Open Comment
Open is to inspire the creative potential of China
Open Nation is a special magazine. The first I saw it, I like its name. The open we think is more meaningful than the common open. And has international sense and global view. Like today’ Beijing, it has become a world capital because the 2008 Olympics. Bird's nest, National Opera Theater, SOHO, and more high originality industries are changing this city and its people.
In 2006, the workers of cultural originality had reached 960 thousand. If we add those who didn’t be accounted and free professional people, the number would double. This trendy just like the convergent place of Songzhuan’ artists live in, was centralized with the development of time. From quantitative change to qualitative change, it had made a cultural original Beijing. Cultural originality is changing the definition of Beijinig.
Is there originality in Beijing or not? This was talked about by people several years ago. The magnanimous of Beijing in several years ago couldn’t compare with Guangdong and Shanghai. Even CCTV was frightened by Hunan TV. Where is Beijing’ originality? How Beijing can have their own originality? We have to thank 2008 Olympics, which is an opportunity for Beijing to develop originality industry. Many people can remember, about one year ago, the drumbeating has red-color; it lacks lifelikeness, visualization and attraction. And it even had a lot of critics thought the propaganda was terrible. So originality represents and also becomes a standard of checking Beijing government. Originality has become a pressure of the government. With the constructed of Bird's nest, a new huge originality has appeared and are changing the conception of government, from ignoring it to longing for it.
Today’s Beijing has been full of originality. Today’s 2008 Olympic is running to originality. Originality has rose up in Beijing and turned on a new leaf. We have to say the complexion is for “open”. If it doesn’t have open just have originality, the originality is just an official stylebook. And even a new close and conservative form. So only open can bring real originality and its flourishing. In the facing of originality, Beijing and China in 2008 is worth of being expected.
Originality must have dared
Seeing the magazine of open Nation, I thought about a word “dare”. This is like many people judge of Hunanese, which is summed up to be one word “dare”. This word has an unusual meaning to this originality age.
Why we mention the word dare,when talking about originality? There are two reasons: one is “inaugurate” the mean is do it firstly in Cihai; so if we want to have originality we need to have the idea of challenging kinds of conservative experience. Before doing it the idea should be prepared and then originality could be developed. Two is “to be the first”, why we say that? According to the first one, though originality should never appear of before, so it must be done firstly. It also explodes many traditional habits. If we don’t have this spirits, I’m afraid we can’t do it even can’t benefit from it.
Open Nation is the first to stand up when the originality is started, Finding Horns as counselor, letting Mr.Li as advisor, making cooperative partner with Europe-union and also taking many Chinese originality industries as supporters. One content is one word: dare.
In 2005 year, Hunan TV used the originality of dare to make some super-girl are popular in China. Until now they have many fans. The CCTV and almost every local TV follow the lead of Hunan TV. Today, Sanchen cartoon extruded “Blue Cat” cartoon, announcing to become Chinese Disney. Because of the word dare they have today’s succeeded. Much earlier, in Hunan, the betel nut of Xiangtang was seen every where, but there was no one thought of the industrialization of betel nut. Then some one did it daringly, put betel nut of produced machinery and packing standardization in the market.
When we talk originality, we should consider innovation, too. This is also called on by Chinese government and industries. People said the food of Guangdong is very delicious; the key is people can eat it. Having dared, everything is possible. And there is another example that the consortium of Wenzhou put the Six in to coalition. They are the first to walk out to carve out, the first to bundle the flight, the first to burn shoe leather and even the first to compete with the buildings of Beijing and Shanghai. In the back of all of these actions was a word: dare. Now, originality industry has spread quickly, we can imagine originality industry is for those who are brave. If you aren’t brave you will be washed out and carried up by those braves. The originality of Xiangzhong in Hunan appeared ten years ago, but they didn’t have the dare. Now, Hunan is becoming a hot place of Chinese growing up. Dare or not is in today.
Originality must abandon official standard
Originality industry develops in China causes a lot of argumentum. Every local government is becoming very zeal about it. Some time one city inaugurates for originality industry. In the back of these busy visions there are always somebody confuses: who really originate it? And who creates?
According to me, the earliest nation of the development of originality industry is Britain, which is a spontaneous activity by a group of cultural art and design creators. Even John Horns called the father of originality and his work originality economic is independent of government. While the originality industry of north America was created by a group of people with passion and dream. There is no one official in Hollywood, but there are a large number of best screenwriters and directors and cuspidate people of film industry. Even Chinese famous stars are scramble for it. So some British creators who came to China don’t understand why Chinese originality industry is held by the government. So they want to ask, who are the creators in China? Where are they? At this time, Chinese officials will take them to some original basements to see those so called creators. They mostly are some arts and crafts places, painters’ villages , small cartoon companies and some design work places and ad-companies.
China is a big unified country all through the ages. From the census register system in Qin dynasty, it built a “GOOGLE” to rule and father the country. Until now the “GOOGLE”is still in work. But the difference from the internet GOOGLE is Chinese“GOOGLE”doesn’t let people search and choose freely. On the contrary, it cultivated a lot of governors, and piled up many limited rules, even some obscure potential rules. All of these potential rules is related with the system of Chinese government. So Chinese originality industry, on the on hand, needs to open and develop like the internet GOOGLE; on the other hand, the traditional “GOOGLE” can’t help taking in, continuing the function of supervising and urging. Just because of this, the foreign creators don’t understand as well as the Chinese creators don’t get real space of exertion.
In the traditional economic development models, the Chinese market economy is led by the government. The extent, the field is controlled by the government. Although the open of China made the common people live a better happy life that they never lived before, this kind of open is limited and more ideological. Now everything is much better. The age of globalization is coming, the world is peace, the science and technology changes quickly and the world appears all kinds of strange things. Chinese opening has reaches a shed from quantitative change to qualitative change.
The wheel of history was driven and can’t stop and develop as an inertial unless it didn’t be driven. The wave of originality industry is coming. Its core definition isn’t the ideological official standard but a whole age of people oriented. How originality develops, how it be created and how it transfer into new economy? All of this don’t need the official standard to govern. So in the face of originality ages, official standard has lost its effect. While originality don’t need the official to take part in. a wise local government needs to do is abandon the authority and let all the civil servants serve for this original society. If they don’t do better, they should be demitted.
