Chapter 79: Before Returning Home Five

  After the premiere of "Return to Reno", Song Tang returned to his busy work, while Charlie's performance in "Return to Reno" was not particularly outstanding, but still left a memorable impression with her sexy and beautiful figure. With the success of "Return to Reno", Charlie also received invitations from several film companies, but Song Tang knew that not all films could help Charlie's development, so he advised Charlie to take on some quality films, which Charlie understood.

  However, as Charlize was busy with her own acting career, it was no longer suitable for her to be Song Tong's secretary at this time. Although Song Tong had long known that Charlize would not stay by his side for too long, when the time came, he still felt a little reluctant to part with her. After all, having such a beautiful and capable woman by his side made him very happy.

  As the Chinese Lunar New Year approaches, "Jurassic Park" has also gone offline, with a total box office of $460 million in North America and an astonishing $670 million overseas. In the three months before and after its release, it grossed $1.13 billion at the global box office. This box office record was unprecedented in 1992, and the screening of "Jurassic Park" successfully sparked a dinosaur craze around the world.

  "Jurassic Park" did well, and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" wasn't bad either. Although before its release, it experienced a box office sweep of some classic films like "Jurassic Park", "Aladdin", and "Scent of a Woman". Two weeks after its release, "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" still managed to win over many film fans with its humorous and funny parts, and Johnny Depp's performance brought in quite a bit of box office revenue. In two weeks, it earned $4.2 million at the domestic box office, a number that, although not comparable to previous films like "Jurassic Park" and "Aladdin", was still respectable compared to other films like "Unforgiven", "The Shawshank Redemption", and "Scent of a Woman".

  It also has a box office that is no less than the previous "Low Profile" of Da Tang, and it's not unexpected that "Love Returns to Reno" will recover its cost and make a profit.

  As the Spring Festival approaches, Song Tang indeed learns from his parents that this year's Spring Festival will be spent in China if nothing unexpected happens. As for this, Song Tang had already understood something from Li Bo before, so at this time, Song Tang didn't have much excitement to speak of.

  In 1992, this year was absolutely an extremely important year for China. On January 1st, the People's Daily published an editorial entitled "Steady Development in Reform and Opening-up", which pointed out that after three years of continuous efforts, there had been a relatively significant improvement in economic order, the entire national economy had returned to its normal growth rate, and the main tasks of rectification and consolidation had been basically completed.

  January 14-18, the Central National Work Conference was held, Jiang made a speech, emphasizing the acceleration of economic and cultural development in ethnic minority areas, promoting common prosperity among all ethnic groups.

  From January 18 to February 21, Deng Gong, the chief architect of China's reform and opening-up, inspected Wuhan, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shanghai and other places and delivered a speech. He incisively analyzed the international and domestic situation, scientifically summarized the party's basic practices and experiences since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, and clearly answered many major cognitive problems that had long plagued and constrained people's thinking. This speech is another manifesto of liberating thought and seeking truth from facts to push reform and opening-up and modernization construction into a new stage.

  January 25, the Ministry of Labor, State Council Production Office, National Body Reform Committee, Personnel Department, and All-China Federation of Trade Unions jointly issued "Opinions on Deepening Enterprise Labor Personnel, Wage Distribution, and Social Insurance System Reforms".

  February 12, the State Council issued a notice on actively promoting the integration of agricultural science and education to drive rural economic development. February 19, the State Council approved and forwarded the "Key Points for Economic System Reform in 1992" formulated by the National Economic Restructuring Commission.

  On March 8, the State Council promulgated the "National Medium- and Long-term Science and Technology Development Plan".

  On March 9-10, **the Central Politburo held a plenary meeting in Beijing to discuss several major issues related to China's reform and development.

  May 16 **The Central Politburo meeting passed the "Opinion of the Central Committee on Accelerating Reform, Expanding Opening-up and Striving for a New Stage of Economic Development".**

  On May 20, the Central Propaganda Department awarded the "Five Ones Project" organizational work award and selected works award. The "Five Ones Project" refers to: a good book, a good play, an excellent film, an excellent TV series (episode), and one or several articles with creative insights and persuasive power.

  On June 9, Jiang made a speech at the Provincial and Ministerial Level Cadre Training Class of the Central Party School, where he explicitly expressed his inclination to use the term "socialist market economy" when discussing what kind of economic system to establish.

  July 25 - August 9, the Chinese sports delegation won 16 gold medals, 22 silver medals and 16 bronze medals at the 25th Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, ranking fourth in total gold medals and total medals.

  September 22, The State Council Information Office issued a white paper titled "Tibet's Ownership and Human Rights Situation".

  October 12-18, the 14th National Congress of China was held. Jiang made a report on behalf of the 13th Central Committee entitled "Accelerating the Pace of Reform and Opening-up and Modernization Construction, Winning Greater Victories for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics". The conference summarized the practical experience since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee 14 years ago, decided to seize opportunities, accelerate development, concentrate on economic construction; clarified that the goal of China's economic system reform is to establish a socialist market economy system; established Deng Xiaoping's theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the guiding ideology for the whole party, and wrote the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the Party's basic line into the Party Constitution.

  December 1st, Eurasian Continental Bridge Jiangsu Lianyungang to Rotterdam, Netherlands railway line opened for operation, with a total distance of 10,800 kilometers.

  At the same time, China's diplomatic relations also underwent a fundamental transformation. This year, China continued to uphold the banner of peace, development and cooperation, adhered to an independent foreign policy of peace, followed the path of peaceful development, and persisted in its mutually beneficial opening-up strategy. By striving for a peaceful international environment, it promoted its own development, while its development also contributed to world peace. This year saw notable diplomatic achievements.

  At the same time, China's film industry also underwent significant changes. After Deng Xiaoping's southern tour and important speech at the beginning of the year, Xie Jin loudly called for: "The film industry must liberate its thinking and boldly reform." He said: "Comrades have proposed reform and opening up, we need to be bolder and faster, this not only applies to economics but also completely applies to culture and art, including film."

  To promote exchanges and cooperation between the film industries on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the "First Cross-Strait and Hong Kong Film Directors Symposium" was held in mid-January in Hong Kong. This was the first large-scale formal gathering of mainland, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong film directors in 42 years.

  To promote the prosperity of film and spiritual civilization construction, the "Double Evaluation" - the National Mass Film Critics' Essay Contest Awards and the First "Shanglian Cup" National Mass Film Critics Advanced Collective Selection - were announced and awarded in Beijing in May. This was a gift to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the party.

  To strengthen and expand exchanges with the film industries of various countries, it was simultaneously announced on July 20 in Beijing and Shanghai that, with the approval of the State Council, the First Shanghai International Film Festival would be held in October 1993. The film festival would be held every two years, with the aim of promoting mutual understanding and friendship between filmmakers from different countries and regions, and promoting the prosperity of world cinema art.

  In short, all the changes in China this year have shown that this giant is rising rapidly, and Chinese culture will also go global and move towards the future.

  It's almost Chinese New Year, and Song Tang has also put down the busy things in his hands. However, before leaving the United States, Song Tang still handled some things that needed to be dealt with. The movie "Brave Heart" promised to Sophie was completed by Song Tang a long time ago, but he had been busy with his own affairs and hadn't sent it to Sophie yet. Although Sophie didn't say anything, Song Tang still felt a little embarrassed in his heart.

  Then Song Tang went to his two companies, Datang Broadcasting and Galaxy Investment, to visit and comfort the employees. After all, although these two companies are now managed by Susan and Robert respectively, Song Tang is still the boss. Due to various reasons, Song Tang did not go during Christmas and New Year's Day, and usually, he didn't pay much attention because of his busy schedule in the film industry. Later, Song Tang accompanied Jessica for a while in California, after all, she was his nominal girlfriend, although their relationship had not been made public.

  After finishing all these things, Song Yaohui and Liu Ying couple also handed over the company's affairs to their assistants. At this time, it was already the 28th of the lunar calendar, only two days away from China's traditional Spring Festival.

  Although it's a bit off-topic and some people may not like it, I still want to write about this chapter. In 1992, I was very young and don't remember much, but that year was really important for China's development and there were many significant changes.