“China has the most IMAX and Dolby theaters in the world, complete with the world’s best projecting equipment. After watching CGI blockbusters for years, audiences’ tolerance for special-effect laden movies that do not display any true innovation will hit the ceiling, no matter how much you spend on effects or how hard you work on it. That is why [Chinese] audiences like Hollywood movies less and less.”
Movie analyst “Liancheng Yicui” on the declining box office of Hollywood movies in China in a July interview with guancha.cn
“Future housing market policies should meet and release demand through supply side reforms, such as satisfying young people’s demand to rent first and buy later, and efficient use of apartment stock to meet demand, including refurbishing urban villages and old communities to more fully develop the market and provide residents with better housing and living environments.”
Li Yujia, chief researcher at the Housing Policy Research Center under the Guangdong Urban & Rural Planning and Design Institute, on the recent real estate reforms in a July interview with Jiemian.com
“The prevailing UN standards for defining senior populations were set decades ago. Humanity has since experienced tremendous demographic changes in population, health and disease, as well as economic and social changes. Shouldn’t the standards conform to these changes? If so, how? It’s an issue for scholars to research, and for government departments to reach consensus. Countries and all sections of society should work together to shape the public discourse.”
Peng Xizhe, director of the Fudan Institute on Aging, at a seminar on population development hosted by the Shanghai Population Society and the Shanghai Family Planning Association in late July
“Humans understand the world through their senses. Large learning models will develop this way. Large learning models with more modalities will be equipped with corresponding sensors and collect relevant data, giving them ‘five senses.’ Thus they will understand the world as humans do, and even surpass them.”
Yu Yang, head of the Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab, at an annual meeting about AI technologies hosted by The Paper in Shanghai on July 22
“Looking back, the reason why private enterprises’ present overly cautious and conservative investment strategies may come from their being hurt during the pandemic years, during which they suffered from drastic policy changes. Now they are quite uncertain and worried about the future direction of government policies... Private enterprises care more about long-term goals. If our policies are adjusted too frequently in a short period of time, it will be difficult to maintain consistency and that will disrupt private investment.”
Zhang Jun, dean of the School of Economics, Fudan University, in a July interview with news portal guancha.cn
“When we keep discussing the ‘imperfect’ victim, we are talking about subjective matters while downplaying structural issues [the patriarchal society we live in, which makes it easy for a powerful man to sexually harass or rape a woman without any cost.] It weakens our stance, and imperceptibly lets these structural issues off the hook.”
Zeng Yuli, a commentator for news portal The Paper on the recent popular TV series Imperfect Victim, which follows a female lawyer who helps another woman sue her boss for rape
“The so-called ‘political correctness’ has permeated American society. Over the past month and more since my arrival, I have been talking to people from various sectors. I can feel that there are many supporters of China-US relations, but they are under pressure. They are becoming reticent under the chilling effect. Few want to express different opinions amid the anti-China chorus.”
Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng talking with Steve Clemons, founding editor-at-large of Semafor, at the Aspen Security Forum held on July 19
“People expect sincere, diligent and strict safety inspections rather than only doing them after an accident. Inspectors should not care about people’s safety only after innocent people are killed, and then conduct inspections to appease public outrage. To some extent, such formalistic safety checks lay the groundwork for the next tragedy.”
State media China Central Television’s official website publishing a critical editorial on the collapse of the gym roof at No.34 Middle School in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province on July 23, which killed 11 people, including students and teachers
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