Funde, a covert action band: I won’t participate in Summer of the Band just to be famous.

Guitarist Fang De. Photography: Liu Killing Chicken

The covert ops band is performing.

All members of the band. Photography: Zhu Yunye

Fonder performed at the Wheat Field Music Festival.

The band performed live. Photography: Cai Ming

  It was foggy and rainy in Chengdu in September. On a rainy day, electronic music with strong rhythm came from the fourth floor of an art workshop in the South Third Ring Road. In the dense air, the notes are vibrating and full of power. Here, the secret action of Chengdu local band is being rehearsed. They have been rehearsing for more than two months for the performance of six European countries in October. Inside the room, drum sets, bass, keyboards, guitars, stereos and other equipment are scattered, and the beating notes float in the air, slightly excitedly "telling" the shock just now.

  The covert operation was first established in 2008 and was formally established in 2010. Compared with the band "mr. six", which has been in the army for 20 or 30 years, the secret operation composed of a group of post-90s is a young band. However, they are "young and mature", and their solid musical literacy and mature atmosphere beyond their age always bring incomparable shock and surprise to the audience.

  At 4: 30 in the afternoon, with the last note falling, more than five hours of rehearsal officially ended. Most of the band members are not good at words. As a veteran guitarist, Fang De was interviewed by a cover journalist. "Want to record a video? Then I’ll put on my coat, so I feel more comfortable. "

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  The middle school affiliated to Chuanyin meets Zhiyin High School to set up a secret operation.

  Fangde’s real name is Lin Hongyang. Because the first guitar was bought in Shanzhai, "fender" changed to "Fangde", and he simply teased himself and took "Fang De" as his stage name, which has been used ever since. The tender memory of that year has turned into a beautiful one. Looking back again, Fang De smiled. However, as a young man, he never thought of being accompanied by music. "I used to like football best." In the third year, Fang De suddenly found that his love for music was stronger than that of football.

  Fond persuaded his parents to sign up for guitar lessons. "At that time, information was not as developed as it is now, and there was nothing on the Internet. At most, I just watched movies and listened to songs." In the video store next to the guitar class, CD-tapping and tape-tapping are popular, and the top products are those famous bands in Europe and America, Beatles, Guns and Roses, Linkin Park, Nirvana … … These old-fashioned hard rocks left a strong impression in Fang De’s youth.

  At the age of 16, Fang De was admitted to the middle school attached to Sichuan Conservatory of Music. He was eager to learn and practice guitar skills. "In the second year of high school, because the school often holds performances, I can sign up for programs, and I began to want to do things." If it is just a simple guitar solo, of course, there is no advantage. "You have to be different from others and need a distinctive performance." As a result, several students, such as Fang De and lead singer lianna, began to attract each other. "They were automatically attracted by each other’s energy field and felt that they had the same rotten tastes, so they made a band that was not metal together."

  This band is the embryonic form of covert operations. Like Fonder, the technical level of the lead singer, drummer and bass of the band is relatively average, which is even worse than that of a mature band. But young people, their newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. "Everyone grinds their skills while creating and grows up slowly together." At that time, the band didn’t have a separate rehearsal room, so they practiced in the school piano room. "The piano room is not big, and there is no room after putting the drum set. Guitar, bass and keyboard are all played in the corridor." Their rehearsal scene has also become a special scenery in the school.

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  The competition won a prize of 20,000 yuan, and all of it was invested as a rehearsal room.

  Practice, rehearsal, stage performance, teenagers don’t know the taste of sorrow, and music has become the only interest of several young people. In the summer vacation after the second year of high school, covert action won the best band in the Southwest Division of the 2009 Asian Beat Asian Beat Band Competition. For the same dream, Fang De and lianna entered the same university: Sichuan Conservatory of Music. In college, I continue to shed the hormones of youth. At the beginning of 2011, the secret operation began to really emerge in the Midi National Campus Competition. Young people, with their amazing excellent technical performance and superb musical literacy, were highly recognized by professional music circles in a short time and became the stars of hope for the new generation of Chengdu rock.

  Every competition, undercover can get a bonus, which is not much, but it is enough to buy some equipment for the band. "We rarely share these bonuses and invest in the band." Last semester of my freshman year, I won a prize of 20,000 yuan by taking part in the secret operation competition. After deducting the tax, I still have more than 10,000 yuan. If the money is divided among four people, it will be a lot of income for them who are just college students. But they decided to use the money as a rehearsal room. "We rented a pavement in the countryside behind Chuanyin, then renovated it and spent all that money."

  Like most bands, the secret operation at the beginning of its establishment has experienced some hardships. For example, the rented pavement has no air conditioning, and after being renovated into a rehearsal room, the remaining money is only enough to buy a low-power air conditioner, so that the room is hot in Leng Xia in winter; If you want to promote the band, all the materials have to be DIY, and even you have to go to the factory to proof the CD on the day of the performance, paste the packaging, press the CD and paste the poster yourself; The first time I went on a national tour, I couldn’t afford a plane ticket, so I took the slowest and cheapest train, and even I had to be careful about eating, saving and then saving. "If you have money, everyone will invest in the band regardless."

  In the rehearsal room of covert operation now, all kinds of equipment are valuable, which have been built up bit by bit over the years.

  Because they understand that only with an independent rehearsal room can the band’s demo come out faster and faster, write more songs, perform more and more, and the income is increasing. "This is a virtuous circle."

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  Express yourself and be inclusive, and be a perfect band in cooperation.

  Today, the covert operation consists of five musicians and VJ from France. To outsiders, the more members, the more differences. In covert operations, of course, such differences also exist. But because everyone has the same aesthetics and likes the same music, everyone can be compatible and then create together, thus producing a more wonderful chemical reaction.

  Fang De believes that for a band, after having the general direction of "like-minded", it needs to be "inclusive". "Being a band can’t stick to yourself 100%. Sometimes you want to express yourself too much, of course you will quarrel. Moreover, in the end, you will also give up this work, because it is something you want to express privately, and it will not be good for a long time. " Fortunately, everyone’s music preferences in covert operations are basically the same. "Because we are 60% or 70% the same, he can recognize me, and I also recognize his concept. This recognition is not for compromise, but that we really appreciate each other. "

  From high school to college, covert operations have experienced personnel changes, but their insistence on music has never changed. "I think, ‘ Unique ’ It’s very important. No matter what art, as long as it’s creative, no matter who invented or what music type, the more unique and obvious you are, the more irreplaceable you are. Irreplaceability means the only one, and that’s your value. Unique to another way of saying it is self-style, not so popular. "

  After 2012, the covert operation began to abandon the past music styles of partial dance and pop rock, and to explore a depressed but powerful music that can integrate real musical instruments and electronic music. This change has made them lose their childishness in music. At the same time, the band’s application of various timbre and musical instrument skills, the completion of the band’s scene and the overall control ability often make many old bands envy and sigh.

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  Strength sent dark horses to concentrate on preparing for performances in six European countries.

  In October, 2013, Secret Operation teamed up with Chengdu Bistro and NEWNOISE to launch its first physical EP "Strange Old-fashioned Entertainment", which included six tracks after the style transformation. In October of the same year, the band began its first national tour. Now, the Secret Operation is preparing to tour Europe in October this year. This time, they will be the tour guests of the old band NEW ORDER, and show the charm of China in six European countries.

  Three months ago, when the news first came, the covert operation thought it was "just a dream that I dare not dream". Even after rehearsing for more than two months, they still tell themselves from time to time: don’t get carried away, keep in awe of the stage and make all preparations. "We used to like adventure. After new songs were written, they were often changed to different versions when they were sung on the spot, which was more experimental. But this time our European producers asked not to take risks. Therefore, the rehearsal now is mainly to take out the mature and confident works and improve them to make them higher than before. "

  After more than 60 days and more than 400 hours, Fang De never felt that rehearsal was a boring thing. "This is a lifelong career. Being a band and doing art is our duty, and we can’t slack off. Because emotional and sensory things will be presented through music, this can’t be fake. For example, if you are lazy today, even if your technology is 100% correct, if the mood is wrong, the audience can hear it and feel wrong. "

  This kind of repeated, intensive and high-intensity rehearsal is the secret action of their own requirements, and even the closer they get to the performance, the more they feel that time is pressing. Fang De summed up this "self-abuse" with "selfishness": "I think ‘ Selfishness ’ Very good, ‘ Selfishness ’ The power is great — — In your own private heart, you must realize it and realize your own private and great wishes. But in the group, ‘ Selfishness ’ It is a derogatory term. " Even if everyone says that he is good and no problem, Fang De will "selfishly" think about whether there is any problem with his music.

  This "selfishness" of self-criticism and pursuit of perfection has caused the covert operation to kill many songs. "Just formed songs can make three or four albums, and some songs with ideas, melodies or lyrics, but not formed, are even more."

  The music expression of covert operations is broad, ranging from the universe to insects. "Our music has the power of abstraction. I like the feeling of loneliness in the depths of the universe brought by science fiction best, so many of the things we convey are the ones that don’t want to be too specific and straightforward. This is one of the charms of electronic music. "

  Because the songs of covert operations are mostly English songs, many people wonder whether they are trying to enter the international market. For this question, Fang De said with a smile: "No. It’s just that English songs sound softer. We haven’t found the best way to express Chinese, and writing Chinese songs really needs to be very good, because Chinese characters condense the wisdom of Chinese and the expression of lyrics is more complicated, which needs to be explored again. "

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  It’s too early for the band to go out of the circle and won’t participate in Summer of the Band.

  "Summer of the Band" made many people see the band culture, and even many bands became famous and their value doubled. But covert operations do not intend to participate in such programs. "Now there are many bands to sign up for the second season. We discussed it and decided not to participate. Because the success we pursue is not just making money, we pursue the success of the band and the success of art. "

  In Fang De’s view, after some bands became famous for variety shows, they received many commercial endorsements that did not meet their own positioning. "If you suddenly become famous, and then there are so many business things that can come to you, can you really stay the same? You are obviously a very cool and attitude band. You advertise whatever is thrown at you. Your attitude shows that you don’t respect yourself. "

  After some bands became famous, Fang De went to see their live performances. "The scene has become a scenic spot in online celebrity. Whether it is a fan or not, just go in and listen to two songs, take photos, send a circle of friends and make a card. Then go out and say: ‘ It’s not bad to listen outside ’ . You finally made your dream performance, but more than half of the people below came to punch in. I must be crazy. "

  In Fang De’s view, if you don’t develop in a certain way, you will eventually become someone you don’t want to be. "I think the biggest and scariest thing in life is that there is no way for you to be what you originally wanted to be. So now you should always put yourself in the future to look at it, and you must face yourself sincerely. " (cover journalist Xun Chao)

After Xiang’ an! This section of China’s "most beautiful coastal national highway" has new news!

Go all the way along the seaside highway

Look at the sky and the sky.

Watch the sunrise and sunset by the sea.

Do you like this way of traveling?

Qiang Qiang ~

China’s "most beautiful coastal national highway"

G228 coastal scenic road is on the scene!

recent days

National Highway G228 Xiang ‘annan Interchange

Wait for the completion of the upgrading and reconstruction of 13 bridge guardrails.

Safety and face value are further improved.

Route of Xiamen Section of G228 National Highway

Starting from the Lianhe boundary between Xiamen and Quanzhou.

Finally, Xiamen and Zhangzhou baijiao boundary

The current total length is about 75.6 kilometers.

Via Xiang ‘an, Tong ‘an, Jimei and Haicang.

String together the long and dazzling scenery of Xiamen Bay

Seascape and city scenery complement each other.

The whole line has been completed and opened to traffic.

Xiamen section of national highway G228 passes by in turn.

Xiamen East Sea Area, Xinglin Bay, Maluan Bay and West Sea Area

Road and

Xiang ‘an Tunnel, Jimei Bridge and Haicang Bridge

Equal access to the island

National Highway G228 starts in Dandong, Liaoning Province and ends in dongxing city, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with a total length of 6,900 kilometers. It is the longest coastal national highway in China, and it is planned to run through the whole line in 2025. Known as "the first coastal highway in China" and "the most beautiful coastal national highway", it spans a series of water systems such as Pearl River, Yangtze River, Huaihe River, Haihe River, Liaohe River and Yalu River from south to north, connecting more than 40 coastal cities in series and connecting the most beautiful coastline of the motherland in series.

Xingbin Road with Sea View and City View/Xiamen Daily reporter Wang Xieyun photo

Excavating "One Line" Tourism Resources

Overlooking Xiamen section of G228 National Highway from the air.

The coastline under the blue sky

Long and beautiful

Effective series connection through G228

Nature, culture, sports and religion along the road.

"One Bay and Sixteen Scenery" Tourism Resources

Form:

Eight scenic spots

Xiang ‘an Xiatanwei Wetland Park, Binhai Romantic Line, Yuanboyuan, Jimei Xuecun, Qingjiao Tzu Chi Palace and other representative eight scenic spots.

Yuanboyuan/Xiamen Daily reporter Lin Minghong photo

Baxiaojing

Eight scenic spots with unique landscapes, such as Bay Sports Port, Ecological Three Islands and Shuixiu Park.

Combined with the characteristics of scenic spots and the land along the route, we will build observation decks, observation towers, theme parks, landscape sketches and other online celebrity punch points according to local conditions, and rationally plan and construct parking service areas, self-driving camps, supporting restaurants, homestays and other service facilities to meet the diversified needs of tourists for self-driving sightseeing, leisure vacation, parking shopping, catering and accommodation.

Promote the integration of "one belt" and travel

Take national highway G228 as the main line

Improve the construction and tourism resources such as scenic spots and parks along the line.

Interconnected tourist feeder lines and contact lines

A total of 4 tourist feeder lines and 17 contact lines are planned.

According to local conditions, along the national highway G228 and around the road.

Construction of coastal walkways, sports slow lanes,

Integrated slow-moving system such as hydrophilic plank road and park greenway.

Create a collection of commuting, leisure, fitness and sightseeing.

Green slow corridor

A total of 36.2 kilometers of slow-moving systems are planned to be upgraded.

Optimize the allocation of bus lines and bus stops.

Open a special tourist line or a bus around the Bay.

Add wind and rain corridors at important nodes

Improve supporting facilities such as parking along the line.

Planning to add 8 parking lots.

A total of 2,100 berths

Let’s take a look at the Xiamen section of G228 line.

What coastal sections have you passed?

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Binhai east boulevard

Along Binhai East Avenue, the Egret Stadium of Xiamen Olympic Sports Center was completed and accepted in August 2023. In the next decade, one of the venues of the IAAF Diamond League, one of the three major track and field events in the world, will be located here.

On August 12th, 2023, Egret Stadium of Xiamen Olympic Sports Center passed the pre-acceptance. /Xiamen Daily reporter Wang Xieyun photo)

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tong an da qiao

Via Tongan Bridge, you can have a panoramic view of the scenery of Bingzhou Island. Not far away, there is the first mangrove-themed wetland park in Xiamen-Xiatanwei Mangrove Wetland Park.

Xiatanwei Mangrove Wetland Park/Xiamen Daily reporter Wang Xieyun photo

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Binhai west boulevard

On Binhai West Avenue, the asphalt road is straight and spacious, extending forward, and a beautiful picture of half the sea and half the city is slowly spread out in front of you.

The Meifeng Ecological Park, four artistic footbridges, Houtian Shelter and other places along the line are also popular punching points for many citizens and tourists.

There is an artistic footbridge across Binhai West Avenue.

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Jimei Avenue, Haixiang Avenue and Xingjin Road

Along Jimei Avenue, Haixiang Avenue and Xingjin Road, there are not only modern urban scenery, but also gardens full of natural beauty.

Jimei Xingjin Road/Xiamen Daily reporter Wang Xieyun photo

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Xinyang Bridge, Ma Qing Road

Along Xinyang Bridge and Ma Qing Road, the city view and sea view complement each other.

Nearby attractions such as Maluan Bay Belt Park and Maluan Bay Ecological Three Islands also attract many citizens to visit.

Maluwan Ecological Sandao Park/Xiamen Daily reporter Lin Minghong photo

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Haicang boulevard

On Haicang Avenue, as far as you can see, the blue sky and sea water are intertwined, seabirds fly by from time to time, reflecting the waves, green trees flash outside the window, and the coastal scenery is beautiful.

Photo courtesy of Haicang Avenue Landscape/Highway Center of Municipal Transportation Bureau

Original title: "After Xiang ‘an! This section of China’s "most beautiful coastal national highway" has new news! 》

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The foreign media questioned that China players dressed as women were flouting the 80-year history of gender identification.

Original: SME SME technology story

In the women’s 400-meter final of the national track and field competition last month, Liao Mengxue and Tong Zenghuan, two female players who swept the gold and silver medals, caused a heated discussion inside and outside the international sports circle-these two female players really look like male players.

In addition to appearance, Liao Mengxue’s voice is slightly low and neutral. So the public opinion is full of doubts. Are China female track and field athletes men? South Korean media even shouted "China sports has no gender", expressing strong opposition.

Liao Mengxue (left) and Tong Zenghuan (right)

In fact, the Chinese Athletics Association has come forward to confirm that the two athletes are indeed women. Just in May this year, they also participated in the international track and field league. How could they pass the test of such a major event by dressing up as women? Questioning is self-defeating.

In fact, to ensure fair and just international sports events, gender identification has been improved with the application of biomedicine and other technologies, and the method is not as simple as taking off pants to check physical characteristics. How to identify people with abnormal sex? Which gender should transgender people enter the competition? Everything is scientific, rigorous, fair and elegant.

However, some unscrupulous media make hasty judgments only on the appearance of TV screens, which not only hurts the dignity of athletes themselves, but also determines the scientific reforms and efforts made by international sports organizations for gender identification in the past century.

When it comes to gender identification, the first way that comes to mind should be to observe the gender characteristics of the body, and the same is true of gender identification in the earliest sports events. The athletes are arranged naked in groups, so that the appraiser can observe their physical characteristics with the naked eye.

As early as the 1936 Olympic Games, there appeared the same gender questioning as Liao Mengxue and Tong Zenghuan. In the women’s 100-meter track and field competition, American Helen Stephens won the championship. The second place in this competition, Stella Walsh from Poland, was defeated by her, and she questioned Helen’s true gender. Stella asked the IAFF to verify Helen’s gender.

Helen Stephens

This is the first time that athletes have been tested for gender in international sports events. The Olympic Committee identified Helen by visual inspection, that is, let her undress and check her gender characteristics. It turns out that Helen is indeed a woman, and Stella’s doubts are not valid.

Surprisingly, however, the whistleblower Stella herself is "gender ambiguous". At that time, the Olympic Committee only made a gender test for Helen, and obviously would not pay attention to Stella who seemed to be on the right side. It was not until Stella’s death 44 years later that the complete truth surfaced.

Stella was unfortunately robbed and shot by robbers, but her autopsy was shocking. It turns out that Stella has a tiny but nonfunctional male organ; However, the sex chromosome types displayed by her cells are also problematic, some of them carry XY chromosomes, and some of them have only one X chromosome, which indicates that the embryonic cells divide incorrectly and lead to mosaic. Instead of appearing in the women’s arena, it should be Stella.

Stella Walsh (right) congratulates Helen Stephens (left) on her victory.

In the same year’s Olympic Games, another German high jumper, Dora Rajan, also had gender doubts. At that time, she finished fourth in the women’s high jump. Two years later, she set a new record for the women’s high jump in another competition, but a few days later, she was accidentally exposed to gender issues. On the train back to Germany, someone reported that she was a man dressed as a woman.

When the police intervened in the investigation, it was discovered that Dora was mistaken for a girl by the midwife when she was born, and her family raised Dora as a girl since childhood. The reason lies in the strange physical characteristics of Dora’s hermaphroditism, and the sexual organs in this case can’t play their sexual functions. So in fact, Dora is not a woman or a man. She is bisexual.

In Dora’s mind, she belongs to women. So she can only hide her physical characteristics, avoid being naked, and participate in the competition as a woman. Until the embarrassing gender identity was revealed, all the medals she won were confiscated and her name was deleted from the record.

High jumper Dora Rajan

A series of gender disputes made the sports community aware of the controversy, so in 1966, IAAF added gender identification steps, and two years later, the International Olympic Committee followed suit. The athletes lined up naked in front of the doctor, who roughly identified the sex by naked eye.

Although the method is intuitive and simple, it also arouses people’s psychological antipathy and is criticized as uncivilized and immoral. When complex situations arise, it is difficult to make a judgment in gender identification.

The essential difference between men and women lies in the different sex chromosomes. Male’s XY and female’s XX chromosomes determine the different sexual characteristics of human beings. So in 1967, IAAF introduced chromosome test to identify sex, and a year later, the International Olympic Committee adopted the same method.

Chromosome test is simple, just take some tissue smears from athletes’ mouths, and then check whether there is Pasteurella bodies in them with a microscope. Pasteurella bodies are mammalian somatic nuclei. Except for one X chromosome, the other X chromosomes are condensed to form chromatids with a diameter of about 1 micron. This is actually the phenomenon that most chromatin is not synchronized during the cell division cycle.

There is only one X chromosome in male, so there is no Pasteurella in male nucleus. Women have two X chromosomes, so there is a Pasteurella corpuscle. After staining the chromosomes, Pasteurella bodies will show a deeper color, and the observation will be obvious.

A female with chromosome XX contains a Pasteurella corpuscle in her nucleus.

However, in the year when chromosome testing was introduced, a Polish female athlete could not pass gender identification. Her chromosome results showed "no Pasteurella", which means that "she" was judged to be male.

In fact, she is indeed a woman, only suffering from a rare Turner syndrome. This is a chromosomal abnormality disease, and the X chromosome is partially or completely missing, resulting in a chromosome composition of 44+X instead of 44+XX of ordinary people. Therefore, under the microscope, there will naturally be no Pasteurella bodies. Finally, following the appraisal results, the female athlete was banned from participating in the Olympic Games and professional sports competitions for life.

People gradually found that there are more and more blind spots in chromosome detection. Except for women with Turner’s syndrome, there is no abnormal situation of Pasteurella, but the male sex chromosome with Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome is XXY, but a Pasteurella can be detected. Athletes with androgen insensitivity contain XY sex chromosomes, but they can’t secrete androgen normally, and they are also rejected from the competition.

In 1992, the International Olympic Committee introduced PCR (polymerase chain reaction) detection method, which is more microscopic than chromosome detection at the gene level.

There is a sex-determining regional gene, SRY gene, on the Y chromosome. Although this gene is usually located on the Y chromosome, it will be transferred to the X chromosome in rare cases. In this way, even a fetus with a sex chromosome of XX will develop into a male; Similarly, if the SRY gene on the Y chromosome fails, the fetus with XY sex chromosome will also develop into a woman. This bypasses the chromosome abnormality and directly judges its subsequent expression according to the gene situation.

A large number of copies can be amplified within one hour by taking a small amount of DNA from the tested person. At this time, sex identification is completed only by detecting whether there is SRY gene on the sex chromosome. Because of its low price, simple and reliable steps, PCR identification method later became the mainstream identification method.

Electrophoretic PCR products showed that the band size of SRY gene was 254bp.

Almost all gender identification is aimed at male players mixed with female players, and they are screened out, because there is no woman who wants to challenge male opponents and stage the drama of eggs hitting stones. However, it is unfair for men to participate in women’s competitions, mainly because of the huge difference in testosterone content between normal men and women.

Testosterone is the main male hormone, and 90% of testosterone in men is secreted by leydig cells, which promotes the development of secondary characteristics such as the maturity of male sexual organs.

The essence of testosterone is actually to promote the synthesis of protein, so testosterone can also promote the growth of muscles and strength and enhance the maturity of bones, which is a great advantage for athletes.

South Africa’s 800-meter runner Caster Semenya, a woman with high testosterone content, was asked to receive hormone therapy.

In fact, women can also secrete testosterone. Although there are no testicles, ovarian interstitial cells and adrenal glands can also secrete a small amount, which is only about 1/10 of that of men.

To some extent, in the arena, androgen has become the "strength value" of athletes, and the value range of men is obviously higher than that of women. Therefore, people strongly resist men’s participation in women’s competitions.

And hormone detection has also become an auxiliary method in gender identification. In fact, it is more important as an identification means to test whether athletes take hormone drugs.

Testosterone is also the goal that men strive for in the gym, which has the function of building muscles.

So far, almost every appraisal method in sports field has defects. Only by integrating various identification methods can the rate of misjudgment be reduced.

In the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, the "Sex Identification Experimental Center" was established, which combined clinical, sex hormone, gene and chromosome detection methods for sex identification. A comprehensive gender identification method provides a fairer basis for the current international competition.

In fact, it is impossible for male players disguised as women to mix into women’s competitions under strict appraisal methods, and it is the gender abnormal groups except men and women who are really in an embarrassing position. From the point of view of sports competition, they should also have the right to participate in the competition. After identifying the gender, how to place these athletes has become a difficult problem.

Bruce Jenner, a male athlete, later became a woman.

In the process of constantly changing gender identification methods, it is just the abnormal gender who is the most difficult to accurately determine the gender. Their gender is vague, and some people clearly believe that they are women, but they can’t participate in women’s competitions.

In 2003, the International Olympic Committee formulated a consensus on gender classification in Stockholm, which opened a door to this group.

The consensus stipulates that bisexual or transgender people are allowed to participate in Olympic events. The condition is that sex hormone therapy and transsexual surgery are needed two years before the competition. That is to say, before the game, you can make it clear that you are a man or a woman through surgery, so you can pass gender identification and participate in the competition.

In 2016, the International Olympic Committee once again reached a consensus that transgender athletes who are not qualified for women’s competitions do not have to undergo sex-change surgery, and they can choose to participate in men’s competitions. After the reform, the consensus is more humanized, which no longer opposes gender as a gender situation with only men and women, and is more tolerant of transgender people.

As long as there is competitive sports, there is people’s yearning for fairness, which has led to the change of gender identification for nearly a century. At the same time, science and technology are constantly developing, which provides a fairer appraisal measure for sports events.

From this point of view, the question about Chinese female athletes at the beginning of the article is even more out of thin air. Instead of spending energy to incite doubts, we should try to add fair scientific and technological guarantee to exciting sports events.

Under the increasingly refined identification means, the problems in identification are no longer plagued by both male and female dimensions. The criterion of gender determination in sports field is fair competition, but if masculine face, gender characteristics, chromosomes and hormones can’t determine gender, what is the criterion of gender?

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Original title: "The foreign media questioned China’s players pretending to be women, which is simply a contempt for the 80-year history of gender identification! 》

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Jiangsu sings "Taihu Lake Beauty" of harmonious coexistence of people and water in the new era.

Last year, the algae in Taihu Lake reached the best level since 2007-
Sing the "Taihu Beauty" of Harmonious Symbiosis between People and Water in the New Era

On February 27th, the reporter learned from the new round of news conference on the effectiveness of comprehensive management of Taihu Lake held by the provincial government that in 2023, the water quality and algae situation in Taihu Lake reached the best level since 2007, and it has been safe for 16 consecutive years.

New improvements have been made in water quality.

The provincial party committee and the provincial government regard Taihu Lake governance as a landmark project of ecological civilization construction in Jiangsu, resolutely shoulder the political responsibility of Taihu Lake governance and promote the continuous improvement of water quality in Taihu Lake basin. Last year, our province issued the "Action Plan for Promoting a New Round of Comprehensive Management of Taihu Lake", which detailed and decomposed 100 specific tasks to carry out the work of managing Taihu Lake with greater efforts and higher standards. In 2001, 488 Pacific governance projects were implemented, with an annual investment of 23.8 billion yuan, an increase of about 5 billion yuan over previous years. The provincial finance allocates 2 billion yuan as special guiding funds every year, and issues a total of 34 billion yuan to support about 8,000 projects.

According to the national assessment data, in 2023, the permanganate index and ammonia nitrogen in Taihu Lake remained stable at Class II and Class I, with total phosphorus of 0.052mg/L and total nitrogen of 1.09mg/L, down by 17.5% and 9.9% respectively.

What do these numbers mean? "There are nitrogen and phosphorus indicators in lake eutrophication, in which total phosphorus is the main binding indicator. According to the national standard, the total phosphorus is 0.05mg/L for a good lake. Last year, the total phosphorus in Taihu Lake was 0.052mg/L, which historically approached and returned to a good lake, and relevant indicators should be continuously observed. " Jiang Wei, director of the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, explained that last year, the water quality in the eastern lake area of Taihu Lake remained stable at Class III, and the water quality in the central lake area reached Class III for the first time, and the water quality in the western lake area improved greatly. In the first half of the year, the water quality of Taihu Lake reached the good lake standard for the first time, and it can be seen that the water quality of Taihu Lake changed from quantitative to qualitative, but it still takes a long time to achieve fundamental improvement.

Last year, 53 cyanobacteria blooms were found in Taihu Lake, a decrease of 51 times compared with the same period of last year. The average area, maximum area and algae density decreased by 45.7%, 50.8% and 30.3% respectively, and the summer was safe for 16 consecutive years. The proportion of excellent grade III in 206 key sections of the basin was 96.6%, among which the water quality of all river sections reached Grade III and above, and the flux of total phosphorus and total nitrogen into the lake decreased by 2.9% and 25.5% year-on-year. The water quality of 19 lakes and reservoirs in the basin has been continuously improved, and the water quality of Changdang Lake has been upgraded by one grade to reach Class IV.

"Not only physical and chemical indicators, but also biological effects should be observed to further judge the stability and sustainability of Taihu Lake ecosystem." Jiang Wei said that the aquatic biodiversity index of Taihu Lake Basin reached 3.08 last year, which was upgraded from "good" to "excellent". The aquatic vegetation area of the lake reached 200 square kilometers, up 25.8% year-on-year. There are 382 species of birds in the basin, and the national key protected species such as white crane, white-headed crane, black-faced spoonbill and yellow-billed egret have been discovered in recent years.

Continue to strengthen source control and pollution reduction

The problem is in the water, and the root is on the shore. The prominent contradiction of Taihu Lake governance is that the total amount of sewage discharged in the basin exceeds the environmental capacity that Taihu Lake can bear, and controlling sources and reducing pollution is the key measure.

"In 2023, the Taihu Lake Basin added 491,000 tons/day of urban sewage treatment capacity, rebuilt 493 kilometers of urban sewage pipe network, with a total treatment capacity of 9.44 million tons/day, and built a total of 32,000 kilometers of sewage pipe network, handling 2.72 billion tons of sewage throughout the year. We will continue to promote the classified collection and disposal of domestic waste, adding more than 1,600 waste sorting communities and 850 tons/day of kitchen waste treatment capacity. " Chen Haodong, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that it will speed up the construction of township sewage pipe network, eliminate the direct discharge of domestic sewage in towns and blank areas of pipe network, and comprehensively improve the urban sewage collection and treatment capacity. This year, it is planned to increase the urban sewage treatment capacity by 400,000 tons/day, and build and renovate the sewage pipe network by 300 kilometers.

Taihu Lake area has been a famous land of fish and rice since ancient times. Our province has implemented the most stringent effluent discharge standard for pond culture in the first and second protected areas of Taihu Lake, and the standardized transformation of aquaculture ponds above 460,000 mu in the basin has been basically completed. At present, the treatment rate of rural domestic sewage in Taihu Lake Basin has increased to 83.8%, which is about 43 percentage points higher than the national average. "In 2023, the five cities in Taihu Lake controlled a total reduction of 412,000 mu of direct seeding rice, and the mechanized returning area of rice and wheat straw in the three cities along the lake was 3.739 million mu, and the returning rate was over 83.3%. The comprehensive utilization rate of crop straw and livestock manure in Taihu Lake Basin reached more than 95%." Sun Xiang, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that this year, we will explore the construction of a monitoring and evaluation system for agricultural green development, increase the pilot project of "two systems" of fertilizers and drugs and ecological transformation of irrigation and drainage systems, and promote the full coverage of key counties of straw comprehensive utilization projects in the upper reaches of Taihu Lake and the full coverage of rice machine transplanting in the first and second protected areas, further improving the level of agricultural green development in Taihu Lake.

"In 2023, the gathering area of cyanobacteria was the least since 2007, and there was no flooding in the whole year for the first time." Yu Junjie, deputy director of the Provincial Water Resources Department, said that a system of "blocking, guiding, controlling and fishing" has been gradually established along the lake. Since 2007, a total of 22.7 million tons of cyanobacteria have been salvaged, of which 740,000 tons were salvaged in 2023. The cyanobacteria salvaged ashore were disposed of by making organic fertilizer, burning and generating electricity, etc., to avoid secondary pollution. "Water, land, air and sky" water quality monitoring and monitoring network has been continuously improved, equipped with 437 water quality automatic stations, 2 ships, 14 boats and 1 observation station, covering more than 60 indicators of automatic monitoring capabilities, which can monitor algae every 30 minutes. In order to further reduce the source pollution in the lake and improve the lake habitat, the new round of ecological dredging project in Taihu Lake has completed 6 million cubic meters of dredging, and it is planned to dredge 6.35 million cubic meters this year.

The background color of river basin development is greener

Governance has forced transformation and upgrading, bringing opportunities for green development. Taoge area of Taihu Lake involves Wujin and Jintan, Changzhou, which is an important catchment area in the upper reaches of Taihu Lake and a necessary area for ecological water replenishment of major rivers entering the lake. In 2022, our province issued the Pilot Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Management and Sustainable Development of Water Environment in Taoge Area of Jiangsu Province (2022-2024).

"The pilot has scheduled 51 major projects in nine aspects, including industrial restructuring and industrial pollution control, urban and rural sewage treatment and garbage disposal, and comprehensive improvement of river networks, with a planned total investment of 18.4 billion yuan. By the end of 2023, 46 projects have been started, with a cumulative investment of about 10 billion yuan." Zhou Jingang, the second-level inspector of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said that Changzhou has also vigorously developed strategic emerging industries, continued to promote the high-quality development of new energy industries, and formed an ecological closed loop of "generating, storing and delivering". The new output value of new energy vehicle manufacturing, power batteries and photovoltaic industries contributed more than 90% to the growth of industrial output value, and industrial agglomeration ranked fourth in the country.

At present, there are 462 new "little giant" enterprises in Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou, accounting for nearly 60% of the province’s total. 166 national green factories, 16 green industrial parks and 498 provincial green factories were established. While promoting the continuous transformation and upgrading of the industry, our province has intensified the rectification of phosphorus-related enterprises, and continued to deepen the rectification of phosphorus-related enterprises in the basin in accordance with the principle of "standardizing and upgrading a batch, entering a batch of parks, shutting down and eliminating a batch", and comprehensively establishing a "phosphorus account book" and a "phosphorus list". By the end of 2023, 8,987 enterprises had completed the "one enterprise, one policy" remediation plan, and 6,970 enterprises had completed standardized remediation.

Taihu Lake Basin, with a land area of 0.4%, has created 10% of the national economic aggregate. Last August, the Land Spatial Planning of Jiangsu Province (2021-2035) was officially approved by the State Council. "The plan identified the’ Taihu Hill Ecological Green Center’ as one of the two ecological green centers supporting Jiangsu’s sustainable development. We guide the relevant cities and counties in Taihu Lake Basin to complete the overall planning of land space, strictly protect agriculture and ecological space, and promote the compact layout and intensive and efficient use of land space. " Sun Weidong, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Natural Resources, said that our province strictly controlled the use of land and space, standardized the review of projects involving the occupation of ecological space, and coordinated the ecological protection and restoration, and completed the ecological restoration of about 15,000 mu of abandoned mines left over from history in the water conservation area of Taihu Lake Basin. We will speed up the implementation of five national pilot projects and two provincial demonstration projects for the comprehensive improvement of land and space in the Taihu Lake Basin, and have completed the improvement of 20,000 mu of agricultural land, 0.7 million mu of construction land and 0.5 million mu of ecological protection and restoration. (Reporter Wang Jing)

Galaxy zFold 8/Flip 8 folding mobile phone launched its own OEM chip. It is reported that Samsung will undertake some orders for 2nm chips in Qualcomm.

On April 30th, the Korean media sedaily published a blog post yesterday (April 29th), reporting that the Foundry business of Samsung has regained the favor of Qualcomm.Will undertake the production order of 2nm chips from Qualcomm.

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The media quoted the supply chain news that the Samsung wafer foundry business started negotiations with Qualcomm on the production details of the 2 nm mobile application processor (AP), and speculated that it would be launched in the second half of 2026. Galaxy Z Fold8 and Galaxy Z Flip8 Among the two folding flagship mobile phones, the first one is equipped.Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition 2 Chip OEM by SamsungAnd next year’s Galaxy S26 The chips used in the series continue to beTSMC OEM.

IT House quoted the contents of the blog post. Samsung plans to complete the design work in the second quarter of 2025, and start filming in the first quarter of 2026. It will be produced and adopted in its cutting-edge factory Huacheng S3. 12 inch wafer, the monthly output is expected to be 1000 tablets, accounting for only 15% of its total production capacity of 2 nanometers (7000 pieces per month), so it is not considered as a large-scale order.

This is three years later, Samsung once again produced mobile phone chips for Qualcomm. In 2020 and 2022, Samsung produced AP for Qualcomm by 5 nm and 4 nm processes respectively. However, after the second half of 2022, due to yield and other problems, Qualcomm handed over all the production of cutting-edge chips below 4 nm to TSMC.

Although Samsung took the lead in launching the mass production of 3 nm process, Qualcomm has not returned, Samsung’s wafer foundry business continues to be under pressure, the 3 nm yield has not been improved, and customer orders have been frustrated one after another. In the first quarter of this year, Samsung’s wafer foundry lost about 2 trillion won, and the market share gap with TSMC widened to more than 60 percentage points.

Korean media believe that Qualcomm’s "return" is regarded as a precious opportunity for Samsung. Although the order volume is not enough to directly reverse the loss, the recognition of major global customers will inject a boost into Samsung’s brand image and marketing.

In addition, Samsung also undertook the production of 4nm AP designed by Qualcomm for the extended reality (XR) head display "Project Moohan" launched by Samsung Mobile Experience (MX) department in the second half of the year, further deepening the cooperation between the two parties.

The chief engineer revealed the details of the Russian tanker being detained, and the future direction of Russian-Ukrainian relations attracted attention.

       CCTV News:On the 25th, the National Security Agency of Ukraine announced that it had detained a Russian oil tanker in the port of Izmir in southern Ukraine in cooperation with the Ukrainian military procuratorate. Later on the 25th, 10 crew members of the detained Russian oil tanker were released and flew to Moscow in the early morning of the 26th, but the oil tanker was still detained by Uzbekistan. The Russian side said that this move is a provocative act of Ukraine. 

       Sputnik news agency & radio No.26 quoted Sergei Carpau, the chief engineer of the Russian oil tanker, as saying that the staff of the Ukrainian National Security Agency spoke Russian when they detained the Russian oil tanker in Izmir Port, but only asked some questions and did not beat or scold the crew.

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       The Ukrainian National Security Agency said that the detained Russian oil tanker participated in intercepting Ukrainian naval vessels in the Kerch Strait on November 25 last year, and assisted the Russian border guards in detaining Ukrainian vessels and 24 crew members. Uzbekistan said that it hopes to find relevant evidence of the "conflict in the Ukrainian Kerch Strait". However, in their investigation, they did not find that the Russian crew had ever participated in illegal activities, so they have allowed the crew to return to Russia. However, the Russian oil tanker is still being detained in Izmir Port.

       In response to the incident of the Russian oil tanker being detained, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Carracin said on the 25th that Russia believed that some people in Ukraine wanted to continue the provocative actions taken against Russia in the Kerch Strait last year. The Russian side will investigate the matter in detail. Colin Cevic, a member of the National Defense and Security Committee of the Russian Federation Council, also said that the release of the detained Russian crew members does not mean that the matter is over, and Russia demands that the oil tanker be returned immediately.

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       On November 25 last year, Russia and Ukraine clashed in the Kerch Strait. Russian border guards detained three Ukrainian naval vessels and Ukrainian military personnel on board. Both sides have their own words on this incident. Since then, Ukraine has declared that 10 regions adjacent to Russia have entered a "state of war". Tensions between Russia and Ukraine are escalating.

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       Ten crew members of the Russian oil tanker detained by Ukraine arrived in Moscow on the early morning of 26th, but the oil tanker was still detained by Ukraine. Although there are still many details about the arrest, the timing is very delicate. Because Ukrainian President Zelensky recently telephoned Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the release of Ukrainian detainees in the Kerch Strait incident and proposed to meet with Putin to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Putin also said that he would not refuse any form of talks. Some analysts pointed out that the arrest of the ship occurred when Russia and Ukraine may start negotiations on eastern Ukraine, which not only reflected the political game in Ukraine, but also cast a shadow over the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and the relaxation of bilateral relations.

       Some analysts believe that Russia’s response to the incident of the oil tanker being detained this time is cautious and restrained, and it is not hoped that this incident will undermine the prospect of the meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian heads of state. At present, the diplomatic settlement process of the eastern Ukraine issue is deadlocked, and both Russia and Ukraine hope to make a difference.

       From Russia’s point of view, Putin needs to show the West his positive attitude in solving the problem of eastern Ukraine, so as to urge the West to reduce or even lift sanctions against Russia. In addition, the economic development and people’s life in eastern Ukraine are facing difficulties, which requires a large number of blood transfusions from Russia, causing a huge burden on Russia. Therefore, Russia hopes to persuade Ukraine to lift the blockade through negotiations.

       From Uzbekistan’s point of view, Zelensky needs to fulfill its promise to achieve peace in the eastern region through diplomatic means during the election campaign.

       Analysts believe that the issue of eastern Ukraine involves Ukraine’s core interests, and there is a geopolitical game between Russia and the West behind it, and its diplomatic settlement process still faces many challenges. Even if Zelensky and Putin can meet, they are unlikely to reach an agreement on major issues such as the autonomous status of eastern Ukraine, and they can only make concessions on some minor technical issues. However, affected by the eastern Ukraine issue, it is difficult for Russia-Ukraine relations to improve substantially.

Coetzee’s new novel is published, and he has no hope for the adult world like a pessimistic believer.

The book cover of the student days of Jesus.

In 2003, Coetzee, the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, published his new novel The Schooldays of Jesus in the UK in August this year.

Nobel Prize in Literature winner Coetzee.

This novel is the sequel to his last work, The Childhood of Jesus. In The Childhood of Jesus, Simon, an old man, took David, a boy, from a refugee camp in the desert to Novella, a Spanish-speaking city. They lost their memories, and even their surnames were taken by others. Simon took David to find his birth mother. Finally, the three of them completely despaired of the orderly but passionate Novella and left it for the next city, Estella.

The story of "The Schooldays of Jesus" begins here. Simon and Yi Ni take David to Estella. They work on a farm, and David soon enters the local dance academy. This is a mystical dance academy, which "devotes itself to guiding students’ souls to the sky, so that souls can fit in with the movement of the great universe-or dance". David quickly learned to express "noble numbers from the planet" with dance, and met Dmitry, a museum security guard. Dmitri fell madly in love with the dance teacher Madeleine, and finally killed her.

Like its prequel, The Times of Students attracted many readers’ complaints: "English translation like Spanish", "environmental description like IKEA" and "too few social details to make the characters stereoscopic".

Its plot is not always convincing: in Jesus’ Childhood, Simon, who promised to find David’s biological mother, confirmed that she was David’s mother when she first met Yinis, and she undoubtedly accepted and formed a family with them; David, a boy, is suspiciously precocious. In the book, he speaks amazingly and makes remarks such as "I am the truth".

As a reader, I feel that time passes slowly in a mysterious world where my memory is banished. When faced with a novel that lacks reading pleasure, it is easy for us to have rejection ("this is a terrible writing") or self-doubt ("I must be too stupid to read his profound meaning"), but there may be another way, that is, to try to understand the writer-what kind of person is Coetzee? What’s he thinking?

First of all, Kutcher is very cold.

Thin, tall, silver hair, a pair of thoughtful, slightly narrowed eyes. Look at him, and then look at Marquez-thick eyebrows, big hands, Mario-like grin-and you can immediately feel the temperature difference between them.

This critic James Wood once said, and also found evidence in Coetzee’s memoir Youth published in 2002:

"If he is a more enthusiastic person, he will undoubtedly find it easier to do all this: life, love and poetry."

Coetzee does not belong to the mural writer with dense brushwork, but his past language can never be considered dry:

"ninety minutes a week with a woman is enough to make him feel happy, which makes him feel very strange, because he always thought he needed a wife, a home and marriage. In fact, his needs are very light, light and short-lived, just like the needs of butterflies. There is no emotional impulse, or only the deepest and most difficult feeling to guess: a most basic sense of satisfaction, like the buzz from the road urging the city people to sleep gradually, and like the silence that makes the country people sleep at night. " ("shame")

In the two works of Jesus series, the temperature of his character dialogue plummeted and he has retreated to the outline style:

"He and Yinis exchanged glances. Should they follow Juan’s advice? Money is not a problem. He has a lot of money in his pocket. It is not a problem for them to stay in a hotel. But officials in Novella are chasing them, and maybe they are safer among the unknown temporary residents.

Yes,’ said Yinis. Let’s live on this farm. We’ve been locked in the car long enough. Poliva needs to run.’

I think so,’ Simon said. However, the farm is not a place for a holiday. Are you ready, Yinis, to pick fruit in the hot sun every day?’

I’ll try my best,’ said Yinis. Neither more nor less.’

Can I pick fruit?’ The boy asked.

I’m sorry, you can’t,’ Juan said. This is illegal. This is child labor.’

I don’t mind working as a child.’ The boy said. "

Is this language style an imitation of the Bible? The plot of Jesus series is intertextual with the Bible. If the precocious David represents Jesus, then Simon and Yinis seem to represent Joseph and Mary respectively. The story follows a sacred family in exile in the empty text land, and the reader seems to vaguely understand that this is Coetzee creating his own gospel. In recent years, he has become more and more close to religion, and the self-analysis of his past works, which is almost cruel, seems to indicate this.

In the novel "Bad Age", the protagonist is highly coincident with Coetzee, who is also an elderly South American writer living in Australia. He recalls that his father once thought he was a selfish child, and his art lacked "generosity, no praise for life and no love"; In his memoir "Youth", he confessed his appearance defects, his mental life moaning without illness, and his emptiness after passion-honesty has always been Coetzee’s virtue, but it is always separated by a layer: "Youth" is a memoir, but Coetzee chose the third person.

This is certainly not the first time Coetzee has expressed his views in a roundabout way.

He hardly gives interviews to the media, does not attend the Booker Prize ceremony, and even if he gives a Nobel Prize in Literature Prize-winning speech, he still chooses to tell an obscure and tortuous story.

He likes to make a confession by fictional doppelganger: in Elizabeth Costello: Eight Classes, Coetzee teaches animal life, African humanities, evil problems and sexual desires through his female avatar Elizabeth. He speaks freely and at the same time excuses himself from his speech, which sometimes makes people wonder whether that remark was Coetzee’s opinion or just that of a fictional character.

"Summer" is even bolder. Coetzee directly "murdered" himself, and let the biographer Vincent build a multifaceted and even unbearable self by interviewing the late writer "Coetzee" in the eyes of others … Coetzee, like a deeply poisoned Russian doll, kept adding brackets, brackets and brackets to the narrative until the brackets themselves became an inseparable part of the narrative.

Since Shame in 1999, Coetzee began to try to "nonfiction" the novel, and created a series of memoirs, essays and biographies that are difficult to distinguish between true and false. Now, in Jesus series, he has returned to his most familiar allegorical writing again. However, this time, the allegory is not as strongly insinuating the injustice and hypocrisy of the South American colonies as Waiting for the Barbarian and Michael K’s Life and Times in his early years.

In Childhood of Jesus and Student Life of Jesus, Simon or David talked with porters, government officials and dance teachers and expressed their views on various grand themes: passion, lust, power, order and shame … It sounds like Plato’s tone, but it is not as clear and meticulous as the Republic.

Simon once had a lover in Novella. When he sought passion from other women, the lover said:

"This endless dissatisfaction, this desire for’ more’, this way of thinking has long been eliminated, I think. Nothing is missing. What you think is missing is an illusion. You are living by illusion. "

Such a speech embellishes the whole story. There are many reasons, but the taste is very weak. Coetzee doesn’t seem to care whether this dialogue is credible or far-fetched, because it is a fable, and readers who have concluded a trust treaty with the writer should believe the rationality of the story, even if the writer doesn’t provide enough perceptual details, social details and emotional details like Bunyan’s description of pilgrim’s progress or Dante’s description of hell. However, I have to say that it is too difficult to fish with a hook without a sharp hook.

David and his party lost all their memories before they came to Novella, which may be a hint from Coetzee: readers who open this book should also wash away their memories of the real world and enter this uncomfortable place unarmed. For Coetzee, who has always been metaphysical, a "real and sensible world" may not be his interest; In other words, what he wants to extract through the novel is another kind of truth.

In 2012, Coetzee gave a speech to the graduates of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa for the first time. He made a puzzling appeal to the male students among the graduates, hoping that they could devote themselves to the cause of primary education, because "as far as what we call the’ real world’ job is concerned, one of the boring facts is that when you sell things to others, buy things from others, or fiddle with numbers on the computer screen all day, you will have a feeling of being hard to get rid of.

If you work with children, I promise you will never feel this way. Children may be tiring and annoying, but they are complete human beings. In the classroom, you can experience a sense of nakedness that you can’t experience in the world where adults work. "

Only children are complete people, and only the children’s world has not been whitewashed to appear sincere-Coetzee, who said this, sounded like a pessimistic believer and had no hope for the adult world.

Coetzee was not the only writer who turned his back on the real world and built the fable Lego. Kafka wrote Castle, kazuo ishiguro wrote No Comfort, and Beckett, which Coetzee loved … These works were all books that refused to bring pleasure to reading: the reader followed the protagonist to an unknown world, his wishes and expectations were constantly frustrated, and doubts and repression accumulated like a snowball … Coetzee added a sigh to this little nightmare showroom.

Chen Kexin’s mobile phone shooting "Three Minutes" touched people’s hearts.

  These days, a short film "Three Minutes" has exploded the circle of friends, which tells an unusual reunion in Spring Festival travel rush. The story is very simple. The mother in the film is a train attendant on the "Nanning to Harbin" line. It is the busiest time to work overtime during the Spring Festival, and her son Ding Ding, who is about to go to elementary school, misses his mother, so he asks his aunt to take him to the train station next to his home and meet him while his mother’s train stops on the platform for 3 minutes. This Spring Festival travel rush-themed short film was shot by Hong Kong director Chen Kexin, and the content of the short film was based on a true story. After the short film was launched, it was played more than 13 million times on Youku in one day. Enthusiastic netizens also found the prototype of the story.

  The story is based on true events.

  The joy in the compartment or the joy of meeting relatives on the platform are the most familiar memories of the Spring Festival. This can’t help but remind people of the mainland realistic film "Dear" filmed by Chen Kexin a few years ago. The strong local flavor and sense of reality in the film will also surprise people that the film was produced by a Hong Kong director.

  Outstanding storytelling ability, keen perception of details, concern for reality and strong humanistic feelings are Chen Kexin’s consistent styles. Chen Kexin said that although he has no experience in Spring Festival travel rush, the Spring Festival and reunion are the themes he has been paying attention to for many years. "I can fully imagine the joy and happiness when Spring Festival travel rush comes home." When "Three Minutes" was filmed in Chongqing, Chen Kexin saw the crowds surging on the platform. Although there were all extras in front of him, he was still infected by this feeling of returning home. When the audition actors sang the song of returning home for the New Year, he said that he was also moved to tears.

  The short film touches the audience, not only because the flight attendants are busy on the train every Spring Festival, but also because the most critical structural design of the plot is that after the train stops at the platform, the mother and son meet for only 3 minutes. Three minutes, the sense of time limit brought by this reunion is the tension of the plot. The short film specially emphasizes this sense of time with the creative idea of 3-minute countdown. In the film, the countdown number is displayed at the top of the screen, which reminds the audience that the separation time between mother and son is approaching from the time the train enters the station. When entering the station, my mother saw her son on the platform through the window, but when the door opened, she had to help the passengers get on and off first, so she couldn’t find her son at the first time. Because there were too many people on the platform, my son couldn’t find his mother at the first time. When the child found his mother through the crowd on the platform, the time of 3 minutes has become 2 minutes. When the mother and son met and hugged, the mother waited for her son to speak with eager eyes. An interesting scene happened. After a moment of silence, the son began to recite the multiplication formula loudly. It turned out that my mother had joked with her son who was about to go to elementary school, "If you can’t recite the multiplication table, you can’t go to school, let alone see your mother." On the platform, my son didn’t recite the formula fluently, and at this time, the countdown on the screen was changing rapidly. The mother didn’t know what to do, and she couldn’t bear to interrupt her son. The tense countdown contrasted with the child’s stuttering recitation, which touched the audience’s mood. When my son recited the multiplication formula, the train started. The brief reunion of mother and son left the audience with endless aftertaste without a few words of dialogue.

  During the Spring Festival travel rush season, many people are close to their relatives because of their work, but they can’t stay. The short film "Three Minutes" is based on such a real thing. After the short film was screened, some enthusiastic people found the prototype of the story in the film. She is Liu Zhong, the conductor of the Shenzhen-Urumqi team of Guangzhou Bureau Group Co., Ltd. of China Railway. On January 24, 2017, the media reported the story that Liu Zhong met his son Chen Hongjin (nicknamed Ding Ding) during the four minutes when the train stopped at Hengyang Station after passing through his hometown in Hunan. At the premiere of Three Minutes, director Chen Kexin said that when he first saw the story, he decided to shoot it. In the short film, Tintin recited "99 Multiplication Table" to his mother. In reality, Tintin showed his mother "ma ma wo ai ni" written in pinyin.

  For Chinese people, Spring Festival travel rush is a journey to return home or find their own roots. The director Chen Kexin from Hong Kong has never experienced Spring Festival travel rush, but he has touched countless audiences with simple pictures, regardless of Spring Festival travel rush in the short film.

  Mobile phone shooting movies has its own advantages.

  This 7-minute short film continues Chen Kexin’s narrative style of paying attention to reality and storytelling. What’s more special is that it is a short film shot with a mobile phone all the time, and it is also the first time that Chen Kexin was invited by Apple to shoot a short film with a mobile phone. When sharing his own shooting experience, Chen Kexin said that "Three Minutes" gives the audience some perspectives that traditional films can’t touch. The current mobile phone photography technology has reached a very high level, which can not only record people’s daily life, but also serve as a lens supplement to traditional film photography. In "Three Minutes" shot by mobile phone, the vision of the characters in the picture is more realistic. In the short film, the subjective shot of the little boy crossing the platform to find his mother is completed by putting his hand in front of the little actor, which shows the rhythm and height of the movement, which is closer to a child’s perspective.

  Nowadays, more and more young people without professional training are shooting their own works with their mobile phones. As a daily tool, mobile phones are far beyond the reach of cameras in portability. When shooting in a narrow indoor space, in fact, a considerable space is needed behind the camera to set up the machine, and with such a small device as a mobile phone, you can freely take pictures even in a narrow and crowded train compartment. For the advantages of mobile phone shooting, Chen Kexin greatly praised: "Compared with bulky cameras, mobile phone shooting can try the effect of dynamic camera movement, and it also brings many unique and different shooting angles. For example, you can put your hand frame very close to the actor to capture the true feelings of the characters without making the actors feel disturbed, which is an advantage that traditional large cameras do not have when shooting at close range. "

  After "Three Minutes" was broadcast online, many netizens were surprised that the picture texture taken by the mobile phone could actually achieve the effect of big screen broadcast, but some knowledgeable netizens reminded: "Don’t think that there is only one iPhoneX between you and Chen Kexin’s" Three Minutes ",but it is actually several times more expensive than the mobile phone. Stabilizer, adapter, lens, drone and palm photographer & HELIP; …” In Chen Kexin’s view, all auxiliary equipment is just a tool to help the director establish an emotional link with the audience. The most important thing in filming is not technology, but creativity. Technology is just a tool, and more and more convenient and practical tools provide the possibility for realizing creativity. The short film "Three Minutes" not only impressed the audience, but also clearly conveyed that the future may enter an era in which everyone is a photographer. The development of science and technology is giving more ordinary people and video lovers the opportunity to complete their dreams about images.

  Our reporter Qiu Wei 

At the conference on infection prevention and control in Covid-19, Zhejiang Province, Wang Hao emphasized the orderly transition and smooth crossing of peaks to protect people’s health and safety.

  Hangzhou, December 27th (Reporter Yu Qin) On the afternoon of the 27th, a teleconference on the prevention and control of infection in Covid-19, Zhejiang Province was held. Governor Wang Hao stressed that all localities, departments and units should thoroughly implement the spirit of the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control in the new stage, adhere to the principle of putting people first and life first, highlight "keeping health and preventing severe diseases", scientifically optimize and adjust prevention and control measures, and steadily implement the "Class B and B management" of Covid-19 infection, so as to ensure the orderly transition and smooth crossing of the peak and effectively protect the health and safety of the people.

  Wang Hao pointed out that in the past three years of epidemic prevention and control, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, the whole province has conscientiously implemented the spirit of the important instructions of the General Secretary, "The epidemic should be prevented, the economy should be stabilized and development should be safe", adhered to the command and dispatch of "a game of chess in the whole province", made a series of combination boxing for epidemic prevention and control, and handled each epidemic in the shortest time, in the smallest scope and at the lowest cost, effectively safeguarding people’s life safety and physical health, and handed in high scores. At present, epidemic prevention and control has entered a new stage. We should not only recognize the situation clearly, but also strengthen our confidence, further unify our thoughts and actions with the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee on doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control in the new stage, and promote all tasks and measures in the new stage with good mental state and excellent work style with the most powerful measures and adequate preparations.

  Wang Hao stressed that it is necessary to highlight the key points, grasp the key points and fill the shortcomings, so as to further improve the ability and level of crossing the peak smoothly. First, we should strengthen the construction of medical treatment system, improve the outpatient service capacity of medical institutions, continuously optimize the layout of fever clinics, and realize "all receivables should be collected and all treatments should be treated"; Improve the ability of primary care service, give full play to the role of grading diagnosis and treatment mechanism, guide large hospitals to do everything in a lump sum, help primary medical and health institutions in a counterpart way, send doctors to serve at the station, guide primary clinics to provide medical services for community patients, and let the vast majority of infected people receive primary care at the primary level; Improve the ability of severe treatment and do everything possible to improve the cure rate. Second, it is necessary to strengthen the overall supply of medical drugs, support enterprises to expand production capacity at full capacity, focus on strengthening the production of epidemic prevention materials such as cold-reducing drugs and N95 masks, speed up overall deployment and orderly delivery, and do everything possible to meet the people’s drug demand. Third, we should focus on the optimization of services for key groups of "one old and one small" and key rural areas, assign special personnel to service management for various old-age care institutions, distribute health packages to the elderly over 60 years old in the province, and fully guarantee the demand for medical treatment and medication for children with fever; Implement the "five-level secretary" to grasp the responsibility of rural epidemic prevention and control, promote the "double sinking" of party and government organs and medical resources, and "two strengthening" of medical material supply and transshipment treatment capabilities, especially for special people with basic diseases, lonely elderly people and left-behind children. Establish a list and strengthen care and assistance.Fourth, we should pay great attention to caring for medical staff and grassroots front-line workers, implement more measures to warm people’s hearts, help solve practical difficulties, scientifically arrange shifts and let them devote themselves to their work. Fifth, we must strengthen overall planning in all aspects, protect people’s lives and health to the greatest extent, and minimize the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development.

  Wang Hao stressed that it is necessary to strictly implement territorial responsibilities and departmental responsibilities, strengthen coordination, supervision and inspection, and ensure that policies, responsibilities and work are in place. It is necessary to do a good job in guiding public opinion, strengthen popular science propaganda, guide the masses to implement prevention and control policies, and do a good job in self-health management.

  Xu Wenguang presided over the meeting, Cheng Yuechong made work arrangements, and Gao Xingfu, Wang Wenxu, Liu Xin, lu shan, Wang Chengguo, Yao Gaoguan and Tang Feifan were present at the main venue or sub-venue. At the meeting, the Provincial Health and Wellness Committee, the Provincial Economic and Information Office, the Provincial Department of Transportation and the responsible persons of Hangzhou, Lanxi City of Jinhua and Xin ‘an Street of Kecheng District of Quzhou made exchange speeches.

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