1979 Golden Age

The end of May is the hot and humid season.

A Japanese sedan set out from the White Swan Hotel and headed westward towards Foshan.

Ling Mei was wearing a white T-shirt, casual trousers, and sunglasses on her collar, looking very fashionable. She said, "The box office of "Millions Express" in the first seven days was 1 million, which is not as good as "Police Story", but it's still okay.

Golden Harvest sent Sammo Hung to promote the film, and he took it very seriously and had a good attitude. Hong Kong stars are a trend right now, and they are being admired all over the country, but there are a lot of criticisms from the outside world.”

"Don't worry about the criticism. What did this film and television city consider?"

"It's a comprehensive consideration. If we can't build in Shenzhen, we have to find another place. Guangdong has many mountains and few flat lands, so we can only choose relatively. Foshan is only 20 kilometers away from Guangzhou and only 100 kilometers away from Luohu Port. There are many "three-in-one" enterprises, small commodity manufacturing is developed, and land negotiations are relatively smooth."

“What about the supporting facilities?”

"Let's build them together! The province will designate a cultural industry base there, and we'll do a lot of work there, and all the supporting facilities will follow."

Ling Mei showed him a very simple landscape design drawing and said, "Let's build two parks first, one is the Qingming Riverside Park, and the other is the Republic of China area. Please give me the requirements as soon as possible. Bianliang City, Kaifeng Prefecture, Republic of China Street, Northern Residences or Southern Residences?"

"Okay, I'll do it as soon as possible!"

Chen Qi looked at the picture. In fact, many scenes in film and television cities are universal, such as the Jiangnan scenery and flowing water, which can be used in a large number of plays.

We drove all the way and arrived at Nanhai County, Foshan.

It is now a county, and later a district. CCTV's Nanhai Film and Television City was built here.

The two drove directly to the county government, where several staff members were waiting. After a brief greeting, they took them to see the land. Chen Qi was very interested in the local industries, and soon got a general understanding of them by asking questions.

The population of Nanhai County is 800,000-900,000, which is a very high density.

The number of migrant workers and non-agricultural population is increasing because township enterprises are prosperous and the private economy is well developed. Textiles, ceramics, hardware, and home appliances are the main industries.

The traffic conditions are relatively good and a road network has been initially formed.

It is very close to Guangzhou.

There is a term called urban integration in later generations. In fact, there are already signs of this at this time, such as Guangzhou-Foshan. There are also Shenyang-Fushun, Hangzhou-Shaoxing, Xi'an-Xianyang, Wuhan-Ezhou, etc.

“…”

Chen Qi took a long look around and thought it was pretty good.

Strictly speaking, the film and television city should be located in a place with less rain, as Guangdong has too much rain. But if we want to achieve cooperation between Guangdong and Hong Kong, we have to locate it in Guangdong. There is no other way.

The establishment of many film and television studios in China was initially accidental.

For example, Hengdian has a lot of rain, a narrow terrain, and is full of mountains. When Xie Jin was preparing for "The Opium War", he didn't fancy Hengdian at all. It was Xu Wenrong, the boss of Hengdian Group, who patted his chest and said, "I will build it for you in three months."

They did what they said and flattened many hilltops and carved out the land, which opened the Hengdian era.

"It has a population, industry and commerce, transportation, and the government is supportive. I think it's great!"

Chen Qi said a few nice words, thought for a while, and asked, "I heard that Foshan has a strong martial arts culture. How many people practice martial arts there?"

"There are so many! There are people practicing martial arts in every village. Choy Li Fot, Hung Gar, Wing Chun, Pak Mei... Whichever one do you want to watch? I'll call them for you!"

"Is it okay with Choi Li-Fu?"

“Sure, sure!”

Immediately, the government officials sent someone to call them, and soon a group of people came over. Without saying anything, they started punching, paying attention to the sound to help the momentum, and the movements were stretched and generous, with a very imposing style.

Ling Mei didn't understand and asked quietly: "What are you looking at this for?"

"They are all film and television resources. There are many people practicing martial arts and a large number of immigrants. In the future, there will be a place for extras and stunt doubles. This is called "Southern Drifters"... Great!"

After finishing a set of punches, Chen Qi clapped his hands vigorously, which provided a lot of emotional value.

"Nanpiaoer?"

Ling Mei appreciates the beauty of this word.

…………

"Alright, alright! No, no, I can do it myself!"

"Thank you for the treat, thank you for the treat!"

"I need to rest too! You guys should go back early too."

At around 10 o'clock that evening, Chen Qi broke away from his enthusiastic friends, squeezed into the room with difficulty, took off his short-sleeved shirt, and was covered in sweat.

He brought benefits to the film company in Guangdong Province, so he was naturally a guest of honor. All kinds of people came to the banquet, and the drinking was not over until now. This group of people followed him back to the hotel, bringing him large and small packages of gifts.

In short, a sense of familiarity after decades came over me.

Chen Qi looked through the gifts. Everyone knew that he was rich, so he gave them local specialties. He kept one for Gong Xue's father, took one back to Beijing, and gave the rest to Xiao Mo and Xiao Yang.

This is called accepting gifts.

He doesn't care about this now. As I said, everyone knows that he is rich: for a guy who sells a script for $600,000, accepting some local specialties is also called a gift?

The accommodation standard of White Swan is much better than other places. Chen Qi took a comfortable bath and sat at the table to write something. He didn't think about the film and television city or TV series, as those were trivial matters.

He was thinking about studying at the American Film Academy.

Shanghai Animation Film Studio has been doing very well in the past few years as an OEM, and no longer needs his help. They already have a good reputation, and the biggest obstacle was the conservative faction within the studio, but Chen Qi directly solved it with policies.

According to policy, Shanghai Animation Film Studio has set up a special department to earn foreign exchange, and the average profit from each OEM production is US$200,000 to US$300,000.

So there were two distinct systems: one was the conservative old comrades who made animated films according to the planned economy; the other was the reformist young people who did OEM work based on piece-rate wages.

I heard that the old comrades are very dissatisfied.

They earn less.

Chen Qi went there specifically to assign them a job. He was in charge of the funding, and Shanghai Animation Film Studio only needed to strive for excellence, start, prepare, and produce this year, and there was no rush, as long as it was available within 4-5 years.

As a time traveler, he has been thinking about the future.

For example, he always wondered what kind of image China should have presented to the world in the early 1990s. Entertainment is a very good form of carrier, which can express something in a popular way...

Chen Qi doesn't rely on anyone for this kind of thing.

He was not contemptuous, but it was due to the limitations of the times and everyone didn't know what to do.

Just like decades later, when Zhang Yi looked at Guo Fan on the stage blankly, when the domestic mobile games that cut leeks looked at "Black Myth", when the Spring Festival period of the scoundrels looked at "Nezha"...

Speaking of which, Guo Fan, Feng Ji, and Jiaozi just happen to represent the three industries of film, game, and animation.

"Sister Xue is fine here. Is this how it's drawn?"

Chen Qi wrote something and drew it crookedly. After drawing for a long time, he tilted his neck to look at it, feeling very dissatisfied.

“Does this thing look like a panda?”

"Just make do!"