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How did China’s "rice circle culture" come into being?

This article comes from WeChat WeChat official account: Huayi Brothers Research Institute (ID: HB Research), original title: "On China’s "Rice Circle Culture" (I)》, the first picture comes from: IC photo

Recently, whether fans have aroused conflicts with their peers by reporting the fan fiction database website-AO3, or fans of the draft variety "Creation Camp 2020" and fans of the same type "Youth has You 2" have begun to "break their heads".(battle)The "rice circle" caused quite a stir on the Internet, and many idols were forced to "go out of the circle". However, why do fans always have fierce contradictions? Can fan culture be compatible with popular culture? Where did the original "rice circle" culture come from?

In order to answer a series of questions about "rice circle culture", Huayi Brothers Research Institute deeply explored the fan culture. This paper will focus on the origin, development process and characteristics of fan culture, and deeply analyze the circle and structure of entertainment rice circle culture in the mainland.

Origin: Influenced by the cultural circles of East Asia and Europe and America, China’s "fan culture" has taken shape.

The worship and pursuit of idols are rooted in human nature, but the formation of fan culture is not only based on feelings, but also influenced by social, economic and cultural aspects. Internationally, the prevalence of consumerism in the 1980s provided a fertile ground for the outbreak of the fan community, which also attracted academic attention to this cultural phenomenon. From text deconstruction and reconstruction, to field and social class, to emotional pursuit and psychoanalysis, the relationship between fan culture and many key fields has gradually become clear.Numerous studies of fan culture in the context of mass culture, media communication and economic power show the integration of fan culture and the complexity of its internal mechanism.

Due to the different basic economic environment and media preference, foreign fan studies can not fully explain the current situation of domestic fan culture. However, it is undeniable that China’s fan culture was really influenced by the East Asian cultural circle in its early days. Even today, China’s fan culture still contains a series of fan behaviors such as Japanese "house" culture and Korean idol culture, such as "calling", "playing the list" and "supporting". With the acceleration of internationalization, the frequency of the word "European and American circle" in fan culture has gradually increased, and the new fan culture has impacted and changed the original domestic fan culture. AO3(Archive of Our Own)And other more open fan creation websites have therefore entered the field of vision of domestic fans and become a gathering place for some domestic fans.

▲ Source: Yien & Huace Film and Television "I am willing to be the shadow, protect you as the king-fan economy research report"

Change: from "groupies" to the establishment of "rice circle"

China’s modern fan culture took shape in the middle and late 20th century. Teresa Teng, Little Tiger, Chow Yun Fat and other Hong Kong and Taiwan stars had a large number of fans, and the appearance of Cui Jian and other rock stars also met the spiritual needs of young people at that time. However, during this period, fans’ idolatry was confined to the mechanism of one-way communication, and fans’ behavior was mainly to receive information. The term "groupie" also came into people’s field of vision.

In 2005, Super Girl’s program exploded, driving fans to become a unique social group and cultural phenomenon into the mainstream. Groups such as "corn", "bean jelly" and "box lunch" have entered people’s field of vision with an unprecedented speed and high-profile posture, breaking the traditional impression of groupies in the past. They not only went to the show site to hold up light signs and shout uniform slogans to cheer for the players they supported, but also expressed their attitudes through SMS voting and even called for more people to vote through a large number of promotional materials. Not only did it help your favorite players to "get through the customs" round after round, but it also made the talent show a carnival of "participation by the whole people".

▲ "Super Girl" stills Source: Network

Since then,With the development of new media environment, fan culture has also undergone a new transformation: the original one-way communication between fans and idols has changed into two-way communication, and virtual communities have improved the scale and organization of fan groups.Weibo has become a gathering place of fan culture because it provides a platform for direct communication between fans and idols, which satisfies the imagination that fans can contact idol life and have direct dialogue with idols. Even to some extent, this kind of imagination is built to satisfy the psychology of fans.Pseudo interactive relationship, and thus produced some discordant sounds. On the other hand, the network has further increased the scale of the fan base, becoming a so-called "rice circle" and creating its own discourse system and power system. Fans can quickly locate their peers with the same hobbies through the internet, and fan activities are more organized through the internet. At the same time, the emergence of professional websites and apps in idolize has further promoted the commercialization of fan culture and spawned more diverse fan activities.

Driven by the trend of consumer culture, the society has changed from production-oriented to consumption-oriented, and the fan economy has flourished with the popularization of fan culture.Fans are not only the main body of culture, but also the main body of economy, playing a huge role in the consumer society.Therefore, the emergence of "professional fans" is logical. Professional fans either earn money through fan activities, or cooperate with brokerage companies and cultural companies to operate fans to get paid. While the commercial value of fans is improving, the guidance of relatively negative economic demand to excessive behavior is also emerging at this time.

From the changes of fan culture, it is not difficult to find that the balance of power between fans and idols is unconsciously tilted. With the advent of the era of "star-making" fans, "flow" has become the lifeblood of grasping the idol cause, and the power of fans has been further enhanced, even reversing beyond the idol itself.The industrialization of idols has caused a sharp increase in the number of idols, an increase in the mobility of fans, a change in the buyer’s market position, and fans have more right to speak and decide.However, the strong capital in the layout of big entertainment has come to an end, and a new party has been added to the idol-fan system, and the game is more complicated and intense. The "rice circle" of social network platform has expanded the application field of fan culture, and more and more people have noticed the strong emotional connection and high user viscosity of fan culture. As a unique community structure, fan culture is highly involved in today’s social structure and activities.

Ecological characteristics of Chinese vermicelli

Refined fan operation: strict organization

Under the great influence of the fan economy, the fan ecology of fans is no longer an initial "atomic" individual activity, but an organized and distributed collective activity. Fan operation is no longer an industry secret, as long as you mix for a while, "solid powder"(Maintain existing fans by communicating with them more), "powder abuse"(Stimulate fans’ desire for protection by shaping the image of idols being bullied, so as to strengthen emotional ties), "purification"(Cut off the relationship between the two idols who used to be "cp" in film and television works, and convert the double fans into single fans, that is, "only fans")"explosion-proof"(prevent the same type of idol from exploding)Waiting for the routine, even if it is "loose powder"(Fans who have not participated in any support meetings and fan groups)And I know it.

The refinement and specialization of fan operation is inevitable. First, spontaneous fan behavior is prone to irregular behavior because of emotional and irregular behavior, which has a negative impact on idols, so it needs correct guidance; Second, the subjects associated with the idol industry are becoming more and more diverse, and the cooperation between brokerage companies, content production companies, brands and video platforms requires the guidance of professional teams to maximize benefits; Third, the internal attributes of fans are different, and their preferences and activities are different. Professional teams can allocate resources more reasonably to meet the psychological needs of all parties.

In terms of organizational structure, the management of all fans consists of three parts, namely, the internal class management of fan organizations, the fan management with the brokerage company as the core and the commercial value of idols as the guide, and the professional fan companies that focus on the operation of fans as a whole rather than a specific idol fan group, such as Super Star Rice Ball.

Every fan activity, the brokerage company guides the "big powder"(Opinion leaders among fans), "job powder" and the management of the support club, disclose the information and the purpose of the support activities in advance, and these fans will pass the information to the fan group. The activities within the fan group are carried out in the form of "multi-point gathering", with "big fans", individual stations and support clubs in different regions as the multi-point core, and ordinary fans are gathered for large-scale support. In this process, professional fan companies not only play an auxiliary role, but also may be the purpose of some kind of fan activities, such as learning about idol dynamics through fan apps or playing on fan apps.

▲ Source: Yi En & Landu, "New Insights of Rice Circles and Advanced Raiders of Fan Operation"

"Heterotopia" in Rice Circles: Community and Exclusion

heterotopias co., ltd creativity | plan | dissemination(heterotopias)It’s Foucault.(Michel Foucault)A kind of observation of society proposed is different from a fictional utopia. Heterotopia is connected with the real place, but it is different from the ordinary cultural space.The virtual space "rice circle" formed by fan culture conforms to the characteristics of "different countries";The tendency of the population, its role in society, its juxtaposition in space, its combination with the fragments of time, and its opening and closing system.

"Fanhuan" is a collection of groups, which has crossed the barriers of time and space, has rules and thinking different from the actual rules, and has a certain threshold to enter Fanhuan.

Promoting fans from individuals to relatively stable communities is a variety of fan activities in the multimedia channel environment. Collective labor, such as hitting the list and rushing sales, has stimulated the emotional connection of the group, such as successfully helping their idols get the first place in the list, which has increased the individual’s recognition of the community. In order to prevent the loss of fans, fan activities are usually regular or frequent. In this case, the community can maintain relative stability. At the same time, more and more communication channels, including Weibo fan groups, WeChat groups and QQ groups, provide the foundation for closer and personal contact, and the doping of personal emotional contact increases the stickiness of the community.

As an independent group, "rice circle" has its own independent discourse system and rules, and its representation is often called "rice circle language" and "rice circle thinking".Abbreviations often seen in Weibo are typical of rice circle language: behind the abbreviations of people’s names is the logic of rice circle to prevent fans from searching the square for comments and attacks; y1s1(there is a saying)、dw(poison only means extreme powder only)、bp(Bai Piao, a fan who doesn’t spend money on idols)These words, which can be understood by internal members and confused by non-rice circle people, not only establish a barrier between rice circle and the outside, but also consolidate the sense of group identity within the community.

However, the "alien state" of rice circles is in contact with the mainstream culture, and it is not completely independent, so there is also a conflict between the unique thinking and universal values of rice circles.In the context of rice circles, "powder is black" and "comparison is stepping on" is somewhat mismatched under the dualistic popular culture that does not agree with "black is white". However, the rice circle culture really affects the language form of Chinese network and the thinking logic behind it, so it is often criticized.

Fans are extremely exclusive, which may be due to the fierce competition in the idol industry.At present, among the top idols, basically every one has had a fierce fan struggle with several others. The reasons are nothing more than fighting for the first place, for endorsement resources, and for traffic. For example, because of similar fame paths.(Acted in a beautiful drama, and became popular because of his outstanding acting skills)And similar images, fans of Sean Xiao and Zhu Yilong once attacked each other. Even because of the different attributes of fans, "only powder"(fans who only like one idol)"Tuanfen"(Like a fan of an idol group), "cp powder"(fans who like a real couple or an imaginary couple)There are also conflicts between them. Idol groups debuting in the recent draft, such as Rocket Girl and NINE PERCENT, often have conflicts with individual fans because of different interests.

▲NINE PERCENT 

The exclusiveness of fan culture is not only reflected in external disputes, but also caused by the strict institutional class at home.Although only gathered for the same hobby.Interest groupHowever, there is a hierarchical difference in the right to speak among fans. In fan organizations, it is common for the management to hold a group. When the upper level agrees, fans with different views will be kicked out of the support club or support group to ensure the "harmony" of the organization. "big powder"(opinion leaders among fans, often UGC creators, paragraph players or professional fans)Our views affect the wind direction of the whole fan community. Once there is an abnormal sound, it is either ignored because the sound volume is too small or destroyed because of the attack of "big fans". Although rice circles have begun to realize the negative impact of "big powder", it is unrealistic to put an end to the impact of "big powder" because of its strong functionality in the current fan community structure.

Conclusion:

With the development of Internet, the development of entertainment industry and the changes in the way stars debut, China’s fan organizations have evolved from the "groupie" period to the "rice circle" era, and the rigor and organization of this organization have also been significantly enhanced, and its influence has gradually expanded, becoming a large group organization that cannot be ignored in today’s society.

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Eason Chan skewers and covers the four heavenly kings (Figure)


Sing and dance hard.



The stage is like a dream.


  Last night, Eason Chan’s solo concert was held in the Workers’ Stadium. Eason Chan’s sometimes naughty, sometimes funny, and sometimes affectionate performances "overturned" the entire Workers’ Stadium. He specially prepared for the concert, imitating the links of the four kings, President Tan and his brother to push the whole performance to a climax.


  Wearing a white wedding dress


  At 7: 40 last night, Eason Chan, wearing a white wedding dress, appeared on the stage, opening with a song "The King of K Songs". Last night, the stage was designed as a stage. After Eason Chan sang "The King of K Songs", he walked down the stage and sang songs such as "Under the Skirt" and "Your Backpack".


  Eason Chan appeared again after changing into a black dress, and the performance entered a period of intense singing and dancing. After dancing and singing Xie Xie Nong, Mario Party and other songs, Eason Chan said hello to Beijing fans with a "thank you". Eason Chan, who is rich in humorous cells, said: "I want to communicate a little. I can’t hear everyone’s reaction when I wear headphones. If I didn’t wake you up, you really didn’t get up." The fans at the scene recognized his meaning and responded to him with screams.


  The whole audience sang "Ten Years"


  After singing "The Road … Is Always There", "Allegro Opus 3.3 am" and "Out of the Mouth", a huge mirror ball fell on the stage. The mirror ball rotated with the music of "Want to Cry", and the light reflected by the mirror ball spread all over the workers’ body. Eason Chan built the workers’ body into a warm KTV box, just like "karaoke" with friends, and sang "We are All Lonely" with deep affection. Eason Chan, with a black unicorn doll on his back, stood on the high platform and sang "Exaggeration", "Mount Fuji" and "Love Transfer". Later, Eason Chan sang songs such as Seven Hundred Years Later, ShallWeTalk and Ten Years. Not surprisingly, "Ten Years" became the chorus of the audience, which was also the first chorus of the audience.


  Imitate the four heavenly kings


  For this concert, Eason Chan specially designed a link to imitate six "Heavenly Kings" singers, such as Andy Lau’s "Stealing Love Alone", Aaron Kwok’s "Wild City", Jacky Cheung’s "It’s not too cold this winter", Dawn’s "My Dear", Leslie Cheung’s "Unintentional Sleep" and Alan Tam’s "Love Trap". Eason Chan is not only a cover, but also a hot dance, which makes the atmosphere crazy. After a period of singing and dancing, Eason Chan gasped and imitated Ceng Zhiwei’s voice and said, "I finally know why Ceng Zhiwei speaks like this, because he speaks quickly and needs a lot of gas."


  Go back to singing hard.


  After singing "Don’t Talk" and "Elimination", Eason Chan left the stage. Fans asked to return, and shouts came one after another. Eason Chan took the stage again and sang "Long time no see" with the audience. Eason Chan didn’t just sing one or two songs, but sang Cantonese songs such as "What else can I give you" and "Bike" in one breath, just like the normal part of the concert. "There is a song that must be sung, which inspires me greatly and makes us cherish the place where we live. This song is also a tribute to a person." So Eason Chan sang Michael Jackson’s famous song "Save the World" with deep affection, and the audience stood up, and the light sticks swung rhythmically, and the scene was touching. Our reporter Wu Ping photo

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  • Eason Chan tricked fans into parrying the bombing problem (Figure) 2009-07-15.

  • Daniel Wu gave up being a handsome vase and became the four kings 2009-07-07.

  • Eason Chan held a concert to challenge the "Four Kings" 2009-06-09

Editor: Shi Guanghui

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Constructing a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development —— Studying and implementing the important speech of the Supreme Leader General Secretary at the provincial and ministeria

  Starting a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and marching towards the goal of the second century marks that China has entered a new stage of development. How to find the layout of articles on the new historical position not only profoundly affects the development direction, process and quality, but also relates to whether it can overcome difficulties and be invincible in the unprecedented changes in the accelerated evolution of the world.

  Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern with the domestic macro-cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual-cycle promoting each other "needs to be accurately grasped and actively promoted from a global perspective. Only by basing ourselves on ourselves and smoothing the domestic circulation can we let the international situation change and always survive and develop with vigor. " General Secretary of the Supreme Leader, taking advantage of the situation and being clear about change, gave a firm answer and made clear the path choice of China’s economic modernization.

  Entering the new stage of development, China’s domestic and external environment is undergoing profound changes, and it is urgent to make strategic choices and reposition the medium and long-term economic structure with the times. Looking around the country, the productivity level has been rapidly improved, and the demand structure has undergone major changes. At the same time, the internal circulation of the production system is not smooth, the phenomenon of disconnection between supply and demand is prominent, the problem of "sticking the neck" in the technical field is prominent, and the complexity of economic structure optimization has increased. This is the key to the economic development of big countries. We should actively adapt to changes and promote high-quality development. Looking around the world, the factors of instability and uncertainty have obviously increased, especially at present, the COVID-19 epidemic is still spreading, the global economy is in recession, and cross-border trade and investment have shrunk dramatically. In the past, the development model of "two markets and resources are outside" is unsustainable. In the face of new contradictions and challenges, we must put our foothold at home, make overall plans for development and security, and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern.

  To accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, we must grasp the key of unimpeded economic cycle and make good policy arrangements to get through the blocking points and prevent breakpoints. On the one hand, efforts should be made to improve the innovation and relevance of the supply system and make a fuss about "consolidation, enhancement, promotion and smoothness". By deepening the structural reform of the supply side and strengthening the management of the demand side, the supply side and the demand side will be adapted and coordinated, and the links of production, exchange, distribution and consumption will be more closely connected; On the other hand, in order to achieve the integrity of the national economy, we should persist in expanding domestic demand, accelerate consumption upgrading, increase independent innovation, fill the shortcomings of development, constantly stimulate motivation, vitality and resilience, and weld the easy breakpoints of the economic cycle.

  To accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, the starting point is development, and it is to achieve higher quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable and safer development. The essential feature of such development is a high level of self-reliance, the important support is a strong domestic market, and the practice path is a domestic and international double cycle of mutual promotion, all of which are inseparable from the guidance and promotion of the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing. The new development concept clarifies the focus of reform and development, and sorts out the major issues of development. The construction of the new development pattern should be shaped in form, mature in function and prosperous in operation. The most crucial and fundamental thing is to firmly establish and implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively.

  The direction is clear, and the struggle is on the journey. In order to win the new development pattern, we need to break through the fetters, take the responsibility of "success must be mine" and make even harder efforts. The broad masses of leading cadres must constantly improve their political judgment, political understanding and political execution, closely focus on building a new development pattern, make new arrangements according to the new requirements put forward by the CPC Central Committee, conscientiously implement them, take the first step this year, see a new atmosphere, and achieve new breakthroughs and create a new world of development during the 14 th Five-Year Plan period. (Jin Guanping)

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China University Sports Delegation was established for the 31st Summer Universiade in Chengdu.

Cctv news(News Network): Today (July 12th), the China University Sports Delegation of the 31st Summer Universiade in Chengdu was established in Changchun, Jilin. 

The China delegation of Chengdu Universiade consists of more than 700 people, including 411 athletes from more than 100 universities in 25 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). The average age of athletes is 22.9 years old, of which 387 participated in the Summer Universiade for the first time, accounting for 94.2%. 344 people participated in the World Comprehensive Games for the first time, accounting for 83.6%. 

According to reports, FISU has broadened the qualifications of athletes to participate in this Universiade, and the age of participation has been adjusted from "18-25 years old" to "18-27 years old", and the original "only for college students who have graduated for less than one year" has been adjusted to "allow college students who have graduated in 2020, 2021 and 2022".

At present, the sports teams participating in 18 major sports are making efforts to prepare for the coming Chengdu Universiade in the best competitive state.

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British waste recycling: a long history of management from punishment to reward

People’s Daily Online, London, April 24 (Yang Bo, Daytime Travel) The history of garbage recycling in Britain can be traced back to before industrialization, when waste from burning wood and coal was collected and used as the basic material for making bricks. However, the recycling at that time was because the economic advantages of renewable resources were higher than those of original materials, and there was a lack of public waste removal system in densely populated areas.

In Britain and Ireland around 1800, beverage bottles were recycled by some beverage manufacturers.

In 1813, Benjamin Raul combined rag fibers with raw wool to pass off as wool, which can be regarded as a kind of "garbage recycling", but this material made the inferior industry in West Yorkshire last for nearly a hundred years from the early 19th century.

In the past ten years, Britain has introduced some new regulations to encourage more recycling. These measures include imposing fines on those who do not reduce household waste, and putting more emphasis on sorting waste into different recyclable materials. Each local authority has different rules.

Now about 177 million tons of waste are produced in England every year. In order to reduce expenditure and produce waste, the British government issued the Waste Prevention Plan for England in 2013. In May 2014, the "Innovation of Waste Prevention Fund" funded by the Ministry of Environment was launched.

The government will require enterprises to be responsible for the products they produce, and the law also requires some enterprises to ensure that part of the products they sell are recycled and reused. These products include packaging, batteries, electrical and electronic equipment, vehicles and so on. At the same time, the government cooperates with the garbage industry through the "waste management responsibility agreement" to ensure that enterprises recycle as simply as possible and improve household recycling and waste collection. Laws have also been introduced to crack down on crimes, including illegal dumping of waste, operation of illegal waste management sites and illegal export of waste.

Domestic waste is subdivided into three categories.

In Britain, the classification of domestic waste recycling is very detailed, and the "Domestic Waste Recycling Act 2003" requires governments all over England to provide at least two kinds of recyclable materials collection services to every family.

So now we can see that in a single-family British family with a garden, there are usually three trash cans in front of the door or backyard. The colors of the lids are different, and the types of garbage inside are different.

For example, in some places, the trash can with black lid is used to hold "general garbage", the trash can with blue lid is used to hold "recyclable garbage", and the trash can with green lid is used to hold garden and kitchen waste. In another area, the color may be different from the barrel to the lid.

In addition to general garbage, the other two kinds of garbage are classified strictly. "Recyclable garbage" can be glass bottles, paper products, cans, degradable plastic bags, etc., while "garden or kitchen waste" can only be dead leaves, weeds or food, but not soil, stones and packaging. According to the specific classification regulations, the government will issue special leaflets and stuff them into users’ mailboxes on a regular basis or directly stick them on users’ trash can lids by garbage collectors.

When it comes to the division of plastic bags, it is difficult for ordinary people to quickly identify whether they are recyclable. Fortunately, most of the packaging of articles will clearly indicate whether the packaging can be recycled. It’s just that not all people will be "selective" when throwing garbage, so there are always people who intentionally or unintentionally "foul". Once they are discovered by the "eye-catching" recyclers, you will usually "harvest" a "warning sheet" on the lid of your trash can.

People who live in apartments do not have a garden, so they need only separate the recyclable garbage list. There is a special garbage station next to the apartment, and the oversized garbage bins inside are also classified.

Generally, special garbage trucks and workers will come to collect the three kinds of garbage at a fixed time every week. The night before, people just need to push the garbage bins usually stored in the backyard or by the door to the roadside near the main street, and the next morning, they may still be dreaming, and they can hear the sound of the roaring garbage trucks coming.

To "enjoy" such on-site service, you need to pay a certain fee, which is usually included in the monthly council tax collected by local governments. However, the budget of some places is relatively tight recently, so the recycling time of garden and kitchen waste is extended from once a week to once every two weeks.

Last year, there were news reports that families with children under three years old in a region of Wales had to provide their children’s birth certificates to collect diapers every two weeks, otherwise they would collect diapers together with domestic garbage every three weeks, which was said to be for the purpose of environmental protection.

Of course, if you don’t want to pay the garbage collection fee, there is a way. You can throw it directly into the nearby "garbage dump".

When I first entered this "garbage dump", I felt a sense of "dazzling", because the types of garbage inside were too fine. Recyclable paper products were divided into paper packaging, newspapers and magazines, and old clothes and sheets should be separated. In addition, there were cooking oil, batteries, small household appliances and so on. Once you saw that you were carrying the bag in the wrong direction, the staff next to you would come forward to guide you.

As for the "large-scale garbage" like old furniture, either make an appointment with a charity to collect it at home or pay someone to buy it. The cost may be higher than you think, and there is no service that can be sold as waste in China.

The policy focus shifts from punishment to reward.

Recently, the focus of Britain’s garbage recycling policy has shifted from punishing those who don’t recycle to encouraging more people to recycle through rewards.

WRAP, the waste and resources action plan, is a registered charity, which is jointly funded by several British government departments and the European Union.

Its website, Recyclenow, provides detailed guidance and suggestions to those who want to seriously classify garbage, and classifies recyclable garbage into six categories: sprays, food, plastic bottles, clothes, electronic equipment and medicines.

pressurized spray

For example, about 60% of waste such as used air fresheners is made of tinned steel, and about 40% is made of aluminum. Both metals can be recycled. It also contains some small plastic and rubber parts, including covers, valves and dip tubes, which can be extracted and fully recycled. If everyone in the UK can recycle an empty air freshener, the converted energy will be enough for the TV energy of 273,000 families.

food

Food recycling includes banana peel, leftovers, tea bags and so on. Usually, any cooked or raw food waste can be recycled, but it is necessary to ensure that all packaging, especially plastic packaging, is taken out.

There are several ways to treat the collected food waste. In some areas, it is mixed with garden waste and transported to local commercial composting facilities. This compost will be used in agriculture, landscaping and gardening. If food waste is collected separately, a method called anaerobic digestion is usually used to generate green electricity.

plastic bottle

It is estimated that Britain uses an average of 35.8 million plastic bottles every day, but only 19.8 million plastic bottles can be recycled every day, which means that an average of 16 million plastic bottles cannot enter the recycling station every day.

The recycling of plastic bottles requires emptying and washing articles, taking off the lid and squeezing the bottles to save space.

Clothing and textiles

Even damaged clothes and faded curtains, which are not suitable for reuse by others, can be recycled to create new items, such as cushions, cleaning cloths and industrial blankets for chairs and car seats. Charities everywhere in Britain recycle clothing and textiles, and different charities collect items slightly differently.

Some stores, such as H&M and Martha, collect old clothes in the store. Martha also collected it through charity partner Oxfam, and offered a discount the next time the donor went to Martha to buy it.

electronic equipment

Usually, when buying new electronic goods, stores will recycle old equipment, especially larger items, such as televisions and refrigerators and freezers. Other recycling methods include online junk exchange and selling websites. For unwanted mobile phones and tablets, some merchants can get cash or redeem gift certificates.

medicines and chemical reagents

Unopened, unused and expired drugs can be returned to the pharmacy for disposal. It is estimated that as much as 300 million pounds of unused or partially used drugs are wasted in Britain every year and cannot be recycled or reused. Therefore, the British medical system calls on people to think carefully before ordering duplicate prescriptions.

The road to comprehensive recycling is "long"

In addition to government regulations and services, it is equally important to raise people’s awareness of environmental protection and economy. For example, statistics for many years show that the amount of food wasted by the British is still amazing. In 2013, food worth 15.1 billion pounds was thrown into the trash can by the British. Statistics in 2014 found that up to 400 tons of food is still wasted every year, and the average person wastes up to 200 pounds of food every year.

With the continuous efforts of British government departments, the classification and recycling of garbage has made remarkable progress, but the overall household garbage recovery rate has been below 50%. According to the latest data from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) of the British government, from 2000/01 to 2009/10, household recycling in the UK increased by 235%; In 2009/10, 23 million tons of domestic waste were generated, of which 9.4 million tons were recovered, reused or composted, with compost accounting for the largest proportion, accounting for 40% of the total. In 2015, the recycling rate of households in England was 43.9%, which was 0.9 percentage points lower than that of 44.8% in 2014. Also since 2011, the "domestic garbage recycling rate" was lower than 44% for the first time.

The British referendum decided to leave the European Union, which also brought certain policy uncertainty to garbage sorting and recycling. If Britain leaves the EU, all kinds of EU regulations and standards that regulate all walks of life will face the process of replacing them with Britain’s own. Whether to completely follow the original EU system or reset Britain’s own system will create a certain policy vacuum or delay in the short term, such as promoting garbage collection. Recently, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the general election will be held in advance, which will aggravate the uncertainty and delay of this policy to a certain extent. Although it will not necessarily affect the implementation of policies such as garbage collection, it will certainly have a certain impact on further promotion. 

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Automatically "grab" the massive information writing robot "grab" the rice bowl?

  The development of global artificial intelligence is changing with each passing day, AI+ industry, AI+ medical care, AI+ manufacturing, AI+ education … … It can be said that a hundred flowers blossom. With the continuous evolution of the Internet and the high maturity of mobile intelligent terminals, the era of information explosion has quietly come to the public. Behind this massive information, a new kind of "media people" has emerged. They are not human beings, but "robots".

  In October this year, Guangzhou International Artificial Intelligence Industry Research Institute officially settled in Nansha District, Guangzhou, and the institute took the lead in Nansha with 16 high-end talent teams in the field of artificial intelligence. Among the key laboratories, there is an AI R&D team focusing on the application of artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) in the field of information content — — Yuntianyi, that is, the "writing robot" that everyone has heard about for a long time.

  Besides playing Go, intelligent robots can also write manuscripts. As early as 2009, Major League Baseball used the intelligent robot StatsMonkey to complete the writing of the game manuscript for the first time. In 2015, Tencent, a domestic internet company, launched the writing robot DreamWriter, and the system has been in operation for nearly three years. Artificial intelligence has gradually integrated into the current content creation. How high is the "IQ" of the "writing robot"? What changes can artificial intelligence bring to the media industry?

  In the future, with the in-depth development of the Internet of Things technology, experts in this field will paint a more "sci-fi" scene for all-media reporters under the background of the Internet of Everything.

  Wen Jing, all-media reporter of Guangzhou Daily (except signature)

  The number of intelligent writing robots is growing.

  Speaking of intelligent writing robots, it can be traced back to 2009. For the first time, Major League Baseball used the intelligent robot StatsMonkey to identify major events during the game and summarize the overall game dynamics through statistical analysis, and automatically compiled a sports report.

  In 2015, the "writing robot" really broke out in the industry, and major media at home and abroad began to "test the water" writing robot. It is understood that in foreign countries, The New York Times uses the Blossomblot system to screen articles and push them to social networking sites and other platforms; The intelligent system of Los Angeles Times focuses on dealing with sudden news such as earthquakes … … In China, in 2015, Tencent’s writing robot named Dreamwriter was officially launched, and a report entitled "CPI rose by 2% in August to a 12-month high" was released. Subsequently, the domestic media also "early adopters" one after another. Xinhua News Agency launched the robot writing project, Alibaba and CBN launched the "DT Draft King", and today’s headline launched "Xiaoming BOT" & HELLIP; … In the field of content production, traditional media and mobile internet media have followed this technical upsurge in succession, trying to introduce the manuscript-writing robot into the increasingly large number of news reports, content production and distribution; In the technical field, more and more research teams in the artificial intelligence industry are involved in the research and development of "writing robots".

  Secret writing robot

  So, how does the "writing robot" "write" a manuscript? Dr. Jin Lijie, CEO of Yuntianyi, a domestic AI news laboratory, said in an interview that "writing robot" is just a name that makes it easier for the outside world to understand. In the industry, they prefer to call this kind of artificial intelligence system "intelligent assisted creative system", which is also a more appropriate statement.

  Taking the "chess writing" platform as an example, it quickly extracts content clues from massive information, generates an article framework with one click according to the keywords input by users, and automatically judges the content value from multiple dimensions. Users can search the hottest news topics through the list of "Hot Topics in the System" and generate articles on related topics with one click; You can also let "Xiao Yi" write a propositional composition by inputting keywords.

  All-media reporters learned that the "writing robot" is different from the traditional news gathering and writing mode. The "writing robot" automatically "crawls" all kinds of massive information every day. When reporters and editors need a certain news content, they input keywords, and the system will "crawl" tens of thousands of relevant information from various channels according to the keywords and generate the first draft. On the "chess writing" platform, the active data of international information spans two years, and the whole information is stored for about 5~6 years, which also reflects the massive data behind the writing robot platform. In fact, this is also a prerequisite for being an artificial intelligence platform — — Only with a large enough data reserve, the robot can classify and learn, thus constructing the knowledge map of events.

  Of course, different artificial intelligence platforms have different algorithms and ideas. For example, the AI system of Yuntianyi does not rely entirely on robots to write a complete manuscript. "Most manuscripts are post-processed and polished by editors."

  "Robots" are mainly concentrated.

  In sports and financial news reports

  The research content released by Tencent Media Research Institute points out that "writing robots" can be divided into three categories, all of which rely on natural language processing technology. The first type is template-based writing, that is, using an article template to fill in the structured information (including specific figures, percentages, etc.) in the database. The second category is post-extraction, that is, analyzing long natural language texts containing useless information, extracting key information from the article, reorganizing the language and outputting it. The third category is that it is automatically generated by machines. Generally, the language is modeled mathematically by training the language model, and then the text that the algorithm thinks "best reflects the original meaning and looks like a sentence" is generated sentence by sentence without using the original text.

  It is understood that at present, many writing robots, or most "intelligent assisted creative systems", mainly focus on the first type of template writing and post-extraction. His more dedicated and good writing fields are mainly sports, finance and disaster news. What these types of news have in common is that most of their contents rely on data to "speak". Take the news of NBA events as an example, most of them are composed of score+players’ scoring performance, that is, the news type based on data analysis. Therefore, there will be templates for this kind of news in the database of "robot". At the same time, through the deep learning ability of artificial intelligence, the system analyzes how journalists/editors handle this kind of news while writing it, so as to get more data and establish more diverse models.

  All-media reporters have noticed that most of the financial news written by Tencent Dreamwriter is real-time news about the rise and fall of a stock price. According to Liu Kang, the head of Dreamwriter, the core problem that Dreamwriter had to solve when it was first born was that "the production capacity of financial news could not meet the demand of content".

  Yuntianyi’s "chess writing" is an intelligent information writing system based on a wide range of topics. It is a combination of the second and third categories, and its writing scope is not limited to the news field that "speaks" by data. According to estimates, a small editorial team, with the help of the "Little Game Writing" intelligent creation platform, can improve the work efficiency by five times. "Traditional journalists/editors can probably write two long-length news stories a day, while in ‘ Small game writing ’ With the cooperation, about ten articles can be completed in one day. " In the whole process of intelligent assisted creation, the system can not only help to select the topic, but also "generate" an article frame with high correlation with what the reporter/editor wants to write, which can greatly simplify the writing process and shorten the time of writing.

  In January of this year, the robot "Xiaoyi" was "employed" in the GET information App. Generally speaking, in the writing of traditional news information, the workload of editors accounts for 80%, and that of machines accounts for 20%. At present, the GET information team can achieve 65% machine completion and 35% manual completion. In the future, we hope to achieve 80% machine completion, and the editor is only responsible for 20%. "In our opinion, only a small part of the content can be produced by machines and automatically released, because any media needs supervision and content review. In the future, the manpower of the news information platform will also be mainly concentrated in this part. However, it is also inevitable to reduce labor costs and improve timeliness. For example, the work done by a team of 30 people in the past can now be completed by a team of 10 or less. " Jin Lijie said.

  According to the reading data statistics of domestic large-scale content information platforms, with the help of "small game writing", the reading volume of many news written by GET information can reach tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and some even millions.

  After training, it can be effectively improved

  Content generation ability of "machine"

  Many Internet companies and R&D teams have focused on writing robots, which is all related to the vigorous development of mobile news information platforms in the past three years — — The emergence of many news content clients means that a huge amount of news content information needs to be produced every day, and the update speed is maintained by minutes. On the other hand, it is the Internet users’ thirst for news and new information. Nowadays, on the way to and from work by subway or bus, everyone will "brush" their mobile phones, and the demand for content information will increase geometrically. It is worth noting that last year, Penguin Think Tank released the Map of the Future: Report on the Trends of New Media in China in 2017. The report shows that Chinese netizens spend an average of 67 minutes reading news information every day, among which the proportion of "heavy users" who spend more than two hours a day is 14.6%.

  Nowadays, domestic large-scale content information distribution platforms pay attention to "thousands of people and thousands of faces" — — Through big data, algorithms, labels, etc., what everyone sees is different. Similarly, the "writing robot" can also push different content for everyone through the big data and machine learning ability in the background. Yuntianyi is like this: "Imagine that a manuscript-writing robot is like a fisherman, and every day ’ Fishing ’ It will classify and combine the returned fish, shrimp, crab, etc. through artificial intelligence algorithms. " Because everyone’s "entrance" to the intelligent platform is different, and his needs and content are different, the platform can "know" what content he needs and what content he needs more. In addition, the content provided by the machine for readers is updated 24 hours a day.

  "The intelligent assisted writing system and automatic writing system driven by artificial intelligence can produce hundreds of information articles a day after training of massive high-quality content, which will greatly improve the production efficiency and timeliness of information content. Artificial intelligence technology has achieved innovation in some aspects of the life cycle operation of traditional information content. " Yun Tian Yi said so.

  Discussion:

  Can writing robots replace human work?

  The industry thinks it is more auxiliary function.

  At the beginning of the writing robot’s launch, "the robot came to grab the reporter’s rice bowl" and "the reporter was going to cry" … … For a time, it has attracted great attention from the technology and media industries. In recent years, whether the writing robot will replace human beings as "news reporters" has been increasingly fierce with the development of technology.

  Ma Zhijie, dean of the School of Humanities and Communication, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, and Ph.D. in journalism, said that advanced technologies, including intelligent robots, are only writing AIDS and tools are extremely valuable. "If you want to do a good job, you must sharpen your tools first." The news and communication industry will not disappear, but will only take the advanced technology express train and be stable and far-reaching. However, the news industry must rely on media workers who are good at using advanced technology, not the technology itself. Intelligent robots are highly integrated with cutting-edge technologies such as big data, cloud computing and AR/VR, so they have strong capabilities of data collection, extraction, calculation and information self-organization, which helps media workers to improve content production efficiency, but also strengthens media competition.

  When talking about the advantages and disadvantages of "writing robot", he believes that compared with people, the advantages of intelligent robot content processing and production are obvious, such as large amount of data, many information points, fast production speed, accurate computerized production service and breakthrough of time and space constraints. However, the shortcomings are also very obvious, such as starting from data, purely objective perspective, "arrogant", and lack of freely controllable ability in information appreciation such as agenda setting, news commentary and public opinion guidance.

  Writing robots can’t be a branch of the future media. Human beings have been on the road of using new technologies to improve the efficiency of content production. At present, the cutting-edge technology is intelligent robots, so it is understandable that intelligent robots are preset by media, but intelligent robots can only be referred to as "it" forever, because they are machines and intelligent technologies, and they can never become media, and the core of media is people with strong subjective initiative.

  Dr. Jin Lijie said frankly that the original intention of R&D was to use the intelligent assisted creative system to free journalists and editors from some boring, hard and repetitive work of news reporting and focus on the core of content creation.

  Dr. Ma Zhijie also stressed that the unemployment of journalists is not the result of technological progress, but the self-elimination of journalists caused by the industry’s advancing with the times. Some journalists and editors who can’t adapt to the requirements of the changed times will inevitably not adapt to the changed news and communication industry. Therefore, the unemployed will inevitably exist.

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  Can’t catch up with China’s first AI anchor "on the job"

  At the world internet conference in Wuzhen just held, sogou, a Chinese Internet company, and Xinhua News Agency jointly launched the world’s first "AI synthetic anchor". It is understood that the virtual anchor is based on a host of Xinhua News Agency, which can imitate not only human voice, but also human expression.

  It is reported that AI synthetic anchor can achieve efficient news broadcast. Users only need to input the news text, and it can broadcast with the same voice as a real person, and even the lip shape and facial expression are consistent with the real host.

  The specific operation is that the live anchor records a video for broadcasting news to the camera. With this video, "sogou avatar" can extract the voice, lip movement, facial expression and other features of the live anchor, and then "clone" an AI virtual anchor with news broadcasting ability that is very similar to the live anchor through technologies such as speech synthesis, lip synthesis, facial expression synthesis and deep learning.

  According to sogou, "sogou doppelganger" uses its AI ability to personify AI from the aspects of image expression, sound language habit and logical thinking, and then "clones" human AI doppelganger, thus helping human beings to improve the efficiency of information expression and transmission.

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The EU severely warned Britain about the Brexit chaos: Hard Brexit is almost inevitable.

  [Special correspondent of Global Times in Britain and Germany Qiang Wei Mu Jishan Aoki Wei Hui] No! No! No! … … The British Parliament, mired in Brexit, showed the world their ability to say "no". On the evening of April 1, the House of Commons of the British Parliament once again conducted an "indicative vote" on the alternatives to Brexit. As a result, all four options were rejected again. The Brexit agreement led by British Prime Minister Theresa May has been rejected three times, and various alternatives proposed by Parliament have failed to pass many times. Originally, March 29th was supposed to be the day when Britain left the EU. At the request of the British government, the date was extended to April 12th. Seeing that the "deadline" was approaching, there was still no hope of breaking the deadlock. Banier, the EU’s chief negotiator in charge of Brexit, warned on the 2nd that it is increasingly possible for Britain to leave without agreement. Fu Sida, the chief negotiator of the "Brexit" of the European Parliament, even bluntly said that Britain’s "hard Brexit" was almost inevitable. For more than two years, Britain has devoted almost all its political energy to the issue of Brexit, but what it got was endless quarrels and repeated vetoes. The split and paralysis of British politics has become the object of ridicule by many foreign media. The Irish Independent newspaper said that "the British parliamentary system cannot find any solution, which makes their democracy a laughing stock".

  On the evening of the 1 ST local time, the lower house of the British Parliament voted again on four "soft Brexit" alternatives. As a result, four proposals, including negotiating with the EU to maintain a customs union, establishing a "Common Market 2.0", holding a second referendum and canceling Brexit if no agreement can be reached, have not received more than half of the votes. Among them, the proposal to maintain a customs union with the EU was rejected by three votes, which is the closest scheme among all the "indicative votes".

  Immediately after the voting results were announced, the exchange rate of the pound against the US dollar fell by nearly 1%. The British "Daily Express" said that there are still 10 days to go to the EU’s Brexit deadline for the UK, but parliamentarians have said "no" to all Brexit programs. CNN said on the 2nd that if Brexit is a tennis match, it will be a hard five-set match. In the past, five sets of games were tied, and now the score is 60, and neither side can gain obvious advantages. Everyone is exhausted, and there is no end in sight.

  "The possibility of Britain leaving the EU without agreement is increasing." According to Agence France-Presse, Banier, the EU’s chief negotiator in charge of Brexit, warned of the deadlock in Brexit on the 2nd. Banier said that leaving the EU without an agreement has never been what the EU wanted. "But the 27 EU countries are ready now, and it is becoming more and more possible every day.". Banier also said that if Britain fails to pass an agreement in the next few days, there are only two options left: no agreement to leave the EU, or a request for a long delay in leaving the EU. The latter option requires Britain to agree to hold the European Parliament election in May, which the Theresa May administration, which wants to leave the European Union before then, has tried its best to avoid.

  Agence France-Presse said on the 2nd that British Brexit Secretary Buckley hinted that the government may seek a fourth vote on the Brexit agreement this week to avoid the delay in the Brexit process and hold the European Parliament election in May. Buckley warned that otherwise, "the default legal position is that Britain will leave the EU within 11 days", even if no agreement is reached. The BBC said that a number of cross-party lawmakers proposed an urgent motion on the 2 nd, asking the Prime Minister to delay Brexit if no agreement can be reached.

  "A hard Brexit is almost inevitable." Former Belgian Prime Minister Fu Sida, the chief negotiator of the "Brexit" of the European Parliament, issued a more straightforward warning on the 2nd. European Commission President Juncker said in an interview with Italian television: "We are very patient with our British friends, but our patience is running out." French President Macron warned on the 2nd that the EU should not be "held hostage" by the Brexit crisis. Macron also said that if Britain can’t find a solution, it will actually choose to leave the EU without agreement. "We can’t stop this failure.".

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Test scores for men and women? New tricks of nucleic acid!

On May 9, 2022, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a video conference. Committee member the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Sun Chunlan, Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China stressed that to improve the sensitivity of monitoring and early warning, big cities should establish walking. 15-minute nucleic acid "sampling circle" , broaden the scope and channels of monitoring. Ten days after the release of the policy, how are the provinces and cities implementing it?

01

Nucleic acid detection is divided into male and female

On May 16, 2022, Dalian released the city’s normalized nucleic acid detection method. Simply put:

When netizens were curious about why men and women made nucleic acids separately and were preparing to question them, the authorities also responded early: First of all, male and female members of the same family were scattered at different times for testing, and the risk investigation effect was better. On Tuesday, men were sampled and tested, and on Thursday, women were sampled and tested separately. Monitoring the same family is equivalent to monitoring twice a week. To realize the maximum risk warning function under the most economical and convenient premise. Saturdays are for all people who don’t have time at ordinary times, and the service time is relatively extended to meet the detection needs of those who don’t detect in time, thus solving the problem that it is inconvenient for citizens and friends to detect on weekdays. Netizen comment @ Stupid for 500 years: This method is actually quite scientific, assuming that you only have less than 50% of the population’s detection ability, so that the population can be evenly divided into two. The epidemic situation is characterized by clustering, which should be better than whacking hamsters. @ 中中中中: Distinguishing between men and women is the default social family. There is a high probability that there are men and women. Although this method is not absolute, it is more scientific and feasible than age and region. @ 中中中中: Although this practice in Dalian is efficient and economical, it is still inevitable that it will be leaked. Can it be improved from the perspective of big data on this basis? For example, nucleic acid code, add a new one Family nucleic acid detection ? Bind health in a family. In this way, people who are pregnant and disabled, who are inconvenient to move and have poor resistance, can avoid going downstairs to queue up for nucleic acid.

02

Waltz nucleic acid

On May 10, 2022, Hefei released the layout of normalized nucleic acid detection in this city. From the fineness of this method, we can see that the government has made great efforts:

This method also gives a lot. It is not in the period of high incidence of epidemic, but it is also a transportation hub and faces great pressure from imported epidemic. Make a sample. The task of nucleic acid detection is dispersed in several days, which not only relieves the pressure of local nucleic acid detection personnel, but also facilitates the government’s macro investigation of infected people in Covid-19.Quickly reduce the "poison circle". However, it is not uncommon to take five days to detect nucleic acids and waltz nucleic acids. Taiyuan, Lu ‘an, Huainan and other cities have taken similar measures.

03

48 hours nucleic acid

Compared with the above relatively loose normalized nucleic acid detection layout, Beijing, Ningbo, Hangzhou and other regions, which are still in the high epidemic period, take more nucleic acid detection within 48 hours. Take Beijing as an example:

Generally speaking,When the local epidemic situation is under control, the cycle will be gradually relaxed from 48 hours to 72 hours.. Take Shenzhen as an example: since March, Shenzhen has required citizens to have a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours when entering residential areas, urban villages and various public places. As the local epidemic situation tends to be flat, on April 5, the epidemic prevention and control headquarters of novel coronavirus adjusted the epidemic prevention policy, requiring citizens to have a 72-hour negative nucleic acid test when entering and leaving various public places and taking public transport. In addition to the normalized nucleic acid detection layout, Xiaobian also found that Jincheng City, Shanxi Province also wrote antigen detection into the normalized prevention and control policy. Emergency access to some places,Hold a negative antigen certificate within one day.. 

The subjective question of "15-minute nucleic acid" sampling circle "is really played by some local governments, and it can also intuitively reflect the ruling ability of local governments. I hope that there will be more policies for the people, such as "separating men and women in nucleic acid testing", and the policy of tossing the people will not appear!

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Sudden in the middle of the night: Country Garden official announcement!

On the evening of December 12th, Country Garden, which was listed in Hong Kong, announced that its executive directors Yang Huiyan, Mo Bin, Yang Ziying and non-executive director Chen Nai offered to reduce their salary.

Before the salary reduction, the annual salaries of Yang Huiyan, Mo Bin, Yang Ziying and Chen Fu were 370,000, 3,000,2,000 and 370,000 yuan respectively, and after the salary reduction, they were uniformly adjusted to 120,000 yuan, that is, the monthly salary was only 10,000 yuan.

Previously, Country Garden disclosed that in the face of unprecedented difficulties, it has promoted a number of self-help measures, among which it mentioned that "in 2023, the Group tried its best to cut administrative expenses, with a total amount significantly reduced by nearly 60% compared with 2021".

On December 5th, the latest organizational restructuring of Country Garden was reported on the Internet, which "merged 14 regional companies into 7 new regions to promote flat and efficient management". People close to Country Garden confirmed that the news was true.

Four directors collectively reduced their salary.

Mo Bin dropped from 3 million to 120,000.

Country Garden announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on the evening of December 12 that, in combination with the needs of the industry and the actual operation of the company, the executive directors Yang Huiyan, Mo Bin and Yang Ziying and the non-executive director Chen Nai of the company offered to reduce their salaries, and signed a supplementary agreement on directors’ services and a supplementary letter of appointment with the company on November 1, 2023.

Specifically, the adjusted salaries of the four directors are all 120,000 yuan/year, which translates into a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan/month. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2022, the average annual wage of employees in urban non-private units in China was 114,029 yuan, and that in Guangdong Province was 124,916 yuan. In other words, after the salary reduction, the salaries of the four directors of Country Garden are basically in line with the average social salary.

Among them, Mo Bin, the director and president of Country Garden, had the biggest decline. Before the adjustment, his annual salary was 3 million yuan, which was as high as 96% this time. Compared with the salary level before Country Garden’s accident, the salary in Mo Bin will drop even more.

Before the adjustment, the salaries of Yang Huiyan, Yang Ziying and Chen Tai were 370,000 yuan, 2 million yuan and 370,000 yuan respectively, and the decline after this adjustment was not small.

It is worth mentioning that the above three directors are actually members of Yang’s family, the real controller of Country Garden. Yang Huiyan just took the scepter from his father Yang Guoqiang in March this year and became the chairman of the board of directors, while Yang Ziying is Yang Huiyan’s sister and Chen Tai is Yang Huiyan’s husband.

Just finished adjusting the organizational structure

Greatly reduce administrative expenses.

According to public information, this is not the first time that Country Garden executives have reduced their salaries. In the past two years, the company has made several adjustments to the executive compensation. By 2023, the executive compensation will be 86% lower than that in 2021. These executives include the vice president of the company headquarters, the general manager of the functional center and above, and the regional president.

On December 5th, Country Garden also heard the news of great adjustment of organizational structure.

Net Country Garden merged 14 regional companies into 7 new regions: Hebei and Beijing merged into North China; Shandong and northern Jiangsu merged into Lusu region; The northwest and Shaanxi merged into the central and western regions; Anhui and Zhejiang merged into Zhejiang-Anhui region; Jiangxi and Fujian merged into the Jiangxi-Fujian region; Yunnan and Sichuan merged into Sichuan-Yunnan region; Guangxi and Jiangzhong merged into Jiangzhong region.

In this regard, people close to Country Garden confirmed that the rumor was true. The person pointed out that under the current industry situation, the adjustment aims to further improve the adaptability between the organization and the business, promote flat and efficient management, coordinate and complement the available resources, and do their best to ensure the realization of the strategic goal of "guaranteeing delivery".

Country Garden official WeChat official account published a monthly business meeting article on December 8th, which showed that the company’s administrative expenses were greatly reduced by nearly 60%. "The administrative expenses of the whole group are based on the principle of zeroing, and they are not necessary to spend. The rigid expenditures are reduced as much as possible through integration and intensification. In 2023, it will be significantly reduced by nearly 60% compared with 2021."

At the meeting, Yang Huiyan also revealed that the delivery challenge will enter the deep water area in the next 12 months. In 2024, the delivery volume of Country Garden is expected to exceed 400,000 sets, and the number is still huge. She said, "Guaranteeing delivery is a very difficult but also very important task. I hope that the company will wait and see, attach great importance to it and do a good job in pre-planning."

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Say goodbye to "Iron Foot Board" and click "Handheld Office"

    Xinhua News Agency, Lanzhou, May 28 (Reporter Li Jie) Yang Changyou’s hanging heart has also settled down when he saw that 1,326 yuan of subsistence allowance funds have arrived.

    "Just in time." Yang Changyou, 58, said that I never expected the application process to be so fast. In April this year, he applied and uploaded materials through his mobile phone, and the village cadres took the initiative to help sort out the materials. In May, the funds were approved.

    Yang Changyou is a villager in Sandungou Village, Liangshui Town, Wudu District, Longnan City, Gansu Province. Originally, his son was working outside, and he and his wife were farming at home. "I just wanted to save some money and wait for my baby to find a wife." However, at the end of 2024, my wife suddenly had intestinal perforation. "We spent more than 60,000 yuan before and after, and it also delayed the baby’s work." Yang Changyou said.

    After the relatives in the village learned the situation, they asked him to try to apply for subsistence allowances. However, when he thought that the villagers had applied for ID cards, household registration books and a lot of photocopied materials in the past, he somewhat retreated. "Recently, the land at home has to be cleaned up, so there is no time to get it."

    What he doesn’t know is that in September 2024, Longnan City officially launched the "Longnan Social Assistance Smart Management System" and the "Longnan Assistance Link" WeChat applet, which can be applied by computer or mobile phone, and there is no need to run away. Under the telephone prompt of Sandungou village cadres, the son who accompanied his wife to see a doctor completed the application with his mobile phone in the hospital.

    "The development of this system and small programs is really convenient for grassroots cadres and the masses." Liu Lu, a full-time cadre of civil affairs in Liangshui Town, said frankly.

    Looking back on the people’s experience of seeing a doctor, Liu Lu said that in the past, when applying for assistance, villagers had to carry a pile of paper materials, which was basically difficult to bring all of them every time, and they had to be supplemented repeatedly. "You have to run two or three times and run out of a pair of iron feet." Not only the masses are distressed, but as a grassroots cadre, she is also under pressure: Liangshui Town has three communities and 18 administrative villages with a permanent population of more than 30,000, but she is the only one in charge of civil affairs at the township level. "The workload is heavy and it is difficult to ensure accuracy and timeliness."

    Longnan City, which is located in Qinba Mountain area, is restricted by geographical conditions. Most villages are located in mountainous areas, far from the town government, and it is inconvenient for people in need to apply for assistance. At the same time, the number of needy people with social assistance system in Longnan accounts for one-tenth of the permanent population, and the average annual subsidy for needy people accounts for more than 50% of the city’s annual general public budget revenue. Efficient and convenient civil assistance is the key to the reform that cannot be ignored.

    Social assistance is related to people’s livelihood and people’s hearts. The key to civil assistance lies in timely understanding the urgent needs and worries of people in need. In order to implement the spirit of the eight central regulations, Longnan focused on the people’s worries, worries and worries, conducted in-depth research and demonstration, and finally launched the system and small programs after a year of development, construction and trial operation.

    Wang Yinfu, chief of the Department of Pension Services and Aging Work of Longnan Civil Affairs Bureau, said that the development of the system and small programs has enabled people in need to apply for assistance such as subsistence allowances, extreme poverty and temporary assistance with computers or mobile phones without leaving their homes, so as to facilitate the people and serve the people, and realize the transformation of social assistance services from "iron feet" to "handheld office", effectively solving the problem that people’s application for assistance is restricted by personal health status, time, place and human interference.

    During the interview, the grassroots staff also reflected that the "handheld office" also effectively reduced the burden on the grassroots, and the grassroots staff could provide more accurate on-site guidance, and they did not need to fill in paper files in the whole process, avoiding the repeated collection and provision of materials.

    According to the statistics of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Longnan, up to now, the needy people in Longnan have applied for more than 10,000 households and more than 40,000 people online, and 4,084 households with more than 14,000 people have been approved, which has truly facilitated the people and benefited the people, and is accurate and efficient. "We will continue to strengthen the informationization of social assistance and do more practical things for the people." Wang Yinfu said.