On September 22nd, the Supervision Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Liaoning Province reported five mental problems that violated the eight central regulations, among which Zhang Xinyu, the former party secretary and director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Linghai City, Jinzhou, gave his son three wedding receptions within one month and received 660,000 yuan in gifts, which attracted attention from the double opening incident.

　　Red Star journalists found out that recently, in addition to Liaoning, many disciplinary committees in Gansu, Bazhong, Sichuan and Qingdao, Shandong Province have successively issued many typical cases of mental problems in violation of the eight central regulations.

　　In addition, a number of legal professionals told Red Star journalists that the corruption of weddings, funerals and weddings is a typical corruption problem. The Party Central Committee has repeatedly asked to regulate matters related to weddings, funerals and celebrations of cadres in party member, and various localities have successively issued supporting rules and related regulations in combination with the spirit of implementing the eight central regulations, which have been effectively curbed on the whole. However, the problem of violating discipline against the wind still occurs under high pressure. Therefore, we can continue to prevent such problems by improving the supervision system, clarifying relevant standards, and making it a criminal offence.

　　Liaoning first director

　　Give my son three wedding banquets a month and receive 660,000 gifts.

　　According to the report of the Supervision Committee of the Liaoning Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, from 2019 to 2023, Zhang Xinyu, the former party secretary and director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Linghai City, Jinzhou, received gifts and gifts from management and service targets for many times, amounting to more than 340,000 yuan. From May to June, 2022, Zhang Xinyu hosted a wedding banquet for his son three times, and received more than 660,000 yuan in gifts from management and clients. Zhang Xinyu still has other serious violations of discipline and law. In June 2023, Zhang Xinyu was expelled from the party and public office, and the suspected crime was transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution according to law.

　　Also on September 22nd, Zhang Xinyu appeared in another bulletin.

　　On September 22, the Supervision Committee of Jinzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection reported three typical cases of damaging the business environment. Among them, Zhang Xinyu, the former party secretary and director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Linghai City, destroyed the business environment and other issues. According to the report, from December 2018 to January 2022, when Zhang Xinyu was the Party Secretary and Director of Linghai Urban and Rural Construction Service Center and the Deputy Secretary and Deputy Director of the Party Group of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, he used his position to help others in project bidding, project implementation and project payment settlement, and illegally accepted money from others of 1.67 million yuan.

　　According to the official resume, Zhang Xinyu was born in January 1971 in Linghai, Liaoning Province, with a college education. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in May 1996 and joined the work in September 1994. In his early years, he worked in the public security system, and served as the director of Baqian Township Police Station of Linghai Public Security Bureau, the deputy section chief of Economic Investigation Department of Linghai Public Security Bureau, and the deputy director of Dalinghe Public Security Bureau of Linghai Public Security Bureau. Since 2009, Zhang Xinyu has served as deputy director of Linghai Letters and Calls Office, deputy director of Linghai Letters and Calls Bureau, deputy director of Linghai Urban Construction Bureau, party secretary and director of Linghai Urban and Rural Construction Service Center, deputy secretary and deputy director of Linghai Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, and party secretary and director of Linghai Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau.

　　Keep an eye on corruption issues such as weddings, funerals and weddings.

　　There is a second child who secretly receives gifts.

　　In addition to the above-mentioned typical cases, Red Star journalists combed and found that recently, many disciplinary committees in Gansu, Bazhong, Sichuan and Qingdao, Shandong Province have successively issued a number of typical cases that violate the mental problems of the eight central regulations.

　　On September 21st, WeChat official account "Shanxi Release" affiliated to the Propaganda Department of Shanxi Provincial Party Committee released "Five Typical Cases of Mental Problems Violating the Eight Central Provisions", which mentioned: Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day in 2023 are approaching. In order to further implement the spirit of the Eight Central Provisions, we will persistently rectify the "four winds" and constantly release a strong signal of grasping it to the end for a moment. Recently, the Supervisory Committee of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection publicly reported five typical cases of mental problems violating the eight central regulations.

　　These cases include Yang Yankang, a member of the former party group and deputy mayor of Yuncheng Municipal People’s Government, who illegally accepted gifts and gifts, illegally used the houses managed by clients, and illegally accepted the arrangement of tourism activities. According to the report, from 2013 to 2023, Yang Yankang took advantage of holidays, weddings, funerals and weddings to receive gifts and gifts from many management clients for many times, equivalent to a total of more than 930,000 yuan. From 2018 to the time of the incident, Yang Yankang borrowed a house of Wen Moumou, the management service object, in Sanya for his relatives to use for a long time. From December 2017 to May 2019, Yang Yankang illegally arranged the management client Duan Moumou to pay the expenses incurred during his trip to Sanya and Xishuangbanna with his wife. In addition, Yang Yankang has other serious violations of discipline and law. In July 2023, Yang Yankang was expelled from the party and dismissed from public office, and his suspected crime was transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution according to law.

　　On September 19th, WeChat official account, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Qingdao, also released five typical cases of hedonism and extravagance. According to the report, Zhang Peijie, director of the real estate development management office of pingdu city Construction Service Center, handled the wedding affairs illegally. In November 2021, when Zhang Peijie hosted a wedding banquet for his son, he illegally invited the management and service objects to attend and received the gift money. There are still many problems in Zhang Peijie, such as illegally accepting gifts, cash gifts and consumption cards from management and clients. In February, 2023, Zhang Peijie was severely warned by the party, and his administrative record was severely punished, and his disciplinary gains were confiscated.

　　Prior to this, Enyang District, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province also issued three typical problems of illegal banquets. According to the circular, in mid-June, 2023, Zhang Bichang, director of the Admissions Office of the No.2 Middle School in the District, promised the organization not to hold a "school banquet" in violation of regulations. On June 28 of the same year, he invited many faculty members of the school to participate in the "school banquet" held for his son in a restaurant in Enyang District, and received gifts from the management clients. In July 2023, Zhang Bichang was severely punished by the party. All the proceeds from violation of discipline have been collected.

　　In addition, the case also includes the problem that Liu Hong, the president of Mingyang Town Health Center, secretly accepted the gift money from the management clients in violation of regulations, although he did not hold a banquet. In October, 2022, Liu Hong announced the birth of a second child through the WeChat circle of friends after his wife gave birth to a second child, under the condition that she promised the organization not to handle other festive matters except weddings, funerals and weddings and not to accept gifts and gifts in violation of regulations. Although she did not handle the celebration of having children and daughters, she received gifts from many management clients. In July 2023, Liu Hong was punished. All illegal gains have been collected.

　　At the end of August, the Supervision Committee of Gansu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection issued the Circular on the Special Rectification of the Invisible Variation of four winds, which mentioned that "Strictly investigate and punish the illegal handling of weddings, funerals and celebrations: strictly implement the Implementation Measures on Regulating the Handling of Weddings, Funerals and Celebrations by Cadres in party member", and urge the party groups (party committees) of departments and units at all levels in provinces, cities and counties to improve the reporting system of their own departments and units, strictly examine and supervise them, and prevent the occurrence of illegal handling of weddings, funerals and celebrations &hellip. … Seriously investigate and deal with problems such as taking the opportunity to collect money, comparing with each other, extravagance and waste, and using public buses to eat and drink. From January to July this year, the province investigated and dealt with 24 cases of illegal weddings, funerals and weddings, criticized and educated 25 people, and gave 14 people disciplinary sanctions. "

　　Experts say:

　　Marry and collect money by marriage and funeral

　　May constitute bribery

　　Zhao Guannan, an associate professor at the Law School of Hunan Normal University, said in an interview with Red Star that it is a special form of bribery to use the occasion of wedding, funeral and marriage or under the brand of "human relations". Article 10 of "Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Commercial Bribery" specifically stipulates the distinction between bribery and gifts. The main factors are as follows: 1. The background of property exchanges, such as whether there is a relationship between relatives and friends and the situation and degree of historical exchanges between the two parties; 2, the value of the property; 3. The reason, timing and mode of the exchange of property, and whether the provider of property has asked the receiver for his position; 4. Does the recipient take advantage of his position to seek benefits for the provider? The above provisions provide factors and standards for distinguishing between human relations and bribery crimes. In essence, it is necessary to focus on judging the reciprocity of the relationship between the two parties, the two-way flow of property, the rationality of the amount of property and the entrustment of property gifts.

　　"As far as the facts of Zhang Xinyu’s case are concerned, it is obviously unreasonable to hold a wedding banquet for three times. It is obviously not reciprocal and bidirectional to accept the property of the management and service objects. In fact, it is the cover of holding a wedding banquet to accept bribes from the management and service objects, which should be considered as bribery crimes." Zhao Guannan said.

　　Shao Ke, deputy director of the research and defense department of duty crimes in Beijing Shangquan Law Firm, said that China has a long tradition of caring for the society and reciprocity. It is customary to hold banquets at weddings, funerals and weddings, but in practice, some leading cadres make a lot of money by having children, getting married, mourning and mourning, going to school to join the army, and moving to a new house, and even trading power and money.

　　Shao Ke said that Article 81 of the Regulations on Disciplinary Actions in the Communist Party of China (CPC), which was promulgated and implemented as early as 2003, clearly stipulates that if the convenience of his position is used to handle weddings, funerals and celebrations, which causes adverse effects in society, he will be given a warning or a serious warning; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be dismissed from his post within the party. In handling weddings, funerals and celebrations, whoever takes the opportunity to collect money or commits other acts that infringe upon the interests of the state, the collective and the people shall be given a heavier or heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph until he is expelled from the party. Article 91 of the revised Regulations on Disciplinary Actions in the Communist Party of China (CPC) also stipulates that those who take advantage of their authority or position to handle weddings, funerals and celebrations will be given a warning or a serious warning; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be dismissed from his post within the party; Those who take the opportunity to collect money or commit other acts that infringe upon the interests of the state, the collective and the people will be given a heavier or heavier punishment until they are expelled from the party.

　　According to Shao Ke, compared with the regulation in 2003, the change from "taking advantage of one’s position" to "taking advantage of one’s position or influence" focuses on emphasizing that it is also forbidden to take advantage of one’s position to handle weddings, funerals and celebrations, which shows that the central government is strengthening and perfecting the system constraints on party member cadres to make money by taking advantage of corruption in weddings, funerals and celebrations. According to this regulation, no matter whether it is lavish or not, no matter whether it is accepting gifts or not, as long as the wedding, funeral and celebration matters are influenced by party member’s use of authority or position, such as the use of manpower and material resources of the management service object, which causes adverse social impact, it is a violation of discipline. With regard to the opportunity of handling weddings, funerals and celebrations to collect money, the main form is to collect a large amount of gift money from the management and service objects or the masses in handling weddings, funerals and celebrations on a large scale or by treating guests many times. Zhang Xinyu, the former party secretary and director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Linghai City, Jinzhou, hosted a wedding banquet for his son three times and received a gift of more than 660,000 yuan from management and clients, which is a typical opportunity to collect money. What needs to be pointed out in particular is that if party member cadres take advantage of their authority or position to seek benefits for others, and take advantage of weddings and funerals to accept large sums of money from others, they may be suspected of committing the crime of accepting bribes as stipulated in the Criminal Law, and will be doubly punished by party discipline and state law. In recent years, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has repeatedly asked for the standardization of matters related to weddings, funerals and celebrations of cadres in party member, and all localities have combined the spirit of implementing the eight central regulations.They have also issued supporting rules and related regulations, and some have set clear standards for the scale of weddings, funerals, banquets and the amount of gifts.

　　Expert advice:

　　When the "money" exceeds a certain amount.

　　Make illegal weddings and funerals a criminal offence.

　　In order to put an end to this kind of corruption, Shao Ke suggested that all localities should make clear what matters of weddings, funerals and celebrations are not allowed and can be handled in light of local conditions, and issue specific regulations on the number of people, times, gifts (including single and total amount), places, meals and vehicle standards. In the process of discipline enforcement, the discipline inspection and supervision departments should clarify the boundaries between human relations, accepting gifts and accepting bribes, and "zero tolerance" for violations of discipline and law, and increase punishment. Those who handle weddings, funerals and celebrations beyond the prescribed number of people, tables, single amount or total amount of gifts are strictly deemed as "taking the opportunity to collect money", and those who constitute the crime of accepting bribes are severely punished according to law.

　　"Sunshine is the best preservative and supervision is the best purifying agent. It is necessary to improve the supervision system, comprehensively utilize various information carriers, give full play to the supervision power of the masses, and let the people dare to supervise, be willing to supervise and be good at supervision. If Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day are approaching, the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has launched ‘ Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day in 2023 ‘ Four winds ’ Problem supervision report exposure ’ Special area, open ‘ I want to report ’ Window, linked to the unified reporting platform of the State Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, special area ‘ Weekly bulletin ’ The column focuses on the exposure of typical problems by name and surname, and strengthens the warning shock. " Shao Ke said.

　　Yin Bo, a professor at the School of Criminal Justice of China University of Political Science and Law, also said in an interview with Red Star News that accepting "money" is an important part of the traditional wedding etiquette. However, in the context of public officials’ identity, weddings and funerals are likely to become corrupt acts that convey personal interests under the guise of customs. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have been keeping a close eye on party member’s leading cadres’ illegal handling of weddings, funerals and celebrations, taking the opportunity to collect money, and achieved positive results in work style construction, and the political ecology continued to improve. At present, the "four winds" problem has been effectively curbed on the whole, but the problem of violating discipline against the wind still occurs under high pressure. The party and the state attach great importance to eradicating the soil and conditions for corruption, and "hunting" has been repeatedly mentioned as an important reason for new corruption. What should be considered is whether weddings, funerals and weddings, as one of the ways of "hunting", can exert all the governance effects only by punishing party disciplines and administrative regulations without using the power of criminal law.

　　Inbo said that in Germany, Japan and other countries, taking bribes for the convenience of authority or position is defined as a simple crime of accepting bribes, which is different from the crime of accepting bribes because of illegal agreements on the exercise of duties, and has achieved good governance results. It is unreasonable to give one’s hard-earned money to public officials for nothing. When the amount is too large, it can be inferred that there is a big interest relationship between party member leading cadres and them. When the public authority of party member leading cadres conflicts with their private interests, it will easily lead to corruption crimes and infringe on public interests. Therefore, it is suggested that when the amount of money received exceeds a certain amount, the illegal weddings and funerals of leading cadres in party member should be raised to criminal offences, which will fully deter corrupt elements and further consolidate the overwhelming victory of anti-corruption.

　　Red Star journalist Qi Biao Wu Yang reports from Beijing.

　

　

　　　　Official website in most colleges and universities seems to be a copy of the government’s official website template: the news and photos of school leaders attending activities, the used campus scenery … the serious and rigid style is not commensurate with the traditional lively and free college style. Just because of this, campus official website often appears very deserted. This is also the reason why official website was crowded with beautiful women. People need this lively and refreshing feeling too much.

　　　　So, what’s the intention of basking in the "Goddess of National People’s Congress" in official website on campus? Is to break the rules of silence? Many people don’t think that this move is just as pure as opening a fresh atmosphere. It is the enrollment season of colleges and universities, and it is associated with the background of colleges and universities grabbing students. Many people speculate that "girl students of the National People’s Congress" is actually an enrollment platform for the National People’s Congress as a public relations weapon to snatch students.

　　　　If this is the purpose, then playing the "beauty card" is too crude. The gathering of beautiful women on campus is pleasing to the eye, but studying is the main purpose, and finding emotional support is just a "sideline". This crudeness is precisely the silhouette of the lost spirit of the university-if a university comes to a situation where it attracts students by beautiful women rather than famous teachers, then the teaching style is too superficial.

　　　　Although beautiful teachers and sisters are pleasing to the eye, the talents of famous teachers and scholars can benefit people endlessly. The beautiful teacher elder sister won’t wait for you. After graduation, she will go into the society. What she will do is make love and mate with people. Only a free and strong academic atmosphere, only a famous teacher is knowledgeable, is an evergreen tree that permanently displays the charm of colleges and universities. The school shows its charm on the campus website, besides basking in some beautiful women, it should also bask in some famous teachers and masterpieces. Today’s university websites seem to have little space for famous teachers to show. The heavy treasures of the town and school will not be basked in, but some superficial beauty will be basked in, which is destined to become a short-lived carnival.

　　　　Xiaobian has something to say:Perhaps, the National People’s Congress basks in the "goddess" and just wants to make official website, which is serious and rigid, more relaxed and lively, with no other intention. However, since the "Goddess of the National People’s Congress" has caused widespread spit and noise, as a person who has experienced it, he can’t help but think of a little advice for his schoolmates: no matter how beautiful the goddess is, she will always be a schoolmate. "Goddess" basks on the school net, which can be seen, not met, and even more elusive. It’s better to retreat and form a net than to fish in the forest. The diaosi people attack the spring, and they still have to struggle and create on their own after all. Official website, the National People’s Congress, basked in the "goddess", perhaps just to create a relaxing moment. However, behind the spit and noise, there are also heavy worries: besides these superficial things, are there no other charms to show in colleges and universities that bask in beautiful scenery? Perhaps, the academic charm is gone, and we have to rely on the mentality of public entertainment to express our sense of existence.

　　In recent years, Singapore Telecom’s fraud cases have been rampant, and fraud methods and routines have emerged one after another, which is hard to prevent. Recently, dozens of China citizens have been "recruited" in Singapore in just one month. The Embassy of China in Singapore recently issued a reminder, hoping that local China citizens will be highly guarded against telecom fraud.

　　Fraud cases increased by 40%

　　According to the latest data released by the Singapore police, in the first half of 2019, 10 types of fraud cases in Singapore surged by 40% to 3591 compared with the same period of last year; The amount of fraud soared from S $59.2 million to S $83.1 million (equivalent to about RMB 430 million). Among them, e-commerce, loans, sexual services and online love fraud are the majority, accounting for 80% of the total number of 10 types of fraud cases, 58% more than the same period last year. In an online love scam, the victim lost as much as S $2.42 million (equivalent to about RMB 12.5 million).

　　According to the information released by the China Embassy in Singapore, in the past month, the Embassy has received dozens of China citizens who have been defrauded by telecommunications, and the amount of help-seekers has reached several million yuan. Most of the deceived people are international students.

　　Fraud syndicates usually operate internationally, which makes it difficult for law enforcement agencies to ban fraud syndicates. The stolen money is transferred to foreign bank accounts through local money donkeys, which makes it more difficult for law enforcement authorities to trace it. In this regard, the Singapore Commercial Affairs Bureau established a transnational commercial crime task force in October 2017 to investigate transnational fraud cases. The working group has cooperated with Malaysian and Hong Kong police to launch six joint operations against cyber loverboy. In April this year, two Nigerian loverboy operating in Malaysia were arrested and sent to Singapore.

　　Pretend to be a law enforcement officer

　　China’s Embassy in Singapore again issued a consular reminder on 17th, hoping that local China citizens would take precautions against telecom fraud.

　　The Embassy quoted the Singapore Police Force as saying that the telecom fraud cases in Singapore are on the rise. In various names, such as the staff of the Embassy of China in Singapore, the police in China or Singapore, the officials of the new Ministry of Manpower or Immigration Bureau, and the staff of DHL Express Company or local telecom company, fraudsters lied that the receiver or his relatives were suspected of committing a crime, in an attempt to trick the victim into sending money to a designated account or obtaining his online banking login information and password.

　　It is reported that the Embassy of China in Singapore recently received a request for help from a citizen in New China, claiming that he had suffered telecom fraud and suffered heavy economic losses. The suspect claimed to be a staff member of DHL Express Company, and lied that the courier sent by the victim to China contained contraband and was detained by China Customs. Subsequently, the suspect transferred the call to Beijing’s "police officer" and "prosecutor", while the "police officer" and "prosecutor" lied that the victim was suspected of an international crime case (fraud, money laundering, etc.) and produced a forged "arrest warrant", demanding the victim to provide personal account information and dynamic passwords for online banking login and transfer, and stealing huge amounts of money from the account. In the meantime, the suspect also coerced the victim to download the so-called "public security internal security monitoring software" to block the victim’s cell phone signal.

　　, so that it can not receive the short message of account change notification sent by the bank in time, and miss the best alarm opportunity. The Embassy reminded that China citizens in Singapore should stick to the "Three Musts" and "Three Don ‘ts" if they receive strange phone calls. The "Three Essentials" are to verify with the China Embassy or the Singaporean police through credible channels, to dial back according to the calling number after 5 minutes, to communicate with family and friends, and to handle it calmly; "Three Don ‘ts" means don’t trust calls from unknown sources, don’t listen to fraudsters’ requests for money transfer, don’t disclose personal identity and bank account information, and don’t give fraudsters any opportunity.

　　If you are unfortunately cheated, you should immediately report to the Singapore police, and contact the bank where I opened the account, and take measures to freeze the account, recover the cheated funds or other stop-loss measures. When necessary, I should report to the public security organ of my domestic domicile. If I can’t report the case directly, I can report it through my relatives in China.

　　Set up an anti-fraud center

　　In order to combat and prevent fraud, the Singapore police and the Commercial Affairs Bureau have set up anti-fraud centers, which will help reduce the economic losses of the deceived.

　　The anti-fraud center was established on June 18th this year. The center cooperates with banks, telecommunications companies and e-commerce platforms to quickly freeze bank accounts involved in fraud, cut off telephone lines used by fraudsters and be alert to users’ suspicious accounts on payment platforms.

　　According to local media reports, since its establishment two months ago, Singapore Anti-Fraud Center has submitted about 1,000 police reports on e-commerce fraud and loan fraud, frozen 815 fraudulent bank accounts and recovered economic losses of $850,000.

　　Before the establishment of Singapore Anti-Fraud Center, it took 14 to 60 working days for banks to freeze suspicious accounts. In addition, when investigators want to ask for information from banks, they must submit various forms. At present, the time for banks to freeze suspicious accounts has been shortened to a few days, and the police only need to apply once to obtain all relevant information, which greatly improves the efficiency of investigating fraud cases. However, this also reflects that there is still much room for improvement in anti-fraud work of banks. With the increasingly rampant fraud, banks may have to re-examine and adjust the balance between customer privacy and anti-fraud.

　　In addition, telecommunications companies and e-commerce companies are also more active in cooperating with law enforcement agencies. Telecommunications companies cut off suspicious telephone lines within the same day as the police request; The e-commerce platform actively monitors and deletes false accounts to stop the occurrence of e-commerce fraud at the source. The digital platform Carousell launched machine learning technology in March, effectively preventing the creation of 75,000 new accounts. (Li Yazhou Jun, special correspondent of Legal Daily in Singapore)

　　Customers who mistakenly drink alcohol during meals are sent to hospital for treatment.

　　Friends get together, which is supposed to be fun and lively. Mr. Liu, who lives in Beijing, never expected that when he was having dinner with friends in a restaurant, he was taken to the hospital because he drank alcohol fuel as water. Why did Mr. Liu drink the alcohol fuel in the restaurant? Come and see what happened.

　　The customer took the kettle from the restaurant bar, but it was alcohol.

　　On the night of the murder, Mr. Liu and a dozen friends went to a restaurant for dinner. The video in the restaurant shows that at 8: 45 pm, the plaintiff Mr. Liu walked out of the private room, picked up a kettle on the opposite bar, and turned and walked back to the private room. But what Mr. Liu doesn’t know is that this kettle is filled with liquid alcohol instead of water.

　　Judge Zhao Ying of Beijing Shijingshan District People’s Court:He picked up the kettle and went back to the private room, then poured himself a big cup, and then took the cup and drank it. Suddenly, he felt that his stomach was burning and hot, so that he knew that he had drunk alcohol by mistake.

　　After asking the restaurant waiter, Mr. Liu realized that the kettle was not filled with tea, but with alcohol fuel for hot pot. Soon, Mr. Liu felt a strong burning sensation in his esophagus, and his stomach ache was unbearable. His companion immediately sent him to the hospital for treatment.

　　Judge Zhao Ying of Beijing Shijingshan District People’s Court:Mr. Liu went to a nearby hospital, and then he was admitted to the ICU because of this incident, and then he was treated for a long time. After leaving the hospital, he was given fluids for a long time, and then Mr. Liu was diagnosed with methanol poisoning.

　　Customers diagnosed with methanol poisoning sued the restaurant for 90 thousand claims

　　Mr. Liu believes that all the injuries to his body are caused by the fault of the restaurant, and the restaurant should bear all the responsibilities. So, Mr. Liu sued the Shijingshan District People’s Court in Beijing, demanding that the restaurant compensate for medical expenses, lost time, nursing expenses and mental damage compensation, totaling more than 90,000 yuan.

　　Why is it difficult to tell alcohol from water? The trial investigated the details.

　　I had a meal, but I washed my stomach. Should restaurants compensate customers? During the trial, the restaurant said that although liquid alcohol is colorless and transparent, it can’t taste like water. How can it not smell? Mr. Liu said that he had already drunk some white wine at that time. In this case, how can he tell whether it is alcohol or water? The restaurant also said that why didn’t Mr. Liu ask the waiter to pour water, so he shouldn’t get water himself. The trial launched an investigation into these details at the time of the incident.

　　Plaintiff: I asked for tea many times, but no one paid attention to it, so I had to fetch water myself.

　　Mr. Liu believes that on the night of the incident, he and his friends repeatedly asked the restaurant for tea, but no one answered for half an hour, so they went out to get water.

　　The plaintiff entrusts an agent ad litem:The plaintiff should have called the waiter for water and tea, but he never came. Then the plaintiff just took the opportunity to go to the toilet, passed by this windowsill and took the pot away.

　　However, the defendant’s restaurant played a video in court to prove that the plaintiff did not call the waiter.

　　The plaintiff, Mr. Liu, also said that the defendant’s restaurant put liquid alcohol into the teapot, which was difficult to distinguish.

　　The plaintiff entrusts an agent ad litem:The second evidence is a photo of a kettle filled with alcohol, which proves that the defendant put fuel alcohol into an ordinary kettle on November 12, 2022, causing the plaintiff to swallow fuel alcohol poisoning.

　　Defendant’s restaurant: The kettle involved was labeled with alcohol.

　　In this regard, the defendant restaurant said that this kettle filled with liquid alcohol is not the same as other kettles filled with water, and there is also a red label on the kettle involved, which reads the word "alcohol".

　　Defendant entrusts agent ad litem:It says alcohol. We all have words on it. It says alcohol pot.

　　In addition to the fact that the kettle filled with alcohol fuel is difficult to distinguish from the ordinary kettle, the plaintiff Mr. Liu also believes that it is wrong for the restaurant to put this kettle in a public area.

　　In this regard, the defendant said that although the pot containing alcohol fuel was placed near the vegetable outlet, it was placed separately. The plaintiff, Mr. Liu, took the pot away, which was entirely his own fault. In addition, after Mr. Liu felt unwell, the staff of the defendant’s restaurant actively fulfilled the obligation of treatment.

　　After examination, the plaintiff Mr. Liu was diagnosed as acute oral methanol poisoning and toxic liver injury. After treatment, Mr. Liu’s health is now fine.

　　Negligent management of restaurants puts alcohol in the dining environment

　　Is it Mr. Liu’s fault or the restaurant’s responsibility to take alcohol fuel by mistake? The Shijingshan People’s Court in Beijing pronounced a verdict on this case.

　　Restaurants that fail to fulfill their security obligations bear the main responsibility.

　　In the opinion of the trial judge in this case, the defendant’s restaurant should bear the main responsibility for Mr. Liu’s physical injury caused by drinking liquid alcohol by mistake.

　　Judge Zhao Ying of Beijing Shijingshan District People’s Court:Its location is still dangerous, because the door of this private room is facing one of its vegetable windows, and its pot is placed under this vegetable window, which means it is easy for people to mistakenly think that this side is a dish, this side is a seasoning, and then this side is a pot of water, which is easy to cause such misunderstanding.

　　In addition to the location of the pot, the court held that the pot containing liquid alcohol itself is very similar to the pot containing water and is easy to be confused.

　　Judge Zhao Ying of Beijing Shijingshan District People’s Court:Adding water may indeed be a long pot, but from the guest’s point of view, my round pot is a pot for drinking tea and water. It won’t be said that it is for guests to see, but this thing is definitely not used for drinking water, and it can’t have such an effect.

　　The customer fails to fulfill the duty of care and assume secondary responsibility.

　　Then, should the plaintiff, Mr. Liu, take responsibility for his mistake of taking liquid alcohol? The court held that Mr. Liu, as an adult, should have a basic obligation of prudence and should bear secondary responsibility.

　　Judge Zhao Ying of Beijing Shijingshan District People’s Court:Plaintiff: You must have a basic obligation of prudence as an adult before drinking an unknown liquid. Therefore, we also think that the plaintiff is lacking in this respect and has certain faults.

　　According to Article 1198 of the Civil Code, operators, managers or organizers of mass activities in hotels, shopping malls, banks, stations, airports, stadiums, entertainment places and other business places shall bear tort liability if they fail to fulfill their security obligations and cause damage to others.

　　The restaurant took 80% responsibility and awarded more than 58,000 yuan.

　　The People’s Court of Shijingshan, Beijing, found that the defendant’s restaurant was responsible for 80% and the plaintiff, Mr. Liu, was responsible for 20%. Finally, the restaurant was awarded compensation of more than 58,000 yuan for Mr. Liu’s medical expenses and lost time.

　　Judge Zhao Ying of Beijing Shijingshan District People’s Court:Hotel practitioners and operators must improve their safety awareness. We say that this kind of liquid alcohol is indeed a kind of fuel commonly used in hotels, but even if you use it again and again, you must be aware of its danger. If you don’t deal with these chemicals seriously according to the regulations, your risk will always exist.

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Statistics released by data analysis company comScore last Sunday show that the overseas box office revenue of Hollywood movies is expected to exceed 30 billion dollars for the first time in 2019. The growth of overseas box office can make up for the year-on-year decline of domestic box office in the United States, thus keeping Hollywood’s total global box office revenue above $41 billion this year.

This year, the domestic box office in the United States has not fully recovered from the bleak performance in the first quarter, which is the lowest level since 2013. However, Disney films such as Avengers: Endgame, The Lion King and Frozen II, which were released one after another, all performed very well. In the end, the local box office totaled more than $11 billion, and the year-on-year deficit decreased from 11% at the end of April to about 4% at present. In the end, the local box office is expected to be close to the second highest annual box office in 2016 of $11.37 billion. Similarly, the annual global box office is expected to be slightly lower than the $41.7 billion in 2018.

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Former US President Barack Obama shared his favorite film and television works on Twitter and Ins, including:

American factory

Amazing grace.

Apollo 11

Children of Jianghu

Atlantic

Migratory birds

Booksmart

Diane

The Farewell

Fast car king

The Irishman

Mercy of Justice

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Little Women

Marriage story

Parasites

Souvenir

Transit

At the same time, Obama also released three dramas that he called "as powerful as movies":

Life in London Season 2

Unbelievable

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According to The New York Times, martin scorsese said he didn’t need to see The Clown. Earlier, he said that he had read the script of The Clown and praised Joaquin Phoenix’s performance. He said in an interview, "I have seen some clips and I have already understood them. So now, why do I need to see it? I already understand, it doesn’t matter. "

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At midnight on December 31, 2019, the American video website Netflix officially took off the classic American drama Friends. Fans won’t be able to watch the show on WarnerMedia’s new platform HBO Max until March this year. HBO Max signed a five-year contract, and 10 seasons of Friends were exclusively broadcast in North America, with a value of about 425 million US dollars. However, outside the United States, Netflix still enjoys the right to broadcast Friends. Netflix announced that it would remove Friends at the end of 2018, which caused strong dissatisfaction among netizens, so it paid Warner a huge sum of $100 million to renew Friends for one year.

Before HBO Max was put on the shelves, the only (legal) way to watch Friends in the United States was to buy DVDs, or buy them through e-commerce companies such as Amazon, iTunes and Google Play, or watch cable TV reruns-both ——TBS and Nickelodon were broadcast. At present, the DVD series Friends ranks the third best seller on Amazon comedy DVD (the top two are the final season of The Big Bang Theory and the full season edition of The Office).

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Syd Mead, an artistic designer of film concepts such as blade runner and Alien, died at the age of 86. Meade had been treated for lymph node cancer for the past year, but died of complications in Pasadena, California on Monday. Roger Servick, his partner and companion of forty years, was with him on his deathbed and heard his last words: "I’m finished, and now they’re coming to take me back."

Meade once boldly used conceptual art and architectural background to make special effects for ridley scott’s classic sci-fi movie blade runner, and was called "visual futurism". Later, he also served as a special effects consultant for Tomorrow World, Blissful Space and Blade Runner 2049. The most famous works are the building in blade runner, the super-fast light wheel in Chuang series, and the USS Sulaco spacecraft in Alien.

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Walt Disney Pictures announced on January 2 that the company officially closed in 2019 with a global box office income of $11.119 billion. If the FOSS film is taken into account, the value reaches $13,151.7 million. In the global box office of $13,151.7 million, the North American market produced $4,328.3 million and the overseas market contributed $8,823.4 million.

Considering only Disney-branded movies, the studio broke through the box office mark of $11 billion ($11.119 billion) worldwide in 2019, thus setting a new record in the industry, of which overseas market revenue reached $7.354 billion.

In North America, "Disney" brand films earned a total of $3.7648 billion in 2019, breaking the record high of $3.0923 billion just set by the factory in 2018. This is the third time in the history of North America that a studio has reached the box office height of $3 billion a year, and it was all set by Disney.

In 2019, Disney released six films with a global box office of over one billion dollars: Captain Surprise (1.13 billion dollars), Avengers: Endgame (2.798 billion dollars), Aladdin (1.05 billion dollars), Toy Story 4 (1.074 billion dollars), The Lion King (1.657 billion dollars) and The Lion King. At the same time, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ($815.7 million) is also moving towards this height. Among them, Avengers: Endgame and The Lion King are among the top ten box office movies in the world.

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The National Film Bureau released data on December 31: In 2019, the total box office of national films was 64.266 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.4%; The total box office of domestic films was 41.175 billion yuan, up 8.65% year-on-year, accounting for 64.07% of the market; The number of people watching movies in urban cinemas was 1.727 billion. In 2019, 9,708 new screens were added, and the total number of screens nationwide reached 69,787.

In 2019, a total of 850 feature films, 51 animated films, 74 science and education films, 47 documentary films and 15 special films were produced, totaling 1037. Among the top 10 films at the box office in the whole year, 8 were made in China. There were 88 films with a box office of over 100 million yuan, including 47 domestic films.

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Top Ten Box Offices in China Mainland in 2019:

1. Ne Zha 5.001 billion

2. The Wandering Earth 4.679 billion

3. Avengers: Endgame 4.248 billion.

4. My People，My Country 3.121 billion

5. The Captain 2.902 billion

6. Crazy Alien is 2.211 billion yuan.

7. "Flying Life" 1.726 billion

8. "Fire Heroes" 1.702 billion

9. Better Days 1.556 billion

10. Speed and Passion: Special Action, 1.434 billion.

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The top ten box office in Hong Kong in 2019 (HKD/USD). Among them, Avengers: Endgame became the first film in Hong Kong film history to break HK$ 200 million.

1. Avengers: Endgame-222.5 million (28.4M)

2. Toy Story 4-86.56 million (11M)

3. Spider-Man: Heroic Expedition-84.81 million (10.8M)

4. Captain Surprise-75.47 million (9.6M)

5. Aladdin-59.56 million (7.62M)

6. The Clown-59.56 million (7.6M)

7. Frozen II-54.96 million (7.05M)

8. Alita-45.09 million (5.74M)

9. Speed and Passion: Special Action-36.97 million (4.71M)

10. The Lion King-36.23 million (4.61M)

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Taiwan Province’s Top Ten Box Offices in 2019 (NT/USD). Among them, The Lion King, Frozen II and Toy Story 4 are the top three in the box office history of animated films.

1. Avengers: Endgame-910 million (29.4M)

2. Speed and Passion: Special Action-454 million (14.6M)

3. Captain Surprise-404 million (13.1M)

4. Spider-Man: Heroic Expedition-380 million (12.2M)

5. The Clown-330 million (10.7M)

6. The Lion King-315 million (10.1M)

7. Frozen II-314 million (10.3M)

8. Toy Story 4-313 million (10.1M)

9. Aladdin-290 million (9.2M)

10. Alita: Fighting Angel-277 million (9M)

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Italy’s top ten box office in 2019 (EUR/USD):

1. The Lion King-37.51 million (42.9M)

2. Avengers: Endgame-30.28 million (34M)

3. The Clown-29.34 million (32.2M)

4. Frozen II-18.09 million (21M).

5. Aladdin-15.44 million (17.3M)

6 6.《Il primo Natale》——1337 million (14.9M)

7. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil-12.37 million (14.3M)

8. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood-11.88 million (13.3M)

9. Spider-Man: Heroic Expedition-11.77 million (13.5M)

10. Dumbo-11.21 million (12.3M)

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Recently, Fandango released exclusive stills of the blockbuster new films released in North America in 2020: Tenet, wonder woman 2, Black Widow, 007: No Time to Die, Mulan, A Quiet Place 2, 1/2 Magic, Birds of Prey, and Jedi Police: Fast Pursuit.

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Recently, Netflix announced the list of 29 films confirmed to be online in 2020:

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Rotten tomatoes released the top ten films with the highest freshness in 2019:

1. "They are no longer getting old"

2. Midnight First Aid House

3. Don’t Stop the Camera

4. Waitress

5. Life is Bound

6. Mickey and the Bear

7. parasites

8. Apollo 11

9. Jianghu Children

10. amazing grace

Rotten tomatoes released the top ten dramas with the highest freshness in 2019:

1. Life in London Season 2

2. "Erase and Start Again"

3. The second season of Barry

4. The third season of "Better Things"

5. Live in the Present Season 3

6. Rick and Morty Season 4

7. Diablo Season 2

8. "Big Chick" Season 5

9. the sixth season of "detective"

10. The Big Mouth Season 3

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Metacritic announced the top ten films with the highest comprehensive scores of film critics in 2019:

1. Parasites

2. Irish

3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

4. Marriage Story

5. The Original Diamond

6. Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

7. the sword is drawn.

8. Little Women

9. The Farewell

10. Dolor y gloria

Metacritic announced the top ten dramas with the highest comprehensive scores of film critics in 2019:

1. Life in London Season 2

2. The Watchman

3. The Battle of Inheritance Season 2

4. reincarnation party

5. Chernobyl

6. Colored glasses

7. The second season of Barry

8. Unbelievable

9. Good Land Season 4

10. "Writing Youth with Pen"

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Deadline’s chief film critic Pete Hammond announced his top ten films of 2019:

1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2.《1917》

3. Parasites

4. Speed Car King

5. The Pope’s Succession

6. Marriage Story

7. The Clown

8. The Farewell

9. The Secret Life & The Fantasy World of Young Jojo

10. The Last Black Man in San Francisco

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DVDBeaver, a well-known veteran disc station, announced the list of the top ten 4KUHD in 2019:

1. The 40th anniversary of Lionsgate’s "Apocalypse Now" was celebrated by Blu-ray, which made an excellent restoration for Coppola, the director.

2. Agito’s 1977 edition of "Evil Wind Bursts", the 35mm original film was completely restored in 4K, and a 4.0 English surround stereo audio track was added.

3. Warner Kubrick’s classic thriller The Shining

4. Fox’s Alien

5, Studio Canal "Venice Ghost"

6. Warner’s The Wizard of Oz, this version should be the best experience of home theater.

7. Studio Canal Carpenter’s classic horror thriller Extreme Space in 1988. This version also included nearly 4 hours of documentaries, which is very sincere. UHD is also the best audio-visual version so far.

8. Warner’s Batman Returns

9. Lionsgate Film "The Witch"

10. Vinegar Syndrome first set foot in 4UHD, the sci-fi film "Jurassic" starring the late actor Paul Walker, which will also be officially launched on Amazon in January this year.

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The BBC selected 25 best films in 2019:

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The 13th American Association of Internet Film Critics (IFCS) Awards announced the winners. The Irishman won the best drama and director, and The Sword Out of the Sheath won the best comedy. The complete list of winners is as follows:

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The 2nd Grand Western New York Film Critics Association Awards (GWNYFCA) announced the winners. Marriage Story won five awards, including Best Film, Best Actor (adam driver), Best Actress (Scarlett Johansson), Best Original Screenplay and Best Music. The complete list of winners is as follows:

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The winners of the 13th Houston Film Critics Association Awards (HFCS) were announced. "Parasite" won three awards: best film, best director and best foreign language film. The complete list of winners is as follows:

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Winners of the 31st Palm Springs Film Festival released:

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The winners of the 7th North Carolina Film Critics Association Award (NCFCA) were announced. Parasite won four awards: Best Drama, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. The complete list of winners is as follows:

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The winners of the 9th Australian Film Academy Awards (AACTA) were announced. "Parasite" won the best film, and quentin tarantino won the best director. The complete list of winners is as follows:

Best film: Parasites

Best Director: quentin tarantino Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Best screenplay: The Fantasy World of Young Jojo

Best Actor: adam driver’s Marriage Story

Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan Little Women.

Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Supporting Actress: Margot Elise Robbie Bombshell

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The winners of the 77th Golden Globe Awards are released! Best film in drama "1917" and best foreign language film "Parasite". The complete list of winners is as follows:

Best film in drama: 1917

Best Actress in a Drama Film: Judy by René E Zellweger.

Best Actor in a Drama Film: joaquin phoenix’s The Clown

Best film in music/comedy: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Best film in music/comedy: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Actress in Music/Comedy: Awkwafina.

Best Actor in a Music/Comedy Movie: taron egerton’s Rocket Man

Best Supporting Actor in the Film: Brad Pitt Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Original Film Score: The Clown

Best limited drama/TV movie: Chernobyl

Best Actress in a Limited Drama/TV Movie: michelle williams’s Fauci and Walden

Best film director: sam mendes’s 1917.

Cecil B. Demir Lifetime Achievement Award: Tom Hanks

Best Actress in a Drama Series: olivia colman’s "Crown"

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Patricia Arquette’s "Evil"

Best original song: (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again "Rocket Man"

Best comedy/musical series: Life in London

Best Supporting Actress in the Film: laura dern’s Marriage Story

Best Animation: The Lost Link

Best Screenwriter: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood quentin tarantino.

Best Actor in a Drama Series: Brian Edward Cox’s The Battle of Inheritance

Carol Burnett TV Lifetime Achievement Award: ellen degeneres

Best Foreign Language Film: Parasites

Best Actress in Musical Comedy Series: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Life in London

Best Drama Series: The Battle of Inheritance

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Stellan Skarsgard’s Chernobyl

Best Actor in Musical Comedy Series: Lamy Yusuf’s Lamy

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Director Lv Zhang’s new film "Liuchuan" was launched in Beijing a few days ago. This film is also the work of director Lv Zhang who returned to the Chinese film industry after ten years’ absence. The film was produced by Naian, starring NiNi, Edward Zhang and Xin Baiqing.

The story of Liuchuan revolves around beginning of spring and beginning of winter, two brothers with different personalities. After entering middle age, although both of them live in Beijing, they have been alienated for a long time because of their respective life trajectories. Suddenly, one day, my younger brother beginning of winter proposed to his elder brother to visit Liuchuan, Japan, in order to find the woman they both admired in their boyhood.

Born in Jilin in 1962, Zhang Lv is a Korean. As the most creative creator of China, his films have been shortlisted in the world’s top film festivals such as Venice, Locarno, Cannes and Berlin in the past twenty years, with rich honors. For a long time, Lv Zhang has made films with the joint efforts of China, South Korea and France. His films have traveled in different Asian countries, shuttling between the two ends of geographical boundaries and exploring in different cultural, political and emotional spaces. In recent ten years, Lv Zhang was invited to be a film professor at Yonsei University, a top-ranking university in South Korea, and began to make films in South Korea, and made films with So-ri Moon (Oasis), Shin Min A (My girlfriend is a nine-tailed fox), Simplicity (Parasite), Hae-il Park (memories of murder), Kwon Hae hyo (After), Jae-mun Yun (Despicable Street) and so on.

"Liuchuan" is his first film to return to Chinese ten years later. The film was made out of focus at midnight and assembled excellent production teams from China, South Korea and Japan. This is also the second time that director Lv Zhang has been filming in Japan since he was shortlisted for the Berlin work Fukuoka at the beginning of last year. "Liuchuan" will continue its light creative style, and tell a romantic love story between Beijing and Liuchuan with three outstanding Chinese film actors.

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On January 12-19, 2020, the forest elephant will present 14 video works with southern characteristics, injecting water vapor and warmth into the dry and cold air. This film festival has an opening day package and a closing day package. On the opening day, there are three films: My Memory, Torch Troupe and River of Life, and on the closing day, there are three works: Gossip, Roaming and Youth Nezha.

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The French Cultural Center in Beijing will show the restored versions of several classic films in January, which will take you through the golden age of French film history from 1920 to 1970 through light and shadow. The selected films are rich and varied, and they also pay tribute to many legendary filmmakers in French cinema: louis malle, Marcel Carné, jacques demy, Claude Sotai, jean gabin, simone signoret, yves montand and Jean-Paul belmondo.

Original title: "Parasites" swept the world; Lv Zhang’s new film starts shooting and returns to Chinese movies.

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Poster of International Market

　 　 1905 movie network news Last year, Huang Zhengmin, a powerful actor who swept the best actor in major awards ceremonies, was a veritable "model worker". At the beginning of the year, the gangster love movie starring him, although the plot is a little old-fashioned, moved the audience because of his acting skills, and the film still achieved double box office success. Recently, he once again grabbed the Christmas file in Han Ying with his new film. With good audience reputation, the film became popular at the box office. Next, he has four new films coming out one after another, three crime action films (directed by Liu Chengyong) (directed by Luo Hongzhen) and (directed by Yil-hyeong Lee), plus a biography film (directed by Seok-hoon Lee), each of which is menacing and cannot be underestimated, which makes people have to admire the exuberant energy of this model actor.

　 　 The International Market, which is being shown in South Korea for Christmas, is a masterpiece of director (masterpiece) Je-gyun Yun who was born in Busan after five years, and is called the Korean version. The film tells the story of Dexiu (Huang Zhengmin), who has great ambitions but never lived seriously for himself, fighting for his family all his life. Starting in the 1950s, the film has experienced major historical periods such as the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the search for separated relatives, and has written a magnificent modern Korean history from the perspective of little people struggling to survive in the ever-changing historical ups and downs. The cast of this film is very bright, including Huang Zhengmin, Jin Yunzhen, Dal-su Oh, Jin-yeong Jeong, Zhang Yingnan, Luo Meilan, Jin Seqi and Jung Yunho.

　 　　Huang Zhengmin’s role as the hero, Dexiu, in this film is a challenging role, from a soft-blooded 20-year-old man to a perverse 70-year-old man. In a recent interview with Korean media, he said that Dexiu is a rare role, and he is a portrait of our fathers throughout our time.

Huang Zhengmin said that the appearance of childhood actors made him even more touched.

Talking about the new film: I hope the audience will resonate

　 　　Reporter: You have seen the film, right? What do you think?

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: Yes, I waited for a whole year after the filming. When shooting, I only saw my own appearance, and the pictures of other actors acting were all seen for the first time. At the beginning, the grand evacuation scene was Xiao Dexiu’s debut. I had read the script before, so I probably knew what the content was, but at the moment I saw the picture, tears flowed down like crazy. Some people distributed paper towels during the screening, but I used up all the paper towels I had prepared and borrowed them from someone next to me. (Laughter) I feel like I’m burning in my body. I don’t know why, but I feel more deeply about the pain and experience of Xiao Dexiu than the one I played as an adult.

　 　　Reporter: What prompted you to resolutely decide to participate in this film?

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: One day, director Je-gyun Yun called and said that he wanted me to read a play. I asked him what the story was about, and he said it was about his father. At that time, there was a feeling that I was hit in the back of my head. After I got married, I had a child, and I slowly began to understand the psychology of being a father. At that moment, I thought I must play. The role of Dexiu can remind us of our father. In fact, the gathering between parents and children, even for a short time, can pave the way for mutual communication and understanding. This is the original intention of my choice to star in this film. I don’t want to make the character Dexiu too prominent, but I hope that he can become an ordinary character that everyone can think of his father.

　 　　Reporter: Can you tell us how you began to understand your father?

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: Actually, I don’t fully understand it. So the long-term way of life and communication doesn’t mean to change. Now, in fact, most of the time, I ask my father what he thinks through my mother. After I gave birth to my own child, I thought the child was so cute. After reading it again and again, I still want to see it, thinking that my father shouldn’t have seen me like this at the beginning? Why didn’t you say something nice to me when I was in pain in adolescence? Maybe it would make me less painful. But then I began to understand my father, not as a son, but as a man, and I gradually understood his thoughts.

　 　　Reporter: I just said that Dexiu represents the image of my father, and I want to perform a sense of ordinary. Can you tell me in detail what kind of universal ordinary feeling it is? What is the key to playing the role of father?

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: Actually, it is relatively easy to give a character a personality. For example, in the script, the character Dexiu actually has a lot of experiences, but I don’t want to use so many events and experiences to create a portrait of a character. Instead, I try to keep the character in a colorless state, so that the audience can project it to their father when watching everything he experiences, and try to handle the character with this ordinary feeling.

　 　　Reporter: The role you played in this film spans from the 20th generation to the 70th generation. Is there any difficulty?

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: To tell you the truth, I think this may be a role that I will never meet again in the future. It’s either a big loss or a big gain. This work contains romantic love, comedy, popular drama and other diverse elements, and it has to be interpreted from the 20th generation to the 70th generation. It is a very rich corner color, and I am very grateful to Director Je-gyun Yun for giving me this opportunity. With regard to acting in old age, I care more about the shaping of the character’s personality than the problems brought about by makeup, and how to show his old eccentric but warm complex emotions. This is the part that bothers me the most. Because if the 70 th generation is well played, it will be more natural to watch the 20 th and 30 th generations.

　 　　Reporter: The experience of this film Dexiu can also be said to have witnessed the development of the whole modern history of South Korea. Is there any preparation for this part of the information?

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: I have consulted some relevant materials. Especially about the Vietnam War, a former fellow villager once participated in the war. He shared his experiences including persecution and escape at that time, and got great help from his description, including the psychological state of fear.

Talking about box office: unprecedented pressure and gratifying achievements

　 　　Reporter: Your work has maintained a relatively stable box office and word of mouth before, but it seems that there is always a step away from the blockbuster. I must have a lot of expectations for the box office of International Market, and it seems that the trend is not bad at present.

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: Before the official release, the word-of-mouth was not bad, but I don’t know if it can directly affect the box office. Later, I saw that the box office reached 180,000 on the first day, which was still a non-weekend achievement. To be honest, it was quite surprising, and the audience rating rose after the release. Under normal circumstances, there will be a certain decline. I am still in the hunger and thirst period of big sales (laughs). I feel that this is the return of director Je-gyun Yun after five years, which is considered to be a success.

　 　　Reporter: I heard that after director Je-gyun Yun finished reading the script, Huang Zhengmin was the first choice for Dexiu.

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: Honestly, I don’t know why. With such an age span and rich experience, I always feel that I am not the first choice among so many actors with outstanding qualifications. Perhaps it was because there were not many actors with suitable schedules to choose from.

　 　　Reporter: I heard that the character prototype of Dexiu is Director Yin’s own father?

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: I didn’t know about it before. That’s why people cried at the screening, isn’t it When Jin Yunzhen sitting next to me was crying, I was still thinking, what’s going on? Only later did I know that the director was burdened with a heavy burden, but I didn’t ask more about it after the screening.

　 　　Reporter: In short, it is a very important work for Yin Dao.

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: Yes, although it’s not very important to me, it’s really too heavy for Yin Dao, and how much bitterness he has to bear during filming, so that’s why I especially hope this film can have a good result.

　 　　Reporter: I feel that your sense of burden is unprecedented this time.

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: Even if it’s not just for the commercial box office performance, as the leading actor of a movie, it’s a lie to say that there is no burden. But I also know that my task is how to solve these burdens, and I can’t bring this burden to my actual work. I’ve been thinking about how to better show the integrity of the characters.

　 　　Reporter: Is your own father as blunt as Dexiu?

　 　　Huang Zhengmin: Although he is not as stubborn as honest and frank, he is usually a quiet person, so this role still resonates.

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Catalogue

　　The first part of the 2024 annual departmental budget.

　　I. Description of departments

　　Second, the income budget.

　　III. Explanation of Expenditure Budget

　　Four, the financial allocation of "three public" funds budget.

　　V. Other explanations

　　VI. Explanation of Nouns

　　The second part of the 2024 annual departmental budget report

　　I. Summary of Income and Expenditure

　　II. Summary of income

　　III. Summary of Expenditure

　　Fourth, the project expenditure table

　　Five, the government procurement budget list

　　VI. Summary of Financial Appropriations and Income and Expenditure

　　Seven, the general public budget expenditure table.

　　Eight, the general public budget financial allocation basic expenditure table

　　Nine, the government fund budget expenditure table.

　　Ten, the state-owned capital operating budget financial allocation expenditure table

　　Eleven, financial allocation "three public" expenditure table

　　Twelve, the government purchase service budget financial allocation list

　　XIII. Performance Target Table of Project Expenditure

　　Fourteen, the overall expenditure performance target table

The first part of the department budget in 2024.

　　I. Description of departments

　　(a) the nature and responsibilities of the department, etc.

　　According to the official reply on the establishment of china national film museum (No.148 [2005] of the Central Organizing Committee) and other documents approved by the Office of the Central Organizing Committee, china national film museum was established.

　　China national film museum’s duties are: film art exhibition, film cultural exchange, film professional activities, film collection, film public service, film knowledge popularization, film screening service, film academic research, film social education, and film culture and patriotism education for the public, especially for teenagers.

　　(II) Institutional setup

　　There are 13 internal institutions and party committees (party building offices) including office, finance department, personnel department, security department, research department (journal editorial department), information dissemination department, collection department, social education department, activity management department, exhibition department, cinema department and development department (capital construction office). There are 0 subordinate units in china national film museum.

　　(3) staffing and actual situation

　　The administrative establishment of china national film museum is 0, and the actual number is 0; There are 117 people in the business establishment, and the actual number is 112; There are 23 retirees, including 0 retirees and 23 retirees.

　　Second, the income budget.

　　The revenue budget for 2024 is 123,125,700 yuan, an increase of 15,385,700 yuan or 14.28% compared with the budget of 107,740,000 yuan at the beginning of 2023. The main reason is to further strengthen the management of budget funds and incorporate other income funds into the annual budget management in accordance with the requirements of full-caliber budget management.

　　(1) The financial appropriation income this year is 101.12 million yuan.

　　1. The general public budget revenue is 101.12 million yuan.

　　2. The budgetary allocation income of government funds is RMB 0,000.

　　3. State-owned capital operating budget appropriation income of RMB 0.000 million.

　　(II) The income from other funds this year is 22 million yuan.

　　4. The financial account management fund income is RMB 0.00 million.

　　5. The business income is RMB 0,000.

　　6. The superior subsidy income is 0,000 yuan.

　　7. The income paid by affiliated units is RMB 0,000.

　　8. The operating income of public institutions is RMB 0,000.

　　9. Other income is 22 million yuan.

　　(3) The balance carried forward from the previous year was RMB 5,700.

　　10. Last year’s carry-over balance was RMB 5,700.

Figure 1: Revenue Budget

　　III. Explanation of Expenditure Budget

　　The expenditure budget in 2024 was 123.1257 million yuan, an increase of 15.3857 million yuan or 14.28% compared with the budget of 107.74 million yuan at the beginning of 2023. The main reason is that according to the requirements of full-scale budget management, the management of budget funds is further strengthened, and other income funds are included in the annual budget management, and related expenditures increase accordingly.

　　(1) Basic expenditure. The basic expenditure budget is 70,725,000 yuan, accounting for 57.44% of the total expenditure budget, which is 2,343,700 yuan or 3.21% lower than the budget of 73,068,700 yuan at the beginning of 2023.

　　(2) Project expenditure. The project expenditure budget is 52,400,700 yuan, an increase of 17,729,400 yuan or 51.14% compared with the budget of 34,671,300 yuan at the beginning of 2023. Among them:

　　1. Operating expenses of public institutions are RMB 0,000.

　　2. Paid to the superior expenditure of RMB 0,000.

　　3. Subsidy expenditure for affiliated units is RMB 0,000.

Figure 2: Basic Expenditure and Project Expenditure

　　(3) The balance fund carried forward at the end of the year is RMB 0,000.00 Yuan.

　　Four, the financial allocation of "three public" funds budget.

　　(A) the scope of the "three public" funds

　　China national film museum’s expenses for going abroad (abroad), official reception, official vehicle purchase and operation and maintenance include one subordinate unit at the same level in china national film museum. Other subordinate units have no "three public" budget for financial allocation arrangements in 2024.

　　(three) the financial allocation of "three public" funds budget.

　　In 2024, the budget for the financial allocation of "three publics" was 731,200 yuan, which was 131,900 yuan less than the budget for the financial allocation of "three publics" in 2023. Among them:

　　1. Expenses for going abroad on business. The budget for 2024 is 226,700 yuan, which is 21,600 yuan lower than the budget of 248,300 yuan at the beginning of 2023. The main reason is to implement the government’s requirements for tight living and further reduce general expenditures.

　　2. Official reception fee. The budget in 2024 is RMB 0.40 million, which is RMB 0.40 million higher than the budget at the beginning of 2023. The main reason is that the exchange activities in the cultural and art industry have increased and the actual demand for exchange activities has increased after the normalization management of the epidemic situation.

　　3 official car purchase and operation and maintenance fees. The budget for 2024 is 500,500 yuan, including: the budget for the purchase of official vehicles in 2024 is 375,500 yuan, which is 114,300 yuan lower than the budget of 489,800 yuan at the beginning of 2023. The main reasons are: a large bus was purchased in 2023, but there was no such demand in 2024, and the amount decreased; The budget for official vehicle operation and maintenance in 2024 is 125,000 yuan, including: official vehicle fuel 47,700 yuan, official vehicle maintenance 36,900 yuan, official vehicle insurance 23,000 yuan and other expenses 17,600 yuan. The budget of official vehicle operation and maintenance fee in 2024 is the same as the budget of 125,000 yuan at the beginning of 2023.

　　V. Other explanations

　　(a) the government procurement budget

　　In 2024, the total government procurement budget of china national film museum was 38,618,700 yuan, including 2,861,700 yuan for goods, 0,000 yuan for projects and 35,757,000 yuan for services.

　　(two) the government purchase service budget.

　　In 2024, the total budget of china national film museum government for purchasing services is RMB 0.00 million.

　　(3) An explanation of the operating expenses of the organ

　　The department has no budget for the operation of organs in 2024.

　　(four) the project expenditure performance targets.

　　In 2024, china national film museum reported 45 budget items with performance targets, accounting for 100.00% of the 45 budget items of this year. The project expenditure budget for reporting performance targets is 52.395 million yuan, accounting for 100.00% of the project expenditure budget of this department this year.

　　(five) the key administrative fees.

　　This department has no key administrative fees in 2024.

　　(six) the financial allocation of state-owned capital operating budget.

　　The department has no budget for financial allocation of state-owned capital operation budget in 2024.

　　(seven) the occupation of state-owned assets.

　　By the end of 2023, there were 9 vehicles in china national film museum, totaling 2,430,900 yuan; There are 14 sets of equipment with a unit value of more than 500,000 yuan, totaling 35,062,500 yuan. In the budget arrangement for 2024, one set of equipment with a unit value of more than 500,000 yuan was purchased, totaling 803,100 yuan.

　　VI. Explanation of Nouns

　　Basic expenditure: refers to personnel expenditure and public expenditure incurred to ensure the normal operation of institutions and complete daily tasks.

　　Project expenditure: refers to the expenditure incurred to complete a specific administrative task or career development goal in addition to the basic expenditure.

　　The budget of "three public funds": refers to the budget of going abroad (abroad), official reception, official car purchase and operation and maintenance expenses arranged by the financial allocation in the departmental budget of the current year.

　　Government procurement: The use of fiscal funds by state organs, institutions and organizations at all levels to purchase goods, projects and services within the legally formulated centralized procurement catalogue or above the procurement quota standard is an effective measure to standardize the management of fiscal expenditure and strengthen budget constraints.

The second part of the 2024 annual departmental budget report

In this report, we try to answer these questions:

1. How is the Cannes Film Market held this year?

2. Can the online movie market accommodate all the transactions during the film festival?

3. Can film producers buy this year’s competition films online?

4. What is the impact of online market on movie trading?

5. What else can Cannes film market do besides trading?

Special feature of 1905 film network What to do in Cannes this year should be the topic that fans are most concerned about during this period. May every year not only means how more than 100 films will meet the audience, but also means that those films will become the focus of discussion by the audience in the coming year, and what kind of films will be displayed at major film festivals.

　

Cannes Film Festival not only provides a few months’ talk for fans, but more importantly, it is one of the largest film markets in the world. In May, together with directors, actors, producers and the media, there were also representatives of film companies, agents, distributors, film foundations and other people in the industry from all over the world.

　

The market set a record in 2019　How to face difficulties in 2020?

2019 is the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival film market, which has welcomed more than 12,000 participants in an unprecedented way. This year, when the selection of three parallel units was cancelled and the date of the official screening unit was ambiguous, the future of the film market and the screening markets in many countries behind it became a topic of more concern to the industry.

　

Now, the film market has decided to hold it online this year. In its official statement, this year’s online film market will fully simulate every function offline, from the agent booth to the film agency exhibition hall; From online video conferencing to online watching movies; There will even be online forums.

But at the moment, will the online movie market still maintain the vitality of offline every year?

　

"In our platform, the film market accounts for about 10%." David, a reporter from a film media who has reported the Cannes Film Festival for many years, said, "This year, I don’t think the impact will be great, and maybe there will be a lot of transactions."

　

The person in charge of the film market said that 80% of the publishers they consulted were willing to try the online market; 66% still have the ability to buy films including films, post-production and script creation.

　

The person in charge stressed that this year’s online film market will provide an efficient and cutting-edge platform for film screening, trading and financing. The online movie market has been scheduled for May 22nd for a week.

　

Online movie market　Can you replace the seaside luxury hotel?

Walk into the movie palace and go down the stairs directly to the basement. These hundreds of planes and the two floors above them are the movie market in Cannes. Film companies and agents from various countries distribute thousands of film copyrights to all parts of the world here.

　

But among other movie people, there is an invisible "market" in Cannes, which is located in hotels lined up by the sea. Larger film companies often negotiate cooperation here. Someone from a film company once said: "The films in the movie palace market are basically films that no one wants after the copyright is robbed."

　

When the film market appears online this year, will there be "two markets"?

　

"I don’t quite agree with this statement." Li Yihua, the person in charge of Nianhua outside the window, said. In recent years, she has bought the China rights of many films in Cannes and other film festivals. "The so-called hotel is the second market, which may be a relatively large company and needs more freedom. I think the difference between talking about business and not talking about business is not so big, but the conditions and timing of negotiation. "

　

Li Yihua believes that the film market of the Film Palace actually plays an important role for sales companies to develop new customers and buyers. This is also the necessity of the existence of the official film market in Cannes.

But this year, the market turned online, and she felt that it might not be so friendly to new buyers. When selling films, sales companies may have concerns in the face of buyers they have never met.

　

In the Cannes film market transactions in the past few years, even many familiar companies talked about their cooperation intentions long in advance in order to improve the efficiency and success rate of the transactions during Cannes. Li Yihua mentioned that for new buyers, online film festivals may also bring difficulties. Not knowing the sales company and not meeting in advance will reduce the success rate of the transaction.

Advantages and disadvantages of online market　Can a film dealer buy a competition film?

The official statement of the film market of Cannes Film Festival seems to be a reassurance to film practitioners. Perhaps the only worry is what kind of films can be bought this year.

　

Recalling the experience of buying films, an industry insider who went to Cannes Film Festival all the year round revealed that every time, he had to sit down at the booth of the Film Palace market, listen to the seller’s introduction, and then spend two or three minutes watching a film. If a company has 10 films, it may take 30 to 40 minutes to watch it, and then he can start to talk about conditions, and basically he will not decide whether to buy a film immediately. Actually, it’s a waste of time

This year’s film festival was held online. In the eyes of this industry, it actually saved a lot of time for purchase and negotiation. "The same work can be done online, and there are written materials in advance, which can make better decisions. If there is a link to the demo, everyone in the company can watch it. More flexible. "

　

Li Yihua, who buys copyright for her company at major film festivals every year, agrees with this view. She said that she has to fly to four or five film festivals every year to hold meetings, watch films and sort out materials in a few days. The time is particularly tight: "If you are online, the time on the road and the time difference will be omitted. It will be more efficient for everyone to watch films directly."

　

Li Yihua told us that at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, she chose to watch the film online at home and then make a decision to buy the film: "Some foreign companies anticipated this problem and sent us the link when they showed it in Berlin. I watched a lot of competition films, and the last film I bought won this year’s Golden Bear. "

　

David, a film journalist, is generally optimistic about the online market this year. He thinks that in this year’s environment, the copyright transaction volume of online broadcasting may reach a new high. But at the same time, he is worried that because the market is held before the film festival, filmmakers may not be able to buy any "explosive" movies.

"The online market will not have much impact on procurement." Li Yihua said, "But if there is no nomination, or a stunt like a competition unit, I think it will be very difficult to buy a film." She mentioned that more than 100 films in the official and parallel units of Cannes will be concerned by the domestic media because of the name of "Cannes", but this year’s changes will make her more cautious in buying films.

　

The online transaction is solved.　Where is the offline activity going?

"The film market is a more specific, practical and functional trading platform extended by the film festival. It will include market screening, forum activities and so on, and its diversity and inclusiveness are also very important." According to Liu Lei, the operation director of China Film Foundation’s Wu Tianming Youth Film Special Fund, this is a very important part of the offline activities of Cannes Film Festival.

　

Liu Lei mentioned that the world filmmakers attracted by Cannes Film Festival will help young filmmakers understand the necessary practical skills such as film promotion skills, joint production, international finance, market strategy, market distribution and international sales.

　

Therefore, for filmmakers, the film market is a platform for buying and selling film copyrights. But at the same time, the establishment of this market is also helping young people in the industrial chain to stand on the international stage faster.

　

Liu Lei gave us an example: Xiao Gancao, our producer, was greatly encouraged after he came to Cannes. Before that, he never thought that famous actors could be used in this project, but after returning to China, he found Duan Long, and after many conversations, he "knocked him down" and became the star of the film.

When the movie market moves online, what will happen to these projects and forums outside the copyright?

Liu Lei did not disclose whether there will be relevant arrangements for this year’s Wu Tianming Youth Film Special Fund. But he said: "Some of the things that the Foundation can do is to help filmmakers in need to answer their doubts. Of course, switching to online also represents a lot of workload for Cannes film market staff. If there is anything we can do, we are also willing to contribute. "

Whether it is the Cannes Film Festival or the international film festivals in Beijing and Shanghai, for them, the work is not only a screening, but also an important part of the global or regional film industry system. The film market turnover of Beijing International Film Festival is increasing year by year; The venture capital unit of Shanghai International Film Festival has become a climate. At this time, it is even more necessary for filmmakers to support each other and make the film industry develop continuously in a new form.

　

In the interview, Liu Lei said: "Under such a global crisis, we can use this time to reflect on the future development of the film, the film itself, its commercialization, cultural attributes and so on. The film has never stopped for more than 120 years, everything will pass, and we will eventually get back on the road. "

On the evening of March 18th, at Chery’s press conference, Chery officially announced that it would officially "resurrect" the QQ model and adopt the pure electric mode. However, from the press conference, compared with the previous version of the national car fuel car, this Chery QQ, which will be listed at the Shanghai Auto Show, is no longer an A00-class car, and it is expected to be an A0 or even an A-class pure electric car.

With its low price and lovely appearance, the first generation of Chery QQ did successfully break through 10,000 monthly sales after its release in 2005. At its peak, Chery QQ occupied 60% of the mini-car market, and its cumulative sales exceeded 1.4 million. However, with the consumption upgrade of consumers in China, the sales volume of Chery QQ gradually declined, and it stopped production in 2014.

At the end of the model, Chery also tried to counterattack and launched QQ me, which was positioned as a light luxury, but it was vomited by consumers because of its avant-garde style. The model was discontinued two years after its launch, with a total sales volume of less than 2,000 units. This also shows that for consumers, the customers of A00-class cars always rank in an important position in terms of face value.

For Chery’s resurrection of this car, in fact, the previous comments were mixed. You should know that the resurrection of Fengyun series has also been controversial. But such a classic IP is also the only way for Chery to resurrect. After all, both SMART and other classic brands have launched their own pure electric series. From this point of view, Chery’s resurrection of QQ may be a win-win situation for domestic sentimental consumers.

However, after this model goes on the market, it will encounter the combined attack of 600,000-100,000 A0 pure electric vehicles such as Volkswagen ID.3, Geely, etc. Besides the sentimental advantages of the name, what outstanding advantages QQ can break through is the most important part for Chery.

So do you think Chery QQ can win market attention and even sales after listing? Please leave a message for discussion.

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Text | Pang Yuhong

Edit | Wang Di

For Lin Li, a Shanghai woman who runs a Chinese restaurant in new york, her "cold winter" began as early as the day when Wuhan was closed, and there is no sign of "thawing" until the summer.

In May last year, Lin Li and her church friends set up a stall in the food city in Queens, new york, mainly engaged in special stir-frying. The wall was full of pictures of 50 special dishes, from the crab powder cage in Shanghai to the diced chicken in chili pepper, boiled fish and yellow croaker noodle soup with Guangdong characteristics. Five workers are employed in the store, who are responsible for cashing, preparing meals and packing, and each has its own division of labor.

The food city is located in Amherst, in the west of Queens, a community famous for immigrants from all over the world, especially from Asia. This food stall, which was converted from a supermarket, accommodated 26 merchants. The scarlet letter signboard and the red and white flags hung on the eaves of the wall were striking. From cold rice noodles to Xinjiang cuisine, from fried rice noodles to mala Tang, I suddenly had the illusion of returning to China. Lin Li’s shop is located in the corner of the food city.

When Lin Li returned to the store after her 10-day Spring Festival holiday in China, the noisy voices in the past had disappeared and were replaced by the sighs of the empty hall and other stall owners. Rumors and discrimination have begun to permeate the lives of ordinary people. Many people regard Chinese food and Chinese people as carriers or sources of infection, and avoid eating in Chinese restaurants.

The empty streets in new york The pictures in this article are all taken by Pang Yuhong.

"As far as I’m concerned, restaurants are more hygienic than other restaurants, because we have been reading domestic information all morning, and we all know the seriousness of this problem, so we may be much more cautious than those foreigners." Lin Li said. For safety reasons, Lin Li also asked employees to wear masks and gloves. As the number of guests in the dining hall decreased greatly, she was worried about the wages of the workers every day. "Later, we finally got the wages for the workers, but we had no money to earn, and we still owed a lot of rent, water, electricity and gas, and we couldn’t pay them at all."

New york citizens wearing masks one after another.

China, the oldest city in Manhattan, is usually crowded with pedestrians, tourists and vendors selling fruits and vegetables, but it suddenly became an empty city in February, and even the amount of garbage collected in the garbage bins within its jurisdiction has dropped every day. Grace Young, a food writer, has lived in China for more than 40 years, and she knows a lot about restaurants in China. On a weekend at the end of February, she found that the Xixi Roast Meat Restaurant, which she often went to, was closed because of poor business, so she began to actively appeal to everyone on social media and radio to support the business of these Chinese restaurants.

Both the small restaurants in China and the food city where Lin Li is located have a common feature, which is cheap and good. You can buy a bag of fruit from a street vendor for two or three dollars, a bowl of wonton for 6.5 dollars, and a bowl of rice with Sichuan style stew pork for 9 dollars in Lin Li’s shop, which is far lower than most supermarkets and restaurants in new york.

"Many Chinese restaurants are small businesses, and their net interest rate is very low. They all rely on the sales volume to make profits. How much profit can you leave after a bowl of wonton is stripped of labor, raw materials, water and electricity, rent, tax and insurance?" Grace looked at the Chinese restaurant that was empty at rush hour and said to me with great regret.

As the discrimination against Asians continues to ferment, some violent incidents have also started to appear in the news frequently. Grace began to worry about her own safety after seeing reports that Asians were inexplicably attacked on the street and abused on the subway for wearing masks for several days. "I know that many of my friends have such unpleasant experiences. Our society is too crazy now." Speaking of this topic, she suddenly became nervous, then paused and muttered in a low voice: "I even think it is scary to talk about this topic. Who knows what will happen."

Lin Li’s son, who is going to college in other places, also specially called her to ask about her safety. Unlike Grace, who has scruples, Lin Li is more outspoken. "I think Americans are too arrogant. Especially after Trump took office, he made this racial discrimination clear and made it public, and then some Americans’ hatred was aroused."

When the timeline advanced to March, the United States became the "epicenter" of the epidemic. Compared with the concern about discrimination, the survival of restaurants has become a more urgent issue. On March 16th, the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, ordered all restaurants to close their in-house dining business, allowing only takeout and self-help meals. In the next week, Lin Li watched the Vietnamese rice noodles, Japanese food, cold rice noodles, saute spicy chicken, mala Tang and other stores in the food city close one by one. By the 23rd, only her restaurant in the huge food city was still open.

"Do you remember the end of Titanic? I watched our lights go out one by one, and I remembered the scene at the end of the movie, when four musicians played "Closer to My Lord" on the boat, and then people rushed to jump into the boat and escape. This felt very strange. " Lin Li said on the phone.

All the workers she used to hire took time off to go home for fear of the epidemic. As a result, all the tasks of maintaining the operation of the restaurant fell on Lin Li and her partners. In order to protect their own safety, she and her partner will lock the door from the inside every day after they arrive at the store, and put up notices on the gate asking the takeaway riders to wait outside.

Go out at 8 o’clock every morning, and when you arrive at the store, you just prepare the goods, prepare the take-away list, stir-fry and pack, and you can’t eat your first meal until 4: 30 in the afternoon. Lin Li vividly called this process "handing in homework".

In late March, thousands of supermarkets in new york City were temporarily closed due to logistics obstruction and manpower shortage, including three supermarkets near the food city. The wholesaler of vegetables and meat that used to deliver goods to the door disappeared, and the supermarket that often went shopping closed, which made Lin Li’s daily meal preparation process become a "treasure hunt" for driving to find supermarket supplies. "I used to shop around, but now as long as I can find a supermarket to open the door, I will go in and give the list to the boss, take the goods and leave, and I won’t compare prices at all." Lin Li said.

The difficulty in stocking has brought about changes in the dishes. There were 20 products on the take-away menu, but now it has been reduced by nearly half. One day, I received two orders for pickled bullfrogs, both of which made Lin Li feel embarrassed. When she went to the market to stock up the night before, she only bought a live bullfrog. Seeing that the time was too late, she could only contact the second customer who placed the order to cancel the order.

Not only are the raw materials difficult to find, but even the packing box has once become a problem. It turned out that the Aolong Catering Wholesale Market, where Lin Li often went, announced the suspension of business at the end of March, so she had to temporarily replace the lunch box. I didn’t expect to receive a complaint from a guest just two days after I changed the lunch box. A frequent visitor in the store asked why the amount of food suddenly decreased in the WeChat group. Lin Li sincerely apologized in the group in time and explained to the customer that it might be the visual difference caused by the change of the shape of the lunch box.

"Before, if you were missing something, you could borrow it from the restaurant next door, but now it’s gone, and if you are missing something, you will be told by the guests." Lin Li sighed. At this time, she received a WeChat prompt, showing that the number of WeChat steps on that day was 19,000, ranking first in the circle of friends.

While Chinese restaurants are struggling to find the source of goods, the sharp increase in the demand for take-away delivery has also prompted Lang Tao, who specializes in take-away business in new york and New Jersey, to change his strategy urgently. In 2014, he and his partners established a platform dedicated to the distribution of Chinese group meals-Yunban Newspaper, which regularly transports authentic Chinese food distributed in Flushing, Brooklyn and other places to the business districts and schools in Manhattan. Every day at noon and evening, it is often seen that white-collar workers and students queue up to take meals at their mobile distribution points.

In the face of the menacing Covid-19, the number of 100 merchants stationed in Yunban Newspaper has dropped sharply to 20, and Lin Li’s restaurant is one of the few merchants. Because most companies take home office and students take classes online at home, the original shopping route centered on the business district of Yunban newspaper can no longer meet the needs of users. Lang Tao discussed with the team urgently, and began to plan to deliver meals to some residential areas with dense Chinese, and adjusted the menu on the platform to cancel cold dishes and only heat dishes.

"Eating is just a need, so the average unit price of our orders has doubled during this period of time. But now, after all, the transportation capacity is limited. We may need to deliver hundreds of orders for dinner every day, which is already running at full capacity. " Wolf Tao said.

The delivery staff of Yunban newspaper goes to the merchant’s shop in Flushing every afternoon to pick up meals-they have a new dress code: protective clothing, gloves and masks, all of which are indispensable. Lin Li always secretly hopes that the delivery staff will come slowly. She usually deals with loose orders from Grubhub, Seamless, Uber Eats and other platforms at noon, and prepares dozens of group meals from Yunban newspaper in the afternoon. She and her partner are busy in the empty food city, fearing that they will not be able to prepare meals before the delivery staff arrives.

Heavily armed delivery staff

After entering April, the turning point of the epidemic in new york was delayed, but Zhang Wen, who was resting at home, couldn’t hold back and decided to return to work quietly.

Zhang Wen has been running Aolong Restaurant Wholesale Company in Flushing, new york for four or five years, with clients covering hundreds of Chinese restaurants in new york, Chicago, Maryland and New Jersey. After the outbreak began, the first thing he felt was that drivers were too difficult to hire, and sometimes he had to drive himself to farms and dealers to pull goods. After some supermarkets were closed, residents who wanted to stock up poured into the wholesale market to purchase. Zhang Wen looked at the sudden emergence of a large number of individual customers in the warehouse. First, he shortened the business hours and canceled the delivery service on March 23, and finally decided to temporarily close down at the end of March. At this time, 80% of the restaurants he had worked with had closed down.

"We were also very flustered at the time. After all, we were doing wholesale business. Suddenly, we saw so many families coming to shop, people came and went, and employees felt unsafe." Zhang Wen recalled, "In fact, the food reserves in the United States were abundant, but everyone rushed to buy them. As a result, the prices of ginger, garlic, spices and vegetables also rose."

A rare week of rest at home is not very enjoyable for Zhang Wen, who can’t help himself. "Every day, except playing with children, I just eat and sleep. After staying for a week, I feel that life is boring." During the rest at home, some old customers still call him to buy goods. In order to prevent a large number of passengers from entering the wholesale market again, Zhang Wen did not open to the outside world this time, but quietly opened the wholesale market to serve old customers.

The two-month stay-at-home order not only brought challenges to Chinese restaurant owners like Lin Li, but also gave birth to many fresh delivery platforms dedicated to serving Chinese people, distributing all kinds of meat, fruits and snacks sold by Chinese supermarkets to customers’ homes far away from Super League. This is an unexpected turn for Zhang Wen. "It turned out that the goods sold in Wechat business that we contacted were relatively simple, but now Wechat business, which comes to us to get the goods, has more diverse needs for fresh food, spices, fruits, rice noodles and snacks." Wechat business’s joining has brought new customers to Zhang Wen, and also made him pay attention to the development of online shopping sales model.

In the third week of April, Zhang Wen’s circle of friends, which had been silent for a long time, posted several photos of high-piled wholesale boxes. He wrote, "Chicken feet, South American golden wings, fat beef, ribs and pork have arrived … There are not many goods, so come and get them as soon as possible." A few days later, Mr. Zhang told me that some Chinese restaurants began to open their doors for take-out, and his wholesale market would resume normal business.

Almost at the same time, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States exceeded one million, and the number of infected people in new york still ranked first in the United States. Queens is the most densely populated area in COVID-19, new york, and Amherst Hospital, which was full of patients at the beginning of the epidemic, is only 5 minutes’ walk from the food city.

The handyman in the shop forwarded an article to Lin Li with the title "Look at crying, new york dies every 17 minutes, and the body is overloaded". In the face of such a situation, Lin Li is also scared. "When I buy goods every day, I see everyone lining up outside the supermarket. When I enter the supermarket, it is all the smell of disinfectant. Sometimes I feel flustered, I am afraid that I can’t get the goods and I can’t eat on time. "

"He just wanted to hint that I should go out of business quickly, but I know there are still many people who need to buy rice at this time. If you go out of business and watch the rising figures panic at home every day, it is better to be busy. " Now, she puts a gospel leaflet in every meal. She thinks that at this time, people may need some light and spiritual support. And herself, at the end of the day’s work, looking at the order quantity displayed on the mobile phone, can only sigh happily and anxiously, "I have to work hard to hand in my homework tomorrow."

(At the request of the interviewee, "Lin Li" in the text is a pseudonym. )