Leonardo Phoenix is a foundational model launched by the Leonardo AI platform, which has made breakthroughs in prompt following, image generation clarity, and AI research. The model provides higher quality image generation through architectural innovation, especially in the text generation of portraits, banners, posters, and logos. In addition, it also enhances creative control, allowing users to easily access and quickly modify generated content through prompt enhancement and AI prompt editing. Although some features such as image guidance, elements, and photo realism are not yet integrated, it is expected to be added in the near future.
Starting from 126,800 yuan, the global version of the pickup truck for the Great Wall Gun is pleasantly listed!
This is the best conference:
Release the world’s first pickup truck popular color "blue";
Cooperate with the official announcement of Pantone Color Institute, the world authoritative color organization;
Join hands with China canoeing national team to achieve annual strategic cooperation;
Create a cross-border brand alliance with the national outdoor brand pathfinder;
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On March 12th, the global version of the newly upgraded pickup truck for the Great Wall Gun was launched with a price range of 126,800-166,800 yuan. In this conference, Great Wall Gun released the world’s first popular color "blue" for pickup trucks, opening a new era of pickup trends. Great Wall Gun has also reached a strategic cooperation with the China canoeing national team to jointly compete in the world. And jointly launch the life adventure plan with the Pathfinder brand to jointly build the "strongest ecological circle" of pickup culture.
As the most influential pickup truck brand in China, Great Wall Gun released the world’s first popular color of pickup truck "blue", which brought inspiration and innovation to the whole industry. "Shaped Blue" is taken from the quiet blue of the sea and starry sky, which is deep and unrestrained, especially incorporating more inclusive and elegant gray, bearing the imagination of the Great Wall Gun for a perfect and ultimate life.
What constitutes an excellent CP with "blue" is the enthusiastic, open and optimistic "True Orange". As a brand rejuvenation color of the Great Wall Gun, it combines blazing red and jumping yellow, and radiates the vitality of life with enthusiasm. The birth of two exclusive colors has led the fashion trend of pickup trucks, helped the brand rejuvenation journey of Great Wall Gun, and brought better and more colorful pickup truck life to users.
In addition, Great Wall Gun has also cooperated with the official announcement of Pantone Color Institute, the world’s authoritative color organization, and will use the power of color to bring users a brand-new sensory experience in the future, so that the life of users’ full-scene pickup trucks will be even better!
In this activity, Great Wall Gun and China canoeing national team reached an annual strategic cooperation to help Olympic athletes ride the waves. China’s canoeing national team has won the gold medals in Athens Olympic Games and Beijing Olympic Games, as well as several world championships and World Cups, while the Great Wall Gun has been the top seller in the pickup truck market. Strategic cooperation between the two, amphibious walk hand in hand, build China’s strength with champion quality, and jointly fight for the world. At the same time, this is not only a further broadening of the life of the pickup truck in the whole scene of the Great Wall Gun, but also a perfect interpretation to show the world the spirit of China.
As a national outdoor brand, Pathfinder has been pursuing professional perfection and challenging exploration, which is highly compatible with the brand concept of Great Wall Gun pursuing perfect and extreme life and building a full-scene pickup truck life. At this conference, Great Wall Gun and Pathfinder reached a strategic cooperation, built a cross-border brand alliance of Great Wall Gun, explored unknown fields together, and explored the infinite possibilities of life. At the press conference, a song "Teenager" by the Artillery League brought the atmosphere to a climax. The brothers of the Artillery League were full of love and sang their love! Everyone is both a teenager and an explorer. Great Wall Gun builds an open and shared pickup truck life community through the offline artillery alliance car club and the online gun-riding APP, creating the "strongest ecological circle" of pickup truck culture in China, creating a full-scene pickup truck life for every user who loves to explore, and really playing with users.
As a global pickup truck brand, the global version of the Great Wall Gun pickup truck was officially launched, and it continued to lead the era of multi-purpose pickup truck 3.0 with more visual impact and more luxurious and comfortable configuration.
As a leader in the life of pickup trucks, the Great Wall Cannon will be applied to the extreme, with a thicker chrome grille and a larger LOGO, which has great visual impact; With sharp eagle-eye smart headlights, add luster to every trip with Yan value aesthetics.
In the interior, the ubiquitous soft coating in the car enjoys the ultimate touch; Front and rear seat heating, plus multi-link rear suspension, rear elbow pillow, cup holder, more than 100 noise reduction treatments and exclusive fragrance, let family and friends enjoy the ultimate driving experience.
In terms of configuration, the Great Wall Gun is equipped with the perfect power combination of 2.0T+8AT, combined with TOD intelligent four-wheel drive, rear axle electronic differential system, L2 automatic driving, intelligent network connection system, wireless phone charging, etc., which makes the "arrival" more beautiful, smarter and more intimate.
In terms of active safety, Great Wall Gun 9.3 version ESP, 360 look around, 12 radar probe, lane departure, parallel assistance, ACC adaptive cruise, etc., so that you can easily avoid risks; Passive safety, high-strength cage body, 6 airbags, secondary collision mitigation function, you add enough buff!
At the same time, in order to thank the users for their concern and support for the Great Wall Gun, this month’s new global version of the Great Wall Gun enjoys four gifts:
Financial gift: you can enjoy a two-year zero-interest financial policy when buying a car;
Replacement ceremony: enjoy 5000 yuan subsidy replacement subsidy;
Interconnection ceremony: basic services are free for life, entertainment services are free for 3 years and exclusive services are free for 1 year;
Service Gift: The engine/transmission is guaranteed for 4 years or 100,000 kilometers (whichever comes first).
The press conference also revealed a heavy news that China’s first full-size pickup truck based on the Great Wall tank platform will officially make its world debut at the Shanghai International Auto Show in April this year. As a global intelligent professional off-road platform, the tank platform has the characteristics of powerful power, high reliability and intelligent off-road, which is worth looking forward to!
In China, the Great Wall Cannon has helped the Great Wall pickup truck to achieve a market share of over 51%. For every two pickup trucks sold in China, one is the Great Wall. Great Wall pickup truck has been ranked first in domestic and export sales for 23 years in a row, with a total of over 1.9 million users worldwide, and achieved the results of being "the first in China and the top five in the world". In the future, the Great Wall Gun will take the global version as a new starting point, win over China, go global, and constantly accelerate the journey of globalization. The sword refers to the top three pickup truck brands in the world, bringing better colorful life to users around the world and making the Great Wall Gun popular around the world!
Where is the new ecological artificial intelligence road focusing on AI industry？
On the morning of December 28th, the 2018 People’s Network Artificial Intelligence Partner Conference with the theme of "AI enlightens the future" was held in Beijing. Zhang Qin, member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former vice chairman of China Association for Science and Technology, Ye Zhenzhen, president of People’s Network, Mars, inspector of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Luo Hua, deputy editor-in-chief of People’s Network, Dewen Li, deputy director of Information Center of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and She Guiqing, vice president of Beijing Internet Court, attended the event. The meeting focused on the great influence of artificial intelligence in economic development and social progress, sharing cutting-edge technologies, exploring commercial applications and looking forward to development prospects, with fruitful results and remarkable effects.
Mars, inspector of the Information and Software Services Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in his speech that the development of artificial intelligence in China is in a rare historical opportunity period. From the perspective of policy environment, China has taken a series of measures in scientific research and development, application promotion and industrial development, forming a strong synergy to promote the development of artificial intelligence. From the perspective of development foundation, it has laid a solid foundation for the development of artificial intelligence through in-depth implementation of strategic actions such as "internet plus", speeding up and reducing fees, "Broadband China", integration of industrialization and information technology, and innovative development of industrial Internet. Judging from the market conditions, China’s advantages as a big country and a big market have been brought into full play in the Internet era, which has directly spawned and cultivated a number of enterprises with international influence and competitiveness, and created favorable conditions for the development of artificial intelligence in terms of talents, technology and business models.
During the activity, People’s Network Artificial Intelligence Research Institute was formally established. Luo Hua, deputy editor-in-chief of People’s Daily Online, said at the inauguration ceremony that the establishment of the research institute is a useful attempt to combine scientific research, investment and media business, which will not only help People’s Daily Online to carry out in-depth cooperation with relevant institutions in the industry in the future, but also help the competent authorities to better promote the development of the industry and industry enterprises to better carry out related businesses. By building a research platform, on the one hand, we can recruit talents and gather wisdom from many sides to make suggestions for the development and application of technology; On the other hand, it can also effectively integrate all kinds of resources, thus cultivating or incubating high-quality projects and gestating opportunities for People’s Network to carry out strategic mergers and acquisitions in the field of artificial intelligence.
Luo Hua introduced that the next step of the research institute will give full play to the advantages of resource integration, build an industry research platform, make use of the influence and communication power of People’s Network, widely gather experts from all walks of life in politics, industry, learning and research, conduct in-depth research in scientific research institutes, industry frontline and competent departments, organize academic exchanges and seminars on a regular basis, analyze the problems and difficulties in the development of artificial intelligence in China, profoundly sum up existing experiences and lessons, build a communication bridge between industry, scientific research and decision-making, and optimize the top level for the central government.
Zhang Qin, member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, former vice chairman of China Association for Science and Technology, Professor Tsinghua University and academician of the International Institute of Nuclear Energy, gave a keynote speech at the meeting. He believed that the safety of nuclear power plants was very important, and it was necessary to conduct regular, high-frequency and strict troubleshooting of equipment failures. In order to solve the problem that false signals interfere with the fault diagnosis of nuclear power plants, we can use artificial intelligence technology to help workers judge faults, deal with them correctly and control risks. The dynamic uncertain causality diagram can solve the problems of uncertainty, dynamic characteristics, false signals and so on by analyzing the causal relationship between variables and components of industrial systems.
He said that artificial intelligence is at the third peak of development. Although there are some bubbles, it has made substantial progress in general and is being combined with the real economy. However, he also pointed out that although the big data that the industry is currently concerned about can be statistically analyzed, it is only a part of artificial intelligence, and the two cannot be treated equally.
Fu Sheng, CEO of Cheetah Mobile, pointed out in his keynote speech that since the rise of artificial intelligence, commercialization has always been an important issue in the artificial intelligence industry. He believes that there is a big gap from the emergence of a new technology to the landing of products and finally to the formation of industrialization. However, with the help and guidance of the state, the technology substitution may be shortened. At present, many companies talk about bottom-level innovation, but at least it seems difficult to achieve it now. On the contrary, there is a great chance to do a good job in the industry. "This is also an opportunity for small companies to achieve overtaking in corners."
At the meeting, Lenovo Group, Microsoft, Cheetah Mobile, Iflytek, Jianan Yunzhi, Mingluo Data, Alibaba Cloud, Yunzhisheng, Shangtang Technology, CMB International, Xunlei Group, Defiance Technology, Huiju.com, CCID Research Institute, Guoxin Fund, Analysys, Teslink, Squirrel AI, homework help, New World and Shengzhe Technology participated in People’s Network Artificial Intelligence. In the next step, People’s Daily will promote the formation of a multi-functional business structure of media, technology, capital and scientific research in the field of artificial intelligence, and carry out extensive and in-depth business cooperation with more partners from all walks of life at home and abroad.
In the round-table dialogue session, the guests discussed from three aspects: capital, technology and application, and deeply analyzed the opportunities and challenges of the next development of artificial intelligence.
In recent years, the valuation of artificial intelligence enterprises has been rising. Regarding whether there is a bubble in the market, Zhao Yahui, general manager of People’s Venture Capital, believes that the market bubble is just the turning point of the industry, and from the past law, any emerging industry needs to go through the process from birth to outbreak. Song Chunyu, vice president of Lenovo Group, believes that the bubble in the artificial intelligence market mainly comes from the public’s expectation of its future development prospects.
Lian Suping, member of the Management Committee and vice president of China Merchants International Finance Co., Ltd., also expressed optimism about the future development of artificial intelligence. She believes that the scientific and technological strength based on Internet big data has been formed, and the cold winter of capital cannot hinder the development of artificial intelligence. Tian Feng, senior strategic director of Alibaba Cloud Research Center, said that what remained after the bubble was just needed, and just needed can create value for the industry. Yu Yang, chairman and CEO of Analysys, put forward from the practical point of view of data intelligence company that grasping the needs of users and creating value for customers is more conducive to the growth of enterprises.
At present, artificial intelligence has gradually become a topic of the whole people, and it has gone deep into financial, government, education and other industries, bringing many changes to the lives of ordinary people. In this context, the industry has different views on whether the development trend of artificial intelligence technology is to run in small steps or to subvert and reshape. In this regard, Cui Jing, deputy director of the Institute of Electronic Standardization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the development direction of artificial intelligence technology at this stage is still inconclusive. Liang Jiaen, chairman of Yunzhisheng, believes that the current knowledge and big data have not been well combined, and there are still many problems in the application field of artificial intelligence. Xie Yinan, vice president of Defiance Technology, said frankly that despite the rapid development of AI applications, its technical system development has not yet achieved subversive innovation. Grace Wai Wong, vice president of Iflytek Consumer Business Group and general manager of Hearing Technology, also said that algorithmic intelligence, perceptual intelligence, sports intelligence and cognitive intelligence are still in the era of weak artificial intelligence. Ceng Min, senior R&D director of Microsoft Xiaobing in Microsoft (Asia) Internet Engineering Institute, suggested that AI needs to solve infrastructure problems, and the maturity of technology should be measured by the number of actual cases.
Regarding the application of artificial intelligence, Li Yazhou, co-founder of Machine Heart, said that medical care +AI will be very popular in the future, security +AI will also be very popular, and AI will also have a strong ability to change other industries. Xie Chao, vice president of TESLIN, believes that the application path of artificial intelligence is "+AI", and the core driving force for the progress and development of science and technology is to integrate with the industry. Liujing, vice president of Mingluo Data, distinguishes between "AI+" and "+AI". The essence of the former is super artificial intelligence or general artificial intelligence, and its foundation is technology-driven; The latter is industry artificial intelligence, based on industry and domain knowledge. Zhang Li, vice president of Jianan Yunzhi, said that whether it is "AI+" or "+AI", artificial intelligence will be realized at multiple levels and structures in the end. It is suggested that the industry should combine the cloud and the end to have a truly complete closed loop. Yang Xin, vice president of Huiju.com, believes that the most suitable application scenario is the key. From the user’s point of view, "+AI" and "AI+" are both means and paths. Jin Jun, CMO of Shangtang Technology, thinks that no matter "+AI" or "AI+", it means that AI cannot exist alone. AI itself is not a useful industry, only by attaching it to a certain industry,It is the time when AI really works when it has a polymerization effect with this industry.
Buy grain (short story)
Text/Sun Changguo
When the neighbor’s chicken crowed for the first time, Geng Changfu got up. In fact, I didn’t sleep much all night. For three days, except for a full belly of boiled water, I didn’t touch my teeth. How can I sleep steadily?
The production team’s warehouse has long been out of food. The eldest brother and the second brother run out to dig wild vegetables every day, and sometimes they can’t dig less than half a basket on the 30-40-mile mountain road. After all, every household’s food is not plentiful. The child’s mother hasn’t had milk since she gave birth to three boys. The child cries with hunger every day. Poor big Ni ‘er is only seven years old, but every day she holds three children in her arms and asks others to find milk to eat. Er Nizi is only five years old, and she sits motionless in the corner like a sick little Yaner every day. That’s hungry …
With the faint light coming through the window, he glanced at the five children lying on the heatable adobe sleeping platform, and his empty heart suddenly became tighter.
At noon yesterday, he heard from the people who came back from Miao Mountain that there was a need for a large number of grass stalks on the construction site where the reservoir was built in Changzhuang, and he was wondering about a handful of grass left at home, which might be sold. Thinking of this, he put on a broken cotton-padded jacket and got up. He went to the kang and said something to the child’s mother, and then he went on his way with a straw.
It’s still a little cold in early spring, and I haven’t eaten for a few days. The 40-50-mile walk from home to Miaoshan feels particularly long. The sun climbed up the mountain and only walked more than ten miles, but the sweat on my face rolled like beans and fell down one by one. The wild vegetables on the roadside, including the tender leaves that are a little green, have long been picked up. At least I saw an elm tree, and Changfu broke off a branch and put it in my mouth to chew, so I felt a little full in my heart.
After barely walking more than ten miles, Changfu only felt that his footsteps were getting more and more stumbling and his head was getting heavier and heavier. He kept telling himself that he couldn’t fall down, and there were still several mouths at home waiting for him to get food back, but a fishy smell came to his throat, and then he didn’t know anything.
When he woke up again, he first saw the face of a People’s Liberation Army, and then fixed his eyes, only to find himself lying in the arms of another People’s Liberation Army. The People’s Liberation Army he saw was looking at him with a kettle.
"Hometown, what’s wrong with you? What’s wrong with you?" The PLA man with a kettle asked.
"I’m fine, maybe I just walked too much and was tired." Changfu replied.
Oh, take a sip of water and have a rest.
Looking at the kettle handed over by the People’s Liberation Army, Changfu said with a wry smile: "Thank you, Comrade. To tell you the truth, I haven’t eaten for two or three days, and my stomach is full of water. I really don’t want to drink it."
"I haven’t eaten for two or three days, so what are you?" ……
"There is really nothing to eat at home. I heard that there is a need for straw to build a water reservoir in Changzhuang. I want to try it in the past and stutter at home."
The air seemed to condense in an instant, and Changfu clearly saw the tears rolling out of the determined eyes of the two PLA men. They went to the side and muttered for a while. They came to Changfu and said, "Hometown, it’s still a long way to Changzhuang. Besides, people may not be able to collect your straw after going there. Just because the army needs straw, we will collect it and give you 20 Jin of sticks. What do you think?"
Twenty pounds, this load of straw is put aside at ordinary times, but even five pounds of sticks can’t be exchanged. All of a sudden, I gave twenty pounds, and Changfu didn’t believe his ears. At that time, he stammered. Two PLA men threw straw into the Bucket of the truck, and handed half a bag of sticks to Changfu’s hand, accompanied by two raw sweet potatoes: "Hometown, now the country is in trouble, we have to grit our teeth and get through it. These two sweet potatoes were given to you by us, so you should eat a cushion first." They drove away before Changfu could export the words of gratitude.
When it was dark, Changfu saw the crooked-necked tree at the head of the village and two monkey children waiting under it.
"Dad is back …" Seeing him from afar, the second child trotted over and spread out his dirty little hand: "Today, my eldest brother and I went to the Arnebia euchroma to dig vegetables and found a handful of soft dates for dad to eat." Zicaowa, it’s almost the border of the neighboring county. Looking at the soft dates in the children’s hands, Changfu couldn’t help but have a sour nose: "Good boy, go back and call your mother, say that Dad has bought food and come out to push it …"
When the water was boiling and the noodle was ready to be cooked, Changfu handed the child his mother two sweet potatoes, and one of them took a bite. Looking at the tooth marks on the sweet potatoes, the child’s mother didn’t say a word, and the tears in her eyes were scattered in the boiling water with the noodle, which made a beautiful splash.
About the author: Sun Changguo, pen name Damu, a native of Laiwu District, Jinan City, now lives in Boshan District, Zibo City. Vice chairman of Boshan Writers Association, director of Zibo Writers Association, member of Jinan Writers Association and member of Shandong Writing Society.
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Spring ploughing is busy, spring is strong, and the vitality of spring is everywhere in the motherland.
CCTV News:Spring ploughing is busy and spring is strong. Next, we follow the camera to feel the vitality of spring all over the country.
What we are seeing now is 25,000 mu of wheat managed by a grain and cotton planting cooperative in Wucheng County, Dezhou, Shandong Province. At present, wheat has entered the jointing stage. Local archives have been established for all the entrusted plots, and remote sensing satellites can be used to monitor the growth and diseases and pests of wheat 24 hours a day, patrol the fields online and offline, and customize scientific and accurate water and fertilizer management schemes for farmers. Wisdom empowerment, symptomatic application of drugs to help stabilize production and increase production.
Following the camera, we came to Pingli County, Ankang, Shaanxi Province, deep in the Qinba Mountains. Among the mountains, green tea gardens and golden rape flowers reflect each other, adding bright colors to spring. The villagers transferred land and participated in the production and management of tea gardens and the cultivation of high-quality rapeseed to increase income. At present, the tea garden in Pingli County covers an area of 200,000 mu, and the tea industry and eco-tourism are integrated and developed to promote rural revitalization.
This is Andaqiha Village, Qunke Town, Hualong Hui Autonomous County, Haidong, Qinghai. In the early spring, more than 1,700 acres of apricot blossoms spread out in front of the village and behind the house. Huahai tourism has made this village on the bank of the Yellow River a well-known flower viewing place in the local spring, attracting many tourists every year, and the villagers will also prepare accommodation, catering and various special agricultural products. The quietly flowing Yellow River, the vast distant mountains and beautiful villages constitute a refreshing picture.
Now we come to Xiaotaipingcun Formation next to Taiping Lake in Mile City, Honghe, Yunnan Province. Spring grass, spring water, spring flowers and mountains and rivers are fascinating. Just a few years ago, it was a rocky desertification barren hillside with typical karst landforms. Most of the land in the village is mountainous with large slope and thin soil layer. Since 2016, Xiaotaiping Village has become a well-known ecological livable village by strengthening the linkage among counties, townships and villages, guiding multiple subjects to participate in rural governance, completing thousands of acres of rocky desertification and barren land improvement, and concentrating on circulation to develop nurseries and tourism.
What you are seeing now is the Wumeng Prairie in Panzhou City, Liupanshui, Guizhou Province. The mountains are stacked, and 40,000 mu of wild plateau dwarf rhododendrons are in full bloom. The average elevation of Wumeng Prairie is 2,500 meters. The local area attaches great importance to the protection of Rhododendron hybridum in the plateau, prohibits cutting, digging and climbing, pays attention to fire prevention, and strictly limits the number of grazing. Some time ago, the snowfall made the soil moisture of this plateau grassland abundant, and the azaleas also bloomed more beautifully.
The situation of hegemony between Shanghai Harbor and Shandong Taishan shows the potential of China football.
Football in China has always been an important part of domestic sports. However, due to historical and practical reasons, the development of football in China still faces many challenges and difficulties. In this context, the hegemony between Shanghai Harbour and Taishan Mountain in Shandong Province and the outstanding performance of Taishan U21 in U21 League all show the hope and potential of China football.
First of all, the hegemony between Shanghai Harbour and Shandong Taishan is a highlight in China Football League. The two teams showed great strength and competitiveness in this season’s league tournament, which kept the suspense of the championship until the final round. This competitive pattern not only improves the appreciation and attraction of the league, but also promotes the investment and attention of clubs in the introduction of players and the construction of coaching teams. This healthy competitive environment is very beneficial to the development of football in China.
Secondly, Taishan U21′ s outstanding performance in U21 League also shows the future of China football. This young team showed excellent technical and tactical level and teamwork ability in the competition, which made people have a deeper understanding of the strength and potential of young players in China. These young players not only represent the future of football in China, but also are an important force for the internationalization of football in China.
However, the development of football in China still faces many challenges and difficulties. Among them, the most prominent problems are the low popularity of youth football, imperfect infrastructure construction and irregular management of professional leagues. Therefore, we need more attention and input to promote the development of football in China.
First of all, we need to strengthen the popularization and training of youth football. This requires not only the clubs to strengthen the youth training system, but also the support and participation of all sectors of society. Only by letting more children get in touch with and like football can we cultivate more excellent players.
Secondly, we need to strengthen infrastructure construction and improve the quality and quantity of football venues. This requires not only the support and input of government departments, but also the participation and contribution of all sectors of society. Only by building more high-quality football venues can more players have a better training and competition environment.
Finally, we need to strengthen the management and standardization of professional leagues. This requires clubs to strengthen their internal management and improve their operational level, as well as the support and supervision of relevant departments. Only by establishing a standardized league management system can professional leagues develop more healthily and orderly.
In a word, the development of football in China needs more attention and investment. Only through the joint efforts and support of the whole society can football in China achieve better development and make greater contributions to sports in China.
The internal competition pattern of China table tennis team has changed： strong male table tennis enemies surround women table tennis opponents.
In 2022, the China table tennis team spent the first full season of the Paris Olympic cycle, won many laurels including the team world table tennis championships, and still stood at the top of the world table tennis world with the momentum of breaking bamboo. However, although the "teacher of the king" has made outstanding achievements, it is an indisputable fact that strong enemies are surrounded, especially the men’s table tennis crisis. While Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, two veterans, are gradually fading out, the internal competition pattern of table tennis is also changing quietly.
The third man of the men’s team surfaced.
Wang Chuqin is the player who shines in table tennis this season. In the six high-level events that the main team played, the 22-year-old Beijing team won the singles four times.
After winning the first men’s singles championship in international competitions in 2019, Wang Chuqin once encountered a bottleneck in singles events. This season, he broke through himself, winning the WTT (World Table Tennis Professional League) Macau Competition at the beginning of the year, and winning the WTT Budapest Star Challenge in July. After helping the team dominate the Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships by "full attendance" in the knockout round, Wang Chuqin "sublimated" from technique and tactics to ideology, and then won the WTT Macau Championship and WTT World Cup again, and the world ranking rose to the third highest in his career.
Although there was no gain in the subsequent national championships and the Asian Cup in Bangkok, there is no doubt that Wang Chu Qin has made a leap this season and has gradually secured the position of the "third man" in men’s table tennis. In the singles competition, he defeated Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan and many other major opponents of foreign associations throughout the year, and scored 3 wins and 1 loss against Malone. As a left-handed player, the former World Table Tennis Championship men’s doubles champion also won three mixed doubles championships and one men’s doubles championship with different players. If it can make a difference in next year’s individual World Table Tennis Championships, there should be no doubt that it will be included in the Paris Olympic lineup.
In addition to Wang Chuqin, two other non-Olympic champions in the main team of the men’s team, who are both "Mesozoic", have also won many foreign competition opportunities this season, but their performance is inferior. They not only won less than the main team of table tennis, but also lost foreign wars several times. Among them, Liang Jingkun, who will be 26 years old, once ranked third in the world, but only one WTT routine challenge singles champion was recorded, and he was banned by the Chinese Table Tennis Association at the end of the season for misconduct.
The 27-year-old Lin Gaoyuan continued the "champion shortage" for more than three years. After losing to his teammates twice at the beginning of the year and winning the runner-up, he wasted six match points in the final of WTT Budapest Championship in July, failing to seize the opportunity of meritorious service when his teammates were defeated. Although she won 2 gold medals and 2 silver medals at the end of the season, and narrowly won the men’s team final against Fan Zhendong by 17-15, she still failed to show convincing performance in the international arena.
The performance of the two main players of "Long Pang" this season is remarkable. Although veteran Malone only won a runner-up, he also lost only one off-court battle. Fan Zhendong, the world’s No.1, won one championship and one Asian in the absence of the European Summer Series, but it was defeated by both Chinese and foreign strong players.
In terms of opponents, compared with the Tokyo Olympic cycle, there are more rising stars in the Eurasian team in the new cycle, and the China men’s table tennis team, which has been hit hard in the international arena, is facing greater challenges. In almost every high-level competition, the China men’s team has lost the main foreign war. In the two WTT high-level events held in Budapest in July, Guoping was "delayed" by the men’s team. Among them, Korean men’s doubles "new and old combination" Zhao Dacheng/Li Shangzhu, Lian Ke, Wang Chuqin/Malone, Liang Jingkun/Lin Gaoyuan won the Star Challenge. In the subsequent singles championship, China men’s table tennis four without Fan Zhendong were all eliminated by foreign association players, which sounded the alarm for preparing for the Olympic Games.
Healthy competition of four "golden flowers" for women’s teams
Compared with the men’s team, the performance of China women’s table tennis in the world is still strong, and its "Jianghu status" is impregnable. Not only that, with the birth of Wang Yidi, healthy competition has also formed within the women’s team, and four "golden flowers" compete with each other and promote each other.
The 25-year-old Wang Yidi has a strong upward trend in the new cycle, and broke into the semi-finals in the World Championships last year. This season, she has won many successes in high-level events and impacted the "three main players", which proves that it is no accident that she ranks among the top four in the World Championships with stable performance. In March’s WTT Grand Slam and October’s World Cup, she reached the semi-finals. In July’s WTT European Summer Series, Sun Yingsha was a "double kill", winning 1 crown and 1 Asian. In the two events at the end of the season, Wang Yidi first won the women’s team and the women’s singles in the all-round championship, among which she narrowly beat Manyu Wang to reach the top for the first time in the singles final, and then reversed Ito Meicheng’s first seal in the Asian Cup. Next year’s individual World Championships will be the "outpost" of the Paris Olympic Games. If this season’s momentum can be continued, Wang Yidi’s impact on the Olympic lineup is by no means empty talk.
However, judging from the lineup of this year’s World Table Tennis Championships, the position of the "trio" who won the team championship of the Tokyo Olympic Games for women’s table tennis has not wavered for the time being. As a "big sister", Chen Meng, 28, has made it clear that her sword refers to Paris. This year, she won 1 crown and 1 Asian in the international arena, and her performance is still stable. The two "new generations" won two championships and one Asian respectively. Among them, Sun Yingsha won two championships in the "China season" in October, and continued her unbeaten performance in foreign wars. Manyu Wang, the champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, topped the WTT Macau Tournament in January and the Budapest Championship in July, and won the mixed doubles champion and runner-up in the women’s singles in the all-round championship, with a stable record throughout the year.
Chen Xingtong, the same age as Wang Yidi and selected for the team World Table Tennis Championships, has not yet withdrawn from the competition, but his position has become marginal. Its performance in the competition fluctuated and did not pose a threat to the four main players.
Looking around the world, China women’s table tennis, with fierce internal competition, is strong, even stronger in the new cycle, not only rarely losing foreign wars, but also winning the championship, runner-up and even the semi-finals. At the World Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu in October, China defended its title by crushing its opponents, without losing a set in eight games, only losing two sets. In the ——WTT Macau Championship, the only high-level event with frequent "accidents", Manyu Wang and Chen Meng lost to European players in the first two rounds, but Chen Xingtong and Sun Yingsha still joined forces in the final, which fully reflected the strength and thickness, and also made major rivals such as Ito Meicheng feel the despair of "pressing the gourd to float the ladle".
In addition, Manyu Wang and Sun Yingsha’s women’s doubles team beat Miki Ito/Hayata Hina in the final of high-level events twice this year after last year’s World Championships, almost beating their opponents over. Both singles and doubles have a "fault" strength advantage, so it is difficult for China women’s table tennis to defend its title in the Paris Olympic Games.
Reporter Wang Xiaoxiao
(Source: Beijing Daily)
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You must watch this game tonight! Live broadcast on the big platform! The results of the first two games bode well for Guoqing.
At 18: 00 this evening, Beijing time, China U20 will compete with South Korean U20 for a semi-final spot in the U20 Asian Cup, which is actually a qualification for the World Youth Championship. You know, the last World Youth Championship that the National Youth Team participated in dates back to the 2005 World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, so the impact of the China team on the World Youth Championship tonight is particularly worthy of the attention of China fans. In other words, China fans must watch this game!
Tonight’s game, the time is also very suitable, fans can eat rice while watching the game. Aiqiyi, Migu, Know the Ball Emperor and other platforms all have live broadcast signals, which brings convenience for fans to watch the ball. Fans can watch the live broadcast on the computer or mobile phone screen (screen TV is also acceptable) and wave the flag and shout for the China teenager! CCTV didn’t broadcast the men’s U20 football match live, but broadcast the women’s U20 football match live, which from another angle can also stimulate China teenagers to fight hard tonight!
Unlike the World Cup, the World Youth Championship is not the top team in the world, but it is very strong. For example, Argentina won the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 championship last year, and its youth team (namely Argentina U20) was eliminated in the World Youth Championship in South America. Argentina is the second-ranked team in the world! By the same token, the strength of the Korean national team is obviously higher than that of the China national team, but the level of its U20 team may not be much higher than that of China. Therefore, the China boy must have confidence tonight.
It is particularly worth mentioning that in the two quarterfinals of the U20 Asian Cup last night, Iraq beat Iran 1-0 at the last moment of the game. Four hours later, Uzbekistan, the host country, also beat Australia in the penalty shootout and got the second ticket to the top four. You know, the Iranian and Australian national teams are frequent visitors to the World Cup, while the Iraqi national team is less powerful, and the Uzbek national team has never made it to the World Cup. Therefore, the results of the first two games are also an encouragement to China U20, which seems to indicate that China can also eliminate the South Korean team tonight.
Think about how China U20 beat Saudi Arabia 2-0 in the group stage, and the boys will know how to play tonight. The South Korean team has always despised the China team in football. If they still have this inertia tonight and make the mistake of underestimating the enemy, the chances of the China teenager will be even greater. Argentina underestimates its enemy and can lose to Saudi Arabia in the World Cup. If South Korea underestimates its enemy, it is of course reasonable to lose to China! Come on, Guoqing! Come on, China boys!