Located in Chaoyang District, Sanlitun Workers' Stadium North Road, Beijing Workers' Gymnasium, should be the first batch of professional entertainment and sports activities in the Red Republic, the hall was built on August 8, 19Ul, because it was built to host the first World Table Tennis Championships, so it can accommodate 50,000 spectators.

The Workers' Stadium is an important part of the three groups of buildings of the Workers' Stadium: the Beijing Workers' Stadium, the Beijing Workers' Stadium and the swimming pool. Among them, the stadium and swimming pool are usually open to the citizens of Beijing, and only the workers' gymnasium is rarely open to the outside world due to many reasons such as high maintenance costs.

However, on the third day of Lin Xiaozhi and other Hong Kong entertainment delegation going north, the workers' gymnasium that has not been open to the public for more than two months has not only opened its doors to the outside world on this day, but also from the sound equipment in the gymnasium, there are also beautiful music sounds from time to time, which has attracted the curiosity of some passers-by to take a look, only to find that a long banner has been pulled up in front of the gate, "Warmly welcome the Beijing temporary concert of well-known singers such as Zhang Guorong and Chen Baiqiang, the king of Hong Kong music."

"In life, dreams are like a long road. Let the wind and frost, the wind and frost stay on the face. In the red dust, how many directions are there for sweet dreams. Looking for a dreamy beloved, the road follows the boundless ......"

On the makeshift stage, Zhang Guorong, who had painted light makeup, calmly hummed his classic songs under the attention of thousands of eyes in the gymnasium.

"Ah Rong is actually still on the rise, his contract with New Asia Records expired last year, and he also wanted to learn from Anita Mui's retirement, but I personally talked to him for more than three hours to dispel his thoughts."

Seeing Zhang Guorong's singing voice falling, there was applause in the hall and 'one more song, in the request, he smiled and touched his fist with his good brother Chen Baiqiang, according to the previous arrangement, the next song will be sung by Chen Baiqiang. In the southwestern corner of the gymnasium, in the most front position, Lin Xiaozhi withdrew his gaze from the stage, smiled and said casually to Li Guoxing, who was sitting next to him. In order to establish the status of the upcoming Hong Kong entertainment industry in the future republic, he invited Zhang Guorong, Chen Baiqiang, Liu Dehua, udL Happy Girl Group and many other artists who can sing, all of whom will cooperate with the pioneers that Media Asia Group has been preparing for a long time, and will hold four purely political joint concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the next week.

Of course, not to mention giving Lin Xiaozhi, the big man in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, a face, just for the sake of better development in the mainland in the future, these artists also readily agreed to sing a few times.

In the early years of Hong Kong's entertainment industry, countless star artists who guided Chinese fashion were born, and Zhang Guorong is undoubtedly one of the most charismatic of them. This point cannot be compared with Chen Baiqiang, who is similar to him. Of course, if Chen Baiqiang hadn't died too early, it would be difficult to say all this.

The two are both kings of the Hong Kong music scene, and they are both signed singers of their own companies, knowing the tragedy in the history of the two, Lin Xiaozhi naturally wants to intervene to help a little. Both of them died young, and both of them lost to negative thoughts such as depression or misanthropy, in addition to private life reasons, some difficulties encountered at work are also a major reason. For example, Chen Baiqiang has been suffering from the soft violence of the Hong Kong gossip media in the 80s, and his psychological quality is not too good, but he suffered from depression under the splash of many gossip media, and he first signed Di Sheng Records by mistake at work for a few years, and then encountered the challenge of the four rising kings who can sing and dance such as Lau Dehua and Jacky Cheung, and his status in the music world has fallen again and again.

Zhang Guorong is similar, from the emperor superstar of the Hong Kong music scene and entertainment industry in the eighties and nineties to the downfall of the early 21st century, he has personally experienced the whole process of Hong Kong films from glory to decline. hesitated again, and as a result, he missed a few relationships. He Chaoqiong, the daughter of the gambling king among several confidants, did not say that He Chaoqiong was indeed very active in chasing him, and Zhang Guorong obviously had a good impression of her, but I don't know why Lu Dao did not accept this relationship for a long time.

Wang Yuexian first switched to Qi Qin's arms, and then had an affair with his married husband Lin Jianle; Zhong Chuhong's marriage may not even be aware of how much it hurt him. Among his confidants, it is Honggu who is the most compatible with him, and he has been with him for the longest, but unfortunately he has waited for many years without waiting for a promise, Honggu finally failed to withstand the pursuit of advertising genius Zhu Jiading, and the two have reduced contact since they married in 9l, perhaps it is this feeling of loneliness that makes him more and more world-weary, and gradually goes astray.

It's just a matter of private life, and there is no room for others to interfere. However, Lin Xiaozhi, who can help at work, is not careless, and after signing the two of them with a standard Tianwang contract, Lin Xiaozhi also knows that the Hong Kong and Taiwan record market is actually developed by the Hong Kong entertainment industry almost to the limit, so from a long time ago he began to arrange for his artists to carry out professional Mandarin training, rather than Taiwan's two-tone 'Chinese, which is ready to open up new markets for its northward expansion in the future. In addition, Media Asia has also led the two of them to many movies, and in the past two years, both Zhang Guorong and Chen Baiqiang have had a bumper harvest in their careers.

"He's very good......

Li Guoxing also praised with a smile, but he couldn't sit still since just now, and when he saw Lin Xiaozhi take the initiative to speak, he looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to them, so he lowered his voice and asked: "Lin Sheng, Beijing has not let go of the point that Hong Kong films have been released in the mainland, we haven't been able to achieve much results this time in the north, and I'm afraid I will be sad to pass ......the media after returning to Hong Kong."

Lin Xiaozhi knew how harsh the mainland was on Hong Kong films in later generations, so he was barely satisfied with the results of this trip to the north, at least he crossed his psychological line.

But apparently, he was satisfied, and the others who came with the group were not.

Co-production is a threshold that cannot be crossed by the mainland to review the script, because of the difference in values between the two sides, the script carefully prepared by the Hong Kong side is likely to be slaughtered by the mainland after being taken. In the past, some of the co-production experiences between Hong Kong and the mainland have all shown that it is basically not feasible for Hong Kong-style blockbuster commercial film scripts to be co-produced with the mainland, and the more emphasis is placed on literature and art, the more purely historical-oriented the script is, it is easy to get praise from the mainland

But that kind of money-losing goods, it is difficult to even enter the Hong Kong formal theater system to be released after filming, and the more investment and filming the more money, the more money will be lost. Li Guoxing is engaged in the acquisition and distribution of film copyrights, so he is very clear about the ways inside, so he is not very satisfied with the cooperation reached between the delegation and the mainland.

Lin Xiaozhi somewhat guessed the dissatisfied voices in some delegations, such as Xu Ke, Zhang Guozhong and others had asked him to communicate privately last night. If you don't have a seizure on the spot, you still give him face, otherwise with the bad relationship between the Hong Kong film industry and Beijing now, the atmosphere of this trip to the north will definitely not be so good.

"It's good to have this kind of result in this situation"

In this regard, he could only choose to appease, "Don't you feel that this city and the entire Northern Continent are brewing a change that will never be smaller than the year before?" Anyway, I guess you didn't pay much attention to the north before. To put it simply, there have been some regressive voices in the north of the past few years, and I went to see an old man who has retired yesterday, and I have a hunch that he is likely to come back to the mountains this year or next. Strictly speaking, it's not the best time to go north, but it's also the best opportunity. Although our trip is just a precursor to those bigwigs of Fok Yingdong, there is no doubt that after this trip to the north, any policy on Hong Kong in Beijing must take into account our Hong Kong film industry."

As he said, Lin Xiaozhi actually knows very well that going north in 199l, when the political ice has not yet thawed, is not an excellent choice, and Deng Gong's southern tour is undoubtedly a better opportunity.

But he still came, because the Hong Kong delegation had interrupted exchanges with Beijing for more than a year, and this time he rushed north before Huo Yingdong and others, saying that he Lin Xiaozhi was not able to do anything, or that he put gold on his face, but they did succeed in attracting Beijing's attention this time, which laid the groundwork for his second and third delegations to go north to negotiate with Beijing.

Li Guoxing's mouth moved, disapproving. He doesn't know what the situation in the north is now, but he knows very well that this trip ⊥ all walks of life in Hong Kong saw the change in their attitudes towards the north, and the trip to the north was also full of opposition when he was in Hong Kong.

“…… Don't worry, we didn't lose anything on this trip to the north, and this is only our first time. Li Sheng, you may not have noticed, maybe our next trip to the north will achieve unimaginable results."

"What unimaginable results, can Beijing still agree to your share of the 'plan for the introduction of Hong Kong films, can't it?"

The so-called introduction of Hong Kong films is after realizing that Beijing's attitude is not as tough as imagined. Lin Xiaozhi took the opportunity to shake out a completely Hong Kong version of the "Ten Blockbuster Films" in the future mainland 94 edition. In order to strengthen the cooperation and exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong, he proposed that the mainland introduce 20 Hong Kong films to be released on a trial basis every year, and in exchange, Media Asia Group will also introduce 20 mainland films into Hong Kong's mainstream theaters for screening.

This plan can be said to be Sima Zhao's heart, so there is no market for mainland films in Hong Kong, and Beijing also has its own state-owned film group company in Hong Kong-Yindu, and at the same time, Yindu also has a mainstream cinema chain composed of seventeen small theaters and old-fashioned cinemas under the name of Yindu, (the box office is too poor, the quality of the film source is not high, and the audience does not buy it), even if he wants to release a movie, he is not needed to do it at all. On the contrary, if the barriers are opened and Hong Kong films are allowed to enter the mainland market, no one knows what kind of chemical reaction will occur.

Therefore, despite Lam's repeated promises that he would ensure that the films under the name of the Media Asia Group would be reviewed by the mainland, and at the same time try to persuade other film companies in Hong Kong to abide by the rules, Premier Li of the State Council still only smiled silently, and Minister Ai of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television did not directly refuse, but only said that if he went back and studied it, it was obvious that Beijing was unlikely to agree.

Before 1976, mainland films experienced a long period of isolation from the world, except for a "⊥ Backbone" purchased from a third country, which was called a progressive film, only a few Soviet, Yugoslav and North Korean films were able to land on the big screen of the Chinese people. After 1976, there were indeed many overseas films that entered the mainland through copyright buyouts, and the introduction price offered by the mainland basically ranged from 10,000 to 20,000 US dollars per film.

Basically, what was eventually introduced to the mainland were some works shot twenty or thirty years ago and some small-budget productions——— and the distance between overseas films and Chinese films was about twenty or thirty years.

After the establishment of China Film Company in 1994, it didn't take long for the company's senior management to propose to the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television a plan to import about 10 films every year through box office sharing, which "basically reflect the outstanding cultural achievements of the world and the achievements of contemporary film art and technology" to be released in the mainland. The first thing that China Film Company thought of was to contact Hong Kong Golden Harvest Company, which was once very influential in the mainland, to seek a source of films, and Zou Wenhuai, who was dead, was not satisfied with the low share given by the mainland, and the three old giants in Hong Kong at that time had all existed in name only, Yongsheng and Chinese stars also died by themselves, and began to shoot a large number of underworld movies, and finally hit a wall China Film Company could only return to Beijing with a disgraced face.

Golden Harvest and the Hong Kong Film Company missed the last opportunity to rise, while the China Film Company's action of seeking films everywhere in Hong Kong alarmed the eight major American film companies that had just gained a foothold in Hong Kong at this time and were still killing Hong Kong local filmmakers. Warner Bros. reacted particularly quickly, immediately sending the chairman to visit Beijing in person and mentioning this when the No. 1 chief met with him, and the Americans finally laughed.

On October 1994, starring Harrison Ford and produced by Warner, "The End of the World" was first released in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou and other six major cities as the first imported blockbuster. Since then, the film distance between China and the world has suddenly shortened to a few weeks or even synchronized. After the film is zero, Chinese filmmakers, fans and the entire film market seem to have suddenly awakened and started an overall change

It wasn't until the first round of screenings of "The End of the World" that a month after the theater was completed, Golden Harvest realized his mistake, Zou Minhuai personally went to Beijing to see the China Film Company, and the last concession was made by the China Film Company to win the film copyright of "Red Fan Zone" at a very small price, but unfortunately it has since been badly handed over to the China Film Company, and the Hong Kong film industry continued to deteriorate, and finally gave up the initiative of 'ten imported blockbusters, giving up the initiative to American films, missing the last development plan.

A lot of thoughts popped up in his head for a moment, Lin Xiaozhi looked at the more and more people in the gymnasium around him, but the smile in his eyes became stronger and stronger.

His plan to introduce 20 Hong Kong films has not received the nod from Beijing for the time being, but under the pretext of facilitating cooperation and exchanges, he put forward to the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television that he hopes that Beijing will set up a special film group company for cooperation and exchanges between the two sides, but Minister Ai has approved it, and he promised that it will be completed within half a year at the latest.

A film group that is about to replace China Film Company was born in advance, and it is also a huge interest group, so he has planned a series of plans to invite his company's senior management to go south to Hong Kong for inspection and exchange......

This trip to the north was actually very successful