During the meal, Zhao Yi asked her about her participation in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala performance, mainly asking her if she had told her family. After all, there were only a few days until the Lunar New Year.
According to custom, Zhou Jinyu usually goes home before the Lunar New Year. This time, he obviously cannot go home to celebrate the New Year. Previously, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala was recorded and broadcast, which would be much better.
Nowadays, as the TV broadcasting system becomes more and more advanced, live broadcasts have become sparse and common. In addition, ATV’s Spring Festival Gala is broadcast live, and CCTV is naturally not to be left behind. It has been broadcasting in live broadcast mode a few years ago.
However, for the sake of caution, even if it is live broadcast, there will be a certain delay. In order to leave enough opportunities for remediation if there is a performance accident, ATV's Spring Festival Gala will also have a certain delay, which will not be visible to the audience. of.
"I've been beaten for a long time, but my brother can't go home to celebrate the New Year this year. There are many things to do in Baodao, and there are so many things to do. Even the Spring Festival is busy. This year, only the two of them can celebrate the New Year at home." Zhou Jinyu Having said this, he looked a little downcast.
Only now did Zhao Yi know that Zhou Jinjue could not go home to celebrate the New Year this year. Although Zhou Zhigang and his wife were not very old, it was indeed a bit deserted during the New Year when their children were not around.
"Can Uncle Zhou and Aunt Wang come here to celebrate the New Year?" Zhao Yi asked.
"I think so too, but they don't want to come over, and I can't do anything about it," Zhou Jinyu said.
This is really a problem. If he and Lin Hexia go to their hometown to celebrate the New Year, Zhou Jinyu will be lonely here alone. If they don't go back to their hometown, Zhou Zhigang and his wife will be the same.
This was really a dilemma. He actually asked Zhou Jinyu for her opinion, saying that he should go back to her hometown to be with her parents, because she would definitely agree to it, but whether she really meant it or not was up for debate.
"Don't be sad. Aren't you going to perform on stage this time? Uncle Zhou and Aunt Wang will definitely watch it. It can be regarded as a reunion in front of the screen, and it won't be too late for us to go back together on New Year's Day." Zhao Yi comforted .
In fact, Zhou Zhigang and Wang Huilan do not necessarily feel miserable. After all, their son has been promoted and their daughter is becoming more and more promising. As parents, they should be happy inside.
Moreover, both of them are not old, less than 50 years old. With the maintenance they have taken over the years, they are in good spirits and are not as sentimental as real elderly people.
Therefore, he feels that it is not a big problem to fly over on his private jet on the first day of the new year. Such emergencies may become more and more frequent in the future. After all, the greater the achievements of children, the greater the social responsibilities they will bear.
This is why the more important people are, the less private time they have, because they no longer completely belong to themselves, and only they can realize the gains and losses.
He didn't want to continue chatting on this topic, and instead asked about the singing repertoire she had prepared. This was the primary problem Zhou Jinyu was currently facing, and what she brought out couldn't be ordinary.
"Actually, I have had an idea for a long time. This was an idea I had when I was studying with a ventriloquist master." Zhou Jinyu said.
"Oh, tell me." Zhao Yi asked.
“At that time, I was learning the sounds of various birds and wanted to turn the sounds of these birds into songs. However, my music production ability was insufficient at the time, so I could only keep it in my heart.
During this period of time, I have been replenishing my abilities in this area, and I have also consulted many talents in music production, and I feel that I have the ability to do a good job in this area. "Zhou Jinyu said.
"A hundred birds pay homage to the phoenix?" This was the first word that came to Zhao's mind when he heard her words.
"Yes, yes, it has a similar meaning. It should be very interesting to arrange the calls of various birds in a certain way. It is also a relatively unique song." Zhou Jinyu seemed to have met a close friend, and he was so happy that he took the photo Get started.
"Your level of difficulty is a bit high. I estimate that there will be few people in the country who can sing it perfectly. It's a bit too high-spirited." Zhao Yi said.
According to her, if you want to sing this song perfectly, you must first learn beatboxing, and then you need to have deep singing skills. Both are indispensable.
And neither of these two aspects is simple. When arranging music, it is definitely not just making the sounds of various birds, which will not bring pleasure to people.
Therefore, the calls of birds need to be perfectly integrated with the rhythm of music, so that the calls of various birds will not appear noisy and disorderly, and the sounds of birds cannot be isolated from each other.
In order to embody these, the requirements for singing skills are particularly high. The singing parts of various birds are different, and the conversion between each other must be natural, and the music rhythm must also be taken into consideration.
Even after thinking about it, he felt that it was difficult to achieve. Why did he feel that Zhou Jinyu was developing more and more in the direction of showing off his skills? This was a good sign.
"Music form is important, but what music really needs is to touch people's hearts. Any music that can touch people's hearts is good music, even if it is just a simple hum.
For example, the melody of "Only Mother is Good in the World" is not complicated, and the lyrics do not use special vocabulary, but it is such a simple song that will trigger many people's thoughts every time it is sung.
Therefore, you should not blindly pursue the difficulty and complexity of songs. Your voice condition is indeed unmatched by others, but when making music, you still have to return to the essence of music.
It's okay to have one or two pieces of exploratory music in an album. If the entire album was like this, it would be too showy and not natural enough. " Zhao Yi said.
The reason why he chose different music styles for her first album was just because he was afraid that she would be stereotyped, rather than because he wanted her to go further and further on the road of showing off her skills.
Therefore, he must bring this idea back, let music return to the essence of music, and create more music that can touch people's hearts instead of being obsessed with showing off skills, which is putting the cart before the horse.
Techniques serve emotions. If it is just about showing off skills without expressing emotions, such music is actually soulless. I hope she can avoid this happening.
"I know, but I think this idea is very good and has the possibility of being realized, so I want to make it. It would be a pity not to make it if the conditions are met," Zhou Jinyu said.
"Okay, after dinner, let's go take a look together. You don't have much time left. If you can't make it, you can only change the song temporarily." Zhao Yi said.
It's not a big deal to change songs temporarily. Intermediate artificial intelligence can produce songs above the horizontal line at any time, and she can choose whatever she wants.
The reason why she is still obsessed with composing her own songs is mainly because she wants to exercise her ability in this area. After all, she cannot rely entirely on artificial intelligence.
Although artificial intelligence can play a great role, human beings' innate creativity cannot be lost, which is why he does not want artificial intelligence to spread.
If this factor is eliminated, he can completely allow intermediate artificial intelligence to participate in all aspects of the national economy, instead of just being limited to Xuantian Technology Company.
As for its use in other companies, it is mainly to supervise the operation of the company. After all, he does not manage the affairs of his subordinate companies. If he does not even have the necessary supervision, if there is a problem, it will be his problem.
Never test the bottom line of human beings. Any unbridled selfish desires will be infinitely magnified, and the things you do will be beyond imagination. The evil of human nature and the good of human nature have always coexisted.
After dinner, Lin Hexia went back to his studio to play games, while Zhao Yi and Zhou Jinyu went to Zhou Jinyu's studio to discuss song creation.
They strive to get this matter done tonight. Zhao Yi and Zhou Jinyu both know music production, and with the assistance of artificial intelligence, the efficiency is actually very high, and the success rate is quite high.
Zhao Yi first asked Zhou Jinyu to show the results of her own creation. After listening to it, he began to put forward his own opinions, then revised and revised it, and then tried singing again. If he felt that it was unreasonable, he entered the revision stage again.
After working on it for 3 hours over and over again, I felt that I finally came up with a relatively complete work, and then let the artificial intelligence optimize it based on this relatively complete work.
The so-called optimization is to look for possibilities that are better in all aspects from countless other possibilities. Artificial intelligence is the best at this aspect of work.
After coming up with a variety of plans, Zhao Yi and Zhou Jinyu chose the one they thought was more suitable, and then it was finalized.
I was busy with this matter until 11 o'clock in the evening before it was finally completed. I still need to take these things to record tomorrow, and then show the samples to the Spring Festival Gala directing team. Only after they pass can I get on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Therefore, Zhou Jinyu is still busy in the next few days. What happens next depends on her. Zhao Yi can't help much. The most important thing is that Zhou Jinyu doesn't have much stage experience. This is an area that she urgently needs to make up for.
Excellent songs are one thing, but stage performance is sometimes more important than the song itself. He actually doesn't think there is anything outstanding about Jackson's songs.
But combined with his stage performance ability, it can give people additional sensory stimulation, which cannot be compared with singing a song.
Of course, if Zhou Jinyu didn't want to do it, he wouldn't force it. Especially stage performances in Europe and the United States, he actually didn't feel particularly used to it. Even the dances of those Korean girl groups felt weird.
In fact, the demands of music in our country are still very different from those in Europe and the United States. We hope to convey truth, goodness and beauty through music and inspire people to be kind.
However, European, American and Korean music actually stimulates more human desires. This has a lot to do with the cultural gap. Therefore, in terms of stage performance techniques, we cannot blindly borrow European and American forms.
Every culture has its own characteristics and its own unique spiritual connotation. There is no judgment of whether it is good or bad. As long as the music conforms to its own cultural connotation, it should be called good music.
It's just like him. He never thinks that he is the savior of the world, nor does he feel that he wants to achieve world peace because of his high abilities.
There is absolutely no need, as long as you take care of your own people, people from other countries and nationalities have only their own paths to follow, and it has little to do with him as to where they will end up.
This is also the consistent traditional thinking of our country. We never force others to accept our own culture. If they are willing to learn it, we will not force it. We only need to do what we think is right.
As for us to identify with their culture, it is actually very difficult. As a country and a nation with a long history, we naturally do not think that our culture is inferior to others, and may even feel that it is much superior.
This is the self-confidence in one's own culture, and it is also the cultural export of many countries in the previous life for so many years, thinking that this can achieve the purpose of subversion and achieve internal cultural disintegration.
As a result, these so-called cultural exports eventually became the driving force for our growth. Not only did they not have the desired effect, they actually made us stronger.
A confident nation must firmly believe in the spiritual core of its own culture. Other cultures can only learn from the parts that are beneficial to us. It is absolutely impossible to replace the spiritual core of culture.
Starting from the next day, the annual meeting of his company officially started. Lin Hexia also attended the meeting, but she would not say anything, she would just sit quietly aside and sometimes act as an assistant.
The other businesses of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company have been mentioned above enough, so I won’t go into details here. Let’s talk about their plastic replacement business here.
Zhao once considered the harm of plastic bags to the environment and wanted to develop environmentally friendly materials that can replace plastic bags, which can not only protect the global environment, but also gain huge benefits.
At that time, after he handed over the relevant technical information to Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, he did not take care of it so much. After all, this was only a small business to him and not very important.
It is impossible to completely eliminate plastic in modern society. His goal is to reduce the use of disposable or short-term plastic products, because this aspect causes the greatest damage to the environment.
Other plastic products can actually be recycled and reused. Yaoguang Environmental Management Company has the technology in this area, and the harm caused is actually not great.
Moreover, if you want to replace products with short life cycles such as plastic bags, you must have a faster degradation rate, and at the same time, the degraded materials cannot cause secondary pollution.
So he used his technical advantages to produce environmentally friendly water-based plastics. The name was mainly used to make it clear that this material can replace some plastic products and has environmental protection effects.
Because the raw material for making this material is water, through some technical means, new hydroxide compounds are formed and become polymer materials, which have the characteristics required by common plastic bags, plastic films, etc.
And their degradation time is very short. It only takes 1 month to degrade at the shortest, and only 1 year at the longest. It is still very different from ordinary plastics that take hundreds or even thousands of years to degrade.
The reason for such a large span is mainly to respond to different needs. In his view, plastic products with a service life of less than one year are short-term plastic products and there is no need to maintain their long-term existence.
So he came up with different formulas with different characteristics and degradation cycles. However, after these materials degrade, they will all turn into water without exception. This is their greatest characteristic.
Moreover, the source of their raw material water is much wider than that of plastic. In addition to the high difficulty of production technology, it is superior to plastic products in other aspects.
The technical difficulty is also high for outsiders. Without the production method and formula given by Zhao Yi, it would definitely be very difficult to make such a material, and it would almost be impossible to make it.
Just like the hydrogel he took out before, many countries have actually obtained some samples. After all, so much hydrogel needs to be spread every year for artificial rainfall, so it is not difficult to obtain samples.
But until now, no research institution in any country has produced the same product. Some things look very simple, and their molecular formulas can even be clearly understood.
But it would be extremely difficult for them to produce it. This is a core secret. In the same way, the plastic replacement materials he gave are not difficult for those who understand, but those who don’t understand simply don’t know how. maded.
Therefore, in addition to the research and development costs of these materials, the production costs are lower than plastics, which also provides the possibility of promoting this environmentally friendly water plastic.
Without increasing the burden, the public is still willing to support environmental protection. After all, everyone has to live on the earth, and caring for the earth is everyone's responsibility and obligation.
Therefore, after the launch of the business of Lucky Light Environmental Management Company, the trend of environmentally friendly water plastics quickly spread around the world, and plastic pollution was also exposed to the global public.
It can be said that developing this business has taken almost no effort from the Fluolight Environmental Management Company. They only need to focus on the production of products, and there are almost no obstacles to product promotion.
Fortunately, in China, when the government learned that they had such environmentally friendly materials that could replace some plastic products, they began to issue plastic restriction orders, requiring all shopping bags and short-cycle plastic products in the country to use this material.
Otherwise, high fines would be levied, so within just one or two months, almost all short-term plastic products in the country were replaced by this material, and merchants did not complain much, after all, the costs were about the same.
As for foreign promotion, this is mainly through publicity to inform the global public about the harm of plastic products to the global environment. At the same time, some environmental protection organizations are also mobilized to carry out activities in this regard.
In addition, at this time, our country has comprehensively promoted the replacement of short-cycle plastic products, setting a good example for the whole world. If other countries do not follow up, they will receive strong moral condemnation.
The most important thing is that Fluolight Environmental Management Company does not want to take this opportunity to increase the price of its products, but maintains prices similar to those of plastic products. Many businesses are naturally willing to try it.
Especially now that environmental protection organizations are becoming more and more influential, and with so many years of publicity, ordinary people are becoming more and more aware of environmental protection. At an acceptable cost, businesses generally will not be so stubborn and offend consumers. .
Moreover, Shangtong Trading Company's globally renowned sales channels and packaging plastics have all been replaced with this new environmentally friendly material. This alone has exerted a huge influence abroad.
Therefore, without much effort in promoting this material, it has almost occupied the field of short-cycle plastic products around the world and has become the overlord in this area.
In order to meet the supply needs of the global market, they are almost constantly expanding production. Fortunately, the supporting facilities in all aspects are complete, and the expansion work is proceeding relatively smoothly.
Previously, global plastic consumption was as high as 300 million tons per year, and more than half of the plastics were used once and then discarded. This means that Fluclight Environmental Management Company can replace at least 150 million tons of plastic products in the market.
The Fluolight Environmental Management Company not only produces consumer-oriented products, but also sells raw materials. Other companies can purchase raw materials from them to produce their own products.
Originally they were unwilling to produce consumer-oriented products because it would consume too much energy, but if they didn't do it themselves in the early stages, they wouldn't be able to promote it.
So they had this business. Later, many short-cycle plastic product manufacturers found that the trend had changed and began to turn to it. Only then did their raw material sales business improve greatly, and gradually occupied the mainstream income.
It is this plastic substitute product that Zhao Yi initially regarded as a small business, but it can actually bring annual revenue of 300 billion yuan to Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, which is indeed very surprising.
The profit margin of traditional plastics is actually not high, because this is a mature technology and a fully competitive industry, and it is impossible to obtain high profits.
However, the profit margin of Fluolight Environmental Management Company on these materials is very high, with the overall net profit margin as high as 30%, which is considered a huge profit industry in the outside world.
Because the most difficult part here is technology implementation, and the technology was provided by Zhao Yi, so the research and development costs are almost non-existent, but Zhao Yi needs to pay technology licensing fees, which only account for 5% of the product selling price.
The production raw material is water, which is much lower than petroleum, and the manufacturing process has been optimized by Zhao Yi, and the cost is much lower than that of plastic, so it is not surprising to have such a net profit margin.
To be honest, Zhao Yiyi charges 5% of the patent technology licensing fee, which is actually very low. If you follow normal logic and charge 20%, there will be no problem.
However, the patent and technology licensing fees he collects every year are already huge, and they are all relatively low licensing ratios, so he does not particularly care about the income in this area. The licensing fees are just a matter of complying with business laws.
Although this business cannot wipe out the losses of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, it finally has its own long-term and stable operating income. As for the other two stable operating incomes, it is urban water supply and urban gas supply.
Urban water supply is now basically dominated by Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, with annual revenue of about 120 billion yuan. Net profit margin is not very low, reaching 20%, with annual net profit of 24 billion yuan.
As for the gas supply business, it has just been launched. It mainly supplies the new city. Due to the incomplete gas supply facilities in the old city, it does not bring much business to the company.
Generally speaking, the gas supply business is promising in the future, but it cannot contribute much profit at present. As for other piecemeal businesses, there is no need to say more here, since they cannot make up for the shortfall anyway.
What he is thinking now is, since the plastic substitute business is so easy to do, should we work harder and directly eliminate all plastic products? Wouldn't it be more profitable? (End of chapter)