How many responsibilities and troubles do you have when you grow up?
There was one thing that was held in my heart for half a year, and I didn't tell anyone. Because I must bring it to the night of December 31, 2020, and I will tell the people in Wuhan here.
You see, there is a bunch of candies here, but this is not a bunch of ordinary candies. In the past many years, these candies have appeared in many famous exhibition halls all over the world. It is a work of art. The person who created this work is called Gonzalez.
The weight of the candy is no more or less, just 79.4 kilograms. What weight is this? This is the weight of his love before his life. At the bleakest moment of life, the artist Gonzalez chose to use a special way to commemorate his lover. That's right, this pile of candies you see.
There is no guardrail around the candy. That also means that those who come to visit can take some as a souvenir at will, eat it or take it away. However, every day at the end of the exhibition, Gonzalez will re-weigh the pile of candies and then make up the removed parts. Just like this day after day, never stop. The weight of this pile of candies is always 79.4 kg.
What does Gonzalez want to express?
Life is so sweet, like candy. But life will eventually pass, just like candy will always be taken away. But the most important thing is that no matter what happens, the person who loves him will always make him reborn again and again .
This story is very much like the beauty, passing and rebirth experienced by people in Wuhan in the past year, and it also bears witness to the power of love. Here, salute to you and 15 million people in Wuhan.
Also pay tribute to those retrogrades at the time. In the fight against the epidemic at the beginning of this year, 346 medical teams and more than 42,000 medical staff from across the country came here. Someone sent me a screenshot. A head nurse made a wish and said that he wanted to bring his family to watch this year's New Year's Eve speech.
At this moment, I would like to especially welcome the head nurse of the Hebei Provincial Aid Hubei Anti-epidemic Medical Team, Ms. Lv Xiaojing from the First Hospital of Hebei Medical University and her family. Welcome to Wuhan, where you fought once again, and welcome to the New Year's Eve speech.
After this year, I have the biggest emotion, three words: not easy . All of us know how difficult it is to get together here. Everyone is sitting here, watching today's live broadcast and feeling the atmosphere of today. But you don’t know a secret: Before that, we prepared a backhand for the New Year’s Eve speech, a plan B , do you want to know?
Throughout the first half of 2020, my friends have been worrying about me. If by the end of the year, large venues still cannot be opened, will you still do your New Year's Eve speech? How to do? Should I just take a mobile phone and broadcast live alone?
I told them from the beginning: to do it, it must be done, and it must be done in the gymnasium. Even if I am alone facing an empty stadium, I have to do it.
Because this year we need a little certainty too much.
Our colleague also had a brainstorm, saying that in order to avoid me standing alone in the field, too lonely, too tragic, we can put a kumquat tree on each seat on the scene. Participate in this New Year's Eve speech remotely, and if you are willing to leave a commemorative one, we can also express this kumquat tree on the seat, just this one.
Even the names of these trees have been named. Didn't we say a word last year, " Bend yourself into the game "? These kumquat trees are called " bow into the game ."
Fortunately, there are still some people who can come here today, not kumquat trees. welcome.
The reason why I tell you about this plan B is because it resembles our overall feelings in 2020. In 2020, at how many moments, we have to imagine various possibilities and make various mental preparations.
We finally felt what a stress test is, what is left behind, and what is bottom-line thinking .
We could not think that it was so difficult for us to buy a mask. Huawei did not expect that someone would do something so terribly, and it would be so difficult to buy a chip. Unexpectedly, children studying overseas, it is so difficult to return home. Parents never thought that it would be so difficult for children to go to school for a whole semester this year. Unexpectedly, Chinese movie theaters would be so difficult to open a door. What they can't even imagine is that under this circumstance, China has actually become the world's largest box office market. The Japanese didn't think it would be so difficult this summer. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed to 2021, and it may be called the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This is the first time in the history of the Olympics, what a magical time. American Buffett never thought that it would be so difficult to stock individual stocks. He lived for 89 years and encountered 4 circuit breakers in 10 days.
In the past year, we can still make a long list of witnesses to history.
The world has never been the same. This year, we stared into the abyss countless times and were stared into the abyss countless times.
The following paragraph of mine does not carry any emotion, but it must be put on the table for today's opening. This is a very important fact that Chinese people will feel in 2020-
Over the past 40 years, they said that globalization is good, so we will reform and open up and embrace globalization step by step. Then they said to decouple.
They said that the industry needs to be upgraded, and we have taken over the backward production capacity as a world factory. Then they said we robbed their job.
They said that the Chinese do not innovate, and always follow behind them to learn. We have worked hard for a long time and we are really innovative. Then, they said that we had a threat and would not sell us chips.
It's like, they missed one of three and asked me to play mahjong with them. I played mahjong seriously, and I just made two matches. They said that the three of them were going to play Doudizhu instead, and they didn't let me go to the table.
what is this?
To me, the reason is actually four words, and we used it as the theme of this year's speech:
after growing up.
How big is China now?
With one-fifth of the world’s population, we produce 53% of the world’s steel, 57% of cement, 71% of color TVs, 76% of photovoltaic panels, 78% of air conditioners, 86% of microwave ovens, and 88% of mobile phones. , 90% of computers.
With such a large volume, it is really difficult for others to see us from the perspective of 40 years ago.
What does it mean to grow up?
Everyone actually has an experience. Today I am in Optics Valley, in Wuhan, let’s talk about my own experience.
Exactly 30 years ago, in 1990, my parents sent me to Wuhan to attend university. At Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which is 5 kilometers away from the site of our speech, that night, our family of three lived in the school’s guest house.
My dad asked me a question: "Tomorrow you will officially report, you are a college student, do you know what this night means to your life?"
I said, "I just went to college."
He said: "Yes. What does it mean to go to college? It's actually very simple. Starting from tomorrow, society will no longer see you as a child. Today, you said something wrong, we can come forward and say something about a child. I’m still young and ignorant. Tomorrow, you’ll become a college student, and if you say something wrong, then you’re saying something wrong. You have to find a way to be responsible. "
At that time, I had two feelings at the same time. One was the heroic who couldn't explain the reasons, and finally I was in charge; the other was the obvious panic, feeling that the world had become very severe.
I'm still the same me, but the expectations and attitudes of others to me are completely different overnight-the reason is just because I grew up.
You see, there is such a big difference when you grow up, and there is such a big change overnight. Sometimes it's not because of how we are, but because we grow up, and the way others look at us has changed.
We used to say that scale is the antidote to all problems. Many problems will be solved naturally by increasing the scale. However, in many cases, scale is also the source of the problem.
When we grow up, many problems are new and we have to face them alone. In 2020, there is an emotion that feels that the world has changed and the previous experience is useless.
As the Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti said: "The old answers fall apart, and the new answers have not yet arrived. "
Familiar? In 2020, many people are familiar with this feeling. It is as if the springboard that is walking all the way under their feet is suddenly taken away, but in front of you is the raging sea.
I feel that the answer is much more than we thought. Even with such a year of 2020, the world is more certain than we thought.
Regarding certainty, let me tell you something first. Please feel it.
There is an investor in Shanghai called Wang Yihe. I didn't know him, but I heard his story around. He raised a sum of money and wanted to help the poor. The method is very simple. Instead of paying farmers directly, they bought 200,000 golden nanmu saplings and gave them to farmers in the mountains of Sichuan for free, so that they could plant them on the roadside in front of the house and behind the house. We all know that golden nanmu is extremely precious wood, but it grows very slowly, and it takes decades to become a material. Therefore, in the past there were only people hacking, not race. Even in the hometown of Phoebe Phoebe, Sichuan, China, wild Phoebe Phoebe is very rare now. Wang Yihe gave the saplings to the villagers free of charge. On one condition, you will not be allowed to sell them for a short time after they are planted. The diameter of these saplings grows by one centimeter every year, and after decades, they will become useful. The villagers planted 100 trees in front of and behind their houses, and after a few decades, they are worth hundreds of thousands. This is the green bank for the villagers. What's more interesting is that in the past few decades, what should you do without worrying about these trees.
Upon hearing this story, my first reaction was shocked. You think, our generation is always told that the world is uncertain. I don’t know the changes that will take place in the world tomorrow. How can I talk about decades? The only constant is change.
What are you doing to have such certain benefits in decades? However, looking at these golden nanmu, there is such a thing in this world, as long as you are willing to wait, and you don't need to do more, that long-term deterministic benefit will actually be there.
Okay, I know that the golden nanmu just mentioned has already planted a question in your heart: we have to figure it out, what's the matter? What kind of things have such characteristics? Don't worry, the longer the time, the greater the value.
After much deliberation, there really is a place like this. It's the school. What do we enjoy when entering a school? Is it the campus hardware facilities? The library collection? What knowledge does the teacher teach? Which diploma did you get when you left? That is indeed a gain.
But is it the main benefit? As I get older and older, I will understand when I live to my age. The most important thing is not this. The biggest benefit that the school brings to me—and the part of the benefit that the longer I see the more clearly—is the classmates.
Just like myself, from 1990 to 1994, I went to school in the Journalism Department of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. When I looked around, a group of gray-headed classmates, teenage Mao children, "whose youth is not lost". However, after graduation, for nearly 30 years, everyone worked separately.
Suddenly one day I found out, wow, my classmates have grown up to be the backbone of all walks of life, at least in his respective unit, he must be a personal thing. Everyone's ability to help each other and watch and help each other is improving.
In fact, it's not just me, do older friends feel this way? Classmates you don't usually contact, when you reach a certain age, suddenly become your help. You can call for his help, and his ability to help you is also increasing. Does this happen often?
You see, something strange happened. My classmates, their achievements are the result of their struggles, what to do with me? But I can actually share the light brought by their success, and this matter is still certain.
Of course, my struggle is the same for them. It's strange, how did this happen? This is the same effect as those farmers who were able to share the future value of golden nanmu. What is this effect?
This effect is named after the word familiar to all of us present, it is called the " friend effect of time ".
What is a "friend of time"? To put it bluntly, even in time, I am also growing, you are growing, and the little fate we forged from the beginning is also growing.
In this process, we only need to do two things: First, we should work hard separately and work for the better. Isn't this talking about the relationship between classmates? Second, we recognize each other and help each other. Identifying with one thing means that we are all members of the same community. Doesn't this mean the alma mater? As long as these two points are achieved, the " friend effect of time " will appear.
This "friend effect of time" is everywhere. It is so common that we often overlook its existence. We often underestimate the people around us and underestimate the density of talents in this era .
Do not believe you look at this photo. A group photo of the famous Solvay Conference, taken in 1927. Who is in this photo? There are Einstein, Madame Curie, Planck, Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Dirac, Lorenz and so on.
When I saw this photo for the first time, I was amazed. There is such a moment when so many top brains are living in the same era. They can meet together, study together, argue together, and communicate together. Okay. Happiness.
But now I actually understand one thing. When they have a meeting, they don't actually realize what kind of group they are in in human history.
Take Wuhan where we are located. In 2017, Wuhan launched a project for one million college students to study in Han. At the beginning of this year, the plan was completed ahead of schedule, and within three years, 1.09 million college students were left in Wuhan. In other words, if you walk on the streets of Wuhan today, one out of a dozen people will be a college student who has stayed in the past three years.
I don’t know what each of them will be like in the next few decades, but I know that among the people who go to university in this place, they have walked out of Lei Jun, Yi Zhongtian, Chen Dongsheng, and also walked out of Zhang Xiaolong, Meng Wanzhou, etc. wait wait wait. Among the 10.9 million people left, what kind of heroes will emerge in 20 years? I don't know who he is, but I know, there must be.
Speaking of which, you actually know what I want to say, right? Turning around, we can see that our generation actually lives in such an era.
This is the real situation of people in the great history. You are actually full of certainty around you, but, now, you don't know what it looks like .
At this moment, I have a suggestion. At the main venue of Wuhan Optics Valley today and the branch venues across the country, please take a look at the people around you. Maybe it’s a stranger. It’s okay. Say hello to them and remember theirs. Look, exchange contact information. The heroes of this era may be among us. After many years, we may be alumni.
No matter where we come from or what industry we are engaged in, at this moment, we have a common identity, a friend of time .
Here is the exclusive title of six walnuts, Shenzhen Satellite TV and iQiyi live simultaneously worldwide, and friends in 2021 will give a New Year's Eve speech. This year is the 6th and 15th from the bottom. Welcome back, friends of time.
I still remember 30 years ago, when I was in university in Wuhan, I once rode a bicycle from school to Moshan Botanical Garden. It was after a rain, I stood alone in the bamboo forest, and for the first time heard the sound of all things growing, that is, the jointing of bamboo. For the first time, I realized that there is a sound when life grows.
Crackling, very noisy, I know, that's the sound of growing up .