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[00:00:37] The first river-to-sea channel engineering project in our country has been completed
[00:00:41] and opened. I expect that this place will become
[00:00:45] a new economic growth pole in the future. How to balance
[00:00:49] cost and efficiency ? In terms of engineering,
[00:00:52] there is nothing that cannot be done, it's just a matter of cost. How to coordinate
[00:00:56] the present and the future ? It can be used for 20 years.
[00:02:01] On September 16, the Pinglu Canal was completed and opened
[00:02:04] . This is the first national-level
[00:02:08] integrated river-to-sea shipping project in our country
[00:02:11] . Construction started in August 2022, with a total investment of
[00:02:15] 72.72 billion yuan. From Xijin
[00:02:19] Reservoir in Hengzhou City, Nanning, Guangxi, to the mouth of Pingtang River,
[00:02:22] it enters the Beibu Gulf from Luwu Town, Lingshan County, Qinzhou City, Guangxi,
[00:02:26] with a total length of 133 kilometers.
[00:04:18] In the early last century, Sun Yat-sen proposed
[00:04:26] the Pinglu Canal, and generations of people have been working on it.
[00:04:30] The reason why this century-old vision has received attention is related
[00:04:34] to the geographical challenges faced by Guangxi's long-term development
[00:04:38] . Despite having the natural deep-water harbor of Beibu
[00:04:42] Gulf, the local topography is high in the west and low in the east, and most rivers
[00:04:46] flow from west to east into the Pearl River Delta, instead of
[00:04:49] flowing south into the sea directly , leading to the awkward situation
[00:04:53] of being unable to access the sea from the river. Inland river navigation can only
[00:04:57] detour to Guangdong to reach the sea.
[00:05:00] When the project was about to start, they found a teacher who had done national power in 1968.
[00:05:10] They took me with them when they went to see him.
[00:12:55] The Pinglu Canal has three T-class navigation
[00:12:59] locks at Yumadao, Qingshan, and Tianzhuang, arranged sequentially from upstream
[00:13:03] to downstream. These are the core control
[00:13:07] engineering projects for ensuring vessel passage from river to sea. In accordance with
[00:13:10] the first-class inland waterway standard, each is equipped with dual-line
[00:13:14] 5,000-ton ship locks, capable of accommodating 5,000-ton inland bulk
[00:13:18] carriers. The estuary section can also accommodate 3,000-ton
[00:13:22] sea vessels, making it a permanent waterway for our country.
[00:13:55] At that time, the 2,000-ton waterway was basically
[00:13:59] opened, all the way from Nanning to the border between Guangxi
[00:14:03] and Guangdong. And then the lowest section had already
[00:14:06] been implementing the 3,000-ton standard, and Guangxi also wanted to
[00:14:10] standardize it to a 3-ton waterway . So when I proposed
[00:14:14] 5,000 tons, it met with considerable resistance
[00:14:17] . The following is my reasoning
[00:14:21] . First, they said that according to the plan, 3,000 tons is fine.
[00:14:25] No one disagreed. I then asked, what do you mean by 3,000 tons
[00:14:29] ? Does it mean that when the water is at its shallowest, a 3,000-ton
[00:14:32] ship can still be fully loaded and travel?
[00:14:36] How many days is the water at its shallowest ? Strictly speaking, not
[00:14:40] many days. Then, the water volume increases, and the water
[00:14:44] depth starts to increase . If this river
[00:14:47] is deep enough for 5,000-ton ships to be fully loaded half the time,
[00:14:51] then half the time they cannot be fully loaded.
[00:19:38] It became difficult. You said at the very beginning that you wanted to do
[00:19:42] difficult and big things in this industry, and now you have accomplished
[00:19:46] something both big and difficult in this project. And its change
[00:19:50] is also huge and profound . How do you feel after completing it
[00:19:54] ? It gave me the motivation or confidence
[00:19:57] to continue to look for more difficult projects
[00:20:01] .
[00:20:04] Today, after more than 20,000 builders.
[00:20:37] After this Pinglu Canal was opened,
[00:20:41] Guangxi actually gained an outlet to the sea,
[00:20:45] changing a region's long-standing
[00:20:49] situation.
[00:22:50] The predecessors did very well. They built it step by step. I
[00:22:54] cannot let it fall apart on my watch
[00:22:57] . Face to face exclusive interview with Mu
[00:23:00] Zhengyang, screenwriter and director of the animated film The Eight Immortals
[00:23:03] . Which
[00:23:07] one of you is it ?
[00:23:11] It's crossing the sea
[00:23:14] . No boat. No boat , walk into the sea.
[00:23:18] During the recent summer
[00:23:21] vacation, the domestic animated film The Eight Immortals became a box office dark horse,
[00:23:25] with continuously rising ticket sales.
[00:23:29] For many viewers, this work, which balanced market popularity and cultural
[00:23:33] expression, was created by people who are not
[00:23:37] widely known
[00:23:38] .
[00:23:42] Or stand .
[00:23:47] This week, Face to Face came to Oriental DreamWorks for an
[00:23:50] exclusive interview with Mu Zhengyang, the director and screenwriter of The Eight Immortals
[00:23:54] . Do you check the movie box office numbers
[00:23:57] every day? I do check, but I don't check every day
[00:24:01] .
[00:24:10] Mu Zhengyang, from Dalian, Liaoning, was born in 1992
[00:24:14] . The Eight Immortals is his first independently directed animated
[00:24:18] feature film.
[00:24:21] Some comments I've seen.
[00:24:54] Oh, don't come so many, why jump into this house?
[00:24:57] Didn't you say we weren't clever at all?
[00:24:59] Can I blame that? Isn't it because everyone knows them best?
[00:25:03] It's because the people's love for them gave them such a film. Actually, at that moment, all the audience in the country knew they were the Eight Immortals, only they themselves didn't know.
[00:25:16] You said it was a thousand years of weather, how can our generation?
[00:25:47] The story of going through hardships and dangers all the way and finally saving the common people .
[00:26:33] Precisely because we bleed , we
[00:26:36] feel pain, fear,
[00:26:39] despair, and also
[00:26:43] empathize .
[00:26:46] But if you can't even bleed , then you're not
[00:26:50] even trash. Actually, many people, after watching this
[00:26:53] movie, thought that in the past, we all believed that immortals
[00:26:57] descending from the sky could help us relieve all kinds of pain.
[00:27:01] Later, you were,
[00:27:07] it's a kind of mutual assistance when people are in danger. In fact, it's mutual assistance among ordinary people . Yes
[00:27:09] .
[00:27:17] In fact, it's the moment when these eight people stand on the seashore, facing the turbulent
[00:27:20] waves, and walk forward .
[00:27:23] The sense of exhilaration
[00:27:27] when they reach a consensus.
[00:27:27] He might already
[00:28:02] be very exhausted in his life, or even have his own difficulties.
[00:28:06] But many times, at that moment, he suddenly made a choice,
[00:28:10] and after he made it, he disappeared from the public
[00:28:13] eye
[00:28:14] .
[00:28:17] This is actually what I think the Eight Immortals should have,
[00:28:21] and it's also a principle that we firmly upheld when making
[00:28:25] this film
[00:28:28] . To tell the story of mortal heroes well, we cannot simply apply
[00:28:31] the trope of an immortal
[00:29:02] . When we first started, it was clear that this was a story of national culture
[00:29:06] . The entire Eight Immortals, Fulu and Samsung Penglai are all part
[00:29:09] of this culture
[00:29:11] .
[00:29:16] It is a culture that emerged from the common people, from the grassroots.
[00:29:19] So that determined why everyone sees these colors,
[00:29:23] they are actually somewhat crisp and powdery,
[00:29:27] some of them, like Fulu and Samsung, are very pure
[00:29:30] .
[00:30:04] Actually, we decided to fight Yang Jian very early on, very early on.
[00:30:08] Indeed, some people said, Director,
[00:30:11] why don't you change the setting and let them have some magical powers,
[00:30:15] or let someone give them some pointers
[00:30:18] ?
[00:30:25] Then it's gone. Yes, let alone eight ordinary people, 800 ordinary
[00:30:29] people may not be able to defeat a war god
[00:31:48] . The fast-paced and passionate fight scenes of the Eight Immortals
[00:31:52] were a key focus for the team's meticulous crafting, consuming
[00:31:55] immense creative and post-production effort. As popular mythological
[00:31:59] figures, Nezha himself is a
[00:32:02] naturally gifted powerhouse , and his martial arts primarily
[00:32:06] showcase heroic power that overwhelms with divine abilities. In contrast,
[00:32:10] the Eight Immortals are a group of ordinary mortals with no
[00:32:14] supernatural powers, relying solely on martial arts guidance.
[00:32:45] My initial major guideline for the two martial arts
[00:32:48] directors was that it must be a mortal fighting
[00:32:52] style. So they can only use traditional martial arts, and it must
[00:32:55] be traditional
[00:32:56] .
[00:33:03] When facing such a war god, we can only use our flesh
[00:33:07] and blood to fight him head-on . It's like
[00:33:10] moths flying into a flame, there's no other way
[00:33:12] .
[00:33:14] Usually, almost every single one of them is working with all their might, because as a new director, your all-out effort is the best boost for all the producers.
[00:34:27] How many hours a day can I work?
[00:34:29] As long as there's work in the morning, I can keep working until night, and I'm the last one to leave. I don't feel particularly tired. Also, this passion includes my genuine love.
[00:34:41] I love Chinese animation, I love
[00:34:44] traditional gods, I love my stories, I love all
[00:34:47] the characters in my film . I really, truly love them from the bottom of my heart
[00:34:51] . You know, when I saw this live-action documentary,
[00:34:55] I suddenly remembered that all the animators at the Shanghai
[00:34:59] Animation Film Studio would each have their own workbench,
[00:35:03] and on the table, they would place a small mirror
[00:35:05] .
[00:38:31] Look .
[00:38:33] After a journey of disagreements and
[00:38:37] hardships, the eight ordinary people, each with their flaws,
[00:38:41] finally gathered at the seashore .
[00:38:45] Letting go of their past grievances, forgetting gains and losses, they decided
[00:38:48] to work together to face the crisis
[00:38:51] .
[00:40:57] But your experience remains, and you know how to do better.
[00:41:01] The existence of this industrial system makes everyone believe that there is a better
[00:41:05] chance. Many people will have such an attitude,
[00:41:09] so everyone will be willing to go . Especially when I was making The Eight Immortals,
[00:41:13] I could feel that as long as you give it time and effort,
[00:41:17] it will visibly get better and better. This is a very profound
[00:41:21] experience for me. So after you have this feeling,
[00:41:24] you won't give up any opportunity to make it better. Through your
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[00:48:50] Today is September 21, 2026.