Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1671 Second Light Industry Bureau

"You mean Su Fang and Guan Tingting have no relationship? Doesn't that seem the case from the performance?"

"Of course there is a connection." Zhou Zhi said, "Guan Tingting's mother is a famous actress in our county troupe. Tingting practiced opera singing since she was young, and switched to folk singing when she was older. Later, Chi Xueli came to interview us and discovered her, and recommended her to Tang Qi, a famous young singer in Shuzhong, as a disciple."

"Before Su Fang had problems with her voice, she was as famous as Tang Qi at Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and they were also good friends. In order to help Tingting build up her courage, Tang Qi arranged for her to perform at the nightclub managed by Su Fang so that she could gain stage experience."

"Tingting's mother was worried and asked me to stay with her. We both received a lot of care from Sister Fang in the nightclub. Sister Fang also taught us a lot of singing skills and performance experience."

"Later, Fang Jie's demo of "What a Big Tree" was picked up by the Rolling Stones and became a hit song after it was released. She became famous overnight. Tingting also helped my cousin's wife shoot the MV for "Homeland", which also received good response."

"It was also with Sister Fang's help that Tingting signed a contract with Rolling Stone."

"And Tingting was also influenced by Sister Fang and began to get in touch with overseas pop music, and found her music idol, Mariah Carey. If you pay attention to Tingting's harmony in Sister Fang's last chorus of this song, you can hear that flavor."

"So their relationship was actually very good before they debuted. Fang Jie was almost like Ting Ting's mentor. It was completely normal for the two of them to behave on stage."

These were all normal things for Zhou Zhi, but to the other three people they became celebrity gossip, and they enjoyed listening to them very much.

Even the lady boss secretly listened to the performance. She took the cooled barbecue to the back, heated it up in the microwave, and brought it back. She also put a pot of sesame milk tea on the table and said with a smile, "Since you like this, I'll give you another pot. You all sang well. I'm not doing business, I'm enjoying it."

Zhou Zhi expressed his gratitude, and then thought that Liangshan’s rule was a good one, where one could get rewards if one sang well in karaoke, and Jiachuan should also learn this trick.

Next, it’s time for the chorus. There are many duet love songs in recent years, such as “Heart Rain”, “Meeting by Chance”, “Love in the Wind and Rain”, “Modern Love Story”, “Maple Leaf Love”, “Best Lover”, “A Little Touched”…

There are about 10 to 20 songs at random.

Then Zhou Zhi suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon, that is, this kind of duet love songs seemed to have peaked in the past two years, and then suddenly became very rare. As far as he could remember, there seemed to be only a few songs left, such as "You Are the Most Precious" and "Little Dimples", and he didn't know why.

The biggest reason may be the rise of fan culture, which has led to idols having to be single. However, duet love songs, which have a strong sense of couple, can easily ruin their popularity with fans and passers-by.

There is also a greater possibility that the idol may be worried about being implicated by his or her duet partner.

Thanks to Priscilla Chan, all girls in the country can sing "Thousands of Songs", and thanks to Beyond, all boys in the country can sing "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies". This was roughly the most glorious era for Cantonese music.

However, Wu Renzhong can only sing Beyond's Cantonese songs, and he is not very good at the Cantonese songs in "Love in the Wind and Rain" and "Modern Love Story". Therefore, in the chorus songs, Zhou Zhi took over the Cantonese songs, and Wu Renzhong sang the Mandarin ones. The two girls probably regarded karaoke as a fashion and practiced singing frequently, so they sang well in both Cantonese and Mandarin.

It would be even more enjoyable to sing if I met someone who could cooperate with them in Cantonese and had standard pronunciation.

Because Jike Azi's folk singing was so good, Zhou Zhi couldn't help but order a song "Meeting at the Aobao" and tried to cooperate with her using folk singing techniques. It was quite enjoyable. The four of them went crazy together until midnight. When they checked out with the boss lady, Zhou Zhi realized that he didn't know where to stay.

Wu Renzhong waved his hand carelessly: "It doesn't matter where we live. Sha Ma and I have our own room, and my sister's dormitory at the Education Commission is also vacant. But I'd better go to my dormitory at the Second Light Industry Bureau. The main thing is that I have to go home in the middle of the night, and there are a lot of gossips in the education system."

All over the world, industry is divided into heavy industry and light industry. Heavy industry refers to the industrial sector that aims to exploit natural resources, process and reprocess mined and agricultural products, and produce and maintain the energy and large equipment required for such exploitation and processing.

For example, power generation, mining, steelmaking, and machine tool production all belong to heavy industry.

Light industry mainly refers to industrial sectors that provide consumer goods, such as textiles, leather, papermaking, glass and ceramics, etc.

But there is also a magical category in China, called the Second Light Industry. The bureau that manages this Second Light Industry is called the "Second Light Industry Bureau", and its full name is the Second Light Industry Bureau.

However, with the development of the People's Republic of China over the past few decades, the jurisdiction of the Second Light Industry Bureau has been constantly changing.

The earliest Second Light Industry Bureau was managed by the Second Ministry of Light Industry, and its predecessor was the Central Handicraft Industry Administration.

Later, the Ministry of Second Light Industry was merged with the Ministry of First Light Industry and the Ministry of Textile Industry to form the Ministry of Light Industry, but many of the local Second Light Industry Bureaus and Second Light Industry Offices were retained.

Because the main function of the Second Light Industry Bureau is to manage local handicraft cooperatives, there are many such cooperatives in local areas, especially in second-tier cities, county towns, and townships, so there is a great need for their existence.

After the reform and opening up, many of these cooperatives became township enterprises, so many light industry bureaus expanded their functions and became township enterprise bureaus.

Up to now, some of the Second Light Industry Bureaus across the country have become de facto township enterprise bureaus, and some, in addition to managing township enterprises, also have to manage some state-owned enterprises mainly engaged in handicrafts, such as the famous Suzhou Jade Carving Factory. However, many regions where the system is still backward still retain the Second Light Industry Bureau as a management unit, such as autonomous prefectures.

In other words, this is a strange department with unclear management hierarchy, unclear scope of authority, different weights in local governments, and relatively strong local management characteristics.

"What is the Second Light Industry Bureau of the autonomous prefecture in charge of now?" Zhou Zhi was very curious, because this unit had long ceased to exist in Manzhou. Otherwise, a large listed company like Laojiao Distillery and a large private enterprise like Zhou Liuniang Food Group might still be under the management of the Second Light Industry Bureau. Manzhou would be relatively better, but if it fell to Jiachuan, the power of the Second Light Industry Bureau might exceed that of the First Light Industry Bureau, or even exceed that of the Industrial Bureau that manages several state-owned five small units that are about to go bankrupt.

"The Second Light Industry Bureau of the autonomous prefecture is still relatively important." Wu Renzhong said: "Because of the current situation in our autonomous prefecture, rural handicrafts are still dominated by family sideline businesses such as felt making, hat making, and rope weaving, while urban handicrafts are dominated by traditional industries such as silverware, lacquerware, woodware, and small hardware processing."

"Our current direction of efforts is to first introduce small machines into handicraft production. In the words of our leaders, we are striving to realize 'light handicrafts, light machinery; light products, light profits' as soon as possible!"

"Huh?!" Zhou Zhi was amused: "Your leader Yan Zi is quite capable!"

(End of this chapter)