"Alien Awakening" was released, and Jake Gyllenhaal confronted alien creatures

The only space disaster thriller in May, produced by Columbia Pictures, USA, was released nationwide today. High-IQ alien creatures are desperate to chase souls and spread extreme fear, while Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson survive in last stand for human beings. The claustrophobic psychological thriller drama screams without urine, and the new classic of hard science fiction with space theme shocks the senses and touches the soul.

 

Audiovisual feast! Claustrophobic space, chasing souls, space disaster, trembling all the time

 

"Alien Awakening" tells the story of a fatal encounter in the space station. Scientists discovered extraterrestrial life for the first time, but the fast-growing alien creatures exposed their ferocious faces to hunt down human beings, which threatened the earth even more. The space station became a human purgatory every second, and astronauts fought to the death for the fate of mankind. The film brings the psychological thriller elements of claustrophobic space to the extreme, creating an exciting movie-watching experience of screaming without urine. The space station is small, cramped and intricate like a maze, which is the perfect stage for the "escape from the secret room" thriller drama. Alien creatures are omnipresent, and the fear of death is everywhere. catch me if you can is creepy, and all of them convey extreme shock and despair, and the impact is breathtaking.

 

As the only disaster thriller masterpiece in May, Alien Awakening is a space version, which perfectly combines the elements of space exploration, unknown creatures and claustrophobic space psychology, and has become the most thrilling audio-visual feast of the year.

 

Luxury lineup! Goddess of goddess group daguai

 

"Alien Awakening" has a strong cast. Jake Gyllenhaal, a Hollywood superstar, starred in the battle against alien demons, and Ryan Reynolds, who became famous all over the world with "Deadpool", played cool in outer space, and Rebecca Ferguson, the temperament goddess, joined in the fight for the fate of mankind. In addition, Hiroyuki Sanada and other senior players from many countries in the world have joined the "team of fighting monsters", and the international lineup is comparable to the real space station.

 

Behind-the-scenes masters also gather elites, such as producers dominating the overall situation and screenwriters manipulating scripts, which adds protection to the film quality.

 

Excellent quality! Original alien demons help hard science fiction masterpieces

 

As a core role, alien creatures are unique in design and authentic. Alien creatures get their inspiration from the real slime mold. In the film, alien creatures grow from single cells to complex living things "cute things" and finally grow into scary demons with shocking appearance. The whole process is meticulous and meticulous. Each cell has multiple functions, can change its shape at will, has strong adaptability and high IQ, and can survive for a short time even outside the space station. This alien creature simulated and created according to the real environment is shocking, amazing and unique.

 

In addition to the original alien creatures, the CG special effects and scene production of the film also spared no expense, bringing top-level visual presentation. The space station from a macro perspective is beautiful and breathtaking, and the interior of the space station is carefully crafted and strives to be 100% restored. In order to create a real weightless effect, the elite behind the scenes created a pioneering work from special spacesuits to special VIA systems. Jake Gyllenhaal and other stars have made great sacrifices, and they have suffered a lot from hanging Weiya to complete the filming. The final effect made the stunt director who had been in the same job praise "Alien Awakening" to a higher level. Foreign media commented that "Alien Awakening" will become another annual hard science fiction classic after "Gravity", ","and so on.

 

Word of mouth exploded! Hundreds of screenings received rave reviews from the audience. The media watched the movie and praised it.

 

On the 17th, "Alien Awakening" was held in the mainland media, and the word of mouth exploded. The people in the industry unanimously praised it: "The audience held their breath and watched the alien monsters chasing poor human beings, which was quite perfect in many aspects"; "The film renders the psychological thriller elements of claustrophobic space in the secret room to the extreme"; "The overall texture is very real, especially the life of the International Space Station. There is the darkest and most special ending, which gives birth to a bone-chilling chill "; "The rhythm of the story, the sense of despair in the closed environment, the sound effect of fear and the strange creatures that have grown from single cells to killing harvesters all make people nervous"; "Dedicated to creating fear, there are several bloody screen design really get to my taste"; More media bluntly exclaimed, "Super nervous and exciting, scared the baby to death."

 

However, due to the explosion of word of mouth, the expected value of the film soared, and the film party held a hundred grand screenings nationwide yesterday (5/18). Including Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos formats, 500 fans gathered at the Dolby Cinema in Wukesong Store, Jackie Chan Yaolai International Studios, Beijing, and many famous people, such as Ma Boyong, the famous writer, Sha Dan, the film curator of China Film Archive, and Europa, the famous film critic of the Golden Horse Award judge, also attended. Through the 1 million: 1 ultra-high contrast, high brightness and wide color gamut of Dolby Vision Laser Projection System in Dolby Cinema, the audience can enjoy the amazing, vivid and realistic picture of Alien Awakening with necessary details. Dolby’s stunning and smart sound effects create a real movie world through the sound effects that linger around the audience and overhead. After the screening, the audience praised the words of praise: "The whole journey is thrilling, and the alien creatures inside are terrible. I will have nightmares tonight!" ; "Unlike science fiction films, it is more like science fact films, and the space station scene is rigorous and credible." ; "The performance is perfect and fascinating, and it is definitely a great benefit for the two male gods to be on the big screen for the first time."

The central bank announced: RRR cut! Cut interest rates!

The People’s Bank of China decided to take off and land by 0.5 percentage points from September 27th.

The People’s Bank of China announced on September 27th that it has decided to reduce the deposit reserve ratio of financial institutions by 0.5 percentage point from September 27th, 2024 (excluding financial institutions that have implemented the deposit reserve ratio of 5%). After this reduction, the weighted average deposit reserve ratio of financial institutions is about 6.6%.

The People’s Bank of China stated that it will adhere to a supportive monetary policy stance, increase the intensity and accuracy of monetary policy regulation, and create a good monetary and financial environment for China’s stable economic growth and high-quality development.

Cut the policy interest rate by 20 basis points and land!

The People’s Bank of China announced on September 27th that in order to strengthen the countercyclical adjustment of monetary policy and support the stable economic growth, the operating interest rate of the 7-day reverse repurchase in the open market will be adjusted from the previous 1.70% to 1.50%, which is 20 basis points lower than the previous one.

In addition, the announcement shows that the operating rates of 14-day reverse repurchase and temporary forward and reverse repurchase in the open market continue to be determined by adding and subtracting points on the operating rate of 7-day reverse repurchase in the open market, and the range of adding and subtracting points remains unchanged.

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What is the future trend of gold price? What should investors pay attention to? Experts analyze this.

CCTV News:This week, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s main gold futures price rose four times in only four trading days, and closed at a record high for two consecutive days. As of the close of 28th, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s main gold futures price closed at $2,238.40 per ounce. Throughout March, the new york gold futures price rose by nearly 8%, the biggest monthly increase since November 2022.

The price of domestic jewelry gold is rising by 12 yuan/gram every day, approaching 700 yuan/gram.

The international gold price surged strongly, and the price of the domestic gold retail market also rose. On March 30th, the listing price of jewelry gold in many domestic brand gold shops reached 686 yuan/gram, approaching 700 yuan/gram. How do consumers choose at high prices? Come and see the reporters’ field visits in several gold shops in Beijing.

On the morning of March 30th, when the reporter visited several gold stores in Beijing, he found that the listed prices of Chow Tai Fook and China Gold had reached 686 yuan/gram. Although the price of gold has risen, there are still many consumers who come to buy gold, but they generally feel that the price of gold has risen too fast recently.

With the soaring price of gold, the trend of gold consumption and investment has also diverged. Some consumers are more cautious and decide to wait and see or choose some products with lower grams, but some consumers have the psychology of "buying more and more" in the face of crazy gold prices.

The rise in the price of gold has made the gold repurchase business hot. The reporter met a "post-00" consumer who is still in high school. He told reporters that he came to realize gold today and earned a total of more than 1,000 yuan.

Yang Li, a senior gold investment analyst of a gold jewelry company in Beijing, said: "Since March this year, the highest increase in international gold prices has reached 9.3%. From the domestic price point of view, the increase in March has been nearly 50 yuan, and the increase has reached 10%. On Thursday and Friday, especially on Friday (March 29th), domestic prices rose by 11-mdash; 12 yuan per gram. "

Shenzhen Shuibei Market: Hot sale of rigid wedding gold ornaments reduces the number of investors. 

There is still one month before the May Day wedding season, and many new couples begin to buy "three golds" for the wedding. Will the rising price of gold affect the enthusiasm of newcomers to buy gold? Look at the reporter’s visit to Shuibei Gold Market in Shenzhen, Guangdong.

On Saturday, Shenzhen Shuibei Gold Market was crowded. On March 30th, Ms. Yu and her husband came here specially from Guizhou to buy the "three gold" for marriage.

Customers who come to buy gold go wave after wave, mainly young couples, and the types of purchases are mostly wedding accessories such as dragon and phoenix bracelets and necklaces.

Merchants told reporters that the number of investors who came to their stores to buy gold bars has decreased recently, and most of the buyers are married people, which is just a need to buy gold.

With gold prices hitting record highs, wholesalers are cautious and reduce stocking and inventory.

The exchange rate of the Japanese yen against the US dollar hit a 34-year low, and the Japanese gold price exceeded 12,000 yen/gram.

On March 30th, the retail price of gold counters announced by Tanaka Precious Metals in Japan reached 12,086 yen per gram, which was about 579 yuan, hitting a record high for the third consecutive day. Against the background that the exchange rate of the Japanese yen against the US dollar has fallen to a 34-year low, the enthusiasm of Japanese people to trade gold is high. Let’s watch the report sent back from Tokyo by the special correspondent of the financial channel.

This is a jewelry store located in Ginza, Tokyo. In addition to brand jewelry, it is also engaged in the acquisition and sale of precious metals such as second-hand gold jewelry and gold coins. Affected by the continuous rise in the price of gold in Japan, the recovery price of gold has also been pushed up.

According to the person in charge of the store, some patients in the nearby dental clinic will go to the store to sell the newly replaced gold teeth. Although there is only a thin piece of gold, it can be sold for about 10,000 yen at the current recycling price. According to the person in charge, driven by the rising price of gold, the total sales and purchases of gold in the store increased by 30% year-on-year.

In addition to the daily gold jewelry, some Japanese consumers will also protect their assets by buying 24K gold coins to counter rising prices. Analysts pointed out that the recent high international gold price has driven the Japanese gold price to rise. In addition, the yen once again showed an accelerated depreciation trend. On March 27th, the exchange rate of the yen fell below 1 US dollar to 151.94 yen, the lowest level since July 1990, which became another important factor to boost the current round of Japanese gold prices to record highs.

Analysis: The short-term or long-term correction of gold prices is easy to rise and difficult to fall.

The price of gold has been rising all the way, so what is the future trend of gold price? What should investors pay attention to? Keep looking.

The World Gold Council pointed out in the "Global Gold Demand Trend Report" released a few days ago that the changes in the inflow and outflow of global gold ETF funds reflect investors’ attitude towards gold. In 2023, the inflow of gold ETF in China market was about 5 billion yuan, and the total scale increased to 29 billion yuan, a record high.

Liu Yuxuan, a senior researcher of precious metals in Guotai Junan Futures, said: "In the past 20 years, the international gold price has shown a steady upward trend. From $428 an ounce 20 years ago to the latest March 28th, the international gold price hit a historical high of $2,254 an ounce. In the past 20 years, the price of gold has increased by more than 400%. Compared with other commodities such as copper, crude oil and iron ore, gold has shown a steady upward trend for a long time. "

For the performance of the gold price in the market, many insiders believe that there are still many uncertainties in the short term, which may lead to a short-term correction of the gold price.

Wang Yanqing, chief researcher of precious metals in CITIC Jiantou Futures, said: "The Fed has not confirmed the timing of interest rate cuts, which also brings uncertainty to the future interest rate cuts, but the market is very strong in the expected interest rate cuts, which has brought strong support to gold. At the same time, excessive early trading expectations may also accumulate some risks, which may trigger a short-term correction of gold. "

Liu Yuxuan, a senior researcher of precious metals in Guotai Junan Futures, once again said: "Before the official start of interest rate cuts, the bullish atmosphere of the market for gold was often strong, so we can see that the price of gold has shown an accelerated upward trend recently."

Industry insiders also told reporters that although there is a certain risk of callback in the short term, in the long run, the probability of gold prices continuing to fluctuate and rise is greater.

Wang Yanqing, chief researcher of CITIC Jiantou Futures Precious Metals, said: "In the long run, it is the general trend for the US monetary policy to change from tight to loose, and the superimposed geopolitical risks are increasing. Central banks are continuing to increase their holdings of gold, and the gold market will still be easy to rise and fall."

The National Development and Reform Commission has drawn up new regulations: using big data to focus on cracking down on "bidding kings" and "professional households accompanying bidding"

  Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission published "Several Opinions on Strictly Implementing the Bidding Laws and Regulations to Further Standardize the Behavior of Bidding Subjects (Draft for Comment)" (hereinafter referred to as "Draft for Comment"). In view of the problems existing in the current bidding market, especially in the field of engineering construction bidding, such as the lack of the tenderer’s main responsibility, various unreasonable restrictions in the bidding market and the fact that market barriers has not been completely eliminated, the Exposure Draft puts forward relevant measures from the aspects of standardizing the performance management and implementing the supervision and management responsibilities. In particular, the opinion draft puts forward that the bidding administrative supervision department should actively rely on the electronic bidding system and use big data and other technical means to focus on cracking down on illegal acts such as suspected manipulation of bidding or lending qualifications, which lead to an abnormally high winning rate.

  Shall not dismember the contract to avoid bidding.

  At the end of December 2017, since the revised bidding law was officially promulgated, the overall bidding work in China has been greatly developed in terms of volume and efficiency. However, there are still many problems in the current bidding market, especially in the field of engineering construction bidding. This is manifested in the following aspects: the main responsibility of the tenderee is missing, and all kinds of unreasonable restrictions and market barriers in the bidding market have not been completely eliminated; Avoiding bidding, false bidding, collusive bidding and other illegal situations still exist.

  To this end, the "Draft for Comment" will focus on strengthening the regulation of the main behavior of bidding and tendering, and emphasize the implementation of the main responsibility of the tenderer.

  The "Draft for Comment" proposes that the bidding autonomy should be implemented in strict accordance with the law and the compulsory bidding system should be strictly implemented. It is not allowed to evade bidding in any form, such as dismembering the contract, breaking it into parts, recruiting small ones and sending large ones, or fictional classified projects, emergency projects, and using patented technology; It is not allowed to engage in false bidding on the grounds of strategic cooperation, investment attraction, etc., such as "open bidding and secret bidding" and "build first and then recruit"; Not through collective decision-making, meeting minutes, reply opinions, memos and other forms will be legally required to tender the project into negotiation, comparison or direct contracting and other non-tendering methods; It is not allowed to illegally adopt invitation bidding for projects that should be open for bidding; It is forbidden to change the bidding procedures at will, and it is forbidden to directly determine potential bidders, winning candidates or winning bidders by drawing lots, shaking numbers and drawing lots.

  In order to prevent the problem of "default of the winning bidder" in the bidding process, the Draft for Comment also emphasizes the need to do a good job in reviewing and evaluating the bid evaluation report. The tenderer shall carefully review the written bid evaluation report submitted by the bid evaluation committee, focusing on whether the selection, withdrawal, personnel composition and professional structure of the members of the bid evaluation committee meet the requirements; Whether the bid evaluation committee conducts bid evaluation in accordance with the bid evaluation methods and standards specified in the tender documents; Whether there are random scoring, willful scoring or obvious tendency scoring phenomena such as "human feelings score" and "relationship score"; Whether there is inconsistency in objective index scores or significant difference in subjective index scores; Whether to conduct a detailed review of abnormally low-priced bids or seriously unbalanced quotations; Whether to ask the bidder for clarification, explanation and correction according to law; Whether there is any random rejection of bids.

  Focus on monitoring professional households accompanying bids

  The bidding market is an important part of the high-standard market system, and the bidding work is of great significance for giving play to the decisive role of the market in allocating resources, improving the quality and efficiency of resource allocation, improving the efficiency of the use of state-owned funds and preventing corruption. To this end, the "Draft for Comment" proposes to resolutely curb illegal bidding behavior and strictly regulate the behavior of bidders.

  The "Draft for Comment" stipulates that it is not allowed to lend, borrow or link the qualification bidding; Shall not forge or alter qualifications, qualification certificates or other licenses to defraud the bid; Shall not collude with the tenderee, tendering agency or other bidders in bidding; After winning the bid, the bidder may not give up the bid without justifiable reasons, and the tenderer may not return the bid bond if the bid documents are revoked after the deadline for bidding or the bidder gives up the bid without justifiable reasons.

  At the same time, it is necessary to use new technologies to accurately target key regulatory targets. The bidding administrative supervision departments at all levels should actively rely on the electronic bidding system and use big data and other technical means to analyze and judge the local bidding market, focusing on "bidding professionals" who have abnormally low bid winning rate, do not bid for the purpose of winning the bid, and are suspected of colluding with bids, and focus on cracking down on "bidding kings" who are suspected of manipulating bids or lending qualifications and other illegal acts that lead to abnormally high bid winning rate.

  In terms of intensifying the crackdown on illegal activities, the "Draft for Comment" requires administrative supervision departments at all levels to implement "zero tolerance" for illegal activities in bidding and tendering; Strict implementation of the administrative punishment decision must be made public within seven working days, and timely pushed to the public resource trading platform, synchronous publicity to the "credit China" website.

  The reporter also noted that the "Draft for Comment" intends to squeeze the space of power rent-seeking in the bidding process by promoting the whole process of electronic bidding.

  Improve trustworthiness, encourage dishonesty and punish.

  In terms of the implementation of supervision and management responsibilities, the Draft for Comment requires that the professional quality of the bidding industry team should be greatly improved, and that tenderers, bidders, bid evaluation experts, bidding agencies and their employees should correctly establish the value concept of fair competition and merit-based, and enhance professional ethics, professional ability and integrity and self-discipline awareness. Accelerate the construction of a market integrity system that combines administrative supervision, social supervision and industry self-discipline, give full play to the role of industry self-discipline mechanism, and promote the integrity and law-abiding of bidding subjects.

  At the same time, it is necessary to speed up the construction of credit system in the field of bidding, build a new supervision mechanism based on credit, which runs through the whole life cycle of market participants’ bidding and connects all stages before, during and after, and give full play to the basic role of credit in improving supervision ability and level. Scientifically establish credit evaluation indicators and standards, increase the application of credit evaluation results in bidding evaluation, and further improve the incentive mechanism for bidding and trustworthiness and disciplinary mechanism for dishonesty, so as to provide a strong guarantee for establishing a fair and orderly bidding market and creating a good business environment.

  In addition, in terms of strengthening the management of agencies and employees, the Draft for Comment clarifies that bidding administrative supervision departments at all levels should strengthen the dynamic supervision of bidding agencies and employees, take the bidding agency behavior as the main content of the "double random and one open" inspection and bring it into the normal management, impose administrative penalties on behaviors that disrupt the market order, such as bid rigging and bid rigging, and punish them for dishonesty according to law. The investigation results should be announced in time and made public according to regulations, and the evaluation results can be used as a tenderer to choose a bidding agency. Encourage the credit evaluation of bidding agencies and the evaluation of professional technical ability of employees, and improve the service ability of bidding agencies.

  Xiong Wenzhao, a professor at the Law School of Minzu University of China, believes that all kinds of violations of laws and regulations in the bidding activities in the engineering field have extremely adverse effects on the bidding work of construction projects. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to strengthen the relevant responsibilities of bidding subjects and strengthen the management of agencies and employees. An important reason for the endless corruption in the bidding field is unclear responsibility and poor supervision. Therefore, it is very effective to urge the responsible units to establish a list of responsibilities, and clearly define the responsibilities from the weak links such as the preparation of bidding documents, contract performance management, post-bid supervision and inspection, and joint punishment for dishonesty. (Reporter Wan Jing)

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Three questions from CCTV: Who is the "black protection" around big polluters?

On April 17th, CCTV Finance "Economic Half-hour" reported "Three-dimensional Group in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province illegally dumped industrial waste residue to pollute farmland, and the production wastewater was discharged directly into Fenhe River, and CCTV reporters were detained unannounced". In this regard, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment stated in the announcement issued on April 18th that measures have been taken:

First, the joint supervision of the Shanxi Provincial People’s Government requires the Linfen Municipal People’s Government to strictly investigate the illegal sewage discharge behavior of enterprises, the performance of government and regulatory authorities and other issues in accordance with the law, and make them public in a timely manner.

Second, it will jointly punish the listed companies of Sanwei Group with the CSRC. Our department has informed the CSRC of the environmental violation information of Sanwei Group for the first time, and conducted joint investigation and punishment according to the memorandum of cooperation on joint punishment of environmental violations of listed companies.

The announcement also stated that Shanxi Province also attached great importance to this and responded at the first time. The Environmental Protection Department of Shanxi Province set up the "4.17 Report on the Environmental Problems of Shanxi Sanwei Group" and rushed to the scene on the night of the report to supervise, organize forces to conduct on-the-spot investigation on the contaminated site, monitor the waste water and industrial waste residue, and administratively detain two village cadres according to law. At present, various investigations are under way.

Then, why can such a big polluter pollute the environment for a long time and unscrupulously? What is the real problem behind it? Who is acting as their "black protection"?

Cctv review

Shanxi Sanwei Group has been illegally dumping industrial waste residue, polluting a lot of farmland and discharging industrial wastewater directly into Fenhe River, which has brought serious threats to the lives of people in villages along the way. The news media even used "evil deeds" to describe this shocking incident of stealing platoon.

Here, we must ask a few more why!

Do the three-dimensional group leaders, especially the group leaders, know what they are doing?

Sanwei Group is an enterprise that produces hundreds of chemical products such as polyvinyl alcohol, adhesive, benzene and coke. As a listed company with 4.5 billion assets, do you know how to treat the wastewater, carbide slag and fly ash produced by the enterprise?

Calcium carbide slag and fly ash need to be stored in a special yard and managed strictly, and industrial wastewater must be treated in compliance before it can be discharged. However, the three-dimensional group has been dumping industrial waste into the pit without impervious layer for a long time, and the wastewater is also directly discharged into Fenhe River, the mother river of Shanxi Province. Business leaders don’t know whether it is dereliction of duty or dereliction of duty? It is even more terrible if you know it, whether it is directly directed or not.

Why do local governments and environmental protection departments turn a blind eye to sewage discharge?

The media has long noticed that the three-dimensional group has seriously polluted the environment by illegally discharging pollutants.

As early as 2014, China Youth Network reported the fact that "Shanxi Three-dimensional Pollution has been confirmed by the Environmental Protection Bureau for nearly 40 years";

In 2016, national business daily also exposed the news that "Shanxi Sanweicheng environmental protection boss was investigated every year";

In 2017, a survey by China Legal Reporting Network found that Shanxi illegally dumped industrial waste residue to pollute farmland;

In 2017, the Ministry of Environmental Protection sent eight inspectors to inspect 13 cities, and Sanwei Group was one of the inspected objects.

With such intensive media attention and under the supervision of the Inspector Group of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, how did the local government and environmental protection departments respond and solve the problem? Don’t you turn a blind eye to the media reports and the inspectors of the competent departments? Why do local government departments turn a blind eye to sewage discharge?

Why are village cadres at the grassroots level willing to guard the door for polluting enterprises?

In the interview, the reporter found that the people around him had long complained, but they dared not speak out. The villagers said, there is no need to reflect, which one of the cadres in the village doesn’t know? The real situation is that in the face of the lawless and unscrupulous environmental pollution behavior of enterprises, local village cadres have acted as thugs for polluting enterprises to guard their homes. Villagers and journalists have said a few words and are worried that they will be retaliated.

It can be said that this scene in Hongtong County has reached the point of absurdity. Listed companies are lawless in discharging pollutants, village cadres pay money to guard the hospital, and the Environmental Protection Bureau ignores corporate pollution. Reports from local villagers range from verbal warnings to suffering from skin and flesh. When they talk to reporters, they must worry about retaliation. After repeated media exposure, environmental protection special inspectors, pollution has become increasingly serious. There are too many reasons to answer and too many questions to explain.

Polluting enterprises should be investigated and punished, and the umbrella behind them should be destroyed. At present, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has cooperated with the Shanxi provincial government to supervise the environmental violations of the three-dimensional group, and the local joint investigation team has also been formed. We will be interesting to see who makes the people dare to speak out, who makes the central government’s policies unable to be implemented here, and who makes the national laws unable to be enforced here.

(The original title is "CCTV Review | Three Questions: Who is the" black protection "around big polluters? 》)

Walking at the grass-roots level in the Spring Festival, the driver of the gantry crane in China and Europe: 1.8 minutes to catch a 30-ton "doll"

  Xinhua News Agency, Chongqing, January 28th: The driver of the China-Europe train gantry crane caught a 30-ton "doll" in 1.8 minutes.

  Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Qingbing

  Zheng Yushuang, 32, is clutching two black control handles with his hands, his back slightly bent, his head and eyes facing downwards, just like an eagle preparing to dive, looking for a suitable point and opportunity. Dozens of seconds later, as he pressed a button forcefully, a huge yellow "paw" slowly fell from the sky. Finally, when the "paw" successfully caught the target in the center of his pupil, he completely relaxed.

  On January 26th, Zheng Yushuang operated the gantry crane to lift the container in the driver’s cab. Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Yushe

  This scene that can’t be distracted for a second will be staged hundreds of times a day in Zheng Yushuang’s work. As a gantry crane driver at China Railway Lianji Chongqing Central Station, Zheng Yushuang described his work as a hardcore version of "catching dolls". However, his goal is not a plush toy, but a container weighing 30 tons.

  In addition, Zheng Yushuang’s "game room" is only 2 square meters, 16 meters from the ground. He needs to climb six revolving steps to get there. Because the environment around the station is open and uncovered, he sometimes needs to go up against the wind and rain.

  On January 26th, Zheng Yu climbed the cab of a 16-meter-high gantry crane in both directions. Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Yushe

  Although the work is quite challenging, Zheng Yushuang has been the "best player" of this "game" since he first came to work here in 2010. Tuanjie Village Station, where he works, is the starting station of the China-Europe train in Chongqing. Every day, a large number of goods gather here, waiting to be sent to all parts of Europe.

  Zheng Yushuang works 8 hours a day and can load and unload more than 2,000 containers in a month. It takes about 2 to 3 minutes for others to load and unload a container, while Zheng Yushuang only takes about 1.8 minutes.

  On January 26th, Zheng Yushuang was on the gantry crane. Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Yushe

  "I attended a six-month training course in Dalian before I officially operated the gantry crane. In recent years, with the increase of containers in China and Europe, my technology is also improving. " Zheng Yushuang said that when he first started this job, he often felt bored sitting in this small room because there were not many goods to load and unload at that time. But later, his daily workload increased from 60 containers to 250, and at most 350 containers were loaded and unloaded in one night.

  In addition to the increase in quantity, Zheng Yushuang also witnessed the changes in the category of goods. At first, the only goods exported from here were printers, laptops and other electronic products. Now toys, clothes, milk powder and other commodities are common. After the COVID-19 outbreak, containers containing medical supplies such as masks and gloves were also shipped to European countries.

  In 2021, as the first inter-provincial and inter-city cooperation brand of China-Europe Train, China-Europe Train (Chengdu-Chongqing) had a total of over 4,800 converted trains, accounting for about 30% of the national total. The container capacity of CEIBS (Chengdu-Chongqing) exceeds 400,000 TEUs, of which the return journey accounts for more than 50%, and the route has reached hundreds of cities in Europe.

  Zheng Yushuang was very proud to see the report card of the China-Europe class. "Thinking that these goods will be shipped to Europe, I feel that this job is very meaningful and I feel very fulfilled. During the Spring Festival holiday, I also chose to stick to my job and contribute my meager strength to the smooth operation of the China-Europe train. " Zheng Yushuang said.

Wonderful "king of fins and feet": the strong can monopolize the harem beauty of 3 thousand, and the weak are single until death!

South Georgia i.Located in the southern part of the Atlantic Ocean, the environment is unique, isolated, steep and steep, with endless alpine snow peaks, spectacular glaciers and rough and primitive canyon waterfalls, and it is famous for its wild animals’ paradise. However, since it was first discovered in 1675, in less than 100 years, the elephant seals and fur seals on the island have been hunted to death and have since become "bloody".Whaling station. Whaling paradise in the South Atlantic. With the disappearance of the bloody massacre on the island, the number of wild animals on the island has rebounded, and now hundreds of thousands of southern elephant seals gather here every spring to complete their mission.

Because of their huge size and rich fat, elephant seals are hunted in large numbers to extract oil. According to statistics, London alone has been used for one year.20,000 tonsLike seal oil. At the end of the 19th century, many scientists thought that this giant elephant seal (the northern elephant seal) was extinct. Fortunately, in 1910, a small group of lucky people were discovered. The current population is the survivors of that year. Descendants

South Georgia, big guy, the world’s largest pteropod!

Elephant seal (scientific name: Miroungaleonina, English name: seaelephant) belongs to Pinpoda, Marine family, Monk seal subfamily, Elephant seal genus. According to the different distribution areas, elephant seals are divided intoSouth China Sea Elephant () and northern elephant seals. South Elephant Seal and South Elephant Seal mainly inhabit South Georgia Island, Kerguelen Islands, macquarie island and surrounding areas. Due to different geographical locations, it is divided into South Atlantic subgroup, Indian Ocean subgroup and sub-Antarctic Pacific subgroup. The distribution of northern elephant seals is limited to the west coast of North America, the United States and the western coastal areas of Mexico.

Among them, the southern elephant seal is the largest pteropod and the largest land carnivore.CarnivoraMedium. It looks like a "meat mountain" from a distance. At the same time, the southern elephant seal also created the biggest weight difference between male and female mammals. The average weight of males is about 2.2-4 tons.The average body length is 4.5-5.8m.. The heaviest elephant seal recorded in Guinness World Records weighs 5 tons and its body length can reach 6.85 meters. The female weighs only400-800 kg, with a body length of no more than 3 meters.. Compared with northern elephant seals, their gender is similar, but not so extreme. The average weight of male northern elephant seals is about 2 tons, and that of females is about 700-800 kilograms. To tell the truth, seeing the male southern elephant seal pressing on the female southern elephant seal really worried the latter …

Tips: Because the English name of the elephant seal "seaelephant" is translated into "walrus", many careless students directly translate it into walrus (the English name of Walrus is’ Walrus’). Although walrus and elephant seal are both "sea", they belong to different species families. Adult walrus females and males have two long "tusks".

Because of its huge size, there are no polar bears on land.South elephant seals basically "walk sideways" on the Antarctic continent. Killer whales only threaten them when they are in the sea.. Although southern elephant seals often lie prone on the beach to rest, like a meat mountain, they are bloated and have great difficulty in moving (the speed is about 5-10 km/h), but as soon as they enter the water, their limbs are fin-shaped. According to scientific observation, southern elephant seals can dive to a depth of 400 to 1,000 meters (1,300 to 3,300 feet) at a time, and each dive lasts for 20-40 minutes. The deepest recording depth is2388 meters, refreshing the depth of mammals entering the sea.

With epic diving skills, what will the southern elephant seal do? Squid fishing. Because there is no echolocation, southern elephant seals usually use their keen eyesight and whiskers to perceive the situation in nearby waters and eat some fish, krill and crustaceans. However, after dissecting the dead specimens, scientists found that the favorite food of the southern elephant seal was squid.

Three thousand harem beauties? The number of the strongest harem beauties has reached 270!

South elephant seal pursues "polygamy"Is a typical mammal. Every year during the breeding season, groups of female southern elephant seals return to the coast to mate with the males who have won the battle.

Southern elephant seals spend most of their time at sea and only return to the shore during the breeding season or when they molt. At the beginning of the annual breeding season (December-January), groups of male southern elephant seals arrive at the beach first, and everyone "shows their muscles" for hegemony.. A beach usually only produces a "beach owner".But the status of beach owners may be challenged at any time.

The name elephant seal comes from its huge and prominent nose, which is similar in shape to an elephant, but only male elephant seals have it. Its main function is to make sounds. Male elephant seals have a strong sense of territory. If other male elephant seals invade its territory, it will not hesitate to send out’.Lion roar’The strange sounds made in some caves are like the warnings made by seals. Ideally, it is to achieve the effect of defeat without fighting.

If it really doesn’t work, we can only resort to force, which often ends in bloodshed. First, the two sides do difficult yoga moves (stand up) and hit each other with meat bombs, then you take a bite and I take a bite. After the comparison, the fatter one will watch. The fatter.The stronger the lethality, the stronger the endurance.. However, the male southern elephant seal is naturally prepared for this kind of battle, and the neck fat is particularly thick, which generally does not lead to death or serious injury. Therefore, anyone who has seen wild southern elephant seals must have seen their rudeness and irritability.

With the roar of the earth-shattering, the two sides were bitten black and blue, and the winner was gradually divided. The winning king can bring 40-50 females who landed on the beach in estrus into the harem., up to 270.Due to the lure of huge benefits, all male southern elephant seals are challenged and challenged throughout the breeding season. Among them, the "beach boss" is the busiest. In addition to completing the sowing task, he has to face the challenge from passers-by to drive away other male seals (the loser lingers on the edge of the beach, trying to mate with the female seal quickly before being driven away, and if he is lucky, he can pass your own genes). Because of too many things, the "beach owner" didn’t have time to feed at all, so in just one month, he could only scrape by on the huge fat reserves in his body.

Research data show that only 2-3% of male southern elephant seals are found every year.Have the opportunity to inherit genes. In a large-scale paternity test, scientists studied a population on the beaches of the Falkland Islands and found that 125 offspring were born within two years (the largest number of offspring recorded by men was 500), among which110 descendants belong to the same father. In addition, 72% of males have never had a single mating phenomenon, and even some individuals have never died of old age (single to death). It can be said that drought does not die, and floods do not die. It is precisely because of this struggle that the huge gap in resource allocation has led to the development of males in the direction of huge size.

When I was born, I weighed about 50 kilograms, which quadrupled in one month!

The pregnant period of female southern elephant seals is usually 9 months, but they can give birth after 12 months of pregnancy. The cub weighs about 50 kilograms at birth, but within one month, the cub’s weight can be quadrupled. The main reason is that the milk of female southern elephant seals contains a lot ofOil.

When the baby elephant seal is born, the milk secreted by the female elephant seal contains about 12% fat. Two weeks later, this number increased to more than 55%, giving the liquid a pudding-like consistency. In contrast, humans only account for 3.5%. So in just 30 days, the weight of the cubs rose steadily, while the weight of the female southern elephant seal decreased slowly, losing at least one third of its weight. Cubs are usually born on the beach during the breeding season, so cubs are often crushed to death by males.

Conclusion:

Historically, southern elephant seals have been hunted to extinction by humans. Later, because the number was too small, the cost of a trip to the South Pole was not worth mentioning. Since 1964, the number of southern elephant seals has been able to recuperate. Since then, their numbers have rebounded rapidly, and the southern elephant seal is considered to be the least concerned species. However, due to overfishing, marine pollution and climate change in Antarctic waters, the future of the southern elephant seal is in danger.

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Protecting Ecology, Promoting Water Conservancy and Promoting Industry Ningxia sings the Yellow River Concerto

  China Net Yinchuan September 27 th(Reporter Sun Lingxuan) Children in Ningxia, Huang Hefu, protect the Yellow River. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited the wuzhong section of the Yellow River during his investigation in Ningxia to learn about the situation of strengthening the ecological protection of the Yellow River basin, emphasizing that the Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation and a valuable resource for the survival and development of the Chinese nation and civilization. Since ancient times, the Yellow River water has nourished this beautiful and rich land in Ningxia, and it is still benefiting the people of all ethnic groups in Ningxia today. Ningxia should have the overall concept and responsibility, cherish the Yellow River more, take good care of it, and strive to build a pioneering area for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin.

  "Make overall plans to promote ecological protection and restoration and environmental governance, and strive to build a pioneering area for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin". This is the earnest expectation of the Supreme Leader General Secretary for Ningxia.

  Recently, in order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the important speech delivered by the Supreme Leader General Secretary at the symposium on promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and show the new measures, new practices and new achievements in promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in all parts of the Yellow River Basin, "Chinese Dream • Yellow River Love — — The interview group of the network theme activity "Ecological Protection and High-quality Development in the Yellow River Basin" conducted an interview in Ningxia, visited An Lan, Ningxia, which is bordered by the south of the Yangtze River, and felt the Yellow River.

Baijitan National Nature Reserve. China Net reporter Sun Lingxuan photo

  Protecting ecology — —

  Building a "Green Great Wall" by Sand Control and Afforestation in Baijitan

  "Sand control is very ordinary, you have worked very hard, and the results are very gratifying and inspiring. This is an ordinary and great cause, and it has also strengthened our determination to control sand. We will fully support your cause." People in Baijitan remember the encouragement and exhortation given by the Supreme Leader when he visited here in 2008.

  Ningxia Lingwu Baijitan National Nature Reserve (Baijitan Sand Protection Forest Farm) was established in 1953, and was promoted to a national nature reserve in 2000. Now, the total area of protected areas and forest farms is 1.48 million mu, which is located at the edge of Mu Us sandy land east of the Yellow River in Yinchuan City. The main problems before treatment are: First, the impact on the mother river-Yellow River, which is 5 kilometers away from the Yellow River and distributed in the region. Second, the drought has caused serious damage to sandstorms, which is located at the east gate of Yinchuan and the desert closest to the capital city. The annual rainfall is 150-170mm, and the sand dunes are tall and the natural restoration ability is extremely weak. The disastrous weather caused by sandstorms is harmful to industry and agriculture.

  Since 2008, the sand control in Baijitan has been speeded up again, with the speed of 20,000 mu of sand control and planting green every year, pushing the desert 20 kilometers away, and building a green barrier combining trees, shrubs and grass with a length of 61 kilometers from north to south and a width of 20-30 kilometers from east to west, which has achieved remarkable results in artificially promoting natural restoration.

  Wu Jingzhong, 55, is a second-generation ranger at Baijitan Management Station. In the forest he guards, there are old elms carried by his father and the older generation of Baijitan people. Every day, a person takes fire prevention tools and rides a motorcycle to patrol the forest for more than 20 kilometers, rain or shine, and never stops.

  "Seeing here now, I still feel tears, because I once really sweated and shed tears in this place." When asked about the present life, Wu Jingzhong said with a smile, "Sand control has changed the harsh environment, the living conditions have been greatly improved, and people have lived more comfortably and at ease."

  Over the past 60 years, the three generations of Baijitan people have been persistent, accumulating 630,000 mu of sand control and afforestation, controlling nearly one million mu of quicksand, and the forest coverage rate has reached 41%, effectively curbing the southward migration and westward expansion of Mu Us sandy land, protecting the ecological security of the Yellow River and Yinchuan Hedong, and becoming a model area for precise and scientific sand control in the Three North Project.

Qingtongxia Grand Canyon

  Promoting water conservancy — —

  Promoting water, enriching people and strengthening water area

  "High-platform architectural style in Qin and Han Dynasties, bronze twisted light steel roof." What caught the reporter’s eye was the Ningxia Water Conservancy Expo in the Xiakou area of Qingtongxia.

  Ningxia Water Conservancy Expo, which was opened in March 2010, is divided into upper and lower floors, with a construction area of 4,085 square meters and an exhibition area of 2,850 square meters. There are 23 units in six parts in the museum, including preface hall, rhyme of a thousand years, prosperous times, water conservancy future, water conservancy culture and water conservancy figures. More than 700 pieces of cultural relics (objects) such as pentagonal ceramic water pipes in Han Dynasty, gray ceramic water pipes in Song Dynasty, Qushen Monument in the Republic of China, Hanqu Monument, Niugongde Zhengsheng Monument, etc. are displayed, and sand tables of Haowang Kaiqu, Saibei Jiangnan and other scenes are molded, and more than 2000 pieces are displayed comprehensively.

  Since ancient times, Ningxia has existed only in the Yellow River and developed only in the Yellow River. Thanks to the selfless nurturing of the Yellow River mother, Ningxia’s water conservancy construction, despite dynasty changes and disaster twists and turns, has always continued to develop under the theme of national unity, openness, tolerance and civilization, which has played an important role in promoting agricultural and animal husbandry production and maintaining border stability.

  It is understood that from Sima Qian’s "water is of interest" to Guo Shoujing’s "seeking new things from the old", from Qianlong Emperor’s "developing water conservancy to make the best use of the land" to Zhang Jincheng, the magistrate of Ningxia, "canals are the lifeblood of people in Ningxia", which inherited the profound understanding of predecessors on water control. Whenever the situation was stable, the regime at that time always regarded opening canals and opening up wasteland as a political priority. Supervising the people at the right time and developing water conservancy have created the prosperity of "the north of the Yangtze River and the south of the Yangtze River" and "the land of plenty".

Qingtongxia dam water conservancy scenic spot

  Looking back at the history, the dredging of the river in the Han Dynasty, the dredging of the river in the Xixia Dynasty, the Gengli sluice weir in the Yuan Dynasty, the Shili long dike in the Ming Dynasty, and the large-scale canal opening in the Qing Dynasty all shine with the simple scientific concept of water control and the wisdom of promoting water control by the working people in Ningxia.

  After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region fully implemented the central water control strategy, deeply understood the present situation of Ningxia’s survival by water, water poverty and water-only development, set off the climax of large-scale water conservancy construction, created a new situation of comprehensive water control, and formed a relatively perfect water conservancy engineering system such as irrigation, drainage, flood control and water conservation. Nowadays, adhering to the idea of "water saving in the north, water transfer in the middle and open source in the south", agricultural water conservancy has changed greatly to industrial water conservancy, urban water conservancy and ecological water conservancy. It provides basic support for the all-round development of regional economy and society.

  With the development of agriculture, industrialization and urbanization, water has become the basic natural resource and strategic economic resource to promote the sustainable development of modern economy and society. Accelerating the reform and development of water conservancy is an important and urgent strategic task related to the overall situation of China’s socialist modernization and the long-term development of the Chinese nation.

The scenery outside Xige Winery China Net reporter Sun Lingxuan photo

  Promote industry — —

  Purple business cards make Ningxia wine "amazing the world"

  General Secretary of the Supreme Leader affirmed the development of the wine industry when he visited Ningxia in July 2016. When the General Secretary visited Ningxia in early June this year, he clearly pointed out that Ningxia should combine the development of wine industry with strengthening the management of the Yellow River beach area and ecological restoration, improve the technical level, increase the cultural connotation, strengthen publicity and promotion, build its own well-known brand, and improve the added value and comprehensive benefits. The important instructions and earnest entrustment of the General Secretary not only encourage but also spur the development of wine industry in Ningxia, which not only points out the development direction, but also provides a strong impetus.

  In early autumn, the vineyards at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain are full of vitality. Within three days, the press delegation went to Xige Winery, Hedong Manor and Zhihui Yuanshi Winery successively, and went into the grape garden, production workshop, constant temperature wine cellar and wine product exhibition hall to learn about the varieties of wine grapes and the production and processing of wine.

  Xige Winery is located in Pigeon Mountain, Qingtongxia City. It is one of the five-level wineries at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain. It was established in 2017. The winery advocates nature, follows the concept of biodynamic cultivation, and pursues the original ecology of grape planting. There are more than 10 grape varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. According to the staff of the winery, as a demonstration winery jointly built by Ningxia and Marburg, New Zealand, Xige is building an international and modern winery integrating Chinese and Western cultures.

Hedong manor underground liquor cellar

  Hedong Manor is located in Shizuishan City, located in the golden growth zone of 38 north latitude, which is the most suitable for growing wine grapes in the world. It is the northernmost winery in the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain. Founded in 1997, the manor is one of the oldest manors in the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain.

  "Hedong Manor practices with actions ‘ Create the most collectible wine brand in the world ’ The concept. " Gong Jie, Chairman of Hedong Manor, introduced that while brewing fine wine, Hedong Manor adheres to the development concept of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" and wholeheartedly invests in the development of green ecological winery tourism industry. The manor is lush with trees, flowers and fruits, and centuries-old vines dominate. The landscape of 2 km sightseeing train, forest tourists’ walking track, multi-functional environmental protection yurt, off-road vehicle track and helicopter landing platform is unique to Hedong Manor.

  Zhihui Yuanshi Winery is a Chinese-style winery adhering to the concept of "harmony between man and nature". The winery uses abandoned sandstone mining areas, reuses all kinds of abandoned building materials, integrates many Chinese elements from the traditional aesthetics of China, and inherits the architectural style of the Han Dynasty. It took six years to build a garden-style China Winery. After years of development, Yuanshi Winery has become a comprehensive winery integrating vineyard planting management, refined brewing, product research and development and wine cultural tourism.

  It is understood that 92 wineries have been built at the foot of the east foot of Helan Mountain. By the end of 2019, the planting area of wine grapes in the eastern foot of Helan Mountain in Ningxia has reached 496,000 mu, which is the largest grape producing area in China, with a comprehensive output value of 26.1 billion yuan. The grape industry provides about 120,000 jobs for ecological immigrants every year, achieving an income of 900 million yuan.

  The wine industry has become a well-deserved purple business card in Ningxia, which makes Ningxia wine "amazing in the world" and paints a brand-new picture for the high-quality economic development in Ningxia.

  Ningxia is the place that the Supreme Leader General Secretary has been paying attention to and caring about, and it is an important ecological security barrier in the northwest region. The Yellow River, here, spreads a magnificent picture of the south of the Yangtze River, and composes immortal poems for the people of Ningxia to build a beautiful home. Standing at the starting point of the new era, Ningxia is advancing with the times, developing scientifically, prospering water and enriching the people, prospering water and strengthening the region, undertaking the important mission of maintaining ecological security in the northwest and even the whole country, striving to find a new way of high-quality development in line with Ningxia’s reality, and re-scoring the Chinese chapter in the magnificent journey of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

One drop of water can generate electricity for six times, and the Yangtze River Golden Waterway has become the world’s largest clean energy corridor.

  The mighty Yangtze River, which gathers great rivers and passes through the long gorge, is rich in resources such as hydropower, shipping and fresh water.

  Six large hydropower stations, Wudongde, Baihetan, Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba, Three Gorges and Gezhouba, are arranged from top to bottom along the main stream of the Yangtze River, forming the world’s largest clean energy corridor: spanning more than 1,800 kilometers, with a water level drop of over 900 meters, a total of 110 hydro-generator sets are running in succession, and the vast river brings rolling green electricity.

  Not long ago, the industrial Internet platform was deployed in six cascade hydropower stations, which indicated that the "industrial brain", the world’s largest clean energy corridor, was basically completed, and the operation efficiency, safety and reliability of hydropower stations were greatly improved.

  The cumulative power generation of six cascade hydropower stations has exceeded 3.5 trillion kWh, which is equivalent to saving over 1 billion tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by over 2.8 billion tons. At the same time, cascade reservoirs cooperate with each other, and the benefits of smooth shipping, water resources protection and ecological protection are comprehensively released.

                                                                                                   

  Figure ①: wudongde hydropower station. Photo courtesy of Three Gorges Group

  Figure ②: Baihetan Hydropower Station. Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Xinbo photo

  Figure ③: Xiluodu Hydropower Station. Photo by Zeng Sandong (image China)

  Figure ④: Xiangjiaba Hydropower Station. Wu Xinshe (image China)

  Figure ⑤: Three Gorges Hydropower Station. Photo by Zheng Kun (image China)

  Figure ⑥: Gezhouba Water Control Project. Photo by Wang Geng (image China)

  Source: Three Gorges Group

Total installed capacity of 71.695 million kilowatts

  "One drop of water sends 6 times of electricity", and the joint debugging of six reservoirs makes the "green engine" stronger.

  Baihetan Hydropower Station between deep canyons, the concrete hyperbolic arch dam with the maximum dam height of 289 meters is included in the Pentium River. The water flowing down from a height of more than 200 meters drives the runner of the hydro-generator set to rotate, and the unit can generate about 150 kWh of electricity every time it rotates.

  Sixteen million-kilowatt hydro-generator sets of Baihetan Hydropower Station are running at full capacity. Wang Bin, deputy director of the operation department of Baihetan Power Plant of Yangtze River Power, said: "Operators are on duty 24 hours a day, sensors collect data in real time, and the system will automatically give an early warning once the operation indicators are abnormal."

  "The generator set is like a gyro that rotates by water, converting kinetic energy into electrical energy." Kang Yonglin, former deputy director of Baihetan Engineering Construction Department of China Three Gorges Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Three Gorges Group"), said that at the speed of 111 revolutions per minute, the coins standing on it did not move, and the swing of each bearing was less than 0.1 mm during operation … … "The key technologies such as the overall arrangement of units, electromagnetic design, and manufacturing of major components have successively achieved important innovations, which have witnessed the leading position of China Hydropower in the fields of equipment manufacturing, design and installation."

  In December 2022, Baihetan Hydropower Station realized that all units were put into operation to generate electricity. Looking back from Baihetan, this clean energy corridor has witnessed the breakthroughs of hydropower technology in China.

  Gezhouba, which was completed in the 1980s, has a maximum capacity of 170,000 kilowatts per hydro-generator unit. As the largest water control project in the world, the Three Gorges Hydropower Station has overcome the design and manufacturing technology of 700,000 MW units. Subsequently, in Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba and wudongde hydropower station, the single unit capacity of hydro-generator sets has exceeded 770,000, 800,000 and 850,000 kilowatts.

  Upgrading is not a simple addition, and the difficulty coefficient of R&D technology increases geometrically every time. The capacity of a single machine has reached million kilowatts, which is inseparable from the application of a series of new technologies and materials, and the whole industrial chain has been upgraded, such as hydraulic design, generator ventilation and overall design of units. "The million-kilowatt unit has greater head impact, faster rotating speed and higher bearing pressure. The Three Gorges Group has taken the lead in large-scale steel enterprises and developed 800 MPa-class high-strength spiral case steel plates, getting rid of the situation of long-term dependence on imports." Li Haijun, deputy director of the Electromechanical Technology Center of Three Gorges Group, gave an example.

  The total installed capacity of the six cascade hydropower stations is 71.695 million kilowatts, which is equivalent to the installed capacity of the three Gorges hydropower stations, and the energy supply is constantly enhanced, and five of them have become the backbone power stations of "West-to-East Power Transmission".

  "The Yangtze River water passes through six hydropower stations in turn, which is equivalent to one drop of water generating six times of electricity." Kang Yonglin calculated a detailed account: 1 cubic meter of water can produce 0.25 kWh of green electricity through the Three Gorges Hydropower Station; The power generation multiplier effect is realized by the joint dispatching of six reservoirs, and the power generation can reach 2 kWh, and the efficiency is increased to 8 times.

  "The operation and scheduling of giant power stations in the basin involves ‘ Water, machinery and electricity ’ Multiple links, huge scale, changeable time and space, cross-regional and cross-network, complex structure. Cascade hydropower stations bear both peak load and base load, which puts forward higher requirements for long-term safe and stable operation of hydropower. " Tang Zhengyang, deputy director of the Yangtze Power Science and Technology Research Center, said. The industrial Internet platform deeply empowers all business scenarios such as intelligent operation and maintenance, intelligent maintenance, intelligent dispatching and intelligent decision-making, comprehensively improves the intelligent operation and maintenance level of equipment, and helps the digital construction of hydropower stations.

  768 km deepwater reservoir channel

  Release the "golden benefit of golden waterway" to help the Yangtze River freight volume stay ahead.

  The Three Gorges Dam and the double-track five-level ship lock are located on the left bank. In 2023, the safe operation of shiplocks exceeded 11,000 locks and the number of ships passing exceeded 42,000 — — How to operate safely and efficiently when you open the miter gate of about 900 tons for tens of thousands of times and climb the 113-meter water level difference with a thousand-ton ship?

  "The Three Gorges Ship Lock is the largest inland ship lock in the world with the largest number of consecutive stages, the highest water head and the most complicated operating conditions. In operation, we have established mechanisms to ensure smooth shipping." Yang Hua, deputy director of the hub management department of the basin hub operation management center of the Three Gorges Group, said that in order to ensure the safety and reliability of all kinds of construction equipment, the Three Gorges ship lock will be regularly suspended for maintenance. On April 5, 2024, the planned suspension maintenance of the North Line Shiplock of the Three Gorges Project was successfully completed. This is the suspension maintenance with the longest construction period, the heaviest task and the most difficult process connection and coordination since the planned suspension maintenance began in 2012. With the participation of more than 800 people from 16 companies, the upgrading of the industrial control system of the Three Gorges Ship Lock, the overhaul of 12 miter gates and 12 reverse arc gates, and the replacement of 9 sets of oil cylinders were mainly completed within 45 days, which further improved the safety and reliability of the ship lock operation.

  When a ship crosses the Three Gorges, it can not only "climb the stairs" but also "take the elevator". On the right side of the lock is the Three Gorges ship lift. According to Yang Hua, the ship-carrying compartment with a height of 10 meters and a water depth of 3.5 meters can accommodate a 3,000-ton ship, and it can be lifted to the height of nearly 40 floors in just 10 minutes. From January to April this year, the cargo volume of the Three Gorges shiplock exceeded 41.4 million tons, the ship lift operated safely for 1,685 times, and the cargo volume of the ship passing exceeded 1.96 million tons, up by 127.73% year-on-year.

  Xiangjiaba ship lift is the second giant ship lift built in China after the Three Gorges ship lift, and the cargo volume in 2023 increased by 15.51% compared with the previous year. Since the navigation of Gezhouba Shiplock for more than 40 years, the daily average number of locks has increased from 8 to 49. According to the relevant person in charge of the Operation and Management Center of the Three Gorges Group Basin Hub, the Three Gorges, Xiangjiaba and Gezhouba water control hubs have promoted the Yangtze River shipping and economic development along the Yangtze River, helping the Yangtze River freight volume to continue to rank first in the world’s inland rivers.

  Six cascade hydropower stations have formed a 768-kilometer deep-water reservoir channel, and the navigation conditions of the Yangtze River have improved steadily.

  A section of rapids has become a water passage. After the completion of the Three Gorges Project, the maintenance depth of the waterway from Chongqing to Yichang has increased from 2.9 meters to 3.5 meters to 4.5 meters, and the tonnage of ships has increased from 1,000 tons to 5,000 tons. 109 beach hazards, 34 one-way controlled river sections and 12 sections that need to be stranded on the beach between the dam site and Chongqing have been eliminated, and "the river has never sailed at night since ancient times" has become history.

  Ports go from small to large and then to strong. On the Yangtze River waterway in Chongqing, a number of deep-water wharves with a tonnage of more than 5,000 tons have been formed. Ports in the Three Gorges reservoir area, such as Yichang in Hubei, Fuling in Chongqing and Wanzhou, are booming. The advantages of low energy consumption, large transport capacity and low cost of the Yangtze River water transport have been fully exerted, further releasing the "golden benefits of the golden waterway".

  The total storage capacity is 91.9 billion cubic meters

  Form a strategic freshwater resource pool to provide support for water supply, water replenishment and ecological dispatching.

  The Yangtze River Basin is a strategic water source for water resources allocation in China, with an average annual water resource of 995.9 billion cubic meters, accounting for about 36% of the country. Among them, this clean energy corridor forms a cascade reservoir group and a strategic freshwater resource pool with a total storage capacity of 91.9 billion cubic meters.

  The benefit of water supply and water replenishment is remarkable. Li Peng, deputy chief engineer of the Three Gorges Cascade Dispatching of Yangtze Power, said: "We have rationally coordinated the dispatching plan and energy supply requirements, which has provided a guarantee for the comprehensive benefits of water supply, power generation, shipping and ecology."

  Ecological dispatching continued. Fish resources are an important indicator to measure the health of rivers. The orderly increase of the discharge of reservoirs and the slow rise of the water level in river sections can create conditions for natural reproduction of fish. 2023 is the second year that Wudongde, Baihetan, Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba and Three Gorges Reservoir are all included in the scope of ecological dispatching. Relevant units have successively coordinated and organized 12 ecological dispatching experiments in three categories, namely, water temperature adjustment of stratified water intake at the stoplog gate, promotion of the reproduction of fish with sticky eggs by "base load power generation" and promotion of the reproduction of fish with drifting eggs. The world’s largest clean energy corridor has become an ecological protection corridor.

  The scope of ecological regulation is constantly expanding. According to the person in charge of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources, at present, the dispatching objects have expanded from promoting fish reproduction to regulating the water temperature of stratified water intake, preventing water bloom, discharging sand and reducing siltation in the reservoir area, and inhibiting excessive reproduction of submerged plants. The dispatching reservoir has expanded from the Three Gorges Reservoir to the cascade reservoirs in Jinsha River, Yalong River and Hanjiang River basins, which has effectively promoted the water ecological protection and restoration in the Yangtze River basin.

  The relevant person in charge of the Three Gorges Group said that the comprehensive benefits of the world’s largest clean energy corridor will provide strong support for flood control safety, shipping safety, energy safety and ecological safety in the Yangtze River basin at a higher level, in a wider field and in a wider scope, and will continue to help the Yangtze River Economic Belt develop with high quality.

                                                                                                   

  Published in People’s Daily, 2nd edition, May 15th, 2024.

  People’s Daily reporter Wang Hao