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'I felt like I just started my career again': British Elvis revivalist finds his voice in China_我的网站

一 |     　　上海8月24日电 (李秋莹)全球每10台岸边集装箱起重机，就有7台在上海长兴岛完成制造，发往世界各大港口；全球每5艘在建的大型LNG运输船中，就有1艘出自这座岛屿的船坞。    

    Elliot James Reay sings on stage at a Chinese live show. Photo: Courtesy of UMG
Elliot James Reay could have copied every other Western act and sung a Taylor Swift cover. Instead, he took 1950s rock'n'roll to a live TV show where autotune is switched off and discovered a version of fame that Britain has forgotten.
Elliot James Reay was traveling in the US, trying to finish a song, when his manager called. There was an invitation to join Singer 2026, a prime-time live music show in China. Reay didn't hesitate. He had traveled the world before he was a full-time musician, but had run out of money before reaching China. "I went everywhere but China," he said while sitting for an interview with the Global Times, sitting in the office of his label in Beijing, from which the Palace Museum can be seen not far away. 
Reay is, in the West, a very 2020s kind of artist. He began posting short covers on short video platform TikTok in 2019; during the UK Covid lockdown, he chose to focus on growing his fan base. He now has millions of followers across platforms, and his debut single notched 10 million views before it was even released. In the British industry, this is both a leg-up and a trap. "You can have all the followers," he says, "but they don't guarantee people will buy tickets."
In China, that equation flipped.
    Elliot James Reay sings on stage Photo: Courtesy of UMG
Nervous again
The Chinese show, Singer 2026 is broadcast completely live, with no pitch correction. For Reay, who had played enough small gigs to feel comfortable in his own skin, it was a shock. "I haven't felt nerves in a long time," he says. "But I've never been in a competition before. To have my singing judged against other people made me really nervous."
He watched Week One's performances from the wings and saw why. "The standard was terrifying," he says. 
But the format, he admits, is something the UK no longer has: a televised singing contest that treats vocal ability as a public event, not a pre-packaged product. "It made me feel like I just started my career again."
Reay's lane is retro. Not as pastiche, but as lineage. He wears the silhouette of Elvis Presley, sings in the grain of 1950s pop, and writes songs that sound like they were cut from a Sun Records demo. He could have sanded it down for Chinese audiences, but he didn't.
"Someone has to start the wave before you can see it," he says. Among the songs he performed were "Unchained Melody" and his original track "I Think They Call This Love," which he co-wrote with his girlfriend. He points out that the Beatles still sit next to Taylor Swift on the radio, and that pop started in the 50s. "It's the foundations of pop," he says.
Learning to feel the words
In the final, Reay performed a bilingual version of the Chinese song "Hou Hui Wu Qi" (The End of the World). It was his first time singing in another language. He spent five days learning the Chinese lyrics, listening to the original on loop.
"There are sounds in Chinese we just don't have in English," he says. "I couldn't hear the difference at first. I'd say it, and Helen (his translator) would say, 'No.' I thought I was saying the same thing." Eventually, he stopped trying to hear it and started trying to feel it. "It became more about how it felt to say it. How I place my tongue in my mouth," he says.
He didn't understand the meaning until day three. "Helen gave me a card with the Chinese characters and the English translation. It's very poetic," he says. The performance received a strong reaction, with it being called an attempt at "cultural fusion." 
He had saved his own original, "I Think They Call This Love," co-written with his girlfriend, for the same final. He had held the song back deliberately. "I knew that any week was my last week," he says, "but I knew that if I made it to the grand final that I had to do it then." He had no idea it would become the last song of the entire show. 
When he finished, he walked straight off stage, took his girlfriend's hand, and the two of them left together, a moment that trended on Chinese social media that night. 
The song is about the exact point they realized they were in love; it was also the first track of his career he fully believed in and pushed into the world. Having her there to watch it live, after weeks of her only seeing performances on a phone in a hotel room, "tied the whole thing in a bow at the end."
A touring musician, not a TikToker 
Reay is open about the tension between his origin story and his ambition. "I don't want to be a TikTok celebrity," he says. "I'm a musician. I want to tour." 
The platform gave him an audience, but it also boxed him in. He remembers friends who wrote incredible songs during lockdown, while he chose to build a fan base. Now, he says, some of those friends have had to stop writing and make TikTok videos instead.
China, he says, gave him permission to be both an online creator and a live performer. Universal Music, his label, didn't push him to chase trends. "They never said, 'Do this, do that,'" he says. "They supported what I wanted to sing, and then they made it the best version they could."
Before Reay, a string of international artists had already found warm receptions and career-shifting opportunities in China. Kazakhstani singer Dimash Kudaibergen, Malaysian star Shila Amzah, US country artist Mickey Guyton, British vocalist Jessie J, and French singer-songwriter Joyce Jonathan all won large Chinese audiences through high-profile television appearances and live performances, each using the platform to open a new chapter in their careers.
He's already planning a return. He wants to bring a tour. He wants to buy the traditional instruments he saw on set and take them home to England. "I'm going to learn how to play them," he says, "and maybe put them into my music."
The advice he'd give other Western artists looking East is to stay loyal to yourself. "Be yourself," he says. "It's very easy to want to change yourself to fit into a market, but at the end of the day, if you stay true to yourself, you'll be happy."
"In the UK, I felt like I needed to do other things to make other people happy," he says. 
"If I hadn't stopped doing that, I wouldn't be sitting here. I wouldn't have done the show. My whole journey would be different," he says.
。长江在此奔涌入海，而中国的巨轮与重型装备，正是从这里驶向全球。

二 | 　　6月10日，完全由中国自主研发的新一代“海上巨无霸”93000立方米超大型液氨运输船(VLAC)“IVY COVE”号在长兴岛交付。该船由江南造船(集团)有限责任公司为新加坡船东量身定制，印证了中国高端船舶自主研发、建造的硬核实力。93000立方米超大型液氨运输船(VLAC)“IVY　COVE”号在长兴岛交付。

三 | 江南造船(集团)有限责任公司供图　　隔壁的沪东中华造船(集团)有限公司(以下简称沪东中华)同样忙碌，6月30日，其在长兴岛同日交付两艘17.4万立方米LNG运输船。每艘船长299米，一次可装载17.4万立方米液化天然气，单日碳排放较传统船型减少约10吨。两艘船从设计到建造均为自主完成，能耗指标达到全球领先水平。此番同日交付，标志着中国在清洁能源船舶领域已具备稳定的批量化建造能力。　　目前，沪东中华手持LNG船订单近60艘，其中包括24艘27.1万立方米的全球最大型号，生产计划已排至2031年之后。8月，沪东中华继续推进多项布局：首次承接1.87万立方米薄膜型LNG船订单，填补江海联运型产品空白；产能巩固提升项目正式开工，将建设新的总装基地，进一步提升大型LNG船和超大型集装箱船的建造效率；与全球动力企业Everllence签署EDA协议，联合研发搭载新一代推进系统的18万立方米LNG船。17.4万立方米LNG运输船“吉打公主”号。沪东中华造船(集团)有限公司供图　　从LNG船到液氨船，长兴岛上建造的多种船型均指向同一方向——为全球航运业的绿色转型提供可行的燃料解决方案。中国造船业在全球市场中确立竞争优势，不仅源于成本与交付能力，更得益于技术实力的持续积累。长兴岛，正将一艘艘“中国造”巨轮送入全球航道。　　在位于长兴岛的上海振华重工(集团)股份有限公司(以下简称振华重工)基地，另一种“中国制造”同样在走向世界。5公里长的深水岸线，上百台规格各异、色彩鲜明的岸桥沿岸矗立，这里也被业界称为“岸桥博物馆”。目前，振华重工的岸桥产品全球占有率已超过70%；多款海工重器也填补了国内的部分空白。截至2026年7月底，振华重工累计发运48个航次共130台岸桥设备，其中海外项目占比超过70%。位于上海长兴岛的“岸桥博物馆”。上海振华重工(集团)股份有限公司供图　　振华重工的第一单来自加拿大温哥华港。1992年，刚成立的振华重工接住了加拿大温哥华港抛来的“橄榄枝”，首次以公司名义正式签约。对待首单，振华重工拿出了制作工艺品的态度制作起重机，赢得了用户的信任。第一单成功交货后，虽然利润微薄，但其出色的质量成了振华在欧洲和美洲市场的“活广告”，海外客户由此开始注意到这家中国企业。此后振华重工一路打开美国、德国、荷兰等市场，1998年便跃居全球港机市场第一。

四 | 　　今年4月，振华重工为PSA意大利SECH港口定制的2台世界最大半圆形大梁岸桥运抵热那亚码头，总高126米，起升高度48米，作业外伸距从50米增至60米。“这是一个具有划时代意义的事件，这两台新岸桥巩固了SECH作为热那亚历史性码头的地位。”PSA意大利负责人罗伯托·费拉里在接受意大利知名杂志采访时表示。

五 | 　　振华重工正从传统的港机设备供应商，向综合解决方案提供商转型，可为码头用户提供“全生命周期”一站式解决方案。5月，振华重工全球首创的集装箱吊具智能产线在上海投产，年产能从850台跃升至1500台，装配周期由15天压缩至3天。　　在深耕全球港口服务市场的同时，振华重工也一直致力于带动更多中国企业协同出海。单台港机集成上千套配套零部件，不少国内优质配套厂商依靠自身力量开拓海外市场难度较大，依托振华重工整机出海的渠道，国产配套产品得以便捷走向国际市场，从而实现从单企出海向产业链集群出海的转变。　　从LNG船到港机装备，长兴岛见证了中国装备制造从跟跑到领跑的全过程。《上海市建设长兴岛世界级现代化造船基地的实施方案(2025-2027年)》于2025年6月发布，目标直指“世界级”——到2027年，长兴岛船舶与海洋工程装备产业规模要超过1200亿元，LNG运输船、双燃料集装箱船等高技术船型比例要达到80%，具备年产18艘超大型LNG运输船的能力。　　江水无言，船行万里。从长兴岛出发的每一艘巨轮、每一台港机，都是中国高端装备制造最真实的名片。(完)　　(中国互联网发展基金会中国正能量网络传播专项基金支持项目)。

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