Tens of millions of powders and "explosive manufacturing machines", Tik Tok redefines the way for musicians to "go out of the circle"

"Be a lifetime, happy for a few days, a road is divided into two sides, whichever side you want to go. I’m not afraid if I’m not afraid. I’m a born child. It’s raining hard and the sun is shining. I just dare to work hard. "

Nostalgic songs in Minnan, sweet and clear voice, collided with a strong spark. Some fans wrote in the comments: "It’s so nice and comfortable, in a single loop." Its cover version in Minnan and the cover version in Mandarin both won 80W+ praise in Tik Tok, which indicated that this song "Born after Datian" was thoroughly sung by this sweet girl with a round face of 23 years old named Wang Yumeng. After that, "симпа" was praised by 309W, which made Wang Yumeng further out of the circle.

In the era of short video, the Internet has changed the path of traditional musicians, making this new Z-generation singer rise inexorably within half a year.How was this popular singer musician born? What kind of changes does the music industry reflect behind it?

Wang Yumeng’ s fans of the Royal Sister’ s heart Loli’ s voice broke through 10 million.How did you do that?

  

"Beautiful people and sweet songs" and "talented women" are part of Wang Yumeng’s labels, but they are far from the whole charm.

She hasThe soft and cute appearance of the neighbor with affinity and the recognizable voice are good at controlling the extremely different styles such as sadness, lyricism, cheerfulness and even opera cavity, and can sing eight languages such as Minnan, Russian and Cantonese.His masterpieces include The Return of the Prodigal Son, Born after Daejeon, симпа, Huo Yuanjia and so on. In addition, she can write her own lyrics and compose music. This Shandong girl, born in 1998, has become the hottest singer in online celebrity with many explosive cover songs.

Although she became famous at a young age, Wang Yumeng always maintained the habit of live interaction and comment interaction with fans. She and her fans called each other "idiots" and also drew lottery interactions, often expressing her gratitude to them.

Besides Wang Yumeng’s singing voice, there is also her who surprises the industry.It’s like sitting on a rocket.According to statistics, Wang Yumeng gained 2 million fans in 12 days, and the number of fans rose from more than 1 million to 6 million in a few months, and rose to 10 million in half a year. His influence soared rapidly and he won several hot searches in Tik Tok stations.

Singing and cuteness alone are obviously not enough to explain such achievements.The soaring fans of Wang Yumeng have something to do with the operation of Tik Tok Platform.Statistics show that 74% of Wang Yumeng’s fans are men, mostly 18-23 years old, who are concentrated in new first-tier cities. The above characteristics of fan portraits mean that they are not easy to appreciate online celebrity idols whose faces are vague, but are more likely to be attracted by individuals with distinctive personalities, which can be summarized as "starting with their looks, being loyal to their talents and being trapped in their personalities".

Tik Tok is aware of this,Combining with Wang Yumeng’s own honest and frank personality, this paper creates a set of "the contrast of the sound of Royal Sister’s heart and Lori" to strengthen its memory, recognition and love."Wang Yumeng responds to the voice query", "Wang Yumeng is so cute" and "How suitable Wang Yumeng is for Children’s Day" and other related hot searches are all centered on personal characteristics such as straightforwardness, cuteness and voice characteristics, which enhances individuality and realism. For example, in the live broadcast, "Why do you sing with your voice?" She responded, "If you don’t like listening, you can go out, and if you don’t like listening, you can row away."

Based on the perfect "short video+live broadcast" ecology, the platform consciously strengthens the linkage between talents and expands the horizontal "extension" and vertical "retention" of Wang Yumeng’s related content.For example, the live broadcast linked with Daren’s cute fart brought a hot search topic "How naive is cute fart Wang Yumeng". In addition, many accounts produced UGC content about her, which promoted the coverage of its influence to be constantly broken;

In addition, the platform always emphasizes unity in style, scene and operation.Pay attention to the consistency of people and strengthen memory. Each singing video is a close shot, sung in the same background, and most of the national songs are dressed in cheongsam and other details, which together form the "Wang Yumeng" IP.

The above methodology can undoubtedly be copied and applied to the operation of other musicians.Differentiated operation combined with personal characteristics, "short video+live broadcast" linkage, long-term creation, etc. all have considerable practical value, and the effect can be directly quantified and immediately corrected by feedback.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why a large number of amateur singers, such as Luo Xiaoan, Wang Zai Xiaoqiao and Chuanzi Suona, can rapidly grow into online celebrity here, and a large number of explosive songs can be born in Tik Tok. Under the circumstance that it is difficult for musicians to get out of the ring, many musicians have completed the rapid "cold start" and "explosive powder increase" here for several years in a row, which proves the continuous explosive power of Tik Tok.

When we look at it,Common ground of native musicians in Tik Tok.It can be seen that they are "thousands of people and thousands of faces" in image and have a clear recognition of people; Gradually grow up in the company of the audience, so it also has a deeper user emotional stickiness; At the same time, the highlight of career is mostly the explosion after long-term accumulation, which is sustainable.

Why Tik Tok has always been an "explosive manufacturing machine"And "phenomenal musicians pushing hands"?

  

In fact, like Wang Yumeng, there are many Tik Tok musicians with "talent+hard work" and personal characteristics. They are either good at writing or performing, constantly injecting novel ideas that break the conventional shackles into the whole music industry, and endowing explosive songs with deeper and richer connotations.

As far as explosive tracks are concerned,Some give positive energy to rap.In this summer’s hottest variety show "Brother Who Pierces the Thorns", "Flying in the Sky" exploded all over the network, and the broadcast volume of related topics in Tik Tok broke 1.02 billion, and countless people shouted "Go to the Top", and the original singer "Saddoggy" (formerly known as Hao An Jianyuan) in Tik Tok also rose rapidly. The 24-year-old boy showed his love for his hometown and his open mind that "the cover is better than the original" in an interview with Hebei Youth Daily’s Green Bean News. "I was shocked by the truth of Nathan Scott Lee’s singing, because of his performance on the spot and his stability, including his image and voice. I think all aspects are really great."

Some turn small love into great love, hitting the tears of countless people."I look up at the starry sky you have seen, and meet again after a hundred years of time and space." On the eve of the centenary of the founding of the Party, CCTV military, CCTV news, People’s Daily new media and other central media, with the tear force of the explosive song "Misplaced Time and Space" and a three-minute video clip, showed the great changes of honor and disgrace in the new China in the past 100 years and aroused patriotic resonance.

As far as the musicians out of the circle are concerned, the recent rising momentum is rapid, and the violin can be used to interpret all kinds of pop songs. Sichuan suona, a folk musical instrument, can be used to interpret the top 100 DJ electronic songs and realize the mix of traditional and modern; As well as being good at guitar, electronic organ and other musical instruments, he always plays and sings at night, bringing a "unplugged concert" to Luo Xiaoan.

As far as music theme activities are concerned, in the "Children’s Memories Killing" activity, classic songs of the 80s and 90s, such as Digital Baby, China Little Master, Young Hero Little Nezha, created a strong nostalgic atmosphere in the station, and the festive ceremony was full of sense; In the activity of "One Man, One Song Cheers for China Team", many musicians such as Dai Yutong _, Wang Xiaoshuai, and V Ye performed Olympic refueling songs in their own ways, conveying the Olympic spirit, and the emotional cohesion of music was vividly displayed here.

To sum up, with the upgrading of short video song consumption, a large number of new original songs are constantly put on every day, and users vote with their thumbs.The logic of vibrato blasting is iterating.Explosions are gradually "non-homogeneous", and it is often difficult to reproduce the myth by a single copy of the existing explosions, and more diversified styles can meet the market demand. The above-mentioned explosive songs and online celebrity musicians are related to rap, antique, classical and other genre elements; The improvement of user threshold requires stronger personal recognition and creative freshness.

With the logic iteration of explosions, Tik Tok’s corresponding music operation methods are constantly upgraded.One is to pay attention to the ecological linkage between multiple musicians, such as the linkage between Strictlyviolin Xunbo and "runaway steamed bread"; The second is that music and film ecology get through. Original music provides material for film and television "second creation", which promotes film and television announcement and UGC content output, which in turn promotes music to break the circle; The third is to launch activities at specific time nodes, lead hotspots, and continuously update themselves; The fourth is the official end, focusing on supporting waist musicians, focusing on personalization and differentiation in the whole IP training process, and the long tail effect continues to break out.

Then, behind the operational gameplay,What is the underlying logic that supports Tik Tok to become an "explosion-making machine" and a "phenomenon-level musician pusher"?

First of all,Music is the DNA since the birth of Tik Tok products, and it is an essential element in every short video.Its widely used scenes stimulate the original vitality of music, its huge daily flow pool of 600 million, and its diverse and inclusive creative atmosphere make it possible for every genre to find a bosom friend here;

Secondly,Tik Tok has built a rich and complete music ecology, with a large number of music practitioners, a wide range of application scenarios, mature rising channels and users with pan-music hobbies.According to the 2020 Tik Tok Music Ecological Data Report, the top 10 explosive songs in Tik Tok have a total broadcast volume of 94.5 billion. In the first half of 2020 alone, the number of musicians in Tik Tok increased by nearly 30,000, and it continues to maintain steady growth. In the past six months, the cumulative number of musicians in Tik Tok has exceeded 300 million, 6 musicians have exceeded 10 million, and 23 musicians have exceeded 5 million. Musicians such as Liu Yuning became popular in Tik Tok and "rose" to become stars;

Thirdly, the platform continuously strengthens its technical capabilities.Through the precise matching of big data and the decentralized algorithm mechanism, it helps waist musicians to go out of the circle.Witness the growth of non-head musicians, thus optimizing the entire creator structure;

Finally, Tik Tok alwaysInsist on supporting musicians from two dimensions: flow and income.With the daily live broadcast and online concert as the main engines to increase musicians’ income, a series of support plans such as "Sound Making Action", "Seeing Music Plan", "Tik Tok Musicians’ Hundred Million Yuan Subsidy Plan" and "Jupiter Plan" were launched to help musicians "have both the moon and the penny" and prolong their life cycle.

Thanks to the above efforts, the whole music ecology of Tik Tok has been able to grow continuously and become a "Hundred Flowers Garden" with rich categories.

Let musicians go from "being heard" to "being loved",Tik Tok Xuanfa promotes industrial change.

  

According to third-party data, the market size of digital music industry will exceed 74 billion yuan in 2021. Musicians are the key driving force in the development of the music industry. After realizing the huge potential of the domestic music market, many platforms have increased their layout. As a result, a series of phenomena, such as the upstream layout of the content production end, the emphasis on original copyright, the focus on the young market, and the more intense "competition" for musicians, have become a general trend in the industry. butHow to fundamentally improve the situation of musicians is still an unresolved issue.

The "2020 China Musicians Report" released by China Communication University shows that the musicians in China show the following major trends:Income increased year-on-year, but it is still low compared with developed countries.52% of musicians have no music income;Revenue from short video live broadcast platform has increased.37% of musicians have live broadcast behavior, and 62% of them have received live broadcast income;For waist and tail musicians, how to break the circle and increase income is the pain point.

Compared with other platforms, Tik Tok has the following unique advantages: other platforms either stay in the traditional stage of "listening to music" or music is separated from other content, while on Tik Tok, music is "viewable and playable", which forms a deep integration with the overall content and activates the ecological vitality of music;

In terms of the speed of powder increase, based on the daily traffic and activity advantages of the national short video application of 600 million, as well as the distribution advantages, the powder increase is obviously faster than other platforms, directly hitting the pain points mentioned above, helping musicians to burst out of the circle overnight, from "being heard" to "being loved";

In terms of gameplay, Tik Tok’s richer and more diverse gameplay brings more interesting musical creative expressions, such as national cover, fancy props or cross-dressing challenges, which inspires musicians’ creative inspiration; In terms of cash and flow support, Tik Tok became the first person in the short video industry to implement the "100 million yuan subsidy plan" for musicians, and the subsidy was even stronger.

What does the platform leave behind for the persistent cultivation of musicians? With the decline of the traditional music industry, the trend of music digitalization is unstoppable, from the explosive songs on the Spring Festival Evening to the musicians.Tik Tok constantly breaks down barriers and delivers new blood to the industry.; From "listening to music" and "watching music" to "playing music", Tik Tok has not only changed the mode of music announcement, but also gone deeper and deeper into the upstream, transforming the production mode with big data capabilities and shortening the music production cycle.Promote the rapid extension, upgrading and integration of industrial ecology to multiple fields.; When more musicians from the source of creation "make people sing songs out of the circle", the income will increase and attract more outstanding talents to enter, and it will alsoActivate the whole music industry chain and form a positive cycle.

Who is the musician who will become popular in Tik Tok next time? We will continue to pay attention.

There are 7 people in the queue of 20 people hired by Chengdu online celebrity Cake Shop.

  There is an online buzzword: I have walked the longest road, which is your routine. Now, it may have to be changed to: "The longest queue I have ever stood in is all for child care."

  Especially in some tea shops, doughnut shops, Guo Kui shops and other snack bars, and even at the door of hot pot restaurants, it is often seen that there are many people waiting in line at any time, and some even have 40-50 people waiting in line. "The line is too long, and the road can’t be lined up!" People can’t help but sprout. Are these people in line really queuing? Or a fake queue?

  Even at noon when the outdoor temperature is 39℃, there is always a long queue in front of a snack bar named "Beef Youmo" in Dakejia Lane, Chunxi Business Circle, Chengdu. From July 10 to July 12, Huaxi Dushi Bao-cover journalists chose the methods of on-site squatting, shooting videos and unannounced visits, trying to expose the truth behind them.

  doubtful point

  The average taste of beef oil is 7 people, and each time they buy one, they queue up repeatedly.

  During the summer vacation, Mr. Chen from Guangdong took his children and his family of three to Chengdu to play. When passing Dakejia Lane in Chunxi Road business circle, he was attracted by a queue of more than 30 meters long in front of a snack bar named "Beef Youmo", and intuitively judged that the cakes in this store should be very delicious.

  Walking into this small shop of about 10 square meters, two or three employees are busy in the shop. On the wall, there are all kinds of flavors of beef oil (similar to Guo Kui but with more fillings), and the prices are all in 10 yuan. If it weren’t for the long queue, this old-fashioned shop would be unremarkable at all.

  At noon, the outdoor temperature is close to 40℃. Mr. Chen asked his wife and children to wait on the bench and queue up by themselves.

  The reporter estimated that it was Mr. Chen’s turn to buy from 12: 50 until 1: 30. "It tastes just so-so. I don’t think it’s worth waiting in such a long line to buy food."

  "There are still few people now, and there are more people on weekends or holidays." A man in white short sleeves shouted hard. "Bake now and sell now, come on, let’s take advantage of the fact that there are fewer people in the queue now … …” When people come in line, the lead conductor will quickly step forward, collect money, and then give customers bags to wait in line.

  From July 10th to 11th, from 12 noon to 17: 00, reporters were on the scene for two days. There are at least 12 people in the queue, and more than 20 people, most of whom are tourists with foreign accents.

  In the tens of meters long queue, there are also some tourists who give up queuing and leave halfway. However, during the four or five hours of squatting, the reporter found a strange phenomenon: at least seven people were waiting in line from 1 o’clock until the reporter left. These include three women traveling together, a man and a woman traveling together and two separate men. Different from other tourists, these seven people appear to be with an easy grace, unhurried, and some of them are either playing mobile phones or whispering to each other, talking and laughing. The reporter roughly estimated that the seven people had lined up at least four or five times in the whole afternoon, and even seven or eight times.

  Their behavior and trajectory are also surprisingly consistent: queuing and buying only one. After buying it, they didn’t eat it directly, but left slowly in the direction of a large supermarket nearby. After about 10 minutes, these people returned to the queue. Then, the beef oil in their hands disappeared. The reporter noticed that these seven people will not appear in the team at the same time. Generally, three or four people will line up at a time and repeat the cycle.

  survey

  Two days before and after, four people all lined up to buy cakes and went to the same place.

  The behavior of these people is full of doubts. If you buy beef oil, why not buy enough at once, but go to the queue four or five times and buy only one at a time? They left with beef oil and returned in just 10 minutes. Did they eat the food or where did they go? With these doubts, all the reporters continued to observe at the door of the store, and the other reporters followed the footsteps of these people all the way to see where they went.

  Time: 12 noon on July 10th — twenty past five p.m.

  The reporter first noticed four people. A man in grey short sleeves, jeans and khaki sandals. At 13: 59, he appeared in the queue, holding a paper bag in his right hand. In front of him, a trio of women appeared together, in which a tall woman wore a flowered skirt, a short-haired woman wore denim shorts and white short sleeves, and another middle-aged woman wore green short sleeves, which was very conspicuous.

  About 20 minutes later, each of the three young women left with a beef oil, passed by the door of a large shopping mall nearby, and then entered the first city, passing through a 1-meter-wide passage next to the entrance of the parking lot of Kejia Building at No.48 Zhengkejia Lane, and then entered a small door. In less than 10 minutes, three people came out of this door empty-handed. Subsequently, the gray short-sleeved man also entered this small door. After more than 10 minutes, they appeared in the queue again.

  From 12 noon to 5: 20 pm, the reporter found that there were at least seven people who participated in the queue for three times, most of them were gray short-sleeved men and trio, and they went back and forth at least four or five times. When the queue was the largest, there were 20 people in the queue, 7 of whom were "old faces".

  Time: 1: 00 noon on July 11th — 4 p.m.

  At 1 pm on July 11, the reporter went to the scene for investigation again. As the day before, there was still a long queue here. The clerk in white short sleeves who is in charge of collecting money and directing the queue is still the same shouting words.

  Soon, the reporter found that several people who appeared the day before appeared again. In the women’s trio, the flowered skirt was replaced by a yellow striped skirt, the short-haired woman with denim shorts, and the white short sleeves were replaced by blue short sleeves, while the middle-aged woman with green short sleeves wore white short sleeves. A men’s gray short sleeves turned into dark shirts. Since 2 o’clock, these four people have walked back and forth three or four times along the route of the previous day.

  Different from the day before, the reporter noticed that several new faces appeared. After combing the two-day investigation, nearly 10 "customers" in this store are suspected of being childcare.

  Starting from the bottom

  A special company organizes fake queues for 10 times a day with a monthly salary of 1,500 yuan.

  What is the identity of these childcare, and where did they come from? In order to solve these puzzles, the reporter immediately contacted the clerk in charge of collecting money and directing the queue on the grounds of part-time job. At the scene, the clerk refused at first, saying that they didn’t need to recruit part-time jobs. It may be considered that there are too many people on the scene, and then he asked reporters to add WeChat communication first.

  Looking through his circle of friends, in the past year, almost all of them have shown off small videos and photos of long queues in the store. For example, on July 5, he proudly said in the video: More than 30 people lined up in the rain on rainy days, too many people! For example, on May 5, there was a long queue of nearly forty or fifty people in the video. He said, "The queue is too long, and the road can’t be lined up!"

  The reporter repeatedly asked the clerk to directly recruit himself for a part-time job, but he was rejected.

  He said that all the people in the queue are sent by intermediary companies every day, and the store can’t directly recruit people. He added that there is a group of intermediary companies with more than 200 people who signed up at 6 o’clock the day before and only recruited the top 20 people.

  He further explained that if he really wants to do it, he can take the reporter to see the boss of a part-time company and then enter his group. "You can ask him to arrange it for you every day."

  In fact, it’s not just queuing that involves fraud. At first, the shop assistant asked the reporter about his height, and said that if the height and other conditions were good, singers who participated in some activities could "lip-synch".

  The survey found that these intermediary companies are very mature. On the one hand, by recruiting a large number of part-time staff, and then "selling" in batches. Some stores that need "child care", the intermediary company is responsible for sending a batch of "child care" every day, and the price ranges from tens to hundreds of yuan. After the role "playing" is completed, we can pay the fee quickly by means of WeChat transfer, and the intermediary earns the difference for a living.

  Vertical depth

  Consumers Association, lawyers say: This is consumer fraud!

  Lawyer Chen Fengfeng of Sichuan Yingji Law Firm believes that operators hire people to queue up, which means that operators use asymmetric transaction information to artificially create the phenomenon of people queuing, create an illusion that products are popular with the public and business is prosperous, and use people’s curiosity and conformity psychology to gain good reputation and benefits. Legally speaking, this is a kind of consumer fraud, that is, by covering up the real situation of commodity sales, the operator deceives consumers to mistakenly trust the quality of the commodity and consume it.

  The reporter called the industrial and commercial complaint 12315 consumer hotline to reflect, and the staff said: it is fraudulent for snack bars to hire people to queue up to induce consumers to consume. The public should actively report such things, and whether the snack bar behavior involves illegality needs further verification.

Shenzhen takes the lead in legislating for autonomous driving, and Volkswagen and Bosch jointly develop L2/L3 autonomous driving technology | July Smart Driving Hot Search

Shenzhen takes the lead in legislating for autonomous driving, and Volkswagen and Bosch jointly develop L2/L3 autonomous driving technology | July Smart Driving Hot SearchShenzhen takes the lead in legislating for autonomous driving, and Volkswagen and Bosch jointly develop L2/L3 autonomous driving technology | July Smart Driving Hot Search

01 Take a macro look

# Shenzhen takes the lead in legislating for autonomous driving

On July 5, the Regulations on the Management of Intelligent Networked Vehicles in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone passed the deliberation and came into force on August 1, 2022. This is the first domestic regulation regulating intelligent networked vehicle management, which consists of nine chapters and sixty-four articles, including general rules, road testing and demonstration applications, access and registration, use management, vehicle-road collaborative infrastructure, network security and data protection, traffic accidents and violation handling, legal responsibilities and supplementary provisions. The "Regulations" is the first official management document in China to divide important issues such as the rights and responsibilities of L3 and above autopilot in detail, and it is expected that Shenzhen will continue to issue more detailed normative documents in the future.

Comments:In the history of autonomous driving in China, it is a landmark worthy of recording.

# China has completed the first phase of intelligent networked automobile standard system construction.

On July 16th, the National Automobile Standardization Technical Committee said that China has completed the construction of the first-stage intelligent networked automobile standard system, and by 2030, China will add more than 100 intelligent networked automobile standards. It is said that in the first phase of China’s intelligent networked automobile standard system, 39 related standards have been submitted for approval, and China has initially established an intelligent networked automobile standard system that can support driver assistance and low-level automatic driving. There are 19 international standards and regulations led and formulated by China.

Comments:It will provide support and guarantee for the development of intelligent networked automobile industry.

# "Research Achievements of Automotive Chip Standard System Construction" released

On July 20th, China Automotive Chip Industry Innovation Strategic Alliance released "Research Achievements of Automotive Chip Standard System Construction". At present, 15 automobile chip standards have been formulated and published, covering the general requirements, reliability, functional safety, system matching test, vehicle matching test and other fields of automobile control chips, communication chips and power semiconductors.

Comments:The Long March took the first step.

# The junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai will be the first to open the autopilot test road.

On July 28th, "Several Measures on Accelerating the Development of Digital Economy in the Yangtze River Delta Eco-green Integration Development Demonstration Zone" was issued, which pointed out that the junction of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang will work together to build a leading vehicle-road collaborative demonstration zone in China. It is reported that the demonstration area will enrich the open test road scenes of autonomous driving, and explore and promote the construction of open test road scenes in water town living room, Huandianshan Lake and National Intelligent Networked Automobile (Jiashan, Zhejiang) demonstration area.

Comments:Integrated development to create the growth pole of autonomous driving.

Take a look at business applications.

# Radish Run Opens the Pilot of Autopilot Commercialization in Wuhan

On July 5, Baidu Apollo announced that its self-driving travel service platform "Radish Run" started a commercial pilot in Wuhan Economic Development Zone to provide self-driving paid travel services to the public. According to the plan, the pilot service will cover 166 kilometers of roads within 30 square kilometers of the Economic Development Zone, and 63 recommended boarding points will be set up. The service time will last from 9: 00 am to 17: 00.

Comments:The scope of self-driving travel services has been further expanded.

# Beijing launches the first commercial pilot of unmanned travel in China.

On July 20th, Beijing officially opened the first domestic unmanned travel service commercialization pilot. Baidu and Xiaoma Zhixing became the first batch of licensed enterprises, and invested 30 main driving unmanned vehicles within 60 square kilometers of the core area of the Economic Development Zone to carry out normalized toll collection services.

Comments:This indicates that the domestic unmanned travel service has entered a new stage of commercialization pilot from demonstration operation.

# Feibu Technology Cheluyun Application Fully Landing in Nantong Port

On July 27th, with the approval of the coastline of the container terminal in Lvsi Qibu Port Area, the application scheme of smart port with integrated vehicle, road and cloud built by Feibu Technology for Nantong Port also passed the acceptance test recently and was officially delivered to customers. The solution includes products and services such as car-side driverless, roadside intelligent perception and cloud scheduling management.

Comments:The commercial application of the automated transport queue composed of multiple vehicles, such as automatic driving truck +IGV, has reached a new level.

Take a look at enterprise dynamics.

# Volkswagen and Bosch cooperate to develop L2/L3 autopilot technology.

On July 6th, Volkswagen and Bosch obtained permission from the German Cartel Office and began to cooperate in developing autonomous driving technology. The two sides will cooperate on L2 /L3 autonomous driving technology, and the new technology will be deployed on the vehicles of Volkswagen Group in 2023. In addition, the two sides will also develop L3-level automatic driving function based on expressway.

Comments:The combination of Bosch and Volkswagen will further enhance their competitiveness in the field of autonomous driving, and it will also promote their smooth electrification transformation.

# Mercedes-Benz and Tencent signed a memorandum of cooperation.

On July 11th, Daimler Greater China Investment Co., Ltd. signed a memorandum of cooperation with Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. to carry out strategic cooperation in the field of high-level autonomous driving, and use cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence technologies to speed up the simulation, testing and application of Mercedes-Benz autonomous driving technology. According to reports, the cooperation will also establish a joint laboratory for autonomous driving to support the joint research and development of autonomous driving technology between Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA in China.

Comments:Can a strong alliance occupy a place in the fierce competition in the field of autonomous driving?

# Amazon Cloud Technology expounds the automotive industry solution

On July 14th, Amazon Cloud Technology announced that it will define the digital scenes of the three major automobile industries around autonomous driving, car networking and software, and empower the digital transformation of the automobile industry. It will help car companies to build an end-to-end closed loop of autopilot data centered on the autopilot data lake, and use its infrastructure in 84 available areas in 26 regions around the world to allow car companies to build a car networking platform. It can also integrate Amazon Intelligent Personal Assistant Amazon Alexa to provide users with voice interaction in the car, and so on.

Comments:The temptation of the self-driving car industry is not small, and the leader in the cloud computing industry has also taken a share.

# BYD or self-developed smart driving chip

On July 15th, it was learned from a number of people familiar with the matter that BYD was planning to independently develop a special chip for intelligent driving. The project was led by BYD’s semiconductor team, and it has already sent a demand to the design company. At the same time, it is also recruiting a BSP(Board Support Package) technical team. If the progress is fast, it is expected that the film can be streamed at the end of the year.

Comments:Intelligence is a battleground for military strategists, and BYD’s layout comes naturally.

# Baidu Apollo RT6 released

On July 21st, Baidu released the sixth generation mass-produced unmanned vehicle-Apollo RT6. The new car has the full unmanned driving ability of complex urban roads, and the cost is 250,000 yuan. Its biggest feature lies in the forward research and development. Apollo RT6 is the first model based on Robotaxi forward design and development. According to the plan, Apollo RT6 will be the first to be put into use in radish fast running, and will be put into trial operation in small batches in the second half of 2023, operating in 65 cities in 2025 and covering 100 cities in 2030.

Comments:Positive research and development helps Baidu to make great strides in the field of autonomous driving.

# Iflytek: It has cooperated with more than 90% independent and joint venture car companies.

Recently, Iflytek said on the investor interaction platform that the company’s cooperation in automotive intelligent products has covered more than 90% of China’s mainstream independent brands and joint-venture brand car manufacturers, including BYD, Weilai, Ideality, Gaohe, Weimar, Zero Run and other new energy car manufacturers.

Comments:Iflytek’s circle of friends keeps expanding.

# Xiaoma Zhixing and Sany Heavy Truck set up a joint venture company.

On July 28th, Xiaoma Zhixing and Sany Heavy Truck announced that they would set up a joint venture company to develop, produce and sell L4 self-driving heavy truck products and jointly build a high-end self-driving heavy truck brand. The joint venture company plans to start small-scale mass production delivery in 2022. In 2024, it will further integrate Xiaoma Zhixing’s virtual driver capability, as well as Sany Heavy Truck’s drive-by-wire chassis and vehicle development capability, and mass-produce high-end self-driving heavy truck products. In a few years, the annual output is expected to exceed 10,000 vehicles.

Comments:The development of self-driving heavy trucks has reached a new level.

04 capital trends a stroke.

# Xinqing Technology completed nearly one billion yuan in Series A financing.

On July 19th, Xinqing Technology successfully completed nearly one billion yuan of Series A financing. The financing funds are planned to be used for the batch supply of existing products and the next stage of R&D and deployment of vehicle-mounted chips with high computing power. This round of financing was led by Sequoia Capital, and Neusoft Capital, Bosch’s Boyuan Capital and SMIC Juyuan participated in the investment. It is reported that this is the largest single financing in the field of automotive chip design in China in the first half of 2022.

Comments:Automotive chips are the best in the industry.

# Weilai Capital leads the unmanned sanitation company Yunchuang Zhixing Pre-A round.

On July 19th, Weilai Capital announced that it would lead the investment in the Pre-A round of financing of Yunchuangzhi, an unmanned sanitation company, which will be used for the research and development of the company’s core technology, the large-scale mass production and the wider commercial deployment. Founded in March 2021, Yunchuang Zhixing is an autonomous driving company focusing on the sanitation industry and is committed to creating an overall solution for unmanned sanitation operations.

Comments:Subdivide the track or take the lead in breaking the bottleneck of large-scale application in the industry.

# Yuntu Semiconductor completed hundreds of millions of A+ rounds of financing.

On July 29th, Yuntu Semiconductor announced the completion of several hundred million yuan A+ round financing. Xiaomi Investment and Lianxin Capital continued to increase, and new institutions such as Jinbang Capital, BAIC Investment, Core Kinetic Energy, Huitianfu and Yongxin Capital increased their investment. It is reported that this round of financing funds will be mainly used for the research and development of next-generation products and the mass production and sales of L and M series chips.

Comments:The strength of the seed player of the car gauge chip should not be underestimated.

05 talk about personnel changes

# Tucson Future Co-founder Huang Zezhen resigned

On July 5, according to media reports, Huang Zehua, the future co-founder and vice president of engineering of Tucson, left his post in October 2021 and will start a business in the field of trucks. According to Tianyan’s enterprise information, in April this year, Huang Zehua established a company called "Zero One Smart Card". According to industry insiders, the direction of Zero One Smart Card is to provide truck hardware for autonomous driving software companies and become the "Wei Xiaoli" in the domestic truck industry.

Comments:The smart truck industry needs new forces to stir the pool water.

# Chen Yilun, Chief Architect of Huawei Car BU, resigned.

On July 13th, according to media reports, Chen Yilunbo, CTO of Huawei’s autonomous driving system and chief scientist of Car BU, recently left his post to join Dr. Zhang Yaqin of Tsinghua and Tsinghua University Intelligent Industry Research Institute (AIR) as the chief expert in the direction of intelligent robots. Chen Yilun led the full-stack research and development of Huawei’s first-generation autopilot system from 0 to 1.

Comments:The result of Huawei’s organizational structure adjustment.

# Former UBS Group AG executive Hou Yanzhen became CFO of Heduo Technology.

On July 18th, Heduo Technology announced that Hou Yankun, the former Asian vice chairman and managing director of UBS Group AG Global Investment Banking Department, was appointed as the company’s chief financial officer, in charge of the company’s capital operation, finance and strategy-related work. According to the data, Hou Yankun has worked in many internationally renowned financial institutions such as Swiss Bank, Nomura International and Lehman Brothers, and has nearly 20 years of experience in securities research and investment and financing in the automotive and machinery industries. He has led a team to complete domestic and foreign capital market financing projects such as LI, Weilai Automobile, BYD, Geely, Volvo, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited and Junsheng Electronics.

Comments:With the participation of financial background executives, the operation of Heduo Technology Capital may be smoother.

# Lenovo Group intensively recruits automotive R&D talents.

Recently, Lenovo Group began to intensively recruit automotive R&D talents through official channels. Lenovo’s open positions include autopilot engineering director, in-vehicle infotainment system director, senior hardware/software manager, etc. In addition, LR VC Lab related positions have been opened. Earlier, Yang Yuanqing, chairman of Lenovo Group, said in an interview that Lenovo was determined not to build cars, but to put limited energy and resources on a clear track.

Comments:No cars, but layout.

Listen to international news.

# Volkswagen will support the "pay on demand" mode of autonomous driving.

On July 10th, Dirk Hilgenberg, CEO of Cariad, a software division of Volkswagen Group, said that Volkswagen will provide a pay-as-you-go mode in the autopilot function, which means that the Volkswagen autopilot assistance system will support the option of paying by mileage in the future. However, he did not disclose the charging standard.

Comments:Volkswagen uses autonomous driving to develop new profit points.

# GM and Ford apply for the deployment of self-driving cars without steering wheel

On July 21st, General Motors and Ford Motor Company applied to the American automobile safety regulatory agency for exemption, allowing the deployment of a certain number of self-driving cars without artificial control devices such as steering wheel and brake pedal. Both automakers hope to deploy as many as 2,500 cars for carpooling and distribution services every year, which is the maximum number allowed by law.

Comments:The form of self-driving cars is evolving to imagination.

#Cruise will launch a self-driving taxi service in Dubai

On July 24th, Cruise has tried to launch a self-driving taxi service in Dubai. According to the Dubai Road and Transportation Authority (RTA), Cruise has sent two Chevrolet Bolt electric cars equipped with autonomous driving systems to Dubai just a few weeks after it officially launched its commercial driverless business in San Francisco, and started to draw a map of the city, in order to prepare for the official launch of autonomous driving commercial services in the local area in 2023.

Comments:The agreement with Dubai marks Cruise’s major expansion plan.

Explore 07 cutting-edge technology

# Tesla will demonstrate Steam integration next month.

On July 16, Tesla CEO Musk said in response to a netizen’s question about Tesla games, "We have made progress in Steam integration and may give a demonstration next month." On February 23 this year, in response to a question from a Twitter user, Musk said that Tesla was studying transplanting Steam games (in batches) into the car.

Comments:In-car entertainment, a valuable gold mine, is being developed.

# Apple applied for a patent for professional mixed reality headphones.

On July 18th, Apple applied for a new patent: a patent for professional mixed reality headphones for self-driving cars without windows. Windows are originally unsafe, which will increase the cost. By providing a virtual view of the real environment or the simulated environment, the VR system can reduce or eliminate the need for windows for self-driving cars, thus allowing the windows of vehicles to be smaller, or directly canceling the windows, thus making self-driving cars safer, smaller and cheaper.

Comments:Virtual reality technology may change the structure of self-driving vehicles.

# Sony will develop new autopilot sensors

On July 19th, Sony Group announced that it will develop a new self-driving sensor, which will reduce the power consumption by 70% and increase the driving range of electric vehicles (EVs). The sensor will be manufactured by Sony Semiconductor Solutions and paired with new software developed by the startup Tier IV. The two companies hope to achieve L4 technology by 2030, allowing cars to drive automatically under certain conditions.

Comments:Sony black technology may make the driving range no longer anxious.

Shenzhen Auto Show is bursting with passengers, and technological fashion is sought after by young people.

Shenzhen News Network June 23, 2023(Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reporter Zhou Yumeng) "Today, the passenger flow is expected to exceed 3,000 batches." Miss Chen, marketing manager of FAW Audi Shenzhen, said.

Yesterday was the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Auto Show in Futian Convention and Exhibition Center was booming, with a constant stream of people visiting the exhibition and overwhelming reception from exhibitors.

The popularity is very strong, and the participating brands are busy selling cars

This year is no longer affected by the epidemic, and Shenzhen citizens have more holiday choices. On the same day, the reporter saw at this auto show that many citizens took their families to the auto show, and some of them rushed to buy cars; Some have plans to buy a car, and come to the auto show first to find out; Others are because children like it, especially interested in smart electric cars.

Xiao Chen, a new energy brand of Great Wall Motor, sold 5 cars a day; He said that from the opening to now, the existing cars prepared by the company have been sold almost.

The sales volume of Nezha S hybrid version is also good these days, with the cumulative order volume exceeding 30 units. Tucki, a brand of new forces, sold well during the auto show, with orders for various models exceeding 1,000 units. The BMW booth has been 100% fully electrified, and the order for the four-day opening has also exceeded 1000 units.

Science and technology fashion, more sought after by young people

This year’s Shenzhen Auto Show still focuses on new energy. Compared with previous years, the new energy vehicles on display are more intelligent, more designed and more popular among young people. Immersive intelligent interactive areas such as VR swing devices and simulated cockpits created by several car brands have attracted children to queue up for experience.

According to the booth sales of several new power brands, during the auto show, a young couple told reporters that they would look at the value of the car first, and then compare the performance and price. At the same time, they felt that the new energy vehicles at the auto show were more and more designed.

In terms of technological experience, the reporter saw on the spot that in addition to the functions of assisting autonomous driving and cruising range, this year’s smart cars began to approach the "smart space". For example, many domestic new energy vehicle brands can sing songs and watch movies in the car, with high-definition head-up display and massage function in the driver’s seat; Newly-launched models are equipped with multiple laser radars, sensing systems and high-performance sensors, which not only make the visual range wider, the recognition speed faster, and the smoothness of the car and the machine better, but also have the L4-level automatic driving function of high speed+urban roads.

In terms of fashion design, the models on display are more colorful and bright. For example, the Porsche booth exhibited gorgeous steam wave colors, among which Taycan, a special painted version of Porsche’s 75th anniversary, included "Fashion Grey", "Nanhai Blue", "Starlight Ruby Red" and "Mint Green". The doors of many domestic electric vehicles are designed like a pair of wings, such as the rotor door made by Haobo and Nezha, which is also equipped with radar and sensors around it, which can identify objects and detect distances. It is smarter than the switch of ordinary doors, and it will be more convenient for owners to get on and off; There is also the first luxury electric off-road vehicle brought by Warrior Technology, which is 193cm high and equipped with a unique "scar lamp" lamp shape; Classic cars brought by famous automobile brands such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz and MG, as well as many concept cars unveiled by brands such as Lantu i-Cozy, Honda E and Volkswagen ID.NEXT.

Hot search exploded! Well-known online celebrity suddenly declared terminal cancer.

Recently,

Online celebrity Ti mo Feng with millions of fans.

According to an interview,

I stopped broadcasting for half a year.

Because of thyroid cancer,

Has entered the advanced stage.

Related topics also set off a hot search in Weibo.

In order not to worry everyone, she didn’t tell her parents and fans, hoping that she would be in better health before revealing it. Because the thyroid tumor is close to the vocal cords and laryngeal nerve, her voice was hoarse after the operation, which was simply "the sky collapsed" for her. Later, after continuous efforts, her voice was restored.

On the evening of July 24th, Ti mo Feng wrote a response to this matter: "Thyroid cancer was indeed diagnosed before. The operation has been done and it was a success. Now my body has recovered, and my voice has recovered almost under my unremitting efforts! "

"Through this cancer, I want to tell everyone, especially the girls: don’t be mentally consumed, don’t squeeze negative energy into your heart, communicate with your family and friends more, and be brave to speak out and take legal weapons to protect yourself when you encounter cyber violence and slander."

Ti mo Feng, whose real name is Feng Yanan, was born in Wanzhou District, Chongqing on December 19th, 1991. She is a female singer and network anchor in China. She debuted from a live broadcast platform, and later attracted the attention of netizens because of her sweet singing voice. She once became a live broadcast sister on the platform and participated in many variety shows.

In 2017, she released her first single; In 2019, Ti mo Feng opened his own solo concert, released his own album of the same name, and then appeared in TV variety shows and parties many times. In February this year, Ti mo Feng also released a new single.

According to published data, thyroid cancer is the most common thyroid malignant tumor, including papillary carcinoma, follicular carcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma and medullary carcinoma.

There are no obvious symptoms and signs in the early stage, and small thyroid masses are usually found by thyroid palpation and neck ultrasound examination during physical examination.

In the late stage, it may cause Horner syndrome caused by hoarseness, dysphagia, sympathetic nerve compression, pain in ears, pillows, shoulders, local lymph nodes and distant organ metastasis.

Compared with other malignant tumors, the malignant degree of thyroid cancer is relatively low, and the overall prognosis is relatively good, but its prognosis is closely related to the pathological classification of thyroid cancer. More than 90% of patients belong to papillary thyroid cancer, and their malignant degree is low. Early surgical treatment can obviously reduce the probability of recurrence and metastasis.

After hearing the news that Ti mo Feng was ill and suffering from cancer, netizens said: "Good self-cultivation, health is the most important thing", "Early recovery, happiness is the most important thing" and "Thyroid cancer is a lucky thing in misfortune".

* light up [watching] to remind people around you! Maintain a healthy lifestyle and have a regular physical examination!

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The police brushed Tik Tok to break the gambling case.

  (Reporter Zhu Jianyong) In late February, the police of Qianjin Police Station in Nanxun, Zhejiang Province saw six men playing poker on the Tik Tok APP. Unexpectedly, it was this short video that made the police crack a gambling case in the form of "Liuhe". The players didn’t know that the video was shot by friends around them and sent to Tik Tok.

  At present, the persons involved have been punished according to law, and the case is being further processed.

  One day in late February, when Zhou Moumou, a policeman on vacation, swiped Tik Tok with his mobile phone, a push video caught his attention. This is the vibrato video released by Yao Moumou, a former drug addict.

  In the video, six men are playing cards and giving money. The police immediately judged that the six people were gambling by playing poker.

  "Tik Tok has a function that will automatically push friends’ videos according to the phone address book. I accidentally brushed this gambling video. Later, when I saw it, the push actually came from Yao Moumou in my mobile phone. This Yao Moumou, a local, has a criminal record, so the contact information has been kept in my mobile phone address book. " Zhou Moumou, a policeman handling the case, said.

  The police quickly locked in the video shooter Yao Moumou, and after many inquiries, after knowing the identities of some of them, on March 1, they summoned two gamblers in the video, Zhang Mochao and Wu Mou Kai. In the face of the video and gambling facts, the two confessed to the illegal facts suspected of gambling after they arrived at the case.

  It turned out that in late January, six gamblers had nothing to do, so they agreed to play "Liuhe" with playing cards in the office upstairs of a KTV in Nanxun, and the bet was 50 yuan to 150 yuan.

  "I was drunk, so I sat on the sofa next to them and watched them play cards. I thought it was quite fun, so I took a video and posted it on Tik Tok. " Video shooter Yao Moumou said, "I was seen by the police unexpectedly."

  Yao Moumou, who filmed the video at that time, was not among the six gamblers, and the six gamblers didn’t know that their gambling video had been filmed by Yao Moumou and put in Tik Tok to "show off". It was not until the moment when they were summoned by the police that they knew that their good friends had "betrayed" themselves.

  At present, the people involved have been punished according to law.

How to connect Huawei freebuds4i to a mobile phone How to connect Huawei freebuds4i to a mobile phone [Detailed explanation]

  Huawei freebuds4i is an excellent Bluetooth headset, which adopts the advantages of active noise reduction technology, pure sound quality and long battery life, and is deeply loved by many users. However, Huawei freebuds4i needs to be connected before it can be used normally. The following small series brings you several connection methods.

  Huawei freebuds4i Pairing Tutorial Sharing

  Method 1: Manual pairing connection:

  1. Put the earphone into the charging box. When the charging box is open, press and hold the function button of the charging box for 2 seconds, and the indicator light in the box will start flashing white, so that the earphone can be paired.

  2. Turn on the Bluetooth of the mobile phone and search for a pairing device. The name of the Bluetooth headset (HUAWEI FreeBuds 4i) will be searched, and click to pair.

  Headphones support button-free pairing when opening the box for the first time: when you use it for the first time, open the charging box cover, wait for about 2 seconds, and it will automatically turn on and enter the pairing state, at which time the white light flashes.

  Method 2: Manual pairing connection:

  1. Put the earphone into the charging box. When the charging box is open, press and hold the function key for 2 seconds, the indicator light will start flashing white, and the earphone will enter the pairing state.

  2. Turn on the Bluetooth of the mobile phone, and a self-discovery pop-up box with the name and picture of the headset appears on the mobile phone. Click [Connect] to connect with the headset.

  When it is used again, the earphone is opened, and after the connection is successful, the mobile phone automatically pops up the pop-up box to display the power of the earphone and the box. (Need to cooperate with e Huawei mobile phone/tablet)

  Method 3: Smart Life APP Connection:

  1. Put the earphone into the charging box. When the charging box is open, press and hold the function key for 2 seconds, the indicator light will start flashing white, and the earphone will enter the pairing state.

  2. After the mobile phone turns on WLAN, Bluetooth and location services, click the "+"button in the upper right corner of Smart Life APP, and click [Add Device] to scan the device and add it.

Tencent Music, whose profit increased by 36% year-on-year last year, is also worried, and the number of monthly users of its main business has decreased for several consecutive quarters.

The business map of Tencent Music has been adjusted.

On March 19th, Tencent Music released the unaudited financial performance report for the fourth quarter and the whole year as of December 31st, 2023.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, the total revenue of Tencent Music was RMB 6.89 billion, down 7.2% year-on-year; The net profit was 1.41 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%.

In 2023, the total revenue of Tencent Music was 27.75 billion yuan, down 2.1% year-on-year; The net profit was 5.22 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 36%.

After the financial report was released, before the US stock market closed on March 19th, the share price of Tencent Music rose by 0.48%, corresponding to a market value of $17.813 billion.

In terms of business, Tencent Music is still in the process of adjusting its business structure and continues to focus on online music services. In Q4 of 2023, Tencent Music’s online music service revenue reached 5.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 41.1%; The income from social entertainment services and other services dropped by 51.6% year-on-year to 1.87 billion yuan. Correspondingly, in Q4 of 2023, the operating cost of Tencent Music decreased by 14.6% year-on-year to 4.25 billion yuan due to the decrease in revenue sharing cost corresponding to the decrease in social entertainment service revenue.

In the whole year of 2023, thanks to the accelerated growth of online music subscription revenue and advertising service revenue, as well as the growth of sales revenue around artists, Tencent Music’s online music service revenue was 17.33 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 38.8%; As the company adjusted some live interactive functions and implemented stricter compliance procedures, the revenue from social entertainment services and other services was 10.43 billion yuan, down 34.2% year-on-year.

With the concentration of live broadcast traffic to the short video platform in the head, Tencent Music is also changing its strategy. Nowadays, online music service has become Tencent’s music business accounting for over 70%, and this proportion is increasing — — From 37.1% in Q1 in 2023 to 72.9% in Q4, and achieved good profits. Earlier, Tencent Music’s social entertainment service accounted for 70% of the company’s total revenue.

In this process, Tencent Music has tapped the paying potential of users, and both the number of paying users and the average monthly income of users of its online music service have increased. The former increased by 20.6% to 107 million in Q4, while the latter increased by 20.2% to 10.7 yuan.

In addition, Zhu Liang, CEO of Tencent Music, said at the performance meeting that Tencent Music pays more attention to the overall activity and liquidity of long audio content and the promotion of long audio content in the car market. In 2023, the long audio service achieved more than the expected results in the transformation of Tencent Music. Next, Tencent Music will continue to promote the distribution and commercial efficiency of long audio content on the entire music platform.

Cussion Pang, executive chairman of Tencent Music, said in the financial report, "2023 is a crucial year for the transformation of Tencent Music." "The strong performance of online music services not only eased the pressure on social entertainment services, but also promoted the steady increase of quarterly net profit."

However, Tencent Music, which has successfully transformed, is not without worries. On the one hand, the number of monthly active users of online music service, which has been regarded as the main business, has decreased for several consecutive quarters. In Q4 of 2023, the number of monthly active users of this service was 576 million, a year-on-year decrease of 4.2% and a quarter-on-quarter decrease of 3.03%. The number of monthly mobile users of social entertainment services also decreased by 28.8% year-on-year to 104 million.

On the other hand, although the net profit performance is good, but reducing costs and increasing efficiency has not changed its overall income decline. In 2023, the total revenue of Tencent Music decreased by 2.1% year-on-year.

Regarding the loss of Q4 users, Liang Zhu said that there are quarterly reasons, and the mobile terminal itself continues to be affected by short videos, and the traffic has the pressure of natural loss; In 2023, the promotion and marketing expenses of Tencent Music were also reduced, and the distribution channels were also reduced.

In addition, in 2023, the average monthly income of users of Tencent Music’s online music service increased, which also caused negative user feedback. The topic of "QQ music members’ price increase" was once on the hot search in Weibo. In addition, Tencent Music’s MOO Music, which focuses on young users and targets Netease Cloud Music, was shut down on December 31, 2023.

Netease Cloud Music, the main competitor of Tencent Music, released its financial report on March 1st. The latter also embarked on the road of reducing costs and increasing efficiency and adjusting its business structure, and also experienced a decline in income and an increase in profits — — In Q4 of 2023, the net income of Cloud Music was 1.986 billion yuan, down 16.4% year-on-year; Gross profit was 601 million yuan, up 42.32% year-on-year.

According to the financial report of Tencent Music, as of December 31, 2023, the total balance of cash, cash equivalents and time deposits of Tencent Music was 32.22 billion yuan. In addition, according to the $500 million share repurchase plan announced on March 21, 2023, as of December 31, 2023, Tencent Music has repurchased about 25.3 million shares of american depository receipts from the open market for $174.5 million in cash.

Accelerate the construction of new energy charging infrastructure, and the problem of "mileage anxiety" of electric vehicles has been alleviated.

CCTV News:Today (July 31), the Ministry of Transport held a press conference to introduce that the 20 millionth new energy vehicle in China has recently rolled off the assembly line, and the Ministry of Transport is accelerating the construction of new energy charging infrastructure on highways.

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Transport, as of the end of June this year, there were 5,931 expressway service areas in China, accounting for 89.48% of the total number of expressway service areas (6,628), and the cumulative number of charging piles was 18,590, covering 29,000 parking spaces for minibuses, and about 27,000 parking spaces were reserved for construction and installation, and nearly 90% of expressway service areas covered charging facilities. Among them, the coverage rate of expressway charging infrastructure in 17 provinces such as Beijing, Hebei and Liaoning exceeded 90%. There are 5128 charging parking spaces in expressway service areas in China, accounting for more than 10% of the total parking spaces of passenger cars, and the charging infrastructure network in expressway service areas is improving day by day.

Guo Sheng, Deputy Director of Highway Bureau of Ministry of Transport:Judging from the operation guarantee of major holidays such as the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, May Day and Dragon Boat Festival this year, the phenomenon of charging queuing in service areas in various places has been significantly improved, and there has been no serious queuing phenomenon, and the problem of "mileage anxiety" of electric vehicles has been alleviated to some extent.

Guo Sheng said that due to information asymmetry, the public can not effectively know the charging infrastructure settings and real-time use, resulting in different charging facilities in different service areas. In this regard, the Ministry of Transport and the National Energy Administration have deployed various localities to carry out pre-judgment of travel and charging demand, formulate holiday charging service guarantee schemes, issue green travel charging strategies, deploy mobile emergency charging equipment, and timely release traffic flow and charging queuing in service areas.

Guo Sheng, Deputy Director of Highway Bureau of Ministry of Transport:Our Ministry has listed the "random inspection" service of expressway charging infrastructure as the fact that transportation is closer to people’s livelihood this year. It is planned to guide the public to reasonably choose charging places by providing real-time status inquiry service of charging infrastructure in expressway service areas, promote the full utilization of charging facilities, and further enhance the guarantee capacity of expressway charging services.

Guo Sheng introduced that the Ministry of Transport will work with multiple departments to comprehensively strengthen the construction of charging infrastructure in residential communities, enterprises and institutions, tourist attractions, public parking lots and other links and scenarios, and form a reasonable, scientific and efficient charging infrastructure system in the whole society to meet the charging service needs of vehicles during the whole journey.

Guo Sheng, Deputy Director of Highway Bureau of Ministry of Transport:In the next step, focusing on the charging facilities in the expressway service area, according to the principle of "moderately ahead", we will further optimize and improve the charging infrastructure network along the highway, and strive to form a charging infrastructure network with "fixed facilities as the main body, mobile facilities as the supplement, full coverage of important nodes, good operation and maintenance services, and guaranteed travel for the masses".

Counting the sci-fi milestones of Japanese animation

  With the release of the film version of ghost in the shell, its theatrical animation prototype, which is a classic of science fiction, has once again entered the public’s field of vision. It has been found that Japan’s "second element" is not only a commercial and entertainment industry full of exquisite pictures and bloody stories, but also a large number of excellent works that have reached a high level in artistry and ideology.

  Below, let’s take a look at these sci-fi milestones in Japanese animation.

  Worship of machinery: the "ingenious" interpretation of huge machinery

  Due to the experience of rapid westernization in modern times, Japanese culture has an inexplicable love for huge industrial machinery. This emotion has evolved into a persistent interpretation of giant weapons in animation after being strengthened by the thinking of "weapons only" and "decisive weapons" during World War II.

  The beginning of mechanical worship is nothing more than the Cosmic Warship Yamato, which was broadcast in 1974. In this film, the super battleship "Yamato" of the old Japanese navy set sail again as a space warship, and single-handedly entered the base camp of the interstellar invaders, completing the grand task of saving the earth. The main gun of the Yamato completely hit the hearts of the Japanese audience in the Showa era and achieved great success. The concept of "Yamato" even influenced many later works. The main gun of the human space battleship in the famous game StarCraft was called "Yamato Gun".

  In 1979, a sci-fi film "Mobile Suit Gundam 0079", which reflected the "war of independence" between the space colonial satellite and the earth, appeared on the screen. This time, the huge machinery has become more anthropomorphic, and steel giants such as "Gundam" and "Zagu" have simply become the physical extension of the driver’s will. "Gundam" has since become a long-lasting industrial brand, and today, it continues to introduce new works to adapt to the new era. Compared with Yamato, which triumphed all the way, Gundam’s depiction of the war is more real and profound, depicting the great damage caused by the war to the lives of the people on both sides of the war, instead of blindly rendering "justice".

  At the same time, some animators began to reflect on this "mechanical worship", so the work "Mobile Police" appeared. Although the film takes the "special car two lessons" of driving police robots as the leading group, the film no longer highlights the giant humanoid machinery, but focuses on depicting the ups and downs of these "grassroots policemen" in their daily lives. This "naysayer" deconstruction, relying on the story of "grounding gas", also won the love of a large number of viewers.

  Although this mechanical worship of Japanese animation has a slightly paranoid thinking foundation, it is also thanks to this "ingenuity" that Japanese animators have designed a large number of beautiful and exquisite sci-fi mechanical settings. Even Avatar, the top American blockbuster, is full of "Japanese-style" precision beauty in mechanical settings.

  Armageddon: cruel aesthetics under the consciousness of hardship

  As well as "ingenuity" deeply rooted in Japanese culture, there is also their sense of hardship, which can be seen in film and television works with the theme of "destruction" such as The Sinking of Japan and Godzilla. In animation, the first screen show of Miyazaki Hayao, a Japanese animation master, is an epic depicting the struggle and coexistence between the remaining human beings and nature after the destruction of civilization — — Valley of the Wind. Nausicaa, the heroine in the film, bravely leads her people to survive tenaciously on the destroyed land. Wearing a blue dress and flying in the sky with white wings, she became a memory of a generation in Japan.

  After entering the 1990s, with the collapse of the economic bubble, Japanese society fell into an unprecedented depression. At the end of the century, TV animation with strong religious elements to render the end of the world — — The Gospel Warrior in the New Century caused a sensation in the whole Japanese society. The boys and girls in the film are driving biological robots from human beings and fighting desperately with the "apostles" who intend to destroy human beings. The film uses a large number of shocking lens language with psychological implications, which successfully synchronizes the complex inner world of teenagers with the devastated external world and presents a cruel aesthetic feast for the audience. The heroine Ayanami Rei, who has almost no self-personality, has become a new generation of animation goddess after Nausicaa. Compared with his heroic predecessors, Ayanami Rei’s gloomy temperament clearly reflects the changes of social times.

  After entering the new century, with the haze of the cold war and economic crisis gradually dissipating, the conflict of social thoughts has become a new contradiction. The theater animation Harmony released in recent years is such a work. The highly developed future of science and technology in the film, under the seemingly beautiful and harmonious appearance, is a gentle strangulation of human nature, which has to be said to be a wake-up call for Japanese culture. At the end of the film, human beings completely give up self-awareness, and the whole society is integrated into a whole that "does not distinguish between you and me". Although this kind of destruction has no "big scene" of landslides, it has more realistic symbolic significance and deserves reflection from all people in modern society.

  Dolls and people: a grim prospect of artificial intelligence

  With the revolution of electronic technology, the interpretation of artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction and other technologies has become a new theme of Japanese animation. Osamu Tezuka, the founder of Japanese animation, is most famous for Astro Boy, which tells the story of intelligent robots seeking themselves. Then another classic with great international influence — — Robot Cat is also based on an intelligent robot from the future — — Doraemon is centered on it.

  However, when it really touches the core of these technical issues, the style of Japanese animation has become more and more cold. The comic classic "gunnm", which describes the semi-mechanical girl Gary’s self-pursuit in the battle, has been bought by the famous director Cameron and is making a film. The animated film Yukikaze, which tells the coexistence of human pilots and artificial intelligence fighters, completely abandons the "anthropomorphic" artificial intelligence that is often depicted in most artificial intelligence science fiction works. As the soul of a high-performance tactical reconnaissance plane, the artificial intelligence "Yukikaze" in the film is endowed with an out-and-out "inhuman" attribute by the author. She has neither worldly desires nor love/hate, but she has a completely different thinking ability from human beings. In the critical air battle, she has repeatedly made decisions and behaviors that are completely beyond human beings. Looking back at this forward-looking animation now, we will find that the agent most similar to Yukikaze is the artificial intelligence AlphaGo that is sweeping the world of Go.

  Another classic that has to be said is the sci-fi animation classic — — Ghost in the shell. This work has five versions: comic book, theater animation, two TV animations and live-action movies, but it basically tells the story of "Nine Public Security Courses" led by Grass seed, a fully mechanized reformer, to crack down on high-tech crimes. Among them, two theater animations directed by Mamoru Oshii, an animation master who is equally famous with Miyazaki Hayao, are the most classic. The film deeply discusses the alienation and evolution of human nature in a high-tech society with an increasingly high degree of integration between human beings and machines through long and even empty shots, supplemented by a large number of symbolic pictures. The film is permeated with a kind of transcendental "super-humanism" atmosphere. As the protagonist, Suzi even completely abandoned the concrete body in the film and gained freedom and rebirth in the torrent of information network. At this point, it is an understandable regret that the live-action movie version failed to fully carry out these discussions in order to take into account the audience and rhythm of commercial movies. The TV animated version, at the beginning of the century, foresighted the social problems we are facing now, such as the spread of network memes and refugee crisis, which is also a rare classic.

  After decades of development and accumulation, Japanese animation is full of a large number of commercial works with bright appearance but lack of connotation, but it also produces a large number of outstanding works with profound humanistic and artistic feelings, including many sci-fi masterpieces. These excellent sci-fi animations have artistically imagined and interpreted the development of science and technology through the unparalleled picture expression of animation, which deeply reflects the ideological trend of their times and has far-reaching influence. Limited by space, there are still many excellent Japanese sci-fi animations that cannot be introduced one by one, but the unique charm of Japanese sci-fi animation can still be seen through these classic works.