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Quantum computer has just entered its "electron tube era"

  Although I have heard the name of quantum computer countless times, like all concepts with the word "quantum", most people don’t know it.

  The concept of quantum computer was put forward in 1980s, and it has been put into research and development for 20 years. So far, none of them has really gone out of the laboratory. But it is said that it will be very powerful. Google, IBM, Alibaba and many start-ups are competing to be the first to achieve "quantum hegemony", that is, to make quantum computers faster than traditional computers in a computing task.

  After a superficial understanding of the principle of quantum computer, you will find that it is not much different from the computer we are familiar with.

  Quantum computer: a quantum version of the computer

  "Don’t think of the quantum computer as a brand-new system, it is an extended version of the classic computer, imitating the classic computer everywhere." Professor Han Zhengfu, chief scientist of Anhui Wentian Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. and key laboratory of quantum information of Chinese Academy of Sciences of China University of Science and Technology, told the Science and Technology Daily reporter.

  Han Zhengfu said that the classic computer represents the number 1 or 0 by the voltage level, which is a bit.

  The quantum computer corresponds to a quantum bit (Q-bit), which may be an electron whose spin arrow is up or down, or a light wave that vibrates vertically or horizontally … …

  Traditional computing circuits are composed of various "logic gates", which correspond to various "quantum logic gates" of quantum computers. According to certain rules, the 0 and 1 of storage bits are changed.

  Han Zhengfu said: "The traditional computer is played like this: a row of memory bits is written with an initial value (such as 10011001). Next, several steps are performed, and at each step, the numbers in the memory are transformed into another set of numbers. Stop after the program and read the numbers inside, such as 00101010, which is the calculation result. " The same is true of quantum computers.

  The difference between quantum computers is that Q-bit is particularly flexible and not as rigid as Bit. It is both 0 and 1. For example, it is 60% 0 and 40% 1. This gives it super powers. You have to learn a little quantum mechanics to understand the mystery of Q-bit.

  Fuzzy and accurate Q-bit

  What do you mean, "it’s 60% 0 and 40% 1"?

  Take a refresher course in senior high school physics: Experiments at the beginning of the 20th century found that substances are too small to be measured accurately. Because measurement means interference, even if you only look at it. When the object is so small as quantum level, its state will be completely destroyed by observation. By the way, the "touch-and-break" effect is used in quantum communication. Using quantum to carry the password can make it possible for someone to eavesdrop on this password signal and will certainly be found out. ) This is called "uncertainty principle". The smaller things are, the more blurred they are. You go to measure the position of an electron, this time in Beijing and next time in Tianjin. We can only say that a quantum "has a high probability of being in Beijing", "has a high probability of spinning arrows rushing up" and "has a high probability of lying flat and vibrating" … …

  These probabilities can be determined by multiple measurements, although the reading of a single measurement is not necessarily.

  Therefore, quantum bits are fuzzy and accurate: when the same number is read, 0 is read, and sometimes 1 is read; But after reading it many times, the probability of 0 will tend to a constant value, such as 60%.

  Why is quantum computing faster?

  "In a traditional computer, a high voltage is superimposed on another high voltage, which is still a high voltage; The superposition of qubits is different. " Han Zhengfu said.

  Quantum bits store a vector, just like a clock, which corresponds to the probability.

  The hour hand can point to zero (the qubit reading is 100% 0) or to three (the reading is 100% 1). Or point to 1: 30 (50% is 0 and 50% is 1), or point to any angle.

  Traditional computers store "10011001".

  Quantum computers store "bells, bells, bells, bells". Please imagine a row of clocks hanging in the lobby of the hotel.

  In traditional calculation, 1 and 0 are superimposed to 1, and then a 1 is superimposed to get 0.

  In quantum computing, the superposition of "three points" and "zero point" is "1: 30", and then the superposition of "three points" results in "2: 15".

  Q-bit is more expressive than bit. A Q-bit can contain infinitely complex numbers. In this sense, "one is more than one". A Q-bit input transformation is equal to the transformation of multiple digits together, which is called "parallel calculation".

  When the potential of parallel computing reaches its limit, the computing power of quantum computer is 2 n ∶ 1 compared with traditional computer.

  But it should be emphasized that the results of quantum computers come from probability statistics. Quantum computer is different from tradition, it has to repeat the program again and again, and read it again and again (the result is different every time). Repeatedly, enough times (the reliability of probability exceeds 99.99999%), the ratio of each qubit to 1 and 0 is counted, and that is the required number. So when it comes to less complicated computing tasks, quantum computing may be slower than classical computers.

  Rainbow and zebra

  Before the advent of quantum computers, mathematicians were imagining to use the "rich connotation" of quantum bits to greatly reduce the calculation time. But so far mathematicians have only proved that quantum computing is much faster than traditional computers in two scenarios.

  The first is to crack RSA algorithm. RSA is the most commonly used encryption method at present, and its mechanism is the difficulty of factorization — — Multiplying two large prime numbers is very simple, but splitting the product into two prime numbers may take tens of thousands of years for the computer.

  Therefore, banks can send a number of thousands of digits publicly and master its two prime factors without worrying about someone working out these two prime factors — — Used to make private digital keys.

  But more than 20 years ago, Peter Shor proved that an algorithm based on quantum computer can easily decompose factors, which also greatly increased the interest of academic circles in developing quantum computers.

  Another possible application is "searching large unordered databases", or "looking for a needle in a haystack". Traditional computers can only compare targets one by one, while quantum computers can calculate in parallel. If the traditional computer time is t, the quantum computer time is "root t" The former takes 1 million hours, while the latter can be solved in 1,000 hours.

  In addition to the above two kinds of calculations, quantum computers are also expected to make great achievements in chemistry, pharmacy and other fields in the future. The reason is: unlike traditional computers, quantum computers are real analog computers, which can reproduce the real nature (physicist Feynman first pointed this out).

  The 0 and 1 of traditional bits are equivalent to black and white, and the "hour hand that can point at any angle" of quantum bits is equivalent to a full-color spectrum, which can display any color.

  If the traditional memory is zebra, the quantum memory is rainbow. The world is colorful, and it is certainly more direct and convenient to describe the world with rainbows.

  Just getting started

  Quantum is very fragile and will collapse easily.

  "To encode information in a very tiny thing, such as an electron or a nucleus, we must first isolate it and let it not work with the surrounding area. This subtle control is very difficult. " Han Zhengfu said.

  All kinds of quantum carriers are accompanied by unique difficulties, for example, photons are always advancing, and electromagnetic fields can’t control them, which is very troublesome to control. At present, researchers are probably experimenting with dozens of carriers: electrons, photons and ions in traps … …

  Han Zhengfu said: "The Key Laboratory of Quantum Information of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which belongs to the Chinese University of Science and Technology, now has more than 50 associate professors, 150 doctoral students and nearly 30 postdoctoral students. There are many different groups in a team. Although the things studied are understandable to each other, there are specialties in the field, such as ‘ Make silicon ’ Some people will study the processes that the semiconductor industry cares about, such as exposure and cleaning; ‘ Do light ’ Research laser generators, oscillators, optical fibers and the like. "

  "Domestic research on quantum optics began in the early 1980s. There are many more people now, but they are still unpopular. Professionals are scarce. " Han Zhengfu said, "In fact, there are not enough talents in the world. So Google spent hundreds of millions of dollars to dig a team from the University of California, Santa Barbara, mainly studying superconducting quantum computers. "

  At present, major companies and research institutions are still improving the quantum bit quantity — — Strive for dozens of quanta to be stable at the same time, and don’t collapse too quickly. Superconducting machines cost millions of dollars to make the environment close to absolute zero. The engineering experimental machine is improving, but it is not known when it will be practical.

  Looking back at the first computer ENIAC in 1946, 18,000 electron tubes were used, which were glass tubes in which electrons were evacuated and flew. ENIAC weighs 30 tons and only calculates 5000 times per second. Without the semiconductor revolution more than ten years later, there would be no computers and mobile phones today.

  It should be said that the quantum computer has just entered its "electron tube era". (Science and Technology Daily reporter Gao Bo)

Leading intelligence: the cutting-edge technology of battery recycling related industries.

On April 5 th, the financial sector reported that some investors asked Pioneer Intelligence on the interactive platform: Does the company arrange equipment research and development for battery recycling, disassembly and reuse? Considering the large amount of batteries used in the future, recycling will also have a considerable scale.

The company replied: the company continues to pay attention to the cutting-edge technology of battery recycling related industries.

Dunhua News Network transformed consulting rooms in 14 hospitals and sent 38 bloggers for physical examination. Xiaohongshu launched a friendly action for women’s physical examination.

Such as writer Susan • Sontag wrote in Metaphor of Disease that everyone may face the disease, but in thousands of years of culture, some diseases have been labeled, making it difficult for people suffering from the disease to face themselves.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8th, Xiaohongshu Health launched the activity of "It doesn’t matter if there is something wrong", which helped more people to eliminate their sense of shame and anxiety through online topics and practical actions such as knowledge popularization and physical examination of 38 bloggers, and held the "It doesn’t matter meeting", which provided a place for public discussion on the topic of gynecological diseases that was originally shy. It is also to send care to women through the transformation of offline hospitals.

Susan • Sontag said, it doesn’t matter, the disease is just a disease, not a disaster from heaven, so don’t be ashamed to say it.

And Xiaohongshu also wants to tell you that there is something wrong with it, and it doesn’t matter. Action is the certainty of physical and mental health.

 From slogan to action "it doesn’t matter"

China Reproductive Health Research Report 2022 shows that among more than 3,100 women in 31 provinces and cities, 71% have gynecological symptoms such as irregular menstrual cycle, abnormal vagina and leucorrhea, but only 57.5% choose to see a doctor after gynecological symptoms appear.

Most of the shackles of women’s fear of illness and medical treatment come from the metaphorical "shame" and "fear" of illness. In addition, the uncertainty of diagnosis and the worry about future results have also discouraged many patients.

How to liberate from the metaphorical pressure brought by the disease, Susan • Sontag gave the answer: to get rid of these metaphors, we can’t just avoid them, they must be exposed, studied and exhausted.

In the online activity of "There is something wrong, it doesn’t matter", Xiaohongshu invited doctors as white coat friends to promote knowledge and ideas. And encourage more users to share the most authentic medical experience. Promote action with popular science, radiate the whole people from women, and reduce the anxiety and shame of ordinary people about diseases.

At present, there are 210 million exposures and 1.76w notes on the series of topics with # small problems and small methods. In addition to inviting many gynecologists and surgeons such as Dr. @Jojo to conduct popular science on women’s health; Xiaohongshu also launched the # It doesn’t matter action with 38 bloggers for physical examination. At present, many bloggers, such as @ Lahongshang @vivi Keaduo @ Sophie and Azhe, have shared the experience of gynecological examination, which is a name for gynecological diseases. Driven by them, more female users are willing to overcome shame and make changes for their health.

At the same time, on March 7th, Xiaohongshu also held a "Never mind meeting", inviting female characters from different fields, including doctors, writers, talk show actors, screenwriters and so on, to share their experiences and stories of coexistence with Xiaoxiao.

In gynecological examination, many women will be afraid of pain, and even wonder if they are too "melodramatic". In fact, individuals’ feelings of pain vary from person to person. As Si Wen said, we should respect the threshold of self-pain. Courageously expressing your pain during the examination is also a key step to face up to the disease.

From Online to Offline Friendly Clinic: A Closed Loop of Community Care

In recent years, the popularization of health knowledge is also driving the change of social concepts and promoting the public to face diseases and daily life with a correct attitude.

The fear and shame before seeing a doctor can be dispelled through popular science and experience sharing, but the discomfort in the actual examination is easy to leave a psychological shadow on women.

Ding Ding, director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Huashan Hospital (Baoshan Campus) affiliated to Fudan University, told reporters that in terms of physiology, the discomfort caused by gynecological examination may be the feedback of most people, especially in the first or unfamiliar environment. "Some patients will also tell me that they don’t know what examinations to do, or what items to do in the routine physical examination of gynecology, and how often to do them … …”

It is not difficult to see that, in addition to professional medical advice, women also expect a warm and comfortable medical environment. Based on this, Xiaohongshu linked Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Huashan Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Fudan University (Baoshan Campus), Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Union Medical College Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xiangya Second Hospital of Central South University, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital affiliated to Fudan University (Red House), Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital, Shanghai Tongren Hospital, Shanghai Jiading Central Hospital, Chengdu Women and Children Central Hospital, Changsha Central Hospital (Red House)

Taking Huashan Hospital as an example, Director Ding Ding revealed that through the warm environment transformation, such as relaxing and encouraging floor stickers, gynecological examination posture wall stickers, "it doesn’t matter doll" decoration, and men’s stop to set up illustrations, we strive to create a "it doesn’t matter, relax and friendly clinic" to alleviate everyone’s fear and worry about gynecological examination and treatment and convey the warm concept of "it doesn’t matter, relax".

In order to optimize the experience of women’s physical examination, many warm-hearted copybooks have been posted in the waiting area of the gynecological clinic of Huashan Hospital, such as "Don’t worry, the little problems on your body will always get better slowly" and "If you don’t take good care of yourself, just say sorry to your body, and it will definitely tell you that it doesn’t matter."

The examination bed or chair in the clinic is the place where the patient’s fear concentration is the highest. In order to ease the tension, Xiaohongshu United Hospital posted the slogan "Never mind, relax" on the ceiling, "Speak out if you feel uncomfortable, and the doctor will accompany you" and other encouraging slogans.

In addition, for women’s concerns, such as "will gynecological examination hurt?" "How to check the posture?" There are also wall stickers and signs to help patients who enter the clinic for the first time quickly understand how to cooperate with doctors for examination. After the examination, "it doesn’t matter" accompanying dolls, including cute cartoon immune cells, uterus, stomach, etc., will be sent as long-term companionship to bring emotional value to patients.

It is worth mentioning that all warm-hearted and encouraging slogans come from the notes sharing of real users in Xiaohong Bookstore. In this process, Xiaohongshu realized the real concern for women from online to offline.

According to feedback from many hospitals, these improvements have been well received by many patients, and "fun" and "warm heart" are their most direct feelings. When waiting for treatment, many patients punch in and take pictures next to the floor stickers and wall stickers. A doctor admitted that she saw more patients’ smiles in the reformed clinic.

Xiaohongshu hopes that through the activity of "It doesn’t matter if there is something wrong", the public’s concept of diseases and women’s health problems can be changed, and the social value as a lifestyle platform can be highlighted.

 

The spy war drama "Battlefield Lost Love": Do not forget your initiative mind, Remember the Mission.

  Since August 15th, the TV series "Battlefield Fantasy" started broadcasting on CCTV 8, and the viewing performance broke through 1%, and it has been rising all the way since then. Directed by Hai Yi and starring Apollo, Wu Qianyu, Gao Shuguang and Liu Dekai, the play tells the story of the life-and-death struggle between the young revolutionaries headed by He Wenqing and the Kuomintang and the Japanese around the economic war after the failure of the Great Revolution.

  The hero, He Wenqing, was originally a battalion commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army. Later, he was imprisoned by the enemy and released from prison with recommendation. However, he was still wrongly handled in the organization and expelled from the party during the White Terror period. After leaving the organization to become a businessman, He Wenqing still carried out the instructions of the Party to the letter, faced the strong enemy with dauntless spirit, and solved problems with perseverance and wisdom. According to the director, the original intention of "Battlefield Fantasy" is to create a communist party person who is "Do not forget your initiative mind and mindful of his mission": the protagonist He Wenqing did not go to extremes or indulge in ordinary things after being expelled from the Party, but "saved the country by curves" and continued to realize the revolutionary ideal with excellent business talents.

  In terms of cast, Apollo, who plays He Wenqing, is a powerful actor familiar to the audience. In the 2001 martial arts TV series Xiao Eleven Lang, Apollo played the role of "Lian Chengbi", which has remained in the hearts of many post-80s audiences. In recent years, he has performed well in costume dramas such as Shui Yue Dong Tian, Qin Shi Ming Yue, and General on the Top. In 2011, Apollo starred in CCTV-8 TV series "Soul of the Sea", which got good ratings. Wu Qianyu, a young actress in Hong Kong, is one-eighth of Chinese-French mixed blood. In the play, she plays Fan Fengjin, an overseas Chinese with a background of studying abroad, but her temperament is very consistent.

  In the last century, Liu Dekai, who entered the dreams of thousands of families and countless young girls with Qiong Yao dramas such as "A Curtain of Dreams", is still old and handsome as Fan Rongnan, a patriotic overseas Chinese. Gao Shuguang, an actor, changed the positive image of the past, and performed a wily Fuxing Club leader.

  It is reported that although "Battlefield Romance" is a red theme, it has some light comedy elements. In particular, the emotional line between the man and the woman, from tell it to the judge to the partner who fought side by side, their love stories are intertwined in the tense spy front, which has played a role in relaxing the atmosphere and changing the rhythm.

  Different from the general fictional spy war drama, the plot of the spy war in this drama is basically based on the real historical events in the 1930s, which restores the customs of the underground party, overseas Chinese and business circles in Fujian, and to some extent, sees the big picture from the small, which truly reproduces the scene of that year. The play jumped out of the same theme, and the story line closely revolved around the historical truth of how the Red Army crushed the enemy’s economic blockade. According to the director, he hopes to explore these unknown details of real history through the hero’s special experience of using shopping malls as battlefields.

Interpretation of listed car companies’ financial reports in the first half of the year; Car companies at home and abroad face profit challenges together.

  In the first half of 2019, car companies at home and abroad had a hard time. According to the semi-annual/second-quarter financial reports published by listed car companies, many car companies have experienced performance decline and even losses due to multiple factors such as declining sales and high R&D investment. In order to stop loss in time, some car companies also try to control costs by laying off employees, closing factories or reducing R&D investment to reverse the situation.

  ■ Reduce the annual sales target with a view to stable development.

  In the first half of the year, the word "decline" in the domestic auto market was the first, which was reflected in the financial reports of listed auto companies, that is, everyone’s life was generally difficult.

  Geely Automobile, which has made great strides in the past two years, is quite ambitious to be an "independent brother". However, since the end of 2018, Geely has also fallen into the dilemma of declining sales growth. According to public data, from January to July 2019, the cumulative total sales volume of Geely Automobile was 743,000 units, down 16% year-on-year. Earlier, Geely Automobile also announced that its annual sales target for 2019 will be lowered by 10% from 1.51 million units to 1.36 million units.

  According to the group profit warning issued by Geely Automobile recently, as of June 30, 2019, Geely Automobile’s net profit in the first half of the year decreased by about 40% year-on-year, far lower than the net profit of 6.67 billion yuan in the same period last year. For the decline in profit, Geely believes that this is mainly due to the fact that the overall sales volume of the group’s automobiles fell beyond expectations and actively reduced dealer inventory.

  Changan Automobile, which is also affected by the decline in sales, still cannot escape the "fate" of performance loss this quarter. According to official data, in the first half of 2019, the net profit loss of Changan Automobile was 1.9 billion to 2.6 billion yuan, which was as high as 218.04%-261.53% compared with the same period of last year. In the first half of the year, Changan’s joint venture and independent sectors all performed poorly, and the cumulative sales volume decreased by 31.65% year-on-year to 825,000 units.

  Compared with Geely and Changan, whose sales declined, Great Wall Motor, which achieved a contrarian growth in sales in the first half of the year, also faced a profit problem.

  In the first half of 2019, Great Wall Motor sold a total of 493,500 new cars, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%. Despite this, Great Wall Motor still experienced a double decline in operating income and net profit in the first half of the year. According to the 2019 interim results forecast of Great Wall Motor, in the first half of this year, Great Wall Motor achieved operating income of about 41.38 billion yuan, down about 15% year-on-year; The net profit was about RMB 1.57 billion, down about 58% year-on-year; The net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies after deducting non-recurring gains and losses was about RMB 1.24 billion, down about 65% year-on-year.

  In this regard, Great Wall Motor said: "During the reporting period, the company increased the product preferential quota to benefit consumers, and continued to increase brand promotion and R&D investment, resulting in a year-on-year decline in net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies." Based on the market environment in the first half of the year, Great Wall Motor also lowered its sales target for 2019 from 1.2 million to 1.07 million to keep the overall sales healthy, stable and sustainable.

  In the first half of this year, Haima Automobile, jiangling motors and FAW Car also suffered a sharp year-on-year decline in net profit.

  ■ The profitability of overseas car companies has been greatly tightened.

  The downturn in China’s auto market has also greatly tightened the global revenue of many multinational auto companies.

  Daimler, which is famous for making money, has suffered a "long-lost" profit loss. According to public reports, in the first half of this year, Daimler’s revenue increased by 2% year-on-year to 82.35 billion euros, but its net profit fell by 78% year-on-year to 907 million euros. The report shows that Daimler’s expenditure on special projects increased significantly in the first half of this year, mainly for further disposal of diesel vehicle exhaust emissions and recall of Mercedes-Benz cars equipped with defective airbags produced by Takada Company of Japan. In the second quarter of this year, Daimler’s special project expenditure reached 4.2 billion euros, which directly affected the company’s performance — — In the second quarter, earnings before interest and tax lost 1.6 billion euros, which was the first quarterly performance loss of Daimler in nine years.

  The decline in sales has further affected Daimler’s profitability. In the second quarter of this year, the overall sales volume of Daimler’s passenger car sector decreased by 3% to 575,000 units. To this end, Daimler has repeatedly issued profit warnings; He also said that in order to improve the profitability, the research and development costs of Mercedes-Benz cars will be greatly reduced by 2025, and the alliance with competitors will be strengthened.

  Under the tide of the new four modernizations of automobiles, large automobile groups don’t want to fall behind in the above fields. This directly brings about the overweight of R&D investment.

  Thanks to the steady performance of the China market, in the second quarter of this year, BMW achieved a cumulative sales increase of 1.5% to 647,000 vehicles, and its revenue also increased by 3% to 25.715 billion euros. Despite this, the company’s earnings before interest and tax fell by 28.4%, from 2.866 billion euros to 2.053 billion euros.

  In this regard, BMW Group said that the company has been expanding its investment in pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles, and continues to optimize internal combustion engines. The reason for the decline in profits is that the increase in expenditure on electric vehicles has lowered the profit margin.

  Also suffering from the decline in performance is Ford Motor Company. The nearly "Waterloo" sales performance in the China market has made this century-old automobile brand a little less spirited. According to the public financial report of Ford Motor Company, in the second quarter of this year, Ford’s total revenue was $38.85 billion, down from $38.92 billion in the same period last year. Net income fell to $148 million, down 86% year on year. Among them, Ford’s loss in China market reached $155 million. In addition, Ford Motor Company also said that its net income plummeted in the second quarter and was also affected by its business restructuring in Europe and South America.

  ■ Controlling cost and improving bicycle profit are the keys.

  Several families are happy and worried. In a downward trend, there are always many strong players who are growing against the trend.

  In the first fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2020 (April-June), Toyota Motor’s net profit attributable to ordinary shareholders was 682.974 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 3.91%; Operating income was 7.65 trillion yen, a year-on-year increase of 3.85%. 

  The increase in profit is mainly due to Toyota’s good sales performance at home and abroad in the first half of the year. In the first half of this year, Toyota’s sales in Japan increased by 3.6% year-on-year to 1.212 million units, and overseas sales increased by 1.5% year-on-year to 4.1 million units.

  At the same time, cost control and high bicycle profit have also become effective ways for car companies to achieve profitability.

  In the first half of this year, the cumulative global sales volume of Volkswagen Group was 5,365,300 vehicles, down 2.8% year-on-year. Despite the decline in overall car sales, Volkswagen Group still achieved a substantial increase in profit value, driven by the SUV with higher profit margin of Volkswagen brand and the increase in sales of Porsche brand. The report shows that the sales revenue of the Volkswagen Group in the first half of the year reached 125.2 billion euros, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%; Operating profit was 9 billion euros, a year-on-year increase of 10.3%.

  GM, on the other hand, relied on cost control to achieve a steady performance in the second quarter. With the strong performance of the North American market and effective cost control, GM achieved steady performance in the second quarter: the company’s net income reached $36.1 billion during the reporting period; Among them, the net profit reached 2.4 billion US dollars, up 1.6% year-on-year; Diluted earnings per share was $1.66. In addition, GM said that the measures to improve cost efficiency through transformation have been effective and have achieved cost savings of $1.1 billion.

  In fact, domestic car companies also try to control costs to achieve light travel. According to a recent report by Reuters, Shenlong Automobile is planning to sell its first and second factories in Wuhan, and gradually start to lay off employees, so as to put more funds into marketing. (Hong Hanqi)

The shadow of the snowstorm in Hangzhou gradually passed and Spring Festival travel rush began to improve.

Topic: 2008 Spring Festival travel rush

Special topic: all parts of the country are United in freezing disaster

  


  


  On the afternoon of January 30, at a temporary stop near Hangzhou Railway Station, the medical staff of the medical rescue station were examining the stranded passengers. Recently, due to the heavy snow, the railway and highway traffic in China has been blocked or interrupted, and a large number of returning passengers have been stranded in Hangzhou Railway Station and major long-distance bus stations in urban areas. It is reported that since January 27, Hangzhou has opened a number of temporary residence points to provide living security and warm services for stranded passengers in various forms. By the afternoon of January 30th, it had received nearly 100,000 people. China News Agency issued Jong Li photo


  Long-distance bus tickets can be signed at any time.


  Hangzhou Railway Station resumed ticket sales, and Xiaoshan Airport operated normally.


  There is good news to tell you. Although many trains stopped on the Hangzhou Railway yesterday, because a large number of passengers responded to the government’s call and chose to refund their tickets for the New Year in Hangzhou, the passenger detention at Hangzhou Railway Station finally began to improve last night, and Hangzhou Railway Station will resume selling train tickets from today. At the same time, the news from the highway and civil aviation departments is that the operation order is gradually improving, and Hangzhou Spring Festival travel rush is getting out of the shadow of the snowstorm day by day.


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  Inter-provincial buses are gradually becoming normal.


  The reporter learned from the bus stations in the southeast and northwest that at 9: 00 am yesterday, all the buses at the East Station and the South Station were running normally. The West Railway Station resumed the inter-provincial buses from Hangzhou to Quzhou, Kaihua, Longyou, Tonglu, Xin ‘anjiang, Lin ‘an and Changhua, and the inter-provincial buses from Jingdezhen, Wuyuan, Jiujiang and Nanchang in Jiangxi. Shuttle buses such as Changsha and Wuhan gradually resumed operation. Nearly 60 inter-provincial buses from North Station to Nanjing have been dispatched at one time, which were taken away by police cars, and other inter-provincial buses are ready to start.


  As of 16: 30 pm, it was learned from the bus stations in the southeast and northwest that all the buses at the East Bus Station and the South Bus Station were operating normally. Shuttle buses from West Bus Station to Quzhou, Kaihua, Longyou, Tonglu, Xin ‘anjiang, Lin ‘an and Changhua are running normally. Inter-provincial shuttle buses to Jingdezhen, Wuyuan, Jiujiang, Nanchang and Yushan in Jiangxi are currently operating normally, including 23 flights to Nanchang yesterday; Sent to Jingdezhen class 18; There are as many as 100 shuttle buses to Tunxi and Shexian in Anhui. Other inter-provincial lines such as Changsha and Wuhan are currently suspended. The bus line from North Bus Station to the province is basically normal. The service in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province is basically normal. The shuttle bus to Nanjing runs 67 times in the morning, but it stopped again after 12 noon due to road congestion. Due to the closure of Xuancheng-Guangde Expressway, classes of lines in Huangmei and Wuhan in Hubei were diverted to Hangzhou-Jinhua-Quzhou Expressway and bypassed by Jiangxi Province. Anhui, Henan and other inter-provincial lines continue to stop.


  Long-distance bus tickets do not expire.


  Yesterday, the Spring Festival travel rush Office of Hangzhou released a message that from now on, Hangzhou Changyun will introduce a permanent and effective measure for bus tickets during the Spring Festival travel rush period. As long as the line is opened, ticket holders can go with them as soon as they arrive. That is to say, instead of waiting at the bus station, they can go to the bus station at any time.


  At the same time, the four major stations have also opened the ticketing service telephone number 86981111 and the service consultation telephone number 86046666, providing consultation service 24 hours a day, and adopting the method of multi-point ticketing, all the ticketing windows of the four major bus stations have been opened to serve passengers.


  The bus station will open a temporary waiting area.


  At present, the situation of roads around Hangzhou has improved, and a large number of passengers will flock to the station. At present, the transportation department of Hangzhou has set up departure points outside the station according to the actual situation, in which the temporary waiting point of the West Coach Station is located in the nearby Armed Police Command School, and the temporary waiting point of the North Coach Station is located in the nearby Motor City. Once the station is overcrowded, these places will also be used as temporary departure points, where passengers can wait and get on the bus.


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  The detention situation at the railway station has improved.


  As the disastrous rain and snow weather continues, the number of trains stopped at Hangzhou Railway Station has increased. On the 30th, 18 pairs of new trains were stopped, bringing the total number of stopped trains to 38.


  However, due to a large number of passengers returning their tickets at the station according to the outage situation, nearly 40,000 tickets were refunded at Hangzhou Railway Station and Hangzhou East Railway Station in only three days from January 28 to 30. In addition, some passengers responded to the call of government departments and stayed in Hangzhou for the holidays, which made the passengers stranded in Hangzhou Station basically delivered by 30th, and the train operation order was adjusted accordingly due to the suspension. It is expected that the train operation order from Hangzhou to Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangzhou will be gradually restored after today. The situation of Hangzhou’s delay in going to Xi ‘an, Taiyuan, Datong, Fuyang and Hefei has been greatly improved, and the operation order has basically recovered.


  To this end, the ticket offices of Hangzhou Railway Station and Hangzhou East Railway Station will resume the sale of train tickets to all parts of the country within three days from today, and the ticket outlets in the city will still sell train tickets to all parts of the country within 11 days. In the early stage, due to the serious delay of trains in the direction of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangzhou, passengers who have not yet refunded their tickets and are still waiting for news, if they still need to continue to take the bus, Hangzhou Station and hangzhou east railway station can go through the formalities of changing the corresponding trains to late boarding according to passenger demand and train operation and transportation capacity. From today, Hangzhou Railway Station will set up a special window for changing tickets in the North Ticket Office to handle the corresponding change procedures for passengers who hold train tickets for Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangzhou from the 27th to 31st. All refunds will be made in the lobby of the North Ticket Office.


  Increased train stops


  The newly stopped trains confirmed yesterday are: 29: 2997 from Hangzhou to Nanchang; 30th: 1213 trips to Hainan-Guiyang, K539 trips to Hangzhou-Guiyang and 2927 trips to Hangzhou East-Nanchang; 31st: 1213 trips to Hainan-Guiyang, K422/3 trips to Ningbo-Chengdu, K539 trips to Hangzhou-Guiyang, K149 trips to Hainan-Zhanjiang, K71 trips to Hainan-Chongqing North, K111 trips to Hainan-Guiyang, 5125 trips to Hangzhou-Wenzhou, L129 trips to Hangzhou-Nanchang and Suzhou-Ganzhou. February 1st: K149 trips to Hainan-Zhanjiang, K537 trips to Hainan-Nanning, K584/1 trip to Ningbo-Nanning and 5125 trips to Hangzhou-Wenzhou.


  Passengers with the above train tickets should go to Hangzhou Railway Station and Hangzhou East Railway Station for full refund immediately. When refunding tickets, please go to the refund window of Hangzhou Railway Station and Hangzhou East Railway Station. Don’t trust the lobbying of suspicious people, and don’t refund tickets to these people at will, so as not to take advantage of the loopholes for ticket sellers or cause unnecessary losses.


  There are more and more waiting passenger settlement points.


  With the strong support of government departments, armed police officers and soldiers, an army unit stationed in Hangzhou, Hangzhou Volunteers Association and other social circles, the railway department has properly arranged about 30,000-40,000 train passengers who are delayed every day. At present, the resettlement sites that have been used and are in use include: leisure waiting room of Hangzhou Railway Station, 4 self-provided garages under the railway building, 20 military tents under Qingtai overpass, Hangzhou Railway Station, hangzhou east railway station Square, Red Star Theatre, Zhongmin Building, Hangzhou Gymnasium and Peace International Convention and Exhibition Center.


  In these places, community workers, medical staff and local police officers provided a series of services such as water, food, heating, mobile toilets, security, medical treatment and psychological intervention for migrant workers who were late for the train, and tried their best to serve and appease the stranded migrant workers.


  civil aviation


  Xiaoshan airport is back to normal.


  Because the snow caused the airport to close for six hours, the flight delay at Xiaoshan Airport on the 29th was very serious. By 10: 00 pm on the 29th, there were more than 100 flights that day, accounting for nearly half of the total number of flights. Xiaoshan airport was brightly lit all night, and people came and went, which was very lively. The latest flight didn’t end until 6: 00 a.m. on the 30th.


  On the 30th, the rainy and snowy weather for several days came to an end temporarily, and the flights at Xiaoshan Airport finally returned to normal. At 7 o’clock in the morning, flights began to take off one after another, and the flights were orderly, and the crowd waiting in the terminal was not as crowded as it was a few days ago.


  After several days of continuous closure, Changsha Airport has accumulated a large number of flights to be flown, so there are strict restrictions on receiving inbound flights, basically one every two hours, so the waiting time for flights from Hangzhou to Changsha is longer. Air China flight CA1789, which originally left in the morning, has not taken off until five o’clock in the afternoon. Guiyang airport was closed before 9: 00 in the morning, so Air China flight CA1751 from Hangzhou to Guiyang was delayed until 10: 59.


  According to statistics, there were about 30 flights delayed at Xiaoshan Airport yesterday, mainly due to flow control. Generally speaking, the airport flight operation has basically returned to normal. Next, it will be the rush hour in Spring Festival travel rush, and the number of flights has increased a lot these days. It is expected that the daily average number of flights at Xiaoshan Airport will exceed 320 in the next few days.


  National airport flights began to resume.


  Two days ago, the bad weather in a large area of the country caused many airport flights to be abnormal, and delays and cancellations were very common. Since yesterday, flights at airports around the country have been gradually on the right track, because many flights were cancelled two days ago and many make-up flights were left behind. In addition, it is the rush hour in Spring Festival travel rush, and the daily flight volume of major airports has reached saturation. Because the air traffic is too large, there is traffic control in many directions, especially in Guangzhou, Beijing, Shenzhen and other directions. Because these directions have traffic control more or less, most of the delayed flights on the 30th are in these directions. (Xia Chun Gao Yun Yang Hanyu Li Yanzhou Gao Yanhua)

Editor: Zhou Zhongxiao

The popularity of the first live broadcast of "Police Flowers and Police Dogs" in Hou Mengsha broke 100,000.

"Police Flowers and Police Dogs" will be broadcasted by Zhejiang Satellite TV on July 7th in China Blue Theater.



The large-scale police-themed youth inspirational TV series "Police Flower and Police Dog" will seize the summer file on the 7 th of this month and start the first summer shot. Yesterday, Hou Mengsha, the powerful actor who plays the heroine "Li Shuhan", and Yu Hewei, the leading actor, held a grand press conference in Beijing with a group of masters, and once again went to the Beijing Police Dog Base to have a warm reunion with the police dogs who were photographed together in the past.
At the event, Hou Mengsha appeared in a black shoulder dress and a long black-and-white dress. This classic black-and-white color combination makes her particularly youthful and beautiful, and she is natural. According to her, she also loves black and white clothes in private, and the simple and natural style is her favorite way of dressing, which also shows Hou Mengsha’s pure and natural personality from the side. At this conference, the theme song MV and the super-long film were first released for media reporters to get a sneak peek. Sometimes warm and sometimes urgent pictures in the film make Hou Mengsha’s memories surge, and even her eyes are wet after seeing the injured figure of her dog "Cherry". In a subsequent interview, she said that after watching the film, she remembered the scenes that she used to get along with "cherry" and felt a lot. I am very reluctant to give up this lovely, smart and loyal little friend, and even said that I want to take "Cherry" home. When the host asked me if I had a pet, Hou Mengsha recalled his pet dog and even choked up.


Today, the live broadcast is in power, and a number of popular live broadcast apps will certainly not miss this rare opportunity. Three new media platforms, Mei Pai, Zanthoxylum bungeanum and a live broadcast, showed the audience the grand occasion of this conference in Hou Mengsha. Hou Mengsha, who has never played live broadcast, also dedicated his first live broadcast to Police Flower and Police Dog. In the police dog base, Hou Mengsha broadcasted her interaction with her dog "Cherry" for the first time. When she met with "Cherry" again, she recognized it at a glance, and "Cherry" was particularly excited and interacted closely with Hou Mengsha.
Such a loving live broadcast instantly attracted the attention of many netizens, and the cumulative number of people watching the whole 50-minute live broadcast reached 110,000, which was a good start. The combination of beautiful police flower Hou Mengsha and cute dog makes the live broadcast room extremely hot, and such a high popularity also makes "Police Flower and Police Dog" fire before it is broadcast, which makes people even more eager to see the feature film.
Love and blood, warm and youthful "Police Flower and Police Dog" agreed that you will be there on Zhejiang Satellite TV on July 7!

How does the market guarantee supply? How to promote holiday consumption? -Multi-sectoral interpretation of measures to promote consumption during the Spring Festival

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 6th Question: How does the market guarantee supply? How to promote holiday consumption? -Multi-sectoral interpretation of measures to promote consumption during the Spring Festival

Xinhua News Agency reporter Wei Hongyi

The Spring Festival is the traditional peak season for consumption. At the press conference of the State Council Office held on the 6th, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the State Sports General Administration and other departments introduced relevant information and answered reporters’ questions on ensuring the supply of the Spring Festival market and promoting holiday consumption.

The national consumer market was stable and orderly before the holiday.

Sheng Qiuping, Vice Minister of Commerce, said that on the occasion of the Spring Festival in year of the loong, commercial departments at all levels continued to improve various measures to strengthen the production, marketing and supply of people’s livelihood commodities during the festival. Generally speaking, the operation of the pre-holiday consumer market presents the following three characteristics:

Sufficient supply. Large-scale wholesale markets of agricultural and sideline products around the country have sufficient stocks of daily necessities such as grain, oil, meat, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables, and the stocking of daily necessities in key wholesale markets and supermarkets is 10% to 30% higher than usual. Major e-commerce platforms continue to provide distribution services during the Spring Festival.

The price is stable. Relevant statistics on February 5th show that the average wholesale prices of grain, edible oil, beef and mutton in 100 large-scale agricultural and sideline products wholesale markets in China have remained stable since the beginning of February, and vegetable prices have shown a seasonal increase.

Sales are booming. With the growing flavor of the year, major shopping malls, supermarkets and online platforms have ushered in sales peaks. In late January, the sales of retail enterprises monitored by the Ministry of Commerce increased by 19.9% month-on-month. In January, sales of key monitoring e-commerce platforms increased by 20% year-on-year.

Ensuring that the supply in the holiday market is not out of stock and uninterrupted is the key point of ensuring the supply and price stability in the market. In terms of strengthening the construction of the system of ensuring the supply of daily necessities, Xu Xingfeng, director of the Department of Market Operation and Consumption Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the Ministry of Commerce will constantly improve the three networks of "monitoring, dispatching and storage" to keep abreast of the basic situation of the production, circulation and consumption of key varieties of daily necessities, improve the emergency response capability, increase the commercial inventory according to the times and circumstances, and ensure that the reserved commodities are "adequately stored, transferred and used".

Multi-departmental measures to promote consumption during the Spring Festival

With the change of people’s lifestyle, China’s consumer market presents many new features. Xu Xingfeng said that these characteristics mainly include four aspects: more pursuit of green health, more prominent personality diversity, more prominent cultural characteristics, and more favor for scientific and technological intelligence.

Based on these characteristics, many departments have launched targeted measures to promote consumption-

The Ministry of Commerce promotes the linkage between urban and rural markets, online and offline, and jointly organizes online Chinese New Year Festival, "Happy Shopping in Rural Areas" and other activities, and organizes a series of activities such as sales promotion, rural tourism, skill display and cultural communication, and carries out a series of thematic activities around new consumption such as digital, green and health.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism organizes cultural and tourism activities on the theme of "Happy New Year". Miao Muyang, Director of the Industrial Development Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said that related activities include launching a special program of "Literary China" in the Spring Festival, launching a series of "Village Evening" exhibition projects in conjunction with various localities, and launching a series of special courses, boutique routes and theme activities for study tours to make the festival more festive and cheerful.

Wang Xiaopeng, head of the Sports Economics Department of the State Sports General Administration, said that the State Sports General Administration will focus on the consumption characteristics of "green health" and do a good job in deepening the integration of business travel, culture and sports through a series of events of the "outdoor sports vitality landscape" action plan.

Continue to meet the consumer demand of the people

Sheng Qiuping said that the Ministry of Commerce has designated 2024 as the "Year of Consumption Promotion". The Ministry of Commerce will adhere to the "policy and activity" two-wheel drive, run a series of consumption promotion activities well, and introduce more policy measures to promote consumption from post-epidemic recovery to continuous expansion.

Sheng Qiuping introduced that the Ministry of Commerce will achieve "there are themes in the season, there are activities in the month, and there are scenes in the week". Four major theme activities will be held throughout the year, and 12 key activities will be carried out, including a series of activities such as the National Consumption Promotion Month and the International Consumption Season. Optimize consumption supply and innovate consumption scenarios to fully meet the diversified consumption needs of ordinary people.

In addition, around the goal of actively cultivating the consumption growth point of domestic products, the Ministry of Commerce will focus on time-honored brands and organize a series of activities to promote the consumption of domestic products. At the same time, taking the pedestrian street as the carrier, we will guide the pedestrian streets, business districts, and quarter-hour convenient living circles around the country to combine the peak consumption season and strengthen the promotion of domestic "trendy products" according to local conditions.

Wang Xiaopeng said that in order to promote the quality and efficiency of the ice and snow industry and meet the diversified consumption needs of the people, the State Sports General Administration will hold high-level competitions and accelerate the improvement of ice and snow services to provide more and better quality services for the people to participate in ice and snow sports.

In view of the phenomenon that culture and tourism consumption have continued to be hot since New Year’s Day in 2024, Miao Muyang concluded that it is necessary to persist in exerting efforts at both ends of supply and demand, promote overall planning, strengthen the construction of a service-oriented government, and adhere to the concept of sharing between host and guest. It is necessary to expand the supply of high-quality products to meet the consumer demand of the masses, innovate products and services in line with the consumer demand of the masses, consolidate the guarantee system of cultural and tourism policies and systems, standardize and rectify the order of cultural and tourism markets, and improve the supply quality and service level of cultural tourism.

Aborigines in the era of artificial intelligence: at the age of 3, they do spelling and learning programming at the age of 5.

  Six-year-old Bai Haoming (left) and Fu Hongzhou (right) participated in the "Intelligent Sorting Engineering Challenge" project of the Youth Robot Design Competition of the 2018 World Robotics Congress. Jess Zhang/photo

  The 2018 World Robotics Congress held not long ago attracted many young people to visit and participate in the competition, and the exhibits related to children’s services naturally became the focus of everyone’s attention. In this field, many exhibitors set the function of "programming" as the key word to attract consumers, "All children in the future must be able to program".

  Nowadays, "programming" is considered as one of the entry points for children to adapt to the era of artificial intelligence. Several parents interviewed randomly by reporters at the scene also said in unison: "Even if children don’t work in artificial intelligence in the future, they need to know something about robots and programming."

  "Artificial intelligence starts with dolls"

  In the youth robot design competition held during the conference, two small figures in the "Intelligent Sorting Engineering Challenge" area were particularly eye-catching.

  The fleshy hands are as long as the mouse, and the hem of the T-shirts distributed uniformly dangles at the knees. Six-year-old Bai Haoming and Fu Hongzhou are the youngest players in this project, from Shenzhen. They have entered the threshold of programming.

  "Let them do it, and don’t expect to get any rankings." Bai Haoming’s mother clung to the baffle in the field and leaned into half of her body to look at the child’s operation. She thought this was the simplest event in this competition.

  In fact, this is not the case. Bai Hao-ming and Fu Hongzhou need to suck up 10 building blocks of different colors through the mechanical arm within the specified time and carry them to the area corresponding to the color. In this process, the two will cooperate with the debugging of the mechanical arm and programming to complete a series of links such as moving the mechanical arm to a designated position, accurately identifying the color, absorbing the wood blocks, and transporting the wood blocks to other designated areas.

  As expected, their first attempt failed, and the green block was put in the red area. "No, no! Write the data again! " Bai Haoming’s mother is more anxious than her children.

  Six-year-old Fu Hongzhou sat in front of the computer, but he was very calm. His little hand rested slowly on the mouse, and Bai Hao-ming also gathered in front of the screen. They discussed dragging the program module to reprogram, and it was soon finished. After restarting, the green building blocks were successfully transported to the corresponding green area.

  In fact, when Bai Haoming was five years old, he could command the airplane model to start the propeller through computer programming. His mother was convinced that "artificial intelligence starts with dolls". Designated robot platform for this competition — — A certain type of mechanical arm is worth "20,000 to 30,000 yuan", and Bai Haoming’s mother thinks this kind of investment is very worthwhile.

  Fu Hongzhou’s father also thinks that "the future must be the era of artificial intelligence". He asks his children to practice programming once or twice a week for no more than two hours at a time.

  Encouraging children to learn programming is not only the choice of the above two parents. Yi Hui, a robot training coach at the scene of the Youth Robot Design Competition, told reporters that a training institution where he works has become more and more popular in the past three years: some 3-year-old children come to cultivate their structure and sense of space through spelling exercises; Learn simple programming at the age of 5 to 6, and master simple physics knowledge after preschool; After the age of 8, you can usually start to contact relatively complicated modular programming.

  This time, Tian Tian, the little player he brought, began to contact the mosaic robot at the age of 3, and at the age of 5, he was able to design simple games through modular programming. Tian Tian’s father believes that the simplified programming that he is exposed to now will be helpful for children to write code programming in the future. "Although the input forms are different, the logic is the same."

  However, he believes that for Xiao Tiantian, how much knowledge is acquired is second, and what is more important is the shaping of soft power. Tian Tian’s father thinks that the child’s patience has been "greatly improved" and "he can analyze the reasons himself in the face of failure".

  What kind of education scheme is suitable for you?

  In fact, not only in the competition, but also in the Expo and product exhibition area of the World Robotics Congress, "programming" is also the key word in the hearts of parents and children who come to visit.

  Mr. Liu from Beijing and his 6-year-old son Yangyang stopped in front of a programming robot for just over ten minutes, and Yangyang learned how to make the robot parrot dance by using action memory programming.

  Mr. Liu introduced that Yangyang was able to put together hundreds of models at the age of four, so this time he bought a programming robot worth 1299 yuan for his son without hesitation. I believe programming is not difficult for his son.

  "Artificial intelligence will be very popular in the future, and he should be exposed to the development trend of society." Mr. Liu said.

  Judging from the popularity of on-site programming robots, Mr. Liu seems to have spoken the voice of most parents. Exhibitors don’t need to elaborate on the significance of programming to children’s development. As long as they put out their own products, they will be quickly surrounded by a wave of teenagers and parents.

  The reporter noted that in order to meet the needs of children, parents, schools and training institutions, many related enterprises are actively developing educational programs for "cultivating aborigines in the era of artificial intelligence", and the concepts and characteristics of each supplier are different.

  Taking a certain type of programming robot selected by Yangyang children as an example, simple programming learning can be carried out after the robot components and motors are inserted. The programming methods include "action memory programming" and "graphical programming".

  According to reports, teaching material packages including such programming robots have landed in several children’s palaces and primary schools around the country. Guo Zuyun, an information technology teacher at the experimental primary school in Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone, is one of the users. He introduced that in order to be in line with the era of artificial intelligence, the school built a new function room and introduced a number of engineering intelligence teaching materials. "There are more than 900 people in the school, and more than 200 people have chosen my class. However, due to limited conditions, we only recruited 35 people. "

  In the mobile game My World: Education Edition, which is popular among teenagers, children can cultivate computational thinking through visual programming. It is understood that teachers in more than 100 countries around the world are promoting classroom innovation and collaboration through this game.

  People are exploring various possibilities of artificial intelligence education. Material packages, laboratories, interdisciplinary educational research and practice platforms, mobile games or public welfare activities, and various educational programs are dazzling. At present, what remains unchanged is that "programming" has become the intersection of various schemes.

  "The traditional concept is that learning programming is to be a code farmer in the future, but it is not. The future world will be a digital world, and writing code may be as natural and necessary as writing articles and learning languages today. " An industry insider in the field of artificial intelligence education told reporters. (China Youth Daily Zhongqing Online Reporter Jess Zhang)

Spicy Interview | Hong Ying, the original author of Lanxin Grand Theatre: Lou Ye was born for movies

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On September 4, 2019, The Lanxin Grand Theatre premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, which was the first time that Hong Ying, the author of the original novel Death in Shanghai, saw the film twice a day.

Writer Hong Ying commented that "Lanxin Grand Theatre" filmed the original content of the novel, and also photographed something that sank at the bottom of the text. It is a film."Pure art film with spy war shell", at the same time, is a."Pure feminist film".

Feminism, which is what Lou Ye is most interested in "Death in Shanghai". From the original work to the film, feminism is a personal choice finally made by Yu Yan under the influence of the times, and it is the sharp knife that Baiyun Shang stabbed Mo Zhiyin’s lower body.

However, Hong Ying’s fascination with Shanghai and her concern for women make her attach great importance to the restoration of time. Even in Lust, Caution by Ang Lee, she is not satisfied with the background and characterization. But Lou Ye didn’t slack off, so there was the "island" Shanghai in "Lanxin Grand Theatre". In the eyes of Hong Ying, "Lou Ye was born for movies, and it is important to regard movies as the first thing in life.He is not sociable and saves more time to study movies. “

Going to the cinema in Lou Ye always makes people nervous, and the shift of "Lanxin Grand Theatre" seems to be expected. After nearly three years, it finally meets the audience. butLou Ye and Hong Ying, who have known each other for many years, began to cooperate in the 1990s, and it was not until the Lanxin Grand Theatre nearly 30 years later that the interweaving of words and images was completed..

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Shanghai, Shanghai

The death of Shanghai, pun intended.First, the opening part reveals the tragic ending of the heroine Yu Yan jumping from the top floor of the international hotel, leaving no room; The second refers to the city of Shanghai, which has fallen into"Double Death"In the middle.

"In the deafening sound of guns, Shanghai was swallowed up piece by piece. Sad cries come out of underground water holes and linger in the air. "In Hong Ying’s description, Shanghai was" dead "in the process of building a strong ship and sharpening its guns; However, "the mountains and rivers are broken, and the citizens are more addicted to pleasure … even if the land in Shenzhou is sinking … people on the isolated island are more drunk than before … Shanghai has become a freak in the war … China may survive, but this Shanghai is hard to survive", which is its second death.

In Lan Xin Grand Theatre, Tan Na, the director played by Mark Chao, directed a play and invited Yu Yan, played by Gong Li, to return to Shanghai from Hong Kong to play the heroine. The play is called.Saturday novel. This play is adapted from the novel Shanghai by Japanese writer Yokomitsu Liyi. The work describes the May 30th Movement in 1925, and Lou Ye changed the story of "romantic affairs" in the original work into a tragic tragedy. The English title of "Lanxin Grand Theatre" directly uses "Saturday Fiction", which is very obvious.

One is Shanghai in the war years. The protagonists in the film are all intellectuals and artists. They go in and out of hotels and theaters and live a decent and prosperous life for the middle class. In the play, it is a more real story of the left-wing bloody struggle. Lou Ye admits that this is a class supplement to the main story; In addition, Lou Ye has also set up two important scenes, one is a prostitute warming herself outside the hotel, and the other is a laundry and ironing lady in the hotel, so that we can get a glimpse of a more three-dimensional Shanghai.

The second is to show the cowardice and powerlessness of the left-wing director Tan Na. He hopes to be a revolutionary like Yu Yan, but as an artist, his body retreats in the face of violence, and he can’t reach the front line, so he can only support the workers’ movement through drama. He was forced to get involved, as he himself said, he was a pawn, butIn this life-and-death war, who is not a pawn that has been used and sacrificed?

Lou Ye played the role of the play to the extreme, and his deeper intention was to criticize the "Saturday School". "Saturday School" is a literary school in the early years of the Republic of China. It is the aftermath of "Yuanyang Butterfly School", a replica of Crescent School, and an interesting literature that promotes games and recreation.

At that time, Tan Na’s left-wing troupe was in opposition to Saturday School, but Lou Ye used a left-wing director to direct a drama called Saturday Novel to tell an anti-imperialist strike of workers, in which the irony was concrete and brilliant.In the current context, isn’t this an accusation against frivolous mainstream entertainment and the supremacy of pleasing?

Although "Lanxin Grand Theatre" is a black-and-white film, it is a color film in Lou Ye’s view, because he thinks that the workers’ strike situation explained in "Saturday Novel" is "Chromatogram of Shanghai in 1941",remove the surface color, the gray level between black and white needs more rigorous treatment.

In the black-and-white presentation, Lou Ye used the consistent hand-held lens to "shake" the uneasy environment and the confusing fate of the characters, and extended the inner world of the characters to history and politics to complete the real expression. Therefore, Lou Ye expressed his sympathy for this "isolated island" in his way, even though he didn’t spend too much time on the urban landscape of Shanghai.

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Yu Yan, Qiu Lan

"At sea, the lighthouse does not exist in the darkness for a person. Butterflies fly freely, which is actually the same fate as being a specimen. But in the process of flying, no god can dominate this fate. "

Hong Ying, a writer, regarded this passage in the original work as a key to open this story. She privately thought that the lighthouse was the spark of revolution, while the butterfly was a woman in troubled times like Yu Yan. This passage implied their unknown fate, and at the same time, they could make rational judgments independently and their free will was not bound.

In Shanghai in December, the dark clouds were overwhelming and the rain was complicated. This rain has been falling from the original book to the film, which is a painful note behind this seemingly glamorous city. In the film, Yu Yan returned to Shanghai in the heavy rain. The "panic" lens swept through the cold and damp, capturing her tightly wrapped face. The flash of the reporter’s camera was like a lightning bolt that cut through the darkness, indicating that her return was doomed.

From then on, she had two names, one was Yu Yan, who was well known, and the other was Qiu Lan, who led the workers’ strike in the drama.At the same time, she has multiple identities, such as star, spy, ex-wife, lover, daughter and woman, which makes her have to be watertight in front of others and treading on thin ice behind.

Hong Ying mentioned that "spy plays are mostly literary plays, and knives are used at most", while spy missions are the front lines in the battlefield behind enemy lines. In this wrestling field where multiple forces are mixed, everyone’s face is vague, but everyone with tasks is as agile as an eagle.The charm of Lou Ye’s "shaking" lens is that everyone who is deeply involved in it can’t see the overall situation, and the audience doesn’t have God’s perspective, but you can always feel the weight of a sharp eye in those flashes of focus.

But Yu Yan is not a cold-faced killer, nor does she rely on selling her beauty for information. In the film, from seeing Ni Zeren, the detained ex-husband, to hugging Tan Na after being forcibly photographed by the Japanese army, to hypnotizing Japanese intelligence officer Tanya Saburo, and the decisive battle on Saturday night, Yu Yan cried four times, without crying, all silently, letting tears flow on her face.

The next morning after she hypnotized Bai Yunshang, Bai Yunshang knelt beside her and leaned her head on her chest. After Tan Na stopped the Japanese from taking a photo, he buried himself in her shoulder. Compared with lust, the author sees more powerful and affectionate motherhood, which may benefit from Gong Li’s own charm, because Yu Yan in the original book is only 27 years old and does not have this weathered beauty.

The image of rain is like violet’s wet face, and the tears gush out again before they are dry.In the torrential rain on the night of the decisive battle, the literary drama set the stage, and the martial arts drama ended. Yu Yan pulled out her gun and walked alone in the Lanxin Grand Theatre. She knew that she was going to be a butterfly that was made into a specimen, so she shed tears and shot at the same time, and reason was not dominated by compassion.

On the other hand, in order to force the United States, which is on the sidelines, to show its position, her free will finally made her choose to "betray" her faith (adoptive father) for greater justice, and at the same time, she chose to go to more specific love when she could get away with it (Tan Na).This is a sacrifice, but also a double suicide.. This is the complete embodiment of modernity in pansy.

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Lou Ye, the movie.

In the face of Lou Ye’s films, what is certain now is that he is not afraid of no audience.

At first, Lou Ye seems to have had doubts about his market appeal.

In 1993, the first film "Weekend Lover", which took more than 40 days to shoot, was finally released on a small scale at midnight on weekends after two years of review. Shanghai first appeared in Lou Ye’s lens through "Weekend Lovers".

Censorship, underground, is the shadow attached to Lou Ye’s films from the beginning.

Frustrated, Lou Ye couldn’t escape the confusion of the dislocation between art and business: "It is becoming more and more difficult to decide whether antonioni’s film or Jackie Chan’s" The Red Fan District "is closer to the essence of the film."

A film that can’t meet the audience, part of its meaning will be dissolved. Perhaps it is to realize this, or it is the pressure of reality. Lou Ye turned to the system and filmed a thriller suspense movie "Girl in Danger", soLou Ye has never rejected commercialization, but he always "smuggled goods" under the framework of genre. Even today, if the concepts of stream of consciousness, vanguard and artistry are put into commercial genre films, not many viewers will buy it.

After several searches, Lou Ye came to Suzhou Creek, focusing on Shanghai again. On the oldest black and smelly water body in China, the love story of Motor and Peony was born from Lou Ye’s Super 8 camera.

Then came the 30-million-yuan production of Purple Butterfly, and on the eve of the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Shanghai merged into the faces of Zhang Ziyi and Liu Ye; Then came Yu Hong, the Summer Palace became synonymous with prohibition, and Lou Ye began to become a "fighter" in everyone’s mouth.

"Confusion and trial and error of intellectuals in social transformation" is the state of the characters in the film and a portrayal of Lou Ye himself, but is he really that confused? Not necessarily. In 2014, the poster of "Massage" was impressively printed.The slogan "Individual travelers should do it" is the insistence of the characters in the film, and it is also the reference of Lou Ye’s loyalty to himself in reality.

From the beginning to the present, he has never given up his pursuit of image style and personal expression. In terms of commercialization and artistic presentation, he has long been able to make a clear distinction: "Cooperate as much as possible on the bottom line and resolutely quit under the bottom line. I try to be happy. "

In front of Lou Ye, there are only movies, and in his eyes, movies are not just about telling a story.

The city is always Louyedian.Shadow business card,Magic Shanghai, lost Beijing, shaky Wuhan, turbulent Guangzhou, Lou Ye’s lens carved a landmark full of emotions. He once said: "The city is the skin of the film, and it is best to be combined with the story and have uniqueness."And it is always people who are placed in the foreground of this huge background board.It’s motor and peony, Yu Hong, Yu Yan, and what surrounds them is the torrent of the times and the historical process.

At the same time, Lou Ye is still exploring the audio-visual and structure.

Lou Ye has publicly expressed his disappointment with Rome directed by Alfonso Cuarón. He thinks that the black-and-white image of Rome is too exquisite and beautiful. "Then a film about the proletariat uses a completely bourgeois image.". When he came to Lanxin Grand Theatre, Lou Ye broke the exquisiteness of the picture with rough images that he was always good at. At the same time, he dispelled the bourgeois tendency of the film by supplementing the class and satirizing the "Saturday School".

Structurally, Lanxin Grand Theatre makes the play in the play to the extreme, allowing the audience to "magically" shuttle between reality and illusion, but if you are careful enough, you will find that Tan Na’s glasses are the password to unlock this magic. Structural addition to linear narrative and "blank space" in narrative through a large number of skipping clips greatly increase the richness of the story.

Looking back, this is just a story from Monday to Sunday, from the day of return to the night of decisive battle.Subtitles constantly remind the audience of the urgency of time like flipping through a calendar, but the "effective information" of the spy war action is not directly fed to the audience, and the audience needs to disentangle themselves from the struggles, passions and secret fragments of the characters.

So, this is just Lou Ye once again. "In the name of typology, do the opposite of typology."that’s all,This is the threshold of Lou Ye’s films. When you no longer regard the text as the first essence of the film, and regard the form and content as a narrative whole, audio-visual language is no longer an auxiliary expression, and at the same time capture the ideographic meaning outside the narrative, you will truly become his audience.Lou Ye once said: "You can believe it, because it happened in my lens;" You can also not believe it, because there are other things happening outside the camera lens. "

Lou Ye is not a fighter, he is just a film writer."Lanxin Grand Theatre" In the end, when the Japanese army broke into the stage with guns, the protagonist was in crisis, and the drama and reality were highly coincident in an instant. This is the art of violence intervention. We didn’t know the danger was coming until the stray bullet hit the audience.

Lou Ye said:All narratives of history are narratives of today.This is the modernity of Lanxin Grand Theatre.

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