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00:00:37The first river-to-sea channel engineering project in our country has been completed
00:00:41and opened. I expect that this place will become
00:00:45a new economic growth pole in the future. How to balance
00:00:49cost and efficiency ? In terms of engineering,
00:00:52there is nothing that cannot be done, it's just a matter of cost. How to coordinate
00:00:56the present and the future ? It can be used for 20 years.
00:02:01On September 16, the Pinglu Canal was completed and opened
00:02:04. This is the first national-level
00:02:08integrated river-to-sea shipping project in our country
00:02:11. Construction started in August 2022, with a total investment of
00:02:1572.72 billion yuan. From Xijin
00:02:19Reservoir in Hengzhou City, Nanning, Guangxi, to the mouth of Pingtang River,
00:02:22it enters the Beibu Gulf from Luwu Town, Lingshan County, Qinzhou City, Guangxi,
00:02:26with a total length of 133 kilometers.
00:04:18In the early last century, Sun Yat-sen proposed
00:04:26the Pinglu Canal, and generations of people have been working on it.
00:04:30The reason why this century-old vision has received attention is related
00:04:34to the geographical challenges faced by Guangxi's long-term development
00:04:38. Despite having the natural deep-water harbor of Beibu
00:04:42Gulf, the local topography is high in the west and low in the east, and most rivers
00:04:46flow from west to east into the Pearl River Delta, instead of
00:04:49flowing south into the sea directly , leading to the awkward situation
00:04:53of being unable to access the sea from the river. Inland river navigation can only
00:04:57detour to Guangdong to reach the sea.
00:05:00When the project was about to start, they found a teacher who had done national power in 1968.
00:05:10They took me with them when they went to see him.
00:12:55The Pinglu Canal has three T-class navigation
00:12:59locks at Yumadao, Qingshan, and Tianzhuang, arranged sequentially from upstream
00:13:03to downstream. These are the core control
00:13:07engineering projects for ensuring vessel passage from river to sea. In accordance with
00:13:10the first-class inland waterway standard, each is equipped with dual-line
00:13:145,000-ton ship locks, capable of accommodating 5,000-ton inland bulk
00:13:18carriers. The estuary section can also accommodate 3,000-ton
00:13:22sea vessels, making it a permanent waterway for our country.
00:13:55At that time, the 2,000-ton waterway was basically
00:13:59opened, all the way from Nanning to the border between Guangxi
00:14:03and Guangdong. And then the lowest section had already
00:14:06been implementing the 3,000-ton standard, and Guangxi also wanted to
00:14:10standardize it to a 3-ton waterway . So when I proposed
00:14:145,000 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.
00:14:25No 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
00:14:32ship can still be fully loaded and travel?
00:14:36How many days is the water at its shallowest ? Strictly speaking, not
00:14:40many days. Then, the water volume increases, and the water
00:14:44depth starts to increase . If this river
00:14:47is deep enough for 5,000-ton ships to be fully loaded half the time,
00:14:51then half the time they cannot be fully loaded.
00:19:38It became difficult. You said at the very beginning that you wanted to do
00:19:42difficult and big things in this industry, and now you have accomplished
00:19:46something both big and difficult in this project. And its change
00:19:50is also huge and profound . How do you feel after completing it
00:19:54? It gave me the motivation or confidence
00:19:57to continue to look for more difficult projects
00:20:01.
00:20:04Today, after more than 20,000 builders.
00:20:37After this Pinglu Canal was opened,
00:20:41Guangxi actually gained an outlet to the sea,
00:20:45changing a region's long-standing
00:20:49situation.
00:22:50The predecessors did very well. They built it step by step. I
00:22:54cannot let it fall apart on my watch
00:22:57. Face to face exclusive interview with Mu
00:23:00Zhengyang, screenwriter and director of the animated film The Eight Immortals
00:23:03. Which
00:23:07one of you is it ?
00:23:11It's crossing the sea
00:23:14. No boat. No boat , walk into the sea.
00:23:18During the recent summer
00:23:21vacation, the domestic animated film The Eight Immortals became a box office dark horse,
00:23:25with continuously rising ticket sales.
00:23:29For many viewers, this work, which balanced market popularity and cultural
00:23:33expression, was created by people who are not
00:23:37widely known
00:23:38.
00:23:42Or stand .
00:23:47This week, Face to Face came to Oriental DreamWorks for an
00:23:50exclusive interview with Mu Zhengyang, the director and screenwriter of The Eight Immortals
00:23:54. Do you check the movie box office numbers
00:23:57every day? I do check, but I don't check every day
00:24:01.
00:24:10Mu Zhengyang, from Dalian, Liaoning, was born in 1992
00:24:14. The Eight Immortals is his first independently directed animated
00:24:18feature film.
00:24:21Some comments I've seen.
00:24:54Oh, don't come so many, why jump into this house?
00:24:57Didn't you say we weren't clever at all?
00:24:59Can I blame that? Isn't it because everyone knows them best?
00:25:03It'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.
00:25:16You said it was a thousand years of weather, how can our generation?
00:25:47The story of going through hardships and dangers all the way and finally saving the common people .
00:26:33Precisely because we bleed , we
00:26:36feel pain, fear,
00:26:39despair, and also
00:26:43empathize .
00:26:46But if you can't even bleed , then you're not
00:26:50even trash. Actually, many people, after watching this
00:26:53movie, thought that in the past, we all believed that immortals
00:26:57descending from the sky could help us relieve all kinds of pain.
00:27:01Later, you were,
00:27:07it's a kind of mutual assistance when people are in danger. In fact, it's mutual assistance among ordinary people . Yes
00:27:09.
00:27:17In fact, it's the moment when these eight people stand on the seashore, facing the turbulent
00:27:20waves, and walk forward .
00:27:23The sense of exhilaration
00:27:27when they reach a consensus.
00:27:27He might already
00:28:02be very exhausted in his life, or even have his own difficulties.
00:28:06But many times, at that moment, he suddenly made a choice,
00:28:10and after he made it, he disappeared from the public
00:28:13eye
00:28:14.
00:28:17This is actually what I think the Eight Immortals should have,
00:28:21and it's also a principle that we firmly upheld when making
00:28:25this film
00:28:28. To tell the story of mortal heroes well, we cannot simply apply
00:28:31the 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
00:29:09of this culture
00:29:11.
00:29:16It is a culture that emerged from the common people, from the grassroots.
00:29:19So that determined why everyone sees these colors,
00:29:23they are actually somewhat crisp and powdery,
00:29:27some of them, like Fulu and Samsung, are very pure
00:29:30.
00:30:04Actually, we decided to fight Yang Jian very early on, very early on.
00:30:08Indeed, some people said, Director,
00:30:11why don't you change the setting and let them have some magical powers,
00:30:15or let someone give them some pointers
00:30:18?
00:30:25Then it's gone. Yes, let alone eight ordinary people, 800 ordinary
00:30:29people may not be able to defeat a war god
00:31:48. The fast-paced and passionate fight scenes of the Eight Immortals
00:31:52were a key focus for the team's meticulous crafting, consuming
00:31:55immense creative and post-production effort. As popular mythological
00:31:59figures, Nezha himself is a
00:32:02naturally gifted powerhouse , and his martial arts primarily
00:32:06showcase heroic power that overwhelms with divine abilities. In contrast,
00:32:10the Eight Immortals are a group of ordinary mortals with no
00:32:14supernatural powers, relying solely on martial arts guidance.
00:32:45My initial major guideline for the two martial arts
00:32:48directors was that it must be a mortal fighting
00:32:52style. So they can only use traditional martial arts, and it must
00:32:55be traditional
00:32:56.
00:33:03When facing such a war god, we can only use our flesh
00:33:07and blood to fight him head-on . It's like
00:33:10moths flying into a flame, there's no other way
00:33:12.
00:33:14Usually, 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.
00:34:27How many hours a day can I work?
00:34:29As 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.
00:34:41I love Chinese animation, I love
00:34:44traditional gods, I love my stories, I love all
00:34:47the 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,
00:34:55I suddenly remembered that all the animators at the Shanghai
00:34:59Animation Film Studio would each have their own workbench,
00:35:03and on the table, they would place a small mirror
00:35:05.
00:38:31Look .
00:38:33After a journey of disagreements and
00:38:37hardships, the eight ordinary people, each with their flaws,
00:38:41finally gathered at the seashore .
00:38:45Letting go of their past grievances, forgetting gains and losses, they decided
00:38:48to work together to face the crisis
00:38:51.
00:40:57But your experience remains, and you know how to do better.
00:41:01The existence of this industrial system makes everyone believe that there is a better
00:41:05chance. Many people will have such an attitude,
00:41:09so everyone will be willing to go . Especially when I was making The Eight Immortals,
00:41:13I could feel that as long as you give it time and effort,
00:41:17it will visibly get better and better. This is a very profound
00:41:21experience for me. So after you have this feeling,
00:41:24you won't give up any opportunity to make it better. Through your
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