新疆维吾尔自治区今天（5日）在北京举行第十二场涉疆问题新闻发布会，新疆有关部门负责人、行业代表等出席。针对一些境外媒体和智库称，新疆在反恐、去极端化过程中存在“大规模侵犯人权”的问题，新疆维吾尔自治区人民政府新闻发言人伊力江·阿那依提表示，面对严峻复杂的反恐形势和各族群众对打击暴力恐怖犯罪、保障生命财产安全的迫切要求，新疆高举社会主义法治旗帜，借鉴吸收国际社会反恐经验做法，积极践行《联合国全球反恐战略》、联合国《防止暴力极端主义行动计划》的原则和精神，坚持“一手抓打击、一手抓预防”。坚持以事实为根据、以法律为准绳，既依法严厉打击暴力恐怖犯罪，又重视源头治理，通过依法设立教培中心等方式开展去极端化工作，最大限度消除滋生恐怖主义、宗教极端主义的土壤和条件，最大程度保障了公民基本权利免遭侵害。目前，新疆已连续4年多未发生暴力恐怖案件，包括危安案件、公共安全事件在内的刑事案件、治安案件大幅下降，极端主义渗透得到有效遏制，社会治安状况明显好转，人民生活安宁祥和。实践证明，保安全才能保人权，不反恐就不能保人权。依法打击恐怖活动，保障各族人民生命财产安全，是对人权的最根本保护。

　　为确保在反恐中保障人权，避免因反恐而出现侵犯人权的行为，一方面，新疆不断加强反恐立法工作，保障反恐在法治轨道上进行，依法打击恐怖主义行为。比如，先后出台了《新疆维吾尔自治区宗教事务条例》《新疆维吾尔自治区实施〈中华人民共和国反恐怖主义法〉办法》《新疆维吾尔自治区去极端化条例》。另一方面，坚决防止因反恐而发生限制新疆各族群众基本权利的现象，保障人民依法享有广泛权利和自由，保障正常社会生活。比如，在依法设立教培中心开展去极端化工作中，严格贯彻落实中国宪法和法律关于尊重和保障人权的基本原则，充分保障了学员的人格尊严不受侵犯，严禁以任何方式对学员进行人格侮辱和虐待；充分保障了学员的人身自由和通信自由，实行寄宿制管理，学员可以回家，有事请假；充分保障学员宗教信仰自由和使用本民族语言文字的权利。

　　美国基于谎言、谣言对中国新疆人权状况进行无端指责，这只能更加充分暴露美国借人权问题攻击、抹黑新疆，插手新疆事务，干涉中国内政的险恶用心。美国没有资格四处挥舞“人权大棒”，他们需要做的是反省纠正自身犯下的种族灭绝、种族歧视、强迫劳动等人权罪行。（总台央视记者 吴汶倩）

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A house is not only a place to live, but also a harbor of life and a source of happiness. Under the new mode of real estate development, whoever can provide good houses and services for the masses will have a market, development and future. Good service is one of the important yardsticks to measure a good house, and providing good service is an important responsibility of the property management industry. This newspaper specially invited Cheng Peng, a professor from School of Economics and Management of Beijing Forestry University, a member of the Real Estate Market Service Committee of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and a member of the Community Construction Committee, to discuss how "small" properties can undertake the "big" mission.

Decode the connotation of property

China construction news:Please introduce the specific connotation of the concept of property.

Cheng Peng:According to China’s property management regulations, property refers to all kinds of houses that have been built and put into use and their supporting equipment, facilities and venues. Property can be large or small, a unit house can be a property, a building can also be used as a property, and the same building can be divided into several properties according to different ownership.

Taking residential quarters as an example, it includes not only residential buildings, but also daily elevators, various monitoring equipment, pipe network and yard, which together constitute the whole property.

China construction news:In the new development stage, what are the professional values of property management?

Cheng Peng:The core of professional value of property management lies in the daily maintenance and management of houses, such as the maintenance and inspection of elevators according to the requirements of national laws, keeping fire-fighting facilities in a feasible state, no water leakage on the roof, no risk of falling on the facade, etc. Although these are not easy for owners to see, they are the most essential value of property management. To judge the quality of property service enterprises, we should first consider their professionalism in the above aspects, and then pay attention to the environment, safety and other aspects.

Elevator maintenance

Some owners tend to pay more attention to whether the ground of the community is clean and whether the greening is beautiful, but pay less attention to the investment and achievements of property service enterprises in the above aspects. To this end, some property service companies will guide owners to pay attention to more important aspects of property management by holding "computer room open day" and other activities, rather than just paying attention to superficial phenomena.

At present, the whole society has entered the era of housing stock, and a large number of houses have been built for a certain number of years. If the facilities and equipment are not maintained in place, the houses will age ahead of time and affect the ability to maintain and increase assets. Therefore, some work of property management should be enforced, such as regular maintenance and physical examination of houses; Some work can be market-oriented, such as security, cleaning and greening.

China construction news:Housing safety is a concern of owners. How can the property management industry help to ensure housing safety?

Cheng Peng:Specialized property service enterprises have detailed daily maintenance operation manuals, monitoring systems and quality control systems, which can ensure that houses are well maintained. Even if a well-maintained house has a certain age, its unit doors, floors, walls, underground parking lots, lighting and elevators can still be kept in good condition.

Manage and make good use of funds

China construction news:What’s the difference between property service fee and residential special maintenance fund? What’s the role?

Cheng Peng:Property service fee is the daily maintenance expense of residential quarters, and the document No.1864 of Development and Reform Price [2003] clearly stipulates its nine contents, including the salary of property service personnel, social security, welfare expenses, daily maintenance of public facilities in public areas of residential quarters, maintenance of clean and green order, and office expenses.

When the equipment is damaged and the roof leaks a lot, which is beyond the scope of the property service fee, it is necessary to use the special maintenance funds for the house. The fund is used for overhaul, medium repair, renovation and transformation of common facilities of property sharing equipment, and its ownership belongs to all owners.

China construction news:How to ensure the effective use of funds in the process of housing maintenance and renovation?

Cheng Peng:In the process of house maintenance and renovation, the effective use of funds is very important, and the relevant laws also clearly stipulate the use of funds.

For example, some residential areas are affected by hidden dangers left over during the construction period or the equipment maintenance work of a few property service enterprises is not in place, so elevators need to be overhauled in advance. In this process, how to supervise the services of property service enterprises and equipment maintenance companies has become the current difficulty and pain point. Although the owners should play a supervisory role, they are not professional enough, so the government needs to intervene more.

At present, some cities in China have carried out relevant explorations. Ningbo, Zhejiang, Cangzhou, Hebei and other cities have introduced insurance mechanisms to supervise the maintenance activities of property service companies and maintenance companies through insurance companies, so as to ensure that equipment and facilities are effectively maintained in strict accordance with relevant standards, thereby reducing the expenditure of special maintenance funds for housing and avoiding the problems of excessive exhaustion of funds and subsequent financing.

China construction news:How to solve the problem of difficult payment of property service fees?

Cheng Peng:The problem of difficult payment of property service fees in old residential areas has a long history and is not formed in a short period of time. For example, some residents in old residential areas have to pay more than 1,000 yuan in property service fees a year, which is acceptable for office workers, but some elderly people with less pensions will feel greater economic pressure and even consider using this money to buy daily necessities.

Therefore, to solve this problem, we should not simply deny the residents’ willingness to pay, but look for a suitable solution from the perspective of human care.

Help the whole process management.

China construction news:In the early stage of housing design and construction, can the property management industry play a role, help optimize the design, improve the details, and provide guarantee for the later work?

Cheng Peng:In the process of housing design and construction, property service enterprises should give full play to their professional advantages and intervene in the design stage. Housing designers may pay more attention to the design appearance and construction process, but pay less attention to the later maintenance cost and whether it is easy to maintain.

Theoretically, the realty service enterprise should put the specialty first, but in practice, only a few real estate development enterprises and construction companies will let the realty service enterprise intervene in advance. In most cases, the house is handed over to the realty service enterprise through the preliminary service contract after completion, which may lead to problems such as thoughtlessness in the design process and still need further adjustment and improvement.

China construction news:What is the implementation of property management in different types of communities such as old residential areas, new commercial housing and affordable housing? Is there a difference?

Cheng Peng:Property management in old residential areas faces many challenges, a large part of which is due to imperfect equipment and facilities during construction. For example, in the 1980s and 1990s, China had not yet entered the automobile society, and the problem of parking spaces was not considered in the construction of old residential areas. Nowadays, the parking contradiction is prominent, which is beyond the capacity of property service enterprises. Although property service companies will try their best to find parking spaces, it is still difficult to meet the needs of owners, resulting in low satisfaction of owners.

At the same time, the structure of residents in old residential areas also has an impact on property management. In Beijing, for example, most of the old residential areas are retired elderly people, accounting for about half, and the other half includes young families with children and tenants of rented houses. The elderly have a relatively weak understanding and acceptance of property management and a low recognition of the value of property management. Through the investigation of hundreds of residential quarters in Beijing, we found that young people’s recognition and tolerance of property services is obviously better than that of the elderly. This is because the elderly have come from the planned economy era, are accustomed to the logistics services provided by the unit, and have a knot in paying the property service fee. The residents of newly-built residential quarters generally have a high recognition of the value of property services.

Newly-built commercial housing communities are relatively complete in facilities and equipment, residents have a high recognition of the value of property services, and property management is relatively easy to carry out. The property management of affordable housing has unique characteristics due to different policies and security nature, but overall, compared with old residential areas, it may have certain advantages in facilities and residents’ cognition.

China construction news:Owner’s satisfaction is an important index to measure the level of property service management. Then, how should the owners and property service enterprises cooperate and communicate well?

Cheng Peng:Owner’s satisfaction is an important index to measure the management level of property services, but property services are nonstandard and difficult to define accurately.

For example, after cleaning the floor, the cleaning staff may have garbage on the floor due to other factors, which is easy for the owners to misunderstand that the cleaning work is not done well. In order to solve this problem, the owners and property service enterprises can discuss the service standards together. For example, in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the open budget logic is adopted, that is, the property service enterprises and owners discuss the use of property service fees face to face.

For another example, the property service fee of a residential area is expected to be 1 million yuan. The two sides will jointly discuss the cost allocation of equipment and facilities maintenance, cleaning and security, and clarify how many cleaning personnel can be hired according to the urban minimum wage and the corresponding service level, and publicize them in advance for comments.

The advantage of this is to improve transparency and avoid suspicion and distrust caused by the owners’ ignorance of the whereabouts of property service fees. Although China’s property management regulations and related documents require transparency in publicity, the situation in different places is different and needs to be practiced in combination with reality.

Economically developed areas have explored this aspect earlier, such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. This way has effectively reduced the number of complaints about the inaction and non-standard service of property service enterprises by owners calling 12345. After the owners participate in the process of service standard formulation and cost expenditure, their satisfaction naturally improves, which also provides a good guarantee for the follow-up work.

China construction news:In the practice of property management, how to encourage residents to actively participate in community affairs management and effectively promote the concept of community co-construction, co-governance and sharing?

Cheng Peng:In community governance, there are three main bodies: street community (government power), property service enterprises (market power) and owners’ committee (social power). Although all three hope for good community management, many communities fail to achieve the expected results due to different operating logics. Property service enterprises treat communities and owners from a profit perspective; Owners treat property service enterprises from the perspective of property rights; Street community looks at the community from the perspective of order. These logical differences lead to problems in the process of collaboration. For example, under the community governance mode led by property service enterprises, it is difficult to increase the property service fee but the service cost rises, and the owners’ awareness of rights awakens, and the contradictions between the two sides are prominent; In the community governance mode dominated by owners, the professionalism of owners is insufficient, and it is difficult to grasp the professional value behind the integration model of property service enterprises; Although some problems can be solved under the tripartite cooperation mode of property service enterprises, owners and communities, the owners may not give full play to their roles, and the property service enterprises may undertake matters not agreed in the service contract.

Property management affairs public column

The key to solve the problem of community governance is to effectively play the role of owners and let them participate in governance. For example, in the investigation in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, we found that the open budget is an effective method, that is, to make the expenses of the community transparent. Specifically, the transparency of sunshine is first reflected in the transparency of daily operation and maintenance of equipment and facilities, including truthfully telling the owners about the operation of elevators and other equipment and facilities, and not concealing problems; Intervene and supervise the expenses related to safety maintenance to ensure that the funds are spent where they are spent. At the same time, it is necessary to be transparent whether the daily equipment and facilities are operated according to the maintenance requirements. This is not only the transparency of money, but also to let the owners clearly understand the operation and maintenance of the equipment and facilities in the community to ensure the safety of living. In this way, the concept of community co-construction, co-governance and sharing can be promoted and the level of property management can be improved.

Multi-party synergy

China construction news:At present, digital technologies such as big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence are developing rapidly. In the property management industry, are these new technologies also available? What are the specific aspects?

Cheng Peng:New technology has a broad application space in the field of property management. In the aspect of equipment and facilities management, sensors can be placed to monitor the elevator running status in real time, including X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis data, to ensure its operation within the specification range; Monitor whether the fire water pressure is effective; We can also use new technical means, such as China Academy of Construction Sciences using satellites to monitor whether there are potential safety hazards on the facade of the building. Through these technologies, we can find the potential problems of houses in time and take measures to prevent and deal with them before they happen.

With the increasing age of property management practitioners in China, especially cleaning and security personnel, the demand for unmanned security and cleaning will increase in the future. For example, some enterprises have introduced cleaning robots, but a lot of data analysis and observation are still needed to guide the robots to carry out cleaning operations effectively as planned.

In the relationship between property service enterprises and owners, new technologies can be used to effectively monitor the performance of property service contracts. Owners need to know whether the property service enterprises provide services according to the service contract, but the traditional street intervention judgment method has a large workload and high governance cost. Through new Internet technologies or IT means such as smart contracts, problems such as service process marks and dispute judgments can be solved, and the relationship between property service enterprises and owners can be guaranteed to be more standardized and transparent.

China construction news:Talent is the driving force for the development of the industry. What fields of talent does the property management industry need in the future?

Cheng Peng: In the actual operation of residential projects, property service practitioners need to have legal knowledge. The state has clear legal requirements for relevant operations, and employees should be clear about the operating norms and codes and have a clear understanding of the hazards. Knowing the law is one of the important connotations of property service talents. It is not required to graduate from law major, but it is necessary to be familiar with the relevant laws and regulations of property management, which is the basis for ensuring the legal compliance of property management.

Cleaning robot

Most property service companies mainly undertake the functions of house inspection and reporting, similar to general practitioners in community hospitals. Relevant post personnel should be able to judge whether the house needs maintenance and possible hidden dangers, communicate with the owner and report to relevant departments. For these jobs involving daily maintenance of housing safety, a licensed post system should be implemented, and the professionalism of property service enterprises should be reflected through relevant assessment and qualification identification.

In addition, the property service enterprises have gradually become independent from the past as subsidiaries of real estate development enterprises, and the demand for talents is more diversified. In addition to the talents at the project operation level, it is also necessary to study professionals in various fields such as law, strategy, enterprise operation and technology to meet the needs of the company’s development and enhance the company’s comprehensive management and operation capabilities.

China construction news:What are the new trends and changes in property management in China’s current laws and policies? What impact has it brought to property management?

Cheng Peng:With the development of society, China’s property management laws and policies have been constantly adjusted and improved, and there are mainly the following new trends at present.

First, attach importance to the professional value of property management, especially housing safety, and the state will issue relevant mandatory standards to ensure housing safety in place.

The second is to pay attention to the growth and construction of owners’ ability. It is a long process for owners to participate in the improvement of property management ability, which needs to be realized through continuous learning, conflict adjustment and legal terms learning. For example, after years of change and development of owners’ committees in some communities, members of owners’ committees gradually realize that they have to work wholeheartedly for the public in order to be recognized by the owners, so as to carry out their work better.

The third is to strengthen the effective supervision of the property service process, including the construction of the licensing system for post personnel in property service enterprises and the remote monitoring and supervision of equipment operation by using new technologies such as sensors, so as to make up for the problems arising from the failure of the market mechanism.

These new trends of laws and policies have had a far-reaching impact on property management.

In terms of housing safety, the introduction of mandatory standards will encourage property service enterprises to pay more attention to the daily maintenance of houses, improve the level of housing security, reduce potential safety hazards, provide a safer living environment for owners, and help to preserve and increase the value of housing assets.

In the aspect of owner’s ability construction, with the improvement of owner’s participation consciousness and ability, it will promote the communication and cooperation between owners and property service enterprises to be smoother, reduce contradictions and conflicts, and jointly promote the optimization of community management.

In terms of supervision, strengthening supervision measures will standardize the service behavior of property service enterprises, improve the service quality and transparency, protect the legitimate rights and interests of owners, promote the healthy development of the property management industry, make the market mechanism play a better role in the property management industry, and enhance the market competitiveness and development level of the whole industry.

Good houses are closely linked with good services. Building a safe and livable good house and providing warm and warm services are not only related to the improvement of residents’ happiness and the construction of "four good", but also directly related to the market development and future of the property management industry. Only by constantly innovating and optimizing management, improving service quality and meeting the needs of owners and residents can we promote the development of property management industry.

Text arrangement: Han Yali

　　　 Chen Jiashang continues the magical love giant "Painting Wall", which is set to be released nationwide on September 29. The recently released "Nine Beautiful Pictures of Painting Wall" and "Four Children of Painting Wall" have made the world view and erotic relationship of Wonderland a hot topic for netizens. To this end, "Painting Wall" once again sends the "Erotic Relationship Map of the Wonderland System". In addition to the four children and nine beauties, stone demons, mysterious people, golden armored warriors, etc. have all appeared on the scene, and the panoramic display of the entangled erotic relationship and the love-hate entanglement of polyamory love in Painting Wall.

Scholar love into a dream, drag three, love and hate entanglement polyamory

　　　 In the relationship map, the scholar and the saber are the two cores of the relationship between love and lust. The scholar Zhu Xiaolian fell in love with Peony at first sight and married Cuizhu fake, but the relationship with Peony was different. Who did you fall in love with? Who did you hurt? Deng Chao explained: "I have always felt that the character of the scholar is so bad, all the girls are hurt for him, Peony dares to love and hate, Cuizhu is loyal to the family, and Peony is a spiritual love type. They represent different stages of a life’s relationship. Peony is the most mysterious and short, pure and beautiful one of first love. Cuizhu is a person who can accompany you to go down, and Peony may be the person you sometimes think of as your true love. These three people are three different stages of a relationship. Who do you like at the beginning, who accompanies you to the end, and who do you miss in your heart? "

　　　 "Why does the love story of" Strange Tales from Liaozhai "have an enduring charm? The passionate and active female fox fairy ghosts soothe the men’s hearts. People like to watch such love stories, but the love story of" Painting Wall "has its own unique features. What kind of love is good love? Good love is when you see the world through one person, and bad love is when you give up the world for one person. Tangled love relationships, unrequited love, affair, true love… Maybe the relationship between men and women in the city is like this, which is surprising and resonates with you at the same time." Chen Jiashang sighed at the intricate emotions of scholar polyamory.

The swordsman sits and enjoys the happiness of Qi people, and the wives and concubines are in groups

　　　 Scholars fall into polyamorous love, which can still be regarded as three different stages of love, while groups of wives and concubines are even more naked carnal relationships. The saber abandoned Yunmei, Lilac is the main room, and there are three people in the side room: Begonia, Lily, and Xuelian. Zou Zhaolong likes the character very much: "Meng Longtan sees women like this, he thinks that you want to be with me, I like you, and you are OK, then we will be together. If there is tonight, don’t think about tomorrow. When I go to another place, I think I can take as much as possible, because I will take it for emergencies, as long as no one stops me, I will do it. This character is not a typical villain’s concept, and it doesn’t make people feel annoying. Instead, everyone is drunk and he is alone. He is the most sober and the cutest person. "

　　　 "’Liaozhai’ is full of erotic colors, and almost all the articles involve sex. Being soothed by fairy foxes and ghosts is a wonderful affair, but everything has advantages and disadvantages." Chen Jiashang said: "The soothing of women has nothing to do with spirit and flesh. Since Deng Chao plays a scholar who explores the relationship between emotions, then Zou Zhaolong’s Meng Longtan enjoys the happiness of everyone, and is more inclined to lust, but lust is also full of indulgence, revenge, love and hate. It also makes everyone feel that’Painting on the Wall ‘is actually about the stories around you."

The next page: Chen Jiashang is bizarre, the spirit and the body compete

1905 movie network news After a lapse of half a year, the cinema opened its doors again to welcome guests. The educational animated film "Dumb Brothers" was announced as the first family fun movie in the summer, and it was scheduled for July 31 to support the resumption of the national cinema.

Actor Wang Zhi, who is known as "the first love of the people", has been loved by more people recently because of the fire variety "Sister Who Rides the Wind and Waves". As a mother, she accompanied her 3-year-old daughter Xiaomi to watch the movie in advance because of coincidence. Wang Zhi likes the humor, wit, witty characters and scientific knowledge throughout the movie. Xiaomi laughed all the time. After learning the news of the movie’s final file, I broke the news and recommended it to everyone in Weibo as soon as possible, and supported "Dumb Brothers".

Classic IP China’s original whimsy was praised as "children love cartoons"

As a classic animation IP that has been popular in Europe for more than 40 years, "Dumb Brothers" has already had many die-hard fans in Europe by virtue of the endless whimsy DIY spirit in its stories. The film was created by China’s creative team, and it was original again, with full China characteristics. The film was shortlisted for the best animated film at the Shanghai International Film Festival, and the China International Children’s Film Festival was selected as "my favorite animated film" by 300 children, which shows that the quality of the film is extraordinary and worth looking forward to.

With the theme of "Dumb and Agua who are moving", the finalized poster skillfully embodies many small details in the picture. If you look closely, you will find that the address on the box logistics list is "Czech to China", which subtly shows that the film is a Czech classic IP and China is original again; The arrival date on the logistics list is "July 31, 2020", which is the date when the first film of Dumb Brothers was released in China. There are also funny text marks on each box, which also show the humorous personality characteristics of the two little people incisively and vividly … …

It can be said that the picture is full of "small eggs"! Parents and friends who are interested in movies can take the poster as a prop and play the game of "find it" with their children, so as to relax and entertain.

Easy, humorous and creative, full of scientific knowledge, "fool" invention, entertaining and entertaining.

As two classic animated images, Dumb and Agua will make many young and middle-aged audiences feel familiar when they appear. As early as 2008, the Dumb Brothers animated series was broadcast in Jiajia Animation and won the Douban 8.9 rating. Idiot brothers are two good partners with great creative spirit. Their stories are light and funny, but at the same time, there are a lot of educational plots that are unexpected. Funny with creative inventions, the humorous style of "Dumb Brothers" can be said to be refreshing and truly entertaining.

Children’s watching can stimulate their creativity and imagination, and at the same time help them cultivate the courage to solve difficulties and enjoy the sense of happiness and accomplishment in the process of doing things, while adults can relax and decompress without being bored at all. It is strongly recommended that fathers watch and explain the scientific knowledge and common sense of life in the film with children, and enjoy different family time between father and son.

In this trailer, the two people sometimes think and sometimes solve problems, and they are full of cuteness and fun. The short 30-second plot is quite suspenseful, boldly intercepting various seemingly unrelated daily activities of the idiot brothers, playing waist twisting machine, repairing lawn mower and skillfully using drone … … There are troubles, jokes, and endless creativity, which makes the audience curious about their experiences while catching a glimpse of the various brain holes of the idiot brothers.

The freeze-motion animated film "Dumb Brothers" will be released nationwide on July 31, so let’s reunite with the cinema and feel the fun of hands-on creation with the Dumb Brothers.

1905 movie network news A few days ago, the actor took a group photo with the crew "comrades-in-arms" at the peak, which made many netizens recall the feeling of watching "Soldiers Assault".

Soldier Assault, which premiered in 2006, has scored as high as 9.4 points in Douban, and it has also become a classic in many netizens’ minds in domestic military-themed film and television works. The whole drama focuses on the story of a soldier named Xu Sanduo, who, inspired by the spirit of "never giving up, never giving up", gradually grows into a real soldier.

In the group photo, Gao Feng, Gao Feng, Gao Feng, Gao Feng, Gao Feng hugged each other and laughed heartily. Gao Feng even said: "Friendship flies on the wings of ideals, staying together and knowing each other is frozen in memory every time, or those teenagers haven’t changed a bit."

Special feature of 1905 film network Although it is over 70 years old, Cannes International Film Festival still proves with practical actions that it is still the most dynamic one among the "Big Three in Europe" — — Before the final results of the official competition unit were officially announced, all kinds of news in the industry were brilliant and unexpected, such as the biggest "Netflix (Netflix) withdrawal", the demotion of the veteran clique, the rise of the dark horse and so on. Of course, for China fans, besides watching the excitement of other people’s homes, we are most concerned about the performance of Chinese films in the main competition unit.

Finally, at 5pm on April 12th, Beijing time, the organizing committee officially announced the first batch of films in the official competition unit of the 71st Cannes International Film Festival. A total of 1,906 works were submitted this year.

Draw a wave of key points first:

Director Jia Zhangke lived up to expectations and once again entered the main competition unit with his new work. Up to now, he has 17 competitors, including old friends like Ge Daer, Fahati and Hirokazu Koreeda, as well as "new faces" like Ryūsuke Hamaguchi and Panahi in Cannes.

The debut made young director Bi Gan a blockbuster, and with his new film, he went one step further and was selected as the "One Concern" unit of Cannes International Film Festival. Born in 1989, Bi Gan also became the youngest Chinese director in the three major film festivals in Europe.

Jia Zhangke’s new film "Jianghu Children" has a strong lineup.

The fate between Cannes and Jia Zhangke need not be described too much. After all, since 2008, all the films he directed in the past ten years have won the favor of Cannes Film Festival. Except for the documentary, which is a "concern" unit, all the other four films were selected for the main competition.

The new film "Jianghu Children" is defined by Jia Zhangke as a "violent love story", and the background is still in Shanxi, which Jia Zhangke is most familiar with. It tells the story of a 15-year-old emotional entanglement between the model Qiaoqiao and the taxi company owner Bin Ge, which is complicated by criminal incidents. The film was launched at the end of 2017 and the lineup is very strong. In addition to Zhao Tao, the imperial heroine, the leading actor invited Liao Fan, the best leading actor in Berlin Film Festival, as well as Xú Zhēng, Xiaogang Feng and Zhang Yi.

Compared with previous works, the plot of Jianghu Children looks more dramatic. According to the news previously exposed, the film will deconstruct the content of the crime romance film in the form of a road film. For this reason, the crew went to Shanxi, Three Gorges, Xinjiang and other different regions for filming. Director Jia Zhangke also revealed that in order to show the different textures of each era from 2001 to the present, he also deliberately chose six kinds of photographic equipment for filming.

Bi Gan’s "The Last Night of the Earth" or the shooting method is ahead of schedule.

Following Ruijun Li in 2017, Chinese filmmakers once again successfully entered the "One Concern" unit. Although the order of magnitude is far less than the main competition, Bi Gan’s shortlist is enough to surprise and excite us. After all, this young director born in 1989 is not yet 30 years old, and The Last Night on Earth is just his second feature film. This is a film "wrapped in the shell of a detective film, facing self-memory and family relations". When the hero played by Huang Jue returned to Guizhou, he stumbled upon the trace of the "mysterious woman" played by Tang Wei, and then recalled the secret summer he spent with her twelve years ago.

In 2015, Bi Gan made a blockbuster with his debut novel "Roadside Picnic", and successfully won the Best New Director Award of the Golden Horse Award of Taiwan Film that year. The most influential and controversial scene in this work is a 42-minute mirror to the end. At that time, the industry commented that Bi Gan’s shooting techniques combined fantasy and realism, and the visual presentation was very poetic.

As far as we know, in The Last Night on Earth, his attempt will be even bolder — — According to sources, the film will adopt a combination of 2D and 3D, and add a lens to the end that is longer than the roadside picnic. If this is the case in the end, it is not difficult to understand why Fu Mao, artistic director of Cannes Film Festival, commented that "Bi Gan’s new work inherited the styles of Hou Xiaoxian and david lynch" when he announced the finalist of The Last Night of the Earth.

Of course, besides the breakthrough shooting techniques, the cast composed of actors such as Tang Wei, Huang Jue, Zhang Aijia and Hong Chi Lee is also worth looking forward to. Compared with the roadside picnic, which cost only 500 thousand yuan, Bi Gan’s second work has obviously been upgraded by a big leap.

Netfly retires, and the big guide is unstable … … 71-year-old Cannes PK may have a surprise.

Compared with the Oscar, where the routine is getting deeper and deeper and the result is more and more predictable, the nomination of the main competition unit in Cannes is still brilliant enough.

The dispute between Netflix (Netflix) and French cinemas, which has been raging since the last session, finally ushered in a small outbreak this year. Five highly anticipated works (including Alfonso Cuarón’s Rome) finally chose to "retire" because of the escalating war between the two sides. Fu Mao admitted after the press conference that Rome was originally one of the contestants in the main competition unit, which is undoubtedly a pity from the perspective of film creation.

Of course, the "Falling" masterpiece is not just "Rome". According to the news before the release of the film list, Cannes’ biological friends who were rejected by the main competition unit included Ceylon, Naomi Kawase, sorrentino, Vontel and so on. However, the lineages of Fahati, Ge Daer and Hirokazu Koreeda still successfully entered the competition of Palme d ‘Or.

In addition, a number of "new faces" came to the 71st Cannes Film Festival to open up new positions, such as Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (Day and Night), Panahi (Three Faces) and Serebrennikov (Summer). One of them, A.B Shawky, a director from D Egypt, is worth mentioning. He entered the main competition with the film YOMEDDINE, which is also his feature film debut.

The first batch of 18 films were shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 71st Cannes, and there will be several more films after that. The 1905 film network will also continue to pay attention.

Everyone knows (Iran)

Following Moonrise Kingdom (2012), another film is the opening film, and it is also shortlisted in the main competition unit.

This is Fahati’s first Spanish thriller. Fahati was famous at the Berlin International Film Festival for "A Farewell" and has been popular in Cannes ever since. The first French film "Past" won the best screenplay and best actor for Bé ré nice Bejo in 2016, and then won the Oscar for best foreign language film.

The film tells the story of Laura, a Hispanic woman who lives in Argentina, returning to a Spanish town with her husband and children to attend her sister’s wedding. However, the child disappeared inexplicably. This sudden incident made the originally harmonious family start to suspect each other, and the secret that had been sealed for a long time gradually surfaced … …

Another World (France)

Another translation of the film is War. The director’s last work, A Woman’s Life, was shortlisted for the main competition unit in Venice. His 2015 work "Market Law" won the best actor for vincent lindon in the main competition in Cannes. This time, the story of the two people working together again seems to be very similar to the Market Law.

The film tells the story of thousands of workers marching and protesting in France.

Day and Night (Japan)

It can be said to be one of the biggest surprises. Hirokazu Koreeda and Naomi Kawase have occupied the main competition unit in Cannes almost all the year round. This time, the newcomer Hamaguchi is very surprised to get involved!

The director’s previous film "Happy Hour" lasted for five hours, and he was shortlisted for the Locarno International Film Festival (Bi Gan’s "Roadside Picnic" was also shortlisted for this film festival). The new work is adapted from the novel of the same name by Tomoko Shibazaki. Asako, a girl, couldn’t forget her ex-boyfriend who suddenly disappeared. Two years later, she met a man who looked exactly like her ex-boyfriend.

Love, Kiss and Run (France)

This film was favored by many people in the early stage. It will be "120 beats per minute" in Cannes this year. Director Christophe Honoré can be said to be a direct descendant of Cannes. In 2002, "Chapter 17 of Love Shakes" was shortlisted for the "One Concern" unit, and then the most famous "Little Love Song of Paris" was promoted to the main competition unit in Cannes, but the later works have been in a downward trend.

This new film is still a gay film, telling the story of a middle-aged writer who has lost hope in life under forty and a young student who loves to laugh and read. It is understood that this film has been screened in the French media, and its reputation has exploded.

Children of Jianghu (China)

See above.

Daughter of the Sun (France)

Eva yusong

Surprise of the French echelon! This film is the second work of Eva yusong of female directors.

The Book of Images (France)

Your uncle deserves to be your uncle! After being shortlisted as the "leading role" last year, the Great God of Ge Daer will come out in person again this year, so the main competition unit will naturally not fall behind.

This film has been filmed for more than a year, and there have been news such as making up at the beginning of the year. This film is a documentary, but judging from the current stills, it will be an experimental work just like the previous film Goodbye Language. This time, Ge Daer announced to the world with a new film: Only silence!

It can only be said that he is the founder of the "French New Wave", and the 88-year-old father can still have such strong creativity. His previous work "Goodbye Language" has been shortlisted for the main competition unit in Cannes, and finally shared the jury prize with Dolan’s "Mommy".

Doctrine (Italy)

Matteo Garrone

Another translation of this film is Dog-Keeper, and the movie script is said to revolve around the theme of Italian gangster crime.

Galloni won the jury prize twice for his films "Gomorra" and "Reality Show", and his previous work "Story of a Story" was also shortlisted for the main competition unit in Cannes. It can be said that Galloni is also the heart of Cannes.

Capernaum (Lebanon)

Nadi Labaki

Another noteworthy female directors this year, this is her third feature film.

As Cannes begins to attach importance to a new generation of directors, Labaki is likely to receive more attention in the future. Her second feature film, Where Are We Going, was shortlisted for the "One Concern" unit of the 64th Cannes International Film Festival.

The bottom of the Silver Lake (USA)

Director Mitchell’s best crime thriller theme, starring Andrew Garfield. One of the few English films in the main competition unit.

Sam, the leading actor, accidentally got involved in a surreal event in his association with a mysterious woman, and then got into a series of troubles.

Thieves’ Family (Japan)

Hirokazu Koreeda’s creativity is very strong in recent years, but its level is elusive. Last year, the new film "The Third Suspect" broke through itself and ended up in Venice. The previous "Deeper than the Sea" was downgraded to "a concern" unit by Cannes.

In fact, starting from Distance in 2001, Hirokazu Koreeda entered the main competition unit for five times. This film returns to the family field where he is good at. According to his own account, this time, although the perspective is devoted to family themes, it will stay on the discussion of social propositions.

Burning (Korea)

Li Cangdong finally returned after 8 years! The previous work "Poetry" won the Best Screenplay Award in Cannes. This novel Burning is adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story Burning Barn. In the early stage, the film also experienced various difficulties before it was officially launched in September last year.

The film tells the story of three young people with different experiences: Zhong Xiu, Ben and Hui Mei, who meet each other and have a suspenseful event. Yoo Ah In, a popular Korean teenager, plays the pure and sensitive protagonist Zhong Xiu in order to solve the mystery of his beloved woman, steven yeun plays Ben, and the newcomer Quan Zhongshu plays Hui Mei.

Black partisans (USA)

Spike Lee returned to the main competition unit in Cannes after a long absence. The film focuses on Ron Stallworth, a black detective in Colorado Springs, and tells the legendary story of his undercover Klan gathering intelligence and cracking down on each other’s actions. John David Washington, the son of Denzel Hayes Washington Jr., will play the leading role, and Adam Dreyfus, the star wars actor, will be his partner in the film.

Three Faces (Iran)

The last fate between Panahi and the official competition unit in Cannes was 15 years ago, when his work Crimson Gold won the jury prize in the "One Concern" unit. This time, I finally entered the main competition, and everyone can’t help but expect this Iranian wizard to complete the "three gold" great cause — — After all, this person already has two heavy trophies: Venice Golden Lion (The Circle of Life) and Berlin Golden Bear (Taxi).

Cold War (Poland)

This is the first time that Polish director Pavlic Vski has entered the main competition unit in Cannes. Sister Ada won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and naturally became the new darling of the Big Three.

There is not much information about the work Cold War. As its name suggests, the film tells the love story of a pair of ill-fated lovers who have been wandering around for many years during the Cold War.

Happy lazaro (Italian)

Director Alice Lorwacher has appeared in Cannes since 2011, which is one of the "new lineages" of the younger generation. In 2015, she won the jury prize for Miracle. The new film Happy lazaro will tell the story of an ordinary person who lives on the edge of society and travels through different time and space. Although it sounds very sci-fi, it is understood that this is not a sci-fi film.

YOMEDDINE (Egypt)

A road genre film. It tells the story of a middle-aged man who was lucky enough to escape from the colony where leprosy spread, with an orphan and a donkey, struggling to cross the Egyptian mainland and reunite with his family. This is Shawky’s directorial debut, and the film is adapted from his previous short film works.

Midsummer (Russia)

Director Serebrennikov was nominated for the "One Concern" unit of the 69th Cannes Film Festival with "The Disciple".

Midsummer tells a story about rock music and Love & Friendship, which took place in Leningrad in the midsummer of 1981. At that time, Russian underground rock music was just beginning to sprout under the influence of the West. The film focuses on a group of young rock musicians who grew up in that era. The protagonists Vikt and Tsoi are among them, and they finally stand out as pioneers in Russian rock circles.

The first batch of main competition films:

Everyone knows asghar farhadi (opening), Iran.

"Another World" Stefana Briese, French

Day and Night, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Japan.

Love to kiss and run, Honnore, France.

Children of Jianghu Jia Zhangke, China.

Daughter of the Sun yusong, French.

The Book of Images, Ge Daer, France.

Doctrine, Galloni, Italy

Capernaum, Labaki.

Thief Family, Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan.

Burning Li Cangdong, Korean.

Spike Lee, Black Party, USA

The bottom of the Silver Lake Mitchell, USA

Three Faces Panahi, Iran

"Cold War" Pavlic, Polish.

Happy lazaro, Lorvache, Italy.

YOMEDDINE》A.B Shawky, Egypt

Midsummer Serebrennikov, Russian.

　　The concept of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" took root, formed a broad consensus and turned it into practical action. The picture shows the new scene of Yucun Village, Anji County, Zhejiang Province.

　　In 2021, the installed capacity of renewable energy in China exceeded 1 billion kilowatts, and the installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaic power generation exceeded 300 million kilowatts. The installed capacity of hydropower, wind power, photovoltaic power generation and biomass power generation ranked first in the world; The power generation of new energy sources has exceeded 1 trillion kWh. The picture shows the complementary industrial base of "scenery fishing" in Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province.

　　China has always been a practitioner of ecological civilization, an activist of global environmental and climate governance, and has become an important participant, contributor and leader of global ecological civilization construction. China’s historic achievements in ecological civilization construction have been widely praised by the international community, and the builder of Saihanba Forest Farm in Hebei Province has won the "Earth Guardian Award", the highest honor of the United Nations in environmental protection. The picture shows a million acres of artificial forest formed by Saihanba Forest Farm’s insistence on afforestation for more than 50 years.

　　Adhere to joint protection and no development. From 2016 to 2021, the water quality of the Yangtze River has improved significantly. The water quality of the national control section of the main stream of the Yangtze River has reached Grade II for two consecutive years, and the biodiversity has been effectively protected. The frequency of the "smiling angel" finless porpoise has increased significantly.

　　The creation of green life has been comprehensively promoted, and the creation of conservation-oriented institutions, green families, green schools, green communities, green travel, green shopping malls and green buildings has been carried out in depth, and the green transformation of consumption in key areas has achieved remarkable results. The picture shows Beijing citizens riding on bicycle lanes.

　　China officially established the first batch of national parks, such as Sanjiangyuan, Giant Panda, Northeast Tiger Leopard, Hainan Tropical Rainforest and Wuyishan, with a protected area of 230,000 square kilometers, covering nearly 30% of the national key protected wildlife species in China. The picture shows Sanjiangyuan National Park.

　　The CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has made unprecedented efforts to build ecological civilization. Under the guidance of the Supreme Leader’s ecological civilization thought, the consciousness and initiative of promoting green development have been significantly enhanced, and the construction of beautiful China has taken great steps. The construction of ecological civilization in China has undergone historic, turning and overall changes from recognition to practice.

1905 movie network news Produced by Huang Xiaoming, directed by Li Taige, starring Huang Xiaoming, NI YAN, Tumen and Adi, The Last Truth, starring Zhang Jiaxin and Wang Yinglu, broke the box office by 51 million yuan, and the official release of the "boundary of sexual consent" debate fragment, Ding Yifeng (Huang Xiaoming) in court on whether Jin Ximei (NI YAN) was violated, and the boundary between sexual assault and prosecutor Sun Yu (Adi).

Ding Yifeng argued at the trial site, broke prejudice, and attacked the so-called "hidden social rules" with a slightly playful and provocative expression of "whether drinking tea as a guest is equal to agreeing to have sex", and used the law as a weapon to purge the "boundaries of sexual consent". After the screening, this wonderful court debate drama also made the audience say: "Warm and serious, I feel the truth and cruelty of seeking warmth in the cracks of life, but the reality is cruel, and some people still insist on conscience to share love."

At the shooting scene of the trial drama, Ding Yifeng, a lawyer played by Huang Xiaoming, is always outputting one or two pages of long lines. Under the long-shot scheduling of director Li Taige, it is very difficult to perform in one go. Adi, on the other hand, changed her lively and cheerful image, and performed as an impartial "tough" prosecutor. Talking about the confrontation and cooperation between the two court trials, Huang Xiaoming said: "Adi’s role is an important turning point in the reversal of this drama, and the characters are difficult to grasp, but she interprets it just right. Movies can’t be exaggerated, real performances can impress the audience, and real ones are the most touching. "

Adi also admitted that playing the prosecutor represents the image of the country. Many professional legal terms must not be wrong. For this reason, he watched a lot of trial videos, and also learned from the real prosecutors to observe their calm state. He revealed: "I always suppressed my lively side on the set, and I can’t have too many trivial actions in the performance. More is to express the hearts of the characters with my eyes."

The film "The Last Truth" is being shown all over the country.

"When this matter was announced, it happened to be the day before the (11th) China International Petrochemical Conference. To be honest, many chemical enterprises were very worried, and thought it was a great challenge, and would it increase the cost of our enterprises? This should be the first reaction of most chemical companies to hear this news. "

The "news" referred to by Pan Lumin, president of the global chemical giant Huntsman Polyurethane Asia-Pacific Region, is that on September 22nd, 2020, China announced that it would increase its national independent contribution, adopt more powerful policies and measures, and strive to achieve the peak of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.

This is the first time that China explicitly put forward the goal of carbon neutrality. As a key area of carbon emissions, how does the chemical industry think about the relationship between achieving this goal and the fate of the enterprise itself? Recently, Pan Lumin said in an exclusive interview with The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) reporter, "My first reaction was very different." Pan Lumin’s explanation was slightly exciting. "I am still telling our colleagues today that I have been in this industry for more than 20 years, and this is the biggest opportunity for me to see the use of polyurethane in the world. My reaction is this."

Pan Lumin, President of Huntsman Polyurethane Asia Pacific Region.

Huntsman was founded in 1970, and the company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Its business covers chemicals, plastics, textiles, footwear, paints and coatings, building materials and so on. In 2019, Huntsman’s operating income was about 7 billion US dollars, nearly half of which came from polyurethane (PU) business unit. As the earliest global polyurethane giant to enter China, its accumulated investment in China has exceeded 15 billion yuan.

"Polyurethane is the best energy-saving thermal insulation material." Pan Lumin has high hopes for the company’s star products. "Our products can be carbon neutral in their life cycle, even more than carbon neutral, and we can achieve a net reduction in carbon." Pan Lumin said that Huntsman will prove this assertion to the outside world with clear data in the future.

It is worth mentioning that due to the high technical threshold and huge investment, polyurethane is still controlled by a few international giants, and China Wanhua Chemical, which entered the market late, is the only company from China. As a "young" material invented only about 80 years ago, polyurethane has become an important building material because of its thermal insulation, waterproof and other properties, and at the same time, it has shown its talents in the fields of home appliances and transportation. "When you are driving, what you sit on (the seat cushion), what you hold in your hand (the steering wheel) and what you look at (the dashboard) are all our polyurethane", which is what Huntsman often says.

During the interview, Pan Lumin, who has been engaged in the polyurethane industry for 26 years and has been in his current position for 7 years, also emphasized his insistence that "sustainable development cannot be done for the sake of sustainable development, which is unsustainable." He believes that sustainable development must be linked with value creation, "that is, you are doing sustainable development while creating value. You must reflect these two things at the same time, and this thing can really last."

　Start by pulling out the chimney

In recent years, Pan Lumin observed a phenomenon. At the investor conference he attended, investors no longer listed the financial situation as the primary concern, but asked "What did your company do on sustainable development?" Pan Lumin’s understanding of this is: Today’s investors tend to be younger, and they think about the future of the earth.

Huntsman is not passive in dealing with these investors. Pan Lumin told the The Paper reporter, "Because of fate, we began to put sustainable development on the strategic level in China and the Asia-Pacific region five years ago and really put it into practice."

Back in October 2016, Taikoo Heating Project, the first successful long-distance heating project with large temperature difference in China, was officially put into operation, and the overall project construction lasted for two and a half years. In this project, Tsinghua University’s long-distance heat supply technology with large temperature difference is adopted, and the waste heat of six generating units of Gujiao Xingneng Power Plant in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province is recovered to supply heat to Taiyuan urban area, with a total heating scale of 76 million square meters, accounting for 1/3 of the total heating area in Taiyuan urban area. Among them, four pipelines with a diameter of 1.4 meters (double supply and double return) laid from the first station of the power plant to the relay energy station are the key and difficult points of the project. The length of this pipeline is 37.8km, including 20.1km of direct burial, 15.7km of tunnel and 2.0km of overhead in the field. The long-distance pipeline crosses Fenhe River for six times, railways for two times, expressways for three times, Yellow River Diversion Pipeline for two times and Taigang Concentrate Powder Pipeline for many times.

"The opportunity we started is Taiyuan, a central heating project." In this project, the large-diameter all-water foaming pipeline system provided by Huntsman ensures remote and efficient heating. "Polyurethane is a good application here, which can finally control the temperature reduction within 2 degrees Celsius, that is to say, its thermal insulation performance is very good."

This major livelihood project has made great contributions to the total elimination of small boilers of 3.5 MW and below and the control of loose coal in Taiyuan by the end of 2017. Recalling the project, Pan Lumin said, "At that time, we calculated that there were about 5,000 small heating stations in the whole urban area of Taiyuan, which was simply 5,000 chimneys. The first point of such a project is to effectively use the waste heat of the power plant, and the second point is to be able to unplug 5,000 chimneys in Taiyuan City. "

"In fact, in this central heating project, we have solved the problem of using the waste heat of 100 power plants, which means that 500,000 chimneys have been pulled out, and about 200 million people have benefited." The realization of this difficult project has brought Pan Lumin more thoughts. "It is a great shock to me. I haven’t seen what changes the chemical industry we are doing and the solutions we provide have made to our lives after accumulation. From then on, we will promote the four sustainable innovations."

Since 2018, Huntsman has put forward four innovative solutions for sustainable development, namely, thermal insulation solution (to help air bid farewell to pollution), automobile solution (to help remove odor in cars), food supply chain solution (to help food safety insurance), and environmentally friendly solvent-free solution (to help environmental protection refuse solvents).

"Since five years ago, we have paid special attention to sustainable development and innovation. Up to now, we have done too much. Almost all our innovations and subsequent development directions are all around sustainable development."

Focus on the contribution of downstream innovation to carbon emission reduction.

Since 2010, Huntsman plans to implement the Crouching Tiger Plan in the Asia-Pacific region, which is a strategic transformation from bulk raw materials (MDI) to downstream applications. Pan Lumin believes that commodities with transparent prices are not the way for Huntsman to go. "We must take the differentiation that can create more value, and we must go downstream. The original idea was as simple as that."

"Crouching Tiger Plan" has gradually increased the proportion of Huntsman’s special chemicals business and gradually decreased the praise ratio of bulk business. "It takes many years to accumulate, and it will take five consecutive years and ten consecutive years to accumulate to the point where we are today."

This road of product differentiation is also in line with Pan Lumin himself. "Many people can’t get out of the polyurethane industry all their lives after entering it. I have been in this industry for more than 20 years. In fact, my happiest thing is to wake up every morning and have a new topic to talk about."

Today, Pan Lumin no longer regards himself as a "chemical worker", but prefers to describe himself as a person who "provides solutions" for many application fields.

In the interview, Pan Lumin mentioned the pig industry that he didn’t understand three years ago. "This is the fastest growing downstream application of polyurethane in China market in the past year or two." This change is mainly due to the impact of the African swine fever epidemic. On August 3, 2018, the Information Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported the first African swine fever epidemic in China, and then the virus quickly spread to most parts of the country. This epidemic has accelerated the withdrawal of small and medium-sized retail investors in the domestic pig industry and greatly increased the industrial concentration. In the construction of new pigsty, polyurethane materials with energy saving and thermal insulation have found a new application field.

Such application cases are constantly being introduced. On December 1, 2020, Huntsman and Henan Chaocheng Building Materials Technology Co., Ltd. held the off-line ceremony of the first batch of polyurethane continuous plates based on Tylo polyester polyol in Xinxiang, Henan. In this cooperation, Huntsman provided polyurethane based on Tylenol polyester polyol (mainly used for cold storage insulation materials), which is the first polyurethane continuous plate project based on Tylenol polyester polyol laid out by Huntsman in China.

Huntsman aims at the warehousing link in the fast-growing modern agriculture and logistics cold chain, and takes the food supply chain solution as a new important force point. Pan Lumin mentioned at that time that, especially after the epidemic, the safety and hygiene of the food supply chain received more attention, and more and more people began to worry about whether the world would face a food crisis after the epidemic crisis.

Zhang Jun, Commercial Director of Huntsman Polyurethane Division in China, introduced at that time that polyurethane is the material with the best thermal insulation performance on the market at present because of its excellent thermal insulation, fire resistance and flame retardancy. "If it is calculated by common cold storage, the electricity fee for one square meter per day is about 1 yuan, and the electricity fee for a 10,000-square-meter cold storage costs more than 3 million yuan a year. If you choose polyurethane thermal insulation materials, you can save at least 20% of the electricity fee."

In an interview with The Paper, Pan Lumin said that the COVID-19 epidemic sweeping the world has had a profound impact on all walks of life, but there is a kind of development trend that has not slowed down but is accelerating. "The cold chain is one of them." He analyzed that more online shopping and the shift of consumers from ordinary vegetable markets to supermarkets have made the demand for cold chains stronger than before the epidemic.

In Pan Lumin’s view, innovative applications such as central heating, new pigsty and cold chain warehouse are all important weights for Huntsman in carbon emission reduction, and at the same time, the carbon emissions brought by upstream production can not be ignored. "When the chemical industry mentions carbon emission reduction, it should look at both production and downstream. We will not only emphasize my downstream contribution, but I will also produce carbon emissions upstream."

Pan Lumin mentioned that Huntsman Polyurethane Asia Pacific is setting up a working group to reduce carbon emissions. "A key responsibility of this group is to calculate how much carbon emissions Huntsman will produce when making polyurethane in China? We will have data, because all our products are in it, so I have to calculate a’ yield’ of carbon emissions, which I believe is definitely much greater than 1, and we will calculate it responsibly. "

While paying more attention to the contribution of carbon emission reduction through downstream applications, measures are also being introduced in the upstream with limited space. Pan Lumin mentioned that Huntsman had previously developed a recycling technology for recycled PET plastics, which was used to produce TEROL™ Teruoyou polyester polyol, and 60% of its components came from recycled PET plastics, while polyester polyol was one of the important raw materials used to produce polyurethane materials. Huntsman’s current factory in Taiwan, China has a total production capacity of 33,000 tons per year and can recycle 250 million PET plastic bottles.

"At present, the recycling rate of PET plastics in Taiwan, China is the highest in the world, reaching 95%, which means that 100 bottles go out and 95 can be recycled." Pan Lumin said that although the recycling system in Chinese mainland has yet to be improved, it will reach the advanced level sooner or later. "We have been able to start to consider the next set of equipment in Chinese mainland, which means that the conditions for building an environmentally-friendly recycled polyester factory are becoming more and more mature."

"Whether upstream or downstream, we can now find the issue of sustainable development." And can we continue to expand the above-mentioned "rate of return" through technological innovation? This is Pan Lvmin’s requirement for the future of Huntsman polyurethane products.

Innovation comes from China.

As the earliest global polyurethane giant to enter China, Huntsman’s accumulated investment in China has reached 15 billion yuan, and China has become Huntsman’s second largest single country market in the world.

In September 1992, Huntsman Polyurethane (China) Co., Ltd. was registered and established in Minhang District Market Supervision Administration, becoming the first foreign-funded technical service center in the polyurethane field in China. In 1996, as the first foreign-funded polyurethane system material factory, Huntsman Polyurethane (China) Co., Ltd. was officially put into production.

Then in 1997, Huntsman decided to build a large-scale MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate, one of the main raw materials for producing polyurethane) production base in Shanghai. Nearly 10 years later, the first MDI factory was officially put into operation. In 2018, Huntsman’s largest single investment in China, MDI Plant Phase II, was put into operation in Shanghai, with a total investment of 750 million US dollars and a design capacity of 240,000 tons. So far, the total production capacity of Huntsman MDI in China has reached 400,000 tons, accounting for nearly one third of its global production capacity.

"We have invested a lot in China, and the investment is deep, and we will only go deeper." Pan Lumin said that at present, Huntsman Asia-Pacific Polyurethane Division led by him is in a "leader" position in the whole Huntsman in terms of sustainable development. "In the past five years, we have been the leader, and the next step is to continue to lead."

It is worth mentioning that in July 2019, Huntsman was approved by the Shanghai Municipal Government to certify the regional headquarters. On November 20, 2019, Huntsman Asia-Pacific Headquarters officially settled in Shanghai, and will gradually undertake the functions of Huntsman’s investment, management, trade and regional RMB and foreign currency fund allocation in the Asia-Pacific region, integrate and expand its existing equity and investment in the mainland, and further promote the business development of Huntsman Group in the Asia-Pacific region.

This progress is related to the Opinions of Shanghai Municipal People’s Government on Promoting the Development of Regional Headquarters of Multinational Corporations in Shanghai issued in August of that year. It is mentioned that the regional headquarters of multinational companies are allowed to centrally operate and manage the domestic and foreign funds of the member companies of the company under the cross-border fund pool business, and carry out the business of fund collection, allocation, settlement, hedging, investment and financing according to the group business model.

As early as 2008, Huntsman had moved its Asia-Pacific R&D center in Singapore to Shanghai. In 2016, Huntsman moved its R&D center in Shanghai to Minhang, which was connected with the previous factories and established the Shanghai Park. Up to now, Huntsman has three R&D centers around the world, including the Asia-Pacific R&D center in Shanghai, the Houston R&D center serving the American market at its headquarters and the R&D center serving the European market in Brussels, Belgium.

Pan Lumin told the The Paper reporter, "All the innovative examples we just mentioned were developed by our R&D center in Shanghai, not transplanted from other places. We developed them here, and there will be newer things constantly."

In Pan Lumin’s view, "China is probably the fastest in innovation now." He mentioned that perhaps Huntsman will have no room for quantitative expansion in Shanghai in the future. "But I definitely want to put innovation in Shanghai."