Bingdian Story

Author: Li Datong
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Publishing Date: 2005-11-01
Features: "Bingdian" (Ice Point) is a special feature section launched by the Youth Daily in 1995. "Focusing more on the living conditions and thoughts of ordinary people," it was the first time that the lives of ordinary citizens were made the focus of news coverage by central media, sparking enthusiastic responses from readers. Subsequently, "Bingdian" pioneered a new approach to publishing by using detailed and vivid descriptions of ordinary people's lives as its foundation, comprehensively and deeply reflecting social realities and changes, praising truth, goodness, and beauty, and criticizing falsehood, ugliness, and evil. "Bingdian" reports have been widely reprinted in newspapers and magazines across the country; many of them have been adapted into television documentaries; and four have been turned into films and TV dramas. Currently, "Bingdian" has published over 330 issues, with a total of nearly 3 million words. Reports from "Bingdian" have been selected by three publishing houses into books and are used as required reference materials in the journalism programs of many universities.
Philosophy: Ordinary people make up 99% of the world; only by winning the ordinary can one win the world. Li Datong is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Bingdian." He strongly felt that the specific thinking and working state of an editor, as well as the production process of a report that generates significant social impact, are quite unfamiliar to college and graduate students aspiring to enter the field of journalism. It is difficult for them to obtain such information in school. At best, they can only study some "good" public reports, but the true essence of news operations often lies outside the reports themselves; this is especially true for "major news productions." Therefore, he looks back at the more than 10 years of history of "Bingdian" from its inception to the present, sharing some stories behind the reports and their production. In this book, he will mainly review his practice of running "Bingdian," composed of one story after another, interspersed with some of his reflections over the years. There are successes, failures, reluctant compromises, and tough struggles. If journalists, in a sense, are "recording history," then in this book, he will attempt to write about "how to record" history, discussing how a senior editor in a major newspaper records the stories of China as seen through his own eyes in the section he oversees. "Bingdian" is a special feature section launched by the Youth Daily in 1995. "Focusing more on the living conditions and thoughts of ordinary people," it was the first time that the lives of ordinary citizens were made the focus of news coverage by central media, sparking enthusiastic responses from readers. Subsequently, "Bingdian" pioneered a new approach to publishing by using detailed and vivid descriptions of ordinary people's lives as its foundation, comprehensively and deeply reflecting social realities and changes, praising truth, goodness, and beauty, and criticizing falsehood, ugliness, and evil. "Bingdian" reports have been widely reprinted in newspapers and magazines across the country; many of them have been adapted into television documentaries; and four have been turned into films and TV dramas. Currently, "Bingdian" has published over 330 issues, with a total of nearly 3 million words. Reports from "Bingdian" have been selected by three publishing houses into books and are used as required reference materials in the journalism programs of many universities.
Philosophy: Ordinary people make up 99% of the world; only by winning the ordinary can one win the world. Li Datong is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Bingdian." He strongly felt that the specific thinking and working state of an editor, as well as the production process of a report that generates significant social impact, are quite unfamiliar to college and graduate students aspiring to enter the field of journalism. It is difficult for them to obtain such information in school. At best, they can only study some "good" public reports, but the true essence of news operations often lies outside the reports themselves; this is especially true for "major news productions." Therefore, he looks back at the more than 10 years of history of "Bingdian" from its inception to the present, sharing some stories behind the reports and their production. In this book, he will mainly review his practice of running "Bingdian," composed of one story after another, interspersed with some of his reflections over the years. There are successes, failures, reluctant compromises, and tough struggles. If journalists, in a sense, are "recording history," then in this book, he will attempt to write about "how to record" history, discussing how a senior editor in a major newspaper records the stories of China as seen through his own eyes in the section he oversees.