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What challenges does the blockchain industry currently face? You must know about this White Paper released in Chongqing.

In the era of digital economy, blockchain is becoming an important digital infrastructure to promote the quality and efficiency improvement of the real economy and the innovative development of the digital economy through the integration and application of related information technologies, and generate is full of vitality in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. At present, what is the development of blockchain in China? In the future, what kind of opportunities will China’s blockchain development have? What are the challenges?
On December 7, 2023, the award ceremony of the Web 3.0 Innovation Competition was held in Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone near Mingyue Lake in Liangjiang New District, Chongqing. During the event, China Information and Communication Research Institute released the "Blockchain White Paper (2023)" (hereinafter referred to as the "White Paper"), which interpreted the hot topics of blockchain concerned by the industry.
▲ On December 7, 2023, Mingyue Lake, a collaborative innovation zone between the two rivers, was released, and the White Paper on Blockchain (2023) was released. Reporter Zhang Jinhui photo/visual Chongqing
According to the White Paper, on the whole, China’s blockchain technical strength has been significantly improved, application and innovation have blossomed, and regional and industry infrastructure has taken shape. But at the same time, it also faces difficulties and challenges, such as the weak ability of technological independent innovation, the unformed incentive mechanism of alliance, and the lack of overall planning of infrastructure construction. Looking forward to the future, Web3.0 and data elements are expected to become an important breakthrough in the application and innovation of blockchain technology.
The industrial development trend is good.
In the past year, major countries and regions around the world are accelerating the strategic layout of the next generation Internet (Web3.0) based on blockchain, continuously exploring new scenes and new formats, and driving blockchain technology, applications and industries to usher in new development opportunities. The industrial pattern of blockchain tends to be stable, the number of new enterprises and the degree of capital activity slow down, and the standardized layout is becoming more and more perfect; The scale of blockchain infrastructure construction has begun to appear, and the technical application system of the new generation Internet oriented to Web3.0 has gradually formed, which has become an important engine for the ecological development of blockchain.
From the perspective of specific countries, the performance of China and the United States is particularly eye-catching.
"In recent years, China has launched the deployment of blockchain industry in an all-round way, and the understanding of blockchain in all sectors of society has deepened. Local governments have strengthened policy guidance for Web3.0 and Metauniverse, and enterprises have given full play to their main role, exploring application landing and model innovation. Industry organizations and related institutions have actively promoted the improvement of blockchain standard system, and the industry as a whole has shown a good development trend." The White Paper believes that.
There are three specific manifestations: China’s blockchain industry pattern is stable and the standard system is continuously improved; City-level infrastructure will be accelerated to serve regional ecological co-construction; Many governments have actively deployed Web3.0, and the pace of products going out to sea has accelerated.
For example, in terms of industrial structure, the number of blockchain enterprises in China remains relatively stable, and related enterprises are mainly concentrated in Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other provinces and cities with rapid digital development. At present, these places have formed a certain scale of industrial ecology.
Judging from the filing situation, as of October 2023, the National Internet Information Office has released 13 batches of blockchain information service filing lists. It can be seen that the boundaries of technology-enabled digital economy are constantly expanding, and various industrial applications such as government data sharing, people’s livelihood services, digital finance, medical health, and digital cultural creation have emerged one after another.
In addition, China’s blockchain industry cooperation level continues to improve. According to the "White Paper", in recent years, large central state-owned enterprises and information technology enterprises have comprehensively laid out the development of blockchain technology industry and are committed to building a full industrial chain and full-stack service capability. With the continuous expansion of the application breadth of blockchain industry, the integration of blockchain technology and business continues to deepen, which puts forward higher requirements for the application ability of the industry, and the industry gradually turns into a new situation of division of labor and cooperation.
The effect of large-scale application of urban blockchain infrastructure has begun to show.
In terms of standard system, in recent years, domestic blockchain technology application standards have been actively developed, and various standardization organizations have worked together to promote standardization, and blockchain standards have achieved fruitful results. According to statistics compiled by China Xintong Institute, as of November 2023, relevant domestic standardization organizations have issued 209 technical standards in the blockchain field, including 3 national standards, 8 industry standards, 167 group standards and 31 local standards.
In terms of city-level infrastructure, in recent years, the provincial and municipal governments in many places have accelerated the exploration of urban blockchain infrastructure construction for the common needs of public services such as data sharing and resource management, uniformly carried related applications, improved the management efficiency of blockchain technology platforms and applications, and promoted the orderly flow and efficient sharing of data elements across institutions, platforms and industries in the region.
According to incomplete statistics, up to now, more than 10 cities nationwide have completed the construction of blockchain infrastructure and put it into use. For example, the "Shuxin Chain" led by Sichuan Province, the "Mountain City Chain" led by Chongqing, and the "Zhijiang Chain" led by Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province have all achieved systematic and large-scale construction to a certain extent, and the supporting role of new infrastructure has gradually emerged.
With the initial effect of the large-scale application of urban blockchain infrastructure, the industrial ecology is also accelerating. According to the "White Paper", according to incomplete statistics, the total number of consensus nodes in most domestic urban blockchain infrastructures has reached more than 20 when multiple underlying chains are deployed, and the complexity of management and operation has been significantly improved. At the same time, domestic government services, public services, medical health, cultural tourism and other business scenarios for natural users have achieved good results, and some areas have formed a scale of 100,000 or even millions of users on the chain.
In addition, some areas such as Yuzhong in Chongqing and Hangzhou in Zhejiang also rely on the urban blockchain infrastructure to deepen the all-round cooperation and linkage of "politics and Industry-University-Research", actively build an innovation platform for blockchain technology application, and cultivate blockchain start-ups.
Still face three major challenges.
Despite this, China’s blockchain development still faces many challenges.
In this regard, the White Paper poses three challenges.
First, there are shortcomings in the independent research and development capability of blockchain technology, which makes it difficult to support deep innovation in application. According to the White Paper, China’s independent innovation capability in consensus algorithm and data storage needs to be further strengthened to solve the new problems raised in the application innovation process of digital assets and digital identities in the future, and the supporting technologies in identity security, authorization management and biometrics need to be improved.
At the same time, there are still some difficulties in China, such as weak discourse power in open source communities, few core patents, and a big gap between infrastructure and overseas, which makes it difficult to support the large-scale growth and autonomous application of digital asset transactions in the future.
Second, the alliance chain lacks an effective governance mechanism and the industrial scale growth is limited. According to the White Paper, there is a big gap between the application scale of alliance chain and public chain. According to IDC’s forecast, the blockchain market in China is expected to exceed $2.5 billion in 2024. However, in 2022, the foreign market scale of DeFi field is close to 50 billion US dollars, and the gap between domestic and foreign markets is obvious.
In addition, in the application process of domestic blockchain, technology is emphasized, governance rules of the alliance are not perfect, and there is no effective incentive mechanism. Compared with the public chain, there are shortcomings and disadvantages in credibility and recognition. This limits the sustainable growth of industrial scale to some extent.
Third, the lack of overall planning of blockchain infrastructure construction affects large-scale application. "The blockchain infrastructure in various industries and regions in China has been developed and built from a regional and industry perspective, focusing on serving regional and industry application needs, and the blockchain infrastructure at a higher level has not yet appeared." The "White Paper" said that at present, the technical standards of various city-level and industry-level blockchain infrastructures are not uniform, the nodes are not interconnected, and the data is difficult to interoperate. Serving specific regions and specific industries can still meet the demand.
However, from the national level, this has restricted the large-scale application across regions, industries and subjects, and will have a certain impact on the long-term healthy development of China’s blockchain technology application and industry.
The future will promote the formation of a credible value interaction network.
"Under the background of building a digital economy with data as the key element, China’s blockchain technology application and industrial development have made positive progress, and technology research and development, application innovation and industrial development have continued to break through. Its key role in serving multi-party businesses and establishing a trusted value network has been further recognized by the industry." The White Paper believes that in the future, blockchain will promote the formation of a credible value interaction network, help realize digital collaboration and socialized production, and usher in a series of opportunities and innovations.
In the short term, as one of the key industries of digital economy in China’s "14 th Five-Year Plan", the support attitude of the national level for industrial development will not change, and the good trend of deep integration of blockchain technology with various fields of economy and society will not change.
In the medium term, with the introduction of a series of policies and measures such as "Twenty Data Articles" and the rapid advancement of data infrastructure construction, blockchain technology can strongly support the separation of data rights and promote the reliable, credible and safe circulation of data elements, which is expected to play an important role in data confirmation, transaction and circulation.
In the long run, emerging industries such as Web3.0 and Metauniverse are developing rapidly. As its key underlying supporting technology, blockchain is expected to provide innovative carriers for new concepts such as Web3.0 and Metauniverse with continuous expansion of network scale, continuous enhancement of technology penetration and steady improvement of application maturity, and explore the formation of new modes and formats that can be experienced and perceived.
"Looking forward to the future, whether it is the realization of user rights in Web3.0 or the new way of digital production and life based on data elements, it is inseparable from the trust foundation built by blockchain in digital space." The White Paper suggests that we should correctly understand the challenges, seize the opportunities and follow the trend, further play the role of blockchain in promoting data sharing, optimizing business processes, reducing operating costs, improving collaborative efficiency, and building a credible system, "linking" subjects from different fields, regions and backgrounds, promoting the formation of ubiquitous and credible value interaction networks, realizing a wider range of digital collaboration and social production, and helping network powers and countries.
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Research notes: How to balance the improvement and the protection of people’s livelihood when the cultivated land in rural areas is "non-grain"

  [Editor’s note]

  Investigation and research is our party’s ace in the hole. Promoting high-quality development with solid investigation and research is the proper meaning of being responsible to the people and standing firm on the people’s stand.

  General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has repeatedly stressed that food security is "the biggest country" and cultivated land is the lifeblood of food production. On the journey of promoting rural revitalization and consolidating the foundation of food security, farmland protection is undoubtedly a top priority.

  Pujiang town, as the largest town in Minhang District, has the heaviest task of farmland protection, and its illegal land use problem of "non-grain" is more prominent. How to promote rectification and protect people’s livelihood? Citizens have insufficient awareness of farmland protection. How can relevant departments coordinate? Let’s take a look at the research notes of Liu Zefeng, a member of the party group and deputy director of Minhang District Planning and Resources Bureau.

  Pujiang town is the town with the largest area under the jurisdiction of Minhang District, and it is also the town with the heaviest task of farmland protection in the whole region. In terms of illegal land use for "non-food", pujiang town has a more prominent problem in all districts. I am determined to dig deep into the root causes and conduct in-depth analysis, and lead a team to pujiang town to carry out on-the-spot investigation on the rectification of the "non-food" problem.

Visit villages and conduct field research.

  Through a visit to five villages in pujiang town, I investigated the illegal land use sites of "non-grain", listened to the report of the Town Planning and Construction Office, communicated with the leaders of village committees and cooperatives, and learned the actual situation from the villagers. Based on the field investigation, I held a communication meeting to study and analyze the situation that pujiang town’s "non-grain" illegal land use is frequent and difficult to rectify.Summarized several obvious problems in pujiang town’s "non-food":

  01 Promoting rectification and protecting people’s livelihood are facing a dilemma

  I was deeply impressed by two rural roads in this survey. Judging from the situation on the spot, the road construction time is not long, and it is the only access for the people nearby. Two years ago, in order to solve the difficulties of inconvenient travel and long detours for the people, the village poured these two rural roads with cement. When pujiang town implemented the rectification of these two "non-food" problems, it was faced with the "dilemma" between the rectification task and the actual travel needs of ordinary people, and it was delayed.

  The awareness of cultivated land protection of village committees and cooperative leaders is not enough.

  Through investigation and interview, I found that some village committees and cooperative leaders still have a poor understanding of farmland protection at the level of not being able to build houses, and have little understanding of land use control policies. Some villages plant trees and turf, plant fruit trees and seedlings, and dig rivers on cultivated land for the collective economic benefits and living environment of villagers. It cannot be said that their starting point is wrong, but in terms of policy understanding and operation mode, it is obviously out of touch with the relevant departments of the city, district and town.

  03 Need to coordinate multiple departments as a whole

  The rectification of the problem of "non-food" is not only a road of demolition and reclamation, but also innovative ideas and initiative. Town planning and construction office often falls into the dilemma of "going it alone" when promoting the rectification of "non-food" problems, and faces the constraints of departmental coordination and pre-materials when completing the formalities, so it is not active enough.

  We adhere to the working principle of "classifying policies, respecting reality, not only implementing rectification, but also simplifying and cutting across the board" to promote rectification and protect people’s livelihood. At the same time, we should grasp the bull’s nose of thinking and understanding, take mechanism construction as the starting point, solve the source problem, achieve long-term governance, and ensure that the "iron rice bowl" of food security is stable and firm.

  The first is to classify policies to promote rectification.According to the actual situation of the project and the applicable policies, we divided the illegal land used for "non-graining" into three types of disposal. First, 24 cases of reclamation were demolished. Our law enforcement brigade and pujiang town went all out to promote rectification, which was completed by the end of October; The second is 9 cases of re-issuance procedures. At present, the re-issuance path has been clearly defined and is being implemented; The third is to transfer 3 cases (2 rural roads and 1 river) from the list, and the Municipal Planning and Resources Bureau has agreed to transfer the list of "non-food-oriented" problems.

  The second is to meet difficulties and protect people’s livelihood.In view of the historical legacy projects related to people’s livelihood, such as rural roads, I insist on careful judgment, facing difficulties and taking positive actions. After careful combing and retrieval of images and other materials, combined with the field investigation, we found that two rural roads had existed in the form of dirt roads before the introduction of the policy in 2021, which were identified as cultivated land together with the adjacent irrigated land during the land investigation, and were subsequently investigated as rural roads after cement pouring.

  Accordingly, I actively communicated with the Municipal Bureau, strived for the support of the Municipal Bureau, carefully prepared the project materials, and together with three river projects with similar situations (1 in pujiang town and 2 in Huacao Town), I submitted a written proof to the Municipal Bureau and applied for a list of questions. After a series of communication efforts, the above five projects were approved by the Municipal Bureau and the list of problems was called up, which not only guaranteed the people’s livelihood needs to the greatest extent, but also avoided affecting the overall renovation progress of the district.

  The third is to strengthen publicity and understanding.We should vigorously do a good job in front-end governance, effectively strengthen the publicity and training of village committees and cooperative leaders, and strengthen the awareness of land use control policies and farmland protection responsibilities. District and town functional departments should often go to the village to have a look, communicate with farmers, think about what the masses think and worry about them, and solve problems for them. Coordinate land use control with the vital interests of farmers, stimulate farmers’ enthusiasm for agricultural production, especially grain production, truly benefit farmers, and build a new pattern of coordinated development of cultivated land protection and rural revitalization.

  The fourth is to establish rules and regulations to promote co-management.Cultivated land protection is not a matter of planning and resource system alone. It is necessary to effectively promote the construction of joint responsibility mechanism and form a working mode of horizontal to edge, vertical to the end and coordination. On the basis of signing the letter of responsibility, we will comprehensively compact the cultivated land protection, and the party and government will share the same responsibility, forming a good atmosphere in which the districts, towns and villages are responsible, responsible and conscientious. In the next step, we will work with the District Agriculture and Rural Committee to incorporate "non-food" into the assessment of the revitalization of towns, villages and villages, and strengthen supervision and restraint.

  I also summed up the experience gained in the investigation in pujiang town in time, and actively promoted the solution of the problem of "non-grain" in the whole region. Every inch of land is related to the national economy, and a ridge and an acre carry people’s livelihood. On the road of exploring and perfecting the protection of cultivated land, I dare not relax at all times.

The sky is blue and rainy, and fans are waiting for Jay Chou to make a movie.

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"I came out to win, otherwise why would I do it?"

 

Before the release of "Love on the Roof", Jay Chou boarded "Kangxi Comes". When faced with the question of "Do you have any expectations for the film award" put forward by Cai Kangyong and Xiao S, he released such lofty words, and his words were full of confidence and frankness.

 

Looking back at Jay Chou’s debut in the past 20 years, it is also appropriate to use this sentence to describe it. As the saying goes, small fresh meat in flowing water is Jay Chou made of iron. Since his debut, from the original "Jay Chou" and "King Zhou" to the present "crazy wife protector" and "milk tea", it seems that the years have not smoothed Jay Chou’s spirit, but have added a little tenderness to him. Even now, as long as a song, whether it’s "Say No Cry" or "Mojito", can completely collapse the platform of QQ music.

 

However, in recent years, Jay Chou has appeared less frequently in the film field, and has gradually turned behind the scenes from a director and actor before his early years. Only a few cameos were made to support the works of my good brothers. Jay Chou has a wide range of interests, and the territory of his business empire has been expanding in recent years. For him, music has always been his unchanging initial heart, and it is his existence of "living for it"; Entering the film industry is more like an unexpected development.

 

This Friday, a Taiwan Province film named All-powerful was released in mainland China. The film stars Jay Chou’s beloved wife Hannah Quinlivan, and is also guest-starred and supervised by him. Director Chen Yixian is a famous MV and advertising director in Taiwan Province, and this is his feature film debut. The general manager of Chuangying Film, one of the producers behind this film, is Jay Chou’s good brother Liu Genghong.

 

Jay Chou made a guest appearance as "Jie Xiu Ren" in All-powerful Storm.

 

With the opportunity of the film’s release and the eve of Jay Chou’s 42nd birthday, we might as well sort out what kind of answer sheet Jay Chou, who "accidentally intruded", handed over in the film exam.

 

Drift: "I set foot in hot wheels, drifting youth."

 

Before Jay Chou set foot on the big screen for the first time, he had made his debut for three years and released three albums, which held up half the sky.

 

At that time, almost all the children in the street clamored for their parents to go to the video store to buy Jay Chou’s tapes and CDs. In class, the girls secretly passed small notes to each other, which read "hand in hand, one step, two steps, three steps and four steps"; After class is over, the boys get together and say "use nunchakus to hum and hum" while fighting. It can be said that it is this young man with small eyes, inarticulate speech and seemingly fooling around who has captured the hearts of most young people born in 1980s and 1990s.

 

In 2003, Jay Chou appeared on the cover of the Asian edition of Time Magazine. That year, he starred in the first film in his life, Looking for Jay Chou, and got an electric shock for the first time. This film can be said to be tailor-made, more like a by-product of its album. Although he appeared in the film for only a few minutes and had only a few lines, he was still sought after by fans.

 

Two years later, Jay Chou continued to be in full swing and became famous all over Asia. At this time, Hong Kong’s Huanying extended an olive branch to him and invited him to star in the film version of "Initial D". The film was adapted from a Japanese comic book with the same name, and it has a wide audience base. The directors were Liu Weiqiang and Siu Fai Mak, who had won the Golden Horse Award at that time, and the first-line stars in Hong Kong, such as Edison Chen, Shawn Yue and Jordan chan, supported him.

 

 From Fujiwara Takumi in "Initial D" to Jiexiu in "All-powerful Storm", after so many years, time may smooth the edges and corners, but it does not smooth the momentum between his brow.

 

Of course, Jay Chou, who starred in the film for the first time, didn’t have any acting skills, but in the film, Fujiwara Takumi, who was taciturn and super-skilled, drove his AE86 and galloped around the corner of the famous autumn mountain. When the sound of the engine resounded through the famous autumn mountains at night, his brow was focused, deep and slightly disdainful, which made you believe that this was the Fujiwara Takumi in the original work. The film made more than 60 million box office in that year, ranking sixth in the year, with gratifying results, and also achieved good market performance in Japan and South Korea. Jay Chou himself won the double "Best Newcomer" of the Golden Horse Awards with his youthful but natural performance.

 

With the success of "Initial D", Jay Chou’s film road has gone smoothly. In 2006, Jay Chou collaborated with Zhang Yimou, a well-known mainland director, and starred in such an epic commercial giant as Golden Flower in the City, and his actors became international superstars such as Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li. In front of these powerful big coffees, some viewers think that his performance is expressionless and lacks hierarchy; There are also some viewers who think that he has successfully completed his role without make a fool of oneself at least. Despite these controversies, the film still won the box office title of that year, and Jay Chou’s performance was nominated for the best supporting actor in the Hong Kong Academy Awards.

 

Is it because of the box office that Jay Chou, who is full of popularity, is brought into the crew? After many years, after the quarrel between Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping, the truth finally surfaced.

 

It turned out that Zhang Yimou’s script had already been finalized, but producer Zhang Weiping insisted on bringing Jay Chou into the group from a commercial point of view. Zhang Yimou had no choice but to change the script and arrange a new role for him. For Zhang Weiping, a businessman, Jay Chou’s joining can not only ensure the box office, but also attach a classic song "Chrysanthemum Taiwan" which has spread to thousands of families. It is a good deal that can make both ends meet. As for the artistic point of view of the film, I’m afraid it’s a matter of opinion how Jay Chou’s role has been completed and how much he has contributed to the film as a whole.

 

 "Prince Jie" in "Golden Flower in the City"

 

It is worth mentioning that in the same year, Jay Chou also wrote the ending song of the same name for another film "Huo Yuanjia", and also won the nomination award of "Best Original Movie Song" in the Academy Award. Huo Yuanjia also exceeded 100 million at the box office that year, ranking third in the year. It can be seen that Jay Chou, as a huge weapon to attract gold, has great commercial appeal to movies. Even if he didn’t appear himself, just one song is enough to get a large number of fans into the cinema.

 

After working with several great directors and accumulating some experience, Jay Chou finally became interested in the position of director, instead of just being an actor.

 

Being a director has always been one of Jay Chou’s dreams. Before that, he had only some experience in directing MV shooting, but the film was a higher level ability. When Jay Chou faced questions from the media, he had to admit that he was under a lot of pressure, including lack of time, lack of confidence on the set, and various questions from outside. In the face of this brand-new field of directing, even the heavenly king, like him, has to be an humble "apprentice".

 

In 2007, Jay Chou finally released his own feature-length debut novel "Unspeakable Secrets". However, this small and unremarkable literary romance was unexpectedly affirmed by the great director Zhang Yimou: "As a newcomer’s debut, it is perfect." After the film was released, the word-of-mouth box office ushered in a double harvest. The box office in the Mainland exceeded 35 million and won five nominations at the Golden Horse Award that year. Jay Chou himself arranged all the original music of the film, and the soundtrack of the film with the same name won the Golden Melody Award, and the classic piano-fighting passage in the film became the object of being quoted countless times later.

 

Not only that, The Unspeakable Secret has caused a "Jay Chou" trend in South Korea. If the Korean favorite Chinese film is Farewell My Concubine, the second place is probably this one. In 2015, the film was even replayed in South Korea, and Koreans even bought the script rights of the film for remake. The feature film directed by Jay Chou has also led a group of singers to become directors, including Wang Leehom and A Niu.

 

 "The most beautiful thing is not the rainy day, but the eaves that have escaped from the rain with you."

 

From the age of 24, I first appeared on the big screen, and reached the peak of my career in 2007, but I was only 28 years old. Jay Chou’s appearance lit up the youth of countless people, and he himself drifted all the way and was invincible in his best years.

I am very busy: "You go together, I am in a hurry."

 

In 2007, Jay Chou, whose music and film career reached the peak in succession, also set up his own company "Jewell" and released the company’s first album "I’m Busy". These three words may have expressed Jay Chou’s feelings at that time.

 

Many netizens commented that Jay Chou’s "debut is the peak" in the film field, which is not unreasonable. Starring in the debut film "Initial D" allowed him to enter the film circle and swept the major awards; The director’s debut "Unspeakable Secrets" made him a blockbuster and fully demonstrated his talents. However, after that, his film career has suffered some controversy. Although there are still many films he participated in, most of them have a mediocre reputation and the box office has fluctuated.

 

During the years from 2008 to 2010, Jay Chou’s films received a lot of reputation.

 

Slam Dunk and Thorn Ling are both directed by Zhu Yanping and starring Jay Chou. The former is also a tailor-made film, with a fair box office but insufficient word of mouth, while the latter suffered a fiasco in both word of mouth and market, and the Douban score was even less than 4 points. In Yuan Heping’s Su Qier, Jay Chou made a guest appearance as "Wu Shen". Although there were not many scenes, the shape was shocking, and the film quality was still worrying, and the box office continued to lose money. In the same year, the TV series "pandaren" directed by Jay Chou was even more serious. Whether it’s a big screen or a small screen, Jay Chou’s performing arts career has frequently hit a wall, and its former glory is no longer there.

 

In 2011, Jay Chou’s acting career developed to Hollywood. He played the leading role Kato in the film The Green Hornet, which was his first film show in Hollywood. Although the film’s reputation is mediocre, with its high popularity, the film has won more than 100 million box office in China, which has temporarily removed Jay Chou’s notoriety as "box office poison". The production cost of the film is 100 million US dollars, and the global box office is as high as 250 million US dollars. "Nunchaku" has become the first Chinese ending song in Hollywood movies.

 

 Jay Chou’s Appearance in The Green Hornet

 

In 2012, Jay Chou partnered with Nicholas Tse and starred in Lin Chaoxian’s gunfight action film "Inverse War". In this film, Jay Chou finally broke away from the performance method of "playing handsome with facial paralysis" and tried to go deep into the character’s heart and understand the emotional level of the character. His acting skills have been greatly improved compared with the past. The box office of the film also reached 130 million, with a good reputation and average results.

 

Until 2013, Jay Chou finally directed his second film, Love on the Roof. This is a musical film, which is still written, directed and performed by Jay Chou, and has arranged all the original music work of the film. Jay Chou had high hopes for this film, and tried to do it himself in all aspects of film creation. In an interview that year, Jay Chou said, "The choice of musical film is to be the first to try something that others have not done." At the same time, he also said: "(This film) is not only for the Asian market, but also for the big pattern, and foreigners should feel great after watching it!"

 

However, the fact is not as Jay Chou wished. Although the film’s reputation is acceptable, it also broke the box office record of mainland musical films when it was released in China, becoming the first Chinese musical film with a box office of over 100 million, but the final box office result was barely over 100 million. In terms of awards, "Love on the Roof" failed to replicate the success of "Unspeakable Secrets". This achievement is obviously a failure for Jay Chou, who is a singer.

 

Moreover, coincidentally, the box office performance of this film in Taiwan Province is also poor, which seems to prove the inherent limitations of musical films in the Chinese market to some extent. After that, Jay Chou briefly left the film and television circle and did not appear in more films.

 

Many people think that the box office failure of "Love on the Rooftop" has brought a big blow to Jay Chou. Although Jay Chou himself has not responded positively to this, a series of bumps in the past few years will not "knock him down", but at least he will temporarily slow down and think about the next development.

 

 In "Love on the Roof", Jay Chou plays the role of "prodigal cream"

 

Superman can’t fly:

"Don’t ask me if I cried,

Because Superman can’t shed tears. "

 

Although Jay Chou has said many times that "movies are just an interest, and music is his main business", a series of achievements or failures in the field of movies still affect his mood to some extent. As the title song "Superman Can’t Fly" in the album "Cross Times" sings: "It’s tiring to save the earth, although I am a little tired, I will still." The industry’s high expectations for his "all-round development" have invisibly become a constraint and pressure.

 

After directing Love on the Rooftop, Jay Chou rarely appeared in movies in recent years, but he didn’t give up the road of movies. He chose some other ways to participate in the production of some films, but most of these works did not arouse too much splash.

 

In 2013, Jay Chou’s good partner, lyricist vincent fang, also began to prepare his directorial debut "Hear the Sound of Rain". This is a lyric written by vincent fang. It was first sung by female singer Wei Ruyun, and then covered by Jay Chou. It was included in the album "Oh, not bad".

 

I heard that my good brother also wants to be a director. Jay Chou is duty-bound to be the music director (not a producer) of the film, but his participation didn’t bring too much attention to the film. The film didn’t even arouse a little splash in the market, only got more than 1.6 million box office, and its reputation was relatively bad.

 

In 2016, Jay Chou participated in three films, namely, dubbing the role of "Golden Monkey" in Kung Fu Panda 3, starring in "Amazing Thieves 2", and making a guest appearance as a producer of the film "The Agreement of 10,000 kilometers".

 

 Jay Chou made a cameo in "The Pirates 2".

 

Among them, the work of dubbing Kung Fu Panda 3 is secondary, mainly because I want to push the newcomer Pai Weijun, who I brought with me. They also created a theme song for the film, but the newcomer didn’t bring it out, and the theme song was also mediocre. The reason for starring in "Amazing Thieves 2" is entirely because of Jay Chou’s interest in magic and his love for the first film, but his role in the film has little room to play, and he is almost a handsome and funny "tool man"; As for the third book "The Agreement of 10,000 Kilometers", it is nothing more than Jay Chou’s act of "brushing his face" for his brother once again. Douban scored 4.7 points, not to mention it.

 

Next, it will be 2020. Besides making a guest appearance in the directorial debut of A Ken, I will be the producer of All-powerful. However, considering that one of the producers of All-powerful Storm is Liu Genghong, the producer is estimated to be his platform for his brothers.

 

We summarized and sorted out the domestic box office and Douban score of Jay Chou’s films, and we can more intuitively see his achievements in the film field over the years.

 

To be fair, after Love on the Roof, Jay Chou’s film career can almost be described as "stagnant". And a group of friends around him tried to use Jay Chou’s fame to promote their works, but almost no one cared. On the one hand, of course, those works are of poor quality. On the other hand, it is enough to show that Jay Chou’s fame and influence have completely overshadowed this group of people. Under his great aura, it is not easy for others to really make their own way in the entertainment industry.

 

It’s no wonder that some netizens joked that "All-powerful Storm" was "Jay Chou Studio Movie". Indeed, even if Jay Chou himself only has a shot of more than ten seconds in the film, the film does not forget to use it as a propaganda point. Even, his name, ranked in front of the director, which shows the enduring influence of Jay Chou. For a film related to him, he himself is the biggest "magic weapon" of this film.

If you don’t love me, forget it:

"Anyway, it’s not like I don’t want it."

 

Since Jay Chou got married, she became a "wife-doting maniac". Although she seldom got an electric shock on the big screen, she began to spare no effort to recommend her beloved wife, Hannah Quinlivan, as the heroine in various movies. The resources were enviable, and she successively cooperated with Hollywood superstars Orlando Bloom, Dwayne Douglas Johnson, little fresh meat Leo, old drama bone Wang Xueyin and so on.

 

In order to give his wife a platform, Jay Chou actively cooperated with his beloved wife’s works and ran around the platform for her. For example, before the release of Hannah Quinlivan’s "Fire in the Sky", he not only rushed to write a theme song for the movie, but also sent a link to Baidu’s network disk to the major theaters, so that the theaters could post the music MV, and even did not forget to post the QR code of ticket purchase at his concert. Just frankly speaking, Hannah Quinlivan’s film resume looks dazzling, but the quality is somewhat difficult to compliment.

 

 "Heaven and Fire" starring Hannah Quinlivan

 

To some extent, just like the situation that he tried many times before to win the popularity of new people, these efforts at present, except for consuming human feelings, "brushing his face" for friends and making his wife happy, do not seem to be of much help to the development of his film career.

 

Of course, from the perspective of market-oriented business, as Jay Chou, he has been successful enough. In addition to music and movies, his business map also involves e-sports, fitness, catering, antiques, automobiles, trendy clothing, education and cultural creation. As an artist or a businessman, he has already made a name for himself.

 

In recent years, Jay Chou has not been idle. She gave birth to a second child with her wife. While she is in love with Xiu Xiu, she also does not forget to do variety reality shows and serve as a mentor for music talent shows. From the point of view of mentality, he seems to be more "free" and face his acting career with a "game" mentality. While being urged by fans to release an album, he wrote a song after releasing a new song and found that the fans didn’t buy it, which made the fans call it "a little arrogant."

 

 Jay Chou, your fans are calling for your album!

 

Needless to say, Jay Chou’s achievements in music, but in the field of film, whether there will be the third work of "Director Jay Chou" is still unknown. In the past, when he faced the media, he said, "Movies are hard work." Or for him at this stage, participating in all aspects of the film in other capacities, selling IP, being a producer, writing music, and occasionally making a guest appearance in a friend’s film can be regarded as a kind of "game world" play mentality.

 

What we have achieved belongs to the past, and we also hope that Jay Chou can usher in the "second spring" of its film career. The road of film is endless, and I believe he will make a comeback in the future. After all, he is the Jay Chou who once shone on the youth of countless people and sang "I have no interest except the first" in a tone of arrogance.

It’s almost the Spring Festival, and I’m actually obsessed with this group of hot-blooded young people’s "striking while the iron is hot"

Author | Xie Minghong

Editor | Li Chunhui

 

After the rise of IP craze, the film adaptation of male frequency can’t get rid of the cool dependence on "Golden Finger".What’s the trade-off between male frequent writers and screenwriters?How do the protagonist and the group image set off each other? How does the core of the novel resonate with the film and television audience? A hundred discussions are not as good as a successful practice. In the newly-launched Douluo Continent, Hard Sugar Jun found that male frequency adaptation is really getting more and more out of the way.

For the screenwriter Wang Tired’s TV series Douluo Mainland, the audience’s expectations are still very high. Nowadays, it seems that the drama version has not completely converted to the original framework.Instead, on the basis of retaining the main line of the story, it has carried out the integration of youth and comedy.. At first glance, the soul beast, the soul ring and the soul master, the presentation of Douluo Mainland is original. However, the details of the play, its "small discrepancy" with the original work and the comic sense of another way are likely to contain its breakthrough secret.

 

Strike while the iron is hot and blame, light the point and mix the jokes.

In a word, "Douluo Mainland" tells the story that Tang San studied in Notting Academy and Slanker Academy, formed the "Slanker Seven Monsters" with his friends who fought side by side, and finally won the title of Soul Academy Competition. The growth mode of punishing evil and promoting good laid the tone of the drama "burning"

From the awakening of Wu Soul to entering Notting Academy, and then being traced by Notting City, Douluo Mainland has constructed a complete world view of Wu Soul in just a few episodes. Outside the village of the Holy Soul, the world, the kingdom and the Hall of the Soul spread all over the mainland. If ordinary people want to achieve "class transition", they must hunt powerful soul beasts to get the soul ring and become the strongest soul teacher. And "Wu Soul Hall monopolizes the soul beast resources and is an industry monopoly organization".

 

Before the class transition, it is necessary to "get rid of poverty through education". With the determination not to lose at the starting line, Tang San became an "additional student" of Notting Academy with a letter of recommendation.However, when he arrived at the Academy, Tang San discovered another power structure. The school bully in the academy is Xiao Chenyu, the son of Lord Nuoding, and the director of the academy is also his third uncle. Students should put his joys and sorrows first and be suppressed by him everywhere.

 

Full of unfair environmental settings, hard candy jun’s fists are hard! Fortunately, Tang San seemed to hear our voices and made Xiao Chenyu flustered several times. In the fast-paced narrative of Douro Continent, the theme of punishing evil and promoting good is very substitutive, and the burning point and the laughing point are also balanced.

 

These jokes are closely combined with the plot, which has the playful pleasure of post-modern deconstruction. The picture of Wang Sheng being kicked across the air when Xiao Wu mistakenly entered the boys’ dormitory for a fight is extremely meaningless. The imaginary scene in Liu Long’s mind that Tang San and Xiao Dance are surrounded by smoke is also a typical comic treatment.

 

When it’s time to shoot, the ignition point of the series is also a matter of course, and a big word "cool" is written. When Xiao Chenyu threatened everyone’s life, when the cage of powerful energy could not break through, it was also the surge point of adrenaline in the audience. Tang San risked the destruction of Wu Soul, forcibly broke the organ, and brushed his mood not to be too comfortable.

 

In addition to the fast pace, intensive coolness and laughter, the gold medal screenwriter Wang tired of controlling it, which made Douluo Mainland have more delicate extensibility. It is better to make the characters solid and interesting than to seek innovation and change blindly. Group drama has become a prominent feature, and the images of Xiaowu, Wang Sheng, Yu Xiaogang and Xiao Chenyu have become more distinct after fine-tuning.

"I want to take his woman and destroy his eyes." Xiao Chenyu’s arrogance makes people itch, but it also provokes the audience’s emotional point of resisting oppression. With the help of a little dance, I told the problems of the whole environment and got rid of boring preaching. "This is unfair. Every life can only gain territory and power with its own strength." For the love between father and son, Wang is tired of writing quietly but touching. Tang’s father was stern on the surface, but he secretly bandaged each other’s wounds while Tang San was asleep.

 

The mystery of the second martial spirit and birth mother throughout creates a fascinating sense of suspense. Because of his father’s advice, Tang San always hides his second martial spirit. In order to solve his mother’s puzzle, he kept collecting clues to piece together the truth of that year.

 

Ingenious production, multi-platform detonation

 

The skeleton of a good story should also have a plump body. The artistic setting of Douluo Continent depicts a very beautiful world of martial souls for the audience and creates an immersive aesthetic space.

 

The architectural styles of the sacred soul village, Notting city and hunting forest are unique; Ghost wolves, Datura snakes, and magic spiders with human faces are dazzling; Blue silver grass, soft bone rabbit, Luo Sanpao and other martial soul special effects are realistic and natural; In the picture of the opponent between the character and the spirit beast, the action of the three wise men fighting the spider with human face is flowing, and the thrilling details against the Datura snake are also present.

 

At the same time, the shooting technique of "Douluo Mainland" is also close to the preferences of young audiences to the greatest extent. The performance of comic voice combined with comic style complements the high-burning battle soundtrack. Tang San mistakenly thought that Xuanyushou’s function was to strike the iron, Xiao Dance was mixed into Tang San’s bed and watched by roommates, Luo San Bao ate radish and farted, and Xiao Dance thought that the duke’s surname was "city", which made people laugh.

 

The cool point with feelings and the relaxed expression of heavy themes make Douluo Mainland have the characteristics of decompression and leisure without losing its connotation. The secular feelings of "radish cake" and Liu Long-style comedy characters make this drama based on the proposition of growth quickly accepted by the audience in a relaxed way.

 

The TV series "Douluo Continent" was broadcast at the right time. In the original book that ended in the last year of the Ox, the total sales volume of physical books exceeded 10 million in 12 years, and there were a lot of books. In 2018, the animated version of "Douluo Continent" was launched, and it dominated the TOP1 of Tencent’s video country list all the year round, further increasing the basic audience of IP; The winter vacation coincides with the drama-chasing season of the audience, and the combination of TV stations and online video platforms can achieve a wider range of users’ reach. In addition to attracting the attention of domestic audiences, the quality of the series itself has also made it popular in Britain, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and other countries.

 

The role is me, and the audience wants "common growth"

 

Is a pair of "bad cards" giving up or playing an attitude? In front of Tang San, there are "luck" born with full soul and "misfortune" with abandoned martial spirit. Even the teacher advised him to study the theory of Wu Soul deeply, so that he could take a teaching post in the future. But he didn’t give up, believing that everything has its function, even the weakest bluegrass is no exception.

 

Just like a student with a lack of talent, he tries hard to fly first. Tang San was dragged black and blue by the bluegrass before he learned the soul skill of entanglement. The diligence of summing up while practicing shocked Yu Xiaogang. He changed in difficulties and grew up in adversity. As he said when he was desperate: "How can you go your own way without bloodshed and pain?

 

If "my life is up to me" shows an indomitable youthful mind, then "weeding out the strong and helping the weak" is a modern interpretation of traditional chivalry. Refusing to harm small animals, Tang San hit the floor said quietly: "The strong should be born to protect the weak, which is the most basic truth." In the face of the oppression of the Wu Soul Hall and the kingdom, Tang San also shouldered the responsibility of "pleading for the life of the people".

 

On the basis of the "Slacker Seven Monsters", Douluo Mainland reconstructs the social way of modern young people with the martial arts template. They have different personalities, but they can unite into a force in the face of suffering. The spirit of "don’t give up, don’t give up" also inspires young people who read books and watch dramas during the physical training of the seven eccentrics.

 

What is the friendship of "Slacker Seven Monsters"? It’s the kind that you can trust your back to the other side in a battle. Affectionate little dance, Leng Qing’s bamboo, tender feelings and glory, the seven eccentrics have different personalities, but when combined, they glow with excellent fighting energy.For the young audience who flaunt their individuality but are not good at expressing their inner feelings, the friendship of "Slacker Seven Weirds" is very strange and loving.

 

There is obviously a universal script in Douro Continent that grows up with the metaphor of journey, which also assumes the function of narrative structure in the drama series-young people increase their life experience by traveling and meet mentors, enemies and peers. Make a choice in the fierce struggle between "inner self" and "external statute" and move towards the maturity of the final meaning.

 

The schema mixture of fantasy world, collective life, team battle setting, competitive competition and other popular elements makes Douro Continental substitute young audiences into this system in many breakthrough points: opening up its own experience and constantly debugging, and realizing the narrative of changing and growing together with the protagonist.

 

The youthful blood and persistence in the ideal that the audience felt from Douro Continent is precisely the mental process that they must go through when they transition from youth to maturity. When they are substituted into the typical situation, the young audience will gain a "common growth" after experiencing the joys and sorrows with the protagonist.

 

Synchronizing the audience with the protagonist is obviously a more powerful male frequency methodology than the golden finger script.

Why is the nomination for this year’s Academy Awards not bad but surprising?

Special feature of 1905 film network After experiencing the confused period of hunger and thirst for Hong Kong flavor, the achievements of Hong Kong films in nurturing new people are becoming increasingly apparent. From the nomination list of the 36th Academy Awards, it can be seen that the new director can finally compete with the famous veteran. Ceng Guoxiang was nominated for 12 nominations, and "Five Steps" won 8 nominations each. Yiu-Fai Law, Roy Szeto and Wen Weihong all won the favor of the judges.

Compared with the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards, five best films nominated four policemen and robbers, and the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards was the only one in which the crew celebrated and reveled. The nomination list of this year’s Hong Kong Film Awards moved the newcomers from the corner gallery to the grand main hall, but it was full of bright vitality, which also showed the practical and powerful direction of localization of Hong Kong films.

After the emergence of the academic school, the new "Hong Kong flavor" struck.

In recent years, Hong Kong creators have been trying to find the local characteristics with the most cultural affinity, and the low-cost art cinema has become the mainstream theme of the new generation. From, to, to, and are all trying to describe the local cultural memory of Hong Kong.

This year’s Hong Kong local film "Five Steps" directed by the new director Chen Zhifa tells the story of the Hong Kong junior baseball team in the 1980s. It was highly praised after being shown at the Hong Kong International Film Festival last year, and the local box office in Hong Kong also reached 4.5 million (source: Hong Kong Film Association data);

Chun Wong’s "Ignorance of One Mind" is based on a real news case in Hong Kong, which shows the indifference of society to mental patients with a family tragedy. It also won the best new director award for Huang Jin at the 53rd Golden Horse Award.

A similar set of "Peeling Dad", with a 76-year-old demented father returning to different periods of 60, 52, 37, 28 and 19 in seven days, points out the affection between father and son, and the film was also shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival.

The enthusiasm for the creation of Hong Kong films is returning, and under the given conditions, newcomers have a stronger preference for literary realistic themes.

In fact, the late 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of Hong Kong films, and art cinema was once prosperous. The feminine style of,, and so on; , focus on same-sex feelings; The quiet alternative aesthetics, as well as the realism and prosaic sadness distributed by Durian Fluttering, have shaped the "best time" of Hong Kong literary films.

However, unlike the situation that Xu Anhua, Zhang Wanting and other returnees became "non-mainstream" among Hong Kong film directors at that time, Chun Wong and Chen Zhifa, new academic directors with social care consciousness, are gradually stepping into the mainstream of Hong Kong local films.

It is unfortunate and fortunate for these new directors that they were not born in the golden age of Hong Kong movies. In those days, the "excessive madness" under the opportunity of everywhere gave rise to many materialistic aspects in impetuousness; Five years ago, under the change of the general environment in which famous directors in Hong Kong went northward to seek co-productions, Hong Kong films had a period of confusion and fear about how to convey Hong Kong’s unique cultural memory and how to stick to the "Hong Kong flavor". Today’s Hong Kong culture tends to be weak, but the new directors can get rid of the clouds and get more calm space for reflection. On the contrary, they can strengthen their emotional connection with local culture and easily tap more valuable narrative content.

Some critics still question the current Hong Kong films with the cliche of "the loss of Hong Kong flavor", and frame the nomination list of the new Academy Awards with past prejudices. Exploring the source, what is the "Hong Kong flavor" that we are attached to nostalgia?

People can’t forget the colorful secular noise of Hong Kong films in the video tapes in 1970s and 1980s, but it’s basically a style in which entertainment permeates details, details construct stories, and stories show ideas. Among them, funny dramas are the most representative, from the Xu Guanwen era, which was popular to Stephen Chow’s Wulitou series, which dominated for a while. These films are based on firmly grasping the social pulse after the 1997 crisis and stepping on the drums of the Hong Kong era to reach people’s hearts, thus creating a generation of Hong Kong films.

Now that the times have changed and the environment is different, can dreamers still stay where they are? Newcomers and new things, with the attitude of keeping pace with the times, draw new works that are in line with the current reality, in order to open up a breakthrough space. The pursuit of Hong Kong’s old film complex and the emphasis on "Hong Kong flavor" are more like daydreaming floating in reality.

Next page:The reincarnation of Hong Kong film classics

Raising interest rates for the tenth time in a row, the Fed faces difficult choices.

  Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 5th(International Watch) Raising interest rates for the tenth time in a row, the Fed faces difficult choices.

  Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiong Maoling Liu Yanan

  Inflation remains high, economic growth slows down significantly, and the banking crisis continues to ferment … … Under the background of multiple economic difficulties in the United States, whether the Federal Reserve will suspend interest rate hikes and when the current interest rate hike cycle will end have attracted much attention. After the latest monetary policy meeting, the Federal Reserve announced on the 3rd that it would raise interest rates by 25 basis points again. This is the tenth rate hike by the Federal Reserve since March last year, and the cumulative rate hike has reached 500 basis points.

  Although the Fed’s interest rate hike policy continues, the wording of the statement of the Federal Open Market Committee, which is responsible for formulating monetary policy, has changed. The statement revised the previous statement that "some additional policy tightening may be appropriate" and replaced it with "judging to what extent additional policy tightening may be appropriate". Some analysts believe that this revision shows that the Fed may suspend interest rate hikes.

  However, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell did not rule out the possibility of continuing to raise interest rates, saying that the Fed would make a decision based on specific economic data in the future.

  In fact, the Fed is facing a difficult choice. On the one hand, although the rate hike has eased the inflation situation, the inflation level is still at a high level. The data shows that the consumer price index (CPI) in March rose by 5% year-on-year, the smallest year-on-year increase since May 2021, but it is still far higher than the Fed’s long-term inflation target of 2%.

  On the other hand, the Fed has been "soaring" on the road of raising interest rates, which has pushed interest rates to the highest level in 16 years, and its inhibitory effect on economic growth has gradually emerged. The construction industry and manufacturing industry in the United States have obviously cooled down, and personal consumption has also slowed down significantly in February and March this year. In the first quarter of this year, the real gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States increased by 1.1% at an annual rate, significantly lower than the 2.6% in the fourth quarter of last year.

  Aggressive interest rate hikes also triggered a regional banking crisis. Following the closure of Silicon Valley Bank, Bank of JPMorgan Chase recently acquired First Total Bank, indicating that the banking crisis is still brewing. However, Powell said that the overall situation of the US banking industry has improved, and JPMorgan Chase’s acquisition of First Total Bank is an "exception".

  Desmond Rahman, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, told Xinhua that the Fed’s actions seem to ignore the credit crunch caused by the banking crisis and the impact that the imminent debt ceiling crisis may bring to the financial market. The Fed continues to raise interest rates, putting the United States at risk of a hard landing.

  Many economists and market participants said that the US economy may fall into recession later this year due to the weakening of growth momentum, the aggressive interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve and the banking crisis. Some Democrats, including US Senator elizabeth warren, recently sent a joint letter to Powell, urging the Fed to stop raising interest rates, and warning that excessive interest rate hikes will cause more people to lose their jobs, destroy small businesses and plunge the US economy into recession.

  Gregory Dako, chief economist of Ernst & Young-Bochum, believes that it would be a "prudent decision" for the Fed to suspend interest rate hikes now. He said that with the slowdown of economic activities, the risks facing the US economy are increasing. However, some analysts said that under certain conditions, the Fed may still continue to raise interest rates. Sima Shah, chief strategist of Principal Global Investment Company, believes that if the data shows that the economy is only moderately slowing down, inflation is still at a high level, and the banking crisis is "controlled to a considerable extent", it is not excluded that the Fed will continue to raise interest rates in June.

What are the differences between AT, CVT and DCT gearboxes? Who is better? Who is the best choice?

The debate about the advantages and disadvantages of different gearboxes has never stopped. Many people have an inherent knowledge of the gearbox, and feel that the gearbox they use is always the best. But obviously this is not objective. Today, I will analyze the mainstream gearbox specifications on the market for everyone. Who has the advantage?

AT gearbox

AT one time, when major manufacturers didn’t reduce the production and R&D expenses, the gearboxes used in most models were AT automatic gearboxes, which were also more traditional automatic gearboxes. Compared with ordinary manual gearboxes, the planetary gear structure cancelled the clutch and the power was connected by hydraulic torque converter. By adjusting the tooth ratio between different planetary gears and sun gear, the purpose of speed change can be achieved. AT present, there are a variety of AT gearboxes on the market, with 6AT as the mainstream and 10AT as the high-end of 8AT. For most German luxury brands, ZF’s 8AT is a frequent visitor, while Mercedes-Benz has always insisted on using its own 7AT or 9AT gearbox. Of course, the best word of mouth among the people is still Mazda’s 6AT parallel gearbox, because the shift locking range has been re-optimized, so the shift feeling is obviously more positive than the traditional AT gearbox, and the experience is better. Although the number of gears is small, in terms of driving experience, it is not lost to the gearbox with higher specificATions at all, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the most civil AT gearbox.

continuously variable transmission

In recent years, in order to reduce the manufacturing cost of the whole vehicle, more and more Japanese manufacturers have joined the camp of CVT gearboxes. Not only Nissan, Toyota and Honda have a tendency to fully popularize CVT gearboxes. CVT gearbox is very different from the traditional gearbox. Power transmission is realized through two sets of bevel wheels and steel. Compared with the traditional AT automatic transmission gearbox, it is extremely silky to switch the gear ratio without gears. Especially the riders who often drive in urban areas can feel the incomparable smoothness and smoothness of CVT gearbox. Of course, CVT gearbox also has shortcomings that cannot be ignored. The most obvious disadvantage is that the gearbox is easy to be protected when accelerating rapidly, and it cannot release the maximum torque of the engine. However, in recent years, Toyota has also made continuous efforts in CVT gearbox, and launched CVT gearbox code-named Direct Shift. At low speed, gears can be directly used for driving, and steel belt transmission can be adopted after the speed increases. The efficiency is much stronger than that of Nissan’s X-TRONIC automatic gearbox.

dualclutchtransmission

For the majority of German car owners, the dual-clutch gearbox may be the most common contact in daily life. Regarding the dual-clutch gearbox, the controversy in the market has never stopped, and many people have a bad impression of the dual-clutch gearbox. Because many years ago, many German manufacturers introduced their own dual clutches into China without optimization. Due to the complexity of domestic road conditions, the previous dual-clutch gearbox is generally not competent for domestic road conditions. Especially in the case of traffic jam, the dual-clutch gearbox switched back and forth between low-speed gears, which impressed many car owners, so many people felt very sorry at that time. In recent years, consumers can find that the double clutch has changed quietly. The biggest change is to optimize the shift logic in traffic jams and slow down the shift speed, so that the overall feeling can be closer to the traditional automatic transmission.

Compared with CVT gearbox and AT gearbox, the power connection efficiency of dual clutch is comparable to that of the former. There used to be riders testing Volkswagen’s DSG gearbox, and the transmission efficiency of more than 90% really made many competing products ashamed. Although Volkswagen’s DSG may not be as long as the traditional AT automatic gearbox, the lightning shift speed is also fascinating.

How to choose?

This may be the most tangled thing for the majority of riders, and they want the lightning speed of double clutch and the silky shifting feeling of CVT or AT gearbox. The author wants to say that if you are in a congested downtown area or an extremely slow driving speed for a long time, AT or CVT gearbox is actually the best choice. For those riders who often need to run at high speed when working in the suburbs, dual clutch may be a more sensible option. Under different road conditions, all kinds of gearboxes can show their advantages and disadvantages, so there is no best gearbox in the world, only the gearbox that suits them best.

develop

The trend of new energy is rolling in like a flood, and various manufacturers have gradually introduced their own transmission systems based on electric transformation. Compared with the traditional fuel car, the cost of electrification is hard to ignore, but it is obviously more economical to think about the gearbox. Both BYD and Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and Geely have launched their own gearbox systems based on the electric architecture. So what is the significance of electrification? For the traditional AT or CVT gearbox, the electric transformation can effectively improve the shift response of the gearbox at a lower speed to improve the power output feedback. For the electric modified dual-clutch gearbox, it can make the jitter in traffic jam negligible.

Write it at the end

Of course, which gearbox to choose depends on consumers, because everyone’s consumption needs are different and their consumption habits are different. Again, there is no best gearbox, only the gearbox that suits you best, what do you think?

[CCTV Quick Review] Stopping violence and chaos and restoring order are the most urgent tasks in Hong Kong at present.

"Stopping violence and chaos and restoring order are the most urgent tasks in Hong Kong at present." On November 14th, local time, when the Supreme Leader of president, China attended the 11th meeting of BRICS leaders in Brasilia, he made clear the solemn position of the China government on the current situation in Hong Kong. Chairman Supreme Leader’s important speech seriously pointed out the serious harm and essence of some radical violent criminal activities in Hong Kong, clearly declared the basic position and attitude of the central government on the situation in Hong Kong, clearly emphasized the most urgent task at present, and pointed out the direction and path for stabilizing the situation in Hong Kong.

President Xi’s important speech is a strong support for the SAR government led by Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, a great encouragement to the general public, and a severe warning to the radical rioters and their behind-the-scenes support forces, which sends out the strongest voice of the central government to stop violence and control chaos in Hong Kong. Over the past five months or so, violent criminals in Hong Kong have been wanton, vandalized, set on fire and committed all kinds of evils throughout the territory: from smashing the Legislative Council to attacking the China Liaison Office, defacing the national flag, from throwing petrol bombs at the police to indiscriminate violence against civilians and tourists, and recently, they deliberately assassinated Legislative Council members and drenched residents who argued with them in the street … … The means and degree of violent crime are escalating and are slipping into the abyss of terrorism.

The lawless and heinous atrocities of a few extreme violent elements have broken through the bottom line of being a human being, trampled on the authority of the rule of law, seriously undermined the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong, and seriously challenged the bottom line of the principle of "one country, two systems", and must be judged by law and justice. Violent criminals keep pursuing so-called freedom, but they turn Hong Kong into a violent danger where everyone can’t move. They shout so-called democracy, but they engage in terrorist acts by threatening assassination and depriving others of their lives; They preach the so-called equality, but they add fists and sticks to dissidents … … All kinds of chaos show that the violent elements are not trying to save Hong Kong, but are destroying it! In the past five months or so, Hong Kong’s economy has obviously declined, and violent criminals have become murderers of Hong Kong’s chaos and become public hazards that threaten citizens’ safety and social order. Their real purpose in creating "black terror" is to kidnap all citizens, disrupt Hong Kong and realize their ulterior motives.

A few extreme violent elements tried to block the car and bring about their own destruction. As the Chairman of the Supreme Leader emphasized: "The China government is determined to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests, and implements ‘ One country, two systems ’ The determination of the policy is unshakable, and the determination to oppose any external forces interfering in Hong Kong affairs is unshakable. " The rioters who violently messed up Hong Kong and colluded with external forces to forget their ancestors not only miscalculated, but also underestimated the determination of all China people, including Hong Kong compatriots, to defend national sovereignty and national dignity. This insidious purpose of splitting will never succeed! No country will ever allow extreme violence.

All walks of life in Hong Kong should join hands with the SAR Government and the police force, resolutely implement the spirit of President Xi’s important speech, and unite powerful forces to fight violence, protect the rule of law and ensure stability. We must take stronger, bolder and more effective actions, continue to firmly support the Chief Executive to lead the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government to govern according to law, firmly support the Hong Kong police to strictly enforce the law, and firmly support the Hong Kong judiciary to punish violent criminals according to law, resolutely stop violence and chaos, restore order, and return Hong Kong to peace as soon as possible!

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As a compact SUV, the side lines of the car series Colorful are compact and dynamic, with a body size of 4330mm*1800mm*1609mm and a wheelbase of 2600mm, providing excellent interior space. The front wheelbase of 1551mm and the rear wheelbase of 1562mm ensure solid driving stability. The tire size is 215/65 R16, and the stylish wheel design not only guarantees driving performance, but also adds to the visual appeal of the vehicle. Overall, the side design of the car series Colorful fully reflects its aesthetic concept of refinement and practicality.

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The car is equipped with a 1.5L displacement L4 engine with a maximum power of 93 kW and a maximum torque of 152 Nm, providing stable power support. This engine is matched with a 5-speed manual transmission, ensuring flexible handling and economy during driving.

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