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I still remember the animated film Inside Out released by Pixar in 2015, which personified people’s five basic emotions and made people re-examine their emotions in laughter.

This time, Pixar applied the creative idea of "everything can be anthropomorphic" to natural elements, bringing a brand-new fantasy story-

Crazy element city

Fire, water, wind and earth live together in a dream city.

They seem to repel each other, but they can influence each other, colliding with crazy and interesting chemical reactions, and even bringing a love story of "fire and water are incompatible"?

On the occasion of the upcoming film release this Friday (June 16th), Time Jun will take you to see what new elements Pixar has brought to the audience from the picture to the story.

Technical force explosion

In fact, the idea of anthropomorphizing elements is not novel. After all, many people have played the flash game "The Man in the Forest" in the computer room:

But to present this idea perfectly on the big screen requires an extremely professional industrialization process and world-leading technical force.

In this regard, we can always trust Pixar’s technology-

When the gate of Element City is opened, you are greeted with a visual feast that you can enjoy to the utmost.

Absent-minded clouds that come and go freely have injected a trace of cure and accident into the city:

The soil looks dirty, but it is the hero who built and supported the whole urban structure:

Hot and active fire, with a steady stream of energy and energy, provides a solid foundation for the city:

Water full of curiosity always protects and nourishes the natural environment of the city;

In these special urban residents, we can feel that Pixar has created a new height for the presentation of dynamic effects.

For example, Pixar has made great efforts to describe the movement track of "fire", observing the flame in the real world, looking for inspiration, and then performing artistic processing.

So, you can see that when the fire is moving rapidly, sometimes part of the body disappears and rises again:

The audience can feel that this is really a group of "fire people", not a person with "flame skin".

Of course, it takes explosive technical force to make all kinds of elements lifelike, but it takes imagination and sincere observation of life to make these elements truly "characters" and have their own lives in a logical way.

In the trailer, we can see a lot of people who can’t help but sigh "so imaginative, but so real!" The details.

Fire Baby’s stroller is an oven, and milk powder is engine oil;

Fire can also make a hot air balloon heated and take off for a romantic air date:

When water glides on the surface of the lake at a high speed, it can stir up spray and hang a rainbow on the horizon:

Of course, sometimes jokes will be made, such as the fire accidentally hitting the soil wearing a "turf coat" and burning him bald in an instant:

The elements live in this city, and every interaction between them can collide with interesting events, which makes the world truly convincing.

Stimulation of technical strength and imagination, sincere love for life … These "creative elements" complement each other, which is the reason why Pixar animation touches people’s hearts again and again.

Fire and water love

In the gorgeous and magical element city, the classic story of "boy meets girl" is also staged all the time.

However, the two protagonists of this love story are fire and water, Xiao Yan and A Bo.

The gap between the two is so deep that it seems to span an entire periodic table, and it is completely impossible to have a happy ending.

Xiaoyan lives in a traditional family and has the responsibility of inheriting the family business.

Her family has always taught her that "elements are incompatible" and excluded other elements. She has also been taught and has never left the fiery town where the fire elements live.

It was not until Po suddenly jumped out of the burst water pipe that a bigger world slowly opened in front of her.

Contrary to Xiaoyan, A Bo lives in an optimistic family, free and unrestrained, and Xiaoyan is also welcome to outsiders.

The acquaintance with A Bo made Xiao Yan curious about the larger element world, bravely took the step of exploration, and began to pursue his true inner desire.

This is not only a romantic love story across ethnic groups, but also a story of finding self-identity and embracing more possibilities.

In Pixar’s past classic feature films, love rarely served as the main narrative theme, but through some descriptions with little ink, the innocence and sincerity among them have moved the audience to tears.

For example, in Travels around the Flying House, Grandpa Carl and his wife were childhood friends, and the montage clip of their love for a lifetime was tearful to the whole world, explaining what is plain and true:

The pure love between Wali and Eva in Robot Story has also brought happy childhood memories to countless people, telling us that true love may not need the pretense of words:

As for the love between fire and water in Crazy Element City, can Pixar bring us another romantic adventure?

I look forward to how they can overcome many obstacles, know each other and love each other, turn compatibility into compatibility, and turn the impossible into possibility.

Asian perspective

As Pixar’s brand-new feature film masterpiece, Crazy Element City is in full swing and has assembled a gold medal team.

There is a core team that once created Soul and other excellent works with high scores, the chief creative officer of Pixar Studio, and Pete Docter, who directed Inside Out’s Travel Around the Flying House and other Oscar classics, as the producer.

As for Peter Sun, an Asian director who once participated in the production of Summer Friendship Day and Travel Notes around Flying Houses, many people may not be familiar with him.

Most of the time, he is active in animation as a voice actor, and his voice (Ganke Lee) is in the recently released Spider-Man: The Vertical and Horizontal Universe.

He is a new director, but he also has impressive works.

For example, in 2009, the animated short film "Violent Clouds and Crane Delivery" recounted an ancient western legend with a bold and unconstrained style and healing warmth.

For more than five minutes, the soft and changeable "violent cloud" made people feel warm:

What makes people smile is that we can also see the lovely cure of the same paragraph in the "wind" in "Crazy Element City":

In Crazy Element City, we can see Peter Sun’s Asian perspective and narrative about cultural conflicts.

The love story of Xiao Yan and A Bo, which is "incompatible with fire and water", comes from his marriage.

Born in a Korean family, he has been shouldering the responsibility of continuing the tradition since he was a child. Grandma’s expectation for him is "marry a Korean!" .

However, he fell in love with a white woman and got married, which caused many dramatic events in two families.

A small detail can be seen in the trailer. A Bo tried to eat very hot food and burned himself to deformation.

The details of this life also come from the director’s emotional story. He took his wife and her family to a Korean restaurant, but as a result, her wife was not used to eating too spicy food and made some accidents:

At first, the two could only associate behind his parents’ backs, but fortunately, in the end, true love prevailed, and both families finally accepted each other, and they also found many things in common in this marriage with different skin colors.

From this, we can also see that individuals who seem to be "incompatible with fire and water" can actually merge into one as long as they have love to cross obstacles, bringing incomparable touch.

Besides the love story, the setting of Element City also comes from the director’s life experience. As the son of immigrants, the residents in Element City are very different, which obviously refers to the ethnic diversity in the city.

It can also be seen from the choice of directors that Pixar attaches importance to and encourages Asian groups.

From "Metamorphosis of Youth" to "Crazy Element City" today, new directors are boldly used, and the audience can witness more works from Asian perspectives.

In both works, there are themes about the "heavy love" of traditional East Asian families and the identity of immigrants, which are quite cordial to East Asian audiences.

Of course, I also expect these Asian directors to bring more narratives that are not limited to identity, so that audiences all over the world can resonate.

　　The 5th New Youth Composition Competition hosted by qianjiang evening news ended the day before the competition, and yesterday it set off a tearful climax outside the venue.

　　The composition "Meng Po Tang" written by a high school girl at the final scene poked too many tears.

　　This article is the first prize work of the senior high school group, written by Shen Tu Jiaying of Class 16, Grade 2, Dongyang Middle School. She wrote a story between herself and her mother who suffered brain injury due to a car accident. Qianbao Education WeChat "Shengxuebao" pushed this composition yesterday and quickly broke 100,000+.Netizens left a touching message.

　　What kind of touching story is hidden behind this award-winning composition? Yesterday, Qianbao reporter went to Dongyang to interview Shen Tujiaying, a school student, and visited her seriously ill mother in Hangzhou. While crying, the reporter wrote the story.

　　The mother who bickered every day suddenly lost her memory in a car accident, and her daughter wrote an article "Meng Po Tang" at the scene of the composition contest.

　　A tearful story inspired by a first-prize composition

　　On December 16, the day of the final of the new junior composition contest, Shen Tu Jiaying’s father secretly came to the examination room from the hospital to see his daughter. However, they didn’t meet each other until the time of handing in the papers passed. In a hurry, he went into the examination room to ask the staff whether their daughter had come to the competition. My father inadvertently glanced at the sealed composition paper and recognized the beautiful handwriting of the composition paper at a glance. "My mother hasn’t said a word to me for sixty-nine days and nights." After reading this sentence, he cried against the wall on the spot and sobbed, "This is written by my daughter!" The staff quickly held him.

　　This "Meng Po Tang" is about Shen Tu Jiaying and her mother. Due to a car accident in Dongyang, my mother entered the intensive care unit and was sent to the hospital in Hangzhou for emergency treatment. Now, although she has woken up, she can’t remember her relatives or even answer who she is because of the lack of oxygen in her brain.

　　For Shen Tujiaying, her mother is like drinking Meng Po Tang. In her composition, she wrote: "I often open WeChat to open my mother’s dialog box, which was sent three hours before my mother’s car accident ‘ Chicken soup ’ I didn’t even bother to finish reading it. Sixty-nine days, I didn’t want to delete … … A total of 180 words, every word is stuck in my heart. "

　　All the 236 contestants entered the finals with a feeling of anxiety or complacency, only the girl’s heart was sad.

　　As a result, at the composition final, the writer Yu Hua’s "Who am I" became the place where this high school girl recalled the mother-daughter relationship and poured out her thoughts.

　　Because Shen Tujiaying returned to Dongyang to take the school exam, the next day, the father came to receive the prize for his daughter. He took out a mobile phone with a broken screen and showed it to the reporter. This is his mother’s mobile phone. In the mobile phone, there is the 180-word long WeChat sent to his daughter on October 7, "Twelve years of hard work in a cold window makes a difference ‘ Hollow man ’ … … The primary task of students should be to learn to live. "

　　In fact, in my father’s eyes, my daughter is really great. "She has done very well since she was a child. She was admitted to a key middle school and ranked quite high. She has always enjoyed reading and writing articles. "

　　Daughter and father can say anything, but they can’t always say anything with their mother. "She doesn’t like to listen to her mother’s nagging. And children have their own ideas during the rebellious period. She wrote a good article, but she chose science, and her mother didn’t agree. " Father told reporters.

　　My mother nags and my daughter dislikes. My daughter wrote in the final composition that no matter how "naughty" her daughter is, her mother "will forgive me after all, Qian Qian." Until the accident happened, "this time, my mother won’t forgive me."

　　It took more than 600 thousand yuan to transfer from Dongyang to the intensive care unit in Hangzhou in two months, and the driver who caused the accident could not afford the medical expenses.

　　"I think money is not a difficulty, but a mental blow and pressure." The father said with tears in his eyes, "She doesn’t remember anyone. She can’t even recognize the child."

　　The reason why the father collapsed and cried when he saw his daughter’s handwriting was because he was distressed by his daughter who was not known by his mother, his wife who had severe amnesia, and his happy little family.

　　Cctv newsAt present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is booming. How can Beijing promote the construction of a national science and technology innovation center and accelerate the establishment of a science and technology innovation center with global influence?

　　On September 19th, the State Council Press Office held a series of press conferences of provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). Chen Jining, deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and mayor of Beijing Municipal People’s Government, invited scientists and entrepreneurs from all over the world when answering questions from CCTV reporters. He said: at present, mankind is facing many global problems and challenges. These problems require the joint efforts of scientists from all countries and increase exchanges and cooperation between them. Beijing sincerely welcomes scientists and entrepreneurs from all over the world to come to Beijing for development, and Beijing will provide more convenient scientific research and living conditions.

　　The biggest advantage of Beijing is the advantages of talents and science and technology. In terms of innovative resources, Beijing is rich in talents and scientific and technological resources. There are more than 90 universities, more than 1,000 scientific research institutes, 120 national key laboratories, 68 national engineering technology research centers, about 860,000 college students and 25,000 national high-tech enterprises in Beijing. In terms of quality, Beijing’s innovation resources are better. Half of the top talents’ best disciplines and best laboratories are in Beijing, and Beijing’s R&D investment intensity is 6.17%, ranking first in the country. About half of the first prize of national scientific and technological achievements and the top ten scientific and technological progress in China come from Beijing every year.In terms of innovation vitality, Beijing is also a well-deserved city with the most active innovation and entrepreneurship in the world.There are about 200 innovative enterprises in Beijing every day, and the amount of venture capital and the number of cases account for about 30% of the whole country.If we look at VC/PE investment in technological innovation, Beijing is second only to Silicon Valley as a global city.In the latest list of unicorns, 82 enterprises in Beijing were selected, accounting for nearly half of the country. In some advantageous innovation fields, Beijing’s characteristics are even more obvious. For example, in the field of artificial intelligence, 60% of the country’s artificial intelligence talents gather in Beijing. Among the top 100 global artificial intelligence enterprises, there are 6 in China, including 5 in Beijing.

　　In the face of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, Beijing, as a national scientific and technological innovation center, bears a major historical mission and national responsibility. Therefore, scientific and technological innovation is the most important work here, and three aspects of work are mainly grasped.The first is the construction of innovation system. The second is to innovate ecological construction. The third is the construction of innovative culture.

　　In terms of innovation systemBeijing has made a series of institutional breakthroughs in scientific research management, performance evaluation, rights and interests of scientific and technological achievements, long-term capital support, etc. All these are to solve some deep-seated problems in scientific and technological innovation, with the aim of stimulating the enthusiasm and creativity of all kinds of innovative subjects. Beijing has issued 28 regulations on scientific research projects and funds management, giving researchers more tolerance and trust, so that scientific research funds should be spent well as well. Beijing has established a number of new R&D institutions, such as Beijing Institute of Quantum Information Science, Brain Science and Brain-like Science Research Center. Through the construction of these new R&D institutions, the organization and management of scientific research can be solved, and a long-term stable support and an open and flexible employment mechanism can be formed. Beijing has also specially established a mother fund for scientific and technological innovation with a scale of 30 billion yuan to stimulate and attract social investment, which can be enlarged to 100-150 billion yuan. The most important feature of this fund is that its capital investment period can be 10-15 years, which is the longest investment innovation fund. Through the establishment of this parent fund, it is necessary to solve the problem of insufficient patient capital and long-term capital, and encourage innovative subjects to carry out long-term sustainable innovation in hard technology and deep technology.

　　Recently, Beijing is speeding up the study and promoting the revision of the Regulations on Promoting the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements, which is a local legislation. It is hoped that the ownership of scientific and technological achievements, the distribution of transformation income, and the exemption from due diligence will be clearly defined in the form of law, and the core is to solve the property rights problem of scientific and technological achievements. The property right of scientific and technological achievements has been transformed from the ownership of state units in the past to the individual ownership of scientific and technological personnel, and the state can participate in the distribution, but the property right can be personal. Some scientists say that if this regulation is promulgated, it will realize their long-awaited "Children born by themselves can cultivate themselves into adults.”。

　　In terms of innovation ecologyBeijing mainly solves two problems. One is to strengthen the spatial ecological layout, that is, to promote the high-intensity agglomeration of various innovative elements in a limited space, so that chemical changes occur among these innovative subjects. The key point is to do a good job in the construction of "three cities and one district". The three cities are Zhongguancun Science City, Huairou Science City and Future Science City, and the first district is Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone.

　　Zhongguancun Science City systematically lays out the basic frontier and key core technologies, improves the ability to open and gather global innovation resources, strengthens the city’s innovative image, and builds the original innovation source and the main position of independent innovation with global influence.

　　Huairou Science City focuses on the long-term scientific layout, and builds large-scale scientific devices such as comprehensive extreme condition experiments, numerical simulation of the earth system, and high-energy synchrotron radiation light sources to build a comprehensive national science center.

　　In the future science city east area, the current work focus is to revitalize the stock resources of central enterprises, introduce diversified innovation subjects, and create an "energy valley"; The Western District promotes the integration of science and education in Shahe University Town, especially taking Zhongguancun Life Park as the explosion point of the development of the medical and health industry in the city, and deepening the reform of the operation and management system of the park through the open introduction of professional teams.

　　Not long ago, Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone completed its expansion, mainly to undertake the technological achievements of transforming the "three major science cities", build an open and innovative industrial cluster and a high-tech industrial main position, and at the same time link up with Tianjin and Hebei’s innovative industrial chains.

　　The second is to strengthen the ecological construction of the industrial chain, mainly relying on core enterprises, underlying technologies and public innovation platforms. By strengthening the construction of supporting conditions, the innovative elements of the industrial chain will be gathered to promote mutual support and collaborative innovation among industries. In 2017, Beijing issued guidance on the development of 10 high-tech industries, including the new generation of information technology, and also formulated corresponding supporting policies such as finance, land and talents. For example, the land policy, the full implementation of life-cycle management of industrial land, the implementation of flexible annual land transfer, first rent and then let, industrial land can only be used in industry, innovative land can only be used for innovation, support the construction of standard factory buildings for lease to enterprises, which not only greatly reduces the cost of enterprise land, but also prevents land hoarding and speculation. For example, in terms of talent policy, Beijing has greatly broadened the scope of talents around innovation chain, not only paying attention to scientists, but also bringing entrepreneurial investors, engineers, intellectual property lawyers and product managers into the innovative talent system to support them.Since 2018, more than 3,500 talents have gone through the introduction and settlement procedures.At the same time, Beijing is also highly concerned about solving it.The height of talentsProblems, focusing on the introduction and training of a number of.Strategic scientific and technological talents, leading talents in science and technology and leading talents in the industry.. Recently, more than 3,000 apartments for talents and experts have been specially set up in Beijing to support them.　　

　　In terms of innovative cultureVigorously strengthen the creation, protection and application of intellectual property rights, set up intellectual property courts, punish violations of intellectual property rights according to law, and significantly increase the illegal cost of intellectual property rights infringement. Recently, Beijing has specially established an intellectual property insurance system for small and medium-sized enterprises to improve the ability and level of intellectual property protection. In addition, Beijing has also increased its efforts to "send charcoal in the snow" for small and micro science and technology enterprises, and set up a financing guarantee fund of 10 billion yuan to improve the financial services for science and technology-based and innovative enterprises through angel investment, investment-loan linkage and intellectual property pledge loans.

　　Recently, Beijing has formulated and implemented a plan to accelerate the construction of application scenarios, and released the first batch of ten major application scenario construction projects with a total investment of more than 3 billion yuan, relying on urban governance, government services, and key projects of major events such as the Winter Olympics, the World Expo and Daxing International Airport. At the same time, a number of new application scenarios are collected for Zhongguancun innovation subjects every year. Beijing also pays special attention to strengthening innovation education, raising citizens’ awareness of innovation, making respecting knowledge and innovation become the consensus of the whole society, and creating an innovation culture that encourages innovation and tolerates failure.

　　In a word, by constantly improving the innovation system, optimizing the innovation ecology and advocating the innovation culture, Beijing has the confidence, conditions and ability to build itself into a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence.

China news agency, Hong Kong, May 4 (Reporter Li Qiwei) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) won 15 awards at the 43rd Geneva International Invention Exhibition this year. Dr. Rong Jiafu from the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU said on the 4th that the catalyst he invented can catalyze waste oil into biodiesel, and the invention won the gold medal in the invention exhibition.

By mastering the precise technology of controlling the surface chemistry of materials, Rong Jiafu’s research team developed a new green biodiesel solid catalyst with high activity and long life for biodiesel raw materials. Rong Jiafu introduced his invention to reporters on the 4th. The catalyst is a kind of solid metal oxide, which is synthesized in a simple way, non-toxic and insoluble in water or oil. It can solve the sewage generated in traditional liquid catalysts and greatly reduce energy consumption, cost and pollution.

Rong Jiafu said that the raw materials of biodiesel can be vegetable oil, animal oil or waste oil. The fuel catalyzed by this catalyst can be directly used in the current diesel supply system, which can completely burn, reduce carbon monoxide emissions by about 80%, reduce fuel cost by half, and reduce engine loss. The invention can be applied to traditional transportation tools such as trains, buses, ships and the like.

Rong Jiafu said that the current production cost of biodiesel is relatively high, but the future production cost will be lower and lower. The next step for the industry is to consider improving the production process and large-scale production, and turning scientific inventions into truly useful market-oriented products.

At the press conference that day, Dr. Ye Weixiong from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of PolyU also introduced the "Advanced Vehicle Parking Navigation Platform Based on the Internet of Things" invented by him, which includes four parts: "Xinhe Parking Application", advanced vehicle parking navigation system, middleware of wireless sensing braking network and intelligent parking system of wireless sensing braking network, and won a special gold award for judging.

Ye Weixiong said that there are problems of insufficient land and too many vehicles in Hong Kong. The platform integrates the latest technologies such as cloud services based on the Internet of Things, near-field communication technology and big data analysis, and can provide an efficient property management system for parking lot management companies in Hong Kong, alleviating traffic conditions in commercial areas and reducing air pollution.

Ye Weixiong said that his team started to develop the platform three years ago and received special funds from the Innovation and Technology Agency of the SAR Government. After successive experiments, more than 30 parking lots have used the system, and citizens can download mobile phone applications for use.

Founded in 1973, Geneva International Invention Exhibition is one of the oldest and largest invention exhibitions in the world. A total of 13 gold medals and 5 silver medals were won by 18 participating projects including companies and universities in Hong Kong Science Park. (End)

Eating bamboo can make a fire, selling cute coquetry can make a fire, and even sitting and doing nothing can make a fire. As a "group pet" of Sichuanese, the giant panda has its own online celebrity attribute. But today, this giant panda in Sichuan is a bit unexpected-the giant panda has a new job and has become an ambassador for cultural tourism in Sichuan!

On September 25th, a naked-eye 3D promo featuring giant pandas with great visual impact kicked off the 6th China (Sichuan) International Tourism Investment Conference and the 7th Sichuan International Tourism Fair, which attracted attention.

In this naked-eye 3D promo, the giant panda "Anyi" came from ancient times, crossed many just visiting, and finally came to the scene of the 6th China (Sichuan) International Tourism Investment Conference and the 7th Sichuan International Tourism Fair, making a stunning appearance! This naive giant panda is the cultural tourism mascot launched in Sichuan. The mascot "Ease" carries many expectations of Sichuan cultural tourism. As the image ambassador of cultural tourism in Sichuan, "Ease" should go to the whole country and the whole world, and even more, it should enter thousands of households and invite tourists from all over the world to go to Sichuan in ease.

The emergence of "comfort" is expected.

Over the past year or so, the propaganda slogan of Sichuan cultural tourism, "Abundance in Three Ninth, Ease in Sichuan", has been widely known at home and abroad. With the continuous integration of cultural tourism in our province, new projects, new consumption scenes, new development models, new discoveries in resources, new achievements in undertakings, and new members of famous counties have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and many "new" are constantly presented.

Flowers are blooming, and focus is needed. An image symbol that can gather many cultural and tourism characteristics of Sichuan and is easy to be recognized by the public-the giant panda "comfort" came into being.

Why is "Comfort" a giant panda?

As China’s national treasure, the giant panda has a high reputation and influence in the world. Taking the image of a cute giant panda with strong affinity as the mascot of Sichuan cultural tourism is conducive to telling Sichuan stories to tourists, enhancing Sichuan’s reputation, promoting Sichuan cultural tourism brands and showing Sichuan’s comfortable and beautiful life.

It is understood that the Sichuan tourism image ambassador launched this time highlights Sichuan’s "comfortable" culture from different angles, reflecting the humanistic spirit of Sichuan people’s openness, tolerance, friendliness and comfort. The panda’s "ease" is lively and lovely, humanized and friendly, and easy to spread. It is the best choice to be the ambassador of Sichuan cultural tourism image.  (grey hair Image courtesy of Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism)