Strict organizational life of the party: an important link in political life and supervision within the party

  The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee deliberated and adopted Several Guidelines on the Political Life within the Party under the New Situation (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines) and the Regulations on Inner-Party Supervision in the Communist Party of China (CPC) (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations). The two documents mentioned "the organizational life of the Party" many times. The main contents of the party’s organizational life include: all party member and cadres, especially senior cadres, must enhance the party’s awareness and always remember that their first identity is party member; Adhere to the system of "three sessions and one lesson"; Adhere to the system of democratic life meeting and organizational life meeting; Adhere to the system of heart-to-heart talk; Adhere to the system of democratic appraisal of party member; Adhere to the reporting system; Leading cadres must strengthen organizational concepts. Strict organizational life of the party has a profound theoretical origin, rich practical connotation and urgent practical needs, which is the key to strengthening party building.

  First, the profound theoretical origin

  1, the organizational basis of the party’s leadership

  For political parties, their leadership is very important. The party’s leadership can be realized, first, by forming a United and strong leadership core; Second, relying on a strong party organization to ensure the implementation of the party’s line, principles and policies.

  The formation of a strong Party organization is closely related to a strong contingent of party member cadres. Party constitution stipulated that all party member belonged to a branch, and there was no party member without a branch, so all party member had to lead an organizational life. Specifically, the party’s organizational life is the main way to exercise the party spirit of cadres; The organizational life of the Party is the basic way to educate, manage, supervise and serve the party member team. Implementing the organizational life system and living a good organizational life is very important for implementing the policy of strictly administering the party, enhancing party member’s concept of organizational discipline, and giving play to the role of grassroots party organizations as a fighting fortress and party member’s vanguard and exemplary role. Therefore, strengthening the party’s leadership is inseparable from having a good organizational life.

  2. The concentrated expression of the Party’s organizational principles.

  Marx and Engels pointed out: "Proletarian political parties must be organized in accordance with the principle of democratic centralism and implement strict organizations and systems." Lenin inherited Marx and Engels’ thought of democratic centralism. In 1902, Lenin wrote "What should I do?"? Expounding the basic principles of the new proletarian political party; In 1904, he further elaborated the idea of establishing a "centralized party" in "Two Steps Back"; From 1905 to 1917, when he led the Russian revolution, he replaced the principle of "centralism" with the principle of "democratic centralism"; Subsequently, this principle was adhered to and developed in the process of creating a new type of proletarian party. On the practical level, Lenin’s thought of democratic centralism is embodied in the party’s congress system, collective leadership system, minority obeying majority system, reporting system and so on. Among them, some contents are closely related to the party’s organizational life, and some contents themselves belong to the party’s organizational life system.

  The Communist Party of China (CPC) inherited and developed the organizational principle of democratic centralism. Democratic centralism is the fundamental organizational principle of Marxist political parties, and organizational life is an important embodiment of Marxist political parties following democratic centralism.

  3, the inevitable requirement of the party organization structure.

  Marx and Engels clearly demanded in the Constitution of the Communist League that the organizational system of the Party should be established from the bottom up from the branch to the Central Committee, so that the Party can become a unified system. In the process of the development of proletarian political parties, Lenin gradually made it clear that the party should set up grass-roots party organizations according to regions and production units, deeply root the party’s grass-roots organizations in its own class, and make every social grass-roots party organization such as factories, schools, organs and villages become the basis of the party’s work and all its combat effectiveness. In the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the four party constitution have stipulated that in rural areas, factories, railways, mines, barracks, schools and other grassroots units; Since the "Three Bays Adaptation", the Party has established the principle of "the branch is built on the company" in the people’s army. This organizational form effectively combines the party’s organizational construction with the armed struggle, adapts to the needs of the revolutionary struggle at that time, and gives full play to the role of the party branch as a fighting fortress and party member’s vanguard and exemplary role; After the Eighth National Congress, the basic organizations were renamed as grass-roots organizations.

  In the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, party constitution stipulated that organizations should be divided into central, local and grass-roots units. Among them, it is stipulated that the party’s grass-roots organizations are "the fighting bastion of the party in social grass-roots organizations and the basis of all the party’s work and combat effectiveness." It can be seen that the organizational life of the party is mostly carried out in the grassroots organizations of the party, and the operation of the grassroots organizations of the party basically depends on the organizational life of the party.

  Second, rich practical connotation

  1, the historical continuation of the party’s internal laws and regulations

  The organizational life of the party has experienced a historical process from initial understanding to gradual improvement and standardization, and finally formed a series of important systems of inner-party life. During the revolutionary war years, party leaders attached great importance to the party’s organizational life. In 1980, the Fifth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted "Several Guidelines on Political Life within the Party". Its main contents and principles are still applicable. For example, it is stipulated that "every party member, regardless of his position, must join an organization of the Party and participate in organizational life". Since the 12th National Congress of party constitution, party constitution has stipulated that party member should lead a party organization life. Article 8 of party constitution of the 18th National Congress clearly stipulates: "Every party member, regardless of his position, must join a branch, group or other specific organization of the Party, participate in the organizational life of the Party, and accept the supervision of the masses inside and outside the Party." "party member leading cadres must also participate in the democratic life meeting of party committees and leading groups. There is no special party member who does not participate in the party’s organizational life and does not accept the supervision of the masses inside and outside the party. " These are the historical experiences summed up by the Party in practice and exploration, and are the important institutional guarantee for the Party to manage the Party strictly.

  2. Spiritual legacy of the older generation of revolutionaries.

  The Communist Party of China (CPC) people have always attached importance to the party’s organizational life, and the party’s leaders set an example. In 1944, as the chairman of the CPC Central Committee, Comrade Mao Zedong abided by the party’s organizational life system, and volunteered to report his personal thoughts at the party group meeting, hoping that the party group leader would supervise him. During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhu De, as the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, took the lead in organizing life every time. A party group meeting in response to Chairman Mao’s call to "do it yourself and overcome difficulties" did not inform Comrade Zhu De to attend. Comrade Zhu De found the leader of the party group and stressed: "Chairman Mao called on us to do it ourselves and overcome difficulties. I am also involved in such a big event — Share. " He also said kindly, "Everyone in our Party is an ordinary party member, and there can be no special party member in the Party. In the future, I will be notified to attend such meetings. " Comrade Chen Yun and party member, among the secretaries, guards and other staff members, formed a party group, with the chief bodyguard as the leader of the party group. Chen Yun couldn’t attend, so he took the initiative to ask for leave and even wrote a letter in person. Deng Xiaoping’s comeback in 1973 began with Zhou Enlai’s proposal that the Political Bureau should make a "Decision on Restoring Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s Party Organizational Life and Vice Premier the State Council’s post". This decision was sent to county and regimental party committees to inform the whole party and the people of the whole country, and Mao Zedong gave instructions to "agree". Thus, the revolutionaries of the older generation have fulfilled the Party’s requirements and made party member, especially party member, a leader,带头参加党的组织生活。

  3、以最高领袖同志为核心的党中央率先垂范

  以最高领袖同志为核心的党中央对参加党的组织生活高度重视。“中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席最高领袖以普通党员身份参加了所在的中办机关党委直属党支部的组织生活会,与支部成员一起交流并发表了重要讲话。他说,‘参加支部生活会,我们都是平等的、普通的一员,这也是作为共产党员应尽的义务。共产党员这个称号,是一个组织称号,在组织里的人,就要过组织生活,不参加组织活动的人,也就脱离党了。’”最高领袖总书记作为党的领导核心仍能坚持党的组织生活制度,对全体党员而言,既是以身作则、以上率下,也是巨大的振奋和鼓舞。

  Third, urgent practical requirements

  1, the importance of the party’s organizational life itself

  The party’s organizational life plays a very important role. First, standardize the operation of party organizations and consolidate the organizational foundation of the party. The important way of inner-party life is the organizational life of the party. If the operation of the party organization is more standardized and the organizational foundation is more solid, it is necessary to strictly control the organizational life of the party. The second is to go deep into the grassroots to obtain first-hand materials for investigation and research. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Investigation and research are the foundation of seeking something and the way to accomplish it. Without investigation, there is no right to speak, and there is no decision-making power. " Leading cadres can communicate with grassroots cadres and grassroots party member and get first-hand information through democratic life meetings, organization life meetings and heart-to-heart talks. Third, the means of connecting emotions to enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of grass-roots organizations. No matter leading cadres or ordinary party member, they all live in the same party branch, which helps to form a good atmosphere. Therefore, where there is party member, there must be a Party organization, and where there is a Party organization, there must be a sound organizational life.

  2. The importance of the party’s organizational life to the political life within the party.

  The "Guidelines" clearly pointed out: "The party must manage the party from the political life within the party, and strictly manage the party from the political life within the party." At the same time, it is pointed out: "The party’s organizational life is an important content and carrier of the political life within the party, and it is an important form for the party organization to supervise party member’s education management." This points out the important position of the party’s organizational life in the party’s management of the party and strict management of the party.

  The Code stipulates and puts forward clear requirements from 12 aspects: strengthening ideals and beliefs, adhering to the Party’s basic line, resolutely safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee, strictly observing the Party’s political discipline, maintaining the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the people, adhering to the principle of democratic centralism, promoting inner-party democracy and safeguarding party member’s rights, adhering to the correct orientation of selecting and employing people, strictly enforcing the Party’s organizational life system, carrying out criticism and self-criticism, strengthening the restriction and supervision of power operation, and maintaining a clean and honest political nature. Among them, the ninth part of the special train is "Strict Party’s organizational life system". It is pointed out that "the organizational life of the Party is an important content and carrier of the political life within the Party, and it is also an important form for the Party organizations to supervise party member’s education management. We must adhere to the various systems of the party’s organizational life, innovate ways and means, and enhance the vitality of the party’s organizational life. " It is mentioned in the guidelines that "all party member and cadres, especially senior cadres, must enhance the party’s awareness and always remember that their first identity is party member"; "Insist on ‘ Three sessions and one lesson ’ System "; "Adhere to the system of democratic life meeting and organizational life meeting"; "Insist on the system of heart-to-heart talk"; "Insist on democratic appraisal of party member"; "Leading cadres must strengthen their organizational concepts,Major issues and personal matters in the work must be reported to the organization in accordance with the regulations and procedures, and the requirements should be made in advance to the organization for instructions before leaving the post or work place. The party’s organizational life is an important part of the party’s political life, so we must adhere to the party’s organizational life system and improve the political life within the party.

  3, the importance of the party’s organizational life for inner-party supervision.

  The "Regulations" pointed out: "In the supervision system, establish and improve the inner-party supervision system with unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, comprehensive supervision by party committees (party groups), special supervision by discipline inspection organs, functional supervision by party departments, daily supervision by party grass-roots organizations and democratic supervision by party member."

  In the inner-party supervision system, many supervision methods are closely related to the party’s organizational life. First, at the supervision level of the party’s central organization, Article 14 states: "members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee should strictly implement the eight central regulations, consciously participate in the life of dual organizations, and truthfully report personal important matters to the Party Central Committee." Dual organizational life refers to members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee’s participation in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and the Standing Committee on the one hand; On the one hand, it is also incorporated into grass-roots branches. Second, at the level of supervision by party committees (leading groups), Article 20 stipulates that "the party’s organizational life system should be strictly enforced, democratic life meetings should be regularized, and important or universal issues should be convened in time. Democratic life will focus on solving outstanding problems. At the meeting, leading cadres should clearly and thoroughly explain the problems reflected by the masses, patrol feedback and organization of interviews and letters, carry out criticism and self-criticism, put forward rectification measures, and accept organizational supervision. Party organizations at higher levels should strengthen the guidance and supervision of the democratic life meetings of lower-level leading bodies and improve the quality of democratic life meetings. " Third, at the level of the Party’s grass-roots organizations and party member’s supervision, Article 35 stipulates that "the Party’s grass-roots organizations play the role of fighting bastions and perform their supervisory duties". Among them, "Strictly organize the Party’s life, carry out criticism and self-criticism, supervise party member to earnestly fulfill its obligations, and ensure that party member’s rights are not infringed" ranks as the first duty. Thus, the party’s organizational life is an important part of inner-party supervision, and it is in the central organization, party committees (party groups)Grass-roots organizations and party member’s supervision level are all reflected, so we must strengthen inner-party supervision in the organizational life of the Party.

  Fourth, the principle of strictly organizing life

  1, comply with the rules and regulations and outstanding problem orientation.

  Party constitution stipulated: "Every party member, regardless of his position, must join a branch, group or other specific organization of the party, participate in the party’s organizational activities, and accept the supervision of the masses inside and outside the party." Strict organizational life of the Party needs to be based on party constitution and the Party’s rules and regulations. At the same time, we need to pay attention to the problems and shortcomings of organizational life. At present, the party’s organizational life is generally standardized and orderly, but there are also some problems. Just as in the recent Interpretation (1) of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, it is proposed that "what problems are solved, what problems are highlighted, and what problems are focused on, so as to enhance the pertinence of reality". To highlight the problem orientation in strict organizational life is to pay attention to the problems in organizational life during the inspection, the problems in the party organization, the problems in party member around us, and party member’s own problems.

  2. Senior cadres should set an example and actively practice in grassroots party member.

  The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that "especially the members of the central leadership must set an example, strictly abide by the party’s political discipline and rules, adhere to Do not forget your initiative mind, move on, take the lead in setting an example and set an example for the whole party and society." "About focusing on senior cadres. Strengthening and standardizing political life within the party and strengthening inner-party supervision are the requirements and common tasks of the whole party. At the same time, both the draft guidelines and the draft regulations emphasize the focus on senior cadres. The main consideration is that to strengthen party building, we must do a good job of leading cadres, especially senior cadres, and it is the key to do a good job of the members of the Central Committee, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC). " This clearly shows the requirements for senior cadres. At the same time, party member and cadres need to actively practice. It is necessary to do a good job in learning at different levels, and in accordance with the requirements of the Central Committee, "learning the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is the key task of the theoretical armed work of the whole party, and it is included in ‘ Two studies and one doing ’ Study and educate, formulate careful study plans and programs, and promote the broad masses of party member and cadres to comprehensively and accurately grasp the spirit of the plenary session. "

  3. Inherit the essence of tradition and innovative ways and means.

  General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The most striking feature of the two drafts is the organic unity of inheritance and innovation, which not only deeply summarizes the experience and lessons of our party in strengthening its own construction, but also inherits and carries forward the institutional provisions and fine traditions formed by our party in the long-term practice, and comprehensively summarizes the vivid practice of the CPC Central Committee in promoting the comprehensive and strict management of the party since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and collects the theoretical and practical innovations of the comprehensive and strict management of the party." Therefore, on the one hand, we should continue the traditional ways, and adhere to the traditional systems of "three meetings and one lesson", organizing life meetings, heart-to-heart talks, ideological reports, democratic appraisal of party member and party member’s party spirit, democratic life meetings for leading cadres in party member and dual organization life meetings for leading cadres in party member. On the other hand, we should innovate ways and means. For example, combine the party’s organizational life with the actual business of the unit to discuss major issues of the unit; For another example, using the Party’s organizational life, party member was organized to watch the recent hit documentary "Always on the Road", and the interpretation of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee was studied by the online feature film, so that the Party’s line, principles and policies were put into the mind through modern carriers and methods. (Author: Sun Qiaojing, Department of CPC History, Renmin University of China)

The quality of water ecological environment in the city is stable, medium and good, and the excellent water quality accounts for 75.2% of the river length, and the Chaobai River system is the best.

  Original title: The quality of water ecological environment in the city is stable, moderate and good, and the river length accounts for 75.2%, and the Chaobai River system is the best.

  On the morning of August 23rd, the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment held a press conference on "Three-water Overall Planning" in Beijing to improve the water ecological quality. It is reported that with the city’s promotion of water environment management, exploration of water ecological restoration, and multi-pronged in-depth defense of clear water, the city’s water ecological environment quality has achieved steady improvement.

  Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the city has continued to implement the regional compensation policy for water environment. "If the water is good, you have to pay for the water difference." With the continuous improvement of the water ecological environment quality in the city, the compensation has dropped significantly from 970 million yuan in 2015 to 21.6 million yuan in 2021. The proportion of rivers with excellent water quality in the city has increased from 48% in 2015 to 75.2% in 2021, and the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) have increased significantly.

  Strive to complete the remediation goal three years ahead of schedule.

  In recent years, the city has focused on "protecting the superior ⅲ", "eliminating the inferior ⅴ" and "strengthening the ecology", and has made a multi-pronged and in-depth defense of clear water, and the quality of the city’s water ecological environment has been stable and good. The natural beauty of "green hills are not painted for a thousand years, and green waters have no strings and thousands of guqin" has gradually become the background of citizens’ lives.

  In the water ecological management of this city, we focus on the inferior V water bodies that affect the quality of water ecological environment and the public’s personal feelings, highlight the precise pollution control, and take the remediation of sewage outlets into the river as the starting point to continuously consolidate the effectiveness of governance.

  Liu Baoxian, director of the Municipal Ecological Environment Monitoring Center, introduced that since 2021, the city has started the work of eliminating inferiority in an all-round way, and the relevant tasks have been included in the annual plan for pollution prevention and control and the annual general river order. In 2021, focusing on Chaoyang, Fangshan, Daxing, Changping and Tongzhou districts, "one river and one policy" was adopted to formulate "engineering+management" control measures, and by the end of the year, the city’s inferior V rivers were dynamically cleared; In 2022, we will focus on the fluctuation of water quality in flood season, further ensure the results of deterioration through the actions of "Qinghe" and "pigging", and use monitoring, early warning and notification to prevent the rebound of inferior V water bodies.

  Liu Baoxian said that in 2021, the city started the remediation of sewage outlets into the river. It is expected that all the remediation will be completed by the end of 2022, and strive to complete the goals set by the state three years ahead of schedule.

  Han Yongzhen, director of the Water Ecological Environment Division of the Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau, introduced that in 2021, the length of rivers with Class I-III water quality in this city accounted for 75.2% of the total monitoring length, an increase of 11.4 percentage points year-on-year; No inferior V rivers. In the first half of 2022, among the 37 national examination sections, there were 26 water quality sections of Grade I-III, accounting for 70.3%, an increase of 16.2 percentage points year-on-year, and there were no inferior sections of Grade V, which dynamically met the national annual assessment requirements.

  The distribution of indicator species in clean water has expanded.

  The quality of water ecological environment includes not only physical and chemical indicators in the traditional sense, but also aquatic organisms and habitat indicators. Good water ecological environment quality should be crystal clear, and there should be fish and grass.

  According to Liu Baoxian, monitoring shows that the city is rich in aquatic species. A total of 134 species of phytoplankton, 231 species of zooplankton, 284 species of zoobenthos and 41 species of fish were monitored in the city, and indigenous fish such as wheat ear fish and high-body thrush were widely present. At the same time, a variety of second-class aquatic wild protected animals in Beijing, such as broad-finned fish, black-finned fish, horse mouth fish and spiny fish, were also monitored. In addition, 37 species of EPT have been found, which are distributed in five major river systems in the city. EPT species are recognized as the indicator species of clean water bodies, which refer to the three kinds of aquatic insects in benthic animal communities, namely, Ephemera, Amphibia and Trichoptera. Most of them like to live in clear and clean water, and are very sensitive to water quality, so they can be regarded as the "wind vane" for water system cleaning.

  "In recent years, the population number and distribution range of fish that are often active in clean water bodies in mountainous areas, such as horse mouth fish and black fin fish, have obviously expanded, and they are also found in urban river sections in plain areas." Liu Baoxian said that this also shows the effectiveness of improving the quality of water ecological environment in recent years.

  Judging from the comprehensive evaluation, the water ecological environment quality of the whole city is generally good. Among the five major water systems in the city, the Chaobai River system has the best water ecological environment quality, followed by Yongding River system, Daqing River system, Jiyun River system and North Canal system. From the point of view of rivers, 55.7% of the rivers have excellent water ecological environment quality, among which the rivers in mountainous areas have clean water quality, high natural shoreline retention rate and good ecological background, and the water ecological environment quality has reached "excellent" or "good", such as Huaijiu River in Huairou District, Xinhuaying River in Yanqing District and Juma River in Fangshan District.

  From the point of view of lakes, 66.7% of urban key lakes have a "good" water ecological environment quality, such as Kunming Lake and Yuyuantan Lake. From the reservoir point of view, the 18 large and medium-sized reservoirs monitored are all "excellent" or "good", among which the water ecological environment quality of Miyun Reservoir, Huairou Reservoir, Huangsongyu Reservoir and Zhaitang Reservoir has reached "excellent".

  Ensure good water upstream and send clear water downstream.

  In the protection of water environment, the city protects the upstream "a basin of good water" and fully protects the "priceless treasure" of Miyun Reservoir. On the basis of fully enclosed management and monitoring coverage of Miyun Reservoir, we will further promote the construction of refined monitoring network and system platform for water ecological environment in the basin, and continuously improve the supervision ability. The city innovatively carried out compensation for horizontal ecological protection in the Chaobai River basin in the upper reaches of Miyun Reservoir. In the past three years, it supported compensation funds of 950 million yuan in Rizo, which effectively promoted the continuous decline of pollutant concentration in cross-border sections. The water quality of Miyun Reservoir has reached Class II continuously and stably, and it has been selected as the first batch of excellent cases of "beautiful rivers and lakes" in China.

  At the same time, send the downstream "one river clear water". Beijing and Hebei have established a cross-border cooperation mechanism in Baiyangdian basin to promote the joint treatment of water pollution in Daqing River basin. In 2021, focusing on the utilization of reclaimed water, water system circulation and ecological construction, a number of ecological control and restoration projects were implemented in Fengtai and Fangshan District to further enhance the water quality regulation capacity of Daqing River Basin, and the water quality in the exit section was improved to Grade III, and the water flowing into Baiyangdian Lake was clearer.

  In Beijing, there are also "rivers and water". Beijing has jointly dispatched external water transfer, local surface water, reclaimed water and rain flood, and comprehensively practiced "opening the way with water and leading the way with water". Five major rivers, such as Yongding River and Chaobai River, have all reappeared as "flowing rivers" and run through the sea. In 2021, the Beijing section of the Grand Canal will be fully navigable, and in June 2022, the Beijing-Hebei section of the Grand Canal will be interconnected for 62 kilometers. (Luo Qianwen)

[Experts and scholars watch the two sessions] Make good use of red resources and continue the red spirit.

  Author: He Huilin (Lecturer, School of Marxism, Tianjin Urban Construction University, researcher, New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Alliance, the supreme leader of Tianjin universities)

  On March 11th, the Fourth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress closed. This year marks the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). During the two sessions, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader "left the delegation" for many times to discuss the country with the deputies, and repeatedly talked about the contents of the study and education of party history, which was thought-provoking. How to learn the study and education of party history? Red resources are "rich mines". In the Inner Mongolia delegation, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader told us to make good use of these red resources in the study and education of Party history. In the Qinghai delegation, he once again stressed: in the study and education of party history, we should make full use of red resources. Red resources, like a three-dimensional, vivid and heavy textbook of Party history, bear the magnificent revolutionary history, arduous struggle history and epic heroic history of the Communist Party of China (CPC). In the author’s opinion, as the red legacy and red spirit formed by the people led by the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the revolution, construction and reform, red resources are embodied in three types: implements, institutions and spirits. To make good use of red resources in the study and education of party history is to take red resources as an important carrier of study and education, and to guide all party member to experience the century-long suffering and glory of the Communist Party of China (CPC), to understand the fine style and glorious tradition formed by the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the long-term struggle, and to continue the red spirit nurtured by the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s century-long struggle.

  用好器物性红色资源,教育引导全体党员感悟党的百年光辉历程

  器物性红色资源是指中国共产党在领导中国革命、建设、改革过程中遗存下来的红色遗迹、遗址,以及为纪念重要的历史事件、历史人物而筑建的纪念馆、纪念碑、人物塑像、烈士陵园等。从石库门到天安门,从井冈山到西柏坡,从嘉兴、吉安、遵义、延安到上海、北京、天津等,中华大地上到处留下了宝贵的器物性红色资源,这些不可磨灭的印记承载着永不褪色的红色记忆。

  Making good use of instrumental red resources in the study and education of party history means giving full play to the special advantages of instrumental red resources as dominant cultural symbols, integrating them objectively, truly and effectively into the teaching content, innovating the ways and methods of education, linking up the glorious past of suffering, the ever-changing present and the bright and grand future, highlighting the role of the Communist Party of China (CPC) as a mainstay, and educating and guiding all party member to deeply understand the century-long course that the Communist Party of China (CPC) has gone through, bearing in mind the unremitting struggle of the Communist Party of China (CPC) leading the China people. It is necessary to dig deep into the physical characteristics of the red resources of implements, grasp the important time nodes and important commemorative activities, organize visits to red tourist attractions, revolutionary museums and memorial halls, pay homage to revolutionary relics, and carry out red movie viewing and red research projects, so as to combine the heavy sense of history with the intuition of on-site experience, and guide all party member to deeply understand the hard-won red regime, the hard-won new China and Socialism with Chinese characteristics through red historical symbols. It is to tap the network educational effect of the red resources of implements, to take the Long March again on the Internet by using modern network technologies such as AR and VR, to strengthen situational experiential learning, to blend history with reality, and to guide all party member to deepen their understanding of why the Communist Party of China (CPC) is "able", why Marxism is "good" and why Socialism with Chinese characteristics is "good" in experiencing the red resources of implements, and to strengthen their belief in Marxism and Socialism with Chinese characteristics.Confidence in realizing the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

  Make good use of institutional red resources, educate and guide all party member to continue to carry forward the party’s fine traditions

  Institutional red resources refer to a series of prescriptive and guiding red resources such as theoretical programs, principles and policies, literature works and institutional mechanisms formed by the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the process of revolution, construction and reform. They contain the glorious tradition and fine style of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, are the concentrated expression of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s nature and purpose, and are also an important magic weapon and unique political advantage for our party to adhere to the truth, correct mistakes, defeat the enemy and keep moving forward.

  To make good use of institutional red resources in the study and education of party history, we must adhere to integrating theory with practice, refrain from formalism and seek truth from facts, combine the basic principles of Marxism, especially the innovative theoretical achievements of the party in the new era with concrete reality, educate and guide all party member to achieve the unity of learning and thinking, knowing, believing and doing, enhance the ideological, political and action consciousness of carrying forward the glorious tradition and fine style of the party, constantly temper the quality of loyalty to the party, build a solid foundation of faith and make up the spirit. We must adhere to close contact with the masses, increase research, study, education and publicity on the glorious tradition and fine style of the Party, educate and guide all party member to deeply understand the ideological essence and realistic requirements of "Jiangshan is the people and the people are the mountains", do practical things and do good things for the masses with heart and affection, continue to hand over a satisfactory and qualified answer sheet for the broad masses of the people, and always keep the Communist Party of China (CPC) people’s childlike feelings for the people; We must persist in criticism and self-criticism, combine the new stage, new goals and new tasks, educate and guide all party member to be self-conscious, dare to self-criticize, accept criticism with an open mind, and be brave in self-correction, help comrades find shortcomings, correct mistakes, work together, carry forward the spirit of struggle, practice their struggle skills, want to do things, be able to do things, and succeed, and take a good long March in the new era with more full spirit and high morale.

  Make good use of spiritual red resources, educate and guide all party member to continue the red spiritual blood of the party.

  Spiritual red resources refer to a series of spirits contained in the red resources of implements and institutions, which reflect the values, ideals, beliefs and spiritual pursuits of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, including the spirit of Red Boat, Jinggangshan, Yan ‘an, Xibaipo, "two bombs and one satellite", manned space flight, great anti-epidemic spirit, and the spirit of tackling poverty. These spiritual red resources are the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s precious spiritual wealth, and they are a powerful spiritual driving force that constantly inspires the Communist Party of China (CPC) people to forge ahead. They have been tempered in the century-long course of our party’s arduous pioneering work, showing the great spiritual characteristics of generations of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people who have fought on and on, and building the indestructible spiritual Great Wall of the Communist Party of China (CPC) people.

  To make good use of spiritual red resources in the study and education of party history, it is necessary to combine the study and education of party history, the history of new China, the history of reform and opening up and the history of socialist development, clarify the spiritual power contained in historical development, learn from history and gain credibility, and educate all party member to deeply understand that the Communist Party of China (CPC) can make miracles from small to large, from weak to strong, and continue to write brilliant spiritual codes under numerous difficulties, and realize that the red gene can help the Communist Party of China (CPC) save China and revive China. It is necessary to combine the new situation and new tasks of carrying out great struggles, building great projects, advancing great undertakings and realizing great dreams, clarify the important role of spiritual red resources, learn from history and respect morality, and educate and guide all party member to consciously learn the power of faith from the red genes, and win new victories and create new glories in continuing to overcome difficulties; It is necessary to combine the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s initial intention and mission of seeking happiness for the people of China and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and clearly explain the unique significance of continuing the Red Spirit for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to achieve the first century-long goal with high quality and start the second century-long goal with high specifications. Learn from history, educate and guide all party member to carry forward the spirit of taking responsibility, take responsibility for the people, be down-to-earth and make contributions for a long time, and continue to contribute wisdom and strength to the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

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The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development interviewed 12 cities: not all housing prices have gone up. This indicator system is the key.

  Beijing, May 22 (Reporter Qiu Yu) More than half a month ago, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development interviewed 12 cities to prevent the real estate market from overheating, and then many new policies were issued, and the local property markets once again ushered in a period of intensive regulation.

  The reporter noted that the cities interviewed this time were mainly concentrated in the northeast and central and western regions, and house prices in some cities increased significantly. However, house prices are not the only indicator. Some experts said that this interview was actually related to an early warning mechanism mentioned by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development at the end of 2017.

  Being interviewed, 7 of the 12 cities have a New Deal.

  Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development interviewed several city leaders twice on the property market. As of press time, among the 12 cities interviewed, 7 cities have introduced the New Deal, including Hefei, Foshan, Harbin, Changchun, Guiyang, Chengdu and Taiyuan.

  The reporter noted that most of these controls are based on the original policies, mainly including the tightening of restrictions on purchases and sales, and the management of pre-sale prices of commercial housing.

  Specifically, in terms of purchase restriction:

  Chengdu proposed to adjust the object of purchase restriction from natural person to family; Buyers who have moved into the restricted purchase area for less than 24 months can only buy houses if they meet certain conditions; Taiyuan requires that the six districts of the city’s household registration city be limited to two sets.

  Restricted sales:

  Harbin stipulates that the sale of newly purchased commercial housing in the 6 th district of the main city will be restricted within 3 years; Guiyang stipulates that the purchased new house shall not be transferred within 3 years; Taiyuan requires that newly purchased houses can only be traded and transferred after 2 years; Chengdu proposed that the purchase of new houses or second-hand houses can only be transferred after 3 years.

  Pre-sale price management:

  Changchun proposed that the actual transaction price of commercial housing should not be higher than the pre-sale declaration price, otherwise it will not be signed online; Guiyang stipulates that the implementation of commercial housing sales clearly marked, one room and one price system; Hefei requires that developers can only pre-sell commercial housing after obtaining the pre-sale permit.

  In addition, Foshan stipulates that project opening or sales activities should be avoided at night, and when the number of buyers is expected to be large, sales should be carried out by means of lottery as much as possible.

  What are the characteristics of these cities?

  — — Feature 1: concentrated in the northeast, central and western regions.

  The 12 cities interviewed are Xi ‘an, Haikou, Sanya, Changchun, Harbin, Kunming, Dalian, Guiyang, Xuzhou, Foshan, Chengdu and Taiyuan, which are not all 15 hot cities classified by the National Bureau of Statistics.

  "The cities interviewed this time are mainly concentrated in the northeast, the central and western regions, and Hainan, which has introduced a free trade policy, rather than the traditional first-tier and strong second-tier cities." I love my family, Hu Jinghui, president of the Group Market Research Institute, told Zhongxin. com.

  In contrast, before Beijing promulgated the "930 New Deal" in 2016, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development had interviewed some cities, and then nearly 20 cities issued property market regulation policies. At that time, the former China Banking Regulatory Commission issued a notice to conduct special inspections on banking financial institutions in 16 cities where housing prices rose too fast, and these cities were mainly first-and second-tier.

  Yang Donglang, director of the Real Estate Research Institute of Xi ‘an Jiaotong University, pointed out that the absolute value of housing prices in the cities interviewed this time is low. In the case that first-tier and some second-tier cities are strictly restricted, some real estate speculation or investment funds have turned to the original non-hot cities.

  — — Feature 2: Many places have introduced the new policy of talent introduction.

  "Some cities interviewed have previously introduced talent attraction policies, which are often linked to household registration, and many people can enjoy the preferential purchase of houses by local residents." Hu Jinghui said.

  The reporter noted that before being interviewed, cities such as Xi ‘an, Chengdu, Changchun, Guiyang and Xuzhou all issued talent introduction policies, while Hainan issued the Action Plan for Millions of Talents Entering Hainan in mid-May.

  — — Feature 3: The price increase in some cities is obvious.

  Relaxing the talent settlement policy has brought about an increase in the property market in some places to varying degrees.

  According to the housing price data of 70 cities released by the National Bureau of Statistics, among the 12 cities interviewed, except Foshan, the prices of new houses in the other 11 cities rose in March and April without exception.

  Among them, in March, the price of new houses in Haikou ranked first in 70 cities, accounting for 2.1%, and Changchun (1%) ranked third. In April, the prices of new houses in seven cities including Xi ‘an, Haikou, Sanya, Harbin, Dalian, Guiyang and Taiyuan all increased by more than 1% month-on-month.

  Foshan is not among the 70 cities. According to the data of official website of Foshan Housing and Urban-Rural Development Administration, the average price of new houses in Foshan increased slightly in March, and decreased in April.

  What’s the difference between this interview and before?

  It is worth noting that not all the 12 cities interviewed are cities with a significant increase in house prices.

  "This is related to the early warning system established by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, warning that house prices may rise in some places in the future." Zhang Dawei, chief analyst of Zhongyuan Real Estate, said that this interview was an early warning, which was different from the previous post-event management.

  At the end of 2017, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development proposed the establishment of "real estate statistics and market monitoring and early warning index system" and "strengthening the evaluation and accountability of local stable real estate market" mechanisms.

  Zhang Dawei pointed out that the interviews in 12 cities are actually the landing of the above policies and represent the future warning — — Interview — — Accountability, real estate regulation and control has been upgraded from one city and one policy in the past to three steps.

  Hu Jinghui also believes that this interview is related to the monitoring system of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. "If the market has experienced large fluctuations and investment speculation factors have obviously pushed up housing prices, then policies will be introduced, and there will be a lag." He said that it is more timely and effective to adjust policies and accountability according to price changes.

  The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development reiterated twice in 10 days that real estate regulation is not relaxed.

  Due to the recent overheating of the real estate market in some cities, speculation has risen. On May 19, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the "Notice on Further Improving the Regulation of the Real Estate Market", reiterating that the goal of real estate regulation and control is unshakable and the intensity is not relaxed.

  It is worth mentioning that the release of the above-mentioned "Notice" is only 10 days from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development’s interview with Chengdu and Taiyuan, emphasizing that the goal of real estate regulation and control will not be shaken and the intensity will not be relaxed.

  The "Notice" clearly stated that it is necessary to establish a linkage mechanism between housing prices and land prices to prevent land prices from pushing up housing prices. In this regard, Yan Yuejin, research director of the think tank center of Yiju Research Institute, pointed out that this fully reflects the new ideas of current regulation, contributes to the stability of land prices and is an important part of the long-term development mechanism of real estate.

  Yang Donglang believes that the so-called "stable real estate market" refers to the balance between supply and demand and stable prices in the real estate market. If the house price is too high, it can fluctuate slightly, but there should be no skyrocketing or plunging. In order to achieve the stability of the real estate market, in addition to administrative measures such as restricting purchases and sales, it is also necessary to adopt economic and legal means to jointly regulate and control. (End)

Consumption trend in 2024: Emotional value guides young consumption.

Image source @ vision china

Text | Value Planet, Author | Tang Fei, Editor | Liu Jingfeng

After the end of the Spring Festival holiday, the consumer market has reached a new peak after enjoying the 8-day holiday.

According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s GDP will increase by 5.2% in 2023, reaching the expected target range. At the same time, prices are generally stable, and the annual CPI rose by 0.2%.

Many economic performances related to people’s livelihood are also very eye-catching, such as the "concert economy" that ran through the whole year last year, the tourism economy driven by the explosion of "Erbin" at the end of the year, and the increase in automobile sales brought about by the upsurge of new energy vehicles.

Judging from the end of January, China’s economic recovery is improving, residents’ income is growing steadily, domestic total demand is also expanding, and the price recovery of goods and services is based and conditional. Around the Spring Festival, the demand for food consumption is also increasing, and the consumption of services such as eating out, visiting relatives and friends, and traveling is more active, which will boost the seasonal rebound of CPI.

As the first small holiday in 2024, many consumers have walked into cinemas and shopping malls, and some consumers have chosen to embark on a journey to seek a completely different experience. What are the new preferences of consumers in 2024, and what new consumption trends can be found from it?

In 2023, young people will pay more attention to cost performance and pursue quality rather than brand.

The institutional survey found that consumers become more rational and calm, and most consumers will think more carefully before shopping, search and compare through multiple platforms, read comments and ratings in detail, and fully conduct surveys and comparisons to pursue certainty of consumption and seek a sense of security in life.

Under the consumption trend of prudence and shrewdness, products with "extreme parity" and "high quality parity" will always be favored by consumers.

"High-quality replacement" products will also usher in opportunities, and can be used as a basis to complete the continuous improvement of the brand.

The trend of retail business returning to the essence of "good quality and low price" is irreversible, and price is the last word and the key to determine the flow of consumption.

In 2024, consumers in China will become more rational, especially the rationalization of middle-class consumers will have a decisive impact on the consumption of the whole society, especially urban consumption.

Hot events in 2023 are rich and varied, such as dopamine wearing, Maillard wearing, electronic wooden fish, City walk, hot concerts, crazy literature in the workplace and so on. Although these events have different forms of expression, they are all centered around the core theme of "emotion".

The 2023 Youth Consumption Survey shows that nearly half of young people are willing to spend for emotional value, and people have changed from simple "purchase-use" to active participation and immersion.

The survey shows that 64% of consumers pay more attention to spiritual consumption, and young consumers pay more attention to spiritual consumption. From the three dimensions of emotional concentration, cultural nourishment and self-enrichment, consumers begin to create a spiritual world for themselves. For example, if a product wants to bring pleasure to consumers, it is very important to have emotional incentives, new experiences, face value and culture in addition to the easy use of product functions.

Mintel even pointed out in the report that one of the five major trends that will affect the global consumer market from 2023 to the next five years is "relaxing life". This kind of "relaxation" is reflected in consumers’ desire to get rid of burnout, devote themselves to what is really important to them and establish a quality life experience. In other words, I am willing to pay for my "emotions".

It can be predicted that in 2024, consumers should not only be "accommodating for those who please themselves", but also "accommodating for those who please their hearts", and more forms of emotional consumption will emerge.

In 2024, luxury brands set off a new round of "price increase tide".

On January 1st, Hermes completed the price increase of the whole product line, among which Mini Kelly generation rose by 10,000 yuan to 56,500 yuan, an increase of 21.5%, and Birkin30 handbag rose from 92,750 yuan to 105,000 yuan. Rolex, a Swiss watch brand, also made a global unified price adjustment after New Year’s Day. The average increase of popular pens was 2%-5%, and the increase of gold watches was between 6% and 8%. Tudor Watch, another brand of Rolex, also increased its price in the same period, with an average increase of about 3%.

China consumers have a decisive influence in the world luxury consumption map, which has long been the consensus of major luxury brands.

In 2024, China and the Asia-Pacific market will remain the heavy areas for luxury goods sales, but the competition for this cake will also become fierce, and the market differentiation will intensify. The differentiation of luxury consumption also lies in the fact that more and more luxury "positioning" brands are beginning to face operational risks brought by market fundamentals.

On the other hand, some brands defined by consumers as "luxury" have gradually become "Ole-oriented" in their products and pricing, and discount promotion is simply "commonplace", and cost performance has become the key to their market share. According to the 2023 Fashion List released by fashion search platform Lyst, the "hottest handbag of the year" was won by Uniqlo’s "jiaozi bag", and the price in 99 yuan made it the cheapest product in the history of Lyst list.

With the China high-speed wire market entering the fourth consumption era, "things can be expensive, but not expensive" has become the guiding principle for consumers to shop.

"Big brand inflation" and "price reduction and quantity guarantee" will coexist for a long time, and the polarization of this consumer product will further reshape the market structure.

With the popularity of live broadcast, more and more consumer actions have shifted from comprehensive "platform e-commerce" to "live broadcast e-commerce".

On the other hand, live broadcast with goods began to subvert the traditional channel of commodity circulation, and anchor with goods gradually changed the basis for consumers to select goods from "brand trust" to "anchor trust", forming a brand-new commodity flow model.

The commodity flow of traditional commodities starts from factories, then to brands, then to stores, and finally to consumers. Consumers’ preferences for commodities are more or less due to their recognition and trust in brands. The rise of e-commerce has made stores move from offline entities to online virtual, but the essence is still to sell goods from brands to consumers through online or offline stores.

The change of this channel makes the value of the foundry that used to hide behind the brand begin to advance in the whole consumption chain. Through the promotion of the anchor, the products of the factory can directly gain the favor of consumers. Whether it is a registered brand or whether the brand is famous is no longer important. Based on this channel, the products of the foundry can also become a hot "explosion" in the market under the blessing of the anchor reputation, and because of reducing the intermediate links of brand intervention, the supply chain from the factory to the consumers is shorter and the market price is more competitive.

Therefore, live broadcast with goods gradually reshapes the supply chain and commercial circulation road, which in turn leads to far-reaching changes in the consumer industry.

As the intersection of urban and rural areas, county economy plays an important role in economic development.

With the recovery of consumption scenes and the improvement of consumption conditions, the consumption potential of county residents in China has been released, and the consumption market of county life services is generally stable and rising.

2023 is the first year of the Three-year Action Plan for County Commerce (2023-2025). Nine ministries and commissions, including the Ministry of Commerce, proposed that by 2025, about 500 county-level commercial "leading counties" should be built nationwide. By constantly improving the infrastructure of county and township consumer markets, we can better meet the rural industrial revitalization and the production and living needs of rural residents.

The "Report on Consumption of County Life Services in 2023" issued by Meituan Research Institute holds that when the per capita GDP of the county develops to 60,000 yuan, it is suggested to give priority to meeting the consumption needs of consumers in beauty industry, leisure and entertainment, sports and fitness, ticket service and travel. When the per capita GDP of the county reaches 140,000 yuan, it is suggested to further develop sports and fitness, beauty industry, residents’ service and tourism.

Nowadays, drinking a cup of coffee in a chain coffee shop in the county town and then watching a big movie just released in the cinema have become the daily life of local people. The enterprises of major racetracks all take "sinking" as one of their strategies, which also shows the great potential of county economy from the side.

The county is carrying more and more rich consumption scenes and releasing greater consumption vitality.

Harbin giant snowman. Source: Weibo @ CCTV News

Since 2023, one of the most important keywords is "tourism", and going out to have a look has become a form for more consumers to relax.

However, unlike the traditional pursuit of magnificent nature and places of interest, today’s consumers prefer to explore the local "fireworks" and slow down to experience the humanistic customs of the city. At the same time, they are more willing to pay for the elements that can create a unique life experience, the city features rich in cultural heritage, and the current texture that reflects the essence of life.

In addition to being keen on cultural tourism, most consumers also like to avoid crowded tourist attractions, choose the tranquility and comfort of a city with few people, and feel the unknowns and surprises in life. At the same time, consumers are increasingly favoring the immersive in-depth experience tour with fireworks and feeling the "new pyrotechnicism" of the city.

After all, "the fireworks in the world are the most soothing to ordinary people’s hearts", which soothes our thoughts, makes us forget the troubles in life and makes us feel the warmth in the world.

In the first half of last year, netizens all over the country "went to Zi for a barbecue", and in the second half of the year, they directly arranged "feel at home". Zibo barbecue and Harbin ice and snow are not popular tourism projects in the traditional sense. However, under the trend of "fireworks narration", cities can form exclusive attraction with fireworks, make urban cultural tours content and themed, empower cultural tours with IP value, and create a brand-new experience.

Building city IP has also become an important means to compete for tourism market share. Last year, Dali, where "Going to a Windy Place" caught fire, Taipan Village, Taijiang County, and Shijiazhuang, where "Village BA" caught fire, etc., all seized network traffic and passenger flow, which directly boosted the prosperity of the local tourism market.

The Forecast and Prospect of China’s Economy in 2024 published by the Center for Predictive Science of China Academy of Sciences in January predicts that the nominal growth rate of China’s final consumption will be 4.2%-5.1% in 2024, which will continue to be the main driving force for economic growth.

The agency also predicts that China’s PPI will decline moderately and CPI will rise moderately in 2024. Under the benchmark scenario, CPI rose by about 0.7% for the whole year; The PPI is -0.6% for the whole year.

It is noteworthy that the post-80s, 90s and 00s, who are more inclined to post-material values, have occupied more than 55% of the population in China.

The main force of their consumption is no longer just to meet practical needs. For them, the "emotional value", "emotional link" and "self-identity" of goods are more important. Functionality, brand, price, personalization and additional emotional value are indispensable. And this change in consumption values will be the dividing line between whether commercial enterprises can create profits in the future.

In addition to young people, "silver hair consumption" has also undergone new changes. A few days ago, China’s first programmatic document supporting the development of the silver-haired economy, Opinions on Developing the Silver-haired Economy and Improving the Welfare of the Elderly, was issued, and 2024 will be the first year of the development of the silver-haired economy.

The consumption trend in China is close to the "fourth consumption era". In the new year, only by "following the trend" can consumer brands successfully break through.

References:

[1]2024 China Consumption Trend Report, Zhimeng Consulting.

[2]Ten Trends of Retail Consumption in China in 2024, Jones Lang LaSalle.

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New upsurge in Silicon Valley: Carnival Party of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Editor’s note: Generative artificial intelligence is the new darling of the Silicon Valley investment community, and every investor wants to participate in this big event as soon as possible. Among all the generative artificial intelligence models, Stable Diffusion stands out because it is open source and has almost no restrictions on generating pictures. Some people question that this approach is too radical, and imad Mustaq, founder and CEO of Stability AI, believes that the development of artificial intelligence is changing with each passing day, and open source is the best way to use AI. This article comes from compilation, hoping to inspire you.

On October 19th, 2022, imad Mustaq, founder and CEO of the startup Stability AI, was born in San Francisco. Stability AI is a start-up company that has developed a controversial Stable Diffusion image generator. The company’s celebrations also represent the arrival of a new upsurge in artificial intelligence. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)

In Silicon Valley, cryptocurrency and metauniverse are out of date, while generative artificial intelligence is on the rise.

This was verified in the San Francisco exploration museum on October 17th, 2022. There, Stability AI, a startup behind the AI mapping software Stable Diffusion, held a party, which felt like returning to the prosperity before the epidemic.

The event attracted technology celebrities including Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList, and Ron Conway, a venture capitalist. The event was promoted as the release party of Stability AI, and it was also a celebration of the company’s recent $101 million financing. It was reported that this round of financing valued the company at $1 billion.

But it is also the carnival of the whole field of Generative Artificial Intelligence. Generative artificial intelligence is a general term, which can not only analyze existing data, but also generate new texts, images, videos, code fragments and so on.

This is an important year for the generative artificial intelligence application that "transforms text prompts into images". Unlike tokens or virtual reality metauniverses, generative artificial intelligence applications actually have enough numbers to prove their spread. OpenAI released the image generator DALL-E 2 this year. According to the company, more than 1.5 million users have generated more than 2 million images every day. Midjourney is another popular artificial intelligence image generator released this year, and its official Discord server has more than 3 million users. Google and Meta have also built their own image generators, but they have not been released to the public.

Such growth opportunities have triggered a crazy investment boom among investors, who hope to participate in the next big event as soon as possible. Jasper is an artificial intelligence copywriting application developed for marketers. It has been developed for one year and recently raised $125 million with a valuation of $1.5 billion. Startups have raised millions of dollars to apply generative artificial intelligence to games, programming and advertising. Sequoia Capital, a venture capital company, recently said in a blog post that it believes that generative artificial intelligence can create "trillions of dollars in economic value".

However, no generative artificial intelligence project has caused so much controversy as Stable Diffusion.

This is partly because, unlike many generative artificial intelligence projects, Stable Diffusion is open source and can be used for free, which means that anyone can view or download the code and run the modified version on a personal computer. According to the company, since its release in August, more than 200,000 people have downloaded this code, and millions of images have been created using tools based on the Stable Diffusion algorithm.

This laissez-faire approach also extends to the image itself. Other artificial intelligence image generators have strict rules to prevent users from creating violent, pornographic or infringing images. In contrast, Stable Diffusion has only one basic security filter, which can be easily bypassed by any user who creates his own application.

This freedom makes Stable Diffusion very popular among underground artists and expression pack makers. However, it has also aroused widespread concern that the company’s loose rules may lead to the spread of a large number of violent pictures, naked pictures, false propaganda pictures and misinformation pictures.

At present, Stable Diffusion and its open source subroutines have been used to produce a large number of disgusting pictures. According to a quick scan of Twitter, there are a surprising number of pornographic and anime works on the platform. Recently, several forums on Reddit were shut down for spreading a large number of nude photos without permission, most of which were made with Stable Diffusion. The company tried to control this chaos, telling users not to "generate anything that makes you ashamed to show your mother", but did not set stricter filters.

U.S. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo of California recently sent a letter to federal regulators, warning that someone used Stable Diffusion to make images of "Asian women who were beaten by violence". Eshaw urged regulators to crack down on "unsafe" open source artificial intelligence models.

Imad Mustaq, founder and CEO of Stability AI, hit back at the idea of content restrictions. He believes that complete freedom is necessary to realize his vision (popular artificial intelligence that is not affected by enterprises).

In a recent interview, he reiterated this view and compared his view with what he called "the tough and paternalistic approach taken by technology giants to artificial intelligence".

"We trust people, we trust communities," he said, "instead of letting a technology giant control the most powerful technology in the world."

Mustaq, 39, is an eccentric leader in the generative artificial intelligence industry. He doesn’t have a doctorate in artificial intelligence, nor has he worked in a large technology company where artificial intelligence projects such as Google or OpenAI are usually located. He is a former British hedge fund manager, who has been engaged in oil trading for most of the past 10 years and has provided consulting services to enterprises and governments on the Middle East strategy and the threat of Islamic extremism. Recently, he organized an alliance of think tanks and technical groups to try to use big data to help the government make better decisions on COVID-19.

Mustaq initially personally funded Stability AI, but he soon became a polarized figure in the field of artificial intelligence. Researchers and executives of larger and more traditional artificial intelligence organizations believe that Mustaq’s open source approach is naive or reckless. Some people worry that the unrestricted release of open source generative artificial intelligence models may trigger opposition from regulators and the public, thus damaging the whole industry.

But on October 17th, Mustaq won applause from hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, social media executives and technology Twitter celebrities.

He made many implicit attacks on technology giants such as Google and OpenAI funded by Microsoft. He denounced "targeted advertising" as the core of the business models of Google and Facebook, calling it "manipulation technology". He also said that unlike these companies, Stability AI will not establish a "panoramic prison" to monitor users.

Mustaq also announced that in 2023, the number of computers used by the company to train the best models will be expanded to 5 to 10 times of the current number. With more than 5,000 high-performance graphics cards, this computer is already one of the largest supercomputers in the world. This strength will enable the company to generate images from artificial intelligence, expand to generate files in video, audio and other formats, and make it easier for users around the world to operate localized versions of its algorithms.

Some critics of artificial intelligence worry that this technology may make artists and other creative workers lose their jobs. Unlike them, Mustaq believes that putting the generative artificial intelligence into the hands of billions of people will bring explosive growth of new opportunities.

He said: "Many people in the world are struggling to create, and we want them to inspire generate."

If all this sounds familiar, it is because Mustaq’s ideas echo the utopian dreams of the founders of the previous generation of technology, such as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jack Dorsey of Twitter. These people have also competed to send powerful new technologies to billions of people, and almost never stopped to consider the possible harm.

When I asked Mustaq if he was worried about releasing artificial intelligence into the world before it was safe, he said he wasn’t. He said that artificial intelligence is developing so fast that the safest way is to make it public, so that the public (rather than large technology companies) can decide how to manage artificial intelligence.

Ultimately, he said, transparency (rather than top-down control) will prevent generative artificial intelligence from becoming a dangerous force.

"You can query the data set, you can access the model, you can review the code of Stable Diffusion and other things we are doing," he said. "Besides, we can see that it has been improved."

Mustaq’s idea of an open source artificial intelligence utopia may seem unrealistic, but at the party on October 17th, he found that many people wanted to make it a reality.

"You can’t put the genie back in the bottle," said Peter Wang, an executive from Austin, Texas, who came to the party. "You can at least show Austin the genie."

Translator: Jane

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Wang Baoqiang’s Interpretation of The Octagonal Cage: Life is like a weed, indomitable!


Special feature of 1905 film network Six years ago, he became a director for the first time. Facing the doubts of the national audience, he brought "Make a scene in Tianzhu" as a guest at today’s film review. This is what he said — —



"Wang Baoqiang, you will still be an actor, and you will be a director? This sentence is unacceptable to me. "


"I don’t think we can kill a stick because one thing is not done well. But working hard can definitely change. "



Six years later, the second film directed by Wang Baoqiang was released. This time, word-of-mouth counterattacked, and Wang Baoqiang’s six-year efforts and sincerity were accepted by the audience through the big screen. Wang Baoqiang said this to the camera — —



"Six years ago, everyone bought tickets because of me, and then took the time to watch" Big Day ",but after I went, I didn’t let the audience meet his own expectations. I felt guilty in my heart and felt very sorry for the audience."


"Reporter: If the final reputation of" The Octagonal Cage "was not very good, you wouldn’t be a director, would you? Wang: Do you think I can do it again? Who voted for you? Who is watching? "


Six years later, he returned to Today’s Film Review with his new work "The Octagonal Cage". Wang Baoqiang thought that there was a feeling that students handed in their homework. This time, he was more practical and very happy.


From "Make a scene in Tianzhu" to "In an octagonal cage", the fate between Wang Baoqiang and "Today’s Film Review" seems to be a dialogue spanning six years.


Six years ago, Wang Baoqiang’s expectation for himself was that he could really direct a work that the audience was satisfied with next time and become a truly qualified director. Now, judging from The Octagonal Cage, it seems that Wang Baoqiang has achieved his goals and ideals in the program six years ago.


When the column group asked Wang Baoqiang again, what would you say to yourself in a few years’ time if you were a guest at Today’s Film Review next time? What do you hope to achieve? Wang Baoqiang’s answer is beyond our expectation.


I thought Wang Baoqiang would talk about his ideal as a director, perhaps it was a word-of-mouth improvement, perhaps it was the yearning for awards. ……



To everyone’s surprise, Wang Baoqiang thought like this: "I hope to see new people come out with more mature and more works next time. Just as we met good directors such as new directors, new directors and new directors at that time, they brought us out. Then I also hope that I can tap many people’s film and television talents and find capable fresh faces. "


Indeed, in addition to Zhang Yiqing, a newcomer who accompanied Wang Baoqiang as a guest in Today’s Film Review for the first time, in The Octagonal Cage, director Wang Baoqiang also played the baseball boy in the documentary as a drama actor in youth. Wang Baoqiang is also using its own strength to help more young people realize their ideals, and is doing something to help others.



Wang Baoqiang is not only a director, but as an actor, from 2003 to now, Wang Baoqiang in our impression is the kind of "stupidity" in "world without thieves" and "It’s too embarrassing for people to walk again"; Maybe it’s still the kind of "epilepsy" inside. This time, in the octagonal cage, the audience saw a more mature and steady Wang Baoqiang. Some viewers commented: "This performance is fierce and has some restraint."



Wang Baoqiang said frankly: "After 20 years from my debut in 2003 to this year’s 2023, I feel that I have become a mature actor in performance. Especially in the octagonal cage, I carefully pondered the performance. For example, the scene of going back to my mother’s house, in fact, before the whole movie was filmed, the movie was already formed in my mind. "



Indeed, when Wang Baoqiang first arrived in Beipiao, he didn’t go home for three or four years and didn’t contact with his family. During the performance of the scene back to mom’s house, Wang Baoqiang cried silently but powerfully.



In addition, Wang Baoqiang used his back to appear in front of the camera many times in the film. The first place is on the battlefield, where he directs the back of children’s training; The second place is that when the protagonist is interviewed, there are great ups and downs in his heart, but he has been restrained. The third place is the last time Sumu won the championship, and he turned away from the back.



When expounding these three back scenes, Wang Baoqiang explained: "I think very clearly that some paragraphs just need to be put away, and they should be given close-ups, but they should not be exposed when they are not. The same is true for lines. Don’t talk if you don’t want to talk. This is what you need to think clearly before shooting. "


The spirit of fighting is to struggle, not admit defeat and not accept fate. I fist at fate and work hard. I want to change myself, win this applause and win this color. The film "The Octagonal Cage" shows the positive life and the negative life of the little people, but why isn’t Wang Baoqiang one of the fighting teenagers?


At present, "octagonal cage" is still showing. If you have a firm and persistent dream, I believe you can also draw unlimited power from the movie!


Why did Shiyan Education Director’s public reply cause heated discussion?

Source: Rule of Law Weekend

  Original title: Why did Shiyan Education Director’s public reply lead to heated discussion?

Rule of law weekend reporter Liu Xiping

  "I have quickly verified the problems you have reflected, and asked the education departments at all levels in the city not to force parents to watch the live broadcast of family education’ Seedling Protection Action’ and punch cards …"

  On April 9th, Kou Wei, director of Shiyan Education Bureau, Hubei Province, sent a reply to a parent, which attracted attention from all walks of life. On the evening of April 7th, a netizen in Shiyan posted an "Open Letter to Director Kou Wei of Shiyan Education Bureau" on the Qin Chu Forum, which reflected that the school required students and parents to watch the live broadcast activities with the theme of family education on a certain platform continuously, and asked parents to take screenshots and punch in on time. Netizens believe that this move has increased the burden on parents. After being informed of this incident, Kou Wei, director of Shiyan Education Bureau, immediately stopped asking parents to watch the clock-in, and arranged personnel to investigate the things reflected by parents. Kou Wei also replied to the parent who complained online.

  Some experts believe that although China’s relevant laws encourage social forces to play a full role in family education, the phenomenon of over-commercialization of family education in some places is worrying.

  The school requires parents to download software, which raises questions.

  "To be honest, an activity once, it’s nothing, just once. This time, the live broadcast of this’ seedling protection action’ is to watch it every day, take screenshots every day, and watch it. "

  Netizen "Gyro Small" is a parent in Shiyan City. At the beginning of April this year, an activity called Family Education "Nursery Action" made him anxious.

  On the evening of April 7th, Gyroscope released an open letter to Director Kou Wei of Shiyan Education Bureau at the Qin Chu Forum. In an open letter, "Gyro Small" reported that the local education bureau had sent a notice to all parents of primary and secondary schools in Shiyan these days, asking each student’s parents to download a certain mobile phone software, and watch a live lecture called "Seedling Protection Action" through this software. At the same time, parents were required to take screenshots every day and report them in the class group.

  "Gyro Xiao" believes that these formalistic votes and praises have pained parents and wronged teachers, and also affected children’s learning, which will have a negative impact on children’s future values.

  The rule of law weekend reporter noticed that after the post of "Gyro Small" was posted on the Internet, it immediately aroused the resonance of many local parents. Many parents question that it is mandatory for parents to download a software to watch such family education programs, and then take screenshots to punch in, which is suspected of earning traffic for a software.

  Wang Xing, a parent of a primary school in Shiyan City, confirmed to the reporter that since April 1st, the school where his children are located has indeed launched a watching and punching activity called "Family Education". The school requires parents to download the Extreme Edition of a mobile phone software, watch lectures through this software, and then take screenshots to punch in the class group.

  "The live broadcast starts at 7 o’clock every night. The children basically have to do their homework at this time, and they don’t have time to watch this live broadcast. So basically, parents just open and cut the picture, and then send it to the group, even if the task is completed." Wang Xing believes that the original intention of the organizers to hold similar lectures is good, but this practice of watching in a limited time and asking parents to like and take screenshots does increase the burden on teachers, students and parents.

  "I think that school teachers should still focus on teaching, and the relevant departments should not add other tasks unrelated to teaching to teachers." Wang Xing told the rule of law weekend reporter.

  Director of education stops watching clock-in.

  After being informed of this incident, Kou Wei, director of Shiyan Education Bureau, immediately stopped watching the punch-in, and arranged personnel to investigate the things reflected by parents.

  "I have quickly verified the problems you have reflected, and asked the education departments at all levels in the city not to force parents to watch the live broadcast of the family education’ Nursery Action’ and punch cards." On April 9, Kou Wei replied to the parent who complained online.

  In his reply, Kou Wei believes that schools are the main position of education and teachers are the first resource of education. Shiyan City will resolutely implement the requirements of the state, province and city to reduce the burden on primary and secondary school teachers and further create a good environment for education and teaching. In view of the activities on campus that parents have reflected more and have nothing to do with teaching, the Municipal Education Bureau has made a specific list of reducing the burden, strictly cleaned up and standardized matters such as "voting" and "online homework" that have nothing to do with primary and secondary school education and teaching, followed the laws of education and teaching, focused on teachers, taught and educated people, resolutely opposed formalism and bureaucracy, and solidly promoted the work of reducing the burden on primary and secondary school teachers to achieve practical results.

  "We will resolutely fight the tough battle of’ double reduction’, adhere to the linkage between off-campus governance and on-campus quality improvement, effectively reduce the workload, reduce the enthusiasm of off-campus training, reduce the financial burden on parents, and improve the quality of education, create a good educational environment for the healthy growth and all-round development of students, and strive to run a higher, more accurate, more temperature and more powerful education." Kou Wei said in his reply.

  On April 11th, Shiyan City Education Bureau made a public disclosure on the official WeChat WeChat official account with the title "The Municipal Education Bureau responded to netizens’ questions".

  After Kou Wei’s reply to parents was disclosed by the media, it caused a heated discussion from all walks of life.

  "Unexpectedly, I thought that this issue would be harmonious. I didn’t expect the forum to be retained. The director replied, and the netizens were satisfied and recognized. A praise also made us full of hope for the education of Shiyan." Some netizens left a message saying.

  Some netizens commented that family education is indeed very important. Strengthening family education should focus on the effect, rather than becoming a mere formality, and finally become a burden for teachers and parents.

  Family education should avoid excessive commercialization.

  A few years ago, an article "Everything is" grabbed from the doll, and the doll was quickly "caught" and broke! The article has been heated in major media. According to this article, according to incomplete statistics, in recent years, more than 100 related jobs have tried to enter the campus.

  Like "starting with dolls", in recent years, some training institutions have also found business opportunities around the theme of "family education", and they have also targeted some schools, and activities related to "family education" have begun to spread to schools.

  Zhang Min, a parent of a student in a certain place, told the reporter of the Rule of Law Weekend that not long ago, his child’s school and a psychological counseling and training institution launched an online training activity of "home-school interaction and parent-child communication". The school asked parents to listen to a psychologist’s lecture online at a specified time, and then take screenshots to listen to the punch card in the class group.

  "In the program, this psychologist did talk about some topics such as’ how parents can strengthen communication with rebellious children’. However, after the program, the psychologist suggested that some parents who want to consult in detail can join a WeChat group. In this WeChat group, these psychologists began to promote various’ packages’ about psychological counseling to parents. " Zhang Min revealed that these psychological training "packages" cost from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan, which is not a small expense for families with average income.

  In addition to the hidden business opportunities of family psychological counseling, some family safety education knowledge training will sometimes become a channel for training institutions to sell products.

  Wang Tao, a parent of a certain place, told the reporter of the rule of law weekend that a year ago, he was informed by the school that he and his children needed to listen to the school family safety knowledge training conducted by a safety education and training institution online. Results After a long lecture on fire fighting and daily safety, the trainer began to promote a household fire fighting equipment in WeChat group.

  "These daily safety education knowledge is really useful for children, but it always feels strange to sell fire-fighting equipment at the end of the activity." Wang Tao told reporters.

  Since the implementation of "People’s Republic of China (PRC) Family Education Promotion Law" on January 1st this year, how to "take care of children according to law" has once become a hot topic. But in some places, some training institutions have started the training business of "family education instructors".

  "The entry threshold is low, the certificate can be obtained in a short time, and the passing rate is high; Registration is not limited to household registration, and some eligible people can enjoy preferential policies for reimbursement of tuition fees … "This is an enrollment announcement about" Family Education Instructor "launched by a training institution on the new media platform. The rule of law weekend reporter noticed that at present, many institutions began to issue training certificates for "family education instructors", and the fees were different.

  The rule of law weekend reporter was informed in the interview that although the Family Education Promotion Law encourages social forces to give full play to family education, this law clearly stipulates that family education guidance institutions shall not organize or organize for-profit education and training in disguise.

  However, the phenomenon of over-commercialization of family education in some places is worrying. Excessive commercialization of family education will bring harm.

  Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at China Academy of Educational Sciences, once told the media that to avoid the commercialization of family education and training is mainly to prevent some families from bearing a heavier burden, causing family anxiety and a series of social equity problems. "Family education needs professional guidance and should be the responsibility of the government and institutions."

  (Parents in the text are all pseudonyms)

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Wenzhou RAV4 Rongfang price reduction is coming, the latest offer 131,800! only this time

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A bowl of hot soup, you can’t get rid of Luoyang people at all

Nine lines of original old artists are included in the topic # 49 Scenery Records.

Old artists always thought that only Cantonese people were addicted to soup, but when they met Luoyang people, they didn’t know what a "soup addict" was. We usually say "Have you eaten?" When Luoyang people come up, they just say "Have you drunk?"

This drink means soup.

Luoyang people always take soup seriously. When Cantonese people are still boasting that "three meals a day, no soup", Luoyang people have taken soup as their staple food. Yes, in Guangdong, you can only play "auxiliary" soup, and in Luoyang, you are the absolute C and king.

△ Luoyang’s soup/worm

How much do they like soup?

Let’s just say that the Luoyang Water Mat, which has been circulating in the local area for more than 1000 years, has 24 dishes, all of which are soup. It can be said that the word "soup" has been branded in Luoyang people’s genes from the root.

On the streets of Luoyang, whether it is morning, noon or evening, it is standard for the old Luoyang people to have a bowl of soup. A large piece of beef, oil and spicy seeds floating on the bowl, a mouthful, I feel that the whole body is soaked in the dense soup. Unlike Guangdong soup, which is soft and light, Luoyang soup pays attention to rough and heroic. How can it be a "cool" word?

△ The dense Luoyang soup gas

Moreover, in the eyes of outsiders, it seems that there is only Hu spicy soup in Henan. This statement will never be established in Luoyang. Regardless of the "Luoyang water mat", only the combination of meat and vegetables can reach twenty or thirty kinds of soup in Luoyang, and it is not the same for a week.

If you go to Luoyang and only know how to call a bowl of "hot soup", then you don’t know anything about this ancient capital of the 13th Dynasty.

Why Luoyang people are addicted to soup?

Old artists often say that region is an important part of a city’s food style, and Luoyang is no exception.

Look at the topography of Luoyang: it is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the hinterland of the Central Plains, surrounded by mountains on all sides, with Mangshan Mountain in the north, Yique in the south and Hulao Pass in the east. It is a proper basin landform, and because it is far from the ocean, the wind can’t enter and the climate is dry.

What could be better than a bowl of soup in this dry weather? Therefore, Luoyang people rely on these soups to continue their lives, and use the hot and sour taste to drive away the cold.

△ Geomorphology/Insect in Luoyang Basin

But only geography, still far from it. When the identity of the ancient capital of the 13th Dynasty was established, this bowl of soup in Luoyang was finally blended.

Starting from Xia and Shang Dynasties, the appearance of Ding began to soothe people’s stomachs in this land. Luoyang basin is also rich in wheat and other grains, and the rich products continue to feed this bowl of soup until the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

In A.D. 494, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, with the original intention of "sinicizing" the people and realizing the great national integration. He did not think about this great integration, but also integrated "Hu Shi" into Luoyang’s diet. Influenced by the Hu people, the local people began to try beef and mutton while eating pork.

△ Suo beef soup

In addition, during the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty, Luoyang was once the capital, and the starting point of the "Oriental Silk Road on Land" was also moved northward to Luoyang. Merchants such as Dayue and Arabia did business in Luoyang, which naturally brought Hu Shi to Luoyang. They found that putting large pieces of beef into the soup, gulping soup and meat seemed to have more flavor.

It was not until the Sui and Tang Dynasties that this bowl of soup really tasted.

With the opening of the North-South Grand Canal and the blessing of the Silk Road, Luoyang, as the capital of Sui and Tang Dynasties, has become the largest commercial and handicraft center in the country, and the ship trade is endless. The prosperity of the economy and the arrival of Tang envoys from various countries have brought Luoyang’s soup culture directly to the peak.

△ Luoyang Tang culture

Thus, more than 1000 years ago, the representative work of diet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty-Luoyang water mat appeared. Of course, it represents the prosperous Tang Dynasty and Luoyang. The so-called "water mat", first, all hot dishes are soup and water; Second, serving food is like "flowing water", and after eating it, it will be followed by another.

Just thinking that this dish once appeared on the dining table of Wu Zetian in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, goose bumps rose. It is simply a typical representative player in China’s food culture. There are 24 dishes in the whole banquet, including eight cold cuts and four vegetarian dishes, and then 16 hot dishes. The first four dishes are used to calm down the table, and the last 12 dishes are in groups of three, respectively. To finish these, it is estimated that you can’t get off the table for two or three hours.

△ "Peony Swallow" of Luoyang Water Seats

The first dish of Luoyang water mat is "Peony Swallow", which is plain at first glance. Isn’t it just that shredded white radish, shredded ham and shredded crab meat are placed neatly, and then poured with clear soup? No, someone in bilibili has explored how thin the shredded radish in "Peony Swallow Vegetable" is, and found that it can pass through the needle, and the shredded radish is uniform, and it really can’t be done without decades of skill.

In addition, this water mat is made of whole chicken, sliced pork in soup, fried meatballs, etc. The tastes are salty and sweet, rich and weak. It can be said that "the Qing people come first, the rich ones come later, the righteous ones dominate it, the strange ones are mixed, and the tongue is tired, and the Xin is shocked, and the stomach is full, and the acid is overflowing." All guests are suitable and enjoy themselves.

△ fried meatballs

When the water mat in Luoyang has passed through more than 1,300 years, it can still land firmly in today’s Luoyang, and it is also called "the three wonders of Luoyang" with the Peony Flower Festival and Longmen Grottoes. You will know that the Tang culture has its own rivers and lakes in Luoyang.

Luoyang people’s favorite is not hot soup.

When we came to Henan, we were easily solidified by the dietary thinking of "Hu Spicy Soup, Huimian Noodles", thinking that we had to order a bowl of Hu Spicy Soup when we arrived in Luoyang, but the most authentic way to eat in Luoyang is no longer a bowl of Hu Spicy Soup.

Hu spicy soup first spread from Xihua County, Zhoukou City, so compared with eastern Henan, Luoyang people in western Henan don’t seem so good at it. More importantly, Luoyang people can choose too many soups.

In addition to the water mat, the smell of soup has long fascinated Luoyang folk.

△ Luoyang people can choose too many soups.

A bowl of steaming beef soup is the choice of most old Luoyang people to open the morning. Less than seven or eight o’clock, Luoyang people gathered in front of the open-air stalls and rushed to drink a bowl of soup. The moist hot air seemed to meet the taste buds of the ancients thousands of years ago, just as the ancient history test said: "Lv Wang tasted the slaughter of cattle and sang songs in the morning, selling drinks in Mengjin."

It is not easy to cook a bowl of beef soup. You have to soak the beef bones for a day and a night to remove the blood, and you have to keep changing the water until the bottom is clear before you can go to the pot. Then simmer for seven or eight hours until the soup base becomes white and fragrant.

△ mellow and fragrant beef bone soup, who doesn’t want to come to a bowl?

Old soup drinkers who drink fine will choose "sweet soup", which does not mean sweet taste, but no salt. A good pot of beef soup has such confidence, without adding salt, seasoning or pepper. The tongue first touches the freshness and mellow of the soup, and the aftertaste is fluid. The warm and silky soup drops down the throat, and the taste buds and perception reach a critical point in an instant, which is absolutely home.

Heavy-mouthed diners can also choose "salty soup", with beef ranging from six to fifteen pieces. Choose green onion and coriander, then pour a large portion of soup, soak the steamed buns in the soup, add salt by themselves, and then spread a layer of fire-like red chili pepper. The aroma immediately catches people’s hearts and makes them eat it dry and neat.

△ "Sweet Soup" and "Salty Soup" of Luoyang Beef Soup (Ⅰ) (Ⅱ)

Tired of eating beef soup, as well as mutton soup, donkey broth and miscellaneous liver soup, they can always find tricks in the hands of the master.

A good bowl of mutton soup pays attention to "delicious taste, fat meat and clear soup". Put the cracked sheep bones into the pot and simmer slowly all night until the bone marrow and collagen are melted into the soup. The soup base can be fresh and bright, and the mutton is fragrant but not greasy, fat but not fishy. Eating a piece of mutton and drinking a mouthful of soup makes the meat more "beautiful" in the mouth cavity, and it is sealed in the mouth together with the aroma, which will never run away.

In Luoyang, there are many gourmets who drive to Tiexie in Mengjin to taste the old mutton soup that has been precipitated for a hundred years.

△ Mengjin Tiexie mutton soup

If you don’t want the smell of meat to fill your mouth, you can come to a bowl of vegetarian soup to remove fishy smell, greasy smell and oil. Tofu soup, meatball soup, non-turning soup and Hu spicy soup are all waiting for diners to turn over the cards.

Although bean curd soup is vegetarian soup, it is full of ingredients: white bean curd is the main material, ginger is the auxiliary material, hot vermicelli, oily bean curd and vegetables are added, chopped green onion, coriander and Chili oil are sprinkled, and the soup is poured up, which is delicious.

Although the bean curd soup is simple, the oil alone needs to be fried with more than a dozen spices, such as fragrant leaves, fennel, star anise, clove and cinnamon. The tender bean curd like sheep fat is square and unbreakable. Just take a bite, and the bean fragrance will be integrated with the soup.

△ Luoyang tofu soup/worm

Finally, there is a soup that is worth tasting. This strange name actually refers to the mung bean flour cake on the noodle soup, which can be cooked without turning it over, hence the name "no turning".

Put this glittering and translucent green "corner" (without turning) into a bowl, then add vermicelli, fungus, shrimp skin, kelp silk, seaweed, etc., and then add some vinegar and pepper to enhance the freshness and remove the fishy smell, and a bowl of boiling soup will be ready. Putting "don’t turn" into your mouth is soft, sour, refreshing and appetizing, which makes people want to have another bowl.

△ no soup

The soup in Luoyang is really touching.

To drink soup in Luoyang, you have to know some doorways.

The smell of soup in Luoyang has already reached the homes of ordinary people along the ancient walls of the Millennium. After a bowl of beef soup, and then two oil whirls, it is no wonder that the locals say, "A bowl of soup in the morning is not appropriate for a fairy." After more than a thousand years of precipitation, soup has long been drunk by Luoyang people as a culture.

If you go to Luoyang in a hurry, outsiders really can’t easily drink a tunnel. When drinking soup in Luoyang, you have to talk about some doorways and summarize them simply. That is two words-men.

△ Follow the old Luoyang people to drink soup, and you have to know some doorways.

Old Luoyang never uses a spoon to drink soup. For them, it is boring to scoop soup into their mouths in small sips. If you want to use chopsticks, put a big pinch of meat in your mouth, then look up and drink half a bowl of soup, and the steaming heat will instantly wrap your bones, which is comfortable.

They also pay attention to the first pot of soup. If you want to drink a bowl of good soup in Luoyang, you can’t sleep in yet. Go downstairs at ten o’clock. Sorry, the good soup is sold out. In the eyes of the old Luoyang people, there is an old saying: "Drink soup at seven o’clock (original flavor), drink oil at eight o’clock (taste by oil), and drink water at nine o’clock (clear soup with little water)."

If some old shops have good business, there will be a long queue before five o’clock for the first three bowls of soup. If you want to taste a tunnel, you must be right to follow them.

△ The soup at five o’clock in the morning is the most soothing.

Luoyang people drink soup, and they are used to matching some pasta. Otherwise, how can you say: "A bowl of hot soup mixed with dry goods, accompanied by staple foods such as shredded cakes and oil whirlers, is a proper meal."

"Lean meat, pancakes and original soup" were named as "three beauties" by the old Luoyang people, and they are all indispensable. There are many pancakes used to accompany soup, such as oil whirl, sesame seed cake, pot helmet and shredded cake. You can choose at will, and you will never have to worry that this bowl of soup will make you feel lonely.

△ oil whirl

Oil whirl is the most familiar old friend of many northerners. When the bread is rolled into a "whirl" and baked at high temperature, the freshly baked oil whirl is crispy in the skin and soft and tender in the inside, coupled with a bowl of beef soup, which tastes like no one.

Sesame cakes and oil whirls can be eaten with soup, while pot helmets and shredded cakes are generally soaked directly in soup. The pot helmets are torn into small pieces and soaked in soup, and when the soup is fully absorbed, it will be soft and tasty.

△ soup with shredded cake

However, that’s not enough. You have to know some jargon before entering Luoyang Soup Restaurant. From the moment you push through the door, you have to face the whole Jianghu. The boss will judge whether you are an expert or not according to your words and deeds.

"Do you want meat mixed?" "Clear soup or fat soup?" "Double pepper."

Only by understanding these words can you get the entrance ticket to Luoyang to drink soup. "Do you want meat mixed?" I asked if your soup should be beef and mutton or beef and mutton. "Clear soup or fat soup?" Refers to whether this bowl of soup needs oil; And "double pepper" refers to putting double oil-splashed peppers in the soup bowl.

If you shout out "clear soup, double pepper" in the store, the owner of the store can’t help but sit up and take notice of you.

△ Test you, what is this?

In Luoyang, there is another established rule: adding materials requires money, and adding soup does not require money. As a result, this has become the staple food of dock workers and restaurant waiters in Luoyang in the past. In the face of steaming soup, people are not divided into three or six, and they are not full. Just shout: "Boss, full." That spoonful of clear soup will fill the bowl along the spoon.

The taste and seasoning are also arranged by yourself. Salt, pepper, vinegar and pepper are rich and thrifty by people. From the taste of soup, we can see a person’s rank. The older Luoyang people who know how to drink often require the lighter taste, which is somewhat similar to that of Cantonese people.

△ When the soup is gone, you can also call the boss full.

In the soup world, Luoyang is really wronged. Obviously, it is a king, but it is misunderstood that "only Hu spicy soup". To show the strength of the ancient capital of the 13th Dynasty, soup is a good outlet.

Although Luoyang is a little lonely now, that soup will always linger at the bottom of the tongue, and it will always be the biggest concern of Luoyang people outside Longmen Grottoes, Baima Temple and Peony Flower Festival.

References:

1. On the Formation Factors of Regional Food Culture —— Taking Luoyang Tang Culture as an Example.

2. The Relationship between Luoyang "Tang" Culture and Its Regional Environment —— Taking "Water Mat" as an Example, Tian Tian

3. "Soup as Tasty as Luoyang" Sun Beichen

4. Luoyang people love soup, and their favorite is not The Paper, a hot soup.

5. How delicious is a bowl of authentic Luoyang soup? Alva

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Do you want to go to Luoyang for soup?

Huang Jiabao

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Original title: "A bowl of hot soup, you can’t get rid of Luoyang people at all"

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