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Warnings from economists Pension system on the brink of collapse?

Status: 21.06.2021 10:35 a.m.

Too few contributors and high household burdens – experts repeatedly point out the problems of statutory pension insurance. Does that inevitably lead to retirement at 68 or even 70? By Andreas Braun, tagesschau.de The criticism of the German pension insurance system, which has been publicly discussed for weeks, is sharp. The entire structure of the pay-as-you-go pension has been called into question by economists in recent weeks. Many of the criticisms have been known for a long time, but above all caused a stir Paper of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Economics , an advisory body within the federal government. Economics Minister Peter Altmaier himself presented the committee’s proposals as “not binding” on his ministry The advisory board is “independent”.

Pension and contribution guarantees aggravate the situation

With their description of the state of the German pension insurance system, the authors of the study are anything but alone among experts. You see “suddenly increasing financing problems” approaching the pension funds. These problems are mainly caused by the guarantee of the pension level introduced in 2018 at 48 percent of the average wage and the limitation of pension contributions to a maximum of 20 percent.

Together with the introduction of the “pension at 63”, this led to the deficit within the pension insurance system being further expanded. More than a quarter of the federal budget had to be diverted to the pension fund in 2019 to fill this gap. In 2040, almost half of the federal funds are threatened to be used for this.

Increasing life expectancy

The conclusion of the economists of the advisory board with its chairman, the Munich economics professor Klaus M. Schmidt, reads: The coupling of the retirement age to life expectancy is “inevitable”. So if Germans tend to live longer and receive longer pensions, the start of retirement will have to be pushed back accordingly. This would correspond to a “pension at 68” in around 20 years.

In addition, the experts are calling for pension increases no longer to be carried out consistently in the future. While existing pensions should only increase with the development of purchasing power, a guarantee of 48 percent, for example, can still be guaranteed for “access pensions”, ie employees who are going into retirement.

Criticism of “unsocial” proposals

While politicians from many parties immediately criticized the committee’s proposals as “anti-social” or unrealistic, the authors also received support from academia from other quarters. The researchers from the employer-related Institute of the German Economy (IW) also see a further extension of the working life as a sensible way to stabilize the German pension system.

IW study director Jochen Pimpertz sees this as an opportunity “to slow down the rise in premiums and at the same time to stabilize the security level”. He recommends raising the retirement age from 2031 by two months for each year of birth. In 2052, the standard retirement age would then be 70 years. The Freiburg economist Bernd Raffelhüschen also sees a dramatic need for reform in the pension system in Germany. The federal government can only choose between “plague and cholera,” he said in a recent interview. Either the contribution rates for the pension fund or the federal subsidy would have to be drastically increased. In the past few years, the federal government gave the “majority of the elderly” too generous gifts, he said.

Swedish stock pension model

Martin Werding, professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum, is calling for a radical move away from today’s pure pay-as-you-go financing. Werding has calculated that a “share pension”, in which employees invest two percent of their gross income in an equity fund, could increase pension payments by up to 30 percent for average earners who have been insured for many years. The consumer advice centers also consider such a provision component, which is based, for example, on the Swedish pension model, to be sensible. Klaus Müller, member of the board of directors of the Federal Association of Consumer Organizations, sees the share investment as an opportunity to get “more money in old age” for insured persons.

But even a fundamental reform of the pension system is unlikely to close the gap between earned income and retirement income for many contributors. The Riester pension, which was introduced around 20 years ago , however, many experts are convinced that it is hardly suitable for this. There are increasing votes for Riester subsidies to expire under a new federal government in autumn. A prominent critic of the Riester model is, for example, the economist and former “economy” Bert Rürup. He advocates pension accounts that could be managed by a foundation and should be accessible to all citizens. Here, too, the idea is that additional contributions are invested primarily in the capital market and converted into payment plans in old age that supplement the statutory pension

EU-US summit Brussels and Biden – the sticking points

Status: 15.06.2021 2:04 p.m. Subsidies, punitive tariffs or relations with Beijing – the European Union and the USA are still fighting over a whole range of explosive problems after the change of power in Washington. An overview. The United States and the European Union are clearly trying to improve their relations again after the Trump presidency. Disputes in economic and geopolitics have been simmering for years. The new US President Joe Biden is as tough on some issues as his predecessor Donald Trump. On other questions, however, he showed a willingness to compromise in advance. When he meets EU leader Ursula von der Leyen today, these issues will be the main focus:

Subsidy dispute over Airbus and Boeing

For 17 years, the EU and the US had been fighting because they accused each other of improperly subsidizing their aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing. Since Biden took office, there was a kind of armistice until July 11th. In the run-up to the summit, both sides had hoped to be able to resolve this dispute. In fact, the EU and US reached an agreement at today’s meeting. There is a breakthrough on the subject, said EU Commission President von der Leyen. This will open a new chapter in relationships – with cooperation instead of legal disputes. During Trump’s tenure, the United States had received permission from the World Trade Organization (WTO) to impose punitive tariffs of $ 7.5 billion on goods and services from the EU. Airbus aircraft were subject to a tax of 15 percent. A year later, Brussels also received WTO approval to impose punitive tariffs on US imports totaling four billion dollars.

October 18, 2019

Punitive tariffs on steel and aluminum

At the meeting between Biden and the EU leaders, the trade conflict over steel and aluminum will also come on the table. The commission hopes that the guest from Washington will agree to lift the punitive tariffs of 25 percent on European steel exports to the USA by December 1st. After Trump was voted out of office, Brussels decided not to raise its tariffs on whiskey, jeans or Harley-Davidson motorcycles as planned on June 1. Now it is up to the USA to turn words into deeds, says Deputy EU Commission President Valdis Dombrovskis. Trump had accused the EU of unfair trade practices and imposed punitive tariffs on imports in this area in June 2018. As a result, European steel exports to the USA rose by 25 percent and exports of aluminum by ten percent.

05.03.2021

Digital tax and data security

Brussels also sees a need for discussion regarding the taxation of digital content from US technology companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook. The EU accuses companies of skilfully shifting their sales and profits to avoid tax payments in the EU. A Europe-wide tax for digital corporations has therefore been discussed in the EU for years. France and other EU countries have already introduced national digital taxes. In the meantime, both sides within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have agreed to start negotiations on the taxation of digital content. Brussels and Washington are also looking for a new agreement to enable the exchange of personal data from the EU to the US. This is important for the business models of the US digital corporations. The European Court of Justice overturned the so-called Privacy Shield Agreement last year because it did not adequately protect European data from access by US authorities and secret services.

11/25/2020

Further consideration for Nord Stream 2?

The German-Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, which is supposed to double the capacity of Russian deliveries through the Baltic Sea, could also cause some tension at the meeting. She wasn’t just a thorn in Trump’s side. Biden also rejects the almost finished project – but obviously does not want to jeopardize the transatlantic partnership, which has just recovered. The US fear that Moscow has a means of political leverage in the pipeline. The planned start of Nord Stream 2 was delayed by US sanctions under Trump. In a gesture to Berlin at the end of May, Biden’s government decided not to impose sanctions on the operating company Nord Stream 2 AG and its German managing director. Washington wanted to create space for talks with the federal government.

analysis 05/20/2021

Relations with China

As far as relations with China are concerned, things seem to have calmed down a bit. The fact that the EU reached an investment protection agreement with Beijing without waiting for Biden’s inauguration to coordinate with the new US president was clearly disapproved in Washington. There one expects more support from the Europeans against the Chinese rival. The EU has since put the deal with China on hold and is unequivocally opposed to unfair trade practices and human rights abuses. After the EU imposed sanctions on the situation of the Muslim Uyghur minority in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, Beijing responded with sanctions against EU politicians and scientists. The European Parliament then refused to ratify the agreement. With information from Matthias Reiche, ARD-Studio Brussels

07/30/2020

Living in big cities Lots of tenants at the Load limit

Status: 15.06.2021 12:51 p.m.

The high rental prices in many large cities mean that many tenants are on the verge of financial problems. Scarce income and housing are a bad mix, as a recent study shows. When it comes to rent, many households in large cities have to raise so much money that they are above the 30 percent mark of household income. This is the result of a study published by the union-affiliated Hans Böckler Foundation. According to this, 49.2 percent of the around 8.4 million households that rent in Germany’s major cities are above this threshold. A good quarter of households have to spend at least 40 percent of their income on rent including heating and ancillary costs. Almost twelve percent of large city households even required more than half of their income for rent, i.e. rent including heating and ancillary costs.

06/10/2021

Bremen at the top

“For social scientists as well as real estate experts, a rent burden quota above 30 percent of household income is problematic, especially for households with lower incomes, because then there is only relatively little money left for the rest of life,” says the foundation’s study. Many landlords would also draw a line here because they doubted that tenants with less income would be able to afford their apartment in the long term. In Cologne, for example, the proportion of households that have to live with a rent burden rate of more than 30 percent is 46.4 percent. In Berlin it is 43.8 percent. In Bremen, the share is greatest at 47.5 percent. For the study, a research team led by urban sociologist Andrej Holm from Berlin’s Humboldt University evaluated the latest available data from the 2018 microcensus.

05/27/2021

Unfortunately, poorer households more so

Overall, according to the study, the financial burden on tenants has decreased over the past few years, because even with residents of large cities, incomes have increased more on average than housing costs. The mean exposure rate of tenant households fell in 2018 from 31.2 percent of income in 2001 to 29.6 percent. For many poorer households in particular, the situation has hardly relaxed, for them rent continues to be a particularly big financial problem. The authors see a further “polarization” of the housing situation. A comparison over time from 2006 to 2018 also shows “that social inequalities in the area of ​​housing have worsened and high rental costs have solidified”.

FAQ 08/22/2019

Overload rate decreased slightly

The Federal Statistical Office had also analyzed the burden on households with housing costs. According to his data, almost 14 percent of the population, i.e. around 11.4 million people, lived in households that were financially overburdened by high housing costs. The authority sees an overload of housing costs when a household spends more than 40 percent of the available income on housing. This applies regardless of whether the person concerned is renting or living in their own four walls and paying off a loan, for example. According to Destatis, the overload rate has decreased slightly since 2014.

09/23/2014

There are no apartments

The Böckler study comes to the conclusion that the housing shortage in large cities has been “at best slightly alleviated” despite increased construction activity. Above all, there was a lack of small and inexpensive apartments, and the supply had become significantly scarcer over the years. Nationwide, there is a supply deficit of over 1.5 million apartments, which would be missing even with a hypothetically assumed optimal distribution of living space in large cities, explained Holm. The German Tenants’ Association is also calling for more apartments. A few days ago, he asked the next federal government to invest heavily in social housing and a nationwide six-year rent freeze. The federal government must provide a “much-needed breather for all tenants” until more new apartments are built. According to the tenants’ association, at least 30 percent of rental apartments would have to be in public or cooperative management in order to curb the price spiral. At present, every second tenant household in large cities is afraid of no longer being able to pay for the apartment, the association president, Lukas Siebenkotten, had determined.

05/06/2021

More income would help

Study author Holm advocates a multi-pronged approach: In addition to instruments to protect existing rents, among other things, social and non-profit housing “should be considerably strengthened with the most permanent rental agreements possible,” he advised. Another crucial key to social housing provision, however, is the income situation of the tenants. Without effective measures to dissolve the widespread low-wage sector, social housing cannot be guaranteed in large cities, according to Holm.

Shenrancaijing original

Author | Li Qiuhan

Editor | Wei Jia

You Ai Teng (Youku, iQiyi, Tencent) and Dou Kuai B (Tik Tok, Kuaishou, Station B) have been on the bar for two months because of the “Second Film and Television Creation”.

“The second creation of film and television” refers to the act of interpreting, editing, cutting, transporting, and disseminating the content of film and television works. In recent years, many films of “X minutes to watch movies” and “XX say movies” have been born on short video platforms. Big V.

First, on April 9th ​​and April 23rd, Uni-Ten and several film and television companies jointly issued a statement on the unauthorized use of the “Second Film and Television Creation” on Doukuai B; on May 28th, the three companies once again joined forces to target A piracy of “Friends Reunion Special” appeared at station B and issued a statement condemning it; on June 3, at the China Internet Audiovisual Conference, the three heads again bombarded station B and Douyin, pushing public opinion to a high point; two days later , The six major film and television companies came to help again, forwarding the joint proposal of 70 film and television units and more than 500 artists on April 23, and once again expressed their opinions.

A joint statement issued by Youai Tengman with 53 film and television companies and 15 film and television industry associations on April 9

The “five kills” of the long video platform serialized in one go, while on the other end, Shake Kuai B performed the same. So far, no public voice has responded to this matter.

“This is a big blow,” Chen Momo, vice president of Yuanjing Capital, told Shenran that the new “Copyright Law” took effect on June 1. “The second film and television creation infringement captured by You Aiteng is a reasonable and legal point. Douyin, Kuaishou, and Station B cannot be refuted.”

However, even so, Uni-Ten has launched rights protection for each video, which is costly and difficult. Douyin Kuaishou B is on the station, and there are still no lack of second-generation film and television works until now.

The stalemate continues.

You Aiteng is coming fiercely, what happened in the past two months? What exactly is the antidote for Douyin, Kuaishou, and Station B? Where will the end of this scuffle go?

“The Second Film and Television Creation” can’t disappear

The “Second Film and Television Creation” dispute has been in trouble for two months, but this does not mean that this type of video has disappeared on Douyin, Kuaishou, and Station B.

According to Shenzhen Ran’s observations, in the film and television chat section of Station B, Tencent’s popular video drama “Douro Continent”, iQiyi’s popular drama “Fall in Love with Special Forces”, and Youku’s completed “Mountain River Order” and other related film and television creations are impressive Column, and the playback volume is extremely high. On Douyin, the topic of “movie editing” has been viewed 139.5 billion times. This year, Tencent Video’s popular “Jade Heart Like Jade” and other film and television works CUT are still being updated.

Screenshot of the screen of the film and television channel of station B recently

Screenshots of videos related to recent Douyin film and television topics

Shen Ran communicated with many film and television UP owners on station B and Douyin and found that wait and see and transformation are the most mentioned words. Some of them circumvented the popular UAT dramas and turned to the second creation of classic domestic film and television dramas and foreign hits, and some moved to animation and variety shows. Tucao on hot topics is also one of the breakthroughs. If you still want to explain the film and television works that are popular on YouAiteng, some of the UP hosts have changed to live appearances, but Xiaofei, the creator of Douyin Film and Television II, told Shenran that the traffic is not as good as the original film. In order to avoid copyright disputes, he The update was simply suspended.

In terms of platform review, film and television UP owner He Xiang told Shenran that his work is partial to film and television commentary and complaints, and he has not encountered a situation where the platform cannot be reviewed. He communicated with his peers and found that everyone reported that the content of cutting and pure handling has become difficult to pass the review, but more creative explanations and complaints have not yet clearly felt the tightening of the review. Up to now, Douyin, Kuaishou, and Station B have not made public announcements about this matter.

This dispute has made the relationship between creators, filmmakers, and users more subtle.

After You Aiteng issued a joint statement, the film and television UP host He Xiang originally had some worries. What surprised him was that During this period, the number of film and television companies that found him to work with has doubled than before. “The first sentence they found was, I will authorize you.” When he said this, he couldn’t help but smile.

The reason for this phenomenon, the producer Wen Yu explained to Shen Ran. Now the film party attaches great importance to the promotion of the series on the short video platform. When a series is about to go online, their team will also take the initiative to find the film and television UP host and shake. Yinda made a wonderful CUT, “Whether it is to attract the attention of the audience or complain about it, this is already a very important marketing tool.”

Lao Zhang, who specializes in drama series marketing, also told Shen Ran that in the two months since the joint statement was issued, they could only bypass the film and television mix-cutting method, and shifted the focus of the announcement to topical marketing such as play tricks and artist linkage. But “in fact, there is still no direct short video diversion.”

In other words, no matter from the perspective of publicity and the entertainment effect derived from the second creation, the “second creation of film and television” has a certain demand on the production and consumption ends. This made Wang Hong, an executive of one of the 53 film and television companies involved in the joint statement, somewhat helpless. He told Shen Ran, “ In fact, we never said that there should be no second film and television creation, and there is no conflict with drama marketing, but we are discussing the issue of copyright ownership. “.

“At present, many long dramas can only be watched by users who have bought members. Especially for account-sharing dramas (the number of times that UAT users watched determines the amount of share that the film party receives), the film party depends on the amount of share of the two-year accounting period. Pay back, but can watch CUT directly on Douyin Kuaishou, who would want to buy members to watch dramas? This damages the business path of the long video platform to a certain extent.” Wang Hong said.

Long videos can’t afford to lose money, but in the eyes of many people, Uni-Ten has put an end to the second film and television creation on the short video platform, and it can’t stop the loss. “ Loss is not a loss, it is a business aspect, infringement is a legal aspect, not in one dimension “, Wang Hong emphasized to Shen Ran.

According to his memories, You Aiteng launched the first joint statement. It only took a week before and after that 53 film producers participated in it. “In fact, for the film crew, whether it is UAT or Shake Kuai B, they are both important partners. Everyone does not want to offend, and it is not the short video platform that is resisting,” he emphasized again. The ultimate appeal is, “The copyright must be clear” .

In his view, the second creation of film and television (excluding the purely transported film and television CUT) not only has a demand between the user and the film producer, but also does not completely prohibit the second creation of film and television, but hopes to trace the copyright authorization and establish a reasonable mechanism.

What is the antidote?

How can this be solved?

The YouTube model is not suitable for local conditions. Refer to the music field. At first, the music used by users on the Douyin Kuaishou station B was not authorized. Later, the platform purchased the music rights for the free use of the UP owners. “The film and television rights also hope to achieve this effect in the future. “, Wang Hong said.

He revealed that there are two solutions that can be discussed at present, one is the actual copyright owner, and the creators of the “second film and television creation” one-to-one coordination of rights and interests; the other is the short video platform, for some familiar content , The purchase is open to UP masters.

Unlike music copyrights that are concentrated on platforms, film and television copyrights are more scattered. Regardless of the type, how to authorize it is still a problem.

In the opinion of investor Hu Shicheng, the distribution of film and television dramas will continue to give birth to new forms of copyright as the broadcasting ports evolve. He took the transition from a TV station to a long video platform as an example. In the past, episodes had only the broadcasting rights sold to TV stations. Later on the Internet long-term video platform appeared, and the copyright of the new media side was born. A drama can be sold to a TV station or a TV station. Sold to the long video platform.

At present, the demand for “second creation of film and television” is large. In his opinion, under copyright pressure, “the short video platform on the Internet may eventually be issued by copyright, that is, the content distribution channels are TV station + long video platform + short video platform Three kinds. “These three models are not mutually exclusive, but can also increase the revenue channels of content.

It’s not that such a model industry has never been implemented. In 2021, the NBA adopted a separate sales strategy for video copyrights in China. It sold the exclusive rights to digital media to Tencent, and the short video rights to Bytedance, namely Toutiao, Douyin, Watermelon Video, On Tik-Tok, you can have NBA daily game highlights, behind-the-scenes highlights and other content, as well as the right to edit and process short videos.

But when it comes to the film and television industry, there are two practical problems. The second film and television copyright is born. Can the buyer buy it, and can the seller sell it?

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In Hu Shicheng’s judgment, the newly born second creation copyright is directly traded between the content party and the short video platform party, that is, the short video platform can directly cooperate with the content party without conflict of interest. In terms of the copyright of the second creation of film and television, long and short videos are at the same starting line. “If the long video platform is to buy the copyright, if you want to obtain the second creation copyright of the short video, you must also give a separate fee, which is also a control for the long video platform.” Said.

More than one producer told Shen Ran, They are of course willing to have such a new copyright channel born, but considering the actual situation, it is almost difficult to implement it at present, because “the film and television company does not have the right to negotiate in front of UAT.” . On the one hand, most of the content now is customized and self-produced dramas of UAT, that is, UAT is the first producer of the content; secondly, even if it is the Noon Sunshine, which is bursting every year, the industry leaders Ciwen Media and Huace For film and television, “for the money of 1.2 copyright creation, they dare not talk to the long video platform. After all, after this cooperation, they have to consider the next cooperation,” said Jia Jianguo, an executive of a film and television company, to Shen Ran.

In Wang Hong’s view, even if it wants to sell the copyright of the second creation of film and television, it may be a business between Youai Teng and Doukuai B in the short term.

So Shake Kuai B would like to buy it?

From the perspective of operability, Wang Chao, the founder of Wenyuan Think Tank, believes that, unlike the centralized music copyright, the convenience of authorization, the scattered copyright of film and television dramas, the cost is too high, “and the second creation copyright of film and television dramas, the film owner did not say The problem is much more complicated when authorized to UAT.”

An industry person who is close to station B and familiar with Douyin told Shenran that the possibility of buying the copyright of the second creation is unlikely. This is equivalent to admitting infringement. “The copyright cannot be bought completely. The short video platform will be dragged down the deep water of copyright, and fall into the same copyright pit as You Aiteng. , Short video platforms don’t think about it.”

However, in Hu Shicheng’s view, none of this will be a problem. “Film producers will indeed be afraid of platforms. In the past, TV stations were basically the only distributors of drama series, and they also had a very high position. However, after the emergence of Internet long-term video platforms, they paid high prices to attract content parties, and content parties increased their profit channels and developed. Now.”

“ Like the current short video platform, the long video platform certainly didn’t want to spend this money. “But in his opinion, the long video platform and the content side continue to use copyright to push the short video platform, and the latter is unwilling to abandon the second creation of film and television, this new channel will inevitably appear, “This is determined by the most basic supply and demand relationship. . No one can escape this law of supply and demand. ”

In summary, behind the “second creation of film and television” is a game of interests between long and short video platforms. Although it is difficult to implement, under the general trend of copyright management regulations, short video platforms may have to work with long video platforms to discuss a solution. The law.

It’s not just a video war

If, as Wang Hong said, the contradiction between the two parties lies in resolving the issue of copyright ownership of the “second film and television creation”, the matter would not be so difficult.

“The people who consume the second creation cannot be said to have migrated from the long video platform. The two types of consumers are likely to not completely overlap.” Chen Momo told Shenran that different carriers and channels have their own most suitable forms of content distribution. In her view, because of the different consumption scenarios and the differentiation of user needs to distribute film and television content for long and short videos, there is an opportunity to form a cooperation mechanism, and short videos may become effective channels for the promotion and diversion of long videos.

But the problem right now is that long and short video platforms have entered a zero-sum game.

This is reflected in the field of PGC.

As early as 2020, Station B has laid out the content of self-produced film and television dramas. The daily ceiling of Douyin and Kuaishou users is gradually showing. The next thing to do is to refine the operation of users to make them stay longer, and PGC content is the target. .

In 2021, Kuaishou has won the short video rights of major events such as the CBA League, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. There is an obvious trend to increase PGC content. An industry insider close to the Kuaishou skit told Shenran that Kuaishou skit has tried a content work of more than 10 minutes on a small scale. In addition to variety shows, Douyin has also recently focused its attention on short dramas. On June 10, Douyin held a short drama press conference. The first batch of online short dramas “Don’t Be Afraid of Love” and Huayi Brothers’ company Xinsheng Tang cooperation, Tian Yusheng supervised the production, the lineup is good.

Jia Jianguo told Shenran that he heard that his peers have earned 20 million from multiple shorts, and he also has the idea of ​​making shorts. “Many traditional film and television companies are already cooperating with Douyin and Kuaishou. Silently”, he said, Traditional companies are also moving closer to short video platforms .

This is also reflected in the UGC field. In the past two years, Youai Teng has shown its coveting for short videos to varying degrees in the form of revamping or creating new APPs. Previously, more than one UP owner told Shenran that it will continue to win Youai in 2021. Teng’s has been invited to settle in many times, but the flow effect is not good.

Perhaps, Station B, Douyin, and Kuaishou can launch a new Xiaoyou Acteng according to user preferences, but You Acteng has repeatedly been unable to support short video services, and it is difficult to launch a Xiaoyou Acteng B.

Source/Unsplash

However, it is worth noting that the more PGC content is deployed at station B and Kuaishou, as they move closer to Uni-Ten, their own losses are also increasing. According to the first quarter 2021 financial report of Station B and Kuaishou, the net loss of Station B was 904.9 million yuan, an increase of 68% over the same period last year. The adjusted net loss in the first quarter of Kuaishou was 4.92 billion yuan, an increase of 89% year-on-year.

Let the short video platform that is unwilling to give up traffic to pay the price for the copyright of the “second film and television creation” and fall into a greater content cost, which may be what Uni-Ten hopes to see.

Whether it’s You Aiteng or Shake Kuai B, the video business has always been the heart and soul of these Internet giants, new and old, especially the rising star of Bytedance, which has made the Tencent Empire feel passive and tricky. From the cut of the “second film and television creation”, we can see the secret battles between giants, the competition and cooperation of long and short videos, and the game between old and new forces.

Outside of this dispute, Jia Jianguo from a traditional film and television company told Shenran that he is now very anxious. The short video platform is in full swing, and the threshold for making dramas is getting lower and lower, and the way of expression from beginning to end is more in line with the needs of users.

He feels that this is like the self-media era that everyone can publish information. “If one day, the content creators on Douyin Kuaishou, everyone can make dramas to attract users and traffic. All will be subversion.” Although that day may not come, he already has a sense of powerlessness that no one can stop the tide in front of the rapidly developing Douyin Kuaishou B station.

The “second creation of film and television” is not without a solution, but for now, the battle is still confusing.

There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. The former tit-for-tat You Aiteng is rarely twisted into a rope, but who can judge the current You Aiteng VS Shake Kuai B, the camp will never change?

*The title picture comes from Visual China. At the request of the interviewee, Wen Zhong Xiaofei, He Xiang, Wen Yu, Lao Zhang, Wang Hong, and Jia Jianguo were pseudonyms.

Shenrancaijing original

Author | Li Qiuhan

Editor | Wei Jia

You Ai Teng (Youku, iQiyi, Tencent) and Dou Kuai B (Tik Tok, Kuaishou, Station B) have been on the bar for two months because of the “Second Film and Television Creation”.

“The second creation of film and television” refers to the act of interpreting, editing, cutting, transporting, and disseminating the content of film and television works. In recent years, many films of “X minutes to watch movies” and “XX say movies” have been born on short video platforms. Big V.

First, on April 9th ​​and April 23rd, Uni-Ten and several film and television companies jointly issued a statement on the unauthorized use of the “Second Film and Television Creation” on Doukuai B; on May 28th, the three companies once again joined forces to target A piracy of “Friends Reunion Special” appeared at station B and issued a statement condemning it; on June 3, at the China Internet Audiovisual Conference, the three heads again bombarded station B and Douyin, pushing public opinion to a high point; two days later , The six major film and television companies came to help again, forwarding the joint proposal of 70 film and television units and more than 500 artists on April 23, and once again expressed their opinions.

A joint statement issued by Youai Tengman with 53 film and television companies and 15 film and television industry associations on April 9

The “five kills” of the long video platform serialized in one go, while on the other end, Shake Kuai B performed the same. So far, no public voice has responded to this matter.

“This is a big blow,” Chen Momo, vice president of Yuanjing Capital, told Shenran that the new “Copyright Law” took effect on June 1. “The second film and television creation infringement captured by You Aiteng is a reasonable and legal point. Douyin, Kuaishou, and Station B cannot be refuted.”

However, even so, Uni-Ten has launched rights protection for each video, which is costly and difficult. Douyin Kuaishou B is on the station, and there are still no lack of second-generation film and television works until now.

The stalemate continues.

You Aiteng is coming fiercely, what happened in the past two months? What exactly is the antidote for Douyin, Kuaishou, and Station B? Where will the end of this scuffle go?

“The Second Film and Television Creation” can’t disappear

The “Second Film and Television Creation” dispute has been in trouble for two months, but this does not mean that this type of video has disappeared on Douyin, Kuaishou, and Station B.

According to Shenzhen Ran’s observations, in the film and television chat section of Station B, Tencent’s popular video drama “Douro Continent”, iQiyi’s popular drama “Fall in Love with Special Forces”, and Youku’s completed “Mountain River Order” and other related film and television creations are impressive Column, and the playback volume is extremely high. On Douyin, the topic of “movie editing” has been viewed 139.5 billion times. This year, Tencent Video’s popular “Jade Heart Like Jade” and other film and television works CUT are still being updated.

Screenshot of the screen of the film and television channel of station B recently

Screenshots of videos related to recent Douyin film and television topics

Shen Ran communicated with many film and television UP owners on station B and Douyin and found that wait and see and transformation are the most mentioned words. Some of them circumvented the popular UAT dramas and turned to the second creation of classic domestic film and television dramas and foreign hits, and some moved to animation and variety shows. Tucao on hot topics is also one of the breakthroughs. If you still want to explain the film and television works that are popular on YouAiteng, some of the UP hosts have changed to live appearances, but Xiaofei, the creator of Douyin Film and Television II, told Shenran that the traffic is not as good as the original film. In order to avoid copyright disputes, he The update was simply suspended.

In terms of platform review, film and television UP owner He Xiang told Shenran that his work is partial to film and television commentary and complaints, and he has not encountered a situation where the platform cannot be reviewed. He communicated with his peers and found that everyone reported that the content of cutting and pure handling has become difficult to pass the review, but more creative explanations and complaints have not yet clearly felt the tightening of the review. Up to now, Douyin, Kuaishou, and Station B have not made public announcements about this matter.

This dispute has made the relationship between creators, filmmakers, and users more subtle.

After You Aiteng issued a joint statement, the film and television UP host He Xiang originally had some worries. What surprised him was that During this period, the number of film and television companies that found him to work with has doubled than before. “The first sentence they found was, I will authorize you.” When he said this, he couldn’t help but smile.

The reason for this phenomenon, the producer Wen Yu explained to Shen Ran. Now the film party attaches great importance to the promotion of the series on the short video platform. When a series is about to go online, their team will also take the initiative to find the film and television UP host and shake. Yinda made a wonderful CUT, “Whether it is to attract the attention of the audience or complain about it, this is already a very important marketing tool.”

Lao Zhang, who specializes in drama series marketing, also told Shen Ran that in the two months since the joint statement was issued, they could only bypass the film and television mix-cutting method, and shifted the focus of the announcement to topical marketing such as play tricks and artist linkage. But “in fact, there is still no direct short video diversion.”

In other words, no matter from the perspective of publicity and the entertainment effect derived from the second creation, the “second creation of film and television” has a certain demand on the production and consumption ends. This made Wang Hong, an executive of one of the 53 film and television companies involved in the joint statement, somewhat helpless. He told Shen Ran, “ In fact, we never said that there should be no second film and television creation, and there is no conflict with drama marketing, but we are discussing the issue of copyright ownership. “.

“At present, many long dramas can only be watched by users who have bought members. Especially for account-sharing dramas (the number of times that UAT users watched determines the amount of share that the film party receives), the film party depends on the amount of share of the two-year accounting period. Pay back, but can watch CUT directly on Douyin Kuaishou, who would want to buy members to watch dramas? This damages the business path of the long video platform to a certain extent.” Wang Hong said.

Long videos can’t afford to lose money, but in the eyes of many people, Uni-Ten has put an end to the second film and television creation on the short video platform, and it can’t stop the loss. “ Loss is not a loss, it is a business aspect, infringement is a legal aspect, not in one dimension “, Wang Hong emphasized to Shen Ran.

According to his memories, You Aiteng launched the first joint statement. It only took a week before and after that 53 film producers participated in it. “In fact, for the film crew, whether it is UAT or Shake Kuai B, they are both important partners. Everyone does not want to offend, and it is not the short video platform that is resisting,” he emphasized again. The ultimate appeal is, “The copyright must be clear” .

In his view, the second creation of film and television (excluding the purely transported film and television CUT) not only has a demand between the user and the film producer, but also does not completely prohibit the second creation of film and television, but hopes to trace the copyright authorization and establish a reasonable mechanism.

What is the antidote?

How can this be solved?

The YouTube model is not suitable for local conditions. Refer to the music field. At first, the music used by users on the Douyin Kuaishou station B was not authorized. Later, the platform purchased the music rights for the free use of the UP owners. “The film and television rights also hope to achieve this effect in the future. “, Wang Hong said.

He revealed that there are two solutions that can be discussed at present, one is the actual copyright owner, and the creators of the “second film and television creation” one-to-one coordination of rights and interests; the other is the short video platform, for some familiar content , The purchase is open to UP masters.

Unlike music copyrights that are concentrated on platforms, film and television copyrights are more scattered. Regardless of the type, how to authorize it is still a problem.

In the opinion of investor Hu Shicheng, the distribution of film and television dramas will continue to give birth to new forms of copyright as the broadcasting ports evolve. He took the transition from a TV station to a long video platform as an example. In the past, episodes had only the broadcasting rights sold to TV stations. Later on the Internet long-term video platform appeared, and the copyright of the new media side was born. A drama can be sold to a TV station or a TV station. Sold to the long video platform.

At present, the demand for “second creation of film and television” is large. In his opinion, under copyright pressure, “the short video platform on the Internet may eventually be issued by copyright, that is, the content distribution channels are TV station + long video platform + short video platform Three kinds. “These three models are not mutually exclusive, but can also increase the revenue channels of content.

It’s not that such a model industry has never been implemented. In 2021, the NBA adopted a separate sales strategy for video copyrights in China. It sold the exclusive rights to digital media to Tencent, and the short video rights to Bytedance, namely Toutiao, Douyin, Watermelon Video, On Tik-Tok, you can have NBA daily game highlights, behind-the-scenes highlights and other content, as well as the right to edit and process short videos.

But when it comes to the film and television industry, there are two practical problems. The second film and television copyright is born. Can the buyer buy it, and can the seller sell it?

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In Hu Shicheng’s judgment, the newly born second creation copyright is directly traded between the content party and the short video platform party, that is, the short video platform can directly cooperate with the content party without conflict of interest. In terms of the copyright of the second creation of film and television, long and short videos are at the same starting line. “If the long video platform is to buy the copyright, if you want to obtain the second creation copyright of the short video, you must also give a separate fee, which is also a control for the long video platform.” Said.

More than one producer told Shen Ran, They are of course willing to have such a new copyright channel born, but considering the actual situation, it is almost difficult to implement it at present, because “the film and television company does not have the right to negotiate in front of UAT.” . On the one hand, most of the content now is customized and self-produced dramas of UAT, that is, UAT is the first producer of the content; secondly, even if it is the Noon Sunshine, which is bursting every year, the industry leaders Ciwen Media and Huace For film and television, “for the money of 1.2 copyright creation, they dare not talk to the long video platform. After all, after this cooperation, they have to consider the next cooperation,” said Jia Jianguo, an executive of a film and television company, to Shen Ran.

In Wang Hong’s view, even if it wants to sell the copyright of the second creation of film and television, it may be a business between Youai Teng and Doukuai B in the short term.

So Shake Kuai B would like to buy it?

From the perspective of operability, Wang Chao, the founder of Wenyuan Think Tank, believes that, unlike the centralized music copyright, the convenience of authorization, the scattered copyright of film and television dramas, the cost is too high, “and the second creation copyright of film and television dramas, the film owner did not say The problem is much more complicated when authorized to UAT.”

An industry person who is close to station B and familiar with Douyin told Shenran that the possibility of buying the copyright of the second creation is unlikely. This is equivalent to admitting infringement. “The copyright cannot be bought completely. The short video platform will be dragged down the deep water of copyright, and fall into the same copyright pit as You Aiteng. , Short video platforms don’t think about it.”

However, in Hu Shicheng’s view, none of this will be a problem. “Film producers will indeed be afraid of platforms. In the past, TV stations were basically the only distributors of drama series, and they also had a very high position. However, after the emergence of Internet long-term video platforms, they paid high prices to attract content parties, and content parties increased their profit channels and developed. Now.”

“ Like the current short video platform, the long video platform certainly didn’t want to spend this money. “But in his opinion, the long video platform and the content side continue to use copyright to push the short video platform, and the latter is unwilling to abandon the second creation of film and television, this new channel will inevitably appear, “This is determined by the most basic supply and demand relationship. . No one can escape this law of supply and demand. ”

In summary, behind the “second creation of film and television” is a game of interests between long and short video platforms. Although it is difficult to implement, under the general trend of copyright management regulations, short video platforms may have to work with long video platforms to discuss a solution. The law.

It’s not just a video war

If, as Wang Hong said, the contradiction between the two parties lies in resolving the issue of copyright ownership of the “second film and television creation”, the matter would not be so difficult.

“The people who consume the second creation cannot be said to have migrated from the long video platform. The two types of consumers are likely to not completely overlap.” Chen Momo told Shenran that different carriers and channels have their own most suitable forms of content distribution. In her view, because of the different consumption scenarios and the differentiation of user needs to distribute film and television content for long and short videos, there is an opportunity to form a cooperation mechanism, and short videos may become effective channels for the promotion and diversion of long videos.

But the problem right now is that long and short video platforms have entered a zero-sum game.

This is reflected in the field of PGC.

As early as 2020, Station B has laid out the content of self-produced film and television dramas. The daily ceiling of Douyin and Kuaishou users is gradually showing. The next thing to do is to refine the operation of users to make them stay longer, and PGC content is the target. .

In 2021, Kuaishou has won the short video rights of major events such as the CBA League, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. There is an obvious trend to increase PGC content. An industry insider close to the Kuaishou skit told Shenran that Kuaishou skit has tried a content work of more than 10 minutes on a small scale. In addition to variety shows, Douyin has also recently focused its attention on short dramas. On June 10, Douyin held a short drama press conference. The first batch of online short dramas “Don’t Be Afraid of Love” and Huayi Brothers’ company Xinsheng Tang cooperation, Tian Yusheng supervised the production, the lineup is good.

Jia Jianguo told Shenran that he heard that his peers have earned 20 million from multiple shorts, and he also has the idea of ​​making shorts. “Many traditional film and television companies are already cooperating with Douyin and Kuaishou. Silently”, he said, Traditional companies are also moving closer to short video platforms .

This is also reflected in the UGC field. In the past two years, Youai Teng has shown its coveting for short videos to varying degrees in the form of revamping or creating new APPs. Previously, more than one UP owner told Shenran that it will continue to win Youai in 2021. Teng’s has been invited to settle in many times, but the flow effect is not good.

Perhaps, Station B, Douyin, and Kuaishou can launch a new Xiaoyou Acteng according to user preferences, but You Acteng has repeatedly been unable to support short video services, and it is difficult to launch a Xiaoyou Acteng B.

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However, it is worth noting that the more PGC content is deployed at station B and Kuaishou, as they move closer to Uni-Ten, their own losses are also increasing. According to the first quarter 2021 financial report of Station B and Kuaishou, the net loss of Station B was 904.9 million yuan, an increase of 68% over the same period last year. The adjusted net loss in the first quarter of Kuaishou was 4.92 billion yuan, an increase of 89% year-on-year.

Let the short video platform that is unwilling to give up traffic to pay the price for the copyright of the “second film and television creation” and fall into a greater content cost, which may be what Uni-Ten hopes to see.

Whether it’s You Aiteng or Shake Kuai B, the video business has always been the heart and soul of these Internet giants, new and old, especially the rising star of Bytedance, which has made the Tencent Empire feel passive and tricky. From the cut of the “second film and television creation”, we can see the secret battles between giants, the competition and cooperation of long and short videos, and the game between old and new forces.

Outside of this dispute, Jia Jianguo from a traditional film and television company told Shenran that he is now very anxious. The short video platform is in full swing, and the threshold for making dramas is getting lower and lower, and the way of expression from beginning to end is more in line with the needs of users.

He feels that this is like the self-media era that everyone can publish information. “If one day, the content creators on Douyin Kuaishou, everyone can make dramas to attract users and traffic. All will be subversion.” Although that day may not come, he already has a sense of powerlessness that no one can stop the tide in front of the rapidly developing Douyin Kuaishou B station.

The “second creation of film and television” is not without a solution, but for now, the battle is still confusing.

There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. The former tit-for-tat You Aiteng is rarely twisted into a rope, but who can judge the current You Aiteng VS Shake Kuai B, the camp will never change?

*The title picture comes from Visual China. At the request of the interviewee, Wen Zhong Xiaofei, He Xiang, Wen Yu, Lao Zhang, Wang Hong, and Jia Jianguo were pseudonyms.

EU authority More Piracy in the pandemic

As of: June 8th, 2021 9:10 a.m.

Counterfeit clothing, electronics, cosmetics: According to the EU, product piracy has increased during the pandemic. Recently, counterfeits have been causing problems, especially in the medical field. From Oliver Neuroth, ARD studio Madrid The pandemic has created a huge new market, says Paul Maier, director of the European Observatory on Intellectual Property Infringements. The market for personal corona protective equipment: masks, rapid tests, disinfectants. “We were in a situation in which the industry was not immediately able to create these products in the volume that was necessary for the market. The counterfeiters are incredibly fast.” Just a few days after the lack of good protective masks became apparent last spring, there were tons of offers from China. However, these products, which at first glance appeared to be suitable, turned out to be unusable shortly afterwards because they did not comply with European guidelines. “These people are not the kind of ‘easy criminals’ who are not very dangerous. They belong to the very worst. That also explains why these people were able to react so quickly and in such an organized manner,” says Maier.

Plagiarism worth 120 billion euros

The most common counterfeits include electronics, clothing, toys and cosmetics. In the past year, plagiarism made up almost seven percent of all imports into the EU; it involves goods worth more than 120 billion euros. A good three quarters of the counterfeits came from China. The pandemic also made it easier for product pirates to use their distribution channels, says Maier from the EU Intellectual Property Office. Online retail has been booming for more than a year, with fewer people shopping in stores. “When you hold a fake in your hand, you usually notice straight away: ‘That can’t be the quality I know!’ You don’t see that on the Internet because the counterfeit sellers use the real photographs, “explains Maier. The original product is shown, but a plagiarism is then sent.

Every third person had doubts about the authenticity of a product

Every third consumer in Europe had, according to one study of the EU Office for Intellectual Property when shopping online, doubts whether it is an original or a fake. One in ten says that they have accidentally bought a plagiarism. The expert of the EU authority recommends consumers to buy online only in “Trusted Shops” if possible. And to check that the website has an “https” address, which is considered more secure than the classic “http” pages. Maier also advises buying drugs only from licensed internet pharmacies and never from other sites. Because the network is full of counterfeit medicines. Ingestion can be dangerous. “There is nothing easier to imitate than a pill. You can squeeze it yourself – what is in it, of course, is important. And no consumer can see that.” Counterfeit drugs either contained no active ingredient at all, an incorrectly dosed or even toxic substance.

“Endless Fight”

Finding out who is responsible for plagiarism is extremely difficult, says the expert. “It’s probably a never-ending fight. But you have to fight it.” The EU wants to take more decisive action against product piracy. A few days ago, the Council of Ministers made the fight against organized crime a priority for the next few years. Above all, it is about Internet crime, which also includes counterfeit products.

In April, a video blogger complained that MIUI was the biggest obstacle to Xiaomi’s high-end road, which caused intense discussions among netizens. A few days ago, the college entrance examination students called Lei Jun to repair MIUI again. These two major incidents have pushed MIUI to the forefront. Xiaomi Zhang Guoquan also revealed on Weibo: “The interval between each meeting from morning to evening for several days is less than 5 minutes”, which is enough to show that MIUI has been under pressure recently.

@大李同学, who is responsible for user complaint resolution and system announcements, also revealed a lot of information this time. The new stable version will avoid the outflow of basic stability bugs, and a new internal testing mechanism will be established to solve some old users who cannot enter. The beta problem. The Mi Community App will also be redone to make it more convenient for users to feedback questions.

MIUI used to be a huge advantage of Xiaomi products, and it was born even earlier than Xiaomi mobile phones. In the early years, MIUI has accumulated a good reputation among digital enthusiasts by virtue of its excellent optimization of native Android. The success of Xiaomi 1 is inseparable from the support of these digital enthusiasts. Today, MIUI can’t even guarantee the stability and fluency of the foundation, which really makes many fans helpless.

The reason for this situation may be that the number of models introduced is too large, new devices are emerging one after another, the update cycle is greatly shortened, and the shortage of manpower has brought huge difficulties to the adaptation work. However, the MIUI team obviously got the priority wrong. New functions and new systems can only be the icing on the cake. The stability and fluency of the foundation are the most important.

The stability and smoothness of MIUI has existed for some time, and Xiaomi does not have the highest priority to solve basic problems. Wait until the user can’t bear it anymore, open the complaint on the Internet and then hurriedly resolve it. This shows that there are still big problems in Xiaomi’s internal management and cognition.

Before Xiaomi had a problem, Mr. Lei could personally take charge and be personally responsible. Nowadays, Mr. Lei is busy building a car for the “last venture in his life”, and I am afraid he is still lacking in skills. This requires Xiaomi to start again, return to the original intention of focusing on user experience, and effectively do a good job of basic stability and fluency. On this premise, we can do super-wallpapers and other icing on the cake, so that we can be one step closer to the “coolest company in Mi Fan’s mind”.

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Sweating, smelly Sweating and unpleasant odors in your legs or underarms can completely ruin your image. A good way to avoid this is to wear socks and clothing made from natural materials, like cotton. Change clothes and socks daily and bathe regularly during hot weather. Another helpful tip to prevent sweating is to replace coffee with green tea. And take some time to choose the deodorant or antiperspirant that works best for you. Sunburn Sunburns usually appear on unprotected skin after a day in the sun. To avoid skin burns, cover your body with clothing and a hat. Use sunscreen every 2 hours or more often if you go swimming, and remember to drink enough water. If you get a sunburn, apply a cream with camphor, aloe, or menthol and apply a cold compress. If the burned area is too large or painful, contact your doctor. Problems with the razor Acne, rashes or redness can appear after you shave dry or sensitive areas like the bikini area and armpits. To reduce redness, swelling, and itching, mix a few drops of lavender oil with your aftershave lotion and apply to the affected area. You can also mash a strawberry and mix them with cream, apply it to the damaged skin briefly and wash it off with warm water. Skin irritation If you like to wear shorts or short skirts and go outside on a hot day, chances are that the skin on your thighs will be irritated. To fix it, moisturize your skin regularly. Use creams containing natural vitamins C and E, calendula or cucumber extract. Shower daily and carefully wash with soap. Bathing in warm water helps reduce irritation. Do not apply ice to irritated skin as it can cause frostbite. Mosquitoes and bugs Mosquitoes and other bugs love to bite you, rush into your wine glass and annoy you with their humming sound. To keep them out of the house, you can use silicone glue or screen protectors to cover the doors and windows, or use lemongrass essential oil, cinnamon essential oil (burn a few drops of essential oil near your terrace in the morning). dark). If your home has a swimming pool, clean it regularly to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in the water. Dust Buying hot dry summer makes dust appear more. Opening the windows for ventilation makes it easy for dust to fly into the house and they are one of the causes of allergies and asthma. To keep your home clean and healthy, vacuum at least once a week, change and wash all bedding, brush your pets, and mop floors regularly. If you have children with allergies, keep fluffy toys in the freezer for 48 hours before letting them play with them; Here’s how to kill dust mites. Food poisoning Diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting are common symptoms of food poisoning. It is very easy for people to eat spoiled food in the summer. If the poisoning is mild, just drink plenty of water and rest. If this persists for more than a few days or you notice blood in your stools, contact your doctor. If the poisoning is mild, products like tomato juice, watermelon, and olives can help soothe your illness. These products are rich in antioxidants, which will help flush out toxins from the body. To prevent poisoning, wash fruits and vegetables properly, eat fresh instead of processed or pre-cooked foods, and inspect food before serving. Dry skin Dry skin, irritated by hot dry air, can lead to itching, cracking, wrinkles, and color changes. Exposure to chemicals or high temperatures can make skin drier. To prevent this, shower with a moisturizing body wash instead of regular soap. Apply a moisturizer appropriate for your age. Cleanse your skin regularly and use a lotion with salicylic acid. Don’t forget to apply sunscreen, wear sunglasses and if you are smoking then quit, because it reduces blood circulation in your skin. Also, if possible, buy a humidifier for your home and wear clothes made of natural fibers.

Through examination, doctors of the Department of Cosmetic Dermatology discovered that the patient had a combination of fibrosis frontal hair loss, Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia (FFA) and Lichen Planus Pigmentosus (LPP). Patient identified with a combination of frontal fibrosis (FFA) and lichen planus (LPP). Exploiting her medical history, TTM said that since 2014, she has had dark spots on her face alternating with hypopigmented spots. At the same time, during that time, her hair gradually fell out, the hairline was gradually receding towards the top of her head. She said that she had received topical treatment (unknown type), laser treatment and darkened skin condition improved slightly but then returned. Hearing that many people only take Chinese medicine can improve the amount she uses, but the condition of her hair and skin has not changed. In 2017, her hair lost more, more and less pigmentation alternately, she went to the Department of Aesthetic Skin, HCMC Dermatology Hospital. Dr. Tran Nguyen Anh Tu, Deputy Head of Department of Aesthetic Skin – Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital, said that at the time of examination, he noted that the patient suffered from hair loss ½ of the front of the scalp, the loss of eyebrows. Many hyperpigmentation macules scattered across the face, neck, scalp … do not flake, do not inflame red. The patient has been identified with a combination of frontal fibrosis (FFA) and lichen planus (LPP). “Patients with a combination of these two conditions are quite rare, usually between the ages of 25-56, or in people with dark skin types. Most tanning appear about 14 months before, then gradually appear hair loss, an average of 1 year progresses from 0.6-1.1 cm. The cause is still unknown, but the disease is related to sunlight, contact dermatitis … the treatment is still difficult, especially to restore the lost hair ”, Dr. Tran Nguyen Anh Tu said. good.

Dr. Robert Dorin (New York) warns, fake eyelash adhesive is made from formaldehyde, a substance that is toxic to the body when people come into contact with it. However, manufacturers often hide this ingredient by printing very small text on the tube. Illustration. When used regularly, in addition to affecting the eyes, this amount of toxic substance will penetrate and go deep into the body, leading to toxicity and affecting the functioning of other parts of the body. . Currently, fake eyelashes and eyelash glue are widely sold on the market with their origin and quality difficult to determine. An unidentified eyelash adhesive can become the cause of epilepsy, more so, damage to the hair follicles, making the eyelashes no longer able to regenerate and grow. Illustration. False eyelashes are made from synthetic materials, easy to catch dust, very unhygienic when we use glue attached to the eyelids, thereby causing irritation to the eyes and skin. The rate of allergy when applying fake eyelashes is quite high because the material to make the eyelashes and the composition of the adhesive is not good enough, easily irritating to the eyes. Not only does it make your eyes uncomfortable, but in the long run can cause eye infections and lead to blindness. Therefore, choose quality fake lashes and glues. If you feel itchy or show signs of red, swollen eyelids when attaching fake eyelashes, remove them immediately. Illustration. The fake eyelashes are stuck to the eyelids often causing the eyes to be stained, rubbing a lot of the eyes, causing damage to the eyes. When you wash your face, sweat it or leave it on for a long period of time, the glue will come off and fall into your eyes, which will create a favorable environment for bacteria to multiply. In the long run, it can cause eye inflammation, blepharitis, conjunctivitis and even damage to the cornea. Illustration. Using fake lashes means that these fake lashes will weigh on real lashes, cause real lashes to bear a lot of weight and inadvertently damage real lashes and lids. When removing fake eyelashes, the glue is so tightly attached that you may accidentally drop the real eyelashes. From there, your real eyelashes will become thinner and thinner and you will want to use more fake lashes if you want to look beautiful. In addition, the substances contained in the fake eyelash glue are not good for the eyes. If used regularly, it will stop the growth of natural eyelashes, even damaging and damaging the hair follicles, preventing eyelashes from regrowth. Illustration. Eyelids are inherently sensitive, and the use of fake eyelashes, even expensive fake lashes, is advertised as being super light, which can make the eyelids feel heavy, increasing the risk of drooping them. This can not be detected early, but it takes a long time to attach false lids to the eyelids before you feel the eyelids are heavy. Eyelid droppings are very difficult to treat, so you should consider them before using them on a regular basis. According to leading doctors, applying false eyelashes can affect the color of the eyes. The amount of brown pigment in the iris is altered, causing iritis, which leads to a change in eye color. Illustration. The visible harms of applying false eyelashes are dangerous. Therefore, use fake lashes only when absolutely necessary and should choose good quality lashes and scissors, despite the high cost. Instead of using fake eyelashes, you can naturally lengthen and darken your lashes by applying coconut oil, olive oil … regularly.

Attending the program were Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Xuan Nhi – Vice President of Vietnam Association of Universities and Colleges; Dr. Le Viet Khuyen – Vice Chairman of Vietnam Association of Universities and Colleges; leading representatives from all departments of the association; Heads of some association’s permanent clubs and leadership representatives of 16/23 universities were autonomous The whole scene of the opening ceremony of the College Block Club is autonomous. Photo: NEU From the National Economics University, there were Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Hong Chuong – Rector of the school and Professor, Dr. Hoang Van Cuong – Vice Rector of the school. Associate Professor Tran Xuan Nhi shares positive signals with the establishment of the Self-Control College Bloc Club. Photo: NEU Sharing at the launch, Associate Professor Tran Xuan Nhi said: “The College Bloc Club is autonomous is the 23rd club of the Association. The members are all universities with extensive experience in autonomy. We will exchange, share, and solve existing problems together, to autonomously achieve the best results and comply with the laws of the State ”. In addition to the participation of autonomous universities, the ceremony also featured leaders from many universities that are not autonomous and about to be autonomous. According to Associate Professor Tran Xuan Nhi, this is a good sign and shows that autonomy is the desire of all universities, only self-control can really take off. Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Hong Chuong – Rector of the National Economics University emphasized: “University autonomy is an inevitable trend, not only helping schools have more power in academic development, improve the quality of training but also demonstrate the responsibility of schools to the society. The launching ceremony of the College Bloc Club has marked a new step in its own initiative, making a useful contribution to the development and increased autonomy for Vietnamese universities. As one of the pioneering universities in self-reliance, the National Economics University will support and actively participate in the activities of the club and association ”. Professor Hoang Van Cuong was appointed as the club’s leader. Photo: NEU At the ceremony, Mr. Pham Ngoc Lan – Head of School Club Support Board announced his decision to establish a club. Associate Professor Tran Xuan Nhi awarded the decision to establish the club and the decision to appoint the provisional chairman of the club. Professor Hoang Van Cuong shared the club’s operation plan in the first term. Photo: NEU The College Block Club decided to appoint Professor and Doctor Hoang Van Cuong – Vice Rector of the National Economics University as the Chairman of the Club. The Board of Directors of the Club and leaders of the Association of Vietnamese Universities and Colleges take souvenir photos. Photo: NEU The meeting also agreed to elect the Board of Directors for the first term. Professor, Dr. Hoang Van Cuong – National Assembly member, Vice Rector of National Economics University was elected to be the Head of the club. The Vice Chairman is Professor and Doctor Su Dinh Thanh – Rector of University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City. Board members are leaders of the following schools: Hanoi University of Technology, University of Industrial Economics and Technology, University of Economics – University of Danang, Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy. Also at the ceremony, Associate Professor Tran Xuan Nhi awarded the medal for the educational career to Professor, Dr. Tran Tho Dat – Former President of the School Council, Former Rector of National Economics University and Associate Professor. Professor, Dr. Nguyen Mai Huong – Chairman of the Council of Hanoi Open University. Associate Professor Tran Xuan Nhi awarded the medal for the cause of higher education in Vietnam to Professor Tran Tho Dat. Photo: NEU Associate Professor Tran Xuan Nhi awarded the medal for the cause of higher education in Vietnam to Associate Professor Nguyen Mai Huong. Photo: NEU The Board of Directors also held a seminar to discuss university autonomy in the current context. The seminar shared problems and directions to solve the university autonomy problem. Photo: NEU Professor Hoang Van Cuong – Head of the club raised the issue: “Implementing autonomy has helped schools overcome many difficulties and progressed to developing the quality of higher education. However, the current legal corridor still has certain problems. That is why the schools we need to exchange, share, to promote the highest autonomy, freedom to create, freedom to innovate, to create real values ​​together. According to Professor Hoang Van Cuong, one of the issues that need to be discussed of university autonomy is the need to have a mechanism to protect those who dare to think and dare to do. There must be people who dare to think and dare to do things in management to have positive and breakthrough changes. The removal of barriers and entanglement of university autonomy is also a task set for the Club. Talking at the seminar, Professor Su Dinh Thanh said that, in addition to the existing problems, the legal corridor also created a very good direction for schools to autonomy, from association, cooperation, and scientific research. technology transfer and study. Together, the schools study legal documents to solve the problem of autonomy. Club delegates and members took pictures to celebrate at the launching ceremony. Photo: NEU Professor Su Dinh Thanh also emphasized the issue of unity between the school board and the school administrators when exercising autonomy. The seminar also recorded many comments from university leaders on the issue of autonomy in the current context. The program has opened up new perspectives, helping schools share problems and solve some problems that schools are facing. It is known that the next time the club will be held at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City is scheduled in October 2021.

Many banks are aiming to build digital banking Many opinions suggest that the institution for the digital transformation of the banking sector basically meets the development of society and the trend of not using cash. “However, the current institutional reforms sometimes still follow the market trend in the short term because it focuses more on the payment segment. Meanwhile, in response to the long-term development of the banking and financial technology industries, there is a lack of sandboxing mechanisms to help the implementation of new technologies gain support. and legal framework from the beginning ”, said Mr. Nguyen Hung, General Director of TPBank. Many regulations need to be further improved Banks also said that the legal framework and policy should continue to be completed, in which, the prerequisite is to speed up the process of building and developing the national database system on personal identification. and at the same time allow sharing, open connection with service industries such as banking, telecommunications, insurance … “Despite applying modern technologies, Vietinbank’s solutions cannot guarantee 100% accuracy that the identity documents that customers provide online are real, so all banks are looking forward to it. the national residential data system for the most accurate authentication, ”shared Deputy General Director of Vietinbank Tran Cong Quynh Lan. Representatives of banks also asked the authorities to issue a draft of agent banking to allow banks to develop service points (when banks are not allowed to open many branches / transaction offices. ). At the same time, it is necessary to speed up the development of regulations on user data protection, digital identity, and building an eKYC alliance. Complete regulations on transaction confidentiality, information security, detailed regulations on electronic signatures, electronic certificates, electronic transactions in accordance with international practices … A very important content is the permission to deploy the Sandbox mechanism – policy testing mechanism applicable to the application of new technologies and new business models in Vietnam. Allowing banks in the digital transformation process to have certain exceptions in meeting safety and efficiency ratios according to the State Bank’s regulations will help the bank boldly research and test new things. According to Mr. Duong Trong Chu, Director of Digital Banking Division of Lien Viet Post Bank, compared to some countries in the region, Vietnam’s digital conversion speed is relatively fast, but Vietnam is not yet a typical example of a country with the fastest speed of digital conversion in the world. Vietnam has a young, flexible and easy to accept the digital transformation model, but we face certain barriers. First, it must be mentioned that the Vietnamese people’s habit of using cash is too great. Second, Vietnamese people tend to trust physical transaction points rather than a digital bank model without branches / transaction offices. Third, the policy has almost no compulsory regulations for digital transformation, just stop at encouraging. Vietnam is an eager market to learn but takes a lot of time to implement because the legal corridor is slower than the development of business models. International experience shows that major cyber attacks are a top concern in the short term, and organizations face important trade-offs in improving their endurance and resilience. school network. According to a survey by Oliver Wyman, cyber attacks are rated as the No. 1 global risk by business leaders in developed economies as the No. 1 global risk in implementing business operations. Mr. Nguyen Xuan Nam, Strategic Director of Viettel Cyber ​​Security Company, affirmed that technology issues related to bank number conversion are now relatively safe, even able to catch up with the technology. Around the world, of course, there is still a need for improvement for the better, but people should not be too worried. For example, the current mobile banking applications are all applying new technologies to prevent exploitation of source code and are not allowed to be installed on unsecured phones. However, according to Mr. Nam, a problem posed is that the legal corridor related to user data is not very strict, such as regulations on information disclosure, personal data theft, as recently. There have been a number of cases of using data without the subject’s permission to register for credit cards or loans … Mr. Nam personally said that having opened a card at a bank A, the next day, there was a bank. customer B calls to ask, which means that customer information disclosure is quite common. However, according to Mr. Nam, from the consumer perspective, the most important thing is not about technology or legislation, but the consumer perception of information security, which is still relatively weak. There have been a lot of personal information theft, account theft not due to technology or legal, but due to the carelessness of users. Therefore, each citizen must actively learn basic cyber safety skills, along with state agencies accompanying businesses in communication to raise awareness for the people. Consider the risks and benefits Mr. Nguyen Ba Diep, Vice Chairman of MoMo e-wallet, said that a digital and innovative innovation model cannot work based on old regulations, heavy management, does not promote innovation. create. A simple example, instead of the parties coming to meet to sign a contract, we will use a digital signature (e-signature), sign on an e-contract, output digital documents. (e-invoice), payments in digital money (e-money) and transactions are done on digital platforms (digital platforms). Therefore, there is a need for legal provisions to create digital signatures, to identify (KYC), the identity of the signer, the legitimacy and protection of digital contracts, regulations on payment in money. electronic, manage sales on digital platforms and accept digital vouchers. “In order to meet the comprehensive digital transformation, the legal structure must also have changes in quantity and quality. However, this takes a lot of time for state management agencies to weigh risks and benefits, this is also a common trend happening worldwide because in reality there is no legal mechanism. can fully adapt to the revolutionary changes created by current technology “, Mr. Diep said. A lawyer in charge of managing a large Vietnamese commercial bank said that, basically, the current legal institutions are still inclined to paper transactions, cash transactions. There are a number of examples of this, but there is not yet a unified definition of digital assets and when there is an administrative dispute or violation, a criminal offense, there are a lot of problems like the definition by Evidence, evidence, electronic contract in the field of electronic transactions, digital transactions, how do we understand the integrity and originality of digital evidence? Another example, when a person dies leaving behind an amount of Bitcoin without an heir, nor with a password for the wallet containing Bitcoin, how will this “derelict property” be handled? Among the many problems posed with the bank number conversion, the lawyer said that banking transactions can be done almost entirely electronically, but still on the basis of a ” the first “paper” that the user communicates with the bank. However, the story would be very different if the whole process was done entirely electronically. “When taking photos of identity papers or photos of users, what data does the bank get to confirm the identity of that person?”, This person raised the problem. Agreeing with Vietinbank’s opinion, this lawyer emphasized that building a shared, linked database is extremely important to reduce effort and costs for all subjects in the commune. associations, including banks. All current legal issues pose many risks for financial and banking services on technology platforms. Therefore, the lawyer also proposed to amend the Law on Credit Institutions to be more practical, and soon allow the application of a sandbox mechanism for these services. Term 4: Legal provisions in digital economy need to be improved

Deployed in a timely manner After the Law on Notarization took effect (January 1, 2015), the Provincial People’s Committee issued the regulations on criteria and methods for appraising documents to establish notary offices and the ceiling of notarization fees in the province. . In 2016, the Provincial People’s Committee allowed the establishment of the Provincial Notary Public Association (CCV) and in 2017 approved the association charter. Implementation of notarization requests at Le Thi Kim Anh Notary Office. (Illustrative photos) Every year, the Department of Justice coordinates with the Association of civil servants to organize training courses on notarization skills for civil servants, professional staff, apprentices to practice notarization of notary organizations in the province. With the consent of the Provincial People’s Committee, the Department of Justice has completed the construction and installation of software to exploit the database to prevent notarization for notarization organizations, helping to minimize risks in operations. notarization, ensuring the legitimate interests of individuals and organizations. Besides, districts, towns and cities actively propagated the regulations on notarization. Notary organizations strictly implement the posting of administrative procedures for notarization, ceiling notarization, translation fees at the headquarters, internal regulations, notarization process … at the head office. room. There are still problems However, notarization activities in the area still have problems. Currently, a number of provisions in the Civil Code, Housing Law, Land Law, Marriage and Family Law… relating to notarization are overlapping or not specific; the instruction and explanation of the law are still slow. Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhu Huong – Head of the Central Notary Office stated, the prescribed marital status certificate is valid for 6 months from the date of issue, but in fact, the paper only identifies the marital status at the time. granted. Therefore, it is difficult to ensure that within 6 months, the marital status of the person performing the transaction is still the same as the certificate of marital status issued and still valid for use. Notarization and certification of contracts and transactions related to projects are also causing notarization organizations to be confused by the legality of some projects (incomplete financial obligations). , construction is still in violation …) but there is no official document of the authority to limit the transaction of these projects. This leads to the fact that there are notary organizations that still certify this type of contract, transaction, and some places refuse … The use of fake papers and documents in notarization activities is also increasingly sophisticated and complicated. In 2020, Kim Ngan Notary Office discovered a suspected case of using fake papers. According to Mr. Dang Van Thang – Head of the Office, in the documents submitted at the office, the red book has a more vibrant color than usual, there is no coordinate system; signature and full name of the person authorized to issue in the identity card with the sign of 2 different people. The office has reported to the ward police to make a record for further verification and handling. In addition to this case, the office has many times discovered signs of fake documents, but the notarization requester immediately took back the papers and left. Ms. Nhu Huong also confirmed every case of suspected fake red books; The paper-counterfeiting technology is more and more sophisticated and difficult to detect with the naked eye. As of March 15, the province has 27 notary public organizations operating, including the Notary Office and 26 notary offices, with 56 civil servants. By 2020, the above organizations have paid more than 5 billion VND to the budget and taxes. In addition, although the notarized database in the province has been put into operation, it has not been linked with the database on civil status, land, registration of security measures … Certificate of contract, transaction, CCV must request the notarization requester to provide information or verify the information, leading to an extension of the certification period. Mr. Dang Van Khanh – Deputy Director of the Department of Justice said that recently, the provincial civil servants association has asked the Department of Justice to propose to the Provincial People’s Committee to request the Central to study, review and complete the legal system related to activities. notarization. At the same time, there will be stricter sanctions against cases of providing false information and documents; using counterfeit papers or illegally erased or corrected to request notarization; at the same time to widely inform the handling results, fake tricks … for people to know and prevent. The Association also proposed the Provincial People’s Committee to direct the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to build a database on real estate, linking with notarized databases to improve the efficiency of state management on notarization, to facilitate in searching and exploiting real estate information. The Association also petitioned the Provincial People’s Committee and related departments and branches to direct documents on which projects are allowed to transact, which projects are not allowed, creating a clear legal corridor for transactions in the area. The Department of Justice is coordinating with the concerned departments and branches to synthesize their opinion and advise the Provincial People’s Committee to propose the Central to remove problems. NGUYEN VO

Elegant, thoughtful like Princess Diana, who also “suffered” with the gust of wind, let alone an ordinary person. But if Princess Diana only had one or two times, Princess Kate was many times “involved” in this incident. Even the royal women also passed on a few tips to keep the skirt from flying, but it was not much better. Princess Diana wore a sweet, well-groomed and delicate pink dress. She cleverly chose a flip-flop hat and adorned her beauty with a luxurious pearl choker necklace. All is perfect… … until a wind blew the skirt fluttering, no matter how hard it could be saved. Referring to this “life” incident, Princess Kate is the character that suffered the most. She has a lot of embarrassing moments just because the wind is too playful. There was even a time when the dress flew to the point of almost revealing the sensitive part. Princess Kate often has trouble flying, although many times she also uses accessories to keep it, but does not seem to lose much, the wind is still blowing and the skirt is still fluttering. It is also because of the designs that Princess Kate wears most of the midi dress with a gentle spread with thin fabric, so it is easy to fly when facing strong winds. No matter how hard she tries to hold it, the dress will flutter, times like this “miserable” probably just want to bounce off the ground right away. From Princess Diana to Kate Middleton each had suffered from this incident, but Meghan Markle alone was never caught. Simply put, Meghan Markle often wears designer dresses, or chooses sturdy materials to stand, so no matter how strong the wind is, she cannot do anything about her. That is also what women need to learn from Meghan Markle, when it is windy, avoid wearing fluffy skirts, thin skirts or short skirts, to avoid sensitive incidents that can strike at any time.

Economic Daily-China Economic Net, Beijing, April 13 (Reporter She Ying) The State Administration for Market Regulation, together with the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, and the State Administration of Taxation, held an Internet platform enterprise administrative guidance meeting on the 13th. The meeting implemented the Central Economic Work Conference and the ninth meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Committee. It affirmed the positive role of the platform economy, analyzed the outstanding problems, asked to give full play to the warning role of the Ali case, and clearly stated that Internet platform companies must be respectful and obey the rules. The issue was fully rectified within a time limit and a new order of platform economy was established. Representatives of 34 Internet platform companies participated. The meeting pointed out that the overall situation of my country’s platform economy is improving. However, in the rapid development, risks and hidden dangers have gradually accumulated. The harm should not be ignored, and the legal regulations should not be delayed. Force the implementation of “choice one between two”, abuse of market dominance, implement “pink-point mergers and acquisitions”, burn money to seize the “community group buying” market, implement “big data cracking”, ignore “counterfeit and shoddy”, “information leakage” and implement related Issues such as tax violations must be severely rectified. Among them, the forced implementation of the “two alternatives” issue is particularly prominent. It is a prominent reflection of the willful and disorderly expansion of capital in the platform economy, and it is a flagrant trampling and destruction of the market competition order. The forced implementation of “choose one” behavior restricts market competition, curbs innovation and development, and harms the interests of operators and consumers on the platform. It is extremely harmful and must be resolutely cured. In response to the forced implementation of the “two alternatives” and other outstanding issues, the meeting clearly stated that platform companies must grasp the right direction, enhance their sense of responsibility, insist on giving priority to national interests, insist on operating in accordance with laws and regulations, insist on fulfilling social responsibilities, and achieve the “five strict preventions”. “And “Five Guarantees”: Strictly prevent the disorderly expansion of capital to ensure economic and social security; Strictly prevent monopoly disorder and ensure fair market competition; Strictly prevent technological stifling and ensure industry innovation and development; Strictly prevent the abuse of rules and algorithms to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of all parties; Strictly prevent the system Closed to ensure that the ecology is open and shared. The meeting required that all platform companies should conduct a comprehensive self-inspection and self-inspection within one month, complete rectifications one by one, and disclose to the public the “Commitment on Operating in Compliance with Laws” and accept social supervision. The market supervision department will organize follow-up inspections of the platform’s rectification. After the rectification period, if platform companies are found to have forced the implementation of “two alternatives” and other illegal activities, they will all be severely punished in accordance with the law. The meeting emphasized that the bottom line of policy is insurmountable, and the legal red line cannot be touched. Strengthening the normative governance of platform companies’ violations of laws and regulations does not mean that the state’s attitude to support and encourage the platform economy has changed. Rather, it must adhere to the “two unshakable”, respect the law of platform economic development, and further develop the platform economy’s Important role. Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, ByteDance, Didi, iQiyi, Shell Search, Dangdang, Multipoint, JD, Kuaishou, Daily Youxian, Qihoo 360, Qunar, Sogou, Weidian, 58.com, Sina Weibo, Bilibili, Dingdong Shopping, Are you hungry, Gome, Hema Xiansheng, Pinduoduo, Ctrip, Xiaohongshu, Read Wen, Suning.com, Beibei.com, Mushroom Representatives from 34 Internet platform companies such as Street, Netease (strictly selected), Yunji, and Vipshop, as well as relevant persons in charge of the market supervision bureaus of Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Shenzhen, attended the meeting. Source: Economic Daily

Recently, Miss Do Thi Ha attracted attention when appearing at a TV show. Miss Vietnam 2020 wears a lotus-petal pink dress, honoring her body curves. However, when going on stage, the beauty of Thanh Hoa village lost points because she revealed the unlucky chest patch on television because the neck was deeply cut. The 10X beauty still strode gently without knowing she made a mistake. This image was quickly captured, the online community was buzzing.

Before that, Miss Do Thi Ha also lost points with fans when she made a costume mistake on television. When participating in a show not long ago, Miss wore a silk satin dress. This is the fabric that the person wears because it easily makes the owner reveal the bread waist.

The 10X queen has repeatedly chosen tight-fitting outfits

revealing round two less tapered.

When participating in the ceremony of the Blue Star Awards a few months ago, runner-up Kieu Loan became the focus of attention when going on stage to announce and award the award for “Favorite Actor” and “Actress the most popular “. In close-up shooting angle. Kieu Loan was praised by fans for her radiant beauty. However, the design of her dress, which flaunts her “big” round 1, makes many viewers “eye pain”.

The image of runner-up Kieu Loan reminds the audience of Mai Phuong Thuy with a very hot moment at the final night of “Miss World Vietnam 2019”. In a close-up angle, the first round of Miss Vietnam 2006 seemed to flow, in a few moments, people still caught their heart when she almost revealed the sensitive part.

At the semi-final of Miss Universe Vietnam – Miss Universe Vietnam 2019, Thuy Van had a very confident bikini performance. However, because she was busy performing, the beauty revealed her first round on television. This moment quickly entered the camera lens, causing the audience to “dozen fire”.

In 2016, Van Mai Huong encountered an unexpected problem when joining Vietnam Idol Kids. In an interview with Zing.vn, Van Mai Huong said: “I am a person who is very careful in how I dress. Whether going to act, filming or even going out, I always wear tights under my skirt to be safe. So far, I have no taste in dress.” It is extremely rare to expose the goods as everyone says.

It is known that fans of Uncle Quan Nhat Tieu (Tieu Chien couple’s name – Vuong Nhat Uncle) has posted a few animations to show the “sweet” of the two male artists. However, many netizens think that the actions of Uncle Quan Nhat Tieu’s fans are too crazy, this not only affects the artist’s self but also affects the feelings of the two fandoms. fan community).

The words in the picture: “Dare to say that I and Tieu Chien are fake? Huh! I am angry for swearing”.

Fans of male entertainers own under the entertainment company Wajijiwa – Tieu Chien as well as Vuong Nhat Uncle wished that the fans who “rowed” this couple should stop the above actions and assume that each individual should have respect:

• The other fandom couple don’t look for my family’s King Nhat Uncle every day, please.

• Tieu Chien, hurry up dear!

• Vuong Nhat Uncle is really guilty.

• If you have time, please pay attention Like a dream from Tieu Chien.

This is not the first time that Uncle Quan Nhat Tieu’s fan couple combined the “sweet and shared” images of the two male artists. Despite facing a lot of insults from the two fandoms, the fans in this fan couple still “have a disability” and do not listen to the soft “warning” of others.

Mr. Vu Anh Minh, Chairman of the Board of Members Railway Corporation Vietnam (VNR) has just issued an urgent petition to the Prime Minister “calling for help” on issues related to the development of a National Project on management, use and exploitation of railway infrastructure assets. The State invests and the allocation of resources for management and maintenance of real estate assets.

From 1955 to now, VNR is the only 100% state-owned enterprise established by the State with the purpose of assigning the management, exploitation, use and direct trading of all railway infrastructure assets. (KCHTĐS) in the form of excluding capital components in the enterprise.

VNR leaders said that with 3,143 km of railways going through 34 provinces and cities, in the absence of funding for the management of real estate assets, VNR has organized an asset management system from the General level. companies to member units and joint stock companies with dominant capital contribution.

Up to this point, due to the long and unusual effects of the Covid-19 epidemic as well as the construction of an investment package of VND7,000 billion belonging to medium-term capital, in single track conditions, both train and construction. , The railway industry is in a very difficult period.

Along with that, according to Mr. Vu Anh Minh, problems with funding for the maintenance of national real estate infrastructure in 2021 have not been resolved according to the direction of the Prime Minister, 20 companies perform the task of system maintenance. The national real estate infrastructure currently does not have the budget to buy materials to put into the project, regular expenses and especially to pay employees in the first 4 months of 2021, seriously affecting the lives of nearly 25,000 workers in the VNR. .

“The high risk is that 11,315 workers on the road patrol, bridge week, tunnel patrol, guarding the crossroads … will quit their jobs because they have no income. This issue has pushed businesses to the end, difficult to sustain. until the end of April 2021 “- President of VNR stated in the petition.

According to VNR, the project on management and use of national railway infrastructure assets submitted by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) to the Prime Minister up to this point continues to create many levels of management intermediaries, many administrative procedures. in the management, maintenance and exploitation of real estate assets, increasing licensing, and approving the subproject (sub-license). In particular, it is still proposed a mechanism to assign cost estimates for maintenance to the Vietnam Railway Administration (the agency only performs the advisory function under the Ministry of Transport and does not manage the assets of the real estate infrastructure).

“The proposal of the Ministry of Transport in the Project not only fails to overcome difficulties and problems in production and business activities, but also causes a lot of stagnation and congestion for VNR, pushing businesses to the risk of bankruptcy. , the risk of eliminating railway transport in the transportation system “- VNR leader said.

According to the VNR leader, in order to manage and maintain the assets of the national real estate infrastructure, VNR must organize a comprehensive and coherent human resources system from the parent company to the base units along the railway lines with a total of 11,315 employees were employed, including: 1,241 workers in bridge, road, and tunnel patrol; 915 indirect workers; 6,278 workers perform maintenance and quality control of maintenance work and 2,881 workers guarding the crossroads to ensure safe train operation.

Meanwhile, at present, the organizational apparatus of the Vietnam Railways Administration has only over 100 staff members (most of them are officers of the railway office and the railway traffic safety inspection force), so if the plan is implemented according to the Project, the Ministry As proposed by transportation, VNR still has to fully allocate the above 11,315 human resources to perform the tasks of asset management and the maintenance of national railway infrastructure assets.

“VNR will become an intermediary agency to delay, cause congestion in the process of maintenance and operation of transportation, directly affecting train safety” – VNR leader explained.

Based on the provisions of relevant laws, international experience and especially the practice of managing and operating operations, VNR believes that the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister have chaired meetings with Ministries many times. , departments to analyze the legal basis and have the conclusions and announcements. The Ministry of Justice also appraised the legality in Document No. 193 / BTP-PLDSKT dated January 22, 2021, which confirmed that the delivery of KCHTDS assets and cost estimate for maintenance to VNR Corporation is correct. current laws (including the State Budget Law).

From the above explanations, the Chairman of the Board of Members of VNR sincerely proposes to the Government, the Prime Minister to: Direct the Ministry of Transport to seriously, fully implement the direction of the Prime Minister in the document. 1956 / VPCP-CN dated March 24, 2021 on the management, use and exploitation of national real estate assets.

VNR also proposed to the Prime Minister to direct the Ministry of Transport to continue to assign estimates of economic causes for the management and maintenance of national real estate assets for the period from 2021 onwards to VNR as in previous years.

Chairman of Quang Binh Provincial People’s Committee Tran Thang chaired the meeting with relevant departments.

According to the report of the People’s Committee of Quang Binh province, in the period 2016 – 2019, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment advised the Provincial People’s Committee to decide on land acquisition of 17 projects with a total land area of ​​606,517 square meters.

Currently, there are 12 projects in the province that are leasing land to implement in highly profitable locations but behind schedule; 39 projects have been granted investment policy decisions but implemented slowly compared with the approval decisions, of which 33 projects had been granted investment policy decisions before 2019; Out of a total of 37 commercial housing projects, in urban areas, there are 11 projects that are behind in construction progress compared to the time limit for implementation of technical infrastructure. Particularly in industrial zones and economic zones, there are 6 projects that are behind schedule.

Accordingly, the main cause of the slow progress of the projects is due to difficulties and problems related to the field of land, land clearance compensation, land valuation. In addition, many projects are affected by epidemics and natural disasters, delayed in implementing legal procedures, complying with tax obligations, lack of investment capital …

At the meeting, representatives of departments and agencies discussed and gave some directions to be implemented in resolutely handling delayed projects, especially projects that violate legal regulations and commitments. associated with the province.

At the meeting, Chairman of Quang Binh Provincial People’s Committee Tran Thang emphasized that, over the past time, although the province has created very favorable conditions, there are still quite a few projects behind schedule, especially projects with slow progress. for a very long time; Although there are many objective and subjective reasons leading to this situation, the delay in progress has greatly affected the results of investment in the province, causing waste of land resources …

To speed up the progress of projects, Chairman of Quang Binh Provincial People’s Committee requested:

For projects that are behind schedule due to problems in site clearance, problems with legal procedures or other objective reasons and do not owe financial obligations to the State, assigned to departments, sectors, Relevant localities continue to monitor and urge investors to implement; promptly guide and remove difficulties and problems for investors. People’s Committees of districts, towns and cities with investment projects in the area actively coordinate with investors to support and remove difficulties and problems in site clearance to implement projects.

Regarding projects that have leased land but have been behind schedule for many years that are not in the category of land use extension or beyond the schedule extension, financial obligations have not been fulfilled to the State, Chairman of Quang Binh Provincial People’s Committee assigns the Department Natural Resources and Environment shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Department of Planning and Investment, the Provincial Tax Department, relevant departments, branches and localities in reviewing the progress of projects; work with investors and request a commitment to project implementation progress; advise the Provincial People’s Committee to recover land for projects if they do not implement, fail to fulfill tax obligations according to the provisions of the Land Law.

For projects that are behind schedule but still in progress adjustment according to the Law on Investment 2020, the Department of Planning and Investment is assigned to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with relevant departments, branches and localities in checking inspect and supervise the implementation progress; urge investors to speed up project implementation; urge the implementation of deposit investment in accordance with regulations.

In addition, the Chairman of Quang Binh Provincial People’s Committee also assigned the Department of Planning and Investment to coordinate with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, relevant departments, sectors and localities to advise the provincial People’s Committee to establish a review team for slow projects degree to direct implementation; Concerned departments and branches shall focus on directing to organize a specific review of each group and each type of project; classify specific project groups to advise the Provincial People’s Committee to consider and report to consult the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to handle each specific project according to regulations, especially some large projects, major projects. projects with a high commercial advantage position, projects that are of interest to the voters and the people.

At the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Huu Trung – Deputy Director of Binh Thuan Department of Transport said: Over the past time, the province has stepped up the implementation of site clearance work as well as issues related to the project, especially especially the work of solving the demand for construction materials of the expressway project. Up to now, the number of households and organizations has handed over 2,657 / 2,684 dossiers, reaching the rate of 99%; The compensated clean land area was 1,204.89 ha, reaching the rate of 98.6%. 27 households have not received compensation money and handed over the premises. In addition, at the locations where the ground has been handed over, there are 25 cases (received money and signed the handover) but have not moved or handed over the site to construction contractors. Currently, the province is actively directing the People’s Committees of relevant localities to completely settle the compensation and site clearance work in May 2021.

The Economic Committee of the National Assembly’s supervisory delegation works with Binh Thuan province.

According to the report of Project Management Unit (PMU) 7 and PMU Thang Long, the total demand for construction materials for the project of the Vinh Hao – Phan Thiet section and the Phan Thiet – Dau Giay section is nearly 16 million blocks.

Deputy Director of Binh Thuan Department of Transport added: For the demand for construction sand and stone, the construction material mines in the province can meet the needs of the project. As for embankment materials, according to the approved technical design documents of the approved Vinh Hao – Phan Thiet and Phan Thiet – Dau Giay sections, the reserves of the mines in the province meet the quality and demand of the project. project. However, through the field survey at the mines, the volume of soil and soil cover mentioned above is preliminarily classified into 3 categories by PMU 7, PMU Thang Long, including: Soil, rock mixed with weathered rock and rock.

According to the assessment of the two boards mentioned above, the soil mixed with rock and weathered rock does not meet the requirements for making backfill materials according to the project’s technical requirements. Based on the proposals of the Thang Long Project Management Board and PMU 7, the Provincial Working Group is now speeding up the determination of the mines being exploited that need to increase capacity, expand the scale, or push To speed up the mining licensing procedures to guide the Miners in order procedures, shorten the time but ensure compliance with the provisions of law. At the same time, invite the Miners to work to guide the procedures for capacity increase, scaling up and mining licensing. Expected to complete the mining licensing procedures in the second quarter of 2021.

Mr. Vu Hong Thanh – Member of the Party Central Committee – Chairman of the Economic Committee of the National Assembly spoke at the meeting.

At the meeting, Chairman of Binh Thuan Provincial People’s Committee – Le Tuan Phong said: The province has drastically participated in solving the needs of building materials for the expressway project, step by step solving problems, Gradually came to agreement on issues related to the provision of soil filling materials for the project. In particular, the province has instructed the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and related departments and sectors to give priority to processing investment, environmental, land, and mining permits within 3 working days upon receipt. are business records.

To ensure the demand for building materials for the project, the Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee suggested that the Project Management Units: Thang Long, 7, 85 coordinate closely with relevant departments and branches of the province and mine owners. to survey, evaluate and determine the reserves and quality of each field of embankment materials to unify data, propose ground-filling requirements for each specific construction and installation package, in which clearly identify which mines Exploiting operations need to increase capacity, expand the scale, which mines need to speed up the mining licensing procedures.

The Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee also requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to guide the province to shorten the time for implementing mining licensing procedures. At the same time, it is recommended that the Ministry of Transport soon consider and approve the plan to use 1.1 million cubic meters of salvaged rock in package No. 01, Vinh Hao – Phan Thiet section to crush into expressway embankment as proposed. proposal of PMU 7; Consider and approve for the use of rock and wind mixed in mines.

The Chairman of the Economic Committee of the National Assembly – Vu Hong Thanh highly appreciated the efforts of Binh Thuan province in implementing and implementing the North-South Expressway project in the East, the section passing through the province, especially the coordination. solving the need for building materials to implement the project. Mr. Vu Hong Thanh also suggested that the province continue to direct the completion of site clearance in May 2021 according to the province’s progress; Early completion of related procedures to ensure a dumping site for project construction. Regarding the handling of materials for construction, the Chairman of the Economic Committee of the National Assembly requested the Ministry of Transport to review the material needs of the entire route, directing the Project Management Boards to: Thang Long, 7, 85 urgently coordinate with the province to remove problems.