The picture was taken from The New York Times and the character was Bruce Aylward.

　　On March 4th, local time, The New York Times, USA published an interview with Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO expert group visiting China. Aylward introduced what he learned during his trip to China.

　　When asked whether the number of cases in China is really decreasing, Aylward said frankly, "I know some people doubt it.". He said that everywhere he visited, he said that compared with the peak of the epidemic in China, the situation was very different. Before that, about 46,000 people asked for testing every day, but when he left China, this number dropped to about 13,000 people every day.

　　One of the shelter hospitals in Wuhan, source: China Daily.

　　"I don’t see any signs of manipulating the data." Aylward further responded: "The epidemic has stabilized and the progress is faster than expected."

　　He also said: "China’s strict prevention and control measures have saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese from infection.".

　　Aylward compared the differences between China and the United States in epidemic detection: in hospitals in China, each CT machine performs about 200 scans a day, and each scan takes about 5-10 minutes. In western countries, a hospital scans about 1-2 times per hour.

　　China shortened the time of PCR test to four hours, and not long ago, when completing the same test, the United States still needed to send all samples to the designated location in Atlanta.

　　In view of the problem of treatment cost that the American people are generally concerned about, Aylward also made a comparison: the China administration made it clear that the test is free. After the medical insurance of the diagnosed patient is full, the state will bear all the treatment expenses.

　　In contrast, Aylward believes that the current health care system in the United States "has speed obstacles". The high cost of testing and treatment has caused many people to delay treatment because of hesitation, which is also very unfavorable for preventing and controlling the further spread of the epidemic.

　　In addition, Aylward also mentioned other prevention and control measures in China, such as home isolation, "closing the city" and closing schools.

　　At the end of the interview, a reporter from The New York Times asked: "Isn’t all this impossible in the United States?" "Isn’t China able to do this because it is an authoritarian country?"

　　The picture was taken from The New York Times.

　　Aylward responded to this kind of statement: "(Some Western) journalists will say that people cooperate with prevention and control measures out of fear of the government, and the China government is like a demon that will breathe fire and swallow babies." But I have also talked with many people outside the system — — In hotels, trains, and streets.

　　Aylward said that China’s preparations for the epidemic are nationwide. "People have such a strong belief: ‘ We must help Wuhan ’ , not ‘ Wuhan has brought us to this point ’ . Other provinces sent 40,000 medical workers, many of whom volunteered. "

　　"They are mobilized like a war, and what drives them is the fear of the virus. They believe that they are standing on the front line and believe that their actions are defending other parts of China and the whole world. "

　　On October 8th, the second season finals of China’s new songs were held in the Bird’s Nest, and Tibetan singer Zahi Bing Zo won the championship in one fell swoop. The season ended, but the news around "new songs" did not end. On October 11th, Na Ying, the "iron-clad" in the mentor group, announced that she would no longer participate in the recording of the subsequent "New Songs" and would no longer serve as a mentor. On the same day, after the video of Eason Chan’s participation in a Hong Kong program was exposed on the Internet, it was interpreted by netizens as "the shady selection of new songs".

　　However, the coming and going of tutors and the later pattern editing have already become the normal state of today’s reality show, and it is certainly not these that really make the "new songs" a headache.

　　Na Ying quit?

　　Producer’s response: it does not affect the continuation of "new songs"

　　Na Ying is the only tutor who has never been absent for six years, with four seasons of Good Voice of China (the predecessor of China’s new songs) and two seasons of New Songs of China. But just when everyone acquiesced that she would stick to it, on October 11th, Na Ying Studio issued a statement through Weibo, saying, "It’s time to say goodbye to everyone seriously." Na Ying said in the statement that she was very reluctant to the program, the students and the instructors who fought side by side, and she was very grateful. Every time she made a choice, she felt tormented and powerless. However, she resolutely made a decision: "With the end of the new song competition in the second season, all the students in Class 2, Grade 6 have officially graduated, and it’s time for me, as a tutor, to have a rest", and "This time it’s true … …” After six years on duty, Na Ying brought out three-season champions Liang Bo, Diamond and Zhang Lei, whose teaching ability was particularly obvious in Liang Bo. Among the students in that season, there were MoMo Wu who was different from others, and Summer who had international style, but Liang Bo won the championship by virtue of the last big explosion, among which Na Ying’s song selection played a great help.

　　In the finals just past, in order to help his student Guo Qin prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival, Na Ying gave up the opportunity to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with his family, took Guo Qin and the band to Chongli, rode a road bike to the top of the mountain to enjoy the moon, played and sang together, and missed his hometown. In the meantime, he was caught in a traffic jam for five and a half hours. Why did Na Ying, who is so dedicated, suddenly quit? In an interview, Simon Lu, the propaganda director of the producer of China New Songs 2, did not disclose the time and reason for Na Ying’s decision to leave, but still said: "Since the new songs program was held, every year we will send invitations to all the instructors who have the greatest influence and appeal in the music world. In the end, no matter which four tutors join us, we have a long-term cooperative relationship with all these teachers. Not only in the program, but also outside the program. " Regarding whether the next new song will be affected, Simon Lu’s answer is: "The audition for the third" New Song of China "has already started."

　　Eason Chan "broke the news"?

　　Producer’s response: Someone took it out of context.

　　Just after seeing Na Ying off, the topic of tutor Eason Chan’s shady new songs was hotly searched. The cause of the incident is that Eason Chan recently appeared on a Hong Kong talk show, and a group of hosts sharply questioned his feelings of participating in the mainland draft variety show for the first time. Among them, Eason Chan mentioned, "Individual contestants returned to the scene and accepted blind selection again. Not only that, but the live director also asked me to take a button with Na Ying in the headset to choose her … …” In this regard, "New Songs" issued a statement yesterday saying that some of Eason Chan’s remarks about "New Songs" were misinterpreted and misread. "New Songs of China" has always had a resurrection competition system in the blind selection stage, and a very small number of "pearl-left" students who were not selected by their tutors in the blind selection stage but left their tutors with regrets can get a second resurrection opportunity. Even if they get a precious chance of resurrection, students still need to get the approval of their instructors by singing in order to stay on the stage successfully. Moreover, in that program, when the host asked the program group if there was anything unfair, Eason Chan also clearly stated that "I believe what I saw was not true". However, this paragraph was cut off.

　　Text/reporter Zuwei

　　reporters’ notes

　　How to solve the puzzle of "aesthetic fatigue"

　　It has long been normal for the mentor to stay or stay, and the shady truth is true and false. What really worries the "new songs" is actually how to spend the audience’s aesthetic fatigue period. Not to mention the good days of the "Good Voice" era, just comparing the data of the first season of "New Songs", we can also see the decline of this program. According to CSM52 data, the audience rating of "New Songs" in the first quarter finals was 3.956%, and the market share was 16.05%. This year, "New Songs 2" was launched, with a premiere audience of 52.48 million, a decrease of nearly 13.952 million compared with the previous quarter, and the audience rating in the finals was only 2.201%.

　　In terms of popular players, "new songs" are also not dominant. As a talent show, the number of Weibo fans of Victor Ma, the runner-up of the online variety "Tomorrow’s Son", increased from 197 before the game to 1.16 million, and the champion Mao was not easy to increase from 101 to 2.61 million. In contrast, Jiang Dunhao, the champion of the first season of "New Songs", currently has 280,000 fans; In the second season, the number of fans of Guo Qin, the runner-up of the new course, was 70,000, while that of champion Zahi Bing Zo was only 20,000. No wonder some people sigh, "After watching the whole season program, I only remembered the gags of Na Ying, Liu Huan, Eason Chan and Jay Chou, but I didn’t remember any students".

　　The focus of this season’s "new songs" has been tilted towards the mentor. This year’s mentor’s opening show was extended from 19 minutes last year to more than 30 minutes. Four mentors sang a total of nine songs, compared with only five last year. In future programs, the interaction between tutors is far richer than the content of students, so that some people commented that "new songs" changed from a large-scale music commentary program to a large-scale emotional talk show. However, this transformation has not led to an increase in the popularity of the program.

　　In addition, the "new songs" have to resist the strong rise of online comprehensive "Hip Hop in China", "Son of Tomorrow" and "Happy Boys". Compared with "new songs", the latter has more accurate audience positioning, more distinct musical attitude, more flexible production methods and stronger marketing and communication capabilities … …

　　Next year, the "new songs" will soon usher in the "seven-year itch". Can this program still maintain its position as the first music variety on TV?

　　Text/reporter Zuwei