Yang Mi wears jadeite and is old with laughter. The transformation works have not come yet, and the shape is out of the circle first.

Yang Mi, who co-filmed "Harbin 1944" with Qin Hao, after the official announcement that her drama was officially completed, some media rushed to shoot the end of the filming when Yang Mi went to the airport.

Everyone saw that Yang Mi was once again wearing a new Chinese style dress. The black silk Tang style jacket, with a green split cheongsam inside, and a pair of little white shoes, integrated fashion and traditional retro. The left and right hands wore two jade rings, which was the finishing touch, which made everyone feel very eye-catching.

Some fans joked about their favorite beans. Now they are really getting old. From the little girl who liked Hello Kitty’s small jewelry painting and manicure, she has now advanced to become Dai Jade.

The reason why netizens pay so much attention to Yang Mi wearing jadeite is that two days ago, when Yang Mi celebrated her birthday on September 12, she had already worn a complete set of jadeite jewelry, from earrings and rings to necklaces. The emerald green color occupied her C position at the birthday party.

Chinese people have always promoted expectations as a symbol of status, and jadeite is the most expensive among jade and the most representative proof of status. Yang Mi suddenly loves jadeite alone, which is definitely not as simple as liking it. It secretly conveys to fans that she is now mature and calm. Before the work has been transformed, let her shape transform for her.

The opponent walks very fast and turns around by himself

In the past few years, Yang Mi has struggled on the road of transformation, but nothing has been achieved. Zhao Liying, who has been compared with her for many years, has taken the lead and nominated Magnolia Vision for her works such as "Happiness to Wanjia" and "Wind Blows in Half Summer". This is definitely not a scene that Yang Mi herself and her fans want to see, because Yang Mi herself is circling in the same place and cannot move forward.

This matter made everyone feel frustrated. Once upon a time, the two of them were on the same starting line, and even Zhao Liying, who was relatively backward, walked quickly in front of Yang Mi. Even if there are still many people who question Zhao Liying’s acting skills, it can be said with certainty that she is no longer as simple as Xiaohua. Obviously, Yang Mi, who learned to be ugly earlier than Zhao Liying and learned to shoot some down-to-earth works, has not been nominated for a formal award to this day. It is false to say that she is not in a hurry.

Xiaohua’s new rise cp becomes bad

On the one hand, his opponents are making great progress, and on the other hand, new opponents with stronger capabilities are gradually emerging.

Just when people were still discussing that the ancient puppet drama could still be played by 85 flowers, last summer vacation, 95 flowers suddenly rose up several people. Zhao Ruth and Yu Shuxin, one after another, brought their own ancient costume idol drama works to fight the siege. Fortunately, Song Zuer has been buried recently. Otherwise, the "Bend the Waist" she carried up after a while would probably be a hit.

Seeing that this generation of 95 flowers has risen, Yang Mi’s latest works, the metaphysics that she is proud of as the most prosperous actor, have not been brought into play at all, and the CP physique seems to have suddenly failed. From her last work "The Eighth Law of Love", and Xu Kai, no one has captured anything that can make everyone eat. "Thank You, Doctor" and Bai Yu also have very few sparks, which is not what Yang Mi looked like at the peak of the year.

The work is very laborious, and the shape is the highlight.

At this stage, Yang Mi took out the attitude of transformation, saying that he would not go to the variety show next year. However, time waits for no one, and it is difficult for everyone to see her change for a while. So, let people feel that she is Tsing Yi, and Yang Mi, who has always been the queen of goods, found a very quick way, that is to take out her new look and start changing from here.

All the clothes she wears can be imitated by the public in a short period of time, and her outfit is also known as a fashion vane. Therefore, many people are paying attention to what kind of clothes she will wear. Now that she has converted to such a new Chinese style, it is to announce to everyone in advance that I have changed my style and attitude.

When the work is not in front of everyone soon, using the shape that can be seen immediately to announce the transformation is a very clever way to let everyone know that she has become familiar and her life has entered the next stage.

Now, everyone is waiting to see if the characters in the new drama will complement Yang Mi’s painstakingly changed look.

Xiaomi MIX 2S released: super-sensitive AI dual-camera dark light backlight is better

  [Global Network Technology Report]On March 27, Xiaomi officially released the AI dual-camera flagship mobile phone Xiaomi MIX 2S in Shanghai, which is also the first time that Xiaomi’s new product launch conference has been held outside Beijing. The Mi MIX 2S continues the design language recognized by three world-class museums, and the four-curved ceramic body is as elegant and bright as a work of art. The rear super-sensitive dual-camera uses Sony’s IMX363 flagship sensor, and the dark light and backlight scenes are better. It has achieved a good score of 101 points in the DXOMark evaluation of the authoritative organization. The supreme configuration of up to 8GB memory + 256GB flash memory makes the Mi MIX 2S the performance king among the Snapdragon 845.

  In 2017, Xiaomi achieved the gold medal grand slam of the four major industrial design awards in the world: IDEA in the United States, iF in Germany, Red Dot in Germany, and Good Design in Japan. Xiaomi’s design has formed its own unique style, which is called "Mi-Look" by experts. The Finnish Design Museum, the International Design Museum in Munich, Germany, and the Centre Pompidou in France all have Xiaomi MIX in their collections, which is also the first time that Chinese consumer electronics products have been collected by world-class art museums.

  The Mi MIX 2S, which continues this design language, adopts a full-screen 2.0 design, and the front is almost full of screens when lit. The four-curved ceramic body is like Qiongyu, elegant and bright, which can be called a work of art in a mobile phone.

  Camera: Super photosensitive AI dual camera

  On the basis of the widely praised zoom dual camera, the rear camera of Xiaomi MIX 2S is further upgraded, using Sony’s new generation flagship sensor IMX363, with a pixel size of up to 1.4 μm, and supports Dual Pixel full-pixel dual-core focusing technology derived from SLR. Combined with hardware multi-frame noise reduction, Xiaomi MIX 2S can also shoot pure image quality in low-light environments, focusing fast and accurate.

  The application of AI technology has also greatly improved the photography experience of the Mi MIX 2S. The Mi MIX 2S camera can carry out 25 kinds of labels, 206 fine scene intelligent recognition, and provide professional-grade post-adjustment. At the same time, it is also specially optimized for business people. Subsequent OTA upgrades can intelligently recognize PPT when taking pictures, enable super-resolution multi-frame synthesis, and ensure that the text on it is clearly visible after enlargement. With the Mi MIX 2S, you don’t have to worry about not understanding the menu when traveling abroad. You can use the camera to take pictures for real-time text translation and exchange rate conversion.

  Through machine learning of hundreds of thousands of selfie pictures to build models, the front single camera of Xiaomi MIX 2S can also accurately distinguish between characters and backgrounds, and achieve accurate background blur function. The new AI dream blur in portrait mode photos can generate dynamic light spots in portrait mode blur, 6 effects can be selected at will, and the picture and video formats can be selected at will to help you post different Moments.

  The two-pronged approach of hardware and software has created the Xiaomi MIX 2S, which is excellent in dark light and backlight shooting. In the test of the global authoritative camera evaluation agency DXOMark, the Xiaomi MIX 2S achieved a good score of 101 points for taking pictures, making it the best Xiaomi phone to take pictures so far.

  Performance: Snapdragon 845, the king of kings

  Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S uses the annual flagship mobile platform Snapdragon 845 and is manufactured using a new generation of 10nm LPP process. The new Kryo 385 architecture CPU can reach a maximum frequency of 2.8GHz, and the performance is increased by 30%. The Snapdragon 845 is also equipped with the Adreno 630, the strongest mobile GPU to date, which increases the performance by 30% while reducing the power consumption by 30%. In addition, the Snapdragon 845 also supports the most advanced end point artificial intelligence processing. The multi-core AI engine allows AI computing tasks to be dynamically allocated, which improves the AI performance of the previous generation by three times.

  The Xiaomi MIX 2S can be selected with up to 8GB of memory + 256GB of flash memory, and the Antu Rabbit has a comprehensive running score of 277,178 points, which can be called the performance king among the Snapdragon 845. At the same time, as official performance optimization partners, Xiaomi and Tencent have tailor-made the "Honor of Kings" in full blood mode, allowing users to enjoy high frame rate games while generating less heat and experiencing better.

  In other respects, Xiaomi MIX 2S continues to support 6-mode 43-band, adapting to networks in 226 countries and regions. The newly added full Netcom 5.0 supports dual card dual 4G dual VoLTE, and dual cards can enjoy high-speed Internet access at will. Mi Pay supports 36 cooperative banks to tie cards for payment, covering all mainstream banks in China; supports 12 types of bus cards to open cards, covering 60 cities for bus travel; and can also use the key card simulation function to use the mobile phone as an access card.

  AI voice assistant, wireless charging, making life convenient

  Xiaomi MIX 2S comes with its own "Xiao Ai Classmate", complete with the ability of the well-received Xiaomi AI speaker, supports off-screen wake-up, covers nearly 100 voice operation skills in 6 categories, whether it is smart home remote control, or finding out photos taken at a specific time and place, and subsequent OTA upgrades can also voice control WeChat to send red envelopes. These complex operations can be turned into "a matter of one sentence".

  Earlier, Xiaomi and Google reached a strategic partnership and became one of the first companies in China to adopt ARCore technology. The masterpiece "The Machines", which is called "a best witness for future AR games", is also adapted to the Android system for the first time and is exclusively launched by Xiaomi. In addition to AR games, the ARCore function of Xiaomi MIX 2S is also applied to many daily applications. For example, JD.com’s newly launched AR real-world purchase allows Xiaomi MIX 2S to experience the display and display of virtual goods in a real environment when shopping, and even directly carry out virtual operation experience.

  Xiaomi MIX 2S adopts Qi wireless charging technology and supports 7.5W wireless fast charging. The Xiaomi wireless charger launched together is priced at only 99 yuan, and the exclusive version comes with the mobile phone.

  Xiaomi MIX 2S will be available in Xiaomi Mall, Xiaomi Home, Youpin, Xiaomi Direct Supply Point, JD.com, Tmall Official Flagship Store, Suning.com, Gome Internet, Vipshop, NetEase Koala, Oriental Shopping, Xiaomi Authorized Experience Store, Dixintong, Leyu Brookstone and core retail customers across the country at 10 am on April 3. At that time, the 2018 Rice Noodles Festival will also officially start. Xiaomi MIX 2S new products are sold for the first time for 6GB + 64GB version priced at 3299 yuan, 6GB + 128GB version priced at 3599 yuan, and 8GB + 256GB exclusive version priced at 3999 yuan.

In the 20-year battle between the kings of heaven, has Jay Chou crushed Lin Junjie?

Image Source @Visual China

Text | Music Herald, Author | Ding Qiwen, Editor | Fan Zhihui

Farewell to 2023, the Chinese music scene is still turbulent.

Since the release of the new song "Christmas Star" in late December, the discussion about Jay Chou has continued to rise, and he has still stood on the trend wave for nearly half a month. The reason is that in addition to the national popularity of "apotheosis" that he has carried for decades, it also stems from the controversy over whether "Zhou Lang is done" every time he releases songs in recent years.

However, the controversy brought by "Christmas Star" this time is not only around whether it is ugly or not, but also set off a "water injection war" between Jay Chou fans and Lin Junjie fans, and even rushed to the forefront of Weibo’s trending topic list.

Subsequently, it evolved into the "base" of the fan group war, and Jay Chou fans pointed the finger at the management of Lin Junjie’s official support club in the comment area of several bloggers, saying that he "issued a task to Lin Junjie fans" to maliciously slander, while Lin Junjie fans believed that this was a "surrounding the forest to save Zhou" drama planned by the "opposite family" to divert unpleasant and Zhou Lang did his best to save public opinion, and the contradiction between the two sides gradually escalated.

Why are the fans of Jay Chou and Lin still arguing about "the only top class in the Chinese music scene" after decades of circling around?

The King of Heaven fights the peak of the Forbidden City

There is no doubt that in this year’s fully liberalized music market, both Jay Chou and Lin Junjie will continue to lead in the "King of Heaven".

Although Jay Chou belatedly released only the single "Christmas Star", he still continued to set a record at the top of the chart. In addition to landing in Taiwan Apple Music, iTunes, YouTube, mainland QQ music in-app seven charts, but also led all past works back to the QQ music Rising Star Ranking, released nearly a week "Christmas Star" is still ranked first in the QQ music station, even to the beginning of 2024, it is still in the top ten of the station.

Compared with Jay Chou, Lin Junjie is more productive, only in 2023 released a solo album "regain _ happiness", "JJ’s coffee tone" two series of cover albums, as well as "curtain call" "In The Joy" "The Show" three singles, of which "regain _ happiness" CD version also set a continuous top the chart in Taiwan’s five gold list Chinese list for four consecutive titles, vinyl version also set a record three consecutive titles.

In this year’s Spotify released the list of singers with the most streaming listenings in Taiwan, Jay Chou continued to rank first, while Lin Junjie ranked ninth, which is also the only male singer on the list who has crossed over from the millennium period to the present. It is also the first and second Chinese pop singers and male singers in Spotify’s world with the most streaming listenings in 2023.

No matter whether it is Jay Chou or Lin Junjie, his past classics still show strong vitality this year.

For example, Jay Chou’s "Fantasy" album released in 2001 continued to sell well in Taiwan’s five major record charts last year, and "Chopin in November" and "The Greatest Works" also entered the top ten albums in Spotify Taiwan with the most streaming listenings this year; Lin Junjie’s past digital singles "Exchange the rest of my life" and "Ask for the day at night" won the top four best-selling digital singles in NetEase cloud in 2023; relying on many classic works, the annual hit list of Apple Music Chinese mainland in 2023 was also swiped by Jay Chou and Lin Junjie, of which Jay Chou was in the top ten of the butcher list, with a total of 55 songs in the TOP 100.

On the other hand, with the recovery of the performance market, Jay Chou and Lin Junjie’s concerts are very popular, and the second space and additional performances are in full swing, but the same cannot help but have similar doubts.

Jay Chou, who sold out all the concert venues in 2023, was accused of singing in Fuzhou, which was about to start singing in mid-May 2024, but opened the pre-sale on December 9, 2023, for half a year. This also caused consumers to be extremely dissatisfied with the long pre-sale time and the high 30% handling fee for refunding tickets. Jay Chou was also ridiculed as "ugly to eat", and many related topics also rushed into the hot search.

Lin Junjie, who is also sold out in 2023, also caused controversy in December. He condemned the spoofing and popularity of the concert hot dance clip by Douyin netizens as "not funny and disrespectful" through IG, and bluntly said "Please don’t come to my concert next time", which also made the consumer market complain, and some netizens said "Don’t come to the mainland to hold a concert since this is the case". Moreover, the two’s overseas concerts such as Malaysia and the United States have generated attendance controversy.

However, in comparison, what was questioned more was the listening data that Jay Chou had brought about.

As mentioned above, the user record of listening to "Christmas Star" for more than 10,000 minutes appeared within one minute of its release, and Jay Chou was also dubbed "water injection". As Lin Junjie’s fans participated in this wave of questioning, Lin Junjie’s old "Jiangnan" was also accused of more than 10,000 minutes of abnormal listening. And this so-called abnormal listening time has also become "evidence" for fans from both sides to argue.

However, according to many netizens, the display of more than 10,000 minutes originated from the personal behavior of QQ Music users to upgrade the "sound power" and occupy the high position of the user’s listening display page.

"Laotan Sauerkraut", who is engaged in brushing, said that with the open user listening to the general list page of the online music platform, the brush business of this mechanism has already formed an industrial chain, and a few cents can buy the listening time of designated songs in Xianyu, Taobao, and Pinduoduo."The basic 260 minutes is usually relatively cheap without specifying songs, most of which are 0.7 yuan.More than 10,000 minutes of the deluxe version can specify songs, and the price is around ten yuan. Many fans will come to buy the duration in order to pursue the top ranking. "

However, he also stressed that this kind of swiping will not affect the fluctuation of song popularity, "at most it will affect the ranking of the user himself on the song listening page". This is because, even if the listening time can be controlled, the QQ music daily listening statistics rules are not based on the listening volume to count the popularity of songs, but to prevent the swiping of the list.

The availability of listening time also allows fans to obtain the "privilege" of being an iron fan logo and high exposure of the account, and even become the "big fan" blogger of artists and have fans to follow. "In fact, some regular customers who often buy back are also in order to become the talent number in the QQ music station for the owned account, or to be on par with the Weibo big V identity and maintain the big fan profile."

In addition, this dispute between the king of heaven, which spread from new song listening to concerts and other fields, also caused many leading bloggers in the music circle to "end" to join, further intensifying the contradiction between fans. For example, the bloggers "Music_Data" and "LiveMusic Live" stood on one side, and posted several Weibo to consolidate the "king of heaven argument". Its comment area once became the main battlefield for fans on both sides to denounce each other.

Similar scenes have been played out frequently since the turn of the millennium, and the fan war about "who is the real top king of the Chinese music scene" will never convince anyone.

But just as Tao Zhe said after facing the popularity of Wang Leehom, Jay Chou and other younger generations,"King Zhou? Good music, Leehom Wang? Good music, why can’t there be more? I also like their music very much. This market is not mine, it belongs to everyone."

Why did the "Zhou Lin" war last for so many years?

Back in the millennial era, there are not only the first Chinese R & B person, but also the creative genius who emerged. In the eyes of most people, the "Four Heavenly Kings" in Taiwan who once led the Chinese music scene are nothing more than Jay Chou, Tao Zhe, Wang Leehom, and Lin Junjie.

In 2004, Lin Junjie, who had just won the 15th Taiwan Golden Melody Award for Best Newcomer, released the album "Second Heaven", officially joining the "King of Heaven" competition among popular singers such as Tao Zhe, Wang Leehom, and Jay Chou. Even though Wang Leehom and Tao Zhe also have recognized creativity and many representative works with high singing degree, among them, Jay Chou and Lin Junjie, who have a similar route, have become the default competition relationship.

Since then, the debate about who is the peak of the Chinese music scene between Jay Chou and Lin Junjie has never stopped.From the perspective of creation, singing, character, word-of-mouth, etc., it can cause endless chaos.

But on the other hand, the intensification of this competitive relationship has now become a vigorous online connection, reflecting the changes in the ecological environment of the entire industry behind the channel transfer of the Chinese music scene from the traditional recording era to the Internet era.

The most obvious is that musicians have gone from producing and polishing the music works on a record for the hot sale of records, to now a digital single can be sold for a fee; and the way the public listens to music is no longer a CD, MP3, such as a certain "stand-alone" way. The digitization of the streaming media era also allows everyone to comment on communication and consume music "painless".

The biggest change is whether the quality of music is good or not. It is no longer the key issue that determines whether a singer is popular or not. Instead, it is the algorithm and traffic. The change in channel influence has also made music standards more hierarchical, depending on the opinion.

Just as now, "Christmas Star" is accused of having straightforward lyrics that are not as good as Jay Chou in his early years, "The Show", which Lin Junjie collaborated with European and American musicians, has also been rated as "uncharacteristic", "earth hi dance" and so on. The quality of music is also judged from the professional dimension. Instead, it is cut in many ways by netizens in the powder and black war. This also reflects the contradictory aesthetic system of the public – the contradiction between sun spring and white snow and the people of Xialiba.

To put it bluntly, this is also a change that has the voice over the music industry, that is, from record companies, producers, musicians, and professional music critics to every user with a smart phone.

Of course, the so-called aesthetic is subjective, and the war between fans and listeners is also a tangle of genres and creative dimensions in the Chinese music scene.

Under the impact of the popularity of short videos, the decentralization brought about by the segmentation of the market has also made the exposure channels and voice channels more depressed. With the increasingly obvious aesthetic differentiation and the generational fault in the music industry, the terms "the first king" and "the first in the Chinese music industry" have become increasingly blurred. The preferences of thousands of people and thousands of faces can always come to the definition of the first or king in the hearts of different audience groups.

After all, in today’s era when "subject three" has become a popular representative of cultural output, the professional awards and charts of the traditional recording industry era have long lost their baton in the rise of the lower-tier market.

With the rise of Y2K, the 90th and 00th generation of listeners who grew up in the millennial era and are now the main consumers have also pulled the Chinese music scene back to the retro trend. Coupled with a steady stream of new audiences joining, new interpretations of the "King of Heaven" continue to emerge in the succession of generations. For example, today, the King of Heaven dispute has long since moved from the dimension of healthy competition to the ending of being carried away by the fangirl culture, such as mutual stepping, the navy and the army are black, the mindless standing in line or reaching the point of "human flesh" against fans.

On the other hand, it is precisely under the tolerance of the rice circle that the kings who have spanned the Chinese music scene for more than ten years have also fallen into the question of eating old money and consuming fan economy at a time when music cannot cross the era and IP products harvest fan consumption.As the MCHOTDOG hot ** when the new songs are suspected of Diss Jay Chou "eating old money" and "using fans as cash machines", "I am scolding everyone, not just Jay, I am scolding myself".

Perhaps today, the public is still happy to see Jay Chou and Lin Junjie fans fighting for the top-class king name. After all, they still hope that in this era of diversity and inclusiveness, they can see "divine work immortals" break through the ground under heavy pressure and reproduce the years when immortals fought.

conclusion

From the millennium to the present, the showdown between Jay Chou and Lin Junjie has also been regarded as a battle of the century in which both the public and fans participate.

Looking back, with Jay Chou and Lin Junjie’s dispute over the heavenly king lingering for several years, what we can see is that there is no new era of superstars in the Chinese music scene, and it is more of a flash of meteors, and even a short-term explosion is unconvincing.

In other words, this is an era that does not require Heavenly Kings, and the top of the Forbidden Heavenly Kings is just a floating cloud.

Responsible editor:

Chery’s 4 new cars are exposed! SUV + pickup truck, one is more amazing than the other, and you still look up to the U8?

On April 22, Jietu Shanhai T1, Shanhai T5, Shanhai T7 and Shanhai P5 were unveiled, among which T5, T7 and P5 will build the full-scene travel SUV/pickup model of Jietu Auto 3.0 era, helping to achieve the goal of annual sales 1 million level.

Shanhai T1

The Shanhai T1 is positioned as an A + class plug-in SUV and will be launched in the fourth quarter of this year. The new car is nearly 4700mm long, which is smaller than the Shanhai T2, but the two cars have the same wheelbase, both 2800mm. After listing, it will compete with Haval’s second-generation big dog PHEV and other models.

Shanhai T5

Shanhai T5 adopts hardcore style design, provides 5/6/7-seat layout, equipped with 2.0T + 2DHT + 2-speed P4 motor, the total power of the system is 560kW, the total torque is 795N · m, the official said its full oil and full battery life of 1400km, will be listed in 2025.

Shanhai T7

The Shanhai T7 positioning million-class SUV is based on the 800V platform, equipped with four motors and intelligent lift suspension system. The official said that the car has functions such as amphibious, plateau oxygen chamber, bulletproof and explosion-proof, drone detection, etc. The minimum ground clearance is 351mm, the rear wheel can be turned plus or minus 6 degrees, and it has a climbing mode. It will be listed in 2025.

Shanhai P5

Shanhai P5 is designed in a hardcore mech style, equipped with a 2.0T + 2DHT + 2-speed P4 motor, with a pure electric range of 150km and a comprehensive battery life of more than 1400km. It is equipped with a three-stage reversable multi-functional tailgate and will be launched in 2025.

Tencent Jiang Jie: Tencent Hunyuan model has been connected to more than 180 businesses

Beijing News Shell Financial News (reporter Sun Wenxuan, Lin Zi) "Tencent is continuing to explore the application scenarios of large models. At present, more than 180 internal businesses have been connected to Tencent’s hybrid model for internal testing." On November 9, Jiang Jie, vice president of Tencent Group, said at the Wuzhen Summit of the 2023 World Internet Conference.

According to its introduction, as a practical-level model developed by Tencent, since its debut to the public in September 2023, the application of Tencent’s hybrid model in internal business has been continuously deepened, and at the same time, it has explored landing scenarios in various fields such as cultural communication, production efficiency improvement, and scientific and technological inclusion to explore application value.

In terms of cultural communication, Tencent’s multilingual translation and the latest Text-to-Image, Vincent 3D and other capabilities can effectively improve communication and help people from cross-cultural backgrounds communicate better. In terms of production efficiency, Tencent’s mixed model is applied in professional design scenarios, which can significantly improve the production efficiency of material creation. In terms of technology and universal benefits, Tencent’s mixed model is serving corresponding scenarios through strong knowledge reserve capabilities. For example, in the medical field, the big model can become a doctor’s little assistant, quickly understanding the needs of patients through intelligent guidance, and helping them find suitable departments or other professional medical services.

At the scene, Jiang Jie also demonstrated the Tencent Hybrid Model’s "Text-to-Video" capabilities. Focusing on keywords such as "global communication ties", "connection, efficiency and sharing" and "Belt and Road Initiative", Tencent Hybrid Model generated a video that reflects the theme of global human friendly exchanges, including high-speed rail, Guangzhou Tower, robots, Hanfu and other images.

Jiang Jie introduced that Tencent has been deeply rooted in the field of artificial intelligence for many years and has established four AI laboratories, involving multiple links from comprehensive basic research to various application development. At the same time, it has also established a laboratory matrix for cutting-edge technology exploration, covering robotics, quantum computing, life science, etc., to create a "technology engine" for the future.

Editor, Song Yuting

Proofreading, Lucie

Lynk & Co 06 listed in August, pre-sale 12.06-14 600 yuan

  It was recently learned that the Lynk & Co 06 will be launched in August. As a new member of the Lynk & Co family, the Lynk & Co 06 is positioned as an entry-level compact SUV. The new car is based on the BMA architecture. Its launch will not only enrich its product line, but also reduce the price threshold of the Lynk & Co family. Previously, the official pre-sale price range was 12.06-14 600 yuan. In addition, the official also launched a limited edition of 600 Lynk & Co 06 Technology Pioneer Edition, priced at 145,600 yuan.

  In terms of styling, the Lynk & Co 06 continues the family-style design language, such as the through-net and split headlights that we are already very familiar with, while at the same time adding more and newer trend elements with the times. A large number of contrasting colors are used throughout the body, highlighting the youthful vitality. The lines on the side of the body are relatively straight, adding a sense of power to it. As a compact SUV, the Lynk & Co 06 body size is 4340 × 1820 × 1625mm, and the wheelbase is 2640mm.

  In the interior design, the Lynk & Co 01 (parameter | inquiry), 02, 03 maintained a unified style, and on the Lynk & Co 05 (parameter | inquiry), there began to be obvious changes. On the new Lynk & Co 06, the new interior design style is more mature. The details of the car are covered in the cut geometric shape, which is very textured. The contrasting color trim echoes the body design, and its addition also makes the interior space look younger. The 10.25-inch center touchscreen adopts a floating design, which complements the hollow shape of the gear area.

  In the power part, Lynk & Co 06 is equipped with a 1.5T three-cylinder engine with a maximum power of 130kW (177 horsepower) and a maximum torque of 265Nm. It is matched with a 7-speed dual-clutch gearbox. Future PHEV models are equipped with a plug-in hybrid system composed of a 1.5T three-cylinder engine and an electric motor. The maximum power of the engine is 130kW (177 horsepower) and the maximum torque is 265Nm. The maximum power of the electric motor is 60kW (82 horsepower) and the maximum torque is 160Nm. The cruising range can reach 55km in pure electric mode.

In 2023, the top 20 new energy vehicle sales were counted, and China brand accounted for 18 seats.

The breakdown sales data of the automobile market in 2023 has been basically released, and consumers voted for the top 20 sales of new energy vehicles and bicycles for the China market in 2023 through real money voting.

In the new energy market, which products have defeated many competitors in sales volume and become the most recognized models by users?

Cartography/Beijing News Shell Finance reporter Bai Haotian Source: Ride Association, Easy Car Sales List

Among the top 20, BYD 9 cars are on the list, and Tesla and Ai ‘an are on the list.


The upgrade of BYD’s bicycle sales on the list is unique in the market, with a total of 9 products on the list. Four pure electric vehicles include Yuan PLUS, Dolphin, Seagull and Qin PLUS, and five plug-in hybrid models are Song PLUS DM-i, Qin PLUS DM-i, Song Pro DM-i, Tang DM-i and Han DM-i..

Among the sales results of nine models, Han and Tang have fewer hybrid models, with an annual sales volume of about 120,000. The highest sales volume is Yuan PLUS, and this compact pure electric SUV has sold 410,000, followed by the small pure electric car Dolphin, with a sales volume of 360,000.

Followed by compact hybrid cars and SUV——-Qin PLUS DM-i and Song PLUS DM-i, the sales of the two cars were 330,000 and 320,000 respectively.

BYD Yuan PLUS Map/Enterprise official website

From the sales performance, BYD has shown a certain dominance in the new energy vehicle market. The brand covers almost all household products from mini-car seagull to medium-sized and large-sized chehan.

With the support of low fuel consumption and price, Qin PLUS, Yuan PLUS and Song Series have revolutionized the family car market of 100,000-200,000 yuan, and only three vehicle series (including pure electric and hybrid) occupy 12.8% of the whole new energy vehicle market.

After BYD, it is the only overseas brand Tesla on the list. Tesla Model Y has an annual sales volume of 640,000 vehicles, and Model has an annual sales volume of 300,000 vehicles. The market products of the two cars are 10.7%.

Tesla Model Y Map/Enterprise official website

From a certain point of view, Tesla’s two products have good cost control, but due to the lack of personalization, there are only pure electric models, the range of options is limited, and the price is mostly concentrated in the price range of 200,000-300,000, so there is still a gap between sales volume and BYD.

In addition to BYD and Tesla, Ai ‘an, a new energy brand of Guangzhou Automobile Group, has also achieved good results. Both AION Y and AION S series under the brand have achieved sales of 220,000 vehicles. These two cars are compact SUV and compact car.

Ai ‘an’s products have good competitiveness in the online car market, but in the high-end market, the brand seems to have encountered upward problems.

In the second half of 2024, two models of Haobo, the brand of Aian Chonggao, were listed separately, but at present, behind the acceptable product strength, the product sales are not outstanding. The combined sales volume of the two cars is about 10,000, which is a huge gap compared with Tesla and a certain gap compared with BYD’s Hantang series.


The transformation of joint venture brands is still not obvious.

BYD’s sales are unique in the new energy vehicle market, while Tesla’s performance is close to BYD’s. Beyond BYD and Tesla, there is no absolute "dark horse" in 2023.

The models of Ai ‘an, Wuling, Ideality and Changan, which compete with BYD Tesla on the same stage, are also quite powerful in the market segment.

Specifically, Wuling’s Bingo EV and Hongguang MINI EV have achieved 230,000 vehicles and 118,000 vehicles respectively. These two products, which are not compact in size and cost less than 100,000 yuan, together with Changan Lumin, which sells 140,000 vehicles, constitute the strength of the small car market.

LI Map/Enterprise official website

As the "only child" in the new car-making force, the ideal L7, L8 and L9 cars were also successfully selected, with sales of 130,000, 110,000 and 110,000 respectively. As a hybrid vehicle with a price of 300,000+,the ideal cumulative annual sales of nearly 400,000 vehicles also shows its good charm in the market.

It is worth mentioning that MG4 EV, a subsidiary of SAIC, has achieved sales of 150,000 vehicles. This product is an important model for China automobile brands to go to sea. It is understood that this model once won the sales champion of pure electric compact cars in the European market. However, in the domestic market, the popularity of this electric compact car, which is close to the "steel gun", is not high.

Although independent brands have achieved good results, joint venture brands and foreign brands have few positions in the TOP20 of new energy vehicles.

In addition to Tesla’s two products, SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 ranks 28th with a sales volume of 80,000 vehicles, which is the third product of joint venture brand bicycle sales. Followed by Smart, which ranks nearly 40 and is adjusted by Geely, the sales volume is 55,000, and BMW 3 pure electric is close to Smart, with sales volume of about 54,000.

Among Japanese cars, Toyota bZ3 leads with 25,000 cars, and the other brands are even more "terrible".

Whether the joint venture brand models can be listed in 2024, and whether the popular products of major brands can maintain their current achievements and popularity, Shell Finance reporters will continue to pay attention.

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Did you understand Andy Lau’s "Mr. Red Carpet"? Ning Hao responded like this!


1905 movie network feature In the Spring Festival stall full of comedy elements this year, there is a comedy with a completely different temperament from the traditional happy comedy of the Spring Festival stall – directed and starring.


This is the precipitation after Ning Hao’s "madness", the form and style are simplified, and the story and characters are like "elegantly crazy".


The film takes the film and television industry as the theme, with Liu Weichi, a big star played by Andy Lau, as the core, focusing on a series of absurd and humorous stories triggered by his cooperation between the best actor and the director played by Ning Hao to make rural films. Star character fraud, the "unspoken rules" of film festival awards, and employer intervention in creation… Ning Hao and Lau Dehua boldly played "self-deprecation" together.



In this fiercely competitive Spring Festival, the maverick "Mr. Red Carpet" has received different word-of-mouth reviews, with some saying it has the best schedule and some calling it too profound. The Spring Festival file five years ago also faced such feedback, and Ning Hao responded to the 1905 movie network:


"For a slightly more complicated question, some people are definitely interested and some people are not, but this doesn’t prove that either one is better, and which one is not good can be good. So comments are not something I particularly care about."



Recently, Ning Hao watched two new films and was very inspired. One was the Iranian film "World War III", which told the story of making movies, and the relationship between reality and drama brought him new feelings; the other was a French film, which was eloquent, stable and comfortable.


It just so happens that "Mr. Red Carpet" is also a film scene, and there are thoughts about the death of a pig falling from a building.


From these two works, it can be seen that Ning Hao’s pursuit of film quality and his personal taste can be seen. He still retains the uniqueness of an author and director in domestic commercial cinema films. In the busy Spring Festival, the slow and humorous "Mr. Red Carpet" also needs to find a suitable audience.



Let Ning Hao tell you the secret of this movie and the confusion after watching it.


01. "Andy Lau"


In 2006, with the support and funding of the "Asian Rising Star Guide" program led by Andy Lau, Ning Hao successfully filmed it, and it has been an instant hit since then. 17 years later, Ning Hao returned the "kindness" to Andy Lau with "Mr. Red Carpet".


Ning Hao drew his creative inspiration from Andy Lau and wrote those things in the film and television industry between the real and the fictional around his role as a big star. Regarding the feeling of working with Andy Lau for the first time, Ning Hao said:



I have wanted to work with Andy Lau for a long time, but I have been unable to find a good point. Because I used to shoot more street and blue-collar movies, his temperament is not particularly suitable for the characters I shoot.


At that time, I was going to ask him to play the male lead role, but there were some scheduling issues that didn’t take shape at that time. He quite liked that project. Later, it was all about local themes and realism like this, and there was some distance from him. At that time, he was still practicing Mandarin, and now Mandarin is very good.


I was thinking, I can only be realistic, how can I let him play? I thought of playing myself and a star, so that there would be no such problem.



I hope this is a gift for Andy Lau. He used to play more characters in the theater world. Sometimes when I watch some big stars play particularly down-to-earth subjects, I feel that he is still the star, because your concept and understanding are all about him. If you have the opportunity to create characters in life, it is a particularly happy thing.


Andy Lau is the most experienced actor in acting. I was originally worried about communication problems, but later found that I didn’t need to. After giving him this script and this scene, he knew how to deal with it. And he is very accurate in his balance, and he is really an experienced artist.


This character is not the same as Andy Lau in all aspects, but there are still different aspects, and he needs to be shaped. When to bring out a particularly simple side and when to create a little bit, he still controls it very well, a little vague, breaking the line between true and false.



The next time we work together, "Mr. Red Carpet 2"? Actually I haven’t come up with a particularly complete story yet. He’s a particularly good actor, and I’m also a pretty good director, so I’m sure we’ll have a chance to work together.


02. "I hold on"


"Mr. Red Carpet" satirizes the various chaos within the film and television industry while delving into the dilemma of big star Liu Weichi’s communication with the outside world, including his discomfort and confusion in the face of PR crises, public relations processing, short video marketing, and the development of intelligent technology.


Why did you take the various forms of beings in the film and television industry as a question and focus on the issue of "communication"? Ning Hao said:



In today’s era of Internet and short videos, I am also thinking about what kind of subjects to shoot? Why can’t I show my life like an Internet creator? Show what the ecology around us is like?


It must not be simply extracted from life. Once a dramatic relationship is established, it is necessary to respect the direction of drama, so only some characteristics of the archetype are selected, and the rest is a fabricated story.


Is the irony of this story very sharp? It’s okay, leave room for it, it’s not too much. Many people have asked if you are reflecting the problems of the film and television industry? I say no. If it’s just to reflect a few phenomena, but to make the creation particularly stingy, it’s not right. For me, this is just a feeling in life. For example, I have met the management, but I don’t know about other circles. I have seen almost no management like in the movie, very rare.



As I get older, I like to observe more and more. I find out why it is always difficult to communicate? Why do you quarrel without saying a few words? There are often conflicts in the world, and there are often quarrels online for no reason. Everyone’s hostility has become heavier, and there may be some problems in communication.


There is a saying called "long live understanding", which is to understand others. The premise of understanding is to think from the perspective of others to understand. We all mention "empathy", but can it be done? Very difficult. Each of us cannot grow without you as the main body in our life. How can it be possible to change positions? There are many different conditions, men and women are different, different ages, different occupations, and different family environments. How can it be possible to think from another perspective.


Everyone forms their own path dependence, and everyone’s human nature has their own path of affirmation. If you are not sure of yourself, you will live too unhappy and have to self-realize. So we become more and more individualized, and this over-concentration of individual will is the expression of very ego, everyone is very ego, and they don’t care about others. The problem with this excessive ego can lead to the "self-clinging" part, which if it continues to develop is arrogance – I am right, others are wrong.


In the fragmented information age, we don’t have time to understand all the information. If you know a little bit, you may start to discuss or express your attitude, and it is easy for everyone to turn into emotions. So I am thinking about these communication issues.



How to solve it? Life has to go on for me.


What can you do when you know that life is already like this and you have no choice? You can only be forced to learn new skills, just like Liu Weichi finally learned to balance the car and continue to walk. We can only follow this era. As for what position you are in on it, you may sometimes be in danger of falling, and sometimes you feel quite free and comfortable for a moment, that is our attitude, and that can only be so.


I am willing to give the audience the right to interpret and leave space. I also don’t think artists can provide answers. Artists are not responsible for this. Sometimes it’s good to ask a question. If you can find a question, let’s talk about it.


03. "Minimalist"


From "Crazy Stone" to "Crazy Alien," Ning Hao said that his "crazy" movies are like oil paintings, rich, intense, boiling, restless, giving people a very full sense of fullness. "Mr. Red Carpet" is a light color painting, the content has not changed fundamentally, but the atmosphere has changed a lot, and it is a minimalist style.


In fact, this kind of lens language can be seen in Ning Hao’s earlier shooting. Why is there such a transformation and return to basics in "Mr. Red Carpet"? Ning Hao explained:



The minimalist style is more suitable for the performance of a star character like Liu Weichi. I am not particularly unfamiliar with relatively simple movies, and I have had such an exploration. But I haven’t made a movie with very few shots for a long time, so I want to give it another try.


Shooting movies in this style feels very familiar to me, just like the previous "Incense". The footage is very stable here, and I try to find scheduling internally, which is quite enjoyable.


The composition of on-site creation is higher, rather than being handed over to the post-editing stage. Of course, it is also difficult to cut, because it is very slow, the amount of footage is very small, and the amount of information cannot be less. The choice is very important. So it is a different force, a bit like playing Tai Chi.



I can’t say if the next movie will be in this style. It may have to be chosen according to the situation of the next movie. If it is a very noisy thing, it may still need to be "mentioned" a little more.


To say 72 changes, I am only the second change now, and there are still 70 times. The times are changing, and the requirements for creation are also changing. What style can combine my theme with the current era is the most important. Creation needs freshness, and I need to adjust it myself, so I can’t stay in the same state.


04. "Bad Monkey"


Since Ning Hao launched the "Bad Monkey 72 Movie Project" in 2016, he has assembled a group of outstanding young filmmakers, including two popular films with both high box office and good reputation, and won the summer box office championship in 2018 and 2023 respectively.


As the promoter and producer of Bad Monkey, Ning Hao continues to promote the plan, and he has many directing projects in the pipeline. What new films will Bad Monkey Film bring in 2024? Ning Hao revealed:



This year, we will have about four movies, "Mr. Red Carpet" is one, I have finished another movie, and there are two movies that young directors have finished filming. Director Wen Shipei’s "Negative Negative Positive" is more stylized, and director’s "I Know My Mom" is related to reality and is also more stylistic.


Many directors have found a path that they may be able to take. It is a good start for young directors to pay attention to reality and society to create. Of course, there can be other explorations in the future.



I am always thinking of new creations, and I am thinking of several stories at the same time, but I can’t find a good cut. Which one is closest to maturity, I will take out first. Because I am a factory child, I know a lot about factory life, so I am writing a story about the factory recently.


As for whether the theme is absurd or not, it may not be. But absurdity is already in my body. If not, I may not be too irritating, just like I always like to put a little pepper when I eat, and it is difficult to get rid of it when I get used to it, so it may still taste the same.


Behind the explosion of online performances: two platforms compete for "future" business

Author | Stanley

Cui Jian, Luo Dayou, Stefanie Sun… and now Zhou Huajian, online concerts have changed from commercial marketing live events to large-scale concerts that now stimulate DAU feelings. At 8 o’clock on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 10, Tencent Music Group TME opened Zhou Huajian 2022 online concert on WeChat Channels, QQ Music and other platforms. Less than two hours of live broadcast, a total of 39.56 million fans spent the Mid-Autumn Night with Zhou Huajian’s songs.

From 2020 to 2022, online concerts have gradually become a part of many people’s lives during the epidemic. On September 2 this year, Li Jian started "Yearning" at the Anaya Valley Concert Hall. On September 3, Andy Lau "Sing Me to You" in the Douyin live stream. Earlier, Luo Dayou and Sun Yanzi held online concerts on the same day. Cui Jian, Chen Yixun, Han Hong, Mayday, Yuding Ito, Zhang Huimei, Chen Li, Zhou Shen, Liang Jingru, Rainie Yang, Xicheng Boys, etc., whether it is industry legends, popular singers or pop bands, they have all met millions or tens of millions of fans at one time through online concerts in the past two years.

Behind the explosion of online performances: two platforms compete for "future" business

How eager are the audience for concerts? Even the recording of past concerts can become a "hit". On April 1, the live broadcast of Leslie Cheung’s "Hot Love" concert was ultra-clear and restored, and a total of 17 million viewers watched. On May 20 and 21, TME conducted a live online replay of Jay Chou’s two concerts on WeChat Channels and other platforms. The cumulative total viewing volume was nearly 100 million, and nearly 100 topics were listed on Weibo’s trending topic list. It is hard to imagine how many music fans would be attracted if Jay Chou himself conducted a brand new online concert.

WeChat Channels or Douyin?

The form of online live concerts has been carried out since 2014, but the popular online concert brand TME Live was actually officially announced on March 10, 2020. At that time, it was envisaged that this was a product presented in the form of "offline preparation + online live broadcast" and "pure online". However, until now, the pure online concert form is still more recognized.

Just 4 days after the official announcement, TME Live ushered in the first online concert singer Rainie Yang, 1.50 million online audience Although this data is not bright this year, it has achieved success beyond expectations at that time, and also laid the foundation for the future development of online concerts.

According to TME’s financial report, only in 2020 and 2021, TME live held 55 and 56 games respectively, and its viewing channels not only include TME’s own QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and other platforms, but also Tencent Video, WeChat Channels and other Tencent Group internal video products.

In 2022, the audience of TME live has hit new highs several times. At the end of last year, only 27 million people watched the online concert of Xicheng Boys, and only 14 million people watched the New Year’s Eve concert on December 31, but this year, Luo Dayou’s online concert and Cui Jian’s online concert attracted super 40 million and super 46 million people respectively. Coupled with the previous online live broadcasts of Jay Chou’s "Mo Tianlun" and "The Strongest on the Surface" concerts, a total of nearly 100 million people watched. At present, the highest volume of a single TME live has touched the level of 50 million people.

Nowadays, online concert brands are not only dominated by TME Live, but Douyin is also the most powerful competitor in this market. Also in the first half of 2020, TikTok launched a series of online concert brands such as "DOU Live Sofa Concert" and "DOU Live Live Live", and launched a new IP "Summer Song Club" in August 2021. However, at present, Douyin does not place too much emphasis on the brand IP of online concerts, and many are dubbed "Fan Club" and "Singing Chat".

At the beginning, Douyin’s online concerts did not gain a high influence. According to the official data released by Douyin in 2021, the Douyin platform held a total of 124 official online concerts in 2020, but the harvest was very small. Even in the "summer song party" in 2021, the 7 games added up to 40 million.

Perhaps because of product iteration, better content production, more audience adaptation to this model, and greater influence of invited singers, in 2022, Douyin’s online concert suddenly achieved a very amazing data performance. On May 27, Stefanie Sun’s online singing chat was Douyin’s first online concert this year, which attracted an astonishing 240 million people to watch. At present, the highest data is Andy Lau’s "Sing Me to You" online concert on September 3, which received 350 million views. In addition, the online concerts held by Eason Chan, Liang Jingru, Zhou Shen, Wang Sulong and other singers in Douyin this year have received over 100 million views.

Behind the explosion of online performances: two platforms compete for "future" business

At first glance, it seems that there is a huge gap between TME live’s WeChat Channels viewing data and Douyin’s online concert data, but in fact, according to Red Star coverage, WeChat Channels and Douyin’s statistical data logic are different. WeChat Channels statistics are user visits. Even if a single user visits multiple times, it can only be recorded as once, but Douyin statistics are page visits, and each time a single user leaves and enters will increase once. According to industry rules, there is generally a 5 to 10 times the difference between the two. After removing the multiple clicks of repeat users, WeChat Channels and Douyin are almost on par in the current average traffic of a single online concert.

It is precisely because WeChat Channels relies on WeChat and Douyin to have become "national-level applications" that it is possible to achieve such a size of online concerts respectively. The two platforms have their own advantages, and they compete with each other in terms of singers, duration, feelings, playlists, and stages.

In the battle between the two heroes, NetEase Cloud Music, which clearly has more music resources and competes head-on with TME in various fields of music, has never found a way to make online concerts. After launching the "Cloud LIVE" brand, it did not cooperate with the national-level video application with a large number of users. Most of the invited singers like Wei Ruxuan are more niche literary and artistic singers. The overall traffic is far from WeChat Channels and Douyin, and the competitiveness in this field is very limited.

This is a business about the "future"

The Internet is a traffic business. Since online concerts can generate huge traffic, they will naturally become the target of competition among major brands.

Titling is the most common way to earn revenue for online concerts. In public reports, the highest title price for a single online concert that can be referenced at present is the online concert "Continue to Sprinkle Wild" held by Cui Jian on April 15. According to the weekly report of "Financial World", as the total title of Extreme Fox Auto, its LOGO has been reached by users with a cumulative 90 million, and the total investment in a single game is as high as tens of millions of yuan. On July 27, Extreme Fox Auto, with a similar budget, also named Luo Dayou’s online concert. Jay Chou’s concert replay online live broadcast, and Zhou Huajian’s online concert, also have Pepsi and Ping An Bank credit card exclusive titles.

In addition to the naming fee on the B-end, online concerts on the C-end can also earn income through tickets, joint products, etc. For example, in WeChat Channels, you can buy "WeChat beans" to buy virtual gifts and "tip" singers. There are also similar to NetEase Cloud Music’s TFBOYS "Daylight Travel" seventh anniversary concert, fans need to pay for tickets to watch, and even divided into three gears of 30 yuan, 158 yuan and 860 yuan for fans to choose from.

Unfortunately, although the C-end payment has more imagination and richness, there is a huge gap in the willingness to pay generated by different singers, and the highest can only reach the order of one million, making it difficult to become a replicable business model.

In addition, the cost of online concerts themselves is also constantly increasing. From last year’s New Year’s Eve, to this year’s Cui Jian, Luo Dayou, Zhou Huajian, the layout of multiple stages, the size of the band, and various technical support have all made online concerts move towards high quality and high cost. Whether it is WeChat Channels or Douyin, they will face a choice about "profit margin" – to ensure quality or to ensure profit?

Behind the explosion of online performances: two platforms compete for "future" business

In this online concert battle between WeChat Channels and Douyin, each has a lot of advantages. WeChat Channels is bound to TME, which has many innate advantages in music copyright, singer resources and industrial operation. Especially in the field of online concerts, which is still the field of traditional music superstars. The business model of "Douyin Divine Comedy" that Douyin used to specialize in is currently invalid.

As for Douyin, in addition to having nearly 700 million DAU, its users are also accustomed to accepting its strong recommendation algorithm. Even if they don’t have any understanding before, many users will be directly recommended by the system algorithm after the concert starts online, which directly brings effective views.

However, as a product that has just obtained the traffic password, online concerts are extremely dependent on the popularity and scarcity of the artists themselves. Cui Jian, Luo Dayou and Sun Stefanie are also rare to appear on variety shows, and it is rare for the audience to see them through online concerts. It is rare in itself. With the mentality of watching old friends for free, why not do it? As for Jay Chou, it is a special case among special cases. As fans have described, "there is only one Jay Chou in the Chinese music world," and other people’s live concert videos are far from being able to achieve such influence.

There are not many singers in the Chinese music scene who are popular, have works, have feelings, and are willing to meet the audience through live broadcast. However, if some singers who were originally rare appear frequently, it will reduce the mystery and the scarcity of the concert itself. It will also consume the feelings of the singers themselves, and will not form a virtuous circle.

What’s more, when the COVID-19 pandemic passes in the future, offline concerts will still be hot again. No matter how exquisite the stage and advanced the production of online concerts are, they still cannot replace the ultimate experience brought by offline audio-visual and participation. If there is no further iteration in product types, online concerts may fall into an awkward situation in the near future – first-class singers can use their traffic to promote new songs, and the traffic and feelings of second- and third-tier singers cannot support profit margins. For WeChat Channels and Douyin, who can redefine the music performance market through updated online concerts will have the opportunity to gain the future dominance of this industry.

Unmanned shelves are no longer in the limelight, is this the opportunity that "big guy" Ele.me finally got?

In just half a year, from the limelight in the capital markets to the frequent news of bankruptcy, withdrawal, and acquisition. The start-up company in the field of office unmanned shelves does not seem to have a good start in the spring of 2018.
The ability to circle a specific group of people in the office and their time is an important reason for companies that have made efforts in the field of unmanned shelves to bet on this track. But it turns out that the rhythm of point laying, offline BD, operation and maintenance of supply chain and logistics, any failure of any link, may frustrate this "not sexy" business in itself.
What is the attitude of large companies that have not moved much before? At least for now, a group of large companies that are ready to make efforts in the new retail field have not been deterred by the temporary chaos in the industry. Last September, it was reported that Ele.me had incubated the new retail division internally to focus on unmanned shelves.
At present, according to the news leaked by Ele.me, the project is finally named Ele.me Now, and a dedicated team is equipped for this independent brand: CEO Chen Qi was the first supply chain leader of Alibaba’s retail business department, which is also the famous Ali supply department. According to Chen Qi, Ele.me Now has achieved operating profitability in Shanghai, the first city it has settled in, after its launch.
This industry that was once on the cutting edge is rapidly moving towards consolidation. In those crazy days last year, Ele.me Now’s footsteps did not seem so aggressive. Is this area that needs to be refined and operated an opportunity for big companies?
 Prior to this, in addition to the main business of catering takeaway on the Ele.me platform, there have always been retail categories such as snacks, fruits, beverages, flowers, and medicine. In December 2016, the Ele.me new retail division was established. Chen Qi said that the current retail GMV accounts for about 5% to 10% of the total GMV.
According to a research report released by Coatue in 2017, the GMV of Ele.me reached 6.26 billion US dollars. If you use this data to estimate, the GMV of Ele.me’s retail business is about 3-600 million US dollars. Although the proportion is not high, as a business that only started in 2016, the demand and growth are real.
On this basis, compared with the hot start-up companies, Ele.me’s main logic for entering this battlefield is to hope that the office scene will complement and synergize the company’s main takeaway business. Of course, with the company’s original supply chain and logistics resources to support, it also means that Ele.me Now’s business is more confident.
Among them, the supply chain system behind Ele.me new retail BU is responsible for the B2B trading platform Youcai, which has been online since 2016. Youcai provides merchants with drinks, rice noodles, grain and oil, fresh fruits and other categories through the control of the upstream supply chain. At present, Youcai has established cooperation with 5,000 suppliers, including Coca-Cola, COFCO, Yihai Kerry and other brands. This part of the supplier accounts for about 1/3, and the remaining 2/3 of the brand Youcai is also a first-level wholesaler. Youcai also has joint warehousing and distribution systems in many major cities, which can provide distribution from urban Okura to small trunk lines.

Ele. Me Now Unmanned Shelf

At the beginning of sorting out whether to open an unmanned shelf business, Chen Qi and the management of Ele.me believed that Youcai had already entered large-scale operation, and the large warehouses that had been established in various cities in the process could provide support for the expansion of Ele.me shelves. Chen Qi said: "We are not building a system from scratch, but directly paying for it, and with a scale support, our rates will also have better savings."
On the other hand, Ele.me has established a complete hummingbird distribution system, which can also save the cost of unmanned shelves on a large scale. Previously, most start-up companies in the industry were solving distribution and exchange needs through self-construction + outsourcing and front warehouses. There are also companies like Gorilla Convenience and Convenience Bee, which use convenience stores as front warehouses. But it is not easy to establish and manage such a system from scratch. Unlike the traditional logistics where four links and one delivery and flash delivery are located, the logistics distribution of shelf goods shuttles through the middle of office buildings, which is equivalent to entering the end of the city. If the distribution density is not enough, the replenishment cost is very high.
The current common way to replenish goods is by renting Jinbei trucks to tour the city. Chen Qi and his team found that these Jinbei trucks stop every hour, and each time they stop, they need at least 20-35 minutes of waiting time. They can replenish goods at up to 1.5 points, and the value of a single replenishment is about 200-300 yuan. If you add warehouse leasing, vehicle leasing, and labor costs, Chen Qi calculates that the cost of replenishing goods at a single point is around 30 yuan.
Ele.me Now’s approach is to use the hummingbird stations where the riders rest and train as transit points. During times when takeout orders are not too intensive, replenishment vehicles will come to the hummingbird stations all over the city and summon 10-15 riders to skim the goods. The goods are marked with the delivery address and specific needs. Each rider can carry 1-2 points of goods. This is equivalent to turning the distribution system into a radial mesh, and the Jinbei car can support more than 20 points of post-need replenishment per stop.
"This is equivalent to turning the original human resources tandem model into the concurrency of multiple people in their spare time." Chen Qi said that overall, the single replenishment cost of Ele.me Now can be reduced to 16 yuan, as low as 45% of the industry competition, and the comprehensive gross profit is higher than 30%.
In this business that involves too many chains, Chen Qi believes that the biggest advantage of Ele.me is the scale effect that has been established long ago, which can also make this business "throttling". "Including Hummingbird and Youcai, because of the large scale, the management costs can be shared, and the cost structure is better."
According to the data given by Ele.me NOW, there are currently 150-2 million valuable points in the country that are worth laying unmanned shelves. Although the industry has experienced a period of rapid development some time ago, the top players are only concentrated in about 100,000 points. Therefore, in Chen Qi’s opinion, the market space is very large, and the industry is also in a very early stage.
In January 2018, Ele.me began to use the hummingbird system to support the operation of unmanned shelves in a small area in Shanghai. By March, the Shanghai area had all switched to the hummingbird-based replenishment mode. Chen Qi’s plan is to run in for a while and soon replicate this model to other cities across the country.
But the early plan is not to expand without restraint. Ele.me Now cares more about "coordination". At present, the service of food covers T30 cities, which is the 30 cities with the largest takeaway transaction volume of Ele.me, and Ele.me Now will also carry out urban expansion according to this scale and idea. "In the near future, we will not rashly expand cities outside T30. This is essentially a retail business, but we should deepen the density of the single area."
From a strategic perspective, Ele.me’s entry into the unmanned shelves is obviously a supplement to the current main business takeaway market. Although compared with start-up companies, the capital reserves of large companies are relatively loose, but retail is generally a relatively thin profit business. If you blindly expand and launch a subsidy war, if you do not cooperate with refined operations, you will fall into the quagmire of burning money.
"It’s not a blitz, it should be a protracted battle," Chen Qi said.
Ele.me Now CEO Chen Qi was the first head of Alibaba’s China Supply Department
Therefore, while "throttling" operating costs, finding an "open-source" way to achieve profitability as soon as possible is also an issue that operators must consider.
Chen Qi said that Ele.me has been able to achieve profitability in Shanghai single-city outlets. In addition to retail business and back-end gross profit, advertising and traffic can also generate revenue. Since Ele.me’s own brand effect is already very strong, many FMCG or shopping mall brands have already been its advertisers. Previously, Ele.me has reached cooperation with these customers through Ele.me APP exposure, or promotion through Youcai platform, as well as offline marketing, and unmanned shelves have become a new media buying channel. More importantly, Ele.me Now can combine user data that overlap office scene users and takeaway business to provide brands with granularity and finer user portraits to achieve the best delivery effect.
In addition to advertising, Ele.me Now also hopes to monetize offline traffic online. According to Ele.me Now statistics, stable customers currently place orders three times a week, and the transaction frequency and stickiness are very considerable. Chen Qi has started to try group buying business to direct offline customers to online. "For example, if you buy cherries for 20 yuan on the shelf, we will guide users to buy a whole box of cherries online at a unit price of 50 or 60% off. The unit price of customers is higher, which can also drive GMV."
In contrast to Meituan’s expansion strategy of constantly opening up new battlefields, Ele.me CEO Zhang Xuhao has always emphasized that Ele.me’s mission is to "focus and focus". So after ten years of establishment, Ele.me has extended from takeaway platform to retail and established new retail BU, which is the strategy of this strategy. Chen Qi said, "Our core business model is to help merchants on the platform do O2O online business, so whether it is unmanned shelves or the entire Ele.me new retail BU, we want to achieve this goal."

In March this year, it was reported that Ali would spend a lot of money to acquire Ele.me and integrate it with word-of-mouth to become an important chain in its new retail business. In 2017, a start-up company asserted that the "war" on unmanned shelves would be won and lost in 2018. In the current situation, the big man with more resources and good at "opening up sources and cutting costs" may enter the market late, but he may have longer vitality. 

Edited by: sleeper

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