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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.

Eight Chinese and foreign blockbusters gathered in the Spring Festival stalls, and watching movies became the custom of Spring Festival and New Year.

 With the release of Avatar: The Way of Water (hereinafter referred to as Avatar 2) extended to February 14th, this year’s Spring Festival film added a super 3D visual effect imported blockbuster on the basis of seven domestic blockbusters. This is the first time that a large film will be released during the Spring Festival holiday. This year’s Spring Festival movie market will be more abundant, and the audience will have more choices.

Family reunion during the Spring Festival is the best time for families to watch movies together. In recent years, going to see a movie during the Spring Festival holiday is not only a way of entertainment and leisure in Chinese, but also a ritual "New Year custom" for many families. Driven by eight Chinese and foreign blockbusters, this year’s Spring Festival is expected to set off another family movie craze.

Among the seven domestic films, Wandering Earth 2 was first scheduled to be released in the Spring Festival this year, reflecting the strong self-confidence of the film. Even in the face of the market situation that the box office of last year’s Lunar New Year and this year’s New Year’s Day was not as good as expected, the film did not shrink back.

The reason why Wandering Earth 2 is so emboldened is that it has a strong IP effect. The Wandering Earth, which was released in the Spring Festival of 2019, won wide acclaim from the audience with its magnificent, well-made special effects and sci-fi stories with China cultural connotations, and finally won 4.696 billion yuan at the box office, becoming the biggest dark horse of the year.

Second, with more abundant capital investment, the director Frant Gwo led the creative team to shoot and produce for four years, and the level of visual special effects is expected to continue to challenge the ceiling of domestic science fiction films. In terms of actors, besides Jason Wu’s continued leading role, many powerful actors such as Andy Lau, Li Xuejian, Sha Yi, Ning Li, Wang Zhi and Zhu Yanmanzi joined in, and the starring lineup was stronger than the first film.

Because of this, both the audience and the industry are full of expectations for the film, and the number of people who want to see Cat’s Eye and Taobao Film is currently the first in the Spring Festival. Up to now, the number of people who want to see cat eyes has exceeded 1.15 million.

Up to now, the number of people who want to see the costume suspense comedy Man Jiang Hong directed by Zhang Yimou has exceeded 960,000, second only to Wandering Earth 2. In addition to the golden signboard of Zhang Yimou, the film also stars Shen Teng, Jackson Yee, Zhang Yi, Lei Jiayin, Yun-peng Yue and many others, and it is also a popular film in this year’s Spring Festival.

Director Zhang Yimou, who is over 70 years old, still maintains a good creative state and innovative ability. Over the Cliff and Sniper released in the past two years are both excellent works with a double harvest at the box office. What surprises can this "Man Jiang Hong" bring to the audience? Looking forward to it.

Cheng Er wrote and directed, and the spy war blockbuster "Nobody" starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai and YiBo also received high attention. Tony Leung Chiu Wai’s acting skills and YiBo’s popularity have made many viewers want to see what kind of sparks can be generated by such young and old people with two male masters CP.

Director Cheng Er attracted many senior fans and young artists with the good reputation of "The Romance of Death", but the box office was not successful. This time, the pre-sale of "Nobody" leads the box office and is expected to achieve good box office results.

As the only pure comedy released this Spring Festival, The Exchange of Life, directed by Su Lun and starring Lei Jiayin, Zhang Xiaofei and Youhao Zhang, has certain advantages in genre. Su Lun’s last work "Living Together in Time and Space" was a surprise and won 900 million yuan at the box office. The performance of the new work in the Spring Festival file naturally attracted much attention.

Comedy films are just needed for the Spring Festival every year. Hi, Mom, which was released in the Spring Festival in 2021, unexpectedly grabbed 5.413 billion yuan at the box office, ranking third in the total box office list of China film history. The movie "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" released in the Spring Festival of 2022 also earned 2.627 billion yuan at the box office, becoming the biggest dark horse in the movie market last year. Judging from the pre-sale, it is very difficult for Exchange of Life to create another box office miracle, and the key is the word-of-mouth after the release.

"Bear Haunted with Me" Bear Core "is also a film scheduled to be released in the Spring Festival this year. As the latest work in the series of animated films "Bears Come and Go", the biggest advantage of this film is that it has a very stable audience and a clear market position under the strong IP effect, and its production level is becoming more and more sophisticated.

"Deep Sea" is an animated special effects blockbuster created by Tian Xiaopeng, the director of "Return of the Great Sage", which has taken seven years. It is expected by many cartoon fans. From the trailer, its visual effects are magnificent and colorful, and it is expected to reach the top level of domestic animated films. The biggest suspense is how the story is told.

"China Ping-Pong Fight Back" has table tennis as the mass base of the national game, with Yu Baimei and Deng Chao as the golden partners, and Deng Chao, Sun Li, Timmy Xu and other leading stars. Although it is a rare sports theme in the Spring Festival, the current attention is not too high, but if it is well received after the release, it is also possible to fight back.

Traditionally, the Spring Festival movie has always been the world of domestic films, but this year’s situation is different. On January 10th, according to the release notice of the digital version of Avatar 2, the film will be extended to February 14th in China.

This means that this super 3D visual effect imported blockbuster, which was released on December 16th last year, will be released throughout the Spring Festival, and together with the above seven domestic blockbusters, it will expand this year’s Spring Festival movie market.

Avatar 2 is not only the world’s top sci-fi blockbuster with visual effects, but also a family fun movie suitable for parents and children. Affected by the epidemic, the film was released in China on December 16th last year. Although it has earned 1.5 billion yuan at the box office, compared with its current global box office of more than 1.9 billion dollars, the box office potential in China has not been fully released.

This time, the film unexpectedly entered the Spring Festival file, which will become the first imported film released during the Spring Festival in China, making the supply of this year’s Spring Festival file more abundant, and the audience will have more choices, which is good for both the film market and the audience.

Judging from the fact that the key of Avatar 2 is extended for one month and the Spring Festival movies are no longer limited, the intention of the film authorities to protect the Spring Festival movie market is obvious. China film market has a new look in the New Year.

Once upon a time, the prime time of Chinese New Year’s Eve from the middle and late December to the New Year’s Day was the most explosive time in China’s film market, and the most heavy domestic blockbusters were often released at that time.

On the first day of the Spring Festival in 2013, Stephen Chow’s "Journey to the West: Demons" earned 120 million yuan at the box office, becoming the first Chinese film with a box office of over 100 million yuan in a single day in China’s film history, with a final box office of 1.246 billion yuan. Since then, more and more China audiences have chosen to watch movies with their families during the Spring Festival holiday, and the Spring Festival file has sounded the clarion call for overtaking the New Year file.

In the Spring Festival of 2016, The Mermaid, directed by Stephen Chow, won 3.391 billion yuan at the box office and topped the box office of China Film History at that time. The box office depth of the Spring Festival file was greatly excavated. Since then, with tens of thousands of China audiences in Qian Qian entering the cinema during the Spring Festival, the box office of the Spring Festival file has broken the film history record many times.

Family reunion during the Spring Festival is the best time for a family to watch movies together. In recent years, going to see a movie during the Spring Festival holiday is not only a fashionable way of entertainment and leisure in Chinese, but also a "New Year custom" for many families in China.

The phenomenon that the Spring Festival stalls have repeatedly raised the upsurge of watching movies has attracted the attention of film experts and the media. Rao Shuguang, president of China Film Criticism Society, once said in an interview with the media that "Spring Festival movies, as a folk culture, have been involved in the public spiritual life". Xinhua News Agency and other official media have repeatedly reported the cultural phenomenon that "watching movies during the Spring Festival has become a New Year custom".

On January 1st this year, the "Annual Inventory Report of China Film Market in 2022" released by Lighthouse Research Institute showed that the per capita movie viewing frequency in China was 2 times in 2022. This average person only goes to the cinema twice a year to watch movies. Many Chinese people choose to watch movies with their families during the Spring Festival holiday, so naturally they tend to choose cinemas with better viewing effects.

Wanda Studios is in a leading position in the industry in terms of hardware facilities and service standards. There are a large number of special cinemas such as IMAX, CINITY, Dolby Cinema and PRIMIE, which is an excellent choice for watching Chinese New Year blockbusters, especially special effects blockbusters such as Wandering Earth 2 and Avatar 2.

On January 14th, six films, Wandering Earth 2, Manjianghong, Unknown, Exchange of Life, Bears with Me, Bear Core and Deep Sea, opened for pre-sale. The release of China Ping-Pong Jedi Counter-Strike was postponed to the third day of New Year’s Eve, competing with other films at the wrong time.

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According to the cat’s eye data, as of the publication of The Wind Vane for Film and Television, the pre-sale box office of Unknown, Manjianghong and Wandering Earth 2 ranked in the top three, and the total pre-sale box office of new films in the Spring Festival exceeded 200 million yuan.

This year’s Spring Festival, with the national people’s "Yangkang" in succession, driven by the above-mentioned eight Chinese and foreign blockbusters, the China mainland film market is expected to lift the craze of family viewing again. Looking forward to the Spring Festival file can get out of the epidemic haze and create another box office success!

Eating rabbits is risky! What deadly viruses are hidden in the "game" on the table?

  According to the latest epidemic situation of pneumonia in novel coronavirus, as of 24: 00 on January 28th, the National Health and Wellness Commission had received a total of 5,974 confirmed cases from 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), including 1,239 severe cases, 132 cumulative deaths and 103 cumulative cured and discharged cases. There are 9239 suspected cases.

  The menacing epidemic has kept everyone in a state of panic. With the expansion of the epidemic, "wild animals" and "game" have once again become the focus of public attention. Earlier, on January 20th, in view of the current pneumonia epidemic in novel coronavirus, Zhong Nanshan, the leader of National Health Commission high-level expert group and academician of China Academy of Engineering, once pointed out that novel coronavirus is likely to come from a wild animal, and it is more likely to be wild animals like bamboo rats and badgers.

  On January 28th, Academician Zhong Nanshan accepted an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency, saying that in 2019, novel coronavirus first appeared on a bat, and scientists were looking for an intermediate storage owner in novel coronavirus.

  What is certain is that this epidemic has a great relationship with wild animals.

  Some researchers have done statistics. At present, 70% of new infectious diseases come from wild animals.

  SARS virus: The source of SARS has been proved to come from the Chinese bat, civet cats contact and infect them, and then transmit the virus to humans. If humans did not catch and eat civet cats, which were originally wild animals, the transmission chain of the virus from bats to civet cats and then to people would not have formed, and SARS would not have broken out that year.

  Ebola virus: The source of Ebola virus is wild animals such as orangutans, monkeys and bats. It is precisely because in Africa, people prey on these wild animals that Ebola virus has been transmitted from animals to people many times, and then it has caused outbreaks in human society.

  Nipah virus: Nipah virus also comes from bats, because humans built pig farms next to bat habitats, and the fruits bitten by bats and infected with the virus fell into the pigsty, and pigs were infected with the virus after eating them, and then infected people with the virus.

  Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus: In 2012, doctors in Saudi Arabia discovered a strange disease, which was later named "Middle East Respiratory Syndrome". The MERS virus that causes this disease was originally found in an African bat. Some dromedaries in North Africa accidentally contacted bats with viruses and were infected with MERS virus. With the trade from North Africa to the Middle East, dromedary caravans brought the virus to the Middle East, and the sick dromedaries infected more camels through nasal secretions, eventually infecting humans and spreading among humans.

  one-humped camel

  Influenza virus: almost everyone has had the flu, but the flu disease has nothing to do with humans. They come from birds. Moreover, the flu virus infects the digestive tract of birds, not the respiratory tract. The virus will "mutate", and the bird flu virus will mutate into a new virus that infects humans. However, the surface receptors of human respiratory cells are very close to those of birds’ digestive tract cells. When these new viruses mutated from birds are transmitted to humans, they cause respiratory diseases in humans, that is, "flu".

  HIV: There are two kinds of HIV: one is called HIV-1, and the other is called HIV-2. After research, scientists found that HIV-2 virus came from "mangabey with white top" in West Africa. This monkey carried a SIV virus and independently evolved into HIV-2 AIDS virus. Hunters in West Africa often kill this kind of monkey. When the monkey bites the hunter, or the butcher disposes of the monkey’s corpse, the monkey’s blood containing the virus enters the human body and will be infected with the virus. These viruses replicate themselves and gradually adapt to new hosts — — That is, humans. The HIV-1 virus has a completely different source. They come from another animal: chimpanzees.

  Baiding mangabey

  In addition, Hendra virus, Zika virus and so on, the sources of these deadly infectious diseases are all related to wild animals.

  The following small series is for everyone to learn about the bacteria or viruses that are at risk of infectious diseases carried by these common "game players" who have been repeatedly harassed.

  The greatest protection for wild animals is to stay away from them and leave their homes to them. Don’t go near them, don’t occupy them, and don’t overfish or eat.

  Protecting them means protecting us. I hope everyone can introspect, stop being willful and let the tragedy repeat itself.

  Finally, I hope Wuhan can tide over the difficulties and control the epidemic.

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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Dapeng talked about his band dream with Sewing Machine Band. What about yours?

The most popular scene in Sewing Machine Band


Special feature of 1905 film network When the music of "No More Hesitation" started, hundreds of musicians picked up their instruments and played together in the ruins of the rock park, and Paul Wong and Ye Shirong were among them … …

 

Yes, Xiao Bian is talking about a scene in which Hu Liang (Qiao Shan), a young man from a small town, encourages his agent Cheng Gong (Dapeng) to sing again in the final performance.

Director Dapeng invited Paul Wong and Ye Shirong to help the film.

 

How many people have a boiling passion or tears when they see this scene.

 

Yes There is such a group of people who seem to be born for music. On the stage, they are light, heat and the focus of all eyes. They are ideal believers, and the only way to achieve them is — — Band.

The film Sewing Machine Band was released on September 29th.

 

The second film "Sewing Machine Band" directed by Dapeng tells the story of such a group of people who can’t do anything at all get together to form a band for various reasons and wake up the world with rock and roll.

Screenshot of Dapeng Weibo

 

In fact, as the director of this film, Dapeng himself has a musical dream and a band soul: influenced by Beyond in middle school, he and like-minded friends successively formed underground bands "Pass Band" and "Sky Band" in Changchun, and served as guitarist and lead singer.

Because of his obsession with music, Dapeng made a dream for all those who love music in Sewing Machine Band: Dapeng not only invited Beyond members, but also many unremarkable walk-on roles in the film were guest starred by musicians from famous domestic bands.

"Sewing Machine Band" rock mr. six photo poster

These include the band Faces — Ou Yang, Black Panther band — Zhao Mingyi, Miserable Faith — Gao Hu and Bao Jiajie Band No.43 — Long Long, Yan — Wang Lan and the Second-hand Rose Band — Yao Lan, Cobra — Xiao Nan and Knight Band — Siqin Ge Ri Le, The Catcher In The Rye — Xiao Wei, Overload Band — Li Yanliang, New Pants Band — Peng Lei, OK KING Band — Xie Tianxiao, Paradise Band — Lei Gang and the Tang Dynasty Band — Liu Yijun.

Xie Tianxiao and other famous domestic band musicians guest starred in Sewing Machine Band.

 

The reason why the band film is moving is not only because of the band itself, but also because it is often related to friendship, youth, and the years of chasing dreams, which will shine especially.

Linda, one of Yamashita Nobuhiro’s "Youth Trilogy"! Linda! Linda! 》

 

Describe the most ordinary daily life of the student band with a gentle lens; Stuart Murdoch, the soul of Scottish independent band Belle & Sebastian, wrote and directed music films, which showed the powerful effect of music on saving a girl’s life. There is also a piece of the 2.5-yuan band’s super-burning fighting piano … …


There are countless stories about the band in the film, and there are also such a group of people around us. No matter where they are now, doing music-related or unrelated work, those days and nights of laughing and fighting with band members and sweating on and off the stage will never fade.

▲ "The skirt of school uniform" is included in the soundtrack of Rao Xueman’s novel of the same name.

@ Mr. Unbeliever, 25 years old, drummer, running dog.

 

When I was in high school, our school held a "Red May Art Festival". Now I think it was designed by the leaders to select the key schools with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor. At that time, I had just changed from western percussion to drum set, and I was inexplicably keen on forming a band, so I collected keyboard players and guitarists who had learned when I was a child and had musical instruments at home, and formed a group.Small band”。

 

The name, just a small band, has no special meaning. If I have to add a meaning, the boy I secretly loved at that time was nicknamed Xiaoxiao. When I was having difficulty in choosing songs, the other party sent me a text message to encourage me, so I named it Xiaoxiao Band.

 

Speaking of song selection, at first we chose Mr. Wang Leehom’s song, which was scolded by the teacher and said that it was not enough for campus; Later, I chose the ending song that was very popular at that time, and was scolded by the teacher, saying that it was too violent to be like a student; Later, later, we chose Jay Chou’s songs, which were said by the teacher to be idle and not sunny enough.

 

Finally, we chose a song "The Skirt of School Uniforms", and we searched it by ourselves. The melody was OK. The music of an eighteen-line artist, the teacher looked at the title of the song: hmm, atmosphere, hmm, youth, hmm, vitality, hmm, awesome.

 

Almost 10 years later, the small band was built only for the competition, and only in mid-May, it won applause and admiration from the students. In a short time, everyone started to prepare for the college entrance examination, some planned to go abroad, and some returned to other places to start a new life.

 

Now, I don’t study percussion any more, and we haven’t been in touch for a long time, and there isn’t even a photo. That short memory representing youth will stay in a small band that is ignorant and confused.

 

▲ Bad Boys Band

 

@ Jiang Hao, male, 27 years old, lead singer of the band, 7 years old, civil servant.

 

After graduating from college, I happened to go to work in an office unit in the urban-rural fringe in the northeast, 500 kilometers away from home. Every day, I worked from nine to five, and it was a cycle. I lost some experience that young people should have, but I was happy to be at leisure and could continue to be my own band.

 

The band started in 2010. The name of the band is calledBad boy bandThe name is between right and wrong, neither black nor white, just like a child with a little evil thoughts, just like our music. Although it is a metal core and a post-core, it is serious and surly, but it also has a little banter and cynicism.

 

When the band is touring, we like to stay in a youth hostel best, so that we can meet new friends, fool around and play all kinds of games, and feel that the fatigue on the journey is covered up by laughter and alcohol.

 

Because everyone in the band has a job, we basically perform on weekends and holidays. We often have sex with you on the stage in another city on Sunday night, and then take a bus back to our city in the middle of the night and go to work directly at the company. This feeling is like a superman who just saved the world last night and then needs to become an office worker in the morning. Although sometimes he is a little tired, this contrast is actually quite cool.

 

▲ Lao Zhai and his human guide

 

@ Lao Zhai, male, 29 years old, copywriter.

 

Band name:Human guide

Source: TV series "The Story of the Editorial Department" and Osamu Dazai’s "Human Disqualification"

 

The idea of forming a band actually came into being when I was 14 or 15 years old. Although I was in the so-called "special math class", I didn’t do well in math, and I didn’t like playing games or sports. I also had a special problem with the snobbish education methods in the school, so I was an anomaly in the class. At that time, self-taught guitar entered a little door, thinking that in the future, the university must go to Beijing and form a band in Beijing.

 

As a result, the college entrance examination entered the engineering major of an art university, which can be said to be very tangled. Although I have made a lot of friends in music, my studies are very dense and I don’t have much money to buy good musical instruments. I have always entertained myself. After grinding my father for more than a year, he promised to buy me a decent guitar, effects and sound card. However, it was not until I studied an art graduate school that I officially got rid of my ten-year status as a science student and had enough time of my own. I just accumulated a lot of works before, and when I was in graduate school, I went out to give lectures and earned some money and saved a lot of equipment, so I grabbed the guy and started working with several old classmates from other majors.

 

At that time, a two-room basement was rented near the school. The back room was used as a demo and rehearsal room, and the outer room was used for equipment and sundries. In order to make sound insulation, a batch of quilts eliminated from the hotel at the school gate were specially collected and hung on the wall. So at that time, as soon as everyone entered the back room, they could see the dry marks of all kinds of unidentified liquids on the "wall" … … It’s disgusting to think about it now, but at that time, there was a special Lo-Fi "pride" and it was very fun.

 

Many people think that it is easy to attract girls to form a band, but now it is particularly funny that all the members of our band found boyfriends/girlfriends through me at that time, only I was single. It still seems too unattractive.

 

▲The Beatles was his favorite band at that time.

 

@white noise, female, 23 years old

 

We were classmates in junior high school. At that time, he got good grades, could sing, and was good-looking. He always lived in the crowd of classmates and the favor of teachers. And I am a girl who doesn’t like talking very much and doesn’t like excitement. After three years, I haven’t said a few words to him in total. At that time, I didn’t know what kind of mood I had for him. All I knew was that I liked the way he closed his eyes when he was singing, so that I could keep staring at him without being found.

 

He and I were in different classes in high school. In order to take part in the school singing competition, he formed a band. The name of the band is made up of one word for himself and two other members. Now it’s silly to think about it. At that time, in order to watch him play, I also applied to be a volunteer in the competition, handing out water and handing out microphones. Then, sure enough, their band became famous in World War I. Although it is not as exaggerated as receiving love letters every day, it will also become the object of girls’ pointing fingers (praise) when running exercises during the big class.

 

Later, we were admitted to different cities in the university, and a lot of news about him was learned by others. I heard that he is still forming a band in college, and the band also went to a certain music festival; It is said that he later turned to behind-the-scenes production, but he is still singing and writing songs … … Looking back on these things now, I feel very lucky that I once liked such an excellent person.

 

▲ Rammstein, the most famous industrial heavy metal band in the world, is composed of a group of proletarians who are tired of factory life in eastern Germany.

 

@ Liu Weiguang, male, 23 years old, now works as an administrator.

 

Band name:reinforcing steel bar

Source: Four members of the band like rammstein very much. The name of their own band, Rebar, is not only a tribute to rammstein, but also a symbol of their own ideals. I hope that when you hear our songs, you will be amazed: this is playing rebar (by the way, I would like to show you Amway rammstein).

 

That’s how the band was formed. Before the start of college, I soaked in the post bar and brushed it every day, sending messages and posts about how to form a band, and wanted to see if any like-minded brothers formed a band. So … … Nothing. Then I changed my routine and went out for a walk. I met our guitarist in the small classroom where I taught guitar at school, and then I met the drummer through him. These are all good. The story of our lead singer, Miss Sister, sounds the most vulgar.

 

At that time, we couldn’t find a suitable lead singer. Once in an English class, each group had to sing English songs. After it was the turn of the squad leader’s little sister group, I went crazy as soon as she opened her mouth. I immediately told our guitarist that I found the person I wanted. At first, I was a little worried that her popular singing style was not suitable. After slowly rehearsing and running in, she could completely control the rock style. But she hesitated all the time, and she didn’t really come back until her boyfriend thought she was fooling around with a group of gentlemen and broke up with her. At this point, the band was established. It’s a cliche story, right? I think so, too.

▲ Zhang Jia (the girl in the middle) and her "Laoganma"

@ Zhang Jia, female, 22 years old, lead singer, student.

The name of the band isLao Gan Ma; Old GodmotherBecause the whole team loves Laoganma.

The opportunity for the establishment was that I joined the music element club in Sun Yat-sen University. At the meeting, an "old man" who was gay in gay came to me and told me that he wanted to form a band with two lead singers. I think his voice is very girly, and my voice is very manly, which is still relatively harmonious. At that time, there were a few timid freshmen who didn’t know how to talk to people, so I went over and asked them if they wanted to play with us two "old people", and finally we became the only double lead singer band in CUHK.

In fact, there is no wonderful story, that is, all six of us like music to death, and rehearsing twice a week according to the rules of the club is our happiest time, and later we received invitations to perform on campus and off campus.

Personally, I think the most worth saying is that although we are a band in a school club, we are very strict with ourselves. Every time we choose a song to perform, we will adapt it many times. Sometimes we even mash up two songs directly, taking the whole structure apart and putting it back together. It can be said that our drummer is the hardest drummer in CUHK … … And because we are a double lead singer band, all our vocal parts are re-edited by two people, which can be said to be a very hard-working band. Generally speaking, each of us was very happy during the existence of the band, which was the happiest experience in my undergraduate career.

City Eat is popular now? Explore the winter atmosphere of Jing’ an together ~

Kapibala cake

Address: hihikepe (855 Kangding Road)

This year, the super-hot "Capibala" on the Internet has been made into a cake! This cake combines chocolate cream and chocolate cake, and also adds carefully pickled orange peel, which perfectly combines mellow bitterness with fresh sweetness. The quality of the cake is very special, a bit like a fluffy version of brownies, rich and delicate.

Source: hihikepe Xiaohongshu official account

Chocolate hazelnut elk bread+super cute snowman bread

Address: Paper Stone Bakery (B1 Floor, Shopping Mall, South Zone, Jing ‘an Kerry Center, No.1238 Yan ‘an Middle Road)

It is said that these two kinds of bread are the sales champions in the store ~ chocolate and hazelnut are hidden in the bulging belly by elk. The ultra-soft bread body is wrapped in hazelnut chocolate cheese, and the crispy cocoa on the surface brings a richer taste. The mellow hazelnut chocolate sauce and butter dough are perfectly combined.

Snowman bread is full of milk fragrance, and each snowman has a unique expression. The texture of iced bread is matched with silky and delicate custard cream, which brings unique enjoyment to taste buds.

Source: Paper Stone Bakery WeChat WeChat official account

Pistachio nut raspberry root cake

Address: PAINCHAUD Baiqiu (S102, Jingan Jiuguang Branch, No.1618 Nanjing West Road)

Delicate pistachio texture and raspberry fruit fragrance are blended and spread on the crisp pistachio cake bottom, which makes people feel that unique beauty. The invagination of raspberry sauce, leaf custard, pistachio Mu Si and caramel happy jam makes the cake taste rich, and every bite is a surprise.

Source: PAINCHAUD Baiqiu WeChat WeChat official account

Mini cinnamon roll

Address: mbd (785-3 Huashan Road)

Although the mini cinnamon roll is small in size, its taste is still very rich. The essence of this cinnamon roll lies in its concentrated raw materials. Each roll has been carefully made and rolled four times, which makes the cinnamon taste very rich.

The surface is covered with icing, showing a bright and crisp visual effect. At first taste, it tastes like caramel biscuits, but the inside is very soft. The rich cinnamon aroma fills the mouth, making people taste it one after another, which is very enjoyable.

Source: Little Red Book screenshot

Alcohol-free hot red wine fruit tea

Address: T9tea (1st Floor, Ruiou Department Store, No.1601 Nanjing West Road)

What is indispensable in winter is warm and pleasant hot red wine. Although this hot red wine fruit tea contains no alcohol, it tastes just like real red wine. It is not flavored with flavor syrup, but skillfully imitated with a variety of dried fruits and spices, such as rose eggplant, dragon fruit, apple, blueberry and so on.

Take a sip, it is moderately sweet and sour, fruity, and exudes a unique sense of fermentation, which is mainly attributed to the dried pineapple. Whether you are at your desk or driving out for a party, you can rest assured to taste it.

Source: T9tea WeChat WeChat official account

China cooking master Dong Jidu died of illness — China News Network Sichuan News

  Zhongxin. com, Sichuan News, January 24th (Reporter He Yuqing) The reporter learned from the Sichuan Historical Society’s Sichuan Oral History Committee on the 24th that Dong Jidu, a master chef of China, former head chef of Jingchengyuan Restaurant of Chengdu Catering Company and co-chairman of the Association’s professional committee, died in Chengdu at 18: 00 on January 23rd, 2023, at the age of 79.

  This culinary master who wrote in the Annals of Sichuan Cuisine is not only proficient in Sichuan cuisine, but also bypasses western food and western pastry technology. His representative dishes include poached squid, dried fish wings, preserved chrysanthemum abalone, dried deer tendon, pigeon eggs with hoof swallows, and young chicken tofu pudding.

Dong Jidu is very supportive of the oral history of Sichuan cuisine.
Dong Jidu is very supportive of the oral history of Sichuan cuisine.

  Dong Jidu went to Chengdu Yaohua Western Food Department as an apprentice in 1961, and studied in Yulong Restaurant Chef Training Class in 1964, under the guidance of famous chef Xie Shaoyun. Later, I worked as a chef in Rong Paradise and Yaohua Restaurant. In 1979, he was admitted to Chengdu Senior Chef Training Course. After graduation in 1981, he was assigned to work in Jingchengyuan as a chef, and studied under the famous teacher Liu Duyun. During this period, he went to Jingchengyuan Restaurant in New Jersey, USA as a chef for two years in 1983. After returning to China, he also served as a professional teacher of Sichuan cuisine training class of the city catering company, and participated in the compilation of several Sichuan cuisine cooking textbooks. He has participated in the evaluation of Chengdu chefs’ titles for many times and was awarded the title of Chinese Senior Cooker Appraiser.

  In recent years, many Sichuan cuisine masters who witnessed the development history of Sichuan cuisine have passed away one after another. In order to carry out the rescue excavation of Sichuan cuisine culture and promote Sichuan cuisine to the world better, the Sichuan Historical Society’s Sichuan Oral History Committee was established in November 2022. Dong Jidu is also one of the co-chairs of the Sichuan Historical Society’s Sichuan Oral History Committee.

  In an interview with Dong Jidu recorded by the Special Committee on Oral History of Sichuan Cuisine of Sichuan Historical Society, this Sichuan cuisine master once revealed "the secret of learning to cook Sichuan cuisine"-"If you want to learn technology, go to the place where the old masters drink morning tea".

  Dong Jidu recalled that there was a Caotangzi tea shop in Dajin Street, Chengdu, where masters such as Liu Duyun, Zhang Songyun, Ceng Guohua and Mao Qicheng loved to drink tea. He used to go to the tea shop with Wang Kaifa and Li Defu in the morning to have tea with the grandfathers, and listen to their dragon gate array of Sichuan cuisine. At that time, Zhang Songyun had a sentence that impressed Dong Jidu-"In any case, we should make the best use of our raw materials and not waste them".

  In 1983, 39-year-old Dong Jidu was sent to Jingchengyuan, New Jersey, USA as a chef. At that time, Wang Development was also working as a chef in the American Paradise. On vacation, Dong Jidu hitchhiked to Rongyuan to discuss cooking with Wang Kaifa, and they often discussed it late into the night.

Dong Jidu (left) works in the American Competition Park.
Dong Jidu (left) works in the American Competition Park.

  "The departure of Master Dong Jidu makes us feel that the oral history of Sichuan cuisine is imminent, and it is necessary to race against time to record and preserve the cooking essence of more Sichuan cuisine masters in time." Li Zuomin, Secretary-General of the Special Committee on Oral History of Sichuan Cuisine, said that Dong Jidu was very supportive of oral history before his death, and donated the Sichuan Cuisine books and used Sichuan Cuisine utensils he participated in, leaving his mark on the development history of Sichuan Cuisine. (End)

Celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China (PRC), the State Council held a National Day reception.

  10 high-end shopping malls in Harbin

  Yuanda shopping mall

  Yuanda Shopping Center is a large-scale modern shopping mall built by China Yuanda Group in Harbin, which integrates shopping, leisure, entertainment and catering. It is the largest multi-component modern shopping center in Heilongjiang Province at present, and has become a model in Harbin’s business, and is driving the fashion trend of Harbin’s consumer market with good development momentum.

  Address: No.378, Gogol Street, nangang district

  Lin Qiu Corp.

  Harbin Qiulin Group Co., Ltd. is a time-honored enterprise with a long history and well-known at home and abroad. Founded in 1900, it was successively operated by Russian capitalists, British HSBC, Japanese businessmen and the former Soviet government, and was handed over to China in October 1953. After taking over the operation, Lin Qiu has been expanded and reformed for four times, and now it has developed into a large-scale modern commercial retail enterprise focusing on commerce, and it is the only commercial listed company in Heilongjiang Province.

  Address: No.319 Dongdazhi Street, nangang district

  Parkson Shopping Center

  Parkson Department Store entered the retail market in China in 1994, and opened its first department store in Fuxingmennei Street, targeting at middle and high-end consumer groups. Parkson is one of the first foreign chain enterprises to operate fashion department stores in China. At present, it has developed into one of the largest fashion department store groups in China, with a wide marketing network covering 18 provinces and 27 major cities in China.

  Address: No.220, Central Street, Daoli District

  Harbin Zhuo Zhan Shopping Center

  The building of Harbin Zhuo Zhan Shopping Center, with a scale of 115,000 square meters, is designed by a team of famous Japanese designers, which fully introduces the international advanced commercial design concept and perfectly combines commercial design with business services to the maximum extent. No matter from architectural style to commercial layout, or from functional planning to supporting facilities, it is in sync with the world fashion, which fully embodies the pursuit of humanistic spirit by modern department stores. Zhuo Zhan is the only shopping center in Northeast China that integrates Bulgari, Tiffany and Cartier into one shopping mall.

  Address: No.106 Anlong Street, Daoli District

  Hongbo exhibition shopping plaza

  Hongbo Century Plaza, located in Harbin Development Zone, is an important part of Harbin International Convention and Exhibition Sports Center and an international SHOPPINGMALL integrating shopping, leisure, entertainment, food, tourism and business.

  Address: No.301 Hongqi Street, nangang district

  Xinshijie

  New World Department Store is a subsidiary of Hongkong New World Group and a branch of Zheng Yutong family. Harbin New World Department Store provides customers with a good shopping environment, and mainly deals in middle and high-end brands, including Cartier, Burberry, Ferragamo, Max Mara and so on.

  Address: No.403 Garden Street, nangang district

  Thousands of department Store

  Harbin wanda plaza is located in the top section at the intersection of hengshan road and Ganshui Road, adjacent to Kunlun Mall and Golf Course, with a total construction area of 300,000 square meters. It integrates a super commercial center, a platinum five-star international hotel, a number of commercial office buildings and hardcover white-collar apartments, including indoor pedestrian street, boutique department stores, the world’s top 500 international supermarket chains, digital city, KTV, large-scale video game center, international cinema and other all-round consumption levels.

  Address: No.68 Ganshui Road, Xiangfang District

  Songlei business building

  Harbin Songlei Nangang Store, located in the commercial center of nangang district, is a large-scale modern shopping mall mainly engaged in middle and high-grade clothing, which officially opened on November 9, 1993. With its magnificent architecture, elegant decoration combining Chinese and western styles, business atmosphere with a flood of passengers and sincere and fast service means, the shopping mall has won the reputation of "garden-style shopping mall and shopper’s paradise" among the numerous domestic and foreign guests, and was named "the first large-scale modern shopping mall in Heilongjiang Province" by the State Council Development Center.

  Address: No.329 Dongdazhi Street, nangang district

  Central shopping mall

  Harbin Central Mall is located in the most prosperous street in Harbin-Central Street, with a business area of 26,000 square meters, with seven floors, six floors above ground and one underground. The Central Mall opened on November 26th, 1994. It is a joint-stock retail enterprise integrating retail and catering.

  Address: No.100, Central Street, Daoli District

  Jin’ an oubaluo plaza

  Jin ‘an International Shopping Plaza is a high-quality commercial plaza integrating shopping, leisure, catering, entertainment, tourism and culture, which is dominated by internationally renowned brand goods and drives the consumption of other commodities. Among them, the brand stores include Armani, BOSS, Jiya Gallery, Lalique, ZARA, SEPHORA, Cordiz, PIAGET, Watsons, Hot Air and so on.

  Address: No.69 Central Street, Daoli District

  Other large shopping malls

  Songlei shopping center

  1. No.66, Central Street, Daoli District

  2. No.1 Heping Road, Xiangfang District

  Manhattan Shopping Center

  No.71 Zhaolin Street, Daoli District

  Goldsun Xintiandi shopping plaza

  No.158 Zhongyang Street, Daoli District

  Lufthansa Outlets

  No.123, Lot Street, Daoli District

  Makewei shopping center

  No.168 Jingyu Street, Daowai District

  Hart shopping plaza

  No.118 Xidazhi Street, nangang district

  Hexing shopping center

  400 Xidazhi Street, nangang district

  Xinji shopping mall

  No.228 Xuanhua Street, nangang district

  Di Chin shopping mall

  No.45, Central Avenue, Daoli District

  Hualian Mall

  No.122 Shitoudao Street, Daoli District

  Daan shopping center

  No.96, Zhongyang Street, Daoli District

  Millennium sun hongqi shopping plaza

  No.218 Hongqi Street, nangang district

  Dashang Group Harbin Xinyibai

  No.118 Shitou Street, Daoli District

  Mackay

  No.75 Shangzhi Street, Daoli District

  Le Song shopping plaza

  No.8, Sanda Dongli Road, Xiangfang District

  World shopping mall

  No.323 Dongdazhi Street, nangang district

  Taiping Qiao parkson shopping mall

  No.1158 Dongzhi Road, Daowai District

  Large supermarkets in Harbin

  Name and address Wal-Mart supermarket

  1. No.168, Xianfeng Road, nangang district

  2. No.254, Zhongshan Road, nangang district

  3. Floors 2-4 of Wanda Commercial Plaza in Daoli District

  Carrefour supermarket

  1. No.301, Hongqi Street, nangang district

  2. No.8, Sanda Dongli Road, Xiangfang District

  3. Triumph City Shopping Plaza, No.365 Xinyang Road, Daoli District

  4. No.40, Xidazhi Street, nangang district

  RT Mart supermarket

  1. The first floor of wanda plaza, No.37 Ganshui Road, Xiangfang District.

  2. No.402 Xuanhua Street, nangang district.

  Beijing hualianchaoshi Supermarket

  No.57 Zhongshan Road, Xiangfang District

  Central hong supermarket

  Nangang district Xidazhi steet

  Century Lianhua Supermarket

  1. No.93, Lot Street, Daoli District

  2. Guxiang Street, Daoli District

  3. No.564, Xidazhi Street, nangang district

  4. Hanshui Road, nangang district

  Trust-Mart

  1. No.58 Cross Street, nangang district.

  2. No.68 Nanma Road, Daowai District

  3. No.58 Anbu Street, Xiangfang District

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Bold! Corrupt officials took bribes of more than 3 million, and their wives spent 7.5 million to "get a husband"

       CCTV News:The fall of corrupt officials makes people happy, but some people are not happy — — That is the relatives of individual stubborn corrupt officials. These people don’t miss any opportunity, as long as they can escape legal sanctions and fish people out, they will do anything desperate. However, the mirage will eventually dissipate, leaving only the cold reality.

       Yan Yongxi, the former deputy head of Mentougou District, Beijing, who was rated as "the most greedy in Beijing" by the media, was double-checked by CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on August 4, 2009 for alleged corruption. Yan Yongxi’s son was introduced and found his classmate’s father, Yin, to help "fish people" and promised to provide Yin with the cost of dredging the relationship. Yin also vowed that he knew people in CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection who could get Yan Yongxi out, and promised not to be sentenced. Subsequently, Yan Yongxi’s son provided him with more than 3.28 million yuan from August 2009 to April 2010.

       On January 12, 2011, Yan Yongxi was tried in Beijing No.1 Intermediate People’s Court. On September 16, 2011, Yan Yongxi’s case was pronounced in the first instance and Yan Yongxi was sentenced to life imprisonment. After Yan Yongxi appealed, the Beijing High Court upheld the original judgment.

Yan Yongxi, former deputy head of Mentougou District, Beijing

Yan Yongxi, former deputy head of Mentougou District, Beijing

       Everything is settled, and there is no possibility of change. Where is Yin, who once claimed to be exempted from criminal punishment?

       It turned out that as early as mid-April 2010, after Yin got 3.28 million yuan, Yan Yongxi’s son could no longer contact him. At this point, the fact that Yan Yongxi’s son was defrauded for "fishing" his father finally surfaced.

       After investigation, it was found that Yin was detained for contract fraud in July 2010 and sentenced to five years in December 2011.

       After the "fishing people" scam was exposed, Yin was escorted back to Beijing for trial. Yin, 63, argued that he agreed to "fish for people" because he had a friend who was the director of CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. However, the investigators found that according to the information of this friend provided by Yin, there was no such person in Beijing.

       Compared with the lady below, Yan Yongxi’s son is just "dwarfed". After hearing the verdict of her husband’s case, the wife suddenly realized that she had been cheated, which really made people laugh and cry.

       Li Dingrong took bribes of more than 3 million, and his wife spent 7.5 million "fishing for her husband".

       In 2012, Li Dingrong, the former deputy director of Shajing Sub-district Office in Bao ‘an District, Shenzhen, was arrested for accepting bribes. His wife spent 7.5 million yuan to entrust her husband, but Li Dingrong was still sentenced to 13 years in prison.

       After receiving the verdict, his wife felt cheated and called the police, and Wang Mosheng, whom she entrusted, was arrested. Subsequently, Wang Mosheng was tried for alleged fraud, but he did not plead guilty during the trial, saying that most of the money was transferred to another person who claimed to have the ability to do this.

       After arriving at the case, Li confessed that the middleman tried to hook up with Zhu Mingguo, then secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Guangdong Provincial Committee. However, Li Dingrong’s case is more complicated. He and Zhu Mingguo are just old colleagues many years ago, and they dare not find Zhu Mingguo on this matter.

       It is reported that Li Dingrong was found to have accepted bribes of 3.738 million yuan.

Li Dingrong, former deputy director of Shenzhen Shajing Street Office

Li Dingrong, former deputy director of Shenzhen Shajing Street Office

       Compared with Li Dingrong’s wife who was defrauded of 7.5 million for "fishing for people", another person was cheated for "fishing for people", and the amount of fraud was staggering.

       The son of "2 billion village officials" in Shenzhen was cheated of 27 million yuan for spending money to get his father.

       On November 25, 2012, netizens posted that Zhou Weisi, a village cadre of Shenzhen Nanlian Community, was sitting on huge assets, claiming that he owned more than 80 private houses, villas, factories and buildings, and more than 20 luxury cars, with estimated assets exceeding 2 billion yuan.

       Since then, the survey shows that there are as many as 76 houses declared by Zhou Weisi’s family, which is not much different from the net posts.

       On February 26, 2014, Zhou Weisi was charged with three counts of suspected bribery, non-state staff bribery and unit bribery, involving a total amount of over 50 million yuan.

Zhou Weisi was tried (middle)

Zhou Weisi was tried (middle)

       According to informed sources, after Zhou Weisi was controlled, a relative found Zhou Weisi’s son and said that he knew Luo, who worked in a "secret department", and could release Zhou Weisi on bail pending trial. In January 2013, this relative arranged for Zhou Weisi’s son to meet with Luo. Because the time between Zhou Weisi’s being reported by netizens and being controlled is very short, the incident happened suddenly, and his family members were very flustered, and they didn’t know what to do. In addition, the introducer is a relative, so Zhou Weisi’s son did not doubt Luo’s identity. At the same time, Luo boasted about Haikou, claiming that he had excellent relations with senior officials and would certainly get things done. Subsequently, the two sides hit it off, and Zhou Weisi’s son invested 30 million yuan, paying 20 million yuan first to help Luo "fish people".

       However, the huge efforts have not been rewarded. Zhou Weisi’s bail pending trial was delayed, while Luo Mou frequently shirked and lied that he was still mediating. In April 2013, Luo claimed to have found a "confidential department VIP" Xu, who could complete the task of "fishing for people". The son of Zhou Weisi, who was in an urgent mood, did not think deeply at all, and then handed over 7 million yuan to Luo.

       In February 2013, Zhou Weisi was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes and bribery. The case lasted until September 2013, and comprehensive information showed that Zhou Weisi was not released on bail pending trial. In the same month, Zhou Weisi’s son, who was aware of being cheated, reported the case to the police. According to the police involved in the investigation, Luo and Xu were suspected of fictional identity fraud.

Zhou Weisi's son was cheated.

Zhou Weisi’s son was cheated.

       Through the above three cases, we will find that the liar’s technique is not clever, but it is precisely by grasping the victim’s psychology that the liar is unscrupulous and commits fraud. In addition, the victims only wake up after things have not been done and find themselves cheated.

       The hidden rules of "fishing for people" in officialdom, courts and public security bureaus have been severely attacked.

       Why are some relatives convinced that they can successfully "fish for people" by finding relationships and asking for help after corrupt officials fall? That’s because there are such people who have no king’s law and take money to "fish for people" without authorization.

       For example, Cao Jianliao, the former deputy mayor of Guangzhou, abused his power to collect money crazily during his tenure in Tianhe, Haizhu and Zengcheng districts of Guangzhou, and was suspected of taking bribes of nearly 80 million yuan. In the case of Cao Jianliao, Wu Bingqian, a businessman, was investigated by relevant departments in Haizhu District of Guangzhou for bribing others. With the help of Cao Jianliao, then secretary of Haizhu District Party Committee, Wu Bingqian was not only exonerated from criminal responsibility, but also became a representative of Guangzhou Municipal People’s Congress and got the land he wanted.

In 2016, Cao Jianliao, former deputy mayor of Guangzhou, was tried in the criminal trial area of Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court.

In 2016, Cao Jianliao, former vice mayor of Guangzhou, was tried in the criminal trial area of Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court.

       Huang Changrong, Deputy Secretary and Vice President of the former Party Group of Shenzhen Longgang District People’s Court. When investigated in 2014, investigators found that Huang Changrong directly instructed the judge to sentence a person involved in the case to probation after receiving the money from the person in charge of the law firm.

       Wu Zhengyang, former member of the Standing Committee of the County Committee of Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee and director of the public security bureau, once served as member of the Standing Committee of Lushan District Committee of Jiujiang City and director of the district public security bureau. In March 2013, Jiujiang Intermediate People’s Court made a judgment, and the defendant Wu Zhengyang ignored the national laws and relevant regulations, and committed crimes such as corruption, bribery and bending the law. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison for several crimes. During the investigation, the investigators found that during his tenure as the director of Lushan District Public Security Bureau and Jiujiang County Public Security Bureau, Wu Zhengyang accepted bribes and "fished for people" in 22 cases, involving 28 people. Yan, who has a good personal relationship with Wu Zhengyang, asked Wu Zhengyang for help for 23 times in several years in order to reduce the punishment imposed on himself and his friends by relevant law enforcement agencies and departments, and gave Wu Zhengyang a total of more than 1 million yuan.

       According to the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the people hate corruption most, and corruption is the biggest threat to the Communist Party of China (CPC). Only with the tenacity and persistence of anti-corruption on the road forever, deepening the treatment of both the symptoms and the root causes, ensuring the integrity of cadres, the clean government and the clear politics, can we jump out of the historical cycle rate and ensure the long-term stability of the party and the country. At present, the situation of the anti-corruption struggle is still severe and complicated, and the determination to consolidate the overwhelming situation and win the overwhelming victory must be rock-solid.We must adhere to no-forbidden zone, full coverage and zero tolerance, insist on heavy containment, strong pressure and long-term shock, insist on bribery and bribery together, and resolutely prevent the formation of interest groups within the party.Establish an inspection system in city and county party committees and intensify efforts to rectify corruption around the masses. No matter where the corrupt elements flee, they must be arrested and brought to justice. Promote anti-corruption national legislation and build a reporting platform covering the discipline inspection and supervision system. Strengthen the shock of not daring to rot, fasten the cage that can’t rot, enhance the consciousness of not wanting to rot, and exchange Haiyan Heqing and Langlang Gankun through unremitting efforts. (Text/Liu Shan)

Suspected 2025 Mazda 3 debut, 2.5T with four-wheel drive, would you choose it?

Compared with the past, the sales of the three major Japanese car companies in 2024 can be said to have plummeted, and even car companies like Toyota have not been spared. However, compared with these three major car companies, Japan’s "Mazda" is a brand that is too small to be ignored! Recently, however, foreign media have released photos of the 2025 model, and the new shape has really surprised many people.

From the appearance point of view, this Mazda takes a very sporty route. The wide body makes it look more calm, and its front face is also very simple. The net is polygonal, and the stars inside make it look both sporty and artistic. LED headlights, plus enclosed ones, are not inferior to Audi models in the light. The overall design of the front enclosure also ensures the integrity of the new car.

As can be seen from the side, the front suspension and rear suspension of Mazda 3 are very long, which looks more like a sports car. Although it enhances its sportiness, it also makes its back seat more crowded! In addition, the pure carbon black wheel hub is also a guarantee of movement. At the rear of the car, it is a continuation of the current style. The taillights are replaced by two muzzles. The wide body and the front bumper are perfectly integrated, and the exhaust on both sides is a small hole.

Compared with the appearance of the explosion, the interior of the car is full of vitality. The three steering wheels are still the same, but the central LCD screen and the central screen have been replaced with new designs, which increases the sense of science and technology. At the bottom of the screen, there are two rows of solid buttons covered with a wooden cover, giving people an antique feeling. At the same time, the door of this car is inlaid with many diamond-shaped decorations, giving people a luxurious feeling.

In terms of power, overseas models have been released.2.5 L and 2.5 T two different power systems. The powertrain standard is a 6-speed automatic transmission, and there are two 2.5 T optional front wheels and four-wheel drive. Because of its excellent power system, many people say, "This car needs at least 300 thousand." What do you think?

In general, the 2025 Mazda 3 shows Mazda’s determination to change. However, whether it can reverse Mazda’s decline depends on the market reaction. Finally, I want to ask you, what do you think of this car? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area for discussion!