The 2024 Competition for the Transmission and Promotion of the Beijing Central Axis    1    (host) at the Capital Museum in Beijing on March 31st.

    2    (aim) at promoting the Central Axis, the core structure of Beijing that runs 7.8 kilometers    3    south to north, the annual competition has been hosted since 2021, attracting    4    total of more than 400,000 contestants from home and abroad.

This year’s competition featured six tracks,    5    includes three periodic ones focusing on old town rebuilding, creative expression via the art forms of video, painting and design, and cultural ambassadors who have made    6    (significance) contributions to the protection and promotion of the Central Axis.

    7    (additional), three new tracks have been added, focusing on travel, pattern design, and quality living, encouraging contestants    8    (explore) sightseeing routes, create diverse    9    (pattern) and images, and promote tea and food culture.

The competition, which is scheduled to run until mid-July, will include five stages of registration, review, preliminary, semifinal, and final rounds.

Entry details have been made available on the competition’s official website and WeChat account, seeking creative approaches to    10    (protect) cultural heritage and advancing the Central Axis’s promotion.

The long-awaited TV series Blossoms Shanghai has been released in two versions — Mandarin (普通话) and the Shanghai dialect — on Dec 27, quickly soaring as one of the     1     (popular) dramas during the New Year’s period.

    2     (adapt) from writer Jin Yucheng’s award-winning novel, Fan Hua, the series takes audience back to Shanghai in     3     early 1990s, following the rise of A Bao, an ambitious young man     4     seizes the opportunities of the early stock (股票) market and     5     (transform) into a self-made millionaire, expanding his business to foreign trade.

Amid his journey to success, the protagonist (主角) has received help from multiple     6     (friend), including a seasoned former businessman, a capable employee from a foreign trade company,     7     a restaurant operator. However, his relationship with them undergoes a really big test due to a mysterious woman, and his own business also faces a crisis due to a powerful opponent from Shenzhen.

    8     (current), this drama has sparked heated discussions online, with some netizens     9     (praise) it as the “most artistic TV show of the year”. However, it has also received negative reviews. Some viewers said the television version’s story is too fragmented (零散) and not as “down to earth” as the     10     (origin) novel.