Reporter Zheng Sanbo Intern Yan Meng

　　What can I do in four hours? For office workers, it is just half a day’s work; For self-driving families, they can get to Wuxi and Chengkou &hellip from the main city of Chongqing. … In four hours, Tangxi and Zhang Yan completed the life event from meeting, knowing each other, falling in love to deciding to register for marriage. Just like Jay Chou’s song, love is like a tornado. Yesterday, Tangxi and Zhang Yan registered their marriage in Yubei District.

　　meet

　　Although we are colleagues, we don’t have much contact.

　　Colleagues set them up at dinner.

　　Yesterday morning, Tang Xi and Zhang Yan came to the Marriage Registration Center in Yubei District and formally registered their marriage. When the two put the marriage certificate in the circle of friends, the friends in the group exclaimed — — The night before, everyone was joking to let them spend Tanabata together. It was too steep!

　　"When we had dinner together last night, everyone was still making fun of them. This pair of older single young people just got together and spent Valentine’s Day together." Zhao Siheng, Tang Xi’s good friend and colleague, said that this is too sudden, but I still want to bless them.

　　Yesterday afternoon, the two were busy taking time off to travel, and the leaders were very willing to promote their feelings and prepare to approve their holidays.

　　Tang Xi told reporters that he works in the office of a passenger transport company in Renhe, and Zhang Yan is the finance of the branch. On the afternoon of August 8, the company held a business training activity. After the activity, at about 8 pm, everyone had a dinner together.

　　"More than 20 of us were sitting around, and she just sat next to me." Tang Xi said that although they had known each other for three years, Zhang Yan worked in the company office because he was engaged in accounting work in a branch office, so he didn’t have much contact at ordinary times, only occasionally contacted several times, and he didn’t have any deep friendship.

　　The two were sitting at the same table for dinner. Since they were both older and single, other colleagues joked about them. "Looking at you two love in the city, it’s a perfect match." "Let’s spend the Tanabata together." "You two are both alone now, so why don’t you make friends?"

　　know each other well

　　I was scared by my parents’ forced marriage

　　From embarrassment to common interests

　　"At that time, everyone said a word to me, which made me a little moved." Tang Xi said that he is 35 years old. In the last four or five years, his parents have been forced to get married, and he has been dragged to blind date seven or eight times. However, some of them are not satisfied with the meeting, and some of them have not felt separated for a while, and they are still single until now. From Zhang Yan’s conversation, I found that her experience was similar to her own. "I have been forced to marry by my mother for three or four years, but I have not found a satisfactory person." Zhang Yan spoke to Tangxi.

　　Zhang Yan said that during her conversation with Tangxi, she found that both of them were forced to get married by their parents, and the conversation started. The two talked about hobbies and family situation from tucao forced marriage, and later found that everyone had a common hobby of traveling, so they talked about traveling again.

　　By the end of the dinner party, Zhang Yan found that it would be good to make friends with Tangxi, who had the same experience and common interests, and Tangxi was taller than herself and friendly to people, so she was a good marriage partner.

　　be in love with each other

　　Send her home reluctantly.

　　Parting decided to get married at dawn.

　　After the dinner at 10 o’clock in the evening, Tangxi offered to send Zhang Yan home. "On the way home, we talked about many topics. We all know that we have fallen in love with each other. " Tang Xi said that when they arrived at Zhang Yan’s residential area, they were both a little reluctant to part.

　　Two people very much in love to zero respectively, Zhang Yan suddenly found Tang Xi quite suitable for their own, mature and steady, all aspects of the conditions are good. She suddenly said half jokingly, "Since we are all forced to get married, do you dare to marry me?" Hearing this, Tang Xi said, "It’s over." "Well, come to my house at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning and pick me up to get the certificate." "It’s a deal."

　　It took only four hours for the two to meet, know each other, fall in love and finally decide to register for marriage.

　　Tangxi

　　Fate is coming.

　　Get married decisively

　　We are not blind to get a marriage certificate, because we have known each other for more than three years, but we don’t know each other well enough. During the dinner, I asked Zhang Yan’s friends and leaders about her. Everyone said that she was dutiful, kind, unassuming, and did a good job. The disadvantage was that she was picky. She didn’t have a boyfriend until she was 30 years old, and she occasionally played a little temper. If she could tolerate it, there would be no problem.

　　Over the years, I have met many people, but I haven’t found anyone who makes me want to get married. Although I only talked with Zhang Yan for three or four hours, I feel that the other person is very suitable for me and is more suitable for getting married. Maybe I feel it. When fate comes, I will get married decisively.

　　ZhangYan

　　Meet the right person

　　You must seize it.

　　That night, I also privately asked a few of Doncy’s colleagues about him. Everyone says he is good. He doesn’t smoke, drink or gamble. He doesn’t have any bad habits, but he is lazy. When he gets home, he stays on the sofa and watches TV. He doesn’t like to tidy up his house. Since I chose him, I will change him slowly.

　　I used to be picky, but now I’m getting anxious after I’ve passed 30 hurdles. At present, there are not many outstanding older single young men. Through chatting, I found that Tangxi is not bad, so I must seize the right one.

　　reaction

　　Parents are surprised first and then happy.

　　At 8 o’clock yesterday morning, Tangxi went to see Zhang Yan’s parents. "We were surprised!" Zhang Yan’s mother said, but after understanding, I know that they belong to the same company and have known each other for three years. We are still happy that our daughter can find a good marriage partner.

　　After that, Donsie took Zhang Yan’s parents to meet her parents. After the parents agreed, the two went to the Civil Affairs Bureau for marriage registration around 11 o’clock.

　　sound

　　Choose flash marriage to be calm.

　　Tan Gangqiang, a sociologist in Chongqing, said that it is not easy to judge whether flash marriage is good or bad. Some flash marriages are very happy, and some divorce soon. However, if you choose flash marriage, you should keep a cool head and be tolerant and patient with each other after marriage, so that flash marriage will be happier and longer.

　　With the global major housing market cooling down, Singapore’s real estate prices have risen for 12 consecutive quarters. In order to solve this problem, at the end of April, the Singapore government raised the additional buyer stamp duty (ABSD) for foreigners to purchase residential properties by 30 percentage points to 60%, with immediate effect from April 27th.

　　This has caught many real estate agents and property buyers off guard. "Take a private house worth 2 million Singapore dollars as an example, which means that the extra buyer stamp duty that foreign buyers have to pay will soar from 600,000 Singapore dollars to 1.2 million Singapore dollars (about 6.21 million yuan)." Deng Minjie, executive director of AsianPrime Properties, told the First Financial Reporter.

　　The New Deal was introduced because with the high housing prices, Singaporeans are increasingly worried about being squeezed out of the housing market, and high housing prices may also make Singapore less attractive as an international financial center.

　　According to the latest data from the Urban Renewal Authority of Singapore, the price of private housing in Singapore rose by 3.3% in the first quarter, compared with only 0.4% in the previous quarter. In 2021 and 2022, local house prices increased by 10.6% and 8.6% respectively.

　　The third round of cooling in two years

　　In other major international metropolises, the proportion of ABSD is much lower. For example, the tax rate for foreigners to buy a house in Vancouver is 29%, while the tax rates in London, Melbourne and Sydney are around 14%. New york’s tax rate is only 4.3%.

　　In a joint statement, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of National Development and monetary authority of singapore explained the new policy: "The demand of local people to buy their own houses has been particularly strong, and local and foreign investors have shown renewed interest in our residential real estate market.If not controlled, the price may exceed the economic fundamentals. At the same time, there is a risk that the ratio of price to income will continue to rise."

　　Deng Minjie told CBN that under the risk of high loan interest rate environment and global economic challenges, stabilizing real estate prices is the top priority of the Singapore government. "This round of cooling measures is to slow down the purchase demand, especially the purchase demand of investors and foreigners."

　　In fact, this is the third cooling measure for real estate since the COVID-19 epidemic. In December 2021 and September 2022, the government took similar early preventive measures, which had a "mitigation effect".

　　For example, the stamp duty of foreign buyers in Singapore increased from 20% to 30% in December 2021, which led to a decrease of 16.5% in the number of apartments purchased by foreigners in 2022. But in fact, the local real estate prices are still not loose.

　　According to a research report of Orange Tee&Tie, a Singapore brokerage company in 2022, Singapore is still the primary investment destination for foreign investors after several rounds of cooling measures.

　　"Despite the interest rate hike and the cooling measures implemented in December 2021, foreign buyers bought more luxury apartments with a price of S $5 million (about RMB 25.87 million) and above in 2022," the report said. "The purchases of luxury apartments by foreigners and those who have obtained permanent residency in Singapore have almost returned to the level of 2019."

　　According to the buyer’s inquiry data provided by Juwai Iqi Group, a global real estate technology company headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore is the favorite overseas purchase destination for China buyers. Since 2021, Singapore has entered the top 10 overseas inquiries of China buyers, ranking ninth that year. Although the Singapore government raised the stamp duty on foreign buyers at the end of 2021, Singapore has been ranked tenth in the inquiry list for the next two years.

　　What will be different this time?

　　Foreign buyers account for only a small proportion of Singapore’s real estate sales. According to the data of the Urban Renewal Authority of Singapore, foreign buyers accounted for 4.7% of Singapore’s house purchases last year, rising to 7% in the first quarter of this year.

　　Nicholas Mak, chief research officer of MOGUL.sg, a real estate information platform, therefore believes that if only 10% of purchases are affected, then these measures have limitations. "How can we cool the market if it has little impact on the other 90%? It’s like you have a burning oil plant, and these people don’t use the right tools to put out the fire. "

　　At the same time, people who can afford to buy real estate in Singapore may not care about paying more taxes.

　　Kashif Ansari, co-founder and CEO of IQI, told the First Financial Reporter that the high housing prices in Singapore have eliminated a number of foreign buyers. High-net-worth people who plan to buy Singapore real estate now may not change their decision to buy a house because of a 30% tax increase.

　　“Of course, those who specialize in real estate speculation will be discouraged. On the other hand, foreign buyers aiming at global allocation may turn their eyes to luxury houses in Malaysia or Dubai."He said.

　　Deng Minjie said that according to past experience, foreign buyers often balk after receiving the news, especially this time the increase has doubled.

　　However, after the introduction of the New Deal, one of her clients, the foreign buyer who originally planned to look at the house, did not change her mind. "We have communicated with them in time about the tax increase, and they are still willing to continue the house purchase plan. Their feedback is that Singapore will be the place where they want to invest in immigrants. " She also revealed that,Her buyers reported that the unit price of houses in Singapore was reasonable, but the tax was very high.

　　Sun Yanqing, research director of Orange Easy Industry, told the First Financial Reporter: "Cooling measures may curb demand in the next few months. This may provide time for more housing completion and housing supply. When there is a better market balance, the price may stabilize. When demand shrinks, price increases may also slow down. This will help first-time home buyers and HDB upgraders to buy their first home. "

　　"We have slightly lowered the price forecast for the whole year of 2023 from 5%-8% to 4%-7%." Sun Yanqing said.

　　Deng Minjie predicted that as first-time buyers of Singapore citizens and permanent residents will not be affected under the New Deal, these groups will become the main demand drivers in the coming months. According to the data in 2022, this group accounts for about 90% of residential real estate transactions.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 5-Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China said in his government work report on the 5th that this year is the year of government transition, and the economic and social development reported earlier in many fields and in all aspects needs unremitting efforts in the future. Here are some key points.

　　(1) Focus on expanding domestic demand. Give priority to restoring and expanding consumption. Increase the income of urban and rural residents through multiple channels. Stabilize bulk consumption and promote the recovery of life service consumption. Government investment and policy incentives should effectively promote the investment of the whole society. This year, it is planned to arrange 3.8 trillion yuan of special bonds for local governments, accelerate the implementation of major projects in the 14 th Five-Year Plan, implement urban renewal actions, promote regional advantages to complement each other and develop their strengths, encourage and attract more private capital to participate in the construction of major national projects and short-board projects, and stimulate the vitality of private investment.

　　(2) Accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. Focusing on the key industrial chain of manufacturing industry, we will concentrate high-quality resources to jointly promote key core technology research. Strengthen domestic exploration and development of important energy and mineral resources and increase storage and production. Accelerate the digital transformation of traditional industries and small and medium-sized enterprises, and strive to improve the level of high-end, intelligent and green. Accelerate the research and development and application promotion of cutting-edge technologies. Improve the modern logistics system. Vigorously develop the digital economy, improve the level of normalization supervision, and support the development of platform economy.

　　(3) earnestly implement the "two unwavering". Deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises and improve the core competitiveness of state-owned enterprises. Adhere to the direction of classification reform, handle the relationship between economic responsibility and social responsibility of state-owned enterprises, and improve the modern corporate governance of state-owned enterprises with China characteristics. Protect the property rights of private enterprises and the rights and interests of entrepreneurs according to law, encourage and support the development of private economy and private enterprises, support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, and build pro-Qing political and business relations.

　　(4) make greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign capital. Expand market access and increase the opening up of modern service industry. Implement the national treatment of foreign-funded enterprises. Actively promote the accession to high-standard economic and trade agreements such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP), and take the initiative to expand institutional opening in comparison with relevant rules, regulations, management and standards. Continue to play the supporting role of import and export in the economy. Do a good job in the service of foreign-funded enterprises and promote the construction of foreign-funded landmark projects.

　　(5) Effectively prevent and resolve major economic and financial risks. Deepen the reform of the financial system, improve financial supervision, compact the responsibilities of all parties, and prevent the formation of regional and systemic financial risks. Effectively prevent and resolve the risks of high-quality head housing enterprises, improve the balance sheet, prevent disorderly expansion, and promote the steady development of the real estate industry. Prevent and resolve local government debt risks, optimize the debt maturity structure, reduce the interest burden, curb the increase and resolve the stock.

　　(6) Stabilizing grain production and promoting rural revitalization. Stabilize the sown area of grain, do a good job in oil production, and implement a new round of 100 billion Jin of grain production capacity improvement action. Improve the coping mechanism of ensuring supply and stabilizing prices of agricultural materials. Strengthen the construction of infrastructure such as farmland water conservancy and high-standard farmland. In-depth implementation of seed industry revitalization action. Strengthen agricultural science and technology and equipment support. Develop rural characteristic industries and broaden the channels for farmers to increase their income and become rich. Consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation and resolutely prevent large-scale return to poverty.

　　(7) Promote the green transformation of development mode. Further promote the prevention and control of environmental pollution. We will strengthen the construction of urban and rural environmental infrastructure and continue to implement major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems. Promote clean and efficient utilization of coal and technology research and development, and accelerate the construction of a new energy system. We will improve policies to support green development, develop circular economy, promote resource conservation and intensive utilization, promote energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas, and continue to fight the battle for blue sky, clear water and pure land.

　　(eight) to protect the basic livelihood and develop social undertakings. Strengthen the construction of housing security system, support the rigid and improved housing demand, and solve the housing problems of new citizens and young people. Promote the balanced development of compulsory education and the integration of urban and rural areas, vigorously develop vocational education, and promote the innovation of higher education. Promote the expansion and sinking of high-quality medical resources and the balanced regional layout. Strengthen the security of old-age care services and improve the policy system of birth support. Safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of women, children, the elderly and the disabled. Do a good job in preferential treatment and pension for military families, retired soldiers and other entitled groups. Prosperity and development of cultural undertakings and industries. Improve the efficiency of social governance. Strengthen production safety supervision and disaster prevention and mitigation. Comprehensively implement the overall national security concept and build a higher level of peaceful China.

Original title: 10 years of continuous excitement — — "Bear haunt" continues to write happy legends at home and abroad

On January 31st, Boonie Bears: Time Twist, the 10th film in the series "Bears Come and Go", premiered in Beijing and will be released on the first day of the Year of the Loong’s New Year’s Day (February 10th). Since Xiong Bing, the first film in this series in 2014, except that the Spring Festival movie was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 epidemic, a film in the "Bear-infested" series meets the audience at the Spring Festival every year, and parents and children go to the cinema to watch the stories of Xiong Da, Xiong Er, Logger Vick and their new friends, which has also become one of the cultural phenomena of the Spring Festival in China.

Since the official release of Boonie Bears: Time Twist on December 27th, 2023, the cumulative number of people who want to see it on major ticketing platforms has exceeded 900,000, which shows the audience’s expectation and recognition of the series. After 10 years’ development, the series of "Bears Appear" has become the leader of domestic animated films.

Team creation is quality assurance.

"Bears haunt" series releases a movie almost every year, and its creativity and production ability are amazing. This series of films can continue to accompany the audience for 10 years, which is the result of the team creation mode adopted by Huaqiang Fangte Culture and Technology Group and the division of labor by different teams.

In order to ensure the quality of the series of films, Huaqiang Fangte has established a systematic quality review mechanism, from early ideas, outlines, scripts to Taiwanese versions, and has set up a "green light meeting" review mechanism. At the same time, the series of films adopts the project system, and there are two or three fixed teams working in parallel. From creative planning to film production, each film often takes two or three years. Every team will continue to participate in the film projects of this series regardless of creation, production or operation, which has laid a solid foundation for the "Ten-year Covenant". For example, Huida Lin, the director of Boonie Bears: Time Twist, has previously directed bears’ haunting and metamorphosis, bears’ haunting and primitive times and bears’ haunting and returning to the earth.

According to Shang Linlin, producer and producer of "Boonie Bears: Time Twist", they have been thinking about the issue of "what to give back to the audience" since the beginning of their creation, as a blockbuster of "Bears Appear" series. In the past 10 years, each film in this series has created an impressive character, and many scenes are still fresh in the audience’s memory. "The audience grew up with’ Bears’ and should complete the’ Ten-Year Covenant’ together." Based on this, not only the three animated images of Xiong Da, Xiong Er and Logger Vick, which run through the whole series, appear in Boonie Bears: Time Twist, but also more than 240 characters such as Dudu, Feifei, Tuanzi, Abu, Xiaotie, Xiaoluo, Mama Bear, and the villain Donghai in the previous series. Details such as "cutting down trees to save lives" and "crossing just visiting" also continued the previous creativity of Boonie Bears:The Wild Life, such as Return of Bear’s Heart, Bear’s Presence and Primitive Times. The return of these characters and the collection of plots make the audience look back on the time when "bears haunt" and have a different fantasy color.

Boonie Bears: Time Twist also adopted the concept of "parallel time and space", introduced modern time and space concepts such as "time devouring", and constructed three parallel time and space: the modern workplace of the new timeline, the bear hill of the old timeline, and the time-fragmented time and space compatible with the two timelines. The expression and transformation of multi-time and space make its narrative more hierarchical, highlighting the narrative wisdom of the main creation. In terms of content, the film continues the comedy atmosphere and wonderful fighting design of "Bears haunt", which makes children and big friends burst into laughter and gives the film more ornamental value.

Upholding innovation in spreading positive energy

In the past 10 years, the series of films "Bears Come and Go" has focused on the common themes of environmental protection, affection and love, and has been continuously expanded, sublimated and deepened, gradually stepping out of the young, becoming more mature and diversified, and being accepted by audiences of different ages.

"Bear haunt" first appeared in the form of TV cartoons, and its core audience was parent-child groups. Therefore, the first film "Xiong Bing, the Treasure of Bear haunt" was mainly aimed at children and parent-child groups. With the growth of the audience and the concern of more and more young people and adults about "bears", the creative team began to consciously add more themes and elements suitable for the grown-up audience and even adults, and gradually extended to all ages. For example, Boonie Bears:The Wild Life talks about the meaning of happiness, Bears Come Back to Earth promotes the concept of environmental protection on the earth, and Bears Come with Me "Bear Core" takes artificial intelligence as the core of its content. These themes, which are suitable for all ages, are not only constantly breaking through innovation, but also very grounded, and are welcomed by children and adults.

While constantly expanding the world outlook, innovating the story experience and exploring the possibility of the future, "Bear Haunted" consistently maintains the basic characteristics of the brand: insisting on the audience positioning of family fun and the initial intention of "giving positive energy works that touch people’s hearts to everyone".

Boonie Bears: Time Twist tries to explore a profound topic about life: Do you have to live in a defined success? How to make the choice you really want? At the beginning of the film, Logger Vick is set as a member of the modern workplace, going in and out of the office buildings in the metropolis, which has never happened before in this series of films. However, success in the workplace is not Logger Vick’s sincere aspiration. In the film, he keeps dreaming back to the forest where he once lived, worrying about his real friends Xiong Da and Xiong Er. In the time reversal journey to rescue Xiong Da and Xiong Er, Logger Vick led the crowd to defeat the "time devourer" and finally made his own satisfactory life choice. The film also inspires the audience to think about the goal and value of life, and expresses the connotation of more speculative value.

Fantasy creation of visual special effects

Fantasy time and space is one of the core elements of animated films. Creating fantasy time and space is not only the main aesthetic task that creators should complete, but also the key to obtaining artistry and appreciation of films. The series of films "Bears haunt" have made great achievements in this respect. For example, "Bears Coming Back to the Earth" built a strange prehistoric civilization in Laerte with great imagination, and presented scenes such as spaceships and Antarctic regions through more than 2,000 shots; "Bears Come and Go with Me" Bear Core "appeals for realistic companionship with sci-fi imagination, in order to help the robot R&D center — — The panoramic depiction of Zhenxing Island and the presentation of universal robots highlight the creative idea of creating audio-visual impact with animation imagination.

The theme of "reality+fantasy" and the multi-time narrative structure of Boonie Bears: Time Twist provide a large space for the creation of fantasy time and space. This film is also the largest and most difficult special effects production in the series. There are more than 1300 special effects shots in the whole film, and three parallel time and space need a lot of fantasy creation. The plots such as particle shuttle and Armageddon highlight the efforts of the creative team. For example, countless little bears rushed to the screen with more than 30 layers of lens special effects. In order to make each little bear present different expressions and dynamics, the team adopted the newly developed cluster system (a joint system composed of multiple computers for collaborative processing of large-scale computing tasks); In order to make the smoke composed of the final blasting particles have a better shape and level, the team used nearly 200 million special effects particles (a computer graphics technology used to simulate the effects of water, fire, fog and gas in reality), and the loading time of a single particle cache took 2 hours.

Bright exploration of overseas distribution

The series of films "Bears haunt" have been shown in more than 50 countries and regions around the world. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Liechtenstein, The Bears in Primitive Times covered nearly 500 screens, becoming the first China animated film to be widely released in German-speaking Europe. The audience praised the film as "capable of enhancing family parent-child relationship and suitable for the whole family to watch"; In Russia, "Bear with Me" ranked first at the box office on the first day of its release, and the audience commented that "the story is full of kindness and love, which was created by China and well done"; In Turkey, the "Bear Haunted" series of films has attracted more than 600,000 people to watch movies, breaking the local box office record of China animated films; In Africa and the Middle East, a number of series films have been registered on the pay TV and streaming media platforms M-Net and Showmax, and hit … …

With the common comedy types and family theme in the world, popular and brisk animation forms, the continuous output of animated series, and the continuous strengthening of series of film brands, the film and television works of "Bear Haunted" gradually broke through the barriers of art and national boundaries, and made new breakthroughs in overseas distribution, and their influence expanded rapidly. At present, the animated series "Bears Appear" has been distributed to more than 130 countries and regions around the world, with a cumulative export of over 200,000 minutes.

With the continuous expansion of the theme and innovation in narrative and fantasy space-time, coupled with the gradual maturity and precise marketing of China’s animation production industry, the films are increasingly favored by adults and children, especially the young audience, thus gaining strong artistic vitality. The continuous innovation and exploration of the series of films have played an important leading role in the aesthetic development of China animation art, especially domestic animation films, and accumulated rich experience for the creation of China animation films. Its deep cultivation and expansion of overseas markets not only won high recognition from overseas audiences for China’s outstanding original animation works, but also provided a reference path for domestic animation and domestic films to go to sea. (Author: Zhao Weifang, director of Film and Television Research Institute of China Academy of Art and vice president of China Film Critics Association)

People’s Daily Overseas Edition (07th Edition, February 2, 2024)