Did the girls in those youth films escape the trap of genre movies?

Author/ Chen yi

Half a month ago, only three days after the release of the literary film Under the Sun, which tells the story of girls’ growth, the box office performance fell off a cliff. Just as director Liang Ming was heartbroken, this Friday, another story about girls’ growth appeared-the virgin work of cutting-edge director Zhou Sun, a youth reality film starring Ancy and Leon.

After the momentum of domestic youth films gradually faded, in recent years, many films with girls as the leading role and mainly about girls’ spiritual transformation and self-awareness awakening have emerged one after another. Only those with the word "girl" in their names have appeared in five years, such as Flash Girl, Girl Nezha, Girl Jiahe and Mosaic Girl.

 

Among these films about girls, although there are also commercial films (such as My Girlhood, Left Ear, July and An Sheng) which are in the same strain as the youth films of previous years, more of them are literary films independently produced by new directors. It is these small-budget, independent films that are mainly discussed in this paper.

 

Data comes from Douban and Lighthouse Professional Edition.

At present, except for a few works blessed by celebrity directors, these girls’ films generally have poor market response, and the Douban scores are mostly above 6 and below 7. However, even so, there are still more and more directors who persistently cast their eyes on this, and again and again through the girl’s heart, to complete the personal expression in their works.

 

In this case, the question we have to think about is: With the increase of the number, will girls’ films fall into the dilemma similar to domestic youth films? If you want to gain lasting vitality, how should these girls find a breakthrough in box office and word of mouth?

 

From Youth Love to Self-growth

-the road to the appearance of the girl image

 

In 2013, the film "To Our Dying Youth" directed by Zhao Wei was born. After the word-of-mouth and box office both set new genre records, a large number of films with similar content structures appeared in a short period of time, and youth films have since become one of the types that can’t be ignored in the mainland film industry.

 

A large number of commercial relapses will inevitably mean the homogenization of the theme and the decline in quality. Within a few years, the reputation of mainland youth movies will no longer be there, and this situation will not be improved until a number of works with diversified themes such as July and An Sheng (2016) and Flash Girl (2017) appear. Gradually, the definition of youth films has been broadened, and the market has finally picked up.

 

The 2017 youth film word-of-mouth work "Flash Girl"

 

Among the emerging types, girl movies are one of them.

 

As a sub-type of youth films, girls’ films usually refer to films with adolescent women as the main point of view and girls’ growth as the theme of the story. It is different from ordinary campus love dramas (such as You at the Same Table), and it is also different from emerging types that focus on teenagers and have certain social critical significance (such as A River of Sorrow, Better Days, etc.). The most important word in girls’ movies is "girl", and the lush years in the films should be presented through her eyes, and all the immature atmosphere and nostalgic atmosphere should also carry strong feminine characteristics.

Although the number is still limited, the increase of girls’ movies in recent years is obvious. First of all, this is because in the movie market, the youth story of dog blood can no longer deceive people’s attention, and the audience began to yearn for films with more depth and substitution. On the other hand, it is also because feminism has risen year by year and people’s self-awareness has gradually awakened.

 

With the development of feminism in mainland China, there are more and more discussions about women, and the constraints of the times on "girls" are gradually weakening. Nowadays, the discussion on the role of women in film and television works is no longer a unilateral power suppression, women begin to gain the right to speak, and the works from the perspective of women are increasing day by day.

 

A masterpiece of girls’ theme "Over Spring"

 

At the same time, today’s society belongs to the only child generation, and as far as girls’ movies are concerned, the leading role of the film is mostly only children. Compared with the older generation with many brothers and sisters, most of the only children have urban family background, and they are the center of the family since childhood, so they don’t need to worry about food and clothing. Under this living environment, they will naturally pay more attention to themselves and are eager to express and realize their self-worth. At this point, it is the same for both the creator of the film and the characters in the film.

 

However, there are also expectations and emotional loads from parents corresponding to food and clothing. In the post-90s generation, the pursuit of self is always accompanied by social and family constraints, and this contradiction is actually the social and realistic basis for the gradual rise of girls’ movies in the China market in recent years.

 

From rigid attachment to personality liberation

-the road to transformation of young girls

 

As a transition from children to adults, "teenage girls" are an important period when women’s physical and mental changes and gender awareness begin to awaken. The construction of gender identity will bring a series of contradictions and puzzles, which are constantly impacting the eternal topic of growth.

 

For a long time, the image of "girl" has been an indispensable part in the youth movies about growth. However, from the simple "gender symbol" in the early years to the vivid role images now, it took a period of development for the girls in domestic youth movies to come to their present positions.

 

In the early days of the wave of youth films, most of the girls in the campus stories were accessories of the male characters in the films.

 

Take the traditional youth film "You at the Same Table" as an example. In the film, Zhou Xiaozhi played by Zhou Dongyu is sweet, lovely, pure and clean. These elements are almost completely in line with the fantasy of traditional men for first love, and the role of Zhou Xiaozhi is somewhat instrumental and representative.

 

Similar to other films in the same period, You at the Same Table tells the story of the growth of the hero Lin Yi from the perspective of the whole process. In Lin Yi’s youth, Zhou Xiaozhi has always been in a passive position, and her fate will even be influenced by Lin Yi, just like the victim of this love.

 

This kind of role and plot setting will naturally arouse the dissatisfaction of some viewers, and it is under this voice of dissatisfaction that some films from the female perspective and centered on female roles began to appear in the market. For example, July and An Sheng, which still belongs to the category of youth films, broke the tradition of male discourse as the center of this type. By reviewing the growth experiences of two girls, July and An Sheng, women’s thoughts on life and growth were highlighted.

 

After gaining a good response, the domestic youth films did not stop there, and it was at this time that the girls’ films made their debut, enriching and expanding this genre.

 

Compared with previous commercial youth films, the girl images in girls’ films are more plump and multifaceted. In these stories with them as the main point of view, all the girls are divorced from the perfect characters in traditional youth movies. They are no longer perfect, no longer devoted to love, and no longer blindly pay and sacrifice themselves.

 

 

Facing the sinister society, Xiaomi, a working girl in Carnival, once exposed her inner darkness. The experience of going out at a young age made her precocious. In the face of the crime of harming girls, her kindness and justice instinct made her record videos as evidence. However, in the case of possible displacement at any time, she did not forget to please her lawyer at the price of a problem in 100 yuan, and tried to keep her job with the video of evidence.

 

In Girl Nezha, Wang Xiaobing, a girl, shows her edges and corners in a more direct way. In the face of family disputes, she finally accused and complained loudly in front of her family. In the end, she even expressed her stubbornness and persistence in the extreme form of suicide by cutting her wrist.

 

Wang Xiaobing who complained loudly in front of his family.

 

In a word, as the core figures in youth films, these girls have finally shown diversified characteristics. Under the creator’s hand, they strive to break away from the shackles of tradition and boldly pursue themselves, while at the same time taking on more and more social responsibilities and shouldering the unique discourse secrets of this era.

 

Gender issues and typological development

-The way to break through girls’ movies

 

Similar to domestic youth films, in recent years, girls’ films as a whole have shown a mixed trend, and the theme content has gradually landed. Instead of indulging in beautiful love and dreamy expression, these films are more combined with realism and criminal elements, which directly hit social pain points and are full of humanistic care.

 

Among them, Carnival focuses on children’s sexual assault, Over the Spring focuses on identity, My Heart is Jumping for joy discusses forbidden love, and Girl Jiahe tells the story of girl’s revenge. However, no matter where the focus is, there is usually a common psychological feature in these films exploring the growth of girls, that is, awakening, thinking and identifying with women’s gender identity.

 

The girl movie My Heart is Jumping with the theme of love between teachers and students.

 

Unfortunately, although it revolves around the word "women", the theme of women does not mean a feminist position. For most girls’ movies, although they try to discuss this critical issue, they can’t really go deep.

 

Still take the film Carnival as an example. In the story, the two girls who were violated by the prisoner were always in a state of aphasia, and Xiaomi, a working girl, chose to help her peers defend their rights only after being calculated and beaten by the criminal’s accomplices.

 

On the other hand, eager to get rid of the present misfortune, Xiaomi even almost sold her body to keep her job. Although her self-consciousness finally awakened at the end of the film, from the perspective of the female images in the whole film, the girls in Carnival are always numb and powerless in the face of male cruelty. Moreover, they have been in this tragic situation for a long time, and they have even lost their sense of resistance, just trying their best to escape or paralyze themselves.

 

The same is true of Girl Nezha. In this story, Wang Xiaobing, who represents the rebellious side, grew up in a broken family and had a tense relationship with her parents, but at the same time, she was free, chic and fearless. It can be said that her presence makes the audience see more possibilities of life, but unfortunately, Wang Xiaobing at the end of the film only gains a tragic ending with death.

 

 

For the audience, this seems to be a hint and a wake-up call-the young rebellion is just a bold and arrogant dream, the alternative road will eventually be blocked, and the girls will still have to get lost and return to the tradition.

 

Contemporary China girls’ movies seem to follow the development of feminism, but at its core, this kind of superficial resistance and discussion still makes most of the works become a youthful adventure.

 

On the other hand, like the popular youth films in the 1910 s, the current theme of girls also shows a trend of homogenization. Even, unlike youth films, most of these girls’ films are literary films, and too many personal expressions in some films make the audience foggy. Therefore, in business, it is difficult for these films to break through the circle, and there is little hope for sustainable development.

 

In an interview two days ago, Liang Ming, the director of Under the Sun, bluntly said that he had "sold his house in the old market" because the box office was bleak. Previously, Nezha the Girl, My Heart is Jumping, and other films all suffered setbacks at the box office. Even Carnival, a word-of-mouth work blessed by social hot issues, did not exceed 30 million at the box office at that time, which was really regrettable.

 

On the eve of the release, Carnival happened to catch up with the "red, yellow and blue" incident that shocked thousands of netizens, and the film gained more attention.

 

As far as the current film market is concerned, although the multi-element fusion works such as Girl Jiahe can attract more attention, on the whole, girl movies are still difficult to break. If you want to really trigger a craze, this kind of film should pay equal attention to business and art, abandon the over-small pattern and over-personal expression, and slowly seek its own breakthrough road.

Corruption and chaos in urban management need to be cleaned up: a deputy director of the local urban management bureau directly received a suite.

According to the website of the State Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, not long ago, Song Yuyou, director of the Environmental Sanitation Management Department of the former Environmental Protection and Municipal Administration of Tianjin Binhai New Area, was sentenced to 11 years and 6 months in prison for corruption and fined 1.1 million yuan.

The court found that Song Yu took advantage of his position in charge of the appearance of Binhai New Area, outdoor advertising management, sanitation vehicle procurement, acceptance, payment, rural garbage collection, transportation projects, etc., and sought benefits for others, demanding or illegally accepting money from others, totaling 4.07 million yuan. In addition, he also used an excuse to ask his subordinate units for benefits, and took kickbacks by purchasing condolences from employees, totaling 830,000 yuan as off-balance-sheet funds for others to keep, and then divided them among himself.

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The Supervision Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Nanchuan District of Chongqing keeps a close eye on the implementation of policies and the use of funds in the work of urban sanitation rectification, and strictly investigates acts such as corruption and embezzlement, plucking geese, eating and getting cards, and caring for relatives and friends. The picture shows the discipline inspection and supervision cadres (second from left and third from left) learning about the situation from the sanitation workers in Toudu Town. Zhao Xishe

The appearance of the city represents the image of the city, which is related to the daily life of citizens, so all the work in the field of urban management has attracted much attention. In recent years, a number of related cases have been investigated and dealt with in various places. Some of them make profits by purchasing sanitation equipment, and they do not hesitate to tailor their bids for suppliers. Some of them ask their subordinates for benefits by applying for funds from their superiors, while others use advertising space management, garbage removal contracts, greening projects and construction projects to set rents for rent-seeking.

Self-willed expansion, "Tanghan Port" is in charge by itself.

In May 2009, Song Yuyou was transferred from the Armed Forces Department of Chadian Town, Hangu District, Tianjin to the City Appearance and Environment Management Committee of this district as the deputy director. In that year, Tanggu, Hangu and Dagang merged into Binhai New Area, and Song Yuyou was appointed as the deputy director of the Environmental Sanitation Management Department of Binhai New Area Environmental Protection and Municipal Administration of City Appearance, and was promoted to the director one year later. After the institutional reform in May 2015, he was transferred to the post of Director of Environmental Health Management Department of Binhai New Area Environment Bureau.

During the review and investigation in 2019, Song Yuyou admitted to the staff of the Supervision Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Tianjin Binhai New Area: "After being promoted to the director, it was a bit inflated. After all, from such a small place as Hangu, now this pond (selling), Hangu (selling) and (big) port are all in charge by themselves. "

Sanitation equipment seems inconspicuous, but it is valuable. Large pieces of equipment, such as washing and sweeping vehicles and compression garbage trucks, are often purchased in bulk, and the single amount reaches tens of millions of yuan. It is understood that Song Yu has the environmental sanitation management office, which has long been responsible for the procurement of sanitation equipment in the whole region. He has also become the target of some suppliers competing to win over and hunt.

According to Cui Xiaofei, member of the Standing Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Binhai New Area, some suppliers often ask Song Yuyou to have dinner and drink to "communicate their feelings". "When pushing a cup for a change, the supplier will make some requests, and Song Yuyou didn’t reply immediately."

This silence or silence is nothing more than trying to grab more benefits. Some of Song Yu’s ideas are very simple. Suppliers want something from themselves. As long as they use their authority to meet the requirements of suppliers, suppliers will not report themselves. He gradually became fearless, no matter whether it was a gift, a valuable card coupon, a gift, or an invitation to eat, go to a karaoke bar, take a sauna, etc., all came to the net.

Customize the tender, "Gasser" takes the final payment, and the thank-you fee will be green all the way.

In the increasingly close contact, seeing that businessmen are easy to make money and lavish, Song Yu has a growing inner injustice. "Why do others have so much money?" I am a’ big’ director, who is in charge of the environmental sanitation of the whole new district. How can I be inferior to others? "

As a result, Song Yuyou began to use his power to seek more generous "returns" for himself. The procurement of sanitation equipment in Binhai New Area needs to go through public bidding in the whole city, and the parameters of the required equipment should be reported in advance. The closer the enterprise production equipment is to this parameter, the greater the possibility of winning the bid.

Song Yuyou pegged to the link of "reporting" and made a crooked brain. The staff of the Supervision Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Binhai New Area introduced: "He will ask suppliers to provide product parameters in advance, and then tailor the tender documents to help these suppliers win the bid smoothly."

"Busy" is certainly not a white help. After helping suppliers win the bid, Song Yuyou will get a lot of "thank you fee". For example, during the period from 2015 to 2017, after Yantai Hyde Company won the bid for the sanitation equipment procurement project of Binhai New Area Environment Bureau, Song Yuyou accepted the entrustment of Sun Mou, the general manager of the company’s Tianjin branch, to provide him with assistance in vehicle procurement, acceptance and car purchase payment, and received cash of 300,000 yuan from him in the second half of 2017.

It is understood that in 2015, the Environmental Bureau of Binhai New Area launched a plan to update and purchase sanitation garden operation vehicles, with a total purchase of 150 vehicles, including 120 vehicles involving the financial funds of the new area, and the winning bid price totaled 70.594 million yuan. In 2017, the Environmental Bureau of this district purchased 20 snow removal vehicles and 25 compression vehicles through bidding, with a purchase fund of 12.086 million yuan. Many companies paid bribes to Song Yuyou for help, up to 700,000 yuan.

The so-called "thank you fee" is not only to help win the bid, but also to take good care of the subsequent things with a "green light". The staff of the Supervision Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Binhai New Area explained: "If the benefits are given, Song Yuyou can’ add a plug’ when reporting the funds, so that you can get the final payment in advance."

Exerting the power in his hands to the extreme, Song Yuyou got deeper and deeper.

On November 25, 2019, after being studied by the Supervision Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Binhai New Area and reported to the district committee for approval, it was decided to give Song Yuyou the punishment of expelling from the party and public office, and his suspected crimes were transferred to the judicial organs for legal treatment.

Appropriating snow melting fees depends on the money rather than the sky, and purchasing condolences.

How to outline Song Yu’s corrupt track, Cui Xiaofei summed up: "From being hunted to actively seeking hunting, even plucking geese. Money is big or small, and things are big or small, as long as they are profitable. "

Not only asking the suppliers for the benefits, but also asking the subordinate units for Song Yuyou.

From November 2010 to May 2015, Song Yuyou took advantage of his position to apply for snow melting fees from the Finance Bureau of Binhai New Area and demanded bribes from subordinate units. "For example, even if it doesn’t snow much in Hangu, as long as you give money, I can apply for more money to clear the snow." The staff "resumed" the scene at that time.

Relevant financial documents show that in July, 2011, Hangu Municipal Administration of Environmental Protection and City Appearance received a total of 609,000 yuan from Binhai New Area Environment and Capacity Bureau. In December 2012, it received a total of 1.15 million yuan from the superior for environmental protection cleaning. As for the price behind it, Chen Mou, then director of Hangu Environmental Protection Bureau, confirmed that Song Yuyou had twice asked him for a total of 450,000 yuan, which he met by taking public funds.

What’s more, even if the Environmental Sanitation Management Office purchases condolences for sanitation workers, Song Yuyou has to "talk" with the store manager about how to return the points. "You can give me as much as I buy you." According to the confirmation of the parties, a condolence item of about 2 million yuan allowed Song Yuyou to account for 80,000 yuan.

Song Yuyou also demanded 300,000 yuan from Wang, then director of Tanggu Environmental Capacity Bureau, a subordinate unit, on the grounds of tight office expenses. In addition to distributing benefits to the staff in the department and entertaining the outside world, the rest are used to buy SLR cameras, Hetian jadeware and collectibles for the leaders in the department.

Advertising space management, garbage removal, urban greening, construction projects, urban management director has a good way to make money.

How powerful is a director of urban management bureau? Zhang Bin, former director of the Bureau of Urban Administration and Law Enforcement in Yeji District, Lu ‘an City, Anhui Province (Yeji Reform and Development Experimental Zone before February 2016), answered this question with various facts of accepting bribes.

Make money by using advertising space to operate and use.In the first half of 2014, the right to use advertising space obtained by an advertising decoration company in Lu ‘an was about to expire. Jiang approached Zhang Bin and asked for permission to continue using it. Zhang Bin accepted 10,000 yuan and cigarettes to help Jiang extend the right to use advertising space until the end of 2016.

Use the garbage removal contract to receive gifts.In January 2013, Liu signed a contract with the former Yeji Experimental Area City Appearance Administration (later transferred to the Urban Management Bureau) to be responsible for the removal and treatment of domestic garbage in the area. In order to thank and get Zhang Bin’s care in the aspects of garbage removal supervision, contract fee allocation and contract renewal, Liu gave Zhang Bin a gift card worth 10,000 yuan twice. Later, Liu not only got the contract renewed, but also increased the related expenses.

Rent-seeking by using urban greening projects.In 2015, arranged by Zhang Bin, the Urban Management Bureau of Yeji Experimental Area directly contracted out seven road greening and upgrading projects in the urban area to a garden company in Hefei for construction. Zhang gave Zhang Bin cash and shopping cards three times, totaling 45,000 yuan. In January 2017, Zhang learned that Zhang Bin was about to be transferred. In order to get the project payment in time, he came to Zhang Bin’s office and asked Zhang Bin for help. Zhang Bin agreed and accepted 10,000 yuan in cash, tobacco, alcohol and other property given by Zhang. Later, before leaving office, Zhang Bin signed and approved some project funds.

Collect money from construction projects.Under the care of Zhang Bin, Chen Mou, a legal person of an Anhui construction company, has successively undertaken a number of projects, such as Yeji Garden West Road Public Toilet Transfer Station Project, Innovation Road Parking Paving Project and Road Earthwork Backfilling Project. Chen Mou took the opportunity to "show" many times and gave Zhang Bin a total of 185,000 yuan in cash and a fuel card worth 5,000 yuan.

In October 2020, the court ruled in the first instance that Zhang Bin was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and fined 300,000 yuan for accepting bribes and corruption.

In order to realize power, turn a blind eye to illegal buildings

Since 2009, Gu Yixun has served as a member of the party group and deputy director of the former Zunyi County (now Bozhou District) Urban Management Bureau of Guizhou Province, deputy director of the former Zunyi County Urban Sewage Collection System Engineering Construction Command Office, and captain of the Nanbai Brigade of Zunyi City Comprehensive Law Enforcement Detachment, which has a profound influence on the local urban management system.

From 2015 to 2017, Gu Yixun received 38 bottles of "Feitian" Moutai with a total value of 48,562 yuan from Jiang, Zhao, Zhang and Han for 9 times. In the court, Gu Yixun’s defender suggested that the four people "are all relatives and friends of Gu, and there is no specific request when giving gifts, which is a normal human exchange".

That was not the case. After investigation, all four were responsible for the construction of each bid section of the original Zunyi County urban sewage collection system project, and they were the management clients of Gu Yixun. Knowing that the other party wanted something, Gu Yixun also used his power to seek benefits and accept property for him, which can be considered as his subjective intention to accept bribes.

In May 2014, Li gave Gu Yixun a 105-square-meter house worth more than 210,000 yuan. Its intention is to undertake the renovation project of the leakage part of the municipal solid waste treatment plant of the enterprises under the Urban Management Bureau, and Gu Yixun did provide help for it.

Investigating illegal buildings is the responsibility of the urban management department. In Gu Yixun’s eyes, this has become a tool for realizing power.

In February 2012, the planning and monitoring squadron of Nanbai Brigade of Zunyi City Comprehensive Law Enforcement Detachment found that Maqiao Swimming Pool was an illegal building, issued a notice of suspension of construction and initiated an investigation. In the meantime, investigators clashed with illegal construction workers. Cai, then secretary of the Party branch of Bailong Community, and Long, then director of the community neighborhood committee, found Huang Xiaowu, then secretary of the Party Committee of Nanbai Town. Huang Xiaowu greeted Gu Yixun on the pretext that the project was a mass public welfare project. Gu Yixun knew that Maqiao Swimming Pool was an illegal building, but he did not investigate and deal with it as required, nor did he submit it for approval as required. More than a year later, the illegal construction defrauded the land acquisition compensation of 6.52 million yuan during the relocation, which caused great losses to the country.

In November 2020, Gu Yixun was sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined 200,000 yuan for accepting bribes and abusing his power.

Plug the loopholes in the system and strengthen supervision over key positions.

The reason why Song Yu has changed is thatIdeal and belief decline, theoretical study goes through the motions.. Song Yuyou admitted that his ideological understanding and theoretical study were only satisfied with copying notes and reading newspapers, and he didn’t really take it to heart.

"The loopholes in the system and the lack of supervision of key positions are also one of the main reasons for the problems."Cui Xiaofei believes that "for some key procurement and bulk procurement issues, we must strictly implement the bidding procedures, including a series of processes such as approval, payment and acceptance, and we must have a strict system."

After Song Yuyou’s case happened,The Urban Management Committee of Binhai New Area has strengthened the system construction, implementation and supervision accordingly, especially for the allocation and use of large funds, and introduced relevant systems to avoid the recurrence of problems.

In response to Gu Yixun’s typical case, the Supervision Committee of the Bozhou District Commission for Discipline Inspection of Zunyi City dug deep into the root causes, urged the crime-causing unit to establish a "list of responsibilities, list of problems, list of rectification, and list of results", promoted the improvement of eight systems, standardized 2457 items of laws and regulations and 16 items of administrative licensing items on the Internet, and conducted 447 reminder talks to make the case clear and serve as a warning.

Lack of supervision can easily breed corruption. Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of Peking University Public Policy Research Center and Clean Government Construction Research Center, believes that corruption in urban management and sanitation departments is basically relying on mountains and water to make use of their professional advantages, power status and supervision convenience to implement corruption, which has industrial characteristics.

How to rectify? Zhuang Deshui suggested: on the one hand, we should strengthen system construction, supervision and management and warning education in related fields, increase information disclosure, take the initiative to accept social supervision, and improve the integrity level of the whole industry. On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the reform of institutional mechanisms in related fields, strengthen internal power constraints, redistribute system resources, and break the monopoly of resources in people’s livelihood. In addition, in view of many problems occurring in the bidding process, it is particularly important to establish institutional guarantee for related procurement behaviors.

Original title: Using sanitation equipment to accept bribes, customizing bidding documents … cleaning up the chaos of urban management corruption (with video)

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China’s e-sports talent gap exceeds one million.

  Recently, the Report on Tencent Assisting New Occupation and Employment Development (2022) directed by China Institute of Personnel Science under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security was officially released, which announced 147 new occupations under the digital ecology, among which "e-sports player" and "e-sports operator" were evaluated as stable digital ecological occupations, and each occupation will bring about 500,000-1 million jobs to related fields of the industry.

  In order to promote the development of e-sports industry, local governments have successively launched a series of support policies for e-sports industry. For example, Shenzhen has added e-sports to the category of sports encouraged by the special funds of the municipal sports industry — — Holding international and national high-level e-sports events in Shenzhen will receive more than 5 million yuan in funding. In the next few years, the e-sports industry in Shenzhen, especially the construction of sports events, will further develop at a high speed.

  According to the report of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, at present, less than 15% of the jobs in the e-sports industry are in a state of manpower saturation, while the gap of professional posts in the upstream and downstream industries such as the production and broadcasting of similar events is 1.5 million, and the demand for talents in sub-sectors is still high in the next five years.

  Therefore, the vocational education of talents in e-sports industry is becoming more and more urgent. Only by increasing investment in e-sports vocational education, cultivating more high-quality e-sports operators and effectively promoting the output of e-sports activities and content quality can we really promote the healthy, sustained and effective development of e-sports industry.

  For example, Tencent E-sports recently announced the formal layout of vocational education for e-sports talents. By taking advantage of its own flow, technology, ecology and other advantages, Tencent E-sports Base will be provided as a practical course for students, with the direction of event planning and production and broadcasting, and two major sections will be set up, namely, "theoretical course of e-sports event planning" and "practical course of e-sports production and broadcasting rotation". Senior practitioners with experience in the implementation of large-scale world/intercontinental e-sports events will be invited as lecturers, and Tencent E-sports Base will be provided as a practical course for students, so as

  In addition to vocational education, Tencent also actively promotes the vocational certification of e-sports talents. In August, 2022, under the guidance of Guangdong Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security and Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, Tencent piloted the qualification training and skill identification of "e-sportsmen" in Shenzhen, and issued the first batch of vocational skill level certificates recognized by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

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  In 2022, the revenue of e-sports industry in China was 144.5 billion yuan.

  Recently, the E-sports Working Committee of China Music and Digital Association released a summary of the data of e-sports industry in China in 2022. The data shows that in 2022, the revenue of e-sports industry in China was 144.503 billion yuan; There are about 488 million e-sports users in China; Among the e-sports game products in China, shooting, multiplayer online tactical competition and sports competition are the three types with the largest number of products, accounting for 25.7%, 17.1% and 10.0% respectively.

  Since E-sports was approved as an official sport by the State Sports General Administration in 2003, E-sports has become a new format that integrates technology and culture and promotes the common development of digital economy and real economy. It is understood that among the 488 million e-sports users, male users account for 56.4% and female users account for 43.6%. 42.5% users have a bachelor’s degree or above, and 26.4% users have a college degree.

  In 2022, 108 e-sports events were held in China, which was less than that in 2021. Shanghai hosts the largest number of e-sports events, accounting for 22.39% of the country’s total. The proportion of e-sports events held in Chengdu, Hangzhou and Shenzhen also exceeded 5%.

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China strongly condemns Japan for discharging nuclear sewage.

  At 13: 00 local time on August 24th (12: 00 Beijing time), the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan started discharging nuclear polluted water into the sea. Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that the discharge of nuclear polluted water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is expected to be 200-210 tons, and the first discharge will last for 17 days, with a total discharge of about 7,800 cubic meters of nuclear polluted water. Tokyo Electric Power Company said that it will add about 1,200 tons of seawater to each ton of nuclear polluted water for dilution, and start discharging nuclear polluted water after confirming that the concentration is reduced to the so-called "expected standard".

  Nuclear polluted water will be discharged into the sea for 30 years.

  According to a press conference held by Tokyo Electric Power Company, the analysis results show that the tritium concentration meets the expectations and the meteorological conditions at sea meet the requirements, so the discharge of nuclear polluted water is started as planned. Tokyo Electric Power Company said that the discharge work was carried out remotely by the staff through the central monitoring room of the relevant facilities in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and the water pump was operated by the display screen to mix the nuclear polluted water with seawater and pour it into the shaft. When the polluted water is filled, it will be discharged into the sea through the tunnel connecting the ocean and the lower part of the shaft. It is worth noting that the discharge of nuclear polluted water can not be completed at one time. Due to the delay in the removal of fuel debris from the core of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the amount of nuclear pollution generated by cooling is increasing every day, and it is estimated that the sea discharge will last for about 30 years. According to Tokyo Electric Power Company, this year, 5 trillion Bekkerel’s nuclear polluted water with tritium radiation will be discharged into the sea in four times.

  Japanese Prime Minister kishida fumio stressed at the relevant cabinet meeting that even if it takes decades, the Japanese government will promote and complete the plan of discharging nuclear polluted water into the sea, and solve the so-called "rumor" problem that accompanies it. Similarly, in a series of statements after the meeting, the Japanese government not only kept silent about the harm of the sea discharge plan, but also mentioned to varying degrees that it was necessary to stop the spread of so-called "rumors" to prevent its harm to its own fisheries. Although kishida fumio claims that meeting with fishery representatives makes "understanding is making progress", I’m afraid this is not the true attitude of local fishermen in Fukushima and all over Japan.

  Japanese fishery groups strongly protested

  Although the Japanese government has been trying to play up the "safety" of the nuclear pollution water discharge plan, the Japanese fishery as a stakeholder is unmoved. Yasushi Sakamoto, president of the Japan National Federation of Fishery Cooperatives, said in a meeting with kishida fumio that the Japanese government had not kept its promise of "resolutely supporting the fishery" and pointed out that the Japanese government should not push forward the sea discharge plan without the understanding of relevant stakeholders.

  Sakamoto Yasin said that although the Japanese government tried to gain Japanese fishermen’s understanding of the sea discharge plan, "once the polluted water discharge is started, it will last for decades, which makes us very anxious and worried. Our only hope is to let the fishery develop peacefully. " Tetsuji Suzuki, executive director of the Fukushima Fishery Federation, also reiterated his opposition to the plan, and said that the views of Fukushima fishermen have not changed, and the relevant government decisions can only be understood on the basis of ensuring the sustainability of Fukushima fishery.

  Gao Qiao Tong, a fisherman from Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, said in an interview with the Japan Broadcasting Association that the fishing moratorium will end on September 1, and he was very worried about the adverse effects of the discharge of nuclear polluted water on local fishery products. The Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company did not explain this, so he always opposed the plan to discharge water into the sea. He pointed out that after that, Fukushima aquatic products will be seriously affected by the sea discharge plan. "Once the relevant parameters exceed the standard, regardless of the actual situation, it will be identified as nuclear pollution and water pollution. This will cause great problems and even make it impossible to fish again. " He also said, "The trust relationship between fishermen and the government has not deepened, and we can never accept emissions."

  Our country resolutely opposes and strongly condemns it.

  A spokesman for the Permanent Mission of China to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) made a speech on August 24th, strongly condemning Japan’s unilateral forced start of the Fukushima nuclear accident to discharge polluted water into the sea that day, arguing that the Japanese move seriously damaged the authority and credibility of the IAEA, seriously damaged the people’s health and marine environmental rights and interests of neighboring countries, and seriously damaged the safety and development interests of the global nuclear energy industry.

  China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin pointed out on August 23rd that the ocean is the blue home on which all human beings depend, and is not allowed to dump nuclear polluted water at will. The Japanese side is undoubtedly betting on the global marine environment and the health of all mankind by pushing nuclear polluted water into the sea. If Japan really has the sincerity to solve the concerns of its neighbors, it should immediately stop pushing the plan to expel the sea, conduct exchanges without presupposing the results, and fully discuss all possible safety disposal schemes.

  Wang Wenbin emphasized that China strongly urges Japan to cancel its wrong decision, stop pushing the plan of discharging nuclear polluted water into the sea, communicate with neighboring countries in good faith, and dispose of it in a responsible manner to avoid unpredictable damage and harm to the global marine environment. If China insists on the plan of forcibly pushing out the sea, the Japanese government will take necessary measures to firmly safeguard the marine environment, food safety and public health.

  "Our department attaches great importance to the issue of nuclear pollution water discharged from Fukushima, Japan. In 2021 and 2022, the monitoring of marine radiation environment in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction was organized, and the background of marine radiation environment in relevant sea areas was found out. The monitoring results show that the activity concentration of artificial radionuclides in seawater and marine organisms under the jurisdiction of China is not abnormal, and it is generally within the fluctuation range over the years. At present, according to the idea of monitoring key areas, covering jurisdictional waters and mastering key passages, our Ministry is organizing the monitoring of marine radiation environment in China’s jurisdictional waters in 2023. In the follow-up, our department will continue to strengthen relevant monitoring work, timely track and judge the possible impact of Fukushima nuclear pollution water discharge on our marine radiation environment, and earnestly safeguard our national interests and people’s health. " The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (National Nuclear Safety Administration) pointed out that Japan started discharging nuclear polluted water from Fukushima into the sea.

  South Korea’s attitude is contradictory

  According to the calculation of the German Scientific Oceanography Agency, the radiation pollution in the nuclear polluted water discharged by Japan will spread to most of the Pacific Ocean within 57 days. After three years, the United States and Canada will be polluted; It will spread to the global waters in 10 years. Among them, China and South Korea will be the countries most seriously affected by nuclear sewage.

  At present, the South Korean government is indifferent to the discharge of nuclear polluted water into the sea. Thirty minutes after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began to discharge nuclear polluted water into the sea, South Korean Prime Minister Han Dezhu read a statement to the public, saying that there is "no need to worry too much" about Japan’s discharge plan. As the largest opposition party in South Korea, the Common Democratic Party explicitly opposes the discharge of nuclear polluted water, and said: "An emergency meeting of parliamentarians was held and a resolution was decided to be issued, calling on the government to actively use diplomatic power to stop the discharge." This powerful response was accused by the South Korean government of "using false news to incite anxiety". In this regard, Han Dezhu also added in the statement: "The biggest threat to the people is the false news without scientific basis and the false incitement for political interests."

  Li Zaiming, a representative of the Common Democratic Party, strongly criticized the South Korean government’s connivance at Japan’s nuclear pollution water discharging into the sea at the party’s emergency meeting, and pointed out: "Japan ignored the concerns and opposition of the international community and chose the road of environmental disaster that is most harmful to mankind." In addition, civil society and other environmental movement groups also held a rally in downtown Seoul, and said: "Dumping radioactive materials to pollute the ocean is uncivilized and should be stopped immediately. Yin Xiyue’s authorities who defended Japan’s plan to expel the sea are also accomplices. "


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