Chinese Drama Sparks Social Concerns on Family Issues!

China’s latest mega-hit drama, All is Well, has sparked huge debates on controversial social issues, as many believe the soap opera exactly captures modern people’s pains.

Chinese Drama Sparks Social Concerns on Family Issues!Chinese Drama Sparks Social Concerns on Family Issues!

The drama follows the life story of the female protagonist Su Mingyu, played by China’s veteran actress Yao Chen. Despite Su’s intelligence and guts in career advancement, her life is still beset with family conflict after the death of her mother in an accident. 

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Su’s fight with two immature elder brothers over the support of their nagging crank father reveals the rugged truth of a typical Chinese family.

Many netizens say the 46-episode drama deserves the title of “mirroring modern society.” 

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Chinese Drama Sparks Social Concerns on Family Issues!

Since its premiere on March 1, its hashtag has been viewed for more than 43 million times on Sina Weibo. 

Chinese Drama Sparks Social Concerns on Family Issues!

Hot topics such as the preference for sons, blind filial piety, midlife crisis, mother’s boy and influence of original family have been widely discussed at social media throughout the whole month. 

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“I cried multiple times when watching the drama because I can totally identify with Su’s life. Gender inequality is still a common problem in rural China, and I’m one of the victims,” Jiang Yijing, a Beijing-based nursing worker, told the Global Times.

Chinese Drama Sparks Social Concerns on Family Issues!

In the drama, the behaviors of three male characters even helped some clever people to win business on the e-commerce platform Taobao. Some sellers have launched a special service to customers who pay fees to scold or curse the characters they despise so much. 

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Chinese Drama Sparks Social Concerns on Family Issues!

However, Liu also pointed out that some realistic TV dramas at the current stage have problems like catering to the market demand, amplifying social pains, and stoking anxiety on controversial issues, with a view to gaining high audience rating.

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What TV drama producers should do is to strike a balance between social ethics and market demand, Liu noted.

All is Well intended to convey positive energy to the viewers and help people step out of pains derived from original families, said Jian Chuanhe, who is the TV drama’s director, in an interview.

 

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Chinese Student Was Kidnapped in Canada!

According to media reports, the victim Wanzhen Lu, 22, was forced into a van by three masked men in an underground garage in the City of Markham. One of the suspects was armed with a weapon.

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The victim tried to resist but was hit by the suspects, who then drove away.

Chinese Student Was Kidnapped in Canada!

China’s Consulate-General in Toronto announced Monday that local police were investigating the case and trying to locate the victim.

The Consulate said they have launched emergency protection mechanism and urged the Canadian police to save Lu.

After the incident, the York regional police posted on Twitter a notice with several photographs of the victim and suspects to urge the public to report about their location.

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Chinese Student Was Kidnapped in Canada!

The case soon sparked concerns over Chinese nationals’ safety in Canada, with many netizens praying for Lu’s safety,  and many linked the case with the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, who was arrested in Canada in December 2018. 

 

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“I was scheduled to start an exchange study in Toronto in May but I am kind of worried now,” a Beijing-based university student surnamed Ma told the Global Times on Monday.

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She noted that her parents did not allow her to leave for Canada after they learned about the case.

 

Chinese Student Was Kidnapped in Canada!

A counselor surnamed Peng at JJL Overseas Education, an overseas study service agency, also confirmed with the Global Times on Monday that recently, students’ parents repeatedly consulted her about the safety issues before sending their children to Canada.

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Police are liaising with the

Chinese consulate.

Officers have asked anyone who has seen

the suspects, vehicle or the victim to

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Saving! New Standards for Refunding Discounted Air Tickets!

Certainly, many problems will be occurred during holidays, like a traffic jam, buying /refunding tickets and so on. 

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Tickets Services

 

In July 2018, the Civil Aviation Administration issued the “Notice on Improving the Work of Ticketing Services for Civil Aviation”, requiring airlines to formulate “step rate” for discounted ticket refunding and change fees, etc. 

Among the 32 airlines, a total of 23 airlines have completed the “step rate”.

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At present, the four major airlines have completed the formulation of the “step rate”.

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The earlier, The lower

 

On the 21st of this month, Air China issued a notice stating that the “step rate” for the domestic ticket refund fee will be implemented from March 31. 

The rate will be adjusted to the 4 standards, that is, “30 days before the flight departure(inclusive), “30 days before flight departure (excluding) to 14 days (inclusive)“, “14 days before flight departure (excluding) to 4 hours (inclusive)“, “4 hours before flight departure”(excluding). 

 

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On the same day, the official name of the Southern Airlines official public announcement, since March 24. 

 

The implementation of “step rate”, a total of 4 standards:7 days before the flight departure(inclusive); before the flight departure (excluding) to 2 days (inclusive); 2 days to 4 hours before departure (inclusive); 4 hours before departure (excluding).

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The airline companies said, the earlier you refund, then the lower your fees.

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Diversified Standards

Previously, four airlines, including China Eastern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, and Xiamen Airlines, divided “the time” into 4 standards of 7 days, 48 hours and 4 hours. 

 

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Shenzhen Airlines divided “the time” into 4 standards of 7 days, 72 hours and 4 hours. And Spring Airlines divided “the time” into 5 standards of 7 days, 72 hours, 24 hours and 2 hours.

 

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4 Strategies for Protecting Trademark Registration!

It is rather important for enterprises to apply for and protect trademarks for the purpose of building their own brands. Here are four dependable strategies to protect your trademark rights from infringement.

4 Strategies for Protecting Trademark Registration!

1
Cross-category registration

It is necessary to pay extra attention to the protection of cross-category trademark registration in order to, on the one hand, protect the trademark of core product to avoid being registered by others and on the other hand, to lay a solid foundation to the development of enterprises for the reason that it is ubiquitous for enterprises to expand cross-industry business with their development. 

 

In this case, the trademark category with same names is required.

 

4 Strategies for Protecting Trademark Registration!

For examples: category 29 meatware, processed fruits, and vegetables; category 30 condiments, pastry; category 31 fresh fruits and vegetables; category 32 beverages; category 33 liquor and alcoholic beverage; category 40 food processing; category 43 restaurants; category 44 nutrition and dietetics guidance.

 

4 Strategies for Protecting Trademark Registration!

Cross-category registration can help eradicate applications with the purpose of following the trend and avoid similar or same trademarks in related commodities and services categories to protect your own enterprise brand.

 

2
Cross-industry registration

This perspective is similar to the above-mentioned one and we still take the food and beverage industry as examples.

 

Food and beverage industry is related to many other industries, such as  “Internet” of online trading, “transportation” of order delivery and so forth.

 

Hence, we can also consider the cross-industry registration application to protect our trademarks in other relevant fields.

 

4 Strategies for Protecting Trademark Registration!

  • “Internet” related industries
4 Strategies for Protecting Trademark Registration!

In the era of “internet plus”, every enterprise is involved in Internet and should apply for trademarks in internet category, such as category 9 computer software and application program, category 35 commercial operation, advertising chain, and online sales and category 42 computer software related services.

 

  • “Transportation” related industries
4 Strategies for Protecting Trademark Registration!

Food and beverage industry is involved in the transportation of food raw materials, semi-finished product, and finished product. Therefore, enterprises need to apply for trademarks related to the transportation industry in food and beverage industry, such as transportation, wrapping of good, storage of goods, rent of larder for frozen foods, parcel delivery and so forth.

 

3
Transnational registration

 

Trademark protection is regional. That is to say, the scope of trademark protection is restricted by countries and regions. 

 

Applicants are supposed to apply for trademarks in local countries and regions if they want protection for their trademarks in local countries and regions. 

 

Likewise, foreign enterprises have to apply for trademarks in China if they want to promote their brand in China mainland, and domestic enterprises also need to apply for trademarks in local countries and regions if they want to expand business abroad.

 

4 Strategies for Protecting Trademark Registration!

For instance, if you want to develop business in contracting parties of Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, you can register Madrid trademark by submitting an application and register in several contracting parties to enjoy protection from many countries.

4
 Enhancing the conspicuousness of trademark

In accordance with the stipulation of 11 from Trademark Law of the People’s Republic of China, logos lack of conspicuousness are unqualified to be trademarked. There are millions of new trademark applications in China every year.

 

So how to make your trademark more remarkable and how to improve the conspicuousness of your trademark? 

 

Enterprises can invest extra manpower, material resources, and financial resources into media to promote their trademarks, increase the exposure rate of trademarks in customers’ life and work, enhance the conspicuousness of trademark and expand popularity.

 

4 Strategies for Protecting Trademark Registration!

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