Strange maven-compiler-plugin Error when importing project

This problem cost me about 3 hours and finally I found a solution.

Let me describe the background. I have got a new laptop and want to set up a development environment: for eclipse I copied from my old machine and when I wanted to import a maven project, a strange problem happened:

Now it is fixed so the screenshot below looks good, but at that time, it was saying: maven-compiler-plugin 2.5.1 missing ...

I continue with the errors, but the project crashed no matter how I add dependencies.

I have tried to re-install eclipse, install maven, use different java version, use other versions of maven-compiler-plugin... None of them worked.

Here is the ultimate solution:
Delete the local repository settings by deleting the repository folder in .m2 (C:\Users\yourid\.m2\repository)

After restart eclipse and re-import the maven project, it is all solved.

Happy using new computer!

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