The pure electricity market continues to be involved, and joint ventures have begun to take off. Buick is still the mainstream.

In the era of electrification, a common view is that independent brands and new power brands "play the leading role" and joint venture brands "run with each other". However, with the continuous growth and evolution of the electric vehicle market, the original pattern has changed. Nowadays, an obvious trend is that mainstream joint venture brands have begun to rise, and their stamina is sufficient, which has great momentum to catch up with new brands. More affordable price, stronger product strength, more reliable quality … these have become the correct way to open the joint venture pure electricity. For example, in the past, the entry threshold for medium-sized and large-sized joint-venture pure electric SUVs was basically above 300,000. However, the two pure electric vehicles of Buick Aoteneng family, ELECTRA E5 and ELECTRA E4, which went on the market this year directly jumped into the price band of 200,000, and the price of the pioneer version of Electra E5 delivered not long ago was as low as 169,900 yuan, which was involved in the price hinterland of its own brand, reducing its dimension and hitting its competitors, but also triggered a "catfish effect" in the whole pure electric market.

Playing pure electricity, Buick is still the mainstream.

Since December, major automobile manufacturers have set off a new round of price war to sprint the annual sales target, including Extreme Yue, Zero Run, Nezha and Chang ‘an, which also reflects that these manufacturers are facing considerable pressure in the terminal market.

In fact, most manufacturers hope to win sales through price reduction measures, but Buick relies on reasonable pricing in one step to achieve a gradual increase in sales without preferential treatment.

According to the November production and sales report issued by SAIC, its new energy sector performed well. Among them, the sales volume of SAIC-GM’s new energy vehicles continued to grow steadily, and it is estimated that the cumulative sales volume for the whole year will exceed 90,000. In November, the Buick brand continued to make new breakthroughs, and the delivery volume of 2024 micro-blue 6 of the 100,000-yuan national pure electric boutique sedan exceeded 10,000, setting a monthly sales record for this model. ELECTRA E5 and ELECTRA E4 keep a leading position in the joint venture pure electricity market.

At present, the domestic new energy market is showing a situation of competing with each other, and when the mainstream joint venture brand like Buick is serious and focuses on the pure electricity market, it can still easily occupy the mainstream position in the market, and there is still a great chance to achieve the overtaking of independent brands and new power brands in the future.

In fact, in terms of mechanical quality, configuration level, spatial performance and advanced lifestyle, the joint venture brand has established the cognition of "user-centered, providing high-quality products" in the minds of users very early. It can be said that it is the joint venture brand that helps the new power brand to complete the early market cultivation. In addition, the joint venture brand has a complete systematic construction in terms of production management system, industrial chain layout and marketing system. This year, the "thunderbolt" incidents of some brands have also told us time and again that without a deep foundation, it is impossible for enterprises to develop healthily.

As an old-fashioned joint venture car company, Buick, based on SAIC-GM’s powerful manufacturing system and the leading technical strength of the Autodyne platform, has built medium and large SUVs of ELECTRA E5 and ELECTRA E4, providing consumers with more peace of mind and higher quality car experience, and also comprehensively crushing rivals at the same level in terms of product strength and value strength.

150,000-250,000-level pure electric power, and Buick Auto Intelligent Electric SUV is the first choice.

On the other hand, ELECTRA E5 and ELECTRA E4 have won the recognition of the market and the trust of consumers in terms of product strength, value strength and quality sense, and they have shown strong competitiveness in the pure electricity market, for various reasons.

Specifically, the five-seat SUV ELECTRA E5 of Smart TV University and the smart coupe SUV ELECTRA E4 are all built on the "smarter, safer and more performance" platform of Otneng Smart Power, which can be said to have a good foundation and strong strength. Among them, ELECTRA E5, with its pioneer value, quality of large factories, solid battery life, industry-leading intelligent cabin and intelligent driving experience, and huge space for carrying the whole family, has been favored by consumers after listing, and its sales volume has been in the forefront of joint venture pure electric medium and large SUVs for many months. In particular, the pioneer version of ELECTRA E5 has an extremely long wheelbase of 2954mm and an extremely large five-seat quality space, which is rare at the same price. It is equipped with a new generation of VCS intelligent cockpit and L2 eCruise intelligent driving assistance function. The cruising range of CLTC is 545km, and its price is only 169,900 yuan, which shows Buick’s full sincerity to mainstream new energy consumers and has become a new benchmark for the market value of pure electricity of 150,000-200,000.

The SUV ELECTRA E4 has a coupe-like fashion shape and also takes into account the practical space of medium and large SUVs. It is equipped with a new generation of VCS intelligent cockpit and the latest iterative eConnect interconnection technology. It is equipped with an EYEMAX 30-inch curved 6K screen, which supports the parallel refresh of multi-module OTA at the system level of the whole vehicle. In terms of intelligent driving technology, the whole system comes standard with eCruise intelligent assisted driving system, providing FSRACC full-speed adaptive cruise, HOLCA intelligent lane centering assistance and other rich practical functions.

ELECTRA E5 and ELECTRA E4 have also made great efforts in places that are difficult for users to detect. For example, relying on the Autron smart platform, ELECTRA E5 and ELECTRA E4 have excellent performance in terms of performance and safety. Both pure electric vehicles are equipped with a wireless battery management system, which reduces the wiring harness by 90%, increases the energy density while reducing weight, improves the cruising range and enhances safety. In terms of battery safety, ELECTRA E5 and ELECTRA E4 are equipped with a total of seven protections, including ultra-high strength steel well-shaped battery pack, independent module liquid cooling plate, anti-arc design of high-voltage components, nano-scale aerogel thermal insulation wall, rapid exhaust passage in the pack, large-area Qualcomm explosion-proof net and "vehicle-cloud" combined battery health monitoring system. In addition, the test standard of the battery in the development process also far exceeds the national standard.

It is not difficult to find that the starting prices of ELECTRA E5 and ELECTRA E4 are all below 200,000, which further lowers the threshold for consumers to buy cars. At the same time, the quality of their big factories also gives consumers a reassurance, so that consumers have no endurance anxiety and travel with more peace of mind.

Recently, Buick announced the launch of the year-end car buying spree, offering warm-hearted benefits to consumers: before December 31st, if you buy the designated models of ELECTRA E5/ELECTRA E4, you can enjoy ten exclusive rights, such as lifetime warranty, replacement subsidy, free home charging, and you can get a "cubic Bluetooth entity key" if you buy any model. See Buick official website or consult your dealer for details.

Write it at the end

The industry believes that in the next 3-5 years, as the new energy market will continue to move forward in constant innovation and evolution, it is inevitable that players from all walks of life will reshuffle their cards. At present, independent brands, new power brands and joint venture brands have their own advantages. But in any case, the more the market involution intensifies, the more it tests a company’s comprehensive quality, such as operational efficiency, system strength, economies of scale and cash reserves, etc., which is the confidence of a joint venture factory like Buick in dealing with the price war.

Toyota has added "new members", with both face value and strength.

The configuration performance of dual-engine E+ is a point that consumers pay more attention to. Not much to say, let’s take a look.

Let’s take a look at the appearance of RAV4 Rongfang twin-engine E+. The front face of RAV4 Rongfang twin-engine E+ looks very unique and looks softer. The front headlights are very delicate and beautiful, which is very visually impactful. The car is equipped with LED daytime running lights, automatic opening and closing, adaptive far and near light and so on. Coming to the side of the car, the body size of the car is 4600 mm * 1855 mm * 1685 mm. The car adopts angular lines, and the side gives people a very fashionable and simple feeling. With large-sized thick-walled tires, smooth lines run through the whole side of the car. Looking back, the rear of the car looks very dynamic and lively, the taillights look very tough, and the overall shape is still very attractive.

Sitting in the car, RAV4 Rongfang dual-engine E+ interior looks very simple and fashionable, and the overall shape is remarkable. The steering wheel shape of this car is eye-catching, equipped with the functions of manual steering wheel up and down+front and rear adjustment, steering wheel heating and so on, and the palm fit is very high. Let’s take a look at the central control, which is decorated with a 10.25-inch central control screen, making the interior style impressive and unique. The dashboard and seats give people a good feeling, too. Let’s take a look. The dashboard of this car presents an avant-garde design style and looks very stable and atmospheric. The car uses a leather/fabric mixed seat, which is wide and thick, and the overall ride feels soft and comfortable.

Next, look at the configuration. RAV4 Rongfang dual-engine E+ is equipped with car networking, driving mode selection, remote control key, Bluetooth key, rear wiper, traction control (ASR/TCS, etc.) and other configurations.

After reading the above description, Xiaobian will make a summary. This car has been introduced almost before, and I believe many users who buy a car have taken a fancy to its comfort and practicality.

The new dramas in Zhu Yawen and Yang Zishan have been delayed for two years, and this middle-aged idol drama is very "different".

The TV series "The Lion’s Reflection on Lai Mao" is being broadcasted. Zhu Yawen, a "walking hormone", is partnered with Yang Zishan, a "pure and restrained". The audience thinks this combination is quite innovative.

It is worth mentioning that "The Lion Reflection of Lai Mao" was filmed in 2018 and finished in 2019. It is not easy to broadcast the works after two years of backlog. However, although it is an "old drama", "The Lion’s Reflection on Lai Mao" is like its title, and the idol drama is full of temperament, and the audience does not feel the obsolescence of the plot.

In The Lion’s Reflection on Lai Mao, the overbearing female president Mu Yat-ching and Qing Liu, who are ignorant, entered the marriage hall because of their relationship with the older generation, but neither Mu Yat-ching nor Qing Liu is as simple as it seems, especially the hero Qing Liu, who is fooling around, not only hides deep affection, but also makes people curious about his experience.

The fate of Qing Liu and Mu Yat Sen started at an early age, and Mu Yat Sen has always played an important role in Qing Liu’s heart. However, after falling into the water as a child and being saved by Qing Liu, Mu Yat Sen was frightened and temporarily forgot Qing Liu, but the floodgate of memory will be opened one day, and the relationship between Qing Liu and Mu Yat Sen will also have a qualitative leap.

The lion’s reflection by Lai Mao is an out-and-out idol drama. No matter the setting of characters or the plot, it is created by the standards of idol drama. However, regarding this idol drama, the audience still feels a little "different" after chasing the drama.

First of all, it is the set-up and story of the play. The overbearing president and silly Bai Tian are generally the standard of idol dramas, but the reflection of the lion on the cat is the opposite. In the play, Mu Yat-sen, played by Yang Zishan, is a real overbearing president. She is worth hundreds of millions, and a girl supports a huge group. She has a crisp and neat style of doing things, which is very feminine.

Qing Liu, played by Zhu Yawen, has nothing to do with playing games in Internet cafes. Even if he goes to work in Mu Yat-sen’s company, he is also arranged in a security position. But Qing Liu is not as simple as it seems. He has an unknown past. Qing Liu has a strong observation ability and a strong force value. He is not as simple as he shows, but his ability has been weakened by him, but he has to pretend to be a weak person, Qing Liu’s role, and the follow-up plot.

On the surface, the marriage between Qing Liu and Mu Yat-sen is for the benefit. However, in the process of continuous getting along, there is still a feeling between Mu Yat-sen and Qing Liu.

In addition to the plot and people’s design, the "otherness" of The Lion’s Reflection by Lai Mao is still in the two protagonists, especially Zhu Yawen. In the minds of many viewers, Zhu Yawen is a "tough guy" and a "strength school", and it is difficult for many viewers to associate him with idol dramas. Since Zhu Yawen made his debut, he has performed many drama works, such as "Crossing the East", "Under the Zhengyang Gate" and ".

Since Yang Zishan’s debut, her works are many yuan. In film and television dramas such as Red Rose, Antarctic Love, Master of Memory, and To Our Dying Youth, Yang Zishan’s performance is still very recognized by the audience. Although Yang Zishan plays the overbearing female president in the drama "The Reflection of the Lion on the Cat", some viewers think that some of them are not in line with Yang Zishan’s temperament, on the whole, the audience still recognizes this role.

After the broadcast of "The Lion’s Reflection by Lai Mao", many viewers who followed the drama also found that the drama had a lot of coding, including Mu Yat-sen’s itinerary and even some place names, all of which were coded. The audience discussed while chasing the drama. "The Lion’s Reflection by Lai Mao" is really one of the dramas with a lot of coding.

After the broadcast, the popularity was good, but the word-of-mouth was mixed. Zhu Yawen and Yang Zishan, the leading actors of The Lion’s Reflection by Lai Mao, have made their debut for many years, and judging from the plot setting of the play, it is not a school play or a youth play. It is not an exaggeration to say that the play is a "middle-aged idol play".

The story of idol drama will be stained with dog blood to some extent. Undeniably, no matter Zhu Yawen, Yang Zishan, He Junxiang, Zhang Shen, Li Guangfu, Liu Xuehua and other actors, their images and acting skills are good, and their acting skills will also add a lot of color to the subsequent development of the story. As a "middle-aged idol drama", "The Lion’s Reflection on Lai Cat" is "different" and innovative.

The plane can use electronic equipment. sogou mobile browser will help you speed up the network.

You can finally play with your mobile phone on the plane. After the news that you are happy and eager to run, the children’s shoes are eager to try. In the past, when flying by plane, mobile phones and other communication equipment were all closed, and short-haul flights were fine. Sitting for more than ten hours was simply boring; Imagine, now that the plane can be connected to WiFi, sitting in the air at a height of 100,000 meters and brushing Weibo and friends circle is a kind of feeling. Keeping in touch with friends on land at all times is not a word "cool".

  Passengers can use their mobile phones in the air, provided that "airplane mode" is turned on and they take a flight with WiFi service. However, according to the friends who have experienced airplane WiFi, there is nothing wrong with it except the slow network speed. Obviously, there is a network but you can’t open the webpage. You only have to look at it in a hurry. Smart as Xiaobian, downloading a sogou mobile browser with a fast Internet thief in your mobile phone will be a perfect solution!

  Sogou mobile browser has a powerful kernel of high-speed Internet access, which can open web pages faster, and can also open or refresh pages quickly under the condition of poor air network signal. In fact, whether on land or in the air, what we are most afraid of when surfing the Internet is getting stuck as a dog. After loading for a long time, we see a blank, which makes us feel sour. Since we can’t make the network signal on the plane stronger, let’s do it ourselves.

  If you are bored, you can pass the long journey by reading novels with sogou mobile browser. It doesn’t matter if the internet speed is slow. sogou Mobile Phone Browsing Network supports downloading novels offline. Before boarding the plane, you can choose a few interesting novels to download, and you can read them without internet.

  Sogou mobile browser can also act as your free "translator". The neighbor is a foreigner, and people greet you warmly and talk to you. If your English is so bad that you are ashamed to open your mouth, turn on the sogou mobile browser and use the "dialogue translation" function. Speak to the mobile phone, and the Chinese and English characters will be displayed side by side on the screen, and the sound can be played, so that the Chinese-English translation can be realized quickly and accurately, and the "chat" mode will be started in each sentence. In addition, sogou mobile browser has many translation methods, such as AR real-time translation and photo translation. I can’t understand the English magazines on the plane. Scan them with AR real-time translation function, and the translation results will be displayed on the mobile phone screen. Or turn on the photo translation function to take a photo of the magazine page, and the translated text will be displayed on the photo. At the same time, you can translate the specified content by extracting some text, so that you can understand the original English meaning in seconds.

  In the era of mobile phones, you may miss a lot of things if you don’t surf the Internet for hours. Now, I can finally fly without turning off my cell phone, and I won’t miss important things and work by plane.

This autonomous mid-size car is worth a look, and the dark blue car is on fire again

For most people, the mention of cars from 4S shops is just the beginning, and the cost of car maintenance in the later stage is a big deal. Can today’s talk help us save some money in the future? Let’s take a look with the editor.

Let’s take a look at the appearance of the dark blue SL03 first. The front shape of the dark blue SL03 looks softer and very recognizable. With simple headlights, it is very recognizable. The car is equipped with LED daytime running lights, automatic opening and closing, adaptive far and near light, delayed closing, etc. Come to the side, the body size of the car is 4820MM*1890MM*1480MM, the car adopts fashionable lines, the side circumference presents a young and fashionable design style, with large-sized thick-walled tires, the overall visual effect is very individual. In terms of the rear, the overall shape of the dark blue SL03 rear echoes the front of the car, and the taillights look very calm, creating a good aura.

In the dark blue SL03, the interior shape has taken a unique route, and the overall design atmosphere is still relatively in place. The steering wheel design of the car is very fashionable and generous, equipped with functions such as manual up and down + front and rear adjustment of the steering wheel, which feels good. Let’s take a look at the central control. The car is equipped with a hard touch LCD central control screen, which makes the interior style impressive and looks dignified. Finally, let’s take a look at the dashboard and seats. The car is equipped with a sharp dashboard, which creates a sporty atmosphere. The car uses a mix of leather/fur materials to match the seats, which are wide and thick, and the overall comfort is good.

The dark blue SL03 matches the gearbox, 160KW, 320N.m, and the power performance is good.

The size of the rear compartment of the dark blue SL03 is in line with its home positioning, the storage space for family travel can be satisfied, and the space flexibility is excellent. In addition, the car is equipped with brake anti-lock braking (ABS), LED daytime running lights, brake assistance (EBA/BAS, etc.), braking force distribution (EBD), traction control (ASR/TCS, etc.) main driver airbag, passenger seat airbag, side aircurtain, front side airbag and other safety configurations.

After reading the above introduction, let’s make a summary. The car introduced today is not only eye-catching in terms of space, but also has reached the mainstream level in various configurations, and the driving experience and space experience are not picky.

When will this year’s pension increase be in place? Tell us more about the payment schedule.

  BEIJING, Beijing, July 14 (Reporter Li Jinlei) When the pension increase will be put in place this year is a common concern of retirees. The reporter from Zhongxin. com (WeChat WeChat official account: cns2012) found that Shanghai has taken the lead in raising pensions and distributing them, while Beijing, Tianjin, Zhejiang and other places have revealed the distribution schedule, which is expected to be in place by the end of September.

  At present, only Shanghai pensions are paid in place.

  The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance issued the Notice on Adjusting the Basic Pension for Retirees in 2016 in April this year. From January 1, 2016, retirees from enterprises, institutions and institutions who have gone through retirement procedures according to regulations and received basic pensions on a monthly basis will raise the basic pension level, and the overall adjustment level will be about 6.5% of the monthly basic pension for retirees in 2015.

  According to the requirements, all regions shall, in accordance with the deployment of the State Council and the actual situation in the region, formulate specific implementation plans, report them to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance for examination and approval, and promptly organize their implementation, so as to distribute the adjusted and increased basic pension to retirees as soon as possible.

  Now, the time has entered mid-July, and the reporter of Zhongxin. com noticed that at present, except for Shanghai, which has issued a specific plan for pension adjustment, the adjustment plans of other provinces have not yet been introduced.

  More disclosure of pension payment schedule

  Although the adjustment plans of most provinces have not yet been introduced, some areas such as Beijing, Tianjin and Zhejiang have revealed the timetable for pension payment to the society through various forms.

  Xu Xi, director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, said on the 12th that Beijing will continue to increase pensions for enterprise retirees this year. The increased pensions will be reissued in January this year and will be paid in place at the end of September.

  Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security recently revealed in response to a question from a netizen in the local media that the current pension capital increase plan is in the process of approval and is expected to be issued at the end of September.

  The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security also said in its reply to the netizen’s consultation in official website that according to the deployment requirements of the state, the provincial party committee and the provincial government, the Zhejiang Provincial Transfer Plan has been submitted to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance for examination and approval, and will be organized and implemented after approval, and it is expected to be distributed in place before the end of September.

  Anhui Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security revealed in its reply to netizens’ consultation in official website that since it is the first time this year to co-ordinate arrangements for government institutions and enterprise retirees to adjust the basic pension synchronously, the policy is complicated, and the Department of Human Resources and Social Security and the Provincial Department of Finance will, in accordance with the requirements of national deployment, draw up an adjustment plan for pension benefits in Anhui Province on time, submit it for approval according to procedures, and organize its implementation in due course.

  Not every retiree’s pension has increased by 6.5%.

  It is reported that this pension adjustment is the first time to adjust the treatment according to the basic pension adjustment method since the reform of the endowment insurance system of government agencies and institutions on October 1, 2014. It is also the first time for retirees from enterprises and institutions to adjust the treatment simultaneously. It is estimated that more than 85 million retirees from enterprises and more than 17 million retirees from government agencies and institutions will benefit, and a total of more than 100 million retirees will benefit.

  It should be noted that Jong Li, spokesperson of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said at the press conference in the first quarter of this year that the adjustment level of about 6.5% is the overall level of adjustment of retirees’ treatment in enterprises, institutions and institutions, not that retirees in enterprises and institutions are adjusted at the rate of 6.5% based on their respective pension levels, not to mention simply increasing the pension by 6.5% for every retiree.

  Jong Li pointed out that due to the differences in economic development levels in different places, and the reform of the endowment insurance system in government agencies and institutions has just started, this adjustment of basic endowment insurance needs to fully consider the balance between enterprises and government agencies and institutions, the balance between regions, and the convergence of treatment adjustment methods before and after the reform of government agencies and institutions. Therefore, the specific adjustment methods of local enterprises and institutions may be slightly different, and for individuals, there will be a certain gap in the actual adjustment level due to factors such as different payment years or working years and different pension levels.

  The reporter from Zhongxin. com noted that the adjustment plan in Shanghai shows that for enterprise retirees, the 80 yuan will be increased every month, and then the 2.5 yuan will be increased every month according to the payment period (including deemed payment period), and then the basic pension I received in December 2015 will be increased by 2.5%. For retirees from government agencies and institutions, the 80 yuan will be increased per person per month, and the average pension of similar personnel will be increased by 4.5%. In addition, among the above-mentioned retirees, before December 31, 2015, women aged 60 or above and men aged 65 or above will receive a monthly 20 yuan.

Today, the high-level telephone conversation between China and Japan has a special background.

This article is transferred from [Bu Yi Dao];
Writing/Tiger Knife & Daodao elder sister
This summer, active officials from Japan’s Defense Ministry will come to Taiwan?
The latest news from the Japanese media is tantamount to dropping a bomb on the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
Once it comes true, it will be the first time that Japan has sent similar personnel to Taiwan after the American Association in Taiwan has an active army, navy and air force stationed there, and it will also be the second major change in Japanese personnel stationed in Taiwan after Japan sent a retired self-defense officer to Taiwan in 1996.
On the 7th, Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee, had a telephone conversation with Kazuo Akiba, director of Japanese national security.
Yang Jiechi said that at present, the old and new problems in Sino-Japanese relations are intertwined, and the difficulties and challenges cannot be ignored.
Recently, Japan has been making small moves on the situation in the Taiwan Strait. Some observers have asked: Japan, as a "supporting role" in the situation in the Taiwan Strait in the past, is gradually stepping onto the stage of "leading role"?
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According to Japanese media reports, the Japanese government plans to send a civilian active-duty staff member of the Ministry of Defense to the Taiwan Province Exchange Association Taipei Office, the window organ of Japan’s Taiwan affairs, instead of being a "military attache" of the Self-Defense Forces.
As we all know, since the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Taiwan Province in 1972, Japan and have no diplomatic relations. Therefore, the Taipei Office of Japan-Taiwan Province Exchange Association has actually assumed the role of an "embassy", and the contacts between Japanese politicians and Democratic Progressive Party authorities should also be assisted by this "-Taiwan Exchange Association".
Over time, the status of "Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association" has rapidly improved and become an important channel for exchanges between Japan and Taiwan.
As the United States and Japan pay more attention to the situation in Taiwan Province, Japan’s attempt to add "diplomatic color" to the association becomes more and more undisguised.
On New Year’s Day, 2017, the renaming of "Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association" became a landmark event of "soft breakthrough" between Japan and Taiwan after Tsai Ing-Wen took office.At that time, the "Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association" was also called the "Exchange Association". This renaming blatantly juxtaposed Japan with Taiwan Province and made the attempt of "one China, one Taiwan" obvious.
The Japanese Defense Ministry originally stationed a retired military attache in the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association. The Taiwan Strait crisis that broke out in 1996 was thought to be caused by insufficient military intelligence collection. Therefore, in 2003, the Taipei office of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association set up the post of "Director of Security Support", and the Ministry of Defense sent retired Major General Yoichi Nagano as the post.
However, because he is not an active official, the information obtained by the "director of security" must be returned to Japan through diplomatic channels, and it is impossible to directly contact the Ministry of Defense, and it must be conveyed through layers of contact.
After the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, there was a voice in Japan saying that the information communication channel between Japan and Taiwan should be strengthened. According to media analysis, sending officials from the Ministry of Defense in active service can fill this loophole in information exchange, and if military attaché s are sent there, I’m afraid it will cause strong dissatisfaction in Chinese mainland.
Therefore, they want to play an "edge ball": sending a civilian is not so eye-catching, but also has the practical effect of strengthening intelligence contact.
What’s more, it’s worth noting that this was first disclosed by the Japanese media, which has not been confirmed by Japanese officials, while Taiwan Province’s so-called "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" and "Ministry of National Defense" refused to directly respond to this matter.
Some scholars have analyzed that the announcement of news about Taiwan and Japan affairs should be based on the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and some specific media often talk about it, but it didn’t come true in the end. It is hard to say that this situation is final, because the Ministry of Defense will have to go through many discussions before it can be determined. If Chinese mainland reacts strongly, it may still end in vain.
However, some analysts believe that Japan is used to using the sausage-cutting strategy to arch forward step by step. Now it may be time to send active civilian officials, and the next step may be to send active Taiwanese personnel or increase the number of people stationed in Wu Zhi.
And whether civilian or Wu Zhi, are essentially active officials. In recent years, Japan and Taiwan have been trying to gradually enhance the diplomatic color of the "Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association" through the strategy of "boiling frogs in warm water".
Judging from Japan’s recent actions towards Taiwan, Japan’s intervention in Taiwan affairs is not limited to this.
Recently, the Japanese Defense Ministry revealed that it also intends to set up an integrated commander to command the use of the army, navy and air self-defense forces and an integrated command to support the integrated commander to deal with China.
According to Japanese media, China’s maritime operations are "strengthening", and it is worried that "something will happen to Taiwan Province". At the same time, it is necessary to pay attention to new security areas such as space, network and electromagnetic waves, so it is necessary to set up a special post to improve the engine power.
In addition, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan has rarely added the expression of "the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Province Strait" in this year’s amendment of "the basic principles of economic and financial operation and reform".
This basic policy is to point out the important issues of the political power and the directional policy of the next year’s budget preparation, which spans departments and is led by the Prime Minister to promote reform. The importance is self-evident.
Moreover, in the face of the upcoming NATO summit at the end of June, sources revealed that Japanese Prime Minister kishida fumio is not only willing to consider attending, but will also coordinate his position with all parties on the Ukrainian war and the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
It seems that Japan, which once played a "supporting role" in Taiwan affairs, is now setting itself up with a "protagonist aura" step by step, releasing sounding balloons, observing China’s reaction and considering its next move.
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On Taiwan-related issues, the Japanese government is arching forward like a sausage, and politicians are also scrambling to create momentum.
Among them, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe jumped the highest.
Last Sunday, Abe once again mentioned the topic of Taiwan Province in a forum, saying that he wanted to "tighten ties between Japan, the United States, Japan, Taiwan, Japan, India and Australia, and with like-minded countries" because "it is very important to create a condition for China to give up the use of force to reunify Taiwan Province".
He reiterated that "if something happens in Taiwan Province, it will happen in Japan" and declared that it is necessary for Japan to fundamentally strengthen its defense capability, and then focus on the US-Japan alliance to enhance its deterrence against Chinese mainland.
This paragraph of wording can be regarded as a staged summary of Abe’s frequent public statements on Taiwan-related issues over the past six months.
On Taiwan-related issues, Abe’s logic can be roughly divided into three steps.
Step 1: Linking Taiwan, China with Japanese security.
At the end of last year, Abe nicknamed at a meeting organized by a Taiwan Province think tank: "If something happens in Taiwan Province, it will happen in Japan." The reason is that "Taiwan Province is very close to Japan", which is only about 100 kilometers.
Therefore, "something happened in Taiwan Province" will be a Japanese "existential crisis".
This statement is very confusing to some Japanese people, but it can’t stand scrutiny. If this statement works, won’t all neighboring countries on the mainland be able to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs on this ground?
Step 2: Since it may constitute an "existential crisis", it is necessary for Japan to increase its defense expenditure and realize "re-militarization".
The most typical one is the "nuclear madness" that Abe once released.
Abe said that in view of the situation in Russia and Ukraine, Japan should explore issues related to the "nuclear sharing" of the United States. Look, his ambition to make Japan move in the direction of seeking nuclear weapons cannot be hidden.
Some French scholars have noticed that "Japan has gone through the stage of pure defense, and now what the outside world sees is an unconstrained military force."
This kind of "unconstrained" is exactly what Abe wants.
When he was prime minister, he made many amendments to Japan’s security-related policies and the Self-Defense Forces Law, such as allowing the exercise of collective self-defense rights under limited circumstances. This provides the possibility for the Japanese to give some support when something happens to Taiwan Province.
Abe has repeatedly called for amending Article 9 of the Constitution to make Japan a "normal country" with a "normal" army and a "normal" right to declare war.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the promulgation of the Japanese Constitution. Some media predict that if the ruling party wins the Senate election in July, the Kishida regime is likely to accelerate the discussion on amending the constitution.
Step 3: Externally, continue to hold the US thigh tightly and consolidate the Japan-US alliance.
Right-wing politicians like Abe know very well that if they want to "stop the rise and revival of China", they can’t do it by themselves, and they must hold the United States.
Abe has mentioned several times that "what happens in Taiwan Province is what happens in Japan and what happens in the Japan-US alliance". He also contributed to the Los Angeles Times, publicly calling on the United States to abandon its "strategic ambiguity" policy on the Taiwan Province issue.
For Abe’s many similar provocative rhetoric about China, some of the Kishida regime denied it, while others just went away.
Abe, do you still have political influence?
The title of an article in The Economist magazine gives its answer: "Shinzo Abe still plays an important role in Japan."
The article quotes Harris, the author of Abe’s first English biography "Anti-traditionalists: Shinzo Abe and New Japan": "Kishida is not the topic setter in Japan, but Abe is."
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Xiang Haoyu, a distinguished researcher at the Asia-Pacific Institute of China Institute of International Studies, analyzed the "mending knife" and said,Japan’s recent negative and erroneous trends involving the Taiwan Strait can be roughly divided into three categories:
The first is to strengthen exchanges with Taiwan.The latest example is a report that officials from the Ministry of Defense will be sent to Taiwan Province for permanent residence. If this is true, Japan will make a breakthrough in its exchanges with Taiwan. According to the principles of the four political documents between China and Japan and Japan’s commitments, Japan’s exchanges with Taiwan cannot violate the one-China principle, and it can only maintain unofficial relations with Taiwan Province. If the current officials of the Ministry of Defense are really sent to Taiwan, this is actually breaking through the framework of Japan’s post-war relations with Taiwan;
The second is to boost the "China threat theory".Through the media and right-wing politicians headed by Abe, Japan played up the "China threat" by the Taiwan Province issue and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, in order to incite people’s sense of crisis, create a favorable public opinion environment for them to increase their defense budget and revise the peace constitution; Externally, it is to serve the "Indo-Pacific Strategy" and provide an excuse to join hands with the United States to contain and contain China.
For them, 30% are worried that a conflict in the Taiwan Strait will endanger Okinawa’s outlying islands, especially the Diaoyu Islands dispute. But the main consideration is to artificially create an "external crisis" by taking the Taiwan Province issue as a starting point, so as to get rid of the Japanese post-war shackles and promote the normalization of the country.
The third is to pull the United States to jointly put pressure on China.Japan’s purpose now is to bring the United States in. Japan has been saying that "something happens in Taiwan Province means something happens in Japan", but in fact, the second half of the sentence implies that "something happens in Japan equals something happens in the United States". Because the US-Japan alliance means that the United States has an obligation to assist Japan. Some people in Japan hope that the United States will clarify its Taiwan strategy as soon as possible, so that for Japan, with the United States in front of it, it will be more unscrupulous to promote the agenda of military loosening.
Fu Sentinel, an air force expert, analyzed the "one-knife supplement" and said that Japan’s sending active-duty officials to Taiwan this time was said to be intelligence gathering, but in fact, the authorities of the United States, Japan and Taiwan Province made corresponding military preparations.
He pointed out that the collection and sharing of intelligence information is actually a military action, and we should pay close attention to it. From the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it can be seen that NATO countries say that they will not send troops to Ukraine, but it does not actually prevent them from sharing and implementing intelligence with Ukrainian troops. This seems to be nothing in peacetime, and once it is wartime, it will have an important impact on military operations.
Fu sentinel reminded,We must be highly vigilant and cut off such military ties if necessary. We have both soft and hard hands.Hard means, once necessary, we can destroy their land-based, sea-based, space-based and space-based related systems and equipment, and soft means, such as electromagnetic suppression and electromagnetic investigation. Now we have all these platforms, such as electronic reconnaissance plane, communication command machine and electronic jammer, and so on. We can strengthen the drills and preparations in this area next.
Xiang Haoyu believes that one of the most important reasons why Japan is so reckless on the Taiwan Province issue is that Japan-US relations are in the "honeymoon period". Japan is inseparable from the so-called "Indo-Pacific strategy" that the United States wants to promote to contain China.
Therefore, I also want to take this opportunity to exchange Japan’s more equal status in the US-Japan alliance and gain greater international influence by acting as a helper and "pawn" of the United States.
In the view of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is triggering a major adjustment of the international order after the Cold War. Now it is a golden window for Japan to get rid of the post-war shackles and realize the normalization of the country.
At present, Japan’s young children are aging, and its national strength is in a downward channel, but it still has outstanding economic and technological influence. If we don’t seize the present opportunity, we may never have another opportunity in the future. This actually reflects Japan’s particularly anxious mentality now.
Xiang Yuyu said,Japan’s current social ideological trend and political ecology have been extremely conservative to the right, and criticizing China, Russia and North Korea in this atmosphere has become a kind of "political correctness".
Although Kishida himself is a conservative, he has to cater to the domestic right-wing populist political atmosphere in the face of the pressure of the Senate election in July, and even made such inflammatory remarks as "Ukraine today, East Asia tomorrow". With the public opinion in Japan falling into a vicious circle of self-reinforcing cognition of "external threats", the polarization and populism of politics are becoming more and more serious, and the Taiwan Province issue has been listed as a national security issue that affects Japan’s "national luck". Politicians with rational attitudes are inevitably trapped in it, and there is almost no room for rational cognition and discussion in Japanese society.
On the 7th, Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee, had a telephone conversation with Kazuo Akiba, director of Japanese national security.
Yang Jiechi said that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, and the relationship between the two countries has reached an important historical node. At present, the old and new problems in Sino-Japanese relations are intertwined, and the difficulties and challenges cannot be ignored. The two sides should grasp the correct direction, adhere to win-win cooperation, focus on the long-term overall situation, enhance security and mutual trust, work together to bring a stable, healthy and strong Sino-Japanese relationship into the next 50 years, and jointly safeguard regional peace and prosperity.
In this case, I hope some Japanese politicians can listen.
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The film "Dad’s Lies" will focus on Quanzhou’s cultural and regional customs.


1905 movie network news Recently, the film held its premiere in Quanzhou. The film won unanimous praise in the industry for its eloquent, tearful parent-child lines and exquisite interpretation of many old dramas. It is reported that the film will meet the audience in the near future!The film is adapted from the online movie "Han Dad", which tells the touching story that Liu Afu learned that he was seriously ill and decided to take his adopted daughter Liu Xiaohua on a journey to find relatives.



"Dad’s Lies" was directed by a young director, with the vice chairman of the TV Production Committee of China Broadcasting Federation, a senior film producer and a national first-class director as artistic directors, a famous playwright and a national first-class director as literary directors, Yang Ping as producer and chief producer, and Xie Huabin as producer, and a number of old opera bones including leading actor, starring actor, Zhu Shuoran, and special actor joined in.

As a national first-class actor, Hou Tianlai won the Golden Phoenix Award of the 16th China Film Performing Arts Association. In recent years, his performances in the series in the name of people and State Secrets have left a deep impression on the audience. This time, the audience can see the role of Hou Tianlai as a simple, kind and heroic father. I believe that "Dad’s Lies" will once again refresh the film to reach the height of the soul.

The warm realistic film "Dad’s Lies" has aroused high praise in the industry, and social issues such as left-behind children have attracted attention.

Parent-child genre films have always been praised for their warmth, tears or the tacit understanding between parents and children. Parents’ selfless love and strong influence on their children will run through their lives, and the power of raising and accompanying them will moisten their hearts like a trickle. From the early days to the recent years, the audience can have a strong resonance.

On this basis, "Dad’s Lies" has also added social issues such as abandonment, trafficking, and left-behind children, which makes the film show the difficult plight of the bottom people’s lives at the same time. In the warmth of human feelings, the mutual snuggling between relatives is more precious as gold!

At the premiere of the film, La Peikang, vice chairman of China Film Association, senior film producer, former chairman of China Film Co., Ltd., vice chairman of China Broadcasting Federation TV Production Committee, senior film producer and national first-class director Jiang Ping, president of China Film Criticism Society Rao Shuguang, president of China Children’s Film Society, national first-class director Huang Jun, director Zhang Yinghui of Fujian Film Bureau and other industry authorities and leading experts gave high praise, praising the film story for touching people’s hearts and arousing deep resonance among the audience. The real problems expressed behind it are even more thought-provoking.

Yang Ping, the producer and chief producer, also shared his original intention of making this film: "Carefully making this cinema film is not only to make a film with ornamental and artistic value, but also to inspire people to resonate and pay attention to social problems such as left-behind children and child trafficking."

Dad’s Lies conveys the great love of the world and focuses on Quanzhou’s cultural and regional customs.

There are many fragments and lines in "Dad’s Lies" that show the simple daily life of the general public. These scenes full of fireworks are also calling on everyone to convey love and care through actions and jointly create a warm and harmonious society.

Director Yang Musheng revealed that although the film was adapted from "Han Dad", there are many differences in the specific plot. "Dad’s Lies" makes the elements of good and evil more prominent by increasing story clues and enriching characters’ personalities. The sharp contrast between the two forms great tension and pushes the story forward in ups and downs. The purpose is to drive more audiences to feel the true love of the world, and at the same time, to explore human nature in a deeper level together.

Surprisingly, the film was shot in Quanzhou and Taining, Fujian Province. Quanzhou is one of the first national historical and cultural cities, the first East Asian cultural capital, and the only world multicultural exhibition center recognized by the United Nations. "Dad’s Lies" was filmed with Minnan culture, Haisi culture, intangible culture and Danxia landform and natural landscape in Taining. Many Quanzhou landmark buildings, such as West Tower, Fuwen Temple, Linzhangmen and Zhengchenggong Park, also appeared in the film, aiming at showing Fujian’s regional scenery and strong humanistic customs in multiple dimensions.

The creative team hopes to spread Quanzhou’s excellent traditional culture through this film, and at the same time, attract peers in the industry to create more film and television works that highlight China’s traditional aesthetics, spread contemporary China values and are rich in Quanzhou cultural elements.


Yamaha: The Success and Failure of the King of Cross-border

Text | Lishi Business Review Jin Mei

Yamaha can be described as a master of cross-border. There is a Japanese saying: "Riding Yamaha, playing Yamaha, sitting Yamaha, playing Yamaha, listening to Yamaha, and living in Yamaha". Even the second-time star Tianyi Luo is from Yamaha.

Yamaha piano has an overwhelming global market share of 32%.

It has also been in a leading position in the world in commercial fields such as audio-visual products, information technology, new media business, furniture, auto parts, special metals, music education and resorts.

Can take root in many fields, what is the biggest difference between the king of cross-border and the ticket player? What is the enlightenment of Yamaha motorcycle’s failure from its birth to its being knocked down by Honda with a heavy punch?

1. Yamaha molding

In 1887, the American organ, which was regarded as a treasure in Hamamatsu Normal Primary School, suddenly stopped ringing, and the principal found Torakusu Yamaha (hereinafter referred to as Yamaha): "High-end medical equipment can be repaired, so why don’t you also repair the organ?"

As the son of the samurai in charge of astronomical affairs in the Tokugawa shogunate, Yamaye has been associated with the most advanced western equipment in Japan since childhood. When he grew up, he went to Nagasaki to learn how to make western clocks from foreigners, and later he was responsible for the maintenance of top equipment in a medical device manufacturing shop. In order to subsidize the family, Shanye also works part-time as a watch repairer and rickshaw puller.

He agreed to repair the organ without hesitation. He not only repaired the organ, but also figured out its internal structure. "Does such a thing still need to be imported from the United States?" Yamaha leaves some disdain.

After the headmaster told about the scarcity of the organ in the Japanese market, Yamaha was moved: this organ, which costs $54, actually costs $3. He decisively pulled the decorator Kazuo Kizaburo and decided to carve another one.

After 63 days, Japan’s first domestic organ was born!

Ambitious Yamaha and his companions, carrying this organ on a pole, crossed the Hakone Ridge on foot and came to the Music Research Institute in Tokyo (now Tokyo Art University) to be appraised by top experts.

"It’s just like an organ, and the sound is not in tune at all!" The teacher’s sharp evaluation gave Shanye a pot of cold water.

Fill whatever you lack! He got into the classroom directly as an auditor and learned music theory. After a month of hungry and sleepless study, Shanye returned to Hamamatsu and got into the laboratory.

This time, his reborn organ was affirmed as "a substitute for imported organ". Since then, the belief of "self-sufficiency and pursuit of the ultimate" has been written into the soul of Yamaha.

Organ orders soon flew from all over the country, and four years later his organ was even sent to Southeast Asia. In 1897, YAMAHA Co., Ltd. (Yamaha) with a modern assembly line was established.

Shanye, who just had more money, began to wonder: "What does the best piano in the world look like?" In 1899, he spent five months alone in the United States, stealing from three most famous piano factories in the United States. This time, he learned the subtle and complicated relationship between good products and good materials.

To build the best piano in the world, we need the most suitable materials and the most perfect combination. He believes that the piano factory in the United States must not have done it to the extreme.

Back in Japan, employees of Shanye organization combined all the components of wood and piano production in the world respectively and tried again and again to find the best solution. In 1900, the first Japanese upright piano was born in Yamaha. In 1902, Yamaha made the first Japanese grand piano.

In addition to the ultimate product research and development, Yamaha has established a world-renowned quality management system for Yamaha in order to ensure the excellent quality of every product, so his organ and piano have won numerous awards in Japan.

Shanye understood that his piano was not only the best in Japan, but also the best in the world, so he sent it across the ocean to the United States. In 1904, Yamaha Piano won the honorary prize at the World Expo in St. Louis, USA.

Since you are proficient in music theory, understand the world wood, and have exquisite manufacturing technology, you should make the best use of it and make the best use of it. The manufacture of guitar, violin, cello, harmonica, drum set and jazz drum came naturally, and Yamaha became the absolute leading brand in the field of musical instruments, and a small music empire was born.

The cross-border thinking of Shanye has not been limited by the industry. With the increase of musical instruments, Yamaha’s knowledge of wood is more and more profound, and its woodworking technology is far ahead. In order not to waste core skills, Yamaha opened a high-end wooden furniture production line in an instant.

In 1916, Torakusu Yamaha died at the age of 65, but his pursuit of the ultimate product, relying on the core competence and the bold and diversified ideas of market demand, and his thorough research spirit in the technical field became an important spiritual wealth of Yamaha.

In 1930, based on the accumulation in the field of musical instruments, Yamaha founded the world’s first sound laboratory. Based on the experience of making electronic organ, Yamaha mastered the digital signal processing technology and began to produce routers. Outside the furniture business, Yamaha began to build houses and even created a "Yamaha Resort".

2. World hegemony

Yamaha did not stop on the road of pursuing the ultimate.

To become a top enterprise in the world, it is necessary to complete the transition from production to manufacturing. Yamaha is no longer satisfied with following the leader, but building products ahead of the times.

The most advanced product comes from the undiscovered market demand, which is hidden among the top musicians in the world. Yamaha keeps sending technicians to Europe and America and setting up a "monitoring station" in London, so as to know the unknown needs of musicians through the latest and most powerful music technology, and thus stay ahead of the market.

To become a top musical instrument brand, only height is not enough, but also a huge mass base is needed. If you want to produce more pianos, you need to get rid of the shackles of German pianos made by technicians’ experience and feelings, and standardize mass production. In the almost crazy exploration of Yamaha’s staff, Yamaha finally overcame this technical problem and laid a good foundation for winning the world dominance of piano production.

But how can ordinary people have an impulse to buy expensive pianos?

Although the piano is like a duck to water in an elegant concert, it has been difficult for the piano to enter the families of ordinary people for nearly ten years. Known as Yamaha’s "father of revival", Mr. Kawakami Genichi thoroughly thought about this and decided to take the initiative.

He not only made the Japanese family’s piano popularization rate reach the first place in the world, but also established Yamaha’s undisputed dominance in the music market with novel ideas.

Why don’t parents buy pianos? There are only two difficulties: expensive price and difficult to find and expensive piano teachers. Kawakami Yuanyi thought of a good solution. For those prospective users who stopped playing the piano because of the price, he offered the installment loan opportunity. He has better plans for those customers who haven’t made up their minds yet.

He established a piano class, and parents only need to save a special piano fund, so their children can learn piano for free. In five years, the number of students has reached more than 20 thousand. This not only enabled Yamaha to lock in prospective families who can afford to buy pianos in Japan, but also formed a financial closed loop of one deposit and one loan. More importantly, piano culture took root in Japan through free training.

In this way, he established a huge piano root system in the impoverished Japanese market. Since then, he has also opened piano schools to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, France and other countries and regions. After decades of exploration, a complete education and training system has been formed. His courses range from kindergarten music club to full-time training courses, from low to high, and include all users.

In order to give users a sense of purpose, Yamaha has also organized three important international music festivals to raise awareness and discover talented young people. These selected people have naturally become loyal followers and brand communicators of Yamaha.

Engineers like Yamaha "crazy" will certainly not stop at mass piano production. In 1950s, Yamaha invented the world’s first electronic organ. Later, the company developed the world’s first fully transistorized new musical instrument. Yamaha combines the world musical instruments with cutting-edge technology, and at the same time, it also establishes its dominance in the world music field.

3. Diversified love and pain

From musical instruments to building furniture and houses, and from musical instruments to mastering the world’s cutting-edge technology, Yamaha, which pursues the ultimate, has reached its peak in many fields and successfully attracted the attention of the Japanese government.

In the 1950s, the Japanese government commissioned Yamaha to repair the propeller of aircraft. After it was repaired, they borrowed an airplane engine for testing, but the engine always broke down and became a doctor after a long illness. Yamaha also mastered the manufacturing technology of the engine.

After Japan surrendered in World War II, the defeated Japan was abolished, including the aircraft manufacturing industry, and all the business in the Yamaha aircraft field was shut down. With the economic downturn in Japan after World War II, people’s lives are no longer comfortable, and the demand for entertainment is getting lower and lower. Yamaha needs a new cash cow business.

Kawakami Genichi soon found a solution. Since people have no money, they can do some business that can help the public save money within their own ability. After some research, Sichuan Shangyuan took a fancy to the booming cheap transportation solution-motorcycle business.

On the basis of imitating the famous car "RT125" of DKW company in Germany, Yamaha applied the technology accumulated in the field of aircraft and engines to motorcycles. This time, it took Yamaha only eight months to drop a thunder in the motorcycle field.

Just over a year later, in February 1957, Yamaha Company produced the "YD-1" racing motorcycle at a speed that shocked the world. The engine of this brand-new model is a two-cylinder 250cc model, and it is completely original by Yamaha, Japan. In 1958, this car became the first Japanese motorcycle sold in the United States.

Since 1959, Yamaha’s overseas expansion strategy has been formally implemented, and the first overseas production base in Mexico has been formally established. Subsequently, Indian factories, Dutch companies, Brazilian companies, Canadian companies, American companies … More and more countries and regions on the world map have Yamaha’s footprints.

After more than ten years of hard work, Yamaha has grown into one of the few motorcycle companies in Japan. Moreover, Honda, the leader of the Japanese motorcycle market at that time, was focusing on the automobile business and overseas market expansion, and had no time to take care of the motorcycle market. Yamaha found a strategic opportunity to dominate the Japanese market.

In 1970, Honda’s sales were 3: 1 ahead of Yamaha, which had only 18 models and Honda had 35 models. By 1979, it had become 1.4: 1. In 1981, both of them accounted for about 40% of the Japanese motorcycle market, almost the same, with 63 models.

In the face of gratifying achievements, in 1982, Yamaha launched what was called "the most cruel competition in modern Japanese industry" to Toyota in an attempt to cut the gordian knot and harvest Toyota’s market. Yamaha decided to borrow money to build a factory with an annual output of 1 million units, surpassing Honda’s output of 3.8 million units with an annual output of 4 million units and becoming the runner-up in the world motorcycle market.

Yamaha’s war drum soon reached Toyota’s ears, and it decided to give Yamaha a little color to see. On the surface, Honda continues to stabilize the overseas market, but secretly increases its horsepower to develop new products, consolidate its sales network and strengthen the relationship with dealers, waiting for Yamaha to continue to expand and wait for a fatal blow to Yamaha.

Yamaha, which mistakenly thinks that it is still in the window period, continues to expand its production capacity in a big way, and even turns a blind eye to the crisis that it is almost unable to develop new products because of the financial drag in the expansion, and the products are outdated in the face of the general trend of lightweight and feminization.

Yamaha’s new factory has been put into production! Just as it jumped to the top and was ready to sweep the market with overwhelming products, the dormant Honda suddenly jumped up and knocked it down with a heavy punch.

Honda, which has been entrenched in the field of motorcycles and automobiles for many years, decisively reduced the price of all models by more than one third! Honda has also introduced 81 new models one after another, and eliminated 32 old models, which has a brand-new image among consumers.

Faced with Honda, which has plenty of food and grass, Yamaha is unable to fight back.

In 1983, Yamaha’s motorcycle market share dropped from 37% to 23%. In that year, sales directly halved, accounting for half of all motorcycle stocks in Japan. Coupled with the subsequent economic recession in Japan, banks have stopped lending to Yamaha.

Yamaha is riding a tiger, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and its president, Chuan Shangyuan, resigned. Honda was unscathed. The snipe and clam compete for the benefit of the fisherman, and Suzuki also took the second throne in the Japanese market.

Fortunately, returning to the "music" business has restored Yamaha’s deteriorating business performance. Different from the experience of the motorcycle market, Yamaha has achieved fruitful results in diversified expansion in other fields.

Engines can make motorcycles, and of course cars and yachts. In the process of building yachts, Yamaha mastered the manufacturing technology of FRP, which can be used to make bathtubs and swimming pools, so Yamaha successfully entered the bathroom industry.

Because of the research on materials, Yamaha began to manufacture golf clubs, tennis rackets, bows and arrows and snowboards. Often dealing with water treatment, it has started a water purifier. At the same time, because of the study of algae reproduction, it entered the biochemical field and made a cell picking and imaging system.

So Yamaha has the name of the most unprofessional enterprise and the most cattle cross-border.

4. Conclusion

As Steve Jobs said: "If you do one thing and it becomes quite good, then you should do other things instead of staying stagnant for a long time, as long as you figure out what the next step is."

The core competitiveness of Yamaha, which has been constantly crossing the border from musical instruments, is its leading technology. It has in-depth study of direct materials, top-notch production skills and cutting-edge technical advantages. Its decades of deep cultivation in these fields, like Apple’s "ios system", is a moat for Yamaha’s cross-border success.

Yamaha, which has no centuries-old tradition of exquisite handicraft industry, coincides with the vigorous tide of industrialization. It can promote the advanced manufacturing system without any historical burden, and ensure that every penny of itself is used to produce high-quality products and bring higher marginal benefits.

In the electronic era that followed, Yamaha, without historical burden, naturally accepted it with an open mind and established its leading position in the industry in one fell swoop.

Every time it crosses the border, it is not to follow the trend or simply imitate, but to expand its core competence to the unsatisfied market and turn it into products that consumers need, thus achieving a natural success and ensuring the durability of business expansion.

Why did the invincible Yamaha stumble in the motorcycle market?

Relying on technological advantages to do diversified business development can obtain extremely high product potential, just like the industry shock brought by Yamaha’s first motorcycle. But leading in product and technology and leading in market share are two concepts.

Yamaha musical instruments can’t sit firmly on the top of the world if they only have products and don’t have industrial facilities such as classrooms and industry competitions all over the world. With the rapid development of the industry, products can conquer the world, but once the competition in the industry intensifies and the development potential is gone, these shortcomings will become fatal, which is the stumbling block of Yamaha motorcycles.

Relying on the core technology, Yamaha has gained advantages in many products, and it has to be said that it is a successful crossover. But from another point of view, unlike Apple’s deep cultivation around its core users and ios system, Yamaha, which has expanded along the core technology, has no clear user portrait, which makes it still feel like a duck to water in the Japanese market, but in the world market, it is inevitable to miss more brand opportunities because of strategic out-of-focus.

"Laughing in Jianghu" and "Laughing Fruit" are amazing. Zhao’s master and apprentice laugh to solve thousands of worries.


"Laughing Jianghu" poster
  Produced jointly by Benshan Media, Yanping Film, Huayi Media and Bona International Film Group, starring Xiao Shenyang, Lin Xilei and Zhao Benshan, and directed by Zhu Yanping, the costume action comedy "Laughing Jianghu" is scheduled to enter the Lunar New Year’s Eve file on December 3, when it will compete with popular blockbusters such as Jiang Wen and Xiaogang Feng. Following the role poster of "Laughing Rivers and Lakes", the trailer of the film finally came to yet we called and urged a thousand times before she started toward us.
 
  Although it is only a short minute and a half, the trailer is very rich in content. The hilarious humorous jokes of Zhao’s master and apprentice, the fierce fighting scenes in Shenyang, the decisive expression of Lin Xilei, a beautiful woman, and the vivid guest appearances of Wu Zongxian and Ceng Zhiwei all made the audience full of reverie. In addition, Yu Dong, chairman of Bona, once said that "Laughing Rivers and Lakes" should let the audience watch the rhetoric of the Spring Festival Evening in advance, so it seems that this film is worth watching. However, how a movie "Laughing in the Rivers and Lakes" can make fans laugh to solve their worries and celebrate the New Year with pride? Perhaps we can also see some clues from the trailer.
 
What’s so funny?
Four comedians came in person, and Caishen Ning helped out.
 
  Comedy has always been the most popular movie type, but after Stephen Chow, comedy seems to have entered a noisy and nihilistic low tide. Especially in recent years, the shoddy cottage comedies have emerged one after another, so today’s audience is more cautious about comedies than ever before. Then, facing the audience with higher and higher laughter and stronger emotional nerves, how to win their knowing smile has become the biggest problem faced by comedy creators.
 
  "Laughing Jianghu", which is an action comedy in costume, is named "Laughter", and naturally it is generous in the design of jokes. The film not only gathered the "four great comedians" from Zhao Benshan, Little Shenyang, Ceng Zhiwei and Wu Zongxian, but also ensured the laughter from the lineup. Moreover, the script was written by Caishen Ning himself. Needless to say, the great screenwriter’s funny kung fu and talent, and Zhu Yanping, a Taiwan Province director who is famous for making comedy movies, should be able to guarantee the quality of Laughter.
 
  In the trailer, whether Uncle Benshan asks "Which unit do you belong to" with confused eyes, or the Wulin secret book marked "If you want to practice this skill, you must first go to the palace", or even the father-in-law with high martial arts skills is beaten beyond recognition by a whore, which makes the viewers laugh. It is expected that the combination of Caishen Ning+Zhu Yanping+Zhao Jiaban will bring us a more wonderful hilarious Jianghu world.
 
Who is the master and apprentice of Zhao family?
Zhao Benshan is in charge of jokes, and Xiao Shenyang is in charge of martial arts.
 
  Without Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyang, it is estimated that the filmmakers dare not say that "Laughing Jianghu" is comparable to the Spring Festival Evening, and everyone with discerning eyes knows that these two are the biggest highlights of the film. However, according to the trailer, Zhao’s mentoring is different from the previous hilarious cooperation, and Zhao Benshan has a strong gas field. No matter whether he speaks his lines in the Northeastern accent or his puzzled expression, he is bound to burst into laughter.
 
  In the film, Xiao Shenyang changed the funny style of being feminine in the past, and turned into a passionate chivalrous man who first entered the rivers and lakes. Every time I shoot, I am masculine and fierce. It seems that Yang Zi, who used to wear a long skirt in Scottish style, will completely become a "pure man" in Laughing Jianghu.

  On the whole, although Xiao Shenyang’s expression is still exaggerated and funny, he is mainly responsible for the action part. After all, ginger is still old and spicy, and Uncle Benshan laughs a lot every time he appears, which is quite a steal. It seems that this film will be played fiercely, laughed thoroughly, and quite lively, which will shine brilliantly for the mentoring.

  What are the characteristics of playing opera?
 
Elegant movements and bold fusion of film special effects
 
  Apart from jokes, whether the play is wonderful or not is naturally another issue that fans are most concerned about. After all, there is the word "Jianghu", and you can’t say anything without two hands. The action director of Laughing Jianghu is Cheng Xiaodong, a famous martial artist in Hong Kong. This famous director was famous for his cooperation with the great director Tsui Hark to set off a new wave of martial arts movies. His movements are famous for their elegant and romantic aesthetic style, which can be called the spring snow in the movements, so naturally there is no need to worry about the wonderful degree.
 
  But at the end of the day, it’s all a comedy. If you play well, you should also play funny. Cheng Xiaodong is not Jackie Chan. I wonder if you can guarantee this. Of course, the action scenes in the trailer are fierce and fierce, and the advanced film special effects are combined with dazzling effects. It seems that Cheng Xiaodong has really made great consideration and changes.
  It is worth mentioning that it is not difficult to see from the trailer that some action scenes are paying tribute to classic Hong Kong films. For example, the water curtain with a sword is a tribute to Brigitte Lin’s decisive sword in Drug Addiction, and Ceng Zhiwei’s big footprint that changed the color of Fengyun is a "broken foot" that is not only a joke about "the big footprint of Olympic fireworks" but also echoes Stephen Chow’s "Buddha’s palm" in kung fu, and the amazing fight between Xu Shaoqiang and Wan Jian in Shenyang is more like Shushan. It can be seen that Cheng Xiaodong also expressed his unique feelings about the action of this film.
 
Is the special effects scene wonderful?
Realistic special effects can be seen everywhere
 
  Where there are rivers and lakes, there are swords and shadows, and naturally, there is no shortage of firm but gentle winds and blows. The special effects scenes in Laughing Jianghu are not only dense, but also very realistic. Like the scenery around the small Shenyang cliff in the trailer passing by like running water, Ceng Zhiwei used his unique footprints to make the situation change color, and Xu Shaoqiang played Wan Jian’s return to the motherland, and the whole picture was full of swords, and the special effects were wonderful. It seems that the investment in "Laughing Rivers and Lakes" has been spent on special effects production. A comedy film can make great efforts in the scene. Just saying this sincerity is the difference between a cottage comedy and a pure action comedy.
 
Is love triangle a gimmick or a true feeling?
Small Shenyang rushed to the crown and was angry as a beauty.
 
  Nowadays, pure love is all the rage, and love triangle is all the rage. From ignorance to the popular music song "love buying and selling", love seems to be completely absurd in this era. It seems that when a man and a woman fall in love, they have to have a third party to cheat on them, or they have to let one of them get terminally ill and go to the hospital. It is beyond our reach to see a simple love.
 
  Although "Laughing Jianghu" is a comedy, the love drama still follows the routine of love triangle, and it is really brave to let the little shoemaker played by Xiao Shenyang compete with the emperor played by Julian Chen. However, the love triangle in Laughing Rivers and Lakes is not just a gimmick, it is the main thread throughout the film. A stunning beauty with a dream of rivers and lakes went to the rivers and lakes instead of being a queen, and accidentally met a small Shenyang who was full of dreams like rivers and lakes. The two hit it off very well and finally fell in love. In the trailer, you can see that Xiao Shenyang entered the palace and fought fiercely with a group of ouchi masters. The typical one is a beauty. Although there are not too many emotional side effects, this kind of treatment is the simplest and most credible, which is why it can not cause aesthetic fatigue of the audience.
 
What is the significance of "Laughing Rivers and Lakes" to let the audience watch the Spring Festival Gala in advance?
Inject fresh colors into the Spring Festival culture
 
  In the past, every year during the Spring Festival, Chinese people chose to watch the Spring Festival Gala, which undoubtedly became the hottest topic in the whole festival. However, "Laughing in the Rivers and Lakes" seems to have opened up a new idea, that is, to gather a lineup of luxury stars comparable to the Spring Festival Evening, to delight the audience by shooting hilarious comedies, and to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival. It sounds similar to the New Year movie, but it is actually different. New Year’s Eve movies are just comedies, and the main character is the Spring Festival Evening. However, the form of "Laughing Rivers and Lakes" is a direct challenge to the authority of the Spring Festival Evening. It is also a star of the Spring Festival Evening. From the stage to the screen, it sets off the festive atmosphere of the festival in another fresh form. If the schedule is set on the day of the Spring Festival as usual, it will undoubtedly provide the audience with new choices.
 
  Of course, this model is only the embryonic form, and it has not yet become a climate. Whether it is feasible or not depends on whether "Laughing Rivers and Lakes" can laugh and celebrate the New Year.