Lotus House: genre exploration, spiritual core and traditional cultural imagination


Original title: Lotus House: the genre exploration, spiritual core and cultural imagination of the costume martial arts drama.


In the summer file of domestic dramas in 2023, costume dramas such as Changfeng Du, Sauvignon Blanc, Lotus House, Lucky at Seven o’clock and Lord Snow Eagle occupied half of the hot list. Under the background of network integration, IP development, content is king, element superposition and in-depth marketing, costume dramas maintain a high-profile trend, promote the drama series to go out to sea, and trigger a heated discussion and audience climax. Looking at the domestic costume drama in the summer of 2023, on the basis of insisting on the costume as the creative background, it fully integrates many elements such as Xian Xia, fantasy, mystery, suspense, detective story, comedy, Machiavellian, love, etc., and realizes the characteristic breakthrough of "harmony but difference" and shows the innovative practice of vertical categories under the costume drama track. Among them, the costume suspense detective drama "Lotus House" stands out in the highly competitive drama series with excellent story content and excellent production methods. Douban scored 8.1, and the theme broadcast volume totaled 10 billion, which was rated as an S+ TV series and became one of the fine martial arts dramas with both word-of-mouth and popularity.

The martial arts drama Lotus House is adapted from Teng Ping’s novel Lotus House in Ji Xiangwen. It is directed by and co-directed, starring and Aero. The drama tells the story of Li Xiangyi, the master of Sigumen, who was famous in the Wulin, who fell into a cloud of doubt after the East China Sea War ten years ago, and became a magical doctor of Jianghu, Li Lianhua, and then got involved in a river-lake dispute again, showing a thrilling and complicated chivalrous story.

Integrating "Martial Arts+Detective Cases" and Realizing the Exploration of "Type+"Creation

As an important branch of costume drama, costume detective drama has made quite dazzling achievements, bearing the common memory of a generation. From the series of Bao Qingtian in the 1990s to the series of Hong Kong dramas "Remembering Injustice" in the Millennium, and then to the series of Detective Di Renjie, Young Bao Qingtian, Arrested Officials in the Great Song Dynasty, Four Famous Arrests and Strange Man and a Plum in the early 21st century, detective dramas in ancient costume have gained a good reputation and become one of the favorite TV series. After 2010, costume detective drama entered the creative bottleneck, and the overall performance was not good, and gradually faded out of the TV screen. In recent years, with the great achievements and popularity of costume detective dramas such as Young Tales of the Great Song Dynasty, I don’t know about the Chivalrous Detective Jane, The Longest Day In Chang’an’s Under the Golden Clothes, The Imperial Courtesy, Daming under the Microscope, The League of Gentlemen, and The Mysteries of the Tang Dynasty, this theme has returned to the audience’s sight. This summer, the reputation of Lotus House exploded, which made the audience see the creative potential and type innovation of costume detective drama again.

Looking at the suspense detective dramas of ancient costume in recent years, the four outstanding sub-types are mystery, love, women and juvenile home country. In these sub-types, comedy, youth, ancient style, martial arts, highway and other elements are gathered, which conforms to the current trend of "genre+"and realizes the variation of the detective drama of ancient costume, which is very attractive and ornamental. The popularity of "Lotus House" is that after the integration of "martial arts+detective cases", comedy, suspense, tactics and other elements are superimposed, and the word-of-mouth counterattack is realized with the setting of "unit mystery+unconventional protagonist setting+treacherous light and dark in Jianghu temples", which has gained high popularity and discussion.

As for Lotus House, which focuses on martial arts and suspense, with the battle between good and evil caused by Sigumen and Jinyuan Alliance as the story background, 10 mysterious cases, such as the case of the golden body rising, the case of the female house, the case of yipin grave and the case of picking lotus village, are connected in series in the interweaving of two clues: "Looking for the remains of a single solitary knife" and "Nanyin’s plot to restore the country". In the bizarre case, there is a chivalrous atmosphere, which promotes the audience to experience the story in an immersive way in the rhythm of relaxation. Of course, judging from the theme presentation and genre exploration of Lotus House, the first half of the plot is full of suspense, and the "Detective Lotus League" composed of Li Lianhua, Fang Duobing and the sound of flute flying has formed a deep friendship in laughing and cursing, and jointly promoted the development of the plot; In the second half of the plot, the heroic spirit and chivalrous spirit of the rivers and lakes are more obvious, and a period of stirring chivalry is launched on the basis of clarifying the main line of the story. Although the drama strives to pay equal attention to martial arts and suspense elements, there are obviously too many intrigues and confusing cases in the whole work, and there are fewer young heroes and chivalrous righteousness in the martial arts drama. This also shows that although the creation of "genre+"drama series is a trend, it is more necessary to properly handle the superposition and genre mixing between elements.

Chivalry and ordinary people, rich spiritual core and cultural artistic conception

As netizens commented, "Lotus House" "tells an indifferent but not thin chivalrous feeling and ideal of home and country with a different kind of Jianghu story." The most valuable thing is that "Lotus House" shows the good and evil of human nature from the perspective of "love and affection" on the basis of martial arts dramas, and expresses the strong practical significance behind the truth of each case. From Li Xiangyi, the master of Sigumen, who is famous in Jianghu, to Li Lianhua, a leisurely Jianghu doctor, behind the change of identity is still a generation of heroes who stick to the bottom line, stick to themselves, have a just mind and are devoted to life.

For Lotus House, it is precious to examine rivers and lakes, humanity and home country from a male perspective, especially the respect for women and the concern for women’s emotional world, which makes people particularly moved. In the "Women’s House" unit, the women who were abducted into the deep house by Yu Louchun were like prisoners, losing their right to choose and be free. These women are both murderers and victims. They unite and watch each other in the women’s house, resist malice with their weak bodies, and strive to save themselves in desperation. At the end of the case of "The Woman’s House", the audience was deeply grateful for their good ending. In the "Palace Blissful Tower" unit, in the face of the rebellion of Shan Gudao and others, Li Lianhua and Fang Duobing broke the cocoon in layers of difficulties, uncovering the secret of royal blood relationship that can shake the world. In order to better stabilize the rivers and lakes and temples, Li Lianhua used the only flower that can last for a long time to detoxify Emperor Daxi, and saved everyone with his own body. The chivalry presented in Lianhu Building is more about the responsibility and the sense of home and country with "serving the country and the people and caring for the world" as the spiritual core.

In addition, Lotus House presents the pursuit of artistic conception aesthetics through a large number of traditional cultural symbols. This unity of reality and reality, which is born outside the image, has a unique expression in Lotus House. Because Li Lianhua misses Master, she dances a sword in the bamboo forest, and the bamboo leaves flying with firm but gentle waves present her own Zen beauty, which conforms to Li Lianhua’s uninhibited and worldly state of mind, and also reproduces the literary landscape of "a sword floating, a towel and cloth" in poetry. At the end of the drama, Li Lianhua broke his sword and flew off a cliff and jumped into the river. At this time, the river was misty and rainy, and the clouds surged with it. Coupled with the rendering of the background music of A Pot of Lotus Drunk, Li Lianhua’s broad-minded state of mind was integrated with the surrounding environment, just like the true portrayal of "The boat died from now on, and Jiang Hai sent the rest of his life" in Su Shi’s Linjiangxian. At this time, when the camera turned, Li Lianhua put pen to paper, showing the emotional changes and aesthetic artistic conception that the open-mindedness of time has passed, the hope of protecting the people and the original heart, and realizing the world, all beings and their own life realm among all sentient beings.

Although the summer file of domestic dramas has come to an end in 2023, the costume detective craze brought by Lotus House continues, and the number of costume detective dramas to be broadcast alone has surpassed 10 such as The Case of the Tang Dynasty Digong, The Apocalypse, Under the Fancheng and The Westbound Journey of the Tang Dynasty. On the basis of "costume+detective stories", these dramas fully integrate fantasy, suspense, comedy, thriller, adventure and other elements, create distinctive types, and attract the audience’s attention with complicated unsolved stories. However, only blindly pursuing the superposition of elements and genre innovation can easily lead the detective drama of ancient costume into the wrong path of creation. On the basis of local culture, we should dig deep into the plot, strengthen the characters, clarify the logical relationship, and explore more diverse genre creation and value propositions.(Author: Yue Zongsheng, a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University School of Journalism and Communication, this article is a major national social science project "Audio-visual quality products promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture", with the project number of 22ZDA083)


It is not acceptable for such officials to go through the motions and launch the 18 billion project by "one word"!

  CCTV News:Beginning in the second half of 2013, in the party’s mass line education practice activities, the Supreme Leader General Secretary explicitly requested that we should focus on the construction of work style and focus on solving the "four winds" problem.

  "waste on the tip of the tongue", "extravagance on wheels" and "corruption in festivals" … … The extravagant enjoyment that these people hate has been effectively curbed, and the inertia of unhealthy trends has been reversed, but formalism and bureaucracy still exist to some extent. A series of anti-four winds reports broadcast by CCTV on December 13th is typical.

  The report said: "There is such a slogan of civilized convention along the street in Shenmu County, Shaanxi Province, which was signed by Shenmu County Propaganda Department and Civilization Office, but the first sentence was ‘ Love your country, love your family and love me Changsha ’ . This not only directly copied other people’s content, but also did not check it. 48 words are not bad. "

  Not only "Shenmu loves Changsha", but also "Zhengzhou loves Baoji". A publicity column for creating a civilized city in Zhengzhou reads "Humanistic Baoji, Vigorous Baoji and Harmonious Baoji". I was commented by netizens that "it’s really embarrassing!"

  Imagine that this kind of city propaganda work, which is related to the appearance of the city, will not make such low-level mistakes and become a laughing stock as long as it is a little more serious and careless. Undoubtedly, this kind of careless work will not achieve any good results. In addition, there is a kind of work that is done only for the sake of form, which not only has no effect, but also makes the people disgusted and makes the grassroots uncomfortable. For example, some "show" research activities now.

  In a municipal district in Jiangxi province, during the 22 working days in July this year, 12 city-level cadres went to the district for investigation, and only 7 were received on the 27th. In some places, it is like creating a tourist route to create a classic research route. No matter what the research topic is, leading cadres follow the same line, interview the same group of people and listen to the same set of rhetoric. As a result, some units and the masses have become professional households under investigation, and a set of rhetoric has been told to different leaders countless times.

  This kind of "catwalk" research not only interferes with the normal work order at the grassroots level, but also increases their burden, which obviously runs counter to the central government’s request that "grassroots research should not go through the motions".

  In addition, formalism and bureaucracy have many varied manifestations. Some local meetings are held one after another, and there is no time to implement them; Some leading cadres say one thing and do another, both on stage and off stage; Some cadres are ignorant of existing problems and let them go; There are still some places where "the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the experience has been gained". At the beginning of the work, they are eager to sum up their achievements, publicize typical examples, and use materials to make a set of achievements … …

  No matter what form these formalism and bureaucracy take, it will do great harm to the construction of our party and country, and also seriously damage the image of the party and government in the hearts of the people. The reason for this kind of behavior of going through the motions is that these cadres in party member do not pay attention to the feelings of the people, and fail to achieve the "four haves" mentioned by the General Secretary: having the party in mind, having the people in mind, having responsibilities in mind, and having a warning in mind.

  If you have a party in your heart, you will consciously maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee and consciously safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee. No matter where you work or in which position, you must stand the test of storms, strengthen your ideals and beliefs, be loyal to the Party, and never go astray or go astray in the political direction.

  If you have people in your heart, you will be selfless and self-denying, and you will always have people in your heart. Think deeply and look down on one’s reputation, status and interests. We will make great efforts to solve the most direct and realistic interests of the people, especially to solve the problems that the people are dissatisfied with.

  If you have a responsibility in your heart, you will have a responsibility. You won’t just think about being an official and not wanting to be an officer. You just want to take power and don’t want to take responsibility. You just want to be brilliant and don’t want to contribute. To be an official, we must really solve some problems for the local authorities, and we will grasp the final work deployment and finish it well.

  If you have a warning in your heart, you will correctly exercise your power, use your power according to law, justly and incorruptibly, so that you can be fearful, keep your words and stop your actions, and handle the relationship between public and private, affection and law, interest and law. And always be strict with yourself, consciously carry forward and practice the socialist core values, strengthen moral cultivation, eliminate distractions and do things cleanly, and leave a good reputation in the hearts of the people.

  Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has resolutely implemented the spirit of the Eighth Provisions of the Central Committee, persistently corrected the "four winds", severely punished those who violate discipline against the wind and never tolerated them.

  Ji Jianye (data map)

  In 2014, Ji Jianye, the former mayor of Nanjing, was suspected of serious violation of discipline and law. Its leading rain and sewage diversion project with an investment of 18 billion yuan has become the target of public criticism. A project with such a huge cost has never held a public hearing, nor has it listened to the opinions of experts and scholars. It was launched only by "one word". This matter has been criticized by the local people so far.

  In 2016, Wang Zhigang, the first secretary of the former Party branch and the poverty alleviation team leader of Fengguang Village, Shuihou Town, Qianshan County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, lost the information of a certain household, which caused the household to be unable to enjoy the industrial poverty alleviation support in that year. In order to cope with the inspection and fraud, it was removed from the post of the first secretary of the village party branch and the poverty alleviation team leader.

  Since January 2017, the Water Affairs Bureau of Ding ‘an County, Hainan Province, the Huancheng Committee and Han Yue and others have had problems in cracking down on illegal sand mining, such as lax law enforcement, ineffective crackdown, and inadequate work, which has led to repeated prohibitions on illegal river sand mining. In September 2017, seven units, including County Water Affairs Bureau, Huancheng Committee, Transportation Bureau, Dingcheng Team of Traffic Management Brigade of Public Security Bureau, Dingcheng Police Station, Xiangou Police Station and Longzhou Police Station, were seized by informed criticism, and many related persons were held accountable.

  … …

  From the investigation and punishment of "four winds" by the discipline inspection and supervision organs this year, from January to October 2017, 37,800 cases of mental problems violating the eight central regulations were investigated and punished nationwide, among which more than 9,600 cases of disciplinary violations occurred in 2017, accounting for 25.5% of the total investigation and punishment in that year, which shows that the phenomenon of not converging and not stopping still exists, and the violations against the wind are still increasing.

  The problem of "four winds" has a long history, its causes are complicated, and it is influenced by historical culture, traditional concepts, social customs and other factors. It cannot be completely solved overnight, nor can it be solved once and for all. Recently, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made important instructions on checking and correcting formalism and bureaucracy, emphasizing "correcting ‘ Four winds ’ Can’t stop, work style construction is always on the road ",once again releasing a strong signal to the whole party — — Unswervingly and comprehensively manage the party strictly, and constantly improve the style of work. (Text/Li Shanshan)

In the Long Farewell to Amazon Rainforest, Animal Protector’s "Fifty Steps and Hundred Steps"

Xiaonan heard that this winter is very cold, but Xiaonan is still very lucky, not only active in warm areas, but also talking with animals all the time! Love! Love (Xiao Nan is by no means a single bird! ), hugging little lions in South Africa, hooking up with slow sloths in the Amazon rainforest, and going deep into the forests of Indonesia to find orangutans. ……

However, many things are not as simple as imagined, just as even the best couples still have misunderstandings and contradictions with each other. As a common good friend of animals and human beings, Xiaonan often faces the question of "stepping on two boats with one foot".

-For example, in the Amazon rainforest, Xiaonan found many things, which are much more complicated than expected. If you don’t believe me, you can see how Mr. Huang, who is with Xiao Nan, "struggles internally" in the following article.

Wen Miao Huang Hongxiang

On the Amazon | sherry

"This is not the real Amazon rainforest. Look around, there are low shrubs and tall trees have disappeared. "

With the roar of the motor of the small wooden boat and the agitation of the Amazon river, pointing to the "forest" on both sides of the strait that tourists are moved by, our orientation has made us sigh like this. He has been to the depths of the Amazon river basin, where the trees are towering, and the banks can see flying macaws and drinking leopards.

In our location, around Iquidos, the capital city of the Amazon rainforest region in Peru, such forests and animals no longer exist because of logging and human activities.

Trees along the Amazon River are no longer "towering" | Huang Hongxiang 

The indigenous people here have also lived a modern life. They will only take off their clothes when tourists arrive and perform the gesture of "primitive tribe". After work, they will put on T-shirts to watch TV and soak in bars.

Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest with the richest biodiversity in the world. It is called the lung of the earth. 60% of this rainforest is in Brazil and 13% in Peru. From Peru’s point of view, 60% of the country is Amazon rainforest.

On the Amazon | sherry

It is saying goodbye to us: the rainforest is disappearing rapidly because of various reasons such as timber industry, oil exploitation, road development and rubber planting; River water has been polluted more and more because of mining and chemical industry. A large number of wildlife smugglers grab wild animals from the forest and sell them to zoos and local tyrants all over the world.

Of course, on the way to say goodbye, the rainforest is not without some struggles, even if it is twisted and wriggling, not too elegant. And this may also be the epitome of the global animal protection and environmental protection.

Eco-tourism: disturbing animals or keeping them at gunpoint?

Trying to tear off Teman’s Goma map | Huang Hongxiang

Goma leaned the wooden boat against the shore, struggled to pull a rich vine three or four meters high among the trees, and finally pulled it off.

"See the sloth’s face?" Goma pointed to the sloth that was exposed because the cover was torn off and began to crawl higher slowly, and smiled at us innocently.

Silhouette of "Exposed" sloth | Huang Hongxiang

Goma is the local guide of a leading travel agency on an internationally renowned travel platform, and this company takes "responsible travel" as its publicity highlight.

During the three-day and two-night trip, he dutifully helped tourists to see as many animals as possible at close range and gain a deeper and three-dimensional jungle experience: he would feed bananas to wild monkeys with long wooden poles, so that they could come to the branches and leaves of the river bank from the high treetops;

Goma feeds bananas to monkeys in trees on the shore | sherry

He will grab the small caiman in the water with his bare hands during the night flight and take photos for tourists. He will also help tourists catch piranhas and bring them back to the camp to become the food of the guests.

Follow Goma to catch small crocodiles at night | Huang Hongxiang

Seeing the palm-sized piranha being strung on a stick and its mouth moving, I felt a little uncomfortable. I remembered the experience of another ecological trip in Ecuador six years ago: the guide caught piranha, took pictures of us and then threw it back into the water.

At that time, I wondered whether these fish could survive even if they were put back into the water, and whether this kind of eco-tourism that would bring harm to wild animals was "ecological" enough, or compared with the "pot calling the kettle black" that directly hunted animals.

At that time, I desperately wanted to maximize the interests of animals. Therefore, in my critical eyes, eco-tourism is not good enough. The most "ecological" way should be that humans should never set foot in this rainforest. Otherwise, even the floating gasoline on the river brought by ships, the huge roar of motors and the activities when tourists approach may be disturbing animals.

Compared with the trip in Ecuador, I saw a series of great disturbances to animals, and my doubts were even stronger this time.

Will the initial intention of eco-tourism be gradually forgotten in commercialization, or are we slipping from "fifty steps" to "one hundred steps" unconsciously?

I returned to Iquidos from the jungle with doubts and met the hospitable boss in a Chinese restaurant. He told us that the Chinese bought a lot of jaguar teeth here. It is illegal for Chinese to hunt jaguars, so they just tell the aborigines who have the right to hunt legally that they are willing to buy them, and the aborigines will hunt them.

In the past, the aborigines only killed jaguars when they were threatened, and the amount of hunting was very small, maybe one or two a year. Today, however, nearly 100 leopards in this area have become tiger teeth in the hands of Chinese to ward off evil spirits and tiger whips to strengthen yang every year. In a few years, the jaguar tooth has changed from a few sols (one sol is about two yuan) to a few hundred or even thousands of sols.

Piranha map provided by Amazon Rainforest Restaurant | sherry

"The number is getting smaller and smaller," local hunters will sigh. Then they stepped up hunting, because "staying there will be killed by others and the money will be earned by others."

"We used to kill a lot of monkeys, tigers and cats and other animals here. Today, because of tourism, we kill a lot less. After all, we can make money by showing tourists." Goma told us.

A photo taken in this Amazon eco-hotel.

In his village, because of the eco-hotel where he works, the income of villagers increases every year. In order to please tourists, the aborigines have to say that they are disturbing wild animals on a scale different from that of hundreds of years ago, but at least they are no longer hunting wild animals.

Breeding and export of wild animals

Turning animals into playthings or replacing illegal capture?

Brother Yu counted the capybara in the yard and proudly told us that he exported 80% of the legal capybara in China Zoo and Mengchong Paradise.

Interactive picture of capybara between Zhongnanwu students and Yuge’s family | Huang Hongxiang

Yuge, from Shanghai, is in his forties this year. He runs the top three local animal export companies in Iquidos, Peru. What he has done is to export all kinds of capybara, monkeys, macaws, reptiles and tropical fish from the Amazon rainforest to China Zoo and Mengchong Paradise. His family has a long-tailed tiger cat, a wild animal with beautiful fur in the Amazon rainforest.

Holding brother Yu’s long-tailed tiger cat

Zoos, cute pet parks and animal trade are sensitive topics for international animal protectors today. A few years ago, Zimbabwe sold a batch of baby elephants to China Zoo. Although it was legal, it still attracted many people’s criticism. It is criticized by many people to take the elephant away from his parents and send it to other distant villages for people to enjoy, but it is easy to die in the process.

"Boycott zoos, aquariums, contact with animals and taking photos with animals" is the political correctness of many environmentalists today.

But is it really that simple?

According to Yu Ge, their animal sources must be legal: they were seized from poachers, or they were rescued wild animals that could not be released. After getting these animals, they will breed and export their offspring. These animals have a strict numbering and recording system, and the legal export of an animal takes up to half a year.

The tortoise map that Yuge’s family will import to China in the future | Huang Hongxiang

Faced with the demand for animals from zoos and even private buyers all over the world, such a system is bound to be in short supply. Brother Yu knew an American who was in Iquidos and focused on raising snakes. He had an extremely rare jade tree, and after waiting for 20 years, he could not find another one to pair with, so it was hard to say when he could breed.

Even so, he refused to buy jadeite trees from illegal sources.

Therefore, in fact, there is a large amount of illegal animal trade today: smugglers directly buy wild animals from local people and smuggle them around the world. The price of such animals may be a fraction of that of legal animals, and the delivery cycle is very short, so it can be delivered quickly.

Wildlife trade is the third largest illegal trade in the world after drugs and guns.

Different from drugs, the punishment of animal trade is still very light in many countries today, and it can often be fined. Smugglers are the least afraid of fines-an animal can be bought for hundreds of dollars in its place of origin, and it can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars or more in China. It’s no big deal to smuggle ten times and get caught several times.

"Today, China is the largest market for wildlife in the world, and a large number of wildlife are smuggled in the China market." Brother Yu told us that in fact, legal animal traders are on the opposite side of illegal animal traders-although no animal protection organization has ever cooperated with him to fight.

Many animal protection organizations and their sponsors are afraid of being seen standing with controversial people, even if cooperation can better protect animals.

Turtle meat sold in the market near the Amazon rainforest | sherry

Today, many animal breeding, traders and breeding bases have become white washing places for poaching animals. Brother Yu said that he didn’t do those illegal things, but only bred wild animals legally and sent them to zoos and cute pet parks to get close to people and play.

Not to mention whether it is really legal will be questioned, even if it is legal, because of many problems such as animal trafficking, contact, photo taking, etc., the business itself is also condemned.

Saved a turtle from the market and prepared to release it to the rainforest | Huang Hongxiang

How high a threshold should we set for animal protection?

As an investigator of international wildlife products trade, and as an educator concerned about animal protection and nature education, many people have asked me many questions about zoos, animal trade, animal contact and animal protection.

I always say that these things are very complicated and difficult to sum up in one word, and it is best not to let your existing prejudices stop you from hearing different voices.

Many people always like to see people and things from a black-and-white perspective: those who buy and sell ivory are heinous criminals; It is inhuman to take tourists hunting; Close contact with wild animals is to turn animals into playthings.

Photo taken with a sloth of a family in Amazon rainforest | sherry

I don’t support these behaviors, but after seeing the complicated aspects of the world, I am worried about oversimplifying judgment.

The world is not black and white, and we need to remember more that what we see may not be all. We need to listen more to what we don’t hear and understand people and things we don’t understand-especially when we want to find a solution to the problem instead of just "condemning" ourselves.

Smith, a friend of mine in South Africa, is engaged in "volunteer tourism". Every year, he sends a large number of volunteers from all over the world to a big cat base to get in close contact with several lions in the base. Those lions lost their ability to return to the wild because they were taken away by poachers and sold to zoos or rich people’s homes, and became pet lions accustomed to living with people, even after being rescued.

Walking with KAI, a little male lion growing up beside human beings | Banete

Many people attacked him, thinking that what he did violated the rules of animal protection-wild animals should not be in close contact with people and become pets and playthings.

Smith, who considers himself an animal protector, is very wronged:

"In a perfect world, people and wild animals should certainly not be in close contact. But the world is not perfect. Humans are constantly destroying the habitats of animals and hunting them. In this case, these individual animals have been unable to return to the wild for various reasons. Why can’t they interact with people on the premise of their comfortable life and play a certain educational role, so as to cultivate people’s love for animals, especially those who don’t like animals that much? Today, you don’t let people who don’t like animals themselves touch animals, saying that it violates animal protection ethics, but one day he may directly hunt animals or take away their habitats! "

Interview with Smith and park staff in South Africa

Smith called these animal protectionists Purist. These people live in their own world, have a lot of "should", speak a lot of terms, and judge others with these moral superiority, but they don’t realize that those who participate in their activities and recognize their propaganda are not those who would buy illegal animal products and hurt animals. They have long been separated from the public who really decide the fate of many animals in the world.

"They feel good about themselves, but they don’t really contribute much, because they just move in their own small circle."

Smith feels that every year, for various reasons, including the reason that it is not particularly "correct" to take photos with lions, international visitors who come to South Africa gradually like animals and develop the concept of animal protection in the project, which is a real contribution.

Close contact between the students and the little lion in the big cat park | ansen

"People who feel that there is something wrong with my project, please come to investigate in person to understand the specific situation. If there is any problem, please report it. Don’t come and have never been here. If you don’t investigate, you will be self-righteous."

He was a little angry with an American woman who tirelessly "reminded" everyone not to go to his project on facebook, because the American woman who said that their project was not good at all had never been to their base for investigation, or even to South Africa.

What Smith said resonated in my heart.

In the past few years, especially in the investigation, I have come into contact with too many people who are completely different from the "animal protectionists": they don’t like animals, don’t care about animal protection, and turn a blind eye to or even hate the education of various animal protection organizations. Therefore, the propaganda and education of animal protection organizations can’t touch them, but they are directly related to many behaviors that bring harm to animals and the environment.

In order to let them enter the world of animal protection, we may need to provide a low enough threshold-sometimes, the activities that can attract them are to feed the baby elephant, kiss the giraffe and take a walk with the lion.

Students walking with the little lion KAI Figure | Wang Zhen

Of course, a certain degree of guidance and education is needed in this process, and there are still many precautions in these activities, but at least, they came to us and gave us a chance to talk to them.

In the field of animal protection, today I have seen too many condemnations about zoos, contact with animals and taking photos with animals. However, I can’t deny my past:

When I was a very young child, it was precisely because my grandfather took me to the small zoo in my hometown where animals were kept in a small space every day and went to Mengchong Paradise to get in touch with all kinds of animals that I gradually became so fond of animals. If traced back, it may be the source of my ivory investigation, the establishment of Zhongnan House and my continued active work in animal protection.

Many western animal protectionists will tell me that people should go directly to Africa and South America to see wild animals, and zoos should not exist at all.

The truth seems right, but the question is, how many people have such economic strength and opportunities?

If such a small zoo and a cute pet paradise didn’t exist according to the wishes of Purist, I probably wouldn’t have the opportunity to get in touch with those animals and like them like those rich children living in developed areas.

It is definitely wrong to disturb wild animals, but when I hold a sloth, its body temperature makes me really feel warm and heart-warming, which is beyond my reach; It is probably wrong to turn wild animals into playthings, but when touching capybara, I really feel more impulse to protect these lovely animals.

Walking with elephants | Zhou Yuecheng

In wildlife protection, if zero step is to keep human beings completely away from the world of wildlife, what is the first step for the zoo to trade with legal animals? What is the first step to disturb the tourism of wild animals to some extent? What is the first step to play with the raised wild animals? What’s the first step in legal hunting? What is the next step in the illegal wildlife trade and mass killing of wildlife? In an imperfect world, if we can’t stop at all, where should we stop?

I haven’t been able to form an answer yet, and I don’t want to form an answer so soon, because the world is not black and white, and I still have too much to learn and understand humbly.

The plane climbed slowly, watching the Amazon jungle that I dreamed of when I was a child gradually go away, and I couldn’t help but get lost in thought about all kinds of contradictions. I also know that there is not much time left for us to meditate. Farewell, even if it is long, the Amazon rainforest is actually leaving us-maybe once she turns around, she just disappeared while waving.

Sunset map of Amazon rainforest | sherry

(The original title of this article is Fifty Steps and Hundred Steps of "Animal Protectors" in the Long Farewell to Amazon Rainforest, which was originally published in WeChat official account, Zhongnan House, to help China youth enter developing countries.)

How did the Anti-Japanese War transform old China?

  As early as 1939, Mao Zedong pointed out in the article "China Revolution and the Communist Party of China (CPC)" that the China Revolution had two tasks: national liberation and class liberation and modernization. The first task was completed with the establishment of People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, and the second task continues today. In this way, the Anti-Japanese War is a part of the new-democratic revolution, which exists in the process of dual tasks at the same time. It is not only an anti-aggression war, but also a social revolution, political power building and cultural innovation. Only by comprehensively understanding the Anti-Japanese War can we understand the origin, national nature and development logic of the People’s Republic of China and link the historical continuity between the Anti-Japanese War and New China.

  Mao Zedong wrote in "On Protracted War": "Revolutionary war is an antitoxin, which not only eliminates the enemy’s poisonous flame, but also cleanses itself. Any just revolutionary war is very powerful. It can transform many things or open the way for transformation. The Sino-Japanese War will transform China and Japan; As long as China persists in the war of resistance and the United front, it will certainly be able to turn old Japan into new Japan and old China into new China, and people and things in China and Japan will be transformed after this war. " So, how did the Anti-Japanese War transform old China?

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  During the eight-year national anti-Japanese war, the armed forces led by the Communist Party of China fought against the enemy more than 125,000 times, annihilating more than 520,000 Japanese troops and 1.18 million puppet troops. Compared with these flat data, the media prefer to talk about all kinds of guerrilla tactics in Shan Ye’s dense forests, underground tunnels and green tents, but the media rarely touch on the ideological roots of these unconventional military means, that is, the line of national resistance proposed and implemented by the Communist Party of China, widely mobilize and organize the masses, take root in the countryside with the people, and surround the Japanese aggressors in the Wang Yang sea of the people’s war. This series of practices has completely changed the fragmented situation of "what is Dili for me" in the traditional society of China, and the regime has the ability to absorb grassroots resources and mobilize grassroots people for the first time. Liang Shuming concluded in "The Road to the Founding of the People’s Republic": "It turns out that groups cause struggles, and struggles promote groups. Group is actually associated with struggle, while laxity is related to peace. " It is at the critical juncture of national peril that the CPC mobilized the broad masses of peasants by means of class struggle, integrated resources with high degree of organization, flexible representation and super action, and finally completed the transformation of modern countries. The people are closely related to the fate of the country, and the country finally obtains its reality.

  During the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese Communist Party developed 19 base areas behind enemy lines, covering an area of nearly 1 million square kilometers and a population of nearly 100 million. The base areas behind enemy lines have made remarkable achievements in economy, politics and culture, and laid the basic form of modern China. Politically, a "three-thirds system" democratic regime was established and three large-scale democratic elections were held. In order to let the illiterate peasants truly master politics, the base areas adopted election methods such as voting, drawing circles, marking roads, burning incense holes, throwing beans, decentralized voting, and moving ballot boxes. Qin Jin ballad sings: "Jin Doudou, Yindoudou and Doudou can’t vote casually, choose the right person, do a good job, and vote in the bowl of good people". For this reason, American journalist Smedley once described the bean selection of farmers in Jinzhong in "Battle Hymn of China", thinking that this is a more thorough universal suffrage than Britain and the United States. Economically, the base areas should adjust their strategies to reduce rents and interest rates in a timely manner to safeguard the anti-Japanese democratic United front. The Yan ‘an Mass Production Movement made the labor field public by means of political mobilization, and the military and civilians worked together, and leading cadres and ordinary people worked together, which not only successfully overcame material shortage, but also created equal politics in Yan ‘an period. The movement of reforming loafers has made labor a means to realize self-worth, and workers have gained dignity and hope for survival. Culturally, literature and art serving the workers, peasants and soldiers has become the basic principle of literature and art in the new China. The new literature and art, in a way that people like it, makes ordinary people "turn over" and "turn over their hearts" at the same time, shaping a new socialist.

  Carlson, the captain of the US Marine Corps and a close confidant of President Roosevelt, went to Yan ‘an to observe and understand, and his attitude towards the Chinese Communist Party changed dramatically. Even right-wingers like Wilson Peterkin, the third leader of the US military observation group in Yan ‘an, praised the efforts made by the Chinese Communist Party at the grassroots level. Si Nuo’s Red Star over China regards Yan ‘an as a new beginning of Chinese civilization, while Latimer regards Yan ‘an as a continuation of China’s kingly way. However, the facts that even foreigners have seen are today framed as disgusting. "To destroy people and govern the country, we must first go to its history; It simplifies the war of resistance to Japan into a human tragedy or pure violence of "tearing the devil by hand", and consciously obliterates and ignores the class liberation, social revolution and political power construction in the anti-Japanese democratic base areas, which is the first nothingness in the memory of the current war of resistance to Japan.

  After World War I, the geopolitical pattern of the world has undergone great changes: the decline of Europe, the rise of the United States, the birth of the Soviet Union, and the rise of a new global order and global vision. China’s tenacious struggle in the Asian battlefield held back Japan’s main military power and prevented it from going north and south, which made great contributions to the world anti-fascist war and profoundly influenced the post-war world pattern. The victory of the Anti-Japanese War dealt a blow to the colonial system of the imperialist world, created an international environment for the post-war colonial and semi-colonial liberation movement, and effectively rebuilt the world order. Japanese historian Yu Nabarun compares China’s war of resistance against Japan to playing chess, while Japan’s attack is similar to playing chess, which vividly reveals the differences of war thinking modes between China and Japan. It is with the help of grasping the world situation that the CCP can find opportunities in the unbalanced geographical pattern and finally win the war. It is undoubtedly the second nihility of the war of resistance against Japan to obliterate China’s world vision and efforts to rebuild the world order, ignore the Wang Daoism and civilization view of "Long live the great unity of the people of the world", turn it into narrow nationalism and pure hatred of Japan, and automatically give up China’s right to speak internationally.

The American "Dixie Mission" in China military uniform

  The essence of talking about national liberation while ignoring class liberation and social revolution is to deny the unique modernization road of socialist China. Only talking about nationalism without talking about China’s revolutionary world vision and civilization concept will certainly encourage China’s threat theory and consolidate the existing hegemonic order. The essence of the struggle for the memory of the Anti-Japanese War is the difference between the concept of state and the concept of development. When we understand how all kinds of realistic political forces make history "diverted", crooked ways and evil ways can no longer be concealed.

Empty cars are overloaded? There are many problems behind "light goods"

  CCTV News:Pay attention to a kind of truck that you will see in the city — — Blue brand light goods are light trucks with blue license plates. Compared with medium and heavy trucks with yellow cards, some cities in China have no restrictions on blue light goods. Since January 1st this year, the transportation department has also cancelled the freight qualification certificate and vehicle operation certificate of blue light goods, and drivers can drive as long as they have a driver’s license for small cars. The data shows that in 2018, the national sales volume of light trucks was nearly 400,000 units. In the first quarter of this year, the sales volume increased by more than 10% year-on-year. However, light goods are light, that is, cars are relatively light, and the goods pulled must not be too heavy. However, people who buy trucks generally want to pull more goods to earn money. In this way, some people secretly came up with a way to produce light trucks that can pull more goods, and many people bought them. However, there were also many subsequent troubles.

  It is "annoying" to buy a car and run on the road.

  The 38-year-old Leevane Hsiung’s hometown is in northern Shaanxi. At the beginning of this year, he went to Xi ‘an. At the suggestion of a friend, he bought a truck and started running transportation. After running for a while, Li Wenxiong discovered that what he was doing was worrying.

  Running transportation was a serious business, but how did it become a thief? Leevane Hsiung said that the problem lies in the weight of this truck. He bought a light truck, the length of which must be limited to 4.2 meters, and it can hang the same blue brand as ordinary cars, so the industry also calls this kind of car 4.2 m blue brand light. According to the regulations, in addition to limiting the length, light trucks also limit the total mass, that is, the total cargo weight, which can not exceed 4.5 tons at most. For this truck in Leevane Hsiung, the door and driving license are marked with a total mass of 4,495 kilograms, that is to say, after loading the goods, the total cargo weight can not exceed 4.495 tons. But Leevane Hsiung said, this label is a complete cover.

  Leevane Hsiung, the owner of the truck, has a self-weight of 4.2 tons. The total weight limit of the truck is 4.495 tons, minus 4.2 tons, only 300 kilograms can be pulled. There are three people in the cab of this car. If you sit on two people, I’m sorry, maybe you don’t want to pull the goods.

  The marked weight is 2.565 tons and the actual weight is 4.32 tons.

  However, the reporter noticed that the nameplate and driving license of Leevane Hsiung vehicles showed that the kerb quality of this truck, that is, its self-weight was 2.565 tons. How could Leevane Hsiung say that its actual self-weight was more than 4 tons? Facing the reporter’s question, Leevane Hsiung drove an empty car and randomly found a weighing station.

  Indeed, the weighing shows that the actual weight of the empty truck has reached 4.32 tons, and this weighing is only under the condition that the fuel tank is half full. Leevane Hsiung said that when running and transporting on the road, the fuel tank was filled with 70 kilograms and the water tank was filled with 200 kilograms. In this way, even if one kilogram of goods was not pulled, it was already overloaded. It’s not just Leevane Hsiung who encounters this dilemma. It’s another owner of Xi ‘an, Wang Xiangdong. This is a blue brand light truck purchased by Wang Xiangdong at the end of 2018, produced by Sichuan Nanjun Automobile Group. The maximum total weight limit of goods marked on the truck door and driving license is 4.495 tons. What’s the actual situation?

  The truck’s self-weight marked on the certificate and driving license is 2.72 tons, but the actual self-weight has reached 5.8 tons, which is also inconsistent with the real situation. According to the tonnage limit of light trucks, even if all the fuel tanks and water tanks are removed, it is overloaded.

  During the interview, the reporter just caught up with Wang Xiangdong and bought a new blue brand light truck, which is the Dexuan X9 dump truck produced by a local enterprise in Shaanxi. The certificate shows that the vehicle weighs 2,600 kilograms, but the actual weight is far more than that.

  Since there is a problem with the vehicle’s own load, why do car owners buy such vehicles?

  The car owners are willing to fight for the moment.

  Small car, flexibility and freedom, convenient access to the city, suitable for urban distribution and low cost, all these advantages make light trucks popular, but they also make some people think badly of temporary benefits. Insiders told reporters that the original positioning of this light truck was to transport lightweight goods such as daily necessities and household appliances, so the self-weight was low. However, in order to seize the transportation market, some automobile manufacturers violate the announcement in actual production, and increase the load capacity of vehicles by weighting them, so as to pull more goods.

  In addition to manufacturing, vehicle registration and registration, relevant laws and regulations also have clear requirements for technical parameters of motor vehicles. The motor vehicle registration regulations revised and issued by the public security department in 2012 clearly pointed out that the relevant technical data of motor vehicles are inconsistent with the announcement data; Not to apply for registration. However, how do the owners of these vehicles with inconsistent self-weight and actual self-weight register and get the license plate?

  According to the owner, in fact, when buying a car, both parties are tacitly aware that the owner pays the money and the salesperson is responsible for licensing. Take Wang Xiangdong as an example, when buying this Dexuan X9 dump truck, in addition to the normal car payment, it also paid 2,500 yuan as the license fee.

  Not only this sales company, but also the reporter interviewed randomly in the largest light truck sales market in Xi ‘an, and all the salespeople they contacted gave a promise to get on the card.

  On-line testing date must be "exquisite" on Saturday.

  Why did it go online on Saturday? The salesperson did not disclose it. Is it really what they said? The reporter decided to follow Wang Xiangdong’s field investigation. About ten days after getting the new car back, the salesperson called and asked Wang Xiangdong to go online for testing on April 27th, and said that all the materials had been handed over to the intermediary and the relationship had been coordinated. Sure enough, it is Saturday. Early the next morning, Wang Xiangdong came to the inspection station designated by the sales staff, Shaanxi Yongzhi Motor Vehicle Inspection Station. There was already a long queue at the door, all of which were blue brand light vehicles similar to those in Wang Xiangdong. Wang Xiangdong got through to the intermediary.

  After a while, the intermediary called again. Wang Xiangdong pulled into the testing station yard and was greeted by a man in overalls.

  After confirming the basic information of the owner’s name and frame number, the man left a piece of material and opened it. Both the reporter and Wang Xiangdong were taken aback. It turned out that this was a pre-filled inspection list, and the kerb quality was self-weight. It was 2600kg, dated April 26th, one day earlier than the inspection date. According to the regulations, if a motor vehicle wants to be registered, it must pass the vehicle inspection, and the kerb quality of the truck is its own weight, which is a mandatory item. However, in Shaanxi Yongzhi Motor Vehicle Inspection Station, there was no inspection at all, so Wang Xiangdong got the inspection record sheet, and it was also a premature delivery certificate.

  After the initial inspection, there was a re-inspection. On April 29th, the reporter and Wang Xiangdong came to the inspection station again.

  The initial inspection of fraud and re-inspection do not check the weight.

  In this way, the truck successfully passed the so-called test and got the license plate and driving license. According to the regulations, the inspection agencies and the traffic management departments of public security organs should conduct supervision and inspection through remote audit, spot check and file review. An insider who used to be in charge of technical work at a testing station in Shaanxi told reporters that under normal circumstances, testing institutions should rest in Japan on Saturday, and choosing such a time period to license the problem vehicles is actually a tacit understanding reached between the regulatory authorities and testing institutions.

  If there is a problem in many links, the car will be checked on the road.

  The lack of supervision in the production process, the tacit understanding of truck owners and sales personnel, and the open cheating of testing institutions have made these problem vehicles drive on the road. However, the inherent problem of empty cars being overweight makes these vehicles face punishment all the time. During the interview, the light car originally purchased by Wang Xiangdong was seized by the traffic police because it was overloaded.

  It turns out that this truck in Wang Xiangdong can only pull 1.58 tons of goods according to regulations, but when the traffic police seized it, his car pulled nearly 14 tons of goods, which was seriously overloaded.

  After paying the fine, Wang Xiangdong drove the truck that was overloaded when it was empty. For him, only by continuing to run fast can he make up for the loss. Overloading, punishment and overloading, shippers are in this vicious circle every day, which also poses a great threat to the vehicle itself and road safety.

  Safety is no small matter "light goods" must be light.

  Professionals told reporters that, as we said just now, these vehicles whose actual weight is higher than the announced weight and are illegally produced and licensed are called "big tons and small labels" by people in the industry. Some car companies regard light goods as a selling point, and they have already exceeded the tonnage limit before leaving the factory. This is an open "secret" in the industry, which has spawned a gray interest chain of forging data and illegally licensing. The country has a series of laws, regulations and standards for trucks, from manufacturing, registration to road transportation. Its primary purpose is to ensure safety, vehicle safety, pedestrians safety and you and me safety. However, in the face of interests, security has been forgotten, supervision has become a decoration, and the system has become a dead letter. In order to change this distorted situation, it is necessary for all departments to work together, especially from the production and registration links, establish a traceability and backward investigation mechanism, strictly supervise and seriously pursue responsibility, create a safe travel environment, and let "light goods" really travel lightly.

China Institute of Engineering’s joint project review meeting was held in Guangzhou.

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  Cctv news Recently, the Eighth Academic Committee of the First Session of Guangdong Research Institute of China Engineering Science and Technology Development Strategy and the final review meeting of the 2020 consulting research project were held in Beijing and Guangzhou by video link. The meeting was presided over by Academician Zhou Ji, Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of China Academy of Engineering and Director of the Academic Committee of Guangdong Research Institute. Academician Wang Liheng, Yu Sun, Lu Bingheng, Yao Jiannian and Chen Xinzi attended the meeting at the Beijing branch or online. Academician Liu Renhuai, Director of Academic Committee of Guangdong Research Institute, Academician Li Licheng, Deputy Director, Academician Chen Yong, Chairman of Provincial Association for Science and Technology, Academician Wang Yingjun, President of Guangdong Research Institute, and Academician Luo Xiwen and Chen Xiangsheng attended the meeting in Guangzhou Branch. Xu Dianhui, Deputy Secretary-General of the provincial government, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. The heads of relevant bureaus and departments (departments and centers) of China Academy of Engineering, heads of provincial departments, distinguished researchers of Guangdong Research Institute and representatives of the 2020 project team attended the meeting.

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  At the meeting, the Academic Committee listened to the closing reports of 15 consulting and research projects of Guangdong Research Institute in 2020, and made closing deliberations on the projects. Through the evaluation, it is of great significance to promote the transformation and application of research results and promote the project research to better serve the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which will promote the industrial transformation and upgrading and optimize the regional development pattern in Guangdong Province. The meeting also discussed and reviewed the application guidelines for consulting research projects of Guangdong Research Institute in 2023.

  Greater Bay Area Modern Industry Development Research Institute undertook the project "Research on the Innovation and Development Strategy of Greater Bay Area Garment Industry under the New Situation" (headed by Professor Hu Jun, former president of Jinan University), attended by the representative of Cao Changlin, a member of the research group and executive president of the research institute, and reported the results to more than 20 academicians and dozens of experts attending the online and offline meetings and relevant departments of the provincial government.

  Xu Dianhui, Deputy Secretary-General of Guangdong Provincial Government, Party Secretary and Director of Provincial Letters and Calls Bureau, said in his speech that the experts of the 2020 consulting and research project team have completed a number of forward-looking, scientific and targeted high-level research results in many fields with a high sense of responsibility and rigorous and realistic scientific spirit, which has important reference value and guiding significance for Guangdong to continuously improve its scientific decision-making level, and hopes to become a prescription for Guangdong’s scientific and technological progress and a driving force for innovation and development. He asked the Guangdong Research Institute, first, to improve its political position, focus on strategic needs, and persistently use the party’s innovative theory to push the strategic consulting research work to a new level. Second, we should seize major opportunities, take Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area’s comprehensive advantages as the traction, promote the coordinated innovation and development of "one core, one belt and one district", and achieve a higher level and higher quality of regional coordinated development. Third, we must persist in scientific and technological innovation, realize self-reliance, actively explore key core technologies to tackle the new national system "Guangdong Path", push Guangdong’s scientific and technological innovation work to the forefront of the country, create experience, and strive to be the vanguard of Guangdong’s high-quality development with extraordinary actions.

  In his concluding speech, Academician Zhou Ji said that since the establishment of Guangdong Research Institute of China Engineering Science and Technology Development Strategy, it has actively implemented the strategic layout of building a high-end think tank with "indomitable spirit" through cooperation between provinces and institutes. The 15 consulting and research projects of Guangdong Research Institute have achieved good results, and the efforts of the project team members in the project research work have provided good suggestions and ideas for the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the implementation of innovation-driven development strategy in Guangdong Province, and the pursuit of high-quality development. He hopes that the wisdom of academicians and experts of the project team can better serve the practice in Guangdong, promote the project achievements to take root, further boost the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center and the high-quality development of Guangdong, and play an important role in promoting Guangdong to be at the forefront of the country and create new glories in the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.

Strong cold air invades China’s blizzard, cold wave, strong wind and strong convection.

  CCTV News:This morning (November 5), the Central Meteorological Observatory also issued an orange warning for blizzard, a blue warning for cold wave, a blue warning for strong wind and a blue warning for severe convective weather. It is estimated that in the next three days, affected by strong cold air, there will be different degrees of cooling in most parts of China. Today and tomorrow, there will be large-scale heavy snowfall in parts of eastern and northeastern Inner Mongolia, and there will be heavy snowstorms or heavy blizzards in the local area. The local snowfall in Heilongjiang may exceed the historical extreme value in the same period; There are strong convective weather such as thunderstorms and short-term heavy rainfall in Jiangnan and South China, which mainly occurs from day to night today. There will be strong windy weather in parts of the north and parts of the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, and the winds in the Bohai Strait and other places can reach 9. Generally speaking, the weather situation is more complicated, and various types of weather have a great impact on China, reminding the public to pay close attention to local weather changes and take corresponding preventive measures.

  Blizzard orange warning:From 08: 00 on November 5 to 08: 00 on November 6, there were heavy blizzards in parts of central and eastern Inner Mongolia, northern Hebei, northwestern Liaoning and southeastern Heilongjiang, including local blizzards (20 ~ 22 mm) in southeastern Inner Mongolia and southeastern Heilongjiang. The depth of newly added snow in some areas above is 5-10 cm, and the local area can reach more than 15 cm.

  Tomorrow will be the strongest period of heavy snowfall in Northeast China (08: 00 on the 6th to 08: 00 on the 7th), and there will be heavy snowstorms to heavy blizzards in parts of southeastern Inner Mongolia, central and eastern Heilongjiang, central and western Jilin and central and northern Liaoning, including heavy blizzards (30-38mm) in southern and eastern Heilongjiang and northern Jilin. There is freezing rain in the central and western Jilin and southern Heilongjiang. The depth of newly added snow in the above areas is 10 ~ 20cm, and the local area can reach more than 25cm.

  Cold wave blue warningAnd gale blue warningAffected by strong cold air, it is predicted that the temperature in the eastern part of northwest China and most parts of central and eastern China will drop by 6 ~ 10℃ from 08: 00 on November 5 to 20: 00 on November 7. Among them, the temperature in parts of central and eastern Inner Mongolia, central and southern Northeast China and central and eastern Jianghuai will drop by 12 ~ 14℃, and the local temperature drop can reach more than 16℃ in southeastern Inner Mongolia, southwestern and eastern Jilin, central and northern Liaoning and central and northern Jiangsu. The lowest temperature appeared on the morning of the 7th, and the lowest temperature 0℃ line will be located in northern Hebei, southern Beijing, southwestern Shanxi, Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi and southeastern Gansu, and the lowest temperature in most areas along the Yangtze River will drop to about 10℃. There are 4 ~ 6 northerly winds in the north of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the gusts are 7 ~ 9, and the local level can reach 10; From 5th to 6th, there were 6-8 winds in Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea and East China Sea, and the maximum gust was 9-10.

  Blue warning of severe convective weather:From 08: 00 on November 5 to 08: 00 on November 6, there will be 8 ~ 10 thunderstorms or hail weather in parts of southern Anhui, north-central Jiangxi, south-central Hunan, southern Guizhou and north-central Guangxi; There will be short-term heavy precipitation in parts of central and southern Anhui, central Jiangsu, western Zhejiang, central and northern Jiangxi, eastern Hubei, most of Hunan, southern Guizhou, most of Guangxi, Hainan Island and other places, with a maximum hourly rainfall of 30-40 mm and a local area of more than 50 mm.

  Meteorologists reminded that since November, cold air activities have been frequent and strong. It is expected that after the end of this round of cold air, there will be supplementary cold air activities on November 7-8, and the temperature in most parts of China will gradually decrease. In addition, due to the high temperature in the early stage in Northeast China, some areas will experience the phase change from rain to sleet and then to snow, and the local snowfall is extreme, or it breaks through the historical extreme value in the same period. We should pay special attention to the adverse effects that heavy snowfall may bring to production and life, and the elderly, children and people with weak physique should try to reduce going out during snowfall.

Multinational experts: China’s economy is making great strides to benefit the whole world.

CCTV News:Regarding the economic data released by China in the first quarter, multinational experts said that the economic data of China in the first quarter was better than market expectations, which indicated that China’s economy was making great strides, and China’s economic prosperity and development not only benefited China, but also benefited the whole world.

Surab Gupta, a senior researcher at the Center for Sino-American Studies in the United States, said that China’s GDP in the first quarter increased by 4.5% year-on-year and 2.2% quarter-on-quarter, which is a good sign that China’s economy is making great strides, and China will have a bumper harvest year in 2023.

Surab Gupta, Senior Researcher, Center for Sino-American Studies, USA:What we are seeing now is that China is striding forward, and the economic development speed is faster than the market expectation. Frankly speaking, I think China’s economy will soon reach the speed of take-off. In terms of economic growth, 2023 will usher in a bumper year.

Vitol Gaspar, director of the Financial Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund, said that China’s economy has maintained growth not only because it can adapt to the needs of development and carry out transformation, but also because it insists on the effective combination of expanding consumption and deepening supply-side structural reform.

Vitol Gaspar, Director of the Financial Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund:I think that China has a very strong growth record in the past 45 years, and China has proved that rapid growth and development are extremely important, and it has indeed lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. With the continuous expansion of China’s scale in the world economy, it is very important for China to give priority to the growth of domestic resources, which shows Chinese’s intelligence.

David Falstein, president of the George Bush Foundation for US-China Relations, said that China’s economy started well in 2023, which benefited from the reform and opening-up policy, and China’s economic achievements were also conducive to global economic development.

David Falstein, President of George Bush Foundation for US-China Relations:Under the reform and opening-up policy, China has obviously achieved success. From the economic point of view, China has been on the right path for a long time, and China has been creating prosperity, improving living environment and improving material conditions. I think it is in the interest of China and the global economy to continue on this path.

Lansi Technology: We are actively cooperating with customers to verify the folding screen, and are ready for mass production of new models.

On April 3, Lansi Technology Co., Ltd. (Lansi Technology, 300433.SZ) said on the interactive platform of Shenzhen Stock Exchange that the company has already laid out the manufacturing technology of folding protective screens such as UTG and CPI, deeply cooperated with major brands in R&D and production, and has the ability to quickly mass-produce flexible screens and whole modules of various materials of folding screen mobile phones, and has supplied UTG and CPI screens to large domestic customers in batches. The company is the core supplier of exterior parts and structural parts for major customers in North America. Through long-term joint research and development with customers, it can ensure a high market share. At present, we are actively cooperating with customers to verify the folding screen, and the overall progress is smooth, which is ready for mass production of new models.

Huawei builds M8 brand-new design to challenge luxury SUV market.

In the new energy vehicle market, the brand of Wenjie has gradually won the recognition of consumers by virtue of its technology and performance, but its design has become a hot topic among netizens. In particular, the design of M7 and M9 has been pointed out by many commentators that it is too high similar to other brands, which affects the uniqueness of brands and consumers’ willingness to buy to some extent. However, with the news of M8, it seems that Huawei has listened to the voice of the market and taken action.

The design team of Wenjie M8 has undergone a major transformation, aiming at creating an SUV with a more attractive appearance. The latest renderings show that the appearance design of the M8 is significantly different from the previous model, showing a more sporty and fashionable atmosphere, while incorporating futuristic elements. The front of the car uses a penetrating LED daytime running light, with a split headlight design, and the vertical light group below enhances the recognition of the car.

The side of the car body is simple and powerful, and the dense spoke rims add a sense of luxury, while the smooth window lines further enhance the overall elegance. It is reported that the positioning of the boundary M8 will be between M7 and M9, and the body size is expected to be between the two accordingly.

In terms of price, the M8 is expected to be located in the price range of M7 and M9. Considering the price of 249,800-329,800 yuan and the price of 469,800-569,800 yuan, it is estimated that the starting price of M8 may be more than 300,000 yuan, and the top version may be close to 400,000 yuan. This pricing strategy can not only avoid direct competition with M7, but also won’t occupy the market space of M9.

Although the rendering provides us with a general idea of the appearance of the M8, there are also some details that are not completely consistent with the previously exposed road test spy photos, such as the design of the door handle. The rear part continues the style of M9, and the through taillight has a "Xi" pattern, which implies its programmable characteristics.

In terms of power system, the M8 is expected to be available in both pure electric and pure electric versions, and its performance parameters are expected to be similar to M9, including strong power output and all standard air suspension.

Referring to the M9, its car model is 496PS/675Nm, which broke 100 in 4.9 seconds, and the CLTC pure electric cruising range is 225Km and 275Km. The pure electric vehicle model is the book data of 530PS/673Nm, which broke 100 in 4.3 seconds. The CLTC pure electric cruising range is 630Km, and the whole system comes standard with air suspension.

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As for the interior, the M8 follows the design of M9, and is equipped with a "triple screen" consisting of a 12.3-inch LCD instrument panel, a 15.6-inch central control screen and a 16-inch passenger entertainment screen, and a high-order intelligent driving system, which reflects Huawei’s technical strength in intelligence.

Generally speaking, the biggest highlight of the M8 is its brand-new design, which will greatly enhance its recognition and attractiveness in the market. With the disclosure of more information, we look forward to asking M8 to achieve better sales results in the future market.