On December 17, 2021, the 2021 China Annual Cutting-edge List hosted by New Weekly was held in Chengdu, Sichuan
This year coincides with the 25th anniversary of the founding of New Weekly, and in this extraordinary year, we chose Chengdu as the end of 2021 because the city has deep roots with New Weekly: in 2000, New Weekly named Chengdu the "fourth city", and then defined Chengdu as the first city of happiness and the first-tier city of fashion. After more than 20 years, Chengdu has become more and more full of unique urban charm. And "New Weekly" is also starting again, from magazines to new media, presenting a new weekly with a new update.
This year is also the 21st year of China's annual emerging list. Every year, China's annual new list is not only an inventory of the past year, but also an answer to the future.
Which word deserves the definition of 2021
In 2021, "Qing" stood out from the five characters of "hundred", "minus", "Qing", "Yuan" and "zhou", becoming the 10th annual Chinese character selected by New Weekly.
As Tan Fei, the annual Chinese character unveiler and founder of "Four Tastes of Poison Uncle", said, in this not easy year, we have a powerful weapon to clear the virus, achieve the great achievement of zeroing out the poor counties, and remove the evil atmosphere and crooked wind in the show business circle.
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"Elimination" is the desire of everyone in the post-epidemic era. "It's both 'dynamic zeroing out' and life first."
"Zero clearance" is also of great significance in poverty alleviation, and the national goal and task of poverty alleviation have been completed; in 2021, the consolidation of "zero clearance" has become a new starting point for poverty alleviation.
"Clear" also makes the showbiz circle completely "flip". In an ever-changing environment, "Qing" is a kind of wisdom that belongs to China, and it is also a way for us to identify external information and maintain our hearts.
Which person makes you proud of
In the context of the "Clear Lang" action, we need high-quality artists to play a role.
This year, New Weekly awarded "Artist of the Year" to actor Bai Yu. The powerful actor who debuted for only 7 years is becoming the backbone of the post-90s actors.
"Band of the Year" Black Panther is "synonymous with rock and roll in the hearts of a generation", known as "a banner of Chinese rock music", they are never afraid of change, know why to change, how to change, and know better what should be changed and what should not be changed. Sending lead singer Zhang Qi to participate in "Brother With Thorns and Thorns" is a fearless declaration after the "Thirty and Standing" of the Black Panther Band, with the enthusiasm of breaking through the self and challenging the unknown - the new EP "Reverse View" in 2021 and the extraordinary insight to resist the darkness in front of you.
The "Emerging Actor of the Year" was awarded to Zhang Wanyi, a newcomer actor who played a new actor in "The Age of Awakening", and became the audience's "tear harvester" with his unique acting talent.
At the Olympic Games, Su Bingtian single-handedly broke the Asian record for men's sprinting and won the "New Talent of the Year";
"Chosin Lake", which ranked first at the global box office this year, won the "Annual Movie"; the anti-black TV series "Sweeping Black Storm", which has a double harvest of word-of-mouth ratings, won the "Annual TV Series".
In 2021, there will always be a story that will bring people back to their blood.
In 2021, what kind of life they live
In terms of lifestyle, we have also changed more this year.
Tibetan traveler Baima Dorjee won the title of "Life of the Year", and he led travelers to search the scenery of Tibet, opening a door to a new way of life for humanistic travel.
He Zhisen, a teacher from the School of Architecture of South China University of Technology and the initiator of the Mapping Workshop, won the title of "Artist of the Year", and as an architect, he has always set his sights on the less glamorous places of the city, going deep into the lives of small people, paying attention to their real needs for space, and reconstructing the positive relationship between people and society through extremely weak intervention or even non-creation.
Fan Deng, who won the "Knower of the Year", brought people back to the era of deep reading again through storytelling.
The "Destination of the Year" Fosun Art Center has hosted several modern art exhibitions this year, and the art center towering over the Bund in Shanghai is promoting contemporary art to become part of urban culture.
2022, get ready and embrace the future
This year, human imagination has once again conquered the world, and the development of science and technology has made people see more possibilities in the future.
CCTV won the honor of "Media of the Year", which created a new experience scene of "big screen to see content, small screen to play interactive";
Positive Connection has earned "New Media of the Year," which insists on the truth and objectivity of content and strives to uncover the truth behind the news.
"Game of the Year" was won by the domestic games "Dyson Ball Plan" and "Forever Doom", these two domestic phenomenon-level games made people once again lament that the domestic game industry "the future can be expected".
Zhou Yifei, the screenwriter of "Little Shed", won the "New Screenwriter of the Year", and she strives to explore real social issues in the story, while the "Annual Cutting-edge Drama" "I Am Good in Other Places" shows the triviality and warmth of urban life from another perspective.
Kim Gwang-fa, the winner of the "Cutting-edge Video Producer of the Year", made many people feel this nonsensical happiness in the short video.
There is no doubt that life has been profoundly changed over the past year. What remains unchanged is that we are always cutting-edge, not blindly following, not changing our original intention, and always being cutting-edge.