Micro-observation of current political affairs: A Monument to Friendship

  In a corner of the National Museum of Sri Lanka, an ancient monument inscribed with Chinese characters, Tamil and Persian stands quietly.

  It was Zheng He, a navigator from China, who brought this stone tablet to Sri Lanka. At the beginning of the 15th century, Zheng He led "tens of thousands of people in more than 100 giant ships" and arrived here for several months to exchange and barter with local people, and presented stone tablets as a gesture of friendship.

  In 2013, after the Chairman of the Supreme Leader proposed to jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative, Sri Lanka was the first country to support it in the form of a government statement.

  The turn of the country lies in the blind date between the people. On September 7, 2013, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader pointed out in his speech in Kazakhstan that to do a good job in cooperation in the fields of policies, facilities, trade and capital, "we must get the support of people from all countries, strengthen people’s friendly exchanges, enhance mutual understanding and traditional friendship, and lay a solid public opinion foundation and social foundation for regional cooperation."

  People’s blind date lies in empathy. People’s hearts are connected, which is the most basic, solid and lasting interconnection. In the past 10 years, one project has blossomed in the country of building the "Belt and Road", which has brought the hearts of people of all countries closer.

  "Small but beautiful" livelihood project

  "TV is like another pair of my eyes, which makes me see the outside world at once. It turns out that the world is so big and there are so many interesting things!" A 9-year-old Nigerian boy said. Thanks to China’s "Universal Village Access" project, many African villagers have taken a fancy to digital TV with stable signal and rich content.

  The "Universal Village Access" project aims to connect 10,000 villages in Africa with satellite digital TV signals. It is a livelihood project in the plan to strengthen China-Africa humanities cooperation proposed by the Chairman of the Supreme Leader at the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2015.

  △ In July, 2023, children of Picoco Village School in maputo province stood in front of a house equipped with a satellite TV receiving antenna aided by China.

  "People’s livelihood project is an important way to quickly improve the sense of gain of the people who build a country together, and it is immediate." On November 19, 2021, at the third symposium on the construction of the Belt and Road, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that "small and beautiful projects directly affect the people. In the future, we should make small and beautiful projects a priority for foreign cooperation, strengthen overall planning, give full play to the role of foreign aid funds, and form more projects that are grounded and gather people’s hearts. "

  In Cambodia, China helped 16 provinces to build more than 1,800 deep wells and nearly 130 community ponds, effectively solving the shortage of drinking water sources and water sanitation problems of local rural residents;

  In Samoa, a Pacific island country, China’s agricultural technical assistance project aided the construction of comprehensive demonstration farms and other agricultural extension systems, and accumulated tens of thousands of trainings;

  In Zambia, solar mills provide people with enough corn flour to increase the added value of local agricultural products;

  In Papua New Guinea, fungus grass has become the local rich grass … …

  △ On December 17th, 2020, in East Highland Province, Papua New Guinea, local people who participated in the 9th training course of China’s technical project of assisting Papua New Guinea’s grass and upland rice showed their certificates of completion.

  The projects of "small but beautiful" and "practical and beneficial" have been implemented steadily, helping the people of the country to increase their income and improve their lives. For the people who build the country together, the "Belt and Road" proposed by China is concrete and tangible — — It is water and electricity, roads and bridges, schools and hospitals, and it is a rich salary and a promising tomorrow.

  "Now, you can drive to different parts of Uganda on asphalt roads, and most of these roads are built by China enterprises." Richard Taodewang, general secretary of Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement, said that the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has promoted the connectivity and development of the country and has been welcomed by local people. This is the attraction of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road".

  Build a monument of friendship

  On the eve of International Children’s Day on June 1st this year, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader wrote back to Alifa Qin, a Bangladeshi child, encouraging her to study hard, pursue her dreams and inherit the traditional friendship between China and Bangladesh.

  "Chin", which means "China" in Mongolian, has a touching story behind the name.

  Arifa Qin was born in 2010. When she was born, her mother Janet suffered dystocia because of severe heart disease, and her life was dying for a time. At that time, it was the first time that China Navy’s hospital ship "Square Boat" carried out the "harmonious mission" in Bangladesh. After receiving help, the hospital ship rushed to the local hospital at the first time.

  After two hours of surgery, Janet finally gave birth to a baby girl. Looking at his daughter, who weighs only 3 kg, and his wife, who has just been pulled back from death, the child’s father specially named his daughter Qin "Chin" to express his gratitude to the soldiers in China. He said that his daughter should remember China and her savior.

△ On August 22nd, 2013, Arifa Qin was with the nurse from China who had taken care of her in 2010.

  "Qin’s personal experience in the letter is a vivid portrayal of China-Bangladesh friendship." In his reply to Qin, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader said, "China and Bangladeshi people have been good neighbors and friends since ancient times, and have a history of friendly exchanges stretching back thousands of years."

  Millennium friendship has been passed down from generation to generation, and pragmatic cooperation has been promoted step by step.

  In October 2016, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader made a historic visit to Bangladesh, and China-Bangladesh relations were upgraded to a strategic partnership. Bangladesh is the first country in South Asia to sign a memorandum of understanding with China to jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative.

  Today, in the face of endless global challenges, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader has a profound insight: "I propose to build a community of human destiny and propose to build together ‘ Belt and Road ’ It is to repeatedly think about how countries around the world should achieve mutual cooperation, sharing, harmony without differences, and win-win cooperation in diverse interests and demands. "

  In Pakistan, Gwadar Port is the flagship project of China-Pakistan "Belt and Road" cooperation and a new milestone of China-Pakistan friendship in the 21st century. At present, projects such as Gwadar Port Free Zone and China-Pakistan Friendship Hospital have been completed or under construction. The solar power generation system and equipment donated by China to Gwadar people have promoted local economic and social development.

△ Gwadar Port is printed on Pakistani banknotes with a denomination of 5 rupees.

  "Where the project is built, a monument of friendship will be built there", in December 2018, when the Chairman of the Supreme Leader visited Panama for the first time, he exclaimed. Today, large-scale projects full of China elements, such as the Fourth Panama Canal Bridge and Panama National Convention and Exhibition Center, have become local landmarks, and China commodities are increasingly integrated into people’s daily lives. Eddie Tabiro, an expert on financial strategy of Panama Canal Authority, said with emotion: "‘ Belt and Road ’ Cooperation is not who conquers who, but mutual help between friends. "

  Get to know each other in the encounter, work together in the mutual understanding, and build the "Belt and Road". People are hand in hand and jointly build a beautiful home.

  Humanistic exchange of mutual learning and learning

  At the end of September this year, Beijing Capital International Airport welcomed more than 30 students from Thailand. In the next year, these students will enter Tianjin Bohai Vocational and Technical College to study vocational education courses in China.

  Letting Thai students go to China to receive vocational education in China is the first cooperation between Tianjin Bohai Vocational and Technical College and Thailand Dacheng Technical College after the initiative of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, named after Luban, a famous craftsman in ancient China.

  There is no Luban in Luban Workshop, but there are more than 70 professional skills courses such as industrial robots, new energy and Internet of Things. In September 2018, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader solemnly announced at the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation that China would "set up 10 Luban workshops in Africa to provide vocational skills training for African youth".

△ Djibouti Luban Workshop

  Osman, a young man from Djibouti, had a "railway dream" since he was a child. I heard that Luban Workshop in Djibouti is recruiting students majoring in railway, and he will sign up immediately. "My family condition is particularly bad. Can I be admitted to Luban Workshop?" During the interview, Osman expressed his concern. The interviewer in China said, "I believe you. If you work hard, you can also become the Luban of Djibouti." After layers of selection, Osman became one of the first batch of 24 freshmen and will directly participate in the construction of Yaji Railway in the future.

  "Really want to build ‘ Belt and Road ’ It is necessary to form a humanistic pattern of mutual appreciation, mutual understanding and mutual respect among the people along the route. " General Secretary of the Supreme Leader said.

  Promote the "Belt and Road" cultural and tourism exchanges, implement the "Cultural Silk Road" plan, establish an international alliance of theaters, museums, art festivals, libraries and art galleries along the Silk Road, actively co-organize art festivals, film festivals, music festivals, cultural relics exhibitions, book exhibitions and other activities with the co-construction countries, cooperate in the creation and mutual translation and broadcasting of excellent books, radio, film and television, and jointly implement the joint archaeological and cultural relics restoration project & HELIP; … In the past 10 years, the co-construction countries have extensively carried out cultural tourism cooperation, educational exchanges, cooperation between media and think tanks, and people-to-people exchanges, and promoted mutual learning and cultural integration and innovation, forming a pattern of people-to-people exchanges with multiple interactions and flowers blooming.

△ On October 6, 2023, diplomatic envoys from many countries in Kenya watched a cultural performance at Nairobi Station of Monnet Railway in Nairobi, Kenya.

  Throughout the ten years since the "Belt and Road Initiative" was jointly established, China and the co-construction countries have written many stories of "casting me a peach and rewarding me with Qiong Yao". This is the inheritance of traditional virtues and the cherish of friendship by the Chinese nation for thousands of years.

  This kind of treasure has nothing to do with distance — — No matter how far apart, as long as we bravely take the first step and stick to the opposite direction, we can walk out of a road of meeting and knowing each other and developing together, and move towards a happy, peaceful, harmonious and beautiful distance.

  This kind of treasure is related to people’s hearts — — "We should all have the belief that people of all countries should have a better future and build together ‘ Belt and Road ’ It will definitely usher in a better world. "

  There is a "road" between people.

  Producer: Geng Zhimin

  Producer Xing Lai

  Editor-in-Chief Ning Lili

  Pen-writing Yang Caiyun

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Lorelei, he’s on a hot search? What happened to the "life-saving medicine" of "allergic star people"

Source: Jiangsu CDC (jscdcwx)

Spring has come, and "allergic star people" are getting worse.

Some people say, chlorine ray is in his hand, don’t panic!

However …

How did this get on the hot search?

The antihistamine represented by loratadine is a "life-saving medicine" for many allergic people.

So, many people rely on antihistamines for a long time, will there be side effects? What are the precautions?

Who is the "life-saving medicine" chlorine ray?

Loratadine is a commonly used drug to relieve allergic symptoms and one of the representative drugs of antihistamines.

In April and May every year, willow flocks are high, and many people will take loratadine with them in order to relieve allergic symptoms.

Although it is often used, many people don’t know how it works.

This is going to start with "what is the allergy?"

Generally speaking, allergy means that the immune system overreacts and misjudges substances from outside as "harmful substances".

At this time, the immune system will release a substance called "histamine", which will combine with histamine receptors in the body.

Therefore, patients will have respiratory tract, eyes, skin and other symptoms at the same time or successively.

H1 antihistamines represented by loratadine and cetirizine, as the name implies, are drugs that can prevent histamine from binding to its receptor, so that histamine cannot play its role.

Therefore, after taking antihistamines, symptoms such as itchy skin and sneezing will be quickly relieved. Therefore, antihistamines are called "life-saving drugs" by many allergic people.

Can this medicine be taken for a long time?

Some people regard loratadine as a "life-saving artifact all year round". But are there any side effects from long-term use of antihistamines?

In fact, loratadine can not eradicate allergens, and long-term use may lead to some adverse reactions.

side effect

First-generation antihistamines (such as diphenhydramine and bromophenamine) can cause adverse reactions such as drowsiness, fatigue and dizziness. It has anticholinergic effect, which may cause blurred vision, dry eyes, nose and mouth, urinary retention, constipation, etc. The elderly and children should use it with caution.

The second generation antihistamines (such as loratadine and cetirizine) have weak sedative effect, are not easy to cause drowsiness, and have high safety; There is no obvious anticholinergic adverse reaction, so it has no antitussive function.

Third-generation antihistamines (such as levocetirizine hydrochloride and desloratadine) have relatively strong antiallergic effect and relatively few side effects, and some drugs can be used for pregnant and lactating women and children.

Therefore, if you need to take such drugs for a long time, it is recommended to consult a doctor. The following is a summary of medication for reference.

1. Choose drugs carefully

Antihistamines are only suitable for use under the guidance of a doctor to relieve the symptoms caused by allergic diseases. Pregnant and lactating women, as well as the elderly and children, should be cautious when using drugs.

2. Pay attention to the time and dosage of medication.

Even loratadine and cetirizine, which are considered very safe in clinic, should not be taken continuously for more than one month. Because of the individual differences in medication, if the symptoms are not improved, the dosage of the drug should not be increased without authorization, and other drugs or treatment methods should be selected under the guidance of a doctor.

Step 3 don’t drink

Do not drink alcohol while taking antihistamines, otherwise it will increase the burden on the liver and inhibit the central nervous system.

4. Don’t take it before skin test.

Loratadine can prevent or reduce the positive reaction of skin test and affect the results.

5. Beware of the "chain reaction" of drugs

Antifungal drugs and macrolide antibiotics can increase the content of loratadine in blood, and it is easy to aggravate the adverse reactions when combined with antihistamines.

6. Patients with heart disease should pay attention to it

In the case of rational drug use, antihistamines have very little hepatorenal toxicity, but literature shows that some first-generation and second-generation antihistamines may have potential cardiotoxicity. Although rare, people who have heart disease or cardiovascular risk should pay attention when using antihistamines for a long time.

What else can I do to deal with allergies?

In addition to using antihistamines, many "senior patients" said that the best way to deal with it is to wear a mask! Wear long sleeves!

"Allergic star people" can do the following things in their daily life.

1. Protect yourself when going out: Wear a mask, and you can wear a thin coat for fear of allergies in bare arms. When going out, the clothes are inevitably stained with allergens such as pollen and dust outside. I suggest you wash your hair, take a shower and change your clothes when you get home.

2. Clean the nasal cavity every day: people with allergic rhinitis or sensitive to pollen and catkins should clean the nasal cavity with normal saline 2-3 times a day.

3. Do a good job in indoor cleaning: Usually, you can use high-temperature steam cleaning products or mite removal instruments to wash sheets, quilt covers and pillowcases more often.

4. Regular physical exercise: Moderate exercise will stimulate the improvement of immunity, but if the exercise load is too large, it will also reduce immunity, so physical exercise must be gradual, persistent and adequate.

There are always a few allergic people around everyone. Hurry up and forward it to someone you care about ~

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China population seminar and NSFC China population emergency research project exchange meeting held.

 


Meeting site


On October 11th, the "China Population Seminar and NSFC China Population Emergency Research Project Exchange Meeting" jointly organized by the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Science, the Management Science Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Renmin University of China was held. More than 50 experts from the National Family Planning Commission, the National Bureau of Statistics, the Development Research Center of the State Council, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Renmin University and China Academy of Sciences attended the meeting. The opening ceremony was presided over by researcher Wang Shouyang, director of the Economic and Financial Interdisciplinary Research Department of the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and vice president of the School of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.


Speech by Researcher Wang Yuefei, Deputy Director of the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He pointed out that in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a group of well-known scholars, such as Zhu Guangtian and Han Jingqing, supported by the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, cooperated with Academician Song Jian to study the population problem in China, which provided an important decision-making basis for the population "family planning" policy implemented in China 30 years ago. The National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Science attaches great importance to the study of China’s population problem, and takes China’s population problem as one of the important research fields, and starts special research projects in time. He hoped that the population experts attending the meeting would continue to support and strengthen cooperation with the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Science in the study of population problems in China, and make new contributions to solving the problems faced by the population in China in the future. 


Academician Ma Zhiming introduced the background of the meeting and pointed out that the current population problem in China is a major issue that the national decision-makers are particularly concerned about. They directly affect the long-term development of China’s economy and society, and many related issues need to be studied and solved urgently. Yu Jingyuan researcher from 710 aerospace science and technology groups, Professor Chen Gong, deputy director of Peking University Population Research Institute, Professor Zhai Zhenwu, director of China Renmin University Population and Development Research Center, and Yue Tianxiang, researcher from Institute of Geographical Sciences and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively gave special reports. Eight research groups of NSFC China population emergency research project also reported the research progress respectively. Experts at the conference also conducted in-depth discussions on major population-related issues in China.


The meeting was strongly supported by the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Academician Bureau of China Academy of Sciences.

In 2023, the box office of New Year’s Day broke through 100 million, and Avatar 2 and Want to See You led the way.

1905 movie network news According to the data of Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of 12: 25 on December 31, New Year’s Day in 2023(31 December-2 January)The total box office (including pre-sales) exceeded 100 million yuan. With a box office score of 46.684 million (including pre-sales), it is temporarily ranked first in the list, ranking second to fifth.

For 13 years, with a movie."Avatar: The Way of Water" is "making a comeback", which is highly anticipated by fans all over the world. The film is inOn December 16th, the painting was opened in China Mainland, and the cumulative box office has reached 889 million. The arrival of the New Year’s Day holiday will also help the film box office to rise again.



Seeing You, which ranked second on the list with a box office of 31.47 million yuan, is also a movie that netizens have been looking forward to for many years. The filmAdapted from the drama series of the same name, it was created by the original crew of TV series such as directing,,, and so on. The "Fengnan Team" returned again, and how the love of Huang Yuxuan, Li Ziwei, Chen Yunru, Wang Quansheng and Mo Junjie finally went, made the audience again."Above", this is full of staminaAt present, the total box office of movies has reached 171 million.

Fearless of fate, not afraid of loss, not afraid of meeting, bold to love!This New Year holiday, let’s go back to the cinema and feel the magic of this love through time and space.

Directed by, Li Jiaqi, Guo Xiangpeng, etc.The comedy film Desperate Husband, starring, temporarily ranked third in the box office list on New Year’s Day in 2023 with a box office score of 17.72 million yuan.The film tells the story of Hu Tienan (Chang Yuan) becoming a "full-time stay-at-home husband" due to an elevator accident. After experiencing a series of ridiculous "dislocation" experiences, he finally understands his wife’s silent dedication and the true meaning of "love".

New Year’s Day in 2023, comedy, science fiction, love, animation … … Various types of films gather to meet the different needs of the audience, and the China film market alsoIt ushered in a gratifying climax of watching movies.

Golden Rooster Award Special Planning | Film technical workers hiding behind the scenes


1905 movie network news Golden roosters and crows, striding for a new journey. "Today’s Film Review" specially plans a series of programs for the 35th Golden Rooster Award of Chinese films, and pays attention to the film technical workers who are hidden behind the scenes nominated by this Golden Rooster Award. These photographers, artists and sound recorders who work behind the scenes of movies are often little known. What efforts have they made behind the scenes to get the frame-by-frame light and shadow presented on the big screen?


Once the nomination list of the 35th Chinese Golden Rooster Award was announced, it triggered a wide-ranging discussion. In addition to the selection of the best film and the best actor and actress, there are some awards that can be said to be unpopular in the film festival, such as the best photography award, the best recording award, the best art award and other technical awards. These awards may be unfamiliar to the audience, but they are full of weight for the film industry practitioners.



Shadan, a film critic, said: "The Golden Rooster Award, as the most well-known award in China, is a very important moment to bring out these behind-the-scenes heroes, because the art form of film is considered to be a more humanistic creation, but in fact, it has been developing a lot of technology since its birth, supporting the continuous presentation and perfection of this art, and there are many heroes behind it that you may not be so familiar with, but now we can enjoy such a perfect film form, and there are many efforts of these big coffees.



What is pleasing to the eye and immersive is really a matter for a reason and a matter for someone. In this list, there are about four to five films for each award, which are carefully selected from the cinema films of the past year. For example, the films nominated for the photography awards have taken the lead at the beginning, climbing up from the bottom of a building with a particularly eye-catching long lens, and the audience has also read the scenes of educating children in every household with the camera’s perspective. This scheduling needs to make the film show a huge amount of information in one shot, and this information needs a large number of actors and behind-the-scenes staff to cooperate with the camera, and finally popularize the theme of children in the film and let the audience see the film from one shot.



It can be said that the photographer is the eyes of the director or a movie, and in the new era, filming is increasingly testing the photographer’s imagination. For example, the visual effect of the film is completely built in the shed, and photography should realize the director’s design from scratch in this process, which is well reflected in Moon Man, from the formation of art design and stunt to the final collocation of photography. Shadan mentioned: "The visual shock of Moon Man’s fine arts is very strong, and the treatment of the color block is very eye-catching. The main part is divided into two parts: blue and yellow. You can imagine that these two colors represent the earth and the moon, and they are interspersed with each other. Through such a very eye-catching collocation, everyone can quickly feel that this is a story about the connection between the moon and the earth." That’s true, and blue usually reminds people of sci-fi themes, while yellow gives people a sense of comedy. The two color systems not only explain the theme to the audience, but also show their own types of sci-fi comedies.



In this nomination list for the best art, besides Moon Man and Mozart in Outer Space, there are also such low-cost works, which can be nominated and compete with several blockbusters, so it must have its own uniqueness in the art scene. The film is a script game in a closed space, and there are not so many scenes in it, so we should make a strong contrast between the villas in different time and space in the film. With the development of the whole incident, the once prosperous villas gradually declined, and the artists made some ingenious designs and placed many withered and black plants, which on the one hand separated time and space itself, and also showed that the theme of the film was moving towards suspense and darkness step by step. This kind of detail processing plays a great role in the audience’s inner hints.



Film is not only a visual expression, but also a sound expression. Sound design is very important in the film, and it is also a well-designed detail for the audience to be there and hear the film in the cinema. When filming, it’s not just to record the live sound directly, it’s just a part of the radio, and the actual production needs a lot of complicated processes and some artistic design. Many sounds are not recorded on the set, but simulated in various ways.



Shadan mentioned: "This film was shortlisted for the best recording award. Anita Mui is a person who is particularly good at singing, so songs are the most important element in this film. However, it can’t be said that Anita Mui’s voice is not used at all, and Wang Danni’s voice is completely similar to Anita Mui’s, which requires a lot of skills. Wang Danni performed the farewell performance in "Anita Mui", a heavy scene in the Red Survey Gymnasium. She mixed the original soundtrack of Anita Mui with the voice that was later sung again. Everyone sounded like the original soundtrack, but it was actually sung by the actors themselves, which was seamless. Let everyone feel that at this moment, Anita Mui’s spirit and voice reappeared again in Wang Danni’s interpretation. "



The finalists of this year’s Golden Rooster Award represent the responsibility and responsibility of filmmakers in the new era to strut, work hard and move forward bravely. In the next journey, every filmmaker needs to constantly create films that are closer to people’s lives according to the main theme of the times and express good stories in audio-visual language. Such an important award, represented by the Golden Rooster Award, is not only to commend the traditional awards such as the best film and the best director that everyone is most concerned about, but also to gather together at this time for a grand commendation for all kinds of jobs, because every link plays a very important role in whether the future film creation can develop better and meet the needs of the audience.


From the multidimensional data, we can see that China’s economy is stable and improving, and people’s sense of happiness is constantly improving.

CCTV News:The National Bureau of Statistics released it on April 11th. In March, the national consumer price index CPI rose by 0.1% year-on-year. From 1— On average, in March, CPI was the same as that in the same period of last year.

From a year-on-year perspective, the national consumer price index CPI rose by 0.1% in March, down 0.6 percentage points from the previous month, mainly due to the fall in the prices of food and travel services. The core CPI excluding food and energy prices rose by 0.6% year-on-year, maintaining a moderate increase.

Zhang Xuewu, director of the Analysis and Forecasting Division of the Price Monitoring Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, said: "Among the eight categories of goods and services that constitute CPI, except for the decline in food, transportation and communication prices, the prices of the other six categories have all increased year-on-year, indicating that the current low price operation is structural and phased, and the recovery of consumer demand has not changed."

In addition, in March, with the recovery of industrial production after the holiday, the supply of industrial products was relatively sufficient, and the national industrial producer’s ex-factory price index PPI decreased by 0.1% from the previous month, which was narrower than that of the previous month.

Zhang Xuewu said that in the later period, as China’s economy continues to pick up, the demand for goods and services continues to recover, and the impact of the "tail-up" is gradually weakening, it is expected that prices will pick up moderately.

The accumulated balance of the medical insurance fund is 3.4 trillion yuan, and the insured market is stable.

On the morning of April 11th, the National Medical Insurance Bureau held a regular press conference. The relevant person in charge introduced that in 2023, the total income of the basic medical insurance pooling fund was 2.7 trillion yuan, the total expenditure was 2.2 trillion yuan, and the accumulated balance was 3.4 trillion yuan. The number of participants reached 1.334 billion, the participation rate remained above 95%, and the participation market was stable.

Zhu Yongfeng, deputy director of the Planning, Finance and Regulation Department of the National Medical Insurance Bureau, said: "China’s insurance market is stable, the vast majority of residents have confidence in the basic medical insurance system, and the foundation of the system is solid. By the end of 2023, the number of people participating in basic medical insurance reached 1.334 billion. From the latest situation at the end of March 2024, the scale of residents’ medical insurance participation was basically the same as that of the same period in 2023, and there was no so-called ‘ Surrender tide ’ 。”

In 2023, there were 8.247 billion outpatient and inpatient settlements nationwide, a year-on-year increase of 27%. The scope of medical insurance was further expanded. In 2023 alone, 126 drugs were newly included in the medical insurance catalogue, and medical insurance services were more convenient. During the year, 130 million people were directly settled across provinces.

Long Xuewen, deputy director of the Medical Security Management Center of the National Medical Insurance Bureau, said: "This year, we will expand the scope of inter-provincial direct settlement of networked hospitals for outpatient chronic and special diseases and the scope of direct settlement of diseases, increase the audit of inter-provincial medical expenses of medical insurance agencies in different places, further standardize medical behavior in medical places, and prevent unreasonable medical treatment behavior in the process of medical treatment in different places."

The box office revenue of the national performance market in the first quarter increased by 116.87% year-on-year.

Then pay attention to the performance market. The reporter learned from the China Performance Industry Association that in the first quarter, there were 119,000 commercial performances (excluding entertainment venues) nationwide, with 38,869,900 people watching the performances, and the box office income was 10.8 billion yuan, an increase of 116.87% compared with 2023. The national performance market started well.

Goldman Sachs raised China’s economic growth forecast for the first quarter of this year to 5%.

On April 11th, Goldman Sachs Group, an international investment bank, pointed out in its latest research report that based on the strong performance of China’s manufacturing industry this year, Goldman Sachs raised the growth forecast of China’s economy in the first quarter of this year and the whole year of this year.

China Macroeconomic Research Team of Goldman Sachs Research Department believes that in the first two months of this year, China’s macroeconomic data was better than expected as a whole, and a number of recent data confirmed China’s economic resilience, especially the strong performance of manufacturing industry. Therefore, they raised the growth forecast of China’s economy in the first quarter of this year, and expected China’s economy to grow by 5% year-on-year.

Flash Hui, chief China economist of Goldman Sachs, said: "China’s industrial production data in February was higher than expected, and China’s actual export volume increased significantly in February and January. We saw official figures that the total export volume in February and January increased by 20% year-on-year, and the high-frequency data in March was basically stable."

Looking forward to the whole year of this year, the China Macroeconomic Research Team of Goldman Sachs Research Department believes that there is still room for the China government to exert its strength at the macro-policy level. When necessary, the innovation and coordination of policy tools such as fiscal policy and monetary policy can be strengthened to ensure the stable operation of the macro economy. Goldman Sachs raised China’s economic growth forecast for the whole year to 5% in its research report.

Flash Hui said: "We see that there is a certain reserve on the policy side. For example, if the ultra-long-term special national debt of one trillion yuan is issued, it will have a certain impact on the liquidity between banks. The central bank may use RRR cuts and other liquidity management methods to deal with it. Overall, due to the increase in economic growth in the first quarter, our annual figures (economic growth expectations) rose to 5.0%. "

Promote large-scale equipment renewal and trade-in of consumer goods in various fields.

The State Council Information Office held a policy briefing on April 11th, and relevant officials of the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments introduced that specific implementation plans in various fields are being released and implemented around the Action Plan for Promoting Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Trade-in of Consumer Goods (hereinafter referred to as the Action Plan).

According to the specific objectives of the Action Plan, by 2027, the scale of equipment investment in the fields of industry, agriculture, construction, transportation, education, cultural tourism and medical care will increase by more than 25% compared with 2023; The recycling volume of scrapped cars has doubled compared with 2023, the trading volume of used cars has increased by 45% compared with 2023, and the recycling volume of used household appliances has increased by 30% compared with 2023. The relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission said that there is huge market space for large-scale equipment renewal and trade-in of consumer goods.

Zhao Chenxi, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said: "According to estimates by relevant institutions, the annual demand for equipment investment and renewal in key areas such as industry and agriculture in China is more than 5 trillion yuan, and the demand for replacement of automobiles and household appliances is also above one trillion yuan. This action can not only promote consumption, stimulate investment, effectively enhance economic vitality, but also increase advanced production capacity, promote energy conservation and carbon reduction, reduce security risks, and achieve high-quality development. "

It is understood that among the current equipment stock assets in the whole society, the industrial equipment stock assets are about 28 trillion yuan, accounting for over 70%, which is the focus of equipment renewal. On April 9, seven departments, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, also released implementation plans to promote the upgrading of equipment in the industrial field.

Shan Zhongde, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said: "We will focus on key industries such as petrochemical, steel, nonferrous metals, building materials, machinery, automobiles, light industry, textiles and electronics, and comprehensively promote equipment renewal and technological transformation. By 2027, we will strive to achieve an increase of more than 25% in equipment investment in the industrial sector compared with 2023. "

In response to social concerns about financial support, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Finance responded that the central government will guide large-scale equipment renewal from four aspects. At the same time, adhere to the linkage between the central government and local governments to promote the trade-in of durable consumer goods such as automobiles and household appliances.

Fu Jinling, director of the Department of Economic Construction of the Ministry of Finance, said: "The central government has given priority support to promoting the trade-in of automobiles. Give fixed subsidies to consumers who scrap high-emission passenger cars or qualified new energy passenger cars and buy energy-saving or new energy vehicles. Encourage qualified places to co-ordinate the promotion of household appliances and other durable consumer goods, and ensure that ‘ Real money and silver ’ The policy of benefiting the people goes directly to consumers. "

The annual investment scale of equipment in China’s industrial field exceeds 4 trillion yuan, and the demand for renewal continues to grow.

It can be seen that the investment scale of equipment in the industrial field accounts for a relatively large proportion of equipment investment in the whole society. Which equipment is the focus of updating in the next step? What are the specific update directions? Let’s listen to the experts’ interpretation.

In 2023, the national industrial equipment investment scale reached 4.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.7%. According to industry experts, many machines and equipment in China rank first in the world. With the continuous advancement of new industrialization, the demand for equipment renewal will be increasing.

Zhang Li, president of China Electronic and Information Industry Development Research Institute, said: "We will promote industries where the overall production equipment such as industrial machinery, agricultural machinery, instruments and meters, construction machinery, light industry, textiles, etc. is at a low level, and eliminate a number of backward and inefficient equipment that has been in service for an extended period. For industries where aviation, photovoltaics, power batteries, biological fermentation and other production equipment are in the middle and high level as a whole, enterprises are encouraged to update a number of advanced equipment with high technology, high efficiency and high reliability, and continuously improve the production efficiency and technical level of the industry. "

According to experts, the large-scale equipment renewal and digital transformation in the industrial field is a major focus. Strive to achieve more than 90% penetration rate of digital R&D design tools for industrial enterprises above designated size and more than 75% numerical control rate of key processes by 2027.

Zhu Min, director of the Institute of Informatization and Industrialization Integration of China ICT Institute, said: "For some traditional industries, it is necessary to speed up the application of general intelligent manufacturing equipment such as CNC machine tools, industrial robots and intelligent detection, and realize quality improvement, cost reduction and efficiency improvement in key production links; On the other hand, for some high-end and advantageous industries, we can accelerate the upgrading of advanced equipment such as intelligent complete sets of equipment and flexible production units, and comprehensively upgrade the entire manufacturing process. "

Chongqing: Shuangqiao successfully crossed chengdu-chongqing railway at the same turn.

On April 10th, a 14,000-ton double swivel bridge across chengdu-chongqing railway was under construction in Diaoyuzui District, dadukou district, Chongqing, which took 110 minutes to realize precise swivel.

Driven by the hydraulic traction system, the double-swing bridge across chengdu-chongqing railway on the No.1 road in Chongqing Fishing Mouth Area rotates in the counterclockwise direction synchronously, realizing the left swing of 90 degrees and the right swing of 88 degrees, accurately butting with the main bridge and successfully crossing chengdu-chongqing railway.

The No.1 road in Fishing Mouth Area spans both Dabin Road and chengdu-chongqing railway. The span bridge is 191 meters long and 34 meters wide, with six lanes in both directions, and the single bridge weighs more than 7,000 tons. It is reported that the bridge is constructed by turning, which can avoid the influence on the normal passage of 34 trains and freight trains in China and Europe every day. At the same time, when it is completed and opened to traffic, it will improve the traffic links between the Diaoyu Peninsula and other areas in Chongqing, greatly reduce the transit time and greatly improve the travel conditions of the residents in the area.

Qinghai: the vast Gobi is now a strange landscape of "colorful quicksand"

Recently, in Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai, the reporter photographed the strange landscape of "colorful quicksand". Let’s follow the camera and have a look.

In the picture, the colorful gravel seems to be a palette of nature and dumped on the vast Gobi, embellishing the original monotonous yellow sand with colorful colors. It is understood that the formation of "colorful quicksand" is inseparable from the unique geological conditions of Saishiteng Mountain. The sandy stones in this Gobi are rich in various mineral components. After a long period of wind and rain erosion and sunshine exposure, they gradually show colorful colors. The long-term grinding of sand and sand not only shapes the unique shape of sand and stone, but also gathers them into a beautiful "quicksand sea", as if it were a flowing ink painting on the earth palette.

Coca-Cola advertisement accused of "Tibet independence" company has been withdrawn (photo)

  


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  Coca-Cola sent a letter to this website: The advertisement suspected of "Tibet independence" has been taken down.


  Global Times Global Network News: On April 9, foreign media reported that the advertisement of Coca-Cola Company with Tibetan image posted in a German railway station caused dissatisfaction among netizens in China. Some netizens think that this advertising picture implies "realizing freedom". A statement sent by Coca-Cola (China) Co., Ltd. to Global Times & World Wide Web on the 10th said that the advertisement was an old advertisement launched in Germany in 2003, and stressed that it did not contain any political or religious background. Coca-Cola Company said that the advertisement had been taken down on the same day.


  Netizens accused Coca-Cola of advertising support for "Tibet independence"


  On April 9th, the Guardian reported in a report entitled "China netizens claim that Coca-Cola supports Tibetans" that the advertisement of the Coca-Cola Company with Tibetans was criticized by netizens in China. A netizen said that an advertisement of Coca-Cola involved supporting "Tibet independence", which triggered a boycott of the brand by some China nationalists.


  The report said that a poster was posted in a railway station in Germany: a group of monks were riding a roller coaster, and the picture was supplemented by the slogan "make it real". According to the report, this picture aroused the anger of a China netizen who emigrated overseas. He posted the photo on the famous Tianya website in China. On the internet, he wrote: "Germany began to appear advertisements supporting Tibet independence. Coca cola! Ok, I remember. Never get your hands on this damn product again. " Then, he commented: "Three monks represent the Tibetan Lama, and riding a roller coaster symbolizes freedom. Make it real’ means’ realizing freedom’. "


  According to the report, some people think that this netizen’s comments are far-fetched, but more people expressed their support for this netizen who posted the photos, and they vowed to stop drinking Coca-Cola.


  On the evening of the 8th, a spokesman for Coca-Cola Company said that the company regretted any emotional injury caused by the monk image featured in an old poster in 2003. He said that this was really not Coca-Cola’s intention. This poster shot in the past was posted in a shop window in Bremen, and it was removed after the incident.

Department Data Sharing System in Henan Province

I. Purpose of the investigation

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In order to give full play to the overall function of government statistics, reflect the construction of economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization and the management of government departments (industries) in Henan Province, and meet the needs of macro-decision management of the provincial party committee and government, this system is formulated in accordance with the Statistics Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Regulations on Statistics Management of Henan Province and relevant laws and regulations.

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Second, the content of the survey

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This system is a part of the statistical investigation of the provincial government in Henan Province. The statistical data refers to the statistical data obtained by the provincial departments in implementing the national statistical investigation and carrying out local statistical investigation, as well as the relevant business, financial data and administrative registration data within the scope of departmental management functions required by the provincial national economic accounting and statistical bulletin, including the following parts:

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1 provincial departments to implement the relevant state ministries, commissions, bureaus, offices and other arrangements of the regular investigation, census statistics.

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2. Statistical data obtained by provincial departments independently or jointly conducting local regular surveys and censuses.

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3. The business and financial data required by provincial national economic accounting within the scope of departmental management functions mainly refer to the financial accounting data of the system business accounting under the jurisdiction of departments and units, including the balance sheet and income statement in the annual and regular financial accounting data.

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4. Administrative registration materials closely related to statistics in the business under the jurisdiction of provincial departments.

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5. Department statistics required for statistical bulletin.

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III. Scope of investigation

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The investigation scope of this system includes provincial departments, central administrative departments in Henan and direct reporting units (referred to as provincial departments). Provincial departments include provincial state organs, some institutions with administrative functions, people’s organizations with certain administrative functions authorized by the government, group companies (associations), courts, procuratorates, etc. authorized to exercise administrative functions on behalf of the competent authorities. Central administrative departments in Henan include departments with dual leadership of the central and local governments and central administrative institutions in Henan, and direct reporting units include regional administrative institutions (branches, sub-branches, sub-branches, and sub-branches) headquartered in regional financial institutions in other provinces (cities, districts) in Henan.

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Fourth, the survey method

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This system collects comprehensive data from the current statistical investigation and administrative records of provincial departments, and does not assign investigation tasks to grassroots respondents. The system is divided into general table and department table. The general table is submitted by several provincial departments, and the department table is submitted by a single provincial department.

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V. Organization mode

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The statistical investigation of the implementation department of this system is under centralized management, and the sub-system, investigation frequency, submission time, submission method, receiving unit and contact person of the Provincial Bureau of Statistics of each report are clearly defined; The data is reviewed and confirmed by the relevant units of the Provincial Bureau of Statistics and the centralized management department.

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VI. Data Release

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Most of the data obtained by this system are publicly used in Henan Statistical Yearbook, and some of the contents are used for reference by local party committees and governments in macro-decision-making or in national economic accounting.

BYD Auto: All models are equipped with high-level intelligent driving of the Eye of God.

At BYD’s intelligent strategy conference, the technical matrix of Eye of God was officially released, including Eye of God A, Eye of God B and Eye of God C.. At the same time, according to the official, all its models will be equipped with high-level intelligent driving of the Eye of God, and today, "21 models" will be listed.

It is worth mentioning that the official revealed that BYD currently has 110,000+R&D engineers, 5,000+intelligent R&D engineers and the world’s largest R&D engineer team composed of self-built AI supercomputer center. In addition, BYD officially said: Buying a car to see smart driving in 2025 will become an essential configuration in the next 2-3 years.

Wang Chuanfu said that safety is the greatest luxury of electric vehicles, and smart driving is the strongest guardian for safe travel. BYD Smart Drive puts safety first. Popularizing smart driving should start from the functions that consumers are most concerned about and need most. At the same time, the high-level intelligent driving of the Eye of God is standard in all departments above 100,000, and most of them are equipped below 100,000.


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Albee, an American playwright, died. He once said that Broadway was not a drama.

 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.