New breakthroughs have been made in archaeology of Liangzhu ancient city and water conservancy system site.

  Unearthed artifacts from Sidun site

  Corona found in Liangzhu ancient city site

  Yesterday, National Cultural Heritage Administration held a working meeting on the important progress of the "Archaeological China" project, and reported the latest progress of four archaeological studies, namely Liangzhu Ancient City and Water Conservancy System Site in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Sidun Site in Changzhou, Jiangsu, Chenghe Site in Shayang, Hubei, and the origin and spread of Austronesian languages. These archaeological projects showed the origin of civilization in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the southeast coastal areas.

  Liangzhu Ancient City and Water Conservancy System Site

  Reflect the concept of settlement management and urban construction

  Liangzhu Ancient City Site, located in Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Supported by the "Archaeological China" major project, Zhejiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has continuously carried out "settlement archaeology in the core area of Liangzhu site" and "research on peripheral water system", and made new breakthroughs in recent years.

  Among them, the discovery of Liangzhu ancient city and the ruins of water conservancy system, the initial clearance of Liangzhu ruins group, experienced three development stages: using piedmont landform to build scattered settlements, planning to build water conservancy system, Mojiao Mountain and anti-mountain, and then building Liangzhu ancient city with city walls and foreign countries, which reflected the gradual evolution of Liangzhu population settlement management and urban construction concept and belief system, and showed the important significance of Liangzhu culture in the origin of Chinese civilization.

  si dun site

  Reflect the complicated process of prehistoric society in Taihu Lake

  Sidun Ruins, located in Tianning District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, is a Neolithic site, which was founded in 1949. The central settlement site with Liangzhu cultural remains as the main body dates from about 5500 to 4500 years ago. The site is centered on an oval mound, surrounded by more than ten small terraces, and surrounded by double water systems, with a total area of about 1.5 million square meters.

  With the support of the "Archaeological China" major project, since 2019, Nanjing Museum has continued to carry out the archaeological work of Sidun site and achieved important results.

  The remains of Songze culture in Sidun site, covering an area of about 15,000 square meters, have been found in burial areas, dry-fence buildings, wells and other remains. Among them, there are 40 tombs, and the tombs in the north are of high grade. There are about 30 funerary objects, and jade articles such as Huang have been unearthed. Six lacquered pottery pots were unearthed in the water well in Dundongtai, and the pottery pot with the woven pattern of capuchin bird painted in red, yellow and black was the most exquisite.

  Sidun site shows the change of settlement layout from the late Songze culture to Liangzhu culture, which vividly reflects the complicated process of prehistoric society in Taihu Lake area.

  Chenghe site

  Show the management of water resources in Neolithic age

  Chenghe Site, located in Hougang Town, Shayang County, Hubei Province, with an area of about 700,000 square meters, is the Qujialing — An important city site of Shijiahe culture, about 5100 to 4500 years ago. With the support of the "Archaeological China" major project, the Institute of Archaeology of China Academy of Social Sciences and other units jointly carried out systematic archaeology in the northern, western and Wangjiabang sites of Chenghe site, and achieved important results.

  In Poyang Lake and Dengguantai, outside the ruins of Chenghe River, the remains of a dam artificially built during the Qujialing cultural period were discovered. It was preliminarily proved that the remains span the tributary valley of Chenghe River, with a length of 260 meters from north to south and a width of 39 meters at the west, which may be used to intercept the water resources of Chenghe branch and form a water storage area. Water resources can enter the city with the help of artificial ditches to realize water supply in dry season and drainage in flood season. Chenghe site reflects the Qujialing cultural crowd’s water resources management mode of regulating and controlling the water use of the ancient city by building a series of water conservancy facilities, and shows the cognition and transformation of the Neolithic ancients in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to nature.

  Wangjiabang cemetery in the northern part of the city is the largest and most well-preserved Qujialing cultural cemetery discovered so far. Archaeological work shows that the ancients leveled the land, built the cemetery and held ritual activities, and finally the southern part of the cemetery gradually evolved into a production and living place. At the same time, various forms of single-coffin tombs, large tombs with "one coffin for exclusive use", small tombs with complete coffins, and small burial tombs were revealed. Various types of tombs in Wangjiabang Cemetery reflect the complexity and social differentiation of Qujialing cultural community structure and provide new evidence for exploring the Neolithic civilization process in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

  Research project on the origin and spread of Austronesian language family

  Focus on prehistoric culture in southeast coastal areas

  In 2021, the study on the origin and diffusion of Austronesian languages was included in the major project of "Archaeology China". The Institute of Archaeology of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Institute of Archaeology of Fujian Province, the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Zhejiang Province and other units cooperated to actively explore the clues of the origin of Austronesian languages with the research on the development of prehistoric culture in the southeast coastal areas of China as the core, and made important progress at present.

  The southeast coast is a key area to explore the origin and spread of Austronesian language families. After the start of the project, the Jingtoushan site in Zhejiang Province, Xiying, Keqiutou, Donghuaqiu and Guishan sites in Pingtan Island in Fujian Province, Wanchaitou and Neijiao sites in Hainan Province have been systematically excavated, and the space-time framework and social structure of the southeast coastal and island areas about 8,300 to 3,000 years ago have been initially constructed.

  The Jingtoushan site, dating from about 8300 to 7800 years ago, is the earliest discovered coastal shell mound in China, with rich relics such as mud clams, conchs, oysters, marine fish spines and so on, which provides direct evidence for the ancients to develop marine resources.

  Xiying site, dating from 7300 to 6500 years ago, is a small settlement. The analysis of human bones shows that the ethnic groups living here have close genetic relationship with the ethnic groups in southern China and Southeast Asia.

  Keqiutou Site is a medium-sized settlement, dating from about 6,500 to 5,000 years ago. The functional divisions of residential area, food processing area, handicraft area and garbage dumping area in the site are clear, and the cultural features show that there are cultural connections between the two sides of the Taiwan Province Strait.

  At Xiying site and Keqiutou site, the earliest rice remains in the southeast coastal islands of China were also found.

  Donghuaqiu site and Guishan site are about 4000-3200 years ago, with high settlement level and large scale, and reasonable layout of ceremony area, public activity area and living area, which shows the organizational form and survival mode of coastal prehistoric population society at this stage.

  The above research has deepened the understanding of the prehistoric people’s utilization of marine resources in the southeast coastal areas of China and the diffusion process of prehistoric agricultural culture to southeast Asian islands, and provided important clues for exploring the origin and diffusion of Austronesian languages.

  Text/reporter Cui Yifei

  Photo courtesy/National Cultural Heritage Administration

Hunan Xinhua fraud insurance case tracking! CCTV reporters exclusively visited the parties to the incident.

       CCTV News:The husband cheated insurance and cheated death, which led to his wife’s death with a pair of children. This reality is always beyond imagination, but it really happened around us. On September 18 this year, He Mou, who opened a car in Xinhua, Hunan Province, suddenly disappeared. After 22 days of searching for her husband, he Mou’s wife Xiao Dai left a farewell letter and also wanted to follow her husband. However, the tragedy didn’t end here. Just when people were sorry for this family of four, He Mou, the driver of the network car, suddenly appeared. When the truth was announced, people could not help sighing. The rule of law online reporter recently came to Xinhua, Hunan, and made an exclusive visit to this incident.

       At 11: 53 on October 10, 2018, in Tanjia Village, Langtang Town, Xinhua, Hunan Province, a young mother, with two children, hurried through this small road at the entrance of the village. Twenty minutes later, a villager saw three mothers and children wandering around this pond at the junction of Tanjia Village and Dalong Village.

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       Witness: "I came out from there, I met her, and her expression was very strange. Later, I sold ducks and came back. When I came back, I saw her again, and she looked very strange." The strange expression in this villager’s eyes is Xiao Dai, the wife of He Mou, the driver of the online car. Since her husband disappeared, she has been searching hard with her two children, but there is no news. Xiao Dai sent a long suicide note in a circle of friends, saying that she would "follow the loved one to leave". When her friends saw this message, they could no longer contact her.

       After some searching, everyone just found a handbag by the pond where the mother and son finally appeared. At this time, no one wants to guess at the worst. A mother with two children should not do anything drastic. Soon, the local online media published an article looking for Xiao Dai and two children.

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       Suspect He Mou: "I saw that it should be around 3 pm at that time. I saw that Xinhua Focus released the one with my wife (lost). I knew I might have done something wrong."

       Reporter: "Did you see the last letter?"

       He Mou: "I didn’t see the last letter, but I saw one here. She put that child with a bag on her shoulder, which was specially used to put children’s medicine, as well as paper towels and diapers, because that bag has been used for a long time. I know, I bought that bag."

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Criminal suspect He Mou

       [The husband faked his disappearance and cut off contact with the outside world]

       When he saw this news about missing people, He was on his way to his hometown in Hunan. During the more than 20 days of fake disappearance, He cut off all previous contact with the outside world, so he couldn’t see the circle of friends that his wife had just sent. Until now, he still felt that his wife was just hiding somewhere to get angry with himself.

       Although he had a similar experience before, this time He was not so sure. In order to disguise his disappearance more realistically, 22 days ago, he rented a car from the leasing company and drove it from a cliff in Zijiang to the river in the dark.

       After driving the rented car to Zijiang, He Mou fled to Guizhou in the car he bought two years ago. In 2016, in order to buy this car and rent it, He borrowed a sum of money through online loans for the first time. According to He’s memory, he borrowed 40,000 yuan or 50,000 yuan online for the first time, and at first he thought he could turn it around. But slowly he found that this is a bottomless pit that is difficult to fill.

       Suspect He Mou: "You may not find the interest when you first started to borrow, that is, you can still turn around at first, but after you roll for one year, don’t say the principal, maybe you can’t repay the interest."

       In order to repay the loan of one family, He borrowed from another family, thus robbing Peter to pay Paul, with higher and higher loans and more and more debts. Until September this year, He decided to take risks. According to the police, On September 7th, He bought a personal accident insurance with a coverage of 1 million yuan in China Ping An Insurance for 1699 yuan, and the beneficiaries were He and Dai.

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       He thought he had a very thorough plan, but he didn’t consider what kind of blow he would bring to his wife. Since her husband disappeared, Xiao Dai has searched all her friends and called the police, but there is no news. On September 21, she also called her husband to go home quickly in a circle of friends so that the family could reunite for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

       On September 22, Xiao Dai received a courier from Guizhou, which contained an insurance policy. The applicant was her husband and the beneficiary was husband and wife. At that time, I was looking for my husband’s little Dai, and I didn’t take this policy to heart. On September 25, the police received an alarm from a car rental company, and this alarm was also related to the missing He.

       Xiao Zhiping, instructor of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Xinhua County Public Security Bureau, Hunan Province: "On September 25th, the staff who obtained evidence first got an alarm from our Meiyuan police station. It is said that their taxi company rented a car to He, but this He lost contact and could not find the car. Then we will link these two police situations and merge them to conduct investigations. "

       Why does He want to rent a car when he has his own car? And why can’t I find this rented car? Although the police have doubts, they must find more conclusive evidence. On the afternoon of September 30, the news came that someone reported that a car that had fallen into the river was found in the Xiaoyang Zijiang section of Caojia Town.

       Xiao Zhiping, instructor of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Xinhua County Public Security Bureau, Hunan Province: "I found that the front windshield of the vehicle was broken, and the other doors were closed. But our most important point is that we didn’t find that the car was alive. "

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       The car door was closed, but He was not in the car, and He was not found in the nearby waters. Where is He, life or death? Everything is still inconclusive, but Xiao Dai’s mood has collapsed at that time. At the scene of the accident salvage, Xiao Dai was heartbroken at the uncertainty of her husband’s life and death, but never thought that her husband was actually safe and sound at the moment, hiding in the parking lot of a hospital in Kaili, Guizhou, paying attention to the news that happened in his hometown.

       Suspect He Mou: "Because I saw it when he salvaged the car, but I was so scared at that time, but I think the car should be salvaged and no one found it. I guess it should be okay."

       [What’s the hidden story behind the absurd scam]

       In order to cheat insurance and avoid debts, He Mou wrote and directed such a scam, and behind this seemingly absurd plan, there are many problems encountered by He Mou’s family. After He arrived at the case, according to the police investigation, his arrears and interest totaled 400,000 to 500,000 yuan. By the time he arrived at the case, there were still 170,000 to 80,000 debts outstanding.

       Xiao Zhiping, instructor of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Xinhua County Public Security Bureau, Hunan Province: "He has no specific figures of his own. He only talked about more than 100,000 yuan, how many times he borrowed, and how many loans he found from this company. He can’t remember clearly."

       In October 2017, his wife, Xiao Dai, received a land acquisition fee from her hometown, totaling more than 200,000 yuan. However, the money was turned over to He Mou to fill in the pit of online loans.

       The two also got a divorce certificate because of the debt problem, and remarried after half a year. However, the extremely vulnerable families, who are already suffering from debt, have also suffered a more fatal blow. In June 2017, their little daughter was diagnosed with severe epilepsy. According to He, her daughter spent a total of more than 100,000 yuan on medical treatment, and took part of the expenses through online crowdfunding and medical expenses reimbursement, which reduced the burden of seeing a doctor a lot, but it still could not offset those online loans before He.

       Even so, the couple never mentioned the difficulties they encountered with their families, and the news about their daughter’s illness and crowdfunding also blocked their families. Every time I go back to my hometown, I look like love and happiness. Therefore, the family does not know that this seemingly happy family has already been swallowed up by various problems such as online loans and daughter’s illness.

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       Unfortunately, the appearance of happiness did not last long. Due to the inability to repay the loan, the loan platform called the debt collection phone to He’s parents’ home. It is only a drop in the bucket for He’s parents to help him borrow money several times. The heavy debt, plus the illness that his daughter will have at any time and the cost of follow-up treatment, He decided to take risks and fake his death to cheat insurance.

       Suspect He Mou: "As long as I make a fake death, they may give up tracking my debt. I just thought that the wind was a little bit, and I didn’t think it would take so long at first. "

       According to the contents of Xiao Dai’s letter, after He’s disappearance, all kinds of criticisms from her husband’s family made her unbearable. The trauma of losing her parents when she was young, her daughter’s illness, her outstanding debts, her missing husband and the accusations of her husband’s family are pushing Xiao Dai to the abyss step by step. At this time, He had no idea of the difficulties faced by his wife. According to his plan, he would quietly return to Hunan to pick up his wife and children and live in other places after the situation subsided.

       In the early morning of October 11th, He rushed back to his hometown, found no trace of his wife and children near the pond, and dared not step into the house. "I went to look for it at the place where she had an accident. At that time, I also sneaked home, but I didn’t enter the house. At that time, I looked at the light, but there was no sound. After 2 or 300 meters, I thought my wife was just angry."

       [The bad news came that mother and son passed away]

       He Mou, who was guilty and hopeful, stayed at home until dawn the next day. On October 11th, the police continued to search for Xiao Dai’s missing pond. At ten o’clock in the morning, the police found three mothers and children in the pond, but unfortunately all three had passed away.

       When the bad news came, He Mou regretted it. Just coming back so late led to a life tragedy in which his wife and children passed away. Perhaps it was not only the time to return, but he had already planted the seeds of this tragedy from the beginning when he had the idea of committing crimes.

       On October 12, He Mou surrendered himself to the public security organ. At present, he is criminally detained on suspicion of vandalism and insurance fraud. The case is under further investigation.

       [Extreme ways to deal with difficulties are not desirable! 】

       Many misfortunes encountered by this family deserve our sympathy, but it is not advisable for He Mou and Xiao Dai to deal with the difficulties in life in this extreme form. Imagine, if Xiao Dai could communicate with his family more after her husband disappeared, so that his family could understand more, maybe he wouldn’t make the last choice. In the final analysis, if He had not used the method of robbing Peter to pay Paul at the earliest, he would have fallen deeper and deeper in the whirlpool of online loans, and he would not have reached such a situation today.

       Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, said: "This kind of drinking poison to quench thirst is unnecessary. There are actually many other resources that can be used offline. When it comes to emergencies, students at school can talk to their parents, and people around them have good friends who can help you. Moreover, there are so many social channels, which can be considered completely."

       Experts pointed out that even if there is no tragedy of his wife and children drowning, this insurance fraud plan planned by He will not be easily realized, but will only make him fall into a deeper whirlpool.

       Zhu Wei, deputy director of Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, said: "He used a very extreme means and an illegal act to defraud insurance money. Even if this matter, if according to his idea, his wife and children will have no problem, but can you really get insurance money in the end? No, because he didn’t find the last body, the body with quotation marks, and he had to go through a related process of declaring missing or even dying. This process will also take several years and require complicated legal procedures. Have you ever thought, even if it is really successful, what if this person appears again, won’t this incident happen when it comes to the public? Don’t just for this one million, hiding from the urgent need, and the children’s wives will never meet again? Then have you thought about what to do with your family in the future? "

       The police who detected the case pointed out that He did not take up legal weapons to protect himself when he encountered difficulties, and did not correct his mistake in time. Instead, he tried to make up for this mistake with another mistake, even at the expense of breaking the bottom line of the law, and eventually not only destroyed the individual but also the whole family.

       Wu Dayong, executive deputy director of Xinhua County Public Security Bureau of Hunan Province, said: "He Mou gave us more warning and enlightenment. In fact, in our life and work, when we encounter different difficulties and setbacks, we will face them positively and correctly and take some legal measures to solve them. Otherwise, it will bring infinite pain to the family and myself. "

       On the other hand, the unfortunate experience of Xiao Dai and the whole family, experts pointed out that in the process of urbanization, more and more rural families choose to live in the city like Xiao Dai and He Mou, and the forms of work and parenting are changing. The traditional model has been broken, but the new model has not been fully established. In this change, the living environment of women and the construction of families in the process of urbanization need special attention.

       Liu Zhengkui, a researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: "We should pay attention to the construction of such a family in the process of urbanization, so our society should have such a security system. For example, when the family encounters a crisis, there is a place to go to someone to guide someone to deal with it, including security, and go to the household to deal with it."

       From the internal point of view, how to deal with the crisis with a positive attitude instead of choosing to escape, commit suicide or even deprive others of their lives? Experts point out that when the difficulties in life cannot be dealt with, we should learn to rely on our families, have full communication and understanding among family members, and learn to seek help from the outside world.

       Liu Zhengkui, a researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: "Help is at two levels. Some families encounter some crises, and others may not really give you much help, but you can tell others, discuss with others, and one of the benefits of discussing together is that you can release some of your own emotions moderately. Then the second point of help is more important. In other words, there are so many organizations in our country, and there are many channels for the government to alleviate or solve this.

Intelligent manufacturing remoulds traditional manufacturing industry "veteran recruits" witness the iterative upgrade of glass manufacturing

CCTV News:We walked into an automobile glass production enterprise in Fujian together, and met a veteran who has been in business for 30 years and a recruit who just switched jobs this year.In their eyes, what new changes have intelligent manufacturing brought to traditional manufacturing?

In the production workshop of the world’s largest automobile glass manufacturer, pieces of glass slide out one after another along the production line, and the left and right rows of robotic arms effortlessly grab the glass from the line and accurately stack it aside.

Zheng Mingsheng, who has worked in the glass manufacturing industry for more than 30 years, witnessed the process of less and less manual labor on the production line. Nowadays, this production line runs automatically 24 hours a day, with a daily output of 600 tons of original glass sheets. The huge workshop is empty and does not need a manual worker. Moreover, the intelligent manufacturing system can also complete quality inspection, cutting and other work by itself.

After the deployment of intelligent production equipment and platform, the production efficiency of the production line increased by 30% and the defective rate decreased by 30%. Now Zheng Mingsheng just needs to sit in the office, and he can have an overview of the overall production data through the industrial Internet platform. And next to Zheng Mingsheng’s office, there is a darkroom laboratory, where engineer Chen Zhixing is conducting a research and development test of automobile glass. They want to test a new function of glass.

In fact, Chen Zhixing is a recruit who has joined the glass industry for less than a year. It was the brand-new concept of glass antenna that made him decide to switch from electronic communication industry to glass manufacturing. While bringing new technology, it also makes more use of intelligent manufacturing tools such as experiments and simulation systems, which improves the design ability and efficiency of glass. It is estimated that by the end of this year, the new models of many well-known car companies will be equipped with this new glass product.

Xpeng Motors word-of-mouth collapse: apology compensation, the owner still insists on returning the car and refunding the money.

A large number of Xpeng Motors car owners have collectively defended their rights in many Xpeng Motors city service centers in Guangzhou, Beijing and other places, demanding to return their cars and refund their money. Obviously, car owners did not buy He Xiaopeng’s apology and compensation.

The Beijing News (Reporter Mo Wei) At present, due to the more favorable price and longer cruising range of the new model of Xpeng Motors G3, the rights protection event that caused the dissatisfaction of old customers is fermenting. Although He Xiaopeng, the chairman of Xpeng Motors, apologized through Weibo and promised relevant compensation to the owners of the old G3, it did not calm the grievances of the owners.

In the eyes of old customers in Xpeng Motors, on the one hand, Xpeng Motors cheated customers when selling new cars; On the other hand, the solution was perfunctory and didn’t really think about the customer, and the incident intensified, resulting in the collapse of Xpeng Motors’s reputation.

Xpeng Motors’s new listing is controversial

On July 10th, 2020 Tucki G3 model went on the market. Due to the more favorable price compared with the old model and the longer battery life of the new model, some old owners of Tucki G3 expressed dissatisfaction. For this problem, on July 12th, He Xiaopeng, Chairman of Xpeng Motors, responded by personal Weibo, apologizing to all the old G3 owners, and offering extra compensation of 10,000 yuan for the old G3 owners to buy any model in Tucki within three years.

But this did not calm the grievances of the owners. On July 13th, a large number of car owners went to defend their rights outside many Xpeng Motors city service centers in Guangzhou, Beijing and other places, demanding a refund.

As for the reason for the fermentation of this incident, an old G3 car owner in Tucki said that it took more than half a year from booking a car at the beginning of the year to picking up the car. As a result, a new model was actually released in less than one month after picking up the car. "We are all" hardcore "fans in Xpeng Motors, and now we have been mercilessly abandoned, and the official response has not given us a reasonable solution and has not solved the problem at all. How can we be content?"

The old car owner also said that new users who are going to buy the 2020 Tucki G3 also need to think about it. "Today for our old users may be your tomorrow.".

Then, why are the old car owners so angry about He Xiaopeng’s apology that they don’t accept its solution?

According to the Beijing News reporter, the 2020 Tucki G3 new car was officially launched on July 10th, with a subsidized price of 143,800-196,800 yuan and a comprehensive cruising range of up to 520km. Compared with the 2019 models that have been on the market for less than one year, the car’s comprehensive cruising range is only 365km at the highest, and the difference between the cruising ranges is more than 40%. And in terms of selling price, the subsidized price of the 2019 model is 155,800-199,800 yuan. Taking the lowest configuration as an example, the price difference between them is 12,000 yuan. Such a big price difference in less than a year has caused dissatisfaction among the owners of the 2019 G3.

In the eyes of old customers, on the one hand, Xpeng Motors cheated customers when selling new cars, on the other hand, the solution was perfunctory and didn’t really think about customers.

Solution Old car owners don’t buy it.

Although He Xiaopeng explained the price misunderstanding in an open letter, saying that the actual payment price of the car owners with the same configuration is not the same, the actual payment price of the 2019 G3 is still more than 20,000 yuan more than that of the 2020 G3 through the doubling of the previous large deposit and the subsequent cash discount and overcharge discount offered by the government.

At the same time, He Xiaopeng announced that the owners of G3 in 2019 will enjoy an additional exclusive subsidy of 10,000 yuan on the basis of all the promotion policies and interests of the new car to be purchased within three years from now. As an apology and compensation for this dispute.

But for old car owners, especially those who have just picked up a car or booked a car, such a scheme is not satisfactory.

A user who just picked up the car revealed in an interview with the media: "The car was booked on July 9, and the new model was released on July 10, which cost 2,000 yuan, 170 kilometers more battery life, upgraded brakes, power assistance and so on. Who feels better? Obviously deceived. " He also said that upgrading is normal, but it is wrong to conceal upgrading and sell the old models to customers.

Some users also said that Tucki sales claimed that it would soon subsidize the price increase, and urged users to place an order to buy the old models, but never mentioned the new models. As a result, the new models were launched soon after the car was picked up. In the eyes of users, this operation has largely deceived consumers. "If the car hasn’t been mentioned, it will become an old model." A Tucki G3 prospective car owner is so self-mocking.

In addition, a car owner from Shenzhen said in an interview with the media, "The deposit was made on June 25, and now the car has not been mentioned. Sales means that the deposit cannot be converted into a new model deposit, and the deposit can only be converted into a 10,000-yuan boutique coupon in Xpeng Motors APP Mall to buy car models and auto parts." There are not a few consumers who haven’t picked up their cars like this and can’t replace the new models.

As for the rights and interests of He Xiaopeng’s subsidy of 10,000 yuan for car replacement, the owner did not buy it. "If you pick up the car, you will be replaced. The new car will become an old one, deceiving consumers, and you want us to buy Tucki’s car again?" A car owner said bluntly.

Some experts in the industry said that it is understandable that the product changes quickly. If the new car listing is deliberately concealed, it will really poke the pain point of the owner, and this behavior will inevitably lead to the suspicion of clearing the inventory. On the whole, combined with the actual situation of many car owners, Xpeng Motors did have some shortcomings in handling this matter.

Is the embarrassing period of the new forces of building cars coming?

As a member of the new car-making forces, Xpeng Motors has always been at the forefront of public opinion. From the outside world, in the five years since Xpeng Motors’s development, its development has been relatively smooth, and it is also one of the first batch of new forces to realize delivery earlier. According to the official sales data released by Xpeng Motors in May this year, the company sold 2,704 new cars in May, up 22.9% from the previous month. According to the incomplete statistics of Beijing News reporter, since the delivery in June last year, Xpeng Motors has delivered 10,000 vehicles so far.

In terms of financing, Xpeng Motors has so far raised 14 billion yuan, including Ali and Foxconn. Many senior executives in Xpeng Motors have also said that they will accumulate 30 billion yuan of financing before the end of 2019. On March 27th this year, He Xiaopeng revealed that Xpeng Motors is seeking to raise at least $500 million and may try to list on the US IPO.

Although several new car-making forces, including Xpeng Motors, still have the support of capital, in this heavy asset industry of automobiles, both product research and development, manufacturing and channel construction cost huge amounts of money. This problem can be seen from the financial report of the listed company Weilai. According to the financial report of Weilai Automobile in the first quarter of 2019, the net loss of Weilai Automobile in the first quarter exceeded 2.6 billion yuan, and the accumulated loss in 2016-2018 has exceeded 20 billion yuan.

After the delivery is realized, the present and imminent problems in capital may be the second, but how to maintain customers in the later period is the key problem faced by enterprises such as Tucki.

Both He Xiaopeng himself and a large number of old car owners call users in Xpeng Motors "Pengyou", which shows the feelings of car owners when they buy cars. But now, the first group of supporters held high the slogans of "return the car" and "whoever buys it will regret it" and went to Xpeng Motors to return the car, resulting in the collapse of their word of mouth.

The industry believes that in the past, everyone used to define the delivery of the first mass-produced car as the first threshold for building a new force. But now, after the delivery, Xpeng Motors presents another bottleneck: customer retention. Previously, Weilai Automobile recalled the first person because of the battery problem, which consumed a wave of users’ patience. Now Xpeng Motors once again puts the customer relationship on the table.

In fact, whether it is a new car-making force or a traditional enterprise, customer maintenance is a topic that can’t be avoided for its long-term development. However, as a new car-making force, the "newcomer" has obviously just experienced and felt the importance of this issue. An industry insider told the Beijing News reporter that the enterprises with new forces to build cars have attracted people’s attention. In addition, many enterprises with new forces held high their feelings and talked about the consideration of consumers during propaganda, which made the outside world expect more from the new forces to build cars. However, many bad actual situations make consumers feel a great psychological gap, and even feel disappointed with the enterprises that build new forces.

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Google releases Gemini big model AI mobile phone AI PC priority landing lead puzzle card making cooling hardware continues to benefit.

On December 6th, US time, Google CEO Sandahl Pichai officially announced that Gemini version 1.0 was officially launched. The released Gemini big model is a native multi-modal big model, which is the first step in the new era of Google big model. It includes three orders of magnitude: the most powerful Gemini Ultra, the Gemini Pro suitable for multi-task and the Gemini Nano suitable for specific tasks and end-sides. Now, Bard, Google’s ChatGPT-like application, has been upgraded to the Gemini Pro version, achieving more advanced reasoning, planning, understanding and other capabilities, while continuing to remain free. Google is expected to launch "Bard Advanced" early next year, which will use Gemini Ultra.

It is worth mentioning that among the 32 performance test standards, 30 of Gemini’s scores exceed GPT-4, but most of them have a small gap. In terms of flexibility, Google has introduced more options for model applications. For example, Gemini Nano, as the lightest model, is suitable for mobile devices with limited memory space. The model will be built into Google mobile phone Pixel 8 Pro for the first time in December, which supports two functions: automatic recording summarization and intelligent keyboard reply. In the future, it is expected that more functions will be put offline on Android phones.

On December 7th, the first AIPC Industry Innovation Forum was held in Beijing Lenovo Headquarters. Wang Chuandong, vice president of Lenovo Group, said that the existing form of the big model in the future should be "the framework system of mixed AI". As a terminal carrying a large model, it needs to meet four characteristics: having a strong local knowledge base and computing power, supporting natural language interaction, supporting mixed AI computing power, and being able to have a personal model. To be able to meet these characteristics at the same time, Lenovo continues to bet on AI PC.

In terms of industry, CITIC Securities believes that PC is expected to become one of the intelligent hardware with priority at the edge, considering factors such as computing power consumption, hardware volume, application scenarios and battery power consumption. Considering the continuous iteration of the algorithm level, the relatively low difficulty of the transformation of the hardware stack of AI PC, and the enthusiasm of the whole machine manufacturer for new product innovation, the penetration rate of AI PC is expected to continue to increase in the next 12-18 months, and it may exceed double digits under optimistic circumstances. Pay attention to the industrial investment opportunities of the whole machine, processor, DRAM and advanced process. At the same time, Huachuang Securities pointed out that low latency+privacy protection drives the localization demand of large models, and the hardware end and content end continue to innovate. AI PC has marginal computing power and is expected to solve the pain points in the industry and become the first AI terminal to be launched in large quantities. A number of head PC manufacturers are also conducting AI PC-related research and development and cooperation, and 2024 is expected to usher in the first year of AI PC scale shipment. AI PC can realize some AI applications on PC client, which is expected to stimulate a large number of PC replacement needs, or can drive the PC industry into a new round of rising cycle. In the industry, it is recommended to pay attention to related companies that benefit from AI hardware manufacturing, and related companies that benefit from AIPC innovation acceleration in the industry, such as Lingyizhi (002600).

It can be seen that the AI PC or AI-compatible PC terminals to be launched by major manufacturers next year will pay more and more attention to the heat dissipation function. Minsheng Electronics said in the research report "Investment Thinking of AI PC: Lightweight of Thermal Shielding" that heat dissipation is the guarantee for the performance release of AI PC. The heat dissipation performance directly determines the stability and reliability of PC performance. According to Sihan Industrial Research Institute, among the main failure modes of electronic equipment, 55% are caused by high temperature, and the failure rate of electronic components increases exponentially with the increase of working temperature. For every 10℃ increase in temperature, the reliability of the system decreases by 50%, so the heat dissipation ability of PC becomes one of the key factors affecting the overall performance.

It is understood that Lingyizhi provides customers with a variety of heat sinks, such as VC vapor chamber, graphite film heat sinks, heat pipe welding modules, copper fiber heat pipes and other products, and is the core supplier of such products. And after years of layout, in addition to the research and development and production of traditional heat dissipation components and modules, the company also provides customers with a full range of customized thermal management product solutions, providing one-stop service for design, testing and production.

Lingyizhi Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is committed to becoming the leader of the global intelligent manufacturing industry chain platform. By continuously improving its research and development capabilities and deploying vertical integration of industries, it has formed a new development advantage of combining upstream materials, midstream precision functional parts and structural parts with downstream modules and chargers, and provided customers with one-stop intelligent manufacturing services and solutions on a global scale. The market share and shipments of the company’s precision functional parts have been in the leading position in the global consumer electronics market for many years, and set industry standards in quality, technology and other aspects, and further penetrated into emerging markets such as new energy vehicles, photovoltaics and energy storage, and at the same time committed to building an AI hardware manufacturing platform.

In terms of business, the company actively stuck in the artificial intelligence hardware track, and XR, robot and other businesses set sail. The company provides soft functional parts, injection molded parts, cooling solutions, chargers and other core components for global XR customers. Recently, according to the interactive platform of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the company continues to lay out the business of precision functional components and modules. At present, it only provides related components such as chargers for Humane’s first screenless wearable device AI Pin. AI Pin is not only a technical and hardware innovation, but also marks a potential turning point in the paradigm of human-computer interaction. In addition, the company continues to pay attention to the innovation and upgrading of frontier technologies related to robots, and actively explores their specific applications and collaboration in their own business fields. The company also applies the research and development of artificial intelligence and robots to the overall industrial solution of automatic production, and is committed to building an intelligent production workshop with internationally advanced technology and equipment level and leading domestic level, combining various and multifunctional numerical control and automation equipment independently developed, and creating an efficient modern smart factory.

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Global R&D starts from Xiangjiang River | Lvman Bio: Brewing Sweet Career with the Power of Science and Technology

Every year, we invest tens of millions of R&D expenses to improve the technology and upgrade the technology. Lvman Bio uses scientific and technological strength to brew sweet business. Not only its products are exported to more than 40 countries and regions around the world, but its annual export sales amount to more than 15 million US dollars, and it has become a leading star enterprise in the natural sweetener industry.

Sweet is a kind of taste. Eating sweets contributes to the secretion of dopamine and can bring people a sense of happiness. In Xiangjiang New District, Hunan, Hunan Lvman Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Lvman Bio") is an enterprise that deeply cultivates the sweet cause under the blessing of science and technology. Based on the big health industry, through the research and innovation of plant extracts and natural sweeteners, Lvman Bio has produced natural sweeteners such as mogroside, stevioside and natural compound sugar, which are exported to more than 40 countries and regions around the world, and achieved rapid revenue growth for many years.

Take technology as the guide, reduce costs and increase efficiency to seize the market.

"Technology and talents are crucial to the development of enterprises. Without high-level R&D and investment, our road to entrepreneurship will not be so smooth, and it is impossible to win today’s position in the natural sweetener market." Zhang Baotang, chairman of Lvman Bio, told the reporter that as a high-tech enterprise growing up in the new district, Lvman Bio has always paid attention to technical strength and innovation, and attached importance to cooperation with universities and colleges in Industry-University-Research.

"We work closely with Hunan Agricultural University, Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other professional colleges and universities to accurately cultivate the technical talents needed by the company. Lvman Bio is a high-value patent achievement transformation unit of the National Plant Resources Component Utilization Research Center of Academician Liu Zhonghua. Professor Gong Yushun, as a pit stop expert of the model expert workstation of Lvman Bio in Hunan Province, provided technical support for the company’s new product research and development and quality control. " Zhang Baotang said, "Every year, we will invest about 10 million yuan in R&D funds to carry out technological transformation and optimization in seedling optimization, plant extraction and application expansion of natural sweeteners."

The first product of green vine biology is Siraitia grosvenorii extract. Because of the low content of sweet components in fruit and limited by the technology at that time, the cost of extracted mogrosides is higher than that of sucrose, and it is not dominant in the market. However, the green vine keeps optimizing the seedling and upgrading process, reducing the cost and increasing the efficiency from the whole process of planting, production and sales, and finally the production cost of mogroside 50%MV is greatly reduced, which is cheaper than sucrose when converted into sweetness cost performance.

With the advantages of sweetness, purity, color and cost, Siraitia grosvenorii extract and sweet tea extract of green vine quickly seized the market. "Now, our Siraitia grosvenorii extract has a global market share of about 5%, and the sweet tea extract has a global market share of about 60%. The company’s products are exported to more than 40 countries and regions such as Europe, America, Japan and Southeast Asia." Zhang Baotang said proudly.

Taking scientific research as a breakthrough and expanding the territory of sweet career

Into the green vine biological natural sweetener manufacturing center, all kinds of advanced production equipment such as pure water equipment, reverse osmosis membrane equipment, ceramic membrane equipment and continuous countercurrent extraction unit are dazzling. It is also equipped with the most advanced research and development instruments and testing equipment in the domestic extraction industry, such as high performance liquid detection equipment and gas chromatography.

"R&D is endless. In 2016, we began to try the intelligent transformation of production, and it takes about one month to improve and upgrade the equipment and technology every year. " Zhang Baotang revealed that at present, Lvman Bio has its own advanced technology in removing heavy metals, pesticide residues and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and has applied for more than 70 national invention patents, with 32 authorized invention patents. Among them, the project "Research and Industrialization of Green and Efficient Extraction Technology of Siraitia grosvenorii" has strong technical innovation, ranking the leading level in the same industry in China.

In the green vine, the slogan "One fruit, two leaves, change the sweet cause of mankind" is particularly eye-catching. However, the green vine creatures that started with natural sweeteners did not stop there. "For example, there are not only sweet ingredients in Siraitia grosvenorii, but also other beneficial ingredients. We are studying how to’ squeeze clean’ the value of each Siraitia grosvenorii." Zhang Baotang said with a smile.

Relying on the natural sweetener research institute established by the company, Zhang Baotang led a first-class R&D team including phytochemistry, traditional Chinese medicine, biotechnology and natural medicinal chemistry, and actively participated in R&D work. With their joint efforts, Greenvine has successfully developed more than 240 kinds of standard plant extracts, which can produce as many as 900 kinds of plant extracts, with an annual production capacity of more than 800 tons.

"At present, Lvman Bio has two plant extraction production plants with cGMP (Good Manufacturing Practice for Chinese Herbal Medicine) standards. The second-phase sweetener production project of Hunan Tianman Bio, a wholly-owned subsidiary, is expected to be partially put into production this year. After all the production, our company’s production capacity will be expanded to 5 to 10 times." Zhang Baotang introduced.

With the aim of "serving human health and helping to reduce blood sugar globally", Lvman Bio has completed the whole industrial chain layout of Siraitia grosvenorii and other products from seedlings to dining tables, and is striding forward to become the leading enterprise of natural sweeteners in China.

Wuhan Beijing BJ60 special sale! Reserve price 209,800, hurry up

Welcome to Autohome Wuhan Promotion Channel, today brings you an exciting car purchase news! This high-profile SUV model is currently having a big promotion. In the Wuhan area, you have the opportunity to enjoy a car purchase discount of up to 30,000 yuan, and the minimum starting price is already as low as 209,800 yuan. This is an opportunity not to be missed. If you want to know more details and get higher discounts, just click the "Check the car price" button in the quotation form, let’s seize this car purchase opportunity together.

武汉北京BJ60特价出售!底价20.98万,赶快行动

The Beijing BJ60 shows its unique style with a tough and atmospheric exterior design. The front face is equipped with a large chrome-plated air intake grille, which complements the powerful headlight group, showing a sense of power and luxury. The body lines are smooth and full, and the overall style combines off-road and urban elements, which not only meets the needs of outdoor adventure, but also meets the elegance of urban driving. The contour design on the side of the body highlights the sense of power, and the tail shows a simple and stable shape. The details reflect the unique charm of the BJ60.

武汉北京BJ60特价出售!底价20.98万,赶快行动

The side lines of the Beijing BJ60 are elegantly designed and tough. The body size is 5040mm x 1955mm x 1925mm, and the wheelbase reaches 2820mm, ensuring a spacious interior space. The front and rear wheel tracks are 1620mm and 1640mm respectively, providing excellent stability for the vehicle. The car is equipped with 265/65 R18 tires, and the tire specifications complement the rim style, which not only enhances the driving performance, but also adds to the visual beauty of the vehicle. Overall, the side design of the Beijing BJ60 combines practicality and aesthetics, showing a unique urban off-road style.

武汉北京BJ60特价出售!底价20.98万,赶快行动

The interior design of the Beijing BJ60 focuses on practicality and comfort, and the steering wheel is wrapped in exquisite leather material to provide a good grip. The steering wheel supports manual up and down + front and rear adjustment to meet the individual needs of the driver. The center console is equipped with a large 12.8-inch screen, integrated with automatic speech recognition control system, which brings convenient operation experience to the driver. In terms of seats, whether it is imitation leather material or multi-directional adjustment functions of the main and passenger seats, such as front and rear, backrest, high and low and waist support, are designed to provide ultimate ride comfort. In addition, the front seats are equipped with heating, ventilation and massage functions, as well as power seat memory functions, reflecting Beijing BJ60’s attention to detail and satisfaction of user requests.

武汉北京BJ60特价出售!底价20.98万,赶快行动

The Beijing BJ60 is equipped with a 2.0T engine with a maximum power of 120 kilowatts and a strong torque of 400 Nm. The engine has an output of 163 horsepower, providing ample power support for the vehicle. Matched with an 8-speed automatic transmission, it ensures smoothness and driving pleasure.

Summarizing the evaluation of car owners, Beijing BJ60, with its atmospheric appearance, high-quality interior and strong performance, shows high cost performance at an extremely attractive price of more than 200,000 yuan. The car owner particularly appreciates its quality beyond the same level of models, as well as the various preferential policies enjoyed, such as purchase tax reduction and factory activities, which saved him nearly 20,000 yuan in the car purchase process. In addition, he is also satisfied with the gifts and lifelong basic maintenance services provided by the store. Feng Gongzi emphasized that from the whole to the details, the BJ60 is undoubtedly a golden cost-effective choice, and it is undoubtedly an excellent choice for drivers who love driving.

The TV drama "The Great Road" tells the history of the revolution from the perspective of economic construction

  The major revolutionary history drama "Avenue Salary" is being broadcast. The drama tells the history of the revolution from the perspective of economic construction and shows the original mission and struggle of the Chinese Communist Party.

  The drama was co-produced by the Propaganda Department of the Jiangxi, Shandong and Guizhou Provincial Party Committees. Song Yeming served as the chief director, Zhang Qiang served as the chief screenwriter, and Hou Jingjian, Zhang Bo, Wang Weizhi, and Xu Xiaosa starred. The drama focuses on the economic construction of the Chinese Soviet Republic during the historical period from 1931 to 1935. By reproducing the story of the Chinese Communists punishing corruption, strengthening the construction of education, medical care and other fields, and solving various local people’s livelihood problems, it shows the spiritual quality of the Communists who are not afraid of difficulties, face difficulties, and serve the people wholeheartedly.

  According to reports, in order to film this drama well, the main creative team went to the scene where the story took place to film, and truly reproduced famous battle scenes such as the Battle of Shuikou, the Battle of Guangchang, and the Battle of Xiangjiang.

  Reporter: Wang Peng

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The weather is so hot, there is always a power outage in Xixiang, Baoan! The power supply bureau responded like this.

Bao ‘an Daily, August 16, 2019. The weather in Shenzhen recently.It’s hot except hot!From morning heat to night,Leaving the air conditioner is sweating,In fact, the most terrible thing in summer is not the heat!It’s a power outageThe weather has been hot recently,Residents’ electricity consumption has surged,Frequent power outages occurred in some areas of Baoan.Xiaobian field investigation and contact Baoan Power Supply Bureau.

To this question,Relevant staff responded to the recent power outage.

Electricity overload in hot weather

Baoan power supply bureau quick check and reply

Recently, some netizens reported that No.140, Gongle Shangtang, Xixiang, Baoan, had a power outage for two consecutive nights from August 12th to 13th.For this case,Xiaobian learned from Baoan Power Supply Bureau,There are many tenants in the compartment of the residential building in the village.The electric load increases in hot weather,Heavy load operation of transformer leads to over-current and burning of the front line of the meter,After receiving the news,Baoan Power Supply Bureau organized the investigation,Construction personnel timely replace the meter front line to restore power supply.The next day,Due to the substantial increase in electricity loadTransformer branch switch is overloaded and tripped,This led to another power outage in the area of No.140, Shangtang, Gongle.

Baoan Power Supply Bureau:

Arrange personnel for low-voltage load regulation to restore power supply.

In order to ensure the electricity consumption in this area, Baoan Power Supply Bureau has worked out and implemented a load regulation scheme to temporarily alleviate the electricity shortage in this area by checking and sorting out the line load in this area. However, in view of the problem of heavy-load operation of transformers, it is impossible to add transformers because of the shortage of electricity rooms in this area. Only when the community provides electricity rooms for the power supply bureau can the shortage of electricity in this area be completely solved to meet the growth of residents’ load.

Residential buildings turn off power every night.

In fact, the property itself "uses electricity at the wrong peak"

Recently, our citizen hotline received a call from the public, saying that in Xicheng Community of Shajing Street, several buildings have been blacked out in turn every night in recent days, which has caused troubles to residents’ daily electricity consumption.

After verification by Baoan Power Supply Bureau,Xicheng community where citizens live.Non-Baoan power supply bureau meter reading users,Property owner of power supply transformerShenzhen bailihongji investment development co., ltd.The power outage in the community is due toThe property management office of the residential area is worried about the overload of electricity consumption.If the equipment is damaged, "off-peak power consumption" will be carried out by itself.The residential buildings in the whole community only have the phenomenon of power failure in turn.This measure belongs to the self-limiting behavior of the residential property.Non-Bao ‘an Power Supply Bureau’s measures of "off-peak power consumption" and line failure.

Baoan power supply bureau is also interested in transformer property rightsIssue a rectification notice for potential safety hazards in electricity consumption,Ask it to go to the power supply bureau for capacity increase as soon as possible,Eliminate potential safety hazards.

It is understood that according to the relevant regulations, the power supply bureau implements meter reading to households with legal property rights, and then manages power points in compliance. Some unified buildings or houses with small property rights have no legal property rights, so the power supply bureau failed to read the meter to the households, and the transformer property rights party is responsible for the electricity consumption of these users who have not read the meter to the households.

In order to effectively solve the power outage problem,Baoan Power Supply Bureau appealed,Citizens and friends understand and strongly support the construction of power supply facilities.Work together to create a good environment for power supply and use.

From Brutal Violence to Good Friends of Human Beings: Intergenerational Change of Aliens in American Science Fiction Works

The theme of aliens has always been an extremely important part of American science fiction literature and science fiction movies. Interestingly, according to the summary of scholars, the alien images in these sci-fi works have undergone complex changes of the times and generations. For example, aliens in the 1960s and before were often cruel, violent and aggressive, while aliens in the 1970s and 1980s were peaceful and became good friends of human beings.

From fifty years ago to now, what changes have people experienced in the image of aliens in the imaginary world? Why did this change happen?

Aliens before the 1960s

Before the 1960s, the science fiction craze in the United States had just started. During this period, there appeared alien works such as World War, UFO Invasion of the Earth, Invisible Invaders and so on. Generally speaking, the alien images at this time are mostly cruel, militant and irrational.

The movie The War of the Worlds is based on the original novel of the same name by British writer H.G. Wells.

In 1953, The War of the Worlds told us that aliens from Mars could not survive because of the sudden change of climate on Mars, and planned to invade the earth on a large scale. When the first spaceship landed on the earth, nearby residents thought it was a meteorite. Dr. Crawfast learned that there was radioactivity through the detection instrument, and he had to wait until it was cooled before he could see it. However, some people went to watch it out of curiosity, only to be killed. Human weapons could not fight against Martians, and the whole earth was in a mess. At the beginning of the whole film, Martians killed three unarmed young people who shouted "We are friends" and "We welcome you".

Stills of UFO Invasion of the Earth.

In 1956, UFO Invasion of the Earth was about aliens trying to invade the Earth. After encountering aliens, Dr. Lu Se developed a secret weapon of high-frequency ultrasound, which eventually subdued the aliens. It is worth noting that there is also a strong "human imagination" in this film, that is, aliens have human-like limbs, wear clothes similar to humans, and have a similar structure to humans. The only difference is that the aliens’ heads are buns-shaped and have no facial features. Probably because the routine is simple, and the production level of early science fiction films is still rough, on Douban, this film only scored 5.7 points.

Some scholars have analyzed that this image of aliens in this era is inseparable from the outbreak of the Korean War. In the film, human beings are faced with all the weapons that aliens can use, even nuclear weapons. This confrontation actually reflects that Americans demonize their enemies through a cultural product such as movies, and then find reasons for their violent behavior. Anyone in the film who shows the idea of submission or anti-war will be criticized, and the spirit of fighting to the end will be respected.

Aliens in the 1970s and 1980s

Different from the previous era, the aliens in this period were gentle, simple and amiable as a whole, but human beings seemed "inhuman". Representative works include E.T. Alien, Cocoon, Alien Lover and so on.

Alien lovers.

In 1984′ s Alien Lovers, an alien was shot down by the earthlings because of his spaceship. He was injured and went to the widow’s house, and borrowed her husband’s body to continue his life. In the process of learning the life style of the earth people, aliens have feelings with widows. Like many alien science fiction works at this time, "separation" is inevitable, and the alien rescue team will arrive in three days and take him back to space. Two government officials on earth received the message and decided to catch aliens.

E.t. aliens.

This story is almost the same as E.T. Alien, which was released in 1982. The latter is that children in the human world found a little alien who was accidentally lost. He quietly took in the little alien and treated E.T. with the greatest kindness and introduced him to his friends. However, people finally found E.T. and put it in the laboratory, so the friends began a rescue journey.

Most of the aliens in this period came to visit the earth because of accidents, which was different from the previous "weird" ferocity. At this time, the aliens either had a sense of "sprouting" or approached the human image, which was different from that in the 1950 s only from the design of characters. On the contrary, people on earth are extremely unfriendly to aliens because of greed or in the name of "science"

This presentation is also related to the change of American society’s view of war after the Vietnam War, which is very different from the Korean War era. At this time, the people are looking forward to peace in the mainstream. As an "other" image, aliens also turn enemies into friends in movies, and all contradictions are entangled in human beings themselves.

Aliens after the 1990s.

Near the end of the century, the images of aliens in sci-fi works show different patterns, which mainly have two characteristics. One is that some sci-fi movies are different from the mainstream in the previous era, and the thinking of aliens after 1990 is more complicated; The second is that some films have fallen back to before 1960. At this time, representative works such as Contact in Time and Space, Independence Day, Surprise and District 9.

Aliens in "Sky Attack".

In 1996, the movie "Sky Attack" told that the earth suddenly received radio waves from outside the solar system, which made the weather unpredictable everywhere. Scientists began to investigate this phenomenon and found that aliens had settled in a corner of the earth and changed into people on earth. They are trying to change the weather on the earth, and scientists need to stop it from happening. In terms of value orientation, this film actually goes back to before the 1960s, that is, aliens are regarded as enemies.

The aliens in District 9 are a bit like locusts and a bit like shrimps.

In addition, District 9 and The Impersonator all show more complicated aspects. For example, in "District 9" in 2009, the aliens in the film looked like locusts and were extremely ugly. They came to the earth because of the poverty of other planets. The United Nations set up a special "District 9" to take care of them, but with the improvement of physical conditions, they brought a lot of trouble to the local public security, and the government decided to move these aliens to refugee areas. In the film, these aliens are ugly, cruel and decadent, drunk and robbed, but they are also rich in wisdom and know how to repay their kindness, which shows great goodwill to the human beings who help them.

From beginning to end, aliens are regarded as "the other" in the human film world. Aliens will not participate in human life, and even if they turn into human beings to participate in the operation of human society, they will eventually face the problem of "return". Moreover, the design and production of science fiction films are entirely out of human imagination. In this imagination space, whether the "other" of aliens is hostile or peaceful, whether it is revenge or good for evil, it profoundly reflects a country’s imagination of the outside world.

references

Nie Xinru: Cold War Thinking and Alien Construction in American Science Fiction Films (Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition), No.3, 2013).