How does the movie from "Man on the Road" to "Retrograde Life" shine into reality?

Special feature of 1905 film network Takeaway is a digital and systematic cross-section of contemporary life, with tens of millions of takeaway riders on various platforms stringing together the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people.



The movie goes from a takeaway rider who became a monk halfway — — Gao zhilei cut in, when the burden of life weighed on his shoulders, he started again on the "retrograde" road full of tempering, recovered his lost courage and belief, and redefined the new direction of life.



In this programme, we invited Sun Jiashan, an associate researcher of the Central Institute of Culture and Tourism Management, to talk with us about the movie "Retrograde Life" being shown.



Go deep into reality


Movies from movies to "Retrograde Life" focus on realistic themes. "Xú Zhēng’s films have a very clear evolutionary path, and he is constantly trying to go deep into reality." Sun Jiashan said.


Man on the Road — — It is difficult to return home during the Spring Festival.



Synopsis: Zaler Xu (Xú Zhēng), an executive of the company, decided to go to Thailand to find a boss to solve this problem in order to compete for the management right of the company. On the trip, he met Wang Bao (ornaments) who went to Thailand to plant a healthy tree for his mother with Alzheimer’s disease, and a series of funny stories happened.


Sun Jiashan: "People on the Embarrassed Road" pays more attention to exaggerated jokes, and its connection with real life is relatively shallow.


Dying to Survive — — It is difficult to see a doctor in hospital



Synopsis: It tells the story that Cheng Yong (Xú Zhēng), the owner of Shenyou Store, jumped from a male health care product vendor who could not afford the rent to the exclusive agent of Indian generic drug "Glenin".


Sun Jiashan:Dying to Survive, the benchmark work in the summer of 2018, has made a very profound exploration of real life. The film once attracted the attention of anti-cancer drugs at the national level.


Life in Retrograde — — It is difficult for older people to find employment.



Sun Jiashan:The problems presented by Xú Zhēng in "Retrograde Life" are more complicated. The presentation of the crowd setting such as take-away workers focuses on the new production relations under the digital economy in China. For example, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security recently announced that it plans to add 19 new occupations, including network anchors. This means that under the guidance of China’s current experience, there are many new social divisions that need to be identified and expressed, reflecting the pain points, urgent needs and high-frequency realistic problems of ordinary people in daily life, which is also the greatest significance of our discussion on realistic movies.



A/B noodles of takeout staff


Every character’s branch line in the film is covered by "home". Takeaways are not just Facebook-based "food delivery machines". They race against time to serve customers while carrying heavy burdens in family responsibilities.


"Ruthless single king" — — Dahei (decoration)



In the film, Dahei has always been a "cold-faced rider". He constantly refreshes his delivery record and is ridiculed by his colleagues as "ruthless king of grabbing orders". But behind the seemingly heartless, it is the big black who silently dedicated himself to his brother in order to make up for his small mistakes …


Economical rider — — Laocai (decoration)



Old man, as the name implies, is a thrifty rider. However, all the digging, searching and frugality are to save the cost of surgery for their children.


Laughter webmaster — —



The stationmaster played by Jia Bing is a typical "two-faced". When he was the captain of the security guard, he said that no takeaway was allowed to enter; After becoming a take-away stationmaster, he made a bold statement that no security guard would stop him.


Sun Jiashan commented: "In real life, the delivery clerk is very busy and tired, and the appearance of the humorous and witty stationmaster played by Jia Bing has played a very good role in lubricating the narrative of the whole film."


Sunshine rider — — Yangdashan (decoration)



Yang Dashan is a vivid representative of flexible employment in contemporary digital economy and a typical "sunny and cheerful boy". He once worked as a hairdresser and played NPC ….. and found his own life value in the process of serving as a takeaway in 360 lines.


As a realistic film reflecting the pain points of society, Retrograde Life does not exaggerate suffering or make unnecessary sensationalism, but tries to show the creator and guardian of a better life, focusing on reflecting the joys, sorrows and self-growth of ordinary people in life.


Resonate with the times and the audience


After the film was released, some viewers disputed the setting of the film’s plot, arguing that the film was "tragically designed" and that "only asking questions led to thinking, but there was no conclusion" …




In this regard, Sun Jiashan responded: "The group of takeout workers has only formed such a scale in the past five or six years, so when related films touch on such issues, there is an unavoidable question:’ Do you know enough about the daily life of this group’, which obviously needs to be explored continuously. In recent years, the focus of film and television works on the new production relations of our digital economy is still shallow, and Retrograde Life is an important exploration.Our present beautiful life is jointly created by different social division groups under the digital economy, so the film and television works with realistic themes must resonate with social life at the same frequency and fully interact with the broad audience. "


Forty years of reform and opening up, the film channel "Influence" narrates the great changes of the times.

1905 movie network news 40 years of light and shadow circulation, witnessing 40 years of development, in order to commemorate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, the film channel specially launched a large-scale feature film "Impact — — China Movies in 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up (hereinafter referred to as "Influence"), with 40 episodes of 20 minutes each, will be broadcast on the movie channel at 22 o’clock on November 19th, and will be launched simultaneously on the media-melting platform.

 

The large-scale feature film "Influence" is divided into four themes: face, memory, film and life. It has been collected on the screen for 40 years and told by more than 100 filmmakers. From the perspective of film, we can see the social changes in the past 40 years, remember the major events of the times, feel the changes in life, and compose the songs of the times when the film and the years are deeply integrated.

 

40 years of screen selection, describing the changes of the times


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In stormy years, China films are always the first to capture the changes of the times, and the first to show the awakening of life in the cold spring. Educated youth returning to the city, resuming the college entrance examination, emancipating the mind, rural reform, special economic zones, etc., every change and progress of the times, the film has never been absent.

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"College Entrance Examination 1977" "Hello! Excellent products such as the Pacific Ocean have left every footprint as a reform and opening up.

 Wu Yigong

 The theme of "Remembering" includes diversity such as review, resuming the college entrance examination, emancipating the mind, creating a special zone, rejuvenating the country through sports, rural reform, legal construction, the return of Hong Kong and Macao, and the road to strengthening the army. It focuses on the historical events of reform and opening up, and excavates and shows the unforgettable feelings and pride of the hipsters in the film era by comparing the past with the present.

 Li Xuejian

Reform and opening up have brought earth-shaking changes to the lives of ordinary people. People first feel the breath of fashion and the bud of beauty from movies. From bicycles to private cars, from housing distribution to buying a house, from going abroad to returnees, from stars to idols, from cell phones to smart phones, from online chatting to WeChat Tik Tok, from stall selling to e-commerce express delivery, from domestic travel to overseas travel. Movies make macro-reform and opening up visible everywhere around the people, leaving vivid portraits and silhouettes for every change in life, creating a tunnel of light and shadow that crosses time and space and is grateful for the years.

 Zhang Yimou

The forty-year movie picture scroll is the development history of people’s life under the reform and opening up. The theme of "life" starts with people’s basic necessities of life, and takes stars, marriage, going abroad, individuals, transportation, communication, fashion, watching movies, traveling and housing as diversity to sort out the colorful memories left by the screen.

Li Shaohong


Movies affect life, and hundreds of filmmakers recall the beautiful years.

 

Times affect movies, and movies affect life. The reform and opening-up has changed the fate of countless filmmakers, from the third and fourth generation directors who resumed their creation to the fifth generation, the sixth generation during the transition period of market economy, and the endless cross-border newcomers in the new century with the rise of China’s film market. The times have created their opportunities, and their films have achieved their dreams that they never imagined before. Their stories and works are the most vivid legends of the 40 years of reform and opening up.

 Yudong

The theme of "Face" invited Zhang Yimou, Xie Fei, Huang Jianxin, Wang Xiaotang, Li Xuejian, Tang Guoqiang and other famous filmmakers representatives in the past 40 years of reform and opening up; Also pay attention to a new generation of private filmmakers who are keen to seize opportunities and boldly explore; The vigorous development of the film market in the new century has created a number of legends of the times, such as Wang Baoqiang, Bo Huang and Dapeng, who have successfully attacked from the grassroots and become one of the most important faces on the screen in China. "Faces" dig deep into the movie stories and life stories of these filmmakers, appreciate the love of the times, and feel the feelings of life. From November 20 th to December 2 nd, the theme diversity of "Impact" will be the first to meet the audience.

 jianxin huang

Movies are the witnesses of the times, and the times also promote the changes of movies. The theme of "Film" tells the major nodes and hot spots of film development and changes since the reform and opening up, such as "co-production", "the fifth generation", "going north", "introducing blockbusters", "ethnic minority films", "commercial films" and "film festivals", and vividly tells the changes brought about by the reform and opening up in China in a way of comparing the past and the present.

 Zhang Jianya

In order to do a good job in the interview of the large-scale feature film "Impact", the editorial team with the reporter of the film channel "China Film Report" as the main team has interviewed 156 filmmakers and related people in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Changchun, Ningbo, Datong, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Toronto since July.

 Bo Huang

Through the vivid narration of the interviewees, we will lead the audience to look back on the glory of the times and the great changes in people’s lives in the 40 years of reform and opening up, and at the same time encourage a new generation of filmmakers to live up to their mission, guide the future and forge ahead in the era when a new round of reform is about to set sail.

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Residents’ old-age security welcomes multiple benefits and raises the basic pension standard.

  October 17th is the Double Ninth Festival in China. The "Economic Information Daily" reporter was informed that China’s residents’ old-age security has once again ushered in multiple benefits in recent days. In terms of increasing pension benefits, Shenzhen and other places have intensively raised basic pensions, and many places are higher than national standards; 22 institutions compete for occupational annuity investors, and 700 billion yuan occupational annuity will enter the market soon; In improving the quality of old-age care, the combination of medical care and nursing care is accelerating, and the sixth insurance of social security — — Long-term care insurance has also begun to enter the full implementation period.

  Since the beginning of this year, many places have been raising the basic pension standard, and many places are higher than the minimum basic pension standard set by the state in 88 yuan. The People’s Social Security Bureau and the Finance Bureau of Xinjiang Corps issued a notice on the 15th, and since January 1, 2018, the minimum standard of basic old-age insurance for urban and rural residents has been raised from 115 yuan per person per month to 140 yuan per person per month, and the 25 yuan has been increased. A few days ago, Shenzhen proposed that from this year, if the household registration in this city is less than 8 years old, the basic pension will be raised from the original monthly 240 yuan to 280 yuan; Since the month following the 8th anniversary of the city’s household registration, the basic pension has been raised from 360 yuan to 420 yuan every month.

  The potential of the second pillar of old-age security is expected to be further released. Hunan Province recently issued a document to encourage employers to establish enterprise annuities, further clarifying the provisions on filing methods, payment methods, supervision and management of enterprise annuities. Occupational annuities will also enter the market. On October 16th, 22 institutions went to the Pension Insurance Management Center of the central state organs to receive the tender documents and compete for the qualification of occupational annuity investment managers of the central state organs and institutions. In the opinion of experts, occupational annuities, like pensions, rely on the capital market to effectively maintain and increase the value of funds.

  In terms of improving the quality of old-age care, the combination of medical care and long-term care insurance, which is accelerating, is highly anticipated. The data shows that there are about 4,000 medical and nursing institutions in China, with more than 1 million beds. "At present, the pilot network of combining medical care at the national, provincial and municipal levels has basically taken shape." Wang Lijuan, director of the Department of Health for the Aged in National Health Commission, said recently. However, she also admitted that a series of supportive policies and measures combining medical care with nursing care have not been implemented in some places. The absence of long-term care insurance and the lack of professionals also hinder the promotion of the combination of medical care and nursing.

  Guan Bo, an associate researcher at the Institute of Social Studies of China Macroeconomic Research Institute, said that the future reform of combining medical care with nursing care will focus on three aspects: on the supply side, make good use of the existing medical and health service network, and give play to the supporting role of grassroots medical and health institutions in providing for the elderly in home communities and institutions. On the demand side, accelerate the guidance of the health concept of the elderly, and change from focusing on treatment to focusing on health management. On the payment side, accelerate the development of a multi-level care security system to provide stable financing for the combination of medical care and nursing services.

  Zhang Yinghua, an executive researcher at the World Social Security Research Center of China Academy of Social Sciences, told the Economic Information Daily that all the pilot schemes for long-term care insurance were released at the end of last year, and now they have entered the full implementation period. The research on long-term care insurance is still intensive, and more and more non-pilot areas have begun to actively study programs. The implementation of the long-term insurance system is conducive to improving the quality of old-age care, and its pulling effect on the old-age care service industry is also emerging.

CCTV Review | Three Questions: Who is the "black protection" around big polluters?

  CCTV News:On April 18th, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced that it had joined hands with the Shanxi Provincial People’s Government to supervise the environmental violations of Sanwei Group in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province (for details, click: 4.5 billion assets listed companies dumped industrial waste, such as waterfalls, CCTV reporters were detained unannounced), and jointly punished the group with the CSRC.

  On April 17th, CCTV Finance "Economic Half-hour" reported "Three-dimensional Group in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province illegally dumped industrial waste residue to pollute farmland, and the production wastewater was discharged directly into Fenhe River, and CCTV reporters were detained unannounced". In this regard, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment stated in the announcement issued on April 18th that measures have been taken:

  First, the joint supervision of the Shanxi Provincial People’s Government requires the Linfen Municipal People’s Government to strictly investigate the illegal sewage discharge behavior of enterprises, the performance of government and regulatory authorities and other issues in accordance with the law, and make them public in a timely manner.

  Second, it will jointly punish the listed companies of Sanwei Group with the CSRC. Our department has informed the CSRC of the environmental violation information of Sanwei Group for the first time, and conducted joint investigation and punishment according to the memorandum of cooperation on joint punishment of environmental violations of listed companies.

  The announcement also stated that Shanxi Province also attached great importance to this and responded at the first time. The Environmental Protection Department of Shanxi Province set up the "4.17 Report on the Environmental Problems of Shanxi Sanwei Group" and rushed to the scene on the night of the report to supervise, organize forces to conduct on-the-spot investigation on the contaminated site, monitor the waste water and industrial waste residue, and administratively detain two village cadres according to law. At present, various investigations are under way.

  Then, why can such a big polluter pollute the environment for a long time and unscrupulously? What is the real problem behind it? Who is acting as their "black protection"?

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  Shanxi Sanwei Group has been illegally dumping industrial waste residue, polluting a lot of farmland and discharging industrial wastewater directly into Fenhe River, which has brought serious threats to the lives of people in villages along the way. The news media even used "evil deeds" to describe this shocking incident of stealing platoon.

  Here, we must ask a few more why!

  Do the three-dimensional group leaders, especially the group leaders, know what they are doing?

  Sanwei Group is an enterprise that produces hundreds of chemical products such as polyvinyl alcohol, adhesive, benzene and coke. As a listed company with 4.5 billion assets, do you know how to treat the wastewater, carbide slag and fly ash produced by the enterprise?

  Calcium carbide slag and fly ash need to be stored in a special yard and managed strictly, and industrial wastewater must be treated in compliance before it can be discharged. However, the three-dimensional group has been dumping industrial waste into the pit without impervious layer for a long time, and the wastewater is also directly discharged into Fenhe River, the mother river of Shanxi Province. Business leaders don’t know whether it is dereliction of duty or dereliction of duty? It is even more terrible if you know it, whether it is directly directed or not.

  Why do local governments and environmental protection departments turn a blind eye to sewage discharge?

  The media has long noticed that the three-dimensional group has seriously polluted the environment by illegally discharging pollutants.

  As early as 2014, China Youth Network reported the fact that "Shanxi Three-dimensional Pollution has been confirmed by the Environmental Protection Bureau for nearly 40 years";

  In 2016, national business daily also exposed the news that "Shanxi Sanweicheng environmental protection boss was investigated every year";

  In 2017, a survey by China Legal Reporting Network found that Shanxi illegally dumped industrial waste residue to pollute farmland;

  In 2017, the Ministry of Environmental Protection sent eight inspectors to inspect 13 cities, and Sanwei Group was one of the inspected objects.

  With such intensive media attention and under the supervision of the Inspector Group of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, how did the local government and environmental protection departments respond and solve the problem? Don’t you turn a blind eye to the media reports and the inspectors of the competent departments? Why do local government departments turn a blind eye to sewage discharge?

  Why are village cadres at the grassroots level willing to guard the door for polluting enterprises?

  In the interview, the reporter found that the people around him had long complained, but they dared not speak out. The villagers said, there is no need to reflect, which one of the cadres in the village doesn’t know? The real situation is that in the face of the lawless and unscrupulous environmental pollution behavior of enterprises, local village cadres have acted as thugs for polluting enterprises to guard their homes. Villagers and journalists have said a few words and are worried that they will be retaliated.

   It can be said that this scene in Hongtong County has reached the point of absurdity. Listed companies are lawless in discharging pollutants, village cadres pay money to guard the hospital, and the Environmental Protection Bureau ignores corporate pollution. Reports from local villagers range from verbal warnings to suffering from skin and flesh. When they talk to reporters, they must worry about retaliation. After repeated media exposure, environmental protection special inspectors, pollution has become increasingly serious. There are too many reasons to answer and too many questions to explain.

  Polluting enterprises should be investigated and punished, and the umbrella behind them should be destroyed. At present, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has cooperated with the Shanxi Provincial Government to supervise the environmental violations of Sanwei Group, and the local authorities have also formed a joint investigation team.We will be interesting to see who makes the people dare to speak out, who makes the central government’s policies unable to be implemented here, and who makes the national laws unable to be implemented here.

  China International Radio Station, China Central Radio and Television Headquarters.

  Hong Lin, Chief International Current Affairs Commentator

Double 11 is a little "cold"? Don’t sing down yet.

  Big data shows that 15-year-old "double 11" is a bit "cold".

  According to Baidu Index, the search index of "double 11" was on the rise from 2011 to 2015, and it basically maintained its popularity in 2016, but it dropped significantly in 2017, only slightly rising in 2019, when live e-commerce rose, and then falling all the way, making 2022 the coldest "double 11" in the past 10 years. It should be said that this year’s "double 11" heat is slightly higher than last year, but judging from the trend, its highlight moment has passed.

Double 11 is a little "cold"? Don't sing down yet.

  Baidu index screenshot, provided by the author.

  From the outside, after the rise of live e-commerce and social e-commerce, strategies such as anchor welfare and 10 billion subsidies have made low prices run through the year. Statistics show that two-thirds of Tmall’s days in a year are shopping festivals, and consumers have long been "desensitized" to big promotions; From the inside, the negative impression of false promotions such as raising prices first and then lowering prices, and getting together for half a day is only one yuan and eighty cents cheaper, has killed consumers’ passion and trust in big promotion. If we catch up with some consumers who are not well off, it will inevitably get cold.

  However, this does not mean that "double 11" is completely cold. Besides big data, there is another hot "double 11"-

  There are more and more participants. This year, JD.COM Live and Xiaohongshu e-commerce have entered the market, and the record is good. Take Xiaohongshu as an example. During the "double 11" period, the number of e-commerce orders of Xiaohongshu was 3.8 times that of the same period of last year, and the amount of powder broadcast in stores was 14.2 times that of the same period of last year.

  The value brought to businesses is becoming more and more accurate. Take Tmall as an example. As of 0: 00 on November 11th, Taobao Tmall has brought more than 100 million new members to merchants, and the turnover of 38,000 brands has increased by more than 100% year-on-year.

  Some consumers don’t pay attention on the surface, but their actions are sincere. According to the data of the State Post Bureau, from November 1 to 11, the national postal express delivery enterprises collected 5.264 billion express parcels, a year-on-year increase of 23.22%.

  The figures show that "double 11" is still the most important outbreak period of various brands in a year, and it is the training ground with the most concentrated infrastructure such as supply chain, cloud service and logistics. Today’s "double 11" peak may be the norm in the future. "double 11" has been transformed into a "concern war" and a "value war". Every November, people always think about whether to buy something. For this reason, "double 11" should not be underestimated.

Double 11 is a little "cold"? Don't sing down yet.

  Promotion information of "Double Eleven" shopping festival on an e-commerce website. Photo by Xu Qin (Xinhua News Agency)

  Among all the data, there is a set of data that deserves special attention: this year, in double 11, there are 1,606 new brands that have opened stores in Tmall for less than three years, winning the champion of new trend category, which means that as long as consumers are treated with care, there will be a lot of market opportunities. In Xiaohongshu, there are also 30 brands located in the new track, and their products cover furniture, accessories, bags, new Chinese clothes and so on. Tracks are constantly emerging and brands are changing rapidly. Such a market is full of vitality and the competition is extremely fierce.

  However, no matter how difficult it is, there is still a chance. Apart from China, it is hard to imagine any other market that can breed so many new brands in a short time. This is the resilience of China’s economy, and it is also the strength of a consumer market with a population of more than 1.4 billion.

  There’s no need to talk bad about "double 11" now. Even at the end of the attention cycle, there is a long tail effect.

  How "double 11" behaves next depends on itself. This year, the General Administration of Market Supervision once again issued the "double 11" Guide to Promoting Compliance, emphasizing nine aspects, such as eliminating price fraud, strengthening advertising review, preventing counterfeiting and resolving consumer disputes, which can be called the "longevity guide" of "double 11". "double 11" should be able to accompany consumers in China for several years if we can listen to users’ voices, resolutely implement regulatory regulations and firmly guarantee quality services.

  (Author She Ying), the original title "Don’t rush to sing" double 11 ""

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Developing cross-border e-commerce to stimulate foreign trade momentum

Overseas food, beauty products and health care products "fly" into the homes of China people, and Chinese-made clothing, shoes, hats and daily necessities reach the whole world … In recent years, cross-border e-commerce has developed rapidly with the advantages of online trading, non-contact delivery and short trading chain. According to the latest statistics, in the first half of 2024, China’s cross-border e-commerce import and export was 1.22 trillion yuan, up 10.5% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 4.4 percentage points higher than that of China’s foreign trade in the same period. The number of cross-border e-commerce and cross-border mail express parcels supervised by the customs every year reaches more than 7 billion, with an average of about 20 million pieces per day. From 1.06 trillion yuan in 2018 to 2.38 trillion yuan in 2023, the import and export of cross-border e-commerce in China has increased by 1.2 times in five years. The overall scale of cross-border e-commerce, from small to large, from large to excellent, has become a vital force in China’s foreign trade development and a new bright spot in the global economic and trade field.

As a new foreign trade format and model driven by scientific and technological innovation, cross-border e-commerce has a new business concept, strong technical support and quick response, which has played a powerful role in promoting the growth of China’s foreign trade. The innovative allocation of production factors by cross-border e-commerce is also in line with the characteristics and requirements of the development of new quality productivity. In recent years, China attaches great importance to the development of cross-border e-commerce. Since it was first mentioned in the Government Work Report in 2014, cross-border e-commerce has always been one of the key tasks of governments at all levels. The Central Economic Work Conference in 2023 clearly pointed out that it is necessary to speed up the cultivation of new kinetic energy of foreign trade, consolidate the basic disk of foreign trade and foreign capital, and expand intermediate trade, service trade, digital trade and cross-border e-commerce export. The issuance of documents such as Opinions on Expanding Cross-border E-commerce Exports and Promoting the Construction of Overseas Warehouses, and Announcement on Tax Policies for Goods Returned for Export in cross-border electronic commerce also provided strong policy support for promoting the development of cross-border e-commerce. In practice, cross-border e-commerce related initiatives have been promoted. In 2015, the State Council established a comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zone for the first time. After six expansions, 165 comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zones were established, achieving full coverage in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. The system of cross-border e-commerce transactions, payment, logistics, customs clearance, tax refund and foreign exchange settlement has been accelerated, and technical standards, business processes, supervision models and information construction have been continuously improved. All powerful measures jointly promote cross-border e-commerce to go into battle lightly and flourish.

As a transnational transaction, trade needs to be carried out by enterprises as the main body. At present, there are 645,000 foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance in China. According to preliminary statistics, there are more than 120,000 cross-border e-commerce entities nationwide, and the rapid growth of e-commerce entities has laid a solid foundation for the development of cross-border e-commerce. Cost is the key to enhance international competitiveness, and promoting the development of cross-border e-commerce agglomeration with industrial parks is an effective way to reduce trade costs. There are more than 1,000 cross-border e-commerce industrial parks in China. Cross-border e-commerce entities gather in the parks, and the supporting facilities of upstream and downstream producer services are constantly improved, further reducing the industry cost. In the logistics and distribution, cross-border e-commerce enterprises build competitive advantages through different modes such as direct mail cross-border special lines and overseas warehouses. At present, there are more than 2,500 overseas warehouses with a total area of more than 30 million square meters. In terms of business model, the innovative custody model of cross-border e-commerce has greatly reduced the professional restrictions and international trade thresholds, giving domestic small and medium-sized enterprises and supply chain factories the opportunity to join the tide of going to sea. In marketing and management, cross-border e-commerce enterprises take advantage of data and algorithms to promote marketing and management from extensive to fine, and build the advantages of cross-border e-commerce supply chain with high cost performance, efficient production and rapid supply. The growth of business entities, the construction of cross-border e-commerce industrial parks, the construction of overseas warehouses and the refinement of management have built a comprehensive competitive advantage for cross-border e-commerce in China and provided strong support for the high-quality development of the industry.

Cross-border e-commerce is a promising track. With the help of policies and technology, China’s cross-border e-commerce has accelerated, and there is still great potential to be tapped in the future market, and there is a broad space to expand.

In the next step, we should continue to vigorously cultivate cross-border e-commerce business entities, promote the integration and development of cross-border e-commerce and industry, and create a cross-border e-commerce empowerment industrial belt. Accelerate the brand building of cross-border e-commerce enterprises, support enterprises to "borrow from the sea" and enhance the technical content and added value of trade. Increase financial support, smooth financing channels for cross-border e-commerce enterprises, optimize cross-border fund settlement services, develop supply chain finance in compliance with laws and regulations, strengthen financial guarantee for cross-border e-commerce and reduce operating costs. At the same time, optimize cross-border e-commerce export supervision, promote and standardize cross-border data flow, and improve cross-border data management and service level. In addition, we should actively participate in multilateral mechanism negotiations, exchanges and cooperation, and play an active role in the formulation of international standards and rules in electronic documents, paperless trade and electronic transactions.

It is believed that with the continuous improvement of the policy system, the increasingly sound market system, the continuous improvement of infrastructure, the improvement of the quality of superimposed products and the acceleration of brand building, China’s competitive advantage in the trade field will continue to emerge. Constantly promoting the high-quality development of cross-border e-commerce will certainly help build a new development pattern and inject new vitality into global economic development.

(Author: Liu Zhicheng, a researcher at China Macroeconomic Research Institute)

Hong Kong films hit a "comic sense", and this Spring Festival appetizer is so special!


Special feature of 1905 film network Producer, directed by Albert Kai-kwong Mak, the crime comedy film starring,, and others landed in the cinema on January 19th.


The film tells the story of two middle-aged "paupers", he is my brother A Hui (Richie Jen) and A Xun (Lin Jiadong), who plan to rob, but are accidentally spoiled by the gangster Mei Lantian (Aaron Kwok), and the three of them temporarily form a team because of a sack of money. As the movie with the highest number of people before the Spring Festival, what surprises will Temporary Robbery bring to the audience?



The movies of the Spring Festival in 2024 have a common feature, that is, they all have comedy elements more or less, and most of the protagonists in the story have a "middle-aged crisis". Temporary Robbery also has these two characteristics in content, just like a "starter" of the Spring Festival.


Taste the "appetizer" of the Spring Festival stalls in three bites.


Taste this appetizer from three aspects. At the first bite, you will find that such a multi-line narrative method in Temporary Robbery is particularly like, structurally, there are actually many coincidences in the film, and these coincidences may lead to many comedy elements.



If Crazy Stone is a series of crazy actions triggered by a stone, then Temporary Robbery is a series of accidents triggered by two sacks of money.


After tasting the second bite, you will find that its taste has some comic sense. The overall style of the film is very young, including the shaping of characters. The most delicious thing is Aaron Kwok’s performance of this gangster Mei Lantian, who is sour and sweet.



At the end of the appetizer, it will be "grounded" and memorable. Although it may have a strong sense of comics in form and a multi-line narrative in structure, in fact, it tells the story of three middle-aged grass-roots men from the core, especially grounded, and has a realistic foundation.


 A standard "stone flavor"


To sum up, such a pre-Spring Festival dish "Temporary Robbery" has both a stone flavor and a comic sense, and it also resonates with some middle-aged frustration. In fact, in recent years, there are many films similar in narrative style to Crazy Stone, but not many of them are of high quality. On the whole, Temporary Robbery is still a very "right" stone-flavored film.



The main feature of multi-line narration is that several different protagonists get together in a major event through many coincidences.



There are actually many coincidences in Temporary Robbery. For example, the robber stopped there to repair the car. As a result, in order to sell the stolen goods, he coincidentally threw a bag of money into the trunk of the car, and the taxi driver got mixed up inexplicably.


This particularly accidental event is usually a very important turning point in a multi-line narrative drama.


"Temporary Robbery" is to mix up three waves of different people because of this car through big and small coincidences. Big cases, small cases, big robberies, small robberies, and then there are real robbers, as well as this inside job and petty theft. All kinds of people are mixed together, and finally 12 small cases are attributed to a big case. Such a film structure is still very delicate.



A surprise "comic sense"



The comic sense is also a new change brought by Temporary Robbery. The usual Hong Kong films give the audience a serious feeling. Sir A is Sir A, and thieves are thieves. But in Temporary Robbery, we can see that it is dispelling this stereotype.



As far as the characters are concerned, Aaron Kwok used to play more roles in Hong Kong-made films, such as a depressed father and a bitter undercover, but this time the role is actually a little playful, a subversive buck-toothed and stuttering Aaron Kwok. Some viewers even commented, "Help, Aaron Kwok is like my second uncle" and "The famous actor Aaron Kwok is still missing".



His buck teeth make it easy for the audience to think of his present shape, his big steel head and his way of speaking, which are also very similar to the Spanish killer in the movie.


In the film, he himself said, "We are bandits". It can be seen that he is a particularly principled gangster in his professional orientation. For example, if a brother is going to be shot, he must make up a shot. For example, if someone annoys him, he must say "Say sorry".



These mandatory "unwritten rules" contribute the most jokes in the film. He may not be the same as the people the audience will see in daily life, but in Temporary Robbery, the audience will trust this person very much.


Because he fled from Annan’s hometown to Hong Kong to be a gangster, he once won the East Asian Games, but his life was actually very bitter. He got into the underworld in his hometown and was ruined.


He has a lot of pre-history to express in the film, so he can also say why Mei Lantian, the gangster he plays now, is a little neurotic, a little abnormal and a little exaggerated. In fact, Aaron Kwok has found a good character base for all these characteristics, and the biography of this character is very solid.



A middle-aged frustration


In addition to Mei Lantian, he has two teammates this time, Lin Jiadong and Richie Jen. These two are also two of the three thieves in the film "A tree catches the wind". This time, they are incarnated as three bandits. They are two people in the role, but they bring a completely different experience to the audience.



In "A tree catches the wind", Richie Jen and Lin Jiadong are both particularly fierce bandits, but this time, they are two middle-aged men who are not very useful, a waste and a waste in a waste.



Lin Jiadong is an idiot who is losing all his hair. He lives in a public rental house with his family, and his mother and wife quarrel every day. Life is a chicken feather. His character is a coward from beginning to end.



Richie Jen opened this nursing home. As a result, because he couldn’t afford the room, he took risks for the old people, and then he became a robber. But his fear of hands and feet made his robber dream so unreal. In fact, there is a line of his own, which is very consistent with the characteristics of the role. "Good people can’t do it well, and bad people can’t do it."


These three characters also lead to the core of the film-middle-aged frustration. Three people live three different lives and have three different situations, but in the end all kinds of reality make them make the same choice. In fact, under the funny shell, they also poked some tears in the audience’s heart.



What is different from watching Temporary Robbery is that some comedies may be passed after the audience has finished watching and laughing, but there are still some very distracting parts in this drama.


In the middle, the three of them are pushing a cart, telling each other why they took this road, and then the three brothers sang together, "I just want to go with you all my life." At that moment, I felt that these three robbers seemed to poke you a little. That kind of frustration is very distracting, but some empathy will happen and it is worth going to the cinema to have a look.


How did the ancients eat barbecue? The cultural relics in the museum tell you

"kebab oven with dipping sauce, soul barbecue three-piece set"

Did the ancestors eat barbecue like this? The cultural relics in the museum tell you

Zibo barbecue fire out of the circle. Put a handful of kebabs on the red-hot stove, and then a handful of soul cumin Chili noodles and a roll of cookies, which is very enjoyable. Nowadays, barbecues are spread all over the country, and many places have developed kebabs with local characteristics: Xinjiang Hongliu Barbecue with rough style in the northwest, Jinzhou Barbecue with both land and sea in the northeast, Yunnan Barbecue with everything in the southwest, Guangdong Barbecue with exquisite seafood in the southeast … Of course, Xuzhou Barbecue, one of the cradles of barbecue, is also available. In the Han Dynasty more than two thousand years ago, how did people living in this land get confused? The cultural relics in the museum tell you.

Yangzi Evening News/Zi Niu News reporter Shen Zhao

Stone reliefs in Han Dynasty recorded that the ancestors of Xuzhou were like this.

To see how the ancestors of Xuzhou ate barbecue, they had to go to Xuzhou Museum. This city had a "three-piece set" of barbecue since the Han Dynasty, and the heroic barbecue style of the ancestors "ten kidneys and ten balls, shouting pepper and oil" has continued to this day. But what was the scene of the ancients eating barbecue? The image record is hidden in the Han Dynasty stone relief in Xuzhou.

Chen Zhao, deputy director of the office of the Chinese Painting Museum of Xuzhou Museum, told the reporter that there is a "roasting basin" in the main exhibition building of Xuzhou Museum, which is supposed to be used for barbecue besides heating by fire. There is also a Chinese stone relief containing barbecue content in the main exhibition building, and there are also four stone relief in the Chinese Painting Museum, which also depicts the scene of the ancients eating barbecue.

The most typical record of barbecue diet is a Han stone in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This stone was unearthed in Dongyan Village, Hanwang, Tongshan, with a height of 78cm, a width of 70cm and a thickness of 25cm. It was carved by the technique of plane relief. The picture is divided into three layers, the top layer is engraved with two people, the person in the middle is holding a long knife and cutting meat on the case, the person on the right is holding a hand to fan the fire, the other hand is holding a kebab for barbecue, some meat food is hung in the upper left corner, and there is a sheep tied with four hooves waiting to be slaughtered on the far left; There are also two people on the middle floor, one on the left is sitting in front of the stove, the other on the right is standing in front of the well to draw water, and there are some utensils such as ear cups on the picture; The bottom floor is the scene of horses and chariots traveling. We can even see clearly in this Han stone that mutton is one of the best choices in the oven, which is similar to the barbecue we eat now. The people in the painting cut the meat into pieces, string it on a sign, and then roast it on the fire, which is quite different from the way we eat it now.

Although the way of cooking is similar, if we really travel back to the Han Dynasty, I’m afraid we still can’t get used to the Han Dynasty version of kebabs. Chen Zhao introduced that compared with modern times, the cooking style of the Han Dynasty has been basically the same as that of modern times, but the taste is not quite the same as today. According to archaeology and literature, there are mainly not so many spices now, "because the spices introduced from the western regions at that time have not spread all over the country. Cook the meat, for example, is to cook white meat and then dip it in the sauce. I guess barbecue is similar, and it is more likely to be eaten with roasted meat dipping sauce, because meat sauce and horseshoe sauce have also been unearthed in Xuzhou. " Nowadays, there are ways to eat barbecue with dipping sauce, but spices are essential in the processing of ingredients, especially cumin from the western regions. What is the taste of barbecue in Han Dynasty? Maybe the next time you have a barbecue, you can eat it without spices.

How did you get a delicious barbecue?

Strictly speaking, Xuzhou can not be called the origin of barbecue, but should be called the place where the barbecue diet was first recorded. Barbecue with fire is the earliest and most primitive way of cooked food cooking. Barbecue is also one of the earliest foods invented by human beings. The way of processing food with fire barbecue is also one of the signs that ancient people bid farewell to the life of eating animals and drinking blood. Archaeological findings show that as early as 600,000 years ago, many burnt animal bones were found in Paleolithic sites. About 7,000 years ago, a long ceramic barbecue grill was unearthed in Majiabang cultural site in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, and its function was presumed to be similar to the barbecue grill used today.

By the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, with the progress of productive forces and the enrichment of means of production, the method of barbecue began to upgrade, and barbecue had a special name "roast". The Book of Rites recorded: "roast, through the fire." That is, skewer the meat and burn it on the fire. However, at that time, the barbecue was exclusively for nobles, and it was also a sacrificial object. For example, in the tomb of Zeng Houyi in the early Warring States period, a barbecue was unearthed, which was composed of a top plate and a bottom furnace. The furnace was shallow, with an open flat bottom and three legs. When unearthed, there were still more than a dozen unburned charcoal in the furnace, and most of Ceng Houyi’s daily recipes also included barbecue.

Barbecue really became popular as a kind of food in the Han Dynasty. According to Liu Xin’s Miscellanies of Xijing, after Liu Bang ascended the throne, Emperor Gaozu "often barbecued deer liver to drink wine". For example, in Mawangdui Han Tomb, the moire lacquer case unearthed from Xin Zhui’s tomb was filled with drinking lacquer cups, five small lacquer plates containing food and bamboo chopsticks, and the unearthed recipes of Xin Zhui family were also recorded with roasted cattle and chopsticks. The mutton kebabs of the Han Dynasty were also unearthed in Changle Han Tomb in Zhongwei, Ningxia. Three cereal products similar to "cakes" were also found in the lacquer box in front of the coffin. An ink book was also unearthed in the tomb, which read "Ten pieces were brought into the kitchen by a man named Lu Qiu", indicating that these things were sacrifices given to the tomb owner. So, the way to eat kebabs with small cakes may have existed in the Han Dynasty.

But for ordinary people, barbecue is not today’s street food, and only nobles have realized "barbecue freedom". In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han stone relief in Wulibao, the Kitchen Picture, depicts how the kitchen of the aristocrat cooked the barbecue at that time: two servants were in front of the oven, one was holding the meat strung with a sign, and the other was holding a fan to control the heat. Isn’t this a proper food stall scene?

It can be found that since the Han Dynasty, the development of barbecue has advanced by leaps and bounds, especially the qualitative leap in barbecue ingredients, not only simple beef and mutton, but also grilled fish and roasted rabbits. According to Chen Zhao, in the Han Dynasty, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, by-products and fisheries developed in an all-round way, which was the material basis for the rich diet in the Han Dynasty. According to the records of Han tombs and Han stone reliefs unearthed in Xuzhou, there were staple crops such as rice, wheat, millet and sorghum in the Han Dynasty, and pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and fish were all in demand, and the seasoning making skills, such as bean paste, also made great progress.

From a religious sacrificial food to the exclusive food of the aristocratic class to the fireworks in the streets and lanes, a string of barbecues strung together a thousand-year-old food civilization, with one hand strung together wine, eating the burnt fragrance of the barbecue and tasting the thick history. (Shen Zhao Yangzi Evening News)

Cultural public opinion No.073rd new Korean drama "Attack" and "You from the Stars" are hard to get on the domestic screen.

  Since Korean dramas were introduced to China, domestic dramas have also been tainted with "kimchi flavor". The Temptation of Going Home is a remake of The Temptation of My Wife. I accidentally fell in love with you is based on The Love of Life and Death in Blue. My family is happy and adapted from The Rumored Seven Princesses. Falling in love with the anchorwoman can be called the China version of The Temptation of Eve. This year’s hit The Gorgeous Family has exactly the same plot as Project Runway.

  

  Chen Shuo, producer of Gorgeous Family and vice president of Xiangchao International:Compared with American TV dramas and Japanese TV dramas, it is much easier to buy scripts from Korean TV dramas. It took a whole year before and after the introduction of the script of the Japanese drama Son-in-law, because it needed to be confirmed by writers, TV stations, artists and artists’ agencies, but the introduction of Korean dramas was different. It took two weeks at the earliest, and the contract was usually two or three pages, with little requirements from the other party.

  

  Producer Jin ouChina has entered the start-up period of cultural consumption, but the supply of excellent film and television works is still poor, which cannot meet the needs of the audience. Compared with Korean dramas, the investment in domestic TV dramas is not weak. However, creators often succumb to investors and follow suit, so film and television drama production cannot form a standardized industrial chain. Excellent film and television works need policies, creators and audiences to jointly create a suitable soil and climate. Professional creators and a mature audience market are essential.

  

  Yang Lei, Associate Professor of Korean Language Department in beijing international studies university:Korean dramas have entered the China market for 20 years, and the craze has never subsided. After 20 years, few works in the local cultural industry can compete with it, but the influence of Korean dramas on consumers in China has penetrated into real life, which has led to the phenomenon of chasing dramas and idolize to chasing consumption and culture.

 

  Drama critic sleeve hand:There are a large number of housewives in South Korea, and the dreaminess of idol dramas can best arouse the resonance of this group. However, the situation in China is different. Most women work, and married women are more willing to pay attention to life-related TV dramas. Therefore, life dramas such as The Story of Hot Mom are the mainstream of domestic audiences. The mainstream orientation of the audience, combined with the separation of domestic production and broadcasting and the influence of the audience’s exclusive viewing theory, leaves little room for idol dramas, a "vulnerable group". Small-cost, third-line actor configuration, it is inevitable that the cottage will appear. This also explains why Gao Yuanyuan, Yao Chen and other first-line movie café s return to the screen to shoot family life themes, and the best resources, talents and equipment are also firmly occupied by life dramas.

  

  Famous screenwriter Yu Zheng:For example, Empresses in the Palace and Let’s Get Married can resonate with the audience both on the Internet and on TV. Don’t think that one or two Korean TV dramas have caused a sensation in China, just because domestic TV dramas are not as good as South Korea. In fact, the export of mainland TV dramas is not worse than that of South Korea, but we haven’t made any publicity. I often go abroad and see them show the legendary swordsman. Moreover, many mainland TV dramas caused a sensation abroad, and we didn’t know it until later, and we didn’t do publicity when we knew it. Unlike South Korea, where there was a slight response in China, their director came to China with actors. Since there are only three mainstream TV stations in Korea, there is great competition pressure and the elimination rate is also very fast. The drama was quickly replaced by a new mechanism, which forced Korean TV people to constantly produce new things. This is also the reason why Korean dramas have made great breakthroughs in theme in recent years. At present, there are still many restrictions on theme in China, such as commercial involvement and revenge. Compared with South Korea, the industrial structure is not reasonable enough, and the audience-only theory has also led domestic producers to be keen on repeating the same theme.

  

  Compared with the idol dramas of neighboring countries, the idols in our idol dramas are really shameful.

 

  ■ Turn on the TV in the Spring Festival, and Cai Ming, Fan Ming, Zhao Benshan and Liu Xiaoqing rule the screen;

 

  ■ Guo Tao and Mei Ting, who are a little younger, are playing the role of their youth;

 

  ■ Wang Zhiwen, who is about to take over, and Zhang Jiayi and Sun Honglei, who have won the industry in recent years;

 

  ■ Looking around, there are only a handful of fashionable and beautiful youth idol dramas.

 

  China Economic Net Xiaobian has something to say:Most of our young actors can only "run their teeth" in the drama of God. I don’t know if the competition is too fierce and there is no chance to replace those familiar faces, or because the competition is too lax, four plays a year can still earn a lot of money, and there is no need to worry or experience the role. According to industry insiders, if time and funds are available, mainland directors may also shoot works such as "Stars". Just, will the same works be accepted by the audience when they are moved to China?

The classic glimpse of the crown, the old crown that appeared in those movies

  [Pacific Auto Network, Culture Channel] As the first independently named car series under Toyota and one of the oldest car series, the Crown has a high reputation in various regions. In the past half century, the Crown has really carried too much wonderful history. At the same time, it is also a frequent guest in film and television works, incarnating as a "movie star" to shuttle through the joys and sorrows of the light and shadow screen. Next, the editor will take you back to the 1950s and take a look at the history of the Crown, see which famous films the Crown participated in, and see if the plot will evoke your movie-watching memories?

  Back in the distant 1950s, the Asian film industry flourished like never before, and both aesthetics and themes began to bloom. In our country, Hong Kong, the Shaw Brothers and Dianmao Company competed fiercely; in the East and the Pacific, the revival of literary films and works describing social issues flourished. During this period, famous directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu also produced a large number of well-known masterpieces.

  As cars gradually enter the lives of the general public, a large number of films depicting urban reality have emerged, so you will find an elegant and refined car often appearing in the camera, shuttling through the streets and the main character’s story line, and it is the original Toyota Crown.

  How high was the exposure rate of the original Crown? In the 1950s and 1970s, it appeared in at least 600 films, almost growing up with the development history of postwar East Asian films. The Crown of that year took on far more important tasks than in the film. As the first model that truly represents Japan’s independent research and development, Toyota injected many innovative designs into it. For example, to make it easier for rear passengers to get up and down, it adopted a closed door; the front suspension was replaced by a freestanding model pioneered in Japan. At this time, the crown was crowned with the logo of Toyopet, which literally translates as "Toyota’s Beloved".

  After the launch of the first-generation Crown, the market performance exceeded Toyota’s expectations. Not only was it very popular in China, but also went to Europe and the United States. Therefore, Toyota did not hesitate to put the Crown in the position of the flagship of the group, making it the "pillar" of the Toyota family.

  When it comes to the 007 series of movies, I believe everyone knows that, in addition to the dashing James Bond and the graceful Bond girls, the most impressive thing is the design of the amazing car chase scene, but you must know that the car protagonist is by no means unique. In 1967’s "007 Thunderbolt Valley", the second generation Toyota Crown and the 2000GT sports car launched a chase war on the streets of Tokyo, and was included in one of the top ten classic scenes in the history of 007.

  In the film, when 007 left Osato Chemical Company, four of the boss’s confidants chased him out in a Toyota Crown and tried to shoot him from the car. At this time, a Toyota 2000GT came to the rescue of 007 at high speed, driving the secret agent beautiful woman Aki, a road chase began, bullets, the crown chased the 2000GT… At this time, a helicopter appeared in the sky, with a huge magnet, the crown was sucked up to the sky, 007 and beautiful woman Aki survived and drove away. This is a typical 007 plot, and the imaginative picture of the helicopter and the crown shook the world, and it is logical to be selected as one of the top ten classic shots in the history of 007.

  Back then, the crew chose the Crown as a big group car and launched a chase war, not just because it was a luxury car. The second-generation Crown, born in 1962, was developed during the "Iwado boom" and the highway boom, so the positioning of the new Crown must be spacious, luxurious and comfortable.

  Mechanically, the second-generation model was equipped with the first "X-type" chassis to improve driving stability, as well as cutting-edge technologies such as the M series straight six and the Toyotglide later stage. In the later stage, there was even a high-performance version of the CROWN S with higher power output. Of course, it was also the first large-scale sports sedan made in Japan.

  Toyota has added a lot of features to the crown one after another, but it has not increased the price. In the follow-up version of this car, electronic locks, air conditioners, electric windows, refrigerators, etc. have been added as standard equipment, which is full of sincerity.

  The second-generation crown further established the crown’s status as the flagship of the car series, describing the car in 1966 in Modern Car magazine: "The crown, which is extremely quiet and smooth to drive, makes the driving feel like the tire is running over the velvet." With such a high evaluation, it is no wonder that it has become popular in film history.

  Crown was also the first Toyota to be exported to China. After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in 1972, Premier Zhou personally participated in the negotiations the following year, introducing 200 fourth-generation models and then assigning them to the reception of the Canton Fair. Since then, Crown has officially entered the land of China.

  However, if the crown really became popular in China, it had to start from the seventh generation of the crown after the 1980s. Riding on the spring breeze of reform and opening up, the seventh and eighth generation crowns became household names, and naturally became one of the most common props in domestic films at that time. Just like in the 1950s, they continued to incarnate as "movie stars".

  (Crown figure in domestic films in the 1980s)

  The Seventh Generation Crown (1983-1987)

  The Eighth Generation Crown (1987-1991)

  The Eighth Generation Crown (released in 1991)

  The 10th generation of the Crown (1995-1999)

  As the big IP of the Spring Festival file, the "Detective Chinatown" series has received countless attention since the first one in 2015. This year’s "Detective Chinatown 3" has won 3.562 billion yuan to lead the Spring Festival box office. In the latest one, the theme city has come to Tokyo from Bangkok and New York before, and the prop car in the film naturally has a bunch of familiar faces, including a number of crown sedan series.

  In the movie, the Crown, in addition to its duty as a police car, is also the car that Liu Haoran and Wang Baoqiang drive through the streets of Tokyo – the 12th-generation Crown that we are all quite familiar with, and it is also a Royal Saloon model that is almost identical to the domestic version.

  When it comes to the 12th-generation Crown, it was introduced into China as early as 2005, which was the first time in the history of the Crown that it was produced in a country other than Japan. It is worth mentioning that this generation of the Crown focuses on the concept of "Zero Crown". From design to mechanics, it abandons the constraints of the past to create a younger Crown sedan, but the only constant is its unique oriental luxury philosophy.

  The 12th-generation Crown body shape retained the classic flavor while still maintaining full and rich texture, and it was also as low as an astonishing 0.27. In addition, more cutting-edge new equipment of the time was used, such as the first G-BOOK and, as well as smart keys, color displays with navigation and reversing images, etc., and even the world’s first to reduce pedestrian injuries. The power aspect has also been completely revamped, and the GR series V6 engine with a new structure and dual VVT-i intake and exhaust has not only improved the power output of the Crown to the next level, but also significantly improved vibration control, fuel consumption and emissions.

  Thanks to the "Crown Complex" accumulated by early imports into China, the domestic 12th-generation Crown surpassed the sales of 2,992 units in the first month of listing, becoming the best-selling mid-to-high-end luxury car in the Chinese market. In the following two months, the order volume of the 12th-generation Crown exceeded 10,000 units. By the end of 2006, the sales volume of the Crown exceeded 60,000 units, accounting for more than 30% of the high-end car market.

  Detective Conan Episode 471

  The 12th-generation Crown is still the darling of film and television works, whether it is the well-known animation "Detective Conan" to the action suspense film "Hunt" (2017) directed by John Woo, you can see its handsome figure.

  The movie "The Hunt" (2017)

  In 2021, the "Crown" car series has once again reappeared in the arena with a new high-end identity. Unlike the luxury cars of the past, the current Crown is positioned as the flagship seven seats of static luxury and dynamic, and it is named, and the newly added "KLUGER" has the meaning of intelligence and wisdom. You may wonder, is the high-end car charm of the Crown still there? Of course it is still there – this time it will be presented in a stronger form.

  Unlike the elegant and quiet Crown sedan, the Crown Land Release based on the TNGA-K platform adopts the "Powerful Suave" design concept, and the shape follows the current design taste. Whether it is the diamond-shaped honeycomb middle net, the wide lower grille combined with the through-through silver decorative strips or the strong three-dimensional body, the whole vehicle builds a strong and brave visual perception.

  The A/B/C pillars of Crown Land are all treated in black to create a suspended roof effect. The waist line extending to the taillights rises sharply, further enhancing the muscle feel on the side of the body. With 18-inch cutting/20-inch two-color cutting and polishing aluminum alloy wheels, the whole car is quite domineering in the air field.

  In terms of interior, Crown Land is built with a center console with a skeleton vertical axis and horizontal axis focusing on the large screen, and then covered with textured interior materials, delicate sewing process and 12.3-inch display screen, continuing the exquisite interior style of the crown in the past. In addition, this infotainment system also has powerful online functions such as intelligent voice interaction system, facial recognition function, Toyota Zhixing Internet, remote diagnosis, theft tracking, etc., close to the online connected life.

  In terms of power, the Crown Land Discharge is equipped with a new generation of TNGA 2.5L dual engine system. Among them, the 2.5L DYNAMIC FORCE engine adopts new technologies such as VVT-iE intelligent electric timing intake system, dual injection fuel supply system (D-4S + injection) and laser cladding valve seat. The comprehensive power reaches 183 kW, torque reaches 238 Nm, and can achieve 41% thermal efficiency, matching the new generation of E-CVT stepless, power output is more linear and smoother, bringing surging power while further reducing fuel consumption.

  The Crown Land Ramp is based on the high level and low center of gravity performance of the TNGA-K platform to create a low center of gravity body. At the same time, the Crown Land Ramp adopts a front McPherson + rear double fork arm independent suspension system, supplemented by the same standard setting, which reduces the body roll while improving the stability, driving control and comfort of the vehicle. The E-Four electronic four-wheel drive system can greatly improve the output torque of the rear wheels, and also increase the torque distribution ratio of the rear wheels (front and rear torque 100:0~ 20:80), achieving more accurate control while bringing a sporty driving feeling like a rear drive.

  In terms of safety, the crown land release has not been neglected. The Toyota Smart Safety System (Safety Sense2.5) is equipped with a pre-collision safety system (with forward pedestrian identification, etc.), a dynamic radar cruise control system (with full-speed domain following function), a lane tracking assistance system (with following function) and an automatic adjustment high beam system. It can not only identify vehicles, but also pedestrians, reduce the chance of accidents and reduce collision injuries. In addition, there is a standard 7-airbag panoramic monitoring system for all series, a blind spot warning system on the rear side of the reversing side, a tire pressure monitoring system, a parking anti-collision assistance system, a vehicle proximity warning system, a driving start assistance control system, and a parallel blind spot monitoring system, etc., to fully protect drivers and passengers.

  Since its birth in the 1950s, Crown has witnessed the development history of film and the changes in social life. Whether it is the eastern elegant philosophy of the past or the new identity of the flagship SUV today, its innovative spirit and luxury level remain unchanged. With the official launch of the FAW Toyota Crown in China on August 27, the Crown car series will also open a new chapter. I believe that more Crown figures will appear in movies around the world in the future.