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People’s Forum Online Review | Answer the "Ecological Volume" of Green Water and Green Mountains

    General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made important instructions on the occasion of the first National Ecological Day, stressing that the whole society should take action to be an active disseminator and exemplary practitioner of Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets’s ideas. Ecological environmental protection affects the overall development and concerns people’s livelihood and well-being. Party member cadres should understand and comprehend the profound connotation of the theory of "two mountains", do a good job in scientific and accurate overall planning and practical demonstration, and give a "perfect score" for ecological environmental protection with long-term strategic determination.

  People live up to the castle peak, and the castle peak will live up to people. Yichun, the "forest capital" that stopped logging for ten years, focused on ecological transformation, developed the under-forest economy, and wrote the story from "opposition between man and forest" to "harmony between man and forest"; Then to abandon the "stone economy", develop eco-tourism, and realize the transformation from "the mountain is bald and the water becomes soy sauce soup" to "people walking in the village is Traveling in a pictorial world" … … Vivid practices in various places enlighten us that green mountains and green waters are ecological resources and natural wealth, but also social resources and economic wealth. Only by understanding the meaning of the theory of "two mountains" and taking the road of ecological priority and green development can we draw a magnificent picture of beautiful China.

  Idea is superior to system, and system is superior to technology. Eco-environmental protection is a systematic project, which requires not only advanced ideas to raise the flag and orient, but also reliable planning of rammed foundations. Party member cadres should deeply understand the development wisdom of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", always stand at the height of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, uphold the ideological concept of "for the long-term plan and for future generations", and make a more comprehensive and scientific overall plan to build a "four beams and eight pillars" for ecological environment protection. It is also necessary to adjust measures to local conditions, implement "personalized" considerations, aim at functional positioning, base on resource endowments, and combine stage characteristics to "accurately portray" local ecological protection, "open the way" for sustainable development, and truly transform ecological advantages into development advantages.

  The establishment of National Ecological Day is an opportunity and a call. Party member cadres should shoulder the responsibility of ecological environmental protection with pragmatism, grasp the facts, grasp the details, do a good job in all aspects of ecological environmental protection, consistently implement the system to the point, push the project to the end, and implement the decision-making and deployment to the letter; More importantly, we should always adhere to the principle of "benefiting the people by ecology, benefiting the people by ecology and serving the people", starting with "raising your hand and doing small things" such as caring for vegetation and protecting water bodies, and taking the lead in being the leader, protector and practitioner of ecological civilization construction. The cadres in party member should show persistent persistence, subtly plant the ecological concepts of respecting nature, adapting to nature and protecting nature into the minds and hearts of the masses, make ecological culture the yardstick and value yardstick of the whole society, and make a good "ecological roll" with everyone participating, caring for everything, practicing all the time and being in place everywhere.

  (Author: Li Yao)

Farewell master! Yan Dingxian, chief animation designer of "Make a scene in Heaven", passed away.


Special feature of 1905 film network Members of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a famous animation artist, chief animation designer and first-class director, died at 4: 24 am on December 26th, 2022 at the age of 86.

Yan Dingxian used to be a director of the China Film Association, a director of the Shanghai Film Association, a vice president of the Chinese Animation Society, and a member of the International Animation Association (ASIFA), enjoying special allowances from the State Council. Graduated from Beijing Film School in 1953, majoring in animation, and successively served as the animation designer, director and factory director of Shanghai Film Studio.

As a famous couple in the animation film industry, he and the first generation of animation artists trained in New China participated in the creation of classic films such as "Making a scene in Heaven" during their stay in Shanghai Animation Film Studio.

In the 1960s, it took four years to make a scene in Heaven, which was the first feature film of color art in New China and a monument in the history of animation in China.The film owner gongsunrealizeemptyThe animated image of is deeply rooted in people’s hearts.


At the beginning of creation, the director put forward three conditions for Yan Dingxian: bright colors, outstanding images and concise lines. Yan Dingxian and his wife watched a lot of operas at that time, and absorbed inspiration from the stage. They omitted the image of the Monkey King to a heart of hearts and green eyebrows, and there were two lines on both sides of his mouth to show that his cheeks were sucked in.

On the basis of Mr. Zhang Guangyu’s styling design, Yan Dingxian finalized the image of the Monkey King after many revisions and adjustments. Wan Laiming finally affirmed with the words "energetic, brave and vigorous".

Since then, he has served as an artistic consultant for the 3D version of "Make a scene in Heaven", tracking and repairing the whole process and creating a new version. The film won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Animation at the Hawaiian International Film Festival and the Copyright Gold Award (China) of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

In addition, "What’s wrong with the sea" won the Excellent Art Film Award of the Ministry of Culture in 1979, the Outstanding Youth Creation Award of the Ministry of Culture, the Best Art Film Award of the Third Popular Film and the Special Award of the Second Manila International Film Festival;

The Golden Monkey Demons Won the Excellent Fine Arts Film Award of the Ministry of Culture in 1985, the Best Fine Arts Film Award of the 6th China Film Golden Rooster Award and the Excellent Film Award of the 1st Shanghai Literature and Art Award.

More than 30 well-known cartoons, such as We Love the Countryside, After School, Trumpeter (with cooperation), (with co-screenwriter), (with Wenxiao Lin in one to six episodes), and so on, are all produced by him.

Cartoon is Yan Dingxian’s lifelong ideal and belief. He has made constant innovations and breakthroughs in one film after another, and made great contributions to the "China Animation School" and the national animation in China. May Mr. Yan Dingxian have a good trip!


Opinions of Beijing Municipal People’s Government on Accelerating the Development of Science and Technology Service Industry in the Capital

Jing Zheng Fa [2015] No.25

The people’s governments of the districts and counties, the commissions, offices and bureaus of the municipal government, and the municipal institutions:

  In order to fully implement the spirit of "Several Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the Development of Science and Technology Service Industry" (Guo Fa [2014] No.49), make great efforts to promote mass entrepreneurship and innovation, accelerate the construction of a "sophisticated" economic structure, and strive to enhance the supporting capacity of science and technology service industry to the scientific and technological innovation and industrial development of the capital, we hereby put forward the following implementation opinions.

  I. General requirements

  (A) the guiding ideology

  Thoroughly implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee, thoroughly study and implement the series of important speeches of the Supreme Leader General Secretary and the spirit of important instructions on Beijing’s work, actively adapt to the new normal of economic development, adhere to and strengthen the strategic positioning of the capital city, give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, focus on strengthening technological innovation, stimulate entrepreneurial vitality, focus on strengthening advantageous areas, focus on cultivating new formats, and focus on expanding market space. Actively promote the development of science and technology service industry in the direction of specialization, networking, scale and internationalization, and strive to provide strong support for implementing the innovation-driven development strategy, promoting the sustained and healthy economic and social development of the capital, and building a world-class harmonious and livable capital.

  (2) Development goals

  By 2020, the potential of science and technology service resources in the capital will be fully released, the degree of marketization will be further improved, a science and technology service system with outstanding characteristics, strong support and innovation will be basically formed, and the ability to support the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements will be significantly enhanced; A number of key enterprises, service organizations and well-known brands with international influence will be added to form a number of technology service clusters with clear positioning, reasonable layout and coordinated development; The city’s science and technology service industry revenue reached 1.5 trillion yuan, and the transaction amount of technology contracts reached 500 billion yuan.

  Second, the main task

  (A) the implementation of technical support projects

  1. Expand the advantages of research and development services. Encourage enterprises to build their own research and development institutions such as key laboratories, engineering laboratories, engineering (technical) research centers and enterprise technology centers with universities and research institutes, support enterprises to undertake or participate in the construction of industrial technology research and development platforms, set up research and development headquarters in Beijing, and guide the orderly development of various emerging source technological innovation institutions and market-oriented new research and development organizations. We will deepen the construction of the capital platform for scientific and technological conditions and the Zhongguancun open laboratory, promote the opening of major scientific research infrastructure and large scientific research instruments to the society, and further improve the utilization efficiency of scientific and technological resources. Support R&D service outsourcing enterprises with strong innovation ability and high integrated service level, and develop R&D auxiliary services such as equipment leasing, raw material procurement and small batch production. Encourage the development of new R&D service formats based on the Internet.

  2. Improve the efficiency of technology transfer services. With China International Technology Transfer Center as the carrier, we will speed up the construction of a national technology transfer cluster and build a technology transfer hub that radiates the whole country and links the whole world. Encourage institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutes to set up technology transfer service institutions, carry out transfer and transformation activities of scientific and technological achievements by means of transfer, licensing and pricing shares, and improve the market pricing mechanism. Improve the income distribution mechanism of scientific and technological achievements transformation and deepen the reform of scientific research assets management. Support technology transfer service institutions to innovate service models and actively develop new services based on modern information technologies such as big data, cloud computing and mobile Internet.

  3. Promote the development of intellectual property services. Improve the supporting policies to support the development of intellectual property services, and strengthen the connection between intellectual property services and industrial, scientific and technological, financial and other policies. We will improve service platforms such as public information, thematic databases, protection and commercialization of intellectual property rights, strengthen the dissemination and utilization of intellectual property information, strengthen intellectual property protection and investment and financing services, and cultivate new forms of intellectual property services. Implement the cultivation plan of intellectual property service brand institutions, guide service institutions to connect with various innovative subjects, and support service institutions to improve the service level of intellectual property analysis and evaluation, operation and implementation, transaction evaluation, rights protection, investment and financing. Actively promote the construction of Zhongguancun National Intellectual Property Service Industry Cluster Development Experimental Zone.

  (B) the implementation of entrepreneurial support projects

  4. Improve the business incubation service system. Encourage key enterprises, universities, research institutes, entrepreneurs and angel investors to invest in the construction of various types of incubation institutions, improve the incubation service network, and focus on the development of entrepreneurial incubation mode with incubation investment as the core and new incubation methods based on the Internet. Give play to the role of Zhongguancun Venture Street, support social institutions to build creative space, hold influential innovation and entrepreneurship competitions and entrepreneurship training camps, and create a strong atmosphere for innovation and entrepreneurship. Focusing on the different needs of enterprises in seed stage, initial stage and growth stage, we will build an incubation service chain of "entrepreneurial nursery-incubator-accelerator-industrial park".

  5. Deepen service innovation in technology and finance. Support the establishment of angel investment, venture capital and scientific and technological achievements transformation guidance funds to attract internationally renowned venture capital institutions to develop in Beijing. Encourage and guide financial institutions to carry out innovations in financial products and service modes that meet the characteristics of scientific and technological enterprises, and deepen various scientific and technological credit innovation pilots such as credit loans, equity pledge loans, intellectual property pledge loans, credit insurance and trade financing, and industrial chain financing. Support the orderly development of Internet finance formats such as Internet payment, online credit, crowdfunding and credit evaluation.

  (C) the implementation of advantages leading project

  6. Promote the development of design service industry. Support design enterprises to participate in international exhibitions, accept international orders and participate in the formulation of international standards, and further enhance the international influence of brand activities such as "China Design Red Star Award". Promote the construction of the design capital, implement the capital design promotion plan, and promote the deep integration of design services with strategic emerging industries, urban planning and construction management and other fields. Encourage enterprises to establish design innovation centers and constantly improve the level of design innovation. Support the national design service platform and the construction of China design trading market, improve the design industry chain, and provide personalized and diversified design services for the public.  

  7. Expand the scale of engineering technology service industry. Promote leading enterprises in engineering and technical services to open up data, platforms and other resources, and jointly carry out demonstration projects with small and medium-sized enterprises to promote the coordinated development of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry. Cultivate a number of key enterprises and support them to become bigger and stronger through mergers, restructuring and listing. Promote key technology research, research and development of complete sets of equipment and formulation of standards and specifications in engineering technology service industry, and encourage enterprises to provide integrated system solution services. Improve the international competitiveness of engineering project consulting, management and investment consulting service institutions, and support engineering contracting enterprises to explore domestic and foreign markets.

  8. Support the market-oriented development of inspection, testing and certification services. Promote cross-level and cross-departmental industry integration, mergers and acquisitions, and support independent corporate operation and enterprise restructuring of third-party inspection, testing and certification institutions. Integrate resources through market-oriented mechanism and information means, cultivate a number of leading enterprises in inspection, testing and certification, and form the service capacity of the whole chain. Support the construction of a public service platform for inspection, testing and certification, and promote the implementation of the third-party inspection and certification results acceptance system. Strengthen the research and application of technical standards, and develop service formats such as standard research and development and information consultation. Encourage inspection and certification institutions to carry out international mutual recognition of certification results and technical capabilities in accordance with international rules, and improve the level of internationalization.

  (four) the implementation of the project to cultivate the format.

  9. Promote the integration and development of science, technology and culture. Accelerate the construction of a national demonstration base for cultural and scientific integration, and focus on the creative creation, design and production, exhibition and communication, and consumption experience of cultural products and services, and carry out key technology research and popularization and application of scientific and technological achievements. Improve the level of scientific and technological services in key cultural fields and cultivate a number of cultural and technological enterprises with distinctive characteristics and strong innovation ability. Strengthen the network and digital construction of cultural public service platform, and enhance the service ability for cultural undertakings.   

  10 to promote the development of professional and technical services. Develop professional technical service institutions for the health care industry, build a health database, and strengthen the mining and utilization of data to provide technical support for medical services and health management. Promote the integrated development of sports industry and information technology, and strengthen professional and technical services for national fitness, competitive performance and event management. Develop comprehensive services for digital education applications, build various forms of educational cloud service platforms, and expand the scale of online education. Support professional technical service institutions to optimize e-commerce service chain and improve the overall efficiency of modern circulation industry. In the fields of financial data custody, online legal services, human resources services, etc., we will cultivate a number of professional technical service institutions with strong professional capabilities.

  11. Promote the development of scientific and technological consultation and popular science services. Guide scientific and technological consulting enterprises to use modern information and network technology to develop new consulting services such as professional consulting, precision marketing and knowledge management of business data. Cultivate third-party service organizations that integrate general contracting and specialized subcontracting of scientific research projects. Promote scientific research institutes to build a number of high-level scientific and technological innovation think tanks, carry out consulting advice, scientific evaluation and other services, and guide scientific and technological consulting institutions to set up social think tanks. Further open up science and technology museums, museums, libraries and other resources, and build popular science education, popular science training, popular science media and popular science research and development bases to provide scientific and technological information services to the public.

  (5) Implement the market expansion project.

  12. Expand the regional cooperation market. Around the key cooperation areas of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development, we will establish a number of regional collaborative innovation science and technology service stations, improve the market-oriented operation mechanism, and promote the effective docking of scientific and technological resources in the capital with regional cooperation needs. Encourage the establishment of cross-regional R&D institutions, pilot and achievement transformation bases, industrial technology innovation alliances, and support scientific and technological service enterprises to achieve cross-regional exchanges and cooperation. Make full use of modern information and network technology, establish a number of e-commerce platforms for scientific and technological services, and promote the innovation of business models for technology transfer and transformation between regions.

  13. Improve the level of international cooperation. We will build an international scientific and technological cooperation base and an Asia-Europe scientific and technological innovation cooperation center, and support scientific and technological service enterprises to explore the international market through overseas mergers and acquisitions, joint operations, and the establishment of branches. Support enterprises to expand overseas business through exhibition platforms such as China (Beijing) International Service Trade Fair and China (Beijing) International Technology Transfer Conference. We will improve the service systems such as electronic payment, fund settlement, customs declaration and customs clearance, optimize the approval process for prototypes, samples and reagents needed to undertake international science and technology service outsourcing business, and promote the development of science and technology trade.

  Third, safeguard measures

  (A) to strengthen policy guidance

  Implement the preferential tax policies of the state to support the development of science and technology service industry. We will carry out pilot projects for the innovation and development of science and technology service industry, and support and guide social organizations such as industrial technology innovation alliance to jointly carry out public technology research and development and service platform construction for science and technology services. Explore the pilot project of collective management construction land entering the market, and give priority to the construction of scientific and technological service institutions such as R&D centers and incubators. Implement the capital science and technology innovation voucher system, and support universities and scientific research institutions to provide research and development services for small and micro enterprises and entrepreneurial teams in the form of "post-subsidy".

  (B) to create a market environment

  Build a unified, open and competitive market system, and create a market environment of equal participation and fair competition for all kinds of scientific and technological service subjects. Explore the establishment of a "first purchase and first use" risk compensation mechanism for new technologies and new products (services). Innovate the mechanism and mode of providing public scientific and technological services, and give priority to supporting the exploration and development of government procurement of scientific and technological services in the fields of air pollution prevention and control, garbage and sewage treatment, intelligent traffic management, urban safe operation and emergency rescue, housing industrialization, new rural construction, culture benefiting the people, healthy old-age care, and household consumption.

  (3) Increase financial support

  Integrate existing policies and make overall use of financial funds to support the development of science and technology service industry. Give play to the guiding and amplifying role of special funds for science and technology service industry, enhance the service capacity of key links, optimize the science and technology service chain, and promote industrial transformation and upgrading. Make good use of Zhongguancun modern service industry pilot support funds, increase support for science and technology service projects, and promote the construction of platform-based key demonstration projects. Take loan risk compensation and "post-subsidy" to guide financial institutions and venture capital institutions to support the development of new formats of scientific and technological services.

  (D) Build a service platform

  Explore the establishment of a nationwide procurement platform for new technologies and new products (services), and strengthen the display, release and promotion of new technologies and new products (services). Establish the capital science and technology big data platform, gradually open the science and technology data resources to the society, and improve the public service ability of science and technology resources. Give play to the role of the Capital Innovation Alliance and promote the optimal allocation of resources and cross-border integration of industries. Support the construction of marketing service platform and provide marketing services for small and medium-sized enterprises. Give play to the role of social organizations such as science and technology associations and build a platform for exchanges and cooperation between industry leaders.

  (E) Pay attention to talent building

  Make full use of the national and municipal talent plans, introduce and train a group of high-end talents who understand technology, market and management. Relying on educational and training institutions, academic consulting institutions, associations, societies and other social organizations, we will carry out professional and technical training for scientific and technological service personnel and improve the professional quality of employees. Promote the construction of an international talent training base for scientific and technological services, and increase efforts to jointly train talents with internationally renowned institutions.

  (6) Promoting the development of clusters

  Strengthen cooperation with the Ministry of Science and Technology and other relevant state departments, gather superior resources, promote policy pilots, and promote the construction of national science and technology service industry clusters. Strengthen unified planning, design and management, promote the development of regional science and technology service industry clusters such as Zhongguancun Software City, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubation Street, Intellectual Property and Standardization Street and technology and finance Street, and form a demonstration zone for the development of science and technology service industry in the capital. Actively meet the needs of industrial transformation, build a number of comprehensive bases for science and technology service industries in the "six highs and four new" high-end industrial functional zones, and optimize the spatial layout of science and technology service industries.

  (7) Pay close attention to the implementation of the work.

  Establish a work coordination mechanism led by the leaders in charge of the city, with the participation of relevant departments of the municipal government, and strengthen the overall guidance on the research on major issues, the formulation of important policies and the promotion of key projects in the development of the city’s science and technology service industry. District and county governments should improve their working mechanisms, refine policies and measures, and scientifically organize and promote them. The Municipal Science and Technology Commission shall, jointly with the Municipal Bureau of Statistics and other departments, improve the statistical monitoring index system of science and technology service industry, strengthen the statistics and monitoring of science and technology service industry, and focus on the follow-up analysis, supervision and inspection of the implementation of this implementation opinion to ensure that all work is implemented.   

  the people’s government of beijing city

May 6, 2015

 

North American box office: "Jurassic 2" topped the list, and "Superman Story 2" came to Asia.

        1905 movie network news This weekend (06.22-06.24), the box office revenue in North America totaled $277 million, up 2.5% from the previous week. Jurassic World 2, which came late, won a box office of $150 million in North America in its first week of painting, which was 27% lower than the previous one. The evaluation was average, but the tribute to the classic monster movie and Spielberg’s first Jurassic Park was affirmed by the American media. Because of the strong competition in the next summer, it is expected that the growth space left for dinosaurs will not be abundant. In terms of old films, Superman Story 2 earned 80.92 million yuan in the second week, down more than 100 million dollars compared with the first week; Avengers 3: Infinite War has been released for the ninth week, with a global box office of $2.03 billion. In the third week of the project, the 17-day box office of "Crossing the Sea: Honey" reached 100 million US dollars, which will soon surpass the 117 million US dollars of "Ocean’s Thirteen" in 2007 and become the second highest box office in the "Ocean’s Sea" series.

ranking

film

Weekend box office (USD)

Cumulative box office

(USD)

Number of release weeks

this week

last week

one

new

150 million

150 million

one

2

one

80.92 million

350 million

2

three

2

11.65 million

100 million

three

four

three

8.2 million

30.36 million

2

five

five

5.25 million

304 million

six

six

four

4.04 million

202 million

five

seven

seven

3.8 million

35 million

three

eight

six

3.35 million

15.26 million

2

nine

eight

2.48 million

669 million

nine

10

15

1.87 million

4.12 million

three

11

10

920 thousand

64.65 million

six

twelve

11

812 thousand

3.25 million

2

                                                                              Source: boxofficemojo


Jurassic World 2 grossed $710 million less than its predecessor in the first week in North America.


     Recommended star rating of Jurassic World 2: ★★★★★

 

      Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World 2 opened in 4,475 theaters in North America last Friday, earning $150 million at the box office in three days, down 27% from the $208 million in the first week of the first Jurassic World three years ago. For a subject of this magnitude, it is not common for a sequel to fall by nearly one third in the first week. However, the first-week box office of $150 million is still the fourth in the opening box office list this year, second only to "Avengers 3: Infinite War" with $258 million, Black Panther with $202 million and Superman Story 2 with $183 million. It surpassed the first-week box office of Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World of 74 million dollars in 1997, the first-week box office of 104 million dollars in 1993 and the first-week box office of jurassic park iii of 50 million dollars in 2001. This first week’s box office ranked second in universal films, second only to. Referring to the box office curve of Fast and Furious 8 in 2017, it is estimated that the final local box office of Jurassic World 2 will be around $650 million.

 

      The production cost of the film is $170 million, and now the global box office has reached $710 million, of which $202 million comes from the mainland market in China. The figure of 710 million has also surpassed Godzilla’s 529 million dollars in 2014, King Kong’s 550 million dollars in 2005 and Kong: Skull Island’s 566 million dollars in 2017. Judging from the current trend, Jurassic World 2 is likely to become the 35th movie with a global box office of over $1 billion. However, blockbusters swarmed in the summer vacation, and we will soon see powerful enemies such as Ant Man 2: The Hornet Girl Appears, Human Cleanup Plan 4, Skyscraper Rescue, Elf Hostel 3: Crazy Holiday, Special Attack on Sanctions, Mamma Mia 2: Start Again, Teenage Titan Attack Movie Edition, Mission: Impossible-Fallout, and Jurassic World 2. At present, the IMDb score of the film is 6.7, the MTC score is 51, and the freshness of rotten tomatoes is 50%. "Hollywood Reporter" commented: "juan antonio bayona not only pays tribute to the classic monster movie and Spielberg’s first Jurassic Park, but also integrates his own experience into the monster itself, treating them as real characters, which can trap the audience into a huge lonely castle full of secrets like his 2007 famous work" Lonely Castle unusual love ".

 


Old films: Super Motion 2 dropped by over $100 million in the next week, and Reconnection 3 exceeded $2 billion worldwide.

 

      Disney’s Pixar animation Superman Story 2 entered its second week, and was hit by Jurassic World 2. The box office revenue in the three days of the weekend was 80.92 million US dollars, which was 55.7% lower than that in the first week, much higher than the 46% decline in Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo 2: Where is Dolly going? However, the total box office in ten days reached $350 million, ranking seventh in the total box office of North American movies in ten days, between $318 million in Beauty and the Beast and $368 million in Star Wars 8: The Last Jedi. At present, the box office trend of Superman Story 2 is somewhat similar to Shrek 3 of DreamWorks (the following week -57%) and Little Yellow Man with Big Eyes (the following week -57%) of Universal Pictures. It is estimated that the local box office of the film will be around 550 million dollars. At present, the global box office of the film is 485 million dollars, and it is expected that the global box office will exceed 500 million dollars after the end of Monday.

 

      Another Disney movie, Solo the Ranger: The Legend of Star Wars, entered its fifth week, with a drop of 844 cinemas, earning $4.04 million at the box office over the weekend, and the local total box office reached $202 million, which will probably exceed the total box office of $209 million in Star Wars 2: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. The production cost of the film is $250 million. At present, the global total box office is $353 million, and it is estimated that the final global total box office will be around $370 million. The Avengers 3: Infinite War is still in the top 12 list in the ninth week, with 708 cinemas dropping, with a weekend income of 2.48 million US dollars, a local cumulative total box office of 669 million US dollars and a global box office of 2.03 billion US dollars.

 

      In the third week of its release, the film-winning star show "Crossing the Sea: A Honey trap" was involved in another $11.65 million, and the total box office in 17 days reached $100 million, which will soon surpass the total box office of $117 million in 2007 and become the second highest box office in the Ocean series, second only to the $183 million in Ocean’s Eleven in 2001. At present, the global box office of this female-dominated film is 171 million US dollars, and the production cost is 70 million US dollars. It is expected that the global box office will eventually exceed 250 million US dollars. Warner Bros. and New Line Pictures’ R-rated old friend comedy "Catch the Man Game" continued to earn $8.2 million in the second week, with a total box office of $30.36 million in ten days. Also worthy of attention is a small-scale documentary "Neighbor Me", which was expanded to 348 cinemas last week, earning 1.87 million US dollars, and the current total box office is 4.12 million. The film will continue to expand to 500 theaters this week. This is a film that records the life of Fred Rogers, the host of the classic children’s program. At present, the IMDb score is 8.7 and the MTC score is 85. The Boston Globe commented: "Rogge really touched many people in the past 30 years, but at the end of the film, he sincerely asked: Has this touch really brought about changes?" "Village Voice" thinks: "It will leave a warm feeling that lasts for several days."

 


This week’s preview: "killer 2 on the Border" agents were tempered into "Uncle Drew" basketball coffee and got an electric shock.

 

      This weekend (06.29-07.01), Border killer 2: Border Warrior and American comedy Uncle Drew will be opened in North America.

 

      It’s been three years since the 2015 Border Killer. The sequel "Border killer 2: Border Warrior" will focus on Alessandro played by Benicio Del Toro, showing how he was reborn as a ruthless agent in pain and suffering, while Kate Macer, played by Emily Blunt, the protagonist of the previous work, will not appear in the sequel. The director of the film is no longer denis villeneuve, but Stifano Solima, the Italian director who directed Assassin’s Creed, and the script is continued by Taylor Sheridan of Hunting the Wind Valley. The film will be opened in 2900 cinemas next week. "Uncle Drew" is a film adapted from an earlier short film of the same name, which tells the story of old basketball players abusing teenagers. This movie is mainly about guest appearances of basketball players, including American professional basketball players shaquille o’neal and kyrie irving. It will be opened in more than 2,600 cinemas next week.

National Health Commission: No new infectious diseases caused by new viruses or bacteria have been found.

  People’s Daily Online, Beijing, December 2 (Reporter Qiao Yeqiong) The National Health and Wellness Commission held a press conference today to introduce the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases in winter and answer questions from reporters.

  "According to the monitoring, the current epidemic acute respiratory diseases are all caused by known pathogens, and there are corresponding mature treatments. No new infectious diseases caused by new viruses or bacteria have been found." Mi Feng, spokesperson of the National Health and Wellness Commission and deputy director of the Propaganda Department, said at the meeting that at present, the National Health and Wellness Commission, state administration of traditional chinese medicine and the National Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention continue to carry out monitoring and judgment of respiratory diseases in winter, and make arrangements for adjusting medical resources, optimizing medical procedures and giving full play to the role of traditional Chinese medicine.

  He said that it is necessary to further increase the supply of medical services, promote the opening of pediatric clinics at all levels and types of medical institutions such as Chinese medicine hospitals and maternal and child health hospitals, increase the number of patients at noon, at night and on weekends, extend service hours, expand inpatient beds, and constantly optimize the procedures of registration, inspection and payment, so as to facilitate the people to seek medical treatment.

  It is necessary to do a good job in graded diagnosis and treatment, unblock referral channels, adjust personnel across disciplines and hospitals, ensure the supply of medical materials, promote Internet medical care, and maximize the ability to receive medical treatment. It is necessary to give full play to the role of traditional Chinese medicine, combine traditional Chinese and western medicine, popularize the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine in preventing and treating common respiratory diseases in winter, and improve the prevention and treatment effect.

  It is necessary to ensure the supply of vaccines such as influenza and vaccination services, and key groups such as the elderly and children should be vaccinated as soon as possible to reduce the risk of illness. It is very effective to wear a mask, wash your hands frequently and ventilate regularly to prevent the spread of respiratory diseases.

  It is necessary to do personal protection, do not go to work or go to school with illness, and adhere to good personal hygiene habits and healthy lifestyles.

Is the telecom phone number better or the mobile phone number better?

Is the telecom phone number better or the mobile phone number better?

The problem of mobile phone traffic charges has always been the focus of consumers’ complaints about the three major operators. Although the traffic charges have indeed decreased compared with the previous two years, with the advent of the mobile Internet era and the continuous popularization of 4G networks, the rate of traffic charges has indeed failed to keep up with the increase in consumer traffic demand, and consumers’ feelings about speeding up and lowering prices are not obvious.

In the face of constant complaints from consumers, since last year, China Unicom and China Telecom have continuously launched Internet packages, attracting many consumers with the advantages of large traffic and low price. For example, China Unicom’s Dawang Card and China Telecom’s Big Fish Card are well received by consumers, and China Unicom Telecom’s user scale has also improved to some extent, which has also caused certain diversion pressure on mobile.

Just this month, Unicom Telecom once again made concerted efforts. Both of them have fully supported the old users to freely transfer to the new package. Previously, only new users could handle the corresponding Internet package of Unicom Telecom, which was vomited by many consumers, while old users could freely transfer to the new package. It can be said that consumers’ goodwill towards Unicom Telecom has been improved again, and many consumers have joined the camp of Unicom Telecom recently.

(A) Analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of China Mobile

1. Advantages:

1) The customer base is large. China Mobile has the largest customer base, and the big net effect is obvious. According to statistics, in 2007, the total number of users of China Mobile was 407 million, accounting for 70% of the mobile market. What is even more frightening is that in the newly added market, China Mobile accounted for nearly 87% of the market.

2) Brand advantage. In terms of brand, China Mobile has made a good plan. At present, it has formed three national unified leading product brands, such as Global Connect, Shenzhouxing and M-Zone, covering high-end users, mobile users and potential middle and high-end users with great revenue potential respectively. In addition, there are a large number of temporary brands launched for regional markets. As far as corporate brands are concerned, according to the China 500 Most Valuable Brands Ranking published by the World Brand Lab in 2008, China Mobile once again topped the list of the most valuable brands with a brand value of 120.668 billion yuan, which increased by 10.614 billion yuan compared with the previous year.

3) Strong financial strength. In 2007, its annual operating income exceeded the combined income of China Telecom, China Netcom and China Unicom, and its net profit was as high as 87.1 billion yuan, while the combined net profit of the other three operators was only 45.097 billion yuan, only a little more than half of that of China Mobile. Strong financial strength is an important guarantee for it to lead other operators in network construction, marketing subsidies and customer care.

4) Network advantages. The number of base stations of China Mobile has reached 307,000, covering the most extensive area, while the sum of the base stations of China Telecom and China Unicom is less than half, and its characteristics of good network signal have been deeply rooted in people’s hearts.

5) Channel advantages. The future competition will be channel competition, and the channel advantages of China Mobile are very obvious. These channels include professional and self-control channels such as Communication 100, brand stores and experience stores, as well as run-in and agency points such as mobile phone stores and mobile phone repair points. Due to the variety and quantity of channels of China Mobile, the control and management of different channels are also different, and it has also formed a relatively scientific and perfect channel management mechanism in its long-term mobile business operation. These mechanisms have effectively mobilized the enthusiasm of various agents and helped them to form a long-term competitive advantage in the channel.

6) Promote advantages. In recent years, China Mobile’s investment in publicity can be said to be astronomical, which is suspected of "money is nowhere to spend". From the massive advertisements of CCTV to the sponsorship of various activities, the logo of China Mobile has spread all over people’s lives.

7) Others. Including IT support, information application, customer awareness and many other aspects.

2. Disadvantages:

1) The state stipulates that China Mobile can only rely on Tietong’s own funds to develop broadband services in the future, and this asymmetric control policy will inevitably play a role in curbing the development of China Mobile; In addition, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has piloted mobile phone users to transfer their numbers to the Internet in cities such as Shenzhen and Tianjin. China Mobile’s numbers can be transferred to China Telecom and China Unicom, but China Telecom and China Unicom’s numbers are prohibited from being transferred to China. The scope of asymmetric control policy of this kind of mobile phone may be broadened, which is undoubtedly an expectation for China Telecom and China Unicom.

2) After the merger, Tietong only operates independently as its wholly-owned subsidiary, and has a loose relationship with Tietong. The 70,000 employees of Tietong also make the personnel changes of the new mobile in the future full of challenges, and the administrative integration is poor.

3) disadvantages of fixed network. Its fixed-line disadvantages are not only manifested in small scope, weak network resources, low fiber arrival rate, but also in poor service level of location resources and low customer awareness.

4) Single product and poor integration. The biggest advantage of mobile is the single product, which is also its biggest disadvantage. Coupled with the influence of the national asymmetric control policy, it is difficult to integrate its mobile business with fixed-line business.

5) Terminal disadvantages. It mainly includes strong radiation, poor confidentiality and slow internet access.

(B) Analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of China Telecom

For China Telecom, which has a mature and powerful fixed network nationwide, but the financing pressure is great due to the huge purchase of C network, its advantages and disadvantages are mainly as follows:

1. Advantages:

1) advantages of fixed network. China Telecom has the largest fixed-line network and Chinese information network in the world, covering urban and rural areas in China and reaching all parts of the world, with obvious advantages in network resources, especially in the southern and northwestern regions, accounting for more than 80% of the fixed-line access in these regions.

2) Brand advantage. From the beginning of the word "China Telecom", to the launch of business brands such as "Business Pilot", "My E-Home" and "best tone", China Telecom has established its own brand system, and the brands of "best tone" and "My E-Home" are ahead of the peers in this field.

3) Broad fixed-line customer base. China Telecom has 210 million fixed-line users and nearly 40 million broadband users. In particular, it has gathered a large number of home users by using the "My E-Home" brand and established close relationships with government and enterprise customers by using "100 million" projects, which will become the key for China Telecom to gain a competitive advantage.

4) Integrate business operation experience. With its strong access network advantages, China Telecom can provide a variety of comprehensive information services such as telephone service, Internet access and application, data communication, video service, international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan communication, etc. with e-government, security project and global eye services, which can meet the needs of international and domestic customers for various communication and information services.

5) Terminal advantages. Refers to the CDMA terminal with low radiation, high call quality, confidentiality and fast Internet access.

6) The organizational structure is relatively sound, the workforce is relatively stable, and the maintenance force is strong.

2. Disadvantages:

1) In recent two years, China Unicom has obviously slowed down the pace of CDMA network upgrade, and some network devices may be difficult to support emerging value-added services. At the same time, the publicity of CDMA is also in a stagnant position, and customers are constantly losing.

2) In the transition period of reorganization, Unicom Mobile will inevitably carve up the CDMA users of telecom in a predatory way, and how to preserve it will be called a very thorny issue of telecom.

3) Terminal disadvantages. Some internationally renowned telecom equipment vendors and terminal vendors withdrew from the CDMA market, resulting in reduced equipment options, high terminal unit price and few varieties. According to statistics, in 2007, there were more than 1000 GSM terminals, but less than 100 CDMA terminals were newly listed in the same period. In the past two years, the number of GSM terminals sold has exceeded 2,500 every year, but there are less than 200 CDMA terminals sold in the same period. If the gray terminals (such as shanzhai phones) in the market are taken into account, the gap between CDMA terminals and GSM terminals in model richness will undoubtedly be more obvious.

4) There are many businesses but not good ones. China Telecom has a full range of services, but except for some products such as Global Eye, most of its value-added applications, such as enterprise switchboard and enterprise mailbox, are not refined, leaving no image of a related business expert in the eyes of customers.

5) There are few types of CDMA value-added services and few supporting manufacturers, especially those suitable for China.

6) IT support and after-sales service of telecom itself. If the problems such as system error, process card list and untimely troubleshooting rate are not properly solved, the pace of full-service operation of China Telecom will be delayed.

In the 4G era, there are actually two standards in the world, FDD and TD. The former is supported by China Telecom and China Unicom, and the latter is used by China Mobile and a few countries. However, when it first entered the construction and popularization of 4G, the countries with 4G licenses gave TD. Although China Telecom and China Unicom also supported this standard, it was not what people wanted most, so how long has it been in the past year? Thanks to its strong user base and an ultra-wide signal network that can be upgraded to 4G standard at any time, China Mobile has become the operator with the largest number of 4G users in China and even in the world (because no country has such a large population, So, the signal is not popular. I don’t mention it in some places. As far as the whole country is concerned, China Mobile is the best choice. If you often go abroad or something, FDD standard telecommunications should be more suitable. In fact, China Mobile has a lot of activities, and the price/performance ratio is not bad. China Telecom did beat China Unicom badly in terms of price, which led to China Unicom now issuing many kinds of free flow cards with BAT and other big bosses.

Hollywood "Tibet independence star" Richard? Kiel’s Tibet-related advertisements caused outrage.

Topic: Exposing the separatist and sabotage activities of the Dalai clique.


Tibet-related advertisement



  Tibet-related advertisements have aroused widespread concern.


  On June 13th, the advertisement of Lancia Delta, the latest hatchback of Fiat’s Lancia brand (http://hk.youtube.com/watch? V=ONhSUr548_Q), began to play on Italian TV. Chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet, 59-year-old American actor Richard? Kiel starred as the leading actor in the commercial.


  In this 30-second commercial, Richard? Kiel drove Delta from walk of fame’s own handprint, crossed Hollywood Hill and headed for Tibet, reaching Lhasa, the capital of Xizang Autonomous Region, China. At the foot of Potala Palace, Richard? Kiel parked Lancia Delta near a small village, and together with the lamas who greeted him, he printed handprints on the white snow.


  At the end of the commercial, Delta’s advertising words flashed: The Power to be different.


  Richard? Kiel’s Delta Tibet-related advertisement has aroused great concern since its release. In less than a week, the advertisement has been viewed more than 10,000 times on Youtube. Although the advertising content has no obvious meaning of "Tibet independence", it is because of Richard? Kiel’s consistent anti-China stance and advertisements are still criticized by many Chinese.

Guo Youcai’s live broadcast room was closed to reward, which was controversial before! If you want to sing old songs, you need to pay attention to it … | Eye-catching.

On the morning of May 23, Guo Youcai started broadcasting in the square of the National Flower Expo Park in Heze, Shandong, but this time Guo Youcai closed the reward function in the live broadcast room. On the afternoon of the same day, he released his first original song on his personal social platform.

Previously, Guo Youcai was successful on the Internet because of his cover of the old song "Promise" in the 1990s, and rose by tens of millions in a short time. Under the blessing of heat, Guo Youcai sang songs in the live video room and won the audience’s appreciation. While the fire broke out, Guo Youcai gradually faced a big controversy:Does live coverage of other people’s songs constitute infringement?

"Promise" lyricist response:
Commercial income should be distributed to creators.

According to Red Star News, on May 23, Ding Xiaowen, the lyricist of the song "Promise", said that he was grateful to Guo Youcai for making this song popular and getting attention again. Guo Youcai had a good name. "He is really talented."

However, Ding Xiaowen also said, "I think that all these songs should be used today, regardless of singing, performance or any use, in fact, they should be approved and authorized by the original creator."

Ding Xiaowen said that many online celebrity cover songs are generally not authorized in advance.However, she thinks that Guo Youcai’s behavior is a kind of commercial behavior, and the function of paying and rewarding should be opened, and the profits should be reasonably distributed to the songwriters."This is a matter of course, fairness and justice."

On the issue of copyright protection, Ding Xiaowen also said frankly that it must be done in accordance with the relevant norms. She also expects everyone’s copyright to be protected and hopes that the relevant copyright system can be more complete.

The original singer of Promise was Li Yijun, a female singer from Taiwan Province, China, which was released on January 1st, 1995 and included in the album Promise.

The reporter noticed that the Li Yijun Tik Tok spread the cantata and chorus versions of The Promise on May 16th and 18th, and many fans expressed their love with the posts, while a few fans bluntly said that they supported the copyright recovery. Li Yijun was suspected of responding to someone’s cover song in the video on 16th.She said: "Thank you for liking The Promise and watching many friends’ videos. Everyone sang so beautifully."

Does the live cover involve infringement?
Is it not infringement if you don’t accept the reward?

The reporter observed that Guo Youcai will broadcast live almost every day, often by fans ordering songs, and he will sing, and the rewards will continue in the live broadcast room. The original singer and songwriter are basically not indicated in the cover video and live broadcast, which also causes the dispute whether this behavior involves infringement.

In the eyes of some people, Guo Youcai’s live broadcast room is rewarded, which is a profitable cover and is suspected of infringement; Some people also wonder if so many anchors sing or score music during live broadcast, are they all infringing?

According to China News, Xia Hailong, a lawyer of Shanghai Shenlun Law Firm, said,Performing in the live broadcast room and accepting rewards is a commercial performance. Covering other people’s songs should obtain the permission of the right holder and pay the fee.If the infringement of the copyright of other people’s songs is held accountable, the copyright owner may ask the infringer to stop the infringement, that is, he may not continue to cover the right songs in the live broadcast.

Then, if you don’t accept rewards when you cover live, does it not involve infringement?

Zhao Zhanling, a lawyer of Beijing Jiawei Law Firm and a special researcher at the Intellectual Property Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, said that whether the reward function is opened or not, and whether the live broadcast can directly benefit from it, are not the criteria for judging whether it is a commercial act or an infringement.Even if there is no open reward function, traffic can often be realized, including enhancing commercial value, attracting goods or sponsorship, and finally obtaining commercial benefits.

"The use of other people’s music works in the live broadcast room is more likely to constitute commercial use, and it is easy to be identified as infringement without the permission of the right holder."Zhao Zhanling said that even if the right holder does not explicitly object to others using his works in the live broadcast room, it does not mean that it can be used, and it needs to be authorized by the right holder.

How complicated is the copyright of a song?

According to the Morning News, Lu Shiwei, a senior media person and music critic, said in an interview that the copyright classification of songs is very detailed at present.Words, songs, singing and adaptation have different copyright contracts, and the voice version recorded by a specific singer also has related rights.People who don’t know may think that the copyright of a song is somewhere, but it is often not.

Lawyer Deng Yu, a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association and a senior partner of the Shanghai office of Zhonglun Wende Law Firm, said,Under the existing copyright law system, different rights subjects enjoy different types of rights.

Simply using the words and songs of a musical work requires authorization from the author of the words and songs or the organization or enterprise that owns the relevant copyright;

In order to adapt and cover songs, it is necessary to further obtain the right of performance, adaptation, information network communication and other works besides the authorization of lyrics and songs;

If you directly use the singing version of a specific singer, you need to get the authorization of the singer and the producer of the version of the phonogram.

Is it infringing to search for music use from the platform?

Search music directly from the music library of the live broadcast platform as live accompaniment or background music. Does this case also involve infringement?

Zhao Zhanling said that if the soundtrack is searched from the platform, the platform also constitutes infringement without the authorization of the obligee. "But if there is a related soundtrack in the platform, the high probability has been authorized." 

"At present, many large platforms do provide music works to platform users through centralized procurement. In this case, users can use them within the use scenarios, methods and deadlines agreed in the platform user agreement, and generally do not involve infringement issues." Xia Hailong said.

For video clips and producers, the soundtrack in the video also needs extra care. Lin Jian, a partner of Beijing Weiheng (Shanghai) Law Firm, introduced,At present, many editing software will purchase the copyright of some tracks in advance for the editors to use for free, but it will also involve some restrictions.For example, the video released by clipping is legal in Tik Tok, and if it is released on other platforms, it will constitute infringement. And some music on software, such as "QQ Music", will also stipulate the corresponding usage rights in the user agreement, and you can play or forward the sharing link. However, if the usage scenario specified in the agreement is exceeded, there will be a risk of infringement.

Lin Jian reminded that if ordinary users want to get free music resources, they can look for a special copyright-free music library to avoid the risk of infringement.

Is it infringement for AI singers to cover other people’s songs?

Previously, "AI Stefanie" had caused a heated discussion. It is understood that some people use Stefanie’s existing vocal samples to train their timbre, tone quality and pronunciation characteristics through AI, establish their voice model, and then use the generated timbre to cover other songs. The new songs produced by AI voice cloning technology are very similar to the singer himself in sound and style, which leads many netizens to believe them. Is this imitation infringing?

The scope of works protected by China’s Copyright Law includes written works, oral works, music, art works, etc., and sound is not included. Therefore, simply imitating the performer’s timbre, singing skills and other characteristics does not belong to the object protected by the Copyright Law.

However, only on a certain video platform, "AI Stefanie" has more than 1,000 cover works, among which cover singer Jay Chou’s "Hair as Snow" and other works have even won more than 2 million broadcasts. Many lawyers said that the virtual singer’s cover works show the specific song title and singer’s name, which is suspected of infringing the name right, personality right and copyright of the relevant singer. Even if some publishers mark the disclaimer of "only for entertainment and not for business" in the video, the huge traffic and economic benefits behind it are difficult to be clear, and there is no way to completely clarify the infringement issue.

Not all covers are infringing.

Is it impossible to cover other people’s songs in any place?

Zhao Zhanling introduced that Article 24 of the Copyright Law stipulates that "others can use their works without permission and without payment to the copyright owner", including users using the works of the copyright owner for the purposes of personal study, teaching research, reporting and introduction, under the premise of "indicating the author’s name and the name of the work, and without affecting the normal use of the work".

However, he also pointed out that the use of music works copyrighted by others in most live broadcasts or short videos does not belong to the fair use situation stipulated in Article 24 of the Copyright Law.

(References: China News Network, Red Star News, Upstream News, Hubei Daily, Morning News, People’s Daily)

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Former Google scientist started a business, but the IPO was cold! Volkswagen China lost 90% of its money and Sequoia became one of the biggest winners.

  Despite the aura of "AIGC" and "big model", Mobvoi’s valuation has stagnated in five years, and its listing has suffered a break, once falling by more than 20%.

  Before IPO, Mobvoi raised a total of 233 million yuan, with the highest valuation of 757 million yuan. Volkswagen China, which contributed the most, lost nearly 90% when it withdrew in 2021. Sequoia China, the earliest investor, can be described as one of the biggest winners. It used only $3.465 million, that is, it gained a profit of $29.855 million and a stock right worth $74.55 million, with a book income of nearly 30 times.

  It is noteworthy that after the launch of the self-developed model "Sequential Monkey", the annual compound growth rate of AIGC business income in Mobvoi from 2021 to 2023 exceeded 300%, and the number of paying users increased from 63,000 to 410,000. However, considering the high training cost of the big model, it is worth paying attention to whether Mobvoi, which will spend only 155 million yuan on R&D in 2023, can maintain its technological superiority.

  Source: New Fortune Magazine (ID: xcf Plus)

  Author: Zhang Tianlun

  On April 24th, Mobvoi (02438.HK), known as "the first AIGC share", was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. As the first profitable AI-Generated Content company listed in Hong Kong at China Grand Model Raceway, its business situation and secondary market performance attract people’s attention.

  However, after the opening of the day, Mobvoi suffered a break, and its share price once fell by more than 20%. In the afternoon, it rebounded strongly and finally closed down by 3.16%.

  Since its listing, Mobvoi’s share price has dropped by 2.11% compared with the issue price, and its market value has dropped to HK$ 5.548 billion, which has also cast a shadow over its subsequent trend.

  01

  Behind the "AIGC First Share": Volkswagen’s investment in China exploded by 90%

  Before the IPO, Mobvoi completed a total of seven rounds of financing, with a total financing amount of US$ 233 million, and its valuation rose from US$ 5.01 million in the A round in 2013 to US$ 757 million in the D-2 round (Table 1). In other words, Mobvoi’s current market value of HK$ 5.548 billion still has a gap of nearly 6% compared with its valuation five years ago.

  

  Although its share price is discounted compared with the primary market, according to the statistics of New Wealth, the only injured investor in the round of financing is Volkswagen (China) Investment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Volkswagen China").

  Volkswagen China is the largest investor in Mobvoi. In 2017, it purchased 289 million preferred shares of Mobvoi through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Volkswagen Finance Luxemburg S.A for US$ 140 million. In September 2019, it once again participated in the D-2 round of financing with US$ 15 million, and got 31 million D-2 preferred shares.

  However, Volkswagen China, which invested heavily in the project, soon chose to quit. In December 2021, Mobvoi repurchased all the shares held by Volkswagen China at a price of $17 million. Based on this calculation, the loss of Volkswagen China’s investment this time is close to 90%.

  Assuming that Volkswagen China has held shares so far, its investment loss will be reduced to 8.9% based on the issue price of HK$ 3.8 per share in Mobvoi, which is about 124 million USD.

  Among other investment institutions, Sequoia China, Zhenge Fund, SIG Haina Asia, Goer, etc., which were funded in the early stage, all earned a lot of income.

  After the listing of Mobvoi, the largest external shareholder is SIG Heiner Asia, holding 16.03%, while Sequoia China, Goer and Zhenge Fund hold 10.92%, 10.03% and 3.07% respectively.

  Sequoia China, who was the first to participate in Mobvoi’s A-round and A-1-round financing, is one of the biggest winners. In the A round of financing, Sequoia China acquired 161,675,300 shares of Mobvoi at a price of US$ 1.358 million, and the cost per share was only US$ 0.0084. In the A-1 round, Sequoia China once again got 53,889,600 shares at a price of 2,107,000 US dollars, with a cost of 0.039 US dollars per share.

  It is worth mentioning that in 2018, Sequoia China transferred 61.88 million shares acquired in Series A to two investors, namely GWC Robotics Investment Limited and So Artemis Limited, at a price of US$ 20.25 million and US$ 10.125 million respectively, and made a profit of US$ 29.855 million. The value of the remaining 153.68 million shares listed in Mobvoi is as high as $74.55 million. Based on this calculation, Sequoia China only spent $3.465 million, that is, it gained a profit of $29.855 million and a stock right worth $74.55 million, with a book income of nearly 30 times.

  Google, whose capital contribution is second only to that of Volkswagen China, invested $40 million and $1.87 million in the C and D-2 rounds of financing in Mobvoi respectively, with an average shareholding cost of $0.22 per share, which is still 120.5% higher than the IPO issue price.

  As the founder of Mobvoi, Li Zhifei holds 376 million shares of the company through Mobvoi AGI Limited, a wholly-owned company, with a shareholding ratio of 25.2%. At present, the stock market value is about HK$ 1.4 billion.

  Li Zhifei is a Ph.D. student in computer science at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Before he founded Mobvoi, he worked as a research scientist at Google from May 2010 to August 2012, and was mainly responsible for the algorithm development of language translation models.

  In 2012, voice search, a new interactive technology, became popular after Apple Siri came out as an iPhone 4S built-in application. Li Zhifei also left Google and returned to China to establish Mobvoi.

  According to the prospectus, the services provided by Mobvoi focus on AIGC and voice interaction technology. According to the current business, it mainly includes three parts: AIGC solution, AI enterprise solution, intelligent equipment and accessories.

  Among them, the revenue of AIGC solution business, with AI dubbing assistant "Magic Sound Workshop" and AI digital person "Wonderful Yuan" as its main products, has increased rapidly, from 07 million yuan to 118 million yuan in 2021-2023, with a compound annual growth rate of over 300%.

  The revenue of AI enterprise solution business, which mainly focuses on automotive voice interaction solutions, increased from RMB 53 million in 2021 to RMB 226 million in 2022, and then decreased by 14.2% in 2023.

  The revenue of smart devices and other hardware businesses, mainly selling smart watches with TicWatch, dropped from 338 million yuan in 2021 to 164 million yuan in 2023.

Figure 1: Income from various businesses in Mobvoi.

  

Source: Public Prospectus

  Since Mobvoi’s AIGC business has made rapid progress in recent years, why is its valuation stagnant? Why did Volkswagen China quit its shareholder ranks early?

  02

  Volkswagen China: From investing $140 million to clearing shares.

  Since the establishment of Mobvoi, its business has gone through the process of continuous exploration, and its development is mainly divided into four stages.

  The first stage is to try to develop voice search service software. In 2013, Mobvoi established the WeChat voice search service platform; In 2014, after Google launched Google Glass, Mobvoi launched "Mobvoi on Google Glass", a Chinese smart voice search application. However, with the failure of the Google Glass project, this application also stopped updating.

  In 2014, Mobvoi entered the second stage of development, that is, from software to hardware business, and its smart equipment and other accessories business also started.

  At that time, Mobvoi hoped to put voice search’s capabilities into products, and finally chose the smart hardware market-it first released Ticwear, the world’s first Chinese smart watch operating system, and then launched TicWatch in June 2015.

  At the same time, Mobvoi has also reached a strategic cooperation with Google, which will build the Ask App Store in all smart watches equipped with Android Wear system sold in China. Also in 2015, Google shot, and Mobvoi completed the C round of financing, with a valuation of 273 million US dollars, becoming a hot start-up in the AI market.

  TicWatch, as one of the few products with relatively perfect smart watch operating system in China at that time, was quickly favored by the market after its launch. In the "Double Eleven" sales list of JD.COM in 2015, TicWatch ranked third in the field of smart watches, second only to Apple’s i Watch and Motorola’s MOTO 360. Since 2016, Mobvoi has successively launched smart speakers, smart headphones and other products, and at the same time promoted the products to the sea.

  At the strategic new product launch conference held in 2018, Mobvoi not only iterated on smart watches, smart headphones, smart audio and other products, but also released the first mass-produced AI voice chip module "Wen Xin" in China in the face of the enterprise market, and said that it would open 20 new offline smart experience stores nationwide. However, with Huawei, Xiaomi, Glory and other giants stepping up the smart hardware market, Mobvoi’s competitive advantage in products has been gradually erased or even overtaken.

  It can be seen that during 2021-2023, the revenue of its smart devices and other accessories business dropped from 339 million yuan to 164 million yuan, accounting for 85% of the total revenue to 32.3%. In the same period, the number of its global distributors also dropped sharply from 101 to 39.

  It is not difficult to see that the weakening influence of Mobvoi in the smart device market is one of the reasons that restrict its valuation growth.

  The protagonist in the third stage of Mobvoi’s development is Volkswagen China, an automobile giant that brings Mobvoi an opportunity to explore the B-end market.

  Back in 2017, Volkswagen China not only invested US$ 140 million in Mobvoi, but also invested US$ 40 million each, holding 50% of the shares, and set up a joint venture company Mobvoi JV, with the goal of realizing the application of multiple AI technologies, including speech recognition, in several factories and models of Volkswagen in China. In layman’s terms, it relies on Mobvoi’s voice interaction technology to provide car voice assistant for Volkswagen China, as well as some additional functions such as personalized push, GPS and in-car entertainment information system.

  In 2020, Volkswagen’s brand-new ID.4 series models adopt the voice interaction technology provided by Mobvoi, and users can realize various vehicle control functions such as conveniently regulating air conditioning temperature, answering phone calls, navigating and so on by waking up the word "Hello, Volkswagen".

  As of July, 2021, the front-mounted vehicle voice interactive system platform led by Mobvoi has been used in Audi A4L, Passat, New Magotan and other main best-selling models. At that time, it is expected that the pre-loading capacity will reach 15 million in 2023.

  "By the end of 2023, audi ag will launch a total of eight ID models in China, and Mobvoi is also committed to continuously lighting up the highlights of the entire ID family and other new Volkswagen models." Mobvoi wrote on WeChat WeChat official account.

  But also in 2021, Volkswagen China and Mobvoi parted ways. It not only emptied all its shares in Mobvoi, but also bought 50% of Mobvoi JV held by Mobvoi for $15 million.

  However, both parties signed a series of intellectual property agreements in December 2021 at the same time of equity delivery, and Mobvoi continued to provide the back-end technology of voice dialogue system.

  According to Mobvoi’s prospectus, from 2021 to 2023, its intellectual property income from Volkswagen was 3.2 million yuan, 213 million yuan and 139 million yuan respectively, accounting for 0.8%, 42.6% and 27.4% of the total revenue. In 2022, its related intellectual property agreement came into effect for the first full year, and the related income accounted for 81% of its AI enterprise solution business income in that year, and it decreased to 62% in 2023. It can be seen that the high growth of its AI enterprise solution business income came from Volkswagen China.

  It is not difficult to see that in order to cooperate with Mobvoi on-board voice dialogue system, the cost paid by Volkswagen China includes US$ 155 million investment, US$ 40 million registered capital for establishing a joint venture company Mobvoi JV, US$ 15 million acquisition of Mobvoi JV, and nearly RMB 360 million in intellectual property fees. This does not include the loss during the operation of Mobvoi JV. In 2021 alone, the loss of the joint venture company was as high as 37.13 million yuan.

  In 2024, Mobvoi will completely lose this heavy customer. According to public information, in 2024, Volkswagen ID.7 chose to cooperate with Iflytek to upgrade its brand-new intelligent voice system.

  According to the prospectus, Mobvoi is still actively expanding B-end customers. At present, it has reached technical cooperation agreements with a number of automobile companies, including testing the company’s large model and developing its applications, and developing intelligent cockpits equipped with voice assistants, smart housekeepers and voice recognition and generation technologies.

  However, with the entry of giants such as Xiaomi, Huawei, Baidu and Iflytek, the competition of car voice track has already entered the Red Sea. At present, more than 2 million cars are pre-installed with Mobvoi Voice Assistant. By contrast, in 2022 alone, Iflytek’s smart car business added more than 7.1 million sets of pre-installed shipments, and the cumulative shipments exceeded 46.1 million sets.

  In 2023, or affected by the decline in the revenue of AI enterprise solutions business, the cash flow generated by Mobvoi’s operating activities dropped from 72.44 million yuan in 2022 to 28.39 million yuan, which is another reason for further depressing market expectations besides the contraction of smart equipment business.

  03

  AIGC: What’s the color geometry, and what’s the shareholder’s income?

  While the revenues of smart devices and AI enterprise solutions are declining, Mobvoi is also rapidly moving towards the fourth stage of enterprise development, that is, the AIGC track under the big model.

  According to the prospectus, the main products of Mobvoi AIGC solution business can be divided into three categories: one is the AI dubbing assistant represented by "Magic Sound Workshop"; The second is the AI writing assistant represented by "wonderful writing" and "magic writing"; The third is the AI digital person represented by "Wonderful Yuan". At the same time, it can also provide a "DupDub" solution that integrates three types of capabilities.

  Before making a big model, Mobvoi’s products such as "Magic Sound Workshop" and "Magic Writing Works" were mainly built with exclusive algorithm models. In 2023, it launched the self-developed large model "Sequence Monkey", which has the multi-modal generation ability and can understand and generate human-like text, audio, images and videos, thus qualitatively improving the AI capabilities of different products.

  Mobvoi, for example, said that the rhythm and naturalness of the synthesized speech in Magic Sound Workshop have been greatly improved after using "Sequential Monkey". At the same time, its multi-modal generation ability also supports content creators to use innovative functions such as AI writing in short videos, which is convenient for editing and rewriting content in different styles (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Advantages of "Sequence Monkey"

  

Source: Public Prospectus

  As the fist product of the company’s AIGC solution business, "Magic Sound Workshop" is a platform that uses NLP algorithm to analyze written text and convert it into natural human voice to produce AI-generated content. The tools include software dubbing, cloud editing, copy extraction and human voice processing. It provides more than 1000 sound styles and diverse sound sample combinations from external suppliers, and supports 37 languages and 15 dialects. In the charging mode, "Magic Sound Workshop" combines two modes: subscription and in-software payment. The annual membership fee is 289 yuan, and the price range of sound source is 199-899 yuan/year.

  In 2023, after joining the large-scale model capability of "Sequence Monkey", the income of AIGC solution business in Mobvoi increased from 39.857 million yuan in 2021 to 118 million yuan, and the gross profit margin increased from 88% to 92.2%, which became the biggest bright spot in the future development.

  According to the prospectus, from 2021 to 2023, the number of paying users in Mobvoi increased from 63,000 to 410,000. And with the development of services such as Wonderland, its average income from each paying user increased from 104 yuan to 248 yuan, and correspondingly, the average customer acquisition cost of each paying user also increased from 31.8 yuan to 133.1 yuan (Figure 3).

Figure 3: The scale of paying users and the cost of obtaining customers in Mobvoi.

  

Source: Public Prospectus

  However, as we all know, AIGC is an exceptionally expensive track. Whether Mobvoi’s profit level can support the continuous improvement of its technology may be the most concerned issue for investors in the secondary market at present.

  According to the Artificial Intelligence Index Report released by Li Feifei’s team, it is estimated that the GPT-4 of OpenAI will use 78 million dollars worth of computing resources for training, and the Gemini Ultra of Google will cost as much as 191 million dollars. Iflytek, as one of its biggest competitors in the field of voice interaction, will spend 3.481 billion yuan on research and development in 2023.

  From 2021 to 2023, Mobvoi’s R&D expenditure was 92 million yuan, 119 million yuan and 155 million yuan respectively, which was obviously difficult to keep up with the giant’s burning progress.

  Nowadays, under the general trend that the giants have increased their AIGC, it is worth paying attention to whether Mobvoi will face the rapid squeeze of technological advantages and market space as when giants such as Huawei and Xiaomi entered the smart hardware market in 2018. How to build long-term competitiveness in the AIGC track surrounded by giants is also a problem that more small and medium-sized AIGC enterprises need to face together.

  In this listing, Mobvoi raised a net amount of HK$ 267 million, and its uses include: 44.3% to continuously improve modeling technology for model training, vertically optimize the underlying basic model by introducing technology and talents, and improve the existing program algorithm of the solution; 35.7% is used for solution development and marketing; 10% is used to seek strategic alliances, investments and acquisitions; 10% is used for working capital and general enterprise purposes.

  From the financial point of view, from 2021 to 2023, Mobvoi’s total annual losses attributable to equity shareholders were 205 million yuan, 986 million yuan and 867 million yuan respectively. If the book value changes of redeemable preferred shares and common shares are excluded, their adjusted profits in 2022 and 2023 will be 108 million yuan and 17.53 million yuan respectively.

  It can be seen that to stand out in the AIGC competition, increasing income is the most important thing in Mobvoi at present.

  Any information and information mentioned in this article is only the expression of the author’s personal views or the statement of specific events, and does not constitute recommendation and investment advice. Investors should bear the risks and consequences of investing accordingly.

Do you still want to see medical drama after the epidemic?

Original Guhan entertainment hard candy

Author | Gu Han

Editor | Li Chunhui

Under the impact of the epidemic, the Spring Festival movies are deserted. Although the dramas have been updated, the publicity is still much lower than usual. At the same time, a domestic medical drama, which premiered in 2017 and scored 6 points in Douban, unexpectedly became popular under the title of "Prophecy Drama".

Emergency Doctor, directed by Zheng Xiaolong and Liu Xuesong and starring Zhang Jiayi and Wang Luodan, is also one of the first TV series donated by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to Hubei Province. During the epidemic, many satellite TV stations were replaying, and some netizens spontaneously watched it on video websites.

I don’t know if I don’t know, the drama "God Prophecy" is more than an epidemic. In the first episode of medical trouble, a supporting role died by the knife of the intruder. The bloody scene is inevitably reminiscent of the murder case in the Civil Aviation General Hospital.

From the national attention to violent medical injuries years ago to the passionate praise of "angels in white" during the epidemic, the group of doctors has inevitably become the focus of recent hot discussion, and the content of medical subjects has also received more attention.

Judging from the audience’s interest and market inventory, domestic medical drama seems to have finally reached a new turning point after the setbacks in 2017.

Domestic medical drama, what’s the difference?

Similar to the theme of criminal investigation, medical theme, as an important branch of professional drama, has become quite mature and stable overseas. Doctors are an indispensable industry in people’s daily life, but they are easily unknown. Taking them as the object of description not only meets the realistic needs, but also caters to the audience’s prying psychology to some extent.

At the same time, the hospital faces birth, illness and death, and the human feelings are warm and cold. There is huge room for drama. Light can be like "Grey’s Intern", showing growth and workplace; It can be like "The White Tower", which describes the complexity of human nature. Su Shuang opened, such as the Japanese drama "Dr. X: Surgeon Daimon Michiko"; Hard core is deep, such as the short-lived and high-scoring American TV series Monday morning.

In domestic dramas, medical drama’s output is not high, but there were some works of conscience in his early years. For example, Never Give Up, also directed by Zheng Xiaolong, Infinite Vitality, created by the original crew of Six Major Crimes, and The Doctor’s Benevolence, directed by Dongyu Fu, the director of Action to Break the Ice.

The most influential domestic medical drama in recent years is Mind Mind in 2012. The screenwriter Liu Liu’s grasp of realistic themes and social topics is indeed in place, and all the actors are acting online (although it seems that this lineup is really toxic now).

After the popularity of Mind Art, the market followed suit in succession. In 2014 and 2015, there was a small outbreak in medical drama. In the past two years, four films and three films were broadcast in medical drama, including Distance to Love, Obstetrics and Gynecology of Love, Young Doctor, Growing Up and so on.

In medical drama during this period, the leading role began to be younger and idolized, and the professional details were increasingly controversial. In 2014, Lilac Garden conducted an online survey involving 2,012 doctors, among which 79.4% of the respondents thought that there were many mistakes in domestic dramas.

Medical drama was temporarily absent in 2016, and made a comeback in 2017, under the circumstances that practitioners made mistakes and the media discussed it hotly. Bai Baihe’s Justices Seeker and Wang Luodan’s "Emergency Doctor" are separated from each other. There is also a Pediatrician, starring Leo, who was not famous then.

At this time, the audience’s spit on medical drama has not only pointed to the professional details, but has risen to the level of personnel. Simply put, the protagonist is too virgin, and the returnees love to pretend "beep-".

Why do most domestic professional dramas annoy audiences, especially practitioners?

Distortion of professional details and water injection in love are appearances; In a deeper sense, it is the creator who failed to give the role professionalism (or the creator’s own understanding of professionalism is not in place? After all, most of them are "people who have never been to work"). As a result, it is often the case that the protagonists are emotional and morally kidnapped by each other without a word, regardless of their professionalism.

Different occupations have their own unique ethics and ways of doing things, and professional dramas should be properly displayed to better portray characters. Instead of taking the most superficial primary school students’ three views on all stories, creating a confrontation between "sticking to your duty" and "being a good person", taking exceptions and sacrifices as inevitable, being vague about the structural problems behind the phenomenon, or not thinking at all.

Documentary and online literature have ushered in a medical fever.

Unlike domestic dramas, which are tied behind one’s back, stupid and difficult to explode, in recent years, the "medical fever" in the field of documentaries and online articles has been maintained for quite some time.

Compared with TV dramas and reality shows, authenticity and professionalism are the biggest advantages of documentaries, and it is a great plus for medical subjects. According to media statistics, the average score of douban, a domestic medical documentary, was as high as 9.2 from the 2013 Ten-Year Festival of SARS. Among them, the well-known ones include Human Life, which shows the relationship between doctors and patients, Birth Gate, which focuses on obstetrics and gynecology, Emergency Room Story and Emergency Rescue 120, which focuses on emergency treatment, and the popular science Two Hundred Years of Surgery.

During the Spring Festival this year, Iqiyi launched a documentary called Chinese Doctors, which has achieved a high score of 9.2 in Douban. According to the data, the film was shot and produced by the film crew in different departments of obstetrics and gynecology, emergency department, oncology department, anesthesiology department, operating room, ICU and so on in six large 3A hospitals all over the country, trying to show the real doctor’s daily life with calm lens language, which is more meaningful in the current public opinion environment.

There are also many types of doctors or medical elements in the net. The most basic thing is that in female frequent romances, there are not a few people whose protagonists are doctors. After all, white coats are also the temptation of uniforms. Traditionally, through the passage, the protagonist shocked the ancients by modern accumulated medical knowledge, stirred up the storm, or upgraded by medical skills in the palace fight (after all, the abortion team in the palace only knows something about musk and saffron), and finally became a generation of medical concubines.

In addition, Hard Sugar Jun also mentioned "The Great Doctor Ling Ran" under the reading article before. The novel tells the story of a graduate who entered the hospital accidentally acquired the mysterious system and embarked on the road of technical cattle. Among them, the characters are distinctive and even exaggerated like cartoons, but the description of the hospital environment and the world is very realistic. The novel involves a lot of professional medical knowledge, and describes the "technicality" of surgeons, which has been affirmed by many professionals and has a certain interest in popular science.

The popularity of "The Great Doctor Lingran" has also led to the rise of a new batch of "technical stream medical articles". There are also "Operation Live Room", "I can see the status bar" and so on.

It is difficult to define this kind of works simply by the label of realism or non-realism. Many times the problem is realistic, but the means to solve the problem is unrealistic, and the sense of coolness comes from this.

More than half of the new medical drama was intercepted by the epidemic.

In fact, judging from the market inventory, in 2020, there will be more than ten films to be broadcast and filmed involving medical elements. Its lineup is also quite eye-catching, with 85 small flowers and delicious fresh meat. It is really a gathering of the most popular and topical actors at the moment, and the marketing number began to count and vote early. Unfortunately, nearly half of them were turned on at the end of last year or January this year, and filming has been suspended due to the epidemic.

Among them, Yang Mi and White’s Thank You Doctor (started in November 2019, which was the earliest time to stop filming medical dramas), Stephy and Yang Shining’s Take a Deep Breath Together (Foreign Aid Medical Care), and Huang Jingyu and Li Qin’s Dear Military Dress (Special Forces and Female Military Doctors).

The second level includes "We started to fall in love from marriage" starring Zhou Yutong and Simon; And "My Little Lucky" starring Fair Xing and Daddi Tang, the urban sweet pet, did not run away; In addition, there is a costume drama "Great Traditional Chinese Medicine" starring Xia Yu. According to the master, it took four years to prepare for the drama, and the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine was invited to provide guidance. Unfortunately, it is a pity.

There are also two new dramas that were just finished in January 2020. One is the military emotional drama "You are my fortress" (swat elite and female doctor), which is produced by Golden Shield Film and Television Culture Center of the Ministry of Public Security, the drama cool communication of Huace Keton and Leben Culture, and starring Sandra and Bai Jingting. The other one is produced by Mango TV, starring Yuxi Zhang and Ding Yuxi, "The Color is Strong" (genius doctor and the Popular Floret).

There are also three new dramas that were filmed in 2019, including The Great Pediatrician starring Chen Xiao and Olivia (finished in May), Little Doctor starring Dong Zijian and Jenny (finished in July), and Please Teach Me for the Rest of My Life (finished in November).

Judging from the lineup and plot, all three plays have the potential to be stars. In addition, the epidemic has affected the shooting of new dramas and the broadcast of TV stations, so the first two dramas may have the opportunity to meet the audience as soon as possible. The prospect of "Please Give Your Advice for the Rest of Your Life", in which both male and female stars are at their peak, is even clearer. It has been confirmed that it will be broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV and Tencent video, and the schedule is undecided.

However, it is not difficult to see that most of these medical dramas are not traditional medical industry dramas, but idol dramas in which one party is a doctor, and there are even collisions. Generally speaking, unless there is really a big gap in shooting quality, it is bound to be who broadcasts first and who is more dominant, which is also a lot of pressure for stopping filming.

Of course, medical drama can and should do more. The outbreak of new pneumonia was in a period of highly developed information, which was quite different from the experience of SARS in 2003. Even squatting at home, we can get in touch with real people and stories from the front and back, as well as various voices with different positions, which makes people anxious, painful and sad, and forces us to think.

If this kind of thinking can be embodied in the writer’s pen, deduction is not only a unique way of recording the times in film and television, but also a social responsibility that literature and art should bear.

Original title: "Do you still want to see medical drama after the epidemic? 》

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