it!   © Image | WeChat According to the relevant media, Mr.Liu(柳) alleged that when he, the plaintiff, spoke in the “Litigation Service Group” of WeChat Group, he was kicked out of the group by the group owner, Mr.Liu(刘), then he has not been able to enter the group until now.   © Image | Google   Alright, alright.    Everything seems ok. His only “rude” offense is removing one of the members from his own WeChat group.     However, the litigation outcome is, the court ordered the defendant to re-invite the plaintiff to enter the WeChat group “litigation service group”, apologized to the plaintiff openly for three consecutive days in the WeChat group, and paid the plaintiff mental damage compensation 10,000 yuan.   © Image | Google   Admins should take full responsibility for group chats.   Group owners (admins) are encouraged to take full responsibility for members and chat discussions.    More specifically, admins are told to manage the conduct of all group members and make sure information posted in groups abides by the law, user agreements and conventions.   © Image | CAC “Whoever owns the group should be responsible, and whoever manages the group should be responsible,” the rules read.  Chat group administrators who fail to remove prohibited content from chats can face criminal charges or administrative detention.     The following types of content will be prohibited in chat groups on WeChat:   Sensitive political content Rumors Internal documents [of the Chinese Communist Party and government units] 4. Content that is vulgar, pornographic, violent or shows drug-related criminal acts News from Hong Kong and Macau that has not been reported by official media outlets Military information State secrets Videos from anonymous sources that insult or destroy the police’s reputation Other illegal information

For the coming “618” shopping festival, what are you going to buy? The air conditioner is on most people’s shopping list, waiting to be paid. Enterprises pulled themselves together, hoping to achieve as much as to share in the market. Unexpectedly, the competition of air conditioner in the domestic market has reached to an intense and fierce condition.   1 GREE VS AUX   The furious fight between GREE and AUX 10 June, AUX was reported by GREE in real name to the official Weibo accounts, China Market Regulation, and National Development and Reform Commission, on account of “unqualified” air conditioners.  AUX: Hey bro, you are really pulling me down, aren’t you? AUX made a response in Weibo immediately, accusing GREE of the inveracious report, which was a vicious mean for competition and AUX would take legal action to protect rights from the judicial authority. GREE: Calm down man. I got the right to report and of course, you have the right to call the police. AUX: Sir, GREE is a liar. I sell qualified products. GREE you liar! GREE: Take it easy. I have reported to local market regulation in Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Guangdong, and other provinces. You’ll see. GREE VS AUX——Public announcement from official Weibo    2 The secret of the fight between GREE and AUX Actually, GREE and AUX have been years of “friends in business”. In August 2015, GREE accused AUX of infringing 3 patents of a series of air conditioner products. Though AUX was not convinced and instituted an appeal, the final instance from Guangdong Higher People’s Court decided that the infringement is available and AUX should withdraw all air conditioner products related to infringement and compensate GREE for 2,300,000 RMB. © Image | CCTV In June 2017, GREE has accused AUX of the infringing patent of the Athena series products published by GREE. In November 2017, GREE has accused AUX of infringing at least 3 patents, water container integration, double air flue, and the indoor unit, related to more than 10 products which produced, sold and used permitted by the third party.    The final instance decided that the infringement is available and AUX should compensate GREE for 46,000,000 RMB, which was the highest record of compensation price in patent lawsuits.    Information source: data cable&Tianyancha   COCO: enterprise should apply for a patent for utility model.    In accordance with the regulation of 56 in Patent Law, compensation amount = actual lost + expenditure of rights protection   Regulation 20 in relevant provisions about legal questions of patent disputes from Supreme People’s Court stipulates compensation amount=market sales volume of infringed products*profit of single product+expenditure of rights protection. A patent for a utility model is worth a lot. With the penalty of 46,000,000 RMB and relevant products was banned, the defendant bears more lost.   Area chart  Information source: national intellectual property administration, PRC   3 The patent war behind GREE and AUX The lawsuit itself is an act from enterprises, but it is a big step for intellectual property protection. © Image | Google From the cases between GREE and AUX, we can realize that, with the update of consumer, electrical appliance enterprises start paying attention to the value and innovation of products and technology research and development, and that the competition level is improved from price, marketing and channel to technology and patent. The patent is becoming a powerful weapon for enterprises to fight. The principal reason for GREE’s success in the fight with AUX owed to its solid core technology and unique patent. At present, the China air conditioner market appears “three magnates”, GREE, Midea, and AUX, and this situation has lasted for years. The data shows that in 2018, AUX was the top sales in online air conditioner market; however, it only took 3.8% marker shares offline while CREE owned 37.6% of the total.   Information source: ChinaIOL.com, Everbright Securities   At present, it is difficult for AUX to replace the position of GREE in air conditioner market and hard to keep achieving increase by lowing products price. After all, innovation in technology and products is the key to develop enterprises and AUX is relatively week in innovation.   Any questions, please contact us! Coco  📲 178 4699 7168 ▼

Chinese social media on Wednesday mourned the death of a young college graduate who devoted her life to poverty relief in the remote prefecture of Baise in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.   Huang Wenxiu, born in 1989, was among the nine dead in the latest rainstorm that hit Lingyun county in Baise.   The 30-year-old Party chief of Baini village, Xinhua town, Leye county, was trapped in a mountain area while on her way back to the village on Sunday night after visiting her sick father in another county on the weekend.     Shortly after 2 am on Monday, she lost contact with colleagues and was later found with her car after it was washed away into a valley by flash floods.   Huang graduated from Beijing Normal University in 2016 with a master’s degree and was then employed by the publicity department of the Communist Party Committee of Baise.   She was sent to Baini village as its Party chief to help with poverty relief in March 2018. Since then, she devoted herself to her career, working day and night on matters to alleviate poverty and improve villagers’ welfare.   Her death triggered online mourning among local people and college graduates.  

An employee has been fired from a bar in Changsha, central China, after replying to her manager with an OK emoji on WeChat. © Image | Google The manager tagged the employee in the team’s WeChat group last week, asking her to send over some meeting documents, and took issue with her response.   “You should use text to reply to the message if you have received it, don’t you know the rules?” the manager replied. “Is this your acknowledgment of receipt?”   A few minutes later he told the employee to contact the human resources department and sort out her resignation.   “This is a real case, the resignation is still processing,” the employee told online media platform Btime. “I have worked for many years and this is my first encounter with this kind of stupid situation. I am good-tempered therefore I didn’t retaliate,” she said.   © Image | 新闻晨报 The woman said her colleagues agreed that the manager’s behavior had gone too far adding that, after the incident, he had sent out an official announcement to the group requesting everyone use ‘Roger’ when replying to messages.   Screenshots of the conversation went viral on microblogging site Weibo, with 290 million views for posts on the topic, and broad support among users for the employee. © Image | 微博 Comments included: “Any reasons are valid if your boss wants to fire you”; “To be honest, I would not reply to his message” and, “I think a good leader should be able to accept different people’s communication styles and characteristics”.   “Of course this is an arbitrary reason to fire an employee,” said Wang Li-ping, a professor who specializes in management and human resources from the Renmin Business School.   “But this is what may happen in small and medium-sized companies as they may not have a comprehensive regulation or system related to this kind of situation.”   © Image | Google This is not the first time Chinese employees have been accused by managers of “poor discipline” in their text messages.    Earlier this month, an employee was scolded for “lacking basic WeChat manners” for replying “Um” in Chinese, which means “noted”, according to a report in regional newspaper Chongqing Cheng Bao. © Image | WeChat