Editor’s note:On September 16th, American playwright edward ablee died at his home in Montauk, New York, at the age of 88. Albee won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama for three times and the Tony Prize for Best Drama for two times. He is the greatest playwright in the United States after Eugene O ‘Neill, tennessee williams and arthur miller.

Many of Albee’s plays have been translated and introduced into China. In 2013, Sanhui Books and Xinxing Publishing House published The Goat: Albue’s Plays, which included three representative plays. This article is a reading guide written by Hu Kaiqi, the translator of this book, for three plays. It is authorized by Sanhui Books to be used by The Paper, with some abridgements.

Edward ablee Oriental IC data

Edward Albee is the greatest playwright in the United States after Eugene O ‘Neill, tennessee williams and arthur miller, and is the flag of serious drama in contemporary America and even the world. Since The Zoo Story was first staged in the late 1950s, Albee’s plays have continuously shocked the American theater. Up to now, Albee has created more than 30 plays, and won three Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama, two Tony Prize for Best Drama, three Best Drama Literature Awards and four Lifetime Achievement Awards. His masterpieces include The Zoo Story, The American Dream and Who’s Afraid of Adeline Virginia Woolf? "delicate balance", "seascape", "three tall women", "goat or who is Sylvia? ","at home in the zoo "and so on.

As a representative of American serious drama, Albee always pays sharp and sober attention to the times and society, and reflects and criticizes the social reality and human existence fearlessly and mercilessly. He once said, "What people see on Broadway is not drama at all, but some mass-produced products, which will only make people intoxicated or sleepy, but not wake up and wake up." His plays are often performed in off broadway and even abroad, and finally returned to Broadway.

Albee’s works are deeply influenced by naturalism, surrealism, symbolism, absurd drama and other schools, but his exploration and modernity are mainly reflected in the connotation and thought of his works. As he said: "… the writer’s responsibility is to be an extraordinary social critic-to show people the true nature of the world and human beings he has seen, and to warn:’ Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.’ "

Albee embodies his unique style in the prompts of characters’ dialogues in his plays. For example, in The Goat or Who’s Sylvia? Stevie (honestly) If you are seeing that woman, I think we need to talk. Martin (stop, silent for a long time; Honestly) If I am like that … We will talk. " And "Ross (wow! ) You are in love! " Such hints also appear from time to time in At Home in the Zoo and The Garden of Desire. I kept this kind of Albee-style personalized prompt by literal translation.

Goat: Albee’s Plays

The goat or who is Sylvia in this book? "At Home in the Zoo" and "At Home in the Zoo" were published in Drama Art, and "The Garden of Desire" has been put on the stage of China by China National Theatre, while "Goat or Who is Sylvia? It also premiered in Beijing in 2012.

In 1967, after winning the Pulitzer Prize, edward ablee was interviewed in the theater. Oriental IC data

At Home in the Zoo: Human Isolation and Alienation

In 1958, edward ablee became famous with his first one-act play The Zoo Story (1958), which shocked the western society. This drama, which profoundly shows the alienation, isolation and loneliness of human beings in modern commercial society, has become a world-recognized classic of drama literature in the following half century. This play, originally named Peter and Jerry, was written by Albee in one go within three weeks before his 30th birthday. The author originally cast it on Broadway in new york, but it was rejected by the producer. So The Zoo Story came to Europe, premiered at Berlin Art Festival in September 1959, and began its new york premiere at Provinse Town Theatre in January 1960.

In 2008, Albee surprisingly changed his one-act drama "The Zoo Story" 50 years ago into a two-act drama "At Home at the Zoo" (2009) and staged it in the second theater in off broadway, new york. Shakespeare in the past or neil simon today have rewritten some of their past masterpieces in the form of sequels or prequels, but it is rare to rewrite them in a big way on the stage. Moreover, in the past half century, The Zoo Story is one of the most famous and frequently performed American plays in the world.

This great play about the murder scene between a gentleman Peter and a poor man Jerry in new york Central Park has always been a classic textbook for drama students. Over the years, countless commentators have discussed and analyzed Albee’s profound exposure of human alienation in the mid-20th century. Although he also wrote Who’s Afraid of Adeline Virginia Woolf? Three Tall Women, Delicate Balance and Goat or Who’s Sylvia? "and other thirty plays, but the shock and passion of" Zoo Story "is unique.

In fact, Albee’s idea of rewriting The Zoo Story has a long history. This play, which has become a world classic, was once performed as a short play with Beckett’s The Last Tape of klapp and other short plays. Albee has always regretted this. In the late 1990s, 40 years after The Zoo Story appeared, Albee planned to add a scene for Peter. "There is some imbalance, and Jerry kept telling in the play that Peter had no time to talk. I hope to know Peter better. "

Albee doesn’t agree with playwrights to rewrite their previous plays drastically. He said, "It can’t be rewritten. Times have changed and people are not the same." So he didn’t make a big move on The Zoo Story, but just wrote At Home as the first act of the whole play. He even mentioned that when he conceived the Zoo Story in 1958, he visited Peter and Anna and their living room. "I just couldn’t write this scene at that time."

Albiyuan traced his initial creative impulse: "I know Anna so well because I know what Peter’s wife should look like." He felt that At Home seemed to flow from his heart, and he just showed the relationship between the couple naturally. As a solemn and humorous study of mediocre civilization, At Home shows the conversation between a loving couple in today’s society.

At the beginning of the first act of At Home in the Zoo, just after noon on Sunday, in a Danish modern living room in an apartment building in East Seventies Street, Manhattan, two or three avenues away from Central Park, a peaceful and elegant middle-aged gentleman husband Peter and his dignified and quiet wife Anna appeared. Two silent daughters are upstairs, and Peter is sitting and reviewing an extremely important and boring textbook that has never been published by their publishing company.

Anna walked out of the kitchen and casually declared, "We should talk." So they talked about family chores: fireplace, children, microwave oven, cats, parrots, and then talked about each other’s sleeping state and Anna’s habit of night outing before dawn. Anna told puzzled Peter that she wanted to have her breasts removed to prevent cancer. The two chatted with each other jokingly about death, love and people’s madness, and also associated with "thinking about thinking about something."

With Anna’s outspokenness, Peter said carefully that he thought his penis was "shrinking". Anna suppressed her smile to show sympathy. She knew that sex and sexual topics were not Peter’s strong points, and she called him a "gentleman". They talked about circumcision and clitoris … Then the conversation turned back to why Anna proposed to talk. During the conversation, they suddenly found that some terrible unspeakable thing threatened their quiet life; They found each other unable to pour out their deepest fears.

Peter recalled the details of violent sex with a girl when he was drunk in college. That crazy sex ended in blood dripping and pain and shame, so Peter was always careful in his subsequent sex for fear of hurting others. During the conversation, Anna slapped Peter in the face and immediately hugged him and kissed him passionately. She said that she just wanted to surprise him with suspense. In laughter, they hoped that a sudden tornado would completely destroy their safe and orderly family life. Then, the two said goodbye to "I love you". Anna went to the kitchen, and Peter went to Central Park with the boring textbook.

The second act of At Home in the Zoo is the original Zoo Story. Albee didn’t rewrite this scene, only made some abridgements, so the text is the same as his original 1999 version. At the beginning of the second act, Peter who came to Central Park was sitting on a bench reading. Then, a disheveled man in his thirties, Jerry, appeared. Depressed-looking Jerry insisted on talking to Peter. Jerry lives in a cubicle on the top floor of an old building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He has no friends or relatives and is alone. He told about his homosexual experiences in adolescence and his life as a prostitute now. Peter was very embarrassed by his dark and filthy candor. In addition to satisfying the lust of the slutty and dirty landlady, Jerry has to deal with the landlady’s "black monster" dog that keeps chasing him. After repeatedly failing to please the evil dog, he poisoned it. The bad dog survived and ignored Jerry, so there was only indifference between man and dog. Jerry can’t communicate with dogs and people.

Because the first scene "At Home" shows the spiritual estrangement and emotional alienation between Peter and his wife, in the second scene, when Jerry frantically tells the loneliness and isolation of his existence in a monologue, Peter is more clearly aware of the distortion, fracture and isolation between himself and Anna. His deep anger, anxiety and despair contributed to the growing conflict between him and Jerry for the park bench, until he angrily held Jerry’s sharp blade to defend himself, until Jerry swooped on the sharp blade and committed suicide.

In the scene of In the Zoo, we have to face the isolation and alienation of people in modern society with fear. In the scene at home, we can only look directly at it painfully: even in a happy family and marriage, isolation and alienation are everywhere. From Peter and Anna’s emotional and spiritual indifference to Jerry’s isolated and absurd living condition, bloody suicide in the park seems to be the inevitable outcome. As you can imagine, when Peter fled the park and ran home like a wounded beast, when Anna tried to comfort him, Jerry’s suicide caused the peaceful world around them to collapse. The couple had hoped for waves and ripples in a peaceful life, but the revenge of bad luck came unexpectedly.

Stills of "At Home in the Zoo"

In the society of vicious expansion of modern industrial civilization, people are gradually losing their humanity and personality. When people are alienated by materials, interpersonal relationships are also alienated. In the noisy, complicated and almost crazy modern city, people are like a group of worker ants, crawling repeatedly every day. People think, people get tired, and people get lost. People pursue material things, but they are alienated by them after all. On the park bench in At Home in the Zoo, Peter sits at one end and Jerry sits at the other, separated by a barrier, just like Jerry mentioned the zoo-"all animals are separated". This sense of isolation is the living form of human beings in today’s society, and it is also one of the phenomena of material alienation. Crazy industrial civilization has not made human beings truly "civilized", on the contrary, it has made human beings move from civilization to barbarism, just like the two couples who bite each other in the novel "Slaughter the God" by the French playwright Jasmina Razer. The lonely individuals of Peter, Anna and Jerry are the portrayal of everyone in today’s society. The pain of each individual is also the pain of the whole mankind.

"At Home in the Zoo" makes the audience realize the threat hidden in the survival of every modern person. If "At Home" is a slap in people’s face and "At the Zoo" is a punch in people’s abdomen, you can imagine the horror and confusion of the theater fans gasping. For the two plays written 50 years apart, Albee insists that they are a whole. "This is a complete play. Peter’s experience in the first act contributed to the conflict between him and Jerry in the second act. The completeness and profundity of this two-act drama far exceeds the one-act Zoo Story. "

The Zoo Story has been staged many times in China, and it was also performed at Nanluoguxiang Drama Festival in May 2011. For the audience who are used to The Zoo Story, At Home in the Zoo is more like two independent dramas. It’s just as well. The emotional ice in the first act and the emotional fire in the second act do form a clear contrast between them. If at home is regarded as another play by Albee that pays attention to the emotion and ecology of middle-aged couples, it is different from his previous Marriage Drama (1987) and Goat or Who is Sylvia? Compared with the characters in "Peter and Anna", the scene of Peter and Anna can go deeper into the hearts of the audience.

It is worth mentioning that in November, 2011, another absurd family drama "Sex and the Garden" by Albee was also put on the stage in Beijing by China National Theatre.

At Home in the Zoo shows us the changes of Albee’s writing style in the past 50 years. Albee is 80 years old, but her creativity is still strong. "In the Zoo" 50 years ago was full of anger and youthful agitation; After 50 years, At Home is thoughtful and wise, with philosopher’s feelings. The former is angry, the latter is quiet. Whether it is pain or sorrow, whether it is sentimentality or cynicism, this talented playwright has always been deeply concerned about the ups and downs of human destiny and the decline of modern civilization.

In 2004, the London edition of Goat or Who is Sylvia? "stills

Goat or Who is Sylvia? Notes on the definition of a tragedy

The absurd family tragedy of contemporary American society, Goat or Who is Sylvia? 》（The Goat or Who is Sylvia? , 2002) won several drama awards such as Tony’s best drama in 2002. Goat or Who is Sylvia? In March 2002, it premiered at the John Goolden Theatre on Broadway, with a total of 309 performances. In 2004, the London edition of Goat or Who is Sylvia? The British premiere began again. "Who’s Sylvia" in the title of this play is taken from the song "Who’s Sylvia?" by Proteus in Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona. 》。

Martin Gray, the hero of the play, is a typical decent, upright and brilliant architect in American society. He lives an ideal and happy life with his beloved wife and son. In his lucky week, he came to the door three times. In addition to his 50th birthday party, he also won the highest international architectural design award and a huge contract for landmark architectural design. However, when he revealed his unspeakable secrets to his friends in fear-when he had sex with a goat (Sylvia), everything around him-family, affection, life and career fell apart in an instant.

Goat or Who is Sylvia? The challenge to people’s morality lies in how to face the social forbidden zones such as extramarital sex, homosexuality, incest and animal rape in contemporary society, and at the same time, the goat or who is Sylvia? It also conveys the desire of modern people to return to nature. Martin is at the peak of his career and happy in his family life. However, it is conceivable that all kinds of reputation and crazy material civilization in modern society have alienated human beings and overwhelmed Martin. This is why he hates public masks and is obsessed with finding an idyllic land.

The beauty of the country made him linger and forget his worries. Now he fell in love with a goat and had sex with it. On the moral level, this extremely abnormal behavior is shameful, but in human nature, it may be a release under the long-term pressure of alienation. It is the pastoral scenery that returns to nature that awakens Martin’s instinct and primitive desire. Although his choice is shocking, he feels holy, happy and beyond all love …

As far as drama style is concerned, The Goat or Who is Sylvia? "Who’s Afraid of Adeline Virginia Woolf?" Albee won the Tony Award for Best Drama on Broadway 40 years ago. 》（Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? 1962), there is a return to realism: clear plots, concrete scenes and stylized dialogues. As the mainstream writer of American serious drama, Albee’s avant-garde style is more manifested in events and themes than in the form of drama.

Goat or Who is Sylvia? The whole play is divided into three scenes without intermission. The core of the whole play is the fierce confrontation and debate between Martin and Stevie.

The Gothic atmosphere in Albee’s plays, or the surreal dream and its mysterious symbol and deliberate concealment all make critics and audiences feel that the goat in this play is just a symbol and a metaphor, and the bestiality in the play is just the playwright’s literary thinking and exploration of a social concept. But the goat or who is Sylvia? The language is so vivid and touching, and the scene is so realistic that the audience can’t avoid Albee’s deliberate warning: sometimes a goat is a goat.

At the end of the first scene, Martin revealed the secrets of his heart to Ross; When the second scene begins, Stevie has learned the truth from Ross’s letter. Martin’s son Billy immediately fell into confusion and anger; Stevie then fiercely attacked and blamed Martin and asked him to explain this unforgivable behavior. When Martin tried his best to communicate with her and pour out his troubles, Stevie kept interrupting him, making the audience in the theater laugh their heads off. When Martin painfully told her that he loved her as always, Stevie replied coldly, "But I am a human being, I only have two breasts, and I can only walk upright …"

In The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? In an interview before the premiere of new york, Albee said that he hoped to test the audience’s tolerance through this play. He said: "All civilizations have arbitrary norms on their tolerance. This play shows how a family is deeply shaken by an unimaginable event and how they solve this dilemma. I hope that people will give new thoughts on the reasonable direction of their own values. " Undoubtedly, this is also a test of human nature, an extremely complex and deep exploration: the nature of love, the mystery of sex, human empathy and so on.

Albee’s provocative idea is that love, no matter what form, is an undeniable objective existence, and even social norms, cultural customs and personal wishes can’t overwhelm it. Martin can’t defend his behavior, so he can only beg Stevie’s understanding and forgiveness, but he firmly believes that his love for Sylvia is sincere and deep, insisting that the encounter with her is an "epiphany" and "once it happens, there is no retreat". He claimed that his love for Sylvia was essentially the same as his love for Stevie, which was unacceptable and incomprehensible to Stevie.

If love is an abstraction that is not limited by inherent moral values, then human sexual behavior is distinct and concrete, and it inevitably bears moral responsibility. Therefore, in the current concept of human society, the love between Martin and goat is undoubtedly an inherent evil. He thought his love for the goat was "irrelevant to everything", but found that it was related to everything around him.

Goat or Who is Sylvia? The subtitle of the play is "Annotation on the Definition of a Tragedy". Albee pointed out that his allusions originated from the ancient Greek tragedy, and the word "tragedy" originated from the "song of the goat" in ancient Greek. In the first scene, when Ross asked about the strange and secret whistle, Martin coolly called it "the goddess of mercy".

Bentley, a dramatist, wrote in his book Benlly, The life of the Drama: "In tragedy, people are both angels and beasts, and they are fighting." This idea is in "goat or who is Sylvia?" It was echoed in ". Martin said it was the soul, and Stevie insisted on sexual desire. When Stevie pointed out that their dilemma was "You are a wild animal", Martin calmly replied, "I think I am … I think we are all wild animals." Martin admitted that he was "miserable" and "deeply divided", but Stevie couldn’t forgive him. The "goddess of mercy" didn’t appear, only a cavity of revenge anger. "You ruined me, well, God has eyes! I let you destroy it with me! " Goat or Who is Sylvia? The dilemma of human nature in this extreme state presented in "The Tragedy" profoundly completes the annotation of a tragic definition.

At the end of the play, Stevie dragged Sylvia’s body on the stage covered in blood. Love, sympathy and understanding disappeared, leaving only hatred, revenge and misunderstanding. Looking at the goat lying in a pool of blood, Martin looked up and wailed the heartbreaking fate of him and Sylvia. He could only cry, "Does no one understand this? Why can’t anyone understand … I’m lonely … so … lonely! " At this moment, Martin Gray is like the ghost of Oedipus-painfully blinding himself, leaving the warmth and sympathy of the world forever and disappearing into the wilderness.

Edward ablee’s The Garden of Desire

A Garden of Desire: The Collapse and Degeneration of a Flashy Society

Edward ablee’s "Garden of Desire" was originally named "Everything in the Garden" (1967), and its original author was the famous British playwright Giles Cooper. The play was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in March 1962. In December 1966, 48-year-old Cooper died young. In order to commemorate him, the American version of "Garden of Desire" adapted by Albee was staged on Broadway in new york in 1967. Albee’s Garden of Desire satirizes and exposes the hypocritical and greedy American money society, which makes it the most important and controversial one in his adaptation, but it is also the most successful one: the popular comedy Garden of Desire and his best original drama Who is afraid of Adeline Virginia Woolf? "has been put on the screen.

In November, 2011, as the first part of the National Theatre’s "Famous Classics: Desire Trilogy", the Garden of Desire, directed by Han Jie, premiered at the newly-built National Theatre. This black comedy, which reveals the greed for money in contemporary human society, has been playing for a long time in the West, and it is also loved by China audiences in Beijing. In February, 2012, this drama began its second hot performance in national centre for the performing arts. More than ten years ago, the then China Youth Art Theatre moved this play. Nowadays, owning a garden villa has become a dream in people’s hearts, and "Desire Garden" undoubtedly has a profound warning meaning for the current extremely impetuous social mentality of worshipping money.

In Albee’s "Garden of Desire", Jenny and Richard, who live in the garden villa, are struggling to make ends meet, so they can only desperately maintain their dignity; Their good friend, Jack, a rich painter who inherited millions of inheritance, is carefree but lonely, so he always comes to Jenny for emotional comfort. Jack loves Jenny and Richard so much that he is determined to leave his ten million inheritance to the couple after his death. But half a year later, Jenny and Richard made a fortune. It turned out that Jenny was lured by Mrs. Tus and went to Mrs. Tus’s brothel in the city for prostitution without telling Richard. At the subsequent party, Jenny and Richard found that the housewives of their rich neighbors and friends were all "girls" of Mrs. Tus. Jack, who arrived late, recognized Mrs. Tuse at the party, and he was killed …

Compared with the rural story of London in Cooper’s original work, Albee’s Garden of Desire deepens and strengthens the revelation and torture of human nature and living conditions in modern society with a typical American middle-class life scene. For example, in Cooper’s original play, the couple didn’t see books and paintings in their indoor furnishings, while in Albee’s Broadway "Garden of Desire", not only a few oil paintings were hung indoors, but also books were filled on shelves covering a whole wall. This makes the audience have to face up to it: in a money world with moral collapse, intellectuals as social conscience are equally depraved and crazy. This is undoubtedly a mirror of the present China society.

This character, renamed Mrs Tus by Albee, was a Polish Jewish woman who survived the Nazi concentration camp in Cooper’s original play and made a living as a pimp for bored middle-class British housewives. Albee turned her into a headstrong and ruthless businesswoman who organized prostitution in new york, deliberately hiding her life story to highlight her evil symbol. In Cooper’s play, Jenny advertised for a job and attracted Mrs. Tus; In Albee’s play, Jenny’s neighbor girlfriend revealed Jenny’s financial difficulties to Mrs. Tus.

The biggest controversy in this play lies in the unpunished murder in the play. Some critics think that Albee should delete the murder plot in the adaptation, so as not to fall into the murder convention of the structural reasoning play and weaken its social critical significance. Time magazine thinks that murder is "too sensational, as if the corruption and collapse of moral values only mean death". Albee keeps the plot of murder, but unlike Cooper, he hopes that his Garden of Desire is more than just a social drama to explore the moral culture of the middle class in American society. Death in Cooper’s works is a one-dimensional realism, while death in Albee’s works is a symbol.

Albee’s Garden of Desire is no longer an isolated murder story, it reveals the moral and spiritual collapse and degeneration of a flashy society as a whole; It condemned the murder of humanity and humanity in this defeated society. Over the past 50 years, among more than 30 plays created by Albee, four have been adapted: The Garden of Desire, Malcolm, The Sad Cafe Song and Lolita in the 1980s. He once criticized the shoddy adaptation of many screenwriters on the American stage. "Most of these works adapted from European novels and scripts are clumsy, distorted and worthless, but people should not forget that many plays by playwrights Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Giraudoux and Anouilh are their adaptations … Drama adaptation can be a respected profession and a very important artistic act."

Albee believes that successful screenwriters should not only retell and express the story of the original, but also use the original as a springboard to explain their unique views. Just like electra, Sophocles, euripides, Giraudoux and Hoffman Shtal have their own unique forms and contents. Playwrights have their own interpretations of the original, and the story of the original is only a catalyst for their artistic conception. Before Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear, The History of King Lear was staged in the Elizabethan era. In this early version, King Lear did not go crazy, but returned to the throne two or three years later and died peacefully. If Shakespeare was trapped in the story and thought of the original play, there would be no unparalleled Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear today.

CCTV News:There are many rivers and rich water systems in China, which nourish Chinese children and witness the changes of time. Starting from today (October 1st), we will launch a series of reports on "Rivers Rushing to See China" in the context of ten rivers.

Today we will pay attention to the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation and an important support for its development. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the provinces along the Yangtze River have embarked on a road of high-quality development with ecological priority and green development.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the provinces along the Yangtze River have put the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming position. At the source of Tuotuo River and Bande Lake, once herders became environmental protection volunteers to protect the biodiversity at the source of the Yangtze River. In the upper reaches, Yunnan, Sichuan and Chongqing have established a cross-provincial horizontal ecological compensation mechanism to jointly build an ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River; In the middle reaches, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces promoted ecological joint defense and governance, and the green ecological corridor in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River was accelerated. In the downstream, the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta jointly do a good job in sewage outlet remediation to improve the ecological quality of transboundary water bodies in the basin.

In 2021, the proportion of excellent water quality in the state-controlled section of the Yangtze River basin was 97.1%, and the water quality of the main stream has reached Grade II for two consecutive years.

Recuperate. From January 1, 2021, the key waters of the Yangtze River Basin will be closed to fishing for ten years. 111,000 fishing boats and 231,000 fishermen were arrested and landed. In Xuejiawa, Maanshan, Anhui Province, Chen Lanxiang, who has been fishing all her life, put down her fishing net and boarded the Internet, and set up "Sanguniang Labor Service Co., Ltd." to drive the fishermen ashore to start businesses together. In 2021, the company paid a dividend of 7,000 yuan to each household of the fishermen.

Adhere to ecological priority and green development, and the golden waterway will be smoother. In 2021, the cargo throughput of trunk ports of the Yangtze River exceeded 3.5 billion tons, ranking first among inland rivers in the world.

The provinces and cities along the Yangtze River adhere to the drive of innovation, and a number of competitive and influential advantageous industrial clusters have accelerated their growth. Guizhou relies on abundant hydropower resources to build a big data industry; Sichuan and Chongqing continue to exert their efforts in automobile, electronic information and equipment manufacturing industries; Hunan’s advanced equipment, new energy and new materials industries have injected new kinetic energy into high-quality development; Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui jointly built the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community, jointly unveiled the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, and continuously promoted the deep integration of science and technology industries.

Phoenix Auto News On the evening of November 8, D7, the first model of the brand-new "D family", was officially launched. The new car is positioned as a mid-to high-end new energy car, in which the listed equity price of D7 EV is 143,800-170,800 yuan; The listed equity price of D7 DMH is 121,800-141,800 yuan. See the table below for details:

From now on, consumers can lock up up up to seven sincere gifts, including inflation gift, financial gift, rejuvenation gift, purchase gift, quality assurance gift, flow gift and charging gift, by paying 1000 yuan deposit through official channels. Among them, the expansion gift for new users is up to 7 times the deposit expansion, and the renewal gift for old users is up to 5,000 yuan to replace the subsidy.

In terms of appearance, the double-car adopts a brand-new design language. As the D7 is the first new energy vehicle developed based on the nebula platform, it naturally adopts a fully enclosed front face without grille restrictions. The front face of D7 EV adopts a split light group, with a simple daytime running light in the upper part and an LED light group integrating far and near light in the lower part. The DMH model adopts the traditional integrated headlight layout, which has obvious changes compared with the pure electric version and incorporates more fuel vehicle design elements. On the side of the car body, the DMH version uses traditional door handles, and the EV version uses hidden door handles. In terms of body size, D7 has a length, width and height of 4890/1872/1510mm and a wheelbase of 2810mm.

In terms of interior, the new car adopts an environmentally-friendly cockpit, with white as the main color, and double 12.3-inch long LCD screens matched with a two-color stitching steering wheel. The D7 is equipped with a brand-new Zebra Intelligent Driving Machine System, which realizes the functions of multi-lingual, seamless hand-car navigation, automatic planning of long-distance charging, and effective reply of diverse voices.

In terms of power, the D7 EV adopts a drive structure, with a peak power of 155KW and a peak torque of 310N·m, and an acceleration of only 6.5 seconds. In terms of battery life, D7 EV is equipped with two Rubik’s cube batteries with different power, and the cruising range of CLTC can reach 510km and 610km respectively. The thermal efficiency of the 1.5T hybrid engine equipped in the DMH super hybrid system is more than 43%, the total motor power is 150kW, the total motor torque is 330 Nm, and the fuel consumption is 4.3L/100km. Under CLTC condition, its pure electric cruising range is 125km and its comprehensive cruising range is 1400km.

　　BEIJING, Beijing, August 23 rd "Don’t rush to live too slowly, but really live too slowly." Recently, Rene Liu returned to Wuzhen again and talked about traveling. She said that a few days of local life is the best way to travel.

　　Rene Liu’s new film, as the spokesperson of Wuzhen, has also been released, which is the fourth collaboration between her and Wuzhen after the 2003 TV series "Time flies", the first endorsement in 2007 and the ten-year return in 2017.

　　Sixteen years ago, the TV series "Time flies" was broadcast, and Rene Liu became attached to Wuzhen. During this period, Rene Liu spoke for Wuzhen three times, from the "Miss Ying" in the play to the "Miss Ying" in Wuzhen. The classic slogan "I have been here and never left" has also become one of the comments of many people on Wuzhen for many years.

　　In the past 20 years, Rene Liu’s changes are obvious to all. She has gone from a little-known music assistant to a singer and actress, and then from the "most natural" status in the eyes of the world — — Wife and mother became film directors again.

　　And this once dilapidated town has gradually wiped away the dust of the past, turned into a tourist destination integrating sightseeing, vacation and leisure, and became the permanent meeting place of world internet conference Wuzhen Summit. The annual Wuzhen Drama Festival and Wuzhen Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition also make it a "holy land" in the hearts of young artists.

　　Wu Cun, a village in the south of the Yangtze River, 500 meters away from Xizha and close to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, is also connected with tradition and the future. On the one hand, it satisfies people’s desire to escape from the familiar urban environment and gives everyone a brand-new space. On the other hand, in addition to the original natural features, a large children’s playground, a swimming pool with boundless paddy fields and a gym are all well equipped.

　　Going back to Wuzhen, Rene Liu is just like Wuzhen people: catching up with the morning market, having breakfast and drinking morning tea. Run in Xizha in the early morning, go to Wuzhen Water Market early, say good morning to Aunt Baozipu, who just opened the door, and buy fresh, crispy radish cakes … …

　　"In fact, every time I go to Wuzhen, I have a familiar and fresh feeling. Wuzhen is very beautiful when it is cloudy and not completely bright. If you don’t really have an early morning or a night there, you can’t feel it. It seems that you live in a foggy water town, and there are very few people. If you walk at will, you will have a sense of tranquility in the morning, which will often move me." Rene Liu said that she likes Wuzhen in the morning best, because it has the original appearance of life.

　　Rene Liu’s trip to Wuzhen happened to meet the Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition. After watching the exhibition, she wrote in Weibo: "Time is still in the exhibition, and it is well worth visiting."

　　In addition to the Wuzhen Art Exhibition, Rene Liu also experienced the ancient town carnival of Wuzhen Drama Festival during filming. "I feel that the travel in that ancient town seems to be a dream experience, and suddenly it has become an amusement park, so that you can go back to a very pure and childlike time."

　　"Living a local life for a few days, I think that is the best way to travel." Rene Liu went to the fields in Wu Cun, picking vegetables and cooking, and lived a "village life". This time, she is no longer a traveler who has been away from home for many years. She is more like a urbanite who has finished a week’s tiring work and just went home for an ordinary weekend.

　　After the filming in Wu Cun, Rene Liu said: "My agent told me that her favorite part was that I played with a group of children, probably because that life is very close to me now. I really like to take my children to get close to nature, let my feet step on the land, and let my hands touch nature. It is safe for you to step on that vegetable garden. I think Wu Cun feels very good."

On the evening of July 12th, the 33rd Huading Awards China Film Satisfaction Survey and Release Ceremony will be held in Macau, China. On June 17th, Huading Award Group announced the nomination list of the current Huading Awards in Macau. Five masterpieces of The Battle at Lake Changjin and Chinese Doctors, Love Myth, Miracle Stupid Child and Anger Serious Case, were shortlisted for the best film in China. Zhang Hanyu, Xú Zhēng, Shawn, Liu Ye and Cheng Taishen competed for Best Actress, while Xu Fan, Ma Yixuan, Ma Li, Ni Ni and Deng Jiajia competed for Best Actress.

The investigation and selection period of this Huading Award is from May 2, 2021 to February 28, 2022. This year or so is the period when the film industry and the film market took the lead in stabilizing and recovering rapidly in the world after the epidemic was controlled in China. Many excellent works with both word-of-mouth and box office have emerged in major schedules such as summer, National Day, Chinese New Year and Spring Festival.

Throughout the nomination list of this Huading Award, the main melody films occupy a large proportion, and the themes and types are rich and colorful, including The Battle at Lake Changjin’s Sniper with the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, 1921 with the theme of Party building, Chinese Doctors’s Hug You Through the Cold Winter with the theme of anti-epidemic, Me and My Father, the last trilogy of "Me and Me", and Miracle Stupid Child, which reflects the struggle of ordinary people in Shenzhen’s reform and opening up.

At the same time, many outstanding commercial films, such as Love Myth, Anger Serious Case, Lion Boy, Make a Famous Name, This Killer is Not Too Cold and Quiet, have also been nominated for this Huading Award. Among them, "Love Myth" won eight nominations of China for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Best Producer, leading the nomination list of this Huading Award and becoming the biggest dark horse.

The selection of Huading Award represents the satisfaction of the audience and the professionalism of experts and media judges. Therefore, the actors nominated for Best Actor (commonly known as "the Best Actor") and Best Actress (commonly known as "the Best Actress") in each Huading Award are all powerful actors who are quite popular with the audience.

The same is true of this year’s Huading Award. Zhang Hanyu, Xú Zhēng, Shawn, Liu Ye and Cheng Taishen, the five actors nominated for the best actor in this Huading Award, are not only very popular with the audience, but also have superb acting skills and strong strength. It is not surprising who won the award in the end.

Zhang Hanyu is a powerful actor that the audience likes very much. He is good at playing the tough guy on the big screen. He was nominated for Best Actor for Chinese Doctors. Different from the tough guy images he played in the past, such as soldiers, police officers and captains, Zhang Jingyu, the president of Jinyintan Hospital, suffered from gradual freezing, and had nothing to do with tough guys in terms of health and appearance. However, he was an out-and-out tough guy in the face of the epidemic, and Zhang Hanyu well shaped the character’s inner tenacity and strength.

Xú Zhēng is an excellent actor and director with great talent and audience affinity. His performance is full of joy and harmony. He plays the Shanghai middle-aged man Lao Bai in Love Myth. It is difficult for any other actor to grasp the charm of the character. Only he can best interpret this role. He is a strong contender for this year’s Huading Award.

Liu Ye’s Wang Jicai in "The Islander" and Cheng Taishen’s Liu Qing in "Liu Qing" have won the recognition of many audiences, media and experts, and their strong strength has made the competition for the best actor in this Huading Award more intense.

Xu Fan, Ma Yili, Mary, Ni Ni and Deng Jiajia, the five actresses nominated for Best Actress in this Huading Award, are all powerful stars who have performed well on the screen in the past year.

Xu Fan, who is over 50 years old, was nominated for the Best Actress in the Huading Award for her wonderful performance in Everything About My Mom. In this film, she plays a mother who loves her daughter deeply and suffers from cancer. In this tearful family film, her performance is sincere and touching, which has won the praise of thousands of audiences in Qian Qian.

Ma Yili plays Miss Li, a middle-aged woman in Shanghai, in The Myth of Love, and makes a vivid interpretation of the image of an independent Shanghai-style woman with petty bourgeoisie. She has won the Best Actress and Best Actress awards for films and TV series in the Huading Awards four times before, and this time she is also a popular candidate for this year’s Huading Awards.

Milan played by Mary in The Killer Is Not Too Cold, Wang Huiwu played by NiNi in 1921, and Su Mengdie played by Deng Jiajia in Make a Famous Name, all left a deep impression on the audience.

Who are you more optimistic about the above five actors nominated for the best actress in this Huading Award?

Director is the soul of a film and one of the core competitiveness of the film industry. The five groups of directors nominated for the best director of this Huading Award can be said to include three generations of elite directors.

Directors Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark and Lin Chaoxian were nominated for The Battle at Lake Changjin. Director Chen Kaige, who is nearly 70 years old, has added feelings of home and country and humanistic atmosphere to the film. Tsui Hark, who is over 70 years old, still has exuberant energy and rich imagination. The big-scale war action drama he directed is a magic weapon for The Battle at Lake Changjin to attract audiences. Lin Chaoxian, who is in his fifties, is good at shooting hot war action scenes, and is also the soul of the film The Battle at Lake Changjin.

Liu Weiqiang, Chen Musheng and Lin Chaoxian are the best directors in Hong Kong in Mesozoic era. Chinese Doctors, directed by Liu Weiqiang, is by far the most popular anti-epidemic blockbuster with a win-win reputation and box office. What is commendable is that Liu Weiqiang made this grand narrative theme film vivid and touching. Director Chen Musheng was nominated for the best director for his posthumous work "The Serious Case of Anger", which was highly affirmed by the audience and the judges, and was also a comfort to him.

Muye Wen and Shao Yihui are nominated young directors, and Muye Wen’s Miracle Stupid Child is not as amazing and sharp as Dying to Survive’s, but it is more tender. Shao Yihui’s "Love Myth" was one of the biggest surprises of domestic movies last year, and winning eight nominations for this year’s Huading Award has already explained everything. She is a young female directors with unlimited future.

Zhang Ziyi was nominated for the best cutting-edge director of this year’s Huading Award for directing the "Poetry" unit in "My Father and I". Her acting skills have long been widely recognized by domestic and foreign audiences and the industry, and she has won numerous awards at major film festivals. Now, for the first time, with the director’s works, he has been shortlisted for the Huading Award, and whether he can laugh at the end is of concern.

On the evening of July 12th, the release ceremony of the 33rd Huading Award China Film Satisfaction Survey will be held in Macau, China, and the jury will review and check from a professional perspective to announce the winners of various awards on the spot.

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The intelligent driver assistance system of Deep Blue SL03 is very easy to use.

It comes standard with an intelligent assisted driving system reaching L2 level, with as many as 15 sensing components, which can realize 360-degree omni-directional monitoring.

It has many functions, such as integrated adaptive IACC, TSR speed limit recognition, BSD blind spot monitoring, LCA lane change assistance and so on, which can reduce the burden on drivers and improve active safety.

In actual use, the operation is not complicated, and it can be activated by dialing the gear twice in a row, and the distance and speed of following the car can be adjusted by the left button of the steering wheel.

It can automatically correct the direction when driving, and can also slow down or stop when the current car slows down or stops, which is useful in high-speed and urban traffic jams.

The active safety system will play a role in an emergency, and it will also give a warning when changing lanes, reversing cars and opening doors.

In the future, it will also support the subscription and installation of more advanced NID3.0 pilot intelligent driving assistance system and APA7.0 remote parking service system, and add more sensing components to the hardware, which has higher recognition accuracy and perception ability.

NID3.0 can realize full-speed adaptive endurance, lane keeping, intelligent lane changing assistance and other functions, while APA7.0 can realize remote parking, remote car moving, memory parking and so on.

In the World Intelligent Driving Challenge, Deep Blue SL03 won the title of "Intelligent Driving Mass Production Competition", which is enough to prove its outstanding mass-production intelligent driving technical strength.

For example, in the intelligent driving assistance of high-speed navigation, the success rate of shunting and merging on the ramp reaches 98%, and 97% of congestion can be avoided under the cruising condition in urban areas, with the minimum following and stopping distance of 2 meters.

But also can identify the danger in weak light or dark environment, and effectively prevent the blind area of the transverse ghost probe at the intersection or in front.

Its perceptual recognition technology based on AI visual recognition and multi-model parallel probability fusion enhances the accuracy of target ranging under high dynamics, and the decision-making model based on multi-target interactive prediction greatly increases the traffic efficiency.

At the same time, the cloud-tube-vehicle trinity high safety guarantee system of Deep Blue Automobile effectively guarantees the safety of the intelligent assisted driving system.

In terms of parking, there are 13 kinds of parking assistance methods, and the parking completion rate is over 97%. In details, it is very powerful to automatically get away from obstacles to facilitate getting on and off, to recognize the state of the ground lock in the parking space, and to refer to the posture of adjacent vehicles when the parking space line is unclear.

Generally speaking, the intelligent driver assistance system of Deep Blue SL03 performs well, but the driver can’t completely rely on the intelligent system. After all, the safety mainly depends on his own control.

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▎ Global mobile phone shipments are expected to increase by 5% in 2024.

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Edit | Zhong Yi

This article first appeared in Titanium Media APP.

After the successful mass production of Huawei’s three-fold mobile phone, Mate XT Extraordinary Master, the long-lost mobile phone market ushered in a long-lost carnival.

By introducing multi-directional bending flexible materials and brand-new hinge technology, Huawei Mate XT extraordinary master can realize a variety of folding methods from single folding to triple folding, and the maximum screen size has reached 10.2 inches, making it the world’s first mass-produced three-fold mobile phone. However, judging from the public selling price from 19999 yuan, Huawei Mate XT is obviously not aimed at the mainstream mass market, but at the more lucrative high-end market.

In fact, in addition to Huawei’s three-fold mobile phone, the smart phone market in 2024 has seen more new changes compared with the previous two years when the overall sales volume declined. From technology to brand competition pattern to industry growth rate, there are obvious differences.

In the midst of change, the inherent pattern of the global smartphone market is being broken.

Xiaomi gradually got rid of the label of "diaosi machine"

Since its birth, Xiaomi has always taken "extreme cost performance" as the main advantage of mobile phone category. In the early stage of development, through the cost-effective strategic play, the shipment of Xiaomi mobile phone did grow rapidly all the way.

From 2012 to 2014, the growth rate of Xiaomi’s mobile phone sales was 22.96%, 160% and 226% respectively. According to the data released by market research organization IDC in the third quarter of 2014, Xiaomi’s market share in China is 14.8%, surpassing Samsung’s 11% and Lenovo’s 12.8%, making it the largest smartphone manufacturer in China.

However, after this model, Xiaomi mobile phone was trapped in the brand dilemma of "diaosi machine". At the same time, it also makes it difficult for Xiaomi to enter the high-end market, and it is difficult to obtain the most profitable cake in the market.

According to public statistics, with a market share of about 17%, Apple has taken away 45% of the global mobile phone revenue and 85% of the global mobile phone profits. With a market share of about 20%, Samsung took about 17% of the global revenue (28% less than Apple), and then took about 12% of the global profit (73% less than Apple), while domestic mobile phones took about 38% of the global revenue with a market share of about 60%, and finally only took about 3% of the global profit.

So at the strategic meeting of Xiaomi Group in early 2022, Lei Jun made it clear: "High-end development is the only way for Xiaomi’s growth, and it is also a life-and-death battle for Xiaomi’s development. We must not be afraid of loss or sacrifice and move forward unswervingly."

After more than two years, Xiaomi’s share in the high-end market has begun to improve.

According to the latest data of Canalys, in the second quarter, among the top five manufacturers of global mobile phone shipments in the price range of more than $600, Xiaomi increased by 71% year-on-year with its continuous demand for 14 series, and its shipments ranked fourth. In the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Greater China), the mobile phone shipments of Xiaomi in the price range above $600 increased by 564% year-on-year; In Europe, the Middle East and Africa, millet shipments in this price segment increased by 100%.

Xiaomi disclosed in the second quarter financial report that in the Chinese mainland market, the price range of Xiaomi mobile phone from 3,000 yuan to 4,000 yuan increased by 5.4 percentage points, the price range from 4,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan increased by 3.5 percentage points, and the price range from 5,000 yuan to 6,000 yuan increased by 2.3 percentage points.

HarmonyOS’s market share has steadily surpassed IOS.

In the first half of 2024, Huawei’s mobile phone business entered a comprehensive recovery.

According to IDC data, in the first half of 2024, Huawei once again ranked first in the smartphone market in China with a market share of 17.5%, and the growth rate of mobile phone shipments in the first quarter and the second quarter was 110% and 50.2% respectively, leading the industry. Although external restrictions continue to tighten, Huawei’s supply capacity continues to improve, and the gap with Apple continues to narrow in the market above 4,000 yuan.

As the mobile phone business stabilized, Huawei’s revenue and profit performance also entered the fast lane of growth. In the first half of the year, Huawei achieved sales revenue of 417.5 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 34.3% and a net profit margin of 13.2%. According to this calculation, Huawei’s net profit in the first half of 2024 was 55.11 billion yuan, an increase of over 18% year-on-year, which exceeded the 50 billion mark for the first time. In the first half of 2023, Huawei achieved a total sales revenue of 310.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of only 3.1%.

It is worth noting that the recovery of Huawei’s mobile phone business also means that HarmonyOS’s operating system has gained a firm foothold.

In the first quarter of 2024, the market share of HarmonyOS operating system in China reached 17%, surpassing 16% of Apple’s iOS for the first time, mainly due to the decline of Apple’s mobile phone sales and the popularity of Huawei’s mobile phones. In the first half of 2024, the market share of HarmonyOS operating system in China increased to 17.2%, up 66.7% year-on-year, and it has steadily surpassed iOS, second only to Android.

The HarmonyOS operating system was officially released on August 9, 2019, which lasted for 1,778 days. After four generations, the number of ecological devices in HarmonyOS has exceeded 900 million, and 2.54 million Harmony OS developers have invested in the development of the HarmonyOS world, with 4.35 million students studying in HarmonyOS School and 82.7 billion service calls per month.

Titanium Media APP understands that the native applications in HarmonyOS have entered a full-scale sprint stage, and more than 5,000 commonly used applications have all started development. In the fourth quarter of 2024, the official version of HarmonyOS NEXT will be pushed on more models, including Mate70 series.

Driven by AI, global shipments increased by 5% in 2024.

The decline of smartphones began to appear in the first quarter of 2022.

According to the statistics of CINNO Research, the overall sales volume of the smartphone market in China dropped by more than 20% in February of that year. OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi decreased by 45.7%, 38.6% and 20.1% respectively. On May 16th, China ICT Institute released a report saying that from January to March, the total shipments of mobile phones in the domestic market were 69.346 million units, down 29.2% year-on-year.

If we pull this statistical caliber back to ten years ago, we will find that in March 2012, the domestic mobile phone market shipped 39.586 million units. This means that the overall shipment level of the domestic mobile phone industry in the first quarter has been lower than that of the same period ten years ago.

Since 2023, with the outbreak of generative AI, large models and AI have almost become the standard in the smartphone market. This trend began to boost mobile phone sales in 2024.

Canalys predicts that the penetration rate of AI mobile phones will reach 17% in 2024, and this number will further grow rapidly in 2025, reaching 30%. Among them, Apple is still the number one player in this field, accounting for 51% of the market share of AI mobile phones with a shipment scale of 18 million units in the second quarter.

On September 20th, iPhone16 will be released soon. Although the only major change of iPhone16 compared with previous models is the addition of camera control buttons, it is worth noting that Apple Intelligence will launch a beta version next month, which is suitable for new iPhones, iPad and Macs and supports American English. In December, the supported languages will be extended to localized English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom, and Chinese, French, Japanese and Spanish will be supported next year.

It is reported that the early version of Apple Intelligence will focus on text summaries, replies in emails and other messages, and photo editing. With the launch of the official version, the new system may allow Siri to control the iPhone or iPad more accurately, including using Siri to open a single document, move notes to another folder, send or delete emails, open specific publications in Apple News, send network links through emails, and require devices to provide article abstracts.

Canalys predicts that with the blessing of Apple Intelligence service, Apple is expected to achieve further value growth, and further encourage users to purchase Pro series models through differentiation strategy. Apple’s leading product attachment rate and its advantages in chip design, software ecology and cross-device linkage are expected to help it further strengthen its existing competitive advantage.

However, in the long run, the annual growth rate of the smartphone market will gradually enter a platform period after this year’s strong rebound, and it will grow moderately with a compound annual growth rate of 2% from 2024 to 2028.

(This article first appeared in Titanium Media APP)

Following the hot sale of Huawei Pura 70 Ultra and Huawei Pura 70 Pro last week, Huawei Pura 70 and Huawei Pura 70 Pro+ were officially launched at 10:08 on April 22nd. ?

For Huawei’s mobile phones, the sales fever of "selling out immediately after listing" continues. At 10: 08 on April 22, Huawei Pura 70 and Pura 70 Pro+ opened their first sales and sold out quickly. According to official website, the starting price of Huawei Pura 70 is 5499 yuan, and the starting price of Pura 70 Pro+ is 7999 yuan.

In addition to the high popularity of mobile phones, Huawei has also made a strong attack in the automotive field.

On April 24th, Huawei will hold two conferences: Huawei Smart Car Solutions will hold the "2024 Huawei Smart Car Solutions Conference" and Huawei Digital New Energy will hold the "2024 Huawei Smart Electric & Smart Charging Network Strategy and New Product Launch Conference".

"Assault sales" reappears, and Pura 70 is hot.

On April 18th, Huawei launched the "HUAWEI Pura 70 Series Pioneer Program", and Pura 70 Ultra and Pura 70 Pro went on sale at 10:08 on the same day.

It is understood that there are four models of Huawei Pura 70 series. In addition to the Pro and Ultra versions that were launched on April 18, the remaining Pura 70 and Pura 70 Pro+ were also sold separately at 10: 08 am on April 22. From the price point of view, the Pura70 model with the lowest price in Huawei Pura 70 series starts at 5499 yuan, and the starting price of Huawei Pura 70 Pro+ is 7999 yuan.

It is understood that both Huawei Pura 70 Ultra and Pro series adopt super-focusing macro telephoto. Pura 70 Ultra is the only model equipped with super-focusing telescopic main camera, which is also a major innovation of Huawei in the field of mobile imaging. It is also equipped with the industry’s first rotating telescopic lens structure. Compared with conventional lenses, this design can take into account the thickness of the lens and the fuselage, and at the same time, plug in high-standard camera lenses to enhance the image ability of mobile phones.

At present, Pura 70 series continues the sales popularity of Mate 60 series, and the scene of "sold out in one second" has appeared many times, and the overall sales of Huawei mobile phones are also recovering strongly. Counterpoint data shows that smartphone sales in China bottomed out in the fourth quarter of 2023, increasing by 6.6% year-on-year, of which Apple’s mobile phone sales decreased by 9% year-on-year, and Huawei’s sales increased by 71.1% year-on-year.

At the same time, Huawei has also "recovered lost ground" in the high-end mobile phone market. Counterpoint report shows that in the global high-end smartphone market of 600 dollars or more (about 4,333 yuan) in 2023, Huawei reached 5% of the high-end market share, up from 3% in the same period in 2022.

Wang Peng said that Huawei’s R&D strength is its core strength, especially in communication technology (such as 5G), camera technology and artificial intelligence technology. Innovations in these fields make Huawei mobile phones ahead of their peers in performance, photography and intelligent experience.

Liang Zhenpeng, an observer of the consumer electronics industry, said in an interview: "Huawei’s current advantage in regaining global high-end market share lies in its technological innovation, R&D strength and in-depth understanding of the domestic market. However, the main difficulty lies in the acceptance of the global market and the response of competitors. Although Huawei Pura70 series has evolved in AI capabilities and HarmonyOS OS, it is not enough to completely reverse Huawei’s disadvantage in the global high-end market share. "

Zhijie "grabs the bill" Xiaomi SU7, which can deduct 5,000 yuan.

On April 11th, HarmonyOS Ecological Spring Communication Meeting was held, and Huawei and Chery officially announced that Zhijie S7 had achieved mass delivery, which could "deliver one car in one minute". Based on the strong manufacturing capacity, the intellectual community has also set its sights on Xiaomi SU7, whose production capacity is in short supply.

Recently, there is market news that Huawei’s Zhijie S7 is "grabbing" customers of Xiaomi SU7, buying Zhijie S7 and paying the final payment, which can deduct the 5000 yuan deposit of Xiaomi SU7 lock order from the car price.

It is understood that at present, there are three modes of cooperation between Huawei and car companies, namely, spare parts supply mode (providing standardized products such as laser radar and car networking module for car companies and electric control of motors), HI mode (namely HuaweiInside, car companies adopt Huawei’s full-stack solution, including hardware and software) and HarmonyOS Zhixing mode (Huawei is deeply involved in product design, marketing and terminal sales).

Zhijie S7 is the model of Huawei’s HarmonyOS Zhixing cooperation. In 2023, HarmonyOS Zhixing opened to 78 cities nationwide to join the user center, which provided a series of services including sales, delivery and after-sales. According to Ping An Securities Research Report, HarmonyOS Zhixing Store will operate independently, and it is planned to build 800 stores by 2024.

The reporter came to a Wuhan HarmonyOS Zhixing Super Experience Center for consultation. The relevant staff told the reporter that the policy of deducting the deposit of 5,000 yuan from Xiaomi by purchasing Zhijie S7 does exist. At present, it is only for Zhijie S7, and other HarmonyOS Zhixing models do not enjoy this discount. To enjoy the relevant discount, you need to show the lock voucher of Xiaomi SU7, and the activity will last until the end of May. Compared with Xiaomi SU7, the delivery speed of Zhijie S7 is relatively fast. The above-mentioned staff told the reporter that the current delivery cycle of Zhijie S7 is 2 weeks to 4 weeks. Now you can pick up the car in May, and some configurations need 4 to 6 weeks to pick up the car.

According to the Pacific Securities Research Report, Zhijie S7 is the first car in Huawei’s smart car selection business, which will further fill the layout of Huawei’s cars. With the large-scale delivery and further cooperation between Huawei and the OEM, Huawei’s auto business is expected to continue to achieve profitability after turning losses, and Huawei Smart Drive is expected to shape a new round of industry prosperity.

Behind the "battle for orders" between Zhijie S7 and Xiaomi SU7, the sales of Xiaomi SU7 far exceeded expectations, and the production capacity was "in short supply". At the beginning of April, a car buyer with a lock list of Xiaomi SU7 told reporters that the estimated delivery time of the Xiaomi SU7Max version of the lock list is 26-29 weeks later, and it will take almost the end of the year to pick up the car.

In response to this "battle", Lei Jun, founder and chairman of Xiaomi Group, also responded. On April 22nd, Lei Jun said at the Weibo: "At present, the production capacity and delivery speed of Xiaomi SU7 are increasing rapidly, and the standard version and Max have been delivered in advance. Many prospective car owners found in Xiaomi Auto APP that the delivery time is expected to be advanced. At Beijing Auto Show, I will introduce our production capacity and delivery plan in detail. If you are really anxious to buy a car, domestic new energy vehicles are good, for example, Zhijie S7, Weilai ET5, Tucki P7 series, etc., you can also consider buying. "

The official of Zhijie responded by saying: "Thank you, Mr. Lei, for recommending Zhijie S7! Super-large space, Huawei intelligent driving and HarmonyOS cockpit have now started scale delivery, and consumers are welcome to experience in the store! "

Huawei takes the lead! The overcharge alliance is about to start.

On April 24th, Huawei will hold two conferences: Huawei Smart Car Solutions will hold the "2024 Huawei Smart Car Solutions Conference" and Huawei Digital New Energy will hold the "2024 Huawei Smart Electric & Smart Charging Network Strategy and New Product Launch Conference".

Among them, official website, Huawei’s smart car solution, was officially launched yesterday. According to the agenda of the meeting, "2024 Huawei Smart Car Solution Conference" includes new product launch conference, smart car lighting, smart car control, computing platform, smart driving, smart cockpit and smart Che Yun theme forum.

Weibo, the official of Huawei’s smart car solutions, said that at the press conference, Huawei will launch a new brand, and invited many car companies, such as Extreme Fox, Changan Automobile, Aouita, Deep Blue Automobile, Blueprint Automobile, Warrior Technology and Guangzhou Automobile Chuanqi.

At the "2024 Huawei Intelligent Electric & Intelligent Charging Network Strategy and New Product Launch Conference", a new intelligent fusion solution in power domain will be launched for pure electric and extended range hybrid platforms, and a full range of ultra-fast charging solutions will be released.

It is worth noting that according to the agenda of the meeting, the meeting will also include the release ceremony of the "Overcharged Alliance".

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　　　　Referring to the popular models of joint venture compact SUV, we can know from the sales list in 2014 that there are only a handful of models with a total sales volume of 6 figures, and the top two are still occupied by Tiguan and CR-V, which dominate the market, followed by Ford Mavericks. Since its listing in 2012, it has been as popular as the former. After nearly two years of market test, Maverick also handed over an excellent answer sheet. At the beginning of this year, Maverick finally ushered in its first change (2015 model), but the new car has not been modified in shape, and the adjustment of configuration and power system is the focus of this change.

　　　　The manufacturer chose the test drive location of the 2015 Ford Maverick in the northernmost city of China — Mohe Obviously, this is different from the ordinary road test drive in the past. This kind of extremely cold weather and bad road conditions will not only feel the different driving feelings of the maverick on the ice and snow road, but also will be a big test for its active safety system, tires and four-wheel drive system.

　　　 Note: The 2015 Ford Maverick will be officially launched on January 8, 2015.

　　　　Analysis on the Interior and Exterior Design of 2015 Wing Tiger

　　　　Ford Maverick and Fox come from the same platform, and they have a mixed European and American design style. Unlike the same family design as Volkswagen, they have brought a lot of freshness to consumers since they first went on the market. However, the 2015 maverick has not changed in shape. Fortunately, its original design is still not so outdated, and now it seems that it is still full of spirit.

　　　　What are the more configurations in 2015 than in cash?

　　　　Decentralization of configuration is a major change in the 2015 Ford Maverick. Originally, it only appeared on high-profile models, but now it is also being equipped on low-profile models. This benefit is undoubtedly that consumers can get more configurations with less money. Of course, some good changes are not excluded, such as the tire pressure monitoring function added to the new high-profile models and the shape adjustment of the rear seats.

　　　　A small upgrade in configuration, what everyone is most concerned about may be whether its price will be raised. Since the 2015 Maverick has not yet been officially launched, we don’t know the specific model price. But as far as the adjustment of power system and configuration is concerned, we don’t think there should be much change.

　　　 1.5T engine completely replaces 1.6T engine.

　　　　The adjustment of the power system can be said to be an upgrade, which is the key project of this maverick change. The current combination of 1.6T+2.0T is satisfactory enough, but Ford still seems to think that the entry-level 1.6T engine has a large displacement. Although the displacement of the new 1.5T engine is only 0.1L lower than that of the 1.6T engine, more mainstream technologies are added, such as all-aluminum cylinder block, direct injection in cylinder and double VVT structure. Compared with the current 1.6T, the data has not decreased but increased a little. See the table below for specific data.

　

　　　　Compared with the current 1.6T engine, the power of the new 1.5T engine is increased by 3kW, and the maximum torque still reaches 240Nm. But importantly, its fuel consumption performance will be better and its carbon emissions will be lower. It can be seen that the manufacturers attach importance to environmental protection, which is icing on the cake for the maverick or other Ford models.