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Recently, the writer Wang Weilian’s latest novella Your Eyes was published by Huacheng Publishing House. The novel tells the love story between A Liang, a late maturing man, and Azi, a persevering intellectual woman, bad karma. The authors Tian Keyu and Jiang Fei wrote that Wang Weilian weaved aesthetic concepts into the cultural logic of characters and plots, which added extra cultural purport to the article and made his own creation an effective practice of "New South Writing".

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Wang Weilian’s latest novella Your Eyes tells the story of love between A Liang, a late maturing man, and Azi, a persevering intellectual woman, bad karma. In addition to the theme of love, the author supplemented by prose narrative and philosophical poems, taking into account the exhibition of Hakka and Yi folk culture, deepening the connotation of the text. While expressing distinctive local style, the aesthetic concept is woven into the cultural logic of characters and plots, which adds extra cultural purport to the article and makes its own creation an effective practice of "New South Writing".

Compared with the coherence and completeness of the plot, Your Eyes focuses more on the outline of the cultural scene. The author never misses any opportunity to integrate the history, culture and customs of Hakka and Yi families and Henggang area in Shenzhen into the text, and constantly refines the time and space coordinates of the story development and endows it with cultural identity, so that more cultural elements can participate in the interpretation of the character and plot development. For example, the career choice and spiritual belief of A Liang’s father, who has a tradition of farming and studying, are more consistent with the Chinese cultural tradition of "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, courtesy, wisdom and faith" and "self-cultivation, family management and world peace". The massiness of culture has also led to their actions being harmonious, heavy, conservative and even slow. As a descendant of Hakkas, A Liang, though inspired by the "Reform and Opening-up" policy, deliberately made a second change, but in the early stage, he still had to indulge in fantasy, lacked real action, and fell into evasion and value negation in limited change and infinite disappointment. As the "savior" of A Liang’s life, Azi represents the Jia family, the creator of water civilization full of freedom and enterprising spirit. Her flexibility, wisdom and resolute action are like a glimpse of flowing water, injecting kinetic energy into A Liang’s life. However, the unfortunate experience of the Yi family echoes the miserable life of Azi-this seems to be the author’s deliberate arrangement. Compared with the folk culture with the same characteristics of marine civilization, such as Minnan, the tenacious "Yi family" identity can participate in the setting of characters more organically.

As a result, A Liang and Azi seem to be the epitome of the fate of two cultures, and their fate trajectories have distinct cultural logic. A Liang’s aging, stagnation and rising, and Azi’s youth, tenacity and fighting alone represent the different cultural personalities of Hakka and Yi families. In the deeper, it points to the metaphor of the ancient Central Plains civilization and the emerging marine civilization. The author unifies history and individuals at the cultural level, and thinks about two kinds of life dilemmas and their breakthrough ways through a love story. The key to love lies in whether the two sides can be allowed to participate in each other’s family affairs-the two sides who love each other need to realize real partner identity and empathy through this step. Such a plot setting reflects the author’s recognition of the value of China’s traditional "family-oriented" and related ethical concepts, and reveals it as a universal cultural and psychological truth regardless of region and ethnic group, thus opening up the gap between the so-called "southern writing" and "northern writing", and making the growth story of "ethnic group integration" between Azi and A Liang have more extensive and far-reaching enlightenment significance in contemporary cultural propositions.

Wang Weilian

But the cultural thinking in Your Eyes does not stop there. For the author, "love" is just a form, but it refers to the blending of cultures by the sweet combination between new people. What is more important is actually the form and content of life being constantly activated in the process of blending. In Your Eyes, the author gives the text a strong lyrical meaning with prose narration. For example, a large number of memories with A Liang and Azi as the first person, direct quotations from A Liang’s diary, etc., all explain or construct the past and future of life based on personal experience rather than common words in the historical context. The detailed description is carried out by the way of breaking into the spiritual world of the characters, so as to integrate the subtle changes of emotions into the development of the plot. This way of writing releases a very important aesthetic signal, that is, the author is trying to restore the emphasis on personal experience and advocate individual expression in the digital age, so that life can return to a state of "cascading surge" in the sharpening of feelings and rich experience. In the novel, A Liang’s first change is to quit online games, and break up with "Li Ying Xia", trying to be sensitive and creative in tasting her slow response to the real world, and finally reaching a deep reconciliation with history and reality, realizing her self-growth and capturing her lover’s heart. This is a process in which "empirical reality" is constantly produced. In this process, A Liang broke the homogenization life between himself and other sellers in the "International Glasses City", fully released the kinetic energy of life, and then formed a personal aesthetic system with practice and experience as the core.And highlight the new aesthetic advocacy.

It should be noted that in Your Eyes, the author’s prediction of the development prospect of the "glasses" industry and the structure of the "glasses designer" profession also reflect this aesthetic point of view. Since Hawke Harmo and Adorno defined "cultural industry" for the first time in Dialectics of Enlightenment in the 1940s, the development format of cultural industry has changed greatly. In the novel, the author turned his attention to glasses from "production" to "design", from "technical" to "cultural", and made it a "business industry engaged in cultural production and providing cultural services", which also changed his identity from "seller" to "glasses designer". At the same time, the glasses produced at this time are no longer mass-produced, standardized, standardized and industrialized, but cultural products full of personal experience and even with the meaning of "orphan". By directly quoting design notes, the author reproduces the feelings and philosophies behind each pair of glasses, thus endowing them with unique cultural attributes. In the era of pursuing economic benefits, it is often necessary to "short-circuit sensibility and intelligence", but "Your Eyes" restores the slide between them by introducing the perspective of designers. It can be seen that the aesthetic concept cited by the author not only attaches importance to "personal experience", but also has a certain anti-consumerism color. Perhaps this is why the author did not write about the direct conversion between glasses designed by A Liang and economic benefits until the end of the article. But it is worth mentioning that,In the author’s conception, there is no contradiction between this "anti-consumerism" concept and the benefit prospect of glasses designers. The novel once wrote that the design exhibition of the creative industry "environmental glasses" sponsored by Azi attracted great attention and "quickly generated commercial value". In fact, this provides a guarantee for the "survival" of "cultural industry" in the consumption era, and maintains the feasibility of the author’s aesthetic approach in designing the development prospect of cultural industry in plot logic.

However, both the emphasis on experience, the adjustment of the relationship between sensibility and intelligence, and the integration of cultural logic in the characters mentioned above are actually based on the author’s respect and emphasis on "people". In this article, no matter what kind of development "glasses" will achieve, they will always serve as a tool for people to interact with the world and play the role of "rewarding the eyes of the world". The purpose of glasses design is to make it organically participate in the construction of the social attribute of "people" and modify the eyes of "people" so as to better reflect "people". Therefore, although the story is told around "glasses" throughout the article, the topic is still "your eyes" and "you" means everyone. This sense of "human" presence actually runs through the interest of the full text-even including the production of the story.

The origin of the love story between A Liang and Azi is a "tie" attraction. It happened between A Liang’s glasses and Azi’s glasses, and it was love at first sight. This is a bit like "Crush" in English, showing a psychological state of "falling in love quickly". It is a kind of stimulation, but it is different from the sensory attraction of acousto-optic images, but a spiritual impact, which is not used to in modern society. From this point of view, it is different from the conventional, mechanical "stimulus-response" mechanism related to conventions and domestication-it requires a directional basic construction of the inner self-whether it is the protagonist or the reader. At the same time, because "Crush" itself is blind, it is accompanied by fantasy, so it is often short-lived and needs to be maintained with something stronger, which is still a requirement for "people" in essence.

Therefore, although this is not a novel modern love story, the author has really injected a lot of cultural thinking and humanistic care and set a threshold for understanding it. Compared with Wang Weilian’s avant-garde works in the past, the theme and techniques of Your Eyes are relatively traditional. Does this mean that the writer’s style has changed, or perhaps this issue is not so important, because Your Eyes continues the realistic concern for "people" as always, and hits the pain point of the current culture, which is the inevitable result of the continuous extension and deepening of the writer’s thoughts.

Original title: Wang Weilian’s Your Eyes: Cultural Logic and Aesthetic Approach of Modern Love | New Criticism

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Aspect: Gree’s "China Mobile Bidding" War! When will prices, patents, and talents dig corners, and when will they be avenged for ten years?

On July 7th, Gree Electric and Chongqing Midea issued announcements one after another last night, questioning and clarifying their "fraud" behavior in the bidding process of China Mobile.

Gree took the lead in publishing "Who is practicing fraud in mobile bidding projects?" at 11: 21 yesterday. "Open letter" refers to the fact that Midea is inconsistent with the facts in the mobile bidding project. Nearly eight and a half hours later, Midea released the Clarification on Invoice Information and Technical Parameters of China Mobile Project, responding to Gree’s query.

Since China Mobile Purchasing and Bidding Network released the Announcement on the Handling Results of Negative Behavior of Zhuhai Gree Electric Co., Ltd. on June 1st, the incidents of "fraud" between Gree and Midea around the procurement projects of both parties have continued to ferment.

Wisdom systematically combed the incident of Gree and Midea, and refined two important time nodes: First, China Mobile disclosed Gree’s "fraud", and Gree responded that the confrontation between the two sides was ready; Second, Gree directly named the surname and questioned the beauty, and the response of the beauty pushed the battle between the two sides to a climax.

Who is right or wrong in this bidding "tearing" war? As the two giants in the field of household appliances in China, the recent bidding events of two major manufacturers are only an opening to make the competition contradictions between the two sides public.

In fact, there has never been a shortage of quarrels between Gree and Midea in terms of market, patents and talents, especially in the two most important HVAC markets. Gree Midea’s revenge has never stopped.

China Mobile disclosed Gree’s "falsification" announcement, and Gree stated its response.

The source of this incident should start from June this year.

On June 1st, China Mobile announced that Gree Electric had cheated in the centralized procurement project of high-pressure centrifugal chillers in China Mobile from 2020 to 2021, and decided to cancel Gree Electric’s bid-winning qualification, and deducted 5 points from the comprehensive evaluation score of centralized procurement of high-pressure chillers, low-pressure chillers and other similar products that Gree participated in in in the next three years.

This means that China Mobile’s two bidding packages with a project scale of about 400 million RMB will all be won by competitor Midea, and at the same time, the "starting line" of bidding scores in the next three years will be 5 points behind.

In fact, this announcement did not immediately attract widespread attention. It wasn’t until January of July that relevant media began to report on this bulletin. The remarks of "Gree’s false standard" were frequent, and the whole home appliance market exploded and became increasingly fierce on the Internet. The rapid fermentation of the news of "false standard" attracted Gree’s attention.

Time advanced to July 4, and Gree finally couldn’t help it. He directly issued a statement to clarify "Shouting".

Gree claimed that a large number of news about Gree’s "fraud" in the bidding was untrue, and explained that the "fraud" mentioned in China Mobile’s bulletin was mainly due to material arrangement errors.

The specific mistake is that the bidders of Gree regional distributor project team sorted out and declared "Huawei Tuanbowa No.8 plot industrial project (Phase I)" won by Gree as "Huawei Tuanbowa No.8 plot industrial IDC project (Phase I)" when submitting the application performance certification materials.

In other words, the material errors of these two projects with only the difference of "IDC" directly made Gree miss the bid package that was about to come to hand. And is this really a material error, or is it intentional? We don’t know yet.

In response to this work mistake, Gree said that the responsible person has been seriously dealt with. At the same time, Gree also specifically mentioned in the announcement that its investigation found that the remarks and behaviors of malicious slander attacks on Gree on the Internet were "made by a certain peer company in Guangdong" and it will reserve the right to pursue its legal responsibility.

Although Gree didn’t explicitly point out who "a certain peer company in Guangdong did", it was also obvious that it was going to throw this "pot" to Midea Company headquartered in Foshan, Guangdong.

At this point, the conflict between Gree and Midea has not been directly put on the table, and the two sides still remain calm, but the undercurrent under the table is ready to move.

Gree followed closely the "falsification" of the disclosure of beauty, and the clarification response of beauty.

The first round of "war" came to an end, but only two days later, Gree once again "raised his gun".

On July 6th, Gree rushed to release "Who is practicing fraud in the mobile bidding project?"? "open letter, began to dig up the old accounts of the United States. Gree mentioned in an open letter that there were two "fraudulent" behaviors in the early stage of Midea’s bidding for China Mobile.

One is "Inconsistent invoice information". Gree said that it found that the invoice information provided by Midea was inconsistent in the information disclosure of "Information Verification of Centrifugal Chillers for High-pressure Chillers" issued by China Mobile on September 5, 2019, and it was inquired in the State Taxation Bureau that "there is no such invoice".

Second, "technical parameters do not meet the bidding standards". Gree pointed out that the early China Mobile bidding "2017-2018 Centralized Procurement Project of High-pressure Centrifugal Chillers" required 2500RT of bidding cooling capacity, but at that time Gree found that the maximum cooling capacity certification of Chongqing Midea AHRI Laboratory was 2200RT, which did not meet the bidding requirements.

Gree found through inquiry that as of February 26th this year, the AHRI official website of Midea did not show the relevant test-bed certificate of China Mobile’s bidding project, and it was not until the end of March that the 3000RT test-bed certificate was added.

In response to the above two questions, Gree said that he had made many feedbacks to China Mobile, but judging from the results, Chongqing Midea not only won the bid many times, but even won the bid only many times.

After this open letter, Gree not only turned the finger of "fraud" to the United States, but also questioned the bidding review of China Mobile from the side.

Eight and a half hours after Gree’s open letter was released, Midea quickly released the Clarification Notes on Invoice Information and Technical Parameters of China Mobile Project in the official Weibo at 19: 51 on the same day, which officially responded to this matter for the first time and for the "last time", directly pushing the debate between the two sides to a climax.

In this note, Midea pointed out that Gree’s doubts about China Mobile’s bidding project were "not true", and said that "the Qing Dynasty cleared itself", and the relevant evidence had already been clarified to China Mobile during the bidding process.

Regarding Gree’s point that the invoice information is inconsistent, Midea’s statement is that the project team members made a clerical error when manually filling in the invoice number, and the original invoice has passed the audit of the on-site auditors at the supplier qualification audit meeting.

As for the problem that Gree pointed out that the technical parameters did not meet the bidding standards, Midea disclosed the relevant AHRI certification and third-party testing report, but did not directly explain why it "failed to meet the bidding requirements" at the time of bidding, and it was not until this year that relevant technical certificates were added.

At this point, we can see that Gree has always taken Gree Electric and Dong Mingzhu from the media as its own positions, and successively exported to Midea and China Mobile, while Midea only responded once in the Weibo account in official website, which seems to be comfortable.

China Mobile, the tenderer of this "debate" between the two sides, has not yet responded to this incident.

Gree’s beauty has been contending for more than ten years.

Gree and Midea are not the first time to provoke a war in the air-conditioning market, among which HVAC is the most important battlefield in the long-term game between the two sides.

It is understood that in 2019, Gree’s main business air conditioning revenue was 138.665 billion yuan, accounting for 69.98% of the total revenue; Midea’s main business HVAC revenue was 119.607 billion RMB, accounting for 42.99% of the total revenue.

Gree and Midea’s wolf smoke are not only ignited in the HVAC market.

According to the report of State Grid, as early as 2009, Gree and Midea had already started a "price war" on air conditioners, from 6.8% discount to 6.5% discount, from "unconditional return of some air conditioners" to sending 100 yuan coupons, and the battle between Gree and Midea around the air conditioner market became more and more fierce.

In addition to the price war, the "struggle" between Gree and Midea is also reflected in technology, talents and patents, which directly leads to the contradiction rising to the situation that the leading bodies tear each other.

In 2015, Dong Mingzhu spoke publicly at the Zhuhai Industrial Transformation Work Conference. In order to obtain Gree’s air conditioning technology, in 2014, "a well-known domestic enterprise" not only tried to recruit Gree’s technical talents, but also brazenly set up the office responsible for poaching outside several bus stops at Gree’s headquarters.

Speaking of this poaching incident, Dong Mingzhu said that "Gree Electric sent someone to beat the other side".

▲ Dong Mingzhu, Chairman of Zhuhai Gree Electric Co., Ltd.

In response to Gree’s "beating", Fang Hongbo, a professional manager of Midea at that time, once responded stubbornly, "Everyone who comes out of Gree will not need beauty".

▲ Fang Hongbo, Chairman and President of Midea Group Co., Ltd.

In addition, from 2008 to 2017, Gree has repeatedly sued the United States around air-conditioning functions, patents and trademarks. Among them, in June 2017, Gree filed a lawsuit in the court, infringing on Gree’s "Refrigeration King" series of air conditioners, infringing Gree’s utility model patent right, and claiming 50 million yuan.

Midea is not idle. After Gree won the case, Midea initiated four lawsuits in Suzhou, Guangzhou and other places, claiming that Gree infringed on its invention patents and utility model patents, and the accumulated claims exceeded 50 million yuan.

Interestingly, in addition to price wars, technology poaching and patent wars, Gree and Midea also "burned" the war into their respective financial reports. Both of them claimed that their central air-conditioning market share was "the first in the market" in the 2019 annual report, and each was king.

It is understood that Gree’s revenue in 2019 was 198.153 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.02%; The net profit was 24.672 billion yuan, down 5.84% year-on-year. Midea’s revenue in 2019 was 278.216 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.14%; The net profit was 24.211 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.68%.

Air-conditioning market crisis behind the mutual tearing war

Behind the tearing war between Gree and Midea, it also reflects that China’s central air-conditioning market has entered a stage of weak development.

Dong Mingzhu publicly said in March this year that Gree’s revenue loss in February this year was as high as 20 billion due to the novel coronavirus epidemic.

We set our eyes on the whole industry. According to the latest data of "Mechanical and Electrical Information Central Air Conditioning Market" published by Mechanical and Electrical Information Magazine, the central air conditioning market in China experienced an annual negative growth for the first time in 2019, and the market showed a sluggish trend in all four quarters, with a year-on-year decline of 3.61%.

This also means that the general trend of continuous growth of China’s central air-conditioning market for many years has gone, and the market winter has arrived.

At the same time, under the influence of Sino-US trade friction, real estate extrusion and the slowdown of macro-economic growth, the central air-conditioning industry has gradually changed from the initial incremental market to the stock market. In addition, the novel coronavirus epidemic has worsened this year, and the market challenges faced by home appliance companies such as Gree and Midea are even more severe.

Under the cover of the cold winter in the whole air-conditioning market, how to seize more market share in the stock market has also become a vital event for all enterprises.

Faced with the concerns about the development of the whole central air-conditioning industry, the "fraud" war fought by Gree and Midea around the bidding of China Mobile is undoubtedly a microcosm of air-conditioning players speeding up fierce fighting and grabbing the market for survival.

Conclusion: the battle for survival of home appliance giants in the cold winter of the market

From the initial price war, patent war, talent grabbing, to today’s bidding competition, Gree and Midea’s air-conditioning market, which is the "enemy", has gradually entered a new turning point.

Under the new industry trend, grabbing more market share in the stock market is undoubtedly an important means to stabilize the position of their respective industries, but what is more important is not only to stabilize the market "throne", but how to seize the opportunity of the times and continuously add value to enterprises through technical means in the environment where technologies such as AI, 5G and Internet of Things are gradually maturing. This is the best way to gain a foothold in the market for a long time.

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Original title: "Behind Gree’s beauty! Detonating old rivals’ old scores of new Chou He.

Special feature of 1905 film network In the just-concluded May 1st file, two Japanese animated films, Spy House Code: White, both ranked among the top five at the box office. The monthly box office champion in April was also a Japanese animated film.

In recent years, how did Japanese animated films win the favor of China market? Let’s watch the exclusive observation together.

Hollywood films are relatively weak, and audience enthusiasm shifts.

In recent years, in China film market, Hollywood blockbusters are relatively weak, while Japanese animated films have a strong momentum. Last month, "What kind of life do you want to live" performed well, earning 776 million yuan at the box office, and Douban scored 7.7. In the just-concluded May 1st file, the box office of "Spy House Code: White" and "Hal’s Moving Castle" also exceeded 100 million. The relay appearance of several Japanese animated films changed the situation that Hollywood films dominated in March and April.

Wu Yajun, dean of the School of Film and Television of the Central Academy of Drama, analyzed this phenomenon. "The first cause is called’ grabbing the beach and grabbing the files’. Every year, between the Spring Festival and the May 1 Golden Week, it can be called’ the cold season’, and there are some imported blockbusters, such as those that got more than 4 billion box office. In the past two years, Japanese animated films have gradually entered this cold period. For example, last year, there was "What kind of life do you want to live" in April this year.

What’s more, during the May 1 Golden Week, Hal’s Moving Castle and Spy House Code: White rushed into the big screen, which showed that the producers, especially the publishers, were confident that they could achieve good box office results during the May 1 Golden Week, and did not live up to the expectations of the publishers. "

Rich types to meet the diverse needs of the audience

In the past two years, it has been shown in China, with various types and stories, meeting the diverse needs of China audiences.

Sun Yanbin, a teacher at the Beijing Film Academy, pointed out that the Japanese animation introduced is mainly based on Hayashi Miyazaki, which has a strong authorship and ideological depth. The other is a series of IP movies like Detective Conan and Digital Baby.

In Wu Yajun’s view, audiences of all ages can find their favorite movies in the cinema if they want to see them, so the audience base is greatly enlarged.

"Another reason is that the audience in China has changed, and the growth rate of the audience in China has exceeded the growth rate of the global audience. Especially after the audience in China has seen these high-quality high-tech visual effects blockbusters, the audience in China is thinking deeply, and the intensity of feelings and emotional needs will be strengthened, so people like Miyazaki Jun and Makoto Shinkai can maintain a certain strength in the China film market." Sun Yibin said.

Buying out and introducing China Xuanfa is very powerful

Different from the split-box operation of Hollywood films, in recent years, most Japanese animated films have been introduced to China in the form of Chinese buyout, which also allows China importers to make great efforts in publicity.

Makoto Shinkai, director of Journey to the Bell Bud, came to China to promote, Hal’s Moving Castle invited popular stars in China to dub, and the premiere of Dunk Master at Peking University … … All these have gained good communication effects.

After the marketing experience of Nautical King, Journey of Bell Bud and Slam Dunk Master, Cai Gongming, president of Road Painting Film and Television, found that "in fact, IP needs to appear as a whole, not only to watch movies, but also to have support, goods and features. The premiere of "Slam Dunk" has begun to take shape, and the premiere of "Spy House Code: White" has been done to the extreme. It is a two-dimensional fan festival, which is equivalent to our first integration into a form for everyone. "

Wu Yajun praised this kind of publicity as very effective, which broke through the original secondary barriers and greatly developed social attributes. "I think it will become a more effective model in the future, which can promote the exchange and creative development of Chinese and foreign animated films."

Hou Jiayi.

After the Tokyo Olympics was postponed, the Olympic flame has been placed in a "secret location" for preservation. For those torchbearers of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the dream of passing on the Olympic spirit can only wait for the coming year.

In the waiting crowd, a torchbearer is different. She is not an athlete or a celebrity, and even knows a little about sports itself, but she once occupied the "C" position in the front page news of official website of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee.

The "non-compliant" torchbearer is Hou Jiayi, a 27-year-old girl from China, who went to work in Japan after graduating from American graduate school in 2018. At present, she works as an engineer in a German company in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

In an exclusive interview with a reporter from The Paper, Hou Jiayi admitted that she would inevitably feel some regret. However, for this young man, his ambition to connect with the world has only been postponed for one year. "I will be a torchbearer next year."

Hou Jiayi’s countdown clock for Tokyo Olympic Games.

The Olympic flame, so far and so close.

"count down has started again." On April Fool’s Day, Hou Jiayi wrote on her social media, accompanied by a photo of the countdown card, which read "478 days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games" …

Everything seems to be back to the starting point.

Due to the delay of the Olympic Games, the Olympic torch relay scheduled for March 26th was also cancelled. However, the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee later decided that the flame will be exhibited in Fukushima for one month on April 2-this city that suffered from nuclear disaster is the first stop of the torch relay.

"I saw in the news that the flame will be exhibited in Fukushima for a month, and I felt that I was not far from there, so I drove to see it." Two days after the Olympic flame was exhibited on April 4, Hou Jiayi arrived at Fukushima National Football Center by car for three hours from Tochigi Prefecture.

Like Hou Jiayi, many Japanese people have come here to see the "true content" of the flame. However, in order to avoid crowded people, strict admission measures have been taken in the Flame Exhibition Hall. "I feel that the protective measures here are still in place."

According to the regulations, only six people can enter the museum to watch the flame at a time, and each visitor must keep a distance of more than 1 meter, and stay for no more than 30 seconds. In addition, everyone must wear a mask and disinfect their hands before entering the museum.

"Although 30 seconds feels a little short, it is quite interesting to see the kindling lamp at close range." Hou Jiayi recalled to the The Paper reporter the scene at that time. "Many local people in Fukushima went, and it felt good to bring them hope in this form."

As a torchbearer, Hou Jiayi is undoubtedly lucky. Although she just looked at the flame from a distance, she felt the sacredness more closely than most people. However, after three days (7th), the flame exhibition was urgently stopped due to the severity of the epidemic …

In Fukushima, Japan, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Torch Tour was held. People’s visual map

"One in a Million" China Torchbearer

Hou Jiayi once went to her torch relay. "Each torchbearer is about 200 meters away and needs to run in 3 minutes."

Although it’s only a short distance of 200 meters-the conditions for being an Olympic torchbearer are far more demanding than those for being an Olympic volunteer, and they are often celebrities in sports and other fields in China.

For example, Satomi Ishihara, a Japanese superstar, is the torch ambassador for the Tokyo Olympic Games and will participate in the torch relay.

In contrast, Hou Jiayi, who is also a torchbearer, is neither a Japanese celebrity nor an athlete. According to the incomplete statistics of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, among the 10,000 torchbearers, about 0.2% are from China.

Then, why was this 27-year-old China girl chosen as the "chosen son" for the torch relay in Japan?

"Maybe I was chosen by accident." Hou Jiayi is very modest about her identity as a "one in a million" torchbearer. She originally wanted to take part in the second leg of the domestic relay in Japan-the Tochigi torch relay in the middle of Honshu Island.

According to the rules of Tokyo Olympic Games, there are many ways to openly recruit torchbearers. For example, you can register directly with the local government, or through Olympic sponsors and insurance companies. In addition, the organizing committee will have its own recommended places.

Hou Jiayi registered with Tochigi County Government. The reason is also very simple. She has worked in a German machinery manufacturing enterprise here for two years. "I work and live here now, and I really want to do something for it."

Therefore, in the column of declaration reasons of Olympic torchbearers,Worked as a volunteer in Sochi and Rio Olympics.Hou Jiayi wrote: "I hope to promote the charm of that beard by becoming a torchbearer." It is precisely this and her experience that BOCOG took a fancy to-promoting local natural and cultural features to Japan and the world..

Hou Jiayi (middle) is a volunteer for the Rio Olympics.

"I was relieved after announcing the extension."

In fact, the torch relay of this Olympic Games was originally "ill-fated"-the torch relay originally planned to be held in Greece was terminated after only one day, and all the performances at the handover ceremony were cancelled. Even the torch was blown out twice by strong winds after arriving in Japan …

Hou Jiayi is very calm about the torch relay under the epidemic situation. She believes that the torch relay should not be carried out under such circumstances. "If I am infected and passed it on to others without knowing it, I personally think it is very unworthy."

Hou Jiayi told the The Paper that it was stipulated in the Torchbearer’s Manual issued to them by the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee that torchbearers should not wear masks in the torch relay. "When I saw this article, combined with the news at that time, I felt very dangerous."

Later, the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee changed this rule in an email to torchbearers: The Olympic Organizing Committee said that torchbearers can choose to wear masks if they are worried about the COVID-19 epidemic, and warned everyone to take their own temperature. If it exceeds 37.5℃, they should not participate.

In this regard, Hou Jiayi is still not too optimistic. "The torch relay is two-way. It is not only to convey Japan’s determination to host the Olympic Games to the world, but also to be responsible for its own people. If the epidemic spreads, people should be considered first. "

"So, I feel relieved to announce the extension." Hou Jiayi said bluntly.

Although the desire to participate in the torch relay this year has been dashed, BOCOG assured these torchbearers that they can continue to participate in the torch relay next year. "As far as I know, most torchbearers in Japan are still willing to wait, and so am I.."　

Japanese actress Satomi Ishihara participated in the rehearsal of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay.

"I want to be a bridge connecting the world"

Like most post-90s generation, Hou Jiayi has the unique characteristics of this generation of young people: compared with previous generations, they often have a distinct sense of self and independence, a broader vision and greater ambitions.

Hou Jiayi was born in Zhengzhou, Henan Province in 1993. As early as 17 years old, she left home to attend high school in the United States and obtained a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, USA. It is this overseas study experience that makes this China girl attached to the Olympic Games.

Like most American students, Hou Jiayi also hopes to have a "Gap Year" to increase her experience. Therefore, she has been paying attention to various voluntary activities since her freshman year (2013). "This will allow me to understand the cultures of different countries faster."

Just at this time, the Sochi Winter Olympics was recruiting volunteers, so Hou Jiayi signed up and volunteered for three months. She was deeply touched by this Olympic experience. "I think this is not just a sports event, but more an economic and cultural exchange."

Hou Jiayi is in Sochi Winter Olympics.

Although she usually doesn’t pay much attention to sports, Hou Jiayi was shocked by the Olympic spirit. At that Winter Olympics, when Zhang Hong won the first gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics for China’s speed skating, she couldn’t help being proud and excited.

The Olympic Games has an intangible charm that makes Hou Jiayi very "superior". After that, she once again became a volunteer for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and also set up a domestic volunteer organization to help more Chinese who are interested in serving the Olympic Games to realize their dreams.

"When you are a volunteer, someone tells you what help he needs, and then you help him; But as a torchbearer, I think more about what I can do for others, and I may take the initiative to think more. "

Of course, Hou Jiayi is not satisfied with this. She wants to gain rich life experiences through different experiences.

"I hope I can not only become a bridge between Japan and China, but also become a bridge connecting the world."

Recently, many countries around the world have started large-scale vaccination programs, but the global epidemic situation is still grim, and every link of vaccine supply makes governments particularly nervous. On January 8th, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) updated the regulations, allowing the COVID-19 vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and German company BioNTech to take 6 doses of vaccine per bottle, one more dose than before. This seems to be good news, but the move by pharmaceutical companies to reduce the supply of vaccines has caused a storm.

On December 28th, 2020, in a hospital in Rome, Italy, medical staff prepared for COVID-19 vaccination. Xinhuanet

One bottle =6 doses of vaccine?

Pfizer -BioNtech vaccine is packaged in a small glass bottle, and it needs to be extracted with a syringe when it is injected. When European Medicines Agency（EMA） approved the vaccine in December last year, it stipulated that a bottle should extract 5 needles. According to the British "Financial Times" reported on January 20th, some health professionals have found that there are often extra vaccine liquid left in the bottle. Xinhua News Agency previously quoted the Associated Press as saying that pharmaceutical companies usually inject more vaccines into bottles than needed to ensure that sufficient doses can be provided even if there are losses such as spillage.

Pfizer and BioNtech decided to reduce the number of vaccine bottles shipped to European countries in view of the increase in the dosage that can be extracted from each bottle. According to a statement sent by Pfizer to the Financial Times, the company can make such adjustment because the delivery agreement between the company and governments has always been based on "dose" rather than "vial" quantity.

Drug regulators in the United States and the United Kingdom have also suggested that 6 doses of vaccine can be extracted from each bottle. British supply contracts with Pfizer and BioNTech are also based on dosage rather than vials.

Pfizer also said that it will supply to countries according to the supply agreement and the effective dose label on each bottle of vaccine, and will fulfill its supply commitment according to the existing agreement.

However, for practical operation, this adjustment is not just as simple as changing the dose of each bottle. In order to ensure that 6 doses can be extracted from a bottle of vaccine, medical personnel must use a special "low dead volume syringe".

It is understood that this syringe is specially developed for COVID-19 vaccine. The so-called "dead volume" comes from the gap between the plunger and the needle of the syringe, which will leave a small amount of vaccine liquid, while the low dead volume syringe can reduce the amount of vaccine left.

But even if this syringe is used, it does not mean that the "complete sixth dose vaccine" can be extracted from a bottle. Medical staff may need to extract as much vaccine liquid as possible from one vaccine bottle, and then combine it with the liquids extracted from other vaccine bottles to form an appropriate dose and inject it into the human body.

However, European Medicines Agency（EMA） expressed its opposition to the practice of "mixed vaccine". The agency warned that if the residual liquid in a single vaccine bottle is less than 0.3 ml after pumping 5 doses of vaccine, it should be discarded together with the vaccine bottle.

On December 27th, 2020, a medical worker was vaccinated with COVID-19 in an infectious disease hospital in Bucharest, Romanian capital. Xinhuanet

Pharmaceutical companies reduce supply and vaccination plans slow down.

Although the EU allows one more dose of vaccine per bottle, the actual landing is not easy. After the vaccine supplier announced a reduction in delivery, health officials across Europe warned that the change in delivery prevented them from completing the vaccination schedule set at the beginning of this month and carrying out the first vaccination for enough people.

The health department in Hamburg, Germany, said that this change means that the vaccine vaccinated now is about 20% less than before. Melanie Leonhard, head of the department, said that the epidemic situation in this area is getting worse with the further tightening of vaccine supply.

Pfizer -BioNtech vaccine has been widely inoculated in the European Union since December 27th, 2020, but about one third of the EU member states complain about insufficient vaccine supply.

In November last year, Pfizer and BioNTech reached an agreement with the European Commission to supply 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in 2020 and 2021, and the EU has the right to purchase up to 100 million additional doses. It is understood that the vaccine delivery will be carried out in stages to ensure the fair distribution of vaccines within the EU according to the terms of the contract. Vaccines for Europe will be produced at BioNTech’s manufacturing plant in Germany and Pfizer’s manufacturing plant in Puurs, Belgium.

In addition to reducing the supply due to the "six doses per bottle" regulation, Pfizer and BioNTech issued a statement on January 15 this year, saying that in order to achieve the goal of increasing vaccine production, the company changed its production process, which would "temporarily affect" the vaccine delivery progress from the end of January to the beginning of February.

Domenico Arcuri, Commissioner of the Emergency Committee of Covid-19, Italy, said earlier that Pfizer will cut the vaccine dose delivered to Italy by 29% from January 18th, and this situation will continue after this week.

Will the "saved" dose be supplied to developing countries?

The decrease in supply caused by the adjustment of production process, coupled with the impact of the new European Medicines Agency（EMA） guidelines on the dosage of each bottle, has led to increased tension between Pfizer and BioNTech and European governments.

Arcuri said that Italy planned to take legal action against Pfizer "in the next few days". "The vaccination work cannot be slowed down, especially for Italians who have already received the first dose of vaccine."

Some EU member states have called on the EU to take a tough stance against Pfizer and other vaccine suppliers. An EU diplomat said: "We need the European Commission not only to act as a coordinator with pharmaceutical companies, but also to negotiate with them on behalf of 450 million Europeans." The official also said, "Only by taking a tough stance can 70% of adults be vaccinated before summer."

Pfizer and the European Commission held an emergency conference call on January 18th to discuss how to ensure that all countries can extract the sixth dose of vaccine from each bottle and the future production schedule.

In a statement to the Financial Times, the European Commission said that Pfizer and BioNTech "must respect" the vaccine delivery reached with the EU. The European Commission "very much welcomes" the extraction of the sixth dose from a bottle of vaccine, but at the same time emphasizes that it is not allowed to waste any dose or bottle of vaccine.

People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times that according to European Medicines Agency（EMA）’s guidelines, Pfizer believes it is only fair to fulfill its contractual obligations with European countries and supply the remaining doses to developing countries.

　　CCTV News:According to the website of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, a few days ago, Volkswagen (China) Sales Co., Ltd. filed a recall plan with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and will recall some imported Beetle and Golf Travel Series cars from February 6, 2017. According to the company’s statistics, there are 49,480 vehicles involved in Chinese mainland. The details are as follows:

　　From July 1, 2012 to August 6, 2015, some imported 2013-2016 Beetle series cars were produced, totaling 44,718 vehicles;

　　During the period from July 1, 2012 to July 6, 2013, some imported 2012-2013 Golf Travel Edition cars, totaling 4,762.

　　Some vehicles within the scope of this recall, due to the deviation in the process of installing the noise filter of the brake booster, may cause the user to light the brake warning light and harden the brake pedal after using the cruise control function for a long time, which will affect the normal braking performance of the vehicle and pose a safety hazard.

　　Volkswagen (China) Sales Co., Ltd. will entrust an authorized dealer of Volkswagen brand imported cars to check the vacuum degree of brake booster and upgrade the software for the vehicles within the recalled scope free of charge. If necessary, the brake booster will also be replaced.

　　Volkswagen (China) Sales Co., Ltd. advises relevant users to temporarily stop using the cruise control function before the recall. If the above problems are found in the vehicle, you should immediately contact the authorized dealer of Volkswagen imported cars to properly handle the vehicle.

　　Volkswagen (China) Sales Co., Ltd. will notify customers by telephone and registered mail. Users can log on to http://vico.vw.com.cn, the official website of Volkswagen (China) Sales Co., Ltd., or call the hotline of Volkswagen (China) Sales Co., Ltd. at 400-188-0888 to get relevant information about this recall. Users can also visit the website of the Inspection and Supervision Department of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (jyjgs.aqsiq.gov.cn), the website of the Defective Product Management Center of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (www.dpac.gov.cn) and follow WeChat WeChat official account (AQSIQDPAC) for more information. In addition, you can also call the hotline of the Defective Product Management Center: 010-59799616 or the quality hotline of the local entry-exit inspection and quarantine institution: 12365 (turn to key 2) to reflect the problems in the implementation of the recall or submit defects clues.

1905 movie network news The suspense film starring "007" daniel craig and "Captain America" Chris Evans and directed by "Star Wars" series director rian johnson recently made a surprise appearance at Toronto and London film festivals, and gained a high score of 9.1 for watercress, 100% freshness for rotten tomatoes, and 84 for authoritative rating website MTC, which was extremely popular. The film selects a group of Hollywood fantasy lineups and tells a werewolf-killing suspense story caused by suicide, which has been praised as "the best suspense movie of the year" by the media. The film today (October 15th) released the Chinese version of the pilot poster and trailer. The film will be released in North America on November 27th.

The word-of-mouth of the two major film festivals exploded one after another and won the best suspense film of the year.

The film "Sword Out of the Sheath" was directed by rian johnson, the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi Knight and the high-scoring American TV series Breaking Bad. During the screening of Toronto Film Festival and London Film Festival, this new work won unanimous praise from many authoritative foreign media. On Rotten Tomatoes, a well-known film review website in North America, the favorable rate reached 100%, and the Metascore score was as high as 84, and it was certified as a must-see. In the domestic authoritative film review website Douban, it is divided into 9.1 points, which is praised as an annual surprise by fans.

IGN, a well-known review website, commented: "This film is completely comparable to the detective genre films of agatha christie and Conan Doyle, and you can’t guess the truth until the last second"; The Los Angeles Times said: "The critics of Toronto Film Festival compared this film to one of the best detective films of all time"; Variety magazine commented: "There are many twists and turns in the film, but the most surprising thing is that the director has made a crime-solving story full of comedy."

During the screening of Toronto Film Festival and London Film Festival, the films were added continuously and sold out, becoming the best suspense film of the year.

The US team quarreled with the 007 screen, and the Oscar-level drama lineup competed for hundreds of millions of heritages.

A Sword Draws Out of its Sheath mainly tells a suspense case caused by the suicide of a billionaire. In the process of investigating the case, the detective Blanco, played by daniel craig, fell into a ridiculous battle for the distribution of hundreds of millions of estates. With the gradual deepening of the case, he found that every family member was suspected … …　

In the officially updated Chinese version of the trailer, daniel craig and Chris Evans bid farewell to the previous images of 007 and Captain America. Craig practiced his oral English hard to play the southern detective of the United States and refused to be cold. Finally, he performed a grounded detective perfectly with a Kentucky accent. Chris Evans abandoned the perfect image of the superhero "Captain America" and played an old playboy, even swearing in the trailer, which surprised fans. The breakthrough performance of the two attracted countless expectations from the audience.　

In addition, many Oscar-rated old drama bones are willing to be green leaves in this film, with Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies), Toni Collette (Genetic Doom), don johnson (), michael shannon (), Lakeith Stanfield (Escape from Breaking Town), christopher plummer () and riki lindhome (The Big Bang Theory) competing on the same stage. Ana de armas (), Katherine Landford’s Thirteen Reasons, Jaden Materre’s The Clown Comes Back to Soul and other young figures, and the fantastic assembly of a group of acting schools contributed to the film.　

The best suspense film of the year, The Sword Draws Out, has undergone subversive innovation on the basis of the agatha christie-style classic detective genre. At the same time, it has also integrated the story into the current social environment, sharply discussed many hot social issues, and brought unique appreciation to the film with a more modern perspective and more suspense cases.

It is reported that the film "Sword Out of the Sheath" will be released in North America on November 27th.

1905 movie network news With the grand opening of the 9th Beijing International Film Festival, Alfonso Cuarón, as one of the three filmmakers focused by the "Focus" unit of the film festival, will show two of his works at the film festival. Alfonso Cuarón, who won two Oscars and the Golden Globe Award for Best Director in the United States, is undoubtedly a successful foreign director in Hollywood, bearing the pinnacle of his endless homesickness, and is determined to introduce to the mainland.

Alfonso Cuarón used "Rome" to remember the past honor and set off expectations.

There is no doubt that the two works shown at the Beijing International Film Festival are Alfonso Cuarón’s representative works. Sons of Man and, which are both sci-fi themes, contain Alfonso Cuarón’s thoughts on the future and science, while Rome is the director’s memory of the past. Alfonso Cuarón, who is used to doing a lot of study and research before shooting, was more concerned with inner excavation when preparing Rome. He once said: "This film is to cooperate with my past and face my past directly, which makes me have to explore more private private areas. There are 90% scenes in the film, which have long been invisible in my memory. More directly, in fact, this film is also a process of reshaping self and reshaping collective memories. "

Alfonso Cuarón was born in Mexico City, and he has been in Hollywood for many years. He returned to his hometown of Mexico for filming this time, and reached the peak of his career with "Rome". Up to now, Rome has won 120 awards and nominations, including the Golden Lion Award at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, the best director, the best cinematography and the best foreign language film at the 91st Oscar, as well as many heavy awards such as the british independent film awards, the New York Film Critics Association Award and the Golden Globe Award in the United States. The honorary Rome has also set off the expectations of many film critics and mainland fans.

The picture is simple and magnificent, and the feeling is pleasing to the eye. An epic film praising women.

Alfonso Cuarón, who is always full of all kinds of metaphors in the camera, brings this trait to the extreme in Rome. Rome, which uses black-and-white images and natural lighting effects, can bring the audience a simple but magnificent impression, such as a slowly opening picture scroll. In Alfonso Cuarón’s seemingly restrained but affectionate camera language, this film brings the audience an epic film praising women.

The film tells the story of Cleo, a young maid, who works for the Sophia family who has been separated from her husband for a long time. Cleo and Sophia, two women of different classes, are hurt and betrayed by the other half almost at the same time. In Mexico, which was in turmoil in the 1970s, they seemed to be weak, and faced the hardships of life with tenacity and courage. The whole film is full of strong feminist colors.