标签归档 西安桑拿

Behind almost every fallen official, there is a huge and unusual network of political and business relations.

For Huang Xingguo, the former acting secretary and mayor of Tianjin Municipal Committee, his political and business network must be inseparable from his own brother.

The minister-level official who came up from the secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of the commune has four younger brothers at home. Over the years, with the continuous "progress" of Huang Xingguo, his eldest brother, his younger brothers have also devoted themselves to the business field, involved in machinery, construction, real estate, marine economy and other fields.

This situation continued until September 10, 2016.

Huang Xingguo China Net Map

At 10: 30 that evening, the website of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection released a message that Huang Xingguo was under investigation for serious violation of discipline. Shortly thereafter, Huang Xingguo’s younger brothers Huang Xingyu and Huang Xingrong were also taken away by the relevant departments.

The latest official bulletin of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on Huang Xingguo’s "double opening" also confirmed this point from the side.

The website of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported on January 4, 2017 that a few days ago, with the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC Central Committee filed a case review on the serious violation of discipline by Huang Xingguo, a member of the 18th Central Committee, acting secretary of the former Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and mayor.

After investigation, Huang Xingguo seriously violated political discipline and rules, discussed the central government’s major policies, undermined the party’s centralization and unity, acted in a blind manner, engaged in superstitious activities, inquired about clues about his own problems, and opposed organizational censorship; Violation of organizational discipline, illegal selection and appointment of cadres and acceptance of property, official vows, cronyism; Violation of integrity discipline, accepting gifts and cash gifts,Conniving and acquiescing relatives to gain huge profits by taking advantage of their position influence, and taking advantage of their authority and position influence to seek personal gain for their sons.,Seek benefits for others and accept huge amounts of property in business operations.; Violation of work discipline, illegal arrangements for visiting entourage, oversight of staff around. Taking advantage of his position to seek benefits for others and accepting property is suspected of committing a crime.

The traces left by the Huang brothers’ active business for many years have just revealed the tip of the iceberg.

hometown

Xiangshan in September is not calm. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, typhoons "Moranti" and "malka" came one after another, which made this small port county belonging to Ningbo and adjacent to the East China Sea stormy.

More powerful than a typhoon is the fall of Huang Xingguo.

As the hometown of Huang Xingguo, Xiangshan has long been proud to be a ministerial official.

xiangshan county

Local people say that compared with several counties and cities around Ningbo, Xiangshan’s economy is at the lower middle level. Especially before the Xiangshan Port Bridge was completed in 2012, it was very inconvenient to travel. In this case, it is difficult for Xiangshan officials to achieve political achievements and there is not much room for promotion.

But Huang Xingguo is an exception.

He is a native of Xiangshan, and his parents still live in Xibiantang Village, Xiaotang Township, south of Xiangshan. In the 1970s, Huang Xingguo started as the secretary of the Youth League Committee of Xiangshan Xiaotang Commune, and was gradually promoted to the posts of secretary of Xiangshan County Committee, secretary of Taizhou District Committee and secretary-general of Zhejiang Provincial Government.

In January 1998, 44-year-old Huang Xingguo stepped into the ranks of deputy ministerial leaders and began to serve as the vice governor of Zhejiang Province. Ten months later, he became a member of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Committee and concurrently served as the secretary of Ningbo Municipal Committee.

In November 2003, Huang Xingguo was transferred to the post of Deputy Secretary and Vice Mayor of Tianjin Municipal Committee. As a municipality directly under the central government adjacent to the capital, Tianjin has a special political status, and this adjustment has also been favored by the outside world.

Huang Xingguo, who works in Tianjin, has a special concern for his hometown.

According to public information, since 2011, the party and government leaders of Xiangshan and Ningbo have led many delegations to study in Tianjin, and all of them were received by Huang Xingguo.

According to Zhejiang Online, in 2010, Song Qintang, who served as secretary of Xiangshan County Party Committee in his early years, died. Huang Xingguo, then deputy secretary of Tianjin Municipal Committee and mayor, sent a message of condolence and laid a wreath. Huang Xingguo’s wife Han Lingling personally went to Xiangshan to offer her condolences.

In 2013, Chen Yongzhong, then deputy head of Xiangshan County, died of illness. When introducing the relevant situation, official website of Xiangshan Port, China mentioned, "During Comrade Chen Yongzhong’s illness, Comrade Huang Xingguo, deputy secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and mayor of Tianjin, was very concerned and sent someone to visit the hospital."

Years of care and interaction have made many Xiangshan people feel sorry for Huang Xingguo’s defeat.

Some people who have had contact with him have given a relatively positive evaluation to this fellow countryman-Huang Xingguo, who was still working in the county in those days, has a good memory, outstanding ability, and a little precocious, and his career is also reasonable.

In contrast, people have some different views on Huang Xingguo’s younger brother.

According to many related sources, Huang Xingguo is the eldest in the family, and there are four younger brothers below. Compared with the eldest brother, these younger brothers have low education level and average quality, and more often rely on their special status to get involved in various businesses.

According to The Paper (www.thepaper.cn), Huang Xingguo has four younger brothers, namely Huang Xingchang, Huang Xingfang, Huang Xingyu and Huang Xingrong.

Among them, Huang Xingchang, Huang Xingyu and Huang Xingrong are all directly involved in business. In addition, since 2002, Huang Xingchang has served as the director of the village committee of Xibiantang Village in Xiangshan County, and was elected as the representative of the 17th People’s Congress of Xiangshan County in January 2012.

Another authoritative source from Xiangshan revealed that the next morning after Huang Xingguo’s fall, several strange faces appeared in the Huang family in Tangcun, west of the local area, and Huang Xingyu was immediately taken away. Huang Xingrong, who usually does not live in the village, was also taken away by the relevant departments.

marine economy

With the fall of Huang Xingguo and his two younger brothers being taken away, some companies related to the Huang brothers surfaced.

First of all, pay attention to the marine economy.

In August 2012, China Supply and Marketing Group (Ningbo) Marine Economic Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Supply and Marketing Group Ningbo Company") was incorporated in Xiangshan. The company has a registered capital of 205 million yuan and its legal representative is Zhang Jincheng.

There were two shareholders at the earliest: China Supply and Marketing Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Supply and Marketing Group") and Ningbo Xixiang Investment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Xixiang"). Among them, China Supply and Marketing Group is a wholly-owned enterprise of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, holding 60% of the shares of China Supply and Marketing Group Ningbo Company.

In February 2016, Chongqing Innohill Import and Export Trading Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Chongqing Innohill") joined the investment ranks. The shareholders of China Supply and Marketing Group Ningbo Company became China Supply and Marketing Group, Ningbo Xixiang and Chongqing Ainuo Hill, and the shareholding ratio of the three companies was about 1: 3: 6.

In terms of personnel structure, the chairman of Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group is Zhang Jincheng, the vice chairman is Dai Xiyang, and the general manager is Hu Wei. Huang Xingguo’s younger brother, Huang Xingyu, was a member of the board of directors of the company.

It is reasonable for Huang Xingyu to be associated with Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group.

According to industrial and commercial data, Ningbo Xixiang, the second largest shareholder of China Supply and Marketing Group Ningbo Company, was established in May 2012 with a registered capital of 5 million yuan.

Ningbo Xixiang has three natural person shareholders: Huang Xingyu, Dai Xiyang and Dai Yongqi. Among them, Huang Xingyu contributed 2.5 million yuan, making him the largest shareholder.

This also means that Ningbo Company, a China supply and marketing group with a registered capital of more than 200 million yuan and a "national name" background, has Huang Xingyu’s investment behind it.

As one of the investors, this "mayor’s younger brother" is mostly hidden behind the scenes.

People close to Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group said that Huang Xingyu had hardly been seen in the company. Huang Xingguo’s fall has not affected the enterprise yet.

According to public information, Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group has gained the attention of leaders at all levels since its establishment in Xiangshan, and its development trend is good.

The project of Xiangshan International Aquatic Logistics Park invested and built by the enterprise has attracted much attention and has been written into the work report of Xiangshan County Government for many years. In 2015, the first phase of Xiangshan International Aquatic Logistics Park Project was included in the list of key construction projects in Zhejiang Province.

According to official website, a company, since 2013, many leaders from the national supply and marketing system, Zhejiang Province and Ningbo City have visited.

At the same time, Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group is constantly expanding its business field.

The company has successively invested in nine enterprises, including Ningbo Ocean Real Estate Co., Ltd., Ningbo Xinrou Protein Technology Co., Ltd., Ningbo Xinhaitong Da Trading Co., Ltd., Ningbo Xinmao Tongda Aquatic Products Trading Co., Ltd., Ningbo Taiken Industrial Co., Ltd., Shanghai Nongkun Industrial Co., Ltd., Beijing Huakang Yida Trading Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Qianhai Nonggan Industrial Co., Ltd. and Dalian Xinyang Tongda Industrial Co., Ltd., totaling more than 100 million yuan.

Elevator industry

Huang Xingyu also appeared in the elevator industry.

In July 2010, Tianjin Riyang Elevator Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tianjin Riyang") was incorporated in Beichen District, Tianjin. The registered capital of the company is 10.1 million yuan, the legal representative is Jin Guoying, and shareholders Jin Guoying, Zhang Hongsheng and Huang Xingyu serve as supervisors of the company.

According to some public recruitment information, in recent years, Tianjin Riyang has repeatedly recruited personnel for Tianjin Branch of Express Elevator Co., Ltd., and the two companies are closely related.

According to industrial and commercial data, Express Elevator Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Express Elevator") was incorporated in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou in March 2012 with a registered capital of 35.04 million yuan and its legal representative is Huang Lianyong.

The company has five shareholders, namely natural persons Fang Liang, Zhou Jinlin, Huang Lianyong and Huang Xingyu, and corporate shareholders Hangzhou Kuaidao Investment Consulting Partnership (Limited Partnership).

Among them, Huang Xingyu subscribed for 7.75 million yuan, second only to Chairman and General Manager Huang Lianyong, and was the second largest shareholder of Express Elevator.

According to Express Elevator official website, Express Elevator is a British brand elevator company headquartered in London. In 2012, the British Express Elevator entered the China market and established the British Express Elevator Asia-Pacific Industrial Park in Hangzhou, with a total investment of 60 million US dollars and a factory area of about 100,000 square meters.

Official website of this enterprise also introduced that Huang Lianyong, the chairman of the board, was born in Xiaowan Village, Shipu Town, Xiangshan County in October 1979.

The Paper found that Xiaowan Village is located in the south of Xiangshan County, only 8 kilometers away from Xifangtang Village in Xiaotang Town, Huang Xingguo’s hometown.

Official website, the express elevator, also mentioned that since the operation of the enterprise, it has successfully won the bid for the elevator installation supporting projects of several projects, such as Chongqing Xiushan Railway New Passenger Station Square, Shaanxi Xi ‘an Prison, Guizhou Central Tianjie, Tianjin Lilong Commercial Plaza, Yuanchuang International Building Grade A office building, Baoding Swan Lake Community, Changchun Yuanchuang Ziyuetai, Quanzhou Engineering Vocational and Technical School, Lanzhou Heping Jiasheng Business Center and so on.

Attention should be paid to the Tianjin Lilong Commercial Plaza project.

This project was developed by Tianjin Zhili Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tianjin Zhili").

According to industrial and commercial data, Tianjin Zhili was established in December 2011 with a registered capital of 100 million yuan and its legal representative is Zhang Jian. Natural person shareholder Tao Huang and corporate shareholders Tianjin Huachen Investment Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tianjin Huachen") hold 49% and 51% of the shares respectively.

Tianjin Huachen, another shareholder of Tianjin Zhili, is also worthy of attention.

The company was established by Tianjin Huabei Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huabei Group").

Official website, North China Group, introduced that the enterprise was established in 1999, and now it has become a large-scale comprehensive group company based on copper industry, integrating cable industry, financial industry, real estate industry and modern logistics. The comprehensive strength of the Group has been ranked among the top 500 private enterprises in China and the top 500 manufacturing enterprises in China for many years, with total assets exceeding 10 billion yuan and annual turnover reaching 20 billion yuan.

The legal representative and the largest shareholder of North China Group are Zhou Wenqi, who is also one of the directors of Tianjin Zhili.

In public reports, there is not much information about Zhou Wenqi.

The most common introduction is: Zhou Wenqi was born in 1999, bought Tianjin Huabei Cable Factory, and began to set foot in the copper processing industry. Two years later, the enterprise turned losses into profits, and now produces wires and cables and copper plates and rods, which is the largest copper production base in North China.

In July 2014, the China Banking Regulatory Commission officially approved the application for the establishment of three private banks in China. North China Group, Tencent, Zhengtai, Huafeng and other well-known enterprises jointly entered the list of the first seven sponsors, which is the latest intensive concern of Zhou Wenqi.

In addition, Zhou Wenqi is a representative of Tianjin Beichen District People’s Congress, vice chairman of Beichen District Federation of Industry and Commerce and the first director of APEC China Business Council.

real estate

The intersection of Zhou Wenqi and the Huang brothers is not just the elevator industry.

In July 2006, Sanmen Wenfeng Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Wenfeng Real Estate") was registered and established in Sanmen County, Taizhou City. The registered capital of the company is 10 million yuan, and there were three shareholders at the earliest: Zheng Minjie, Sun Meiqin and Dai Zhaofei.

One year later, the shareholders of Wenfeng Real Estate were changed to Huang Xingyu and Zhou Wenqi. Each of them contributed 5 million yuan, with Huang Xingyu as the general manager and executive director and Zhou Wenqi as the supervisor.

In April 2009, Huang Xingyu and Zhou Wenqi increased their capital contribution to 10 million respectively, thus increasing the registered capital of Wenfeng Real Estate to 20 million. Two years later, Huang Xingyu stepped down from the relevant positions of the company and only retained the status of Wenfeng Real Estate.

According to public information, Wenfeng Real Estate once developed the "Hutang Yuese" project in Sanmen. The property opened in October 2009, covering an area of about 33,000 square meters, and has been basically sold out.

After Sanmen in Taizhou, the cooperation between Zhou Wenqi and Huang Xingyu continued in Shijiazhuang, Hebei.

In August 2011, Shijiazhuang Xinhua Chiyun International Trading Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Jane)say/call"Chi Yun Business") was incorporated.

The registered capital of the company is 100 million yuan, which is jointly invested by Hebei Zhengyuan Packaging Group Co., Ltd., Tianjin Zhanyu Investment Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Linwo Industrial Co., Ltd. The legal representative is Lu Xiaofeng. Zhou Wenqi served as the chairman, and six directors, including Lu Xiaofeng and Huang Xingyu, served as directors.

In May 2012, Chiyun Commerce invested 10 million yuan to establish Shijiazhuang Chiyun Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Chiyun Real Estate").

The legal representative of Chiyun Real Estate is still Lu Xiaofeng, with Zhou Wenqi as the chairman and Huang Xingyu as the director.

The development of "Chi Yun Department" in Shijiazhuang is not smooth.

According to public information, Chiyun Commercial and Chiyun Real Estate "landed" in Shijiazhuang, with the main purpose of developing and operating the World Trade Center project in Xinhua District of the city. The project is estimated to have a total investment of 25.6 billion yuan and a planned area of 20,000 mu. In 2012, it was included in the key planned start-up project of Shijiazhuang City.

This huge project did not start as scheduled.

On April 26, 2016, yanzhao metropolis daily reported that the real estate market inspection brigade of Shijiazhuang Housing and Construction Bureau announced seven local real estate development projects to remind the majority of buyers to guard against the risks of buying houses. Among them, the World Trade Center project located in Xinhua District of the city has not obtained any development and construction procedures, does not have sales conditions, and there is a great risk of buying a house.

This situation may be related to Lu Xiaofeng, a business partner of Huang Xingyu and Zhou Wenqi.

According to public reports, Lu Xiaofeng came from Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, and started from trade. He developed the World Trade Center project in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province and the Qiaosi Mall project in Hangzhou.

In the last two years, due to the break of the capital chain and the inability to fulfill the promised high rent return to the owners, Lu Xiaofeng faced a "crusade" from many owners.

In May, 2016, China Business News learned through many owners’ representatives in Tongxiang and Hangzhou and relevant persons of the local government that Lu Xiaofeng claimed to have gone to the United States for medical treatment because of stomach cancer, and it was difficult to get in touch. The company under its name is heavily in debt, and some assets have been seized.

intermediary/Middle Men

Compared with Huang Xingyu, Huang Xingchang and Huang Xingrong started their business earlier.

According to sources, Huang Xingchang has been involved in the construction industry since the late 1980s, and worked as a project manager in Xiangshan Municipal Engineering Construction Company.

It should be pointed out that Xiangshan is also known as the "hometown of architecture". In the 1980s and 1990s, when the local construction industry started and developed, many construction teams went to Ningbo, Shanghai and other places to explore the market, including famous Xiangshan enterprises such as Longyuan Construction and Hongrun Construction listed on the main board of Shanghai and Shenzhen.

In this context, the Huang brothers are also eager to try.

In December 1996, Huang Xingchang and Sun Yunfu invested 4.5 million yuan and 500,000 yuan respectively to establish Ningbo Great Wall Real Estate Co., Ltd..

In October 1999, Huang Xingchang and Huang Xingrong invested and established Ningbo Wanxing Construction Co., Ltd., with a registered capital of 6 million yuan and Sun Yunfu as the legal representative.

At present, Ningbo Great Wall Real Estate Co., Ltd. and Ningbo Wanxing Construction Co., Ltd. have been cancelled.

When Huang Xingchang was exploring the construction industry, Huang Xingrong turned his attention to foreign trade investment.

Relevant information shows that as early as the early 1990s, Huang Xingrong served as the legal representative of Xiangshan Oriental Materials Company. The company was established in July 1992, with the nature of collective ownership, and its business scope includes metal materials, coal, chemical raw materials and textile raw materials.

In June, 1993, Xiangshan Oriental Materials Company established Ningbo Bonded Area Rongda Economic Development Co., Ltd. with foreign investment. The legal representative of the latter is Huang Xingchang, whose business scope includes international trade, entrepot trade, export processing, warehousing and many other contents.

Xiangshan Oriental Materials Company and Ningbo Bonded Area Rongda Economic Development Co., Ltd. have also been cancelled.

In the middle and late 1990s, it was also the stage when Huang Xingguo made efforts from the main hall to the deputy department. In August 1996, he was transferred from Taizhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary to Secretary-General of Zhejiang Provincial Government, and was promoted to Vice Governor of Zhejiang Province one and a half years later.

In November, 1998, Huang Xingguo stepped into the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Committee and started to serve as the secretary of Ningbo Municipal Committee. During this period, his younger brothers appeared low-key and secretive in business.

A number of people familiar with Ningbo officialdom said that Huang Xingguo’s brother’s business was not completed by a physical company as an immediate relative of the main leaders. More often, they are just "middlemen" who bridge the gap between the government and businessmen and benefit from it.

A widely circulated case is the change of taxi in Ningbo in 1999.

Many related people recalled that at the end of July, 1999, the Ningbo Municipal Government issued relevant policies, requiring that more than 2,000 taxis in the city be replaced by Santana owned by Shanghai Volkswagen. Buy a new car, mainly through a local designated car dealer in Ningbo.

A few months later, some of the newly replaced Santana had quality problems. The "good friends" suspected that it was a defective product returned by the previous buyer, so they went to the Ningbo Municipal Government to discuss it. Without a satisfactory reply, hundreds of "brothers" intend to drive to the headquarters of Shanghai Volkswagen. The matter was intervened by the Zhejiang provincial government and stopped urgently, and all the vehicles in question were subsequently replaced.

Many years later, some taxi drivers in Ningbo who have experienced this incident are still deeply impressed by the "car change storm". Some drivers recalled that things could make a big deal at that time, in addition to the quality problems of the new car itself, it was also related to the designated model.

"At that time, it was not cheap to change Santana, and we didn’t accept it in our hearts." Some taxi drivers in Ningbo recalled that there was a rumor among "friends" that Huang Xingguo’s younger brother was involved in the operation behind the car change incident.

Now it’s so old that it’s hard to see the ins and outs. A number of people familiar with Ningbo officialdom told The Paper that it was true that Huang Xingguo’s younger brother Huang Xingrong was involved in the taxi change in 1999. It was also during Huang Xingguo’s tenure as secretary of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee that there were rumors of "Huang Xingguo’s younger brother’s participation" in Ningbo’s municipal projects such as greening and street lamp installation.

Multiple fields

Time has entered the 21st century. In November, 2003, Huang Xingguo left Zhejiang for the first time and went to work in Tianjin.

One month later, in December 2003, Huang Xingrong invested and established Ningbo Fulian FRP Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fulian FRP") in Ningbo.

It is worth noting that at this time, Huang Xingrong was already a citizen of Hong Kong, and there was a company registered in Hong Kong in March 2000, named Hong Kong Hongxin Investment Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hong Kong Hongxin").

The earliest shareholder of Fulian FRP is Hong Kong Hongxin.

As a Hong Kong-funded enterprise, Fulian FRP has a registered capital of US$ 4 million, with Huang Xingrong as the chairman, Sun Yunfu as the vice chairman and Huang Xingchang as the director.

At the beginning of the company’s establishment, its business scope was the manufacturing and processing of FRP products, and it was planned to realize the production scale with an annual output value of 150 million yuan and annual sales of 130 million yuan.

According to other data, in December 2003, Fulian FRP acquired 75.75 mu of land in Ningbo (Camel) Electromechanical Industrial Park to build a factory building. The total construction area of the plant is 35,000 square meters, and the first phase of the project lasts for two and a half years. The construction unit is Ningbo Great Wall Real Estate Co., Ltd. established by Huang Xingchang in 1996.

After 2004, the commercial map of Huangjia Brothers gradually expanded, and the equity and business direction of Fulian FRP also experienced several changes.

According to industrial and commercial data, in August 2004, Hong Kong Hongxin transferred 75% of its shares to Shanghai Rongshan Investment Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Rongshan").

Shanghai Rongshan was established by Ningbo Great Wall Real Estate Co., Ltd., Zou Ying and Sun Yunfu with a registered capital of 10 million yuan.

In March 2005, Fulian FRP changed its business scope from the original manufacturing and processing of FRP products to the manufacturing and processing of ordinary mechanical parts and auto parts products, and the company name was also changed to Ningbo Fulian Machinery Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fulian Machinery").

In April 2006, Hong Kong Hongxin transferred 2.55% equity to Huang Xingrong. The shareholders of Fulian Machinery were changed to Hong Kong Hongxin, Shanghai Rongshan and Huang Xingrong.

However, Fulian Machinery is not the main direction of the Huang brothers in business. Over the years, their road to business has not focused on a certain industry, but has spread its net widely and spanned many times.

Take Huang Xingchang as an example. In addition to the construction, real estate, trade and machinery manufacturing mentioned above, he also participated in the textile and aquaculture industries. The location of the enterprise is not limited to Ningbo, but also includes Shanghai, Anhui and even Hainan.

In March 2006, Hainan Fulian Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., jointly invested by Ningbo Great Wall Real Estate Co., Ltd. and Hong Kong Hongxin, was incorporated in Haikou. The registered capital of the company is US$ 1.28 million, and the legal representatives are Huang Xingchang and Huang Xingrong as vice-chairmen.

In August 2006, Huangshan Fulian Textile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fulian Textile") was established in Huangshan City, Anhui Province. The company has a registered capital of 4 million yuan, and its legal representative and executive director are Huang Xingchang.

At the same time, huangshan district Branch of Shanghai Jinshan Real Estate Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Jinshan Real Estate Huangshan Branch") headed by Huang Xingchang was incorporated in Huangshan City, Anhui Province.

At present, both Hainan Fulian and Huangshan Fulian have their business licenses revoked, and Shanghai Jinshan Real Estate Huangshan Branch has been cancelled.

In 2009, Huang Xingchang also briefly held a 10% stake in Ningbo Southern Wildlife Breeding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Southern Breeding"). In less than a year, he will transfer the shares in his hand.

At present, Dai Xiyang is the largest shareholder of Southern Aquaculture. This person is also a business partner of Huang Xingyu, who once invested with Huang Xingyu in Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group.

Associated person

In addition to the Huang brothers, several common associates around them are also worthy of attention.

In May 2008, Zou Ying and Ren Qingsui, who had previously invested in Fulian Machinery, jointly established Huangshan huangshan district Yinhe Advertising Planning Co., Ltd. With a registered capital of only 500,000 yuan, the company invested 10 million yuan abroad and established Tianjin Binhai Fulian Logistics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fulian Logistics").

Fulian Logistics was established in March 2009, with Ren Qingsui as the legal representative and executive director and Sun Yunfu as the supervisor.

In addition to the "rich connection" composed of Fulian Machinery, Fulian Textile, Fulian Real Estate and Fulian Logistics, enterprises related to the Huang brothers and named after Rongshan are enough to form a series.

Among them, Shanghai Rongshan, one of the investors of Fulian Machinery, established in 2004, Ningbo Rongshan Investment Holding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Rongshan Investment") established in 2011 and Ningbo Rongshan Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Rongshan Environmental Protection") established in 2016.

From 2006 to 2015, Ningbo Rongshan Investment set up three other enterprises, namely Hangzhou Rongshan Greening and Maintenance Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hangzhou Rongshan Greening"), Ningbo Rongshan Auto Parts Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Rongshan Auto Parts") and Ningbo Free Trade Zone Yongchuang Zhilian Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd.

The investors of these three enterprises include Zou Ying.

In addition, The Paper noted that the legal representatives of Hangzhou Rongshan Greening and Ningbo Rongshan Auto Parts are Huang Hua. He is also one of the shareholders of Rongshan Environmental Protection in Ningbo.

According to relevant sources, Huang Xingguo has a nephew named Huang Hua, who is likely to be an investor in the above-mentioned "Rongshan Department".

Among the enterprises related to the Huang brothers, Huang Hua’s name does not only appear in the "Rongshan Department".

In July 2008, he and Zhang Chunxu, Yang Jiyin and others invested and established Ningbo Baiye Real Estate Investment Consulting Co., Ltd..

In January 2013, Huang Hua once again cooperated with Zhang Chunxu to invest in the establishment of Ningbo Baiyi Real Estate Investment Consulting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Baiyi").

According to industrial and commercial data, Ningbo Baiyi has a registered capital of 2 million yuan, with Huang Hua as the legal representative and executive director and Zhang Chunxu as the supervisor.

At present, Ningbo Baiyi has been revoked its business license, and Ningbo Baiyi is still in business. The latter works in the same place as Fulian Machinery, whose legal representative is Huang Xingchang.

In September 2016, The Paper visited Fulian Machinery and Ningbo Baiyi in an office building in jiangdong district, Ningbo. The door of the company is tight, and the staff are extremely wary of strangers who come to visit and refuse to disclose any information about the boss.

In addition, Ren Qingsui, who has a high correlation with the Huang brothers, is also the head of huangshan district Branch of Ningbo Xinhengde Real Estate Co., Ltd..

Relevant information shows that huangshan district Branch of Ningbo Xinhengde Real Estate Co., Ltd. was established in July 2009. In 2013, the company developed the property "Xintiandi Garden" in Yungu Road, huangshan district, Huangshan City, and the property is still on sale.

It should be noted that the parent company of this property is Ningbo Xinhengde Real Estate Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Xinhengde").

Ningbo Xinhengde was established in September 2000 with a registered capital of 50 million yuan, which is an enterprise under the name of Yu Nengjian, a native of Juexi, Xiangshan.

In the Xiangshan rich circle, Yu Nengjian and his younger brother Yu Guoxiang are "legends". In 2003, Yu Guoxiang, who was previously unknown, bought Hilton Shanghai Jing ‘an, which made him famous. In 2004, Yu Nengjian spent $1 billion to buy the management right of Hangzhou Ring Expressway, which caused a sensation again.

In the impression of many Xiangshan people, the Yu brothers act in a low-key and mysterious way, and most of their friends are dignitaries. According to Caijing, in 2006, Yu Guoxiang, known as "Little Ningbo", once lost his freedom.

In November 2008, the Intermediate People’s Court of Tongling City, Anhui Province made a first-instance judgment on the case that Shanghai Shanchuan Real Estate Co., Ltd. and its actual controller, Yu Guoxiang, bribed four calligraphy and paintings totaling 3.737 million yuan, and sentenced the two units to a fine of 2 million yuan each for bribery, and sentenced Yu Guoxiang to two years’ imprisonment with a suspended sentence of three years. Yu Guoxiang said in court that he would not appeal.

A number of related sources said that in recent years, Yu Guoxiang has been active in the business field as the boss of Sanli Holding Group, a Hong Kong-funded enterprise. He has a very good relationship with Huang Xingguo’s youngest brother, Huang Xingrong. In late September 2016, after Huang Xingrong was taken away, news came from Ningbo that Yu Guoxiang cooperated with the investigation.

However, in late October 2016, The Paper verified this rumor with the Shanghai headquarters of Sanli Holding Group. The staff of the company explicitly denied it and said that the boss was not in Shanghai at present.

　　During the Spring Festival, the demand for high-end liquor such as Maotai increased, and even "Feitian Maotai" was out of stock, while counterfeit Moutai took advantage of it. According to media reports, in January 2018, Mr. Wang of Xi ‘an spent 90,000 yuan to buy 10 boxes of "Feitian Maotai" wine, which was tested by counterfeiters in the Maotai Distillery market. All of them were fake wines. Afterwards, the tobacco hotels involved were seized.

　　Where do these fake maotai come from?

　　The Paper reporter visited renhuai city, the birthplace of Moutai, which is known as "the wine capital of China".

　　The Paper visited and found that from Renhuai downtown to Maotai Town, a complete industrial chain from counterfeiting to packaging was formed. A large number of "Maotai" packages suspected of infringement or counterfeiting are sold in an open and semi-open way. Here, a bottle of Feitian Maotai, with a market price of about 1,800 yuan, can be bought if it is not counterfeit in 200 yuan.

　　During the visit, due to the hot business during the Spring Festival, some fake merchants said that many fake packages were "sold out". Some vendors know that selling fake goods is illegal, but driven by interests, many people still take risks.

　　On February 26th, The Paper reported the relevant situation to Maotai Branch of Guizhou Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce, which indicated that it had referred the situation to relevant departments for handling. The staff of Guizhou Administration for Industry and Commerce then called The Paper and said that the area involved was a complicated place, which had always been the focus of their attention, and they would immediately investigate and deal with it.

　　The fake Moutai wine purchased by the reporter was covered with boxes of other brands of wine. The pictures in this article are all the pictures of The Paper reporter Zhuang An.

　　"If you don’t meet in business, you won’t worry about selling this wine."

　　"Do you want to imitate maotai liquor? I have friends who don’t do this, help you ask. " At the beginning of February, on the expressway from Zunyi to Renhuai, the driver started his business when he learned that a reporter from The Paper was looking for a fake Maotai.

　　In July 2004, renhuai city was recognized as "China Wine Capital". As of September 2017, the number of liquor enterprises in this city reached 2,811. According to the city’s total population of 640 thousand, there is a winery for an average of 200 people. Liquor-making industry is undoubtedly the pillar industry of the local area.

　　Thousands of wineries are scattered in renhuai city, making it seven or eight kilometers away from the city, and you can smell a smell of wine.

　　Among these thousands of wine enterprises, renhuai city, a well-known wine brand, doesn’t own much. According to renhuai city government website, as of September 2017, the city has 7 well-known liquor trademarks in China and 117 famous provincial trademarks. On average, every 22 wine companies have a well-known trademark.

　　Among the scarce well-known trademarks, "Maotai" can impress consumers most, so businesses around "Maotai" abound.

　　"High imitation Maotai, these two days are expensive, 1800 yuan a box of six bottles." The wine merchants introduced by the above-mentioned drivers to The Paper reporters openly quoted the price of fake Feitian Maotai on WeChat and sent photos of fake wine.

　　According to the merchant, the counterfeit Feitian Maotai they sell is divided into the old models in 2013 and the new models with chips in 2016 and 2017, which are more expensive than the old models in 50 yuan. However, when the reporter proposed a face-to-face transaction in Renhuai, the other party refused, saying that "this is not to meet" and "this wine is not for sale". The other party asked to send him money through WeChat, and then the fake wine will be mailed to the designated place as required.

　　Transaction: trading places suddenly changed when unpacking inspection.

　　After many twists and turns, The Paper reporter contacted a merchant who was willing to deal face to face. At 11 o’clock at night, meet in a coffee shop in Renhuai.

　　"Flying Maotai, the price is 4,100 yuan for two pieces (12 bottles). If you want, you can transfer money to me on WeChat, and I will send it to you directly. " The merchant said that in order to avoid risks, all the fake Maotai they sold were packaged now, and they didn’t hoard goods, and they were all traded through WeChat. The fake seller said that they have their own winery and brand in renhuai city, and the wine filled with fake Maotai is produced in their factory, which can ensure the stable quality of the wine.

　　For the counterfeit Feitian Maotai packaging, the merchant said that these counterfeit packaging from wine boxes to wine labels, identification chips are all the same as genuine products. "The packaging is real. You can sell this wine at the market price." After talking about the price, The Paper and the merchant agreed to deal face to face at noon the next day.

　　The next day, at the appointed time and place, the fake merchant came by a local yellow taxi. However, when The Paper reporter and the merchant opened the box for inspection, the merchant suddenly said that he wanted to change trading places. Subsequently, a black JEEP Grand Cherokee "staked" the taxi and quickly left the downtown area. In the sparsely populated second trading places, The Paper reporters completed the transaction with the fake merchants.

　　From the packaging point of view, there is almost no difference between the fake Feitian Moutai sold by fake merchants to The Paper reporters and the genuine ones, and boxes, wine glasses, anti-counterfeiting labels and even anti-counterfeiting detectors are all available. Where did these fake packages come from? The Paper reporter then visited many places in renhuai city and Maotai Town.

　　Buying and selling fake Maotai is mostly a big business.

　　Maotai Town is only ten minutes’ drive from renhuai city, and the headquarters of Maotai Group is located at the southern end of the town. Here, the streets on both sides of Chishui River are full of shops selling loose wine and brand wine. Advertising boxes for "moutai prince Wine" and "Maotai Welcome Wine" can be seen everywhere.

　　"This is Moutai, and I definitely didn’t lie to you." Near the Rainbow Bridge in Maotai Town, a merchant selling loose liquor pointed to a catty of 400 yuan maotai-flavor liquor he sold and told the The Paper reporter. He said that this is Feitian Moutai, but it has no packaging.

　　Talking about the fake "Maotai" liquor business, the merchant bluntly said that because the liquor produced in this area, like Moutai, is a maotai-flavor liquor fermented with sorghum, as long as the vintage of the wine is close, people who don’t drink Maotai often can’t taste the difference at all.

　　In addition, buying and selling fake Moutai in Maotai Town is a big business. Many businesses are reluctant to do small business. "You want it in large quantities, and it is enough for him to do it once."

　　The merchant settled accounts with the The Paper reporter. Now, the packaging price of a set of fake Feitian Moutai is around 80 yuan. For filling the fake Feitian Maotai, the local wine of one or two hundred yuan is enough to confuse the real with the fake. Plus packaging and transportation, the average cost per bottle of fake Feitian Maotai is about 200 yuan. The genuine Maotai is priced at 1500 yuan. Selling dozens or hundreds of fake wines at a time, the winery can stop doing business for half a year. "This (fake wine business) is well played. It is very simple to earn hundreds of thousands and millions a year."

　　The outer packaging of various Moutai wines displayed in a shop on Xingsheng Road.

　　As for where to sell fake Feitian Maotai packaging, the merchant said that he could go directly to renhuai city No.3 District and buy it in the wholesale market of liquor packaging along Xingsheng Road. "Over there ‘ Feitian ’ (Maotai) There are many packages, and three streets are everywhere. "

　　Business is booming during the Spring Festival, and fake wine packaging is "sold out of stock"

　　There are dozens of shops selling wine packaging on both sides of Xingsheng Road in renhuai city, from wine boxes, wine labels, wine glasses to bottle caps, all of which are available here. Almost every packaging shop has packages printed with the words "Liquor for Maotai" and "Liquor for Maotai" on the exhibition cabinets. Many of the "MOUTAI for Internal Use" liquor packages are printed with all the logos and names of Kweichow Moutai Group such as "Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd." and "Moutai".

　　For this kind of "Moutai for internal supply" liquor packaging, Xingsheng Road merchants have a unified name — — "currency" “‘ Currency ’ It’ s okay to sell here, and the industrial and commercial discovery is confiscated at most. " A packaging shop owner said that packaging such as "Moutai for wine" is basically open for sale. Including wine boxes, wine labels, anti-counterfeiting labels and receipts, the price of one piece (6 sets of packages) is 20 to 30 yuan.

　　The Paper reporter bought a set of "MOUTAI wine for internal use" package with the logo of "Moutai" printed on it from a merchant in Xingsheng Road, and scanned the attached QR code anti-counterfeiting logo through the mobile phone. As a result, a webpage popped up, showing that the price of this "Moutai wine for internal use" was 688 yuan.

　　Besides "currency", the merchant also sells counterfeit packages such as "moutai prince wine" and "Feitian Maotai" which are almost the same as the genuine products. In terms of price, counterfeit packaging is several times or even ten times more expensive than "currency". For example, a package of "moutai prince wine" costs 158 yuan (6 sets), while a package of "Feitian Maotai" costs 158 yuan (6 sets) in 400 yuan.

　　For the sale of counterfeit Maotai packaging, the merchant said that he knew it was illegal. The merchant said that due to the hot Spring Festival trading, many counterfeit Maotai packages were "sold out of stock" and they needed to transfer goods from outside Area 3. Another packaging shop nearby also said that some counterfeit packages were out of stock and had to be purchased from other places if necessary.

　　Only half a bucket of hot water is used for bottle disinfection.

　　With the fake "Feitian Maotai" packaging, it is necessary to assemble the fake packaging accessories into finished products. In the area of Xingsheng Road, packaging "fake Maotai" is also a business. The price of one (6 sets) fake Maotai is 100 yuan.

　　After making an agreement with a merchant on Xingsheng Road to buy two counterfeit "Feitian Maotai" wines, the The Paper reporter saw these counterfeit Maotai packers and packers the next day. The packaging location is in the basement of the shop selling fake packaging.

　　These counterfeit "Feitian Maotai" packages include bottles, ribbons, wine boxes, logos, anti-counterfeiting codes, and even outer packaging carton cable ties, anti-counterfeiting chips and anti-counterfeiting detectors. Every accessory is copied according to the genuine product. There is a number "2" at the right end of genuine wine neck ribbon, and there is also a number "2" at the right end of counterfeit ribbon. The color change and anti-counterfeiting of genuine Moutai caps are also available for counterfeit Maotai.

　　Counterfeiters pack fake Moutai in the basement.

　　In the dark basement with peeling walls and a large number of counterfeit "Maotai" packages piled up. The packer only brought half a bucket of hot water to clean the bottle, and then began to pack the fake Moutai by hand.

　　First, he rinsed the white porcelain bottle with fake Moutai in half a bucket of hot water, then poured the bulk liquor into the bottle with a funnel and a measuring spoon with a weight of just one catty, pressed the first bottle cap by hand, and sealed the link between the plastic bottle cap and the bottle with a hand-operated wine cap packer. Then use 502 universal glue to stick the anti-counterfeiting chip on the bottle cap. The anti-counterfeiting chip is divided into front and back, and the packer said that the "black spot" side must face up, otherwise the information cannot be scanned. After that, apply a layer of glue on the anti-counterfeiting chip, and then tie the wine neck ribbon on the wine cover. The method of tying the wine neck ribbon is very particular, compared with the authentic Maotai.

　　After the caps, ribbons and bottles were put out, the packer found a hot hair dryer to heat the caps and bottles. So that the bottle cap is completely sleeved on the bottle body. Then the Maotai trademark and anti-counterfeiting label are affixed. Finally, the packaged counterfeit Moutai is put into a wine box and put into a box of 6 bottles of Moutai, and the production label is affixed. Its paste position is also compared with the position of the genuine Maotai carton. Finally, in order to avoid suspicion, the packer also found a carton of other brands of wine that was a little bigger than the fake Maotai carton.

　　It took the packer less than 20 minutes to pack 2 boxes of 12 bottles of fake Maotai. The packer said that the way he packed fake Maotai was the same as that of genuine Maotai.

　　Merchants in Xingsheng Road said that counterfeit Maotai shipped from Renhuai would be packed in cartons of other brands of wine. In this way, express delivery will not be investigated. Even if it is unlucky to spot-check that it is a fake Maotai, as long as it is not in large quantities, the courier company will only confiscate it and will not pursue it. The Paper reporter statistics, from the purchase of loose wine, fake packaging to packaging, a bottle of fake flying Maotai as long as 183 yuan.

　　As for the origin of these fake Maotai packages, merchants along Xingsheng Road introduced that some of them were local products, but the anti-counterfeiting labels and stickers were imported from foreign printing plants.

　　The Paper reporter took the counterfeit Moutai assembled in Xingsheng Road, renhuai city, and tested it in a Maotai franchise store in Zunyi. After repeatedly watching the fake wine, the salesperson said that "it feels real". However, the fake wine failed to pass the detection of the in-store inspection machine, and the scanning results showed that no information about the fake wine was found.

　　The Paper bought fake Moutai and fake packaging, will be handed over to the relevant departments.

　　“Some people get rich, others go to jail."

　　A merchant in Maotai Town told The Paper that selling fake Maotai now "made a lot of money, but also got caught". This is indeed the case.

　　On December 16th, last year, the Ministry of Public Security deployed a two-month "Spring Thunder Action" to severely crack down and centrally rectify the persistent regional fraud. According to a report by Litchi.com in December 2017, in the "Spring Thunder Action" launched by the Ministry of Public Security, the police in Suining, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province cracked a case of maotai liquor fraud and seized more than 200 boxes of fake wine, involving several million yuan. After investigation, the suspect was a fake "Feitian Maotai" purchased from Guiyang.

　　Wine packaging street in Huairen City.

　　According to the 2017 Legal Daily, in 2016, the police in Longhui County, Hunan Province smashed a den selling counterfeit Maotai liquor in Huairen City, Guizhou Province, and seized nearly 2,000 bottles of counterfeit Maotai liquor, involving tens of millions of yuan. Dozens of people, including the Wang brothers, the leader of criminal gangs, were arrested by the police.

　　According to the criminal suspect Wang, the production of fake wine in Renhuai, Guizhou has formed a huge and complete industrial chain. Therefore, he found business opportunities and recruited 11 salespeople to sell fake wine to all parts of the country through online platforms and WeChat. From 2014 to 2016, it was investigated and dealt with, and the amount of fake wine sold by the gang was tens of millions of yuan.

　　According to a report by Chongqing Business Daily on February 11th, at the end of January, 2018, Chongqing police moved to Beijing and Chongqing, and cracked a case involving the production and sale of counterfeit well-known brands of liquor, including Maotai. Sixteen people involved in the case were arrested, and three dens for manufacturing and selling fake wine were destroyed, involving more than 10 million yuan.

If the probability that two strangers meet and fall in love in the vast sea of people is very small, how likely are the two stars in the vast universe to meet and merge?

At the just-concluded American Astronomical Society, Larry Molnar, an astronomy professor from Calvin College in the United States, released an exciting news: around March 2022, two low-quality stars in the Milky Way will merge.

As soon as the news was published, it aroused strong public interest. After all, not many humans have the opportunity to witness the merger of two stars in their lifetime.

Where are these two stars? How far is it from us? What force created this shocking collision? How many years will the merger of these two behemoths last? Dinosaurs just witnessed the encounter between a comet and a planet, and they were almost wiped out. Then, five years later, when these two stars finally collided, what wonders will we witness? What impact will this collision have on our home planet Earth?

Let’s explore it in detail and do some homework in advance for this cosmic "encounter".

Figure 1: The red dot represents the position of the merged binary system.

1800 light years away: long gestation and rapid merger

As you probably know, in our galaxy, there is a constellation Cygnus, and these two merging stars are in Cygnus. They form a star binary system called KIC 9832227, which is about 1800 light years away from us.

As early as January 2015, Professor molnar and others published relevant contents at the American Astronomical Society, and identified KIC 9832227 as a binary system that is likely to be merged.

They analyzed the data of this system from 1999 to 2014, and found that its cycle was continuously decreasing, and the decreasing trend was very similar to that before the outbreak of Scorpio V1309, and there was also a star merger event in Scorpio V1309. In 2015-2016, Professor molnar and others used further observation data to verify their previous inference, and finally confirmed that the system would be merged one day.

However, there are as many as 200 billion to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, and nearly one third of them are located in binary or multi-star systems. It seems not uncommon for two stars in a binary system to merge.

Is this really the case? This requires us to understand the classification of binary systems first.

We can easily understand the "binary star system", that is, a system consists of two celestial bodies; These two celestial bodies can be ordinary stars or dense celestial bodies with high density, such as neutron stars or black holes.

In astronomy, we can classify binary systems according to many standards, one of which is the distance between two celestial bodies. For a "wide binary", the two celestial bodies are far apart and have little interaction. Two celestial bodies that are close to each other are called "close binaries", and it is possible for them to influence each other or transmit matter. Among the numerous binary systems in the Milky Way, there are only about 40,000 pairs of close binary stars, which can be said to be very rare.

Some close binary stars are too "intimate" and even come into contact, so we call them "contact binary". In an extreme case, the passing binary stars are so "close" that the two celestial bodies share the same external gas envelope. Generally speaking, it takes millions or billions of years for them to reach the stage of sharing the cladding, and once they enter the stage of sharing the cladding, the two stars will merge quickly, taking only a few months or years. Compared with the long years before sharing the envelope, the process of merger is like a blink of an eye, which is like a couple who have been in love for a marathon and then got married quickly after proposing marriage.

The binary star system KIC 9832227 mentioned above is in the final stage of shared cladding. According to the existing theoretical estimation, the two stars will merge in about five years.

Figure 2: (left): Imagination diagram before merger; (right): Numerical simulation diagram before merger.

The merger of binary stars will bring us a bright new star.

According to the current spectral data analysis, the mass of the two stars to be merged does not exceed 0.4 solar mass, which belongs to the category of the least mass stars we know. They look red, and the surface temperature is about two or three thousand degrees Celsius. Judging from the current observation, the two stars have not merged, and their apparent brightness is about 12 magnitude, which has completely exceeded the lowest limit that human eyes can see (6 magnitude), so we can only observe with the help of telescopes. (Magnitude is a unit used to measure the brightness of celestial bodies. The higher the brightness of stars, the lower the magnitude value; Sirius, the brightest star we see at night, is about 0 magnitude. )

The whole process of merging these two stars will last for several weeks, which is like a flash compared with their life span of 10 billion years. In this "instant", their brightness will rapidly increase by 100,000 times, and the apparent brightness can reach about 2 stars. It will look as bright as Polaris, second only to the three brightest stars we see in the northern sky: Sirius (-1 magnitude), Vega (0 magnitude) and Antares (1 magnitude).

The result of this binary merger is that there is a new bright star in our night sky for the time being, and its color is still red, so we call it "red star". This new star will exist for at least 10 billion years, so why do we say that there is a new bright star "temporarily"? Because it will only be bright for a few weeks, and then it will fade away and hide in the darkness beyond our naked eyes in the vast universe.

The gravitational wave generated by the merger of two black holes in 2015 attracted the attention of the whole world. So, will the merger of these two stars also generate gravitational waves five years later?

The answer is yes. The merger of binary stars will also release gravitational waves with a certain energy, but it is very small and almost negligible. Almost all the energy is concentrated in the electromagnetic wave, so we can only rely on traditional telescopes for observation. The gravitational wave observatory (LIGO) in the United States should not be able to detect this merger.

The merger of binary stars has brought us a bright new star. Will it also bring some dangers?

If we want to predict the impact of this event on life on earth, we need to know how much energy is released during the merger process and whether it will have any impact on the earth’s atmosphere.

There is no doubt that the merger of two celestial bodies will produce explosions and release a lot of energy at the same time, but the amount of energy released depends on the density of the merged celestial bodies. For example, the merger of two neutron stars will produce a so-called gamma-ray burst, which will release a thousand times the energy of a supernova in about 1-2 seconds and produce extremely strong gamma rays-astronomers have discussed the impact of such bursts on the earth-if such celestial bodies erupt at us not too far away in or outside the Milky Way, life on earth will be doomed.

However, we don’t have to worry that the merger of these two small stars will have any impact on life on earth. Compared with the merger of other dense celestial bodies, the energy released by the merger of these two stars is very small, even less than the energy generated by some normal stars, not to mention the energy generated by them is mainly in the optical band. We’d better watch the beautiful red star with peace of mind.

Standing on the shoulder of Scorpio V1309, waiting for the new star.

Fig. 3: Evolution of possible "Red Nova" Unicorn V838 after the explosion, observed by Hubble telescope.

Theoretically speaking, astronomers always believe that the merger of low-mass binary stars is one of the cradles for the birth of slightly larger stars. However, the real observation has only made some progress in recent decades, which is attributed to the development of some large-scale astronomical survey projects and the improvement of computer processing power. In the past decades, astronomers have observed similar explosions many times, such as M31 RV in the Large Magellanic Cloud in 1988, V4332 in Sagittarius in the Milky Way in 1994, and V838 system in Unicorn in 2002-these explosions may represent merger events, but we are not completely sure.

It was not until 2006 that humans really confirmed a binary merger. The supernova search project of the Lick Observatory found the explosion of M85 OT2006-1 in the M85 galaxy 60 million light years away from the Earth. Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley and California Institute of Technology made a detailed analysis, and found that the explosion originated from the merger of two low-mass binary stars, which was different from other known nova explosions. However, due to the lack of monitoring information before the outbreak, we are very lack of understanding of the binary system before the merger. In this year, according to the observations, astronomers gave a name to the new star formed by the merger of binary stars: "luminous red novae".

The key to really help astronomers solve the mystery of "Red Nova" is hidden in Scorpio V1309. This system was first discovered by astronomy enthusiasts in China and Japan, and then they submitted the relevant information to the astronomical variable source monitoring organization of the International Astronomical Union. However, the detailed data of Scorpio V1309 comes from an optical gravitational lensing experiment (abbreviated as OGLE；; Optical gravity lens experiment). The project was officially started by astronomers of Warsaw University in Poland in 2001. The original intention was to monitor a large area of the sky, hoping to find celestial sources with changing brightness and discover the phenomenon of gravitational lens, so as to test some celestial bodies, such as black holes, which were originally thought to constitute dark matter. The location of Scorpio V1309 is just within the monitoring sky area of OGLE, so astronomers have obtained a large number of long-term observation data before and after the outbreak. Subsequent data analysis not only confirmed that this is a "red nova" system (a system after the merger of two stars), but also provided us with more important information, that is, how this binary system evolved with time before the merger.

It is on the basis of observation data and modeling before the merger of Scorpio V1309 system that Professor molnar and others judged the system evolution of KIC 9832227, and predicted that the "close contact" between the two stars and the final merger would take place between September 2021 and September 2022.

What are you waiting for? Go and put up a countdown card for the upcoming red star!

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Special feature of 1905 film network Not long ago, the film announced the second key extension, which triggered a hot discussion among netizens about the key extension of the film. Key extension is a way for film copyright owners to extend the validity of electronic keys, thus extending the film release time.

Looking at the domestic films with key extension, from the early days, only a few films choose to postpone the key every year, and now more than a dozen domestic films are postponed for screening every year. What are the doorways behind the doubling of the number of key extension films?

The earliest key extension in China can be traced back to "Crazy Stone" in 2006. A small-budget film can reach that box office at that time, which makes the whole market very excited. At that time in 2015, although the box office had reached a relatively high level, there were such strong imported blockbusters in the same year. monster hunt chose the key extension method and finally became the box office champion in that year.

In recent years, more and more movies have chosen to postpone their keys. In 2019, nearly 20 movies chose to postpone their keys. Nowadays, the key extension has become a hot search word in major schedules. For these movies, the key extension can increase the exposure and bring certain box office income.

The success of "monster hunt" is not a special case. At present, the top ten domestic movies in China have been extended with keys. Does this mean that key extension plays a decisive role in the box office?

Wu Yanyu, a film critic, said: "The decisive role is definitely not played, but for some films, there will still be a longer release cycle. For example, in The Battle at Lake Changjin, the word-of-mouth of the film continues to ferment after the National Day file, and even the box office grows very fast on weekdays, indicating that a large number of viewers know about the film’s release, but they haven’t had time to see it yet. At that time, the key extension time was quite long. The data showed that the final key extension time brought more than 300 million box office to Wolf Warriors 2, which still accounted for a certain proportion of the total box office of more than 5 billion. "

Interestingly, all the top ten domestic movies in China have been extended with keys, but this does not mean that the key extension is the decisive factor for them to become the top ten box office in film history, because these movies have their own basic discs at the box office, which makes the key extension play a role of extra points. When most filmmakers decide whether to extend the key, they will make a calculation of the box office trend. If the box office of the film is already in a relatively downward or even basically no state, there is no need to extend the key for this film.

Nevertheless, many filmmakers have made efforts and attempts. For example, this year’s very high-quality domestic animated film "Dick Pig" has been extended, and some other literary films have also made the same choice.

Wu Yanyu said: "According to the current data, the key extension obviously did not play a role in promoting the box office. On the other hand, if the cinema release time is extended, it means that the window period of streaming media on the film will be longer and the distribution cost of getting new media will be relatively reduced. According to different films, some art films may be released for a short time, and the audience’s word of mouth has not sunk into the audience that should be there. At this time, if you judge that there is still a chance to take a shot and try. "

The program interviewed the cinema manager and asked them about the key extension. Ou Bowen, general manager of Perfect World Co., Ltd. mentioned: "In theory, basically all movies can extend the key, but I personally think this is only suitable for high-quality movies. For example, The Battle at Lake Changjin’s key extension in the past two months is really a stimulus to the film market, which has been greatly improved. The current movie cycle should be week by week, and new movies are released every Monday to Friday. The release of new films will squeeze into the film arrangement space of old films. Unless the schedule environment has certain particularity, it is possible that after the film is postponed, there is still no good film to compete, and the postponed film itself is very high-quality. It is possible to achieve an ideal film arrangement effect, but the probability of this happening is not great. "

It can be seen from all aspects that the extension of the key has no direct impact on the film’s arrangement and box office. Usually, the news of the extension of the key released by the film side is often a statement picture, which is often ignored by many viewers, which also leads to the limited effect of the extension on many films. How to make better use of key extension and maximize its value?

Wu Yanyu mentioned: "In the second and third months, the film should reach the audience who are particularly sinking, and stimulate those who don’t walk into the cinema every day, but are willing to support domestic films if they see something they like. This is a long-term proposition, which may be particularly applicable to films that choose a key extension."

As a means, key extension is only icing on the cake after all. To win the audience and box office, the most important thing is the quality of the film itself. Whether it can stimulate the audience, stimulate their empathy and make the audience feel that it is the right thing to go into the cinema to support the film, which is the root of the film becoming an explosion. It takes hard work to strike while the iron is hot. May the creators polish their works and win by quality.

　　　　　　 CCTV News:At present, it is winter, and the air is dry, which is the season of high incidence of influenza, and the flu this winter makes people feel that it seems to be "aggressive" compared with previous years. Just this afternoon, the Beijing Municipal Health Planning Commission held a press conference to introduce the influenza epidemic situation in Beijing. The good news is that the number of influenza-like cases reported every week has decreased from the previous month. However, among all age groups of influenza-like cases, the population aged 0-4 years old accounts for the highest proportion.

　　　　　　 According to the results of influenza surveillance in Beijing CDC, since November 2017, the influenza activity in Beijing has shown an upward trend, especially since December. At present, the influenza virus activity is still at a high level, but the upward trend has obviously slowed down. The first week of 2018 decreased by 74% compared with the last week of 2017. It is expected that the intensity of influenza activity will slow down in the next two weeks.

　　　　　　 In addition, at today’s press conference, the Beijing Municipal Health Planning Commission also responded to the question that some citizens are worried about whether influenza drugs can guarantee the supply.

　　　　　　 Due to the arrival of the flu peak, there was a shortage of antiviral drug oseltamivir in some medical institutions in Beijing last week. Beijing issued an urgent notice to the five major drug suppliers in Beijing, asking all enterprises to start an emergency pre-investigation case to ensure the supply of oseltamivir for influenza. This week, 40,000 boxes of oseltamivir were distributed to various medical institutions in Beijing, and the drugs are still being distributed continuously, which can meet the drug demand. In addition, experts remind that once the elderly, children, pregnant women and key people with basic diseases have cold symptoms, they should choose to go to secondary and above hospitals for treatment instead of community hospitals.

　　　　　　 Liu Ying, deputy director of the Medical Administration Department of the Beijing Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission, said: "It will be safer for people over 65 and some key people to go to big hospitals."

　　　　　　 Some patients report that the course of the flu is long, and it has not improved for a long time. Is there a variant of the flu virus? Experts said that although the flu was the worst in recent years, there was no variation that affected the spread of influenza virus, the severity of the disease and drug resistance.

　　　　　　 How to prevent this wave of flu? Vaccination against influenza is the most effective measure to prevent influenza, and it is also necessary to reduce activities in public places and pay attention to personal hygiene. In addition, the elderly, children, pregnant women and other high-risk groups are specially reminded that masks and antiviral drugs are indispensable.

　　　　　　 So when will the "flu season" end? Experts from China CDC said that the peak of influenza activity is expected to continue for some time, and the level of influenza activity is expected to reach its peak in the middle and late January. With the coming of winter vacation in schools and kindergartens, the level of influenza activity will gradually decline.