Overnight three major US stock indexesgo higher,S & P 500 IndexIt rose 0.59% to 4,594.63 points.NASDAQ Composite IndexUp 0.55% at 14,305.03 points,Dow Jones Industries Average IndexIt rose 0.82% to 36245.50.

Overnight in U.S. stocks,A total of 134 Chinese stocks rose, while 125 Chinese stocks fell…

Popular Chinese stocksIn China, Pinduoduo fell 1.47%, Alibaba fell 1.20%, NetEase fell 3.61%, JD.com fell 0.98%, Baidu fell 1.59%, New Oriental rose 0.16%, Bilibili rose 1.59%, iQIYI fell 2.01%.

New forces in car manufacturingAll fell, Li Auto fell 1.76%, NIO fell 1.65%, and XPeng Motors fell 5.24%.

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Qifei completed the sale of Tencent Music shares in the US stock market

360 announcement, as of December 1, 2023 Beijing time, the wholly-owned subsidiary Qifei completed the sale of Tencent Music shares in the US stock market. The total amount of the sale transaction is about 191 million US dollars, the overall sale price is about 7.5954 US dollars/share, and the minimum sale price is 7 US dollars/share.

Ctrip Group signs comprehensive strategic cooperation with Jiangxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs

According to Ctrip Group, recently, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Jiangxi Province and Ctrip Group held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony in Nanchang. The two sides will cooperate on the brand of rural homestays dominated by Ctrip vacation farms.

Xiaopeng Huitian’s "Land Aircraft Carrier" flying car won the first 100 orders for flying camp experience, station connection transportation, etc

According to Xiaopeng Huitian official account, during the 5th Zhejiang International Smart Transportation Industry Expo this morning, Jiaxing Nanhu District Road-Air Collaboration Stereoscopic Transportation Industry Research Institute (Nanhu Academy of Transportation Sciences) and Guangdong Huitian Aviation () Co., Ltd. (Xiaopeng Huitian) signed a reservation agreement, planning to book 100 "land aircraft carrier" flying cars, which are used for comprehensive management of transportation fields such as highways and waterways, as well as experience of flying camps, station connection transportation, etc.

The "report card" of new car manufacturing forces in November was released: XPeng Motors hit a new high in single-month delivery

According to First Finance, NIO: 15,959 new cars were delivered in November, an increase of 12.6% year-on-year; Li Auto: 41,030 new cars were delivered in November, an increase of 172.9% year-on-year; XPeng Motors: 200,041 new cars were delivered in November, an increase of 245% year-on-year; (): 20,318 Cyrus cars were sold in November, an increase of 145.92% year-on-year; GAC Aian: 41,567 units were sold in November, an increase of 45% year-on-year; Nezha Automobile: 12,506 units were delivered in November; (): 31,170 new energy vehicles were sold in November, an increase of 142.32% year-on-year; AITO series delivered 18,827 new cars in November; Geely Automobile: 13,104 cars were delivered in November, an increase of about 19% year-on-year. …

NIO delivered 15,959 vehicles in November, an increase of 12.6% year-on-year.

NIO announced on December 1 that 15,959 vehicles were delivered in November, an increase of 12.6% year-on-year and a decrease of 0.7% month-on-month; 142,026 vehicles were delivered from January to November, an increase of 33.1% year-on-year.

Xiaopeng Flying Car receives its first 100 orders

On December 1, Nanhu Academy of Transportation Sciences and Xiaopeng Huitian signed a reservation agreement, planning to book 100 "land aircraft carrier" flying cars for comprehensive management of transportation fields such as highways and waterways, as well as experience in flying camps, station connection and transportation. At the same time, Nanhu Academy of Transportation Sciences, Ningxia Transportation Department Traffic Law Enforcement Bureau and Xiaopeng Huitian jointly signed a pilot cooperation agreement on the pilot application of flying cars, which will take the lead in applying flying car demonstrations to transportation, culture, tourism and other fields. (Sina)

XPeng Motors: A total of 20,041 new cars were delivered in November, an increase of 245% year-on-year.

XPeng Motors announced that a total of 20041 new cars were delivered in November, an increase of 245% year-on-year. The delivery exceeded 20,000 units for two consecutive months, setting a new record for single-month delivery.

Li Auto: A total of 41,030 new cars were delivered in November, an increase of 172.9% year-on-year.

Li Auto announced that in November 2023, Li Auto delivered a total of 41,030 new cars, an increase of 172.9% year-on-year. As of November 30, 2023, Li Auto delivered a total of 325,677 vehicles throughout the year, reaching the target of 300,000 vehicles in 2023 ahead of schedule.

Alibaba Cloud: ChatApp messaging service product name will be changed

Alibaba Cloud released a notice on its official website saying that since January 2, 2024 Beijing time, the Chinese name of Alibaba Cloud ChatApp messaging service products has been changed from ChatApp messaging service to Chat App messaging service, and the English name has been changed from ChatApp Message Service to Chat App Message Service.

Alibaba Cloud ChatApp messaging service product name will be changed

Alibaba Cloud released a notice on its official website saying that from January 2, 2024 Beijing time, the Chinese name of Alibaba Cloud ChatApp messaging service products will be changed from ChatApp messaging service to Chat App messaging service, and the English name will be changed from ChatApp Message Service to Chat App Message Service. After the change, all related products will use the new name.

Baidu to Release "Qianfan AI Native Application Development Workbench"

() News, it is reported that Baidu will hold the 2023 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference and Smart Computing Conference on December 20, when an AI native application development product – "Qianfan AI Native Application Development Workbench" will be officially launched to help developers significantly lower the threshold for AI native application development and accelerate the implementation of enterprise AI native applications.

Zhihu Vocational Education Business National Headquarters Settles in Optics Valley

"China Optics Valley" WeChat official account news, on December 1, the () District Management Committee signed a contract with Zhihu, announcing that the national headquarters of Zhihu vocational education business was settled in Optics Valley. In addition to the national headquarters project of Zhihu vocational education business, in the first 11 months of this year, the contracted amount of Optics Valley industrial projects was 211.10 billion yuan, ranking first in Wuhan.

TSMC 3nm won an exclusive order from Qualcomm

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily quoted Taiwan media news, Samsung 3nm GAA process technology has been launched for more than a year, the wafer yield is still not ideal. Industry news pointed out that Qualcomm’s next-generation processor Snapdragon 8 Gen4, the cancellation of TSMC, Samsung dual foundry strategy, by TSMC exclusive OEM. Legal estimates, Qualcomm, Nvidia and other customers rushed to import, TSMC in the second half of next year 3nm family (including N3E) monthly production capacity is expected to rise to 100,000.

NetEase vertical model first landed in the medical clinical field, and jointly developed an AI EEG reading system with Peking Union Medical College Hospital

According to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the reporter learned from NetEase that recently, the NetEase vertical model landed in the medical clinical field for the first time. vEpiSpy, the world’s first multi-modal AI epileptiform discharge detection system jointly developed by NetEase Media and Peking Union Medical College Hospital, officially appeared at the 26th National Neurology Academic Conference, and launched clinical trials in many top tier 1 hospitals across the country, including Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, and Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University.

Tencent Music Entertainment Group: Shi Mechanics will resign as vice president and other related positions due to personal reasons

Tencent Music Entertainment Group announced that Shi Mechanics will resign as group vice president and other related positions due to personal reasons. The above adjustments will take effect on December 31, 2023.

Sina announces New Year’s Eve holiday

On December 1st, Sina Company released the Spring Festival holiday arrangement. According to the holiday arrangement, a total of 9 days will be closed from February 9th (Friday) to February 17th (Saturday) in 2024. Work will be held on February 4th (Sunday) and February 18th (Sunday). Among them, on February 9th (Friday) on New Year’s Eve, the company specially arranges a day of Sina New Year’s Eve holiday.

Autonavi Maps has reached a cooperation with Huawei to start the development of Hongmeng native applications

Huawei announced today that Autonavi Maps has reached a Hongmeng cooperation with Huawei, and Autonavi will officially launch Hongmeng native application development based on HarmonyOS NEXT, becoming the first partner in the navigation industry to launch Hongmeng native application development.

Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen 72 billion parameter model open source

On December 1st, Alibaba Cloud open-sourced Tongyi Qianwen 72 billion parameter model Qwen-72B. It is understood that the performance of this version of the model exceeds Llama 2-70B and most commercial closed-source models, which can be adapted to enterprise-level and scientific research-level high-performance applications. In addition, Tongyi Qianwen also open-sourced the 1.80 billion parameter model Qwen-1.8B and the audio large model Qwen-Audio to realize "full-scale, full-mode" open-source.

iQIYI’s VR company shutdown insider: CEO "standby", everyone prays for Gong Yu to no avail, new layoffs start

According to Sina Technology, iQIYI Adventure VR is launching a new round of layoffs, which will reduce the number of employees in the company to 40-50. According to people familiar with the matter, more than 60 people who have been laid off before have not yet received compensation and compensation for back wages. "At present, at least 50 employees have sent a’letter of help ‘to the leaders of the parent company iQIYI CEO Gong Yu, but they have not received a reply." In addition, Xiong Wen, the CEO of Adventure, has completely left. The temporary CEO Bai Peng plays the role of "fire captain", but suffers from "cash flow anxiety" and can only wait and see and retreat at any time.

"Tencent is losing its product capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit, and becoming an investment company…" These days, an article signed "Pan Chaos" and titled "Tencent has no dreams" has been very popular on the Internet. The article said that "this nearly 20-year-old company (referring to Tencent) is becoming utilitarian and short-sighted, and his strength is no longer product business, but investment in financial technology"; and analyzed some of Tencent’s less successful products and more successful investment cases in recent years, and came to the conclusion that "Tencent has no dreams".

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The criticism was directed at Tencent, one of China’s leading Internet companies, so after the article was published, it quickly spread across the Internet and the venture capital community. The story that followed was even more twists and turns: first there was a response from Tencent President Martin Lau, and then there was a response from Tencent CEO Pony Ma: "Look, it’s good to have criticism…" But when everyone was discussing whether Pony Ma’s response could explain the problem, Zhang Jun, Tencent’s public relations director, clarified that "Pony Ma’s response" was fake and was the result of PS (photo processing).

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Zhang Jun clarified in Moments that Ma Ma’s response was PS

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This clarification did not reduce the popularity of "Tencent has no dreams", because ordinary users who use WeChat and QQ to play "Honor of Kings" and "Jump" are still interested in exploring the answer to the question "Does Tencent have a dream". So, does Tencent have a dream?

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The industry applauds the open attitude

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Judging from the evaluation information of Tencent insiders, although they do not agree with the whole of "Tencent No Dream", they generally adopt an inclusive attitude. For example, the discussion between Lau Chiping and Zhang Jun on WeChat Moments shows that Lau Chiping believes that "Tencent is a bigger organization and ecosystem than the author imagined… [The article] simplifies Tencent into a product gain and loss, a strategic deployment, and a person’s will. It is too narrow… The title and conclusion are distorted because they are trying to catch the eye." But he also made it clear: "But there are still some unique insights that can be used as reference and supervision." Zhang Jun said: "We listen to the voices of the outside world, absorb them, and transform them into stronger action forces."

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Dialogue between Martin Lau and Zhang Jun at Moments

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Zhang Jun’s attitude towards "Tencent has no dreams"

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Industry observers also feel that "Tencent No Dreams", although flawed and the conclusion may be questionable, is a "work of conscience". Ma Qiji, former senior vice-president of Nielsen Internet Research and a research fellow at Peking University’s New Media Marketing and Communication Center, commented: "This is a good article [referring to’Tencent No Dreams’]. Although the argument method and logic are slightly flawed, it is still done with all its heart. It is essentially a commentary on Tencent’s strategic goals, path selection and organizational system, not’dream theory ‘." It’s just that he feels that "unless there is a very deep understanding, research, analysis and research on this kind of topic, it is difficult to have a real understanding and judgment of Tencent’s real behavioral starting point and consideration, let alone an effective and incisive discussion."

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Many Internet practitioners believe that "Tencent has no dreams" is heating up online, but Tencent’s various dissemination channels, including WeChat, QQ, etc., have not "blocked" this article, at least indicating that Tencent is a company willing to listen to different voices, and should be praised for this attitude.

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"The problem with many internet companies is that they are not open enough. Whether they are start-ups or industry leaders, they always think that they are standing on the high ground of innovation and are held in the palm of the hands of the crowd, so they cannot listen to criticism. Once someone criticizes, in addition to directly refuting or trying to’block ‘, sometimes they will use’water army’ to whitewash themselves. This approach should be praised for Tencent’s tolerant attitude. This also reminds other internet companies that they should have the heart to listen to different voices, and if there is no change, they should be encouraged, so as to make progress." Internet observer Tang Zhao said.

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From corporate dreams to connectivity tools

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As of press time, Tencent officials, including Pony Ma, have not made any further comments on "Tencent has no dream". However, the industry believes that from the recent layout of Tencent, it has actually responded with actions: launching "explosive" products or services is no longer its focus, and using Tencent’s existing resources and capabilities to connect all walks of life and achieve upgrades in all walks of life may be one of Tencent’s "dreams".

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At the recent Digital China Construction Summit, Pony Ma summarized what Tencent is and will be doing in four numbers in his speech: "One goal" is to be a good assistant. "We hope to do something and not do something – not to enter all walks of life and replace it; but to become a’digital assistant ‘in all walks of life." Three things "means that Tencent will focus on connecting, making tools and doing ecology." Five areas "refers to the scope of Tencent’s efforts, including people’s livelihood and government affairs, living consumption, production services, life and health, and ecological protection. Finally, there are the "seven tools" that Tencent provides to all walks of life: WeChat official account, WeChat Mini Program, mobile payment, social advertising, WeCom, big data cloud computing artificial intelligence, and Tencent’s security capabilities.

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Ma Qiji believes that even a big company like Tencent does not need to talk about "dreams": "Not every company has or needs a dream. The’Tencent dream ‘is a good but unrealistic wish, and it has been crooked from the beginning, so the discussion [of’Tencent has no dream’] has become trivial." He personally believes that "Tencent is a good leader by connecting and empowering, building the belief and imagination of the future, and establishing resource allocation and public input." He also added: "I personally like Tencent’s recent formulation of’technology for good ‘, so my dream is: Tencent can help everyone strive to get close to it (technology for good)!"

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How many people can the "connection tool" realize their dreams?

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In fact, the reason why there is the question or discussion of "Tencent has a dream" is not unrelated to the development of Tencent in recent years. From the perspective of specific products, since the launch of "popular" WeChat, Tencent is not without innovation, but many products that are popular in the market are closely linked to WeChat, including WeChat red envelopes, WeChat Pay, WeChat official account, WeChat Mini Program, but the outside world regards them all as "WeChat", rather than new achievements. At the same time, Tencent’s investment has been "fruitful", and the listing of invested companies such as ZhongAn Insurance, Sogou, China Literature, and Yixin Group has brought tens of billions of dollars to Tencent.

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In comparison, Tencent’s achievements as a tool to connect other industries seem less obvious; or even if the connection is successful and produces results, many people do not know that they are related to Tencent. However, a little review of some of Tencent’s recent "connection" achievements reveals a lot of surprises.

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For example, Tencent recently entered into a strategic partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to launch digital conservation efforts. In Shenzhen Bay, after a user’s mobile phone QQ scans the sculpture in front of them, several white dolphins will jump up from the "water" and swim around. It turns out that this is a "digital landmark" project explored by the two sides. In the future, when people walk, bike or sightseeing along the coast of Shenzhen Bay, they can pass by more similar magical sculptures or devices. Open the mobile phone QQ to "scan", and dolphins will play to their heart’s content, or birds will circle and pitch on the screen. More importantly, people can also learn about these beautiful creatures: "There are only about 2,000 Chinese white dolphins left in China, living in the Pearl River estuary; the black-faced spoonbill is a bird in Shenzhen, and the population is extremely rare; they are all state-level protected animals and the aborigines of Shenzhen Bay…" WWF related people believe that such "digital landmarks" not only belong to Shenzhen, but also belong to the world. Through the exploration with Tencent, more cities and regions can have their own "digital landmarks", allowing people to feel the wonder and beauty of nature more strongly, and arousing the public’s awareness of protecting the ocean and caring for endangered animals. This case may make many nature conservationists "dream come true".

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There is also the "digital classroom" created by WWF and Tencent, which may fulfill the dream of many ecological rangers. It turns out that there are more than 370,000 ecological rangers in China, who are the most basic guardians and main force of national parks, cruising day after day to eliminate fire pests and stop poaching. However, due to the dispersion of personnel and the lack of training teachers, how to better train these rangers has become a problem. The "digital classroom" will introduce WWF’s rich and high-quality content to provide online training courses for ecological rangers and other practitioners, including relevant laws and regulations, wildlife identification, wild survival knowledge, etc., so that they have more professional knowledge and skills, and have more safety when walking in the forest.

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In fact, after the spread of "Tencent No Dream" exceeded 1 million, Pan Chaos also sent a paragraph in his circle of friends: "Tencent has no dream, Tencent has achieved the dream of many people…" A Tencent grassroots employee sent reporters his thoughts after watching "Tencent No Dream": "Tencent will never be perfect, but fortunately it has been evolving – because there are many young people chasing dreams here, and it is also becoming the dream of young people."

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Pan’s Confession in Moments

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Perhaps it is more practical for more people to realize their dreams with the help of technology than whether a company has a dream.

1905 movie network news Recently, the fifth phase of the Jackie Chan Film Project A held a venture capital roadshow at the Jackie Chan Film and Television Media College of Wuhan Institute of Design and Engineering. This venture capital roadshow invited the fifth phase of the Plan A venture capital jury, teachers, directors, directors, shooting workshop instructors, directors, and others to attend the event.

Explore new forms of online cloud and set sail, Wuhan restarts venture capital roadshow

On November 16th, the opening ceremony and mentor class of the fifth phase of Jackie Chan Film Project A was held online. This instructor class focused on "virtual production" and brought immersive "virtual technology" teaching to the students. The instructors gave in-depth explanations on the practical experience of virtual technology, and discussed with the students how to balance the relationship between technology and art in the era of rapid technological development. They not only used the combination of new forms and new technologies to broaden the industry vision and expand thinking for young filmmakers, but also looked forward to the future of film through the teaching of digital technology.

On December 5, the fifth phase of Jackie Chan Film Project A’s venture capital meeting was successfully held at the academy. Tu Qing, director of the Wuhan Institute of Design and Engineering, mentioned, "The gathering of young filmmakers in Wuhan, the city of heroes, will also make this warm winter warmer."

In the project solicitation, the fifth phase of Jackie Chan Film Plan A received applications from more than 200 teams/individuals, with a total of more than 400 projects. After a rigorous review by the venture capital jury composed of Jia Zhijie, Tian Yusheng, and Yao Tingting, 8 groups of projects were finally selected to be shortlisted for the venture capital section of this Jackie Chan Film Plan A, namely "Love Before the World Collapses", "The Man Who Steals Fire", "The Strongest on the Surface", "Fire in a Urgent Situation", "Hunting Bureau", "Tiger in the Mountain" and "Hero".

During the venture capital session, the students showered their enthusiasm for the project, sharing and explaining their projects in multiple dimensions. The on-site guest judges also provided the most valuable experience from the market and drama level. The mentors and judges who were unable to come to the scene also provided professional advice to our young filmmakers through online comments.

Support young filmmakers, build dreams, and join forces online and offline

In order to deeply explore how young filmmakers can create excellent film projects, the industry mentors had a profound exchange and communication on the venture capital projects of young filmmakers. Not only did they give more suggestions on the creative path of young filmmakers in terms of story and play structure and genre, but they also analyzed the industry form from the perspective of the market and explored the future direction of film. The collision of ideas between mentors and students provides more guidance and possibilities for young filmmakers to create in the future. The collision is wonderful, the genre is diverse, but everyone’s purpose is the same – "everything has cracks, because that is where the light comes in" – and for young filmmakers, film is the light that illuminates the future.

No matter whether it is the judges of the project jury or the instructors of the "Short Film Shooting Workshop", they all mentioned that they have seen the innovation of young filmmakers in genres and plays in this shortlisted project. Not only are the themes more novel and the ideas more bold, but also the spiritual outlook is very promising.

At the end of the venture capital roadshow, Jackie Chan also came to the event and sent the most sincere encouragement and blessings to the young filmmakers. He mentioned: "Nowadays, the minds of young people are progressive, and some of their methods of shooting movies are beyond my imagination. I have also learned a lot from them."

The special project fund for film public welfare projects officially established by the Beijing Jackie Chan Charity Foundation Filmmakers Charity Special Project Fund in 2015 consists of two parts: "Young Filmmakers Project Support Program" and "New Filmmakers Training Program". It aims to provide limited support funds for small and medium-cost film production, provide professional training and film incubation for first-class top talents in the film industry, and care for reality through the power of film.

Since its launch in 2016, it has successfully carried out three special training camps with the themes of "Conducting Sino-US Film Exchanges", "Entering Film Special Effects Production", and "Exploring the Mysteries of Action Movies". In 2021, Chinese filmmakers will overcome the difficulties together and ride the wind and waves in the face of changes and challenges. The Jackie Chan Film Plan A also hopes to look forward to the bright future of young filmmakers through the fifth phase "The future has come, the unknown is known, and the unseen is seen", and build an exchange and learning platform for young filmmakers.

In the future, the Jackie Chan Film Plan A will continue to provide more opportunities and possibilities for young filmmakers, continuously injecting fresh blood and inexhaustible motivation into the industry, and helping the Chinese film industry to thrive.

Some people say that Musk is a real-life version of Iron Man, and some people say that he is a Silicon Valley madman. But no matter what you call it, it reflects his bold and crazy business initiatives. Electric supercars, commercial rockets, satellites, solar roofs and underground high-speed trains, and even he will regularly sell flamethrowers… Many things that you can only see in science fiction movies, Musk is attacking everywhere. Especially on April 22, the media reported that the seventh batch of 60 "Starlink" satellites was launched, and the Falcon 9 rocket that carried out the launch mission was the fifth reused "five-handed" rocket.

Don’t be afraid to take September alone, and now Geely is also in the cloud? After Geely built a car with full wings, Li Shufu, who is nearly 60 years old, also began to think about "flying".

On April 26, a "rocket chief engineer" recruitment information from Geely Holding Group’s Time and Space Dao Yu Technology Co., Ltd., attracted great attention from the outside world: the job requirements column showed that the overall work plan of the rocket was looking for.

In fact, Geely wants to fly is not a recent thing.

"A car is just a few sofas and four wheels." This was Li Shufu’s "definition" of a car product twenty years ago. Perhaps in his opinion, a flying car should be able to take off with a pair of wings.

Geely acquired the world’s first flying car company, Terrafugia, in 2017. The company’s product is called Transition. From the perspective of appearance alone, it is more appropriate to call it a small folding-wing aircraft. According to official data, the power combination of the car (or the aircraft?) is a gas-electric hybrid system, which can take two people and can fly at a speed of 322 kilometers per hour in the air. The maximum flight altitude is about 3.048 kilometers, and the maximum endurance in the air can reach 800 kilometers.

However, it is now the end of April 2020, and the outside world has not seen any news of the mass production of this flying car. For this "science fiction" product, it may have been commonplace to skip the ticket. Even if the "flying car" does not arrive on time, Geely still wants to fly higher.

In this regard, Geely’s idea is to deploy low-orbit satellites to provide high-precision positioning services for high-level intelligent driving, in order to comprehensively enhance the user’s intelligent travel experience.

Of course, as people who eat melons, we don’t know if Geely’s satellites can successfully go to the sky within the year. However, from flying cars 3 kilometers in the sky to low-orbit satellites 200 to 2000 kilometers, in the popular words of the moment – Geely and Li Shufu’s goal is the sea of stars. Maybe in the future we will see Geely use its own "heavy rocket" to send its Geely sports car to the sky like Tesla.

If building a car can be highly summarized as "putting wheels on a sofa," then whether building rockets and satellites is to install rocket boosters on communication devices and send them to the sky? It’s definitely not that simple.

First of all, in terms of investment, the two are not on the same level at all.

Regarding the cost of building a car, relevant auto industry observers told Understanding Notes: "For general car companies, not counting those products that use the old platform to counterfeit products of other models, the cost of developing a new model is completely positive, which is about a few hundred million to one billion yuan. In addition, this cost will reduce the marginal cost with the increase of mass production of later models and the increase of" brother "models of the same platform."

Hundreds of millions to billions of yuan, which is already astronomical in the eyes of ordinary people, but when it comes to building rockets and launching satellites, it should not be enough.

According to Musk, "Starlink" will consist of at least 12,000 small satellites.

The technical prowess and billions of dollars spent to send such a large number of satellites into space are behind it. Because SpaceX is still not a publicly traded company, its financial data is not known to the outside world. But according to the company’s early estimates, the cost of building and launching satellites could be as high as $10 billion. From now on, the overall investment may only be much more.

The huge investment required behind "Heaven" is not unclear to Li Shufu, a veteran of the car industry. Under such circumstances, the reason why Geely still chooses the road of "Flying Heaven" is also very simple: the construction of the future intelligent travel network will not simply stay in the construction of the road network. In the highly integrated intelligent space, Geely’s low-orbit satellites will play a very important role.

In this regard, relevant auto industry observers told Understanding Notes: "First of all, Geely is doing this in the context of policies that are encouraging private capital to develop and launch commercial satellites; secondly, as Geely officials said – to a large extent, it is to prepare for high-level intelligent driving in the future." The person analyzed that mature autonomous driving requires the deep integration of high-precision navigation and high-speed communication networks, and the integration of communication is the development trend of the entire industry. "Geely has not only been tossing in the field of car manufacturing, but building an intelligent transportation ecosystem based on vehicle production is its ultimate appeal, so it needs to improve its own layout in the travel industry chain."

According to the "2018-2022 China Commercial Aerospace Industry Deep Research and Investment Prospect Forecast Report" released by CIC Consulting, the global aerospace industry is growing rapidly at a rate of 6% to 7% every year, and the size of our country’s aerospace market will reach 800 billion yuan in 2020.

Policy support, rapid market growth, strategic layout needs, from the perspective of strategic choice, Geely’s plan is logical. However, the wish is perfect if it can be realized, and the process of realizing the wish is "painful", especially at the current stage when Geely’s main business is under pressure.

We have heard the word cold winter in the car market countless times in the past year. Now affected by the pandemic, the market still sees no signs of recovery. In this situation, all car companies are under pressure, and Geely, a leading domestic car company, is also not feeling well.

According to the 2019 financial report released by Geely Automobile Holdings Co., Ltd., Geely Automobile sold 1.3616 million vehicles (including Lynk & Co) last year, and 1.5008 million vehicles in 2018, down 9% year-on-year; total revenue in 2019 was 97.71 billion yuan, down 8.6% year-on-year, and net profit was 8.19 billion yuan, down 35% year-on-year.

In addition, in the field of new energy vehicles, which has received the most attention, although Geely has been very aggressive, it has not achieved the expected effect. As early as 2018, when the "Blue Geely Action" was released, Li Shufu said, "By 2020, more than 90% of Geely cars will be new energy vehicles."

"Geely is indeed very determined to turn to new energy, but from the perspective of product strength, Geely’s new energy series is obviously not the best (but not bad), and the reason why it does not perform better in the field of new energy than domestic competitors such as BYD and BAIC is that Geely has to take into account its own basic market." A senior industry insider told Zhonghe Notes that although new energy vehicles are very popular, in recent years the market is still dominated by fuel vehicles, "so at least for now, fuel vehicles are still Geely’s guarantee, so it will not be as aggressive as BYD and BAIC."

The current downturn in the domestic auto market is due to the fact that the entire auto market is caught in the dilemma of slowing demand, but this also highlights that, despite being a leading domestic car brand, Geely is still unable to escape the impact of the industry cycle in the competition in the stock market.

No one can anticipate when the recovery of the car market will occur. Investing heavily in "heaven" under such circumstances is definitely a pressure for Geely. Regarding Geely’s choice, relevant auto industry observers pointed out: "To achieve the integration of communication and navigation, it is definitely not enough to be close to two satellites. The entire intelligent travel network needs at least dozens of satellites to basically cover, which will be a long process."

Geely seems to be thinking further than BAIC and BYD to take a step ahead of its competitors. But at the same time, it is also very clear that selling cars is its basic game. As for the rocket chief and "God", Geely can’t be in a hurry.

　　The Supreme Court held a press conference not long ago to inform the court of the relevant situation of safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of consumers in accordance with the law, and announced 10 typical cases of consumer rights protection, 3 of which were about online shopping. At a time when online shopping is increasingly developed and online shopping disputes are also increasing, it is of great benefit to consumers to understand the Supreme Court’s judgments on typical cases of online shopping and rights protection.

　　Wang Xin v. Xiaomi

　　[Case]

　　On April 8, 2014, the advertisement published by Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Xiaomi) on its official website showed: 10400mAh mobile power supply, special price of 49 yuan for "Rice Noodles Festival". On the same day, Wang Xin ordered the following two mobile power supplies on the website: Xiaomi Metal Mobile Power 10400mAh silver 69 yuan, Xiaomi Mobile Power 5200mAh silver 39 yuan. After Wang Xin submitted the order, he paid 108 yuan to Xiaomi Company through Alipay on the same day. On the 12th of the same month, Wang Xin received the above two mobile power supplies. Afterwards, Wang Xin sued the People’s Court of Haidian District, Beijing on the grounds that Xiaomi had committed price fraud, requesting the cancellation of the online shopping contract. Wang Xin returned two sets of mobile power supplies involved in the case to Xiaomi, and requested Xiaomi to: 1. Compensation for Wang Xin 500 yuan; 2. Refund of Wang Xin’s purchase price of 108 yuan; 3. Pay Wang Xin’s courier fee of 15 yuan; 4. Compensation for Wang Xin’s transportation, printing, and copying fees of 100 yuan.

　　[Judgment]

　　The court of first instance held that the online shopping contract involved in the case was valid, that Xiaomi’s actions did not constitute fraud, and that Wang Xin’s claim was insufficiently substantiated, so the judgment rejected his claim.

　　Wang Xin refused to accept it and appealed to the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court, claiming that Xiaomi had advertised the original price of 69 yuan for the power supply "Rice Noodle Festival" to sell for 49 yuan a week in advance, deceiving consumers to queue up to buy. The advertisement was still there on the day of sale, but the goods were sold for 69 yuan, which constituted price fraud. The 2nd-round Moderation Court held that Wang Xin’s intention to snap up on the day of the "Rice Noodle Festival" because he agreed with Xiaomi’s advertising price of 49 yuan should be 49 yuan. However, from the order details on Xiaomi’s website, it can be seen that Wang Xin placed an order at 14:30 on April 8, 2014, and the price of the 10400mAh mobile power supply in the order was 69 yuan instead of 49 yuan. Xiaomi now acknowledges that there is an error in the display of the activity interface of Xiaomi Mall, and there is an inconsistency between the advertised price and the actual settlement price, but it interprets it as an error in the computer background system. Since Xiaomi did not make a statement to consumers on the Internet about the error in its background after the fact, and it has no evidence to prove that the computer background failed on the day of the "Rice Noodles Festival", the 2nd-round Moderation court found that Xiaomi had the intention to defraud consumers, and Wang Xin’s request for cancellation of the contract was reasonable due to the fraud of the 10400mAh mobile power supply. For the other power supply, both parties agreed to terminate the contract, and the 2nd-round Moderation court granted it. Therefore, the court ruled that Wang Xin should return the above two mobile power supplies to Xiaomi Company according to law, and Xiaomi Company should compensate Wang Xin 500 yuan, refund Wang Xin 108 yuan for the goods, and reject Wang Xin’s other claims.

　　[Comment]

　　If the seller sells goods online with price fraud and induces consumers to buy the goods, even if the quality of the goods is qualified, the consumer has the right to request the seller to "refund one to three" and guarantee compensation.

　　Li Xiaodong v. Jiuxian.com

　　[Case]

　　On August 9, 2012, Li Xiaodong bought 6 bottles of Baijiu sold by Jiuxian.com e-commerce joint stock company (hereinafter referred to as Jiuxian.com) on Taobao. The online product page described it as [Baijiu China Famous Brand 52 Degrees Wuliangye (1618) 500ml Special Price], and the transaction price was 8349 yuan. After the transaction was completed, Li Xiaodong checked the above webpage and found that the Baijiu purchased in Jiuxian.com’s Taobao store won the bidding of the product "special price and original price" equal, so he reported it to the Beijing Price Reporting Center. Afterwards, Li Xiaodong and Jiuxian Company reached a "Understanding Agreement", agreeing that the two parties would complete the return and refund procedures within 5 days after the signing of the agreement. Jiuxian Company compensated Li Xiaodong 8,394 yuan, and if one party breached the contract, it would bear 20% of the total amount of liquidated damages. Because Jiuxian Company failed to fulfill the agreement, Li Xiaodong sued to the People’s Court of Binhai County, Jiangsu Province, requesting Jiuxian Company to compensate 8,394 yuan and bear liquidated damages of 1678.8 yuan.

　　[Judgment]

　　The court under suit held that business operators should follow the principles of voluntary, equal, fair, and good faith when conducting transactions with consumers. In the course of transactions, business operators should provide consumers with true information about the goods and must not make false propaganda. In the course of online transactions in this case, Jiuxian Company misled consumers by selling special goods online. Its behavior constituted fraud and should bear legal responsibility according to law. Li Xiaodong reached an understanding agreement with Jiuxian Company in the process of claiming compensation. Because Jiuxian Company failed to perform its obligations in accordance with the agreement, its behavior constituted a breach of contract and should bear the liability for breach of contract. Therefore, Li Xiaodong’s lawsuit request for Jiuxian Company to perform its compensation obligations in accordance with the agreement complies with the law and should be supported according to law. The court ordered Jiuxian Company to pay Li Xiaodong 8,394 yuan in compensation and 1678.8 yuan in liquidated damages, totaling 10,072.8 yuan. Jiuxian Company did not appeal.

　　[Comment]

　　As a seller, there is fraud in the process of using other people’s networks to sell goods. If the seller reaches a compensation agreement with the consumer after the transaction and fails to fulfill it, the consumer has the right to request the seller to bear compensation liability in accordance with the agreement.

　　Yang Bo v. Express Company

　　[Case]

　　On March 19, 2013, Yang Bo purchased a computer worth 15,123 yuan from Fu Yingchun’s electronic business department in the form of online shopping. After placing the order, the payment and postage of 95 yuan have been paid to Yingchun. On the same day, Fu Yingchun entrusted Wulateqianqi Branch of Bayannaoer Hezhong Yuantong Express Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the courier company) to deliver the goods. The goods arrived at the delivery place on the 24th of the same month and were falsely claimed by others. To this end, Yang Bo repeatedly asked Fu Yingchun to deliver the goods unsuccessfully, and then sued the People’s Court of Wulateqianqi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, requesting that the courier company and Fu Yingchun compensate 15,123 yuan for the computer payment and 95 yuan for the postage.

　　[Judgment]

　　The court held that Yang Bo purchased goods from Fu Yingchun in the form of online shopping, and paid the payment and postage to Fu Yingchun. Fu Yingchun, as the shipper, entrusted the courier company to deliver the goods to Yang Bo, forming the online shopping contract relationship and the transportation contract relationship respectively. From the perspective of the respective rights and obligations of the parties, in the online shopping contract, Yang Bo has paid the payment and postage through online banking, fulfilled the consumer’s payment obligation, and Fu Yingchun, as the seller, has the obligation to deliver the goods to Yang Bo according to the contract. Although Fu Yingchun has handed over the goods to the courier company for shipment, during the transportation process, the courier company’s staff handed over the goods to others for receipt without verifying the identity information of the other party during delivery. The seller Fu Yingchun has not completed the delivery obligation of the goods, which constitutes a breach of contract. Therefore, Yang Bo’s request for Fu Yingchun to compensate 15,123 yuan for the paid computer payment and 95 yuan for the postage should be supported. According to the principle of relativity of the contract, the contract only binds the parties to the contract. The courier company mistakenly handed over the goods to others, which belongs to the transportation relationship between Fu Yingchun and the courier company. The courier company should not be liable for compensation in this case, so Yang Bo’s request that the courier company should be liable for compensation is not supported. The court ordered Yingchun to compensate Yang Bo 15,123 yuan for the computer payment and 95 yuan for the postage. None of the parties appealed.

　　[Comment]

　　If the consumer claims that the seller and the deliveryman share the liability for compensation for the goods purchased online by others during the delivery process, the seller shall be liable for compensation according to the principle of relativity of the contract.

　　Everyone can create their own map! Autonavi recently launched a new feature of DIY map, which allows users to mark multiple locations, customize self-driving travel routes, and support multiple people to build and share with friends. DIY map is a re-interpretation of Autonavi’s new brand value proposition "Autonavi map, familiar everywhere", which further meets the personalized map needs of sub-groups and specific scenes.

　　Focusing on map services for 19 years, Autonavi has now built a map covering the national road network information and a large number of POI points of interest. But in many scenarios, what people need may not be a standardized map, but some specific places that carry their interests, work needs or precious memories. For example, honeymoon trips, self-driving tours, motorcycle runs, photography spots that can produce photos, drone release points, driver toilet maps, takeaway rider food delivery maps, etc.

　　"Using Autonavi’s proven mapping technology capabilities to provide a tool that allows everyone to easily mark places or routes and create a unique map, that’s what we designed DIY maps for," said Autonavi’s head of mapping related products.

　　Now, users can use the latest version of Autonavi map and click on the "Messages" tab below to see the "My DIY Map" entrance. Click "Mark Location" to add any location in the map, and you can also fill in personalized names, descriptions, pictures and mark colors. Users who like self-driving tours click "Make Directions", and they can easily customize the tour route according to the guidance. After submitting, this information will be visually presented in the DIY map.

　　"Before, every time I organized a self-driving car, I was very tired. I always had to explain the route to friends who had never been there, and the communication cost was very high. Now that I have the Autonavi DIY map, I will send the planned route to the group in advance. Friends can directly see the route itinerary, route points, scenery photos and other information, which is very convenient."

　　Mr. Pang is a delivery stationmaster of a takeaway platform, and he has encountered some difficulties in managing new riders. "In the early days of the station, new riders always encounter the problem of not being able to find the building number, and many times they get bad reviews because of this. Later, I learned that you can use the Autonavi DIY map to mark the uncommon building number, so I took the rider to make a delivery map near Wangjing. There is a building number, and it will also mark the entrance and exit of the community and the repair point. Now our newcomers are no longer afraid of being unable to find a place for food delivery!"

　　Maps and location are one of the most frequently used internet services. With the popularization and deepening of digital life, people’s needs continue to expand. To this end, Autonavi Maps has continued to strengthen product technology innovation in recent years. It is the first company in the world to launch lane-level navigation services on mobile phones. It is the only company that supports both AR driving navigation and AR walking navigation. It has innovatively launched traffic live and DIY maps, which continue to enhance the professionalism of map services and the breadth of people covered.

1905 movie network news "Listen to me, buy it!"

　

Hu Ge and Lei Jiayin, the lead actors of He, were guests in the live stream of Internet celebrities to promote the movie and sell tickets.

Rejiasound sumTang WeiBring "The Whistleblower" to interact with netizens live

　

"The Wild Goose Lake" sold as many as 255,000 movie tickets online, courtesy of "Lipstick One" Li Jiaqi.

The Wild Goose Lake crew sells tickets online

In addition to the online roadshow mode of live streaming and selling movie tickets, these two new films are also "the same family" in terms of creation.

　

Needless to say, the stories are all crime themes, and Xiao Dianjun also saw a deeper doorway between them.

After the debut of "The Wild Goose Lake" in Cannes in May this year, many foreign media gave high praise:

　

"This is a vibrant, poetic and unique Chinese film noir"; "Classic film noirs like’You Only Live Once ‘and’Escape at Night’ can’t help but come to mind"; "Suddenly it feels like China is the best place in the world for film noir"…

　

After its domestic release, many viewers, like foreign media, also used a word – "film noir" when evaluating it. And "The Whistleblower" also has a vague "film noir" flavor.

　Douban netizens evaluation

What exactly is "film noir"? Is it black and white? Black humor? Or is the whole story very "dark"?

　

In fact, "film noir" that took root in Hollywood is growing savagely on the Chinese mainland, combining with various different genres to form a new look. How to say it? Xiao Dianjun will popularize it for everyone.

What is "film noir"?　

The term "film noir" was coined by the French in 1946, and French critics noticed a worldwide concentration of films with similar styles and patterns beginning in the early 1940s.

　

These films are often adapted from detective novels, and most of them depict dangerous crime stories in cities, full of gloom, anxiety, despair, horror, and a sense of compassion and destiny.

"Daybreak."andThe Maltese Falcon

　

The French say that Marcel Carney’s "Daybreak" was the first film noir, while Hollywood considers "The Maltese Falcon" to be their first film.

　

But in any case, the well-known emergence of film noir has created a dynamic and explosive golden age in the history of Hollywood cinema.

　

Similarly, in the field of European film, there have also been a series of film noir masterpieces such as this one.

Classic film noir The Third Man

　

So why are these movies called film noir?

　

The screenwriter Paul Schrader has listed seven common features of film noir for everyone, which are also their common techniques:

　

Most of the scenes are set by night.

(Photographic composition) preferring diagonal and vertical lines to horizontal lines;

Provide equal lighting intensity for actors and sets.

The tension of the composition takes precedence over the physical movements of the actors.

An almost Freudian attachment to water;

A preference for romantic narratives.

Frequently use complex chronological sequences to enhance feelings of hopelessness and the passage of time.

　

So much so that, in short, the first five are about visual style, while the last two focus on narrative characteristics.

The shot in "Beauty"

　

Film noir is first and foremost a very intense and highly stylized visual system.

　

In layman’s terms, most of the scenes take place in the city’s empty streets at night or secret meeting places such as stations and docks, and are often accompanied by special weather such as rain and fog.

　

The protagonist often hides in dark shadows, usually strengthening one side of his face with side light, while the other side is always obscured by the shadows of doors, windows, pillars, railings, and other objects.

　

The shooting angle is often tilted and unbalanced, creating a sense of mystery and alluding to the protagonist’s sense of both good and evil and his inner unease.

The year of birth.

　

Before "The Wild Goose Lake", there were a few domestic films that used these iconic visual elements of film noir, including director Xie Fei’s "Birthday Year", Zhang Yibai’s, Ning Hao’s, and Diao Yinan’s.

Director Diao Yinan has always insisted on transplanting Western noir films to China. Although he currently has only four directorial works, the visual temperament of noir films is stronger than ever.

In "Fireworks by Day", the northeastern towns are under continuous rain and snow, and the streets are dim, with contrasting lighting, forming a very cold and oppressive atmosphere.

The Wild Goose Lake is the culmination of his film noir style.

　

It is understood that the film has a total of 106 scenes, 71 of which are night scenes, accounting for 80% of the entire film.

　

During the humid rainy season in Wuhan, Zhou Zenong, played by Hu Ge, ran from the station to the narrow alley and fled all the way, flashing with rain.

Movies also use shadows to make a big fuss.

The camera will take pictures of the body reflections of Hu Ge and Gui Lunmei on the wall.

From time to time, their faces would be obscured by shadows, flickering.

When they were in the showroom, the multi-faceted mirrors seemed to be inspired by film noir.

Hu Ge and Gui Lunmei around the mirror

"Miss Shanghai" classic scene

According to these visual standards, "The Wild Goose Lake" can really be called the first typical film noir style in the Chinese mainland.

Can’t live without "femme fatale"!

　

If there were no "femme fatale", it would not be a film noir.

　

The female protagonists in the film noir are both beautiful and intelligent, but also as active and strong as men. They are mysterious and always fascinate the male protagonist and follow them around.

　

They will quietly emerge from the shadows in gorgeous evening gowns, revealing their thighs; they will carry out secret operations with guns and cigarette packs. Their faces and guns are enough to "kill".

Classic film noir"Beyond the Vortex"

　

Simply put, they are "scheming" people.

　

If you are not familiar with the film noir of the last century, you must have seen this scene of Rebecca Ferguson there. This is also a film full of retro vibes of film noir.

Mission Impossible 5

　

The women in film noir are usually at the heart of a conspiracy.

　

They only care about themselves and will obtain money and benefits through improper means, often at the cost of death or submission.

　

The male protagonists are mostly tough detectives or policemen, and they will have some obsessive-compulsive disorder. Under the temptation of "femme fatale", they are deeply involved in an unsolvable case, fighting for one thing to the end, and may not understand what happened until the end.

"Chinatown."

　

Film scholar Jan D’Amico once summarized the emotional relationship and plot development of the male and female protagonists in film noir:

　

"Whether a man is destined to act by chance, or because he is employed by a man to deal with a woman, their life experiences fill them with blood and pain at times. When he meets this woman who is not innocent and has the same outlook on life, he is sexually attracted to her, and he is doomed…"

　

So, aren’t "The Wild Goose Lake" and "The Whistleblower" just like that?

　

The characters and fates of the male and female protagonists all conform to the above-mentioned film noir narrative routines, which are simply the same.

Zhou Zenong’s wild and vicissitudes of life, and his taciturn chivalrous temperament is like coming from Melville’s film noir. In the film, he is destined to have only one cause or ultimate purpose – to leave a bounty to his wife while fleeing.

　

But in the process, he meets Liu Aiai, the "swimming girl" played by Gui Lunmei. Liu Aiai is both his helper, attracting him, and "betraying" him, which brings him to the end.

"Femme Fatale" is also often the target of male investigators in film noir, becoming the key to solving crimes. This is the relationship between Liao Fan and Gui Lunmei in the film.

In "The Whistleblower", Lei Jiayin plays Ma Ke, who was originally a winner with a successful career and a happy family. When he met his ex-girlfriend Tang Wei, he began to get confused and suffer a bad luck.

Tang Wei brought him from Australia to Africa, causing him not only to be hunted down by killers, but also to face the situation of his wife being separated.

Even though she was so confused that she didn’t know the truth of the case, Lei Jiayin still followed her to the end of the world like a "big silly boy".

On the way, Tang Wei ruthlessly betrayed Lei Jiayin for his life-saving money, and the "selfishness" of "femme fatale" was on full display.

　

Although "The Whistleblower" is unlike "The Wild Goose Lake", it does not have any shadow of film noir in terms of screen styling, but the overall characterization and plot mode are written in full accordance with the template of film noir.

The two male protagonists played by Hu Ge and Lei Jiayin also have something in common. They both have the moral ambiguity of male characters in film noir, but they have a sense of justice.

Zhou Zenong is the small leader of the theft gang, and Ma Ke is the "scum" who cheated on his ex, but in the end, they all became "heroes" in a sense:

　

Zhou Zenong goes to great lengths for the happiness of his wife in the second half of her life and pays for love; Ma Ke bravely reports the trade conspiracy and corruption of overseas companies, becoming an unsung hero who saves a city.

　

"Film noir" is growing savagely in the mainland

　

Film noir was born during World War II and the Cold War, a time when the American dream was falling apart and society was rife with insecurity.

　

After that, from "Chinatown" to the emergence of new film noir, it has given more new connotations and new styles, but the essence remains the same.

Neon color

　

When film noir arrived in China from the Western world, many changes took place.

　

From "Fireworks in the Day" to "The Wild Goose Lake", especially the latter, there are a large number of street scenes, squares, archways, motorcycles that are unique to China…. The neon lights of the city at night are combined with the special scenery on the edge of China’s urban and rural areas to form a unique and beautiful heterotopian world, full of charm.

Traditional film noir often has a "misogynistic" stance, and the image of "femme fatale" is very rigid and symbolic, but in "Southern Station" and "The Whistleblower", both Gui Lunmei and Tang Wei have atypical female images of film noir.

Guilun magnesium has a tan, freckles on her face, and her body is completely shriveled and weak.

Tang Wei’s overall style is simple and capable, and most of the time it is not sexy on the screen. Only when he meets Lei Jiayin for the first time and escapes for the first time, it shows a bit of beauty.

　

In addition to their appearance, these female characters are also brighter and warmer. They all complete their self-redemption by reversing at the end of the credits.

The visual and narrative elements of film noir are also gradually merging with domestic genre films to create new forms.

　

In "Southern Railway Station," Hu Ge’s characters and action scenes are designed along the lines of martial arts films, and the larger narrative theme of "The Whistleblower" is the mainstream melody with Chinese characteristics.

"Crazy Stone"

　

Ning Hao’s "Crazy" series introduces black texture into local humorous comedies, and also pays more attention to the little people at the bottom; Guan Hu uses absurd fables to express black themes; Cao Baoping creates a black suspense spirit in the context of social reality.

"The Sun Is Burning Heart"　

"I have always been interested in the changing human nature of film noir," said Mr. Diao, who believes that film noir allows directors to think about society and humanity, and that China’s development has provided a natural soil for the creation of film noir.

　

Using the mode of film noir, we can produce works that are both interesting and expressed by the author. This genre is also broadening the development space for domestic art films.

There is a cloud made of rain in the wind.

　

"Fireworks in the Day" earned over 100 million at the box office that year, breaking the curse of the dismal box office of the literary film theater chain and becoming the highest-grossing literary film at that time. With the help of film noir and a cast of stars, Lou Ye successively shot "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind" and entered the public eye.

The Lyceum.

　

As the aesthetics of domestic audiences become more diverse, the overall market and film industry become more mature, and film noir also provides a stage for new directors to enter the commercial mainstream.

"Violent Silence" is everywhere. Among them, the story of "Earth" is a typological framework of the detective and the "femme fatale" falling in love, which Bi Gan also described as a romantic "black fairy tale".

No matter what the outcome of this film is, it is precisely because the story of film noir is inherently commercial, and with the help of the late "New Year’s Eve" marketing promotion, it can quickly ferment at that time and directly attract the general public to the cinema.

"The Last Night on Earth"

　

Film noir stimulates the imagination of film and creates infinite possibilities. It is both genre and art; both commercial and author; both mainstream and independent, which can open up the "two veins" of film creation.

　

As Shen Qian, the producer of "The Wild Goose Lake", observed and judged: film noir may be the trend of Chinese film in the next few years, not only because of the industry ecology, but also because this type of film happens to be an effective bridge between the author’s expression and the market.

　　A few days ago, Guangxi University of Foreign Languages issued the "Notice on Not Allowing Disposable Tableware and Lunch Boxes to Enter the Campus", which caused a heated discussion on the Internet. The notice said that starting from November this year, in order to strengthen the food safety management of students, the school will ban takeaway, disposable lunch boxes and plastic bags from entering the dormitory.

　　As soon as the notice was released, it immediately triggered a heated discussion on the Internet, and there were many different voices on campus. Some students believed that the school cafeteria had problems such as crowded space and long waiting time for meals, which could not meet normal dining needs. Prohibiting takeout and packing boxes into the dormitory would bring inconvenience to study and life. Some students said that everyone was used to ordering takeout, and it was difficult for the school to control it.

　　The school said in a statement released later that the move was mainly due to considerations such as environmental protection, food safety and school teaching order. The food safety of takeaway food is not under the supervision of the school, and some food that does not meet the hygiene standards flows into the school with takeaway food, posing a threat to the health of students. At the same time, small vendors carry takeaway food in and out of the campus at any time, which not only affects the teaching order of the school, but also is not conducive to the establishment of a good school ethos.

　　It is understood that in recent years, campus food delivery has developed rapidly, and various conveniences and preferential conditions have attracted a large number of students. At the same time, there are also many hidden dangers in the delivery of food into the campus. School administrators are very troubled by the news that students have food poisoning after eating food delivery and the theft of food delivery staff.

　　In fact, before Guangxi Institute of Foreign Languages issued the notice, some institutions such as Jiangxi Nanchang Institute of Technology had already issued relevant regulations on the management of takeaway food, and everyone had mixed opinions on this move. How to standardize the management of takeaway food into the campus and balance the interests of all parties still needs to be explored.

　　■ Collision

　　Blindly prohibiting will be more "blocking"

　　I have been ordering takeout for lunch and dinner since I was an undergraduate. At that time, the takeout industry was highly competitive and there were many discounts, which could satisfy our demand for delicious food at lower prices. Now suddenly banning takeout from campus is "adding to the blockage" of students. What’s more, as long as the convenience that takeout brings to students still exists, it is difficult to ban it. If it is violently stopped, the merchant may continue to operate in a covert way, so the potential hidden dangers are still difficult to eliminate, but it increases the difficulty of management.

　　2017 graduate student of Guangxi University of Arts, Wang Hengyu

　　Campus ban on takeout is legally binding

　　From a legal point of view, universities and some private communities have the right to establish some rules and regulations to prohibit outsiders and food from entering their management scope, which does not restrict the freedom of students and residents. Especially when it comes to food safety, environmental protection and other matters related to personal and property safety, relevant schools and communities have the right to take necessary measures to protect them. Schools have the responsibility to ensure the safety of their personal and property for students in school. If they agree to food safety items entering the campus, and students have accidents on campus, then the school will be legally responsible for certain mismanagement. Therefore, there is a certain reason why the school does not allow takeaway into the campus.

　　Pang Caiyou, Director of Beijing Shangheng (Nanning) Law Firm

　　The takeout chaos should have been controlled long ago

　　As a parent, I support the school’s regulation of takeaway food. Parents are worried not only about safety, but also about the health of their children. Many takeaway foods are not guaranteed to be healthy even if they are safe. Due to cost considerations, the quality of the ingredients selected by some merchants cannot be guaranteed, which will affect physical health. Moreover, children’s studies are not so stressful that they don’t have time to eat. Most of them want to be lazy. From a certain perspective, takeaway helps children develop bad habits. The takeaway chaos should have been controlled long ago!

　　Ms. Wang, Parent of University of Science and Technology of China Class of 2017

　　The school should not ban it

　　I have seen a lot of "complain" about college cafeterias on the Internet, and I have experienced it myself, such as the food is unpalatable, expensive, and unhygienic. In my opinion, it is inappropriate and unacceptable for schools to adopt a "one-size-fits-all" management method to ban takeout from entering campuses. If schools really start from the perspective of students, solving the campus safety problems caused by takeout should start from two aspects: improving the quality of cafeterias and standardizing the management of takeout personnel entering campuses.

　　Wang Jian, a citizen of Changsha, Hunan

　　Campus ban on takeout is understandable

　　From the perspective of campus management, it is understandable to ban takeout and packaging boxes from entering the campus. Some institutions have formulated this regulation to strengthen food safety management. At the same time, from the perspective of campus-wide environmental hygiene management, it is necessary to ban takeout. Schools, as the responsible person for the safety of students’ lives and property, are responsible for the personal safety of students during school. It is understandable to take measures to eliminate hidden dangers before finding more effective management methods.

　　Tian Yuan, Associate Professor, School of Business, Guangxi University

Beijing Central Broadcasting Network reported on September 17 that if revenue performance and conversion rate are the superstructure of a catering enterprise, then the catering supply chain is the foundation for the development of a catering enterprise.

In recent years, restaurant chain has become the mainstream trend of the development of the catering industry. Correspondingly, the catering supply chain enterprises have also undergone profound changes, and are changing from a single, traditional to a comprehensive and intelligent direction.

While a number of catering supply chain enterprises have risen rapidly, major catering enterprises have also begun to strengthen their supply chain construction and seek new development breakthroughs.

(Picture provided by the enterprise, issued by the Central Broadcasting Network)

JD.com Catering partners with Maxim to deeply empower the development of the catering supply chain

It is reported that on September 14, JD.com Catering and Maxim signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The relevant person in charge of Maxim said that this signing is a milestone for both parties.

As one of the largest catering groups, Maxim’s has been in the industry for 65 years. So far, it has expanded nearly 80 catering brands and operated more than 1,800 high-quality baking and catering stores in China and South East Asia. To support such a huge catering group, it needs a strong supply chain to back it up. To this end, Maxim is actively building its own supply chain system while also seeking a better third-party cooperation platform.

Meixin and JD.com Catering signed a strategic cooperation agreement (photo provided by the enterprise, issued by China Central Broadcasting Network)

In this cooperation with JD.com Catering, Meixin can rely on the JD.com Catering platform to create integrated supply chain solutions from food supply, warehousing and logistics to procurement digital operation management, and explore a better supply chain development model for the catering industry.

JD.com Catering, as the catering business of JD.com Retail Group, has been committed to providing customized services and one-stop supply chain solutions for large and medium-sized brand catering, social group meals, hotels, canteens of enterprises and institutions, and other channels.

The cooperation with Meixin is also of great significance for JD.com Catering to enhance its brand effect, and also serves as a model for its subsequent undertaking of more national chains.

One is a well-known catering group, and the other is the leading digital catering supply chain platform. Their combination will surely bring long-term positive development to the catering industry.

With so many supply chain platforms, why did Meixin choose JD.com Catering?

According to the "2021 China Catering Supply Chain Research Report", in recent years, both listed and non-listed companies have been actively financing their supply chain layout, improving operational efficiency and optimizing industrial processes.

For medium and large chain catering brands, with the increase of volume and influence, the requirements for raw materials are getting higher and higher. At this time, whoever has a strong supply chain is likely to be invincible. However, building a supply chain by yourself is not an easy task. In addition to requiring huge capital investment, how to get through the warehousing, logistics and other links of the supply chain is also a major problem.

Therefore, due to factors such as cost reduction and quality improvement, most medium and large chain restaurants will choose to cooperate with mature supply chain enterprises in order to focus more time and energy on enterprise operation management and Product Research & Development.

(Picture provided by the enterprise, issued by the Central Broadcasting Network)

The person in charge of Meixin said that the reason why Meixin chose to cooperate with JD.com Catering is that in addition to JD.com Catering’s high reputation and recognition in the catering industry, the most important point is that JD.com Catering can not only help Meixin solve operational pain points through the digital catering supply chain, but also meet its personalized needs and provide a one-stop supply chain solution in line with its development.

1. Logistics

Zhang Haizhen, head of Maxim’s supply chain in China, said, "Maxim’s 14 food and beverage brands in the Chinese mainland, with nearly 260 stores in 15 cities across the country, and nearly 5,000 SKUs in operation, such a business layout in the existing supply chain system is a very big challenge."

JD.com Catering can use its own advantages to meet the logistics needs of all Maxim’s supply chains in one stop, helping it optimize inventory management, reduce operating costs, and efficiently allocate internal resources.

Logistics and warehousing of JD.com catering (picture provided by the enterprise, issued by China Central Broadcasting Network)

It is understood that JD.com Catering and JD.com Group Cold Chain Logistics pioneered the "Catering Business Self-operated Cold Chain B2B Warehouse Distribution System", set up 7 warehouses in 7 regions, and passed the "BRCGSS & D Global Standard System Certification", covering 24 third-tier cities across the country, which can meet the requirements of JD.com Retail Group’s self-operated cold chain 2B business.

2. Raw materials

For large catering companies like Maxim’s, its multi-brand operation covers a wide range of catering categories, involving a wide variety of ingredients and seasonings of different origins and qualities. This leads to large differences in the procurement prices of raw materials in different regions, and the dispersion of origins has caused difficulties in integration. In addition, the long chain chain of the industrial chain requires multi-level sales, and there may be problems such as distribution loss and insufficient weight in the traditional procurement process, which virtually increases the production cost and operating cost of the enterprise.

In addition, it is impossible to accurately grasp the freshness of the ingredients and the stability of the supply.

YAKINIKULIKE first store in Chinese mainland (picture provided by the company, issued by CCTV)

With JD.com Catering, Meixin can provide the underlying basic capability guarantee for Meixin’s core procurement link to improve efficiency through JD.com Group’s million-level commodity pool and other underlying capabilities, and can further optimize user experience and build a precise reach system.

In addition, in terms of food safety traceability, JD.com Catering will record the important data of each link in the whole life cycle of food from raw material procurement to user’s table throughout the process. Through the Internet of Things and blockchain technology, a scientific and technological mutual trust mechanism is established to ensure the immutability and privacy protection of data, which can realize the whole process of traceability and escort the whole circulation process of goods.

3. Finance

The catering industry with heavy asset operation has never been an easy business to do. Expenditures such as raw materials, labor, rent and promotion and marketing are all pain points faced by catering people. In the past two years, due to the impact of the pandemic, many catering companies have generally faced pressure such as declining revenue and reduced gross profit. Some catering companies ultimately regretted exiting the market due to a break in cash flow.

As a full stack professional catering supply chain platform, JD.com Catering can provide customers with financial services for a variety of account period solutions, including credit purchase, account period management and other modules, which can meet the business needs of catering enterprises for unified payment of multiple stores, and provide customers with the convenient experience of "advanced goods, post-payment" to assist catering enterprises in solving problems such as financial constraints in the process of rapid growth of stores.

JD.com Catering’s powerful back-end (picture provided by the enterprise, sent by China Central Broadcasting Network)

Step 4 Retailability

The "2020 China Catering Brand Power White Paper" proposes that retailing is the "second curve" of catering brands. Many leading catering brands are involved in the retail field, and the future catering sales channels are no longer limited to offline catering stores; the combination of online and offline models, standardized and retail catering product sales is the general trend.

Under the trend, as a 65-year-old established catering group, Meixin needs to actively embrace the retail field, reshape the catering model with new retail thinking, and transform products or ingredients into retail forms to enter the market based on brand precipitation and own traffic. Through the blessing of online channels, users can achieve secondary value transformation and brand cross-channel extension, fully and directly reach a large number of consumers, and provide online sales channels with the opportunity to convert huge sales traffic. This is also the most important point of Meixin.

Next, through the collaboration with JD.com Catering, Maxim will gain more solutions in the areas of retailing and integrated marketing.

Digging deeper into the supply chain, JD.com Catering offers more possibilities for the development of catering enterprises

From the current situation of the development of chain catering, compared with foreign countries, the chain catering industry in our country is still in the preliminary stage, the concept of social division of labor of medium and large chain catering enterprises is weak, and large-scale professional catering supply chain service enterprises are very scarce.

It is precisely because of the huge prospects and market gaps in the catering supply chain market that JD.com Catering has taken the lead in entering the blue ocean market of the catering supply chain with its keen business sense.

As the most leading catering digital supply chain, JD.com Catering has been committed to helping catering enterprises achieve standardization and large-scale development, providing one-stop full-care supply chain solutions for national catering brands. In the list of catering enterprises served by JD.com Catering, you can see many well-known catering brands, such as Local Qi, Fengmao Grilled Skewers, Will Taiwuji, Xihe Catering, etc.

Local gas (picture provided by the enterprise, issued by China Central Broadcasting Network)

JD.com food and beverage industry upstream integration of all categories of high-quality supplier resources and origin rough processing capacity, sales finishing capacity, to achieve customer classification, product grading, and open up the food and beverage industry from origin to table full link. Standardization of non-standard products in the food and beverage industry, traceability of operating data, financial process compliance, and use of digital capabilities to solve industry pain points. Use JD.com Group’s financial and supply chain advantages to reduce costs and increase efficiency for the industry. Promote the retail development of food and beverage, and create economies of scale for industry customers.

In addition to serving chain catering brands, JD.com Catering is also expanding its business scope, such as scenic catering, hotel catering, self-operated catering stores, and group catering businesses.

The group meal catering business of JD.com Catering (picture provided by the enterprise, issued by China Central Broadcasting Network)

It is understood that currently JD.com Catering has reached in-depth cooperation with nearly 200 catering stores across the country, many of which are high-quality large enterprises at home and abroad. In terms of project cooperation, it has made great efforts to create excellent typical cases in many industries.

For example, in March 2021, JD.com Catering cooperated with well-known chain catering brands in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and within half a year of cooperation, from preparation for operation, trial operation to formal operation to today’s in-depth cooperation, the monthly supply amount was nearly 10 million yuan, running through the one-stop full-trust supply chain operation model.

In terms of the group meal supply chain, JD.com Catering connects with many group meal operators such as Kuaikeli and Xinyouhao, and has opened up multiple links such as systems, platforms, and finance.

When it comes to future goals and plans, Ma Jun, head of JD.com Catering, said that in the future, JD.com Catering will join hands with more ecological partners to create a new model of targeted supply chain for different scenarios, and provide one-stop supply solutions to create greater value for the transformation and upgrading of catering enterprises.

(Note: The pictures in this article are all provided by the enterprise, author: Xiaoyun)

　　Li Laijin is on his way to deliver takeout.

　　This summer, the number of takeaway orders in Beijing at night has increased by 60% compared with last year. According to data, Changping Huojiaying and Fengtai Minute Temple ranked first and second in the ranking of the most active business districts at night. In addition, in Yanqing District and Huairou District, the number of late-night barbecue orders increased by more than 4 times year-on-year. Behind the surge in the number of orders is every "on-time delivery" of the takeaway brothers. From 9:00 pm to 12:00 pm is the peak period of night takeaway orders. They shuttle through the streets and alleys, adding "dynamic beauty" to the night Beijing.

　　Delivery riders haunt at night "with additional subsidies and no one grabs orders"

　　"Ding Ding", at 10:59 pm, Li Laijin, who was born in 1996, received a new order.

　　From the "7-11" convenience store on Xierqi West Road to the "Contemporary City Home" community about 1.2 kilometers away, the system recommends that riders be delivered within 28 minutes.

　　"Hello sir, sorry for the long wait." After 20 minutes, Li Laijin completed the delivery, which was 8 minutes faster than the time suggested by the system. He just pressed the button to confirm "delivery completed", and the "ding ding" sounded, and the new order came again. Between 9:00 and 12:00 that night, Li Laijin sent out a total of 6 orders.

　　According to data from a takeaway platform, the number of late-night takeout riders born in the 1990s has increased by more than 60% compared with last year. Li Laijin is one of them. The site where Li Laijin works is located in Zhongguancun Software Park. During the day, orders are mostly concentrated in Internet companies, and most of the night orders come from residential areas near Huilongguan.

　　Gu Xiaofang, a 32-year-old female rider at the Wangjing shopping district, also likes to work at night. Gu Xiaofang’s site is divided into three groups. Her group has more than 30 people, and there are six or seven people who work night shifts every day.

　　"There are subsidies, there are few riders, and no one grabs orders at night." This is the main reason why Li Laijin and Gu Xiaofang like to work at night. According to Li Laijin, at the software park distribution station, the courier earns 10 yuan for delivering an order during the day, and there is a subsidy of 2 yuan for each order at night. At Wangjing Station, where Gu Xiaofang is located, in addition to the subsidy for each order, he can get an additional 20 yuan per night. In Gu Xiaofang’s view, the evening is the third time with higher income after the two dining peaks at noon and evening.

　　Mr. Jia, a 31-year-old father of two, runs more night shifts than other riders at the station. "If you run a dozen or so, you can earn 20 yuan more," Mr. Jia said. "I take the initiative to work the night shift until 12 o’clock every day."

　　According to reports, this year, Jia Shaoke has completed a total of 7,923 orders, with an average of 34 orders per day. The rider level has reached Gold 1, and the next promotion level is the most advanced king.

　　Order remarks are varied "Delivery of takeout and handwritten sweet words"

　　Many people like to write notes when ordering. Statistics from a takeaway platform show that from the beginning of 2019 to August 5, among late-night orders between 9 pm and 5 am, riders received more than 560,000 notes asking to buy cigarettes on their behalf. The request to throw garbage on their behalf ranked second, with 9,397; the third order note was somewhat unexpected, asking riders to "draw a picture". In addition, the number of messages asking riders to play games, dance, and tell jokes followed closely, with 4,595, 966, and 722, respectively.

　　Among the orders received by Li Laijin and Gu Xiaofang, buying cigarettes and snacks on behalf of others is the most common. Li Laijin said that he once visited five convenience stores to help customers buy "Yoyo Mei". He also added WeChat with customers to determine the brand type through video communication.

　　What impressed Li Laijin the most was that he once copied more than 100 words of "sweet words" for a customer and sent it with the takeaway. As for the customer’s note request, Gu Xiaofang said, "The company does not have a clear rule that must be met, but we can help with everything we can, and it is easy to do."

　　There is no shortcut to more work and more "I want to be the webmaster of the takeaway station in the future"

　　When it comes to the difficulty of delivering food, it has to be said that traveling in bad weather, about which the riders "love and hate".

　　Delivered in bad weather at night, an order can earn about 13 yuan, which is 30% higher than the usual day. And when it comes to windy and rainy weather, takeaway orders also increase.

　　Li Laijin recalled that there was a drizzle that night on August 20, and he delivered 11 orders within two and a half hours, nearly double the number of orders from the previous day.

　　After the early morning, the order interval was relatively long, and the riders began to gather together to chat. Whether the new number of kilometers ran broke the record, and whoever rose to a new high on the rider’s single king list could make them chat in full swing.

　　Due to the long-term exposure to the sun, Li Laijin’s skin was dark, in sharp contrast to his original skin tone. "The wind and the sun are a little old, but I’m still young." Li Laijin quipped.

　　Li Laijin became a delivery rider two years ago. In his opinion, this industry is more work and more money. You can earn as much money as you run as many orders, and there are no other shortcuts. "You can get as much as you do in this industry." He likes this. "As long as I have orders, I can work harder and harder, and I am not afraid to stay up late." Li Laijin said he will continue to work in this industry. "I want to be a delivery station manager in the future."

　　As soon as Li Laijin finished speaking, a "ding ding ding" prompted him: "You have a new takeaway order, please deal with it in time". Then, he quickly got on the electric car and drove into the night. Text/This reporter, Zhu Jianyong, trainee reporter, Han Qian, intern, Zhang Yujie, Zhu Yadi

　　Photography/Our reporter, Zhu Jianyong, coordinator/Sun Huili