He boarded the world hot search, why?

After working as a truck driver for almost 20 years, Wang Zhigang suddenly became angry.

Fans are more accustomed to calling him "Black Brother"-this is his nickname.

Brother Hei’s life is in a small cockpit all the year round. Accommodation is settled on the truck. You can wash clothes and cook by connecting a water pipe from the water tank, and then you can take a shower by connecting a plastic shower head, "like a humble home".

Brother Hei likes to record stories on the road. He always has a way to explore the taste of life in a monotonous journey. Some chatting card friends, a steaming bowl of braces, some sadness on the road, and some sudden and painful illnesses are all recorded in his video.

In fact, in Aauto Quicker, there are 200 million migrant workers writing their own stories.

Someone shuttled through the streets of Beijing in the early morning and became a ferryman in the city; Someone drove a truck and set foot on the long northwest road; Someone is guarding the joys and sorrows of the kitchen and bearing the taste of a city.

Behind every brick and tile is life.

A 6-square-meter hut bears the joys and sorrows of Gao Zhixiao’s life for many years.

The green wall paint peeled off, revealing the white wall inside. A bunk bed occupies almost the whole space, and the waste cartons picked up by Gao Zhixiao are stacked at the door. Outside the house, dozens of families are strung together in a long corridor.

Holding a mobile phone, he walked from outside to inside, recorded a simple and rough "roomtour" and uploaded it to Aauto Quicker.

He never thought that this hobby of recording his life with Aauto Quicker for many years would make him on the cover of Time magazine and be seen by the whole world.

It was the spring of 2020, and the epidemic was severe. There was a broadcast of "Don’t gather, don’t go out" on the loudspeakers in the streets and lanes, and all walks of life were shut down.

Gao Zhixiao accepted a new takeaway order.

That’s a request for purchasing insulin. He can imagine that the person who placed the order was anxious, "maybe waiting for help."

Gao Zhixiao got on the electric car, drove to the guest’s home, took the prescription, and then went to the hospital to get the medicine.

As soon as he got out of the hospital, he sprayed disinfectant all over his body. "I was also afraid in my heart."

It was an old lady who lived alone who bought the medicine.

The old man warmly invited him in. Knowing that the old lady hadn’t eaten yet, he knocked on two eggs and put down a bowl of noodles, and made an agreement with the old man to see her again next time. Before leaving, take away the garbage in the house.

He grew up in a single-parent family and can understand the loneliness of the elderly.

At the moment he walked out of the hutong, he felt that the city was wrapped in loneliness, and the spring was chilly. There were few pedestrians on the road, and he shuttled through the empty road alone.

During the epidemic, he has to run more than 100 kilometers every day to complete sixty or seventy orders. He sent mobile phone charging cables to patients in isolation hospitals and bought vegetables, rice and oil noodles for the people in the city.

When the world stopped, they became ferrymen in the city.

Gao Zhixiao recorded the stories behind these orders one by one in Aauto Quicker, and he was seen at the gates of closed communities, under overpasses and hutongs.

These records also attracted microphones and spotlights, and the media poured in.

In March 2020, Time Magazine published a special issue on the epidemic, with the theme of "Ordinary people all over the world under the epidemic", and he became the only Chinese face on the cover.

On the cover, he is dressed in yellow-this is a sign of a service provider in the take-away industry. He has a northwest man’s face with thick eyebrows, dark skin and big and deep eyes. Time magazine rated him as "having an extraordinary sense of mission".

Compared with "Gao Zhixiao", his more well-known name is "takeaway Xiaoyao Ge".

Brother Xiaoyao is a character in online games. He was originally an inn boy, and later became a generation of chivalrous men, fighting for the sword in the Jianghu. "I went to the clothes and hid myself in the name."

Gao Zhixiao thinks that there is a similar side to Li Xiaoyao in his own personality. When night falls, the road is his river and lake.

Walking in the Jianghu, those fine and carefree days were recorded by him in Aauto Quicker.

On the "Express Mountain" of the Double Eleven, I bought chocolates and roses for my wife on Valentine’s Day. On a rainy night, my car broke down. He ran to deliver four orders and pushed the car to his home 5 kilometers away step by step. ……

In the live broadcast room, he "talked about life" with the familiar old irons, talked about the 7-year experience of drifting in the North, and shared the helplessness and goodwill encountered in the delivery.

He said that he would take his wife to see the red leaves in Xiangshan, Beijing. "Then make a video for the old irons."

On the Aauto Quicker, there are many take-away riders like Gao Zhixiao. Zhou Lei, a rider from Hebei Province, won more than 300,000 fans in Aauto Quicker because of his love of singing. He was invited by CCTV to appear on the Avenue of Stars and entered the annual finals.

These take-away workers, in the city with many high-rise buildings, maintain the smooth operation of urban machines. With the help of the internet platform, they broke away from the vague group of "takeaway brothers" and had their own close-ups.

They record their love for life and let themselves be seen.

Everyone loves to eat the cook’s food, but few people pay attention to the cook’s hands.

The Yellow Sea has a pair of hands with prominent joints, and the most common ones are scars. These scars are witnesses to the story. There are three or four old and new cuts in one place, and the original knife wounds and scalding scars are faintly visible.

In Aauto Quicker, he has another nickname-"Chef Huang". He has released more than 700 videos of cooking and has 4.59 million fans. The dishes are all home-cooked tastes, but the viewing data of the video is very impressive.

He turned the bitterness and sweetness of living in the countryside and the city into authentic food and put it in front of the audience.

Another touching spirit of women’s volleyball.

This article is transferred from Guangming. com;
[Special Report of Tokyo Paralympic Games]
Another touching spirit of women’s volleyball.
—— Sidelights of China Sitting Women’s Volleyball Team in Tokyo Paralympic Games
Guangming Daily reporter Wang Dong
On the morning of September 5th, the sitting women’s volleyball final of the Tokyo Paralympic Games was fought by China and the United States. In the previous group match, China beat its opponent 3-0. Therefore, before the match, it was generally believed that China had a better chance to win.
In the Paralympic Games, China and the United States are a pair of old rivals, and they always occupy the leading position in the world. Since the project entered the Paralympic Games in 2004, China won the championship for three times in a row. In the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, the United States defeated China for the first time to win the championship. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, they once again became opponents in the final. Unfortunately, however, the China team failed to realize their long-cherished wish. In the final, they lost to their opponents 1-3 and won the silver medal.
After the game, the famous women’s volleyball team in China, Zhu Yunying, commented on this group of women’s volleyball girls: "We feel that this silver medal is not lighter than the gold medal. After all, compared with the healthy people, this is really a group of girls who are determined not to give in to fate. From them, we can feel a different and moving spirit of women’s volleyball! "
If you have a dream, you have to fight for it.
For the defeat in the final of Rio Paralympics five years ago, all the players and coaches are holding their breath, and they are extremely eager to regain this gold medal in Tokyo.
Last March, when Tokyo announced that the Olympic Games and Paralympics were postponed due to the epidemic, all the players in China’s sitting women’s volleyball team were relieved. Although this meant another year of training around the clock, at least the game was still there, and they were more worried that the Tokyo Olympic Games would be cancelled. "The Olympic Games are held every four years, and we all particularly hope to stand on such a stage." Team member Tang Xuemei said.
In this team, there are many three or four elders, and some players can’t even take care of their children for training. To this day, they only want to hit the dream of gold medal. As Zhang Xufei, a veteran who has been playing since the Beijing Olympic Games, said: "There are still dreams, so we must fight again."
According to Xu Huimin, the head coach, during the training for more than a year, the players’ mental state is very good. "In order to realize the dream of an Olympic champion, everyone’s heart is very United, and the atmosphere in the team is very good. No one has ever asked for leave because of poor physical fitness. Some old players are even better than the last Paralympic Games. This is the power of faith, and this is the spirit of women’s volleyball. " Xu Huimin said.
Extraordinary efforts and efforts.
After retiring from the Shanghai Women’s Volleyball Team, Xu Huimin began to coach women’s volleyball for the disabled in 2009 and took over the position of head coach in 2018. In her mind, this is a teacher of honor. These disabled and determined girls have stood on the top stage in the world again and again, and won the gold medal in the Paralympic Games for three consecutive times. Their achievements in the sports field are completely comparable to those of the China women’s volleyball team. And their hard work is even more beyond ordinary people’s imagination.
As soon as he took over the sitting women’s volleyball team, Xu Huimin was shocked. Compared with the conventional volleyball which needs to run and jump, the rhythm and skills of sitting volleyball are quite different. The same basic volleyball movements, such as receiving and sending, padding and spiking, are very difficult for sitting volleyball players and require more perseverance and sweat-all the movements of girls can only be done sitting on the ground. They should replace their feet with their hands and learn to move quickly on the floor; Touching the ground for countless times, blisters are everywhere on hands and buttocks …
In order to better experience the technical characteristics of sitting volleyball, she also sat on the ground: "I need to play with them to understand the rhythm of playing and adjust the training plan." Through continuous exploration, Xu Huimin has formed a set of efficient training mode. In order to achieve good results, Xu Huimin also applied for the sitting volleyball men’s team to practice with the girls, simulating high-intensity competitions and tempering their competitive state.
Xu Yixiao is the main force in the team. As a professional volleyball player, she started her sitting volleyball career after being disabled by injury. "The skill of sitting volleyball is completely different from that of professional volleyball. When I first started to contact sitting volleyball, I even felt that I couldn’t move at all, and then I started to learn from the basic skills." Xu Yixiao said, "To some extent, sitting volleyball for disabled people is more difficult than indoor volleyball for able-bodied people."
Never give up in the game, and live by dreams.
There are too many touching stories in this glorious group. Optimistic, hard-working, tenacious and sunny … Their experiences deserve to be known to each of us:
Tang Xuemei, who lost her left leg in the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, never gave up on herself. During the exercise, she found sunshine and self-confidence. "Volleyball brings me a lot of happiness. The shadow caused by the earthquake is almost gone. I have a higher platform and can realize more life value. As a disabled person, it is a great glory in my life to win the gold medal in the Paralympic Games and raise the national flag. " Tang Xuemei said.
Due to the special experience and the reality of changing people’s lives with sports, the International Olympic Committee specially wrote an article to report Tang Xuemei’s struggle story, which touched people all over the world and inspired children all over the world who struggled with their fate.
Rising from grief, Tang Xuemei practiced the spirit of women’s volleyball with her own actions, and at the same time opened a new life.
Wang Yanan was amputated in a car accident at the age of 17. She changed from a girl who likes dancing to a disabled person. Her life fell into gloom, and she even wanted to commit suicide.
However, many years of volleyball career have made her life have a different color, especially the gold medal of the London Paralympic Games in 2012. She still remembers: "I am very strong. When I was a child, I told myself that I would climb the biggest performance stage, but I didn’t expect that I would finally climb the highest podium in this way."
"I won’t think about saying that others look down on me, I can’t. I will take care of and help my friends now, and I have realized my value here. " Wang Yanan said.
Four-time Olympic veteran Zhang Lijun, from 14 to 36 years old, struggled in the sitting volleyball for 22 years and never wanted to give up. This is her last Paralympic Games. Zhang Lijun said, "I am very grateful for sitting volleyball, which has always inspired me. Volleyball is a complex that I can’t give up. Through sitting volleyball, I found myself and reflected my own value. "
Lu Hongqin, from Shanghai, is 41 years old. She is an old volleyball player who has experienced five Paralympic Games. Because of polio, Lv Hongqin lost her ability to walk normally since she was a child. In 1999, she became an athlete in Shanghai Sports Training Center for the Disabled. Sitting volleyball changed her life. Since 2000, she has won many honors, such as the national March 8th Red Flag Bearer, the national outstanding athlete and the national May 1st Labor Medal.
As Tang Xuemei said: "The spirit of China women’s volleyball team is the same as that of China sitting women’s volleyball team. Even at the last minute, as long as the game is not over, we can’t give up."
Guangming Daily (September 9, 2021, 09 edition)
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Can Singapore raise the stamp duty on foreigners’ real estate to 60% to buy a house?

  With the global major housing market cooling down, Singapore’s real estate prices have risen for 12 consecutive quarters. In order to solve this problem, at the end of April, the Singapore government raised the additional buyer stamp duty (ABSD) for foreigners to purchase residential properties by 30 percentage points to 60%, with immediate effect from April 27th.

  This has caught many real estate agents and property buyers off guard. "Take a private house worth 2 million Singapore dollars as an example, which means that the extra buyer stamp duty that foreign buyers have to pay will soar from 600,000 Singapore dollars to 1.2 million Singapore dollars (about 6.21 million yuan)." Deng Minjie, executive director of AsianPrime Properties, told the First Financial Reporter.

  The New Deal was introduced because with the high housing prices, Singaporeans are increasingly worried about being squeezed out of the housing market, and high housing prices may also make Singapore less attractive as an international financial center.

  According to the latest data from the Urban Renewal Authority of Singapore, the price of private housing in Singapore rose by 3.3% in the first quarter, compared with only 0.4% in the previous quarter. In 2021 and 2022, local house prices increased by 10.6% and 8.6% respectively.

Singapore (Source: Xinhua News Agency)

  The third round of cooling in two years

  In other major international metropolises, the proportion of ABSD is much lower. For example, the tax rate for foreigners to buy a house in Vancouver is 29%, while the tax rates in London, Melbourne and Sydney are around 14%. New york’s tax rate is only 4.3%.

  In a joint statement, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of National Development and monetary authority of singapore explained the new policy: "The demand of local people to buy their own houses has been particularly strong, and local and foreign investors have shown renewed interest in our residential real estate market.If not controlled, the price may exceed the economic fundamentals. At the same time, there is a risk that the ratio of price to income will continue to rise."

  Deng Minjie told CBN that under the risk of high loan interest rate environment and global economic challenges, stabilizing real estate prices is the top priority of the Singapore government. "This round of cooling measures is to slow down the purchase demand, especially the purchase demand of investors and foreigners."

  In fact, this is the third cooling measure for real estate since the COVID-19 epidemic. In December 2021 and September 2022, the government took similar early preventive measures, which had a "mitigation effect".

  For example, the stamp duty of foreign buyers in Singapore increased from 20% to 30% in December 2021, which led to a decrease of 16.5% in the number of apartments purchased by foreigners in 2022. But in fact, the local real estate prices are still not loose.

  According to a research report of Orange Tee&Tie, a Singapore brokerage company in 2022, Singapore is still the primary investment destination for foreign investors after several rounds of cooling measures.

  "Despite the interest rate hike and the cooling measures implemented in December 2021, foreign buyers bought more luxury apartments with a price of S $5 million (about RMB 25.87 million) and above in 2022," the report said. "The purchases of luxury apartments by foreigners and those who have obtained permanent residency in Singapore have almost returned to the level of 2019."

  According to the buyer’s inquiry data provided by Juwai Iqi Group, a global real estate technology company headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore is the favorite overseas purchase destination for China buyers. Since 2021, Singapore has entered the top 10 overseas inquiries of China buyers, ranking ninth that year. Although the Singapore government raised the stamp duty on foreign buyers at the end of 2021, Singapore has been ranked tenth in the inquiry list for the next two years.

  What will be different this time?

  Foreign buyers account for only a small proportion of Singapore’s real estate sales. According to the data of the Urban Renewal Authority of Singapore, foreign buyers accounted for 4.7% of Singapore’s house purchases last year, rising to 7% in the first quarter of this year.

  Nicholas Mak, chief research officer of MOGUL.sg, a real estate information platform, therefore believes that if only 10% of purchases are affected, then these measures have limitations. "How can we cool the market if it has little impact on the other 90%? It’s like you have a burning oil plant, and these people don’t use the right tools to put out the fire. "

  At the same time, people who can afford to buy real estate in Singapore may not care about paying more taxes.

  Kashif Ansari, co-founder and CEO of IQI, told the First Financial Reporter that the high housing prices in Singapore have eliminated a number of foreign buyers. High-net-worth people who plan to buy Singapore real estate now may not change their decision to buy a house because of a 30% tax increase.

  Of course, those who specialize in real estate speculation will be discouraged. On the other hand, foreign buyers aiming at global allocation may turn their eyes to luxury houses in Malaysia or Dubai."He said.

  Deng Minjie said that according to past experience, foreign buyers often balk after receiving the news, especially this time the increase has doubled.

  However, after the introduction of the New Deal, one of her clients, the foreign buyer who originally planned to look at the house, did not change her mind. "We have communicated with them in time about the tax increase, and they are still willing to continue the house purchase plan. Their feedback is that Singapore will be the place where they want to invest in immigrants. " She also revealed that,Her buyers reported that the unit price of houses in Singapore was reasonable, but the tax was very high.

  Sun Yanqing, research director of Orange Easy Industry, told the First Financial Reporter: "Cooling measures may curb demand in the next few months. This may provide time for more housing completion and housing supply. When there is a better market balance, the price may stabilize. When demand shrinks, price increases may also slow down. This will help first-time home buyers and HDB upgraders to buy their first home. "

  "We have slightly lowered the price forecast for the whole year of 2023 from 5%-8% to 4%-7%." Sun Yanqing said.

  Deng Minjie predicted that as first-time buyers of Singapore citizens and permanent residents will not be affected under the New Deal, these groups will become the main demand drivers in the coming months. According to the data in 2022, this group accounts for about 90% of residential real estate transactions.

24-hour bookstore enriches wuhan nightlife. You have a good place to stay up late reading.

Citizens read books in a 24-hour bookstore. Intern Peng Hua, reporter Yang Taoshe

  In November 2014, Zall Bookstore launched a 24-hour business mechanism of "culture does not close", waiting for people to read books every cold or hot night. At that time, Zall was the first 24-hour bookstore in Wuhan. In recent years, the 24-hour bookstore in Wuhan has added Jiuqiu Library and Boshihui City Study, enriching the cultural nightlife in Wuhan.

  24-hour bookstore is a night reader.

  Provide a quiet place for reading

  "There will be many interesting things happening at night." Luna is the manager of Jiuqiu Library, which is located in Dongsan Road, Fruit Lake, Wuchang District. It opened on January 25, 2016 and has been open since then.

  On the 18th, she told reporters that the biggest feeling of working at night shift is to find that there are really many people who love learning. There used to be an old man who rode an old bicycle every night and went back around 6: 00 in the morning. He studied English here all night. There are often some students from Wu Da University here, and he will ask them for advice. A girl from Wu Da University specially prepares study materials for this grandfather, and she will put them here the next day for the clerk to hand over to him.

  On the 18th, a young girl was watching a video with headphones, and there was a book full of notes in front of her. The post-90s girl who was preparing for the exam as a certified public accountant usually came over after work and talked about her views on this 24-hour bookstore. The girl said, "People who stay up late need this kind of store very much."

  Unattended libraries can "brush their faces" to borrow books

  On July 12th this year, the 24-hour city study room on the first floor of Boshihui International Plaza in Jiang ‘an District opened to welcome guests, which is located near Sanyang Road subway station. There is no librarian in the museum, and citizens can enter the museum at any time, "brush their faces", and apply for certificates and borrow books by themselves. This is the first unattended intelligent library in Wuhan. Since opening up, it has become a popular punching point for citizens.

  On the 18th, the reporter visited this intelligent library. At about 9 pm that day, a floor-to-ceiling transparent glass study room on the left side of the lobby on the first floor of the building was lit with yellowish light. There is a face recognition access control system at the door. When you enter the library for the first time, you need to swipe your ID card. There is a self-service borrowing and returning card machine in the tube, which can handle the reader’s ID card and complete face registration and WeChat binding. Later, you can enter the library without a card, and you can "brush your face" to borrow and return books by yourself.

  Ms. Mei, who passed by here at night, picked out five books, put them in the sensing place, and the machine began to recognize faces. In less than 10 seconds, the screen showed that five books were successfully borrowed at the same time. The mobile phone also received a message from WeChat prompting the successful borrowing. "Very convenient." Ms. Mei said that after the library opened, she would come here every other week or so, and if she had time, she would read here for a while.

  24-hour bookstore enriches the function of city night

  In recent years, wuhan nightlife has become increasingly diversified. In addition to consumption and entertainment at night, the opening of 24-hour bookstores and other cultural places has provided people with new choices and enriched the city’s night functions.

  At about 10 pm on the 17th, Mr. Deng, who lives near Zall Bookstore, wanted to go to the movies, but when he passed by the bookstore, he saw the lights on in the store and chose to go into the bookstore. "Watching movies is more of a social need. It will be better to go with friends, and it will be more enjoyable to read when you are alone." In 2013, Zall Bookstore opened in Wuhan and noticed that many readers had no time during the day and could only come at night. In 2014, Zall Bookstore started the 24-hour business mechanism of "culture does not close" and became the first 24-hour bookstore in Wuhan.

  On the 17th, when talking about the original intention of Zall Bookstore’s 24-hour opening, Ms. Gao, the manager, told the reporter that the 24-hour bookstore provided a choice and place for those who only had time to quiet down and study at night. 24-hour bookstore will not bring much benefit, but it is a functional existence, and there will always be people who need it, which is a useful supplement to the cultural construction of the city.

  Feng Guilin, a researcher at Hubei Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the more convenient the cultural facilities are for the public, the more diverse the forms and contents, and the more diverse the needs of various groups. This is not only a promotion for a city’s function, but also a guide, which can better improve citizens’ civilization quality.

  Trainee reporter Li Huizi

Promote communication and friendship

The opening ceremony of the "Chinese Bridge" club in Cairo was held a few days ago. Chinese and Egyptian guests attended the ceremony online and offline.
"China’s economy and technology are developing rapidly, and Chinese is one of the most important languages in the world. Nowadays, more and more young Egyptians are learning Chinese. Chinese is also one of the basic languages of professors in Egyptian universities. " Mohamed Ayman ashur, Egyptian Deputy Minister of Higher Education, expressed the hope that more exchanges and cooperation will be carried out with China in the fields of culture, education and scientific research in the future.
Liao Liqiang, Ambassador of China to Egypt, delivered a speech, saying that the establishment of the Cairo Station of the Chinese Bridge Club has built a communication platform for young Egyptian friends who like Chinese, and laid a foundation for the two sides to continue to strengthen cooperation.
After the unveiling ceremony, some Egyptian student representatives, as "ambassadors of Chinese learning youth communication", collectively read out the proposal of "learning Chinese to help the economic development of Egypt and China". Weronika, a junior at Suez Canal University, is one of them. She won the special prize in the final of the 20th "Chinese Bridge" World University Students Chinese Competition held not long ago, and will represent Egypt in the global finals. Recently, Weronika released many video works to introduce Egyptian customs in Chinese, which attracted a lot of attention. "I look forward to visiting China as soon as possible, gaining an in-depth understanding of China’s long history of civilization and profound cultural heritage, and contributing to enhancing mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples."
Egypt has a good tradition of teaching Chinese. In 1958, a Chinese major was established, which was the first country in the Middle East and Africa to teach Chinese. At present, there are 16 Egyptian universities offering Chinese majors or Chinese courses. Last September, Chinese teaching was formally included in the Egyptian primary and secondary education syllabus. The Egyptian Ministry of Education said not long ago that it will take the lead in offering Chinese as a second foreign language elective course in 10 middle schools next year.
"I hope the club will play an active role in promoting communication and cultural mutual learning between young people of the two countries." Xu Yanhe, executive chairman of the "Chinese Bridge" club in Cairo, said that in the future, the club will regularly hold Chinese competitions, offer courses on China culture and traditional etiquette, and organize lectures on corporate culture in China.
(The newspaper Cairo)
People’s Daily (June 22, 2021, 03 edition)
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