Big data on takeaway platforms: Confucius Temple, Drum Tower, and Xuanwu Lake have become the most popular attractions for takeaway orders in Nanjing

  Featured restaurants queue too long and don’t want to wait? Eating too much supper needs stomach-strengthening and digestive tablets? Scenic restaurants are too expensive to eat? More than half of the National Day holiday, big data just released by Ele.me shows that five days before the National Day holiday, more than 529 tourists in Nanjing ordered duck takeaway; orders for takeaway medicine in hotels increased more than ten times year-on-year; takeaway orders from Nanjing libraries exceeded 2,500 orders, there are really many people who are racing against time to learn!

  Confucius Temple, Drum Tower, and Xuanwu Lake have become the attractions with the most takeaway orders in Nanjing

  According to data analytics, among tourists from all over the world who visit Nanjing, tourists from Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing most like to order takeout in Nanjing. Among the many attractions in Nanjing, Confucius Temple, Drum Tower and Xuanwu Lake have become the most ordered attractions for takeout. Five days before the National Day holiday, more than 529 tourists in Nanjing ordered duck food takeout.

  It is worth noting that, unlike previous years, the takeaway orders of Nanjing hotels saw a remarkable increase in non-dinner orders. Among them, medical orders increased by 1431% year-on-year, and orders for flowers and green plants increased by 185%.

  Three days before the National Day holiday, the most expensive takeaway order in Nanjing was as high as 737 yuan, and 25 curry beef brisket sets were ordered. When the warm-hearted Nanjing citizens ordered takeaway, they left 327 orders with the remarks "Happy National Day" and "Celebrate the birthday of the motherland".

  Five days before the National Day holiday, the library in Nanjing received more than 2,500 orders for takeout. There are really many people who are racing to learn! At the same time, there are also many "strugglers" who are still working hard. In Nanjing, more than 3,300 orders were sent to the traffic police brigade, and 443 orders were sent to the sanitation station and 944 orders were sent to the fire brigade.

  Ele.me data shows that Nanjing people like to order takeout in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou when they go out. During this year’s National Day, Nanjing people’s favorite snacks when traveling are Shanghai raw fried, Changsha stinky tofu, and Chongqing hot and sour powder.

  Word-of-mouth data shows that during the National Day, the order volume of many consumer places increased by more than 100% month-on-month compared with the pre-holiday period. Among them, amusement parks, hot springs, and foot massage have become new choices for leisure gatherings during the National Day holiday of Nanjing citizens this year. The growth rate of orders from these places ranks among the top three in the city.

  More and more small and medium-sized urban residents

  The first choice for overseas travel during the festival

  Feeling fed up with the crowds and crowds at domestic tourist attractions, more and more domestic tourists prefer to travel abroad for the National Day holiday, "I want to take you to Turkey, as well as Tokyo and Paris." According to big data recently released by JD.com, during this year’s National Day holiday, the number of foreign travel tickets and hotel reservations in third- to sixth-tier cities increased rapidly.

  Statistics show that among the orders booked for international air tickets before the National Day this year, the proportion of first- and second-tier cities has declined compared with last year. At the same time, the proportion of international air tickets bookings in third- to sixth-tier cities has increased by 10 percentage points compared with last year. In terms of the number of international hotel reservations, the proportion of orders from third- to sixth-tier cities has increased by nearly 12 percentage points compared with last year.

  From the consumption destination data, Japan, South Korea and South East Asia continue to be the top travel destinations for domestic consumers. Seoul, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Osaka, Manila and other tourist cities are ranked at the top of the air ticket booking rankings. In addition to Japan, the popularity of British tourism has also been growing in recent years. London, Liverpool, Manchester and other cities full of British style are also the first choice for some domestic tourists. In addition, Singapore, Russia, New Zealand, Turkey and other tourist countries, due to better infrastructure and local customs, consumption popularity is also increasing year by year.

  In terms of travel equipment, consumers are also spending a lot of money. In terms of sales, sunscreen products and swimsuits still account for the majority, which also means that islands and beaches are still the first choice for tourists’ travel destination arrangements. With the arrival of the golden autumn season, sales of mountaineering equipment, sports cameras, drones and other equipment have also increased significantly. (Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter, Xu Xiaofeng)

At the age of 58, Jackie Chan jumped into a volcano with his life, calling it a year to let Lin Fengjiao star


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Jackie Chan
 

    Movie Network News(Photo/Qian Jia’s memoir/Li Chao) On December 11, the film held a "final blow" press conference in Beijing, and Jackie Chan attended with the stars Yao Xingtong, Zhang Lanxin, Bai Luna, Liao Fan and Liu Chengjun. Jackie Chan, who has won the Guinness World Record for performing the most stunts, revealed that although he was also very scared during the shooting of the volcano jumping scene, he still stood in front of the camera when he saw a big rock flying over, and he said that even if he died, he would like to be a hero. At the end of the film, Jackie Chan’s brother’s beloved wife Lin Fengjiao appeared in surprise. In this regard, Jackie Chan said that for these short shots, he begged Lin Fengjiao for a whole year.

 

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58-Year-old kung fu superstar jumps over volcano, Jackie Chan: Die like a hero

    Jackie Chan, who is 58 years old this year, has performed a lot of extremely dangerous and difficult moves for the audience in "Zodiac". Not long ago, he broke the Guinness World Record for "most stunts". Jackie Chan admitted that looking back on the dangerous scenes he had shot, he was also very scared at the time. "Today I broke my hand, tomorrow I broke my foot, and I can cut my head at every turn. I can get through it safely, but every morning I wake up and ask myself, will I be so lucky every time? Bruce Lee died after a few scenes, but he left a very bright image. I also want to leave a bright image, but I am not willing to die. It is better to leave a way out for myself and tell everyone that I will never make such a life-saving movie again."

    "It was too dangerous. I was going to roll down from the top of the volcano with iron ore in my eyes. Before I took the picture, I asked them, when was the last volcanic eruption? They said it was ten years ago. I mean, I wouldn’t have caught up with it so coincidentally. Once I saw a big rock floating over, and they were all shouting: Big brother! Go away! I stood in front of the camera very calmly and smartly, because even if I die, I will die like a hero."

Next page: Shu Qi and Wu Yanzu made cameos, Jackie Chan begged for a year to make Lin Fengjiao play

Andy Lau is suspected of announcing his marriage, asking fans "Should I get married?"


Andy Lau is singing and dancing in Taipei


    On November 21, Andy Lau began singing in Taipei. At the age of 47, he showed his abs and sang "Chinese" in front of the LED screen, which was magnificent. The eternal idol in the hearts of thousands of fans said: "I’m back, do you miss me? Do you really?" As soon as he opened his mouth, he stirred the hearts of 10,000 viewers. Afterwards, Andy Lau also asked the fans in the audience: "Do you think an idol should get married and have a girlfriend?" After saying that, he immediately won thunderous applause from the audience. "


    Back then, Andy Lau became popular in Taiwan with the movie "Extrajudicial Love". When he sang the theme song of the film "Dear Child" that night, the live film played the movie footage, which was very interesting in the past. When singing "Stupid Child", he said emotionally: "More than 20 years ago, a stupid child was born in the entertainment industry, but I didn’t expect everyone to support him so much now." The time and space exchange of this concert was misplaced, and he was suddenly in the Shanghai style of Shili Yangchang, and suddenly turned into a cowherd in the sky, performing the unblessed love song and drama with the Weaver Girl.


    Andy Lau started singing in Taipei, and the two box offices were full, earning about 12.50 million yuan. It was the best concert at the box office in Taipei in the second half of this year. The entertainers in the audience also shone brightly that night, and even Jolin Tsai became a small fan to join the audience, wanting to learn the lighting and stage design of his concert. Luo Zhixiang, who regards Andy Lau as his number one idol, and Da S, Cai Kangyong, Ella, and Bang Bang Tang, who recently co-produced a new film with Andy Lau, all attended the performance.

Editor in charge: Sun Jie

All parts of the province jointly carry out voluntary tree planting activities, work together to plant new seedlings, and draw green and beautiful pictures together

  Spring is the best season of the year to plant green and sow green. On February 13, all parts of the province jointly launched the 2023 province-wide promotion of green and beautiful Guangdong ecological construction voluntary tree planting activities. Cadres and masses in various places shoveled soil and supported seedlings for watering. With 100 green and beautiful Guangdong ecological construction demonstration sites in the province as the main places, local tree species such as alpine fir, triangular plum and camphor were widely planted, adding new green to the land of South Guangdong.

  This year’s event is guided by the "Decision on Deepening Green Beauty Guangdong Ecological Construction" (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision"), with the theme of "Promoting Green Beauty Guangdong Ecological Construction and Promoting Harmonious Coexistence between Man and Nature". A total of 2,453 tree planting points were set up in the province, and five forest chiefs at the provincial, municipal, county, town and village levels participated in the voluntary tree planting activities. The number of people involved in tree planting exceeded 190,000, and the number of trees was over 1 million.

  Optimize forest stands ? ? Native tree species "play the leading role"

  Phoenix wood, banyan tree, soil agarwood, iron holly, Shanduying… A large number of native tree species have entered the voluntary tree planting activities, adding green and beauty to Shanwei’s roadside green spaces, scenic spots and parks and other areas. This year, Shanwei will include the "Implementation of Urban and Rural Green Beauty Project to Benefit the People" in the "Ten Practical Things for People’s Livelihoods". It is expected that by the end of this year, 10 forest phase optimization demonstration belts and 11 green beauty Guangdong ecological construction demonstration sites will be completed.

  Qingyuan Yingde took "bamboo" as the characteristic theme of this voluntary tree planting activity, which is also a pillar industry for enriching the local people. In Yingde, the industry formed around bamboo shoots reached 3.20 billion yuan. With the help of this activity, Qingyuan focused on increasing the planting of evergreen broad-leaved forests, and the city and county jointly planted 66,885 seedlings of various types to continuously optimize the stand and beautiful forest appearance.

  Continuously improving forest appearance, improving stand quality, and comprehensively and deeply carrying out national voluntary tree planting activities are all key tasks for green and beautiful Guangdong ecological construction put forward in the "Decision", and many prefectures and cities have combined the two. In Yunfu Xinxing Jintai Mountain Forest Park, everyone worked together to plant iron knife wood, golden peach, Hainan red beans, etc., and replanted and interplanted native broad-leaved trees in the existing masson pine pure forest in Jintai Mountain Forest Park. Through the scientific combination of multiple tree species, the internal ecosystem of the forest has become more stable.

  In the Meizhou Meishe Express Forest Stand Optimization Demonstration Site, newly planted saplings by Meizhou cadres and the masses stand tall in the wind. In the next three years, the demonstration site will achieve an average height of more than 3 meters of forest trees, a preservation rate of more than 85%, and an increase in native broad-leaved trees dominated by precious tree species from 20% to more than 65%. This will achieve accurate improvement in forest quality and a significant increase in the output value of afforestation acres. Effectively solve the problems of single tree species, poor landscape effect, high fire risk coefficient, and high risk of forest diseases and pests. The Meishe Express will be built into a multi-tree, multi-level, and multi-color key landscape corridor out of the city.

  In the area where the forest facies renovation project of Weiyuan Island Forest Park in Dongguan City is located, party members, cadres and volunteers waved shovels on the mountains to shovel soil and water seedlings. The scene was in full swing, and small saplings suitable for the local soil and climate, such as purple flower wind Suzuki, yellow flower wind Suzuki, camphor trees, iron holly, and yin fragrance, "stood up" on both sides of the hillside. "Today’s voluntary tree planting activity has planted a total of 600 trees. When the trees grow up, the Weiyuan Island forest, which was originally poor in growth and uneven in forest appearance, will form a multi-species, multi-level and multi-color forest ecosystem, further improving the ecological benefits of the forest." The relevant person in charge introduced.

  Seed recognition, adoption, protection, love, green action

  Leading cadres, army officers and soldiers, volunteers, student representatives… At the voluntary tree planting site in Sanlingshan National Forest Park, Zhanjiang City, there were busy figures everywhere. On the same day, 10 counties (cities and districts) in Zhanjiang City jointly carried out the voluntary tree planting activity to promote the ecological construction of Green and Beauty Guangdong. According to statistics, the city organized a total of 11 voluntary tree planting sessions, 7523 people participated in the voluntary tree planting, and a total of 63,566 trees were planted.

  Guangdong’s 21 cities have different populations, areas, and climates. All localities implement the principle of "Seek Truth and Be Pragmatic, Scientific Greening" in the "Decision". There are forestry cities that plant more than 100,000 trees, and some cities that strive for excellence and plant 10,000 saplings. The enthusiasm of the masses for tree planting is not much different in the province.

  By Moyang Lake, everyone is supporting seedlings and cultivating soil. At the Mini Program, citizens’ enthusiasm for seed adoption is high. Yangjiang continues to broaden the channels for mass participation in the form of "Internet +" seed adoption and adoption this year. Yangjiang, with a population of about 3 million, has participated in voluntary tree planting since "Chuangsen". The number of people who have participated in voluntary tree planting has exceeded 9 million. This year, Yangjiang also adopted some ancient trees for the first time, including plum, neem, stone chestnut, egg flower, longan, camphor tree, blood seal throat, banyan tree and other ancient trees located in parks and villages.

  Among the participants in the voluntary tree planting in Zhongshan, a group of local entrepreneurs’ representatives stood out. On February 13, they planted 17,000 saplings together with the cadres and masses in Zhongshan. "A tree needs to be cultivated if it wants to grow into a’towering tree ‘. As an enterprise rooted in Zhongshan, we are willing to claim a batch of tree planting tasks, water and maintain it for a long time, and contribute to retaining the green waters and green mountains in Zhongshan," said Zhang Chuanwei, an entrepreneur representative.

  "What we planted is not only saplings, but also pieces of green hope," said Xu Qingtao, a cadre in Nanxiong Town, Shaoguan, who participated in the tree planting. Although the spring rain still has a trace of coolness, the tree planting site in Nanxiong is in full swing. Everyone formed a group of 3 people and a group of 5 people, and planted 20 mu of saplings in one afternoon. A total of 105 voluntary tree planting activities like this were carried out in Shaoguan, attracting nearly 10,000 people.

  In Heyuan, many citizens were attracted by the warm atmosphere, donned volunteer vests, and led their children to join the tree planting team. About 117,000 trees were planted in the city that day. Osmanthus, kapok, iron holly, drunken fragrance and smiles and other tree species covered the mountains and plains, connecting the landscape ecology and humanities of Heyuan together. "Green waters and green mountains are becoming Jinshan Yinshan!" Everyone eagerly looked forward to it.

  Beautify urban and rural areas

  Sowing green, harvesting hope. In the national reserve forest base of Niu Mian Mountain, Jianqun Village, Jinli Town, Gaoyao District, Zhaoqing, the cadres and masses planted 14,000 trees such as Milao Pai, Acacia blackwood, red cone, Huolinan, and rosewood. "These trees are matched according to the long, medium and short growth cycles to create a broad-leaved mixed forest, and promote the optimization of low-quality and low-efficiency forest stands on both sides of the Xijiang River with points and areas to improve forest appearance," said Ding Jianping, deputy director of the Zhaoqing Forestry Bureau.

  Standing on Niu Mian Mountain and looking down, the clear water of a bay in the West River winds past; from a distance, the three waters of Foshan on the other side of the river can be faintly seen. Ding Jianping said that considering Niu Mian Mountain is the first scenic line of waterway entering Zhaoqing, the local area will make it the "main venue" for voluntary tree planting in Zhaoqing this year.

  In this year’s voluntary tree planting activities, many places have combined the national voluntary tree planting activities with the construction of a high-level urban-rural integrated green and beautiful environment, and the high-quality urban-rural green and beautiful ecological environment of "forest and city depend on each other, forest and people blend" has gradually emerged. In Jieyang Puning, citizens planted yellow flower suzuki, purple flower suzuki and kapok at the municipal voluntary tree planting activity point located on the north bank of Lianjiang River. The seedlings were planted along Lianjiang River, which stretched for 4 kilometers. A beautiful picture of "the city is in the forest, the road is in the green, the house is in the garden, and the people are in the scenery" is slowly unfolding.

  In Shantou, tree planting activities were carried out in the Jufeng Scenic Area of Haojiang District. Cadres, soldiers and volunteers planted Peach, Silver Leaf Acacia, Yellow Flower Wind Suzuki, Bodhi, etc., mostly for viewing flowers and leaves, adding to the creation of a green and beautiful home with scenery in all seasons. After more than 10 years of sewing and inserting green, planting green and replenishing green, the scenic spot has become a good place for citizens and tourists to watch flowers.

  In the Maoming Open-pit Mine Ecological Park, hundreds of green planters waved their hoes and shovels and planted saplings one by one. Open-pit mines used to be the "scars" of the city in the past, but now they have become an important part of the urban landscape, which shows that green planting has become an "example" action of Maoming. This year, Maoming will also focus on guiding the intensive processing of agarwood, orange, oil tea and other characteristic industries, extending the industrial chain of forest products, and at the same time creating a characteristic route of forest tourism, promoting the construction of forest towns and villages, actively cultivating a new business model of "rural tourism + ecology", exploring the development of forestry carbon sink trading, and enhancing the efficiency of Maoming forest "carbon sink discharge".

After the network about the car era: do not fight advertising subsidies, service management is king

  CCTV News(Reporter, Liu Chunyan) The emergence of the online car-hailing model has solved people’s travel needs, but it also faces many problems. With the promulgation of the new policy on online car-hailing, a large number of non-compliant online cars have been forced to be removed from the shelves, and the problem of taxi-hailing difficulties has re-emerged in front of the public.

  What is the current situation of online car-hailing, and how to go in the future? CCTV reporters interviewed and investigated this.

  Passenger: Can’t wait for a car in twenty minutes

  On April 1, Didi Chuxing officially stopped sending orders to non-Beijing-licensed vehicles, significantly reducing the number of vehicles outside Beijing, and citizens’ travel pressure began to face tests.

  At nine in the morning, Ms. Li stood on the side of Shijingshan Road and tried to send the order four times. After more than half an hour, she finally waited for an express driver to pick up the order. From an anxious look to a "calm sigh of relief", Ms. Li looked rather helpless. "I went out an hour early, and the order was received, but I was almost late," Ms. Li told reporters. "At the same distance, in the past, once the order was sent out, the driver would often pick up the order within a few seconds, but now it takes more time and waiting."

  At 3:30 in the afternoon, Zhang Shijie’s family, who planned to go home after enjoying the flowers from Yuyuantan Park, also encountered the problem of getting a taxi. "The order was sent out, and the system showed that hundreds of cars had been notified, but they didn’t take the order." After waiting for 20 minutes, Zhang Shijie’s family started to call a taxi while walking, and tried their luck on Yuyuantan South Road. "It’s good to be able to get a taxi now. Some time ago, as long as you use the taxi software, it will show that you have increased the price to call a taxi, and the same is true during non-congested hours. The price is much more expensive. I can’t wait to ride a bicycle." Zhang Shijie talked about his recent taxi experience with some displeasure.

  Didi accounts for more than 90% of the online car-hailing market share. After the implementation of the new policy on online car-hailing, due to the small number of online car-hailing cars that fully comply with the "Beijing Renjing Brand", the number of online car-hailing cars will also be greatly reduced after the "Shuangfei" vehicles exit the market. The direct result is that in some areas and some time periods, citizens are once again facing difficulties such as difficulty in hailing a car, expensive taxis, and long waiting times.

  Express driver: After the implementation of the New Deal, one day is one day

  Today, compared with the helpless waiting of passengers, many express drivers are also facing some embarrassment. The express driver, Master Guo, told reporters, "Now the distance to receive orders is long, and sometimes the system sends an order three or four kilometers away from the passenger."

  In 2015, online car-hailing was in the limelight, and Master Guo aimed at the huge market potential of this industry and registered his Beijing brand car as Didi Express. When business was good, he was busy receiving orders until late at night every day, plus platform subsidies, etc., and he could earn a high bonus a month, and his life improved a lot. The huge market demand also attracted many foreign vehicles to flood into Beijing, but Master Guo did not care: "Although there are many online car-hailing, there are also many people who take taxis, so it will not be affected at all."

  Previously, in all Didi Chuxing’s businesses, most of the orders came from the express business. High rewards and lower entry barriers for vehicles and drivers have made the cheap express business a gathering place for non-Beijing brand vehicles. However, with the introduction of policies to tighten and regulate online car-hailing, since October last year, the number of foreign vehicles on the road has gradually decreased, and many friends with foreign license plates around Master Guo have left the platform one after another and switched to other industries. Although Master Guo’s car belongs to the Beijing brand, he does not belong to the Beijing household. According to the New Deal regulations, soon, Master Guo’s car will no longer be able to take orders and run. When talking about future life, Master Guo confessed that one day is one day if he can work, and he will change to other jobs in the future.

  Taxi driver: There are more passengers beckoning on the road.

  Master Liu has been a taxi driver for 8 years, using old-fashioned Nokia mobile phones, unregistered online car-hailing platforms, and collecting cash for picking up and dropping off passengers.

  Mr. Liu said that the appearance of online taxi-hailing has had a great impact on the taxi industry. "After 8 o’clock in the evening, the taxi is basically dead." He told reporters that there are three types of taxi-hailing people during the day: long-term taxis, outsiders who come to see the sick, and those who go on business. At night, these groups do not appear, and other people are more affluent and generally do not take taxis. "You see that the people standing there are all holding mobile phones, basically don’t think about it."

  Mr. Liu said that although online car-hailing has made it easier for people to travel, the problems that come with it cannot be ignored. "With a Henan accent and a car with a Shandong license plate, you can’t be reasonable when you encounter something."

  According to the relevant departments, only to deal with such incidents, the 18 districts and counties in the Beijing area have to hold an average of three court sessions a day.

  Didi Chuxing: Focusing on technological innovation in the future

  It is understood that Beijing Didi drivers a total of 1.10 million people, the number of active drivers 200,000 people, and only 10.7% of drivers in line with the regulations, most of the drivers will be eliminated. In the future, the network about the car platform where to go?

  A staff member of Didi Chuxing said that at present, they are constantly calling on passengers to plan travel plans in advance through technological innovation and other means, and use booking, carpooling and hitchhiking to travel. With the gradual launch of the "certified driver program" of the special car, the special car service has been greatly improved. In the high-end online car-hailing market, Didi’s special car is still in a leading position and continues to widen the gap with competitors.

  "We are also actively expanding our internationalization strategy, setting up a research institute in Silicon Valley in the United States, using rich travel data to change the relationship between people and cars, leading the application of new energy vehicles and new intelligent driving safety technologies, and applying big data capability systems to the optimization of transportation infrastructure."

  The online car-hailing platform is an emerging business format developed under the background of the sharing economy. In the past, the online car-hailing platform operated at a price below cost, and there was a period of brutal growth in which subsidies were used to delineate the market. Some experts said that the online car-hailing platform is bound to return to a standardized, orderly, reasonable and legal development state. The competition among various platforms is no longer about subsidies and advertisements, but about services and management.

A summary of new games that sold millions on Steam in 2016

The original title: A summary of new games that sold millions on Steam in 2016

  There are still 3 days to end in 2016. Recently, foreign media checked through SteamSpy what are the games that sold 1 million in 2016. Before announcing the game, let’s say that this investigation does not count free games and remastered games that provide free upgrades. In addition, games that landed on Steam Early Access in 2014 or 2015 and were officially released this year will not be included.

A summary of new games that sold millions on Steam in 2016

  Game Sales Ranking

A summary of new games that sold millions on Steam in 2016

  Game Sales Ranking

  But in terms of sales, it seems that "H1Z1: Killing King" is the best-selling new game on Steam in 2016. The Steam version sold more than 3 million sets, and the game first landed on Steam on February 17. The second place is the indie game "Stardew Valley Story". The game landed on Steam in February, and as of now, it has sold almost 2 million sets (1.89 million).

  In third place is the multiplayer (4v1) horror game "Dead by Dawn", which sold around 1.45 million. Judging from Tieba and live broadcasts, this game seems to be relatively popular in China. As for 3A games, the games on the list include "Doom 4" (1.45 million), "Civilization 6" (1.43 million), "Dark Souls 3" (1.23 million), "Tomb Raider: Rise" (1.23 million), "The Division Lockdown" (1.02 million), "UFO 2" (1.08 million) and "Warhammer: Total War" (1.03 million).

A summary of new games that sold millions on Steam in 2016

  Game Sales Ranking

A summary of new games that sold millions on Steam in 2016

  Game Sales Ranking

  Most of the games on the list were released in the first half of 2016 (except for Civilization 6, which was released in October), and the masterpieces released in October and November were not on the list. Watchdog 2 is only a month away from now, and it must be difficult to sell millions, but according to SteamSpy statistics, the current sales are around 190,000. For 3A games, I don’t know if Ubisoft can accept it?

  In addition, the "Dishonored 2" released on November 11 currently sells about 320,000 Steam, while the "Call of Duty 13" released on November 3 sells about 260,000 Steam.

 

300,000 Chinese brand new energy SUV market research

  [Autohome News] Before 2020, our Chinese brand’s medium/medium and large SUV products were still rare, and the market was almost monopolized by overseas brands. At that time, we were still very cautious about this market. Even if there were products, most of them showed brand perception and technology, and did not pursue market performance. However, the growth of our Chinese brands in the past two years has indeed made rapid progress, especially in the new energy market. Medium/medium and large SUVs have gradually become the mainstream. Not only is the market demand increasing day by day, but our products are also becoming more and more mature.

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  Recently, it has also become a period of product explosion in this market, including the new (|), the new Wenjie M7, Lynk & Co 08 EM-P and the new Xiaopeng G9 have been launched, and new players such as Zhiji LS6 are waiting for an opportunity. What is their market prospect? What is the sales policy now? Let’s go to the store again to find out.


◆ The new NIO EC6
Price range: 35.80-41 6,000
Product features: LiDAR upper body, appearance/configuration have been upgraded
Store location: direct sales model, there are many supermarket/store layouts. At present, there are 134 NIO centers, 286 NIO spaces, 304 NIO service centers and 58 NIO delivery centers globally

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  The new NIO EC6 was officially launched on September 15, with two versions priced at 358,000 (75kWh) and 416,000 (100kWh). It stands to reason that it is beyond our 300,000 car purchase budget, but after using the NIO BaaS battery rental plan, the price of both models is 288,000 (battery rental 980 yuan/month and 1680 yuan/month), just within the budget, plus a good heat, so we decided to add it to this car purchase survey.

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  The new EC6 has not been listed on the day of arrival, so there is only one.10,000 points for booking (deposit 5000 yuan)Other relevant policies are subject to those announced at the time of official listing. Detailed information can be found atClick here.Check, the delivery cycle is about 2 weeks. At that time, although the price of the new EC6 has not yet been released, the sales said that it is expected to be about 350,000, which is very close to the actual price. The order data is also relatively good. There are already more than 10 orders in the store, and one can be added every day on working days, and about 3 on weekends. The order is mainly for young people. Older users are also interested, but they have not placed an order. They still want to wait for the listing price to come out. Overall, the market prospect is relatively optimistic. It is worth mentioning that although the new EC6 has no discounts, there are no discounts in the storeES8 and ET7 have a small number of stock cars, you can get a discount of 10,000 yuan

NIO NIO EC6 2023 75kWh

NIO NIO EC6 2023 100kWh

  One of the main upgrades of the new EC6 is the appearance, and the other is the intelligent performance. The appearance aspect includes changing the appearance to a new design style, and at the same time provides 9 body colors to choose from. The interior will also provide 3 exclusive color schemes. It just so happens that the car on display adopts the Danxia red color scheme, which is very classy. In addition to intelligence, the new car is equipped with the latest banyan system and NOP + driving assistance. This time I came to the store just in time for the system upgrade, and I couldn’t actually experience it. However, friends who want to know more about the new car can also check our previous detailed experience videos.

NIO NIO EC6 2020 615KM Signature Edition

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  The NIO EC6 was first launched in 2020, which can be regarded as a pioneer for Chinese brands to enter the medium-sized SUV market relatively early. At that time, it was also regarded as one of the strong competitors of Tesla Model Y. After the previous generation EC6 was launched, it achieved a monthly sales of 3,000 +, which is also a meritorious model that helped NIO achieve monthly sales of over 10,000 and successfully ranked among the top three new forces. With the launch of the new EC6, it can be regarded as the last piece of the puzzle of the NIO NT2.0 platform. It is bound to bear the burden of sales again. The future market performance is what we all look forward to.


◆ New Xiaopeng G9
Price range: 26.39-35 9,900 yuan
Product features: configuration adjustment, more people-friendly, more practical
Store location: mainly based on the direct sales model, but also developing the dealer model.Supermarkets are the main ones, and there are also departmental stores.

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  The new Xiaopeng G9 just listed on September 19, after the completion of the change, the new car has finally dropped to 300,000, a total of 5 models, the price range is 26.39-35 9,900 yuan. At the same time, you can also enjoy the air suspension time-limited 20% off, car color limit free, delivery gift package, replacement subsidy, intelligent upgrade and other subsidy policies, while there are points compensation and hardware upgrades for old owners and so on.

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  This time, the Xiaopeng G9 has been mainly adjusted for the configuration. For example, the Danao audio + 5D music cockpit is replaced with an optional configuration, and the standard Xiaopeng XOpera brand audio is equipped. In practice, this self-developed audio can also provide a good listening experience for front and rear passengers, which is completely sufficient for the vast majority of people. In addition, the car system still maintains a relatively high level, and the voice response is very sensitive, which has always been XPeng Motors’ expertise. Of course, in addition to the audio, the new Xiaopeng G9 has many details to adjust. For details, you can click here to view.

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  There is a new G9 570max model display in the store. This is also the configuration mainly promoted by Xiaopeng G9. The new G9 has not been listed when it arrives at the store.The deposit is 5,000 yuan, and delivery is expected to start in 1 month.In addition, sales representationThe old Xiaopeng G9 can have a discount of 10,000 yuanHowever, there are only a small number of existing cars, and they are not available when they are sold out. But users who come to the store are basically waiting for the launch of the new G9. After all, there was news at that time that the price of the new model would be cheaper, and the configuration adjustment would not be large.

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  Xiaopeng G9 was officially launched in September 2022 at the earliest, and it has been exactly one year. As the flagship product of XPeng Motors, although its intelligent driving and charging capabilities have been raised to a new height, the pricing of 30.99-46 9,900 yuan has not been recognized by the market. Except for the sales volume of 4,000 in December 2022, the average monthly sales volume in other months basically hovers around 1,000. After the launch of the new Xiaopeng G9, the price range will be greatly reduced. Can it be recognized by the market again?


◆ New Q Jie M7
Price range: 24.98-32 9,800 yuan
Product features: five-seat version, Huawei ADS 2.0 smart drive, all-aluminum chassis
Store location: Huawei direct sales are mainly in supermarkets, while Sailis direct sales are mainly in industrial park stores, and supermarkets have a wider layout

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  The new Q & J M7 was officially launched on September 12, with a total of 5 models and a price range of 24.98-32 9,800 yuan. Since the new car was pre-sold at the Chengdu Auto Show in August, the cumulative order exceeded 15,000 units within 24 hours of listing, and 2700 new orders were added on September 17, creating a new high for the brand’s single-day orders. It can be seen that whether in the supermarket Huawei store or the Q & J 4S store, the new Q & J M7 has become a well-deserved star product.

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  According to sales, the new M7 store can basically guarantee a daily increase of 2-3 orders, and can double on weekends, mainly young consumers, most of them choose 5-seat smart driving version (309,800), Huawei ADS 2.0 smart driving is still very attractive to young consumers, and the older ones will basically choose the rear drive version (5 rear drive version sold 249,800, 6 rear drive version sold 269,800 yuan). According to previous news, Huawei ADS 2.0 smart driving system is expected to be in the National Open City NCA in December, when it may usher in another wave of sales.

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  If you place an order before the first sales period on October 7, you can get a cash discount of 6,000 yuan, a matching fee of 12,000 yuan and a matching benefit of 15,000 yuan (choose one of three). In addition, there is a replacement subsidy of 15,000 yuan in the store, and the sales rights are still quite attractive. Although the new Q Jie M7 will be delivered when it is listed, if you place an order now, the delivery cycle will take about a month. It is worth mentioning that the new Q Jie M7 has a new 5-seat version with high comfort in the rear row, which is the most comfortable in this visit. In addition, Hongmeng Smart Cockpit 3.0 also has excellent performance. Except for the slightly slow automatic speech recognition (possibly due to signal problems in the exhibition hall), other performances are impeccable.

Sailis Automobile, Ask the World M7 2022 1.5T 4WD Deluxe Edition

  Wenjie M7 was first launched in July 2022. Under Huawei’s halo blessing, it achieved good market feedback in the early stage of listing. The highest monthly sales exceeded 5,000 units, but it fell sharply after 2023, with the average monthly sales falling to about 1,000 units. The new Wenjie M7 can be said to have been adjusted very timely and successful, especially at the moment when Huawei’s new mobile phones are released, the new M7 is also taking advantage of the momentum and has the potential to enter the first echelon.


◆ Lynk & Co 08 EM-P
Price range: 20.88-28 8,000 yuan
Product features: Meizu car machine, new design language/pure electric battery life 245km
Store location: dealer model, mostly industrial park stores, few supermarkets

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Lynk & Co 08 2023, basic

Lynk & Co 08 Guided Price Model Selling price (10,000 yuan) 120 Long Range Pro 20.88 120 long battery life Halo 21.58 245 Super long battery life Halo 23.58 220 4WD Performance Halo 26.18 Time Limited Edition 28.80

  Lynk & Co 08 ushered in the official listing on September 8. This time, a total of 5 models were launched, priced at 20.88-28 8,000 yuan. Through communication with sales staff, it was found that there are no other preferential policies in the store. For consumers who want to buy Lynk & Co 08, they can only refer to the official rights and interests released when they were listed. At present,Lynk & Co 08 all models can enjoy 9,000 yuan to enjoy the gold when placing an order. At the same time, you can also upgrade the Harmanka 23 speaker audio bag worth 10,000 yuan for free. The optional "Technology Pride Smart Enjoy Pack" can get 7,500 yuan for five years of NOA function service. In terms of replacement subsidy, you can enjoy a replacement/additional purchase subsidy of up to 6,000 yuan. In addition, you can also get 300 yuan worth of Meizu Mall 30,000 points.

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  According to Geely’s official sales figures, the Lynk & Co brand sold 18,696 units in August, an increase of about 9% month-on-month and an increase of about 24% year-on-year. According to previous data, less than a week after the new car opened for pre-sale on August 8, the order has exceeded 10,000 units. On the same day, I communicated with the staff in the Beijing store and learned that since the official listing of Lynk & Co 08 as of September 15, the current in-store sales have exceeded 100 units. In this way, this store alone has an average of more than 10 orders per day. It seems that the popularity of new cars is still very high. During our viewing, there are staff who are explaining the functions of the car system to users. It can be seen that users are still very concerned about the intelligent configuration of vehicles.

Lynk & Co 08 New Energy 2023 245km Long Range Halo

Lynk & Co 08 New Energy 2023 245km Long Range Halo

Lynk & Co 08 New Energy 2023 245km Long Range Halo

  The new car uses the latest LYNK Flyme Auto Meizu car system. The sales staff in the store said that it has the same level of fluency as the mobile phone, and the actual experience is really good. Our experience of zoom navigation, one-handed sliding interface, switching between different interfaces and other conventional operations did not find any cards or slow responses during the process. Basically, we can realize finger operation where to hit, and the response is very fast. In addition, we also experienced the automatic speech recognition function of the car. Lynk & Co 08 can only support voice conversations in a single area. When the main driver issues a voice command, the co-pilot immediately sends out a voice command that cannot be recognized. In this regard, we can compare the M7, which can support continuous dialogue in different zones and increase the convenience of continuous operation for different passengers in the car. But for the usage habits of different users, we can’t give absolute good or bad evaluations.

  In addition to the function of the car, when we learned that the Harmanka stereo can be replaced for free, we immediately carried out the experience, which does continue the consistent characteristics of its brand, with excellent sound resolution. In addition, we hope to give users a certain reference in the car purchase experience. Looking back at our car store this time, the overall scale is relatively large, and different models have cars on display. There are also a small number of official used cars in the store. The service attitude of the sales staff in the store and the patient explanation provided us with a good car viewing experience.


◆ Zhiji LS6
Pre-sale price range: 23- 300,000 yuan
Product features: DIY personalized dress-up/technology cockpit design, GPT large model
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Store location: direct sales model, mostly supermarket stores, industrial park stores are rare

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  Zhiji LS6 has opened pre-sale at the previous Chengdu Auto Show, and the pre-sale price range is 23-300,000 yuan.The new car plans to show the car to the store on September 22. By inquiring about the sales in the store, it is expected that the official price will be maintained within 300,000 yuan, and it will be officially listed and delivered in October. At present, there are no additional preferential policies in the store, and it is still based on official rights and interests. At present, the preferential activities that provide 2,000 yuan of intention gold to 5,000 car purchases also include 10,000 yuan of optional funds. For L7/LS7 owners, they can enjoy another 10,000 yuan discount.Since the pre-sale started at the end of August, as of the day of the survey on September 15,The national order volume of Zhiji LS6 has reached 15,000 units.

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Zhiji Car, Zhiji LS6 2023, high-end

  The new car offers a total of 7 body colors. According to the store, the current main colors are brown, cyan and pink. Obviously, pink bodies are more popular with female consumers. Interestingly, although we didn’t see the real car, the in-store sales explained to us a variety of personalized gameplay of Zhiji LS6, including DIY replacement of different colors of rim decoration, side skirt trim and rear spoiler trim and so on.

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Zhiji Car, Zhiji LS6 2023, high-end

  Since there are no show cars in the store at present, we did not experience the actual operation of the car and machine system this time. However, in the store we experienced the car and machine of Zhiji L7 and the voice control system. The overall recognition speed needs to be improved compared with other vehicles of the same class. Looking forward to LS6’s improvement in this regard. The Zhiji car we investigated this time is a store located in a large shopping mall. The store decoration style is similar to the reduced version of the car show booth, located in the central lobby area of the mall. The service attitude of the staff in the store and the professional performance of the product are acceptable. 

Editor’s comment:

  This time we are mainly limited to about 300,000 of new products to the store survey, but in the domestic new energy market, of course, there are many BYD, Tengshi and ideal brands have very good products have been affirmed by consumers. An obvious feeling is that compared with the previous store survey by price, preferential and other stimulus policies, this survey we are more impressed by the product force.

  They are not only trying their best to meet the harsh conditions of consumers "both want, want, and want", but also form brand differences through details and bring some unexpected joy. So if you buy a car 300,000 budget, what aspects do you value most and which model will you choose? Which new car market conditions do you want to see? You are welcome to leave a message in the comment area, our car purchase investigation team is always ready. (Text/Autohome Guo Chen, Yao Yu)

2023 China Home Appliance Technology Annual Meeting TCL Air Conditioning Interprets High-quality Development with a New Generation of Air Conditioning

   From December 13th to 14th, the 2023 China Home Appliance Science and Technology Annual Conference and the High-quality Development Exchange Activity of the Smart Home Appliance Industry were held in Wuhan, Hubei. TCL Air Conditioning and a new generation of air conditioners – TCL Small Blue Wing P7 Fresh Air Conditioning appeared, with a smart health experience upgrade that understands your health, energy conservation, and usage habits better, bringing a new wind to the high-quality development of the industry.

  According to the introduction, the theme of this conference is "Scientific and technological innovation leads the high-quality development of the home appliance industry", focusing on "green and low-carbon, intelligent home appliances, health and cleanliness, refrigeration, noise reduction, DC flexibility" and other technical directions. Many academicians and authoritative experts and professors in related fields such as intelligence and refrigeration were invited to give special reports.

  TCL air conditioning breaks the market with high-quality development

  At the plenary meeting held on the morning of December 13, Chen Shaolin, senior vice president of TCL Industrial and general manager of the Air Conditioning Division, gave a keynote speech entitled "The Road to Breakthrough in the High-quality Development of TCL Air Conditioning".

  Chen Shaolin pointed out that the challenges from respiratory health, the challenges of high energy consumption and refrigerants to global warming, and the opportunities and challenges of new technologies to the traditional air-conditioning industry are the main challenges facing the development of the current air-conditioning industry. In the face of industrial challenges and changes, it is necessary to use leading strategies to achieve high-quality development, and high-quality development is first and foremost the high-quality development of brands.

  In order to find a way to break through the high-quality development, TCL Air Conditioning is taking smart health as its value direction, with the brand mission of allowing more people to easily enjoy the healthy and green life brought by the air, and becoming a leading brand in healthy air management, heat pump and thermal energy management that users can trust.

  In terms of high-end, intelligent and green, TCL air conditioning takes Wuhan intelligent manufacturing base as its foothold, deepens 5G + industrial Internet integration, promotes digital transformation and high-quality development of the industrial chain, and increases efficiency by 40% in the past four years.

  Leading the new generation of air conditioning technology innovation, TCL air conditioning won the Intelligent Fresh Air Innovation Award

  On December 10th, TCL Little Blue Wing P7 Fresh Air Conditioning was released in Beijing Water Cube. From Beijing to Wuhan, TCL Little Blue Wing P7 Fresh Air Conditioning has attracted extensive attention from consumers and the industry. At this event, TCL Air Conditioning won the 2023 Intelligent Fresh Air Innovation Award and 6 Excellent Paper Awards for its fresh air air technology innovation, further demonstrating its technological research and development strength as a leading brand of fresh air.

  According to reports, the TCL small blue wing P7 fresh air conditioner has been fully upgraded from three aspects: health, energy saving and user habits.

  A new generation of air conditioners, better understand your health. This product upgrades the user’s health from sound comfort, air quality comfort and thermal comfort, achieving 30 dB (A) silent fresh air, air quadruple filtration purification, temperature fluctuation control ± 0.3 ℃ and other experience improvements.

  A new generation of air conditioners, better understand your energy saving. TCL small blue wing P7 fresh air air conditioner not only saves energy in hardware, but also realizes energy saving in software algorithms, design energy saving, and operation energy saving. Among them, in terms of operation energy saving, the product adopts AI time domain prediction algorithm, which will anticipate the temperature and optimize it in real time, which can avoid excessive dehumidification and excessive cooling, and the energy saving rate can reach up to 40%.

  A new generation of air conditioners, better understand your usage habits. TCL small blue wing P7 fresh air conditioner is equipped with a high-performance offline voice module, which has a high wake-up rate in the bedroom environment, making voice control freer and more satisfactory. At the same time, it is equipped with a two-wheat control system with sound source positioning function, which can achieve the effect of "wind blowing towards people" or "wind avoiding people blowing".

  In fact, the TCL small blue wing P7 fresh air air conditioning is the innovation of TCL air conditioning in the fresh air track. At present, TCL air conditioning has seven international leading technologies, including high-efficiency energy-saving silent fresh air technology, heat pump operation energy-saving technology, large fresh air volume and low noise technology, frequency conversion energy-saving technology, smart soft air technology, 60 ° C high temperature and strong cooling technology, and power visualization technology.

  Industry experts say that the high-quality development and breakup of the air-conditioning industry cannot be separated from the joint promotion of the whole industry. TCL Air Conditioning has focused on the fresh air track, continuously increased investment in technology research and development, and launched a new generation of air conditioners that understand your health, energy conservation, and usage habits better. This has created a path of high-quality development.

NIO Phone is really here, founder Li Bin wants to seamlessly connect with the car

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On September 21, the long-rumored NIO phone finally appeared. At the NIO IN 2023 NIO Innovation and Technology Day, founder Li Bin officially released the flagship smartphone NIO Phone to the outside world.

At the beginning of the mobile phone launch session, Li Bin responded to the long-curious question of the outside world to everyone present – why does NIO make mobile phones?

"This is definitely not because mobile phone companies are building cars, nor is it because NIO doesn’t make money from cars now, but relies on mobile phones to make profits," Li Bin said. "Our reason is actually very simple and well-considered – because users need a mobile phone that is seamlessly connected to NIO, and we want to make NIO products better."

He showed how the phone can be seamlessly integrated into the car, both in terms of hardware and software.

First of all, the hardware configuration of the NIO Phone is basically the same as the flagship mobile phone on the market. In terms of chips, the phone is equipped with Qualcomm’s second-generation Snapdragon 8 leading version. The storage solution is based on 12GB + 512GB, and the maximum optional 16GB + 1T. It is equipped with a 6.81-inch curved screen with 2K resolution and supports a variable refresh rate of 1-120Hz. In terms of images, its main camera, ultra-wide-angle and periscope telephoto are all 50 million pixels. In terms of battery life, the NIO Phone is equipped with a 5200mAh battery and supports 66W wired and 50W wireless flash charging. At the same time, the special project matches the NIO wireless car charging.

In terms of appearance design, NIO Phone refers to the skyline elements of the NIO brand, using nano-microcrystalline ceramics and environmentally friendly leather stitching on the material. In addition, a special version of EPedition has been launched, with red elements interspersed in the fuselage, which is different from the ordinary version in design language.

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As an important medium for human-vehicle interaction, NIO has injected many software-level interaction shortcuts into NIO Phone.

According to reports, the NIO Phone integrates mobile phones and smart electric vehicles through NIO Link NIO panoramic interconnection technology. The phone is equipped with UWB ultra-wideband technology, which can replace car keys and support unlocking without electricity within 48 hours.

On the left side of the fuselage, NIO Phone sets a NIO Link car control key, which can be just a click away 30 driver interconnection functions, including quick view of vehicle status, parking position, complete vehicle unlocking lock, window lift, trunk opening, air conditioning remote adjustment, etc., in the case of mobile phone without network, it can also realize unlocking, flashing horn, vehicle summoning, remote parking and other functions.

In terms of in-car control, Li Bin mentioned that the NIO Phone can be combined with in-car sensors to identify the user’s location and present a car control card interface with different functions based on the driver’s seat, passenger seat, or rear seat.

Li Bin believes that this reflects the original intention of NIO Phone’s design. "In addition to these functions that can be perceived more quickly, it is more about the seamless information flow and relay at the bottom of the software."

For example, NIO Phone has a more detailed understanding of human-vehicle interaction, such as the navigation route relay, which allows users to set a destination and choose a driving route on their mobile phone. After getting on the bus, it will automatically switch to the car-side navigation, and there is no need to perform additional operations on the car. For example, the navigation clipboard relay can automatically pop up and push on the car’s central control screen according to the location text copied by the user on the mobile phone, and the user can enter the navigation after clicking. It should be pointed out that these operations will not go to the cloud, ensuring the privacy and security of user data.

The Inter-App communications application of the mobile phone and the smart cockpit is the key breakthrough direction of this mobile phone. In addition to the aforementioned functions, the NIO Phone currently also has a panoramic application function, namely "Sky Window". After this function is turned on, a separate phone will run on the central control screen of the vehicle, supporting the parallel operation of the central control screen and the mobile phone dual applications. "Windows is not a simple screen projection, these two screens can run different programs in parallel, which is very different," Li Bin said.

For business scenarios, when users use the super conference, they can automatically transfer to the car after boarding the car, and can also call the in-car hardware (such as cameras). In terms of entertainment scenarios, NIO Link games can also be synchronized to the central control large screen to play.

For more systematic privacy and security issues, NIO said that the NIO Phone’s NIO self-developed SkyUI system provides 0 system advertisements, 0 commercial pre-installation, and only local processing of sensitive data. On cloud data protection, NIO Phone adopts multi-key encryption protection, and data and keys are stored separately.

According to reports, the 12GB + 512GB version of the mobile phone is priced at 6499 yuan, the 12GB + 1TB version is priced at 6899 yuan, and the EPedition 16GB + 1TB version is priced at 7499 yuan. It is currently only available in the NIO App Mall.

The work of Zhou Xingchi!

During the "golden age" of Hong Kong cinema in the mid-1970s and early 1990s, more than a dozen film crews started work at the same time every day in this small city on the southern coast of China. Pretty boys and beautiful women from Hong Kong’s wireless artist training class came together and set up scenes among the various crews. Film and television companies such as Golden Harvest, Shaw’s and New Art City invested heavily in digging up and cultivating newcomers to compete in the entertainment industry. This also contributed to the miracle that Hong Kong films produced more than 200 films a year in the 1980s.

That golden age of Hong Kong cinema gave birth to countless movie superstars. They may be as good-looking as Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, and Tony Leung Chaowei, and their acting skills are first-class, becoming hot A-list actors. Or as daring as Samuel Hung, Jackie Chan, Yuan Biao, and Yuan Hua, who sacrificed their lives to complete eye-catching stunts and become action superstars.

However, those who can write, direct, and act, and are unique in artistic expression, can create a personal style, and even find a way to break out of a school of film, I think Xingye is one of the best.

The nonsensical style of "Zhou’s comedy" he pioneered and his special attention to the subject matter of the little people are enough to secure him the top spot in Chinese comedy, and it is no exaggeration to call it "Asian Jim Carrey".

Today, let’s talk about the most outstanding work of Xing Ye in the 21st century so far – "Kung Fu"

First, the self-cultivation of "little people"

The story of "Kung Fu" still follows the tradition of Xing Ye’s "little person narrative", telling the story of the 1940s Shanghai, when A Xing, a street gangster who has been bullied since childhood, tried to get ahead by pretending to be the "Axe Gang" and extorting in the "Pig Cage City". As a result, he attracted the real "Axe Gang" forces.

The unexpected invasion of the gangster forces disturbed the quiet life in the slum, and also disturbed the four peerless kung fu masters who were entrenched here – the inheritors of the Gorang Bagua Band, the Hong Family’s Iron Wire Fist and the Shaolin 12th Road Tan Leg.

The gangsters were naturally no match for the descendants of the divine arts, but the arrogant Axe Gang boss, Brother Kun, was unwilling to stop, so he used the gang’s power to invite peerless experts to try to level the "Pig Cage City" in one fell swoop. Every attack by Brother Kun would stir up more "masters" hidden in the secular world in this unsightly small pool. Until, Brother Kun used his head to sacrifice the ultimate killing king Huoyun Evil God, and his opponent was the little rascal A Xing who caused this disturbance.

Lord Xing wrote, directed and acted himself, focusing the guide tube on the little character A Xing, making him a witness and key participant in the contest between the "evil forces" and the "pig cage city". Every turn in the battle between the two sides was caused by A Xing’s inadvertent speculation.

The first time was when he saw that he was going to be beaten by the residents of the city, so he had to learn the way the Axe Gang used fireworks to call people and threw a cannon fight. As a result, it just blew up the head of the leader of the Axe Gang passing by the wall. Then the villain complained first and blamed the residents of the city, which caused a conflict between the two forces.

The second turning point was that Ah Xing, with an incomparable desire to get ahead, put down all his courtesy and shame to join the Axe Gang. As a result, the first task he received was to rescue the great devil Fire Cloud Evil God from the mental hospital.

Xing clearly knew that his actions were wrong, but he seemed to have been carried away by the desire to become famous. As a result, with the release of the Fire Cloud Evil God, an uncontrolled force of destruction swept through the entire Axe Gang and the city.

The third turning point was when the charterer and the charterer in the base camp of the Axe Gang faced off against the three masters who were entangled with each other, and A Xing chose to use a wooden stick to beat the Fire Cloud Evil God.

This time, the little gangster Ah Xing finally stood on the side of justice. But this also caused the evil god of fire clouds to go berserk directly, breaking Ah Xing’s meridians with a fist, and his life was hanging by a thread. It was precisely because of his walk through the gate of hell that Ah Xing’s potential as a "martial arts genius" was completely exploded.

It can be said that in the first half of the film, Ah Xing has always been a gangster who makes a living by picking locks and speculating. For fame and fortune, he can join gangs, bully civilians, and even rob a girl who buys candy.

But in the end, he was just a small person, without noble virtue or the ferocity of a big traitor, between good and evil. He did not dare to kill, set fire, or rape. After being bitten by a snake, he had to hide in the traffic light box and silently digest the pain.

But it was after a series of setbacks and tribulations that Ah Xing finally realized how precious the opportunity to "be a good person" was, and how despicable it was to be self-deprecating on the old road of a gangster. Therefore, the moment he completed the good and evil decision, the potential hidden in his body also fully exploded.

Eight kung fu stunts, combining Chinese martial arts

Since the movie is called "Kung Fu", the core element of the story is naturally Chinese martial arts. In the "imagined China" in Jin Yong and Gu Long’s martial arts novels, Chinese martial arts can be said to have a long history and many branches. The kung fu of Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, Beggar Gang, and Tai Chi schools have their own strengths and weaknesses, and together they have painted the world of pleasure, enmity, swords, light and shadows.

On the one hand, Xing Ye’s "Kung Fu" continues the tradition of Hong Kong martial arts novels, and on the other hand, it inherits the mantle of Hong Kong martial arts films and kung fu films. The eight kung fu that appear in it can be said to be both a reinterpretation of traditional Chinese kung fu and a tribute to Hong Kong classic kung fu films. Let’s take a look at it together:

(1) The Tathagata Palm

The most invincible kung fu in the film "Tathagata’s Palm" is actually a fiction invented by Hong Kong filmmakers. It first appeared in the Hong Kong film "Tathagata’s Palm" in the last century, and was portrayed as the Buddha created for all living beings. There are ten styles.

At the end of the film, Ah Xing used the ninth form of "Ten Thousand Buddha Dynasty". Later, it was continuously interpreted by people, and the Tathagata Divine Palm became a kind of divine power that interacted with the "Heavenly Remnant Foot".

(2) Toad Gong

"Toad Technique" was a must-kill skill of the Fire Cloud Evil God. He once used this skill to put Ah Xing at a disadvantage.

The toad skill comes from Jin Yong’s martial arts novel. It is the original stunt of Western Poison Ouyang Feng, and later passed on to his righteous son Yang Guo.

Its characteristic is that it is like a toad preying on insects, waiting for an opportunity to move, using static braking, and striking after. When the enemy attacks, it pounces suddenly, concentrating all its internal force on one point and bursting out, killing it in one blow.

(3) (4) Shaolin Nanquan North Leg – "Hongquan" and "Tan Leg"

The tailors and laborers who live in seclusion in the Kowloon walled city in the film are the descendants of Hong Quan and Tan Ju respectively. Hong Quan was pioneered by Hong Xiguan, a Cantonese from the Qing Dynasty. When he was a teenager, he studied under the Shaolin sect and integrated the kung fu of the North and South Shaolin with his extremely high understanding. He created a school of "Hong Quan" that combines internal and external cultivation, uses both fists and feet, and combines strength and softness.

The person who plays the tailor in the film is Zhao Zhiling, the apprentice of Huang Feihong, and the iron wire boxing he practices is also one of the five battles of Hongquan.

There are many theories about the origin of "Tan leg", including Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Henan, Longtan Temple in Shandong, and many other theories. Later, the Jingwu Association of Huo Yuanjia in Tianjin also taught this kind of kung fu. There is a proverb that goes "If you practice boxing without training your legs, you are like a daredevil". The Tan leg style, with sharp movements, changeable moves, and quick attack and defense, can complement the boxing technique well.

(5) Goro gossip stick

The origin of this stick technique is hidden in the name. The so-called "Goro" refers to Yang Goro, who fought against the Khitan people in the Southern Song Dynasty. When he was defeated in the battle with his father at the Golden Beach, he disguised himself as a monk.

Later, he really went to Mount Wutai to cut his hair and become a monk, and changed the Yang family’s marksmanship to a stick technique, creating the "Gorang Bagua Stick". The actor who plays the boss Yang in the film is Dong Zhiping, a Peking Opera martial artist, whose gun and stick skills are first-class.

(6) Tai Chi

This can be said to be the most well-known kung fu in the film. In the film, the charterer plays "Chen’s Tai Chi" originating from Chenjiagou, Henan. With Taoist Tai Chi and Yin and Yang as the mental method, he pays attention to both internal and external cultivation, combining rigidity and softness, and overcoming rigidity with softness.

Although the chartered public can use a set of superb tai chi to play the six-fingered piano demon in the palm of his hand, he is a "rake ear" and has to swallow his anger and bear the humiliation in the face of his wife’s domestic violence.

(7) The Lion’s Roar

The renter’s Lion’s Roar skill, which is comparable to ultrasonic weapons in the film, is one of Shaolin’s seventy-two stunts. When the power is performed, the qi is first sank in the dantian, and then it spreads for thousands of miles, which can be transmitted for miles. Hearing it, the heart is frightened and the back is cold. As Du Fu said in his poem, "When I suddenly hear the roar of a lion in Hedong, I am at a loss when the cane falls on my hand." Presumably, only a strong and domineering renter can control it freely.

(8) Three-hole Qin Demon – Shaolin Dragon Claw Hand

In the film, the two of the three-hole piano demons stroke a guqin together, the sound of the piano turns into the light of the sword and the shadow of the sword, the lights turn off the grass wherever they go, and the killing is invisible. This kung fu can be regarded as the original of Xingye, which is composed of the six-style fingerings of the guzheng and the Shaolin dragon claws.

Of course, Xing Ye was also inspired by the "Fuqin Style" and "Drum Style" in Jin Yong’s novels, which Zhang Wuji once used in the Shaolin Dragon Gripper.

Three or ten years of preparation only to fulfill the "Kung Fu Dream"

In fact, Xing Ye had wanted to put "Kung Fu" on the stage as early as 2005. One of his original intentions when he set up his own color star company to film "Journey to the West" was to use the money he earned to shoot his dream work – "Kung Fu".

However, the nonsensical style of "Journey to the West" exceeded the upper limit of the audience’s understanding at that time, encountering an unprecedented box office waterloo, which directly led to the bankruptcy of the color star company and the plan to shoot "Kung Fu" was stranded indefinitely.

From "Journey to the West" in 2005 to "Kung Fu" in 2004, Xing Ye also filmed another classic work, "The King of Comedy" in 1999. It can be said that these three works, separated by five years from each other, together form the "Iron Triangle" of Zhou’s comedy across the centuries at a very high level.

Looking back now, in fact, the box office failure of "Journey to the West" at that time was not necessarily a bad thing. It was with the precipitation and tempering of the next ten years that Xingye was able to polish the script and works to such an exquisite level.

Moreover, based on the special effects level of the 1990s to shoot kung fu, the final scene of A Xing’s group fighting the Axe Gang and the Tathagata’s palm defeating the Fire Cloud Evil God would definitely be very simple, difficult to achieve the desired effect, and unable to perfectly interpret Xing Ye’s understanding of kung fu.