????????On the afternoon of June 25th, 2007, the 28th meeting of the 10th the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) reviewed the draft anti-monopoly law of the People’s Republic of China in groups, and the speeches were summarized as follows:

????????(A) on the monopoly agreement
????????Alex Chen (deputy to the National People’s Congress) said that it is proposed to amend Item 6 of Article 13: "Other monopoly agreements recognized by anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies" to "Other monopoly agreements that exclude or restrict competition". Because the original text excludes the due process of judicial review. It is suggested to add provisions on the application for exemption procedure after Chapter 2. Because there are no requirements for applying for exemption and application procedures in the draft, operators cannot judge the legality of their actions. We should let the law guide enterprises to declare independently, not just rely on government inspection, change the way of government control and save administrative costs.

????????Committee member Fang Xin said that Article 14 "prohibits business operators from reaching the following monopoly agreements with counterparties", including "fixing the lowest price for reselling goods to third parties". But in practice, this is a common practice for domestic and foreign enterprises. In order to maintain the brand image of the enterprise, the final market price will be limited in the sales contract, such as the market price of specialty stores and brand stores. Whether the current writing is too absolute, and whether the lowest price of goods sold by consignment or agency and the price limit between parent and subsidiary companies should be allowed can be reconsidered.

????????Member Nan Zhenzhong said that Article 15 (5) of the draft anti-monopoly law stipulates that "due to the economic downturn, in order to alleviate the serious decline in sales or the obvious surplus of production". "Economic depression" is very complicated, including global economic depression, national economic depression, regional economic depression, industrial economic depression and so on. It is suggested that the exact meaning and judgment standard of "economic recession" should be further clarified in order to make the exemption standard more clear.

????????(2) Abuse of dominant market position
????????Member Nan Zhenzhong said that Article 16 (2) of the draft anti-monopoly law stipulates that "goods are sold at a price lower than the cost without justifiable reasons;" It is suggested that "without justifiable reasons" be changed to "for the purpose of crowding out competitors". Because the standard without justifiable reasons is vague, and selling goods below the cost price to crowd out competition and then monopolize is a common means of abusing market dominance, this amendment makes this provision more targeted. Article 16 (5) of the draft anti-monopoly law stipulates that "tying goods or attaching other unreasonable trading conditions to transactions without justifiable reasons;" It is suggested that "without justifiable reasons" be changed to "against consumers’ wishes" and amended to "against consumers’ wishes, tying goods or attaching other unreasonable trading conditions to transactions;" Because the standard of no justifiable reason is vague, whether tying goods is legal should be judged by the wishes of consumers. The anti-monopoly law restricts the tying of goods against consumers’ wishes.

????????Ying Songnian (member of the Internal Affairs Judicial Committee of the National People’s Congress) said that Article 16, the legal responsibility for abusing market dominance lies in Article 46. If an operator abuses market dominance and excludes or restricts competition in violation of the provisions of this Law, it seems that the abuse of market dominance will bear legal responsibility only in the case of restriction and exclusion, but in fact, the abuse of market dominance mentioned in Article 16 is not just exclusion and restriction. I suggest that the legal liability of Article 46 should be further improved, and it should correspond to all kinds of situations mentioned in Chapter 3, Abuse of dominant market position, and have specific legal liabilities.

????????Committee member Fang Xin said that the first paragraph of Article 16 "sells goods at an unfairly high price or buys goods at an unfairly low price", and I think "unfair" is not very accurate. I suggest changing it to "sells goods at a significantly higher price than the market price or buys goods at a significantly lower price than the market price". The last few paragraphs all say "without justifiable reasons". I think if possible, it’s best to write clearly what we want to limit. For example, in paragraph 2, "without justifiable reasons" can be changed to "selling goods at a price below the cost for the purpose of excluding competitors". In paragraph 5, "without justifiable reasons" can be changed to "tying goods or attaching other unreasonable trading conditions when trading". Article 18, paragraphs 2 and 3 have two or three operators as a whole or three operators as a whole. I think "as a whole" is also a very vague concept. The key is to see if these two or three operators have a specific relationship. If there is a specific relationship, it should be restricted. If there is no specific relationship, how can it be regarded as a whole and it can be said that it has a dominant market position? It is suggested to stipulate whether there is a specific relationship.

????????Committee member Wang Weicheng said that regarding the abuse of market dominance in Article 16, it is suggested to add one item after the six items, namely, "the enterprise has acquired advanced technology, which is not used or not actually promoted", which also belongs to the abuse of market dominance. Enterprises have money, and this technology is beneficial to the country and the market, but it may be unfavorable to the main traditional business of the enterprise, which hinders technological progress.

????????Dai Songling (deputy to the National People’s Congress) said that the enterprises that abuse market dominance are mainly public enterprises, and the law should increase the punishment for these enterprises. For example, the water company forces users to buy their designated water supply equipment, and the gas company forces users to buy their designated gas stoves and water heaters. All kinds of information service fees imposed on users by communication departments when they buy mobile phones, such as caller ID, weather forecast, reading newspapers and so on. For these enterprises that abuse the dominant market position, we should increase the punishment, and at the same time give corresponding punishment to those responsible.??

????????Liu Qingfeng (deputy to the National People’s Congress) said that Article 16 of Chapter 3 talked about the abuse of market dominance, and I think it is very important to lead to the abuse of market dominance by market dominant operators. Article 5, tying goods without justifiable reasons, or attaching other unreasonable trading conditions, has something to do with what I mentioned above, but it is not exactly the same. Tying goods means selling another kind of goods that we already have, hoping to bundle them together, but when our industry faces transnational competition, some situations are more serious than this. I suggest adding "bundling other commodities or giving other commodities free of charge among commodities in a dominant market position without justifiable reasons, which seriously affects the market order of bundled commodities or giving other commodities free of charge". For example, if the operating system provided by Microsoft is to regard intelligent voice technology as an inseparable part of the operating system, this is malicious binding, rather than the general concept of goods. In addition, if it is not an integral part of the operating system, but it is given away for free when the operating system is sold, this is a hitchhiking. It will have a serious impact on the national voice industry. Therefore, it is suggested that this issue be further clarified, otherwise, the development of our national intelligent software will always face huge monopoly risks.

????????Alex Chen (deputy to the National People’s Congress) said: First, it is suggested that the second paragraph of Article 18 be amended as follows: "In the cases specified in the first, second and third paragraphs, if an operator has evidence to the contrary to prove that it does not have a dominant market position, it should not be presumed that the operator has a dominant market position." The reasons are as follows: First, in most cases, operators with the market share specified in Article 18 generally have a dominant position in the market, but in some cases, it is wrong to make the above presumption, such as when the barriers to entry in the relevant market are low, or when the entry into the relevant market is short, or when the superior resources of the above operators are almost exhausted, or when the patent right is about to expire, and so on. Second, in this clause, the burden of proof is assigned to the operator, and the law enforcement agencies can save law enforcement resources according to this presumption, and also give the operator a chance to refute it to ensure that the presumption is fair and accurate. Two, it is suggested that the second paragraph of article sixteenth be amended as "operators shall not sell goods at a price lower than the operating cost for the purpose of excluding competitors". The reasons are as follows: First, the amendment is copied from Article 11 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, which will make the "two laws" consistent in regulating predatory pricing. Second, as far as predatory pricing is concerned, there is a dispute between "purpose" and "effect" in the practice and theory of anti-monopoly law. The United States uses the "effect" standard to determine whether it constitutes predatory pricing, that is, whether the operators with dominant market position can implement predatory pricing,And take the competitors out of the market and recover the losses suffered by predatory pricing or earn non-competitive profits as the standard. If the "cost" can be recovered, it will constitute predatory pricing. Australia, on the other hand, adopts the "purpose" standard, that is, as long as the operators with dominant market position abuse their dominant position and compete with competitors at a price lower than the cost price for the purpose of excluding competitors, it constitutes predatory pricing, regardless of whether the predators can recover the "cost" afterwards. Comparing the "purpose" and "effect" standards, the "purpose" standard is more effective in combating predatory pricing, more operable and more in line with the purpose of competition law. However, the "effect" standard will affect the enthusiasm of operators for competition, and it is difficult to distinguish between what is beneficial to competition and what is anti-competitive, because the effect of competition will hurt one side of competition. Moreover, before the predatory price war has an "effect", the plundered will not be able to stop the predatory behavior of the marauders, because it has not yet had an effect. If you can, you can only assume that the predator can recover the "cost" after excluding the prey. This assumption is obviously not conducive to competitive behavior. The "purpose" standard can make up for the defects of the "effect" standard in this respect. First of all, the "purpose" standard can prevent operators with dominant market position from abusing their dominant position. Secondly, the element of "market dominance" in predatory pricing can also play the role of "effect" standard, because only operators with market dominance can recover costs or obtain excess profits after the predatory price war.Therefore, we suggest making the above amendments to this clause. Third, it is suggested to delete the "financial resources" of the operator in Item 3 of Article 17, because such a provision may make the enterprise conceal its financial situation, and this is not a necessary condition for measuring monopoly ability.

????????(3) Concentration of business operators
????????Commissioner Li Lianning said that Chapter 4 deals with the substantive norms of concentration of business operators. Concentration of business operators is an important field of anti-monopoly. If a certain field is too concentrated, it is not conducive to competition. But at present, the expression of this chapter is basically a procedural norm. According to the truth, the procedural specification is based on the entity specification, to implement the entity specification concretely. In other words, we should first stipulate the entity norms for the concentration of operators, and then stipulate how to declare and review. According to the current regulations, such as Article 20, if the concentration of business operators meets the declaration standards set by the State Council, the business operators shall report to the anti-monopoly law enforcement agency in the State Council in advance, and the concentration of those who fail to report shall not be implemented. This is a procedural expression. According to the truth, the concentration of business operators should first be in accordance with the substantive provisions of the state, and under this standard, the business operators should implement the examination system of concentration of business operators, and then how to declare. In addition, from the standard point of view, only the issue of share is stipulated now, but the concentrated share and assets owned by operators vary greatly in different industries and fields. It is actually difficult to give consideration to different industries by using a unified share. Therefore, it is suggested that the State Council should distinguish between different industries and fields, so as to formulate the declaration standards for concentration of operators separately, instead of the unified standards stipulated in Article 21. The substantive norms, examination standards and conditions of concentration of business operators should be stipulated in different fields and industries. Of course, a principle requirement can be made, and the authorization should be specified by the State Council.

????????Member Guo Shuyan said that Article 21 mentioned that an operator may not report to the anti-monopoly law enforcement agency of the State Council in any of the following situations, and pointed out two situations. First, one operator owns more than 50% of the voting shares or assets of each other operator. Second, more than 50% of the voting shares of each operator who participated in the concentration are owned by the same operator who did not participate in the concentration. I don’t understand why this concentration does not need to be reported to the anti-monopoly agency in the State Council. However, it has been clearly pointed out in the article 19 on what is the concentration of operators that operators obtain the control rights of other operators by acquiring equity or assets. Since the situation pointed out in Article 21 is "concentration" as defined in Article 19, why not declare it to the State Council? If Article 21 is established, will all enterprises take the way of obtaining controlling rights when they are engaged in "concentration" in the future, so there is no need to declare to the State Council. Article 21 seems to open a back door for "concentration". Therefore, recommendation 21 needs to be considered again.

????????Member Wang Songda asked whether the third item of Article 26 "the influence of concentration of operators on market entry and technological progress" and the first item of Article 15 "for improving technology and researching and developing new products", such as these places, could the technological progress be fully described? Natural monopoly is not uncommon in daily life, and we have many experiences and feelings. For example, the media often disclose that some telecom industries are constantly juggling, such as packages, but there are not many benefits for consumers. This kind of magic trick of natural monopoly can’t reduce the cost and improve the economic benefit. When summarizing the achievements of Hong Kong in the past 10 years after its return to China, the news media cited an example, saying that when Hong Kong’s telecommunications industry was controlled by British or American people, long-distance calls were made at 10 yuan per minute. Later, the monopoly was broken, and Hong Kong people controlled the telecommunications industry themselves, but now it is a few cents per minute. For example, in the Ministry of Railways, it is very difficult and technically complicated to continuously improve the speed over the years. Taking improving the speed of locomotives as a breakthrough, a series of technological progress is reflected. Natural monopoly enterprises should use scientific and technological progress to counter all kinds of barriers set by foreign countries.

????????Commissioner Uzitu said that this law should have stricter regulations on foreign capital entering the China market. Only article 29 of Chapter 4, on concentration of business operators, deals with foreign capital’s merger and acquisition of domestic enterprises. In recent years, foreign investment in various fields of China’s economy really needs attention. Relevant information shows that before 2004, foreign investment in China in the form of mergers and acquisitions only accounted for 5% of the investment. By 2004, the proportion had risen to 11%, and in 2005 it reached 20%. What was the figure in 2006? I haven’t seen the data yet. I think there may be more. The leading bosses and backbone enterprises in many domestic industries have been acquired and controlled by foreign-funded enterprises. For such a situation, it seems a little weak to rely on this one alone. How to deal with this situation abroad? For example, in the United States, a foreign investment committee composed of the Ministry of Finance, the the State Council, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Justice, the national security affairs department, and the Economic Advisory Committee has been set up, which is responsible for examining the merger and acquisition of American domestic enterprises by foreign investors. For example, CNOOC’s acquisition of Yunik Company in the United States was abandoned because of the intervention of Congress and the security review. A few years ago, we bought some US Treasury bonds. In recent years, the dollar has depreciated. Many people think that we are losing a lot now, but in this case, in the eyes of Americans themselves, there have been many comments on the impact of holding US Treasury bonds on US economic security. Another example is that our newly established foreign exchange company is going to buy the Blackstone Fund in the United States, which has caused discussion in the US Congress and relevant government departments.I believe that this behavior may affect the national security of the United States. Since China’s entry into WTO, our financial field has been opened in all directions recently, but it is almost impossible for our domestic finance, insurance and securities to enter the American market. It can be seen that as a free and open market economy country like the United States, they attach so much importance to this. In contrast, our country has not paid enough attention to this aspect. I hope it can be reflected in this law.??

????????Commissioner Chen Shineng said that the draft anti-monopoly law under discussion today involves my industry, and now there is a very serious problem, that is, industrial safety. I just want to give you an example, and I also want to ask you how to truly stop malicious mergers and acquisitions and protect our national industry in this anti-monopoly law. For example, batteries are used by everyone in daily life, including lithium batteries for mobile phones. After more than ten years’ development, the production of batteries in our country has reached more than 30 billion, compared with more than 40 billion in the world, and our export volume has reached 80% of the world trade volume, among which alkaline manganese batteries with relatively high technical content and high added value were monopolized by enterprises in the United States, Japan and other countries ten years ago. However, after ten years of our own efforts, we are now the world’s largest battery producer and exporter, so the United States and Japan felt threatened, and they took a series of measures, first of all, they took technical barriers to trade and the 337 investigation case of intellectual property protection, and made investigations in 2004 and 2005, but we responded positively and won. In anti-dumping, we also responded and won. Improve environmental protection indicators, and we have also kept up with them through our technical measures. In this case, the United States has adopted the practice of fundamentally changing the property rights of the backbone battery enterprises in China. It has bought the leading battery enterprises in China, Nanfu Battery Co., Ltd. in Fujian and the battery co., Ltd. jointly invested by China Bank and Hongkong Bank in Ningbo at a high price.They are the backbone enterprises in our battery industry, adopting high and new technology. Their alkaline manganese batteries are the first and second in our country and the top ten in the world. Nanfu brand and Shuanglu brand mercury-free alkaline manganese batteries are brand-name products in China, which have been recognized by AQSIQ. These two enterprises, whose predecessors were small and medium-sized enterprises, began to work hard in the 1990s. They gradually developed by introducing advanced foreign equipment and technology, and solved the initial funding problem. They respectively set up joint ventures with international finance and investment companies and Hong Kong companies. After long-term hard work and capital accumulation, by 2002, the total assets of these two companies had reached 880 million and 390 million respectively, and their sales revenue had reached 757 million, and their tax profits had also reached. Such a high profit rate is unmatched by foreign battery industry. But no one expected that these two companies, which are developing at a high speed, were both acquired by foreign battery companies from 2005 to 2006. Nanfu battery was acquired 72% equity by Duracell in the United States, the largest battery company in the world, and BOC was acquired 85% equity by GT Company in Singapore, and the main business rights of the company were given to foreign battery companies. There is also the third Leopard King, which is also 85% owned by American companies. In other words, the top three most profitable alkaline manganese battery enterprises in China have been acquired by foreign enterprises. Acquisition of property rights of China battery enterprises,It may be a very important strategy for international famous battery enterprises to monopolize the international high-end battery market. In recent ten years, American Duracell Group has poured a lot of financial and material resources into the China market. At that time, China’s battery industry itself was not mature, so their brands occupied a large share of us. By the middle and late 1990s, several domestic battery enterprises, such as Nanfu, which I mentioned just now, had introduced technology and equipment, digested and absorbed them, and gradually acquired their own intellectual property rights, with improved quality and grade. In the domestic market, it has been supported by AQSIQ and China Battery Association. We have blocked Duracell, Energizer and Hitachi in Japan, and their output, sales volume and profits in our country have dropped greatly. At this time, foreign enterprises have taken the above series of measures. Although we responded to the US 337 investigation case and the anti-dumping case, we all won, but in this case, due to the short-term behavior of the local governments where these domestic enterprises are located, these enterprises all have local government investment, and the local government originally invested tens of millions, but now it can get back hundreds of millions, so it also strongly advocates. I don’t know if there is any unfair trade here. Bank of China, for its own sake, as a financial institution, now has a relatively high profit, so take it back quickly, or maybe the relevant parties have done some work. In this kind of "mercenary" and "short-term behavior", the high-priced acquisition with foreign companies "hit it off". In order to successfully acquire, foreign companies,For a period of time, they can promise to play your brand, but the most important thing is to make use of your sales channels. First, China has a large market. In addition, China’s export volume is already very large, accounting for 70%-80% of the international market. Slowly, at the beginning, I signed a contract with you. One was to pay a high price, and the other was to promise that your brand still existed. Finally, he became the big boss, and he had the final say, and your brand gradually disappeared. Finally, it was his brand that was completely played. This is a malicious merger. Under such circumstances, China’s battery industry leader, the enterprise that was cultivated in the past ten years of reform and opening up, was slowly "eaten" and withdrew from the market. Therefore, what we have to think about is how to maintain the industrial safety of these industries in our country. Now this phenomenon not only occurs in the battery industry, but also in the household appliances industry, hardware industry, daily chemical industry, plastic industry and so on in my light industry. For example, in the home appliance industry, through the efforts of these ten years, our output and sales, including world trade volume, air conditioners and microwave ovens account for 70% of the world trade volume, refrigerators and freezers account for 50% of the world trade volume, washing machines account for more than 40% of the world trade volume, and small household appliances account for 80% to 90% of the world trade volume. Therefore, the foreign enterprises in the world corresponding to us must be jealous of us, so they will take various measures to us, including buying him at a high price, which is strategic. For example, in recent years, Dabao in Beijing, as a welfare enterprise for the disabled,The state has given preferential policies, and now, after it is developed, Procter & Gamble will also buy it, and it is said that it seems that we have talked about it. Supor rice cookers in the hardware industry are to be acquired by French companies. I mean, from a battery industry, we can see that the whole light industry in China and hundreds of famous brands are threatened, and so is Wahaha, a beverage company in Hangzhou. Of course, there are also some strategic problems of its own. These problems are worthy of our deep thinking. Therefore, in our anti-monopoly law, I want to ask you how to withstand it. Because we know very well that when we want to buy American oil companies, CNOOC has already talked about it, and finally American parliamentary legislation blocked us. Our legislation should give full consideration to the protection of China’s industrial safety, such as the self-discipline of trade associations. Article 20 of Chapter 4 stipulates that if the concentration of business operators meets the reporting standards stipulated by the State Council, the business operators should report to the anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies in the State Council in advance, and if they fail to report, they may not implement concentration. As a matter of fact, our trade association knew all those things afterwards, because the State Council didn’t authorize us, so they didn’t have to report to us. We didn’t know until afterwards, but it was too late. As far as the State Council is concerned, the declaration standards can only be set in principle, and each industry and product can be set quantitatively, which the State Council can’t do, not to mention the State Council, and the National Development and Reform Commission can’t be so detailed. Therefore, for specific industries, the State Council should authorize trade associations. If not,It can’t do it at all.

????????Dai Songling (deputy to the National People’s Congress) said that the merger between enterprises should be clearly controlled in the draft. In recent years, China’s economy has developed rapidly. Under the market economy, enterprises with fixed assets of about 5 billion have a natural tendency to expand their scale and market share. Moreover, in some areas, large enterprises buy, merge and control small and medium-sized enterprises in these areas by virtue of their scale and advanced technology, resulting in competitors with certain capabilities gradually withdrawing from the market and forming a monopolistic market structure. Therefore, the merger between enterprises should be clearly controlled in the draft. If the purchase, merger and holding between enterprises form a monopoly in a certain market, or even the price of the products of the enterprise has completely influenced the market price, the state must intervene.

　　The proliferation of gun violence has become a cliche in the United States. According to the data of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were nearly 40,000 people who died at gunpoint in the United States in 2019, of which one-third died of murder and nearly two-thirds died of suicide. In addition, the proliferation of firearms will cause about 115,000 people to be disabled in the United States every year. In contrast, since the US military entered Afghanistan in 2001, the death toll of the US military there is 2,312.

　　According to the report of American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the annual economic loss caused by gun injuries in the United States is about $300 billion, and the GDP of the United States is nearly $21 trillion in 2020. That is to say, the annual economic loss caused by guns is equivalent to 1.3% to 1.5% of the GDP of the United States. Putting this proportion into the huge economic aggregate of the United States, the absolute value is still very amazing: it is equivalent to Americans destroying a Finnish economy every year because of shooting (Finland’s GDP will be 300 billion US dollars in 2020).

　　It can be said that the severity of gun violence in the United States is unique among developed countries. Therefore, the issue of gun control has become a jargon in the debate of the American Congress. However, despite the fierce quarrels among lawmakers, they often start this endless debate whenever there is a large-scale shooting incident. However, in the past 50 years, there has been no real substantive decision on gun control and solving the problem of gun proliferation.

　　So, what makes it so difficult for the United States to control guns?

　　The reason why Americans have the right to hold guns is a bit roundabout.

　　First of all, we must clarify a concept, that is, the argument that people are free to hold guns in the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, which is emphasized by many gun-holding organizations, looks more like an absurd historical "myth" today.

　　In 1791, the US Congress passed the Second Amendment, saying that "a well-disciplined militia is necessary for the security of a free country; The people’s right to hold and carry weapons shall not be violated. " The reason for enacting this amendment is that holding guns by citizens will help prevent the expansion of the power of the federal government and prevent the government from imposing tyranny on the people.

　　It is true that many armed militiamen joined the struggle against British "tyranny" when the North American colonies became independent, but these militiamen with no military organization and no logistical support could not resist the attack of the British regular army for a long time. Even many militiamen joined the war of independence with the mentality of firing a few shots and sneaking home to continue farming if they failed.

　　The American War of Independence can be won, thanks to the French navy’s unprecedented defeat of the British Royal Navy, which has always been invincible in the 18th century. As a result, the British main force entrenched in Yorktown was cut off, and the commander-in-chief cornwallis was forced to surrender to the French army and the Continental Army led by Washington. The powerful "armed militia" is the "founding myth" of the United States, and it is the regular navy and army that really overturns the British.

　　△ In the Chesapeake Bay naval battle, the French fleet successfully prevented the Royal Navy from rushing to help the British main force stationed in Yorktown, thus controlling the sea power in the theater, causing the British army to declare its surrender after running out of ammunition, thus ending the American War of Independence. (Source: US Navy)

　　Moreover, individuals with guns can never compete with the state machine, and the US federal government does not hesitate to use military power far beyond the firepower of the people’s guns to carry out armed repression. During the American Civil War, a large-scale anti-conscription riot broke out in new york, and the American government responded with artillery. Some even said that warships moored in new york also participated in the suppression of the rioters. Unlike the revolvers commonly used by rioters at that time, the heavy weapons of the army were not available to the people at all, and even if they were held, they could not afford to maintain them.

△ In 1863, there was a conscription riot in New York, and the army used artillery to suppress the participants in the riot. (Source: new york Times)

　　In the 21st century, with the rapid progress of military science and technology, the firepower gap between the army and the people holding guns is even greater. Not only that, since the Bush era, the US military has also transferred surplus military equipment to local police through the so-called "Project 1033", and the US special forces have trained police officers, which has made the American police a veritable paramilitary organization. Under such circumstances, the American people also know that there is no good end to engaging in large-scale armed riots. Therefore, when the new york police made a move, the crowd dispersed.

　　After this year’s farce of "Occupy Capitol Hill", no one has stood up with guns and opposed the US government’s nationwide night fall.

△ The equipment and training of American local police have been militarized, and ordinary gunmen are far from their opponents. (Source: Johns Hopkins University)

　　The biggest beneficiary of people holding guns is the southern slave owners.

　　In fact, I’m afraid that the reason why the Second Amendment to the US Constitution was passed that year was not that members of Congress really believed that people holding guns was conducive to resisting the government’s "tyranny".

　　At that time, it was not long after the Shays Uprising (1786-1787) against the Massachusetts authorities, and the argument that people could not be trusted was still popular among the political elites in the United States at that time. In fact, the biggest beneficiary of allowing people to hold guns is the slave owners in the south.

　　When the United States was founded, slave farming was the most obvious private industry that relied on guns. In order to prevent slaves from rioting and fleeing, unofficial "slave patrol" system appeared in southern States, which is also one of the origins of American police system. According to the logic of slave owners, these slave patrols are also "well-disciplined militia" mentioned in the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The existence of slavery also explains why the amendment emphasizes that "well-disciplined militia" is crucial to national security, because only whites could join the militia at that time. Emphasizing that "militia" owns guns, not individuals, can exclude blacks from the ranks of gun owners and realize the absolute superiority of whites over blacks in force. At that time, the slave uprising in the French colony of Haiti was in full swing, and black slaves slaughtered a large number of white slave owners, which seriously stimulated American slave owners.

　　It can be said that it is an inevitable interest proposition of these people to emphasize the gun support right of white militia.

　　The Paradox between Gun Control and Law

　　At this point, we can see that the Second Amendment to the American Constitution is out of touch with the development of the times, and the basis of legislation at that time seems to be contrary to the basic moral standards of mankind today. This amendment is also the most fundamental legal reason for the inability to control guns in the United States today.

　　However, as a basic law, the American Constitution can hardly be amended again. According to the current law, amending the Constitution requires at least two-thirds of the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively. However, in the Congress where politics and lobbying prevailed in Jin and Yuan Dynasties, lobbying organizations, represented by the National Rifle Association of the United States and reflecting the interests of various arms dealers, have long held key members firmly in their own hands. Not to mention amending the constitution, any attempt to tighten gun control at the state and federal levels will be strongly and effectively stopped by the Rifle Association.

△ The National Rifle Association (NRA) is one of the most important political lobbying groups in the United States. (Source: NRA official website)

　　Not only Congress, but also the judiciary has played a very disgraceful role in the problem of gun proliferation in the United States.

　　Compared with long-barreled firearms, pistols are more secretive, which is beneficial for gunmen to engage in large-scale shooting by surprise, and is also very suitable for suicide. Therefore, the city government of Washington, the capital of the United States, once attempted to completely ban the possession of pistols. However, in 2008, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the actions of the Washington municipal government were unconstitutional, and at the same time reinterpreted the Second Amendment, confirming that the right to own guns was not limited to militia, but included all individuals. Since the ruling of the Federal Supreme Court is final, it means that gun control efforts in many states have been wasted.

　　The game of gun control and gun prohibition

　　Of course, the justices of the Federal Supreme Court did not forget to show their "neutrality" in their judgments, claiming that guns and gun rights still need to be managed by someone. Nice words, but how to "manage" guns is a mess that puzzles American politicians.

　　Due to the federal nature of the United States, the responsibility for formulating specific gun management policies is shared by the federal government and local governments. The federal government is responsible for issuing gun sales licenses and conducting background checks on gun buyers to confirm that they have no criminal record before they can legally hold guns. Local governments are responsible for formulating specific provisions for carrying guns in public places. It seems that governments at all levels have a clear division of labor, but there are many loopholes in actual operation.

　　First of all, not everyone needs a federal license to sell guns. If they are selling guns in their own homes, online or at gun exhibitions, they do not need a federal license to sell guns for long-term profit. Because enterprises and individuals with sales licenses have the responsibility to inform the federal government of the identity of gun buyers so that they can conduct background checks, this means that when sellers without licenses sell guns, the federal government cannot investigate the identity of buyers. According to a study conducted by Harvard University in 2017, one-fifth of the gun transactions in the United States have not undergone background checks.

　　Second, since gun ownership has become a "natural human right", only a few states require residents to apply for a gun license. Therefore, most of the time, the government passively screens the legitimate owners when the gun trade takes place. Except for those States that need to have a license to buy guns, local governments can’t actively screen gun owners or train gun owners in the code of conduct.

　　Third, even if a comprehensive background check system is implemented nationwide, as many gun control groups now support, to plug the loopholes that guns can’t be investigated during gun exhibitions or online purchases, or to implement a nationwide gun purchase license system, it can’t solve a core problem, that is, because guns in the United States have been flooding for a long time, a large number of criminals illegally buy guns through the black market instead of through formal channels. This means that no matter how many gun control policies are formulated by the government, as long as the United States can’t implement a strict national ban on guns, people who want to own guns always have ways to deal with it. All gun control policies instead of banning guns are aimed at preventing gentlemen and not villains.

△ American people who participated in the national demonstration on gun violence day. (Source: Capitol Hill)

　　Why is there no solution to the rampant gun violence?

　　The problem of gun proliferation in the United States is a typical institutional case. The revision of the Constitution, the legislation of Congress, the interpretation of the law by the courts, the separation of powers between the central and local governments, lobbying and the intervention of interest organizations, almost all kinds of gloomy aspects in American politics are reflected in the gun issue. To solve the problem of gun violence in the United States, I’m afraid what we need is not to tinker with a certain law, but to thoroughly reform the system of representative federalism with three powers, which is full of ills. But this is completely impossible to achieve in the United States today, so we can only let it go.

　　Now, Americans are completely numb to large-scale gun incidents. Since the beginning of this year, there have been nearly 250 large-scale shooting incidents that have caused more than three casualties. Gun control, like other stubborn diseases that cannot be solved because of the American system, has become a tool used by politicians to attack each other. The more quarrelling, the less means to solve it properly, and the gun violence will continue. After all, members of parliament live in wealthy areas with good public security, and the shooting of people is still far away from them. (Contributed by Jing Zhao)

The closing battle report of TV series The Story of Xingfu came one after another. After Empresses in the Palace, who has been tossed and turned for 11 years, Zheng Xiaolong brought an excellent work with both reputation and popularity.

Few directors can expand the audience to all ages like Zheng Xiaolong, so that groups of different generations can find sympathetic emotions and characters in his works. Similarly, few directors can make their works last forever, constantly adding new audiences to the original basic disc, and their works are always new, always keeping the pulse and temperature of the same rhythm with the times.

Zheng Xiaolong, born in 1953, has been directing since the early 1990s. His works in different periods, such as Peking Man in new york, Golden Wedding, Empresses in the Palace, legend of miyue, Red Sorghum, Emergency Doctor, Meritorious Service, etc., have almost covered audiences after 60, 70, 80, 90 and 00, and he is a well-deserved national director. At the same time, he is also a literary and art worker who is very concerned about how individuals survive in the changing times. Under the focus of the camera, they are all concrete "people", and the "play meat" filled in the drama framework is also specific and subtle details. He always believes in a foothold. "Emotion and truth are common, and I mainly tell the story of’ people’."

01

The Story of Xingfu: Dead Water and Breaking.

The realistic TV series The Story of Xingfu, directed by Zheng Xiaolong and starring Zhao Liying and Liu Wei, has closed recently. As a long-lost rural theme work in the domestic drama market, the first broadcast of the drama set off a viewing craze. The prime-time TV live broadcast attracted the top two attention, and the online broadcast was less than an hour. The market share of the whole network drama reached the top, and the real-time broadcast market accounted for 11.46%. At the same time, because of the portrayal of realistic contradictions and the exposure of human weaknesses, it has repeatedly caused heated discussions on social platforms such as Weibo. In the whole broadcast process in The Story of Xingfu, it occupied the top spot in the lighthouse TV drama feature broadcast market for 22 consecutive days, and ranked third in the 2022 TV drama feature broadcast before closing. These steady and steady data all show the amazing national popularity of this work.

The Story of Xingfu was adapted from Chen Yuanbin’s novel The Legend of Autumn Chrysanthemum. At the beginning, Zheng Xiaolong took a fancy to this story. "It mainly tells the awakening of a woman’s self-awareness and legal awareness. Under the environment of emphasizing the rule of law, literary and artistic creation is of certain significance to the construction of the awareness of the rule of law. I think it is very good." Wanjiazhuang, as a famous star village with ten miles and eight townships, has reached a certain level in material accumulation. However, due to its inherent small-scale peasant ideology and clan consciousness, this village has become a "stagnant water" and gradually has the trend of "one word at a time". "So the theme of our story is to hope that people will pay more attention to the construction of spiritual civilization and legal civilization after the completion of material civilization construction. Because there is no progress in spiritual civilization and the rule of law, this’ rich’ will not grow. "

And the heroine’s happiness is the "breaker" of Wanjiazhuang’s stagnant water.

In the initial casting stage, Zheng Xiaolong decided to let Zhao Liying play He Happiness. "We worked together in the filming of Golden Wedding in 2006, and she played many rebellious third daughters in it. She was so stubborn. Moreover, she is born in the countryside and is no stranger to rural life and the state of farmers. "

Zheng Xiaolong believes that the character He Happiness comes with a "halo". Of course, "halo" is not an illogical protagonist halo, but "He Happiness has a basic personality, and she has a simple sense of justice, fairness and equality." As a rural woman with a low education level, she was so happy that her sister was married. She insisted on an apology and was pointed at by the villagers. However, Wanjiazhuang, whose clan consciousness is solidified, needs such a foreigner to break the deadlock. "Because she doesn’t understand the process of the village construction and the prestige of Wanshantang, the village party secretary, she just thinks that I can apologize if I am wrong, but you have to admit it if you are wrong. You have to apologize."

He Xingfu threw a bench over and smashed the head of Wan Chuanjia, the son of the village party secretary, which prevented the marriage and caused trouble. His in-laws were anxious to apologize to the village party secretary, and her husband, brother-in-law and sister-in-law were also wronged and anxious. On the other hand, Zheng Xiaolong used a series of long shots to show the attitude of He Happiness as a new wife. She changed her clothes, tied up her long hair, skillfully picked vegetables, and packed things for cooking. When her husband questioned that she was still in the mood to eat, her attitude was also obvious: the sky fell and she had to eat, and then she went to seek justice after eating.

"Maybe the audience will be more worried about saying that female stars or famous actresses can’t get down and dress up ugly, but in reality, it can’t be glamorous. You work in the countryside and your daughter-in-law is running a family. You have to be energetic, right?" Zheng Xiaolong admired Zhao Liying’s energy. "If she didn’t understand it, she couldn’t shoot it. She didn’t rely on skill, but brought her true nature in, so you will feel particularly comfortable when she performs."

Since the launch of The Story of Xingfu, many viewers’ comments and barrage have been related to "grieve" and "bring your own antihypertensive drugs when watching the drama". The initial marriage-making incidents, land disputes and compensation for land expropriation, including the protagonist’s experience from the countryside to the city, are all full of realistic entanglements. The material construction of Wanjiazhuang Star Village is indeed rich enough, but the popularization of rule of law awareness and spiritual civilization construction seems to be uncivilized. The main line of the story is how to build the rule of law on the basis of material construction. Happiness is the main thread of this torrent, and her personal progress and growth is also a metaphor for the follow-up of rural spiritual civilization and the rule of law. The anger of netizens, to a certain extent, is also an affirmation that the content of the series is close to real life. Zheng Xiaolong also recognized this point. "We must conform to this creative attitude of realism. Now telling rural stories is to conform to the changes and cognition in the countryside and have a life atmosphere."

At the end of the story, He Xingfu promoted the construction of ecological civilization in Wanjiazhuang, developed environmental protection tourism industry, controlled sewage treatment, broke the original clan pattern, popularized the concept of legal system, and became a new generation of rural revitalization leaders. Behind the destruction of this stagnant pool is not only Zheng Xiaolong’s thinking about the current rural spiritual civilization and legal system construction, but also his inherent sense of responsibility as a literary and art worker. "Creating this thing makes me feel that I can say something and express something that I think is meaningful." He wants to tell the story of a rural woman’s growth, and reflect the fate and struggle of thousands of ordinary people in Qian Qian. This concern and gaze on the little people has always been a humanistic feeling of Zheng Xiaolong’s social responsibility.

02

"Feminine consciousness" not only represents women.

The Story of Xingfu has been at the forefront from the beginning to the end, and the whole network urged him to get a happy divorce and start a career. In addition to the characters and plots in the play, there is also director Zheng Xiaolong who was brought to the hot search by real-time comments.

In fact, it’s not long since he was widely discussed by netizens and audiences last time-during the period when the epidemic was banned at the beginning of the year, Empresses in the Palace became a drama and background sound for many people. Since its launch 11 years ago, the ideological trend has changed, the concept has been updated, and the audience has iterated. However, the popularity and discussion of this drama have lasted for a long time. Under the "study" of the younger generation of netizens, an independent "Zhen Xue" has even been derived, which is specially used to analyze characters, plots and subtle scenes, including the production of expression packs and network hotspots.

However, in the eyes of Zheng Xiaolong, who is nearly 70 years old, these new things and fragmented interception analysis are all "distant" and he doesn’t understand them. In the 22nd year of the new century, he still maintains his own work rhythm and relatively "old-school" habits. Only when talking about creation will the chatterbox open, "What are the 100 questions? I can’t even answer it. TV plays and movies are montage art, and they are flowing pictures, not watched frame by frame. When I shoot, I will not think that this drama will have such a big impact in reality. "

From Empresses in the Palace’s "Red Sorghum" and "legend of miyue" to The Story of Xingfu, several representative works of Zheng Xiaolong are all based on the clue of women’s growth and awakening, and are completed by the whole construction of the characters, so as to criticize and convey his inner thoughts and voices. However, the growth of women, or the awakening of gender-limited consciousness, is not that he deliberately caters to the creative standards of the market. Instead of telling the story with a specific group, he chose a reference sample to tell the story of everyone in the society, age and living environment where the sample is located. "Emotion and reason are common, and I mainly tell the story of’ people’."

Empresses in the Palace stills

For example, Empresses in the Palace criticized the feudal and backward marriage system. Zheng Xiaolong said, "I discussed this matter repeatedly before filming, and I told the media that it was critical. But after it was broadcast, many people said that it was a matter of the workplace. I was so dizzy. I never thought that the workplace would be like this." He recalled that mentality more than ten years ago. "At that time, for a long time, it seemed that everyone thought the harem was beautiful and luxurious. Many girls wanted to cross into the harem and run to be concubines for the emperor." "The emperor is a big stallion, marriage in this case, how can you have a single-minded emotion? Impossible. "

The realistic theme does not mean that you must shoot modern dramas, which is also Zheng Xiaolong’s consistent thinking. "You can also shoot historical stories with a realistic attitude. The theme and your attitude are two different things." What Empresses in the Palace conveyed was his criticism of the feudal and backward marriage system, while legend of miyue is another kind of realism-historical materialism, which contains the awakening of women, the germination of the consciousness of family and country and the concept of equality. "Miyue is a concubine of Chu. She gradually developed a sense of home and country around the king of Qin, and she also had a critical awareness of the hierarchical bloodline theory and hereditary system, so she would take risks and return to Qin to pacify civil strife and lay the foundation for Qin Shihuang to unify China. Including the Qin Dynasty’s award for military merits, rather than hereditary, these are also the seeds of equality. "

"legend of miyue" stills

He doesn’t think it is necessary to convey specific ideas through specific themes, and there is no need to limit the gender or identity background of the protagonist. "In fact, people who engage in literary and artistic creation do image, and there is a saying that image is greater than thinking." Zheng Xiaolong is a person who came from the initial period of China TV series, and his attitude is still simple and plain. "After you have done your image well, many people will give it something to think about. For example, when Cao Xueqin wrote A Dream of Red Mansions, he didn’t think so much, he just truly reflected the society. Later, Comrade Mao Zedong said that A Dream of Red Mansions was a mirror of feudal society, and it became a mirror of feudal society, which was the understanding given by later generations. A lot of thinking things don’t mean that we have thought it through in the early stage of creation. We just do a good job in the image. As for the interpretation, how big the subsequent impact is, this is not something that can be thought of at the beginning. "

After being created, the female images in Zheng Xiaolong’s works began to have a lot of interpretations, some of which were even quite different from his original creative ideas, which he had never expected in his creation. However, whatever Zhen Xuan, Mi Yue or happiness, behind their awakening of female consciousness and independent consciousness is actually the awakening of human nature-an awakening of equality, struggle and the rule of law. This has nothing to do with gender, but belongs to everyone’s right consciousness. There’s a line in The Story of Xingfu, which Zheng Xiaolong especially picked out and spoke it again. "Distinguish right from wrong through law, clarify truth through law, and popularize social fairness and justice through law. I think it is very important, because we want to build a society ruled by law. This is also what I want to convey through this drama. "

As for the arguments, contradictions and conflicts intercepted by the fragments, and the remarks urging a happy divorce, they all belong to the endowed "thinking", which is the part that literary and artistic creators can’t control after the completion of their works. Zheng Xiaolong tried to digest the gap between himself and the young audience. "I think literary works still need a little nutrition, and there must be emotional things in them. If the general direction is right, you can."

03

The significance of realism

After decades of film and television drama, Zheng Xiaolong, which has become a benchmark in the industry, has maintained a stable output, but it is not a "high yield". For the production and polishing of the script, including the preparation before starting, he has to spend a lot of thought and effort to dig the details. Even at this age, the vitality of creation and strong desire for expression are still shining on him.

The Story of Xingfu finalized Zhao Liying, and it also experienced some twists and turns in the middle. Because the actor was pregnant and the script was revised, it was almost more than a year before and after. "After the script was revised, the actor also gave birth to the child and sat down for a month. This is settled."

In the era of fast food, Zheng Xiaolong’s process of polishing the script and preparing the details can be said to be very "burning money". "I have to collect ideas and make field trips. I am particularly concerned about this matter and go to see Anhui local Huizhou architecture. For example, when drilling a well, I have to ask if there was such a photo at that time. The arrangement of the wedding venue for the couple, were they like this at that time? Is the construction of rural houses like this? Moreover, I have to ask the original owner (many details), because a lot of the photos we took are real scenes, and the interior is also real scenes. I am afraid that the art will be wrong. "

At the beginning, in the interview during the broadcast of Golden Wedding, Zheng Xiaolong also mentioned the "obsession" of scene restoration. After the script was polished, it was the preparation of the group, from a food stamp to a bus, which was arranged exactly according to the set points of that era. "Realism" is the key point he has always stressed. Only when the literary image reaches a certain level can the audience’s thinking be attached. "As long as you make a good image, it will have an impact on reality. As long as you make it true and reasonable, it will have an impact on reality."

Stills of "Golden Wedding"

"Influence on reality" is the sense of social responsibility that Zheng Xiaolong’s generation of literary and art workers insisted on. When a work is filmed, it is not just for fun, but for the audience to laugh. It has to be meaningful and effective in reality. As for how long and how wide this role can be played, it is uncontrollable, but at the very least, it must have a little effect.

Even now, there are some records of old reports in the evaluation of Zheng Xiaolong by Zhihu and other platforms: "The broadcast of" Desire "triggered an unprecedented upsurge of national audiences, and actors such as Li Xuejian, Zhang Kaili and Huang Meiying also became popular throughout the country. At that time, in order to watch "Desire", people with TV sets were crowded into the station almost every day. Even the Ministry of Public Security said that thieves did not come out to commit crimes because they were waiting to watch "Desire". "

Zheng Xiaolong couldn’t help laughing when he mentioned these sensational influences. This is the pride of literary and art workers and the great affirmation of a director who has devoted his life to it.

Speaking of Empresses in the Palace’s overseas export and cultural communication, Zheng Xiaolong once again emphasized the importance of realism. "Truthfulness, telling a good story about China’s history, telling a good story about China now and telling a good story about the daily life of China people, I think this is all possible. In particular, telling the story of the daily life of ordinary people must be authentic and have universal typical significance. "

Of course, we also asked Zheng Xiaolong what he thought of the current shoddy and suspended film and television dramas. He replied very quickly, "I don’t watch it. I don’t think it looks good. I don’t watch it. I can’t watch it, and I’m not affected."

This national director, who is nearly 70 years old, just wants to tell his own story-a story about every specific "person".

Written by Gu Xiang

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How to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination

Many college students will face a choice after graduation, whether to get a job or continue their studies. For those students who are interested in further improving their academic level, postgraduate entrance examination has become their first choice. However, it is not an easy task to take the postgraduate entrance examination, which requires full preparation and planning. The following will introduce some suggestions on how to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination.

1. Understand the relevant information of postgraduate entrance examination.

First of all, students who want to take the postgraduate entrance examination need to take the initiative to understand the relevant information of the postgraduate entrance examination. This includes the conditions, process, subjects, time and scope of postgraduate entrance examination. Only by knowing this information clearly can we make targeted preparations. Students can check the information of postgraduate entrance examination through the internet, or consult seniors and sisters of related majors or go to postgraduate institutions for consultation.

2. Determine the major and target institution.

Secondly, students need to determine the majors and target institutions they want to take the postgraduate entrance examination. There are many majors that can be selected for postgraduate entrance examination, and they don’t have to be related to this major. For students who don’t like this major, they can choose to take an interdisciplinary examination, such as illegally studying for a master’s degree in law. Each major has a corresponding target institution, and students need to determine the major and target institution according to their actual situation and interests.

3. Make a reasonable study plan

Once the majors and target institutions for postgraduate entrance examination are determined, students need to make reasonable study plans. The review time for postgraduate entrance examination is usually about one year, and students need to arrange their daily study time according to their actual situation. A reasonable study plan can help students arrange their time reasonably and improve their study efficiency. When making a study plan, students need to consider their learning ability and time allocation, and arrange their daily study tasks reasonably.

4. Do more real questions and mock exams

When preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, students need to do more real questions and mock exams. By doing real questions and mock exams, you can understand the exam form and content of the postgraduate entrance examination, and you can test your own learning results. Students can obtain real questions and simulated test papers by purchasing postgraduate counseling books or attending postgraduate training classes.

5. Pay attention to the mastery of basic knowledge

In the process of preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, students need to pay attention to mastering the basic knowledge. The subjects of postgraduate entrance examination usually include specialized courses and public courses, and specialized courses are often the most important. Students need to focus on the study of specialized courses and master the basic knowledge. Only by mastering the basic knowledge can we better cope with the exam.

6. Attend more lectures and academic activities.

In order to improve their academic level, students can take part in more lectures and academic activities. This can increase your academic knowledge and understand the latest research trends. At the same time, attending lectures and academic activities can also communicate with other students, learn from each other and improve their academic ability.

7. Perseverance, perseverance

Finally, students need to persevere and persevere. Postgraduate entrance examination is a long-term and arduous task, which requires a lot of time and energy. Students should keep a positive attitude, keep working hard and believe that they will be able to achieve good results.

In a word, if you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination, you need to make full preparation and planning. Students need to know the relevant information of postgraduate entrance examination, determine the majors and target institutions, make reasonable study plans, do more real questions and mock exams, pay attention to mastering basic knowledge, participate in more lectures and academic activities, and persevere and persevere. Only in this way can we successfully pass the postgraduate entrance examination, enter the ideal colleges and realize our life goals.

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　　According to the website of the Central Meteorological Observatory on September 25th, Typhoon Olu, the 16th this year, was formed in the east of the Philippines on the afternoon of September 23rd, and rapidly strengthened from a strong tropical storm to a super typhoon from the evening of the 24th to the night. At 17: 00 on the 25th, its center (super typhoon level) was located on the northwest Pacific Ocean about 135km north-east of Manila, Philippines, and the maximum wind force near the center was 16 (55m/s).

　　It is estimated that Olu will move to the north-north direction at a speed of about 25 kilometers per hour. It will land on the eastern coast of Luzon Island in the Philippines this evening (48-55 meters/second, with a magnitude of 15-16, strong typhoon or super typhoon), and it will pass through Luzon Island at night, with a weakened intensity. It will enter the central and eastern South China Sea from the morning of 26th, then move to the west, and gradually approach the eastern coast of Vietnam. The Central Meteorological Observatory issued a typhoon blue warning on the morning of September 25th.

　　Gale forecast: Affected by cold air and Olu, there will be 6-8 gale in the western coast of Taiwan Province Island, Fujian coast, Guangdong coast, Hainan island coast, Taiwan Province Strait, bashi channel, most of the South China Sea, Beibu Gulf, Qiongzhou Strait and Sansha Islands from the night of 25th to 14: 00 on 28th, with gusts of 9-10, among which the winds in the central South China Sea, Xisha Islands and the waters near zhongsha islands.

　　Rainfall forecast: From 26th to 28th, there will be heavy rain in Hainan Island and Sansha Islands, and local heavy rain; The accumulated precipitation in the above areas can reach 80 ~ 120 mm, and the local area is more than 200 mm; The maximum hourly rainfall is 30 ~ 50 mm.

　　Meteorological disaster risk forecast: From 26th to 28th, flash floods and geological disasters occurred in eastern Hainan Island, and some small and medium-sized rivers had meteorological risks close to the warning water level.

　　Typhoon Olu has a fast moving speed and strong intensity. When it affects the South China Sea and South China coast, the strongest typhoon level or super typhoon level can be reached, and the wind is strong. Ships and personnel sailing in the central South China Sea, Xisha Islands and waters near zhongsha islands need to be evacuated in time, and ships near the South China coast need to return to Hong Kong in time to take shelter from the wind.

　　In addition, there has been continuous rainfall in Hainan Island since September 20, especially in the eastern part of Hainan Island. Due to the superposition of typhoon heavy rainfall, the risk of mountain torrents, geological disasters and floods in small and medium-sized rivers is high, so it is necessary to strengthen prevention, and low-lying farmland should be dredged in advance to prevent waterlogging disasters.

　　Screen shot

　　At 16: 00 local time on the 7th (Beijing time at 23: 00 on the 7th), a big explosion occurred in Bata No.1 military camp, the largest city in Equatorial Guinea, a central African country. Up to now, at least 20 people have been killed and more than 600 others have been injured. Equatorial Guinean President Obiang said that the explosion was caused by "improper disposal of explosives".

　　Arsenal explosion or caused by burning farmland

　　The Associated Press reported on the 8th that the Ministry of National Defense of Equatorial Guinea issued a statement later on the 7th, saying that a series of explosions in the military camp near the Mondong Nkuantoma community were caused by the fire igniting high-explosive explosives, and relevant investigations are still in progress. Obiang said in a statement written in Spanish that the fire may have been caused by local residents burning farmland near the military camp.

　　Images broadcast by Equatorial Guinea’s national television show that after the explosion, people scattered and fled, and huge smoke emerged above the explosion site. Many people shouted: "Although we don’t know what happened, everything was destroyed." The Associated Press quoted local media reports that local people were screaming and crying in the streets full of debris and smoke, and the iron roofs of many houses had been uncovered by the exploding air billow and scattered in the rubble.

　　Al Jazeera reported on the 7th that most houses in the area affected by the explosion were blown up to only one or two walls. Many people picked out the dead and wounded from the rubble, and some of the dead were wrapped in sheets and transported away. The local media also called on people to donate blood, saying that the hospital was "overcrowded".

　　On the 7th, CNN)7 pointed out that the Ministry of Health of Equatorial Guinea also called on volunteers to go to hospitals in Bata area for support on Twitter. "Health workers and fire brigades are providing treatment for the injured and transferring the seriously injured to the hospital."

　　A doctor named Florentino said in an interview with TVGE TV in Equatorial Guinea that the country is in a "crisis moment" and hospitals are overcrowded.

　　Macuto, a local radio station, said on Twitter that residents of Bata had been evacuated four kilometers away from Fiona Fang, the scene of the explosion, because the smoke generated by the explosion might be harmful to human health.

　　Equatorial Guinea Foreign Minister asks for assistance.

　　After the explosion, Simeón Oyono Esono Angue, the foreign minister of Equatorial Guinea, met with ambassadors from many countries and asked for assistance. "It is important to ask our brother countries to help us in this sad situation, because we are not only facing a medical emergency (COVID-19 epidemic), but also a tragedy in Bata."

　　Spanish Foreign Minister Gonzá lez wrote on Twitter that the development in Equatorial Guinea was "worrying" after the Bata explosion, and the Spanish Embassy in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, asked western nationals to stay at home. Brochenin Olivier, the French ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, expressed condolences to "the disaster that just happened in Bata".

　　According to Agence France-Presse, the son of President Obiang — — Teodoro Nguema Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, Vice President in charge of national defense and security affairs, accompanied by Israeli bodyguards, inspected the explosion site.

　　According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Equatorial Guinea is located in central and western Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean in the west, Cameroon in the north and Gabon in the east and south. The coastline is 482 kilometers long and covers an area of 28,051 square kilometers (including 26,017 square kilometers in mainland China and 2,034 square kilometers in islands).

　　Since 1845, Spain has established colonial rule in Equatorial Guinea. On October 12, 1968, Equatorial Guinea officially declared its independence and established the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. After independence, Equatorial Guinea’s economy was in long-term difficulties. After oil exploitation began in 1991, the economy turned around, with an average annual economic growth rate of 31.9% from 1997 to 2004. However, due to the drop in international crude oil prices in recent years, Equatorial Guinea’s economy has experienced continuous negative growth, foreign exchange reserves have been greatly reduced, and financial difficulties have arisen.

　　By 2018, the total population of Equatorial Guinea reached 1.3 million. The official language is Spanish, French is the second official language and Portuguese is the third official language. The national languages are mainly Arabic and Bubi. 82% of the residents believe in Catholicism and 15% believe in Islam.

　　BEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua)-The worst armed conflict in 13 years broke out in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on the 14th. Demonstrators demanding the dismissal of the judge of the port bombing were shot, which led to fierce clashes, killing 6 people and injuring 30 others. Lebanese Prime Minister Mikati called on everyone to remain calm, and UN Secretary-General Guterres called for an immediate end to the violence and continued investigation into the devastating explosion in August 2020.

　　6 dead and 30 injured

　　The worst conflict in 13 years!

　　On the 14th, a demonstration in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, turned into a serious conflict, causing dozens of deaths and injuries.

　　According to media reports, under the organization of the radical organization Hezbollah and its allies, thousands of people demonstrated and protested, demanding the dismissal of the chief judge in charge of investigating the Beirut port explosion. But after the gunmen opened fire on the protesters, a fierce armed conflict broke out.

　　The Lebanese Interior Minister said that six people were killed and 30 injured in the conflict. The Lebanese army says it has detained nine suspects who opened fire on protesters during the Beirut demonstration and is investigating.

　　Hezbollah and its allies said in a statement on the 14th that their protesters were shot by snipers deployed on the roof. In the following hours, gunshots were heard on the streets of Beirut, and ambulances honked their horns to rescue the wounded. A security official said that four shells landed near a private school, causing panic.

　　The weapons used in the exchange of fire include pistols, Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades, which seriously escalated the tension. This is the most serious armed conflict in Lebanon since 2008.

　　Related to the big bang in the harbor.

　　Multi-party urged to remain calm.

　　The core of this conflict is the explosion of Beirut port on August 4, 2020, which killed at least 215 people, injured thousands and partially destroyed nearby communities. The explosion was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, which further plunged Lebanon, which had been hit by political differences and unprecedented economic and financial collapse, into trouble.

　　So far, no one has been held accountable for this extraordinarily serious chemical explosion. Bertard, the judge in charge of investigating the port bombing, was strongly opposed by Hezbollah and its allies, who accused him of political bias.

　　In a statement, Mikati, the newly appointed Lebanese Prime Minister, called for calm and urged people "not to be involved in civil strife".

　　The State Council spokesman Price told reporters: "We join the Lebanese authorities in calling on everyone to calm down and let tensions cool down."

　　In response to the violence in Lebanon, UN Secretary-General Guterres called for an immediate end to the violence and continued investigations into the devastating explosion in August 2020.

　　Joanna Voronyi, the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, also issued a statement condemning the violence on 14th. She stressed the need for restraint, maintaining calm and stability, and ensuring the protection of civilians.

Pray for the renewal of everything.

beginning of a new year

Guoan neng frontline staff

Stick to your post and pay silently.

A number of key projects have been connected to the grid, connected and poured.

They bid farewell to the old and welcome the new in a unique way for engineers.

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Zhala Hydropower Station successfully realized diversion and closure.

　　Recently, the diversion tunnel project of Zhala Hydropower Station in Yuquan River, Xizang, China’s Datang, which was built by Chengdu Branch of the Third National Security Bureau, ushered in an important node-the diversion tunnel project officially overflowed, laying a solid foundation for the interception task of Zhala Hydropower Station.

　　Zhala Hydropower Station is located in Zhalang Village, Bitu Township, Zuogong County, Changdu City, Xizang Autonomous Region, with a total installed capacity of 1.015 million kilowatts. The construction of this project will play an important leading and demonstrating role in realizing the complete localization of intellectual property rights in the whole industrial chain of impulse turbines and the independent control of key core technologies of hydropower equipment.(Contributed by: Zhang Yonghu Wang Hongjiang)

The whole county roof distributed photovoltaic project in Guiping realizes full capacity grid-connected power generation.

　　On December 30, 2023, the distributed photovoltaic (Phase I) power generation project in Guiping County, Guangxi Province, which was built by Nanning Branch of the First National Security Bureau, realized full-capacity grid-connected power generation. The completion of this important node lays a good foundation for the next step of power generation, and is of great significance to promoting the development of green energy, improving ecology and promoting rural revitalization in Guigang City.

　　The distributed photovoltaic project in the whole county of Guiping is mainly based on 27 local campuses in Guiping City, with a total construction scale of 4.65 MW, a total investment of about 17.3 million yuan, and an average annual power generation of about 4.81 million kWh. It is connected to the grid-connected rooftop distributed photovoltaic project with a voltage level of 380 volts. The project adopts the mode of "spontaneous self-use and surplus electricity connected to the grid" to generate electricity, which can save about 173 tons of standard coal every year and reduce the emission of 480 tons of carbon dioxide, effectively realizing the green, low-carbon, energy-saving and renewable utilization of energy.(Contributed by: Jiang Jianming)

The first batch of power generation units of Yuxi Yimendini photovoltaic project were successfully connected to the grid.

　　On December 31, 2023, the first batch of power generation units of Yunnan Yuxi Yimendini photovoltaic power generation project, which was built by Yunnan Company of the First National Security Bureau, were successfully connected to the grid, injecting new vitality into the local green energy field.

　　The project is located in Tongchang Township, Yimen County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, with a total area of 696.45 mu and an installed capacity of 25 MW. The construction contents of the project include photovoltaic field, switching station, collecting line and sending line, etc.(Contributed by: Li Wei)

The ventilation and safety tunnel of Ningguo Pumped Storage Power Station was excavated to the powerhouse in advance.

　　On December 30, 2023, the ventilation and safety tunnel of Anhui Ningguo Pumped Storage Power Station, which was built by Nanchang Branch of the Second National Security Bureau, was successfully excavated to the factory building, and the node goal was completed five months ahead of schedule.

　　The ventilation and safety tunnel has a total length of 885 meters, and the excavation section is 7.2 meters *7 meters. The full-face blasting method is adopted for excavation.Ventilation and safety tunnel is the key work of the whole power station construction, which determines the construction period of the power station and lays a solid foundation for the underground powerhouse construction of the power station to be delivered to the working face in advance.(Contributed by Zhou Zhaoxiang)

The pilot tunnel on the first floor of the main (auxiliary) powerhouse of Songyang Pumped Storage Power Station was successfully connected ahead of schedule.

　　On December 30, 2023, the pilot tunnel on the first floor of the main (auxiliary) powerhouse of Zhejiang Songyang Pumped Storage Power Station project, which was built by Changzhou Branch of the Second National Security Bureau, was successfully completed ahead of schedule, which marked the important construction progress of the project and created favorable construction conditions for the expansion and excavation of the upstream and downstream side walls of the main (auxiliary) powerhouse.

　　The underground powerhouse is composed of a main engine section, an auxiliary engine section and an installation room, which are arranged in a "I" shape, and the installation field and the auxiliary engine section are arranged at the left and right ends of the main engine section respectively. The total excavation size is 185.2m * 25m * 56.8m (length * width * height), and the elevation is 313.5-370.3m. The stonework cave is excavated in 7 layers, with the maximum excavation height of 10.6m..(Contributed by Li Jiaan)

The foundation of the first turbine of Huludao Wind Power Project was successfully poured.

　　On December 30, 2023, the foundation of No.45 wind turbine in Bid A of Lianshan 250 MW wind power project in Huludao, Datang, Liaoning Province, which was built by Xiamen Branch of the Second National Security Bureau, successfully completed concrete pouring, which sounded the clarion call for comprehensive engineering construction.

　　The project is located in Lianshan District, Huludao City, Liaoning Province. The total installed capacity of the project is 110 MW, and 22 5.0 MW wind turbines are installed. The tower is designed as a steel tower with a hub height of 120 meters and an impeller diameter of 193 meters. After the completion of the project, it will provide a cleaner and more reliable power supply for Huludao City and its surrounding areas, effectively promote energy conservation and emission reduction, protect the ecological environment to adapt to sustainable development, promote the high-quality development of regional economy, and achieve a double harvest of environmental and economic benefits.(Liu Yisheng)

　　Editor in Charge: Gao Huijun

　　Proofreading: Zhang Dongjun

Director Guan Hu directed the scene.

1905 movie network news Director Guan Hu’s latest film released a preview of "Big Production" today, revealing how this huge war system that took several years was tempered. It took 18 months to design and build a 200-acre real scene to reproduce the original appearance of Suzhou Creek in 1937, to restore the real hot battlefield with 300 flares and 50,000 explosion points over the sum of ten war dramas, and then to use IMAX cameras to create an unprecedented sense of reality … … A series of staggering figures in the preview all prove that the film has comprehensively improved the standard of China war genre films in terms of production scale and industrial level. For the creative team, such intensive efforts to restore the real battlefield are not only out of the guarantee of film quality, but also out of the sense of mission to truly restore history and reproduce national heroic feats.

　

It took a year and a half to build 68 buildings on 200 acres of land. Guan Hu is not only a director but also a "project supervisor"

2400 table lamps, 50 kilometers of wires, real-life restoration

The prototype of the film The Eight Hundred story is the four-line warehouse defense battle that took place in Shanghai in 1937, which was the last battle of the Battle of Songhu. At that time, China and Japan fought fiercely for nearly three months, and Shanghai was about to fall. Xie Jinyuan was ordered to lead more than 420 soldiers of the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division stationed in the four-row warehouse on the north bank of Suzhou Creek. The south bank of Suzhou River is the public relations concession. For the people at home and abroad, this four-day and four-night battle is tantamount to a "live broadcast".

The public concession across the bank is singing and dancing.

In order to truly restore this period of history, the crew spent a year and a half designing and building a real scene with 68 buildings covering an area of 200 mu in the shooting base of Brothers Film World (Suzhou), digging deep into the 200-meter-long Suzhou River, and restoring a "hell" and a "paradise" with colorful sounds on both sides of the river. Behind a string of numbers is the sense of reality that the creators are trying to create. Guan Hu once said, "If you want the audience to believe in this environment, you must first believe it yourself." Everything they do is to make the actors who are in it believe in the world in front of them and the stories that are happening, and infect the audience with true feelings. In their view, this film needs this kind of "simplicity". Guan Hu, a self-proclaimed "project supervisor", summed up the filming process, saying, "It’s not like filming, but maybe this is the real filming". It is particularly worth mentioning that, as one of the shooting locations of the film The Eight Hundred, these restored historical scenes will also be preserved as scenic spots, which are expected to be open to fans and tourists in the future.

　

50,000 bullets on the ground exceed the sum of 10 war dramas, and the whole film IMAX shooting reproduces the bloodiness of Chinese children.

The Japanese invaders raided the warehouse at night.

As a war giant, The Eight Hundred not only restored the real battlefield, but also did not relax the details of the battle. In order to be closer to the soldiers in 1937 in form, more than 400 actors in the group conducted military training for seven months before shooting, and everyone completed the transformation from "actor" to "soldier". The whole movie used 300 flares to reproduce the lighting effect of the battlefield in that year. More than 300 kilograms of cigarette oil and nearly 5 tons of old newspapers were burned, and 50,000 bullet points on the ground equivalent to the sum of ten major war dramas were set up, creating a real battlefield filled with smoke and gunfire.

In order to present the best visual effect, ensure the realism of the picture and highlight the aesthetic value, photography director Cao Yu set up more than 2,000 desk lamps on the set to match different shots. The particularity of this battle also determines that the lens often needs to look from one shore to the other 100 meters away. The extremely wide dynamic range of ALEXA IMAX 65mm camera and the imaging effect close to the human eye perfectly adapt to this point. The Eight Hundred has also become the third commercial film in the world and the first commercial film in Asia shot with IMAX camera after "Reunion 3" and "Reunion 4".

Brave men lined up for the war

The Eight Hundred is not only a feat of China filmmakers, but also a retrospective of history and a tribute to the heroic spirit. Therefore, the project was restarted for three times, spanning more than five years, but the founders never gave up, because they believed that eight hundred heroes’s blood and Chinese’s unyielding national integrity should be remembered by modern people. Recently, the spirit and courage of the brave men have also attracted international attention. The Eight Hundred has not only become one of the hot films in the media of Cannes Film Festival, but also appeared on the cover of a magazine, and its overseas pre-sale is also very popular. At present, it has signed contracts with nearly 20 countries and regions such as the United States, Canada and Australia, and most countries will release it simultaneously with China.

　

The film The Eight Hundred will be shown nationwide on July 5th.

　　　　　　 CCTV News:Recently, a representative member of the local two sessions suggested that "the diversion of general posts after the senior high school entrance examination should be cancelled", which aroused concern. At the press conference held by the Ministry of Education today (February 23), the relevant person in charge responded that "the separation of general education and vocational education" is necessary, and the diversified development of high school education is the development goal of high school education in China during the 14 th Five-Year Plan period. Secondary vocational education is an important part of high school education and shoulders the heavy responsibility of promoting the diversified development of high school education.

　　　　　　 Chen Ziji, Director of Vocational Education and Adult Education Department of Ministry of Education:The coordinated development of secondary vocational education and ordinary high school education can not only meet the learning needs of students with different endowments, but also provide a space and channel for diversified growth. At the same time, the development of secondary vocational education has made positive contributions to promoting employment expansion, promoting regional economic development and improving people’s livelihood. However, with the economic and social development and the improvement of people’s living standards, people’s demand for high-quality, universal high school education is constantly increasing. The Ministry of Education will actively promote all localities to rationally plan the enrollment scale of secondary vocational schools and ordinary high schools according to the degree of regional economic and social development and the needs of local industrial development. On the other hand, the most fundamental thing is to run secondary vocational education well, improve its own quality, and work hard on on-the-job general education.

　　　　　　 In fact, the social concern about the "separation of general education and vocational education" is mainly that students have no future once they enter vocational schools, and the society has always labeled vocational education as "inferior education" and "eliminated education". At today’s press conference of the Ministry of Education, Chen Ziji, director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education, said that the two major tasks this year will focus on "improving quality" and "enhancing image".

　　　　　　 Chen Ziji, Director of Vocational Education and Adult Education Department of Ministry of Education:In the next step, we will take concrete measures to improve the quality of modern vocational education from the aspects of type characteristics, integration of production and education, school-enterprise cooperation, teaching reform and brand building, so as to effectively improve the quality of vocational education. On the basis of improving quality, we should change the stereotype of vocational education in society, enhance its attractiveness, let parents choose vocational education, let employers rely on vocational education, and gradually form a social atmosphere of "choosing vocational education when going to school, upgrading skills and looking for vocational education", establish a good reputation of vocational education, and make vocational education have a head start, hope and expectation.

Chen Ziji, director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education, also said that this year, the conditions for running secondary vocational education will be improved and the channels for further studies will be unblocked. At the same time, the orientation of secondary vocational education will be adjusted from "employment-oriented" to "paying equal attention to employment and further studies".

Chen Ziji, Director of Vocational Education and Adult Education Department of Ministry of Education:Secondary vocational education is the starting point, not the end point, of vocational education, which promotes the diversified development of secondary vocational schools, changes from "employment-oriented" to "paying equal attention to employment and further education", pays special attention to further education in line with the characteristics of vocational education, strengthens cultural basic education on the basis of ensuring the quality of students’ technical skills training, expands the scale of through training, opens up the growth space of secondary vocational students, and enables secondary vocational students to have the ability to find jobs, have advantages in further education and have channels for development.

In addition, the layout will be optimized, and the "empty, small, scattered and weak" schools will be integrated through measures such as cancellation, merger, transformation, trusteeship, land replacement and group running, and the layout structure of secondary vocational education will be optimized. We will also work with relevant departments to implement the "Project to Meet the Standards for Running Secondary Vocational Schools", comprehensively check the basic conditions for running secondary vocational schools, and achieve the basic standards for school teaching conditions in 2023.

At the same time, the implementation of the "quality secondary vocational schools and professional construction plan", focus on building a number of high-quality secondary vocational schools and brand majors with demonstration and leading role, with 3-mdash; In five years, about 1,000 state-level high-quality secondary vocational schools will be built, which will lead the overall management of secondary vocational education to be standardized and qualified, and guide parents to make rational choices.