Shooting locations, dates and some other considerations.

[To view the list of my other drama companion pieces (with links to them), check : HERE.]

LOVE IS PANACEA

The Tianfu New Area skyline with Tianfu IFC Twin Towers (Central Business District of Chengdu)  landmarks. (screenshot from ep.32) The twin towers are 50 floor, 248m/814 feet tall.   (Youtube video of aerial views of Chengdu city)

Translation from Baidu :

"Healing Lover" is an urban emotional drama directed by Mou Xiaojie , starring Luo Yunxi and Zhang Ruonan , and starring Wei Qianxiang , Wang Yiting , Qian Didi , Li Jiahao , and Zhao Mengshu  . The drama will premiere on CCTV 8 on November 2, 2023, and will be broadcast simultaneously on Youku.

Overview: 1. Shooting dates 2. Location (Chengdu and Dujiangyan) 3.  Novel basis and adaptation for drama (34 vs 36 episodes) and interview 4. Background information 4.1.  Lakaya  (the cooperation between Africa  (Gabon) and China) 4.2.  Actors playing in the drama (Main potagonists; antagonists ; other characters) 4.3. A Tragedy but with some less heavy moments too 4.4 . About Huntington's Disease + Luo Yunxi's farewell to the Dr Gu character he played 4.5. Chengdu Film and Television Industry

Fake or true test report

Ace of Hearts Truth or Dare question (ep14)

1. Shooting dates :       August 16-December 8, 2022

2. Location : Chengdu  ("Jinhai city" in the drama), and nearby scenic spot of Dujiangyan.

Some views of Chengdu from Dr Lu's sightseeing trip in episode 17:

Location on map and views of the Dujiangyan weekend outing in ep. 28 :

"The Dujiangyan Irrigation System is an ancient irrigation project that was built more than 2,000 years ago. Even today it is still in working order. Close to Dujiangyan, Qingcheng Mountain is also very much worth visiting. Zhang Daoling, the founder of China's homegrown religion—Taoism, came to Qingcheng Mountain to build a monastery 1,800 years ago. This place is the original site from which Taoism spread. Qingcheng Houshan—the rear slopes of Qingcheng Mountain—has lush forests with clear and pure air. Locals often choose to come here for a relaxing weekend."  

Dr. Gu tells the legend of Li Bing and his sons who created the system 2000 years in the past as a relief from "droughts in the east and flood in the west on the Shu plain", in ep. 28, 28:30, "creating a miracle".  A new channel, the Inner River, was dug out by the side of the hill to intake water. Moreover, Baopingkou (throat of the intake like the tap of a precious vase) was excavated through the hard conglomerate rock mass in order to intake water and also to control flood. Dr Gu thought this was much more remarkable than the usual legendary tale of Yugong Yishan (the old man Yu who moved the mountains) because it showed the miraculous effect of hard work and inventions.  He ended his speech with a saying to urge for better control to stay calm in the face of difficult choices:

"四六分水 二八分沙

Split the water in sixty-forty, the sand in twenty-eighty....

到我这里来了也可以被排解掉 化险为夷

They can be resolved when they come to me, turning danger into safety“

"Mt. Qingcheng, known as one of the five most famous Taoist mountains of China, is one of the places where Taoism came into being located in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province. With the snow-covered Mingshan Mountain in the background and the Chuanxi Plains in front, Mt. Qingcheng has 36 peaks covered with thick forests of trees and bamboo, 72 caves and 108 scenic spots. [Globaltimes.cn] "       This site looks perfect to stage the "dark rainbow" scene in ep. 9 :

Luo Yunxi poster from minnews online feature "Luo Yunxi and Zhang Ruonan's new drama "Love Meets Darwin" starts!The heroine at the end of the novel dies"

Zhang Ruonan poster. minnews : "The TV series "Love Meets Darwin" is officially launched and the lineup is officially announced! Luo Yunxi plays Gu Yunzheng and Zhang Ruonan plays Su Wei'an."

3. Novel basis and adaptation for drama

"Zhìyù zhě" (治愈者 :"Healer") by Níngméng yǔ yān  (柠檬羽嫣). Author "Lemon" Yu Yan. According to Baidu, she was born in the 1990s, and selected in September 2021 into the list of new writers and new works of China's Internet Literature Influence List (2020).   [another author page stated that she specialized in romances and youth novels, had won awards, and had studied medicine, but that may be a confusion with this young author. Note there is a small discrepancy with the name Ning Meng Xi Yan on MDL which is erroneous]

 "the show is the major project for supporting literature and art in Sichuan in 2022" (mention in opening credits)

Screenwriters:     Teng Xiaoneng, Shi Ruomin, Sun Bibo, Yin Gelan, Hu Xin

Drama title : 治愈系恋人 [zhìyù xì liànrén ; Healing Lover] English  title: Love is Panacea.

Director  Mou Xiaojie  ;  Assistant director :   Zhang Ting           

Dubbing director :  Wang Zhenliang (Chinese), Zhang Ruodi (Chinese), Chen XiMOMO (foreign language)     - Main leads and most credited supporting actors are not dubbed by another artist.                                                                            

May 6, 2023, the show released a hand-holding poster. August 22, 2023 the show released the Chinese Valentine's Day behind-the-scenes footage November 2, 2023,  the show was scheduled to be released November 3, the MV for the theme song "Lost" (also translated as  "Wrong Path") sung by Zhou Shen was released.  (See also the translated MV by Peachey Blossom and the full OST ) Trailer for Youku (with subtitles and some key moments).  The link also leads to 26 other trailers and BTS clips but they are not all  subtitled.

Release : Two versions available: 34 episodes (TV) | 36 episodes (DVD)  ; aired Nov  2, 2023 - Nov 18, 2023 on CCTV and Youku in the 34 episode version. (some scenes were cut, which explains the 2 episode difference with DVD version that has those cut scenes - some to comply with possible sensitivity from general public to behavior or items - one reported cut scene shows FL sucking venom from a snake bite through a condom that ML carried in his wallet, in their jungle scene!  

Interview of LuoYunxi and Zhang Ruonan posted Nov., 2023 (no English subtitles) :

4. Background information

4.1. Lakaya  (the cooperation between Africa  (Gabon) and China)

In ep.1 a flag appears several times, showing the inspiration for the fictional "Lakaya": it is the flag of Gabon, a French speaking west African country on the south Atlantic seafront to which has been added an inclusion of a red triangle with a star, reminding of the Chinese flag. Indeed,  China has contributed for over 46 years to Gabon's development by constructing the building of the National Assembly, hospitals, stadiums, hydropower stations and roads. Since 1977, Tianjin Province has been sending medical teams to Gabon. Specialists come on a two year basis to work in one of two select hospitals:  the Sino-Gabonese Cooperation Hospital in the city of Libreville and the Sino-Gabonese Friendship Hospital (Hopital de L'amitie Sino Gabonaise) in the town of Franceville.

Gabon was also known to be ruled by a rather dubious family (that of Omar Ali Bongo, the President, elected in 2016 in the face of opposing Jean Ping, a former diplomat (born in 1942 of a Chinese father and Gabonese mother) who had served as president of the UN General Assembly and as chair of the African Union Commission. Bongo (49.8 % of the vote), beat Ping (48.2 %) in an election that was not altogether transparent. Protesters demonstrated against Bongo’s alleged victory, even setting fire to the country’s parliament building in Libreville. But the Supreme Court of the country upheld the vote. In October 2018, Bongo suffered a stroke abroadand had to stay hospitalized repeatedly ; the country was ruled behind the scenes by his wife and elder son, until a junta staged a coup in  August 30,  2023. Led by General Brice Oligui Nguema, subsequently proclaimed President of the Transition, the military which had been reluctantly supporting the Bongo clan since a first short lived coup in 2019, finally ousted the Bongo clan from power.  The country is still in a state of unrest with curfew at night: — As of October 1, reaffirmed Nov. 1, "heightened security measures, including 00:01-05:00 curfew, remain in place across Gabon."

A view of Gabon's capital city, Libreville, and a recording in French about "Gabonese French" 

[Note1: Ali Bongo's dad, Omar Bongo, president of Gabon between 1967 and 2009, had been baptized as Albert Bongo at 33 years old, in 1968, but converted to Islam and became Omar Bongo in 1973, mostly for diplomatic reasons, to better get along with other oil exporting countries. Gabon is mostly Christian with a 70% majority of Catholics and an 8% minority of Muslims; but the traditional homegrown cults, spearheaded by the «Bwiti» cult, are more widespread than they seem: many Gabonese go both to Christian mass and Bwiti temples ; other cults have also a small following (although they are mostly dissident fractions of other creeds: Baha'i etc). - Omar Bongo died in 29, three months after having mourned his 3rd wife who had been the daughter of the Congolese president, Denis Sassou Nguesso. Omar Bongo had, over the years, 6 legitimate children, 5 adopted children, and at least16 children born out of wedlock, among his... 55 heirs who came into considerable wealth, not all legitimately earned, and almost dynastic power sharing!]

[Note2: The country has an estimated 2.4 million population, sandwiched between one small (Equatorial Guinea : 1.7 million est.) and two bigger countries (Cameroon : 28 million est. to the north ;  and the Republic of the Congo : 103.5 million est. to the east and south). --- Health:   HIV prevalence of Gabon fell gradually from 5.4 % in 2002 to 3 % in 2021.  Prevalence of HIV refers to the percentage of people ages 15-49 who are infected with HIV.   HIV and AIDS Estimates: 49,000 people live with it, among which 2,300 children, according to UNAIDS data.  ]

[Note3: although the Gabonese economy relies heavily on the trade of oil, manganese, uranium, and other resources such as  precious wood, timber, it is interesting that this country was also the first consumer of alcohol in Africa, according to a 2019 study by the WHO reported by a Gabonese newsclip: this ties in with Su Weian's lucrative trade of imported Maotai! The trade balance is 36,4 % exports to China vs 15.2% imports. An appropriate visa and work permit is required for foreigners who wish to work in Gabon; it is typically valid 2 years, but foreign investments are welcomed provided they conform to the rules set by a heavy bureaucracy. Driving requires a valid drivers license, but foreigners can use their foreign drivers license converted to International Drivers License in Gabon, for up to a year.)

This is maybe mirrored in the presence of the vaudevillean army of "General Kouyate" in the drama.  [As for that Kouyate name, there is a Senegalese football (soccer) player named Cheikhou Kouyaté, who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and the Senegal national team. Kouyaté moved from Senegal to Belgium in 2006, having been offered a youth contract at RWDM Brussels.]

4.2. Actors playing in the drama

Episode 6 : the four friends enjoying a night a la fresco in "Lakaya", with product placement thrown in (Coca Cola, Guinness beer and Santal orange juice, "Produced in Italy, Santal has been developing its expertise in the production of delicious juices for decades and have become one of the most popular Italian juices in Italy and beyond.").  From left to right : 

• Su Wei'an 苏为安, the 27 medical student dropout and temporary interpreter at the Hopital de l'Amitié (played by Zhang Ruonan 章若楠, age 27 herself, born November 14, 1996) ;
•  Dr. Gu Yunzheng 顾云峥, the 32 year old surgeon and researcher who wore the name of his mother and refused that of his biological father, hospital director Du  (played by Luo Yunxi 罗云熙,  age 35, born July 28, 1988) ; 
• Dr Fang Mingfan 方明凡, Gu's assistant.   He long suffered from PTSD after his first surgery where the patient had died. He overcame his problem, but finally opted to work with Dr Gu on the new drug "GHS380" which had problems finding suitable testers.  (played by Li Jia Hao 李家豪, a singer-actor who leads the group, July Lab, under Cheng Meng Ent., and also played a support role in Till The End of The Moon, alongside Luo Yunxi)
  
• Jiang Muying 姜慕影, friend of Su Wei'an who had graduated as a veterinarian (played by Wang Yi Ting 王奕婷, born April  9, 2001, age 22) She sings a capella in ep19,  28:33
  

Translation of the Character introduction on Baidu, describing the novel version :

Gu Yunzheng           Actor Luo Yunxi                                    "Young and promising, dedicated and tenacious, he is meticulous in his profession, cautious and meticulous, and he also pursues romance and passion in his approach to life. During the process of aiding Africa, Gu Yunzheng accidentally met Su Wei'an, whom he did not remember. When he learned that Su Weian was desperate because she carried a rare disease gene, Gu Yunzheng used his professionalism and love to give her encouragement and courage. Facing the pain and facing the precious and limited life time, he healed patients in and out of hospital." Drama version happy end:

Su Wei'an           Actress Zhang Ruonan        "A medical student who carries the rare gene for Huntington's disease. With Gu Yunzheng's encouragement and support, Su Wei'an plucked up the courage to face up to her limited and precious life time, and joined hands with Gu Yunzheng to devote herself to the research and victory of Huntington's disease. Despite setbacks, she remained true to her original intention. Su Weian died in an accident during an experiment and donated her body for scientific research." Dr Gu's bracelet, decrypted by Su Wei'an (eps. 1&12) linked to black rainbow, Neru bridge and the mystery of the accident of Gu's mother The end of the drama differs from the end of the novel. It is an "open end" in that a shot of a little boy (Gu YuSu) on a beach some years later seems to imply Dr.Gu was not left totally alone, even though, realistically, no cure is found for Huntington's disease.

Antagonists include :  

Du Yuncheng and Wen Ran (ep. 12)	Cui Jie (ep.12) Du Yongsong (ep.12)
Du Yuncheng and his parents (ep12)	Dr He, corrupted by Wen Ran (ep12) Du Yuncheng's assistant Lin (ep12)

DYC and  SWA were used to play together in the "One Way Livehouse" (ep14) 

Song: "Lost" (theme song)    [Actor Wei Qianxiang 魏千翔 only sings as a hobby]

• Du Yuncheng 杜云成. Dr. Gu's elder half-brother, born out of wedlock, and head of JIEHUI, a pharmaceutical company involved in the research an upcoming marketing of a drug targeting HD); he was a rival of Dr Gu in everything, including in trying to find back and attract Su Wei'an (who was a younger classmate of his in medical school: he used to perform with her in a band for relaxation, and had proposed to her back then, but she had turned him down). He was the first to be aware of her condition, and that was the cause of his turning to finance research of the drug developed by Wen. When it failed because of too many serious side effects, he set out to develop an improved version but failing again, he turned to illegal foreign imports in collusion with fake medical companies.  (played by Shawn Wei - 魏千翔)
  
• DYC's father, Du Yongsong 杜永松 director of Huaren Hospital in Jinhai city.  (played by Wang Shuo - 王槊 ) 
• DYC's mother Cui Jie 崔洁 a former nurse and mistress of Du Yongsong who did a nasty trick to Director Du's former wife to force a divorce and secure her son's position as elder heir (played by Yang Ping - 杨萍)
  
• Wen Ran 温冉 , the daughter of Wen Yuliang (see below) and former friend of Su Wei'an from high school. She was a nasty piece of jealous schemer who defrauded Su Wei'an of the validation of the paper she had written for her exam, convincing the tutor to put her name instead so as to win a prize. Since the disappearance of Su Wei'an, she had laid out a plan to seduce and marry Du Yuncheng, who seemed bound to become rich with the marketing of the new drug.  (played by Qian Di Di - 钱迪迪)
• Dr. He Xiaoguang 贺晓光 , a lackluster professor at Huaren Hospital, who had been corrupted by Wen Ran, nastily taunted Dr. Fang  about his PTSD (ep15) and tried to make things difficult for Dr Gu and for Su Wei'an.  (played by  Zhang Yi - 张衣 )
  
• Lín zhù  林助 :  the assistant of Du Yuncheng, ready to help him even in illegal business.  (played by Tan Pengwen - 谭彭文)
  
• Yang Wenbin 杨文斌   Dr Wen's assistant, chasing away all those he thought would interfere with his boss' research (ep.20) ; he had also been corrupted by DYC and Wen Ran. (played by Hu Guangzi - 胡光子 )
  

Other characters :

Li Wantong (ep13)	Dr Wen (ep 20)	SWA's mom Zhao Meilan (ep.12)
Du RunZe, Dr Gu's granddad (ep.12)	Yan Kai (ep.13)	SWA's aunt, Su Yuan  (ep.15)
	Dr Eliot (eps  19-20)

• Li Wantong 李菀桐 (played by Zhao Meng Shu - 赵梦姝 ), a psychologist returnee from Harvard (ep.13) who took a fancy for Dr Gu and pestered him until she gave up and hooked on to Dr. Eliot  (see below) in ep.20 . She shows impressive jiu jitsu skills in ep.14.
• Wen Yuliang  温玉良 (played by  Ren Shan - 任山)  the first specialist researcher of Huaren Hospital who developed the drug targeting HD)  He was a dedicated researcher, but he was hoodwinked by Du Yuncheng and Wen Ran to continue dangerous testing in "phase III" of the HQD39  drug to treat HD. (Phase III, which often lasts a year or more, is the validation test phase of a drug before it gets authorization to be marketed) . 
• Zhao Mei Lan 赵美兰 [Su Wei An's mother] (played by Cui Yi - 崔奕)  She spent her retirement time squere dancing, and was quite naive about  Du zong, Wen Ran, and her daughter's condition, although she suspected that her husband had died in an accident due to the same condition as his sister (Su Wei'an's aunt "gugu") who was suffering from Huntington's disease.
• Du Run Ze 杜润泽 (played by Ren Luo Min - 任洛敏)   A retiree mostly concerned about his garden, living in a beautiful traditional house in a high end residential area, he was Dr Gu and Du Yuncheng's grandfather,  but doted only on Dr Gu, slighting Du Yuncheng at every occasion. 
• Yan Kai 颜凯 (played by  Meng En - 蒙恩) He had finished studies abroad and been set up as blind date for Jiang Muyin (see above) by their parents in ep.13, but only went on with it as a charade to placate his parents (ep15): he barely appears in a couple of episodes. 
• Su Yuan 苏媛  (played by  Xi Yu Li - 席与立)   She was Su Wei'an's aunt, sister of her father, and had been a star violin soloist until Huntington's Disease caught up with her, after SWA's dad died in an accident, and his blood tested positive for the condition.
• general Kouyate (not credited). This character is only mentioned as "general" (将军) in the Baidu synopsis of first six episodes, so the name Kouyate that was used in English subtitles was perhaps only added there.
•  Dr Eliot 艾略特 (played by Ukrainian "Alex"). This "French doctor" character first appears episodes 5-6  in Lakaya. He was attracted to SWA and wanted to persuade her to follow him to France, but gave up when he realized she only wanted to work on Huntington's Disease, the research on which had been discontinued there. Reappearing in China, he became the boyfriend of Li Wantong (ep19) and helped Dr Gu with some research (ep.20)
  
• Lu Zhenxing 陆正兴 (played by Lan Cheng - 蓝)城)  He was a pioneering authority on brain mapping, who toured his hometown Jinhai  on the last leg of his travels. (ep.17-19). DYC wished to acquire his patent for Jiehui company.

4.3. A Tragedy but with some less heavy moments too

Despite the seriousness of the incurable disease topic, there are also funny moments in this drama, such as Su Wei'an relieving Dr Gu's fever with a frozen fish wrapped in paper !!  (ep. 26)

and the fall of the wish token for everlasting love on the head of a man who had been waiting for it 40 years ! and was chasing after Fang and Jiang to scold them, at Dujiangyan (ep  28) :

Luo Yunxi as Dr Gu, making birthday cake decors (bts footage from  Weibo via Youtube)

In the drama, we also could see him cooking a dish of noodles with tomato and fried eggs, in ep.17. (Luo Yunxi has been vlogging some more elaborate dishes which he likes too, privately, apart from using these skills in dramas).

4.4. ABOUT HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE

As the characters stated in the drama, there are about 30,000 sufferers in China. Huntington's disease (HD) is a monogenic neurodegenerative disorder caused by CAG expansions within the Huntington gene (Htt); it has a prevalence of 1 in 10,000 worldwide and is invariably fatal.   Typically, symptoms begin between age 30 and 55. Children of parents with Huntington's disease have a 50 percent chance of inheriting the HD gene. If a child does not inherit the gene, he or she won't develop the disease and can't pass it on. 

Nevertheless, in around 3% of cases of Huntington's disease, there's no obvious family history of the condition. This could be because relatives with the condition died before they were diagnosed with it. In rare cases, it's due to a new fault in the gene that causes Huntington's disease. (NHS Inform)  A Stanford paper states that it has been established that part of occurence can be due to mutations in the genes : "It is estimated that anywhere from 1%-14% of persons with HD did not inherit the HD allele from a parent, but instead acquired the HD allele from a newly formed mutation. In British Columbia, a study discovered that of 141 patients with HD, 11 had no family history of HD. All 11 cases had reliable parental information with parents who lived well into old age with no signs of the disease. Thus, this study estimated the new mutation rate to be at least 8%."

The highest frequencies of HD are found in Europe and countries of European origin, such as the United States and Australia. As of the year 2000, there were 30,000 cases of HD in the United States – indicating a prevalence rate of about 100 cases per million people. The lowest documented frequencies of HD are found in Africa, China, Japan, and Finland."

It is an "orphan disease" (too few people have it to warrant enough funding for studies and cure research) : Like ALS, whose eponymous sufferer was baseball player Lou Gehrig, Huntington's has a famous victim — the folk singer Woody Guthrie, who died in 1967 at age 55 (His famous song This Land is Your Land is considered by some as a US national anthem). Both diseases proceed unabated once their symptoms appear. Neither has a cure in sight. Huntington's disease has particularly cruel features. The disease produces an unusual protein that damages brain cells, leading to a range of problems from involuntary movements (called chorea) to psychiatric conditions, such as mood disorders and psychotic episodes.

The disease was named after George Huntington (April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916) who was an American physician. He described it in one of the 2 medical papers he published, when he was 22 years old, after encountering two women who suffered from "chorea" on a road, frightening the people who encountered them.

The case study of Woody Guthrie reveals that the disease ran in his family. His mother, Nora Guthrie, had it but the family didn't know until after her death. Guthrie's lifestyle involved travelling and playing, and heavy drinking, to which the first symptoms, in the 1940s, were attributed. Guthrie's behavior became more erratic, and he ended up being hospitalized in 1952. He finally was officially diagnosed with Huntington's disease. Guthrie wrote his friend and fellow folk performer Pete Seeger that the "chorea keeps me just as dizzy [as whiskey] and [was] a good bit cheaper". At the time, the primary treatment for Huntington's disease was being placed in a psychiatric hospital, but Guthrie was released and continued his traveling ways.   In 1954, Guthrie checked himself into Brooklyn State Hospital where he stayed for two years. Next, after being arrested for vagrancy, he was committed against his will to Greystone Park Hospital where he stayed for five years. From there, he was transferred first to Brooklyn State Hospital to be closer to his ex wife's home in Coney Island, New York. She cared for him and managed to communicate with him in the final years, where he was transferred again in 1966, and finally died in Creedmor State Hospital, located in Queens, New York. Guthrie was only 55 years old when he died on October 3, 1967. His family decided to cast his ashes into the waters off Coney Island, New York. He left behind an impressive legacy, including more than 1,000 songs and two novels, and influenced countless performers, such as Bob Dylan.

HD vs the Plague : Huntington's disease remains incurable, while other diseases which can cause panic, like plague are in fact rather easy to treat:  the plague, which can come in three forms (bubonic, the most common ; pneumonic or septicemic) is a bacterial infection which can be treated successfully with antibiotics. "There are about 12 countries on the planet that have plague. And sporadic cases of plague, believe it or not, are expected in many of these countries," said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist with Toronto General Hospital (among the 12 countries are the USA, Mongolia, China, Madagascar).  But outbreaks are generally small, with a few cases involved, and easy to treat and contain, as shown in the Love is Panacea drama.

Panacea /ˌpanəˈsiːə/ Definition from Oxford Languages Dictionary :

1. a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.

FAREWELL MESSAGE FROM LUO YUNXI TO DR.GU :

“越是黑暗的地方就越需要有人去开疆拓路”这是顾云峥说过的一句很打动我的话。 顾云峥身上有两个关键词“热爱”和“坚持”，他热爱医学，信奉希波克拉底誓言，尊重生命更尊重每一个患者，会尽自己最大的努力去救治遇到的每一个患者；他坚持自我，从拉卡亚到华仁医院，无论是对罕见病的研究还是感情的追寻，只要是顾云峥认定的事，他就一定会全力以赴，找到答案。也许在追寻的道路上有很多波折坎坷，实验进程停滞、科研资金短缺、试药患者质疑等等... 但再多的困难都阻止不了顾云峥前进的脚步，一件件寻求解决方案，日复一日地坚定向前。 这个世界上无解的难题很多，但总要有人走出那一步，才能引领成千上万的人向着光共进。感谢顾云峥的坚持、热爱和勇敢，更要感谢现实世界中每一位「顾云峥」的付出，爱能暖愈人心，也能创造奇迹。 除此之外也要感谢共同进入这篇治愈故事的工作人员和所有粉丝、观众，谢谢你们让这部剧走到了更多人面前，让罕见病受到更多关注。顾云峥的故事迎来了大结局，希望每一位看过《治愈系恋人》的朋友，都能在这个冬天感受到一些暖意。 “心怀希望就永远有希望！”#治愈系恋人#收起

罗云熙Leo Back to the drama, Luo Yunxi left a farewell message to his character on his Weibo page, retweeted with following translation, after final episode aired on CCTV8  on Nov.20:  "The darker the place, the more people need to open up new frontiers." This is what Gu Yunzheng said that touched me very much. Gu Yunzheng has two key words "love" and "persistence". He loves medicine, believes in the Hippocratic oath, respects life and respects every patient more, and will do his best to treat every patient he meets. He insists on himself, from Lakaya to Huaren Hospital, whether it is the study of rare diseases or the pursuit of feelings, as long as it is something identified by Gu Yunzheng, he will definitely go all out to find the answer. Perhaps there are many twists and turns on the road of pursuit, such as the stagnation of experimental process, the shortage of scientific research funds, the questioning of drug test patients, etc ... But no amount of difficulties can stop Gu Yunzheng from moving forward, seeking solutions one by one and moving forward firmly day by day. There are many unsolved problems in this world, but someone has to take that step to lead thousands of people towards the light. Thanks to Gu Yunzheng's persistence, love and courage, but also to everyone in the real world for their dedication. Love can warm people's hearts and create miracles. In addition, I would also like to thank the staff and all the fans and audiences who have entered this healing story together. Thank you for bringing this drama to more people and attracting more attention to rare diseases. Gu Yunzheng's story ushered in a grand finale. I hope everyone who has seen "Love is Panacea" can feel some warmth this winter. "With hope, there will always be hope!"

4.5. CHENGDU FILM AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY

Other views from Chengdu, which offers hyper modern and traditional style on location sets:

"Situated near the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Jiuyan Bridge [("Nine Eye bridge") on the Jinjiang river] is a famous street of bars. This classical style covered bridge is very pretty. There is no way to determine when the bridge was completed. Jiuyan Bridge is surrounded by recreational places such as bars, restaurants, tea houses. It is bustling in the evenings, packed with bar hopping tourists. Jiuyan Bridge is even more dazzling when lit up at night."

Notes about the industry

10th CIAVC --"Since 2013, the China Internet Audio & Video Convention has been successfully held in Chengdu for 8 consecutive sessions. In 2016, it was confirmed that it would permanently settle in Chengdu. Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone (CDHT) made on-site promotion at the opening ceremony and main forum, showcasing the construction progress and cooperation opportunities since it was approved as China Internet Audiovisual Industry Base (Chengdu) with 4.6 square kilometers of Gazelle Valley Digital Cultural and Creative Industrial Base (picture below) as the core carrier.  

 Tianfu Changdao Cultural and Creative Center, with a total construction area of 240,000 square meters, has signed the contracts to accommodate the new cultural and creative headquarters of Tencent, Coco Cartoon, Alibaba, Perfect World, etc.       Tiexiang Temple Riverfront Phase II, Culture and Art Center  create a comprehensive block integrating office, new business, residence, leisure and entertainment functions.  In order to help the region speed up the construction of a new economic source and dynamic zone with global influence, CDHT has also built 64 common platforms focusing on technical services and enterprise incubation to serve the rapid growth of Internet audiovisual enterprises; and "Rong Bei" and "Gold Panda" talent programs have been implemented, attracting 605,900 talents of various types.
Chengdu CDHT southern park

A spokesman of CDHT said :  "We have issued special policies to build a four-level gradient cultivation system for enterprises, which supports young eagle enterprises to grow rapidly, gazelle enterprises to expand their scales, unicorn enterprises increase profits, and leading enterprises to integrate, and actively build a new highland to promote the listing of Internet audiovisual enterprises."  Up till now, more than 600 key enterprises of Interner audiovisual and digital cultural innovation have gathered in CDHT ; among those the field of game e-sports has gathered international leading companies like Tencent and Ubisoft.  

The aim is to build a creator community who can collaborate and connect with each other—whether they work in film and television, digital music, digital media, game animation, or e-sports. According to Hu Yun, vice-governor of Sichuan provincial government, Sichuan province boasts the largest film and television audience in western part of China. The box office of Chengdu ranked the fifth in the country during the first half of this year. It also holds rich cultural resources such as Sanxingdui and Three Kingdom culture, and it is the hometown of panda. These are part of the reasons why the Golden Panda Awards takes place in Sichuan from Sept 19 to 2023 (25 awards in four categories of film, TV dramas, documentary and animation.). Statistics show the number of online movies grew from 450 in 2014 to nearly 1,900 in 2017, and the market size rose from 2014's 100 million yuan ($14 million) to 2 billion yuan ($280 million) in 2017.

In the future, Chengdu Film & TV City [brand new in Pidu district] will also emphasize talent training, content creation, and brand incubation. It will collaborate with domestic and foreign film, television, and cultural innovation enterprises and excellent teams in the industry, striving to construct a "source spot" for film and television contents, a "preferred spot" for filming and production, a "new highland" for film and television technology, and a "destination" for film and television cultural tourism. This will promote the film and television industry to flourish in Chengdu. A 50,000-square-meter industry-education building is equipped with over one hundred sound studios, live studios and film studios.

Chengdu JinXi Cultural Media and Production Company ( 成都金玺创意文化传媒有限公司), headquartered in Chengdu  is an organization that focuses on planning, production, distribution and investment of films and television dramas.

"Chengdu Star Film and Television Base" is actually a park located at 132-136, the middle section of Baoguang Avenue, Sanxi Road, Xindu District, Chengdu. It is a good place to visit: next to Baoguang Temple, it used to be built by Sichuan TV Station as an antique street, but it was demolished and turnedinto a park.

Despite being 10 years old, the following small film (7 mins) gives many information about Chengdu as a hub for media industries.