Claiming to have "absolute authority", a corrupt official who once lived next door to Bill Gates was arrested abroad overnight.

  CCTV News:On January 13th, Qiao Jianjun’s name appeared in the fourth episode "Hand in Hand" of the documentary feature film "Red Wanted" of anti-corruption international.

  Qiao Jianjun, No.3 of "100 Red Cross Personnel", was the former director of the warehouse directly under Zhoukou, Henan Province.

  The "Shuoshu" of the National Granary

  China National Grain Storage Corporation is a central enterprise directly managed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. It has set up 24 branches nationwide, covering 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government.

  According to media reports, Qiao Jianjun has been the director of the direct warehouse of China Grain Storage Zhoukou for a long time, and has established "absolute authority". The insider revealed that "the key positions are all his people. Whoever does not obey, he will replace others through various methods."

  In November 2011, Qiao Jianjun fled with more than 300 million yuan, and the procuratorate of Henan Province immediately intervened in the investigation.

  Later, it was found out by the procuratorate of Henan Province that Qiao Jianjun colluded with grain merchants, allowing them to sell the reserve converted grain in the grain depot, or falsely reported the purchase quantity of "entrusted grain", thus defrauding the state grain fund by more than 700 million yuan.

  Qiao Jianjun directly transferred part of the stolen money to his designated personal account, and then transferred it abroad through underground banks. Over the years, the money he transferred overseas has been found to be over 100 million yuan.

  In the process of investigating Qiao Jianjun’s case, the Henan Provincial Procuratorate has continuously received reports about China Grain Storage Henan Branch, and the more clues it has found, the more people have been put on file for investigation. Among them, there are 81 cadres and employees of China Grain Storage Henan Branch, including Li Changxuan, former general manager of China Grain Storage Henan Branch, Yang Hongjie, former deputy general manager, and 26 department-level cadres directly under the Grain Depot.

  The "thirteen caves of the sly rabbit" used to be neighbors with Bill Gates.

  In the feature film, Qiao Jianjun’s escape was carefully planned long ago. A few years before he fled, Qiao Jianjun, his ex-wife Zhao Shilan and their two children had secretly obtained American green cards.

  On the way to escape, Qiao Jianjun can be described as a country and region that tried its best to escape or transfer assets, involving Hong Kong, China and Singapore in Asia; America, Canada, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dutch island of St. Martin, Europe, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Cyprus and Sweden.

  Although Zhao Shilan and Qiao Jianjun are divorced, they have a lot of common interests.

Qiao Jianjun’s ex-wife’s real estate in the United States (video screenshot)

  In Seattle, USA, Zhao Shilan owns two properties. One of the properties covers an area of more than 900 square meters, with a construction area of about 340 square meters. There are 4 bedrooms alone. This house is close to Highway 405 in Seattle, with convenient transportation. The neighborhood is very quiet, and there are few cars coming in and out. It belongs to the rich area in Seattle. Seen from the west of the house, Paul Allen (one of the founders of Microsoft) lives in Mercer Island, and Bill Gates lives in the northern Medina area.

  Zhao Shilan and Qiao Jianjun were the investment immigrants who bought real estate in those years, falsely claiming that the funds came from legal income, but in fact they came from Qiao Jianjun’s corruption. Many of Qiao Jianjun’s assets transferred overseas are in her name, and the American green card was also obtained by her assistance to Qiao Jianjun by deception.

  In the United States, it has been found that Qiao Jianjun and Zhao Shilan have purchased four properties and three commercial properties, while Qiao Jianjun’s assets are far more than just in the United States. He has traveled to thirteen countries and regions, and he will make investments in each country and region, including real estate, restaurants, hotels, tourism, resorts, farms and so on.

  In addition, Qiao Jianjun obtained a passport of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean under the pseudonym of Feng Li. His bank accounts and investments in many countries and regions are hidden behind the false identity of Feng Li.

  The first fugitive official from China prosecuted by the United States.

  In March, 2015, Qiao Jianjun and Zhao Shilan were formally charged by federal prosecutors in California for immigration fraud and money laundering. This is the first time that the United States has prosecuted a corrupt official who fled China after China announced the "Fox Hunt" campaign. In the same month, Zhao Shilan was arrested in the United States. But Qiao Jianjun fled to other countries in 2012.

  Qiao Jianjun’s ex-wife Zhao Shilan (Source: Xinhua International)

  Court documents show that Qiao Jianjun and Zhao Shilan went to the United States through investment immigration programs. Previously, Zhao Shilan lied to the US Immigration Bureau that she would invest 500,000 US dollars in American enterprises, but the investigation results of the US authorities showed that all the relevant documents provided by Zhao Shilan were false, and her 500,000 US dollars were not invested in any projects at all. In fact, the money was used to buy a house in the suburbs of Seattle, and the source of the money was related to a money laundering transaction in Zhoukou Grain Depot.

  In addition, they are also suspected of fraudulent marriage. Qiao Jianjun had divorced Zhao Shilan when she came to the United States, but when Zhao Shilan applied for investment immigration, she lied that they were still married.

  Prosecutors said that Zhao Shilan was suspected of money laundering, cheating US immigration officials and violating immigration laws. If the court convicted Zhao Shilan on this charge, he might be sentenced to 30 years in prison.

  At first, Zhao Shilan hoped that the lawyer could help him get rid of the crime, and made it clear that he did not plead guilty at the first trial. But after many trials, in the face of conclusive evidence, she finally pleaded guilty. After the case is concluded, she will be sentenced to prison and many houses in the United States will be confiscated. As the case needs to be concluded together with Qiao Jianjun’s arrest, the United States also wanted Qiao Jianjun all over the world.

  On the day of the arrest, I was bald all night.

  China and the United States have joined hands to pursue the case, but Qiao Jianjun’s continuous flight between many countries has brought great difficulties to the arrest.

  While pursuing the pursuit, the pursuit is also going on simultaneously. Qiao Jianjun’s overseas assets are frozen as soon as they are discovered. Up to now, the frozen assets have exceeded 100 million yuan. China has cooperated with nearly 20 countries and regions on this case to varying degrees, and many countries and regions in America, Europe and Asia are investigating and recovering his assets.

  Finally, there is a clue that Qiao Jianjun is in Sweden. This time, he didn’t get away with it.

  In August 2018, Qiao Jianjun was arrested in Sweden. On the day he was arrested, he went bald overnight.

  Looking back on his 7-year escape life, although he has painstakingly managed to buy assets in more than a dozen countries, he has not been able to enjoy any of them safely.

  Mr. Gorts, Senior Prosecutor of Swedish National Anti-Corruption Bureau, said in an interview that Qiao Jianjun was also suspected of economic crimes in Sweden and had been investigated.

  At present, although there is no extradition treaty between China and Sweden, China has made an extradition request to Sweden, and Sweden is conducting relevant investigations.

  Zhou Congyuan, a staff member of the International Cooperation Bureau of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, who is in charge of investigating the case, said: "If this case is successfully handled, I think it should be a textbook case. The biggest feature of this case is our global pursuit and global cooperation, because anti-corruption has become a consensus of the international community, and no country will affect its reputation and interests for corruption. "

AI big model, Alibaba is bound to win.

Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming made his first public speech.

"In the AI ​ ​ era, Alibaba will become an open technology platform enterprise that serves the AI ​ ​ innovation of the whole society."Wu Yongming, CEO of Alibaba Group, summed up the new orientation and direction of Ali in the future.

A few days ago, Wu Yongming boarded the podium of the plenary session of the 2023 world internet conference Wuzhen Summit. This is the first time that Wu Yongming has delivered a speech at a public event since he became CEO of Ali Group.

Wu Yongming emphasized the importance of AI computing in his speech. "The AI-driven cloud computing system is surpassing the traditional computing system and becoming the cornerstone of the digital world, and will eventually take over all computing resources."

Source: Alibaba WeChat official account

For the future of the AI era, Wu Yongming predicted that life products and corporate work will become more intelligent. "Every enterprise will also be equipped with AI assistants. Just like our smart cars today, assisted driving and autonomous driving have become standard."In his view, the era of intelligence has just begun, "everything is possible."

AI has become the key to the innovation breakthrough of digital economy in China. Wu Yongming positioned Ali as a "science and technology platform enterprise". This strategic decision not only conforms to the development trend of the times, but also meets the needs of the enterprise’s own development and upgrading.

In the past 20 years, Ali has built digital business basic services covering transactions, logistics, payment and production, which has provided strong support for the development of the e-commerce industry.

In the AI era, Ali should take the route of "technology platform enterprise" to provide infrastructure for AI innovation and transformation of enterprises in the whole society. Ali will open a set of technical systems and infrastructure capabilities to the whole society in the form of platform services, and extend the platform capabilities from commodity trading to technology.

Not every enterprise has the ability to develop large-scale AI models. And Ali is helping companies solve this problem.

It is understood that Ali founded and operated the China AI model open source community "Magic Ride" last year. Since the "Magic Ride" community was launched one year ago, the model download volume has exceeded 100 million.

Not long ago, Ali also released a one-stop big model service platform-Alibaba Cloud "Bailian", which helps small and medium-sized enterprises and developers to carry out AI innovation with lower cost and higher efficiency, further lowering the threshold for AI model development.

At the "Internet Entrepreneur Forum" of Wuzhen Summit, Wu Yongming revealed that Alibaba is about to open a large model with 72 billion parameters, which will be the largest open source model in China.

Alibaba Cloud has successively opened up the 14 billion parameter model Qwen-14B and the 7 billion parameter model Qwen-7B. At present, these two large models have been launched in the ModelScope magic community and can be commercialized for free.

Qwen-14B Source: ModelScope Magic Community Screenshot

Wu Yongming’s clarification of Ali’s position and direction as a "technology platform enterprise" means that Ali already has perfect infrastructure construction technology in the big model era, and is ready to achieve a win-win situation with all social enterprises.

In order to serve more enterprises and AI developers, Alibaba will insist on doing two things: First, provide a stable and efficient AI basic service system, especially strong cloud computing capabilities, and build a solid foundation for training AI in the whole industry and using AI in the whole society; The second is to create an open and prosperous AI ecosystem.

Wu Yongming believes that "AI+ cloud computing" two-wheel drive is Alibaba Cloud’s underlying ability to face the future. Alibaba will base itself on the position of "technology platform enterprise" and build a more solid infrastructure base and a more open and prosperous AI ecosystem.

AI drive is one of the strategic focuses of Ali.

On September 10th, Wu Yongming officially became the CEO of Alibaba Group. On the 12th, Wu Yongming issued a letter to all employees, announcing the establishment of two strategic focuses: customer first and AI drive.

In Wu Yongming’s view,"In the next decade, the biggest variable is undoubtedly the profound changes in the whole industry brought by AI. We must reshape the user value with the determination to start a business again in the AI ​ ​ era, so that we can get the opportunity to continue serving customers in the next decade. "

At the same time, the application and landing of AI technology need to be user-oriented. Wu Yongming hopes to turn a large number of user scenarios of the group’s businesses into application fields of AI technology, bringing a breakthrough user experience and business model.

Ali’s Taotian Group has recently launched a series of AI tools. For example, intelligent generation of model drawings, official customer service robots, Wanxiangtai Unbounded Edition, Ali Mama Bailing and other businesses operate AI tools.

Official customer service robot page Source: Taobao

During the preparation and sale period of double 11 this year, merchants on Taobao Tmall platform have called AI tools more than 1.5 billion times.

Taobao also launched the consumer-oriented AI intelligent assistant "Taobao Ask" this year. According to statistics, Taobao has been open for testing for less than two months, and the number of invited users has reached 5 million. On average, highly active users interact with Taobao for 8 times a day, and some users even ask questions for 4,000 times.

In terms of globalization, Alibaba International Station has launched an AI business assistant to help foreign trade merchants in China go to sea efficiently. The intelligence of Ali’s various businesses has further deepened.

The development of Ali AI technology is inseparable from the infrastructure construction in Alibaba Cloud. Zhou Jingren, CTO of Alibaba Cloud, said earlier that Alibaba Cloud has built a perfect AI infrastructure and a perfect AI big model training platform, which can provide you with a very perfect model reasoning service.

It is understood that Alibaba Cloud recently officially released the 100 billion-level parameter model Tongyi Qianwen 2.0. At present, more than 30 cloud products in Alibaba Cloud have been connected to the big model capability.

Source: WeChat official account, Alibaba Cloud

The construction of large models often requires a lot of computing power and consumes manpower, material resources and funds. If enterprises build their own large models, the cost problem will become more and more serious. Li Yanhong, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, believes that "the best solution is to integrate the ecology of large models with plug-ins or APIs and create solutions for their own industries."

Alibaba Cloud has perfected the AI infrastructure in order to help all walks of life use AI technology to solve practical problems and focus on application development without considering the cost.

Zhou Jingren once said, "At present, half of the large model enterprises in China are running in Alibaba Cloud, and 2.8 million AI developers are active in the magic community in Alibaba Cloud. In the future, Alibaba Cloud will join hands with thousands of industries to promote AI innovation and share technology dividends."

AI moves from technology to industry

Tencent, Ali, Baidu and other Internet giants have poured into the big model market and launched their own big model products to continuously improve their technical level.

According to the Research Report of China Artificial Intelligence Large Model Map released by China Institute of Science and Technology Information, as of May 28th, at least 79 basic large models with a scale of more than 1 billion have been published in China. The number of large models developed in China has ranked second in the world.

At the recently held Yunqi Conference in 2023, Alibaba Cloud’s large model Tongyi Qianwen also ushered in the upgrade of 2.0, and became the third large model to surpass GPT3.5 after ERNIE Bot and Iflytek.

Li Yanhong, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said at the Wuzhen Summit that the comprehensive level of Wenxin Big Model 4.0 is not inferior to Chat-GPT4.

Source: Tencent.com

Large-scale model technology is constantly improving, but the market is most concerned about whether the application of large-scale model can land and help the industry obtain stable commercial benefits.

At present, most of the models on the market are general models, which have the functions of natural language understanding and language generation, and are generally used in chat or entertainment scenes. But these scenes are not suitable for commercialization.

Compared with the general big model, enterprises prefer the vertical big model and focus on subdividing industrial scenarios, which is convenient for solving practical problems. In response to this actual demand, some companies with solid large-scale model technology have begun to explore the application of vertical scenes.

Xu Ran, CEO of JD.COM Group, introduced that JD.COM Big Model has been applied to many supply chains, such as business operation, customer service and after-sales, medical consultation and so on. She also pointed out that "the big model really realizes its own value, and it must be in industrial application."

Previously, Alibaba Cloud released a new model of Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, and also released a series of industry models to help developers use the power of artificial intelligence and algorithms in all walks of life to solve practical problems in combination with their own business scenarios.

Zhou Jingren, CTO of Alibaba Cloud, said, "Different scenarios have different needs. It is impossible for a model to serve all needs, and there is not only one corresponding way. Promoting the ecological prosperity of AI in China is the primary goal of Alibaba Cloud. "

A more open and prosperous AI ecosystem will help promote the commercialization of large models and bring them more sustainable commercial returns, thus achieving self-hematopoiesis.

In other words, by building a vibrant and innovative AI ecosystem, the big model will be able to better integrate into various industries and fields, exert its potential, create more value for enterprises and promote sustainable development.

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"The rule of China", what do experts say?

  Cctv news(Focus Interview): the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Decision on Several Major Issues Concerning Upholding and Perfecting the Socialism with Chinese characteristics System and Promoting the Modernization of the National Governance System and Governance Capacity, adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, pointed out the direction of efforts to uphold and improve the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and defined the timetable and road map for us to promote all aspects of the system to be more mature and stereotyped. What should the future "rule of China" adhere to and consolidate, and what should it improve and develop? Starting today, Focus Interview will explain this in detail.

  The leadership system of the party

  In the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Decision on Several Major Issues Concerning Upholding and Perfecting the Socialism with Chinese characteristics System, Promoting the Modernization of the National Governance System and Governance Capacity, 13 parts were arranged for upholding and perfecting the fundamental system, basic system and important system that supported the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system, and the fundamental points, improvement and development directions that each system must adhere to and consolidate were clarified, and work arrangements were made. Among them, the first one is to "uphold and improve the party’s leadership system and improve the party’s scientific, democratic and legal governance."

  Xie Chuntao, vice president of the Central Party School (National School of Administration), said that the party’s leadership system is the fundamental leadership system and has a leading position and role. People’s Republic of China (PRC) was established under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system was also established and developed under the leadership of the Party. All aspects of the system, all aspects of the governance system and ability, all depends on the leadership of the party, all depends on the promotion of the party, so the leadership of the party has the primary position in the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system and the national governance system.

  How to uphold and improve the party’s leadership system and improve the ruling level? The "Decision" puts forward six requirements, namely, the establishment of Do not forget your initiative mind, the system of keeping in mind the mission, the improvement of the systems of firmly safeguarding the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, the improvement of the party’s overall leadership system, the improvement of the systems of governing for the people and relying on the people, the improvement of the party’s ruling ability and leadership level, and the improvement of the system of strictly administering the party in an all-round way.

  Tao Wenzhao, deputy dean of the School of Marxism of Renmin University of China, said that from never forgetting one’s initial intention to maintaining the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, to overall leadership, to serving and relying on the people’s leadership, to improving one’s own ruling level and ability, and finally to strengthening party building, these aspects summarized some basic aspects of party leadership, including inherent importance logic, theoretical logic and practical logic.

  Xin Xiangyang, vice president of the Institute of Marxism of China Academy of Social Sciences, said that in the past, we have established some mechanisms and systems. If these policy mechanisms and systems want to play a greater role in the future, they must form a scientific system and its efficiency will be higher. In fact, this reflects some achievements of the all-round promotion of party building and forms a system in six aspects.

  Among these six requirements, the first one is to establish a system of Do not forget your initiative mind and keeping the mission in mind. Although the initial intention and mission have been mentioned repeatedly since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out at the beginning that the theme of the congress is Do not forget your initiative mind, remember the mission, and at present, the educational activities on the theme of "Do not forget your initiative mind, remember the mission" are being carried out, but the establishment of this system is unprecedented and groundbreaking.

  Xin Xiangyang said that an important achievement of theme education is that we can establish a system in this area, and the experience we have gained should be further used for a long time. This time, the "Decision" particularly emphasized that Do not forget your initiative mind and keeping the mission in mind should be regarded as the eternal task of our party and the lifelong task of every party member. To make it an eternal and lifelong subject, it is impossible without institutional guarantee. Therefore, clearly emphasizing the establishment of this system is to adapt to the initial mission of the party to face the future, realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and constantly seek happiness for the people. It is also a key to ensure that the initial mission can be truly implemented.

  Xie Chuntao said that this is a general requirement, not only for the party’s leadership system, but also for all aspects of the system, so that party organizations at all levels and leading cadres at all levels can truly follow the requirements of "Do not forget your initiative mind, keep in mind the mission".

  In the other five aspects, it summarizes "what to uphold and consolidate" and "what to improve and develop" to uphold and improve the party’s leadership system and improve the ruling level.

  Tao Wenzhao said that since the 18 th National Congress, efforts have been made to promote all aspects of work. Some have done well and should be consolidated; Some of what is being done should be further improved; Some central authorities have made some macro arrangements, but in terms of specific implementation, policies and measures need to be further refined.

  For example, improve various systems that firmly safeguard the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralize and unify leadership. The "Decision" requires that the whole party be urged to strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences" and achieve the "two safeguards", consciously maintain a high degree of ideological, political and operational consistency with the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, and resolutely implement the core position of the CPC Central Committee and the whole party.

  Party and state supervision system

  The first significant advantage of China’s national system and national governance system is to adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the party. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, remarkable achievements have been made in comprehensively administering the Party strictly. This time, the "Decision" not only puts forward "to improve the system of strictly administering the party in an all-round way", but also puts forward "to uphold and improve the supervision system of the party and the state and strengthen the restriction and supervision of the operation of power". What is the meaning of this?

  Xin Xiangyang, vice president of the Marxist Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences, said that it is very important for the Party to be in power for a long time. If the supervision system is not perfect, it will not achieve the goal and long-term governance may be affected. It is precisely because it plays an increasingly important role in party building that it shows its importance by placing it in an institutional system alone. This importance was mentioned by the Fourth Plenary Session, and it is a very important institutional guarantee system for our party to realize itself, improve itself and develop self-purification in the process of long-term self-supervision.

  How to uphold and improve the supervision system of the party and the state? The Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Upholding and Perfecting the Socialism with Chinese characteristics System, Promoting the Modernization of the National Governance System and Governance Capacity has made clear arrangements and arrangements from three aspects: perfecting the supervision system of the Party and the State, perfecting the power allocation and operation restriction mechanism, and building an integrated system and mechanism that does not dare to rot, cannot rot and does not want to rot, thus tightening the "cage of the system" for the operation of public power.

  Tao Wenzhao, deputy dean of the School of Marxism of China Renmin University, said that the supervision system, administrative decentralization and anti-corruption are all important aspects being done in recent years, and they are also the work to be further strengthened in the future.

  In terms of supervision of power, the Decision clarifies the reform path to improve the supervision system of the Party and the state, that is, strengthening political supervision, strengthening supervision and inspection of the implementation of the Party’s theory, line, principles and policies, and major decision-making arrangements, and improving the reporting system for inspection and rectification and supervision. We will promote the overall integration of discipline supervision, supervision supervision, stationed supervision and inspection supervision, and at the same time, with inner-party supervision as the leading factor, we will promote the organic integration and coordination of supervision by people’s congresses, democratic supervision, mass supervision, public opinion supervision and audit supervision.

  Xin Xiangyang said that whether the Party’s theory has been thoroughly understood, whether it has been really implemented, whether the Party’s major decisions have been really deployed, whether they are original after deployment, or whether they are distorted will directly affect the development of the Party’s entire cause. In the past, we sometimes paid great attention to business supervision, but our awareness of political supervision was relatively weak. Now it is very important to put political supervision in a high position. Only when the direction of political supervision is correct and effective can we ensure the smooth progress of other supervision.

  In terms of restricting the allocation of power, the Decision puts forward three principles of "statutory power and responsibility, transparent power and responsibility, and unified power and responsibility". By clarifying the power boundary, promoting the openness of the right to use, and improving the accurate accountability mechanism, the power rent-seeking space is reduced and the root cause is deepened. In terms of anti-corruption system and mechanism, the "Decision" emphasizes the need to build an integrated system and mechanism to promote non-corruption, dare not rot, and do not want to rot.

  Han Qingxiang, a professor at the Central Party School (National School of Administration), said that to establish a system that does not dare to rot means that once something goes wrong in this respect, you should be held accountable so that you do not dare to rot. Establishing an institutional system that does not want to rot is to strengthen party spirit construction and moral construction. Party member should stress party spirit, maintain its advanced nature, maintain its purity, keep party spirit in mind, and keep the party’s ideals and beliefs in mind. If it is internalized in the heart, it will not be corrupted. Establish a system that cannot be corrupted. Now there is an accountability system, a patrol system, and a disciplinary system. If something goes wrong, you have to pay the price, so that you dare not rot. A series of system design and top-level design are carried out from these three aspects.

  The "Decision" clearly points out the interest chains and fields with high incidence of corruption, and calls for resolutely investigating and dealing with corruption cases where political issues and economic issues are intertwined, resolutely cutting off the interest chains of "hunting" and being willing to be hunted, and resolutely breaking the relationship network of power and money transactions. We will deepen the treatment of both the symptoms and the root causes, and promote the reform of supervision mechanisms and system construction in key areas such as examination and approval supervision, law enforcement and justice, engineering construction, resource development, finance and credit, public resource transactions, and public financial expenditure. 

  Han Qingxiang said that the key areas of corruption are those who have great power and important resources, and some people with vested interests. It is relatively easy to change others’ lives, but it is more difficult to change their own lives. Therefore, the general secretary said that today we have encountered a tough nut to crack. Our reform is to tackle the problem in deep water and break the wrist of a strong man, that is, people involved in some vested interests and key fields.

  Xin Xiangyang said that in the construction of institutional mechanisms in these areas, more powerful measures should be taken to make the system more perfect, the chain clearer and the coverage wider. It should be emphasized that taking stronger measures in these key areas can curb and greatly reduce the possibility of corruption, which is a very important task for us now.

  The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership is the most essential feature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, the greatest advantage of the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system, and the Party is the highest political leadership. We must adhere to the Party, government, military and civilian studies, the East, the West, the North and the South, and the Party is in charge of everything, resolutely safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee, improve the system of the Party’s leadership that takes the overall situation into account and coordinates all parties, and implement the Party’s leadership in all fields and aspects of state governance. This requires constantly upholding and improving the system of party leadership, the supervision system of the party and the state, ensuring the health of the party’s body and ensuring that the power entrusted by the party and the people is always used to seek happiness for the people.

The National Day holiday cultural performance market is full of excitement, and the feelings of home and country ignite the film "National Day File"

CCTV News:Walking into the cinema to enjoy an audio-visual feast has become a holiday choice for many people. As the key schedule of the year, this year’s National Day film has distinctive features, and the theme and feelings of home and country have become the key words of many films.

As the first film focusing on the behind-the-scenes story of China diplomats’ assistance in evacuating overseas Chinese, The Return of Wan Li, based on the real evacuation event, tells the story of China diplomats who opened a life channel with courage and wisdom in order to protect the safety of overseas compatriots. The film "Ordinary Hero" is based on the real incident of "rescuing a boy with a broken arm in Xinjiang", focusing on ordinary people, showing the process that a 7-year-old boy was finally rescued because of his accidental broken arm, with the cooperation of medical staff, airplane crew, many passengers and policemen Qi Xin. The film "Iron Will" tells the story that the broad masses of cadres and workers in Angang put into production and supported the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea with iron will in the early days of liberation, overcoming difficulties and turning crises into opportunities, showing the feelings of home and country.

While the theme of the main melody leads the National Day movie, children’s movies such as "New Big Head Son and Little Head Dad 5" and "I am Tyrannosaurus Rex" will also be released during the National Day to attract more audiences of all ages to enter the cinema.

Earlier, the State Film Administration said that while insisting on the prevention and control of the epidemic, it will take measures to stimulate film production and consumption and promote the orderly recovery of the film industry through activities such as launching the film consumption season for the benefit of the people and issuing coupons for watching movies.

CTV Shopping: Network Integration and Multi-screen Interaction Light up New Growth Pole

  Cctv news Recently, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Italy, CTV Shopping, together with Datang West City Museum, Aizou Global Cross-border Live Broadcasting Platform, and WeChat Payment, jointly launched a live webcast with the theme of "From Chang ‘an to Rome". Through the double-cycle cross-industry cooperation at home and abroad, it promoted and publicized Italian-featured goods and cultural products of Xi ‘an ancient city, and displayed the Silk Road in an all-round way.

  Chang ‘an and Rome in their heyday were the crystallization of self-confidence and openness of eastern and western cultures respectively. Besides promoting commodities, we should tell China culture and China story well, and show the world the cultural charm and self-confidence of China. This theme activity is the exploration and attempt of CTV Shopping to explore new retail formats and cross-industry cooperation, realize more efficient multi-screen interaction and integration, and is also a brand-new new mobile media channel and cooperation model.

Tik Tok took the 6th place in the cargo list.

Tik Tok took the 6th place in the cargo list.

  During the event, the CCTV shopping host remotely connected representatives of many Italian manufacturers during the live broadcast, and the novel form and intuitive experience of modern communication technology made the fans in the live broadcast room enjoyable and interesting.

  Adhering to the concept of market-oriented and customer-centered, CTV Shopping Company is committed to opening up a diversified three-dimensional battlefield, accelerating transformation and upgrading, building a video boutique shopping platform with guiding force, credibility and influence, and striving to open up new growth points of performance.

Activities from Chang 'an to Rome

Activities from Chang ‘an to Rome

  Since October this year, CTV Shopping has relied on the mature supply chain system and the advantages of program production and broadcasting on the big screen of TV shopping. The big screen content has opened a new window for mobile channel communication, and actively explored the live webcast service. In just two months, the company’s new media team continued to enrich content forms, constantly summed up operational experience in practice, and expanded new models, new products, new channels and new people for the integration of large and small screens. The number of viewers and fans has doubled. The number of viewers has increased from 3,000 in the initial stage to 400,000 in the highest stage, and the number of fans has increased from 8,000 in the initial stage to 50,000. Tik Tok Live has rushed into the sixth place in the list of people with goods.

Live broadcast of excellent domestic products in Tik Tok

Live broadcast of excellent domestic products in Tik Tok

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Why can’t domestic movies "become" Chen Sicheng?


Special feature of 1905 film network The movie "Save the Suspect" became a dark horse in November with a box office of nearly 300 million. Then, this week’s film "priceless treasure" is expected to create the second miracle this month.


The two films have many similar shadows — — A remake of an overseas film, the former is a Korean film "Seven Days" and the latter is another Han Ying film "Guarantee".


More than that, "remake of overseas movies" seems to have become the key word in the recent film market.Japanese word-of-mouth masterpieceLove like a bouquetAfter the official announcement that the China version will be remake, various versions of outline creation have sprung up on the online platform, and netizens have created interesting stories for the China version according to the local settings of different cities such as "Beishangguang".



The movie "Second-hand Masterpiece" that is still being shown is a remake of the American movie "The Greatest Father in the World", and the recently officially announced movies "Extreme Escape" and "What’s in the Zoo? "Brilliant She" is waiting to be shown.



Remaking movies has become a trend, and these films have different word-of-mouth and market performance. What can remake this business bring? Why do film companies constantly broaden their remake film layout?


"The dilemma of remake"


At the Gulangyu Forum, the opening forum of China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, when talking about the exchange of learning from overseas films, director Guan Hu specifically said that domestic film creation should learn from European films now. What is the creative motivation? "We have too many remakes and remakes now, and China films should pay attention to originality."


Undoubtedly, the remake of overseas movies has already ushered in a small climax.


From loyal dog and eight husbands at the beginning of the year, please don’t believe her, to the summer movie "The Lost Woman" and "The Super Family", to the second-hand masterpiece "It doesn’t seem so exciting" and "priceless" and "Crossing the Sea", the number of remakes is amazing.



What needs to be emphasized here is that the remake of this article is aimed at the original film or the adaptation of the original script. Not including "I love you! "Cloister Pavilion" is an adaptation of original novels/comics.


We have simply combed the market performance of several major remakes this year, and it is not difficult to find that the film "Disappeared She" has a great performance, which has also set a box office record for the remake in the China market. This achievement is also completely different from the production and marketing behind it.



Chen Sicheng, the producer, talked about the remake in an interview and said that the impulse to create The Disappeared She was to talk about the violence in intimate relationship. However, when the movie was turned on, I found that the core idea of the movie was "stumbling", so I went to make up the copyright for the possible problems in the follow-up. After the film was released, the story was just linked to the real hot events, and the marketing of sinking channels finally realized the box office income.



Not only the adjustment of creation, but also we can find that most of the above-mentioned films are works after the Millennium, even the story of loyal dogs and eight public officials in 1987 is still in the radiation category of public viewing. With the appearance of this kind of film, the audience naturally takes a microscopic trial.


This goes back to the core issue — — Localization.


"Loyal Dog Eight Men" is a remake that has been released so far this year, with the highest reputation, reaching 7.6 points, but it is far from the original 9.2 points. Back to the issue of localization, the China version has made excellent adjustments according to local conditions, and made use of the geographical advantages of Chongqing Mountain City and the historical events of the Three Gorges immigrants to make the film’s key "waiting" more textured. More importantly, although the title of the film continues the name of the original, in the film, the name of the puppy has become "Ba Tong", which makes the audience in China more friendly.



It’s a pity that Zhu Yu is ahead. Although the IP value has been spread in marketing, the film adaptation is more likely to be criticized by the audience.


In localization, some films focus on the characters’ emotions and set the events in the aerial cities in Southeast Asia, such as Disappearing She and Saving the Suspect. The former appropriately grasps the context of the times and tells the story from a more modern perspective. In contrast, although the expression of the latter is more in line with the China market in terms of emotional concentration, the loopholes in the original version are not handled properly in the logical handling of the whole case, which makes it difficult for the film to make a breakthrough.



Of course, not all works are "sinicized". Especially the remake of Sunny Sisters Amoy by Han Ying of the same name, the original background implies the local social sentiment under the financial crisis. However, after adaptation, it only copied the story and even shot a split lens, which made the film’s depth weakened after the story became a single youth theme.



On the contrary, the film "Priceless Treasure" adapted from "Guarantee" set the background of the times in the 1990s. After some people in the Northeast experienced the tide of unemployment, their lives changed in the torrent of the times, and the feelings of this group of people in the story were expressed in the most local way. This adaptation successfully removes the traces of the original, which is also half the battle.



"The limitation of remake"


During the Tokyo International Film Festival, Zhang Yimou lamented, "The ideal state of my work is that while shooting a movie, there is another prepared script waiting for me. If the script is always enough, I can keep the rhythm of one movie a year. " It’s just that in his opinion, there are too few good scripts now.


Even the great director Zhang Yimou suffers from the script, not to mention other creators.Good scripts are hard to find, which seems to be the self-comfort of some film companies in their pursuit of "remake". Compared with the time-consuming and laborious polishing of the original script, perhaps polishing and adjusting the film can avoid many risks. just asGoodbye mr. loser.Just because I was questioned by film critics to copy 1986′ sPeggy Sue is getting marriedEven in the end, the filmmakers and film critics "went to court."



Of course, it needs to be emphasized that in the past, there were many scripts in the market, such as Finding You, Returning to the Age of 20 and Lobster Interpol.


Nowadays, in the market, the speed of remake has become faster and faster, which has quite the benefit of "one copy and more shots" in the past. The film "Priceless Treasure" started in 2021, but the Korean version of "Guarantee" was released in 2020.


Coincidentally, the China version of "Extreme Escape", which was just officially released recently, was originally released in 2019. At that time, with the help of the power of the Internet, it had a high spread in China, and the number of viewers on the single douban platform was as high as 220,000, nearly 10 times that of the film "Guarantee".



Such cases are not isolated cases, and even many original films have been shown in China.


The original movie "Basketball Story" of "It doesn’t seem so hot" was released in China market in 2019. If the box office and attention of this movie were weak at that time, then the original movie "Invisible Guest" of "Crossing the Sea" can definitely be called a movie with certain popularity.



"Invisible Guest" was released in Spain in 2017, and then spread in the China market with the help of the power of the Internet, and was interpreted by many video bloggers in many dimensions. It can even be said that the interpretation of this film was the originator of "3 minutes to watch a movie". At the end of the same year, it was released in the mainland market of China, and achieved 172 million. Not only that, Italy made a "zero adaptation" in 2018, and the Chinese translation of "Death tells no tales" was released in the mainland in 2020, with a box office of less than 30 million.


Nowadays, although Greg Han Hsu, Kara Wai and other topical actors have joined the Chinese version of "Crossing the Sea", the remake of this original film, which has a high spread, has a very high test for writers.



As mentioned repeatedly above, the number of viewers of some movies on domestic online platforms has led to the fact that even old movies will still be contradicted after the remake because they are classic enough. In addition to "loyal dogs and eight males" and "five teenagers who save water", they also have a good reputation, but the box office feedback is still not as good as expected.


The same is the filmmaker who often remakes overseas movies. Bao Beier not only directed Sunny Sisters Amoy, but also deeply participated in the remake of Han Ying’s Secret Zoo, What’s in the Zoo? ",as well as the remake of" When Men Fall in Love "and" Northeast Love Brother ",and the results are not satisfactory.



On the contrary, director Chen Sicheng found his own rules in the remake market. Sheep Without A Shepherd made a remake of the movie "Mistaken Killing to Hide the Truth", and "Mistaken Killing 2" was remake from "It’s Urgent" and "She Disappeared". Although the original works of the first two films are all after the Millennium, the films are relatively unpopular, which also keeps the story suspense.


At the same time, during the remake, the Chen Sicheng team always worked hard on the script, which really made it possible to break the original and tell a brand-new story in a new context. It is inevitable that some netizens will ridicule under many remakes of movies, "questioning Sicheng, understanding Sicheng and becoming Sicheng."



Jokes belong to jokes, and only when the creators truly grasp the significance and value of the remake can they have a chance to gain market recognition. Of course, a blind remake will not be a long-term solution, and Chen Sicheng’s subsequent "Three Battalions" and "Decryption" will be a good proof.


In any case, the market is always eager for original scripts.



Observing the Golden Rooster Awards in China Film Festival in recent years, the Best Screenplay Awards have focused on original scripts since the nomination.


Of the five works nominated this year, four are original scripts and one is an adaptation of a novel, which was finally won by Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department (Kong Dashan and Wang Yitong). Looking back nearly five years, the Golden Rooster Award and the Best Screenplay Award were all awarded to original scripts (Love Myth, 1921, Leap and Forever).


Maybe one day, the wave of remake will come down. But in fact, we are not rejecting the remake, but we hope to have a good remake and more excellent China stories.


Martin scorsese shelling score website for "Mother! Correcting the name

1905 movie network news To say the most controversial film in 2017, the new film directed by darren aronofsky must be at the forefront. A few days ago, the famous director martin scorsese watched the film, and Martin couldn’t help but make a long speech on the platform of Hollywood Reporter, pointing out: "Now I’m watching Mother! Before, I was disturbed by harsh comments on the internet. Many people seem to want to define this film and just want to condemn and criticize it. Many people seemed very happy when it got an F rating on the Cinemascore website. "

CinemaScore website is an audience rating website, with ratings from A-F and F as the lowest rating. There are many great directors’ works that have been rated as F before, including robert altman’s Solari by steven soderbergh and william friedkin’s. "Mother! "was brushed to the F level because of" big cousin "jennifer lawrence’s remarks.

When martin scorsese finished watching Mother! After that, he said, "I am even more troubled by this reckless and hasty behavior, so I want to share my thoughts with you. Because movies can’t be simply defined and explained, or reduced to a two-word description. Is this a horror film, a black comedy, or a biblical fable, a cautionary tale of moral and environmental destruction? Maybe there will be some of the above, but it is definitely not a single category. "

When it comes to scoring websites, martin scorsese naturally mentioned rotten tomato websites. In this regard, he said, "rotten tomato websites have nothing to do with real film art criticism. They compare movies to horses on racetracks, restaurants in Zagat guides and household appliances in consumer reports. They are only related to the commercial operation of movies and have nothing to do with film creation. "

"These companies and websites set a tone hostile to the director, and even the name of the rotten tomato website is an insult to the filmmakers. What more and more people do is just simple criticism, which is gradually drifting away from the history of movies. People already like to see movies or filmmakers being rejected, rejected and torn to pieces, just like Mother! Like the crowd in "."

Martin scorsese expressed the strange current situation of film criticism by his own experience and real feelings. He thought that box office has become the dominant factor of a film, which is far from the real film art.. "Mother! The freshness of this film on rotten tomatoes is 68%, and the popcorn is 48%. The film is about the beautiful life of a couple, which was broken by the arrival of many unexpected guests.

"Mother! The film is full of religious metaphors, and Darren’s pioneering idea is also perfectly reflected in this film, but it makes many viewers confused. At the initial stage of the film screening, there was a bipolar evaluation between the film critics and the audience. The film, starring jennifer lawrence and javier bardem, was released in the United States on September 15th.

Progress in the situation in Russia and Ukraine: Zelensky announced sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry, and Russian and Belarusian leaders will meet in the near future.

  China news agency, Beijing, February 6 (Xinhua) Comprehensive news: Ukrainian President Zelensky announced that his country’s decision to sanction the Russian nuclear industry had taken effect that night, according to a report by Wutong News Agency on the 5th. Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned Belarusian President Lukashenko that night and agreed that they would meet in the near future, Tass news agency reported on the 5th.

  Zelensky announces sanctions against Russian nuclear industry

  Ukrainian President Zelensky announced in a video address that night that the decision of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Committee on sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry had come into effect, according to the Ukrainian News Agency reported on the 5th.

  According to reports, there are 200 entities on the sanctions list, including the Russian National Atomic Energy Corporation and its subsidiaries, and the sanctions period is 50 years.

  It is reported that Zelensky urged the EU to make a decision to impose sanctions on the Russian Atomic Energy Corporation at a news conference after the Ukrainian-EU summit.

  Russian and Belarusian leaders will meet in the near future.

  Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned Belarusian President Lukashenko that night and agreed on the time for their recent meeting to discuss cooperation and anti-sanction measures, according to the Tass news agency reported on the 5th.

  According to the news released by the Belarusian President’s Information Bureau on the same day, the leaders of the two countries discussed the common cooperation agenda in the economic and political fields and security issues during the call.

  The Tass news agency reported that Lukashenko said in a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov last month that he planned to meet with Putin "more frequently" this year.

  Ukraine may change its defense minister.

  The Ukrainian News Agency reported on the 5th that Ala Hamija, chairman of the parliamentary group of the Ukrainian People’s Public Servant Party, said that Budanov, director of the General Intelligence Department of Ukraine’s Ministry of National Defense, would succeed Reznikov as Ukraine’s Minister of National Defense. Ala Hamija said that Reznikov will be transferred as Minister of Strategic Industry to strengthen military-industrial cooperation.

  According to Reuters news, Reznikov said on the 5th that any decision on personnel changes depends on Zelensky, and the news of being transferred to the position of Minister of Strategic Industry is also "news" for him. "If I suddenly receive this job invitation, I will refuse it because I don’t have the relevant professional knowledge."

  Reuters reported that Zelensky has not issued any statement on replacing the defense minister.

  Russian Defense Ministry: Ukraine plans to create a "false flag operation" to frame Russia.

  According to Sputnik news agency & radio news, the Russian Defense Ministry posted on social media on the 5th that Ukraine is planning a "false flag operation" and plans to carry out a large-scale bombing in Kramatorsk to frame Russia.

  The Russian Defense Ministry said that according to some confirmed information, Uzbekistan plans to use remote-controlled explosives to blow up the drug and cancer prevention and treatment institute and the first city hospital in Kramatorsk in the near future, thus accusing Russia of deliberately bombing civilian facilities.

  The Russian Defense Ministry said that accompanied by Ukrainian personnel, a group of western media reporters have arrived in Kramatorsk, and the western media will accuse Russia of this planning incident and demand the international community to respond and speed up the delivery of long-range missiles to Kiev.

  Scholz said that Western weapons supplied to Ukraine will not be used to attack Russian territory.

  According to German media reports on the 5th, German Chancellor Angela Scholz said that she had reached a consensus with Ukraine that weapons provided by the West would only be used in Ukraine and would not be used to attack Russian territory. (End)

The details of "What’s in the Black" are restored in the 1990s without mito Xiu Xiu.

Special feature of 1905 film network Among the many blockbusters that will appear tomorrow, female directors’s first film, which is not from a regular class, may not be impressive. Besides, this movie has a strange name — — What’s in the dark.

It is such a slightly green debut that won the Best Director Award at this year’s FIRST Youth Film Festival and was praised by Jiang Wen as "a rare work that is so calm, so bad and so absurd". It seems that he saw the shadow of Sunny Days.


Jiang Wen presented Wang Yichun with the Best Director Award of FIRST Youth Film Festival.


In 1991, a serial rape and murder case occurred in the family area of Henan Zhongyuan Aircraft Factory as a clue, but the film is a slightly absurd growth process of 14-year-old girl Qujing. As written in the poster — — This is not the China version of memories of murder, but the story of a girl growing up wrapped in a bloody murder case.

 

There is no tearing, melodramatic and abortion, which are common in domestic youth films. The biggest highlight of the film is that in the early 1990s, the small society of state-owned factories was restored and reproduced as accurately as a scalpel. Wang Yichun, the director, once said that she wanted to "restore an unadorned and beautiful Xiu Xiu’s 1990s". Touching memories of youth about the best and worst 1990s with the clues laid out in the film.


[clothing]:

When the white shirt and red scarf meet the flowered shirt and jeans


    What’s in the Black shows the early 1990s, which can be said to be the era of Chinese’s fashion awakening. Flower shirts, jeans, miniskirts, bell bottoms, and large shoulder pads were all fashion weathervanes of that era. In the movies of that year, it was everywhere.

 

Qu Ying, who has short hair and Jiang Wen, who is dressed in jeans, is at the forefront of fashion.


Zhang Guoli shows 100 ways to wear denim shorts in The Stubborn.


The sitcom I Love My Family is simply an encyclopedia of fashion in the 1990s.

   In the small town of Henan where What’s in the Black happened, most of these so-called "fashion" items are exclusive labels of "bad children".

 

    Zhang Xue, a repeater, and Zhao Fei, a punk, are leading the fashion of the small town. Whether it is a polka-dot tunic dress, a flowered shirt with jeans, or a pair of bright red high-heeled sandals, they are in sharp contrast with ordinary students’ white shirts, red scarves with suspenders, and they are also incompatible with the conservative and traditional aesthetics of the small town.



    Zhang Xue is dressed like this, while flowers from other countries are dressed like this. …


    When Qujing, the heroine, asked her parents for a pair of jeans, her parents instantly turned on the spit mode.

 

    Mom: "It’s tight and hard, and it doesn’t grow long", while Dad simply said: "What jeans and donkey jeans? Aren’t they just the pants of the old denim? When will they become good things?" On the other hand, Zhang Xue’s mature dressing style was also pointed at by male students because of her prominent chest.


filmOne of the important scenes in the movie — — The town barber shop is also full of the flavor of the times, with colored plastic curtains hanging at the door and photo posters of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars plastered on the walls.



The first experience of the woman’s perm was based on Zheng Yuling, the "Do Sister" who was very popular at that time. Although it ended in tragedy.


    It was also popular that year. …

Air, Liu Haier, whatever, they left over from playing.


Seller show and buyer show (you are not mistaken, this is Jay Chou)

    The film’s description of the details of makeup is also very intriguing. Qu Jing, the opening song, is often painted with heavy makeup of red mouth’s red face when she participates in various performances of the choir. Only when she steals the beauty cream from her mother Yong Fang, does she really discover the significance of makeup to the growth of girls.

[Culture]:

Beyond in the Walkman and Peach in the Video Hall


   The golden songs of the 1990 s are a necessary routine for nostalgic youth films. "What’s in the Black" also uses three golden songs to string together seed of love, the heroine of Qu Jing.

 

    First, the little girl danced and sang Little Tiger’s Green Apple Paradise and Aaron Kwok’s I can’t finish loving you.


Then Qu Jing heard Beyond’s "Broad Sky" for the first time in the walkman of the boy who secretly loved her, and also experienced the feeling of love for the first time. After that, the abandoned roof became a stage for two people, who sang together in nonstandard Cantonese: "Forgive me for my unruly love and freedom in my life."

 

In an interview, the director once said that Beyond was the favorite of her youth, so it had a special position in the film. Beyond made me realize that songs can be sung like this.

In addition, movies such as Once in a Thousand Years, A Dream of a New Mandarin Duck and Butterfly, About Winter and running with the bulls are all background sounds with strong flavor of the times. In the song of Chyi Yu’s "Olive Tree", Zhang Xue also published a declaration of freedom that "I will leave this broken place to wander in the morning and evening".

How many posters on the wall are yours, memories of youth?

Interestingly, these golden songs of Hong Kong and Taiwan, which represent popular culture, are in sharp contrast with Dedication of Love sung by the school choir and Embroidered Red Flag hummed by my mother, reappearing the interweaving and collision between the main theme of that era and popular culture.

    Another cultural symbol in the film is the video hall full of taboos and temptations. The door is covered with posters of erotic films, whose names are quite hot, and you can smell the smell of mildew and tobacco through the screen.


The little girl in a white shirt and red skirt is crying in the video hall when the peach is ripe, which is very surreal and absurd. But I’m afraid that many people in that era had completed the so-called youth enlightenment in such places and films.

    If you think that Zhang Xue is just an uneducated poor student, it is all wet. Zhang Xue once solemnly educated Qujing to read more literary masterpieces, cultivated his sentiment and improved his temperament. He was a literary youth who yearned for freedom and ideals. The poem she read in the playground is Xi Murong’s Death of Bai Niao. Rehearsing with Qu Jing is an excerpt from A Dream of Red Mansions, but she has to play the second grandma, and Qu Jing is just a Pinger.

[educational article]

Chinese Education and Lost "Sex"


In the film, the victim’s thighs were painted with red crosses, and the students teased Jiang Si, a poor student, just like the red cross behind his name on the evaluation list. These symbolic big red crosses and big red flowers show the polarized cognition of teachers and parents about "bad students" and "good students" at that time, and the standard of judgment is often only grades.

In my mother’s view, Qu Jing’s award for learning Lei Feng’s exemplary role is far less valuable than that of "three good students". After learning that poor student Zhang Xue may be killed, the teacher’s attitude is: "I hope everyone will take Zhang Xue as a warning and devote themselves to learning."

 

Wang Yichun, the director, once said in an interview, "The murderer can be everyone: because families and schools judge good or bad education by their grades, and neglect and disrespect for’ bad students’ creates a bad soil. Cold violence from every corner of the family and school and disregard for individual dignity are fueling the evil flowers in the dark. "

 

    

   "Formalization" is a point that often arouses us to smile in movies. Those loud slogans and emotional speeches are like "big-headed dolls" running through the film. Every face is filled with exaggerated happy smiles, but there always seems to be some absurdity, hypocrisy and gloomy unreality behind the smiles.

In addition, Qujing’s typical Chinese education is also reflected in his parents’ indifference to adolescent sex education. In the eyes of parents, sex is "something off the table". Qujing was slapped for playing with her mother’s menstrual belt, and was scolded by her father for cheating on her and sitting in the back seat of her bike, but her parents never told her why.

   

Qujing and seed of love, a senior boy, were regarded as "puppy love" by their father, and even more directly reprimanded "there is no fucking friendship between men and women in this world".

 

In the film, Qujing, like many girls in that era, learned about sex from books, video halls and classmates, but only had no parents and teachers.

[Environment]

The Lost State-owned Factory Memory Zhongyuan Aircraft Factory may also be Gansu Baiyin Factory.


"What’s in the Black" set up the story in the family area of Henan Zhongyuan Aircraft Factory. And such fully functional but extremely closed industrial towns derived from state-owned factories were in China and Qian Qian in the early 1990s.

 

Director Wang Yichun said frankly that Zhongyuan Aircraft Factory is actually very similar to Gansu Baiyin Factory, and What’s in the Black might also be a world in the eyes of a girl who grew up in the family area of Baiyin Factory.

 

In the film, the old lady in the nursing home sighed in the chat, "I don’t have to leave this door until I die, there is everything here." It is the epitome of this kind of state-owned factory small society.

Supporting kindergartens, primary schools, high schools, supply and marketing cooperatives, hospitals, entertainment stations and auditoriums are all available, and everyone’s birth, illness, food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, work and entertainment are realized in this narrow geographical space.

 

The accents of the characters in the film from all over the world are also a major feature of the state-owned factory. Whether it is the Shaanxi dialect of the Chinese teacher or the Tangshan dialect led by the Public Security Bureau, people feel very cordial.

 

Many films reflecting the 1990s are also set in state-owned factories, such as Nezha the Girl, which is also a youth growth film, and The Red Suit, which directly hit the tide of laid-off workers in state-owned factories in the 1990s, and so on.

In the 1990s, China’s economy fell into a trough, and state-owned factories were laid off. For a time, social cases occurred frequently, and many major cases that shocked the whole country occurred in this special historical period. The placard of "Strike hard against criminal offences" in the film is also a special symbol of the period of "Strike hard".

 

Wang Yichun said frankly that the film drew lessons from many major cases that shocked the whole country at that time, such as Nie Shubin case, Huge case and so on, and he became a half-criminal expert himself. Although these cases did not really appear in her life, the fear and sense of crisis brought by news reports at that time were still fresh in her memory.

 

Director Wang Yichun once said that every director’s first film seems to be used to commemorate his youth. Jiang Wen is so, so is she.

Wang Yichun, born in 1977, happens to be the same age as the heroine in the film. I believe this is not just a coincidence. Although the director tried his best to restore the memory of the 1990s in detail, the biggest highlight of the film is that it is not limited to symbolic expression, but tells a story about growth and enlightenment with his heart. Let girls who have groped or are growing up in the fog find their own "90" memories.

What’s in the place? There are flowers that can’t be distinguished, passions that are eager to move, cold-blooded killer, selfishness and indifference, and clumsy and kind people who stubbornly light a small lamp for you … …

The three-fold price of 20,000 is really the "optimal solution" of the current mobile phone?

Even if you are not a digital enthusiast, you may have been screened by various contents of Huawei Mate XT on social media; Whether it is the price in 1999 or the effect of seamless switching between a 10-inch large screen and a small screen, it is an eye-catching selling point.

Three folds landed on mass-produced consumer-grade smartphones for the first time, and the brand effect of Huawei was superimposed, which made this mobile phone quickly explode on social networks, and there were also various stalks about the shape of mobile phones.

Netizens have begun to make fun of Huawei Mate XT | Image source: Network

In any case, the arrival of the three folds still brings a ray of fresh air to the form of smart phones that have been silent for several years, and is expected to become the most important change in the form of smart phones in 2024.

The most direct manifestation of this expectation is the sales volume: before the conference was officially held, more than 2 million people had booked Mate XT. Even according to the conversion rate of one tenth, the booking volume of 200,000 is quite scary for the first sale of the flagship mobile phone with folding screen.

Huawei Mate XT Reservation | Image Source: JD.COM

Is triple folding the next evolutionary direction of smart phones?

First, from folding to refolding

Tri-fold itself is actually not the cutting-edge folding screen technology: as early as around 2018, when the folding screen technology just came out, similar concepts appeared. At the same time that the traditional folding screen mobile phone experience began to mature, a large number of new patents/concept machines about tri-fold appeared every year.

Not only mobile phone manufacturers such as Huawei and Voice, but also upstream suppliers of flexible display such as Samsung and TCL are stepping up their efforts to explore the feasibility of mass production and commercialization of triple-folding hardware. Almost every year, we can see the latest progress of triple-folding technology in large-scale consumer electronics exhibitions such as CES.

Every year, these screen manufacturers release several folding screen concept machines, which are named Flex S, Flex G and other codes according to different forms, not only to keep ahead in the research and development field of folding screen mobile phones, but also to sample for potential customers and show the maturity of current technology.

In fact, in addition to the Z-shaped triple-folding form we have seen now, Samsung Display has previously demonstrated the triple-folding concept machine with two screens folded inward, showing that even in the relatively small definition of triple-folding, there are still different forms.

Flex G concept machine demonstrated by Samsung in 2023.

If you pay attention to the folding screen field for a long time, you may notice that the application speed of three-fold technology is obviously several years faster than that of double-fold mobile phones from the appearance of concepts to the appearance of concept machines and the landing of final mass production machines.

This is because of several difficulties that have plagued the folding screen mobile phone-Problems such as screen, hinge, battery design, etc., with the weight, photography and other experiences gradually catching up with the traditional direct-screen mobile phone, have also been quickly overcome.

For example, the hinge of the folding screen mobile phone used to be the weakest link that easily led to the failure of the mobile phone in the early stage of the sale of the folding screen mobile phone. The early Samsung Galaxy Z series had to leave a gap between the hinges that looked very elegant to avoid dust from causing serious damage to the screen.

Samsung’s first generation Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Fold 2

However, in 2023, various mobile phone manufacturers introduced more mature water-drop hinge technology like "double-rotating water-drop hinge" and "keel hinge", and the cost of screen module was also rapidly reduced. At the same time, UTG glass with better wear resistance was introduced to replace the original CPI film screen, which became the standard solution for the flagship mobile phone with folding screen.

At the same time of rapid hardware iteration, the adaptation of software is also rapidly improving. Not only is the bottom of Android system improving the design specification of App for guiding developers to face folding screen devices, but also various mobile phone manufacturers are introducing more new functions and software adaptation every year, which strengthens the big screen as a selling point of folding screen.

Since the first mass-produced folding screen mobile phone came out in 2018, the rapid iteration of hardware and software not only made the folding screen mobile phone more mature, but also became ready-to-use assets in the era of triple folding.

For users and mobile phone brands, there is only one key problem left-Why choose triple folding?

Second, the impact of high-end new flagship

For mobile phone brands, folding screen mobile phones are not only an important product line that undertakes the task of impacting high-end, but also face the dilemma of too small market share for a long time.

Today’s folding screen mobile phone is no longer a niche early adopter product at the beginning, but an absolute flagship mobile phone product line of every first-line mobile phone manufacturer except Apple. However, many users are still discouraged by the high price of folding screen mobile phones: according to the survey data of Ai Media Consulting, 59.5% of the interviewed users do not buy folding screen mobile phones because of their high price.

Therefore, in the past few years, the starting price of folding screen mobile phones has been lowered by mobile phone manufacturers: now there is even a small discount with an official price of 2999 yuan.(Nubian Flip)Although it is only a case at present, it is enough to show the speed of the rapid popularization of folding screen technology in the past two years.

The rapidly decreasing selling price has also given more and more users the reason to try folding screen mobile phones: the total shipments of the global folding screen mobile phone market have expanded rapidly in the past four years: IDC, a research organization, predicts that by 2025, the global shipments of foldable mobile phones will reach 27.6 million units.

Although it is good for users that the overall selling price of folding screen mobile phones drops rapidly-they can taste the big screen experience at a lower price, for mobile phone manufacturers, the added value of folding screen mobile phones, which were originally positioned as "ultra-high-end flagship", has also depreciated to some extent with the lower and lower prices.

The reason why the new form of products such as triple folding is important for smartphone manufacturers also implies the mission of re-establishing the ultra-high-end flagship product line through the change of form at the stage of rapid price reduction and practical use of folding screen mobile phones. From the current pre-sale of Mate XT, it can be seen that the importance of added value in the sales of high-end flagship mobile phones is self-evident.

Third, practicality is the most important.

In the final analysis, even if brand marketing is an important factor behind the efforts of mobile phone manufacturers, because the three-fold mobile phone will eventually go through a process of demagnetization similar to that of today’s folding screen, solid software functions are very important for whether the three-fold mobile phone can finally gain user recognition in sales volume and finally gain a foothold.

In addition to the need to solve the hard problems such as thickness and weight in hardware, the most important hidden task of the three-fold mobile phone in the past was to explore the core value of its existence: in other words, it is a problem-How to persuade users to pay for three-fold mobile phones with real money??

Whether it’s a sound transmission or a manufacturer that has shown the triple-folding concept machine before, the existing concepts conveyed by the triple-folding currently involve a lot of demonstration contents that simulate PC usage scenarios, and use the triple-folding mobile phone by using a computer.

The three-fold mobile phone is obviously more like a laptop.

In addition to exploring the future for the flagship mobile phone, this may also hint at the evolution direction of PC to some extent. The working conditions faced by PC are more complicated than those of smart phones, but this is what PC manufacturers need to consider.

Judging from the three-fold concept machine that the author experienced during CES in the past, unlike the folding screen mobile phone that only needs a single folding, in the process of unfolding and folding,It is almost inevitable that users will exert their strength directly on the flexible screen of the folding screen mobile phone.. The durability of the screen is still one of the biggest problems that plague the folding screen mobile phone, so it will be a test that the three-fold mobile phone will face.

The elasticity during deployment, the support during hovering and the fixation after deployment are all technical difficulties that have long plagued the practicality of the triple-folding. Only by gradually solving these problems can we avoid the pit that the triple-folding mobile phone stepped on in the early stage of mass production due to low reliability and lack of practical functions.

Fourth, the next change in the form of mobile phones

Another detail that is easily overlooked is that folding screens often bear the exploration attributes of many smart phone cutting-edge technologies at the same time of high price: from flexible batteries to liquid lenses, the earliest carriers are folding screen concept machines.

Thanks to the richer early adopter properties of the three-fold screen mobile phone, it is destined to become the first application carrier of various new smart phone technologies for a long time after its advent. These technologies can not only supply the development of folding screens, but also promote the progress of smart phone technology as a whole.

In addition to the three folds of the current fire, since the maturity of flexible screen technology, different mobile phone manufacturers also have multiple forms of smart phone concept machines, not only in the form of Xiaomi MIX Alpha, but also OPPO has launched many generations of scroll screen concept machines, and now the scroll screen technology has reached a quite mature stage.

These explorations on the form of the next generation of smart phones will not come to an end with the first arrival of the three folds, but will become a debate on the technical route, showing a kind of "Renaissance" in which smart phones have not yet appeared in the functional machine era and various forms have come out.

One thing is certain:Straight smart phones, which are still popular at present, and even today’s double folding screen mobile phones will not always be the mainstream form of smart phones.

There is more than one "optimal solution" to the form of smart phone.