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Li Keqiang walked 5 kilometers to the epicenter and accidentally slipped and washed his hands with muddy water.

  Li Keqiang walked 5 kilometers to the epicenter.

  On the morning of the 4th, Li Keqiang, on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and on behalf of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, flew to Ludian disaster area in Yunnan to inspect the disaster situation and direct the earthquake relief work on the spot. He stressed that it is necessary to take scientific and effective measures to step up rescue and strive to minimize disaster losses. Those who wear military uniforms and those who wear white coats go into the disaster area together.

  Air conference

  Tell the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to bring enough maritime satellites to the front

  As soon as he got on the plane, Li Keqiang held an emergency meeting to listen to the reports from the State Seismological Bureau, the Ministry of Transport, the Health and Family Planning Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Public Security and other departments, as well as the heads of the People’s Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force, to learn more about the disaster situation, casualties and rescue progress, and to deploy disaster relief work.

  Li Keqiang stressed that it is necessary to put saving people in the first place, seize the post-disaster gold rescue time, strive to enter the village within 48 hours, and seize everything possible to minimize casualties; It is necessary to give full play to the cooperative role of local cadres, the people’s police and the army, and never give up lightly until the last moment.

  Li Keqiang made seven arrangements after listening to reports from relevant parties:

  First, seize every favorable opportunity to save people; second, strictly guard against secondary disasters; third, strengthen rescue efforts; fourth, do a good job in resettling the victims; fifth, adhere to unified command, be scientific and orderly; sixth, make preparations for resuming production; and seventh, start to resume reconstruction.

  "Let the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology bring enough maritime satellite equipment and go to the front immediately." "Inform Yibin and prepare to receive the seriously wounded." Li Keqiang intervened from time to time when listening to the disaster report on the plane, and immediately made a decision on urgent matters, and one disaster relief decision was issued one after another. At the end of the meeting, he told everyone to make good use of the on-board telephone and pay close attention to contact with the ground.

  inspect the natural calamity

  Li Keqiang accidentally slipped and washed his hands with muddy water.

  At 11 o’clock yesterday morning, Li Keqiang and his party arrived at Zhaotong Airport, Yunnan Province, and then arrived at Longtoushan Town by bus. Seeing that the road into the epicenter was being rushed through, Li Keqiang immediately got off the bus, braved the high temperature, and walked more than 5 kilometers along a potholed path to Longquan Village, the most severely affected area in the epicenter, to inspect the disaster situation on the spot and direct the earthquake relief work.

  Due to the heavy rain, the path was slippery and muddy, and many places were also damaged. Li Keqiang waded into the village. On the way, he accidentally slipped and washed his hands with muddy water. After that, he still visited the village on foot for more than three hours.

  From time to time, he stopped to talk to the people affected by the roadside and asked if his family was injured and had a place to live. He said that you have suffered and suffered, and the party and the government will certainly help you solve your difficulties.

  While inspecting the rescue situation on the ruins, several soldiers carried the newly rescued wounded out. Li Keqiang gave way voluntarily and raised his arm to escort the team away. During the inspection, Li Keqiang met many teams to rescue the wounded, and he took the initiative to greet his entourage to make way to ensure the smooth progress of the rescue. He said to the officers and men who were nervously searching and rescue, I’m coming to visit you, but don’t stop what you are doing. Every minute is extremely precious now. I hope everyone will seize the golden rescue time and not give up any glimmer of hope. Li Keqiang said that to minimize the loss, saving one more life can make one more happy family, which is also a comfort to the society.

  It is said that the shortage of materials requires the organization of airdrops.

  Many houses that have not yet collapsed on the roadside have cracks. Li Keqiang told local cadres that aftershocks are still happening, so we should not just look at whether the house is in good condition, but go in and carefully check whether it is safe. We are stepping up the deployment of tents. We must search from house to house at night, and do everything possible to evacuate the people in the dangerous house, so as not to let a mass spend the night in the dangerous house and avoid new casualties.

  Some local cadres said that due to the interruption of roads, there is a shortage of food and relief materials. Li Keqiang immediately asked the relevant departments to organize air drops of food and epidemic prevention articles to ensure that people have food and clean water to drink.

  Temporary resettlement sites for the affected people have been set up in the open area of the river valley. Li Keqiang went into the tent and told everyone that if you stay green, you are not afraid of not burning wood. The party and the government will help everyone rebuild a stronger and better home.

  Li Keqiang came to the temporary medical point in the playground of the town middle school, asked about the supply of medicines, and told the medical staff to treat every wounded person carefully to minimize the mortality and disability rate. Seeing the shortage of disinfectant, Li Keqiang requested to dispatch epidemic prevention materials quickly, pay close attention to comprehensive prevention and control of the epidemic situation, and ensure that there was no major epidemic after the disaster.

  Tent meeting

  Suggest that the participants stand in silence for the victims.

  Yesterday afternoon, after seeing the disaster relief situation on the spot, Li Keqiang hosted a disaster relief meeting in the tent of the middle school playground in Longtoushan Town. Li Keqiang listened to a brief report and suggested that all the people at the scene stand up in silence for the compatriots killed in the earthquake.

  At the meeting, Li Keqiang praised the leaders of Ludian County three times for daring to speak out to him about the difficulties of water shortage, food shortage and tent shortage in disaster relief. Li Keqiang said, in the face of sudden disasters, who can be perfect? We are here to solve the problem, that is, to listen to the truth.

  Li Keqiang emphasized that the first is that rescue should be scientific, difficult things will become feasible, and never give up easily. As long as there is hope, we must do our best to rescue them; The second is to pay close attention to the treatment of the wounded, and coordinate medical experts from all over the country to minimize death and disability; The third is to ensure that the affected people have food and clean water to drink, and at the same time to curb the outbreak; The fourth is to pay close attention to resettling the masses and try to make all the masses have safe homes tonight; The fifth is to pay close attention to maintenance and repair to find all necessary life channels, including roads, electricity, water and communication, etc. The sixth is to prevent the occurrence of secondary geological disasters, distribute emergency food immediately, and organize the masses to help themselves in production. This newspaper comprehensively reported by Xinhua News Agency and CCTV.

(Source: Beijing Youth Daily)

Join forces to fight the "epidemic"! In some districts of Guangzhou, the second round of "Fire Eye" laboratory for all-round nucleic acid detection was carried out to help fight the epidemic.

CCTV News:Pay attention to the news of epidemic prevention and control, focusing on Guangzhou. Yesterday (June 6) morning, Guangzhou held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control. Chen Bin, deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Health and Wellness Committee, introduced that the whole staff’s nucleic acid testing has covered 11 districts in Guangzhou. Since the start of the nucleic acid investigation on May 26th, as of 24: 00 on June 5th, 16,088,100 nucleic acid samples have been collected in Guangzhou, and 33 people have been found to be positive.

National monomer laboratory with the highest daily flux for nucleic acid detection was established.

The monomer laboratory with the highest daily throughput for nucleic acid detection in China was built in Guangzhou on June 5th and put into use yesterday (6th).

The laboratory is composed of 15 gas film cabins, equipped with Qualcomm automatic virus nucleic acid extractor and other equipment. After it is put into operation, it will be tested in shifts around the clock, so as to further enhance the nucleic acid detection ability in Guangzhou.

Du Yutao, Commander-in-Chief of Guangzhou Fire Eye Laboratory:We made an emergency survey of the site on the evening of June 4th, and completed the construction in 10 hours.

The detection capacity of this newly-built laboratory is 150,000 single-tube daily flux. If the 10-1 mixed sampling technology is adopted, the highest detection capacity of nucleic acid samples can be 1.5 million people per day. At the same time, it has the characteristics of high volume compression ratio, folding and disassembling, flexible site selection, rapid transportation and rapid layout.

Full-time nucleic acid detection combined with epidemic situation

At present, the second round of all-staff nucleic acid testing has been carried out in some districts of Guangzhou, and volunteers, community workers and medical staff can be seen fighting side by side at every nucleic acid testing point.

In Tianhe South Street, the staff also provided on-site service for residents who could not be present for nucleic acid sampling.

Luo Shidong, member of the Party Working Committee of Tianhe South Sub-district Office:Especially for the elderly who are inconvenient to move and stay in bed for a long time, after we collected their situation, a group of medical staff specially came to collect them.

Baiyun District of Guangzhou opened a green passage for the elderly and children, and also sent a special car to pick up and drop off the elderly with mobility difficulties.

Guangzhou has been adjusted from a low-risk area to a medium-risk area.

The Medical Prevention and Control Team of COVID-19 Prevention and Control Command Office in Guangzhou released a message yesterday. Since June 6, No.398 Huifu West Road, Xianhu Community, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Zhonghai Oak Garden (H1 to H4 buildings), Xiaoyang Street (No.20 and 22) in Changgang Street and Shadizhi Street (No.21 and 23) in Binjiang Street have been adjusted from low-risk areas to medium-risk areas. The risk levels in other regions remain unchanged.As of 12: 00 yesterday, there were 2 high-risk areas and 8 medium-risk areas in Guangzhou.

Leaving the ear and leaving the province requires a negative nucleic acid certificate within 48 hours.

Yesterday morning, Guangzhou COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters issued a notice: personnel travel management will be strictly enforced, and personnel in medium and high-risk areas and closed areas will stay indoors, and personnel in closed areas will only be unable to enter or leave;If the general public does not have to leave the ear or go out of the province, they must have a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours from 12 o’clock today.Traffic stations such as roads, railways, civil aviation, ports and docks should strengthen the guidance of people flow, avoid people gathering, and carefully check passenger information; All kinds of public transportation, taxis, and network cars should strictly implement prevention and control measures such as wearing masks, ventilation and disinfection, and do a good job of personal protection for staff; All kinds of public transportation should implement the prevention and control requirements such as temperature detection, bright code travel, and no red and yellow code passengers.

A new confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in Longgang District.

A newly confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported yesterday in Longgang District, Shenzhen. It was a close contact of Case 1 of the "May 21" epidemic. It was included in the centralized isolation health observation on May 21, and was released from isolation on June 2 and transferred to home health monitoring for 7 days. It belongs to an imported related case. So far, one confirmed case (common type) and 15 asymptomatic infected people have been found in the "5.21" epidemic in Shenzhen.

Zhanjiang, Guangdong: Wuchuan reported a case of asymptomatic infection in Covid-19.

The Office of novel coronavirus Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters in Wuchuan City, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province reported yesterday that there was a case of asymptomatic novel coronavirus infection in Wuchuan City. The infected person Rong Moumou returned to Wuchuan City from Guangzhou at 2: 57 on May 31. At present, he has no symptoms such as cough, fever and sore throat, and is being treated in isolation in the designated hospital of Zhanjiang City. The COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control Command of Wuchuan City has launched an emergency plan overnight. At present, the close contacts and sub-close contacts have been included in the centralized isolation medical observation, and various disposal work such as tracing the source, environmental disinfection, nucleic acid screening and investigation and control of key populations in key areas are being carried out in an orderly manner.

It is a famous medicine in Lingnan, and is known as "Southern Astragalus", which has the functions of invigorating qi, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness.

  Medicinal materials can be divided into north and south.

  Wushu is known as "southern boxing and northern leg", which is talked about by everyone.

  The characters in the martial arts novels are "Beggars in the South and Beggars in the North", and everyone is familiar with them.

  There are "Southern Tunes and Northern Tunes" in traditional Chinese operas, each with its own strong points and deep mass base.

  The classical story "orange in the south and bitter orange in the north" tells the implication that the same species has mutated due to different environmental conditions.

  Idioms include travelling from the south to the north, fighting in the north, and opposing each other …

  China has a vast territory, the climate difference between north and south is remarkable, and the species are very different. In the eyes of doctors, the use of drugs in the north and the south is different, so there are many names in the world of herbs to show the difference. For example:

  1. Schisandra chinensis and Schisandra chinensis

  2. Radix Glehniae and Radix Glehniae

  3. South Lepidium, North Lepidium

  4. Radix Astragali and Radix Astragali

  It is worth noting that although there is a word difference between the North and the South, there are many differences in source and efficacy, which need to be specifically analyzed to ensure the correct use of drugs in clinic and the safety of patients.

  As we all know, Astragalus membranaceus is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in clinic, which has the functions of invigorating qi and rising yang, consolidating exterior and stopping sweating, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling, and is known as the "holy medicine for invigorating qi". In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen called it "the strength of tonic medicine".

  Astragalus membranaceus is listed in the list of homologous substances of medicine and food, and it is one of the representatives of "dual use of medicine and food".

  Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Astragalus has the function of "consolidating exterior". Generally speaking, it can increase the body’s protective function and reduce the chance of getting sick. Astragalus tea (30g of Astragalus, brewed with boiling water instead of tea) has become the standard of health care for office workers. Drinking this tea often can improve immunity, and soaking Astragalus and Lycium barbarum in a thermos cup can be described as a health care fashion. Astragalus medicinal diet soup (Astragalus carp soup, Astragalus chicken soup, Astragalus jujube ribs soup, etc.) has been shining on the table of ordinary people, delicious and healthy.

  "Southern Astragalus" is not Astragalus.

  Some friends think that Astragalus membranaceus is different from Astragalus membranaceus, which is really a misunderstanding. Astragalus membranaceus is the dried root of Leguminosae Astragalus mongolicus or Astragalus membranaceus, which is also called Beiqi because it is abundant in northern China.

  The herb known as "Southern Astragalus" is not Astragalus, so where did it come from?

  In fact, Nanqi refers to the five-fingered peach commonly used by Lingnan people. Because it has similar qi-invigorating function to Astragalus membranaceus, it is widely used in Lingnan, so it is known as "Southern Astragalus membranaceus".

  Five-finger peach "as its name suggests"

  The five-fingered peach tree is about one meter to two meters high. The whole plant has short yellow-brown hair and milk. Its leaves usually have five lobes, like a palm with five fingers open; Its fruit is oval and hairy, which is quite similar to peach. The leaves are like five fingers, and the fruit is like a peach. The name of the five-finger peach is vivid and unforgettable. It can be described as "just like its name"!

  Edible method

  1. Chicken soup with five fingers and peaches

  Finger-fingered peach root is often used to cook chicken soup, which is a Hakka medicinal soup and a famous Guangdong soup with good color and flavor. In the hot summer, the temperature and humidity in Lingnan area are always high, which makes people tired and lose appetite. Folk commonly use five-finger peach soup. This soup has a unique aromatic smell, which helps people to strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, eliminate dampness and promote qi circulation. Regular consumption of this medicated diet soup can enhance human immune function.

  Every summer, students tend to think too much when preparing for the senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination. Chinese medicine believes that "thinking hurts the spleen", people’s emotions will affect the five internal organs, and thinking will affect the spleen and stomach. In addition, the spleen is trapped by summer heat, and internal and external factors are intertwined, which makes people’s appetite worse. Careful parents will boil Wuzhi Maotao soup to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness for children, which will help the exam.

  2. Pork feet with five fingers and peaches

  Wash the five-finger peaches with clear water and soak them for a while; Chop the pig’s feet into pieces, put them into a clay pot, add about 8 bowls of water, and cook them with slow fire for about 1 hour after boiling with strong fire, and add appropriate seasoning to serve. This soup has the function of promoting lactation after delivery.

  3. Five Finger Peach Chicken

  Five-finger peaches are used as spices, and appropriate amount is added when making salted chicken, or five-finger peaches are stuffed into chicken belly, so that the baked chicken has the fragrance of five-finger peaches, which is delicious and healthy. Also popular with diners are five-fingered peach chicken feet. With the accelerated pace of life, young people have rarely made five-fingered peaches and chicken feet at home.

  In the streets and alleys of Meizhou, Heyuan and other Hakka areas, there are many food stores with salted chicken and braised chicken feet. People buy bulk five-fingered peach chicken and chicken feet in the stores to eat at home, or let the stores vacuum package them as special products to give to friends.

  Knowledge of five-finger peach medicinal materials

  Peach with five fingers is the dry root of Ficus crassifolia, a Moraceae plant, and it is a commonly used medicinal material in Lingnan, and there are many records in materia medica. It was first recorded in the Qing Dynasty’s "Preparation of Raw Herbs", and it was named Wuzhaolong. The book "Lingnan Herb Collection Record" written in the Republic of China records: five-claw dragon, alias five-dragon root, dragon leaf. Other aliases are Nanqi, Tuhuangqi (Guangzhou Handbook of Common Chinese Herbal Medicine) and Tuwujia (Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine).

  chemical composition

  In order to find out what chemical components are contained in the five-finger peach, phytochemical researchers pulverized it in the laboratory, extracted it with water and alcohol, separated and purified it, and analyzed it with modern scientific instruments, and found that the five-finger peach contains flavonoids (quercetin, naringin, luteolin, apigenin, etc.), sugars, amino acids and other components.

  Modern pharmacological research

  1. Enhance immunity.

  Modern pharmacological experiments show that Ficus hirsuta can improve the immunity of experimental mice by participating in the immune regulation of cells.

  2. Cough relieving effect

  The ethanol extract and water extract of Syzygium pentaphyllum were given to mice by gavage, which had antitussive effect on cough.

  3. Bacteriostasis

  Adding the components of Ficus hirta to the bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus cultured in the laboratory has a good antibacterial effect.

  4. Liver protection

  Five-finger peach has protective effect on stress liver injury. It has a certain protective effect to give the extract of Ficus hirta to mice with alcoholic liver injury by gavage.

  Quality control and related preparations

  In order to standardize the quality of medicinal materials, Guangdong and Guangxi have formulated the medicinal standards of five-fingered peaches, which are recorded in the Standards of Chinese Medicinal Materials in Guangdong Province and the Quality Standards of Zhuang Medicine in Guangxi respectively.

  In addition to being directly taken into decoction, Wuzhimao is also used to produce a variety of compound Chinese patent medicines, such as Compound Chuanbei Zhike Syrup, Weiyangning Pill, Sanwei Zhike Tablet, Gongyanping Tablet/Capsule/Dropping Pill, Fuyanjing Capsule, etc. In the pharmaceutical factory, before being put into production as raw material medicine, Ficus hirta must be inspected and meet the quality standards before it can be put into production.

  Drug application

  1. Treat postpartum agalactia

  Stewed pork feet with five fingers and peach can treat postpartum agalactia. (Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine)

  2. Warming the heart and spleen

  Professor Deng Tietao, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, likes to use five-fingered peaches, and the dosage is large. Warm and tonify the yang of the heart and spleen, like to use sweet and warm five-fingered peaches and astragalus, and the amount of qi deficiency is more than 45 g. (Deng Tietao’s Experience in Treating Dilated Cardiomyopathy with Heart Failure by Regulating Spleen and Protecting Heart)

  3. Treat liver cirrhosis after hepatitis B.

  Jiawei Wuzhimaotao Decoction consists of Wuzhimaotao, Herba Abnormalis, Herba Rabdosiae Cirrhosae, Radix Dioscoreae Septemlobae, Herba Ardisiae Japonicae, Poria, Alismatis Rhizoma, Folium Rosae Rugosae, Jasminum Jasminum Thunb, and Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata, and can be used for treating liver cirrhosis after hepatitis B.. (Modified Wuzhimaotao Decoction for Treating 40 Cases of Liver Cirrhosis after Hepatitis B)

  Tips

  Through Baidu, it is not difficult to find that poisoning incidents related to five-finger peaches have occurred from time to time in recent years, which needs to be paid attention to.

  Mixed growth of Herba Clerodendranthi and Prunus mume may spread the virus. Many years ago, after the villagers in Wuhua County were poisoned by drinking Wuzhimaotao soup, the relevant departments tested the Wuzhimao soup and found that the roots of these Wuzhimao peaches actually contained enterotoxin. The analysis shows that Syzygium pentaphyllum grows in the mountains, and may be mixed with Herba Lysimachiae. Over time, the toxin of Herba Lysimachiae will naturally seep into the roots of Syzygium pentaphyllum. If you only eat a small amount, you will not be poisoned. If the dose is too large, you may be poisoned.

  The appearance of the roots of Herba Clerodendranthi is similar to that of the five-finger peach roots, and the flowers of Herba Clerodendranthi are also similar to honeysuckle. Don’t dig blindly. It is recommended to buy medicinal materials in regular pharmacies.

This article is from China Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Interview with Li yuming, director of hometown stranger: if you choose your feelings, the commercialization of the film will definitely be lost?

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Journal No.3260 on September 1, 2022

In recent years, Chinese art films have shined brilliantly in international film festivals. The film "Hometown Alien" won the amazing FIRST film in the 15th FIRST Youth Film Exhibition, the film specially mentioned by the jury in the 12th Beijing International Film Festival, the best screenwriter in the 8th Chongqing Youth Film Festival, and the special mention of the new honor of the year in the 16th Chinese Youth Film Week, and was selected into the 26th Capri Hollywood International Film Festival and the 6th New era Youth Film Season-New Force Film Project.

(At the premiere of the 15th FIRST Youth Film Exhibition)

Art film is of great significance for developing film art innovation and frontier exploration, and improving audience appreciation level. Here, the first producer talked to Li Songming, the director of Hometown Stranger, and felt the charm of art films.

Fantasy journey of love and growth, ingenious reconstruction of illusion and reality

The chairman of the jury of Beijing International Film Festival commented on "Hometown Stranger" in this way: the film uses a rare gaze to make the spectacular scenery of Guizhou’s deep mountains and rivers become the fulcrum of the whole film. Man’s existence is like a stone and a tree in nature, which gives birth to interest. Comparing with the claustrophobic space of urban life, it causes people to think philosophically about existence and memory.

(The 12th Beijing International Film Festival pays attention to the future unit award ceremony)

As the first feature film, the film Hometown Alien is based on the personal experience of screenwriter and director Li Yuming, which has a strong personal life color. The film tells the story of Xing Gui, a screenwriter who is sick in bed and hemiplegia, and conflicts with his girlfriend Xiao Jie who takes good care of him and his mother, and then falls into the trough of his life. After recovery, he returned to his hometown to write a script, and together with his elderly grandmother, his girlfriend and his mother who came later, he embarked on a fantastic journey of love and growth in a confused and different memory puzzle …

"Hometown Stranger" adopts a two-stage structure of alternating reality and reality, juxtaposes the life of big cities and villages, and shows the multifaceted nature of family life. There are conflicts between different family members’ narratives of the same thing, and even the different narratives of the same person will be inconsistent. This very common but easily overlooked point is well presented in this film.

Li yuming analyzed the narrative structure. "in the movie, the same thing, grandma told xiaojie in bad weather is a good side, but in good weather it told xinggui is a bad side." Does it look like a Tai Chi map? There is white in black and black in white. Does it look like our closest relatives? Those heartfelt words can often be blurted out to the closest relatives. In the face of outsiders, they can take care of each other’s feelings and even tell some white lies! For example, Xing Gui speaks directly to his mother and girlfriend, and sometimes even expresses his love in a harsh tone. But the way he talks to his ex-girlfriend is softer, and he will take care of each other’s feelings … "

"Fish raft" and "old house" contain a lot of symbols and metaphors.

A stranger in my hometown skillfully reconstructs illusion and reality with the structure of "play in play" The highlight "Hometown" was filmed in Bijie, Guizhou, the director’s hometown. In the film, there are many romantic and poetic scenes. Li Yuming shared that "I am from Guizhou, and the Guizhou described in the script is the Guizhou in my memory." Guizhou is a place where there is no sunny day for three days and the ground is not three feet flat. Guizhou itself has a romantic temperament, especially in winter and spring communication. Just like the two comparisons in our movie, it is uncertain, but attractive and thought-provoking. "

The filming and scenery making of Hometown Stranger are meticulous, and a lot of symbols and metaphors are buried. "Mom’s home is arranged on a fish raft, which is my feeling about my hometown and my mother’s home: I am a stranger in my hometown, wandering and have no sense of belonging. Grandma’s home is an abandoned old house we found. This old house didn’t even have doors and windows at first, and all the old things in it were bought or borrowed from the village. We chose this old house because it has a mountain on its back, a path in front and bamboo forests on its side. It has a good sense of space and layering, and it is very landing. This is also my feeling about my grandmother’s home: stable and belonging. "

It is not difficult to see that there is only one shot in each scene of "Hometown Stranger", and they are all fixed seats and large depth of field. The director canceled the scheduling of the camera and the cutting of the lens, which not only reduced the creative burden of non-professional actors, but also made the picture look realistic.

Grandma in her eighties,Contribute the most touching performance to the film

In recent years, more and more directors have begun to boldly use amateur actors to play the leading role. The 79-year-old Yang Taiyi was shortlisted as the best actor for "Crossing Zhao Guan", competing with famous actors such as Wang Jingchun, Xú Zhēng and Duan Long. In addition, in recent years, Toshitabe’s highly acclaimed "Dark Horse" literary films, such as Roadside Picnic, Heart Labyrinth, Gangrenboqi, Red Flowers and Green Leaves, have almost all starring amateurs.

In Hometown Stranger, apart from young actors Ye Linsheng and Ci Wantong, what impressed the audience the most was the performance of my grandmother. My grandmother had two scenes when talking about her childhood. She performed in two different States: sadness and freedom. She contributed to the performance of not losing professional actors in the film, which made the audience shine.

The grandmother in "Hometown Stranger" is over 80 years old and can’t read. All the lines are read to her by others. Director Li Yuming was also playing drums in his heart before filming. "I took out two plays that were difficult to complete. If grandma’s performance fell below the passing line, we would have to change people, even if she was my own grandmother. Producer Xiao Xiao found two retired old professors in Guiyang and Zunyi as alternatives. If grandma can’t control this role, she will adjust it as soon as possible. But my grandmother did a very good job, and she won the trust and respect of her crew members by her own talent. "

Realism is the natural advantage of an amateur actor. Li Yuming shared, "There is a scene to teach my grandmother to do Tai Chi exercises. I learned to teach my grandmother in advance. After she learned it several times, she slipped away. I’ caught’ her back. I said, Grandma, you have to do it with me. Life lies in exercise. Grandma said, nonsense, life lies in labor. Say that finish, grandma walked towards the field with a hoe. At that moment, I began to question my inherent ideas and education. Grandma is an old man who has never read a book. What she said is completely based on her life experience, but it is closer to the essence of life. "

Interpretation of intimate relationship from different perspectives,

Trade-offs and choices are given to the audience

In "Hometown Stranger", both the feelings before men and women, and the emotional descriptions between mothers and children, grandparents and grandchildren are all very real. The feelings between characters spill over the screen, directly hitting the audience’s hearts and making emotional connections with them. The audience can interpret from different perspectives according to their own emotional experience.

In the creation of "Hometown Stranger", it also brought new cognition to the director. "I always thought that my grandmother missed her late grandfather very much. When collecting folk songs, I asked her, do you miss grandpa? She replied that she didn’t want to. The dead old man always quarreled with me when he was alive. I was happier when he died. That moment was hard for me to accept. After speaking, grandma picked up scissors and went to grandpa’s grave 30 meters away from home, and began to repair the weeds in the grave. I said, why did you start mowing the grass before Tomb-Sweeping Day arrived? Grandma said that when your grandfather was alive, his hair was a little long and he clamored for it to be cut. I don’t think he would like the grass on the grave to be too long. At that moment, I was touched. It is true that grandma hates grandpa, and it is also true that she loves grandpa. What kind of intimate relationship is not like this? Mixed with love and hate, swing back and forth between the two! Therefore, most of the plots in Hometown Stranger are ambiguous, and there are many possibilities. The choice depends on the audience themselves.

In Hometown Stranger, there are still some memories about family of origin and intimate relationship. The director tried hard to find the truth, but he could not find it. So, he wrote the memory gap and thinking into the script and made it into a movie, about love and hate, about gain and loss. ……

Choose feelings and accept commercial loss.

Art films pay attention to the director’s personal artistic expression, and director Li Yuming does not deny that "Hometown Stranger" is a bit emotional. "At the beginning of creation, we thought very clearly that we should be emotional, and we can accept the bite of commercial loss caused by excessive feelings. At the same time, excessive commerce will also destroy the quality of the film. For producers or directors, it is necessary to balance the relationship between feelings and business. Movies that are both creative and commercial can often achieve greater success. "

In the face of the current literary film market, Li Yuming also has his own views. "As we all know, the market return rate of literary films is not high, but with the success of literary films such as" Into the Dust ",it can be seen that the audience’s film aesthetics are also improving. A benign film market must be both commercial and artistic. Our film market is very huge, so the evaluation system and the needs of the audience should not and will not always be so single, right? Even if there will be temporary failure due to some uncontrollable factors in the process, we filmmakers should keep looking forward to the future and try to change the parts that can be changed! "

At present, in the art cinema market, literary films are still generally applauded but not popular, but as the director of literary films, Li Yuming doesn’t want to give up the creation of literary films. "Will I make literary films in the future? Of course it will! But I will shoot two genre films first, and then come back to shoot literary films when I have a surplus. I don’t want to put myself or my partners in a dilemma because of my personal feelings. I would like to expect China’s future literary films to perform better and better in the market. Both the author and the audience need to grow up. Although the road is far away, the trip will come. "

How to influence the global creative network with national cultural language?

For centuries, the relationship between blacks inside and outside the African continent has been very complicated, and a history full of pain, slavery, separation and sometimes suspicion has closely linked them. However, this relationship is also developing in a positive direction. In 1964, Malcolm X visited Ghana and gave a speech at a university. At that time, he said, "I don’t feel like a tourist in Ghana or anywhere in Africa. It feels like home to me. It has been 400 years since I left this land, but this is not my intention or my wish. "

Nowadays, the connection between Africa’s growing young population and the black diaspora has become more direct. Driven by a lot of creative attempts and social media platforms such as TikTok, they inspired each other and their inspiration collided with each other. There are many such examples: Black Panther and other films have resonated, but artists such as KehindeWiley and Omar Victor Diop have created spectacular portraits of people, and Nigerian hilarious popular movies are popular in Europe and the Caribbean. There are also African pop songs by Kenyan band Sauti Sol and African beats by singers Tems, Burna Boy and Mr Eazi-in 2022 alone, African beat musicians played more than 13 billion times on Spotify.

The writer Nnedi Okorafor told us: "I will not distinguish the black diaspora from the black people on the African continent. What I am telling is the story of black people, the story of black people all over the world, and the story of this group of black people. Over the years, my personal definition of black expatriates living abroad is: every black person on earth. "

The mixed-race singer and model from Congo and China has 1.6 million fans on Weibo.

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In a country that pays attention to "integration into the collective", Zhong Feifei stands out. The singer and model said in her home in Shanghai: "The world often tells mixed-race people that our existence is’ 50-50 split’-we are incomplete, or incomplete enough. But I feel that I am 100% Congolese and 100% Chinese. As long as you handle your own identity, any hybrid can have great power. "

In recent decades, millions of China workers have moved to the African continent, and about 500,000 African immigrants live in China. Zhong Feifei is 28 years old, her mother is Chinese, and her late father is Congolese. As a new generation in this global economic trend, she spent her childhood in two different countries. After being born in Guangzhou, she spent the first few years in the Republic of Congo. Due to the civil war in Congo, when Zhong Feifei was 5 years old, her parents sent her to Shanghai and raised her by her "very traditional grandmother in China".

At the age of 14, Zhong Feifei left China to live with her mother in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. There, she fell in love with African beat musicians such as Burna Boy and Davido and the music of TPOK Jazz. In 2014, at the age of 18, she went to Boston University to study. After the outbreak of COVID-19, she returned to China, studied online and obtained a master’s degree in global security studies from Johns Hopkins University. At the same time, she participated in the popular reality show "Creation Camp 2020". Zhong Feifei didn’t make her debut as a group in the end, but as the first mixed-race black player, her appearance caused a storm on social media and gained the attention of 1.6 million users in Weibo.

Zhong Feifei said: "I used to want to work in a non-governmental organization, but now I think I can play a greater role in the field of pop culture as a representative of’ black Asian’, whether in China or elsewhere-even in Hollywood."

Nkuli Mlangeni-Berg, a South African textile designer

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Nine years ago, when Nkuli Mlangeni-Berg, a South African textile designer, went to South America to study fabrics, he found the imprint from the motherland. She met Mario Quispe, an indigenous craftsman in Lima, Peru. Quespe shared with her his Quechua subculture weaving technology: the geometric patterns woven by weft and warp on the hand loom are very similar to the colorful textiles that Ndebele people like to place at home, and M Langini-Berg is also the descendant of Ndebele people.

After Langini Berg returned to South Africa, he decided to continue their cross-cultural communication.

In search of handmade textiles, she trekked across southern Africa and finally came to a small town on the edge of the Karoo Desert in South Africa. There are a group of women in that small town who, like Quespee, still retain the technology handed down from their ancestors. Langini-Berg brought their works to The Nine Vites, a cooperative studio she founded in 2012, which mainly produces carpets, blankets, pillows, artworks and ceramics. Most of the design of the studio is hand-woven by Peruvian and South African craftsmen with Angora goat hair, alpaca hair and wool. One of their earliest works, Sankara Carpet, was selected as "the most beautiful thing" in South Africa by Design Indaba (a global event held in South Africa every year) in 2017.

Langini-Berg often travels to mansker Raal, where her great-grandmother used to be a traditional psychotherapist in the Ndebele community. Langini-Berg said, "Textiles play a very important role in every ceremony in our family. For example, you will get a blanket when you are born, a blanket when you reach a certain age or adulthood, and the coffin will be wrapped in a blanket after you die. "

Top: carpets made by the Ninevites.

Bottom: the Ninevites cooperative studio members take a group photo.

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Her design refers to the geometric patterns of Ndebele culture, the traditional beads and fabrics of Swati, and the innovation of her parents’ generation-they decorated their houses with homemade straw mats during apartheid in South Africa and cut their old clothes themselves. Tim Langini-Berg pointed out: "At home, design is to make full use of what you have."

Langini-Berg moved to Sweden in 2020, where she continued her textile research as a master student. She paid special attention to how the African-American art movement in the 20th century pursued its connection with Africa. She said: "I really want to know, apart from the common suffering, what binds us as a nation."

Langini-Berg is now highly sought after by the international market. Despite this, she still focuses on developing new cooperation with Africa. The Ninevites cooperated with Algerian artist Walid Bouchouchi to design two carpets for Swedish home improvement brand Svenskt Tenn. In addition, the pattern designed by Langini Berg has appeared on the cover of the novel Glory by Zimbabwean writer Nova Hollette bulawayo.

Looking back on her journey across the mainland and her creative practice, Ms. Langini-Berg said: "We need to heal ourselves. All the ideas and feelings we received when we grew up, as well as those things that we must identify with as black artists, are stained with strong colonial colors, and now we want to erase them."

The Senegalese photographer reshaped the world’s imagination of Africa through the lens.

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Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop has a famous portrait selfie. In this photo, he is wearing a suit and a luxurious paisley bow tie, ready to blow a yellow plastic whistle. This well-designed photo can easily arouse people’s memories of Frederick Douglass.

Diop is good at depicting the pain and hope of black people all over the world. He integrated history and costume elements into his works, focusing on the important role of blacks and Africans in world history; Praise the lofty dignity of African immigrants and refugees; The history of black protests from Selma March to Soweto Uprising in South Africa is skillfully woven together. And explore the impact of climate change on Africa and the southern part of the world. Through bold images, Diop interweaves the past and the present, and explores how African life and overseas diaspora experience interact.

One of Diop’s series works "Project Diaspora" (above) imitates the portrait of Frederick Douglass (below). Douglas was an important abolitionist, activist, writer and speaker in the 19th century. He was a fugitive slave and the first African-American to be nominated as the vice president of the United States.

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Today, Diop lives and works in Dakar and Paris. He said: "Everything African-Americans do is still African, but they may not realize it themselves. I am very surprised and fascinated by this. Sometimes when you see an African-American on a reality TV show, it’s like seeing your sister or aunt-because their way of speaking is just like speaking Wolof in Dakar, only translated into English. "

Diop is keen on creating connections and building communities with his works, and is willing to bridge the experience generation gap between different generations of African-American groups through history. He believes: "There are many inspiring stories on the African continent, which can resonate strongly at home, and they can bring the same effect in other places. We must create more exchanges and interactions, and we don’t know each other well enough. "

Born in Dakar in 1980, Diop studied finance in Senegal and France, and worked in corporate communication departments in Dakar, Nairobi and Lagos for several years. He became a full-time artist more than ten years ago. He inherited the strong tradition of portrait photography in West African studios by artists such as Mama Casset (Senegal), Malick Sidibé (Mali) and Samuel Fosso (Nigeria), but he was not limited to this: whenever he started a project, Diop would read the relevant information of the subject crazily, talk to historians and even try to recreate the theme.

Diop hopes to show how the inspirational stories of black people in different centuries and continents are interrelated and influenced each other. He said: "The fashionable visual experience and symbolic language are my tools to sneak into the audience’s heart. Those eye-catching appearances can help me cover up the heaviness of the topic, and they are also a way for me to actively praise these memories."

Nidi Okolaf is good at finding creative inspiration from African heritage, history and mythology.

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In early 2023, Nnedi Okorafor signed a seven-figure contract for her latest novel The Africanfuturist, realizing a dream that had been brewing for 30 years. The book is scheduled to be published in 2025, which is the type of story that 49-year-old Okolaf has always wanted to try. She said that when she first started writing in the early 2000s, it was impossible to sell such stories. At that time, American publishers were at a loss about her stories, because many of them combined African folklore with science fiction, fantasy novels and magical realism. They repeatedly rejected Okolaf’s works on the grounds that they might confuse readers or fail to arouse understanding and resonance.

However, it turns out that as long as the right audience is found, Okolaf’s works will make people want to stop. Under her guidance, a new generation of African-American writers began to seek creative inspiration from their African heritage, history and mythology.

Okolaf, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, has always regarded himself as a bridge between two cultures. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Nigerian parents. Her parents insisted, "We are Americans, but we will always be Nigerians, and we want to keep this bond forever."

Mami Wata is a good and evil African mythological figure, which means "water god" or "mother of water". The picture shows Mami Wata written by Senegalese artist Zoumana Sane.

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From the sci-fi fantasy novel Who Fears Death set in the end of Africa to Marvel Comics’s Panther trilogy, this fetter has always been the core of Kaulaf’s works. She has done extensive research for every book, and rooted her fantasy stories in traditional West African myths: for example, her "Akata" trilogy tells the story of a Nigerian-American albino girl with magical power, and the mermaid-like mythological characters Mami Wata, Oded, trickster Ekwensu and Nsibidi appear in the book.

As more and more publishers begin to accept the artistic and commercial value of African stories, this island, which once lost Okolaf and similar writers, has now become beautiful and lively. Okolav said: "Although my body has been separated from the African continent, I still have close ties with this land. This fetter may be unstable and difficult to grasp; And it is not so clear, but this roundabout and complicated emotion is very powerful. "

Eber’s twin sisters draw inspiration from multi-cultures.

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In Adama Ebo and Adamma Ebo and Adanne Ebo’s first feature film, they aimed at the black church-specifically, the southern black church. In the vibrant cultural and spiritual expression of the church, the twin sisters unexpectedly found that this has an amazing connection with their father’s native Nigeria.

Adama said in a recent interview: "People always say, write what you know." She is the writer and director of Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul, and her twin sister Adan is the producer of this film. Horn for Jesus, Save Your Soul, starring Sterling K. Brown K. Brown and Regina Hall. Brown plays the fallen priest of a super-large church in Atlanta, and Hull plays his pious and powerful wife. While making people laugh, this satirical mockumentary also conveys sympathy and reflection on the church community and the invisible female labor behind it.

Horn for Jesus, Save Your Soul is full of satire on the large church. Screenshot of the movie.

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Adama commented on Nigeria and the southern United States in this way: "There are many differences in culture between the two places, but there are also many similarities." "The church is one of them (similar culture)." She added. The Ebo sisters’ mother is American and their father is Nigerian. They grew up in Atlanta, so they were influenced by the black culture in the southern United States, and at the same time they carried the cultural background of Nigeria.

Adama and Adan fell in love with movies because of the classic animation Kiki’s Delivery Service and the film they called "the classic of African-American community". Like their mothers, they graduated from a black university with a long history in the southern United States. Although they have never been to Nigeria and can’t speak their father’s native language, Igbo, it is undeniable that they grew up in a family full of Nigerian culture. Adama said: "We grew up as African children, but in the eyes of our Nigerian compatriots, we are definitely not’ Africa’."

The Michelin chef always has French, West African and Japanese flavors on his menu.

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Mory Sacko’s Michelin-starred restaurant MoSuke is located in Paris. The menu includes steamed tea bowls, Attié ?ké poisson (a classic Ivorian fish dish with fermented cassava flour), plantain with foie gras (albufera) and caviar. Although the diners are located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, they don’t know that the perfect balance of salt, acid, fat and distinctive African elements in the mouth will soon lead them to start a wonderful taste journey-this is the characteristic of this French chef Sacco who claims to be of Malian origin and deeply loves Japanese culture. He said: "When you taste all the dishes on the menu, it’s like completing a trip."

So-the reservation for ——MoSuke restaurant has been arranged for several months. In the first year of its opening in 2020, this restaurant won the first Michelin star of French cuisine in West Africa and Central Africa. In 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron invited Sacco to cook a banquet for African leaders, and his cooking shone brilliantly in the diplomatic field. Sacco is also a frequent visitor to French TV programs: he participated in the French version of "master chef" as a contestant and also appeared in "Cuisine Ouverte" as a host.

Pépé soup produced by Mori Sacco.

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Sacco, 32, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. He is the sixth child in his family and the first child born in France. But his snacks are still West African dishes from Mali, C? te d ‘Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea and Gabon. He said: "I was born and raised in France. I am a the French, but I also have my roots." In childhood, Sacco found another hobby of his own: Japanese comics. Soon, he discovered his favorite characters’ favorite foods, which were quite exotic to him as a teenager. Attracted by Japanese cooking techniques and traditional cooking norms, 14-year-old Sacco entered cooking school. The name of MoSuke restaurant combines Sacco’s name "Mory Mori" with the name "Yasuke Misuke", the only African-American warrior in Japanese history.

After working in major restaurants in Paris for ten years, Sacco began to think about how to present his identity with food. France has a long tradition of food, and he hopes to record the food in West Africa in the same way. He tried to recreate his mother’s Mali maafé stew, a beef dish simmered in peanut butter with peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables. Unexpectedly, it was not until he added an ingredient that obviously did not belong to Africa-miso, that this dish finally showed his own flavor. Sacco is reluctant to use the term "fusion". He said: "I tend to use more subtle expressions, such as’ communication and dialogue between different cultures’."

Loko hopes to convey through the exhibition that "creativity is not the privilege of the northern hemisphere."

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Venice is an ancient city with a classical temperament, but the Architecture Biennale in 2023 invited the audience to a "future lab". This is the first time that the Venice Architecture Biennale has focused on African and black expatriates in the past 40 years. The curator of this Biennale is Lesley Lokko, a Scottish architect, scholar and novelist of Ghanaian origin. She is also the first African-American curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Rocco, 61, is the founder of African Futures Institute. African Futures Institute is an architectural institution integrating teaching, research and public activities in Accra, Ghana. Rocco has taught in South Africa, Britain and the United States, and is committed to promoting western institutions to think about African, racial and cultural identities and their relationship with physical space. Rocco said that the core topic around which she planned the Venice Biennale was: What does it mean to be a meaningful change agent in the 21st century?

Loko pointed out: "At present, the mainstream narrative often ignores the perspective from the southern part of the world and regards imagination and creativity as the privilege of the northern world. However, despite the enormous challenges brought by the natural environment, Africa is still a fertile ground full of creativity. This makes Africa an important fulcrum of our research, which helps us to further explore climate, social changes, new forms of governance and many other key issues that will dominate social development in the next century. "

In 2021, only one third of the exhibitors of Venice Architecture Biennale came from outside Europe and the United States. In 2023, from South Africa and Burkina Faso to Nigeria and Rwanda, more than half of the 89 exhibitors came from Africa or were black expatriates. Rocco said that many participants in the Venice Architecture Biennale have one thing in common, that is, they have the ability to "transform"-they can adapt to different cultures and backgrounds and extend the traditional definition of architecture.

She Loko will also "transform". Her childhood was spent in Dundee, Scotland, England and Accra, Ghana: "Scotland makes me tremble with cold, while Ghana is extremely hot." After becoming an architect, she finally had the opportunity to find her own position in the cross-cultural confusion of her childhood. Now, she regards her teaching work as a happy "comfort zone". Loko is full of expectations for the continuous progress in the field of architecture, and in the future, the change will no longer be limited to a binary opposition of the West or the North. She pointed out: "Now the world needs to realize that creativity driven by demand has immeasurable value."

Ruth E. Carter introduced African futurism into mainstream fashion.

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Ruth E. Ruth E. Carter said: "Fashion designers are storytellers first." Carter is 64 years old. The film Black Panther in 2018 made her the first black man to win the Oscar for Best Fashion Design. In March, 2023, she won the second Oscar again with Panther 2, becoming the first fashion designer to win both the original film and its sequel.

The Wa Kanda world in Black Panther is a fictional African kingdom that has never experienced colonization. Carter’s design draws lessons from indigenous cultures all over the African continent: before making, she collected various tribal cultural relics, including the masks of the Maridogon, the crowns of the Simba people in Namibia, the beadwork of the Masai people in Kenya and the necklaces worn by the Ndebele women in South Africa. Carter also drew inspiration from the ideas of contemporary African fashion designers such as Laduma Ngsocorro, founder of South African knitting brand MaXhosa Africa, and Ozwald Boateng, a Ghanaian-born British tailor. He also went to the African Punk Music Festival in Johannesburg to inspect street clothes and learn about the latest trends with his eyes.

Carter won the Oscar for Best Fashion Design with Black Panther (2018). Her inspiration sources include the artist Romare Bearden (middle picture), whose collage influenced her creation in Spike Lee’s films, and the African Punk Music Festival (lower picture), which contributed to her conception of "Panther" films.

Screenshot of the movie Black Panther

Carter said: "African aesthetics, whether now or in the past, has never been single." Constantly exploring has almost become a habit of this designer. There is no doubt that she shaped the expression of black historical and cultural stories on the big screen. Carter, who lives in Los Angeles, said: "Representing culture and representing yourself (voice) has never been a burden, but a pleasure; I will also feel the pressure, but this’ pressure to do this well’ is more like a sense of mission. "

Carter was raised by his mother alone in Massachusetts, the youngest of eight children. In 1986, she moved to Los Angeles, where she met the director Spike Lee. The first film she participated in was School Daze in 1988, which was one of the many films she collaborated with Spike Lee.

Top: Screenshot of the movie "Do the Right Thing" directed by Spike Lee.

Bottom: Romare Bearden’s 1980 work Morning of the Rooster is famous for his collage depicting city life and the American South.

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Even when it is not designed for African futurism, Carter always looks for inspiration from African and black diaspora. When designing clothing styles for time films, she will refer to The Image of the Black in Western Art; Many of her works with Spike Lee refer to the works of the artist Romare Bearden; The costume modeling of Mo’ Better Blues focuses on the personal styles of jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.

Carter said: "It is very important for me to draw inspiration from real people or things. I dug up those tiny humanistic details and applied them to my role. " Carter’s designs not only aggregate the characteristics of black expatriates living abroad, but also promote the African futuristic style into the mainstream fashion world through the costume modeling in Black Panther and other films. Carter said: "We respect culture, and at the same time we are pushing it forward."

Nigerian musician Mr Eazi lets more people see Africa through music.

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"Where is home?" For Nigerian musician Mr Eazi, this is not a simple question. "On the plane." When he was interviewed by video in new york, he made a joke and then said with awe, "I think the place where my family is is home, so my home is sometimes in Accra, sometimes in London, Cotonou, Lagos and Dubai."

Mr Eazi, whose original name is Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, is 32 years old and was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, but his life and career are closely related to the world outside his motherland. Mr Eazi entered the recording studio for the first time when he was in college, and his stage name "Mr Eazi" came from this. It is said that he would stop fighting in the recording studio: "Relax, don’t be nervous."

In 2016, he was invited by rapper Lauryn Hill to perform in Brooklyn. He also sang the soundtrack of The Lion King in 2019, and worked with Colombian singer J Balvin, Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, Jamaican musicians Popcaan, Nicki Minaj and Diplo. In the middle and late 2010s, Mr Eazi became popular with catchy African Afrobeats such as "Skin Tight" and "Legover".

Above: MV screenshot of Mr Eazi & Major Lazer-Legover (Remix)

Next: Mr Eazi commissioned the artist Sesse Elangwe to create the work "The Way I See It" for the single "Chop Time, No Friend".

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He called his early works "Banku", which is a type of music that combines Ghanaian upper-class music and Nigerian chords. His initial success was when Nigerian musicians such as WizKid entered the western audience’s field of vision, which was partly due to social media and the recommendation of international musicians and black expatriates. Lawrence Burney wrote an article for Vice in 2016: "Many of the hottest African beat musicians use cheerful sound rhythms, and Mr Eazi gives dance music a lyrical quality with his low humming."

The African community in Britain is crucial to the early success of Mr Eazi. Mr Eazi said: "After I left Ghana, the first place to accept my music was England." Young black students were the first audience attracted by his music. He said: "These students defined’ cool’ in their minds and embraced their African identity. This is the cornerstone of the development of African diaspora music. "

Written by Abdi Latif Dahir

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Desiree Ibekwe/Abdi Latif Dahir

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Editor: Yang Ruiting

Translation: Qian Gongyi @ Panda Translation Agency

Heilongjiang: The farmer’s market shopping "scan code, take temperature, wear a mask" and leave immediately.

Cctv news(Reporter Li Wenxue) The farmer’s market is a place where people and goods flow are relatively concentrated. How can we achieve accurate prevention and control under the situation of normalization of epidemic prevention and control? At the press conference held by the Information Office of Heilongjiang Provincial Government on the evening of July 4, Heilongjiang Provincial Market Supervision Administration introduced the corresponding specific measures.

Yang Rumin, deputy director of the Provincial Market Supervision Administration, said that it is necessary to strengthen the main responsibility of farmers’ market promoters for epidemic prevention and control, and urge farmers’ markets to implement the requirements of "five haves", namely, having a sound prevention and control guide, a prevention and control management system and responsible persons, an appropriate reserve of protective materials, an emergency response plan, guidance and support from local medical and health forces, urging farmers’ markets to implement disinfection and cleaning measures, doing emergency response drills, and improving their epidemic prevention and control capabilities.

For those who enter the market, we should continue to implement anti-aggregation measures such as "scanning code, measuring temperature and wearing masks", control the flow of people in the market, and remind customers to keep a distance from others when shopping, and leave immediately after shopping. Supervise the farmer’s market to implement the management system for employees in high-risk posts, fix posts, avoid cross-operation, and implement prevention and control measures such as closed-loop management, nucleic acid detection, health monitoring and health education.

According to the unified arrangement of the local headquarters, the nucleic acid detection is carried out for the operators, staff and other people in the market. Appropriate sampling inspection and preventive disinfection shall be carried out for imported cold-chain foods and the environment of their processing, transportation, storage and sales places, as well as non-cold-chain items from countries with severe epidemic situation. Through the "first stop coding, one yard to the end, no code ban", the imported cold chain food can be traced, traced and the risk can be controlled. It is strictly forbidden to sell and use imported cold chain food without inspection and quarantine certificate of entry products, nucleic acid test report, preventive disinfection certificate and traceability code.

Market supervision departments at all levels should carry out full coverage of supervision and inspection of the farmer’s market, do a good job in the emergency conversion of epidemic prevention and control in the farmer’s market, improve the emergency response mechanism, and remind consumers to scan the traceability code of "Heilongjiang cold chain" when purchasing imported cold chain foods, and inquire about product information, nucleic acid detection and disinfection information to enhance their self-protection ability.

Guangzhou implements the supervision of controlling dust at the source: on-line measuring dust to protect Guangzhou Blue

  A waste gas treatment tower was installed on the roof of the production workshop of Panyu Yuanmai Jewelry Co., Ltd., located in Daluotang Jewelry Zone, Panyu.

  Keep the original heart, take the mission, find the gap and implement it

  Carry out in-depth education on the theme of "Do not forget your initiative mind, Remember Mission"

  There are more than 2,400 construction sites in Guangzhou, and dust from construction sites is one of the important causes of atmospheric particulate pollution, and it may be difficult to control dust pollution repeatedly. How to supervise it effectively for a long time is a difficult problem. At the same time, the general survey of pollution sources in Guangzhou has entered the stage of data summary and audit, which involves a wide range and a large amount of data. How to ensure the accuracy of the data is very important.

  Therefore, in combination with the theme education of "Do not forget your initiative mind, keep in mind the mission", the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment runs through the whole process of the theme education, implementing source control, standardizing the management of construction sites, implementing the pollution source survey, finding out what the problem is and where the crux lies, sticking to the word "reform" throughout, persisting in the establishment of reform, and resolutely fighting the tough battles of pollution prevention and pollution source survey.

  Text/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Wang Chuhan and Du Juan

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  Figure/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Zhuang Xiaolong

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  Inspection and supervision: set up full-time environmental protection personnel to supervise the construction site.

  The second phase of hengli town Resettlement Area in Nansha District is under intense construction. But different from people’s impression of dusty and disorderly, the construction site here is orderly: all the undeveloped land is covered with green dust-proof nets, and some land is afforested; Sprinklers are sprinkling water to reduce dust, and a 360-degree rotating spray head can be seen every 2.5 meters on the fence; The PM2.5 displayed on the screen of the 24-hour on-line dust detection system is about 25 μ g/m3. "Sprinklers will spray water regularly every two hours. spray head is basically open from 8 am to 6 pm, and fog cannons will also spray dust. In addition, the construction site is also equipped with 12 cleaning workers to clean the construction site and import and export roads. " The relevant person in charge of the project introduced.

  In addition to consciously equipping the construction site with dust suppression facilities and implementing dust suppression measures, Jiezhen also has full-time environmentalists who use Guangzhou Dust APP to supervise the construction site. Liu Chunke, a full-time environmental protection worker in hengli town, told reporters that the dust on the construction site is inspected every week, including whether the engineering information is perfect, whether the transport vehicle is cleaned and whether the residual mud is covered. During the inspection, it is found that the land is not covered with green nets, the land that has not been constructed for a long time is not afforested, the construction road is not hard-bottomed, and the vehicles are not cleaned.

  "In the process of routine inspection of the second phase project of hengli town resettlement area, it was found that there were problems of road dust emission and some exposed residual mud not covered." Liu Chunke said that he would take photos immediately after discovering the dust problem, and enter the problem into the Guangzhou Dust Supervision APP, and feed it back to the Nansha District Quality Supervision Station, the supervision unit of the construction site, and at the same time issue the Notice Letter on the Prevention and Control of Dust Pollution on the Construction Site to urge the construction unit to carry out rectification. After receiving the rectification notice, the construction unit immediately carried out rectification measures, arranged sprinklers to spray water immediately, and covered the exposed residual mud. "Now the awareness of dust pollution prevention and control in construction sites has also increased. Last year, the green net covering the land was in short supply, and the price has increased!"

  On-line monitoring: the air quality was optimized obviously from January to July.

  Dust is the main source of PM10 and PM2.5 in Guangzhou. In recent years, Guangzhou has vigorously promoted dust pollution control in construction sites, refined the "six hundred percent" requirements for dust pollution control, produced an atlas of guidance for green construction enclosure of construction projects, held on-site meetings, organized publicity training, promoted the installation of dust online monitoring equipment, strengthened law enforcement inspection, and increased notification and punishment. In view of the problem that dust pollution control in construction sites is easy to repeat and difficult to adhere to, since 2019, the regulatory authorities such as housing and construction have stepped up supervision, inspecting about 100 construction sites every day, urging the implementation of the "six hundred percent" requirements for dust pollution control, and at the same time using drones. Conduct inspections. Up to now, a total of 1080 online dust monitoring devices have been installed and networked.

  In addition, in 2018, the municipal ecological and environmental department developed and launched the Dust Supervision APP, organized town and street environmental protection personnel to inspect the construction site, and reported the problems to the regulatory authorities in real time for follow-up. The users of the APP include the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, the Transportation Bureau, the Water Affairs Bureau, the Urban Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, the Ecological Environment Bureau, the Forestry and Landscape Bureau, the Planning and Natural Resources Bureau, the Guangzhou Port Authority and the quality and safety supervision stations of various construction projects.

  More than 2,400 construction sites in the city, regardless of the size, are all included in the Dust Supervision APP, which can be used to view and count the basic situation of construction projects. The supervision and inspection personnel of the ecological and environmental departments input the inspection and spot check information of the construction sites, and feed back the inspection and spot check information to the supervision units such as housing construction, water supply and transportation, and then the supervision units organize rectification and fill in the handling information, so as to implement the requirements of "establishing banks and reforming them" and form a multi-sectoral supervision mechanism for dust in Guangzhou. Since the beginning of this year, the city’s law enforcement officers have inspected 28,987 construction sites and 2,389 construction sites, and found that 1,304 "six hundred percent" problems have not been implemented, and all the problems found have been followed up and rectified.

  The control effect of dust is also intuitively reflected in the air. From January to July 2019, the comprehensive index of ambient air in Guangzhou decreased by 13.4% year-on-year, and the air quality improved; The air quality reached the standard for 193 days, an increase of 25 days. Among them, the average concentration of PM2.5 was 28 μ g/m3, down 22.2% year-on-year; The average concentration of PM10 was 47 μ g/m3, down 14.5% year-on-year.

  General survey of pollution sources: If you have any questions about filling in the form, you can ask the census taker.

  The once-in-a-decade national pollution source survey has now entered the stage of data summary and audit, which is a major national survey, involving a wide range and a large amount of data. How to ensure the accuracy of the data is very important.

  Guangzhou Panyu Yuanmai Jewelry Co., Ltd., located in Daluotang Jewelry Zone, Panyu, is a leading jewelry processing enterprise in Panyu District, mainly engaged in the processing of gold and silver jewelry and jewelry inlays. The relevant person in charge of the enterprise took out a checklist of dozens of pages and told the reporter: "Because there are differences in production technology and pollution control links, it is really unclear which links need to be filled in when filling out the form, how to fill them out, and some problems involving data unit conversion are also complicated. Fortunately, there are census takers and census instructors to help us fill out the form. "

  According to the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, the general survey of pollution sources is not as simple as expected. Sometimes a company has to visit several times. "For example, it is found that the company is closed at the scene, but it is uncertain whether the company is temporarily closed or seasonally closed. It takes a few more walks to be sure. " In addition, the general survey of pollution sources involves not only communication, but also technical problems in the form filling. Take shoemaking as an example, one of the two processes needs to be selected, that is, drawing wires and gluing. When filling in the form, some enterprises may mistake the gluing in the drawing wire process for the gluing process, resulting in wrong selection or multiple selection. Because the emission of pollutants is estimated by coefficient method, different processes correspond to different coefficients. If the previous process is not filled in correctly, the results estimated by coefficient method will be quite different. "In view of these situations, not only enumerators guide enterprises to fill in the forms, but also census instructors will further review the data. In addition, we will compare the data with the existing data to ensure the accuracy of the final data."

  Pollution data: a map of pollution sources in the city will be drawn.

  The national pollution source survey is a major national survey conducted by the State Council in accordance with the Regulations on the National Pollution Source Survey, which is conducted once every ten years. From 2007 to 2010, the first national pollution source survey was carried out, and this is the second national pollution source survey. The census time is arranged from 2017 to 2019, which is mainly divided into four stages: preliminary preparation, inventory building, household survey and summary release.

  The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment said that in 2017, Guangzhou started the preparatory work for the general survey of pollution sources, and successfully completed the household survey task in 2018. At present, it has entered the stage of data summary review. After completing the data filling and entry system, Guangzhou was organized to carry out data auditing, on-site verification and data summary auditing in the household survey stage, and seriously carried out rectification and implementation according to the list of questions fed back by the national and provincial census offices.

  In the stage of household survey, Guangzhou organized and carried out the work of reporting and auditing by enterprises, on-site auditing by census takers, on-site rechecking by census instructors, and conducted two rounds of data auditing for key information census forms, feedback from experts and auditing of census systems, to check input data and recheck spatial information.

  Since January this year, two rounds of quality verification have been carried out, and industrial sources, large-scale livestock and poultry farms, centralized pollution control facilities, sewage outlets into rivers (seas), non-industrial source boilers, mobile sources, administrative villages and parks in 44 towns in 11 districts have been selected for on-site verification, and one census community in each district has been selected for pull-net verification.

  After the census and accounting work, Guangzhou immediately transferred to the data summary and audit work. In June, the Municipal Census Office issued the Operational Guidelines for the Data Auditing of the Second National Pollution Source Census in Guangzhou, sent technical teams to all districts to guide the data summarization and auditing, and organized four rounds of data summarization and auditing successively.

  From July to August, Guangzhou received a total of 16 issues of the list of suspected problems summarized and reviewed by the national and provincial census offices. The municipal census office immediately organized all districts to carry out verification work, seriously rectified the problem data, completed the systematic problem verification and rectification on time, and made notes on the verified problems one by one. In the next step, Guangzhou will continue to organize data summary and audit according to the requirements of the national and provincial census offices, so as to further improve the quality of census data and ensure compliance with relevant national requirements.

  "The national pollution source survey is a major national survey once every ten years, and it is the basic work of environmental protection. It is of great significance for accurately judging the current environmental situation, formulating and implementing targeted policies and plans for economic and social development and environmental protection, and improving environmental quality." According to the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, in the era of big data, the data of pollution source census is also used to make pollution source maps, and relevant management systems are developed, so as to accurately monitor the pollution sources in the city. "The map can show the distribution and types of enterprises in 11 districts of the city, and a management system is developed through the data of pollution source census, so as to accurately monitor the pollution sources in the city."

  Guangzhou strengthens dust control supervision

  Innovative supervision means

  More than 2,400 construction sites in the city, regardless of the size, are all included in the dust supervision APP, which can be used to view and count the basic situation of construction projects;

  Up to now, a total of 1080 online dust monitoring devices have been installed and networked in the city.

  Carry out inspection and law enforcement

  Since the beginning of this year, the city’s law enforcement officers have inspected 28,987 construction sites and 2,389 construction sites, and found that 1,304 "six hundred percent" problems have not been implemented, and all the problems found have been followed up and rectified.

  Optimize air quality

  From January to July 2019, the comprehensive index of ambient air in Guangzhou decreased by 13.4% year-on-year, and the air quality improved; The air quality reached the standard for 193 days, an increase of 25 days.

  PM2.5 decreased by 22.2%

  mean concentration

  28 μ g/m3

  PM10 decreased by 14.5%

  mean concentration

  47 μ g/m3

  Grass-roots sound

  Wu Shuchao, a villager from Nansha hengli town

  There is less dust at home, so I can sleep well at night.

  My home is opposite the construction site. In the past, the dust generated by the construction site, as well as the noise of vehicles entering and leaving, piling and so on, will have some impact on daily life. But now the construction site will sprinkle water regularly, and basically no dust will be felt at home, and the construction site will stop working at 9: 30 every night, so it is more stable to sleep at night.

  Yuan Jianhui, a construction worker of Nansha hengli town Resettlement Area Phase II Project.

  The workers all feel that the working environment is better.

  Construction workers’ daily work, eating and rest are all on the construction site. Now there are not only sprinklers, spray head, fog guns and other dust suppression equipment on the construction site, but also cleaners to clean and control the dust well. The construction workers here feel that the working environment has improved, and the sprinkler operation can also play a certain role in cooling down!

  Lin Weishen, Polluter of Pollution Sources in Panyu District

  Only when the data is accurate can we do a good job of governance.

  The accuracy of the basic data of pollution source census is very important, and about 500 enterprises have been visited since they entered the household last year. In the filling of the census form, a data unit and a decimal point need to be treated strictly. Only by ensuring the accuracy of the data can we truly reflect the production and discharge of pollution sources in enterprises, so as to supervise and control pollution in enterprises more pertinently.

  It is even more essential to have a sense of responsibility and innovative thinking

  In recent years, the air quality in Guangzhou is getting better and better. In the circle of friends, "Guangzhou Blue" often dominates the screen; In the streets and lanes, wherever you go, you bring your own "blue sky and white clouds" background. For two consecutive years, the concentration of PM2.5 has reached the standard, and such an eye-catching achievement cannot be separated from the strong promotion of dust control.

  Construction site dust is one of the important causes of atmospheric particulate pollution, and there are problems that are easy to repeat and difficult to persist. For Guangzhou, the tight construction period and large number of projects under construction also make it more difficult to control dust pollution. However, there are always more ways than difficulties, and the key depends on whether the understanding is in place and whether the action is firm. This means that on the one hand, it is necessary to raise awareness, further enhance supervision consciousness, put the control of dust pollution in a prominent position, and achieve results. On the other hand, we should also innovate methods, make full use of new technologies and means, optimize processes and improve efficiency. For example, launch the dust supervision APP, organize town and street environmentalists to inspect the construction site, and report problems to the regulatory authorities in real time for follow-up; Promote the installation of dust online monitoring equipment and strengthen law enforcement inspection; Using drones to carry out inspections and improve supervision efficiency & HELIP; …

  Driven by a series of measures, the effect of dust supervision is "immediate". From January to July this year, Guangzhou’s air quality reached the standard for 193 days, an increase of 25 days year-on-year, and the concentration of atmospheric particulate matter related to dust showed a downward trend. The feelings of citizens are also intuitive. Many people say that the dust generated by the previous construction site, as well as the noise of vehicles entering and leaving, piling and so on, are annoying. At present, the construction site will be watered regularly, and the work will be finished on time when it arrives. The faster the building is built, the less and less impact it will have on life. It is understood that under the supervision of the regulatory authorities, many construction sites are equipped with sprinklers, spray head, fog guns and other dust suppression equipment. For managing dust pollution, everyone’s initiative and consciousness are constantly improving.

  In the final analysis, it is necessary to turn knowledge into action and goals into reality. It can be seen from the dust control that how to do a good job and achieve results requires a sense of responsibility and innovative thinking.

  (Guangzhou Daily commentator Mao Yuming)

Enhance "new vitality" online and return to "fireworks" offline —— Perspective of current consumer market

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 20th Title: Enhancing "New Vitality" Online and Returning to "Fireworks" Offline —— Perspective of Current Consumer Market

Xinhua News Agency reporters Kong Xiangxin, Yang Na and Ning Ji.

Introduce policies to promote consumption in many places to boost consumer confidence; Merchants distribute gift packages of coupons to drive consumption vitality … Near the middle of the year, with the effective prevention and control of epidemic situation, all parts of China continue to make efforts to promote consumption. What are the positive changes in consumer demand? How much is consumer confidence boosted? Reporters went deep into markets, platforms and enterprises to find answers.

Enhance consumption power: combining short-term and medium-term policies to boost consumer confidence

At the beginning of June, Ms. Zhang, a citizen of Beijing, bought a refrigerator in Suning Store using Beijing’s green energy-saving coupons, saving 400 yuan. Since April, Beijing has launched a policy to promote green and energy-saving consumption for consumers all over Beijing, involving more than 20 kinds of electrical appliances.

Cultural tourism "spree", consumer vouchers "family bucket", green energy-saving consumer vouchers, and new energy vehicles "trade-in" … Recently, various localities have issued consumer vouchers in innovative forms and introduced policies to promote consumption, covering a wide range of categories.

In accordance with the central government’s series of arrangements for promoting stable economic development, in response to the impact of uncertainties such as the epidemic situation, various localities and departments have successively introduced measures to promote consumption, further focused on stabilizing the basic consumption, implemented relief support measures for poor industries such as catering, retail, tourism, civil aviation, highway, waterway and railway transportation, and accelerated the organic integration of online and offline consumption.

The reporter found out that many regions are introducing their own policies to promote consumption. Shanghai made it clear that 40,000 new non-operating bus licenses were added during the year; From May to August in Shenzhen, consumers will be subsidized by 15% of the sales price for purchasing eligible household appliances, with a cumulative maximum of 2,000 yuan per person; Guangdong, Fujian, Shandong and other places rely on their own endowments to support special industries such as prefabricated vegetables; Sichuan, Hainan, Fujian and other major tourist provinces have taken measures such as subsidies, coupons and theme activities to stimulate consumption vitality …

"Consumer vouchers have a significant boost to our sales." Song Huasong, president of CP Lotus Hunan Region, said, "Since June, our online sales have increased by over 250% year-on-year. The combination of government, platform and the brand’s own subsidies has made the brand’s online orders and passenger flow to the store have increased significantly. "

The experts interviewed said that at present, all localities and departments have introduced a new round of policies and measures to promote consumption, which combines short-term and medium-term policies, including the use of consumer vouchers and tax reduction subsidies to promote consumption compensation, focusing on the poor industries and enterprises that have been hit hard by the epidemic, and also using medium-and long-term policy measures to tap the potential of urban and rural consumption.

Active online and offline: promoting consumption in the middle of the year.

At the beginning of June, Zhang Man, an employee of Xtep, a domestic sports brand, looked at the constantly beating figures in the background of the store and knew that the backlog of new products in Shanghai warehouse should be saved. Zhang Man, who is in charge of the flagship store of Pinduoduo Platform, said that the number of store orders has increased by about three times in recent months compared with April and May. With the further recovery of logistics, the current express delivery volume of Shanghai Warehouse has recovered to about 90% before this year’s epidemic.

"Recently, the global consumption of the platform, including beauty, home appliances, clothing, maternal and child, agricultural and sideline products, has ushered in a significant rebound." The relevant person in charge of Pinduoduo said that many brands have accelerated the layout of flagship stores and continued to deepen cooperation with platforms.

The reporter learned that since the beginning of this year, many e-commerce platforms have introduced support policies for some small and medium-sized enterprises that have experienced pressure such as slowing sales and rising costs due to factors such as the epidemic.

JD.COM, together with a number of banks, launched preferential activities in 23 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Dalian, and distributed relevant coupons in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Changsha.

Just after 0: 00 on the 19th, major consumers showed the "transcripts" of the "618" promotion activities: the accumulated order amount in JD.COM exceeded 379.3 billion yuan, a record high; Xiaomi’s omni-channel cumulative payment amount exceeded 18.7 billion yuan; The total live broadcast of e-commerce in Tik Tok was 40.45 million hours, and the scene of Tik Tok Mall drove sales to increase by 514% year-on-year …

Online consumption continues to be active, and offline "fireworks" are also returning. With the epidemic situation in Shanghai, Beijing and other places gradually stable and controllable, offline market players are gradually recovering.

A BYD 4s shop in Yizhuang, Beijing, has welcomed many consumers who choose to book cars. Chloe Wang, a sales consultant, said: "Recently, Beijing has introduced policies such as trade-in, which has increased the sales of new energy vehicles to a certain extent."

At present, the phased halving of vehicle purchase tax implemented by the state and the coordinated efforts of local policies such as "trade-in" have gradually activated the domestic demand for car purchase. According to the latest data from China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, domestic automobile production and sales increased by 59.7% and 57.6% respectively in May.

Demand gradually improves: strengthen confidence and continuously release consumption potential.

According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, the total retail sales of consumer goods in May decreased by 6.7% year-on-year, which was 4.4 percentage points narrower than that of the previous month. With a series of policies to promote consumption taking effect, the domestic market demand is gradually improving.

According to industry analysis, this year’s epidemic fluctuation has put pressure on the supply chain. The superposition of many policies and mid-year promotion activities have increased the consumer demand of residents, reflecting that the foundation of China’s consumption recovery is still there, which has enhanced the confidence of all walks of life in promoting consumption recovery.

"As early as May, I put the things I wanted to buy in the shopping cart. After studying and comparing the prices, I felt that it was very cost-effective to buy during the promotion period, and several purchases were even’ very profitable’." Ms. Hu from Beijing said, "I am used to shopping online now. Although the epidemic has had a certain impact, the consumption needs are still there."

Xu Zhengzhong, deputy director of the Department of Economics of the National School of Administration, believes that under the background of shrinking demand and expected weakening, although the total retail sales of consumer goods in China has declined to a certain extent, the long-term fundamentals of China’s consumer market have not changed. Especially after the epidemic, there is a replenishment period, and the consumer demand suppressed by the interruption of supply chain in the past can be compensated and satisfied to some extent.

Industry analysts pointed out that boosting consumption should take multiple measures and continue to advance. On the one hand, it is necessary to implement a number of policies from the central government to the local government to stabilize growth and employment, and accurately design and implement consumption-related measures according to local conditions to ensure the effect of stimulating consumption. On the other hand, enterprises should further strengthen the research and development of goods and services to provide consumers with more high-quality goods and services. In addition, ensuring the smooth supply chain is the basis for promoting consumption, especially online consumption. It is suggested to further promote the intelligent upgrading of the supply chain of the whole industry.

Double 11 observed: "Quiet" double 11, waiting for an inflection point.

On November 11th, this shopping festival, which started one month in advance, finally ushered in a "positive day". From consumers to businesses, the word that reporters hear the most is: quiet. That’s true. In previous years, shortly after the bell rang at 0: 00 on November 11th, "good news" frequently came from major electric merchants. However, this year, most platforms have chosen not to announce the specific transaction amount of double 11, and a series of late battle reports only tacitly indicate that "sales are still growing"-today’s double 11 seems to have really reached an inflection point.

From "Choose One from Two" to "Lowest Price"

Every year in double 11, it is accompanied by smoke, and this year is no exception.

This year, Tmall declared that "the lowest price of the whole network" is the core goal; Xin Lijun, CEO of JD.COM Retail, said: "It’s really cheap, close your eyes and buy"; Pinduoduo said, "It’s really cheap every day". The smell of smoke is full.

"It is easy to form vicious competition between merchants. I sell 16 pieces and he sells 15 pieces. The platform will definitely give traffic to the low price, but the problem is that the product quality is not necessarily the same, and bad money drives out good money." Some merchants said. In addition, what merchants are most afraid of is the exclusive "floor price agreement".

The so-called "floor price agreement" refers to the merchants.Promise to provide the lowest price of the whole domestic network for a specific platform during a specific promotion period.More than one e-commerce practitioner said that the "floor price agreement" is widespread, and the liquidated damages start from one million yuan.

This scene is a bit familiar. In 2015, on the eve of double 11, JD.COM reported to the State Administration of Market Supervision that Ali disturbed the order of the e-commerce market, saying that Ali asked the merchants on the platform not to participate in the promotion activities in JD.COM at the same time during their stay in double 11 that year, and a series called "Choose One from Two" began.

In 2018, Pinduoduo was also involved in the "two-choice" dispute. Pinduoduo accused Tmall of "choosing between two options" for merchants, which led to many merchants being forced to withdraw from activities in Pinduoduo, take off their goods and close their flagship stores. Tmall said that the "alternative" did not exist, and Pinduoduo was "touching porcelain".

"The e-commerce platform’ two choices one’ actually has no choice." A person in charge of a children’s wear brand said, "If you don’t choose a certain platform, you will be restricted by this platform immediately. We are targeting at brands that specialize in stocking online. This kind of blow is really great. But the fact is that only one platform can’t provide enough traffic. Of course, multi-platform development is the best. "

The turning point appeared in 2021. In that year, the State Administration of Market Supervision said that Alibaba Group abused its dominant position in the market and imposed a penalty of 18.228 billion yuan on the online retail platform service market in China.

When businessmen thought of faithful wife, they never thought that "choose one from two" would become a "bottom price agreement". Amid the smoke, some merchants have figured out an account: the daily operating profit is not high, but double 11 needs to hire anchors, buy traffic, and the platform’s pit fees … It is tantamount to "losing money and earning money". As a result, more and more businesses choose to "lie flat", and double 11 has gradually become the competition of head enterprises, and small and medium-sized businesses are increasingly marginalized.

Consumer: There is no answer to the "lowest price"

For consumers, double 11 is not only a choice between two, three, or even "multiple choices", because the "lowest price" also has a premise.

If you want the lowest price, you need to pay a deposit first and then enjoy the discount. Red envelopes, shopping vouchers and full reduction thresholds must meet the standards; Even the same product of the same merchant at the same time has different coupons, or whether it is a platform member, such as JD.COM Plus or Tmall 88VIP, or even different pages. For example, if you place an order through Taobao’s 10 billion subsidy page, the commodity prices may be different …

Therefore, for consumers, multi-platform price comparison is not enough. "Shuttling between major live broadcast rooms and switching back and forth between Tmall, JD.COM and Pinduoduo is my daily routine after work recently." Some consumers said.

There is also a criticized pre-sale mechanism: pay the deposit first, and then pay the final payment. In the eyes of consumers, each node needs to pay the time cost.In addition to waiting for the pre-sale, you must not forget the time of paying the final payment, otherwise the deposit will be difficult to return; Some consumers have found that the pre-sale price that they are waiting for is not the lowest price, and they feel "cheated".

"The wool is on the sheep. To put it bluntly, double 11 is a business after all. " Some merchants told reporters that the platform has to make money and the merchants have to make money. The thousand-layer "routine" is aimed at consumers’ wallets.

In 2009, Taobao tried "double 11" to create a shopping festival that has been popular for 15 years. Nowadays, double 11 comes earlier every year, but consumers are confused. How to buy the cheapest?

Double 11 needs "new connotation"

Do we still need double 11 today? The answer is still yes.

The 2023 double 11 Report released by Accenture, a consultancy, shows that with the recovery of consumption and the continuous release of consumption potential, China’s consumer market has a bright future. "double 11, as the largest online consumer node in the whole year, is undoubtedly a battleground for global consumer brands".

From the data point of view, as of the afternoon of November 11, Tmall had 402 brands with a turnover of over 100 million yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of over 38,000 brands exceeding 100%; JD.COM said that the cumulative sales of about 300 brands have exceeded 100 million yuan, and a large number of brands and businesses still maintain a high-speed sales growth trend.

Accenture believes that for brand merchants, double 11 is no longer just a sales peak, but also a special operation node. Stimulating user interest, improving user experience and enhancing user stickiness have become more critical competitive factors. Therefore, brands and platforms should inject new connotations into double 11.

The new connotation of double 11 is obviously not the "lowest price", but the healthy development of the whole industry and the establishment of a positive consumption cycle of "high-quality and low-price goods supply, meeting consumer demand and making money for businesses".

"double 11 has entered a platform period and reached a turning point where everyone wants to seek some kind of change. The dispute over low prices is obviously meaningless. This industry war will ultimately serve the technological and ecological development of the entire e-commerce industry. " Cui Lili, executive director of the Institute of Electronic Commerce of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, said that today, the digital economy has become a key track for enterprise growth. Double 11, as a key node of online consumption, should perhaps be transformed from a shopping carnival into a testing ground for innovation capability of major platforms.

Common cold Why do you take a lot of medicine and cough or not get better?

  Guangzhou Daily News (all-media reporter Weng Shuxian correspondent Yao Xue, Pan Yingyuan) The common cold is too common. At present, spring and summer alternate, sometimes it rains and sometimes it is sunny, and the damp heat is aggravated. If you are not careful, you will easily be "caught".

  There is no specific medicine for a cold, and it is also a self-limiting disease. Many people can get through it after a few days’ rest, but some people take a lot of medicine, which not only fails to alleviate, but is even more serious. The most common symptoms are fever and cough, and I can’t sleep well all night. What’s even worse is that this cough sometimes lasts for half a month, and the "hands and tails" are very long. Why is it so hard? Let’s listen to Dr. Nie Wenqiang, director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hong Min, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University.

  I believe that many people who suffer from colds have similar experiences: when symptoms appear, they find some medicine to take, which is effective for the first two days, but after two days, they start coughing frequently or even having a fever, but then taking medicine is not effective. Moreover, at first, I only coughed during the day, and there was a little more phlegm. Later, I took expectorant drugs and it didn’t work. I coughed even more at night. Why do people get over a cold without taking medicine for a few days, but you take a lot of medicine and cough is not good?

  In fact, others get better quickly because his body adjusts in time to "stop loss quickly" at the beginning of a cold, and the reason why you "have a long hand and tail" is to drag the disease from "exterior syndrome to interior syndrome" and completely go through the following three stages:

  first stage

  At the beginning of a cold, help "positive" and "stop loss quickly"

  Traditional Chinese medicine believes that exogenous symptoms in the early stage of a cold, such as headache, aversion to cold, stuffy nose and runny nose, heavy or sore body, fever, etc., are mainly caused by the lack of healthy qi. For example, when the resistance drops, exogenous pathogens will invade the human body under the influence of factors such as sudden climate change, abnormal cold and heat, and excessive fatigue.

  In fact, the human body has a self-regulation mechanism. People with mild symptoms in the early stage of a cold and good health can gradually relieve symptoms by traditional methods, such as drinking some onion and black bean soup, or drinking more hot water, sweating and taking more rest to protect the "healthy qi" in the body, and can heal themselves without taking medicine.

  Onion and black bean soup:

  Take 3 inches of scallion and 30 grams of fermented soybean, and decoct the soup twice;

  For patients with slightly severe symptoms, 10 grams of Ramulus Cinnamomi and 15 grams of Gardenia can be added, and the decoction can be taken twice;

  For patients with slight cough, dry throat and itchy throat, 12 grams of cassia twig and 10 grams of almond can be decocted and taken twice.

  Special reminder: the above is the dosage for adults, and children should reduce it as appropriate.

  If the symptoms are more serious, it is necessary to use more pungent and warm prescriptions, such as Mahuang Decoction, Guizhi Decoction and Gegen Decoction in classic prescriptions.

  stage Ⅱ

  From the outside to the inside, the immune "army" can’t stand it.

  In the early stage of a cold, those who can "stop the loss" in time will heal themselves in a week or so, but often many people have not improved for a week and dragged them into the second stage — — The disease "goes from the outside to the inside", and the immune "army" in the body is losing ground, and even starts to have a fever and cough.

  People with chronic pharyngitis, in particular, are more likely to lead to acute attacks of chronic diseases. The "cold and dampness" that was originally lurking in the body and did not dare to act rashly emerged at this time, cooperating with the cold virus and attacking the body together.

  From the perspective of Chinese medicine, the common cold cough is the result of cold virus and cold and dampness in the body. The treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine is to comprehensively evaluate and treat according to syndrome differentiation by combining everyone’s physique, medical history, predisposing factors and course of disease.

  The third stage

  Cough getting worse? It hurts to take medicine indiscriminately

  To deal with the common cold, many people will buy their own medicine "autonomy". In fact, patients who are not studying medicine generally don’t understand the syndrome differentiation of diseases, and they lack syndrome differentiation when buying their own medicine, so they may take the wrong medicine.

  Many people get worse and have a longer course of disease because of taking drugs indiscriminately. For example, in many cold patients with yellow phlegm and sore throat, TCM syndrome differentiation may be "cold-heat mixed syndrome". If you take a large amount of heat-clearing antidote, the inflammation will be eliminated, but the "righteousness" will also be damaged. In the face of the invasion of cold virus, it will become chronic cough and asthma for a long time.

  People with "cold and heat mixed syndrome" are often "deficiency in the interior" accompanied by heat syndrome. If you just take heat-clearing drugs blindly, you will not only be unable to get rid of "cold and dampness", but also can’t make up for righteousness. If you use a lot of heat-clearing and antidote, it will hurt "righteousness". Therefore, at this stage, it is necessary to help "righteousness" while moderately clearing away heat.

  Hong Min reminded that especially patients who are prone to cough and asthma repeatedly at ordinary times are mostly accompanied by deficiency in the interior (lack of healthy qi), so don’t eat proprietary Chinese medicines without authorization.

  People who are usually weak, easy to sweat and have low immunity and easy to catch a cold, can try Huangqi Jianzhong decoction in flu season or when the weather is changeable to help replenish qi and consolidate exterior.

  Huangqi Jianzhong decoction

  Formula: 10g of Astragalus membranaceus, 3g of Cinnamomum cassia twig, 6g of Radix Paeoniae Alba, 3g of Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata, 3g of Radix Saposhnikoviae, 3g of red dates and 6g of ginger.

  Usage: decoct soup once a day, and add about 10ml of honey when taking it.

  However, not everyone is suitable for using this preventive prescription. It is recommended to consult a doctor first and make a clear diagnosis before deciding whether to take it.