Wilderness, City-State and Labyrinth: Three Landmarks of voegelin’s Order and History (Part Two)

In the 1950s, voegelin.(Eric Voegelin)I set out to write a series of works on Order and History, trying to reach an understanding of "historical order" by studying the main types of order that appeared in history. In voegelin’s view, man participates in the drama of existential community, and he not only has a secular life, but also moves towards transcendental truth. This intermediate structure can be explained by the spatial configuration of the image of "landmark". In the first three volumes of "Order and History", voegelin regarded Israeli enlightenment and ancient Greek philosophy as two different "leaps of existence", by which people could jump out of the cyclical cosmological order and realize the transcendence of the existential order. These two experiences are condensed in two landmarks: the wilderness and the city-state: in the former, Moses and the prophets left the secular community to seek enlightenment, while in the latter, philosophers had to stay in it. More precisely, however, the "wilderness" and the "city-state" together constitute a double variation of the intermediary structure of human beings, and people have never reached the truly naked wilderness and never completely settled in the city-state.
The fourth volume, which is 17 years after the publication of the third volume, means another ideological node of voegelin. After reflecting on the first three volumes, voegelin abandoned the linear view of history; The experience represented by the wilderness and the polis and its symbolic expression, that is, enlightenment and philosophy, have been purified from their specific society and history into a universal analytical model. Here, we recognize a new landmark, namely "maze": for the person who enters the maze, he experiences the cycle of the maze itself at the same time, but he is not completely lost, as long as he remembers that getting out of the maze is his ultimate mission. Man in the maze is undoubtedly in the disorder of the secular city-state, but he has always realized the divine reality of the wilderness as an exit. At the same time, this man in the maze finds that he is not alone. He is in the pedigree of countless seekers throughout the ages. This maze is in the consciousness of all people in all history, and because of its absolute universality, no one in this pedigree can help anyone. This maze is the common construction of revelation and philosophy, and its essence is balance.

Erich Eric Voegelin (1901.1.3-1985.1.19) was an American political philosopher.

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In voegelin’s eyes, although there are differences in symbol types and differences between them, the two types of experience, the wilderness and the city-state, are both witnesses of the "leap of existence", and they both disintegrated the cosmological order in different ways. What exists as the hidden line of this narrative is the tension between the individual who has grasped the transcendental order and the community that is still in secular existence. In the era of cosmological order, this problem has not been reflected because of the lack of historical materials; In the early stage of enlightenment and philosophy, prophets and philosophers were rejected by the community that was still in the cosmological order; With the prosperity of secular existence, all propositions about order are reduced to secondary. We can use these diagrams to show the cosmological order and enlightenment or the way in which philosophy constructs the transcendental order and secular existence:

However, since both cosmology, enlightenment and philosophical order symbols convey the experience of the relationship between social order and existential order, this structure itself cannot be cancelled by the "leap of existence". If the "leap of existence" can be closer to the truth, then this is nothing more than saying that enlightenment or philosophy reveals the transcendence of the order of existence. After this incident, social order became a secular existence under transcendental order. In the first three volumes, voegelin never combed the relationship between secular existence and transcendental order as a bright line, and this work will begin in the fourth volume. Once he does, he will find such a structure:

Through the "leap of existence", human beings realize the transcendental order as the source of the significance of secular existence. On the one hand, this kind of consciousness itself is only the construction type of secular existence to its meaning source; On the other hand, this type of construction was recognized by voegelin as the order of human history itself. In this way, the symbols of transcendental type of revelation or philosophy have become a more universal analysis mode, which is suitable for the symbolic order between secular existence and transcendental order.

Therefore, in the first three volumes, enlightenment and philosophy, two symbol types, both of which reveal transcendental order and realize two different ways of constructing order almost independently, have become the paradigm to understand all the symbols of constructing order between secular existence and transcendental order. All this, including the myth of cosmology order and the distortion of enlightenment and philosophy in modern times, even together with Gnosticism and purely secular greed and power, can be placed in the "community of existence" marked by the two landmarks of wilderness and polis. Just as Elijah went to the wilderness from Israel, Plato disappeared into the city-state. In voegelin’s place, enlightenment and philosophy were purified into a pure method and perspective, and the specific history itself was also included in the scope of investigation. The result, as shown in the first three volumes, is the second division between the wilderness and the polis: whether in Israel or ancient Greece, the prophets and philosophers are in the tension of secular existence and transcendental order. Before going to the wilderness, the prophets also fought for the right to live within the city walls, and the philosophers in the polis also yearned for the wasteland outside the law at some time.

In the writing of the first three volumes, the two landmarks "wilderness" and "city-state" occupy the center of their corresponding texts. In the fourth volume "The Times of the World", as its name suggests, voegelin is concerned about the "world", which is surrounded by the unreachable horizon and revealed as an endless sphere-shaped space in modern times. In the era of the world, various symbols will compete with greedy powers in this space for continuous cooperation, compromise and struggle. This is indeed a new historical space provided by voegelin after continuing the wilderness and polis. However, for the following reasons, this historical space needs to be replaced by another structure that may be more appropriate: The fourth volume not only provides such an analysis of the world times including Hellenistic and Roman periods, but more importantly, in 1974, 17 years after the publication of the third volume, this volume appeared in the form of a turn, in which voegelin did not follow the plan at the beginning of the first volume step by step, but first expressed his critical farewell to this plan. Therefore, the era of the world is not the era in the first volume of the research plan, but it belongs to another sequence-this new sequence also includes the wilderness and the city-state, but the meaning they provide is very different from the beginning.

Of course, no one forced us to find a landmark. In "Order and History", we can’t find voegelin’s tendency of trying to find the "synthesis" of two kinds of experiences-to some extent, this attempt is silently reflected in all aspects of his analysis of concrete society, experience and symbols. It needs to be clarified that the so-called third landmark is completely cheap, and the second half of the masterpiece Order and History will be better understood with this landmark. Furthermore, the "setting" of this landmark will help us to better understand voegelin’s attempt to express the course of seeking order in his historical existence in all five volumes of Order and History.

The concept that is more suitable as the landmark of the fourth and fifth volumes than "the world" needs to be obtained through the investigation of the wilderness and the city-state. As mentioned above, voegelin in the first three volumes has realized the internal second division between the Israeli wilderness and the ancient Greek city-state, that is, the search for the transcendental order of existence and the response through symbolization, as well as the realization of the fact of living in a concrete secular community. In a figurative sense, we can call the former "wilderness" and the latter "city state"; Or, call the former "enlightening" and the latter "philosophical". With the adjustment of methodology, wilderness and polis are no longer just the spatial structure of a certain stage in history, but they are intertwined into a truly universal thing in a more essential way. We can say that these two words no longer belong exclusively to Israel and ancient Greece; As universal things, they are no longer a link in the new historical sequence, but constitute themselves; Under the interweaving of the experience symbolized by the wilderness and the city-state, different order symbols, including Israel, ancient Greece and the era of the world, were bred.

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At the beginning of the fourth volume, voegelin directly pointed out that this volume deviated from his plan in the preface of the first volume, and voegelin pointed out that he "failed to fully consider those important, non-chronological and historical significance routes". (Volume 4, page 49) Although the program of Order and History, that is, "the historical order comes from the history of order", is still insisted by voegelin, he has adjusted the method of deriving the "historical order" from the "history of order". In voegelin’s view, the original plan will make the length of the study extremely large: he needs to trace all kinds of experiences and symbol types of order arranged in chronological order in history, and this sequence will become a historical order. However, it may be difficult to achieve this plan even in a long space. In the fourth volume, Vogelin found that this sort will be declared invalid because of some normal experience and symbol types. In other words, history is difficult to be put into a single-line narrative. Aware of this, voegelin bluntly pointed out his own fault: this single-line narrative is also a specific symbol type, and voegelin named it "the theory of historical creation". As a speculation about the origin and causes of social order, it is still within the scope of cosmology myth. In the first three volumes, Vogelin was vaguely aware of the connection between the "leap of existence" of enlightenment and philosophy and the myth of cosmology. Now this point has been made clear: this theory of historical creation belongs to the normal state in history, and it has continued to the present age since its emergence-it even influenced voegelin before the fourth volume.Lure him to talk about transcending myth in a mode that belongs to myth in essence. With the gradual clarity of this consciousness, that is, "the myth about the origin of the universe will never disappear like the universe." Any attempt to overcome or abandon this myth is like magic, driven by some apocalyptic desire to destroy the universe itself "(Volume 4, page 57). voegelin stopped using the term" leap of existence "because this leap has never happened decisively, and it can’t happen decisively. Therefore, in the fourth volume, Vogelin emphasized the significance of myth, and supplemented Plato in the third volume: Plato resisted the disorder brought by the old myth, but the work of philosophers still needed the supplement of the insight of divine reality embodied in myth. For Plato, myth is not just a convenient rhetoric used by philosophers to descend, it also has extraordinary and rich truth.

At the same time, the enlightenment and philosophy in the first three volumes, which are regarded as epoch-making events in human history, need to be more strictly limited in their respective historical situations at this time, and cannot be regarded as milestones on a single historical route. However, this only means that voegelin deepens the universality of his thesis: it is true that no unique historical event once and for all endows history with meaning, but through the study of "meaning in history", we find that the empirical consciousness derived from each meaning construction has the same structure. This structure therefore transcends different social types and makes it possible for "human beings" to transcend the boundaries of time and space. As a result, history is spread out, and no matter which time and space human beings are in, they do not have the authority to reveal the truth alone. They are in the same wilderness or city-state, and they cannot get a way to solve the disorder of their own situation from ancient people or future people, natives or foreigners. The universality of human beings is possible because of the ultimate impossibility of divine reality. All people are equally oriented towards the ultimate divine reality, equally living in the unavoidable secular community, and equally in a state of tension:

History is not a stream composed of people and their activities in time, but a process in which people participate in a stream of divine manifestation oriented towards the end. Therefore, the puzzling symbolic expression of "human history" reveals people’s understanding that although these insights come from specific events and appear in the consciousness of specific individuals, they are effective for everyone.

The historical process and the order that can be recognized in it are not a story, but a story that can be told from the beginning to its happy or unfortunate ending; It is a mystery, in the process of enlightenment. (Volume IV, pages 53-54)

Therefore, in the fourth volume, the experience represented by the wilderness and the polis and its symbolic expression, that is, enlightenment and philosophy, have been purified from their specific society and history into a universal analytical model. What the third landmark wants to express is nothing more than the interweaving of these two "enlightening" and "philosophical" essential experiences. It is not the exclusive enjoyment of Israel or Greece in a certain time and space, but the experience of human historical existence in a universal sense. On the other hand, as mentioned above, this kind of interweaving occurred not only in various stages of history and became the empirical basis of symbols, but also in voegelin’s own thoughts. In the end, he went far beyond the comparative study of Greek-Hebrew traditions, but embodied the spirit of the two traditions in his research methods and historical views.

We can call this landmark "maze". This is not a random word. We use the word "maze" to call this spatial configuration, and the purpose is not to dismiss it as an "unsolved mystery" by emphasizing the complexity of its interweaving. Maze, or the encounter between man and maze, means two different levels of experience: for the man who enters the maze, he experiences the cycle of the maze itself at the same time, but it is not completely lost, as long as he remembers that he is in the maze, and getting out of the maze is his ultimate mission; At the same time, this man in the maze finds that he is not alone. He is in the pedigree of countless seekers throughout the ages. This maze is in the consciousness of all people in all history, and because of its absolute universality, no one in this pedigree can help anyone. "They also have to face the same reality with the same consciousness as we do; In their pursuit of truth, when they write their words on whatever materials, they have to ask and deal with the same problems we face when writing our words. " (Volume V, page 36)

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"Although man has fallen, he is destined to play serious games." (Volume III, page 281) This game bears and responds to the truth about transcendental order conveyed by divine reality in a symbolic way. This kind of game takes place in consciousness, "but it is not’ one’s concept of reality’, but an event in the middle, where people share the divine nature of the process with everyone to" talk ". Due to the presence of divinity in the dialogue between elf-like people, the event has social and historical dimensions. " (Volume 4, page 269) Consciousness is always the consciousness of something. In voegelin’s view, this phenomenological conclusion can and must be extended to a kind of transcendental experience, and it must be historicized-human beings must have such a consciousness structure in their historical existence: what he realizes is not only an objective "thing-reality", but also "it-reality" as a transcendental order. Correspondingly, consciousness not only has intentionality to the object-reality, but also has enlightenment to it-reality, which makes human consciousness itself the initiator of transcendental order. With the help of this analysis, especially the exposition of the enlightening structure of consciousness, voegelin regards this serious game as an essential action of human existence.

This is a maze game, and everyone who exists in the name of "human" will find himself in this maze. This maze is a common construction of enlightenment and philosophy. The long and closed maze has become a city-state in which people live. They metaphorically feel that its center will be a wilderness. People walk in the disorder of secular existence and seek order in the process of constantly getting lost-this is the divine reality that he has realized when he is in the maze, and it is this existence that interprets his stable existence as a maze that needs to be regulated. While traveling through the secular maze, the exit he wants to finally reach is the center of the maze, but the specific location of the exit has not been given, and the scene behind this exit is in a mystery. Due to the characteristics of the maze, many times people are only one step away from the ultimate divinity, but this may mean a farther distance than the original position-the symbols that convey experience are different in compactness and difference, but they have not become closer to the truth. The residents of this "city-state" cover all the members of the community on this planet from ancient times to the present, and their respective pursuit trajectories add up to form what we call human history.

In the maze, a new landmark, we can re-identify the series of symbols in the first three volumes. We have captured the image of the wilderness from Israel’s existence, and the image of the city-state from ancient Greece, respectively, to compare the mysterious and central divine reality of the maze and the secular existence as a long and tortuous maze full of danger of being lost. In this maze, we find that the Israeli prophet and the ancient Greek philosophers are both on the road of seeking from the city-state to the wilderness, although they are in different positions. The cosmological order, which was regarded as an obstacle in the first three volumes, is now summarized as the theory of historical creation, which is an attempt to put secular existence into an inevitable historical narrative sequence. It has been continuously existing in human history since the end of the third Millennium BC, and of course it also exists with Israel and ancient Greece. People captured by this theory of historical creation have never forgotten their maze situation, that is, the present situation of their secular existence and the purpose of divine reality, but they believe that they are moving forward along a path that will surely arrive. In the 19th century, this theory of historical creation manifested itself as various "historical philosophies". Nevertheless, they are still a type with the experience of the tension between divine reality and secular existence as the core.

However, all types of consciousness may be obscured, and this maze as a serious game may be completely abandoned. At those moments, people either completely forget the divine reality or cut off its connection with secular existence. As a result, secular existence loses the touch of divine reality and goes further and further in the disorder caused by greed and power. In the process of analyzing all kinds of experiences and symbol types in the era of the world, voegelin always reveals this point. The attempt to cancel the maze is as old as the existence of the maze itself, and this is exactly what the order seekers of today’s era should be alert to. "If people realize that we are still struggling with the problems set by various ideological divisions in the world today, and have not yet won the final victory, then they may feel that not much has happened in the past 2,500 years." (Volume 4, page 443) In this sense, the era of the world does not mean a certain historical stage, but a special stage that lasts until today, and its end period cannot be predicted.

The time range of the world era began from the Hellenistic era and continued to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. There is no doubt that this era means the breaking of the previously relatively closed community boundaries, and the establishment of a world-oriented empire has continuously expanded the scope of secular existence, tending to bring the whole world under the rule of political order. Imperial theorists try to replace the universal concept of spiritual transcendental order with the universal concept representing the scope of realistic rule. Therefore, this expansion also means the escape from divine reality. "In the end, when enough people living in the same era were driven into an empire and did not provide support for the fictional narrative of a world, the assembled human beings finally showed that they were not good enough for human beings unless their universal status as human beings under God was recognized." (Volume 4, page 251) It means that greed and power have become the only motif of all mankind, and lead to uncontrolled wars and massacres. This expansion will not stop. The greedy and powerful army pursues the horizon to launch a strategy, but it finally finds that the world is in the shape of a sphere, and it will never reach the end of the horizon. At the same time, people have discovered the infinity of the universe in modern times.

In the era of the world, Gnosticism corresponds to the greedy power of secular existence. If greed for power means ignoring order and seeking, then the purpose of Gnosticism is to cancel the process of seeking and declare the possession of divine reality directly. When the enlightening feature of human consciousness is completely concealed by the intentional feature, a kind of egoism, that is, what voegelin said replaced the "self-manifestation" of divine manifestation, makes people mistakenly think that they can completely symbolize the divine reality and master it in this way. There are two different types of Gnosticism: ancient Gnostics denied the legitimacy of secular existence, and even tried to cancel secular existence itself and escape into the transcendental order that belongs to individual souls; Modern Gnostics, represented by Hegel, are all the links of secular existence and are brought under the order of divine reality that is said to have been revealed by him. Both kinds of Gnosticism mean canceling the maze by canceling the search process; And no matter what kind of gnosis, they can easily form an alliance with greedy powers because they give up secular existence:

Gnosticism, whether ancient or modern, is a dead end. Of course, this is also its attraction. Magic spiritual thinking makes people who are addicted to it have a sense of superiority in the face of reality that does not meet the spiritual requirements. Whether this addiction takes the form of libertarianism and asceticism, which are common in ancient times, or takes the form of modern times, people who are addicted to it are exempted from the responsibility of living in the universe. Because Gnosticism surrounds people’s desire for power with a halo woven by spiritualism or idealism, and it can always nourish its legitimacy by pointing out the evils in the world, once magical spiritual thinking enters history as a survival mode, it is difficult to predict what attractive historical outcome it will lead to. However, it is a dead end as far as it rejects the spiritual and rational life under various conditions of the universe. (Volume IV, page 79)

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In the final analysis, the core experience conveyed by the landmark maze is balance: "Only when people accept the incorruptibility as an indefinite burden can they be immortal. The balance of consciousness between height and depth, reason and uncertainty has become a balance between immortality and decay in theoretical life, that is, in the rational life of this world. " (Volume 4, page 330) It also means the balance between the wilderness of revelation and the polis of philosophy. This corrects the "belief" color that is too conspicuous in the first three volumes. In the end, voegelin became an excellent integrator of Greek-Hebrew traditions, just like his spiritual peers Strauss, Benjamin and even Wittgenstein.

At the end of every discussion, we will habitually ask: "What does this mean to us?" The wilderness and the polis finally converge into the landmark maze, which spans time and space, consciousness and reality, and becomes the intermediary field for universal human beings rooted in secular existence and heading for divine reality. We are among them, and voegelin himself is among them. He is just one of many seekers of order. Back to the first sentence, "the historical order comes from the history of order", and the "historical order" finally revealed by voegelin is presented in the form of a maze, in which everyone will look for suitable symbols according to the mission entrusted by their respective time and space, and resolve the disorder of secular existence by symbolizing the divine reality they have experienced. Voegelin’s maze trapped us in a kind of silent isolation, but it also gave every thinker and actor the possibility of real events, which the once-and-for-all single-line narrative inevitability could not give. The isolation brought by this means a complete empowerment. Therefore, it means the fact that we are still searching for order empty-handed, but no one can say that we have nothing.

It is imperative for the whole people to discuss the topic of "blockchain" and build a healthy public opinion ecology.

  On October 24th, at the 18th collective study in the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized: "The integrated application of blockchain technology plays an important role in new technological innovation and industrial transformation. We must take blockchain as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies, clarify the main direction, increase investment, focus on overcoming a number of key core technologies, and accelerate the development of blockchain technology and industrial innovation. " The foresight and high attention of the highest level have made the "blockchain" enter the public’s field of vision and become the focus of attention and hot discussion from all walks of life.

Overall information reporting trend (Source: Zhongyun Big Data Platform)

  Since the 24th, when General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized the blockchain technology in the 18th collective study in the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the topic of "blockchain" has been rapidly fermented. On the 28th, the stock market saw the daily limit of "blockchain" concept stocks, and the topic of "blockchain" triggered a heated discussion among the whole people, and the popularity of related topics quickly reached its peak. Since then, the heat of related topics has cooled down.

  Media focus

  According to the monitoring results of "Zhongyun Big Data Platform", People’s Daily Online Public Opinion Data Center found that the key words concerned by the media mainly include blockchain, blockchain technology, market and company.

Media pays attention to the word cloud (Source: Zhongyun Big Data Platform)

  The blockchain industry form is taking shape.

  Wechat WeChat official account "Spicy Finance" posted that some experts said that the blockchain technology has been developed for about 10 years, and the relatively large-scale application is in the financial field represented by cryptocurrency. In fact, the blockchain can be used in many scenarios, including finance, logistics, education, employment, medical health, food safety, social assistance and other fields. Taking the financial field as an example, there are many concepts related to blockchain finance, such as blockchain payment and settlement, virtual digital currency, digital currency trading platform, bitcoin and so on.

  At present, some areas in China have tried to apply blockchain technology in multiple scenarios. People’s Daily reported that a large number of government affairs systems in xiong’an new area, Hebei Province were based on blockchain technology, Shanghai started to build a blockchain technology innovation and industrialization base in 2018, and Hangzhou Internet Court issued a smart contract judicial application based on judicial blockchain technology.

  Domestic Internet companies are also widely involved in the application of blockchain technology. China discipline inspection and supervision newspaper pays attention to "Alibaba pays attention to product traceability, cross-border settlement and other fields, Tencent focuses on the application of electronic invoices and other financial fields, and JD.COM focuses on transparent supply chain system to crack down on counterfeit and shoddy products". The observation network issued a document saying that in August 2018, Shenzhen Taxation Bureau and Tencent jointly issued the country’s first blockchain invoice. After a year, blockchain invoices have covered more than 100 industries, with more than 5,300 access enterprises, and accumulated invoices have exceeded 8 million.

  It is worth mentioning that WeChat WeChat official account’s "Media Tea Party" issued a document saying that while doing a good job in guiding public opinion, People’s Daily also focused on the dynamic development of blockchain. It is understood that People’s Daily has launched the "People’s Copyright" blockchain to protect the intellectual property rights of digital works.

  China’s blockchain industry continues to grow at a high speed, and the competition will be fierce in the future. Guangming Daily reported, "According to the statistics of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the scale of China’s blockchain industry was 2.1 billion US dollars in 2017 and 2.9 billion US dollars in 2018. It is expected to reach about 4.2 billion US dollars in 2019, with an average annual growth rate of over 65% from 2013 to 2019." With the increasing demand for blockchain application and transformation in the fields of digital bills, asset custody, logistics and shipping, food and drug safety traceability, and digital content copyright, many blockchain solution providers will launch fierce competition.

  Blockchain technology needs to be continuously improved.

  Blockchain technology is considered as the next generation subversive core technology after steam engine, electric power and Internet. Guangming Daily reported that Ling Xia, deputy director of the Digital Economy Research Office of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, said that the concept of "blockchain" was put forward as early as 2008. As a new application mode of distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm and other computer technologies, blockchain has the characteristics of disintermediation, good traceability and difficult tampering.

  The technical framework of blockchain itself is still not mature enough and needs to be continuously improved. Wechat WeChat official account’s People’s Daily Commentary pointed out that the blockchain is still in the early stage of development, and it needs to be further developed and improved in terms of safety, standards and supervision. Li Xiang, director of the Research and Consulting Center of the Chinese Institute of Electronics and secretary general of the blockchain branch, pointed out in the article "Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Innovation and Development" that the blockchain was born only nine years ago. Compared with most technologies, it is still in the "infant" stage, and there are practical problems such as weak scalability, low efficiency, high handling fee and unreasonable economic model design, which can not well meet the large-scale commercialization of multi-domain distributed applications (DAPP). At the same time, due to key technologies such as private key encryption, smart contract, fragmentation, cross-chain and side chain, consensus mechanisms such as DAG and DPOS and economic incentive models are still in the trial or trial stage, and there are still loopholes in procedures and codes in blockchain.

  Call for rational investment to avoid potential risks

  Industry insiders call for a rational view of the investment phenomenon related to the "blockchain". China securities journal reported that Sun Tianqi, chief accountant of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, suggested: First, don’t speculate on the concept of blockchain; Second, illegal financial activities cannot be carried out in the cloak of blockchain; Third, in order to truly gain market space, blockchain technology must find its own market from the pain point of current economy and finance and from the process of serving the real economy.

  In the program of CCTV Financial Review on October 26th, Ma Guangyuan, a financial commentator, and Liu Xiaolei, director of Guanghua School of Management of Peking University, said that the application of blockchain is not speculation. This time, the signal conveyed by the Politburo is that it hopes to support the real economy through blockchain technology, rather than short-term speculation. On this cusp, we should be more alert to enterprises and individuals who violate the law and regulations under the guise of blockchain. The Beijing News reported that people in the industry have said that blockchain and currency circle cannot be equated, and we should be more alert to the financing and currency speculation activities of pyramid schemes and frauds in the name of blockchain in recent years.

  Investors suggest that investors rationally look at the phenomenon of the recent stagnation of blockchain concept stocks. Yu Rui, chief analyst of Chain Tower Think Tank, told Securities Daily that in the face of important positive news, the stock market surge is a normal performance of the market, which also reflects that investors have a high degree of recognition of blockchain-related concepts and are confident in the future development of the industry. However, it should be pointed out that at present, not all enterprises in the blockchain sector have actual blockchain business and revenue, and they will not be reflected in their performance in the short term. Investors should treat it rationally and pay more attention to the long-term healthy development of the blockchain field.

  Promoting the healthy development of blockchain needs more efforts.

  While developing blockchain technology, we should also pay attention to the potential risks it may cause and strengthen normative guidance. China securities journal reported that analysts have suggested that new technology is a "double-edged sword", which brings about changes, but at the same time, possible risks can not be ignored. It is necessary to be alert to the security loopholes of new technologies and strengthen the guidance and standardization of new technologies. Among them, Professor Cai Liang, executive deputy director of the Blockchain Research Center of Zhejiang University, said in an interview with Xinhuanet, "How to solve the efficiency and security problems of the alliance blockchain, how to solve the problem of data collaboration between the chain and the chain, and how to solve the supervision of the blockchain is an important direction for future development."

  In view of the legal gaps in the application of blockchain, Song Mofei, a special researcher at Suning Financial Research Institute, said in an interview with The Beijing News that the technical characteristics of blockchain need corresponding regulatory measures. At present, the state has not issued special laws and regulations on this, and there is also a lack of laws to clarify the legal status and corresponding problems of blockchain. For example, once a smart contract reaches the blockchain, where is the arbitration right, and whether the implementation of the whole contract has the same legal effect as a paper contract. These also need to be solved by the government’s policies and regulations.

  How to treat the relationship between the development of blockchain and risk prevention? Ye Zhenzhen, Party Secretary, Chairman and President of People’s Daily Online, pointed out in the article "Reading Blockchain Today and Tomorrow from Three Perspectives" that "the development of information technology frontiers such as blockchain is closely related to the future international competition pattern. If we don’t develop blockchain, we may fall into the danger of long-term backwardness. Therefore, the establishment of the supervision system must respect the law of technological development, focus on the world and future competition, and organically combine risk prevention with development promotion. "

  Call on relevant departments to actively accept the blockchain and clarify that "the blockchain is not used for speculation". The Beijing News Network commented that without rules, it is not a Fiona Fang. The administrative and judicial departments should actively embrace the blockchain, transform and even reshape the e-government system through the mechanism design idea of the blockchain, so that the public power decision-making and execution process can be traced back and cannot be tampered with. At the same time, we will increase the protection of the market and social order, establish a public order and good law environment for blockchain "no speculation", and purify the impetuousness of the market.

  People in the industry call for paying attention to the research and application of basic technology theory, ecological cultivation and improving infrastructure. The People’s Daily article "Blockchain, how much do you know (new economic orientation)" said that on the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen the research on relevant basic technology theories, such as consensus algorithms related to blockchain performance and security, and zero-knowledge proof related to data privacy. Cryptographic algorithms; On the other hand, it is necessary to speed up the construction of basic supporting facilities, such as blockchain industry public network and distributed digital identity system.

  Guangming Daily reported that Li Xiang, director of the Research and Consulting Center of the Chinese Institute of Electronics and secretary-general of the blockchain branch, said that to promote the development of blockchain and economic and social integration, we should strengthen basic theory and technology research, focus on supporting the research and development of key technologies such as blockchain storage, encryption, consensus and cross-chain, and strive to promote interdisciplinary common basic research and interdisciplinary application research of related blockchain technology. In addition, we must attach great importance to the cultivation of technological ecology, integrate the resource advantages of the government, universities, enterprises and industry organizations, and build and improve the blockchain innovation ecology. Accelerate the integration and development of 5G and blockchain, give full play to the characteristics of low latency, high speed and low cost of 5G, and improve the efficiency of blockchain system.

  Public opinion comment

  Recently, the topic of "blockchain" has continued to arouse heated discussion among the whole people, boosting the popularity of public opinion and forming a "phenomenal" public opinion topic. In fact, as early as many years ago, the topic of "blockchain" has attracted attention many times. At that time, the research and application of blockchain had just started, and the related technical safety and risks were uncertain, and the related discussion was professional, and the discussion heat and scope were restricted to some extent. At the same time, in the past, there were many chaos such as speculation on "virtual currency", which left some negative impressions on public opinion, such as many problems and great risks. Subject to the above multiple factors, the discussion on related topics has not yet formed a strong public opinion momentum. However, after the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader delivered an important speech on the development status and trend of blockchain technology, the development and application of blockchain technology is gradually gaining popularity. In particular, the application results of some blockchain technologies have attracted much attention from public opinion, which has created a positive public opinion ecology for the next promotion and application of blockchain technology.

  Han Chao, a public opinion analyst at People’s Daily Public Opinion Data Center, believes that there are two tendencies worthy of attention in the discussion of netizens. First, in terms of investment concept, some netizens are blindly optimistic and have high expectations for the development prospects of blockchain technology, so that they ignore the potential risks, equate "blockchain" with "bitcoin", blindly follow the trend to invest in "virtual currency", or speculate on blockchain concept stocks. Second, in terms of technical risks, some netizens pay one-sided attention to technical risks, stir up the negative impact of the chaos of "virtual currency" in the past, ignore the positive significance of technological innovation, and even mistakenly believe that the high transparency of information on the blockchain will not protect personal privacy. Of course, some netizens expressed their expectations for the application advantages and risks of popular interpretation and publicity blockchain technology. The above situation reflects that there is still room for the promotion and guidance of blockchain technology. On the one hand, some popular science propaganda is professional and in-depth, which needs to be further popularized and popularized to facilitate the audience’s understanding. On the other hand, some misconceptions of netizens need to be cleared up in time to avoid the continuous spread of irrational views. In addition, it is necessary to actively spread financial management concepts such as "investment is risky" to the public to help individual investors improve their risk identification and prevention capabilities.

  Treating the problems in the development of blockchain should be like caring for newborns. It is necessary to avoid pampering and make them grow wildly, but also to overcome malnutrition and help them grow healthily. I believe that with the concerted efforts of the government, enterprises, academic circles, media and even all walks of life, and with the efforts of Qi Xin, the "winding" will "fly into the homes of ordinary people" just like surfing the Internet in the near future. (People’s Daily Public Opinion Data Center public opinion analyst Han Chao intern Wang Juan, Zhang Shuai finishing)

The demonstration base project drives Wuzhai, Shanxi Province to make small potatoes incite the big market to become a big industry.

CCTV News:Wuzhai County, Shanxi Province, which is located in the hilly area of the Loess Plateau in northwest Shanxi Province, has a tradition of planting potatoes, and the local people have increased their income and become rich by introducing agricultural projects and improving planting varieties.

These days, during the potato planting season, the 30,000 mu modern processing potato demonstration base project in Wuzhai County, Shanxi Province is in full swing. By transferring the land of 1683 farmers in two towns, the local government has realized the transformation from small-scale farming to large-scale and specialization.

Su Guoping, Captain of Wuzhai County Project Team:The whole project has three large reservoirs and 80 small reservoirs with 100 cubic meters. The water problem in the whole planting process is solved by diverting water from Nanfeng Reservoir.

It is understood that the climate and soil conditions in Wuzhai County are very suitable for potato growth, and the potato planting area in the county is stable at more than 100,000 mu every year. However, the traditional extensive planting method has problems such as single planting variety, low average yield and low processing conversion rate, which has become a bottleneck restricting the development of the whole industry. The demonstration base under construction can increase the local potato yield from 2000 kg to 4000 kg, and the output value will more than double.

With the gradual progress of the project, 100,000 mu of modern processing potato planting base will be built in the local area during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and potato production and processing projects will be built to extend the industrial chain, and a modern agricultural industrial system of "enterprise+base+farmers" will be gradually established, which integrates education, multiplication, promotion, planting, processing, marketing and tourism, so that small potatoes can truly incite the big market to become a big industry.

Gold welcomes "Super Golden Week"! The retail price broke through 600 yuan, and the online and offline sales exploded. Investment gold bars attracted much attention, and the institutions revealed the

Gold ushered in the super "Golden Week"!

The Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day are coming. As a traditional peak season for gold consumption, many consumers will walk into jewelry stores during the long holiday every year. What is slightly different this year is that the price of gold has recently hit a new high, and the retail gold prices of several jewelry brands such as Lao Fengxiang and Zhou Dasheng have exceeded that of 600 yuan per gram.

On September 27th, the main gold futures contract (AU2312) of Shanghai Futures Exchange closed at 466.9 yuan/gram, and hit an all-time high of 480.26 yuan/gram in intraday trading on September 15th.

According to the data of China Gold Association, the national gold consumption in the first half of this year was 554.88 tons, up 16.37% year-on-year, of which the consumption of gold jewelry was 368.26 tons, up 14.82% year-on-year. TF Securities found that the total retail sales of gold, silver and jewelry in August was 28.3 billion yuan, up 29.8% from the previous month, exceeding the average of 7.8 percentage points in the past five years.

The recently released list of Tik Tok’s goods in August shows that jewelry bloggers "Jewelry on the Cloud" beat Oriental Selection, Crazy Xiao Yang Ge and Qier Leo to top the list with sales of 807 million yuan.

The financial community saw in Beijing Caibai Jewelry and other stores that the scene was crowded and the salesmen were overwhelmed. People in the jewelry industry told the financial sector that the current gold price is indeed at a high level, and the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are definitely the peak seasons for gold consumption, so more jewelry experience activities will be created. In terms of consumption structure, all categories have increased since this year, among which gold has increased greatly, and investment gold bars have received more attention in the last quarter. According to industry insiders, the second half of the year is the traditional peak season for gold jewelry, and consumption data and corporate performance are expected to further improve.

Multiple factors push up domestic gold price increase.

In fact, while the domestic gold price has soared, the international spot price of gold has shown a downward trend since the end of August.

According to the macro statistics of Tianfeng, from August to September 24th, Shanghai Gold rose by 3.7%. However, at the same time, London gold saw a saw in the range of $1,880-1,950 per ounce, with a cumulative decline of 2.0%. Even taking into account the 2.1% rise of the US dollar against the RMB, Shanghai gold showed an obvious premium to Lunjin.

In this regard, brokers summed up four reasons. First of all, the depreciation of the exchange rate has stimulated institutional gold investment demand and household consumption demand.

Since April this year, the RMB has rapidly depreciated, and the offshore market price once fell below 7.3, breaking through the upper limit of exchange rate box operation. The central bank uses counter-cyclical factors and lowers the foreign exchange reserve ratio to stabilize the RMB exchange rate.

When the expectation of depreciation has not been reversed, it has become an option for investors to increase their holdings of gold to hedge the potential depreciation risk.

Second, import restrictions have caused the internal and external gold prices to continue to deviate.

Historical data show that at most historical points, the price of London gold is close to that of Shanghai gold after exchange rate adjustment, which shows that the market pricing of gold is very effective.

But this time, there is a premium of about 5% between them. At present, the implied exchange rate of RMB against the US dollar in the gold market is 7.6-7.7, which is much higher than the current offshore exchange rate of RMB against the US dollar of about 7.3.

According to the macro analysis of Tianfeng, in theory, the arbitrage space can be smoothed out by increasing the import of spot gold. However, when the RMB depreciates rapidly and the exchange rate is close to the upper limit of the box operation, the central bank may control the import quota of gold to avoid the outflow of funds through gold and aggravate the depreciation pressure. Therefore, the premium of internal and external gold prices cannot be bridged, which is reflected in the continuous deviation between the implied exchange rate and the actual exchange rate.

In terms of data, in the first half of this year, China’s gold consumption was 554.9 tons, a year-on-year increase of 16.37%. However, in the same period, the output of gold was only 178.6 tons, up 2.24% year-on-year, and the consumption was nearly 3.1 times of the output, so the premium in the middle must be made up by imported gold.

However, the import of physical gold this year, the net import of gold from Hong Kong, China to the mainland in July was 25.769 tons, which was lower than 34.648 tons in June. The total amount of gold imported through Hong Kong, China decreased by 21% to 30.239 tons compared with June, and the net import decreased by about 26% compared with June. Import restrictions have caused the internal and external gold prices to continue to deviate, which is reflected in the obvious premium of Shanghai gold compared with London gold.

Based on this, Tianfeng macroscopically pointed out that the superficial reason of Shanghai gold premium is that the gold investment demand of domestic institutions and the gold consumption demand of residents jointly drive the rise of RMB gold price, and the fundamental reason for the premium is the arbitrage failure caused by import restrictions.

Third, domestic interest rate cuts and poor return on investment are catalysts for domestic gold premium.

The article "Weird Gold Price Difference" in Yingcai Magazine on September 25th pointed out that domestic interest rate cuts and overseas interest rate hikes will inevitably lead to the return of foreign capital and some domestic capital outflows. At the same time, successive interest rate cuts will also lead to the overall decline of risk-free interest rates such as the yield of government bonds and time bank deposits, and the risk in the capital market will intensify, leading to a decline in the overall risk appetite of the market.

According to the article, investors at this time can’t get a satisfactory rate of return from the equity market or the money market, so they can only turn their original investment into defensive assets such as gold, which is one of the core reasons for the surge in demand for gold.

Fourth, the central bank’s purchase of gold is also an important factor to promote the rise of gold prices.

Guangfa Futures pointed out that large-scale continuous purchases of gold by central banks are also one of the important factors driving the price of gold to rise. According to the statistics of the World Gold Council, as of June 2023, the global central bank’s total gold reserve was about 35,730.7 tons, an increase of 37.16 tons compared with the first quarter. In the second quarter of this year, the global central bank’s gold purchase rate slowed down to 102.9 tons, but it set a record of 387 tons in the first half of this year.

In August, China’s gold reserves increased by 32.03 tons to 2,165.42 tons, increasing its holdings for 10 consecutive months; The Turkish central bank re-increased its gold reserves by 17 tons to 457 tons in July; In August, LMBA London gold stocks dropped sharply by 2.468 million ounces to 282.5 million ounces (about 8,787 tons), and the central bank’s demand for gold purchases continued to reduce stocks.

The high consumption of gold jewelry will continue.

Behind the madness of gold price, can the consumption of gold jewelry continue to rise? Huaxi Securities Research Report pointed out that from the perspective of volume and price splitting, the high consumption of gold jewelry will continue.

From the price point of view, under the current complex global environment, the short-term and medium-term gold prices may still fluctuate upwards. The complex international situation such as the cooling of inflation in the United States (the expected slowdown in interest rate hikes) and the situation of the Russian-Ukrainian war will continue to push the trend of gold prices under risk aversion; In addition, the trend of domestic gold price is stronger under the expectation of exchange rate, which leads to the further amplification of domestic and foreign gold price difference.

In terms of sales volume, the change of consumption structure and consumption scene drives the total volume to expand again. Compared with diamonds and other categories, gold has a stronger value-preserving property, and its consumption preference has increased significantly under the background of lower consumption expectations; The proportion of wedding demand continues to decrease, and self-satisfaction consumption has become the dominant factor for consumers to buy gold jewelry. China’s gold jewelry consumption has completed scene switching, driving the medium and long-term stability.

There may be three major trends in the future development of the industry: 1. It is still in the channel-driven stage in the short term, and the industry concentration is expected to continue to increase; 2. From "wholesale mode" to "new retail mode", the new paradigm will win the future; 3. "Product +IP" may become a more feasible development path for domestic jewelry brands.

According to Huaxi Securities, China’s gold jewelry industry has entered a new stage of development, characterized by higher gold price+higher consumption+product process upgrade. In the short term, gold jewelry will still dominate the core demand, and it is expected to maintain rapid growth in the future.

A jewelry listed company also clearly mentioned in the third quarter performance forecast that with the continuous improvement of gold jewelry products’ technology, the lack of cultural richness, the decline of appearance design, and the continuous warming of demand for self-satisfaction and pan-marriage, consumers’ willingness to buy has increased, which has driven the company’s sales revenue to grow. At the same time, in the third quarter of 2023, the domestic gold price fluctuated upward and hit a record high, which stimulated the consumer demand of gold products to rise, and the hottest "Huang Jinbao" may have just begun.

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Three sets of data to explore Haier’s new development pattern

  Both revenue and profit achieved 6% growth, and the growth rate of performance ranked first in the world’s large household appliance enterprises for 15 consecutive years; The competition in the home appliance market has already turned white-hot, but with an explosive product, it has achieved a leap in the market share of 4% to 19% in the American big drum washing machine market; Under the general environment of shrinking investment, we have invested more than 10 billion yuan to continue to exert our physical layout … Turning to the newly released 2023 report card of Haier Group (hereinafter referred to as "Haier"), three groups of data that "go against the wind" suddenly appear in the dense data.

  In the context of the downturn in the real estate market, how can the performance of home appliance leaders increase instead of falling? How to quickly grow from a non-mainstream brand to a mainstream brand when entering overseas markets? Where does the confidence and confidence come from with the countercyclical investment of 10 billion yuan?

  With the above questions, shanghai securities news interviewed many people and brand experts of Haier Group, trying to decode Haier’s innovative development in 2023 and look forward to the new future of high-quality development of China enterprises.

  Both revenue and profit achieved 6% growth.

  On January 27th, Haier revealed its market performance in 2023 at its 2023 annual summary and commendation meeting: global revenue was 371.8 billion yuan, global profit was 26.7 billion yuan, and both revenue and profit achieved 6% growth.

  How to achieve a contrarian rise? In this regard, Haier has given several sets of more detailed data: in China, the market share of Haier household appliances will reach 28.1% in 2023; In North America, Haier’s general household appliances have become the fastest growing household appliance company for seven consecutive years; In Japan, the annual share of refrigerators and washing machines has become the first in the industry; In Europe, Haier has achieved contrarian growth in the context of the continuous decline of the home appliance market, and has become the fastest growing home appliance brand in the region for eight consecutive years.

  While building a smart residence base, Haier’s layout in other fields has also achieved steady development. On the industrial Internet track, Haier kaos ranked first in the double-span platform of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for five consecutive years, linking more than 900,000 enterprises and empowering 160,000 enterprises. By building the "work-giving model" of empowering cities with urban brains and industrial cloud brains, it has been replicated in 20 cities across the country, such as Jinan, Zibo and Linyi. Taking "work-giving Qingdao" as an example, in 2023, there were 5,000 service enterprises, with an added industrial output value of 35 billion yuan. In the big health track, Haier pioneered the low-temperature automation solution of smart pharmacy, realizing the leap of single scene value from one million to ten million; Haier Biomedical provides infrastructure solutions for vaccination in Uganda, Madagascar and other countries, which is highly recognized by the local authorities. On the track of urban governance, Qingdao’s urban emergency solution is taken as a model, and it continues to be replicated in Qihe, Jinan, Hefei and other cities.

  "The steady development of market performance is inseparable from the layout of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation." Zhou Yunjie, Chairman and CEO of Haier Group, told the reporter that in 2023, he continued to focus on scientific and technological innovation, and broke through industrial scientific and technological problems such as magnetic control cooling and fresh air conditioning variable shunt. The ultra-high-speed centrifuges that tackled the problem broke through the core technologies to fill the domestic gap, and independently developed key technologies of digital technology industry such as BaaS digital industrial operating system and HomeGPT, the industry’s first smart home vertical domain model. The core algorithm technologies such as high-frequency PFC, press driver and fan driver reached the international leading level.

  "In 2024, Haier should maintain its strength, continue to focus on the two major tracks of smart residence and industrial Internet, and become an industry leader in each track." Zhou Yunjie said.

  From 4% to 19%, smart living is still the biggest grasp.

  In the past 40 years, Haier Group has developed into a global leading brand from a small collective factory on the verge of bankruptcy. In Haier’s view, the most important thing for enterprises to develop is to innovate to meet the needs of users, and there are many stories that people relish. From the earliest washing machine that can wash sweet potatoes to self-cleaning air conditioners and ultra-thin refrigerators in overseas markets, behind every innovative product is the satisfaction of different user groups. In 2023, a similar story was once again staged in overseas markets.

  "The washing and drying machine in the American market takes 5-6 hours to wash and dry at a time, and it is still not completely baked. Users complain a lot. In our research, users want to shorten the time by at least half. So we locked in the leading goal of 2 hours of washing and drying. " Gao Yawu, a member of Haier’s North American washing machine team and a post-90 s maker, shared such a story with reporters. After determining the user’s needs, Haier’s R&D centers in Europe, America, New Zealand and China realized collaborative research and development, completely subverting the structure and technology of the existing washing and drying machine in the United States, and creating a brand-new user experience, which not only greatly shortened the drying time, but also made the clothes drying more thorough and uniform.

  After the final product was put on the market, even though the price was as high as $2,899, it quickly became a local high-end explosive, and more than 100,000 units were sold in seven months. Before the product was launched, Haier’s share in the local large drum washing machine market was only 4%, but now Haier’s market share has suddenly risen to 19%.

  The global expansion of China’s home appliance enterprises has entered the fierce stage of brand output, and it is obvious that Haier has mastered the magic weapon to win. Zhou Yunjie said recently that the smart living track is still the biggest starting point for Haier to become a world-class enterprise. This means that Haier Group will not only be strong and smart, but also deepen the track, and it is particularly important to achieve scientific and technological breakthroughs in the original and key areas of the industry.

  According to reports, in 2023, Haier’s global smart home invention patents increased by 6,152, with a total of 29,486, leading the world for 10 consecutive times; In 2023, more than 15,000 new public patents were added, ranking first in the industry; Nine new international standards have been issued, 106 international standards have been issued, 770 national and industrial standards have been issued, and there are more than 100 global standards experts, with the largest number of industries. At the basic research level, Haier has also broken through the core technology of ultra-high-speed centrifuges, filling the domestic gap; At the level of platform technology, Haier has broken through the common scientific and technological problems of air conditioning variable shunt and other industries. All the above results have laid a foundation for Haier to continue to stay ahead in the smart residence track.

  "Large enterprises can effectively cope with the impact of economic cycle fluctuations through continuous innovation." Luo Qingqi, a brand expert and senior director of Paler Consulting, said in an interview with shanghai securities news, "As a leading enterprise in the industry, Haier is constantly leading the development trend of the industry. At present, it is no longer simply focusing on home appliances, but upgrading through technology and scenes, providing users with diversified smart life scene solutions, transforming from providing users with home appliances to creating smart life, thus driving the demand of the stock market, which is also the key for Haier to maintain sustained and steady growth in this track."

  Zhou Yunjie made it clear that Haier should seize the opportunity of the times to become an eco-smart enterprise with the first brand, the first scale and the first market value in the world, and continue to improve its ecology and strengthen its competitiveness.

  Counter-cyclical investment seeking deterministic growth

  In addition to accelerating the strategic layout in the field of smart housing, Haier has also accelerated the expansion of the industrial Internet track. Zhou Yunjie proposed at the 2023 annual summary and commendation meeting that Haier should strengthen three platforms and deepen four vertical industries.

  The three platforms are kaos Industrial Internet Platform, Haichuanghui Entrepreneurship Acceleration Platform and Haiyongshun Cross-border Service Platform, and the four vertical industries are Big Health Industry Internet, Urban Governance Industry Internet, Automobile Industry Internet and New Energy Industry Internet.

  Haier’s ecological forces have already rushed out of the well-known "home appliances" boundary, and continue to cultivate new growth points by continuously cracking the layout.

  In January this year, () announced that Haier Group planned to acquire 20% of the shares held by Clifford, with a total transfer price of 12.5 billion yuan. For a time, this incident became the focus of the industry, and this was just the tip of the iceberg for Haier to continue to strengthen the layout of the real economy.

  On December 14th, 2023, a subsidiary of Haier Group () announced that it planned to acquire the commercial refrigeration business of Carrier Group for about US$ 640 million (about RMB 4.559 billion) in cash. Also in December, Haier kaos Industrial Internet Ecological Park refrigerator intelligent manufacturing (Phase I) project was officially put into operation, which means that the industrial park built by Haier with a domestic investment of 13 billion yuan is gradually being delivered. According to public information, Haier kaos Industrial Internet Ecological Park has a total planned production capacity of 26 million units, which is the largest among all home appliance parks in the world.

  At the commissioning ceremony of the refrigerator intelligent manufacturing (Phase I) project, relevant parties promoted the signing of 10 key projects in the supply chain of smart home appliances industry chain in kaos Xincheng. It includes 3 industrial Internet projects and 7 upstream and downstream supporting projects in the industrial chain, covering the whole chain of sheet materials, precision molds, heat-conducting accessories, sensors, industrial gases, equipment and materials, and packaging materials in the smart home appliance industry, with a planned total investment of 15 billion yuan. In addition, Haier plans to lay out "Top Ten Factories" in the whole industrial chain, such as refrigerators, washing, air conditioners and recycling, in the Haier kaos Industrial Internet Ecological Park project where the factory is located within five years, with an annual output value exceeding 40 billion yuan.

  In addition, in June 2023, BWT Haier Intelligent Water Purification Plant was put into operation, with an annual production capacity of 2 million units and an output value of about 200 million euros. In September of the same year, Haier led the Qingdao factory project of Deao Group in Germany, with a total investment of 40 million US dollars, and planned to build five high-end electronic control panel production lines.

  Zhou Yunjie told reporters that under the strategic layout of the two racetracks, Haier will continue to promote the industry to be bigger, deeper and more practical, accelerate the construction progress of Haier Central Air Conditioning (Jiaozhou) Intelligent Manufacturing Base, Haier Da Health (Yingkang Yisheng) Digital Intelligence Industrial Park for Medical Devices, Haier Egyptian Industrial Park and other projects, and build new advantages for high-quality development of the industry. At the same time, based on scientific and technological innovation, we will give full play to the platform role of kaos Industrial Internet, and inject surging new kinetic energy into grasping the new development of digital economy.

  Luo Qingqi believes that the whole economic circle often says "countercyclical layout", which is actually Buffett’s most famous investment motto: I am greedy when others are afraid. Because this strategic layout often requires less investment, but it will bring greater return on investment. Firmly focusing on the real economy and continuously accelerating the industrial layout is what Haier is doing now and in the future.

New Portraits of Contemporary Urban Youth

From November 29th to 30th, the 15th China Youth Development Forum (2019) was held in Beijing. China Youth Daily China Youth Network Trainee reporter Yang Baoguang/photo
Ten years ago, Lian Si led the team members to discover the "low-income colony of college graduates"-"ant tribe" in big cities. In the past 10 years, he led the members of the research group to pay close attention to the development and changes of contemporary youth, and went deep into 32 youth groups such as "ant tribe" and "worker bee" to understand their living conditions and listen to their core demands.
"Analyzing the data of these youth groups, we deeply feel that under the background of social transformation, urban youth groups show obvious new characteristics in terms of communication methods, work forms, life needs and pressure troubles." At the 15th China Youth Development Forum (2019) jointly sponsored by China Youth Research Center, Central Youth League School and China Youth Research Association, Lian Si, a professor from university of international business and economics, released the research results of his research group. Based on the research of 32 youth groups, he summarized some overall characteristics of the overall situation of contemporary youth and tried to paint contemporary urban youth from different dimensions.
New ways of communication: being alone but not alone, socializing in circles and rebuilding identity
"When a rural youth goes to the city, he feels isolated." Lian Si said that it is this "isolated" modernization situation that makes young people yearn for building a new "community", and the development of Internet technology provides this possibility.
While maintaining self-awareness and exploring self-interest, young people are also pursuing new circle connections. This trend is called "independence but not loneliness". Lian Si explained that the so-called "independence" means keeping one’s own ideas, maintaining private space and not wearing a mask; And "not lonely" means longing for attention, longing for someone to share topics and emotions, and gaining communication and recognition in the community.
Young people often gather in circles with their interests and preferences, creating their own discourse system and becoming the originator of many online popular cultures. In Lian Si’s view, it is this circle that gives young people a sense of belonging, purpose, meaning and acceptance.
"We saw Tik Tok, and some hand-held videos can quickly form a self-organizing platform for hundreds of thousands or even millions of people." Lian Si found that the circle socialization with hobbies as the node has begun to show its edge among young people, and there are various circles such as "military", "antique" and "virtual idol".
"The style and taste attributes contained in the circle itself are gradually dissolving the traditional three-dimensional class division standard of’ power, prestige and money’ and reshaping the group identity and sense of belonging of young people." Lian Si believes that more and more young people are beginning to recognize each other according to different tastes and styles, judge "circles" and reach identity.
New working forms: weak dependence, fragmented energy and time scarcity.
Lian Si’s research group found that with the national economic and social development, the motivation of young people’s survival has been promoted from "surviving" to "meaningful", and the reason for working is no longer "making money" but "value".
The research group found that the career development and work form of contemporary youth have been deeply branded by the times, showing three new characteristics, namely, weakened dependence, fragmented energy and time scarcity. These characteristics are rooted in the underlying logic of social operation, shaped by the times, and also show the trend of the times.
"Contemporary youth have a strong sense of individual identity, relying on self-ability and social resources to make a living in the market. Organizations play more of a platform to show and bless individual values, rather than a’ unit’ with identity attribution effect in the traditional sense." Lian Si said that young people are more self-decision-making, self-responsibility and self-action.
"Contemporary youth’s life time and space are bound by mobile modernity, so it is difficult to pay attention to the whole period, often interrupted by trivial matters, overloaded with information, and the processing time of a single task is shortened, and leisure time and working time interfere with each other …" Lian Si introduced that young people inevitably present the characteristics of "fast pace", "multiple parallelism" and "all-weather" as a whole. At the same time, they have a stronger sense of control over time and space.
"Uncertainty and fragmentation lead to time scarcity." Lian Si explained that a lot of time of contemporary youth is spent in dealing with scene switching and communication and cooperation, and some professional forms of "family", "modularization" and "immediacy" have also emerged.
New life needs: the customization of small world, the experience appeal of companionship, and the self-discipline of exquisite time and space.
According to Lian Si’s analysis, the weakening of dependence on work form, fragmentation of energy and scarcity of time work together to promote the drastic change of contemporary youth’s living needs.
"Uncertainty has spawned the customization of the small world." He explained that the risk of declining unit dependence increases the demand of young people for a sense of self-control, and the small environment around them is just an important way to realize a sense of control over life. Young people choose to define themselves with brand-new concepts. "Young people will feel that the big world is out of my control, but the small life has changed because of me."
He cited, for example, cultural interests such as baking, floral art, incense and so on, which are all ways for young people to build their own small world and show the uniqueness and self-attribute of the small world. "Building a lucky little world" has become an important consumer demand of some young people. They "build for poetic life", hoping to create a warm and ceremonial atmosphere by giving emotion and temperature to daily details to fight against the work.
Secondly, fragmentation breeds the experience appeal of companionship.
"The anxiety of’ life is limited, but things are limited’ is born from this. All these will make young people have the demand of’ light but not tired of companionship’." In Lian Si’s view, companionship refers to the need to fill leisure time, relieve anxiety and build self-space; The so-called "light but not greasy" is in line with the characteristics of fragmentation, and it needs a small fortunate and small companion that is lightweight, easy to touch, uncomplicated, simple and reliable. For young people who have not yet entered the family period, the superposition of "empty nest living alone" and space-time fragmentation has further amplified the demand for companionship and luck.
"Scarcity has inspired the self-discipline of exquisite time and space." In the introduction, Lian Si mentioned that with the improvement of income level and quality of life, young people no longer blindly pursue big names, but pay more attention to the quality of life itself. Such as online stores-Netease YEATION, Taobao Xinxuan, etc., and offline stores-famous and excellent products.
Another manifestation of young people’s attention to time in their life behavior is the birth of lazy goods aimed at saving time and liberating labor.
New pressure troubles: vague career prospects, expectation of living, and multiple choices of marriage and love.
New changes will inevitably produce new pressures. Lian Si found that within 10 years, young people can make changes through their own efforts in career development, residence, marriage and love, and they have expectations for future life and social system, otherwise they will question the social system.
As far as career development is concerned, with the development of information technology, youth employment and entrepreneurship are facing more paths. Some occupations attract young people with high academic qualifications due to factors such as free time, high income and great flexibility. At the same time, however, there are still a small number of young people with working ability who voluntarily choose to live without employment.
This group of young people who don’t go to school, get employed, study or take part in employment counseling, and do nothing all day long —— "Nite" is worthy of attention. According to the data of the sixth census in 2010, the research group estimates that the number of unemployed young people aged 14-35 who don’t go to school is about 6.22 million.
As an important item, youth marriage and love is written into the Medium and Long-term Youth Development Plan. Lian Si’s research group has done a survey on the marriage and love situation of urban youth, and found that the criteria for choosing a spouse of contemporary youth are more diverse, and they pay more attention to the connotative criteria such as the spouse’s personality, and also pay attention to the other party’s education, physical condition, age and other issues. At the same time, however, family situation, which is a more traditional criterion for choosing a spouse, is still valued by people, and irrational criteria such as "appearance association" and "love of beauty" still exist.
However, Lian Si also found that in real life, young people have long working hours and great occupational pressure, so they don’t have much energy and time to find a partner and manage their feelings, thus falling into the dilemma of "difficult marriage". "Young people are constructing the’ compartmentalization’ in marriage according to housing conditions such as price, apartment type, area and children’s educational resources, and further confirm their identity with this’ compartmentalization’".
The key to doing a good job in youth work is to solve the core demands of youth
During the research, Lian Si made a rule for everyone-deep admission, sympathetic communication, and withdrawal from judgment. For example, to study the courier brother group, you must at least follow them for a day.
"To study them, you must first stand in their perspective and experience their lives." In Lian Si’s view, this not only expresses his sincerity to the respondents, but also enables him to understand their life choices. Research is to stick mud under your feet, and it can’t be done simply by sending a questionnaire and doing an interview. Only by entering the life scenes of different youth groups and understanding the factors behind their choices and the warmth and coldness of human feelings can we make research results that truly meet the actual situation and the needs of the central government.
Hummingbird hovering between urban and rural areas is the definition of courier brother by Lian Si’s research group. He explained that the courier brother’s income when he returned to his hometown was not high, and it was difficult to integrate in big cities, just like a hummingbird hovering in the air. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can hover. They keep flapping their wings to keep themselves from falling.
What impressed Lian Si and the members of the research group was that Wu Mou, a 35-year-old courier, had been drifting north with his wife and children less than 100 days since 2002. Although they are diligent, hardworking and full of yearning for a better life, the reality is still grim for them.
Because there is no Beijing hukou, Wu Mou’s biggest worry is that her fifth-grade son can’t stay in Beijing to go to school. His son is interested in skating. Two years ago, the school began to form a short track speed skating team, and Xiao Wu became the first member to join. Now he can rank five or six in the district.
Generally, only the top five students are enrolled in middle schools. In order to stay in Beijing for school, Wu Mou must make greater efforts to deliver express delivery and pay the fees for after-school guidance for children.
"Through our works, let the weak voice and shine, so that everyone can see that people who live in the same society and community with you are struggling for their livelihood, and there are also disappointments in their lives, and they will cherish what they have now, be more willing to help others, and also inspire their motivation." Lian Si emphasized that this "universal inspiration" of seeing other groups empathize and be reasonable is the basis of doing well social science research.
How to do a good job in youth work in the new era?
Lian Si believes that the key is whether the core demands of youth can be realized through personal efforts. "Career development, marriage, family and living are the core variables that affect young people. If these major problems are not solved well, it is difficult to really touch young people simply by preaching".
He reminded that to do youth work, we must do specific things well and tell good stories. You can’t just talk about it, and you can’t just do it. This puts high demands on young workers’ ability to organize and mobilize and lead their thoughts.
The country has promulgated the Medium and Long-term Youth Development Plan, which is to solve the coordination problem of youth policies. How to promote the implementation of the Medium and Long-term Youth Development Plan? According to Lian Si’s analysis, under the guidance of national planning, the youth priority development strategy should be thoroughly implemented, and the youth policies scattered in different party and government departments, mass organizations and society should be brought into the overall policy framework to be systematically promoted, so as to form a strong synergy and reflect the priority. Among them, the function of the Communist Youth League as a voice for young people should be brought into play, so that the country can have a more immediate and accurate understanding of the demands of young people. Sometimes some demands of young people cannot be met immediately by the country at this stage, and the Communist Youth League should also explain them to young people in time. "The role of youth league organizations as bridges and ties should be brought into full play".
After years of research on youth groups, Lian Si is most proud of not only doing academic research, but also driving the students in the research group to observe and experience the lives of different groups and promote mutual understanding between people through their own research.
Lian Si still remembers having a discussion with the students of the research group after each investigation. After investigating the courier brother, a student said, "I will never get angry with the courier brother again, they are really too hard." In Lian Si’s view, this is very important. A graduate student, through such research, not only gains academically, but also has a positive impact on his outlook on life and values in the future, which is more far-reaching significance.
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More than 500 pages can be intensively read in one search. Will AI be better at searching than humans when Kimi Exploratory Edition comes?

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"If Kimi can’t find the information, it is difficult for users with high probability to find it by themselves through traditional search engines." On October 11th, the day when Kimi Exploratory Edition was released, its product director described the improvement of product search ability intuitively.

On October 11th, the Dark Side of the Moon announced the launch of an exploratory version of Kimi with AI autonomous search capability. According to the official introduction, the search volume of the Kimi Exploratory Edition is 10 times that of the regular edition, and more than 500 pages can be intensively read in one search.

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In an interview with national business daily, the dark side of the moon said that compared with AI search products that only summarize a small number of search results and get an aggregated page, Kimi adopted a different idea. "We think that AI should be allowed to search independently, on the one hand, give full play to the advantages of machines, do exhaustive queries, and search and read hundreds of pages at a time; On the other hand, to give full play to the intelligence of AI, AI can do full planning and problem disassembly, know what to search for, and reflect on the results that have been searched to improve the quality of search. "

What is the "moat" of AI search products at this stage? An AI search technician told national business daily that the main competition at present lies in technology, mainly the design and implementation of reasoning framework. "The accuracy of AI generated answers is related to the search magnitude, but it also depends on the model alignment, summary ability and search resources."

The emergence of Kimi Exploratory Edition is also one of the footnotes for search to move towards a new era — — After several rounds of financing, the AI search engine startup Perplexity has become a "upstart in Silicon Valley", and domestic AI search players such as Baidu, Quark, Kimi and Secret Tower are also vying for the opportunity to "dominate" search in the new era.

However, according to Warren Wang, a partner of Innolux Angel Fund, the current user group of AI search products "is only a small part of the existing search engine users", and its liquidity will be affected, "the advertising model will not have an advantage over traditional search engines". Dark of the Moon revealed to the reporter of national business daily that the Exploratory Edition does have a higher cost. At present, it is limited to five times per person per day, and it will be considered to be commercialized in the future.

The term "Kimi collapsed" once again appeared in Weibo Hot Search.

Regarding the failure caused by a large number of visits after the release of the Exploratory Edition, the official Weibo "Kimi Intelligent Assistant" responded on the afternoon of the 11th that the product has been resumed, and it is expected that the Exploratory Edition will be open to all users before October 14th. "In order to let everyone experience the Exploratory Edition as early as possible, colleagues have been working overtime on National Day. As a result, they just started to increase the volume today, but they still failed to catch everyone’s enthusiasm."

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On the dark side of the moon, I told national business daily that Kimi’s ordinary search can read up to 50 pages at a time, and the search volume of the exploratory version is 10 times that of the ordinary version, and it can read more than 500 pages at a time.

Li Qiang, CEO of Jingjing Technology, said in an interview with national business daily that at present, the mainstream AI search engines in China usually have no more than 50 searches, or even only a dozen, and the increase in search volume will usually improve the accuracy of the answers. "The search volume is not the only decisive factor, but the quality of the underlying data and the processing ability of the AI model are also very important."

"At this stage, the competitive point of AI search products is Post-training." An AI search technician pointed out in an interview with national business daily that "in terms of reasoning, at present, everyone’s choices are to be an AI Agent or Post-training similar to GPT-o1 model, and the current AI search products basically choose the former route."

In this regard, the dark side of the moon responded to the reporter of national business daily, saying that the research and development of Kimi Exploratory Edition can be considered as a combination of the above two paths — — "Kimi Exploratory Edition is based on an initial insight of the model development team, that is, a longer and more sophisticated reasoning and thinking process will help the model to output more comprehensive and accurate results."

"AI Agent means that AI can have more autonomous behavior and help users do more things." According to the dark side of the moon, Kimi Exploratory Edition has the ability of AI autonomous search, which can simulate the reasoning and thinking process of human beings, decompose complex problems at multiple levels, perform in-depth search, immediately reflect on the improvement results, provide more comprehensive and accurate answers, and help users complete complex tasks such as analysis and research more efficiently.

The reporter of national business daily tested Kimi Exploratory Edition, Perplexity Pro, Bean Bag and Wen Xiaoyan respectively on the question "According to the financial report, the single-quarter revenue growth data of a company from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the second quarter of 2024". The test results show that the data and calculation results called by Kimi Exploratory Edition are the only ones that are completely accurate, but it takes a long time to generate an answer.

The dark side of the moon revealed that in the internal performance evaluation test, Kimi’s performance evaluation team compared all domestic mainstream AI assistants and search products, including paid and professional versions, in combination with more than 1,000 real and long-standing questions from users, and Kimi’s exploratory version had comprehensive advantages in accuracy and completeness, and its comprehensive performance exceeded that of similar products by at least 30%.

How do AI search products build their own barriers when there are hundreds of battles?

In Li Qiang’s view, the Kimi Exploratory Edition has more advantages in solving complex problems by disassembling problems, searching and reasoning step by step, and adding retrospective reflection mechanism. This is a popular trend at present, which is similar to GPT-o1 model.

Therefore, the core competitive points of current AI search products mainly lie in data quality and quantity, user experience, technological innovation, one-stop service and business model.

"In the noise of information overload, a platform is needed to provide users with accurate answers, especially in an era when time is so precious." Aravind Srinivas, the founder of Perplexity, has publicly expressed the original intention of the company and its optimism about the prospect of AI search.

In the first half of this year, Perplexity received several rounds of large-scale financing, one of which was as high as $250 million, and the company’s valuation has increased from $1 billion in April this year to $3 billion.

Dmitry Shevelenko, the company’s chief commercial officer, said in an interview with the media in August this year that its AI search engine handled about 250 million questions in July this year, which is 50% of the total number of responses in 2023. NVIDIA CEO Huang Renxun, Amazon founder Bezos and other industry celebrities have repeatedly publicly stated that they are loyal users of Perplexity.

Such a high-speed growth is not difficult to explain the ambitions of domestic players in AI search.

In June this year, Zhihu released the AI ​ ​ search product "Zhihu Direct Answer"; In August of this year, Quark, a subsidiary of Ali Intelligent Information Business Group, released a new PC terminal, and comprehensively upgraded AI search and other functions; At the earnings conference call in the second quarter of this year, Li Yanhong, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, revealed that 18% of Baidu’s search results were generated by AI.

The dark side of the moon told national business daily that AI search is still in a very early stage. "Compared with the results of traditional search, if you give 10 website links per page, AI search summarizes and aggregates the content and can generate an aggregated page. At present, it seems that such AI search has not brought great subversion to traditional search. "

The person in charge of Kimi Exploratory Edition products believes that in the future, search engines will become a tool that AI is better at calling. People only need to focus on asking good questions, and AI can combine the capabilities of the model itself to search independently and massively in the huge Internet, constantly reflect on iterations, and more accurately locate the required answers.

In terms of cost and commercialization, Moonlight revealed to the reporter of national business daily that the Exploratory Edition does have a higher cost. At present, it is limited to five times per person per day, and some commercialization attempts will be considered in the future.

"The biggest business model of search engines is advertising. (AI search products) will launch a subscription system for people with strong knowledge needs. In this case, the advertising model will not have an advantage over traditional search engines, and it may get worse. "

Warren Wang, a partner of Innolux Angel Fund, told the national business daily that he thought that AI search products should not rely on advertising to make profits, but should rely on users to pay. "It is very difficult to do this in China.".

In September this year, according to media reports, Perplexity is planning a new advertising model for its artificial intelligence search engine. Perplexity hopes to completely reform Google’s first auction advertising system, in which the company obtains sponsored links for queries through bidding.

It can be observed that in August this year, the dark side of the moon completed the latest round of financing exceeding $300 million, which also pushed the valuation of the dark side of the moon to a high of $3.3 billion.

In May this year, the dark side of the moon began to test the commercialization of water. Users can "reward" Kimi by paying, and the amount ranges from 5.20 yuan to 399 yuan. Each file corresponds to different peak hours of priority use.

In this regard, the dark side of the moon said in an interview with national business daily in August that the company will gradually start to explore the commercialization of Kimi, but the current focus is to build the next generation model with stronger capabilities.

Why do people laugh at Huang Lei more?

Text | He Runxuan

This National Day, Huang Lei was mocked again.

He didn’t shoot a new play, but it was the netizens who searched for "The Life I yearned for" and found that his cooking was full of moisture, but his dad’s taste was real. In addition to He Jiong’s high emotional intelligence, he could provide him with rich emotional value, and many useless guests were "killed" in the program. For example, Song Dandan, who was accidentally poisoned by raw beans, and Guo Qilin, who was dug several times, were not properly called.

In fact, it is not the first time that Huang Lei has been ridiculed. Whether it’s his daughter, Huang Duoduo’s artist, or his Schrodinger-style cooking, in fact, from time to time this family will be ridiculed by netizens. Variety can overturn a boat or carry a boat. Many stars are black and red in it, and they always rise and fall, but Huang Lei has always been ridiculed and "suffered". This time, he was questioned about the rice wine stewed elbow. Some netizens said that they had tried this secret recipe, but it tasted good, but someone immediately said: Zhou Xun said, Huang Lei can’t laugh at it? Is it hard for him to review flower studies? In short, Huang Lei must be mocked.

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In a circle where even Zhang greatly can recover its lost territory by live broadcast, it is a good question why Huang Lei has been ridiculed by the crowd. The peak of Huang Lei after 1970s was before 2010. Orange is Red, Midnight Singing, Secret Love for Peach Blossom Garden and April Day on Earth laid the foundation for his handsome young literary men, and all the girls and stars recited books for the young Huang Lei Yan Yan. Christina is a student in Huang Lei. She said that when she was in college, the door of the classroom would be pushed away inexplicably, and then there would be comments from outside, such as "God is so handsome" and "Dear, I saw it". Song Jiaze said that every post-80s female Wen Qing once lived in a Huang Lei.

When Huang Lei was young,

However, audiences born in the 1990s and beyond failed to witness Huang Lei’s beauty. For them, Huang Lei’s first appearance was in the urban mother-in-law drama, and the second, third and fourth time was in the pastoral variety "The Life I yearn for". Young audiences don’t understand why this family cook in urban drama has become a teacher Huang held by artists of all sizes in slow variety. Generational differences make a middle-aged man Wen Qing who has made a fortune lose his previous history, leaving only the smell of dad that young people don’t like.

The details of dad’s taste that netizens relish include but are not limited to: it is obvious that they didn’t hold it steady when they picked up the food, but they blamed Zhang Yiyi; Guo Qilin called him Uncle Huang, and his face suddenly changed, and he kept going to Guo Qilin to do farm work in the following time; Shen Teng has his own way to roast suckling pigs, but he has to stare at them repeatedly, and he has to keep his mouth shut when the meat is served. And, trying to teach Olympic champion Liu Guoliang to play table tennis.

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The starting point is very high. Huang Lei, who stayed in school to teach after graduation, became Mr. Huang of Nortel early and lived quite comfortably. After 2008, Huang Lei moved to a villa in the suburbs of Beijing, and gradually mingled with men of similar age in this block. In this group of people, he is a well-deserved center, both "Huang Kitchen" and "Huang Quanlai", and can bring everyone together, and adults and children can have fun. Eight years ago, in an interview with People, Huang Lei also admitted that he was very comfortable. He had two children (small fish note: it’s three now) and a daughter-in-law. He had some money and was sought after in a small scale, which was quite good. But the reality show is not his circle of acquaintances, and the audience doesn’t have to hold him.

The pastoral variety show was originally aimed at leisurely seeing the South Mountain, but Huang Lei’s holding on to this point dispelled this leisure, and restarted the tense system of acquaintance society in a corner that could have relaxed the audience’s mind. The most typical one is Guo Qilin’s visit. Huang Lei first pressed him with seniority, and then Guo Qilin called him uncle. He turned black again and ordered Guo Qilin to insert watermelon seedlings. Finally, he added, "PINKRAY  (Yun-peng Yue) can bear hardships." Guo Qilin can only smile at himself: Miss Huang is talking about me.

Slow variety is an imported product from South Korea, and if you have seen Korean programs, you will know that this is not Wen Qing’s pot, only Huang Lei has exclusive possession. Zo In Sung and Che Taixian filmed a variety show called "Accidental President". They served as the 10th president of a rural convenience store in the suburbs of South Korea, and were responsible for all chores such as kitchen, cashier and ticket selling, so as to get along seamlessly with the most local residents in Harakawa. Among them, Zo In Sung is responsible for the catering in the store because he can cook, and the arrangement of the kitchen details and the courtesy of the diners in the store are all at the ceiling level: at the same time, he takes no time to cook instant noodles for three people, and he will politely lead people to the store and offer hot water, instant noodles and side dishes to the residents who wander at the door of the store after all night. This is in sharp contrast with Huang Lei, who is easy to hang his face in The Life I yearn for.

Accidental president

It is also a slow variety show. The artists in the Korean version are adhering to the simple attitude of understanding the daily life of the aborigines, but Huang Lei is a parent in another place, and the audience is not stupid. Naturally, it can be seen that this is not a real pastoral. Outside the program, the model style of Huang Lei’s family is hard to convince the audience that this is true literature and art rather than false lofty. After "Where’s Dad?", Huang Lei immediately took her daughter to shoot advertisements such as Little Genius and Uniqlo, trying to build a school for girls. But when Huang Duoduo entered the second year of high school, netizens found that she made 12 mistakes in the 50-second reading time, and all of them were low-level mistakes. As for Sun Li, there is nothing wrong with her hobby of dancing in reverse, but she is really not literary.

Ning Meng’s prospectus further proves that Huang Lei is not out of touch. According to the data disclosed on the eve of Ning Meng’s listing in 2022, Huang Lei is suspected to have earned a total income of more than 60 million yuan from Ning Meng for only one drama, including 36.6 million yuan for film, 19.6 million yuan for script development service, 6.6 million yuan for producer and 500,000 yuan for literary planning service. This total package exceeded the star salary limit issued by several platforms in 2018 in conjunction with the six major conferences. It’s nothing to make money, but if you want to make money and get your feet off the ground, don’t blame netizens for passing by.

Little joy

Of course, in addition to the behavior, Huang Lei’s ridicule also has the inevitability of the times. There are too few things that can stir up excitement in this era, and the public can only dig out new topics from historical materials. The characteristics of the short video era determine that when these old materials return to the heat center, they must only be presented in fragments, lacking the context of the context.

For example, Huang Lei is highly praised for his food, which is actually half of He Jiong’s credit, not entirely because he is boasting. For another example, Peng Yuchang really gained weight in The Life I yearn for. Thus, Huang Lei’s cooking may really not be so bad, but it’s not so amazing. The real truth is that in the new round of the game, the audience chose him as the target of this round of ridicule. Someone has to be selected, which is the essence of contemporary witch hunting.

If there is logic in this chaotic behavior, it can only be said that compared with those artists who are more willing to laugh at themselves, Huang Lei, a traditional star who has been reluctant to let go, must be ranked higher in the order of cyber witch hunting. This is actually the same action logic as the previous ridicule of Zhou Xun and Chen Kun. The speed of this mocking force has rushed many artists and few survivors. An extensible topic is: Is it really the same thing to criticize Huang Lei and deny him from head to toe? Speaking ahead, Xiaoyu didn’t mean to defend them. After all, I can’t wait for civilians to empathize. I just want to summon some more rational discussions here.

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Speaking of which, Xiaoyu can’t help but want to express a few words to the stars (although you don’t listen to them). Since public opinion is the general trend, if you can’t beat it and run away, you might as well learn from Ye Ke, take the initiative to abstract it first, and smoke yourself before others smoke, so that they have nowhere to smoke.

When it comes to Huang Lei, you might as well consider opening a food show, frying the kitchen to make dark dishes, slicing all kinds of reaction you taste, and actively contributing some new emoticons to netizens, striving to become the latest popular meme; in Q4; Or you can score the cooking skills of netizens in a free limited time-remember that the highest score should not exceed 5 points. In this way, maybe we can bring a wave of goods in the opposite direction and realize a new win win with netizens.

Many years ago, Huang Lei, a young literary artist, had a turn. In that turn, he changed from a handsome young man to a man’s best friend. In his own words, he became fat and hid literature and art in his heart. This seems to be a kind of self-deconstruction of the post-70 s literary actor, who deconstructed the once charming young man with another skin of the world. However, this turn seems to be too successful, so successful that he has a new path dependence, forgetting that this is already an era of not accepting any hearings. Teacher Huang, don’t forget that everything has a shelf life, literature and art will die, and dad will taste the same. It is better to abstract it, just like the vast number of netizens. In today’s Internet, only abstraction is the indestructible body.

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Picture Book of Hunting Crime defines "a criminal investigation drama for women"

Based on the creative concept of "warm realism", the creative team positioned the project "Hunting Crime Picture Book" as love women and social school, and the selection and weaving of cases also depended on these two standards, paying more attention to the topics reflecting women’s living conditions and emotional demands. At the same time, based on the main appeal of women’s perspective, they positioned the core tone of the drama as emotional expression and artistic aesthetics, instead of over-describing the cruelty and blood of the case, they paid more attention to the emotional touch behind the case and increased the freshness and literary sense.

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Editor: Lan Er

Layout: Wang Wei

What is "love women" criminal investigation?

Have a perspective, aesthetics and healing.

The creative inspiration of "Picture Book of Hunting Crime" comes from a survey conducted by the writers’ team. After they learned about the profession of portrait painter, they immediately became interested in this group. This drama tells the story that Shen Yi (JC-T), a talented portraitist, and Du Cheng (Jin Shijia), the captain of the criminal investigation team, have cracked many difficult cases. The drama isThe specific expression of "innovation and change" of Ning Meng Film on the track of suspense short drama series, they tried to find a fresher breakthrough point and more diversified presentation methods to explore more possibilities for the creation of suspense drama..

Under this kind of exploration, Ning Meng Film focused on selecting young teams with stronger creative ability, including using some teams with film creation experience to collide in content creation, and strive to bring some unique temperament and style to the play.

Picture Book of Hunting Crime takes the fast-paced unit drama route, and it pays more attention to novel cutting corners, stories and realistic concerns than serious suspense in solving crimes. From the beginning, Ning Meng Film’s positioning for this drama is"Criminal investigation drama for women", its "love women" choice, not only lies in telling the experiences of female crimes or female victims, but more importantly, it weaves and unfolds stories from the perspective of women, women’s aesthetics and women’s value choices..

The mirror is a person’s doppelganger, and the unit case of "Hunting Crime Picture Book" is just like a mirror image. The female hot topics such as appearance anxiety and gender discrimination in the workplace are once again presented to the audience through their own narrative expressions. The moment when the truth of the case is revealed is shocking, but the hidden feelings behind the story are even more moving.

In the case of the plastic surgery hospital, Shen Yi said to Jiang Ge, the murderer: "Madame Curie represents women’s strength. From your works, I see similar strength, which comes from your talent and ambition, not your appearance"-compared with the present plastic surgery face, Jiang Ge also misses herself who was once plain but bent on conquering the world with her talent. Because of her appearance anxiety, she stepped into the plastic surgery hospital and danced with wolves, and the tragedy began from this moment.

Based on the main appeal of women’s perspective,The creative team positioned the core tone of the series as emotional expression and artistic aesthetics, instead of over-describing the cruelty and blood of the case, it paid more attention to the emotional touch behind the case.At the same time, they also integrate art and famous painting stalks into the story to increase the sense of novelty and literature.

Many other cases are also interspersed with metaphors of famous paintings and marked with their own special symbols. For example, in the case of domestic violence, "Judith Slaughters Heroffney" means that "women can understand women, and women can protect women". The two victims, ex-wife and current girlfriend, joined hands to resist atrocities, and they were responsible for each other even if something happened to them. In this tragic case, the tenderness that they guarded each other slowly overflowed through the screen. "I escaped from him, but I have never escaped." This statement by one of the characters is a torture of the soul of the crime of domestic violence.

It can be clearly seen that in the play, the creative team deliberately put more emphasis on bright light and color, and theyTrying to create a warm and artistic atmosphere, so that these stories linked to reality and social core women’s issues can not only present a tense detection process and unexpected plot reversal, but also convey moving and healing..

Although the creative team is young as a whole, it is very mature in key experience and ability, which also ensures the smoothness and accuracy of the works. In the creative process, the screenwriter team led by senior screenwriter Jia Dongyan provided many novel and wonderful plot settings, and director Zhang Xiaobo, as a producer, gave guidance on the overall style and structure construction. Zhang Yiyun, a senior producer of suspense drama, built a creative team of directors, photographers, fine arts and other majors for this drama, and selected the main actors, while director Xing Jianjun completed various difficult breakthroughs in shooting with very mature experience, which ensured the realization of the stylization of this drama.

Looking for "legend" in reality makes the portrait look good.

"When all efforts to solve the case will come to naught, the portrait artist is the last trump card". According to the observation of the creative team, in addition to the first-line criminal police investigators, there are many unsung heroes with different functions and identities in the police force. The roles of forensic doctor, trace inspector, portrait artist, etc. have excellent professional skills and many little-known legendary experiences, which also bring rich inspiration to the creators.

In order to ensure authenticity and create enough legend,In the stage of script creation, the screenwriter team has done many investigations, read a lot of related books and reports, and even imitated the teaching materials written by portrait experts, in order to ensure the sense of realism and substitution, and at the same time write the tension and charm of the characters..

The audience may think that the portraitist is a bit "fantastic", but the real portraitist is far more magical than the film and television drama. Zhang Xin, one of the eight experts of the Ministry of Public Security, once painted a portrait of the suspect in the silver case to help solve this crime that lasted for more than ten years. Lin Yuhui, a Shandong policeman, helped the FBI draw a portrait of the suspect with extremely vague monitoring screenshots in the murder case of YINGYING ZHANG.The real case and the skill of portrait itself are thrilling enough, so the creation of the play will present moderate fiction and imagination, but it will not be woven out of thin air, but will be based on realistic logic.For example, the artist’s skill of "painting the old at the age of three" presents its complete step process in detail according to the real human anatomy logic and realistic painting logic: first, draw the skull structure of the child through the photos of the child, then draw the skull structure of the adult according to the growth law of the human body, and finally "fill the meat" to complete the facial features structure and skin outline of the adult, thus achieving the effect of "painting the old at the age of three". This not only highlights the high professional charm of the portrait artist, but also makes the "strange skills" of the characters in the play fall to the ground in a scientific and credible state, making it understandable and acceptable to the audience.

These "fantastic" parts of the story are precisely the respect and restoration of the important significance and role of the portrait artist in reality. Through the publicity of the legendary and charming color of the police behind the scenes, the creators also hope to stimulate the young audience’s interest in pursuing. After watching this drama, they have greater interest and willingness to form a deeper understanding of the contemporary people’s police.

Although there are only 20 episodes of Hunting Crime Picture Book, butThe level of detail is quite high. For example, the team drew thousands of portraits of Shen Yi alone.. Portraits are not looking at photos to draw people, but to draw people out of thin air without knowing what the other person looks like, so they can only pursue "likeness" rather than a high degree of similarity. Moreover, Shen Yi in the play is a genius painter, and his portraits are not completely functional, but also have certain aesthetics and artistry. Due to the huge amount of props painting, it is necessary for several painters to work at the same time to complete it, and at the same time, it is necessary to ensure that all paintings are in a unified style, which belongs to Shen Yi’s style, which is also the difficulty of creation.

The same frequency and resonance of warm realism expression

How many dark spots are folded behind the sun, and whether the hidden corners are always invisible? Campus bullying never stops, AI face-changing fraud comes unexpectedly, and big data no longer infringes on our privacy all the time. These social issues that should not be ignored have never been solved, and how to interweave real problems with cases is also an unavoidable proposition for producers.

Based on Ning Meng’s creative concept of "warm realism", the creative team positioned the project "Hunting Crime Picture Book" as love women and social school, and the selection and weaving of cases also depend on these two standards.In the overall creative process, they will pay more attention to and tend to those topics that reflect the actual living conditions and emotional demands of ordinary people, and integrate thinking about these topics into the creation of cases, integrate the creators’ empathy for social difficulties, and call for more attention, understanding and care.

In the case of burying a corpse in a girl’s playground, two different girls who were not accepted by the group could only accompany each other silently. Who can understand the worries of adolescent girls? "Being different may not be understood, but it should be respected."

In the kidnapping case, the criminal decorated the triangle by himself, and almost crossed the sea, but he was only impersonated because of the college entrance examination, thus becoming an ant who could not touch more possibilities of life. Is his deception really so superb? It is just from his own analysis that "I have never been in your eyes", which is extremely embarrassing.

When Chen Zhou, the big BOSS and technical manipulator behind the scenes, surfaced, Shen Yi, on behalf of the general audience, issued a soul cry for big data invading privacy: "Who deprived us of the right to refuse, the public never had a choice."

Although the setting style of "Picture Book of Hunting Crime" is artistic and classical from the unique perspective of imitating the portrait artist, the core is actually the opposite of scientific and technological sense and hardcore direction, aiming at highlighting the perception and function of "people".The implied expression in this play is: No matter how advanced the technology is, it can’t replace the human brain’s insight into complex human nature and subtleties.Including the composition and light color of the play, it also pursues a style similar to classical oil painting, that is, it strives to seek the unity of this internal expression and external form.

    

The novel portrait artist’s design, the hot social reality connection, the innovative image presentation form based on female perspective and aesthetics, coupled with rigorous and meticulous polishing, all kinds of reasons have jointly promoted the success of the small-scale drama "Hunting Crime Picture Book", and the expression that the creative team tried hard to make in it has especially won the audience’s perception beyond expectations.Young audiences have a strong empathy and discussion around the expression of values, emotions and art presented in the play, and this kind of common frequency and resonance may be the greatest recognition of Hunting Crime Picture Book..

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Two well-known women from North Korea attended the event in the same box.

CCTV News:According to Korean Central News Agency’s report on June 4th, Kim Jong-un, the top leader of North Korea, and his wife Li Xuezhu watched a large-scale group gymnastics and art performance "People’s Country" in Pyongyang on June 3rd.

North Korea has a tradition of organizing large-scale group calisthenics. Arirang, a large-scale group calisthenics that was recorded in Guinness World Records by the number of participants, is one of the representative works of North Korea’s group calisthenics. In 2018, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, North Korea created a large-scale group gymnastics and art performance called "Glorious Motherland", reflecting the achievements made by North Korea in various fields since its founding.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the event on the 3rd was unprecedented. After nightfall, a group of drones flew over the May Day Stadium, forming a blue-red Korean flag pattern and the words "People’s Country" in Korean, which kicked off the performance. During the one-and-a-half-hour performance, tens of thousands of North Korean actors performed gymnastics, dance, vocal music, acrobatics and other forms, showing the historical picture of the Korean revolution and war, political and army building, people’s livelihood and economic development, and foreign exchanges.

As can be seen from a set of pictures published by the official media of North Korea, Li Xuezhu, as the first lady, sat on Kim Jong-un’s right hand side in a dark coat. Kim Jong-un’s position on the left was assigned to Li Wanjian, who just became a member of the DPRK State Council in April. Jin Yuzheng, Kim Jong-un’s sister, is next to Li Xuezhu. This time, Jin Yuzheng’s appearance is slightly different from the past: she changed her previous capable hairstyle, scattered all her hair, put on a hairband, and rolled her sleeves to her elbows to make the whole person look very capable.

Jin Yuzheng's usual hairstyle when he appears in public.

Jin Yuzheng’s usual hairstyle when he appears in public.

On July 26th, 2012, Korean Central News Agency’s official website reported that Kim Jong-un had visited Lingluo People’s Amusement Park and mentioned his wife’s name twice. official website translated his wife’s Chinese name into "Li Xuezhu". On the same day, Korean Central News Agency website also published 39 photos of Kim Jong-un inspecting the amusement park, including many photos of Kim Jong-un and his wife inspecting together, and an intimate photo of Li Xuezhu holding Kim Jong-un’s arm.

On July 25th, 2012, Li Xuezhu attended the completion ceremony of Lingluo People's Amusement Park in Pyongyang.

On July 25th, 2012, Li Xuezhu attended the completion ceremony of Lingluo People’s Amusement Park in Pyongyang.

As one of Kim Jong-un’s most trusted people, Jin Yuzheng has been accompanying Kim Jong-un in various important occasions at home and abroad. On March 9, 2014, Jin Yuzheng made her first "official appearance" in a report on North Korean national television. At that time, Kim Jong-un was elected as the representative of Baitoushan Constituency No.111 with 100% support rate. Jin Yuzheng, known as "Comrade", appeared for the first time in the report, and a "close-up" of her voting was shown. After that, Jin Yuzheng can always be seen in Kim Jong-un’s activities reported by North Korea’s official media. From watching performances, to inspecting factories and museums, to inspecting military training activities, Jin Yuzheng’s name can always be found in the list of accompanying persons.

Jin Yuzheng participated in the first "special gold meeting"

Jin Yuzheng participated in the first "special gold meeting"

According to the relevant news released by the media, although Li Xuezhu and Jin Yuzheng are both well-known women in North Korea, and both of them are frequently seen in newspapers and periodicals in North Korea, it is not common for them to be reported at the same time in one activity because of their different roles.