Karen Mok and his work partners have a reunion dinner and a big red envelope.

　　Karen Mok, who has just finished her work at hand and is going back to Europe to spend the Lunar New Year with her husband, recently hosted a group of hard-working colleagues in Hong Kong for a "reunion dinner" in advance to thank them for their support and help. Karen prepared a lot of seafood and restaurant specialties to greet everyone. The most delicious and popular is the traditional Hong Kong-style "bacon clay pot rice". For the first time, as a newly-married wife, Perry distributed red envelopes to every friend present, and specially selected three New Year ornaments as lucky draw gifts. Everyone was very happy and promised Karen that she would always support her in her career.　

　　Karen said that her working partners have been her pillars for many years. Without them, she would never have achieved what she is today. In 2012, she also has many plans to realize. First, the new album will be recorded at the end of February, which is very challenging and a very shocking project for her. However, Karen can’t disclose the details for the time being and will not announce it until the time is ripe. In addition, the Hollywood film Tai Chi Xia, which was filmed with Keanu Reeves, will also start shooting. She said that she is looking forward to this cooperation, and she should also start exercising recently to meet a series of work. However, she said that no matter how busy the work is, the time spent with her husband must be arranged. She has already agreed with her agent that she must not "exploit" her family fun time!　

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　　The French economy grew nearly zero in the first quarter of this year, and unexpectedly increased by 0.6% in the second quarter. However, this was partly due to the strong rebound in exports caused by the delivery of a cruise ship worth over 1 billion euros, with a negative growth of 0.1% in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, all economic engines stagnated. The Bank of France predicted a growth of 0.1%, the French National Bureau of Statistics predicted a zero growth, and institutions did not rule out the possibility of negative growth. The consensus of all institutions is that the French economy will achieve at most a low growth rate in the first half of next year, regardless of whether it escapes the technical recession at the end of the year.

　　The OECD has lowered France’s economic growth forecast for this year and next to 0.9% and 0.8%. In fact, the world economy has experienced shocks again and again, and the euro zone economy as a whole is weak. Since July 2022, the European Central Bank has continuously raised interest rates. Although it has pulled the euro zone out of the inflation quagmire, it has suppressed consumption and investment, and many countries’ economies have been sluggish or even declining. The European Central Bank stopped raising interest rates in October this year, but the impact of monetary tightening on economic activities is lagging behind, and its comprehensive impact will appear next year.

　　The more unfavorable factor than other economies in the euro zone is that according to the relevant data of Eurostat, the inflation rate in France was 3.8% in November 2023, while the average level in the euro zone has dropped to 2.4%. In 2022, France performed the best in controlling inflation in the euro zone, mainly because the government "protected purchasing power at all costs", and spent huge public expenditures to freeze natural gas prices and electricity prices, issue energy checks to poor families, and provide inflation subsidies to income earners. Nowadays, international oil prices tend to be stable, natural gas and electricity prices are falling, and energy prices in Europe are falling year-on-year. In France, with the gradual cancellation of measures to protect purchasing power, energy prices are rising year-on-year. The good news is that the French National Bureau of Statistics predicts that food prices in France will drop sharply in the coming months.

　　Another unfavorable factor is the reversal of the unemployment rate decline curve. The unemployment rate in France gradually decreased from the high of 9.5% in 2017 to 7.1% in early 2023, and then rose to 7.2% in the second quarter and 7.4% in the third quarter. The French National Bureau of Statistics predicts that the employment slowdown will continue in the next few quarters. Analysts pointed out that this is of course caused by the weak economic prospects, but also because the previous rescue measures of "guaranteeing enterprises and ensuring employment" have been stopped, and the "short-term negative effect" of pension reform has been added: since September 2023, the retirement age in France has been delayed, and the working population base has increased accordingly.

　　The budget deficit is too high and the public debt is too heavy, which has endangered France’s sovereign credit rating. Rising interest rates, weak growth and weak employment are likely to put pressure on tax revenue and lead to further deterioration of public finances. The French government has repeatedly promised to reduce the budget deficit to less than 3% of GDP by 2027. Therefore, public expenditure must be cut, which means that in the short term, it is difficult for the government to make a difference in purchasing power, wages, housing, immigration and other issues that people are most concerned about.

　　The French National Bureau of Statistics predicts that consumption and investment will continue to be affected by the monetary tightening policy in the first half of next year, especially in the construction industry. However, thanks to the further easing of inflation and the global economic recovery, the French economy may grow slightly, reaching about 0.5% by the middle of next year. Inflation in France will also drop to 2.6% by the end of June next year, and the core inflation rate will drop to 2%. However, the agency stressed that "all forecasts are full of uncertainty", especially the geopolitical factors and the uncertainty of the central bank’s monetary policy decision.

　　However, the French government maintains the growth target of 1% this year and 1.4% next year, and reiterates that it will continue to promote reforms under the framework of the "2030 Investment Plan", focusing on improving productivity and competitiveness. On December 10th, President Macron made a special trip to the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse to make a phased summary of the achievements of "France 2030" since its implementation for more than two years in the birthplace of the French industrial success story. He announced that "France 2030" aims to achieve three goals-obtaining industrial and technological autonomy, achieving full employment and fulfilling climate commitments. In 2024, the government will introduce more measures to ensure that French re-industrialization and innovation investment "accelerate, accelerate and accelerate".

On December 16th, a long-planned "Six Endless Tides of Time in Shanghai Style" was held in Chunxuanmao Hongwan with the theme of Dream Back to Paramount.seniorThe celebration of the sixth anniversary of the community was held in Shanghai as scheduled. Living elders, their families, guests and friends, and Chunxuanmao Hongwan.seniorCommunity workers gathered together to celebrate Chunxuanmao Hongwan with a wonderful performance with unique Shanghai characteristics.seniorOn the sixth birthday of the community, I talked about the charm of the exquisite old-age life in Shanghai.

Deeply cultivate Shanghaisixyear,Be steadfast in one’s original heart

In 2017, Chun Xuanmao started the layout of the old-age life in the Yangtze River Delta region with Shanghai as the origin. Chun Xuan Mao hong wanseniorThe community is the first stop in the development of the Yangtze River Delta. Chunxuanmao, the downtown center of Hongqiao, which has strong Shanghai characteristics, has his own ingenious ideas. Its purpose is to enable Shanghai elders to integrate Chunxuanmao’s concept of healthy old-age care with their living habits while continuing their convenient, prosperous and exquisite urban life.

Here, there is an exquisite life field that belongs to the memory of the elders’ growth. In the early morning, the elders stroll along the picturesque riverside trail and enjoy this pleasant slow time; In the afternoon, under the genial warmth, gentle pingtan, pattern cheongsam, and country.feng shuiInk has become an indispensable part of the elders.

Here, Chun Xuanmao uses professional health management services to help elders stay healthy and prolong their healthy lives. With high-quality life service, help the elders take care of their daily lives and let them enjoy the old-age life easily and happily. Meet the taste bud needs of the elders with rich scientific diet collocation.

After six years of deep cultivation, Chunxuanmao HongwanseniorThe community has become synonymous with Shanghai’s exquisite old-age care, and the initial concept of professional old-age care is consistent, and continuous optimization continues to lead the new trend of old-age care in Shanghai.

Dream back to Bailemen era,Haipai pension modernParty

Combining the unique gene of Bailemen era in Shanghai, Chunxuanmao HongwanseniorThe celebration of the sixth anniversary of the community launched a trip to recall the classic years of old Shanghai around Paramount Gate.

Chun Xuan Mao hong wanseniorLai Yong, the dean of the community, said in his speech at the event that "healthy old-age care and professionalism come first. Chun Xuanmao is engaged in a difficult and loving career. Here, with professional services and systematic pension mode, we will comprehensively care for the healthy life of the elders. In the scientific diet management, we should customize scientific meals according to the eating habits of the elders in Shanghai to help them be healthy.Kang ShengLive. In life, the professional life housekeeper takes care of the daily life of the elders, and the community regularly holds cultural performances, manual classes and other community entertainment activities to make the elders change from passive pension to active enjoyment of the elderly. Professional health management, customized health management files for elders, and irregular health consultation for elders to help elders keep healthy and prolong their healthy life. "

Chun Xuan Mao hong wanseniorLai Yong, dean of the community

Hua Dan Li Xiaoling, a popular elder living in Shanghai, started with a night Shanghai song and dance performance, taking everyone back to the busy and varied old Shanghai. The Shanghai jazz "Ha Cha Cha" brought by teacher Zhang Aili will make the party better and better. Followed by "Shanghai Ballad", "Beauty of Lijiang River in Ink and Wash" and "We All Have a Home", the rich Shanghai style was vividly interpreted and received bursts of applause and praise.

Earnestly fulfill the promise of the family. At the event site, the award of "The Most Beautiful Family" was awarded to the elders who accompanied Chun Xuanmao for six years: Li Guilan, Ding Yanyi, He Jintian, Qi Ligen and Wu Zhengbi, and the employees who grew up with Chun Xuanmao: Chen Julan, Liu Fengying, Shu Chenxiang and Xiang Junfen. "Chunxuanmao is fulfilling his promise with the service with temperature, which is also the core reason why our elders choose Chunxuanmao." Teacher Ding, the elder, said this as the presenter. Chun Xuan Mao hong wanseniorThe monthly birthday party of the community will be performed at the event site. In everyone’s birthday wishes, the birthday stars will cut the cake together and get full blessings. In Chun Xuanmao’s view, the choice of elders and employees is a kind of fate and trust, and the choice of elders is the best affirmation of Chun Xuanmao’s old-age life. I believe that with this warmth in the future, we will go further and longer as family members.

In the laughter, Chunxuanmao HongwanseniorThe celebration of the sixth anniversary of the community ended successfully. The seventh year has officially kicked off, and the future is Chunxuanmao Hongwan.seniorThe community will continue to practice healthy old-age life and continue to lead the new trend of old-age care in Shanghai.

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◎ Scenery: Everest

A height

To be insurmountable.

To be unparalleled in the world

It must be accompanied by cold and loneliness.

For Mount Everest,

The most intimate "cotton-padded jacket" is snow

◎ Scenery: Great Wall

Only China has the patience.

A city

Qin Xiu, Han Xiu

Han Xiu, Tang Xiu, Ming Xiu and Qing Xiu.

It has been repaired for generations.

Only China has this ambition.

A city

From Shanhaiguan in the east to Jiayuguan in the west.

It winds for more than two thousand kilometers.

Repair, repair

It became a miracle and a totem.

Built into a dragon

In China, there is another Great Wall.

Its foundation is connected by blood, and masonry is increasing.

Now, it’s 1.4 billion yuan.

Tianzi Mountain in Zhangjiajie.

◎ scenery: Zhangjiajie

From the perspective of beauty

Zhangjiajie is actually unbounded.

Zhangjiajie is unbounded, and Hunan is unbounded.

China is also borderless, even

The world is unbounded.

unbounded

Is the boundary.

◎ Scenery: Chakou Waterfall

That year, at Yakou Waterfall,

I’m crazy. I say

I want to borrow your card.

Pretend to be heroic and passionate.

Pretend to be self-respecting and self-reliant.

Pretend to be unstoppable.

Surging and dreaming

Take it home and enjoy it slowly all your life.

Chakou Waterfall, that year

You, actually agreed.

◎ Landscape: Yellow River

I compared my skin with yours.

I compared my blood with yours.

I compared my indomitable personality with yours.

I have compared the strength in my bones with yours.

I compared my DNA with yours.

Yes, Yellow River, my mother.

I am your forever child.

◎ Scenery: Yangtze River

If the water is clearer, you can see the distant mountains and the setting sun.

Pay off a little, you can see the shadows and pavilions on the shore.

A little clearer, you can see snow-capped mountains and grasslands.

See the Jinge Iron Horse, the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.

Take a look at a history of China deposited in the water.

See the vastness and vastness of 6300 kilometers.

Until, see myself

See another Yangtze River in my body.

Ouyang Bin, born in July 1965, is from Hengyang, Hunan. He once worked in Maoshi Supply and Marketing Cooperative of Hengnan County, Nanyue District Committee of Hengyang City, Shuangpai County Committee of Yongzhou City, Hunan Provincial Tourism Bureau, Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Zhangjiajie Municipal People’s Government, and now he works in Zhangjiajie CPPCC. He has published a collection of poems, The Finger of Sunshine, The Most Beautiful Hunan, a collection of essays, Feeling Famous Mountains, Asking Questions and other literary works, and tourism planning monographs such as Introduction to China Tourism Planning and Realistic Planning.

If you dare to go to Thailand.

Chapter one: Uninvited guests and ancient temples. In a remote mountain area in northern Thailand, a young traveler, Allen, is sheltering from the rain in an ancient temple. There is a mysterious legend in this temple. It is said that there is a magical witchcraft here that can attract people’s souls to mysterious forces. On a rainy night, Allen became interested in this legend, and he decided to find out.

The abbot of the temple knew the mystery of this technique well, and he showed a strange and complicated ceremony, which surprised Allen deeply. Allen decided to spend the night in this temple, although his back was cold.

Explore more secrets chapter 2: the attraction of the soul. The abbot explained to Allen that this magical witchcraft needs a special plant called "Soul Grass" to be implemented. This plant has mysterious power, which can make people’s souls leave the body temporarily. Then the abbot took out a portrait of a human figure with Allen’s face on it. He told Allen that the portrait would be their "medium". The abbot began to recite ancient incantations in a low voice, holding a portrait and putting soul grass on it. Suddenly, the image of Allen in the portrait began to distort, as if attracted by a powerful force, and Allen’s soul seemed to come out of the painting.

Chapter Three: The Trap of Curse. The abbot put the portrait in a wooden box and told Allen that his soul was trapped in the portrait and could not escape. The way to lift this curse is to find someone who is willing to sacrifice himself instead of Allen.

Allen was terrified, and his body gradually became weak, as if a cold force was eroding his vitality. He didn’t know how to save himself, but realized blankly that he must find the person who can suffer for him as soon as possible, otherwise his soul will be trapped in this painting forever.

Chapter Four: Breaking the Curse. Allen’s heart is full of horror. He just wants to escape from this place. He can’t stand this kind of suffering any longer. He is helpless and needs to find a way out. He asked the abbot how to lift the head drop. The abbot gave him a glimmer of hope and told him that only by finding someone willing to suffer for him can the curse be lifted.

However, Allen knew nothing about this proposal, and he felt confused and desperate. At this time, he met a kind-hearted local villager. The villager told him an old legend: every year on Ghost Festival, there will be a mysterious ceremony, which can relieve the head drop. The key to this ceremony is to use a "body double" to attract the power of head-dropping, and then a monk recites the scriptures, permanently sealing this power in Chapter 5: the initiation of the ceremony.

Allen decided to try this legendary mysterious ceremony. Under the guidance of the villagers, he found the monk and started the ceremony with him with uneasy feelings. On the altar, the monks took out a portrait, in which the abbot was lifelike. They put the portrait on the altar and began to recite the scriptures. With the sound of scripture, the image of the abbot on the portrait began to distort, as if being attracted out of the frame. Then the monk put a burning brazier in front of the altar and instructed Allen to throw his hair and nails into the fire.

Chapter Six: The End of the Curse. When the last scripture was finished, the flame in the brazier suddenly went out, as if swallowed up by darkness. Allen, a monk, conveyed an important message. He pointed to Allen and said, "The head drop technique in your body has been completely resolved, and your strength has been restored." Hearing the good news, Allen was ecstatic, his body was full of new vitality, and his eyes filled with tears, thanking the monk. Then, he set foot on the road to leave this place that once scared him.

However, as Allen went further and further, the monk recited a mysterious scripture in a low voice, which was deep and shocking, as if to awaken an ancient and powerful force. He sincerely called: "this cursed soul, you have experienced countless hardships, and now your suffering is finally over." Mother-in-law is actually a princess in Quanzhou, China. Click to follow

As the end of 2023 approaches, the National Tide Music Carnival (Shenzhen Station) created by Shenzhen Chaoyin Entertainment, a local company in Longgang, Shenzhen, will be held grandly in Longgang Universiade Center on December 24, 2023 and January 1, 2024. The Music Carnival will invite musicians with peak strength such as Mao Bu, Tao Zhe and Vae to gather on the Chaoyin stage.

Music carnival

Performance lineup

Create a new warm winter moment in Tibet, and the two performances will shine simultaneously! Shenzhen Universiade Center Stadium, crossing the winter with two feet off the ground, dispels the cold with the joy of accelerated heartbeat. This time, at the national tide scene, a snowflake is played for the audience.

Activity Poster

It is reported that Chaoyin Entertainment has the first-line resources in the industry and a first-class production and operation team. The operation contents include various music scenes, star brokers, artist incubation, independent IP development, etc. It has been selected in Longgang District as a normal performance venue for indoor livehouse, and plans to hold nearly 100 events every year. In addition, it will be selected as a fixed venue for outdoor music festivals, which will bring a tidal feast to music lovers everywhere through indoor and outdoor linkage.

Since the beginning of this year, Longgang Cultural and Creative Investment Promotion Headquarters has successively introduced high-quality cultural enterprises such as the headquarters of Dafeng Bay District in Zhejiang Province, which has been deeply involved in large-scale performing arts activities, the construction and operation of cultural and sports tourism projects, and Chaoyin Entertainment, which is operated by the pan-entertainment industry chain, which will significantly enhance the business of business performances, cultural and artistic activities planning and other sectors in the region, and drive the upstream and downstream related enterprises in the industry chain to settle in Longgang. In the next step, we will continue to focus on digital creativity and modern fashion industry clusters, focus on creative design, film and television production, animation games, clothing, gold jewelry and other cultural industries, aim at the top 30 national cultural enterprises and leading enterprises, carry out in-depth investment promotion, targeted investment promotion and business investment promotion, speed up the signing of key reserve projects, promote the development of local culture, sports and entertainment industries, empower industrial development with music culture, stimulate new vitality and explore new formats.

Text, map | Cai Pengfei

Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng School

Editor | Feng Xiaojing

Proofreading | Zhao Dandan